Chapter 173

Yan Shu saw Qian Chen tucking a Yaksha ghost skin under his arm, walking slowly out of the desolate house, and seeing the expression of Li Bi beside him, he knew what had happened. He sighed: "You used demonic means again... Junior Brother... Taibai! Your demonic nature is deep. Since you have already embraced the heart of entering the Dao, you should use those means less."

Qian Chen said: "If not for this, my heart would not be happy."

He reached out and took out the red-skinned gourd, took a sip in his mouth. The sweet Langguan Qing wine tasted like the degree of beer in his previous life, sour and sweet, and could be drunk as a drink.

He muttered in his heart: "Li Bai drinks half a dozen beers and writes a hundred poems. This sounds..."

"His drinking capacity is not very good either!"

It's really that I can do it too. What is tested is the bladder, not the liver.

Yan Shu looked at the Yaksha ghost skin that Qian Chen was holding and said: "Since Taibai has already killed this ghost, what do you intend to do next?"

Qian Chen said: "Of course, it's to put on this ghost skin and go peel off the skin of that Northern Heavenly King too!" His smile was full of murderous intent, and he whispered: "This is a ghost of prestige. After killing the ghost, of course, I have to ask the master. Let's see if he can still be prestigious!"

Yan Shu stopped him and said: "You cannot go personally... With your style, Taibai, I'm afraid that before you ask the strangeness of this matter from the Northern Heavenly King's mouth, you will draw your sword and kill the god! And Taibai, you must suppress your own demonic nature..."

Yan Shu pondered for a moment and said: "Wuyou Wuyou Naihe about I do it!"

Qian Chen shook his head: "General, you don't have as many tricks as I do, I can even trick ghosts. And if you go, I'm afraid you will be tricked and can't find the ghost!" The two turned their heads to look at Cen Can, and suddenly turned their heads at the same time in tacit understanding, as if they had never seen him. Cen Can said dissatisfied: "Why can't I do it!"

"Your sword technique is not good..." Qian Chen said: "If your whereabouts are discovered, I'm afraid you won't be able to hold on until we come to rescue you!"

"Then what about me?" Li Bi suddenly said: "I have more patience than you..." He said to Qian Chen, and then turned to look at Yan Shu: "More scheming than you..." Finally, he looked at Cen Can: "My cultivation is also stronger than yours."

"If it is said to put on this Yaksha skin and test the Northern Heavenly King, I am the most suitable!"

"Then when are we going to Luoyang?" Yan Shu asked.

Qian Chen shook his head: "Why would you think that the Yaksha who killed Wang Sheng is this one? The Northern Heavenly King we are looking for is not only in Luoyang. There is also a Heavenly King Temple in Chang'an."

"The Lingxian Heavenly King Temple is located in the southwest corner of Anding Ward, established by the previous dynasty..." Li Bi said: "Ren Xuanyan was killed by a Yaksha evil ghost, which was very bizarre. Not to mention why he had no precautions against this Yaksha evil ghost, leading to his harm, the Wei Chenghuang Lord Zhong Kui in Chang'an city is a ghost king. Any Yaksha small ghost is eaten in one bite, and ghosts and monsters are very afraid of him."

"Wuyou Wuyou Naihe could any evil ghost dare to kill people under his rule?"

"And why did this ghost king, who hates evil like an enemy, have no reaction to this case?"

Li Bi concluded: "Unless..."

Qian Chen was very tacit, and echoed him: "Unless there is the shadow of Chang'an power and nobility behind this, and this power and nobility is so great that even the Wei Chenghuang Zhong Fujun is helpless. He can only let it be and sit and watch the occurrence of this bloody case."

Li Bi nodded slightly and said: "I originally thought the person behind this was Yang Guozhong, but now it seems that he does not have such great power."

Qian Chen smiled slightly: "This is not necessarily true... Whether it is Yang Guozhong or Crown Prince Li Heng, they do not have such great ability to make Zhong Fujun sit and watch, but their power comes from another person. As long as they can borrow one or two points of that person's power to make the ghost king shut up, it is not a difficult matter."

Cen Can said: "You are talking about... the Emperor?"

Li Bi's face was unhappy. He didn't want to point out this fact and let the Xuan Emperor, who had the grace of knowing him, be stained. But he had to admit that no matter how treacherous Yang Guozhong was, he always relied on the Xuan Emperor's power.

But Crown Prince Li Heng was at odds with the Xuan Emperor for an awkward reason and was not very trusted.

Even before the Xuan Emperor appointed him as Crown Prince, he once said personally: "Prince Zhong is benevolent and filial, and is the eldest, so he should guard the Eastern Palace." But unfortunately, the father and son of this dynasty killed each other, and palace internal strife was really like eating and drinking, especially what the Empress did, which made the Xuan Emperor deeply afraid and left many shadows. He dared not believe in his son who had power anymore.

On the contrary, sisters like Yuzhen and Jin Xian, who did not hold power and had the heart to practice Daoism early, and had the feeling of pity for each other, were more trusted by him.

Li Bi put on the Yaksha skin and turned into that Yaksha evil ghost. He whispered: "Although I have observed one or two points of this ghost's temperament, I don't know it deeply after all, so I can't guarantee that I won't reveal any flaws in front of the Northern Heavenly King."

Qian Chen slowly returned the Affectionate Sword to its sheath and sneered: "If this god is so ignorant of current affairs, then I can only borrow his god skin again! I still have many means here, which should be able to make him speak."

Cen Can didn't understand, only knowing that Qian Chen's means of dealing with ghost objects might be somewhat shocking. Li Bi, who turned into a Yaksha, looked at Qian Chen deeply. He had indeed personally experienced his methods. Li Bi did not exclude such methods, and even appreciated them faintly. If he hadn't seen that Qian Chen couldn't be driven by anyone, and was a lawless person in his bones who didn't even put the Xuan Emperor in his eyes, he might have tried to win him over for the Crown Prince.

But now?

The Crown Prince couldn't drive such a character yet...

Li Bi even suspected that even if the Xuan Emperor came, he couldn't drive such a person with deep demonic nature.

It was just like the Supreme Emperor who thought he had driven Empress Wu Zetian, but then a weak-tempered High Emperor came up, and then let this Empress show her skills, almost overturning the Li Tang, turning into her Wu Zhou. If it weren't for the righteous path of the world using their lives, the benevolent and righteous people working tirelessly inside, and the experts of various families working tirelessly outside.

Such as Daoist Ye Fashan, Yuan Tiangang and Li Chunfeng, the three Heavenly Masters joined forces, and Yuan Tiangang and Li Chunfeng even left a volume of the Tui Bei Tu, warning the Empress of the location of the Heavenly Mandate, before the Empress stopped the heart of overturning the Li Tang.

During this period, even Prime Minister Di, who was relied upon by the Empress, was always secretly helping the Li Tang.

When the Empress was about to ascend, during the Shenlong years, the three Heavenly Masters joined forces to force the palace, before she made a vow that after ascending, the throne would be returned to the Li family. Afterwards, Yuan and Li among the three Heavenly Masters were forced to ascend, leaving only Heavenly Master Ye Fashan to clean up the mess. That Shenlong coup, although most of the secrets were not seen in history, Li Bi could still feel the thrilling shock that fell outside the paper when reading the records in the palace.

And on this Li Taibai, Li Bi seemed to see the shadow of that Empress who overturned the world.

It's not that the two have anything in common. The ruthlessness and ambition of the Empress are completely different from Taibai's freedom and ease most of the time, but both have a demonic nature that overturns everything and turns the impossible into the possible.

"If this person has the heart to enter the official career, I should persuade the Crown Prince to remove this person early!" When Li Bi thought this, there was even some faint fear in his heart.

Perhaps it was his natural Dao bone that sensed the terrifying demonic nature hidden in Qian Chen.

Qian Chen pressed his sword with one hand, watched Li Bi fly away like the wind, and called Yan Shu and Cen Can to go towards the Lingxian Heavenly King Temple.

The three were like rangers walking in the market, listening to Qian Chen chanting:

"Purple swallows with golden eyes, chirping and shaking their green manes. At dawn, they chase each other, making friends east of the Luoyang Gate. Youths learn sword skills, trampling on the White Ape Duke. Pearl robes drag silk belts, daggers inserted into Wuhong. From the beginning, ten thousand men are brave, holding this heroic wind. Entrusting friendship from Ju Meng, buying drunkenness and entering Xinfeng. Laughing and finishing a cup of wine, killing people in the city. Ashamed to say the Yi River is cold, letting the sun penetrate the rainbow. Yan Dan's affairs are not established, vainly sinking into the Qin Emperor's palace..."

Laughing and finishing a cup of wine, killing people in the city!

Passing rangers and noble dissolute sons rode horses and galloped past, looked back upon hearing the sound, reined in their horses and looked at the backs of Qian Chen and the others and smiled: "The poem is not bad, it's just a bit poor. Where is there a horse for you to ride? That ranger... you give me this poem, how about I give you my horse!"

Cen Can looked back and shouted: "This kind of poem, even a thousand gold won't change it!"

Qian Chen's wealth was almost overflowing with the nearly ten magic tools on his body. Where would he pay attention to the random shouting of those poor ghosts? Even in Chang'an, where there are countless power and nobility, he is also the most wealthy batch.

Four hundred and eighty temples in the Southern Dynasty, how many towers are in the misty rain.

Now in the Divine Capital Chang'an, not to mention four hundred and eighty temples, there are three hundred and eighty temples. In the one hundred and eight wards, there is no ward without temples, Zoroastrian shrines, Persian Hu temples, Jing temples, Great Brightness temples, Black-clothed Dashi religion... Although various foreign religions are not allowed to preach to the Han people, because of the large number of foreign people in this city. It is also quite prosperous.

There is a saying that in dozens of Western Regions countries, there are not many countries with a population larger than the Western Regions foreign people in Chang'an.

This city makes the foreign people who have traveled the farthest to Fulin Persia linger and forget to return, dreaming of being able to live in this city.

Anding Ward is on the west side of the palace city, reaching the north wall of the outer city in the north. Lingxian Heavenly King Temple is not the kind of big temple that occupies famous mountains and covers dozens of miles. Chang'an land is expensive, how many temples were built because of the donation of mansions by high officials, and disappeared because of the expansion of the mansions of high officials.

It is located in a small courtyard, and the incense is quite good. At this time, it is not the time for believers to worship and offer incense, but there are still many believers who come to offer incense. Whenever they enter the door, they must put their hands together towards the four Heavenly King statues in the courtyard, which are arranged in four directions, majestic and solemn, and recite the names of the gods, praying for protection.

In the divine domain and Yin earth that believers cannot see, the four Heavenly Kings are a hundred zhang high, standing between heaven and earth, standing in the center of the Yin earth.

Some hold pagodas, some hold single maces, some hold pipas, some hold precious swords, raising their hands and akimbo, their hair tied into crowns, wearing mountain-pattern fish-scale armor, their waists tightly bound with golden beast heads holding rings, hanging fish hanging down, covering their crotches.

At this time, a three-zhang-high blue-skinned Yaksha led a three-pronged fork and sneaked into the Yin earth. The Heavenly King standing in the north, holding a pagoda, rolled his eyes and shouted sharply: "Why did you come back so early? Didn't I tell you to stay in Shengdao Ward after killing Ren Xuanyan and wait for my order? If you provoke Lord Zhong Kui here, I will peel off your skin!"

The Yaksha disguised by Li Bi secretly said: This Northern Heavenly King is really as wise as a god. Nothing has happened yet! He is already hinting that the Yaksha's skin has been peeled off!