Chapter 783

When Meng Jingzhou heard the two introduce each other, their backgrounds were more astonishing than the last—one had reached the extreme of body refining, and the other's mother was a saintess of a Holy Land.

As soon as they fought, he discovered that their combat power was really average. Not to mention anything else, his own body-refining technique when he was in the Jin Dan stage was much stronger than Fang Wudi's.

At that time, his body refining was so thorough that from his hair to his shadow, there wasn't a single loophole.

Looking at Fang Wudi's body-refining technique, it was full of loopholes and had no originality at all.

"What's the matter, do you want to go up and practice with them?" Lu Yang glanced at the eager Meng Jingzhou.

"That's not happening." Meng Jingzhou waved his hand and said reservedly, "I am now considered a great power of cultivation, a giant of the righteous path. It's demeaning to go up on stage and fight with juniors."

"... But these two seem to be only three years younger than you."

"That's still a junior. Look, when we cultivation giants get angry, we often say 'How dare you, junior,' and never say 'How dare you, peer.' This shows that shouting 'junior' has momentum."

Lu Yang nodded. Old Meng's point made sense.

Continuing to watch the Jin Dan stage battle here was meaningless. The two decided it wouldn't be too late to come back when the monks of Kaihuang Temple informed them of the top eight results.

"Hey, it's Master Lu and Master Meng."

Hearing someone reveal their disguise, Lu Yang followed the voice and looked over. As expected, it was Tang Qiaoqiao and Cui Que'er.

Only they had seen what they looked like after their disguise.

Tang Qiaoqiao and Cui Que'er were holding sugar paintings, unable to put them down. The sugar paintings were lifelike, depicting the heads of Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou.

This was a craft that the sugar painter had worked overtime to practice overnight to cater to the demand, and the effect was surprisingly good.

"Two masters, didn't you say you were going to go on stage as judges? Why are you still here?"

"It's not our turn to go on stage yet. Looking at this, it won't be our turn to show our faces for a while. What about you? Why are there only the two of you? Where is Chuanwu?"

"Brother said that the medicinal materials the pharmacy bought yesterday had some problems, so he followed the boss to the neighboring Lianhua City to purchase goods. I don't know if he can come back today." Tang Qiaoqiao sighed. She had wanted to spend the festival with her brother, but now it seemed unlikely.

"I see. Then you two go play, and remember to be safe," Lu Yang habitually urged.

After being baptized by a drop of Lu Yang's blood, Tang Qiaoqiao and Cui Que'er's bodies were no longer what they used to be; even the strength of ordinary martial artists was not as powerful as theirs.

"Can't play anymore, I have to go give out porridge in a while," Cui Que'er said.

Lu Yang remembered that Cui Shanren would go to give out porridge on the 5th, 15th, and 25th of every month.

"I originally asked my father if we could give out porridge a day late, but my father said today is the Buddha-Bathing Festival, the day the World-Honored One was born. The merit of doing good and accumulating virtue today is ten times that of ordinary days, so we should give out porridge even more."

"There's such a saying?" Although Lu Yang had some understanding of the Buddha-Bathing Festival, he was ultimately not as familiar with the traditions as a local like Cui Shanren.

"In that case, Old Meng and I will also go to do good and accumulate virtue," Lu Yang laughed.

"Goodbye, masters. May the World-Honored One bless you." Cui Que'er and Tang Qiaoqiao waved goodbye.

Lu Yang thought to himself that there was actually no need to add the last sentence; the World-Honored One couldn't bless him at all.

"Is Xiao Yangzi thinking bad things about me?" The Immortal Fairy didn't know where her sixth sense came from and asked suddenly.

"No, no, Fairy, you are merciful and compassionate, and you do all kinds of good deeds. I am just about to learn from you, to do good and accumulate virtue. How could I say bad things about you?"

The Immortal Fairy hummed: "I expect you wouldn't dare to go against your conscience and say bad things about me!"

"That's right, that's right."

The two strolled along the street. Many people were holding sugar paintings of the two, licking them, which made the two look strange.

Suddenly, a man in a black cloak appeared in front of them. The man in the black cloak laughed, his voice extremely eerie.

He turned around, holding a pitch-black long needle in his hand, his eyes fanatical, laughing crazily, which made Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou feel baffled.

"The chaos in Kaihuang City starts with you two. If you want to blame someone, blame your bad luck!"

After saying that, the man in the black cloak picked up the long needle and stabbed it fiercely at Meng Jingzhou's arm!

Crack—

The long needle stabbed Meng Jingzhou's arm and broke into two pieces directly.

The scene was silent.

The man in the black cloak looked at the broken long needle, then at Meng Jingzhou, turned around, and ran away.

Meng Jingzhou used a hand blade to smash the man in the black cloak, causing his body to tilt and fall to the ground.

"What is this?" Meng Jingzhou held the half-broken long needle, still unable to understand the situation.

"Fairy, can you see what this is?"

"Let me see. Hmm, this long needle is quenched with poison, and the ingredients are quite complex. It seems that the person stabbed will have a confused consciousness, lose their mind, bite anyone they see, and the person bitten will also have the same symptoms."

Lu Yang: "..."

Why do these symptoms sound so familiar? Wait, isn't this a zombie?

Knowing the effect of the long needle, Lu Yang no longer held back. He dragged the man in the black cloak into a small alley and directly searched his soul to understand the ins and outs of the matter.

It turned out that the abbot of another temple was jealous of the prosperity of Kaihuang City and wanted to take this opportunity to create chaos, sending people to randomly find a few unlucky people on the street to stab them with a needle, turning them into sources of spread.

Meng Jingzhou was the first unlucky person.

"Forget it, tell Master Duanchen and let him handle it himself," Lu Yang said, stretching his waist. Since it was a matter targeting Kaihuang City, it should naturally be told to Master Duanchen, and the subsequent matters would no longer be their concern.

"It seems that Heaven is also on our side. Today is indeed a good day to do good and accumulate virtue," Meng Jingzhou said happily, causing Lu Yang to nod in agreement. This move was equivalent to saving the people of the whole city, which was a great merit.

On the way back to Kaihuang Temple, the two ran into a lecherous monk practicing Joyous Buddha who was forcibly grabbing a woman to be his twenty-sixth concubine, ran into a cultivator whose lifespan was coming to an end and who wanted to self-destruct in despair, ran into a cultivator who had learned hypnosis and wanted to hold a non-discriminatory meeting, ran into a bug cultivator who was almost engulfed by a bug king, ran into an evil cultivator who wanted to release a plague to harm the world, ran into a cultivator who had caught a beast king cub and wanted to trigger a beast tide...

I don't know when, a rope appeared in Lu Yang's hand, with one cultivator after another tied behind it, all following Lu Yang honestly.

Master Duanchen sat at the entrance of the temple, looking at the endless stream of pilgrims, beaming with joy and feeling relaxed, feeling more and more that it was the right thing to invite Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou to Kaihuang City.

He believed that after the Buddha-Bathing Festival, he would take a big step toward his goal of great vows.

"Two donors, why are you back?" Master Duanchen was a little surprised to learn that Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou were back, so he went out to greet them.

Then he saw Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou leading several people.

"Who are these people?"

Lu Yang handed the rope to Master Duanchen and said expressionlessly: "The result of doing good and accumulating virtue."

"Also, the public security in your Kaihuang City is really too poor."