The Taoist lowered the spell he was holding and looked at Lu Liangsheng, who was dressed in a linen green robe, picking up a moss-covered stone, walking through the weeds and putting it in the middle of the wide street.
However, he didn't have any magic power at all. He just relied on his own strength to find bricks, stones and rocks from the collapsed houses around him, and moved them outside to pile them up.
The Taoist didn't know how to describe the scholar's behavior. He wanted to say "pretending..." to him, but swallowed the thought back. He knew that in Luohe Town, there were no living creatures in the past, but many people died in vain. Even if there was no riot, ordinary people could feel the chill when they entered here. Lu Liangsheng's behavior was nothing more than an attempt to resolve the grudges of the past with practical actions, without the use of external forces.
Lu Liangsheng, who had moved a few more broken bricks, could see the expression on Old Sun's face. He put down the broken bricks in his hand and walked back. With a "Hey", he pushed down half of the wall and picked up a few bricks.
"I also learned this from the fat monk Fajing. But I also know that the resentment of a hundred years cannot be easily dissipated. Master destroyed their lives and homes back then, but he is still entrenched here, which is not good for the merchants and pedestrians passing by..."
The scholar put the broken brick in his hand into a pile and laid it flat outside, looking at the faint height that was forming.
"… I can only hope that this will alleviate some of the resentment in their hearts and build a new home for them."
After he finished speaking, the overgrown weeds suddenly moved, and the invisible ghosts and evil spirits in the surroundings seemed to have heard the scholar's words. A cold wind blew in a whimpering sound, and the drooping branches swayed wildly.
The old donkey neighed loudly, raised one limb and stomped the ground hard. There was a loud bang of lightning between his hooves, splashing blue-white sparks, crackling in the air, and the ground was burned black in several spots. He stared with wide eyes at the broken walls around him.
The dragon's roar sounded like a warning, and the cold wind was forced back.
"Peeping, open!"
The Taoist closed his eyes, put two fingers together and wiped his eyelids, then opened them again. At the moment when the light of Dharma flashed in his eyes, gusts of cold wind mixed with wisps of vague black shadows appeared all around, floating in the shadows of the woods and looking towards this side.
"Your mother... there are so many evil spirits."
Subconsciously, he reached out to take out the talisman and cinnabar, but Lu Liangsheng held his hand back and shook his head. "My master was at fault first, so he wouldn't use his magic power to deal with them. That's inhuman."
"Old demon, what is this inhumane thing?"
The bookshelf on the old donkey's back swayed, and a wisp of black smoke fell to the ground and turned into the appearance of a woman, with her skirt flying. She pounced on the scholar and rubbed her delicate face against the man's chest without caring about her makeup.
After leaving Qixia Mountain, he occasionally came out once or twice along the way. At that time, he was mostly in a hurry, and there were eight big men following him. He felt bored and finally turned into a brush, lying quietly on the bookshelf. Sometimes he would secretly whisper a few words to Yuelong who was also hanging on the shelf.
"Hey, there are so many ghosts. What are they doing there? Are they trying to harm the old demon? I'll go take care of them!"
Seeing the shadows in the woods all around, Qi You suddenly opened her red lips, and several long tongues rushed out, instantly splitting into dozens of thin red lines, but Lu Liangsheng reached out and gently pinched her earlobe, and in the blink of an eye all the tongues flew back into her mouth. She jumped away covering her ears in embarrassment.
"Old demon, I'm helping you, but you're still teasing me..."
This is Mu Qiyu's weakness, and only a few people know about it. However, the only one who can really access this weakness is Lu Liangsheng. Seeing the tree demon acting like a child, he had to explain the whole thing briefly. The latter widened his eyes and blinked, then looked down at the toad with its webbed feet on the ground, wondering what it was thinking.
"Little Toad, I didn't expect that you are so powerful even though you are so young?"
"Are you praising me?"
The Toad Taoist snorted and moved his flippers to turn in another direction. He was a demon, so he could easily see the evil spirits and evil spirits hidden in the shadows around him.
Silently, he watched Lu Liangsheng bow to a ghost, bend down to pick up a few stones, the toad pursed his lips, and the two webbed feet on his back slowly drooped down, and the webbed feet that had been standing in the same place also slowly moved forward and walked over.
He walked to a big rock, took a deep breath, rolled up his sleeves and touched the surface of the stone, feeling a slight coolness.
"How can I let my disciple shoulder the responsibility for what I did back then?"
Thinking of this, I pushed forward with my flippers.
The big rock was still standing there motionless. The toad stared blankly for a moment, then spat on his webbed feet, rubbed them hard, and rolled up his sleeves.
"I still don't believe it. Without magic power, I can't even move a stone!"
"Drink—"
It threw itself to the side of the stone, with its flippers and half of its body leaning against it, its mouth wide open, and the sound of "Hoo!!" instantly turned into a roar of "Ahhh!" The veins on its forehead bulged, its flippers stomped hard on the soil, its body stretched straight, its long tongue hanging from its mouth, and its feet kept kicking back and forth, pushing out layers of dust.
“Ahh…”
The voice was still roaring, and the stone finally moved and rolled over. The Toad Taoist's hands were empty, and he fell to the ground with a bang. He turned over and sat up, as if nothing had happened, with his face tilted to the side as usual.
"I can't move it."
As he looked straight ahead, a shadow suddenly obscured his vision.
"Old Toad, get out of the way!"
The Taoist came over, stretched out his hands to hold the big rock he was leaning on to his chest, followed Lu Liangsheng over there, and put the rock on top with a bang.
Lu Liangsheng turned his head to look at him, and the latter dusted off his hands and turned around to continue looking for stones.
"What are you looking at? I am just exorcising demons and doing my duty to save the world!!"
Over there, Lu Pan and his eight companions, who were originally resting on the edge of the town, came here after not seeing the two men coming back for a long time. Even though they could feel the cold and yin energy, the eight of them had extremely strong yang energy and were not afraid.
As soon as I came in and found this side, I saw Lu Liangsheng and Sun Yingxian carrying stones back and forth. In addition to the woman in a black dress squatting beside her and throwing a few small stones for fun, even Liangsheng's toad was carrying a stone half his height and piling it over there.
"Liangsheng, why didn't you ask us to do this kind of heavy work?!"
Lu Pan untied the hunting knife at his waist and threw it on the ground, then took off his upper body clothes and walked into a half-collapsed house without saying a word. He shouted "Hey Ha", his arms muscles bulged, and he picked up a remaining wall pillar.
"Old Pan has great strength!"
"We can't fall behind, let's go!" "Leave that one over there to me, no one is allowed to touch it, just wait and see!"
The other seven men were not willing to be left behind. They shouted and hid their clothes and bags, stretched their strong upper bodies, and each found a few houses. For a while, the sounds of demolishing walls and destroying houses were endless. The figures hiding in the shadows were looming, stirring up a cold wind. They wanted to go up, but retreated fearfully, wandering in the darkness and screaming, watching the houses that used to be there being razed to the ground one by one by the eight big men right before their eyes.
For two consecutive days, broken bricks and stones were piled up into several piles. Lu Liangsheng built a square foundation covering an area of 20 meters with his own hands, brick by brick. The broken pieces that could not be piled up were thrown into the middle to serve as the core of the pillar, which was stuffed tightly. Bricks and stones that were piled higher and higher on all four sides formed a square pillar monument.
The originally restless and screaming ghost calmed down unconsciously, and just watched the scholar in tattered clothes, standing in front of the stone tablet and carving with sweat on his face.
However, during this long carving process, the winter snow in the northern frontier finally melted away completely, and new buds appeared on the grasslands and foothills.
Yuwen Tuo's magic formation was almost at the final step.