Chapter 82 Chen Shi Cuts Down the Mountain
Chapter 82 Chen Shi Cuts Down the Mountain
It was now noon. Chen Shi found a random restaurant, had a good meal with Heiguo, and then went to the market to buy two iron hats. He put one on his head and the other on Heiguo's head, so that he would not have to worry about being hit by the rat's tail.
The hats sold in the county are worn by monks serving in the army. They are extremely sturdy, and there are even six Dings and six Jias painted on the inside of the hats, which can protect against general magical attacks.
Chen Shi inquired about the location of the Heishan Grandma Temple, and found out that it was on the outskirts of the county, only twenty miles away from the county seat, separated by the Daode River, so it was not far.
"The Black Mountain Granny's magic power is tyrannical, far superior to that of the little Taoist priest. The little Taoist priest's magic power is far superior to mine. We must think of a way to break her magic power!"
He did not rush to the Grandma Temple, but bought a few bundles of incense and two kilograms of exotic beast meat, and went back to Qianyang Mountain with Hei Guo and came to the Mountain King Temple.
Black Mountain Grandma is also the godmother of the Black Mountain area. She is very popular. The common people nearby offer incense and sacrifices to her, and even eat young boys and girls during the New Year. Her magical powers are the extraordinary power formed by the aura of incense, and are extremely powerful.
The best way to break the magic power formed by extraordinary power is to use a treasure that also has extraordinary power.
The only place Chen Shi could think of was the Tiger Temple.
The Tiger Temple was the place with the most powerful extraordinary power he had ever seen.
Chen Shi’s first thought was the copper incense burner.
There are two bronze incense burners in the Shanjun Temple. One is a large rectangular tripod that is ten feet long, five feet high and three feet wide. The other is a tripod-shaped round incense burner with a six-legged bronze base underneath and a bronze turtle above it. On the turtle's back is a round tripod-shaped incense burner, and above that is a three-story bronze round pavilion, which is more than ten feet high in total.
When Chen Shi cleaned the two copper incense burners, he found that there was a thick layer of incense ash accumulated in the burners. This shows that when the Shanjun Temple was at its peak, many people must have come here to burn incense and worship.
The two copper furnaces must be soaked in the aroma of incense and contain a large amount of extraordinary power.
Even at this moment, extraordinary power is overflowing from the incense burner.
Chen Shi thought for a moment, and instead of taking the copper furnace, he came to the main hall.
There are four pillars in front of the main hall, with stone dragons coiled on the pillars. The stone dragons have been rubbed to a shiny finish.
The extraordinary power contained in these four pillars is also extremely astonishing. It seems that the stone dragon here was only one step away from transforming.
If the pillars are removed, the magic power of Black Mountain Grandma can also be broken.
“But the incense burner and the pillar should not be the most powerful treasures of the extraordinary power. The most powerful one should still be inside the temple!”
Chen Shi pushed open the palace door and walked into the main hall.
The extraordinary power is the most concentrated in the main hall, and has formed a rosy glow, gathering in the shrine, as if something is taking shape.
Chen Shi looked around and his eyes fell on the empty shrine.
At this moment, the place with the strongest extraordinary power in the hall is the shrine.
“But the shrine is not the one that has accumulated the most extraordinary power.”
Chen Shi looked away, raised his head, and whispered, "The incense smell is floating upwards, so the one that absorbs the most extraordinary power should be..."
His eyes fell on the caisson ceiling in the main hall.
This caisson should be the place where the extraordinary power is most concentrated.
"The Bagua roof is not suitable for fighting, and it is not convenient to remove the roof of this main hall. If it is removed, the hall will collapse."
Chen Shi turned and came to the front hall. On the roof of the hall there was a large red gilded beam with a painted dragon on it, which was more than two meters long.
The incense in the front hall is no less popular than that in the main hall. The extraordinary power emanating from this bright red gilded dragon-painted beam is as strong as that of the shrine!
"This is it!"
Chen Shi returned to the main hall, took out several bundles of incense he had bought from the bookcase, lit them all, and inserted them in front of the shrine. He said silently, "Mountain Lord, I, Chen Shi, would like to borrow the beam of the front hall of the temple. After I kill the evildoer, I will definitely return this treasure. I will never be greedy and take it away. Mountain Lord, please understand!"
He came to the front hall, leaped onto the beam, and tried his best to support it. With a loud bang, half of the front hall collapsed.
This temple has withstood many storms and has been hidden underground for more than 6,000 years, but today its front hall still could not escape the disaster.
Chen Shi took down the beam with the gilded dragon painted on it, and found that it was a pillar made of golden nanmu wood, as thick as a bucket, which had been planed and polished very finely by craftsmen and painted red.
There is no golden nanmu in Xiniu Xinzhou. This wooden pillar must have been brought from Shenzhou by the eunuch Sanbao's fleet. It can be seen that a lot of effort was put into building the Mountain Jun Temple.
Chen Shi took a rag and wiped the dust off the pillar, then called for a black pot, took out black dog blood, ground cinnabar, and mixed it with gold powder, so that his writing would be golden.
He wielded his brush like the wind and drew on the pillars thunder talismans, five thunder talismans, big five thunder talismans, palm thunder talismans, talismans of the ten generals of the Thunder God, five sun sky thunder talismans, nine sun thunderbolt talismans, sky thunder-inducing talismans and so on, as many as dozens of others.
These talismans were refined by his true energy and driven into the wood, so they would not be easily worn out.
When the bowl of cinnabar ink was used up, Chen Shi stopped writing, packed up his things, picked up the beam and went out.
Hei Guo ate two kilograms of exotic beast meat and followed him.
One man and one dog headed straight for Black Mountain.
On the outskirts of the county, on the banks of the Dejiang River, Black Mountain stands tall. Incense smoke rises from halfway up the mountain and gathers into clouds in the sky.
In front of Grandma Temple.
Five old mice with white beards were wearing robes, holding a bunch of incense sticks, with solemn expressions, and bowing devoutly to the Black Mountain Grandma Temple, muttering something.
And behind them, there was a black mass of big rats dressed in gray, standing like humans. Some were taller than adults, and the short ones were two or three feet tall. They all held incense sticks and kowtowed to the Black Mountain Grandma Temple in unison!
Behind the heads of some gray-clothed mice, a shrine actually appeared, with a divine fetus sitting in the shrine, looking very realistic!
From the sound of what they were chanting, it seemed to be some extremely mysterious scripture. Hundreds of mice spoke in human language, and the chanting sounded like a torrent, deafening.
At the foot of the mountain, villagers from all villages near Black Mountain, young and old, gathered together, each holding three incense sticks, kneeling on the ground, chanting with the rats, and kowtowing like pounding garlic. There are more than a dozen villages near Black Mountain, and the godmothers in each village have already submitted to Black Mountain Grandma. The people in these villages also rely on Grandma's breath to survive. The sacrifices offered during festivals feed the rats on the mountain, and even form the climate.
These mice served Grandma Black Mountain, absorbing the moonlight and practicing. Over time, they were affected by the moonlight and absorbed the scent of incense, becoming evil spirits and skilled in performing magic.
They killed those who were disrespectful, and many merchants who traveled by were extorted, and many monks died at their hands.
They then imitated humans, practiced martial arts, and even built a shrine and obtained a divine fetus.
Heishan is located in Baisheng County, which is not in Xinxiang Province but belongs to Xianzhou Province.
Baisheng County is on the edge of Xianzhou, and Heishan is on the edge of Baisheng County. The country is far away and there are evil spirits everywhere. The government has no ability to govern. Fortunately, Heishan’s grandmother is sensible and asks the farmers in each village to pay taxes on time, so the government turns a blind eye.
Along with the kowtows and chants, the fragrant clouds floating in the sky continued to condense new extraordinary power and flowed towards the Grandma Temple.
And in the magnificent main hall, the black statue is absorbing extraordinary power and is condensing a new divine appearance!
"Who is Chen Shi? He has such a powerful evil hidden in his body that even I can't resist him. From now on, I will never provoke him again!"
All around the black statue, rolling black air was swirling endlessly and swirling around the statue. This extraordinary power was truly extremely powerful.
Condensing the divine appearance is not something that can be done overnight. Even with so many villagers and rats constantly chanting her name and helping her, it will still take several days to complete the condensation.
At the foot of the mountain, every ten steps or so, a gray-clad rat would patrol the crowd. One of the gray-clad rats shouted, "Whoever's incense is crooked, whoever's heart is not sincere, will lose his head!"
At this time, a young man carrying a big red pole as thick as a bucket walked towards them and walked through the crowd who were kneeling and bowing.
The young man was wearing a light blue coat that reached his knees, white pants, a red ribbon tied around his waist with a sachet hanging from it, and a red ribbon on his head that was covered by an iron hat, with the tail sticking out and dancing in the wind behind his head.
On the big red pillar on his shoulder was painted a gilded five-clawed dragon with a slender body, coiling from the front to the back of the pillar.
There are also various golden patterns on the pillars, which seep into the wood.
The young man looked down on everyone and walked straight up the mountain.
A gray-clothed mouse shouted, "Who is coming?"
"Qianyang Mountain, Chen Shi!"
Chen Shi kept moving forward.
The gray-clothed mouse said, "This is the Black Mountain Grandma's dojo, you are not allowed to trespass... Wait a minute, what did you say your name was?"
Chen Shi carried a big red pillar on his right shoulder, with his left thumb pressing on his ring finger and little finger, and his index and middle fingers raised as if holding a sword, with a bright smile on his face.
The Three Lights of Righteousness Art started to circulate in his body, and suddenly light shone brightly around his body. The star power gathered and transformed into seven different star symbols.
Behind his head, a shrine appeared and sword energy formed in the shrine!
"My name is Qianyangshan... Chen Shi!"
He swung his left hand forward, making a cloud sword gesture, and an invisible sword energy whizzed out from the shrine. In an instant, the front was blurred. It was because his sword energy was spinning and vibrating violently, causing the air to vibrate violently!
"call out--"
As the sword energy flew past, the gray-clothed rat's upper body flew up, and it let out a cry: "Enemy attack!"
It didn't realize until it cried out: "Why am I flying? Wait, my butt is still on the ground!"
The so-called cloud sword means standing still, holding a sword, using legs as axis, moving the sword from front to back, drawing a large circle. The waist must be flexible and the sword must be parallel to the ground.
However, in the Ziwu Zhanxie Sword, this move is separated from the palm, the sword energy draws a circle, and rotates at high speed, at an extremely fast speed!
The sword slashed through the waist of the gray-clothed rat without any reduction in power. It whizzed forward along the foot of the mountain and even went up the mountain with the momentum of its high-speed rotation. It flashed over the heads of those kneeling on the ground, raising a gust of wind that blew out countless incense sticks!
In an instant, the sword energy passed through the crowd and cut into the gray-clothed rats that were kneeling and kowtowing in front. Immediately, broken limbs and arms flew up and blood splattered everywhere.
The rotating sword energy cut off countless limbs and pushed forward!
There were some rat monks in front who had received the early warning. They stood up one after another, activated the divine fetus in the shrine, and a series of Ziwu evil-slaying swords flew out to meet Chen Shi's sword energy!
Chen Shi's cloud sword energy was contaminated with the blood of more than a dozen gray-clothed rats, which was visible to the naked eye, but the speed was still astonishingly fast. The sword energy of those gray-clothed rat monks collided with this bloody sword energy and exploded one after another, turning into countless broken sword energy, which pierced many of their own people!
They hurriedly avoided the sword energy, but saw this blood-colored sword energy going straight towards the five elders.
The five white-bearded rat elders stood up with angry looks on their faces. One of the elders turned around and sacrificed his golden elixir. The invisible force field pressed down, trying to freeze the bloody sword energy!
However, the blood-colored sword energy cut into its golden elixir force field, rotating and cutting forward. When it came to four feet in front of it, it could no longer withstand the pressure of the golden elixir force field and shattered.
The five rat elders all showed expressions of horror and looked down, only to see that Chen Shi was still at the foot of the mountain and was climbing up, already more than sixty feet away from them!
At this distance of sixty feet, wherever the sword energy passed, a bloody path was formed with corpses strewn all over the place!
"The power of the Ziwu Evil-Slaying Sword can only reach twenty-four or twenty-five feet. It is impossible to reach sixty feet!" An elder named Mouse was shocked and doubtful.
Chen Shi carried the red pillar and strode up the mountain. He said in a clear and gentle voice, "Black Pot, you stay at the foot of the mountain."
The dog stopped, sat down and looked ahead.
The gray-clad rats, having just recovered from their shock, rushed towards Chen Shi. Various shrines lit up one after another, each preparing their own spells.
"Too slow, you are too slow."
Chen Shi's left hand sword technique changed from cloud sword style to picking sword style. Invisible sword energy flew out and lifted up from the crotch of a gray-clothed rat that was rushing towards him, and immediately a flash of blood split it in two.
He used the sword techniques of his left hand, stabbing, slashing, wiping, picking, clouding and chopping, and the six sword techniques kept changing. The gray-clothed rats rushing towards him from all directions did not even step within two meters of him before they were suddenly beheaded!
The invisible sword energy they released was either shattered by Chen Shi's invisible sword energy or easily avoided by Chen Shi's feet on the Seven Stars.
Chen Shi walked all the way up the mountain, with blood flowing like a river under his feet.
The gray mice in front of him rolled and tumbled to avoid his attack, and finally rushed to within two meters, swinging their tails and attacking him.
Chen Shi suddenly exerted force with his right arm and swung up the vermilion pillar. The thousand-jin pillar was as powerful as the wind. In an instant, there was a loud thunder, lightning, and rumbling sound. The heads of the gray-clothed mice exploded before they could get close!
"Black Mountain Grandma, Master Chen Shi is here to cut down the mountain and destroy the temple!"
(End of this chapter)