Chapter 157 The Lost Emissary

Chapter 157 The Lost Emissary

Chapter 157 The Lost Emissary

Chen Shi controlled the golden elixir to fly around in Hongshan Hall, and unknowingly came to the backyard. He was moved: "The hall master has been to Hongshan Goddess for several days and has not come out. Could it be that the evil transformation is really serious?"

Jin Dan quietly sneaked into the backyard. At this time, a doll with a ponytail and a white bellyband embroidered with red peonies jumped in front of Jin Dan, stopped Chen Shi's Jin Dan, and said, "Scholar, you can't go in without being summoned!"

This doll with pigtails is the divine image of Crane Boy, and is ordered to guard the backyard to prevent intrusion of outsiders.

It was a divine being, and it saw through the black golden elixir and realized it was Chen Shi’s golden elixir, so it blocked him.

Chen Shi took back the golden elixir. When the crane boy saw the golden elixir was back, he felt relieved and returned to the body of the porcelain crane.

After a while, Chen Shizhen came over and rushed to the backyard.

The crane boy quickly stopped him. Chen Shi said with a smile, "Little Crane, what is my relationship with the Queen? I am the Queen's playmate! If you block me, the Queen will spank you!"

The Crane Boy said angrily, "Last time you kidnapped the Queen to go out and play, the Hall Master really spanked me! If you kidnap the Queen again this time, the Hall Master will beat my butt to pieces! Don't even think about kidnapping the Queen again!"

Chen Shi couldn't get in, so he lit a stick of incense and handed it over, saying with a smile: "Xiao He'er, I'm not trying to kidnap the queen, but I'm concerned about the hall master. The hall master has been in prison for many days, and as a coach, I'm also quite worried about him. How is he doing now?"

As the saying goes, don't hit a smiling person. He Tongzi wanted to refuse the incense, but the next moment Chen Shi handed him another stick of incense. When he hesitated again, three sticks of incense were handed to him.

The crane boy sighed, took the three incense sticks, and said reluctantly: "Don't do this again next time. Don't do this again in the future."

It hesitated for a moment and said, "The hall master is not in good condition. He practiced the Queen's technique, and evil spirits entered his body. He was so excited that his mind lost control. Now he is trying hard to suppress his evil nature. But in the past few days, it has relapsed several times."

Chen Shi's heart skipped a beat and he asked, "What evil spirit did the hall master become?"

He had seen flesh and blood growing behind Yu Tiancheng, but he didn't know what kind of evil spirit Yu Tiancheng would turn into, but he expected it would not be an ordinary evil spirit. Yu Tiancheng was very powerful and was already a strong man in the spirit transformation realm. After he turned into an evil spirit, he might cause great harm!
Chen Shi compiled the "Secret Record of Evil Spirits", which records all the evil spirits he encountered. In the past few days in Hongshan Hall, he also consulted other talisman masters and added dozens of evil spirits to the secret record.

"If Master Yutang turns to evil, he will definitely become a unique evil spirit! It will add a colorful page to my secret records!" Chen Daxiucai thought to himself.

He lit a few more incense sticks, but He Tongzi was still stubborn and refused to speak, so Chen Shi had to give up.

On the way to Gongzhou, Li Tianqing received a letter from Chen Shi. He opened the letter and was shocked: "He has already cultivated to the fourth level of the Golden Core? So fast? I wonder if he is earlier or later than me."

Ever since they met, the two of them had been secretly competing with each other, competing in cultivation, competing on "who Xiao Jin loves more", in short, comparing in various ways, unwilling to fall behind.

"However, Xiao Shi said that the customs of the people in Gongzhou are not good, so I have to be careful."

He was thoughtful and perceptive, and after more than ten days, he safely reached Gongzhou Province.

The Minjiang River runs through Gongzhou Province, so it is much more convenient to travel by boat. When Li Tianqing arrived at the dock, he saw a pleasure boat parked at the dock, soliciting scholars who were going to take the exam. The boatman and the boatwoman were a father and daughter, but they were acquaintances in Xinxiang County.

Li Tianqing walked forward. The boat girl smiled when she saw him and said, "Little brother, do you still remember me? The last time you went to a brothel in Xinxiang County and didn't have money to play with the girls and got kicked out, you took my boat."

Li Tianqing's face flushed, he tilted his head, ashamed and said, "Miss, I didn't go, it was my brothers who went..."

"They also asked you to pay, and you didn't have any money, so it was the little guy next to you who paid for the boat!"

The boat girl spoke quickly and jokingly asked, "Do you have money to take the boat this time?"

"Have!"

Li Tianqing was very confident. This time when he returned to Quanzhou, the Li family gave him a higher monthly allowance. It used to be only ten taels of silver a month, but now it has increased to fifty taels. He also received three taels of five-yuan Chaofeng Lingdan and two sets of new clothes every month. He felt much more confident when spending money.

The boat girl waited for a while, and then several scholars who were going to take the exam came. There were more than ten people on the boat, and they were about to set sail. Suddenly, a young monk supported an old monk and rushed over, shouting: "Boatman, wait a minute!"

The boatman used a bamboo pole to stabilize the pleasure boat and waited for the two people.

The young monk and the old monk were jogging together. Li Tianqing saw that the old monk was in discomfort, so he hurried forward to help. The boatwoman suddenly raised her hand and slapped his hand down.

Li Tianqing was stunned and looked at the old monk. He saw that the old monk was wearing a patchwork robe and looked terribly old. His face was full of wrinkles and folds. Even his eye bags were layered and wrinkled.

His eyes were blurry and narrowed into slits. He looked old and had a gloomy look about him, and there was a breath of death coming from him.

The boatman stretched out a bamboo pole, and the old monk grabbed it and staggered onto the boat.

The pleasure boat suddenly sank, and several scholars exclaimed, "The old monk is so heavy!"

The young monk also hurried on board, supported the old monk, and said to the boat girl, "My master is a little heavy, I will pay more."

The boat girl shook her head and said, "We charge per person, not by weight. The old monk is so heavy, could it be that he has cultivated a golden body? He is over a hundred years old, but he can still seal his acupoints to prevent his vitality from leaking out. The Buddha's light surrounds his body, making it impossible for the ghosts to find him and take his soul. The one who has this ability must be the Zen master of Dabaoguo Temple."

The old monk was already very old, but when he heard that, he stretched out his hands and lifted his eyelids. His eyes were shining. He glanced at the boat girl and the boatman and said with a smile, "The female donor's guess is correct. We are from the Dabaoguo Temple. Where did the female donor come from?"

The boat girl laughed and said, "He is just a ferryman. Where can he come from? Which Zen master of Dabaoguo Temple is this old monk?"

The old monk lowered his eyelids, which covered his eyelids and eyeballs, and said, "My Buddhist name is Kuzhu."

The young monk paid the boat fare and said with a smile, "Have you been ferrying people across the Min River for a long time, lady? Have you ever been ferrying people across the Wangchuan River? I heard that two ghost messengers got lost in the Wangchuan River. Do you know about this, young lady?"

Li Tianqing's heart skipped a beat and he felt uneasy.

"Oh no, this ship may not be safe!"

He knew that Da Baoguo Temple was the most important Buddhist holy site in Xiniu Xinzhou of the Ming Dynasty.

It is said that when the eunuch Sanbao sailed to the West and entered the Dark Sea, the great monk of Dabaoguo Temple also boarded the ship, carrying a golden statue of Bodhisattva, to help the fleet deal with the monsters in the Dark Sea.

After arriving at Xiniu Island, the monk offered sacrifices to the golden Buddha and exorcised demons and evil spirits, and his military exploits were outstanding. Later, Emperor Chengzu rewarded him by giving the highest peak of Xiniu Island, Jinli Snow Mountain, to Dabaoguo Temple.

Da Baoguo Temple thus became a Buddhist holy place in Xiniu Xinzhou.

What was even more terrifying was the information revealed by the young monk, the Wangchuan River, and the lost ghost, which made Li Tianqing have even worse associations.

"Could it be that this father and daughter were originally the ghost messengers of the Forgotten River?"

His heart was in turmoil, and he thought, "Why would the ghost messenger from the Wangchuan River come to the living world to ferry people? How could the ghost messenger get lost? Would their boat suddenly sail into the underworld?"

The boatman raised the wind talisman and the water talisman. The wind talisman blew the sails, and the water talisman pushed the boat towards Gongzhou.

The boat girl laughed and said, "You two are really joking. The Wangchuan River is the river of the underworld, and there is a Naihe Bridge on it. How can there be people ferrying people there?"

She chuckled and said, "Can the person ferrying people there be alive?"

The scholars on the boat who were preparing for the exam all laughed, and the atmosphere was very cheerful. Someone joked, "The girl is really good at joking. Has she ever been to the underworld?"

Li Tianqing's forehead was covered with cold sweat, and he secretly complained in his heart: "These scholars dare to joke around, they really don't know how to live or die!"

These two groups of people, one group is the old monk who relied on his golden body to escape from the pursuit of the ghost officials, and the other group is the fugitive ghost officials who are searching for people who deserve to die but are not dead yet. It is obvious that they cannot be dealt with!

The scholars taking the exam thought they were joking, but Li Tianqing realized the danger and horror involved.

The young monk smiled and said, "Those who ferry people across the Forgotten River are certainly not living people."

The boatman had been silent all this time, but now he said, "I heard that the Golden Bodhisattva of Dabaoguo Temple is very powerful. He killed and suppressed many demons in the past, and he still guards the Great Snow Mountain to prevent those demons from escaping. How much of the Golden Bodhisattva's skills do you have, Master?" The boat girl smiled and said, "Even if he has 70% of his skills, I'm afraid he can't display much of his abilities now that you're old."

Old Monk Kuzhu said with a smile: "Why has the lost ghost dared not return to the underworld? Did he fail in his duty and is worried about being punished if he returns?"

The young monk laughed and said, "Then why did the two ghost messengers fail in their duties?"

The boatman held the bamboo pole and it creaked.

The boat girl held his hand and looked at the old monk and the young monk with a smile, biting her lower teeth with her upper teeth, smiling happily.

Suddenly, everything around became dark and the river became violently turbulent.

Li Tianqing's face turned pale and he was about to jump into the river to escape, but he saw ghost lights everywhere in the river, running around, and the surrounding world suddenly became extremely strange and distorted.

This pleasure boat was apparently pulled into the underworld!

"I can't escape!" He felt desperate.

At this moment, the old monk chanted "Amitabha" and a golden light appeared behind him. A six-foot-tall golden Buddha appeared. Under the Buddha's light, the pleasure boat returned to the world of the living and continued to sail on the Minjiang River.

The boatman took a step forward and was about to take action.

The boat girl quickly held him down and shouted, "Don't interfere with other people's business!"

The old monk Kuzhu was old and did not dare to go too far, saying, "Forget each other in the rivers and lakes."

The four of them each took a step back and lived in peace.

Li Tianqing heaved a sigh of relief, wiped the sweat off his forehead, and thought to himself: "Xiao Shi must not know how wonderful my experience was. I walked through the gates of hell..."

He didn't know that Chen Shi had been in and out of the gates of hell these days.

For the next two or three days, Chuan Gu and his daughter lived in peace with Master Kuzhu and his disciples. However, after Master Kuzhu had practiced his cultivation, he looked even older and kept coughing.

Li Tianqing even worried that he would die of old age on the boat.

However, when Kuzhu coughed, golden light shone out of his body, which was very strange.

Finally, the pleasure boat brought them safely to Gongzhou City. The boatman moored the boat and Li Tianqing was about to jump ashore when the boat girl whispered, "The old monk won't live long. He has no life left. If I were you, I would never enter the city."

Li Tianqing was stunned, not understanding what he meant.

"In the Mahayana realm, for those who are dead but still alive, their death is very terrifying," the boat girl reminded.

Li Tianqing looked at the master and disciple of Kuzhu Old Monk, only to see the young monk helping the old monk into the city.

"Girl, when do you think Kuzhu will die? What will happen when he dies..."

Before Li Tianqing finished speaking, he looked back and found that the pleasure boat had disappeared, and the boat could not even be seen on the entire river.

He was stunned, shook his head, and walked towards the city.

As soon as I entered Gongzhou City, someone came up to talk to me. He was a kind-hearted person and said, "Brother, are you here to take the exam? This Gongzhou City is not peaceful. You are from another place and you will be cheated if you are not careful... From your accent, it seems that you are from Quanzhou. Are you from Quanzhou? I am from Quanzhou too! Fellow countryman!"

Li Tianqing was very happy to meet his fellow villagers.

Not long after, when he was reminiscing about the past with his fellow villager in a restaurant, he sold his fellow villager to the restaurant owner, received the money, and went to the education official to register his name.

When passing by the notice wall, I saw many people crowded together to look at the wanted warrant.

Li Tianqing took a quick glance and the smile on his face froze, the joy of making a fortune from selling his fellow villager just now disappeared.

Only Chen Shi’s portrait and name were hung high on the list.

"Xiao Shi has committed a crime again? What has he committed this time?"

He squeezed into the crowd, looked them up and down, and soon learned the whole story. He thought to himself, "Xiao Shi has been in the city and killed seventy-four people. It's been less than a month, but if I calculate it, it should be about this number..."

He thought for a moment and whispered, "These people must be criminals. Xiao Shi killed them. They deserved to die."

He raised his head and looked towards the government office: "It seems that here, the officials and bandits are colluding and wrongly accusing Xiao Shi."

He went straight to the education official, gave his name, and the education councilor asked him to go to the post station in the east of the city to rest.

Li Tianqing walked towards the East City Post Station, thinking: "Xiao Shi must be hiding somewhere right now. I wonder if he can still take part in the exam this time? Most likely not. Then Xiao Jin..."

He felt a surge of eagerness in his heart.

Mr. Li is certainly more promising than Mr. Chen.

He arrived at the post station and met Chen Shi's classmate Hu Feifei. He asked about Chen Shi's whereabouts. Hu Feifei could no longer remember Chen Shi's name and asked, "Who?"

"Chen Shi! It's Chen Shi from Wencai Academy!"

"I know!"

Hu Feifei chuckled and said, "We slept on the floor together before, but what was his name?"

"Chen...wait a moment."

Li Tianqing was a little dazed. After thinking carefully, he still couldn't remember Chen Shi's name. He exclaimed, "I forgot Xiao Shi's name. There is an evil spirit in the city!"

Just as he was talking here, a familiar voice suddenly rang out: "Tianqing! You're here?"

Li Tianqing was surprised and happy. He looked in the direction of the sound and saw Chen Shi coming towards him with a wooden cart and a black pot. He hurried to meet him.

"Tianqing, do you still remember my name?" Chen Shi held his hand and asked.

Li Tianqing said with a guilty conscience: "I just forgot..."

Chen Shi turned around suddenly and glared at Hei Guo fiercely. Hei Guo tilted his head, looking like he had done something wrong.

"Heiguo, you should read more books!" Chen Shi ordered.

Li Tianqing suddenly felt something in his heart. He looked back and saw the young monk and the old monk also coming to the post station. He was stunned: "Is this young monk also here to take the exam?"

As it was getting dark, Li Tianqing stayed at the post station first. Chen Shi also stayed at the post station, and they had no idea that they were on the wanted list.

In the middle of the night, someone suddenly shouted, "Someone's dead! Someone's dead! The old monk is dead!"

(End of this chapter)