My mythology is different from yours

On the gloomy Duxu Mountain, His Majesty the Ghost Emperor likes to race outside when he has nothing to do, and now he is not tired at all when he comes to the world, as if he came to travel, he leisurely walked through many places with Xuanzhi.

Late spring and early summer are the seasons when the vegetation in the world is flourishing and the birds are singing and the flowers are fragrant. Especially the Daxuan territory has been nourished by the divine power of Xuancheng Yuanjun for thousands of years, and it is a prosperous and prosperous scene with abundant water and trees.

They stood in front of a temple, which was embedded in the mountain wall and was carved out of the entire mountain. The two stone pillars on the left and right supported the roof above, and a huge statue of a god sat under the eaves. On his knees, he held a long sword in his hand.

The scale of this statue is almost the same as that of the Leshan Giant Buddha. Standing at the foot of the mountain, it is not as high as the instep of the statue.The Guardian Earth Immortal of this city seems to be a powerful deity with powerful divine power, protecting the whole city very well, and the incense is also strong.

Facing the statue is a prosperous city.The city is in the shape of a half moon, and it is built around the statue mountain. On the altar under the statue, the lingering incense slowly floats into the air.

Shen Tutao handed a stick of incense to Xuanzhi, and said to her, "Go."

"Obey!" Xuan Zhi took the incense, looked back and forth, there was no sign of the magic seal left on the red stick and yellow clay offering, it was no different from ordinary offering, she turned and ran towards the offering crowd.

Shen Tutao glanced at the long-dragon-like team from a distance, looked left and right, found a stone pier and sat down to wait.

The altar under the statue is very wide, and there are two long tables on the top, which are full of offerings. Ordinary people are not qualified to go to the altar to worship, but can only line up under the altar to worship the gods. There are two quadrupeds in front of it. The big tripod incense burner has been densely inserted for offering incense.

Xuanzhi waited in line for half an hour before it was her turn to step forward. Of course, she could not go up to the altar, so she could only light incense and offer incense under the instructions of the priest with a group of people under the altar. Worship three times under the statue and insert the incense into the incense burner.

A curl of cigarette smoke floated up, and soon merged with the rich incense in the furnace, and dispersed in the air.

After Xuanzhi paid homage to the Earth Immortal, she squeezed out from the crowd, crossed the lively square, and walked towards Shentu Tao.

The sun was pouring down warmly at noon, and the weather in late spring was already a bit hot. There were many waiting people around the square, most of them were sitting under the shade of trees, only Shentu was sitting under the sun, white Ru Zhiyu's skin was illuminated as if it could reflect light, causing people around to look at it frequently.

Xuan Zhi suddenly realized that Shen Tutao really likes to bask in the sun.He is not afraid of the sun, he likes the sun very much.This may be the nature of the tree, but it is a pity that there will never be sunshine in Beimingli.

His Majesty the Ghost Emperor never sits obediently, he always has to fiddle with something in his hands. At this time, he is also holding a slender willow branch. The willow leaves on the branch are very green. He plucked half of a willow leaf and put it on the tip of his nose Sniffed.

When Xuan Zhi walked with him, he often saw him either pinch a leaf or a flower, often ravage his fellows, and even put them in front of his nose to smell them, which is a bit perverted.

But in the eyes of the people around who don't know the truth, they just think he is a handsome young man, sitting in the bright sunshine, playing with willow branches boredly, his fingers are cold and white like jade, with slender knuckles, and the appearance of holding the leaves is very beautiful.

Although this paper figurine resembles him only seven or eight percent, but its face and facial features are considered quite handsome, Xuanzhi glanced at the octagonal pavilion on the side, a group of servants surrounded a girl covered in white gauze, and the girl covered her face with a round fan , secretly looked at him.

Then the lady's personal servant girl quickly came out of the pavilion and walked towards Shen Tutao, bowed gracefully, said something to him, and handed him a handkerchief. Shentu Tao kept his eyelids down and shook his head expressionlessly.

The servant girl's body was slightly stiff, and she stood there for a long time, wanting to persuade him to accept it, until Shen Tutao raised her eyes impatiently and glared at it, the servant girl seemed to be frightened, took two steps back in a panic, and ran away in a hurry Go back to the pavilion.

Xuanzhi's footsteps slowed down, and after the maid walked away from him, she slowly walked forward. As soon as she got to Shen Tutao's side, she felt several eyes on her.

In the octagonal pavilion, the servant girl's lingering voice came faintly, "Miss, that young master's eyes..."

"Your Majesty's appearance is really eye-catching. He looks like a lost son of a rich family." Xuan Zhi teased.

Shen Tutao raised his head, his red pupils reflected the bright sunlight, like honey melted by the sun, and turned into a reddish amber color, which matched his unpopular white photo that had been in the sun for so long. The face, like a captivating mountain spirit, is indeed easy to frighten others.

A group of people in the octagonal pavilion hurriedly got up and left quickly from the other side.The people nearby who watched this scene started talking and laughing in low voices.

Shen Tutao rubbed the willow leaves, "Ordinary people always like to be affectionate."

Xuan Zhi looked at him in amazement, but she didn't expect Shen Tutao to know what it meant when the girl gave him a handkerchief.

Before she had time to speak, His Majesty Ghost Emperor continued: "Gu is not the kind of god who accepts offerings casually."

Xuanzhi: "..." Offerings?All right.

She asked curiously, "How does the world offer sacrifices to His Majesty during the Ghost Festival? Will it be so grand?"

Shen Tutao is a righteous god, every time before and after the ghost festival, the world will worship the ghost emperor in a big way. In those few days, there will be some scenes of sacrifices, and they will float up to the altar of Duxu mountain along with the incense.

He thought for a while and said, "In the world, living animals are used to sacrifice orphans."

"Six animals?" She just saw steamed pig's head meat on the altar.

Shen Tutao interjected at the end of her voice: "Sacrifice with others."

Xuanzhi was silent, and she knew that sacrifices like worshiping ghost emperors were not enough, otherwise the city-weary king would not have to sacrifice so much human life and soul. She was a little curious, "Your Majesty really needs those sacrifices." Is it?"

Shentu Tao said with a loose smile, "The ones who will be sent to the sacrificial altar are mostly immature and weak women. Even if they have resentment in their hearts when they die, they will forget all of them after death. I don’t know where the door is. Occasionally there are one or two that are useful, but it’s just adding a few more grudges to Bei Ming.”

There are so many ghosts in Beiming that His Majesty is tired of it.In other words, he didn't need those sacrifices at all, everything was just wishful thinking of mortals.He looks at human life in the same way as he looks at cattle, sheep, horses and dogs, so it doesn't matter what the world uses to worship him.

Xuan Zhi sat down beside him, squinting his eyes in the sunlight, looking at the incense-filled altar in the distance, changed the subject, and asked: "Then we just need to trace the incense now?"

"En." Shen Tutao responded, fixed her gaze on her forehead, and suddenly raised her hand.

Xuanzhi blocked his hand subconsciously, "What are you doing?"

Shen Tutao quickly rubbed her forehead with the other hand, rubbed her fingertips lightly, "You're sweating."

The altar was in the square formation, and there was no shelter on all sides. She had been in the line for so long, and she was indeed a little hot from the sun.Xuan Zhi rubbed his forehead with the back of his hand, and gave him a strange look, he had never noticed these subtleties before.

Xuan Zhi took out a handkerchief from his purse and wiped his forehead, his spiritual power traveled around his body, cooling down the heat from his body, at this moment he realized belatedly, "The lady gave you the handkerchief just now to let you Wiping sweat?"

Shen Tutao nodded: "I don't know how to sweat."

She accidentally reached out and touched Shen Tutao's face, and his face was also slightly warmed by the sun, as if he had body temperature.Shen Tutao suddenly pinched her wrist, "Let's go."

Xuanzhi immediately understood, it seemed that the incense in the furnace had another place to go, the snow-white clouds gushed out from her sleeves, engulfed the two of them, and disappeared from the dazzling sunlight in an instant.

The people under the shade of the trees around hadn't reacted yet, they couldn't help but rubbed their eyes with their hands, and looked around in doubt, "Where were those two people just now? They were just sitting there, why did they disappear in the blink of an eye?"

"Oh, it can't really be a monster!"

"What nonsense, what kind of monster dares to come here to be presumptuous?"

Xuanzhi spread out the map of Daxuan in his hand, which was obtained from Xuancheng Yuanjun, covering every inch of land in Daxuan. Shen Tutao waited for a moment, reached out his hand, and tapped on a place, and there will be light Make a sign of the seal.

The bunch of incense that Xuanzhi inserted into the incense burner was imprinted with the seal of Shentu Tao, and the smoke from the incense burnt was integrated with other incense in the furnace, and the seal instantly melted into the incense of the people in the city.

At this time, the magic seal also tracked the guy hiding in the dark along with a part of the stolen incense.

This place has already reached the border of Daxuan, and it is in a triangular area bordering both Eastern Zhou and Changyu, which is very delicate.

It didn't take much effort for Somersault Cloud to cross the entire Daxuan. When it arrived at this border city, Chongye City was very large. The city wall was built of black stones. It was cold and majestic. Shine brightly.

Xuan Zhi and the two entered the city, wandered around the city for half a day, and by evening they had basically figured out the general situation of Chongye City.Chongye city belongs to Daxuan in name, but in fact this city is already outside the pass of Daxuan. The city lord is a sword cultivator in the stage of transforming gods. His arms are particularly hard, and he has been independent and self-governing for many years.

Chongye City is a large commercial city on the border, where the three kingdoms live together, and there are all kinds of monsters and ghosts.In the city, there was also a small earth god conferred by Xuancheng Yuanjun. The temple was a small earth temple on a hill. Distressing.

When they arrived in front of the earth temple, they were looking at the little old man who was only ten years old, running back with some melons, fruits and snacks in his skirt, and a little ghost behind him yelled, "Smelly old man, you are still a god! You are going to be shameless for stealing the offerings of lonely souls and wild ghosts!"

"Soil loach, let's see if the grandpas will skin you tonight."

The Yin wind rushed to Xuan Zhi's face, she watched the little old man who was holding the offering trip suddenly, hugged the offering in his pocket tightly, rolled into a ball and rolled to the feet of the two of them.

Shen Tutao raised her toes, pressed against the Earth Immortal, and stepped on him.

The crowd of ghosts chased after them, and they were all taken aback when they saw them, then they stopped abruptly, and knelt down in a large area with a plop, with pale ghost faces flying around, and two little ghosts Even the head was scared off, but he didn't dare to reach out to pick it up, so he could only let the head roll further and further away. Xuanzhi saw two lines of blood and tears shed from the two rolling heads.

Xuan Zhi couldn't help but take a step back, you guys are too scared to be scared!

All the ghosts shivered and huddled together, not to mention cursing, they couldn't even utter a complete sentence.

Xuanzhi saw the imprint of ghost charms on them, it seems that they are the little ghosts raised by Master Fu.