Chapter 14: A Mysterious Shadow Appears
In fact, the white-bearded old Taoist had already realized that he had missed his mouth before, and now seeing Yu Fei'er staring at the loopholes in his words and constantly asking himself, he hurriedly waved his hand to deny: "If the old Taoist is really the Great Luo Jinxian in the sky, he has already enjoyed the blessings in the heavenly realm, why do you have to go to this human realm to divinate and see a doctor and eat everywhere? You don't have to follow you two little Taoist priests to this ghost place to get rid of any demons, and you almost fell off the cliff and became a delicious meal in the belly of the earthworm monster after being killed by the fall." Little Taoist, you really like to joke. β
Wen Yiyang also had some doubts about the identity of the white-bearded old man after Yu Fei'er's previous hints, but after listening to the white-bearded old man's reply, and thinking of the various performances of the white-bearded old man in the previous battle with the earthworm monster, this doubt in his heart was immediately dispelled. After confirming that there was nothing suspicious about the identity of the white-bearded old dao, Wen Yiyang did not wait for the white-bearded old dao to continue to explain, and interjected: "Although Brother Dao has only comprehended three elements of the Five Elements element, this is already very powerful, after all, Brother Dao has cultivated these Five Elements Spell to the limit of mortals. β
"Brother Yiyang, you have won the award, in fact, the current Yu Fei'er can only skillfully control his numerology elements, and for the two elements of gold and water, Yu Fei'er only has a slight understanding. But speaking of this fire spell, isn't that a basic spell that you Zhengyi Sect disciples must practice? Without this fire as a medium, many talisman spells in your Dragon and Tiger Sect will not be able to exert their due power, Brother Yiyang, is what Yu Fei'er said right?" Wen Yiyang's unintentional words changed the topic of Yu Fei'er, and by the way, he also relieved the siege of Whitebeard's old way.
"That's right, you, the little Taoist, used to set fire to the rune paper with the spell drawn when you cast the talisman spell before, how did the old Taoist forget this. I said Zhengyi Sect Little Daoist, since you know how to use fire-based spells, why didn't you use them earlier? You are still coaxing with Lao Dao, do you have to wait until others remind you before you are willing to use it?" Seeing that Yu Fei'er's topic was diverted by Wen Yiyang, the white-bearded old Taoist hurriedly seized the opportunity to talk about Wen Yiyang's not coming, and he was afraid that Yu Fei'er would return to the topic he had just stared at himself.
"The old gentleman only asked if Yu Fei'er could use fire spells before, and he didn't ask Xiao Dao if he could, why did he accuse me now? Besides, Xiao Dao had not had time to hide in the dark before the flying things, so how could he have time to cast any fire spells. Wen Yiyang replied in a low voice.
Just as Wen Yiyang was talking about the things flying around in the dark, the familiar sound of wings flapping suddenly came from the darkness. The three of them immediately stopped talking, not daring to make any more noise, and pricked up their ears to listen carefully in the darkness for the sound to come and go. As the voices in the darkness grew clearer, the three knew that the thing flying in the darkness was getting closer and closer to the rock where they were hiding. Suddenly, the sound of wings flapping in the darkness stopped, and there was a dead silence all around, but this dead silence was quickly broken by the sound of footsteps that followed in the darkness. It seemed that the thing that was flying around in the dark stopped its flight and came to the ground, no wonder the sound of wings flapping in the darkness suddenly stopped.
I only heard the footsteps in the darkness getting closer and closer to myself, and it was obvious that the footsteps in the darkness were coming towards the location where the three of them were hiding. The three of them couldn't help but have such a question in their hearts: "Why can the flying thing be able to pinpoint the location where they are hiding in such a dark environment?" Before the three of them could come up with a reason, the footsteps in the darkness were already close to them, but at this time, the three of them couldn't think of how they should choose to escape in this dark passage. Just as the three of them hesitated for a while, the footsteps in the darkness suddenly stopped, and the surrounding area instantly returned to a dead silence.
"Isn't it true that the things flying around in the dark don't know that the three of us are hiding behind this rock?" As soon as this fluke thought came out of Wen Yiyang's heart, he heard a sudden movement above his head. "Could it be the thing flying around in the darkness ready to launch his attack?" At this time, Wen Yiyang didn't think much about it, and hurriedly waved a palm above his head, and at the same time read in his mouth: "Heavenly Spirit Spirit, Earth Spirit Spirit, please Immortal Buddha and Bodhisattva gods, the disciple today asks the Fire De Xingjun to come down and sit in the town, and give the disciple a spiritual rune, and the divine soldier is as urgent as the law." As soon as the spell came out, a talisman hidden in the palm of Wen Yiyang's right hand immediately turned into a fireball and shot out towards the top of Wen Yiyang's head.
It turned out that Wen Yiyang immediately took out a blank rune paper from the Qiankun bag around his waist after hearing the sudden sound of wings flapping in the darkness, and quickly drew a spell on the rune paper with a cinnabar pen when the footsteps in the darkness were slowly approaching the rock where he was hiding, and then hid the made rune in the palm of his right hand and was ready to cast a spell at any time.
Through the light emitted by the fireball that turned out of Wen Yiyang's talisman, Yu Fei'er and the three of them clearly saw a black, fluffy monster with a pair of wings on its back standing on the rock they used to hide, and at this time they were stretching their necks to get closer to the three of them, and their heads were about to stick to the faces of Yu Fei'er and the three of them. The monster's head was not large, and its furry face had a slender mouth and round, black eyes, and at first glance it looked like a mouse.
The monster was unsuspecting that Wen Yiyang would suddenly cast a fireball technique, and seeing that the fireball shot by Wen Yiyang was about to hit his face, he screamed "squeak!" and hurriedly flapped his wings behind him and dodged to the side.
Listening to the "bang", the fireball cast by Wen Yiyang did not hit the monster, but directly hit the top floor of the passage. When she saw that the fireball was about to fall after hitting the top stone wall of the passage, Yu Fei'er instantly had a good idea in her heart. He hurriedly concentrated on the numerology elements in his body and integrated them into the stone wall of the passage, and then controlled the earth element in the passage to turn into a huge stone hand in the top rock of the passage, and finally controlled the huge stone hand to firmly hold the falling fireball in the palm of his hand.
When the fireball was fixed at the top of the passage, it was as if a light had been installed in the passage, illuminating the surroundings of the three of them. Wen Yiyang looked at the fireball and stone hand above the passage and couldn't help but admire: "I can't imagine that Brother Dao can come up with such an ingenious method in an instant, Wen Yiyang is really out of reach, but what makes Xiao Dao even more admired is that Brother Dao has cast the entire spell process in one go after thinking of this method, it seems that Brother Dao's attainments in the art of imperial land have reached the realm of sending and receiving freely." β
Yu Fei'er replied with a smile: "Didn't that white-bearded old gentleman ask Brother Yiyang to cast a fire-based spell before? Now that Brother Yiyang has cast a fire-type spell, Yu Fei'er doesn't want to waste such a good spell." Now that the passage has been illuminated, the three of us should hurry up here and find out where the monster that tried to get close to us is hiding?"
So the three of them took advantage of the fireball on the top floor of the passage and began to look for the furry monster nearby. At this time, the monster seemed to have disappeared from the air, and the three of them searched carefully in the nearby passage for several times but did not find any trace of him.
Could it be that I was dazzled? But just now I saw the appearance of that monster. Even if it was really dazzling, it couldn't be possible for all three of them to be dazzled at the same time, right? Yu Fei'er didn't believe that she was wrong before. But when it came to dazzling, the monster was really dazzled when he dodged the fireball shot by Wen Yiyang, and then lost the trace of the monster in his field of vision.
It stands to reason that the monster would not have been able to fly far in such a short period of time, but where did he hide? The three of them searched the nearby passage several times, but they could not find any trace of the monster. The white-bearded old Taoist finally couldn't help it, and took the lead in asking, "What kind of monster was that just now?" Little Daoist, you two should have seen his appearance before, right?"
"That thing is flying too fast, Wen Yiyang is bent on casting spells and doesn't see clearly, I don't know if Yu Fei'er can see clearly?" Wen Yiyang turned his head to look at Yu Fei'er.
"This monster has a mouse-like face, and he can not only fly quickly in the dark passage, but also accurately locate our hiding place in the dark environment, if Xiaodao guessed correctly, this monster flying around in the dark should be a bat monster, but now Xiaodao is not sure if this bat monster is one of the few monsters who are doing evil in this Xianxia Ridge?"
"I didn't expect you to guess so quickly that I, a little Taoist priest, was playing with you in this dark passage, and the next game would be no fun. Anyway, this passage has been illuminated by the spells of your two little Taoists, so this hero must continue to play hide and seek with the three of you. As soon as Yu Fei'er said her guess, she heard a soft voice suddenly coming from behind the stone wall at the top of the passage, and then she saw a person wearing a black cloak flying out from behind the stone wall. This person's appearance was just like what Yu Fei'er and the three of them had seen before, with a rat's head and a rat brain, and his face was covered with tiny brown fur. The most striking thing on the monster's face was the pair of small round eyes under his two thick anti-figure-eight eyebrows, which were constantly rolling in their sockets at the moment, as if thinking of some bad idea.
Yu Fei'er immediately sneered at him after hearing the bat demon's introduction to him, and reprimanded angrily: "You still dare to praise your beauty with this look of yours, Xiaodao can be regarded as convinced of you." It's not a big deal if you're a monster who just loves stinky beauty, but you are ashamed to call yourself a hero, which makes Xiaodao unbearable. Do you know what this 'chivalrous' represents in the human world? A chivalrous man must do what he says, he must do what he does, he must be sincere in his promises, he does not love his body, he goes to the trouble of a soldier, and he recites righteousness for thousands of miles. Even a monster like you who hides in this Xianxia Ridge and does evil is also worthy of being called a hero, isn't it a shame for the people of the world to laugh. β
The bat demon was furious after hearing Yu Fei'er's ridicule of him, and his eyes rounded and said: "Little Taoist, since you make fun of me like this, then it is up to you to tell me how many people in your human world are the so-called chivalrous people in your mouth? It is nothing more than a good wish for you human beings when you repent of the selfishness that you are born with in your bones, but if you humans really want to do what you call 'chivalry', it is absolutely impossible, not even for cultivators like you. Don't you cultivators keep saying that you will never kill lightly? But can you really do it? Take your proud medical skills, you cultivators often hunt down my comrades in the name of saving people, hunt down my fellow earthworm brothers who have been eliminated by you, and make our bodies into your medicinal herbs for healing, and finally call this practice a high-sounding practice to help the world and save people, are we not living beings in this world? Could it be that this way of killing as a way to save lives is what you call the way of justice?"
This series of rhetorical questions from the bat demon stopped Yu Fei'er and Wen Yiyang at once. To be honest, what the bat demon asked was not unreasonable, so the two of them couldn't even think of any good reason to refute him for a while.
"When it comes to the herbs for healing, the old man with the white beard probably knows best, and maybe he can give himself some explanation. Thinking of this, Wen Yiyang immediately turned his head and asked the white-bearded old Taoist for advice: "Although Xiao Dao has been cultivating in Dragon Tiger Mountain for more than ten years, he is only interested in the spells in the Zhengyi Sect on weekdays, and he knows very little about the allusions and legal principles in my sect, so Xiao Dao didn't know how to answer this series of questions from the bat demon for a while. I wonder if the old gentleman has his own high opinion after listening to what the bat demon just said? Xiao Dao knows that the old gentleman's medical skills are very superb, and the medicinal materials used in his daily medical practice must be innumerable. β
The white-bearded old Taoist even shook his hand and pretended not to know anything, and replied: "The old Taoist has also learned such a little medical skill to run around the rivers and lakes to eat, where will he understand any Taoist jurisprudence." But when it comes to this medicinal herb for curing diseases, Lao Dao I have indeed used a lot when I went to the rivers and lakes to see people, among which I have indeed used two medicinal materials, earth dragon and bat, but Lao Dao only thinks about relieving the pain of patients when using these medicinal materials, how can I still have the spare time to think about what kind of righteous way. However, after listening to what the bat demon said just now, Lao Dao also had some opinions of his own in his heart, but he didn't know whether his opinion was right or wrong? Since you, the little Taoist, asked about me, then the old Taoist said his opinion, but you two little Taoists must not laugh at the old Tao after listening to it. As a cultivator, we must first understand what kind of 'Dao' we are cultivating? As far as the old Tao knows, this 'Dao' is ethereal and can refer to all things in the world, and it can refer to only one family's technique, and for anyone who cultivates the 'Dao' in the Dao Gate, what kind of 'Dao' will he eventually get? It all depends on what kind of direction he has set for his own life, so only by formulating the correct direction of life can he realize the right path, and only by understanding the right path can he attain a greater 'Dao' in the process of cultivating his own path. β
Wen Yiyang was confused after listening to the white-bearded old man's opinion, he stared at the white-bearded old man for a while and said: "What the old gentleman said is mysterious, it is completely not the answer to the question, I don't know if the old man really doesn't know or if he doesn't know?"
Wen Yiyang didn't hear the truth in Whitebeard's words, but Yu Fei'er realized some insights from Whitebeard's old way. Just when Yu Fei'er was about to tell Whitebeard about his realization, the bat demon flying in mid-air spoke again: "For thousands of years, my race has lived in dark caves, day and night, and has nothing to do with you mortals, and I don't know when a good deed person wrote a book, which reads: 'Chitose bats, the color is like snow, the set is upside down, and the brain is heavy. This thing is dried and served, and it makes people live long'. At first, not many people believed in this statement, but as it was eventually rumored to be 'the result of the obedience to make people immortal', more and more people believed in it. It's not so much that they believe this statement, but that human nature is inherently greedy, and everyone became crazy after learning that they could become immortals, and since then, our race has been constantly hunted down by you humans who want to become immortals. Even among these people who hunted and killed my kindred, there were many cultivators like you who were full of benevolence and righteousness, and you tried to take my Chitose bat to help you improve your cultivation and eventually attain enlightenment and ascend to heaven. Today, you three Taoist priests have come to me, and you must be like those greedy cultivators before, you want to rely on the body of this great hero to improve your cultivation, right? To tell you the truth, this hero's magic is profound, and no one has ever been able to capture me before, but countless people have died in my hands. Soon this will also be the burial place of the three of you, you three will obediently tie your hands and arrest it, and no one in this hero's territory will try to escape from my palm. β
After saying this, the bat demon immediately jumped high to the top of the passage, and then spread his wings that seemed to be like a cloak and said loudly to the three of them: "Let you understand this spell of mineβthe power of the Ten Thousand Bat Dynasty Sect." β
As soon as the bat demon's words fell, he saw countless small bats flying out of his two outstretched wings, swooping towards Yu Fei'er and the three of them.