Strange Tales: The Yin-Yang Celestial Master

When Luo Lang woke up the next day, his first reaction was to turn his head to look to the side, but there was nothing——Qi Buyang was gone.

A flash of surprise quickly flashed across his face, which immediately dissipated the good mood he had just woken up. When he walked out of the room with dissatisfaction, he saw Butler Qi and Lin Huaigan outside the door. There was also a pot of tea on the table, obviously it had been waiting for a long time.

"Where's Qi Buyang?" Luo Lang asked bluntly.

Butler Qi didn't seem to hear his question, but said politely: "Mr. Luo woke up? Did you sleep well last night?"

Luo Lang narrowed his eyes dangerously and asked, "Stop pretending to me, where did you get Qi Buyang?"

"How do you say that?" Butler Qi seemed determined to pretend to be stupid to the end, "The young master is the head of our Qi family. How can we control where he wants to go?"

"Really?" Luo Lang felt his anger rushing straight to the top of his head, and he really wanted to take the pot of tea and pour it over the heads of these two people. I stomped my face and heard a few loud "bang bang bang", the doors of the three rooms next door and on the opposite side fell outward one after another, and many people fell out of it, falling into a mess in embarrassment.Looking at their attire, apart from the disciples of the Qi family, there are also people from the Lin family.

"Is this how you treat the boss?" Luo Lang glanced sharply at the two people sitting there drinking tea, "Are you trying to spy on me, or Qi Buyang?"

"Of course it's you." Butler Qi put down his teacup and stood up, no longer pretending to be polite, and said bluntly: "We are very clear about the reason. I didn't guard against you before because the deadline has not yet come. I believe you, Mr. Luo, will not." You will do something that violates your promise, but it is different now, the young master is over 17 years old, and the Qi family will never let you harm our family."

Luo Lang snorted coldly, his tone was full of disdain and arrogance, "If I want to do something to Qi Buyang, are you guys able to guard against me?"

Butler Qi frowned. He also knew that Luo Lang was not a mortal. They probably had no chance of winning against this kind of person, but how could they watch the young master who grew up day by day be taken away?Thinking of this, he stubbornly straightened his back and met Luo Lang's gaze, "This is our business!"

"Okay." Seeing this person desperately defending Qi Buyang, Luo Lang suddenly became less angry, and even resumed his usual smirk, rubbing his eyes pretendingly and saying, "Then I'll wait and see." After speaking, he turned around He left, and after a pause, he turned around and asked, "You haven't told me where Qi Buyang is yet." With a relaxed expression, it seemed that Housekeeper Qi would definitely tell him.

Butler Qi stared at him for a long while, then reluctantly said: "...The young master only said that he wanted to go for a walk, but he didn't say where he was going."

Luo Lang left without looking back.

Seeing him leave, Housekeeper Qi turned around and asked Lin Huaiqian puzzledly: "Master Lin, why did you ask me to tell him the whereabouts of the young master? If he found it, he would strike at him..."

"He won't." Lin Huaigan leisurely put down the teacup in his hand.

"You trust him that much?"

"No," he shook his head, "Xiaoyang believed him."

Butler Qi sighed and sat down next to him, "I know the young master regards him as a friend, but even the master can't figure out his thoughts, who knows what he will do, so I ask you to come and help me." After a pause Dun added worriedly: "He is not an ordinary person, is there really a way to deal with it?"

Lin Huaiqian filled his teacup calmly, "Don't worry, it's not time yet."

Butler Qi glanced at the inscrutable face of the Patriarch of the Lin family, but couldn't see clearly the eyes behind the pair of sunglasses. He only felt that the worry in his heart had not subsided, but had intensified instead.

...

Old man Zhang was about to have lunch... if there was no unlucky kid next to him staring at him.

Swallowing, he had no choice but to put down the food in his hands, and pretended to be calm and said: "Bu Yang, you came to see me, there must be something wrong?"

Qi Buyang opened his mouth, but still didn't know what to say, so he pursed his lips hesitantly.

"About the 17-year period?"

Qi Buyang nodded, then shook his head quickly.

At this time, a strange "grunt" sound came out tremblingly, the sound was so loud that even the golden retriever sleeping at the old man's feet could hear it, and suddenly raised its head, but it hit the chair leg with its head, making a louder sound, It stayed in a daze for a while and then fell asleep.Qi Buyang looked down at his stomach, and blushed instantly.He ran out from home early in the morning, skipped breakfast for the first time, and was already very hungry.

The old man sighed silently, reluctantly handed out the food in his hand: "Have you not eaten yet?"

When the little celestial master, who was still embarrassed a second ago, heard this sentence, his eyes lit up instantly, and his eyes almost glowed when he saw old man Zhang.But a good tutor still made him hesitate, "Is it really possible? Then what do you do?"

"I still have it there, eat it quickly, you can't be hungry when you are growing your body." The old man said casually, his eyes couldn't help but drift to the paper bag that exudes the smell of food, and his goatee trembled , gritted his teeth and stuffed the paper bag into the hands of the little celestial master.

"Thank you, Grandpa Zhang!" Qi Buyang took it and carefully tore off the wrapping paper.

Seeing that he was eating happily, the old man spoke again, "What did you want to say just now?" After a pause, he said, "Don't worry, I promise not to tell your grandpa. Is that okay?"

Qi Buyang's expression changed, and he tried hard to swallow the food in his mouth, "It's mana...Grandpa Zhang, will the mana of the celestial master disappear?"

"impossible."

The old man's categorical answer made Qi Buyang very disappointed, but the other party quickly added: "Except for extremely special circumstances."

"What's the situation?" Qi Buyang asked quickly.

"The power of celestial masters has been passed down from generation to generation, and blood is the root of all our spells. This is unquestionable, but this kind of power is not forever, and it will become thinner and thinner as time goes by—— In other words, with the inheritance of blood, our mana is actually not as good as one generation after another."

Unsurprisingly, seeing the shock on the face of the little celestial master, the old man Zhang said clearly: "Your grandfather never told you this, did he? He didn't even read it in the book?"

Qi Buyang shook his head with his mouth open.

"I knew he would be like this. Old Freak Qi really put away all the books with relevant records, and I'm afraid they are all hidden in his old box." Old man Zhang stroked his beard and said, "People who noticed this There are not many, and the records left are pitifully small, he won’t let you read the book, and he won’t tell you, so naturally no one will know.”

"Grandpa Zhang, what's going on?! Tell me quickly!" Qi Buyang felt as if he had found a clue that he had lost all his mana.

Old man Zhang hesitated a bit, "If old monster Qi knew that I told you this, he would definitely die of anger, ah, no, he should come here to die with me before he died..." Speaking of which, he was still exaggerating shaking his goatee.

Seeing that he didn't say anything, Qi Buyang became anxious, "I won't tell grandpa! Just tell me! I must know this! I..." He bit his lip and confessed: "Actually, my mana appeared before Problems, all but gone now..."

The old man frowned when he heard this, his joking attitude was gone, "Bu Yang, reach out and let me have a look."

The old man's rarely serious expression looked as majestic as his grandfather's, and Qi Buyang obediently rolled up his sleeves, letting him put two fingers on his wrist.A thin electric current passed through the pulse, and entered, entered, and inside the body along the arm. Qi Buyang raised his head and found that the old man Zhang frowned even tighter.

After a while, the old man withdrew his hand, shook his head and said, "I really can't feel your magic power. When did this happen?"

"About a month ago, there was a moment when my mana was blocked and I couldn't use it. I thought it was an illusion at the time, but after a while, I began to feel that the mana was getting weaker and weaker. Until a few days ago, I couldn't activate the magic no matter what. It seems that all the mana has disappeared." Qi Buyang said distressedly.

Old man Zhang asked him, "Does your grandfather know about this?"

Qi Buyang shook his head.

"It's better not to let him know for the time being, so as not to cause trouble when Old Freak Qi gets angry." Old man Zhang shook his head helplessly, and asked again: "Apart from mana, is there anything unusual during this time? ?”

Qi Buyang thought for a while, then took out the dragon jade around his neck.

Old man Zhang's eyes lit up, "This is the soul-suppressing jade that Mr. Luo gave you?"

"Well. But it also began to have cracks inexplicably more than a month ago, and there are more and more cracks. Speaking of which, the problem with this jade is about the same as the problem with my mana." Qi Buyang said, putting the jade pendant Put it in the palm of your hand and show it to the old man—the original green green color faded to light green at some point, and the tiny cracks spreading on Panlong's body made the whole piece of jade look precarious, as if it would break if touched.

"Will it break?" Qi Buyang asked worriedly.This is what Luo Lang gave him, and he hopes to keep it, and if Luo Lang finds out that the thing he gave him has been damaged, maybe he will throw himself into the Dragon Lake to feed that old dragon... Thinking about it Here, he couldn't help shivering.

"Not yet." The old man replied absent-mindedly, his eyes still fixed on the piece of jade, while twisting his beard in deep thought.After a long while, he opened his mouth again: "I think your magic power may not disappear, but the power of your blood has fallen into a deep sleep, so you can't activate it."

"Will the power of the bloodline also disappear?"

"Sometimes it will." The old man said: "When the heavenly master reaches your generation, the blood is not as stable and strong as the old ancestors at that time. When I was young, I looked through some books and found that there is a record that once the body is too weak. , or the soul is destructively damaged, or the incompatibility of the soul and the body may cause the blood of the celestial master to enter or fall into a deep sleep, which is what you call the disappearance of mana. But if these conditions exist, that person is not far from death..." Realizing that he had made a slip of the tongue, the old man hurriedly coughed a few times: "But don't worry, these records are incomplete, and have a long history, which does not match the situation of recent generations. Maybe it's just because of the weak inheritance power. just disappeared."

"It's the incompatibility of spirit and flesh, isn't it?" Qi Buyang asked softly.He looked at his hands and suddenly felt a little strange, as if he was looking at another person's hands.Grandpa said that he was born with a broken soul, because a part of Luo Lang's original soul survived, and later he almost died because the two souls did not blend together, and it was also because Luo Lang found the soul-suppressing jade that he saved his life If the blood was dormant due to the incomplete soul, he would not have mana from the beginning, but his mana is not weak, and he has lived healthy until now, then the only thing that can be thought of is "the incompatibility of spirit and flesh".

This body should have died after birth, but the original soul that Luo Lang forcibly injected came back to life, but from the very beginning, the body was very fragile, and the connection with the soul was also weak, which also caused him to suffer from insomnia since he was a child. Insufficient qi and dead, too much qi. When I was a child, I went out with my grandfather. When I saw him, I frowned. Everyone knew that with such a body, he couldn't live long. He could survive until now thanks to the power of the soul-suppressing magic weapon. Now the dragon Jade's energy has also lost most of it, probably at its limit.

He moved his fingers, and found that the reaction of his fingertips seemed to be unobviously slow, and suddenly a strange idea came to his mind, and he faintly felt that Luo Lang's decision of this seemingly unreasonable 17-year period seemed to have him. reason.

Old man Zhang saw that he bowed his head in silence, and felt very uncomfortable. He patted his back quickly and comforted him: "Eat quickly, the food will be cold. Don't worry too much, fill your stomach first, don't worry, There will always be a way, there will always be a way..." Repeating the last sentence seemed to be saying to himself.

Qi Buyang nodded, he didn't want the old man to worry about him.

Luo Lang came to him before he finished eating, and the first thing he said was: "Qi Buyang, I've been looking for you so hard, don't you know that I'm worried?"

Qi Buyang and old man Zhang trembled together, and the old man turned his head with an expression of disbelief and asked, "What's wrong with him?"

Qi Buyang opened his mouth and said slowly: "...Recently, the annual emotional drama is broadcast on TV."

Luo Lang was satisfied with their reactions, and only then found the paper bag in Qi Buyang's hand, "What are you eating?"

Qi Buyang replied suspiciously: "Hamburger."

"Where did it come from?"

"Uh..." The little celestial master righteously did not confess to old man Zhang, but his eyes drifted in the direction of the old man subconsciously.

"Give it back to him, what's so delicious about this kind of thing." Luo Lang glanced at the old man with a beard shaking with anger, and seeing Qi Buyang's reluctance, he added thoughtfully: "I Please eat candied haws."

How can that kind of thing be eaten as a meal.Qi Buyang muttered quietly in his heart, but he didn't dare to say it out.In the end, he compromised, and returned the small, triangular hamburger to old man Zhang full of guilt. Seeing the old man's beard blowing his beard and his eyes bursting with anger, he quickly apologized, but Luo Lang took it away just as he was about to take it back. up.