Cross the river pawn

The Black Night Mountain is worthy of its name. The invisible yin energy permeates the mountain, and then turns into dark clouds. The sky is dark from morning to night. If you enter it rashly, you will feel groggy and physically weak.

If you stay in a place where evil or yin qi is concentrated for a long time, people will be easily affected by it. At the slightest, the spiritual platform will be stained and all kinds of hallucinations will occur. Decay, loss of longevity.

As the name suggests, "Separating the Yin Halberd" is used to divert these yin or evil spirits, like a flood discharge.

After receiving the order, the alchemists took out the special pockets for storing the stone powder from the saddle bags, and then took the bag to the mountain pass, and drew a huge "Fen Yin Ji" nearly one hundred feet long and ten feet wide with the stone powder. ", which is nearly a hundred times larger than the ordinary "Fen Yin Halberd", and only a "Fen Yin Halberd" of this scale can divert the Yin Qi in a mountain.

As for sending warriors to block the earth's qi, it is also for the service of "dividing the yin halberd".If you don’t block the earth’s qi and make it become stagnant water, but let it flow continuously and have “living water” poured in, it will become a classic question in the Vientiane Taoist Palace. Full or dry?
The warriors were extremely powerful and full of physical strength, ten of them could be worth more than a hundred civilians, and with the assistance of gunpowder, they quickly blocked and destroyed several key nodes according to Lingquanzi's instructions, forming a trend of closing the door and beating dogs.

The qi refiners occupying the commanding heights sent out signals with talismans.

Lingquanzi, who was guarding the mountain pass, stretched out his sleeves, raised his middle fingers, and drew in the sky. A thin red line gushed out from his fingertips, like ink marks on a pen. As the fingertips turned up and down, in a blink of an eye, a line similar to The pattern book of the long halberd is suspended in the air like this, sprinkled with clear brilliance, overflowing with aura.

Then he waved his hand again, using two fingers together as sword fingers, pointed towards the halberd pattern, and said "go".

Ordinary alchemists still use the powder of the stone to draw, but Lingquanzi's cultivation level is higher, and he can draw amulets in the void without using external objects such as powder of the stone, and he can also draw the "yin halberd".

In an instant, Lingquanzi's "Fen Yin Halberd" merged with the huge "Fen Yin Halberd" on the ground, like the finishing touch.

The "Fen Yin Halberd" is called a halberd, but it is actually more like a simple arrow. At this moment, it is actually glowing faintly.Immediately after that, the wind blows on the flat ground. This wind is not the spring breeze of peaches and plums, nor the scorching summer wind, nor the bleak autumn wind, nor the harsh north wind, but a cloudy wind. There are bursts of angry howls in the wind. The direction it points to rushes out of the mountain, like a river that cannot be seen by the naked eye.

After going on like this for more than half an hour, the yin energy in the mountain was exhausted, and the Heiye Mountain, which seemed to be shrouded in a thin layer of mist, was cleared up, as if the clouds were shining.

Seeing that the Taoist priests of Tiangang Hall "purified" the place in an orderly manner, Arthur couldn't help saying to Qi Xuansu beside him in his half-familiar Central Plains Mandarin: "Qi, you are very good."

It was actually the first time Qi Xuansu saw him, but he said: "This is what we do, can it be okay?"

While talking, Zhang Yuelu, who was standing on a big tree, floated down and ordered: "Master Lingquan, Deacon Qi, and Bishop Arthur, follow me into the mountain, and the rest follow Deacon Zhou's command. Don't let one go."

Everyone took the order, and the person whose name was called by Zhang Yuelu followed Zhang Yuelu and walked up the mountain.

When Shangguan Dun heard that he didn't have his name, he hurried to Zhou Bai's side. In the past few days, Shangguan Dun had become familiar with several deacons.

Among the few people who entered the mountain, Qi Xuansu was undoubtedly the weakest in cultivation, but he was also the best in the Kunlun stage. They walked on the rugged mountain road as if walking on flat ground, and soon came to the gate of Cimut Fort .

As Ellie said, this is indeed an abandoned castle. Part of the city walls have collapsed, and all the wooden structures have been destroyed. Only the basic masonry structures remain, but the gates of the castle are still well preserved, tight closure.

Zhang Yuelu stretched out his hand and pressed on the huge city gate which was two feet high, only to hear a "rustling, rustling" sound, like spring eating mulberry leaves, and the two giant gates turned into pieces of fine sand, which went away with the wind, and there was no one there. One thing stays.

This is exactly the "Six Void Tribulations" that Zhang Yuelu used to defeat Xu Kou with one move. It is the top supernatural power of Qi refiners, and the threshold is extremely high. It can be controlled in the realm of manifesting babies.

This is where the Banished Immortal is unreasonable. Otherwise, the Taoist sect would not deliberately copy the Banished Immortal, and would not hesitate to toss out a scattered person who is completely different.

Arthur has a Sumeru, they call this "space bag", in short, it is a similar thing, I saw Arthur took out a two-handed giant sword from it, and entered the castle first.

Lingquanzi followed closely behind, and took out two talismans at the same time, making them hang around his body and slowly turning around him.

Zhang Yuelu took out his "Dragon Handgun" and a bag of bullets, and handed it to Qi Xuansu: "I don't need this thing, you take it for self-defense."

Qi Xuansu took over the "Shenlong Hand Gun", put the projectiles into his satchel, and for the first time did not thank him, but said: "I made a note of it."

Zhang Yuelu then walked into the castle.

Qi Xuansu hung up the "Shenlong Handgun" and "Blue Bird Handgun" on the left and right, and tightened his dagger tightly, and was the last one to enter the castle.

The light inside the castle was very dim. There were twelve columns arranged vertically in the entrance hall, but half of them had collapsed, making the place crumbling.Lingquanzi waved his hand, and many wall lamps lit up again.

Arthur was very experienced and quickly explored the entire castle hall, and found some human bones, some of which were old, and some were newly dead, which undoubtedly confirmed Ellie's speculation from the side.

After Zhang Yuelu came in, his gaze immediately fell on a tattered tapestry with a strange symbol painted on it.

This is a popular decoration in the Western Regions, also known as a tapestry, woven with wool, while the Central Plains prefer to use screens.

Qi Xuansu followed Zhang Yuelu's gaze and couldn't help asking: "What is this?"

Zhang Yuelu said: "That's... the mark of the ancient immortals."

So far, the war between the Daomen and the ancient immortals has lasted for more than two hundred years. The Daomen once had the opportunity to completely end this war, but they failed because of the intervention of the Buddhism. This directly led to a series of wars between the Daomen and the Buddhism in the Western Regions. It wasn't until the head-on confrontation between Xuansheng and Lord Buddha that it came to an end.

This also led to the so-called "post-Three Religions Era".

The so-called "Era of the Three Religions" refers to the era when Confucianism dominated the world. At that time, Taoism and Buddhism joined forces to fight against Confucianism and finally defeated Confucianism.After Taoism replaced Confucianism as the orthodox world, it made Confucianism and Buddhism its vassals.In the past, it was Confucianism that led the way to promote the integration of the three religions.Now it is dominated by Taoism and continues to promote the integration of the three religions.

At a certain stage, the Taoist sect has become the de facto leader of the three religions. The three high priests of the Confucian sect's Confucianism, Xinxue, and Qi studies have chosen to be loyal to Xuansheng, which is equivalent to the deputy head of the Taoist sect.

The "post-Three Religions Era" turned into Buddhism challenging the dominant position of Taoism. Taoism teamed up with Confucianism to suppress Buddhism. In the end, under pressure, Buddhism had to truce with Taoism and recognize Taoism as the leader of the three religions.

However, Buddhism still disagrees with Taoism on many things, and there are constant frictions.Especially in the matter of the ancient immortals, the Buddhist sect supports the Taoist sects to eliminate the secret associations on the surface, but secretly supports the ancient immortals to contain the Taoist sects.

The ancient immortals developed believers in the form of secret associations, which made the Taoist sect spend a lot of energy every year to eliminate all kinds of secret associations.

Qi Xuansu asked: "There are traces of ancient immortals here, which means that this place is a stronghold of a secret association, that is to say, the reason why those criminals collect living souls is because they want to please ancient immortals with this, and then get Gu Xian's help?"

"It can be understood in this way." Zhang Yuelu nodded.

Qi Xuansu finally couldn't help asking: "Who is Gu Xian?"

Zhang Yuelu hesitated for a moment, then said: "In the context of Taoism, 'ancient immortal' is not a compliment, but similar to 'evil gods' and 'devil heads', they are powerful existences that Taoism must eradicate. The reason for the name They are called 'immortals' because the methods they use are not sorcerers...even some existences are the patriarchs of Taoism."

Qi Xuansu was taken aback, and lowered his voice subconsciously: "Patriarch of Taoism!?"

Zhang Yuelu continued: "There is a saying, 'A righteous person uses evil methods, and evil methods are also righteous; evil people use righteous methods, and righteous methods are also evil. It is the existence of 'evil people use the law'."

Qi Xuansu asked again: "Why did the ancient immortal betray the Taoist sect?"

Zhang Yuelu did not answer directly, but asked instead: "Flying swords are more powerful than firecrackers, and many powerful spells are far more powerful than cannons, but why do the Taoist sect and the imperial court vigorously develop firearms? The Talisman Sect is divided into courts? Have you considered this issue?"

Qi Xuansu was taken aback.

Zhang Yuelu obviously knew the secrets of many Taoist sects that ordinary Taoists could not touch, and said softly: "If one day, all the magical powers in the world disappear, then where should we go?"

Qi Xuansu frowned: "What does this have to do with Gu Xian?"

Zhang Yuelu sighed, and said: "Of course it's related, it's just that the Taoist sect has regulations. This is not something you can know now, so I can't tell you directly. When you become a third-rank Youyi Taoist priest, or become the deputy palace master or deputy hall master. , will naturally understand."

Only then did Qi Xuansu understand that the reason why Zhang Yuelu knew about the secret was not because of his status as a fourth-grade wine priest, but because of his status as the deputy hall master, so Lingquanzi, Sun Yongfeng and others also didn't know about it.