Day and night tour

Chapter 308: Prince Wutou
Zhou Xuan fell into a strange state. After his soul was knocked out of his body, his mind became confused. He seemed to be thinking about everything, and yet he seemed to be thinking about nothing.

He didn't know where he was going, but his soul was floating at the speed of the day, crossing thousands of mountains, crossing several rivers, and finally appearing at the bank of a rushing apricot yellow river.

This journey spanned over a thousand miles, and Zhou Xuan's soul was always followed by the folk witch.

——To be precise, what followed him was a feather from the wizard's black cloak.

After the wizard beat Zhou Xuan's soul out of his body, he plucked out a black feather.
The black feather was placed in the palm of his hand, and the lines on his palms were like tiny worms that came to life and drilled into the black feather.

After the palm-patterned worm became the vein of Black Feather, it condensed into bone and blood and became a fetal egg.

After the egg broke, a black crow was born.

The feathers turn into bones and blood, the bones and blood form eggs, and the eggs hatch and give birth to crows. These three consecutive complex changes only take a few moments in the hands of the wizard.

He looked at the black crow in his hand and ordered, "Prince Wutou, teach that young man what it means to change shape and shadow."

"Yeah...yeah..."

After calling twice, the black crow flapped its wings and flew away. It circled in the hall of the God-Worshipping Temple, then crashed into the wall and disappeared.

Inside the God Touring Division, there was only a black feather floating in the air...

However, the black crow kept following Zhou Xuan's soul closely.

When Zhou Xuan stood by the rushing river, the black crow circled several times, made annoying noises, and then its wings began to vibrate strangely.

If it were the previous Zhou Xuan, he would not be able to see the reason for this kind of vibration.

But now Zhou Xuan has entered the Dragon Seeking and Sensing School and can sense the trends of Feng Shui.

In his eyes, the vibration frequency of the crow's wings is not just random, but contains a rhythm that is in harmony with the mountains and rivers, and with the heaven and earth.

Zhou Xuan looked carefully and no longer saw the black crow. What he saw was the whistling mountain breeze, the sound of flowing springs, the rushing rivers and the mountains rising from the depressions.

The black crows have also become a part of the atmosphere of the mountains and rivers.

"Yeah...yeah..."

After the black crow called several times in succession, its figure disappeared and turned into a black feather, falling towards Zhou Xuan.

Zhou Xuan reached out and caught it.

The feathers were warm and seemed to be alive. This feeling awakened Zhou Xuan's chaotic spirit.

Holding the feather, Zhou Xuan thought of the folk witch in the Parade of Gods—the man in a cloak who looked like an evil ghost.

"This feather is the feather on the folk witch's cloak."

"The black crow is its soul, and its feathers are its true form."

"After the soul travels a thousand miles, the soul disappears, but the body returns... No wonder it's called shapeshifting."

Zhou Xuan immediately guessed where the "Black Crow" was going.

The feather appeared on the bank of the Huangyuan River, which means that the crow's soul and body had directly swapped places.

"Black Crow" should be in the Youshen Division at this time.

……

As Zhou Xuan expected, the floating feather in the God Parade had disappeared, but the black crow with its wings spread was circling in the God Parade.
After circling three or two times, it landed on the shoulder of the folk witch and began to call softly, as if telling something.

As it cried, the folk witch began to smile. With this smile, his terrifying appearance actually became a little kinder.

He clapped his hands and laughed, "What a good young man! I originally wanted to ask Prince Wutou to teach him twice more, but I didn't expect that he would understand the method of teleportation after only one look. He is really smart."

"Prince Wutou, we have completed what Jin Zhong ordered. Let's go."

The folk witch grabbed the black crow, and the lines on his palm jumped again. After several whippings, the black crow turned into a black gas and a feather, and drilled into the cloak.

A man and a crow, their figures disappeared,

The golden bell of the ancient tree no longer hummed, and its brilliant golden light also dimmed.

The golden bell rang three times in succession, and the sound waves turned into Taoist priests, demon monks, and folk witches. They all seemed to have their own missions, and after completing their missions, they disappeared without a trace.

But the painter had a clear sense of what these three people had done.

The ancient tree and golden bell are the foundation of the parade of gods in various places.

The wandering gods in a prefecture have their minds connected to the golden bell. If there is any abnormality in the golden bell, the wandering gods will be able to sense it immediately.

The Taoist killed the fox, the evil monk beheaded the monk, and the witch beat the soul. The details of these three events were kept in mind by every wandering god in Mingjiang Mansion.

Suddenly, the entire Yushen Division was in chaos.

Several secret letters came one after another, all asking the painter what to do.

"I will investigate what happened in Xijiao Temple and Kuishan Taoist Temple. All of your lanterns will circle the Parade of Gods and guard the Golden Bell."

The painter said so.

One after another, the parade lanterns began to patrol hundreds of meters around the Parade Temple.

The painter had just finished instructing Youshen on his actions when the next moment, Zhou Xuan's body disappeared.

However, Zhou Xuan's spirit appeared in the Yushen Division: "Lao Hua, activate the space law, Huangyuan River, meet in front of Tianmen Water Village."

When Zhou Xuan spoke to this point, his soul traveled again, and the painter used the Dao Flame to tear open the space, and headed for Tianmen Water Fort at the extreme speed of the law of space.

……

"Boom! Boom!"

The Huangyuan River is a turbulent river. It nurtures all the living creatures in the city, but every few decades, it will flood and swallow countless lives into the river.

When such a violent river rushes and surges, the sound is not "rushing", but more like thunder. The sound of waves surging against each other hurts the eardrums of people walking by the river.

Zhou Xuan and the painter stood on the bank of the Huangyuan River with their hands behind their backs.

"Congratulations, young master, for learning the art of shifting form."

The painter smiled and spoke to Zhou Xuan.

The so-called shape-shifting means that the body and soul exchange positions.

After Zhou Xuan's spirit traveled to the Huangyuan River, he used the power of heaven and earth and feng shui to forcibly switch the positions of his body and soul. So his body came to the Huangyuan River, while his spirit returned to the Youshen Division.
Immediately afterwards, Zhou Xuan traveled again during the day, his soul returned to his body, and he actually appeared by the Huangyuan River.

The technique of shape-shifting allowed Zhou Xuan to possess the ultimate speed.

However, his maximum speed requires his soul to travel twice a day, and the process is a bit complicated, so it is not as fast as the spatial law of the painter's eight incense sticks.

"But your daily wandering of spirits is more useful than my laws."

The painter preached to Zhou Xuan.

"How is it useful?" Zhou Xuan asked.

"If the bad guys had set up a large ambush in the Huangyuan River in advance, and I came here using the law of space, I would have fallen into their trap and it would have been difficult for me to escape. But you came here with your soul first and your body later.

It is not easy to capture your soul with an ambush and a large formation. It is at least much more difficult than capturing my real body."

"Use your spirit to explore the way, and your body to perform the incense and fire technique?"

"That's right. So, although you are definitely slower than me in speed, you can separate the soul from the body. Your technique is three times more agile than mine."

The painter's words moved Zhou Xuan a little, and he asked, "Old Hua, who is that folk witch? How could she teach me such a miraculous method?"

"It is the soul of the Nine Incense Sticks from the human world imprisoned in the golden bell of the ancient tree."

The painter said to Zhou Xuan: "The ancient tree and golden bell, from the moment they were condensed, represent protection.

The golden bell guards the entire city. It is both a monitoring device and a prison for the powerful souls of the human world.

The Jing Kingdom spanned more than two thousand years. During these years, there were always some Nine-stick Incenses that made trouble. In the past, when the will of heaven was strictly supervised, the sky gods really protected the human world, and the human world itself had guardians like Zhaxing.
They cooperated with the Parade of Gods to suppress the Nine Incense Sticks that were causing trouble.

After Jiuzhuxiang was executed, his spirit was imprisoned in the ancient tree's golden bell. After many years of teaching, his spirit was controlled by the golden bell and became a 'bell slave'.

The painter said: "Tonight, the golden bell rang three times, three bell slaves were released, and three things were done."

He counted on his fingers, one by one: "The first Zhong slave is called Judge Shenjun. He was once a walker sent to the human world by the four gods of the Time Realm. He is good at using the Five Thunder Talisman.

The second Zhong Nu is called Feng Heshang, with the Buddhist name "Liu Wu", who can use the wind to gain momentum.

The third Zhong slave is called the Master of Ten Thousand Crows. His black cloak is filled with black crows he raises. The most powerful one is called the Prince Wutou.

"The Judge of the Divine Lord, after he showed up today, he created a bloody incident in the Taoist temple on Kuishan Mountain, killing countless foxes.
Monk Feng killed all the monks in the temple, but Master Wan Ya did not commit any sins of killing. Instead, he taught you the art of changing your form."

The painter said: "These three bell slaves, everything they did was instructed by the Golden Bell. Strictly speaking, it was the Ancient Tree Golden Bell who made a deal with them."

"trade?"

"The Golden Bell asks them to do something. Once they have done their job, they are no longer imprisoned by the Golden Bell. They are free from then on and can either go on to reincarnate and re-enter the cycle of reincarnation, or take over another body and be reborn, once again embarking on the path of spiritual practice."

When Zhou Xuan heard this, he said, "Last time the stars entered the Wandering Gods Division and broke the cauldron, the ancient tree golden bell was almost smashed to pieces. Why didn't you think of releasing a few bell slaves to resist the stars?"

“Not enough spirituality anymore.”

The painter said: "Since three hundred years ago, the supervision of the will of the Jing Kingdom has suddenly become extremely weak, and the gods of the sky are no longer supervised. Without them to activate the golden bell, the spiritual power of the golden bell has been gradually weakened, and the bell slaves cannot be released.

Today, your wish made the Golden Bell regain its glory, and it used its spiritual power to release three bell slaves, and accomplished three great things. "

When Zhou Xuan heard this, he understood the first function of the wish power - it could bless the spirituality of the ancient tree golden bell, and then activate the golden bell to protect Mingjiang Mansion.

"Young Master, I have an unwelcome request. If you don't use the power you have accumulated for other purposes, can you please leave it to the Golden Bell?"

"Then my price will be very high."

After all, Zhou Xuan doesn't like being taken advantage of for free.

"This...this...can you please talk about the price in detail?" the painter asked reluctantly.

He knew Zhou Xuan's strengths and weaknesses. He possessed two secret realms, one at the God level and one at the Heavenly Venerable level. He also had capable people like Yun Ziliang and Peng Sheng around him to assist him wholeheartedly.
Inside the secret realm, there is also the Mother Wall of Sighs - Miss Wall, the main brain of the Buddha Kingdom, the human brain of the Blood Well,
Zhou Xuan would probably not even look at all these treasures or ordinary things, so how could the price he asked for not be high?
But no matter how high the price is, the painter wants to obtain the power that can nourish the "ancient tree golden bell".

Mingjiang Prefecture is now in decline, the Ginkgo Tree has disappeared, and the Peach Tree only protects the Tattoo Tree Clan.
The ancestor dragon of Mingjiang Prefecture was polluted again. Although the big dragon in Dongshi Street had grown into the size of an ancestor dragon, it had to continue to suppress the engineers from the Flesh and Blood Divine Dynasty in the Feng Shui formation.

This means that the only ancestral property that can be used in Mingjiang Prefecture is the ancient tree golden bell. The stronger the golden bell, the safer Mingjiang Prefecture will be.

Our ancestors were so wealthy, but now they have squandered everything and only have this bell left. Shouldn't we take good care of it?

"As for the price, let me think about it!"

Zhou Xuan immediately said: "First, I will stay in Mingjiang Mansion for one day, and the Youshen Division of Mingjiang Mansion must ensure my safety."

"This..." The painter felt that this was not even a price.

Given the current situation in Mingjiang Prefecture, the crisis has not yet been overcome, and they must do their best to protect Zhou Xuan.

In other words, Zhou Xuan is now the backbone of Mingjiang Prefecture.

Comparing strategies, Zhou Xuan proved himself many times.

Compared with the incense level, Zhou Xuan can be guided by the sea of ​​red spider lilies with the help of Zhou Lingyi's incense and reach the combat power of the 8th level.

The Zhou family Nuo god, who was sitting on the eighth floor and looking up at the ninth floor, cut down the three-headed stone Buddha with sixteen postures of his own hand.

With more helpers, Zhou Xuan could mobilize all the gods from Pingshui Prefecture to perform.

Pingshui Prefecture reveres the Nuo God, and the three masters of arrows, wine, and flowers will definitely fight for Zhou Xuan.

In addition, Zhou Xuan now has mastered the art of shape-shifting and possesses the ultimate speed of heaven and earth.
What do the shape-shifting and "tree gate" of the Zhou family's ancestral tree represent?
This means that Zhou Xuan is the mobile Pingshui Prefecture Parade of Gods. He can make the Pingshui Prefecture Parade of Gods descend to any location.

In every aspect, it is ensured that Zhou Xuan is the backbone of Mingjiang Mansion.

Mingjiang Youshensi is responsible for protecting Zhou Xuan.

"Young Master's request is the same as no request."

"I still have a price."

Zhou Xuan said, "The Justice of the Peace of Pingshui Prefecture is affiliated with your Gu Lao Hui, right?"

"It's our Bone Elders' Association's consortium."

The painter nodded in acknowledgment and said, "From the moment the Gu Lao Hui was founded, it has controlled several financial channels on the continent of Jingguo. There are four financial groups under its umbrella that make money, and the Justice of the Peace is one of them."

"Then I'm going to raise the price. We have many masters and apprentices in the Zhou family. We want to make a fortune and live a prosperous life. You can let the Justice of the Peace take care of it."

Zhou Xuan said with a smile.

"And then?" the painter asked anxiously.

"What then?"

"After the Zhou family becomes rich, what other requests do they have?"

"Gone."

"Gone?" The painter was surprised.

"that is all."

Zhou Xuan said: "Safety and wealth, how greedy..."

“That’s still the same as not asking for anything.”

The painter just thought Zhou Xuan was a kind man.

In the Well Country, for those who practice incense and worship, except for the temples like the witches who are extremely indifferent to money, it is not difficult for other temples to make the whole house rich.

Take the Liaogui for example. This small hall in Pingshui Prefecture has no hope of practicing, but they want to make money, and it is easy.

Zhou Xuan's deceased old friend Lin Xia gave Zhou Xuan a box of small yellow croaker as a token of her gratitude.

Money is not a rare thing for Liaogui, and it is even less so for the Gu Laohui.

Most of the huge amount of post-disaster resettlement funds for the Mingjiang flood disaster were allocated and raised by the Bone Elders' Association. Although the family's assets were used up in one go, the family's vitality was not damaged.

The cash was taken out, but as long as the business of the Bone Elders Association was still there, with time, the cash would gather together again, like a mountain of gold on the left and a mountain of silver on the right.

What’s the big deal about leading the Zhou family to live a wealthy life?
Even if all the masters and apprentices of the Zhou family were supported as parasites and led a life of luxury, what would be the difficulty?
“That’s where the difficulty lies.”

Zhou Xuan said: "Let all the young and old men of the Zhou family become wealthy, but... they must not develop bad habits. It would be unacceptable if they all became parasites."

Be wealthy, but not excessively extravagant.

"The Zhou family can only expand the troupe when it is wealthy. With more people in the troupe, the popularity of Zushu will increase. But we can't let money stop people from doing the hard work, stop singing ghost plays, and stop entertaining guests.

They all became rich young masters, carrying cages and raising birds, and eating the crops of iron rods. That kind of popularity will not help our Zhou family's ancestral tree at all. That won't do."

"This degree is a bit difficult to grasp..."

The painter also felt troubled. If they were rich, it would be easy. The Justices of the Peace would just take out 10% of the profits and give it to the Zhou family for no reason.

We want to be rich, but we can’t let the Zhou family members be lazy…

"Is it not difficult to ask for a price? You can think of the specific plan yourself. If the Zhou family produces one or two bad boys, that is the diversity of human beings. I don't blame you. But if you produce them in batches, I will cancel the vow support of the Golden Bell."

"to make."

The painter was still very happy and agreed.

No matter from which angle you look at it, the price Zhou Xuan asked for is equivalent to no price. In this deal, the ones who benefited are all the Bone Elders Association.

If such a small problem cannot be solved, how can the painter have the face to ask Zhou Xuan's storyteller for his power of will.

"Today's work is done. I'm going to go back and rest first."

"Thank you for today, young sir."

"No thanks, I'm tired."

Zhou Xuan's soul traveled to the Jingyi Shop on Dongshi Street, and then he used the method of changing his form and shadow, and his soul traveled again.
After a three-day tour, he returned to his shop from the desolate riverside thousands of miles away.

Yun Ziliang, Peng Sheng, Xu Li, Yu Zhengyuan and others were eating, drinking and chatting in the store.
Of course, Yun Ziliang and Peng Sheng had good eyesight. They first sensed Zhou Xuan's spirit, and then saw his physical body, which appeared in the store with the fishy river breeze from Huangyuan Prefecture.
The two of them stood up immediately, and walked towards Zhou Xuan with doubts...

……

"Young Master is such a kind man."

The painter sighed, and after seeing off the shape-shifting Zhou Xuan, he tore through space and first went to the "Kuishan Taoist Temple" in the south city of Mingjiang Prefecture.
He wanted to investigate why the ancient tree and golden bell released the "God Judge" to kill all the fox spirits in the Taoist temple.

……

"Xuan Zi, your method is extraordinary."

Yun Ziliang was dumbfounded. He sniffed Zhou Xuan's clothes and said, "Come from Huangyuan River?"

"Master Yun, you must have drunk too much. The Huangyuan River is a thousand miles away from here. Junior Brother, let alone taking a train, even if you take a plane, it will take three or four hours."

Yu Zhengyuan interrupted.

"Lao Yun, you have a very good nose. I am indeed from Huangyuan Prefecture."

Zhou Xuan said.

"what?"

Everyone was shocked, and Peng Sheng said, "Brother Xuan, you are using... the method of Prince Wutou to change his form."

"Brother Peng figured it out?"

"Prince Wutou is an old crow spirit who practices witchcraft. I know a little about it."

"It's the art of teleportation. From now on, I can walk freely in the nine palaces of Jingguo like a painter."

"Your skill is much better than the painter's law of space. Although the law of space is extremely powerful and even better than the Crow Clan's shapeshifting, if you add your soul travel and tree gate, the law of space will be suppressed by several levels."

"Is it that exaggerated?"

Peng Sheng said: "I will only talk about one thing - the Buddhist Kingdom is far beyond the starry sky, covered by several layers of fog. The Taoist priest's consciousness controls the nine prefectures in the mountain and river map. How did he accurately find the Baoshan Temple in the Buddhist Kingdom?"

"You mean..." Zhou Xuan suddenly figured out the point.

Peng Sheng nodded and said, "That's right. The incense Taoist priest rides a donkey. On his robe, there are cloud patterns of the Crow Ancestor. There are nine Crow Ancestors in total, called the Nine Crow Ancestors. They have the talents of the demon race, and each of them can travel in spirit and soul.
These spirits can pass through the barrier of the Well Country, and then change their shapes and shadows. The true body of the Crow Ancestor can travel across the starry sky. Each of them has amazing perception and extraordinary combat power, which is much higher than that Wutou Prince. "

"If my incense is great, I will be able to travel with my spirit every day, and then change my form and shadow, and my real body will be able to reach the Buddha's kingdom..."

"If you reach the Buddha's Kingdom, it will be like all the wandering gods around the Zhou family's ancestral tree can reach the Buddha's Kingdom."

Peng Sheng said so.

……

Li Liuyun and Awang, two members of the Blood Well Society, found a restaurant after leaving the metropolis and continued to eat while discussing the details of their investigation of the Nine Snake God's actions during the blood sacrifice in the Gangfeng Cave.

The more they discussed, the clearer the understanding became. However, as they chatted, the "bone god index finger" in Awang's arms began to beat wildly.

Awang quickly took out his "index finger", and the bone finger automatically slipped out of his hand and began to move on the table.

The swimming trajectory formed the words - walls have ears.

When Awang heard this, he turned his head suddenly and saw a black shadow on the street. The shadow had a tiger claw in its hand, which scratched through the space and drilled into it.

"People from the White Tiger Village."

The White Tiger Village is also a Yin Hall, with disciples who understand the same method as the painters - the law of space.

"We can't let him go back to the village, or they will kill us both."

Li Liuyun said.

The large villages deep in the mountains all have their own feuds, some big and some small, and it is natural that there are intrigues between the villages.

Once the people from the White Tiger Village return to the village, the secret that Li Liuyun and Awang discussed today will definitely be known to others for the rest of their lives.

Awang almost didn't hesitate. He closed his eyes and focused on the spot. In the Blood Well Secret Realm, he called out to Zhou Xuan.

"High Priest, we were followed and our secrets were overheard. That person is from the White Tiger Village... I request the High Priest and the Heavenly Lord to kill him."

(End of this chapter)