Chapter 94: Temple Worship

Chapter 94: Temple Worship

Chapter 94: Temple Worship (Two in One)

Because of the ritual at night, Madam Zhang and Madam Xu, who originally lived in the backyard, had been sent back home. So after cleaning the courtyard, Cheng Shengfei went to the kitchen, heated up the porridge left over from the evening, and put some bamboo shoots mixed with sesame oil, chopped chives, and shredded ginger into a small plate. He then put them on a wooden tray and planned to send them to Cheng Peixin.

When she walked to the window of Cheng Peixin's room, she saw that the window was half open, and she knew that her master had not gone to bed yet - she liked to open the window and look at the moonlight before going to bed.

She took a few steps closer, looked into the house through the window, and couldn't help but stop again.

Cheng Peixin did not wash or rest, and did not even take off her robes. She was sitting at the table with a piece of paper spread out in front of her, holding a pen in her hand, and frowning slightly.

Cheng Shengfei had good eyesight and saw two words written on the paper - "Zhao Kui".

She let out a breath. The master and the Zhao clan leader of Ranshan were not close friends. They had met four or five times in total over the years, and they had not talked much.

But she knew that her master's impression of Zhao Kui was not bad, and could even be called good. Because more than once, she had complained after drinking that most of the thirty-six sects oppressed their disciples very much and there were constant internal struggles. Not to mention cultivating immortality, even sitting in meditation and practicing quietly was full of troubles.

Although the Ke Ran Mountain was in decline, Sect Leader Zhao adopted a policy of laissez-faire, requiring his disciples to meditate and practice in peace on the mountain, and he himself did not care about worldly affairs. This is what a true practitioner should be like.

She herself felt that what her master said was right, but now it seems that Zhao Kui went down the mountain to practice immortality and abandoned his disciples. He is really irresponsible.

And the two words "Zhao Kui" on the paper... made Cheng Shengfei feel inexplicably irritated.

The master didn't tell her in detail why he came to Deyang Feiyun Temple, but just said that he had suffered a lot of injustice and exclusion in the sect before. But she guessed that it was mostly because of the word "love".

Master likes to say "all men are bad", but if you haven't been deeply in love with someone, you won't be able to say such a thing.

A thought was in his mind, but Cheng Shengfei felt that just thinking about it would be a bit rebellious - Master's first half of his life was ruined by love, and now, perhaps he hasn't learned his lesson. Could it be that she has slowly fallen in love with the leader Zhao over the years? Because she is too lonely?
She frowned, thought again and again, and couldn't help but make her footsteps a little heavier as she walked to the window.

He took another deep breath: "Mom..."

The room was quiet for a while. Cheng Shengfei heard the sound of paper being crumpled up, and then Cheng Peixin's voice: "Why are you yelling like that today?"

"I just think it's good for us to be here. It's just you and I, and it's quiet and peaceful."

After a while, Cheng Peixin said, "Yes. You should practice well and don't be distracted."

Cheng Shengfei walked to the window and handed the tray in: "Mom, eat something and rest early."

Cheng Peixin took the thing and said nothing more.

Cheng Shengfei walked away from the window and went to the shadow of the bamboo forest in the courtyard. After a while, she saw the window was closed, and then a few lights flickered in the house. She sighed and went back to the backyard to watch over the child.

……

Deyang City was larger than Li Wuxiang had imagined. It took him more than an hour to reach the east of the city. He then asked a beggar who was sleeping next to a cowshed and finally found the "Wu Taiyi Temple".

I originally thought that this temple was very popular and should be very grand and magnificent, but when I arrived I found that it was just a large house surrounded by woods near the outskirts of the city. There were no houses around it, no walls, and no one guarding it.

If you think about it for a while, you will understand. Gods really exist in this world, and those who are in their right mind will not come to the temple to steal anything. Maybe many people who come to worship will even take the initiative to clean up, just to see if they can get Taiyi's blessing.

The evidence for this can be seen in the group of beggars sleeping together under the wall of the great temple. They were dressed in rags, huddled together, and covered themselves with branches broken from nearby to keep warm. They were all fast asleep, but they did not go into the house.

Li Wuxiang entered the temple. The statue of Taiyi in the temple was exactly the same as the one he had seen in his dream, except that it was two people taller when sitting, with the iron helmet on its head almost touching the roof. Its eyes were wider than Wen Taiyi's, making it look more energetic. The altar in front of it was filled with flowers and fruits, and there was a long-burning lamp on each side, which made the statue look terrifying and majestic.

He turned around and tried pushing the doors and windows gently, and found that they were well maintained and there was no sound, so he closed them all.

Then he walked to the statue of Taiyi, bowed, and said sorry, then jumped onto the table and squeezed behind the statue. He first unbuttoned his clothes, then opened his chest, let the tentacles in his body grab the back of the statue, and began to practice Guangchanzi, trying to attach his divine consciousness to the statue.

But after running it only once, he found that the statue was like a dead object and the vital energy in his body could not be transferred to it at all.

He thought that since it was a method taught by the evil spirit in a dream, there shouldn't be any problem, so he tried it again.

This time, he first used Guang Chanzi to circulate the essence in his body, and then used the True Immortal Body Dao Pian to assist. The True Immortal Body Dao Pian's skills were as sharp and powerful as a chisel when opening up the meridians in the body. When he applied it to the statue, Li Wuxiang immediately felt that he had made progress. But just as he had penetrated the painted clay of the statue, he suddenly felt a resistance - like a sudden breath of air when taking a deep breath, and the essence was pushed back.

Is there something weird about this statue?
Li Wuxiang immediately closed his chest and quickly jumped out from behind the statue.

The gate of this temple faces west. It was almost Chou hour when he went out, and he spent another hour on the road. Now it should be the hour when Yin and Mao intersect, around five in the morning.

At this time, the moon was in the southwest, so the doors and windows of the temple were illuminated. When Li Wuxiang jumped down, he glanced in the direction of the doors and windows - if he were a human, he would almost get goose bumps at this time!
Because on the white silk stretched across the window, there were densely packed silhouettes of human heads, as if there were many human-shaped creatures outside, lying at the window and looking inside!
He took a deep breath and immediately took two steps away from the statue. At this moment, he heard a sharp and piercing voice outside saying viciously: "Kill you! Beat you to death! Get out of here!"

As soon as the voice appeared, dots of green light immediately lit up on the window silk, as if the eyes of the things outside were shining!
Those things are definitely not human, so this temple... must have been occupied. There must be some kind of spirit or wild god as Cheng Peixin said, possessing the statue of Taiyi, which is why it was so difficult to pass the energy over just now!

Li Wuxiang calmed himself down a bit, took two steps away, leaned his back against the wall, and bowed to the statue and the door: "I didn't know this place had an owner, I'm sorry to bother you." He said this because he thought that since there was a place like Lingshan and a netherworld, there must be many powerful things. Legend has it that Taiyi had been suppressed, so this Taiyi Temple was originally ownerless. Since something had already occupied this place, he didn't need to start a conflict without knowing how powerful the other party was.

But just as he finished speaking, the voice outside the window rang out again, becoming even sharper and more vicious: "I'll beat you to death! I'll stuff you to death! I told you not to steal! Die here! Don't leave!"

Do you think you've shown weakness and it gets excited again?
Li Wuxiang took a deep breath and ordered the tentacles in his body to bring the broken bricks and pieces of paper closer and then separate them, preparing to hide in them. He then sent the flying sword to his throat and spoke: "You don't have to be so fierce, do you? What's your name? Maybe we can still be friends."

The voice outside the window immediately started to curse: "How dare you disturb the peace of Emperor Donghuang Taiyi! I am the Snake General under the throne of Emperor Taiyi! You bastard, go to hell!"

When it spoke now, its voice was even more piercing, and even had a hissing sound when it exhaled. Li Wuxiang was about to speak again when he suddenly heard the sound of something squirming above his head. He raised his head abruptly and saw countless black shadows falling from the roof -

All snakes!
The snakes were as thick as fingers and as long as arms, and their bodies were blood red. When they fell, they bounced in the air and spat out their tongues, and immediately pounced on him. Li Wuxiang only took two steps back before he was entangled by snakes. The entire temple ground was also covered with densely packed, wriggling snakes, which swam towards him in waves.

But he stood still, letting the snakes entwine, wriggle, and bite him. "These things may scare others, but I'm not afraid of them. If you don't stop, we might end up fighting to the death today."

He didn't actually need to open his mouth when he spoke, but even so, one of the snakes swam to his mouth from under the group and twisted its body to try to get in.

But this time, the voice did not respond. Instead, through the gaps between the snakes, one could see shadows on the window silk swaying back and forth, as if they were extremely excited!

Li Wuxiang sneered: "Shame on you!"

He suddenly opened his mouth, and the snake head came in, but was immediately bitten off by Li Wuxiang. He spat it out with a sound of "Puh", and a sword light shot out along with the snake head!
The sword light moved across his body, and blood and broken flesh exploded into a bloody mist, and the severed snake body fell down with a crackling sound.

He stood still, and the tentacles extending from all parts of his body took turns to dance with the flying sword. In just two or three breaths, his entire body was covered with snake blood. After another moment, with him as the center, the ground was full of sections of bouncing snake bodies and soaked in blood. It looked like countless fish swimming in the muddy water.

Li Wuxiang's body tensed up, and his vital energy gushed out from his body. With a bang, the blood on his body surface was shaken into a ball of blood mist. The next moment, the center of the blood mist was empty. He rushed straight to the window, and the flying sword shot out with him.

But before he could touch the window silk, he heard another voice shouting, "You damn thing! Tell me, General Bai, to kill you!"

Countless white lights immediately spurted in from the window. He took a deep breath and turned around in mid-air. His whole body turned into a thin piece of skin. The flying sword danced in front of him in a silver light. There was a series of clanging sounds, and everything that came over was shattered by the sword light and turned into a large cloud of smoke and dust.

He then landed on the ground, and with a little leverage, he rushed to the window again - the figures outside were still there, and they looked like the beggars who had slept outside the temple before.

When he rushed over, he created a gust of wind, and immediately saw the beggars' facial features twisted by the wind, as if they were howling silently - these things weren't actually human?!
The sword light swept through, and several flying swords in front of the window immediately pierced through. His flying sword was wrapped with tentacles, so the tentacles also pierced through. When the touch came over, Li Wuxiang immediately felt something was wrong. He rushed out of the window with the sword light, stood still on the ground, and then looked again -

Only a dozen bloody human skins fell to the ground with a thud, and blood gurgled out from underneath. There was no longer any of the two previous sounds.

He was stunned for a moment, thought for a moment, kicked open the temple door that had been closed before, and saw the blood on the ground again.

But at this time, what was soaked in the blood was no longer snake segments, but pieces of flesh and blood. And the things that had been sprayed in from the window before were now stuck on the ground and walls, and he could see clearly that they were all bone spurs!
Li Wuxiang squatted down and picked up a piece of flesh and blood to look at it, then walked out the door and looked at the human skin outside, and knew what these were originally -

The "Snake General" and the "White General", who transformed into red snakes and shot out white thorns, were all taken from the original beggars outside. They first tore their flesh and blood into strips, and then split their bones into bone spurs!
He stood up slowly and exhaled: "What an evil spirit, come out!"

There is no such sound anymore.

But someone was speaking inside the temple, and even with his hearing he couldn't tell where it was coming from, but it seemed to echo throughout the entire house: "You have committed a great sin of murder."

The voice was deep and peaceful, completely different from the vicious and sharp cry just now. It seemed as if there was also some sound of the copper bowl placed on the incense table mixed in with the voice. The lingering sound echoed in the ears, and it really sounded sacred and lofty.

Li Wuxiang sneered: "Your Snake General and White General are no match for me, so who are you? Show yourself!"

The voice sighed again: "I am naturally Donghuang Taiyi. You, the evil spirit, will have retribution sooner or later. It is not time tonight, so you can leave now."

"Donghuang Taiyi? What a coincidence, I am also half one." Li Wuxiang sneered and stepped into the house. "I think it's not that the time has not come, but that you are afraid. Just now I wanted to leave, but you didn't want me to leave. Now I don't want to leave anymore. Get out of here!"

He raised his eyes to look at the statue on the stage, and at that moment, two lines of blood and tears flowed from the statue's eyes, and the doors and windows slammed shut behind him.

"Kneel down!" The voice seemed angry. With such a loud shout, the blood energy on the ground evaporated into blood mist with a buzzing sound, filling the entire house.

That thing should be in this room. It just asked General Snake and General White to talk outside, probably because it didn't want to expose its true identity.

He stopped talking, stood still, and listened carefully with his ears. But the blood mist was surging in the house, and even if something was moving, he couldn't sense it for a while. But since the Snake General and the White General had to use the beggar's body to do something, they might not have a physical body, or even not in this world.

However, when Zeng Jianqiu was in Jinshui, he also told him some methods of dealing with similar things.

So Li Wuxiang took a deep breath of blood mist: "Evil spirit, huh? Me too!"

The small sword slashed across his chest to the bottom, and Li Wuxiang's chest and abdomen opened wide. Countless tentacles gushed out from his chest, waving wildly in the blood mist!

(End of this chapter)