Chapter 32 Preparing for Temporary Stay
Shi Xuan carefully checked the surroundings and found no problems before he walked to the table and checked the books again to make sure there were no curses or poisons on them. Then he picked up one of the books and started to read.
The cover of this book is pure black, with dots of white bones and skulls dotted on it forming four large characters: "The Dafa of Fighting Ghosts", which looks weird and evil.
Shi Xuan looked through it carefully. This is a fairly good evil cultivation method. Although it is unsustainable after reaching the Soul Stage, it can be seen that the person who created this method has not yet reached the Golden Core Stage, but In this world where the true Dharma is hard to find, it can be considered a good and wonderful method. It is true that Shi Xuan's own cultivation level is not high, but he possesses a supreme method and a method that directly points to the golden elixir stage. He has the vision and insight to judge the quality of a method.
Most of the content in "The Ghost Fighting Technique" is of little use to Shi Xuan who has already determined the technique, such as blood sacrifices to forty-nine living people born at a specific time in exchange for an increase in the chance of breaking through to the realm of souls leaving the body, and other Some methods use living people to practice magic and supernatural powers. These are things that work quickly but have serious side effects.
On the contrary, Shi Xuan benefited a lot from the content about ghosts in "Ghost Fighting Dafa". After all, this is a book named after ghost fighting. The various explanations and applications of ghosts in it were refreshing to Shi Xuan. Shi Xuan does not like these methods of conquering ghosts, but he sees some understanding of the soul from the content of these ghosts. Ghosts are ultimately transformed from human souls, which is exactly what Shi Xuan needs to understand most at this stage.
This is not to say that there is no such content in "Baolu", there is, but it is too difficult to understand. Even with the "Gui Zhen Jing" as a comparison, Shi Xuan, who did not have the guidance of a famous teacher, found it extremely painful to understand. If you think even slightly wrong about these contents, it will be a lot of fun. It is definitely not an extravagant hope to die from being possessed.
Now there is such a book on how to understand the soul from another perspective. Even if it is still superficial, it is just such superficiality that it makes Shi Xuan suddenly enlightened. Many of the unclear contents in "Baolu" are answered one by one, which makes Shi Xuan understand. Xuan felt a little itchy and unbearable. If it wasn't for the wrong time and place, he would have wanted to sit down immediately to practice and prove it.
Resisting the impulse in his heart, Shi Xuan continued to read the content about ghosts in "The Great Method of Fighting Ghosts", which seemed to be a waste of sleep and food. It was not until the sound of footsteps came that Shi Xuan woke up.
Yan Jujian and Ding Mingde walked cautiously towards the depths of the cave, looking left and right, with cold sweat on their heads. When they saw Shi Xuan, they let out a long breath and looked relaxed.
Seeing the two people's appearance, Shi Xuan was a little curious: "Who are Brother Yan and Brother Mingde?"
Ding Mingde raised his sleeves and wiped cold sweat: "Brother Zi'ang, we saw that you haven't come out for almost an hour. We were worried that something had happened inside, so we came over to check with trepidation." In fact, the two of them did not dare to come in at first, and even thought about running away. But thinking that if Shi Xuan was finished, they wouldn't be able to run very far even if they wanted to, so they might as well come in and give it a try.
"Ha, the poor Taoist was so happy to see the hunting spirit that he forgot the time as soon as he took this book." Shi Xuan then realized that he was too absorbed in reading and didn't care about the passage of time at all.
Yan Jujian and Ding Mingde looked at the book on the stone and opened their mouths at the same time, but still did not speak. Shi Xuan understood their curiosity and yearning for Taoism, but this technique is not suitable for spreading, but for spreading. It is best for the two of them to ask for their own skills, so that they can understand that Taoism is precious and should not be taught lightly, so he changed the subject: "Brother Yan, I wonder if you can find your friend?"
Yan Jujian took out a belt: "This is the belt of a certain friend. He is good at concealed weapons, so he asked Tang Sect Tang Tianqing to make this belt specially. Because he provided all the materials himself, it is quite rare. It's a thing, so the belt should be considered unique. Alas, Brother Liu has always been unruly. When we last met, he even said that he would challenge the five masters one by one after his hard training. Unexpectedly, he would become a delicacy in the monster's belly. It is sad. "
After a pause, Yan Jujian continued: "Those bones were mixed together and it was no longer possible to distinguish them. I and brother Mingde have buried them together and built a big grave. This belt, I will take back to Brother Liu's former residence." Build a tomb."
"Brother Zi'ang, I and Brother Yan just found a place similar to a kitchen and a prison. Unfortunately, there are no living people in it. There are a lot of herbs and ingredients in the kitchen." Ding Mingde suddenly remembered the last discovery.
Shi Xuan thought of the herbs outside Zhuangzi. He couldn't take them away. It was better to practice here for a while. He happened to have a deeper understanding of the content of "Baolu" and needed to practice quietly to confirm it, so he said to the two of them: "I'm a poor Taoist." After this battle, I have gained some insights into some cultivation matters, and I want to concentrate on practicing here in Zhuangzi. If you two have anything important to do, you can leave."
Yan Jujian and Ding Mingde looked at each other, and Yan Jujian said first: "I am a wanderer in the world. I have nothing else to do except looking for old friends. Why don't I stay in this village for a while and deal with Brother Shi?" Some chores allow Brother Shi to concentrate on his cultivation, and he should also repay the kindness of saving his life. Brother Shi should not stop someone from repaying his kindness. "
When Ding Mingde saw that Yan Jujian wanted to stay, he immediately expressed his position: "I, I, I don't even have the money to go back. No, I am saying that it is better to stay in Zhuangzi for some time, and it is not in vain to come out."
Ding Mingde got anxious and spoke incoherently. Shi Xuan suppressed his laughter and nodded to agree with the two of them. It was a good thing to have someone to help cook when he was practicing. But it didn't mean that he would always have someone to cook for him in the future. He would enjoy it when he met someone, and do it himself if he didn't. He enjoyed it but didn't indulge in it. This was Shi Xuan's mentality for practicing.
Seeing Shi Xuan nod, Yan Jujian thought for a while and said to Shi Xuan: "Brother Shi, the ingredients I saw in the kitchen just now are mainly live sheep, live cows, and live pigs. I looked at it and it's enough for the three of us to eat for a month, but there are no vegetarian ingredients, which are not very good."
"These monsters and ghosts eat blood, not vegetables. When the time comes, please go out and buy some vegetables and fruits. Eating only meat is not good for the body." It's also easy to get bored, Shi Xuan added silently in his heart, although for him, it is not a problem to supplement the body with meat after practicing.
"By the way, Brother Yan, this is the money for shopping." Shi Xuan took out the silver from his arms.
Yan Jujian refused: "Actually, Brother Shi, you don't know that when we were looking for corpses just now, we found some gold, silver, jade and gems on those corpses. I estimate that there are tens of thousands of taels."
"Tens of thousands of taels! Brother Yan, why didn't I see it?" Ding Mingde was shocked.
"Brother Mingde, didn't you feel disgusted when you first saw those corpses and didn't dare to approach them? It was only when we were digging the pit together at the end that you came over." Yan Jujian glanced at Shi Xuan and saw that Shi Xuan was not very interested in silver and money, so he continued to say to Ding Mingde: "Don't worry, I will leave you some money for your travel expenses, hehe, and money for your wife." Since they met, the other two who had never seen Yan Jujian joke were a little slow to react, but it was understandable that Yan Jujian was relieved after his revenge.
After saying this, Yan Jujian and Ding Mingde said goodbye and went out to prepare the tiger meat for lunch, allowing Shi Xuan to practice here with peace of mind.
Since Shi Xuan was interrupted, he put down the "Ghost Controlling Method" and picked up another book. This book looked new, but it was dirty, greasy, and bloody. There was no word on the cover. After flipping through it, it turned out to be the practice notes of Shuangtouhu!
According to Shuangtouhu himself, I was born with two heads. My mother died, and I didn't know where my father went. But I was smart since I was a child. When I secretly came to Lijia Village to hunt livestock, I actually understood the text by attending private school classes. Later, I obtained two Taoist secret books and a long banner from the corpse of an old Taoist in the mountains. One was "Ghost Controlling Method" and the other was the refining and sacrifice method of the "White Bone Soul Controlling Banner" attached to the method. The long banner was naturally the "White Bone Soul Controlling Banner".
The two-headed tiger naturally began to practice as if it had found a treasure, but soon it found that it had a big problem, that is, the two heads often quarreled, and even caused memory problems, and sometimes forgot the experience of Taoism. However, later it secretly learned to take notes from the private school teacher in Lijia Village, and gradually reduced the impact of this problem to a minimum.
After learning to take notes, the two-headed tiger also fell in love with writing notes, and often wrote some of the tiger's personal affairs on them, so that Shi Xuan could understand some things through the notes.
Seeing this, Shi Xuan was finally not so ashamed, after all, the monster who could take notes was just an exception. Continue to turn down, and the back is some of the two-headed tiger's experience in practice. Comparing it with "The Great Method of Subduing Ghosts", it is still a bit helpful to Shi Xuan. Later, the two-headed tiger's initial practice, bloodbathed Lijia Village, and occupied this place.
The notes mentioned that the ghost creature Shi Xuan had never seen was a flesh-and-blood slave created by the two-headed tiger by combining its own innate transformation of ghosts with the method of refining corpse slaves in the "Ghost-controlling Method" and some functions of the "Bone Soul-controlling Banner". Some of the villagers in Lijia Village were eaten by the two-headed tiger, some were eaten after the refining failed, and a small number became this kind of flesh-and-blood slaves.
This kind of flesh-and-blood slave eats blood, is not afraid of the weak sunlight, has a hard body, is as strong as an ox, and has the ability of ghosts to absorb yang energy. According to the degree of complete preservation of spiritual intelligence after successful refining, it is divided into upper, middle and lower grades. Those farmer and woman ghosts are lower-grade flesh-and-blood slaves, with low spiritual intelligence, can only accept simple commands, and move slowly. After the two-headed tiger later learned to grow herbs to meet the requirements of the prescription, these lower-grade flesh-and-blood slaves became useful.
The middle-grade flesh-and-blood slaves have preserved complete memories of their previous lives, and their spiritual intelligence is inferior to that of their previous lives, but they can act normally. Because the two-headed tiger practiced an evil magic, it often needed living people as food or materials, so these middle-grade flesh slaves were sent to various places, responsible for contacting the human traffickers, buying living people and sending them to the mountains. If they met a suitable one, they would often go out personally to trick him into going to the mountains.