I was woken up by a loud noise.

I opened my eyes. I was still leaning on Master's shoulder, wrapped in his clothes.

But we are no longer at the top of the mountain, but in the room where we first rested.

The lights are already on in the house, and they still have generators?

Through the window, I could see that it was already dark outside.

"Awake?" The master asked lightly, smoking a cigarette.

"Hmm. Master, why is it so noisy outside? "I handed my clothes to Master, and I heard the sound of "ding-ding" outside, and I wanted to go out and have a look.

"I'll go out later." The master put down the cigarette tube, took out two steamed buns wrapped in oiled paper from the cloth bag and gave them to me, and said, "Eat the things, and we will go to break the formation later." ”

Speaking of which, I'm a little hungry. I opened the oiled paper and asked, "Master, what time is it?" ”

"It's nine o'clock."

Master doesn't like to wear watches, but there is a person in the room who does, he said.

Nine o'clock? I slept for eight hours!

I devoured two steamed buns, and when I saw the corner of my mouth twitching next to my master, I muttered to myself, "It's like a hungry ghost reincarnated." ”

There were not many people in the room, it was very quiet, I heard it very clearly next to me, I almost choked on a mouthful of steamed buns, and quickly drank two sips of water and poured it down.

After eating the steamed buns, I looked forward to looking at Master.

Master put away the cigarette pipe, stood up, and said to the people in the room, "Let's go, it's almost time." ”

With that, he raised his feet and went out on his own, followed by me.

After I went out, I realized what the "dingding" sound was.

It's Sanqingling!

There is an open space outside the door, and torches are lit around it, and in the open space, an altar is set up, and in front of the altar there is an old man who looks older than my master, he is full of silver hair, but his face is very ruddy, it is really a crane hair and a childish face!

And most of the people in the arena were protecting him, he was holding a small Sanqing Bell in his left hand, shaking it in a gesture that looked very mysterious, and he was holding a peachwood sword in his right hand. With the shaking of Sanqingling, he also cooperated with the step gang.

"Master, the bell in that man's hand is so small, why is it so loud? Can you wake me up? ”

I'm just getting started, and I can't tell where to tell the magic weapon, but my gut tells me that the bell must be extraordinary!

Instead of looking at the altar, the Master looked into the village.

Hearing my question, Master said, "That's not called a bell, it's called a three-clear bell." It is one of the commonly used ritual instruments in our Taoism. As for waking you up, Shoichi, have you noticed any difference in this ringtone? ”

When Master asked, I remembered the difference between the bell in the room and the bell outside.

It seemed that after a good night's sleep, my mind became a lot more flexible, and I soon thought of the answer.

"Master, there is no difference! The bell rings in the house as well as the bell outside the house! I replied to Master in surprise.

Master nodded and said, "This is because shaking these three clear bells is not with your hands, but with your mind. The voice you hear comes from your heart, not from your ears. So there's no material barrier, and what you hear in the range is the same. ”

It turns out that there is such a miraculous thing! If at the beginning I volunteered to apprentice because of the loneliness of Taoism that Master talked about, now I feel that I have developed a strong interest in these things.

And interest is the foundation of a person's willingness to delve into it!

"Master, is he breaking the formation?" I asked curiously.

"No, he's exorcism." Master patiently said to me, "At first, we thought it was a little ghost. But in fact, it was Lao Zheng Tou's house that was arranged by the masters with the most vicious Ten Directions Hundred Ghost Array! This formation will slowly attract the surrounding ghosts to the attached ones. So the cold aura you feel is not a ghost, but the superimposed breath of the ghost thing attracted by this formation. The one who exorcises the soul is the Taoist Taoist Ancestral Courtyard Dragon Tiger Mountain Heavenly Master Mansion, and he is also a person from our department. All he has to do is to dispel the hundred ghosts in the formation, so that we can break the formation! ”

So that's the case, but where did the imp go? How did Cripple Liu die?

I asked the doubts in my mind.

The master glanced at me, seemed to be a little impatient, and said simply: "This is the game set up by the master, and as for his purpose, I don't know." The little ghost has been taken away, and Liu Cripple should have died just when he took away the little ghost. ”

As long as I ask about the history of Taoism, ritual weapons, etc., this crazy old man will explain it in detail. But when asked about the rest, his true nature is exposed, and he will be impatient.

At a young age, I had already learned the skill of observing words and emotions under the tempering of my master.

I saw that Master's face was a little wrong, so I quickly closed my mouth and looked intently at the altar.