Chapter 126: A Ghost Comes Late at Night
In recent days, there have been great changes in Zhuo County. No, recently, many of the Taoist temples in the county that belonged to the Youshui Sect earlier have also been occupied by the temple of the Difu Temple. Only a few Taoist monasteries that belong to scattered cultivation have not been banned by the Difu Temple, and now these Taoist monasteries are subject to the management of the 'Demon General's Mansion', and the Taoist priests in Zhuo County need to go to the 'General's Mansion' to naturalize, or if they have some ability to join the 'Offering Palace' in the city garrison camp.
Not only that, but the people in Zhuo County expressed a willing attitude towards this change.
Why do the common people accept the various changes in Zhuojun with such an attitude, for example, the discussion of the common people in some taverns in Zhuojun can be heard one or two.
The common people in the world have no entertainment on weekdays, and this tavern and teahouse have become the main places where ordinary people gather on weekdays. In their spare time, three or five people get together, order a plate of fennel beans, and ask for two pots of turbid wine. Or a learned scholar comes to the teahouse with some dried fruits, drinks two cups of herbal tea, and listens to some jokes is the most leisurely thing.
On the most ordinary corner table in a tavern, there are such ordinary people.
One of them said: "I heard that the crops outside the city are growing well now, and I am afraid that this year will be a more abundant year." ”
"What is this, the day before yesterday, my family went to the Difu Temple to invite two gods. In the temple, I heard that the county keeper is coming from the south to celebrate hundreds of temples, saying that he wants to enrich the many Taoist temples in the county today, and now the people of Zhuo County are blessed. ”
"Yes, tsk, the temples in our Difu Temple can cure diseases, collect demons, and don't need to levy incense taxes every year, and if you really want to pay incense money, you can do whatever you want. Since the Hou Ye came to our mansion city, I was still worried that there would be another disaster, but how could I think it was so good. Someone answered the sentence loudly, and after saying that, he happily picked up the wine bowl and drank it.
In this tavern, many wine tables are chatting about rumors in the county or happy things. The places where the common people of the whole prefecture and city often gather are like this, and the people in the land of Zhuo County outside are all like this.
These are all folk remarks, and every day, the 'mud plough court' under the government collects these remarks from all over the county and sends them to the county guard mansion and presents them to Qiantai for reading.
After the initial decision of Zhuo County, with the efforts of the government headed by Qiantai, the people's hearts were available.
By the beginning of July this year, after the affairs of Fucheng had entered the right track. The old demon of Montenegro in the Fucheng army said goodbye to Qiantai, and returned to Jixian County because of something in his dojo.
Soon after, it was reported that a miracle was revealed at the foot of Mount Tai in the southern Yizhou, and the city god Emperor Yandu sent an oracle in Zhuojun to announce his existence to the believers. Yan Du, the second primordial god clone, also went to Yizhou to deal with the Southern Chenghuang Faith forces that had not been taken care of for several months
One night, all the lights in the Zhuojun County Guard's Mansion had been turned off and they went in to rest, and only the patrolling guards and the watchman were still walking back and forth in the County Guard's Mansion.
At the county guard's residence, the lights in the room had long been extinguished, and Qiantai, who had read the paperwork for a day, was meditating on the bed at this time.
In the dark room, there was only the sound of Qiantai's breathing, and it was very silent. It seems that since ancient times, Qiantai has been sitting here like a stubborn stone, not knowing the passage of time and the loneliness of cultivation.
On Qiantai's knees was the 'Heavenly Sword', which was being washed by the breath spit out of Qiantai's nose.
Since the old demon of Montenegro, Sun Ba, and the clone Yan Du left Fucheng for a few days, Qiantai has kept the 'Heavenly Sword' by his side to cultivate these days and nights.
As usual, Qiantai meditates like this until dawn the next day, instead of resting.
In the middle of the night, the moon was on the branches, and the sky was dark.
There are wrestlers lurking in the dark places in some corners of the county guard's mansion, and there are soldiers patrolling the corridors from time to time, and they are heavily guarded.
Suddenly, an illusory shadow fell from the moon and disappeared in a courtyard of the Houfu.
Huh? The wrestler who was squatting in the corner of this courtyard squeezed his eyes hard, looking at nothing in the courtyard, and was very puzzled.
"What's wrong?" asked a companion in a whisper.
This wrestler looked carefully at the courtyard again, and there was indeed nothing, and then at the compass on his companion's waist, there was nothing unusual. This wrestler whispered: "It's nothing, maybe I'm dazzled." ”
"Be careful, there will be a shift change in a while. The companion reminded in a low voice.
Then there was no sound in the corner, and the two of them continued to stare at the area, paying attention to the wind and grass around them. There are two people at each squatting point in the county watchman's mansion, and there is a strict rotation of hours, which is spread throughout every place in the county guard's mansion. These are the garrison forces of the county guard's mansion, and each wrestler also has a compass that senses the aura of Tian Tiandi, not to mention the assassin velvet thief, even ordinary evil devils and monsters are difficult to enter.
It's a pity that this shadow of today's recent scene is very weird, unlike the assassins and monks who broke into the county guard mansion and were arrested in the past, they escaped the eyes of the wrestlers in the mansion.
Walking out of this ordinary courtyard, the figure is very illusory, and it is difficult for ordinary people to see clearly.
This is a ghost in his fifties, wearing a Ge Qing robe, holding a ghost flag, and looking at Qiantai's residence in the depths of the county guard mansion with hatred and jealousy in his eyes.
It's a ghost who came to murder Qiantai.
In the eyes of this ghost, the Zhuojun County Guard's Mansion is shining with golden light at this time, and the sky is covered by a cloud of white smoke, which is the luck of the government. The ghost creature stared at the center of the county guard's mansion, and all the rooms and walls became illusory, except for Ji Xianhou, who was like a star, sitting in the center of the government's fortune in that room.
Under the golden light of luck centered on Qiantai in the Hou Mansion, it faintly repelled this ghost and made it feel uncomfortable.
The ghost solemnly took out an ancient talisman from his sleeve, pinched his hand and turned the ancient talisman into a void qi and hit him. The ghost's aura was completely concealed, and the repulsive force in the county guard's mansion disappeared, and it began to walk towards Qiantai.
The blocked room became illusory, and the ghost passed through it all the way to the courtyard of Qiantai's residence. It wore it again, and stepped into Qiantai's bedroom, and none of the guards in the county guard's mansion noticed that someone had broken into the county guard's bedroom.
When he came to Qiantai's bedroom, the ghost stared at Qiantai and did not make a sound.
At this time, the vision of Qiantai is different, the bedroom is surrounded by darkness and nothingness, only the Jixian Hou Qiantai who meditates on the bed is like a pillar of heaven, this space seems to have become a corner of the field, unchanged from the past.
Hou Qiantai, who was meditating, had a green auspicious cloud above his head, and there was a three-flower phantom behind him, and the sword on his knee revealed the dragon qi and turned into a golden dragon phantom, flying around Qiantai to protect him.
Moreover, Qiantai's face has a solemn and terrifying temperament, and there is a trace of peace and loneliness between his eyebrows, this person seems to have been sitting for thousands of years alone.
The ghost's eyes had already narrowed together, surprised by Jixian Hou's posture of cultivation.
It is fearful, but it is also determined. The ghost slowly and carefully picked up the ghost flag in his hand, and began to pinch the seal against the room, and said in a silent voice: "The six heavenly disk arrays, the array is illusory, up!"
The ghost banner in the ghost movement hand pointed at it, and a dark mana urged the ghost banner to divide into six, distributing the six directions of the room up and down, left and right, front and back, and turning the entire room into a large array.
The surroundings of the room suddenly turned into a large array of space, with a radius of hundreds of miles, and a heavy fog rose, and it was difficult to see three feet when you looked up.
The ghost looked at Hou Qiantai of Jixian County, who had not woken up on the bed in the array, the big array had risen, even if the battle in the formation was turned upside down, the guards in the mansion outside did not want to notice the changes here.
At this moment, Qiantai, who was sitting cross-legged, suddenly stopped breathing.
Startled, the ghost movement that was about to continue to use the means froze, staring closely at the sitting Qiantai and guarding carefully.
"Whew~" Qiantai exhaled a mouthful of exhaust gas, and then began to breathe in a circular manner, as if Hou Qiantai in Jixian County had not noticed the changes around him.
This made this person's guard heart quietly relax, but he still stared at Qiantai, and took out a black jade medicine bottle with a flip in his hand.
In fact, this Qiantai had also noticed that there was someone in the room.
He was just waiting for the second primordial god clone Yan Du outside the city to arrive, and the good deity and the clone would leave this person behind.
As early as a few days ago, since the county's 'Difu Temple' successively lived above the ancestral spirits of the county's families and various Taoist courtyards, and divided the land, Qiantai could be regarded as a complete control of the local civil and foreign forces. But it is precisely this kind of Difu Temple that replaces the worldly forces and prohibits the collection of incense taxes, which will definitely harm the interests of the worldly forces. In particular, the 'Great General's Mansion' has subdued all the Taoist temples in the county, which will inevitably cause dissatisfaction among the forces outside the world. Therefore, Qiantai has been waiting for someone to come to the county guard mansion to assassinate him.
Before the old demon of Montenegro returned to Jixian County, Yan Du went to Yizhou in the south, and it was Qiantai who was creating the illusion that the guardian force around him was weak, and he was luring the snake out of the hole. It's just that the old demon of Montenegro did go to Jixian County to do private affairs, but the doppelganger Yan Du has been hiding outside the city, waiting for others to commit crimes.
Qiantai closed his eyes at this time, and he couldn't use his divine eyes to see who was coming, but from this person's breath, he could clearly know that this was a ghost cultivator at the peak of the real human realm. It's a big fish. Moreover, from the distortion of the dark void in it, Qiantai knew that the other party had used a kind of mystical array, which was very extraordinary, and it was in line with the law of the void tides in the world, and it must have come from some kind of true tradition.
Qiantai clearly guessed in his heart that the person who came must have obtained some kind of true inheritance of the great sect of real people or some other person with a great background. On the one hand, Qiantai asked the doppelganger Yan Du to come quickly, to prevent this person from escaping, and to be more careful about affecting others during the battle in the mansion.