8: In the rain
Brother Snake was originally not surnamed Snake, his original name was Li Yong, but because he was recognized by the ancestors of the clan, he was given the surname 'Snake', so he was called Brother Snake by his peers.
Nanling Mansion raises yin and Gu people, although the strong are respected, but they also have a set of rules, and every few years there will be a grand meeting of fighting Gu and fighting spirits, so as to elect the king of their kind, and the king can be 'Gu' with the surname.
And the grandmother of 'Brother Snake' has won the title of the snake king of 'Snake Gu', known as 'Grandma Misty Snake Snake', and every Gu king can designate a junior as his own inheritor, which is recognized by her.
Therefore, a group of people naturally gathered around him, and the reason was that he was the designated inheritor of Grandma Misty Snake, and there was also the reason why the 'Gu' he raised himself was really powerful.
"Brother Snake, you say, what did he buy so many lamps for?" A barefoot young man said.
There is a lot of rain in Nanling Mansion, so if the young people here don't go up the mountain, they like to be barefoot, tie their trouser legs, expose their chests, and their hair is tied up high, and even some people will shave their hair, and the overall look is full of wildness.
"Brother Snake, your aconitum has been in touch with you, why don't you let it snoop around and see what he's doing?" Someone said.
Li Yong looked at the person who spoke, his eyes were big and a little protruding, and his pupils were a bit like snake eyes, and when he was stared at, he would have a feeling of fear.
Li Yong didn't know if these people who had instigated him really didn't get the news, or if they had other purposes, but he was glad in his heart that he hadn't had any direct conflict with this newcomer in that temple yesterday.
Therefore, his gaze crossed these people, and he did not answer, but poured the wine into the bowl next to him, and poured out a black pill from a bottle, and soaked it in the wine, and a black snake came out of his sleeve, and the black snake was long with chopsticks, and it was soaked in the wine in the bowl.
The snake's scales opened slightly, and his mouth hissed, and at the same time, Li Yong said coldly: "What I want to do, I don't need your advice." ”
He never felt that these people were as loyal and honest as they said they were.
The people of Misty know that dangerous things are always hidden in the shadows.
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Ma Wuyang led his people into the mountain.
The golden silkworm Gu raised by Ma Wuyang is not considered the mainstream in the entire Nanling Mansion, because of its weakness in the early stage, it is often difficult to protect itself in this Nanling Mansion, which is full of poisonous insects and ghosts.
But after surviving the weak time in the early stage, the ability of its Gu worms in the back is directly chasing the five major Gu worms, it is said that if the Golden Silkworm Gu can really break out of the cocoon, it will be able to overwhelm the Gu King.
Therefore, Ma Wuyang can be called a well-known figure in this Wuze County, but he went to the mountain at this time.
He wanted to restore his Golden Silkworm Gu, and he called the people of his clan, and he went up the mountain overnight.
The place he was going to was a place that only he knew, deep into the mountains, where there were many obstacles, especially in the first sunny weather after the rain, and the obstacles rose with the mist.
"Fifth uncle, are you sure you want to go in alone?" The one who spoke was a nephew who sent Ma Wuyang, who was already a middle-aged man, and he looked at the fifth uncle who was seriously injured overnight with some concern.
Over the years, the fifth uncle has won a lot of benefits for the family with the silkworm Gu, from a lonely and unknown person to a pivotal person in the clan, but the battle between Gu masters has always been so dangerous.
Ma Wuyang let go of his hand, a gust of wind blew, he felt cold, and Ma Ye Pole immediately said: "Let the little ant accompany you in." ”
The little ant he said was the young man who often took care of Ma Wuyang's daily life, and he knew that the fifth uncle was suspicious and didn't worry about following up by himself.
"Okay, you let the ants come over." Ma Wuyang said that he also felt that his body was really injured, and there was a difficult road there to walk, and he needed help.
"Xiao Ant, come here, accompany your fifth uncle in, you must take care of your fifth uncle, if something happens to your fifth uncle, I will ask you." Ma Ye said sternly.
"Yes, I will take care of my fifth uncle." The little ant replied in the affirmative.
"Let's go." Ma Wuyang carried a bamboo pole in one hand and a cloth-wrapped box on his back, and walked towards the misty canyon.
It was the Poisonous Insect Gorge, which was rampant with gas and poison.
Xiao Ant took the anti-obstacle pill handed over by Ma Wuyang, supported one of Ma Wuyang's arms, and walked forward.
The hemp leaf pole standing there wanted to explore the secret of his fifth uncle, but he didn't dare, although the fifth uncle seemed to be seriously injured, but the restless ferocity coming from the box on his back made him dare not think about it.
"This new teaching, silent, turned out to be a muffled biting worm."
Ma Ye Jian thought in his heart, he decided to let people monitor this Zhao Yingyun well.
Ma Wuyang obtained a book of secrets for raising the Golden Silkworm Gu by chance, and there was an article in it about how to make the injured Golden Silkworm Gu recover and have the opportunity to go further.
Before, his silkworm Gu was in the cocoon, and he had not broken the cocoon, so he had already moved his mind, but he didn't want to interfere with the natural breeding of the silkworm Gu, but now it was the right time.
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Zhao Yingyun communicated with Chijun overnight, and let him dye some lamps with Chijun's divine might, but this was not enough, and during the day the next day, he still secretly wished for a day.
Then, he divided the forty-nine lamps into seven groups and placed them according to the position of the Big Dipper, among which the statue of Chijun was placed in his central hall, which belonged to the southern fire position, and the seven lamps surrounded the idol.
I don't know if it's the flame that makes the idol seem to be burning, or if the brilliance of the idol adds a layer of divine color to the flame.
The other six groups were also placed in the room according to the star position, and Zhao Yingyun's bed was equivalent to the 'spoon' position in the seven stars.
He was lying on the bed, practicing vipassana, and he only felt that his body and mind were relaxed, and there was a warm feeling all around him, which was full of security.
This formation is simple to say, but it is not simple at all.
The statue of the Red Monarch, which he has practiced for many years, is integrated into this array with himself, which seems to be the Big Dipper, but in fact it is the Nine Stars, and the statue of man and the god is in the array, which is completely one.
As the sky went back into the night, there was a faint light shining through the small courtyard, piercing the darkness.
The next day, after a few days of sunny weather, it started to rain again.
Zhao Yingyun sat on a rattan chair in the middle hall, and he was reading the "Spiritual Objects Sutra" copied in the mountains.
A monk has cultivated mana, and condensing Xuanguang is a hurdle, but if he is more diligent and has more perseverance, most people can still condense Xuanguang, after all, condensing Xuanguang requires perseverance and diligence, but practicing magic is to understand.
When a flint touches a flint, a spark falls, and the flame ignites, and some people's minds are like wet wood, and they cannot be understood in any way.
And to build a Dao foundation, in addition to understanding, you also need chance.
To build a foundation, it is necessary to cooperate with the inside and outside.
With its own Xuanguang mana, it is like planting a seed when it falls into the sea of viscera qi, so that the mana breaks through the shackles and forms a qualitative change.
And the world is really evil, not taking off yin and yang, and not leaving the five elements, so most of them start from the five elements.
Metal, wood, water, fire, and earth, the five elements are really evil, and if you get one of them, you can enter the sea of qi and build a foundation.
There are also wind, thunder, elemental magnetism, cold ice, pure yang, xuanyin, poisonous barriers, etc., and some are mixed together, and some people even think that ghosts and gods can also be called 'evil seeds', and they can attain the Tao together.
Therefore, some people classify 'Gu' as a genus of ghosts and gods, belonging to the spirit species, but Zhao Zhiyun, like the Taoist master in the mountains, feels that 'Gu' just belongs to the 'strange species'.
In a realm, mana cannot grow indefinitely, it can only be purified, of course, there are upper, middle and lower, but there will be no gap-like change, but Xuanguang to build the foundation is a qualitative change.
He came down the mountain here, and although he was ordered by his master to teach here, he himself could never delay his cultivation.
And to build a foundation, people can't leave this place to find the truth, so they can only condense it themselves.
There are many cultivators in Tiandu Mountain, although there are places where the true evil will naturally condense, but it is also expensive, he has no family support, of course he can't afford it, so he can only come by himself.
The light on the oil lamp behind him was no longer a mortal flame, but a trace of the rudiments of true evil.
He sat there, smelling the smell of burning lamp oil in his nose, thinking that if sandalwood oil was put into the lamp, it would have a calming effect, but he was not familiar with this place, and this kind of thing was not available in ordinary people's homes, so he couldn't buy it.
"The Sutra of the Essence of Spiritual Things" talks about the nature and function of all things in the world, and it also writes about what kind of things will be combined with what kind of things under what circumstances, and what changes will occur, whether it is alchemy or treasure refining, you need to be familiar with the nature of spiritual things.
And when there was a Taoist master in the mountains who talked about the medicinal properties of herbs, he listened very carefully.
The rain was getting heavier and heavier, the wind was blowing, and the small courtyard was already shrouded in rain and fog, and it was impossible to see the sky outside the courtyard clearly, and the rain and fog obscured the light and sight.
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A slender, pointy-eared white cat jumped under the eaves, and she tried her best to avoid the heavy rain, but no matter how careful she was, she was still wet from the heavy rain, which made her very uncomfortable.
The white hair on her body was dripping, shaking off the rain on her body, she began to identify the direction, it may be that the rain is too big, the rain and fog are thick, she can't identify the direction, the house she sees in her eyes is looming, and the entire Wuze County seems to be in a strange situation.
She suddenly turned around vigilantly, only to see a black shadow coming out of the mist in the hookah outside the eaves behind her.
Although the white cat was obscured by the rain and fog, it was a real sight to see closely.
She saw that it was a man with a disheveled head, a 'man' in a rotten suit, and this 'man' was crawling on the water-covered ground, which was very strange.
The white cat jumped towards the wall, it was just a bungalow, and as soon as he stepped on the wall, he was already on the eaves between the wall and the tiles.
When I looked back, I found that the 'person' with the cloak was already lying on the place where he had just stood, looking up.
She saw that it was a woman with a puffing and pale face, and under her wet hair, a pair of eyes, only the whites of the eyes were not black, and she looked gloomily at the white cat on the wall.
It's a yin ghost, white cat can be sure.
The moment she made eye contact with the female ghost, she felt that her soul was about to be frightened.
The white cat's body trembled, the hair on its back exploded, and it made a "meow", and its body was born with a kind of evil aura similar to that of a tiger, not retreating but advancing, jumping down from the wall beam, and the female ghost with half of the body under the eaves in the muddy water, the damp evil qi on the body surged with her wet black hair, like a black wave to swallow the white cat.
The white cat seemed to be frightened, and once again made a 'meow' sound, and when she was wrapped in the black hair, her pair of claws quickly grasped, and on the claws, there was a spiritual light, and with her sharp claws, the black hair swept like waves.
The black hair broke inch by inch under the cat's claws, and the white cat got out of the crack, but did not run away, but at the moment of landing, he jumped up smartly, and pounced on the back of the female ghost's head, and his claws frantically scratched the head of the female ghost, and the head of the female ghost was scratched under her claws, and the black hair was scattered, but it was strangely wrapped towards the body of the white cat.
The white cat sensed the danger, she turned and ran towards the wind and rain, running down the muddy alley, the soles of her feet stepped in the muddy water, but the water seemed to have some suction, sticking to her feet, and there was a cold cold penetrating her cat's paws into her body.
Her heart beat violently, and a strong sense of danger surged into her heart, and she rushed towards the wall next to her, and at the moment she swooped up, a black wave suddenly rose in the ditch of the eaves next to her, and a woman with black hair rose from it.
The strange black hair rolled towards the white cat like a black snake wave, and locked the space for her to leap upward, but the white cat was extremely agile, and when she was in the air, she kicked the wall with all four feet, but it ran diagonally, and her body seemed to be surging with a gust of wind, wrapping her around the wall and running horizontally.
Unable to dodge the strange waves that emerged from the rain waves, she ran quickly along the base of the wall.
She found that she seemed to be lost in the dirty and smelly lanes of the stormy city of Wuze County.
She was not familiar with this place, and she couldn't see far in this wind and rain, and every house was covered by wind and rain.
She briefly escaped the female ghost and immediately jumped onto the wall and burrowed into a house.
A damp and musty smell came to her face, and she only felt disgusted in her heart, and the damp heat and stickiness of this place made her feel uncomfortable.
Her eyes were in the dark, and she could see that there were large urns in this room, and she landed on the lid of one of them.
At that moment, a large python burst out of the large urn in the middle and bit her.
The white cat's white hair exploded, and it jumped up in shock, and once again scurried up to the wall, and drilled through the gap between the beams and the walls.
"Where did the wildcats come from?"
She had only climbed through the wall and entered another room when she heard the voice of an old woman.
As soon as the voice came out, she saw a red nematode in her eye, shooting towards her like an arrow.
A gust of wind swayed on her body, and her body folded in the void, and she dodged the red nematode, jumped up the wall, and burrowed into the wind and rain outside.
The inside of this house is even more dangerous than the outside.
Her whole body was already soaked, and at this time, a chill drilled into her body.
At this moment, she saw a person standing at the mouth of the alley, gloomy and unrecognizable in the rain, the man was dragging an iron chain in his hand, and walked over step by step, and the iron chain was dragged on the ground, making a harsh and terrifying sound.
She smelled a heavy corpse.
This is not a human being, but a 'corpse puppet' raised by a human being.
At the same time, she found that in the flowing water in the alley, the female water ghost had actually chased after her.
And on the roof, at some point, there was a monkey-like thing crouching there, its eyes gloomy and cold.
The white cat has a keen sense and feels that it is faintly surrounded.
She couldn't help but think: "This Wuze County, is it true that the people in a county are all evil demons?" ”
She found herself trapped in the county seat of Wuze County, not knowing where to get out.
At this moment, her ears twitched twice, and faintly, it was as if she heard the sound of chanting.
"This is, Chijun?"
She immediately ran in the direction from which the chanting had come from.