While we were hunting the camels in the mountains, the public security organs carried out a comprehensive round-up of the Butterfly Gang, arrested their main personnel, and smashed many counterfeiting, pornography, and casinos.

The actions of the Butterfly Gang have long been in the hands of the people and have aroused great concern from the higher-level departments, and this crackdown has been planned for a long time, and the leaders of the provincial and municipal public security departments have personally taken command and mobilized a large number of people's police and armed policemen from other places to arrest them at the same time in more than a dozen townships and villages with a thunderous force.

Master and I happened to meet at the meeting, lured Chen Youyuan, Chen Biao, and others to the mountain, transferred a large number of their weapons, and cut them off from the outside world, making it impossible to command and mobilize personnel, which brought great convenience to the actions of the people's police. In fact, there are no armed robberies at all, and this is only an excuse to mobilize the police, so that the Butterfly Gang will not be alert. Most of the local police officers have benefited from Chen Youyuan and the Butterfly Gang, so they have been controlled and isolated, and the telephone lines in Houli Village have also been deliberately cut......

Fortunately, two police comrades witnessed Chen Biao pointing a gun at my head, so Master and I were just coerced old and small sticks, not co-defendants.

This major case involved a wide range of people, hundreds of people were arrested, countless officials were dismissed, and many old cases were revealed, and the people applauded and applauded...... But this doesn't have much to do with me, what I'm more concerned about is that Chen Youyuan was not found in the end, and when the case was closed, it was announced that he had absconded. The gold mine is temporarily closed, and no one dares to cut down that forest, which doesn't seem to be a good thing for me, but I don't have so much manpower and financial resources to cut down a large area of primeval forest, so I can only let it go, and the old camel won't find my home to take revenge, right?

After the fall of the Butterfly Gang, the gold mine tragedy that was artificially covered up gradually spread, which is really a bit appalling. According to some legends, and my speculation, what happened is as follows:

Around May, when the miners began to set up new camps, people began to throw away things, usually snacks and snacks. At first, they thought it was a thief, but they kept watch for a few nights without catching anyone, but they continued to lose things, and the situation became more and more serious, and then even the contents of the canteen disappeared. The miners began to panic, Chen Youyuan led people to coerce and lure the miners, did not allow the miners to evacuate, and invited a well-known Mr. Yin and Yang to do a dojo, and the situation improved slightly.

Once the camp was set up and the mining site moved forward, problems arose again, with all food lost and mechanical parts missing or damaged. How can you work without food? Chen Youyuan had no choice but to send people to send food into the mountains every day, eat it that day, and send people to keep vigil with guns at night. After two or three days like this, one of the miners said that he had seen a hell of a job and strongly asked not to do it, but he was stopped by the security guards and could not make it, so he hanged himself at night. The man in charge of delivering the food was a cousin with the deceased, and he did not send food into the mountains that day of the fire, and the miners were hungry all day, but after dark, a security guard killed a large wild boar, and everyone was overjoyed, and immediately made a fire to barbecue the wild boar, and the joy was dispersed.

Early the next morning, the people who got up found a mutilated human corpse by the fire, the flesh of which was almost cut off, and where was there any wild boar? The screams woke all the miners, who vomited and fled for their lives out of the mountain, and no one dared to stay. After Chen Youyuan got the news, he was also half frightened, and hurriedly used various means to appease and threaten, and went to find my master......

In fact, at first, the camel stole the miners' food to warn them and force them to leave, but Chen Youyuan kept them suppressed, and the roar of the zuihou machine and the destruction of the environment angered the camels, which led to the tragedy. In a way, sometimes the human heart is more terrible than the ghost!

The Butterfly Gang is gone, and it will no longer be a threat to me, I have obtained an ancient mirror with spiritual powers, and the demon fox has awakened, so it will be worth it for me to be busy for a few days.

After this incident subsided, Master seemed to be a little disheartened and gave me his peachwood sword and willow bow and peach arrows. Magic weapons need to be carried with them often, and they can be cultivated with spiritual warmth in order to communicate with their own breath, even if the master passes it on to the apprentice, it will not be able to fully exert its power, so he said that the sooner it is passed on to me, the better.

Seeing this meaning, he is ready to only use his mouth and not his hands in the future, and the physical work will be done by me.

Although these two magic weapons seem to be inconspicuous, they are still very lethal to yin and evil ghosts, and the master has repeatedly told them not to use them lightly, whether it is for people or ghosts, leave a little leeway for everything. When used to attack ghosts and evil objects, the spiritual power of the peachwood sword will be somewhat depleted, and it may be defiled, which is why it should not be used as much as possible.

On that day, the master also gave three "Qianlong Tongbao", which are just ordinary copper coins, but the master has carried it on his body for many years, and he also has some spiritual power, which can restrain ordinary ghosts, and can also be used to make hexagrams and arrange arrays, and it is also a necessary prop for "walking the rivers and lakes" in the future. Arrays require items with spiritual power, but they can't be found, and it's too late to find them when you need them, so you usually have to collect more.

The peaceful days passed quickly, more than two years passed in the blink of an eye, and the calendar turned to August 98, almost three years after I met the demon fox in Beikeng Village.

I've been practicing and studying hard, almost to the point where I can't leave the village, but unfortunately the Yin and Yang Jue still hasn't broken through to the second layer, and my communication with the demon fox is limited to its whim suddenly giving me a thought, I can't be on call with it, and I can't understand its mood. I have learned a lot of what Master taught, but what I lack the most is practical experience, after all, I am staying at home, how many things can I practice in our small village?

Originally, Master wanted to ask me to go into the city to experience some training, but after I didn't leave for a few days, he suddenly changed his mind and told me not to go for the time being.

“weishenme？” I was a little surprised.

"Ahem, cough, cough......" Master kept coughing, and he coughed very badly in the past few days, but he refused to go to see a Western doctor, nor did he refuse to quit smoking, and only took the Chinese medicine prescribed by Wu Zhangya, and the effect was not obvious, and I was also very helpless about it.

After coughing for a while, the master calmed down: "Xuanming, there are some things that have not been told to you, and now is the time." ”

"Master, say it." I feel something is wrong, how can it be like confessing my last words?

"There's really only one way to really work when you're thirty years old. Our onmyoji will inevitably do something that leaks the heavens and goes against the will of heaven, resulting in the loss of longevity, so the ancestor passed down a god-defying magic that can prolong longevity, called 'Big Dipper Seven Stars Receiving Destiny Method', also known as 'Seven Lights Continuation of Life Method', as long as the spell is successfully cast, you can increase your life for twenty years......"

"Seven Lights Life Continuation Method?" I think this name is very familiar, it seems that someone used it in CCTV last night, "Master, you said that you didn't know the method that Zhuge Liang used in Wuzhang in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", right?" ”

"Yes, that's it, Zhuge Liang is the best of the onmyoji, but the real spell is still a little different from the novel romance......"

I unceremoniously interrupted Master's words: "Why did Zhuge Liang become an Onmyoji again?" ”

The master asked angrily: "Zhuge Liang is not an onmyoji, what is it, a Taoist priest?" Is it Confucianism? ”

Zhuge Liang is indeed not a Taoist priest, and his supernatural features far exceed those of Confucianism, but I am still extremely unconvinced: "I have never heard of him as an onmyoji, a yin-yang family or something, what does the obvious marching and fighting that people are good at have to do with the onmyoji?" ”

The master shook his head again and again, as if he felt that he was a failure: "I also blame me for not making it clear to you, in ancient times, the onmyoji was divided into five major systems: heaven, earth, human, ghost, and soldier, and the heavenly system was mainly to observe the celestial phenomena and climate, formulate calendars, state sacrifices, etc.; The land system is mainly Feng Shui, surveying and mapping geography, planning cities, designing imperial tombs, etc.; The human system is mainly based on fortune-telling, divination and prediction, and teaching people to seek good fortune and avoid evil; The ghost system is mainly psychic séance, subjugation of demons and ghosts; The military system is mainly to enter the prime minister and assist the king to pacify the world. The five departments have their own strengths, but the internal strength is exactly the same, and they are all practicing yin and yang. ”

What Master said was clear-sighted, and I also believed it a little: "Then which line do we belong to?" ”

Master said: "Of course, it is the human system, such as today, the department has become extinct and evolved into the astronomy and meteorological bureaus; The geological system has evolved into a surveying and mapping bureau and a exploration bureau, leaving only the feng shui of yin and yang houses; Because the military department is too heavy to kill, it hurts itself, and it is difficult to appear outstanding figures, and it is basically extinct; The ghost system is too yin and evil, and it is often mistaken for the evil way, and it is gradually declining, although the descendants of the human system can still be seen by chance, but there are very few who really have a heritage, and most of them are charlatans who have no inheritance. ”

"Okay, even if Zhuge Liang is Mr. Yin and Yang."

Master glared at me with some dissatisfaction: "Not only Zhuge Liang is an onmyoji, but Xu Maogong, Liu Bowen, Yuan Tiangang, Li Chunfeng, etc. are all Mr. Yin and Yang, but outsiders call them warlocks, cough cough...... Where did I go, why did you interrupt me again! ”

I had no choice but to pull my thoughts back: "You said that the Big Dipper Command Method can extend your life span by twenty years. ”

"Yes, yes, if this spell is successful, it will definitely prolong its life, but it can only be used once for oneself in a lifetime, and it can only be used if the Yang and Yin Formula reaches the third level of the Four Elephant Incarnation. This spell is only passed down from generation to generation among the true Onmyoji, so Zhuge Liang will, and it will be in my grandfather's generation, but my grandfather is missing, and I didn't learn it. ”

This was the second time that Master had taken the initiative to mention his grandfather, and I hurriedly asked, "Where did Master Zeng go?" ”

Master shook his head and sighed: "Alas, he said to look for the dragon vein, but he left and didn't come back, my father and I searched for decades and didn't find him." Of course, there may be others in the world who will take over the Big Dipper, but this hope is very slim, so if you want to find him, it can be regarded as the fulfillment of one of my wishes. ”

This is related to whether I can live past the age of 30, so I was a little nervous and hurriedly asked, "How can I find it, is there any clue?" ”

The master had made up his mind to say it before, but then he hesitated a little: "That place is very dangerous, I shouldn't let you go now, if something happens to you, not only will I not be able to explain it to your mother, but the seven-generation inheritance of my Zhou family will also be broken, how can I see the ancestors and ancestors under the nine springs......"

I fainted, and the master started to be mother-in-law again, dragging mud and water, but the master quickly released a sentence that shocked me: "You must promise not to approach the ghost cottage, and you also want your second master to accompany you." ”

I was stunned, it turned out that the place where Master wanted me to go was Yunding, that is, Yunding Mountain, where there are fierce ghost cottages!