Chapter 129 The world is full of dangers (asking for monthly tickets) Lin Jue thought about it and felt confused again. The monks in Songyin Temple are actually fake monks, they are thieves from outside. But the priest of Qingdi Temple is, after all, a legitimate priest with the support of the gods. Could he be willing to do such a thing as robbing people for money and killing them? So he watched the temple keeper go to get the incense, looked at him, thought for a moment, and followed him: "So it's because of this happy event that they waived our accommodation fee! I heard that a few days ago, there was a demon causing unrest here, and many villagers came to the temple to seek shelter. I wonder if the temple keeper accepted their money?" "Of course I didn't take it!" The temple keeper smiled and handed over the incense. "I'm not that greedy, and I know what's important and what's not. Plus, the Green Emperor came to me in a dream that night and specifically told me to let all these people in to avoid the evil spirits. How could I disobey my Emperor?" "I see." Lin Jue nodded, turned around and looked at his junior sister, and saw that she also had doubts in her eyes, so he said: "But we have heard that if you want to ascend to heaven and become an immortal, you must either practice spiritual arts and seek the attainments of heaven and earth, or cultivate your mind and morality and follow the path of incense and worship. I wonder which path you are taking?" "That can't be said!" "We can guess even without you telling us." "what?" The temple keeper looked at them in surprise.
"Besides this, there is another path. It is the ancient alchemy path." Lin Jue looked at him with a smile, "But this path?" "Hey! How do you know?" "Ha ha……" When Lin Jue heard it, he almost understood. This temple keeper, like the monks in Songyin Temple, is most likely related to the way the demon king obtains silver. But there are also differences between them. The monks in Songyin Temple were thieves who were good at doing illegal things. They relied on pretending to be gods and ghosts and killing people to make money. This temple keeper was seriously related to gods. He could not do such things, but he did not need to rely on those means. He could collect a lot of money by doing legitimate things. Because the Bodhisattva in Songyin Temple was fake, but the Qingdi in this temple was real. It’s just like those rat demons in Yi County who rely on stealing. The demon king only wants silver, which is passed down layer by layer. When it reaches the last level, all his methods are used in a variety of ways. "Not only do we know that you follow the path of alchemy, we can also guess that you didn't make the elixir yourself, right? I'm afraid you have used all your money to exchange for elixirs." "How do you know?" The temple keeper was shocked when he heard this. Lin Jue just found it ridiculous. Long before he went to Mount Yi to practice Taoism, he had heard about the temple keeper's greed for money when he was in Danxun County. He thought it was just ordinary worldly desires, but it turned out that he wanted to become an immortal. "Ugh……" "You Taoist priest! Why are you sighing?" "The temple keeper was deceived by the monsters!" Lin Jue shook his head and said to him, "I don't know how those monsters deceived the temple keeper, but I also know a little about alchemy and can make pills. Not to mention that swallowing elixirs requires special methods of taking pills, even making pills to become immortal is not that easy. And the temple keeper's face has turned black, which is a sign that he is poisoned by metal and stone and will not live long." "you……" The temple keeper's eyes widened, and he was obviously a little angry. He pointed at him and wanted to say something, but he was stuck again. After a while, he said angrily: "What nonsense!"
"The temple keeper doesn't know that refining elixirs to become immortals is a thing of the ancient times. Nowadays, let alone ordinary people, even those alchemy practitioners who really retreat to the mountains to practice alchemy, how many of them can really become immortals?" "What do you know! Nonsense!" The temple keeper didn't know how to refute. He refused to listen and didn't believe him. He was angry, but also afraid of the sword in his hand. "I took you in with good intentions. Don't talk nonsense. If you say anything more, I will have to drive you out! It just so happens that it won't take long to get to the city from here!" "How can you be sure that you can become an immortal?" "A few days ago, I heard from a god in my dream that tonight a fairy will come to take me to heaven!" "A few days ago? Tonight?" Lin Jue smiled, "You didn't ask the temple keeper to prepare silver, money, treasures, etc., did you?" "You? How do you know?" "Two or three hundred miles to the north, there is a temple called Songyin Temple. The monks in the temple were deceived by the monsters just like you, and are willing to help the monsters collect money. These monsters are also strange, they only want silver. With the silver, you can exchange some "immortal pills", which are actually just ordinary pills. If ordinary people do not practice the method of taking them, not only will they have no effect, but they will also be poisoned by metal and stone, which is life-threatening. If they are poisoned, their faces will turn black, and there will be a hint of metallic luster in the black." Lin Jue said to him, "Am I right, temple keeper?" "You...what you said is false...I have seen those gods! They are real gods! I took the elixir and felt like I was floating in the air!" "It's a real monster." Lin Jue shook his head and said, "The monster king secretly occupied an area of nearly a state, secretly collecting silver and turning it into elixirs to increase his Taoism. The movement nearby a few days ago was the gods descending to the mortal world to eliminate monsters. The monster king's power should have been wiped out by the gods." "you……" "The demon king must have been defeated, and his demons are preparing to flee. He is also greedy for money, and I don't know what he wants to do with the money. That's why he is planning to come to you one last time." The temple keeper opened his eyes wide and pointed at him. My fingers are already shaking. Such a thing is so absurd, how could he believe it? How could he believe it? "The temple keeper's poison has reached a critical stage." Lin Jue said calmly, "Since the Fairy of Guidance is coming to pick up the temple keeper tonight, then we will wait here to see if it is really the Fairy of Guidance." After saying this, he bowed to him and entered the Qing Emperor's Palace. I don't know whether the Green Emperor knew that the keeper of his temple had been bewitched by the monster. If he knew, why didn't he dissuade him? But just because he was willing to send a dream to the keeper, asking him to accept the people who came for refuge, and was willing to send down gods to protect the people when evil creatures came, Lin Jue was willing to take the incense. After burning incense, seeing that the temple keeper was still standing there with a look of shock on his face, Lin Jue simply reminded him, "Be careful tonight," and walked to the side hall next to him. He walked to the wall, put down his sword, and sat down with his back against the wall. The junior sister stood in front and looked at him, then followed him, put down her sword, and slowly slid down against the wall. Lin Jue felt tired and stretched his legs. As soon as she saw it, she stretched out her legs as well. The fox fell down and rolled over nearby. "Brother, can this Green Emperor really show his power?" The little sister couldn't help but wonder. "It should be true. There have always been rumors about the Green Emperor's power here, and I've seen people get Green Emperor talismans from here. They must be the work of a real god." "Then this temple priest..." "People's minds are complicated. He was probably bewitched." Lin Jue paused. "It is said that this temple keeper was very poor when he was young. One day he was wandering in the wilderness and was soaked by the rain. Suddenly he saw the statue of the Green Emperor that had been buried underground for who knows how many years in the mud. He thought the fate of the statue was similar to his own, so he dug it out, cleaned it, and worshipped it. It just so happened that the Green Emperor had not had incense for many years. Perhaps out of mutual pity, the Green Emperor passed on to him a divine scroll and some methods of drawing talismans, and made him his own temple keeper. Later I heard that he developed a greedy character. I didn't expect it was because of this." After hearing this, the junior sister also nodded. Then, while chatting with him in a low voice about the temple priest and the Green Emperor, just as if he was listening to a story, he stretched out his hand and pounded his leg, and the flesh on his thigh under his pants trembled from the pounding.
Lin Jue was playing with the fox's head. There was probably no food to eat when they stayed overnight in this temple, but the two men also brought some dry food, which they ate with water and fed to the fox. Slowly it got dark. There were perpetual lamps lit in the main hall, but not in the side halls. However, Lin Jue had learned the lamp-lighting technique from his seventh senior brother, and there were oil lamps in the temple, so he also lit a lamp. After all, there are differences between men and women. There was a distance of more than a foot between the brother and sister. When the little fox saw it, he thought it was a place reserved for himself, so he crawled in and made his nest, which turned out to be just right. It was cold at night, so Lin Jue took the red cloth on the table next to him and covered him. He thought the gods would not blame him. The fox liked this enclosed space even more. It was very comfortable to curl up in it, and it was just right for him to practice the skill of exhaling cold air that he had just learned. As the night deepened, the two of them fell into a light sleep. I wake up and sleep again, and I don’t know what time it is. "Brother, why do you feel a little cold?" "I feel so too." "Is it Yin Qi?" "Not like." "That is how the matter?" "The window is not closed." As Lin Jue was speaking in a low voice, he suddenly felt a gust of wind blowing in from the window. The lights suddenly shook, and the shadows of the statues and curtains swayed and flickered. A huge figure suddenly flashed outside the window. "Hey?" The fox's head popped out immediately. Both of them stared out the window and stretched out their hands to grasp the swords. "Tsk~~" The long sword slowly came out of its sheath. The lights quickly gained their footing and became bright again, and all the shadows in the hall settled down. However, there was no trace of the two Taoists by the wall. The window was not closed and it was pitch black outside, but if you looked closely you could see a sky full of stars and a galaxy, so bright and dazzling. Suddenly, a pair of eyes appeared outside the window. This pair of eyes were like copper bells, bright yellow like the eyes of a lion or tiger, reflecting the candlelight and looking into the room. Although the lights were on in this side hall, there was only a white fox sitting calmly on the right side of the room. It lowered its head and raised its paw, licking it and rubbing its face with it, as if it had not noticed it at all. The bell-like eyes moved to the left again, sweeping across the statue on the central altar, all the way to the leftmost corner.
Still no one was found. The owner of the eyes hunched over, and just breathed a sigh of relief, then suddenly turned his head and stared at the lamp bowl that was burning but had no oil, and sniffed wildly. When he came to his senses, he saw the fox staring at him but not saying a word. In this instant—— "brush!" Two long swords suddenly stretched out from under the window at the same time, pointing diagonally upwards, and the tips of the swords were in front of him in the blink of an eye. It was too late to dodge now. "Ow!!" A loud cry of pain. The figure outside the window immediately stood up straight, and was almost as tall as the courtyard wall. He took a few steps back with a thud. The huge steel fork in his right hand easily scratched the bluestone slab, and he covered his face with his left hand. One of the two swords pierced its eye just below it, and the other hit its eye right in the process, causing it great pain. With his remaining eye, he took a closer look and saw two Taoists jumping out of the window. Behind them, a white fox jumped out lightly. After landing, it was still licking its paws and staring at him quietly. Two more beans were thrown out, and another bean was thrown back onto the roof. "The beans fall and the wind rises, the soldiers and horses appear!" There were two heavy noises, and then the sound of tiles on the roof being stepped on. Two armored soldiers holding swords and shields immediately appeared on the ground, and an archer also wearing armor appeared on the roof. Lin Jue and the other two lit a fire and took a look. This monster was nearly ten feet tall, as big as an ox, with a waist as shaped like a water tank. It was fat, had a green face and fangs, and held a huge steel fork in its hand. It looked like a yaksha ghost. (End of this chapter)