Chapter 13: The Second Soul Core
Qi Hongguang, Qi Da and others went into Qiyue Mountain to turn over in full gear that day, Zhuang Yi looked at the chicken stealing dog who was squatting in the grass not far away, and did not have any expectations for their trip.
The chicken thief and dog have been wandering around the village for the past two days, maybe there is no shortage of food, and there is no more green light in his eyes when he looks at him. Zhuang Yi still didn't dare to take it lightly, at least before his combat strength was fully restored, he still walked around when he saw that he was stealing chickens and dogs.
The injuries on his body were almost healed, but his stomach was getting bigger and bigger, and the Qi that was inhaled uncontrollably was swollen to the point that it was rumbling, and the snow in the snow was also ineffective, and the heat flow in his body burned him from exhaustion, and he lay on the mattress all day moaning/moaning.
Qi Hongguang was not there, and Qi Lei was very worried about Zhuang Yi alone: "Are you pregnant?" β
"Gray gray (Lao Tzu is a boar)......" Zhuang Yi said weakly.
Qi Lei touched his body very hot, and wanted to take him to get a fever injection, so he called Qi Minyu and a few people to push the cart, but Zhuang Yi refused to move the nest. The young doctor surnamed Jiao at the Zhai Health Center was very prejudiced against him, and used him as a radish for injections.
Lao Tzu's pig skin is thick, but it will also hurt, okay?
Just when he felt that he would be swelled to death by Qi sooner or later, he sensed a vague breath - it was the soul core!
Avoiding the Bear Child Army, he struggled to get up, trembling out of the door, following the soul core breath guidance all the way from the west of the village to the east of the village, when he stopped, there was a stone wall and wooden pile house in front of him, some years old, the wooden eaves were covered with slippery moss, hanging long ice ridges.
How is it He Lao Taoist again! Zhuang Yi frowned, could it be that the soul core was attached to the Stygian Stone like last time?
He stopped at the door, hesitating. The wooden door was thick but old, and He Lao Dao had changed the door lock, but it was also an old-fashioned lock, and with his current strength, he could still break through the door. But although the gate was closed, the snow in front of the door was swept clean, and it was impossible to see that He Laodao was not at home.
After a while, he decided to give it a try, his current physical condition couldn't wait, if he didn't find the soul core today and wear it back, maybe he would die tomorrow.
He took a few steps back, estimated the distance, and ran wildly with all his strength, and under the slamming of more than 700 catties, the broken wooden door shattered in half like a broken Wangwang snow cake. He hurried through the wooden door with his hooves, but slammed his head against an iron door.
Newton's third law is really not a joke, his flying posture is like a ** bomb, planted in the snow and even shook the ground twice.
Pulling his head out of the snow with gold stars in his eyes, Zhuang Yi looked at the big iron gate and scolded:! A broken house is still equipped with an anti-theft door, can you use it?
The iron door opened with a bang, and He Laodao appeared behind the door with a wicked smile on his beard: "Although it is a few days later than I expected, and the way of visiting is also a little strange, but ...... It's good to be able to come. β
"Whoop (stinky old way) ββ!" Zhuang Yi howled a few times at He Laodao, anyway, he had already seen through He Laodao, and he didn't bother to pretend anymore, shook the snow on his body, and walked into the room.
When the iron door closed, there was a crisp metal crashing sound, and He Laodao said proudly: "How about my new anti-theft door lock?" Alas, the lock was so broken that even a few goats could smash it into the house, so I simply changed it. β
What are you talking about, what are you scolding, what Huai, stinky old way!
Zhuang Yi searched for the soul core while slandering, and walked all the way into He Laodao's study. On the old wooden table, more than twenty netherstone stones were scattered, and a soul core was attached to a netherstone stone, the light was pure, like a beating heart.
Sure enough, the creation of the soul core is related to the Underworld Stone.
The other stygian stones also emitted a faint light, but they failed to turn into soul cores, and even the stygian stones that he had sucked up completely last time actually had an extremely faint light. He had some realization, the Stygian Stone could absorb Qi, but to form a soul core, he didn't know how long it would take. This soul core is estimated to have just been formed.
And obviously, He Laodao couldn't see these lights.
The stygian stones on the wooden table have already been put together half, which is what he put together last time, and the dozen or so stones newly obtained by He Laodao are placed aside, completely messed up. The soul core was in front of him, Zhuang Yi was not in a hurry to suck it, he stretched out his hooves to move the order of the stones - any clues about the secret of soul piercing, he didn't want to let go.
Zhuang Yi moved the stone intently, completely unaware that He Laodao, who was standing behind him, had already drawn out the peachwood sword!
This time, there were relatively many contents of the dozen or so stones, and Zhuang Yi pondered for a while before determining the correct order, and as soon as he was stacked, there was a sudden pain in his buttocks.
"Gray ββ!" He screamed and jumped away, and turned around to see He Laodao holding a peachwood sword, looking at the tip of the sword with a puzzled expression.
Although the name of the peachwood sword is peachwood, only the scabbard is wooden, the sword body is not wooden, it is black, I don't know what metal it is, it is not reflective or shiny, at this moment, there is a touch of red on the tip of the black sword, it is the blood on his buttocks!
"Whewββ! (Sick!) It's okay to poke someone's ass, why are you poking someone's ass! Zhuang Yi yelled at He Laodao. He didn't think that He Laodao would dissect him now, after all, he hadn't given the translation to He Laodao yet, just having a stone order, it was in vain. Besides, how can anyone kill a pig and stab his ass first!
"Strange? Why didn't it happen? He Laodao stared at the blood path on the tip of the sword.
How do you want a broken sword to react? It's Lao Tzu's ass that was poked, and Lao Tzu has a reaction! Zhuang Yi's nose was snorting, and he was not angry.
"Don't be angry, I specially chose the butt poke, the flesh on the butt is thick, and it can't hurt anything."
! I have to thank you for daring to love you!? Zhuang Yi was speechless, there are really a lot of scientists and so on.
"Keep going." He Laodao wiped the blood clean and put the sword back into its sheath.
For the sake of the Stygian Stone, Zhuang Yi didn't bother with He Lao Dao anymore, but he paid more attention to the peachwood sword that he had never thought about. He originally thought that He Laodao mentioned the peachwood sword every time he did it, but now it seems that this peachwood sword may have some origins. Just now, He Laodao obviously hoped that after the tip of the sword was stained with his blood, he would be able to come up with some reactions to confirm his guess, but the result was in vain.
A pig that is so smart that it is against the sky is naturally suspicious, but what is He Laodao suspecting about him?
Putting aside the chaotic thoughts in his mind for a while, Zhuang Yi looked intently at the Stygian Stone.
These more than a dozen pieces of stygian stones are two fragments of broken stone. The opening sentence [true and true] is the stone that He Laodao deliberately revealed in front of him last time, and its full text is:
[True, never lie.] The bottom is like the top, the top is the same as the bottom, and the miracle of the only thing is accomplished. γ
Although there were slight discrepancies in the translation, Zhuang Yi immediately thought of a book, in which he had seen a similar sentence - "Jade Record".
Orientals know very little about the Jade, but in the West, especially in medieval Europe, the Jadeite Catalogue has always been regarded as a sacred text by alchemists. This is a book from ancient Egypt, which is said to be present in the tomb of the pharaohs of Hermes, and is one of the first documents of alchemy, embodying the ancient Egyptians' primitive philosophical and theological views.
The original text of the "Jade Record" is in ancient Egyptian, and there are many English translations in later generations, and it is said that the great scientist Newton also translated a version. Of course, Zhuang Yi read the Chinese translation, and the book naturally came from his father's large number of strange books.
The remaining sentence from the fragment of the first part is:
[Absolute truth, the origin of all things, the father of light, the mother of darkness, the father of dawn, the mother of dusk. γ
This sentence is not like the content in the "Jade Record", just like the stygian stone I saw last time, only a few sentences are similar to the "Book of the Dead", and the rest have not been seen at all.
The fragments of the second part are much larger, there are nine pieces, and they talk about some of the methods of transporting qi, and the sentence points out that when qi enters the body, if it is not used reasonably, it is very easy for the chakras to burst and die.
Dry! It turns out that it is not for nothing that I am worried about dying of a belly!
Zhuang Yi was full of excitement and hurriedly looked down. There are many ways to use Qi, but there are only two on these stones - Turning Qi into Spirit and Spirit Repair. Turning Qi into a spirit is to strengthen one's own spirits, and spirit repair is to repair the spirits of other creatures.
The text is a little obscure, Zhuang Yi took a lot of thought when he read it, and the things mentioned above were quite different from the knowledge and information he had always received. Regarding the determination of death, the medical profession uses brain death as the criterion. Most of the world's religions also define the separation of the soul from the body as death. However, these texts say that the spirit body lives if it remains in its normal phase, even if the soul leaves the body and the body dies.
Although it is a little unbelievable, if you think about your current state, isn't it your soul out of the body? Zhuang Yi wrote down all the words in a hurry, and some strange thoughts suddenly appeared in his heart: If it is really as said in the text, then I have been practicing the spirit body repair technique, wouldn't it be possible to live forever?
Then he shook his head again, there is no flesh shell, only the eternal life of the soul floating around, is it not a realistic version of the thousand-year-old ghost? It's too supernatural, no, no.
Just shaking his head, the shadow in front of him flickered, He Laodao put a few pieces of paper in front of him, and there was a photo of the Stygian Stone on the left side of each paper, in the correct order, and at first glance, it was just taken with a Polaroid. This stinky old way is really well-equipped.
He Laodao handed out a pen and looked at him with an expectant expression. The corner of Zhuang Yi's eyes twitched: Do you still want me to write with pig's trotters?
He didn't take the pen, he didn't even think about translating the dark text for He Laodao, so he didn't believe that he couldn't wear it back after absorbing the second soul core! He stretched out his paws to the soul core, grinned happily at He Lao Dao and waved his front hooves: Bye He Lao Dao, there will be no time in the future.
The soul core entered the body, and the whole body was unobstructed, this time he did not close his eyes the whole time, a pair of small eyes paid attention to the changes in the surrounding environment, for a minute, it did not change...... Two minutes, still no change...... After three minutes, the corners of Zhuang Yi's grinning mouth closed.
Dry! Why didn't I wear it back!
He Laodao stroked his beard and looked confused: "Could it be that this is the posture of pig meditation?" β
Five minutes later, Zhuang Yi gave up completely. Looking inside, the dark spots are gone!
Zhuang Yi's pig face was frightened green: Why am I still a pig!? The first two times the soul pierced the dark spots of the spirit body, and as soon as they were repaired, I went back! Why not this time? Where's the business trip?! Where!? Could it be that my body has been ruined and I can't go back? It's impossible, it's impossible, I wore the cactus ball for four months, and even the doctor said again and again that the chance of waking up is less than 1 in 10,000, and there is no need for treatment, and my mother didn't give up, this time...... It seems that it has not been four months, and my mother will not give up!
But what if...... What if the doctor decided I was brain dead? What about not being vegetative but brain dead?
Zhuang Yi was instantly discouraged, and he froze.
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