38 rounds of cannon fire at Chen Daozi

  Zhang brothers listened, all waiting for Wu Song's instructions. Gong Sun secretly looked at him and saw that Wu Song glanced over, his eyes dodging for a moment, his face suddenly turned red, and he lowered his head without saying a word. But Li Erniang threw flirtatious glances at Wu Song, making him extremely annoyed: "What medicine did this woman take today?"

  At that time, Shi Xi's daughter unexpectedly found Chen Liqin who had lost her way, and held her in her arms, tempting her with a sugar gourd. The little girl was extremely cautious this time, hesitating whether to accept the sugar gourd that had been drugged. Wu Song remembered the woman's profession and hastily asked the butler to take Chen Liqin away, saying: "This major event is just to test your skills." He led everyone to the backyard, pointing at fifty barrels of gunpowder, saying: "Can you all secretly hide these gunpowders under the house of Chen Hixin in Beixie Alley without anyone knowing?"

  Those seven or eight people exchanged a glance, and smiled: "I thought the master was letting us do some good deeds. This kind of thing has never been done by men and women before, but they have done many things like stealing chickens and dogs."

  With a loud "peng" sound, he opened his folding fan and laughed: "We are the masters of our own house, not good at other things, but in order to collect money, we have all learned the art of moving five ghosts. We can take out official silver from the treasury and enjoy it. This matter doesn't need many people, just the student and the three Zhang brothers are enough. In a moment, these fire medicine can be moved away."

  Wu Song was overjoyed and immediately had the three men use their Five Ghosts Carrying Technique. He thought to himself, "If Chen Xizhen is not eliminated, he will be a great threat in the future. Moreover, as a member of Mount Dragon Tiger, he is likely a Taoist priest sent by the Heavenly Master Sect to guard the dragon's pulse. If we get rid of him, our path forward will be much smoother."

  Tang Duan and Zhang Da Niu, Zhang Er Niu immediately cast their spells, but saw fifty barrels of fiery medicine suddenly enveloped in a hazy blue mist, fifteen small green-skinned goblins with sharp teeth standing in the mist, without legs or feet, only half of their bodies visible.

  Those little demons chattered and shouted, saying something unknown. Suddenly a strong little demon rushed out and roared at the others, who immediately stopped making noise, their eyes darting back and forth in fear. The strong little demon stepped forward, shouting at the three of them, and Tang Jun immediately responded with shouts of his own. The two of them chattered away in demonic language, seemingly discussing something, but ultimately unable to come to an agreement.

  After the two of them talked for half a day, they finally reluctantly reached an agreement. Those little green goblins giggled and one by one burrowed underground. Then, the fire buckets suddenly disappeared one by one.

  Wu Song was shocked and exclaimed, "Yan Wang is easy to see but the little ghosts are hard to deal with. These creatures live in the underworld and are monsters, although they're called little ghosts, they're not ghostly spirits. They're cunning and like to eat humans, but can't eat living people, so they need others to offer sacrifices. Every time we summon these little ghosts, they extort some human flesh from us. This time, they demanded fifteen! Their math is bad, usually one corpse could easily fool them in the past, but today an old ghost came and it was hard for the students to negotiate a lower price. They finally agreed to give them five people to eat, and after killing the Buddhist monk, they would hand over those corpses to them."

  "The little ghosts will help you with things, but they'll follow you around until you give them the offerings. If you don't give them what you promised, they'll make trouble for you, take all your money and possessions, even your underwear, and they're very vengeful, seeking revenge for three years!" The two brothers were still fuming, clearly having owed wages to the little ghosts before and being toyed with by those little guys for three years.

  Wu Song exclaimed in surprise, listening to their tone, there was still a world of yin and yang, where many strange creatures existed, and even allowed the masters to summon them, but it was unknown whether they could summon powerful monsters.

  This group of defeated Taoist priests followed Wu Song up to the attic of the Tianji Pavilion, standing on the floor, overlooking the Beixie Alley. After a while, those little ghosts moved fifty barrels of fire medicine. Wu Song took out a lighter and threw it at that old ghost.

  That old devil lightly shook the fire starter, and it instantly caught fire. He hastily blew it out, let out a hiss, and burrowed into the ground. Not long after, those little devils covered their ears one after another. Suddenly, a house in the Evil-Expelling Alley flew up into the air, split into countless fragments, and then flames burst forth, with thick black smoke billowing and shooting up several dozen meters high!

  Wu Song's heart was filled with joy and anger, he clapped his hands and laughed loudly, saying: "Finally solved the old troublemaker Chen Daizi, from now on I can rest easy!"

  Just then, the building shook violently with a loud creaking sound, and it was clear that this explosion was extremely intense!

  The ground shook and then the explosion came, shaking my ears with a buzzing sound. But amidst the explosion, there were other sounds, like the tolling of a giant bell, its deep reverberations unceasing!

  Wu Song and several evil practitioners changed color, were shocked by the bell sound, and hurriedly looked towards the Beixie Alley. They saw that the thick smoke suddenly disappeared, and everyone looked at each other in dismay. Then they sent out a little ghost to investigate, and the little ghost came back, gesturing and chattering for half a day, squeaking incessantly.

  "He said that the explosion site was pressing down a large, glittering golden bell, which had extinguished the surrounding fire. There were people under the bell, but there was no movement for half a day."

  Wu Song said, "It must be that Chen the traitor used his magic bell to protect himself, but was stunned to death." He drew out his Huan Zhang treasure sword and jumped down from the building, taking big strides as he rushed out, jumping back and forth on the rooftops of the streets and alleys, heading straight for Bi Xie Alley. The evil Taoist priests of Tianji Temple immediately followed suit, chasing after him with all their might, but they couldn't keep up with Wu Song's speed, except for Yang Jiaolong who rose into the air like a wisp of smoke, floating and fluttering to appear beside Wu Song.

  "Second Brother, why must you drive Chen Xiuzhen to her death? Are you not afraid that Liqing will hate you?"

  Wu Song's face sank, and he snorted: "This man is dead, and Lijiang actually wants to thank me. The Five Thunderbolt Seal that night was a great spell, it was this old thief Chen who cast the spell. If we don't get rid of him now, when we fight against the Western Xia's sorcerers, he will stab us in the back with a knife, who can withstand it?"

  Two people arrived at Pixie Alley, only to see the neighbors of Pixie Alley surrounding Chen's residence and watching, with water overflowing and discussions in full swing. The two squeezed in, and indeed saw a large bell with a diameter of over ten zhang, pressed down on the middle of Chen's residence, the land under the bell had long since turned into a huge pit, even blasting out spring water, gathering into a small pool.

  That big golden bell was in the water, humming a low hum, ripples splashing, spreading out in circles all around.

  Wu Song and Yang Zong exchanged a glance, both seeing the horror and fear in each other's eyes. This bell, which could remain unscathed in fifty buckets of fiery oil, was truly a rare treasure.

  Li Erniang and the others followed, saw this big bell, eyes lit up, shouted: "Jiuyang Bell of Longhushan!" Rushed to that big bell!

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  Sorry for the late update