Early the next morning, the ship arrived at the south bank. Gu Cheng and the others disembarked, and the Whale Gang and the horses were ready.
They got on their horses and headed eastward under the reluctant eyes of the gang.
Of course, those people were looking at Fan Qinghui.
Gu Cheng felt some pity in his heart.
Does the Giant Whale Gang know that Fan Qinghui went south this time to collect first-hand information from major aristocratic families, powerful gangs, and present it to Yang Jian in the future?
In a sense, this is selling out martial arts power to the imperial power in exchange for huge benefits. These gangs are still kneeling and licking them happily. It must be said that Cihang Jingzhai is very clever.
With the world being at peace and destiny being fulfilled, they are always on the lips, and with their peerless looks, people in the martial arts world respect and admire them, so how can they think of the bad side of them?
As for the Giant Whale Gang, there was no such gang among the Eight Gangs and Ten Hui in the late Sui and early Tang Dynasties. However, there was the Yunyu True Giant Kun Gang. I don’t know if it was annexed.
Working hard, the three of them arrived in Suzhou in less than a day.
At Hanshan Temple outside Gusu City, the midnight bell rang for passenger ships. This land of plenty was much more prosperous than Yangzhou City today.
As a descendant of Cihang Jingzhai, Fan Qinghui naturally stayed in Hanshan Temple, which is a lower temple of Jingnian Zen Sect.
According to history, the temple was established at this time. The name was not Hanshan Temple. After all, it was changed from Hanshanzi, a famous monk in the Tang Dynasty. However, the host here personally received him and named himself Hanshanzi. Gu Cheng could only smile.
Take a tour inside the temple.
Gu Cheng was thoughtful as he looked at the believers who went up the mountain to worship Buddha in front of the ungilded Buddha statue and listened to their prayers.
There are four hundred and eighty temples in the Southern Dynasties, and many towers are in the mist.
Different from the obscurity of Buddhism during the Three Kingdoms period, during the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, precisely because of the chaos and rampant foreigners, Buddhism became the last spiritual sustenance faith for the common people.
After all, Buddhism pays attention to the afterlife. Even if you are miserable in this life, as long as you do good deeds and achieve good results, you will enjoy happiness in the next life. For poor people, they are naturally happy to accept it.
However, as we all know, there were three military campaigns in history to exterminate Buddhism. The second time Emperor Wu of Zhou exterminated Buddhism was just eleven years ago.
At that time, Emperor Wu of the Zhou Dynasty destroyed 40,000 temples and forced three million monks and nuns to return to secular life, which greatly enhanced the national power and laid a key foundation for the Northern Zhou Dynasty to unify the north.
At that time, Cihang Jingzhai and Jingnian Chanyuan gave up all external forces and shrank like a tortoise, finally escaping the disaster.
However, Emperor Wu of Zhou died too early. After Yang Jian usurped the country, a large number of Buddhist disciples became monks again, and Buddhism began to flourish again.
Of course, this prosperity requires a process.
Therefore, a small place like Hanshan Temple also became the outer courtyard of Jingnian Zen Temple. It would never have been possible thirty years later in the late Sui Dynasty.
Gu Cheng suspected that it was this huge blow that made Cihang Jingzhai want to have imperial power.
He was analyzing the rise and fall of Buddhism in a leisurely and scrutinizing mood, while Anlong was in a state of panic.
Although this is not Jing Nian Zen Temple, he has never been to a Buddhist temple in his life!
Fortunately, the true energy in Anlong's body was concealed by Gu Cheng's magic power, and he fabricated his own experience of being infiltrated by the Demon Sect and facing the danger of death, so his restlessness was completely normal and no one suspected it.
Soon, Buddhism showed its ability.
"The Dajiang Gang has indeed been infiltrated by the Demon Sect. They are transporting goods to Jiankang tonight. I want to intercept them. I wonder if you would like to come with me and help?"
Fan Qinghui walked into the Zen room, carrying an ancient sword on his back, which looked even more elegant, like a sword fairy walking out of a painting, unparalleled.
“Everyone has the responsibility to eliminate demons and protect the Tao!”
Gu Cheng stood up coolly: "Let's go!"
Fan Qinghui thought this was a bit strange, but she didn't think much about it and solemnly saluted: "Thank you, Master, for your help!"
At this time, there is a faint tendency for the Buddha to eliminate the demons. The demons are hiding in the darkness because they are not accepted by the mainstream, but the Jianghu forces are very powerful.
Cihang Jingzhai and the Yingui sect sent out the best successors from each generation to compete. Fan Qinghui's previous generation met Zhu Yuyan, the most outstanding disciple of the Yingui sect for hundreds of years. At an extremely young age, he had already reached the seventeenth level.
Magical magic.
She was originally at a disadvantage, but unexpectedly something happened to Zhu Yuyan herself. She heard that someone had destroyed her pure Yin body and could no longer cultivate to the 18th level. Her master was so angry that he vomited blood and died. The Yingui sect was instantly in chaos.
The two sects and six sects of the Demon Sect have always held themselves back like this, so Cihang Jingzhai got used to it and returned to the mountain to practice.
But this generation of Fan Qinghui came down from the mountain, and the descendants of the Yingui sect have not yet appeared.
She invited Gu Cheng to accompany her, not because she really wanted to seek help, but because she felt that Gu Cheng was unfathomable and incomprehensible, and she wanted to force him to reveal his clues in the battle between the magic sect.
However, Fan Qinghui did not expect that when he arrived at the dock, Gu Cheng had his hands behind his back like the commander-in-chief of the three armies. He did not take any action at all, and just sat back and watched the Buddhist disciples rush into the warehouse and shout for death.
"Master!"
Since Fan Qinghui entered the world, many heroes have rushed to show their courtesy. I have never seen a lazy one. I couldn't help but exclaimed: "Is this how you eliminate demons and protect the Tao?"
The appearance of this little girl who is both happy and angry, with a hint of anger, when she appears in a disciple of Cihang Jingzhai, a heavenly immortal transformed into a human being, will definitely make men in the world fascinated.
But there are always some exceptions. Gu Cheng snapped his fingers and said in surprise: "Shouldn't strong men like you and me stay behind and face the masters of the Demon Sect?"
Fan Qinghui was speechless.
That makes sense.
However, the next moment, screams suddenly came from the warehouse.
Fan Qinghui's expression changed, like a wisp of breeze, drifting inside.
Gu Cheng followed, feeling amused.
Shi Zhixuan had known that Anlong had turned to him, so how could he not have made preparations?
If Buddhism rushes in at this time, it will be a trap for itself!
In this way, you can also see the comparison between the forces of Buddha and Demon, and be aware of it.
But when Gu Cheng officially entered the warehouse, his eyes couldn't help but become solemn.
Hanshan Temple sent a hundred warrior monks to help Fan Qing Hui Ping Demon.
At this time, I glanced at them and saw that they were all dead, and their death patterns were uniform and extremely miserable.
You must know that although Hanshan Temple is the lower courtyard of Jingnian Zen Monastery, the method of forming Buddhist soldiers is passed down from generation to generation.
There are three thousand warrior monks in Jing Nian Zen Monastery, who can fight against a regular army. These one hundred warrior monks are also a force that cannot be underestimated.
"No wonder Shi Zhixuan is so arrogant that he dared to make a bet with me in this battle even though he knew that Nanchen was in danger!"
"It seems that the current Demon Sect is really not comparable to what it will be thirty years from now!"
Gu Cheng became interested and stepped forward.
In an instant, the wind roared fiercely, and hundreds of arrows were densely packed, falling like dark clouds from the sky, obscuring the sight.
The trajectory of the shot was very strange. It was clear that Gu Cheng came in from the outside, and there was a biting coldness even behind his back, covering him in all directions without any blind spots.
"Sir, be careful!"
Fan Qinghui's warning came to his ears. He glanced around and saw Fan Qinghui fighting fiercely with a tall, tall and thin scribe.
It seemed like a critical moment, but Gu Cheng took advantage of it. He rolled up his sleeves and the dark clouds dissipated. With a wave of his long sleeves, countless holes suddenly appeared on the ground on the right side, turning them into a hornet's nest.
"Huh? Can you break the master's protective energy?"
A look of surprise appeared on Gu Cheng's face. He looked at the small hole in his sleeve, his eyes narrowed, and he grabbed it with his fingers.
Hoo! Hoo! Hoo! Hoo!
The strong wind swept across, roaring like a dragon!
The interior of the warehouse was huge and had been transformed into three floors. The ones who attacked him were a dozen demon sect disciples wearing Dajianghui robes and showing cruel faces. However, they were scattered everywhere, not an army formation.
However, they first looked at the enemy who was unharmed in horror, and then saw the strong wind rushing towards them with incomparable accuracy.
All of a sudden, the Demon Sect disciples screamed in agony with their bones cracking, wolves and pigs ran around, and all their bows and crossbows flew out of their hands.
One of them spanned a distance of ten feet and was held by Gu Cheng.
"Seven kills!"
Gu Cheng played with it for a while and saw two seal characters engraved on the crossbow. Its structure was so exquisite that it was like a work of art.
A simple crossbow, no matter how fast it fires, will not pose much of a threat to the martial arts masters of this world.
Because it is difficult to break through the true strength of the body protection.
However, this kind of crossbow broke through Gu Cheng's true power of body protection.
You know how powerful his true energy is, and he was almost injured by it. It is normal for the monks outside to die.
Gu Cheng was not familiar with the art of mechanism, but based on the distribution of the Demon Sect disciples and the crossbow arrows on the ground, he roughly made a judgment that this kind of seven-kill crossbow should be a set of seven, each with seven consecutive shots, seven, seven, forty-nine
All fired, but the fiftieth crossbow arrow was hidden.
And that one is the key to breaking through the true power of body protection against masters!
"The Great Dao is fifty, Tianyan is forty-nine, how about one of them escapes?"