The clay figure monk has a strange look that looks like a mockery. But at this point, no one wants to care about the implications.

Mr. Lu grabbed the bead, held it up in front of the clay monk, and asked eagerly, "Do you know this bead?" "The battle is all over.

The clay figure monk nodded and said, "I know." You are a Taoist priest, don't you know? ”

Immediately afterwards, he suddenly realized: "That's right, more than a thousand years have passed, and I'm afraid there really is no one who knows it." ”

Mr. Lu glared and said, "This thing has something to do with Taoism?" In this way, the ancestor got it by accident? ”

The clay monk said: "Your Central Plains Dynasty, after the Han Dynasty, is ...... What is it? ”

I blurted out: "Three kingdoms and two jin." ”

The clay figure monk nodded: "Yes, this is it." At that time, the aristocracy all liked to cultivate the Tao, and everyone wanted to live forever. You should know this better than me, after all, you are from the Central Plains. ”

I nodded and said, "That's right, Taoism was indeed prosperous at that time. ”

The clay monk said: "There are more and more of these Taoist priests, one in a thousand, there are always one or two excellent ones." And then there are so many talented people. They summed up the experience of the previous generation and wrote several books dedicated to how to refine the elixir. Of course, this book is full of mistakes, otherwise, they themselves would have soared to immortality first. However, this book has been continuously circulated and improved, and when it came to the Tang Dynasty, there was a Taoist priest who had really practiced the pill by mistake. ”

I swallowed and foamed at the mouth and asked, "Elixir?" ”

The clay man monk shook his head: "Is it so easy to become an immortal?" The old monk has lived for so many years, and he has never heard of anyone who has taken the pill and ascended to immortality. The immortal trails are ethereal, no one has ever seen them, I think your immortals in the Central Plains are not like they are real, but like rumors. ”

He looked at Mr. Lu and said, "I advise you not to cultivate the Tao, come with me, chant sutras and worship the Buddha, wouldn't it be better." ”

Mr. Lu just smiled bitterly and said nothing.

The clay figure monk paused, and then said: "Although this pill is not an elixir, after eating it, it can indeed strengthen the body, and the Taoist skills have increased greatly, which is worthy of many years of practice by others. ”

I nodded and said, "That's good." And then? Has the method of making zuò been handed down? ”

The clay figure monk shook his head with a wry smile and said, "The Taoist priest who practiced the pill was afraid that other people would snatch the pill. So soon after Dancheng, he burned the recipe. Subsequently, the bearer of the pill escaped from the mountains and forests and disappeared into this world. ”

I glared and said, "Why did he do that?" ”

The clay figure monk smiled and said, "The human heart is sinister. If he didn't do this, someone would definitely come and rob his pill and destroy his pill. This kind of good thing, everyone wants to keep it for themselves, and they don't want to spread it, so it's certain that he will be killed. ”

I couldn't help but nod and said, "That's true." It seems that this Taoist priest is doing the right thing. ”

The clay monk said: "It's a pity that the sky and the earth are big, but he couldn't escape after all. Eventually, he was found. The elixir also fell into the hands of those people. In the decades that followed, this pill turned into a poison, and whoever got it would immediately attract a frenzied pursuit by Taoist priests. Later, it was no longer just a Taoist priest. Almost all the forces in the world have joined the competition. ”

Speaking of this, the clay monk pointed to the black bead in Mr. Lu's hand: "This is the elixir of the year." There is only one such one in the world. At that time, everyone in the world was saying that after taking this pill, its strength was infinite and invincible in the world. In fact, if it only has this role, it will not be able to chase the heroes of the world. I guess there are other secrets hidden in this elixir, but no one knows what this secret is, unless the pill can be found. ”

Mr. Lu pinched the black bead and kept saying, "It turned out to be an elixir, it turned out to be a pill." ”

I asked a little strangely, "Why don't those Taoist priests who got the pill swallow it?" Wouldn't you have to worry about the enemy? ”

Mr. Lu smiled miserably: "I guess, they all swallowed it." You forgot? Where did we get this elixir? ”

I was stunned for a moment, and then said, "In the stomach of Master Zu." ”

Mr. Lu nodded and said, "It is indeed a treasure." Presumably, after being swallowed, it will not be digested, but will remain intact in the human body. Until someone pulls it out and swallows it by another person. ”

What Mr. Lu said was very bloody, and I couldn't help frowning.

Xue Qian asked, "Lu Laodao, do you want to swallow it too?" ”

Mr. Lu shook his head: "This, I don't know either." I don't want to be disemboweled, put my hand in my intestines, and take something like this. But if you don't swallow it, I'm afraid the trip to the Double Ninth Festival will not be easy......"

As soon as Mr. Lu mentioned the Chung Yeung Festival, I remembered the empty house. I couldn't help but say: "Master Zu once said that the person who harmed him back then was the person in the empty house. In this case, the empty house also wants to get this elixir? ”

Mr. Lu thought for a while and said, "I am afraid that they got the pill, probably not for the Dao technique, but probably to study it, restore the pill of the year, and then unlock the secrets in the pill." ”

The clay figure monk told us about the elixir, and then he carried two paintings on his back and went to the house.

It was dark and he quickly disappeared into the darkness. Never found again. I don't know what he was going to do, maybe he would let out the discernment machine and be reincarnated, or maybe he would sit in bitter meditation for another thousand years. But that's not something I should worry about.

After the clay figure left, the lights in the room came back on.

We slept haphazardly at Xue Qian's house. When I opened my eyes the next day, the sun was high in the west, and it was already evening.

I watched the sunset and felt like a world away.

Aunt Xue set the meal and said, "The three of you have slept for a day, hurry up and eat." ”

I devoured the rice, and my stomach was round.

When I had eaten my fill, I was a little worried, for it was getting late, and I was afraid that I would have to go back to the empty house.

I rubbed around Aunt Xue's house for a while, and then I could only sigh and walk out.

I walked around the main road. Suddenly, I noticed that a lot of fallen leaves appeared on the ground.

I looked up a little strangely, it was still summer, how could there be so many fallen leaves?

The big trees overhead swayed back and forth in the wind, but the leaves could not be seen. I shook my head and walked absent-mindedly.

Suddenly, a piece of paper money landed on my collar. The outside is round and the inside is square, just like a copper coin. However, it is much lighter and thinner than copper coins.

My scalp tingled with fright, I screamed, and shook my body on the road.

At this time, I suddenly realized that it was not a copper coin that fell on me, but an elm coin. Only then did I settle down, and I thought: this thing is really like paper money.

I just thought of this, but my heart tightened again: where did I get the elm money here?

There used to be a lot of locust trees growing in this place, but after the Yin ghost woman left, the locust trees had been cut down, and no one planted elms here at all.

What's more, elm money is something that only appears in spring, this season, where does elm money come from?

When I thought of this, I became more and more frightened, and I ran towards the empty house as if I had gone crazy.

I ran for a while, then suddenly stopped and thought, "What the hell I ran into on the road." In the empty house, I also bumped into ghosts. Why am I in such a hurry to run back? ”

Thinking of this, I am not in a hurry. Stand on the side of the road and look back cautiously.

There was no one behind him, but there was a lot of elm money scattered on the road. From afar, they stretched to my feet, like a road specially paved for me.

Suddenly, a gust of wind blew, and the elm money rose with the wind, and it really looked like paper money on the grave.

I asked, "Who are you?" ”

There was no one behind him to talk to. This silence scared me even more.

I forced myself to turn around and walk towards the empty house. There was a tendon in my body, and as I walked, I clenched my teeth and thought, "You wait for me to walk to the empty house, and when I hold the big knife on the bedside, I am not afraid of you, no matter who you are." ”

Seeing that the empty house is in front of you. I walked over happily. When I stood at the door, I was stunned. I saw a half-burning candle on the broken table.

Sweat began to break through my head: "Who helped me light the candle?" Is there something else in this room? ”

I stood at the door for a while, and when I noticed that there was nothing unusual inside, I walked in step by step. I reached for my big knife. But when I put my hand on the bed, I realized that the bed was already full of elm money. My broadsword was buried in this elm money.