Chapter 12: Apprenticeship

When I got up the next day, I was still a little "floating" when I walked, but it was obviously not a slight dizziness caused by physical weakness, nor was it the reason for my body becoming thinner. I was a little eager to try it, and I jumped on the spot and actually jumped to a height of about 1.5 meters, which I would never have been able to do before.

On a whim, I ran out of the door, and with a few steps, I easily jumped onto the courtyard wall of my neighbor's house about two meters high!

Damn, am I going to do it lightly? I was stunned for a while, tried again, jumped up again, and found that the running was very brisk, and the sprint speed was significantly faster than before.

Could this be the change brought about by the change of the demon fox's heroism? Zhou Tan said that the heroic spirit dominates the physique, and it seems that my physique has improved in an all-round way!

Without waiting for breakfast, I rushed to Zhou Tan's house, and when I knocked on the door, he was wearing a thick dress, his already yellow eyes were bloodshot, and he looked tired, obviously he didn't sleep well all night.

"Mr. Zhou, morning." I nodded hello to him.

"What's new?" He smiled a little, a bit like an old fox looking at a big.

I said that my running speed and jumping ability had improved significantly, and that shili and hearing seemed to have improved, but he just nodded and turned around and walked inside without saying anything.

"Mr. Zhou, yesterday you said that the demon fox was sealed in my body, is this safe?"

"It's not safe." He didn't look back and said, "My cultivation is not high, its cultivation is very high, I can't hold it down for a long time, it will wake up at any time." ”

I was even more furious and hurriedly asked, "Where is it now?" ”

"I sealed it in your spine, but it's just a mark, not really anything in it. The so-called seal is a bit like modern hypnosis, it is in a state of awakening, and it wakes up when it encounters a stimulus or a specific situation......"

I knew he already had a solution, so I wasn't too anxious and followed him into the house. Zhou Tan asked me to sit down before saying, "Are you going to be a teacher again, or are you going to do something else?" ”

I didn't know that he Weishenme suddenly asked this, and asked him instead: "Does this have anything to do with the seal on my body?" ”

"Yes!" Zhou Tan said with certainty, "Only if you are stronger than the fox spirit can you suppress it, and if you are stronger than it, you have to worship me as a teacher and practice my unique exercises!" ”

He said very surely, but his eyes did not look directly at me, and then I thought of his treacherous smile at the door, I guessed that he was lying, so I stood up: "The person who made me into a vegetative person is called Lu Chengshan, it is said that he is a Taishan Beidou-level master in the current Taoist world, and he wants to take me as an apprentice, but I refused." ”

Zhou Tan was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly said: "I am not a Taoist, I am Mr. Yin and Yang, my Zhou family has been passed down for hundreds of years, and it is the most orthodox Yin and Yang family, and the sons are not passed on to women, and only the eldest male ...... has been passed down through the dynasties."

He found himself slipping out of his mouth, looking a little cramped. He only has one son, who has been imprisoned, and he is probably not interested in this business, so he can't pass it on, so the purpose of taking me as an apprentice is not so simple. I smiled, he was even more embarrassed, he was an old loach who couldn't slip his hands, but he cared too much about it.

Zhou Tan said very sincerely: "I didn't lie to you, you really need to learn spells from me to suppress it, otherwise you won't live to be thirty years old!" ”

I was a little surprised: "Is this true? ”

Zhou Tan coughed for a while, and said very seriously: "Seriously." I've calculated your eight characters, you have a catastrophe at the age of thirty, and there is almost no chance of surviving it, so I think that's when the vixen woke up, right? At that time, I was already dead, and others may not be able to save you, you have to rely on yourself. ”

I'm a little panicked, Zhou Tan can save me, it has proven his strength, and I can't ignore the results he calculated. I'm twenty years old now, and if I don't live to be thirty years old, I only have ten years left, my ideals, aiqing, and career haven't started yet, and I still have my mother to support, where is ten years enough? Many people don't want to die after they live to be 100 years old!

Zhou Tan was afraid that I wouldn't believe it, and said: "Shouyuan can also be seen from the strength of a person's innate ancestral qi, and you are only about thirty years old." ”

I was even more nervous and thought about the question: "If I was destined to live to be thirty years old, would I be able to change that?" ”

"Yes, I have at least five ways to extend your lifespan, I only accept one apprentice from you, and I definitely can't let the inheritance of the Zhou family be broken in you, so I will definitely not let you die."

Recent encounters have made me extremely curious and interested in these mysterious things, and it is not impossible to worship him as a teacher, but I have to figure out the chips in his hand: "What are some ways to prolong life?" If it's all that easy, there would be a lot of immortal people on Shijie. ”

Zhou Tan didn't rush to explain, and told me two short stories.

There was a mother who asked for the fate of her son, and the fortune teller said that he would not live to be thirteen years old, and that he could only be resolved by sending him to the temple to become a monk. The mother was suspicious and found a monk, who also said that her son would not live to be thirteen years old, so the mother had to leave her son behind. When the child was thirteen years old, the monk was afraid that his mother would blame him if he died in the temple, so he persuaded him to go home to visit his mother. When the child went home to visit his mother, and then returned to the temple to live a good life, the monk asked him if he had encountered anything strange when he returned home. The child said that on the way home, there was a heavy rain, and an anthill was about to be washed away, so he fenced it with dirt and covered it with leaves.

Another story is that of a son who asked for a test for his mother, and the fortune teller said that his mother was dead, but in fact his mother was still alive, but only fell seriously ill that year, and the reason for this was that his mother did countless good deeds in her life and escaped the fixed number.

I understand the reason why Zhou Tan told these two stories, that is, doing more good deeds can change a person's fate. Zhou Tan said meaningfully: "We do yin and yang, give people guidance, leak heavenly opportunities, and even change our lives against the sky, which will inevitably hurt ourselves, so we must do good deeds and accumulate virtue." Chairman Deng said that education should start from the baby, and good deeds should be done as soon as possible, so that the little sapling can be righted, and an old tree like me that has rotted roots and lost its leaves can only wait to rot! ”

I was still hesitating, and Zhou Tan said again: "There are many secret methods that can prolong life, but it is not easy for me to explain to you, and you will naturally know after learning it." Today is the auspicious day of the zodiac, suitable for sacrifices, seeking wealth, signing contracts, marrying, making alliances, etc., so let's apprentice today. ”

I didn't have a choice at all, I didn't want to die and had to apprentice. Zhou Tan took me to the hall, picked up two painting scrolls and hung them in the main hall, the middle one is an old man with a bald head and long beard, a high forehead, a big nose and a wide mouth, a magnificent appearance, this painting itself is also an antique, the paper is yellow and damaged, not to mention that it has a history of hundreds of years. In the painting next to him is a middle-aged man in Taoist costume, with sword eyebrows, a nose like a hanging gall, and three black whiskers, quite a bit of fairy wind bones.

Zhou Tan lit incense and candles, told me to kneel, and said: "In the center is Guiguzi, the founder of the Yin and Yang family, you kowtow three times." ”

It turns out that the patriarch of the Yin and Yang family is Guiguzi, and it seems that the history is not very long, and it can't compare to the Sanqing patriarch of Taoism...... I knelt down and kowtowed three times, Zhou Tan saw the doubt in my eyes, and said: "The five elements of yin and yang were there as early as the opening of the world, and the predecessor of the yin and yang family may be the ancient 'witch', and after the dynasty, the ancestor of the Guigu collected and carried it forward, so the Yin and Yang gentlemen after the Qin and Han dynasties respected him as the founder of the mountain." ”

I nodded, Guiguzi I know, the famous thinker, strategist, Taoist, soldier, educator, and longitudinal and horizontal family in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, is a strange person through the ages, with the ability to penetrate the heavens and the earth, and the unpredictable technique, but I didn't expect him to be the ancestor of the Yin and Yang family.

Zhou Tan said: "The ancestors of my Zhou family have been passed down for seven generations, and the one on the left is the first generation of patriarchs, so you can also kowtow three times." ”

I kowtowed three more times, looked up and took a serious look, and found that his appearance was not similar to Zhou Tan, after all, it was normal to be different from Zhou Tan after six generations.

Zhou Tan also knelt down to the idol and prayed, and then took a Taishi chair and sat in the center: "The gift of master and apprentice cannot be abolished, you should also kowtow three times." ”

In the face of this extremely obscene prospective master, I have a feeling that I have been fooled, he didn't sleep well all night, he must be calculating to take me as an apprentice, and even two portraits of the patriarch have been prepared...... But the patriarch has worshipped, which means that the raw rice has been cooked and cooked, and this master can't help but worship.

"Meet Master!" I kowtowed three times.

On October 5, 1995, the 11th day of the eighth month of the second year of the lunar calendar, I was not determined and was abducted by the old god, from a people's teacher to a little god, and began the biggest turning point in my life......

After the apprenticeship, I had a disagreement with Master about the official identity of our profession, I had only heard that there was an Onmyoji in Japan, and in China it should be called Mr. Yinyang. And my master said that Mr. Yin and Yang is the Onmyoji, and in the past, the teachers in the private school were all called "Mr.", so "Mr" is the "teacher", and Mr. Yin and Yang is the Onmyoji.

Zhou Tan Zhenzhen said: "Since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the powerful people in the Yin and Yang family are called Onmyoji, which has been slowly differentiated and changed later, some are called astronomers, some are called geographers, and some are called fortune tellers...... The Japanese Onmyoji is passed down by Xu Fu, Xu Fu is a registered disciple of the Guigu Patriarch, we are orthodox, they are the collateral. ”

I was very poor in this knowledge, so I could only believe what he said for the time being, and I thought of another question: "What is the difference between us and the Taoist priests?" ”

"The ancestors and gods worshiped by the onmyoji and the Taoist priest are a little different, the cultivation techniques are different, and there are also some differences in the runes and spells, but the biggest difference is the different purposes. The purpose of the Taoist priest is to be pure and inactive, the real Taoist only cultivates himself, only works hard to become an immortal, swallows the mist and spits out the mist, nourishes the qi and alchemy, and contemplates the Dao of enlightenment, regardless of the trivial things of mortals. The purpose of Onmyoji is to connect heaven and earth, balance yin and yang, and benefit the world, all for the needs of the people, in today's words, 'serving the people'. Of course, the service also has to charge a little money, so you can say that it is 'for the RMB'. ”

I daxiao, I didn't expect him to have a humorous side, so far I realized that Weishenme Lu Chengshan couldn't save me, but the old god stick could save me, this is a specialty, each has its own strengths. On cultivating the Tao and becoming an immortal, the day is soaring, and the onmyoji is far inferior to the Taoist; But when it comes to subduing demons and serving ghosts, exorcising evil spirits and summoning spirits, the onmyoji is stronger than the Taoist.

At the end of the talk, I invited Master to my house for dinner, no matter how obscene he was, whether he fooled me or not, he was my Master and my savior, and he should be honored.