Chapter 139: Small Gun Small Sword

"Is this a god?"

Lin Jue saw Liu Tai's body slowly kneeling down with his back to him, and then lying on the ground, until the whole body began to disappear slowly.

At the same time, this narrow world was also disappearing.

"Nothing more than that..."

Lin Jue knew that this Liu Taihou was just a small god, and an evil god, but he accepted his invitation and came here to fight with him, actually walking into his trap, Liu Tai was taking advantage.

Here he couldn't use magic before, even spell control and sword-attaching spell couldn't be used, and there were no bean soldiers and flying darts, equal to fighting him with tied hands and feet.

If it were daytime, he took the initiative to find him, it would definitely be easier to eliminate him than now.

However, having said that, Liu Tai was also okay. After all, he was a soldier and warrior before he died, and he had skills himself, and also had a heart for fighting. If it were an ordinary local god, for example, those who were worshipped as gods by the people because of outstanding virtue or doing good deeds, even if they were righteous gods, I'm afraid they wouldn't be as good as him.

At this time, he felt more and more that Master was right—

What is worth respecting in gods is virtue.

This point is actually the same as people.

Without a few breaths of time, this world completely disappeared, and Lin Jue naturally lost all sight, couldn't help but close his eyes.

Opening his eyes again, it was already upstairs in the Shu family.

He was still lying on the long couch, holding his long sword in his arms, and the fox was curled up into a white thick blanket on the other side of the long couch, next to his feet, also opening his eyes confusedly.

"Ying~"

The fox clearly felt strange after waking up, couldn't distinguish whether it was true or a dream, so it stood up, shook its body and shook its head, and then stared at him suspiciously.

Lin Jue touched his bosom for the first time.

The five bean soldiers were still there.

The flying darts were also on his body.

Even the small bottle containing pills was also there.

Suddenly breathed a sigh of relief.

Saw the fox turn its head and look to the side.

Lin Jue followed its gaze, raised his hand, and a flame lit up an inch above his fingertips, illuminating the room.

Only saw Shu Chengzhi standing beside him, looking at him with full suspicion and trembling.

Then pointed to the ground beside him.

Lin Jue got up and walked over to pick up the small gun and small sword.

"This size..."

Thinking of what Shu Er Shu said yesterday, that Liu Taihou's god statue that had been used for more than two hundred years was only two feet tall, he knew that this must be the long gun and long sword equipped on the original god statue.

After all, after decades of prosperous incense, and then more than a hundred years of intermittent sacrifices, this long gun and long sword also obtained spiritual aura.

Can be melted and made into weapons for bean soldiers.

Just at this time, there was another sound of opening the door, followed by the sound of someone stepping on the wooden floor, with flowing candlelight and shadows, until the room door was pushed open.

"Creak..."

Coming in was Shu Er Shu who had just put on clothes, and the woman with a panicked face beside him.

"What's wrong?"

"What's wrong?"

Lin Jue looked at them, and they also looked at Lin Jue and Shu Chengzhi, both sides asked the same question at the same time.

"Lin, Lin Erge, just now, just now you were talking in your sleep, I, I got up to see you, saw you were shaking, seemed, seemed to have a nightmare," Shu Chengzhi said trembling. "Later you said a few words in your sleep, I couldn't help but call my father and mother, and you, and you woke up."

Paused:

"Then, then there was this, these two things don't know where they fell from, and fell on the ground."

"So that's how it is..."

Lin Jue breathed a sigh of relief, thought it was something.

Saw Shu Er Shu and the woman were more nervous, hurriedly looked at Lin Jue, and looked at the small gun and small sword in his hand, naturally recognized that this was on Liu Taihou's original god statue, immediately shocked.

"No need to be afraid."

Lin Jue walked over calmly, lit the candle stand in the room, and two candlelight spilled over the whole room: "Just now that Liu Taihou came to my dream to find me and fought with me, and has been killed by me. This is his weapon."

Paused:

"As for whether he is alive or dead in reality, you will know by going to his temple in Ling Mountain Hollow tomorrow after dawn. I burned a circle around him with fire, and stabbed through his chest from behind with a sword. If his god statue also has similar wounds, or is broken, it means he has been eliminated, and such things will never happen again."

"Really?"

The two middle-aged people heard this and were suddenly excited.

Shu Chengzhi also widened his eyes.

Didn't dare to believe it, but seeing Lin Jue's expression didn't look like a fake, especially the small gun and small sword that appeared out of thin air on the ground, couldn't be faked.

"Go see and you will know."

"If so, it's really a great kindness!" Shu Er Shu said, "We are willing to give you whatever you want!"

"Shu Er Shu is joking. Everyone is a fellow villager. When we were in the village before, our family received a lot of care from everyone. What I did is also what I should do, not worth thanking," Lin Jue said. "Just hope that in the future, my uncle and aunt and cousin can still live in the village and still maintain a harmonious neighborly relationship with everyone."

"This is natural. This is natural."

"Go back and rest."

"Really nothing?"

"Even if there is something, I am here."

"Good, good, good..."

The couple then returned with the candle stand.

Lin Jue also looked at Shu Chengzhi.

If he also had the Shu surname, this person would be his clan brother. He wanted to warn him a few words so that he could avoid similar things in the future, but thinking carefully, he didn't do anything wrong. The virtue education for Shu surname descendants by the old master in the village academy was no problem.

So he had to say one sentence:

"Rest well, this matter is not your fault. In the future, when worshipping gods, just pick gods with virtue to worship, and don't have to be like a bird startled by the mere twang of a bow, with too much worry in your heart."

Afterwards, Shu Chengzhi still asked him two questions uneasily. Although a bit long-winded, Lin Jue knew this was human nature, so he explained to him patiently, finally letting him return to his own bed.

Lin Jue also lay down on the long couch again.

What he thought about in his heart was what exactly the experience just now was, a dream or an illusion, how much was true and how much was false.

In short, there were some bruises on his body.

Don't know when, he fell asleep again.

Didn't expect that there would be gods descending dreams again.

This time it was not like Liu Taihou just now, using words to call him and let him walk in step by step, nor was it like the time in Yixian County Yili Shenjun Temple, entering the illusion dream unknowingly.

This one was not as tricky and cunning as Liu Taihou, nor did he have as high skills as Lord Yili, and could only descend dreams. When he came to Lin Jue, because Lin Jue himself also had cultivation, it was like "knocking on the door".

Lin Jue felt it, vaguely heard some sounds, and then gradually cautiously relaxed a bit.

There was a picture in front of him immediately.

He was standing at the door of the Three Aunties Temple.

Vermilion temple walls, on the top was written "Xianji Temple" three words, below was written the couplet:

Thousands of years of sacrifices protect the four directions with favorable weather;

Ten thousand generations of admiration protect the nine provinces with national peace and people's security.

"Lin Jue."

Someone called him inside, it was a female voice.

Through the temple gate, the pond inside could be seen.

Lin Jue frowned and walked in.

The Three Aunties Temple was probably what he remembered, just some light and shadow were too bright, and some were blurred and illusory. Entering the courtyard, he could see the three goddesses standing on the god platform through the main hall door.

At this time, they were lifelike, and other god statues in the temple were all gone.

"Lin Jue."

The one who called him was the eldest aunt among the Three Aunties.

"Seen the Three Aunties Niangniang," Lin Jue walked into the main hall and bowed for the first time, "Many thanks for the kindness of the previous sending, and many thanks to the three Niangniang for protecting the people of Shu Village."

"Go quickly!"

This was said by the youngest aunt.

"Hmm? Why?" Lin Jue straightened up and asked in confusion, "Isn't that Liu Taihou already eliminated by me?"

"If you don't leave, I'm afraid there will be disadvantages."

"Why?"

"Forget it, this is a dream, saying a few more words is just an instant, just say a few more words to him?" The second aunt opened her mouth, "If you don't explain clearly, even if he leaves, I'm afraid he won't leave decisively."

Lin Jue frowned and listened earnestly.

"That Liu Taihou was eliminated by you, but we have long felt something was wrong with this matter."

The youngest aunt took her words:

"Since last winter, Yaoguai and ghosts have been trying to invade our Shu Village villagers outside the village. It's just that first, they haven't found a suitable opportunity, and second, these villagers often worship us, so as long as they don't actively contact Yaoguai and ghosts, we can protect them. Until this time, Shu family descendant Chengzhi was studying outside, rarely offering sacrifices to us, and actively had dealings with his Liu Taihou, so he was taken advantage of by him. And he also has incense supernatural powers, and we are hard to deal with."

It sounded like they were explaining why they couldn't protect Shu Chengzhi, and also seemed to want to borrow his mouth to tell the villagers, let the villagers know what they did, and at the same time tactfully let the villagers offer more sincere sacrifices.

Although Lin Jue thought so, he didn't feel anything.

Gods indeed need to protect people.

Gods indeed need incense.

These are all reasonable things.

The Three Aunties Niangniang being able to protect Shu Village, making Shu Village unaffected even during the Luo Sha King's turmoil, was already a model of local gods in this era. As for those who didn't come to offer incense often, whether they were intentionally not protecting or really couldn't protect, there was really no need to delve into it.

And at this time, there were clearly more important things.

"We have long felt something was wrong, had doubts, always felt what they were planning, always didn't know." The youngest aunt said.

"Don't know now either. However, at this very moment, Yaoguai have already arrived at the village entrance outside." The second aunt said.

"Thinking carefully about that Liu Taihou, he became a god because of bravery in battle and effective fighting, but because he was not upright in character when he was young, he could not be decreed as a righteous god. At first it was okay. After all, he became a god and so many people came to worship him, so he did things a god should do. After a long time, the incense gradually withered, and his heart became crooked again. The longer he stayed in this world, the more he feared death and perishing. This time, it was mostly instigated and used by these Yaoguai."

Lin Jue heard this and his eyebrows immediately frowned: "What Yaoguai?"

"Maybe it's related to Liu Taihou, coming to avenge him."

"But it's more likely that they are coming for you."

"In short, leave quickly. If you can return to Mount Yishan smoothly and there is no trouble, it won't be too late to call your teachers to deal with it."

The three goddesses said one sentence each.

"This Yaoguai is much more powerful than Liu Taihou, whether it's coming to avenge Liu Taihou or just coming for you, you can't deal with it." The eldest aunt opened her mouth again, "We can block it, but it's probably waiting outside the village, waiting for you to leave the village after the matter is done, fearing that you will be attacked. Why don't we confuse it first, let it think you are still in the village, and you take advantage of the night to cross the mountain and leave."

"This..."

"Make a decision quickly."

The three aunties all looked at him, the eldest aunt's expression was gentle, waving her hand to disperse the dream, the second aunt smiled and said he had cultivation, the youngest aunt urged him to leave anxiously, and the dream disappeared at this time.

Lin Jue sat up again.

At this time, Shu Chengzhi hadn't fallen asleep, and the fox hadn't fallen asleep either.

Sure enough, it was just an instant.

Lin Jue's heart was suddenly full of thoughts.

What kind of Yaoguai is this? What is the intention?

Is it another Yaoguai that holds a grudge like the Luo Sha bird? Or is it simply that the Luo Sha bird is playing tricks?

"Chengzhi."

"What's wrong, Lin Erge?"

"Nothing, ask you a question." Lin Jue originally wanted to ask directly, but hearing his nervous tone, he softened his tone, "Before, in order to deal with this Liu Taihou, besides the old master, how many sorcerers and witches did your family invite?"

"Invited two witches, invited the temple keeper of the Three Aunties Temple, invited a sorcerer, and a monk."

"What happened to them?"

"Nothing happened."

"Didn't they fight with that Liu Taihou?"

"Did you not fight with that Liu Taihou?"

"The two witches didn't, it was just useless. The temple keeper of the Three Maidens Temple didn't either, only saying that the Three Maidens couldn't deal with him. The sorcerer and the monk fought with that Liu Taihou for a bit, but in my view—in my view, that sorcerer was faking it; Liu Taihou scared him off with just two or three sentences. Only that monk fought with Liu Taihou, but he wasn't injured either."

"How is the old scholar doing?"

"Nothing happened to him at all."

"Is that so."

"What's wrong?"

"Nothing."

Lin Jue thought rapidly.

Although those witches and sorcerers came to exorcise evil, they certainly hadn't been like him, smashing one of his divine statues the moment they arrived. Moreover, he truly possessed Daoist cultivation and could truly perform magic; the threat coming from him was naturally higher. It was normal that Liu Taihou hadn't made things too difficult for those witches and sorcerers, but had fought him to the death as soon as he appeared.

Because he truly wanted to eliminate him, and truly could eliminate him.

The only exception was the old scholar.

The old scholar had also smashed his divine statue and temple, yet he was still perfectly fine until now, as if Liu Taihou had never gone to look for him at all.

Originally, this was not entirely inexplicable—

For instance, many demons and ghosts fear people of virtue; it is possible that these highly esteemed people might become divine beings after death, and even if they don't become divine beings, they are more formidable than ordinary people when they go to the underworld to lodge a complaint.

It could also be that these demons and ghosts themselves respect virtue or love virtue. The former is based on the premise that these demons and ghosts themselves also possess a certain degree of virtue, much like some bandits and thieves who have bottom lines and principles; even if they have walked a crooked path, they still speak of some reason and have more respect for those who can hold fast to their original heart. And those who are teachers are inherently respected by people.

The latter might be the demons' and ghosts' perception of "Qi"; any demon or ghost capable of seeing the Five Qi seems to be closer to those with pure Five Qi.

Lin Jue did not ask Liu Taihou for the reason.

It was too late to ask now, and it was meaningless.

Lin Jue thought carefully and decided to trust the Three Maidens' judgment.

Even if the Three Maidens' judgment was mistaken, at most it would only mean he left the village two or three hours earlier.

"Chengzhi, I suddenly remembered something, so I must leave immediately. Wait until tomorrow daytime to tell your father and mother; just say I truly had something to attend to and didn't have time to say goodbye." Lin Jue said to him, rising with his sword in hand. "Remember one thing."

"What thing?"

"In the future, even if you go outside to study and can only return once a year, every time you return, you must first go to pay respects to the Three Maidens."

"I'll remember it."

Shu Chengzhi nodded repeatedly; in fact, there was no need to remind him of this.

Lin Jue's expression was calm, but his movements were clean and efficient.

He quickly packed his bags, tilted his chin at the fox, pushed open the door and went out, climbed over the railing, and leaped down from the patio to the floor below.

The fox followed him, landing lightly.

Yet it couldn't help but feel a bit puzzled—

It seemed it had dreamed of this scene before.

Afterward, was it going out to fight someone?

So it took the lead, walking with small, quick steps to the edge of the door, and peered outside through the crack in the door.

Where is that person? This time, I must have a good fight with him!