I built the Jade Capital with the Netherworld

Chapter 34: Charming God
The endless yellow meadows swayed gently in the afterglow of the setting sun. A gust of wind came, and it was as if an old owl had become a ghost, emitting a timid laugh.

An octagonal tower with a top like a gong and about three meters high stands in the wilderness.

The tower had no windows or doors, only a dark hole three feet above the ground, which was blackened by the flames.

"Da da da--"

There was a sound of horse hooves, and an old mottled horse carrying a distant traveler squeezed out from the tall reeds.

There really is a tower for abandoned babies!

Looking at the octagonal tower in front of him, Lu Wujiu's eyes were dim.

According to Cen Ying, this is the place where villagers abandon their babies who died prematurely, and it is also called the Yita Pagoda and the Place where Children Return.

Local elders usually organize people to come and burn the incense regularly.

It seems that there should be no remaining souls.

However, when Lu Wujiu looked closely, he could clearly see a few dying souls flickering in the tower, like fireflies in the dark night, so sad and miserable.

"Ugh!"

Lu Wujiu sighed, dismounted, and with his magical powers flowing out, he collected the remaining soul, turned around and was about to leave.

"Whoa-"

A subtle sound, like thunder, suddenly rang in his ears, causing him to freeze in his tracks.

Turning around and approaching the tower of abandoned babies, he looked along the blackened opening and saw more than a dozen naked babies piled up inside the dark tower, almost all of them were baby girls.

On the pile of corpses, a baby girl whose body had turned blue from the cold and whose umbilical cord was stuck was making barely audible sounds.

There is more exhalation than intake, there is no hope.

Lu Wujiu's face turned pale, and he quickly reached into the throwing hole and pulled the baby girl out.

The tentacles are cold, like a dead body.

He did not dare to delay. He took off his robe, held the baby girl in his arms, and tried to transfer the Yuan Qi of heaven and earth to see if he could save the baby.

However, the baby girl had been frozen for an unknown period of time. Her blood and energy were almost dried up, and her body was like a corpse. After the Yuan Qi entered her, it immediately dissipated.

Cen Ying, who was standing in the shadows, saw this scene and couldn't help but say:

"Master, this is her fate. Don't waste your energy."

Lu Wujiu had a blank expression on his face. After thinking for a while, he reversed his technique, summoned a wisp of innate Qi, and passed it on.

Unlike the Yuan Qi of Heaven and Earth, although the innate Yuan Qi also dissipated in large quantities as soon as it entered, some of it still flowed into the baby girl's heart and flowed throughout her body as the heart pumped.

The baby girl's complexion gradually improved.

The purple face gradually calmed down, but the breathing gradually disappeared.

Eventually it returned to peace.

——Her organs were too delicate to withstand the infusion of innate vital energy. The seemingly improved complexion was just the afterglow of life.

"Chang Immortal!"

Cen Ying was too close to see it clearly and cried out in frustration.

Lu Wujiu stared at the baby in his arms for a long time, then he sighed deeply.

"Crash!"

There was a sound of wheels rolling over the dirt road, and a fat woman jumped out of the carriage from a distance, raised her hand and shouted:

"Hey, hey, hey, wait! Wait!"

Before he finished speaking, someone had already run up to him and snatched the baby from Lu Wujiu's arms. He took one look at the baby and his face turned pale.

"What a sin! Why didn't you send her to the orphanage? Why did you drown her?"

The old woman was so anxious that she jumped up and down. As she spoke, she looked into the tower where babies were found, and her face became paler.

"Oh, God, please open your eyes!"

"The temples for praying for children are filled with incense, while the abandoned baby towers are filled with dead babies. What a sin! What a sin!"

The old woman stuffed the dead baby into Lu Wujiu's hands while cursing, then turned around, got on the carriage and drove away.

"Master, do you know the Charity Bureau?"

"I heard it was a place set up by the imperial court to adopt abandoned babies."

"Then why do we need a baby tower?"

Lu Wujiu was stunned when he heard this, and couldn't help but sigh. He lifted up his Taoist robe, wrapped up the dead baby, and gently used his magic power to hook away the soul that was about to dissipate at any time.

Cen Ying did not intend to let Lu Wujiu go, and asked again:
"I don't understand. Since there's a charity for orphans, why don't people send their babies there instead of abandoning them in the abandoned baby tower?" "I've heard that whenever a woman gives birth to a baby girl, the midwife will ask if she wants to keep it. If she doesn't, she'll be drowned and declared dead. Everyone knows this. Sending it to the charity for orphans would be seen as abandoned, which would be shameful. The woman would miss it, and it could easily cause trouble. Perhaps this is why the abandoned baby tower existed!"

Cen Ying was anxious: "But...but this is not a reason for them to take human life lightly? Why are women born with sin?"

Lu Wujiu said nothing.

After a long silence, he could only put the dead baby back into the abandoned baby tower, light a fire on it, and turn away.

The setting sun was blood-red, and a few crows landed on a dead branch. They tilted their heads and looked at the burning abandoned baby tower, making unwilling croaking sounds.

For a moment, the world was silent.

Only the crackling sound of flames licking the oil, like the whimpering of wronged souls, echoed in the world for a long time.

On the way back to the city, Lu Wujiu saw the city gate gradually closing from afar. He felt inexplicably irritated and had to stop and walk back.

Cen Ying felt that the Immortal Master was in a very bad mood, so she didn't dare to say anything and just followed him obediently.

At this time, there were no pedestrians on the official road, and the setting sun stretched the shadows of the trees along the road extremely long.

"Da da da--"

The sound of horse hooves came from behind, and soon, a young Taoist priest wearing a Taoist robe passed Lu Wujiu.

He looked back at Lu Wujiu, raised his eyebrows, and looked at Lu Wujiu again carefully, especially the shadow under his feet, and his brows gradually furrowed.

"Fellow?"

He called out tentatively.

Lu Wujiu remained silent, his mind somewhat vacillating. Seeing this, the young man's pupils dilated, and he shouted sternly, "Hey, where did this female ghost come from? How dare you bewitch the people of Xuanmen in broad daylight?"

As he uttered the sound, he shook his sleeves, and a golden sword came out of his sleeves and stabbed at the female ghost Cen Ying.

Lu Wujiu was in a trance. When he heard the sword chanting, he was shocked and instinctively picked up his sword to block it.

"swing--"

The sound of metal colliding is as clear as a bell.

Lu Wujiu looked up and saw the person who was attacking him. He found that this young Taoist priest looked older than Liu Qingtan and had a layer of fuzz on his mouth.

"Wake up quickly!"

When the young Taoist saw Lu Wujiu, he shook the bell in his hand and shouted.

Lu Wujiu frowned and explained, "Why is this happening, fellow Daoist?!"

The young Taoist priest exclaimed, "What a powerful charm technique!"

What is this mess?

"Did you misunderstand, fellow Daoist?"

"Misunderstanding? Fellow Daoist, look at your appearance. You are covered in peach blossoms, your face is lifeless, you are lost and your soul is broken. Your innate Yuan Qi is collapsing on the surface of your body, and it is about to be sucked dry by this female ghost! Forget it, forget it. Wait until I subdue the female ghost and then I will explain it to you."

The young Taoist priest shouted angrily, but retreated repeatedly, biting his fingertips, drawing talismans in the air, and chanting a spell:
"Rampant soldiers and fierce officials, magnificent and powerful spirits, beheading and dripping blood, eating ghosts and swallowing essences, hear my call and come quickly!"

When the curse is cast, a strong wind rises; when the talisman is cast, the door opens.

The talisman forged with blood suddenly turned into an eight-diagram gate. Countless soldiers rushed out and rushed towards Cen Ying under the command of the young Taoist priest.

"Master Immortal, save me!"

Lu Wujiu widened his eyes. Why did this operation seem familiar?
Without even thinking, countless negative energies gushed out of his body, instantly dyeing the area within three feet around him black.

The rushing soldiers were absorbed by the Yin Qi and disappeared without a trace.

"You, you...are you a demon cultivator?"

The young Taoist was dumbfounded.

I thought that it was a fellow practitioner who was bewitched, but who would have thought that the other party would display such monstrous demonic energy.

He was so anxious that he hurriedly called back his troops: "My flag and troops, return to your positions immediately!"

The curse fell, and the soldiers and horses that were surrounded by the demonic energy showed no reaction at all.

He bit his tongue and called again: "My soldiers and horses, return to your positions immediately!"

The evil energy rolled, revealing the scene inside, but his soldiers and horses had disappeared without a trace, leaving only the pale-faced young Taoist priest.

"My troops—"

The young Taoist priest was horrified and no longer had the same confident look as before. He was so anxious that he was about to cry.

As a disciple of Liuren School, he believed in "gaining first and then cultivating". This batch of soldiers and horses was allocated to him by his master for going down the mountain. If he lost them, his master would skin him alive!
With his scalp tingling, he suddenly bit his tongue, forced out his blood, and tried to cast the summoning spell that he had not yet fully mastered:
"Heaven and earth, please help me. I pray to the ancestors and all the gods. The Liuren Immortal Master will open the door to the Dharma. The immortal masters will bring down the Dharma! Hurry and obey the command!"

(End of this chapter)