Daoist Abandoned Wisdom

Tao Xinian and Qingchen Taoist learned Taoism for three days, practicing every day, but no matter how much they chanted mantras, the only one who could call him was the little black dog.

Every time he called it up, he had to eat, drink and serve him well, and then sent him back well. The dog was familiar with him, it was almost like his family, and he would have fun when he saw him.Tao Xinian felt that he should stop practicing in the near future, the dog had eaten all the meat Yuan Yao gave him, so he couldn't ask Yuan Yao for meat to feed the dog every day, could he?

Qingchen shook the wine gourd and pondered for a while, then said: "I'm afraid it's a lone dog, it's easy to be called up, your magic power is not enough, and serious Yin soldiers don't bother to talk to you. You should breathe more and practice inner alchemy. "

Hence, Tao Xinian temporarily stopped the practice of "Scattering Beans into Soldiers", according to Qingchen's old Taoist instructions, he meditated for a few more hours every day, breathed out, and strengthened the inner alchemy.

After another two days like this, the city of Jizhou was covered with dark clouds, and it began to rain heavily.After two days of torrential rain, Wei Jun could only hide in tents and vacant houses in Jizhou City, unable to do anything.Tao Xinian raised his head to look at the rain, always feeling that the rain was a bit unusual.Such a heavy rain will turn down in a few hours at most, but it has been raining for two full days, and there is no intention of stopping.If it goes on like this, the river on the edge of the city will swell.

Yuan Yao was sitting at the table, holding a volume of military books in his hand, and Tao Xinian, in order to have fun for himself, found a sheet music and practiced new songs.

One of the passages was difficult to play, he practiced bumps and bumps, and made mistakes at the first play, Yuan Yao didn't have any objections, he just lowered his head and concentrated on reading.Abo yawned and said, "I've heard you play this section six times! Let's play the next section first!"

Tao Xinian sighed and said, "Okay, okay, play other pieces first, and then play this piece."

He played for a while, and Ah Bo suddenly shouted: "The water is rising! The water in the yard is about to flow into the house."

Tao Xinian stopped the song and looked towards the door. His yard had already started to accumulate water this morning, but the house was two feet higher than the ground, and the water would not flow into the house yet.But it rained for another half a day, and the water was about to overflow the steps and flow into the threshold.

He felt something was wrong and said, "Move the valuables to higher places!"

Yuan Yao also put down his book, realizing that something was wrong, and said, "I'll go out and check the situation in the city. If the river outside the city is flooded, I have to find a way to dredge the river to prevent the river from pouring into the city." After all, take it Umbrella, dripping water out the door.

Tao Xinian tidied up at home for a while, moved his things to a higher place for a while, and put away all valuable things, and put them in the small bamboo box. If the water really flooded the house, he would carry those luggage with him. .

Just after noon, the sky was as dark as dusk. After a while, he saw something flying in the sky. Looking carefully, it was a man, dressed in black, like Kou Huai.

Kou Huai fell down, holding an umbrella in his hand, but the rain was so heavy that his clothes were already wet.He said: "Xi Nian, I think it's better for the few of us to stay together. I always feel that this rain is a bit weird."

Tao Xinian also felt a little strange, so he put away his things, ordered Abo to hide, and went to the mansion in the northern suburbs with Kou Huai.

The owner of this house is a wealthy businessman, he fled with his family and his family as soon as something happened in Jizhou, and he has never come back now.Because there are many vacant rooms in this house, several Taoists live here temporarily, which is more convenient than living in Jiansu's Xuanmiao Temple.

When the two arrived at the mansion in the northern suburbs, only Lu Yu and Ling Yun, Kou Huai's younger brother, were there.Lu Yu said: "Master Xuanqing and the others have gone to the west of the city."

Tao Xinian asked in surprise, "West of the city?"

"The river outside the west of the city swelled very fast, and it was almost overflowing into the city. Daoist Xuanqing and the others followed General Yuan to the west of the city to check, and they also followed after Daozhen and Zhifei. Brother Kou, Brother Tao, you two Do people want to go there?"

Tao Xinian said: "Then I'll go and have a look, Brother Kou, are you going?"

"Then let's go, Brother Lu, you and Junior Brother Ling Yun should be more careful here." Kou Huai confessed.

The two bid farewell to Lu Yu and Ling Yun, and quickly reached the west of the city. Only then did Tao Xinian realize that the reality was worse than he had imagined.Due to the heavy rain, the city has already accumulated more than a foot of water, and the river in the west of the city was originally very close to the city wall. Now, the river is only a few feet away and can overflow the city wall. By then, the water in the city will become deeper and deeper, and the consequences will be unimaginable. .

Jizhou is not a rainy place, so it can only be said that the rain is really weird.Tao Xinian and Kou Huai came to the west side of the city, and the Tianjie Temple was right in front of them.They stood on the city wall, outside the city wall, soldiers from the Northern Wei Dynasty braved the rain to dredge the river. Tao Xinian watched for a while, and they probably planned to dig a river for flood discharge to the lower land in the north.

Yuan Yao stood on a high place, held an umbrella, and stood with the supervising army Wei Yuan, as if they were discussing countermeasures.Xuan Qing and the others are also busy, and Daozhen uses vines to tie sandbags together to help the soldiers of the Northern Wei Dynasty build a flood wall.Zhifei and Xuanqing continued to use the technique of moving stones to make the flood wall stronger.Kou Huai saw that his master uncle Lingqing was helping the Northern Wei Jun to dredge the river with the technique of diverting water, so he also went there to help.

Among the crowd, Tao Xinian saw Qingchen, who was staring at the western sky, as if he was in deep thought.Tao Xinian looked west, only to see thunder and lightning in the clouds, and heavy rain pouring down.He came to Qingchen and asked: "Senior Qingchen, what are you looking at?"

Qingchen said: "Look carefully, is the one in the thunder formation a black snake?"

Tao Xinian was startled, looked to the west, there seemed to be something writhing in the place where the thunder and lightning struck.If you don't look carefully, you may think it is lightning, but if you look closely, it is indeed different from lightning.He stared at it for a while, and it seemed to be a black thing, but he couldn't really see what it was.

"I can't see it, but there's a black thing there, like a snake."

While speaking, he saw the black object slowly coming towards this place, and after a while, it suddenly fell down and disappeared.Rain and fog blocked the view, everyone was busy, except Tao Xinian and Qingchen, no one noticed the strangeness there.

Seeing the object disappear suddenly, Tao Xinian was startled, and suddenly remembered what happened in Fushanyan a few months ago.At that time, the black snake was hiding in the water, and it caused a storm, which washed away the Fushan Weir, dragged all the laborers of Nanliang into the water, and produced many corpses.

"Not good! Let everyone get away from the water first!"

Tao Xinian hurriedly flew to Yuan Yao's side with Yu Jian, and briefly explained to him.Yuan Yao looked up to the west, frowned and thought for a while, and said to Wei Yuan: "Let the brothers evacuate from the river first, and I will continue after nothing happens."

Wei Yuan led the order, and in less than a quarter of an hour, Wei Guojun stopped, retreated from the river, and put sandbags in a farther place to wait for orders, leaving only a few Taoists.

Just when the last Wei Guobing was away from the river bank, a strong wind suddenly rose on the river, and the wind was so strong that it brought up waves and suddenly slapped heavily on the river bank.If Yuan Yao hadn't ordered the Wei army to evacuate in time, I am afraid that many soldiers would have been involved in the torrent at this time.

Seeing this, the Taoists cheered up and waited for the approaching enemy in the heavy rain.

The waves came one after another, if the waves were closer to the crowd, Xuanqing would use spells to divert the water away.After standing by the river for a quarter of an hour, a huge black snake emerged from the water, opened its mouth wide, and sprayed black air at everyone.The Taoists had been prepared for a long time, but no one was hit, but some Wei soldiers who stood farther away inhaled the black air and passed out on the ground.

Tao Xinian reminded everyone to be careful, Wei soldiers covered their mouths and noses with wet towels, and moved the unconscious soldiers to a safe place.They knew that Black Snake was afraid of iron, Yuan Yao immediately ordered the archers to draw their bows and shoot arrows at Black Snake, but the arrows were blocked by a layer of golden light and could not hurt it at all.

broken!It must have been the demon monk Faqing who used the power of relics to create a protective barrier for the black snake.

The Taoists are also aware of this, and they all feel that it is not good.That barrier cannot be broken by water or fire, and it is extremely difficult to deal with.Daozhen tries to use vines and black snakes to counter his moves, and Zhifei helps him.The rest of the Taoists are also trying to find ways to help with magic.Tao Xinian stood farther away, his mana was not high enough, if he was caught by the black snake, he would have to ask fellow Taoists to save him.

The black snake wrestled with the Taoists, and gradually approached the river bank.Everyone fought and retreated, trying to lure the black snake away from the river and onto the bank.But the black snake seemed to have learned the lesson from last time, and did not leave the river, at most he only fought with the Taoists by the river to avoid going ashore.Sometimes it extended its snake head to attack the Taoists, and sometimes it retracted its body and dived into the water.

The black snake rushed out of the water again, Daozhen entangled the golden light with vines and dragged it to the shore, the black snake struggled to get back into the water.At this moment, a blue light flashed, the golden body shield shook a few times, and a slit opened. The black snake hurriedly and vigilantly got rid of the Daozhen vines and sank into the water, avoiding the second blue light.

It turned out that Kou Huai took Yuan Yao into hiding, took advantage of the black snake's unpreparedness, and wanted to break through the golden light protecting him just like he did with Li Guibo last time.However, the golden light protecting the body of the Black Snake Essence is stronger than that of Li Guibo's. Tao Xinian guessed that it might be because the Buddha's top bone relic in Fa Qing's hand is stronger than the Buddha's finger relic.

The knife in Yuan Yao's body, according to Qingchen, is an ancient demon knife, which has been lost from the ancestral temple for more than 1000 years.Moreover, this knife should have a physical body, but the knife in Yuan Yao's hand does not. It can only play its role when the seal is untied.He had seen this kind of sword in a book, it should be called the soul of the sword, and it could form a bond with people.The pattern on Yuan Yao's right hand heart should be the deed.After the contract was formed, the sword soul would co-exist with him and become a part of his body.

As for the origin of this saber, Tao Xinian never asked Yuan Yao about it.He faintly felt that Yuan Yao didn't like to talk about it, and he would only use this knife when needed.

He thought, since this saber belongs to evil, it is just incompatible with the relic in Fa Qing's hand. As long as Yuan Yao's power is strong enough, he can break through it like the golden light that protected Li Guibo's body last time. The body protection enchantment on the black snake.If the protective barrier can be broken, they will have a chance of winning.