On the Avenue

Qingzhou is located to the north of Xinxiang, separated by Xianzhou and Chongshan Prefecture.

From Xianzhou to Qingzhou, there is a waterway connecting it, called Xianzhou River, which passes through the two provinces and can directly reach the provincial capital of Qingzhou.

Chen Shi rested for one night in the provincial capital of Xianzhou, and early the next morning he arrived at the dock on the riverside, where there were many passenger and cargo ships traveling between provinces. Among the many boats, there was a painting boat docked on the shore. The boat girl cocked her head and looked towards the shore.

Chen Shi is as important as Mr. Qingtian, so their father and daughter divide the work, one guarding Mr. Qingtian, and the other guarding Chen Shi.

She is responsible for guarding Chen Shi.

During this trip to Qingzhou, the waterway was the most convenient, so she moved the boat to the Xianzhou River early.

Waiting for Chen Shi here.

After a moment, Chen Shi really caught her eye.

The boat girl was overjoyed and walked back to the cabin, thinking: "When he sees my boat, he will definitely come.

And tease him a few words, pretending to meet him by chance. "

As soon as she entered the boat, she heard a loud popping sound and heard many boatmen exclaiming in surprise.

She hurriedly looked outside and was stunned.

I saw Chen Shi's wooden cart jumping into the Xianzhou River, and Chen Shi and the black dog jumped on the cart.

The wooden car's canopy opened with a sound, its wheels turned, and it drove toward the outside of the dock.

The boat girl stared blankly at the wooden cart going further and further away. Under the canopy, there actually appeared the shadow of Feng Bo. It was no more than three inches in size. He held a cattail leaf fan and stirred up the strong wind, causing the wooden cart to drive very fast in the water, even faster than A fast boat on the river!

"I——·Is it useless?"

Chen Shi arrived in Qingzhou Province two days later.

He took out Li Tianqing's letter, turned it to the back, compared it with the geographical map, and looked up at the mountains on both sides of the Taiwan Strait.

According to the geographical map drawn by Li Tianqing, Guansheng Emperor Temple is not located in the provincial capital of Qingzhou, but at the foot of the mountain on the left bank.

He found a simple dock in the countryside. The dock was deserted and there were several dilapidated fishing boats docked there.

The wooden cart jumped onto the dock and skillfully shook off the water stains on the cart.

Chen Shi glanced at it and felt that this action was somewhat familiar.

There was a town not far away. Several government officials posted notices outside the town. A man carrying his head passed by and was caught by one of the government officials with a steel knife pressed against his neck.

The man knelt down in fear and kept begging for mercy. The officer pressed a knife on his neck while reading the notice.

"He's not a wanted criminal." The officer smiled and waved for him to get out.

Chen Shi looked at the notice board. There were many arrest warrants for gangsters on the notice board. Some of them were yellowed, some were torn apart and their faces could not be seen clearly. Some arrest warrants had been pasted ten times. A few sheets, a thick stack.

He took a cursory glance and found that there were three to five hundred wanted notices on the notice board.

One of the wanted notices stated that a man named Wang Erniu had stolen a hoe from next door, committed a capital crime, and was on the run.

Chen Shi read it twice and couldn't help but be wrong when he saw that Wang Erniu had indeed been sentenced to death.

There was also a scholar named Fang Jin who threw stones at the county magistrate's official sedan. He was punished with death and is still at large.

The widow Yue Xiu'e did not want to go to the archway and wanted to remarry. She was sentenced to death and was on the run.

Xu Tiezhu trampled on more than ten seedlings in the field and was fined five taels of silver. He refused to accept the fine and was sentenced to death. The fugitive officers also noticed him and saw that he was wearing a robe for a Juren priest, so they politely said: "Juren Do you recognize any culprit? If he can be caught and brought to justice, the Yamen will reward him with a hundred taels of silver."

Chen Shi said seriously: "I am the governor of Xinxiang Province. I abide by the law. If I encounter a gangster, I will take him to the government office to receive the reward. Do you officials know how to get to Weidang Village?"

"Weidang Village? If you walk along this road, there is a mountain road about ten miles away. If you walk along the road, you will see a lake about seven or eight miles away. The lake is surrounded by reeds. Weidang Village is right next to it. , facing Qingzhou Fucheng.”

Chen Shi thanked him.

Several government officials watched him leave with the wooden cart and the black dog. Then they checked the arrest warrant on the notice and could not find a face similar to Chen Shi's, and sighed with regret.

Chen Shi walked forward. There were many wooden stakes on both sides of the road. The wooden stakes were in the shape of a cross. Each wooden stake was hung with naked people, some of them men and women, some of whom were still breathing. They were making low mourning. They should He is a prisoner who has committed a capital crime.

The sun was now very hot, and the prisoners were dehydrated from the sun. The dead corpses were pitch black. When Chen Shi passed by, he heard only a buzzing sound, and black flies flew up from the corpses and circled around them.

When he passed by, the flies flew back and the body became dark again.

He also saw two government officials holding a prisoner with a rope around his neck and hanging him under a big tree.

The man hanging from the tree kicked his legs hard and died.

"What crime has he committed?" Chen Shi stopped the car and asked.

The two government officials saw that he was a scholar and said, "He was so hungry that he robbed a bag of grain from the granary.

According to the law, he should be punished. "

Chen Shi wondered: "Aren't the laws of Qingzhou not the laws of the Ming Dynasty? Why are they so strict?"

The expressions of the two yamen officials suddenly changed. The young yamen servant held down the handle of his waist knife and shouted: "You are making irresponsible remarks about Qingzhou's laws.

You have committed a great crime! "

The older government servant quickly stopped him and smiled at Chen Shi: "He drank too much. He didn't mean to arrest you. I'll make amends on his behalf."

The young yamen servant was puzzled, so the older yamen servant quietly pressed his hand and signaled him not to talk too much.

Chen Shi drove away.

The older yamen runner complained, "Didn't you see? He's wearing the clothes of a juren, so his cultivation must be much higher than ours! If you attack him, we will be the ones hanging on the tree later!"

The young yamen runner said sternly, "Old Liu is still thoughtful. It's just that he made irresponsible remarks on the laws of Qingzhou..."

'Just draw a warrant and hang it up, and someone will bring him to justice. "

After a while, Chen Shi's portrait was posted on the notice board, and the crime was making irresponsible remarks on the laws of Qingzhou.

Chen Shi walked along and saw many such lonely trees on the roadside, with one or two or three corpses hanging on them.

Some corpses were only a skeleton, and they were still not taken down.

When the wind blew, the skeletons hanging on the trees collided with each other, making a clattering sound, like ripe nuts on the tree.

There are many evil spirits in the mountains and fields, and from time to time they make a roar of rash. The evil spirits gather in the gullies or ponds, some of which are gray, some are green, and can be seen with the naked eye. .

Similar evil spirits were everywhere, floating in the mountains like clouds.

Chen Shi looked up at the sky. There was only the sun in the sky. The moon had not yet come out, but the evil spirits in Qingzhou were already moving around.

He saw a few hundred infants lying lazily on the side of the road, with their heads hanging on the trees like babies, taking a nap.

Chen Shi and the wooden cart passed by. These hundred infants just opened their fierce eyes, stared at them dazedly, and then squinted their eyes and fell asleep again.

They actually had no urge to hunt, which was very different from the evil spirits in other places.

Chen Shi thought to himself: "These evil spirits have eaten too many prisoners and have become lazy. ”

He walked more than ten miles and found the mountain road. After walking six or seven miles, he saw a reed marsh. The reeds had grown long stems like tails, like white fox tails with light gray, in groups.

And Weidang Village was just opposite the reed marsh.

He took out the geographical map to check the direction and came to the place outside Weidang Village near the foot of the mountain.

This place is sparsely populated, with only an ancient temple standing at the foot of the mountain.

In the fields outside the temple, several strange people with big ears were sitting or standing, looking around the temple, listening with their ears tilted, and writing and drawing with pens.

"The Heaven Listener is monitoring this God of Wealth Temple?"

Chen Shi was quite surprised. After comparing the geographical map, it was indeed here.

But why would the Heaven Listener monitor the God of Wealth Temple?

Some time ago, some Heaven Listeners monitored Chen Shi, but after Chen Shi arrived at Da Nanhu, these Heaven Listeners seemed to have evaporated from the face of the earth and could no longer be found.

"What did Tianqing do? Why are there so many Heaven Listeners? "

Just as he thought of this, he saw Li Tianqing push open the temple door.

Li Tianqing was surprised and happy to see him, and walked up to him quickly, smiling: "Xiao Shi, I finally waited for you!"

Chen Shi jumped off the wooden cart and smiled: "I was delayed in Ganyang Mountain for several days and was always worried about your safety. I'm glad you're okay!"

Li Tianqing raised the letter in his hand and smiled: "I was going to go out to Qingzhou Prefecture today to send a letter to tell you that I'm fine now, so you don't have to come. I never thought you'd be here! "

In the distance, those who listened to the gods stood up straight, and the pens in their hands rang, quickly recording the conversation between the two.

Li Tianqing looked at them vigilantly, invited Chen Shi into the temple, and closed the temple door.

Chen Shi looked at the temple of the God of Wealth, and saw that the temple had been cleaned by Li Tianqing, the doors, windows and roofs had been repaired, and the yard was well organized. There were spiritual fields on both sides, and some spiritual medicines were planted, which were very thriving.

There was also a well in the yard, which had been cleaned.

There was also a release pond, which was also cleaned, and the water in it was clear.

Only on the walls on both sides, there were crisscrossing bloodstains, as if someone was killed very quickly. The knife cut off the head, and the flying blood splashed on the wall!

He felt an inexplicable pressure coming, and he couldn't help but look at the hall,

which was the place with the strongest extraordinary power.

He walked forward, and the sense of oppression became stronger and stronger. It seemed that there was a mountain of swords and a sea of ​​fire in front of him. A god and demon who stood tall and upright was sitting in the mountain of swords and a sea of ​​fire. His body was extremely majestic. When he woke up and opened his eyes, the evil head would fall to the ground!

The closer Chen Shi got to the hall, the stronger the sense of oppression became, which made him tremble with fear.

There were also many knife marks and shocking bloodstains on the walls of the hall.

"Tianqing, are you sure this is the Temple of the God of Wealth, not the Temple of the God of War?" Chen Shi asked.

Li Tianqing dragged the plaque and smiled, "Look."

Chen Shi looked and found that it was indeed the Temple of the God of Wealth. He became more and more confused: "Is the sense of oppression of the God of Wealth so strong?

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He had seen many gods from China, and the one who gave him the strongest sense of oppression was this Guan Sheng Emperor. It was as if a big knife was on his neck, ready to chop him off at any time!

However, there was no evil aura here. The main hall should be where Li Tianqing practiced, and there was sunlight pouring down from another world. Some children in yellow clothes and black hats were basking in the sun in the hall.

Chen Shi carefully sensed it and did not detect any evil aura. On the contrary, the three lights of righteousness here were very strong, and the righteousness of heaven and earth was full, not inferior to the small temple behind his head.

Although the extraordinary power of the shrine in the temple was condensing, it was still a long way from condensing into a divine appearance.

He toured around and found that this temple was different from other ancient temples he had seen before. Most of those ancient temples were in remote places, while the Temple of the God of Wealth was at the foot of the mountain, with the gate facing Qingzhou City.

"Maybe this place is more attractive to evil worship."

Li Tianqing said, "Some time ago, there was a lot of evil spirits here at night. They even came to the temple and were suddenly hacked to death, but I was safe and sound. I think it was the God of Wealth who blessed me because I built the temple. I have been sleeping well in the past two days. I feel very at ease and there are no evil spirits breaking into the temple anymore.”

Chen Shi also felt relieved and suggested: "Since you are not in serious trouble, why don't we simply move this Temple of Wealth."

Li Tianqing said: "Move?"

Chen Shi smiled and said: "You need Sanguang Zhengqi to practice now. If you leave this temple, where will you go to practice? Next year you will go to Xijing to take the imperial examination. Without the Temple of Wealth, how can you practice? Of course, take this Temple of Wealth away with you, just like It’s like a small temple behind my head, I can carry it with me and practice at any time.”

Li Tianqing asked for advice: "How to do it?"

"I originally practiced a set of courtyards, using the Taotie Tianshuang Talisman. The outside is only about a foot square, but the inside is about the same size as a normal courtyard."

Chen Shi looked around and said, "With this method, the entire Temple of Wealth can be moved into a one-foot-square courtyard!"

Li Tianqing knew about his skills in talisman and seal writing, so he quickly bowed and said: "Please Xiao Shi!"

Chen Shi sacrificed Nascent Soul, floated over the Temple of Wealth, and carefully observed the layout of the temple. Then he felled a big tree, cut off a wooden stake, controlled the sword energy, and carved a temple on the wooden stake.

After Chen Shi completed the carving, he still needed to repeatedly brand the talisman seals to ensure the internal space of the temple.

It is as big as the Temple of Wealth. Only in this way can the Temple of Wealth be moved to a small temple.

This is a delicate and delicate job that cannot be completed in a day or two.

Chen Shi worked patiently and stopped to rest when he got tired.

He and Li Tianqing hadn't seen each other for a long time, so naturally they had a lot to talk about, from their experiences during this period, to the gains from cultivation, to the elixir to increase longevity.

When they talked about some sensitive points, they wrote them down on paper to avoid being recorded by the Heavenly Listeners outside the temple.

After dinner, Chen Shi lit the lamp and continued to carve the small temple, while Li Tianqing gradually fell asleep.

Unknowingly, at midnight, Chen Shi felt sleepy, yawned, and was about to put down the work in his hands. Suddenly, a huge sense of oppression came over him, and in front of his eyes was a mountain of swords and a sea of ​​fire!

Chen Shi's heart was beating wildly. He mobilized his Nascent Soul and stimulated his energy and blood. He was gradually able to see things around him.

But the vision is still a little blurry.

He could only see outlines, not details.

At this moment, Li Tianqing, who was sleeping, stood up straight!

Chen Shi was about to wake him up when he saw Li Tianqing flying out of the hall. Chen Shi hurriedly rushed out of the hall and saw Li Tianqing landing on a red flame horse, and a green dragon's energy swirled and danced around him.

"As soon as the temple door opened, Li Tianqing rode away.

Chen Shi felt the pressure lighten, and immediately rushed out of the Temple of Wealth, shouting: "You are the scapegoat!"

He was extremely fast and ran out of the Temple of Wealth, only to see Li Tianqing already several miles away. He raised his hand and dropped his knife.

A green sword energy flew out, and an evil creature that was devouring the corpses of prisoners hanging on both sides of the road was stunned, and its head slipped from its neck.

The fracture was extremely smooth, making Chen Shi's eyes twitch wildly!

This sword is close to Tao!

Li Tianqing galloped on his horse, his horse's hooves stepping on the fire, killing evil spirits all the way, and headed straight for Qingzhou City!

Chen Shi knew something was wrong and immediately rushed forward with all his strength. However, he was getting further and further away from Li Tianqing.

Li Tianqing was still a few miles away from the provincial capital of Qingzhou, when a green sword light flew out, and with a roar, the gate of Qingzhou City flew up in the sword light and split into two!

Chen Shi looked from a distance, and Li Tianqing struck again, and the Ten Thousand Souls Flag hanging on the city suddenly cracked from the middle.

This magic weapon that holds the city was split open with a knife!

Chen Shi was frightened and followed Li Tianqing into Qingzhou City.

There was an uproar in the city.

There were wanted criminals posted on the bulletin board at the city gate. When Chen Shi passed by, he hurriedly called the police and saw the bandit leader at the top of the list, riding a big horse with red flames all over his body, the fire was blazing, and he was holding a gun in his hand. The green dragon sword is filled with murderous intent.

And the face of the bandit leader is none other than Li Tianqing!

Chen Shi was stunned.

"It turns out that the evil spirit causing trouble in the temple every night is not the evil spirit, but Tian Qing! Wait a minute, then who is it that kills Tian Qing every night?"

This time, Cavan is even more stuck than I thought!