Chapter 48: Beans Become Soldiers (asking for monthly tickets) There is also an ancestral hall in Xiaochuan Village. It is the Zhang family ancestral hall, named Yongquan Hall. Compared with the ancestral hall in Shu Village, this ancestral hall is much simpler, not to mention the ancestral hall of the Wang family in Heng Village. I'm afraid it can't even compare to the ordinary branch ancestral hall of the Wang family. However, this is the slumber place of the ancestors of the Zhang family in Xiaochuan Village. They believe that their ancestors have spirits and can protect their descendants. So after Zhang Da was injured, the villagers were afraid of scaring his mother and it was inconvenient to carry him back home, so their first thought was to carry him to this ancestral hall. But I didn't expect that there was already someone else here. There were also two young Taoists. Judging from the Taoist robes and hats on their heads, they seemed to be from the Fulu Sect as the master had mentioned. One of them looked to be in his twenties, and the other one was only in his teens. Seeing a group of people rushing in, he hurriedly asked: "What's going on here?" "I was hurt by a ghost."

"The three Taoist friends are..." "Yishan, Fuqiu Temple, I am Li Miaolin." The third brother stepped forward and said, "These are my junior brothers and sisters. They came with the villagers to exorcise the monster." "Qiyun Mountain, Xuantian Temple, Qingxuan." The Taoist in his twenties stepped forward and said, "This is my junior fellow apprentice, Ma Cunshu. He was also asked by the villagers to come to us, so our master asked us to go down the mountain to gain experience." "Don't talk about this yet!" Several villagers hurriedly helped Zhang Da sit down. The torches lit up the ancestral hall, and the long-faded portraits of ancestors stared down with distress. I saw that the clothes on Zhang Da's chest had been torn, with a large area stained with blood. When he lifted the clothes, there were three shocking scars arranged in a very neat manner. "Injured by what?" The Taoist from Qiyun Mountain named Qingxuan asked. "It seems to be a bird?" The third senior brother frowned and said that he was not too sure. The third senior brother majored in the "Bean Soldier" method, which is a simplified version of the legendary sowing beans to create soldiers. This spell may be good at marching and fighting, defending cities and capturing lands, and may also be good at fighting, but it is not good at dealing with ghosts. In addition, Zhang Da walked to the front on his own and took the initiative to rush towards the ghosts, so even a master of Taoism would find it difficult to react. The darkness merged with the thing, and in that haste, I could only roughly see its appearance. "bird?" Taoist Qingxuan bent down and looked closely at the wound. "You are the warrior that Mr. Zhang mentioned on the road just now, the one who led people to fight ghosts? How reckless! Since you asked the villagers to invite us, why didn't you wait for us to come?" It sounds like these two Taoist priests arrived after dark. "I really can't bear it... It's also my fault for being too careless. I didn't expect there was such a thing hidden inside!" Zhang Da said loudly, his expression was clear, "Is everything okay?" "The wound is not very deep. With your physique, you should be able to survive it if you take good care of yourself. But if you were injured by a sinister object, it is very likely that you will leave behind some sinister energy or ghost energy, so it is hard to say." Taoist Qingxuan said.

"It's death energy." said the third senior brother. "Dead anger?" Taoist Qingxuan's expression froze. Then he immediately took out several talismans from his arms, selected one, put his fingers together to make a sword finger, held the talisman, muttered something, shook it a few times, and with a burst of sound, the talisman immediately turned into flames. "disease!" In response, he pressed the flame against Zhang's chest. "laugh……" In the light of the fire, black smoke was clearly rising. "This talisman of mine can bring in pure and spiritual energy, and should be able to temporarily suppress the deathly aura. When it's daytime, I can ask my master in Xuantian Temple to come and treat the disease." Taoist Qingxuan said. The third brother came over and also let out a breath. "I practice Yin-Yang spiritual arts, and this pure Yin-Yang spiritual rhythm also has some suppressive effect." The third senior brother said, "My junior brother is also good at medicine and can remove dead energy." "It depends on which one is closer." "Closer to Mount Qiyun." A more experienced villager said. Only then did I feel relieved. Lin Jue began to look at the two Taoists. There was no way. They came from Qiyun Mountain, and when I left the village to seek immortality and the way of Taoism, the first place I wanted to go was Qiyun Mountain. It seems that the people of Xiaochuan Village not only went to Fuqiu Temple in Yishan to look for it, but also went to the most famous Xuantian Temple in Qiyun Mountain. However, according to their tone, it is very likely that they did not have any hope that they could invite the Taoist priest from Xuantian Temple at that time. As a result, the people from Qiyun Mountain actually came. It looked like a senior brother was leading a junior brother. From what happened just now, it can be seen that the skills of the Taoist priests in Qiyun Mountain are not weak at all, but it seems that they are all in the talismans, and he himself does not have the ability to distinguish whether there is evil spirit energy in the wound with the naked eye. We can only guess based on experience. “Even if a normal flying bird has become a spirit, it will not carry death energy. If it really has practiced some skills with death energy, I’m afraid it would not have just caught him with one claw. It’s probably some kind of evil spirit that coexists with death energy and has transformed into a bird or is itself shaped like a bird.” Taoist Qingxuan pondered and said, he indeed has rich experience in exorcising demons and catching ghosts. "It's very likely." The third senior brother also said, "I don't know if it was the dead energy here that gave birth to it, or it brought the dead energy here. Judging from its current situation, it hasn't yet become mature and is still cultivating, but was forced out by Zhang Da. It probably resents it for this reason." Having said that, he couldn't help but turn his head and look outside. It was a dark night outside. "If it knew we were here to kill it, it would not be able to practice there anymore. I'm afraid something bad would happen tonight." "What fellow Taoist said makes sense." "If he didn't hurt us to vent his anger and then leave, he would have killed us and continued to practice here." The third brother looked calm, without any sign of drunkenness as usual.

However, this sentence frightened the villagers in the ancestral hall and the young Taoist priest beside Taoist Qingxuan. "In that case, let's discuss how to get rid of the evil spirits and death here and get rid of this evil spirit." Taoist Qingxuan was calm and said with a salute, "I hope you and I can work together." "To eliminate harm for the people, don't talk about those things." The third senior brother, who had originally agreed to let Lin Jue make the decision, became serious after seeing the strange bird. "To be honest, I had already consulted the deity in the temple before I left the mountain, but at that time I just thought it was some evil spirits and residual souls, so I didn't take it seriously." Taoist Qingxuan said with embarrassment, "The talismans I brought were mostly for body protection and to deter evil spirits and residual souls." "This is normal. We thought they were just some residual souls of evil spirits. Otherwise, I wouldn't have brought my fellow apprentices here." The third brother sighed, "The world is getting more and more chaotic. There was no such thing before." "Yes..." "Does Daoist Fellow Qingxuan have any good way to get rid of the dead air here?" "I have no choice but to wait until tomorrow to ask the Lord of Gods for permission to borrow the power of the Thunder General under his command." It means there is no solution tonight. The third brother nodded and said nothing more: "In that case, leave tonight's matter to us!" "Thank you, fellow Taoist!" "Why do you say that? You and I each have our own strengths, so let's just do our respective duties. I'll trouble you again tomorrow." The third senior brother also returned the gift. Lin Jue and his junior sister also followed suit. From this point of view, Qiyun Mountain seems to be very upright. Come to think of it, the monks of the talisman school offer sacrifices to the gods, but the ultimate goal is actually to be granted a talisman themselves, to ascend to heaven after death, and to be included in the ranks of immortals. Therefore, when offering sacrifices to the gods, they must also cultivate their own character and virtues. "Let me think about it..." The torches lit up the ancestral hall brightly, and the third brother paced back and forth in thought. I thought about it, but couldn't come up with a good solution. He turned to look at his junior fellow apprentice. I think this junior fellow is smart. "This thing was forced out and was determined to hurt Zhang Da at the first risk. It must be resentful that he disturbed its practice, or that he cursed it too much. I'm afraid it holds a grudge." Although Lin Jue has only been practicing Taoism in Fuqiu Temple for a short time, he has some experience in dealing with goblins and ghosts. "If we go to the village, it may come here to find Zhang Da. If we stay here, it may cause trouble in the village!" "then what should we do?" "I'm afraid we'll have to split it into two." "Great! I thought so too!" The third brother clapped his hands and said, "No problem, I'll go outside to find it, and you guys stay here, how about that?" "you alone?" Lin Jue opened his eyes wide. Not only him, everyone in the ancestral hall was surprised and couldn't help but look at the third senior brother. "Leave me alone, can you guys?"

"I'm not afraid." Lin Jue also had a stern expression. "That's it!" The third brother took off a cloth bag from his waist, picked out a few beans with the help of the light from many torches, and threw them on the ground. "go with!" The bean grows as soon as it leaves your hand and turns into a human being when it falls to the ground. In an instant, they transformed into several soldiers with different appearances and shapes. Two were big and strong, wearing armor and holding long spears. Two were short and strong, also wearing armor, holding round shields in one hand and long swords in the other. The other four looked taller, holding strong bows and quivers full of eagle-feather arrows on their waists. Lin Jue couldn't help but be stunned. Not only him, the two people from Qiyun Mountain were also shocked, and several villagers acted as if they had seen a miracle. "Spreading beans makes an army!" The Taoist priests from Mount Qiyun cried out in surprise. "It's not the legendary one." The third brother said, looking at Lin Jue, "Don't be too surprised, there is something even better! My warriors can be borrowed, so I'll leave two archers for you! Speak more simply, and they will understand. Don't speak in a complicated way!" After saying this, he pointed at the two archers and then at Lin Jue: "Two good men! Please listen to him!" "Chichi..." The two archers immediately turned around and walked with heavy steps, their armor rubbing against each other, to stand in front of Lin Jue and stare at him. "Do you regret following Second Senior Brother to learn alchemy? What's so fun about that stuff!" "Third Senior Brother, please be serious..." "Haha! Then be careful!" "Please be careful, brother." "have to……" The third brother took out his wine jug, shook it, and seeing that there was still half a jug of fruit wine in it, he smiled with satisfaction and walked out. "Evil creature! Grandpa is here to treat you to a drink!" He walked out of the ancestral hall in a few steps and left the range of the fire. Lin Jue saw him off at the door of the ancestral hall and heard him say faintly: "The world is vast, the heroes here listen to my command! The spiritual light is like a wash, illuminating the eternal darkness! Demons and ghosts are coming, do not hide from the light! Yin and Yang three realms, my curse will appear as soon as you appear!" He was seen scattering a few beans, which turned into armored soldiers and accompanied him. The team grew larger and larger, with armors colliding and footsteps heavy. Lin Jue was surprised and worried. By now he had heard that because the master lived longer and died later, the master was already quite old when he took over Fuqiu Temple. Only when he became the abbot could he accept disciples, so the time that the brothers had practiced Taoism in the mountains was not particularly long. The eldest brother had only been in the mountains for more than ten years, and the second and third brothers had been there for at most ten years.

Therefore, many senior brothers’ cultivation levels are not very high. However, during his conversation with Taoist Wangjizi of Xianyuan Temple, he roughly guessed that there was another skill in the temple that should only be passed on to the eldest disciple. This skill could help Fuqiu Temple select disciples with good talents. Wangjizi has always been jealous of this. But I didn't expect that this third senior brother had such skills and courage. Lin Jue retracted his gaze and looked at the two archers beside him. He saw that their bodies had a faint texture of wood, and their armor had a metallic luster. He didn't know how they were made. In addition, they were tall and strong, and their steps felt solid and heavy. They seemed to give people an inexplicable sense of security. I’m afraid they are more powerful than the elite troops in the court? I felt really strange in my heart, so I pointed at the little sister, thought about the words of the third brother, and said to them: "Two heroes! Stand on either side of her!" "Chichi..." The two bean soldiers immediately stepped forward and came to the left and right sides of the junior sister, ready for battle. The magic is truly amazing. (End of this chapter)