Chapter 33: Preparing for a Temporary Stay
Shi Xuan carefully checked the surroundings and found that there were no problems before he walked to the table, checked the books again, and made sure that there were no curses or poisons on them, before picking up one of the books and starting to flip through it.
The cover of this book is pure black, and the dotted white bones on it are surrounded by four big characters: "Servant Ghost **", which looks strange and evil.
Shi Xuan took a closer look, this is a pretty good evil path cultivation method, although it is only in the Divine Soul Stage that it is unsustainable, it can be seen that the person who initiated this exercise should not have reached the Jindan stage, but in this world where the true method is difficult to find, it can be regarded as a good magic method. It is true that Shi Xuan's own cultivation is indeed not high, but he has a supreme ** and a law that directly points to the Jindan period, and he has this vision and insight to judge the quality of a practice.
Most of the content of "Serving Ghosts**" is of little use to Shi Xuan, who has already determined the exercises, such as the blood sacrifice of forty-nine living people born at a specific time in exchange for an increase in the chance of breaking through to the out-of-body realm of the soul, and some other methods of cultivating spells and supernatural powers with living people. These are things that work quickly but have big sequelae.
However, the content about ghosts in "Serving Ghosts**" benefited Shi Xuan a lot, after all, this is a book of exercises named after serving ghosts, and the various elaborations and applications of ghosts in it have made Shi Xuan refreshed. Shi Xuan didn't like these methods of serving ghosts, but saw some understanding of the soul from the content of these ghosts, ghosts are transformed from human souls after all, which happens to be what Shi Xuan needs to know the most at this stage.
It's not that there is no content in this area on the "Treasure Record", there is, but it is too difficult to understand, even if there is "Guizhen Sutra" as a comparison, but Shi Xuan, who does not have the guidance of a famous teacher, is also extremely painful to understand, if you think about these contents wrong, then the fun will be great, and it is definitely not a luxury to go mad and die.
Now there is such a book of exercises to understand the soul from another angle, even if it is still superficial, but it is this superficiality that makes Shi Xuan suddenly enlightened, and many things that he does not understand in the "Treasure Record" have been answered one by one, which makes Shi Xuan a little itchy, if it weren't for the wrong time and place, he would want to sit down immediately and practice and seal it.
Resisting the impulse in his heart, Shi Xuan continued to look at the content about ghosts on "Serving Ghosts", and there was a bit of a taste of forgetting to sleep and eat, until a sound of footsteps came, and Shi Xuan woke up.
Yan Jujian and Ding Mingde were cautious, looking left and right towards the depths of the cave, both of them had cold sweat on their heads, and when they saw Shi Xuan, they took a long breath and looked relaxed.
Shi Xuan was a little curious when he saw the appearance of the two: "Brother Yan and Brother Mingde, what are they?"
Ding Mingde raised his sleeves and wiped a handful of cold sweat: "We saw that Brother Ziang hadn't come out for almost an hour, and we were worried that something had happened inside, so we came to check with trepidation." In fact, the two of them didn't dare to come in at first, and even thought about running away, but they thought that if Shi Xuan was finished, they wouldn't be able to run far if they wanted to, so it was better to come in and fight.
"Ha, the poor road is happy to see the hunting, and as soon as he holds this book, he forgets the hour. Only then did Shi Xuan realize that he was so engrossed in watching that he didn't care about the passage of time at all.
Yan Jujian and Ding Mingde looked at the books on the stones, and opened their mouths at the same time, but they still didn't speak, Shi Xuan understood the curiosity and yearning of the two of them for the Dao, but this exercise is not suitable for transmission, and the exercises suitable for dissemination, it is best to let the two of them ask for it themselves, so that they can understand the truth that the Tao is precious and the law cannot be taught lightly, so they diverted the topic: "Brother Yan, I don't know if you can find a friend Ling?"
Yan Jujian took out a belt: "This is a certain friend's belt, he has good work on hidden weapons, so he asked someone to find Tang Tianqing of the Tang Sect to make this belt, because the materials are provided by himself, and there are some rare things in it, so the belt should be considered unique." Hey, Brother Liu I was rebellious, and when we met at the last time, I also said that after completing the penance, I would challenge the five grandmasters one by one, and I didn't expect to become a delicacy in the belly of the monster, which is sad and lamentable. ”
After pausing for a while, Yan Jujian continued: "Those corpses and bones are mixed together, and it is impossible to distinguish them, and Brother Mingde has buried them together and set up a big grave. ”
"Brother Ziang, just now I found a place similar to a kitchen and a prison in Xia and Brother Yan, but unfortunately there are no living people in it, but there are a lot of herbs and ingredients in the kitchen. Ding Mingde suddenly remembered his last discovery.
Shi Xuan thought of the herbs outside the Zhuangzi, he couldn't take them away, it was better to practice here for a while, and he happened to have a deeper understanding of the content of the "Treasure Record", and he needed to practice quietly, so he said to the two: "After this war, Poor Dao has some experience in some cultivation matters, and I want to concentrate on cultivation in this Zhuangzi, if the two of you have something important, you can leave." ”
Yan Jujian and Ding Mingde glanced at each other, and Yan Jujian preemptively said: "A certain person himself is a wanderer in the rivers and lakes, except for looking for old friends, there is nothing else to do, it is better to stay in this Zhuangzi for a while, deal with some chores for Brother Shi, so that Brother Shi can concentrate on cultivation, and should also repay the grace of saving his life, Brother Shi should not stop a certain repayment." ”
Ding Mingde saw that Yan Jujian was going to stay, and immediately said: "In the next, in the next, even the entanglement to go back is gone, no, in the next is to say, it is better to live in Zhuangzi for some time, and it will not be in vain." ”
Ding Mingde got up in a hurry, and his speech was reversed, and the preface did not match the afterword. Shi Xuan smiled bitterly, nodded and agreed to the two of them, when he was cultivating, it was really a good thing to have someone to help with cooking. However, it doesn't mean that he will always take people to cook for himself in the future, enjoy it when he encounters it, and do it himself if he can't meet it, enjoy it without indulging in it, this is Shi Xuan's cultivation mentality.
Seeing Shi Xuan nodding, Yan Jujian thought for a moment 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. ”
"These monsters and ghosts eat blood, and they don't eat vegetables. When the time comes, please trouble Brother Yan to go out to buy some vegetables and fruits, just eating meat is not good for your health. It's also easy to get tired, Shi Xuan silently added in his heart, although for him, it is not a problem for the cultivated body to only replenish meat.
"By the way, Brother Yan, this is the money that was bought. Shi Xuan took out the silver from his arms.
Yan Jujian refused: "Actually, Brother Shi, you don't know, when you were looking for the bones just now, you found some gold, silver, jade and gems from those corpses, and it was estimated that there were tens of thousands of taels." ”
"Up, tens of thousands of taels!Brother Yan, why didn't you see it down?" Ding Mingde was shocked.
"Brother Mingdexian, didn't you always be disgusted and afraid to approach those corpses when you first saw them, and you only came here when you dug a pit together at the last time. Yan Jujian glanced at Shi Xuan, and saw that Shi Xuan was not interested in silver money, so he continued to say to Ding Mingde: "Don't worry, I will leave you a plate of money, hehe, my daughter-in-law's money will also be set aside for you." "From the beginning of the meeting, the other two people who had never seen Yan Jujian joking were a little unable to react, but it is understandable that Yan Jujian's revenge was relaxed.
After saying this, Yan Jujian and Ding Mingde said goodbye and went out to prepare the tiger meat delicacies at noon, so that Shi Xuan could cultivate here with peace of mind.
Since Shi Xuan was interrupted, he put down "Serving Ghosts**" and picked up another book, this book looks very new, but it is very dirty, greasy, bloodstained, there are no words on the cover, and it looks like it is actually the practice notes of the two-headed tiger!
According to the two-headed tiger himself, that is, I was born with two heads, my mother died, my father didn't know where to go, but I was clever, and secretly came to Lijia Village to hunt livestock, when I listened to the lectures of the private school and actually understood the text, and later obtained two volumes of Taoist cheats and a long banner on the corpse of an old Taoist in the deep mountains, one is "Serving Ghosts**", and the other is ** with the magic weapon "White Bone Service Soul Flag" refining and sacrificial refining method, and the long flag is naturally the "White Bone Service Soul Flag".
The two-headed tiger naturally began to cultivate like a treasure, but soon it found that it had a big problem, that is, the two heads often quarreled, and even caused problems with memory, and the Taoist experience was sometimes forgotten, but later learned to take notes from the teacher of Lijiacun Private School, and gradually minimized the impact of this problem.
After learning to take notes, the two-headed tiger also fell in love with writing notes, and often wrote some tiger private affairs on it, which also allowed Shi Xuan to understand some things through notes.
Seeing this, Shi Xuan was finally not so embarrassed, and the monster who could take notes was just a special case after all. Continue to scroll down, and behind it is some of the cultivation experience of the two-headed tiger, compared to "Serving Ghosts", it is still a little helpful to Shi Xuan, and then there is the beginning of the cultivation of the two-headed tiger, which washed Lijia Village in blood and occupied this place.
It is mentioned in the notes that the kind of ghost thing that Shi Xuan has never seen is a two-headed tiger that combines the transformation of his own talent with the corpse slave refining method on "Servant Ghost**" and some functions of the "White Bone Servant Soul Flag" to refine the flesh slave, and some of the villagers of Lijia Village were eaten by the two-headed tiger, some were eaten after refining failures, and a small part became this kind of flesh slave.
This kind of flesh slave eats blood food, is not afraid of the fierce sun, the flesh is hard, the strength is as strong as an ox, and at the same time it has the ability of ghosts to absorb yang energy, according to the completeness of the spiritual preservation after successful refining, it is divided into upper grade, middle grade and lower grade. Those peasant peasant women and ghosts were low-grade flesh-body slaves, with relatively low intelligence, could only accept simple orders, and were slow to act, and after the two-headed tiger learned to grow herbs to meet the requirements of the prescription, these low-grade flesh slaves became useful.
The middle-grade physical slave has preserved a complete memory of his body, and his intelligence is inferior to that of his life, but he has no problem acting normally. Because the two-headed tiger cultivates the evil way**, it often needs living people to make blood food, or materials, so these middle-grade flesh slaves are sent to various places, responsible for liaising with human traffickers, buying living people and sending them to the mountains, and if they meet the right ones, they often go out to the mountains in person.