Late spring is rainy, dripping and dripping non-stop, the mountains are foggy, and the forests are verdant and disappearing, giving people a feeling of being in a light ink landscape painting.

Mo Yan climbed to the top of the boulder with the little mountain ghost early in the morning, Shi Yuhe removed the prohibition as promised, and let them enter and exit freely, these days he carefully observed and studied the astrological chart until the evening before returning to the valley. During the period, I also learned that Qing'er's original body was a big green snake that transformed into a green bamboo cane, and now this delicate and handsome daughter is more than two hundred years ago at the end of the Ming Dynasty, a pair of brothers and sisters who went into the mountains to collect medicine were captured by Qing'er by mistake and used the body of their sister, and their brother was sucked dry by her and turned into a walking corpse, and now he is still working in the valley every day.

The master had warned Qing'er not to disturb Mo Yan, so these words were much purer.

Every night at the time of eating, Shi Yuhe took out a jar of medicinal wine and drank it with Mo Yan as usual, according to him, this wine was concocted with dozens of rare medicinal materials in Shennongjia Mountain, which was very helpful for strengthening the body, and the two drank the bottom of the altar every time and chatted happily. At the same time, Shi Yuhe also explained some knowledge about astrology to Mo Yan, which made him completely change the traditional Taoist concept of the round heaven and the earth.

"The Eastern Han Dynasty Zhang Heng's 'Hun Tian Said' old man thinks it is more reliable, he said that heaven and earth are like eggs, in which the egg white is the sky, the yolk is the earth, the sky is wrapped around the earth, and the earth is naturally round. Moreover, he also said that the sky does not have a certain shape, but an infinite void full of air, in which the moon and stars float. Shi Yuhe said analytically.

"Our earthly world is naturally on earth now, so where is the spirit world?" Mo Mo pondered.

"It is said that in the spirit world, there are mountains, rivers, moon, stars, people, and beasts, so they should also be on the ground, but they are in another void, and they can't see each other and can't touch each other. For thousands of years, people have dreamed of going to the spirit world, except for curiosity, nothing more than to prolong their lives. Shi Yuhe replied.

"Is the spirit world really long-lived?"

Shi Yuhe nodded: "In the void of the legendary spirit world, as long as you refine qi and practice, you can live for a long time, and you can even live with heaven and earth, unlike our earthly 'life is rare for seventy years', how short the life span is." ”

No wonder people in the world are practicing hard and want to rush to the spiritual realm before they die, Mo Yan thought in his heart, Mr. Mu, the old Taoist of the True Martial Arts Temple, the old monk of Gantong Temple, and Jin Danzi or Shi Yuhe in front of him are all like this, in fact, to put it bluntly, he also has the same idea.

In the early morning, the sky cleared, Mo Yan came to the top of the mountain again as usual, and when he walked, he found that the soles of his shoes were sticky, and when he looked closely, he found that there was a thin layer of transparent slime on the ground.

"Ho-ho. The little mountain ghost looked down and sniffed in warning.

What the hell is this? Mo Mo looked at the ground in confusion, as if some kind of slime-secreting animal had crawled over here, extending all the way to the bottom of the boulder, and looking around and finding nothing.

Mo Yan now has no dizziness when he looked at the zodiac chart for the first time, and the position of the entire celestial body called the moon and stars is almost engraved in his mind, but he still can't figure it out, it seems that he is not this material, and he will never be able to crack the secret in the pattern.

Alas, let's go home and buy a big house for my father and mother to go to Dali City, so that they can live a comfortable life.

Since there has been no progress, Shi Yuhe seems to have lost his original enthusiasm and become silent, while the mute boy Yu'er seems to be very attentive, staring at him from time to time with gloomy eyes.

When I returned to the house after drinking in the evening, I passed in front of Qing'er's room, the door suddenly opened and half of Qing'er's face was revealed, and I heard her whispering: "Xianggong should be careful." Then he quickly closed the door.

Mo Yan was puzzled in his heart, what did Qing'er mean by warning to be careful? Is it to beware of Shi Yuhe, but he has no ill will towards himself now, and he is free to go in and out, but anyway, Qing'er must have reminded him out of kindness.

"Ho-ho. When he returned to the house, he held a bow and arrows and a machete in both hands.

"What are you going to do?" Mo looked at him in confusion.

"Up, up the hill. A few words popped out of his mouth.

"Dong Dong, what are you going to do up the mountain so late?" Mo Yan became more and more confused.

"Ho-ho, ho-ho-ho. "The hole is in the hand and the shape of a boulder.

"You're telling me to go to the top boulder to see the picture again?"

Dong Dong nodded hurriedly.

"Well, sometimes I don't know what's going on in your head. Mo Yan reluctantly picked up his bow and arrows and walked out of the room with him.

In the darkness, a pair of dark eyes were silently watching them, it was the mute boy Yu'er.

A crescent moon in the night sky, a faint starlight, and a gentle breeze, the two soon came to the top of the mountain.

The boulder looked a little pale in the moonlight, and a huge brown carnivorous leech five or six feet long was lying under the boulder, looking intently at the "zodiac signs" picture

Mo Yan was taken aback, where did such a monster come from, and he actually knew how to read the boulder pattern, it was unbelievable. However, he soon understood that the slime on the ground was secreted by this thing, and it seemed that it had been there more than once, because the night rain had washed away the slime recently, so he didn't notice it. The largest of ordinary leeches is only two or three inches long, and this one is more than twenty times larger, it is definitely a leech spirit of hundreds of years, and it is looking at the boulder pattern intently, and it is also interested in the spiritual passage, and it must be successful in cultivation It is estimated that the demon pill is not small.

Mo Yan was secretly happy in his heart, and decided to hunt this hundreds of years of carnivorous leech spirit.

The little mountain ghost gently tugged at the corner of Mo Yan's clothes, and gestured in his hand to ask him to shoot the big leech with a bow and arrow.

The big bloated leech patronized and studied the astrological chart, and did not notice the whistling arrows at all, and only realized that it had been attacked when the flesh tightened.

There was a crisp "click", and the arrow could not penetrate its thick tough skin and broke the shaft of the arrow, falling to the ground.

The big leech turned around, and five pairs of blood pupils as big as bull's eyes spotted Mo Yan and the little mountain ghost, and rushed to the front like an inchworm.

Mo Yan didn't expect this thing to look fat and clumsy, but its body movements would be so agile, and before he had time to think about it, he pulled out the machete and slashed head-on, and the sound of "bang" bounced back immediately.

The guy opened his mouth the size of a footbasin, and in the moonlight, he could clearly see three jagged jaws reflecting the white light of the forest, and the lightning bite of "whew" was coming. Mo Yan threw the machete into its mouth as a hidden weapon with a flick of his hand, and the machete, wrapped in internal force, spun and hit three sharp jaws one after another, and the jaw root was broken with a crisp sound. The carnivorous leech angrily spewed out a stream of mucus covering the sky, and suddenly couldn't avoid being stuck from head to toe, and then heard a "squeak", and Mo Yan was sucked back into its fleshy mouth along with the mucus.

The big carnivorous leech lost its sharp teeth and couldn't chew, so he could only swallow Mo Remnant's whole body down, and the little mountain ghost saw that it was not good, and stepped forward to grab his two legs and pull it back, just when the leech paused for a while, the little mountain ghost who was not weak actually dragged Mo Remnant out and rolled it to the ground.

Mo Yan's mouth, nose and face were covered with mucus, blocking the air and making him unable to breathe, so he turned to a fetal state and got up and ran, but the soles of his feet slipped and fell again and again, and the fire sickle in his arms was thrown out.

The little mountain ghost quickly grabbed the fire sickle and sparked a spark and ignited a gunpowder arrow on the ground, and quickly picked up a few more and stuffed them into the mouth of the big leech, which was swallowed like a date.

With a muffled "boom", the gunpowder exploded in the cavity of the big leech, and black smoke billowed from its mouth and anus behind it.

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