Chapter II. Human head lanterns
Jinping Mansion City, Lekang Fang.
Lu has been implanted in the city for half a month, and after he bought an old mansion in the city a few days ago with haunted rumors, he has temporarily settled down in the city.
He didn't know much about this world, so he didn't rush to do anything, but he settled down first and decided to inquire about the situation in this world first.
After all, he can be said to be blind to the situation in the Liaozhai world, except for knowing some well-known Liaozhai stories in later generations, he doesn't know much about this world.
Another thing that he cares about a lot is... In this world, is there a heavenly court immortal god and the existence of the underworld?
Lu Zhi still remembered that he seemed to have read a lot of existences about immortals and ghosts in the story of Liaozhai, and even the Monkey King who fought the heavens and the earth had appeared in the story of Liaozhai!
But in the world of Liaozhai, there is no so-called division of the four continents at all, which is obviously different from the legend of the great sage.
And if the Heavenly Court Immortals, the Hellland Yama and other sacreds really exist, then why are ghosts rampant in this world? Wreak havoc?
If the immortals who are worshiped by incense really exist, then why do they sit back and watch those ghosts and evil spirits run rampant in the world? And why don't you bless mortals?
So Lu Zhi was skeptical.
And after some investigation and inquiry, he also confirmed his thoughts.
Although there are always legends about who met the gods in a certain place, or which heavenly god monarch, the legend of the manifestation of the Yama of the underworld, it was eventually confirmed that it was just a fabricated rumor.
It's a haunted place, and the rumors that someone suddenly fell for this kind of ghost are often true...
Moreover, Lu Zhi had also gone to the Zhengshen City God Temple enshrined in the city of Jinping Mansion to secretly check it out.
Although the City God Temple is indeed a bit mysterious, and there are also Yin gods such as the City God Judge living in the statues, Lu Zhi can see at a glance that it is just an incense god born from the people's incense power, and it is not much different from his Yellow Turban Force.
Afterwards, he went to the temple of Emperor Zhenwu outside the city to burn incense and worship, and he was more sure of the thoughts in his heart.
The so-called immortal legends in this world are simply made up artificially, and the other immortal emperors, maybe Lu Zhi is not familiar with them, but the supreme god he worships in Wudang, can he still not recognize the Zhenwu Emperor?!
The statue of Emperor Zhenwu is just a clay sculpture that has been subjected to the power of incense all year round and has derived a bit of miraculousness, and there is no half of the divine power of Emperor Zhenwu on it.
After confirming this, Lu Zhi was inevitably a little disappointed in his heart, but after thinking about it, if there were really immortals in this world, but he didn't care about this mortal dust and let the demons run rampant... So why do those so-called immortals exist?
In the blink of an eye, it was already a month later.
In the past month, Lu Zhi has also collected and heard a lot of news about this world, such as the Lanruo Temple in Guobei County, and the Daxiangguo Temple in the capital, where he was named the national teacher by today's son, the 'Taoist monk' Cihang Pudu.
However, the old demon of Montenegro who he was most interested in was unable to inquire about the slightest information, and those cultivation sects and cultivators in this world also had little information, although there were many rumors of strangers in the market, but no one could say what it was.
After having a general understanding of this world, Lu Zhijing was extremely moved, and he was ready to go to this world to take a look.
As a Taoist person, seeing that ghosts are rampant in this world and people are suffering, Lu Zhi can't help but feel a little unbearable in his heart.
The next day, Lu Zhi left Jinping Mansion City, and made an appointment with two Xiucai who went to the capital from Jinping Mansion to take the exam, and went all the way to the capital.
The three of them walked along the official road all the way, the road was lonely, and the two Xiucai didn't want to rush with their heads bored, so they talked, and one of them, surnamed Yang, Xiucai turned his head to Lu Zhi and asked: "Daoist Qingzhi, I don't know if the long trip to the capital is long, but do you have the heart to enter the Qin Heavenly Prison?" ”
Since a few months ago, when today's son canonized Cihang Pudu as a national teacher, he has risen to find the elixir of immortal law and seek the idea of immortality, so he issued a decree to the world to seek merit, recruit Taoist monks from all over the world, enter the capital, go to the Qin Heavenly Prison as an official, and give him the alchemy of the emperor Lao'er.
So it's not surprising that Yang Xiu asked this question.
Lu Zhi smiled and said: "I heard that Master Cihang Pudu of the Great Xiangguo Temple has exquisite Buddhism and is admired by others, and even today's son has great trust and respect for him, and he is regarded as a national teacher.... Poor Dao wanted to go and talk to him about his good life to see what he was capable of. ”
Yang Xiucai's face couldn't help but show a different color, listening to Lu Zhi's tone, he seemed to be very disdainful of that Cihang Pudu, and there was a faint hint of ridicule and hostility, obviously not like what he said, just went to ask for advice.
However, he was also very supportive of this, after all, the reputation of Cihang Pudu was not good at all in their scholar circles, and he had already been named a demon monk.
Therefore, if this Qingzhi Daoist can go to the capital to find the bad luck of Cihang Pudu, he has twelve points of support in his heart, and if Qingzhi Daoist can kill the demon monk, it will be even better.
"Hahaha.. Qingzhi Dao Chang's ability, Xiao Ke is also admired, thinking that Cihang Pudu, but just shaking his lips and puffing his tongue, blinding the demon monk of the Holy Hearing, how can he be compared with the Dao Chief? ”
"Huh.." Lu Zhi shook his head with a smile and didn't answer.
This Yang Xiucai was a little over-minded, and after a perfunctory sentence to him, Lu Zhi didn't want to bother him anymore.
The sun is sinking in the west, and the three of them have traveled a distance of nearly 100 miles for most of the day, and seeing that the sun is about to set, the two Xiucai's faces have changed slightly.
They were still more than twenty miles away from the originally planned post station, and the sun was about to set, but they couldn't delay any longer, and they had to hurry up.
Although their Confucian scholars are very obedient and strange, living in this world, no one knows better than those who were born and raised in this world how dangerous the night in this world is.
Especially in the wilderness, it is extremely dangerous to rush at night, whether it is the strongman bandits who block the road, or the beasts, snakes and insects in the wilderness, and the more terrible strange things, they are all deadly dangers.
It's okay when you're in the city, there are guards in the city, and there are also city god temples to protect the side, so you don't dare to enter the city, but in the wild... You can refer to the night when Lu Zhi came to this world on his first day.
The two Xiucai immediately stopped talking and began to hurry, and the speed under their feet also increased a lot, even if their legs were already a little numb with soreness, they didn't dare to stop in the slightest.
The sky gradually darkened, and Liang Xiucai hurried to the post station before nightfall.
"Whew... finally arrived, and Xiaosheng's legs were about to swell. ”
"Who's to say it isn't, my feet are blistered too... Okay, don't say more, let's go into the post station to rest, let Xiao Er get a few buckets of hot water, soak your feet well, relieve fatigue, there is still a long way to go tomorrow. ”
The two of them were talking and laughing, and they walked towards the post station, and Yang Xiucai saw that Lu Zhi was standing in place and did not move, so he also turned his head and greeted him.
"Daoist Qingzhi, why don't you leave?"
Lu Zhi glanced at the brightly lit post station in front of him, but sighed softly in his heart.
In the eyes of Liang Xiucai, what hung in front of the post station was only two red lanterns, although the colors were bright and dazzling, but they were nothing, so it was still festive.
But in Lu Zhi's eyes, what kind of red lantern is it, it is clearly two human heads with candles on their heads and stained with blood!
"It's nothing, the poor legs and feet are a little sore, stand for a while and slowly..."
He didn't tell Liangxiu about his discovery, he just casually perfunctory, after all, anyway, it's much better to have a tile to cover his head than to sleep in the wilderness, right?
And with him, there are no accidents.
Gusts of wind and sand blew on the official road, and the whistling wind was like someone whimpering and crying, which was extremely infiltrating.