The fox is wandering around.
Outside the mountain gate, Taoist Toad looked up at the Wanshou Temple and said, "Liangsheng's demonic nature has come out..." He hastily hung the gourd on his back, spread his webbed feet and ran away.
The Taoist priest who was setting up the magic circle seemed to have sensed it as well. He saw a dark shadow running by his feet and shouted, "Old Toad?!"
The short figure waved his hand.
"I'm going to go see Liangsheng—"
Passing through the mountain gate and rushing up the stone steps, the Toad Taoist stepped breathlessly on the stone steps leading to the Taoist temple. In his shaking vision, at the end of the stone steps extending straight up, a light blue Dharma light lit up.
'This silly disciple, who usually cultivates his character, how could he reveal his evil nature so easily? He should not learn from Lu Yuan...'
That day, when the disciple was flipping through the wordless book, he actually knew everything in his heart. If he followed the other party's old path, then nothing would have changed and he would just repeat the same mistakes in the future.
"I shouldn't have given you the fox demon's magic pill back then... If I hadn't given it to you, you, a good-for-nothing, would have died again. What a sin..."
Snap…
The Toad Taoist climbed up the last step on his flippers and stood still. There was a flickering light in his sidelong gaze. Broken wood and rotten tiles fell from the tilted wooden building from time to time. In the ruins, a figure with his back to the ground had a light blue back and shoulders and neck covered with stars.
"… The dead should rest in peace… Chen Fu…"
Hair fell down like arrows in a waterfall. Lu Liangsheng turned his face slightly and said in a clear voice, "Is that so?" The vertical red mark in the middle of his eyebrows was like a third eye, shining with Dharma light.
"Master..."
Not far away, Yuwen Tuo, holding the Xuanyuan Sword, stared blankly at his master's profile with a cold expression, as if he saw the demeanor of his former master.
For a moment, I didn't understand what was going on.
At this moment, except for him who was puzzled, the others seemed quite excited. Yang Jian clenched his fist and waved it heavily: "I knew that the national teacher would not be defeated so easily."
Yang Su, who was standing beside the emperor, thought more. The old man had heard the fox calls just now. Only demons would show such a sign. But fellow Daoist Lu opposite him did not have any demonic aura at all, which made him feel strange.
As he was thinking about it, a woman not far from the wooden building covered her mouth and shouted: "Liang Sheng..."
Crash!
The half body buried in the rubble stretched out its legs, and the piled up earth, rocks and rubble separated by themselves, making way.
**Lu Liangsheng stretched out his hand to stop Min Yuerou, looked at her face calmly, then looked at the corpse demon on the opposite side which was only two meters away, stretched out his hand, and Qi You, who was under the eaves opposite, turned her gauze skirt and turned into a puff of black smoke as if she had telepathy.
It flew over the heads of the crowd and landed in the hands of the scholar, where it turned into a brush.
"roar-"
Realizing the intention of the figure opposite to pick up the pen, Chen Fu leaned forward slightly, grinned and roared at the scholar who picked up the pen and ink, kicking the ground with a bang, leaving a trail of afterimage.
Lu Liangsheng raised his hand and held the pen in the air, writing quickly, as if writing a certain word. The tip of the pen swung outward, and the golden word "Zhen" suddenly appeared in the air without a trace.
Bang!
A golden light flashed, and Chen Fu crossed his arms in front of him. With a hissing sound, he slid backwards smoothly. When he stopped, the corpse aura emanating from his body shook and dissipated.
Hoho…
With his loose hair lifted up, his skull-like face and hollow eye sockets looked at the opposite side. His keen perception seemed to have a vision different from that of humans. In the darkness on the opposite side, he saw stars all over Lu Liangsheng's body. There were shadows of several strange beasts that he had never seen before floating above the scholar's head, waving their long hair, raising their horns, spreading their colorful wings, baring their teeth and roaring at him, or making ferocious hisses.
The next moment, Chen Fu glanced at the emperor in the golden magic shield over there, and rushed forward madly with the corpse qi lingering around his body. At the moment when Yuwen Tuo held his sword to protect him, he suddenly turned his feet, and at the moment when the floor tiles were cracked, he changed direction and rushed towards the city wall.
He leaped up, climbed up the towering wall, and rushed high into the moonlight. The shouts of the soldiers above and the sounds of the trembling bowstrings drew an arc and fell far outside the city wall.
"run?"
Lu Liangsheng looked at the corpse demon disappearing in the moonlight, stretched out his hand to grab the scabbard of the Xuanyuan sword hanging above the heads of the people over there, took it back and hung it around his waist. In the attic opposite, the Qilin cloak floated out of the window lattice.
He put his hand through his sleeves and covered Lu Liangsheng, hiding the stars on his body. He glanced at Yang Su over there and said, "Duke Yue, please take care of His Majesty."
His gaze then fell on the Toad Taoist who was standing on the stone steps, carrying a gourd on his back.
"Master, I'll be back soon."
After saying this, he flicked his wide sleeves printed with yin and yang, and the Xuanyuan Sword broke free from Yuwen Tuo and flew into Lu Liangsheng's hand. He turned around, and there was a "rustling" sound of his robe, and the whole person had risen into the night sky and flew out of the city.
The Taoist temple square was quiet for a moment. The four scholars stared in amazement at the disappearing figure on the city wall. They looked at each other, glanced at the current emperor over there, nodded secretly, and then bowed down together.
"Your Majesty, the four of us are here to protect you!"
"Yes, yes, I am late in coming to your rescue. I hope Your Majesty will forgive me!"
"… I heard that Your Majesty is the current True Dragon Emperor, and your achievements in civil and military affairs are unprecedented and unmatched. The four of us have come all the way from the south to the north, just to see Your Majesty's holy face…"
…
The fire in Chang'an city illuminated the night sky red. Amid the chaos of shouting and screaming, the suburbs south of the city seemed quiet, and the mountains and forests a hundred miles away were even quieter.
The moonlight was dim, illuminating the outline of the rolling mountains. The wild hills and ridges were pitch black, with the occasional sound of wings of night birds flying over the branches. The moonlight sprinkled in the gloomy woods, and a faint firelight shone from a ruined temple.
The temple door was leaning against the wall, and half of the eaves had collapsed and were hanging to the ground. The atmosphere inside was warm, and the burning fire flickered, casting two human shadows on the nearby wall.
A man and a woman were resting here.
Pah~
The young man broke off the dead branches and threw them into the fire, listening to the night birds singing in the woods outside. In the light of the fire burning the dead branches, the man had his hair combed neatly, and was wearing a light blue robe with a sleeveless black shirt on the outside. There was also a long sword leaning against his side.
This is Chen Jing, who came out of Fumo Mountain and headed north. After his master died, he returned to the cave in the mountains and found the spell book left by his master. He practiced while heading north, just to... avenge his master.
"Jing'er."
A female voice sounded, and Chen Jing, who was staring outside in a trance, retracted his gaze. On the other side of the campfire, on the blanket, a woman in her thirties sat up. She was beautiful, and her eyes were indescribably charming as she blinked her eyelashes. She got up and sat next to the fire, her long black hair draped over her shoulders, shining slightly in the flickering firelight.
"… You seemed to be very worried during this journey. Can you tell me what happened?"
"Mother..."
Looking at his mother, Chen Jing opened and closed his lips slightly, and turned his face away from the door, hesitant to say something. He had not yet told the woman about his master's death.
He brought his mother with him on this trip, fearing that if he failed to take revenge and died, what would happen to his mother who was left in the mountains
"If I really died, Mr. Lu would not embarrass a woman... At least it is much better than living alone in the mountains and forests."
After hesitating for a while, Chen Jing pinched the grass roots on his fingertips and said, "Mom... Actually, Master..."
Before he uttered the word "dead", there was a sudden rustling sound in the woods outside. Chen Jing, who was speaking, stopped talking and frowned. After following his master to practice Taoism, his perception of demons and monsters was naturally different from before. He grabbed the sword beside him and stood up.
"Jing'er, what's wrong?" Zhang Lihua called softly and then got up from the ground.
The wind blew through the night outside, and the forest swayed wildly. Chen Jing raised his index finger to his lips and made a "hush" sound.
"Mom, don't talk, something seems to be coming this way."