Chapter 125: Return to the village to take a look
"Third Shixiong brother, was the one you summoned the Mountain Yili Shenjun of Mount Yishan?"
"Probably not."
"Then who could it be?"
"Not sure."
"Oh." The Junior Shimei nodded seriously. "Then senior brother, do you think the Yili Shenjun and the Luo Sha King have finished fighting?"
"I won't say."
"Eh?"
"They should be finished, right?"
"Then do you think the Yili Shenjun has eliminated the Luo Sha King?"
"Don't know." Lin Jue shook his head. "The three great Divine Lords descended together, they must have the ability to eliminate the Luo Sha King."
"Oh..."
The two and one fox walked ten miles and reached another village.
This place was clearly also within the range covered by the black mist and death energy, and had also suffered a disaster.
Lin Jue walked through the village and confirmed one fact—Gong Village or the surrounding area of Gong Village should truly be the center where the black mist and death energy were most dense, and the evil entities probably truly received some kind of guidance, at least most of them headed toward Gong Village. The goal should be the Daoists of Mount Qiyun who were suppressing the black mist.
Because the black mist here was clearly lighter before, many commoners only fainted and hadn't had time to become evil entities. The evil entities here were also clearly fewer, and not many people were injured or died.
Later, the spiritual light drove away all the black mist and death energy, and the commoners who were affected but hadn't become evil entities seemed to have recovered.
At this time, parting the black mist to see the sky, the commoners were naturally terrified and afraid, and felt that the previous miracle was probably done by deities, so they all walked to the same place.
"Fellow villagers, where are you going?"
"Going to the temple to worship the gods!"
"Worship which god?"
"The Yili Shenjun Temple! Of course, worship Yili Shenjun Yi Li!"
"Yili Shenjun Yi Li..."
Lin Jue showed a thoughtful look.
Suddenly remembering the joking words he had said to the Third Third Third Shixiong before, saying that if the Yili Shenjun could truly eliminate the Luo Sha King, he would look at him with high regard from now on, and if he encountered his temple, he would definitely go in to burn incense.
Now the Yili Shenjun not only descended to clear and eliminate, but also came far faster than they expected. Although it was not yet known whether the Luo Sha King was eliminated by the Yili Shenjun, even if the elimination of the demon failed, it was only the Luo Sha King's scheme, and the preparations made for this far exceeded the expectations of the deity and Lin Jue, not that the Yili Shenjun was deliberately dragging his feet.
It just so happened that Lin Jue had some doubts.
So he stopped, turned his head to look, and followed this group of commoners.
The Junior Shimei stared at him and followed.
The fox had already jumped to the front and also turned back.
Walking out of the village along a small path by the stream, leading to a small slope, on the slope was a vermilion small temple, the arched gate in the center and the round windows on both sides looked very much like human facial features.
Lin Jue followed the commoners up.
Soon he smelled a heavy smell of incense smoke, soon heard crying, and also prayers.
"Yili Shenjun bless..."
"Yili Shenjun save my son..."
"True Lord..."
Numerous voices seemed to float into the sky with the blue smoke.
Lin Jue stood at the entrance of the temple and looked inside.
The temple was really small, and couldn't hold many divine statues at all. Entering the gate, there were two guardian divine generals on the left and right, both tall and sturdy, their heads almost reaching the beams, wearing mountain-pattern armor and covered with large red cloaks.
One had a precious sword inserted horizontally behind his waist, one hand was formed into a sword finger and placed in front of his forehead, and one hand was pressing the hilt of the sword behind his back, as if he could cast spells and draw the sword at any time. One was holding a thick iron chain in his hand, the steel cone of the chain dragging on the ground, the deity's body leaning forward, eyes wide open in anger, staring at the people walking in at the entrance below.
Lin Jue knew that these two were the Thunder and Fire Generals under Yili Shenjun Yi Li, and their robes also had fire and thunder divine patterns respectively.
On the divine altar directly in front, naturally, was Yili Shenjun Yi Li.
Still dressed in mountain-pattern divine armor inside and a multicolored divine cloak outside, but here he was sitting upright.
However, on both sides behind him, there were two smaller divine statues, one male and one female.
Lin Jue only knew before that these were his child attendants.
Scanning the circle, he saw that besides the people kneeling and praying, there was another person standing aside, not moving, not looking like he was waiting for someone, but often handing incense to people, looking like a temple keeper managing the temple.
"Are you the temple keeper?"
"What's wrong, Daoist? Are you also here to offer incense?"
"Yes. We are Daoists from Mount Yishan, passing by the Yili Shenjun's temple, and came to offer a stick of incense." Lin Jue nodded and looked at the Yili Shenjun again. "Suddenly I have some doubts in my heart and want to ask the temple keeper for advice."
"Sigh, Daoist, please speak. If you ask about the strange things this morning, I don't know." The temple keeper also looked exhausted and very tired.
"It's about the Yili Shenjun." Lin Jue said. "Our Daoist temple only has the statue of Emperor Yu Jian, so I don't know, what was the Yili Shenjun's mortal name before he achieved the Dao?"
"Surname Jiang, given name Chao."
"Jiang..."
This character flashed in the hearts of Lin Jue and the Junior Shimei at the same time.
"Then who are the two beside the Yili Shenjun?"
"They are the Yili Shenjun's attendant deities."
"Are there any legends?"
"Legend has it that they were the Yili Shenjun's younger sister and younger brother before he became a god. After the Yili Shenjun achieved the Dao, they ascended to heaven with the Yili Shenjun. I don't know if it's true or false."
"Do they have names?"
"I don't know their original names, only that one is Jianyue, and one is Zhaoren."
"Jiang Zhaoren..."
Lin Jue had such a sentence flash in his heart.
"Thank you."
"You're welcome."
Lin Jue took out copper coins from his bag, exchanged them for grass incense, offered three sticks of incense to Yili Shenjun Yi Li, and then left.
Gradually walking out of the mountain village and onto the official road.
"Third Shixiong brother, do you think other senior brothers who went down the mountain to eliminate demons will encounter danger?"
"The senior brothers are experienced and have deep cultivation, so don't worry too much."
"Third Shixiong brother, do you think..."
"Junior Shimei."
"What's wrong?"
The Junior Shimei looked at Lin Jue in confusion.
Lin Jue had already stopped.
"Junior Shimei, you should return to the mountain alone first. Report to the Master, be careful on the road, and don't linger." Lin Jue said to her. "Recently, demons and monsters have risen everywhere in Huizhou, and I don't know if the other three places where death energy was released have been handled by deities. I can't rest easy about my uncle and the villagers, so I must go back and take a look."
"Oh!"
The Junior Shimei nodded, able to understand, and then furrowed her brows, asking uncertainly: "Then should I go back and take a look?"
"I don't think it's necessary."
"Hehe, I think so too."
"We were already the furthest away. Don't let the Master worry. If I go back and forth, walking fast will probably take half a month."
"Okay!"
On an official road, both summoned paper donkeys and walked separately left and right.
The fox naturally followed Lin Jue. When there were many people, it honestly walked along the side of the road with small steps, or shuttled through the mountain forest beside the road. If there was no one on the road, it would jump like the wind between the treetops beside the road.
Not long after walking, a shout suddenly came from behind.
"Third Shixiong brother!"
Lin Jue was stunned and looked back.
It was his own Junior Shimei.
I don't know when she ran back, panting, her small face flushed, and even her hair was stuck to her forehead.
"Junior Shimei, why did you come back?"
"Third Shixiong brother, I'll go with you to your home!"
"What are you doing going with me? Didn't I tell you to go back and report to the Master so the Master can be at ease?"
"I want to go with you! And just now when I walked out not far, I met Daoist Jiang Ning. She asked me to tell you something, so I came back to find you."
"What is it?"
The Junior Shimei was mysterious, looking left and right.
At this time, it was on the official road, and it was far away from the range covered by the black mist and death energy before. Although the surroundings had been very chaotic in the past few days, there were still people walking together on the road, thinking they were all people who had to come out to make a living.
"Come here..."
The Junior Shimei led him away from the official road and brought him to a big tree by the road, only then leaning close to him.
Lin Jue furrowed his brows.
Feeling a bit strange.
A peripheral glance, his own fox stood aside, also staring at the Junior Shimei, tilting its head and showing a thoughtful look.
"Ah~"
An uncertain fox cry.
Lin Jue subconsciously went to grasp the hilt of his sword.
In an instant, a cold light flashed.
If it were someone else, without Fuyao's reminder, they wouldn't necessarily be able to react. Even if they reacted, with their back against a big tree, facing the sharp claws suddenly attacking from the person beside them, it would be very difficult to dodge.
Fortunately, Lin Jue had his own skills.
In the eyes of the "Junior Shimei," the person in front retreated, and although there was clearly a big tree behind him, he should have had nowhere to retreat, but his figure directly hid into the big tree.
The next instant, a long sword stabbed out.
The "Junior Shimei" showed a look of horror, wanting to dodge behind, but there was a fox pouncing from behind.
With a bang!
The "Junior Shimei" exploded into a puff of black smoke. A strange bird flew out of the black smoke, flapping its wings hard to fly up, but was ultimately stabbed by the long sword.
The Daoist appeared from the tree again.
Lin Jue was just about to say what kind of demon this was, not only daring to intercept and kill him halfway, but also being able to turn into the appearance of the Junior Shimei, and becoming so like it, even the speech had no major flaws. Seeing this strange bird, he immediately understood what this thing was.
The Luo Sha bird of Xiaochuan Village!
Some clues flashed through his mind—
Could it be that there were more than three Luo Sha birds in Xiaochuan Village at that time?
Thoughts moved, but it didn't affect his own actions.
Opening his mouth to spit, it was a puff of spiritual fire.
How much progress had the Daoist made in two years?
At first, a puff of ordinary fire, scorching this Luo Sha bird, the damage was only a little better than nothing. Now, spitting spiritual fire, also just scorching it, but it made this strange bird scream.
Just flew out not far, and didn't fly very high, then suddenly fell down.
"Flap, flap, flap..."
Flapping its wings desperately, it finally flew up again.
Then the sound of a spell rang out.
Several flying darts shot out quickly, chasing the strange bird.
Seeing it flapping its wings wildly, dodging quickly in the air, it was still grazed by the flying darts, dripping black blood, and dropping feathers. Before it had time to catch its breath, it saw a white fox jumping up from the flat ground like flying.
That posture was truly beautiful and light.
But the fox claws and teeth were unforgiving.
"Caw!"
The strange bird fell down instantly.
Lin Jue carried his sword and went over.
Only to see the fox pressing on the strange bird, the strange bird turned its head to look at him, as if knowing its fate, its eyes full of resentment:
"You Daoist truly have a great life! The foxes in Li Village couldn't do anything to you, the Pear Ancestor in Gong Village couldn't do anything to you, and even the Luo Sha King's death energy, you could happen to escape!"
"You are from Xiaochuan Village?"
"I hate it!"
Lin Jue knew as soon as he heard it, his guess was correct.
It should be that one Luo Sha bird was missed in Xiaochuan Village at that time. After this Luo Sha bird stole a chance of survival, it secretly resented. It didn't necessarily know that the Luo Sha King's death energy was stored here, but it knew that there were fox groups and Pear Ancestors here. The villagers of Li Village and Gong Village could hear about Mount Yishan and come to Fuqiu Peak of Mount Yishan to ask for Daoists, mostly because of its shadow, thinking that the Daoists would come here to eliminate demons to avenge its hatred.
This evil entity understood some human nature, and it must have known that the spread of death energy would harm one side and attract deities, so it escaped that range of dozens of miles, and thus survived.
Lin Jue had long known that Luo Sha birds held grudges, and had also learned about another Luo Sha bird's hatred for that Zhang Da.
But he didn't expect it to hold a grudge until now.
This kind of evil entity nurtured by heaven and earth, not to mention the level of combat power, was very strange in itself, but this grudge could be considered a flaw.
The previous one died on this.
This one would definitely die on this too.
"Where is my Junior Shimei?"
"Naturally dead!"
"Ssh!"
Lin Jue's long sword probed, piercing the strange bird. Instantly, its whole body ignited with spiritual fire, and a harsh scream rang out on the mountain road, scaring the pedestrians.
In the blink of an eye, only a pile of ashes remained on the ground.
Lin Jue didn't hesitate, taking out the Divine Shen Xing Dan.
In Gong Village, facing the evil entities all over the ground, Lin Jue hadn't been willing to use it, but at this moment, he stuffed it into his mouth without hesitation.
Then, under the surprised gaze of pedestrians walking together in the distance, the Daoist took a step, which was two or three feet away. His figure stepped over the top of the flowering white grass, and stepped over the withered yellow forest of weeds, sometimes stepping on the branches of cypress trees. Behind him, a fox followed by jumping in the same way. The winding mountain road was walked into a straight road by them, and sometimes they weren't even on the road.
In the eyes of outsiders, the Daoist was floating, truly like an immortal.
However, not long after walking out, he saw another figure coming from the opposite side, from the left side of the road.
Both sides turned their heads and looked at each other in surprise.
Then they stopped on the top of the treetops, looking at each other.
"Third Shixiong brother?"
"Junior Shimei?"
"Hmm... senior brother, what was the first meal you cooked?" After the Junior Shimei finished asking, she cast aside her distracting thoughts.
"Noodles with bedding."
"It really is senior brother!"
"Did you meet it too?"
"How did you know?"
"Otherwise, why would I have consumed a Divine Shen Xing Dan?"
"That's right!" The Junior Shimei understood instantly, her eyes sweeping over the fox jumping behind him, only then feeling relieved. "Just now that thing turned into senior brother's appearance. I don't know why its mind-reading technique wasn't very effective, it came to trick me, and wanted to harm me, but I was suspicious, because it only had senior brother, no Fuyao, so I reacted, and it ran away."
"I'm about the same."
"It's good that senior brother is fine..."
"You are the one who is fine."
"Then now..."
The Junior Shimei stood on the tree branch staring at him.
"You'd better not go back to the mountain alone, come with me."
"Then the Master..."
"He can perform spirit-writing, he will guess it himself."
"Okay!"
The Junior Shimei nodded obediently, not thinking anything else, just furrowing her brows and gritting her teeth, feeling that two Divine Travel Pills were wasted.
Heartache.
But since she had eaten them, she couldn't waste them.
Just take this opportunity to hurry on the road, walking with the wind.
Be an immortal for a short time.
Last day! Seeking monthly tickets for the appointed time! ===== CHAPTER 126 =====
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