The Buddha is actually me

Chapter 148: A Trip to Yangzhou, a Strange Inn

As many red spider lilies as stars?

Zhang Jiuyang took a deep breath and felt a little hot inside.

If he could get the formula of agarwood, wouldn't he have an endless supply of agarwood?
Not only can it rapidly strengthen the army of rampant soldiers and cultivate a terrifying army of ghosts and gods, but it can also make one's own cultivation advance rapidly and break through the realm quickly.

The most important thing is that the medicinal properties of incense are mild, unlike elixirs, which can cause poisoning if taken too much.

He suddenly realized that the underworld seemed to be an undeveloped treasure land, and just a piece of red spider lily could be of such great help to him.

Of course, the underworld is also dangerous. If it weren’t for Erye’s experience, Ali would probably not have been able to come back this time.

"Ali, what does the underworld look like?"

Zhang Jiuyang was a little curious. He had been to Mount Yanfu, the border between Yin and Yang, and had seen Huangquan, but he had only been to the outermost part and had never been deep into the real underworld.

Ali thought for a moment and said, "I first floated along a yellow river. Oh, and there was a monkey-like monster with red hair in the river."

"Then I saw a bridge and floated up to it. Then everything in front of me lost its color, leaving only black and white. There was fog all around, and I couldn't see anything clearly. Until I chanted Grandpa Du's name and calculated his position..."

Ali told her everything that she had experienced, and she still felt a little unsatisfied after finishing it.

"Brother Jiu, I will pick more red spider lilies next time!"

I didn't expect these flowers to be so valuable. What a miscalculation.

Zhang Jiuyang smiled, patted her head, and said, "The Walking Yin Technique can only be used once every seven days. Don't worry, let's pack up and go to Yangzhou first."

Although he didn't get any further information from Du Shensuan and only got some crazy words about a fan and steamed buns, Zhang Jiuyang still planned to go to Yangzhou.

Go ahead to dangers.

It's not recklessness, but confidence in the visualization picture.

He had already made up his mind that after arriving in Yangzhou, he would first find a way to spread the faith and belief in Wang Lingguan, whether it was novels or operas, or even having Ali's men appear in the name of Wang Lingguan.

In short, he is going to refresh a wave of visualization pictures!

To him, the hundreds of thousands of people in Yangzhou were a huge treasure trove.

"Brother Jiu, I'm done!"

Ali was carrying a big bag on her back, and her belly was round, obviously she had a lot of things in it.

In the yard, Ao Ya was playing with Qing Ji.

She swallowed Qingji in one gulp, and then Qingji nimbly crawled out of her ears, giggling, as if a child was having a lot of fun playing on a slide.

A real expert at drilling holes.

"gone!"

Following Zhang Jiuyang's call, Qingji flapped his wings and flew over with a mace in his hand, like a small yellow flying insect, and landed in Zhang Jiuyang's hair.

Ao Ya had eaten all the perch in the pond. He smacked his lips a few times and leaped out of the pond. The mighty black dragon turned into a little girl crawling on all fours, showing a toothless smile to Zhang Jiuyang.

Everyone locked the door and temporarily bid farewell to this warm home, and also bid farewell to Qingzhou City where they had lived for a long time.

Paper horses pull the cart and paper people are on the road.

When the carriage drove out of Qingzhou City, Zhang Jiuyang lifted the curtain and took a deep look at this bustling and peaceful ancient city.

The journey ahead is long and the mountains are high, and life and death are unpredictable.

But he believed that one day he would come back.

……

Imperial Observatory, the Imperial Astronomical Observatory.

Zhuge Yunhu was wearing a plain cloth robe and lying on a throne. Although it was summer, he had a thin blanket covering his legs.

He was holding a book and reading it quietly. There were a few obvious big words on the outside of the book.

"How to be a good supervisor."

He watched and marveled at it.

"There is such a posture? Mr. Liao Zhai knows a lot..."

He was actually reading "The Meat-Thin Ball", but in order to prevent his subordinates from discovering it, he put a homemade book cover on the outside.

There was a knock on the door and Xu Jianhou from the Tianji Pavilion walked in, delivering a piece of information.

"Supervisor, Zhang Jiuyang has set off, and he should be heading towards Yangzhou."

Xu Jianhou was a little puzzled and asked, "Why are you paying so close attention to a kid who has just entered the third realm? Although he does have some talent, at the age of nineteen, he has reached the third realm and has cultivated a rare Dharma Eye. He is a talent, but there are people in my Imperial Astronomical Bureau who are better than him."

"Is it just because he is a peripheral of Longhu?"

As the supervisor of Tianji Pavilion, he thought it was a waste to use a lot of resources to keep a close eye on a young person who was just starting out.

If it weren't for the supervisor's request, he would never do this.

The Supervisor slowly closed the book in his hand, smiled faintly, and said: "To evaluate a person, we should not only look at his cultivation, realm, and character, but also look at... how he is seen by others."

"Longhu has never protected someone so much, even at the expense of official business."

Xu Jianhou nodded and said, "That's what I wanted to say as well. Long Hu seems to have acted on impulse recently. For example, you asked her to take charge of the Yan Luo case, but she immediately took people to Qingzhou to look for Zhang Jiuyang."

After hesitating for a moment, he still suggested: "Once this woman falls in love, her judgment will inevitably be affected, and sometimes it will even affect the overall situation. Although Longhu is outstanding, he can't escape the test of love after all."

He usually has a good relationship with Yue Ling and is also a good friend of Duke Dingguo.

But he was also the supervisor of the Imperial Observatory.

Therefore, although he was hesitant, he still said it, thinking that Yue Ling was not suitable to host the Yan Luo case at the moment.

Zhuge Yunhu shook his head and smiled when he heard this, and said, "If Long Hu is really moved and wants to get married, then that's a good thing. You know how anxious her father is about this matter, and that old lady Shen can't wait to hold her great-grandson..."

Xu Jianhou looked anxious and was about to speak when Zhuge Yunhu waved his hand to stop him.

"Long Hu is definitely not a sentimental person."

His voice was exceptionally calm, and there seemed to be an inexplicable power in his gentle eyes, which made him firm, confident, and elegant.

That ordinary face suddenly became outstanding because of the embellishment of these eyes. "Besides, besides Long Hu, do you know what Li Yan thinks of Zhang Jiuyang?"

Xu Jianhou was stunned. Li Yan was a well-known Lingtai doctor for his coldness and arrogance. Except for Yue Ling, he ignored everyone. Sometimes, even when he met him, he didn't even say hello.

Such a proud man doesn't even take some of the prisoners seriously.

"Li Yan said that Zhang Jiuyang is a man worthy of being trusted with life and death. Although his current cultivation is not high, one day he will soar to the sky and become famous all over the world."

Xu Jianhou remained silent. He did not expect that Li Yan's opinion of Zhang Jiuyang was so high.

The fact that two proud people could praise him so highly shows that Zhang Jiuyang is indeed unique.

"Of course, there is another more important reason why I asked you to keep an eye on him."

"what reason?"

Zhuge Yunhu patted the book in his hand and said with a smile: "He writes a good story."

After the confused Xu Jianhou left, Zhuge Yunhu sat up, picked up his brush and wrote three words on the white paper on the table.

Zhang Jiuyang.

He looked at these three words with deep eyes, and even though the ink dripped onto the paper and spread, he remained indifferent.

……

"Brother Jiu, it's raining, I'll hold an umbrella for you!"

On the way to Yangzhou, A Li sat on a tall horse, holding a banana leaf she had picked up in her hand to shield Zhang Jiuyang, who was leading the horse, from the rain.

There is one bad thing about paper carriages: they are afraid of water.

It gets wet when it comes into contact with water and becomes sticky.

There is less rainfall in the Qingzhou area, but the closer to Yangzhou, the more frequent the rainfall and the significantly heavier the humidity.

Therefore, the origami secret technique became inconvenient, so Zhang Jiuyang simply bought a horse and used it to travel. When it rained and the road was slippery, he would lead the horse.

Ao Ya lay limply on the horse's back and fell asleep, snoring loudly.

The horse was trembling with fear when walking. In the eyes of others, Ao Ya was just a little girl, but the pressure from the real dragon made this fierce horse extremely obedient.

"Brother Jiu, when can we reach Yangzhou? We have been walking for so many days..."

Ali asked in a bored tone while using banana leaves to shield him from the rain and swinging her legs on the horse's back.

She couldn't wait to kill, kill, kill. What's the point of this kind of rain? If it's going to rain, let it rain blood!
Zhang Jiuyang was dressed in white, with his hair tied up with a wooden hairpin. Although the rain slightly wet his hair on his forehead, it made him look even more elegant.

He smiled and said, "We're almost there. After we climb over Tiger Hill ahead, we should be in Yangzhou."

During this trip to Yangzhou, he did not rush to travel, but deliberately slowed down his pace, treating it as a trip to enjoy the mountains and rivers and experience the travel of the ancients.

He also wanted to take a good look at the world with his own eyes.

There was indeed chaos in Daqian.

Along the way, we came across several corpses on the side of the road. It seemed that they had been robbed and the bodies were exposed in the wilderness. No one cared about them and no officials came to deal with them.

As for beggars along the road, there are quite a few of them.

Zhang Jiuyang himself had encountered robbers on his way several times. Feeling the murderous aura from the other party, he was merciless and directly used the palm thunder to smash them into ashes, destroying their souls.

There was even a strange story that thunder from heaven would strike evildoers, causing many robbers to be afraid to commit crimes on rainy days.

It was not until we got closer to Yangzhou that this kind of chaos became much less common.

The rain stopped at dusk.

An inn was looming, with a wooden structure covered with moss. It had an ancient and decayed feel, and looked a bit eerie in the setting sun.

On the outside, there was a dark yellow flag fluttering in the wind. It was not as soft as cloth, but more like animal leather, with four big words written on it.

Ruyi Inn.

Zhang Jiuyang paused slightly.

A golden light flashed from the Dharma Eye between the eyebrows.

His expression suddenly became intriguing.

"Brother, there is an inn here, great!"

Suddenly, a clear voice was heard, and two figures came riding horses in the distance, a man and a woman. The man was handsome and elegant, and the woman was charming and attractive. They were a perfect match.

Both of them were equipped with long swords, their eyes were bright, their breathing was long, and they did not look like ordinary people.

Zhang Jiuyang did not feel any fluctuations of magic power from them, but there was a strange aura, not as pure and broad as magic power, but more like the essence of grains and the energy of flesh and blood.

The woman met Zhang Jiuyang on horseback. She could see Ao Ya but not A Li. When the two of them just appeared, A Li had already gotten into the Yin Doll.

It was so pitiful to see such a young girl like Ao Ya, wet on the horse's back.

When a bug flew by, she opened her mouth and ate it, obviously she was very hungry.

"Hey, your daughter is so young, how can she get wet in the rain?"

Seeing that Zhang Jiuyang was wearing a plain cloth shirt and a wooden hairpin, he thought that he had no money, so he took out one or two taels of silver from his pocket.

With a casual throw, the broken silver was like a hidden weapon nailed into the tree beside Zhang Jiuyang, three inches into the wood.

"Buy your daughter some delicious food and make some ginger soup to prevent her from catching a cold. You too, how can you travel the world with such a young daughter?"

She shook her head, looked at Ao Ya's cute chubby face, and said with pity: "There is an inn ahead, take her to rest quickly."

"Thank you, Heroine."

Zhang Jiuyang did not explain, but kindly reminded: "The inn ahead seems to be a little strange, it is best for the lady not to stay there."

Before the woman could say anything, her senior brother had already arrived on horseback, and said with a smile, "We, the Lingnan duo, have traveled all over the country and have encountered all kinds of dangers. Even if it's a shady inn, we can still stay there!"

He patted the sword at his waist and said with great pride: "My dear brother, you can go and live with your daughter. I will ensure your safety!"

Zhang Jiuyang: “…”

(End of this chapter)