Chapter 1: A new edition of "The Snake Catcher Says".
[The wild of Yongzhou produces different snakes, black and white, touching the grass and trees, dying, biting people, and those who have no protection. 】
Writing this, Liu Zongyuan put down the pen in his hand, sighed, got up and came to the window, and said in a low voice: "The people's livelihood is difficult, the harsh government is fierce, and it is fiercer than a snake!" Since the fourteenth year of Tianbao, the state affairs have been eroded, and even strange snakes have run rampant in the township! ”
In the fourteenth year of Tianbao, the Great Sage of the Great Dao Emperor Ming Xiao finally fainted, the king of Dongping County rebelled, and the glorious and prosperous era was finally once. Later, although the rebellion was quelled, the war was chaotic for many years, and the heroes were divided, and the prosperity of the year was no longer the same as it was in the past.
At this point, there is a demonic atmosphere in the land of China, many evils, and traitors are also in charge of the court, eunuchs are in power, and people with lofty ideals such as Liu Zongyuan are often relegated to poor and remote areas, unable to show their ambitions and ambitions.
Liu Zongyuan had just thought of this, when suddenly the black wind howled outside the window, and a poisonous snake with black and white ring-shaped stripes rushed from the ditch to the street, and everywhere it passed, the grass and trees withered rapidly!
This is exactly the strange snake he wrote, extremely venomous!
It's just that this snake is not as big as it can be, it is more than three feet long, its tail is swept away, the house collapses, the mouth is opened, and the poisonous mist is filled.
The people on the streets howled and ran, not daring to stop.
A white and tender fat pig on the corner of the street was gnawing on cabbage, and he didn't have time to dodge, so he took a breath of poisonous mist, kicked his four hooves, and died!
Suddenly, a ragged teenager rushed from behind, and a punch was blasted, and the fist wind was agitated, like a strong wind blowing away the poisonous mist.
The big snake was frightened and inexplicable, and fled forward quickly, but was caught up by the young man, so he had to turn his head and fight hard, but was kicked in the chin by the young man.
The big snake flew up in a whirlwind, and the young man stepped forward quickly, flying up, and the ten fingers of his hands were like flying, one after another at the bones of the back of the big snake.
I only heard the sound of clicking, like a firecracker, and where the young man's ten fingers passed, the muscles and bones of the big snake were misplaced.
In just a few moments, the boy pointed from the back of the snake's head to the tail, unloading all the bones of the snake, so that it could not move!
Seeing this, the people on the street cheered and shouted, "Xiao Ying! Good skills! ”
The young man's name is Xu Ying, his limbs are slender, and his ten fingers are also very slender and delicate, but he has been exposed to the wind and sun outside all the year round, and his skin is slightly dark.
He is a famous snake catcher in Lingling County, Yongzhou, and at the age of only fourteen, he has practiced a good skill.
Xu Ying dragged the snake's tail and was about to go out, Liu Zongyuan went out to call him and asked, "Xu Ying, what are you doing catching the snake?" ”
The young man Xu Ying stopped, and when he saw that it was Yongzhou Sima Liu Zongyuan, he hurriedly saluted and said: "Liu Sima, after this snake wax is dried, it can be used as a medicinal bait, which can heal strong winds, creases (luan/wan), fistula (lou/li), remove dead muscles, and kill three insects." Whoever catches this snake will be exempt from his taxes. ”
Liu Zongyuan smiled: "That's good." ”
Xu Ying's face was gloomy, and he said: "My grandfather was a snake catcher and died in the matter of catching snakes, and my father was also a snake catcher and also died in the matter of catching snakes. I have been practicing snake hunting with my father for six years, and I am afraid that I will die in snake hunting at any point. ”
Liu Zongyuan was moved by compassion and said: "I am friends with Thorn Shi, and I can let Thorn Shi exempt you from this conscription and restore your taxes." ”
When the big snake heard this, he spat out his mouth and shouted, "Lord Liu said it well! Promise, it's not easy for me to practice hard for many years, you let me go, you pay your taxes, and I practice my demon law in the mountains! ”
Liu Zongyuan was startled, and said in a lost voice: "This is still a snake demon!" ”
The serpent cried, "My grandfather was a snake demon and died at the hands of snake catchers, and my parents were also snake demons and died at the hands of snake catchers. Now I'm one hundred and twenty years old, and I thought I could escape the catastrophe and cultivate into a dragon to eat these bastards, but I didn't expect to die in the snake catcher today......"
Xu Ying raised his hand and gently pulled it on its chin, and the chin was removed, and the big snake could not speak.
Xu Ying's eyes turned red, and he said: "Lord Liu, I can still live by catching snakes, if the tax is restored, I am afraid that it will not be long before I starve to death." Who would risk their lives to catch a snake demon unless they had to? ”
He dragged the snake demon and walked away.
Liu Zongyuan couldn't help crying, and said with emotion: "Who knows the poison of endowment, there are even snakes!" Although the alien snake is poisonous, what is even more poisonous is the tyrannical expropriation! ”
He returned to his room, waved like the wind, and wrote the famous "The Snake Catcher Says".
Promise dragged the snake demon home and threw it into the vat. It was getting late, and he didn't have time to send the snake to the yamen on an errand, so he had to wait until dawn.
He made a fire to cook, and after eating a meal, he fell asleep.
The serpent wriggled desperately in the vat, trying to catch the staggered bones, tossing until midnight, only to hear the fierce officials like bandits break into the village, smash, burn and rob, shout and shout, and make the villagers pay taxes.
Xu Ying was awakened, got up and turned on the lamp, looked into the tank, and found that the snake demon was still there, and breathed a sigh of relief, so he lay down and continued to sleep.
The snake demon continued to work hard to connect the bones, and for some time, he finally connected the jawbone, only to hear the sound of Xu Ying getting up.
The snake demon was depressed.
Xu Ying was dressed neatly, and came to the side of the tank to take a look at the snake demon. The snake demon was motionless, and said in his heart: "When I connect the bones in the back of my head, I will raise my head coldly, give him a ruthless blow, and send him to see his grandfather and father!" ”
Xu Ying faced the rising sun, slowly spit out, and silently operated the Taiyi Guidance Gong.
Between breaths, I saw that the sunlight on his face seemed to gradually brighten with his inhalation, and he could even see tiny particles of light in the air, which disappeared into his body with his breath.
There was a faint sound of thunder in Xu Ying's abdomen, booming, rising from the dantian, gradually coming to the throat and nasal cavity, and then the thunder slowly sank down, and slowly returned to the dantian.
In just a moment, Xu Ying's body was steaming, and streams of white mist rose up.
His skills were not taught by his grandfather or father.
In fact, he is not his father's own flesh and blood, but his grandfather picked it up.
Father and grandfather surname Jiang, Xu Ying's surname is Xu, seven years ago Xujiaping fire, grandfather rescued Xu Ying from the fire and came here with Xu Ying.
Xu Ying didn't have much memory left of that fire, but he still remembered a breathing method, which was Taiyi's channeling gong.
Xu Ying has nothing to do on weekdays, and he has practiced according to the Taiyi Guidance Technique, and to this day, he has been cultivating for seven years.
Xu Ying didn't know what the use of cultivating this thing was, anyway, he was idle, and it didn't take much time to practice in the morning.
During his cultivation, he found that the biggest effect of Taiyi's guiding skill was that when the qi and blood ran to the bottom, the urine was much straighter than before, and he didn't worry about urinating his shoes.
"It's useless, you can only pee far away." Xu Ying once scoffed at this.
It wasn't until Xu Ying grew up and followed his grandfather and father to catch snakes and killed a big snake that he knew that the role of Taiyi's guiding power was far more than just urinating far.
Xu Ying taught Taiyi Guiding Gong to his grandfather and father, but they learned too late and entered the country slowly, and they still fell in the process of catching snakes one after another.
Now, there is only one person left in the family.
Xu Ying had already cultivated the Taiyi Guiding Skill to the extreme three years ago, and his qi and blood were like thunder.
He felt that there was obviously still a road behind him, and there were still changes in qi and blood, but unfortunately he didn't know the exercises behind.
Behind him, the snake demon quietly probed from the tank, and couldn't help but be shocked when he saw this.
Xu Ying devoured the essence of the sun, tempered qi and blood, faster than himself, the speed of refining the essence of the sun, where is the absorption of the essence of the sun? It's clearly like a monster, opening its mouth to devour the mystery of the rising sun!
"He's cultivating my demon clan exercises!" The snake demon's eyes widened, and he was puzzled, "Isn't he human?" Why can you practice my demon clan exercises? ”
As the sun rose, Xu Ying slowly stopped spitting, and the snake demon hurriedly shrank his head.
After the sun rises, the fire in the sunlight also becomes extremely hot, and if you practice the channeling technique, you will feel that your qi and blood are getting hotter and hotter, and you may spontaneously combust and die at any time!
If you don't pay attention to practice more, more and more fire will accumulate in your body, and you also need to pick the moon on the night of the full moon to dissolve the fire to ensure the purity of your cultivation.
Xu Ying came to the side of the tank, reached out and pinched the snake demon seven inches, lifted it out of the tank, and said with a kind face: "I am not a person who is easy to kill. I ask, you answer, or I'll kill you. Do you understand? ”
The snake demon nodded repeatedly.
Xu Ying put it down and asked, "How did you become a youkai?" ”
The snake demon was empathetic and said, "My grandfather was originally an ordinary poisonous snake, and one day he strayed into the Qinyan Cave, and the Qinyan Cave suddenly collapsed in half, revealing a scroll of scriptures and a gourd elixir. My grandfather took the pill, and suddenly he opened his mind, and his brain was much smarter, and he was able to speak, read and write. So he cultivated according to that scripture and became a monster. Later, my grandfather passed the scriptures to my parents, and my parents passed them on to me. ”
Xu Ying nodded lightly and said, "Bring your family scriptures and let me see them." ”
The snake demon hesitated.
Xu Ying picked up a fist-sized stone by the well and squeezed it hard, and the stone was squeezed out of four or five droplets.
The young man let go, the stone was broken into powder, and said lightly: "How are you compared to this stone?" ”
The snake demon immediately made a decision, opened his mouth, and spat out a scroll of scriptures from his mouth.
Xu Ying opened the scriptures, and this scripture recorded a guidance technique called Da Ri Guidance Gong, and a martial arts boxing method called Xiangli Bull Demon Fist.
"You are a snake, you have no hands and feet, how can you cultivate the Elephant Power Bull Demon Fist?"
Xu Ying laughed loudly, "This is a martial arts method that can only be cultivated by a bull demon or an elephant demon, right?" ”
The corners of the snake demon's mouth moved, and he said in his heart: "Some refining is good, how can I be qualified to pick and choose?" Aren't you also cultivating my demon clan's guiding skills? ”
Xu Ying flipped through it, and the Great Sun Guidance Gong was similar to his Taiyi Guidance Skill, but after thinking about it for a while, he found that the speed of the Great Sun Guidance Gong in absorbing the essence of the sun was much inferior to that of the Taiyi Guidance Skill.
The Great Day Guidance Gong records the state they are currently in, the period of gas collection.
Qi collection is the collection of the essence of the sun, that is, the light particles condensed by the sun, which strengthens the body and improves the qi and blood.
Xu Ying frowned, the Great Day Guidance Skill in the scriptures is the same as his Taiyi Guidance Skill, which is cut off after the completion of the Qi Harvesting Period, and there is no follow-up exercise!
"Do you feel that after the completion of the gas collection, there is still a road ahead?" Xu Ying asked.
The snake demon said cautiously: "After cultivating to the top, I only feel that my qi and blood are full, surging and agitating, and I have the potential to rush through the level, but I don't know where the level is." ”
Xu Ying frowned, got up and came to the Ming Hall, and fetched a book basket.
He poured out the scrolls from the basket and spread them on the floor.
The snake demon was shocked, only to see that those scriptures were actually all kinds of guiding skills, and there were dozens of them!
Xu Ying has not only captured snake demons over the years, but also other monsters, and almost all of the monsters within a radius of dozens of miles have been caught by him!
These monsters also have a variety of opportunities, or occasionally enter the ancient cave mansion, or listen to the scriptures on the stone wall, or find the cave in the water, so they cultivate into demons.
However, the exercises they obtained could only be cultivated to the Qi harvesting period, and there were no follow-up exercises!
The same is true for the Taiyi Guiding Gong that Xu Ying is cultivating now, although he can continue to improve his qi and blood cultivation, he can clearly feel that there is still a road ahead, but the road is broken, chaotic, and he doesn't know where to stay.
"Why are all the exercises stopped during the gas harvesting period?" Xu Ying frowned and muttered to himself.
The snake demon was filled with righteous indignation, and said angrily: "I think someone is targeting my demon clan and destroying all the exercises of my demon clan, leaving only the exercises of the qi harvesting period!" This is most likely a conspiracy of the Terrans! ”
Xu Ying shook his head and said, "Since you have the ability to destroy the exercises behind, why don't you just destroy them all?" It can be seen that there is another hidden story. ”
He flipped through the Elephant Power Bull Demon Fist, and suddenly his expression moved slightly.
This fist method is a martial arts method, and the cultivator does not have to be a bull demon or an elephant demon, no matter what race can be cultivated. Of course, if the snake demon wants to cultivate, he must first change into an adult and have limbs before he can cultivate.
The Elephant Power Bull Demon Fist has a unique feature in mobilizing qi and blood, making the speed of qi and blood increase exponentially, and the power of the explosion in an instant is increased to the general level of a giant elephant, so it is called the power of the divine elephant!
And the word Bull Demon is that when this fist is urged, because the speed of qi and blood is too fast, it is difficult to be rational, and it falls into a state of madness, so it is called Bull Demon!
In addition, this martial arts fist technique will make people's bodies swell up in an instant, a few inches or even a few inches higher than usual!
The hands and feet are also bigger than usual!
Xu Ying came to be interested, in the past, he subdued the snake demon and other monsters, all by brute force, and he was not proficient in fists and feet. With the Xiangli Bull Demon Fist, his strength will definitely increase in a straight line!
At this time, the voices of the villagers came from outside, calling: "Ah Ying, come out and worship God!" ”
Xu Ying took the scripture into his arms, pinched the back of the snake demon's neck, and said, "I come back from worshipping God, if you haven't left, I will dry your wax." Also, don't hurt anyone. ”
The snake demon only felt that his neck bone was connected, and he couldn't help but be surprised and happy.
Xu Ying walked out of the courtyard and came to the ancestral hall of Jiangjiatian, only to see the villagers with vegetable faces, ragged and dilapidated clothes, but the ancestral hall was built magnificently and beautifully.
There are men and women in every household in Jiang Jiatian, rich rich people, holding boiled chickens and ducks, holding thick incense candles, and vegetable people who have no money also want to offer fruit and white rice, holding three sticks of incense, and walk towards the ancestral hall one by one.
If you really don't have any money, you will be empty-handed like promised.
Xu Ying followed the villagers into the ancestral hall, only to see the cigarette smoke, the clouds steaming, and behind the incense burner is a wooden statue of a god as high as Zhangliu, with a bright red body, wearing a green robe and a green fang.
The smoke ran down the nostrils of the wood-carved statue.
The chest of the wood-carved god suddenly bulged, and he inhaled a long breath, inhaling all the incense of the villagers into his stomach.
I saw that the wooden statue gradually turned into flesh and blood, suddenly stood up from the shrine, grabbed the chickens, ducks, and fruits offered by the villagers and ate them, and when they were happy, they grabbed the incense candles and stuffed them into their mouths and chewed them.
Today is the first day of the new year, the day of worship, near Jiangjiatian, the ancestral halls of Xujiajing, Yangzitang, Shuangjiqiao, Shagouwan and other villages are also incense.
Statues of gods or wood carvings or clay sculptures or bronze tires or iron walls wake up in the incense, turn into flesh and blood, and enjoy the incense and food offered by the people.
And in the mountain temples and dragon king temples of various mountains and rivers near Lingling, there are also misty clouds, and there are also city god temples in the city, and there are also city gods who wake up and enjoy sacrifices.
Not to mention Lingling, the entire Yongzhou, the entire southern Hunan, and even the land of Shenzhou, incense is curling everywhere, guarding the statues of various villages, towns, cities, prefectures and counties have awakened one after another, enjoying the sacrifices of the people of Limin, a prosperous scene.
However, since the Great Sage of the Dao, Emperor Ming Xiao, was mediocre, the world was in chaos, and the prosperous era was ruined, the princes were divided, the imperial power was gone, and the gods and goddesses in the land of Shenzhou were no longer as grand as they were back then, and gradually had a decaying appearance.
"Promise! Jiang Shu! Jiang Lu! You poor bastards are empty-handed, and you don't even offer me a single incense candle! ”
In the ancestral hall of Jiang Jiatian, the gods were furious and shouted, "I only eat two meals from you a month, and the food you respect is even too much for me to eat!" You Jiang Jiatian, do you still want to have good weather and plenty of food and clothing? If you provoke the gods, you will not fear that I will bring you evil? ”
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