Since the other party proposed that there was something that needed to be solved, Bai Wufang was also happy to return the favor as soon as possible, understand the cause and effect, and even ask about the cause and effect.

Xu Yuan then talked about the current crisis facing the "Yunqin Shrine".

With a limited population and a large number of shrines and shrines, neighboring shrines inevitably have to fight against each other in order to compete for believers. If both sides are powerless secular people, the fight is nothing more than spreading rumors and slandering each other and even hiring some ruffians to fight, and if it is a priest and a shrine maiden with spiritual powers, the fight is much more cruel, and often ends with the complete extinction of the shrine and the gods behind it.

"Yunqin Shrine" because of the natural convenience conditions, although the scale is not large, but monopolize the faith of the entire Yunqin Town, and with this town as the core to radiate around, it has already provoked some large and small shrines around. It's just that there has never been a shrine nearby that has a veritable priest or witch, and in the face of the Xu family, which has had Qi cultivators in the past generations, they can only be hot and helpless.

More than ten years ago, in the village of Momiji not far from here, a rogue man named Isaku had **** luck and actually hooked up with a spirit named "Raven Tengu", and built a "Great Tengu Shrine" in the village. In the past ten years, Na Yisaku has relied on his increasingly profound spiritual power to expand the scale of the "Great Tengu Shrine", and has driven out many nearby shrines, gathering more and more believers, and gradually has overwhelmed the momentum of the "Yunqin Shrine".

Last year, Xu Yuan's father, Xu Ming, died of illness, and the shrine passed to his only daughter, Xu Yuan. Although Xu Yuan's cultivation and skills are better than that of his father, the only and most fatal flaw is the lack of prestige.

Yi Zuo seized the opportunity and used a series of light and dark means to suppress the prestige of the "Yunqin Shrine". Although Xu Yuan tried his best to fight back, he was still young and a daughter, and secondly, he was not prepared to meet the battle in a hurry, and he could only gradually shrink his position under the pressure of the other party, and in the end, except for the most stable position in Yunqin Town, the peripheral forces were swallowed up by the "Great Tengu Shrine".

Not long ago, Isaku felt that he had a chance of victory, so he launched the final blow to the "Yunqin Shrine". He sent a letter of battle to Xu Yuan with great fanfare, proposing that the two sides decide the ownership of Yunqin Town's faith by winning or losing the fighting method.

Xu Yuan has been forced to a dead end and has no way to retreat, so he can only meet this challenge, and in three days it will be the day of the fight.

The two shrines have been opponents for several years, and they can be regarded as knowing each other, just as Yi Zuo is sure that with his current level of spiritual power, no one in the "Yunqin Shrine" is his opponent, and Xu Yuan also knows that the outcome of this fight is worrying, and he has been thinking hard about countermeasures these days.

Hearing Xu Yuan say this, Chen Yi and the others already understood what she meant, Bai Wufang pondered for a moment, raised his hand and took off the ancient sword he was carrying behind his back, and sent it to Xu Yuan with the sheath: "Since I have taken one thing, I will return another thing." This sword is called 'Wisdom Sword', and it is also the treasure of my master. Now I will give you this sword, and then pass on to you the twelve-style 'unvulgar thoughts' swordsmanship all the way. With this sword and swordsmanship, it is expected that you can defeat your opponent. ”

Xu Yuan was overjoyed, hurriedly got up, bowed deeply, and then took the ancient sword with both hands.

In the next three days, Chen Yi and the four of them lived in the "Yunqin Shrine", and Bai Wufang had to order Xu Yuan to practice swordsmanship and swordsmanship every day.

Xu Yuan was a little skeptical at first, after all, the other party's age was a little younger than herself. But when Bai Wufang showed a little bit of strength and insight, she knew that she was indeed a frog at the bottom of the well, and she had never seen a real master.

Three days is not a short time, and Xu Yuan has some foundation and understanding. By the end of the third day, she could already reluctantly make this "wisdom sword" practice the twelve-style "unvulgar thought" swordsmanship.

When the day of the decisive battle finally came, Xu Yuan cleared his heart and condensed his mind indoors early in the morning, just waiting for the enemy to come to the door.

The old servant woman in the shrine came to see Xu Yuan and said, "Your Excellency the shrine, the priest Isaku of the 'Great Tengu Shrine' and the notaries he invited have arrived. ”

Xu Yuan is young after all, no matter how smart she is, she can't help but feel a little uneasy when the big thing comes, so let's take a look at Bai Wufang who is sitting quietly on one side.

Bai Wufang smiled and nodded, and said softly: "We will give you a pressure formation, but it doesn't hurt to go." ”

Xu Yuan's confidence increased, and he got up and said, "You go and invite them in, I will wait in the backyard." ”

The old servant woman took the order and left, Xu Yuan carried the "wisdom sword", and hung a quiver around her waist, which contained more than ten white feather arrows, and a black wooden bow in her hand that was almost the same length as her.

After the equipment was completed, she led Chen Yi and the four of them to the backyard, which was a large empty field, which was suitable for fighting.

After a while, the old servant woman led in with seven or eight men.

At the same time, the four of them felt that one of the middle-aged men with an obscene face and an octagonal copper rod in his hand had a strange aura on his body, and the rich and gloomy death aura was almost condensed into substance above his head, which was comparable to the unjust soul of years of cultivation.

Although the comer is not good, Xu Yuan can't be rude to others, and still has to go forward to greet the people one by one.

From Xu Yuan's words, Chen Yi and the others heard that the ghostly man was the priest of the "Great Tengu Shrine".

After the two sides met Li, Na Yizuo sneered: "Your Excellency Xu Yuan, today I specially invited several famous elders in the vicinity to come as notarizations. If I worship in your hands when I am young, everything I have, along with my life, will belong to you, but I don't know what your lord will say?"

Xu Yuan said unhurriedly: "These elders know each other below, and they can also trust their notarization. Since His Excellency Isaku is willing to bet everything, after being naturally unwilling, he is willing to take everything including life as a bet for this fight. ”

Yi Zuo let out a few more sneers, and his obscene gaze roamed over Xu Yuan's beautiful appearance and body that was beginning to take shape, and he had already made a dirty idea in his heart. He looked around again, and saw Chen Yi and the other four standing not far away.

When he saw Chen Yi dressed as a monk, his expression suddenly changed, "The fighting method between the shrines is an extremely sacred thing, why does a monk appear? Could it be that His Excellency Xu Yuan wants to lead the forces of Buddhism to interfere in the affairs of our shrine?"

Now that Buddhism has been introduced to the Wa Kingdom, Buddhism, which has been more powerful in recruiting believers, has naturally been strongly resisted by the native Shinto religion of the Wa Kingdom.

Although Yi Zuo couldn't see the power of Chen Yi and the others, he could also vaguely feel that these four teenagers who seemed harmless to humans and animals were extremely dangerous characters, and he said these words in his heart. His intentions are extremely tricky, if these words spread, no matter what the victory or defeat is today, the "Yunqin Shrine" is bound to stand on the opposite side of all shrines.

Xu Yuan's mind was very smart, and he guessed the other party's conspiracy in an instant, and shook his head with a chuckle: "Your Excellency Yizuo is too suspicious, this Master Xuanzang and his companions are all from Middle Earth. My Xu family is also from Middle-earth, so I invited them to the shrine as guests, and I want to ask about the current situation in my hometown, and I will never interfere with this battle between you and me. That's okay, wait a minute, if they help me, how about I Xu Yuan lose?"

"A word is a certainty!" Yi Zuo was overjoyed, and hurriedly implemented the matter to be nailed.

Xu Yuan laughed, came to the field with a longbow, and said loudly: "If Your Excellency Yizuo has no other objections, let's start!"