God and mystery

Chapter 232 More News

Ji Xiang listened to the girl's prayer, and the other party's tone was full of sadness for the motherland.

Not mourning for the Ming Dynasty, but mourning for Song Tian.

"A general from the Song Dynasty?"

For Ji Xiang, although the Longevity Palace was doing evil, there were always people with lofty ideals in an endless stream in the Song Dynasty. However, the emperors were almost always unwilling to make progress. Rules to start with.

"The scholar-bureaucrats and the emperor ruled the world together, so that the power gradually corrupted in the hands of the civil officials. The Song Dynasty did not kill the scholar-bureaucrats, nor did they ransack their families. Since there is no fear of life, people will gradually degenerate amid corruption. There are more and more officials. And it's becoming more and more unethical."

"In the late Ming Dynasty, the Donglin Party was very powerful, and the reason is the same."

"The advantage lies in the early stage, adding intellectuals to the country, and improving the social environment. The legacy lies in later generations. But the power of the generals is too great. The final result will only be a repeat of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms."

Ji Xiang muttered a few words in his heart briefly, and saw the girl return to her statue, but there was no more movement.

"A female general in the Song Dynasty, and the Mu Guiying whom people miss more?"

The more famous one that Ji Xiang can think of is the female general of the Yang family. Although Mu Guiying is a fictional character, a god, in the case of a statue, was born from countless incense sticks under the wishes of the people. Very normal situation.

"I remember that when I was in Shuntian Mansion, those who sold story books in Tianjie had "Northern Song Dynasty Chronicles" in their books. This is the biography of the heroes of the previous dynasty that was edited during the Jiajing period and released in the early years of Wanli."

"It's also the source of Mu Guiying."

Many famous fictional characters in later generations generally appeared in the Ming Dynasty. During this period, a large number of scripts, novels, and operas emerged, creating countless legendary characters in the fictional world, and they were widely recognized by the people. In the Qing Dynasty At that time, these fictional characters already had many temples and enjoyed the incense of later generations.

When the rooster crowed for the fifth time, the girl got down from her own statue and bowed in front of the statue of Zhenwu.

"Today, as the world is changing, there will be evil spirits doing harm, and we will destroy them with the law."

"Heavenly demon heretics, ghosts and goblins, see me as blood, and turn into purple dust!"

She recited a part of the Zhenwu mantra, and then took some broken silver and copper coins from the merit box, but the amount was not much, and then took some of the incense from the Zhenwu statue, but only a part of the surface.

But it still made Ji Xiang startled and withdrew from the practice, just in time to see her going out in armor.

"Yesterday, when I entered the temple, I wore the men's uniform of the Ming Dynasty. When I manifested for the second time, I wore a red robe. When I went out today, I wore armor. What kind of armor is this?"

Although Ji Xiang's predecessor was full of scriptures, some of the armors from the previous dynasty were beyond the scope of recognition, and this armor was only armor, not some kind of magic weapon that was showing its power. There is no manifest name.

The iron armor is black in color, smooth and translucent enough to show the hair, and tied with musk skin as a string, it looks thin and tough.

It seems that it is not an armor that ordinary people can wear, but the specific shape is completely different from the famous Shanwen armor in the Song Dynasty.

Not long after the girl left, the door opened and Miao Zhu came in.

Ordinary temples, Miaozhu stay overnight in the temple, they are usually people who lost their families or homeland, homeless so they take care of it in the temple, but this Miaozhu seems to have a home to return to, and he does not live at night In the temple, it also seems to be out of awe of the girl's mighty spirit.

When the sun rose the next day, Miaozhu found that the few newly recruited guys did not come to work in the temple on time, a lot of chores were piled up now, and the yard was not cleaned.

Miao Zhu waited for a while, and found that the guys recruited yesterday still hadn't come. He suddenly had an idea in his heart, and he could only shake his head:
"This group of people is indeed greedy for money. They came here in the middle of the night. They will die within two days."

The pilgrims who came to offer incense heard about this incident, and they all talked about it. In the past, the temple master had indeed shot to death a scholar who had no morals. Although most of the pilgrims had not seen it with their own eyes, they were at least bragging When talking about it, it is called a person with a nose and eyes.

"I know, that scholar wrote obscene poems in the temple at that time."

"You remember wrongly, that is King Zhou."

"You're also wrong, that's just the storyline of "Fengshen Yanyi"."

"I have a question, did the Shang Dynasty have the official position of General Soldier?"

"Why not! Then they wrote it all, so there must be some!"

"Isn't Li Jing a general of the Tang Dynasty in Wumiao? He is the Duke of the Tang Dynasty!"

"Why, the Shang Dynasty couldn't have Li Jing?"

The identities of the pilgrims are different, but those who come here in the early morning are usually rich people. After all, ordinary people get up early and go out to work. Only those who don’t have to work will come to the temple to offer incense and show their piety.

Ji Xiang was inside the statue, listening to the group of pilgrims below discussing the plot of the Romance of the Gods, he couldn't help muttering again.

"In the Ming Dynasty, people read novels very enthusiastically. "Fengshen Yanyi". This book seems to have a great influence on the people."

Ji Xiang was thinking about important things.

The name of Biyou Palace comes from the Romance of the Gods, and it seems to be inspired by the ancestors of the Shangqing School. In order to match the content of the story, the Qingping Sword was specially given to the master of Biyou Palace, and asked him to bring out the Shangqing School. .

"Could it be that if you name your sect or disciples according to some names in "Fengshen Yanyi", what will happen?"

"Or is it easier to condense incense and wishes?"

My thoughts raced, and I suddenly thought of what I heard in the Forbidden City, the magic technique used by Japanese pirates on the Korean battlefield.

"The Collection of the Golden Crow and the Jade Rabbit is also a book with great influence in Japan."

"The patriarchs of the Shangqing School, they will not do useless things. They specially created a Biyou Palace to match "The Romance of the Gods". It must be for some great event."

"The three teachings of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, the three teachings of explaining people, the heavenly master dragon and tiger, the Shangqing Maoshan, and Lingbao Pavilion Zao. The three mountain sects."

Ji Xiang feels that these things are somewhat related, but when he thinks about them, they all exist independently, without a clear clue.

I still need to get more information.

There also needs to be a message that can connect these clues, and that is the key.

This must have something to do with the dynasty road planned by the immortals in Lishanhe.

The incense was very strong, and the merit box was soon filled with copper coins and broken silver.

Soon, the old foreman who came to work in this temple told Miaozhu that those newly recruited by Miaozhu two days ago, those guys who came here to do odd jobs, everyone had big sores on their backs, and the pus flow stopped. Unexpectedly, their families are spending a lot of money to hire doctors in the city.

"There are highly skilled doctors in Qiantang County, but after hearing what they have done, people dare not treat them."

The old foreman's tone was very embarrassing, greedy for a while, and now he has come to such an end, it is a pity that they are all strong young men.

Miao Zhu snorted: "If you can't control your own hands, this is a disaster now."

The old foreman smiled and said: "You are still talking sarcasticly, aren't you afraid that the relatives of those boys' families will come here to make trouble?"

Miao Zhu: "My words are harsh. If they had money in their hands, they would not come here to steal these merit money. Since they have no money, they don't have anything to give to others at home. They are all coolies who come from poor backgrounds and seek money everywhere. They are idle. Come to me to ask for work, I take them in and do some errands in the temple, but they offend the gods themselves and are punished, even if the magistrate of Qiantang is in front of me, I am justified."

The old foreman: "The county magistrate is also afraid that the gods will punish him?"

Miao Zhu: "That's not true. I heard that these officials don't have much awe of gods and ghosts. When I went to the yamen to do business a few times, I could always feel that there was some special aura floating in it. I couldn't tell. , like incense and a little different."

Miao Zhu can't understand the matter of practice, but after years of exposure to incense, he has a little magic, and can perceive the existence of the Ming Dynasty, which means that he is no longer a mere mortal.

Listening to their conversation, Ji Xiang understood where this place was.

It turned out to be Qiantang County, Hangzhou.

The famous Lingyin Temple is here. No wonder there are no evil spirits here, but a prosperous and peaceful scene. With such a large Buddhist temple here, those demon kings at the level of earth immortals dare not approach here.

The old foreman was still chatting with Miao Zhu. He looked at the statue of Zhenwu and said:
"By the way, Zhenwu has manifested."

Miao Zhu wondered: "The real martial arts appear?"

He looked up at the statue, and the old foreman explained: "Those guys said that when they took the merit box last night, they were laughing and joking, saying that Master Zhenwu is a rich man, how many Zhenwu temples in the whole Ming Dynasty, there are thousands of incense sticks They said that if Lord Zhenwu really cared about these incense sticks, they would get up and grab them back! Guess what happened? At that time, Master Zhenwu’s eyes shot out light, and they just took a breath, and they turned their heads. It fell to the ground!"

Miao Zhu was also taken aback: "Is it true? Speaking of which, during the daytime yesterday, the statue of Master Zhenwu was indeed much more powerful than before, and the incense in the temple was very prosperous."

The old foreman suddenly said: "The incense in the temple suddenly became strong yesterday, is this the reason?"

He also looked at the statue of Zhenwu, and said with emotion: "After so many years of worship, Master Zhenwu seems to have noticed our small temple, but it's a pity, the owner of the temple still doesn't have much incense."

Miao Zhu glared at the old foreman: "Okay, don't talk nonsense about the following, stop, this temple master is a narrow-minded person, be careful that she shoots you with an arrow."

The old foreman chuckled: "She saved me by appearing, she won't shoot me."

Miao Zhu snorted: "The temple owner protects our small place. Master Zhenwu is in charge of the Ming Dynasty. It is normal for the incense to be prosperous. Go and do your work."

The old foreman agreed and left, and Miao Zhu began to offer three incense sticks to the statue of the girl.

With the green smoke curling up, Miao Zhu sincerely prostrated a few times, then regained his philistine face, attracted pilgrims from all walks of life, and publicized what happened last night.

Sure enough, when the news about Zhenwu's suspected manifestation yesterday was spread, the number of people who came to offer incense in front of the statue of Zhenwu increased a lot compared to the day before.

In the censer in front of the statue of the girl, there were only a few sticks of incense, and in front of the statue of Zhenwu where Ji Xiang was, there were long and short incense sticks on the censer, and the large number could be used as torches to burn the place. Like smoke.

"It's too strong. I just frightened those mortals last night. I didn't expect them to start worshiping me crazily. In contrast, the temple owner often appears holy, but he doesn't How many people went to worship her. It is estimated that she shot people to death with incense arrows at every turn, which made others dare not worship her."

"How can we get incense like this? Pilgrims, pilgrims, visitors are guests. The gods don't care about the loss of a little incense, but as the gods of the people, they rely on incense to exist. Even if this incense has monstrous mana, I'm afraid Not even half of it."

"By the way, she also said before that she was going to slay demons. Could it be that she also wanted to answer a pilgrim's prayer and adapt to the world?"

Ji Xiang thought about it, but he didn't know what kind of monster this girl was beating. She went out before dawn and came back in the middle of the night.

Besides, what kind of pilgrims run to the demons every day for nothing?
"Don't say it, there are monks colluding with demons."

Ji Xiang has seen so many such things that his first reaction to the appearance of monsters must be that the human race has an inner ghost.

Milong Casino, Jinshanshui Mansion and many other things are like this. The gods or monks collude with demons, and even the monks in various major sects have inner ghosts. The demons are actually driven by them, and they themselves, from the outside, look like ghosts. When he stood up, he looked like a fairy.

Peacock Daming King's so-called confusion of good and evil is very appropriate to the current situation.

One day passed, and the incense was more vigorous than the day before. Ji Xiang felt that he would recover his body and spirit soon, and he could even get a lot of incense supplements. With the incense supplements, he could buy another thirty or fifty catties of talismans to play with up.

Moreover, due to a large amount of incense replenishment, Ji Xiang's incense body, cultivation base began to rise, and at the same time, it continued to absorb the vitality of this world, and even the realm of the physical body began to loosen, and it was possible to continue to advance to a higher level. .

"Incense practice is of great benefit to my body. Even my physical body can gradually strengthen. Ordinary people can't stand incense, but with the help of incense, monks can burst out with strength far beyond the current state. Countless people are pursuing something, and some people can even transform from mortals to monks with the help of incense."

"Compress, compress! My realm is constantly compressing, and then practice, and then release!"

"When Lingbao Tianzun taught me Yuqingyin's book, I had already entered the stage of Wuqi Chaoyuan, and now I am far away from Jindan. It will be completed soon"

Ji Xiang relies on repeatedly falling and rising to temper his vitality and the foundation of his realm, which makes Ji Xiang's realm extremely strong, even if someone uses poisonous techniques or spells that damage his practice to attack Ji Xiang, Ji Xiang will not be easily taken from the current state, and can even be directly resolved without being affected.

The inner scene of the divine card shone brightly, and Ji Xiang had reached the peak of the five qi dynasties.

There are three flowers on the top and five qi in the chest, all of which are complete.

Ji Xiang's eyes were full of vitality, and even the statue of Zhenwu became more miraculous!
"I will form a golden core. After today, I will use Fenglei to enter the realm of the earth fairy!"

(End of this chapter)