Chapter 146: Third Shixiong Brothers in Danger

Mount Yishan, Fuqiu Temple.

At this time of year, the temperature on the mountain is just right. Today there is no rain or fog, so the Daoist temple stands quietly in the mountain forest, appearing so quiet.

"It is still here that makes people feel at ease."

"At ease!"

The fox followed behind, mimicking his speech in a low voice.

"Tell me, did the senior brothers starve to death?"

"Starve to death!"

Lin Jue pushed the door and walked in, the fox took small steps and followed behind, nimbly crossing the threshold.

"I am back."

Lin Jue shouted this first.

The fox was smart and didn't mimic this sentence, but stretched its neck to look inside, and sniffed, feeling a bit puzzled.

No one inside responded, only the fine dog in the temple came out to greet him.

"Why only you?

"Where are the people?"

The fine dog was listless and did not answer.

Lin Jue looked at this fine dog, walked into the inner courtyard, and the scene that came into view shocked him—

In front of the Moving Mountain Hall, several armchairs were placed side by side, with several senior brothers sitting on them, and the junior sister was also there.

He saw the junior sister's face was black, the seventh senior brother's face was waxy yellow, the sixth senior brother's face was pale and sweating, and the two whose faces couldn't be seen, one lying back with his head up and the other with his head hanging down, should be the fifth senior brother and the fourth senior brother. They looked like they were spread out on the chairs, their hands hanging down, not knowing if they were dead or alive.

There was also an empty armchair.

Lin Jue looked forward along the armchairs and saw the third senior brother not knowing where to go, hunched over, holding the wall and walking.

Suddenly turning his head, he saw Lin Jue, his eyes instantly shining, and he immediately wanted to straighten his waist, but failed, and frowned, bending his waist down again.

"This?"

Lin Jue couldn't help but be stunned.

What is going on?

Why do they all look like they have been poisoned?

"Junior brother..."

A voice that was old and trembling came from the third senior brother, who was usually high-spirited.

The others heard the sound, and the junior sister, seventh senior brother, and sixth senior brother immediately turned their heads, looking at Lin Jue with no love for life. The fifth senior brother put his head down and also looked at Lin Jue. The fourth senior brother still hung his head deeply, not knowing if he was still alive.

"Third Shixiong... brother..."

"Junior brother..."

Some could still make a sound, some could only open their mouths.

"What's wrong?"

Lin Jue ran over hurriedly, his first thought was that after he left, a great demon came to the door and beat the senior brothers and junior sister in the temple into serious injuries.

But looking carefully and thinking carefully, he didn't think so.

"Junior brother... you are finally back..."

"What's going on?" Lin Jue looked at the third senior brother closest to him, "When I left, didn't I tell the junior sister to cook for you? How did it become like this?"

"You didn't... encounter trouble..."

"Stop worrying about me, just tell me what's wrong with you."

"You don't know..."

The third senior brother held the wall, looking uncomfortable, and said to him: "You don't know, Master, Master said that our generation of disciples went up the mountain too late, and our cultivation... is too low. It just so happened that we encountered troubled times, so he was afraid that we would lose the face of Fuqiu Temple after going down the mountain, and was afraid that we would encounter danger, so you... you just left..."

"Speak slowly."

"Don't, don't interrupt me." The third senior brother said to him, "You just left, and he gave us each a Spirit Origin Pill. Mostly, mostly he asked for it from the Nine Dragon Temple."

"And then?"

"Then... in order to..."

"Then in order not to waste the medicinal effect of the Spirit Origin Pill, and to have no side effects, he let you learn the second senior brother's eating method?" Lin Jue felt uncomfortable, so he simply helped him say it.

"Fast success..."

"No wonder."

Lin Jue nodded and breathed a sigh of relief.

At first, he thought it was because he told the junior sister to cook for them, and as a result, the junior sister had some bold ideas.

"Recently, for a few days, it was all the second one cooking, every day it was some annoying things." The third senior brother said, "You came back, just right, there is one for you too, you have to learn too."

Lin Jue heard this and couldn't help but look at him pitifully: "Third Shixiong brother, you are really confused by the trouble. You forgot, I learned the eating method a long time ago."

"..."

"And I learned it slowly, not fast success."

"..."

The third senior brother looked at him in astonishment.

The fox was looking at the third senior brother.

"Then you continue to take poison, practice the eating method, until you learn it." Lin Jue picked up a bamboo tube from his waist and sighed, "Sigh, on the way back, I passed by Mount Langtou and met the Mount Langtou Mountain God again. Because of an affinity, I was invited to talk and drink for a while. What I drank was Thousand-Day Wine with the essence of the sun and moon added. This Mountain God is really enthusiastic. When I left, he let me bring a pot..."

"?"

"It seems that I won't be able to drink it for a short time!"

"??"

The third senior brother wanted to say something, but Lin Jue had already turned and left.

Only his fox remained, turning its head to look at him carefully, then it also bent down, pretending to be unable to stand straight, and learned his appearance, raising a front foot to hold the wall, and left staggeringly.

"?"

The third senior brother's expression was extremely astonished.

Lin Jue took back the paper donkey and went straight back to his room, and moved everything the donkey carried inside.

First was a thick stack of paper. He originally only bought paper, but the merchants in Shu Village also traded in brushes, ink, paper, and inkstones. Xuan brushes and Xuan paper, Huizhou ink and She inkstones were all world-famous.

When he returned to Shu Village, the head of the Shu family saw that he bought a lot of paper, so he stuffed him with some high-quality brushes, ink, and inkstones. These things were cheap here, but if they were sold to Jiangnan, the price would double, and if they were sold to the capital, the price would double many times.

Then there was the Thousand-Day Wine, the small spear, and the small sword.

After putting things away, Lin Jue first pulled open the drawer.

The wooden carving inhabited by the silver-eating ghost was still inside.

"Are you there?"

"Hu..."

A white smoke suddenly emerged from the wooden carving, forming the appearance of a big-headed child ghost. At this time, the evil spirit on its body had disappeared.

"Haven't seen you for a while." Lin Jue looked at it, "From black smoke to gray smoke, now it has become white smoke. It seems that the evil spirit you were infected with at the Corpse Tiger King's place has almost been washed away."

"Thanks to the real person in the temple."

"Haven't seen you for so long, are you hungry?"

"No... no..."

Although the silver-eating ghost said so, its voice was very low, and it lowered its head.

Obviously, it was hungry.

"Don't worry, I have something to ask you. After asking, I will go get you silver to eat." Lin Jue said with a smile.

"I don't know what it is?" The silver-eating ghost became nervous again.

"It has nothing to do with you, it's just my doubt. I don't know who to ask. It just so happens that you have a long life, so I think you have a wide range of knowledge, so I ask you for advice."

"Although I have lived for more than a thousand years, I haven't had much free time, and I don't have extensive knowledge." The silver-eating ghost finally breathed a sigh of relief, "But the real person can just speak."

Lin Jue returned to the temple at this time. Of course, the most important thing was to see if the parenting gift Jun Niangniang Yao Hua gave him was still there and what was inside. Only one thing could be placed before it.

That was to understand what the "thing on you that has an affinity with the Jun Niangniang" mentioned by the Mount Langtou Mountain God was.

However, besides asking Jun Niangniang Yao Hua in person, I am afraid there is no other way to fully confirm it.

But you can also speculate from other directions.

Lin Jue thought for a while, and then opened his mouth: "As one of the three ghosts of the Dan Dao, what do you know about the other two ghosts?"

The Grain-Eating Ghost also thought for a moment:

"Back to the real person, although the three ghosts of the Dan Dao are often called together now, we are not from the same great Dan Dao expert, nor did we appear at the same time. I only know the gold-swallowing ghost, because many years ago, I and the gold-swallowing ghost were both invited to be guests by the same great expert."

"Guests?"

"That was a great expert of human immortals. He could find us, so he could catch us, so we didn't dare not go. However, he was a virtuous person. He only invited us to be guests, asked us some questions, and treated us well, and then sent us back."

"So that's how it is." Lin Jue nodded, "Then do you know the order of appearance and approximate time of the three ghosts of the Dan Dao?"

"This... too long..."

The silver-eating ghost stood in place and recalled for a long time before saying:

"The gold-swallowing ghost appeared before me, but it wasn't much different from me. Both appeared about 1,200 years ago. It was refined by a great Dan Dao expert to pass the time when he was idle. It seems that he also meant to show his Dan Dao attainments. After my master knew about it, he was unwilling to fall behind, so he imitated this method and created me."

"What about the jade-chewing ghost?"

"That was two hundred years later than us."

"Two hundred years later..."

That is to say, it was about a thousand years ago.

Lin Jue remembered that when he ate the first Spirit Origin Pill, the ancient book recorded the silver-eating ghost as "one of the two ghosts of the Dan Dao".

This record about the Spirit Origin Pill, whether it was the handwriting or the style of narration, looked like the original author of this ancient book that Lin Jue identified. Most of the content in the book came from this person.

If in the era he lived, there were already three ghosts of the Dan Dao, with his knowledge, he would not only know two of them.

Putting aside that small possibility, it shows that the time when this person wrote this book, or at least wrote this page, was likely between 1,200 years ago and 1,000 years ago, before the jade-chewing ghost appeared.

According to the life of Jun Niangniang Yao Hua that Lin Jue understood, she also achieved the position of Great Saint about "a thousand years ago", until she was suppressed by the Heavenly Lord and defeated hundreds of years ago.

This "a thousand years ago" was passed down by the demons and ghosts at the night banquet. There might be some differences. For example, a little more than a thousand years, for example, eight or nine hundred years, might all be summarized as a thousand years ago when speaking.

But it couldn't be too different.

Achieving Great Power and achieving Great Saint was not an easy thing, and it also required a period of time.

Calculated this way, the time when the first author of the ancient book wrote this book had a high possibility of coinciding with the time when this Jun Niangniang practiced, grew up, and testified to the Dao.

"Many thanks for telling me."

"Does the real person have anything else to ask?"

The silver-eating ghost looked at him weakly, while shrinking its neck, and the fox stood by, curiously stretching its claws to poke it.

"Nothing, I will go get you something to eat."

Lin Jue was about to go back, but suddenly thought of something, stopped, and asked curiously:

"Have you heard of the Phantom Silver Technique?"

"Naturally heard of it." The silver-eating ghost immediately showed a helpless expression, as if it knew what he wanted to ask, "The silver and gold created by the Phantom Silver Technique and Pointing Stone into Gold can indeed be eaten by me and the gold-swallowing ghost, but it can only satisfy hunger and has no nutrition. If we eat it for a long time, we will be starved to death."

"Then can..."

"It can also spit out pills, but the silver turned into by the Phantom Silver Technique is fake, and the pills I spit out are naturally fake. How long the illusion of the Phantom Silver Technique can last, the spiritual pill can last as long. How realistic the illusion of the Phantom Silver Technique is, the spiritual pill spit out will be just as realistic."

"So that's how it is."

Lin Jue nodded. This was amazing.

Amazing, but also easy to use.

After all, the Spirit Origin Pill was also a relatively valuable pill. Since fake silver had an effect, fake Spirit Origin Pills naturally had an effect.

After a while, Lin Jue went to the temple to get some silver.

It could be seen that the senior brothers in the temple were not diligent during the time he was away. They should be concentrating on practicing the eating method, eating all kinds of messy things including poisonous things every day, and the silver in the Daoist temple had not increased much. The ten or so taels that increased were mostly earned by the eldest senior brother and the second senior brother going down the mountain to suppress demons and drive away evil.

Lin Jue took it and fed it to the silver-eating ghost.

Then he took a hoe, called the fox, and went straight to the top of Fuqiu Peak. ===== CHAPTER 147 =====