Liu Qingyun found a small temple called Jiuhe Palace when it was almost dark. He called to open the temple door, Xiao Lao Dao let him in, and brought him a meal, which Liu Qingyun finished. Xiao Lao Dao cleaned up, poured him another cup of tea and said, "Donor, my master will come to see you in a while, and I have something to explain." Liu Qingyun wondered, and said in his heart: I don't know the master of the Nine Harmony Palace, what does he want to explain to me? But just as he was about to ask, the little old man had already withdrawn. There's no way, Liu Qingyun waits.

After about five minutes, he heard someone knocking on the door, Liu Qingyun looked up and saw an elderly Taoist priest coming in from outside the door, who was fifty-seven or eighteen years old. This old road is more than eight feet tall, with a face like a sunset, a pair of thin eyebrows, red phoenix eyes, a straight nose and a square mouth, five locks of white beard fluttering in front of the heart, and big ears towards the arms. Wearing a hair bundle gossip Tai Chi crown, a copper hairpin don't top. Two streamers hang from the back. A fat and large gray sermon robe with a wide collar and large sleeves. Kicking a pair of fat socks and holding a handful of dust.

As soon as Liu Qingyun saw it, he quickly stood up and walked, and saw Lao Dao coming to Liu Qingyun's approach: "Immeasurable Tianzun, Poor Dao Tianyuan is polite." Liu Qingyun clasped his wrists with both hands: "Don't dare to be, return the courtesy." After seeing the ceremony, the two sat down around the table, and listened to the old Taoist say: "Ahhhhh Of course you can't say that.

He pretended to snort: "Alas, my name is Liu Qingyun." He lives in Chenjiazhuang on the bank of the Tongtian River. This time I went out on a trip, because I was greedy for the scenery here, and I got lost unconsciously. I bumped into Guiguan by mistake, and I was taken in by Guiguan, otherwise I would have slept in the wilderness. Tian Yuan was stunned when he heard this, he really hadn't heard of the Tongtian River, let alone Chenjiazhuang on the bank of the Tongtian River.

Tian Yuan was stunned for a moment: "Oh, so that's the case." In the future, donors should be careful? In this deep mountain and old forest, there are not only lynx beasts, but also even more terrible things in some places. Liu Qingyun hurriedly nodded: "Yes, yes, I will definitely not be reckless in the future." Tianyuan Lao Dao wanted to say something, but he opened his mouth and didn't say anything, as if he was a little embarrassed. Liu Qingyun didn't know what he was going to say, but there was one thing, just now the little old man said that his master had something to explain to himself. What did Liu Qingyun want to say to himself when he saw this old way? But when the words came to his lips, he didn't say anything again. Liu Qingyun couldn't stand it: "Master Guanzhu, I heard that you have something to explain to me, I don't know what you have to do?"

Tian Yuan heard Liu Qingyun ask, he gritted his teeth: "Well, that's the case, I didn't plan to let you stay today, because there are some special things in the temple tonight." But now it's getting late, and it's really dangerous in the deep mountains and old forests. I'll let my apprentice let you in. But donors must remember that you are not allowed to leave this room tonight, no matter what happens to the release. No matter what the noise is, don't peek outside. Otherwise, your life is in danger. The benefactor has ever remembered the words of the poor way. ”

Liu Qingyun was stunned for a moment: "I don't know what happened to Guiguan tonight? Can the Taoist Elder tell me about it, maybe I can help with anything?" Tianyuan's face sank: "Donor, it's not good to have too much curiosity, it will kill people." The benefactor only needs to remember the words of the poor way. Otherwise, for the sake of the donor's life, Poor Dao can only drive you out of Jiuhe Palace. As soon as Liu Qingyun heard that the old door was closed tightly, he didn't ask: "Yes, yes, so I won't ask." I must take to heart the words of the Taoist chief, no matter what noise is made outside, what happens, I will not look outside, let alone out of this house. ”

Tian Yuan listened and nodded: "This is the best, and the time is not early." The donor is tired after a day of playing, so let's rest early, right? After speaking, Tian Yuan got up and walked out, and Liu Qingyun also followed. When Lao Dao went out of the door, he took out a talisman from his arms and pasted it on the inside of the door frame. also instructed Liu Qingyun not to get rid of this talisman tonight, and then he left.

After Liu Qingyun sent Lao Dao away, he blew out the light when he returned to his room, and then he sat cross-legged on the cloud bed and began to meditate and close his eyes to recuperate. Restore stamina and mana. From the words of the old Tao just now, he knew that there must be a big bustle tonight, and he had to nourish his spirits and look lively, and if the old man couldn't do it, he could help them. So he hurried to recharge his batteries.

In this way, when it came to the second watch, Liu Qingyun heard that there was movement in the courtyard, and he heard someone say: "Master, where do you put this thing?" At this time, Tianyuan said: "Put these twelve lamps in the direction of the twelve yuanchen." Go and hang up these four-sided flags, and call Zhou Shizhu out. Liu Qingyun got off the cloud bed, came to the window and pressed against the window, he broke the window paper with the tip of his tongue, and looked out with one eye.

And I saw that four great poles were erected at the four corners of the courtyard, and on each pole hung a string of dead wind lanterns, which illuminated the courtyard brightly. In the middle of the courtyard there is a Dharma platform, the Dharma platform is built with a table of eight immortals, surrounded by Huang Lingzi, on the Dharma platform there is an incense burner wax skewer, the finger-thick big incense is inserted in the incense burner, and the child's arm thick plain wax is saved on the wax skewer. There is also rootless water, yellow table paper, cinnabar, bells, and grapefruit leaves on the table. Brushes, inkstones, etc.

In front of the altar there are twenty-four oil lamps, arranged in a circle according to the direction of the 12 yuan. Now there is a middle-aged man sitting in a circle, and looking at the age of this man, there is forty-two or three. Dressed in blue, he looks like a teacher who is a teacher. He looks quite kind, but now this middle-aged man's body is trembling like a convulsion.

At the back of the Dharma platform, the Heavenly Yuan Dao Elder held a seven-star sword in his hand and sat on a chair like a mud tire. There are also four small old ways around the Fatai, among which there are small old ways to open the door and deliver food to Liu Qingyun, and the oldest of them is no more than twenty. In their hands they held a magic flag. This pole is one zhang two feet long, four feet wide, and nine feet long Huang Lingzi makes the banner surface. Runes painted with red cinnabar on it. When the wind blows, the flags flutter and tremble.

After reading it, Liu Qingyun returned to the cloud bed, and then closed his eyes and meditated. When the time was almost the third watch, there was a sudden strong wind outside, which caused the sand outside to hit the window paper rustling. At this time, I heard the little old man shouting: "The master is here, what should we do?" Tian Yuan shouted angrily: "What are you panicking about? You have your own way for the teacher? You should take the four directions, and don't let this harmful beast run away at that time." ”

Liu Qingyun hurriedly jumped to the window to look outside, and after a while, the wind stopped, and the masters and apprentices in the courtyard all looked solemn and looked around. I heard a sneer from someone on the courtyard wall: "Hmph, what's the matter? Just these four little dolls, and you want to keep your aunt and grandmother? You are too self-conscious, right?" With these words, a woman jumped off the wall.

Liu Qingyun changed the direction and saw that this woman was more than seven feet tall, with a slender figure, wearing a black dress, tightly wrapped in a bumpy figure. She carried a whip in her hand, her long black hair hit her temples, and she had a black hairpin on her beard, and a camellia on the left side of her head. The face is as white as jade, with curved willow eyebrows, big eyes, and the corners of the eyes hang up. The nose and cherry mouth are small, but there are three horizontal stripes on each side of the mouth, and the ears are different from normal people, the ears are not only on the top, but also hairy. It seems to be a pair of cat ears.

At this time, he saw the woman walking to the opposite side of the Dharma platform, he first looked at the middle-aged man sitting in the lamp circle, and the middle-aged man trembled even more when she looked at him. She raised her head and looked at Tian Yuan: "Bullnose Old Dao, do you have to take care of this idle matter this time? We have no grievances and no hatred, this time it is my affair with this Zhou Huairen, and we have not committed anything to you at all? Is it necessary for you to wade into this troubled water?"

Tian Yuan sneered: "Evil Barrier, since you have cultivated into a human form, you should uphold the virtue of God's good life, gather good karma, and wait for him to ascend to the immortal realm as soon as possible." But you are not like this, you rely on your magic power to harm mortals. I can't ignore the matter of Zhou Shizhu today, and then again, you have your own losses, and you can't blame Zhou Shizhu's side. What's more, he is also unintentional, why are you holding on? I advise you to settle things down. ”

The woman glared: "Ahh I just want to ask you, whether you are pulling out of this matter today. Tian Yuan's eyebrows rose when he heard this: "Ah, I, Tian Yuan, am really not a person who is afraid of things, don't you say it today? The woman's willow eyebrows were upside down, and her apricot eyes were wide: "Okay, even if you are nosy, then you have to be prepared to pay the price." Tian Yuan shook the seven-star sword: "Evil animal, you don't have to be crazy in front of me." Today, Dao Ye, I will weigh how high your skills are? ”

As they spoke, they fell apart, only to see the woman pick up the leather whip in her hand and whip it at the middle-aged man in the lamp ring, and the middle-aged man exclaimed, Ahhh Peed my pants. Tian Yuan Dao didn't see it well, he grabbed a handful of incense ashes and threw it at the oil lamp on the ground. At the same time, he also recited a mantra in his mouth, as soon as the incense ash touched the lamp, the lamp was originally red, but this time the lamp turned purple. The flames in the oil lamp facing the woman suddenly rose more than a foot high, and the flames burned just to the tip of the whip. The stabbing sound brought up a first-class fire.

The woman quickly withdrew the whip. As soon as she turned around, two more black tails came out from behind her, and the two tails opened their bows left and right and pumped towards the middle-aged man, and now the middle-aged man's face was green, and he quickly closed his eyes and didn't dare to look at it again. Tian Yuan held the sword in his right hand across his chest, and slapped the sword body with his left hand, and the seven stars on his sword lit up, and then he shook the sword, and the seven points of light lit up, shooting at the woman in the shape of seven stars.

The woman waved the whip in her hand and dialed the seven stars. Her tail continued to pump towards the middle-aged man, but she was wrong, and just as her tail reached the ring of the lamp, all twelve lights came on. A purple light shield protected the middle-aged man like an inverted cauldron. Her two tails were drawn right on the mask. How high her tail was upside down, and at the same time her body was unsteady, and she took several steps back.

The seven stars sent by Tian Yuan are also special, these seven stars are still bent, they can't hit people, and they come back. The woman shot the star out, and the star flew not far away, and then flew back and hit her. Just as the woman was retreating, three stars came back again and hit the woman's face, shoulder and lower abdomen, and the woman was stepping back and did not obey the call, hiding a little slower.

As soon as she twisted her body, she dodged the door and shoulders, and the position of her lower abdomen was not hidden, but she did not hit her lower abdomen. It hit her right hand in the lower abdomen, and there was a snap. The woman screamed, and the whip in her hand fell to the ground. Look at the back of the right hand as if a soldering iron has been burned.

At this time, four more stars came to her. She opened her mouth, a puff of black smoke came out, and four stars fell to the ground. As soon as these four stars landed, the other two came over again, and the woman turned over to dodge the two stars, and at the same time flicked two black tails and shot down two more. But at this time, she saw that Lao Dao was drawing talismans, and she was in a hurry, so she saw her ten fingers open and her hands on her chest. Then he howled to the sky. Liu Qingyun was stunned in the guest room.