I am romantic

Taoist Priest Erxuanyi and Papa Sang

The next day, Feng Shiyu went up the mountain and cut down a few fir trees of suitable size, and was going to carry them back and plan them into rafters to fill up the big hole in the roof.

He was carrying a heavy log down the mountain, and suddenly felt his shoulders lighten, as if there was nothing there, and turned around to find a big fox squatting at one end of the log, its white fur was somewhat familiar.

"... Hu Qiye?"

The white fox walked over the log with light steps, "Is this the tablet of the Great Immortal?"

"Wait until I fix the roof first, otherwise it will be troublesome in rainy and snowy days." Feng Shiyu said.

"Forget it, give you two days." The fox flicked his tail reluctantly, "I want a red lacquer shrine, a boxwood tablet, a brass censer, three sticks of incense in the morning and evening, and the offerings must have chickens every day... By the way, There are couplets posted on both sides of the shrine, and they say, "Cultivate one's character in the deep mountains, get out of ancient caves and become immortals," and horizontally criticize "Fame all over the world."

Feng Shiyu thought in his heart: "I don't have much ability, but I have a lot of style."Speaking of which, you are the one who wants to be my fairy, but I am not begging you.

After what happened last night, he had some understanding of the fox who claimed to be the seventh master, and his mentality was no longer as fearful as it was at the beginning, so he just nodded and said: "I will try my best."

The fox didn't understand the perfunctory meaning in his words, jumped over happily in two or three steps, squatted on his right shoulder, wrapped its furry tail around the nape of his neck, and put it on his left shoulder, "No one can touch your shoulder in the future, this is This is the special seat of the Great Immortal."

Feng Shiyu nodded dumbfoundingly.Fortunately, it was cold, and the multiple fox fur scarves were quite warm, so I let it go.When others saw it and asked about it, they said that it would be better to raise someone to watch the door.

Two days later, when the roof was repaired, he and Father Sang brought up the matter of offering a family protection fairy.

Father Sang didn't object, but just reminded him that offerings to family immortals had to be passed on from generation to generation, and once the offering was stopped halfway, the annoyed family immortals would cause trouble.

Feng Shiyu glanced at the fox who was baring his teeth and threatening him, and nodded helplessly: "Understood, father, it's easier to ask God than to send God away."

After returning to the house, he cut out a piece of red paper, wrote the words "worship Hu Qiye" in ink, and pasted it on the wall in the corner of the room. He brought a small wooden table and scooped half a bowl of rice out of a porcelain bowl. Make an incense burner, put two steamed buns, two eggs, and a plate of fruit, and worship three times on the incense burner, and you're done.

The fox stared at its new altar with black eyes, then jumped up and shouted angrily: "What about the red lacquer shrine you promised me? What about the boxwood tablet? What about the copper incense burner, the big fat chicken, and the couplet?!"

Feng Shiyu smiled at him, "Let's just make do with it, isn't it the same for other people's homes? When I have money in the future, I will build you a Huxian Temple."

"Bah! Cheapskate!" The fox spat disdainfully, jumped into the wall pasted with red paper and disappeared.

In the next few days, Hu Qiye no longer appeared, regardless of whether he was in the form of a fox or a human.Feng Shiyu guessed that it was probably annoyed, and didn't care too much, and lived as usual.It's just that the chickens and ducks raised at home have become very noisy since then. They kept calling day and night, as if they were frightened by something, and they didn't even lay eggs.

Feng Shiyu knew that this was Hu Qiye salivating to express his anger, so he thought of a middle way, sweeping an open space outside the courtyard gate, sprinkled some chaff, and used the simple method of topping a dustpan with tree branches to catch him. A few gluttonous sparrows lived and fried for offerings.

The fried sparrow seems to have won the favor of Hu Jiaxian. Although he still refuses to show up, at least he will not cause trouble.

Seeing that the mountain was about to be covered by heavy snow, Feng Shiyu was going to go to the mountain for the last time, to check if there were any prey caught in the trap, and to take back the animal traps that had been arranged before, so as not to rust.

The grass and trees on the Tribulus Mountain are withered, and the whirring sound of the curly branches of the new wind makes the whole body feel cold in the ears.Feng Shiyu bent down to pick up an empty animal trap, and suddenly found that there were four more people on the surrounding dry grass.

These people were old and young, all wearing loose clothes and big sleeves, and wearing Taoist crowns on their heads, which seemed a bit out of the world. The thin robes fluttered in the cold wind, but they did not flinch in the slightest.

"Is that him?" asked the youngest of them.

"It should be. If you look carefully between his brows, although it is as light as a gossamer, it is indeed a real soul imprint." His companion replied.

The third person lazily said: "The few we found before are not the right ones, I hope this won't make us make another trip in vain."

Finally, the elder nodded and said: "Take him away first, and find a hidden place to investigate."

Feng Shiyu saw four people commenting around him, as if they were picking out utensils in an antique shop, with a look of disdain for all sentient beings and no one in their eyes, and he couldn't help feeling dissatisfied in his heart. I, please give your first name and surname first, what is the meaning of forming a circle like this?"

Unexpectedly, the other party didn't intend to answer him at all, the elder flicked his black sleeves, Feng Shiyu felt the cold wind hit his face, and his breath was suffocated, the whole field of vision was like the thin ice layer on the lake in early winter suddenly burst, the eyes were dazzled with white light, his body Hanging seems to be thrown into the sky.

After a while, both feet landed on the ground, and the foreground began to slowly condense into shape. Feng Shiyu felt relieved and looked around, only to realize that he had left the grassy slope of the woodland and appeared in a dark and cold cave.He knew that it must be the ghost of the four people dressed in Taoist clothes next to him, so he put his hand on the handle of the knife at his waist and asked with a frown, "Why did the priests take me here?"

The elder Taoist priest in black seemed to be used to this kind of behavior, and he didn't bother to speak up, so he stretched out a finger to touch the red mark between his brows.

It was as if five thunderbolts exploded in Feng Shiyu's mind, instantly depriving him of his consciousness, making him like a hard stone sculpture, standing motionless on the ground.

The Taoist's fingertips entered his forehead without resistance, as if piercing through water waves, and finally stretched his whole hand in.Dots of colored twilight lights up at the connection between the two, floating around like fireflies, it is the spiritual light of living things, escaping from the forcibly opened gap in the forehead.

After a while, the old Taoist in Xuanyi's slightly frowned eyebrows relaxed, and he could hardly restrain his expression of surprise, he slowly withdrew his hand, but saw four light clusters in the palm, one big, three small, emitting soft or fiery red light , golden light, white light, purple light.

"Here comes the magic weapon!" He shouted, and his companion immediately handed over an octagonal sapphire ring with a round mirror in the center.He put his palm over the mirror around the center, and the mirror suddenly shone brightly, as bright as a scorching sun, forcing several people to cover their faces with their hands to resist the dazzling glare.

Suddenly the light fades, and then look at the mirror in the ring, it seems that a small world is sealed under the mirror, three small light clusters slowly rotate around a large light cluster, and the stars in the sky are as wonderful and magnificent as they are moving.

Feng Shiyu's body fell to the ground with a puff like a dead tree.

"It's done! My God, I've finally told us to wait until this day!" The four Taoist priests in black looked at each other and smiled, unable to hide their surprise and excitement.

"Uncle, how do we deal with this person?" A young Taoist priest asked.

"His bones are poor, and he is not a material for cultivating Taoism. Since this body is not needed, if it is left unattended, it will die in two or three hours at most. At that time, the corpse will be eaten by wild beasts, which is against the heart of us cultivators." The old man said. Said in a lightly compassionate tone, "Dig a hole and bury it."

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A sharp and piercing sound came from the depths of the cave, like the neighing of a strange beast in a demon realm, or like the howling of a ghost under a secluded spring.

There seemed to be a terrifying and strange power in this mocking voice, and the four Taoist priests in black clothes were so distracted that their bodies fell back and their clothes and hair were all messed up by the sound.

"...It's a monster!" The old Taoist smelled the strong cold smell in the air, and his face changed. "What a powerful monster!" He greeted his three fellow disciples: "Since the matter is done, there is no need to make extra troubles, retreat."

The four of them shook out a piece of divine wind escape talisman one after another, and disappeared in the sudden whirlwind.

The cave returned to silence in an instant, if it wasn't for a stiff body lying on the ground, it was as cold and wild as if no one had ever set foot in it.

There was a soft hissing sound, and then it came from far and near, coming from the very depths of the cave, a blue-black snake head as thick as a water tank poked out of the darkness, and the scales the size of a bowl on its body were faintly shining - it turned out to be an extremely huge green python.The small half that was exposed almost filled the cave, and there was still an unknown length of snake hidden in the darkness.

Sliding to the side of the motionless Feng Shiyu, it looked down with lidless amber eyes, and the human body was like a tiny gourd by its mouth, and it fell into the mouth with just a casual inhalation.

"—Boy, you are dead now." Qing Mang said, "I want to see if that fox can save you!"

Thinking of the interesting scenes that happened afterwards, it gave up the instinct to swallow, coiled up its gradually shrinking body, and began to wait patiently.

On the altar table of Feng Shiyu's family, the three sticks of incense sticks inserted in front of the simple family immortal tablet suddenly all broke and fell on the table tribute.

Hu Changqing poked his head out from the red paper on the wall, sucked in his pointed nose, and said suspiciously, "Why does it smell so bad..." He jumped out in the form of a human, and looked around in the middle of the house, "Master Feng What about the rain? Where did the people go, and they didn’t exchange tribute for me, the steamed buns are hard!”

Floating to the court, Hu Changqing put his hands on his hips and shouted: "Feng Shiyu! Master Qi is hungry and wants to eat fried sparrows!"

This sound is deafening, irrelevant people can't hear it, but those who enshrine him are like thunder.

Still no response.

Do you have to sacrifice the great method of searching for gods?Hu Changqing raised his slender and delicate eyebrows, pinched his fingers in a manner, and muttered a few words from time to time. After a long while, his whole face wrinkled: "There is no trace at all? No, as long as the body is Within a hundred miles, my spells must have reacted to his soul... Could it be that he traveled far away?"

In the cave, Mang Tianlong, who became impatient and turned into a human body, cut the ice into a mirror, looked at everything that happened in the cottage, and couldn't help frowning and cursing: "You bastard! You have learned all the Hu family's spells into the stomach of a dog! Do you want fourth master to hurry up and tell you that this kid has lost his mind and stepped into the gate of hell?"

Hu Changqing was wandering around the yard pinching his fingers, when suddenly an old voice behind him said: "Hu Xian." He was startled, and looked back to see that it was Old Sang, quite surprised: "Hey, old man, can you see me?" ? Could it be that the eyes of the sky were opened after being blinded by the physical eyes?"

Papa Sang shook his head, his face full of vicissitudes and wrinkles was full of worry and solemnity, "Let's not talk about this, the old man roughly knows where the dog is, but it is inconvenient to move, please trouble Hu Xian to take me a ride."

"It's easy to say!" Hu Changqing was overjoyed, and released a monster-like "fairy wind", which swept Papa Sang into the air, and swept towards the direction he pointed.

After a while, the wind dissipated, and Hu Changqing stood on the steep peak and looked around, muttering: "Why does this land look familiar to me..." His eyes swept across a huge dark cave between the rock crevices, and he suddenly realized, and shouted: " It turned out to be the old nest of the long worm!"

Immediately, he couldn't care about Father Sang, he turned into a wisp of white smoke and floated into the cave entrance, and suddenly saw Feng Shiyu lying on the ground upright, his whole body was cold to the touch, his nose was almost lifeless, and Mang Tianlong was leisurely doing nothing. Standing aside, his face is bright.

Hu Changqing pointed at his nose furiously and cursed: "Shameless dead worm! A thief who kills a thousand knives! If you have the ability to fight alone with the master, what kind of a man is he to harm a mortal! If you kill him, seven I will fight with you in this life, if I don't disturb you, I would rather die than die, I will not be this fairy!"

Mang Tianlong was in a good mood at the moment, so he didn't care about his scolding, and replied with a smirk: "If it was really the hands of the fourth master, you can still see the corpse when you come here? I have already swallowed the bones. He is not dead yet, you explore his soul—”

Hu Changqing was startled, and stared at him with mixed suspicion and hatred, but couldn't help but squat down to explore, and said in surprise: "He has lost one soul and three souls! What's going on, he still has a breath, but his soul has dispersed first... Impossible! Impossible!" He shook his head again and again, as if suddenly remembering something, his expression changed: "Unless——someone forcibly extracted the living soul with magic!"

"The soul of fate, the soul of heaven, the soul of wisdom, the soul of the center, the most important parts of the three souls and seven souls have been taken away, and he will not live long." Mang Tianlong added worse: "If the souls are not in order, they will not be able to enter reincarnation. , I can only be an unconscious lonely ghost, and disappear completely in the sky and the earth in two and a half seconds."

Hu Changqing knew that what he said was true, and his face became more and more ugly, "Look at you, you must know who did it, tell me quickly, Qiye is going to break that bastard's neck and get his soul back!"

Mang Tianlong saw that his mind was obviously disturbed, he still refused to show softness, he felt a little upset in his heart, and said with a sneer, "Just with your half bucket of water mana? Don't say you can't beat those people, even me, you are no match. Besides , why should I tell you?"

"Don't say it? Then fight again! Don't think that your cultivation base is high, Qi Ye has room for it!"

"Okay, then we might as well take a gamble to see if you will win me first, or this kid will be the first to lose his soul?"

Hu Changqing's handsome pale face immediately stretched, he suppressed his anger, and tried his best to put on an appearance of being gentle and earnest: "—fourth brother, don't mess around like this. You see, we have been working together for so many years. Neighbors, they all say that distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors. It’s a joke on weekdays, but you still have to help each other at critical moments, right? Well, I don’t want your help either. As long as you tell me who took his soul, the relationship between the two of us before Let’s write off those bad debts and get along with each other amicably afterwards, how about that?”

Mang Tianlong sneered, "Speaking is better than singing. Tell you, what's good about me? When have you seen me do things that are not good?"

Hu Changqing was so angry that he wanted to turn back into a monster and fight him fiercely, but Feng Shiyu was so angry that he was almost dead, it was really not worth wasting time entangled with this long worm.He looked down at the young man who was as stiff as death on the ground, and thought that no one would know his true identity in the future, so he dared to drink and chat with him; no one would cook breakfast when he was hungry, and cook supper if he wanted supper ; and I finally found a comfortable seat to squat on and lost it in a blink of an eye, and I suddenly felt sad.

I'm the Immortal Baojia, if I can't even protect the family I enshrine, what face do I have to hang around in the circle!Hu Qiye thought sadly and indignantly, and then he put on a smashing attitude towards his old enemy: "What benefits do you want? Anyway, I will give you everything I can! But you have to help me take his soul Come back, otherwise he will perish, we will fight with all our strength, and we will never give up until one dies!"

Mang Tianlong was waiting for his words, and smiled immediately: "I said earlier that you have to beg me for him, see. I can ignore your bad attitude of begging for help, but don't forget your promise today."

Hu Changqing rolled his eyes at him, and said with a look of disgust: "Okay, at worst, I will be at your mercy for a few years, don't be a mother-in-law anymore, tell me quickly, who is it that took his soul?"

"Although I heard them talking, these cowards ran away before they showed their faces." Seeing Hu Changqing's expression changed, Mang Tianlong immediately continued: "But they are stained with my little ambergris, and the cat falcons I raised will be used to kill them." can be traced.”

What little ambergris, just say it's your poisonous saliva.Hu Changqing slandered secretly, and at the same time urged: "Why don't you leave quickly?" He hurriedly took two steps out of the cave, then suddenly thought of something, turned back to look at Feng Shiyu's body on the ground, "He can only last at most Two or three hours, what if we don't have time to come back? No, you have to find a way to temporarily save his life—at least ten days and a half months."

Mang Tianlong spread his hands and said: "I can't help here, the King of Hades wants him to die in the third watch, who can keep him until the fifth watch."

What you said before co-authoring is all in vain, right?Hu Changqing was about to jump up in a fit of rage to fight him, when a figure tremblingly walked in from outside the cave, and said in a low and hoarse voice: "I have a way to save his life for a few days, you go."

"Papa Sang?" Hu Changqing asked in surprise, "How did you get here... No, it doesn't matter, the problem is that you are a mortal, and you haven't practiced any spells, what can you do?"

"A mortal?" Papa Sang laughed dryly, his eyes as white as pearls rolled up and down, and his rough and wrinkled face suddenly showed strength from his age, "It seems that my master's sealing technique is exquisite and unparalleled. I even hid it from the two of you." He pointed to his eyes and said, "Everyone thinks that I am blue-blind, but in fact these eyes are the key point. The master uses my natal inner alchemy and a nine-nine Turning the Heavenly Heart Bead into the eyes of the formation, I set up a concentration and restraint formation in my body, so that the evil spirit will not leak out, and I look exactly like ordinary people. Now for Yuzi, it is time for me to make sacrifices—”

Before he finished speaking, Father Sang curled his fingers into hooks, and forcibly pulled out two pure white eyeballs. The eye sockets did not bleed, and they were as black as deep wells.Holding a pair of beads emitting soft light, he sent them to Feng Shiyu's eyebrows, and said: "Use these nine-turn Tianxin beads and my 800-year-old inner alchemy to temporarily replace his lost soul." Sanpo, keep him alive for at least seven days. You must find your soul within these seven days, otherwise he will inevitably die if his alchemy is exhausted."

"But you lost the inner alchemy, why not—" Hu Changqing lost his voice.As a monster, he naturally knows the incomparable importance of the inner alchemy. Losing the inner alchemy is almost equivalent to dissipating the demon power and returning to its original form.

Papa Sang struggled to get up, staggered towards the outside of the cave, and muttered to himself, "Don't say it's because of the master's entrustment, even this good boy who has been raised for 19 years, I really treat him as a child." Your own son sees it... When he wakes up, don't tell him the truth. If he can escape this disaster, if he asks me in the future, he will say that I am dead and buried, and then use an illusion to fool him Bar."

Every time he said a word, his feet and legs became stiffer, and the ground became dusty when he stepped on the ground, and the skin on his body began to dry and crack.After a few steps, just as he walked out of the cave, his legs and feet had sunk into the loess like a root, and he had completely turned into a huge mulberry tree with knotted branches and withered yellow leaves. It turns out that this big tree will soon wither completely.

Hu Changqing stared blankly at the big mulberry tree covering the sky and sun outside the cave, with a sad and puzzled expression, "Father Sang, you actually did this for a mortal... Even if you have a relationship after more than ten years of raising him, at most you will give it up." Thirty percent, no, half of the cultivation is enough, why would you trade your life for your life? Is it worth it?"

"In my opinion, it's not worth it at all." Mang Tianlong sneered disdainfully, "But these days, people of all races have been living together for a long time, and there are as many idiots as idiots. I just don't know who the master he is talking about is , To be able to drive an 800-year-old tree to work hard and willingly for him, such a person, even if he is an ordinary person, can be regarded as profound."

Hu Changqing glanced at him inexplicably, then lowered his head to look at the dying Feng Shiyu, and suddenly felt a sense of sadness from the bottom of his heart: Father Sang did not hesitate to sacrifice his original inner alchemy to save him, but only in exchange for his seven-day life. Can't get back the soul within seven days?What if Papa Sang's spell fails and he can't wake up again?

The more he thought about it, the more sad he became, he couldn't help squatting down, patted Feng Shiyu's cold cheek with his hands, and called out: "Wake up! Wake up quickly! You haven't exchanged tributes for me, set up a shrine, or covered me with immortals What about the temple! You bastard, don’t sleep anymore, get up quickly!” He kept patting Feng Shiyu’s face, shaking his shoulders, and there was a choked nasal voice in his call: “At most... I don’t want Boxwood tablet, no brass censer, no big fat chicken, now you are happy, do you hear me, wake me up immediately..."

Facing Feng Shiyu who was still silent, a kind of unprecedented despair and anger hit his heart. Hu Changqing grabbed the opponent's skirt and pulled up half of his body, and shouted in his ear: "Seven , Master, want, eat, oil, fry, hemp, sparrow—”

Feng Shiyu's body shook violently like an electric shock, he suddenly opened his eyes, and seeing Hu Changqing's handsome pointed face almost pressed against his nose, he couldn't help being startled, and replied without thinking: "Sure, I'll go catch it right away." .”

Hu Changqing stared fixedly at him, suddenly squinted his eyes, and smiled with the corners of his mouth, his color was as bright as a peach blossom tree, "It doesn't have to be right away, it can be done in a few days... just seven days later, your fried sparrow is better than roast chicken .”

Why seven days later?Feng Shiyu got up in a daze, and patted the dust off his body, feeling stiff and painful all over, as if he had slept carelessly on a hard slate all night. "Where is this? How did I come here? Well, it seems that I saw a few Taoist priests in black before... and then I don't remember. What happened?"

"Those Taoist priests stole your things and ran away. We have to go after them." Hu Changqing said lightly.

"What did you steal from me?" Feng Shiyu fumbled on his body for a while, and even found out the scattered copper plates, but nothing was missing.

"It's not money, it's soul."

"Soul?" Feng Shiyu showed an unbelievable expression, "Is there really such a thing on a person? What does it look like? What is it for? Am I still fine now?"

"I'm serious, half of your soul was taken away by them. If Qiye hadn't been so powerful and arrived in time to fight those evil Taoists for [-] rounds, you might not even be able to keep the other half. It's a pity! How can I wake up again!" Hu Changqing proclaimed his achievements to him with gestures, and said with a face full of credit: "How about it, I am glad that I offered Qiye as a Baojiaxian, right? In order to increase Qiye's mana, Better to keep you safe, you have to prepare a red lacquer shrine, a boxwood tablet, a brass incense burner for Qi Ye, and one every day—no, two big fat chickens... Hey, don’t go, I’m still waiting for you. It's not over yet!"

Mang Tianlong stood aside with a cold face: How on earth did such a greedy, lazy fox and hopeless bastard practice until today?As for the strengths... probably just the appearance, he sighed silently.

Feng Shiyu ignored the whining and protesting Hu Changqing, walked to the entrance of the cave, was shocked by the big mulberry tree covering the sky, stepped forward to touch the rough bark full of cracks, and the two moth-eaten dents on it. Shen Yuandong sighed: "It's such a big tree, it's a pity that it's about to die." In the regret, a trace of pain and sadness rose from the bottom of my heart vaguely, as if something important was lost.He shook his head, put aside this inexplicable emotion, and left under the tree with firm steps.

Hu Changqing was stunned, and chased after him, saying, "Hey, do you think I'm joking? Come with us to retrieve your soul!"

Feng Shiyu didn't even return his head and said: "Okay, don't make trouble, at worst, go back and make a shrine for you."

Hu Changqing shouted angrily: "What tone are you talking about! Master Qi is telling the truth! Really! It's not an excuse to exaggerate your own status, you also think Qi Master is too flat!"

Mang Tianlong couldn't bear it anymore and flew out a gloomy light from his cuff, knocking Feng Shiyu unconscious, and gritted his teeth: "Take him and go straight away! You stupid fox."