Starting from the Greyhound, seventy-two changes.

Chapter 154 Yin Shen
It is almost the fifteenth day. The moon is like a jade plate, gradually rising to the middle of the sky, and mercury-like moonlight is pouring down from the wisps of mist.

Chen Ku listened to what Kou Ming and his master Yang Luchan said and agreed. Immediately, Kou Ming prepared a set of night clothes for him.

"Clothes can be used for disguise, but what about our martial arts?" Chen Ku asked curiously, "And weapons, what do we use?"

Kou Ming first dried the arrow in his sleeve, then said, "Brother Chen, if you don't mind, there are two watermelon silver hammers in the storeroom of our Medicine King Hall. A single hammer weighs three thousand jin, and a pair of hammers weighs six thousand jin."

"Hammer? Although I haven't practiced hammer techniques, just using brute force to smash it horizontally should be enough." Chen Ku had no objection.

As he said that, he followed Kou Ming to take out the pair of hammers.

The whole body is shiny silver, and the hammer is as big as a human head, just like a big watermelon.

Yang Luchan looked at the pair of hammers Kou Ming took out, with a look of reminiscence in his eyes:

"This pair of hammers was used by a 'young silver hammer general' whom I met on my way to the west. He fought with me for 300 rounds with my hammer and stick, and we were almost evenly matched. Later, he made a mistake and died under my stick. After I returned to Baojiao County, I left the pair of hammers in the inner treasury. For decades, few people have been able to wield them. Since you can wield my water and fire dragon head stick, then these two watermelon silver hammers should be no problem for you."

Upon hearing this, Chen Ku weighed them in his hands. The pair of six thousand jin silver watermelon hammers did not put any pressure on him under his full strength.

It is expected that even if he is not good at hammering, a single sudden attack from behind with the hammer would be enough to kill any master at the peak of the Xuanguan level with his strength and weapon.

"Everything is packed, let's go."

So the three of them changed into night clothes and headed towards the City God Temple.

On the way,

Chen Ku is still asking:
"Brother Kou, how did you know for sure that Ma Mingfeng and the other masters from the Yulong Society would be at the City God Temple tonight? Couldn't he just use money to buy the incense ashes from the City God Temple?"

"Brother Chen, you don't know this. First of all, if Ma Mingfeng can't be cured of the poison within twelve hours, there will be no way to save him. So, they can't delay any longer."

Kou Ming used his body skills to move and flash on the eaves, and told Chen Ku using the secret method of sound transmission:

"Secondly, in order to cure the poison that Ma Mingfeng has been poisoned with, within the scope of Baojiao County, the only way to cure it is by inhaling the incense in the City God Temple as a medicine. And the thing that can bear the incense in the City God Temple must be the 'bone relics' of the City God Duan Mingbi that are enshrined in the statue. In other words, if Ma Mingfeng wants to cure the poison, he needs to use a part of the City God's corpse, which is not something that can be bought with money. Even if they pay the City God Temple, they will not sell it, so... they only have one way left, either robbing or stealing."

"Because the incense is the power of the City God Duan Mingbi, if anyone steals it, no matter where it goes, the City God will be able to find it with his divine power. So the best way is to use the incense and bones as medicine on the spot, detoxify it on the spot, digest it, and finally pat your butt and slip away without leaving any trace."

Under the moonlight.

Chen Ku heard these words.

My heart is filled with awe.

He had seen the incense and corpse last time.

It was because of the reminder from the transformation diagram that he realized that he still needed to refine it thoroughly before he could offer it as a sacrifice.

Now, after hearing Kou Ming's more detailed description of his incense leg bone, I am even more grateful that I was not greedy enough to take the leg bone away last time, otherwise, I would really be caught up by the City God.

At this time, he gradually understood:
"That is to say, some people from the Fish Dragon Society will sneak into the City God Temple tonight to steal the 'dirty things' from a certain statue. What is our plan then?"

Kou Ming's voice vibrated his internal energy into a line, which entered Chen Ku's heart:

“Although the City God Temple is the official residence of the Yin God, it was also conferred by the imperial court. In addition, the City God has been worshipped by Baojiao County for more than 80 years, and he has become effective. If we use the level of ghosts and gods in our neighboring Yuan country to calculate, it starts from the first level of gathering thoughts, the second level of leaving the body, the third level of night wandering, the fourth level of day wandering, and the fifth level of controlling objects…

The City God of our county has reached the fourth level, 'Day Travel', and can travel during the day without fear of the yang energy rushing to his soul.

At the same time, it also has some abilities such as illusion, nightmare suppression, smoke revelation, and incense magic."

This was the first time that Chen Ku learned about the ranks of ghosts and gods.

"Gathering thoughts, leaving the orifice, wandering at night, wandering during the day, controlling objects... This seems to be a complete path for spiritual cultivation. Since the gods and ghosts can cultivate it, we humans should be able to do it too."

He caught it immediately.

This path seems to be more orthodox than the evil method of "Awakening the Nerves" of Heian Dao.

at this time.

Master Yang Luchan's voice came through in secret. He could actually hear Kou Ming's secret voice and Chen Ku's words, and said in front:

"Don't think about these things. First of all, in the country of Daji, no one is allowed to practice any spiritual arts. Those who violate the law are 'evil people'. Secondly, the spiritual cultivation system of the City God Duan Mingbi is the 'path to becoming a god through incense and worship'. Ordinary people cannot get involved at all, because to take this path, you must first gather faith. In the Daji Dynasty, gathering faith means gathering the people. If you want to compete for faith with the 'She, Ji Shen, City God, and Land God' officially canonized by the court, you will be labeled as a traitorous cult in an instant.

Heian Province is a blatant example.

Finally, regarding the physical body and the spiritual soul, they actually complement each other.

The City God had to gather his spiritual thoughts because he had lost his physical body. It was actually a helpless act because of a saying, 'If one only cultivates the nature but not the life, it will be difficult for the soul to become a saint after ten thousand calamities.'

No matter how far the City God goes on this path as a ghost, he will never achieve anything great, simply because he was born with a disability and without a physical body, which limits his future.

The martial arts path, on the other hand, is a path that cultivates both the body and the soul, a noble and righteous path, and a path that will lead one to transcendence and attain sainthood in the future."

Yang Luchan was afraid that his disciple might have other thoughts.

It's not to say that all spiritual cultivation techniques are bad. For example, there are many orthodox techniques in the Yuan Kingdom. But they are in the Ji Kingdom, and they are born like that. In such a national environment, they should not have any other thoughts.

"Disciple understands."

Chen Ku looked sincere in accepting the advice.

But he thought to himself, "Just because I can't cultivate it doesn't mean I can't refine it into a transformation."

His transformation plan is to absorb the strengths of all things in the world. He is a god who cultivates his path. Since he has his strengths, how could he let go of the opportunity?

Seeing that Chen Ku was willing to accept his instruction, Yang Luchan said no more.

after all,

The world of gods and spirits is too mysterious, magnificent and incredible for the people in the world of the living. He had similar curiosity in the past. It is normal for young people to have such thoughts, but when he reached the end of his cultivation and had seen more, he would feel that the gods and spirits of the earth are actually just a group of negative energy and thoughts. When they are alive, they are residing in the flesh, and after death, they are residing in sculptures.

Beating them is no different from beating living people. Tear down the sculptures, blow up the statues of gods, and let their corpses be exposed to the world, and they will die.

Although Chen Ku did not ask any more questions about the road, he still inquired about the ability of the City God Duan Mingbi and asked:
"I understand illusions. They are similar to Ma Mingfeng's spiritual witnessing technique, which uses the mind to influence the five senses and body of others. What are nightmare suppression and incense descent?"

Since we are going to the City God Temple to kill someone this time, of course we have to find out the City God's abilities before we can respond.

"Nightmare is a nightmare, or to put it bluntly, it is sleep paralysis. The City God can use his spirit to enter other people's dreams and suppress their spirits, but a City God at the day-travel level can only do this when people are asleep, because when people are asleep, their spirits are the most relaxed and unprepared, so it is easier to invade. But as long as people are awake, even the City God cannot make them have nightmares and sleep paralysis. If the target is a martial artist who practices both sex and life, it will be even more difficult.

Especially for a warrior like Master Yang who is at the fifth realm, relying on the City God who travels around the fourth realm every day, not to mention the nightmare at night, even the illusion of the five senses cannot deceive Master Yang's spirit. "

Kou Ming moved forward, his tone vague:
"The reason why the Yin Spirit's thoughts are revealed by smoke is that they are originally a group of invisible breezes, which ordinary people cannot see. Only in the smoke can the outline of the image be outlined.

As for the incense fire descending, it is a unique method of the Yin gods and earthly deities who follow the incense fire god path. Because they accept incense from thousands of families, all the wishes and thoughts in the hearts of the people are dumped on them like garbage. They need to distinguish the incense fire and pure desires. The separated parts become "bad luck". This bad luck comes from all living beings, so it can turn around and affect the luck of all living beings. That is, on the fifth day of the New Year, the City God Temple will bring "bad luck" to some families who do not pay taxes. However, this kind of bad luck will at most make ordinary people suffer a little bad luck and will not cause any serious damage to their bones. "

Chen Ku listened.

He had been tricked by this.

Now it seems that this move is not as scary as he imagined. He couldn't help but whisper:

"It sounds like this City God's abilities aren't that great."

"All Yin Gods and Earth Gods before the fifth realm are like this. They are good at nothing more than pretending to be ghosts and putting pressure on the bed to enter dreams."

Kou Ming said:

"But if you reach the fifth level of 'controlling objects', it's completely different. That's the realm where you can move real objects with your mind, and you can really hurt people without them being seen, like the legendary 'killing people with a sword'."

"Killing people with a sword?" Chen Ku was shocked.

"Don't be afraid. Not to mention how rare the Yin gods and earthly beings above the fifth realm are, secondly, killing people with a sword is at most a little weird. The power is far less than that of a blow swung by a warrior himself with a sword, and there is also a significant distance limitation." Kou Ming said.

"That's scary enough." Chen Ku felt a chill in his heart.

Imagine that a person is sitting at home eating, and suddenly a sword flies into the yard. Even if a warrior has extremely high reaction ability, he will probably be caught off guard.

At this time,

"We're at the front."

Yang Luchan stopped in the shadow of the eaves not far from the City God Temple and looked at the huge building complex fifty feet ahead. It was the City God Temple under the moonlight.

Chen Ku and Kou Ming followed closely.

The three of them got together.

"What should we do next?" Chen Ku asked.

"Wait."

Kou Ming uttered a word.

Chen Ku seemed to have guessed what he was waiting for.

in this way.

The three of them hid in the shade under the eaves and looked towards the direction of the City God Temple.

Chen Ku estimated the time and it was only around eleven o'clock in the evening.

According to his experience, they should take advantage of one or two o'clock in the morning when everyone is asleep and go out to kill and burn.

that's it.

Relying on the high geographical location here, Chen Ku used his [Golden Eyes of a Hundred Miles Away], [Night Vision], and [Hundred Miles Tracking Technique] to wait and observe Ma Mingfeng's whereabouts invisibly.

as predicted.

At midnight, at the turn of the Rat and the Chou.

Chen Ku's Hundred Miles Tracking Technique was the first to react. He smelled Ma Mingfeng approaching this side, with four people following him.

"There are five of them in total. They must be here to steal!"

I thought to myself.

Soon,
With his golden eyes, Baili saw four figures suddenly appearing from the eaves in the distance, flashing on the eaves around the City God Temple and approaching here.

"Here they come! Four people!"

Kou Ming's eyes lit up, and he also saw the movement, and then he immediately asked Yang Luchan:

"Mr. Yang, please take a look at the four people's body movements and footwork. What realm should they be at? I guess one of them should be Fei Lun, the genius doctor of the Yulong Society. We must not keep him alive. We must kill him tonight. Otherwise, his medical skills will be a big threat to my Medicine King Hall."

Yang Luchan is a master of the fifth realm.

He immediately determined the skills of the four people:
"There are four people, one of them is a master of the fourth realm of Tongmai, but he is not Li Yutang, the leader of the Yulong Society. It should be Li Chongguang, the second master of the Yulong Society. I have fought with this man ten years ago. He practiced the Fengying Leg, one of the unique skills of the Yulong Society. His speed is very fast, but his strength is not enough. He is no match for me. Ten years ago, I knocked him down with a stick.

The other two have reached the 'Third Realm Jade Muscle' realm. I didn't recognize who they were, but they should be the backbone of the Fish Dragon Society.

The last one has the lowest cultivation level, only at the second level of Xuanguan cultivation, and is old and frail. I guess he is the genius doctor Fei Lun from the Yulong Society you mentioned."

Yang Luchan clenched his wrist and said:

"How strange! Is there no Ma Mingfeng?"

"No! Dirt must be ground into powder and inhaled into the body immediately to be effective, so Ma Mingfeng must have followed, but I don't know where he is."

Kou Ming narrowed his eyes and said:

"Next, let's assign the targets. Elder Yang, the fourth-level expert is now in your hands. If he is really Li Chongguang, the second-level expert of the Yulong Society, we must kill him here today. As for the other two third-level experts, it would be best to kill them if possible. I will take Fei Lun's life. In this way, even if they get the incense bone, no one will treat Ma Mingfeng, and he will definitely die."

"What about me?" Chen Ku asked.

"Brother Chen, your mission is relatively simple. I guess that Ma Mingfeng must have been poisoned and is now unable to move, so they temporarily left him outside the City God Temple."

Kou Ming looked around and said:

"Your mission is, after the people from the Yulong Society break into the City God Temple, Elder Yang and I will go inside, and you will patrol the surroundings of the City God Temple to see where Ma Mingfeng is hiding. If you can find him, you will kill him directly!"

Chen Ku couldn't help but feel surprised at Kou Mingsheng.

because,

He had known that Ma Mingfeng had followed him, and the Hundred Miles Tracking Technique had already locked onto Ma Mingfeng's location, which was under a tree near the room where the four men lived.

But he knew all this because he had the Hundred Miles Tracking Technique.

Kou Ming was just making an inference.

In addition, the plan he arranged was perfect. Whether Ma Mingfeng came or not, he was dead.

"They entered the City God Temple. Four of them went to four main halls respectively. They wanted to attack the four statues at the same time. Old Yang, get ready to take action!" Kou Ming said.

Then I saw the four people flying to the City God Temple and flying into the four main halls.

It was at this time.

Yang Luchan was holding a stone in his hand at the same time as the four people flew into the hall.

Whoosh!
With a flick of his wrist, with his might that shook mountains and rivers, a small stone flew directly towards the big bell in the City God Temple like the most powerful bullet!
when! ! ! ! !
In the dead of night, the sound of the temple bell suddenly exploded like thunder.

"What's that? The bells are ringing in the middle of the night?"

(End of this chapter)