Chapter 22: Is the door open?
Above the nine heavens, the Taoist priest lay on the peachwood sword, stilting Erlang's legs, drinking the wine in the jug without a sip, thinking about the long legs of the fairy just now, it was really... Tsk, it's hard to say, no, you have to take another sip of wine.
The Taoist priest drank wine, and the sword flew, and he did have a bit of a fairy demeanor.
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The flying sword was instantaneous, and in the blink of an eye, it arrived in Fengmen Prefecture, and the Taoist priest pretended to calculate a hexagram on the flying sword, roughly identified the direction, and began to fly the sword again.
I don't know how far he flew, the Taoist priest put away his long sword, found a remote mountain, and landed suddenly, and the whole person was like a lonely goose that was shot down, falling straight to the ground.
After landing on the ground, the Taoist priest clapped his hands, stomped his feet slightly, and the big pit that had just been smashed out suddenly returned to its original state, and he looked back and felt good.
After taking two steps forward, the Taoist priest suddenly felt that something was wrong, thought about it carefully, patted his head, and finally knew that something was wrong. I saw the Taoist priest take out a broken flag with "Tianji Shenshu" written on it in his left hand from Xiaodongtian, shook it twice, coughed, cleared his throat, and shouted: "Tianji Shenshu, Dao ancestor personally passed on." Word testers, fortune tellers, incense seekers, marriage seekers, face-to-face, palmistry. But anything you can think of, you can show your hands, and you are not allowed to do without money. β
The silent mountain forest suddenly sounded so loud that countless birds were startled in an instant.
"Not bad, yes, with this voice, with the face of the poor road, the business is guaranteed to be prosperous."
The Taoist priest seemed quite satisfied, pulled the flag, and ran towards the town he had just seen in the sky. After running two steps, I suddenly remembered that I didn't seem to have a road number, how could I mix up walking the rivers and lakes without a road number? And his real name is too big, ordinary people really can't say it, so it's better not to say it. It's not good to cultivate too high, you can't even say a name, you're worried, it seems that you have to give yourself a well-known Taoist name, what's it called?
The Taoist priest thought about his own Taoist name while running, and his eyes inadvertently flickered to his small signboard, and he was on him.
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Xiaguan Town is a border town in the Sui Yang Kingdom, and now it has just experienced a military disaster, and almost every household has died.
Sui Yang State is a big country in the north of Fengmen Prefecture, since the founding emperor to the present, it has been three or four hundred years, these three or four hundred years, the country is still stable, but in the period of the first emperor, there are demons in the court. According to rumors, there is a demon who stole the country to practice, which led to continuous natural disasters in the country, and the people were in dire straits. After the death of the first emperor, the new emperor ascended the throne, and the first thing he did was to clear the demons in the court, but the national fortune has been lost, and the country is still full of natural disasters.
Nowadays, some people in Suiyang have risen up to claim the throne every once in a while, resulting in domestic wars, and the people have no way to ask for help, so they can only rebel with the traitors. Seeing that the number of rebels was increasing, the imperial court could only send a part of the border army back to China to suppress the rebels, which also led to the lack of border air defense and gave foreign invasions a chance.
The west of the Sui Yang Kingdom was originally a small subjugated country, and the monarchs of those small countries were eager to recognize the monarch of the Sui Yang Kingdom as their father and mother on weekdays, and they paid tribute every year, and they did not dare to trespass in the slightest. But now they saw that the national strength of the Suiyang State was weakened and the frontier was empty, so they united to raise troops to invade the border and march east to fight the grass valley, causing the border people of the Suiyang State to suffer great harm, especially the women among them, and the suffering was simply unbearable. Some towns were humiliated, and the slightest resistance was slaughtered and turned into outright dead towns.
As the old saying goes, "When a nation is about to perish, there will be demons." "It's not unreasonable.
When a country's national strength is strong, the war cannot afford to fight, and there are naturally fewer deaths, and the country has a secretary and provincial department in charge of the world's astronomical calendar, gods and ghosts sacrifices, and there is an official office specifically responsible for this kind of event, so demons and monsters naturally dare not show their heads. But once the country is about to die, the national fortunes are weakened, and there is a war in the country, there will naturally be more people who will die, which will lead to the transformation of a country's domestic aura from clear to turbid, and there will naturally be many strange things in the world.
Xiaguan Town, as a border town, naturally bore the brunt of the military disaster.
Just some time ago, Wang Shi and the barbarians in the west fought a battle nearby, although Wang Shi won, but he also suffered heavy losses, unable to take advantage of the victory to pursue, resulting in a group of defeated soldiers to break into Xiaguan Town, kill the ring, grab things and run. The local yamen in Xiaguan Town received the news in advance that the officers and soldiers were incompetent and ran away before the barbarians came, which led to no decent resistance in Xiaguan Town, and the people in the town naturally suffered a catastrophe.
As the saying goes, "Happiness and misfortune do not go alone", and when the barbarians ran away, the people had not had time to collect the corpses of their relatives, and ghosts actually made trouble in the town. The yamen ran away, and the people wanted to find someone who knew how to spend time with their relatives in the town, so they could only raise money by themselves, but they could not find anyone who really knew how to do it.
A few people have already died in the town, and the people have nowhere to run if they want to, so they can only wait for death numbly. The villagers who are still left in the town are dying, and none of them pray to God and worship Buddha.
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God operator, this is the Taoist priest gave himself the name of the Taoist, and he didn't care if there were any taboos, so he decided privately. After all, the Taoist priest's signboard was stolen by himself Xuanwei Zhenjun, so-so it can be regarded as a fairy weapon, the Taoist robe is Zuo Yuan's old blind man, and he doesn't dislike him for his broken Taoist robe, how good it is to him. Now that the Daomen immortal soldiers who are all in the small way, how can they be regarded as Taoists, right? With a Taoist name called God Operator, who dares to have an opinion? If anyone really has an opinion, come and ask me about my sword.
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The little Taoist ran all the way to the wind for a day, and finally ran to Xiaguan Town. The Taoist priest stopped at the entrance of the town, looked around, and found a big puddle in the south of the town, which is the place where the cattle and sheep in the town drink water, several villagers were thrown by the barbarians a few days ago, and now there is still blood, and now the town is haunted, naturally no one dares to come here to herd cattle and sheep.
The Taoist priest, that is, the god operator, walked to the puddle, took a handful of water, washed his face and cut his hair, and said to himself: "How can you be so handsome?" But what can those fairies do? β
Admiring his face, the Taoist priest turned around and walked towards the town. Before he entered the town, he shouted from afar: "The heavenly machine is calculated, and the Taoist ancestor is passed on... β
In this dead town, the voice of the Taoist priest was particularly loud.
As soon as the Taoist priest left the puddle, a black shadow holding a spirit banner appeared, bent down and bowed three times in the direction the Taoist priest left, and then sank into the puddle.
After shouting twice, the god operator felt that something was wrong, how could he feel that he was about to be eaten? Could it be that his handsome face already has such exaggerated power?
Before the god operator could finish his obscenity, an old man who couldn't walk steadily was helped over, followed by a group of ragged town residents, and there were more and more of them.
The old man is looking at the dress should be a Confucian protΓ©gΓ©, although Confucianism and Taoism have no conflict, but have always regarded the sage's words as bigger than the sky, "the son is silent and the power is chaotic", this is the teaching of the holy teacher, so the Confucian protΓ©gΓ© has always rarely dealt with the Taoist, and now if it is not a small town, it is really in danger, and the old Confucian will not ask for a Taoist priest to die.
The old Confucian was helped to walk in front of the god operator, and gave a salute, which is the authentic Confucian etiquette.
After the Confucian priest finished his salute, he asked straight to the point: "The Tao comes from a long way, hard, hard. But I don't know which way of long-term cultivation. β
The god operator had already made a good draft, and he said: "Red lotus, white lotus, green lotus leaf, the three sects are originally one family, so the poor Taoist cultivation is the Taiqing lineage." β
This sentence didn't choke the old Confucian to death, is it really good for you to say this sentence in one line? Can't talk well?
The old Confucian took a breath and asked again: "Since the Dao Chief is too clear, why don't you see the Dao Chief's fishtail crown?" β
The god operator scolded two sentences in his heart, it wasn't the Dao Ancestor who slammed the door, he didn't steal it if he wanted to, but he said: "What, the merit is not enough, the old ancestor won't let me wear it, so I won't just go down the mountain to eliminate the demon and defend the Dao, and strive for the completion of the merit as soon as possible, so that I can ask for a top from the Dao Ancestor." β
When the old Confucian priest heard this, he nodded with satisfaction and continued: "The Taoist chief cares about the people, which is very good, and it is a coincidence that the town is now plagued by demons and evil spirits, and it is just right to continue a little merit for the Taoist chief." β
After the old Confucian finished speaking, he stretched out his trembling hand and grabbed the hand of the divine operator. Don't look at the old man who looks like he is dying, but the strength in his hand is really not small, and the god operator has not been able to pull it back after a few times, so he can only let the old man grasp it.
"But I don't know what the Long Road is, and where it comes from?"
"It's hard to mention the name of a poor and vulgar family, so the master can just call me a god operator. As for which cave is blessed, the master has an order, and the master must not reveal the master when walking in the world, and the master will forgive me. β
The Taoist priest inhaled the cool air, sweaty, and wanted to shake off the Confucian man's hand, but he couldn't shake it off, and tried several times to no avail, so he had to give up.
Hearing the divine operator say this, the old Confucian priest froze visibly and glanced at the Taoist priest suspiciously. There's no way, this call sounds like a charlatan, if it was in the past, forget it, but now the town is really haunted, don't let this young descendant be planted in a daze.
Taking advantage of the fact that the people didn't pay attention, the old Confucian asked the god operator in a low voice: "In the future, will you catch ghosts?" β
As soon as the god operator heard this, he was energetic, and he was about to speak with a pat on his chest, but the old Confucian hurriedly stopped him.
"Housheng, you be quiet. To tell you the truth, there are really unclean things in the town, and they are extremely dangerous, if you want to cheat money, you can cheat in another place, and don't joke with your own life. β
The god operator glanced back in a panic, there was nothing, turned his head and pinched his fingers and calculated, looking at the appearance, and when he was done with this, he said to Confucius: "The master is too worried, the younger generation has learned the Tao since childhood, and now it has been more than 20 years, the cultivation is acceptable, the demons and monsters are all meritorious, rest assured." β
After speaking, the god operator touched his belly again.
"It's just that the poor road has been rushing one after another for the past two days, this five visceral temple...
Without waiting for the old Confucian to speak, the villagers who helped the Confucian over hurriedly said: "Don't worry, the Taoist is an immortal with real skills, and the food is enough." β
This person's voice was so loud that the people nearby heard it, and a group of women hurried to prepare a meal, while the other group of people had already gathered around the gods and walked towards the ancestral shrine, as if they were afraid that if they were one step slower, the Taoist chief would run away.
It was rare for the god operator to be so welcomed, and he was already smiling from ear to ear, and he was surrounded by the people in the town and went to the ancestral shrine.
The old Confucian looked at the arithmetic with complicated eyes, and silently followed.
No one knew, and when the god operator turned back before answering the old Confucian words, he looked at an unknown place in the distant mountains.
The god operator looked there and said softly.
"The guest has arrived, will you open the door?"
Within a radius of thousands of miles, the demons and monsters were all trembling in an instant, prostrate on the ground, as if they were in the sky.