Knife splashing

Chapter 367: Exorcism, Opening, and Plague Removal
The Five Dragon Palace has gone down the mountain!

This news spread throughout Xiangyang in an instant.

Inside the government compound, upon hearing about this, the elderly prefect Lu Deqian hurriedly got up from his "sickbed", asked people to pack up their things, and went to the lobby to handle government affairs.

"Master, aren't they just a group of Taoists..."

His trusted subordinates were somewhat puzzled and hurriedly advised him against it.

Although Magistrate Lu is old, the only thing he has now is a worry. The reason why he hides in the backyard of the government office and doesn't contact anyone is because he is afraid of being unlucky enough to be infected with the plague.

"Ah~ Wudang is really hot."

Prefect Lu shook his head helplessly and said, "What kind of place is the Five Dragon Palace? It has strict rules and regulations, and its practice is extraordinary. It is the sharpest sword in the Zhenwu Palace."

"Those monsters have violated a taboo this time. The City God Temple is the foundation of the Xuanmen Sect. If they act so recklessly, the Zhenwu Palace will definitely respond with thunderous means!"

"It's better not to get into trouble at a time like this..."

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City God Temple, in a side wing.

"That's the way it is..."

Li Yan said in a deep voice: "The demon god Ran Tong is very good at disguise, but he had the bad luck to run into me. If it was a day or two later, I'm afraid they would have succeeded."

He told the whole story in detail.

After hearing this, Yu Longzi nodded slightly and said, "Thank you, Mr. Li. Zhenwu Palace owes you a favor for this matter."

"You have found the source of the plague, so your mission is accomplished. Leave the rest to us. You don't have to worry about Master Wang and the others' illnesses. We will perform the consecration and exorcism and handle them all together later."

"One more thing."

Li Yan said quickly: "The crocodile master we knew was captured by an old demon and I don't know where he is hiding."

"That old demon's name is Donghu Laozu. He is a toad demon. He was once enlightened by Master Liu Hai. Now he has embarked on the evil path and is mixed up with Master Huang Liu of the Ghost Cult."

"I set up a trap with the old ghost from Zhaode Temple outside Xiangyang City, but I also promised him that I would not hold them responsible after this incident."

After hearing this, Yu Longzi pondered for a moment and nodded, "Okay, this old ghost has done nothing evil in the past hundred years and has not violated the original agreement. It's not his fault."

"The hundred-year period has come. Tell him that after this matter is over, the soul tablet will be returned and the temple will be rebuilt. Zhenwu Palace will not stop you."

"Also, I will send the Five Dragon Sons to help you then."

"Thank you, senior."

Li Yan's expression eased slightly and he quickly bowed to express his gratitude.

He also knew what it meant to go down the Wulong Temple.

This time, there will be a bloody storm!
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Li Yan came out of the wing room and saw that the entire City God Temple was bustling with people. The Taoists from the Five Dragon Palace were dealing with corpses and burning incense and performing rituals to drive away bad luck. Everything seemed in order.

They are the real elite on Wudang Mountain.

Although he is better at martial arts combat, he is equally good at various rituals and is more proficient in them.

These people moved quickly and as rooms and halls were cleared one by one, the pungent smell of blood quickly dissipated.

When he arrived outside the main hall of the City God Temple, Li Yan immediately saw that the five dragon sons, led by Gu Linzi, surrounded Lu San in the middle.

Li Yan frowned slightly, walked over quickly, and said with a smile: "Fellow Taoists, what can I do for you?"

"Mr. Li, please don't misunderstand."

Gu Linzi bowed and said, "I have been waiting for this opportunity because of Mr. Lu. You all left in a hurry at that time. Now that I meet you, I have a good opportunity to thank you."

"Oh, that's how it is." Li Yan understood instantly.

At that time in the Zhenwu Dragon Cave, he gained a lot of benefits, mastered the martial arts thoroughly, and cultivated the Immortal Seal.

But after coming out, I saw that the real big heads were all taken by these five dragon sons. The scene at that time was simply weird and shocking.

They are known as the Five Dragon Sons, the Five Dragon Palace enshrines the Five Qi Dragon Lords, and the five dragon-shaped patterns in the Zhenwu Dragon Cave...all these clues have already given Li Yan some guesses.

Lu San who was standing next to him shook his head and said, "It was just a coincidence. I don't really understand the situation at that time. There's no need to be polite."

Gu Linzi replied calmly, "We have nothing now, and cannot give you any valuables, but we can tell you a piece of news."

"What Master Lu is practicing is the Scripture of the Mountain and Sea Spiritual Responses, which is passed down from the ancient Chu witches and the mountain ghost lineage?"

Lu San's pupils shrank, "How did you know?"

Gu Linzi did not answer, but continued: "Witchcraft has declined now and is no longer as prosperous as it once was. But as far as I know, the Chu witch lineage still has three places of inheritance."

"One is the Divine Palace of the Lord of the Clouds in Yunmeng Lake. If the crocodile master you know about this matter, you can ask him in detail."

"The second is the Xiangjun Water Palace in Dongting Lake. However, when the First Emperor was on tour, his Taoist priests caused trouble and sealed the water palace. If you want to enter it, you must find a way to break it."

"The third one is Wushan, which was the sacred mountain of Chu Wu at that time. There is still a lineage of Wushan goddesses today, who rarely appear in front of people. Master Lu has cultivated the method of mountain ghosts, so perhaps they will come out to meet us..."

After saying that, he nodded and turned away with the others.

"them…"

Lu San frowned, but when he was about to ask more questions, Li Yan stopped him and shook his head, "We'll talk about this later, don't ask any more questions."

At this moment, he was completely certain that these five dragon sons had a very close relationship with the Five Qi Dragon Lords.

This kind of secret information is not known to ordinary people.

Of course, the Five Dragons had no time to pay attention to them.

Inside the main hall of the City God Temple, the statues of City God Xiao He and the two divine generals had been cleaned up, leaving only the blood-red talismans around their eyes.

At this moment, two altars have been set up inside and outside the hall respectively.

After the Five Dragon Sons entered the hall, they began to burn incense and pray, knocking wooden fish, and dipped willow leaves in water, stepping on the Gang Step, chanting: "The naturalness of heaven and earth, the foul air is dispersed, the mysterious void in the cave, shining brightly. The mighty gods of the eight directions make me natural..."

Li Yan had heard Wang Daoxuan recite this mantra before. It was the Altar Purification Mantra, which was used to purify the altar before the ritual in order to welcome the gods.

As they sprinkled water and chanted incantations, Li Yan could clearly smell that the bloody and filthy air in the City God Temple hall had completely disappeared, and the air had become fresh with a faint scent of incense.

However, angry shouts and cries of killing could still be heard from within the City God statue.

After a while, Yulongzi also changed into a new Taoist robe and joined in to perform other rituals.

This old Taoist's method is even more powerful.

He waved the peach wood sword, stepped on the Gang step, spit out water from his mouth, held the Thunder Palace Gang Order in his hand, and silently chanted a spell towards the sky.

Arcs of electricity suddenly crackled above Gang Ling.

Snapped!Snapped!Snapped!
The old Taoist took the command and knocked on the altar three times.

It was like three muffled thunders, the surrounding air shook, and the last trace of fishy and foul smell was also washed away.

The blood-colored silk talismans covering the eyes of several statues broke immediately and fell to the ground. Visible black smoke dissipated from the statues.

When Li Yan saw it, his eyes suddenly lit up.

This is the real Xuanmen thunder method!
There are many different forms of thunder magic, not just thunder.

Internal cultivation of thunder can clear away distracting thoughts and demons...

Setting up an altar and using thunder magic can cleanse away the filth and evil spirits...

Summon the thunder from heaven to eliminate all the evil spirits in the world...

The thunder method he practiced was the martial art Lei Gang, which was better at fighting against enemies. Although it was powerful, it was far less mysterious than the thunder palace methods. Of course, the benefits he gained from the interference of the Thunder Department were even more extraordinary.

So there is no specific method, but the magical power of the Soul-Catching Rope seems to have been refined into some kind of magic weapon by the Lei Mansion!

It’s not a magic weapon, it’s a magic treasure!

It is as mysterious as the magic weapons in mythology.

As his cultivation level improved, the Soul-Catching Rope became longer and stronger, and it could absorb and contain more and more lightning.

This soul-catching thunder rope has become his biggest trump card now.

More importantly, the potential is limitless.

Of course, after reaching the third floor, the magic techniques will also change.

First of all, the "Beidi Body Protection Spell", "Beidi Yin Thunder Palm", "Beidi Chu Ling Shu", "Beidi Shen Xing Shu", "Beidi Xuan Shui Dun" and "Beidi Disaster Elimination Shu" that were learned in the third floor will all be improved.

More power and more variety.

For example, the "Beidi Protective Spell" can now not only be cast on oneself, but also attached to objects to form a ban.

It's a bit like the circle of Sun Wukong, which combines the energy of the earth veins and the magic system to form a protection to avoid the invasion of monsters and beasts...

For example, the "Northern Emperor Mysterious Water Escape" can now finally be tried. Jump into the water and perform water escape. In Ezhou, where there are many rivers and lakes, it is like a fish in water...

Of course, you can also start learning new techniques.

There are many more attacking techniques on the third and fourth floors.

There is the "Northern Emperor Treasure Bottle Method", which is specifically used to suppress all kinds of mountain spirits and monsters, as well as evil spirits, but it requires the use of a treasure bottle instrument...

There is the "Northern Emperor's Divine Control Method", which can use thunder magic to forcibly suppress ghosts and gods and make them obey orders...

But the most important one is "Fengdu Kaoshao Dafa".

This is a large-scale altar magic that can capture various demons and evil spirits from a distance. They enter the altar, are tortured by skinning, water and fire, and are interrogated and killed. It is extremely cruel.

Originally, this method required a large number of troops and horses, and could only be used by powerful lineages and orthodox sects.

However, he had a warrant that could command the troops of the underworld, which was more powerful and could be used as long as the altar was set up.

To put it simply, the underworld soldiers and horses in the past could only be used passively, but with this method, the underworld soldiers and horses can be used as easily as one's own arms.

While Li Yan was deep in thought, Yulongzi had already eliminated the evil spirit and re-consecrated the statue of the City God.

He would brandish his magic sword, draw talismans in the air towards the statue, and chant: "A flash of spiritual light enters the divine womb, Prime Minister Xiao He is like a god, the sky is round and the earth is square, the god is supreme, enter the divine womb and communicate with the divine energy..."

The smell of incense quickly faded from the statue of the City God.

Afterwards, Yu Longzi will pick up the red pen, step on the Gang and Dou, and point in the air, "The world is prosperous, the time is auspicious, click the light on the head, the light on the head will shine, open the left eye to know the secrets of the sky, open the right eye to understand the geography, the sun and the moon will shine clearly in the two eyes..."

After going through the whole process of removing the bad luck and consecrating the temple, the City God of Xiangyang was finally restored. The aroma of incense rose into the sky, covering the entire city.

The only pity is that the soldiers and horses of Xiangyang City have all been sent to the underworld by Li Yan because they were contaminated with evil spirits. If they are to recover, it will probably take several years of hard work and re-recruitment and training.

After doing all this, Yu Longzi brought a group of disciples to perform rituals on the high altar of the City God Temple.

They used rituals to ward off disasters and eliminate plague.

This method is mainly used to eliminate the plague and control it from the source, so the root of the plague is indispensable. For example, after a war, Taoists will perform this method on the corpses on the battlefield.

Of course, this method only isolates the source, and it still needs to be combined with medical skills and medicines to completely eliminate it.

The people of Xiangyang City also learned about this.

Although all the streets in the city were closed, they stayed at home and burned incense and worshiped in the direction of the City God Temple.

Except for crazy people, everyone hopes that the plague will pass quickly.

The ritual lasted from morning to evening, and finally, the rotten and moldy piece of nanmu wood turned into ashes in the raging fire with billowing black smoke.

A strong wind suddenly blew up from the river, passing through Xiangyang City, and seemed to blow away all the gloomy air that had been there for many days...

Yu Longzi came down from the altar. Even though he had been performing rituals for a whole day, he was still full of energy. He picked up the map next to him and marked more than a dozen points on it. Then he said in a deep voice:

"Gu Linzi, I have found the remaining source. You should take people to take it all out and burn it on the spot with peach wood."

"If there are any demons trying to stop us, kill them!"

"Yes, Master!"

Gu Linzi bowed in unison, then rode away with a large group of Taoists and hundreds of cavalrymen sent by the garrison to assist.

The war horses rumbled and soon headed towards the dock...

Yu Longzi then turned his head to look at Li Yan, pondered for a moment, and took out a jade bottle from his arms, "These are a few Ganlu disinfection pills, which were refined by the Zhenwu Palace and used some spiritual medicine. Eating them can cure the epidemic. You have other important matters, so you can't delay."

"Thank you, senior."

Li Yan was overjoyed and quickly took the jade bottle, then said goodbye and left.

After they left, Yu Longzi looked solemn. He went to the side room, picked up a pen and wrote a few letters, which he then handed to the disciple next to him.

"Send this letter to the camp of Yunyang Prefecture. Since the demons are causing trouble in Xiangyang, it means they plan to launch a surprise attack from here. Please send troops here, Marshal. We will find out the intelligence and attack Shennongjia from Baokang County!"

As he spoke, his eyes were filled with murderous intent...

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In the side room of the Duweisi courtyard.

Wang Daoxuan and Sha Lifei were lying on the bed. Their faces were blue and purple, their mouths were full of moss, and even their breathing was a little difficult.

After Li Yan came back, he immediately asked the two to take the pills.

Ganlu Disinfection Pill is a commonly used medicine for treating plague, but after the medicinal ingredients inside were replaced with magical medicine, it immediately had magical effects.

The two men first vomited, and the moss mixed with gastric juice quickly turned black and rotten, and then they drank several large basins of water in succession.

After squatting in the toilet for half a day, the skin color had returned to normal when I came out.

"How about it?"

Li Yan asked quickly.

"much better."

Wang Daoxuan's face was still a little pale, but there was a gleam in his eyes. He smiled bitterly and said, "I'm sorry for dragging you down this time."

Li Yan shook his head and said, "What nonsense are you talking about, Taoist priest?"

At this moment, Wu Degui came running over, looking extremely angry, "He confessed! That old man Yu Chenzi confessed!"

"Another person in charge in the city is Master Lu from Longzhong Academy. They used a sleight of hand to kidnap Doctor Li from the government office. He is now hiding in Lumen Mountain..."

"Mr. Lu?"

A figure emerged in Li Yan's mind. It was the old Confucian scholar who stepped forward to stop the turmoil in the city.

Seeing his righteousness, I didn't expect that he was also a demon.

The last name is Lu...

Could it be the scholar who killed King Nanmu?

　The second update will be sent in the afternoon

　　
　
(End of this chapter)