Lord of Earth Fiend

Chapter 64 The Heart of Ghosts and Gods
"The sound of firecrackers marks the end of the year, and the spring breeze brings warmth into Tusu; thousands of households always exchange new peaches for old talismans."

Winter goes to spring, the new year is the second year of Wucheng.

On the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, the crowds in Gaozhou Prefecture were bustling with excitement.

"Boy, do you dare to steal my Daoist's money?"

Suddenly someone shouted, he called himself "Dao Lord", but he was not wearing a Taoist robe, nor was he carrying a weapon.He has a big wine nose, acne scars on his cheeks, and brown hair, which is stuck with a wooden hairpin indiscriminately.He looked like a down and out Jiang Hu person.

The pickpocket who was caught was a young man with a rogue-like face, and he was not a good person at first sight. He held a money bag tightly in his hand and shouted loudly: "What is your money? This is my money!"

Turning his eyes around, he soon saw his companions surrounding him, and the three of them formed a faint angle.

They are all members of the bandit gang in the city. They are dispatched on weekdays, and they divide and cooperate. Some are watching, some are sentinel, and some are covering. Among them, the one with the best skills is responsible for picking up the money bag.

Unexpectedly, he was caught by the opponent this time.

But the young pickpocket was not afraid at all, he struggled violently, the money bag was torn, and more than ten copper coins fell out with a tinkling sound.

This immediately attracted many passers-by to watch.

The pickpocket shouted ferociously: "No one is allowed to pick up my money, anyone who dares to pick it up, I will chop him up."

As he spoke, he took out a dagger with his other hand.

His accomplices also stretched their hands to their waists one after another, with a vicious look ready to meet each other with their swords drawn.

Seeing this, the onlookers stepped back quickly and formed a big circle.As a local, I naturally understand the rogue methods of these thieves, and I think that the down-and-out Jianghu people will suffer.

The man glanced at him, and said with a hey smile: "No wonder I'm not afraid, so there are accomplices. You said it was your money, what evidence do you have?"

The pickpocket asked back: "You said it was your money, what proof do you have?"

The man sneered and said, "Of course I have evidence, you can see it clearly when you open your dog eyes."

As he spoke, he muttered something, and suddenly pointed to the ground.

Swish!

More than a dozen copper coins that fell on the ground all stood up.

He opened his mouth and asked, "Money, money, do you belong to me? If yes, nod your head quickly."

Swish swish!
The many copper coins actually became spiritual, Qi Qi bowed his head and nodded in recognition.

"Demon way!"

Seeing this, the pickpocket screamed in panic and ran away.His companion also knew that he had provoked someone, so he quickly got into the crowd and escaped in desperation.

The Taoist didn't chase after him, he read a mantra, collected all the scattered copper coins, counted them one by one, and finally confirmed that there was nothing missing, and then put them back into his pocket with a smile.

"Taoist, you are very interested."

A man stepped out from the crowd, wearing a green shirt and a handsome face, it was Chen Jin.His name for "Gu Leyou" remained unchanged, and when Gu Leyou called him, he still called him "Scholar".

Half a quarter of an hour later, the two sat down in the private room of Shi Wenju and began to eat the delicious duck.

Chen Jin said, "Your Taoism has improved a lot."

Gu Leyou said with a smile: "After I returned to the mountain, I worked hard and worked hard."

"What spell was used just now?"

"Instructions. But I'm not good at learning, so I can only change some gadgets to scare a few ignorant people."

"Fingerhua Technique", one of the 72 earth evil spirits, has been practiced well, and its practicality is quite good.For example, when fighting with someone, if you stretch out your finger, the opponent's weapon will change, which can kill the opponent by surprise.

However, it is not easy to practice this technique to the level of transformation.

Gu Leyou practiced hard for a long time in retreat before he managed to get started, causing the coins to change: "Scholar, on my trip down the mountain to the city, in addition to delivering wine to you, I have to stay here and find work to make money."

Chen Jin asked: "Where is the Taoist temple?"

"Just let Liu Yuan stay by his side. There's nothing else to do. Hey, if you don't come out to do things, you won't be able to survive."

Chen Jin felt the same way: "Huang Daxian didn't make things difficult for you, did he?"

"He dares!"

With his hands on his hips, Gu Leyou said proudly: "A few years ago, the police officer sent someone up the mountain to talk to him and tell him to restrain himself, otherwise the police officer will do something."

Chen Jin was taken aback, thinking it was the aftermath of the evil incident, he asked, "What's going on?"

Gu Leyou explained: "The five immortals belong to the Baojiaxian. They are registered in the government register and delimit a certain range of activities. If they leave the range, they will be out of bounds and will violate the law. In recent years, the Huang Daxian has grown very large and abused it. Practicing with the technique of psychic psychic psychic practice makes the yellow skins run around and do evil, which naturally arouses the dissatisfaction of the patrolling department."

When Chen Jin heard it, he suddenly realized that he thought of what happened to him in Laoqiu Mountain, that's how the ferocious yellow-skinned man most likely came about.

In other words, back mountain, which has always been safe and sound, why are there ghosts haunting it?Dare to feel that way.

"I didn't expect the Patrol Division to be so powerful that he could reprimand the Xian family."

Gu Leyou glared: "Needless to say, the Patrol Division is an upstart organization alongside the internal factory, and it specializes in this area. As the saying goes: Don't be afraid of officials, just be afraid of management. Last year, I heard that the Patrol Division was newly built. I also wanted to join, but at that time I hadn't graduated as a teacher, and the master would not agree, so I had to let it go."

Chen Jin asked, "What about now?"

Gu Leyou sighed: "There is no other way now, I have to guard the Taoist temple. I originally wanted my brother to inherit the Taoist temple. I came out to do things, but I didn't expect..."

Speaking of this, sad things arose again, and his face was gloomy.

Chen Jin patted him on the shoulder and said, "I'm currently working as a civil servant in the patrol department."

Gu Leyou wondered: "How much money do you get for a temporary job in a month? With your skills, it's more than enough to be a headhunter."

Chen Jindao: "I prefer to read and transcribe all kinds of files, and my family doesn't know about my sword learning."

When Gu Leyou heard it, he groaned, looked him up and down, and suddenly asked, "Have you mastered the Pot of Heaven?"

Chen Jin smiled: "It's not considered a practice, it's just barely getting started, and there is also the invisibility method."

Hearing this, Gu Leyou's face was dull, and he sighed after a long time: "It's maddening to compare people to others." Suddenly he remembered something: "I know about your teacher's reversal of the case, it's really embarrassing, then you shouldn't go back Is it right to study for merit?"

"You think I should too?"

"Nonsense, there are thousands of people in the world, everyone wants to be an official, and being an official has power. If you can win the exam, or even get a Jinshi, you can become a high official, that's great."

Chen Jin: "I thought that as a practitioner, you should be unrestrained and detached, and be at ease."

Gu Leyou snorted: "It's easy to say, the world is a cage, who can truly be free? You don't want to be controlled, you have to control others. The more people you can control, the more free you will be. This is the truth .”

Chen Jin: "..."

This Taoist priest has such a deep insight into the relationship between people and things in the world, even surpassing himself as a time traveler.

So he also used the same rhetoric as his answer to his uncle and said, "The current situation is turbulent, there are various changes, and the academic achievement test is slow, so I came to work as a temporary secretary office, and I will earn some expenses. Yes, your Chiyue Where's the sword?"

"This sword is too ostentatious, I put it in the inn."

"Aren't you afraid of recruiting thieves?"

"It's okay, I hid it well, and Xiaoba is watching. If there is anything abnormal, it will fly to report."

This is the inconvenience of not having the pot of heavenly art.

Chen Jin said: "If you don't dislike it, don't stay in the hotel, just move here. There happens to be a vacant room in my house."

Gu Leyou said happily: "It's very suitable for me, it's too expensive to stay in a hotel."

It didn't take long before he brought Xiao Ba to live in the courtyard, looked around, looked around, and praised: "Scholar, the environment here is elegant, it's really nice."

"Good good, it's great here!"

Starling Xiaoba stood on the branch of the jujube tree in the courtyard, opening his mouth to hold each other, and had a tacit understanding with his master.

After returning to the house and sitting down, Chen Jin took out something and put it on the table: "Taoist, look at this thing, can you recognize it?"

Gu Leyou was startled, and quickly picked it up to examine it carefully. The more he looked at it, the more surprised he became: "This, this looks like a ghost's heart. Yes, it's a ghost's heart. Where did you get it?"

Chen Jin briefly talked about the beheading of Xie Chong.

After Gu Leyou listened, he gave a thumbs up: "Excellent."

"What's the use of this ghost heart?"

"It can be used to pretend to be dirty... You should know how to pretend to be dirty?"

Chen Jin didn't know it before, but after reading all kinds of files, he knew it.

The so-called "pretending to be dirty" is an important part of ghost rituals.As we all know, most of the statues are not solid, but hollow inside.All kinds of utensils can be placed in the vacant place, which is similar to the internal organs of a person.

A statue without dirt can only be regarded as an empty shell, a wooden product.

Pretending to be dirty is an extremely strict ritual. Different temples, different ghosts and gods have very different requirements for the characteristics of dirty things, and it is not enough to just stuff something into it.If you pretend to be wrong, you will not only do useless work, but may also provoke backlash.For example, if a pile of wooden fish rosary beads were stuffed inside the statue of Tianzun in the Sanqing Temple, and the Dharma body relics were inserted, wouldn't that be a crown?

That's what it means.

Gu Leyou went on to say: "Ghosts and gods' hearts are a very versatile material for making dirt, but they are good things. If you get them on Wuling, those immortals will definitely rush to buy them from you."

Chen Jin asked: "Can it be used in the Confucian Temple?"

"Confucian Temple?"

Gu Leyou was stunned: "I'm afraid that's not suitable. For the statues of sages and gods in the Confucian Temple, they need to use scriptures, five-color grains, etc. to pretend to be dirty."

Chen Jin said loudly: "Then you can help me take this piece of ghost heart to Wuling and give it to Hu Xian. Last time he gave me a pot of heavenly magic, I gave him back a piece of ghost heart, and the two are settled."

He doesn't like to owe favors to these fairy families.

Gu Leyou nodded and said: "It's more than enough to exchange a ghost heart for a piece of "Pot Tianshu". If Hu Xian's family has earned it, I will leave now."

Chen Jin hurriedly said, "It's not urgent. Didn't you say you want to live in the city and work?"

"I'm not at ease with this thing, so it's better to deal with this matter first, anyway, it only takes a day or two to go back and forth, so it won't delay the matter."

He left as he said, simply and swiftly.

(End of this chapter)