On the Avenue.

Chapter 467: Awakening the Master (Happy Lantern Festival!)
The fox clan compound.

Nannan sat on a chair, looking at the people in front of her anxiously, holding the spine of a big toad in her hand.

The toad was a monster, about two feet long, with a look of despair on its face. It had obviously struggled and tried to escape, but it could not escape the clutches of the little king of hell.

Nannan is already nine years old, which is the age when dogs are very annoying.

In recent years, the Yin and Yang worlds have merged. She, Zhong Kui, Tie Chi, and the boatman and his daughter live in the fox tribe. What kind of place is the fox tribe? There are monsters everywhere, so it would be strange if she could learn well.

At a young age, she learned how to catch demons and ghosts from the fox spirit, and honed her skills. She tamed the toad and treated it as a treasure, taking it with her wherever she went, either holding the toad's spine, pulling its upper limbs, or dragging its hind legs.

Chen Yindu bent over, examined Nannan, frowned slightly, and turned back to ask: "Are you sure she is the reincarnation of the King of Hell?"

Chen Shi, Zhong Kui and others nodded.

"She is protected by the Black and White Impermanence, and is confirmed to be the Lord of Justice." Tie Chi said.

Zhong Kui said: "It's just that the great Lord Qingtian was trapped in the mystery of the womb. When she was reincarnated, her memory was washed away by the six reincarnations. She herself doesn't even know who she is, so the ghosts and gods who are chasing her naturally don't know her whereabouts."

Tie Chi added nervously: "The master is not stupid at all!"

The little bull-headed, little horse-faced, and little Yaksha nodded repeatedly. They were the three great judges, and they had also been following the little King of Hell in recent years.

Chen Yindu looked at the toad spirit in Nannan's hand and still found it hard to accept.

The Lord of Heaven has a connection with him.

That year, he and Qingyang and others went to the underworld to search for Chen Shi's whereabouts. They broke into a Yuanchen Palace in the capital of the gods, which attracted the siege of ghosts and gods. Behind the Yuanchen Palace, there was a crescent moon hanging. In the chaos, Yueya took the opportunity to escape.

This crescent is the crescent on the forehead of the Lord Qingtian.

"Later, I heard from ghosts in the underworld that the reason why we can only see the crescent moon and not the Lord of the Blue Sky is because the Lord's face is too dark, and his complexion blends with the dark night sky, so it cannot be seen. The crescent moon grows between his eyebrows, so only the moving crescent moon can be seen." Chen Yindu thought to himself, recalling the past.

Nana was restless and jumped off the chair to go out and play. Everyone kept their eyes on her.

"How can we solve the mystery in the womb?" Chen Shi asked.

Chen Yindu said: "When one's cultivation reaches a certain level, one can understand the mystery in the womb and awaken the memory of the past life."

Chen Shi frowned. His daughter has just started school. It will probably take more than ten years for her to cultivate to the point of natural awakening.

Chen Yindu continued, "Another method is the Three Lives Stone. Using the Three Lives Stone as a medicine can unlock her memories of her past life and allow her to gain the strength of her past life. However, treasures like the Three Lives Stone are extremely difficult to find. Granny Sha tried to find the Three Lives Stone that year, which is why she sent her son to the underworld..."

"Grandpa, I have found Xiang Tianyu."

Chen Shi smiled and said, "And Xiang Tianyu found many Sansheng Stones."

Chen Yindu looked at Nannan who was riding on the big toad and yelling with excitement, and said with a smile: "Then it will be much easier to wake up the Lord of Heaven. Where is the Three-Life Stone?"

"At Granny Sha's place."

Not long after, Sha Qiuting brought Xiang Tianyu to the fox clan compound. She had a lot of Sansheng Stones, which were picked up by Xiang Tianyu and brought from the underworld to the world of the living by Chen Shi.

"Qiutong, you are the only one who can wake up the master." Chen Yindu said.

Sha Qiutong took out a Sansheng Stone and said, "This is a serious matter. When the master's memory is restored, I am afraid that it will alarm the ghosts and gods in the underworld, and they will find me here and interfere with my spellcasting. There are many masters in the underworld, so we must be on guard. It is best to invite Qingyang and the others."

Chen Yindu shook his head and said, "No need. Xiao Shi, call your four disciples."

Chen Shi said yes and asked loudly, "Where are the disciples?"

Longyou Sanren, Shao Niangniang and others came in from outside. Pei Sanren was short and old, but his voice was as loud as a bell. He said in a loud voice: "Master, what do you want?"

Chen Shi said: "Later, Granny Sha will wake up the Great Lord Qingtian. You must protect her and not slack off."

"understood."

The four of them looked around and asked in confusion, "Which one is Granny Sha?"

Sha Qiutong looked at the four people and said in a trembling voice: "Senior Longyou, Madam Shao, you are alive? I am the Granny Sha that Xiaoshi mentioned."

Her heart was filled with shock and fear. These four elders were extremely famous among the wandering people. They had profound cultivation and each had their own way to prolong their life. They had lived longer than the ancestors of the thirteen families and were legends among the wandering people.

They were like the four bright moons of the Sanren Organization, so bright and brilliant that after they retired and disappeared, the Sanren Organization was no longer as good as before.

But when Jinghu Villa was built, the four elders were already on the verge of turning evil. When Chen Yindu put them into coffins one by one, Sha Qiuting was there too. Watching them turn evil and be nailed in the coffins made her shudder with fear.

At that time, they had an agreement that they would be awakened after Chen Yindu solved the problem of the evil transformation.

Since then, the four elders have been sleeping in the coffins for decades. Chen Yindu and others have never been able to solve the problem of evil transformation, but the obscure breath coming from the coffins shows that when the four elders fall into a deep sleep in the coffin, they can still avoid evil transformation, but as long as they wake up, they will inevitably transform into evil!

Sha Qiuting even felt that it might not be a bad thing for the four elders to die in their sleep.

I didn’t expect that the four elders actually survived.

What was even more unexpected was that they actually became Chen Shi’s disciples!

"Xiao Qiutong, are you Granny Sha?"

The four elders were all a little surprised. Mu Daozi asked, "You are still a little girl, how can you be a mother-in-law?"

Sha Qiutong said: "Four seniors, you have been asleep for twenty to thirty years! Seniors, why did you take Xiao Shi as your master?"

All four of them felt a little embarrassed.

Empress Shao whispered, "We want to learn his Yin Yang Transformation, and we don't want to owe him a favor, so we asked him to be our master. We originally thought that he was shy and would definitely not accept us as his master, but we didn't expect him to be so thick-skinned and actually agreed. When we learned things from Xiao Yindu in the past, we always used this trick, and it never failed. We didn't expect to fail so badly."

Longyou Sanren said proudly: "But at least I have learned the skill!"

Madam Shao shook her head and said, "Not yet. Yin and Yang refining is difficult, and Yin and Yang transformation is even more difficult. It will take some time to study."

As he spoke, Chen Shi walked out of the fox clan compound and called back his daughter who was playing outside.

Nannan grabbed the toad's hind flipper with one hand and dragged the toad over, looking reluctant.

Sha Qiuting offered up the Three Lives Stone, muttering something. The Three Lives Stone emitted white halos that fell towards Nannan. The circles of halos flew over, like the light seen during reincarnation, becoming brighter and brighter in the sight, and finally turned into pure white, and nothing could be seen.

The halo of light was thick and soon submerged Nannan.

Chen Shi stared intently, and saw a figure gradually swaying in the light around Nannan. It was her memory of her previous life, and now it appeared in the circles of light. Pictures were moving rapidly. In the initial halo, there was a Ming treasure ship coming from the dark sea. The soldiers on the treasure ship were fully armored and respectfully invited the lower half of the temple from the Chinese Shenzhou from the ship.

There was only one shrine in the temple, and on the shrine there was a full-body statue of the god. The statue was made of wood, dressed in the attire of a university scholar, with a face as black as charcoal, and a crescent-shaped scar between the eyebrows.

There is a couplet written on the pillars on both sides of the temple.

The smile is clearer than the river, and the dragon picture has been immortal since ancient times
His heart is as clear as a mirror, he can take care of his sorrow with his courage
Under the boat, the true king led all the civil and military officials to come to greet them personally, and brought this half of the temple together with the shrine and statues to the capital of the country at that time, the imperial capital of Xinxiang.

The True King and all the officials held a grand sacrificial ceremony, inviting the Lord of Heaven and a group of ghosts and gods from China to enter the underworld, command the ghosts and gods in the underworld, maintain order in the underworld, reward the good and punish the evil, capture criminals, and determine the cycle of life and death.

This half of the temple sank into the underworld and rapidly changed into a Yama Palace in the underworld.

The statue on the shrine also revived at this moment, gathering supreme divine power, condensing the Book of Life and Death and the Judge's Pen, and rewarding them to the judges, Gongcao, and Tongpan below.

……

Sha Qiutong suddenly said nervously: "Everyone, something is coming!"

The sky suddenly became dark, and white banners were spinning around the fox clan compound, accompanied by swirling ghost lights, swinging back and forth, as if there were pairs of eyes observing the movements of the fox clan compound.

"Found you!" a sinister voice came.

Suddenly, there was a roar of waves. Everyone looked in the direction of the sound and saw a huge torrent of water rushing towards the fox clan compound, covering the whole sky and the earth!
That is the Lethe River!
Canoes were speeding on the river, each with a ghost standing on it, holding a boy's lantern, and shining rays of light towards the fox clan's courtyard!
"Shhhhh!"

When the light shone on them, many fox women in the compound could not help but reveal their true forms, with their spirits or souls being knocked out of their bodies.

Grass cages were flying in the air, like hats in the shape of human heads, collecting the spirits or souls of the foxes. In just a moment, most of the fox spirits in the fox compound fell down!

Zhong Kui took a step forward, his body suddenly becoming extremely tall and majestic, blocking the fox clan’s compound.

"Boom!"

The surging waters of the Forgotten River rushed towards him and hit him, splitting the water into two and whistling past the left and right sides of the fox clan compound.

Zhong Kui reached out and grabbed, and the straw cages in the air fell down and landed in the yard.

Seeing that they failed to take away the fox souls, the ghost officials attacked Zhong Kui one after another. Suddenly, Tie Chi leaped up into the air above a canoe and kicked the bamboo pole that was swept over with one leg. The bamboo pole broke with a snap and the neck of the ghost official on the boat was nearly cut off by the kick. He flew up in a spin and crashed dozens of miles away.

The toe of Tiechi's other foot touched the canoe below, and one end of the canoe was lifted up. Tiechi retracted his left foot and kicked forward. The canoe shot out with a whoosh and hit the Yincha who was driving the other canoe, knocking him away.

Tie Chi ran wildly on the water, roaring constantly. His body expanded rapidly, revealing his true form as Yin Shuai Niu Tou. He roared continuously and rushed towards the other Yin messengers.

At this time, the boatman and his daughter also steered their pleasure boat up the Forgotten River to block the oncoming ghost messengers.

"Dad, you've done something great again!" the boatman said happily.

The boatman was overjoyed. He turned the bamboo pole into a spear and pierced a charging ghost with it. He sent the ghost flying and said in a muffled voice, "I'm going to get promoted again this time!"

The four ghosts and gods blocked the attack from the Forgotten River. Suddenly, the ground around the Fox Clan compound rumbled and sank rapidly, and the lava and fire around them continued to rise.

With a loud bang, the fox clan compound stopped.

It was dark all around, with cold light flickering in the darkness. Countless ghosts and monsters followed the sound and looked towards the fox compound.

Around these ghosts, there were large trees flashing with cold light, and the trees were covered with leaves in the shape of swords. At this moment, many ghosts were grabbing souls and inserting them into these swords.

The third level of hell, the Iron Tree Hell!

Chen Shi sneered, "What a trifle!"

He raised his foot and slammed it hard, the Yin-Yang Dojo erupted, Yin and Yang reversed, and the next moment the fox clan compound would return from the underworld to the world of the living!

At this time, a loud voice rang out: "Now that you have arrived at my Iron Tree Hell, do you still want to leave? Can you leave?"

The tall figures of the Fire and Earth Judges emerged from the darkness, waving long bone whips and flaming whips, and rolled towards the courtyard.

The little Bull-Headed, Little Horse-Faced, and Little Yaksha each flew up, revealed their true forms, and went to meet the Fire Judge and the Earth Judge, who were none other than the three judges Jia Yuan, Wang Fu, and Zhu Shun.

The strength of the two judges of Fire and Earth was almost the same as theirs. The two sides clashed in the Iron Tree Hell. The two judges of Fire and Earth could no longer stop Chen Shi, and the Fox Clan Compound immediately returned to the world of the living from the underworld.

At this time, there was a knock on the door outside the Fox Clan compound, and a voice laughed and said, "Yan Ruoxi led the Fifth Hall Gongcao and Tai Ao of the Ten Halls of Hell to capture the wanted criminal. Can you open the door?"

Empress Shao smiled and said, "Longyou, Mu Daozi, it's our turn!"

Pei Sanren walked in front and said with a smile: "No need for you. I'll go open the door!"

He opened the door and saw several ghosts and gods standing outside, wearing paper clothes and riding paper horses. There were also several sedan chairs with several old women sitting in the sedan chairs, with their faces painted red and white.

Pei Sanren turned around and said, "I wonder if my young master can withstand my full strength?"

Chen Shi's voice came from the courtyard: "Don't leave my dojo. Even if you use your immortal strength, I can ensure that you will not turn evil."

"That's good!"

Pei Sanren laughed loudly, and boundless power suddenly burst out from his small body. He refined the Mahayana realm to the point where his body was the void realm, and his aura was extremely wild. He walked out of the fox clan compound and turned around to close the door.

As the violent shock came, Chen Shi's face changed slightly. He felt an extremely strong evil nature erupting in his own dojo, which almost made him unable to control the operation of the dojo!

"Pei Sanren, so strong! Is this the fighting power of the new immortal?" He was secretly shocked.

The evil nature coming from Pei Sanren's body was extremely powerful, and he almost couldn't suppress it, but fortunately, the battle came and went quickly, and in just a few breaths, the evil nature suddenly disappeared.

Pei Sanren opened the door, walked into the courtyard, and said, "They have already retreated in the face of difficulties. It's a pity that I haven't yet comprehended the Yin-Yang Transformation. Otherwise, if I became a true Xinfa Immortal, I would definitely be able to keep them all."

He sighed.

He was halfway through the process of merging with the Tao when he felt the evil spirit assimilating him, so he did not dare to take that half step.

Chen Shi was extremely impressed by the strength of this disciple and thought to himself, "His strength is comparable to Zhong Wuwang. It is really amazing that a casual person can achieve this level by practicing a new method!"

At this moment, in the halos around Nannan, the life of the Lord Qingtian turned into a picture and flashed through Nannan's memory. For more than ten thousand years, he worked diligently and conscientiously, and never made the slightest mistake.

The light of the Three Lives Stone gradually dimmed, and it was obvious that the revival of Lord Qingtian had reached a critical period.

——Brothers and sisters, happy Lantern Festival!

(End of this chapter)