Chapter Twenty-Four: Qi Yun Kills Immortals
In the morning, the right arm and the red tassel went straight to Jiuhua Mountain after breakfast, and there were indeed no people on the way.
"Master, this road is full of clouds and mist, the fog is so heavy, my feathers are wet. After Huo'er finished speaking, she flapped her wings and shook the water droplets on her body.
"In the past, countless souls of the Fangla rebels and the Song army were buried on this mountain, and now it is said that the goblins have eaten a lot of people, the corpses are all over the field, and the yin qi is extremely heavy, you still fly into my sleeve. The right arm stretched out his right hand and let the fire fly in.
"Don't talk about horror movies, it scares me, the more you say it, the more it feels eerie here, and goosebumps are up. Hongying took the hand of her right arm.
After walking for a long time, I saw an old man hurrying to the inn with a flat thing.
"Uncle, ask the next road, the mountain in front of you is Jiuhua Mountain, right?" asked the right-arm recruiter.
The old man, pausing to unload his burden, grabbed the towel on his shoulders and wiped the sweat from his forehead, and sat panting on the roadside grass, he took out a pipe from his waist, rolled the tobacco leaves, and thought about it or stick the pipe into his waist. He rested for a while, and then whispered nervously, "Young man, don't you want to die? There are centipede spirits on this mountain, and several more people died on the mountain yesterday, and their hearts were all gouged out, and the bloody corpses are still piled up in the mountain pass. You'd better hurry home and don't burn incense and pray for blessings!"
"Uncle, it's okay. That's what we're here for. The right arm smiled and waved his hand, watching the old man's back in the distance.
"Right arm, how big do you say this centipede essence is? Why can't the Taoist priests on Jiuhua Mountain subdue it? Are you sure?"
"It doesn't matter how big the centipede is, the key is that it's poisonous, it doesn't matter if you don't get bitten by it, otherwise it's ......"
"Or die?"
"Not so much...... You forgot that I am invincible, and all the poisons from last time have been discharged. His right arm suddenly blushed.
"It's annoying how you think about that all the time. Hongying smiled and pushed her right arm, shook off her hand, opened her arms, cheered and ran ahead, and said with a smile, "If I catch this centipede essence, I will definitely cramp and peel the skin, wash it, make a jar of good wine, and bring it back to the very door to honor my master......!"
"Okay, good, I'll keep it all dead. The right arm laughed.
Unconsciously went down to the mountain pass, and sure enough, as the old man said just now, two corpses with black faces and swollen hands and feet were piled up at the intersection, and a sign reading "Taisu Palace" stood next to it. The right arm was wondering if these dead bodies were the hands of centipede spirits, and the four Taoist priests suddenly came down and carried the two corpses up the mountain.
"Excuse me, is this the way to Taisu Palace?" stopped the two Taoist priests who were about to go up the mountain with his right arm.
"Yes, we're going back, so come with me. The master found that there were dead people in the mountain pass and told us to take him back, and we took these dead spirits back to do things for them, hoping that they would be reborn as soon as possible. A little Taoist priest hurried and left.
"Oh, I heard that there are centipede essences on this mountain, and they have eaten a lot of people. How big is this centipede essence? Can't you Taoist temple clean it up?"
"Hehe, I haven't seen this, and everyone who has seen it is probably lying down. The little Taoist priest smiled.
Soon, we came to the Xuantian Taisu Palace, the magnificent Taisu Palace Square on the gongs and drums, the sheng flute ensemble, a white-haired, thin-haired, red-faced old Taoist priest, walking Yu steps, familiar with the scriptures. The five Taoist priests next to them are divided into five-color robes, according to the five elements of east green, south red, west white, north black, and middle yellow, holding wat and holding flags, or participating or worshipping, chanting and chanting, burning talismans and sprinkling water, the atmosphere is noisy and serious.
"Right arm, what are they doing here?" asked in a low voice as Hongying curiously tugged at the sleeve of her right arm.
"This is our Taoist practice, which is to transcend those souls and pray for those souls to ascend to heaven as soon as possible. This old Taoist priest should be their master, and we will ask him about the centipede essence later. I'll take you around first. So his right arm said goodbye to the little Taoist priests, and took Hongying's hand to go shopping.
As he spoke, he took the red tassel with his right arm and went to the surrounding Wangxian Pavilion, Shouzi Rock, Eight Immortal Caves, Wenchang Caves, and Incense Burner Peak.
"This Qiyun Mountain is really a one-step scene, it's beautiful. You see this strange rock cave, lake pond spring waterfall, dizzying. If you can stay in this kind of place forever, you will be happier than the gods. Hongying took the hand of her right arm and smiled.
"Hehe, it will. There are many places in Huangshan that have this kind of ingenious stone bridge, the unpredictable fairy cave, the beautiful and quiet mountain lake, and the curtain spring that throws gold and jade. When the demon path is eliminated and the world is peaceful, I will choose a paradise and grow old with you. The right arm looked at the misty incense burner peak and smiled.
"Remember, what you said. Huo'er, you testify. Hongying lifted the sleeve of her right arm, pressed Huo'er's head, and smiled.
"Well, Sister Hongying, I testify. Huo'er laughed.
"Okay, you heavy bird!" said his right arm with a smile and flicked his sleeve.
"Right arm, my leg is so sore, you can carry me. The red tassel stopped suddenly, clenched her fists and bent over and gently hammered her legs.
"Okay, my aunt, come up. With a smile on his right arm, he squatted down, letting the red tassel lie on his back, and then got up and walked forward.
"Fly, fly!" ran on the forest path with the red tassel on his back with his right arm, and the red tassel spread its arms like a colorful butterfly dancing in the forest
"Right arm, look at it! Look at that stone reaching into the sky, so majestic!" said with a smile, pointing to a strange stone in the distance.
"A stone into the sky, straight into the clouds, and the blue clouds. Hehe, this is the origin of Qiyun Mountain. The right arm laughed.
On the way back, passing by the beautiful and quiet Yunyan Lake, I saw an old man wearing a hat, wearing a straw coat, and wearing straw shoes fishing.
The right arm asked curiously: "Old man, it's getting dark, why haven't you brought up a single fish?" I went to participate in the fishing competition and won a prize, why don't I help you try to catch it?"
"Hehe, the old man has also fished all the fish in a reservoir. It's not that I can't fish, but I don't want to fish, there is a Wenchang cave in this mountain, dedicated to Wenqu Xing, how can I bear to catch those goldfish here? You see, there is another one eating. The old man pointed to the slightly sinking fishing line and smiled, and the surface of the lake had already swung out a circle of water.
"Interesting, then why are you fishing here?" asked curiously, putting down the red tassel on his back with his right arm, sitting down next to the old man, looking at the lake that was calm again.
"Hehe, my name is fishing, but I'm actually fishing. The old man put away the fishing rod, stood up and smiled.
"We didn't meet anyone on the road, who are you waiting for?" looked around with his right arm and touched the back of his head, looking curious.
"When the fake is true, the truth is also false, and there is sometimes non-action. The eight immortals are round through the Luohan rain, and the civil and military gods show through the fog. The day when the moon blooms and the fire changes its face, when the Big Dipper falls. Sanqing reshapes Bixiaoyu, and hundreds of birds are dedicated to Zhenwu. The old man said, picked up the fish basket, flew down Yunyan Lake, and walked away on the waves.
"Old man, what's the mystery of your verse?" shouted with his right arm, and the second monk was puzzled for a while, but the old man had disappeared into the lake and disappeared.
"Master, I probably know what that poem means, I think we should go to the Eight Immortal Caves, Yuantong Caves, Luohan Caves, Yujun Caves, and Wenchang Caves in Qiyun Mountain, and the Luohan Caves are dedicated to the True Martial Emperor, and we should find something. The third sentence is about the current Huoju Taoist priest, who should have been killed on Yuehua Street, and was stiffened by Li Daitao. Let's go to Yuet Wah Street to inquire first. The fire flew out of the sleeve of her right arm, flapping her wings and laughing.
"Huo'er, you are so smart, you know so much. Red Tassel gave a thumbs up.
"Hehe, Sister Hongying has won the award!Where, where?" Huo'er smiled.
Our group took advantage of the dusk and hurried to Yuehua Street. On Yuehua Street, the palace view and the residential shops are lined up, cigarettes and drinking tobacco are intertwined, Taoist priests and mountain people are mixed together, and the houses and inns are carved beams and painted buildings, antique. We walked to the inn to rest, decided to go to the restaurant to eat, ordered a plate of roast beef, a plate of peanuts, a plate of pepper eggs, and started eating.
"A few guest officers, are you new here? The shopkeeper smiled while munching on melon seeds.
"Shopkeeper, I was looking for you, this golden bean bean will be rewarded to you. I want to inquire, have you found any bizarre incidents in Huajie in the past few years?" took out a golden bean from his right arm and dangled it in front of the shopkeeper and handed it to her.
"Guest officer, seeing that you are so arrogant, I will tell you. This strange thing happens every year, and this year is especially numerous. Our Taoist priests of Qiyun Mountain belong to the Zhengyi faction, the organization is relatively loose, the precepts are not strict, the Taoist priests can have a family and a wife, and they are not fasting nor taboo wine and meat, commonly known as the Taoist priests of the fire house, they not only have wives and children, and even the children of the wives and rooms also live in the palace of the Taoist courtyard. In normal times, he is engaged in production, which is no different from ordinary people. Only when the subject comes to invite or related Taoist festivals, they take off their ordinary clothes and change into Taoist priests' costumes, and do traditional rituals. It is not so much that they are learning the Tao and cultivating the Tao, but that they are a means of earning a living. The shopkeeper took the golden bean, bit it down on the side of his teeth, and continued to smile: "Last year, their old head Zhang Songyan took another concubine on the mountain, called Hua Qianmei, it is said that the woman is very charming, and the men on Yuehua Street are weak when they see it. Since Zhang Songyan took that little concubine, the house they lived in was singing and brightly lit every night, and a month later, Zhang, who was originally blue-haired, suddenly had white hair and was silent, and his little concubine disappeared. You say weird, it's not strange. ”
"Is there such a thing?" Hongying lowered her chopsticks and held her chin.
"It's the house diagonally opposite, which was purchased by the head of Zhang for that concubine in the past. I heard that the house cost a lot of money inside and out, before and after. The shopkeeper walked to the door with melon seeds and raised his finger.
"Also, since the disappearance of that Hua Qianmei, there is often news of goblins eating people up and down the mountain, and legend has it that there is a centipede spirit who often comes out in the middle of the night to make waves, likes to catch people, and even children don't let go. Anyway, you just don't go out at night. The shopkeeper sat down and continued to talk.
"Got it, thank you shopkeeper!" said with a smile on his right arm, and after eating, he and Hongying went back to the inn to rest, thinking, "This Hua Qianmei must be a goblin, living in Zhang Songyan's body." Tomorrow I'll be in charge of this big man. ”
On the night of Yuehua Street, there was a fragrance wafting, there was a mountain wind whistling, and the right arm was lying on the bed, listening but not sleepy, still thinking about what the shopkeeper said today.
Thinking about it, suddenly a woman shouted outside: "Help! Someone is snatching a child! Help! Someone is snatching a child!"
As soon as his right arm heard this, he quickly opened the window, jumped downstairs, and ran in the direction of the sound.
"Stop!" the right arm ran into the street, shouting to stop a masked man with a child in his hand. The masked man turned his back to his right arm and red tassel, and suddenly turned around and threw a string of darts with his hand, and his right arm and red tassel dodged one after another. Then the masked man threw the child far away, drew a sword from his waist, and leaped into the air, and the red tassel rode quickly to pick up the child.
"Easy Sword Technique, Hurry Like a Command!" The right arm clasped his hands together, and a circular Taiji sword formation quickly formed, thumping, "Out of the sword!" The right arm shouted, and ten thousand swords fired together, forming a sword-shaped dragon, flying up and down, slashing straight towards the masked man. Seeing this, the masked man quickly dodged behind a large tree, rolled over and jumped into a window, and disappeared. The right arm quickly took out a poetic fairy sword mystery book from his arms and opened, and in an instant the tattoo on his right arm burned, and countless flamingos flew out of the tattoo, his right arm folded his hands, and soon a fiery red Tai'a sword flew out of his right arm, and his right arm stood in mid-air on the cloud bridge composed of countless flamingos, and found that the masked man jumped out of another window, ready to escape, and the right arm of the sword pointed at the masked man, and the Tai'a sword flew straight away, seeing that the Tai'a sword was about to pierce the masked man, the masked man heard the sword whistling behind him, and turned around to dodge, and the Tai'a sword stabbed the sword in the masked man's hand, and the powerful sword aura of the Tai'a sword shook the masked man's hand, and he tiltedThe sword pierced directly through the masked man's right arm, and he immediately burst into blood, and then threw all the darts on his body, climbed over a wall, and disappeared into a forest.
Jumped to the wall with his right arm, looked around, saw that the masked man was gone, picked up a dart and looked at it carefully, walked back to the red tassel, touched the child's head, and said with a smile, "Fortunately, the child is fine." ”
"Thank you, thank you, thank you, my child! It's okay, go home with my mother!" the woman ran over and cried and hugged the child, and after thanking her for it, she took the child home.
"Hehe, it's okay, let's go home quickly!Be careful at night in the future!" Hongying smiled, holding the hand of her right arm and flying back on Huo'er.
Early the next morning, after eating breakfast, the right arm and Hongying rushed to Taisu Palace, and notified the little Taoist priest who was guarding the door to meet Zhang Zhangmen and was able to enter.
"Zhang, I am the right arm of Wudang Mountain, I have traveled all over the world down the mountain, and I have increased my knowledge!
"Hehe, welcome, welcome! We are all the same Taoists, and we all come from the same origin. See you today, fate, fate! Come, come, please use tea! This is our best Keemun black tea here in Qiyun Mountain. Zhang Songyan smiled, saw his right arm, remembered that he was stabbed in the arm last night, and gritted his teeth for a while, thinking, "Sister, the delicious food that originally came to your mouth last night was mixed up by your kid." ”
"Thank you!" "Thank you!" sat down with his right arm and Hongying, and when he picked up the teacup and was about to drink, he found that Zhang Songyan's right arm was bandaged, he immediately reacted, put down the teacup, and coughed at Hongying to suggest that something was wrong, and Hongying also understood when he saw it.
"Haha, Zhang, your Qimen black tea, of course, is good, but it's a pity that it's as red as blood, and we Taoists don't eat meat. The right arm laughed.
"Hehe, brother, you're really joking!" Zhang Songyan smiled and took a sip of tea, put down the teacup, got up and left his seat, and prepared to walk to the back room.
"Master Zhang, your arm was intact when you did the work yesterday afternoon, and you were injured last night! Hehe! Goblin, you are simply stealing Zhang Songyan's body, you don't need to pretend anymore!"
"Now that you all know, I'll send you on your way today! If it weren't for this stinky skin bag last night, my sister wouldn't have to escape!" Zhang Songyan's voice suddenly changed to a woman's voice, he dropped the teacup, his body stiffened, his mouth foamed at the mouth, his eyes turned out, his bones squeaked, and the skin began to peel from head to back, and a big centipede with teeth and claws burst out from her body, her eyes were full of green light, and thousands of claws were like daggers with cold light.
The centipede spirit flicked its tail, and her right arm and red tassel jumped to dodge, and the place where her tail swept immediately drew deep furrows. The centipede spirit quickly swept up its big tail, crackling, and the swept doorposts and beams began to "squeak" straight, seeing that the house was about to collapse, the right arm pulled the red tassel and rushed out of the door, with a rumble behind him, the main hall of Taisu Palace collapsed instantly, becoming a ruin.
The centipede spirit flew into the sky from the dust, spreading her teeth and claws in the air, she spewed out strips of green venom from her mouth, her right arm and red tassels drew their swords to dodge, and those venoms splashed on the Taoist priests of Qiyun Mountain, they were itchy all over the place, and after a period of madness, they foamed at the mouth, stiffened and died, and their hands and feet were all black. The centipede essence flew to the ground, grabbed a few Taoist priests who drew their swords and stabbed them, and the swords of those Taoist priests were cut directly on her claws, and the annoyed centipede essence tore their bodies and threw them on the ground, and the corpses were suddenly scattered all over the outside of the gate of Taisu Palace.
"It seems that you have killed those people in Qiyun Mountain! What a sharp chicken claw! You will stop here today! Easy sword technique, as urgent as a law!"
"Out of the sword!" In an instant, ten thousand swords were fired together, piercing the centipede essence's heart, and the powerful sword qi nailed the centipede essence to a big tree. The right arm quickly took out a poetic fairy sword from his arms and opened it, the tattoo on his right arm burned, and countless flamingos flew out of the tattoo, his right arm folded his hands, stepping on the flamingo cloud bridge, and the fiery red Tai'a sword that flew out of the flying tattoo flew up and down on the centipede essence's body, and with a wild slash, the centipede essence's hundred-legged sharp claws fell one after another, and the green venom flowed down the tree, and the big tree instantly withered and yellowed, and dried up into rotten wood. He pulled out his sword with his right arm, crossed his hands and swung his sword, cut off the head of the centipede essence, used a cloth bag to hold the body of the centipede essence, tied the bag* and gave it to Hongying and said with a smile: "It's a pity that these Qiyun Mountain disciples and this big tree." Take it back to make medicinal wine, and honor your master!"
Hongying carefully took the cloth bag and said with a smile: "Hehe, do you remember?" It's still a female centipede, and it's scared to death. ”
"Seeing that the remaining Taoist priests in Qiyun Mountain are all dead, the only Taoist Taisu Palace has also been destroyed. What should I do?" his right arm circled around the rotten tree, and in his annoyance, he kicked the centipede spirit on the head, "Then blame you, if you die, you will demolish a Taoist temple!"
"Master, it's okay, have you forgotten the poem that the old man by the lake said? There is a sentence in it: Sanqing reshapes Bixiaoyu, and a hundred birds are in the mud to serve Zhenwu. In ancient times, there was Jingwei reclamation, only flamingos built houses! All flamingos listened to the order, and took the mud and gravel in the mountains to build a Taisu Palace! Start!" Huo'er said, leading thousands of flamingos to scatter and fly away, they hula a piece of pecking soil and gravel, adding water droplets and branches to solidify, hugging bricks and walls, thousands of flamingos worked together to support the beams, add bricks and tiles, back and forth for two hours, Taisu Palace appeared again in front of the right arm and the red tassel, the right arm and the red tassel were instantly stunned, hugged each other and cried, and said excitedly: " My bird! This is too godly!" "Thank you Huo'er, come and kiss it!"
"Master, don't thank me! it's all predestined!" the fire flapped its wings and flew in front of its right arm and red tassels, and the other flamingos flew back into their tattoos on their right arms.
"Then let's continue to look for the mystery of the Shixian Sword, and first go to the Luohan Cave dedicated to Emperor Zhenwu. His right arm patted the fire on his shoulder, and he smiled while holding the red tassel's hand.