Chapter 26: The Five Gods
Under the bonfire, a crowd of three layers inside and three layers outside surrounded the Shiqiao Village Ancestral Hall.
Everyone in the He Temple was trapped and knelt down in front of the ancestral hall. Everyone looked at them like ignited flames, just waiting for an order to burn them to ashes.
Among these people, some family members died in their hands, some had children taken away by them, and some were plundered and oppressed by them and had to sell their land and girls.
If it hadn't been for the immortal's order, people from all over the country would have wanted to skin them, remove their bones and eat their flesh raw right now.
While everyone was waiting, the door of the ancestral hall suddenly opened, revealing a Taoist priest sitting with his back.
"Thank you to the Great Immortal, General Donkey returned victorious, and not a single demon in the River Temple escaped. They were all caught." General Donkey Protector licked his face and came forward to take credit.
The Taoist then turned around and looked outside.
"Well done, it really lived up to the great immortal's expectations." The Taoist touched the donkey's head in a rare gesture and nodded with satisfaction.
This donkey was used extremely well, with its head held high, as if to declare that he was the number one protector of the Immortal Sect.
The Taoist stepped out of the door and stood in front of the flames, facing the disciples and temple blessings of the He Temple who were kneeling neatly in front of him.
Everyone lowered their heads, and those in front could only see the Taoist's boots and the shadow rippling with the firelight from the corner of their eyes.
Everyone behind him could vaguely see a Taoist who looked a little frail under the blazing bonfire, but no one dared to have any other thoughts.
Seeing this Taoist coming out, dozens of strong men, and the tyrannical temple ministers in the past, the servants shivered even more.
The ferocious Donkey Demon just now is like a dog-legger in this Taoist's sect. You can imagine how terrifying this Taoist is.
He waved his hand and took away the few booklets placed in front of the Heshen Temple. He briefly opened them and read them. Sure enough, they were the secret method of offering sacrifices to the river demon.
After reading it, Gao Xian shook his head, with a cold expression on his face, as if he was disdainful: "It's just some evil ways, it's hard to achieve anything great."
After finishing speaking, he tied his hands behind his back and quietly put the booklet into his sleeves.
"Who is behind you? Who is driving you to sacrifice the souls of boys and girls to this river demon?" Gao Xian directly asked the old man of the Temple of the River Temple. Everyone present seemed that this person had the highest status and should know things.
most.
Hearing the Taoist's question, the old man dared to speak and kowtowed excitedly.
"Great Immortal, please forgive me! We are disciples of the Five Gods Sect's Heshen Altar. We were sent by the superiors to come to this place along the Linjiang River."
"Those things we did in the past were all what the altar owner ordered us to do. We are innocent!"
This old man was crying all over the place, with tears streaming down his face. If others didn't know what he had done, they would probably feel pity and sympathy at this moment.
However, the Taoist directly ignored the old man's excuses and directly grasped the key point.
"Jianghu sect? In addition to the River God Altar, how many other altars do you have?"
The old man Miao Zhu shook his head repeatedly: "No, we rarely deal with Jianghu sects. Instead, we specialize in dealing with dignitaries in Jiangzhou, selling goods by boat, and developing followers."
"In addition to the River God Altar, there are also the Mountain God Altar, the Poison God Altar, the Gu God Altar, and the General Altar, each of which has its own responsibilities. Our River God Altar is responsible for the operation of the river, the Mountain God Altar is responsible for merchants moving goods, and the Poison God Altar is responsible for
Information, Gu Shen Altar is responsible for dealing with dignitaries, and the General Altar coordinates everything."
"As for the details, I don't know."
After careful questioning, Gao Xian also knew what he wanted to know and was no longer interested in the people in front of him.
Gao Xian raised his hand to summon the village elders: "These people will be left to your disposal. Knowing that they have lives in their hands and are responsible for causing harm to the village, anyone in the village can come forward to testify. The judgment will be judged here. Don't say that they are ignorant and ignorant."
Kill for crime.”
"If someone kills someone, he will be punished with his life. If someone helps the tyrant, he will be severely punished by having his legs broken. If he coerces someone, he will lose his martial arts and be whipped thirty times."
The village elders did not dare to disobey. One by one, the young men stepped forward and dragged down the Heshentan disciples who were tied like rice dumplings.
Everyone came forward and cheered in unison.
These people cried and begged for mercy, and their voices gradually disappeared behind them. What awaited them was the retribution of the past.
Gao Xian looked at the giant snakes piled up into a hill. This thing was useless to him, and it would be a waste to put it here.
The Green Dragon Sword came out of his sleeve, and he cut it into several pieces with a swing of the sword.
"Everyone is tired tonight. Let's share the river demon's meat.
"Eating it is also beneficial. It can detoxify, improve eyesight, and strengthen the body."
Hearing that the snake meat had such effects, the villagers from all over the place were delighted and immediately shouted: "Thank you so much for this gift from the immortal."
One by one, they gathered around the giant snake, as if they were seeing some rare treasure.
Several village elders from each township even started quarreling over this, arguing over who should get more and who should get less.
I won't sleep tonight. The whole Shiqiao Village in Linjiang Township is brightly lit and the fragrance is floating ten miles away.
People from all over the country held banquets all night long, singing and dancing in front of the ancestral hall in Shiqiao Village.
Since then, this day has become an important festival in all parts of the country.
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Jiangting County.
The river runs through the city, and the fireworks on both sides are the most prosperous place in the Zhou Dynasty.
Jinzhu Tower is the most famous spring tower on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, but unlike the ordinary fireworks in Liuxiang, almost all the singing and dancing girls in Jinzhu Tower are well-read in poetry and books, and are proficient in all kinds of music, chess, calligraphy and painting.
In preparation for exams over the years, these singing and singing girls have even served as tutors for participating students, teaching them how to study for exams.
Therefore, the status of the singing and dancing girls in the Jinzhu Tower is still very high in Jiangting, and they are not as despised as ordinary Huajie girls. Most of the guests come here and recite poems in a well-behaved manner.
Yes, don't dare to overstep the rules.
This Jinzhu Tower is a seven-story splendid flower tower with a huge golden spider statue on the top, blooming with golden light in the sun. It looks extremely graceful and luxurious at first sight. Ordinary people would not dare to enter after seeing this huge power.
The people he came to were either rich and powerful, or they were scholars and scholars.
On the top floor, a richly dressed madam was kneeling in front of a door painted with mountains and rivers.
"Master, the river god was beheaded and the goddess is dead. She was killed by a young Taoist priest riding a donkey."
"The people of the River God Altar from ten miles and eight villages along the Linjiang River, and all the forces we cultivated are all gone."
Behind the door, a figure was dancing and singing a cappella in costume, as if he had never heard it before.
The old bustard didn't dare to stop, and continued: "I have checked and heard that a swordsman from the previous dynasty in Gongzhou came down the mountain. According to rumors, the swordsman looked like a young man, and he also rode a donkey and killed the river god.
It should be this person."
"The master, deputy master, elders, and most of the masters of Yinhua Palace died at his hands. What's even more terrifying is that I heard that he was good at flying swords and could kill people's heads thousands of miles away."
The figure whose face was covered with makeup and whose gender could not be distinguished finally stopped and turned around to look behind the screen.
Two delicate girls kneeling on the left and right in front of the door opened the exquisite wooden door, revealing the gorgeous scene behind it.
The old bustard knelt and walked forward step by step, as carefully as if the ground was a mountain of knives. After a long time, he held up a portrait in front of the leader of the Five Gods Religion.
If you raise your head and look carefully, you can faintly see a series of transparent silk threads connecting the figure of the sect to the ceiling, and the same is true for the two delicate girls guarding the door.
Throughout the gorgeous pavilion, there are threads invisible to the naked eye hanging from the ceiling, hiding mysteries.
This is also the reason why the madam is so fearful and cautious.
This is the latest portrait on this month's Jietianji list. It bears the title of Laoshan Yuntian Guan Kongchenzi, the number one immortal in the world.
The portrait shows Gao Xian's appearance, and even his unworldly and carefree temperament is perfectly copied.
Seeing the young man above the portrait, the leader of the Five Gods Religion suddenly couldn't help laughing.
"Hahahahaha...hahahahaha!"
The whole person danced around and around in the hall, and the long sleeves were like clouds passing through the sky, and it took a long time to stop.
The laughter stopped.
"Gao Shi, can you finally bear the urge to go down the mountain?"
"Didn't you say that there are no immortals in the world, but only monsters and monsters, and you will no longer set foot in the human world?"
"Or have you become an immortal?"
After muttering to himself for a long time, the leader of the Five Gods Religion looked at the old bustard.
Chapter completed!