At what age are you still being a traditional monster?

"What about jujube wood?" Lin Xu asked.

Chen Zao stopped the carriage in front of him, and lifted the moisture-proof cloth to reveal the wood inside. The topmost pile of wood was a black jujube tree, which was split by the thunder and only half was left , The dense lightning strike pattern on the wooden body forms a kind of inscription.

Lin Xu ignored the body that had just been struck by lightning, and carefully stroked the lightning-struck wood.

Earned!

Not only did he harvest a tree of lightning strike wood, but he even had the inscription of Lei Buzhengshen. This tree can be refined into a magic weapon.

Lin Xu was overjoyed, Chen Zao looked at it and said: "Master Dao, I will give you this tree."

"En." Lin Xu nodded naturally, I saved your life, so it's only natural to give me something.

However, a little work is required.

Chen Zao's caravan sells wood, so processing the wood is a no-brainer. At Lin Xu's request, several craftsmen with excellent craftsmanship cut out the parts with inscriptions on the lightning strike wood. Only one foot of wood was left.

Lin Xu held the one-foot-long wooden stick in his hand, and said, "Well, you can make a ruler."

Put it away carefully at the moment, and then turn the whole body to let the body that was struck by lightning recover slowly, in which the energy of the Yin tiger is naturally invoked.

Seeing that Lin Xu looked like a normal person, Chen Zao couldn't help sighing: "The Taoist priest is really a god, I haven't seen anyone who has been struck by lightning and can still act like this."

Lin Xu smiled lightly, and said: "That's the sky thunder, it only hurts evil things, the poor Taoist is a member of the Taoist sect, so naturally he won't be hurt by the sky thunder."

In fact, he was still injured. As Lin Xu was a monster, Tianlei could hurt him, but for some reason, Lin Xu felt that he was only slightly injured.

Could it be that the Heavenly Court knows that he is dedicated to the Tao, different from the traditional monsters in the mortal world?

Lin Xu smiled smugly, feeling that he could become a fairy just around the corner.

"However, why are there so many ghosts in that place?" Lin Xu thought to himself.

Lin Xu turned his head to look at the inn, which had been far away for a long time, and recited the mantra of qi-watching technique in his mouth, wanting to find out more.

As his eyes turned black and white, Lin Xu froze immediately.

Behind Chen Zao's caravan was a long procession, a procession full of ghosts.

This group of ghosts seemed to realize that Lin Xu could see them, and ran towards Lin Xu like crazy, scaring Lin Xu so much that he was ready to draw his sword at any time, but Lin Xu still noticed the difference between these ghosts.

They are not ghosts, but ordinary souls.

Lin Xu restrained his sinister spirit, and asked the ghosts, "Why are you following me?"

Chen Zao was taken aback when he heard the words, wondering if the Taoist priest was stunned by the thunder, why did he speak into the air, but something immediately came to his mind, and his face turned ashen and dared not move.

The group of ghosts were chattering about something, but there was too much noise, Lin Xu couldn't hear a word.

"Tell them one by one, you come first!" Lin Xu pointed at the ghost of a middle-aged woman.

The female ghost immediately shouted: "Master Daoist, we are wronged!"

"Injustice!"

"injustice!"

Hundreds of ghost screams sounded at the same time.

Lin Xu covered his ears, a gleam of light flashed in his eyes, and said, "Did you come from that station?"

"Yes, we are all from that station."

"What's the matter with those ghosts, but they are with you?"

"Master Daoist Mingjian, we were all people who lived our lives, but 50 years ago, a Taoist priest wearing a black Taoist robe came to the post station. Come to refine his longevity pill, all the people in the station died at the hands of that Taoist."

"No, there are at least a few hundred of those ghosts, how many people do you have in one station?"

"They are all travelers passing by. The Taoist has occupied the station for more than ten years. During the day, he pretends to be the owner of the station. At night, he kills the passers-by who sleep in the station and uses it to make alchemy. I don't know how many people have killed in the past ten years. People, those people died in other places and died without knowing why, and they became ghosts because of their resentment." The ghosts cried out one by one.

Lin Xu frowned tightly when he heard this, and said: "Do you know the origin of that demon way?"

"I don't know, it's just that he once called himself Master Hei Lian."

Lin Xu said again: "Then since you are dead, why don't you go to the underworld to sue him?"

"The Taoist did not know what method he used to keep me trapped in that post station. I would not be able to enter the underworld, but I could only be this lonely ghost. If the Taoist priest hadn't attracted the thunder last night and killed him The spell is broken, and I don't know how long I will be trapped there."

The ghosts said blood and tears.

Lin Xu pondered for a while, then asked: "Do you still remember when that demon Taoist left?"

"It's been more than twenty years."

Lin Xu said: "I see, you follow me because you want me to seek justice for you?"

"Please be kind to the Taoist priest and make the decision for us."

But Lin Xu shook his head and said: "The sea of ​​people is vast, and I'm not a god in the sky. Where can I find that monster, but I can guarantee that if I, Ling Xuzi, meet that monster one day, I will ask for an explanation for you."

"And now, what you have to do is not follow me."

"I'll have no peace for a day if I don't see that demon going to hell!" cried a wronged soul.

Lin Xu said: "Stupid, you still want to trouble the demon with your ghost body, be careful to end up in a frenzy, you just go to the underworld and sue him in front of the ten halls of Hades, good and evil have their own way Come and collect."

Lin Xu's words moved a lot of souls. They wandered in the world for 50 years and could not be reborn. They also wanted to enter the underworld as soon as possible and be reborn as human beings.

"But we are all people who died in vain, and there is no seductive messenger to collect them. How can we get to the underworld?"

Lin Xu was also in trouble. He could ask the mountain god for land, but he had no communication with the Yin Division, so he could only say: "Then follow me first, and wait until I find a county town, and let the local city god send you to the underworld."

All the wronged souls knelt down to thank them.

Lin Xu waved his hand to save the innocent souls, and made an agreement with them not to walk into strangers at will, but to let them follow from a distance.

Afterwards, Lin Xu told Chen Zao about it again.

Chen Zao's expression changed when he heard that there were dozens of innocent souls who were going to accompany him all the way, and then he couldn't help sighing after hearing what happened to the innocent souls:

"In this way, they are also poor people." Chen Zao said in a low voice again: "Master Daoist, they really won't come near us."

Lin Xu nodded and said, "Don't worry, I'll let them follow five miles away."

Chen Zao finally felt relieved, and said: "Why didn't the Taoist leader take them in, and follow them all the way, even ordinary people like me can't see them, but we can't help feeling infiltrated."

Lin Xu said: "But I don't have anything to collect ghosts."

"I've heard that wood has the effect of gathering souls, why don't the Taoist priest give it a try?"

Lin Xu looked at the lightning strike wood in his hand, and said: "In this case, let some craftsmen make my lightning strike wood into a ruler."

As for refining the magic weapon, we can talk about it later.

Several craftsmen worked for a while, and a ruler full of inscriptions appeared in Lin Xu's hands.

Lin Xu took the ruler and walked in front of the innocent souls, and said: "It's not convenient for you to go with me like this, and you don't feel comfortable under the sun, how about this, I'll put you all under this ruler, and take you with me." Let's go, just to make you suffer."

All the wronged souls said in unison: "I have endured it for more than 50 years, and it's not too late."

So they got under the ruler one after another.

Lin Xu looked at the heavy ruler in his hand, put it back in his sleeve, and returned to the carriage.

Chapter 25 Beating the City God

The caravan traveled for 56 miles and stopped in a county town. Chen Zao called a few people to follow him to purchase supplies, and the rest stayed by the carriage.

Lin Xu also followed Chen Zao into the county town, and he had to go to the Town God's Temple to send all the ghosts within the ruler on his hand to the underworld, and at this time he had to trouble the City God.

"Old man, do you know where the local city god is?"

Lin Xu caught an old man on the street and asked.

"City God's Temple? Where are you going?"

Lin Xu was puzzled and said: "Poverty Taoist is naturally going to pay homage to one or two."

The old man shook his head and said: "Then I advise you not to go, this temple is not working." After that, he left on his own.

Town God's Temple not working?

"Hey, people in the world are ignorant, they want to ask God for everything, but once God doesn't follow their wishes, they will blame God for not being effective." Lin Xu sighed.

Lin Xu started to walk away, but at the corner of the street, he heard an old woman shouting:

"My son!"

Beside the old woman was a dead body wrapped in a straw mat, crying alone, looking very pitiful, but passers-by who were watching turned around the old woman one after another, as if hiding.

Lin Xu stepped forward and said: "Old man, when a person dies, he must be buried in the ground for peace. Although you are sad, why did you put the dead body on the street?"

The old woman cried and said, "I also want my son to be buried in the ground, but the mass graves outside the city are full, and there is no place to bury him."

Lin Xu lowered his body to look at the dead body of the old woman's son, and silently recited the formula of the qi technique.

"Old man, what happened to your son?"

"He died of an illness." The old woman sobbed after saying this.

Sure enough, Lin Xu saw the plague on the corpse at a glance, no wonder those people just walked around seeing the old woman, for fear that they would also catch the plague.

Lin Xu sighed and said, "Let Pindao save your son."

The old woman was overjoyed, and hurriedly shouted: "The Taoist priest is merciful, the Taoist priest is merciful."

Lin Xu took out the ruler, and drew a few spells on the ground next to the old woman's son, stepped on the sky, and recited the mantra of rebirth.

After finishing everything, Lin Xu said again: "You are the only one left in your family?"

The old woman cried: "If I hadn't been old and weak, I would have dragged my son's body to the mountain even if I walked more than ten miles, so that he could be buried in the ground for peace!"

Lin Xu said: "A good man will go to the end, let the poor Taoist bury him for you."

The old woman said anxiously: "No, my son died of an illness. The Taoist priest is willing to save my son. It is a great kindness and great virtue, but you must not let you also contract this disease. We all died of this disease in Ping'an County. There are quite a few people."

Lin Xu suddenly thought of what the old man told him earlier.

"This Town God's Temple is not working."

One of the responsibilities of the city god is to protect the people from the epidemic. Now that the epidemic has occurred in Ping'an County, the city god that the people worship day and night did not block the epidemic for them. No wonder it is not effective.

Lin Xu said: "Old man, don't worry, I am a person who has attained the Tao, so I am not afraid of this disease."

After all, the old woman objected again and again, she carried the body on her back, helped the old woman up again, and said: "Old man, please lead the way."

Seeing that she couldn't evade, the old woman could only say: "Thank you, Daoist!"

Lin Xuqie followed the old woman towards the outside of the county town step by step. When he reached the main street, he was blocked by a group of people.

A long procession was slowly advancing in the main street. A group of people carried an old tree, some were holding whips, some were holding ropes, and the rest were beating gongs and drums.

"It's not like trying to exorcise evil spirits."

When an epidemic occurs among the people, the common people will spontaneously organize some ceremonies to exorcise evil spirits, but most of them are to invite gods or fight evil spirits.

Looking at the things in the hands of the passers-by, they didn't seem to be worshiping the gods, but if they said they were going to fight evil spirits, they were clearly heading towards a temple.

There are three big characters written on the temple: Chenghuang Temple.

Seeing this, the old woman sighed, "They are going to beat the city god."

Lin Xu immediately realized that among the people, if a city god fails to fulfill his duties, the common people can blame the city god. Wouldn't this pedestrian go to the city god's temple to tie up the city god's clay body and beat him with a whip?

At this time, Lin Xu felt that someone was pulling his sleeve, and turned his head to see that it was Chen Zao.

I saw Chen Zao hurriedly said: "The Taoist priest is not well, there is a disease in this county, let's go quickly."

It turned out that when Chen Zao went to replenish the supplies, he suddenly found that the food here was much more expensive than other places. He secretly inquired and found out that there was an epidemic in Pingan County. Looking for Lin Xu, wanting to get away in time.

Finally, I found Lin Xu on this main street.

Seeing Lin Xu carrying a straw mat on his back, Chen Zaozheng was surprised, but suddenly saw a pair of legs protruding from under the straw mat, and said in surprise: "Master Dao, why are you carrying a corpse on your back!"

Lin Xu said: "The old man's son fell ill and died, she couldn't bury it alone, so I came to help her."

Hearing that the person on Lin Xu's back died of an illness, Chen Zao took three steps back, his face was ashen, and reluctantly said: "The Taoist priest is really kind."

Lin Xu smiled and said: "Don't worry, I won't let you get infected too."

After hearing this, Chen Zao felt relieved, and said: "There is a Taoist leader, so I can rest assured."

At this time, the group of people had entered the Temple of the City God vigorously, and amidst the sound of gongs and drums, they tied the clay body of the City God to the old tree and lifted it out to the center of the main street.

In the crowd, a black-faced man was bare-chested, whipping a whip on the ground.