Chapter 7: A View of the Nine Temples

In the blink of an eye, half a month passed and the days became peaceful.

Apart from practicing on weekdays, he would go out to perform rituals. The number of corpses dropped to five.

In the backyard of the mansion, there are three acres of spiritual fields.

All three pavilions are used to place coffins.

In the early morning, the first ray of golden light penetrates the thick fog, dispelling the coldness of the earth and evaporating the dew.

The Golden Altar Formation lost its light the moment the sunlight appeared, and the strange runes outlined by the gold and copper wires disappeared.

Xu Yang was in the central pavilion, sitting cross-legged, practicing the Heche Health Preservation Secret Records. His bardo body was close to the negative essence, which had a multiplier effect and was suitable for practicing at night.

On the right was a bowl of black soup, steaming.

This is the tonic that the little ghost made for him using the kitchen utensils controlled by his mind.

Gululu...

The big black jar rolled over, with its head poking out. The little ghost said cautiously, "Master, wake up! Someone is delivering a body! An ownerless body on the official road!"

The little ghost was subconsciously afraid of Xu Yang. It felt that the new master was starting to become like the old master, and had become a little eerie and scary.

Xu Yang woke up slowly, and without answering, he picked up the bowl and drank the tonic in one gulp.

This is Bazhen Soup, a tonic for replenishing qi and blood left by Changming, which contains herbs such as ginseng, angelica, and atractylodes.

"Let them leave it in the yard. According to the old rules, a complete body costs twenty cents, and a mutilated body costs five cents."

Xu Yang threw out a string of copper coins, which floated steadily in front of the little ghost in the altar.

Dealing with unidentified corpses is also the job of the charity cemetery. It can be used to practice corpse-driving and gain some experience on weekdays. The price given to others should not be too high, otherwise there is a risk of instigating corpse theft.

"okay!!"

The kid retracted his head and rolled back to the front yard.

Xu Yang stood up, picked up the corpse-driving bell, and poured true Qi into it.

Jingle Bell……

boom! !

The lid of the coffin was opened, and a corpse with a pale face and drooping arms slowly walked out.

"right!!"

The body turns right!

"Left!"

The body turned left.

The walking corpse is trained.

"fall!"

Put the body into storage and close the coffin again.

"The yin and yang are warmed and the walking corpse is refined." Xu Yang was quite satisfied.

The next step is to use cinnabar, blood ink, and herbs to mash into juice, wipe the zombie's body with it, and then stick a corpse-suppressing talisman on it, and slowly refine it into a zombie.

This is corpse raising.

If we raise a zombie that is invulnerable to swords and guns and moves very fast, the charity cemetery will be much safer.

The more zombies there are, the safer you are. This is the Taoist military method.

After a while, the little ghost rolled over again.

"Master, there is an old man with a white beard who wants to see you! He says he is a medicine customer."

"Oh? I'll go there now." Xu Yang raised his eyebrows, waved his long sleeves, and put the sundries into the Qiankun bag.

In the front yard, an old man and a young man were waiting.

The old man had a chest-length goatee and skin like mountain topaz, emitting a golden glow; the boy was as strong as an ox.

Xu Yang walked over quickly.

"Master Xu, do you still remember me? I am Taoist Xuanying from the Pharmacy of Qingshan Township." Taoist Xuanying smiled brightly, secretly surprised in his heart. His forehead was full and his eyes were shining. This boy had good Taoism skills and had a good chance of breaking through the true Qi.

"Master Xuanying, long time no see!"

Taoist Master Xuanying was also a naturalized Taoist priest. He was good at collecting herbs and stones, and he opened a grocery store.

"Alas, I am deeply sorry for Changming's death. How could our old friend of several decades be gone just like that, Tenglong!" Xuanying gestured to the boy.

The boy took out the silver wrapped in white paper.

"Master, you are too polite. I would like to thank you on behalf of my master." Xu Yang took the silver and smiled secretly in his heart. Chang Ming really left him a lot of inheritance.

"Are the materials the same as before?" Taoist Xuanying got to the point.

"Well, conditions are not good recently, so I need less. Cinnabar, white paper made of grass, fox blood ink, one foot of gold thread, ginseng, white atractylodes, angelica... You can choose the combination, less than 40 taels will be enough."

After buying the materials, Xu Yang only had two taels of silver left. He calculated that if he spent frugally, it would probably last him two months.

"It seems that I have to perform rituals more frequently during this period." Xu Yang thought to himself. Now is not the time to reap the three powerful families. After dealing with the Ren family, the other two are not worth mentioning.

The transaction was completed, Xuanying put away the silver and handed over a yellow talisman.

"If necessary, just burn the yellow talisman and the disciple Yaoke will bring the materials." Xuanying said that he would come in person because he thought Xu Yang might not understand much, so he brought his disciples with him.

"it is good."

The two exchanged a few pleasantries and were about to say goodbye and leave.

boom! !

Suddenly, a loud noise was heard not far away.

Looking towards the source of the sound, I saw a red cloud of fire on the horizon, flames falling like rain, and a ten-foot-tall locust tree was burning with flames.

There was a huge translucent human figure at the top of the tree canopy, three feet tall, wearing a robe with star and ghost patterns, with a dark green complexion and a face that looked as if it was painted green. At this moment, it was surrounded by flames and poisonous smoke, and was howling in pain.

The fireworks scattered to other places, emitting incredible heat and burning countless villagers to death.

Further away in the sky is a strange bird with three heads and six tails. It looks like a crow, with a flame on the tip of its tail. One of its three heads spits fire, one spits smoke, and one blows wind.

Within the tree canopy, more than a dozen ghosts kept rushing forward, trying to save the phantom that was burned by flames with their lives, but unfortunately everything was in vain.

The distant Daluo Township and surrounding villages were hit by a catastrophe.

Seeing the miserable state of the ten-foot locust tree, Xuanying couldn't help but exclaimed: "Locust Master? He can't beat the monster bird?"

Huai Gong is a locust tree demon who became a spirit. He is also a naturalized Taoist priest. He is very famous in the surrounding area. Some time ago, it was heard that Huai Gong was about to be promoted to a Taoist priest, but he was killed so easily.

Seeing this scene, Xu Yang wanted to pack up and run away.

Taoist Xuanying swallowed his saliva, turned around and said, "Master Xu, please run with us. We can't earn this merit."

"That's exactly what I want!" Xu Yang turned around and prepared to go back to pack his things.

Whoohoo! !

A yellow wind suddenly rose.

It was indeed the yellow wind, which cut through the blue sky like a colorful ribbon. Above it was an old Taoist holding a whisk. On the other side, there was mist and a strange man with a black fish head was coming on the clouds.

Taoist Huangfeng and Black Fish joined forces to fight the strange bird. The two sides fought into the deep mountains and disappeared from everyone's sight.

"Huh, no need to run. The people from Huangya Temple and General Heiyu have taken action." Taoist Xuanying breathed a sigh of relief.

"Huangyaguan?"

Xuanying raised his eyebrows and said in surprise, "Master, don't you know? The twenty-five villages in our Quhuang County are governed by one temple and nine temples. The temple is the Huangya Temple, which is in charge of the county's sacrifices. The temple master is a foundation-building master, an eighth-rank Taoist priest. The temple governs the county, and the temples are in the countryside. Yizhuang and my medicine shop are two of the nine temples."

"So that's the case, no wonder..."

No wonder the Fire King was willing to divide the mountains, rivers and earth energy. There were also many dangers among the people. Even an old strong man like Huai Gong was defeated in the end.

Xu Yang was fully aware of the dangers of this world. As Yi Zhuang was one of the Nine Temples, there were probably many people secretly watching and looking for an opportunity to take a bite.

"Hehe, Master Huai's disciples were not on good terms to begin with, so now we're going to have something interesting to watch." Taoist Xuanying gloated, "Master Xu, I'll go back first."

"Walk slowly."

Xuanying went out and kindly reminded him before leaving: "Master, please be careful. You haven't been naturalized yet, and many eyes are watching you."

Xu Yang smiled mysteriously and said indifferently: "Haha, Taoist priest, don't worry. Master left a lot of good things before he left. I want to see how they do it."

"Zombies? You Taoist soldiers and magicians do have a lot of helpers. I am not worried anymore. Goodbye!"

Taoist Xuanying left calmly.

After the two left, Xu Yang put away his smile.

How could he not be on guard in this strange world? Perhaps Xuanying was here to test him, so he just happened to use Xuanying's mouth to throw a smoke bomb.

Sure enough, in the following month, Xu Yang kept a low profile and no one came to disturb him.

(End of this chapter)