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Chapter 2: Mountain Spirit (Part II)

Suiyuan Lane, located in the southwest of Yunlan Town, is not wide, and most of the alley on the street is blocked by a century-old yellow locust tree. Many locals who have lived in Yunlan Town for decades do not know about this place. Therefore, there are rumors that those who can enter this alley are destined.

Jiang Chen and Jiang Wu brothers set up the Chenwu Gym here because the rent here is the cheapest. But also because of the remoteness, this place is also a lot of doors. Moreover, the Taoist demons say that the world is half-convinced, so the "business" received by the Chenwu Daoist is even more rare.

Today, the gym finally received a commission, although the fee is not much, but the two brothers still attach great importance to it.

In the middle of the night, the lights and candles were still swaying in the Chenwu Gym, and Jiang Chen and Jiang Wu were preparing for the demon eradication.

Jiang Chen poured out a furnace of pulp that had been boiling for a long time and spread it evenly on the flat stone slab. This pulp is made by soaking, mashing and boiling mulberry bark, yellow locust wood and seven-star grass seeds. Silk flourishes near Yunlan Town, there are many farmers who plant mulberry and raise silkworms, and it is not difficult to find mulberry bark of a year, and there is a hundred-year-old yellow locust in the courtyard and alley mouth of the Chenwu Daoguan, so the materials are also ready-made. However, the seven-star grass is difficult to grow, and only grows in the mountains and wilderness that are inaccessible and beautiful.

"There aren't many Seven Star Grass Seeds left. Jiang Chen said: "Let's go to Nanshan another day." ”

Jiang Chen said, brought another bluestone slab, and pressed the flat side down on the spread pulp. Put some stones and other heavy objects on the bluestone slab to squeeze out the water in the wood pulp as much as possible, so that the pulp is pressed thinner and more evenly.

Then, Jiang Chen took a fire and baked the bluestone slab to let the pulp moisture below evaporate faster.

Jiang Wu wanted to step forward to help, but Jiang Chen refused: "You will have to spend a lot of effort later, just rest now, and leave these chores to me to deal with." ”

Not long after, the water in the pulp evaporated, Jiang Chen removed the heavy object, and carefully tore off a yellowed semi-dry paper film from under the bluestone slab, which was the rune paper embryo.

Jiang Chen skillfully cut the rune paper embryo into a size of six inches six inches long and three inches three inches wide, and handed it to Jiang Wu. At the same time, he poured some pulp from the furnace and continued to make the rune paper embryo.

From the rune paper embryo to the real usable rune paper, there is still one last step left, which is to inject Taoist true qi.

Between heaven and earth, aura is everywhere, but some places are thin and some places are abundant. Cultivators follow the Taoist formula, introduce the spiritual energy of heaven and earth into the body, and after refining the eight veins of the Qi Sutra, they become the so-called Taoist true qi, also known as Taoist qi and true qi. Therefore, only Jiang Wu, who is a cultivator, has true qi. Jiang Chen couldn't cultivate, and he didn't have true qi in his body.

Jiang Wu sat cross-legged, he put a piece of talisman paper embryo between his palms, and then stacked his palms in front of his lower abdomen, secretly lucking his true qi, breathing and breathing. True Qi passed through both palms, and little by little penetrated into the rune paper embryo. The impurities in the paper embryo evaporated with the remaining water, forming wisps of white mist that emanated from Jiang Wu's ten fingers.

After half an hour, the rune paper embryo dried, and no more mist came out. Jiang Wu also stopped and put the paper embryo in his hand into a wooden box. This paper embryo is darker in color, dark yellow in color. On closer inspection, the fibers inside the paper are distributed in a complex and orderly manner, like natural runes, which is the real usable rune paper.

Making a piece of talisman paper, Jiang Wu was already sweating profusely, he took the towel handed by Jiang Chen and wiped it gently.

Jiang Chen said: "Don't be too reluctant, the hundred-year-old mountain spirit is not easy to deal with, we can make preparations for a few more days and then remove the demon." ”

Jiang Wu shook his head: "If you delay for one more day, the village boy will have to suffer for one more day." I already have some rune paper in my hand, and if I prepare some overnight, it's almost enough. If it weren't for my shallow cultivation and a few rune papers, I would have been able to make them in no time. ”

Jiang Wu has been cultivating for several years. He is diligent and hardworking, and his qualifications are not bad, but he is suffering from the guidance of a famous teacher, so he only learns some basic Taoism from the "Ten Thousand Demon Spectrum". For the assitics, it is just the beginning.

Jiang Chen sighed: "It's a pity that the records in the "Ten Thousand Demon Spectrum" are all kinds of demons, and there is almost no mention of cultivation, and only some basic Dao methods can be found if they are pieced together. And I'm naturally weak and can't cultivate, otherwise I can share some of it for you. ”

Jiang Wu knew that his elder brother Jiang Chen also wanted to cultivate the Tao, but it was a pity that he had no chance with the Tao. No matter how Jiang Chen cultivated the basic Dao method, he couldn't refine the slightest trace of Daoist true qi. If you cultivate for a long time, it will also cause headaches.

Speaking of headaches, this is also a serious illness that Jiang Chen has had since he was a child. Jiang Chen still remembers that when he was a child, his parents often took him to seek medical advice, and he took a large amount of medicinal herbs since he was a child, and gradually improved his symptoms, but there is no cure so far. Until now, every once in a while, as short as three to five months, as long as a year or two, the headache will attack. He had to follow a prescription left by his father and take the medicine to relieve it.

Jiang Wu is Jiang Chen's younger brother of the same father and mother, but he has no headaches, and he is much luckier than Jiang Chen. However, compared to other teenagers of the same age, both brothers are very unfortunate - because their parents have not been heard from since they left seven years ago.

Jiang Chen is very smart, but he can't guess the reason why his parents left. It was seven years ago on September 17, an ordinary day, my parents made breakfast as usual, and then went to the fields to work, but never returned.

The brothers depend on each other for their lives and have to become sellers in order to survive. The thick copies of the "Ten Thousand Demon Spectrum" were inadvertently discovered in the secret compartment under their parents' bed. There were also several pieces of old rune paper sandwiched between the pages of the Ten Thousand Demon Spectrum, one of which was a phantom talisman.

Jiang Chen and Jiang Wu read the "Ten Thousand Demon Spectrum" and knew the theory of cultivators and demons. The brothers were very puzzled, their parents were ordinary farmers, how could they have a classic book like "Ten Thousand Demon Spectrum"?

Jiang Chen believes that his parents are very likely to be Taoist cultivators, and they say goodbye without saying goodbye, which is also related to this. So the brothers decided to become a monk, hoping to solve the mystery one day.

In the past two years, Jiang Wu has already learned a little about the basic Taoism, so they sold all the objects except the "Ten Thousand Demon Spectrum", purchased some Taoist weapons used by Taoists, and opened this "Chenwu Dao Hall". No matter how difficult the business is, the brothers are trying their best to keep the gym afloat.

On the second day, the two brothers left early, left Suiyuan Lane, and went to the bamboo forest deep in the mountains more than 20 miles west of the town.

The mountain road is difficult to walk, and when the two brothers came to the bamboo forest, it was already noon. The sun is shining outside the mountain, but the forest is very shady, and the branches and leaves of the bamboo forest cover the sky and the sun, and only a ray of sunlight penetrates into the forest like golden threads.

This bamboo forest is very extensive, and the deeper you go, the more dense and difficult it becomes. Later, the two brothers were surrounded by green bamboos and had almost nowhere to stand.

"It's already very deep here!Let's see if we can sense the demonic aura of the mountain spirit!" Jiang Chen said.

Jiang Wu took off the burden on his back and opened it. The package contained a three-foot sword, a palm-sized bronze mirror, a stack of yellow-mounted rune paper, and three or five celadon vials. Jiang Wu took out the bronze mirror, then bit his fingertips in pain, and dripped three drops of blood on the bronze mirror.

A strange scene happened! The three drops of blood stayed on the surface of the bronze mirror for a moment, and then quickly seeped into it. The mirror immediately glowed with a faint red light, and strange and mysterious runes appeared in the red light.

Along with the runes, there was also a blood arrow of inches in length, and the blood arrow spun on the bronze mirror for a while, and after a few breaths, it suddenly stopped and remained motionless.

"Sure enough, there is a demonic aura!" Jiang Chen said. At this point, the Blood Arrow arrow pointed at a shining ancient character inscription, and the other runes were already dimmed.

After a few moments, the blood arrow and the rune it pointed to also faded away, and the bronze mirror returned to its original state, but the two brothers already knew the answer.

"According to this demon mirror, the demonic energy came from between the Kangen, that is, the direction of due north and east. Jiang Chen raised his two points and pointed to a certain place in the bamboo forest, which was exactly the direction that the blood arrow was pointing at just now.

Jiang Wu nodded, he put away the bronze mirror, held the long sword in his hand again, and walked in front.

The bamboo forest was dense, and the two brothers walked more than a mile with difficulty, when they suddenly heard a burst of singing coming from the front.

The singing voice is melodious and tactful, and it is a woman's voice. In the deep mountains and dense forests, inaccessible, how could there be a woman singing softly here? The two brothers glanced at each other and nodded to each other. Jiang Chen said: "Be careful, it should be that mountain spirit!"

"Brother, you just wait for me here!" Jiang Wu said.

"No!" Jiang Chen shook his head: "Although I haven't cultivated the Dao Method, I am familiar with the "Ten Thousand Demon Spectrum", and when dealing with mountain spirits, I can help you come up with some ideas." ”

"Okay!" Jiang Wu didn't persuade much. No matter what difficulties the two brothers encountered, they all faced it together, even if he said it, Jiang Chen would not let him face the unknown mountain spirit alone.

They followed the song for a while, and after passing through the bamboo forest, they saw a small valley.

The valley is full of flowers and streams. Who would have thought that surrounded by mountains and dense forests, there would be such a small isolated world!

And in the center of the valley is a huge green bamboo, and a woman in white with a white veil mask is singing and dancing around the green bamboo.

"Mountain spirit!" Jiang Wu blurted out, he immediately sensed that this banshee was angry!

The woman in white had apparently noticed the arrival of the two Jiang brothers as well, and she stopped dancing, turned around, and glanced at them.

Jiang Chen's face suddenly changed greatly. He noticed that when the sunlight shone through the green bamboo branches and leaves on the woman in white, a faint shadow was left behind her.

"Run, this is a thousand-year-old mountain spirit!" Jiang Chen exclaimed. According to the record of "Ten Thousand Demon Spectrum", ordinary mountain spirits are formed by gathering resentment, ethereal, and there is no shadow. Only the body condensed by the thousand-year-old mountain spirit can shine a shadow if it is substantial.

Among the two brothers, only Jiang Wu knows the law, and he has not been able to get the guidance of a famous teacher, and his means are limited. With his own strength, it is a little troublesome to deal with the hundred-year-old mountain spirits, and these thousand-year-old mountain spirits can't deal with it at all.

Jiang Wu's reaction was also very fast, he immediately took out a piece of rune paper, poured out a little blood-red cinnabar from a small porcelain bottle, and quickly drew a strange ancient character on the rune paper, and at the same time read out the magic in his mouth:

"The five elements of Qiankun, ten thousand trees become a forest!

This is the wooden path recipe in the Five Elements Dao Method. Although it is only a basic Dao method, it is really not easy to be able to perform it so quickly, and it requires a lot of hard work. As Jiang Wu broke off, the rune paper immediately turned into a strong wind and rushed towards the dense bamboo forest.

After the strong wind passed, the green bamboos slanted to both sides, and a path several feet wide appeared in an instant. The two brothers hurried down the trail.

After running a few steps, I only heard a coquettish voice behind me: "The five elements of Qiankun, ten thousand trees are alive!" Then a demonic wind swept in.

Where the demon wind passed, countless shoots suddenly appeared from the green bamboos around them, and they pulled out the branches at an extremely fast speed. The branches not only blocked the way ahead of the brothers, but they also kept approaching, trying to entangle them tightly.

Jiang Wu drew his three-foot iron sword and slashed hard, but these bamboo branches were very tough and difficult to cut. What's even more terrifying is that the branches that have just been cut off grow again at a very fast speed. Countless bamboo branches poured in from the front, and the two brothers could not move forward, but were forced to retreat continuously.

"Since the two sons are here, why leave in a hurry!" The resentful woman's voice came from behind the two brothers, and both of them trembled. Instead of fleeing, they were forced back into the valley.

"Don't do it yet!" Jiang Chen forced himself to calm down, and he whispered to Jiang Wu: "A few days ago, that village boy met the mountain spirit, and he was able to escape safely, maybe we can also find a chance to escape." ”

Jiang Wu nodded slightly, he hung down the iron sword in his hand, but he didn't dare to put it away.

The two brothers turned around and found the woman in white right in front of them. This woman is slender and slim, and looks no different from the form of an ordinary young woman, except that her complexion is very fair. For a monster like a mountain spirit, the more specific and true the humanoid cultivation is, the more profound the Taoism is!

Jiang Chen laughed, he turned to the woman in white and said, "This girl is wrong, we are not two people, we are one person, and the other is just a shadow clone cultivated by this Dao Hero. ”

"Really?" the woman in white was skeptical.

"If the girl doesn't believe it, this Taoist hero will show her magical powers. Jiang Chen was perfunctory, and at the same time motioned for Jiang Wu to use the illusion talisman, pretending to be a shadow clone.

"No need!" the woman in white didn't seem interested. She said, "You are young, if you have such skills, you may be able to do me a favor." ”

"What's the problem?" the girl said, but it didn't matter. Jiang Chen and the others were relieved in their hearts, the trick of the shadow clone, fooling the village husband and the woman may be passable, and it may be extremely difficult to convince the thousand-year-old mountain spirit. If the other party asks for it, the two brothers have a good chance of leaving safely.

"Help me find someone. The woman in white said.

"Who is it?" Jiang Chen asked.

The woman in white sighed lightly and said quietly, "My father-in-law." ”

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