After the rest of the natal things were successfully refined, he stayed in the ashram of the medicine hall for another three or four days, and then left the medicine hall in a hurry.

He was anxious to go to the old beggar to learn from him and get shelter.

On the day of leaving the customs, after arranging the corresponding miscellaneous items in the medicine hall, at midnight, he slipped to the place where the town's yamen was located.

But when he came to the place where the old beggar often stayed, there was no one lying in the straw pile.

The old beggar is not in prison.

This made Yu Lie's eyebrows furrow slightly, but he wasn't too surprised.

Now that the changes in the town are faintly emerging, the old beggar will definitely not be able to get out, and most of them will no longer be able to sleep in the cage as before.

Yu Lie began to rummage through the straw piles and cages to see if the old beggar had left him a word.

He hadn't been rummaging for too long, and the sleepy bug that had been hiding in his hair suddenly flew out on his own initiative.

Buzzing! The little black worm circled and landed on top of an iron railing.

Soon, handwriting appeared on the iron railing, flashing like fireflies:

"Insects in the middle of the night, and the library can be seen."

A few crooked words entered Yu Lie's eyes, and at first glance they were the handwriting of an old beggar.

Yu Lie squinted slightly, thought for a while, and thought a little excitedly: "Meeting in the Library Pavilion, it seems that the possibility that the old gentleman is the master of the Black Water Observatory is a little bigger!" ”

He immediately pinched his fingers and felt what time it was, and found that it was exactly midnight, and in a few quarters of an hour it would be the next hour.

So he hurriedly collected the sleepy worm and hurried to the place where the library was located.

After a while, Yu Lie came to a gloomy stone tower, and his footsteps suddenly stopped.

The library in the daytime, because there is a sharp stone crane at the door, and the surface seems to have something surging in the wall, which is a little frightening, and it is not a good place.

Now in the library at midnight, Shi He's eyes are faint, as soon as Yu Lie walked to the door, Shi He turned his neck and stared at him tightly, and the building of the library was also weird, and it was not a good place.

Yu Lie took a deep breath, tried his best to calmly arch his hand towards the two stone cranes at the door, and then summoned out the sleepy insects in his hair.

Airplanes!

As soon as the little dark insects appeared, the two stone cranes in front of the door had even more gloom in their eyes.

In Yu Lie's attention, the other party's beak was still opening and closing a few times at a speed that was difficult to catch with the naked eye, but fortunately, the two stone cranes did not pounce on him after all.

After the sleepy insect was released, it turned a few times in a daze, as if it was attracted by something, and made a circle in front of Yu Lie, and took the initiative to rush into the library pavilion, and motioned for Yu Lie to follow.

Bean-sized insects flew by, and the two stone cranes at the door let them sway in, without any abnormality.

Seeing this scene, Yu Lie also hardened his head and broke into the library in the dark night.

When he stepped into the attic with both feet, the stone crane at the door, the other organs in the library pavilion, and even the previous cold feeling did not appear, which made Yu Lie breathe a sigh of relief in his heart.

His footsteps paused slightly, and he found that the stone crane at the door was still turning his head inward, staring at his back.

But now Yu Lie didn't feel frightened, he was still quite idle, as if he remembered something, he suddenly took out two copper talismans from his sleeve and threw them towards the two stone cranes.

Yu Lie bowed his hand slightly, and hurriedly followed the sleepy insects flying slowly in front of him, and walked towards the depths of the library pavilion.

Go up one hurdle after another, and not for a while.

Yu Lie walked to the third floor, but the sleepy insect did not stop, and continued to lead him upstairs under his expectant gaze.

The first, second and third floors of the library pavilion are the places where the Taoist children in the town borrow books, the fourth floor is borrowed by Taoist disciples, and the fifth floor is the town mayor, that is, the private book collection place of the lord of Heishui Temple, which is a forbidden place.

But the sleepy worm ran to the fourth floor, and before the rest of the column could take a look at the arrangement of the fourth floor, it flew to the top floor again, and there was no obstacle.

Soon, Yu Lie obviously came to the highest place of the Library Pavilion, but it was as if he had walked into the ground, and the surroundings became cold, even with his current eyesight, it was pitch black in front of him, and he couldn't see anything clearly.

was originally a swarthy sleepy insect, but now it has become the only firefly, igniting the bean-sized point of light, and still honestly guiding him.

Ordinary floor tiles, ordinary aisles, passing in front of Yu Lie's eyes, he didn't see much strange on the fifth floor.

Suddenly, the sleepy insect leading the way in front of it flapped its wings louder, and accelerated into a quiet room, and a voice came from within:

"Little one, you're here."

The voice was old, quite different from the tone of the old beggar that Yu Lie had been familiar with in prison, but the timbre of the two was the same.

He pressed his thoughts, hurriedly walked into the quiet room, and without looking at it, he said: "Student Yu Lie, I have seen the teacher." ”

With a shout, Yu Lie glanced at it with his spare eyes, only to find an old man in a black gossip robe and a glaive crown on his head, sitting cross-legged in an empty room.

There was only a screen, a futon, a table, and a book that had been opened.

The old man held the scroll in his hand, with white beard and gray hair, and a serious appearance, and was teasing the sleepy insect that flew to him.

Hearing Yu Lie's request, the old man said in a flat tone:

"What?"

The meeting of the old and the young tonight is really very different from the scene in the prison once was.

Although the old man had the same eyes, nose, and mouth as the old beggar, Yu Lie was a little afraid to recognize him at first glance.

Because the other party has such a look, it is really too serious!

Fortunately, Yu Lie raised his gaze slightly, and found that there were still a few pieces of finely broken peanut shells on the table, especially the book that the old man was holding in his hand, and the other party had taken it down at all.

This made him completely relieved, confirming that the other party was the "old beggar" he knew, and it was definitely not a secret technique that cultivated one body with multiple souls and a changing temperament.

However, the old beggar was no longer in tune, the other party was also Yu Lie's current teacher, and he was a powerful person, Yu Lie didn't dare to delay the other party's time, and as soon as he gave it up, he immediately said:

"Teacher, the students are here today in the hope that the teacher can check the homework and take the students as apprentices. The students will saddle the teacher before and after the horse, serve tea and water......"

"What?"

The old beggar, who was serious and had a high demeanor, heard Yu Lie's question, his eyes widened, his body collapsed, and he broke his work in an instant.

The other party has changed from a master of Taoism to a salty and wet old beggar who would chat and chat with Yu Lie in the cage and the tea room.

The old beggar pulled his beard, leaned forward, and asked with some surprise: "You have refined the natal blood weapon?" ”

Because the range of action was not small, the old beggar's sleeve shook out some peanut shells, and a peach pit that was not very clean, and rolled to the table.

However, the old beggar did not change his face, put the peach pit in his sleeve, and pressed the peanut shell, restrained his tone, and asked calmly:

"Shaft, don't you really have another piece of information to tell, or you are not here to ask for help, but you have refined your natal thing?"

Yu Lie took the other party's actions into his eyes, and said respectfully again: "Exactly, students will never dare to talk nonsense." ”

As he spoke, he put his hands in his hands, agitating the qi and blood on his body, and the flesh buds between his hands stirred for a while, and in a few breaths, it grew into a thin book with black skin.

The old beggar sat behind the table, glanced at the leather book, and then at the rest of the columns, and after a few back and forth, the other party's eyes showed a look of surprise and wonder.

"This little guy, although he seems to be a little clever and has been tempered by his roots, but his understanding is average and he has no background...... Shouldn't it, where is the natal thing so easy to refine? A Taoist boy can succeed with this note by relying only on himself and without the help of others? ”

The other party frowned, looked at Yu Lie suspiciously, and said secretly in his heart: "Could this kid be acting, someone is helping and trying to fool me?" ”

But there is no need to ask Yu Lie, the old beggar himself knows that Yu Lie is most likely not lying.

Because the old beggar had already drawn the household registration documents of the rest of the columns, and also asked the ghost soldiers in the town, confirming that his student only had a few fox friends in the town, and then he had nothing to do with it.

Suddenly, the old beggar stared at the leather book in Yu Lie's hand, thought of something, and opened his mouth to suddenly say:

"Well, it's a leather book!"

The other party remembered that among the several natal things of Dan Dao, there are quite a few things, which have low requirements for understanding and talent, but high requirements for other aspects, and the Book of Painted Skin is one of them.

But the old beggar suddenly took another deep breath, he pulled his beard, accidentally tore off two of them, and then looked at Yu Lie with a look of surprise, and asked:

"Is this the Book of Skinning?"

The leather book has some names, shadow puppetry, painted skin, peeling skin, etc., Yu Lie was not surprised to hear the other party call him so, so he nodded generously, and patted his ass to:

"The teacher knows it, and you can recognize it at a glance."

Receiving Yu Lie's admission, the old beggar's face was even more surprised.

He only tore off a few beards just now, and he felt that his face hurt terribly, so he really couldn't imagine how this cheap student of his own dared to peel off his own skin and refine it into a blood weapon.

The old beggar staggered: "Good fellow, this boy! ”

The other party touched his beard, and after a few breaths, he still couldn't help but knock on the side:

"As far as the poor Dao knows, to use the leather book as the natal thing, it must be taken while it is hot and fresh, and the pain in this is great, and the old man feels panicked when he hears people talk about it, but what way can you avoid it......?"

Asking, the old beggar paused, thinking that he was already Yu Lie's teacher, so why bother going around again.

"Ahem!" He simply coughed lightly and asked directly:

"How much skin did you peel off? How could they endure such torture? ”

Yu Lie stood in front of the other party, and when he saw that the old beggar was suppressed by his leather book, he was overjoyed in his heart, and suddenly felt that this time the apprenticeship was stable.

However, he didn't dare to be too pretentious, so he answered honestly: "The teacher praised it falsely." ”

Yu Lie said: "The pain of peeling is indeed heart-wrenching and unbearable, even if the students deliberately configure anesthetics, but the anesthetics can't control all places, and they can only be controlled for a while." In the refining process after peeling, the bitterness and bitterness are really unforgettable for the students, and they just endure it. ”

Hearing these words in the ears of the old beggar, it made the other party feel even more surprised, and couldn't help but cry out: "Can you bear it like this? Let's talk quickly, how much skin did you take from your body and refine it? ”

Looking at the curious baby-like old beggar, Yu Lie pondered for a moment, and arched his hand and said, "From head to toe, all of them." ”

After hearing Yu Lie's answer, the old beggar breathed a sigh of relief: "It's from head to toe...... Wait a minute! ”

The other party was stunned: "From head to toe? All? ”

At this moment, the old beggar's eyes became more strange than ever, as if he was looking at some monster, and he glanced at Yu Column.

The other party's gaze was so hot that Yu Lie was a little uncomfortable standing in front of the other party.

So Yu Lie coughed lightly and took the initiative to explain:

"Back to the teacher, although the peeling hurts, it is only for a while. Students have the teacher's notes as a guide, there will be no broken limbs, no sequelae, as long as you are patient, a few days of hard work, and when the skin grows well, even the appearance will not be ruined, it is indeed good to endure it. ”

He added: "There is no harm in it anyway, it is better to peel less than more, it makes no difference." ”

But the old beggar pointed to Yu Lie, and was silent for a long time, before he muttered:

"The old man has seen a lot of torture to torture others. There are not a few who dare to respond and let others torture themselves. Only I dare to do it to myself, and I am so ruthless, and now I see you like this. ”

Yu Lie didn't know if the other party was simply praising him, or if there was something else in his words, so he could only assume that he didn't know.

"Teacher, since the student has already refined the natal blood weapon?"

Yu Lie looked at each other expectantly.

Who knew that the old beggar was silent again at this time, and the other party looked at the leather book in Yu Lie's hand, shook his head, and said:

"It's a pity, it's a pity, I'm cultivating the Gu Dao, and you're refining the Leather Dao. Although your heart is so resolute, how can I guide you, old man? ”

Yu Lie's heart jumped, and he was a little caught off guard.

Before he could speak, the old beggar sighed softly and said, "The old man has broken his promise, so he will not accept you as a disciple." ”

Yu Lie was anxious, straightened up, and shouted, "Teacher! ”

But the other party ignored it, and stretched out his hand, and his face changed sharply.

The old beggar was expressionless: "Shut up!" Since your heart is so resolute, how dare I teach you, old man? If it's a little bit bad, wouldn't you dare to peel the old man and cramp it and refine it into a magic weapon! ”

These words made Yu Lie's face pale slightly, and he was anxious to explain, but the other party's words did not stop:

"The master-apprentice relationship between you and me, don't let outsiders know, and when you get out of this door, it will be invalid."

At this time, the old beggar's face showed a fierce color that Yu Lie had never seen before, and the other party sneered, without any intention of giggling:

"Hey! Thanks to your alertness, you haven't let outsiders know about it until now. Otherwise, the old man will have to clean the portal now and peel you and cramp. Save you from this shaft, if you commit a crime in the future, you will drag the old man into the water. ”

After saying that, the old beggar took out a token from his sleeve, sent the beggar and threw it into Yu Lie's arms, then pointed to the door, and scolded:

"Get out! Walk slowly, don't send. ”

Yu Lie held the token, and suddenly felt a little at a loss, not knowing whether to advance or retreat......

Ask for a commuter pass

(End of chapter)