Chapter 70: The Evil Spirit of Huaishui
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Cen Qing watched him go all the way east along the riverside, at first Fahai's back was still a little hunched, but gradually he walked straighter and straighter, and he looked more and more like a monk. It wasn't until he saw his figure hidden in the night that Cen Qing raised the corners of his mouth and smiled.
The monk seemed to have said a lot, but in fact he didn't say anything, it seemed that he didn't say anything, but he already understood what Cen Qing meant.
is really a cunning monk, in order to ascend to immortality, even the gods behind him dare to calculate.
accepted a traverser as an apprentice, this monk is afraid that he has already guessed a lot of truths.
For 1,700 years, the path of ascension was pinched in the hands of the gods behind him, treating him as a dog that came and went at a moment's notice. If it's really a dog, I'm afraid it will also give birth to a little resentment, let alone a mature human being.
However, this monk is amazingly bold, after seeing that he returned from the underworld unharmed, he actually dared to bet on himself, didn't he really want to bet on the ascension to immortality twenty years later?
"Master, Daoist Zhang asked me to invite you. The dog ran over barefoot, glanced at the river first, and then said to Cen Qing, "Those people all knelt in front of Daoist Zhang and begged him to use his magic power to accept this river god of Huaishui." ā
"What river god?"
Cen Qing looked at the dog, then at the river surging like ink in the night, and asked in surprise.
The so-called river god is just a mountain god who is gathered by everyone's beliefs, Cen Qing has heard black and white impermanence talk when he was in the underworld, this is not because the river god was surprised, but because since Fahai pretended to recite scriptures for others, he didn't directly send the Buddha to the west to receive the river god, leaving a little tail waiting to do something?
If he even had to do this with a fake hand, it would be too cautious.
Returning to the fishing village again, Cen Qing really saw people kneeling on the ground, Zhang Zheng didn't seem to pay attention to these people's plans, and continued to lean his back against the persimmon tree without care, holding a talisman to his eyes, as if he was asleep.
"What do you want me to do?" Cen Qing walked over and ripped off the talisman that covered his eyes, these two were just ordinary exorcism talismans, Cen Qing had no demonic energy on his body, so he was not affected.
"The monk named you by name, and these people have recognized the wrong person. Zhang Zheng didn't even open his eyes, and lazily pulled out two more talismans from the treasure bag and covered his eyes again, "A little river god is not worth letting the practitioner make a move, those two talismans are for you." ā
"Shh
Cen Qing couldn't get used to his lazy appearance, pouted, turned his head to look at the group of fishermen kneeling on the ground, and got angry for no reason: "Don't kneel, who will come out and tell what's going on?"
Everyone saw that although Cen Qing was a woman, she looked very familiar with the Taoist priest, and when they looked left and right, an older one got up tremblingly, but he still half-bowed and said: "Female Bodhisattva, the little old man and his family live in this Wujiadu, just because"
He babbled for a long time, and his accent was indistinct, and Cen Qing took a long time to understand.
The whole thing is similar to what he guessed, this place was originally called Wujiadu, decades ago when the Jin soldiers did not fight, there were many people's homes, worshipping a river god in the river, three sacrifices throughout the year, but also to ensure that the wind and rain on both sides of the river.
It was only later that the Jin soldiers invaded the south, and the locals fled one after another, and their family was reluctant to use the fields, and the people from several surrounding villages hid in the mountains for a year or two before returning to their homes to fish and farm, occasionally ferrying to earn some copper money, plus there was no government to collect taxes, and the life was still nourishing.
However, just two or three years ago, the river god in the river actually appeared to the village, and asked the villagers to sacrifice, first chickens and ducks, then pigs and sheep, and by last year, they had begun to ask for boys and girls.
Besides, none of their own children were distressed, and who was willing to throw their blood into the water, so on the day specified by the river god, they were still hesitating to discuss and quarrel, but that night the river flooded and directly flooded a village, and except for some middle-aged men who escaped, all the old and weak women and children were buried under the water.
At this time, the remaining villagers felt both scared and regretful, and some people secretly moved away at night, but the next day they were found dead in the wilderness, as if they had been blistered for a long time, and even their hearts and livers were gone.
Escape and can't escape, live and must abandon children, they have called the heavens should not be called the earth, but this is still not the end, ten days ago when someone was fishing, the river god came out of the water directly, and bit off the upper half of the person's body, and when the villagers rushed over tremblingly, there were only two calves left on the boat.
And yesterday, another person was eaten by the river god in his sleep, his wife was woken up and screamed, the river god did not do two things, and slapped the woman to death.
Monk Fahai didn't know whether he passed by here on purpose or by chance, so he was naturally regarded as a savior by the villagers, and they kowtowed for help, but the monk told the villagers that he would not catch the river god, and the person who could save them was a young man in Tsing Yi in the back. He stayed in the village just to recite the scriptures and did not leave, so the villagers waited in disbelief until Zhang Zheng and Cen Qing came.
The villagers only remembered the young man in Tsing Yi that Fahai said, so they regarded Zhang Zheng as Cen Qing begging bitterly, but they didn't know that the "young man in Tsing Yi" in the monk's mouth had no longer continued to dress up in men's clothes because of the monk's words.
"Okay, since the monk said so, I'll take care of this matter. Cen Qing barely understood what they meant, and he was not as hypocritical as Zhang Zheng, "You go back to the ancestral hall first, these two exorcism talismans belong to the Taoist priest next to you, you take them, I don't know if the spirit is not spiritual, at least keep a peace of mind, if the river god comes tonight, I will help you kill it." ā
Zhang Zheng twitched when he heard this, Cen Qing dragged away from his eyes the "Shangqing Exorcism Talisman" of Longhu Mountain, which contained spiritual treasure righteousness, and ordinary shape-shifting demons and ghosts had to retreat when they saw it, that is, Cen Qing, a perverted monster, suspected that the spirit was not working.
After listening to the villagers' stories, he easily guessed that the truth of this river god was different from the righteous god of Taoism and the emperors of previous dynasties, this river god was just a wild god who did not enter the stream, and everyone dispersed their beliefs and dissipated, and it did not want to perish, so it devoured blood and became a demon.
This group of people held the Shangqing Exorcism Talisman, and the river god who had become a demon felt the aura of righteousness, and if he dared to go ashore, he would be called a ghost.
In that case, you can stay up all night.
He picked the corners of his mouth, deliberately not telling Cen Qing the truth, just waiting for dawn to take a look at Cen Qing's angry expression.
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