Chapter 26: Celestial Phenomena
Zhang Yixian took the ghost boy back to the City God Temple, and Lao Qin Tou greeted him, took it from Zhang Yixian's hands, and sent it into the room.
The City God Temple was quiet again, and occasionally one or two pilgrims came, all of whom were greeted by Old Qintou.
The dull days have passed like this for more than a month, and Zhang Yixian is rarely idle, every day according to the cultivation method, absorbing the essence of the sun and the moon to refine the soul, and every time there is a lot of progress.
Every time he goes out, Zhang Yixian has another boy by his side.
Within a radius of dozens of miles, except for the fact that several sons of the old Qin family's family have found their daughters-in-law, there seems to be nothing too new. If you count the increasing number of refugees in the City God Temple, it is also a big deal.
Since more than a month ago, the Red Turban Army revolted, and the righteous army broke through the defense of Haozhou City and successfully captured Haozhou City, which not only did not cheer the people, but more than twice as many displaced people fled from the city compared to the Yuan Dynasty.
There is no other reason, although the Red Turban Army is known as the righteous army, but after breaking through the city, it acts like a robber, as long as it is what they like, they must rob it, and among the five teams occupying Haozhou, except for the team led by Guo Zixing, the others are simply hungry and crazy grass cowards.
When he learned from the refugees that Haozhou City was breached by the rebels, Zhang Yixian knew that the troubled times had begun, and it was now the twelfth year of Zhizheng.
At this moment, the chaos in the whole world has come out, with Xu Shouhui in the north, Zhang Shicheng in the south, plus Zhu Yuanzhang who has not yet risen, etc., the whole world has begun to compete.
Zhang Yixian had to ponder, once the whole world began to be chaotic, not only his incense would be hit, but even his strength would be affected.
For more than a month, Zhang Yixian used the treasures given by Hebo, and then used the storage power of the Chenghuang Golden Seal, to deliberately take Lao Qintou to the south of the Yangtze River, and bought 100,000 quintals of grain from all over the country seven or eight times.
Don't think that 100,000 quintals of food is a lot, compared to these refugees who have left their homes, it is a drop in the bucket.
Under Zhang Yixian's instructions, Lao Qin Tou selected a group of people with a large physique and barely a strong body from among the fleeing refugees, and used the temptation of food to let them stay in the Chenghuang Temple as a nursing home.
In the troubled times, Zhang Yixian did not dare to blatantly use his ability to help these people, that would be against the rules of heaven, even if it was the 100,000 quintals of grain he bought, he secretly dug a large pit with a length and width of nearly 100 meters under the land next to the City God Temple, and after putting all the grain in, it was still slightly insufficient, and it was only two or three meters away from the ground, which was also one of his back-ups.
100,000 quintals of grain, a load of about 100 catties, a total of nearly 10 million catties. With such a huge amount of food, even an army of 10,000 people would be enough for them to eat for several years.
Moreover, this is not counting some of the food left in Zhang Yixian's Chenghuang Golden Seal, so he plans to make his Chenghuang Temple incense more vigorous in the future, this is his capital.
And those who were selected by Lao Qin Tou were about a hundred people. Coupled with their family members who had not starved to death, the total number was about 300 people, Zhang Yixian asked Lao Qin Tou to circle out in the open space around the City God Temple, as a place for these people to settle down, and each family was given a tael of silver, as well as three catties of grain and rice.
The stomach was full, and these men also seemed to be much more energetic, and they came to the City God Temple every day to accept the command of the old Qin Tou.
And Zhang Yixian was not stingy, he found a set of cultivation methods to strengthen the body and let Lao Qin Tou guide him, after all, he is also a monk in the foundation building realm no matter how he says it now, but he doesn't have any magic on his body, and he just has no cultivation.
And most of Zhang Yixian's energy was devoted to the ghost boy who had woken up, and he also gave him an apt name, Xiao Ming.
Since the ghost boy Xiao Ming woke up, without the control of yin qi and fox demons, the whole person has become very normal, except for rarely being hungry, like other peers, he is very lively and active, and his eyes have been nourished by yin qi over the years, and have become ghost eyes, which are similar to the old Qin Tou's heavenly eyes.
Not only did he save a lot of effort, Zhang Yixian could also directly control the ghost boy Xiao Ming, but also taught him the method of cultivation, absorbing the essence of the sun and the moon to dissipate the rich yin qi in his body little by little.
After more than a month, the ghost boy Xiao Ming's face was no longer pale, but became more ruddy, and the cold temperament on his body became softer.
Zhang Yixian is also happy to see it, in addition to cultivation every day, he goes out for a stroll, and he will also help refugees in need.
In this way, within a radius of 100 miles, the incense in his City God Temple gradually showed signs of recovery.
And since the city of Haozhou was broken by the rebels, the rebels in other places have also risen up to seize the city at the same time, some successful and some failed.
The strongest and the first to revolt the White Lotus Sect Han Shantong, Liu Futong and others also took the city, and in order to resist the counterattack of the Yuan army against the White Lotus Sect Han Shantong was killed, and his son Han Lin'er succeeded as the leader of the rebel army, and was honored as King Xiao Ming by the rest of the rebels.
Since then, the rebels from all walks of life have followed suit, written a letter to ask for their lives, proclaimed themselves commanders, commanded all the way to the soldiers and horses, and showed their ambitions in the name of restoring the Han dynasty.
Zhang Yixian listened silently to the news brought by these refugees in the City God Temple, and his heart was full of thoughts.
He hadn't seen Zhu Yuanzhang at this time, and he didn't know where he was at this moment, so he could only wait, waiting for him to become famous, and then go and see it.
After the sun waned, the sky shimmered with starlight, and the stars were brighter than the previous ones.
Zhang Yixian was also a little puzzled, as if something would happen, and his heart trembled violently for no reason.
In the middle of the night, a bright starlight suddenly crossed the sky under the light of the stars, and fell on the earth, very dazzling.
After a starlight, in less than half a pillar of incense, another starlight crossed the sky and fell to the earth.
In the space of two hours, a total of eighteen starlight fell in front of and back in the entire sky.
As soon as this anomaly came out, Zhang Yixian immediately became alert, he knew that something big would happen next, and at the same moment, on the main mountain of Longhu Mountain, in a cave near the top of the mountain, a Taoist with a white beard and an old face held a golden talisman, and after the golden light, only a pile of ashes left on the rune paper and landed on the ground, showing a pattern of a sun and a phoenix.
Thousands of miles away, the same is an unnamed mountain peak pavilion, an old monk with a beard to the ground opened his eyes violently, looked at the direction of the starlight landing, thoughtful in his eyes, the Buddha beads twisted in his hand suddenly broke, the Buddha beads scattered, forming a Buddha seal, and then emitted a burst of golden light, showing that the pattern of the home was exactly the same as that of the old road in Longhu Mountain, it was also a sun and a phoenix, and after a while, the Buddha beads scattered on the ground disappeared with the wind and all turned into white ashes.
Similarly, the sky is different, this scene makes many people look up, and in a bamboo forest in Qingtian, an old Confucian student holding a book also saw it, and a rare smile appeared on his face after not seeing a smile for a long time.