Nan Shirin claims to be shy and lives in the backyard of a dilapidated shrine in the south of the city.

Liu Tugou scoffed, but he was also a little curious, so he decided to live with Ah Rafter, and by the way, he saw what kind of shrine entered the eyes of this family.

The location of the shrine is very remote, the outer wall is mottled, and the wall skin is mostly falling, which shows that the incense is not prosperous on weekdays, so there is no money to paint and repair.

There is a plaque hanging on the main entrance, the gold paint is dim, and there are two big characters written - plague temple.

Liu Tugou had never heard of the plague temple, and he didn't know which god it was dedicated to.

He walked into the front hall with Minami Shiren, the candlelight was dim, and no one added oil to keep vigil.

I saw a statue of a god in the temple, with a black face and beard, holding a white flag, with five pockets of different colors hanging from his waist, and a hideous black tiger sat on it, and the black tiger was surrounded by five ugly-looking evil ghosts, and the color of the body corresponded to the five pockets.

There is a god seat on the offering table in front of the statue, and the honorific name is written on it, which is the "god seat of the god Tianzun who saves the suffering and helps the trouble."

Liu Tugou was amazed: "There is still an evil god like the plague god, do you think you die too happily?"

Nan Shirin didn't have any awe, and said with a smile: "Second brother doesn't know, Yangping County has been in war for a long time since ancient times, and plagues are often epidemic under the combination of soldiers and disasters, and the casualties are very serious. Therefore, the soldiers and civilians in the county were very afraid of the plague god Tianzun, and specially built a shrine to worship it, and begged Tianzun to have mercy and care. Now that peace has lasted and the plague has not risen, the shrine has been ruined. ”

After that, Nan Shirin shook his head, both disdain and pity for the snobbery and forgetfulness of the world.

Liu Tugou understood and said: "If you can really save the suffering, this Tianzun is well deserved." What do the five demons say?"

"That's the Five Plague Heavenly Ghosts, the general under the Plague God Tianzun, so it's also called the Five Plague Generals. ”

Liu Tugou stared at it for a while, and then felt bored, he had no prejudice against this plague god Tianzun, and he was a god of evil, which reminded him of the old fox's sentence "Life can't bring disaster to the country and the people, and death can't be praised by ten thousand people, how incompetent!"

Without warning, he suddenly pointed to the statue of the Plague God Tianzun and blurted out: "I should sit here after all!"

Click!

Outside the hall, on the canopy that became pitch black at some point, a huge lightning bolt suddenly slashed, illuminating the hideous faces of the gods and demons, as well as the immature but resolute face of Liu Tugou.

The sound of wind and thunder rolls in from the sky, like a drum, like a galloping horse, like a big tide, surging and surging, shocking people's hearts.

Heavy rain poured down.

Nan Shi Rafter suddenly changed color, hurriedly took out a book from his arms, quickly opened one of the pages, and recited aloud: "Heaven and earth have righteousness, and miscellaneous manifolds. The lower part is the river mountain, and the upper part is the sun star. With people, it is said that Haoran, Peihu is full of darkness......"

The sound of the chanting was clear and agitated, echoing in the temple, and even the thunder and wind could not hide it.

The recitation lasted for a long time, until the rain eased a little, and the southern rafters stopped.

Liu Tugou was in a rare good mood, listened patiently for a long time, saw him stop, and asked curiously: "Ah Rafter, aren't you crazy, what kind of poem are you reading well? This is the "Song of Haoran Righteousness" in the "Holy Chapter", right?"

Nan Shirin glared at Second Brother Liu angrily, and then gasped for breath before saying, "My Second Brother, blasphemy ghosts and gods, aren't you afraid that the thunder will kill you?"

Liu Tugou was even more curious: "Even if I desecrate the Plague God Tianzun, and his old man is a stingy person who has grievances and will be revenged, he should let me die of a plague-ridden illness, right? Besides, haven't you never cultivated, and it is useful to recite a few lines of poetry?"

Nan Shirin smiled embarrassedly when he heard this: "If you are not afraid of 10,000, you are afraid of what if." I am also sick and rushed to the doctor, didn't I say that Haoran righteousness and ghosts are difficult to invade, I just hope that the plague god Tianzun will not harm me as a little fish in the face of the saint Wen. As for Second Brother Liu, of course, you are asking for more blessings! Little Brother has no way to save you. ”

Liu Erye clapped his hands and smiled after hearing this: "Sure enough, I can be called a confidant with the smell of the rafters, hahaha......"

The laughter continued, and the second master's face changed, and his eyes showed a fierce light: "What about the book just now, take it out!"

Nan Shirin sighed, and honestly took out a book from his arms, which was also a "Commentary on the Collection of Holy Chapters".

Liu Tugou snatched it and flipped through the pages by the dim candlelight, but fortunately, he still saw it clearly because he had gained something from his practice.

He found that the book in his hand was very different from the one he got from his eldest brother, for example, the words used in the same sentence were different, and the broken sentences were not the same, but more of the difference was in the annotations, and the words "Nanshi Lingyue" were marked in many places. This is not in Liu Tugou's book.

Nan Shi Rafter explained in a low voice: "This is the secret book of the clan that has been passed down from generation to generation of my Nanshi clan, and there are annotations on it from the Nanshi Orders of the past dynasties. ”

Liu Tugou said suspiciously: "The secret book is the same as the Holy Chapter, why is it different?"

At this time, Nan Shirin was a little strange: "Second brother, don't you know?

Liu Tugou snorted and said: "I have always been dedicated to practicing knives, only this time when I went out, I took a book to relieve boredom on the way, I don't know this, and the master has never mentioned it." ”

Nan Shirin did not doubt him, and said with relief: "This is also true, only the families who are biased towards the saints and Taoists of Biluo Palace regard the "Holy Chapter" as a treasure, with the second brother's style of acting, well, but it is even more surprising that he is willing to read this book with his heart." ”

Nan Shirin wisely did not make a specific evaluation of Second Brother Liu's style, nor did he ask the name of Second Brother Liu's teacher, who was obviously not a road, otherwise maybe no friends would have done it.

He continued: "Actually, it is nothing, because of the passage of the world and the different interpretations of later generations, most of the saints' articles that have been circulated in the world have the problem of being falsely spread. Especially the sect that has been a saint must have hidden top-secret chapters that have never been circulated, and even if they are circulated, they must have been deleted and modified at key points. Such chapters are often the core secrets of this school's practice, the foundation of their existence, and will never be shared with outsiders. As for the exclusive annotations of the ancestors of the past generations, it is a rare experience. If it weren't for the fact that my Southern Historian didn't focus on cultivation, and not everyone had the ability and willingness to follow suit, it would have been impossible for my children to bring it out if I changed it to another family. ”

In fact, it is precisely for this reason that Nan Shirin will tell him calmly.

With Liu Tugou and his master's casual attitude towards the "Holy Chapter", even if he showed him the secret book of the Nanshi clan, it didn't matter, maybe he could temper Liu Tugou, the young devil, and it was unknown.

Liu Tugou naturally didn't know Nan Shilin's careful thoughts, and even if he knew, he would definitely laugh at it, his second master Liu had a fart teacher, and his "Holy Chapter" was still the inheritance of a poor ghost under his eldest brother.

The unfortunate bastard who fell into the mouth of the tiger may not have a high background, because there are no so-called top-secret chapters in the book, nor are there exclusive annotations in the same lineage, but annotations are made by literati and collectors of different ages, and they are completely emasculated secular versions that circulate only among the mortal nobles, and there is not a single word about spiritual practice.

Liu Tugou was not greedy enough, knowing that since he was brought out of the family, he was afraid that Nan Shirin would also do something tricky, so he still refused to stop turning over the pages one by one.

Hmph, these family sects are all treacherous like ghosts.

Nan Shi's lack of cultivation does not mean that he does not practice, not to mention that there have been saints, a great family can stand still without the power of self-preservation?

It's a pity that even if the second master looks horizontally and vertically, he doesn't see a flower.

Of course, it is not all without gains, for example, a certain paragraph written in the header of the Southern History Ling, when reasoning, he used an assassination that he had witnessed in the annals of history as an example, and briefly mentioned a few sentences about the situation when the assassin attacked.

Nan Shiling said: "Where righteousness is, regardless of one's body." Its majesty is also magnificent, the comet strikes the moon, its air is also upright, the white rainbow runs through the sun, its omen is also bright, and the goshawk strikes on the temple. ”

The assassination can be so above board and earth-shattering, compared to it, Liu Erye's little trick of flipping the table is really not worth mentioning.

Putting aside those praise words that were subjectively added by Nan Shiling, such as Haoran and upright, Liu Tugou paid more attention to the three sentences of comet hitting the moon, white rainbow running through the sun, and goshawk hitting the palace.

In his opinion, although this is not a cultivation method, it is a real spiritual realm, in which there is an indomitable determination to burn jade, and its greatest, strongest and stronger, is more than a step higher than the "Tonggui" and "Breaking the Ring Sword Method" that kill people and kill themselves.

At the beginning, Liu Tugou wanted to learn the art of killing, and these two martial arts were casually thrown to him by the old fox who was afraid that the world would not be chaotic, and in fact they were not Zen Sect Righteousness.

At the end of the day, it is just a lower multiplication method that has taken the path of killing in Buddhism, and the original intention is to eliminate demons and defend the law, and the people who cross it are only one person and one sect, after all, they have selfish intentions.

And the assassin struck a blow, and it was clear that he had abandoned everything, regardless of internal and external intimacy, and wanted to cross the countless beings in the world, but he did not cross himself.

In such a realm, it is not Buddhism but more like Buddhism, it is simply a way to enter the Tao.

Of course, with Liu Tugou's cultivation knowledge, he could not idealize these Dao Dao so thoroughly.

He only dimly realized that these few simple descriptions had opened a crack in the door for him, allowing him to faintly see a more magnificent scenery.

In fact, Liu Tugou has more or less realized that even if he understands it, I am afraid that he will not take this road alone. For the second master, the blade in his hand has always been just a guy who eats, not a key to implement his beliefs.

The second master preliminarily flipped over the castrated version of the "Nanshi Clan's Holy Chapter" and stuffed it into his arms casually.

He took out Ishihara's book from his baggage again, threw it to Nan Shirin nonchalantly, and said, "Here, this is the secret book of the "Holy Chapter" of Hushan, so that we can both be happy and owe each other." ”

Nan Shirin caught the so-called "Sick Tiger Mountain Secret Book", and at first he was shocked and puzzled, but he was immediately covered up by joy, thinking that the second brother was going to repay the peach.

He didn't care about thanking him, and hurriedly picked up the secret book in his hand that was old and damaged at a glance, and flipped through it hungrily under the gaze of the second brother with a smile and a smile.

The candles flickered, and the only sound in the hall was the rustle of turning the book, and the sound of rain outside the hall was inaudible.

After a while, Nan Shirin slowly raised his head, and said with a sad face: "I said how I had never heard of the name of Sick Tiger Mountain, I thought I was lonely and unheard, but after reading this 'secret book', I realized that the second brother was tricking me." I'm so stupid, really, I only knew what I had done, but I didn't expect Second Brother Liu to be even more emasculated. ”

Liu Tugou said solemnly to A Rafter: "A Rafter, the second brother doesn't lie to you, the second brother is really sick in Tiger Mountain, ranking second, so it's your second brother's." ”

Nan Shirin didn't say a word, raised his legs and walked to the backyard wing, to be out of sight.

Second Master Liu sighed and said helplessly: "Second brother, I am the second master of the sick Tiger Mountain, what are you lying to do?"

He said as he followed Minami Rafter to the backyard.

After a while, only the hideous statue of the plague god Tianzun surrounded by five ghosts across the tiger and holding the banner was left in the front hall, still standing high on the divine seat, overlooking the beings outside the hall.

Today's seat is called Tianzun, but I don't know who he is sitting here?