Chapter 66: Drizzle Marriage

Xu Changqing was very happy that Guan Zheng's cultivation was able to break through. He was about to try his cultivation again, but he saw Guan Zheng's face suddenly become solemn, his nose twitched, as if there was something strange in the air. He couldn't help but sniff, but he didn't smell any strange in the smell. He couldn't help but frowned and asked, "Brother Guan, is there anything wrong with it?"

Guan Zheng hesitated for a moment and said, "Master, I am born with a spiritual nose, but I can smell the evil spirits of ghosts and demons. At this moment, a very strong evil spirits are gathering ten miles northwest of the Taoist temple, and it is getting stronger and stronger. It seems that it should be heading towards the Ma Family Store."

Xu Changqing felt a little surprised, and then he looked relieved. Some children of a cultivator family had more or less talented abilities. It was not uncommon for Guan Zheng to have a spiritual nose, and his own divine eyes were also considered a talented abilities. After listening to Guan Zheng's words, Xu Changqing secretly pinched the magic seal, circulated the true energy, opened the heavenly eye, and looked in the direction that Guan Zheng pointed. Indeed, as he said, a strong ghost energy emerged from the barren mountain in the northwest direction. The ghost energy was filled with killing aura, and rushed straight into the sky. Even the thick clouds could not block it. He rushed open a big hole. The moonlight aura shot down from the cave and shone directly on the barren mountain, with a huge momentum. Judging from the huge momentum it had before it was born, this evil ghost was at least at the level of the Ghost King, and was even above the Ghost King.

"Master, what should we do?" Guan Zheng also felt that the evil ghost seemed extremely powerful, so he turned to Xu Changqing and asked.

"The country's fortunes are declining and demons are everywhere. Not only the secular world is chaotic, but also the cultivation world is chaotic." Xu Changqing pretended to be deep and sighed, "Let's go! Since we have encountered this, it is also a chance. Since the evil ghost is heading for the Ma Family Store, we will also go over and take a look."

"What the master said is exactly what I want." Guan Zheng's cultivation level is improving now, just wanting to find an evil demon to do something. When he heard Xu Changqing's words, he excitedly packed up the treasure chest, carried it behind his back, and put out the fire. Then he followed Xu Changqing and ran towards the Majiashu, which was doing the wedding.

Although the Taoist temple has a few miles away from the Ma Family Paving, the lightness of Xu Changqing and Guan Zheng came in just a moment. However, when they arrived at the Ma Family Paving, the scene in front of them surprised the two of them. It turned out that although there were lights and decorations here, it seemed like they were doing weddings, but there was no lively scene like weddings. Instead, it seemed deserted and had a trace of gloomy and strange atmosphere. Big red lanterns were hung at the door of the people, but the door was tightly closed, with two strings of animal bones hanging on both sides of the door, and a sedan chair was placed alone on the entrance to the village, which seemed particularly eye-catching.

"What's going on?" Guan Zheng asked in confusion when he saw the strange scene in front of him.

"It's a ghost marriage!" Xu Changqing frowned slightly and said, "If there are troubled mountain ghosts in some places, the locals will use a virgin as a living sacrifice to marry a mountain ghost so that the mountain ghost can calm down. This is a ghost marriage. However, this custom is generally only available in the south, and when will the north start to popularize such things that damage the virtues of nature begin to be popular in the north."

"No matter how far he is in the south and north, save people first!" Guan Zheng immediately became indignant when he heard that he was using living people to sacrifice his life. He ran towards the coupe without thinking too much.

Running to the side of the sedan chair, Guan Zheng lifted the curtain, and saw a bride wearing a phoenix crown and a robe sitting inside. What was inconsistent with this outfit was that the bride's hands and feet were tied tightly and could not move. Her eyes had no other expressions except for fear and despair. The rouge on her face was also drawn by tears. Although she was indeed beautiful and charming, she couldn't feel it at all at this moment.

"Girl, don't be afraid! We are good people, let you out now!" Guan Zheng quickly reached out and cut off the rope that tied the bride, and then prepared to help the bride come out.

However, surprisingly, although the bride showed happiness on her face when Guan Zheng appeared, her expression dimmed when Guan Zheng was about to save her. Not only did she sway her body hard to prevent Guan Zheng from pulling her, she also pulled out the edge of the sedan chair and shook her head hard, but she refused to come out, as if Guan Zheng was the evil mountain ghost, and cried, "No! I don't want you to let go. If I leave, the mountain ghost will deal with the villagers." As she said that, she shouted loudly: "Come here! Someone is going to rob the bride!"

Hearing the bride's cry, the village that had been silent immediately exploded. All the people in the room rushed out with shoulder poles, hatchets and other farm tools. Before Guan Zheng could react, he had already surrounded three or four floors inside and out, staring at Guan Zheng fiercely, as if he wanted to gnaw his bones and eat his flesh.

At this time, the crowd moved away and walked out of the crowd a long-bearded old man with a slightly sad expression. When he saw Guan Zheng in Taoist costume and Xu Changqing dressed in a monk behind Guan Zheng, his expression was slightly stunned, and he immediately became dim. He raised his hand to signal everyone to put down his things and said to the two: "The two masters and monks must have come for the evil mountain ghost, right? I hope you will be proud of yourselves and don't worry about this matter anymore. There are no more young and strong people in our village to calm the anger of the mountain ghost."

Xu Changqing grabbed Guan Zheng who wanted to speak, looked at the people around him, and found that most of them were elderly people and some underage children. So he frowned and stepped forward and said, "Amitabha! The old man is probably the village chief of this village! He heard about the old man's conversation, he should have been a person who reads poetry and books, otherwise he would not have made any sense to us like this."

"Master, I'm so rewarded!" The aura emitted by Xu Changqing calmed down the aura of the people around him, and the old village chief's expression also soothed a little, saying: "I used to be a juren during the Tongzhi period. He was the village chief of Majiapu and the master of the private school in the village."

"It turns out that the master who has great fame is disrespectful! Disrespectful!" Xu Changqing dispelled the hostility of the villagers in a few words, and then asked directly: "Earing from the old man's tone, it seems that besides the two of us, there are other people who have come to subdue this mountain ghost?"

"Oh!" the old village chief sighed. Not only did his expression become sad, but even the other villagers around him became extremely sad. The old man heard the deep voice saying: "Our Majiapu was once one of the largest villages within 300 miles. Since the boxing bandits in the past few years, there has never been peace here. First, the boxing bandits flew here to become bandits and rob the village. Later, a very powerful mountain ghost appeared on the Siberian Hutou Mountain. At that time, the bandits saw that our Majiapu was prosperous and wanted to rob our Majiapu. There was a little magic in our village.

The people went to invite mountain ghosts to use mountain ghosts to drive away the bandits. Although they drove away the bandits afterwards, the mountain ghost settled down here. Although he didn't want gold or silver, he took lives, and every year he wanted a yellow girl to marry him as a ghost wife. We have also invited some Taoist monks to exorcise ghosts, and even a few monks from the Big Buddha Temple invited a few, but they all went but never returned. Later, we had to offer the young and strong villages as sacrifices to calm the anger of the mountain ghosts, which made the young and strong people in the village go away and die, leaving us alone."

Guan Zheng heard the old village chief’s misery and asked in a deep voice: “This place is very close to the capital. There are also many Tantric monks who are good at exorcising evil spirits and subduing demons in the capital. Why don’t you go to the capital to find those monks?”

The old village chief looked at Guan Zheng, smiled coldly, and said, "Does the Taoist priest need to remind him of this? We have never been to the capital to hire monks, but those so-called monks are all jackals who are more fierce than mountain ghosts. If they can subdue mountain ghosts, why should I use my granddaughter to match the ghost marriage?"

As he said that, the old man couldn't help crying, and the bride standing in front of the sedan chair threw herself into an old woman's arms and cried loudly. The villagers around him all showed grief and anger on their faces.

"As the saying goes, when evil is finally revenge, the old gentleman and all the villagers are so unwilling to accept it, why not let me and this brother Guan try to subdue this demon?" Xu Changqing stepped forward, suggested to the people around him indifferently, and then before the other party objected, he pulled Guan Zheng in front of him and said, "I am just an unknown person. I must introduce it. However, this brother Guan is very famous. He is a descendant of the Guan family's exorcist Tianshi Guan family. He is known as Guan Zheng. He is proficient in the Guan family's talisman sword and the Donghua School's sword control technique. He is hundreds of times stronger than those famous exorcist Taoists."

"The Guan family? Could it be the Guan family in Shandong?" The old village chief was startled, stepped forward and grabbed Guan Zheng's arm. He accidentally saw the talisman armor he was wearing. He immediately became excited and said, "The Guan family is really the Guan family in Shandong! This is the talisman armor of the Guan family." He said, and shouted to the people around him: "We are saved, and our Ma family shop is saved!"

The people around him obviously didn't understand what was going on. They looked at the old village chief laughing like a seizure, with a look of confusion and confusion on his face. Even his wife and granddaughter were staring at him blankly.

"The old village chief knows our Guan family?" Guan Zheng, who was grabbed by the old village chief, was stunned. When he heard the old village chief say the name of the Guan family Fu Jia, he immediately asked in surprise.

However, the old village chief seemed not to hear Guan Zheng's words, and was still laughing hard, but his face turned a little blue and his expression seemed ferocious.

"No! The old man was surprised and lost his mind, and he was in danger of losing his heart." Xu Changqing saw something was wrong at a glance. He stepped forward and pressed the old village chief's body twitching constantly, formed a lotus seal with his hand, pressed it on the head of the old village chief, and said in a deep voice: "The clear and quiet white lotus formed a magic seal, and the vast Buddha's power calmed down!"

As Xu Changqing said the Buddhist verse, the Buddha Yuan simulated by the Nine-River Avenue emanated from his handprints, forming a white lotus visible to the naked eye, and then slowly sank into the head of the old village chief. At this time, the old village chief immediately calmed down, breathed calmly, and his eyes closed slightly. After the white lotus completely penetrated his head, a faint white light emitted above his head, like a solemn treasure statue. The villagers around had never seen such a vision, and all knelt down and prostrated themselves to Xu Changqing, even calling him a holy monk. Many people even cried and called him a Bodhisattva. Guan Zheng also felt the pure Buddha power emitted from Xu Changqing's hands, and couldn't help but feel awe in his heart, and gradually put the young monk in front of him at the same position as Yan Feng.

Xu Changqing did not use any Buddhism? In fact, he just used the external appearance of the lotus flower of the White Lotus Crossing the World Method, and then added the authentic Taoist magic mantra. This superimposed Buddhist technique completely concealed the power of the magic mantra, forging such a Buddhist illusion that is enough to fool the world. Obviously, Xu Changqing was very satisfied with his method of combining Taoism and Buddhism, and showed a little smile on his face, but soon his face became solemn for some reason. After retracting his hand from the old village chief, he retreated to Guan Zheng, without saying anything, as if he was thinking about something.

After a while, the old village chief woke up. Although he was fascinated just now, he knew who saved him. He hurriedly stepped forward and knelt down to Xu Changqing and said, "I thank you for your help. Please accept my prayer."

Seeing the old man kneeling to him, Xu Changqing naturally would not let him bow down. He stretched out his hand to support him, circulated his true energy, formed two white lotus on the old man's knees, held them up, and then clasped his hands together and said, "Old man, there is no need to be too polite. God has the virtue of living a life. I am practicing Buddhism that is the way to travel the world, how could I not save him?"

"Master, Buddhism is profound, I admire it." The old village chief looked at Xu Changqing with admiration and said.

Xu Changqing smiled indifferently, closed his hands and replied, and asked, "Just just now, my brother Guan asked the old man if he knew the Guan family in Shandong, but the old man has not answered yet?"

The old village chief replied respectfully: "When I was young, I served as a clerk under the command of Dexingguan, Moyuntianpengguan. I knew more about the Guan family than ordinary people." As he said, he looked regretful and said, "It's a pity that although the thirty-eight Guan heroes are all strange people with great power, they can't stand the foreign guns and cannons of foreigners after all."

"It turns out that the old village chief is my uncle's old friend. Please be bowed to me by my younger generation." Guan Zheng was stunned after hearing this, and hurriedly stepped forward to salute, and then said with a solemn expression: "Since it is my Guan family's old friend, I have encountered this ghost marriage today. I think it is my uncle's guidance, so I should be in charge of this matter! If the old village chief trusts me, Guan, I will definitely fight for this life and get rid of the evil demons in the mountains."

"We remember Master Guan Tian and this holy monk's Gao Yi, please accept my prayer!" The old village chief and the surrounding village names were very grateful and kowtowed.
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