Chapter 130: The Fox Spirit Steals the Pearl
According to Uncle Bai, you need to grind the dragon balls into powder, how can it be so easy? Hu Kehao wanted to use the machine to powder, but he was worried that the loss would be too great. He found a bowl with a large iron rod in it, which could usually be used to scoop garlic, peppercorns, pepper, etc. Hu Kehao put the dragon ball inside and used the big iron rod to lick it hard, but the iron rod was deformed, and the dragon ball did not move at all.
There is a large stone mill in the yard, which is usually used by the villagers to grind the bread grain (i.e., corn). Grind it a little dry, you can make breaded cereal baba; Grind a little thin, you can filter the powder. As the saying goes, "Money can make the devil grind", and most of the grinding is done by poor people who make cattle and horses for others. In fact, there are also big people in history who have pushed the mill, such as the uncle of the king of Shang, Jizi, Weizi, etc., who offended the king of the Zhou, and the king of the Zhou did not talk about the feelings of uncles and nephews, so he punished them to push the mill, but fortunately they were not stripped of their hearts like Bigan.
Hu Kehao put the dragon ball into the stone mill and grinded it for most of the day, but the dragon ball did not move at all. said that a girl next door was also going to push the mill, but when she saw Hu Kehao pushing the empty grinder, she didn't grind anything out for most of the day, and couldn't help asking: "Big brother, what are you pushing?" Hu Kehao, of course, kept the matter of Dragon Ball a secret, and said: "I'm practicing my strength, and I haven't sharpened anything." “
The little girl was waiting with a large pot of freshly cut corn seeds, and I saw that other people who wanted to grind the grain also came to wait for the wheels. The little girl went to fetch a bucket of water from the well, and Hu Kehao was still pushing the hollow mill there. Later, he was really embarrassed, so he used a black cloth bag to quietly take out the dragon ball from the grinding eye, and tried to find a way to mash it.
Hu Kehao found another nest. This pair of nests is a stone barrel with a polished inside, and a large hammer made of wood. Its basic function is to use rice scooping. At that time, there were no motors in the countryside, so to remove the husk (i.e., chaff) from the top of the rice, it was necessary to use the nest to scoop it.
Hu Kehao put the dragon ball into the nest, and he forgot to sleep and eat, and worked until the evening. Hu Kehao was worried about Lin Xueyi's physical condition, and went into the house to take a look at the oil lamp in Lin Xueyi's room, the light was already very dim, and it was time to convey true qi. Every once in a while, Hu Kehao had to convey true qi to Lin Xueyi according to the method of the Old Immortal Sect.
On this beautiful summer night, Lin Xueyi was dressed very thinly, and her appearance and figure seduced every nerve of Hu Kehao. Hu Kehao gently took off Lin Xueyi's upper clothes, unintentionally admiring her perfect figure. When conveying true qi, you must concentrate and not be distracted, otherwise it is easy to go crazy. Hu Kehao put his hands on Lin Xueyi's snow-white back, urging the true qi in his body, and the smoke swirled above the two of them, and the wisps of true qi were transmitted from Hu Kehao's body to Lin Xueyi's body. Lin Xueyi's complexion became ruddy, and the oil lamp in the room also turned on. In fact, these true qi are all old immortals, Hu Kehao himself will not cultivate true qi, he will only use a little less, he hopes that Lin Xueyi can fully recover before the true qi is exhausted.
Coming out of the room, Hu Kehao found that the dragon balls in the nest were missing! He searched everywhere and was nowhere to be found, and the pearl thief left no trace and could not be found. Hu Kehao really regretted that he was careless and didn't take good care of the Dragon Balls.
Hu Kehao found Master Hong Daoshi and asked him to help find the Dragon Balls. Master Hong came to the scene, used the technique of turning water, filled a bowl of water, lit three small incense sticks, and then recited mantras and prayed, but there was no reaction in the water, and the reflection of the fourth dimensional space could not be seen, and the whereabouts of the Dragon Balls could not be found. This method didn't work, so Master Hong went to fill a basin of water again, and then did it, but still no trace of the dragon ball was found. In the end, I had to fill a bucket of water, drop it on the roof beam, make it spin at high speed, and then light three giant incense sticks to make a move. A few minutes later, the whereabouts of the Dragon Balls appeared in the bucket, which of course only the Hongdao Master could recognize.
"Uncle Hong, can you still find this Dragon Ball?" Hu Kehao asked anxiously.
"I finally found out, this dragon ball is in a fox hole." Master Hong pointed out the approximate location of the cave and asked Lu Zisu, who said that the name of the cave was Bat Cave.
Under the leadership of Hong Daoshi, Hu Kehao came to Bat Village. The village is sparsely populated and apparently dilapidated. At the entrance to the village, they saw a large walnut tree, and under the large walnut tree was an iron chain, to which was attached some kind of skeleton, and it was impossible to distinguish whether it was a human or an animal. Not far from the walnut tree, there are a lot of ants carrying things. On closer inspection, it looks like the skin of some kind of animal. In the distance, a sheep is leisurely nibbling on the dead grass on the side of the road.
The old houses in the village are very dilapidated, and many of the rooms have collapsed, leaving piles of rubble. The house was dimly lit and devastated, with all kinds of broken furniture and long-dead animals such as cockroaches and rats.
Following the guidance of the water transformation, they found the bat cave on the hill behind the village. Master Hong was carrying a compass on his body, and he saw that the pointer shook violently, and the electromagnetic field here was very abnormal. Master Hong Dao had an eye, and he tied a rope to a tree at the entrance of the cave and held the rope in his hand.
"The yin qi here is very heavy, be careful, hurry up and recite the six-character mantra silently to ward off evil spirits." Hongdaoshi shouted.
"Om Ma Ma Horn Mi Ng, Om Ma Horn Mi ......" Hu Kehao kept reading, adding some confidence in his heart.
In this gloomy bat cave, the six-character mantra doesn't seem to play a role. They were suddenly attracted by an invisible force, like a huge whirlpool in the water, sucking them into a deep hole. Hu Kehao found that his body had not changed much, and he was sure that he had not fallen into a black hole, although the hole they fell into was black and there was no light in it.
The cave is about the size of a well, and the surrounding area is smooth and smooth, as long as you are not particularly fat, you can pass through. Neither of them was fat, and they easily fell into the bottom of the cave in turn. Obviously, they are not free-falling, but similar to skating, with a feeling of weightlessness without fainting. After about three or four minutes of falling, the two of them fell to the bottom of the hole.
"Niang Xipi, how can we climb up after falling so deeply." Hu Kehao said. The bottom of the cave is spacious, about the size of a classroom. Lights are lit all around, and everything around you is clearly visible.
"Stay calm, don't be afraid!" Hong Daoshi said.
At the bottom of the cave, the yin qi is even deeper. Master Hong hurriedly meditated, preparing to restrain some yin qi. He found five stones, arranged them in the direction of the five elements, and arranged a five-element array. Then he waved his hands and chanted a spell in his mouth, and after a while he was sweating profusely, and suddenly the Five Elements Array was destroyed by a strange force. Hong Daoist was not discouraged, found eight stones, arranged them according to the direction of the eight trigrams, danced his hands again, and recited a mantra in his mouth, this time it seemed to be useful, Hong Daoist restrained the yin qi inside. It turns out that this is the talisman of the vixen in the Bat Cave.
They hid behind a large rock, and saw a fox kneeling on the ground reverently, and there was a hole the size of a plate at the top of the stone chamber, and the bright moonlight shone in, and a glowing bead was suspended in mid-air, which turned out to be a fox worshipping the moon. The fox's sharp snout burst into the center of the moon, and then breathed deeply into the moon like a diver, until the bright moon swelled its body, and the cold moonlight condensed into crystals on the fox fur, and the fox's cultivation skills would deepen.
Once upon a time, this vixen was just a fox, without any Taoism, without any spirituality, just a fox with a riot. It lives freely in a fox hole under an ancient tree. It is free every day, either to play or to come out in search of food. One day, when he saw a crow in the tree holding on to the meat, he patted the crow's ass and said that the crow's beautiful song was the best in the world, and it was the sound of nature, so the crow got carried away and began to sing, and as soon as he opened his mouth, the meat fell into the fox's mouth.
The fox ate meat that day, and was very happy, and it played freely under the old tree. Usually, the ancient tree where the fox is located is very secluded, and few people come, and even if there are, it is some Langzhong who picks herbs. In the evening of this day, two young men came down from the ancient tree, a man and a woman, talented and beautiful. They panicked, like lovers who had eloped.
"Honey, I can't walk," said the woman. "I don't think my parents can catch up with us anymore." It turned out that the woman's parents wanted to marry her to a sick man from a wealthy family, but the woman was not happy, so she eloped with the current poor scholar. They had been running for a day and a night, and now they had rested under the old tree for a while, and they could not walk at all.
The man set up a simple tent under the old tree, ate dry food with the woman, and then fell asleep to drive away the fatigue of the day's travel. The next day, the couple was still living under the old tree, and the fox was too embarrassed to go out, so he hid in the cave to eat the food. During the day, the men went out to hunt hares, and the women went out to pick fruits, which solved the food problem of the day.
Men and women lived under the ancient trees for more than half a year, hunting and picking wild fruits all day long, and basically had enough food and clothing. This fox absorbed the aura of human beings, and even had the ability to cultivate, and later cultivated into a fox spirit. In order to improve his skills, the vixen stole the Dragon Ball while Hu Kehao was not paying attention in the house.