Youbao Chapter 34: Domineering Man Jiao (1)
The old Taoist priest ignored me and just stood there watching. I was just talking. If I really asked him to poke me, I wouldn't know where to poke. A python that big would have to have its flesh and bones removed. The skin would look like an underground gas pipeline if you blow on it. How many times would I have to poke such a big python?
The red-spotted python had an extremely strong vitality. Although it was in tatters and bleeding, it still survived. The old Taoist waited for a while, and as if he had discovered something, he walked to the bloody hole where he had crawled out and reached out to dig it out.
It made me want to vomit, it's amazing that he could do such a thing.
If someone were to be rubbed like this, it would either be painful or embarrassing. However, the red-spotted python was a giant python, and it was not obvious that it was blushing because its entire body was red. The old Taoist priest's actions did not seem to make it feel anything special, perhaps this big guy had reached his final moment.
At this time, the old Taoist priest stretched back his blood-stained arm and said with a strange look on his face: It turns out that you already have the snake elixir and it is about to turn into a dragon spirit. What a pity.
I understand this sentence very well. It means that the red-spotted python in front of me is almost becoming a monster.
Without your spiritual blood, it would be difficult for me to break open its belly. The old Taoist priest said with regret: It's a pity that there are few big dragons in the world now. If it weren't for today, in another two or three hundred years...
It's a pity indeed. I used to search for strange stories about dragons and other strange things, but most of them were blurry photos or vague and hard to tell whether they were true or false. But now, even this kind of news is rarely seen.
According to the old Taoist priest, this red-spotted python in front of us will be able to transform into a real dragon in two or three hundred years. This is a Chinese treasure and a real example of the origin of ancient dragon myths. Now, it lies in front of us dying, no wonder even the old Taoist priest couldn't help but regret it.
If it wasn't for the purpose of preventing being attacked from both sides, I wouldn't have used such explosive means. Alas... the old Taoist sighed again.
So, what now? I asked.
The old Taoist priest was thinking seriously, while I was looking at the huge body of the red-spotted python, imagining what it would look like once it turned into a dragon.
At this time, the old Taoist priest suddenly said: I have it. I can smelt the ancient beast's method and integrate its soul into the python pill. With the essence of the python pill, it will be broken and then reborn again. In this way, although hundreds of years of Taoism will be destroyed, it can be reborn, and the chance of turning into a dragon in the future will be greater.
So good, what are you waiting for?
But then again , after rebirth, it is at most a small snake. It would be a pity if it was eaten by other beasts. When the old Taoist said this, he was looking at me.
I was sweating a little and asked subconsciously: What next?
The old Taoist priest patted the huge body of the red-spotted python and said: So you are responsible for raising it.
I look at the red-spotted python that can circle my house three times when coiled up... How long does it take to grow this big? Time is not the problem, the problem is what does it eat? Snakes and pythons don't eat meat , right? Do they eat leaves and grass? Can it grow this big if I just let it grow like a sheep?
If it eats meat... I was thinking, could I sell the old Taoist's gold brick? Also, what if it really grows up? It's definitely not okay to keep it in a place with people. The next day, either it will be killed or both it and I will be killed.
It seems like... this damn old Taoist priest is planning to tie me up at the Five Elements Taoist Temple?
It was definitely a good place to raise snakes, as the natural ecology had not been destroyed at all. There were so many birds and animals that the red-spotted python would probably not be able to eat them all even if it died of overeating.
It's fine if you don't agree, but you just asked me to change its fate. If it is eaten by birds and beasts because you are unwilling to do good, it will lose its virtue and shorten its life.
This is a naked threat, old fox!
Didn’t you say that those who defy fate will be punished by heaven? I asked.
With hundreds of years of practice, this punishment will naturally dissipate. But if you are unwilling to do good, the heavens will remember it.
I suddenly realized that, although the old Taoist priest seemed kind and honest, everything he did and said was a lie!
Forget it, just keep it. I have kept many pets, dogs, cats, birds, and people, but I have never kept a snake.
Seeing me nod in agreement, the old Taoist took the Tongming jade pendant, reached into the blood hole of the red-spotted python again, and took out a blood-red python pill in front of my disgusting eyes. This was the first time I saw the legendary python pill, which was round and slightly emitted a blood-red light. If it weren't for the old Taoist's hand crushing the blood and flesh, it would have been very attractive.
After taking out the python pill, the red-spotted python trembled slightly, and then there was no sound. The old Taoist took a little of my blood, drew a blood talisman out of thin air, and printed it on the red-spotted python's body with one palm.
The five elements of heaven and earth, the netherworld controls reincarnation. Please ask the kings of the ten palaces to distinguish good from evil, and to determine right from wrong! The law of Shangqing is as urgent as the law!
Unlike the ancient battlefield of Changping, the figure of the Wheel King did not appear this time. Only a breeze blew over the python pill and the body of the red-spotted python. After a gust of wind, the python pill seemed to shrink a little. The old Taoist put the python pill on the jade pendant and drew an empty symbol with his right hand: All souls are out, the road to the netherworld, distinguish right from wrong and reincarnate. The soul returns to its place!
The blood light on the python pill turned into a channel, as thin as a chopstick. I vaguely saw a snake-like thing following the blood light and entering the python pill.
After that, the old Taoist priest did some more tricks, mostly to help consolidate the soul. After handing me the python pill, the old Taoist priest said: This thing uses your blood as a guide, so it is connected to your blood, which is not a bad thing. After the soul returns to its place, it will take a few days to break out of the shell. You should watch it more, and when it is reborn, feed it a few drops of spiritual blood to help the soul.
I naturally agreed to it. The red-spotted python was dead at this time, and the new one would not be the same as before. The huge body in front of me was useless, and the old Taoist priest couldn't bear to see it exposed in the wilderness, so he simply burned it clean with a spiritual fire and sent the ashes into the pond with the wind.
The old Taoist priest also burned the two half-dead corpses abandoned by the zombie vein. These things were originally evil things, and when the real fire ignited, they quickly turned into black smoke and dissipated.
After doing all this, we planned to return to the Five Elements Temple. Although I used my spiritual blood to cast a spell to blast open the belly of the red-spotted python, the old Taoist priest was still infected by the newly born demon poison and had to go back to forge himself with the five elements spiritual fire.
On the way back, the old Taoist priest and I couldn't help but look at the incomplete murals. Because we both thought that these murals must be related to the coffin. Strictly speaking, they are related to the person buried in the coffin.
Hanging coffins for burial is a special custom in some places, which has been handed down since ancient times. According to legend, hanging coffins are not stained by dust, are not affected by wind and dust, do not go up to the sky, and do not fall to the ground. After countless years, it is possible that the owner of the coffin will be reborn.
This is just a legend, and perhaps the ancient great man we speculated about was also for this vague legend. However, the content of the mural has nothing to do with the coffin, which makes people puzzled.
After returning to the Five Elements Taoist Temple, the old Taoist locked the door and began to treat his injuries and dispel the evil spirits.
And I, every day, ate buns and meat, watched the sun rise and set, watched the rain, watched the sky clear up, watched the birds fly around, and then watched the miserable scene of having buns and meat for three meals a day.
The old Taoist priest would stay indoors for seven or eight days, and when I was bored, I would take out the red python pill and play with it. This thing was like a bead, translucent and bright, and it would naturally emit a hazy red light at night.
I put it next to my bed every night, and I would chant it whenever I had nothing to do: Come out later , come out later, come out later... I fell asleep while chanting, just like counting stars.
Sometimes I have dreams in which a grown red-spotted python snatches meat from me and eats me in one bite when it loses. I am so scared that I break into cold sweats.
I was awakened by a nightmare, so I just used it as a finger exercise, turning it around in my hand. I don't know if it was because I turned it too much, but in the early morning of the fifth day of the old Taoist's retreat, I felt like something was crawling on my body. It was cold and rolling around on my body was very comfortable.
I opened my eyes blearily and saw a small snake as long as fingers, pink all over with only a little green spot on its forehead, staring at me with its oval, jet-black eyes like gems.
Seeing that I woke up, it opened its little mouth, spit out an almost invisible tongue, and crawled along my chest to my face.
I was so shocked that I sat up with a scream.
The little thing rolled down my chest like a stick. It landed on my boxers and seemed to be a little confused. It crawled towards me. After crawling for a while, it seemed to remember that I was on the other side, so it turned around and happily crawled towards my chest again.
How can I stand such a scare? People who are not afraid of snakes are fine, but those who are afraid of them will be scared to death. What's more, this thing is still running around on your body.
