Chapter 165: Flooding Jinshan
Two fast horses galloped past on the road.
It was Master Qin Mo and his disciple.
"Master, why don't we sell the golden Buddha?" Yan Chixia said.
But he has not changed his greedy nature.
Qin Mo scolded, "How foolish! How can a cultivator be tempted by money?" He made up his mind to take Yan Chixia to the Black and White Mountain Villa for meditation when he returned.
Wash away the underworld habits from Yan Chixia.
"Master is right." Yan Chixia nodded embarrassedly.
At night,
Because they missed the post station, the two came to a dilapidated temple to spend the night. After all, they were all practitioners, so there was nothing to worry about. Sleeping in the open air was a common occurrence.
Taking advantage of the break, Qin Mo passed "Tai Chi Xuan Qing Dao" to Yan Chixia.
Start fulfilling your duties as a master.
He had read "Tai Chi Xuan Qing Dao". Don't be fooled by its high-sounding name. It is essentially a thunder-attributed martial arts method, which includes the secret of controlling thunder with the magic sword.
Qin Mo even vaguely saw a hint of the "Shen Xiao Zhen Fa" from it.
Considering that Yan Chixia has not yet formally become his disciple and his character is still uncertain, Qin Mo is not in a hurry to teach him the "Shenxiao True Method" for fear of leaking his sect's secrets.
Anyway, with Yan Chixia's strength at the Jindan stage, "Tai Chi Xuan Qing Dao" is enough.
Yan Chixia was overjoyed.
Seeing this , Qin Mo asked in confusion: "Disciple, with your qualifications, it shouldn't be difficult to join the sect, why have you been practicing alone?"
But he wanted to take this opportunity to find out about the situation in his own world.
"There is no sect at all." Yan Chixia smiled bitterly, "The Taoist tradition was cut off three hundred years ago, and only a few independent cultivators are still lingering on."
"Then, what about Jinshan Temple?"
"Jinshan Temple is an anomaly. Because of its existence, after the decline of Taoism, Buddhism and Taoism flourished in this world, and temples were built everywhere," said Yan Chixia.
"Doesn't it mean that Fahai of Jinshan Temple is very powerful?"
“He is more than just powerful. Master Fahai is the only powerful person in the Spirit Transformation Stage in this world. He is a well-deserved leader of the righteous path.” Yan Chixia seemed to respect Fahai very much.
He was not as treacherous and treacherous as later legends described him to be.
"If that's the case, then why has the tree demon in Lanruo Temple survived for a thousand years without anyone coming to subdue it?"
Yan Chixia smiled bitterly and said, "Ever since the Dao Sect disappeared three hundred years ago, evil spirits have been rampant in the world. It is hard to kill them all. I heard that ninety years ago, a centipede spirit transformed into a human form and became a national teacher."
“…”
Qin Mo was speechless.
What a bizarre world this is, with Taoism declining, Buddhism flourishing, and evildoers running rampant...
"Then, is there a heaven up there?" Qin Mo asked curiously.
According to the description in "The Legend of the White Snake", Fahai can summon heavenly soldiers and generals, and the one guarding the Leifeng Pagoda is also a god.
In the end, Bai Suzhen ascended to heaven.
"No, no?"
Yan Chixia was ignorant and said angrily: "If there really is a bird heaven, it would not allow evildoers to run rampant and cause chaos in the world."
Qin Mo nodded silently.
From this point of view, the evolution of this world should be the original version of "The Legend of White Snake".
Legend has it that during the Shaoxing period of the Southern Song Dynasty, there was a snake demon named Bai Suzhen who had been practicing for a thousand years and her maid Xiaoqing, who met Xu Xian, a pharmacy clerk, at the West Lake in Hangzhou.
We took shelter from the rain in the same boat and fell in love at first sight.
The White Snake gradually developed desires and wanted to be in an affair with Xu Xian, so she married him. After marriage, they experienced many troubles. White Snake behaved strangely many times, which Xu could not bear.
Fahai, a high monk at Jinshan Temple in Zhenjiang, gave Xu an alms bowl to cover his wife.
The white and green quilt covers reveal the true form.
Fahai then took his bowl and placed it in front of Lei Temple Peak, and had people build a seven-story pagoda on it, which was named Leifeng, to permanently suppress Bai and Qing in the pagoda.
However, what is described in the story is more in line with the nature of monsters.
Qin Mo was more interested in this trip to Jinshan Temple...
…
Five days later, the two arrived at the outskirts of Zhenjiang.
Since the day before yesterday, they have encountered continuous heavy rain. The rain has been pouring down like a bucket, and the official road has become muddy due to the impact of the rain.
"Master, there seems to be a flood ahead?" Yan Chixia pulled the horse's head, covered in mud.
Qin Mo was still spotless. He looked up and saw a white line faintly appearing on the distant horizon, like a huge rolling wave, surging towards Zhenjiang County.
"Oh no, it's a flood!"
Qin Mo abandoned his warhorse without thinking, summoned the Chixiao Sword, and flew towards Zhenjiang County.
Yan Chixia followed closely.
The two men flew their swords to the sky above the city, only to see a raging flood in the distance. The waves were surging, and the rolling flood was like the sea water pouring back. The huge waves were rolling up the sky, and the sky and the earth changed color.
The people in the city panicked and fled in all directions.
"Water flooded Jinshan Mountain?" Qin Mo said subconsciously.
Isn’t it such a coincidence?
As soon as I arrived, I encountered the most exciting battle.
Without time to think, Qin Mo said to Yan Chixia: "Go to the city to rescue the people."
"yes."
Yan Chixia nodded in agreement, and then asked curiously: "Master, what about you?"
"I'll stop the flood."
"Stop...stop the flood?" Yan Chixia stuttered as he spoke. He really couldn't imagine how to conquer such a devastating flood with human power alone.
As the two were talking, the huge waves were still coming at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Wherever the flood passed, farmland and crops were destroyed, houses were washed away, and large trees were uprooted. Both the people and livestock were swept away by the flood and it was clear that they would not survive.
A huge wave hit the city and shattered the stone bridge outside the city, sending rubble flying into the air.
Qin Mo no longer hesitated and summoned the Ice Soul Pearl.
With a hand gesture, the Ice Soul Pearl shot out and turned into a white light band over ten thousand meters long. Wherever the white light touched, the raging flood would be frozen into icebergs in the blink of an eye.
Time seems to be frozen.
The rumbling sound from the flood suddenly became quiet, as if someone was strangling the neck.
The world became quiet.
“…”
Yan Chixia's mouth opened so wide in surprise that an egg could fit in it.
"Immortal, the Immortal is here to save us!"
On the top of the city wall, the soldiers who were ordered to hold the city finally noticed Qin Mo casting a spell in the air. They all knelt down and shouted, their eyes full of hope.
But this joy did not last long.
“Click, click…”
There was a loud rumbling sound coming from the iceberg, and it seemed that it was about to be broken by the flood.
Everyone's face changed.
Only Qin Mo remained calm as usual. He took out the Earth Spirit Pearl again and waved his hand. Suddenly, there was a sound of the ground cracking in the open space in front of the city. Then, a 20-meter-high earth wall rose up at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Qin Mo waved his hands repeatedly.
In the blink of an eye, tall earth walls rose up one after another in the suburbs, arranged in a wedge shape, like a bow of a ship, ready to divert the raging flood to the sides of the city.
Although doing so would destroy farmland, it was better than flooding the entire city.
“!!!!!!”
The stunned soldiers were still thinking that if they had such a great ability to change the world, it wouldn't take years to build a city wall.
Little did they know,
This earth wall was built by Qin Mo with the help of the power of the Earth Spirit Pearl and the activation of magic. It will only last for half a day at most before collapsing.
It's nothing like a real city wall that can last for more than a hundred years.
Under Qin Mo's control, the raging flood began to flow to both sides, barely avoiding Zhenjiang County and continuing to flow downstream.
"The Immortal, the Immortal has appeared!"
Seeing that Qin Mo had subdued the raging flood in the blink of an eye, the people in the city all knelt on the ground, bowed down in worship, and cried for joy.
Qin Mo stood in the air with his hands behind his back, looking like an immortal.
But I was secretly feeling bitter in my heart.
Even though what he did just now seemed light and effortless, casting a spell over such a large area actually consumed a lot of mana. In a flash, more than half of the mana in his dantian was consumed.
One negligence may lead to failure.
After saving the people of Zhenjiang, Qin Mo flew to Jinshan Temple on his sword to see if the situation was really as he expected.
Yan Chixia followed Qin Mo's previous instructions and landed in the city. As soon as he raised the banner of Qin Mo's apprentice, the surrounding people swarmed up to him, expressing their gratitude.
"Sure, sure."
Yan Chixia had a smile on his face and was extremely happy in his heart.
As expected.
Because Jinshan Temple was nearby, the people of Zhenjiang, who were very knowledgeable about the market, first invited Yan Chixia to the most luxurious restaurant in the city and ordered a table full of wine and food to express their gratitude.
Good wine, good meat and good girls serve you.
Over there, the gentry and officials were already collecting money as a thank-you gift to the immortal.
The very best way.
…
Qin Mo didn't care about his disciple's carefree life in the city. In a blink of an eye, Jinshan Temple was already in sight.
But on the top of a not-too-high mountain, there stood a temple with an ancient shape. It looked very ordinary and not particularly magnificent.
Qin Mo nodded secretly. At least from the appearance, this was a place for spiritual practice.
There were huge waves at the foot of the mountain.
The flood has already overflowed halfway up the mountain, and it is estimated that in a short while, it will flood into Jinshan Temple.
There were still lightning and thunder overhead, and heavy rain was pouring down.
On the vast ocean, a woman in white, holding a sword and riding a fanged green snake over a hundred meters long, was fighting with an old monk with a white beard and a red cassock.
Needless to say,
It was Bai Suzhen, Xiaoqing, and Fahai.
In Jinshan Temple, there are hundreds of monsters of various shapes and sizes, holding all kinds of strange weapons, fighting with the monks of Jinshan Temple. They should be the subordinates of the White and Green Snakes.
The two big monsters are both at the monster king level, and I’m afraid that all the monsters around them are under their control.
"It really is the water that flooded Jinshan Mountain." Qin Mo muttered to himself.
The old monk Baiyun sent the golden Buddha originally to use it to deal with the two snake monsters. Because he was delayed on the road for some time, when Qin Mo arrived, the fight between the two sides had already begun.
Watch intently.
But Fahai was in the middle stage of the Spiritual Transformation Realm, comparable to Taoist Master Daoxuan of Qingyun Sect; but the white snake was already in the late stage of the Spiritual Transformation Realm, comparable to the beast god that ravaged Middle-earth.
The green snake under him is also a big demon in the Nascent Soul stage.
Fahai was outnumbered, clearly at a disadvantage.
This can be seen from the fact that Bai Suzhen was able to continue casting spells to bring rain during the intervals between her fight with Fahai.
Qin Mo didn't care about his position for now and just stopped the rainstorm.
If the heavy rain was allowed to continue, the earth wall he had just built with magic might not be able to last long, and would eventually lead to a human tragedy.
The Thunder Spirit Pearl and the Wind Spirit Pearl appeared at the same time, and under his control, they flew towards the dark clouds in the sky.
"Certainly!"
Qin Mo made some hand gestures and performed the ritual again.
It's amazing to say, under Qin Mo's control, with the help of the magic of the spirit beads, the Wind Spirit Bead stopped the wind and rain in the sky, and the Thunder Spirit Bead dispersed the surrounding thunder and lightning.
In this way, the heavy rain will naturally stop.
In the blink of an eye.
The dark and thick clouds just now dissipated at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The heavy rain stopped.
When the clouds completely dispersed and the sun shone again, a dazzling rainbow appeared on the horizon.
Just then,
Two pairs of eyes turned to Qin Mo at the same time...
