On the Avenue

Chapter 166 Repaying a Favor

Fei Tianzheng left.

Chen Shi and Li Tianqing looked at Cao Yunshen's body on the ground without saying a word.

Fei Tianzheng's kick just now had cracked Cao Yunshen's head, and his brains were all over the ground.

Cao Yunshen stared at the ground, but he was no longer breathing.

This man was also a hero in Gongzhou City. He was originally a scholar in the countryside. Later, he passed the imperial examination and entered the city. He had a reputation, but he waited for six or seven years and the court had not appointed him. That year, there was a heavy rain, which damaged many fishing boats and killed many people. Cao Yunshen invited Minjiang Lao Lao to establish the Cao Lao Association.

The Cao Lao Association grew stronger in his hands and competed with the Yan Lao Association, Tianmu Association and Hongshan Hall. Cao Yunshen was versatile and good at dancing with long sleeves. He wandered among the thirteen families like a fish in water.

But that was a peaceful period.

Now that the devil has changed and the order has collapsed, he can't survive even if he is good at dancing with long sleeves.

Chen Shi and Li Tianqing continued to walk out with the big fish. Suddenly, a loud noise came from the main altar of the Cao Lao Hui. Chen Shi looked back and saw the water roaring and rushing into the air. In the water was a black carp whose head had turned into a dragon.

On the head of the black carp sat an old woman with a turban on her head, leaning on a cane that was much taller than herself, controlling the water and rushing towards the Minjiang River!

That was Minjiang Grandma.

The body was a black carp. Because she lived too long and had spirituality, she was respected as Grandma by the fishermen on the river.

Cao Yunshen was born in the countryside, so he brought the customs of the village to the city and asked those who joined the association to worship Minjiang Grandma as their godmother.

Minjiang Grandma was originally beaten by the boatman and his daughter, and knew that this was a life-and-death moment, so she tried to escape back to Minjiang.

Fei Tianzheng, Xia Chuli and other senior officials ignored her and let her escape into the river. Everyone continued to sit down and enjoy the delicious food. Many retainers and subordinates went to chase after Minjiang Grandma.

It was just a trivial matter, so they didn't need to do anything.

The reason why Cao Yunshen was killed just now was mainly because Cao Yunshen was a dog supported by Fei Tianzheng. If the dog is disobedient, the owner will naturally kill him.

Otherwise, Fei Tianzheng would not even be interested in killing Cao Yunshen.

As for Minjiang Grandma's escape, just leave it to his subordinates.

Chen Shi and Li Tianqing carried the big fish out of the main hall of Cao Laohui. The two walked down the Minjiang River in silence.

After a while, Li Tianqing broke the silence and said, "In the Demon Realm, the demonic transformation is still going on. Many people are affected by the demons. Even if these senior officials have cultivated their primordial spirits and reached the state of divine descent and refining emptiness, they will inevitably be affected by the demonic transformation and breed hostility."

"Tianqing, why do you have to flatter them?"

Chen Shi shook his head and said, "You and I are also in the Demon Realm, why don't we have demonic nature in our hearts?"

Li Tianqing sighed and smiled bitterly, "Xiao Shi, this is the last layer of face on our family's face, why do you have to peel it off?"

At this time, the river water surged, and the old woman stood on the head of the black carp, waving her cane, raising waves of river water, the water was surging, and it roared, rushing towards the masters brought by the major families.

Suddenly, hundreds of water-fixing talismans flew out, and the surging water was fixed in the air!

The river water was also fixed and stopped flowing.

Hundreds of soldiers rushed over quickly, each landing on the river surface, and stepped on the river surface to rush forward.

Underwater, because of the water-fixing talisman, Minjiang Lao Lao swam very hard and was caught up by these soldiers. Chen Shi had seen the leader. It was Xia Luoying, the son of General Xia, who served as a lieutenant general in the border army.

He had a very high level of cultivation. He once stood in the air with great magic power, which was very eye-catching.

He commanded these soldiers to encircle Minjiang Lao Lao.

"It's the border army!"

Li Tianqing looked at it and whispered, "Gongzhou is close to the sea. In order to guard against the landing of sea monsters, six guards were built and many border soldiers were raised."

Chen Shi didn't know much about the border army, but he had heard that a scholar from the same hometown failed to pass the imperial examination, so he joined the border army and guarded the guard. Although the monthly salary was not small, the county government would often send yamen runners to the scholar's family every few months and give three taels of silver.

All the wives who received the three taels of silver cried bitterly. Chen Shi envied them for getting the three taels of silver, but later he learned that their husbands died in the battle in the garrison, and the three taels of silver were for compensation.

These border troops were extremely brave. While running on the river, they used various spells to attack the Minjiang Grandma who was swimming hard under the river.

More than a dozen border troops urged their long spears and jumped high. The surface of the long spears burst out dazzling talisman patterns, and with a swishing sound, they were inserted into the river!

Blood gushed out under the river.

Those long spears were tied with chains, and the long spears with chains dragged the more than ten border troops and rushed wildly on the river.

Suddenly, many more border troops rushed to the river, ignited fist-sized bullets filled with gunpowder, and smashed them into the water. Thunder suddenly came from the bottom of the water.

Many border troops also wielded heavy weapons such as sledgehammers and axes, with various talisman patterns on the surface, and smashed them into the water.

There were dozens of border troops on the shore, lighting three-eyed muskets and bird guns, shooting at the Minjiang Grandma swimming in the river.

The Minjiang Grandma was extremely popular, and her magic power was unpredictable, even better than that of the cultivators in the God Transformation Period, but she was not enough in front of hundreds of border troops and was beaten all over.

Chen Shi and Li Tianqing were secretly shocked. The way the army fought was completely different from the battle between cultivators.

When the various weapons, muskets, and talismans of the border troops were sacrificed in groups, even if the cultivation level was much higher than theirs, they would be beaten to death by them!

"Monk, how can we break the army's attack?"

Such an idea suddenly popped up in Chen Shi's mind, and he remembered the situation when Xiao Wangsun faced the bombardment of the Shenji Camp.

Xiao Wangsun practiced two flying swords, the long sword protected his body and welcomed the bombardment, and the short sword flew to kill the enemy.

Then, if it was himself, how would he face the attack of the army?

Chen Shi thought about it carefully, but he was helpless!

The two of them continued to rush towards Hongshan Hall with the big fish, away from the Minjiang River. The shouts and shouts from the Minjiang River gradually faded away.

Suddenly, Chen Shi stopped and said with a smile: "Tianqing, you take this big fish back to Hongshan Hall first."

Li Tianqing was startled and understood his intention. He immediately said: "Wait a moment, I will pick you up!"

"No need!"

Chen Shi put down the big fish and smiled, "I just show off a trick and come back. I won't take any risks. Heiguo, you go back with Tianqing and keep him safe."

Heiguo shouted.

Li Tianqing lifted the big fish above his head and immediately rushed to the main hall of Hongshan Hall.

Chen Shi came to a house on the street, entered the kitchen of this family, and grabbed a porcelain bowl.

He held the porcelain bowl with one hand, with the bottom of the bowl facing up, and with the other hand pinched the sword formula, while walking towards the river, chanting.

A strange talisman pattern gradually emerged at the bottom of the bowl, with a fish in the middle, and the dragon patterns and names of the four sea dragon kings in the southeast, northwest, and north and south respectively.

This talisman is called the fish-attracting talisman, which is often asked for by fishermen.

When Chen Shi followed his grandfather to sell talismans, some fishermen who often couldn't catch fish would eagerly beg his grandfather to draw a few fish-attracting talismans for them.

This kind of talisman is not very useful, but it sells very well.

Chen Shi pointed and drew with his fingertips under the bowl, drawing Taotie patterns around the porcelain bowl, forming a Taotie swallowing the sky talisman structure.

By the time the talisman was finished, he had already arrived at the Minjiang River.

In the distance, Xia Luoying led the border troops to besiege Minjiang Grandma. The river surface had been dyed blood red, but because of the water-fixing talisman, the river water was still, and the river water on Chen Shi's side was still clear.

He came to the river with a porcelain bowl, squatted down, held the bottom of the bowl with his hand, and slowly sank the porcelain bowl under the river surface.

Chen Shi silently recited the fish-recruiting spell. After a while, suddenly a cry came from a distance: "The black carp is gone!"

"Search quickly!"

"She was seriously injured and can't escape!"

A small black fish swam into Chen Shi's bowl. Chen Shi held up the bowl, walked up the river bank, and walked towards Hongshan Hall.

The river was in chaos, and the border soldiers searched everywhere, but they never found the whereabouts of Minjiang Grandma.

Chen Shi held the bowl carefully. Several soldiers of the border army rushed past him. One of them stopped and looked at Chen Shi's bowl. There was only a bowl of water in the bowl, and a black fish was printed on the bottom of the bowl, but nothing else.

The soldiers on the other side left.

Chen Shi walked slowly and unknowingly for several miles, avoiding those annoying big mushrooms along the way, and gradually approached Hongshan Hall.

Suddenly a voice came: "Wait. You are the one whose name you can't call, right?"

Chen Shi stopped and looked in the direction of the voice. Xia Luoying was standing in the air, looking down at him from above.

There were footsteps coming from all around, and each of them hid.

Chen Shi's body was covered with goose bumps, and he was shocked: "There are fourteen muskets, aiming at my forehead, sun, throat, heart, back, legs and dantian! There is another person aiming at the back of my head!"

That's where the shrine appeared!

Xia Luoying stood on a high place, and could overlook the fontanelle on his head. This was the gate of heaven, the place where the golden elixir entered and exited!

These border soldiers trapped him in it!

Chen Shi was strong in spirit and extremely sensitive. He clearly felt that these masters were watching his body parts, but the speed of the bullets from the musket burst out was very fast, and he was afraid that he would not have time to dodge!

Chen Shi bowed and said, "It turned out to be Lord Xia. What do you have to say, Lord Xia?"

Xia Luoying stared at the bowl in his hand and said, "Smash it."

Chen Shi was stunned and said, "I poured this bowl of water for my mother. My mother is sick in bed..."

Xia Luoying's face was gloomy, and his voice was a little louder: "I said, smash it!"

Chen Shi gritted his teeth and smashed the bowl with force.

Although he smashed it very hard, he used his strength skillfully. The bottom of the bowl was not broken, but the edge was broken.

The murderous aura around him was slightly restrained. Chen Shi noticed that several pairs of eyes moved away from the back of his head and the pit of his stomach, but the other pairs of eyes did not move.

Xia Luoying was about to leave when he suddenly saw the bottom of the bowl. The shape of the black fish was still intact. His face changed slightly and he shouted, "Kill him!"

At his command, the sound of the musket rang out, gushing out with the power of thunder, and bullets whistled and hit Chen Shi directly!

Chen Shi exerted force on his feet, and his body rolled up. He was already stepping on the Big Dipper in mid-air, moving sideways in the air, and rushed towards the first border army!

Suddenly, the skin between his eyebrows tightened, and it was an extremely strong sense of danger!

Chen Shi did not think about it, mobilized his blood, used his thoughts, and constructed the Golden Bell Talisman!

Golden light surged on his body, and a large bell was formed rapidly. At the same time, the muzzle of the musket in the hands of the army in front of him flashed with thunder and fire, and the thunder sound exploded, piercing the golden bell and reaching Chen Shi's face.

The Golden Bell Talisman had just been formed when it shattered, and the big bell disintegrated!

Chen Shi retreated quickly, and the second Bagua protective talisman had already formed, but the flame still passed through the heavy blockade of the protective talisman and hit Chen Shi's forehead!

"Bang!"

The thunder and fire exploded, Chen Shi's head tilted back, his body flew backwards, and with a bang, he hit a wall several feet away, knocking the wall down.

Chen Shi turned over and half-knelt on the ground, with blood oozing from the corner of his mouth.

His black golden elixir appeared between his eyebrows. At the last moment, he used the golden elixir to block the bullet shot by the fire gun. The bullet was only a hair's breadth away from blasting his head!

This was the first time he took on a firearm, and he didn't expect the power to be so terrifying!

The golden elixir is tangible but not material, and cannot be hurt by external objects. This thing is composed of the blood and qi of the cultivator. Spells can pass through it, but talismans cannot act on it. Even some treasures, even if they hit the golden elixir, just pass through it.

Some treasures can't even resist the golden elixir force field at all.

However, Chen Shi's black golden elixir took on the bullet, but it was almost blown to pieces!

The golden elixir is afraid of thunder!

And gunpowder is the invention of the King of Medicine Sun Simiao, which contains the power of thunder!

The Ming Dynasty firearms are invincible in the world!

It can defeat gods above and kill ghosts below!

The musket shot almost killed Chen Shi!

Suddenly, Chen Shi felt that he was locked in, and immediately jumped to the side. While in the air, he suddenly pressed the top of the wall and turned over the wall, hiding under the wall, and ran crouching.

"Bang!"

The wall behind him was blasted through by a gun, and half of the wall collapsed.

The sound of footsteps came from outside the wall, and a long spear stabbed forward and pierced into the wall. The tip of the spear shook, and the wall broke into pieces!

Chen Shi's figure was exposed, and he reached out to grab the spear, and a talisman appeared in his palm.

As soon as he grabbed the spear, the power of the talisman burst out, and the spearman was fixed.

Suddenly, a hammer soldier on one side swung a sledgehammer, and the surface of the sledgehammer was branded with various talismans of the warriors. The talismans burst out, and the power increased dozens of times in an instant, and smashed towards Chen Shi!

Chen Shi grabbed the spear, held the spear in his hand, and the various talismans on the spear were immediately activated, meeting the hammer that was smashed down!

The hammer that fell with a force dozens of times stronger than the hammer soldier was lifted up by his spear, and the tip of the spear loosened and pierced the throat!

Chen Shi drew his spear and stabbed the spear soldier's chest with the tail of the spear behind him.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

Lightning flashed, and Chen Shi felt three bullets heading straight for his throat, heart, and dantian. He immediately held the spear and shook it hard, trying to use this spear strengthened by the talisman to resist the bullets fired by the fire gun!

"Pah!"

The spear exploded, and the talismans imprinted on the spear were shattered. Chen Shi's hands burst open and fell backwards.

At the same time, he realized that his back and back of the head were locked behind him!

"Bang! Bang!"

The sound of the gun rang out, like thunder rolling down, rushing to the back of Chen Shi's heart and back of the head.

Chen Shi was in mid-air, and he was involuntarily crashing backwards. He clenched his teeth and activated the Seven Refiners of the Big Dipper. He stepped on Yaoguang, Kaiyang, Yuheng, Tianquan, Tianji, Tianxuan, and Tianshu, and turned and turned again in the air!

He heard the thunder roaring, whistling past the back of his head, and he was covered in cold sweat.

When his strength was exhausted, Chen Shi realized that the roots of his legs, Dantian, and heart were all locked!

Now he has no new strength, and he is unable to go further and avoid the attacks of these fire guns!

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

Thunder sounded, fire flashed, and three projectiles whizzed in!

Chen Shi shouted, urging the Ziwu Zhanxie Sword, and invisible sword energy whistled, regardless of whether he could hit the projectile. As for whether he could hit the projectile, he could only take a gamble!

The sword energy hit the first projectile, and the projectile exploded!

The sword energy hit the second projectile, and the projectile exploded!

The sword energy brushed past the third projectile, but missed!

The projectile had already reached Chen Shi's heart!

Xia Luoying slowly walked down from the air, his eyes fell on the porcelain bowl that was broken by Chen Shi, his eyes were fixed on the black fish at the bottom of the bowl, and he slowly stretched out his hand.

At the same time, a strong wind blew in his face, and a golden palm stretched out, blocking Chen Shi's heart!

The projectile hit that palm, and a golden light appeared in the palm of that palm, blocking the projectile. The gunpowder hidden in the projectile exploded, thunder rolled, and fire burned, but it failed to hurt the golden hand at all!

Monk Wuchen clenched his fist heavily, holding the exploding thunder and fire in his palm. The next moment, the golden body exploded, came in front of Xia Luoying, and punched out.

Xia Luoying was caught off guard and raised his hand to take the blow. His arm snapped and broke. At the same time, his Nascent Soul was sacrificed and he exclaimed in surprise: "The Vajra Mantra of the Great Wheel of Wisdom?"

The monk Wuchen activated his golden body and the two fought in close combat. Xia Luoying tried to distance herself, but Wuchen was so close to her, how could she have a chance to do so?

There was a crackling sound of bones breaking, and suddenly the two separated. Xia Luoying stood in place, and all the bones in his body shattered, and he fell down like a piece of mud.

The monk Wuchen's golden body took a series of musket bombardments and rushed to the musketeers. The monk leaped and flew, killing all the border troops like a killing god.

"Scholar, I'm repaying you!"

He laughed loudly, like a big frog, leaping up and jumping away again and again.

"Now I don't owe you anything! The road is long, see you in the future!"