One Qi Chaoyang

Chapter 55: Waiting for the Monster to Come
Zhao Fuyun didn't know when Dean Ma left. He just lowered his head and Dean Ma disappeared.

He returned to the temple, looked at the empty fire lamp, and took the lamp down directly.

Then he picked out a lamp from among the many lamps, bent his finger and flicked it. A red light popped out from his fingertips and fell into the flame. The flame shook, and the originally loose flame suddenly seemed to be squeezed apart, and then burned again from the inside.

But this time the flame looked completely different. It looked compact, and the circle of light it emitted gave people a mysterious feeling. If you look closely at the center of the flame, it seemed to be made up of a complex rune.

Then he released a little gray smoke, which fell on the flame, making the flame seem to be covered with a shadow, but it could not be seen if one looked closely.

He threw the lamp and it landed on the palm of the statue.

Just this one lamp, with two talismans cast into it, has become a very good magical tool. If he had this lamp in his hand when he first came here, he would not have needed the statue to bestow the power of the Seven Star Lamp Divine Fire to establish a Taoist temple, because this lamp would be enough.

He packed his things and went to Zhu Puyi to tell him that he was going back to the mountain.

This made Zhu Puyi envious. Although he had now established himself here, he always wanted to go back in his heart. He did not feel safe at all.

"Teacher, if you want to go back, what should I do? What should I do?"

In the last sentence he said, he didn't even refer to himself as "this official".

Perhaps he thought of some possibilities, he couldn't even sit still and walked back and forth in the yamen.

He hoped that Zhao Fuyun would stay, but Zhao Fuyun had already established his foundation, so how could he stay? On the path of cultivation, he would move forward step by step, so why would he stop for others? At most, he would turn his head and watch.

"What are you worried about, sir?" Zhao Fuyun sat there, drinking a cup of tea.

"It is said that monsters hold grudges. That centipede monster escaped. It doesn't dare to come again because the teacher is here. If the teacher leaves, it will definitely come back. Then no one can stop it and my life will be over." Zhu Puyi said.

Zhao Fuyun thought about it and realized there was nothing he could do. He had to leave. If it weren't for their previous friendship, he would have left right away.

It is impossible for him to say that he would go find the centipede monster for Zhu Puyi and kill it before leaving. This is impossible. Not to mention whether he can find it or not, even if he finds it, he will not fight for it.

"If I go back, I will report to the mountain, and then there should be a new instructor coming." Zhao Fuyun was thinking that even if someone was sent, it might still be a disciple of Xuan Guang.

However, the lamp he left in the temple was a protective shield for his successor.

"Then I just hope that you can send someone else sooner." Zhu Puyi also knew that there was nothing he could do.

"Now in the county, every family worships the Red Flame God, and even ghosts dare not come in easily." Zhao Fuyun said, "Don't worry, sir, just wait patiently."

He then went out and walked around the county. When it was getting dark, he returned to the temple, and then came to the edge of the foggy river. He found Shiva in a cave outside a reed marsh.

The house they originally built in the reed marsh was washed away by the flood.

The person he wanted to see was not Yu Shiva, but her granddaughter. In his opinion, among all the people in the entire Wu Ze County who followed him to learn the law, only her granddaughter had the hope of cultivating magical powers.

He told You Xiaolu that he was about to leave. The girl was very shy, and perhaps because she had stayed by the water for too long, her body felt damp.

"You should go to the temple of the God and recite the scriptures every day. It will be good for your health."

This will dispel the dampness and coldness in her body.

Yushiva said worriedly: "The centipede god hides in the mountains and has the ability to burrow underground. If the teacher leaves, it will definitely come back for revenge. No one will be able to defeat it, and I'm afraid many people will die."

"Oh, Shiva knows about this monster." Zhao Fuyun said.

"Monsters bear grudges the most," said Yushiva.

"There is nothing we can do about it. I hope it doesn't know I'm gone, so that when a new teacher comes, nothing will happen." Zhao Fuyun said. "I'm afraid it will appear right after the teacher leaves." Yu Shiva said.

"Oh, it seems that there are still worshippers of it in the county." Zhao Fuyun said.

"That's right. Over the years, there must be many people who have been enslaved by it." said Yushiva.

Zhao Fuyun discovered that his departure would make so many people worried. If other people in the county knew that he was leaving, some would probably be frightened.

However, he sighed and said, "But no matter what, I will leave tomorrow."

Yushiva was helpless, she said: "The teacher will leave tomorrow, so we should leave tonight."

Zhao Fuyun didn't say anything, turned around and left. That night, he waited for the fox Yuping.

In fact, she didn't need to come again, but she thought, or the old fox behind her thought, that Zhao Fuyun had already established his foundation these days and might be leaving, so she looked at Zhao Fuyun at the door and said, "Teacher, are you leaving?"

"Yeah." Zhao Fuyun said.

"When?" Yuping asked.

"Tomorrow morning." Zhao Fuyun said.

"Well, see you later, teacher." There was a hint of playfulness in Yuping's voice. It was hard to tell whether she was truly happy or using this tone to hide her farewell.

"Yeah." Zhao Fuyun responded. He was still waiting for a little guy.

But this little guy never came, and he still didn't show up when dawn came.

He could only sigh and leave with his luggage.

He passed through the county town and headed outward.

Many people saw him leave, but no one knew that he actually returned secretly to a nearby mountain and hid there.

For some reason, he felt a little uneasy.

This feeling of uneasiness, as if caused by the induction of the talisman, inexplicably rose to his mind, and he did not know where it came from.

However, this sense of danger is not very strong.

He made a circle and did not go back to the mountain directly. This was due to this reason, and another reason was to see if the centipede monster would really appear immediately after he left.

He sat on the top of the mountain, waiting until dark, and then waiting from dawn to dark.

He thought about it and decided to wait for another day. That night, he suddenly heard a strange cry.

Strange cries, like those of beasts and insects, came from the Wuze County at the foot of the mountain. In an instant, the entire Wuze seemed to be boiling, and the people who were originally asleep were awakened.

He saw from the top of the mountain that a huge centipede suddenly emerged from an open space in the county town.

If you didn't know it was a centipede, at first glance it would look like a strange dragon crawling out of the ground.

"It's good that you're here. It's worth my wait." Zhao Fuyun thought to himself.

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