Chapter 6: Wake Up

When the lanterns came on, sparks suddenly popped out from the candles in the room, and with the sound of "bah", Li Chuyi woke up leisurely while lying in the front hall.

He was a little confused. He only remembered that he had just found the ghostly hiding object, and just as he grabbed it, he heard the Taoist priest shouting from behind, and then he was hit on the back with a palm, and he fainted.

He couldn't understand why the Taoist priest wanted to hit him. Li Chuyi shook his head and turned to look at the Taoist priest who was sitting cross-legged with his eyes closed: "Stinky Taoist priest, why did you hit me?"

Hearing this, the Taoist priest opened his eyes slightly and said with a smile: "Are you awake? How do you feel? Do you feel uncomfortable anywhere?"

"Except for being a little dizzy, I don't feel any discomfort at all." Li Chuyi shook his head again and asked, "Don't change the subject, you stinky Taoist priest, why do you hit me?"

The Taoist priest did not answer Li Chuyi, but just looked at him with a smile. After a long time, he suddenly reached out and slapped Li Chuyi on the back of the head.

Snapped!

Li Chuyi staggered when he was slapped. He jumped up quickly, covered his head and glared at the Taoist priest: "Stinky Taoist priest, are you crazy? You hit people without saying anything? Don't think that honest people don't get angry. If you hit me again, I will be really angry. I Are you really angry?"

The Taoist priest continued to smile, but still did not speak, and did not see him get up. Instead, he slapped Li Chu on the head again.

Snapped!

Li Chuyi collapsed a little. He could see that the Taoist priest wanted to hit him and also wanted to hide, but he didn't know how the Taoist priest struck him. He could only see a faint afterimage, and he received another slap.

Li Chu suddenly felt aggrieved. After working hard to follow the Taoist priest to slay demons, he finally used his clever little brain to come up with a genius idea to find out where the monster was hiding. Before he could take credit, he was knocked unconscious by the Taoist priest's palm.

Forget it, I will treat you as a stinky Taoist priest who accidentally hit the wrong person. But I woke up and was slapped twice for no apparent reason without saying why.

Why?

Why?

Master, am I easy to bully?

With tears in his eyes, Li Chu looked at the Taoist priest angrily and said fiercely: "Smelly Taoist priest, if you don't tell me something today, I will fight with you today! I tell you, I will initiate Fire is scary! I’m afraid of it!”

Seeing that the Taoist priest had no response to his "threat", Li Chuyi added: "It's really scary when I get angry!" After speaking, he bared his teeth to prove it.

The Taoist priest just looked at Li Chuyi with a smile. After looking at him for a long time, he whispered to himself: "Well, it looks like he is really my disciple."

Then his face turned cold, his smile turned into a sneer, and he said, "You ask me why I hit you?"

Snapped!

Another slap hit Li Chu on the head.

"Don't you know why my teacher beat you?"

Snapped!

"You really don't know why I took you?"

Bang bang bang bang bang!

Li Chuyi felt that he was about to be beaten into a pig's head, but he couldn't avoid it, and his heart suddenly became inexplicably angry.

"Isn't it bullying? Isn't it bullying? Do you really think I'm easy to bully? Stinky Taoist priest, you forced me to do this! You forced me to do this!!!"

After roaring, Li Chuyi was seen holding his head in his hands, bending his legs and kneeling on the ground.

"Uuuuuuu, Master, I was wrong. Stop hitting me. If you hit me again, I will be beaten stupid. Uuuuuuuuuuuuu, Master, I am stupid and can't think of why you hit me. Just do it." Just treat me like a fart, I will thank you eight generations of ancestors, wuwuwuwu!" Li Chuyi knelt on the ground and cried, covering his face.

If you can't fight, then run away; if you can't run, then give up. Li Chuyi felt that he was very smart.

Seeing the little fat man kneeling in front of him with runny nose and tears, the Taoist priest sneered: "Don't act in front of me, and don't think about who taught you this acting skill. Don't know why you were beaten? Okay, I'll tell you. ! Let me ask you, who asked you to stop practicing Xuan Gong? What did I tell you when I taught you?

After hearing what the Taoist priest said, the little fat man stopped crying immediately and looked at the Taoist priest blankly: "Is it because of this?"

"What do you think?!" the Taoist priest said angrily, "You don't even think about your identity. You don't have Xuan Gong to cover it up. You want to kill this whole room of people? Do you know how many demons and ghosts you can attract with your bad life?" Nibbled you? If I hadn’t taken action in time, would you still be sitting here crying?"

Li Chuyi looked at the Taoist priest stupidly and thought about it carefully. The Taoist priest seemed to have once said that the Xuan Gong he practiced could cover up his system of attracting ghosts and replenish his yang energy. He had never stopped practicing it since then. Only by doing one's work can one achieve success.

However, would any Taoist priest say such an exaggeration? Could it be that I am a human-shaped magnet? Specialized in sucking ghosts?

Looking at Li Chuyi's slightly suspicious eyes, the Taoist priest raised his eyebrows and said, "You still don't believe it? Turn around and look!"

When Li Chu heard this, he turned his head and was immediately startled.

I saw a big hole in the south wall of the house, as if it had been hit by something. Looking along the hole, Li Chuyi saw the spider web-like shape on the wall with the help of the lights lit in the courtyard. The big pit.

"This, this, this, did I do this?" Li Chuyi asked stupidly.

"What do you think?!" the Taoist priest sneered.

"Did I really do it?"

Seeing the Taoist priest's "It's you, it's you" look in his eyes, Li Chuyi accepted his fate.

It looks like I did it myself.

After being silent for a while, Li Chuyi glanced around secretly and whispered: "Master, we don't need to pay for such a big trap, right? How about we run away?" He was afraid of being poor, and he was afraid that others would ask him to compensate.

The Taoist priest glanced at him and stretched out his hand: "Give it to me."

"Ah?" Li Chuyi didn't understand.

"Give me the thing."

"What thing?" Li Chuyi scratched his head, still didn't understand.

"Stupid, what thing are you talking about? It's the thing you found with your pig brain, the ghost's hiding place!" The Taoist said angrily.

"Oh, here it is, give it to you." Li Chuyi lowered his eyebrows and drooped his eyes, handed a hand mirror that fell beside him to the Taoist, looked at it and curled his lips, thinking: If you want it, just take it, and if you don't say it clearly, who knows what you want.

The Taoist took the hand mirror and looked through it.

The hand mirror is made of bronze, round in shape, slightly larger than an adult's palm, and the brass mirror surface is very well polished, and the mirror surface is very flat and smooth. The back is carved with a flying phoenix pattern, and the two phoenixes are connected end to end along the circular frame, surrounding the flower in the middle. The flower looks like peony, and it looks like peony. It is hard to tell what kind of flower it is. The carving is as delicate and lifelike as the two flying phoenixes. In the center of the flower, which is also the center of the mirror, there is a red gem inlaid. The mirror surface and the back of the mirror are about half a finger wide, and dense and complex patterns are carved along the thick edge of this half finger width.

The Taoist took the mirror and looked at it over and over for a long time, his eyes stayed on the complex patterns on the edge of the mirror, and he looked at it carefully for a long time and pondered. After a long time, it seemed that he suddenly thought of something, his expression moved, and his right thumb kept groping along the edge of the mirror for a while, his lips opened and closed slightly, as if he was muttering something silently. After a while, he stopped and muttered to himself: "So that's it."

Li Chuyi, who was next to him, didn't dare to breathe. When he heard the Taoist speak, he came forward and asked weakly: "Master, what is it?"

The Taoist looked at him and sneered.

"Someone wants to find us, so he set up this situation. I always felt that something was wrong along the way, and now I see this mirror, I understand everything."

"Who wants to find us?" Li Chuyi was full of curiosity. In his impression, the Taoist should have no relatives or friends.

"You don't need to know." The Taoist drooped his eyelids.

"What is this mirror?" Li Chuyi scratched his head and asked again.

"You don't need to know this either."

With the same answer, Li Chuyi was helpless. He knew that if the Taoist didn't want to say it, it would be useless to ask.

At this time, Liang Yiwen came out of the inner room and walked in front of the two.

He greeted the Taoist first, and then Liang Yiwen clasped his fists and said to Li Chuyi: "Little Taoist priest, are you awake? Are you feeling uncomfortable? Just now I wanted to ask the servants to carry you to the side room to rest, but your master stopped us and asked us not to move you, so I neglected the little Taoist priest. Please don't blame me." After speaking, he bowed his hands.

Before Li Chuyi answered, he heard the Taoist priest say: "Young man, just need experience, not to mention the ground, even if he sleeps on the rocks in the wild, he will have no problem, Boss Liang, don't worry." After speaking, he glanced at Li Chuyi slightly, motioning him not to speak.

Li Chuyi had no choice but to smile and nod at Liang Yiwen, indicating that the Taoist priest was right, and then stood aside silently without saying a word.

Seeing that Li Chuyi was fine, Liang Yiwen asked the Taoist priest again: "Master, I have placed my wife in the inner room, but she has been unconscious. I wonder if you can go and see my wife now?"

"Hey, you've been promoted? Master? This stinky Taoist priest is amazing. He has been promoted from a Taoist priest to a master of immortality. I don't know what means he used." Li Chuyi was deeply impressed by the Taoist priest's deception skills.

Hearing Liang Yiwen's words, the Taoist priest laughed: "Haha, Boss Liang, you are too kind. I am just an ordinary cultivator who knows a little bit of kung fu. I can't be called a master of immortality. Boss Liang can call me a Taoist priest in the world. Since your wife has been placed and my disciple has woken up, let's go and see her. Please lead the way, Boss Liang."

Liang Yiwen hurriedly thanked him, thinking that he had broken through the wall with just a roar, and he said that he knew a little bit of kung fu. It was a lie. Seeing that the Taoist priest did not admit it, he smiled slightly and said nothing more. He led the way first, and several people walked into the inner room.