"Ding! Use the Five Elements Spiritual Stone to replenish the energy of the Eighteen Bronze Man. Five kilograms of low-grade spirit stones are required to fully charge it. The host currently has a total of sixty kilograms of low-grade spirit stones. Do you want to confirm?"
"yes!"
Immediately, the young man saw the colorful luster suddenly appear in the puppet space, like a ray of sunshine, turning into a burst of strange energy, pouring into the Heavenly Spirit Cap of the Eighteen Bronze Man.
After just three breaths, the system prompt sounded again: "Ding! The energy replenishment is complete, and there are fifty-five kilograms of low-grade Five Elements Spiritual Stones left."
Five kilograms of assets, equivalent to five million gold coins, were used up in one go, but Chen Shen didn't even blink an eyebrow.
In order to ensure safety, it is imperative to replenish the energy of the Eighteen Bronze Man in advance. Even if it is not used by then, it is always better to be prepared than to lose your life because of greed for money.
According to the habits of Daxia city guards, it has always been easier to leave the city than to enter the city, so the carriage driven by Chen Hu left the city without encountering any obstruction.
The little princess opened the curtains thoughtfully and looked at the colorful world outside. Her eyes were full of strange glazes: "Why don't we abandon the carriage and go there on foot?"
"Hmph, does this stupid princess really think that I brought you out for fun?"
Chen Hu secretly cursed in his heart, but smiled along with it: "Haha, the princess doesn't know something. This Xianglin is a hundred miles away from the imperial capital, and it would take at least two hours to travel with a carriage. My young master needs medical treatment urgently.
, please, Your Highness the Princess, be considerate."
"How about we let the princess play along the way when we return?"
After hearing Chen Hu's words, Xia Qingchan could only hum, which was regarded as tacit agreement.
The carriage traveled more than eighty miles along the official road, then went through the mountains and forests for more than ten miles, and finally entered the boundary of Xi Xianglin.
Because most of the journey is on official roads, the distance deep into the mountains and forests is only a dozen miles at this time, so the mysterious beasts encountered along the way are generally very weak.
Anyone who dared to rush within a hundred feet of the carriage was blasted to pieces by Chen Hu's random burst of mysterious energy.
Not long after, the carriage stopped under the stone steps of a building called Xixiang Temple.
Speaking of which, the name of Xi Xianglin is precisely related to this small temple that has been abandoned for many years.
It is said that six hundred years ago, two senior officials in the imperial capital committed serious crimes of corruption and had their homes confiscated. They were either imprisoned or exiled.
Only the two high-ranking officials did not lose their lives. Instead, they were stripped of all their cultivation and thrown into this temple to practice hard.
The King of Daxia at that time said in person: They were not allowed to commit suicide, otherwise they would kill every one of his clansmen in the world!
They are not allowed to step out of the temple, otherwise they will break the legs of all the tribesmen and make them kneel forever for the rest of their lives!
In order to make ends meet, the two senior officials endured all kinds of hardships:
Want to eat? If you can’t buy it, grow your own vegetables and pick your own fruits!
Want to sleep? There is no box bed, so just lay some withered grass as a bed quilt in this ruined temple!
Under such circumstances, the two corrupt officials struggled to survive for three months, but in the end they still failed to escape the mouth of the mysterious beast. They died without leaving a complete skeleton, let alone a decent tombstone.
Already.
Since then, the unhealthy trend of corruption in the Daxia officialdom has been greatly reduced. This originally unknown ruined temple was named after the surnames of the two corrupt officials. It was intended to warn future officials: Don't be corrupt, otherwise Xi, Xiang Er
People's sufferings of yesterday are your worries of tomorrow!
After Chen Hu tied up the carriage, the three of them climbed up the steps and soon entered the ruined temple worship hall.
Although the temple is in dilapidated condition, it occupies a large area. Taking the altar as an example, it is at least three hundred square meters.
The Buddha's golden body has long been gone on the altar, and even the incense burner is missing. The walls of the entire altar are covered with spider webs, and every corner is covered with spider webs. There are only six cold pillars in the huge space.
Standing there quietly.
"Where is Zhang Tiande? I, Chen Hu, have come to see you to fulfill my promise!" the young man yelled.
"It turns out it's brother Chen Hu. We haven't seen each other for almost a year. I thought you had forgotten our agreement!"
As a rough voice sounded, a burly man wearing black clothes and a bamboo hat jumped out of the back hall.
He also carried a roast chicken in his left hand and two wine gourds in his right hand. He strode up to the three of them and glanced away from the little princess, only looking at Chen Shen.
After staring for a moment, the man whose face was half covered by a bamboo hat pretended to count with his fingers, and then he chuckled and said: "My little brother's brain was impacted by the fire element's mysterious energy, and he was kicked by someone.
, right?”
"Doctor Zhang is really smart!" Chen Hu complimented with a surprised look on his face.
The little princess was also surprised: "Huh? With just one look, you can know why the bad guy Shen was injured without checking his pulse. This Tiande is really powerful."
Chen Shen himself just stood there dumbfounded and said nothing, already cursing in his heart: "Pretend, keep pretending. Chen Hu must have told you this. The two of them colluded to play a double act in front of me, thinking I can't see it?"
Then, the young man's soul moved secretly, and his powerful yet secretive consciousness spread out. He carefully scanned everything in the temple's altar, and found that except for Zhang Tiande, who was pretending to be a miracle doctor in front of him,
As well as Chen Hu, the little princess and a few others, there is no breath of any living thing.
"Could it be that this pseudo-miraculous doctor in front of me is all Chen Hu relies on when he plans to murder me? It's too thin..." Chen Shen thought to himself: "Forget it, after all, the soldiers will block it, and the water will cover it, but I want to
Let’s see what you are capable of?”
In this way, one party is interested in watching the show, and the other party is fully engaged in acting. We are obviously enemies who will not stop fighting, but we are both making peace at this time.
"Doctor Zhang, since you have seen the crux of my young master's problem, is there any way to cure it?"
"What's so difficult about this?" Zhang Tiande continued to pretend: "But you also saw that I was preparing to have a meal. I have a principle: I don't treat illnesses while eating. If I want me to help this kid heal, at least I have to
Let’s talk about it after we finish our meal.”
"This... okay!" Chen Hu pretended to hesitate, and then nodded helplessly, then he leaned into the little princess's ear and said quietly: "Everyone with extraordinary abilities often has some quirks, please give me some advice.
Your Highness, please bear with me and wait for a while, please?"
"Hmph!" Xia Qingchan, with her pouty lips, snorted coldly as her acquiescence.
Next, Zhang Tiande grabbed the fragrant roast chicken in his left hand and a wine gourd in his right hand, and started eating and drinking.
He finished one wine gourd and picked up the second one.
But this time, Zhang Tiande just opened the cork of the bottle, then shouted "Ouch", as if his hand had slipped, and threw the entire gourd towards Chen Shen...