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Chapter 403: Keep a Bright Mind (Happy New Year!)

This night was very long for the people in the Qianyang Mountain area. There were strange roars coming from outside the village, and the wind was blowing continuously, which was terrifying. They spent the night in fear and finally waited for the dawn.

Chen Tang, Hu Feifei and others immediately went out to various villages and towns to relocate people.

During the day, as many people as possible should be moved to the mountain where the Qianyang Mountain Monarch Temple is located, so that at night, they can be blessed by the Qianyang Mountain Monarch.

More importantly, there is sunlight shining from the temple, illuminating the entire mountain. It is a rare place for survival!
But it is not an easy task to move these people with their families from cities and towns to the mountains. Some of them are concerned about their property, some are nostalgic, some follow the trend, some negotiate with the government and only move if they are paid, and some want to take all their belongings with them. All kinds of strange things can be encountered.

County Magistrate Hu simply called all the fox spirits in the Hu family's old house over, and the monsters controlled the evil wind, rolled up the people, and sent them into the mountains.

As for building houses on the mountain and reclaiming wasteland, that will be a matter for the future. Let’s get through the current difficulties first.

"Sister Feifei has made a great contribution."

Chen Shi also brought Xiao Linden with him to help relocate the people and appease their hearts. Seeing Hu Feifei busying around, he admired her very much.

Finally, Hu Feifei mobilized the fox spirit of the old Hu family to move the Xinxiang County Government Office and placed it on the top of the mountain.

"In troubled times, if there is no authority, chaos will surely occur. Once the people's hearts are scattered, it will be difficult to gather them again. Sister Feifei has the talent to govern the world."

After settling the people of Xinxiang County, it was almost sunset. Chen Shi and Xiao Linden came to the old willow tree on the loess slope, sat next to the stone tablet godmother, and watched the last rays of sunlight.

Huangpo Village also moved, and even the godmother Sang Yu moved to Shanjun Peak.

The only ones left here are the stone tablet godmother, the old willow tree, and Mr. Zhu.

Chen Shi raised the Heavenly Court Order, opened the Lesser Heavens, and came to the six government offices of Heaven. It was deserted here, without the bustling scenes of the past.

The small universe also became dark and was invaded by Yin Qi. Chen Shi and others had tested that the small universe could connect the fifty provinces of Xiniu New Continent in the mortal world, but in the underworld, it did not have this function.

Chen Shi came to a wall painting and saw someone writing on it with incense ash: "Gentlemen of Heaven, are you all safe? Zhuge Jian, the historian of Heaven, left a message."

Chen Shi stood in front of the painted wall, looking at Zhuge Jian's words, feeling an inexplicable emotion surge in his heart.

He grabbed some incense ash.

"As long as there is hope, there must be a future! Everyone, wait for me. Chen Shi, the True King of Heaven, leaves a message."

He walked alone in the heavenly palace which had already been built to a certain scale, and the voices and smiles of everyone in heaven were still before his eyes.

Chen Shi left Xiaozhutian.

Outside, the sky was on fire and the flames were like blood, covering the entire sky.

Chen Shi looked up at the scene.

Zhu Xiucai was also staring at the sky in a daze.

"The sunset has never been so beautiful," he whispered.

On the distant mountains, the giant snake Xuanshan raised its huge head and looked at the fire clouds surging in the sky, which gradually turned dark red.

Not far away, Granny Zhuang smiled as she watched the souls who came to pay homage to her light incense in the incense burner. She looked up at the sky, and the setting sun disappeared.

She averted her eyes and looked at the giant snake Xuanshan on the next mountain.

"Take care, old friend."

The sky gradually became darker, the distance between the two mountains became farther and farther, and hazy peaks appeared between the two mountains one after another. Strange and powerful ghosts and gods stood on the top of the mountain, looking up to the sky and making earth-shaking roars.

In the sky, the fire clouds dissipated, and a huge bright moon hung low, behind the dispersed fire clouds.

The first night the sun disappeared.

The figure of the Lord of Qianyang Mountain emerged, sitting on the top of Qianyang Mountain, with a yellow tiger crawling under his feet and a halo of light behind his head.

The smell of gunpowder and saltpeter filled the air all around him, and in the halo the Nine Yang Thunder and Fire were stirring, making rumbling thunder sounds.

The moment his figure emerged, the ghosts and gods with bruised faces and bowed their heads in the surrounding dark mountains to express their submission.

Hu Feifei walked forward with incense and inserted the first stick of incense in the incense burner of the Tiger Temple.

The aroma of incense drifted into the temple and merged into the body of Qianyang Mountain Lord.

"Om-"

The roof of the temple was shining brightly, and the sunlight shone down from the roof, dispelling the yin energy all around and allowing almost all the Xinxiang residents on the mountain to bathe in the sunshine.

The temple grew bigger and bigger, like a piece of blue sky covering the mountain. People in the mountain looked up and saw the sun from another time and space, gentle and warm, nourishing their bodies and souls.

Hu Feifei let out a sigh of relief, her voice soft and clear, reaching everyone's ears.

"From today on, we will work at sunrise and rest at sunset, and try not to leave this mountain peak."

She mobilized the talisman masters from the government office and the Xinxiang branch of Hongshan Hall to build a school, and mobilized the people to build houses. She stored all the grain in the county government's warehouse and distributed the food, and she was very busy.

Qianyang Mountain in Xinxiang County is the most dangerous place among the fifty provinces in Xinzhou, because there are two hells here, ghosts from prehistoric times are entrenched here, fierce and evil, and there are demons, appearing and disappearing. Outside Qianyang Mountain, other places are relatively safe.

However, Qianyang Mountain is the safest place because the Qianyang Mountain King is in charge and the gods and ghosts of Tianchi Kingdom are protecting it, so the casualties among the people here are the least.

Also in Xinxiang, the provincial capital of Xinxiang was also immersed in the moonlight at this moment. The moon above looked about four or five meters in size, hanging in the sky, and one could read and write under the moonlight.

However, the moonlight was cold and there was no sense of warmth.

On the coast, the border troops guarding the provincial capital of Xinxiang slowly pushed a bronze mirror more than ten feet high towards the dark sea.

Where the light shone, there seemed to be a huge object rolling on the dark sea, rolling on the sea surface, as if coming towards the coastline.

However, all the moonlight shone on Xiniu New Island and could not shine into the sea. From the light of the bronze mirror alone, it was impossible to tell whether this scene was a visual illusion or reality.

One of the border soldiers pushed the capstan with great effort, and the bronze mirror slowly moved upwards. The light of the mirror rose slowly from the sea surface, and it still illuminated the pitch-black sea surface, as if a huge body was still coming towards the shore.

The soldiers over there continued to push the capstan, and the light from the mirror reached a higher place. What they saw was not the sea surface, but a huge head with a human face, seaweed hair, tentacles and a beard.

The soldiers over there pushed the capstan with difficulty. The mirror light slowly swept across the sky. The figures of huge sea monsters like demons appeared on the sea and surged towards the coastline like a tide.

"Enemy attack——"

He let out a deafening roar, and the monsters in the sea surged like a raging tide, crashing into the towering city walls with a loud bang, quickly submerging the walls, breaking through the border army's defense line, submerging one border army outpost after another, and rushing into the city.

On the edge of Xinxiang Province and Gongzhou, one border outpost after another was captured, and monsters rushed in like a tide and entered Xiniu Xinzhou.

In Gongzhou, on a cliff, in the Mazu Temple, boundless divine power suddenly erupted, and the temple was filled with bright sunlight.

The sea gave rise to a raging tide and countless monsters roared, attacking the Mazu Temple in Xiniu Island, but they exploded in front of this temple suspended in the air by the sea. The Goddess of Hongshan sat in the temple, merging with the Mazu God, controlling the sea. The divine power was turbulent in the ocean, strangling the monsters that tried to land.

At the main altar of Gongzhou Hongshan Hall, Yu Tiancheng led the talisman masters of the Talisman Master Association and ran between every village and county in Gongzhou at the last sunrise to build temples and statues for Hongshan Goddess.

Gongzhou Hongshan Hall did not have enough power to relocate everyone, so they built a branch temple and cast an incarnation of Hongshan Goddess.

If these temples receive incense, the incarnation of Goddess Hongshan will come down and protect these villages, towns and counties.

But until dark, Hongshantang still had not run through all of Gongzhou. He had only run through one-third of the villages, towns and county towns.

Yu Tiancheng was extremely busy, and he headed straight to Ta County with more than a dozen talisman masters.

The underworld in Gongzhou does not have the complex geography of Qianyang Mountain, but it has also expanded ten or dozens of times, and the terrain has become extremely complicated. It was not difficult to rush to Taxkorgan, but now it has become extremely difficult.

They were tired and exhausted, their qi and blood were weakened. Lu Xiangzhu said, "Master Yutang, the brothers can't hold on any longer, let's take a rest."

Yu Tiancheng looked back and saw that all the talisman masters were exhausted. If they continued to force themselves to move on, those with weaker cultivation would be exhausted to death.

"I will teach you the Hu Yin Divine Technique, which is the supreme secret that King Chen Zhen learned from the Hu Yin Divine Talisman. It can refine Yin into Yang, ensure that you will not be eroded by Yin Qi, and quickly recover your cultivation!"

Yu Tiancheng taught the Hu Yin Shen Jue to everyone and taught them how to practice it.

This martial art was created by Chen Shi in order to save those scholars when he fell into the Buddhist hell during the Xianqiao Incident. It came from the Huyin Shenfu and was not a difficult martial art to learn.

For Chen Shi, it was not difficult to comprehend this skill from the Hu Yin Divine Talisman, so he collected this skill in the Ministry of Rites of the Lesser Universe.

But for others, it is extremely difficult to comprehend the skills from the talisman.

This skill is extremely easy to master and not complicated, but it is definitely the best way to walk in the underworld!
Yu Tiancheng heaved a sigh of relief when he saw that everyone's condition was gradually improving. He sat down and ate his dry food in silence, then looked up at the bright moon in the sky.

"Will the sun never rise again?"

He was a little bewildered.

At this moment, he felt a familiar object from his dry food bag. When he took it out and looked at it, it was the Heavenly Court Order that belonged to him.

Yu Tiancheng wiped the dry food residue off his stubble, raised the Heavenly Court Order, and a portal appeared. He suppressed his excitement and walked into the Lesser Universe.

The lesser heavens remained unchanged as before, except that they became much darker.

It was empty here, no one was there except him.

Yutian City was filled with sadness. Perhaps, we could not stop this disaster at all. Perhaps the human race would no longer have a future...

His Taoism was dim, and he walked among the six departments of Heaven like a zombie, his heart filled with sorrow, and unknowingly came to the painted wall.

He looked at the words on the wall and was shocked.

"But where there is hope, there must be a future!"

It was as if a flame was burning in his Dao heart, reviving his already declining Dao heart and filling it with fighting spirit once again!
"It's numerous fun to fight the destiny!"

Yu Tiancheng grabbed a handful of incense ash and wrote under Chen Shi's handwriting, "I'm still alive! Yu Tiancheng, the Jade Rabbit of Heaven, leave a message!"

He exhaled a long breath, rekindled his ambition, turned around and walked out of the Small Universe.

Taihua Mountain, Taihua Qingyang Palace.

Taoist Changying looked at the unrecognizable earth and mountains, his hands shaking.

The twenty-eight peaks of Taihua and the eighty-eight demon peaks have increased more than ten times in number at this moment. The strength of ghosts, gods and demons far exceeds that of Taihua Qingyang Palace!
With the strength of Taihua Qingyang Palace, it is impossible to protect Youzhou, and it can't even protect the original territory of Taihua Mountain!

"Masters of all generations, please show us your magical powers!"

Taoist Changying burned incense and prayed, chanting, "Protect Taihua, protect the people!"

He kept chanting in front of the statues of the ancestors, but never got any response.

At this time, there was a noise coming from the foot of the mountain. Taoist Changying walked out of Qingyang Palace and looked. He saw that in the direction of the ancestor's tomb, a fiery red sun suddenly jumped out from the mountains and illuminated the entire mountain, forcing all the ghosts and monsters all over the mountain to retreat and not dare to invade.

"Innocent Taoist?"

Taoist Changying was stunned and hurried to the master's tomb.

There, the remnant soul of the Taoist Tianzhen was still there, and his obsession was still there. Yu Lingzi was guarding the Taoist Tianzhen and burning incense for him.

"Master Changying has persisted since the time of the True King until now, and a trace of my remnant has always existed in the world, probably for this moment."

Taoist Tianzhen's void realm glowed with light and smiled at him, "I will use the last of my own light to illuminate the way for the world and protect the inheritance for the ancestors."

Taoist Changying bowed deeply, his tears wetting the ground.

It was the founder who used the Sword of Slaying Evil to kill the Taoist Tianzhen, but this Taoist boy never complained or regretted anything, and even after his death, he still protected the Taihua Qingyang Palace.

Yu Lingzi stood up and said to Chang Ying: "Master, Tian Zhen Patriarch himself has been invaded by evil spirits. He can't hold on forever. The most urgent task is to try our best to save the people nearby."

Taoist Changying said yes. He was originally in a state of confusion, but at this moment he gradually came to his senses. He immediately summoned the Taoists who were practicing in the mountains and ordered them to go down the mountain to rescue the people in Youzhou.

Yu Lingzi took down the enshrined Zhenwu Zhuxie Sword and said, "Master, we can't just sit on Mount Taihua. We have to take the initiative to attack and subdue the ghosts and gods around us!"

Taoist Changying hesitated and said, "This... the power of ghosts and gods is great!"

Yu Lingzi asked, "When the eighteen Taoists from Qingyang Palace razed Lone Star Province, were you also afraid?"

Taoist Changying was awed and said, "I'll go with you!"

The two of them led the masters of Qingyang Palace to go into battle, sweeping across the mountains with the might of the Zhenwu Sword.

When the mountains near Mount Taihua were swept, Taoist Changying was exhausted and unable to fight again. Many Taoists in Qingyang Palace also died in the battle. Yu Lingzi sent the headmaster back to the mountain, put the Zhenwu Zhuxie Sword back on the altar, and bowed.

He relaxed and stared at the sun shining over the mountains in a daze.

He knew that the Taoist Tianzhen could not hold on for long. If one day, the Taoist Tianzhen could not hold on and the sun went out, it would be a disaster for Qingyang Palace and the people it protected!
Yu Lingzi sighed, raised the Heavenly Court Order, and entered the Lesser Heavens.

There is no one else in the lesser heavens except him.

He was full of thoughts and unknowingly came to the painted wall.

Yu Lingzi stared at the painting for a moment, then smiled, picked up a handful of incense ash and wrote on the painting: "This body is just a smelly skin, even if I die, my chivalrous spirit will remain fragrant! Yu Lingzi, a Taoist priest in the Heavenly Palace, leave this message."

——Brothers, I wish you all a happy New Year 25! But where there is hope, there must be a future!
(End of this chapter)