Lord of Earth Fiend

Chapter 11 Bet
"Who are you? What are you doing here?"

The Taoist sized Chen Jin up and asked.

Chen Jin replied: "I'm here to collect Su Xiaowen's body."

The Taoist stretched out his hand: "Where are the government documents?"

"No."

"If you don't have the paperwork, you have to pay ten pennies."

Chen Jin was surprised and said, "Ten Guan! Why don't you grab it?"

The Taoist chuckled: "It's better to go and grab... If you don't have any money, you can stay where it's cool."

After all, he turned around to enter the house and close the door.

Chen Jin stepped up and grabbed the door with one hand: "Master Daoist, be accommodating."

The Taoist yelled: "If you have money, you can get through. If you have no money, you can't get through. Let go."

Taking the opportunity, Chen Jin bent over and got in.

The room was dull and gloomy, filled with strong stench, it was hard to imagine how this Taoist could live in such an environment.

The Taoist's face changed: "Good boy, how can you just barge in if you don't want to die? If you don't want to die, get out quickly and don't stay."

Chen Jin ignored them, and raised his eyes to observe. He saw a pair of coffins divided into two rows and lined up against the wall. There were about ten coffins.

These coffins are rather crude, the thin kind.A piece of red paper is pasted on the top cover with the name of the deceased written on it.

The Taoist put his arms around his chest and looked at him coldly: "Boy, don't blame me for not reminding you, the dead body is heavy and full of evil spirits, just your thin body and bones, being hit by evil injustice, light dizziness, brain swelling, vomiting and nausea; Then he will be seriously ill and be bedridden."

Standing there, Chen Jin really felt chilly, and seemed to hear shrill cries and cries of grievances...

The various voices flooded into my mind like a wave, menacingly coming.

But when it came to the Confucian Temple, it disappeared immediately, and the weather was calm.

The Confucian Temple can ward off evil spirits and avoid weirdness.

Chen Jin began to search, and it didn't take long to find Su Xiaowen's coffin, feeling unspeakable fluctuations in his heart.

The Taoist stared at him, and seeing that he was safe and sound, he couldn't help but ask, "Who are you?"

"I am a student of Mr. Su, called 'Chen Jin'."

"Are you really just a scholar? Why aren't you afraid?"

Chen Jin chuckled: "Scholars have righteousness in their hearts, why should they be afraid?"

The Taoist jumped up: "I believe in your ghost! Corrupt officials in the world, which one is not a scholar? Everyone has fat stomachs and brains, how can they be righteous?"

Chen Jin replied leisurely: "Scholars are also different."

The Taoist snorted coldly: "I don't study much, so you can't lie to me."

Chen Jin asked: "Dare to ask about the name of the long name?"

"My name is 'Gu Leyou'. I am a teacher of Izumo Temple in Wuling Mountains, and I am in charge of the Gaozhou government office. I am here to manage the affairs of Yizhuang."

Wuling is a huge mountain range. It is said that there are many temples and Taoist temples, each representing different sects.

Chen Jin blinked his eyes: "The Taoist leader took this job for the sake of cultivation, right?"

"Practice here? What do you want to eat? It's just hard work. If you're lucky, you can earn some pocket money."

"As a monk, why does the priest always think about making money?"

Gu Leyou snorted: "What do you know? Cultivation costs money. Without money, it is difficult to move an inch, and you can't even eat enough."

These words made sense, but Chen Jin was speechless: "Gu Daochang, I really don't have that much money, why don't I give you an IOU?"

Gu Leyou shook his head like a rattle: "This kind of thing is a one-off sale, how can there be any reason for an IOU?"

Chen Jin said: "But ten pennies is really too high."

Gu Leyou sneered and said: "I sit here, feeling resentment day and night, yin, evil, death, stench... Do you think it's good to be surrounded by evil spirits? Look at my face, which was originally handsome, but now is poisonous The sores are growing, and I don’t know how long it will take to heal.”

Chen Jin rolled his eyes: "The place is indeed smelly, but why can't I feel the yin and evil qi?"

"Hmph, how long have you been here? I advise you to leave quickly, or you will bear the consequences."

Chen Jin laughed: "I read a lot, you can't scare me."

Gu Leyou was suddenly annoyed: "Scholar who doesn't know what is good or bad, you want to die yourself, just stay here."

Chen Jindao: "Gu Daoist, let me make a bet with you. I will stay in Yizhuang tonight. If I am safe and sound, I will be able to leave tomorrow with my teacher's body."

Gu Leyou couldn't help but look at him again: "You scholar, you really have some guts."

Chen Jin said with emotion: "Teacher was imprisoned unjustly and died in prison. Now his body cannot be buried. I must take care of his affairs."

Gu Leyou nodded and said: "It's a benevolent one, okay, I promise you, as long as you dare to spend one night in Yizhuang, you can take away the corpse, and I won't charge you anything."

After finishing speaking, he sat cross-legged on a futon and began to close his eyes to meditate.

Chen Jin wanted to make a cliché, so he walked over and asked, "Master Gu, do you monks cultivate the spiritual energy of the heavens and the earth, the essence of the sun and the moon?"

Gu Leyou didn't open his eyes, and replied: "Refining Qi is the fundamental law, the source of all laws. It has been passed down to this day, and there have been many changes. There are different schools and schools, and the methods are different. In fact, at this time, the world is turbulent, impurities are flowing, and traditional It is already very difficult for a pure alchemist to practice."

Chen Jin recalled the saying "The Dao of Immortals and Buddhas is broken", and asked again: "So that's the case, so besides practicing Qi, what other methods are there?"

"Hey, you are a scholar, why are you interested in cultivation?"

Chen Jin hurriedly said: "Master Daoist, to tell the truth, I have always liked to read miscellaneous books, yearning for the immortal way, and I have also learned swords."

Gu Leyou was startled, and opened his eyes: "You, learn sword?"

"Yes, by chance, I was accepted as an apprentice by a white-haired old man and taught me a set of sword skills."

Chen Jin compiled it directly, and it can also be used to explain the existence of "Yongzi Bajian" in the future.

Gu Leyou listened, and suddenly burst into laughter, laughing until tears came out: "Boy, you have read so many books in vain, and you are so stupid to be deceived."

"Tricked?"

Chen Jin said seriously: "I don't think that there is no need to pay tuition fees or other things, so what can you cheat?"

Gu Leyou asked suspiciously: "Then why did they teach you?"

"Master said that I have wonderful bones and a unique swordsmanship genius, so I taught it. It's a pity that the old man is an outsider, mysterious, and he won't even tell me his name. After teaching the sword formula, and flew away."

Chen Jin sighed regretfully.

Gu Leyou was dubious about what he said.

The world is so big, it is not surprising that strange people and scholars accept disciples according to their fate.What is unreasonable is that the biggest purpose of accepting apprentices is to pass on the mantle, why hide the head and show the tail?
Gu Leyou asked directly: "What about your sword?"

Chen Jin didn't carry a sword, but only a bamboo stick in his hand.

A bamboo stick as a sword?

What are you kidding...

Chen Jin replied: "People are poor and cannot afford it."

Regarding this, Gu Leyou believed it.

Sword weapons, especially good sword weapons, are expensive, and they are definitely not affordable by ordinary people.

If Chen Jin had really learned swordsmanship, it would also explain why he was so courageous.

"Oh, it's not good. In this case, why not lose the bet?"

Thinking of this level, Gu Leyou suddenly felt cheated: No, I have to do something tonight, I can't make this scholar feel better...

(End of this chapter)