The starry night is quiet, and the moon hangs high.

Li Tiancheng took Liu Zifeng to a small house on the side, pushed open the door, lit the oil lamp, the house was still clean and tidy, and it seemed to have been cleaned up. The main entrance is a hall with a coffee table and a few chairs, and there are several calligraphy and paintings hanging on the wall, which are dimly lit and cannot be seen clearly. There was a small door on the side, and when you pushed the door, it was a bedroom, and the freshly washed bedding on the bed exuded a fresh smell, and there was a small wooden table on the floor, and in front of the table was a straw futon. The moonlight poured in through the window, but it was also quiet and warm.

"Little junior brother, there are a lot of empty houses in Luoyue Peak, but this one is quite quiet. You stay first, and if there is any inconvenience, come to me again. ”

Li Tiancheng smiled and put Liu Zifeng's luggage aside and said to Liu Zifeng. Liu Zifeng had a better impression of this senior brother, and hurriedly said, "There is Senior Brother Lao today." ”

Li Tiancheng said with a smile: "Little junior brother doesn't have to be polite, tomorrow we will officially perform the apprenticeship ceremony, and we will truly become a family." Come to me if anything happens to you, and my house is not far southeast of you. As he spoke, he pointed to a hut not far away.

"It's not early, the little brother should rest early. Tomorrow I will come to you and meet Master together. ”

After speaking, he said a few more words to Liu Zifeng, and then turned around and left.

At the end of the day, Liu Zifeng also felt tired, his legs and feet were sore, and he didn't care about his luggage aside, and lay on his back on the bed. The moonlight shone on his body, the clothes on his chest suddenly moved, and a small head popped up, but it was the strange rat "Black Flame".

Hei Yan is very quiet on weekdays, I don't know if I'm sleeping or what I'm doing, sometimes Liu Zifeng forgets this little thing. It is only when you eat that you can feel the movement of small things. However, Hei Yan is quite clever, and he never makes a sound when he is usually there, which saves Liu Zifeng a lot of trouble.

Black Flame emerged from his arms and bounced around the room, squeaking from time to time, seemingly pleased with the new place.

Liu Zifeng lay down for a while, and after the tired feeling on his body gradually decreased, he got up and closed the upper door, sat on the futon, and prepared to start breathing. However, as soon as he closed his eyes, he suddenly remembered the nameless scroll he had obtained from the nameless place beneath his home in the village. Since I haven't had the time to study it in detail recently, I only remembered it at this time today. He reached into his bosom and pulled out a booklet of some years, which was the nameless scroll.

By the faint light, the paper of the scroll was a little yellowed, but the four corners were extremely flat, and the three large characters "Earth Ghost Technique" were engraved on the outer cover. Liu Zifeng's fingers lightly swiped these three words, and there was a slight coolness from his fingertips, and there was a feeling of being soaked in ice water. Without much thought, he opened the scroll and read it carefully.

"Heaven and earth are two qi, and the two qi are divided into yin and yang. The yang energy is light and ignorant, and the yin energy is obscure and dark, so all things are negative yin and embrace yang, which is the beginning one. ”

There is only one sentence on the first page, and the font size is only a tenth of it. Liu Zifeng whispered a few times in his mouth, and felt that this passage was not a mental formula, but a bit like a general outline of the mental method, or the origin of the mental formula. So, after reading it a few times, he flipped it over and looked at the text on the second page.

"There is yin in the world, there is yin and death reincarnation, there are ghosts and ghosts, and there are netherworld yellow springs. Where Yin Qi gathers, the soul is greatly benefited ......"

The next text is much easier to understand. Liu Zifeng had already cultivated according to the path of the "Ghost Spirit Sutra", and he was familiar with these words in "Earth Ghost Technique". Soon, he turned the second page, but at this time, Liu Zifeng's brows furrowed.

I don't know where the mysterious "Earth Ghost Art" came from, and the descriptions on the third and fourth pages are quite different from the "Ghost Soul Sutra". When cultivating according to Liu Zifeng before, it was to merge the spiritual energy into the dantian, and when the mantra was urged, the spiritual energy of the dantian was transformed into yin qi and emitted outside the body. However, it is said in "Earth Ghost Technique" that the best time to cultivate is at night, when the yang energy retreats and the yin energy gathers. Of course, this is not to say that you can't practice during the day. It is mentioned in the ancient scrolls that during the day, the emphasis is on absorbing yang energy, which is used to open up the meridians and gather the dantian to increase the path, and after evening, the yin energy gradually increases, and the yin temperature is used to nourish the soul during practice.

The ancient scroll says: Everything has a soul, and the soul belongs to yin and fears yang. Those with strong souls will not die without disappearing, and even break free from the shackles of life and death, and achieve an alternative way of immortality.

Liu Zifeng smacked his tongue darkly, and remembered the scene of the Nine Shadows Yellow Spring in his sleep, and the lonely ghosts who were transparent and muddy all over their bodies had already believed a little bit in what was said in this ancient scroll. At the same time, it is also speculated that the predecessor who wrote the mental method of the "Ghost Sutra" is mostly related to the "Earth Ghost Technique".

Flipping back further, the scroll is left blank. In the first few pages, there is only a record of the mental formula for absorbing yin and nourishing the soul, and there is only a few words about how to use yang energy to open up the meridians and increase the path. Liu Zifeng thought about the content of the "Ghost Sutra" in his mind, but he didn't find any way.

If you cultivate according to the previous mental method, the aura will be indiscriminate, and all the yin and yang will pour into the dantian, and the Dao will be able to increase. It's just that after thinking about it, it's obvious that the level of "Earth Ghost Technique" is higher, but it is only a fragment and does not add the method of Taoism.

Liu Zifeng only felt that his head was big for a while, pacing back and forth in the house, his heart was irritable, and he didn't know how to choose.

He was walking back and forth when another object in his arms fell to the ground with a "snap". Liu Zifeng looked down and saw that it was the basic method of "Jiuxia Xuanjing" given to him by Zhou Yuru.

"yes!

His eyes lit up, and he quickly bent down to pick up the pamphlet on the ground, patted the dust on it, and read it carefully.

About half an hour later, he turned on a happy face, closed the scroll in his hand, sat cross-legged on the futon, calmed down, shook off many distracting thoughts in his mind, and meditated.

The content of the "Nine Xias Xuanjing" is easy to understand, and it is thought that after hundreds of years of exploration, it has been perfected and repaired, and it is quite easy to cultivate. Soon after Liu Zifeng meditated, a faint blue light emitted from his body. The blue light was faintly flowing on the surface of his body, but only for a moment, the blue light disappeared like a doused candle flame.

Liu Zifeng opened his eyes, just now when he was running the mental method of the "Nine Summers Xuanjing", he secretly urged the mantra of the "Earth Ghost Technique", and the meridians and spiritual energy around him were in chaos, and the spiritual energy collapsed, obviously a failure. If it weren't for the fact that he had already practiced the "Ghost Spirit Sutra" and had some small successes, he was afraid that he would have suffered a heavy blow just now and vomited blood.

If Li Tiancheng saw this scene, he was afraid that his eyes would pop out in shock. Cultivation is inherently focused on concentration and no distractions, so that the aura around the body can be controlled and slowly incorporated into oneself. And Liu Zifeng is so single-minded, he can't concentrate, and he spits out two kinds of true qi at the same time, and he has to break his meridians on the spot, and he ends up going crazy.

Liu Zifeng only got Zhou Lao to teach the "Ghost Spirit Sutra" method, and many other common senses obviously did not know. After the attempt failed, how could he give up with his perseverance, and then close his eyes and meditate on pranayama.

I tried several times, and it was not easy to practice both at the same time. He incorporated the aura into the aura according to the mental method of the "Jiuxia Xuanjing", and after the aura entered the body, he separated a wisp of mind and ran the yin qi according to the mantra of the "Earth Ghost Technique". Suddenly, those spiritual qi dissipated like headless flies along the acupuncture points in his body. The reverse is still the same, the yin qi is cold, and his face is pale from the cold.

After tossing like this for a long time, Liu Zifeng opened his eyes, only to feel that his whole body was sore, and countless small thorns were pierced into his meridians, and he felt a faint pain. His face was pale, and his mouth was a little blue.

It seems that there is no result today, Liu Zifeng glanced out the window, the moon moved slightly, and it was late at night.

......

Early in the morning, Liu Zifeng was asleep when he was suddenly awakened by a knock on the door. Hurriedly got up and smoothed out the messy hair, patted his body, slept too late last night, and didn't take off his clothes. He opened the door, and there were Li Tiancheng and another familiar figure standing outside-Yue Zixuan.

Li Tiancheng looked at his untidy appearance and had just woken up, and couldn't help but wonder: "Little junior brother, didn't you sleep well last night?"

Yue Zixuan on the side was also a little stunned by Liu Zifeng's appearance, and laughed out loud for a long time: "Little junior brother, your appearance is quite special, the master must be very happy to see it, maybe he will reward you with a few treasures." ”

Liu Zifeng didn't know how Yue Zixuan appeared here, and when he was embarrassed, he couldn't think about it, and said, "Senior brother, you wait for me." So he hurriedly went back to the house, washed his face, changed into clothes, and then went out.

The three of them walked side by side, but they didn't see a few people along the way, only a few miscellaneous disciples, who had no cultivation on their bodies, and did some daily chores. After a while, Liu Zifeng saw the hall from yesterday. I couldn't see it clearly last night, but when I looked at it now, I suddenly felt shocked in my heart.

The whole body of the main hall is blue-gray, and the four huge stone pillars in front of the hall are carved with the image of fierce beasts, which are hideous and vicious. Four stone pillars support the eaves of the main hall, and the shape of the eaves is like a dragon and a snake, with teeth and claws. Under the eaves, above the door of the central hall, there is a gilded plaque, on which are written three strong and powerful characters: Falling Moon Palace.

When the three of them came to the hall, Liu Zifeng saw a tall and thin young man turn around and smiled at him: "This is the little junior brother, right?"

Li Tiancheng said on the side: "Little junior brother, this is your fourth senior brother Su Li." ”

Liu Zifeng hurriedly shouted the fourth senior brother, but before Su Li could answer, a light snort came from the side. He turned his head to look, but it was Yue Zixuan who was there with his waist crossed, and hummed: "Senior brother, senior brother's name is so sweet, don't you take my senior sister in your eyes?"

Su Li suddenly laughed out loud and said happily: "Senior sister, it will take a while for the little junior brother to perform the apprenticeship ceremony before he can be considered an official entry, and the name of your little senior sister will have to wait for a while to be counted." ”

Liu Zifeng was dumbfounded, his heart suddenly burst, and he asked in disbelief: "Senior sister, are you ...... You are also a disciple of Falling Moon Peak?"

Yue Zixuan was shouted by his senior sister and smiled, and was about to praise her a few words. Leng Buding heard the second half of his sentence again, and he was not happy: "What's the matter, why can't I be a disciple of Falling Moon Peak?"

The four of them were talking, and suddenly a tall figure came in from outside the door, a head taller than Liu Zifeng, with thick and powerful limbs, and before they could see what they looked like, they heard a voice like thunder: "Haha, Luoyue Peak hasn't been so lively for a long time!"