37. Study the soul
Seeing the tomb, ordinary people didn't dare to go in, but at that time, Butcher Zhou was already drunk, and his brain was hot, so he got in. The interior of this tomb turned out to be quite large, and it took Zhou Butcher a lot of effort to find the fox's den.
This fox nest is not as dirty and smelly as the usual fox nest, on the contrary, it is very clean and tidy, and there is no strange yin like the grave, but a fragrance wafts through it. And the fox who stole the chicken was curled up on an animal blanket, and the chicken of Zhou Butcher's family had already been eaten by the fox and only bones remained.
When the butcher saw it, he was immediately furious, and he slashed at the fox's head with an axe regardless of it, the fox was sleeping, but he was quite clever, and woke up after hearing the sound, and he flashed in a hurry, and fled in panic, but after all, it was a little late, and the fox tail was cut off by the axe.
After the fox fled, the butcher of Zhou was still angry, and made trouble in the fox's den for a while, and then went home, and went to bed and went to sleep, not taking the matter to heart. But when he woke up the next day, his daughter-in-law sat down on the pit with her hair scattered, rolling her eyes, and she didn't know anyone stupidly.
People in the village said that Butcher Zhou's mother-in-law was fascinated by the fox, at first Butcher Zhou didn't believe it, but there was no way to find a doctor everywhere, and finally he was helpless, so he asked for the Xianmen Demon Suppression Academy, and the Demon Suppressor who didn't want to be in the Demon Courtyard was also helpless. It's been like this for two months, and I haven't seen his mother-in-law get better, and I've been so muddy, like a fool.
When the butcher saw the appearance of his mother-in-law, he was heartbroken, and often ran to the tomb to kowtow and admit his mistakes, begging for mercy loudly, and even bought a group of chickens and ducks to worship, which can be described as full of integrity, but it is useless.
After Butcher Zhou finished narrating, Bai Ziyun frowned. Based on his understanding of demons, the beasts in this world should not have evolved to such a high IQ, this kind of confusion is quite like a method of ghosts and gods, it seems that the fox has something to do with ghosts and gods. But didn't Zhuang Zhou say that there are no gods in Zhuo County? Could it be that the gods of other states have fled to Zhuo County?
Bai Ziyun couldn't think of why, so he said, "I'll take a look at your mother-in-law first." ”
"Yes. Yes, please come with me. Butcher Zhou took Bai Ziyun and the others into the bedroom.
I saw a woman sitting on the pit with her hair discarded, her body kept swaying from side to side, her eyes were dull, her mouth was saliva, she looked like a demented child, but she kept muttering something in her mouth, and her voice was sometimes cold, sometimes melodious. It's very weird.
Bai Ziyun brought two disciples this time, these two disciples can be described as famous, a teenage ghost named Guo Jia, and the other fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy named Xi Zhicai.
These two people have extremely high IQs, and their grades in the Immortal Academy are far ahead of others, so Bai Ziyun took these two as key training objects.
Although Guo Jia is very smart, he is only ten years old this year, and a child is not very bold after all. Seeing the appearance of the daughter-in-law of the Zhou family, I was shocked. hurriedly hid behind Bai Ziyun.
Xi Zhi saw it, and said with a smile: "Senior Brother Guo, what are you doing, you are an immortal master, and you will be able to subdue demons and eliminate demons alone in the future, how can you be so cowardly?" ”
Guo Jia's face turned red. But he said stiffly: "I'm not afraid, but I'm young and weak, if this mother-in-law starts a murder, how can I deal with it as a child." Conquering demons and eliminating demons is a matter of the future, isn't it that I haven't graduated yet? ”
Butcher Zhou hurriedly said, "Please rest assured that this little immortal master." Although my mother-in-law has become a fool, she is very peaceful and will not hurt anyone. ”
"That'll be fine." Guo Jia nodded and took a small step forward, but he was still behind Bai Ziyun.
Bai Ziyun said with a smile: "Master is here, what are you afraid of." I told you not to come, but you still want to come, now you know that you are scared, right? ”
Guo Jia smiled embarrassedly, touched his head and said, "The disciple wants to see the world, and he can't always sit in the academy to learn the immortal method, but he doesn't know how to practice it." ”
"It's good that you have such a heart, but after all, you are too young, and you have not studied the immortal method for a long time, so you must not act alone in the future. Now there are demons rampant in this world, which is different from the past. Saying that, Bai Ziyun looked at Guo Jia and Xi Zhicai.
"Yes, disciple knows." The two said obediently.
Bai Ziyun nodded, stepped forward and took a few steps, stroked the long hair of the daughter-in-law of the Zhou family, looked at her face, explored it again with her divine thoughts, and frowned: "Her soul has left her body, and if she wants to recover, she must find her soul, but the soul is very dangerous to leave the body, and it is difficult for ordinary people's souls to survive outside......
When Butcher Zhou heard this, he hurriedly kowtowed and begged, "Please save my mother-in-law!" ”
"Ding! Trigger Mission: Retrieve the soul of Zhou Butcher's mother-in-law, awaken it, and reward a peachwood sword. Xiao Xian's cold voice sounded in Bai Ziyun's mind.
Bai Ziyun breathed a sigh of relief, since this task can be released, it means that the soul of the Zhou butcher's mother-in-law is still there, if the soul is scattered, it is impossible for the system to release this kind of task.
"Well, I'll find her soul." Bai Ziyun nodded.
At this time, Xi Zhicai asked: "Master, the soul of the mother-in-law of the Zhou family has left her body, why can she still speak?" ”
Guo Jia pouted and said: "I still have to ask, isn't it written in "Maoshan Tuzhi"?" People have three souls and six spirits, and her soul is out of her body, but there are other souls in her body, and she can still speak some words. ”
Xi Zhicai said disdainfully: "I still need you to say this." But didn't the master say it? The opinions in "Maoshan Tuzhi" are relatively simple, and some of the opinions in it are not necessarily correct, we need to verify them one by one, otherwise why does the master not say that the soul is out of the body, but that the soul is out of the body? ”
Bai Ziyun said with a smile: "What Xi Zhicai said is right, many of the opinions in "Maoshan Tuzhi" are not correct, which ones are right and which are wrong, and some things cannot be clarified as a teacher, and you need to verify them one by one in the future." Then he looked at the mother-in-law of the Zhou family, "The human brain is the part where human knowledge is stored, and the soul is a kind of energy, the energy that can drive the movement of brain cells. Souls also have memories on them, but ordinary people's souls will lose these memories after being away from the body for a long time, and they will become muddy. ”
Xi Zhicai worried: "The soul of the Zhou family's mother-in-law has been out of her body for two months, so even if she finds it back." Isn't it a vegetative person who can't think even by man? ”
"Is that so? Think about it, you two. Bai Ziyun said with a smile.
Guo Jia and Xi Zhicai were slightly stunned, they both showed the questions they were thinking, and soon their eyes lit up, and they were already clear.
The two glanced at each other, and Guo Jia smiled: "Say it." ”
"Okay." Xi Zhicai nodded and said, "What the master means is that the human brain is the part of memory." The soul is only a kind of energy that drives the movement of the human brain, just like the steam engine, and the coal used for calcination is the source of power for the steam engine. ”
"Not bad." Bai Ziyun said approvingly.
Guo Jia frowned and said: "If this is the case, wouldn't it be as long as we have this kind of energy, as long as we find some other souls, wouldn't we also be able to get the Zhou family's mother-in-law well." ”
"Huh?" Xi Zhicai didn't expect this, so he turned his head to look at Bai Ziyun and asked, "Master, is that the case?" ”
Bai Ziyun shook his head and said, "I don't know either." Whether this is the case or not is known only through experimentation. ”
Xi Zhicai and Guo Jia were suddenly embarrassed, this is too hasty, you can't use the daughter-in-law of the Zhou family to experiment.
"Master, you're not going to experiment with her, are you?" Guo Jia was quite worried.
"How can you be so irresponsible as a teacher." Bai Ziyun rolled his eyes and said, "This is our future research topic, of course we can't use her for experiments now." ”
Butcher Zhou stood beside him with a dull expression, not understanding what the three of them were talking about at all, but asked with concern: "Immortal Master, can my mother-in-law still be saved?" ”
"Let's be honest. Old Zhou. Bai Ziyun looked at Butcher Zhou, "I'm not completely sure." If you want to cure your mother-in-law's evil spirits. You have to go to that grave and see it. ”
Butcher Zhou's body shook slightly, and he said bitterly: "Please also ask the immortal master to contribute, if I can save my mother-in-law, I will make cattle and horses for the immortal master in the next life." ”
"Take me to the grave first." Bai Ziyun said lightly.
"No!"
Butcher Zhou took Bai Ziyun and the three of them out of the house and into the woods, after a while of climbing over the mountains and mountains. Come to a high mountain, and there is the tomb on the side of this high mountain.
"This is the grave, and inside the grave is the den of the demon fox." Butcher Zhou said with an ugly face.
"Hmm." Bai Ziyun looked at some of the graves, and found that there was nothing special except that they were quite damaged. I looked at the hole again. The tomb was found to have two openings, one quite large and the other quite small.
After Bai Ziyun observed, he realized that the big hole was a thief hole, and the small cave was obviously the fox hole.
Bai Ziyun and the others naturally couldn't drill the fox hole, but chose to enter from the thief hole, Guo Jia looked at the entrance of the cave, and found that it was quite deep below, so he frowned and asked, "Old Zhou, how did you go down?" ”
"Jumping?" Butcher Zhou said nonchalantly.
"This hole is four or five meters high, it's easy for you to go down alone, but it's not easy to come up." Guo Jia said.
Butcher Zhou grinned and said, "I have been cultivating the Baiyun Heart Method for six years, although my body bones are not as good as those of several immortal masters, but I am also quite flexible, and it is not difficult to climb out of this cave." ”
Guo Jia was stunned for a moment, and Xi Zhicai said with a smile: "Many people in Zhuo County began to cultivate the Baiyun Heart Method six years ago, you can't compare them to people from other states and counties. ”
"I see." Guo Jia nodded.
"Lao Zhou and Xi Zhicai will go down with me, Xiao Guo, you will guard it above." Bai Ziyun Road.
Guo Jia hesitated, bowed and saluted, "No!" ”
"Old Zhou, lead the way!" Bai Ziyun commanded.
"No!"
After that, Butcher Zhou jumped directly from the entrance of the cave, only to hear a bang coming from below, this sound is quite loud, it seems that Butcher Zhou has strength, but he doesn't know how to do light work.
As soon as Butcher Zhou landed, Bai Ziyun and Xi Zhicai came down silently, which made Butcher Zhou quite admired in his heart, he sighed to himself that this light kung fu was inferior, he had lived in Zhuo County for a long time, and naturally knew the beauty of light skills, but he was a civilian, and he had no chance to practice light skills.
The cave was quite spacious below, and a few people walked inside for a distance, turned a small corner, and walked into a small cave, and heard Butcher Zhou say: "Two immortal masters, this is the cave of the demon fox." ”
The cave is quite dark, but you can still see clearly, I can see a lot of animal fur in the cave, very messy, a lot of dust, obviously the fox has not been here for a long time.
Bai Ziyun looked around, touched the wall again, and finally picked up the fur and sniffed it, and asked, "Is that fox not coming here again in the past two months?" ”
Butcher Zhou was slightly stunned and hesitated: "This, this, I don't know." Since I injured the demon fox, my mother-in-law was fascinated by the fox, and I no longer had the courage to enter the tomb. ”
Then he asked: "Immortal Master, will my mother-in-law's soul be here?" ”
Bai Ziyun smiled but did not answer, and looked at Xi Zhicai. Xi Zhicai nodded, took out a compass from his satchel, and held it horizontally, only to see the pointer on the compass turning drippingly, and he couldn't stop.
After observing for a while, Xi Zhicai said: "Master, the tomb here is quite weird, the magnetic field is very chaotic, it seems that there is something wrong with the earth qi here. ”
"Huh?" Bai Ziyun frowned and looked at the compass pointer, and smiled at Butcher Zhou: "It seems that your mother-in-law will not be in this cave, but the tomb here is a yin place, and your mother-in-law's soul can just be nourished, so if your mother-in-law's soul is in the tomb here, it should still survive in the world, and there is no soul scattered." ”
Butcher Zhou was suddenly overjoyed, and with expectations in his heart, he bowed and said, "Please also ask the immortal master to help." ”
"Don't worry, since I'm here, I will definitely find a way to rescue your mother-in-law, and I won't give up halfway." Bai Ziyun said with a smile.
At this time, Guo Jia's voice came from above: "Master, master, can you hear me?" ”
Bai Ziyun said lightly: "Can you hear it, what's the matter?" ”
His voice was soft, but Guo Jia above was clearly audible.
Guo Jia breathed a sigh of relief and shouted loudly: "I saw that the master had been down for a long time, so I asked questions, and now I can hear the master's voice." ”
"Poof!"
Xi Zhicai burst out laughing, it seemed that this little junior brother was scared when he was alone in it.
"We're going to be down there for a long time, so you can wait up there." Bai Ziyun Road.
"No!" Guo Jia said helplessly.
"Could that fox have gone into hiding somewhere else?" Xi Zhicai looked at the depths of the swarthy cave and said with fear: "It is possible for it to run into the depths of the cave." ”
"Hmm." Bai Ziyun nodded and said, "Then let's go in and have a look." ”
Suddenly, the whole body was bright, and it turned out that Bai Ziyun had an extra kerosene lamp in his hand at some point, and at this moment, the kerosene lamp emitted a bright fire. (To be continued......)