Chapter 2 Mang Cang Sword Sect
"Sir? Hey, isn't this a good thing, Yin Lian, you lied to me again!"
A heavy footsteps sounded from outside. A carp spirit with a red face rushed over. This carp spirit was almost exactly the same as the silver-faced carp spirit from before. They seemed to be carved from the same mold, but one had silver scales and the other had red scales.
Looking at the two carp spirits in front of him who were taller than each other, Zhang Qian smiled bitterly. These two carp spirits were his subordinates, the Lishui River God, and they were the only two subordinates with simple names. , the one with silver scales is called Yin Lian, and the one with red scales is called Hong Lian, leaving Zhang Qian unable to complain.
"Okay, you two go down!"
Seeing the two carp spirits arguing, Zhang Qian waved his hands impatiently, got up and walked towards the back of the water god's mansion.
"My lord, have you forgotten that in three days it will be time for the Mang Cang Sword Sect to collect the beads. Last time, my lord defaulted on some amounts, was punished with several whips, and was seriously injured. This time I have to pay again. If the number is not enough, we will be guilty of a big sin when the immortals from the Mang Cang Sword Sect arrive."
Seeing that Zhang Qian was about to leave, Yin Lian said hurriedly.
"Yes, sir, our Longyuan River God next to the Lishui River just didn't pay enough beads. He defaulted twice in a row and was beaten to death by the adults of the Mang Cang Sword Sect. Sir, you should be careful. ”
The red face echoed from the side.
Zhang Qian's mind changed and he immediately remembered the whole story.
The reason why his original body was able to become the Lishui River God was not because of the heavenly canonization. There is no heaven at all in the Xihuang World, only countless immortal sects and demon sects.
Lishui River is a small branch of the Li River in Nebula Prefecture, one of the thirty-six prefectures in the world. The Li River runs through the entire vast Nebula Prefecture, flows eastward into the sea, and has countless branches. Small branch rivers like Lishui Don't know how many.
Almost every one of the countless branch rivers has a river god. These river gods are all canonized and appointed by each immortal sect. The reason why so many river gods are canonized and appointed is just for one thing - incense. Divine beads!
The incense beads are condensed from the power of incense, and the source of the power of incense is the faith and offerings of mortals. The Lishui River is eight hundred miles long, which seems very grand, but it is placed in the vast Xingyun Prefecture. It can only be regarded as a small river.
As the God of the Lishui River appointed by the Mang Cang Sword Sect, Zhang Qian's duty is to collect incense from the people on both sides of the Lishui River, and then condense the power of these incense into incense beads and hand them over to the Mang Cang Sword Sect.
Zhang Qian was originally a disciple of the Mang Cang Sword Sect. Unfortunately, after joining the sect for more than ten years, his cultivation has only reached the level of spiritual intelligence. Moreover, the spiritual intelligence he manifested is still a loach, and his qualifications are unsightly. .
Due to his low qualifications, Zhang Qian's original body was fed up with the cowardice in the Mang Cang Sword Sect. Later, he accidentally offended someone and was harmed by someone secretly playing tricks on him, allowing him to take over the sect's talisman. He came to Lishui River and became a river god.
Once the body is combined with the River God Talisman, the Talisman becomes one with the soul, and the spiritual power is locked, and there will be no chance of cultivation for the rest of his life. However, Zhang Qian’s original body has long been desperate for the way of cultivation. , being a river god in this Lishui River is quite comfortable.
But freedom does not come without a price. Every three months, the Mang Cang Sword Sect will send disciples to collect the incense and fire beads. If the number is wrong, they will be brutally punished. In severe cases, they may even directly kill their lives. .
"River God's Talisman? I'm sorry, this body's cultivation qualifications are low, and its soul is also fused with the River God's Talisman, so it will be unable to practice for the rest of its life. What should we do?"
Zhang Qian frowned. He saw silver-faced and red-faced looking at him eagerly. , Zhang Qian turned to ask: "How many incense beads are still missing? How do you collect the power of incense in the past?"
Yin Lian touched his head: "There is still more than half, we Lishui The river is only 800 miles long, and there are not many people on both sides. The most important thing is that there are no cities on both sides of the Lishui River, only some fishing villages and small towns, and there are too few mortals. Unless you cause a flood and cause a flood, then those mortals can worship and worship you very devoutly. Those people now. Unless it’s Chinese New Year Festival, otherwise we would not go to the river temple to offer sacrifices. The power of incense is pitiful.” A lot of people will definitely die, and Zhang Qian can't do such a thing yet.
When Yin Lian saw that Zhang Qian disagreed, he said with a loud voice: "Then we can only follow the old method."
"What old method?"
Zhang Qian was surprised.
"Sir, have you forgotten? Usually it is me and Hong Lian who go to those small towns to scare people, and then you show up and beat us away. Manifesting the name of God in this way makes those mortals even more I sincerely offer sacrifices to you.”
Zhang Qian’s face darkened and he said, “Is this how you collected incense before?”
"Yeah, hey, it's a pity that this method doesn't work anymore. At first, Honglian and I jumped into those small towns and scared people to death. But after more times, even the children were scared. They are no longer afraid of us. Some children even say that we are cute. Strange red face, he can't even scare people."
"Why do you blame me? You ate those children's candies last time. Don't think I didn't see it."
Zhang Qian almost did it. Fainted, he didn't see how cute the silver face and the red face were.
"Could it be...haven't you ever eaten people?"
Yinlian was stunned, and then replied: "How dare we two eat people? We are not the big monsters of the Demon Sect. , Besides, there are countless immortal sects in Xingyun Prefecture. If we eat people, we might be killed by the masters of those sects. Besides, don’t you allow us to harm those mortals?”
Zhang Qian nodded: "Don't worry, let me think of a solution first."
After sending the two spirits out, Zhang Qian walked to the back of the Water Mansion.
This water mansion is not big, only about an acre in area. There is a magic circle arranged by the Mang Cang Sword Sect in the mansion, which blocks the river. Behind the water mansion is where Zhang Qian lives.
Sitting cross-legged on the cloud bed, Zhang Qian closed his eyes. After half an hour, he opened his eyes again, his face became extremely complicated and ugly. "Rahu! I have suffered too unjustly for this Wuwu calamity. Now I have not only lost my ancient dragon loach body, but my substantial soul has only a remnant soul. I even absorbed and fused the original power of the Hundong Ancestor before. become Ninety percent of the mental power that was comparable to that of the early Golden Immortal has disappeared! Now this body is extremely weak, and the qualifications are even worse, and there is no comparison with the previous life."
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Zhang Qian was extremely unwilling, and more resentful towards Luo Hu. Unfortunately, his hatred was destined to be unable to retaliate, as Luo Hu had self-destructed and turned into ashes.
“This world is far different from the ancient times, and the path of cultivation is also somewhat different. The starting point of all cultivation is actually inspiration.”
After a while, Zhang Qian finally calmed down. , suppressed the overwhelming unwillingness and resentment in his heart, and started to make calculations.
After integrating the memories of the original body, Zhang Qian clarified his thinking. Although Xihuang's world was extremely prosperous in cultivation, the world structure was far from the prehistoric times.
In his memory, the practices of this world are divided into: blood refining, induction, spiritual machine, qi refining, magic power, true essence, nine turns of golden elixir, Yinshen, Dharma, calamity, and soul.
The realms that follow are no longer in memory. They are generally no different from the practice in the prehistoric world, but the roots of practice are very different.
Because according to legend, the human race in Xihuang’s world was created by Emperor Xi. After Emperor Xi created the world, he created countless innate spiritual roots, acquired spiritual roots, and countless mythical beasts and monsters. The world came to life and became lively, but Emperor Xi was still not satisfied.
Later, Emperor Xi took the vitality of spiritual roots from the heavens and the past, the blood of mythical beasts and demons, and the mysteries of the sun, moon, and stars, mixed them into the source of spiritual energy, and used the supreme law to create the human race.
So, the human bloodline in this world contains countless mysteries and all kinds of spiritual ideas. The first step in practice is to refine the qi and blood, refine the qi and blood all over the body, and then attract the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. Entering the body, finding the spiritual inspiration deep in one's own bloodline, and letting the spiritual inspiration manifest itself, this is the beginning of true cultivation.
However, cultivation depends on the qualifications and the level of the spiritual machine. The higher the level of the spiritual machine, the better the cultivation qualifications.
Everyone's spiritual power is different. The spiritual power that some people manifest is an ancient divine beast with innate spiritual roots. It is very magical. They can be cultivated extremely quickly and have innate levels of spiritual power.
Some people’s spiritual inspirations are acquired spiritual roots and various monsters and demons. These spiritual inspirations are all acquired levels.
Some people manifest their spiritual ideas from flowers, plants, pigs, cattle, sheep, horses and other ordinary things, which means they are not popular and have no ambition. Zhang Qian’s loach spiritual inspiration manifested in his original body is this. grade.
There is another level of spiritual power, the Taichu spiritual power. That kind of spiritual power can manifest the sun, moon and stars. The Taichu spiritual power is rarer and rarer than the innate spiritual power. It is the highest-grade cultivation qualification, and every one of them is peerless. Genius!
After Zhang Qian’s original body embarked on the path of spiritual practice and manifested his spiritual power, his spiritual power turned out to be a loach and became the laughing stock of the Mang Cang Sword Sect.
"It's really a fate. I was the first loach born in the ancient world - the ancient dragon loach. After I came to the world of Emperor Xi, the spiritual power of this body turned out to be a loach, and he and I were both named Zhang Qian."
Sighed, Zhang Qian didn't care at all that this body's inspiration was just a ridiculous loach. He had gained insights from the ancestor of Hundong, and his knowledge was naturally extraordinary.
Now that he has lost almost everything, he has come to this Xihuang world. If he wants to return to the magnificent world of ancient times, and if he wants to pursue the eternal life in his heart, he can only find a way to start practicing again.
"There is some trouble. I have the River God Talisman on my body. Now this Talisman is still deep in my soul. With this River God Talisman, I can't practice at all."
The River God Talisman is very useful. It allows Zhang Qian to use various spells. Moreover, the River God Talisman can be used to draw the power of the incense collected in the river temples on both sides of the Lishui River, and the condensed incense beads can also be used. It depends on this talisman.
However, the talisman is also a restriction. If Zhang Qian fails to complete the task, the people of the Mang Cang Sword Sect can make Zhang Qian's soul burst and die with just a thought!
"We have to think of a way to get rid of this talisman."
With this thought, Zhang Qian's mind buzzed, and then his mind was filled with inexplicable power. , it touched the depths of my mind, and I saw a strange sight.
A piece of white residual jade floated up and down, it was the nameless treasure that took him through two times.
Under Can Yu is a golden talisman. The talisman tightly wraps a small loach, but this talisman is firmly suppressed by Can Yu.
What's even more weird is that, perhaps sensing Zhang Qian's thoughts, Can Yu shook lightly and shattered the talisman. The River God Talisman turned into scattered fragments, and then Can Yu turned around and actually shattered the talisman. Swallowed all the fragments!
Zhang Qian felt his soul lighten up, as if some shackles had been opened, and he felt relaxed.
The loach spiritual machine wrapped in the talisman was also free, and Zhang Qian sensed the spiritual energy of the outside world again.
"This...is this expulsion? This residual jade actually responded to my wish!"
Zhang Qian was a little surprised. He didn't expect that he had just activated the expulsion talisman. After thinking about it, Can Yu actually did it.
In the prehistoric times, this broken jade never responded to him at all. It just stayed in the depths of his soul and did its own thing. Now it followed Zhang Qian's idea and directly destroyed the River God Talisman Order.
According to his memory, the River God Talisman is not easy to expel. These Talismans are all refined by the Jindan elders of the Mang Cang Sword Sect. Once integrated, they will take root in the soul, and It will seal the spiritual package, making it impossible for people to practice. Any method to expel the talisman will cause damage to the soul.
Under the power of Can Yu, Zhang Qian didn’t feel anything, and the talisman was broken and expelled!
(End of this chapter)