Chapter 128: There is no danger like human desire on the world road (Seeking monthly tickets)

Lin Jue thought so, and had doubts in his heart.

The monk in Songyin Temple was actually a fake monk, a thief from outside, but no matter what, this temple keeper of the Green Emperor Temple was also a temple keeper backed by a god. Could it be that he also did such things as harming people for money?

So looking at the temple keeper going to get incense, looking at him, thinking about it, following him:

"It turns out it's because of such a happy event that we were exempted from the accommodation fee! I heard that there was a turmoil caused by demons here a few days ago, and many villagers came to the temple to seek shelter. Did the temple keeper charge them money?"

"Of course I didn't charge!" The temple keeper laughed, handing over the incense, "I'm actually not that greedy for money, and I understand the importance of urgency. Coupled with the fact that the Green Emperor entrusted me with a dream that night, specifically telling me to let these commoners in to hide from the demons, how could I disobey my Emperor?"

"So that's it."

Lin Jue nodded, turned his head and looked at his Junior Xiao Shimei, seeing that there were also doubts in her eyes, so he said again:

"However, we once heard that if you want to ascend to heaven and become an immortal, you must either cultivate spiritual methods and seek the creation of heaven and earth, or cultivate heart and virtue and walk the path of incense. I don't know which path you are taking, fellow?"

"This can't be said!"

"We can guess even if you don't say it."

"Eh?"

The temple keeper looked at them unexpectedly.

"Besides that, there is another path. It is the alchemy path of ancient times." Lin Jue looked at him with a smile, "Is it this path?"

"Eh! How did you know?"

"Haha..."

Lin Jue already understood as soon as he heard it.

This temple keeper probably had some relationship with the Many Yaoguai King's way of seeking silver, just like the monk in Songyin Temple.

It's just that there are differences between them.

The monks in Songyin Temple were thieves, good at illegal things, so they relied on pretending to be gods and ghosts and harming lives to seek silver. This temple keeper was properly related to the god, so he couldn't do those things, but he didn't need to rely on those means, and he could collect a large amount of silver by doing proper things. Because the Bodhisattva in Songyin Temple was fake, but the Green Emperor in this temple was real.

It's like in the city of Yixian, those mouse demons relying on stealing.

The Many Yaoguai King only wanted silver, passing it down level by level. At the last level, the means were blooming.

"We not only know that you are taking the alchemy path, but we can also guess that your pills are not refined by yourself, right? Your money is probably used to exchange for immortal pills."

"You, how did you know?"

The temple keeper was shocked when he heard this.

Lin Jue only felt ridiculous.

Long before he went up to Mount Yishan to cultivate the Dao, when he was in Danxun County, he heard that this temple keeper was greedy for money. He thought it was ordinary human desire, but it turned out to be for longevity and becoming an immortal.

"Sigh..."

"You Daoist! Why are you sighing?"

"The temple keeper has been deceived by demons!" Lin Jue shook his head and said to him, "I don't know how those demons deceived the temple keeper, but I also know some alchemy, and I can also refine pills. Not to mention that taking spiritual pills and immortal pills requires cooperation with the special consumption method of alchemy, just saying that refining pills to become an immortal is not easy in this world. And the temple keeper's face is already black, which is a sign of metal and stone poisoning and imminent death."

"You..."

The temple keeper widened his eyes, clearly a bit angry, pointing at him and wanting to say something, but got stuck again, holding it in for a while before saying angrily:

"Hu Yan!"

"The temple keeper doesn't know that refining pills to become an immortal is already a thing of ancient times. Nowadays, not to mention ordinary people, even those alchemy cultivators who are truly cultivating golden pills in deep mountains, how many can truly become immortals?"

"What do you know! Hu Yan!" The temple keeper didn't know how to refute, anyway, he didn't listen or believe. He was angry and afraid of the sword in his hand. "I kindly took you in, don't talk nonsense. If you say it again, I'll have to drive you out! It just so happens that it doesn't take long to get to the city from here!"

"How can you be sure that you can become an immortal?"

"A few days ago, I was entrusted with a dream by a god, and tonight a fairy will come to pick me up and ascend to heaven!"

"A few days ago? Tonight?" Lin Jue smiled, "You wouldn't also ask the temple keeper to prepare silver and treasures, right?"

"You? How did you know?"

"Two or three hundred miles to the north, there is a temple called Songyin Temple. The monks in the temple are the same as you, deceived by demons, willing to collect silver for demons. These demons are strange, only wanting silver. Silver can be used to exchange for some 'immortal pills', which are actually ordinary pills. Ordinary people don't cultivate the method of consumption, and eating them not only has no effect, but also causes metal and stone poisoning, endangering life. If poisoned, the face is black, and the blackness faintly reveals a metallic luster."

Lin Jue said to him: "Temple keeper, am I right?"

"You... what you said is fake... I have seen those gods! Those are true gods! I ate the pills and felt like I was floating!"

"They are true demons." Lin Jue shook his head and said, "The Many Yaoguai King secretly occupied nearly a state of land, secretly collecting silver, turning it into spiritual pills to increase cultivation. The movement nearby a few days ago was the descent of gods to eliminate demons. The Many Yaoguai King's forces should have been wiped out under the clearing of the Divine Lord."

"You..."

"It must be that the Many Yaoguai King was defeated, and the demons under his command were preparing to escape. It's also a greedy one. I don't know what it wants to do with the money, so it's preparing to come to you for the last time."

The temple keeper opened his eyes wide and pointed at him.

His fingers were already trembling.

Such things, so absurd, how could he believe it?

And how could he believe it?

"The temple keeper's pill poison has reached the point of no return." Lin Jue said calmly, "Since a fairy will come to pick up the temple keeper tonight, then we will wait here and see if it is really a fairy."

After saying that, he bowed to him and entered the Green Emperor Hall.

I don't know if the Green Emperor knew about his temple keeper being bewitched by demons, and if he knew, why he didn't dissuade him. However, just because he was willing to entrust a dream to the temple keeper, let the temple keeper accept the commoners who came to take refuge, and was willing to truly descend with divine power to protect the commoners when evil entities came, Lin Jue was also willing to offer this stick of incense.

After offering incense, seeing the temple keeper still standing in place, his expression uncertain, Lin Jue just reminded him to "be careful tonight" and walked to the side hall.

Walking all the way to the wall, putting down the long sword, and sitting down with his back against the wall.

The Junior Xiao Shimei stood in front and looked at him, then followed, put down her long sword, and slid down slowly against the wall.

Lin Jue felt tired and straightened his legs.

When she saw it, she also straightened her legs.

The fox was rolling on the ground beside it.

"Third Shixiong brother, will this Green Emperor really manifest?" The Junior Xiao Shimei couldn't help but be confused.

"It should be true that he will manifest. There have always been rumors of the Green Emperor's efficacy here, and I have even seen the Green Emperor's talisman requested from here, which should be the handwriting of a true immortal."

"Then this temple keeper..."

"Human hearts are complicated, probably bewitched." Lin Jue paused, "It is rumored that this temple keeper was very poor when he was young. One day he was wandering in the wilderness and was drenched by the rain, but suddenly saw a Green Emperor statue that didn't know how many years it had been buried underground in the mud. Because he felt that the statue's fate was similar to his own, he dug it out, washed it clean, and worshipped it. It just so happened that the Green Emperor hadn't had incense for many years, maybe they pitied each other, so the Green Emperor passed him a divine registry and some methods of drawing talismans, letting him be his temple keeper. Later, I heard that he developed a greedy character, but I didn't expect it to be for this reason."

The Junior Xiao Shimei listened and nodded.

Then, while chatting with him in a low voice about the temple keeper and the Green Emperor, treating it as listening to a story, she reached out and hammered her legs, the flesh on her thighs under her pants shaking with each hammer.

Lin Jue was playing with the fox's head.

Borrowing accommodation in this temple probably meant there was no food, but the two also brought some dry food and ate it with water, and fed the fox.

Gradually, the sky turned dark.

The main hall had a long-burning lamp, the side hall didn't, but Lin Jue learned the lamp-lighting technique of the Seventh Third Third Shixiong, and there were oil lamps in the temple, so he lit one.

Men and women are different after all. The brother and sister were more than a foot apart. When the little fox saw it, it felt that this was the place left for it, so it drilled in and nested, which was just right.

The night was cold, so Lin Jue took the red cloth spread on the table beside him to cover it. I think the deity wouldn't blame him for this. This enclosed space made the fox like it even more, enjoying it while shrinking inside, and it just happened to be able to practice the skill of spitting cold air that it had just learned.

Gradually deep into the night, the two also entered a light sleep.

Waking up and sleeping, I don't know when it was.

"Third Shixiong brother, why is it a bit cold?"

"I think so too."

"Is it yin energy?"

"Doesn't look like it."

"Then what's going on?"

"Didn't close the window."

Just as Lin Jue was whispering, a gust of wind suddenly blew from outside the window, the lamp fire shook instantly, and the shadows of the divine statue and the curtains swayed, flickering.

A huge figure suddenly flashed past the window.

"Ying?"

The fox's head drilled out immediately.

Both of them stared at the window, reaching out to grasp the long sword.

"Ssh~~"

The long sword slowly came out of its sheath.

The lamp fire soon stood firm and became bright again, and all the shadows in the hall stabilized.

But there were no shadows of the two Daoists in the corner of the wall.

The window was not closed, it was pitch black outside, and looking closely, one could see the stars all over the sky and a galaxy, incomparably brilliant.

Suddenly, a pair of eyes appeared outside the window.

This pair of eyes was like a copper bell, yellow, like the eyes of a lion or tiger, reflecting the candlelight, looking into the room.

But seeing this side hall, although the lamp was lit, only a white fox was sitting calmly on the right side of the room, lowering its head and raising its claws, licking its claws and then rubbing its face with its claws, as if it hadn't discovered it at all.

The copper bell-like eyes moved to the left again, sweeping across the central divine altar and divine statue, all the way to the corner on the far left.

Still didn't find anyone.

The owner of the eyes hunched his waist and breathed a sigh of relief, then suddenly turned his head, staring dead at the lamp bowl that had no lamp oil but was burning with fire, and sniffed his nose frantically.

Coming back to his senses, only to see the fox staring at himself, but didn't make a sound.

In this instant—

"Brush!"

Two long swords actually probed out from under the window at the same time, it was a slanted upward sword style, and the sword tip arrived in front of him in the blink of an eye.

At this time, it was too late to dodge.

"Awoo!!"

A thick painful cry.

The figure outside the window stood up straight instantly, actually as high as the courtyard wall, and took a few steps back with a thud, the huge steel fork dragged in his right hand easily tore the bluestone floor, and his left hand was covering his face.

Those two swords, one stabbed a little below its eye, and one just poked into its eye, causing it great pain.

With the remaining eye, looking closely, two Daoists jumped out of the window, and a white fox jumped out lightly behind them. After landing, it was still licking its claws while quietly staring at him.

Two more beans were thrown out, and one bean was thrown onto the roof with a backhand.

"Beans fall and wind rises, soldiers and horses appear!"

Two heavy sounds, and the sound of roof tiles being stepped on, two armored soldiers holding knives and shields appeared on the ground immediately, and an archer wearing armor also appeared on the roof.

Lin Jue and the other raised the fire to look.

This demon was nearly a foot tall, as big as an ox, and its waist was like a water vat. It was fat and had a green face and fangs, holding a huge steel fork, looking like a Yaksha ghost. ===== CHAPTER 129 =====