Chapter 81: Chunmei (I)
Chapter 81: Chunmei (I)
In the dark night, the moon is dark and the wind is high, and you can't see your fingers.
"Boom ......"
Suddenly, lightning streaked across the sky, and a thunderclap woke up the dark night.
Next to the lotus pond in the mansion of the city lord of Guanping City, is the wing room where the maids live. Chunmei lives in the innermost side room in the south, which is very close to the lotus pond, less than ten steps away.
Because she was young, she was often bullied by other people in the house, and she was busy in the house every day, and she was arranged to do a lot of work, so she slept late every night.
At this time, the heavy rain is coming, lightning and thunder are roaring, and you can faintly hear gusts of cold wind, blowing the earth, blowing the leaves crazy, and the doors and windows shaking.
Chunmei, who had just laid down, listened to the movement outside the room, and was so frightened that she hid in the quilt, trembling, and felt stunned for a while.
It didn't take long for the sound of ticking rain to sound on the roof, which was small at first, but gradually grew bigger and bigger, smashing the roof tiles and exploding.
"Why is it raining so suddenly, how is this good?" Hearing that it was raining heavily outside the house, Chunmei panicked in her heart.
Outside, thunder and lightning and heavy rain were dripping. In the dark rain curtain, a figure on the opposite bank of the lotus pond, under a willow tree with teeth and claws, was standing quietly watching the rain.
He didn't have an umbrella, and his black robe was soaked by the cold rain, and it was like water sticking to his body. At the moment of lightning, under the light of the miserable white lightning, he was thin and lonely.
Chunmei here, hesitated again and again in the quilt, and finally had no choice, so she had to get up and get dressed, find a tarpaulin umbrella, shrank her slender body, and opened the door tremblingly.
Suddenly, a stream of cold wind, wrapped in even colder rain, came towards her, almost blowing her to the ground.
Facing the demonic wind and demon rain outside the house, Chunmei struggled for a moment and stubbornly rushed out. She spread out her umbrella and made her way to a courtyard in terror.
This is a place to dry clothes, and when Chunmei entered, she found that the empty courtyard was already in disarray. The rows of bamboo poles that were originally erected fell to the ground at this time, and all kinds of clothes were scattered and soaked in the sewage and sediment, and they could no longer distinguish their original colors.
At this moment, the relentless rain is hitting them, making a snap~pop sound, as if they are crying.
When Chunmei saw this, she suddenly fell to the ground and began to cry.
The umbrella that she discarded rolled to the side, and the cold rain instantly drenched Chunmei, but she didn't realize it. After crying sadly for a while, she slumped up weakly and silently went to pick up the scattered clothes.
There are a lot of clothes, and in the dark, you can't see the quality of the fabric. After soaking in sewage and sediment, they are filthy, dirty, and heavy.
Chunmei struggled to hold a pile of clothes and walked towards an old well in the corner of the courtyard, where she put them in a large wooden basin next to the old well. After going back and forth and walking no less than five times, she collected all the clothes that had fallen down.
After doing all this, Chunmei was already half tired to death, she dragged her heavy body, and went to the old well again, ready to fetch some water, so that the dirty clothes could be washed again.
But when she fetched water, the man was exhausted, staggered and fell, and fell headlong into the old well.
"Puff ......"
The sound of her falling into the water, dull and abrupt, quickly disappeared into the thunderstorm......
Silence returned to the surroundings of the old well, except for the lightning that appeared from time to time, the thunder that shook the sky, and the sound of rain that filled the sky drowned out all the strange noises between heaven and earth.
I don't know how long it took, when Chunmei woke up again, she found herself lying in the warm bed. She just wanted to get up, but she was surprised to find that she was naked, and her clothes, at some point, were taken off......
"Are you awake?"
Just when she was panicking and panicking, a gentle voice came.
Chunmei hurriedly went to look, but it was a man in a black robe, who walked over without a sound.
"Are you?" After Chunmei saw it, she hurriedly wrapped the quilt tightly, and her face turned pale.
"What's your name?" The man in the black robe was the son of the city lord of Guanping City, the captain of the south of the city, Li Yiyi.
"My name is Chunmei...... Chunmei said tremblingly, not daring to look at him.
After Li Yiyi heard this, he fell into silence and did not speak for a while, just looked at Chunmei quietly.
After a long silence, Li Yiyi turned around and brought a small bowl.
"Don't be afraid, this is my secret room, it's very warm, you just got wet from the rain, you suffered a little bit of wind cold, and your body is still very weak, you came to drink it..."
Chunmei didn't know what was in that bowl, so she dared to pick it up, and besides, she was still **, and it was inconvenient to get up.
"This is the ginger soup I just boiled, and you drank it. ”
Chunmei had a strange expression on her face when she heard that it was ginger soup, but at this time, she hadn't figured out what was going on.
She only remembered that when she had just finished collecting her clothes and was about to fetch water in the old well, she accidentally fell into it, and she fainted when she fell into the water, how did she wake up and get here?
Where is this? Who is the other party? all kinds of questions, plus why is she naked now, and where have her clothes gone...... Wait, this series of doubts made her flustered and afraid.
"Am I dead?" After saying this, Chunmei was startled by herself.
She was not sure if she was still alive, because the courtyard where the clothes were drying would not have been visited on a stormy night, and the old well she had fallen into was still extremely deep.
She knows better than anyone who is in the house, she is just a humble rough girl who can't be more humble, no one will take the initiative to save herself, and it is not worth them to do.
"You're just a little cold, come and drink some ......"
Li Yiyi smiled at Chunmei Wen and smiled kindly, took the ginger soup, scooped some soup with a delicate spoon, and fed it to her mouth.
The sudden situation, the unfamiliar environment, and the unfamiliar man made Chunmei feel a little unreal. It's hard for her to understand, it's hard to accept, but her body is weak and weak, and she can't resist at all.
When feeding Chunmei soup, Li Yiyi said: "Don't be afraid, I won't hurt you..."
Chunmei listened, didn't speak, just wrapped the quilt tighter and tighter.
"You're a lot like my lady..."
As soon as this sentence came out, Chunmei's mind boomed, like something was broken. There was a buzzing sound, and a deep fear, like an invisible hand, grabbed her already flustered and floating heart in her hand.
"What, am I terrible?" Li Yiyi smiled softly when she saw that she was terrified.
Chunmei nodded subconsciously, as if she felt that something was wrong again, and quickly shook her head again.
Li Yiyi smiled and didn't care. After feeding Chunmei and drinking ginger soup, he walked to a pool, looked at his reflection in the pool, and couldn't help but smile dumbly, and said, "This look, no wonder you don't like it." ”
After speaking, the black robe on his body was flooded with black mist, and soon his figure was completely wrapped in it.
After the blink of an eye, the black fog dissipated, and Li Yiyi had already changed his appearance.
In addition to his body and face, the black robe on his body has turned into a snow-white robe, with black silk, which is scattered on his shoulders as always. The temperament of the whole person has changed in an instant, compared to before, it is really like two people.
Chunmei looked at his strange change of clothes, she was weak, and she almost fainted again under extreme terror.
"Don't be afraid, it's not much better now. ”
Li Yiyi was beside the pool, admiring his new appearance, and nodded with satisfaction.
Chunmei looked at him in horror and asked tremblingly, "Are you human?"
"Of course I'm human, but I'm not an ordinary mortal. ”
"And who are?" Chunmei obviously didn't understand the meaning of his words, and shrank up.
"I'm a monk......"
"What?"
Li Yiyi saw that she was puzzled, and hid her figure, and the person disappeared.
Seeing this, Chunmei shouted, "Ghost!" Then, her eyes turned black and she fainted.
After Li Yi and the others reappeared, seeing that Chunmei had fainted, the tenderness in his eyes was undiminished, and he walked over and lifted the quilt......
But at this moment, before Li Yiyi could take action, a simple and dilapidated oil lamp suddenly flew out of his body, which was the magic weapon he got, the Soul Gathering Lamp.
On the wick of the bean, in the green flame, an old voice sounded: "I said boy! Don't scare other little girls!"
"Ancestor ......"
When Li Yiyi saw the soul gathering lamp, he flew out on his own and hurriedly bowed and saluted.
"Now, the soul pill in your body has just been formed, and you still need to practice diligently, how can you destroy your state of mind for the sake of this woman? ”
The voice in the soul lamp sounded again, and there was some blame in his tone.
"Ancestor, what I said is that the disciple just saw her and remembered the woman he knew before, and on a whim, I couldn't help it. ”
"Those of us who cultivate the truth and ask the Tao should have practiced quietly and stuck to our original hearts, and we should not be greedy for momentary pleasures and misunderstandings, and distract our minds...... You see, old man, although I used to be an old beggar, and I was precarious all day long, how could I cultivate a peerless exercise? Later, I founded the Ghost Vein Sect and became a generation of founding patriarchs of the Megatron sect, can you imagine why?"
The owner of this voice turned out to be a wisp of remnant soul in this soul-gathering lamp, but it was the founding patriarch of the Ghost Vein Sect, the Wulan Venerable.
"But I heard the old ancestor come here. After hearing this, Li Yiyi was overjoyed, and bowed to the soul gathering lamp.
In the light, the Venerable Master said, "The old man had bad luck back then, and when he was over half a hundred years old, he met a ghost cultivator, so that he could have a flash of inspiration, comprehend a trace of ghost path, and cultivate an indispensable ghost path cultivation. However, in this world, the most important thing is strength, and with absolute strength, you can gain a foothold, so later, the old man founded the Ghost Vein Sect. ”
What the Master said was true, his life was full of ups and downs, and he experienced countless hardships from childhood to adulthood, and suffered many inhuman treatments.
When he was over half a hundred years old, due to the ruin of his family and his loneliness, he had no choice but to live a life of escape, begging everywhere and begging for food.
One day, while begging on the street, he was taken in as an apprentice by a wandering Taoist priest passing by. Since then, he has traveled around with this Taoist priest and began to comprehend the Tao Xuan, hoping to get rid of the sea of mortal suffering.
This wandering Taoist priest, who claimed to be a true person of Qizhi, originally belonged to a Xiuzhen sect in the territory of Yunfu Kingdom, the elder of Xuanyuanmen, because he violated the precepts of the sect, he was erased from the status of an elder and driven out of Xuanyuanmen.
This is also the pain of Qizhi Zhenren's life, how many days and nights of regret, how many times of self-blame and guilt, and finally in his heart, brewed into a heart disease, and bred demons.
If the cultivators are disturbed by the demons all day long, and the cultivation is regressive, how can they continue to improve.
In addition to his tireless practice, he also had to help his master from time to time to overcome each recurrence of his demons, and prevent Qizhi Zhenren from being devoured by his demons and ending up with a ruined cultivation.
After following the master for a long time, the Venerable Master gradually understood that in addition to valuing his talents, Qizhi Zhenren accepted him as an apprentice, and on the surface, as he said, it was to help him restrain his inner demons, but in fact, he had bad intentions.
The reason for this is that Qizhi Zhenren was expelled from Xuanyuan Gate because he accidentally got a magic weapon, a simple and dilapidated oil lamp, and a soul-gathering lamp.
During a retreat, when refining this magic weapon, he accidentally went mad and inexplicably attracted an extraterritorial ghost, who was brainwashed by him, and after signing a contract, he switched to the ghost path.
The extraterritorial heavenly ghost once said to him: Ghost Dao exercises, cultivators need to use the spirits and yin spirits of others as a guide, gather souls and refine souls, refine into yin soul qi, and absorb the true yin spiritual power in it.
For this reason, Qizhi Zhenren made the Xuanyuan Gate at that time often disappear the disciples in the door for no reason. Later, after the East Window Incident, he was defeated by many high-ranking monks of Xuanyuan Gate, and escaped after being seriously injured. Since then, he has lived a life as a fugitive.
In order to keep his life alive and avoid the pursuit of Xuanyuanmen, Qizhi Zhenren had to hide everywhere. In addition to dying, he also looked for someone who could support his life, taught him the exercises of his own inheritance, and when the time was ripe, he smelted the yin soul of others, and used the secret method of transferring flowers and trees to change his true face and change his identity to better avoid hiding.
Before the Wulan Venerable, there were no less than a dozen people who had been refined by him, and all of them had been successfully refined by Qizhi Zhenren and took away their bodies.
However, when it was the turn of the Venerable Wulan, in addition to his own vigilance, it was also time for his luck to come, and when Qizhi Zhenren was about to refine him, he was rushed by the master of Xuanyuan Sect, and the two sides fought.
In the fighting method, Qizhi Zhenren single-handedly killed the six high-level monks who came to attack, and he himself ran out of oil, and his soul dissipated and passed away.
In this way, the Wulan Venerable escaped death, and obtained all the true inheritances of the Qizhi Zhenren, and also signed a contract with the extraterritorial heavenly ghosts, and since then he has been cultivating diligently. After decades of penance, he successfully broke through his realm from the realm of the Soul Pill to the realm of the Ghost Baby.
But later, he found that if he wanted to go one step further and break through to the realm of ghosts and immortals mentioned by the extraterritorial heavenly ghosts, he couldn't do it with his own ability alone.
Because as the realm ascends, he will need more and more cultivation resources, and he can no longer blindly cultivate as before.
And his life is about to end, and time is not allowed. As a result, the Master Wulan forcibly seized some large and small cultivation sects, collected countless heavenly and earthly treasures, and founded his own sect and ghost vein sect, accepting countless disciples to facilitate his future cultivation.