Strange Stories

Chapter 575 Trying out New Magical Powers

Luo Gong's son reigned for more than ten years, and it also came to an end.

That day, Lin Jue brought Fuyao and accompanied Luo Gong to the palace. They stood above the clouds and looked down.

Lin Jue asked Mr. Luo whether he wanted to show up.

Luo Gong shook his head, sighed and said:
"The predecessors are still alive, while the descendants are constantly passing away. If I were to show my body and be seen by others, wouldn't it be even more tragic? I'd better borrow Yuanjun's power to send him a dream and send him off in the dream."

Lin Jue nodded without saying anything more.

What he recalled in his mind was that many years ago, Mr. Luo shared the joy of having a son with his old friend. At that time, there was no dispute between the emperor and the prince, only the pure joy of being a father.

I guess there is family affection in the imperial family as well.

Especially before leaving the dragon throne.

It is hard to imagine Mr. Luo’s mood at this moment. It seems that “long life” has become a bad thing at this moment.

Before long, there was chaos and noise in the palace below.

Some people shouted that the emperor had passed away, some people asked the crown prince to succeed the throne, some people cried loudly, and some people noticed a little relief and smile on the face of the elderly emperor.

Before his death, he murmured, calling himself the Emperor.

Therefore, some people also said that it was Emperor Taizu who had followed the immortal and came back to pick him up.

This is indeed true—

When faint sounds of blowing and beating were heard in the distance, and a ceremonial guard invisible to ordinary people came through the wall, with hundreds of ghost messengers and ghost officials coming in person to give the emperor the last respect, Lin Jue, Fuyao and Luo Gong were there to personally see the emperor off, which scared the ghost messengers and ghost officials.

"Your Majesty is dead and no longer an emperor. The way of heaven is clear. All the dead will enter reincarnation. This is a theorem. There is also a stipulation that after the death of an emperor in the human world, all his merits and demerits will be erased. Your Majesty, please rest assured and go on your journey."

The emperor is the master of the world, so his merits, demerits, blessings, fortune, power and status are all during his lifetime. Once he dies, they are all cancelled.

The underworld officials will not be afraid of the dead emperor.

The gods will no longer be afraid of them.

But it is still decent.

The aged emperor took the stage, and the team of ghost messengers and officials saluted the immortal, looked at Luo Gong a few more times, and then went through the wall again.

"Although this emperor is not as strong as Lord Luo, he has managed to preserve the country and territory left by Lord Luo, as well as his integrity and style. He also adhered to the letters left by Lord Luo. Even when the gods forced him with natural disasters, the court was in constant strife, and there were rebellions on the border, he persisted. He is considered a qualified king who preserves the status quo."

Lin Jue said to Luo Gong.

"Yeah." Luo Gong nodded helplessly, "I'm getting old, and it's easy to feel sad."

"It's always like that."

"Let's go back."

"Mr. Luo, please go back first. Just when Mr. Luo came to me in my dream, I received a message from Chen Niu saying someone is calling me." Lin Jue smiled at him, "I have to go over and take a look."

"it is good."

The thundercloud then split into two. One cloud carried Luo Gong to Fengshan, and the other cloud carried a man and a fox and flew towards the east.

……

The war-torn east.

The negative energy and resentment turned into dark clouds that blocked out the sunlight. The wind was howling during the day, and at night there were ghosts howling. All kinds of monsters and ghosts appeared one after another, making it impossible for the people nearby to survive.

But this place is remote, cold and bitter, and it is a place of exile. The people here are either sinners or descendants of sinners. They serve here to defend the land, and they can only die here. It is impossible for them to move away.

The local officials and people begged the master to stay, as if they were grasping at a life-saving straw. Taoist Master Tao and his disciples were helpless and had to seek help from the immortal.

A Chen Niu talisman burned out.

In less than an hour, the wind and clouds in the sky changed.

Suddenly, a thundercloud appeared between the gloomy and gray sky. Purple-red lightning plasma flashed and thunder roared. The momentum alone was enough to scare the demons and evil creatures below.

Where do the dark clouds come from?
Taoist Yunduan waved his sleeves, and a strong wind suddenly arose between heaven and earth. There was a fresh air in the strong wind, and any dark clouds and fog were easily blown away by the strong wind and fresh air.

Even the solemn clouds in the sky were driven away.

When the clouds are cleared away, there will be light.

Under the gaze of many local officials and people, the clouds parted, revealing the deep blue sky that had not been seen for a long time. As the bright sunshine came down, the whole world became brighter and fresher. The warmth on their faces gave people an instinctive touch. The situation and scenery in this place were both shocking and made them feel relieved. They were even more moved and almost cried out loud.

Negative energy and resentment?

Lin Jue waved his sleeves again.

Without the obstruction of clouds, the already bright sunshine became even more scorching, and the temperature even rose significantly. In this cold winter, there was even a hint of summer, and the snow showed signs of melting.

The world was filled with the most yang and strong energy, which quickly melted away the negative energy and resentment.

After doing this, the thundercloud floated away.

The officials and common people below were puzzled. They only knew that there were usually no thunderclouds in the cold winter months, and that the two Taoists in front of them had burned talismans, which led to such a strange phenomenon in heaven and earth. So they were all very grateful to them. Only the two Taoists looked up in that direction, muttering to themselves, and thanked the immortals.

……

Dry land in the south.

With Cai Lingyu's current level of Taoism, he is a rare master in the world. Especially after walking down the mountain for ten years, he has gradually become famous in the south. It is reasonable for him to be stopped by officials and people to beg for mercy.

But he was not a Taoist from the talisman school, and could not communicate with the gods at all. He also had no familiar gods who could control wind, rain and water. He had neither place to pray nor channels to pray.

He did know a few gods, one of whom was Yuanjun Niangniang who always visited Fengshan. She happened to be a southern god with a very high status. It would have been easier to get things done with the help of a god, but when he burned incense and prayed to her, the response he got just confirmed his previous guess -

The drought here is God's will.

God's will can be interpreted in two ways:

Drought is a natural law, it is God’s will;

With such a severe drought, even if we have to use divine power to adjust water, there must be water to adjust. But there is no water everywhere here, so it is impossible to adjust water from the water-rich areas or even the flooded areas to the water-deficient areas to balance the wind and rain. And if we insist on adjusting water from a very far distance, it is not enough to rely on the gods under the command of Emperor Yujian. We need the water gods of the Nine Heavens, but that can only be decided by the Purple Emperor, so it is also God's will.

Cai Lingyu had no choice but to burn the Chen Niu talisman.

In the process of informing Chen Niu, he spoke in great detail, giving a complete account of the disaster in the area, as well as two interpretations of heaven's will and heaven's will, which might involve the Purple Emperor suppressing the southern gods so that the real person could make the decision.

It was so detailed that even Chen Niu looked confused, and he was not sure whether Chen Niu could bring back all the contents.

After seeing Chen Niu off, he began to wait.

But there was no response for a long time. He even began to think: Maybe it was because he explained it in detail that Chen Niu took everything back. Because the matter was complicated and he was afraid of the Purple Emperor, the real person did not take action.

Of course he didn't know -

At this moment, a tributary suddenly emerged from the Weishui River, eight hundred miles away.

The tributary passed through valleys, flowed through depressions, and flowed through wastelands between several villages. Along the way, the entire earth seemed to cooperate with it, protruding highlands sank, rocks were removed, too deep depressions grew, and too flat places automatically sank into riverbeds.

During the eight hundred-li journey, I don't know how many civilians and officials were frightened.

The mountain gods and land gods from all over the place were unable to stop it and reported it one after another. The god of the Weishui River was slow to react and even when the Purple Emperor summoned him he did not respond immediately. In short, the water of the Weishui River flowed here overnight.

The story of Cai Gong asking for water spread quickly in the local area and was even recorded in the local chronicles.

……

The beautiful sunset in the Western Regions was the scene of a great war.

Wan Xinrong held a lantern in one hand and a lightning sword in the other, and with the help of the "point-stone-turned-general" method, he almost demolished half of the mountain in front of him.

Instead, there was rubble all over the ground and more than a dozen rock giants several feet tall.

There was a howl in the sky——

The huge black smoke that was like a dragon just rushed up to the sky, then turned around and crashed towards the bottom. Due to the cover of dusk, it was difficult to see its trace clearly.

Wan Xinrong opened his mouth, inhaled, and blew hard.

"call!"

A streak of fire, also like a dragon, illuminated the earth, almost as dazzling as the western sky.

The black smoke and the spiritual fire collided and melted away.

All I could smell was the stench of blood.

At this moment, black smoke appeared behind him again, quietly gathering into the shapes of several wolves and bears, and also taking advantage of the cover of dusk, pounced towards Wan Xinrong.

They thought the surprise attack would be successful, but unexpectedly, Wan Xinrong held the lantern, and it was as if he had eyes on the back of his head. He suddenly turned around while emitting golden light all over his body. He swung the lantern in his left hand first and smashed it hard, smashing a giant black wolf into pieces. The dagger in his right hand flashed with crackling lightning and slashed at the sharp claws of a giant black bear.

"Crack!"

The dagger only hit the claw, but the lightning on it moved along the claw of the black shadow giant bear, flashed across its body in an instant, outlining the outline of the giant bear.

Bang! The giant bear was also shattered into pieces!
Seeing that the remaining black shadow wolf bear was about to pounce and the dragon-like black smoke from behind was about to hit him, Wan Xinrong suddenly sank into the ground.

All the attacks fell on the ground.

The stone giant came roaring over and smashed the black shadows of the bear and wolf one by one with one hammer. Looking at the blood on the giant's stone fist, it was realized that these black shadows were all small black bugs. When they were crushed, blood plasma was found inside.

There was also a dragon-like black smoke roaring towards them, and even a rock giant several meters tall would be shattered into rubble once hit.

It doesn’t matter if it breaks into pieces. There will be stones all over the ground, but there is still half a mountain over there, and it can be put together again.

This is actually equivalent to using a mortal body to fight against a god.

But mortals are mortals after all——

When the monster here gets angry, the sky is filled with blood and black smoke, bloodworms are flying everywhere, and the stench is overwhelming. Even the earth is shaking and dark blood is gushing out. Even if it is not as powerful as the Queen Mother of the East, it is still not something Wan Xinrong can match. He can't even hide from it by escaping into the ground.

"Canopy..."

Wan Xinrong had no choice but to use the Unrestrained Technique, transforming into a breeze and dancing in the air, sometimes avoiding the impact of black smoke, and sometimes showing up to blow out sparks in the sky and colliding with countless bloodworms.

Suddenly, a huge hand made of bloodworms came down, as big as a cloud.

Wan Xinrong was blown out of the wind and fell to the ground.

The palace lantern and thunder sword both fell out of his hands, one emitting sparks and the other flashing with lightning.

"I have some skills..."

Wan Xinrong wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and stood up again from the ground covered with dark blood plasma: "But compared to the Queen Mother of the East, you are still a lot worse!"

The wind was whistling in the air, and the bloody hand slapped again!
Wan Xinrong's entire body turned into a stone sculpture, and golden light protected his body. At the same time, the left and right palace lanterns and thunder swords both flew up and flew into his hands.

Countless sparks flew up in the air, like galaxies falling to the ground, or like the brightest fireflies in the world. All the thunder accumulated in the Lightning Sword was released together, illuminating the earth with bright yellow and blue-white at times. Together with the dreamlike gradient glow in the sky at this time, it formed a wonderful spectacle of the Western Regions.

A lone wolf in the wilderness raised his head and looked in this direction. Just as he was wondering, he turned his eyes and saw a holy and graceful seven-tailed white fox flying in the sky in the distance.

Lin Jue arrived first riding on a thundercloud.

The monster below was already fighting fiercely. Without saying a word, a huge column of black smoke rushed towards him.

"Go."

The thunderclouds dissipated in an instant.

The Taoist did not dodge or defend, but just stood there.

The black smoke came with great force and arrived in the blink of an eye.

This black smoke exhausted the full strength of the demon below. When it rushed through Lin Jue, even his body that had achieved enlightenment was quickly consumed by the black smoke.

In less than a moment, no trace of the Taoist's body remained.

"Humph!"

A disdainful snort came from the distant mountains.

"Real person?"

"Hey?"

Wan Xinrong and the fox were both very surprised.

Unexpectedly, the next moment, the Taoist appeared at the same place again, as if coming back from extinction. The so-called offensive, no matter whether it was weaker or stronger, made no difference to him.

The mystery of the great way at that moment was felt by the demon in the distant mountains, and this alone made him extremely alert.

The Taoist simply took out twelve beans and threw them into twelve flying swords:

"Go, kill him."

Thin lines of evening light suddenly cut through the night sky.

(End of this chapter)