Chapter 17, Emperor Houtu gave chickens as a gift.
Seen from Jilong Mountain, there are always so many strange things in the scenery of Xuanwu Lake.
This is an artificial lake. The Sima family of the Eastern Jin Dynasty believed in Mr. Guo's professional skills. In order to prevent the King's Qi of the Eastern Jin Dynasty from flowing to the east of the Yangtze River, they excavated such a first-ever lake in human history at the gate of Zijin City.
Artificial lake.
However, the entire Eastern Jin Dynasty did not wait until the lake was full of energy and exploded, and then followed the Yangtze River eastward and poured it into the sea.
Fortunately, those warriors and horses of the past, with their banners covering the sun, scratched their heads one after another, and with the development of the times, they turned into a spirit that never fails, permanently living in this lake created by the collective efforts of many saints.
For thousands of years, Eastern and Western cultures have met here, and fairies, strangers, monsters and monsters have often fought for supremacy here. Millions of souls linger, just waiting for which one can lead them to heaven.
The soul collector.
Although, many of them don’t know: Who is the soul collector? And will she come? When will she come!......
The Holy Spirit and I both dressed up as nuns, rested for a while on the top of the chicken coop, and then started our new work for the day.
When we come to this world, we all have to use the zero o'clock bell in the midnight Wu song as the sound mark of the alternation of black and white time in our day. Because in Jiuchongtian and Thirty-three Heavens, there is no distinction between day and night.
We have no concept of time and have no need for time at all.
Because time passes very long there, so long that it exceeds the imagination of humans all over the world.
Just when we were getting ready to start working, bursts of "ding dong! ding dong!" came from the belly of Jilong Mountain. It was a low and mixed sound of digging earth and rocks as the metal stones hit each other.
"Brother, there is movement in the belly of the mountain." The Holy Spirit also heard it, and she said to me.
"I heard it. Holy Spirit, look here to see if there is an ideal place for building an altar. It doesn't need to be too big, just ten centimeters square." I said to her.
"Ten centimeters? Senior brother, did I hear you correctly? Ten centimeters can be a place?" the Holy Spirit looked at me in confusion and said.
"You heard it right. It's just ten centimeters. Let alone ten centimeters, it's even ten millimeters or ten microns. It can become a place. Once you find it, you'll understand." I said to her.
"Okay then! Senior brother, but your... range of ten centimeters... ugh!... is really hard to find." The Holy Spirit said to me.
"Look carefully, Jilong Mountain is just this big. Holy Spirit, I believe you. Ten centimeters shouldn't be difficult for my junior sister Holy Spirit to find. You look for it first, and senior brother goes down to see who is there.
There is something going on in this mountain. If anything happens, we can contact you through the Jiutian hotline." After I finished speaking, I jumped over the high wall of the temple and searched for the sound.
It's a pity that I came to this Feng Shui treasure land with a mission, but I couldn't find a beautiful woman who meets my eyes and spend time together. It's really a pity!
I secretly lamented that compared with Jiutian and Thirty-three Heavens, human beings are actually much happier. They have feelings, hopes, and dreams, but we only have a mission.
I can't just strike a lightning strike halfway up the mountain to search for photos. In that case, it would be bad if there were a few ordinary people inside. To cause unprovoked killings, it would be difficult to write a report when I go back. In our true heaven, that is
Those who want to be thrown into the Nine Heavens Soul Altar and never see the light of day.
If you think about it carefully, it only takes a few minutes to reach every corner of the vast world. If you couldn't go anywhere, you, a god, would die of depression. However, you can't die.
I have seen many true heavenly heroes imprisoned in the soul altar. I am not willing to experience that scene myself.
Come to think of it, Yu Yan is right! Why do you want to cultivate immortality and not enjoy the big fish and meat, but go to eat the wind and drink the dew...
I don’t know why I followed my master to cultivate immortality back then. But I remember that I seemed to have taken the initiative to find someone else, unlike my little friend now who ignores you even if you beg her.
Alas! The world is going downhill, and it’s hard for gods to become immortals. It’s so difficult to accept a disciple, and you have to accept her.
As I was thinking about it, I came across a cave entrance—a brand new cave entrance that had just been opened.
From the looks of it, it must have been a few days since the hunting, and the bushes at the entrance of the cave are already a little wilted.
There seemed to be a lot of people in the cave, roughly a dozen people.
While they were talking, they were carrying soil out. It was strange, why was there no mound of soil at the entrance of the cave?
I'm puzzled!
No, I have to find a way to go in and have a look.
Just then, the magical cat jumped out of the hole.
——Uh! It looks familiar!
It turns out to be her!
The Holy Spirit asked him to pretend that Shui Mo's Jiutian Immortal Cat is still at a low level! She often follows the Holy Spirit, so she should be able to use the Jiutian Shenyin line.
"Tmall, stop here." I called her.
This is our unified name for ordinary fairy cats in Jiutian.
"Hey! Are you the master of the end spirit? The God of War in the True Heaven Realm! Are you the legendary gentleman among the great gods?" She asked me through the Jiutian line.
When I saw her, I knew that Shui Mo and Yu Yan had returned home safely.
"It's me." I said.
"Tmall, who is causing trouble in this cave?" I asked her.
"Stop talking. They are a bunch of pitiful little devils. I don't know where they heard it from who. They all said that there is a piece of Jiutian chicken in Jilong Mountain. If you get it, you can pick up the soul without Jiutian."
They have ascended to heaven by absorbing the spiritual energy of this chicken! They have been digging for several days, but they have not found anything. They were still shouting inside just now, saying that someone might have deceived them! Otherwise, they would have to pay for it.
I’ve cleared Chicken Coop Mountain, but why haven’t I seen chickens yet?” Tmall told me.
"Oh. Tmall, according to your observation, what are the personalities of these little devils?" I asked Tmall.
She quickly rolled her sapphire eyes, tilted her head and thought for a moment before answering me: "Sir, I don't think they look like bad people, but they don't look like good people either."
"You are talking nonsense. They are not human at all. Okay! Smell it, what is the smell in the cave?" I gave her some free knowledge, which was a kind of help she had given us before.
Reward it.
"Smell it carefully." I said.
"Oh! Look at my nose. I have lost a lot of my spiritual energy after coming to this hellish place with Auntie Holy Spirit for several years." She complained to me.
"If you don't tell me, sir, I don't care at all! They are indeed not living creatures, they have a sour smell." She sniffed and said to me.
"This is it, an abandoned baby that the underworld will not accept. The Holy Spirit is up there. You go ask her to come down. I'll go in and take a look first." I said to her.
She nodded, then jumped over the cave entrance and jumped to the top of the mountain.
I actually don't like the smell in the cave, and I don't want to have any chance encounters with people from the underworld! But I want to prevent them from destroying the earthly atmosphere of my spiritual field.
I pinched my nose and tiptoed into the hole.
In the cave, there are more than a dozen blue phosphorus fires floating in the dust and smoke, and seven or eight strong men are loading soil into dustpans and transporting them in the explosive pit.
But after they finished loading the soil, they did not send it out of the hole. They turned a corner and disappeared.
I guess they made a fork in the hole, and it was quite big.
Alas! Mortals are easy to manipulate. These dozen little devils must be dispatched first without harming their lives.
I used the nine-day audio transmission to the Holy Spirit and said: "Holy Spirit, please make some rooster crow sounds. It would be best if it can be transmitted into the cave."
"Let me get a chicken." Tmall interjected.
"You only know about cockfighting, what else do you know? Just learn how to crow." The Holy Spirit said to Tmall.
"That's right! Then why me? It can't be you and your husband?" Tmall said to the Holy Spirit.
Unexpectedly, Tmall and the Holy Spirit get along like this. It turns out that the Holy Spirit brought her to the mortal world for a reason. It’s very ironic!
"Sir, I will stop talking. If you ask me to learn how to crow, do you want the chickens in this city to fly and beat the eggs? Or do you want Pleiades to go and apologize to the underworld tomorrow morning? If you are asked to learn, just learn it quickly.
There are so many! Is there any point in trying to scare a bunch of little devils? Don’t delay things, just scream twice. Hurry up,” the Holy Spirit urged her.
"I don't want to imitate the crow of a hen, it will be embarrassing. If I go back and let them know, don't laugh to death? I won't learn." Tmall was cheating on the Holy Spirit.
"Who told you to imitate the crow of a hen? imitate the crow of a big rooster. Otherwise, you will become a big rooster. Hurry up, hurry up if you don't want to be beaten. Don't delay the business." The Holy Spirit was obviously a little impatient.
"Study and learn. Hey! I haven't changed into a big cock yet! Change into a good one and go back to compete with Pleiades. Hee hee hee! It's fun. It's fun." Tmall said to the Holy Spirit.
Listening to the conversation between the two of them, I was both funny and angry at the same time. This kid doesn't have any priorities. It really makes people love and hate him at the same time.
"Oh - oh! oh - oh!..." The golden rooster crows in Jilong Mountain, and the sun rises in the east mountain.
"It's almost dawn, let's go." The little devil leader said to the others.
"What should they do?" one of the little ghosts asked.
"Give them a few more hours of incense to keep them digging," the little devil leader said, and was about to leave.
I saw more than a dozen will-o'-the-wisps coming out of the cave and floating towards Purple Mountain.
"Hey hey hey! They're gone." I secretly rejoiced.
Walking into the deep cave in the belly of Jilong Mountain, the problem I want to solve seems to be clear.
In the innermost part of the cave, I saw seven or eight big men huffing and puffing, still working very hard. Their eyes were dull and their muscles were stiff. I put away the fluorescent talisman that protected me so that they could see my body.
.However, they turned a blind eye.
Yes, they have fallen under the evil spell of the underworld.
I followed a fool who was transporting earth and rocks and kept walking inside. Finally I understood why there was no excavated earth and rocks at the entrance of the cave!
They are indeed smart.
They drilled a ventilation hole on the Ming city wall at the foot of Jilong Mountain, and almost all the earth and stone were transported up the city wall.
Alas! I've been walking up and down the city wall for two days, but I haven't discovered their secret yet.
Knowing their exit, I returned to the cave again.
This time I want to take a closer look. They say there are chickens deep in the belly of Chicken Coop Mountain. Maybe there are actually chickens there!
I see their stiff and slow movements and work progress. If they keep hammering away at the underground project like this, it will definitely affect our search for a soul altar base with abundant spiritual power.
So, I secretly gave them a little strength.
With a crackle, they started the black lotus of Mingtian and accelerated like a spin.
After a while, a ray of dazzling red light, as fine as a thread, shot out from the soil in front.
"Holy Spirit, there's no need to look for it. Come to the cave with Tmall." I called Holy Spirit through the dedicated line.
In a few seconds, the bright red light became much larger, and its color changed from bright red to blood red.
I know that I can't let them dig anymore. I have to stop them. Because they have been possessed by ghosts and monsters. If they continue to dig, they will definitely destroy the chicken. Moreover, they have
The evil spirit will also pollute the chicken.
When I was about to stop them, Holy Spirit and Tmall had already entered.
"Brother, we have to stop them. We can't dig any more." The Holy Spirit said to me.
"I know. It's easy to get them to stop, but it's hard for me to deal with them!" I said.
"Brother, we can't let them go back. They have been infected with corpse poison, and going back will only harm the whole city's Bai people." The Holy Spirit said to me.
"Then what should we do? Give them a few celestial beans first and let them sleep for a while." I said to the Holy Spirit.
"I'm going to call someone to collect them." Just as the Holy Spirit made them stop, Tmall said to me and the Holy Spirit.
"Thank you for your trouble, Ah Mao. These zombies have no soul power. I guess it was done by Asura and some traitors from the underworld. You go and come back quickly." The Holy Spirit said to Tmall.
"Okay." As soon as Tmall finished answering, the person was gone.
"She's so fast? No wonder you take her with you everywhere." I said to the Holy Spirit.
"Senior brother, you are rewarded. There are places where you and I can't go, but they can. So when you were in seclusion for training, I selected a few agile ones from the many Tmall teams, and trained them with the best mana and spiritual power.
The future is unpredictable. What I didn’t expect was that you and I were selected as this year’s true heaven soul collectors, so when I received the order from Jiutian, I took them all with me without hesitation.
They came. But what I didn’t expect was that they came to the mortal world and gave me a lot of surprises." The Holy Spirit explained to me.
"Okay. I hope she can find a way to invite the ghost servants. We'd better get the chicken before they come back." I said to the Holy Spirit.
"Okay, brother." The Holy Spirit answered me, and his hands and feet had already started to move.
I saw a blue flame erupting from her eye sockets, shooting towards the earth and rocks at the red weak light source, followed by a loud noise, and a pile of earth, rocks and rubble fell down.
A statue sits cross-legged on a black gallstone lotus, wearing a red official robe and a pearl crown. It looks like the first emperor of the Qin Empire. He has a Taoist fingerprint on his left hand, a lotus fingerprint on his right hand, and an exquisite and clear thumb-sized finger on his chest.
The bloodstone is glowing blood red.
This light filled the entire cave under the collapse of earth and stone rubble, shrouding us all in blood-red light and shadow.
"Brother, can I get this? It seems to be Houtu Emperor Qi." The Holy Spirit looked at the statue of Houtu Emperor Qi and said to me.
"Hahaha! Old man, I have finally waited for the new generation of soul collectors. Sir, I have been waiting for you for a long time..."
I was dumbfounded. It turned out that all of this was arranged by him in advance!
"I have raised this treasure for thousands of years, and I will hand it over to you from now on. Sir, take it. I hope it can help Jiutian's great cause of soul collection."
After he finished speaking, he raised his hand and the chicken flew towards me.