35|The Prince meets the King of Ghosts in the Ghost Market

Very ashamed, until two hours later, Xie Ren took the time to sneak a look at the scroll, which finally roughly clear the wind master’s origin.

The five masters of the heavenly realm all use titles instead of surnames. For example, the Earth Master’s real name on earth was Ming Yi before he ascended, and after he ascended, he was called “Earth Master Yi”. On the other hand, the Wind Master’s real name before ascension was Shi Qingxuan, and after ascension, he was called “Wind Master Qingxuan”. Wind Master Qingxuan, as his name suggests, is as windy as he is, likes to make friends, and is generous, not petty, and is very well liked in the Heavenly Court, which can be seen from the fact that he dispersed 100,000 merits in the Spiritual Formation. Then again, his brother is the big god in charge of the earth’s wealth and fortune, naturally, generous and unrestrained.

Yes, Wind Master Qingxuan’s brother is that “Water Hengtian”, Water Master Wudu.

All together down the boundary, the two walk side by side, walking and chatting. Xie Ren hugged his arm, heartily said: “Pei’s two generals of one name and two ascension, in the earth has been considered strange, and you two masters of feng shui with the heavenly court, really is even more strange.”

Know, tens of thousands of people, there is not necessarily a person who can ascend, Pei Ming and Pei Su between the hundreds of years, Pei Su is not Pei Ming’s direct descendants, is Pei Ming’s brother’s side had once had do not know how many generations of the grandchildren, this water master WuDu and the wind division of QingXuan, but a pair of real blood brothers, which is really a door of the two ascension, how not strange?

Shi Qingxuan, however, laughed, “What’s wrong with that, my brother and I grew up in the same place, worshipped the same teacher, and practiced the same Dao, so naturally we also ascended in the same world.”

This was also something that Xie Ren had also learned about when she was badgering the scrolls. Of the two Feng Shui divisions, Shi Wudu was the first to ascend, and not many years later, Shi Qingxuan also crossed the heavenly tribulation. People often put these two diviners together to worship, worship in the same temple, sitting on an equal footing, it can be seen, these two brothers are really very good feelings. It must be that the water division was also the reason why Pei Ming wouldn’t move the wind division, as Sanlang and Nanfeng had said. After all, it’s the sibling of Shui Hengtian, so how can it be easily messed with?

To here, Xie Ren suddenly remembered another section, think about it, or asked out, said: “wind division master, in the divine martial arts hall, I listen to the words of General Pei, he seems to have quite a friendship with your brother. You went to sue little General Pei this time, will your brother ……”

Shi Qingxuan said, “No, no. My brother has long known that I don’t like Pei Ming.”

Xie Ren said, “Knowing is one thing, doing something is another. Will this create animosity between Lord Shui Shi and General Pei?”

Shi Qingxuan, however, said, “It’s only good if there’s a suspicion, I can’t wait for my brother to stop hanging out with him and get out of the Three Vermin at an early date.”

Xie Ren was stunned and said, “What three poisonous tumors?”

Shi Qingxuan was shocked, ”What! You don’t know even this? Hehe! Alright, I know you don’t know anything. Just listen to it, these three poisonous tumors are a gag name for a few Divine Officials in the Upper Heavenly Court who have a relatively bad reputation but are on better terms with each other. That is, Ming Guang, Ling Wen, and my brother.”

Xie Ren thought to himself, “It’s actually not Xie Ren, Xie Ren, Xie Ren.”

Shi Qingxuan shook the wind master fan, and said: ”Even if I didn’t dislike him, this time the thing, originally is little pei’s own fault, pei ming want to pull that half moon master to take the blame, save little pei, this thing can’t let him do it. Regardless of whether a person is a god or a ghost, always have to be responsible for what they have done. What kind of skill is it to bully a little girl?”

Speaking the last sentence, his tone was rather disdainful. Hearing this, Xie Ren laughed, “Master Feng is truly chivalrous.”

Shi Qingxuan laughed, ”You’re not bad either. I did vaguely hear some rumors about the Half Moon Pass, but I never had the time to look into it, plus my brother scolded me a few times, and I forgot about it when things got too much. That day, I heard you ask in the psychic formation, remembered that there is such a thing and went to see, who knows that you not only asked, people also went. I thought, hey, this person is good!”

This Wind Master is a very straightforward and interesting character, and Xie Ren can very well understand why he is very well liked in the Upper Heavenly Court. Unexpectedly, this ascension, actually can be in the upper heaven court solid such a magistrate, he could not help but smile. Who knew that only once he turned his head, when he looked back again, the white-clothed Daoist beside him had turned into a white-clothed female crown again.

This became too sudden, Xie Ren’s feet nearly slipped and said, “Master Wind Master, why did you suddenly transform again?”

Shi Qingxuan ruffled his long hair and said, “Oh, Your Highness the Crown Prince, truth be told, my magical power will be stronger in this appearance.”

As it turns out, as mentioned earlier, the Wind Master and the Water Master are often offered together. However, a strange accident was born as a result. Perhaps it is because people feel that, in the same temple, worship two magi are male, as if there is something missing. Men and women match, work is not tired, it seems that a man and a woman is not missing something, so then someone did something, that is, the wind master statue carved into a female statue.

He changed the female image not to mention, but also nonsense, fabricated stories, said what this Feng Shui two magistrates is a pair of brother and sister, and even there are versions said to be a husband and wife. Hundreds of years down, the blackmail, derived from many strange stories, the two magistrates on the spur of the moment to find a look, look at the goosebumps fell all over the place. However, this kind of nonsense, but there are also many people believe in it, mentioning the wind master often confused about men and women, a mouthful of a “Niang Niang bless me”. Therefore, the division Qingxuan also has a gag, called “wind master mother”.

Although comical, however, such ridiculous deeds are not in the less, let’s say the spirit of the text, also has a similar experience. Although this Ling Wen is a goddess officer, but, she never like other fairies that dress up as flamboyant, usually a soap black, dry and sharp, all day long in the Ling Wen Hall driving a bunch of clerical batch of scrolls batch like crazy. Even if there is a component of personality, however, there are other reasons. To the earth to grab a random person to ask: Ling Wen true gentleman is male or female? Anyone will firmly answer: male.

The God of Letters, of course, is a man. For this reason, Ling Wen had suffered a lot at the beginning of her ascension. She is the God of Letters, but many people on earth think, how can a woman live in the position of the God of Letters? How can she keep her luck in literature? It must not work! So, let her diligently, are incense cold. Later, a few temples in the heart is not happy, in a fit of pique, remodeled the spirit of the statue of the god, all changed into a male body, will be the spirit of the emperor, the spirit of the emperor, forced to become the spirit of the emperor, and also gave a set of jaw-dropping legend of the origin of the experience. So a change, the incense will be back. People have been praising the spirit of Ling Wen true spirit, in fact, the magistrate is still the magistrate, magic power is still so much magic power, the stories are all made up, but people just eat this set. Later on, when Ling Wen went to have a dream or manifestation, he had to use a male body.

In the same way, people feel that you have to have a man and a woman in this feng shui temple in order to hold down the fort. Who cares if you are a god or a ghost? People believe you are what you are, you are what you are. Even if you are a hundred and eighty thousand miles away from that, people are still willing to see what they want to see. This kind of thing, the Divine Officers in the Heavenly Court have long been familiar with it.

As for Shi Qingxuan himself, according to Xie Ren’s observation, he was not too concerned. Rather, it was better to say that he was completely enjoying himself. Not only was he enjoying himself, but he was also extremely keen on encouraging others to join him in the fun, causing Xie Ren to doubt the true identity of the black-clothed woman who traveled with him last time. In the two hours that he had traveled down from the Heavenly Realm to this place, Shi Qingxuan had been trying to persuade Xie Ren to take on the appearance of a woman as well, and for a very valid reason: “A woman’s yin qi is heavy, making it easier for her to hide her movements in the ghost market.”

Xie Ren thought about it and could only politely decline, “I don’t have enough magical power to transform it.”

Shi Qingxuan, however, was very enthusiastic and said, “I’ll lend it to you. Isn’t that why the emperor asked me to come?”

Xie Ren said, “My lord, you’d better lend me when you fight ……”

Shi Qingxuan failed to encourage him, so he didn’t force himself. At this time, the two of them had already arrived at a deserted field. As the night deepened, old crows chirped in the dark woods, the atmosphere was sluggish and treacherous. Xie Ren looked around for a moment and said, “Let’s go here. This place is full of Yin Qi, and there is a large cemetery nearby, there will always be one or two people who are ready to go out to catch the market, so just follow them when the time comes.”

So the two men crouched at the edge of the messy grave, keeping watch.

After squatting for not long, Shi Qingxuan reached into his sleeve and pulled out an altar of wine somehow, saying, “Drink?”

Xie Ren took it, took a sip, drank until his throat was on fire, returned the wine altar to him, and said, “Many thanks.”

Shi Qingxuan received it back, took two sips, and said, “You can’t drink it?”

Xie Ren said, “I can drink. But if you drink too much, you will go crazy, so it’s better to drink lightly. What hour is it?”

Shi Qingxuan pondered for a moment and said, “It’s time.”

Xie Ren said, “Well, it’s almost time to come.”

As soon as the words left their mouths, the two of them saw a ghostly row of bright lights illuminated from afar, deep in the woods.

The row of ghostly bright lights got closer and closer, and it was only when they were out of the forest that the two of them saw that it was a line of expressionless women in white. There were old and young, beautiful and ugly, each wearing birthday clothes and carrying white lanterns, slowly walking forward.

These are the female ghosts who are going to take advantage of the late night to go to the ghost market.

Xie Ren whispered, “Keep up.”

Shi Qingxuan nodded and finished the wine in two more gulps, the altar was thrown, and the two of them stood up from the ground, following the group of ghosts as if nothing had happened.

The two had made sufficient preparations beforehand, removing all the aura from their bodies, like two humanoid logs, without any semblance of popularity. The ghosts of the group of women carried white lanterns and followed the dark woods, walking slowly while chatting in a thin voice.

A man said, “I’m so happy, the ghost market is open again, I’m going to get my face done.”

The other said, “What happened to your face? Wasn’t that done not too long ago?”

The first one said, “It’s rotten again. Alas, the man who helped me make it last time said it could be guaranteed not to rot for a year, and it’s only been less than half a year.”

Xie Ren and Shi Qingxuan followed behind them, listening to them chat, not saying a single word more, and when they heard something funny, they would at most stare at each other with the corners of their mouths twisted. After walking for half an hour, the group arrived at a valley.

Deep in the valley, a red light was faintly visible, and in the misty and void night, there seemed to be singing coming from it. Xie Ren became more and more curious about what this legendary ghost market was really like. Who knows, they had just entered the valley when a female ghost at the very end of the group turned around, spotted them and said suspiciously, “Who are you guys?”

At this question, a faction of pale-faced women in front of them all looked back, all feeling strange, and surrounded them, saying, “When did they follow? When we came out of the grave, there were no these two ah.”

“What graveyard do you live in, and why don’t I seem to have seen you before?”

Xie Ren coughed lightly and said, “We …… are rushing over from a more distant cemetery, of course we haven t seen it.”

Shi Qingxuan also laughed, “Yes, we came all the way here to catch the Ghost Market.”

A group of white-clothed women did not say a word, expressionless staring at them, if it were two other people, I’m afraid to be stared at to kneel down and balk. Xie Ren is not afraid of identity exposure, these weak and weak women and children ghosts, how can they threaten them? However, the ghost market is right in front of them, close at hand, so how can they cause strife here and frighten the snakes?

At this moment, a woman stared at Shi Qingxuan and slowly spoke.

She said, “This sister, your face, it’s well maintained.”

At those words, Xie Ren and Shi Qingxuan were both stunned.

With that, the two of them immediately nodded in unison. Xie Ren was saying, “Fine fine.” Shi Qingxuan, on the other hand, followed his tone and said, “Very good very good.”

A crowd of women and ghosts all gathered around and discussed, “Yeah, it didn’t suck at all.” “Sister, where did you get your face fixed?” “Any secrets?” “Any recommended stores?”

Shi Qingxuan didn’t know how to reply, so he could only dryly laugh while saying, “Really? I also think my face is very good, haha, hahahahahahahahahahaha ……”

How did he know how to take care of a dead man’s face? He could only keep dryly laughing to stall for time as well. It was at this moment that the line turned, Xie Ren’s vision opened up and a crimson red color came into view.

A world of light and wonder unfolded before him.

It’s a long street.

The street is so long that you can’t see the end of it. On both sides of the street, there are all kinds of stores and vendors, with colorful flags and big red lanterns flying high and low. The “people” on the road come and go, most of them wearing masks. Those who are crying, laughing, angry, are human and those who are not. Without masks, they can only be described as “strange”. Some have big heads and small bodies, some are as thin and long as bamboo poles, and some are flattened into a cake, stuck to the ground, being stepped on by pedestrians while complaining.

Xie Ren was careful, did not step on any strange things, passing by a food stall, saw the stall owner with a large bone stick to stir a pot of soup, while stirring, while leaking from between the teeth of the mouth water, drops into the soup, the color of the weird soup floating floating floating several eyeballs. Xie Ren looked at it and suddenly had a surge of confidence.

On the other hand, some weird people are performing acrobatics, a big man grasping a weak chicken like a kid, a mouth, a mouth of fire gushed out, burned his hand grasping the kid howling like a pig, struggling more than one, while the surrounding onlookers are clapping their hands laughing and applauding loudly. More people are crazy, the air sprinkle money, sprinkle the sky snow have, and that money fluttering down to Xie Ren eyes, he reached out a cut, bring a look, really is the money.

Walking further, I passed a butcher’s store, in front of which hung a row of emaciated human heads, the heads of which were arranged in a neat row from small to large, and the prices were clearly marked: a few dollars for the meat of a young child, a few dollars for the meat of a young man, a few dollars for the meat of a man, a few dollars for the meat of a woman, and a few dollars for a brittle human bone. The man with the apron and the butcher’s knife working on the store was actually a wild boar with long black bristles, and what it was chopping up under its hand was a thick human leg, still twitching with a flick.

It’s really a hell of a clusterfuck and an orgy.

It was common for people to cut down pigs, but it was rare for pigs to cut down people, so Xie Ren couldn’t help but look at it a few more times, only to be discovered by the pig. It immediately said, “What are you looking at? Are you buying?”

Xie Ren shook his head, “Not buying.”

That pig butcher chopped hard on the chopping board again, chopping and splattering blood and flesh. It said gruffly, “Don’t buy it or don’t look at it! Fuck, are you looking for trouble? Get lost!”

Xie Ren then rolled. But after he took a few steps, he suddenly realized that something was not good.

That pile of ghosts of women and Shi Qingxuan had actually disappeared without a trace.

With a startled look, Xie Ren immediately thought of channeling with the Wind Master, fearing that he would really be dragged by the ghosts of those women to repair and maintain their faces. However, this was a ghost market, and the heavenly realm’s psychic spells would be restricted here. With no luck, he had no choice but to look around the streets aimlessly. As he walked, he was suddenly pulled by someone. He was originally very alert and immediately said, “Who?”

The one who pulled him was a woman, who was startled by him, but after seeing his face, she ate and laughed, and said in a charming voice, “Ah yo, this little brother, you are really handsome.”

This woman’s clothes are exposed, the makeup is gaudy to horrible, white | powder did not smear, an opening rustling down, chest bulging, as if in the meat filled with things, really people look quite frightened. Xie Ren will be her thin as a chicken claw hand gently faded, said: “This girl, have a good talk.”

The woman froze, then laughed out loud and said, ”Holy cow, you called me a girl? There are actually people calling me girl these days? Hahahahahahahaha!”

The people around seemed to find it comical as well, and followed with laughter. Xie Ren shook his head, and before he could say anything, the woman pounced on him again, saying, “Don’t go away! Little brother, I like you, come with me for a night of pleasure, I don’t want your money.” She nuzzled her mouth and threw a wink, saying, “I’ll pour money on you, hee hee hee hee ……”

Xie Ren thought to himself that it was really a sin, and without any trace but firmly broke away and said in a warm voice, “Girl.”

Who knows, the woman but like suddenly impatient, said: “Call what girl, who love to hear you call so? Okay don’t talk nonsense, how about it, are you coming or not?”

As if to tempt Xie Ren, she suddenly unraveled her clothes that were already very exposed. Xie Ren hadn’t been prepared for her to be so bold, and didn’t expect to be stopped, so he could only let out a soft sigh, averted his gaze, and walked around the road. That female ghost, however, blocked his way again, teasing him in a hundred ways, saying, “Like it or not?”

However, Xie Ren since childhood, soaked in the Imperial Temple, abstinence for many years, never body and mind are guarded as stable as Mount Taishan, to him to see what can be as calm as water, to see what will automatically recite the Tao Te Ching in his mind as if the sound of a bell, completely indifferent. That female ghost teasing | tease not, put the face of a change, spit: “pour paste you do not want, you are not a man!”

Xie Ren squinted his gaze aside and said, “Yes.”

The female ghost said, “Then prove it!”

Someone laughed out loud and said, “You slut, people think you’re old and ugly and won’t take you, so why are you still posting?”

When Xie Ren heard this, he said without changing his color, “Actually, no. I have a hidden disease. I don’t lift.”

The crowd was stunned, and in an instant, a burst of ghostly laughter erupted, “Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ……”

This time, the object of ridicule became Xie Ren. I’ve never seen a man with the courage to say he has a hidden disease in front of a large crowd. Xie Ren, this person for their own sins | root can be sin such a thing is not at all on the mind, the usual will be used as an excuse for all kinds of excuses, this method can be said to be tried and true. Sure enough, the ghost of the woman at once covered the clothes, no longer entangled, scolded: “No wonder this side of virtue. Pig ah you, sick not say earlier! Pfft!”

Not far away, the pig butcher chopped down another knife and cursed, “Fuck, you dead bitch, how do you talk? What’s wrong with the pig?”

This female ghost didn’t show any weakness and scolded back in a loud voice, saying, “Yeah, what’s wrong with pigs? You dead animal!”

Many voices on the street yelled, “The ghost Lan Calam is haunting again!” “Butcher Zhu is chopping up ghosts!” The two sides tore into each other so chaotically, Xie Ren was finally able to get away. He walked out for a while, looked back and sighed.

It wasn’t long before there was another cacophony of noise ahead of him, and as he walked, he came to a large red building.

This building, can be described as extraordinary grandeur, columns, roofs, exterior walls, all painted into a rich red color, laying a thick layer of gorgeous carpet. Really, compared to the heavenly palace, also not bad, just lost the solemnity, but more three colorful. People come and go in front of the door, inside the door, extremely lively, listen to look carefully, here, seems to be a gambling house.

Xie Ren walked forward, only to see that on the pillars on both sides, there were two words hanging. On the left was “Want money but not life”, and on the right was “Want to win but not face”. Looking at the top, the banner read: “Hahahahaha”.

“……”

So crude, not worthy of being called a couplet, and the writing handwriting is also rough and wild, no penmanship to speak of, as if who was drunk with a big bucket of pen, with a full of malice and a wave, and a crooked wind blowing through the end into such a virtue. Xie Ren was once the Crown Prince of a country, calligraphy by several famous teachers, this kind of words in his eyes, naturally is miserable. However, they have been difficult to see the point of magic, but instead let Xie Ren look a little want to laugh, shook his head, thinking that the wind master should not be here to play, or go to those female ghosts to repair the face of the beauty store to look for it.

He really should have just walked away, yet, ghostly, within a few steps, he turned back and walked in.

The lobby of the gambling house, indeed, was full, with people gathering, laughing and crying in unison. Xie Ren had just walked down a few steps when he suddenly heard a miserable scream, he fixed his eyes on four masked big men carrying a person over.

The man as if in great pain, was carried still struggling wildly howling, along the road along the road wildly soaring blood. Originally, his two legs were cut off, blood flow like a river, and a small ghost is following all the way, greedily licking the blood on the ground, licked clean.

Such a horrifying sight, but no one in the gambling house looked back for more than a glance, still they were all shouting, screaming and rolling around. However, originally, most of the people playing here were not people either, and if they were people, they were not ordinary people that is.

Xie Ren sidestepped, letting the four big men carry the man out and continued inside. A little maid wearing a smiley mask greeted her and smiled, “This gentleman, are you coming in to have some fun?”

Xie Ren smiled faintly and said, “I don’t have any money on me, can I just take a look?”

In his experience, usually when you enter a store and say such things, you are going to be blown out, what are you doing in there without money? However, the little maid said cheekily, “It doesn’t matter if you don’t have any money with you, most of the people who play here don’t gamble with money.”

Xie Ren said, “Is that so?”

The little maid covered her mouth and said, “Yes ah. Sir, please follow me.”

She beckoned to Xie Ren and curled up in front of her, and Xie Ren didn’t move to follow behind, looking around.

This gambling house, no matter whether one looked at it from the outside or from the inside, was gorgeous but not ostentatious, gaudy but not gaudy, and one could almost say that it was a building of considerable taste. That little maid led Xie Ren to the end of the lobby, where there was a long table surrounded by three layers inside and three layers outside. Xie Ren had just leaned over when she heard a man say, “I bet one of my hands!”

There were too many onlookers, so Xie Ren couldn’t squeeze in and could only stand outside and listen. Suddenly, he heard another person lazily say, “No need. Not to mention a hand, even your dog’s life is worthless here.”

Upon hearing this voice, Xie Ren’s heart suddenly lifted.

He murmured, “Miroku.”

What entered his ears just now was indeed that teenager’s voice. However, it was slightly lower than what he remembered.

But, because of this, the voice was even more pleasant to the ear, and even in the midst of the cheeky laughter of the surrounding onlookers, the voice was crystal clear, penetrating through the crowded gambling house, and hitting him straight in the bottom of his ear.

Xie Ren raised his head, and only then did he realize that behind the long table, there was a curtain. And behind the curtain, a figure in red could be vaguely seen, leaning idly on a chair.