Chapter 338: Master Lin's three words can also drive away the demon Outside the capital, a group of merchants came from Huizhou. There was an old man in the team, and the rest were half middle-aged people and half teenagers. Although the young man is young, he is already old enough to be the head of the family. This is the first time he has followed his parents out to do business. He has been exposed to the wind and sun along the way, and his tender face has become quite wrinkled. This is where the inheritance of the new and the old begins. But the young man was still a young man after all, and his temperament was still lively. It was his first trip and he was still curious about this vast world. Especially when he arrived in the capital, he would take a closer look at everything on the roadside and was most interested in the monsters and ghosts along the way. There was a middle-aged man with the best temper. He was pestered by them and kept telling them about the strange things he had heard or even encountered on the roadside. Sometimes other middle-aged people would hear it and also tell a story. They are nothing more than fox spirits, ghosts, and gods. The young men gathered together and listened with great interest.
On the way, we met someone selling pine nuts. The merchants, who were always frugal, thought of their younger generations here and bought a handful. We ate while chatting, and the usually dull merchant journey seemed to have become a lot more lively. It was getting dark. "The sun is about to set. We can't tell stories anymore. Goblins and ghosts all come out at this time. Otherwise, if they hear us, they will come out to cause trouble." The middle-aged man stopped telling stories about gods, goblins and ghosts. "what?" "What? I've been talking for the whole afternoon and my mouth is dry. Let's walk faster. The capital is ahead. I think we can reach the capital before the city gates are closed today. I'm telling you, I heard that it's His Majesty's birthday these days and the capital is very lively. I don't know if we can make it in time." When the young men heard this, they became excited again. At this time, they walked into a woods. Although it was a government road, there was no one in front or behind. On both sides of the woods were raised tombs, which had long been covered with green grass. A young man was carrying a bag and suddenly felt something was wrong. It felt like someone touched me from behind. But in the bag on his back were only a few sets of clothes, the bag of pine nuts he had bought on the road, and a letter for someone else. The young man took a few steps and the more he thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong. He turned around and reached into the basket on his back to feel around. "Ok?" The pine nuts I just bought disappeared. The young man stopped suddenly. "what happened?" people around him asked him. "I, I just felt someone touched me from behind, and I felt something was wrong. The basket on my back also felt lighter, and when I touched it, all the pine nuts were gone." The young man was a little scared. The other young men had just listened to stories about ghosts and monsters along the way, so when they heard this, they felt frightened, and were afraid that he was talking nonsense and deliberately trying to scare them. But when I looked over, the pine nuts were indeed gone.
"Is it because it was not installed properly and is leaking?" a middle-aged man walked over and said. "The backpack is not leaking! And the pine nuts are wrapped in leaves, how could it leak?" the young man said fearfully. "..." When they looked back, they saw that the sky was dim, the woods behind them were eerie, and there seemed to be shadows moving about. "what!?" The old man in the team shouted sharply. There was no movement from that side. A middle-aged man walked over quickly, bent down and rummaged through the basket on his back. He found that no clothes were missing and the letter was still there intact. He then breathed a sigh of relief. "There are more and more demons and ghosts in this ghost world, and this is close to the capital." The old man shook his head and sighed. After all, he was old and experienced, and he was also very brave. When most young men were too scared to speak, he thought for a moment and said to the forest behind him: "I saw you stole the pine nuts. Maybe you like to eat them, or you are greedy, or no one offers them to you. I don't care how we provoked you, or how you came to provoke us. These pine nuts are not worth much. Just take them and don't bother us anymore." After the old man finished speaking, he felt a little worried, fearing that this thing would get entangled with his child, so he added: "You have to know that this is the capital! We came here from Huizhou. We were entrusted by Master Lin in the capital to bring him a letter. We also brought him a letter from his relatives. If we mention this when we meet Master Lin, you will be in trouble." It seemed that the things in the forest were not afraid of these things, or they didn't know who Master Lin was, and there was still no movement. "Get out of here!" The old man quickened his pace and walked forward. The mule bells rang incessantly behind me. But when I walked out of the woods, I found a pile of pine nuts in the middle of the road, padded with dry leaves, neatly piled up in the shape of a cone. That thing stole the pine nuts and returned them. All the young men in the team opened their eyes wide. Previously, I had only heard from my uncles that there was a Taoist priest named Fan in the capital, who had great magical powers and was very powerful. Most of the demons and ghosts in the capital were afraid of him. When they encountered demons and ghosts, they would retreat on their own as long as they mentioned the name of Taoist priest Fan. I also heard from my uncles that I and others had brought letters for many people, including Master Lin, but I didn't know that Master Lin's name had such an effect. Apart from them, the middle-aged and elderly people in the team were equally surprised. …… "Amitabha, thanks to you for killing General Wolf and seriously injuring General Baodeng in Jinping County, we were able to repel the Leopard King and force him back to his lair." Master Yunchan bowed to Lin Jue, "Mr. Nan and I have wanted to visit you for a long time, but the two times we came before, you were in seclusion in the Sutra Pavilion of Juxian Mansion. We didn't dare to disturb you, and we don't know when you will come out of seclusion." "I have long heard of your great name." Nan Tianshi clasped his fists towards Lin Jue, "Master Lin is indeed a master of magic." "I have admired you for a long time." The day after Lin Jue returned from the palace, Master Yunchan and Master Nantian came to visit. After eliminating the Green Miao God in Langfeng County, this Master Yunchan had brought a protector with him and even found the Taoist temple of his second senior brother, thus the two became acquainted. Master Yunchan had long guessed that the Green Seed God was the one they had eliminated, and had nothing to do with the Green Emperor, so he had always respected Lin Jue and his men. Lin Jue also respected him because he was willing to bring his protectors to help the people of Langfeng County save the country from this disaster even though he was not sure and other people from Juxian Mansion were unwilling to come. The two sides respected each other.
This time he also brought Master Nan Tianshi with him. The legendary Nan Tianshi was a rough-looking man with a very elegant name, Nan Songlin. The first time Lin Jue heard of him was when he heard that he had set up an altar in Huizhou to perform a ritual, inviting the gods to come down and eliminate the Corpse Tiger King. However, he knew in his heart that this was not the case, so he initially regarded him as a swindler. Later, when he heard that he had been dealing with the Leopard King in the northwest, and heard about his unique method of inviting the gods, he realized that perhaps the incident with the Corpse Tiger King in Huizhou was just a coincidence. In any case, if you dare to deal with the Leopard King, you deserve more respect. Under a tree in the yard, several people sat opposite each other. Lin Jue wanted to visit the Leopard King, and happened to be chatting, so he asked casually: "How many years have you two been in the northwest to deal with the Leopard King?" "Mr. Nan should go earlier, I will go later." Master Yunchan answered him: "In the past, the Leopard King had been dormant and practicing. Most of these monsters are like this, moving according to the situation. It started to become rampant a few years ago. At the beginning, some Taoist priests in Yushan helped the local people in the northwest to resist the invasion and looting of the Leopard King. Some extraordinary people from Juxian Mansion heard about this and went to support them. Later, Lord Nan came to Beijing from Huizhou and heard about this. He immediately went to the northwest. I went to the northwest after returning from Langfeng County and spending the winter there." "Master Yushan..." Lin Jue murmured to himself, no wonder these Yushan Taoists were rarely seen in the capital. It should have been several years since Master Nan Tian came to Beijing after the Corpse Tiger King was defeated, and it has been two years since Master Yun Chan returned from Langfeng County. "Even though the Taoist priests of Yushan were in the northwest to resist the Leopard King, they were too busy to do anything else, and the power of mortals was also very limited. They could only defend some people from the invasion of the demon generals and small demons under the Leopard King. Even with the help of some extraordinary people in the Juxian Mansion, it was still difficult to resist. Fortunately, there are several palaces and temples in the local area, which worship the True Lord and some generals and martial gods. Although the gods in these palaces and temples are unwilling to go to the Leopard King's lair to destroy it, if the monsters come close, they will still use their divine power to resist. Relying on these palaces and temples, we can barely confront those monsters." Master Yunchan shook his head, and it was difficult to just say it: "It was not until Lord Nan went there that some martial gods responded to his request and helped to eliminate the monster at the critical moment. Together with the Heavenly Fire God General under Lord Yili, we were able to fight the Leopard King on equal terms. If it were not for Taoist Lin beheading the monster general in Jinping County, not only would it be difficult to determine the outcome, but even if we could win, we would have to wait for years." "Is the Leopard King injured?" "The God of Heavenly Fire personally descended to the mortal world and injured it. However, it was very powerful and fled back to its lair. Its lair had been run by it for many years, so the God of Heaven did not dare to go there rashly." "That's it!" Lin Jue thought for a moment, and suddenly asked again: "I have heard that there is a Beibao Spring in the north? Is it related to the Leopard King?" "North Leopard Spring?" Master Yunchan looked puzzled. "I've heard of it." The Nan Tianshi beside him finally spoke, saying calmly, "It's a spiritual spring in the north. Because of the spiritual spring, the mountains and forests there have become a paradise." "Is it related to the Leopard King?" "It's possible to say it exists, but it's also possible to say it doesn't exist. The North Leopard Spring has existed since ancient times, and it must have existed before the Leopard King. However, it may be that there are many leopards in the mountains around the North Leopard Spring, and the spiritual spring can help these birds and beasts to transform, so the Leopard King came from there. It is also possible that the Leopard King was originally practicing somewhere else, heard about the North Leopard Spring, and then came to occupy it." Nan Tianshi said, "In short, the Leopard King's lair is now in the North Leopard Spring." "I see." Lin Jue didn't feel any fluctuation in his heart. Since I have a connection with General Baodeng under the Leopard King, I will go find him to talk regardless of whether there is Beibao Spring or not. "Why does Master Lin ask this?" "To be honest, I can make both elixirs and spiritual weapons. Both require spiritual springs. I have heard of the great name of the North Leopard Spring."
There is nothing to hide about this. Then he chatted with them again. He heard that the court had selected several brave and skilled generals from the army today, and several guards with excellent martial arts from the palace, and even brought over the protector who had been with Master Yun Chan for many years. They also found several martial artists in the capital to fight with the warriors brought by Dazu. After a lot of effort, they actually ended up with a draw. Just as they were about to leave, another guest came to the door. He was a merchant from Huizhou, bringing him a letter from home. (End of this chapter)