eurekapd Chapter 176 The City God Appears
Chapter 176 The City God Appears
The corpses were shattered by the sword energy, and the flesh became loose and rotten in the process of decay. After being broken into pieces, dark black liquid like sticky mud immediately flowed out.
Some dead meat even had countless maggots, flies and small insects crawling around. As the pieces of meat fell off, they would crawl onto the remaining pieces of meat and rotten tissue, making disgusting squeaking and buzzing sounds.
Lu Wensheng: So disgusting! Fortunately I wasn’t touched!
The corpse ghosts made a hoarse sound, and Zhou Yuan took the opportunity to hide in the group of corpse ghosts to protect himself. He looked at the flute in his hand and gritted his teeth - damn it, the sound of the flute was broken! The influence was gone!
Liu Jiqian walked slowly to Lu Wensheng with his sword in hand. If Lu Wensheng had not felt his chaotic spiritual energy when he was close to him, just looking at his calm expression, he would have thought that he was not affected by the flute sound like himself.
With the corpse ghost in front of him, Zhou Yuan calmed down a lot and snorted coldly at Liu Jiqian.
"Master Xuan Du? Long time no see."
Master Xuandu? Lu Wensheng looked at Liu Jiqian in surprise. Is this Liu Jiqian? Are there so many names for him?
Liu Jiqian tilted his head slightly, as if thinking: "Long time no see? Have we met before?"
Zhou Yuan was choked: "...you are really used to being high and mighty, noble people tend to forget things - you broke free quickly, and you are worthy of those people's evaluation of you, but even you can't change anything."
Wei Xun raised his sword and stood shoulder to shoulder with Lu Wensheng and the others: "Who said it was only Liu Jiqian's?"
Xun Ruo chuckled: "Have you forgotten about us?"
The disciples of Lingxiao Sect drew their swords, the disciples of Discipline Hall stood shoulder to shoulder with them, the music cultivators of Piaomiao Valley stroked the strings, and the disciples of Medical Valley and Xuanyi Pavilion took out their own magic tools and talismans.
Yan Qingshu shook the pill: "Now, it's our turn to fight back——"
Zhou Yuan sighed, feeling that the situation was a bit tricky... However, their purpose this time was not to deal with these righteous monks - Zhou Yuan curled his lips and blew the nine-section flute. Although it took a little effort with one hand, it was still effective.
Even though there were many people, this place was sealed off by formations, isolating the demonic energy, and everyone's spiritual power was limited. In addition, these corpses were consumables, so everyone gradually felt powerless - they couldn't possibly use up all of their spiritual power, as that would make them no different from lambs to be slaughtered.
The people in Piaomiao Valley were playing music to offset Zhou Yuan's flute sounds, while others were fighting against the corpse ghosts. There were so many corpse ghosts that it seemed there was no end... This was not a solution.
Some corpse ghosts pushed past the monks and tried to climb up the mountain, but were knocked back by an invisible barrier. At the moment of contact, everyone who approached saw golden lines that looked like water waves.
There is a barrier on this mountain?! Everyone was surprised for a moment, but then they felt relieved and ran back without worrying about the unstoppable corpse ghosts.
Lu Wensheng felt that the pressure on his side was much less, and he didn't know if it was an illusion...
He turned his head and saw many corpse ghosts crashing into the barrier. After screaming, their bodies piled up there. He frowned and felt something was wrong. Were these corpse ghosts controlled by Zhou Yuan? Shouldn't he let the corpse ghosts deal with them? Why...
Lu Wensheng had a vague guess in his mind in a flash... No way? !
“Stop these zombies and don’t let them hit the barrier!” Liu Jiqian’s voice transmission spread almost at the same time. Lu Wensheng looked at him and knew that Liu Jiqian had also thought of it - Zhou Yuan’s goal was still to go up the mountain!
As the corpses of the ghouls piled up more and more on the barrier, the golden patterns on the barrier that lit up when they sensed the ghouls appeared more and more frequently. At the same time, a "hissing" sound similar to a short circuit was made - the barrier could not hold on any longer!
The disciples led by Lu Wensheng called on everyone to go back to protect the barrier, but they didn't expect that many disciples were separated by the corpses and ghosts, and it was too late to go back.
Zhou Yuan smiled triumphantly - after this was accomplished, none of these disciples from famous and righteous sects would be able to escape!
Shi Yubai's eyes flashed slightly, and he pretended to kill the zombies, but from time to time he missed some and ran to the barrier.
"Boom boom boom——"
Suddenly, dull sounds of bells and drums came from the mountain, like splashing sparks, sprinkling all over the mountains and fields, overlapping and circling from the sky to below, like the sound of gold and jade.
It came from the bell and drum tower in the City God Temple. In addition to the melodious bell sounds, there was also the sound of recitation.
The corpse ghosts suddenly became restless. These rotten bodies without souls were trembling. The sounds of their mocking voices gradually became smaller, as if they were soothed by an invisible thing. The sound of Zhou Yuan's flute was also drowned out by the continuous ringing of bells.
Everyone was stunned, even Zhou Yuan was surprised.
At the top of the mountain, there were groups of people standing, with long incense burning in their hands. They came down in an orderly manner, reciting a phrase before going down a step with solemn expressions. The surface of the mountain was suddenly filled with mist.
At the end of the stairs, Taoist Qingxuan changed into a purple robe with a front opening that reached his calves, sleeveless, and with sleeves that were as long as his body. On it were embroidered with gold and silver threads, such as the Yu Luo Xiao Terrace, the sun, the moon, the stars, the eight trigrams, the pagoda, the dragon, the phoenix, and the crane...
He held a peach wood sword in his hand, wore cloud shoes on his feet, stepped on the Gangbudou [tà gāng bu dou] steps, and chanted mantras.
The puppet city, which was wrapped in evil spirits, had not seen the bright sun for a long time. At this moment, beams of light broke through the clouds amid the smoke.
The setting sun melted gold, the evening clouds merged into one, the green mountain was shrouded in mist and smoke, and the people were already standing on the mountainside, holding incense sticks and worshiping the mountain. The golden sunlight sprinkled down, as if it could drive away all the evil spirits.
Watching the sunlight pouring down, Zhou Yuan subconsciously took a few steps back to avoid the light. After coming to his senses, he became a little annoyed - he was actually fooled by a mortal's tricks!
Most of the people in Puppet City were reduced to sacrifices, and their bodies were refined into corpses and ghosts to be driven by people. There were so many of them that Zhou Yuan exerted his strength to drive all the corpses and ghosts over. They were so dense that they looked like a continuous sea. Even Lu Wensheng and his men could not withstand them and could only retreat to the vicinity of the barrier.
"Don't laugh at my small temple and small gods. Try to disrespect heaven and earth! Don't rely on your great power and influence to do evil. I'll show you what you have done!"
Suddenly, a roar of anger came from the temple on the top of the mountain. It seemed to carry an aftermath, and it sounded real enough to make people feel excited all over.
I saw a golden light coming out from the City God Temple and transformed into a middle-aged man with a fluorescent body standing in the air. His facial features were regular and his eyes were kind. He wore an official hat and official uniform and held a command flag in his hand. He looked majestic and compassionate.
Lu Wensheng felt that it looked familiar and thought of the statue of the City God he had seen before. He was immediately dumbfounded.
"Is this Pang Yun City God?!" No, are you serious? !
Looking up at "Pang Yun", a hint of shock and confusion flashed across Liu Jiqian's eyes.
(Xuandu, pinyin: xuán du. Refers to the moon. Mysterious legal theory, refers to Buddhism. Name of Xu Xun, a famous scholar of Eastern Jin Dynasty. Refers to the famous scholar of the Qingliu that he admires. Noble mind.
In the Han Dynasty Liu Xiang's "Biographies of Immortals: Praise of Guan Ling Yin", there is a record that "Yin Xi held the pass, with virtue in mind, scooped up the sun's rays, and looked up at the mysterious degree". The mysterious degree here not only means wonderful law, but also directly refers to the moon, symbolizing a tolerant and peaceful state of mind.)
(In Taoist theology, Yuluo Xiaotai refers to the center of the universe. In Taoism, only the high-level priests (i.e. the main priests who step on the Gangbudou in the center of the ceremony) in the Taoist temples can wear the robes embroidered with Yuluo Xiaotai.
The yuluoxiaotai in the vestments is usually embroidered with circular symbols representing the 28 heavens (28 constellations), with three circular symbols supported by auspicious clouds on the top representing the Three Pure Heavens, with the sun and the moon on the left and right representing yin and yang, and the five mountains around it representing the mountains and rivers of the world. Sometimes it is also accompanied by Taoist symbols such as dragon patterns, cranes, the Eight Immortals, and the Eight Diagrams, making the whole vestment more full, so as to achieve the effect of promoting the Taoist cosmic structure diagram.
(Stepping on the Gang and Dou is the step that Taoist priests take when praying to heaven or performing rituals. It means that they are stepping on the Gang and Dou constellations in the heavenly palace.
Bugang, the full name of which is stepping on the Gang and Dou, is also called Bu Tian Gang.
(There is an explanation for why the "City God" only showed up now. It will be explained later. It is not that he was indifferent and did not want to save the people when the demon cultivators came before.)