One Qi Chaoyang

Chapter 203: The Power of Fire Talisman

There are more than ten Red Flame Temples of various sizes throughout Luo.

Yang Xiao'e was born in Luodu. She studied in a private monastery at first. Later, because her family often donated things to a nearby Chiyan Temple, Yang Xiao'e showed a certain talent for cultivation and was admitted to the Chiyan Temple as a temple boy.

And she has been serving as a temple boy until now.

Only after laying the foundation can one apply to open a new temple and become a temple priest.

She went to the Chiyan Temple where she practiced, and asked the priest about a man named Zhu Ke.

She thought she needed to ask the temple priest, but the priest just kept silent for a moment and then asked, "Who asked you to ask about him?"

Yang Xiaoe was a little scared, so she could only repeat Zhao Fuyun's reasons. The other party just hesitated for a moment and said, "The last news Zhu Ke gave to the temple was that he went to the Southern Wilderness Jiyetian."

Yang Xiaoe was also very surprised and asked, "Why did he go there?"

Of course she had heard of the Southern Wilderness, where it was shrouded in darkness all year round and where demons were rampant. It was the world of demons.

"He wrote to the temple saying that a friend of his was going to the polar night and he wanted to light a lamp for him so that he wouldn't be drowned in the darkness." The temple keeper sighed, "He is such a loving and caring person. He went into the darkness for his friend. He is truly a beacon of light for us."

Yang Xiao'e didn't understand what kind of friendship there was between Zhu Ke and his friend. She couldn't understand what kind of friendship could make her follow the other person into such a dangerous and evil place, since he wasn't her lover.

But fortunately, she didn't need to figure this out, she just needed to tell Zhao Fuyun the result.

After hearing the news, Zhao Fuyun thought of the friendship between Zhu Ke and Lan Hui. He sighed and picked up the talisman pen to write down his experience of drawing fire talismans on a piece of white paper.

The paper was filled with tiny calligraphy, and after it was finished, it was handed to Yang Xiao'e, who took it and read it excitedly, and found that it was written in great detail, from the initial preparation and mental preparation to the control of the mind from the beginning to the end.

It was written in great detail. After the other party finished reading it, he said, "You can buy one of my Fire Talisman and Divine Fire Talisman and copy them. The closer you are to the fire, the more your body and mind will ignite."

Yang Xiao'e hesitated for a moment, but finally paid for it with spirit stones, which made her already tight wallet even more strained.

This time when she and Jing Qing entered the dark prison, not only did they not gain anything, they also spent a lot of spirit stones and lost people. Some of the elixirs and talismans they bought were also used up. These were all expenses.

A fire talisman costs three spirit stones, while the divine fire talisman only costs three spirit stones. However, for Yang Xiao'e, who has no way to make money, it is still a bit difficult.

Zhao Fuyun sat back in the chair, thinking that his talismans were not expensive. After all, this chair only cost two spirit stones. Although the other party said that it was made of spirit wood and there were some talismans engraved on it, the level of those talismans was not high. It was just that the wood was good.

After Yang Xiao'e left, he wondered if the painting was deliberately left for him to see, and the only person who saw his appearance was the one from the Joint Patrol Division.

He didn't know the other person, nor did he sense any malice from him.

When Huang Donglai came to the store with a teapot, Zhao Fuyun showed him the rumor report he had received. After receiving it, the other party immediately flipped through the back. When he saw the painting, he couldn't move his eyes and said, "What's the point of reading this kind of vagrant paper? The news in it is all outdated or hearsay. There is no truth in it. It only has these fancy things. If you want to see real people, you have to subscribe to "Xuan Family New Affairs"."

"New things about the Xuan family?" Zhao Fuyun knew what it meant just by hearing the name.

Huang Donglai looked at the people in the painting and said without raising his head, "From the nobles to the famous figures among the independent cultivators, if something new happens, it will be recorded on paper."

"Manager Huang, if you like this painting, how about taking it back and enjoying it slowly?" Zhao Fuyun said.

Huang Donglai looked at the person on the paper, and suddenly sighed, saying, "This person looks like the daughter of an old friend. I never thought she would end up like this. I'll have to go see her in a couple of days and ask her for the truth."

Zhao Fuyun stared at him. He picked up the teapot, coughed, and said, "Why, don't you believe it?"

"If that's the case, it's better for Manager Huang not to let anyone know." Zhao Fuyun said.

"Yes, considering his reputation, considering the reputation of my friend, it is not appropriate to spread the word. Taoist priest should not be a talkative person." Huang Donglai said.

"Of course not." Zhao Fuyun replied.

Afterwards, Huang Donglai took the painting away in a somewhat awkward manner. When he reached the door, he turned back and said that this painting could be directly exempted from the external ranking and directly enter the cabinet.

Zhao Fuyun didn't understand the twists and turns here. How could he, who never liked to visit brothels and only liked to drink tea and read Taoist books by the fire, care about this? He waved the book in his hand and Huang Donglai left happily.

He knew from Huang Donglai's attitude that the drawing paper was probably not directed at him.

Of course, Huang Donglai didn’t know why he didn’t buy it himself.

But he had just sat there reading for a while when a woman suddenly rushed in, threw a ball of paper at him, and said angrily, "Shame on you."

After the other party finished speaking, he shook his head, leaving a scent that spread throughout the shop.

The paper ball fell into Zhao Fuyun's arms. He knew it was the portrait without opening it.

Although I don’t know who this girl is, I can guess a little.

He couldn't help but shake his head and laugh, and threw the paper ball into the fire next to him. In just a moment, the paper ball was burning, and a cloud of gray smoke rushed up and then dissipated.

After that, Zhao Fuyun didn't see Huang Donglai for the whole day.

Of course, Zhao Fuyun would not deliberately look for the other party.

He has eaten a lot in the past two days. Although he can refine it, there will still be residues after the grains enter the intestines, so he feels the urge to defecate.

Fortunately, the previous family took away a lot of things, but the toilet was left here.

Why would a spiritual practitioner need to go to the toilet?
Why would a fairy squat to poop?

Zhao Fuyun felt that this was not a good feeling. If he wanted to have the air of an immortal, he should abstain from food and poop, he thought to himself.

After pulling it once, he took the cold ashes from the stove and put them in it to prevent it from smelling and getting sticky.
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Huang Donglai was sitting in the living room with several red marks on his neck. He was drinking tea from a teapot and sighing.

His son Huang Ji went out for night patrol, but Huang Donglai did not go and give instructions as usual. Huang Ji seemed to know what had happened to his father, so he just glanced at him and left.

He joined the Joint Patrol Division.

There is a rule for recruiting patrolmen in the Joint Patrol Department. They must be born in Luodu, not just living here now, but their parents must have lived here for at least ten years. Only then are they eligible to participate in the selection. What is important is a good family background.

In recent days, the Joint Patrol Department has been quite tense. Huang Ji once heard people say that when a country is in turmoil, demons will naturally breed. He hopes that the whole world will be in turmoil, but Luodu will not be in turmoil, after all, his family is here.

However, in recent days, several families in Luodu have died. Although the deceased were all elderly widows and widowers, there was not much impact. They even told the outside world that they died of natural causes.

But as a patrolman, he knew that these people had their souls, spirits and blood devoured.

He carried a sword on his back, held a lantern in his hand, hid a talisman on his waist, and wore armor under his shirt. He walked in the night towards the place where they gathered every day.

His sword was a magic sword that came out of the Linfeng Sword Furnace. It was sharp and tough, and had the power to cut gold and break thoughts. He named it the Zhan Nian Sword.

The lantern in his hand comes from the Red Flame Temple and is called the Yang Fire Lantern. It has the mysterious power to break the yin and drive away evil spirits.

There were talismans of different categories on his waist.

As usual, he assembled a small team of three and began patrolling along the assigned fixed routes.

The main direction of their patrol was an area of workshops, which included his own workshop for making talisman paper, an iron smelting and alchemy workshop, and a talisman pen workshop. The area was very large, and of course it was not just his team that was involved.

He walked along the designated route and came to the river.

The water in the river gives off a strange smell, and the relationship between Luodu and the aquatic creatures in the river is becoming increasingly tense. This is because the sewage discharged from the workshop flows into the river, causing many aquatic creatures to become sick. It is said that many of them have red and ulcerated skin.

Two years ago, there was an incident where aquatic creatures in the river came ashore during a night of wind and heavy rain and attacked the workshop.

Therefore, the riverside was an important patrolling place. They walked along the riverside for a while, and then turned at a fork in the road. The patrol was only for a section, and they came to the dormitory of the long-term workers in the workshop.

There is a Chiyan Temple here. If the workshop workers get sick, they will come to this temple for treatment. The temple keeper has acupuncture skills that are quite effective.

When passing by the Chiyan Temple, he saw a female temple child practicing drawing talismans in the air facing a fire basin under the statue of the temple. He knew that it was Yang Xiao'e, the temple child of the temple.

They walked past a section of farmhands' quarters, where everything was quiet.

However, Huang Ji suddenly felt a chill, and the lantern in his hand moved without wind, and then seemed to be suppressed by something.

Huang Ji's heart skipped a beat, and a thought came to his mind: "Could it be that I have won the jackpot and encountered that demon?"

He looked into the darkness and saw an alley, which was pitch black.

The other two also noticed something was wrong and looked at the alley with him.

So he made a gesture, and the two men jumped up and went to the roof. They wanted to look down from the roof, while he walked towards the alley with the lantern.

The sword on the back has been slowly drawn out.

Getting closer step by step, walking into the darkness step by step.

He walked into the alley, as if walking into the mouth of a monster.

The moment he walked in, he felt the dampness, and the light from the lantern in his hand was so dim that he couldn't even see clearly where his feet were.

His magic power was broken, and light surged, but it could not illuminate the alley.

He remembered that the alley was not deep, but now it felt bottomless. He stopped decisively and looked up to see where his two companions were, but there was only darkness without even a star.

He turned around and was about to leave, but the alley entrance where he came from was no longer there, leaving only deep darkness.

He was shocked, cold sweat broke out on his back and his scalp went numb.

The sword in his hand immediately swung towards the side wall, trying to cut through the wall. However, when he raised this magical sword that had the power to cut gold and cut off thoughts, a resistance appeared in the void, and the void darkness seemed to have turned into void water.

The sword cut through it, but it couldn't cut it through.

An invisible force blocked him, and he seemed to be suddenly wrapped in a bubble, or as if he had become smaller. He became disoriented and couldn't even figure out the direction.

The Yang Fire Talisman Lamp in his hand suddenly went out and he could see nothing.

He threw away the Yang Fire Talisman Lamp in his hand, picked up a series of talismans from his arms and waved them out. However, these talismans were just in the darkness, like candlelight falling into water, the light only flashed for a moment and then disappeared.

His heart was already in a panic. This darkness was like water that was about to drown him. He felt as if he was suffocating and couldn't breathe.

He threw out the talismans on his waist one after another, but none of them could break the darkness.

He panicked and could no longer tell what talismans he was waving. One of them in his hand was the same as an ordinary fire talisman, only warm. However, when his magic power poured into it, he felt his magic power being quickly drained away.

Just when he thought he was about to be sucked dry by the fire talisman, the fire talisman finally seemed to be full, and at this moment, a burst of flames surged.

In his eyes, he saw a golden divine bird flying up and a brilliant fire. At that moment, the darkness was instantly broken, and the darkness that had made him despair like water was drying up and dissipating.

He saw a person in the darkness, with water dripping all over his body. The person's body looked like a rotten steamed bun, but his eyes were eerie and terrifying.

He only took a glance, and the golden divine bird had already pounced on the other person. In just a moment, the damp and evil intention on that person's body instantly dried up and then burned.

Huang Ji saw the strange 'corpse' open its mouth, but no sound came out, and then it fell down with a 'bang' in the burning flames.

Huang Ji gasped for breath. He picked up his sword, but did not dare to get any closer. He quickly retreated from the alley and went to look for someone.

Soon, people from the Joint Patrol Division arrived and discovered that the other two people who had jumped onto the roof were actually dead. They looked like they had drowned, but in a short period of time, they looked like swollen corpses who had been dead for a long time.

The one who came was the patrol captain. He squatted down and looked at the corpse. After a long while, he stood up and said, "This is an evil corpse that came out of the water. Huang Ji, it's amazing that you can survive."

"Where did this fire talisman come from?"

Huang Ji was somewhat bewildered, and said, "I don't know either. I was casting the talisman at random at the time, and I don't know where the talisman came from."

(End of this chapter)