Ring

The records of the Wei family tree can be traced back to the end of the Ming Dynasty, but the records of the Wei family's magic can be traced back even further.

According to Wei Siyun, the first ancestor of the Wei family was lucky to marry a strange woman named Lu Changsheng.Lu Changsheng is well versed in the five elements, swordsmanship and moves are rare opponents.When she married into the Wei family, she already possessed swordsmanship and Taoism, but when the Wei family asked who she studied under, she herself couldn't tell.

After decades of work, she finally wrote down what she had learned from her "master" in detail and handed it over to her husband.At the same time, she also told him not to let all his descendants learn the five elements.Because they are human beings, but divination by Fushi is to spy on the will of heaven, so they will naturally be punished.Therefore, she hoped that her husband would only pass on her swordsmanship and Taoism to one of the many descendants, but this ancestor of the Wei family did not listen to Lu Changsheng's words.

Since then, the Wei family has become a Taoist family, and all the children have practiced the Taoism left by Lu Changsheng.It's just that Lu Changsheng's words came true after all - the Wei family's fortune was shallow, and the children born either died young or were born with mental insufficiency.Gradually, in feudal society, the Wei family even had to rely on their daughters to carry on the family line—of course, for the girls of the Wei family, this might not be a bad thing.After all, they have an opportunity to display their talents and support their own family business, instead of becoming a weak woman who has no ability to protect herself and becomes a vassal of men in such a society.

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Wei Shenzhi spent a few days recuperating in the Wei family's ancestral house, and then went to pay homage to the Wei family's ancestral hall with his grandmother. By the way, he brought Edgar to watch the whole process.Wei Siyun had some complaints at first, but Edgar said that he really wanted to know some of the background of the Wei family. It didn't seem like he was just here to watch, so Wei Siyun didn't care.

In fact, the ancestral hall is also included in this Nine Palaces Eight Diagrams formation. When Wei Siyun laid down the formation, he included the ancestral hall as well.The three of them walked for about 10 minutes before arriving at the ancestral hall.

The ancestral hall is not very big, but it is very solemn, filled with the smell of sandalwood.Many ranks were arranged neatly one by one, and the incense in the censer was still burning.Wei Siyun had to come here to worship and clean every day, so not only was the entire ancestral hall free of dust accumulation and incense ash everywhere, but it was neat and solemn, just like it was when the Wei family was in its heyday.

Edgar stood outside the door, and Wei Siyun walked in with Wei Shenzhi.The white-haired celestial master took Wei Shenzhi three sticks of incense for himself, and then brought Wei Shenzhi to kneel on the futon.Wei Siyun lowered his eyebrows and closed his eyes, clasped his hands together, and first performed a routine worship to the ancestors, and after finishing incense with Wei Shen, she straightened up, and her eyes fell on the two portraits enshrined at the highest place.

The first picture is of a woman, probably made by a descendant of the Wei family.The black hair was tied neatly behind the head by the jade crown, exposing the whole face, looking clean and neat.The wide-sleeved gown she was wearing didn't have a single pattern of decoration, only sea blue piping on the cuffs and neckline, embroidered with patterns of auspicious clouds.The belt around her waist also has the same pattern, the only difference is that there is a Tai Chi pattern in the middle of her waist.Although she is a woman, the lines of her eyebrows seem to have an inherent sharpness.Maybe it's because of the painter's skillful hand, Danqing, that he preserved the woman's expression vividly in the painting—even though he knew it was just a painting, and the person in the painting had passed away for a long time, Wei Shenzhi still had a feeling of being watched by her. illusion.

In fact, this picture scroll is still well preserved. I don't know if the descendant of the Wei family who painted it cast some magic.

Wei Siyun got up and bowed again, and then ordered Wei Shenzhi: "Kneel down to the ancestors of the Wei family, and the Lu family will live forever."

Wei Shenzhi did not dare to neglect, and kowtowed three times to the sharp-eyed woman.

Wei Siyun nodded in satisfaction, turned his eyes to another portrait, and continued to say to Wei Shenzhi: "Kneel down to the ancestor of the Wei family, Li Qingyi."

Wei Shenzhi also heard the name "Li Qingyi" from his grandmother.Legend has it that when Lu Changsheng was dying, she made a painting and gave it to her husband, and told him that he was the one who taught her Taoism and martial arts.Her husband asked her name, but Lu also shook her head.She didn't know his name, but he only knew that his surname was Li, and his name was "Qingyi".

Wei Shenzhi also knelt down to the portrait.It's just that when his eyes swept over Li Qingyi's portrait, he was still a bit puzzled.

The portrait has long been yellowed in the torrent of time.Even at the end of the Qing Dynasty, when the portraits were perfectly framed, they still couldn't stop the erosion of time.Li Qingyi's face could no longer be seen clearly, and he could only vaguely see that this was probably a handsome man.It's just that the bright red tattoos on the side of his neck are really impossible to ignore - those tattoos seem to be some kind of bright red flowers, burning on the side of the man's neck like flames, and even have a bit of evil spirit.The Taoism practiced by the Wei family is supposed to suppress evil spirits, but how could the tattoos on this master's body be such strange and ominous flowers?

After the two left the ancestral hall, Wei Shenzhi asked the question.

"I also had this question when your great-grandfather took me to pay homage to our ancestors." Wei Siyun smiled, "It is said that the Tsing Yi family was originally a teacher of an immortal, but it is a pity that due to some accidents in the middle, they fell into the devil's way. The pattern on the side of his neck is the proof that he has fallen into magic."

"Ah?!" Wei Shenzhi looked at her speechlessly, "This is not a martial arts novel, where is the way of evil!"

"It's been so many years, how can I know what happened to Tsing Yi's body? This is something that even Lu Xiangu doesn't know." Call Lu Changsheng "Lu Xiangu" and Li Qingyi "Qingyi Shi".

"From now on, the Taoism of the Wei family will be passed on to you." Wei Siyun looked deeply at his grandson.Once upon a time, how much I hoped that he would never come into contact with this world of magic, but this child chose to be with the Patriarch of the Bathory family.

If he hadn't been with Edgar, maybe he would still be the little programmer who was behind the scapegoat, staying in the United States for the rest of his life.He would not have the strength to run back to China to challenge Wei Tianci, let alone have a car accident after defeating Wei Tianci...and then enter into a blood contract with Edgar.

Signing a blood contract with humans means twin lives and twin deaths.This does not mean that when Wei Shenzhi's life as a human being comes to an end, Edgar will leave with him, because Wei Shenzhi has already "died"; If he is alive, Wei Shenzhi will not die.

Time will stay on him forever, and he will always be only 27 years old, which can be regarded as a kind of immortality in disguise.As long as he is still alive in this world, the Taoism of the Wei family will not perish.Maybe he can pass this spell to someone with a different surname again like Li Qingyi, so as to ensure the continuity of the spell.

The Wei family was once successful in cultivating Taoism, and it was also destroyed in cultivating Taoism.Now that things have happened, Wei Siyun no longer cares whether the person who inherits this practice is surnamed Wei or not.From the end of Ming Dynasty to the present, the Wei family has never had the chance to inherit this spell.As for whether Wei Shenzhi chooses to accept disciples from now on, or chooses to be the heir of the last line until the doomsday comes, it has nothing to do with her to die together with this practice.

"Yes, Grandma, I will try."

Wei Shenzhi said so.Edgar, who was standing beside Wei Siyun, showed a gentle smile, and then held his hand.

This is so good...

I finally have the strength to protect you, my... Lord Earl...

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From then on, Wei Shenzhi lived the life of a college entrance examination student.Not only was he dragged up by his grandmother to meditate before dawn every morning, but he ran back to the house in a mess after twelve o'clock at night to seek comfort from Edgar.However, Edgar didn't always stay here. After all, Wei Shenzhi practiced spells here, so someone was still in charge of communicating with the outside world.Edgar has been in charge of contacting Wei Tianci and the others. If there is any urgent situation in the company that requires Wei Shenzhi to come forward, Wei Shenzhi will still make a trip.

In fact, Wei Siyun still gave him two days off every month.So in the past two days, he always went out to play wildly, and then came back hard to continue to accept the inhuman torture.

Wei Shenzhi was forced by Wei Siyun to practice swordsmanship every morning and evening.The Wei family's swordsmanship has a very strange name called "33 Heavens Dust-Breaking Sword". The origin of the name is unknown, but it was relayed by Lu Xiangu. The 33 Heavens refers to the 33 Heavens considered by Taoism, and there are 33 sword techniques in the 33 Heavens Duanchen Sword, which need to correspond to the five elements to practice successfully.If you blindly pursue swordsmanship, but cannot keep up with comprehension and spells, then the sword moves are just superficial.Therefore, Wei Shenzhi went to study the Book of Changes at noon every day, practice spells in the afternoon, and go stargazing with his grandmother at night...

He felt that he had almost time traveled to a certain fairy tale cultivation novel.Of course, if "33 Heavens Dust Dust Sword" had corresponding martial arts or cultivation methods, he would feel that this world is even more unreal.

Fortunately, Edgar has been encouraging him during this period, for example, when he was paralyzed on the ground and did not want to move, he would use words to provoke him, or when he was complacent because of his small success, he would not hesitate to draw out the black long knife to chop Turn him over.Looking at Edgar holding a black long knife, Wei Shenzhi felt that the world was even more unreal—how could he have imagined that five years ago, he would be able to hold a three-foot green blade and slash vampires one day...

Finally, one day, when Wei Shenzhi was able to beat Edgar with one and a half moves occasionally, the brown-haired man finally dropped the long knife in his hand and hugged him fiercely.The grandmother who was on the sidelines also smiled and stepped forward to hold his hand, with tears in her long and narrow phoenix eyes.

"Sure enough, your physique has completely changed..." Wei Siyun stroked his slightly long hair, even his voice was choked up, and his words were somewhat incoherent, "I can already hand over the Wei family to you .On this day...I never dared to think about it...I never thought...the Wei family's Taoism...can have successors..."

At this moment, less than two years have passed since the day when Wei Shenzhi worshiped Lu Changsheng and Li Qingyi for the first time.