Chapter 1: Flying Dragon Inn
Yanze, a salt-alkali swamp, has a desolate flavor from its name. Looking around, in addition to the yellow sand of the desert, there is Populus euphratica in the Gobi Desert. Qi Xuansu was driving with the scorching sun on his head during the day, and he meditated and practiced Qi at night instead of sleeping.
In fact, the life of walking around the world is not easy. The white clothes are like snow, and the coming and going is like the wind. That is the demeanor that only heavenly people can have. Under this, one has to endure loneliness, suffer from fatigue, and even worse, Worry about your livelihood.
However, loneliness also has its advantages. You can concentrate on doing something, not to say that you are not distracted, but you are rarely distracted. Qi Xuansu went all the way north, adjusting his own Qi according to the Sanren Kung Fu every night, meditating on the mind and calming the breath, and the Yuan is silent and the Qi enters. Dantian. The breath is moving in the navel, continuous and continuous, hold the navel with both hands, the elixir fire is warm, the six roots are stable, and things are forgotten.
Because of the "Xuan Jade" and medicinal wine, Qi Xuansu can now clearly feel that there is a group of strong true energy in the lower Dantian Qi sea, and there is a blood Qi dragon disk in the middle Dantian. His cultivation has advanced by leaps and bounds, not to mention that there is only one layer left. Window paper, but it is also one step closer to the realm of the Holy Fetus.
Qi Xuansu walked like this for six days and was almost out of the Yanze area.
However, the sky suddenly changed, and a huge sandstorm came unexpectedly. In such weather, Qi Xuansu naturally could not cross the sandstorm, so he had to find a shelter from the wind.
Soon, Qi Xuansu saw a large flag raised high in the distance. In the increasingly fast wind and sand, the flag rustled, and there were four big characters written on it: Feilong Inn.
This inn located on the Gobi Desert is very different from the common Taiping inn. The main body is a two-story small building made of loess. There are two courtyards outside the small building, where you can store sundries and horses. It looks like it is 80% safe. There will be a cellar. After all, the northwest wind is very heavy. If there is a sandstorm that can destroy the house, you can also hide in the cellar for temporary shelter. The flagpole stands in the middle of the inn yard.
Entering the inn, due to the wind and sand, the inn window was very small, so the lobby was extremely dark at this time. Not surprisingly, it was a mom-and-pop shop. The shopkeeper and his wife were standing in the shadow behind the counter, making it difficult to see. She has an innocent appearance, but the shopkeeper has a thin figure and is wearing a robe that is dangling on her body. However, the shopkeeper's wife has a plump figure, with bulges in the places that should be bulging and curls in the places that should be bulging. This perfectly interprets the appearance of a mature woman. Merry.
The shopkeeper looked at Qi Xuansu and his eyes were focused.
Having been able to run an inn here for many years, he is certainly not an ordinary innkeeper. He is proficient in some aura-seeing techniques, and he can tell at a glance that this young man has murderous intent.
If a person has too many blood debts on his hands, murderous aura will naturally form in his body.
It is said that ghosts are afraid of butchers. It is precisely because butchers have been working for many years and are stained with blood and have murderous auras on their bodies. Ordinary ghosts cannot get close to them. If it is a murderer like a big thief, even a powerful ghost with Taoism will not dare to do so. Getting close easily is why evil spirits are afraid of evil people. However, this person's murderous intent is quite restrained, just a little bit of red light, and it is difficult to distinguish its depth.
From this point of view, this young man is by no means the kind of person who is entering the world for the first time, but an old man.
At this time, the shopkeeper's wife had already come out from behind the counter and said, "Is your guest staying in the hotel?"
Qi Xuansu noticed that there were already a group of guests in the inn, but they were just sitting in the shadows in the corner. In addition, it was dark outside and there was no lamp, so it was easy for people to ignore them.
This group of people all wore black veils on their heads, brocade robes, black-faced and white-soled official boots, and carried swords at all times.
It is Qingluan Guard.
There were more than twenty Qingluan Guards in total, divided into three tables. The leader is a white-haired old man, sitting at a table alone. He is wearing a green brocade dress with narrow sleeves and long breasts, a bronze Luan head tied around his waist, and black-faced and white-soled official boots. There is a knife hanging on the waist. The blade is about three feet and the handle is about six inches. Although it is wrapped in a scabbard, it can be seen that the spine of the knife is straight and only the blade is slightly curved.
Standard Qingluan Guard outfit.
When Qi Xuansu looked at the group of Qingluan Guards, the white-haired old man who led him also looked at Qi Xuansu and asked softly: "Are you from the Taoist sect?"
Qi Xuansu knew that it was the Yujing style of his robes that made others see the truth, but his change of clothes was all at Zhang Yuelu's, and he had no choice but to say vaguely: "I can't tell you, but I hope you'll forgive me."
The white-haired old man was thoughtful and did not ask further.
Qi Xuansu looked at the shopkeeper's wife and said: "Half a catty of wine for one guest room, good Fenjiu, don't mix it with water. If there is beef, you can have half a catty of cooked beef. If not, mutton is fine."
The shopkeeper's wife said: "Don't worry, sir. Although our shop is small, we are honest businessmen and will never do anything immoral like mixing wine with water."
While talking, the shopkeeper's wife quickly took out half a catty of wine from the large wine jar behind the counter and filled it with a tin wine jug. The shopkeeper turned around and went to the kitchen.
Qi Xuansu took the wine bottle and asked, "How much is the total?"
"Accommodation is seventy ruyiqian, wine is 42 ruyiqian, beef is 65 ruyiqian, erase the fraction, and the guest can give 180 ruyiqian." The shopkeeper's wife has already calculated. settled the account.
Qi Xuansu put down two small circles on the counter: "Let's round up the whole number, there's no need to look for it."
The shopkeeper's wife did not refuse, she put away the two small rounds worth two hundred Ruyi coins and thanked her profusely.
Qi Xuansu was not in a hurry to go upstairs to rest, and planned to wait until the beef was ready before going upstairs.
Not long after, the door of the inn was pushed open from the outside with a sudden sound, and turbulent wind and sand rolled into the lobby.
Then, the group of people slowly walked into the inn in the wind and sand.
This group of people is very strange. There are Confucian scholars, Taoist priests, monks, and a few women dressed in secular clothes. They are neither fish nor fowl.
The pupils of the white-haired old man suddenly shrank.
The people who came are from the "Heavenly Court".
The so-called "Heavenly Court" is different from the "Heavenly Court" in the Taoist sect, and the word "Ting" is taken from the Western "Holy Court".
If the Heavenly Court is regarded as a person, it can be said to be the most arrogant person in the world. It claims to be the Taoism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Shamanism, and Holy Court, and the Five Daos are integrated into one. It claims to have achieved the integration of the three religions that the leaders of the Confucianism and the Taoist masters of all dynasties have not achieved, and it has also added Shamanism from the grassland and the Holy Court from the West.
However, unlike the Purple Light Society, Zhiming Sect, and Lingshan Witch Cult, the "Heavenly Court" does not want flesh and blood and living souls except for incense and vows, but only real gold and silver, and has made a lot of money, deceiving hundreds of thousands of people.
In such a situation, it is mainly the court that will wipe out such evil cults that are harming the country and the people. In response and revenge, the "Heavenly Court" also had some actions of rebellion, but most of them were insignificant and could not withstand a single blow in front of the black-clothed men.
Therefore, the Qingluan Guard and the "Heavenly Court" are incompatible.
The Taoist sect also has a strong hatred for the "Heavenly Court" that arbitrarily tampered with the Taoist gods.
In the Taoist system, the highest is the Supreme Taoist Ancestor, which can be seen from the word "Taishang". Others such as the Emperor of Heaven and so on are still under the Taoist Ancestor. However, the "Heavenly Court" did the opposite and imitated the human court to form a so-called "God Court". In the God Court, the Jade Emperor is the head, corresponding to the emperor, and all other immortals and Buddhas are ministers who must obey the Jade Emperor's will, including the Supreme Taoist Ancestor and the Buddha. Several other families were not spared, and their worshipped gods were also included.
Below this are various gods.
Qingpinghui uses the tune as a code name, while "Tianting" uses the names of various gods as code names, such as "Thousand-Li Eyes", "Wind-Ears", "Golden Boy", "Jade Girl", or "Thunder God", "Lightning Mother", "Wind Master", "Rain Master", "Dragon King", "Giant Spirit God", "Nine Heavens Mysterious Girl", and "Tianpeng Marshal".
That's all, "Tianting" also imitated the three deputy masters of Taoism to set up the so-called Three Officials, namely "Heaven Official", "Earth Official", and "Water Official".
As we all know, Taoism has three major festivals, namely the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first lunar month, the birthday of the Heaven Official; the Zhongyuan Festival on the 15th day of the seventh lunar month, the birthday of the Earth Official; and the Xiayuan Festival on the 15th day of the tenth lunar month, the birthday of the Water Official. These three days are days for worshiping the heavens and offering sacrifices. The Great Immortals and Immortals must fast and bathe, and worship the heavens, which is very grand. "Tianting" simply created an incarnation of the Three Officials. Not to mention its madness, its delusion is unmatched.
This is also the reason why the "Heavenly Court" generally does not dare to provoke the Taoist sect, because there are four great heavenly masters, four great marshals, four great dragon gods, four gods of the four directions, five stars of the five stars, etc. in the "Heavenly Court", and few of them do not violate the taboos of the Taoist sect. If the so-called "Three Officials Emperor" incarnation really encounters the deputy head of the Taoist sect, he must die if he could live.
As for why the Taoist sect has never taken action against him, the "Heavenly Court" itself knows its own way. The Taoist sect still focuses its important energy on ancient immortals and internal struggles.
Of course, the Buddhist sect is not immune, such as the Five Directions, the Four Heavenly Kings, and the Eighteen Galans, all of which have been arranged.
However, the origin of the people who came this time is not so scary, just the relatively inconspicuous "Six Dings and Six Jias".
The so-called "Six Dings and Six Jias", the six Dings are Yin God Jade Girls: Ding Mao God, Ding Yi God, Ding Wei God, Ding You God, Ding Hai God, Ding Chou God. The six Jias are Yang God Jade Men: Jia Zi God, Jia Xu God, Jia Shen God, Jia Wu God, Jia Chen God, Jia Yin God.
The person who came this time was the "Jiashen God". His eyes swept around the small inn, paused slightly on Qi Xuansu, and finally stopped on the white-haired old man.
The white-haired old man sat still and drank by himself.
"Jiashen God" spoke slowly, his voice hoarse: "I actually met a group of Eagle Claw Sun, I really should throw you all out to eat sand."
The white-haired old man said lightly: "What a big tone."
"Jiashen God" narrowed his eyes and looked at the white-haired old man, and said in a bad tone: "Report it."
"I don't speak in jargon, I am a hundred households of Qingluan Guard, Sui Fan." The white-haired old man put down the wine glass in his hand and said in a deep voice.
In an instant, all Qingluan Guards pressed the handle of their knives or muskets.
The people behind "Jiashen God" were not to be outdone, with swords, spears, halberds, whisks, wooden fish, crutches, firearms, and all kinds of weapons.
It was about to break out.
Qi Xuansu had no intention of wading into the muddy water, so he stepped aside and drank a sip of wine.