Chapter 1175: Bribe (12)
An incense table was set up in a courtyard overgrown with weeds.
Incense burners, candles, yellow paper, tokens, peach wood swords and other objects are arranged in sequence on the incense table, as if the incense table has been arranged into an altar.
Su Wu stood in front of the altar, looked at the looming figures beside him in the mist, and said, "Bai Ju, if you and Grand Master Dacheng stay here, there will always be many unpredictable situations when you go in and out of the underworld.
You and Dacheng will stay here. If you find any unusual situation occurs between me and Heihu's life lamp, you can also ask Senior Wang to come over and help me. "
"yes."
Taishang Baiju responded respectfully.
"When I invite the 'Guardian' to open the passage to the underworld later, Black Tiger, you must not be distracted. You must keep your energy and keep up with my footsteps." Su Wu turned to look behind him ——Li Heihu and Hei Nuo stood in front of and behind the coffin containing the 'Han Ba'. Hei Nuo's figure was erratic, no different from his usual state.
A strong scent of incense emerged from Black Tiger's body.
Under the influence of the incense, he didn't look like a living person.
Hearing what Su Wu said, Hei Hu immediately nodded, and his facial features became illusory and blurred in the incense.
Su Wu's eyes fell on the Supreme Master Hei Nuo and said: "If we encounter unpredictable situations in the underworld, I can only ask you to protect my brother."
"No excuses."
Hei Nuo agreed.
Su Wu turned around, pinched the seal with his hand, and suddenly "Huang Tian's decree" appeared above his head: "The soldiers follow the seal, and the generals follow their hearts. Listen to my orders, and the troops will follow."
Boom!
As soon as he finished speaking, the misfortune flowing slowly between heaven and earth suddenly surged like a violent wave.
As the calamity rolled around, giant purple-red lightning roared, rising from the dragon veins of the earth like dragons and snakes, stirring the sky, and all gathered behind Su Wu——
The rampant warriors with bared teeth and erect eyes, disheveled hair, and blood-drinking bodies were swimming in the giant lightning, looming in it!
An unknown number of Heaven-shaking Thunder City soldiers gathered around Su Wu. Their terrifying figures not only flooded the courtyard where Su Wu was, but also flooded more than ten nearby villages!
Fortunately, the surrounding people and villagers were all led into ghost dreams at this time, otherwise many twists and turns would have been inevitable.
The sound of howling and screaming echoed out from the giant electric purple thunder, making the sky lose its color.
Su Wu was surrounded by countless ferocious soldiers. His expression was as usual, and he pointed out changes in his hands, and said: "A disciple of the Three Mountains Zhengmai, who is named Zhuxiao Guangzhao Zhenjun, please descend to the Sanshan Dharma Altar."
He did not have any seals or tokens to prove his identity, which were shown to the gods of the Three Mountains and Main Lines in the underworld - however, when Su Wu gave an order at this time, the pair of red candles on the incense table burned violently. When he stood up, the bright light disk swirled up, and the scent of incense steamed around the incense table like clouds and dragons, enveloping Su Wu's body in the billowing incense.
Buzz!
The energy veins of heaven and earth intertwined in front of Su Wu, and instantly gathered into the 'Shangqing Dharma Altar'!
As soon as the Shangqing Dharma Altar appeared, the surrounding mountains and terrain were all shrouded in the purpose of the Dharma Altar, and all were controlled by the Dharma Altar——
The candles burned fiercely, and the incense clouds rolled like flags.
Five-colored thunderbolts lingered among the incense, covering the 'Shangqing Dharma Altar' where the energy of the heaven and earth and thousands of mountains intertwined, and gathered into the 'Five Thunder Dharma Altar' - this kind of altar is just a little-known little one. It's just an altar, but because of the majesty of the 'Shen Zhen' who controls the altar - Su Wu wields the giant lightning thunder, this small altar also becomes very important at this time!
The two altars overlapped in an instant, and Su Wu's figure was raised two feet in the incense, like on a mountain hill!
At this time, among the fragrant clouds that lingered around Su Wu, a black flag floated behind him. On top of the black flag, silver-hook iron paintings were arranged: "Master Lushan, Master Dingyang! "
The moment the black flag was erected, billowing incense spurted out from somewhere!
Boundless incense gathered at Su Wu's feet, forming jade steps extending higher and higher!
He stepped on the stone steps, and when his mind was turning, his figure suddenly swung straight up, and climbed to the top of the jade steps. On the top of the jade steps, stood the third altar - 'Lushan Jingming' Altar'!
The three altars are superimposed into one!
Su Wu was perched on the top of the jade steps of the heavy building, with fragrant clouds rolling under his feet, and countless rampant soldiers following him!
Li Heihu stared dumbfoundedly at Su Wu who was lifted up by the three-layer altar, as if he was sitting on a high mountain. He murmured: "I heard from Master that when Taoist masters fight, the height of the altar is also a fight between two people." The key to success or failure... Now that Zhuzi's magic is so high, if he fights with others... no one can beat him, right?"
Standing behind the coffin, Grand Master Hei Nuo suddenly twitched his eyebrows as he listened to Li Heihu's soliloquy: "Fighting?
Ah!
Now if the master can fight with others, it would be considered a kind of leisure and entertainment for him. "
"..."
Su Wu had all expected the various strange phenomena that appeared at the moment.
He continued to pinch and judge, without making any sound from his mouth. However, among the incense swirling around, blurred human faces appeared, competing to chant the mantra: "The Tao is learned by the heart, and the heart fakes the incense." The fragrant swallow and jade furnace is in front of the emperor.
The true spirit is looking forward to it, and the fairy is in Xuan. I ordered my ministers to report it, and it reached nine days! "
Under the sound of countless prayers and mantras, a thread of Su Wu's thoughts extended into the darkness like a thread——
At the moment when his mind was connected to the underworld, the sky turned black in an instant, and a layer of dimness lingered on the ground. Under the pressure of the black sky, in the hazy dimness, deep and dark gullies crisscrossed in it, winding to the end of Su Wu's sight. These countless gullies with black shadows floating in them overlapped on the earth. They seemed to overlap with the earth, but in fact, the two were clearly separated. They were basically two worlds!
The "underworld" has appeared in front of the altar!
As the "underworld" appeared in front of the altar, tiny cracks appeared in the void above the altar.
The cold and strange rhyme overflowed from those tiny cracks.
One by one, green eyes grew out of the cracks, densely arranged on the altar.
Many green eyes, all turning their eyes, cast their cold and silent gazes on Su Wu's face!
The "gatekeeper" of the underworld has descended here!
If the Taoists of Maoshan want to pass through the underworld, they also need to pay a considerable amount of money to the "gatekeeper ghost". This money is mostly "willpower" attached to copper coins, which is accumulated over the years and condensed into "willpower money".
The gatekeeper ghost collects "willpower money" according to different situations. Generally, the "toll" it asks for will far exceed the price that the Taoists of Maoshan can offer. At this time, the Taoists of Maoshan need to be flexible, or have the ability to bargain with it, coerce and induce it to finally open the door to the underworld, or try to bypass the gatekeeper ghost and enter the underworld directly.
At this moment, the gatekeeper ghost's green eyes competed to grow out of the cracks.
Its eyes were all cast on Su Wu. After staying on Su Wu for a moment, its eyes suddenly moved away and fell on the stack of yellow paper on the altar!
The cold and strange rhyme covered the yellow paper, and suddenly outlined strange words on the yellow paper.
——The gatekeeper ghost began to "ask for a price" from Su Wu!
Su Wu looked at the yellow paper. The strange words written on the yellow paper clearly conveyed a meaning: "Ten thousand wish power money!"
This gatekeeper ghost wanted Su Wu to pay 100 million wish power money as a bribe!
Nowadays, the people under the rule of the Qing Dynasty may not be tens of millions, and hundreds of millions of people cannot gather hundreds of millions of wish power money-but it asked Su Wu for hundreds of millions of wish power money directly!
How could Su Wu afford this number?
Even if he could afford it, it would be impossible to hand over such a huge amount of wish power money to the "gatekeeper ghost".
Su Wu only took a look at the strange words on the yellow paper and gave up the idea of bargaining with the "gatekeeper ghost". He raised his eyes and looked at those miserable green eyes, and said: "Disciple does not have so much wish power money.
In fact, disciple can't even give you one wish power money now."
Swish!
Before he finished speaking!
The green ghost eyes suddenly shrank, and a cold and strange aura burst out from countless eyes, turning into tangible veins like blood vessels in the void, competing to entangle Su Wu's body--
Su Wu put one hand together to form a sword finger, and suddenly wiped across his brow--
The sacrificial eye between his eyebrows suddenly opened, and a slightly swaying shadow came from the sacrificial eye, covering the stack of yellow paper!
The yellow paper with the price demanded by the gatekeeper suddenly changed from bright yellow to yellow-green, from yellow-green to green, from green to blue, from blue to red, from red to purple, and from purple to black!
The swaying shadow suddenly gathered within Su Wu's eyebrows.
Su Wu held a red pen in his hand. On the talisman paper that had completely turned black and covered all the strange characters, he first pointed out three red dots, outlined the talisman head, and then wrote the word "imperial" and put down the red pen in his hand.
When the dense veins like blood vessels approached Su Wu's body, they were blocked by layers of "air scales" and could not get through even a little bit.
Su Wu looked up at the gatekeeper in the void again and said, "Although I have no money, you must open a door to the underworld for me - otherwise, once the imperial decree is issued, it will be difficult to reverse the damage."
Buzz!
The green eyes of the "gatekeeper" competed to shrink their strange rhythms and trembled!
It didn't know whether it was angry or afraid of something - in the trembling of countless eyes, the blood vessels that were entangled with Su Wu all shrank back!
The countless green eyes that appeared in the void disappeared without a trace!
The surroundings returned to calm!
Everything seemed to be unchanged!
But Su Wu turned around and looked around - outside the overlapping three altars, outside the tangled veins of heaven and earth - the overgrown courtyards, courtyard walls, and villages in the distance all became hazy and gradually invisible.
And those dark gullies that overlapped above the villages before suddenly turned upside down and merged with the darkness pouring down from the sky!
Between heaven and earth, it was pitch black!
A cold and illusory aura lingered in the surroundings!