02 | Goodbye Xuanqing
"It is worthy of being a specialty of Yunmengze, driving away evil and avoiding evil, the heart can be clear, and the desire can be peaceful." The boy smiled and put the dream beads away.
"Little friend, I still have a question." Pu Jia Road.
"Fellow Daoist, excuse me." Little Boy Road.
Pu Jia looked at the demon and motioned for her to ask.
The demon nodded and looked into Xiao Tong's eyes and asked, "Have you ever heard of the name Xuanqing?" ”
The little boy tilted his head and thought for a moment, then leaned out his hand again: "Two dream beads." ”
Pu Jia handed him the two Dream Beads, and the demon noticed that the two Dream Beads were also much smaller than her own.
The little boy put away the dream beads with satisfaction, and said slowly, "I've heard of it." ”
"Do you know where he is at the moment?" The demon asked repeatedly.
Unexpectedly, the little boy stretched out his hand for the third time and looked at the demon with a slight smile.
"How many?" Pu Jia asked for the demon.
Xiao Tong shook his head and said, "I don't want Mengzhu this time. ”
"And what do you want?" Pu Jia asked, "Magic Weapon, Gold and Silver Silk or Pill Spirit Beast?" ”
Xiao Tong shook his fingers, looked directly at the demon and said, "I want her." ”
"Want me? What does this mean? The demon wondered.
"I want you to promise to meet one of my conditions." Little Boy Road.
"On what terms?" The demon asked.
"You can be there for me whenever I ask you." Little Boy Road.
"When?"
"Whenever."
"Where?"
"Anywhere."
"Just once?"
"Once."
"Okay, I promise you." The demon agreed.
Xiao Tong smiled slightly, and said: "Master Xuanqing is now wandering the world, so he is at the ends of the world, everywhere in the world. ”
The demon said secretly: "It's sloppy, if I knew that it was this answer, I shouldn't have agreed to his request casually." ”
So the demon asked weakly, "Can I change the question?" ”
Unexpectedly, the little boy said casually: "I can give Daoyou another question." ”
This time, the demon didn't ask rashly, and after some careful consideration, the demon cautiously asked, "If Xiaoyou has a way to find Xuanqing, please let me know." ”
Xiao Tong said: "The people of the end of the world are close at hand, and the people who are close to the end of the world are at the end of the world." ”
"I've already answered the question of the gift, so please do whatever you want." The little boy made a gesture of invitation to the gate, and left with three dream beads and a smile.
The demon sighed sullenly: "This little guy is too cunning to ask anything." ”
Pu Jia smiled and said, "Didn't he already tell us the answer?" ”
"Is there one?" The demon wondered.
"Didn't he just show us the way?" Pu Jia imitated the child's appearance, and made a gesture of please in the direction of the gate.
"The end of the world is just around the corner." The demon muttered to herself, and suddenly she suddenly realized, "He's telling us that Xuanqing is just outside the gate." ”
Pu Jia smiled and said nothing, and the demon continued: "It's the old fortune teller. ”
The demon took Pu Jia's hand and strode towards the gate, but fortunately, the old fortune teller had not yet closed the stall.
"Are you Xuanqing?" The demon asked with a slight gasp.
The old man was silent.
"Do you remember Luan'er?"
The demon noticed that when the old man heard this name, a trace of strange emotion flashed in his eyes that was not easy to detect.
The demon took out the painting from his bosom and unfolded it in front of the old man, "It's the person in the painting." ”
The old man slowly lowered his head and said in a dumb voice: "Today I only divinate hexagrams, not look at faces." ”
The more careless the old man became, the more the demon strengthened her inner thoughts, and she said bluntly: "Luan'er is scattered in order to save me, if you want to save her, you can only find the soul in her tail." ”
The old man slowly raised his head, a sharp gaze fell on the demon's face, and the feeling of being scrutinized hit again, the demon took a deep breath and met the old man's sword-like eyes.
"You didn't lie to me." After a long time, the old man said in a hoarse voice.
"So, are you really Xuanqing?" The demon was pleasantly surprised.
The old man was noncommittal, looked at the demon silently, and then slowly said, "Tell me." ”
"What do you want to know?" The demon asked respectfully.
"Her story, her story and his story, you and her story." The old man said.
He wanted to know everything related to her.
The demon took a deep breath, starting from the encounter between himself and Luan'er, and continuing to the recent battle of the roe deer owl.
"Luan'er's remnant soul took over my body for a short time, and after that I couldn't feel her breath again." The demon said and hung his head.
"Listen to the meaning of your words, you are a ghost cultivator?" The old man asked.
The demon nodded.
The old man slowly stretched out his hand and said in a dumb voice, "Can you show me that painting?" ”
"It's nature." The demon respectfully handed over the scroll.
The old man took the painting tremblingly, and his thin fingers slowly stroked every inch of the paper, and finally stopped at the end of the scroll.
"Ink Painting Gift Seven." He muttered the phrase and suddenly burst out laughing.
"I should have guessed a long time ago."
The old man handed the scroll back to the demon and said, "I am Xuanqing." ”
"Luan'er's tail feather is indeed with me, and I am willing to give it to you, but I still have one condition." Xuan Qing said slowly.
"Senior, please speak." Demon Dao.
"I want this scroll in exchange." Xuan Qing Road.
"Senior, Luan'er's remnant soul may still be in this picture, only one soul and no remnant soul, it still can't save her life, and please ask the seniors to change the conditions." The demon pleaded.
Xuan Qing shook his head and said, "You don't need to worry, this is just an ordinary painting, no accident, Luan'er's remnant soul should still be in your body." ”
"In my body?"
"Since you are a ghost cultivator, don't you know?"
"Don't hide it from my predecessors, I'm a half-ghost cultivator." The demon said ashamedly.
"Anyway, an acquaintance is the cause, and parting will eventually bear fruit. I was most afraid of cause and effect entanglement in my life, but I didn't expect that I couldn't escape ...... after all."
"Girl, let me ask you, what is the Tao?" Xuan Qing said gently.
"The Tao is the way, the Tao is very good." Without waiting for the demon to answer, Xuan Qing continued, "The so-called ghost path is to cultivate everything related to ghosts. ”
"There is life and death in the world, born as a human and died as a ghost. The so-called human beings, three souls and seven spirits gather in the flesh; The so-called ghosts, the physical body dies, the seven spirits are scattered, and the three souls are reincarnated. One soul enters reincarnation, one soul returns to Lethe, and one soul wanders away from the world. ”
"The soul that remains on earth will fulfill its unfulfilled wish within seven days, and then it will dissipate after seven days. If the attachment is too deep to dissipate, it will stay in the world and become a ghost. And ghosts are their unfinished obsessions. ”
"The so-called remnant souls are also ghosts in a sense, but the reason why they remain in the world is not obsession, but the soul is parasitic to things. To do this, it usually requires extremely powerful soul power, such as celestial gods and immortals, fierce demons and beasts, and the like. ”
"Since ghost cultivation can absorb ghost qi for its own use, it can also provide a place for remnant souls to attach. So, I guess Luan'er's remnant soul must be sleeping somewhere in your body at this moment. Xuan Qing said his conjecture.