After being dressed as the evil god

A dark wind suddenly picked up, and the many lights enshrined in front of the statue suddenly turned into a faint shade of green. Wuhou's figure disappeared in place, and when he reappeared, he was in front of Lichi, holding a long knife in his hand, and suddenly slashed down!

Li Chi sat on the chair safely, and said leisurely: "It is not easy to accumulate strength, why should Marquis Wu be so impatient?"

When he spoke, Marquis Wu's saber landed one inch and two inches above his head, and when he finished speaking, the light of the saber had already struck half an inch above the ground, almost breaking the delicate patterns on the floor tiles.

The saber is bright and green, cutting both the body and the soul, but the saber did not exert any force, Li Chi didn't even move the person and the chair, but Wu Hou felt as if he was slashing in the air.

The person in front of him was not damaged at all, and he was still sitting there smiling and looking at him, not even disturbing the breath of his words.

When Wu Hou missed the blow, he simply withdrew the saber, the blade was retracted close to the ground, and the pattern on the masonry was not damaged at all.

The door of the temple is still closed, but the dark green lights have returned to normal.

"Why did you come here?"

"Passing by, curious, so I came in to take a look." Li Chi replied again.

Marquis Wu frowned, took a few sips with the jug in his hand, some liquid overflowed from the corner of his mouth, he didn't wipe it off, and continued to ask: "Your Excellency is just curious?"

Li Chi nodded.

"That means I have not treated guests well." Wu Houfan suddenly changed his attitude, raised his hands and clapped his hands, "Come here! Let's set up a banquet!"

The atmosphere in the hall is tense, the lights are high, the curtains are shining, there are cunning and beautiful maidservants suddenly appearing, talking and laughing, holding cups and plates, melons, fruits, wine and food are like running water, the banquet table has been set, singing and dancing again, the top of the hall is full of pearls. , the ground candles are shining brightly, although the doors and windows are closed, they are as bright as the day.The apse of the Wuhou Temple changed from a solemn temple to a gloomy ghost, and then changed from a gloomy ghost to a lively banquet in the blink of an eye.

Marquis Wu did not know when he had already sat at the main table, and Li Chi had already taken the guest seat.

"Where do the guests come from?" Wu Hou asked with a smile.

"Come from the mountains." Lichi replied.

"Where do you want to go?"

"Where you want to go."

"Please drink fine wine!" Marquis Wu raised his glass, and the alcohol was born in the glass.

Lichi drank it and praised: "Good!"

"Please taste the delicacies!" Marquis Wu raised his arms, and the servants came up to the table with dishes.

Li Chi held up his chopsticks and also praised: "Good!"

"Please watch the singing and dancing!" Marquis Wu clapped his hands, and the women singing and dancing played the piano.

Li Chi raised his eyes and praised again: "Good!"

The banquet was held for three days, but there were only two guests. However, the guests did not leave the banquet, and the host did not see off the guests, so the banquet continued.

Three days later, Marquis Wu put down his wine glass, turned to Lichi, and asked, "Is the guest satisfied?"

Li Chi smiled and looked at Marquis Wu. When we first met, he was a loose and unrestrained person. When he slashed that knife, he looked ruthless and ruthless, but he retreated freely. It was just a temptation with spare energy.After one stab, he became a warm and forthright host for three days, and he didn't see Li Guang in his eyes at all.

Now the serious and serious look when they met each other revealed the sharp determination that was hidden in the eyes when they first met.

"Satisfied." Li Chi smiled.

"Okay!" Wu Houfu raised his wine glass again and drank it again and again, "This is the compensation for the crime of rudeness at the beginning."

"As the host, I don't want to be rude anymore, and I hope the guests will not be rude either." He looked at Li Chi with piercing eyes.

Following these words, a rule descended at the same time, and landed on Li Chi.

Li Chi laughed.

Laughter can express many meanings, and when faced with such a sudden restriction, it often means laughing in surprise or ridicule and contempt.Ke Lichi's smile was not like that.

Marquis Wu looked at Lichi with piercing eyes.He has always been unable to see through this uninvited guest, and cannot tell whether his intentions for coming are good or evil.He has always thought that the guest across from him practiced a very clever way of wind, so clever that he could still use wind to make him float freely and elusively in this catastrophe of ingenuity and confusion, but in the laugh just now, he seemed to have glimpsed light up.The light breaks through the darkness of the room, forcing all monsters back.

That laughter is Shu Lang's.

Li Chi didn't care about Wu Hou's methods.It is a very ancient and orthodox practice method, but it is also gradually declining. It is called keeping precepts.

If you want to keep the precepts, you need to take the precepts first. After receiving the precepts, if you can keep the precepts for a long time without breaking them, you can gradually acquire a supernatural power. This ability is the power of precepts.When the precepts you have received can be kept until they are harmonious and unimpeded, you can take the initiative to create a covenant of precepts, which limits yourself and others.

The better one keeps one's precepts, and the more appropriate and complete the covenant of precepts is, the greater the power of supernatural powers will be.

Observing the precepts is almost a necessary part of all practice, but it is not easy to practice the precepts enough to give birth to such supernatural powers.

For example, the abstention from lying requires that no matter what the situation is, you must not tell the truth, even if it is a joke, there are no so-called white lies, and you must not take things for granted that you are not sure about.

Having said that, if one breaks the precepts, the power of holding the precepts before will be greatly reduced, and the harmony has been broken. If one wants to obtain the unhindered power of harmony, one has to start all over again.

For this reason, today's practitioners seldom observe the precepts so strictly. They mostly use convenient methods to practice, and in special cases, they are allowed to leave the precepts temporarily.For example, in the questioning of a patient with a serious illness, in order to prevent them from feeling hopeless and waiting for death, they can falsely claim that their illness is mild, so that the patient can develop hope and confidence, and improve the possibility of recovery.

This kind of practice method is rare even in the orthodox orthodox inheritance nowadays, but I don't want to see it in the Yinshen in the borderland of the Liang Kingdom.

Now that Marquis Wu has become a hospitable host, Lichi must also become a hospitable guest.

But to Li Chi, this restriction is tantamount to nothing - he didn't want to be a bad guest at all.

"If you accept this hospitality, you should also return the gift." Li Chi raised his arm, and the qin fell on his lap.

Raise your hand and pluck the strings.

When the piano sounded, Wu Hou's body shook, and the hand that was holding on to the wine glass to drink again froze in the air.

The doors and windows of the apse are closed, but at this moment, it seems as if a clean wind blows in, blowing away the smell of wine and vegetables in the room, blowing away all the darkness and turbidity, blowing out the bright candles, and dimming the shining pearls, but The blowing brightened the whole hall, and dimmed all the treasures and treasures in the hall like fireflies in the sun, as if they had been covered with dust for a long time—in other words, it was not the wind that dimmed them, but the sound of the zither made them reveal their true colors.

Not only the lamps and candles, the beams on the ground, but even the statues in the worship hall are covered with dust, especially the statue of Marquis Wu on the main seat.The dust seemed to be mixed with oil, and it stuck tightly to every corner of the hall.

The sound of the piano was high, Wu Hou's eyes were half closed, and his whole body was tense, like a bow that was about to break, but the sound of the piano quickly turned down, like the wind flowing slowly, flowing through the fingers, sinking into the neckline, and seemed to go straight along the neck and into the chest , Blow away the heavy layer of old dust in the heart.Wu Hou then slowly relaxed, and his tense face relaxed.

After the sound of the piano fell, Marquis Wu let out a long breath, which turned into wind in the hall. At first it was just a gentle breeze, but soon it turned into a strong gust of wind, sticking those things that seemed to stick to the ground, decorations, and statues. The dust was blown away one by one by the wind, but when Wuhou's breath dissipated, the wind could not blow away all the dust in the temple, and finally there was still a layer of ashes attached to the statue of Wuhou. .

Marquis Wu opened his eyes, and the dust that had not been blown out disappeared into the statue, and he couldn't see any more.

He looked at Lichi with vigilant and puzzled eyes, but there was also a hint of gratitude.

When we first met, Li Chi was right.During the catastrophe, he was also affected by the confusion of spiritual intelligence, and his cultivation base was out of ten.As a ghost cultivator, he is most afraid of evil spirits. Although he did not become a ghost because of holding grudges, he has little resistance to evil spirits like resentful ghosts, but after losing the restriction of the physical body, the influence of evil spirits on the ghost body will be even stronger. bigger.

He was able to protect this place from the swarm of resentment locusts during the catastrophe, relying on the method of refining resentment for his own use.

As Li Zeng taught Ding Qin later said, there are three grades of magic spells in the world. The top grade method understands the principles of heaven and earth, and you can see the inspiration, and you can cast spells by motivating the inspiration. After realizing the truth, you can still use spells freely.It's like a person who is good at painting, suddenly changed to a pen, ink and paper that is not commonly used. Although it will be affected because of not getting used to it, he can still draw good works.

The low-grade method belongs to the use of mana to force things to change. Although it is rough, it does not need to use cleverness, so it will not be affected by much confusion.

But in the middle-grade method, those spells that can be comprehended and need to be applied to the inspiration of the world have almost been abolished when the inspiration is chaotic.

The power of resentment is ferocious, it is not conducive to the practice of righteous Dharma, but it is the power that can implement low-grade Dharma. It is easy to come and powerful, but it has become a feasible choice in this catastrophe.

However, the precepts mastered by Marquis Wu belong to special supernatural powers other than magic arts, and are not affected by the inspiration of heaven and earth. However, the power of precepts is too difficult to cultivate and its application is limited. It is almost impossible to protect such a vast area.Therefore, when he came across the method of refining evil energy for his own use, he immediately started to use it.

In the underground of this hall, there are countless grieving ghosts.In this Wuhou Temple, all the offerings are ghosts.Among these resentful ghosts, some grievances are directed at him, such as the innocent people who died in the plague and fire when he coerced the people here to worship him, and some are directed at others, such as three days The other end of the causal thread wrapped around Han Liuding and the three who apologized in front of the temple.

Marquis Wu collected and refined them, and they became his power to protect this land.Because what he transported was resentment, the resentment carried by those migratory locusts would naturally not be able to affect him—when the migratory locusts passed through the border, he would even draw a lot of resentment from them, if not If he doesn't want to conflict with the locust king, the power on those migratory locusts will be his best source of power.

The resentment on the migratory locust has no roots, and he can use it without any problems, but the resentment on these ghosts in the temple is not like this.

Those grievances have their origins, and if he wants to bear and use these grievances without being affected by them, he must have other means.

For example, the white-faced evil god disguised as a boatman, forcibly manipulating and enslaving those grieving ghosts is indeed a method, but it is not a method that Marquis Wu will use.If he could use such a dirty method, he wouldn't be able to practice the precepts.

And the method used by Wu Hou to preserve his sanity in the resentment is to rely on the power of the precepts.

Give me strength, and I will make three times the pain you have suffered.

This is the commandment covenant that Marquis Wu made with those resentful ghosts.

Because of this, Marquis Wu will definitely not let the three of Han and Liu Ding go. The ghosts created by their evil deeds have just settled in Marquis Wu's temple a while ago.It is also because of this that the statue of Marquis Wu is full of bitter dust, drinking wine from time to time to calm the pain.

Those grieving ghosts who died in the plague and fire were looking for him for revenge.Their grievances came to him, and they could provide him with the most strength.

He killed them, but he didn't free them from reincarnation, and he wanted to use their power, so how could he not let others vent their anger?

Sheltering a place in the midst of catastrophe and saving all beings from suffering is a good cause and good karma, and good results can be obtained.But good and evil cause and effect cannot be offset, that is not the law of cause and effect in the world.

The crime of killing a person on East Street cannot be offset by the good deed of saving a family on West Street.The crime of murder will definitely bear evil fruit, and the goodness of saving people will also bear another good fruit. One cause will ripen itself and the other fruit will not cancel each other out.

Marquis Wu forced the resentment ghosts to absorb the power of resentment, and these causes will surely bear fruit. They turned into the pain that he constantly needed to relieve with strong alcohol, and turned into the darkness that could not be wiped away all over his body. dust.As long as he continues to act like this, the dust will continue to accumulate until one day, his body will be completely annihilated.

But just now, after the sound of a zither, the restless grieving ghost in the hall became calm, and his pain also temporarily calmed down.The dark dust accumulated on the body for a long time loosened, and he took the opportunity to blow it off, like being wrapped in a dense cocoon for a long time, when he escaped for a while, he only felt a rare lightness on his body.

"you……"

Marquis Wu was about to say something, but Li Chi interrupted him with a smile: "The evil guest has come, won't Marquis Wu go entertain him?"

Marquis Wu took a deep breath, nodded and said: "The guests will wait a moment." Then he left the apse.

……

The villain Lichi mentioned was coming from the halfway up the mountain to the Wuhou Temple on the top of the mountain.

An old Taoist with white beard and hair, a young Taoist priest carrying a basket, and sitting in the basket is a little Taoist boy who seems to be no more than ten years old. Their steps are light and quick, and there is nothing special about their steps, but they surpass For other people who came to pay homage to Wuhou Temple, it seems that the uphill road is easier than the flat ground.

Several believers who were overtaken by them couldn't help but stop.

"Grandpa, is this a Taoist priest from Xingfeng Temple?" asked a young man with a pocket.The pocket in his hand exudes the aroma of roasted chestnuts. This person is the waiter who greeted the guests before, but he changed his attire at this time.

Old man Yu, who sells fried chestnuts, squinted his eyes for a while: "Look at it."

"I heard that a few students from Shanji Academy offended Marquis Wu, and they came to the big sacrifice to apologize, but they didn't light any incense sticks. Did they invite Taoist priests from Xingfeng Temple to come to join us? Let's go up and have a look ?” There was a bit of excitement and curiosity on Xiaoer’s face.

"What are you looking at!" Old man Yu slammed his brains on the second boy, "Let's go! Go down the mountain!"

Xiaoer rubbed his head aggrievedly: "Grandpa, are we not going to pay homage to Marquis Wu?"

"We'll talk about it another day." Old man Yu turned around and was about to walk down the mountain.

Xiao Er hurriedly followed him up, the road going down the mountain was difficult, although the old man Yu was in good health, he had better be careful.While supporting the old man, he asked, "What about these sacrifices?"

The old man Yu could see his thoughts at a glance, and warned with staring eyes: "Keep it for yourself! Don't even try to watch the excitement, let me tell you, you can watch all the excitement!"

Xiao Er agreed, and couldn't help asking: "Grandpa, why not?" Seeing that Old Man Yu raised his hand again to give him a headache, he hurriedly added, "If I don't go, I'm just curious! "

The old man Yu snorted and didn't speak. He waited until he went down the mountain, and then slowly said: "Xingfengguan...the relationship with Marquis Wu is not good... If those students want to ask the Taoist priests of Xingfengguan to agree , but they invited the wrong person. Either they didn't want to make a deal at all, but they wanted to force Marquis Wu to bow his head..."

"How is it possible?!" Xiao Er's eyes widened, "Wu Hou is so powerful, how could he bow his head?"

"With Marquis Wu's character, of course it is impossible to bow his head." Old Man Yu said.

"What's the enmity between Xingfengguan and Marquis Wu?" Xiaoer asked curiously.

"This starts with the establishment of the Wuhou Temple." Old man Yu found a flat boulder and sat down to rest before continuing, "Before the establishment of the Wuhou Temple, do you know who we worship here? ?”

Xiaoer was stunned for a moment: "Before Wuhou Temple? Do we worship other gods?"

The old man Yu snorted: "I don't know how to turn my head all day long! Don't you know how Wuhou came here? Before Wuhou, our place was a town, so we can't have shelter?"

Xiaoer came to his senses and asked, "Is it Xingfeng Temple?"

The old man Yu nodded and said: "Not only Xingfeng Temple, but also other gods, but Xingfeng Temple is the most important."

"Then Marquis Wu is..." Xiao Er asked in surprise, his voice getting smaller and smaller.

"Wu Hou snatched this place." The old man said, "It's okay, Wu Hou doesn't mind us talking about this, but the Taoist priests of Xingfeng Temple may not be willing to listen, so let's talk about it when we stay away... "

The place where Xingfeng Temple is located is outside the jurisdiction of Wuhou.This is no coincidence. In terms of origin, Xingfeng Temple existed much earlier than Wuhou Temple.

From the perspective of ordinary people, what happened back then was just because people were afraid of plague and fire, so they began to sacrifice to Marquis Wu.But there are also some people who can see a little bit of the brutal truth from the original incident, and then pass it down by word of mouth.

What is the most normal reaction of people when the ghost of a dead person appears and declares that if he is not worshiped there will be a plague?

When there are ghosts and ghosts making trouble, people's normal first reaction is not to directly obey their demands, but to invite Taoist priests to come and subdue the ghosts and ghosts.When the plague broke out, people in the county did the same.

They asked for help from Xingfeng Temple, which had been enshrined for many years, and Xingfeng Temple also took a very tough shot.Marquis Wu asked people to offer sacrifices to himself, which is robbing Xingfeng Temple of incense offerings. It is reasonable, no matter whether people in the county come to ask for help, they will not ignore this matter.

"...the priests of Xingfeng Temple refined the medicine and distributed it to us, saying that sick people will be cured after taking it, and those who are not sick can wear the medicine and smell the medicine, and they will no longer be infected by the plague. .” The old man Yu said.

"It was indeed cured at the beginning, but it didn't take long for those people to relapse again, and the symptoms were more severe and painful than before. Gradually, some people who were wearing the medicine were also infected with the disease, and some were weak. , and died immediately. Everyone was very scared, so some people began to secretly sacrifice to Wu Hou in private, and then their illnesses were cured."

"Other patients see that their disease is cured, so they will naturally ask, how are you doing well? Then those people secretly told others the method." Old man Yu said slowly, "At that time Everyone felt that I was sorry for the priests of Xingfeng Temple. Everyone knew that Wuhou would definitely be stronger than before after receiving incense and sacrifices. Wouldn’t the Taoists be more difficult to deal with him? But there are many people who are sick Suffer! Almost every day, people are carried out of the hospital with cloth on their shoulders."

"It's because people are afraid of death, so although there is no such thing on the surface, they all began to worship Wuhou in private. Although this place is still a believer in Xingfeng Temple on the surface, it is actually the territory of Wuhou .”

"Ah? This...but...Marquis Wu..." Xiaoer opened his mouth wide as if he couldn't accept it, and he couldn't utter a complete sentence after muttering for a long time.

The old man Yu said, "I can't take it anymore? Aren't these big stone tablets in front of the Wuhou Temple engraved?"

Xiao Er remained silent, but the feeling of reading the story on the stele was completely different from listening to the story told by the old man.The stories on the stele seem to be far away from him like the stories in the scriptures, but the stories told by grandpa seem to be very close to him.

"I think so much about what to do. Isn't Marquis Wu doing well now? There was drought and locusts before, and we have nothing to do here." Old man Yu got up from the big rock and walked back slowly, "People Now, don't worry about things that are too far away. Life is so long, you can't control it if you want to, and you keep thinking about it, you must drive yourself to death."

Old man Yu peeled a chestnut out of the offering and stuffed it into his grandson's mouth: "Come on, is it sweet?"

Xiao Er nodded sullenly, and helped the old man walk away slowly.

What the old man told about the events of that year was only what his ancestors saw and thought of.But in a place that ordinary people can't see, there is a more dangerous battle between Xingfeng Temple and Marquis Wu.

Xingfeng Temple can't solve the plague he spread, so let's solve Wu Keji!After capturing him and forcing him to find out the solution, the matter will be understood, and a big ghost can be subdued by the way.In honor of Wu Keji's name, not long after his death, he was able to spread such a large plague, which was so serious that even they couldn't solve it.If not, then killing him would almost solve the plague.

Xingfeng Temple thought so, and did so, but no one thought that a ghost who had just died for a long time could resist the long-inherited Xingfeng Temple.

It is unknown to outsiders how brutal and brutal the struggle was during this period, but as a result, Xingfeng Temple retreated, and in the following years, it never re-entered here.

"This is our disgrace," the old Taoist said to the young Taoist.They were already standing in front of the Wuhou Temple. The old Taoist looked up at the plaque on it with cold eyes, "Today we will clean it up."

"After that, we were forced to swear that we would never take the initiative to step into the place where Marquis Wu was enshrined. But this time, it was Marquis Wu's believers who invited us to come." The old Taoist cocked his lips mockingly.

They stood at the gate of Wuhou Temple. People who came out of the temple walked past them in twos and threes. Some people became tense when they saw the Taoist priests standing at the gate, and they walked down the mountain faster. After a few minutes, more people looked at them in confusion and curiosity, and followed them down the mountain.

They are all ordinary people who came to pay homage to Marquis Wu, but they were suddenly notified by Miao Zhu to go down the mountain just now. After these ordinary believers left, they were the attendants of Sao Sa in the temple. Miao Zhu was the last ordinary person to leave. He looked complicated. Glancing at the Taoist priests in front of the gate, he walked down the mountain beside them.

The gate is open, all ordinary people have already left here, and the figure of Marquis Wu looms in the dark hall.The old Taoist shook his sleeves and strode towards the hall with a solemn face.

"Wu Hou, long time no see."

Marquis Wu held the jug in one hand and the knife in the other, and the corners of his mouth twitched: "It's normal not to see you, you have sworn in Xingfeng Guan, where I, Wu Keji, will never set foot."

The old man's eyes became more and more stern: "Never take the initiative to set foot here, but if your disciples of Marquis Wu invited us to come, what should we count?"

Marquis Wu smirked, lifted the jug and took a sip.

There were loopholes in the oath at the beginning, and it is not a breach of oath for them to come here now, otherwise, as early as when they set foot in the palace, their cultivation would have been ruined.

"Then tell me, what did they invite you to do?"

The old Taoist raised his hand and shook out a piece of yellow paper from his sleeve. On it was written a dark red prayer, which was the color of dried blood. The three names of Han Sheng, Liu Si, and Ding Wang were written on the front. Every word and every sentence is mourning their own misery, accusing Wu Hou of injustice, and begging the mercy of Xingfeng Temple to save their lives.The language is so sophisticated that it can be seen that it has been professionally guided.

"As the god of the land, he is cruel and ruthless. Just because of a few jokes, he wants to take away the lives of believers. Marquis Wu, are you willing to admit your mistakes and correct your mistakes?" the old Taoist asked in a flat voice.

Marquis Wu sneered, the people from Xingfengguan didn't come here to solve this matter at all, they wanted revenge, but because they were bound by the oath, they had to raise this matter first now.It would be best if he disagreed, then these people could just use this as an excuse to fight him.

Because of the precepts, he would never let those three people go, but how could he easily fulfill Xingfengguan's wish?

"Hypocrisy." Wu Hou squinted at them, "You claim to seek justice for those three people, but how do you know that my arrangement for them is unfair?"

Because of the oath, the old Taoist could only continue to talk about the matter: "How can it be fair to take someone's life just because you made a joke?"

"Yue Niang, add more wine." Marquis Wu raised his arm holding the jug and called out loudly, as if he didn't take the old man seriously.

Moving quietly in the shadows of the hall, a young and slim woman walked out, her hair was half down, her side face was hidden in the shadows and she couldn't see clearly, only a pair of soft hands were exposed, blue and white, like cold jade exuding cold air.Holding a wine jug in both hands, walking gracefully like a lady, he walked to Wu Hou, lifted the lid of the jug in Wu Hou's hand with one hand, and slowly poured wine inward with his own jug in the other hand.

The old Taoist was so angry that his face turned blue, but the wine in Yueniang's pot seemed to be endless, and the sound of water kept ringing.

"Don't worry, Daoist." Yueniang whispered softly as she poured the wine, "I'll tell Daoist why it's fair."

She raised her head, revealing a skinless face.