Day and night tour

Chapter 197 The Heavenly Official Arrives
Hearing that Zhou Xuan was going to use the "God's Clone" to start the operation, Li Chengfeng became a little nervous and said, "High Priest, are we going to mess things up too much?"

"I want to stir up a storm, to make a dark cloud over the city, to turn the world upside down. If I don't stir up a big commotion, will Old Gu believe me?"

Zhou Xuan said to Li Chengfeng: "The Bone Elders dared to attack you just because of the gods' words. We have the support of the gods. It is unreasonable for us not to attack the gods' clones."

Li Chengfeng became even more nervous after hearing this, but this nervousness was mixed with a bit of excitement.

"Remember, no matter what happens tomorrow, you have to be domineering and confident. If you want to deceive someone, you must not be a coward first."

Zhou Xuan opened his arms, gestured "big", and said easily: "You have to believe that the magnificent world is just a map. When you kneel down and look at it, you will think that the world is a huge, magnificent palace, but when you stand up, straighten your back, you will find that

The world is just a huge makeshift team!"

On the contrary, Tiangang's thoughts, spoken by Zhou Xuan, became a lever to pry open Li Chengfeng's thinking.

Li Chengfeng really had the thought of "no God, no heaven, no earth", and this thought surged from his forehead to the top of his head.

After a tingling sensation on my scalp, all that was left was excitement.

A hint of red appeared on Li Chengfeng's wrinkled old face.

"Stir it up, and make the old man unable to rest in peace."

He was so excited that he could no longer control himself and said cruel words that he would never say under normal circumstances.

"That's like you."

Zhou Xuan is quite satisfied with the effect of PUA.

Then, Zhou Xuan took advantage of the excitement to occupy Li Chengfeng's mind and told him all the arrangements and plans for tomorrow.

The plan is extremely detailed, specifying what to do and when.

After all arrangements had been made with the "actors", Director Zhou waved his hand and said, "Tomorrow's assembly, you don't need anything else, you must be domineering and have confidence... a sense of conviction, understand?"

"I understand." Li Chengfeng said.

……

After Li Chengfeng left, Yun Ziliang asked Zhou Xuan: "Xiao Zhou, do you really think this world is a huge makeshift team?"

"Whether I feel the same or not is not important." Zhou Xuan stared at the door of the store and said, "Just believe it, Old Li."

Yun Ziliang: “…”

So you are teaching us a lot, but you don’t believe it yourself?
"I really believed it. I thought you understood the truth of the world and wanted to discuss it with you."

Yun Ziliang felt that Zhou Xuan was too profound, so profound that when you thought he was lying, he was actually telling the truth. And when you thought he was telling the truth, eight out of ten sentences were false, and two of them were particularly false.

"Stop listening to those useless things every day. Clean the record player. Look at the oil leaking."

Zhou Xuan got up and went upstairs.

“When will the new record player arrive?”

"There are still a few days left, just wait."

……

Mingjiang Wharf, not far from Zhou's Jingyi Shop,

In order not to delay anything, Zhou Xuan set out at seven o'clock in the morning with Lu Mingkun and Yun Ziliang and walked to the pier.

It is more important to bring Lu Mingkun along.

The distance Zhou Xuan could control the Taoist puppet was limited, so he needed to find a secluded place near the Gu Lao Temple.

Lu Mingkun can hold a knife and help Zhou Xuan keep watch.

As for Yun Ziliang, he just wanted to come for fun and insisted that Zhou Xuan take the painting with him.

"Lao Yun, I have figured out that the three most important things in your life are watching entertainment, listening to music, and playing cards. They are all hedonism."

"Life is so hard, what else can we do if we don't enjoy ourselves?"

Yun Ziliang felt somewhat justified.

Zhou Xuan was too lazy to pay attention to him. After searching for a while, he found a dead end alley next to the Gu Lao Temple. Because there was a charity cemetery in the alley with white lanterns hanging, it looked unlucky and no one went in that morning.

But for Zhou Xuan and Lu Mingkun who came from the Ming Opera Troupe, it was like returning home.

"That's it. Fifth Brother, go guard the alley entrance and don't let anyone in."

Lu Mingkun was a ruthless man who didn't talk much. He held up the hem of his long gown and walked towards the alley.

Zhou Xuan waited, and when it was half past eight, he estimated that Li Chengfeng had arrived at the Gu Lao Temple, so he released his perception and looked for the puppet Taoist priest.

His perception, since being enhanced by the Golden Moon Wheel by Xuejing, has not only become half stronger, but more importantly - he will not be discovered by others.

quickly,

His perception sensed the puppet, and Zhou Xuan quickly established a link.

The Taoist puppet was carried on Li Chengfeng's back. Zhou Xuan controlled the puppet and said to Li Chengfeng, "Old Li, I'm here."

The puppet's extremely subtle voice made Li Chengfeng feel safe.

"High Priest, you are here so early."

"Stop talking nonsense. From now on, call me Director Zhou. Attach the link to the puppet so that we can communicate through thoughts. Once this communication is cut off, we will immediately activate the emergency backup and I will descend upon you."

Coming down takes a lot of energy,

The farther the distance, the more energy is consumed. The straight-line distance between Zhou Xuan and Li Chengfeng is only a few dozen meters, and the descent time can last for a long time, but Zhou Xuan still holds the attitude of "save as much as possible" and uses puppets to communicate instead.

After all, who knows how long the rally will last, so we have to save our energy for later use.

"Understood, Director Zhou."

……

"This is a huge lie. We storytellers are all honest people. How come a liar appeared?"

Yuan Buyu was heartbroken and said to Zhou Lingyi who was standing under the ancestral tree.

Zhou Lingyi covered her mouth with her round fan and smiled, saying, "My brother is only sincere to us. When he goes out, you don't know which of his words are false. It's good this way. When we are on the road, isn't it just you cheating on me and I cheating on you?"

"Do you think his puppet can really deceive Old Gu?" Yuan Buyu was a little worried.

Cheating in public in front of the Bone Elders Association is like walking on a tightrope on the Mingjiang Building. If you fail, you will be crushed to pieces.

“Old Yuan, you can doubt my brother’s level of incense, but you must not doubt his deception. The Tattoo Ancient Clan has been monitoring him for so long, and he is still keeping us in the dark.”

Yuan Buyu: "Among storytellers, Xuanzi is really a freak."

……

There is also a stone temple underground of the Gu Lao Temple.

Inside the stone temple, there is a shrine with nine burning incense sticks and four bronze masks.

After the mask trembled, the gathering at the Bone Temple officially began.

Now the time has not come yet, and the bronze mask lies quietly.

The four great priests were chatting with each other.

The Painful Scholar and Gu Ling were discussing how to attack Li Chengfeng later.

"Once you enter this stone temple, you will kill him. If he dares to resist, I will attack him together with you."

"Yeah." Gu Ling responded numbly.

Deep down in her heart, she didn't want to kill Li Chengfeng. She was brought into the Bone Elders Association by Li Chengfeng. In a sense, Old Li was her enlightenment teacher.

The painter and the musician didn't care about Li Chengfeng. They were talking about painting - mainly the painter.

The painter took out a small notebook, opened a page, handed it to the musician, and said, "You don't know, Zhou Xuan knows painting. He enlightened me yesterday. Look at my new painting."

The painting is very simple, a stick figure drawn with lines.

The musician took the painting and looked at it, then said, "Why do you draw this person with ears that are sideways, like two palm-leaf fans, and a crooked nose? Oh, and the mouth is a triangle!"

"Is this painting beautiful?" asked the painter.

Musician: “Beautiful, so beautiful.”

"Lao Le, your aesthetic taste has improved recently." The painter was surprised.

"Old Painting, I have a niece who is as beautiful as your painting. Why don't I find a matchmaker to marry your grandson to? They are a perfect match, a talented man and a beautiful woman."

The painter didn't expect the musician to play by his own rules. He frowned and forced out a sentence: "Bullshit!"

The painter and the musician were chatting and talking about trivial things, while the suffering scholar was discussing with Gu Ling the plan to kill Li Chengfeng, and time was passing by little by little.

At 8:50,
The four bronze masks vibrated "buzzingly", and the time for the gathering had arrived.

The four great priests stopped chatting and walked towards the shrine in unison. After kneeling down and worshipping three times, they each took a bronze mask and put it on their face.

at the same time,

The Scholar of Pain, Gu Ling, and the Musician all took a step back.

According to the convention of the meeting,
The painter had to ask the gods for divination to predict the danger of the gatherings. Every gathering brought together all the elites of the Bone Elders' Association. If some mysterious organization took advantage of the gathering to attack, wouldn't the entire Bone Elders' Association be wiped out? The roots would be dug out.

Although the probability of this happening is extremely small, we still need to prevent it.

The painter stood in front of nine incense sticks, looking at the shrine, looking up and chanting the incantation.

As he chanted spells, he saw countless vertical white threads in the air.

The silk threads formed a curtain.

The painter reached out and lifted the curtain, and saw some pictures. In the pictures, he seemed to hear the sound of a "heart" beating, and saw the old man worshiping a corpse...

Judging from these scenes, there is no danger, but why would that corpse attract the old man to worship it?

The painter pondered in silence, thoughts flowing in his mind.

The other three clergymen seldom saw the painter so hesitant, so they looked at each other in bewilderment.

They knew clearly in their hearts that the so-called "asking for divination" was not divination at all, but the law of time.

The painter has mastered some of the laws of time and can enter the future time realm and see certain scenes taking place in the future.

The shrine, the nine incense sticks, and the temple in which they were located helped him anchor the time and place.

However, the painter’s understanding of the laws of time was not very profound, and he could only see the scenes within the next few hours.

"Hold the meeting. There is no danger."

The painter was responsible for Gu Lao's safety, but worshipping the corpse was not dangerous, so there was no reason to interrupt the gathering.

The other three priests, upon receiving the painter's order, all raised the bronze plates symbolizing their priesthood.

The underground temple was pulled by the bronze plate and slowly rose to the ground of the Bone Temple.

The suffering scholar put his hands behind his back and said in a loud voice: "Pray to God!"

The old scholars who had been waiting outside the temple lined up and walked into the temple.

The other scholars were all wearing black robes and had empty hands, but Li Chengfeng walked into the Bone Temple carrying a corpse on his back.

"Li Chengfeng, who is that on your back?"

The distressed scholar noticed something was wrong and questioned Li Chengfeng.

"Old Li, ignore him and protect your status and that of the gods."

Zhou Xuan's thoughts reached Li Chengfeng's mind.

"Humph."

Li Chengfeng snorted coldly and did not respond to the scholar in pain. He walked to his seat, placed the puppet Taoist priest on the seat, and knelt on one knee in front of the Taoist priest.

This was the "detail" that Zhou Xuan had discussed with him yesterday. After entering the rally, he could not reveal the identity of the "God" immediately. He had to retain the sense of mystery. Kneeling was to maintain the tone of the God.

As for how others discuss and understand it, that is their business.

"Li Chengfeng, I'm talking to you. Who is he?"

"Chao Feng, you can just continue to preside over the meeting."

The priesthood of the suffering scholar was called "Chaofeng". The painter noticed some clues about the "corpse" and spoke out to persuade him to stop.

This corpse is the "corpse" that the painter saw through the law of time and that attracted the worship of the Bone Elders.

As for why the Bone Elders were worshipping, he did not see any relevant footage.

In the future time and space, what he saw were some still pictures and a few sounds.

But this corpse could attract so many bone elders to worship it, so it must be of great importance, so we should be more polite to it.

"Old Li, don't wipe off the blood on the tattoo of the corpse for the time being. Keep up the mystery. You are performing very well so far." The blood was also a detail that Zhou Xuan told Li Chengfeng.

The dirty blood used is black dog blood, which is on all three tattoos and can cover up the scent of the tattoos.

……

Zhou Xuan in Yizhuang Lane held his collar with one hand and spoke into it, as if there was a microphone clipped on his collar, to maintain communication with Li Chengfeng.

"To maintain a sense of mystery, there is only one key: don't talk too much. At this time, less is more."

……

Li Chengfeng followed Zhou Xuan's script completely without saying a word, but every two or three minutes, he would kowtow to the "puppet Taoist priest".

The rest of the guys were confused.

They also heard rumors that the Gu Lao Society wanted to get rid of Li Chengfeng.

"I admit that Mr. Li is under a lot of pressure, but it shouldn't be this great, right?"

"Professor Li's mental state seems to be worrying."

"It seems that the four great priests are all looking at the body."

Not only the four great priests were watching, but everyone in the entire temple was watching.

This was the first step Zhou Xuan instructed - to maintain a sense of mystery and arouse everyone's curiosity.

The puppet Taoist priest is the protagonist today. If the audience's attention is not focused on him, how will the following play be performed?
The curiosity of the elders was further intensified. Some of the most curious ones even wanted to walk up to the corpse and take a closer look to see what ability the corpse had that could make Li Chengfeng kneel down and kowtow.

The distressed scholar couldn't help but use his senses to search the corpse, but found nothing.

The corpse was just a Taoist priest who had never burned incense or entered a temple before his death. He was no different from an ordinary person.

What can perception detect?
The meeting continued.

First, Gu Ling raised her hands to the sky, lowered her head, and communicated with the god "Tianguan".

"Half an hour later, half an hour later, the gods will come."

With the arrival time obtained by Gu Ling,
The painter and the musician sat on the ground at the same time.

The painter was a priest named "Si Chen". His left fingernail cut off the middle finger of his right hand.
Then he used the gushing blood from his finger to draw a "sundial" on the ground. The broken middle finger stood up, and grew longer in the wind, acting as a "dial needle". The scorching sun in the sky above the temple illuminated the sundial needle, casting a shadow on the sundial.

The musician was a clergyman called "Bell Officer". He chanted a spell and the ribs in his chest and abdomen began to grow wildly, piercing his flesh and blood body and growing into a large bone claw.

He broke off the bone claws, stood on the ground, and moved the bones with both hands. As the bones trembled, soothing and pleasant music spread to every corner of the Bone Temple.

The bell officials sounded the music, the hour officials held the sundial,
This is the ceremony of welcoming gods by the Gu Lao Society.

When the projection of the sundial moved for half an hour, a red dot appeared in the sky.
The red dot falls from a height of ten thousand meters.
Gradually getting bigger,

When it was several hundred meters away, the red dot became a blurry figure.

The figure gradually became clear. He was wearing a red robe and had messy hair. When he was hanging above the head of the suffering scholar, his figure became as transparent as a red gem and his face could not be seen clearly.

"The priesthood of "Chaofeng" welcomes the coming of the "Heavenly Official" with the greatest enthusiasm of this life."

The painful scholar turned his hands into claws, and his ten fingers dug into the top of his head. He tore his body in half with great force.

The jewel clone of "Tianguan" fell inch by inch into the torn body of the suffering scholar.

It was not until his clone had completely entered that the Scholar of Pain recited the "Protective Mantra" of the Bone Old Pain School to close the cracks in his body.

"The Bone Elders Association, pays homage to the Heavenly Official."

All the old scholars in the temple knelt down before the incarnation of the "Heavenly Official".

Only Li Chengfeng stood straight.

In fact, he also wanted to kneel.

Although the faith in my heart is gone, when I see the power of the gods, my knees still have the urge to bend.

"Actors, take your positions. Wipe off the blood from the puppet Taoist priest."

Zhou Xuan issued instructions.
While everyone was kneeling, Li Chengfeng touched the vest on the puppet Taoist's chest to wipe off the blood.

The dirty blood will go away.

The puppet Taoist's first wave of "divine aura" appeared.

The aura of the "God of Pain and Disaster" composed of three tattoos was faintly emanating.

The aura was very weak, but the elders in the temple, all of whom were very devoted to the temple, could sense it and all looked towards Li Chengfeng.

"Old Li, it's up to you. You must have a sense of faith."

Zhou Xuan emphasized.

Li Chengfeng raised his head and said to the old man in the temple: "My fellow colleagues, for many years, the "Heavenly Official" has guided us to use pain to awaken the gods.
This is wrong and goes against the spirit of God.
The God of Pain and Disaster does not need painful sacrifices, but rather our prayers as anchors to stabilize his body and pull him out of his slumber."

"Li Chengfeng, do you know what you are talking about?"

The musician couldn't stand it anymore and scolded in a low voice.

"Today, the Heavenly Official has come. I, Old Li, am determined to fight to the death. I want to question the God in front of him and ask him why he has wrongly guided us and caused us to become increasingly distant from the God of Heaven.

Obviously praying is the right way, why does he guide us to the path of suffering?

I'm not convinced! "

Li Chengfeng had completely immersed himself in the role, and all the frustration he had accumulated over the years came flooding out at this moment.

He walked around the Bone Temple with his hands behind his back, speaking in a rhythmic voice, "I used to think I was wrong. Your cold eyes treated me, and my colleagues who believed in and prayed like me died one after another.

I really thought I was wrong.
Over the years, I have traveled to many places, just to find the traces of the gods, to find the fire that the gods once lit.
I found it,

We found many traces of the burning of the God's Fire.

Found evidence of the existence of gods.

I also found the route where the gods need to pray to awaken.

But what did the Heavenly Official do? He only wanted to lead you into the abyss of error. He used his divine revelation to wantonly purge all the people of the Prayer Sect.

He’s afraid…”

When Li Chengfeng reached this point in his speech,

"Tianguan" obviously couldn't hold back anymore, and pointed at Gu Ling, asking "Tongshen" to kill Li Chengfeng.

Gu Ling received instructions from the gods and was about to take action. However, when she tried to move her body, she found that her hands and feet were a little stiff. She turned her head and saw the painter winking at her.

The painter saw the future and knew that the corpse behind Li Chengfeng was very unusual. Now the corpse exuded the aura of a god. He vaguely guessed something, so he used some means to warn Gu Ling not to act rashly.

However, even if Gu Ling moved, Zhou Xuan was not afraid. He even looked forward to Gu Ling's movement. As long as Gu Ling attacked Li Chengfeng, it would be the time for him to bestow the second wave of divine aura on the puppet Taoist priest.

Of course, Gu Ling didn't do anything now.

Zhou Xuan can wait until the time is more suitable for the "divine momentum" to explode.

The instructions from the gods were suppressed by the painter, and Li Chengfeng could continue his speech.

The rest of his speech was taught by Zhou Xuan.

"Old Li, expose the ugly face of the Heavenly Official in public and destroy the faith of the old men. Faith has inertia. Once the first faith is shattered, they will immediately look for the second faith, otherwise their spirit will not be able to support themselves."

"Our fake god is a suitable second belief for them."

Li Chengfeng implemented the "script" set by Zhou Xuan in depth.

"The Heavenly Official is afraid. What is he afraid of? He is afraid that we will replace him!

Tianguan knew that the path to the gods of the praying school was the most far-reaching, and there were no god traps on the entire path. As long as a student with high talent appeared in the bone elders, he would definitely be able to reach a very high level of incense.
Eight incense sticks? Nine incense sticks?
Even reaching up to the sky,

Competing for the twenty-four positions of honor,
We have always thought that we are afraid of the heavenly officials.
Not,
It is the heavenly officials who are afraid of us.
He led us into the wrong path and took advantage of our devout belief in God to ruin our future and the rest of our lives.

How do I know this?

It's him!

The God of Pain and Disaster descended upon him and guided me in the right direction."

Li Chengfeng pointed at the puppet Taoist priest.

Zhou Xuan held the ginkgo heart tattoo of the "God of Pain and Disaster" in great tacit understanding and dripped his finger blood on his forehead.

The puppet Taoist priest suddenly opened his eyes, and an extremely powerful aura surged in the Gu Lao Temple.

Some old scholars of low level were suddenly forced to prostrate themselves on the ground by the powerful aura.

The scholar who was in pain after being possessed by the incarnation of the "Heavenly Official" also took several steps back.

Gu Ling relied on the "divine aura" of the bronze mask to barely support herself and knelt on one knee.
There were only the musician and the painter, both of them sitting cross-legged on the ground, trying to keep their bodies together.

"God has come! God, we are all your believers."

The old scholar with high level of knowledge shouted in pain but joy,

Some of them were so old that they even had tears in their eyes.

Their lifelong dream and obsession is only one - to awaken the god of pain and disaster.

now,

When the gods descend, they feel a strong sense of happiness that their long-cherished wish has been fulfilled.

"Whether the gods are real or not needs to be verified."

The painter said to all the old scholars: "Forgery is bad, the truth is good, all old scholars, listen to my command, light the lamps and bring good luck!"

"The Divine Mantra to Accelerate Good Luck" is Gu Lao's fourth level of means. Whether you are from the Pain School or the Prayer School, the means at this level are the same.

The auspicious lamp can illuminate the lesions in the human body, reveal the truth of things, and can also see the incense in the secret realm of disciples in the hall.

With the painter's order,

Even though the elders were overwhelmed by the aura of the gods, they still chanted the "Lucky Spell" one by one.

Inside the temple, there was the sound of chanting in unison.

"The tongue god is Zhenglun, the disease is universal, the mind and spirit are Dan Yuan, which makes me reach the truth..."

After finishing the incantation, the bone elders bit their tongues, exhausted all their strength, raised their heads, and spat out a mouthful of blood towards the sky.

"Light the lamp to encourage good luck!"

Countless blood flowers were suspended in the sky above the Gu Lao Temple.

The blood is burning, it becomes a lamp,
All the lights converged towards the painter's lucky lantern, condensing into a ball of fire that could cover the Gu Lao Temple.

The fire rose and fell, and the figure of the puppet Taoist priest was reflected in the firelight, and his appearance changed.

All the old men, through this fire, saw a huge heart pumping, and in the heart there was a lush ginkgo tree.

"It's God. God has really come."

The painters and musicians were all in tears.

They have served as clergy in the Bone Elders' Society for fifty years and understand too well what ginkgo and heart mean.

"The gods have come."

With the certification of the painter and musician, the elders no longer doubted that the puppet Taoist's divine aura was fake, and tears filled their eyes.

A lifelong pursuit, fulfilled.
The sadness and happiness in it cannot be expressed in words, but only turn into tears on my cheeks, flowing silently.

"Old Li, the atmosphere is right, go and kill the Heavenly Official's clone!"

Zhou Xuan communicated with Li Chengfeng through the puppet.

"Director Zhou..."

"Go and kill the Heavenly Official's clone."

In fact, Zhou Xuan had a way to kill the clone of the Heavenly Official even if Li Chengfeng did not take action. When he released the aura of the God just now, he heard a sound of breaking in the body of the painful scholar.

He only needed to increase the aura of the god a little more, and he could completely rely on that aura to shatter the clone of the "Heavenly Official".

but……

He can't make the first move.

This was Li Chengfeng's psychological barrier. When the atmosphere became so tense, no one dared to attack the Heavenly Official, and Li Chengfeng could not help.

No matter how high the incense is, if you don't have the courage to draw your sword against the gods,
Not worthy of being a believer of the Blood Well or Nuo gods.

Xuejing and Nuo Shen were ruthless characters who dared to encourage Zhou Xuan to snatch the wine-boiling monk from the sky.
"Old Li, kill the Heavenly Official's clone..."

(End of this chapter)