The dapples of sunlight lingered under the tree. The brothers and sisters running over, laughing and joking, clapped their hands and shouted at the blindfolded crazy old man. The old man waved his hands and followed the sound and chased after the two children.
The old woman under the eaves held the soles of her shoes and smiled slightly as she watched the brothers and sisters playing. She knew that her eldest son was not dead, but had just gone far away to seek immortality and ask questions, so she felt no longer so sad.
In the past two days, Langjun surnamed Chen has been performing puppet shows on the street. Sometimes she will take her two grandchildren to watch on the street. The Taoist priest of Tianshi Mansion that Langjun brought back often also Come here to give your little son acupuncture to cure his madness.
The Taoist priests of Tianshi Mansion are all experts, so they should not be able to trouble him.
The old woman watched her grandchildren running past her, smiling and biting off the thread.
'This will get better,' she thought.
On the other side of the eaves, Chen Yuan was sitting on a low stool, looking up at the bright blue sky and the plum trees swaying in the wind. At this time, the courtyard door opened, and Taoist priest Feihe came in from the outside with a medical box, followed by Sun Zhengde.
The former put the medical box down from his shoulder and looked at Chen Yuan looking up at the sky. He couldn't help but laugh: "In the past two days, I have seen you either flipping through books or looking up at the sky. But what insights have you gained?"
After spending two days together and sharing the same sorrows in the cave, the two of them have become quite familiar with each other, and they occasionally joke with each other.
"Of course there is some enlightenment." Chen Yuan looked away and laughed, "Today is the third day. Is the treatment of madness effective?"
"It can't be that fast. This disease needs to be cured slowly."
With that said, Taoist priests Feihe and Sun Zhengde entered the room, helped Chang Ren out and sat under the eaves, took out more than ten silver needles from the medical box, and under the nervous gaze of the old woman, inserted them into the madman's head one by one. Fortunately, the operation had already been performed on him when he sat down, so there was no noise at all.
"Not only does Pindao know medical skills, everyone in the Tianshi Mansion can basically do it, but I am good at weapon refining, medical skills, and alchemy... I also cured this madness a few years ago."
Chen Yuan glanced at the side and teased: "Brother Feihe is great, unlike some people who only know how to cook after spending several years in Tianshi Mansion."
"My boss, just give me my name directly. Why bother to go through all kinds of twists and turns?"
Under the eaves, you talked and laughed, which made the old woman relax. After a long time, the old woman looked at the time and got up to cook.
Chen Yuan also asked the fat Taoist to help, and then looked at Feihe who was applying acupuncture and using magic power to comb his meridians.
"Brother Feihe, tell me about the Tianshi Mansion. I have only been practicing for a short time, and the journey I have traveled is only a few hundred miles. Everything is scarce."
"Tianshi's Mansion?" Feihe was stunned for a moment, shook his head, and slowly rubbed the silver needle for a while before he spoke softly: "My sect has so many disciples that it was difficult to see them all in the past. I estimate there are more than a thousand people. It can be said that The leader of the northern cultivators, but unfortunately now all the brothers have been scattered throughout the Central Plains... Under the orders of the Celestial Master, he assisted the armies of various states to resist the Yuejie people."
"Isn't it true that people in Taoism can't get involved in these things?" Chen Yuan asked with a frown.
"Ha... there are sacrificial assistants in the Hu army. Our Tianshi Mansion is personally ordered by the imperial court. How can we stand idly by and watch as our family and country are in danger? How can we care about these rules? Not only the Tianshi Mansion, but also the Chengyun Gate in Cangyu Mountain in the north. The disciples of the sect went out to slay demons and eliminate demons, and sacrificed and fought with the barbarians to help the army tide over the difficulties."
"Is Yuejie so strong?"
The hand rubbing the needle stopped, and Feihe gritted his teeth.
"Hmph, they are no match for us. There are also beggars from the desert in the northwest who came to our country of Jin to cause trouble. They killed people on the border and massacred the city. I heard that they also used our Han people as meat... If I hadn't been sent here,
He had no choice but to pick up his sword and fight three hundred miles into the desert."
After the injection, Chang Ren was taken to the house to sleep and stayed in the courtyard to have lunch. The two of them packed up and walked down the street before returning to the temporarily rented courtyard. Some neighbors who knew Chen Yuan and Fei He laughed.
He said hello to the two of them.
The two of them mostly talked about cultivation in the north along the way, treating it as casual chat.
"... In addition to Cangyu Mountain in the north, there is Lingyun Temple, and to the east in Qizhou there is Wanfo Temple. The former mostly attends meditation and talks about Buddhism, but now it is closed to thank guests. However, Wanfo Temple also has monks walking around the world to treat wounded soldiers and civilians. I heard that
Among the young monks in the temple, Zhenhai and Zhenkong are the strongest, and he can destroy mountains and forests with his powerful magic seal."
"This Ten Thousand Buddhas Temple is quite responsible."
"Haha, my Tianshi Mansion has a good relationship with them. If I have a chance in the future, I can bring my Taoist friends to meet them. But that Zhenhai monk has a bad temper... By the way, your god-calling skills are a poor Taoist.
I feel there is still a lot of room for improvement.”
When Fei He said this, Chen Yuan became more energetic.
"for example?"
"Your puppets are all carved from ordinary wood. If you encounter a monster like the one before, they will probably break into pieces at the first touch. Fellow Taoist, why don't you find some spiritual wood to carve. If you can still refine it into a magic weapon, you can summon some gods."
It’s much stronger.”
Being reminded like this, Chen Yuan's mind suddenly opened up, but when he thought of the key point, he couldn't help but smile bitterly.
"But I don't know how to refine weapons."
"I know it. The art of refining weapons can be basically understood by all practitioners who have learned from it. It's not a secret. It doesn't matter if a poor Taoist teaches it to fellow Taoists."
After living in this world for a long time, this was the third gift to him. The first one was his master, who taught him the method. The second one was Zhu Jingshu. I don’t know why this woman took his joke seriously and treated him with sword control skills.
Gave it to him.
As for the Taoist priest Feihe, he was probably repaying the favor for saving him in the cave.
"Brother Feihe, please stand still!"
"Stand still for what?" Feihe was pushed to the side and stood there with some doubts. He saw Chen Yuan raised her hands and saluted him respectfully, and said loudly: "Chen Yuan thanks Brother Feihe for the gift of the technique."
Feihe immediately laughed after reacting.
Chen Yuan also smiled, and the two walked side by side to the courtyard, then opened the door and entered. They talked about the key points and details of the treasure refining technique, and recorded them on a blank piece of paper for Chen Yuan to look at at any time.
"But it needs to be put away. If it's lost, I need Pindao to replace it. I don't know when it will be gone."
Sitting under the eaves, the two of them warmed up the tea and poured it on them. Seeing his doubts, Feihe sighed: "It's not over yet. I want to find the Heavenly Master as soon as possible and hand this booklet into his hands. Let the Heavenly Master
We are determined to let everyone in the Jiuzhou practice know about the underground demon as soon as possible and work together to defeat it."
Chen Yuan had already read the booklet written by Chang Wei. What shocked him was that there was not just one abyss cave, but there were four more in the northwest, north, and central plains, and the people who stole the children were all controlled by a sect.
Then with the woman he killed before and the monks under her, everything would be right.
It's just that they still have to raise corpses, which makes them a little confused.
"Fellow Taoist, you must be careful when using the technique of summoning gods. The gods and ghosts invited by Rijian are extremely powerful and filled with the scent of incense. You must be careful to anger..." Feihe turned his face, his expression
Seriously, he pointed to the sky and whispered: "Concubine, the two gods Zuyi!"
Chen Yuan had heard of the two gods in his mouth, and they were all gods from this area, but he had never heard of the theory of sage manifestation, and had always regarded it as a rumor among the people.
Chen Yuan nodded, raised his face and looked at the bright sky, "Although I am small, there are many more gods standing behind me than here... Fair competition, if you can hold back the believers, I can't get in."
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Since that day in the cave, he looked at the demon-suppressing stone tablet. The dense runes seemed to be imprinted in his mind. He didn't know if he had realized some realm or what. His cultivation level had not improved much, but his magic power had recovered.
The execution of spells is much faster, the energy is more abundant than before, and the mind can reach an unprecedented level of concentration. In the past, even if I read the spells, I would have to look through books to find them, but these days, as long as I think about them, I can easily remember them in my mind.
emerge in.
I wonder if there are such stone tablets in the other four caves, and I wonder if they can continue to be improved.
'It's not that time yet, let's wait and see again when we have a chance.'
With this thought in mind, Chen Yuan and Fei He chatted for a while, and the latter took a break to meditate and went to the back room. Chen Yuan was bored and picked up the magic formula and released the wooden sculptures that were placed in the main room to receive incense.
Amidst the noise, he took tea and walked to a stone table and chair under the shade of a tree to sit down. Listening to the annoying chirping of cicadas, he took out "Miscellaneous Mysteries of Huangchuan" and read it with gusto.
Understand the sound.
A slightly warm wind blew through the courtyard. The five wood carvings were hanging with their hands and feet bandaged. They looked at each other with wide eyes. Then they each snorted coldly and turned their heads away.
Qin Qiong and Yuchi Gong summoned their respective mounts, and Guan Yu also mounted the red rabbit and walked leisurely in the courtyard together, dangling in front of the lame Lu Bu, who shook his feathers and stamped his feet angrily.
"Slave with three surnames!" Zhang Fei hoisted one of his knuckled arms and leaned on the snake spear to yell again.
Lu Bu turned around and pounced on him. Two puppets were in front of the threshold, stretching out their arms. One was holding a small wooden halberd, and the other was holding a small snake spear. They were slapping them from far away, and connected with the sun.
The unfinished battle in the cave.
In front of the shrine in the house, green smoke curled up, and the wooden sculptures with blood-stained copper armor and double pupils looked at them without any anger.