Chapter 10: Fox Demon Investment
Although Chu Qing has lived in Linjiang County since he was a child, he never knew that there were so many temples around the county.
There are no large temples, there are seven or eight small and medium-sized temples, and Jiang Tianying knows most of them, because these temples have always been built with donations from the big families in the county.
There is still an unknown distance between finding the temple and finding the monk, the only thing Chu Qing knows is the "heroic deeds" of the monk, Jiang Tianying described the appearance of the evil monk, but Chu Qing should be a little biased when he hears it, but he is afraid that he can't do it.
One doesn't know the name of the law, the second doesn't know the name, the third doesn't know the origin, and the fourth doesn't know what he looks like; naturally there is no way to inquire about it, Chu Qing visited one temple after another with the greatest patience, and observed one monk after another, if the evil monk is really an immortal cultivator, he should still be able to distinguish him from the crowd at a glance with his cultivation breath.
The question is no, there is no such person, Chu Qing spent several days searching these temples repeatedly, but found nothing.
Maybe they have already left the territory of Linjiang County? Then there is no way to find it. Chu Qing was also deflated, and when he looked back, there might be a place where he could find out what news.
Fox Immortal Temple, the fox demon is still disguised as an old woman and is slowly cleaning in the temple, she is very annoyed at the moment, no matter how cold and white her eyes are, Chu Qing is dead in the temple, and she is also very helpless about this......
Occasionally, a few good men and women would come to the temple, and the old woman would have to pretend to be kind and greet people.
Listening to them, these believers seem to have received the blessings of the fox demon, such as curing some incurable diseases and so on.
If Chu Qing didn't know that the old woman was a fox demon before, then he couldn't see anything abnormal, but Chu Qing now knew that the fox demon used some secret technique to disguise himself as an old woman, so he could take a closer look from this angle.
"I think this temple is also quite clean, why do the seniors have to keep cleaning, tired or not, stretch your waist, let's rest." Chu Qing said with a smile.
The old woman glanced at Chu Qing, stood up straight, exhaled, and suddenly had a demonic aura on her body, and she said angrily: "You go quickly, I'm going to close the door!"
Chu Qing smiled, he had already seen some of the fox demon's doorways, the secret technique used by the fox demon to hide his identity should not be very complicated, and the principle was even somewhat similar to the rune technique.
Whether it is a human or a demon, after condensing the true element, the true qi around the body runs on its own, and there is always a part of the true qi that will cover the surface of the body, which is the so-called true qi protecting the body, but it can also be seen at a glance by people who have cultivated to a high level.
The fox demon can hide this aura on her body strangely, and after careful observation, Chu Qing can roughly judge that she has introduced all the surface protective true qi into her body, and she uses a very stupid method.
The fox demon must have used his entire body to form a large sigil, thus introducing the surface of the body's protective true qi into the body, and this kind of thing that defies common sense can only be figured out by people who are very boring.
"Senior, rest, I'll help you clean up. Chu Qing said and bent down, following the appearance of the fox demon, his hands formed strange runes and pretended to be clean, and the aura on his body suddenly converged a lot......
"You secretly learn my secret technique?" The fox demon pretended to be surprised, but in fact, she didn't think so, this kind of secret technique she created seemed simple, but in fact, it took a long time to perfect, and it was almost impossible to learn secretly;
"The secret techniques of my predecessors are quite ingenious, and if you don't teach them, I'm afraid it will be difficult to learn them. Chu Qing tried it and knew that there are many ways to do this, and it is not as simple as it seems.
"Now that you know, don't waste your efforts. After the fox demon stood up straight, he gradually changed from an old woman to a middle-aged woman......
Chu Qing said with a smile: "The juniors didn't come here to steal the secret skills of the seniors, but just wanted to inquire about the fact that the Linjiang Martial Arts Hall in the city was burned down by a strange monk, and the seniors know, right?"
The fox demon shook his head again and again: "Don't ask me about this kind of thing, I have always kept to myself in the city, and I never ask about these idle things." ”
Chu Qingzhi frowned, this fox demon acted conservatively, and he didn't know anything, but he was obviously an old man, he had almost no knowledge on the way to immortals, and he didn't have so much time to learn a little bit, so it was better to dig out some eyebrows from this fox demon.
Thinking of this, Chu Qing's face sank: "There are two little demons near the county seat, one is a wolf demon, who usually turns into a scar-faced old man, and the other is a fox demon like you, do you recognize them?"
The fox demon was stunned when he heard this, found a chair and sat opposite Chu Qingyuan, and said with a smile: "Since you ask so, I want to say that I don't know, I'm afraid you won't believe it, right?"
Chu Qingdao: "I naturally don't believe it, in the same way, you are a demon after all, if you want to say that you have never harmed anyone, I don't believe it." ”
"Say whatever you want, I don't know what little demon you said anyway, as for not accusing me of harming people, do you have any evidence?"
"That wolf demon pretended to be a good person before he killed me, but now that he is dying, he naturally has no chance to hurt people again. Chu Qing smiled and said, "I guess if you demolish this small temple, you can always find some evidence that you have harmed people, right?"
The fox demon was silent, secretly estimating Chu Qing's strength, and after a while, he sneered: "You dare to demolish my temple, you can try it!"
Chu Qing slapped the chair and stood up, the fox demon slipped into the back room, the temple door slammed and closed tightly, and then the whole small temple turned upside down, and everything became head down and feet up, including Chu Qing.
Illusion?
Chu Qing didn't care about this situation, he often practiced the change of head down and foot up when he practiced the ape play in the five bird plays, and at this time a huge fox tail stretched out from behind the fox fairy statue, and the hair roots on the tail swept towards Chu Qing like steel needles.
The small temple is narrow, the fox's tail is too big, Chu Qing has nowhere to dodge, he hurriedly formed a shield sigil, and a golden shield is horizontal in front of him, easily blocking the whipping of the fox's tail;
"Don't stop, I'm really going to demolish the temple!" Chu Qing made a golden arrow rune with his other hand, and sent two golden lights at the fox fairy statue in a row, and the golden light he emitted was much larger than the previous wolf demon's fireball technique in terms of size and power, and the two golden lights blasted the clay fox fairy statue full of cracks......
The true body of the fox demon was revealed from behind the broken fox fairy statue, and she shouted again and again: "Don't fight, don't fight, stop!"
Chu Qing stopped, and the small temple also recovered from the upside-down state, but the temple door was still tightly closed, and the fox demon came out of the inner room with a black face, looking at the debris and fragments all over the ground, trembling with anger, and kept muttering: "It's too much to deceive, it's too much to deceive......"
"You can't blame me for your own first move. Chu Qing smiled evilly: "But it's nothing, just fix it, you can clean it up in half a month, I have experience." ”
The fox demon said angrily: "To put it lightly, you are looking for someone to repair it?"
"I don't have that time, don't you still have some believers in this city, isn't this little thing easy to do?"
The fox demon was helpless: "Okay, I'm afraid of you! I know the old wolf and the little fox, but I don't have any contact, and I haven't seen him for a long time; I really don't know anything else, and I don't want to know! You and I have no grudges, so why bother messing around here?"
Chu Qing smiled: "I don't want to be embarrassed by you, I just want to ask my seniors for advice calmly." ”
The fox demon sighed lightly: "What do you want to know, I see that you are only sixteen or seventeen years old, and I have been staying in this temple for more than ten years to cultivate, and I don't care about anything outside." ”
"That's okay, the seniors have a lot of knowledge, and it is also very beneficial for the younger generations to talk about their previous knowledge. ”
Chu Qing said that he wanted to shorten the distance between the two sides, so he asked, "My name is Chu Qing, and I haven't asked for the name of my predecessor yet?"
The fox demon hesitated a little: "How can a little demon like us have any serious names, even if there is, they often have to be changed, if you have to say the name, then at first everyone called me Hu Xiaomei, then called Sister Hu, and then called Aunt Hu, now, you have to call me Aunt Hu." ”
"Aunt Hu?" Chu Qing asked with a smile, "How many years have you lived?"
"It's been almost two hundred years, and I don't bother to do the math carefully. The fox demon said casually.
Chu Qing was surprised: "Can you live so long?"
The fox demon glanced at Chu Qing: "Since you have condensed the true yuan, if there is no accident, you can almost live to this age, and it is possible to live even longer." ”
Chu Qing nodded, and turned to the topic: "The juniors want to ask for advice, I don't know where I can learn the true way of cultivating immortals?"
The fox demon's eyes were blank, and he didn't answer for a long time, as if he was recalling many past events, and after a while, he muttered: "When I was young, I was about the same as you are now, searching all over the world, trying to find a way to cultivate immortals, but in the end it was just an empty ......."
Chu Qing hurriedly asked, "Have you lived for two hundred years without any eyebrows?"
The fox demon said: "It's not a secret, whether it's a person who condenses the true yuan, or a demon, I've seen hundreds of them in my life, but there are only a few real immortal cultivators." ”
"Then you've seen the immortal cultivator after all, it's just a little more difficult, and it can't be said to be empty. In Chu Qing's view, if you can meet nature, you will have a chance.
"You are still young, it is natural to think like this, it is difficult to say, what is rare is chance, the way of cultivating immortals is too subtle and profound, if no one teaches it, it is impossible to learn;
Chu Qing was silent...... I thought that by condensing the true yuan, I would be able to seek the way of cultivating immortals, but I didn't expect that the true yuan was only one of the elements, and he was far from it.
The fox demon is now old, just like a person is old, and he can't hold it back if he really wants to talk, seeing that Chu Qing is a little depressed, perhaps because of this, he remembered when he was young, so he explained: "I see that you have a fifth-class true yuan, and your talent is much higher than mine, and with this foundation, the opportunity must be easier." ”
Chu Qing raised his head, quite self-deprecating, he was only a hundred miles away from home, and the time was only ten days, what was there to be discouraged about; if he really wanted to be like this fox demon, he would not achieve anything after more than a hundred years, and it would not be too late to sigh at that time!
So he got up and thanked: "Thank you seniors for your advice, if the juniors can really find an opportunity in the future, they will definitely come to thank the seniors again!"
After saying that, she turned around and left, but Aunt Hu shouted behind her back: "Wait!"
"What else do you need from your predecessors?"
"Hehe......" Aunt Hu smiled: "I haven't talked to my fellow people for a long time for many years, anyway, I don't have a successor, I will have a good relationship with you today, don't you want to learn my secret art, and sit down and wait." ”
Aunt Hu said and took a piece of leather paper, and took the pen and ink, turned around and wrote on the table, she wrote very seriously, and stopped the pen from time to time to think carefully, not long after, she put down the pen, picked up the leather paper to dry the residual ink, and handed it to Chu Qing: "Take it and take a look." ”
"The Art of Inner Breathing".
The internal breath technique records the secret technique of the fox demon's hidden aura, and it can be seen that it does take a lot of thought, but overall it is not complicated, just remember the key details.
"Remember? Remember and burn this piece of paper. ”
Chu Qing looked at it again, nodded and said, "Remember!"
Aunt Hu took the leather paper back and lit it on the candle flame, thought about it and said, "You wait a little longer." ”
Chu Qing saw her go back to the back room and get a small bag of things out.
"The internal breath technique should be matched with this thing to have a wonderful effect. Aunt Hu smiled and showed what she was holding, which was a leather mask.
"What is this?" asked Chu Qing.
"You know, we demons are born with some illusion skills. Aunt Hu said proudly: "This is a thing I wore when I came out to walk when I was young, and it was made of a piece of fox skin on my back." ”
As she spoke, Aunt Hu put the mask on her face, and after a while, her appearance changed greatly, and she turned into a handsome young man......
Demons can change their appearance to a certain extent, Chu Qing didn't feel too surprised, but asked, "Can I also change my appearance if I wear this mask?"
"Just try it. Aunt Hu handed over the mask.
Chu Qing put the mask on his face, and the mask naturally clinged to his face, feeling a little awkward......
"See for yourself. Aunt Hu took the mirror and pointed it at Chu Qing.
"This ...... It's an exaggeration. Chu Qing saw that there was a handsome young man in the mirror, and he was fundamentally different from his previous relatively ordinary appearance.
"If you don't like it, you can adjust it a little. Aunt Hu smiled.
Chu Qing's true qi adjusted slightly on his face, and his appearance in the mirror gradually changed, and his appearance became more ordinary and no longer so conspicuous.
"This, how dare the juniors be such a big gift. ”
"You don't have to pretend either. Aunt Hu said briskly: "I just ask for a chance in the future, don't forget me, an old fox." ”
Chu Qing nodded, this fox demon is such a gift, it can be regarded as an investment, so he hurriedly said: "The younger generation will never dare to forget!"