Chapter 27: Master's Footsteps (I)
I'm a person with a limited imagination, although I'm curious about what kind of monster is in the pool, but I've never tried to guess what it is, such a small pool, the length and width are only more than 20 meters, I wouldn't think that there would be that kind of huge monster here, I'm afraid it's hard to turn around, right?
I believe Xiao Chengqian's words, but it is difficult to accept it for a while, so I can only laugh and think, no wonder it is X pool, and the specialty here is a water monster!
However, none of this can scare me, in my opinion, at least now this cave is quiet, the waterhole is even more unexciting, it's hard to say whether the water monster is resting or not, and it only appears once in a few years in the X pool, I don't believe that Xiao Chengqian and I are lucky enough to meet the water monster twice in a row.
Well, if it's dangerous here, there are three or two ghosts
So, thinking of this, I told Xiao Chengqian what I thought, Xiao Chengqian swallowed a mouthful of saliva, looked at me and said, "Are you sure it won't appear?" β
"Not sure, but in terms of mathematical probability, the probability of its occurrence is very small, although we are Taoist priests, we still have to believe in the truth that has been proven in science, right?" I said to Xiao Chengqian very seriously, what I didn't tell him was that since I was a child, the worst thing I learned was mathematics, so that I once suspected that I learned mathematics when I was in physical education class, and I also thanked that I was not favored by Uncle Li back then and accepted into the second pulse of life divination, otherwise he would be so angry that I vomited blood, after all, these two pulses require some mathematical foundation.
"But what's in this hole? Nothing! Let's do a little ritual, dispel their grievances, make a way to guide them, and then leave. Xiao Chengqian said disapprerovingly, jumped two steps as he spoke, and deliberately stayed away from the cave.
"What's in this hole? Didn't you tell me? There you have it! After saying this, I pulled Xiao Chengqian, and the light of the flashlight shot towards the stone pillar in the cave, and the light happened to fall on the purple plant!
"I'm X, it's here?" Xiao Chengqian was shocked all of a sudden, and then said to me incoherently: "I thought it was in the water, otherwise it would grow on the rock wall, I used to be in a deserted village, I went to a deserted village, you know?" My two uncles went down to pick this purple plant, and I thought it was aquatic. β
"It's right here, and it looks like we're in the right place." I said calmly to Xiao Chengqian.
"Chengyi." Xiao Chengqian took a deep breath, and then called me seriously.
"Huh?" I wonder why this guy is suddenly serious again.
"I know your attitude is to destroy it, but I have to remind you that there has always been a saying in our lineage, including the high-level in the circle, that is, this plant contains the secret of immortality." Xiao Chengqian said to me in a deep voice.
What is the ultimate pursuit of Taoism? Metaphysical immortality! Cultivating against the sky is also to get out of the sea of reincarnation suffering, and the word immortality is not only a great attraction to my Taoist family, but also to ordinary people!
But is it immortal? A terrifying image came to my mind, a swollen body, a face mixed with falling rotten flesh and growing new flesh - the old village chief!
I remembered the human face under the cloak again, which had been completely zombified! No, if that is immortality, I would rather live happily for decades, close my eyes without regrets, and get a higher level of sublimation of my soul, which is more meaningful than immortality!
Therefore, I said to Xiao Chengqian: "It must be destroyed, and I will tell you when the reason goes out." β
"Actually, you don't have to tell me the reason, you also don't know something, about the people in the circle of this purple plant, and for some departments in my Huaxia, the high-level is not an absolute secret. Especially after seeing Yang Sheng's madness, I don't think I will particularly object to you destroying it, so let's destroy it. Xiao Chengqian said to me in a somewhat erratic tone.
"You know something?" I asked, raising my eyebrows.
"Let's talk about it out of here, and I seem to remember a little bit about those gray-eyed people." Xiao Chengqian said to me seriously.
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We decided to destroy the purple plant, but Xiao Chengqian resolutely refused to go near the waterhole, and he told me conclusively that I didn't know what that strange-looking monster looked like, otherwise I wouldn't have approached the waterhole.
Before I can do that, though, there's one more thing I have to do, and it's the one thing I remember from the pen I left here.
If a fountain pen is left here, it means that someone has been here, maybe it is the master and them, since the ghosts have been wandering here for many years, they must know something, so it should be okay to ask them.
I told Xiao Chengqian my thoughts, Xiao Chengqian was also excited, and then we went together to communicate with those ghosts, expressing our meaning, and after those ghosts understood, let us see such a scene, and empathize with some of the things they saw later.
It was also a normal moonless night, and the cave was even darker than tonight, with 7 ghosts wandering around the cave (7), no different than before.
It's no different, in this cave for the ghosts, all that exists is endless resentment and loneliness trapped all day long, the hope of not seeing reincarnation, and the lack of transcendent liberation, day after day.
However, stubbornly thinking that there are often times when things go wrong, on that night, more than a dozen people came to the cave.
The wraiths could not forget how they appeared, for before them, after the wraiths had been tortured, there had been no strangers in the cave, including their kindred, the Grey-Eyed Ones.
Those people, like me and Xiao Chengqian, came out of one of the dozen or so caves in the rock wall over there, and just like us, they appeared in this cave out of nowhere with a strange glowing thing in their hands.
Because it was added to the subjective consciousness of the ghost himself, Xiao Chengqian and I felt such emotions, but the intuitive picture that came into our minds was not so calm.
We first heard the noise of people, and then we saw my master being the first to get into this hole, followed by Uncle Hui, my uncles, Grandma Ling Qing, Xiao Chengqian's grandfather - Wu Liyu, and a few old people I didn't know, and finally two middle-aged people who didn't look like cultivators were strangers, but, I don't know why, one of them looked a little familiar, but I couldn't remember where I had seen him.
Seeing this scene, Xiao Chengqian's excitement and I can't be described at all, since Master and they disappeared for so many years, we never imagined that we could clearly see the footprints they had walked through this strange way of communicating with people and ghosts.
With so many people entering the cave, the popularity is naturally strong, especially a few of them, who feel that their aura is not ordinary, so the ghosts naturally choose to hide and hide in all corners of the cave.
And after my master entered the cave, like us, they began to investigate, but as if my master was unlucky, they only found human bones, not the purple plant hidden at the top of the pillar, and then their expressions showed a sense of disappointment.
Is it a disappointment? I didn't feel any specific disappointment in the old man's eyes, and I noticed a detail, he actually quietly looked deeply at the pillar, but turned around as if he was nothing.
In the meantime, Wu Liyu stood next to my master, wanting to say something, but he didn't say anything, and turned around with my master, as if nothing had happened.
"It seems that we are either looking for the wrong place, or the things that should be here have been taken away by others, let's go, not every place has a harvest, we can achieve the goal." The master spoke loudly and took the lead in walking outside.
Then a few of my uncles smiled, and the first one followed the master.
Looking at this scene, I feel a little strange, I always feel that this old man is a little too hurried, fundamentally different from his previous seemingly chic, careless, but actually very careful, paying attention to every detail of the character, it is said that such an important place, and there are bones here, shouldn't he have a few more eyes?
Could it be that this old man misses me too much and causes his IQ to be low?
This shouldn't be the case, my eyes widened, I was afraid of missing a detail, even if these ghosts had good soul power, they wouldn't have the strength to communicate with us for the third time, so the details here are particularly important.
Someone suggested leaving, someone echoed, and the matter seemed to be so decided, including the people in Xiao Chengqian's lineage, who didn't say anything, followed my master's footsteps, and walked out.
But at this moment, one of the two strangers suddenly spoke: "There are bones here, which means that there should be some secrets here, even if it has nothing to do with the purpose of this trip, I will draw a rough picture of this place and record some details." β
After he said this, my master turned around, and then I noticed that my master's eyes changed slightly, and then he stared at the man's face a little uglier!
At that time, my master and the others were already close to the entrance of the cave when they came, and the person who said he wanted to record was standing still and did not move, with his back to the waterhole for more than ten meters!