On the Avenue.

Chapter 186: Lotus can be picked in the underworld, and the lotus leaves are so lush

Chen Shi said seriously, "There is really no need to continue investigating Hongshan Hall."

Yu Tiancheng heard the hidden meaning in his words and said earnestly, "You don't need to investigate further. This young man holds great power in the big clan, and is basically the candidate for the next clan leader. In the big clan, people who serve in the court seem to have a very high status, but in fact they are still not as high as the clan leader. They are just people who speak for the clan. If you compare this person with Li Tianqing, you will know the difference in status."

The Li family of Quanzhou is also one of the thirteen families.

Li Tianqing got the Purple Jade Divine Embryo, a natural talent, but his status in the Li family was not very high, he could only receive 50 taels of monthly salary. As for the family status, he had none, at most he was just a key disciple.

However, this young master of Yudu holds the real power. He owns large-scale industries in other places and employs a group of people who are dedicated to searching for treasures for him. He can even mobilize cultivators in the Spirit Transformation Realm to investigate cases!
Li Tianqing's status is a world apart from his!

Chen Shi smiled and said, "I understand, Hall Master, don't worry."

Yu Tiancheng was still worried and said, "I was just like you back then. I was a rookie with a lot of enthusiasm, but I ran into obstacles everywhere and got hurt. Later, the queen was born and killed many people. No one dared to kill the queen because they all thought that this blood Tai Sui was about to become a demon.

"If the queen turned into a demon, she would devour Gongzhou, and millions of people would die without a burial place. I was just a small talisman master at that time, and I thought of sacrificing my life for justice, so I went to see the queen, intending to fight her. I didn't expect that when I met the queen, I found that she just couldn't control her strength and emotions.

"I taught her how to control her power and emotions, and brought her back to Gongzhou to establish Hongshan Hall. But it is not easy to survive in Gongzhou. Even if you have justice in your heart, you will still have a hard time. If Hongshan Hall wants to survive, it must rely on the government. Therefore, I pay a lot of silver to the officials of Gongzhou every year."

He paused and said, "Scholar, I cannot change the world, so I will depend on it and coexist with it, but at the same time I will stick to my own moral principles!"

He patted Chen Shi on the shoulder and said, "Sometimes, you can't change the world, you need to rely on it and coexist with it."

Chen Shi was touched and said, "Thank you for your advice."

Yu Tiancheng smiled and said, "The gathering of scattered people is about to end, what are your plans?"

Chen Shi said: "After Tianqing is over, we will return to Gongzhou first and then to Xinxiang. Gongzhou has undergone a demonic transformation, so it is impossible to take the autumn examination. We can only go home and wait for news."

Yu Tiancheng nodded gently: "The two elders Han Qian are also planning to go to Gongzhou. I want to follow them to practice, so I will go first. Even if you fail to pass the imperial examination, it doesn't matter. There will be next time. When I pass the examination, maybe we can take the examination together."

Chen Shi was also helpless. It was supposed to be an examination, but he never expected so many accidents to happen, which resulted in him having no place to display his talents.

Otherwise, I would definitely be the champion of Gongzhou and number one on the list in this examination!

"Bad luck." He sighed in his heart.

These days, Li Tianqing was obsessed with listening to lectures and rarely showed up. After the gathering of the scattered people ended, some of them were still not satisfied and stayed on the mountain to continue exchanging Taoist teachings. These people were often Taoist enthusiasts who studied deeply, so Li Tianqing was naturally reluctant to give up this opportunity.

Chen Shi waited for him to go back to Xinxiang together. He got bored and suddenly remembered something. He called Hei Guo and said, "Hei Guo, if we go to the underworld from different places, does that mean the geography of the underworld is also different?"

He went to the underworld many times, and each time he went to a different place. The first time was when he was sick and died, and the underworld he went to was a place full of fog and monsters. The second time was when he was eaten by Dayun in Dejiang River and went to Wangchuan River.

The third time he entered the underworld was when Gongzhou died, and he found it was a swampy lotus field.

Also, when the black pot entered the underworld from the stove in Hongshan Hall, the place was also different.

Hei Guo nodded seriously.

Chen Shi pondered, "So, the location of the lotus field should be between Fenghuangling and Gongzhou. However, from the perspective of the underworld, the territory is extremely vast and boundless. Could it be that the space between the Yin and Yang worlds is different in size? Black Pot, can you open the underworld again?"

"Wang!"

Hei Guo stood up and started to work. Chen Shi looked over and saw Gou Zi moving stones and building a stove. He soon built a stone stove. He also pulled Chen Shi's rice pot out of the wooden cart and placed it on the stove.

Gouzi took out an axe from the car and ran to chop wood.

Chen Shi watched it busy itself. He saw Hei Guo prepare firewood, take out salt, open its mouth and spit out a flame under the stove to light the firewood.

"My dog ​​can breathe fire?!"

Chen Shi was stunned, but then he was not surprised at all.

The blame can even go to hell, so what’s the big deal about spitting out a little fire? Is it worth making a fuss about?
Hei Guo grabbed a handful of salt and sprinkled it into the flames under the stove, and scenes from the underworld suddenly appeared in the flames.

Chen Shi leaned over to take a look, and saw that the underworld that appeared in the fire was not a swamp lotus field, but the road leading to the mysterious Yuanchen Palace.

The book full of nonsense that Gou Zi secretly read every day was taken out from the Yuanchen Palace.

"Black Pot's stove spell should only be able to go to a certain place, not to the lotus field."

When Chen Shi thought of this, he was moved and asked, "Black Pot, why does your stove magic only lead to this underworld palace?"

Black Pot raised his claws and scratched his head, indicating that he didn't know either. When it grows to a certain age, the power hidden in its blood will automatically awaken, and the memory of its ancestors hidden in its blood will also be revived, allowing it to naturally master some wonderful magical powers.

Of course, some magical powers require further learning and consolidation, otherwise they will not be able to be controlled independently.

When its bloodline awakened, a stove spell suddenly appeared in its mind. By casting the spell and entering the underworld, it could see the Yuanchen Palace.

Chen Shi pinched his chin and guessed, "Hei Guo, I think your parents or your grandfather are very powerful. They planted memories in your blood so that you can find this palace. Hei Guo, you may not be a dog!"

He looked solemn, holding the dog's head, looking directly into the dog's eyes, and said solemnly: "You may be another species!"

Hei Guo pushed his hand away and barked at him twice.

Chen Shi smiled and said, "Don't be so quick to deny it. Maybe you really are not a dog! Black Pot, do you have any other magic that can enter the underworld?"

Hei Guo paused for a moment, then turned into a gust of cold wind and disappeared.

When the cold wind came howling, the dog appeared again.

Chen Shi's eyes lit up, and his breathing became a little rapid: "Can you take me to the underworld?"

Hei Guo motioned for him to ride on his back. Chen Shi rode on the dog's back, attracting several people who had not yet left to stop and look. Someone sneered in a low voice: "Rotten crotch..."

Before he finished speaking, a gust of cold wind blew out from under Hei Guo's feet and whistled into the underworld. Chen Shi felt his crotch was empty and he sat down on the ground.

Hei Guo appeared again, stepping on the cold wind, with his mouth open and his tongue smacking, looking at Chen Shi, as if wondering why you don't go with me?

"No, your magic cannot take people into the underworld."

Chen Shi thought about it and decided that apart from the altar at Taiping Gate, only Grandma Sha had a way to enter the underworld.

The Taiping Gate had been uprooted by him. Although the altar was still there, without the blood of the exotic beasts, and no one knew what magic they had, it would be difficult to restore it.

Granny Sha and Little Dingxiang disappeared, presumably having returned to Gongzhou before him.

"Moreover, Granny Sha's magic often sends a person's soul to the underworld. To send a person's real body to the underworld requires a big fanfare, using altars and the like... Wait a minute!"

Chen Shi was in a daze, and suddenly thought of the key point. Was the reason why he failed to enter the underworld when riding the dog just now because of his physical body?

If he rides a dog in spirit form, can he enter the underworld?

Chen Shi was very excited and told Gou Zi about it immediately.

Black Pot was puzzled: "Woof?" "It's very simple. I use the Soul Puller to pull my soul out of my body."

Chen Shi immediately performed the Soul-Pulling Attraction, which was derived from the Soul-Pulling Talisman, and was also a kind of talisman. When he performed it as a spell, it became the Soul-Pulling Attraction.

Chen Shi sat cross-legged, made the outer binding seal with his hands, crossed his hands, pressed his thumbs together, raised them above his head, and tapped lightly on his forehead a few times. As his arms gradually rose, he slowly stood up.

Chen Shi put down his hands, looked down, and saw another himself sitting on the ground.

That self is his physical body.

And now Chen Shi is just his soul, which was pulled out by his own spell.

If an ordinary person's soul was pulled out of the body, it would be afraid of the wind and sun, but the wind was strong and the sun was scorching on the top of the mountain, but Chen Shi didn't feel anything.

He took more than four hundred soul-resurrection lotuses, and his soul became extremely stable and as strong as a golden elixir.

Although the Soul-Returning Lotus originates from the underworld and the lotus fields are extremely vast, it is absolutely a rare item in the world of the living. Not many cultivators have even heard of it, let alone eaten it.

If you are lucky enough to get one or half a plant, you have to combine it with various elixirs and do your best to bring out the medicinal power of the Resurrection Lotus, for fear of wasting even a single bit.

Is there anyone like Chen Shi who eats peonies as if they were his meal?

Chen Shi's soul sat on the back of the black pot. The black pot cast a spell again, and a cold wind blew. Chen Shi immediately saw the black wind swirling around him and the black pot. The black wind blew so fast that it actually showed a texture like black lines, whistling and swirling, as if it had grown hair.

And beyond the black wind is an endless lotus field!

Black Pot leaped forward, carrying him out of the howling wind, and the next moment they appeared in the boundless swamp.

The moment the dog jumped out of the cold wind, his body quickly became extremely huge, and flames burned all over his body. Thick black smoke rose above the flames, like a moving mountain of fire.

The big dog was puffing smoke from its mouth and nose as it stepped on the swamp, but it did not sink into it.

Chen Shi was originally sitting on the dog's back. The dog suddenly became so huge, but he did not change, and he almost slipped off. He quickly grabbed a piece of dog hair to avoid falling.

The dog hair was as thick as his arm, and thick smoke and flames were coming out of the holes in the hair.

Oddly enough, the flame was not hot at all, and the black smoke was not choking.

He is now in ghost state, so naturally he has no physical feelings.

"Black Pot, the ears of the giant ghost here are extremely sensitive. We can't make any noise, otherwise it will alarm him."

Chen Shi climbed from the dog's back to the dog's ear and whispered in his ear, "I'm going to pick lotus, don't walk around casually."

He slid down from the black pot's back, and halfway down, he leaped and landed lightly on the swamp.

The big dog sat on the swamp with its butt tilted back, watching its ant-sized little master walking around in the swamp on tiptoe, being very careful for fear of disturbing the ghosts in the sky.

The sky above the lotus field suddenly opened slowly to a line that was more than ten feet long, and then slowly opened wider and wider.

A light snoring sound, like thunder, was heard in the air again.

That was the sound made by the giant ghost pretending to sleep.

The ghost had been alarmed by them and woke up. Just as he was about to kill the thief who stole the white lotus, he suddenly caught a glimpse of the big black dog. His heart was shocked and he quickly closed his eyes.

There was a thumping sound of heartbeats in the sky, very fast and urgent, like the beating of a drum. It was the heartbeat of the ghost because it was too nervous.

"Why are you here again?"

The ghost secretly groaned. The last time this dog showed up, it was scared half to death and had to hide back in the sky.

It had heard of the dog.

It is said that a giant dog with flames all over its body has been appearing in the underworld recently. It has been rampaging all the way, biting to death many ghosts that are more powerful than it, and has hardly encountered any rivals.

Many ghosts and gods heard about this and lay in ambush, preparing to capture the beast, but the giant dog bit several of them to death or injured them, and they escaped.

The last time it saw the giant dog rushing towards it, it thought its life was in danger, but it didn't expect the dog to catch a ghost and run away, allowing it to save its life.

After just a few days of peace, I didn't expect that the dog would come back with that little ghost!

Isn't this torturing the ghost?
After a long time, the huge ghost secretly opened one eye, wanting to see if Hei Guo and Chen Shi had left. Unexpectedly, when he opened his eyes, he saw that the dog was still sitting there, with its head tilted and looking up at him.

"Boom, boom, boom!"

The giant ghost's heart was beating wildly, and he quickly closed his eyes, complaining: "I'm just a gardener, why bother a little ghost like me? Why are you staring at me?"

Chen Shi was startled when he heard the heartbeat like a drum. He looked up at the sky quickly, only to see that it was dark and the heartbeat was coming from the sky.

"It turned out to be a nightmare. My heart was pounding with fear."

Chen Shi was relieved and continued to pick lotus. He picked and ate lotus and thought to himself, "Do ghosts also have nightmares?"

Ghosts are underworld creatures that possess physical bodies and are presumably the cause of nightmares.

Although the lotus field was large, there were not too many soul-returning lotuses. Seeing that the ghost had been sleeping and had not come out, Chen Shi gradually became bolder and went to a farther place to pick lotuses.

The giant ghost knew that something was wrong, so he let the boy take it off, fearing that he would be punished if his superiors checked.

But every time it opened its eyes, it saw Hei Guo looking at it with his head tilted, as if to kill it if it dared to come down.

"No matter how good the lotus field is, it is not as important as my own life!" The giant ghost thought to himself, and decided to turn a blind eye and continue to sleep soundly.

It was also a big ghost, and after a while, it actually fell asleep.

When Chen Shi ate his own soul, it glowed white. Black Pot came over and signaled him to go back quickly, otherwise he would die of starvation if he stayed away from his body for too long. Chen Shi quickly climbed onto its back, and Black Pot took him back to the world of the living, stepping on the black wind.

Chen Shi quickly returned to his body, only to find that another day had passed and he was indeed extremely hungry.

Hei Guo put on an apron and went to cook, and Chen Shi came forward to help.

After eating and drinking their fill, Hei Guo washed the pots and dishes, then took Chen Shi into the underworld to continue picking lotus.

After six or seven days, there were fewer and fewer people wandering around the mountain. Chen Shi had also been eating for six or seven days, and he had swallowed countless white lotuses. His soul also changed from emitting white light to emitting golden light, which was so golden that he looked like a golden Buddha.

Chen Shi ate white lotus again, but felt that it was of little use to his soul. He knew that he might have reached the limit of his soul, so he had to pick some more and prepare to sell them for money.

The huge ghost watched the man and the dog leave, and waited anxiously for a long time, but they did not come back. He waited for a few more days, but Chen Shi still did not come back. Finally, he was completely relieved, and when he thought of the sad thing, tears fell like rain.

"Taking care of the vegetable garden is too difficult. You could lose your life at any time!"

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