Chapter Thirty-Seven: A Knife in the Dark
The sky was covered with gloomy clouds, spread like black cotton wool, and the sun was dark, and the wind blew the leaves, rolling up a little bleak.
On the Dharma platform, the tall Taoist priest had blazing eyes and a low voice: "I have long heard that your Buddhism is full of miasma, and you do not concentrate on cultivating Buddhism, but collude with the government to oppress the people, and the methods are cruel, without a little compassion. Now look at your group of monks, intrigue openly and secretly, and what you say is really true. ”
His gaze swept over Elder Nasu and them, and then turned to the county lieutenant: "County lieutenant, I know that you are just following orders, I advise you to evacuate as soon as possible, this place has little to do with you, don't give your life in vain."
"I am a Taoist priest of the Nine Dragons Temple, and this incident itself is the first person they killed us, and my Nine Dragons Temple has no reason to lose money, and I never show cowardice! I believe that the county order has gained some benefits, and I will compensate him on behalf of the Nine Dragons Temple. ”
The county lieutenant had a gloomy face, looked at the group of monks who fell to the ground and vomited blood, and then looked at this group of Taoist priests, weighing that with their hundreds of soldiers today, it would be impossible to fight against their group of cultivators, not to mention that for the benefit of the county order, it was not cost-effective to lose his life, so he waved his hand very decisively, and the county soldiers quickly changed their formation and retreated neatly.
The county lieutenant glanced at him when he was leaving, and said coldly: "Don't go too far with Jiulongguan, otherwise, even if we can't control it, but Shang Gu, the Yunzhou pastoral envoy sent by the imperial court, is not a good stubble, and our county order has something to do with him, don't you can't eat when the time comes, just go around!"
The tall Taoist priest didn't care, and watched the county soldiers withdraw with appreciation, although this county order was greedy for financial gain, but the army was not bad.
Although there are often popular riots in the Dawu Kingdom now, I have never heard of it that it can last for a month, and the spirit of the Dawu Kingdom court to worship martial arts and the generals who mainly lead the troops in the imperial court's legions are indispensable.
He looked to the left, and the Fire Monkey Shuli and the others followed his gaze, and he felt his breathing tight.
The fire monkey keenly felt that this Taoist priest had at least stepped into the Shangqing realm.
The realm of the Taoist Xiuzhen School is divided into three major realms: "Yuqing, Shangqing, and Taiqing", and the Shangqing realm is the second realm of the Taoist Xiuzhen School, which is equivalent to the jade realm of Buddhism.
It stands to reason that this Daoist's personal strength should be even higher than that of Nasu Nahe, just because the people he brought over were not as good as him, so he could only use the magic circle to defend and wait for their poisoning plan to succeed.
The Taoist priest noticed the fire monkey's contemptuous eyes and questioned: "What about you? Aren't you a monk from Qingping Temple, what kind of limelight are you? Three little monks with a little girl, so strange?"
"I only heard that there are women who cultivate truth in my sect, but I didn't expect that there are also female lay disciples in the Buddhist sect who are not nuns.
"However, I'm not interested in caring about you today, the Qingning monk behind you is a high-level disciple of Qingping Temple, he must stay, you run for your lives!"
As he spoke, he asked his juniors and disciples to get the Qingfa monk who had just been carried away from under the Dharma stage.
There are disciples of Qingping Temple who resisted, but most of them were mortals, how could they be the opponents of these Dao Sect cultivators, a few looked at each other, and they wailed in an instant, with heavy casualties.
The tall Taoist priest turned a deaf ear and said to himself: "Qingping Temple, this is in a remote place in Mangnan County, Yunzhou, you just cultivate your Buddha, why do you want to send people to participate in the war according to Jiangyuan?"
"Aren't you known as the pure land of Buddhism? If you participate, you will participate, after all, the great forces in Yunzhou, there are no calligraphers, Nanzong, and Xuanyin faction who do not participate. Even the Kowloon view, which outsiders rarely mention about this war, actually has our people involved.
"However, you people from Qingping Temple are too shameless, and after the negotiations were made after the war, you actually killed the disciples of my Daomen!
"This hatred, if it wasn't for the negotiation situation at that time, I had to suppress it, after I found it out afterwards, this account has always been in my heart, and today is the time for you to repay your debts!"
Yifeng and Xiugu were also made by the current situation at this time, and Yifeng secretly turned his head and asked the fire monkey: "Senior brother, what now?"
The fire monkey lowered his head and pondered, this situation was very tricky, they had already come out, and they had to save the Qingning monk in order to bring a glimmer of hope to the hundreds of villagers in Qingping Town who depended on the land for their livelihood.
If the Qing monks or other people are allowed to preside over the overall situation of Qingping Temple, then it is necessary to increase the taxes of the villagers, and when the land cannot support them, they will either starve to death at home, or revolt and rebel, either of which will bring blood debts and sins to the world.
Shuli saw the fire monkey's concerns, and he was also very embarrassed. It stands to reason that they should not confront the Taoist priests, and retreat is the safest option.
But things have come to this point, and the best plan is to take the Qingning monk with him and escape, if the Taoist priests really only target the Qingfa monk.
Then, when the Qingning monk comes back afterwards, the Taoist priests should have calculated the accounts, and they should leave, and the Qingning monk can accept to preside over the affairs of Qingping Temple, and the purpose will be achieved.
The difficulty is that the Taoist priest still wants to keep the Qingning monk, which forces them to fight.
The tall Taoist priest whispered to a few junior disciples beside him, and the Taoist priests nodded and strode over.
At this time, Shuli whispered to the fire monkey: "Senior brother, you take Senior Brother Qingning away, I'll stop them." ”
The fire monkey watched the Taoist priest getting closer and closer, and said in a low voice, "Senior brother, can you intercept it?"
Shuli said urgently: "It's okay, just now my two members of the Shu family also came to me, they can help me." ”
Yifeng was also sweating nervously, and said to Shuli: "Fourth Senior Brother, I'll stay and help you!"
Shuli pushed them away, stepped forward, stood in front of them, and shouted, "Hurry up!"
Seeing that the situation was not right, the Taoist priests immediately rose up and rushed over.
Shuli quickly offered the Xuanzhu of the son and mother, and the silver-white light shield was like a shield, blocking their impact.
The fire monkey was quick-eyed, and quickly carried the Qingning monk to his back, beckoned Yifeng and Xiugu, the three of them used their spiritual power, and a few dodged, and flew to the crowd of ordinary people who were still reluctantly watching the excitement dozens of zhang away.
But before the common people could see their appearance clearly, they only felt a few black shadows flash, flying over their heads and into the distance.
After a while, the three of the fire monkeys were running and jumping on the roof of Qingping Town, Yifeng and the fire monkey side by side, Xiu Gu was later, in the whirring wind driven by the galloping, Yifeng asked the fire monkey eagerly: "Second senior brother, where should we go?"
The fire monkey thought while running with Monk Qingning on his back. After a while, he looked around and saw that there were no pursuers, so he slowly stopped and landed on the roof of a house near the outside of Qingping Town, from which the outskirts of Qingping Town could already be seen.
The fire monkey put down the Qingning monk on his back and checked the pulse for him, and found that the spiritual power of the Qingning monk was not one in ten, and the meridians were broken in many places.
When he competed with the Qingfa monk just now, to the end, the spiritual power in his body was like a pair of scissors, cutting out of his body and pouring into the magic circle in a violent manner, so that he could confront the Qingfa monk's demonic black lotus.
Now, however, his body was like a leaky sack, with only the beating of his heart remaining.
After looking at the situation, the fire monkey said to Yifeng: "Qingning's pulse is unsteady now, but he can't die for a while." Shuli was behind the back hall, and he didn't know what danger would happen.
"In this way, you can carry him on your back, run out, find a quiet place in the village outside, mark it along the way, and I will go to receive the book salute, and when the time comes, I will meet you. ”
Yifeng and Xiugu both nodded.
The fire monkey groped around again, wanting to find some big martial coins for them, Xiu Gu suddenly guessed the fire monkey's thoughts, and said urgently: "Second senior brother, don't worry, I have it here." ”
The fire monkey glanced at Xiu Gu in surprise, smiled, nodded, said no more, quickly turned around and turned back, his body flashed, and flew back.
On the Dharma stage, Shuli gave full play to his strengths in the two major cultivation systems of Haoran righteousness and Buddhism's spiritual power at this time, and the continuous spiritual power was constantly instilled in the Xuanzhu of the son and mother.
Because the Xuanzhu also has the attribute of automatic counterattack, although the spiritual power of Shuli is increasing rapidly, it is not only defended, but even two disciples among the several Taoist priests who attacked were injured a little.
When it comes to the combined attack power of these Taoist priests, it is less than one-third of the attack power of the green snake that has just been summoned, and Shuli can barely resist it.
These Taoist priests regained their strength, and several of them were in the wrong shape, and quickly combined a tiny magic circle again, and in the blink of an eye, the spiritual power was gathered to condense a powerful huge beast claw, which slammed on the light shield of the Xuanzhu of the son and mother.
The impact of this magic circle attack was huge, and the magic power of the Dao Gate was indeed worthy of its name, and the spiritual power in Shuli's body was disordered, and a small stream of confusion hit the heart, and Shuli suddenly spurted out a mouthful of blood and sprinkled it on the light shield of the Xuanzhu of Zimu.
Zimu Xuanzhu quietly absorbed the blood of Shuli, and the silver defensive light shield, which had been shaken and dull by the beast's claws, lit up again, but it was difficult to say whether it could receive another blow.
Just when Shuli was worried, a Taoist priest on the opposite side suddenly screamed "ah", only to see that he had inserted a dagger in his heart at some point, and went down weakly.
Several Taoist priests' eyes immediately turned red, originally they just wanted to follow the orders of their senior brother to recover the monk Qingning, but now there is actually a senior brother who has been killed!
One of the several people immediately had a gloomy face and said hatefully: "It turns out that these dead bald donkeys are all bird-like, insidious and vicious, with a human face and a beast's heart, then don't blame us for being ruthless and going to hell to die!"
At this time, in the crowd of onlookers in the distance, the juggling man touched the knife bag with a dagger missing from his waist, split his mouth, and laughed silently.