Chapter 017: The Phantom of the Ancient Temple (4)
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Meng Xingnan couldn't sleep for a while, he leaned against the wall, and subconsciously took out the talisman he wore on his chest and played with it.
This talisman is cold to the hand, and it is the best jade from the Western Regions. The moonlight shone on the jade talisman, and there was a faint shimmer.
The amulet is in the shape of a ring, about two inches in size. Unlike ordinary amulets, the image carved on its sunny side is not a common image of gods and Buddhas, but a simple and atmospheric unicorn pattern surrounded by clouds.
The top of the jade talisman is carved with symmetrical moire, and the hollows in it can be used to thread through the string so that it can be hung around the neck.
The technique of carving the unicorn is simple and atmospheric, the texture is clear, and only a few knives are carved out of a unicorn that steps on the clouds and dances in the sky. If you look closely, it seems to exude an aura of mystery.
This jade unicorn's talisman was the only object that the Dustless Daoist found on Xuanzhen Guan when he found him, and it was also the only clue that he was able to find his biological parents.
In fact, Meng Xingnan no longer has any resentment towards his parents at this time.
No matter what reason they abandoned themselves ruthlessly, but after more than ten years of ignorance, Meng Xingnan's only hope for his parents when he was a child has long faded. It is even said that they have been regarded as passers-by.
The grace of life is not as good as nurturing affection, and the care of dustless people for him since he was a child, Meng Xingnan dare not or forget. In his heart, the Dustless Dao people are nothing more than his biological parents.
It's just that the only thing they can't let go of is why they are so ruthless to abandon themselves.
The corners of their mouths smiled slightly, and it could be seen from the amulet in their hands that they must have been born in a family of abundance. Otherwise, how could there be such a valuable thing to stay with you?
Perhaps, he is the illegitimate son of an official or a wealthy businessman, a person who should not exist in this world.
And abandoning themselves at the door of the Xuanzhen Temple may be the best choice they can make.
Don't you hear enough stories of strangling your own children to death or throwing them into the river and drifting with the waves, and then dying in the belly of a fish?
Thinking of this, Meng Xingnan couldn't help but show a self-deprecating smile.
Of course, in Meng Xingnan's heart, from childhood to adulthood, I don't know how many conjectures there are about why he was abandoned. But at this time, his conjecture may be the most reasonable conjecture.
After all, in this kind of family full of wealth and power, I don't know how many deceitful and unbelievable things have happened.
The amulet is carved with the pattern of a jade unicorn, which should mean "Lin'er", right?
It's just that if you want to find clues to your biological parents with just one amulet in your hand, it's tantamount to looking for a needle in a haystack. It's just that this is also a pastime after I go out of the mountain.
Otherwise, wouldn't it be too boring.
Of course, wouldn't it be even more interesting if we could find them and then throw this talisman back into their faces? Thinking of this, the corners of Meng Xingnan's mouth couldn't help but smile slightly.
Thinking about it, I don't know when, Meng Xingnan has fallen into a deep sleep.
Under the moonlight, a faint glimmer of light could be vaguely seen wrapping around his body, which was his dantian absorbing the free heaven and earth aura in the air on its own, gathering less into more, transforming from gaseous state to liquid state, thus highly compressing and transforming it into true yuan.
The Ning Yuan Realm is essentially a process of continuous accumulation of true elements, plus some changes in application, which constitute many subdivision stages, which are used to measure a person's strength.
Now, what Meng Xingnan needs to do is to lay a solid foundation in order to continue to break through and reach the realm of the middle stage of Ning Yuan.
At night, a faint mist began to appear at some point, and gradually spread in the moonlit night. Soon, the Stone Buddha Temple became white inside and out.
The fog became thicker and thicker, and there was a mysterious and strange atmosphere flowing in the fog.
Meng Xingnan was still asleep, and he didn't seem to feel the changes outside.
Suddenly, dozens of meters away from him, a hand suddenly stretched out from under the ground, it was a pale and stiff hand.
The hand was so dry that only a thin layer of skin was left on the bone, and the five fingers were constantly curled and stretched. With each flexion and extension, the knuckles "gurgle" and crunched, as if they were about to break.
But every time this withered hand grabbed something, it crushed it.
Suddenly, it grabbed a large rock in front of the rung, and seemed to climb up with strength. Immediately afterwards, I heard a muffled sound of "snorting", and a few steps away, I broke the ground and stretched out a withered claw, which pressed down on the ground, as if it was being supported hard.
Soon, the ground between the two withered hands cracked, and a head was pushed out from the ground. The skull was also shriveled and fleshless, just like the two withered chicken claws sticking out of the ground, as if all the flesh and blood had been sucked dry, except for the skeleton.
A pair of blue pupils slowly turned in the deep sunken eye sockets, and when it glanced past Meng Xingnan's body, it suddenly stared, its nose twitched, and it exhaled a cold and turbid breath.
Its mouth opened and closed, and a green, fishy liquid dripped from the corners of its mouth. A low roar came out of his throat, and then continued to emerge from the dirt little by little.
When the bright moon was in the sky, the scene was extremely strange when the white bones and white teeth drilled out of the soil in the forest.
The moonlight shone on the skeleton's body, and a faint glimmer of light could be seen wrapping around its body.
As the moonlight gradually infiltrated into the skeleton, it could be seen that its withered body began to gradually become full like a sponge that had absorbed water, and its muscles and flesh were knotted, and its whole body emitted a clear black light, turning into a hideous and terrifying monster.
The originally dry and fleshless face became more and more fierce, and the body began to grow taller and taller, until it rose to about one foot or four before stopping.
The monster's head is as big as a fight, its head is full of green hair, its roots are upside down, a pair of blue pupils are as big as a cup, angry and out-of-arms, fierce light and vicious, big mouthful of bloody lips, fangs exposed, black skin like ink, the whole body is ****, skinny, dancing with two thin and long arms like bird claws, making a forward devouring momentum.
At this moment, a night owl was frightened and flew by, and as soon as it raised its head, between breaths, the night owl involuntarily flew down and threw itself into its bloody mouth. In the blink of an eye, the feathers on the night owl's body erupted, and the moon flew in the sky.
The monster was still unsatisfied, and stretched out its blood-red tongue to roll around the corners of its lips, reducing the blood stains on the corners of its mouth. Then he turned his head to look at Meng Xingnan, who was sleeping in the bell tower, salivating, and his eyes showed a strong bloodthirsty meaning.
In the night, the monster quietly hid towards Meng Xingnan, seeing that the distance was only two zhang away, the monster was long, if he got a little closer, Meng Xingnan would be caught and devoured.
At this moment, I suddenly saw Meng Xingnan, who was sleeping, suddenly opened his eyes, flashed sharply, flicked his hand in front of his nose, and frowned and shook his head at this hideous monster: "You monster is so ugly, but it finally came out." You smell so bad, how long has it been since you bathed?"