Chapter 105: Three Gods and One Ghost, No True Immortal
Shi Qingxuan said seriously, "I want to try and see if I can solve that problem myself. After all, Your Highness, you are more experienced. Do you have time? If not, don't force yourself."
Shi Qingxuan had helped Xie Lian a lot before, and now he needed help and asked for help from him. Xie Lian couldn't just say that he was busy and powerless at this time. But Hua Cheng was a guest from afar and hadn't played here for a few days. If he left, who would take care of Hua Cheng? Although he didn't take care of him very well.
While he was still thinking, Hua Cheng supported his chin with one hand and said with a smile: "Brother, do you want to go and see the Baihua Immortal? If you don't mind, can you take me one? After all, it's a rare monster, and I haven't seen one with my own eyes."
Xie Lian thought, "I'm ashamed, Sanlang understands me." He was very grateful for his thoughtfulness and nodded. Shi Qingxuan didn't have much to say. He knew Huacheng wasn't here to help him, but at least Huacheng wouldn't make trouble, so it didn't matter to him whether he came or not. Xie Lian asked again, "But that Baihua Zhenxian is elusive. Who knows when and where he will appear again?"
Shi Qingxuan said, "I don't know either. If it really doesn't work, I plan to go to the best restaurant in the imperial city and book a banquet. I'll drink for a hundred or eighty days, set off firecrackers and sing operas every day, and it will eventually come out."
Xie Lian said, “That’s one way, but even if it comes out, we may not be able to catch it. Knowing yourself and your enemy will ensure victory in every battle. Master Feng, have you checked who its prey has been in the past? What is its style of action? See if there is any pattern to it.”
Shi Qingxuan said, “Of course my brother has already checked this.” He took out a scroll from his sleeve and unfolded it. Xie Lian leaned forward to take a look and couldn’t help but exclaim, “Amazing, amazing.”
Good thing! This thing is so small that I don't even bother to put the hook on it. The names on the reel are almost all famous people in the world, and all of them have a miserable end. The ending of each one is collapse and suicide.
Those who were defeated and committed suicide with swords; those who lost all their wealth in one day and wiped out all their lives with three feet of silk; those who sought fame and fortune but could not get them and were trapped in the ups and downs of life. These people were not defeated by Baihua Zhenxian, but by their own fear of "loss".
However, there was no emperor on the list. A true emperor would be protected by the aura of the Son of Heaven, and would not be easily invaded by evil spirits. In fact, generally speaking, people with the potential to ascend to heaven would also be born with a layer of spiritual energy covering their bodies, making these ghosts retreat. Therefore, Xie Lian felt that Shi Qingxuan was entangled by that thing, and it was not that simple. Maybe someone secretly made a move to deliberately target him. If so, this person must be extraordinary, but Shi Qingxuan was still a baby when he was targeted, so why did he provoke such an extraordinary character?
At this time, Hua Cheng asked, "Brother, can you lend it to me to have a look?"
Xie Lian handed him the scroll and said, “Look.”
Hua Cheng only glanced at it briefly and asked, "Who wrote this scroll?"
Shi Qingxuan said: "My brother. What's wrong?"
Hua Cheng threw the scroll onto the table and said, "Not very good. There are outrageous mistakes. I suggest your brother go back to the furnace and retrain."
Shi Qingxuan was about to make the final decision when he heard it: "Blood Rain Tanhua!"
Xie Lian held him back and said apologetically, “Master Fengshi, please sit down. Please sit down. Forget it. Sanlang always speaks like this. He didn’t mean it.”
Shi Qingxuan sat down and wondered to himself, "'It's always been like this'?"
Xie Lian turned to Hua Cheng and asked, "San Lang, what you said is outrageously wrong, what is wrong with it?"
Hua Cheng also moved closer to him, and the two sat much closer. Hua Cheng pointed at a few names and said, "These ones are wrong."
Xie Lian looked carefully and saw that those people were all local overlords who had committed many evil deeds. He asked, “How did you know?”
Hua Cheng said: "Because I killed them."
“…”
Xie Lian asked, “Aren’t all of these suicides?”
Hua Cheng said: "Before I took action, I sent someone to greet them first, and they ended their lives on their own. I wonder if this counts as my killing?"
I don't know if this counts as homicide, but it can probably be considered very honest. Shi Qingxuan coughed a few times uncomfortably, and said, "Can you please not describe how you killed someone in front of the priest? Can you please not discuss this issue openly with the priest in front of other priests?"
Hua Cheng pointed out a few more names and said, "These ones are also wrong."
Xie Lian asked, “Who killed this person?”
Hua Cheng said: "Hei Shui killed him."
Xie Lian was startled and said, “Isn’t that Black Water Mysterious Ghost always very low-key?”
Hua Cheng said: "It doesn't mean he won't kill people."
Then, he said to Shi Qingxuan: "The scroll that my respected brother gave you is full of mistakes and omissions. He didn't check it carefully at all. Instead, it is suspected of confusing the vision. It is just a pile of rags. So I suggest that you tear it up and rewrite it."
Shi Qingxuan took back the scroll and said, "My brother would never do that!" Although his words were pale and weak, his tone was very firm. Shi Wudu would not be careless about his brother's affairs. Then, there is another possibility. Xie Lian asked, "Everyone has his own expertise. The water master should have also used the help of others during the investigation. May I ask who sorted out the scroll?"
After hesitating for a moment, Shi Qingxuan said, "Spiritual text."
Xie Lian rubbed his brows and stopped talking. Although the Lingwen Hall was always criticized by the priests of other halls for being inefficient, it didn’t make so many mistakes. It was simply a perfunctory draft. The relationship between the cancerous people seemed to be pretty good, at least on the surface. What was going on? I’m afraid outsiders couldn’t figure it out.
Hua Cheng leaned back and continued, "How to distinguish the true from the false? I'll tell you one more thing: once the Baihua Immortal sets his sights on a prey, he will kill it completely. Not only will the prey collapse and die, but the prey's relatives and friends will also be affected. Therefore, those who said that only they died, while their relatives and friends are still alive and well, are all wrong."
Hearing this, Shi Qingxuan's face turned pale for a moment. Then, he perked up again and said to Ming Yi with a dry laugh: "Doesn't that mean you are also in danger, Brother Ming? You are my best friend!"
Mingyi sat a little further away from him, with a look on her face that said "How can I not have you as my best friend". By moving like this, she sat closer to Xie Lian, and Huacheng glanced at him, his eyes as sharp as a knife. Seeing that Shi Qingxuan did not forget to joke at this time, Xie Lian could not help laughing, but he also vaguely saw the Wind Master's uneasiness. Or rather, it was precisely because of the uneasiness that he had to use doubly excitement to restrain himself. Shi Qingxuan unfurled the Wind Master's fan, fanning it five or six times faster than usual, his black hair messed up in the strong wind, and said, "Let's go now! Let's go to the most gorgeous high-rise building to live a life of luxury. I want to see if it dares to come out with so many of us. We have a lot of people, hahahahahaha..."
“…” Xie Lian said, “Master Fengshi, please calm down first. Wait for me for a moment. I have some small matters in the temple that need to be dealt with.”
He didn't know how long he would be gone. He couldn't just ignore the two children and a ghost attached to a living person. He wanted to find a reliable family in the village to help take care of them, but Hua Cheng knew everything he was thinking and said, "If you must go, just go with confidence. I have help. After you leave, someone will come to take care of you."
Xie Lian heaved a sigh of relief and said, “Thank you, Sanlang. It would be better if someone could watch over this place.”
Hua Cheng also smiled and said, "Yeah. Someone has to be watching."
The two of them obviously did not mean the same thing as "looking" and "staring". However, no one pursued the matter. Mingyi moved the altar away and drew a formation on the ground that could shrink the earth by a thousand miles. Shi Qingxuan fanned faster and faster, and the shadow of the fan was almost invisible. He said, "By the way, Your Highness, I forgot to ask, who is that at the door? I provoked him, and when he opened his mouth, did he speak human language?"
It was only asked casually at the end. If Qi Rong heard it, she would have another heart attack. Xie Lian thought that it was indeed not human words. He took Ruo Xie and Fang Xin who were leaning in the corner and said, "Hasn't he already introduced himself?"
Shi Qingxuan said: "Why, is that really a green ghost? Is that his character? Seeing is believing, seeing is believing!"
Xie Lian rubbed his brows, briefly explained the situation, and told him to keep it secret, especially not to let Lang Qianqiu know. In the meantime, Ming Yi finished drawing a formation that could shrink the earth by a thousand miles. Last time, Nan Feng spent a long time drawing it, but it was still very rough. He was completely the opposite. He drew very quickly, but not sloppily, and he drew it all the way through. The circle he drew with his bare hands was even neater than one drawn with a ruler, and the words were as neat as engravings. Xie Lian couldn't help but marvel secretly.
The formation was completed, Mingyi said, "Let's go." Shi Qingxuan took a deep breath and blew out the candle.
Hua Cheng walked in front and was the first to push the door. The small door creaked open, and it was pitch black outside, as if it was connected to an old house that had been abandoned for many years. The air was full of mold and dust.
Following behind Hua Cheng was Xie Lian, who quietly thanked Hua Cheng for leading the way, followed by Shi Qingxuan, and finally Ming Yi. After he came out, he closed the door behind him.
Just as the door was about to close, a voice suddenly came from behind the door in the darkness, saying grimly: "The place you are going to will become a nightmare that you never want to remember again!"
Upon hearing this voice, Xie Lian kicked him out.
The door was kicked down on the spot by him, but the formation was no longer effective after being used. Behind the door was not the Puqi Temple, but a pile of broken copper and iron. The violent movement caused a violent dust to fly. Xie Lian coughed, feeling a little lucky that he didn't kick the door made by Hua Cheng. He covered his face with his sleeves and said, "Was that the Baihua Immortal just now?"
Shi Qingxuan tightly grasped his whisk and wind master fan and said, "That's its voice! Has it... been following me all the time?"
Xie Lian waved away the dust and rejected it, “No. There were three priests and a ghost king in the room just now. If something had been following you, how could we not notice it? It must have just arrived.”
Ming Yi also said, "Calm down."
Shi Qingxuan said: "Calm down. I am very calm. I have been calm for a long time!"
Hua Cheng said leisurely in front: "You need to be calm, but it doesn't mean you'll be fine. Does anyone know where this is?"
Xie Lian looked around and said, “Aren’t we going to the best restaurant in the Imperial City?”
No matter how you look at it, this abandoned old house doesn’t look like the restaurant that Shi Qingxuan mentioned. The four of them walked around and found the main door, which was locked with several large locks. Xie Lian kicked it again, breaking the lock and opening the door. After opening the door, what appeared before the four of them was not a sea of fire or swords, nor was it some mysterious evil scene, but an ordinary, dull town.
Hua Cheng raised his eyebrows and said, "The imperial city shouldn't look like this."
Xie Lian felt the same way. The imperial capital was far more dignified than a small town like this. He turned around and asked, “Master Geomancer, did you draw the wrong formation?”
Ming Yi said, "It's not drawn wrong. The original connection point is not here."
Xie Lian understood immediately. This meant that the thing had done something wrong. It had sent them to this place.