The world is like a prison, my body is holy

Chapter 77 Fighting between gods
"Master, please have some tea."

At dawn, a misty drizzle began to fall in Jingde County.

Wang Wen sat upright in the lobby of the inn, watching over a small red clay stove and boiling a pot of West Lake Longjing tea.

"I'm afraid the road today won't be easy to walk on!"

Taoist Ji Liang held the teacup, looked at the bead curtain dripping from the eaves in front of the door, and said something with a double meaning.

Wang Wen picked up the teacup and drank it in one gulp, then said with a casual smile: "When the enemy comes, we will fight them; when the water comes, we will build a wall with earth. When we encounter mountains, we will cut a path; when we encounter rivers, we will build bridges. Then the journey will be easy."

Taoist Ji Liang also smiled and said, "As long as you are prepared."

At that moment, Xu Ergou, wearing a straw raincoat and a bamboo hat, quickly stepped inside. He took off his hat, clasped his fists in greeting, and then stepped forward to whisper in Wang Wen's ear, "Brother, the people have been handed over to the county government. Nine hundred and forty-six taels of silver were found in the house. I found several pawnshops in the city to jointly buy up the rest of the valuables, which is equivalent to one thousand eight hundred and fifty taels of silver..."

Wang Wen glanced at him and responded in a voice that Ji Liang could hear: "Where's the house? Such a big house, isn't it worth much money?"

Xu Ergou: "Brother, this place is not like Yangzhou. No matter how big the house is, it is not worth much money."

Wang Wen: "Don't be fooled by the local tyrants, my brothers have been working hard all night to get the best harvest."

Xu Ergou: "No, no, these local tyrants, when we stick our knives in front of them, they become as obedient as gray grandsons..."

"Fine!"

Wang Wen thought for a moment and said, "First, take out two hundred taels and buy more dry food, rain gear, lamps, oil candles, and other sundries. I'll take the remaining 100 taels and you can buy a set of clothes for the Taoist priest. The rest you and your brothers can share."

After a pause, he emphasized, "Hurry up and make sure to leave before the hour of Si!"

Xu Ergou clasped his fists, gestured to the two of them, picked up his hat, turned around and rushed into the rain.

Wang Wen turned his head, raised his teacup, and gestured towards Ji Liang, the Taoist priest. "I know you're a master of the Dao and wouldn't want to touch such dirty money, but we're all trying to contribute to the same cause, and I can't break the rules. I can only ask you to be gracious and accept this gift from me and my brothers."

Taoist Ji Liang stroked his beard, not knowing whether to laugh or cry, and said, "You really know how to behave!"

Wang Wen laughed and said, "Knowing the world's affairs is knowledge!"

……

Half an hour later, more than a hundred riders gathered outside the inn gate, ready to go.

Wang Wen, draped in a straw raincoat, rushed forward and shouted, "Listen carefully! Everyone, be alert and ready to obey my orders at all times. If I say to rest, you must rest. If I don't, no matter what monsters are blocking the way, charge forward and crush them... Do you understand?"

More than a hundred riders shouted in unison: "Yes!"

Wang Wen waved his hand and said, "Get on the horse and set off!"

More than a hundred riders mounted their horses, slowly rode out of the city, and headed west along the wet official road.

After the large group of people left the city, Wang Wen released the two ghosts, Chen Sandao and Ma Feng, from the City God's domain. He ordered the two ghosts to sneak underground and act as scouts for the large group of people...

It was drizzling today and the sky was gloomy. The two ghosts were both ghost messengers, so even though it was still daytime, the two ghosts sneaking underground was no different from walking at night.

The sixty-mile official road was unobstructed and passed by in a flash.

At 3 p.m., the large group of people turned from the official road to the horse road. The road became rugged and the forests on both sides of the road became much denser.

Wang Wen glanced at the sky and ordered the troops to speed up their march, striving to reach the foot of Huangshan before nightfall...

As a result, the large group of people had not advanced more than ten miles along the rugged horse trail when Chen Sandao's voice rang in Wang Wen's ears: "Brother, there is a fight going on up ahead. One side is the Taoist priests, about seventy or eighty people, and the other group looks like bandits, about three or four hundred people. The Taoist priests are heading towards the bandits' encirclement..."

Wang Wen heard his voice and hesitated for a second before using his magic power to condense the sound into a line and transmit it underground: "How far is it? Can we get around it?"

Chen Sandao: "It must be about five or six miles. There is no other road within a radius of ten miles."

Wang Wen looked up at the dark sky, then immediately raised his hand and shouted, "Stop!"

"Xu..."

Hundreds of riders reined in their horses and slowly stopped.

Wang Wen turned his horse and walked out of the group. Standing by the road, he shouted to the long line of soldiers, "Everyone, string your bows, put on your armor, and launch your charge in one stick of incense!"

Upon hearing this, over a hundred riders dismounted, took off their armor from their packhorses, and helped each other put it on quickly...

Taoist Ji Liang, who was walking in the middle of the group, rushed to Wang Wen and asked, "Erhu, what happened?"

Wang Wenyan responded concisely, "My scouts reported that there are bandits lying in ambush five or six miles ahead!"

Taoist Ji Liang looked up at the sky, then lowered his voice with a hint of worry and asked, "Can we get through?"

Wang Wen responded more succinctly, "According to the scouts' report, a group of Taoists are heading towards the bandits' ambush area."

Taoist Ji Liang's expression changed, and he quickly shook his sleeves and pinched his hands. After a moment, his expression suddenly changed again, and he said urgently: "Erhu, the people in the ambush ahead are my nephew and his group. Please send troops to rescue them immediately!"

As he spoke, he pulled out a stack of yellow talismans from his bosom and stuffed them into Wang Wen's arms. "This is the Vajra Amulet. Use your own Yang energy to activate this talisman, and you can avoid sword attacks within twenty breaths!"

"light and spacious!"

Taoist Wang Wenchong raised his thumb, turned around, and shouted, "Brothers, this is the Vajra Amulet. Using your own Yang energy to activate this amulet, you can avoid sword attacks for twenty breaths. Team leaders, come to me quickly to receive it... Let's all thank Master Ji together!"

The Si Tianwei hurriedly shouted loudly: "Thank you, Master Ji!"

Taoist Ji Liang was anxious and at a loss for words: "You always come up with new tricks!"

An incense stick later, all the Sitian Guards were fully armed. Wang Wen bent down, took the fine steel silver spear from the saddle, and holding it in his hand, he squeezed his horse's belly and rode ahead: "Brothers, follow me and charge!"

"drive!"

"what!"

All the Sitian Guards rode their horses and followed closely behind.

More than a hundred riders rode their war horses, switching smoothly from slow walk to fast walk, and then from fast walk to running. In just one mile, they completed the collective acceleration. More than a hundred riders twisted into an arrow and galloped forward.

It's five or six miles, and if you walk, it will take at least half an hour.

But for the cavalry who had completed the acceleration, the time it took to finish a cup of tea passed in a flash.

Soon, Wang Wen heard the noise of a loud fight coming from the front. He immediately raised his gun again and shouted like thunder: "Speed ​​up!"

"Hurry!" "Ha!"

More than a hundred riders whipped the horses under their crotch again, causing the horses, which were already galloping, to speed up again and enter a charging state.

The first thing an excellent cavalry commander must have is to reasonably distribute horsepower according to distance and complete the switch from running to marching within the shortest raid distance.

Wang Wen was not an excellent cavalry commander.

But he has excellent cavalry from the Western Army under his command...

The large group of people turned a corner on the horse trail in the woods and saw a large crowd of people blocking the horse trail in front of them.

Wang Wen immediately shouted, "We are the troops of Taoist Jingxu, Deputy Junior Supervisor of the Yangzhou Astronomical Observatory. Fellow Maoshan Taoists ahead, please quickly form a defensive formation and allow us to charge..."

He stabbed a fleeing thug with his spear, and flung him forward with a single arm, sending a group of panicked thugs scurrying about in panic. "Charge!"

"kill!"

More than a hundred riders shouted in unison and followed behind him, charging into the enemy formation as smoothly as a sharp blade cutting tofu, bringing up a bloody storm.

Wang Wen took the lead and used the horse's power to swing the steel gun in his hand, leaving an afterimage. He harvested all human-shaped objects in front of him like autumn wind sweeping away fallen leaves. Wherever he passed, there was no enemy who could match him!
It wasn't until a golden palm force as huge as a carriage, wrapped in a whistling wind, came towards him that Wang Wen, who was in the midst of killing, was awakened...

The moment he saw the palm power, he burst out with a curse: "Fuck you!"

He had seen this kind of power!
When they were besieging the evil ghost at the Yangzhou government office, the Beggar Gang leader Lin Baichuan and his uncle Jiang Jin had used such power!
Seeing such power again, he was so shocked that his whole body shuddered and instinctively wanted to turn his horse around and run away...

But the moment he grabbed the reins, he thought of Xu Ergou and others who were following closely behind him.

If he had dodged, Xu Ergou and the others would have been beaten into a pool of meat paste by this palm!
The thought of 'I can't hide' just flashed through his mind, and the thought of 'why not give it a try' slowly rose and grew bigger and bigger!
I have killed those in the transformation realm and the Dan realm!

A master of acquired talent... I haven't met one yet!

"Just give it a try. It's no big deal if you get seriously injured, but dying is not that easy!"

Wang Wen was eager to try, so he made up his mind and slapped the horse under him hard on the butt. The horse felt pain and ran forward even more wildly with all four hooves.

Wang Wen withdrew his spear and injected all his strength into it in a very short time. At the moment when the impact force knocked away several minions who were blocking his way and rushed straight in front of him, he crouched down on the horse's back, tightly twisting the reins with one hand and holding the spear with the other, and stabbed out with all his might.

"Oh!"

There was only a dull thud, like several large cowhide drums beating together, and Wang Wen and his horse flew backwards. The horse's head flipped abnormally backwards, and it was dead before it even hit the ground...

"Boom."

Wang Wen knocked down several cavalrymen heavily. In an instant, there was a loud noise of people and horses falling to the ground, and the momentum of more than a hundred cavalrymen came to an abrupt halt.

Wang Wen landed on the ground, struggled to push away the strong horse that was pressing on him, and climbed up with the help of his spear. After looking around dizzily, his eyes finally focused on a bearded man in front of him with disheveled hair, a body as strong as an ox, and a dark red birthmark on the right cheek.

The man was holding up one hand and looking at him suspiciously, as if wondering... how he could get up like nothing happened!

"Brilliant!"

Wang Wen forced out a word with a flushed face, turned his head and spat out a large mouthful of blood, the blood was like a fountain, in the form of mist!

Then, he felt his whole body go limp, and he fell to the ground on one knee, holding his gun, gasping for breath.

"Big brother!"

Xu Ergou brandished his sword and rushed left and right, desperately trying to squeeze to his side. He stretched out a hand to him and said, "Hurry up and get on the horse!"

Wang Wenqiang stood up, holding his gun. "I can't die. Quickly call on my brothers to activate the Vajra Amulet..."

Before he finished speaking, a clear and melodious voice descended from the sky: "The Mysterious Sect of Heaven and Earth, the root of all mysteries, has cultivated for countless eons to prove my supernatural powers..."

He looked up and saw a handsome young man in gold clothes, emitting a magnificent golden light, slowly descending from the sky.

He was seen floating in the air, pinching the magic formula in his hand, pointing at the many miscellaneous soldiers and minions running around on the ground below: "Thunder!"

In an instant, countless golden yang thunders fell from the sky like thunderclouds, accurately striking the fleeing soldiers and minions, and giving each of them a tinfoil perm.

With just one move, he cleared a large area. His efficiency was even higher than Wang Wen leading more than a hundred cavalrymen to chop and kill in the formation!
Wang Wen almost wanted to applaud him: "Fuck, dragon bastard!"

The bearded man's already unruly hair was transformed into an extremely fluffy afro by the young man in the golden robe. His fleshy face was so dark that the birthmark was almost invisible...

He blew out a puff of green smoke from his mouth, leaped up in anger, and slapped the young man in gold clothes with both hands. "This is too much! This is simply too much!"

Then, a muffled explosion like a tiger's roar was heard, and large, powerful palm powers shone with golden light, like leaves swept by a gust of wind, and slammed into the young man in gold clothes one after another, causing the golden light on his body to flicker and flicker...

The young man in gold clothes was obviously frightened by the fierce attack of the black-haired lion. He hurriedly made hand gestures and silently chanted spells to stabilize the golden light protecting his body. He was unable to free his hands to fight back in the first time.

His passive posture of taking a beating undoubtedly gave the black-haired lion great confidence. He kept bouncing up from the surrounding trees like a big horse, and slapped his hands continuously, sending out powerful palm powers to hit the golden light protecting the golden-clothed young man's body as if they were free. He seemed to be determined to break the golden-clothed young man's turtle shell, pull him out and beat him into a pulp!
The high-quality duel between the two attracted the attention of everyone present.

The three groups of people who were fighting just now suddenly slowed down their actions and watched the battle while paddling.

Of course, even if someone wanted to help, they couldn’t get up there!
"This is the Five-Turn Rejuvenating Pill, a secret recipe from my Maoshan Mountain. It has miraculous effects on internal injuries. Take it quickly!"

Taoist Ji Liang spread out one hand in front of Wang Wen, and in his palm there was a silver pill as thick as a thumb.

Wang Wen stared intently at the battlefield in mid-air. Hearing this, he reached out and took it without even glancing at it. He put it into his mouth and swallowed it with a stretch of his neck. "Master, who is that braggart?"

Ji Liang said: "The Young Heavenly Master of Longhu Mountain is Zhang Yunxiu!"

"Young Master, no wonder you're so flirtatious..."

Wang Wen reached out and touched something in his arms: "Where's that black-haired lion? Do you recognize it?"

Taoist Ji Liang hesitated for a moment and said uncertainly, "I know very little about the martial arts world, but judging from this person's appearance... this person seems to be Tong Xiao, the leader of the Fire Hall of the White Lotus Sect!"

"Fire Hall?"

Wang Wen narrowed his eyes, turned his head and asked Xu Ergou beside him, "Ergou, I remember that Black Tiger Taoist who caused trouble in Yangzhou City back then was the leader of the White Lotus Sect's Fire Hall. Am I right?"

Xu Ergou thought about it and nodded, "That's what happened."

"That's it."

Wang Wen stepped out from the crowd, rifle in hand: "Today we will settle old scores and new grudges together!"

(End of this chapter)