After everything was arranged, Xiao Yu and Qinglong returned to the cave where they temporarily lived. After a short rest, the sky gradually became brighter. Xiao Yu climbed up the giant tree again and sat on the top of the tree to breathe to the east.
They did the same thing every day, and in the cave opposite Xiao Yu and the others, a hedgehog also came in and out every day, climbing on the rocks from time to time and watching what was happening on the opposite side.
In the afternoon, Xiao Yu drove the flying monster beast, and after asking the local mountain god, he flew down the mountain.
At the foot of the Qinling Mountains is a small town with hundreds of households living in it, and there are also some villas in some developed areas.
Ghost Taoist, this is just a Taoist code name of the other party. If you ask ordinary people, no one will know it, so Xiao Yu asked the local land master and rushed towards a remote courtyard.
According to Tu Tu Gong, the person with the highest level of cultivation here is an old Chinese medicine doctor. However, the old Chinese medicine doctor has a bad temper and often curses people, so people call him crazy.
Madman, this name is more suitable for Ghost Taoist. The so-called Ten Paths and Nine Doctors, since the other party has such a high level of cultivation, his medical skills must be very good.
On the way to practice, you can also treat the illnesses of ordinary people, which can be regarded as accumulating merit.
The courtyard of the old Chinese medicine doctor is located near the foot of the mountain, with many farmland and vegetable gardens nearby.
From a distance, the house was not very big, and there were weak lights inside. Because it was already dark, Xiao Yu simply glanced at it and walked directly there.
Just like any other farmyard, Xiao Yu heard the crazy barking of dogs before he even got close.
But a dog is nothing to mention to Taoists, because there are many methods of restraint in Taoist spells.
As Xiao Yu recited the incantation, the barking sound of the dog became weaker and weaker. Finally, when he saw Xiao Yu, it was difficult to make a sound.
"Cough cough... cough"
As soon as he walked into the courtyard, Xiao Yu smelled the pungent smell of Chinese medicine and the sound of the old man coughing in the room.
The yard of this house and the trees next to it are covered with various herbs.
"Who is it..."
An old man's voice came from the room, and then the door creaked open, and an old man wearing short sleeves slowly walked out.
"Old man, I'm sorry to bother you. This junior Xiao Yu is coming to your place for the first time, so I came here to pay my respects."
At the first sight of the old man, Xiao Yu knew that he was indeed a member of the Taoist sect because his hair was fixed on his head with a wooden hairpin, but he was not the ghostly person he was looking for.
This kind of folk Taoist can be called a layman in today's parlance.
"Well, what's going on? Come in."
Xiao Yu was also wearing the clothes of a Taoist priest, so the old man just took a cursory glance and waved his hand, gesturing for Xiao Yu to go in and talk.
The mud room was a little damp. As soon as Xiao Yu stepped into the door, he smelled a strong smell of dampness. People who live in such a house for too long will usually suffer from rheumatism and joint problems.
But the other party is both a Taoist and a Chinese medicine practitioner, so he will definitely be able to figure this out, so he will find some ways to avoid it.
"Why are you looking for me? Do you need any medicinal materials?"
Xiao Yu followed the old man to the main room of the house, sat down on a small bench at the other's signal, and then watched the old man cutting the medicinal materials with a short knife.
"I'm not looking for medicine or seeing a doctor. I'm looking for someone."
Xiao Yu bluntly stated his purpose.
"Find someone?"
The old man stopped moving his hands, raised his head and looked at Xiao Yu with cloudy eyes and said:
"I have lived here for more than 20 years, and I still know some people. If you want to talk to someone, let me know."
After the old man finished speaking, he lowered his head and continued cutting his medicinal materials.
"A few years ago, I was invited by a fellow Taoist named Ghost Taoist, and I came here today to pay my respects. I thought this was his residence, but I didn't expect it to be the residence of my senior!"
After Xiao Yu finished speaking, he waited for the other party's reply, but the old man was still cutting the medicinal materials, as if he didn't hear it.
"Senior has been practicing medicine here for decades. Have you ever heard of a senior named Ghost Taoist?"
This time, as soon as Xiao Yu finished speaking, the other party stopped. Then he stood up and waved to Xiao Yu.
Xiao Yu was also a little confused, but he didn't ask any more questions. Instead, he followed the old man, turned around the main room, and walked towards a house on the side.
"Senior, do you know that ghost Taoist?"
The other party's cultivation level is not as high as Xiao Yu's, but he is old enough to be Xiao Yu's grandfather, so it is polite to call him senior.
"know……"
These two simple words made Xiao Yu feel happy, but then his heart sank.
Because he had already entered another room. There was an offering table on the front of the house, and a spiritual tablet on the table, which read:
"The spiritual position of my mentor, the ghost Taoist!"
"This, this is impossible. Senior Ghost Taoist has great magic power, how could he die so early!"
Xiao Yu looked at the scene in front of him with some disbelief. The ghost Taoist was so stunning at first, which made him feel a lot of pressure, but now.
"It's true, my master is a ghost Taoist!
When his old man left here three years ago, he told me that if he did not come back within a year, it would mean that he was dead and asked me to prepare a spiritual place for him.
It has been three years now, and his old man has not come back yet, and he is probably no longer alive!"
As the old man spoke, he took out a stick of incense and lit it, bowed to the spiritual throne, and then inserted it into the incense burner.
Xiao Yu also let out a long sigh. He didn't expect that things would turn out like this. The last time he heard the blood Taoist's voice was when he killed the ghost mother for the first time, but now the other person is dead!
"In this case, I would like to express my condolences to you, Senior. Although Senior Ghost Taoist left a message, he still wants to see his body. He is probably trapped somewhere, so he may not necessarily be dead!"
Xiao Yu began to reassure the old man, and at the same time he took out a stick of incense, lit it and put it in the incense burner.
"That's what I thought at the beginning, but the life soul lamp has been extinguished. How can I still be alive? Alas."
The old man knelt on the futon, let out a long sigh, and then kowtowed three times to the spiritual throne.
The soul lamp is something that people in Taoism do. They usually put a little bit of their soul in the wick of the oil lamp. If the person is alive, the soul lamp will not go out. If he dies, the soul lamp will go out.
However, there is always an absolute in everything.
Xiao Yu was rescued by the Fox Fairy when he was in Bashan. Lao Bai and the others used fortune-telling methods to calculate that he was dead, so they told his family that he was really dead, but what was the result?
Although fortune-telling and fortune-telling lamps are different, they have the same purpose.
Therefore, Xiao Yu believed that although the life soul lamp was extinguished, the ghost Taoist must be trapped somewhere. The life soul lamp could not sense his breath, so of course it would go out.
Therefore, only by seeing a real corpse can it be proved that the other person is dead. And in the eyes of Taoist practitioners, even if the person dies, the soul is still there. As long as the soul is summoned, everything will be clear.
