Chapter 293: Wearing a Tight Headband

Zhou Yi traveled south without a specific date and route.

Passing by mountains and rivers, he would rest for a few days if he saw a place that pleased him, regardless of whether it was famous or not.

Passing by cities, he would taste special food, look for local famous wines, and occasionally perform some magic, leaving behind some fairy tales.

When passing by Taocheng, Hongzhou, the local peach blossom wine was extremely famous, and Zhou Yi encountered a wonderful thing.

Gui Lingzi, a master of the side door, was short of money to buy wine, so he set up a stall on the street to cheat for wine.

After showing his magic, Gui Lingzi bought a wine pot casually, saying that whoever could fill the wine pot would be taught the magic of driving gods from ghosts.

The people of Taocheng took out fine wine to fill the wine pot, but hundreds and thousands of jars were still not full, which made the magic more magical.

Zhou Yi found it interesting when he passed by, so he took out a pot of monkey wine and poured it in, and the five ghosts in the pot were immediately drunk.

The five ghosts' moving method failed, the wine pot overflowed, and Gui Lingzi was dumbfounded.

After carefully examining the Taoist who was leading the cow, Gui Lingzi recognized Zhou Yi's identity and reluctantly took out a volume of the Five Ghosts Moving Method. .

There is no deep hatred between the masters, and they usually talk about reason.

Zhou Yi looked through the classics and learned that the Five Ghosts Sect had a long history and was actually related to the last century. At the end of the ghost clan's rule over the world, the founder of the Five Ghosts Sect created a method to exorcise and control ghosts, which has been passed down to this day.

After that, he and Gui Lingzi discussed Taoism in Taocheng for more than ten days, drank thousands of jars of wine, and then said goodbye to each other.

After being free and easy for a while, Zhou Yi's slight irritability in his heart also dissipated.

Along the way, he met many masters in the realm of refining spirits. Today, they drank and sang in the mountains, and tomorrow they rowed boats in the vast sea to fish.

Traveling in the mortal world and living in the world is the real freedom.

After comparison, Zhou Yi found that the life of the real immortals was worse than that of dogs. They were all worried about their own leisure and found themselves tired.

After more than a month, it was only a hundred miles away from Tongcheng, and the barren mountain that suppressed Hou Yuan was just outside the city.

Zhou Yi leaned on the back of the ox to practice magic, and five ferocious ghosts flew at his fingertips, disappearing and appearing from time to time, fetching mountain springs and wild fruits from dozens of miles away.

It was the Five Ghosts Moving Method. After practicing, Zhou Yi found that this method was quite mysterious.

The five ghosts corresponded to the five elements. Except for some forbidden areas outside the five elements, any treasure could be moved. It can be said to be a superior magical power of taking things from a distance.

In addition, the Disha Tongyou, which Zhou Yi regarded as a chicken rib, turned out to be effective in controlling ghosts.

In just half a month, Zhou Yi practiced the Five Ghosts Moving Method to perfection.

"It's a pity that there are really not many treasures in this world that are worth taking!"

"I have empty hands, but there is no treasure in the world that can catch my eye,"

Moo!

The divine ox whistled softly, and the cavalry team galloping on the official road stopped their horses urgently and made way.

The leading general stopped the commotion and bowed to the Taoist priest.

Zhou Yi bowed in return and asked, "General, are you going to lead the army to the south to attack the demon country of Qingqiu?"

The general said, "What the Taoist priest said is right. Under the order of the general, we will be the vanguard of the western army."

Zhou Yi asked again, "Who is the current Grand Commander of Tongcheng? How about the Pei family?"

The general looked at Zhou Yi deeply and said, "The current Grand Commander is Shen Chongshan, who has been in office for less than half a month. As for General Pei's family..."

"It is as written in the history books. Emperor Li was cruel and killed all the nine clans of loyal ministers and good generals!"

"Interesting!"

Zhou Yi raised his eyebrows. He never thought that a mere general would dare to call the Grand Commander by name and comment on the late emperor in this way.

Before his death, Jingtai was really confused. He ordered Eunuch Chu to burn Wenyuan Pavilion and burn the Jingtai Chronicle written by the former Grand Historian Lu and the former Grand Historian Wu with great effort and brains.

In this way, new history books can be written casually...

Emperor Li thus became the real Emperor Li. In a few hundred years, the tyrant Jingtai may be used as a negative example by great Confucian scholars!

Zhou Yi's eyes flashed with intelligence, and he saw the general's head was filled with red mist, and there was a faint sound of killing.

"Are you very dissatisfied with Shen Chongshan?"

"Who doesn't know that General Shen once knelt down to Prime Minister Pang and recognized him as his adoptive father,"

The general said coldly: "Except for some flatterers in the army, no one obeys him. Since the establishment of the country, no general has ever knelt down to a civil official!"

Zhou Yi frowned slightly. Not only did he change the commander in the battle, but he also changed Shen Chongshan, who no one believed in.

After Yan Gao's death, Pang Ji was promoted to the chief assistant and took charge of the cabinet.

After the Wushengshan case, Pang Ji had completely become the emperor's mouthpiece, so Shen Chongshan was Emperor Hongde's man!

Zhou Yi shook his head, put aside the distracting thoughts in his mind, and asked: "Do you recognize me?"

This general is quite lucky. After some experience on the battlefield, he may become a general commanding an army. He is definitely not an idiot who speaks nonsense.

"Junior Xiong Ming, I pay my respects to Master Zhou!"

Xiong Ming dismounted and bowed, saying, "Senior, you became a master of refining spirits as a refugee. I have always regarded you as a role model."

Zhou Yi counted with his fingers and asked, "What is your relationship with Pei Heihu?"

Xiong Ming said, "I dare not hide it. I am the son-in-law of Governor Pei. Everyone in Tongcheng knows it."

Zhou Yi asked in confusion, "How did you survive when the Pei family was executed?"

Xiong Ming looked a little embarrassed and said, "I gave all my family wealth to Governor Shen. Only after Prime Minister Pang said hello did my family survive."

"Interesting!"

Zhou Yi laughed and said, "If you don't want to follow Shen Chongshan and go to southern Xinjiang, you can tell Li Xun and go to his command."

Xiong Ming was surprised and said, "Does Master recognize General Baisheng, Li Xun?"

Zhou Yi smiled and said, "It is indeed Li Xun, but I don't know if it is General Baisheng."

"Master, you don't know that Weiyuanbo of Tongcheng is General Li's distant uncle, and the two families are very close."

Xiong Ming explained: "Weiyuanbo often spreads General Li's achievements. Since he joined the army, he has never lost. Everyone in the Tongcheng army knows it."

"It should be one person..."

Zhou Yi said: "A few days ago, he led his troops to the southern border and was named the general of the demon-suppressing army. He has 100,000 soldiers under his command. You can go and join him."

"Thank you Master Zhou for your advice!"

Xiong Ming immediately mounted his horse, whistled, and hundreds of his riders continued to gallop southward.

Zhou Yi patted the head of the divine bull and taught him a lesson.

"You, you look honest, but you have also learned to cause trouble for me, the master!"

The southern expedition to Qingqiu is imminent, and many soldiers are encountered along the way. The divine bull has never blocked the road, but today it is acting like a master.

Moo!

The divine bull shook its head and tail, and the five-colored spiritual light under its feet shone, and its speed was more than a hundred times faster.

A few years ago

There was a battle between gods and demons outside Tongcheng, and the noise was shocking. Later, the story of gods and demons being sealed spread.

The barren mountain that sealed Hou Yuan was named, and there was a temple for sealing demons on the mountain.

The temple enshrines the gods who seal demons, and people often climb the mountain to worship.

Later, it was spread that the gods prefer fresh peaches. When people worshiped, they watched the peaches on the altar disappear and shouted for the gods to bless them.

Zhou Yi heard passers-by talk about the origin and mystery of Fengmo Mountain, and immediately knew that Hou Yuan must be behind the scenes.

Riding a cow to the foot of the barren mountain, he met an old woman who was climbing the mountain.

The old woman was in tattered clothes, carrying a basket of fresh peaches, and staggering with a cane. When she saw Zhou Yi riding a cow, she quickly made way.

Zhou Yi bowed and asked, "Old man, are you going up the mountain to worship?"

The old woman bowed and replied quickly, "Yes, my son was drafted into the army, and the family has no money to pay for the replacement of Dingyin, so I can only come to the mountain to pray for peace."

"What about the replacement of Dingyin?"

Zhou Yi had never heard of this all the way.

"I heard that the enemy of the court is demons and ghosts this time, and many people will die."

The old woman looked miserable and said, "The general can't recruit soldiers, so he arrests people everywhere. He will only let them go if they pay the replacement of Dingyin. If they don't pay, they will have to go to war!"

"We are just farmers who dig for food in the soil. It's a good year if we don't starve. How can we have money to redeem people!"

Zhou Yi was puzzled and said, "Tongcheng is a military stronghold of the court. Why do we need to recruit soldiers?"

To conquer the Demon Kingdom in the north, Emperor Jingtai was ready to mobilize 5 million troops. Now, to conquer Qingqiu in the south, Emperor Hongde's number of troops could not exceed this number in theory.

After all, the city-state system of the Demon Kingdom of Qingqiu is far inferior to that of the Demon Kingdom of Jizhou in terms of large-scale army operations.

The eight generals of Dagan and the soldiers of various states and counties can easily gather millions of soldiers. Moreover, the temporary recruits will hinder the expedition against the demon country.

The old woman shook her head and said, "The government said to recruit soldiers, but I don't know anything else."

Zhou Yi changed the subject and asked, "Are the gods on this mountain effective?"

"Of course they are, and the gods don't charge for incense money, they just want peaches."

The old woman saw that Zhou Yi had nothing in his hands, so she took out two peaches from the basket and said, "You are from another place, right? Take these peaches, and other gods won't work."

"Thank you, old man!"

Zhou Yi took the peaches, bowed and thanked him, and a ray of spiritual light fell into the old woman's body.

The spiritual light cleans the tendons and marrow, which can make the old woman healthy and live for more than ten years until her son returns victoriously.

Dagan went south to Qingqiu. The lower-level legions had a great advantage. The number of middle and high-level monks was overwhelming. Needless to say, the top-level martial saints could kill the Qingqiu fox fairy with one sword.

It was hard to lose this war, otherwise Li Long would not have agreed to Emperor Hongde's southern expedition!

Zhou Yi patted the divine cow and quickly ran to the top of the mountain.

The old woman looked at the Taoist's back, her turbid eyes gradually cleared, and she murmured to herself: "Where has this kid seemed to have been seen?"

...

The Demon Sealing Temple.

Standing on the top of the mountain, the stone gate, the small courtyard, the main hall, and the window edges were carved from a whole piece of bluestone.

This is also the strangeness of the temple. Otherwise, there would be no one to worship the nameless gods in the small temple on the barren mountain.

Zhou Yi ordered the divine cow to wait outside, pushed the door in, and saw a temple keeper dozing off.

The temple keeper wore a Taoist crown crookedly on his head, had a pointed face, a hunched body, and his arms hung to his knees. He took off the Taoist robe on his body and looked like a monkey.

The original appearance is indeed a monkey!

Zhou Yi said loudly: "The temple of the gods is actually a transformed demon. I really don't understand this world!"

Fengmo Mountain is only a dozen miles away from Tongcheng. There is a big demon in the temple on the mountain. The masters in the city must know it. Instead of subduing the demon, they let the people worship it.

If this matter is reported to the court, the leader of Tongcheng Demon Slaying Division will inevitably go to prison!

The monkey demon was shocked and bowed to Zhou Yi repeatedly, saying: "Little demon Monkey Nine, I practice the orthodox Xuanmen. I was once an outer disciple of Tianji Hall. My origin is innocent. Please spare my life!"

"If not, I would have killed you long ago!"

Zhou Yi's eyes flashed with spiritual light. The monkey demon's breath was pure, without blood and resentment, and it was not an evil demon.

This place is isolated from the crowd. Occasionally, people worship, and they will not be contaminated by demonic energy.

"Thank you, Immortal!"

Hou Jiu bowed repeatedly, and after carefully looking at Zhou Yi, his expression gradually became horrified, and then he turned his head to look at the gods enshrined in the temple.

He looked back and forth for a few times, and his voice was hesitant.

"You...are you the immortal?"

Zhou Yi looked up at the young Taoist enshrined in the temple, who looked 70% similar to him, and nodded and said: "Call Hou Yuan out!"

After hearing this, Hou Jiu confirmed Zhou Yi's identity and bowed even lower.

"My dear Immortal, our ancestor spends most of his time practicing in seclusion and only wakes up after a few days..."

boom!

Zhou Yi lightly stamped his foot, and the barren mountain shook, awakening Hou Yuan who was in seclusion to realize Taoism.

Hou Yuan's eyes flashed with light. When he saw Zhou Yi's figure, he immediately scratched his ears and cheeks excitedly, and said loudly: "Chief Immortal, you finally remembered me!"

Zhou Yi asked: "Now do you know that I was wrong?"

"I know, I know, I've figured it out!"

Hou Yuan quickly replied: "That guy Bai Lian is not a good Buddha, so you can't worship him. You are a good immortal, so you can worship him!"

"You monkey head is still lying. It seems that you have been deeply corrupted by the White Lotus Evil Buddha!"

Zhou Yi pointed to the lotus mark on Hou Yuan's forehead and said, "There are countless disciples of the White Lotus Evil Buddha. I have only seen three or two people who have cultivated the White Lotus mark."

Seeing Zhou Yi's empty hands, the old woman took out two peaches from the basket and said, "Are you from another place? Take these peaches and use other gods to prevent them from appearing."

"Thank you, old man!"

Zhou Yi took the peach and bowed to thank him. A ray of spiritual light fell into the old woman's body.

The aura cleansing the tendons and cutting the marrow can make the old woman healthy and live for ten more years until her son returns victoriously.

When Da Qian marched south to Qingqiu, the lower-level legions had a huge advantage. The middle- and high-level monks were overwhelmed by numbers, not to mention the top-level martial saints, who could kill the Qingqiu Fox Fairy with a single sword.

It would be difficult to lose this war, otherwise Li Long would not agree to Emperor Hongde’s southern expedition!

Zhou Yi patted the sacred cow and quickly ran to the top of the mountain.

The old woman looked at the Taoist's back, her cloudy eyes gradually clearing up, and murmured to herself: "Where have you seen this kid before?"

…

Seal the Demon Temple.

Standing on the top of the mountain, the stone gate, small courtyard, main hall and window edges are all carved from a single piece of bluestone.

This is also the strange thing about temples. Otherwise, there would be no one to worship the nameless gods in a small temple on a deserted mountain.

Zhou Yi ordered the sacred cow to wait outside. He pushed the door open and went in, where he saw a temple priest taking a nap.

The temple minister wears a Taoist crown crookedly on his head. He has a sharp mouth and monkey cheeks. His body is rickety and thin. His arms hang down to his knees. Without the Taoist robe on his body, he looks like an ape.

His true face is indeed an ape!

Zhou Yi said loudly: "In the majestic temple of immortals, the temple's blessing turned out to be a great demon in disguise. I really can't understand the way of this world!"

Fengmo Mountain is only ten miles away from Tongcheng. There is a big demon in the temple on the mountain. The experts in the city must have known about it. Instead of subduing the demon and eliminating it, they allowed the people to worship it.

If these things are reported to the imperial court, the commander of the Tongcheng Demon Slayer Department will inevitably go to jail!

The monkey demon was excited, and he raised his hands to Zhou Yi and said: "Little demon monkey nine, he practices the authentic Xuanmen sect and was once an outer disciple of Tianji Palace. His origins are innocent. Please forgive me, Master!"

"If it weren't for this, Pindao would have killed you long ago!"

Zhou Yi's eyes flashed with aura. The monkey demon's aura was pure and free of blood and resentment. He was not an evil demon.

This place lives in isolation, and people occasionally worship it, but it will not be contaminated by evil spirits.

"Thank you, Masato!"

Hou Jiu bowed repeatedly, and after carefully looking at the Book of Changes, his expression gradually became horrified, and then he turned to look at the gods enshrined in the temple.

He looked back and forth a few times, his voice hesitating.

"You...are the Immortal?"

Zhou Yi raised his head and looked at the young Taoist enshrined in the palace, who looked very similar to him. He nodded and said, "Call Hou Yuan to come out!"