The boy's face was pale, beads of sweat the size of beans rolled down his forehead, his limbs spasmed and trembled, and in the blink of an eye he rolled three or four times on the ground.

The five or six playful children gradually stopped and stood still. But they didn't seem afraid, nor surprised, and squinted at it. Lu Benfang couldn't bear to look at it anymore, shook his head lightly, and sighed.

Obviously, this was not the first time that the group had seen the boy in this way.

Gui Wuyi stepped forward and took the pulse of the child.

Lu Benfang said: "It's useless." Between the ages of three and six, he was in excellent health and was almost free from all diseases. Among the children of the same age in the five miles and four squares around, there is no one more robust than him. When I was six years old, I got this strange disease for some reason, and I had a seizure every three days. Each time it is as short as one stick of incense, and as long as two quarters of an hour. His grandfather invited famous doctors within a radius of 100 miles for him, but they were all helpless. ”

Before the words fell, he saw that Gui Wu's hand was flickering, and he pinched a red elixir with two fingers like a trick and fed it into the child's mouth.

This pill was taken out by Gui Wuyi and put into the child's mouth, which seemed to be intact, but in fact it was not a whole pill, but shattered into countless fine dust. As soon as the child licked his tongue, he felt a soft flow in his mouth, and suddenly his mouth and tongue were full, and he subconsciously swallowed it into his stomach like a liquid.

It took only three or four breaths to swallow the pill. The boy ceased to convulse, and his expression eased.

He lay on the ground, staring at the sky with big eyes, and breathing heavily with his mouth open. The surroundings were extremely quiet, and Lu Benfang and those boys were as motionless as sculptures. The wind also stopped. The chirping of birds and the sound of chickens and dogs, which can be heard on a daily basis, seem to be silent as if they were tacitly agreed. Only the sound of the child's breathing grew louder and louder in the eardrums of the people.

It's like this heaven and earth, this life, there is only one breath. Only this breath confirms the existence of this life.

Blameless, not a word.

Lu Benfang came back to his senses and was amazed, he didn't expect this young offspring from other places to have such good medical skills, better than how many famous doctors with beautiful faces within a radius of hundreds of miles.

The boy lay on the ground for a long time, feeling the strength of his muscles and bones complete. Suddenly, he turned over and stood up, his body was very agile, and he couldn't tell that he had just recovered from a serious illness.

He stretched out his little hand, grabbed Gui Wuyi, and slipped close to a gate next to the alleyway.

Quickly open the door, enter the door, close the door.

With a bang, the door closed again, and the child's big eyes stared at Gui Wu's face.

This is a small courtyard with a radius of two zhang, the wall is high and low, and the green bricks that build the wall are faintly gray in the upper part. The bottom of the wall is almost black, perhaps because it has been soaked by rain for a long time. As for the half-foot-sized tiles on the wall caps, some of them are broken, and some of them are cracked and crumbling.

There is a stone table and two stone benches in the courtyard. Other than that, there are only three green vines that climb up the wall.

The child stared at Gui Wuyi for a long moment, and his mouth was open, as if he wanted to say something.

But he tilted his head and thought for a while, but he didn't speak. Fu grabbed the cuffs of Gui Wuyi again, walked to the door of the main house, took out the key from his sleeve, and opened the inner door.

Blameless followed him in.

The interior is quite simple, with a table and four chairs, and a cabinet. Two silk net pockets are hung from the roof beams, and two grass-blue bamboo pipes are hung from them. A bamboo curtain on the right side covers it, presumably the bedroom.

The child finally spoke. He stretched out his hand and pointed in the air, "I'm hungry." ”

Blameless was waiting for him to speak. But I didn't expect it to be this sentence. What's more, this kid ate a big piece of bee candy cake an hour ago.

If it is a shallow basket, bamboo is generally used, and it is just suspended in the air in order to prevent moisture and rodents and insects. The bamboo bamboo is tightly covered, and it is even one foot high, so it could have been placed directly on the table. Now hanging in the air, it looks nondescript. It is obvious that the child's parents did this in order to prevent him from stealing food.

Gui Wuyi smiled slightly, and did not break it. The right hand was held in the air, and the bamboo bamboo was freed from the rope as if it were a trick, and it swayed and fell into Gui Wuyi's palm.

When you open the bamboo basket, you will see a lot of pastries. Bee sugar cake, steamed cake, chestnut cake, bean cake, dry cake, milk cake. There was also a small package, which appeared to be a bag of candy.

Gui Wuyi said slowly: "Take what you want to eat." ”

The child seemed to be shaken by the means by which he took off the bamboo pole without blame. He turned a blind eye to the many pastries, and looked straight at the blameless face.

After a long time, the child said loudly, "You can help me, right? I know that you and my sister are the same people." Lang Zhong can't cure me, I know. Only people like you and my sister can heal me. ”

Gui Wuyi asked, "Who is the person who taught you to practice?" Is it the "sister" in your mouth?"

The child nodded, and an indescribable look suddenly appeared on his little face, as if he was remorseful, as if he was sad, as if he was confused, and muttered, "It's all my fault, I didn't listen to my sister." ”

After speaking, he put his little hand into his arms, took out a red rope, and removed it from his neck. It turned out that the red rope was tied to an inky turtle shell three or four inches in size. The turtle shell has a strange shape, with vertical and horizontal double lines, dividing the back into nine areas. In each area, it seems to be engraved with dense words.

When he was healing the child, Yuanguang walked around him and understood it.

This child, where is there some strange disease?

This kid clearly has a spiritual root, and the quality of the spiritual root is not low, almost reaching the fourth grade. Even if it was a little reluctant to enter Chongxiao Pavilion, it was considered the top among the outer disciples of the Yue Heng Sect. It is expected that the core disciples of first-class sects such as Yu Xuanzong and Xingyuemen may not have such qualifications.

However, because the body did not grow up, he practiced the "Quenching Fan Four Levels" exercise too early. The muscles and bones are very bad, as if they have been twisted into a mess. Not only is he out of the way, but even his own lifespan is only twenty or thirty years left.

The Taoist children of the Yue Heng Sect also have arrangements to practice the exercises in advance, but they are supported by secret methods. Except for the cultivation of the three levels of true qi in this life, there are no other future troubles.

Gui Wuyi sighed: "Let's talk about it, what's going on." Did your sister teach you to practice?"

Because the cultivation of the Tao is not different from the secular martial arts, if there is no one to guide you, you will not be able to learn it on your own. But if someone teaches, it is impossible to make such a low-level mistake, unless someone deliberately harms them. But if you want to deliberately trap a five or six-year-old boy, there are thousands of ways, so why bother.

The child nodded first, then shook his head. "I suddenly remembered the day I was three years old. The princess held me in his arms. I saw my sister's back and walked into the depths of the abyss. At that time, I had an idea in my mind that after I was ten years old, I could practice the exercises on this shell. ”

Gui Wuyi said: "Then why did you practice in advance?"

The child's face was very confused, and he whispered, "I don't know why. Three-year-old, four-year-old, five-year-old, six-year-old... I've always hung on this thing, I just thought it didn't exist. I know very well in my heart that I can't start practicing until I am ten years old. I understand, I understand. ”

"But just after my sixth birthday, a very strange thought suddenly occurred in my heart, like wildfire, and I wanted to start cultivating immediately, and I couldn't wait any longer. ”

"I knew in my heart that this idea was wrong, and I must listen to my sister's words and wait until I was ten years old before cultivating. But I couldn't suppress it, and finally practiced that exercise. ”

And then ...... It became what you just saw. My grandfather has hired many doctors for me, and I know in my heart what is going on, which is completely useless, but my grandfather doesn't know about cultivation, and I can't tell him. Only by meeting someone like my sister can I be cured. ”

Gui Wuyi pointed to the turtle shell and said to Yue, "Can you show me?"

The child hesitated for a moment, and handed the turtle shell in his hand to Gui Wuyi.

Seeing that Gui was not to blame, the child said, "I can't understand this." My sister passed me eight words. You have to read these eight characters before you can understand them. ”

Gui Wuyi smiled and said: "These eight words, is it "wisdom through the true source, practice the Dharma realm"?"

The child's mouth opened wide in astonishment.

This is a technique to prevent the practice from being stolen by outsiders, called the "mantra lock", which is regarded as a more clever inheritance technique in the lower realm in addition to the "system of things" and "internal and external laws". This kind of method is naturally not to blame. A glance at the words on the turtle shell reveals the key to the mantra.

Gui Wuyi looked at the little turtle shell, and unexpectedly looked at it for two quarters of an hour. His countenance became more and more solemn, and he didn't want this inconspicuous little thing to surprise him.

What is recorded on this turtle shell must be the flow of exercises, and it is enough to make a judgment when you see the mantra lock. Sure enough, at a glance, this is a technique to pass the four levels of quenching and the nine levels of true qi. What is really surprising is that the part of the four levels of quenching is just the same, and it has never been the same in a hundred schools, and the cultivation method of the Nine Levels of True Qi is actually extremely clever.

On that day, the "Dahua Kurong Jue" passed on to Huang Murong and Huang Zhengtu was already regarded as a first-class exercise in the Nether Realm, and it should not be weaker than the True Qi Realm method of the first-class sect. However, the "Dahua Kurong Jue" is obviously dwarfed by the exercises on this turtle shell.

Among the exercises that Gui Wuyi has seen, except for the "Nine Yuan Book" that he himself practiced, there is no second exercise that can surpass the formula on this turtle shell.

However, it is unfair to compare the Book of Nine Yuan with the Nether Exercises. Because there is a distinction between the upper and lower methods. The Book of Nine Yuan belongs to the upper law, born from the fundamental method of pointing directly to the avenue, like an inscription outside the sky, and it is clear without a trace.

However, the method on this turtle shell is obviously extracted from the empirical evidence at the bottom. The disciples who read the Taoist books can vaguely see the place where they will pass through thousands of homes and melt into oneness. What is rare is that although it uses a wide range of materials, it can work extremely well in the world without losing its true colors. Pushing is the limit of the lower method, which is not a false reputation.

In Gui Wu's opinion, the elders and real people of the Yue Heng Sect who have cultivated deeply in the Xuan Palace and the Wuling Hall have drawn out twenty or thirty people, and they have given up the true scriptures of the "Psychic Manifestation True Form Diagram", and have taken the true qi realm exercises of the ten first-class sects of the four continents and six seas to study them for hundreds of years.

Gui Wuyi's voice was soft: "It's not impossible to help you." Are you afraid of pain?" the child's eyes lit up, and he shook his head like a rattle.

A cloud of light overflowed from the palm of Gui Wu's right hand, imprinted on the back of the child's heart.

The child's face turned blue, and he groaned, and his limbs trembled uncontrollably.

In fact, children suffer no less now than they did half an hour ago. And every episode of curling muscles and bones like before, although his body seemed completely unharmed afterwards, it actually consumed a great deal of mental and physical strength, and it usually took five or six hours to really recover.

It was supposed to be a greater challenge to meet the more intense pain in a worse physical condition, and this kid should be even more unbearable than before. But perhaps he saw hope, and the child gritted his teeth at the moment, and his endurance was much better than before.

Half an hour passed, and Yuan Guang was accepted without blame.

The boy coughed violently, spitting out a large chunk of blood. He was in a trance for a while, and he only felt that his whole body was comfortable, and he seemed to have found the feeling he had felt two years ago.

I couldn't hold back for a while, and two lines of tears flowed.

Gui Wu said: "Your body will be no different from ordinary people in the future, and you will no longer suffer from pain." ”

The child nodded, and suddenly said, "I am eight years and five months old. In a year and a half, I will be ten years old. When I'm ten years old, will I still be able to practice?"

Seeing that Gui Wuyi did not answer, the light in the child's eyes dimmed, and he whispered, "If you can't, you can't." My sister also said that if there is no way out of cultivation, it is good to be safe and sound in this life. ”

Gui Wuyi was silent for a long time, and finally sighed and said, "It may not be possible." ”

The child looked up quickly. "But it's a little troublesome." You need to find a few medicines. I can help you find it. If you find it in the past year and a half, I'll bring it to you. ”

Although there are many pills carried by Gui Wuyi, the "Zhenggu Pingmai Pill" that can cure this disease is not among them. Not only does he not have it, but he may not find it in the Yue Heng Sect.

It's not that this Dan is clever. Just as the Yue Heng Sect never refined the "Casting Spirit Pill", many of the pills developed in the Nether Realm to deal with strange situations were useless in the Upper Sect. The most door books record their names and pills, contain their origins, and note their efficacy.

The child said, "Thank you." ”

Gui Wuyi smiled: "I also want to thank you." ”

The child's eyes widened in confusion.

But he knew very well that when he helped the child, the negative emotions of restless emptiness and decadence and indifference brought about by the "retreat from the Zhiguan" dissipated by five or six points.

Six or seven out of ten of the seventy-two levels of the Nine Tribulations are all produced after the cultivator feels that he has made great progress. It is often seen as a "bad foundation". However, every step of a cultivator's cultivation is in accordance with the old method that has been tempered for thousands of years, and if he does not dare to take half a step beyond the thunder pool, how can he not have a solid foundation? The foundation here lies not in the practice itself, but in the fact that between people and me, they can prove the truth of their own practice and find a place to settle down.

The Word is not in man, nor in oneself, but between man and me. Only by crossing oneself and crossing others can one hold on to one's own heart.