Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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Looking at Wusheng Old Mother again, it seemed that Lian Tan’s sword had only caused a little damage to her. She chuckled and her voice had returned to normal – if there wasn’t a sword stuck in her forehead, she would have looked so natural.
The flames from the Mother of No Birth rolled up and blew towards He Miaotian. He Miaotian slowly stood up from the kneeling stool and turned around. She had an inexplicable smile on her face and her expression was a bit like that of the Mother of No Birth.
“God is not outside, but within the heart.” He Miaotian said slowly. Those baby spirit dolls jumped down from the table and gathered around her. She then took the willow water on the table and sprinkled it on them. The dolls immediately “came to life” and even their facial features could move.
The one whose nose was crooked by Xie Lingya reached out and pinched his nose, trying to dig out the concave part, but unfortunately he only dug out half of it, which made him look even weirder.
These infant spirit dolls pounced over, and the red ropes in their hands seemed to have consciousness as they wrapped around the four people.
Tan Xing felt very ashamed of his behavior just now. So, he took off the Buddhist beads hanging around his neck, waved them in his hand, twisted the red rope in his hand, and held it tightly with one hand.
The dolls held the red rope and pulled it backwards. Tan Xing squatted down, not moving at all, but the veins on his forehead bulged, and he was still pulling it back inch by inch.
The little kids opened their mouths and screamed as they were pulled alive to the front. When Tan Xing chanted the Buddha’s name, their screams became even more chaotic.
The other three took a few steps forward and saw He Miaotian sprinkle dew again. Skinny hungry ghosts with big mouths and distinct joints emerged from the ground and crawled on the ground.
“Apojie, zhengzhengjie, wudasa, hechibichichanpachanbogarazhun…” Lian Tan chanted the mantra to ward off ghosts and gods. The hungry ghosts did not dare to approach him and hovered ten meters away from him.
“Try this one of ours.” Xie Lingya said, gave Shi Changxuan a look, took out the Lingguan Talisman and scattered it out.
“Evil demons return to the right path!” The talisman paper seemed to have eyes and stuck to the hungry ghost, making it unable to move for a while.
He Miaotian had a bitter look on her face. When she stretched out her sleeves, four snakes came out of them.
Lian Tan identified them for a moment and said, “These are the four sufferings of earth, water, fire and wind, combined into a snake body. If you touch them, you will get sick.”
The four snakes swam towards the four people. Lian Tan had just finished saying that if you touch them, you will get sick, but he grabbed two snakes by their tails and put them together. The two snakes actually devoured each other.
The remaining two snakes were skewered together by Shi Changxuan’s sword and nailed to the ground.
The whole process took less than a minute. He Miaotian turned around and looked at Wusheng Mother.
Wusheng Old Mother was silent for a while, probably thinking that Lian Tan, Shi Changxuan and the others were not easy to bully, and Tan Xing had also trapped the dolls, so she said to Xie Lingya, who was almost distracted just now: “Why do you learn Taoism?”
Xie Lingya said nonsense: “To make money.”
Wusheng Old Mother smiled and said: “Pray to the gods for blessings, worship the Big Dipper to pray for longevity, and learn Taoism to ask for gold and silver, which is the dirty trick of beasts.”
Xie Lingya was furious: “Beasts, don’t fool me. You are pirating dirty arts? You go out and teach people the cursed date arts and say it’s yours, do you have any shame?”
Before Mother Wusheng could say anything else, Xie Lingya had already rolled up his sleeves impatiently, pinched the Heavenly Thunder Art, threw out a handful of thunder talismans, and chanted: “All the generals of the Thunder Palace, gather at the altar, the True Lord will appear, and send away the evil spirits!”
The thunder talismans connected into lightning, and a thunderbolt flashing with purple lightning hit the statue with a “boom”!
The clay statue suddenly cracked, its divine light disappeared, and it collapsed. A cloud of dust flew up, and among the pile of mud and rocks on the altar, there was an ancient golden statue of the Mother of No Birth, and Lian Tan’s sword.
Xie Lingya was a little surprised. When he used the Thunder Spell to attack the green-clothed female ghost before, the power was not so great that there was actually lightning and thunder!
He Miaotian looked at Xie Lingya in shock: “Your thunder magic…”
Since ancient times, there had been many stories about mages who were good at thunder magic, but nowadays, people drew thunder talismans only thinking that it could kill evil spirits but had never seen real thunder.
This was naturally because Sa Zu was using Xie Lingya to vent his anger, so the power was so great.
Xie Lingya figured it out after a while and became even more excited, “Wait, don’t go over yet, I’ll throw another one.”
He was afraid that he might not be able to kill Wusheng Mother, so he made another move before going over. And only when the statue collapsed did he realize that the clay statue outside was actually that of Goddess Bixia, but there was a statue of the Mother of No Birth placed inside her belly. The change just now was probably an illusion.
He Miaotian screamed and rushed towards them, fearing that Xie Lingya would strike Wusheng Mother again.
Xie Lingya stretched out his hand to push her away and took out dozens of thunder talismans from his bag, “These are all prepared for you!”
Damn, isn’t this a pirated version of the Curse Date Technique? Let me show you another unique skill of Sa Zu, the Thunder Technique. Just now, he held back on using the thunder talisman on those little ghosts, and wanted to let the Mother of No Birth enjoy them all.
“…” He Miaotian looked at the dozens of thunder talismans in shock and looked at Xie Lingya as if he were a beast.
At this time, the statue of Wusheng Old Mother, buried in the ashes, made a sound again, but it was not as strong as before: “He Miaotian, why don’t you protect the Dharma.”
There was also a barely perceptible trace of annoyance in her tone: Why did you pick on the “soft persimmon” just now… This “soft persimmon” didn’t even say that his thunder magic had reached such a level.
He Miaotian was startled and crawled back, lying on the altar, using her body to protect the statue of the Mother of No Birth.
Xie Lingya shook his head, thinking that there was really no hope. So he raised his hand and activated several thunder talismans in succession.
“Condemn the evil spirit!”
“Condemn the evil spirit!”
What followed was flashes of lightning and a few roars, He Miaotian opened her tightly closed eyes and found that she was not hurt at all, and even the soil around her was not burnt. However, the statue in her arms was already charred and broken, with a cracked face, and only a little gold left at the corners of its lips.
He Miaotian was stunned, then burst into tears and beat her chest and stamped her feet.
Xie Lingya walked up to the dolls. They were aware of the current situation and huddled together, cowering. After a while, the two headless dolls pushed out the nose-less doll.
This kid had the most serious quarrel with Xie Lingya before, and now he was crying, “Brother, don’t strike us…”
All demons and monsters were most afraid of thunder and fire, not to mention this was Sazu’s thunder.
Reporting God snorted arrogantly and said to Shi Changxuan on his shoulder:
“Shame on you.”
“You’ve lost your nose, but you’re still pretending to be cute.”
“Just chop them all to death.”
….
Xie Lingya took away the tools used in the crime – the red ropes and then used a talisman to freeze them in place so that they dared not resist or escape. He then turned around and tied up He Miaotian with the red rope.
He Miaotian was heartbroken because the deity in her mind, the Mother of No Birth, was shattered by mortals. Thus when she saw Xie Lingya, she said, “Retribution, you will get retribution.”
“Retribution is a Buddhist precept. I don’t believe in it.” Xie Lingya said casually and searched in front of the altar again. He found a few scriptures, also from Hongyang Dao, and they looked quite old and were made of cloth.
Shi Changxuan came over and asked, “How many evil god statues have you dug out in total?”
Xie Lingya’s heart moved, remembering what the old lady said before that the female Taoist dug out the scriptures of their ancestors. The god statue hidden in Niangniang Bixiao’s belly just now looked quite old. Could it have been dug out?
He suddenly thought of how the Hongyang Dao had been almost wiped out by the attack, and its strength in the present time was far less than before. How did it suddenly became so unscrupulous. Could it be that he had misunderstood the cause and effect?
It was not that He Miaotian was offering sacrifices to the evil god and deceiving people into believing in them, but that the evil god statue that was privately hidden by the ancient Hongyang Taoist was unearthed and affected their minds. It was just like it asked He Miaotian to protect it just now, coaxing them into offering sacrifices to them, and then the cycle got worse…
The method of pretending to be dirty with human souls might have been one used in ancient times. The last evil Buddha they saw looked newer, and he wondered if it was imitated later.
He Miaotian looked gloomy and didn’t want to talk at all.
Xie Lingya: “If you don’t tell me, I will burn this sutra as well.”
He Miaotian looked at him in horror. This was the man. He looked handsome, but he just struck with thunder without saying a word and was merciless. When he talked about the art of cursing dates and combining it with thunder magic… He was worthy of being the descendant of Sazu.
He said reluctantly: “…There is also an ancient Hunyuan Buddha statue.”
“Where is it?” Xie Lingya asked her.
He Miaotian refused to answer.
Shi Changxuan said thoughtfully: “Tianyu, is the place where you said Han Zu received the enlightenment of Patriarch Hunyuan…”
He Miaotian’s face changed slightly, and he couldn’t hide it. Others knew at a glance that this was in Tianyu.
Xie Lingya hurriedly said: “Abbot Fang is the one who went to Tianyu, notify him immediately.”
After that, Xie Lingya tore up the cloth-wrapped ancient scripture of Hongyang Dao.
He Miaotian: “…………”
….
Xie Lingya sat in the car, shoulder to shoulder with Shi Changxuan. They were going to rush to Tianyu overnight. Lian Tan and Tan Xing would be staying in Qiwu to deal with the aftermath. After all, there were other female Taoists and those infant spirits in the temple.
Xie Lingya was so tired that he fell asleep with his head tilted without realizing it.
Shi Changxuan turned his head to take a look. While he was deep in thought, he suddenly heard the Reporting God sighing softly. His thin voice was full of vicissitudes as he said to Liu Lingtong: “…Now I think you are pretty good.”
Liu Lingtong: “…”
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