Chapter Twenty-Three: The Primordial Spirit
"Then what should we do now?" Li Chuyi scratched his head, "People can't go, I'll let the purple kite come out and try?"
The Taoist priest nodded and said, "Yes, let her come out and try it." Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info”
As soon as Li Chuyi took out the Demon Mirror from his arms, he closed his meditation and read half a salary, and saw a purple mist drifting by, gradually condensing into a beautiful shadow, which was the purple kite.
Li Chuyi didn't talk nonsense, and quickly told Purple Kite about the situation, and after speaking, Purple Kite looked at the two and nodded, and said, "No problem, I'll try." ”
A cold breeze blew, and the purple kite floated towards the staircase where the ashes were piled up, looked at it, and then stepped up. When her jade feet stepped on the first floor, the stairs did not drift like when Fang Cai Li stepped on it, but steadily supported the steps of the purple kite.
Li Chuyi suddenly became excited, but before he could speak out happily, he saw a dark green light burst out from where the purple kite stepped on, and the purple kite let out a painful cry of "ah", and was knocked out by this light.
Seeing the pain on the face of the purple kite as she got up, the foot that was hit by the dark light turned into a cloud of purple mist that could not be condensed for a long time, Li Chuyi knew that she was injured, and it was probably not lightly injured, so that even the injured position could not be condensed.
"How can this be?" Li Chuyi looked at the purple kite and asked blankly.
The Taoist priest said in a low voice: "It should be the problem of this corpse dust." As I said earlier, this corpse dust has been sacrificed, and it seems that the result of this sacrifice is not only that this corpse dust can be turned into a staircase to the fifth floor, but also that some prohibitions have been added that I am not aware of. ”
"That's right!" Purple Kite walked over and said, "I don't know what that green dark light is, it actually directly hurt my soul body. If I hadn't been fully formed, I guess I would have been injured more than that when I stepped on that first floor. ”
Turning his head to look at Li Chuyi, who was stunned on the side, Purple Kite added: "If they can't even complete the condensation like the five little ghosts, it is estimated that this first layer can completely disperse them, and even damage the spiritual intelligence." ”
Li Chuyi scratched his ears and cheeks for a long time, wanting to help the purple kite heal but didn't know what to do, and wanted to help the Taoist priest think of ideas but really couldn't think of any other good way, held back for a long time, and asked a little frustratedly: "Master, what should we do?"
The Taoist priest had been thinking about something since he was just now, and when he heard Li Chuyi say this, he came back to his senses. He shook his head and said, "Don't worry, there is another way to try, if it doesn't work, we will do what you said, and we will come back when the purple kite cultivation is high." ”
"What way?" As soon as Li Chu looked at the Taoist priest, he knew that the Taoist priest must have a lot of followers.
The Taoist priest looked at him, then turned his head to look at the purple kite that was frowning and wanted to recondense the feet of a cloud of purple mist, pondered for a moment, and said in a low voice: "You can try the Yuan Shen out of the body and use the Yuan Shen to climb these five layers." ”
"Out of the body?!" Li Chuyi's eyes widened.
The Taoist priest nodded and said, "That's right! The purple kite has already proved my previous guess, this staircase is not for living creatures, but for spirits like ghost cultivators. One of the reasons why she was beaten down was because we didn't have a way to break the ban, so forcing a breakthrough would trigger a counterattack against the ban. Another reason is that the purple kite's cultivation is too low, and it can't use its own mana. This is actually the same as the first reason, if you want to go upstairs, either you have a way to break the ban, or you have to be skilled enough, and you can break the law all the way. ”
Turning his head to look at the one person and one ghost who were listening carefully, the Taoist priest continued: "Although the purple kite's cultivation is not hard enough, but the cultivation of the teacher is definitely possible. Moreover, the monk's primordial spirit is cultivated from his own soul, and strictly speaking, it can be regarded as a kind of ghost, but it is just contaminated with vitality. Then we might as well try it and see if we can get through the trick and break through with the primordial gods!"
Speaking of this, the Taoist priest chuckled proudly and whispered: "Even if the Yuan Shen can't break through, there is another way to be a teacher, maybe you can get through the trick." In short, we have come this far, and we must try everything we can try!"
Li Chuyi wanted to ask the Taoist priest what the last method was, but when he saw that the Taoist priest simply mentioned it, he kept silent, so he gave up his mind to ask. With his understanding of the Taoist priest, if the Taoist priest wants to say it, he will definitely tell him, but if the Taoist priest doesn't want to say it, then he will ask in vain.
Signaling Li Chuyi and the purple kite to retreat a little, the Taoist priest sat down cross-legged on the dusty ground, silently breathed for a long time, his face shook slightly, and he saw a figure float out from the top of the Taoist priest's head and slowly fell beside the Taoist priest.
Looking at the figure in front of him, which was exactly the same as the Taoist priest in terms of appearance and clothing, but the body was slightly transparent, Li Chuyi knew that this was the Taoist priest's original spirit.
Li Chuyi is also the first time to see a person's Yuan Shen out of his body, in the past, he had only heard Taoist priests mention that he knew that powerful monks could leave his body and hurt the enemy thousands of miles away when he cultivated his Yuan Shen to a certain extent. The detached spirit can move within a certain range around the physical body, and the time and scope of the detached spirit depends on the monk's degree of cultivation.
At the same time, Li Chuyi also knew that the physical body of a monk who was out of his body was the most vulnerable, and he also needed to hide and protect the most. After the original spirit is out of the body, the monk's physical body is in a state of suspended animation, and there is no sensory response except for breathing. If it is discovered and destroyed by the enemy at this time, the floating Yuan Shen will have no physical body to return, and if you are lucky, you can be reborn or cultivate into a ghost, and if you are unlucky, when the time comes, the Yuan Shen will collapse and re-enter the cycle of reincarnation. And the most tragic thing is to be captured by some monks who practice evil exercises, and use the Yuan Shen to sacrifice their magic weapons, then they don't even have the right to reincarnation, and can only suffer in the magic weapon for eternity.
At this time, the Taoist priest did not say a word on the spot, one was limited by the conditions, and there was no place to hide, and the other was out of trust in Li Chuyi, especially the purple kite, so that he could rest assured.
Li Chuyi looked at this "Second Daoist" excitedly, looked at his slightly transparent body, and couldn't help but stretch out his fingers, wanting to poke and poke to see if there was a real feeling. At the moment when his fingers were about to poke, two cold gazes fell on him, looking at the knife-like eyes of the Taoist priest, Li Chu smiled wryly, withdrew his hand and bowed his head to stand silently.
Glaring back at Li Chuyi, the Taoist priest shook his head helplessly, and was speechless for such an apprentice. Looking up at them, the Taoist priest said, "You two take care of my body, and I'll go and find out." With that, he turned into a white light and flew towards the ashes staircase.
At the moment when the Taoist priest flew to the stairs, the green mangs were magnificent, several times stronger than when the purple kite had just ascended the stairs, and I saw that this green mangs shot towards the Taoist, and before he got close, he was blocked by a golden light shield around the Taoist priest.
The Taoist priest is not a purple kite, how can he be helpless by the counterattack of the ban? I saw that the Taoist priest didn't look at this green mang, and flew all the way up, and in the blink of an eye, he was halfway away. And as the Taoist priest walked higher and higher, the green rays shot from the stairs became stronger and denser. Countless green rays bombarded the light mask that protected the Taoist priest, and Rao is light shield was extremely strong, but it was also compressed by this endless attack and became smaller and smaller. By the time the Taoist priest had walked four-fifths of the way up the stairs, the light shield was already extremely thin, almost clinging to the priest's body.
Li Chuyi certainly looked at the cold sweat, and the purple kite also secretly clenched his hands. Seeing that there was only a thin layer left in the Taoist priest's talisman shield, Li Chuyi couldn't help but shout: "Master, if it doesn't work, let's withdraw it first, leave the green mountains here, don't be afraid of no firewood, it's a big deal, let's start all over again, eighteen years later, it's a good man again, no, it's sixty years!"
When the Taoist priest in the middle of the sky heard this, his eyebrows suddenly frowned, and he couldn't help but scold: "What nonsense is the little rabbit cub talking about? Shut up Lao Tzu and stay there honestly!"
In a blink of an eye, looking at more and more green mangs, the Taoist priest raised his eyebrows, and said coldly: "Hmph! If the old monster of Wuyang is alive, Poor Dao still has to be careful with him, but he is already a dead ghost, and the mere formation prohibition left behind dares to block the avenue of Poor Dao?!"
"Open it for me!" pinched a seal in his hand, and the Taoist priest roared angrily.
With the roar of the Taoist priest, I saw bursts of black and gray billowing smoke diffuse from all over the Taoist priest's body, and the almost solidified dead air emitted by the smoke made Li Chuyi, not to mention Li Chuyi, even the purple kite on the side felt disgusted and bored, and was very sad.
The smoke of this evil sect, which was more evil than evil skills, made Li Chuyi stunned on the spot, and before he could figure out how a Taoist priest who had always been decent could practice such evil techniques, he saw the figure of the Taoist priest transformed by the Yuan God trembling in the sky.
Cluck~~
There was a sound like ice cracking, and a crack suddenly opened on the body of the Taoist priest Yuan Shen, and nothing could be seen in the black and faint crack.
Gurrah~~Gurrah~~~
The cracking sound didn't stop. As the voices increased, there were more and more black cracks on the Taoist priest's body, and his body trembled more and more.
With the last loud "click", the Taoist priest's body stopped shaking, but except for a little left thigh, the entire left half of his body disappeared with a small half of his left face, and the right side of his body was also full of black cracks. And the fracture where the left body disappeared, there was no flesh and blood visible, but like those cracks, there was only a black and faint void, which made people shudder.
"Master, Master?" Li Chuyi called out in a daze.
The Taoist priest did not respond. He looked at his missing body, frowned slightly, and waved at the black smoke that was circling around his body, and saw that the black smoke that emitted an indissolvable dead air suddenly churned, wrapping the Taoist priest layer by layer.
When the last trace of the Taoist priest's figure disappeared into the black smoke, the endless green light on the stairs suddenly stopped, and dissipated in a blink of an eye, as if it had never appeared. The Taoist priest was wrapped in black smoke and flew towards the end of the stairs. At the junction of the stairs and the roof, there was a flash of ghostly light, and the Taoist priest disappeared with black smoke.
Li Chuyi slowly turned his frozen neck and looked at the purple kite, who also turned his head to look at him.
Silently, Li Chuyi asked a little hoarsely, "How can this be?"
Purple Kite looked at Li Chuyi with a blank face, not knowing how to answer him. After being silent for a long time, the purple kite opened his mouth and said: "I don't know why this is happening, I only know that the black smoke emitted from your master's body should be extremely dense and dead, even richer than the deathly qi in the mirror where I hid before." That dead breath is that even I dare not touch it easily, I feel that it can assimilate me. ”
Li Chuyi was silent. Of course, he felt the power of that dead air. But he couldn't understand how such a Taoist priest who liked to drink, visit Qinglou, like food, and like all the fireworks in the world could practice such an evil sect? Could it be that a Taoist priest was also a cult monk?
After thinking about it, Li Chuyi suddenly had a flash of inspiration, and thought of a special kind of monk mentioned by the Taoist priest before--the living dead! The living refine the soul of the dead, in a vain attempt to crack life and death, so as to achieve enlightenment. Could it be that the Taoist priest is also practicing this anti-heaven exercise?
The more Li Chuyi thought about it, the more he realized that it was possible. First of all, the Taoist priest treats any monk equally, and there is no distinction between good and evil in his heart, only what he is used to seeing and not being used to; secondly, the Taoist priest has a profound mana, and he is not even afraid of the catastrophe, and even roars out of his voice, it must be because the way of cultivating life and death makes the sky thunder split more, and gives the experience of splitting; finally, and most importantly, the Taoist priest likes the night the most, and the Taoist priest also likes to visit the Qinglou the most, because the yin is strong at night, and the Qinglou is a place where the yin qi is extremely heavy, and there is even some resentment in it, isn't this exactly what zombies like? Although zombies are not the same as the living dead, they should not be much different. I don't know if the Taoist priest will need to suck blood like a zombie at the end, and then suck himself dry.
The more Li Chuyi pondered, the more he realized that he had guessed correctly, and in his thoughts, his face flickered brightly and darkly, and he was happy and sad. The purple kite on the side frowned and looked at him, thinking that he was too stimulated and wanted to lose his mind.
Syllable!
A crisp sound sounded, Li Chuyi covered his face, looked at the purple kite angrily and said angrily, "What are you doing?"
"I'm saving you. Purple Kite said lightly.
"Save me? You save a yarn! You slap me and tell me that this is to save me? You are stupid? I also want to save you ten times and eight times, okay?" Li Chuyi's tears came out of his eyes, he was too bullying!
"You just looked wrong, like you were crazy, and I slapped you to wake you up, so that you wouldn't be really crazy. Purple Kite still spoke in that light tone.
Li Chuyi on the other side had already rolled his eyes. Why, it's rare for me to think about it seriously, and I was let think of it as crazy, and I slapped myself in the face, how can this be reasonable? This girl can't be a lie, right?
Turning his head and looking at the purple kite's expression carefully, he found that she was serious, Li Chuyi sighed sadly, knowing that this time there was no way to get it back.
Hey, this slap is in vain!
Purple Kite looked at Li Chuyi, who was covering his face and looking resentful, thought about it, frowned, and asked, "Aren't you crazy?"
Li Chu looked at her with tears in his eyes. Is this chick really stupid or fake stupid?!
Seeing that Li Chuyi didn't speak, but just looked at himself with tears in his eyes, Zi Kite also knew that it was really a misunderstanding, and a trace of embarrassment appeared on her pale little face.
I wanted to apologize, but I never gave humility to others. After thinking for a long time, Purple Kite stretched her little face forward and stretched it out in front of Li Chuyi.
"What do you mean?" Li Chuyi made her a little confused.
"Let you call back. Purple Kite said lightly, staring at Li Chuyi with straight eyes.
Li Chuyi burst into tears. Is this girl really stupid or fake stupid?!Is this the rhythm of playing to death?!Just make a mistake and don't apologize, anyway, she also has good intentions, everyone will be over as if it didn't happen. It's good, and I stretched out my face to let myself fight back, I'll go, don't talk about such a beautiful female ghost, even if it's an ugly female ghost, I can't do it myself!
No, ugly female ghosts don't necessarily can't do it themselves. Li Chuyi muttered secretly in his heart.
After waiting for a long time, Purple Kite saw Li Chuyi looking at herself stunned, and didn't move, frowned and asked, "Do you fight?" ”
Which teacher taught the truth?
Li Chuyi had tears in his eyes and said in a trembling voice: "Eldest sister, I was wrong, don't play with me." You beat me for my own good, even if I hit it wrong, how can I call back!"
Wiping his tears, Li Chuyi continued: "I wasn't crazy just now, I was guessing why my master was covered in black smoke like a big chimney!"
The purple kite retracted its figure and asked, "Why?"
Li Chuyi hurriedly told her his guess, and looked at her with sparkling eyes after speaking.
After hearing this, the purple kite did not speak immediately, but pondered silently for a while before speaking: "I think most of your views are correct. However, there is one problem that cannot be explained. ”
"What's the problem?" Li Chuyi was stunned.
"After the black smoke appeared, why was your master's primordial spirit incomplete?"
Purple Kite looked at Li Chuyi and asked, "Although I am not very proficient in cultivation, I understand a truth, whether it is our ghost or the monk's primordial spirit, it should be intact." If there is a mutilation, it is incomplete, and it means that it is injured. Your master's primordial spirit was intact at the beginning, but after the death qi appeared in the back, he was covered with scars, and even half of his body was left, I felt that the black qi was not cultivated by your master, but it seemed to be a thing that damaged his primordial spirit. ”
When Li Chu heard this, he was immediately silent. If you think about it carefully, what Purple Kite said is also very reasonable. According to his own understanding of Taoist priests, a prodigal person who loves stinky beauty and pays attention to appearance like a Taoist priest should not practice this kind of evil skill that damages his original spirit to ugliness and horror. But if this dead qi is not cultivated by a Taoist priest, then what is it that can hurt a god-like Taoist priest in his heart like this?
Puzzled, the more Li Chuyi thought about it, the more bored he became. Thinking of the end, yelling "I don't want to". Since you can't figure it out, it's good to wait for the Taoist priest to come back and ask him, so why bother yourself. If the Taoist priest doesn't say it, it doesn't matter, anyway, he knows that he saved himself since he was a child, raised himself little by little, and taught himself to cultivate as a Taoist priest, and the rest doesn't matter.
After figuring it out, Li Chuyi meditated with his eyes closed beside the Taoist priest and waited for the Taoist priest to return.