Chapter 19: The Way of Alchemy, Refining, and Formation (Part 2)
Seeing him smile bitterly, the beggar was puzzled: "Son, what's wrong?" So what's wrong with centipede essence? ”
Tomoko can understand Zuo Xiaoyou's mood at this time. sighed lightly in his heart, gently held his arm, and said in a low voice: "Twenty years ago, not long after my eldest brother and I came to the Western Regions, we met a centipede spirit that was full of fiery red and could breathe poisonous fire. That centipede spirit was killed by me and Big Brother Zuo twenty years ago, but I didn't expect it to be the murderer who killed Big Brother and Yan Daxia. ”
"Uh......" The beggar doesn't know whether he should cry or laugh? In the end, he shook his head and smiled bitterly like Zuo Xiaoyou: "That centipede essence ate Yan Chixia and Hu Li, and you killed the centipede essence again, it is the cycle of heavenly principles, and retribution is unpleasant." ”
Zuo Xiaoyou sighed, threw a silver ingot to the old farmer, and left here.
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On the way home, the beggar took off the gourd from his waist and took a sip of wine and asked, "Son, do you have any ideas?" ”
Zuo Xiaoyou turned his head to look at him: "Why did Dad say this?" ”
"Look at the way you look preoccupied, a fool can see it." The beggar sighed: "I am old, but my eyes are not blind. What the hell are you kid thinking? Is there anything you can't tell me yet? ”
"Makes Dad worried." Left and right apologized.
"Don't tell Daddy it's useless." The beggar said, "What do you think?" ”
Zuo Xiaoyou groaned for a moment, snorted with the BMW under his crotch, and said in a low voice: "I want to kill the old demon of Montenegro." ”
"Black Mountain Old Demon?" The beggar thought for a moment: "The thief head of the underworld and Montenegro? ”
"Hmm." Zuo Xiaoyou nodded and said, "My cultivation with Zhizi has already surpassed the old demon of Black Mountain, and it is not difficult to kill him." ”
"It's really not that hard." The beggar nodded: "It's just a bandit leader in the underworld, it should be easy to send it away." ”
"Hmm." Zuo Xiaoyou also thinks so.
"And when are you going?" The beggar asked, "Do you want Daddy to help?" ”
"It's just an old demon in Montenegro, don't work with your father." Zuo Xiaoyou said: "I'm not in a hurry, I want to spend a few years at home with Zhizi and Zhizi." Wait until it's almost time to make a move. ”
"Whatever you want." Seeing Zuo Xiao's right eyebrows stretched, the beggar smiled, "I should be old at this age." ”
"Dad, how old are you?" This has always been what Zuo Xiaoyou wants to know, and the beggar never said his age.
"What do you think?" The beggar laughed.
The beggar looks like he is about fifty years old, and it has been sixty years since Zuo Xiaoyou met him. Sixty years. The beggar's appearance and hair color have not changed in the slightest, and time has left no trace on him. Both left and right wondered if he had taken some elixir? Otherwise, how could there be no signs of aging at all?
"Dad should be over a hundred years old!" Left small right road.
"Well, almost." The beggar nodded.
"But Dad doesn't look old at all." Zuo Xiaoyou said: "Dad, did you eat something like Zhuyan Dan?" Is there anything else? Divide me. ”
"Stinky boy." The beggar slapped a stick on his right shoulder and scolded with a smile: "How can I have such a low-level thing." ”
"Low-level?" Zhizi was very surprised, and while helping Zuo Xiaoyou rub his shoulders, he said: "Zhuyan Dan is a high-end product, why is it low-level in my father's mouth?" Daddy, do you have anything better? ”
"Uh...... It's nothing. The beggar laughed dryly, and saw Zuo Xiaoyou and Tomoko staring at him directly. Coughed dryly: "I learned some alchemy, refining tools and formation methods in the master back then, and in what I learned, Zhuyan Dan is indeed a low-grade mortal pill, and I can refine thousands of pills casually." ”
"Thousands of pills!?" Tomoko exclaimed, "When to eat? ”
"......" Zuo Xiaoyou felt that this word was very familiar, as if he had heard it somewhere.
"Daddy." Zuo Xiaoyou asked: "No matter what kind of pill, in short, what do you eat to keep your face unchanged, right?" ”
"Almost." The beggar nodded.
"Then can you teach me the way of alchemy, refining, and formation?" Zuo Xiaoyou asked.
The beggar looked at him with a look of embarrassment in his eyes.
"Just because I didn't say it!" Zuo Xiaoyou didn't want to embarrass him and exposed the topic.
The beggar was silent for a moment. took out three jade slips from the cloth bag around his waist and said, "The high-grade ones can't be passed on to you." You can take a look at these basics. ”
"Are you alright?"
"It's fine." The beggar laughed and said: "It's just some superficial things, it's okay to bluff mortals, but it's useless to meet fellow Daoists with a little cultivation." ”
"Thank you, Dad." Zuo Xiaoyou accepted it with confidence.
"How old is Daddy?" The topic was pulled back by the left and the right.
"Still worried?" The beggar was helpless: "What do you care about my age?" ”
"I wonder how long Daddy will live?" Zuo Xiaoyou said: "If the time is not too long, I want to provide for you first and then go to the old demon of Montenegro." But if you still have a long time...... I'll have to make other arrangements. ”
"......" The beggar looked at him with a strange look in his eyes, and said with a smile: "Silly son." You are so sincere, so honest that your father doesn't know whether to praise you or scold you? ”
"I'm just telling the truth." Zuo Xiaoyou said: "Zhizi is a ghost with an infinite life, and I have some adventures and a long lifespan." If there aren't too many accidents, I think Tomoko and I should be able to provide for you in your old age. But this time can't be too long, if you have such a high level of mana, if you can live for another three or five hundred years, then Zhizi and I should make plans early. ”
The beggar sighed twice and said, "Then what if I'm like Zhizi and have an infinite lifespan?" ”
"Then you can only send white-haired people to black-haired people."
“……”
The beggar was silent for a long time, and finally said faintly, "Let me think again." ”
Zuo Xiaoyou nodded and said something that made the beggar sour: "In this world, Zhizi and I are the only one of your relatives left." Dad, we'll take care of you no matter what. ”
"Stinky boy, what are you doing with such meat? I'm not going to eat it. The beggar rushed to the front with his horse, and did not look back.
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A few days later, Guobei County, in the house.
Zuo Xiaoyou and Zhizi learned the rudimentary ways of alchemy, refining tools and formations under the guidance of beggars. But after learning it, I realized that even the most superficial things are quite difficult to learn.
There are so many things involved in this that it takes twenty or thirty years just to lay the foundation. Zuo Xiaoyou is okay, he is a scholar himself, he learns seriously, and his understanding is also very high. But not Tomoko.
Although Zhizi's brain is not stupid, her brain is not flexible enough, and there are many plausible things in alchemy, refining weapons and formations, which basically depend on personal understanding, which is not Zhizi's strong point.
It's okay to let her cut people with a knife, and it's okay to let her do housework, but she can't do it at all when she learns these complex and brain-burning things. After three months of hard work, Tomoko let out a hysterical scream: "It's too hard! I don't study anymore! ”
After that, he picked up the machete and ran outside to play a set of knife techniques, and killed more than a dozen green-skinned ruffians.
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Forty years, a full forty years, Zuo Xiaoyou has learned the foundation of alchemy, refining weapons and formations, and can use them flexibly. As the beggar said, these are really very superficial, and can only be used to bluff and fool mortals, and it is not enough to meet peers or demons and monsters who are a little Taoist.
Although it is a pity that I can't continue to learn profound things, Zuo Xiaoyou is already very content. At least the foundation has been laid so that you will have the opportunity to learn more advanced things in the future.
But just after he had completed his studies, the beggar left a letter and disappeared.
The content of the epistle is very short, only two sentences.
"Son, daughter-in-law, I'm going back to the mountain gate, don't come to me."
"Live a good life, don't worry about me, because I'm also immortal."
Apart from these two sentences, the beggar left nothing. Zuo Xiaoyou and Zhizi were sad for a few days, and they both thought it was time to kill the old demon of Montenegro and go home.
Late at night, outside Lanruo Temple.
Zuo Xiao held two pig-killing knives that had been refined into magic weapons in his right hand, aiming at the void and slashing. As the space twisted, a spatial rift appeared.
The yin wind hit and blew on Zuo Xiaoyou and Zhizi, Zuo Xiaoyou felt a cold, but Zhizi took a breath with enjoyment: "The air inside is so good." ”
"......" left and right: "The gate of the underworld has been opened, we don't have much time, so let's solve it quickly." ”
"Understood!" Tomoko was holding the Kaishan machete in one hand, and the aura of sharp gold poured into it, turning the originally silver Kaishan machete into a golden yellow.
"Let's go!"
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Hades, Montenegro.
The old demon of Montenegro is not a monster cultivated into a spirit by jackals, tigers and leopards, or flowers and trees, but a monster transformed into a whole mountain. The whole Black Mountain is his body, and the name of the old demon of Black Mountain comes from this.
The old demon of Montenegro has more than 2,000 years of Taoism, and his strength in the underworld is definitely not comparable to the king of Yama, nor can he compare to the judge, but it is no problem to deal with the bull head and horse face, black and white impermanence, plus the black mountain is located in a remote area, and the old demon of Montenegro also knows the severity, knows what can be taken advantage of, and what can not be taken advantage of, resulting in what he does not affect the operation of the underworld, and the king of Yama also turned a blind eye and let him be a demon king on a small hill in the underworld.
The old demon of Montenegro has hundreds of ghost soldiers, all of whom are powerful ghosts for more than 100 years, relying on the strength in his hands, the old demon of Montenegro goes to the sun from time to time to make trouble, and catches some female ghosts for his pastime. Back then, Nie Xiaoqian was the concubine prepared by the tree demon grandmother to please the old demon of Montenegro, but because of the insertion of Zuo Xiaoyou, the tree demon grandmother was cut off by Zuo Xiaoyou before she could marry Nie Xiaoqian.
The death of the tree demon grandmother made the old demon of Montenegro a little angry, but at that time, Yan Chixia was living in seclusion in Lanruo Temple, and Yan Chixia's strength was no worse than that of the old demon of Montenegro, so the old demon of Montenegro did not dare to do anything with him.
The old demon of Montenegro thought that such days would go on forever, but today, his good days came to an end. (To be continued.) )
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