Chapter 44: The Demon Marshal
"Guanyin Bodhisattva told Tang Seng and his apprentices to go through ninety-nine eighty-one difficulties, what does it mean?"
"It shows that it is not easy to obtain the "Three Tibetan Sutras"
"No, it means that the ancient immortals were already multiplied by the ninety-nine multiplication table at that time...
--- "Congliang's Diary"
Sure enough, the fire was slowly extinguished, Zhang Zhongqiu's clothes were burned out, but the bones exposed all over his body were not damaged at all, but the smell of barbecue was everywhere, which made people sick to their stomachs.
"Come home with me, forget the past, I am not obsessed with cultivating and becoming an immortal, I will always accompany you, and our family will start a new life again." Zhang Zhenren was also a little unbearable, and finally continued to persuade bitterly.
Zhang Zhongqiu hesitated when he heard this, his heart seemed to be confused, and he glanced at the lonely grave behind him.
"The dead believe in me, and they will be resurrected, and the living believe in me, and they will live forever." A deep voice came from the depths of the lonely grave.
Zhang Zhongqiu heard this and hurriedly persuaded him: "You guys go quickly, he is already a demon handsome cultivator, if he wakes up, if you don't leave now, you won't be able to leave if you want to." ”
Zhang Zhenren: "Since ancient times, only sons-in-law are afraid of the old father-in-law, how can there be a reason that the old man is afraid of the son-in-law who has not passed the door." As soon as he finished speaking, he inhaled hard, and when his stomach was swollen, he spit out a crimson flame, and then pinched his fingers with his left hand to make a decision, and the gossip paused under his feet.
The original ruined mound was suddenly torn apart, but the fire dragon did not dissipate, and the huge dragon head probed under the graveyard, as if trying to bite something.
With the grave as the center, the earth suddenly turbulent, the originally flat land began to sink one after another, and thick black smoke came out of the big hole that was knocked open by the fire dragon, and a huge black cat's head burst out from the bottom of the grave, biting the fire dragon's head fiercely, and swallowing the whole fire dragon into his stomach like eating spicy strips with a raised neck, and hiccuped a few times with a very satisfied look, and then rolled out a huge tongue and collapsed to the ground.
There was a person walking towards Zhang Zhenren with his head held high as if he was walking on the red carpet, he seemed to be about thirty years old, with long snow-white hair over his shoulders, a handsome face, and a spotless black robe, looking at Zhang Zhenren's voice and saying calmly: "Father-in-law, the anger seems to be bigger." ”
"You are Wu Zixu, who defected to Wu during the Spring and Autumn Period and helped Wu Fachu to go against the grain, Doctor Wu? I don't dare to be your father-in-law, I grew up listening to your stories, you can call me Xiao Zhang. "Zhang Zhenren should have consumed a lot of true qi when he turned into a fire dragon just now, and now he is starting to pant when he speaks.
"I have heard many versions of what the world says about me over the years, saying that in order to avenge the murder of my father, I led the Wu army to attack Chu, dug up the tomb of King Chuping, and whipped 300 corpses. Today's people say that I declare personal vendettas, but how do I know that the mediocre tyranny of King Chuping at that time made Chu's life in dire straits, and my actions are also to overthrow the tyranny and restore peace to the Chu country. The sinking of my body in the Qiantang River predates Qu Yuan's throwing into the river, and the custom of the Dragon Boat Festival at that time was also to commemorate my feat, not to commemorate Qu Yuan. Your descendants only feel that he sacrificed his life for the country, how can you understand that countering violence with violence is the royal way? ”
"Qu Zi is the first literati in the old Chu, you have to talk nonsense," Zhang Zhenren said angrily.
"Haha, Qu Zi's new poems are very well written, but so what? In troubled times, literati can only worry about the country and the people, feel sorry for themselves, and have no ability to turn the tide and turn the situation around. How can he have my Wu Zixu to lead thousands of troops and horses, guide the country, attack the city and pull out the village to save the people from fire and water. Wu Zixu said proudly.
Zhang Zhongqiu next to him looked at his man with infatuated eyes, nodding and praising from time to time
"You go back to the realm and talk to Hades about these words." Zhang Zhenren continued to step on the eight trigram seven steps, and many fires slowly rose in the gossip array.
"Father-in-law, Ben Shuai just wants to talk to you all the time, I am born from the same root, so why be too anxious to fry each other." Wu Zixu smiled, and then he called, "Cat Nightmare." ”
The black cat that poked out of the head of the brain, the head alone was two stories high, and I saw that the black cat spit out a cloud of black gas with its mouth open, and the fire that had finally risen in the gossip array was extinguished as soon as it touched the black gas.
It's like dancing a dance machine for half an hour, and finally finding that the dance machine is not plugged in...
Only then did I remember that my disciple Shasha was still squatting on the ground not far away, motionless, and hurriedly called Lao Wang and Xu Qing to slowly drag him to the earthen wall, and after untying him, I found that he had fallen asleep at some point, which was really a long-term thing.
"What a cat nightmare, I only know that it will sneak into people's dreams at night, but I didn't expect it to be a demon general, and the magic skills are not weak." Zhang Zhenren said.
"The only change in this world is eternal, the Heavenly Emperor, the lord of the Three Realms who was invincible in the past, has fallen silent, there is no successor, and the Heavenly Realm is now just a remnant, do you know how many gods and immortals are left in the Heavenly Realm? This world has been peaceful and peaceful for too long, and even the upper realm is a frog at the bottom of the well, stagnant, not to mention your various sects of cultivating immortals. I promise you in the name of the demon marshal, if you become a demon, I will give you eternal life, and you will be able to reach the demon general in more than ten years. Wu Zixu promised.
"Is this a dowry?" Zhang Zhenren asked rhetorically.
"Sort of," Wu Zixu smiled and nodded.
"I don't like this dowry, just return my daughter!" After speaking, he shook the sack that originally contained the charm, and then threw it into the sky, and the sack slowly rose, becoming bigger and bigger, and finally turned into a small mountain and headed towards Wu Zixu.
"Father-in-law is really greedy, I am afraid that Wu Zixu will not be able to take out the bride price money for this sack, so let's see if you have the ability to take my three evil knives." The cuffs of his robe were wide open, and three guillotines flew out of his sleeves and rushed to the sack, only to see that the three guillotines were about two meters long, and the handles were carved with the patterns of dog heads, tiger heads, and dragon heads. The three guillotines were extremely sharp, and it didn't take long for them to gallop into the sack, and the sack was chopped into countless pieces and fell one after another.
Wu Zixu looked at the three big knives with pity like looking at his own children, and slowly said the origin of the three guillotines: "These three knives are dragon teeth, tiger wings, and dog gods, which are the three evil knives of ancient times, and the knife maker is unknown. At first, it was owned by the monarch at the end of the Xia Dynasty, and then the tyranny began. According to historical records, when Shang Tang attacked the Xia Dynasty Temple, the black clouds and cane sky, the ghost cried and howled, and the three evil knives of the dragon teeth, tiger wings, and dog gods turned into three demon winds, and the Shang Dynasty army suffered countless casualties. King Tang abandoned Ge and dismounted, broke into the main hall of Taimiao alone with the Xuanyuan Golden Sword, swung his sword and slashed, and the three evil knives were smashed into pieces and sealed in the ground. The times migrated, and Han Qi, a famous blacksmith in the Northern Song Dynasty, discovered the ruins of the Shang Dynasty Taimiao in a deep mountain, and opened the seal to obtain the fragments of the dragon's teeth, tiger wings, and dog gods. Later, it was cast by Han Qi and the palace swordsmith, which took one year and eight days, and was cast into three guillotines of dragon, tiger and dog, which were stored in Kaifeng Mansion by the emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, and Yin Baozheng of Kaifeng Mansion became the first "Kaifeng Three Guillotines" knife holder. Later, it fell into my hands, father-in-law, you said that Bao Qingtian used the gate knife, can it be matched with you? ”
"With your grandfather's leg hair... Zhang Zhenren still wanted to make a decision, but he saw Wu Zixu wave his sleeves in a chic manner and said: "The dog-headed guillotine slashes the ghost male, the tiger-headed guillotine slashes the human master, and the dragon-headed guillotine slashes the immortal god." Tiger head, you go quickly! ”