Poor Taoist Qiu Chuji

Chapter 121 Opening the altar to borrow the talisman, Zombie King Xuankui
After collecting demon pills for more than a month, Qiu Chuji was teleported back to the small world. He just happened to convert all the demon pills on hand in one go. At the same time, he also sensed the number of believers in the zombie world to determine how long he could stay in the zombie world in the near future.

At this time, the number of believers in the land of Fujian who believe in 'Nine Heavens Devil-binding Master Yingyuan' is seven or eight times the previous number, so theoretically, after responding to the call, Qiu Chuji can stay in the zombie world for seven or eight months.

However, Qiu Chuji did not extract all the blessings at once, but first divided it into approximately one month's worth, and then entered the zombie world for the third time.

He originally wanted to go back to Mount Zhongnan first, set up the Juyuan Formation before going to the zombie world, but Lin Jiu had decided that in two days, he would hold a ceremony to report the situation to the ancestor and lend him the Taoist talisman. Lin Jiu had already informed the ancestor of this matter three times in advance and received a positive response from the ancestor. If Qiu Chuji broke the appointment, it would be troublesome for him to borrow the talisman later. Therefore, the matter of returning to Mount Zhongnan to set up the Juyuan Formation would have to be put on hold for now.

But it's okay. If he waits for another month, the number of demon pills in Qiu Chuji's hand will probably accumulate to more than one thousand. With so many demon pills, Qiu Chuji will be able to set up a complete version of the Ju Yuan Formation in Zhongnan Mountain and transform Zhongnan Mountain into a real blessed land. Before the energy contained in these one thousand demon pills dissipates, anyone who practices in Zhongnan Mountain will be able to experience the pleasure of one day being better than ten or even a hundred days.

I'm afraid that the disciples of Quanzhen Sect and the Ancient Tomb Sect will see a sudden increase in strength, and everyone will be able to reach the level of the previous five great masters in the future.

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In the zombie world, at the ancestral temple of Mount Mao, Lin Jiu was wearing a bright yellow Taoist robe, a nine-beam scarf on his head, and stepping on the Yu step, reciting the true secret. There were also many Maoshan Taoists around him, chanting together and performing complicated rituals. In the large cauldron in front of him, the sacrificial text written on gold foil paper not only did not burn and melt, but the words in it emerged one by one, and then floated up to the sky along a ray of light, as if received by some existence above the nine heavens.

Qiu Chuji was also wearing a Quanzhen Taoist robe at this moment, standing on the right side of Lin Jiu with a long mace on his back, looking solemn and serious.

"What a pity! If I had the perspective I had in the small world now, I could see clearly where these words flew to."

According to the rules, Qiu Chuji inserted three incense sticks in front of the bronze statue of the Three Pure Ones to show that the Taoist lineage is one family and there is no distinction between them.

Lin Jiu held up the jade tablet with his birth date engraved on it, raised it high above his head, and said loudly: "Today, there is a disciple named Lin Jiu, who has made friends with fellow Quanzhen Taoist... Qiu Chuji. Seeing that he has a noble character, profound cultivation, and hates evil, he is indeed a leader in our righteous path and a pioneer in destroying demons. Therefore, I voluntarily lend my Taoist talisman to him to share the blessings and misfortunes. I hope that the master will help me!"

Above the sky, a point of spiritual light fell, first hitting the jade plate, and then the jade plate separated a stream of light and fell on Qiu Chuji, connecting Qiu Chuji and Lin Jiu for a moment.

In the zombie world, every Maoshan disciple who is undergoing ordination has such a jade token. This jade token is not only a proof of identity, but also records a bit of soul breath.

There are many functions. To put it simply, with the protection of this jade token, the probability of Maoshan disciples being bewitched by foul air when practicing and refining Qi will be reduced, and it will be easier to improve their magic power. To put it more deeply, even if there is an accident, or even if the soul is beaten to death, the soul in this jade token can be blessed by the ancestor, slowly recover in the underworld, and then be released back to the human world to be completed.

Therefore, the jade tokens of Maoshan's official disciples are often hidden very secretly, and usually no one knows about it except themselves. They will only be taken out when it is extremely important to show their determination.

At this moment, Qiu Chuji's body was tainted with Lin Jiu's aura. From now on, when he draws talismans and performs rituals that are a little more powerful, he needs the cooperation of the talismans of the ancestors. The ancestors will sense that it is Lin Jiu who is performing the ritual and will cooperate with him.

Of course, for some curses against Qiu Chuji or Lin Jiu that involve the soul, they will also bear some of the responsibility for each other.

However, this responsibility is not absolute. Both Lin Jiu and Qiu Chuji can take the initiative to cut off this involvement.

After all, it's just borrowing a talisman, not signing some weird contract of living and dying together.

If one day Lin Jiu doesn't want to borrow anymore, he can burn sacrificial texts and kowtow to the ancestors to end this connection. However, under normal circumstances, Qiu Chuji needs to be present to cooperate. If Qiu Chuji is unwilling to return it, Lin Jiu can only give up part of his cultivation and recast the jade token to force an end to it.

After the ceremony of borrowing the talisman was over, Qiu Chuji took up his brush and drew two talismans to drive away evil spirits and one talisman to suppress corpses on the spot.

Sure enough, there is a big difference between having a talisman and not having one.

Before he borrowed the talisman, no matter how beautifully Qiu Chuji drew talismans, it was just a good drawing and had no practical use.

Even if he left his true Qi on the talisman paper, it only gave the talisman paper a piece of Qi that belonged to him, and the ability exerted was still the one he gave it, and it could not be converted.

Now, when drawing talismans, one only needs to mobilize a tiny bit of true Qi to introduce more energy from heaven and earth into the talisman paper, making this originally ordinary talisman paper have special powers.

"The Zhengyi Sect is indeed a Taoist sect with a longer history than the Quanzhen Sect, and its foundation is extraordinary."

"It's a pity that the Maoshan Sect can only give me the middle and low-level talismans. They are unwilling to pass on the high-level and top-level talismans to others. Even for elite disciples like Lin Jiu, they only selectively teach a part of them."

"People like Lin Jiu, Mamadi, Siyan, Qianhe and the others all have their own strengths." After Qiu Chuji started to exchange the demon pills, Lin Jiu's group of fellow apprentices all came over following the scent. Among them, Qianhe had a look of sighing on his face, and at the same time confirmed Qiu Chuji's identity to Lin Jiu. It was because of Qianhe's confirmation that Lin Jiu made up his mind to lend the talisman to Qiu Chuji.

Qiu Chuji was thinking in his heart that after returning to the original world, he would set up the Juyuan formation in Zhongnan Mountain, and then go south to Maoshan, Longhushan, and Gezaoshan to borrow their secret talisman books. In the zombie world, although Qiu Chuji was extremely powerful, he was definitely not invincible. He was still far from being able to do whatever he wanted.

But in the original world, he had already been different from other martial arts masters. When he went to Sanshan Fulu to borrow classics, he didn't need to threaten them with any words or actions, they would be happy to hand over the classics.

Especially... when the changes in Mount Zhongnan were noticed by those who cared and spread.

Perhaps the zombie world is very different from Jin Yong's martial arts world.

However, the Tao is spread to all realms, and although the specific rules of the world are different, the Tao should be very similar.

Such as the Quanzhen Sect's inner alchemy and Yangshen methods.

It's like the roads to the destination, each one is different, but the direction is not wrong.

After the ceremony, Qiu Chuji invited everyone to dinner. Everyone drank and ate in Zuiyun Tower, the most famous restaurant at the foot of Maoshan Mountain. It was very lively.

The taboos of Zhengyi Taoists are much fewer than those of Quanzhen Taoists. Not only can they get married, but they are also allowed to eat meat except beef, dog, goose and blackfish, because they are kind and symbolize loyalty, filial piety, chastity and righteousness.

It is said that in modern society, most cows no longer need to work hard, so a Taoist priest looked through all the books and said that we can eat beef now, but we cannot eat tractors.

Of course, cattle are still an important labor force at the moment, so Taoists cannot eat beef...even human flesh and rat meat disguised as beef are not allowed.

"What's human flesh? I almost ate zombie flesh." After three rounds of wine and five kinds of dishes, the brothers who rarely got together began to talk about their experiences in these years.

The one who spoke on the microphone at this moment was Simu.

His job is to drive corpses, and he is very knowledgeable. These days are not peaceful, and too many people die in foreign lands. He will subdue the zombies that died in foreign lands and send them back to his hometown to receive rewards from those families. If the other party's family is poor and cannot afford the bill, Simu will take the zombies' teeth, nails and other things as a reward.

Zombie tooth powder is a good thing for treating severe corpse poison. As for nails, they also have many magical uses. I heard that if the medicine is well prepared, it can also strengthen the yang energy... You all know.

As for why most of the zombies are wearing Qing Dynasty official uniforms.

According to Simu, in the past, those who could afford to hire corpse drivers to transport corpses from far away were only rich people or high-ranking officials. When ordinary people died in a foreign land, they would just be buried somewhere or burned. Therefore, many zombies that people saw were wearing official uniforms.

After the Qing Dynasty was overthrown, the Manchu national fortune had not yet completely disappeared, so they, the corpse drivers, dressed the zombies in Qing official uniforms, borrowing the remaining national fortune to suppress the ferocity and abilities of these zombies. This was a clever means of taking advantage of the situation. Of course, it also continued to harm the Manchu national fortune, which still had a chance of restoration. This is none of our business.

"It's nothing for you to eat zombie meat. Last time, I almost ran into the zombie king Xuankui... That was really dangerous." Qianhe drank a glass of wine and said with a slightly flushed face. Then he looked at Qiu Chuji and bowed to Qiu Chuji to express his gratitude.

"What's going on! Tell me in detail! Tell me in detail!" Everyone immediately became interested.

Qiu Chuji nodded to Qianhe, then whispered to Lin Jiu beside him, "Is this zombie king Xuankui so amazing?"

Lin Jiu replied, "Zombie King Xuankui, whose real name is 'Aisin-Gioro Xuankui', is of the same generation as Emperor Kangxi. After his death, he was not buried in the imperial mausoleum, but in a place of pure yin. He was transformed into an imperial corpse by masters from various sects. He has a profound cultivation and is one of the top demons in the world. He is also one of the last reliances of the Qing imperial family."

Qianhe talked about his experiences after arriving in Beijing.

"I was transporting a zombie from a royal family in a frontier region to Beijing. We encountered an accident on the way. The zombie escaped and my four disciples died. Fortunately, I got help from Daoist Qiu and was able to solve this big problem. I then accompanied the customer to Beijing to explain and return the reward as an apology."

"I never thought that this was a trap. The frontier royal zombie was arranged long ago by the remnants of the Qing Dynasty. They calculated that it would encounter a thunderbolt on the way. Then, using the blood of Taoist disciples like us and the blood of our loved ones as a guide, they could speed up the cultivation of this zombie, awaken its spiritual wisdom, and add another blessing to them."

"My body was destroyed, so they were not willing to give up and wanted to keep me. If it weren't for the sword energy stored in the dollar given by Fellow Daoist Qiu, which temporarily forced the zombie king Xuankui to retreat, I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to leave the capital alive."

(End of this chapter)