Tuogu

Author: Tu Longshi

Tuogu

At the end of the speech, Lao Wei seemed to be tired, his voice became lower and lower, and his body gradually became limp.

Qi Jing was shocked and quickly sat down. He gently held the back of Old Wei's head with his hands and asked him to lie down against his legs: "Old Wei, if you have any unfulfilled wishes, just ask and I will grant it."

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Old Wei shook his head slightly, as if he was helpless: "You have a bad temper, you always like to take over everything, and you are soft-eared, so you are easily fooled and suffer losses. The case of bankruptcies is just a letter of surrender, and the pillow theft case and the murder case

Among the corpse cases, which one has something to do with you? Others are afraid to avoid it, but it's better for you to hurry up and get closer!"

Qi Jingzhi forced out a laugh and pretended to be relaxed: "You have only known me for a few days? Those who want to harm me never end well. After all...what else do you wish for?"

"Hey, Old Wei, I actually have more than one unkind request."

Qi Jingzhi immediately waved his hand proudly: "You are the one who praises me for loving everything, so one more person doesn't matter!"

Old Wei still shook his head, but with a smile on his face: "First of all, people all over the world say that my red gold sword was given by an immortal, but actually... I stole it..."

Seeing that Old Wei's aura was a little weak, Qi Jingzhi quickly talked to him and said, "The original owner of such a treasure must be extraordinary, and he will keep a close watch on it. How could you, an ordinary person, steal it?"

"You don't need to be so anxious. I know how long my old man can live. I won't die in the middle of a sentence."

Old Wei actually made a joke, and then continued what he had said before: "It's really stolen! When I was young, I worked as a day laborer in Baiyungong, Jiuzhen County, Liaozhou. One night I was woken up by urination. As soon as I went out, I saw a

The immortal fell from the sky and fell into the locked and uninhabited courtyard next door. Well, I didn't know about strangers and monks at the time, so I really thought it was an immortal."

"Although the yard next door is locked, there is actually a dog hole in the corner... In short, I saw with my own eyes that the immortal put a red gold bead into the hole of a locust tree and said that he wanted to stay in Baiyun.

When the palace understands the golden punishment method of the god Si Qiu, he will come to pick you up in as little as a hundred years or as little as a century. You can guess what happens next even if I don't tell you."

Speaking of this perhaps the most unforgettable past event in his life, Old Wei's face suddenly had an inexplicable look.

"You also heard that something was wrong, right? In fact, I also thought about it afterwards. I just couldn't bear the benefits brought by the red gold sword. I just wanted to live happily every day before that person came to my door. I didn't expect it to happen.

Just let me live on tenterhooks for decades! Hey, I am really on tenterhooks and carefree at the same time!"

Qi Jingzhi nodded silently. With his intelligence, he had naturally heard that something was wrong. How could a great monk who could fly into the sky and escape from the earth not notice the prying eyes of a mere mortal?

As for the Baiyun Temple, it is a palace dedicated to the god of Si Qiu, who is the main seat of the four seasons among the eight gods. It is not surprising at first, but when I think of the Baiyun Temple in my pillow dream, which is only one word different, I can't help but feel worried.

Made some guesses.

But this moment was obviously not the time to explore these details, so he asked: "What do you want, Old Wei?"

"No matter what other people's original intentions were, if I took it without telling them, it would be a theft. It's time for the property to be returned to its original owner! It's still a long time away. Whenever you have time, put the red gold sword back there for me.

Go into the tree hole. If the locust tree is gone, you can just find a place to bury it in Baiyun Palace."

Lao Wei said it indifferently, but Qi Jingzhi nodded solemnly: "We will definitely do it!"

"Hey! Because an old man who met by chance said some nonsense before he died, he had to run thousands of miles to hide a treasure that can prosper the family in a tree hole and bury it in the soil. Only a fool would do this!"

He continued without waiting for Qi Jingzhi to speak: "The second thing is much easier. You can burn my body on the spot later!"

"I, Old Wei, have been slaying demons all my life, and I don't want to end up like this when I die! Just throw the ashes here. If you don't mind it, you can carve a few words on the stone where I lie.

I’ve thought about everything and just decided to…”

"The tomb of Wei Jun, the late son of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the Grand Marshal of the Forbidden Army!"

He paused, and a bright smile broke out on his face: "I, Jin Dao Wei, use the mountain as my coffin, and I have the image of a human king! Hahahaha..."

Old Wei's joyful and desolate laughter stopped suddenly, and he was actually breathless!——

Under the dim blood-colored light, the young man sat silently for a long time.

In the silent silence, a breeze seemed to blow into the stone room, and the lamp on the silver candlestick suddenly shook and made a soft snapping sound.

Qi Jingzhi suddenly came back to his senses. He looked around blankly at first, then slowly lowered his head and gently placed Old Wei's head on the stone bed.

Then, he changed from sitting cross-legged to half-kneeling, thinking about dressing Old Wei first, but found that Old Wei's body was still entangled with the white snake, so he had to pull out Qi Huchan who had nailed the snake corpse first.

Qi Jingzhi pulled out slowly and carefully to prevent residual poisonous blood from splashing out.

As the sharp knife was pulled out little by little, large and small shallow pits on the blade appeared in the young man's eyes, and there were densely packed small gaps on the blade and the back of the blade.

When Qi Jingzhi saw this, his heart felt painful again, and he quickly looked carefully at the light of the blood flames.

Soon, he fixed his gaze on the inner part of the blade closest to the hilt, where there was a faint curl of light.

Qi Jingzhi stared at it for a while, and saw that although the glimmer of light was not very bright, it had no intention of weakening any further, so he breathed a sigh of relief.

"My brother has suffered this time. If you bear with it for a little longer, brother will definitely find a way to restore your old outlook!"

After saying that, he wiped Qi Huchan's blade on the clean area of ​​the snake corpse that was not stained with blood, carefully put it back into its sheath, and then started to move the snake corpse.

Such demons who poison all living beings do not deserve to be buried with Old Wei!

After a lot of effort, he separated Old Wei from the snake corpse.

Only now did he have the mood to examine the soul mask that was still covering the face of the snake corpse.

The white snake once pestered Old Wei and bit him in vain for a long time, but it never realized the existence of the mask. This shows that it went completely crazy after having a dream.

At this time, the hole torn open by the black evil needle at the eye socket of the mask has been closed again, and only the two original scars remain intact.

Qi Jingzhi stretched out his left hand and was about to tear off the soul mask. Suddenly his palm tightened, as if something was squeezing out.

The thing was about the size of a palm, round in shape, and seemed heavy when embedded in the flesh, but it felt no pain at all.

"This is...a small bronze mirror?"

Without looking at it with his eyes, this idea naturally came to Qi Jingzhi's mind.

At this moment, the head of the snake corpse suddenly bounced out of the air, and it was about to drive its body to jump out of the stone bed.

Qi Jingzhi's eyes narrowed, and without thinking, he stopped the snake's head in the direction of the bounce with the palm of his left hand.

The next moment, the snake's head and a small half of its body disappeared into the palm of his left hand.

The snake's body slowed down a bit, then suddenly seemed to be pulled hard by something. It picked up speed again and disappeared completely in the blink of an eye.

Seeing this, Qi Jingzhi couldn't help but remain silent.

In the previous dream on the pillow, although the small bronze mirror showed its true shape through the blessing of the dream, it seemed to lack interest in the illusory things inside, and its brilliance was restrained from beginning to end, just like an ordinary thing.

Now that it has broken out of the dream, it has become energetic and runs out again to take advantage of it.

It's just that this time, the small bronze mirror must be credited with merit. After all, who would have thought that the white snake could still freeze and not die after losing its heart.

If there hadn't been a mirror, the evil snake that killed Old Wei might have been let go if he wasn't careful.

If you encounter similar situations in the future, be sure to remember to hit the target and then use the mirror to verify it.

Keeping this lesson in mind, Qi Jingzhi raised his left hand and looked at his palm.

This time, the small bronze mirror appeared directly in his palm as if in a dream, and there was no need to hold it, as if it was born in the bones and flesh of his left hand.

However, Qi Jingzhi felt carefully that his original bones, skin and flesh seemed to be intact.

Just like when he was holding a silver candlestick, he had one foot in the human world and one foot in the underworld. This mirror seemed to be between reality and reality, as if it existed and was not there yet. In short, it gave him a very strange feeling.

Thinking of the silver candlestick, Qi Jingzhi's heart moved and he immediately put the small bronze mirror in front of the candlestick to check.

But he allowed him to look at it again and again for a long time, but he couldn't see anything different about this mirror from the past. Not to mention the faint light like Qi Huchan's, even the original clear light was not visible, just like it appeared in a dream. Their true form is the same, simple and unpretentious, just like ordinary things.

In desperation, he looked at the mirror, but it was as dark as before.

A white snake was suspended in the mirror out of thin air, still wearing a soul mask on its face. The seven-inch gap was filled by the surrounding silver scales, making those scales appear to be extraordinarily large.

The small characters that were as erratic as smoke appeared as usual: "Qiuji corpse, the dragon species that the sky hates, dead but not stiff, the soul of the mind is preserved, the poison is black, cold in nature, sour in taste, highly toxic, can avoid poison and water .”

However, Qi Jingzhi was inexplicably shocked when he read the few dozen words.

It turns out that this white snake is called Qiu Jie, and it is the so-called Tianyan dragon species.

That's all. After all, even the Black Donkey Spirit has the name of Ghost Dragon. Qi Jingzhi has become accustomed to having his hand touched by a small bronze mirror every time he kills monsters, and then gets some weird gadgets. But I never expected that what the mirror would produce this time would be so incredible.

Is it that the small bronze mirror itself has such a miraculous power, or is it because of several strange things inside and outside the dream that are entangled in one place, that they are regarded as one by the mirror?

The so-called mind-preserving soul corpse should be similar to the giant human-headed snake with three thoughts integrated into the pillow in the dream. The remnant thoughts of the Saint of the White Immortal Sect were contained in the original soul corpse. I think it can be read like Lu Yunzi's remnants.

As for the poisonous black evil, does it mean that the poison in its blood merges with the black evil needle?

During the previous fight, Old Wei sent the black evil needle to penetrate the white snake's left eye. At this time, it was impossible to see where the black evil corpse was hidden in the mirror.

While he was thinking about it, the small bronze mirror suddenly disappeared, leaving only a silver-white snake corpse.

Qi Jingzhi took the so-called corpse in his hands and immediately found that it was much lighter than before. It seemed that there was no bones and flesh inside, and it was indeed dead and not stiff. The layers of fur on a donkey's head are similar to each other.

As for "being able to avoid poison and water", it is reasonable that the Qiuji itself is poisonous and is a species of dragon.

Qi Jingzhi compared the long strip on his body, which was more like leather than a snake corpse, and a thought came to his mind: "It seems that... it can be used as a belt?"

He shook his head and threw the shriveled body toward the bedside, letting it stay with the jade pillow that had affected so many lives.

Immediately, Qi Jingzhi stretched out his hand towards the red gold sword, intending to put the short sword that had lost its light at some point on the bedside.

To prevent accidents, he used his right hand.
To be continued...