Chapter 127 Great Dark Day, People Outside the City Want to Get in, People Inside the City Want to Get Out

"Taoist Priest Qinglian, this is the entrance to the ground from the imperial mausoleum."

"There are currently five Buddha statues in the entire Dayan Emperor City, one main statue and four sub-statues."

"The main statue is located in the palace in the old capital of our dynasty. This is also the place where the Black Lotus Sect's guardians are most heavily guarded. The Black Lotus Sect's protectors have always been guarding there."

"Based on your current situation, Priest Qinglian, it is almost impossible to destroy the main statue in the palace. We don't need the Priest to take the risk of destroying the main statue."

"The Taoist leader only needs to find the locations of the other four statues in the city, and then find a way to destroy them."

"Because of this, those Black Lotus Altar Masters will lose the ability to communicate with the Buddha Mother. Not only will their strength be greatly reduced, but they will also never be able to be resurrected in this world."

"However, if only one of these four statues survives, then as long as the remaining Black Lotus Altar Master escapes there, he can still obtain the ability to borrow the Buddha Mother through the only child statue."

"So the Taoist priest can either destroy the statue of the child and then kill the master of the black lotus altar who is guarding it, or he can try to destroy the four statues in a short time."

"As long as those four sub-statues are gone, the only Black Lotus Sect protector is not a concern. Just leave it to me to deal with it."

Hearing this, Lu Chen asked: "Then how do I destroy these statues of the Buddha?"

Lan Yan immediately took out the bottle she had prepared in advance and handed it to Lu Chen.

"It's very simple. Taoist Master, you just need to sprinkle His Majesty's blood on it."

[Name: Immortal Essence and Blood]

[Effect: It can be used to break the ancient power, or restore a large amount of energy, blood, spiritual power, and increase life span by 20 years. 】

Lu Chen was very surprised when he saw the effect of the immortal body's essence and blood.

Because he could feel that even a first-grade Dao Immortal monk like himself, if he took these immortal body essence and blood directly, he would not be able to survive.

It can still restore him to full condition directly.

So in a sense.

This small bottle of immortal body essence and blood is equivalent to Lu Chen's life!

No wonder Lan Yan and others can rely on Ji Ling'er's unlimited resurrection.

Although Ji Linger is only a mortal, if she can make good use of her power.

Although she is not an immortal in terms of cultivation, she is comparable to an immortal in other aspects!

After all, some forbidden spells can be cast without any cultivation, at the cost of consuming the user's lifespan.

But for Ji Ling'er, who has infinite lifespan, this price is nothing!

Ji Ling'er must also know the things that Lu Chen can think of.

But she did not choose this path. Instead, she chose to become the center of the Changming Formation. She must have considered this.

"Taoist Master Qinglian, Lan Yan is here... I wish the Taoist Master all the best."

Lu Chen nodded, and then walked towards the passage from the imperial mausoleum to the ground.

After passing through a relatively long and narrow passage, Lu Chen quickly arrived at the entrance of the imperial mausoleum and the imperial city.

The imperial mausoleum of the Dayan Dynasty was built on the eastern outskirts of the imperial city.

If Lu Chen wanted to destroy the statue of the Buddha in the city.

The first step before him was how to enter the city.

You must know that the gangsters in the imperial city are not fools.

As long as Lu Chen destroyed the Buddha statue anywhere in the city.

The Black Lotus cultists from the remaining directions will arrive as soon as possible.

Once the commotion gets louder, maybe even the Black Lotus Sect protectors in the palace will be alerted.

And with his current strength, if he were to face the fifth-level Golden Core Protector of the Black Lotus.

There is absolutely no chance of winning, and you can't even run away.

As for the four Black Lotus Cult altar leaders, Lu Chen was quite sure that he could deal with them.

After all, the statue of the Mother Buddha gave them great power.

But borrowed things are never your own.

As long as Lu Chen finds an opportunity to destroy these statues, then the four Black Lotus Altar Masters will not be such a big threat to him.

After all, a group of existences relied on external forces to barely break through to the Golden Core stage.

As long as there is no external help.

Either their realm is at the false elixir stage at best.

For the current Lu Chen, the false elixir period is really not something that cannot be solved, it just takes some effort.

"First figure out the location of the four statues of Buddha mother and child, and then see how to destroy them."

After sorting this out, Lu Chen strode out of the imperial mausoleum.

As soon as he walked out of the imperial mausoleum, Lu Chen immediately saw a gray sky.

And in the air on the ground, Lu Chen also felt a familiar and strange force.

And he had experienced this power in the copy of the Ancient Sword Tomb.

It was the strange black mist surrounding the Hidden Sword Pavilion.

[You have stepped into the earthly Buddhist kingdom of the Great Merciful and Compassionate Buddha, and you have been infected by the power of Guji...]

[Your talent, Fairy Spirit Lotus Fetus is activated, and you are immune to the infection of the ancient power...]

Lu Chen looked at the faint gray mist in the air around him and quickly understood why Lan Yan and others said they could no longer walk freely on the ground.

The so-called black mist is essentially a manifestation of ancient power.

The overbearing thing about this power is that if you are not a believer of the Buddha, you cannot use the special spiritual power infected by the Buddha.

Not only that, if you stay in such an environment for a long time, you will be contaminated by the power of the Buddha Mother, resulting in some special mutation.

That is to say, Lu Chen, who has a fairy lotus embryo, can ignore this power.

If it were anyone else, even fierce ghosts like Lan Yan and the others, they would still not be able to stay in such an environment for a long time.

The horror of Gu Qie is obvious.

In addition to sensing the faint power of Gu Qie in the surrounding air.

Lu Chen also found that the situation on the ground seemed to be different from what he thought at the beginning.

He thought that the Great Yan Imperial City occupied by Gu Qie should have no other living people except for Qie and some monsters.

But in fact, Lu Chen found that the imperial city seemed to have retained the original situation.

The people are still the same people, and the imperial city is still the same imperial city.

It’s just that the people who originally managed the people have changed from the Great Yan Imperial Family to the current Black Lotus Cultists.

And the closer you are to the location, the thicker the fog-like power of Gu Qie is.

From this position, Lu Chen can clearly see five places where the power of Gu Qie is relatively thick.

Among them, the power of Gu Qie at the location of the palace is the thickest.

Needless to say, these five places should be the locations where the statues of the Buddha Mother are placed.

Thinking of this, Lu Chen immediately walked towards a village below the mountain where the imperial mausoleum was located.

Because he wanted to know more about the current situation of the Great Yan Imperial City than entering the city now.

If he could get some useful information.

That might allow him to find the exact location of the four Buddha mother and child statues faster without wasting too much time.

Even if he could be resurrected infinitely in the dungeon, Lu Chen was still used to planning before acting.

Acting rashly has never been his style.

Three kilometers away from the Great Yan Imperial City, Chenjia Village.

Chenjia Village is a small village outside the Great Yan Imperial City.

It is said that there was no village here at first, but because the Great Yan royal family built the imperial mausoleum here five thousand years ago, tens of thousands of people gathered nearby at that time.

And with so many people gathered together, naturally some people settled nearby after the imperial mausoleum was built.

This also formed the large and small villages around the imperial mausoleum.

Normally, five thousand years is a very long history for mortals.

So long that they should not remember the imperial mausoleum.

But because in these years, the "national religion Black Lotus Sect" of the Great Yan Dynasty would organize a large number of people to attack the Great Yan Imperial Mausoleum from time to time.

So many people in the imperial city and even the surrounding areas of the imperial city knew about the existence of the Great Yan Imperial Mausoleum.

They even pinned their hopes of getting rid of the Black Lotus Sect on this imperial mausoleum.

They wondered if one day an immortal would come out of this imperial mausoleum and end their current life worse than death.

But this hope has lasted for thousands of years, but it has never appeared, so most people gave up this idea and passively accepted the rule of the Black Lotus Sect.

In Chenjia Village, it was the spring plowing season, and the middle-aged men in Chenjia Village were busy sowing.

Some women were sitting by the river, washing clothes.

If you ignore the gray fog around them, their lives would not be too unusual.

But if you look closely at these people, you will find that each of them is not only pale and thin, but also full of bloodshot pupils.

It looks like they have a lot on their minds and have not slept well for many years.

An indescribable depression enveloped everyone in Chenjia Village.

At the entrance of Chenjia Village, several children were surrounding a middle-aged man with a silly face and a lame leg, laughing and teasing each other.

Some of these children kept poking him with branches, while others kept trying to steal the pancakes in the man's arms.

It seemed that for these children, playing with such a fool was a very interesting thing.

In the face of the teasing of these children, the middle-aged man was not angry, but instead protected the pancake in his arms.

This silly look made the children around tease him more vigorously.

So much so that a child of about twelve years old didn't know what he thought of, and ran to the side of the road to pick up a stone on the ground and threw it at the middle-aged man fiercely.

Bang!

The small stone hit the middle-aged man's forehead, and soon a big bump appeared.

Although the middle-aged man touched his forehead with some pain, he was not angry at all, and he didn't even say anything to scold the children around him.

As if they were used to such things.

And seeing that the middle-aged man was not willing to put down the pancake in his arms after being hit by the stone.

The half-grown naughty child even wanted to pick up another stone from the ground and throw it at him.

Such behavior is no longer a joke, it is very bad.

Just when the big boy just picked up the stone on the ground, a roar suddenly came from the distant path.

"What are you doing!"

This roar with full energy instantly scared the group of naughty children.

They looked in the direction of the sound and soon saw a boy about fifteen or sixteen years old holding a black Buddhist scripture in his hand.

Seeing the anger on the boy's face, the naughty children immediately turned into birds and beasts.

But the naughty child who picked up the stone to hit the middle-aged man just now stopped provocatively after running halfway.

Not only did he make a face at the two of them.

He even mocked him: "Lululu, the son of a fool can only be a fool!"

Hearing this, the young man who had already walked to the middle-aged man became angry.

He immediately rolled up his sleeves and wanted to teach these ignorant guys a lesson.

But before he could take any action, the middle-aged man next to him stopped him first.

And he tried to pass the pancake in his arms to the boy without considering the occasion.

"Eat, eat pancake..."

"It's cold, not tasty..."

How could the boy, who was angry with the group of children, have the mood to eat pancakes at this time.

He pushed the middle-aged man away and looked at him with wide eyes.

He didn't care that the pancake in his arms fell on the muddy ground after the man fell.

"Eat, eat, eat, you have been bullied by a group of children, and you still have time to let me eat. I am in the mood to eat!"

"I, Chen An, have been unlucky for half my life. How could I have a fool father like you? Shame on me!"

As he said, the young man Chen An didn't even look at his father and walked directly towards the village.

When passing by his father, Chen An said firmly: "Go to the city. When I pass the Black Lotus exam, I will definitely go to the city and leave here to become a Black Lotus believer who is not bullied."

"Instead of being like you, staying here all my life as a bullied waste."

"That's right, go to the city. I, Chen An, will definitely go to the city and become a superior person..."

After the words fell, Chen An walked quickly into the village and disappeared from the man's sight.

Although Chen Shan was pushed down by his son, there was no anger on his face.

Instead, he watched Chen An's figure disappear from his sight before he retracted his sight with relief.

Then he knelt on the ground, regardless of the muddy ground after the rain, and carefully picked up the pancakes that fell on the ground.

After picking up all the pancakes covered with mud, Chen An wiped the mud off his hands with his clothes and put some of the cleaner pancakes into the bag hanging around his neck.

The rest of the pancakes were put into his clothes.

After doing all this, Chen An crawled to the side with his hands and feet.

He took back his crutches that were deliberately thrown to the roadside by the naughty kids.

Then he supported his body with the crutches and limped towards the village.

Along the way, the villagers around him saw his poor walking posture and pointed and laughed at him from time to time, without hiding it.

As if they could comfort themselves that their current life was not bad.

Chen Shan did not respond to this either, and accepted it silently.

But after Chen Shan limped back home.

His son Chen An and his wife Wu had already started to eat lunch, and they had no intention of waiting for him at all.

When Wu saw Chen Shan's clothes covered with mud in the yard.

While eating, she said impatiently: "Wash yourself clean, and then go to the kitchen by yourself."

Hearing this, Chen Shan touched his head innocently, and then walked to the well in the yard.

He took out the pancakes from his bag and arms and carefully placed them on the relatively clean table by the well.

Then he directly drew water from the well to wash off the mud on his body.

The weather in spring is already cold, not to mention that the water used is from the well buried deep underground.

So after washing, Chen Shan's teeth were trembling from the cold.

But even in this cold and hungry situation, he did not disobey Wu's words and did not dare to walk into the main house.

He picked up the pancakes placed next to him, dragged his wet body, and limped to the kitchen alone.

After simply lighting a fire in the stove, Chen Shan kept warm by the stove.

He took out the dirty pancakes and ate them as his own dinner.

As for the clean pancakes, he left them for his wife and son.

Although they didn't necessarily need them.

Although Chen Shan had intellectual disabilities, it didn't mean that he really knew nothing.

What he was doing now was what his parents had done for him when he was a child.

Chen Shan felt that since he was a father, he should do the same.

Although everyone in the village knew that Chen An was not Chen Shan's child.

Because Wu was already pregnant before marrying him.

But Chen Shan didn't care about these things, or he had no idea about them at all.

He felt that since he and Wu were married, Chen An was his child.

After a simple dinner, Chen Shan went directly to the corner of the kitchen full of firewood.

There was a relatively clean small bed in this position.

Living in the dirty kitchen, Chen Shan didn't think there was anything wrong with it.

Because he had been living here for several years after his parents passed away.

In the kitchen, Chen Shan came to the head of the bed and took out a pair of cloth shoes that had been woven almost from under the pillow.

These cloth shoes were very ugly and colorful. Not only were they crudely made, but the materials used were also made of all kinds of messy rags.

However, Chen Shan was very satisfied with this half-finished cloth shoe, so much so that he smiled foolishly when looking at it.

Because this was a gift for his son Chen An.

He spent a whole year weaving it with many rags that others did not use.

And the reason why he wanted to weave such a cloth shoe.

It was because when he was a child, every time he went to the imperial city, his parents would patiently put on new shoes.

Therefore, in Chen Shan's opinion, if a person does not wear new shoes, he cannot leave the village to go to the imperial city.

As early as a year ago when he heard his son say that he wanted to go to the imperial city, he had been preparing new shoes for his son.

But now, although the new shoes are mostly woven, there is still a key step missing.

That is, the thick cloth that serves as the insole is missing.

Chen Shan looked around and finally set his sights on his clothes.

Then he tore his clothes apart with force, and under the dim light, he began to weave the new shoes that symbolize "leaving".

After an unknown period of time, a pair of brand new cloth shoes finally appeared in Chen Shan's hands.

Under the dim light, Chen Shan raised the new shoes, and the smile on his face became happier.

Because as long as he had this pair of shoes, his son could finally enter the city.

Thinking of this, Chen Shan immediately put the shoes under the pillow and kept them well.

Prepare to give them to his son tomorrow.

Although he is a fool, he clearly remembers every word his son said.

Since his son wants to go out, he will let him go out even if he tries his best.

This is how Chen Shan expresses his emotions.

Fools are just stupid, but it doesn't mean they don't understand love...

At the same time, in a branch of the Black Lotus Sect in the imperial city.

"The leader of the altar has ordered us to catch some 'blood food' as soon as possible to recover his injuries."

"Start with the pigs in the city. If there are not enough, go outside the city."

"Yes."

In the dark night, a large number of Black Lotus followers began to sweep into various places in the city like ghosts.

For a time, countless families were awakened from their sleep, and then watched their husbands, wives, and children being captured by the Black Lotus.

In this regard, they had no other way except crying.

And some people seemed numb to this, just staring blankly at the Black Lotus followers who were arresting people.

In such a depressing atmosphere, the originally quiet imperial city suddenly became noisy.

Screams, cries, and laughter intertwined with each other.

Under the dark night sky, thick black fog shrouded the imperial city.

Like an iron curtain that could not be lifted, it locked everyone in the imperial city inside.

Countless people wanted to escape from this huge cage, but they couldn't escape no matter how they tried.

People in the city want to go out, but people outside the city... want to come in.

PS: There will be another update before 12 o'clock!