Qiu Zhe sat on the futon, his eyes narrowed slightly, as if he was awake. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 On the square table in front of him, there was an antique jade pendant, emitting a five-colored strange light. The light spreads upwards in a conical shape, creating a shimmering curtain of light like a projector. Countless characters in small letters, sandwiched between delicate human body images, are neatly arranged on the light curtain, and the light and shadow flow and are meticulously revealed.

"Our Southern Sect has a long heritage, and the classics are all-encompassing, the most important of which is the twelve secret classics of the town religion, which are collected and sorted out by the ancestors of the past dynasties. It's just that time has changed, and it has been passed down from generation to generation, and most of it has been scattered. Now in the hands of the teacher, there are only four books that have been completed. ”

Qiu Zhe remembers very well that one afternoon ten years ago, the weather was the same as today, sunny and windy. Master Lai Shouzhong called him to the front of the hall, said the above paragraph with some gloom, and then handed him a jade pendant:

"One of the twelve secret classics, the Book of Cave Pole Heaven, the first volume is in this jade pendant. With your inner refining heat, it is enough to turn on. As for the jade pendant in the next two volumes of the record, it has long been dispersed, and if there is an opportunity in the future, you should also try your best to find it. ”

Before Qiu Zhe could react, Lai Shouzhong had already waved his hand impatiently and sent him out. Knowing the master's temper, Qiu Zhe didn't dare to ask more, and left with a confused face. He never imagined that this conversation would be the last time he and Master met.

Early the next morning, Qiu Zhe went to the master's room to greet him according to his habit, but found that the building was empty. Only a pair of letterheads on the desk, in four-character regular script with the words "good for yourself", was the Master's last message to him.

That separation hit Qiu Zhe extremely hard, he had no relatives since he was a child, and in his heart, the existence of the master was not only the master, but also the role of a parent. The deeper a relationship is, the more difficult it is to accept when it is lost.

Qiu Zhe is not a local, his hometown is in Hedong Province. When he was five years old, due to an accident, Qiu Zhe's parents both died, and he himself was regarded by the clan as a disaster for the death of his parents, and none of his relatives were willing to take over.

From the death of his parents until he was accepted as an apprentice by Lai Shouzhong, Qiu Zhe lived alone in his own small courtyard and lived by eating hundreds of family meals. He didn't cry or make trouble, and every day when he arrived at the meal, he would go to the clansmen's house with a cleanly washed rice bowl. One meal at a time, and the cycle repeats.

His performance amazed the elders of the clan, and also caused a lot of topics among the neighbors. When everyone was watching the bleak life of this orphan with complicated eyes, a passing Taoist priest completely changed Qiu Zhe's fate. This Taoist priest is Qiu Zhe's master, Lai Shouzhong.

No one knows Lai Shouzhong's real age, and if you judge only from his appearance, it seems that he is only about thirty. He was tall and thin, with a graceful bearing, and if he were not wearing a Taoist robe, it would be easy for people to mistake him for a middle school teacher.

In Qiu Zhe's memory, Master was a very unparticular person, his clothes were not changed all year round, he was always dressed in a blue-gray linen robe, plus a free scarf on his head, and the dust on his hands looked very old. Only on special days, such as Huang Lao's birthday, will he change into a more elaborate purple robe and a Shangqing hibiscus crown.

After accepting Qiu Zhe as an apprentice, Lai Shouzhong gave up his wandering life and rented a private house in the town. It wasn't until Qiu Zhe finished middle school that he suddenly said goodbye. Soon after, Qiu Zhe also left his hometown where he had lived since childhood.

According to Lai Shouzhong's own statement, their faction is called Wuzhuang Guan, which is the inheritance of Jindan Nanzong. Zhang Boduan, the patriarch of the founding school, founded the real Bai Yuchan, and the one who really laid the foundation of the sect was Chen Nan, the famous Taoist master of the Northern and Southern Song Dynasty.

Jindan Nanzong cultivates successors and has always taught them according to their aptitude. In the first few years of a new disciple's entry, he will teach some basic internal and external refining skills, polish his muscles and bones, nourish his form and spirit, and when the disciple has a solid foundation, he will choose the appropriate Taoist method to teach according to his root and bone qualifications.

The Dongji Heavenly Book has a total of three volumes and nine volumes, which is a superior method that directly points to the Dongtian, and has always been taught only by true disciples. Among them, the first refining volume contains the general outline of the world's martial arts, starting with the basic physical fitness, followed by a new way of martial arts. Different from the traditional internal and external skills, it directly points to the origin of martial arts, explains the mysteries of the human body, teaches how to strengthen the function of human organs, tempers the body, and naturally gives birth to the internal force of true qi.

After the refinement scroll is completed, not only is his body strong and his true qi abundant, but his ability to resist blows and recover is also far beyond ordinary people, ordinary internal and external injuries can be recovered almost instantly, leaving no traces.

The second Lidao volume is to explain the mystery of sensing the qi of heaven and earth and forming a primordial fetus, and with the internal Dan technique that the disciples of the Southern Sect Zhenchuan must practice, it is complementary to each other and gets twice the result with half the effort. Thanks to this, Qiu Zhe was able to break through the fetal movement realm in the Danfa half a year ago and become a real Qi Refiner.

At this moment, what he is studying is the Five Emperors Volume of the third chapter of the Book of Heaven, which contains the mental method of the Five Emperors Great Demon Divine Skill, as well as a fist scripture called the Five Emperors Dragon Fist.

"The five emperors are the five elements in the sky, the five directions in the square, the five colors in the color, and the five organs in the man. The Green Emperor lives in the east, protects the soul and heals the liver, the White Emperor lives in the west, and treats the lungs, the Red Emperor lives in the south, nourishes the qi and heals the heart, the Black Emperor lives in the north, and the blood cures the kidneys, and the Yellow Emperor is in the center, harmonizing the spleen and stomach. The five emperors are with heaven and earth, yin and yang are judged, the five elements are born, and people have five organs, so they want to achieve the unity of heaven and man. The cultivators of the Dan should be Shun Ming's technique of gathering the five elements upside down, but they can flow around in the Zhonghuang Palace, and the gods are mixed in the nine orifices, and the evil demons can not interfere, and the five emperors descend to the gods and alchemy liquid, and reduce the qi to conceive a baby, and for a long time, the five qi Chaoyuan will capture lead and make mercury. Returning to the truth and becoming a Dan. ”

This paragraph of discussion can be said to explain the essence of the Five Elements and Five Emperors very clearly. The human body has five internal organs and five qi, corresponding to the five elements, five luck and five virtues, and the five emperors and great demons, which is the method of cultivating these five organs and five qi. Each of these magic techniques, cultivated to the highest realm, will form a spirit bead, possessing all kinds of incredible supernatural powers. When the five spirit beads are refined, and finally the five qi are combined, you can reach the realm of the legendary "Five Qi Dynasty Yuan".

The afterglow of the setting sun shines obliquely into the room, forming a ten-vertical and ten-horizontal ridge on the floor through the window edges. Qiu Zhe woke up from the concentration and looked at the sky outside, it was already waning, and before he knew it, he had been working hard in the ashram for a day.

Amber's arrival did not bring much change to Qiu Zhe's life. He still went out before dawn, practiced a set of boxing in Huxin Park on the other side of the river, and returned at about half past seven, eating a full stomach at the breakfast stalls along the street on the way, and bringing a takeaway for Mandarin Duck by the way.

For lunch and dinner, Qiu Zhe would settle his lunch in a small restaurant called "Lu Ji" in the community, and at other times than the first time, unless otherwise arranged, he would sit quietly in the ashram and meditate and practice. The daily routine is like a clockwork that has been wound up, precise and regular.

"Hey, it's so late," realizing the change in the sky, Qiu Zhe got up from the futon, sniffled, and felt a little strange: "Mandarin duck, this little thing, usually has to eat at this point, why is it so quiet today?"

An ominous premonition arose inexplicably in his heart, he turned around suddenly, the light in his eyes gathered, and he suddenly saw a humanoid shadow hovering at the door of the quiet room, but at the first glance, Qiu Zhe knew that it was not a living thing, but a spirit body.

The amulet that had been posted on the door of the quiet room for nearly half a year had already risen with green smoke. Qiu Zhe didn't have anything to do with the local area, and this rental house was very secluded, when he arranged this spirit rune, he just had a careful mind, but he didn't expect that it would come in handy at this moment.

It's just that the shadow obviously has some ability, looking at the situation in front of him, if Qiu Zhe has been in the fixed realm and does not wake up, I am afraid that this spirit rune will not last long, and what will happen at that time is really unpredictable.

The thoughts in Qiu Zhe's mind turned fast, but the movements were faster, he stepped to the door in a few steps, opened the door and handed out a punch, and drank in his mouth:

"Duh!"

After practicing the first volume of the Book of Heaven, Qiu Zhe's cultivation in martial arts was already a first-class master, whether it was strength, reaction or speed, it was dozens of times higher than that of ordinary people, and the blood and qi of the whole body were even more vigorous and abundant to the extreme.

This punch seemed unremarkable, but when the fist slashed through the air, there was a faint sound of wind and thunder.

At this moment, Qiu Zhe and the shadow were only two steps apart, although the light in the room was not good, but with his eyesight, he could still clearly see the appearance of the other party.

A miserable white horse face, the facial features seem to be artificially installed, awkward and cramped, the lines of the face are extremely stiff, although it looks expressionless, but it gives people a cold and bleak feeling.

Qiu Zhe didn't have time to think too much, his fist had already smashed into the opposite door. The horse-faced man didn't react, just glanced at him, and then the face that looked very real was under Qiu Zhe's fist, shattering little by little, turning into countless fragments and scattering in the air.

"Whew-" The horse-faced man's head vanished, but the area below his neck was still standing. A cold, inky aura escaped from its chest and spread through its neck.

Qiu Zhe was a little surprised, but he didn't panic, he held his breath at the moment, his fingers interlaced and sealed, and a little spark popped out in an instant, falling on the evil qi, and immediately ignited into a blue-green ghostly fire.

The evil qi was gradually exhausted in the burning, and the body of the horse-faced man was like a deflated ball after releasing this mass of evil qi, gradually shrinking, and finally only a human skin fell on the floor.

It wasn't until the evil qi burned out that Qiu Zhe sighed softly, picked up the scroll from the ground, spread it out, and saw a portrait with long hands and feet painted on the two-foot square white paper, which was exactly the appearance of a horse-faced man.

The painter's brushwork is obviously very clumsy, and the figures drawn are also patchwork, although the parts that should be drawn are drawn, but the overall effect presented does not look like an individual.

Qiu Zhe stared at the scroll silently, with a serious expression on his face that was rarely seen. The moment he saw the scroll landing, his heart sank, knowing that today's things are not simple, and I am afraid that it will not be easy.

This method of writing on white paper and then giving shape to evil qi to refine ghosts was an ancient spell from the Northern Sect that Qiu Zhe had seen in a book a long time ago. The ghosts that are refined are called ghost messengers, and they can climb mountains and mountains and enter homes through walls, and do all kinds of things for the caster.

The method of refining ghost envoys has spread widely in the world, and many variants have also been derived, such as the paper man and paper horse of the White Lotus Sect, the stand-in Gu of Southern Xinjiang, the Shishen of the Wa Kingdom, and so on.

However, what Qiu Zhe encountered this time was clearly the original version of this ancient spell. However, as far as Qiu Zhe knew, the Northern Sect had disappeared as early as a thousand years ago, and most of the spells in the sect had been lost.

Where did this horse-faced ghost envoy come from? In today's world, will there still be a descendant of the Beibi faction?

These thoughts flashed in his mind, and Qiu Zhe didn't dwell on them too much. He put away the scroll and looked around to see what was going on inside the rental house.

The security door is intact, but it's useless, and any physical barrier is not a problem for these ghosts.

The mandarin duck was lying in his cozy nest, as if he had fainted. On the bookshelf at the other end, the amber soul bead emitted a faint blue light, canceling out the surrounding evil qi little by little.

Qiu Zhe frowned slightly, picked up the mantra casually, and recited softly in his mouth:

"Heaven and earth are natural, and filth is scattered. The cave is void, and it is too yuan. ”

This is the Pure Heaven and Earth Divine Mantra of the Daomen, which can best dissolve the filthy qi. After Qiu Zhe's method was finished, a gust of fresh wind naturally appeared, cleaning every corner of the house, and after a while, the evil aura that permeated everywhere was dissipated, and the air was faintly fragrant, giving people the illusion of "empty mountains and new rains".

Cleaning up the filth in the house, Qiu Zhe walked to the side of the mandarin duck, stretched out a finger, and pointed it on the little guy's forehead. With a slight exertion, a stream of pure yang qi gushed out, flowing into the mandarin duck's body along the fingers, dissipating the evil qi that the little guy accidentally inhaled.

After a while, the mandarin duck woke up from the coma, sneezed a few times in a row, his eyes hadn't opened yet, and his mouth was already muttering: "I'm starving to death, why haven't you started to eat yet?"

Qiu Zhe couldn't help but laugh, sometimes, ignorance is also a kind of happiness.

Amber transformed from the soul nourishing bead in her body, a pair of dark eyes staring blankly at the air, Qiu Zhe glanced at it, and sighed slightly in his heart. At this time, he had already thought about the way to send the ghost envoy to attack the opponent.

Qiu Zhe has always been low-key and has never easily provoked people. At this time, who else could be the unscrupulous warlock who had come to trouble him except for the unscrupulous warlock who killed Amber and raised it as a cat ghost?