Chapter 36: The Secret Art of Southern Xinjiang
No wonder Guo Yuan was so surprised, under the mask that the person in front of him had never taken off all the year round was Guo Yuan's own uncle, Guo Ziyi.
Guo Ziyi loved to travel far away in his life, and never cared about the family business, but when Guo Yuan was three years old, Guo Ziyi went out to travel and occasionally contracted a stubborn disease, and when he returned home, he was already skinny and colorless. Guo Yuan loved to listen to his uncle tell about the strange things outside, the uncle and nephew had a close relationship, Guo Ziyi never married a wife and had children, and in the last few days, Guo Yuan accompanied him all day long. Guo Yuan also witnessed Guo Ziyi's breath and burial, and he was sad for several years, but now Guo Ziyi is back from the dead, which makes Guo Yuan, who has always not believed in ghosts and gods, accept, and shouted hysterically: "Who are you!" Why do you want to pretend to be Guo's own uncle? What is the intention of lurking around me for so many years? ”
Guo Ziyi sighed and said: "Xiao Yuan, I am really an uncle, many things are not as simple as you think, besides, if I have the intention to harm you, why wait until today." ”
Guo Yuan squinted his eyes and stared at the person in front of him, although this "Guo Ziyi" looked exactly the same as the uncle in his memory, but Guo Yuan still had suspicions in his heart, after all, people can't be resurrected after death, even if they are the first in the world today, the holy monk of the empty mountain who cultivates to the sky and the earth can't do this, and Guo Ziyi is just an ordinary person, which makes Guo Yuan believe it.
Seeing Guo Yuan's suspicious face, his right hand was quietly groped behind his back, Guo Ziyi smiled: "Do you still remember, when you were two years old, you sneaked into your father's study, and secretly hid his favorite landscape painting under the third plane tree in the yard. ”
Guo Yuan's eyes widened, and he said astringently: "That's right, no one else knows about this matter except for my uncle." You are really an uncle, but why are you still alive? How did it become what it is now? ”
Guo Ziyi sat cross-legged, fiddling with the charcoal fire, and sighed: "This matter is a long story, I originally planned to rot these old things in my stomach as long as you are safe and sound, but your father has confessed before his death, if you encounter great changes after the age of thirty and have plans to practice martial arts, you want me to tell you these things as they are, so that you can decide for yourself what to do." ”
"Your father's family has a lot of money, and he thinks very highly of himself, and he disdains to be in the same stream with other businessmen, so he is naturally jealous and jealous. But most of these people in the rivers and lakes are misbehaving, and they are not enough to get a good reward, and they don't know how much of your father's treasures they have stolen, and your father is helpless about it, and the guards who intended to protect the Guo family from outsiders have become a wolf into the house. ”
Seeing that these people are becoming more and more unscrupulous, in order to prevent the family from being emptied, your father has come to me privately, hoping that I can seek the help of some righteous people with strong martial arts on the pretext of traveling. It was precisely because of that time that I went to Saibei, but I accidentally ingested an intestinal poison called "Broken Grass", not only failed to complete what your father confessed, but my own life was hanging by a thread and was in danger. Fortunately, your uncle and I made a good relationship in the early years, and was finally sent back to the Guo family by a group of rangers, but the body is not as good as day by day, your father searched for famous doctors in Qingzhou, but they were helpless, and the divine doctor Chang Xi even asserted that I have two months left at most. ”
"Your father is very sad, originally just let me go out to ask for help, but I didn't expect to end up like this, your father begged Chang Xi to heal me even if the family is bankrupt. But the "broken grass" is extremely toxic, the so-called broken life, is to cut off the opportunity of life, Chang Xi has only heard of this medicine, and has never seen it with his own eyes, let alone how to prescribe the right medicine. ”
"Just when your father was at a loss, among the group of people who sent me back, a ranger from southern Xinjiang came to us and offered advice to your father."
Guo Yuan knew that the next thing was the key to the matter, and he was busy holding his breath for fear of missing any details.
I only heard Guo Ziyi continue: "According to legend, in the depths of the mountains of southern Xinjiang, there is an ancient and mysterious sect hidden, called the 'Goddess Palace', this sect is isolated from the world, so its reputation is not obvious. When the ranger was young, he had a chance acquaintance with a disciple in the temple of the goddess, one was a young woman who was not deeply involved in the world, and the other was a high-spirited young ranger, the female disciple was very longing for the strange world in the mouth of the ranger, regardless of the ban of the teacher, and the ranger traveled with the world, the two had feelings for each other, admired each other, and because of this, the ranger learned from the female disciple about the mysterious sect of the temple of the goddess, as well as some unbelievable ancient secret techniques. ”
"There is a secret method that can bring the dying back to life, and the flesh and meridians of the person who is being spelled can absorb the internal force of others, turn the flesh and blood into a melting pot, and improve their cultivation realm by constantly absorbing the internal force of others, which is a kind of martial arts shortcut, and this body cultivation can also be passed on to others, this kind of evil art, not to mention the ranger, even I am well-informed, it is unheard of."
"Seeing that there are great benefits, the ranger can't help but feel itchy, and listen to the female disciple continue, although this kind of secret method, although there are many benefits, but there is a great drawback, that is, people who practice this technique will become inhuman and ghostly, but in the next life, after passing on the gong again, they will never recover, and their bodies will die, and they will not be able to live forever!"
"Your father and I discussed, rather than let me wait for death in vain, it is better to take a risk, besides, as the only son of the Guo family, you have been very intelligent since you were a child, your father has high expectations for you, hoping that I can save my life while also secretly sheltering you, and finally we made up our minds to learn this technique at all costs. After that, your father took the ranger and traveled thousands of miles to southern Xinjiang, and after a lot of hard work, he finally found the location of the temple of the goddess, as for how to persuade the sect master to teach the secret method, I don't know, but the ranger disappeared after that, and your father seemed to have changed as a person. But your uncle and I finally saved a life, in order to hide by your side and secretly protect in the future, your father specially played a scene with me and hid from everyone, from then on, there is no Guo Ziyi in the world, only a black-clothed guard who guards Guo Yuan's side and lives in the dark and cannot show people. ”
Guo Yuan already believed in Guo Ziyi's identity at this moment, and at the same time silently wrote down the sect of the Temple of the Goddess in his heart, recalling that he mistakenly thought that his uncle had passed away, he was sad and said astringently: "Uncle, you deceived me so hard." ”
Guo Ziyi smiled bitterly: "All this is also a helpless move, the Guo family is already eye-catching, and it is popular with people, if it weren't for your father back then, and sent you to Dongyue Academy to study, I am afraid that the Guo family will be wiped out with that fire." ”
Guo Yuan remembered the tragedy of that year, gritted his teeth and asked: "Uncle, after so many years, Yuan'er still doesn't believe that there was no one behind the fire back then, who is the real culprit, does Uncle have any news?" "When the Guo family was tragically destroyed by a fire, although the government had already closed the case, and the real culprit had committed suicide in fear of crime, this matter has always been a thorn in Guo Yuan's heart and deeply rooted in his heart.
Guo Ziyi shook his head and sighed: "I, like you, feel that this matter is a little strange, if it is simply for money, why hurt people's lives, slaughter people, and a fire, what gold and silver treasures, antiques, calligraphy and paintings are all burned, and your father, as a wealthy businessman in Qingzhou, if he is not for money, I really can't think of any reason to make enemies, unless..."
"Unless you know some terrible secret, you want to kill people!" Guo Yuan's mind turned sharply and blurted out, "Goddess Palace!" ”
Guo Ziyi nodded: "Hearing you say this, it's not that it's not impossible, it's just that there is no conclusive evidence, all this is just an inference from you and me, maybe the matter is not as complicated as we think, it's just an accident caused by the negligence of the subordinates." ”
Guo Yuan gritted his teeth and said: "It's okay, if you want to know the truth of the matter, you will find out when you go to the Goddess Hall in the future, the most important thing now is to find a way to kill Feng Jingquan to relieve the hatred in my heart!" ”