Chapter 100: Behind the Goddess of Mercy, Ten Thousand Ghosts Walk at Night

When we arrive at Xiangfan, we can see the famous Diaoyutai (钓鱼台) building further up the city wall.

Fish platform a pillar support ten years half wall.

The plaque of the city building is written with the words “Lone Fishing in the Central Plains”.

Xu Fengnian ignored Wei Wei and Huang Tulang, straight off the boat, mounted his steed and galloped towards the ghost city in the twilight, and then dismounted near the city gate, Jiang Nai seemed to think that His Highness the son of a Taoist magic weapon, jumped out of the carriage and trotted to Xu Fengnian’s side, Xu Fengnian held back his laughter, took the embroidered winter knife and pointed to the city head, and squinted and said: “See, the world’s number one defender back then, he was sitting right there, and it took ten years for the current stable to be established. He has been sitting there for ten years, and only now is he sitting in a fishing boat. Can let Xu Snapdragon hate to bite his teeth not many guys, that reading really read out the Spring and Autumn Anniversary of the Western Chu scholar can be ranked in the top three, even if the Western Wall of the Western Chu imperial capital was broken, even if the entire Jiangnan all fell, this city and this fishing platform will not fall, but unfortunately, no matter how Xiangfan how solid as a golden soup, but can not affect the world’s overall situation.”

Jiang Nai bit his lips.

Xu Fengyen led his horse slowly and said, “The food in the city is exhausted to eat horses, horses are exhausted, sparrows dig rats, sparrows and rats are exhausted again and then cannibalized.”

Jiang Nai was silent.

Xu Fengyen softly said, “The armor knows that it will die, the soldiers defending the city will fight until the last person, no one lives alone. This is the Spring and Autumn National War, these tragedies are unimaginable to the people of the Shangyin Academy who have been fighting with their lips and swords. Xiangfan male city, the city height of eighteen feet six feet, the bottom width of nine feet, the city wall is eleven miles long, the base of the whole granite and limestone stone masonry, the wall by the three state special quality of the giant brick masonry, each brick brick side are printed with the manufacture of the place, the supervisor of the manufacture of people and brick maker’s name, brick masonry, the gaps in the pouring of glutinous rice juice and sorghum juice, as well as lime and tung oil mixed with the sandwich slurry, and more steamed earth to build the city, responsible for the Xiangfan city building project of the will be as a great master craftsman holding the Favorable cone, if the cone into an inch, that is to kill the city builder and build it, so hard and dense as iron, at that time the historians do not call cruelty engraved violence.”

Xu Fengyen stopped, not to look at Jiang Nai face, tone cold: “Xu Snapdragon attacked the city, Wang Mingyang guarded the city, each prepared for war, the Jixi bachelor’s degree of the readers of the wall, outside the city of food and materials transported to the city, and even the houses are all demolished, wood and bricks and mortar to the city, in order to prevent Xu Snapdragon digging tunnels, beforehand, dug along the foot of the city of a hundred wells, wells are placed in the mask covered with leather of the big The wells were covered with leather and placed with large earthenware jars, so that those who were deaf could listen to the jars. Not to mention the 50,000 defenders, more than 150,000 Xiangfan people into three, six, nine classes, monks, craftsmen, rangers, each in his own way, the necessary materials for the defense of the city is divided into two categories of the government prepared for the people to prepare. And then select the jianghu warlike people to patrol the city day and night, in order to prevent the city spies inside the arson fire open the city. The mechanism of calculation, Wang Mingyang in the Shangyin Palace of Learning all the military school, in ten years to show to the fullest. Xu Snapdragon once personally said that if everyone in the Shangyin Academy is like this, there is no harm in asking him to become a Jixi Bachelor.”

Xu Fengnian continued on, “Attacking the city first involves crossing the river and crossing the trench. Then the city, the next is the most grueling climb the city, climb the city, also known as ants, you look at the head of the city, you can imagine hundreds of people in the ladder on top of the arrows and boulders, rolling logs and kerosene to climb up the scene, the monks in the city in the battle invented the pestle and mortar, Niubizi old Taoist created a touch of the skin will be ulcerated in the line of the furnace of the Golden Liquid. Climbing the city after the alley war, Xiangfan then gathered a large number of jianghu reckless and green man, swore to die for the three central plains to guard this waist brawn town, can be said to be the same enemy, before the alley war will be in the head of the city in the short fight countless times to repel the Northern Liang army, if not for them, Xiangfan need not be ten years to break the city, three years will be enough. The world only knows that the northern Liang army horse battle champion of the world, but do not know the foot attack is not bad, the spring and autumn state war has been devastating, only to Xiangfan, the elite loss of half, which has three hundred skilled in drilling the cave division, death. It took ten years to attack and defend, as to who is right and who is wrong, God knows. But it was during these ten years that the lifelong vindictive Xu Snapdragon’s enmity with the jianghu was considered to be truly knotted.”

That moat is unusually wide, the river drawbridge did not put away, Xiangfan night ban is strict, but these years the drawbridge has been flat, even the main gate is not closed overnight, seems to be in accordance with the Longhu Mountain Tianshi’s authorization, set up more than 30,000 used as the superdeath of the Nine ghosts plucked the sin of the good things of the circumference of the Jiaozi after not closing the ghost gate, let the souls leave the Fengdu Xiangfan. Legend has it that before leaving the city, the Yellow Purple Heavenly Master of Longhu Mountain drew symbols and wrote seals of approval, and finally there was a Taoist heavenly talisman hanging on the top floor of the Diaoyutai Terrace, with the words “The Big Dipper has returned to the Big Dipper, and the Earthly Fury should be put into the earth,” saying that when the wandering souls of Xiangfan were dispersed, the talisman would be burned to a crisp.

However, the talisman has been written for many years and has never disappeared. It has undoubtedly become a lingering haze in the minds of hundreds of thousands of people in Xiangfan City.

Xu Fengyen led his horse along, with two young kui dragons under his feet, and Jiang Nai with a complicated expression beside him. Xu Fengnian subconsciously glanced at the Diaoyutai at the top of the city, the moon and stars were sparse, this city building was a magnificent sight.

Xu Fengyen turned his head to the little mudman and said gently, “Don’t be afraid.”

Jiang Nai, whose palms were sweaty, lowered his head and gave a hmmm.

His Royal Highness could not see the man in the building with his head up, but the man in the building could see Xu Fengyen with his head down.

The person in the building has a slender figure, wearing a normal Taoist robe and hemp shoes, with a wooden hairpin in his bun and a duster in his hand, the top floor of the Diaoyutai is a forbidden place, guarded by several old Taoist priests with high moral standing from Longhu Mountain, and the King of Jing’an is not allowed to enter the building. When the Grand Master left the city, he explicitly said that non-Tianshifu real people can not set foot.

If you go to the Tianshi House of the little girl and the north and south of the little monk will recognize this Taoist priest, is to lead them into the inner courtyard of the Tianshi House of the same, it is he with the white tailed duster blocked the Tianshi House of the arrogance of the yellow and purple Taoist priest’s move, but also personally introduced Mr. White Lotus.

This little heavenly master on Longhu Mountain with a foreign surname was surnamed Qi, the same surname as the great real person Qi Xuanzheng, and the same appearance as one of the ancestral masters of Longhu Mountain.

Holding a duster in his hand, he was praised by the State Master of Taoism as “Taigong sitting in Kunlun”.

After he went down to Longhu Mountain, all kinds of legends snowballed, as if the whole world was praising. But he was indifferent, because these are not what he cares about, for him, those great truths, even most people do not understand what they hear, are not reason. In this world, brothers are close to each other, children are filial, husband and wife love, is the reason. Those great learning, just in the book pile of canonical learning, are not learning. Farmers work hard to cultivate, hawkers bargaining, merchants and businessmen day and night to pursue profits, is learning. He thinks that the root of the Tao is shallow, so he does not seek the Tao of Heaven, and only wants to use the Tao of Wudao to enter the world and help the world, and he went down the mountain only for two things, one is to enter the Xiangfan, the master said before the retreat that the heavenly talisman will be burned, and he would like to confirm it with his own eyes. And then is to go to a trip to Wudang, to determine whether the young master can really shoulder heaven, as for how to determine, it is very simple, the hands of the duster can be used as a sword, to kill off, is false. If you can’t kill it, it’s real.

He turned to look at the heavenly talisman that connected heaven and earth with a vermilion rope and frowned.

The heavenly talisman was shaking.

Xu Fengnian squinted his eyes and saw a strange woman walk out of the city gates.

The top of her head was ticked with 33,000 troublesome threads.

Wearing a snow-white monk’s robe, she bit a white pot on her wrist with a white snake as a rope.

Barefoot, a pair of jade feet but does not cause the slightest dust.

She walks lightly on the suspension bridge.

Outside the Xiangfan city gates, the ghostly aura is as heavy as snow covering the sky, but she is the only one who seems to be a Goddess of Mercy, overseeing all sentient beings.

In the Diaoyutai, the heavenly talisman burned to ashes.

“Ten thousand ghosts have left the city.”

The Taoist priest of the Heavenly Master’s House sighed, “Longhu Mountain lost. Ragged Mountain has won.”