On the Avenue

Chapter 124 Never Return the Money Until Death

The scholar in blue immediately took precautions.

He was afraid that Chen Shi would ask his name. The last time Chen Shi asked him that, he was about to answer when Chen Shi's leg chopped his neck.

That battle did not turn out as he expected, with a battle between the northern and southern talisman masters. In the end, his legs were cut off and he fled in panic.

He has been recovering from his injuries until now, but his body has turned into a filamentous worm and cannot return to human form.

Returning to human form means losing his legs and becoming disabled.

Becoming disabled means death.

Now half of his body is evil and the other half is human. He is neither human nor evil, all because Chen Shi asked his name!

Now Chen Shi asked his name again, using the same old trick. How could he be fooled?

Seeing that he did not answer, Chen Shi asked another question.

The scholar in green clothes still did not answer. He looked down and sneered: "Chen Shi, today is not a dispute between the northern and southern talisman masters, but revenge! Today I will recover from my injuries and come to avenge my broken leg!"

He carried a large vermilion gourd on his back, more than one person tall. Blood plasma gushed upward from the mouth of the gourd, forming a complex rune structure of about an acre in radius above his head.

Chen Shi had never seen the structure of this talisman before, but he could understand what it was at a glance.

The beginning of the rune was no longer the Sanqingwen of ordinary talismans, but the Yamawen symbolizing the Ten Courts of Hell.

The Yamawen was square like a ghost face, and below the ghost face was the Wangchuan River outlined in simple strokes, and below it was the North Sea. The footnotes on the left and right sides were the Taishan True Shape Map and Fengdu True Shape Map respectively.

If it was a normal talisman structure, it would be completed at this point. However, this talisman drawn with blood has many patterns on the top, middle and bottom that Chen Shi cannot understand. They are like tadpole characters, rotating and twisting, like tadpoles of different shapes swimming in the talisman.

Their positions are not fixed. The ones on the top may swim to the bottom, and the ones on the bottom may also swim to the top. Their shapes are also changing, which is extremely mysterious and seems to contain some strange truth.

Chen Shi was awe-inspiring: "The southern talisman created by my grandfather has indeed been greatly improved compared to the northern talisman, and it is no longer the same thing!"

This kind of talisman structure, his grandfather has never taught him.

However, there are many books hidden in the east wing of the old Chen family. Chen Shi would go there to flip through them whenever he had nothing to do. Most of them were his grandfather's collection of books, and there might be content in this regard.

Many people in the town also noticed the strange phenomenon in the sky and looked up.

More people seemed to be infected by them, and they also stopped their work and looked up at the sky.

The place they were in was called Zaojiao Town, and the town was famous for its eight ancient soapberry trees.

Each of these soapberry trees was ten times thicker, and ten adults could only hug one circle with their arms outstretched. Each soapberry tree had its own spirit, and it was condensed into a divine image, which was eight Taoists of different forms, dressed in gray, thin and vigorous, sitting motionless on the treetops.

The eight Taoists usually guarded Zaojiao Town, and the area within a radius of a mile was all covered by the power of the eight of them, and evil spirits could not invade.

However, at this moment, the eight Taoists could not help but look solemn, looked up at the sky, and stood up.

Above the head of the green-clothed scholar, in the blood-colored rune of a radius of about an acre, a huge figure gradually emerged from the rune.

It was a head with a green face and fangs, and the head was ten feet in radius. It poked out of the rune, ferocious and terrifying, with faces on all sides, and billowing black smoke from the eyes, ears, mouth and nose.

Chen Shi discovered that when it grew out of this blood rune, the rune was more like a process of changing from a plane to a three-dimensional one!

It was like stretching a plane rune into a three-dimensional form and turning it into a ghost face.

In the vermilion gourd, blood plasma continued to flow out and was injected into the blood rune. After the four-sided ghost head was born, new ghost heads grew out, followed by the third, fourth, and fifth!

Four-sided ghost heads, about ten feet in diameter, continuously emerged from the blood rune and flew towards the Zaojiao Town below, a dark mass.

The faces of the gods of the eight soapberry trees were solemn, and the branches of the soapberry trees were flying. When the branches twitched, a huge bubble flew out, shining with colorful light in the sunlight, and met these four-sided ghost heads.

Those bubbles were also about ten feet in diameter. After wrapping the ghost heads, they carried the ghost heads to the sky.

Many ghost heads spewed fireworks from their mouths, burning the bubbles and exploding them, and then new bubbles flew out and wrapped the ghost heads again.

"The godmother Taoist priest in Zaojiao Town is quite powerful!"

Chen Shi's eyes lit up. He originally planned to lure the blue-clothed scholar out of Zaojiao Town, but the blue-clothed scholar did not give him this opportunity and actually attacked directly in the town.

However, judging from the situation, the eight Taoist priests should be enough to stop the blue-clothed scholar.

Suddenly, the flying ghost head in the air spewed fire from all sides, burning all the bubbles and making them explode.

"They can't stop it!"

Chen Shi no longer hesitated, immediately jumped up, jumped onto the roof of the house next to him, and ran out of the town.

"Hu——"

A huge ghost head with smoke everywhere fell from the sky, opened its mouth, and spewed thick smoke and poisonous fire from its mouth, spraying towards him!

Chen Shi jumped to avoid it, and the thick smoke and poisonous fire sprayed on the house, and the green tiles were burned and exploded.

Chen Shi was in the air, and a small temple appeared. The sword energy flashed by and blew the head of the huge ghost head away!

Seeing this, the scholar in blue was startled: "What a fast sword energy! No wonder it can cut off my leg!"

This talisman is not an ordinary one, but a third-grade talisman recorded in the "Talisman Creation Treasure Book", named Ghost Car. Creation talismans are divided into nine grades, corresponding to the nine grades of divine fetuses, among which the silkworm is only a sixth-grade creation talisman.

The ghost car ranks third, much higher than the silkworm.

This kind of talisman is extremely strong, and the precious blood used to draw the talisman is also very particular. Not only must the black dog blood, which is the most yang thing, be used to write the most yin talisman, but also centipede, sulfur, cinnabar and other things must be collected to make medicine. After the preparation is completed, a volcano must be found and the volcanic fire must be used to refine impurities.

Basically, out of 100% of the materials, only 10% of the precious blood can be refined.

After refining, it can be used to draw the third-grade talisman.

But such a precious ghost car was beheaded by Chen Shi with a sword, and it turned into corrupt blood plasma on the spot and spilled down, which was extremely smelly.

The blue-clothed scholar had a thought, and saw huge ghost heads swooping down from the sky, dragging billowing smoke, heading straight for Chen Shi.

Chen Shi moved quickly on the houses to avoid the flames spewed out by the ghost car.

The ghost car seemed to be not powerful, but in fact it was extremely powerful. The flames they spewed out were not ordinary fires, but netherworld ghost fires.

The strength of the eight Taoists was far beyond that of ordinary godmothers, and even the ghosts were often no match for them. Their bubbles were enough to trap ordinary ghosts and prevent them from breaking free. But they broke when burned by the ghost car's netherworld ghost fire, which showed how powerful it was.

A huge ghost head was spinning and approaching quickly from behind. Every face turned to face Chen Shi, and then it spewed out a netherworld ghost fire, with a tongue of fire several feet long!

It just turned the third circle and exploded with a bang, but it was pierced through the head by an invisible sword energy.

Chen Shi seemed to be fleeing in a panic, but the ghost heads chasing him in the air exploded one after another, and corrupt blood fell from the sky, spilling everywhere.

Chen Shi finally ran out of Zaojiao Town, urged his true qi, sacrificed the divine fetus, and shouted: "Xiaozao!"

His true qi penetrated the small temple, and the righteousness in the temple lasted forever, pouring into the fat baby in the shrine.

The next moment, a jujube tree appeared behind him, lush and green, with thick branches like dragons, winding and twisting, stretching to the sky!

Chen Shi jumped up, jumped onto the tree, and rushed into the sky along the thick branches.

The jujube tree was full of red dates the size of a human head, painted with colorful colors, like the painted faces of opera singers.

The branches and leaves danced, and the human-head jujubes also danced.

The people of Zaojiao Town were amazed at the towering trees that suddenly grew outside the town. Suddenly, they saw these jujubes opened their eyes and mouths one after another, and they were human heads, men, women, old and young.

People were stunned, and saw the human-headed jujubes flying, meeting the ghost heads rushing in the sky, and biting them when they pounced on them. Those ghost heads also opened their mouths and sprayed fireworks, burning these human-headed jujubes.

Some opened their bloody mouths and bit off the jujubes!

In the sky outside the town, there was a fierce fight for a while.

But more of the four-sided ghost heads pounced on Chen Shi who was rushing into the sky on the jujube tree, trying to eat Chen Shi.

Ding Ding hugged the pipa and hurriedly passed through the streets of Zaojiao Town and ran out of the town.

When she came under the tree, she saw Chen Shi jumping like flying and had already come to the sky along this towering tree!

She looked up and saw Chen Shi running along the branches, getting higher and higher, as if he was going to the clouds.

Those four-sided ghost heads that pounced on him were often blocked by the flying human-headed jujubes before they came to him, and only tongues of fire with billowing black smoke were spraying around.

Suddenly, a four-faced ghost head invaded between the branches, opened its bloody mouth, and swallowed Chen Shi in one gulp.

Ding Ding screamed, but saw the ghost head's skull was blown off, and Chen Shi jumped out of the skull, leaping between the branches like flying, avoiding the attacks of those ghost heads, and quickly approached the blue-clothed scholar in the sky!

"Young master is so fierce!"

Ding Ding breathed a sigh of relief, and suddenly a sad and angry voice came from the air.

"You can't leave! You still owe me twenty taels of silver!"

Ding Ding couldn't help but smile, thinking: "Young master is still obsessed with the twenty taels of silver."

Chen Shi had already come to the crown of the jujube tree. Under his feet, Zaojiao Town could only see a group of blue-black tile houses. The streets became smaller and pedestrians were like ants.

At such a high altitude, he would definitely be smashed into pieces if he fell!

Chen Shi ignored it, jumped up, and pounced on the blue-clothed scholar in the air.

The body of the blue-clothed scholar was half a filamentous worm. Although it had no wings, it could move freely in the air. More than 30 pairs of arms stepped on the air. He suddenly ran with force to avoid Chen Shi's attack. His body lifted up the upper body like a snake and python, waving his arms one by one, and his claws were like sharp hooks, slashing at Chen Shi.

His arms were about 17 or 18 feet long, with sharp claws and bones outside, which were extremely hard. When he swung down, it was like a giant waving a sickle to harvest the lives of mortals!

Moreover, one arm with five claws was equivalent to waving five giant sickles.

Although the filamentous worm was a sixth-grade creation talisman, it was still very powerful in close combat. Ordinary cultivators would be chopped to pieces in a short time.

Especially in the air, the blue-clothed scholar was walking on flat ground, but Chen Shi could not fly like him.

Neither the divine walking talisman nor the armor horse talisman could stay in the air.

But the next moment, starlight exploded under Chen Shi's feet, and the star symbol of Tianxuan Star instantly became extremely dazzling. The light flowed along his body. He paused in the air, punched like the wind, and met the attack of the blue-clothed scholar!

"Crack!"

One of the blue-clothed scholar's arms was pierced by Chen Shi's punch, and the huge arm was broken, and fell from the air with a whistle.

His wounds were splattered with green blood, and he screamed, but at this moment, Chen Shi had already landed on his back and ran wildly up his back!

Dozens of ghost cars spun upwards and pounced on Chen Shi on his back, but it was already too late.

"Bang!"

The blood gourd exploded, and the precious bloodline cultivated by the master in green was scattered and turned into a curtain of blood.

Chen Shi jumped out of the blood curtain and punched the scholar in Tsing Yi on the back of the head. Then the fist turned into a palm and slapped the scholar in Tsing Yi's ears hard. Then his body sank suddenly, and his hands were like knives, inserted into the scholar in Tsing Yi's ears. The place where the two kidneys are located below the waist!

Behind him, the ghost-cart runes that rushed toward him exploded one after another, turning into smelly rain of blood and falling from the sky. However, when viewed from below, they looked like red fireworks, extremely gorgeous.

"Don't die first!"

In the air, Chen Yong shook the Qingyi scholar's head vigorously and said loudly, "You haven't paid the money for Sanhe Village yet! Wake up, wake up!"

The green-robed scholar's head hung down and tilted to one side, and the body of the filarial worm also began to explode and decompose, turning into green water and floating down.

The two of them fell, and Chen Shi fell on the jujube tree.

But I saw that the sky-covering jujube tree began to shrink, and the branches inserted into the sky became shorter and thinner.

The human-head jujubes became smaller and smaller, turning into ordinary red jujubes hanging on the trees.

In the shrine of the small temple behind Chen Shi's head, the fat baby Xiaozao looked at the scene outside the temple and shed two lines of tears from the corners of his eyes.

It failed to protect the villagers of Sanhe Village and was not a good godmother.

But today, it finally used Chen Shi's hands to avenge these people who died in vain.

Chen Shi took a step forward and fell down from the jujube tree. He looked at the scholar in green and fell to the ground and sighed silently.

"He still owes me twenty taels..."

Ding Ding saw a money bag rolled out from the body of the scholar in green. He quickly picked it up with a branch, opened it and glanced at it. He was surprised and happy and said: "Sir, there are thousands of taels of silver notes in it!"

Chen Shi's heart moved slightly and he said: "It's probably a commission to kill me! This ill-gotten wealth..."

He hesitated.

Grandpa said that you can’t take money from dead people.

Chen Shi gritted his teeth: "... Just give it to the people in the town. In the fight just now, many houses were burned down. Repairing these houses will also require a lot of money."

Ding Ding looked at him, feeling deeply moved in his heart: "I never thought that the young master would be so kind-hearted."

Chen Shi said silently in his heart: "The scholar in blue, I still don't know his name."

Ding Ding entered the town with his money bag to deal with the matter of repairing the house. Chen Shi was waiting outside the town. He was covered in blood and it was inconvenient to enter the town.

At this time, a middle-aged man came over and said with a smile from a distance: "Chen Shi? Chen Shi from Huangpo Village?"

Chen Shi turned around, faced the middle-aged man directly, and said doubtfully: "I am Chen Shi. May I ask who you are?"

"Governor of Xinxiang, Li Xiaozheng." The middle-aged man smiled.