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Chapter 244: Kaizhang Saint King

"Is the blue ghost hand related to that supreme ghost god?"

Chen Shi said goodbye to A Zhuo and walked towards the cliff.

Is the owner of the ghost hand the supreme ghost god?
He felt a little melancholy. When his grandfather saw him standing on the head of the supreme ghost god, was it an illusion or did it really happen?
If it really happened, then why was he standing on the head of the Supreme Ghost?
Who is the supreme ghost and god?
What is his relationship with Chen Shi? Is Chen Shi his prisoner or his accomplice?

Grandpa later went to the underworld seven more times, each time in search of Chen Shi’s whereabouts. Could it be that he was actually searching for this supreme ghost god, waiting for an opportunity to snatch Chen Shi back from the ghost god’s hands?

When Grandpa took Chen Shi back, why did the Supreme Ghost God hold Chen Shi's heart and squeeze him to death from time to time?

Chen Shi covered his chest with his hands. He had died many times, most of them because of the ghost hand squeezing his heart.

Although this problem has not recurred in the past year, Chen Shi dared not let his guard down at all. After all, his heart was in the hands of someone else, and the other person could kill him whenever he wanted.

"I have been in the underworld for eight years. I must have been captured by the Supreme Ghost and became his prisoner."

Chen Shi was sad and whispered, "I have suffered too much... I must make it up to myself. I can't suffer anymore and I can't be plotted against again!"

At this time, Granny Sha's voice came: "Xiao Shi! Xiao Shi!"

Chen Shi stopped, circulated his internal energy, and stood on the lake. The water surface beneath his feet sank into a smooth arc.

The wooden cart drove towards this side. This time, it did not use its six arms and tongue, but its four wheels turned in the water, and the driving was very stable.

Granny Sha and Hei Guo were in the car. Hei Guo was very excited to see him. He opened his mouth, stuck out his tongue, and wagged his tail vigorously.

"Black pot, just like a dog." Chen Shi thought to himself.

The wooden cart drove to his side, Chen Shi got on, and the wooden cart drove towards the cliffs of Nanhu Lake.

Granny Sha asked him about his experiences in the past few days, saying, "You were captured by Ah Zhuo, but he didn't make things difficult for you, did he?"

Chen Shi recounted his encounter with Ah Zhuo and the conflict with the Banshan Sect, saying, "Grandma, please don't blame Uncle Ah Zhuo wrongly. Those bees and insects are the underworld soldiers. They have repeatedly hunted you down only because you violated the laws of the underworld. They must obey the laws of the underworld. Every time they hunted you down, it was Uncle Ah Zhuo who stopped them."

Granny Sha sneered, "That little bastard said that to you? He can only deceive you, but he can't deceive an old hand like me!"

Having said that, her expression softened a lot.

Chen Shi said, "Uncle Ah Zhuo became the Underworld Marshal by chance when he teamed up with you to go into the underworld to look for me last time. He has been worried about meeting you and having to perform the duties of the Underworld Marshal over the years, so he has distanced himself from you. He cares about you very much."

Granny Sha's expression became more relaxed, and she sneered, "He's just talking. Every time I come to Da Nan Lake, I'm chased away by the bees he raises. They're so ferocious."

She smiled and said, "But I won't bother with him. Ah Zhuo, are you okay?"

She couldn't help asking, "Eight years ago, when we went to the underworld, he was the one who carried us back. He was also seriously injured. He used to run with us, but he had never done such a dangerous job. We always asked him to keep watch..."

Chen Shi said: "Uncle Azhuo should be close to achieving Mahayana."

Granny Sha breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile, "He is incredibly talented. He can learn anything once he learns it, and he can understand everything once he understands it. It is natural for him to break through to the Mahayana realm. When Chen Yindu brought him here, I was shocked. He didn't look very smart..."

Chen Shi listened to her talk about the past with a smile on his face.

That was thirty years ago, Granny Sha had not yet been abandoned by her husband Xiang Yunfei, she was still a beautiful woman, and had made amazing achievements in the soul. Hu Xiaoliang was not dead yet, but he was worried about his end of life every day, and Du Yiran was still walking around the streets, carving tombstones for people.

At that time, Qingyang liked to follow Du Yiran and eat grass on graves everywhere.

At that time, after being beaten up by a group of people, the Creator Xiaowu disguised himself very well and became Chen Yindu's assistant.

Ah Zhuo looked as stupid as an ox, but everyone was shocked by this ten-year-old boy. His talent was so high that apart from being too honest, there was nothing wrong with him.

Even the Creator Xiaowu tried many times to attack Ah Zhuo and study the structure of his brain, but was interrupted by Du Yiran who always doubted him and failed.

They went in search of the lost Chinese gods, trying to decipher the talismans and seals that had been lost during the era of the True King, and searching for the mysteries hidden in these talismans and seals.

They encountered great dangers and nearly lost their lives many times. It was through these adventures and experiences that Ah Zhuo gradually grew up, and his cultivation strength became stronger and stronger.

They used to treat him as a little boy, but gradually he became one of them.

Chen Shi blinked his eyes and said, "Grandma, Uncle Zhuo said that he is not among the five evil men in Wuhu. Grandma, you are among the five evil men."

Granny Sha sneered, "Did he tell you? The five evil men are all men, and I'm a woman, so he definitely wasn't talking about me. Ah Zhuo lied to you, don't be fooled by his honest appearance."

She sighed, "It's a pity for Qingyang. He was young and could have lived for more than a thousand years... I told him not to chew the grass on the grave, not to chew the grass on the grave! But he didn't listen and chewed it anyway!"

She gritted her teeth in anger and sneered, "In the end, you gave yourself up! You deserved it!"

As they were talking, they arrived at the foot of the cliff.

Chen Shi remembered Ah Zhuo's instructions and climbed up the cliff along the black iron chain.

The wooden cart could not go up, so he and the black pot stayed down there. Granny Sha was old but very agile, and followed him to the cliff.

Xuanyan is a suspended island of 800 to 900 acres in radius, which looks like it flew out of the Great South Lake, and is chained by gods and demons to prevent it from flying out of the sky. The island is covered with moss everywhere, even on the trees, and it is very moist.

Walking on the cliffs, the air is fresh and the mountains and rivers are beautiful.

There are actually some people chopping firewood here, but it is difficult to carry the firewood down because there is moss on the chains, which are very slippery and you can easily fall down if you are not careful.

Chen Shi was very confused. How were they going to transport the firewood?
Granny Sha said, "They are the people who live here. This place is not big, but there are six or seven villages."

Chen Shi was surprised and asked, "They live here? How can they get down?"

"It's inconvenient to go down, so I won't go down."

Granny Sha smiled and said, "It is difficult for the government officials to come and collect taxes, so we can survive."

Chen Shi said seriously: "It is difficult for the government to come in, but it is easy for evil spirits to come in. How do they deal with evil spirits?"

"Just follow me and you'll find out."

Granny Sha brought Chen Shi to the temple on the cliff. It turned out that the villages on the cliff were built next to this temple!

There was an offering table in front of the temple, with incense and candles lit, and the aroma of the incense drifted into the temple.

This temple is the godmother of all the villages on the cliff!

Chen Shi was very surprised. He had seen hundreds of godmothers, but this was the first time he had seen an entire temple as his godmother!

There were talismans painted on the wall outside the temple gate. Chen Shi walked up and looked at it for a moment, and then he was sure that the talismans were painted by his grandfather.

This talisman is a purification talisman that can dispel living spirits and ghosts. People are not allowed to get close to it. If they get close, they will kneel down and retreat.

Of course, this kind of talisman is only used to protect people who have no cultivation. It will not be of much use when encountering people with an indestructible will.

Granny Sha opened the temple door and led him into the temple.

Chen Shi came to the courtyard and looked around. He saw that the temple was quite large, covering an area of ​​more than ten acres. There was a big tree planted in the temple yard, and its canopy covered an area of ​​about six or seven acres. There were a few smaller trees in the corners around it.

These big trees just blocked the temple, preventing the sunlight from shining in. Chen Shi looked up. Although he could see the sunlight through the dense leaves, the eyes of the true God should not be able to notice this place.

The temple is located right in the center of the cliff, and the chains that hold the cliff are buried at the four corners of the temple.

Chen Shi's heart was moved: "It seems that what Uncle Zhuo said is true. It seems that something is suppressed here. Moreover, it was suppressed during the era of the True King."

Granny Sha led him into the temple and said, "Don't guess blindly. Your grandfather brought people from the heavenly court here and explored this place. We have verified that the temple is from the era of the True King. There is a deep pit below the temple. It is freezing cold and bottomless, leading directly to the inside of the cliff. The people who built the temple dug a well in this deep pit, and the wellhead is in the temple."

Chen Shi saw the well. It was an iron well with walls made of black iron. The well mouth was about ten feet wide and outside was a well base with a layout of the Iron Bagua.

In addition to the hexagrams, there are also some ancient seal characters, such as "Xun is as fast as lightning, inspiring wind and thunder", "Hui Zai Changsheng, and He Xian with Tao", "Turning marshes into mountains, as easy as pie" and so on (taken from the ancestral temple of Bai Yuchan at Wenbi Peak in Hainan).

Chen Shi read them one by one, was slightly startled, and thought to himself: "This is the formula about the Eight Trigrams and the Hedao realm!"

Unfortunately, the Iron Bagua has only eight sides, and there are too few mantras of the Hedao realm recorded on them. It is impossible to deduce the content of the Hedao realm based on these scattered mantras.

He came to the mouth of the well and looked inside. It was pitch black and he couldn't see the bottom of the well. He could only see the biting cold wind blowing out of the well.

Outside the well, there is an iron bagua, which should be the well cover, but no one knows who threw it aside.

Even if there was something suppressed in the well, it would have escaped long ago.

"We went down to the bottom of the well and found nothing."

Granny Sha said, "I don't know who opened this well, and I don't know where the things in the well have gone."

Chen Shi speculated: "Could it be that the prehistoric demon god is suppressed in the cliff? Otherwise, why would the people of the True King era build a temple specifically to suppress it?"

Granny Sha smiled and said, "I don't know about that. Even though the things in the well escaped, isn't the world still peaceful? Nothing major has happened."

Chen Shi nodded slightly.

The things in the well might have been killed in the furnace long ago, or escaped and been eliminated by someone.

He came to a large hall with a plaque in front of it that read "Kaizhang Shengwang Hall".

"Kaizhang Saint King? Is he also a god from China?"

Chen Shi stopped for a moment and walked into the hall. The shrine in the center was empty, without any statues of gods, only an extraordinary power floating around.

"After the True King era ended, the incense here has never stopped, but no divine image has ever taken shape."

Granny Sha followed him into the hall and said, "It's a pity that the extraordinary power of this place has been lost. Your grandfather left a heroic spirit talisman in the shrine, but after all these years, the heroic spirit of this place has not been awakened."

Chen Shi looked at the shrine carefully. There was indeed a talisman of a heroic spirit on the wall of the shrine, which condensed the extraordinary power of this place.

But because there was no consciousness left, the extraordinary power in the shrine could not be condensed.

The extraordinary power here is so strong that the village on the cliff worships their godmother, and the incense and smoke flow into this shrine, causing the divine power in the shrine to gather and form a bowl of bright liquid at the bottom, emitting divine light!

Chen Shi had never seen such a situation in other ancient temples!

“God is dead.”

Granny Sha leaned against the door frame and muttered, "The gods from China are all dead. We have been searching for them in heaven for so many years, but we haven't found a single living one..."

Her face was gloomy and she stopped talking.

Chen Shi's heart moved slightly. He took out the Western King's Jade Seal, bowed, and offered the seal as a sacrifice.

"...During the time of the True King, demons were rampant and chaos arose. The Holy King was established and cultivated land with slash-and-burn methods, created fertile fields, suppressed demons' dens, and protected Nanhu and opened up Zhangzhou. Now, I, Chen Shi, have inherited the True King's will and awakened the Holy King. On behalf of the True King, I have appointed the Holy King of Opening Zhangzhou as the God of the Great Nanhu Lake, to protect the 800-li waters of Nanhu Lake and ensure the well-being of the people and the good weather and good harvests."

He activated the Western King's Jade Seal, which flew up but had nowhere to land.

The scene of Kaizhang Shengwang Temple was different from any ancient temple he had encountered before. Those ancient temples all had divine images gathered there, but here there were only shrines and extraordinary powers, but no divine images.

Chen Shi hesitated for a moment, and then placed the Jade Seal of the King of the West on the pool of water formed by the extraordinary power in the shrine.

The pool of holy water shone brightly, reflecting the words on the treasure seal.

The Imperial Edict of Heaven will forever govern the Western Wilderness.

The eight words appeared in the shrine and lingered for a long time.

Chen Shi took out three incense sticks and walked forward to burn them.

The aroma of incense drifted towards the shrine, but gradually formed a vague figure in the shrine, as if it would dissipate with a breeze.

Granny Sha was originally leaning on the doorstep, watching Chen Shi's actions coldly, but when she saw this scene, she couldn't help but be moved.

"The Jade Seal of the Western King is only a treasure for Fengshan. It is the power of the king. It cannot gather the gods! It was Xiao Shi who held incense and worshipped that allowed the gods to appear in the shrine!"

She was confused and her eyes fell on Chen Shi.

"We have also worshipped before, but no divine image has formed in the shrine! Why did the Holy King of Kaizhang begin to condense a divine image when Little Eleven worshipped? Could it be Little Ten's godmother... Who is his godmother?"

Granny Sha calmed down and also stepped forward to burn incense, saying, "There are several villages on the cliff that worship the Holy King as their godmother. This temple is constantly popular with people, and the Holy King's divine appearance will surely take shape quickly. Xiao Shi, we should go back."

Chen Shi nodded and left the cliff with her.

They took a wooden cart back to Qianyang Mountain. Just as they were out of Xuanyan County, a paper crane suddenly flew over, flapping its wings, and landed on Chen Shi's arm.

Chen Shi unfolded the paper crane and found it was a letter from Li Tianqing.

He read it carefully. In the letter, Li Tianqing said that his progress in practicing in the ancient temple these days was improving rapidly.

He also mentioned some interesting things. The ancient temple he found had a spiritual field in the temple with magical medicine. In the middle of the night, a little boy in a yellow shirt would run out. He was only half a foot tall and would fight with a little boy in a black hat in another spiritual field. The fight was fierce and there were occasional casualties.

He went to mediate the fight between the two sides and resolve their conflicts. Only then did he know that the boys in yellow shirts were called Huang Jing'er, and the boys in black hats were called Wu Tou'er. The two families had long-standing grudges against each other for the sacred land in the temple, and they often fought and killed each other.

Both sides were grateful for Li Tianqing's mediation, so they gave him some essence fruits.

After he took it, his cultivation level greatly increased, and his lifespan exceeded the five hundred years limit.

"Growing magical herbs in the temple may prolong one's lifespan," Li Tianqing wrote in the letter.

Chen Shi's heart was moved, and he asked, "Grandma, how many years do you have left to live?"

Granny Sha laughed, very happily, and raised two fingers: "I can still live for another 24 years!"

Chen Shi's heart was pounding. If Li Tianqing's guess was correct, he might have found a way to extend the life of cultivators like Granny Sha!

"I'll verify it when we get back to Qianyang Mountain!"

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