Chapter 124: Never Pay Back the Money Until Death

Chapter 124: Never Pay Back the Money Until Death

Chapter 124: Never Pay Back the Money Until Death

The scholar in blue immediately took precautions.

He was very afraid of Chen Shi asking him his name. The last time Chen Shi asked him this, he was about to answer when Chen Shi's leg chopped his neck.

That battle did not go as he had expected, with a scene of a fight between the northern and southern talisman masters. It ended with his legs being cut off and he had to flee in panic.

He has finally recovered from his injuries, but his body has turned into a filaria and cannot return to a human form.

Returning to human form means losing both legs and becoming disabled.

Becoming disabled means death.

Now half of his body is evil and the other half is human. He is neither human nor evil, all because Chen Shi asked him his name!
Now Chen Shi asked him his name again, using the same old trick. How could he be fooled?

Seeing that he didn't answer, Chen Shi asked again.

The scholar in blue still did not answer. He looked down at him and sneered, "Chen Shi, today is not a fight between the northern and southern talisman masters, but revenge! Today I have recovered from my injury and come to avenge my broken leg!"

He carried a large vermilion gourd on his back, which was more than one meter tall. Blood plasma gushed upward from the mouth of the gourd, forming a complex rune structure of about an acre in radius above his head.

Chen Shi had never seen the structure of this talisman before, but he understood what it meant as soon as he saw its contents.

The start of the rune was no longer the Sanqing character of ordinary talismans, but the Yama character symbolizing the Ten Kings of Hell.

The square shape below the Yama character looks like a ghost face. Below the ghost face is the Wangchuan River sketched with simple strokes, and below that is the North Sea. The footnotes on the left and right sides are the true shape of Mount Tai and the true shape of Fengdu respectively.

If it was a normal talisman structure, it would be complete at this point. However, this talisman drawn with blood had many patterns on the top, middle, and bottom that Chen Shi could not understand. They looked like tadpole patterns, rotating and twisting, like tadpoles of various shapes swimming in the talisman.

Their positions are not fixed. The ones on top may swim to the bottom, and the ones on the bottom may also swim to the top. Their shapes are also changing. It is extremely mysterious and seems to contain some strange truth.

Chen Shi was filled with awe: "The Southern School of Talismans created by my grandfather is indeed a great improvement over the Northern School of Talismans. They are no longer the same thing!"

His grandfather had never taught him this kind of talisman structure.

However, there are many books hidden in the east wing of old Chen's house. Chen Shi would go in and look through them whenever he had time. Most of them are his grandfather's collection, and there might be content on this subject in them.

Many people in the town also noticed the strange phenomenon in the sky and looked up.

More people seemed to be infected by them and stopped what they were doing and looked up at the sky.

The place where they were was called Zaojiao Town, which was famous for its eight ancient soapberry trees.

Each of these soapberry trees is ten feet thick, and it takes ten adults with outstretched arms to hug them. Each soapberry tree has its own spirit, and they are condensed into divine images, which are eight Taoists of different shapes, dressed in gray, thin and vigorous, sitting upright on the treetops without moving.

The eight Taoists usually guard Zaojiao Town. The area within a few miles is all under the cover of their power and is kept away from evil spirits.

However, at this moment, the eight Taoists couldn't help but look solemn, looked up at the sky, and stood up.

Above the head of the scholar in green, in the blood-colored rune that was about an acre in radius, a huge figure gradually emerged from the rune.

It was a head with a green face and fangs. The head was ten feet square and poked out from the runes. It was hideous and terrifying, with faces on all sides and black smoke billowing out of its eyes, ears, mouth and nose.

Chen Shi discovered that when it grew out of this blood-colored rune, the rune was more like a process of changing from a flat plane to a three-dimensional one!
It's like stretching a flat rune into three dimensions and turning it into a ghost face.

Blood plasma continuously flowed out of the vermilion gourd and was injected into the blood talisman. After the four-sided ghost head was born, new ghost heads grew out, followed by the third, fourth, and fifth!

One after another, four-sided ghost heads, about ten feet in diameter, continuously emerged from the blood talisman and flew towards the Zaojiao Town below, forming a black mass.

The gods of the eight soapberry trees had solemn expressions on their faces, and their branches were dancing. Every time a branch twitched, a huge bubble flew out, emitting colorful light in the sunlight, and greeted the four-sided ghost heads.

Those bubbles were also about ten feet in diameter. After wrapping around the ghost head, they carried the ghost head into the sky.

Many ghost heads spewed fireworks from their mouths, burning the bubbles and making them explode. Then new bubbles flew out and wrapped the ghost heads again.

"The Taoist godmother from Zaojiao Town is quite powerful!"

Chen Shi's eyes lit up. He had originally planned to lure the scholar in blue out of Zaojiao Town, but the scholar in blue did not give him this opportunity and actually took action directly in the town.

But judging from the situation, eight Taoists should be enough to stop the scholar in blue.

Suddenly, the ghost head flying in the air spewed fire in all directions, burning all the bubbles and making them explode.

"They can't stop it!"

Chen Shi no longer hesitated. He immediately jumped up, jumped onto the roof of the house next to him, and ran out of the town.

"call--"

A huge ghost head with smoke coming out of it dropped from the sky, opened its mouth wide, and spewed thick smoke and poisonous fire towards him!

Chen Shi jumped to avoid it, and thick smoke and poisonous fire sprayed onto the house, instantly burning and cracking the green tiles.

Chen Shi was in mid-air, a small temple appeared, and a flash of sword energy passed by, blowing off the head of the huge ghost!
Seeing this, the scholar in blue was startled: "What a fast sword energy! No wonder it can cut off my leg!"

His talisman was not an ordinary one, but a third-grade talisman recorded in the "Talisman Creation Treasure Book", called the Ghost Car. Creation talismans were divided into nine grades, corresponding to the nine grades of divine fetuses, among which the silkworm was only a sixth-grade creation talisman.

The ghost car is ranked third, much higher than the silkworm.

This kind of talisman is extremely strong, and the precious blood used to draw the talisman is also very particular. Not only must the extremely yang substance such as black dog blood be used to write the extremely yin talisman, but centipedes, sulfur, cinnabar and other substances must also be collected to make the medicine. After the medicine is made, a volcano must be found and the volcanic fire must be used to refine the impurities.

Basically, out of 100% of the materials, only 10% will remain after the final refining of the precious blood.

Only after it is refined can it be used to draw third-grade talismans.

But such a precious Ghost Car had its head chopped off by Chen Shi's sword, and it immediately turned into corrupt blood plasma that spilled down, smelling extremely fishy.

The scholar in blue had an idea, and saw huge ghost heads swooping down from the sky, dragging thick smoke and heading straight for Chen Shi.

Chen Shi moved quickly among the houses, avoiding the flames spewing out by the ghost car.

The ghost cars may not seem powerful, but they are actually extremely strong. The flames they spew out are not ordinary fire, but ghost fire from the underworld.

The strength of the eight Taoists far exceeded that of ordinary godmothers. Even the ghosts were often no match for them. Their bubbles were enough to trap ordinary ghosts and prevent them from breaking free. But they were broken by the ghost fire of the ghost car, which showed how powerful they were.

A huge ghost head was spinning and approaching rapidly from behind. When each face turned to face Chen Shi, it spewed out a ghost fire of the underworld, with the tongue of fire being several feet long!

As soon as it turned the third circle, it exploded with a bang, as an invisible sword energy pierced through its head.

Chen Shi seemed to be fleeing in a panic, but the ghost heads chasing him in the air exploded one after another, and corrupt blood fell from the sky, splattering everywhere.

Chen Shi finally ran out of Zaojiao Town, urged his true energy, sacrificed the divine fetus, and shouted: "Xiaozao!"

His true energy penetrated the small temple, and the righteousness in the temple lasted forever, pouring into the fat baby in the shrine. The next moment, a jujube tree appeared behind him, lush and green, with thick branches like a dragon, winding and twisting, stretching towards the sky!
Chen Shi jumped up, jumped onto the tree, and rushed up into the sky along the thick branches.

The jujube tree was full of red dates as big as a human head, painted in brightly colored patterns, like the painted faces of opera singers.

The branches and leaves danced, and the human-head dates danced with them.

The people of Zaojiao Town were marveling at the towering trees that suddenly grew outside the town. Suddenly, they saw the big trees open their eyes and mouths, and they turned out to be human heads, including men, women, young and old.

People were stunned, and saw the human-headed jujubes flying towards the ghost heads rushing in the sky, and they pounced on the ghost heads and bit them. The ghost heads also opened their mouths and spewed fireworks, burning the human-headed jujubes.

Others opened their bloody mouths and bit off the dates!
In the sky outside the town, there was a fierce battle.

But more of the ghost heads on all four sides pounced on Chen Shi who was rushing towards the sky on the jujube tree, trying to eat Chen Shi.

Ding Ding, holding a pipa in her arms, hurriedly passed through the streets of Zaojiao Town and ran out of the town.

When they arrived under the tree, they saw Chen Shi jumping like flying and already flew high into the sky along the towering tree!

She looked up and saw Chen Shi running quickly along the branches, going higher and higher, as if he was about to reach the clouds.

Those ghost heads that rushed towards him from all directions were often blocked by the flying human heads before they could reach him, and only tongues of fire with billowing black smoke were spraying out.

Suddenly, a four-faced ghost head invaded between the branches, opened its bloody mouth, and swallowed Chen Shi in one gulp.

Ding Ding screamed, only to see the ghost's skull being blown off. Chen Shi jumped out of the skull, leaping between branches like flying, avoiding the attacks of the ghosts, and quickly approaching the blue-clothed scholar in the sky!
"Young Master is so fierce!"

Ding Ding breathed a sigh of relief, when suddenly a sad and angry voice came from the air.

"You can't leave! You still owe me twenty taels of silver!"

Ding Ding couldn't help but smile, thinking: "Young Master is still obsessed with the twenty taels of silver."

Chen Shi had already reached the top of the jujube tree. All he could see in Zaojiao Town below were a number of dark blue tiled houses. The streets also became smaller and the pedestrians were as ants.

If you fall from such a height, you will definitely be smashed into pieces!
Chen Shi turned a blind eye, jumped up and pounced on the blue-clothed scholar in the air.

The body of the scholar in blue was half a filamentous worm. Although he had no wings, he could move freely in the air. More than thirty pairs of arms were stepping on the air. He suddenly exerted force to run, avoiding Chen Shi's attack. He raised his upper body like a snake or python, waving his arms, and his claws were like sharp barbs, slashing at Chen Shi.

His arms were about 17 or 18 feet long, with sharp claws and exposed bones, which were extremely hard. When he swung them down, it was like a giant wielding a sickle, reaping the lives of mortals!

Moreover, one arm with five claws is equivalent to swinging five giant sickles.

Although the silkworm is a sixth-grade creation talisman, it is still very powerful in close combat, and ordinary cultivators will be chopped into pieces in a short time.

Especially in the air, the scholar in blue walked as if on the ground, but Chen Shi could not fly like him.

Neither the divine travel talisman nor the armor horse talisman can stay in the air.

But the next moment, starlight exploded under Chen Shi's feet, and the star symbol of Tianxuan Star became extremely dazzling in an instant. Balls of light flowed along his body. He actually paused in the air, swung his fist like the wind, and met the attack of the scholar in blue!

"Crack!"

One of the arms of the blue-clothed scholar was pierced by Chen Shi's punch. The huge arm was broken and fell from the air with a roar.

His wounds were splattered with green blood and he screamed, but at this moment, Chen Shi had already landed on his back and was running wildly up along his back!
Dozens of ghost chariots flew upwards, spinning and attacking Chen Shi on their backs, but it was too late.

"Oh!"

The blood gourd exploded, and the precious bloodline that the blue-clothed scholar had worked so hard to cultivate scattered and turned into a blood curtain.

Chen Shi rushed out from the blood curtain and punched the scholar in green on the back of the head. Then his fist turned into a palm and slammed heavily on the scholar in green's ears. Then his body slammed down suddenly, and his hands, like knives, stabbed into the scholar in green's kidneys under his waist!

Behind him, the ghost chariot monsters that were flying towards him exploded one after another, turning into smelly blood rain that fell from the sky. However, looking up from below, it looked like a bunch of red fireworks, extremely gorgeous.

"Don't die first!"

In mid-air, Chen Shi shook the blue-clothed scholar's head vigorously and shouted, "You haven't paid the money for Sanhe Village yet! Wake up, wake up!"

The scholar in green lowered his head and leaned to one side. The body of the silkworm began to explode and decompose, turning into green water and floating down.

The two men fell down, and Chen Shi jumped and landed on the jujube tree.

However, the sky-covering jujube tree began to shrink, and the branches that reached into the sky became thinner and shorter.

Those human-head-sized dates became smaller and smaller and turned into ordinary red dates hanging on the tree.

In the shrine of the small temple behind Chen Shi's head, the fat baby Xiaozao watched the scene outside the temple, tears streaming down his eyes.

It failed to protect the villagers of Sanhe Village and is not a good godmother.

But today, it finally avenged those people who died unjustly through Chen Shi.

Chen Shi took a step forward and fell lightly from the jujube tree. Looking at the blue-clothed scholar falling to the ground, he sighed silently.

"He still owes me twenty taels..."

Ding Ding saw a money bag rolling out of the blue-clothed scholar's body, and hurriedly picked it up with a branch, opened it and took a look, and said in surprise and joy: "Sir, there are several thousand taels of silver in it!"

Chen Shi's heart was slightly moved, and he said, "It's probably the commission for killing me! This ill-gotten gains..."

He hesitated.

Grandpa said that we cannot take money from the dead.

Chen Shi gritted his teeth and said, "...Just give it to the people in the town. A lot of houses were burned down in the fight just now. It will cost a lot of money to repair these houses."

Ding Ding looked at him, deeply moved: "I never thought that you are so kind."

Chen Shi said silently in his heart: "The scholar in blue, I still don't know his name."

Ding Ding went into the town with a bag of money to deal with the house repair matters. Chen Shi was waiting outside the town. He was now covered in blood and it was inconvenient for him to enter the town.

At this time, a middle-aged man walked over here and smiled from a distance: "Chen Shi? Chen Shi from Huangpo Village?"

Chen Shi turned around and faced the middle-aged man, asking doubtfully, "I am Chen Shi. May I ask who you are?"

"The Governor of Xinxiang, Li Xiaozheng." The middle-aged man said with a smile.

(End of this chapter)