However, this old man is old, and he has long since washed his hands. People only know that he is a half-immortal body who can pinch and calculate, but they don't know that this old man was originally also a Maoshan Taoist priest who subdued demons and subdued demons.

"Jiuling, why are you here this time?" After entering the house, Old Man Chen first put a stick of incense on the Maoshan Patriarch who was offered inside, and then sat there generously and asked the Ninth Master.

"You should know that we are here for the souls of this courtyard." The Ninth Master said, bowing his hand respectfully.

When the old man heard this, he nodded, and then sighed and said to the ninth master, "That's right, someone should be in charge of it for so many years." By the way, you saw the stuff in the house? ”

"See." The Ninth Master said, looked back at me, and bowed his head and bent down to make a respectful gesture: "Uncle Chen, there is a sentence that I don't know whether to say or not, I saw a Buddha statue on the wall, which is offered in this room, but the blood is like this?" ”

"Well, you guessed it right, what is enshrined here is the bloody Rulai." The old man said, took the cigarette pouch and clicked it twice, and said, "When the old man surnamed Chu came, I asked Cui Fen to remind him, but he was obsessed with buying this house." Alas, isn't that iniquity? You don't know, the owner of this house is a demon monk, his magic power is very strong, not worse than me at all, decades ago, I couldn't help but see him do evil. After struggling hard, I finally forced him away, but I didn't think that I would accidentally cause such a pile of rotten, it's useless to talk too much, this is fate"

Hearing him say this, it was as if he had known what was going on inside, which made me very puzzled, "Old Man Chen, aren't you a Maoshan Taoist?" ”

"What, don't you think so?" When the old man heard this, he looked at me with great interest.

"No, no, no, I didn't mean that, I just wondered, since you are a Maoshan Heavenly Master with great magical powers, then why do you have to sit idly by and ignore this matter? Catching ghosts and subduing demons is a trivial matter for people like you."

As soon as I said this, I regretted it a little, and it seemed a bit rude to ask him like this. Seeing this, the ninth master hurriedly kicked me, and then waved his hands and smiled: "There is no way to hide it, Uncle Shi is not strange." ”

"It's okay, it's okay." Old Man Chen said, waved his hand, knocked the cigarette ash in the cigarette pouch into the iron box beside him, and said to me slowly, "Child, do you know what the five disadvantages and three deficiencies are? ”

"Yes." Nodding, I said.

"Then do you know why Maoshan Taoist priests can't do without these five disadvantages and three shortcomings?" Nodding, he said.

The ninth master said that this is because most of the Taoist priests of Maoshan need to borrow from the ancestors to cast spells. The more you borrow, the more you will repay, and in order to prevent the misuse of spells, you must make these Dao magic powers bear some costs and risks. This is for checks and balances, and it is also the way of heaven. Mixing the Ninth Master's statement with my personal understanding, I quickly replied.

"Well, you're right, since you know this, you should understand. The Maoshan Warlock is doing the right thing for the heavens, and there are some things that have long been destined in the dark, even if they are wrong, there are causes and effects in their previous lives. People who don't know cause and effect can take advantage of the situation, but knowing that cause and effect have to forcibly intervene is a great sin. ”

"Are you saying that the reason why you have been delaying your move is because you are afraid of Heavenly Numerology?" His words reminded me of the old Dao Elder's many expositions on the numerology of the Heavenly Dao, and now it seems that these strange people who can pinch and calculate are very similar.

"It's not fear, it's observance. Heaven is constant, not for Yao, not for death. The old man said, took out a purse, stuffed the tobacco leaves into the pipe, and then struck a match to light the tobacco leaves in the pipe and locked his eyes on me again.

I think the old man must have seen something, but he had scruples and was reluctant to say it.

"Uncle Shi, don't interfere in this matter, if it's inconvenient for you to make a move, let me help him." Standing respectfully to the side, the Ninth Master suddenly opened his voice, listening to his tone, it didn't seem like he was discussing, but like pleading.

"Yes, yes. Jiuling, did your father teach you feng shui physiognomy? Old Man Chen said, rolling his old eyes and looking at Jin Jiuye.

"A little bit of fur, not proficient." The ninth master said, his old face flushed.

As far as I know, the ninth master can read feng shui and understand yin and yang, but if you say that this is a hexagram, then he can't do it. Compared with the ability to hunt ghosts and subdue demons, the ninth master's attainments in this area can even be described as blank.

"Hehe, your father still understands you, so it's right if you don't learn." Old man Chen said, smiled, and then patted the chair and said to the ninth master, "Give the ancestor a pillar of incense, you can do it, it has been many years, and these children are also pitiful." ”

"Thank you, uncle." When the ninth master heard this, if he was amnesty, he hurriedly ran over and put a stick of incense on the ancestor of Maoshan, and then said hello to the old man Chen and called me to leave in a hurry.

As soon as I went out, I pulled him and whispered, "Ninth Master, who is this?" Seems to be amazing."

"Of course it's amazing, his name is Chen Daoling, and he is my third uncle, that is, my grandfather's third apprentice. His ability is second to none in that generation, and even people like Uncle Baimei, who have eyes above the top, are afraid of him. "Walking in front with his hands behind his back, the ninth master said.

"And how is he better than you?" Hearing this, I asked.

"A world of difference." The ninth master said, smiling self-deprecatingly, this sentence really surprised me. From the attitude of the ninth master, it can be seen that there is indeed a gap between him and the old man, but I really didn't expect that the gap between the two people would be so huge!

What is this concept? Thinking about it, this may not be, as a junior, there is nothing difficult to understand when the ninth master is modest. Although I have the impression that this fat man has always been not very modest.

"By the way, Ninth Master, what do you think of that demon monk?" Suddenly remembered this stubble, and I asked him while there was no one around.

After hearing this, the ninth master did not hide it, took the backpack back from my hand and said to himself: "On our side, there are only a few kinds of people who can do magic, there is a shamanic witch culture in the north, there is a technique of bowing the head in the south of the sea, there are monks and monks in the middle of the earth, there are countless tributaries of all sizes, here, there are not a few people with magical powers, and there are endless swords that go sideways, think about it, you can't ask everyone to abide by the tradition of cleansing themselves, okay, I guess, that monk is also a ruthless character." You kid, if you have time, learn more skills, maybe one day, there will be such a guy jumping out to take your life. ”