Chapter 23: Awakening
That day, I sat on the ground and sensed the two qi of yin and yang according to the method Zhang Yuan said. However, I tossed around all day and felt nothing. I couldn't help but be a little suspicious: "Master, are these things of yours real or fake?" "
Zhang Yuan said with a cold face: "What? Don't want to learn? "
I hurriedly shook my head: "If you want to learn, why don't you want to learn." "
Zhang Yuan sighed and said, "When you first get started, it is naturally more difficult, but the master leads you into the door, and the cultivation is in everyone, as long as you follow what I teach and study hard, over time, you will definitely be able to achieve something." "
I muttered, "Why didn't I study and practice this diligently?" What's the use? "
Obviously, when Zhang Yuan heard this, he lowered his head with a cruel smile: "Xu You, in the future, you will follow the teacher to wander the rivers and lakes, catch ghosts and take demons, think about it yourself, if you meet an evil ghost that day, how can you protect yourself?" "
Hearing this, I shuddered in my heart: "In the future, I will have to deal with ghosts often?" "
Zhang Yuan sneered: "What do you think? "
I said anxiously: "This yin and yang qi can't be seen or touched." What if I haven't finished training and I meet an evil ghost? "
Zhang Yuan thought for a moment, then nodded: "This is really a problem." "
I interrupted him: "Don't be a problem, what should I do?" "
Zhang Yuan suddenly smiled: "You wait, I have a way." "
Then, he walked briskly out of the Great Holy Temple.
I sat in the temple and couldn't help but feel a little apprehensive. I don't know what tricks Zhang Yuan has.
I'll look at the abbot. The abbot had a gloomy face, and silently filled in the soil pit in the main hall and smashed it flat. It seems that we are not interested in our master and apprentice at all.
Half an hour later, Zhang Yuan finally returned, and besides, he had a peachwood sword in his hand.
This wooden sword is very new, and you can feel the texture of the peach wood in your hand. It looks like it was freshly cut off a tree.
Zhang Yuan looked at me and said, "This is the peach wood sword I made for you, how about it?" Is it majestic? "
I took the peachwood sword and looked left and right: "This thing, no matter how you look at it, it looks like a child's toy." Master, are you sure that this sword can kill ghosts in my hand? "
Zhang Yuan shook his head: "Not yet." You have to learn to raise a sword. "
I was a little surprised: "Raising a sword? "
Zhang Yuan nodded and pulled out his peachwood sword. The sword had a dark sheen, shining in the sun, and it looked as if it were not of wood, but of some kind of metal.
Zhang Yuan lit up the sword in front of my eyes, and then said, "This sword is what I raised." Every day, the sword never leaves its body, so it can feel my aura, and as my Dao skills improve, its power is slowly increasing. "
I was overjoyed and said, "How to raise?" Teach me quickly. "
Zhang Yuan nodded, took the wooden sword from my hand, and then suddenly waved his hand, and I felt a tingling pain in my fingertips.
I looked down and saw that my fingers had been cut. Blood flowed out, and drops fell on the white sword.
I looked up at Zhang Yuan: "Why did you cut my finger?" "
Zhang Yuan returned the wooden sword to me: "That's how to raise the sword, use your own blood to raise it." "
I nodded blankly, however, I always felt that this sword cultivation was a little strange, not like an orthodox Taoist technique, a bit of a side-by-side feeling, mysterious and mysterious.
I practiced qi and sword cultivation every day, and unconsciously, a few weeks have passed.
During this period, the employees of the Ma head office came to see me. Without exception, they all asked me for an insurance. The meaning is very clear: "Master, I have taken care of your business today, and if anything happens in the future, you can't leave us alone." "
From the mouths of these employees, I knew that Mr. Ma was poisoned by alcohol, and he was not rescued after the incident. Wu An can be regarded as revenge. And Mr. Ma has no relatives, and the savings are all given to the pseudo-mother.
I don't know if the pseudo-mother of Lu Dao found out with her conscience, or if she was ashamed, she gave more than half of it to Wu An's family.
The matter of the water ghost is finally calm.
In addition to these employees, there were several Taoist priests from the school's religious class. The boss of the Slender Taoist Priest's dormitory once came to see me at the Dasheng Temple and asked me if I knew where the Slender Taoist had gone.
At this time, I realized that after the thin Taoist priest was driven away by Zhang Yuan that day, he did not return to school. He was gone.
I was a little worried about the thin Taoist, and I vaguely felt that what the master was doing was very wrong. However, Zhang Yuan was very resolute in this matter, and I really couldn't interject.
It's getting warmer. I haven't been back to school for almost a month either. Zhang Yuan and I spent all day at the Dasheng Temple. The abbot complained all day long, saying that we were all allowed to eat this little incense.
One day, Zhang Yuan was excited to test how far I had practiced. A candle was lit from a meter away. Then he said to me, "Xu You, don't open your mouth, try to blow out the candle with yin and yang." "
That's a bit of. I just sat down and started thinking about the yin and yang qi blowing towards the candle. However, just thinking about it, from the afternoon to the evening, the candle was almost burned out, and I never was able to blow it out.
I was bored and trying to find some excuse to give up on this. Suddenly, the phone rang.
Since following Zhang Yuan, I rarely use my mobile phone. I haven't been contacted by anyone. Occasionally find a commissary to recharge, also to see the time. Now I suddenly hear the sound of my mobile phone, and I feel a little uncomfortable.
However, not adapting to it is not adapting, and finally helped me out of the siege.
I took my phone over and saw that it was Li Xiaoxing's text message, and there were only two words on the text message: "Help, there is a ghost." "
Other than that, there is nothing more.
My heart tightened: "Could it be that Li Xiaoxing is in any danger?" "
I hurriedly thought about asking Li Xiaoxing what was wrong. But after a few phone calls, there was no answer on the other end.
Now, I'm in a hurry. said to Zhang Yuan: "My housekeeper seems to be in danger, you can help him, go and save him." "
Zhang Yuan looked at me and said, "I should call the police to save people, what can I do?" "
I showed the text message to Zhang Yuan: "It says there are ghosts on it." The police can't hunt ghosts. And my classmate has a peculiarity, every night I have nightmares, dreaming of all kinds of ghosts. "
I obviously saw that Zhang Yuan's expression changed slightly. Then he asked me, "Do you know where he lives?" "
I shook my head, then I pulled out my phone and said, "I'll ask the other students to see if anyone knows about it." "
I made more than a dozen phone calls and asked a circle of people, and finally someone gave me an address.
Without further ado, Zhang Yuan and I immediately rushed to Li Xiaoxing's house.
On the way, I tried to dial Li Xiaoxing's mobile phone again, however, it was always busy.
However, I had just put down my phone for a few seconds when suddenly, a call came.
I picked up my phone and saw that it was Li Xiaoxing. I was overjoyed, and hurriedly connected, shouting, "Where are you?" What's wrong? "
There was no sound on the other end.
I was anxious and angry, and shouted, "You are paralyzed, what are you playing?" Speak. "
There was still no sound on the other end. No, there's a voice, I hear it.
It's laughter, it's sharp, it's weird laughter. The sound is very small, and it is ethereal in the ears.
I knew it was weird, but I couldn't control myself. My mind was tugged at by the laughter, and I slowly sank in.
Suddenly, there was a snap. The laughter seemed to be cut off halfway through, and I woke up from my hallucinations.
My phone was already in Zhang Yuan's hand, he looked at me and said, "This laughter is wrong, I'm afraid your classmates are in big trouble." "
Along the way, Zhang Yuan asked me in detail about Li Xiaoxing's usual situation, and the more I said, the more solemn his face became.
When we finally found Li Xiaoxing's house according to the address. I was stunned. Because this is a paper shop.
It's just that the door is closed and there is no one inside.
I was a little angry and said, "Could it be that my classmates are joking with me?" How is it a paper shop? "
Zhang Yuan shook his head: "Your classmate's house should have opened a paper shop, otherwise, there wouldn't be so many ghosts breaking into his dreams." This is not his home, let's ask, he lives there. "
I stood in the middle of the road, stopped pedestrians coming and going, and asked them where the owner of the paper shop lived.
What struck me as strange was that everyone was waving their hands to show that they didn't know what to do.