On the Avenue.

Chapter 197: Benevolence
"Master's martial arts mantra?"

The scholar was so angry that he was shaking all over, his face flushed red, and he took a step forward and shouted, "What do you think of Master's Analects? Master's teachings are clearly about teaching people to be good, and clearly about teaching people how to cultivate themselves, manage their families, govern the country, and bring peace to the world. They are not about fighting and killing!"

Chen Shi sat on the armchair and said in surprise: "Master was born in the Spring and Autumn Period. He traveled around the world with 3,000 disciples and wandered between the countries. All the countries submitted to him. You say he didn't rely on force? Could he rely on his eloquence? Master talked about martial arts. The general of the army can be taken away, but the will of the common people cannot be taken away. Among the three armies, taking the head of the general is as easy as taking something out of a bag. The three armies are all common people. You can't humiliate him, just beat him to death. You see, isn't this the true meaning of martial arts?"

The scholar laughed angrily and stammered, "You are insulting the knowledge of the saints..."

Chen Shi was also a little angry, and said: "Master talked about benevolence and righteousness. As the name suggests, benevolence means to split the opponent in two. Righteousness means to smash the opponent's head into the stomach. You are a lackey for Master Yudu and you are insulting the saint's knowledge. Today I will treat you with benevolence and righteousness!"

Before the scholar could argue, the woman in the love skirt said calmly, "Brother Pei, don't waste your words on him. Chen Shi, you stole the young master's Resurrection Lotus and killed the entire Taiping Sect. This is against the moral code of the martial arts world. Today, I will make you pay with blood!"

Chen Shi smiled and said, "That's great! The Master said that a gentleman should be slow to speak but quick to act. He taught us not to waste words during a duel and just fight. It seems that I am not a gentleman enough."

"What nonsense!"

The scholar was furious and rushed forward. As he moved, the peddler and the woman in the Hehuan skirt also moved with him. All three of them were experts in cultivating to the Nascent Soul stage, especially the woman in the Hehuan skirt who had the highest level of cultivation.

This woman's name was Jiang Pingting. She was a well-known matchmaker in Yudu and made a living by matchmaking. She was no more than thirty years old, tall and pretty. Often when she was matchmaking, the man would not be attracted by any of the other girls but by her instead.

On the surface, she makes a living from this, but at the same time, she is also under the command of the young master.

The Nascent Soul Realm can be divided into five stages: Great Medicine, Yellow Bud, Infant Formation, Out-of-Body State, and Great Formation. Jiang Pingting has already cultivated to the late Out-of-Body State, and her Nascent Soul is nearly one foot high. If she takes one more step, she will be able to achieve Great Formation.

It can be said that every step of the way to this stage of cultivation was difficult. She was not from a noble family, so she could only rely on them and seek refuge with the young master in order to obtain better skills and resources from him.

She has always been aware that if she wants to go further, she has to fight hard!

She used her most powerful spell, the Nine Realms Dragon Capturing Technique!

The Nine Realms Dragon Capture Technique is to control the surrounding trees and make them grow with the Nascent Soul force field. Within the force field, the trees grow freely, and the branches and roots turn into flesh and blood, crisscrossing each other. With the blessing of the force field, it has the power to capture dragons!

When this spell was cast, the trees in the yard of Chen's house suddenly grew wildly in all directions. Breaking through the ground, every branch and root was as thick as a python, and they turned from wood into flesh and blood, and came towards Chen Shi!

These trees turned from wood into flesh and blood in just a moment. They had no skin, only flesh and blood. The red flesh and blood were intertwined and crisscrossed, which was very horrifying!

These trees of flesh and blood are her arms. A punch can have tremendous force, a twist can strangle the enemy, a stab can be used as a sword, a slash can be used as a knife. They move as fast as lightning and are extremely swift!

At the same time, the peddler also shouted loudly and activated his profound skills. The Yuanying force field of others expanded outward, while his Yuanying force field contracted inward.

He practiced a close combat technique called the Great Ghost Mother Yuan Gong.

When this skill was put into practice, the originally skinny peddler suddenly swelled up like air, becoming fat and big, about ten feet tall, with arms and legs like round lotus roots.

His head became round, and blood and qi surged under his armpits, turning into two arms. Blood and qi also surged out of his head, and a ghost doll grew behind his head, with short arms and legs, all transformed from the blood and qi.

Each of his four arms held a rattle, which was made of fine iron and was originally the same size as an ordinary rattle. But when it was turned suddenly, accompanied by a clanging sound, the rattle suddenly turned into a big drum more than one meter tall!

There are ghost face runes painted on the surface of the drum, like the face of a ghost doll, surrounded by complicated talismans and incomprehensible ghost words.

Each rattle weighed thousands of pounds. The peddler had supernatural powers. When he took a step, the earth trembled. When he waved the rattle, the wind sounded like thunder.

The peddler passed through the Nine Realms Dragon Capturing Force Field, suddenly jumped up, waved four rattles, and smashed towards Chen Shi with unparalleled force!
Different from the strange magic of the peddler and Jiang Pingting, the scholar's magic seemed upright, following the path of refining elixirs and cultivating Nascent Soul with righteousness.

His Yuanying force field spread out, and it was easy to separate yin and yang, turning into two yin and yang, shaped like a Tai Chi diagram. He took a step, and his left and right feet stepped on the eyes of the Yin-Yang fish, the left foot was Yang, and the right foot was Yin. As his feet moved, the Tai Chi diagram also moved, and the Yin-Yang fish changed and flowed, which was very mysterious.

This martial art is called Tai Chi Lotus Platform Technique, and it is extremely powerful. But unfortunately, it is incomplete and can only be cultivated to the Nascent Soul stage. It was also because of his great contributions that the young master rewarded him with this.

Otherwise, he would not be qualified to learn even this incomplete martial art.

After he practiced the Tai Chi Lotus Platform Technique, his cultivation became more and more profound and powerful. Even Jiang Pingting, who had the highest level among them, was not as profound as him in terms of cultivation.

He took a step forward, his blood and energy surged, the majestic blood and energy roared like waves crashing on the shore, his palms changed from yin to yang, and attacked Chen Shi like an overwhelming tidal wave!

The three men knew very well that Chen Shi was a master among talisman masters. Two of their companions had achieved the Nascent Soul stage and had broken into Chen's house at night and were killed by Chen Shi's talismans. Therefore, the three men did not sacrifice their Nascent Souls. Instead, a shrine appeared behind their heads, with the Nascent Soul standing in the palm of the divine fetus in the shrine, activating spells to enhance the power of the spells!
Chen Shi was still sitting on the armchair, not moving, looking at them coldly.

As soon as the three of them took action, the talismans hanging on the walls and trees began to unleash their power.

There are a total of sixty talismans, which are collected from the black pot's extremely yang blood and painted with sixty Tai Sui star god talismans.

When the power of these sixty talismans burst out, the figures of sixty Tai Sui star gods appeared!

It is not known whether it is because Chen Shi's cultivation has improved and his true qi is too strong, or because Hei Guo's bloodline power is too powerful, these sixty Tai Sui star gods seem to have walked out of talismans into reality, their bodies condensed, like flesh and blood bodies, and their divine power is surging!
The auras of sixty Tai Sui star gods tore through the Nascent Soul force fields of the three people and suppressed them.

The order and position of each Tai Sui talisman laid out by Chen Shi were very clever, following the order of the sixty Tai Sui's annual duties.

Different Tai Sui star gods break different evil spirits and should be placed in different directions.

Bingyin Tai Sui breaks the fire evil in the furnace, so it should be placed near the stove. Wuchen Tai Sui breaks the wood evil in the forest, so it should be pasted on the trees.

There are also gold evil spirits, earth evil spirits, and water evil spirits, all of which have an order. Some are posted on swords, some are posted on roofs, and some are posted beside wells, together forming the Sixty Tai Sui Evil-breaking Formation.

When all the talismans light up, the Tai Sui Po Sha method has been formed, which is specifically designed to break the Five Elements!
Jiang Pingting's Nine Realms Dragon Capturing Force Field was instantly shattered. Under the influence of Tai Sui Po Sha, thick and twisted strands of flesh and blood broke one after another, withered, and turned into wood chips and fell down.

The Nascent Soul in Jiang Pingting's shrine was immediately severely damaged, with blood oozing from the corners of her mouth. She flew back without thinking, crashing backwards, and with a loud bang, she crashed through the wall of Chen's house, causing the wall to collapse instantly.

The peddler rushed forward relying on his strong body. His Great Ghost Mother Yuan Gong was an evil skill that required the cultivation of evil spirits. When he encountered the Tai Sui who could break the evil spirits, his skills became disordered immediately and his arms formed by blood, qi and evil spirits exploded one after another.

The ghost doll behind the head has a rotten face and melted limbs, it is extremely terrifying.

Even his evil spirit Nascent Soul was suppressed and dim!

Tai Sui can break evil spirits and destroy evil methods!
He and Jiang Pingting both practiced evil methods and suffered the most damage. On the contrary, although the scholar practiced a fragment of the orthodox method, it was not suppressed much.

The peddler roared and swung the iron rattle towards Chen Shi's head. Before the iron rattle fell, his body was pierced by flying sharp bamboos. He flew upside down and crashed backwards!
Jiang Pingting had just jumped out of Chen's house when she saw the peddler's body rushing towards her. She was horrified and immediately rolled to the side to avoid the peddler's huge inflatable body.

She had no intention of having a decisive battle with Chen Shi at all, and immediately sped away along the street.

There was a loud bang behind him. It was the sound of the peddler's body hitting the restaurant opposite.

Although it was a quick glance, she had seen that the bamboos had pierced the peddler's forehead, throat, heart, left lung, right lung, liver, gallbladder, left kidney, right kidney, dantian, testicles, etc., and it was too late to save him. Jiang Pingting had always heard a rumor that the grandmaster of the talisman master could use the talismans to compete with the cultivators of the Nascent Soul Realm at the Divine Embryo Realm.

When she saw Chen Shi using the Sixty Tai Sui Talismans to set up the formation, she knew that Chen Shi was definitely such a talisman master!

His talisman was too powerful. The talisman formation he set up caused her Nine Realms Dragon Capturing Force Field to collapse and damaged her Nascent Soul. If she stayed, she would only die, but if she escaped, she might still have a chance of survival!

A sharp whistling sound was heard from behind. Jiang Pingting looked back in a hurry, only to see green bamboos whistling in the air and chasing after her!
"No matter how strong your cultivation is, your flying sword killing technique won't last long!"

Jiang Pingting ran quickly along the street. Although it was a busy city, she was still running very fast. She avoided the pedestrians on the street and whizzed forward.

Her movements were ethereal and although she dodged pedestrians, she was not much slower than running at full speed. She was as powerful as a galloping horse and in just a few moments she had passed through the streets and arrived at East City, passing through the slums of East City.

The terrain of East City is complex, with numerous alleys, some of which can only accommodate one person. It is dark, damp, and cold, and is the most complicated place in the city.

It was expected that Chen Shi could not catch up with her here using the green bamboo as a flying sword, and even if he did, he would not be able to find any trace of her.

She stopped in a dark alley, hiding in the shadows. Just as she was about to check her injuries, suddenly there was a whoosh, and a green bamboo shot out. Although Jiang Pingting tried hard to avoid it, she was unable to completely avoid it, and the bamboo pierced her right lung!
Jiang Pingting coughed up blood, and immediately summoned her magic power and ran away.

She rushed out of the city, leaped over the river, ran across the estuary of Dejiang River, which was several miles wide, ran to the other side of the river, went into the jungle, and ran for dozens of miles until her chest was burning and she had difficulty breathing, then she stopped.

She coughed up a few more mouthfuls of blood, coughed out the plasma in her lungs, leaned against a big tree, and slowly sat down.

"This place is more than eighty miles away from the provincial capital of Xinxiang. Only a strong person in the Spiritual Transformation Realm can cast his spells so far. Moreover, even if it reaches here, the power of the spell will soon be exhausted and will no longer be as powerful as before. It should be safe now."

Jiang Pingting breathed a sigh of relief, gritted her teeth and tore open her clothes, revealing the wound on her right chest. She saw that the green bamboo was still stuck on the right side of her chest near the shoulder.

Just as she was about to cut the green bamboo, she suddenly heard a series of pecking sounds. One by one, the green bamboos pierced through the tree behind her and pierced into her back. One pierced into the back of her head, one pierced into the back of her heart, and one pierced into her left lung!
The corners of Jiang Pingting's eyes twitched, and two green bamboos pierced her left and right kidneys, liver and gallbladder, and her spleen was also pierced!
"How did he chase for eighty miles and find this place?"

Her eyes gradually dimmed, and a mouthful of blood welled up in her throat. "I don't understand..."

A kingfisher flew over and landed on the big tree she was leaning against. Then it flapped its wings and flew to the opposite side of her, looking at her with its head tilted, as if to see if she was really dead.

When it was confirmed that she was dead, the kingfisher suddenly turned into a green bamboo and stuck it into the ground. The true energy in the bamboo turned into a vigorous vitality, which made the bamboo take root, sprout branches and leaves, and soon grew to a height of ten or two meters.

Not far away, the soul of Governor Xu Jian saw this scene, praised secretly, and then withdrew his spirit.

Chen’s House, Xinxiang provincial capital.

The scholar looked at the towering phantoms of Tai Sui Star God all around him. The oppression brought to him by these Tai Sui Star Gods was so strong that he dared not act rashly.

"The Black Pot's blood is getting stronger."

Chen Shi was amazed when he saw this scene.

He knew that his attainments in talismans were not bad, but relying solely on his attainments in talismans, he could never make the sixty Tai Sui star gods descend as if for real!
This can only be because Black Pot's blood is too powerful, causing these talismans to burst out with power that they should not have.

"Hei Guo seems to have become stronger by reading books every day," he thought to himself.

In a head-on confrontation, the outcome is unpredictable, but he used the blood-drawn talisman from Hei Guo to set up an ambush early, and with the flying sword technique taught by Han Shan Sanren, he monitored every move of Jiang Pingting and others. He was able to plan and kill them easily.

"Chen Shi, you only rely on the power of the talisman, but you don't dare to fight me to the death!" the scholar shouted.

Chen Shi raised his hand, and green bamboos flew up. He couldn't help but smile when he heard it. The green bamboos fell down, and the Tai Sui Posha formation around him dissipated.

The scholar felt the pressure suddenly disappear, he breathed a sigh of relief, stared at him, and said in a deep voice: "If I beat you..."

Chen Shi smiled and said, "I'll let you live."

The scholar was slightly startled and said, "I beat you, will you let me live?"

Chen Shi said: "As long as it's not a head-on confrontation, I have a hundred ways to kill you."

The scholar was silent for a moment, then said helplessly: "Okay. If I win, you will let me live. If I lose, my life will be yours..."

Chen Shi shook his head and said, "If you lose, I will ask you a few questions. If you answer them, I will let you go."

"Okay!" the scholar said decisively.

Chen Shi took a long breath and activated the Eight Extremes Golden Palace Divine Chapter. Niangniang Shiji sat in the shrine and the golden elixir flew out, green and round. After practicing for the past few days, he has already reached the seventh level of the golden elixir!

He activated the golden elixir, and the Eight Poles were born under his feet. In the golden elixir force field, the Eight Poles were established, and there was a golden palace standing at the end of each of the golden elixir force fields. Divine power was brewing in the eight Eight Poles golden palaces, surging and surging.

Chen Shi took a step forward, his body pressing the air, and with a loud bang, he was already in front of the scholar!

The scholar stimulated his qi and blood, adjusted his divine fetus, and activated his Nascent Soul. Among the three, his magic power was the most powerful. Facing such a powerful momentum like Chen Shi, he was not afraid at all!

The divine fetus is the second soul, and his divine fetus is a third-grade divine fetus, the divine power contained in it is no weaker than that of the Nascent Soul!

He stepped on Tai Chi and walked in the steps of Yin and Yang. He raised his hand to meet the fist of Chen Shi. Suddenly, he felt a violent true energy crushing him. His blood and energy were reversed. With a snap, four of his five fingers were broken.

Chen Shi's fist pressed down on his severed hand and hit his chest hard. His chest caved inward, his back bulged, and his ribs pushed backward, tearing his clothes on his back!

The blood and sweat on his back were driven backwards by the qi and blood that invaded his body, leaving tiny holes on the wall.

The two fingers of Chen Shi's other hand had reached his eyes, almost digging them out, but he stopped himself hastily.

"This is a killer move, you can't use it!"

Chen Shi was shocked and realized that he almost killed someone.

The scholar was in despair, he knelt on the ground, raised his head and said with difficulty: "What kind of divine fetus are you? Why are you so powerful? You can almost catch up with the young master."

Chen Shi's heart was slightly moved: "What kind of divine fetus is your son?"

——The impact of the typhoon has not ended yet. Now there is a problem with water supply every morning and evening, washing clothes and flushing the toilet. The roads are full of fallen trees, making it difficult to travel. It takes an hour or two for a takeaway to be delivered. It's frustrating.

(End of this chapter)