The Monk

Chapter 14 Zhang Ai and the Old Man ()

After a while, a cold voice in the air replied: "Now that you have the God-Destroying Snake in your hand, all misunderstandings can be explained. If you want a treasure, I'll give it to you." The voice was dry and full of anguish. Then a breeze blew up, and an old man with white hair stood in the grass. Zhang Wen used his spiritual consciousness to check, but there was no reaction. He knew that the old man's cultivation was definitely higher than his own, so he bowed and said respectfully: "Disciple pays homage to your senior. I wonder what his name is?"

The old man's face was expressionless, and his cold eyes swept over Zhang Afraid and the four white snakes. Many ideas flashed through his mind. He even sighed for a long time and said: "Friend Taoist, why do you have to make fun of me? You have four snakes that subdue the gods. Killing me is as easy as picking something out of a bag. Besides, since I dare to come out to see you, I don't care about life and death. It's up to you to take me away or kill me." After saying this, he closed his eyes and looked resigned.

Zhang was afraid that he was surprised and asked: "Why did senior say this? Why should I kill you? I just have something I don't understand and I want to ask senior."

The old man did not open his eyes and said disdainfully: "If you want to kill, you have to scrape and do whatever you want. Why humiliate me? I have seen too many tricks of you humans, but I just can't see that a young boy has such a plan. Alas."

Zhang was afraid that he was completely confused and said hurriedly: "You and I have no grudges. Why do you think I want to kill you?"

The old man sneered: "Yes, cats and mice, that's how humans like to play." Speaking of what suddenly occurred to him, he opened his eyes and said: "I have something to ask for, just take me away. I have hundreds of thousands of years to live." Yuan, please let Fu'er go."

When Zhang was afraid of seeing what he said, the old man pretended not to hear, and waved his hands anxiously. When the old man saw it, his face darkened: "Yes, people are greedy, how could we let Fu'er's spirit body go? That's all, we just think that we deserve our fate." in this way."

The old man talked more and more nonsense. Zhang was afraid that he would not persuade him, so he sat down and watched the old man talk nonsense.

The old man waited for a long time, but the other party still made no move. After checking with his spiritual consciousness, he found that the person who had cultivated during the Qi Refining Period was still there, so he couldn't help but ask: "Why don't you take action?"

Zhang Awei said calmly: "Sit down and chat. It's so tiring to stand. You ask me to do it. Why should I do it?" The old man was stunned, and various thoughts flashed through his mind. Could it be that this young man really didn't know anything? So he sat down and asked, "Why did you let Fu'er go?"

"Fu'er is that little boy? Wearing a red bellyband and braided to the sky?"

The old man said: "Yes, why did you let him go?"

"What are you going to do if you don't let him go? Take him on a trip?" Zhang Ai was helpless.

"Don't you realize there's something special about him?" The old man stared nervously and was afraid to ask.

"What's special? Ah, you mean he is full of spiritual energy? Indeed, Fu'er is the person with the most spiritual energy I have ever seen in my life. It's so scary. My little snake seems to have taken a few bites and absorbed some of it. Senior "The little snake is still young and not very sensible, so don't be angry."

The old man had been guessing whether Zhang Awei's words were true, but Zhang Awei's expression was as usual, and he didn't look like he was lying. He asked again: "You really don't know what Fu'er is?"

"What is it? Isn't it a human being?" Zhang Ai said casually.

The old man decided to take a gamble. If he couldn't give a satisfactory answer, he didn't know what the young man would do, so he told the truth: "Fu'er is indeed not a human, he is a ten thousand-year spiritual ginseng." At the same time, he secretly pinched the magic formula in his hand and was cautious. .

Zhang Ain was stunned for a moment after hearing this: "Ten thousand-year spiritual ginseng? It seems that it is really not a human being. No wonder it is full of spiritual energy and has lived for such a long time."

Zhang Ai's reaction surprised the old man and asked, "Are you really a cultivator?"

"Oh my God, why do you have so many questions? Of course I do." As he spoke, he patted his Taoist robe and continued: "Did you see that I am a disciple of the Ziguang Pavilion of Tianlei Taoist Temple? I have reached the top level of Qi refining stage at the age of sixteen. "Zhang was afraid that while bragging about himself, he would appropriately conceal the fact that he was a coward.

The old man was stunned after hearing this, remembering his hard years of training, and murmured: "Sixteen years old? Reaching the top level at the age of sixteen, what a good person you are." After sighing, he asked: "You must have taken some magic medicine, right?"

Zhang Ai shook his head: "How can there be so many elixirs? I don't know how I got them. Anyway, I have reached the top level." He grabbed four small snakes and spread them in his palms: "They should have played a big role, but I can't get them." Clear these."

Zhang Ai grabbed the little snake and spoke, and the old man instinctively retreated. Zhang Ai quickly said sorry and put the little snake back into his chest.

The old man smiled bitterly, waved his hand slightly, and asked again: "Don't you want to take Fu'er and go back to refine the elixir? After taking it, your cultivation will skyrocket, maybe it will rise several levels in a row."

"When Little Snake first captured him, I had that thought, but he was so cute, and I couldn't kill one to save another, so I let him go."

"What about now? You already know that he is not a human, but just a ginseng plant. You should want to capture him, right?" The old man asked. Zhang Ain thought for a moment, shook his head and said, "I still don't want to." He looked at the huge pig corpse not far away. , asked: "Is this why you brought monsters to kill me?"

The old man smiled bitterly: "That's right. I heard Fu'er said that he was caught by four little snakes and then let go. I didn't think much about it at the time, thinking that he was controlled by magic and you just wanted to let him go to catch the big fish. But I He carefully checked Fu'er's body and found that there were no restrictions. He also used his spiritual consciousness to search the surroundings, but found nothing. He thought that the person Fu'er met was a true and kind person. As soon as he felt relieved, you slowly came over and found out that you were not good enough. You are a top-level Qi Refining disciple, so you didn’t pay much attention to it, but you stopped near the cave. I thought you found the cave, so I sent monsters up there, but I didn’t expect that you actually had four divine snakes.”

Zhang was afraid that he had heard clearly, so he pointed to his chest and asked, "Is this snake called Fushen?"

"you do not know?"

Zhang Ai said: "I don't know, please give me some advice from senior." Remembering what the old man said just now, he asked again: "Senior just kept saying that I would take you away. Isn't senior also a human being?"

The old man glanced at Zhang Wen with a calm expression and could not tell what he was thinking. He replied: "I am also a ten thousand-year spiritual ginseng. I can't remember whether I have lived for 700,000 years or 800,000 years."

"Oh my god, seven hundred thousand years? How did you survive?" Zhang Ai was quite surprised.

The old man finally believed that Zhang Weifang had no ill intentions towards him, otherwise he would have been captured early on. Why waste so much words? He explained: "The reason why I can live so long is because I know a secret that is all-encompassing. I can probably do it with you."

Zhang Wen was interested: "What secret can keep you alive for so long?"

The old man said: "Don't worry, I'll explain it step by step. Let's talk about this snake first. The name of the snake is Fushen. It is a monster with great supernatural powers and is even called a mythical beast. The Fushen snake likes to be quiet and it is extremely difficult to get pregnant. Once pregnant, It can lay more than a hundred eggs, but not all of the hundreds of snake eggs can hatch into baby snakes. It is very impressive to hatch two or three snakes."

"After the Fushen female snake is pregnant, she will distribute a large amount of spiritual energy to the eggs, and her own magic power will become extremely low. After laying the eggs, the female snake will collect the eggs together and hatch them. The Fushen snake eggs are extremely hard, what kind of black iron gold essence It is not a problem at all, so the young snake must absorb a large amount of spiritual energy to break out of the shell, but the spiritual energy evenly distributed to the snake eggs cannot meet the requirements. Therefore, when the female snake hatches, she will use her soul to control the spiritual energy of the snake eggs and gather them into several of them. In the eggs, we gather everyone's strength to let them break out of their shells and hatch. The Fushen snakes are very spiritual and know that snake eggs are good materials for refining weapons. They do not want their descendants to be turned into weapons, magic weapons and other items, so the other snakes cannot hatch. The eggs will be swallowed by the female snake over a period of time.”

Speaking of this, Zhang Ai finally understood how Uncle Zhenyi and others captured the Fushen Snake, and also understood why he was able to hatch four little snakes. The tears were condensed from the female snake's soul and contained a lot of spiritual power. He built a bridge between them. That’s all.

The old man continued: "The Snake has great magical powers. Its eyes can shoot ice flames, its mouth can spray venom and flames, its scales are extremely hard, and it has no wings to fly. It is really a magical beast in the world. Fortunately, the Snake is happy. Jing, there are not many, otherwise it’s hard to say what the world would be like. You have four baby snakes, which really surprises me.”

Zhang was afraid of being criticized. This was just a boy's temperament. He twisted up the strip and looked at it before his eyes. He muttered: "I don't know how capable you are. Please protect me from now on." Then he asked the old man: "Little snake, what's next Awesome, you don’t have to come to die, you won’t run away?”

The old man sighed: "Monsters of this level are the natural nemesis of grass spirits and monsters. No matter how high my cultivation level is, I can only kill them in front of them. No matter how far I run, they will catch up with them through their spiritual energy. Not to mention you have four, so I usually ask Fu'er not to come out because I'm afraid something will happen."