Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Evil Spirit

For several days, I stayed in the Taoist temple, meditating with Xuanqing Taoists and Qingning during the day; When it was time to eat, he and Qingning chopped firewood and cooked on the fire. Daoist Xuanqing also gave me medicine from time to time, but when Qingning went to the forest to cultivate, I stayed in the Taoist temple. With nothing to do, I can only take out a pen and paper to draw. I don't know when, but it seems that I can only calm down when I'm drawing. Make a small sketch of what you encounter in this village, and then paint it when you go back.

"Yo? Nice, little ghost. It's a good drawing, but it should hang down a little bit more. As he was drawing, the voice of the Xuanqing Daoist came from behind. When he saw me turn around, he told me again, although the yin beast was roughly like some animal in the yang world; But after all, it's still a yin beast; First of all, muscles can't be so developed; Secondly, the skeletal structure is also different.

Is this a Taoist priest or a painter? He said it was all about the point; Bone structure, proportions, muscle wraps, meridians interspersed...... Let's talk about the dynamics. One afternoon, he told me a lot about the differences between the creatures of the underworld and the creatures of the yang, and I guess he was also in a panic. The apprentice went to practice, and he had nothing to do, seeing me as an idler; Why don't you take a catharsis? I was taught an afternoon of structure lessons by the old way, and I haven't been like this for a long time. Since I got out of the school gate, those who encounter confusion are all going to check the information by themselves to solve their doubts. For a while, it was as if I had returned to my student days.

"Having said all that, do you remember what you just told you?" When the sun was setting in the west, the Xuanqing Daoist stood up and ended today's lesson. After seeing me nod, he smiled with satisfaction:

"After all, he has seen the world, and he is easy to teach." Suddenly, he thought of something, and turned his head again and said, "Little rabbit, sweep up the cigarette butts you threw away, or you will have to work hard for me." ”

Is it so protective of the calf? "Whoever pollutes is cleaned" is indeed the truth. When the cleaning was almost done, Qingning also came back from the mountain. Seeing that I was cleaning, I hurried over and said that I didn't need to clean in the afternoon; There will also be fallen leaves at night. Alas, am I not sweeping cigarette butts? I'll clean up the front yard.

When I was eating, I was trying to complain about how I missed braised pork, chicken thighs, and steak. Suddenly felt a tightness in my heart, and quickly stopped the dishes and chopsticks; Xuanqing Daoist also put down the dishes and chopsticks and looked out the door. Only Qing Ning looked at me and the Xuanqing Daoist with a slight suspicion:

"Master, brother, what's wrong with you?"

I glanced at Xuanqing Daoist and I, and he spoke first: "It's worthy of yin, and my perception is so keen." After speaking, he looked at Qingning again: "Apprentice, take the weapon, there is work coming; Don't take the food, I'll come back and eat it again. ”

I was speechless, is this old man confident? Or is the heart too big? After gasping for the breath stuck in my neck, I asked:

"Dao Chief, this should also be from the underworld, right? What's that? ”

"Fluctuations caused by the monster beast hitting the boundary." Hearing what Daoist Xuanqing said, Qing Ning had a strange expression:

"Master, are they here again? How many are there this time? ”

Daoist Xuanqing looked at Qing Ning with a loving face: "None of them came out, but two evil spirits took the opportunity to come out." ”

When I heard this, I didn't care much; Concentrate your mental attention on the position of your heart, and prepare to go and clean up the two fleeing evil spirits. Suddenly there was a "snap" and a pain in the head, and the voice of the Xuanqing Daoist sounded next to him:

"What's the matter with you? On Lao Tzu's turf, it's your turn to do it? Stay out of the way. ”

I rubbed my head and took two steps back, this old way is to fight, not to fight. After Qingning came out with a sword, we walked out the door together. Now don't say that we can see it, even ordinary people can see it. The two figures stood under the tree not far in front of the Taoist temple, and the clothes full of holes on their bodies were so dirty that they couldn't see their original colors; It's also dirty on the skin. What a ghost? It's kind of like a beggar. To my surprise, their necks are much longer than normal.

Seeing the three of us coming out, the two objects also began to come out from under the tree.

"Dao Chief, what kind of freak is this? Like a giraffe. Is it a human or a ghost? The more I looked, the more bewildered I became, and they did come out on their feet. I even heard them trampling on the ground and making a snapping sound on the twigs, indicating that they were corporeal.

"The hanged ghost is too resentful after death; With a breath, it wanders on the border of yin and yang. The spirit of the deceased, forcibly attached to his body before his death; Neither life nor death, but very obsessed with life. Daoist Xuanqing explained.

As we spoke, the two hanged ghosts began to walk towards us, and I also felt that there were still some very weak yin qi coming at us. I saw Qing Ning quickly draw something on his hand, then rushed forward with a clenched palm, and opened his palm with a loud shout.

"Bang!!"

It's palm thunder, the kind that Uncle Yang played with me before. But Qingning's power is not as loud as that of Old Uncle Yang, and I even have tinnitus; The yin qi was completely shaken away. I couldn't help but look at the little Taoist priest in front of me in surprise: he usually speaks softly and weakly, and spends his days meditating, chopping wood, lighting fires, and cooking; It seems that the little Taoist priest who can only take care of Master's daily food, clothing, shelter and transportation is so powerful?