Chapter 9: Ye Lao
As a mortal who has never been exposed to energy, Liang Chen can be said to have touched this kind of divine energy for the first time this time, although he has seen all kinds of strange arts when he has broken into the rivers and lakes in the past, but most of them are fake, and many of them are based on martial arts, and there is no such mysterious immortal art at all. And this time, Liang Chen finally encountered real energy, and these mysterious energies have been stored in his body all along, is this a blessing or a curse?
Just when Liang Chen was wondering about the red silk energy, an old voice suddenly came out of nowhere, which frightened Liang Chen so much that he almost didn't skim off the energy in his hand.
"Oh, I'm so sleepy, who disturbs the old man's rest? Is that you? little doll?"
Liang Chen was trying to see where this voice came from, but he couldn't find it everywhere, where did this person come from? Could it be that there was a thief in the house? He was still sitting naked in the bucket, if he fought with the thief like this, not only would he be injured, but he would also be very embarrassed.
"Who are you?" Liang Chen asked loudly into the room.
There was no echo in the room, but someone seemed to be hearing someone outside saying who was shouting and making people rest. Liang Chen immediately felt fear creeping up on his back, since there was no one in this room to answer his question, then why was there an old man talking just now? Could it be that there are ghosts in this immortal sect? Or are they monsters? or can they be invisible?
Liang Chen began to think crankily again, thinking about what he would do if the old man came out later. Do you lift this basin of water and pour it on him? Or do you hold this little bit of red silk energy on your fingers and skim it towards his body? You can skim it at his eyes? As soon as it penetrates through it, the youkai (maybe something else) will shoot out of its brain, and a fountain of blood will spurt out directly in front of its eye sockets!
Just as Liang Chen was thinking wildly, the somewhat old voice just now came from the room again, and this time the voice became clearer, and Liang Chen couldn't help but be a little scared.
"Who do you ask me? The old man has always been by your side, you don't even know the old man, how can you let the old man rest for so long?"
"Who are you? Get out of here if you have one! Don't pretend to be a ghost for me there! Labor and management don't eat your set!" Liang Chen emboldened himself again and yelled loudly into the room. At least he is still a young man who has practiced martial arts, although the identity of this self-proclaimed old man is now unknown, but as a man, he will definitely not give in to him. Even if it's pretending, it depends on who has the last laugh.
"Little doll, you talk quite hard! It's not a shame that I've lived with you for so many years, if you want to ask me where I am, won't I be by your side?"
At this time, the red silk in front of the finger began to tremble slightly, and a little bit of their energy also flowed into the gap between Liang Chen's nails, and the red silk rattled after encountering the finger flesh, producing a burning pain.
Only then did Liang Chen realize that this old man who spoke didn't just live in the red silk energy on his fingers? He didn't believe his guess a little, think about it, if this old man had been living in this energy body in some form, then he would have become an immortal a long time ago?!
"Why are you on top of my fingers? Quickly put that little red silk back, my finger will be taken out for cultivation tomorrow! If it burns out, the first person I will find will be you!" Liang Chen looked at the red silk energy body with some suspicion, although he insisted on his opinion, but the abnormal movement of this energy body still made his heart slightly shaken.
"Didn't you notice a birthmark on your chest? that jet-black thing wasn't a birthmark you were born with, but a bead, a bead that has been with you since you were born. And the old man has been living in that bead for more than a thousand years!" When he said the last sentence, the old man's voice suddenly added a bit of sadness, it seems that this old man has also lived in this bead for too long, and has not seen such a beautiful world for too long.
"How did you get into this bead? Also, what exactly is this bead? Why is it hidden in my body all the time, and not in someone else's? Also, this birthmark obviously doesn't feel like a bulge when you touch it, how do you say it will be a bead?" Liang Chen asked a series of questions in one breath, and he now finally knew why the black birthmark on his shoulder blade couldn't be erased, it turned out that there was an old man who had lived in it for thousands of years!
The red silk didn't make a sound, but flew into Liang Chen's chest automatically as if absorbing water, and before Liang Chen could react, the red silk energy on his fingers was only a little red mark.
At this time, his chest shook slightly involuntarily, and then, the color of the birthmark gradually faded, and then a cloud of red gas emanated from it, as red as blood flowing in the arteries, but he didn't feel the slightest pain in his chest, as if it was gas flowing out of thin air.
The bright red filaments slowly floated towards the calm bath water, and upon contact with the colorless and odorless liquid, they began to slowly rotate on the surface of the water, like the dragon's eye of a tornado, and the speed of rotation became more and more visible. As far as the eye can see, it looks like boiled pig blood, and these red gas filaments are the blood vapor emitted by boiled pig blood.
Liang Chen didn't even dare to move, he was afraid that if he moved these air currents, he would recognize his enemy and come over to attack him. He was now sitting naked in the barrel, and if he fought with the mysterious energy that had just penetrated the barrel, it was estimated that his chest would be pierced several blood holes in a short time.
In the process of rotation, the shape of the air filament itself is also undergoing drastic changes. At first, the gas filaments looked like water vapor, but gradually they began to become three-dimensional, and you can see that some of the gas filaments began to merge with each other, and gradually formed a mist that resembled a human face.
Liang Chen's heart felt more and more strange, he didn't expect that this energy body could not only attack and defend, but also form some living things. The human face was about the size of Liang Chen's two palms stretched out and put together, and an old face hung on it. At first, the mass of faces looked a little blurry, and I thought it was the form of a human face, but in less than thirty seconds, the red silk immediately changed color, from the bright red at the beginning to light red, and finally turned into the same flesh color as my own skin.
And the blurry-looking human face gradually transformed into a standard face composed of flesh-colored qi under the rapid rotation of the qi filament. Liang Chen looked at this face carefully, and secretly felt surprised in his heart, he had never seen such a realistic human face, and it was still the face of an old man with white hair, but it was a lifelike artistic structure.
Suddenly, the lips on the face moved slightly, as if smiling. Liang Chen thought that he was hallucinating, so he quickly wiped his eyes with his hand, and when he looked again, his face returned to his original calm demeanor. Well, it turned out to be an illusion, and I thought that the human face made of this energy body could really move!
But this is really strange! Just as Liang Chen smiled at this seemingly motionless illusion face, this person's face suddenly shook from side to side, and then the corners of his mouth began to smile, and then his eyes rotated up and down, and he made a sound. This voice was the old voice of the mysterious old man just now.
"All you see is nothingness. You have to believe that there are mysterious things in this world, otherwise you will never learn to practice. Speculation is not true, seeing is believing. I have been sealed in this bead for nearly fifteen hundred years, and if you hadn't woken me up this morning, I might never have seen such a beautiful world again. The old man who looked a little vicissitudes of life said peacefully. His smile made Liang Chen's heart very warm.
However, the sudden voice of this face really startled Liang Chen, he almost didn't jump out of the barrel naked, but when he saw that the face did not harm him, his heart calmed down slightly. It seems that this is really strange! The world is so big that Liang Chen would never have imagined that this energy body could actually transform into a living human face, and this old man has been sealed in this bead for more than a thousand years, thinking that his Taoism must be very deep.
"How did you get sealed into the beads, and why is this bead in my body?" Liang Chen saw that the old man had answered, and he didn't ask anything else, and then repeated the question just now.
"Heaven must not be divulged. This bead in your body, called the Soul Eater Bead, is a bead that provides you with energy. And I have been dormant in the form of a spirit in this Soul Eater Bead for more than a thousand years. The old man also saw that you woke me up, so he came out to say hello to you, since you unsealed me today, then I can teach you how to practice. First of all, you have to worship me as a teacher. The old man first made a mysterious expression, looking at his smile a little cunning, and then the words turned very quickly, and finally asked Liang Chen to worship him as a teacher.
"I see, no wonder when I collided with this hedron at that time, the energy on the other side couldn't resist within a minute, it turned out to be the energy given by the Soul Devouring Bead in my body. Well, old man, just tell me what good it will be for me to worship you as a teacher, and I will do it. Liang Chen saw that the old man also had a kind face, and when he thought of the strange energy this morning, he was a little moved. But he can't just walk over and worship him as a teacher, the first thing to do is to figure out where the benefits lie.
"Well, of course, there are benefits. That spar can absorb the aura of heaven and earth, and continuously deliver energy to your meridians, because you awaken it today, so its function will naturally be revealed. Since you're going to cultivate, then I'll give you all due respect. In fact, the old man has seen your physical functions, and the number of lives is only the appearance of the third or fourth realm, and it is not the standard for the Immortal Sect to recruit. If you hadn't woken up the old man today, you would never have been able to enter this place. Since you entered the cultivation realm by mistake, then you should understand the rules of the cultivation realm, and the old man sees that your character is also good, so you worship me as a teacher, and the old man can teach you to recreate the peak of the immortal sect. ”
The old man spoke slowly and logically, and there was no deception in the slightest, which sounded quite reasonable. Liang Chen was originally a mortal, and he didn't have the ability to take action, and he hadn't been lucky since he was a child, so his fate was judged to be a tenfold realm, which was purely a coincidence. But no matter whether it's a coincidence or good luck, anyway, Liang Chen has now got the admission ticket for the inner disciple, since God gave him this opportunity, then he must cherish him, and change it!
After Liang Chen just listened to the old man's words, he thought quietly for a moment, then raised his somewhat calm face, looked at the smiling old man with a smile, and said in an extremely respectful tone: "Even if I am the first disciple to worship under your old man, since you are here to repay me, then I will agree to your conditions." I am willing to be your disciple. ”
"That's good, that's good. For more than 1,500 years, I haven't accepted a single apprentice, and I don't know if there are any successors to the true art I have cultivated all my life. Today, I finally met a fateful boy to be my apprentice, and the exercises I have cultivated in this life will not be in vain. Old man, he finally has a successor. The old man showed a somewhat relieved smile, he looked at Liang Chen's somewhat immature face, and his heart was extremely happy. Xiuzhen, you still have to start with the doll, seeing that this little doll is not big, it is estimated that it should be a good seedling.
"Then what should I call you, Master?" Liang Chen saw the old man smiling, and his heart was also full of mixed feelings, don't look at the master who lives in seclusion in the mountains all day long, it turns out that this master of cultivation also has a hard heart. One person, more than a thousand years, has wasted all his time in the beads, and for such a long time, it is estimated how many cultivators have come up.
"It's okay if you call me Ye Lao. Little doll, although your energy is provided by me, your potential is great. As soon as it comes out this morning, even if you have my Soul Eater Bead to replenish your energy, if your potential is not high, you will not be able to hold on. Because the spar will produce a natural anti-devouring ability, if the other party is a mortal with mediocre qualifications, even if he has the aura of heaven and earth tens of thousands of times higher than the spar, he will be consumed by the spar devoured by the passage of time. Your potential, on the other hand, is immune to this ability of the spar, so the spar will be shattered by the energy of the bead. The old man said slowly.
"I see. Liang Chen visited his master, and after that, Liang Chen learned from Ye Lao. Although Liang Chen was naked, he bowed very reluctantly, and there was nothing embarrassing in front of this ancestor who had cultivated for thousands of years.
"Eh, don't make a fuss. You also have a double cultivator! You quickly put on your pants and clothes, and pour this dog with water, I am floating here, and the dog with water below is also floating, it will be very spicy. As he spoke, Ye Lao made a strange expression, then closed his eyes, only a clump of white hair, and turned his face back.