Chapter Eight: The True Secret of Xuanyang;
After Huangtu returned to Jiuteng Town, he did not stay in the temple to serve the gods; with the help of the old mayor, he entered the high school in the county, and it was the No. 1 Middle School with the best teaching quality.
Although the school is more than fifty miles away from the town and the mountain roads are rugged, it usually takes four or five hours to travel back and forth on weekdays. However, Huangtu has always lived in the temple. As long as it is not Saturdays and Sundays, it has to travel back and forth every day, regardless of wind and rain.
I got up early in the morning and returned at around 9 o'clock in the evening.
Although people were puzzled, no one asked about it. After all, the errand of temple blessings was mysterious. Anyway, according to children who were also in the county, Loess had never been late. All kinds of magical things even dispelled people's desire to find out.
On the contrary, because he often helps others with small things, such as students' learning tools, it is very popular among the people in the town. Occasionally, some people say bad things about Huangtu, which will be heard in the ears of his aunt and old lady, and they will soon be scolded for being scolded.
Loess never explained this.
He has had the habit of getting up early to exercise since he was a child. Although he slept late last night, it did not prevent him from getting up early.
Today, I don’t have to go to school to attend classes. As usual, after getting up early and washing, I will slowly run along the way north of the town.
Jiuteng Town is adjacent to the Yellow River in the north and Jiuteng Mountain in the east, and the scenery is picturesque. Especially the small town is quiet and leisurely, with birds singing and flowers scenting, which makes the loess most moved.
Passing through the forest where birds are singing, rushing to the edge of the Yellow River, and punching a few times on the beach, refreshingly; then performing land soaring techniques, running all the way to the top of the mountain, breathing and training qi on a big rock at the top, and welcoming the sun.
Jiuteng Jiu Peak, the fifth peak is the highest, with high mountains and steep cliffs, and few people arrive.
Loess took out some ghost-repelling objects in his pocket and prepared to collect the milder sun fire, including talismans, money, herbs, etc., as well as the little wooden man carved last night.
"It's a pity that the peach wood sword has been destroyed," Huangtu looked at the peach wood sword that was broken into two pieces, and still felt a pity. "It seems that we have to search for a sword magic weapon again, otherwise we will suffer a great loss when facing the enemy."
Loess has first-class martial arts skills, has practiced Xuanyang true energy, and has several weapons in his hand. Although they are not powerful, they are all very good at it. He knows a lot of magic formations and is proficient in mechanical arts and armor control techniques.
The only thing that is the most important and the most troublesome thing is spiritual power.
Spiritual power is the basis for casting spells and activating magic weapons. Without spiritual power, no matter how good the magic weapons are, they cannot be used. They are equivalent to waste.
The sloppy old man brought him into the threshold of cultivation, pointed out some key tips for talisman refining, and pointed out that he was the Xuanyang body that was invincible, which was the most suitable for cultivating Xuanyang true qi. He threw him a Xuanyang true qi and told him that as long as he practiced to the sixth level, the subsequent cultivation would be smooth all the way.
Huangtu has long memorized the Xuanyang True Art. This true art is divided into twelve levels and is powerful. According to the above, when practicing to the depths, it can move mountains and seas to swallow clouds and spit out mists, and it can fly to the sky and escape the earth and escape the gods and ghosts. When practicing to the top level, it can transform into a magnificent sun, immortal, and uninvasive evil.
But although this thing looks good, it is very difficult to practice. Huangtu has been practicing for eight years and has just broken through the middle stage of the second level. However, its power is not blown, it can attack or defend, and it is most suitable to protect the body and defend against the enemy. If I hadn't encountered an extremely evil thing like Yin Lei Bead last night, it would never have been broken.
Xuanyang true energy can support strong martial arts and can also activate weapons to exert powerful power. If the weapons are good enough, they can bring out Xuanyang true fire and burn everything.
Unfortunately, the old man only taught this.
Huangtu didn’t know what spiritual power was at that time. I heard some of it from the old man, but I didn’t care about it at all. I encountered a problem when I refining talismans and casting spells later.
I could see many magics clearly, but I could not use them at all. Only then did I remember that I did not have the means to train qi and gather spirits.
The practitioner refines the spiritual energy of heaven and earth into the body and forms spiritual power to activate magic weapons. The more abundant the spiritual power, the greater the power of the magic weapons it casts.
Later, when he traveled around and practiced under the Changsheng Pavilion in Zhongnan Mountain for a period of time, Huangtu learned some methods of practicing Qi into the body.
Unfortunately, his Xuanyang physique seemed to be insensitive to the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, and even a little repulsive. After practicing for five months, he did not make much progress, which is also an important reason why he was kicked out of the mountain gate.
However, Huangtu was not discouraged. After returning to Jiuteng Town, he would come to the top of the mountain to practice Qi and gather spirits whenever he had free time. Although his progress was still slow, he had made progress after all, and he could gradually cast some basic spells.
Originally, there were not many magic weapons available, and the peach wood sword was simple and easy to use and consumed less energy, which was a good choice. When he was studying art in Zhongnan Mountain, he heard that there were a century-old ancient peach in a certain valley, so he crossed mountains and ridges to seek it. It took a lot of effort to get it.
After succeeding, I carefully carved and practiced hard, and finally got it handy, but now...
No wonder Huangtu is so depressed. For a casual cultivator like him who has a low cultivation level, it is really difficult to find a magic weapon, especially a handy one!
The red sun squirts out to the sea, spreading light and dispelling the coolness, making people feel refreshed. The loess sits up to the sun, and the whole body is comfortable.
The sun's true fire at noon is too domineering and suitable for talisman refining, but not suitable for refining; the true fire at dusk is too thin and has poor effect; only the morning is the gentlest, not only full of spiritual energy, but also easy to refine. The loess refuse to miss the opportunity and quickly enters the state.
About an hour later, Huangtu suddenly opened his eyes and said to himself:
"How could this happen? Could it be that my method of driving away the cold last night was wrong?"
It turned out that when he was gathering spirits, he was also circulating the Xuanyang true qi with all his strength. When the true qi ran into a large circumference, the second time it started to run, it was slightly scattered at the foot of the left leg, and a small stream of Xuanyang true qi suddenly gathered into a ball, surrounding a certain place. This was the reaction when Xuanyang true qi automatically protected the master.
Huangtu's heart moved and he felt the changes in his meridians carefully. Sure enough, a faint cold air was hidden deep in the acupoints, swallowing his essence and blood. He looked down at his left leg and scratched several places when he dodged last night. Zusanli was the worst. Although he had not bleeded, his skin was already open.
After finding the source, the loess still tried to resolve the Xuanyang true qi that had just reached Yang, but the cold air was very slippery, as if I knew something was coming. Before the Xuanyang true qi came forward, I had already been hiding around. Although the place was small, it took more than ten minutes to revolve with the loess.
When the Xuanyang true energy surrounded the cold air and tried to refine it, a heart-pounding aura came from it, as if the demon king from the depths of the Nine Netherworld rushed out with supreme force and wanted to destroy everything in the world.
The loess suppressed the uneasiness in his heart and refined it quietly, but beyond his expectations, the Xuanyang true energy, which was blown by the old man, seemed to have encountered an opponent. No matter how he adjusted, he always had no choice but to use this subtle cold air.
That thing is like a thousand-year-old reef and cannot be refined at all!
"The Yin Lei Bead actually has such great power. It seems that I underestimated its power."
The loess can only use the Xuanyang energy and supplement the refined Jiutian true fire to suppress the cold air. Fortunately, the cold air seemed to be a little afraid of the Jiutian true fire, but it just shrank into a ball and did not go to other places to make trouble.
However, what made Huangtu worried was that although there were two great true qi suppression, it could still be felt that it was slowly strengthening. It turned out that this thing not only corrupted muscles and bones, but also swallowed people's essence and blood without any trace. This thing was like a throbbing bone, which was extremely sinister. Even if there were two great yang objects suppressed, it did not completely stop being driven to grow.
"So evil and domineering. If you let it grow so strong, it will sooner or later break through the seal, penetrate into the internal organs, and damage the meridians. At that time, I will have to let it slaughter!" Huang Tu frowned slightly and thought to himself, "No, you must not stay in your body. You must find a way to refine it."
Huangtu tried hard to search for information about Yin Lei Beads in memory, trying to find out the origin of this cold air.
After a while, Huangtu felt unintentional in practicing. He took out a dagger and copied the wooden villain on the bluestone next to him, and continued the unfinished carving last night.
This time, I did not modify anything, but used the tip of a knife to cut three small holes on the top of the little man's head, forming a straight triangle, like the three talents of heaven, earth and man. Then, a hole of the same size was cut on the sole of the little man's feet. He tilted his body slightly, took out some realgar-like things from Ruyi's bag, and skillfully applied them into the five holes.
After doing this, he stretched his left arm straight forward and his palm inward, so that the villain faced him. Then he held his right hand with his thumb, little finger, ring finger, and index finger, and middle finger, pointing straight at the villain in front of him.
Afterwards, Huangtu took his mind from his memory, stared at the villain with his eyes, murmured a series of strange and mysterious mantras, and his right hand kept pointing to the various parts of the villain's body.
Every point of his fingers, a hint of light shine will be emitted, which will be more detailed, giving rise to a bit lifelike feeling.
After he pointed to the soles of the villain's feet, he suddenly shouted softly, his right hand still pointed like a sword, raised it high, pointing directly to the glorious sun in the east. The spell in his mouth became more and more urgent, and gradually the sunlight within three meters of the radius of his palm changed direction, and all gathered towards the fingertips of the middle finger like flowing water.
The light is increasing, forming a light layer of light the size of a copper coin; the colorful light flows like a gem; nine minutes later, the sunlight almost condenses into substance at the fingertips.
"disease!"
Huangtu shouted softly, retracted his arm, and still pointed at the wooden villain. The colorful light flashed at his fingertips. Accompanied by the spell in Huangtu's mouth, a faint ribbon was pulled out like flowing water, and five strands rushed into the top of the villain's head and the soles of the soles of the feet at the same time.
With the influx of Rihua, the entire wooden villain became more and more vivid.
The sun was flowing, and the loess suddenly threw the villain up, and quickly formed seals with both hands, fixing the villain in mid-air.
"receive!"
Huangtu received the magic trick, took the fallen villain in his hand, and played with it carefully, and was very satisfied.
"In the future, I will catch the fierce and sinister, directly distract my consciousness, and block the soul power from this wooden figurine, so as to make an immediate need."
He was quite helpless about his lack of spiritual power, so he would find various means to make up for it on weekdays, including talismans, elixir formations, martial arts mechanisms, as well as Honkki, Fengjiao, Qimen Dunjia, Beast Control, etc., all of which were all involved. He was also unintentionally thinking about this kind of grass man used in witchcraft.
Looking at the time, it was almost eight o'clock, the loess had packed up their things, went down the mountain on the same road, and rushed back to the temple.
At this moment, there were already many pedestrians on the road, saying hello to Huangtu and greeted Huangtu one by one. He is very well-known in the town, and he is enthusiastic and has a very popular reputation.
In a blink of an eye, the intersection was passing by, and the Land Temple was already looking away. Just as Loess was jogging forward, the sound of a car horn came from behind, and then someone heard a loud greeting to him.
"Brother Huangtu, you're getting up early to exercise again!"
Looking back, there was a police car with three people sitting inside. Huangtu recognized that these three were police officers and joint defense team members from the town police station. The voice came from a man in his thirties who was slightly dark in his skin in the passenger seat. The man opened the car window and looked at Huangtu.
Although Huangtu's behavior is mysterious and he believes in ghosts and gods, he is quite contrary to the nature of the police's profession; however, his behavior is correct and he has helped the police station solve several cases, so these police officers have a good attitude towards him, and Huangtu is happy to see it.
Huangtu stopped and saw the three of them looking tired, yawned repeatedly, and asked with a smile:
"Director Zhou, I've been on the police so early!"
Director Zhou in the passenger seat heard this and shook his head repeatedly, looking helpless:
"What police officers are coming? We've just stopped the team!"
Huangtu was stunned and suddenly had a bad premonition, so he hurriedly asked:
"What's wrong? What's the mess?"
"Don't mention it, I've been struggling all night." Director Zhou said, signaling Huangtu to get in the car and talk. The policeman, who has always been known for his shrewdness and ability, was full of fatigue and fear. "After a night, five people were killed, none of them died, all of them seemed to be gnawed by wild animals - similar to those from the previous few days."
"What?" Huang Tu just sat in. Hearing this, he stood up, his head hit the roof of the car as if unknown, and exclaimed, "Why are there five more dead?"
Director Zhou nodded, sighed, and was speechless.
"Brothers are almost collapsed!" The driver Xiao Wu's eyes were bloodshot, and his words were full of helplessness: "Brother Huangtu, I said you can't do this temple blessing in vain. It's a errand, so please give me some directions! These facts are so fucking painful recently."
Police Sun, who was yawning in the back row, also said:
"Yes, if this continues, the murderer is not arrested. Before the new director takes office, we will be heroic first!"
Huangtu knew about this, several murder cases occurred in Jiuteng Town, which attracted the attention of the county and city. It was named and dispatched and supervised, but the case was really not done by human resources. Police Station Director Zhang Anqing was transferred because of the unfavorable solution of the case. It is said that the superiors will select a capable policeman from the county bureau. The current daily police work is presided over by Deputy Director Zhou Jianmin.
Jiuteng Town is already remote and has insufficient police force. The new director has not taken office. There are many cases last night, so these people have to run around.
"Director Zhou, when will the new leader take office? Don't wait until the flowers are all faded, right?" Xiao Wu asked Zhou Jianmin half-jokingly.
"Wait!" Zhou Jianmin looked tired, "I'll come sooner or later."
Chapter completed!