On the Avenue.

Chapter 409 Lingguan Temple

"Xia Tianjie has indeed improved a lot. He is not comparable to the level he was in when he was in the upper realm. Given time, he may even surpass the ancestors of the Xia family."

Chen Shi calmed his mind, called back the Youquan Youlong Sword, and walked out of Fengyang Villa with Fairy Xiaolinden.

Xia Tianjie thought that the gap between himself and Chen Shi could be made up, so after seeing Chen Shi slaughtering the Xia family ghosts and gods in Fengyang Villa, he did not run away but stayed and tried to kill Chen Shi to prove his hard work and gains during this period.

At this moment, his body was lying dozens of miles away. He kept attacking, but none of the magic skills of the Eight Powers Dragon Summoning Art could hit Chen Shi, which made him realize the huge gap between him and Chen Shi, and he died with his eyes open. But in Chen Shi's heart, the gap between the two was not that big.

The reason why he is stronger than Xia Tianjie is that he practices better skills, knows more skills and spells, and has realized more than Xia Tianjie.

He practiced the sixth new talisman recorded on the Zhangtian Iron Ruler, the techniques he understood were those in the True King's treasure house, and what he comprehended were merely the changes of the sixty-four hexagrams comprehended from the Tai Shang Bagua protective talisman, and the sixty-four realms of ghosts and gods derived from the hexagrams.

If Xia Tian Jacken had learned a little more and understood a little more, it would be hard to say who would have won.

However, when they reach this level, they have a little more of everything, and the difference in actual combat performance can be extremely shocking.

For example, Xiaowu, the Creator, has comprehended the three transformations of ghosts and gods more than the ancestors of the thirteen families, so he can pin these old guys to the ground and beat them, even if they are outnumbered, he is not afraid at all. But Xiaowu, the Creator, has not actually surpassed these ancestors.

Of course, wanting to be a little bit better than others at the same level is harder than climbing to the sky!
Even if you exhaust all your wisdom and spend your entire life trying to comprehend, you may not be able to achieve even a little bit more.

"Uncle Xiaowu has three transformations of ghosts and gods, and the Qiankun transformation is only the most basic of them."

Chen Shi thought to himself, "The more advanced ones are Yin Yang Transformation and Zhou Tian Transformation. Uncle Xiaowu is still very powerful."

Chen Shi has already begun to dabble in the field of Yin-Yang Transformation, but he has only touched the surface. As for Zhoutian Transformation, because it involves the rune changes of the 2,400 Chinese gods in Zhoutian, it is really complicated and there is no way to comprehend it.

From this point, we can also see the power of Creator Xiaowu.

Creator Xiaowu is Chen Yindu in a perfect state. He devotes all his energy to studying and improving Taoism, ignoring moral constraints.

In the distance, the wooden cart was still catching ghosts and locusts and feasting on them, but the black pot was nowhere to be seen.

Now that the Yin and Yang worlds have merged, Hei Guo is extremely powerful. After revealing his true form, even the ghosts and gods of the Xia family are no match for him, so Chen Shi is not worried.

His Huagai was also outside, and under his control, he had chased the enemy more than a thousand miles away.

"Before the end of our era, the same situation occurred. But that time, it was even more terrifying." The voice of Little Linden Fairy came.

Chen Shi was slightly startled and turned to look at her.

Fairy Little Linden was always cold and in the past she always spoke coldly to him because he was too close to Little Linden. She rarely took the initiative to talk to him. This was the first time.

Fairy Little Linden looked up at the bright moon in the sky, exhaled a breath of fresh air, and said softly: "That time, first the moon underwent an evil change. The original moon disappeared, and was replaced by a huge eye. There was also a problem with the righteousness between heaven and earth. Until one day, the sun in the sky grew tentacles, and flesh and blood covered the sky."

Chen Shi thought of the misty moon that appeared in the Shiwandashan Mountains and asked, "Did the misty moon appear before the drastic change?"

Fairy Xiao Linden nodded and said, "In that era, it was normal to cultivate to become an immortal. However, after the appearance of the foggy moon, the sun was polluted, and the righteousness of heaven and earth turned into evil. Even immortals could not stop the pollution of evil. Many predecessors went crazy under the sun."

She showed a look of fear, and it was obvious that the tragic scenes that happened that year were still vivid in her mind.

Chen Shi asked, "How did the sun in your era return to normal?"

Fairy Little Linden shook her head and said, "I sealed myself away in fear and did not see how the sun returned to normal. When I woke up, it was already the so-called True King Era."

Chen Shi asked, "Did the same situation occur during the True King era? How did the sun recover during the True King era?"

Little Linden Fairy said decisively, "Although it was only a fleeting glimpse, I can tell that the sun in our era is not the same sun as the sun in the True King's era."

Chen Shi was shocked. Isn’t it the same sun?
Yes!

The polluted sun outside the sky should be the sun in prehistoric times.

In other words, in the era when Little Linden Fairy lived, there were no true gods from outer space!
The true God from outer space only appeared afterwards!

He tidied it up a bit.

The first era is the prehistoric era. During the Yin and Shang dynasties, the Shang people were defeated in the war and expelled by the Zhou people. They crossed the Dark Sea and came to Xiniu Island.

At this time, the sun and the moon were real, but later the fog moon appeared and replaced the original moon, and then the sun was polluted and turned into a bloody sun. A catastrophe broke out, and countless people of the prehistoric gods died and turned into the ghosts of today.

The second era was the era of the True King. Eunuch Sanbao led the Ming soldiers to Xiniu Island and found that the eyes of the True God turned into two suns, and the vertical eye between his eyebrows turned into a bright moon. The ground was full of evil spirits and monsters, so the era of the True King began. But the sun and moon at this time were no longer real sun and moon.

At the end of the True King Era, a situation similar to that of prehistoric times occurred: the sun went out and catastrophes broke out again.

The third era is the present era, which can be called the era of the thirteen families. After the sun went out, it lit up again. No one knows how many years have passed. But at this time, Taoism has regressed greatly, and the new law is popular. The Mahayana realm has become the highest realm, and the lifespan is only a hundred years.

The Thirteen Families era lasted for more than six thousand years, the sun went out again, and the catastrophe broke out again.

"There is obviously something wrong here! Why did the real sun and moon become the eyes of the outer true god? What happened in the meantime?"

Chen Shi asked the Little Linden Fairy, but the Little Linden Fairy didn't know either.

"Could it be related to Despair Hill?"

Chen Shi pondered. The appearance of Despair Hill was also very ancient. According to the information he had received so far, when the Ming soldiers first landed on this new continent, they discovered the active Heaven Listeners. Later, they discovered Despair Hill through the Heaven Listeners. It was the first time that the True King entered Despair Hill. What happened during this period was unknown.

After the True King came out, his temperament changed drastically, and he pushed for new laws to replace the old ones. The subsequent enshrinement of immortals, the mass killing of half-immortals, and the death of Taoist Tianzhen were all related to the True King's entry into the Slope of Despair.

The second time the True King entered the Despair Slope was after the sun went out. The True King died on the Despair Slope and his body was sent back to Xijing. No one knows what happened during this time.

But after that, a series of strange events should have occurred, including the severance of connection between Xiniu Xinzhou and Huaxia Shenzhou, the destruction of the temples of the gods from Huaxia Shenzhou, the disappearance of the gods, evil spirits rampant in the countryside, and the history of the True King era being erased, leaving only sporadic records and legends.

"Now, something similar to the time of the True King has happened again. I wonder how long it took for the sun to go out before it lit up again."

Chen Shi looked at the huge silver moon in the sky and whispered, "How many years will it take for the sun to go out this time before it lights up again? Little Linden Fairy..."

"Master!"

Xiao Linden held his arm, very intimately. As for the fairy Xiao Linden, she should have gone into meditation to heal her wounds.

Chen Shi blinked his eyes and said, "Madam, call your sister out. I have something to ask her."

Xiao Linden was confused: "What sister? Do I have a sister?"

Chen Shi sighed and held her hand.

The wooden cart ran over and burped.

Chen Shi and Xiao Linden boarded the wooden cart. Not long after, Hei Guo came running, shrunken in size, and ran in front of the cart. The cart soon arrived beside the lotus field. The ghost hidden in the clouds secretly poked its head out, shivered, and hid in the clouds again.

Black Pot revealed its true form, poked its head into the clouds, bit the ghost and dragged it down.

The ghost god hurriedly said: "My lord, I am only responsible for guarding the spiritual field for Fengyang Jun, and I have never done any evil!"

"The little boy drove a small boat and secretly picked white lotuses. He dared not speak loudly for fear of disturbing the gods in heaven."

Chen Shi spread out Granny Sha's map of the underworld on the shore and said as he examined it, "You are the person from heaven. During the years since you rose to prominence, you bought hundreds of children from the Tianmu Society. How many of these children who came to the lotus fields to steal white lotus were eaten by you?"

The ghost's face suddenly changed, and he hurriedly rode a gust of cold wind to escape.

He did eat a lot of children who stole white lotus.

The Resurrection Lotus was of no use to him, but the children who picked the lotus were extremely delicious to him, so he secretly observed these children while pretending to take a nap.

He would not eat many children at a time. If he ate too many, Taipingmen would not dare to send children down. Therefore, when Taipingmen stole white lotus, he would only eat two or three children each time. Moreover, he would pretend to sleep on purpose to allow these children to pick white lotus.

In this way, Taipingmen would benefit and would send children down to pick lotus continuously, and he would be able to eat it continuously.

Chen Shi snorted coldly: "I won't let you off! You're the scapegoat."

Hei Guo pounced forward, quickly caught up with the ghost god, and knocked him to the ground with one claw!
The ghost shouted quickly: "Please spare my life! I am willing to serve you like a dog or a horse!"

Before he could finish his words, the black pot opened its mouth and spewed out a mouthful of devil fire. The blazing devil flames ignited the ghost and burned it to ashes in just a few moments.

Chen Shi looked around and compared it with the geographical map. He then took out the Western King's Jade Seal from the wooden cart and held it up. A map of mountains and rivers was projected onto the seal.

He compared them repeatedly, looked at a mountain on the other side of the swamp, and said, "It's indeed wrong. There is an extra mountain here. It should be a new mountain! Let's go!"

He rolled up the geographical map, and Black Pot took the lead, stepped into the swamp, and headed straight for the mountain. The wooden wheel was blown by the wind, and flew up to chase Black Pot.

At this time, a golden eagle flapped its wings and flew over from a distance, caught up with the wooden cart, folded its wings, landed, and turned into a canopy that was inserted into the wooden cart.

As the wooden cart sailed against the wind, an arm grew out of it, opened the canopy and held up the umbrella.

It lit a few more incense sticks on itself, sped up, and caught up with the black pot.

After they left, a ghost came here in a wooden boat, wandered around, and then left.

Another two or three hours later, a series of lights cut through the night sky, and canoes with boy's heavenly lanterns came here one after another. The ghosts on the boats all looked solemn. These ghosts were often from the Yaksha, Ox-headed, Horse-faced and other ghost tribes. There were also a few ghosts from the human race, showing the form of the original spirit, obviously without a real body.

They wandered around, lighting up every corner of Fengyang Villa with lanterns, capturing ghosts one by one and interrogating them about the case.

After a long time, they surveyed the battlefield.

Four bone dragons were pulling a chariot slowly towards them, with a sheep-horn sky-spirit lantern hanging on the front of the chariot.

Immediately, some human ghosts came forward, came to the window, and reported their findings to the people in the car.

The man in the car was a middle-aged man, also in the state of Yuanshen, but he had already gathered extraordinary power with the incense and burned it to forge a golden body for himself. This golden body was made of extraordinary power, but it was definitely not inferior to the physical body!

The only thing that this kind of golden body of ghosts and gods is inferior to the fleshy body is that they cannot taste the food or smell the fragrance. Any delicacies taste like chewing wax.

"The future patriarch of my Xia family is dead!"

The middle-aged man was extremely sad and cried out to the sky, "Who killed the future leader of my Xia family? Who killed Fengyang Jun of my Xia family? This hatred is endless! Search, find Tianjie's soul for me!"

"Master Yinshuai, the soul has not been found." said a ghost messenger.

This man was none other than Xia Xiu De, the commander in charge of this area in the underworld. Upon hearing this, his face became even more gloomy.

"Your soul is scattered? What's the grudge?"

He was furious and sneered, "Even if I have to go to heaven or hell, I will find this man for me!"

Soon, several ghost messengers brought a ghost shepherd to the ghost commander Xia Xiu De. The ghost shepherd trembled and cried, "Sir, please forgive me for not being able to greet you."

A ghost messenger said, "Master, this ghost shepherd was punished for losing a few locusts and was imprisoned in a cage. He just happened to escape. He knows who the murderer is."

The shepherd ghost said, "That man is a young scholar, who seems to be the current top scholar. He is accompanied by a black dog, a wooden cart, and a woman."

Xia Xiude said in a deep voice: "Inform all the ghost messengers nearby, the Big and Small Wangchuan River, to keep an eye out for the wooden cart, the black dog, the woman, and the young scholar! If you find anything, report it immediately!"

"Respect the law!"

Many ghost messengers boarded their boats and left on a gust of cold wind.

Four bone dragons pulled the chariot and left Fengyang Villa.

The wooden cart chased the black pot, crossed the vast swamp, and came to the other side, where they saw a mountain standing by the lake. There was actually a village at the foot of the mountain, and there were villagers in the town, who were still alive.

When Chen Shi arrived here, he saw that the godmother of this town was a Taoist who had absorbed incense for more than a thousand years. She was dressed in feathered clothes and looked like a fairy.

His divine power was extremely strong, and there were many corpses of ghosts and monsters hanging around the villages and towns, presumably they were killed by him.

There were several monks in the town, all of whom were scholars. They stopped Chen Shi outside the town, watched him vigilantly, and prevented him from entering the town.

"You are scholars, so you should have heard of me. My name is Chen Shi, and I am the current top scholar." Chen Shi said with a kind face and a smile.

The scholars shook their heads. One woman said, "I haven't heard of it. It's not that we don't want you to come in, but in today's world, people are more dangerous than ghosts!"

Zhu Xiucai couldn't help but float out of the small temple and said, "You don't even know the number one scholar of the dynasty, how can you be called a scholar!"

"There's a ghost!"

The scholars were extremely nervous and prepared their own spells.

Chen Shi exuded a breath, which was just a breath to him, but to these scholars it was extremely powerful and unmatched!

At this time, the Taoist priest in feathered robes came over, his body aglow with divine light, and said, "Please do not be rude. This hermit greets fellow Taoists."

Chen Shi returned the greeting and said, "I have no ill intentions. I came here to inquire whether there is a temple on this mountain."

The Taoist in feathered robes said, "This mountain suddenly rose from the ground six days ago. There is indeed a temple on the mountain, named Jade Pivot King Lingguan Fire Palace."

(End of this chapter)