Netherworld Chapter 84: The Only Life Pulse (11)
The Jiao seemed to have woken up, crawled out of the pocket and licked my cheek, then crawled down my arms and legs. I watched it crawl to the bedside, and along the bed legs like a roller coaster, it turned around and climbed onto the Taoist priest.
This guy, when did he start liking the old Taoist priest? This kind of hobby is not good!
After circling around the Taoist priest for a few times, Jiao Ye dove into his clothes. I was sweating coldly when I saw this. With the Taoist priest's personality, if he found something moving in his arms, he would probably slap him.
His slap was like a steamroller. With Mr. Jiao's weak body, how could he not be beaten into a pancake?
Not long after the dragon went into the Taoist's arms, it came out with a small cloth bag in its mouth. It looked very familiar, as if I had seen it somewhere.
Mr. Jiao, holding the cloth bag in his mouth, quickly climbed down from the bed, ran to my hand again, and then put the cloth bag down.
Then, it arched its mouth, twisted its body, and rolled into a ball in my palm. It took a lot of effort to tear the bag open.
The little boy poked his head out and bit out a piece of something. When I looked at it, I saw that it was golden and looked like a bone of an immortal.
I thought the Taoist had kept the bone fragments in the Five Elements Taoist Temple, but I didn't expect him to carry them with him. Was he afraid that Mr. Jiao would steal them and eat them up every day?
This stingy old man, it's just a few bone fragments, they are not yours. After all, our Jiao Ye is also a girl, raise it up and fatten it up, and then you can stew it into soup. With Jiao Ye's vitality, it won't die even if I stew this snake soup eight or ten times.
At this moment, I felt my lips getting a little hot. When I looked around, I saw that Mr. Jiao had climbed onto my shoulder with a piece of bone in his mouth, and was constantly trying to put something into my mouth.
Dead man's bones!
I felt a chill in my heart and a little nauseous, so I quickly turned my head back and spat twice.
Mr. Jiao looked at me with his black pearl-like eyes, and his head retreated slightly, as if he felt a little aggrieved.
This... you should eat it yourself, I don't like it. I slid two fingers over its smooth body, and Jiao Ye held the bone in his mouth and tilted his head to look at me, then raised his neck and swallowed the bone.
The old Taoist said that if Mr. Jiao could digest the bone fragment, it would be of great benefit because the bone fragment was mysterious and very powerful.
The tip of Jiaoye's tail has completely turned golden, with a faint golden glow on the surface, giving it a majestic and vicissitudes of life. This bone fragment belongs to an unknown creature in ancient times, and it has not been confirmed until now.
The bone fragment swallowed this time was only one-third the size of a grain of rice. After swallowing the bone fragment, Jiao Ye's body glowed slightly yellow. It shook its head, held the bag in its mouth, crawled along my arm to the ground, and then crawled towards the Taoist priest.
But as he was crawling, he actually made a circle and turned back. After crawling in the opposite direction for a while, Jiao Ye realized something was wrong, tilted his head to think about it, and turned back to crawl. But before he had crawled far, his head hit the ground with a thud, and he fell asleep there.
I was sweating as I watched from the side. They were so drunk that they didn't know the way. How could you get drunk just by eating a bone?
It seems that Mr. Jiao was going to carry the cloth bag back to the Taoist's arms, but he fainted halfway through the journey.
I couldn't help laughing, so I walked over, picked it up and put it in my pocket. As for the cloth bag...
I was wondering whether I should put it back or wait until the Taoist priest wakes up before returning it, when a pair of eyes fixed on me.
What are you doing with it? The old Taoist priest stared at my hand.
I was shocked: No, nothing.
The old Taoist priest's eyes were as sharp as an eagle's. He glanced at my bulging pockets and said: "Its foundation is solid, but don't be greedy, otherwise it will be difficult to transform into a dragon. You can keep the things, don't let it do what it wants. Next time, tell me what you want, or I'll beat you to death."
I broke out in a cold sweat when I heard that, but I didn't steal the bag, so why did you say such scary things to me?
Feeling embarrassed and wronged, the old Taoist sighed, got off the bed and walked around a few times, then asked me: What time is it?
I looked at my watch and it was already past ten o'clock in the evening.
The old Taoist priest hummed and lowered his head slightly, as if thinking about something. I remembered the few lines of words I had secretly seen with the Tongming Jade Pendant before. After thinking about it, I decided to tell the old Taoist priest. After all, the Dushengmai is not a safe place. The more the old Taoist priest knows, the safer we will be.
Kill the demon and take its essence, retreat overseas, the secret of a hundred years later... The old Taoist priest muttered the two lines I told him, his brows furrowed.
What's wrong? This shouldn't concern us, I asked.
“It’s not related, and it’s related,” the old Taoist priest replied.
What does that mean? I was confused. This kind of deceptive answer is the most hateful. So there are two types of people I hate the most in my life. One is a monk, and the other is a donkey without hair.
In ancient times, it was easy to practice cultivation, and there was a long exchange between various sects in the world. The Du Sheng Mai was also famous thousands of years ago. The old Taoist said: But suddenly one day, the Du Sheng Mai moved away from the original mountain gate and fled to this place from the southwest. In the following hundreds of years, they became more and more low-key. I think they must have heard from the people who calculated the secrets of heaven that the Du Sheng Mai was about to fall into desolation, so they left that place to prevent being oppressed or even destroyed. In ancient times, there were four people who could calculate the secrets of heaven, and you, Ba Suo, were one of them.
Oh? Hearing this, I couldn't help but feel a little proud. Like Liu Bowen and Zhuge Liang in ancient times, I heard that they could tell fortunes, so they became famous. I didn't expect that among the real practitioners, only four could tell destiny, and my Ba Suo lineage was among them.
When it comes to calculating the secrets of heaven, Ba Suo is the leader. The old Taoist priest continued: The secrets of heaven cannot be leaked. Ba Suo used the method of connecting heaven and earth to seize the secrets of heaven, which caused many disasters. But your lineage is very powerful and can be called lawless. Therefore, apart from the Ba Suo lineage, few people dare to snatch the secrets of heaven.
It is for this reason that the remaining three veins are responsible for human affairs, national affairs, and world affairs. The most profound secrets of heaven are ignored to avoid disaster.
What are human affairs, national affairs, and world affairs? I asked.
The so-called human affairs refer to the birth, aging, illness and death of human beings, as well as the blessings and disasters of life. If you look at one side, you can see the whole life. You can easily do it with the eight ropes, one meridian and one palm to determine the fate of the world. The old Taoist said.
I said "oh" and thought about when I could learn this fortune-telling trick. There are so many fortune-telling scammers nowadays. If I could learn some real skills, I would make a fortune.
By then, I will also set up a stall next to the railway underpass and put up a banner next to it with eight big characters inscribed on it: The Eight Ropes of Heaven, the Control of the Universe!
When the time comes, I will charge people ten yuan for a life, and I don’t have to pretend to be blind. This kind of life... I just don’t know if the urban management will beat me up. I heard that even those who sell cabbages in the underground road get beaten up.
State affairs are the fortune of a country. When it is at its peak, when it declines, when it is destroyed, this is one of the ways of a king. The old Taoist said: Zhang Liang and Liu Bowen are like this. This way is connected to the country. Once you enter the game, if the country is prosperous, the fortune of the sect will be long. If the country declines, the sect will retreat from the world. Therefore, among the four major families, this lineage is the most involved, like the Tianshi lineage, which has many branches.
As for the affairs of the world, they are closest to destiny. The old Taoist priest continued: The direction of the world's major events, the prosperity of the country and the decline of the people, the birth and destruction of demons are all in it. But he only talks about the general trend and never talks about the secrets of heaven. Just like a person's life, I say that your final death is the general trend, and your wealth, poverty, strength and weakness are the secrets of heaven.
Therefore, you, the Eight Ropes lineage, must be in control of the mysteries of heaven and calculate all the affairs of the world. Only then can you take the lead in spiritual practice and become the North Star of Mount Tai.
I didn't quite understand what the old Taoist said, but after careful consideration, I realized that the other three families divided the secret into three parts, and each family only counted one part, in order to reduce the punishment for leaking the secret.
Only the Eight-wire Clan dares to calculate everything, and is not afraid of punishment from the heavens. I subconsciously touched the jade pendant on my chest. The old Taoist once said that the first jade pendant that can reach the underworld took a hundred years to refine. This alone shows how powerful the Eight-wire Clan is.
But now, I am the only one left who was the most powerful Basuo back then, and I can do nothing. My mother, whom I have never met, may know a lot, but she has been missing for decades and I don’t know whether she is dead or alive.
The saying "Thirty years in the east, thirty years in the west" is absolutely true.
Since the ancient books of the Du Sheng Mai said that they should retreat from the world for a hundred years and take the mountain demons as their offerings for a hundred years, they must have great plans in the next hundred years. The current weakness of the Du Sheng Mai may be due to the rise in the next hundred years. The old Taoist said: Therefore, there must be a reason for this, which is related to the world.
I am confused and don't understand what Du Shengmai's retreat overseas has to do with the world.
Although the Du Shengmai here is not grand, it is also worry-free. The sudden decision to take the essence of the mountain demon and retreat must be because something big is going to happen here. If you don't leave, there will be disaster. The old Taoist said: If the disaster is temporary, you can retreat for a while. But if it lasts for a hundred years, this disaster must be big and enough to affect the world.
So that's what it meant. I suddenly realized: What could it be? There seemed to be no signs at all.
Yes, but we just didn’t see it. The old Taoist said: Any disaster has signs, but we just think of them before it comes.
So, shall we go too? I asked.
Where can we go? If this disaster affects the world, we will be dragged into it unless we retreat overseas. The old Taoist said.
Is it that serious? I doubt it.
The old Taoist shook his head: The ignorant are fearless , demons appear in troubled times, and natural and man-made disasters occur one after another. I hope I am overthinking it.
Let's take it one step at a time. If it doesn't work, you can come back to the city with me. There shouldn't be any impact there, I said.
Humans and gods are two separate things. If one enters the secular world, he will naturally be free from the disasters of cultivation. But there... The old Taoist sighed: If I hide there, how can I pass on my Five Elements Meridian?
I can't answer this question, because I have different ideas from the old Taoist priests, and even from all practitioners. After all, I come from a modern city and am not a pure practitioner. The sects and traditions they care about are very far away from me.
Even the so-called Eight Ropes inheritance is just something new and interesting to me. I have never thought about whether it can be passed on or to whom it can be passed on.
Otherwise, you can ask Tao Tiansong for that ancient book to read? If there really is a demon in troubled times, you can come back to the city with me to spend your old age in peace. At that time, I will sell the gold bricks and use the money to help you find a few children with good qualifications to adopt and inherit the five elements for you. I suggested.
This is one way. The old Taoist nodded unexpectedly and agreed: If we can find my junior brother in time, it is not impossible to do as you say.
I felt helpless. This old man was too persistent. His fellow apprentice had been missing for more than 20 years, and his fate was unknown. The world was so big, where could he find him? If he couldn't find him in his lifetime, would he stop doing anything else for the rest of his life?
Some people say that if obsession is too strong, one will become a demon. In my opinion, although the old Taoist looks calm and composed at ordinary times, the demon in his heart is too strong.
