(I wish you all a happy and safe New Year, just like the little peace in this book of swords. In the new year, you can walk among the beautiful mountains and clear waters~)
Jin Chenghuang’s words carry great weight.
Even the gentlemen and sages designated by the Confucian Academy Academy would probably not dare to call themselves "virtuous people". Scholars have three immortals: establishing virtue and meritorious deeds, and establishing virtue is the most difficult. Most scholars, throughout their lives, only He can settle for the next best thing, or even retreat again and again.
But the ink in Chen Ping'an's stomach is still shallow, and he still cannot understand the deep meaning of Caiyi Guo Shenwen's words as a scholar rather than as a city god. For that cyan wooden box that makes you feel at ease when you touch it. Of course Chen Pingan likes it. Now that he knows that it contains a seal personally carved by the Longhu Mountain Palm Seal Master, he likes it even more. Who doesn’t like good things in the world? Chen Pingan likes it very much!
But liking is one thing, and it does not mean that you can win over others. It has nothing to do with how fast Chen Ping'an punches, how high his martial arts level is, or how many flying swords he has. This is actually the self-denial and recovery advocated by Confucianism. Etiquette, it’s just that Chen Ping’an doesn’t know the “principle” for the time being.
Shen Wen said with a smile: "You can just take the seal."
Seeing that the little immortal master in front of him was a little confused, City God Shen Wen was even happier. After hundreds of years of incense, he had seen all kinds of prayers, demands and ignorance of pilgrims, as well as suffering, piety and helplessness in the world. Shen Wen had grown from a lifetime The pure civil servants who only knew how to serve the country with their bones became more and more understanding of the world. Occasionally, even the Clay Bodhisattva would get angry, angry with the men and women who only knew how to burn incense and pray to gods instead of asking for themselves, and annoyed those rich and unruly people who were full of dirty things. He would be sad for his misfortune and angry for his inability to argue. Many things and people came to his mind one by one when he was about to disappear. Jin Chenghuang Shen Wen looked at the foreign boy standing outside the door with mixed feelings.
Shen Wen suddenly took a deep breath, and his scattered ethereal figure stabilized a little, and said: "Shen Wen has one last request. You can decide for yourself whether to do it or not. Shen Wen doesn't dare to force it."
Chen Ping'an nodded and said, "The City God just said it."
Shen Wen asked: "If a wise monarch appears in Caiyi Kingdom in the future, can you help me? Even if it is a small favor, such as a severe drought or flood, you are not far from here. Can you use your magical power to help Caiyi?" Can the people of Yi Country survive the natural disaster safely? Once, just once."
Chen Pingan nodded and said: "Don't worry, Lord City God, no matter whether the emperor of Caiyi Kingdom is wise or not, as long as I hear that Caiyi Kingdom is in trouble, I will definitely come here. But I have agreed in advance that I will only do what I can, and I hope Lord City God understands." "
Shen Wen's face was filled with relief and he murmured: "That's good, that's good."
In fact, this Jin Chenghuang feels guilty because he is calculating people's hearts. Shen Wen firmly believes that the young man in front of him will have a bright future as long as he cultivates on the great road and does not make any major mistakes. By then, as long as the young man has feelings for Caiyi Country, Emotions, the later you act, the higher your level will be, and the more beneficial it will be to Caiyi Country.
Shen Wen looked at the gloomy sky outside the Tutu Temple, feeling a little bitter in his heart. I, Shen Wen, could only do this for Caiyi Country.
Shen Wen came back to his senses and said with a smile: "I only talked about half of the golden body fragments earlier. I talked about the origin and rank. As for the use, it is a bit similar... The dragon-slaying skill is extremely useful, but the threshold is very high. Instead, Ordinary people hold dozens or hundreds of golden body fragments in their hands, which may not mean anything at all. However, if you have fragments or have friends who are crazy, then they are truly priceless treasures and are extremely rare among the innate spiritual weapons in the world. It is a precious one, or it can be given by the king of a country to the gods of mountains and rivers in his own mountains and rivers. It must be regarded as the first-class reward in the world. To say the least, in the future, it will be sold to people who need it near the top of the mountain, such as A great monk in the Golden Core Realm or the Nascent Soul Realm can ask for a huge price, no matter how much he bids!"
Chen Ping'an looked solemn and remembered everything in his heart.
Shen Wen smiled and said, "Please reach out."
Chen Pingan was a little confused and stretched out his hand.
Shen Wen stretched out his hand and dug it into his chest. He clenched his fist and stretched it towards Chen Pingan. He unclenched his fist and gently placed something in Chen Pingan's palm.
It was actually a golden object the size of a goose egg.
Chen Pingan raised his head and blinked.
Shen Wen smiled and said: "In ancient battlefield sites, countless military monks worked hard to find the ghosts on the battlefield. What they were looking for were actually the heroes and heroes, the heroic souls of the gods of war. I, Shen Wen, was born as a scholar. After my death, I was named the City God of this place by the Emperor of Caiyi Kingdom. A golden body, of good quality, not as good as the City God in the capital city of the great dynasty, but this golden body... literary courage! It is not inferior to any City God in the continent!"
The calmness at this moment is like returning to a weak age, studying hard for more than ten years in the cold window, jumping over the dragon gate, working as a farmer in the morning, ascending to the emperor's hall in the evening, high-spirited, taking the lead in walking in the palace as the number one scholar, for The purpose is not to bring glory to one family's surname, but to bring joy to all the surnames of hundreds of families.
Scholar Jin Chenghuang, Shen Wen felt relieved after handing over the golden sword. He had worked hard to protect Feng Shui for hundreds of years, and now he could finally have a good rest. Chen Pingan did not take back his hand for a long time, and Shen Wen laughed and extended his hand. With a finger, he tapped lightly on the literary courage and said with a smile: "I don't have the wings of a colorful phoenix, but I have a clear mind. Little fairy, please study more in the future!"
Chen Ping'an solemnly put away the golden writing bladder and put it together with the cyan wooden box into a square object.
As a junior scholar, the young man bowed in salute.
However, Shen Wen returned the favor by bowing to fellow scholars.
Chen Ping'an remembered something, stepped into the Earth Temple, took out the pair of landscape seals, and said softly: "City God, my name is Chen Ping'an, from Longquan County of Dali. Mr. Qi gave me this pair of seals, saying I met the mountains and rivers, and I could put my stamp on the Kan map. Previously, there was a lot of yin at the mass graves, so I asked someone to get a map from the county governor's house, and I took a picture of it, and it seemed like it was real. The fate of the mountains and rivers has been reversed, so now that the demons are using evil methods to cause trouble in Rouge County, is it still useful? Can the evil spirit they create be suppressed? "
Shen Wen looked solemn and asked, "Can I take it?"
Chen Pingan nodded and said: "Of course."
Shen Wen carefully took the pair of landscape seals with both hands, then held them together with one hand and raised them high above his head. He looked at the seal characters at the bottom of the seal and the slightly bright red red seal. Shen Wen took a deep breath, put down his arms, and asked: "Then Did you, sir, tell you that there is a flaw in such a pair of inestimable magic weapons? Every time it is sealed, the spiritual energy will dissipate a little, until finally the spiritual energy is used up and they become the most ordinary pair. seal?"
Chen Pingan scratched his head and grinned: "Mr. Qi never told me this."
Shen Wen asked again: "Aren't you afraid that your spiritual energy will be greatly damaged if you seal this time?"
Chen Ping'an shook his head and said: "What's there to be afraid of? I'm not squandering money randomly. Previously, I saw eight words from a landscape travel diary published by Rouge County, called 'He Qing Hai Yan, Shi He Sui Feng'," I liked it so much that I even engraved it on the bamboo slip. And I think this was Mr. Qi’s original intention of giving me the seal. If Mr. Qi were here, he would definitely do the same thing.”
Shen Wen sighed, "It's a pity that the demons are causing trouble this time. They use evil methods to confuse people's hearts and spread the plague. This seal of the landscape seal is of great significance, but it is of little use in the current dangerous situation. Chen Peace, keep the seal. I'm still saying the same thing. If there is a bright master in Caiyi Kingdom in the future, when you pass by Caiyi Kingdom, you can ask the emperor for a map of the situation in the capital. If you put it on top, you can get at least some benefits. It lasts for hundreds of years. Put it away, remember it, and treasure it well. Don’t take it out easily and let others see it.”
Chen Pingan was a little disappointed and had to put away the seal again.
Seeing this scene, Shen Wen couldn't laugh or cry. How could there be such a "short-minded" child? The people on the mountain were all businessmen. They were all pursuing huge profits, or they didn't care about the immediate gains and losses, but they also had far-sighted plans and plans for thousands of miles and thousands of miles. In the final analysis, we still want to make a lot of money.
Shen Wen's figure became more and more illusory and scattered, and he said in a deep voice: "Chen Ping'an, this time the demon is causing trouble, as you said yourself, 'within your power' is enough."
Chen Pingan nodded, took off the wine gourd, and looked up at the sky outside with the City God.
Shen Wen suddenly asked: "Dali Longquan County? The prefectures and counties in Aquarius Continent generally don't have the character dragon."
Chen Pingan said with a smile: "My hometown used to be the Lizhu Cave Heaven. Later, the small cave sky shattered and fell to the ground, so it was renamed Longquan County."
Shen Wen was startled and asked tentatively: "The Mr. Qi you are talking about is Mr. Qi from Shanya Academy, the most proud disciple of Wen Sheng?"
Chen Ping'an hummed, with a sad look on his face, "That's Mr. Qi."
Shen Wen stared blankly at the young man from Dali.
Straw sandals, wine gourd, flying sword, seal, innocent heart, named Chen Pingan.
Shen Wen's mouth was a little dry, "Chen Pingan, are you Mr. Qi's direct disciple?"
Chen Pingan was hesitant, but finally decided to tell the truth, "Mr. Qi didn't want to accept me as a disciple, but then I met Master Literary Saint. It seemed that Mr. Qi wanted to accept me as a disciple, but I felt at that time that I was not even a scholar. , he didn’t agree to the Master Wen Sheng to be his disciple, and the Master Wen Sheng wasn’t angry either. He was just drunk. When I was carrying him, the old man slapped my head hard and persuaded me to drink..."
Chen Pingan smiled and raised the wine gourd in his hand, and said with a bright smile: "So now I drink."
The scholar Shen Wen only felt that there were five thunderbolts from the sky, not just one thunderbolt hitting his head, but one after another.
Qi Jingchun! Qi Jingchun’s junior brother! Master Literary Saint! Close disciple of Master Literary Saint!
The young man refused, refused...
Shen Wen was dumbfounded.
Chen Ping'an looked at the City God in confusion. Maybe he had said the wrong thing, so he had to secretly take a sip of wine to calm down his shock.
Shen Wen burst out laughing, laughing so loudly that he almost burst into tears. He reached out and slapped the young man on the shoulder, "Okay, okay! Others will definitely not understand what we scholars do! This is right, this is right!"
Shen Wen retracted his hand, clasped his hands behind his back, and strode out of the threshold of the Earth Temple, "Have a good time, scholars, scholars..."
Shen Wen turned around and smiled, extending his thumb, "Great job!"
After Jin Chenghuang Shen Wen stepped out of the gate, the last bit of his divine aura was gone, and he laughed and disappeared between heaven and earth, and his whole figure shattered into pieces.
Chen Ping'an felt a little sad. He put the wine gourd on his waist and whispered softly to the place where the Caiyi scholar disappeared: "Peace in pieces, peace in every year."
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After the young master in white clothes was killed, no one in the Zhao family fell into the devil's trap. Although Liu Gaoxin, the silver-belled girl, was nauseated, she still refused to return to the peaceful governor's house to accompany the martial arts master named Dou.
Looking for fish that had slipped through the net, when they came to a firewood shed with the door closed, the swordsman frowned and kicked it open. They found a boy inside, eight or nine years old, with a pile of firewood behind him. The swordsman said calmly:
"Get out of the way! Once you are possessed by a demon, there is no way to save it."
The boy pursed his lips and shook his head vigorously.
The swordsman looked cold and strode forward. He held down the boy's head and threw it back. The boy hit the wall. The swordsman used his long knife to open two bundles of firewood. Inside, there was a sallow-looking girl, who was tightly bound by a rope.
After being tied up, one eye socket was oozing blood, but the other eye socket was just like a normal person. The girl's lips were blue and trembling slightly.
The swordsman raised his knife and was about to chop it down. The boy struggled to get up, picked up a hatchet and rushed to the girl. He gritted his teeth and said, "If you dare to kill him, I will kill you!"
He even spoke in Yizhou Yayan with a clear accent. The Zhao family is indeed the most wealthy family in Rouge County. Even the servants and children in the house can understand Yizhou Yayan.
The swordsman chuckled and said: "You ungrateful thing, do you know that your stupid kindness today may kill hundreds of people?"
The boy was thin, his clothes were thin, his eyes were firm and he said: "I don't care, I want to protect Luan Luan!"
The swordsman kicked the boy holding the hatchet away, and then struck the poor girl's head with a swift blow.
The silver bell rang, and the sword chopped into pieces the golden flowers that were flying around. The swordsman paused for a moment, but the blade was still on the girl's forehead, drawing a bloody groove downwards that was more than an inch long.
The sword was blocked, but the swordsman did not get angry. He just turned around and stared at the girl and asked: "Liu Gaoxin, can you save her? Others don't know how powerful it is to be possessed by a demon. As an accomplished qigong practitioner, how can you not understand? Why?
, when the situation became irreversible, you personally executed this girl?"
Liu Gaoxin's face turned pale and her lips trembled, "I can't bear it."
The swordsman roared, "I must have killed those possessed men outside the Zhao Mansion too quickly, and Miss Liu was not able to see them chewing the flesh and blood of the people."
Liu Gaoxin
The boy struggled to get up again. He was in severe pain and could no longer hold the knife steadily. The tip of the knife was trembling. The boy said heartbreakingly to the swordsman: "You bastard, kill me first if you can!"
The swordsman sneered: "What's the point of killing you?"
He was about to strike with his sword again.
Liu Gaoxin's eyes were red and he turned his head, unable to bear to look any further.
To be continued...