On the Avenue.

Chapter 352 Chen Zhuangyuan's Insecurity
Tong Qianshou was just about to throw away the Qiankun bag in his hand, and Sang Xixi had not yet had time to leave. The two of them stared at the scene in a daze.

Sang Xixi was already prepared to go back and inform the old sect leader Tong Qianshou of his death and announce herself as the next sect leader. She even imagined her fellow brothers and sisters competing for the position of sect leader, her uncles and aunts jumping out to disrupt the situation, and herself tearfully sending them to death with gunpowder.

However, before she left, the battle was over.

Is the top scorer in the Jinke exam really that amazing?
They don’t care at all about who is the top scorer in the imperial examination. The top scorers in all dynasties are all children of powerful and noble families. What does it have to do with them who the top scorer is?

They didn't care about the affairs of the court at all.

What the Medicine King Sect has to do is to collect medicinal materials from all over, refine elixirs, and pass down the things from their ancestors.

But this year's top scholar Chen seems to be a bit wild.

Not only is his path wild, but his strength is also extremely high. Pi Chi is a high-level bloodline among ghosts and monsters, with amazing strength, but he was killed by Chen Shi in just a moment!

All the actions that the two of them had planned before, including sacrificing themselves with 200 kilograms of gunpowder to die together with Pi Chi, were of no use!
What's more, what shocked them even more was that the magic used by Chen Zhuangyuan to kill these ghosts and gods was definitely not human magic, it was not orthodox at all, but rather like the legendary magic.

Because the bodies of the ghosts and gods who died in his hands were shriveled up like mummies, as if all the vitality had been sucked away!
This method is definitely not the right way!
Chen Zhuangyuan definitely doesn't look like a good person!
However, it seems that there is nothing wrong with Chen Shiyong coming to save people.

"Did he really awaken the Medicine King's spirit?" Tong Qianshou thought to himself.

In the past year or so, when the disciples of the Medicine King Sect offered sacrifices to the Medicine King, they could always feel an inexplicable force responding to them, but they could not find the source. The Medicine King was the ancestor of their lineage. If Chen Shi was really the one who awakened the ancestor's spirit, no matter how he repaid him, it would not be too much.

This was also the reason why Tong Qianshou had planned to risk his life to help.

Even if Chen Shi was practicing magic, he didn't care.

Chen Shi stood there motionless.

Just now, his killing of Pi Chi seemed reckless, but in fact, it was a careful calculation and arrangement. He first killed the ghosts and gods around Pi Chi as quickly as possible, absorbing their blood and energy to strengthen the sword energy. When the sword energy was strengthened to the extreme, he used a drop of divine blood and poured the power of the divine blood into the sword energy to break Pi Chi's true body of ghosts and gods, thus achieving success in one fell swoop!
But after Pi Chi was killed, the power in the sword energy would return to himself.

This is the characteristic of the Blood Lake Sutra.

The Blood Lake Sutra plunders and absorbs the blood, spirit and soul of others, strengthens the practitioner's own cultivation strength, and strengthens the Blood Lake Hell. Therefore, the blood plundered after killing will feed back to the practitioner. The soul of the person who was killed will also be plundered and imprisoned in the Blood Lake Hell for salvation!

The power contained in that drop was so strong that it now returned with Pi Chi's blood and energy, wanting to bless him and the blood pool with all of it!
Fortunately, Chen Shi killed Pi Chi and seized his soul, turning the blood pool into a blood lake. The blood lake hell then started to operate, swallowing up Changhong and absorbing the excess power.

At the same time, the Blood Lake Scripture was repairing his bone cracks at an astonishing speed!

But the remaining power was still extremely terrifying. Chen Shi's skeleton had just recovered when a crackling sound came out, and cracks appeared on his bones again!

Then the Blood Lake Hell started to work, and Chen Shi's bones recovered again, but the next moment there was another crackling sound, and even bone fragments flew everywhere!

The strange thing is that when these bone fragments flew out, they were connected by blood and energy, pulling them back and re-forming complete bones.

Suddenly, Chen Shi raised his foot and walked towards the birdcage on the ground. The moment his left foot was raised, his left leg exploded and countless broken bones flew around. When his body leaned forward, the broken bones flew back and formed into leg bones again.

Chen Shi raised his right foot, and his right leg exploded with a snap. The broken bones flew back when it hit the ground, forming a complete right leg.

He walked towards the birdcage, and various parts of his body kept exploding, reorganizing, exploding again, and reorganizing again.

After each reorganization, the skeleton body becomes more stable than before, which is equivalent to being tempered a thousand times!
There were even traces of divinity in the divine blood, which were also refined into the skeleton.

Not only that, his soul also continued to crack under the influence of this powerful force, but then healed again!
Every time he recovered from an injury, he could feel that his spirit was more stable than before, especially his soul, which was constantly getting stronger!

"Establishing the Blood Lake Hell and converting these evil ghosts and gods is indeed a great merit and will help me improve my cultivation!"

Chen Shi came to the birdcage with a kind heart. The power in the divine blood was gradually absorbed by him. The blood lake behind his brain also became much larger, and his cultivation became more powerful than before.

He opened the bird cage, and Peng Yaner cried, "Brother Chen Shi, they captured Brother Peng Ju and forced him to hand over the Blood Lake Sutra!"

Chen Shi inquired carefully and found out that all the ghosts and gods in Tianchi Kingdom were illiterate. Although they had many ancestral skills, they were all in the dark and could not practice. They could only rely on blood awakening to improve themselves. After Pengju returned to the East Palace, the people of the East Palace went to investigate the whereabouts of Mu Gui and Shen Shen. They found him and found out that he knew the Blood Lake Sutra, so they captured Pengju.

"Pengju is illiterate. I was the one who taught him the Blood Lake Sutra. Pengju did not betray me, otherwise Pi Chi would have come to capture me and taken me back to the East Palace." Chen Shi thought to himself.

He and Pengju were just casual acquaintances and they did not have much friendship. He taught the brother and sister the Blood Lake Sutra only because he thought Pengju was simple and Peng Yaner was cute, and that was all.

"If Pengju doesn't betray me, then I won't sit idly by!"

Chen Shi said to Peng Yan'er, "Come with me into the East Palace and rescue your brother. Do you dare?"

"Dare!" Peng Yaner said crisply.

Chen Shi smiled and said, "Okay! Then we will enter the East Palace!"

Tong Qianshou and Sang Xixi listened for a while and finally understood the whole story. Sang Xixi asked in confusion: "How do you know Pengju is imprisoned in the East Palace?"

Before Chen Shi could explain, Tong Qianshou said, "The ghosts and gods here are illiterate, but Pengju knows how to practice. This is of great importance. If the prince learns the Blood Lake Sutra, he can secretly strengthen his strength and soon become the ghost and god with the strongest cultivation in Tianchi. By then, he will not be the prince, but the ruler of Tianchi. Therefore, Pengju can only be imprisoned in the prince's East Palace. Can the prince be assured if he is imprisoned in other places?"

Sang Xixi suddenly realized.

Chen Shi said to the two of them, "Master Tong, Steward Sang, I still need to go to Tianchi Capital to rescue people, so I can't accompany you to see your ancestor. After you return to the Yang, you can go to Xinxiang County in Qianyang Mountain to see Magistrate Hu. Magistrate Hu will take you to see Sha Qiutong, and she will lead you to the Medicine King Ancestral Temple."

Tong Qianshou thanked him again and again.

Sang Xixi pulled him aside and said, "Are we really going to go back to see the ancestor? Are we not going to help?"

Tong Qianshou said: "It is important to see the master. Our Yaowang Sect has been declining over the years, and most of the inheritance of the master has been lost. Now we finally have the opportunity to revive the sect. How can we give up?"

Sang Xixi said: "Chen Zhuangyuan first awakened our Medicine King Sect's ancestor and told us where the ancestral temple is. How can we just watch them go to the East Palace to die? If they go to save people, we in the Medicine King Sect must help them."

Tong Qianshou hesitated for a moment and said, "Go back and tell the elders in the sect that you will temporarily take over the position of the Sect Master of Medicine King Sect. If I come back alive, I will continue to be the Sect Master. If I don't come back alive, you will be the Sect Master."

Sang Xixi said with a smile: "Master, you are so easy to ask for help. You are not as familiar with Tianchi Country as I am. They don't look very smart, and you are also stupid. Wouldn't it be a death wish if you go there?"

Tong Qianshou was so angry that he wished he could die immediately in front of her.

Sang Xixi continued: "So, you go back to see the master, and I will go to help them. At least there is some chance of winning." Tong Qianshou hesitated.

Sang Xixi smiled and said, "If you let me go back, there will definitely be someone in Yaowang Sect who will compete with me for the position of Sect Master. I will definitely not let them go, and then either poison or use gunpowder to send these senior brothers and sisters to death, and also send a few senior uncles and uncles to death with them. If I secure the position of Sect Master and you come back alive, I will still have to send you to death, which is too much trouble. You might as well go back and I will let them go."

Tong Qianshou knew that she meant well, so he could only say: "Go with them and help them save people. If you come back alive, I will make you the next leader of the sect."

"A word is settled!"

The two of them hooked their little fingers.

Tong Qianshou took out a stick of incense, and the scent of the incense floated into the air, as if being pulled by something, and suddenly disappeared, as if entering another world.

At Yaowang Sect, the disciples who were guarding the spirit suddenly saw a scent of incense appear in front of the sect master's coffin, floating towards the nostrils of the sect master's body, and hurriedly shouted: "The sect master is back! Hurry up and call back the soul of the sect master!"

The disciples of Yaowang Sect immediately offered up the soul-calling talisman and activated the talisman.

Beside Sang Xixi, Tong Qianshou's incense stick had not yet finished burning when there was a sudden crash and his skeleton fell to the ground. His soul was pulled to the world of the living by the soul-summoning talisman.

Sang Xixi quickly followed Chen Shi and said with a smile, "You two, how do you plan to save people?"

Chen Shi said: "Sneak into the prince's palace, find Pengju, save him, and leave."

Sang Xixi couldn't help laughing and said, "If you go in like this, you will definitely be beaten to death. There are indeed many monk ghosts hanging around in the capital of Tianchi, but they are all wearing clothes. You have to prepare some clothes for yourself."

Peng Yaner said, "I used feathers to weave a set of clothes for Brother Chen Shi, but the ghosts and gods tore it apart."

Sang Xixi shook her head and said, "That won't work. We in Yaowang Sect have a place to stay in Tianchi Country. There are some clothes in it. I'll find you a set. Also, how did you get into the East Palace? It's hard to get in with your identity as a skeleton monk. Even if you can find Pengju and save him, how are you going to leave? You can go back to the world of the living, but the two of them can't go there."

Chen Shi asked, "So, what should we do?"

Sang Xixi smiled and said, "We in the Medicine King Sect have some connections in Tianchi Capital. Many ghosts and gods will look for people from the Medicine King Sect to help them cure diseases. We make money from both the underworld and the world of the living. I can help you sneak into the East Palace. I can't help save people, but I can cover your retreat. We in the Medicine King Sect have gunpowder, which can be used to cover your retreat. But I only have 200 kilograms of gunpowder here, so you have to wait a few days. I'll ask the people from the Medicine King Sect to send more in..."

"How much do you want?" Chen Shi interrupted her.

Sang Xixi looked at him in surprise and said, "You have gunpowder."

Chen Shi smiled and said, “I used to be an ambassador of the Guangjiku in Xijing. I was a little greedy for a firearm and put it in my small temple in case of an emergency.”

Sang Xixi said: "Take it out and let me see if it is enough."

Chen Shi's mind moved slightly, and he released the firearms hidden in the small temple.

Sang Xixi stared blankly at the mountains of bullets, caltrops, cannons, and bags of gunpowder in front of him!
Among them, the caltrops were the most eye-catching. They were much taller than her and extremely huge!
What’s more crucial is that these firearms are all depicted with thunder talismans, and even Yin thunder talismans, making the power of the explosion even more terrifying!
Especially the Yang Lei Talisman, releasing the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder among the ghosts and gods in the underworld, the scene must be spectacular!
"Are you here to save people, or to blow up the East Palace?"

Sang Xixi murmured, "If you keep these things around, aren't you afraid that you'll get blown away?"

Chen Shi was a little embarrassed and explained, "I have been bullied since I was a child, so I have a strong sense of insecurity. I feel at ease when I sleep on the shells."

Sang Xixi glanced at him, doubtful. But then he excitedly opened his Qiankun bag and put the treasures into it. Although Yaowang Sect was also proficient in making gunpowder, they were not proficient in firearms. Although Sang Xixi was a deacon, he often blew up things, but the power was always unsatisfactory.

Chen Shi's firearms were enough for her to have fun.

Chen Shi watched her stuff her big general cannon into her Qiankun bag, and couldn't help but frowned, saying, "You won't be able to use this, right?"

“It’s useful!”

Sang Xixi's voice was trembling. "After returning to Yaowang Sect, I will set it up on the ancestral graves of all the previous sect leaders. Let's see who dares to say anything."

Chen Shi watched as his dragon-headed rocket was also loaded into the firearms by her. He coughed and said, "At least leave one for me... Forget it, you can take them all. My Luban Sect has already started manufacturing these firearms."

Sang Xixi's eyes lit up, and she said hurriedly, "Does Luban Sect still need a leader? The leader's wife will do too! I can betray Yaowang Sect and join Luban Sect immediately!"

Chen Shi felt that this woman was more dangerous than himself, and thought to himself, "If she enters Luban Sect, Sect Master Situ will probably be blown up in a few days."

The huge water that falls from the sky is called Tianpu, and the water flows into lakes of all sizes in Tianchi.

The capital of Tianchi State was built about a hundred miles away from Tianpu Waterfall, and was built by the lake.

There are no city walls or towers here, and the buildings are very random. Whenever the gods and ghosts take a fancy to a piece of land, they can circle it and post a notice. Soon, groups of yakshas, ​​ox-headed ghosts and horse-faced ghosts will come, discuss with the gods and ghosts, and then start building houses.

Different ghosts and gods have different living habits, and the houses they live in are also strange, including buildings, grottoes, and underwater caves.

Apart from the capital of Tianchi, there are villages and towns of all sizes, and villages are often built with remnants.

Those remnants are traces left by prehistoric civilization, huge fragments of magic weapons, towering city walls, broken bridges, ancient roads, and sculptures of ghosts and gods.

The village was built with these things, which was somewhat similar to the godmother culture in the living world. Chen Shi couldn't help but wonder: "Is there evil spirits in the underworld?"

He asked Peng Yan'er, who shook her head and said, "There is no evil spirit. But there is a foggy moon every other month. The foggy moon is very scary. Dead things will come back to life in places covered by fog."

Chen Shi was surprised and asked, "Is there a moon in the underworld?"

He had been to the underworld many times and had never seen the moon in the sky!

"Yes, I have."

Peng Yaner said, "It appears once a month. It is like the eyes of the gloomy grass, with pupils inside. When it appears, it gurgles and spews out thick fog. The fog is high and thick. The houses of our bird tribe must be built above the fog, otherwise we will be eaten."

"Is the moon in the underworld also an eye?"

Chen Shi was even more surprised and looked towards the sky outside the underworld. Could it be that there was also a true god outside the sky in the underworld?
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