I can't be a demon.

Chapter 331 Stop pretending, the four of you
Night fell over [Daqi Town] and a drizzle of rain fell.

The waning moon was looming, and nothing could be seen in the pitch-black sky. Only two hunters were cautiously walking back to the town.

Da Qi is the most remote town in the Yanshan area, and its main business is usually trade in mountain products.

Its scale is far from comparable to Yanliang Town, with a permanent population of only about 20,000. However, the people there are extremely tough. Even before the rise of martial arts, Daqi Town was relatively martial.

The two hunters came to the city gate in the rain, and even though they were wearing straw raincoats, they were soaked.

"What kind of weather is this? The temperature has dropped sharply in July, and the birds and animals have disappeared. Doesn't it mean that the twelfth month will be a freezing cold winter?"

"Who says it isn't?"

"It has been raining for seven or eight days straight, and the sun doesn't come out until the afternoon. The path leading into the mountain has collapsed, and now the mountain is empty."

The officers and soldiers were familiar with the two of them and handed them a rag for wiping.

"Be careful, something big might happen at Yanshan?"

"what happened?"

The officer hesitated and said, "I don't know if it's the work of evil spirits, but there has been a lingering... stench of corpses in the city recently."

The hunter was stunned and couldn't help looking at the almost deserted street.

The mountain breeze blows.

A faint fishy smell rushed into their mouths and noses, but when they wanted to distinguish it carefully, they felt that the so-called corpse odor was just an illusion in their trance.

"What does the court say? Are they going to just leave it alone?"

The officer hesitated for a few breaths and replied, "The Jinwu Guards have come to see it. The court denied that it was caused by demons, and it seems that no measures have been taken."

If you think about it carefully, it's not that the imperial court has not taken any measures, it has just been promoting customs related to immortals and gods.

The officers and soldiers were not panicked. After all, everyone knew that Yanshan was Zhong Kui's Taoist temple, and the demons could not cause any trouble in Daqi Town.

The rain was getting heavier at night, and the hunter was in no hurry to return home to chat for a while.

The raindrops hit the bluestone slabs, making a dull sound. The lantern in front of the shop swayed in the rain like a dark ghost fire.

"what?"

The officers and soldiers signaled the hunter not to speak and pointed to the official road outside the city.

I saw a figure wandering on the official road, his footsteps were unusually clear in the darkness, but his face was covered by his robe, so his features could not be seen clearly.

"Where did this bastard come from? Why did he come to Da Qi just as the city gates were closing?"

"Hey"

The officers and soldiers called out several times and received a hoarse response from the figure.

"Ahem, I'm an old man selling goods in the mountains. I'm passing through Daqi Town. Sir, can you please be lenient with me? Otherwise, I'll have nowhere to hide from the rain."

The officers and soldiers looked at the two hunters, their expressions somewhat solemn.

They knew nothing about the salt mountain, so where did the old man who was selling goods come from in the mountain? This man was probably a demon, so they had to notify the Jinwu Guards as soon as possible.

The officers and soldiers exchanged glances, and one of them turned around and prepared to go to the yamen to report.

The old man coughed and stopped where he was before the hunter could take a few steps. When he looked back, he could no longer see the old man in the rain.

pat.

In an instant, the old man appeared half a meter away from the city gate.

"I am too reckless, sorry for the offense."

The officers and soldiers took a closer look and saw that the old man lifted up his robe, revealing a strange and inexplicable fox face with his mouth grinning to his ears.

"Demon...demon..."

"Hey, I'm not a demon at all. I'm Hu Cai, the inner disciple of Moyun Cave."

White smoke came out of the fox-faced man's mouth. The expressions of the three people became dazed, and then they continued to chat at the city gate as if nothing unusual had ever happened.

Hu Cai looked around and walked into the town after making sure that there was no one watching.

"Hmm, there is indeed a stench of corpse. It seems that what the Fox King said is correct. The Arhats under the seat of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva have arrived at the Salt Mountain."

His spirit was half revealed between his eyebrows, observing in great detail.

The situation in Yanshan is very strange now. Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva has obviously intervened in advance, but there is no countermeasure from Lu Zu.

Rumble.

A flash of lightning streaked across the sky, illuminating the streets and alleys of Daqi Town.

At that moment, it seemed as if a huge monster was lying above the town, and countless limbs flashed by, which was creepy.

Hu Cai broke out in a cold sweat, the shadow of the huge monster seemed like an illusion.

"What's going on? Has Lü Zu given up on Daqi Town? If I'm not mistaken, that demon just now was the [Buddha outside the temple], right?"

He learned from the Wansui Fox King that Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva had refined many kinds of weapon ghosts.

For example, the monks in the temple are the ghosts who are specifically responsible for preaching and imparting knowledge, while the Buddhas outside the temple are evil things used for refining elixirs and weapons.

"Damn it, damn it!"

"The Buddha outside the temple has come to the door, and said that Lu Zu has not given up Daqi Town."

Come to think of it, the Yanshan area is full of mountains and forests, with a total of four towns. It is impossible to guard the pass by dispersing forces.

If it were Hu Cai, he would also give up one or two towns.

He secretly thanked his luck for not letting his own disciples come.

Originally, the Fox King asked Hu Cai, who had reached the ninth realm, to lead half a hundred disciples to garrison Da Qi. Hu Cai realized that the town of Da Qi might be abandoned, so he simply went to the town alone.

The results of the investigation also showed that defending Da Qi was a life-or-death situation. No, it was a total death situation.

"I will find a few Arhats in the city and quietly set up a magic circle. The Wansui Fox King should not embarrass us."

"hehe."

"One is the Bodhisattva of the Little Leiyin Temple, and the other is a living immortal Buddha of unknown origin. How can a mere mortal like me interfere? If I am not careful, I will be crushed to pieces. I don't even want the reward."

Hu Cai licked his lips, and the aura of his body and soul was restrained to the extreme.

He walked along the outer city area and could constantly feel the Buddha outside the temple above his head breathing out, and the stench of corpses constantly eroding his consciousness.

Hu Cai was shocked when he found out the current situation of Daqi Town.

The population of twenty to thirty thousand people was full of energy and blood, and warriors at the sixth level of Yuandan could be seen everywhere. The leaked energy and blood dispersed the corpse poison.

Simply incredible.

Hu Cai swallowed his saliva. Even though he was a half-human, half-demon alchemist, he couldn't resist the temptation of blood food.

It is hard to imagine that the number of warriors in the Yanshan area exceeds 300,000.

"If the Fox King hadn't spoken, I would have picked a few people to have a taste of their power."

Hu Cai suppressed his distracting thoughts and quickly found the four Arhats, who were hiding in the river connecting the four urban areas of Daqi Town.

The Arhats each practiced their Buddhist teachings, waiting for the Buddha outside the temple to completely descend upon Daqi Town.

It can be seen that Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva is cautious. Even though Daqi Town is short of staff, he still uses the most reliable way to refine the entire town.

Once the Buddha appeared outside the temple, I wonder how many immortal pills the twenty or thirty thousand warriors could refine.

"No matter what, I will set up the magic circle first."

After Hu Cai confirmed the position of the Arhat, he prepared to set up a magic circle to prove his own worth without affecting the Buddha outside the temple.

Of course, the magic circle can still protect some mortal lives.

As for how long you can live, well, it depends on God's will.

Hu Cai buried the spiritual materials he had prepared in advance in various places. There was no sign on the surface, but in fact, once activated, a chain reaction would occur.

It took two days for his magic circle to take shape.

At the same time, the stench of corpses in the city was getting worse.

The government office ignored it, which indirectly proved that Hu Cai's speculation was true. More than 20,000 people of Da Qi had been abandoned by Lu Zu.

After Hu Cai finished everything, it was his turn to arrange the key points of the formation.

The rain that had lasted for ten days finally stopped, but the temperature continued to drop sharply, and even a layer of frost formed on the walls and the ground in the early morning.

If not for the entire nation practicing martial arts, such an abnormal astronomical phenomenon would have resulted in countless casualties.

Hu Cai came to a temple in the west of the city.

What surprised him was that the temple was newly built not long ago, and instead of worshipping Zhong Kui, there were only a few pilgrims entering and leaving the temple. The day-traveling deity faces east, while the night-traveling deity faces west, and the images are lifelike.

Hu Cai felt inexplicably uneasy, and stroked the red paint made of cinnabar on the wall. "Judging from the date when the temple was newly built, it seems to be about the same as when the construction of the Buddha statue outside the temple began?"

"Could it be that Daqi Town is a trap set by Lu Zu for Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva..."

"It's impossible. Daqi Town doesn't have any magic arrays or secret techniques. Almost all the Jinwu Guards have already evacuated."

"How can he counterattack?!"

Hu Cai was terrified when he thought about it, and hurriedly engraved the eye of the formation in the corner of the main hall. As the eye of the formation took shape, faint lines began to spread underground.

This magic array is called [Drawing a Prison on the Ground], and even the immortals on earth cannot detect it.

Hu Cai now only wanted to arrange the evacuation of Da Qi Town as soon as possible. No matter what method Lu Zu used, it was not something he could guess.

Sudden.

Out of the corner of his eye he noticed the Sun-wandering statue's eyes move.

Hu Cai stared at the Sun-wandering statue with horror. He didn't know if it was an illusion, but the statue's eyes were wide open and the pupils seemed to be alive.

He was so frightened that his whole body trembled, and he dared not continue to engrave the center of the formation.

It seemed that if he moved again, he would encounter bloody disaster.

"Photography!"

Hu Cai tapped his forehead, his eyes became extremely empty, and a huge Dharma eye opened between his eyebrows.

With the help of secret techniques, he looked up and saw that the head of the Sun-Watching Statue had turned into a burning fireball, and densely packed eye pupils appeared all over its body.

demon! !
There is a demon hidden inside the statue!!!
Hu Cai's face turned pale and he fled from the temple in a hurry.

As soon as I left, I ran into a group of people celebrating their new home. The young man in the lead was carrying the statue of the land god and asking the god to temporarily live in their new home.

Hu Cai retreated repeatedly, and the statue of the land god turned into a demon with a head like a ginseng, and its tentacles penetrated into the ground to absorb nutrients.

"Come, come, the roast duck at Yinxianlou is fresh out of the oven~~"

The waiter routinely held up the freshly-roasted duck and walked towards the door. The air was filled with the smell of smoke, which condensed into a dozen fat heads of the Kitchen God.

Hu Cai's scalp tingled and his back accidentally touched the door of a house.

"Bah!"

With a powerful push, Hu Cai fell to the ground in a mess, and then he found that a bloody giant hand stretched out from the door god portrait.

The farmer sighed and accidentally spilled the grains in the bag all over the ground.

In Hu Cai's eyes, the grains turned into sharp teeth, forming a bloody mouth. It was a demon disguised as the god of grain.

Lu Zu sacrifices the chariot to save the king?

Bullshit!
Hu Cai took a rough look and saw seven or eight demons hiding everywhere.

These monsters all have four thousand years of Taoism experience, but they do not have the nature of cannibalism, and they hide in the city in inexplicable ways.

"and many more."

"Is there a possibility?"

Hu Cai noticed that there were many similarities between demons and gods, and the occasional taboos were also in line with the duties of gods and immortals in the old heaven.

"They are the remnant souls of the old gods in heaven!!!"

Hu Cai's mind went blank. What was Lv Zu's identity in his previous life? At least he was an immortal master among the eight divisions of the heavenly court.

Otherwise, how could he come into contact with the remaining souls of immortals and gods and revive them into demons.

While Hu Cai was in a daze, heavy snow fell on his head.

The snowflakes are gray-black, exuding a faint resentment.

"The Buddha outside the temple is coming!"

As soon as Hu Cai finished speaking, limbs appeared out of thin air. A twenty-meter-long figure lay across the town. Its limbs were connected to a giant baby monk, whose scalp was covered with twisted scriptures.

The monk outside the temple raised his limbs and heard a dull noise under his feet.

It was like an echo from hell.

With every step I took, the air around me grew colder.

Hu Cai took a deep breath. The Buddha outside the temple had been practicing for six thousand years. If one looked at it from an original perspective, Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva was simply using a cannon to kill a mosquito, which was a waste of effort.

It is different now. The Buddha outside the temple may not be able to please the siege of the immortals.

"I have to evacuate immediately!"

"Lü Zu is definitely capable of fighting. It's not the Little Leiyin Temple against the Lü Zu Temple, it's clearly against the Little Heavenly Palace!!"

Hu Cai fled in a hurry, but it was obviously too late.

Whoosh whoosh.

The tree roots broke through the ground and pulled more than 20,000 people deep into the earth.

Da Qi Town became a deserted city, and the ghost domains of the eight-headed immortal ghosts unfolded at the same time. Then, ruins appeared out of thin air to replace the houses.

Because of the ghost father, the immortal ghost underwent subtle changes.

The ghost domains overlap to form a large ghost domain called Ghost Heaven. The demonic characteristics of the immortal ghosts are completely gone, and they are no different from immortal gods.

"How could such a great demon come from here and trespass into the Heavenly Palace? His crime is truly unforgivable!"

"Take my giant spirit's blow!"

"The glorious heaven cannot tolerate even a little filth!"

.........

The immortals and ghosts had just given up their evil ways and turned to good. Their intelligence was like that of a ten-year-old child, and their speech was all learned from dramas when they were in charge of the town.

They pretended to be very awkward.

Hu Cai dodged in a panic. The ghost realm completely closed off Da Qi Town. The Buddha outside the temple was trapped in a jar, and had to fend off the siege of the immortals and ghosts.

Such scenes were not isolated cases. Except for Yanliang Town, the rest of the town was in chaos.

However, at present, only immortals and ghosts have appeared, a total of twenty-eight. After all, it is impossible for both forces to reveal all their cards at once.

More than 300,000 warriors were transferred to Yanliang Town by the teleportation tree to welcome Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva.

"This alone is definitely not enough. The Buddha outside the temple is just a test of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva."

Hu Cai's pupils trembled as he noticed a figure in mid-air watching coldly.

The air is filled with sandalwood.

A monk knelt devoutly among the clouds with his hands folded. The eight scars on his head were filled with Buddha's fingers, and countless scriptures were flowing.

"They are the seven arhats under the seat of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva."

“The Incense-burning Arhat!!”

The division of realms in Xiao Leiyin Temple is slightly different, and human immortals are called [human fruits].

The Ranxiang Arhat has already achieved the perfect human fruit, and has refined more than ten sentences of true scriptures. Even Hu Cai from Moyun Cave has heard of his name.

"hiss……"

Hu Cai looked incredulous as he discovered a gourd faintly above the incense burning arhat.

Shen Lian sat cross-legged on the gourd, carrying four items on his body.

A mynah bird on the shoulder.

A bone blade at the waist.

A branch in the palm of your hand.

There is a lotus platform between the tongue.

"Everyone, please give your opinions. Who will deal with this Incense Burning Arhat?"

The starling turned its head and whistled, but the other three creatures showed no reaction.

"You all think I'm an idiot, don't you?"

"When I was still an immortal, it was inevitable that I would be affected by the demonic aura, but it's a little difficult to hide it from me now, right? Don't think that you can work without putting in any effort."

(End of this chapter)