seal of magic

A long time ago, celestial master families like the Zhong family were built in places far away from the city, and many sect families even chose to build in the deep mountains. First, they could practice peacefully away from the hustle and bustle. .

At that time, although these sect families lived in remote places, they could be self-sufficient by farming themselves.In recent years, the city has developed too fast, and life is very different from their hometown. Many people choose to move into the city, leaving only a few people to guard the old house.Some even simply sold their old houses and moved them to cities or suburbs.

Many members of the Zhong family have moved away, but they are different from other families. They need someone to guard the Fengmo Well, so the ancestral house cannot be moved.Zhong Zhenlin's family now lives in a courtyard house in Beijing, not far from the association's headquarters, while Zhong Qingyu's father, Zhong Zhenqiao, stays at his ancestral home in Hebei.

After driving for a day, Min Qingyu and Qi Shao arrived at the Zhong family's ancestral house in the evening.

In Zhong Qingyu's impression, the ancestral house has almost always been showing a sense of decay, if you want to study it carefully, it is probably a little less popular.Not long after Zhong Zhaocheng disappeared, Zhong Qingyu's great-grandfather also passed away.Once the elders in the family are away, not many people will come back during the holidays.They all have their own families, and many of them have changed their careers and never become celestial masters.

Among Zhong Qingyu's parents, only his father Zhong Zhenqiao and his younger uncle Zhong Zhenlin are still persisting, while the second and third uncles have already started businesses.

Now that Zhong Zhaocheng's body has been found, all relatives want to come back.The ancestral home suddenly seemed crowded.But this kind of crowding not only did not make the ancestral house look lively, but also made it even more desolate because of everyone's silence and uneasy brows.

"Brother Yu!" A seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl called out immediately when she saw Zhong Qingyu enter the door.Following her shout, the eyes of the people around immediately focused on Zhong Qingyu who had just entered the door.

The girl seemed to realize that her excited expression didn't match the current atmosphere. She stood up facing Zhong Qingyu, pulled Zhong Qingyu to the yard outside the house, and softly called "Brother Yu".

"Who is this? Sister-in-law?" The girl looked angrily at Qi Shao who was following behind Zhong Qingyu.

Zhong Qingyu patted her forehead: "Brother."

The girl obediently called brother, Qi Shao felt a little embarrassed, but he used to control his expression, put on a polite smile and nodded with a smile, "Just call me Qi Shao."

Zhong Qingyu introduced to Qi Shao: "This is my cousin Qinglan." Then he turned to Zhong Qinglan and asked, "Why did you come here so early? You should also make up classes in the eleventh year of senior year, right?"

"Don't say this in front of my mother. She is upset about this and is having trouble with my father." Zhong Qinglan said.

Zhong Qingyu: "If I were your mother, I would have objections. What's the advantage of coming early?" They have never met Zhong Zhaocheng in this generation, and there is no special relationship at all.

"It's not good to be on vacation! Didn't you deliberately get injured and lie at home for half a month?" Zhong Qinglan didn't give his brother any face at all, and immediately revealed all the black history in front of his new sister-in-law.

Xueba Qi Shao couldn't help laughing at the two scumbag brothers and sisters who exposed each other's shortcomings. This is the family affection he has always yearned for, and he hasn't felt it for many years since Qi Jing disappeared.

"By the way, why didn't you see Uncle Lin and Qingzhu?" Zhong Qingyu asked Zhong Qinglan after the two had had enough trouble.

Zhong Qinglan imitated Zhong Qingzhu's serious expression and said: "Zhong Qingzhu said that you are going to start a foundation, and most of the next generation of patriarchs will be him. He must study hard and work hard to support our family, so that others will not just because you are a foundation. You discriminate against us."

Zhong Qingyu stroked his chin, and said with a smile, "He's still a middle school student?"

Zhong Qinglan shrugged her shoulders: "I'm too lazy to talk to him, but his grades are not as good as when I was in the freshman year of high school. He hasn't come here yet, so he should come with my mother on Friday."

Zhong Qingyu: "Where's Uncle Lin?"

"My dad has gone up the mountain. He will come down in a while." Zhong Qinglan suddenly lowered her voice, "I heard that the situation of the Sealing Demon Well is not very good. The biggest monster is still under pressure, but some small monsters may have escaped .”

It was this news that made the Zhong family so uneasy and anxious.The Zhong family guarded the Demon Sealing Well for so many years, and the monsters sealed in the well hated them to the core. Once they couldn't keep it, the Zhong family would be the first to suffer.

Zhong Qingyu put away his joking look, and said seriously: "Then I'll go up the mountain to have a look, maybe I can help a little." No, but anyway, there is some strength, maybe it can control the situation a little bit.

The three of them were just about to set off when Zhong Zhenlin came down from the mountain.

"Dad, what's the matter?" Zhong Qinglan asked.

Judging from Qi Shao's brief contact with Zhong Zhenlin, Zhong Zhenlin was quite emotional. When he saw Qi Shao, he nodded his head as a greeting, and then replied Zhong Qinglan expressionlessly: "It's not very good, go back first." Let's talk after dinner."

This meal is probably only eaten by Zhong Qinglan who is more nervous, and the others are all preoccupied, so they don't taste much.

After dinner, Zhong Zhenlin called Zhong Qingyu and Qi Shao into the room alone and said, "I will go up the mountain to take over from your father to guard Fengmojing after the Chinese New Year this year."

Zhong Qingyu asked in surprise: "Did something happen to my dad?"

Zhong Zhenlin: "Your father stayed near the Demon Sealing Well for too long, and he was seriously eroded by the demon energy. When I talked to him today, he seemed to be a completely different person. It is very dangerous to continue like this. Let's not talk about whether there are monsters or not." Run out, as long as he continues in this state, he will become one of them."

Zhong Qingyu fell silent.As far as he can remember, he has met his father very limited times since he was a child, and most of these limited times were only met once, and he basically didn't spend much time together.

But compared to his grandfather, whom he has never met, he still has feelings for his father, not very deep, but there are.Especially in recent years, Zhong Zhenqiao's health has obviously deteriorated year after year. Every time he meets Zhong Qingyu, he doesn't know what he will be like next time.

Someone had to guard the Demon Sealing Well, and he kept thinking that after finding the Seal of Demon Sealing, maybe his father would be able to rest for a while, and maybe his body would recover.He didn't want to think about the possibility that Zhong Zhenqiao might not survive the day when the magic seal was found.

"How is the investigation of Grandpa's matter going? Do you have any clues about the remaining part of the seal?" Although Zhong Qingyu knew that there was probably no clue, he still couldn't help but want to ask.

Sure enough, Zhong Zhenlin shook his head.

"What about the cause of his death? Are there any clues?" Zhong Qingyu continued to ask unwillingly.

"The soul cannot be summoned, and there is nothing found on the bones. We suspect that someone tampered with his sword. Now the sword can't be found, and we still don't know what happened." Zhong Zhenlin's tone was flat, and it sounded like Talking about someone else, not his own biological father.

Zhong Qingyu didn't speak immediately, but after a while, he said, "I want to go and see my dad."

Zhong Zhenlin said: "Okay, let's go together. Xiao Qi is also here, you have a part of the power of sealing the magic seal, let's see if we can suppress the magic energy around the magic sealing well."

The three walked out of the house, and Zhong Qinglan also followed, but was driven back by Zhong Zhenlin.They passed through the backyard of Zhong's house. There was a road leading to the mountain. From this position, one could faintly see a light on the mountainside. It seemed to be a hut where the well-keeper lived.

In fact, there was no need to leave a person to live on the mountain before.The well keeper still lives with everyone in the old house at the foot of the mountain. He goes up to have a look every half a month, and stays there for a few days when it is cloudy to make sure that there is nothing wrong with Fengmojing.But now that the seal of the Sealing Demon Well is loose, someone needs to keep guarding it.

Halfway through, talisman papers had already been hung on the surrounding trees.The last time Zhong Qingyu came here, the talisman paper hadn't been pasted here. It seems that the magic energy has really spread a lot this year.

They continued on, and in about half an hour they came to the hut.

The hut is very simple and not big, Qi Shao estimated that there is enough space for a bed, a table and a few cabinets.

They stood at the door, and Zhong Zhenlin knocked on the door.It took a while for the people inside to open the door.

At first glance, the person in front of him didn't look like Zhong Qingyu at all, but upon closer inspection, his facial features were actually very similar to Zhong Qingyu's, except that his face was gray and gloomy, which made him look completely different from Zhong Qingyu.

Qi Shao was afraid of being impolite, so he looked away after only one glance, but Zhong Zhenqiao didn't even look at him. To be precise, Zhong Zhenqiao didn't look at anyone, but just opened the door and let them in.

No one spoke for a while, Qi Shao looked at the furnishings in the room, and it was similar to what he thought.On the right side of the room is a small single bed. There is a table next to the bed. There are undried spells on the table. Before they came in, Zhong Zhenqiao should have been drawing the spells.There is a door on the left side of the table. Judging from the situation seen from the outside, there should be no room behind, most likely facing the Demon Sealing Well.

"Brother, Qingyu said he wanted to see you." Zhong Zhenlin was the first to break the silence.

"Dad..." Zhong Qingyu desperately wanted to see his dad before, but seeing him like this now, he didn't know what to say.

After shouting for a long time, Zhong Zhenqiao finally said "ah", as if he just heard it.He raised his head slowly and looked at Zhong Qingyu for a while, and then he seemed to realize that there was a stranger following Zhong Qingyu.He looked at Qi Shao with a puzzled expression.

"This is Qi Shao, Qingyu's good friend, and now he is also a member of our association." Zhong Zhenlin hurriedly introduced before Zhong Qingyu could speak, for fear that Zhong Qingyu would directly say "this is my boyfriend" to provoke his father.

"Uh..." Zhong Zhenqiao nodded and muttered a few words in a vague voice that the other three people present couldn't hear clearly.

Among the three, Zhong Qingyu was the most shocked. He didn't expect that his father's situation would deteriorate so quickly after not seeing his father for a year.

"I came up again today not only to accompany Qingyu to see you, but also to have an important matter." Zhong Zhenlin didn't care whether Zhong Zhenqiao could understand or not, and explained the purpose of tonight, "Xiao Qi has a part of the power to seal the magic seal." Can you feel it? We want to see if we can mobilize this power to suppress the overflow of demonic energy."

This time Zhong Zhenqiao's reaction was very quick. I don't know if he was stimulated by the key words "Sealing the Demon Well" and "Devil Qi".He looked at Qi Shao again, then nodded, opened the door next to the table, and led the three of them to the edge of the Demon Sealing Well.

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Updated today!Surprised or not? !Is it surprising? ! (It's muddy, I've been a pigeon for three days and I'm still ashamed to talk OTZ)

There are a lot of things going on recently, but if there is no accident, I will continue to update tomorrow~