Chapter 7: The Two Gentlemen of the Demon Domain
The martial saint came like thunder and went like the wind, and the mountains returned to the tranquility of the past.
On this day, Li Qingshan went up the mountain to chop wood again, and the white fox followed closely by his side. Since he went up to the mountain to chop wood at the age of twelve, he is no longer familiar with this mountain, where there are strange rocks and caves, mountain springs and streams, mountain fruits and wild vegetables. Firewood can be cut everywhere, after all, the most forest trees are the most abundant in the mountains. But the old Taoist priest has long stipulated that the little Taoist priest must be thousands of feet away from the Taoist temple to cut wood. If you are opportunistic, it is not necessary to be swept away by the dust, kneeling in the temple for a day and a night is nothing, and the most terrible thing is to be thrown to the top of the mountain "mirror pool" for a night.
He still remembers that when he was twelve years old, he was taken to the "mirror pool" on the top of the mountain by the old Taoist priest for secretly chopping wood behind the Taoist temple. Xianlai Mountain was originally towering into the sky, and the moon was white and the wind was clear that night, and the moon and stars were hanging low overhead, as if they could be picked up. The colder the night becomes, the mist rises from the mirror pond, and the dissolving moonlight becomes a piece, which seems to reach the sky. In the distance, the strange rocks are craggy, the ancient trees are standing, and the shadows are abundant, like people, beasts and ghosts. The top of the mountain was eerily quiet, except for the occasional call of a strange bird, and the only thing I could hear was the sound of my own heartbeat. Even though Li Qingshan had the ability to concentrate and calm his breath, the feeling of being quiet into the bone marrow still made him flustered, so he had to recite various scriptures such as "Tao Te Ching" and "Nanhua Sutra" over and over again, and even read the strange scriptures taught by Mr. Shangguan. The louder he recited, the louder the echo from the top of the mountain, as if a ghost was responding. After a night of confinement, the sun rose in the morning the next morning, and the morning glow flew up, and when Chu Sihai came to pick him up from the mountain, he breathed a sigh of relief, and his tense nerves relaxed, and after going down the mountain, he fell seriously ill. From then on, chopping wood and carrying water no longer dared to be opportunistic. Wood shall be wood a thousand feet away, and water shall be water at the foot of the mountain.
While chopping wood, he practiced breathing and breathing, and occasionally rested for a while to recall what he learned yesterday, and for a while he silently recited Taoist scriptures, and for a while he recited the classics of Zhuzi. Suddenly, I heard someone behind me say, "This little Taoist priest is chopping wood." What do you think?"
When he looked back, he saw two people who looked almost identical, standing a foot away from him, seemingly twin brothers. One of them wore green clothes, and the other wore black clothes, and their countenances were very handsome, and their clothes were clean.
The man in green clothes said, "Yes, this little Taoist priest is chopping wood. Why is he still used to chop wood. Isn't he the stinking old man who closes the door? Isn't it him?"
The man in black frowned and replied, "But there is only one little Taoist priest on this mountain. ”
The man in Tsing Yi sneered: "That's what the people in the mountain village said." You force them with brute force, and that's why people say that. How do you know they're not lying to you. You don't dare to go to the Taoist temple to inspect it!"
The man in black was not angry, but sneered at each other: "You dare to go and see? You are not just hiding from a distance and peeking! You are just afraid of that stinky Taoist priest!"
The two of them spoke a word, sang and harmonized, and spoke to themselves, ignoring Li Qingshan looking at them at the moment.
The man in Tsing Yi also ignored the ridicule of the man in black, and said to himself: "Look at the white fox next to him, it's so beautiful." It's exactly the same as those spirit foxes in our Demon Domain. I don't know if it's the same breed, maybe it's the descendants left behind by the spirit fox brought out by our Demon Domain back then. ”
The black cloth said impatiently: "What do you care about the spirit fox at this time. Isn't it time to ask him if he's an apprentice with a bad nose?"
Tsing Yi grinned and asked rhetorically, "Do you think he will speak?"
"I think he'll say. Because I can feed him some venom. ”
"Are you going to be so despicable again. The reputation of our Demon Realm Twin Gentlemen is about to be ruined by you. Although Tsing Yi said this, he didn't intend to stop the black clothes.
"It turns out that they are called the Twin Gentlemen of the Demon Domain. Li Qingshan thought to himself.
The black-clothed man shouted at Li Qingshan: "Hey, little Taoist, are you the closed disciple of the Ox-nosed Stinky Taoist Zhang Yunshe?"
Li Qingshan put down the firewood, and said clearly: "My master is not the old Taoist Zhang Yunshe, but the world-famous Taoist Zhang Yunshe. Who are you?"
Tsing Yi said: "Oh oh, it's really you, a little Taoist." We, we are known as the Twin Gentlemen of the Demon Domain, my name is the Gentleman in Tsing Yi, and his name is the Gentleman in Black. Have you heard of us?"
Li Qingshan shook his head and said simply, "I haven't heard of it." "I thought that these two people were weird and weird, evil and evil, and even called themselves gentlemen, which was really a great miracle in the world.
Tsing Yi was not angry either, and continued to ask, "Why are you chopping wood?"
Li Qingshan replied unhurriedly: "There are people living in the temple, people have to cook and eat, and they don't cut firewood, where does the firewood come from." ”
The black cloth looked at him and said coldly: "Little Taoist, look at your expression, you don't seem to be afraid of us at all." Do you know what we're here for?"
Tsing Yi said: "Ahem, cough, you should be polite when you speak, don't scare the children." We are gentlemen. Hey, little Taoist, we want to test how powerful your martial arts are, can you advise?"
Li Qingshan said to the man in Tsing Yi: "I don't know martial arts. He had already sensed that among the two strange people, the man in Tsing Yi had a higher status and spoke more weightily.
Heiyi laughed and said to Tsing Yi: "Look, he actually said that he doesn't know martial arts." He was the only closed disciple of the stinky Taoist priest, and he even said that he couldn't do martial arts. Isn't this a lie, a Taoist priest can deceive people, and you are still polite to him!"
Tsing Yi said: "We are gentlemen, we must be polite." Otherwise, you can ask him for advice and try it to find out if he has martial arts. ”
When Heiyi heard Tsing Yi say this, he "hummed", and flashed in front of Li Qingshan like a ghost, and quickly slapped his palm. Although Li Qingshan saw him attacking and making a palm, he didn't have time to block, and he hadn't learned the light skills of the body, so he had to roll to the side by reflexively, so he could dodge the palm, but he looked embarrassed. The black clothes followed closely like a shadow, and before Li Qingshan could get up, he swept over, only to hear a muffled sound, Li Qingshan was hit hard in the chest, and blood immediately oozed from the corner of his mouth. The white fox seemed to be frightened, and disappeared in an instant as it swooped through the bushes.
The two of them in black and Tsing Yi said "huh" at the same time, which seemed to be a big surprise. Tsing Yi said: "This little Taoist priest reacted quickly, but it seems that he really has no martial arts, although this gou-crawling posture dodges your palm, but it does not block this light kick." You see, he didn't panic, but he was much more sincere!"
The black cloth said: "What kind of famous old man is he doing to accept such a waste apprentice?"
Li Qingshan got up, wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth with his left hand, and patted the dirt on his body. Holding the woodcutter tightly in his right hand, he thought of hatred in his heart: "This kick just now is called gentle?"
"Regardless of whether he is a waste or not, what are you going to do with him? He doesn't know martial arts, so it's not easy for us to do it. It is not good for a gentleman to do things to people who don't know martial arts. Tsing Yi said with a smile again.
"It doesn't matter if he can do martial arts. I can stop being a gentleman for the time being, and you can be a gentleman by yourself. I'm going to abolish him, who calls him the apprentice of the old Taoist priest with a bad nose, our demon domain and his enmity are not shared. It's only that he got into the wrong door. ”
"Can a gentleman be so casual as he wants? What a strange person, selling his reputation and reputation. Li Qingshan thought secretly in his heart, and the hand holding the knife in his right hand tightened again.
"Well, I won't do it, but I can give you a good proposal. You see how tightly he holds the knife in his right hand, you need his hand to hold the knife. We don't kill people who don't know martial arts. Tsing Yi said to the black clothes.
The black-clothed man smiled and said, "I like this proposal." After speaking, he stepped forward, bent his hand into a grasp, and grabbed Li Qingshan's right hand. Li Qingshan stood still this time, looked at his origin clearly, handed out a knife and stuck to his hand, provoked and shook it around, and then slashed out diagonally, actually cutting through the arm sleeve of the man in black.
It turned out that this Li Qingshan was very perceptive, although the old Taoist priest only called him "Wu Sword" on weekdays, and used the Purple Cloud Sword to stand up for beads and cut wood. But when he was chopping wood, he carried the bead with him, and on the way, he also played with the beads with the firewood knife, chopped and cut wood. Over the years, he has been able to achieve the realm of this firewood knife, and he is very comfortable with it.
For Li Qingshan's knife just now, Tsing Yi said "huh" again, and his voice was full of surprise.
The black cloth was furious, and said loudly: "See, he knows martial arts." He did it on purpose, pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger. I can't be more polite! I want him two hands this time!"
Tsing Yi said: "That's not martial arts, it's not like martial arts at all, there are no moves to speak of." That's more like improvising with a knife, is this the realization of the 'knife intent'? Alas, I don't care, you can do whatever you like, I close my eyes and sleep. After saying that, he really sat down cross-legged on the big rock next to him and closed his eyes.
The black-clothed man smiled gloomily: "Little Taoist be careful, I'm saluting first and then soldiering." As he spoke, the ghost figure flashed up again, struck a few palms at Li Qingshan, and used the "Thousands of Ghost Palms". Li Qingshan only felt that the palm shadows in front of him were heavy, and dozens of palms were conjured. He didn't know which palm was true or false, real or false, so his heart moved, raised his knife, and used a sword technique of "sweeping the door". Although the sword was replaced by a sword, it also received good results, and it was able to force the countless phantom palms in black to retreat.
It's not that Li Qingshan knows martial arts. It's just that when he grew up to fifteen years old, his biggest strength was "strong memory and strong memory". After he usually finished his work, he went to Dashiping to watch Chu Sihai and Shen Mingyue feed him, and no one knew what he was thinking or understanding. In fact, he didn't need to understand it, but he just subtly memorized individual moves, even if he didn't have a formula, but he used it to be presentable.
The black-clothed man had a pale face, and he looked terrible when he stiffened. He tugged at his waist with his right hand, and a soft sword was already in his hand. Tsing Yi opened his eyes at this time and looked at him and Li Qingshan with interest.
Li Qingshan thought that he would definitely not be able to beat him, so he looked around, suddenly kicked the firewood on the ground at the man in black, and then turned around and ran quickly in the direction of Shannan. In the past few years, he has carried water, chopped wood, practiced boxing every day, breathed day and night, breathed very steadily, and ran up the mountain road without panting. He is also very familiar with the terrain of this mountain, and he dodges left and right, using large trees and shrubs to avoid the other party's gaze, and sprints towards the south of the mountain.
The man in black raised his sword to block the flying firewood, and seeing that Li Qingshan was on the run, he also chased after him. Although he has very good light skills, his speed is faster than Li Qingshan, and it stands to reason that he should be able to stop Li Qingshan soon. But first, he was unexpectedly attacked by Li Qingshan, and second, he was not very familiar with the terrain, so he couldn't catch up with Li Qingshan for a while.
Li Qingshan sprinted hard, and soon ran to the south of the mountain and ran into a cave. It turned out that he deliberately ran this way, but he wanted to enter this cave. The cave is very deep and empty.
At this time, although it was daytime, the outside of the cave was bright, but the depths of the cave were pitch black, and Li Qingshan was hiding behind a boulder. He breathed long, breathlessly, without the slightest wheezing, and it was evident that the breath was working.
As soon as he hid his body, he heard the footsteps and voices of two people walking in, it was the two gentlemen of the Demon Domain. One of them said, "I'll just sit down and rest for a while, and you'll let him run." Alas. How can you say it, even a little Taoist who doesn't know martial arts can't handle it. It was the man in Tsing Yi who spoke.
Another said, "Fart, I'm just careless." Besides, he didn't run away, isn't he in this cave at the moment? "It's the man in black.
Tsing Yi said, "What is he doing in this dark cave? Have you broken the fire and lit it? ”
The black cloth said angrily: "I didn't bring it." ”
Tsing Yi said: "Alas, you, you are always so careless in doing things. Anyway, it seems that I can't be a gentleman today. Did you hear it, his breathing was really regular. The old Taoist priest must have taught him a lot of things. He was in the southeast corner. ”
Li Qingshan's heart froze, and he secretly looked over and saw that the two of them were really facing this side, but they were just looking at this side, and the focus of their eyes was not on themselves, obviously they didn't see themselves in the dark.
But Li Qingshan is different, he began to practice grasping and fetching objects 3,000 times a night at the age of twelve, in order to practice the method of night vision. Now, many years later, his night vision ability has long been far beyond ordinary people. That's why he ran into this dark cave.
He held his breath and quietly looked at the two in front of him.
Tsing Yi said: "Hey, there is no sound of breathing. See how long he can hold his breath and endure it. ”
Li Qingshan looked at the ground, there were a few pieces of rubble. So he picked it up lightly and threw it in the other direction. Sure enough, as soon as the stones fell over there, the two gentlemen of the Demon Domain really went over.
The two men pounced, then stopped, and continued to listen. Li Qingshan didn't dare to move anymore, but as time passed, it became more and more uncomfortable to hold his breath.
The two sides were at a stalemate, and suddenly the cry of a white fox sounded outside the cave, and then Chu Sihai was heard shouting: "Qingshan boy, are you okay?" Whoever eats the bear's heart and leopard gall dares to go up to the fairy mountain to make trouble!"
It turned out that the white fox was very spiritual, and when he saw Li Qingshan being beaten, he immediately ran into the grass and ran back to the Taoist temple to move the rescuers. It was the first to see Chu Sihai, so it bit Chu Sihai's trouser leg and pulled it hard towards the mountain, whining in its mouth. Chu Sihai immediately understood that something was happening on the mountain, so he followed the white fox and hurried over, and saw the scattered firewood and blood stains on the ground. Then, under the guidance of the white fox, he rushed towards the cave.
Li Qingshan was overjoyed when he saw that it was Chu Sihai coming, so he threw the remaining stone in his hand far away. The two gentlemen of the Demon Domain really ran towards the sound of the stone falling to the ground again.
Li Qingshan seized the opportunity, took a deep breath, and rushed to the entrance of the cave, shouting: "Uncle Chu, I'm here!"
He ran and shouted, completely revealing the position. The two gentlemen of the Demon Domain turned around and hurried over, making moves at the same time, one with a palm and one with a fist. Li Qingshan looked back and saw it clearly, and when he saw them attacking, he hurriedly rolled to the ground to avoid their attack. However, the martial arts of the man in Tsing Yi were obviously extremely powerful, his palm had not become old, and his palm was slashed downward, following Li Qingshan's sound and slashing diagonally, and a "poof" sound hit Li Qingshan's right shoulder. Li Qingshan's body sank, and he felt as if his entire right arm had been dislocated, and the firewood knife in his hand fell to the ground with a clatter.
Chu Sihai heard the fight, and roared, the sound shook the cave, and everyone present was in a trance, and their eardrums were buzzing. Soon, Chu Sihai rushed up, and with his left and right palms, he hit the two gentlemen of the Demon Domain respectively. Hearing the sound, the Demon Domain Shuangjun felt the incomparably strong wind blowing in his face, and he didn't dare to take it hard, so he hurriedly flashed to the side and rushed towards the light at the entrance of the cave.
Chu Sihai was about to catch up, but when he heard Li Qingshan's painful moans, he hurriedly lit the fire fold, looked at it, and was surprised. It turned out that Li Qingshan had gotten up at this moment, leaning against the edge of the stone, his face was pale, blood was still gushing out of the corner of his mouth, and his right arm was hanging down.
He scolded you hatefully: "He's Nainai!" Then he picked up Li Qingshan and ran back to the Taoist temple......