Terrifying Heavens: I'll directly worship the Black Law of Fengdu!

Chapter 20 The God of Rottenness Blocks the Way
Ah Ying said, "Several temples were originally planning a grand procession today, and the route was already set. But unexpectedly, another task came up at the last minute..."

The Yuanshi Palace was bustling with worshippers.

Li Xuan lowered his voice and said, "We probably can't set off today, because we still need a key figure to find Chenjia Village, where the Great Black Buddha Mother is located..."

Ah Ying said with a hint of pride, "Don't worry, when I first went to call my master, he was sitting there casting a divination and gave me this, saying that I should look for this when I felt lost."

He pulled out a piece of paper with a row of numbers written on it.

Li Xuan stared at the numbers, bewildered, searching. Could this be Earth's latitude and longitude data? If he had it, he could pinpoint the target's location with extreme precision...

Open the map app on your phone.

Entering numbers, the map loads, and the arrow lands on a place called Hsinchu Township in Taipei. From the blurry satellite map, the place the arrow points to appears to be a small village, but no name appears. The village is surrounded by mountains; to get in from the main road, you have to walk through a forest…

They even saved the trouble of having Li Ruonan as a guide.

Just then, my phone rang; it was Zhang Zhengze calling.

Li Xuan answered the phone: "Hello, Officer Zhang."

Zhang Zhengze said, "Just now, our colleagues on patrol encountered a girl lying on the ground. It was terrible; she had lost both ears... The wound on the left side was old, while the wound on the right side was very new!"

The girl remained silent.

We had no choice but to check the surveillance footage, and we found Li Ruonan's figure. As soon as she appeared, the girl who was walking suddenly fainted.

Then Li Ruonan squatted down beside her, forcefully tore off the girl's only remaining intact ear with her hands, put it in her pocket, leaving the girl crying on the ground, and then she turned and left..."

Ah!
This connects to the movie's plot!
In the movie, Chen Letong fails to break the curse and automatically searches for the girl, where he is spotted by Li Ruonan.

Li Ruonan didn't want her daughter to die. Remembering that this girl had once been a sacrificial child in Chenjia Village, she went so far as to cut off the girl's ears as a sacrifice and went to Chenjia Village, intending to release the Great Black Buddha Mother so that more people could face the curse and thus lessen her burden...

I thought this plot point wouldn't happen.

Unexpectedly, even without Chen Letong, Li Ruonan still encountered a young girl.

So next, she should be heading to Chenjia Village alone to try and release the Great Black Buddha Mother...

Zhang Zhengze was still talking, saying that Li Ruonan had been lost after passing through a blind spot in the surveillance, and now they could only wait and see if Li Ruonan would return to her daughter Chen Letong.

Li Xuan said, "I'm going to deal with the Great Black Buddha Mother with a friend today. Officer Zhang, please keep an eye on Xiao Le Tong."

Upon hearing this, Zhang Zhengze hurriedly asked, "You know about Chenjia Village even without Li Ruonan?"

Li Xuan nodded and said, "Yes."

Zhang Zhengze's voice rose considerably: "I'm going too! It's too dangerous for you guys to go alone!"

Li Xuan smiled and said, "We are professionals."

Zhang Zhengze coughed and said, "You mean the kind of professional who makes a loud clap of thunder to disperse the fog, and then faints?"

Li Xuan's sunny expression suddenly stopped smiling.

This regular expression is too mischievous; it brings up the very thing that shouldn't be brought up.

He said, "I have a more professional friend to protect me, so it's okay. My phone is off."

I turned off the phone, removed the SIM card, replaced it with a new one, and then turned the phone back on.

Zhang Zhengze is a principled policeman. Chenjia Village is too dangerous; if he goes there, his chances of survival are slim. Moreover, if danger arises, Li Xuan and A Ying might not be able to help.

Chenjia Village has a clear identity.

Ah Ying drove out an SUV and beckoned Li Xuan to get in.

This vehicle seems to be used for a procession of deities; the back seat is filled with various ritual implements and robes, as well as incense, candles, and paper money...

Li Xuan stared at the white crane figure driving the modern SUV, momentarily stunned by the cultural juxtaposition. A gust of wind brought him back to his senses, and he got into the car. Let's go!

Hsinchu Township is a bit far away; it took more than an hour to drive there before we finally entered its area.

With one hand on the steering wheel and the other on his phone which was perched on the vent, Ah Ying said, “Actually, this is the first time my master has asked me to exorcise evil spirits on my own. I’m very excited. It represents a kind of recognition.”

To be honest, I'm still a little nervous, after all, this thing is a big black monster, a Buddha Mother, and an evil god, its name is pretty impressive..."

no……

You seemed pretty awesome in the movie.

Li Xuan couldn't help but ask, "There's no need to be so nervous. The White Crane Boy you're playing is a very powerful attendant of the Primordial Celestial Venerable. Do you know that saying?"

Ah Ying asked, "What?"

Li Xuan said, "In the Heavenly Palace you called me White Crane Boy, and I didn't mind. But in the mortal realm, what should you call me?"

Ah Ying was bewildered: "Isn't he still the White Crane Boy?"

It seems he hasn't heard of similar jokes before.

Li Xuan straightened his chest and said with a disdainful expression, "You should call me Immortal Venerable White Crane!"

Ah Ying's eyes lit up, and his face seemed even more vibrant in the dim forest environment. He said, "That makes sense. Immortal Venerable White Crane is still more domineering!"

The red hook lines at the corners of his mouth, painted on his face, were turned up quite a bit.

The SUV moved slowly through the woods. There used to be a road leading to the village, but it hadn't been used for years, so the ground was overgrown with weeds...

Click.

The car suddenly stopped, as if something was stuck.

Li Xuan got out of the car to check and found that a highly rotten wooden statue was stuck in the wheel. After taking it out, he found that it was so rotten that it was almost just a blurry outline.

He knew it was a statue because in the movie, six years ago, on the way to Chenjia Village for the first time with her boyfriend, Li Ruonan's car was stuck by the statue...

This statue is stopping Li Ruonan six years ago, and it's also stopping them today.

Back in the car.

Li Xuan placed the statue on the center console and said, "It's this statue that's causing the wheel jamming."

Ah Ying's expression turned serious. He looked the statue up and down but couldn't recognize it. He said, "The statue is so badly damaged that it should have lost its spirit, but it still jumped out to stop us from entering the village. This means that the danger in the village this time is much greater than we imagined..."

The voice just fell.

The statue cracked open from the middle, and a large amount of black water flowed out.

Ah Ying opened the window and threw the statue out. He said with a stern face, "I miscalculated. I should have brought my friends with me. A procession to the town would have been much more impressive. That thing definitely wouldn't have been able to escape."

Li Xuan understood the subtext in those words: "We're in a bit of danger."

He asked, "Is the White Crane Boy not high enough in status? Not powerful enough?"

Ah Ying said, “Look at this forest ahead, it’s so gloomy. We’re going in alone, completely isolated and helpless. We don’t have the energy and spirit of the crowds who gather around us during the procession, nor the drum and gong troupe to boost our morale, and we don’t have any other friends in the procession!”
My cultivation allows me to play the role of the White Crane Child only once… White Crane Immortal Venerable, and the time cannot exceed three minutes, unless you can join the drum corps to boost my morale!

When Li Xuan was a child, he played the suona and drums in the school band. Later, he was inexplicably assigned to the funeral band for villagers...

I later learned that each member of the funeral band received ten yuan per performance.

He looked at Ah Ying and said, "I started playing the suona and drums when I was a kid, so I can definitely give you some encouragement!"

(End of this chapter)