Chapter 8: The Monster and the Maiden
In a simple study, Lin Xiaotong sat on the wooden chair behind the table, and Lin Xia and Lu Yi stood side by side at the table.
Lu Yi didn't stand out of respect, but in the entire room, there was nothing else except the bookcase and the table and chair.
Lin Xiaotong turned his back to Lu Yi and said, "Mr. Lu, did he tell you anything before you came?"
It seems that Mr. Lin and Uncle Lin know each other.
Lu Yi replied: "Mr. Lin can just call me Lu Yi, I have been told those things before I came." ”
"Then you know the point of going. ”
"Yes. Lu Yi said solemnly: "I will marry a female monster with a big family." ”
Lin Xia on the side couldn't help but sneer when he heard this, this person was really outspoken.
Lin Xiaotong's expression still did not change, and said: "This idea is also realistic. ”
Lu Yi arched his hand and asked, "I just don't know what the meaning of letting me come here is, please let Mr. Lin explain." ”
Lin Xiaotong didn't answer immediately, his wrinkled and calloused hands stretched out towards a bookcase, and a black book actually flew out of the bookcase and landed in Lin Xiaotong's hand.
Lu Yi looked at this incredible scene, his heart was shocked, and he arched his hand and said, "Mr. Lin has magical powers. ”
Lin Xiaotong's hand just now...... When the Taoist technique is practiced to a certain extent, it can really be taken from the air?
"Scared, right?" Lin Xia looked at Lu Yi's surprised appearance and said happily: "I will too." ”
After Lin Xia finished speaking, he stretched out his hand, and a book flew from the bookcase to Lin Xia's hand.
Lu Yi was a little confused: "You ......"
Lin Xia smiled slyly: "Lie to you, I use magic, which is fundamentally different from my father's Dao technique, and the object floating technique is just the most basic magic." ”
Lin Xiaotong suddenly stood up at this time and walked out of the door with the black book.
Lu Yi watched Lin Xiaotong walk out, puzzled: "This is ......"
Lin Xia shrugged his shoulders and said, "How do I know, just wait." ”
Lin Xia walked to the bookcase, flipping through the books one by one, those books were new and old, but there was a common feature, Lu Yi had never seen those books.
Lu Yi stood in the room, not knowing what to do, and feeling impolite to rummage through the bookcase.
This time, it was Lin Xia who spoke first.
Lin Xia looked at the book again and asked, "May I ask who Mr. Lu's master is?"
Lu Yi wondered why Lin Xia suddenly said this, and replied: "I have lived with my uncle since I was a child, and it is naturally him who taught me. ”
Lin Xia continued to ask, "What about Mr. Lu's parents?"
"I've never heard of them. ”
"Did you ask your uncle?"
"Nope. ”
"Why don't you ask?"
Lu Yi smiled and said, "Uncle taught me since I was a child, never let others know what you are thinking. ”
Lin Xia also smiled and said, "It seems that Mr. Lu has not done it very thoroughly. ”
"What do you mean?"
"When Mr. Lu saw my father taking the book from the air, I saw through Mr. Lu's thoughts, and from this point of view, Mr. Lu has not been able to do what your uncle taught. ”
Lu Yi shook his head and said, "Miss Lin, since you can see through me, it means that I didn't want to hide my thoughts at that time, do you know what I'm thinking now?"
Lin Xia smiled: "I guess it's because my father is looking for you." ”
"Nope. Lu Yi put his hands in his pockets, looked out the window and said: "I'm thinking, Mr. Lin has been watching when I broke the formation, so if I can't break this formation, will Mr. Lin be able to rescue me in time, or rather, he didn't think about saving me at all." ”
Lin Xia turned the page and still didn't look up at Lu Yi, but was curious: "Why does Mr. Lu think like this?"
Lu Yi stood a little tired, so he leaned on the bookshelf and said: "I rarely try to use the small sword trick to guide the thunder, and I used it very steadily before, but if I fail, the thunder is less than a meter away from me at that time, I think even if Mr. Lin has supreme supernatural powers, he will not have time to save it, and I will be directly killed by the thunder." ”
"Why did Mr. Lu take such a big risk to break the formation?"
Lu Yi looked down at his toes and said, "Because I have no other way." ”
Lin Xia disagreed and said: "There are many ways to break this formation, if Mr. Lu flashes thunder, it is not impossible to break it directly with a sword." ”
Lu Yi looked at Lin Xia, who was flipping through the book, and said, "If you can think of this method, it is not a way." If I really use this method, the three charms that Miss Lin has prepared in her hand a long time ago will not release a spell. ”
Lin Xia thought for a moment and asked, "This is also what your uncle taught you?"
Lu Yi nodded and said: "Uncle said that the method that everyone in the world knows is not called a method, it can only be called a countermeasure, or an expedient measure." ”
Lin Xia flipped through the book in his hand and said, "It seems that you admire your uncle very much. ”
"It's not worship, it's just a little bit of affection. ”
"Why?"
Lu Yi pointed to his head and said, "He changed a lot of things for me." ”
"He's really had a big impact on you. Lin Xia agreed.
"No, that's not what I mean. Lu Yi's index finger tapped his head again and said, "It's inside." ”
"Inside?" Lin Xia felt a little fantastical and asked, "What do you mean...... His head was altered by him?"
"It's not the head, it's the tampering with something. Lu Yi frowned and recalled: "Every time I cook at home, I take out three bowls, but there are only two people in my family. After much thought, I came to the conclusion that there used to be three people in my family for a long time, and I had developed a habit of them for a long time, but now I can't remember this person at all. ”
Lin Xia said in disbelief: "You just rely on this to conclude that your memory has been tampered with?"
Lu Yi didn't answer directly and asked, "Does Taoism have illusions?"
"Yes, the thunder method, especially the Shangqing thunder method of the Kunlun lineage, but it can only cause people to hallucinate for a short time, and it is impossible to completely tamper with the memory. Lin Xia was very familiar with these things and blurted out.
"That's right. Lu Yi confirmed his hypothesis and said: "In order to come up with the answer, I have been studying the "Jingxiao Da Lei Lang Book" of the Shangqing Lei Fa, I have secretly read it for four years, and I can only memorize half of it now. Do you know what that means?"
Lin Xia finally put down the book and asked speculatively, "Your memories have been erased?"
Lu Yi didn't speak.
Lin Xia looked at Lu Yi with a complicated expression and said, "That uncle of yours seems to be really a great power. ”
Lu Yi thought of the uncle's stubble-covered and sloppy face, how could it not be associated with the word power, in his heart, the real power should be as steady and serious as the old man Lin Xiaotong.
Lin Xia changed the topic and said, "Let's talk about something else, Mr. Lu Yi, what is the most powerful monster you have seen since you were a child?"
Lu Yi thought for a moment and replied, "I saw it about four years ago, an A-class centaur. ”
"You escaped from it?"
"It was a priest of the Holy See who chased it to China, and I just stood by and watched. Lu Yi asked rhetorically, "What about you?"
Lin Xia said in a surprising voice: "About six years ago, a vampire, surnamed Dracula. ”
"S-class?"
"Well, I died in this courtyard in the end. ”
"What did you see with your own eyes?"
"No, it was just my sister and my father. ”
"Your sister?" Lu Yi said curiously: "The person who brought me in called you the second miss, what about the eldest miss?"
"It doesn't hurt to tell you, it's not a secret. When Lin Xia talked about this, his face was slightly cold and said, "My sister was expelled from the house by her father. ”
"Why?"
"Because she got along with a monster back then, her father didn't allow it, so he kicked her out. ”
Lu Yi looked at Lin Xia's indifferent expression and asked, "It seems that you don't have a good relationship with your sister." ”
Lin Xia said in an unkind tone: "Of course it won't be good, she killed her eldest brother." ”
"Killed?"
"The monster approached my sister because after my father killed her parents and my father kicked her out, my eldest brother was worried about her, so he went to visit her alone, but was attacked and killed by the monster. ”
"So you hate her?"
"Yes. ”
"There's nothing wrong with your sister in all this. ”
Lin Xia didn't deny it, and said, "She's really right. ”
Lu Yi didn't know what to say.
Lin Xia took a deep breath. continued: "If the eldest brother had not died, the person who went there this time should have been the eldest brother, not me. The eldest brother is extremely talented, and at the age of nineteen, he was able to defeat the A-level demon, and in the end, the eldest brother will inherit his father's mantle perfectly, and the burden of all this will not fall on my head. After she left, I practiced so hard that now I have to find a youkai as a husband and dedicate my life. I'm only fifteen years old, don't you think it's a bit heavy?"
Lu Yi was silent for a long time and said, "Your thinking is far more than fifteen years old. ”
Lin Xia stared at Lu Yi and said, "Mr. Lu has ever killed monsters since he was a child?"
"Killed, a lot. ”
"A lot?" Lin Xia didn't want to delve into what Lu Yi was referring to, and laughed at himself: "There are hundreds of monsters that have died in my hands so far, and I'm only fifteen years old. ”
Lu Yi agreed: "Although the demon is a demon, it is also a living being, a ghost in a cage, and it has its own pitiful place, and it is unbearable to kill." ”
"When was the first time Mr. Lu killed a monster?"
"When I was seven years old, an E-class bat demon. ”
"Seven?"
Lin Xia's eyes stared at Lu Yi for a long time, his slender eyelashes trembled slightly, thinking about what he was doing when he was seven years old, and sighed softly: "It seems that in front of Mr. Lu, I still don't want to get an axe." ”
"What level of youkai can Miss Lin deal with now?"
"The slightly weaker B-level can be dealt with, and the A-level has the strength to fight. ”
"Miss Lin, you are much stronger than me. Lu Yi said very frankly: "Now I can only deal with C-level monsters head-on, and I have no chance at all in the face of B-level." ”
Lin Xia was a little puzzled when he heard this, Lu Yi didn't seem to be lying to himself, with Lu Yi's age, although this level was not too bad, but it was not unusual for this kind of person to grab a lot of people around his father.
"Is Mr. Lu serious?"
"Yes. ”
"But I still lost at the hands of my husband. ”
"It's just a fluke. ”
Is it really a fluke? Lin Xia looked at Lu Yi who was leaning on the bookcase, and noticed the intimidating faint scar on Lu Yi's neck, not very convinced.
Lin Xia suddenly thought of fighting with Lu Yi and asked, "What kind of spell is Mr. Lu proficient in?" ”
Lu Yi was stunned for a moment and said, "What kind of charm?"
"Yes. Lin Xia felt that Lu Yi's reaction was very strange, and said, "Because Mr. Lu only used the Yuan Shi Fu just now, I'm very curious. ”
"Yuan Shi Fu?" Lu Yi wondered, "Are there many kinds of talismans?"
"Shhh ”
Lu Yi pressed the talisman on his arm, took out a talisman from it and handed it to Lin Xia.
Looking at the spell that Lu Yi handed over that was no different from yellow paper, Lin Xia unconsciously shuddered.
Lu Yi looked at Lin Xia's uncertain eyes and asked, "Is there something wrong?"
Lin Xia's throat was a little dry, and he asked, "Mr. Lu has used this since he was a child?"
"Yes. ”
Lin Xia calmed down his mood a little, took out a talisman from his talisman and gave it to Lu Yi, and said, "Mr. Lu, please take a look." ”
Lu Yi took Lin Xia's spell, the size and shape of this spell were exactly the same as his own, the only difference was that two words were written on the spell in cursive twisted and twisted: "Ghost Fire." ”
Lin Xia explained: "This is a ghost fire charm, a Taoist charm, there are one hundred and seventy-eight kinds of light spells, gossip, small sword duels, water spells, tracking, etc., and Mr. Lu has been using only the most basic one, called the Yuan Shi Fu. ”
Lu Yi looked at the talisman in his hand, he knew these things for the first time, and asked very curiously, "Is there any difference between these talismans?"
Lin Xia was sure that Lu Yi really didn't know this, and explained: "Of course there is a difference, the words on this spell are actually like a road, when using these spells, as long as you follow the pattern and use the Dao technique, you can exert its ability, and it can be said to be twice the result with half the effort." The Origin Talisman, although it is the ancestor of ten thousand runes, can usually only be used for the purpose of arranging the array, and the whole talisman is like a wilderness, and every time you need to walk out of this path by yourself, the efficiency is naturally greatly reduced. ”
Lu Yi looked at the ghost fire talisman in his hand, and was a little unacceptable for a while.
Lin Xia said tentatively: "How many spells does Mr. Lu know in total?"
"Twenty-three. ”
"Twenty-three?!"
Twenty-three, this is equivalent to saying that Lu Yi has completely mastered the patterns of these twenty-three talismans, if he uses this kind of talisman that has already drawn the lines, its speed will be countless times faster than using the Yuan Shi Talisman.
And mastery, means flexibility.
All the talismans are accumulated from the experiments of the predecessors from generation to generation, and now, almost every Heavenly Master Dao will only choose one kind of talisman to study, in order to develop their own talisman, in order to go down in history, but this Lu Yi, there are actually twenty-three, what kind of talent is this?
Lin Xia took a deep breath and said, "Mr. Lu, how did you use the ghost fire for the first time?"
Lu Yi gestured and said, "Uncle pointed me to the charm and asked me to follow this myself." ”
Lin Xia looked at him and asked, "How many times have you failed?"
Lu Yi scratched his head and said, "I don't remember, I will put a bowl of dog blood at hand later to extinguish the ghost fire that may explode at any time." ”
Lin Xia rubbed his forehead and said, "I thought that the people who could get this document and obtain the qualifications were geniuses, but I didn't expect that Mr. Lu was an exception. ”
Lu Yi was a little puzzled and asked, "What's wrong with me?"
"You're a monster. ”