Chapter 287: Taking advantage of the slope to get off the donkey
Those paper archers stopped shooting arrows, which made several people feel a little relieved. After all, the rain of arrows continued in the sky, and except for the gods, everyone else was more or less afraid.
Lin Jue also waved his hand and called for all the brave warriors to stop. Suddenly, only Fuyao and Luo Gong were still fighting with the Yaksha.
Lin Jue shouted to the forest:
"Although you are very powerful, as far as I can see now, if you don't have other skills, you will not be able to defeat us today. We are only here to investigate the case, and we did not immediately determine that you were the one who harmed them. Instead, you wanted to fight us as soon as you met us. I wonder what the reason is? Could it be that you really harmed those people?"
The man in the flowery robe stood still, his eyes flickering.
The Taoist spoke to him as if giving him a way out.
But this slope is too small!
He had been practicing here for so many years. If he went down such a small slope, he would lose face if it got out! But if he didn't go down, what if there was no slope in the future?
The man in the flowery robe thought about it for a while and thought of several responses, but when he opened his mouth, it became:
"Humph! You little Taoist priest, you are so arrogant! You say you can't win? I haven't brought out all my paper soldiers, paper generals, and Yaksha generals. If my army goes out in full force, as long as those three Taoist priests from Zhenjian Palace don't invite their divine generals, it's hard to say who will win today!"
The man in the flowery robe was a little annoyed when he opened his mouth.
Although he has a good appearance, he is also afraid of death and pain. However, these two things often hold him up, just like today.
"Senior, are you unwilling to speak properly?"
"Are you talking nicely again?"
"..."
Lin Jue could not help but shake his head helplessly.
In fact, what the man in the flowery robe said makes some sense.
There are so many paper soldiers and paper generals. Although each one is not as powerful as the bean soldiers, they are more numerous. At this time, his twenty-eight bean soldiers have not been carved yet.
At this time, several bean soldiers had been pierced by many arrows and their armor was damaged.
And those Yakshas were also very powerful, especially when they didn't have the weakness of being "extremely afraid of fire". Even if they summoned a rock giant, they could only fight one on one.
If Lin Jue did not have the top-notch magic spell "Flowers Bloom in an Instant", and if it was true as the monster said, there were more soldiers and Yakshas that he had not brought out, especially these archers, then the outcome of today's victory would be hard to say.
pity.
The moment the flowers bloom, they subdue them like fire subdues paper.
However, when the gray-robed man arrived, the two Yakshas had already died, so he did not see the scene where Lin Jue used the Flower Blooming Instant to deal with the Paper Yaksha.
Just as Lin Jue took a breath and was about to let him take a look, he suddenly heard a rumbling sound in the distant mountains.
Both sides turned their heads to look——
I saw something in the forest approaching violently and quickly, parting the grass, crashing through the trees, jumping over ditches and rocks, making a lot of noise.
When it was occasionally not blocked by the forest, I caught a glimpse and saw that it was a stone sculpture of a knight.
A tall stone horse with a stone-carved Taoist lying on its back, vaguely looking like a woman. Behind it was another stone horse without a rider, galloping towards them.
"Junior sister?"
Lin Jue was a little surprised.
The man in the flowery robe was also stunned.
He first glanced at Lin Jue and felt something was wrong, but after a closer look, he couldn't help but be shocked.
"Stone horse?"
The man in the flowery robe glared at them and asked, "How did the two stone horses at the entrance of Hongye Temple end up in your hands?"
"Do you know Hongye Temple?"
"How could I not know? No! Could it be that you are the Taoists who are now living in Hongye Temple?"
"Exactly..."
Both sides wanted to say something, but the stone horses were already getting closer, and the air was filled with the rumbling sound of horse hooves, making it impossible to hear anything they were saying.
Dust rose, green grass was trampled, the stone horse crashed through the woods, and rushed out with broken flowers and leaves.
The stone horse raised its front hooves and just as it stopped, the Taoist woman on the horse's back changed from a stone sculpture back into a human form.
The female Taoist turned her head and saw her senior brother with arrows stuck in his Taoist robe, as well as the messy battlefield and the arrows covering the ground like a forest of grass. She took a deep breath.
He drew his sword and turned over, immediately chanting a spell:
"The sky is vast, the earth is boundless; the mountains are powerful, able to defeat dragons and tigers; the mysterious and yellow spirits are all out at this moment; turn into mountain gods, and help me!"
In a short while, the rocks on the ground began to roll again.
At the same time, the junior sister looked at the man in flowery robes, stretched out her hand and pushed, and a fire dragon surged out.
"Canopy..."
The man in flowery robe twisted his body and immediately turned into a breeze, moving away to a farther place. When he turned back into a human and looked over there, he saw another giant stone man.
The man in the flowery robe was shocked and shouted, "Stop! Are you the descendants of Fuqiu Peak?"
The word "Fuqiu Peak" calmed the little sister down. The stone giant that had just formed also stood still. She just raised her sword and looked at the man.
Lin Jue also frowned.
Even Mr. Luo, Taoist Qingxuan and the other two felt puzzled.
At once, everyone looked at the man in the flowery robe.
"How do you know?" Lin Jue's eyes showed a thoughtful look, and then he blurted out, "Could it be that the things we buried behind Hongye Temple last year were dug out by you?"
"It's really you!"
Now both sides frowned.
However, there was an extra touch of “as expected” in Lin Jue’s heart, and an extra touch of joy in the heart of the man in flowery robe.
Isn’t this a big slope that is delivered to your doorstep?
But apart from this, meeting the descendants of his old friend also made him feel happy instinctively. His eyes looked back and forth between them, and the robe behind him could not help but move slowly.
"Are you really from Fuqiu Temple in Yishan?" The man in flowery robe didn't care about face anymore and just asked.
"nature."
"Who is your master?"
"My master is Taoist Yunhe." Lin Jue raised his sword and said, "You are..."
"Hey! Your great-grandmaster, the one who originally built Hongye Temple, and I are close friends. You should call me your great-grandmaster!" "..."
Lin Jue's eyes flickered as he asked, "How did you determine from the two stone horses that we lived in Hongye Temple, and how did you confirm that we were the descendants of Fuqiu Temple?"
"I am a good friend of Taoist Konggu. After he passed away, I have been taking care of his disciples and grandchildren. Unfortunately, his descendants were not very good. In addition, they had conflicts with Yushan and Guanxing Palace in the past, so the Taoist temple could not be passed down after a few generations. After that, the Taoist temple was vacant and I was the one who took care of it." The man in the flowery robe let down his guard earlier than Lin Jue and his companions. He waved his hand, and all the wolf-headed soldiers and Yakshas quickly retreated. "Later, a descendant of Fuqiu Temple came and took the title deed of Hongye Temple. I knew that a new descendant of Yishan would come here... That person should be your uncle, right?"
As he spoke, he approached several people.
At this moment, his short stature, the flowery robe he was wearing, and the flowery dog head could all be seen clearly. Coupled with his mature tone of voice, it was quite strange.
Luo Seng had a blank expression on his face. He just glanced at the retreating wolf-head soldiers and thought to himself, "So they are not wolf heads, but dog heads," and then he put away his sword.
Taoist Qingxuan looked stunned.
"It should be my uncle."
"That's it! He even asked me for two paper donkeys!"
The man in the flowery robe said, and suddenly he was a little proud: "Last year during the spring and summer, when I first arrived at Hongye Temple, I smelled something wrong. I went to look and found the things you buried! How smart am I? I dug it out and took a look. I saw the spiritual wood and a full set of carving knives. I knew that the successor of Fuqiu Temple must have come, so I didn't move it at all and buried it back.
"I came to look for you several more times afterwards, but unfortunately, the temple was empty the first few times. I don't know where you went. The last time was during the Chinese New Year last year. Someone had moved into the temple, but they were not there at the time, so I saw these two stone horses by the bridge."
"I see."
Lin Jue felt that what he heard was consistent with what he knew.
Especially those two paper donkeys.
Isn't this the precious artifact that the two of them rely on to travel around the world and carry their luggage?
So all his suspicions were gone, and with a sneer, he put away his sword and said helplessly: "Senior, your temper is too violent. But now we can finally have a chat."
"How can you blame me for this?"
"Whose fault is that?"
"There are three strange things!" said the man in flowery robes. "The first is the Star Observation Palace and the Gathering Immortals Palace. They have always been causing trouble for me over the past hundred years! The second is the Taoist priest a few days ago. He didn't have much power, but he had a foul mouth. He came to my temple and insisted that I had killed his first wife. He cursed me so badly that you couldn't help but listen to me, not to mention me!"
"What about the three monsters?"
"I blame you for not telling me your family background!" The man in the flowery robe said, as if he was a little embarrassed, but he refused to admit it. He only said, "But don't worry, you are the younger generation, and I, the Taoist master, am very generous and will not bother with you."
"..."
"Anyway, it's just a misunderstanding, a misunderstanding." The man in the flowery robe rubbed his hands, opened his mouth slightly, revealing a little bit of teeth. It was clearly a dog's face, but one could tell there was a hint of smile in it.
"It's a pity that these seniors are just paper soldiers, paper generals and yakshas." Lin Jue shook his head.
"It's a pity indeed." The man in the flowery robe looked around with a distressed look on his face. He quickly bent down and deftly rolled up a Yaksha with its head burnt off with oil paper and held it in his arms. "But if we pick it up, repair it, and refine it again, it can still be used."
"Where is Fellow Daoist Wan?"
"What is Wan Daoyou?"
"Is he the one who came to see you and scolded you a few days ago?" Lin Jue asked, "Did you kill him?"
"No! He was beaten half to death and thrown into the back mountain. It's not that easy for a Taoist who practices the Five Elements Spiritual Technique to die. I think he will be able to climb out of the mountain in a few days!"
Lin Jue looked towards the back mountain and was not sure.
Luo Seng raised his sword and said:
"I'll go find him! You guys stay here and chat with him, and ask those girls what's going on!"
"There is Mr. Lao Luo!"
"nothing."
Luo Seng turned and left, but he was frowning as if he was thinking about something.
A few people continued to stand where they were with the dog-headed man in flowery robe.
"What's your name, senior?"
"My last name is Hua, you can just call me Senior Hua."
"I am Lin Jue, my Taoist name is Fang Jue, and my master gave me the name Wuzhi."
"My name is Liu Qingyao, my Taoist name is Fang Yao, and my master didn't give me a name." The younger sister was a little confused about the situation and said in a daze.
"How many years have you been down the mountain?"
"Two years."
"How many years have you been practicing in the mountains?"
"Five years."
"Only seven years? You have already acquired this ability in seven years, that's incredible!" The man in the flowery robe said shamelessly, "You beat me up badly."
"Isn't it the same for the younger generation?"
Although Lin Jue could turn into stone, he did not have the accomplishments of his junior sister. After turning into stone, he was neither as hard as her, nor could he turn his clothes into stone. The rain of arrows just now continued and came from all directions, making it difficult to resist. Even though he had turned into stone, the Taoist robe on his body was pierced with many holes by the arrows. Although his body was not penetrated, his skin was broken, and many small damages appeared, and some blood oozed out. This was the reason why the junior sister was so angry when she saw him for the first time.
"How did you get to know my uncle-master?"
"It's a long story." The man in the flowery robe recalled the past, dragging out his words, "Back then he was down and out in the capital, starving and cold. I saw him while I was walking on the street, and threw him a bone to eat."
"Huh? This..."
The man in the flowery robe was silent for a moment. "Back then, I was down and out in the capital, starving and cold. He saw me while walking on the street and threw me a bone to eat. That’s how we became friends."
"..."
That sounds normal.
Fortunately, Lin Jue was used to dealing with goblins and ghosts, and knew that most goblins and ghosts had different personalities from humans, so he didn't find it too strange.
As for the junior sister, she had seen more mountain monsters when she was repairing the road in Yishan, so she didn't find it strange at all. She just stood quietly behind her senior brother. She was even wondering why her senior brother felt that something was wrong when he heard the previous sentence, but he was actually right.
(End of this chapter)
