The situation in the Jiufeng Cave Heaven was beyond the expectations of the immortal cultivators of Jiufeng Mountain. Although Jiufeng Mountain had never thought that there would be no problems in the cave heaven for a day, they did not expect such a serious matter to happen.
Jiufeng Mountain sent out a total of over a thousand cultivators, some alone and some in groups, depending on their level of cultivation, to focus on surprise inspections of various places. The result was truly astonishing. Among the great city gods, except for some places that had been stable for many years, there were almost all problems with the great city gods in other places, and many of them had directly fallen into evil.
When encountering a possessed City God, a fight is inevitable. Although the underworld is the City God's home ground, the monks of Jiufeng Mountain all hold the sect's tokens, which have great restraint on the gods of this world. Even after the City God has been possessed by a demon, he cannot completely get rid of this restraint.
The first thing many monks from Jiufeng Mountain do after they descend to the underworld is to hold the token and seal off the entire underworld. The purpose is to prevent possible enemies from escaping and to avoid affecting the world of the living.
However, these matters have nothing to do with Ji Yuan and others for the time being. Except for the first time to deal with the possessed City God in the underworld of Beiling County, the subsequent matters will be left to Jiufeng Mountain to handle. Ji Yuan will at most take a look, but will not intervene. He just takes Aze and Jin Xiu to find Aze's original partners to fulfill his promise.
After eating wontons in Beiling County, Ji Yuan and the other two separated from the head of Jiufeng Mountain. The former went to look for someone, while the latter went to deal with matters in the cave.
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In Duyang, a big city in Dongsheng State, there is a Binyue Inn. It is of medium size and is considered to be better than the others in the city. The shopkeeper, who is a shrewd tall man wearing a long gown, is fiddling with an abacus at the counter.
The "crackling" sound was very rhythmic. After settling yesterday's accounts, I happened to catch a glimpse of three people walking from the door. I shook my head and sighed.
"Going there again?"
A'long looked up at the shopkeeper and nodded without saying anything. The two brothers Da Gu and Xiao Gu beside him had bruises on their faces, just like him.
The shopkeeper grabbed the abacus, and moved the beads back into place with two "clicks". After closing the account book, he lowered his head and found a bottle of traumatic wine from under the counter and put it on the counter.
"Take it and wipe it yourself, and don't forget to clean up the stable before evening."
A-Long walked to the counter, took out the medicine for traumatic injuries, and bowed to the shopkeeper.
"Thank you, shopkeeper, hiss..."
"go Go."
The shopkeeper waved his hand, indicating that they could go down, and watched the three people walk towards the back hall of the inn. He just shook his head and sighed.
These three young men are very nice. They never complain about doing the dirty and tiring work. They can do everything from chopping wood and cleaning to taking care of the horses in the stable. Their hard-working spirit makes the innkeeper very satisfied.
At the beginning, the shopkeeper gave them some leftovers and let them spend a night in the woodshed. They were just motivated by the last bit of conscience and kindness that had not been extinguished. They did not expect that they had picked up a treasure. The next day, they cleaned the inn inside and out, even the stables, as a reward. The shopkeeper then tried to keep them to work in the store, and they agreed as soon as they asked. The wages were not much, but they had food and shelter, and the three of them were very satisfied.
But later the shopkeeper heard that there was a little girl with them when they came together, and it seemed that she was kidnapped when they fled to Duyang. For two years, these three people have been trying every means to find the little girl. It seems that they really found out about her a while ago, but the result is not optimistic.
"Alas, in this world, it's good enough to be alive and have something to eat."
Just as I was sighing, I looked up and found a guest coming to the door, and I immediately greeted him warmly.
"Hey, three guests, please come in! Would you like to have a meal or stay overnight?"
The three people who came were Ji Yuan, A Ze and Jin Xiu.
The shopkeeper naturally had good eyesight. Jinxiu and Aze looked very elegantly dressed. The elegant man in the middle seemed to be dressed simply but had an extraordinary bearing. He was not from an ordinary family.
"Boss, are A-Long, A-Gu and the others here?"
Aze asked impatiently, and the shopkeeper was stunned for a moment before realizing that he was asking the three waiters.
"Well, there are a few guys with this name, but I don't know if he is the one you are talking about."
Ji Yuan walked up to the counter, took out a small silver ingot from his sleeve and placed it on the counter.
"Shopkeeper, we are staying in the hotel and eating here. Here is the deposit. Just keep the account and settle the bill. Also, those waiters are old friends of this young man. Is it convenient for us to meet them?"
The shopkeeper took the silver and put it on the scale while answering Ji Yuan's questions with a smile.
"Convenient, convenient, why not? They are in the back hall. Hehe, A'long~~Da Gu and Xiao Gu~~someone is looking for you!"
Ji Yuan said that he would come over later to record the accommodation information, and then he and Aze walked to the back.
In the back hall of the inn, in the compartment between the woodshed and the kitchen, the brothers A'long and A'gu were applying medicine. They were puzzled when they heard the voice of the shopkeeper in front of them, but before they could stand up, three people came over from the kitchen.
"Along! Agu! Xiaogu!"
"Aze?" "Aze!" "It's really you!"
"Great, Aze is not dead!"
"Of course I'm not dead!"
“Hahahahahaha…”
The four of them were so excited that they rushed over to hug each other. After they were intimate with each other, Aze introduced Ji Yuan and Jin Xiu. The three of them also greeted them politely. Jin Xiu's beautiful and pretty appearance made the three boys embarrassed to look at her.
We haven't seen each other since we parted at the foot of the mountain. Aze hasn't changed much, but A-Long and A-Gu have grown a lot taller.
"Aze, why have you become shorter?" "Yes, that's not right, you haven't grown taller!"
"This is a bit complicated. Why are you all so bruised? Did you get into a fight? Oh, where's Annie?"
When they heard Aze mention Ani, their faces turned ugly and they fell silent.
Aze frowned, realizing that something must have gone wrong.
"What's wrong?"
The three of them were a little afraid to look at Aze, but it was A Long who mustered up the courage to tell the truth.
"When we first came to Duyang, Ani disappeared... We have been looking for her for two years and finally found her recently, but..."
It turned out that Ani had been kidnapped when she disappeared, but was now found in a brothel. Although Ani was young, she was a "good embryo" in the words of the brothel industry. She was taught to read and write, and to play the piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, in order to be trained to be a future prostitute.
Although Ani's life seemed to be much better than those of Agu and the other two, everyone knew that the future was dark. The three men could not bear this and wanted to take Ani away immediately. However, the result was predictable. The arm was no match for the thigh and they all ended up with bloody heads after several attempts.
"What!? This is ridiculous. Aze, let's go and redeem Ani. These people are only after money. Just give them money!"
Jin Xiu, who comes later, is a girl after all. Even though she has already cultivated immortality, she can't stand things like what happened to Ani.
As soon as Jinxiu said this, Aze's eyes naturally turned to Ji Yuan. He also knew that he and Jinxiu had no money.
Ji Yuan forced a smile.
"Don't worry, Mr. Ji has money."
As he was speaking, he had already felt a piece of gold nugget in his sleeve. When he took it out of the sleeve, the gold nugget had already turned into four small gold bars in Ji Yuan's hand. Ji Yuan kept two and handed two to Jin Xiu on the side.
"I don't know the exchange rate of gold and silver here, but I think it should be quite high. Here are ten taels of gold. Jin girl brought it with her. I think it should be enough. You can go with Jin girl to redeem Ani."
Jin Xiu took the gold bar and looked sideways at Ji Yuan.
"Mr. Ji is not going?"
Ji Yuan looked in the direction of the City God Temple in the city and said.
"You go first, and if you can come to an agreement, then we'll talk. If you can't, come back and find me. I'll go to the City God Temple and come back."
As he said that, Ji Yuan hurriedly left the inn and headed for the City God Temple. He had just seen two beams of fairy light fall to the ground and disappear into the underworld. It was obvious that the people from Jiufeng Mountain had arrived in Duyang. As soon as the fairy light fell, the divine light in the direction of the City God Temple vibrated violently. It was obvious that a fierce battle took place in the underworld in an instant.
After Ji Yuan left, Jin Xiu became the backbone. Looking at Aze and the other three, the girl gritted her teeth and thought, am I afraid of a group of mortals
Jin Xiu put her hands on her hips and said loudly.
"Let's go! Let's go find Ani. Aaron and the big and small Gu lead the way!"
"Hey!" "Okay!"
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It is now afternoon, and there are many pilgrims burning incense in the City God Temple. Ji Yuan walked through the stalls and the pilgrims in front of the temple and came directly to the City God Hall of Duyang City God Temple.
Looking up, the City God, dressed in an official robe, looked majestic and solemn, sitting on the altar and looking down at the pilgrims coming and going. The smoke from the large incense burner outside looked very sacred. For such a temple where gods reside, Ji Yuan, with his "snobbish eyes", could see the statue clearly.
Beneath the surface, the statue of the City God also shows various changes in light and color. Within the divine light, there is a thick demonic light swirling, which interweave together to form a terrifying momentum, enveloping the entire City God Temple. In this situation, the City God of the underworld must be fighting fiercely with humans.
Ji Yuan just stood in the temple looking at the statue of the City God, as if he could see the battle in the underworld through the statue. He stood there for half an hour. The pilgrims and temple priests around him all seemed not to see him. They were all worshipping the gods, burning incense or collecting incense money.
"Click... click... click..."
There was a sudden crisp sound, and someone looked up, then showed horror on his face.
"City God! The statue of the City God!"
"Oh my god, the City God statue is cracked?"
"What should we do?" "This is a bad omen, a bad omen!"
Everyone in the temple was panicked, and Ji Yuan turned and left in the chaos. The outcome of the fight below was obvious.
Not long after, Ji Yuan arrived at Zui Xiang Street in Duyang City, which is also a famous place of pleasure.
Just as Ji Yuan stepped into the street, the door of a "Xiuxin Building" on the outer periphery was smashed open from the inside with a "boom". Four strong men flew out from inside, fell one by one on the street, and landed right at Ji Yuan's feet two feet away.
“Ouch… Ouch…” “Shh… It hurts so much…”
The four men were still grinning when three strong men and a bald man flew out from inside and all fell to the ground wailing.
"You are so shameless, do you think I'm made of mud? You are courting death!"
The fierce voice was so loud that Ji Yuan was stunned for a moment. It was completely unlike the Jin Xiu he knew. It seemed that there was a result here too.