Chapter 147: Suspended Sea

Chapter 147: Suspended Sea

Chapter 147: Suspended Sea
When Goddess Hongshan arrived at Chen Shi’s small temple and sat on the shrine, she felt relaxed both physically and mentally, which was much more comfortable than staying in Hongshan Hall.

She couldn't help but sit cross-legged with her five hearts facing the sky, and her own vital energy circulated, helping Chen Shi to regulate his Qi.

This posture is indescribably comfortable.

Chen Shi was feeling uneasy and walked outside. A strong inner energy came from his body, regulating his Qi and blood, and nourishing his heart, liver, spleen, lungs, kidneys, dantian, qi, essence, hall and spirit chamber. He felt indescribably comfortable.

"Mrs. Hongshan knows a lot, much better than Mrs. Shiji."

He thought to himself, "When we get to the temple, Goddess Shiji will not move, and Goddess Hongshan will help me adjust, and it will be faster to cultivate to the fourth level of the golden elixir!"

When the golden elixir reaches the fourth stage and turns black, you can then try to let the golden elixir leave your body.

When Chen Shi saw others achieving their golden elixir leaving their bodies, he also wanted to achieve his own, but his way of practicing was different from others, so he could only envy them.

When he arrived at the incense hall, Master Lu and Master Xiao were still there, but Zhao Kaiyun had already left, presumably to catch up on some sleep.

Master Xiao Xiang was originally seriously injured, and after this incident, his injuries did not get better, but worse. He was trying hard to recuperate with the help of the yang energy in the flame of the incense oil lamp.

Sesame oil is sesame oil, which contains strong yang energy, but is much milder than black dog blood. After burning the sesame oil, the flame can be used to refine the impurities and yin energy in the Yuanying and even the Jindan. Therefore, it is often necessary to light a sesame oil lamp to treat injuries to the Jindan and Yuanying.

When offering sacrifices to gods, the lights are often incense oil lamps, because the gods enshrined in the temple also need the yang energy in the lamp flame to regulate their divine power and transform into yang gods.

"Brother Chen, are you healed?"

Incense Master Lu came out and looked him up and down. Seeing that he was fine, he felt relieved and said, "Today I will process your admission into the Hongshan Hall. After you join my Hongshan Hall, I can appoint you as the headmaster of the Hongshan Hall. With your talent, you are more than qualified to be an Incense Master. However, I am the Incense Master and cannot appoint Incense Masters. We have to wait until Hall Master Yu comes back before we can make a decision."

Chen Shi thanked him and said, "If it weren't for Hongshan Hall and the Queen, my life would be in danger. If anything happens in the hall, I will die even if it means death."

Xiangzhu Lu smiled and said, "Temple Master Yu said that we are all from the countryside, without power or influence. If we don't help each other, we will be eaten alive. Helping is part of our job. Tianmu suffered a great loss this time, and she knows that she is not as good as Hongshan Niangniang, so she will not bother you in the future."

Chen Shi breathed a sigh of relief.

Tianmu of the Tianmu Society is really powerful and has many means. If such an evil spirit is keeping an eye on her, it would be really unsettling. No one knows when Tianmu will come to kill him.

Master Lu Xiang took out the roster of the Hongshan Hall Talisman Master Association, turned to the instructor page, registered Chen Shi's name, and wrote down his monthly salary.

He took Chen Shi to pay respect to Goddess Hongshan and Crane Boy. After the worship, he took the token of the Hongshan Hall Talisman Master Association and said, "Brothers who have just joined the association need to go to the streets every day to promote the name of Goddess Hongshan of Hongshan Hall and ask for incense from hundreds of families. Only when you have enough incense from hundreds of families can you be considered as joining the association. However, you are the instructor, so there is no need to go through so much trouble. But if you see brothers from Hongshan Hall in danger, please lend a hand and help them."

Chen Shi accepted the order to be the instructor and asked, "I don't know much. If I become the instructor, do I need to teach other talisman masters?"

"Don't know much?"

Xiangzhu Lu thought of Chen Shi's superb talisman skills and said with a smile, "You are too modest. If you have time, you can go to the Dharma Hall to teach the brothers in the hall a few talismans. It doesn't take long. Learning talismans is difficult. If you teach them one or two talismans, it will be enough for them to learn for several days."

Chen Shi was puzzled: "Is it so difficult to learn talismans?"

He never thought that learning talismans was difficult. When his grandfather taught him, he could draw them after learning them once.

Moreover, even if his grandfather didn't teach him, he would learn it just by watching his grandfather draw once.

Master Lu sighed and said, "Difficult? More than difficult! How can we learn these things without someone to teach us? Those who have learned them treasure them as treasures, so who would be willing to pass them on? Not everyone can afford to become a disciple. The purpose of Master Yu establishing Hongshan Hall is for talisman masters to help and learn from each other."

Chen Shi was in awe of this Yutiancheng Yutang Master, whom he had never met before, and thought to himself, "This person has a very big heart."

He left Hongshan Hall and saw Heiguo and Muche guarding outside the door of Hongshan Hall. Heiguo came towards him yawning, and suddenly looked at Chen Shi warily. He came up to him and sniffed, looking at Chen Shi with suspicion.

Chen Shi released Goddess Hongshan, and Hei Guo let out a low whimper.

It senses danger.

"Dog!"

Goddess Hongshan was surprised and delighted. She rushed over and stroked the dog's head.

The black pot bared its teeth, it keenly sensed the evil aura from the girl in red.

However, after Lady Hongshan stroked the dog's head for a while, Hei Guo stopped being so angry and was very pleased. He reluctantly accepted the girl.

Chen Shi was walking in the streets with a dog, a cart and a lady.

It was already bright in the sky and the air was filled with the smell of fireworks in Gongzhou city. The guy in the bun shop lifted the lid of the steamer and the steaming white steam mixed with the aroma of meat buns and chopped green onions filled the air, sweeping away a night of drowsiness and making one feel refreshed, hungry and full of appetite.

Goddess Hongshan is now in a divine state. Ordinary people cannot see her. Even cultivators can only see her by using the Heavenly Eye Talisman or cultivating the Heavenly Eye.

This lady looked to be about twelve or thirteen years old, about the same age as Chen Shi. She had already come to the side of the bun shop, tiptoed to look into the steamer, then turned around and looked at Chen Shi eagerly.

Chen Shi stepped forward and asked, "Hey, buddy, how much is one tray?"

"Six wen a tray, six big scallion buns!"

"Four drawers."

"okay!"

The guy hurriedly took out the lotus leaves, poured the buns into the lotus leaves, and wrapped them up quickly, four packs in total.

Chen Shi handed one packet to Hongshan Goddess, one packet to Heiguo, kept one packet for himself, and gave the remaining packet to Mu Che.

The clerk took the money and was counting the coins. Before he finished counting, he saw the dog stand up, holding a lotus leaf in one paw and stuffing a bun into his mouth with the other. He was stunned.

He rubbed his eyes and saw another lotus leaf floating in the air. One of the buns was also floating in the air, but suddenly a piece was missing. His face turned pale.

"Crack!"

The wooden cart spewed out white smoke, and its body opened its bloody mouth with red flesh and white teeth. The sharp teeth were four or five times larger than tiger teeth. It threw the lotus leaf and the bun into its mouth, and then stretched out its long tongue to lick the frame reluctantly.

Mu Che's scarlet tongue was about to lick the steamer, but was slapped by Chen Shi and quickly retracted.

Chen Shi saw the shop assistant's expression and quickly said, "Black Pot, get to work!"

Hei Guo glanced over and saw the shop assistant seemed to be distracted. He shook his head with a puzzled look and said to himself: "Everything is normal. I was dazzled... I thought there was something evil going on. Haha, how could there be something evil going on outside Hongshan Hall!"

Hei Guo perked up, ate buns, and followed Chen Shi closely.

The residents in the streets were in a stable mood, as if they had seen the world.

Occasionally, a little girl would let out an ear-piercing scream in surprise and point towards them with a look of fear, but as Hei Guo glanced at them, the little girl looked as if she had seen the world and was not surprised at all.

Hongshan Niangniang was small but had a big appetite. The busy market in the morning was full of food vendors, with no other items sold. She dragged Chen Shi along to buy and eat, and was still in high spirits.

Chen Shi was the first to eat, and Hei Guo was the second.

Later, even when the wooden cart was full, she still excitedly moved forward.

"I want to eat this!" She turned around and said crisply. "Brothers from Hongshan Hall, how long have you kept this lady hungry?" Chen Shi complained in his heart.

Hongshan Niangniang ate and drank so much that the silver and copper coins in Chen Shi's pocket were almost gone. He had no choice but to take out a hundred-liang silver note and go to the bank to exchange it for some silver and copper coins to continue to satisfy Hongshan Niangniang's appetite.

After the morning market, other shops also opened, and the bustle of the place did not decrease, but became even more lively.

Goddess Hongshan took Chen Shi for a walk and was curious about everything. Gongzhou City was much more prosperous than Xinxiang County, and there were all kinds of businesses.

She would run over to every stall and every shop, or squat down, or get close, curiously watching how the shop owners shouted and sold their goods.

Soon, she bought all the toys on the peddler's stall.

The girl held a windmill in one hand and a candy man in the other. When her hands were not enough, she grew another arm and held a kite. Then she grew another arm and held a rattle...

There were dozens of toys on the peddler's stall. The girl grew dozens of arms and grabbed all the toys, having a lot of fun playing with them.

Others couldn't see her, they could only see all kinds of toys floating in the air, windmills spinning, kites flying, rattles swaying left and right and making non-stop noises...

"Black pot!"

Chen Shi was quite nervous and asked quickly, "Can you suppress it?"

Hei Guo was even more nervous than him. He tried his best to control the mentality of everyone on the street. He was so tired that he opened his mouth, gasped for breath, and his tongue stuck out.

It was trying its best to control the situation and the hundreds of people on the street, and inevitably forgot to interfere with Chen Shi's cognition.

Chen Shi had been disturbed by the dog since his grandfather passed away. At this moment, he suddenly regained consciousness and immediately came to his senses. He looked at Hei Guo in surprise and thought to himself, "My dog ​​seems to be a little bit abnormal... Well, it was not normal to begin with. Let it be."

The dog was left to him by his grandfather and is considered the closest "person" to him. Even if the dog is not normal, Chen Shi has no intention of abandoning it.

Black Pot tried hard to control the street, which was extremely difficult. The willpower of each person on the street was different, and there were monks constantly passing by nearby. It was a great test of its ability to make no one aware of anything unusual.

Fortunately, Queen Hongshan soon lost interest in these toys and set her sights on other things.

Chen Shi followed her around everywhere, and before noon, he had spent nearly half of the hundred taels of silver. Later, he went into a cloth shop and found an embroiderer to make new clothes for her. He would come back to pick them up in a few days.

Finally, the one hundred taels of silver were spent.

Chen Shi was worried. Although the scholar had some property, he could not afford to spend money like this. He was afraid that it would not be long before he would be left with nothing.

"I came to Hongshan Hall to make money, but now I haven't made a penny, and I've lost a lot."

He thought about other ways to make money, but the ways to make money quickly seemed to be recorded in the laws of the Ming Dynasty, which ordinary people could not do.

Chen Shi suddenly thought of the Bixi shell he had obtained in the Shanjun Temple and how he had sold it to make money. Perhaps he could find some relics in the place where the Goddess of Hongshan was born and make a fortune. He asked, "Goddess, where were you born?"

Goddess Hongshan said, "The place where I was born is in Yanxia Ridge of Henggong Mountain. It is forty miles south of the city."

Chen Shi asked, "Can you take me to see it?"

"of course can!"

Chen Shi jumped onto the wooden cart and pulled her on board, and Hei Guo returned the compass to Chen Shi.

"Hei Guo, you get in the car too." Chen Shi said.

Hei Guo climbed into the car and sat in the back. Chen Shi controlled the compass and rushed towards the south of the city.

Before leaving the city, there was a huge crowd of people blocking the road. Chen Shi stood on the car and looked forward, only to see that it was a dozen beggars with missing limbs blocking the road. These beggars included men, women, old and young, begging from the merchants along the street, and would not leave unless they were given money.

Pedestrians on the street couldn't get through and were stuck here.

"They are from the Tianmu Society."

Goddess Hongshan tried to look around and said, "The people of Tianmu Society don't do any production. In name, they rely on the weather for their livelihood, but in reality, they rely on begging for their livelihood. They are blocking this street and they won't leave for a while. Let's take a detour."

Chen Shi tried to take a detour, but the two streets nearby were also blocked by people from the Tianmu Society, so he had to go around to the East City Gate.

The headquarters of the Tianmu Society is not far from the east city gate. It is also a large house covering an area of ​​more than ten acres. From a distance, Chen Shi saw the huge head of Tianmu standing between the houses. It rotated from time to time, looking in all directions, with its mouth slightly opening and closing, and it was unknown what it was saying.

There is a lot of construction going on in the main hall of the Tianmu Association. It seems like they are building a palace, but its scale is many times larger than a normal palace. It is probably a place to worship Tianmu.

Suddenly, Tianmu saw Chen Shi, her eyes were sinister and full of viciousness.

Chen Shi felt awed and left in a hurry.

"The Tianmu Society has been very prosperous recently, with more and more members and more and more incense. I'm afraid it won't be long before it catches up with me."

Lady Hongshan was a little worried and said, "I can still suppress her now. If one day I can't suppress her, I'm afraid our Hongshan Hall will suffer."

Chen Shi asked, "My Lady, will Tianmu rely solely on begging for a living?"

Goddess Hongshan shook her head and said, "Begging is only part of their business. The Tianmu Society makes a living by raising animals. I heard from Xiaocheng that they also have a business of harvesting and cutting animals."

Chen Shi didn't understand, so he drove the wooden cart out of the city, heading south, straight to Yanxialing.

Henggong Mountain is a large mountain range that runs from southwest to northeast and is six or seven thousand miles long. Strictly speaking, Qianyang Mountain also belongs to the Henggong Mountain Range and is one of its more magnificent branches.

They drove all the way to Yanxialing, but found that the surroundings had become desolate. There was no grass or trees on the ground, let alone crops.

Looking ahead, for more than ten miles, the ground is as smooth as a mirror, formed by the melting and solidification of the earth.

Chen Shi jumped off the wooden cart and walked on the mirror-like ground. Under the mirror there were dragon-like skeletons crawling and stretching for a mile.

He looked forward and saw Yanxialing Mountain suddenly appearing on the mirror-like flat ground.

It seems like this place has experienced a terrible war. The battle melted the earth and sealed many extremely ancient things underground!

Goddess Hongshan brought him to Yanxialing, but saw that Yanxialing was split in the middle. On the other side of the mountain was the sea, and he could smell the salty sea breeze.

Goddess Hongshan pointed to the Great Rift Valley and said, "I was born here. I heard from Xiaocheng that there was a big earthquake that year that cracked this mountain. Then I emerged from underground, and my flesh and blood crawled up. I became an evil spirit and killed many people."

Chen Shi looked into the rift valley, and saw a dilapidated temple on the cliff in the valley. It was built against the cliff, and it was a hanging temple!

Chen Shi left the black pot and the wooden cart on Yanxia Ridge, and took Hongshan Goddess to find a way. They came to the bottom of the valley, and then climbed up from the bottom of the valley, and finally arrived at the Hanging Temple.

Chen Shi tried to identify the words on the collapsed lintel of the Hanging Temple for a long time, and then found a few pieces of the lintel and pieced them together before he recognized the name of the temple.

“Mazu Temple.”

(End of this chapter)