On January 30, 1865, the fourth year of Tongzhi, the first day of the first lunar month of the Yichou year in the lunar calendar.

It's another good spring year, and Dengfeng City is decorated with lights and joy. The buildings on both sides of the street are full of vitality under the embellishment of lanterns and upside-down blessings. The red paper left behind after the fireworks and firecrackers were scattered all over the ground. People who have been busy for a year have walked on the streets and strolled on the market on the first day of the New Year in the smell of residual sulfur, shuttled and turned around in various small stalls, bought some gadgets and played games, hoping to get a good start for the New Year.

The court officials started to have six days off from the 26th day of the twelfth lunar month and started working again today. There was not much important matter. They rarely enjoyed the people in the street market, presenting a harmonious and prosperous scene.

In just a few days, you can temporarily forget the decline of the country's destiny and the difficulties of people's livelihood; in just a few days, you can temporarily sink into the world and enjoy the family life. The "Fu culture" that has penetrated into the bones of Chinese civilization is fully reflected in these days when you bid farewell to the old and welcome the new.

However, even on such a day, not everyone is qualified to enjoy this illusory blessing. On this day, on Mount Song twenty miles away, many indigenous people and tourists experienced a terrifying scene.

The monster sounds of "Ha-Ha-Ha-" come one after another in the mountains and fields. If you are "benefited by luck", you can even see birds and beasts that you have never seen in your life running wildly on the road and flying in the sky.

They are the monsters of Songshan Mountain that have been controlled by the power of Xiqu Prajna.

The monks in Shaolin Temple also heard this sound one after another from the 9:00 am, and soon realized that the monster sound was different from the past. It was not an occasional single monster that appeared nearby, but formed a scale or even an organization. I thought there must be something ominous behind it. Chen Shuqing found Huiyuan and volunteered to inquire.

Outside the mountain gate, Huiyuan led a group of Shaolin disciples to wait silently on the steps. Soon, Chen Shuqing's changing flying fox flew back from a distance and landed in front of everyone. He was twisting the corpse of a double-headed yellow bird in his hand and said hurriedly: "Master Abbot, I have figured it out clearly. Sure enough, there are many monsters running between the mountains. Of course, there are some monster birds, so I solved one by the way."

Huiyuan was stunned and asked, "Then, where are they running?"

Chen Shuqing pointed to the north and said, "Going north, and that is exactly the direction Yu Xiangdi and the others are heading. It must be the venue of the Eternal Night Competition!"

"Amitabha..." Huiyuan breathed a sigh of relief, "It seems that Master Li and his team did such a confidentiality work, but they were still known by the demon world."

Chen Shuqing said blankly: "I'm also very strange. Logically speaking, the Zhongyue Temple and the arena have the power of purifying the Little Leaf Red Bean Tree to cover up the power of purifying the power. Only when you move on the road in the middle of the way can you be discovered by the demon world. However, rather than being so coincidental, I would rather believe that someone had already revealed the wind of the Eternal Night Competition to the demon world, and it is very likely that it was that Xiqu. Unfortunately, I can't find Xiaoqi and Yu Xiangdi's breath now. I think they have arrived at the stadium, and I can't inform them in time."

Huiyuan thought for a while and said, "What Mr. Chen said is reasonable. Such a thing is most likely to be leaked from the inside. However, it is not important to who the initiator is. It seems that the Eternal Night Competition will definitely not be carried out smoothly, and the safety of those purifying messengers and Taoist priests is difficult to guarantee."

Chen Shuqing nodded and said, "That's true, so I have to take Xiaoshu and Zhu Yuanliang to meet with my friends. Master Abbot and everyone, say goodbye."

"Haha, donor Chen wait." Chen Shuqing was about to walk into the temple, but Huiyuan called her.

Chen Shuqing turned around and said, "Is there anything else?"

Huiyuan said in a righteous voice: "Now that Taixu Crystal is coming to the world again, this matter is no longer the matter of you, but it is about the life and death of the people in the world. How could I stand by and watch?"

Chen Shuqing immediately understood Huiyuan's meaning and said worriedly: "Master Abbot, this time the opponent is not ordinary gangsters who kill and rob, but monsters whose strength has returned to their peak!"

"It is the duty of Shaolin disciples to hate evil and save all sentient beings. How can they shrink back because of their opponent's strength?" After saying that, Huiyuan ordered his disciples with a righteous spirit, "My Shaolin disciples obeyed the order and quickly gathered outside the Main Hall to go to the arena to assist the purifying messengers to subdue the monsters!"

All the Shaolin disciples present responded in unison: "Yes!"

Looking at the old abbot who lost all his martial arts skills and the group of Shaolin disciples who were not frightened, Chen Shuqing's eyes became wet.

...

The fact that monsters are running wildly in Songshan naturally has to start with Shadalimi meeting with Xiqu.

Shortly after Shadali revealed the Eternal Night Competition to Xiqu, Xiqu integrated Taixu Crystal into his body and gained more powerful Prajna abilities. He turned 500 wild monsters of all sizes in Songshan into his own men, lurking among the mountains and fields, waiting for his orders at any time, and always paying attention to every move in Zhongyue Temple.

At midnight today, many purifying envoys in Zhongyue Temple went out together, which immediately attracted Xiqu's attention. However, in order not to alert the snake, the new demon emperor could not detect a large number of demonic energy and was collectively dispatched by the purifying envoy. So he stopped moving for a while and waited for an hour. After the breath of the purifying envoy disappeared, he judged that the target had entered the arena surrounded by Xiaoye Hongdou. Both sides could not detect each other's movements, so he officially ordered hundreds of monsters to march towards the direction of the competition.

Speaking of which, after being brave but not resourceful, the rhino monster's mind became more delicate after being taught by Shadali.

Pu Zixuan and others did not realize that things were going in a dangerous direction. For some time, they had been chatting with the examiner Cai Yunzi while riding a carriage to a farmland.

"It's here, get off the car." As Cai Yunzi greeted him, the carriage stopped, and Pu Zixuan got off the car with Cai Yunzi.

Looking around, the rapeseed flowers in the farmland came very early this year, and they had already revealed a tender yellow color. In the distance, shallow and short hills rose and fell one after another, and endless small-leaf red bean trees isolated the farmland from the hills.

It seems that the other end of the little leaf red bean tree is undoubtedly the venue of the Eternal Night Competition.

Pu Zixuan couldn't help but exclaim: "What a spectacular scene. Master Li probably spent a lot of effort on this arena?"

"Yes, from here, the hills seem to be irregular, but from the sky, there are a total of a hundred hills, forming a circle, like the Taoist Bagua diagram. After passing the small-leaf red bean forest, it is where the Xunmen is located."

The carriage could not pass through the farmland, so Pu Zixuan followed Caiyunzi to walk through the rapeseed flower field. Soon, he passed through the small-leaf red bean forest, and the word "Xun" suddenly appeared on the ground.

Cai Yunzi used gesture to block Pu Zixuan on the word "Xun" and said, "This place is the starting point of Xun Gate. In order to ensure that the eight contestants set off at the same time, please wait here before you can move forward at Si."

After saying that, Cai Yunzi took out a pocket watch and saw the pointer pointing to the position at the end of Chen and Si, and said, "There is about a quarter of an hour left. As soon as the hour arrives, you can set off immediately. Remember, don't use your flying power, otherwise I have to..."

"Don't worry." Before Cai Yunzi could say sad words, Pu Zixuan took the initiative to express his opinion and began to move his muscles and bones on the spot, saying with a smile, "I haven't been active for a long time."

At the same time, outside the other seven entrances of the examination room, seven contestants also walked through the Xiaoye Red Bean Forest under the leadership of the examiner and arrived at their respective starting points. At this time, Xiqu judged that the time had come, and began to activate the Prajna ability and ordered the wild demon to go out.
Chapter completed!