Three people in a boat and a soul-inducing lantern drifted silently in the river.
If calculated according to time, it has been several days since they left the cave of the ancient warlock, but Yin and Yang are separated, and there are several days in the underworld, but not a night has passed in the Yang world.
In the past few days, they found several wild temples, but they were all empty temples, or wild temples without incense for worship in the underworld.
In addition to offering tens of thousands of virtues, Jin'an and the old Taoist priests still have no way to return to the world.
The old Taoist priest gnawed on the dry food in his hand and sat on the bow of the boat with a sad face: "Little brother, are we going to just drift out of Jiangzhou Prefecture like this?"
Thanks to the fact that they had brought a lot of dry food with them on their journey to Fenghuang Town, they could save some food these days and still be able to deal with it for a while.
But as the ration bags shriveled up day by day, they would become the first unlucky people to starve to death in the underworld in thousands of years if they could no longer escape from the underworld.
The old Taoist priest became even more melancholy when he thought that he was going to starve to death. If that time came, he might as well just find a century-old corpse and bury it in his belly to get relief.
Anyway, he can accept any way of death, but he cannot accept death by starvation! Because death is too miserable!
Ever since he made great progress in the "Black Mountain Magic", improved his physique, learned to swallow gold fossils, and mastered magical powers, Jin An felt that life like this was quite comfortable and leisurely. He took out those jade slips to study the elixirs when he had nothing to do, and he could nibble on a few when he was hungry.
He used a roadside stone to temporarily satisfy his hunger. And with his current level of Tao Qi cultivation, he could also temporarily eat Qi and eat grains.
Speaking of this jade slip, we have to mention the dozens of jade slips that he obtained using the Taoist technique of detecting bag and taking objects.
These jade slips collected several pharmacopoeias and alchemy books for him, which contained ancient sorcerers' experiences in alchemy, pharmacology, and medicine garden management.
These jade slips are different from those for elixirs. Jin An guessed that the large troops should have obtained them from the cauldron and eight trigrams of the alchemy furnace. Some of the corpse fox immortals were responsible for planting and collecting medicines, and some were responsible for refining alchemy and watching the furnace.
"One day in the sky and ten years in the human world, Taoist Master Qingyun, the laws of time in the underworld are slower than those in the human world. Why don't I see anyone using the time in the underworld to practice? Wouldn't that mean a thousand miles per day and rapid progress?" I have gained a lot from studying the jade slips these days.
, I read the jade slips for several days in a row, and it took some time to digest them. Jin An knew that he could bite off more than he could chew, so he temporarily put down the jade slips, looked far away, and looked at both sides of the strait to see where he could find incense for worship.
cemetery or temple.
Before Master Qingyun could answer, the bored old Taoist priest had already answered: "This is the underworld. No one dares to stay in the underworld where the Yin Qi is cold for a long time, for fear that the Yin Qi will enter the body and kill his life."
"That's exactly the truth." Master Qingyun nodded.
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Next, the boat drifted along the current for about half a day. A small hill appeared in front of them. Green smoke curled up from the top of the hill. The old Taoist priest stood up in surprise.
"There are living people in the world here burning incense and candles to worship!"
The old Taoist priest had already jumped onto the shore impatiently and approached the boat in the direction of Qingyan before the boat had even landed.
As a result, the place was empty, with no tombs or temples, only an old tree. The old Taoist priest stood there blankly, a little at a loss.
According to his original idea, if this was a tomb, then they would dig up the tomb and lie in it, and then return it to the human world.
If this is a wild temple, then kill the wild god, eliminate harm for the people, and then replace the god and return him to the human world.
But I didn't expect it to be empty?
It can't be said to be empty. There is an old tree on the top of the hill.
"Could it be that someone hanged here, so relatives burn incense and candles here to worship the deceased? Well, if we want to return to the human world, do we have to take off our belts and hang ourselves on the tree?"
Jin An and Qingyun looked at the old Taoist priest in shock.
Several black lines hung down Jin An's forehead: "If you want to hang yourself, old Taoist priest, hang yourself, don't take me with you."
"It's obviously not this tree that people in the world worship, but the spiritual tablet placed next to the big tree." Jin An finally pointed to a location.
Sure enough, there was a spiritual tablet standing in that place, but the spiritual tablet was so different from the big tree that it was easy to miss it at a glance.
"It seems that the day of farewell to Taoist Jin'an and Taoist Chen has arrived, so I will use the soul-guiding lamp in my hand to open the yin-yang passage and help them return to the earth." Master Qingyun nodded and said with a smile.
"Fellow Taoist Qingyun, you must come to Wu Zang Taoist Temple in Jiangzhou Prefecture to find us, the old Taoist." When the farewell was approaching, the old Taoist priest held Qingyun's hand with some reluctance.
"Taoist Priest Qingyun, please accept this Five Thunder Evil-Slaying Talisman for protection. Thank you Taoist Priest Qingyun for sending us all this way. The journey back must be long and dangerous. This Five-Thunder Evil-Slaying Talisman protects me and the old Taoist priest for Taoist Qingyun."
Only then can you walk with peace of mind." Jin An generously handed out a Five Thunder Evil Evil Talisman.
This is Zhang’s fifth decree to seal the Five Thunder Evil-Slaying Talisman.
It is equivalent to fifteen thousand yin virtues.
Although Yin virtue is precious, these fifteen thousand Yin virtues are insignificant compared with the many gains he made in the underworld.
Master Qingyun selflessly sent them this far, so he shouldn't be too selfish, and it would be rude to stay away from others.
As a fellow cultivator, Master Qingyun could see at a glance that the Five Thunder Evil-Destroying Talisman was unusual and did not dare to accept such a precious gift. In the end, Jin An forcefully gave it to him.
"Fellow Taoist Qingyun, just accept it. It's best for my little brother to make friends with like-minded people in the world. When you come to Wu Zang Taoist Temple, I'll treat you to the mutton hotpot." The old Taoist priest also advised Qingyun to accept it, saying that Jin An is not stingy.
people.
The process of Master Qingyun sending Jin An and the old Taoist priest back to the world went smoothly. He repeatedly chanted the name of the deceased on the spiritual throne. This technique was called soul-calling when used well, and it was called soul-returning when used well. He used the soul-returning spell in conjunction with the magic in his hand.
The soul-inducing lamp temporarily opened a Yin-Yang passage and successfully sent the two people back to the Yang world.
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The night breeze carries a bit of the sultry heat of early summer.
Yangjian.
Zhang Houcai, a drunken scholar who was holding a wine jar and guarding the brazier and incense candles, was crying loudly. Looking at an old Taoist priest who almost fell from the tree, he was so frightened that he held the wine jar and stood in a daze.
When the Taoist priest was about to land on his face, another hand stretched out from a tree branch grabbed his waistband.
Then a young Taoist priest jumped down from the tree.
"Am I hallucinating when I'm drunk?" Zhang Houcai slapped himself several times.
"Brother, may I ask where this place is? Why are you drinking alone here to drown your sorrows?" The young Taoist priest bowed and said politely.
Zhang Houcai looked at the two Taoist priests in front of him in surprise. He raised his hand with a hint of alcohol and pointed in a direction in the distance: "This is an unknown green mountain twenty miles away from Houchi Village in Yin County. There is no place to return to if you have a home, and there is no way for a wanderer to return home."
When I visit my old mother's grave and offer incense, and see her again, you two Taoist priests, how can I live a peaceful life?"
"Houchi Village? Why does this place sound familiar..."
The old Taoist priest didn't think for long, slapped his thigh and shouted: "Little brother, isn't this Houchi Village the same small fishing village where many shipwreck corpses washed up last year, and Yu Yangzi once carried the corpses? I didn't expect that we have gone so far all the way! In the underworld.
After so many twists and turns, we finally returned to the starting point when we first arrived in Jiangzhou Prefecture!"
"The underworld? Are you dead?" The scholar opened his slightly drunken eyes and looked at the Taoist priest in front of him.
"If you are really dead in the underworld, can you take me to see my mother again?"
Since a large number of people died at sea in Houchi Village, in order to prevent the outbreak of plague, the local government relocated the entire fishing village and sent village warriors and policemen to seal the road to prevent outsiders from approaching Houchi Village.
That's why the scholar Zhang Houcai was unable to visit his old mother's grave, so he could only hide on a desolate mountaintop dozens of miles away to worship his old mother from a distance and drink to drown the wanderer's homesickness.
"What's so difficult about this? Since you and I have a good relationship, we are destined to meet each other. Tonight I will raise a filial son to fulfill my wish." Jin An laughed heartily and sang a kindness.