Chapter 30: Old Immortal Master
A few days passed, and it was the ninth month of the lunar calendar.
On the day of Chung Yeung Festival, Liu Chongjin's retreat ended.
During the day, the disciples of Qiu Zhifeng celebrated the master's exit and a breakthrough in cultivation, so everyone gathered together to celebrate a lively Double Ninth Festival.
In the afternoon, when the sun was about to set, Liu Chongjin finally had some leisure time.
Qiandu took Zhan Lu to Wenfeng Pavilion to find Liu Chongjin.
Wenfeng Pavilion is a library within Autumn Peak, mainly storing files related to Autumn Peak's disciples, as well as some books collected by Autumn Peak's own collection.
Unlike the Manjusri Pavilion, the Manjusri Pavilion is a place where the important texts of the entire Cangchen Mountain School are stored.
Liu Chongjin came to Wenfeng Pavilion mainly to consult the files of all the events related to demons that the disciples of Qiu Zhifeng had dealt with during his retreat.
It's been a habit he's been doing for a long time.
The first thing I do when I come out of retreat is to look at the files.
I want to see if I can find clues about the demons in the events recorded in the dossier.
After Qian Du and Zhan Lu arrived, they knocked on the door, and only after obtaining permission did they enter Wenfeng Pavilion.
A middle-aged man with white hair sat in it, his desk was full of files, and in front of the man was an open file, which was the one he was reading.
Zhan Lu felt that this middle-aged man had a strong sense of exhaustion after experiencing vicissitudes.
Thinking about the person who can cling to chasing the heart demon for hundreds of years, what happened to him must be very unfortunate.
She suddenly didn't know whether to ask, those past pains, is the person concerned really willing to reveal his scars again in order to explain the reason to outsiders?
Qiandu gave Liu Chongjin a salute: "Master, this is Zhan Lu." ”
Then he said to Zhan Lu: "This is my master." ”
Zhan Lu gave Liu Chongjin a salute: "Immortal Master Liu." ”
Liu Chongjin didn't pay attention to these etiquette issues, he said gently: "You don't have to be so polite, I don't have so many rules here, you can sit casually!" ”
After the two of them sat down, Liu Chongjin asked Qiandu, "Dusk, is there something wrong with coming to me?" ”
Qianwei didn't hide it, and directly explained her intentions, "We came here to ask the master something about the demons." ”
Hearing the word 'heart demon', Liu Chongjin was stunned for a moment, and then nodded deeply, indicating that he understood the intention of the two.
For two hundred years, he had been tracking down the whereabouts of his demons, and Twilight knew it.
It's just that Twilight never asks about the demons in her heart.
I don't know why I suddenly care about the demons today?
Liu Chongjin looked at Zhan Lu again, and his heart was clear.
I guess it's because of this girl.
He carefully looked at Zhan Lu for a moment, and in the distant memory, he finally searched for a trace of Zhan Lu's memory.
This woman he had seen before.
Two hundred years ago, when he rushed to kill the heart demon, the heart demon had fled, leaving only the heartbroken Twilight holding the body of his lover.
He had seen the woman's corpse in Twilight's arms.
It was another evil thing, and he couldn't do it at the time, so he didn't leave immediately to pursue the demon without a trace.
Instead, he stayed to take care of the sad man who lost his beloved.
He watched as Twilight calmly and methodically buried the woman, and then quietly knelt in front of the woman's grave for a moment.
Then a mouthful of blood spurted out, and he nervously wanted to come to the rescue.
Before he could get closer, he noticed that Twilight hadn't fainted or died after spurting out a mouthful of blood.
Instead, he sat quietly on his knees for a while, and when he got up again, he suddenly seemed to be a different person.
He looked at his surroundings a little dazedly, as if he didn't understand why he was in front of a 'double tomb'.
Yoo Chongjin can understand the situation at that time, when his wife was killed, he was overly sad and had gray hair overnight.
Twilight is overly sad and forgets everything.
He buried his past with his own hands.
He saw that there were fairy bones on Qiandu's body, and he was destined for immortals, so he took Qiandui as an apprentice.
This apprentice forgot all about the past, and after returning to the mountain, he cultivated his ruthless Tao with a cold heart, and this cultivation was 200 years.
In the past two hundred years, there have been many women who have admired him, and there have been many people who have chased him upside down, but he has always been alone and has no intersection with any woman.
The only thing he's passionate about is exorcism.
Even if you forget everything, you still subconsciously retain an attachment to demons.
Liu Chongjin thought that such a thousand twilight would have no feelings, but he didn't expect to lead the same person to him now.
It seems that this apprentice is very different from the woman in front of him, not cold-hearted, but very caring.
It's just that why can a dead person still appear intact in the world?
Liu Chongjin muttered, "Shouldn't it? ”
At that time, he was sure that the woman was dead, and that he had seen Twilight bury her with his own eyes, and he even remembered that Twilight had found a flower tree for her.
He didn't remember what the tree was.
Why was the woman so good in front of him now?
But his wife died and could not be resurrected.
Zhan Lu seemed to see what he meant, and she could understand it when she thought about it.
When she was fighting with the demons in her heart, the spiritual power fluctuation she felt, she didn't know it was spiritual power at the time, but now she knows.
And at that time, the demon complained, "Cut, this old man is really difficult, didn't he just kill his wife?" After chasing me for so many years, I haven't chased enough. ”
This old man refers to the old immortal master.
At that time, her soul was wrapped in the heart demon and left, and after they left, it was the old immortal master who came.
That's why Qiandui will become the apprentice of the old immortal master.
"Old Immortal Master, you were not mistaken, you did see me."
"You've seen my corpse, to be exact."
Zhan Lu opened his mouth to answer Liu Chongjin's questions.
"But today is the first time I've seen you."
"Before you arrived that day, I was entangled with the demons in my heart, and she sensed that you were coming, so she escaped with my soul."
"Later, she threw me into the afterlife, and I left a soul to seal her in reverse."
"Now, I want to go back to this world to seek revenge on the demons, but my soul and soul have also been cultivated into entities, but the demons are nowhere to be found."
She couldn't detect the slightest breath of inner demons in Canghai.
Liu Chongjin didn't expect this girl to confess first.
The soul, the entity, returns to this world.
He captured a few key words, and also understood that this girl had used her soul to become an entity, and then returned to this world from the afterlife.
It's just how that could be?
The afterlife realm can only be entered in the form of a soul, and it can only enter, and if you think about it, it can only be in the form of reincarnation.
It must never return to the world as a physical entity or as a soul like this.
Liu Chongjin couldn't help but look at Zhan Lu again.
This girl can come out of that hell, it must be extraordinary.
However, he is not good enough, and he can only see that this girl is not a ghost, not a human, not an immortal, but there is a holy aura on her body, and he doesn't know what it is.
That's it, what is the identity of this girl, he doesn't bother to explore.
As long as it's not evil.
He turned the conversation back to something about demons.
Everyone is looking for revenge on the demons, and the more clues you have, the faster you can find the demons.
"Two hundred and twenty years ago, I received a mission, which was a monster possessing different people and harming people."
"That was my first contact with the Inner Demon, which has no physical entity and can only hide its whereabouts through possession."
After speaking, he felt that it was wrong, and added: "To be precise, the demon at that time was not yet physical. ”
"Now that two hundred years have passed, it is impossible to say what the demons have grown into and whether they have been cultivated into entities."
Liu Chongjin continued to talk about the events of the year.
"Once, the demon possessed the body of a child and wanted to kill a couple, but I happened to bump into it and caught it."
"That time I forced the demon out of the child's body, and I was severely injured. Then she fled. ”
The old immortal master was silent for a moment when he said this, recalling some bad pasts, and he regretted it a little.
"I thought it was over, until it ......"
At this, his eyes were a little moist, his voice was a little hoarse, and the thought of what he was about to say made him miserable.