I'm just an ordinary Taoist priest

Chapter 169 The Secret of Qiyuan Village ([-])

Cultivation was abolished?
Hearing what he said, Gu Yao waved his hand, and a Tiangang Five Thunder Talisman rushed towards him.

Seeing a leaping thunderball rushing in front of him, the village chief immediately put his hands on his head, lay down on the ground, and let the thunderball rush into his body.

Watching his body tremble, Gu Yao scattered the talisman.

The power of this card has been weakened a lot by him, it's just a test.

Gu Yao walked towards the village head who was lying on the ground, and stretched out his hand to pull him up: "I'm sorry, I'm just being cautious."

The village head trembled and stood up: "It's understandable, it's just you, Taoist chief. Uh uh uh."

There was another flash of thunder.

Seeing that the village chief still didn't use qi to defend, Gu Yao waved and drew Zhang Yiqi Talisman: "Village chief, I just tried it out of habit, don't get me wrong."

The village chief's legs were weak and his eyes were dizzy, and it got better after the Qi-enhancing talisman took effect: "Master Dao, you are really too cautious."

A gold needle was stuck in his neck.

Seeing that the golden needle did not respond, Gu Yao breathed a sigh of relief and put the needle away: "Village Chief, now I believe that your cultivation has been abolished."

The village chief didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "What did Taoist Master Shanyuan teach you?"

Seeing him turn around to enter the house, Gu Yao stopped him: "Don't go in the house, just talk outside."

There is a statue of Qimen in this village that can summon thunder and lightning. What if this guy is also a person who is proficient in Qimen?
Still safer in the yard.

The village head looked at Gu Yao: "Master, you."

Gu Yao interrupted: "Village Chief, who are you? What is your relationship with my master?"

While speaking, he took the village chief's pulse by the way.

A cultivator's pulse cannot be manipulated casually, the qi circulates in the body, if he tries it rashly like investigating Huang Xiaoxian, he will either hurt others or himself.

The village chief looked at Gu Yao and said with a headache, "I have followed all the adults in the past. According to your words, I am a member of the Saint Thief."

"Your surname is Hou? Are you Hou Shengjin, or Hou Duocai? Or do you have anything to do with them?"

Gu Yao let go of his hand and asked.

The body of the village head is innate with normal bones, and the roots of the meridians are cut off, but it can be seen that he has practiced before, and his cultivation is not bad.

Hearing his question, the village chief smiled wryly and said, "Master Xiaodao, my original surname is Hou, and my original name is Hou Duoshou. Hou Shengjin is my father, and Hou Shengcai is my brother."

"Your cultivation base was abolished because of Hou Shengjin? Why are you here? What is the plan of the saint thief? Why have I never seen your record in the records of the Hou family?"

The village chief looked around, found a small stool and sat down: "Master Dao, since you have dealt with my elder brother's lineage, you should have a rough guess of what kind of person my father is."

Gu Yao lowered his head and thought for a while, "Cunning, far-sighted, and ruthless."

The village head laughed loudly: "Yes, that's right."

"I'm his second son, so he put his eldest brother in Jing Yesi, where no accidents will happen, and let me join the extremely dangerous Saint Pirates."

Gu Yao looked up at him: "Bet on both sides? Then why did he join the Saint Pirates himself?"

The village chief took out an old worn-out pipe from his pocket, took out a flint, ignited it laboriously, and said, "Because his purpose is very simple, which is to glorify the Hou family. The reason why he was moved, even so excited that he raised his chips, was your master."

"My master?"

"Yes, your master used the face of a celestial master to defeat his junior brother. He was supposed to take him back to the mountain, but he came back after leaving and joined us."

The village chief spit out a smoke ring, his eyes were a little confused, and he seemed to be nostalgic: "At that time, it was the best day. The junior brother of Daoist Shanyuan was the first gathering of saints and robbers. He was also a young celestial master, but His open mind is admirable.”

"He gathered the vast majority of people, including the Shangqing Sect, Ge Zaoshan, Vulcan Sect, and Ye Maos. All the geniuses came because of him, and they conspired for great things."

"But that wasn't enough to tempt my father, because he was lacking in strength, and this one was topped by your master."

The village chief sighed when he said this: "Master Shanyuan is really an emotionless monster. He overturned many people along the way. After learning about his junior brother, he carried a big tree and stuck it in the lake. Among them, one person overturned forty people."

As he said that, he smiled wryly: "However, for him, maybe there should only be five or six people. After all, we didn't even survive a single move."

"He alone, upright and upright, defeated all other geniuses, hung us all on the tree in the lake, dragged his junior brother backwards, stepped on the lake, and left a long line on the water that has not recovered for a long time. drag mark"

"That day, after he left, it started to rain. I still remember that scene to this day. It was so cold, so painful, and so scary."

"I used to think that it was the real celestial master, the unparalleled powerhouse in the world."

The village chief kept smoking, slowly being enveloped in white smoke.

Gu Yao frowned, drew a gust of wind, and rolled the cigarette away: "What happened next?"

"Later, he was brought back by his junior brother and became one of us. My father was moved and he ended up in person."

"What happened after that?"

Hearing Gu Yao's question, the village head put down the pipe that was brought to his mouth again, and raised his eyebrows: "Young Daoist, didn't Daoist Shanyuan tell you about this?"

Seeing that Gu Yao didn't answer acquiescingly, he said: "Then I can't say it anymore. If your master doesn't say anything, I will take the initiative to say it. It's not like a mouse licking a cat's nose and looking for death."

Gu Yao took a deep breath: "Okay, then why are you here? People here can't practice, so what's going on? Did you do it?"

The village chief nodded: "This is the blessed land he chose for the Hou family. He thought that he would take this land as his own after the event, so I was sent here later. As for the villagers, I did it for the sake of They are good."

"Huh? To prevent them from being targeted by saint robbers?"

The village head immediately spat on the ground: "They also deserve the word saint steal?"

"nausea!"

He was a little angry, his beard was raised, and his tone was fierce: "What kind of heroes are we? Are they worthy?"

"We never sacrifice mortal lives!"

"If it wasn't for this group of thieves, if it wasn't for my cultivation base being abolished, how could I abolish the talents of the villagers and force them to become mortals?"

Gu Yao squinted his eyes: "So you are afraid that their cultivation talents will be discovered by those thieves and become cannon fodder for them, so you use your father's secret medicine to destroy the talents of the villagers?"

The beard of the village chief returned to calm: "Yes, when I found out that they reappeared, but they were acting strangely and rampantly, and they were getting closer and closer to here, so I had to do this."

"For so many years, I have not been able to practice, but relying on this blessed land, my life is not worrying, so while studying the strange technique, I want to restore the strange formation method of the statue of the three officials, and at the same time I am studying medicinal herbs, trying to restore my meridians .”

"In the end, by mistake, I carried forward the medicine that destroys people's talents. With the help of Wuqi River, I destroyed the talents of the villagers."

Gu Yao looked at him: "For a period of time, Wuqi River had an extremely stench. Is it because you took medicine?"

The village head nodded: "Not all of them. A hundred years ago, many people lived along the river. My father used heresy methods to change the Wuqi River and drive away the aborigines. In the end, only scattered people did not leave until I came. After arriving here, the village was re-established."

Hearing this, Gu Yao remembered what Mr. Wu said before. A hundred years ago, their bodies began to decay rapidly, and the effect of the method of longevity was greatly lost.

It turned out to be this reason.

The village head continued: "I only started to use the medicine when I found their traces 80 years ago. At that time, the smell was not that strong. On the contrary, it took ten years to become extremely foul."

"It was only after the river became extremely stench that they came to the door, and I successfully deceived them, and because of the stench of the Wuqi River, they didn't want to stay long, and they didn't realize that this place is special."

"Afterwards, I have been researching medicinal herbs. When I want to preserve the effect of longevity and health, I will destroy the talent of the villagers."

Gu Yao nodded: "Then you haven't found out who Wu Gong and the others are?"

The village chief shook his head and raised his cigarette pipe again: "No, they have been living here, but they left after the gang of thieves came to the door."

Gu Yao suddenly understood one thing: "Miss Huang said, you object to them marrying their daughters to Qiyuan Village, but you are not firm, the real reason is because of those thieves, not because of Mr. Wu's problem. "

The village chief puffed out clouds and sprayed out circles: "Yes, Wugong and the others seem to me to be just a group of long-lived old people who live in the Wuqi River and are unwilling to communicate with the outside world, but this is not a problem. , closure is the norm.”

The smoke drifted towards Gu Yao's eyes again, and was blown away by him: "In this way, I have figured out most of the things."

The village chief sighed and said, "Everything is the fault of this blessed land. Practitioners in the world, how many people who know this place are willing to do so?"

He looked at Gu Yao: "Master Taoist, if you want to occupy this place in the future, I beg you"

Gu Yao raised his hand and interrupted him: "I'm not interested in this place. Your matter is barely excusable. In the future, when the matter of the gang of thieves is over, you should explain it clearly to the villagers. In Yuancun, the river there exudes a miasma that melts people's internal organs, but it doesn't exist here, do you know what's going on?"

The village head cheered up: "Miasma? This should be my father's handwriting."

"Ok?"

"My father's initial method was this. Otherwise, how could so many people give up here so easily? Living here can lead to longevity. Only death can make people leave."

"Your father is such a jerk."

"Indeed, it's hard to disagree."

"Then do you have a solution? I want to get rid of this miasma."

The village head put the pipe on the stone, got up and motioned Gu Yao to follow him into the house: "Come in, I'll show you a treasure."

After walking a few steps, Gu Yao felt that Gu Yao hadn't moved. He turned around, not knowing whether to laugh or cry, and said, "Xiao Daoist, why are you so cautious? I force you to count me as the successor of my old friend."

Gu Yao is very steady: "Being calculated by others for too long, I will involuntarily be more cautious when I leave Master."

The village chief spread out his hands: "Inside are the stone statues of the three great emperors, and the dojo I built for them, you"

Looking at Gu Yao's appearance, he waved helplessly: "Okay, you wait here, and I will take out the things."

He got into the house.

After a while, the village chief came out with a jade box and a book.

"Inside the jade box is a dragon ball that can absorb miasma. This book is the water vein of the Wuqi River."

The village head said succinctly: "To solve this problem, it is very simple. First, find another miasma bead placed in Hanoi, which is the source of the miasma."

"Then, according to the records of this water vein, find the heart of the water vein in Qiyuan Village, and put this dragon ball in it to absorb the miasma."

Gu Yao took it: "Then, where is the other miasma bead?"

The village head pointed to the hilltop in the distance: "The source of the Wuqi River is there. Originally, the miasma bead was there, but it probably fell and flowed with the water. You can follow the water vein and find it slowly."

"According to my estimation, there is no miasma in this upstream, so it must be on the section from here to Qiyuan Village, but that section is underground, you have to dive in from the water."

The village chief took out the water vein from his hand and showed him where it was.

Finally, he said: "This book was also drawn by my father. It has been around for a hundred years, so it may not be accurate. You can adapt accordingly."

"Your father is really knowledgeable and versatile."

The village chief sneered, "Except that you don't know how to practice."

"Hahaha."

After a few dry laughs, Gu Yao put away his things: "I am curious to ask, each member of the Hou family can only have two sons, do you have any heirs?"

The village chief shook his head: "Yes, they are all dead."

"Ah? Sorry, I didn't mean to."

"It's okay, this is my fault, I didn't abolish their talents according to my father's words, but harmed them."

"how do I say this?"

The village head laughed at himself and said: "After we disappeared, the Taoism was in turmoil, from Longhu Mountain to Yemao. The Buddhism was booming and challenged the status of the Taoism again. The two of them felt that this might be an opportunity, so they went to Chang An, the result is unknown."

After a while of silence, the village chief sighed: "Either they died in the hands of Buddhism, or they died in the calculations of Taoism. Anyway, since they wanted to intervene in the dispute between Buddhism and Taoism, as wild grasses without backing, they must die. Undoubtedly."

"Then do you think your father is still alive?"

The village chief glanced at Gu Yao: "Do you want to hear the truth?"

"Of course it's the truth."

"Oh, according to my father's habit of counting every step and three hundred caves, Taoist Shanyuan is dead, the chief is dead, and Da Zhou is gone. He will not die."

Gu Yao: "."

Gu Yao got up to say goodbye when he had finished what he wanted to know.

Going back to the door, he glanced at the old Taoist, he was still in a deep sleep, so he took his pulse.

After closing the door, Gu Yao silently sat in front of the door again, flipping through the water vein map.

"It's not necessary to dive, the water travels three thousand wen, and the water is my home."

He took out the water jade from his bosom and weighed it in his hands: "I don't know how long it can last for such a big water jade."

He glanced at the room again: "Really, there must be many ways to deal with She Linglei. You must give me such a valuable thing."

"What Yang Lei, it's obviously your source of Yang God."

"Isn't the Immortal Yang God essentially the yin and yang energy between heaven and earth?"

Put the water jade away: "I'll tell you when you wake up, what if you can't beat Yan Luo with such a yang energy? It's really worrying."

(End of this chapter)