After saying this, my master began to smoke again.

I listened to the loud voice and laughed: "Hehe, what fire is burning your eyebrows?" I don't know you yet, isn't it just for your precious apprentice! ”

My master sighed and said, "Alas, in my life, how difficult it is to accept apprentices, senior brother, you know. When I went to the old lady's house that day, I saw that her Yang Blood Refining Technique had already taken shape, and if I didn't break it quickly, Yang Yang would not survive that night. ”

"You know how to protect your apprentice," said in a loud voice half-seriously and half-jokingly, "but you don't care about my apprentice?" Youyi was almost demoted for that incident. ”

At this time, a gentle voice sounded again: "Okay, for Youyi, this can be regarded as an experience, after all, it is a righteous line to accept disciples, and he should worry more about it." Besides, Mrs. Li's matter is also an opportunity, if it weren't for her, Senior Brother Chai probably wouldn't be able to accept this disciple, and the inheritance of the upright line would probably be broken. ”

The loud voice echoed: "It's also the same reason." Woe is what blessing depends on. It is precisely because of Mrs. Li's ring, what is the name of that child......"

My master answered: "Yangyang." ”

The loud voice continued: "Yes, Yangyang's Heavenly Eye will not take shape so smoothly. This child, not to mention his life, has grown a pair of heavenly eyes, not to mention, these eyes have now become a fire, which can't be begged for! Hehe, this kid was born to do this! At the beginning, I calculated that you would meet an apprentice who was destined to be inseparable, but I didn't expect it to be such a good ......."

Halfway through the words, the loud voice didn't know why it suddenly stopped talking.

The gentle voice before became a little solemn: "What? Did you calculate? How do you calculate, don't you know that the inheritance of our three veins cannot be communicated? ”

"I didn't steal your things," the loud voice immediately defended: "I studied the Fuxi gossip by myself, so this is not an exchange with you." Besides, doesn't there also have a small calculation in the vein of Shouzheng, is that also interconnected with Tunmeng? ”

The gentle voice replied angrily: "You, you have been smart since you were a child, but you have to have a bottom line if you are smart, don't go to the end, you will be smart and mistaken." After that, he changed the subject: "By the way, have you thought of a new name for Yangyang?" ”

My master spat out a cigarette and said, "Since our vein wants to be enlightened by Hongchen, and Yangyang is the character of 'You', let's call Zuo Youdao in the future." ”

"Is there a way?" The loud voice said: "This name is good, why didn't I think of it back then, hey, Feng Youdao, listen to it, is it smoother than Zuo Youdao, Senior Brother Chai, otherwise, you give us this name Youyi, and your apprentice will be called Zuo Youyi ......in the future."

A gentle voice immediately interrupted him: "Don't interrupt! Senior Brother Chai, this name change is not necessarily a trivial matter for Yangyang's family. ”

"I know," Master responded, "I discussed with Yangyang's parents last night, and they agreed. ”

I only then knew that I had to change my name when I entered the master's door, and when I thought about it, my two senior brothers, one was Zhuang Youxue and the other was Feng Youyi, and they really had the word "have" in the middle. But since I was in school, the teacher called me Zuo Kang, and I was really not used to changing my name suddenly.

But in any case, the name that my master gave me at the beginning was Zuo Youdao. However, the name on my household registration book has not changed, and now my ID card still says "Zuo Kang", but people who know me well call me Zuo Youdao, so that sometimes I look at my ID card, I will have an illusion, as if the person on the ID card is not me at all.

And these two names also caused me a lot of trouble in the future.

At this time, there was a knock on the door of the next room, and I heard Senior Brother Zhuang say outside, "Master, Uncle, it's an auspicious time." ”

After a while, Senior Brother Zhuang pushed open the door of the north room again and told me to go out, while Senior Brother Feng entered the house and took out the three picture scrolls.

When I went out, I found that all the people in the living room had stood up, not for me, but for my master and the other two masters.

The person with a very gentle voice just now was the master of the Tunmeng lineage and the master of Senior Brother Zhuang. I feel that he is very similar to Senior Brother Zhuang, not about his appearance, but his temperament, all of which make people feel kind in their hearts, but in addition to being kind, Uncle Da also looks very festive, he is very fat, but the proportion of his limbs is very good, and he does not have a big belly that fat people generally have, such a figure, and he also wears a red Zhongshan suit, which looks really festive.

The person with a loud voice is the master of Yuxian's lineage, the master of Senior Brother Feng, although his voice is high-pitched and loud, but the whole person looks incompatible with his voice, he is very thin, thinner than my master, and he looks very old, his face is full of wrinkles, not to mention, his white hair is piled up on his head in a mess, and there are those eyes, half-open, always looking at people with white eyes, and he looks like he is half dead.

My master's name is Chai Zongyuan, Master Tunmeng's name is Xia Zongming, and Master Yuxian's name is Zhao Zongxin. And the people gathered in the room at this time, except for me, Senior Brother Zhuang and Senior Brother Feng, are all seniors of the sect generation.

I was led by Senior Brother Zhuang to meet the two masters, and my master took the scroll from Senior Brother Feng and hung it on the north wall in order of Heavenly Master, Earth Master, and First Ancestor.

After that, it's time for the formal apprenticeship ceremony.

In the Soul Village, whether it is to worship the master in the right line, you have to go through three rituals.

The first prostration is to meet the three ancestors, and everyone in the room kneels down facing the north wall, and the master will take the recitation, and the master will recite a sentence, and the rest of us will follow suit. I can't remember the specific content of the ceremony, probably that it means that with the blessing of the patriarch, the inheritance of the righteous line has been passed down from generation to generation.

We are upright and accept apprentices, and the etiquette is all recited by the head of the Tunmeng lineage, so even my master can't remember the extremely lengthy etiquette.

After reciting the ceremony, I was taken by the master and offered incense to the three patriarchs, and the master said, the Jisoul Village passed on to my generation is exactly the 55th generation, so after lighting the three incense sticks, I will bow to the three patriarchs three times and kowtow nine times, and then kowtow 55 heads, the first 53 are for the ancestors of the previous generations before my master, the 54th head is for my master, and the last one is for my own immortality.

At the time, I didn't know what it meant to be immortal, but that's what my master said.

After these 55 heads are kowtowed, the first salute is over.

The second salute is tea, as before, first to the three ancestors, then to my master, and then to the two masters of Tunmeng and Yuxian.

The last salute is also a unique ritual in the vein of Shouzheng - the coffin.

My master first bowed to the three ancestors three times, then picked up a small red cloth bag from the table where the incense burner was placed, held it high above his head, and shouted, "Please coffin!" ”

As soon as my master shouted this, the people in the house, including my two masters and uncles, immediately stood up, and they seemed to have made all their preparations and left the house with great speed and order, and went into the courtyard.

I didn't know whether to stay or follow them out, but Senior Brother Zhuang waved his hand at me when he closed the door, signaling me to stay.

After everyone had left, my master unfolded the red cloth bag, and I found that it was full of thin needles made of unknown ingredients, some of which were as red as blood, and others as black as charcoal.

My master asked me to take off my shirt and expose my back, then took a small wet cotton ball from the table, walked to my back with a serious face, and wiped it on my back.

The cotton balls had been soaked in potion beforehand, which was a kind of numbing, and as Master kept wiping on my back, my back soon lost consciousness.

The Master kept the cotton ball on his side and said to me, "Turn around and face your head south." ”

I was kneeling facing the north wall where the three masters were, but when I turned around, I realized that it was not only my back that was unconscious at this moment, but also my waist was numb, and I could hardly use my strength.

I became a little worried and asked Master, "Why can't I use my waist anymore?" ”

My master glanced at me and said very seriously, "It's good to wait a while, don't talk!" ”

Then, I vaguely felt that Master was holding something on my back little by little, because my back was very numb, and that feeling was not very real, but other than that, every time my Master pricked me, I could clearly feel a trace of coldness, this feeling was much clearer, and it was so cold, as if it was gradually seeping into my body from the skin on my back, until it reached a very deep place in my heart, and then suddenly disappeared.

It was like my master had planted something in my body.

This process went on for a long time, and I didn't know it was over until my master let out a long breath.

So I asked my master, "Master, what did you put on my back?" ”

The master lit a dry cigarette and said, "Plant a coffin." This black water corpse coffin seal is the essence of our uprightness, but although this seal on your body has been planted, it is useless at present, in another two years, you will have to go back to Sichuan with me to enter the family tree, and you will have to plant a coffin again, and at that time, the black water corpse coffin mark on your back will be formed. ”

The temperature was a little cold, I hurriedly put on my clothes, and couldn't help asking, "What is the black water corpse coffin print?" ”

Master came up to me, put his back to me, lifted his clothes again, and said to me, "This is it." ”