"Master, have you come back from eating?" When I got closer, Hou Sanping asked with a smile, which meant that the drunkard did not mean to drink.

For this kind of provocation is far greater than flattery, and no matter how obvious and knowing, I naturally didn't bother to pay attention to it, as if I didn't see it at all, and walked straight along the canal into the mountain bay. And Hou Sanping saw that I didn't pay attention to it at all, and he no longer looked for boredom, and after laughing twice, he stopped.

When I went up to the outside of the thatched hut, I looked at Hou Sanping, who was still standing in the original position, facing the bottom of the mountain, and seemed to sense my gaze, and almost at the same time as I looked over, I turned around with a smile, my expression remained unchanged, but my heart began to ponder.

It hasn't come to the afternoon yet, although the sun is covered by clouds, but the air outside is still a little hot, and the place where Hou Sanping stands, although it is not completely out of the range of Shanwan, but under the suppression of Yang Qi, the Yin Qi that emerges from the ground in that position is still much thinner than in Shanwan, so other Yin Spirits don't dare to leave so far during the day, let alone it's still noon, only this old ghost dares to go over.

In fact, it was the first time he had come closer, at least the first time I had seen it.

So, is this showing me what I can do?

After staring at Hou Sanping for two seconds without changing my face, I withdrew my gaze and went straight into the grass hut to ignore it.

It seems that, if nothing else, provocations of this magnitude will become more frequent.

In the early morning of the next day, when he was freed from the state of meditation, Hou Sanping sat on the old man's bed as he had slept on the day before, smiling at me, and there was no sign of him entering the room. But when I went out to eat at noon, and walked back with a futon with two large straw mats and a sponge core, he reappeared in the same place, looking at me with a smile and a posture as if he was welcoming me back.

On the third, fourth, and fifth days, every day after that, this old man named Hou Sanping, who was close to becoming a god, was like this.

Other than that, he didn't show up again, breaking into the hut without permission and observing my meditating. But just observing my father or mother every day, leading Huanhuan down the mountain, and making gestures to welcome me back, is enough.

At the same time, during this delicate balance that may be broken at any time, but has never been broken, the outside world is getting hotter and hotter, and the world in the mountain bay is getting colder and colder, presenting two diametrically opposed scenes, like ice and fire. Even on the walls of the thatched hut and on the ground, whenever the hour comes, there is a faint frost that will gradually melt away until dawn, and only the one meter square inch between me meditating, the half of the wall where the bronze statue of the ancestor is located, and the small offering table in front of me can be spared.

In such an increasingly harsh environment, the clothes on my body inevitably became thicker and thicker, and I couldn't even take them off when I went out at noon and ate against the scorching summer air.

As for the day when I found the "breath" that the old man said, it never came, and I myself, as if I had forgotten this matter at all, did not feel anxious at all, except for meditating in front of the bronze statue of the ancestor every day, that is, wearing thick cotton clothes, eating under the scorching heat that ordinary people have been difficult to resist, the number of excretions is getting less and less, and it comes to once every two days, and the attention to the old ghost Hou Sanping who is about to move is also getting less and less.

It wasn't until the early hours of the morning, when I came out of my meditative state, that I saw the old man again on the bed where he had slept and saw him smiling at me.

There was no surprise, because I knew very well that this day would come sooner or later, or rather, I had been waiting for this day to come.

"When did you come in?" There was no anger, no displeasure, I looked at him and asked softly.

"Master, I've been here for a while, and I didn't wake you up when I saw that you were busy." Hou Sanping replied with a smile, his tone sounding a little happy and a little excited. In the past, every time he spoke, although he also smiled, he had never shown such emotions undisguised like this time.

Seeing that I was busy, he didn't wake me up.

I smiled lightly, and after watching him be silent for a few seconds, I asked softly: "I remember the last time you didn't come in person, because you really couldn't help it, the temptation and curiosity brought to you in this room, I don't know why you came in this time?" ”

"Master, what do you say, it's not for anything." I don't know if it's because I can't feel the slightest displeasure from my tone and demeanor, so Hou Sanping was slightly stunned, scratched his ears and cheeks and laughed twice before replying: "It's because I like to be in this room." ”

"Just because you like it?" I asked again.

"Yes." Now that he has said it, Hou Sanping simply stopped hiding it, nodded with a smile, and said: "Actually, it's not just that I like it, but everyone likes your house very much, but they don't dare to express it." ”

When I heard this, I was a little surprised, not because the old ghost said that all the wandering ghosts wanted to enter my house, but because it came out of his mouth.

"So I listen to you, you want to be a speaker, to speak to me on behalf of those of your kind who want to enter my room like you?"

"Yes, but not all." Hou Sanping smiled and nodded.

"So, what exactly are they?" After two seconds of slight silence, I asked with a smile.

Hou Sanping replied with a smile: "Master, what is the specific, it is all, we all want to enter this room. ”

"Does that also include Lao Duan?"

"Hehe~ Master, I said it was all of it, what did you say the package didn't include? Since it is all, it naturally includes him Duan Yifa, after all, this is the common voice of everyone. ”

"Well, I see." I nodded slightly, thought about it, looked at him again and said, "I remember the last time you came in like this, I already told you that if there is a second time, you will know the end, so I will ask you again now, you are sure that you really know it, and ......"

"Thank you, Master, for your kindness, and please don't remind me anymore, I know all this." Before I finished speaking, I was interrupted by Hou Sanping with a smile, and then looked at me and said, "Actually, I came in on behalf of everyone, not to break with you, Master, but to have some things, I hope to discuss them with you calmly." ”

As soon as I heard this, I couldn't help but laugh a little, "Okay, then tell me what you want to discuss with me." ”

"Since you are so open-minded and generous, Master, then I will really say it." Seeing me laughing, Hou Sanping immediately laughed even more, and after clearing his throat in a matter-of-fact manner, he said, "Here's the thing, after such a long period of living in harmony, we can all see that Master, you are here, practicing some kind of cultivation that we don't understand. But how to put it, if I say it, I hope you don't get angry, Master. ”

He stopped and looked at me with a smile.

"It's okay, you go on, I won't be angry." Knowing that this guy was deliberately selling off, I followed his words.

"Okay, with your statement, Master, I'm much more relieved." With my permission, the smile in Hou Sanping's eyes couldn't help but become even stronger, he got up and left the bed where the old man was sleeping, stood on the ground like a living person and looked at me and said, "Master, in my words, it means that no matter what cultivation you are doing, this is a place of extreme yin after all, not a place where a yang person like you should come, even if you achieve your goal in this way, it is not the right path after all. And although we say that yin and yang have different paths, and even strictly speaking, they should be opposites, but in any case, we have all lived in harmony with each other for such a long time, and you have not suppressed our yin things, and you have not shown us any faces, so we should also remember your good deeds, and when you fall deeper and deeper, we should also kindly remind you that this is really not the right path, and it will not be good for you to continue like this, Guru. ”

"The key is to watch you stay up like this day by day, your body is getting weaker and weaker, and we can't bear it, so at this time, I hope you can listen to our advice."

I couldn't help but be a little stunned when I heard the words that were reasonable and full of concern, and then began to ponder, until Hou Sanping had stopped for a while, then he reacted, and hurriedly asked, "What suggestions?" It's okay for you to just say, I'm listening. ”

Hou Sanping grinned, looked at me for a few seconds, and then smiled: "Anyway, I just want the master to know that although we have little communication with each other, we all remember you well, and we don't want to see you go down the wrong path, let alone see you have problems with your body, so ...... We hope that you will put an end to this non-righteous way of cultivation and leave this place that does not belong to Yang people in the first place. ”

I was stunned for a moment, then fell silent.

Seeing that I began to ponder again, Hou Sanping suddenly smiled even more, and didn't say anything more, so he fell silent and let me think about it myself.

"Very good, very beautiful words, sincere, reasonable, affectionate and righteous." I wasn't thinking about anything, but I was a little stunned by the old guy's words, I didn't expect him to have the ability to say so beautifully, so when he finished speaking, he looked down on the bed where the old man slept and sat down, then raised his head and looked at him seriously and said: "Thank you, thank you for your concern, in short, I was very moved by your words, I didn't expect you to be so affectionate and righteous, and you can say so beautifully." ”

"But I'm sorry, I know what I'm doing, so thank you for your concern. If you're done, go out quickly, for the sake of you saying so beautifully, I don't care if you trespass this time, but this is really the last time, and there will be no next time, so I hope you remember well, no matter how many beautiful words there are next time, don't come in casually. ”

Hou Sanping, who had just sat down on the edge of the bed, was stunned for a moment, raised his head and looked at me in some astonishment.

"Guru...... What do you mean by that? It took a moment for me to react from my words and ask a little dazedly.

I closed my eyes again, never looked at him again, and replied calmly, "It means that you will be allowed to go out, this time without blame, but there will never be a next time." ”

"So Guru, you're not going to listen to our advice?" Hou Sanping slid off the bed, stood on the ground again and asked, because his stature was too short, no different from a dwarf, and he didn't have a physical reason, he didn't touch the ground when he sat on the bed, so when he jumped down, it looked a little funny.

"I've always been stupid, I haven't been able to say pretty words, I've been living alone in Yinshan for this time, and I can't say a few words a day, so I can't learn how to speak, like you can speak so beautifully." After a pause, I asked, "So I'll just say, what would you do if I wasn't going to accept your so-called advice?" ”

Hou Sanping was stunned again, and the smile on his face, which had never made people look uncomfortable, was put away in front of me for the first time.

"Master, why are you doing this?" After a long while, I finally heard him speak again, and there was already a bit of coldness in his tone.

"There's no why, I just don't like to be disturbed, I just don't like to be threatened." I said softly.

After being silent for a while, Hou Sanping said, "Why? Guru, with all due respect, after looking at it for such a long time, I don't think you have the capital to fight against our total of 173 Yin Spirits, even if there are some timid people like rats, and Duan Yifa's kind of wall grass that blows down on both sides, there are at least hundreds of people who have the heart to fight against you, so what do you want to use against so many of our Yin Spirits when your own path is not good and you don't have any magic weapons around you? Could it be that with this completely rusty copper lump in front of you? ”

"It's not something you should care about, this place is mine, and as long as I don't want to, no one can let me go." Hearing him talk about the bronze statue of my grandfather, I couldn't help but open my eyes again and look at it.

As Hou Sanping said, after such a long period of time, he has been exposed to an extremely humid and cold environment, and a large amount of yin qi has lost count of how many days and nights, and even under the erosion of minutes and seconds, it has completely lost its luster, and it looks like a seriously rusty copper lump, no different from a piece of broken copper and rotten iron.

The point is that under the same environmental erosion, the Twelve Yuanchen seems to have completely lost its previous momentum and become unprecedentedly weakened, and even not long ago, I tried to stimulate it a few times, but without exception, all failed.

If it weren't for that, no matter how bold the old ghost Ren Hou Sanping was, he would never dare to be unscrupulous to this extent.

Therefore, if he and those yin spirits outside who are about to move are really determined to deal with me, just the bronze statue of the ancestor and the current twelve yuan chen will indeed not be enough to suppress so many ruthless yin spirits. In fact, even if it is the twelfth yuanchen, it is not enough when it has not entered the weakening period.

Because of the twelve yuanchen, it is more of a role to make up for my missing soul and protect my soul from attack, and there is only coercion on the shadowy things, and there is no obvious suppressive power, once the other party is not afraid, the effect is quite limited.

Looking at the bronze statue of Master Zu, I frowned slightly and thought for a while, then I closed my eyes again.

"As for you, there is still one last minute, go out, and if you stop doing it again, I can not blame the past."

Hou Sanping was slightly stunned, and then narrowed his eyes slightly.

"Alright, Master, you still have a day to think about, and I'll ask you when night falls."

After saying it with a strange light in his eyes, he left the grass hut lightly.