At this time, Shi Wuduan was actually not alone in the room. The chaos of the martial arts conference not only made Banya pick up the loopholes alone. At the busiest time of the evening, Shi Wuduan pushed the door in from the outside and found his room There was already a person in the room—a girl with a round face, she looked like she was only fifteen or sixteen years old at the most, when she saw him coming in, her whole body tensed up, she bounced up suddenly, she was at a loss and explained in a panic: "Mr. Uncle, you... don't be afraid, I am... "
"Uncle Kuruo, let's go under the door." Shi Wuduan just glanced at her, didn't stop in his footsteps, turned around and closed the door as if nothing had happened, and then answered in a low voice.
This little girl is not very old, she is called Kuruo's disciple, but he has never seen her before.
But it's true, the few talented seniors and sisters of Master Kuruo, and even the disciples and grandchildren who stand out, are all watched by Bitan, and only such a timid and unobtrusive little girl can take the opportunity Mixed in: "What's the name?"
The girl was stunned, and replied in a low voice: "Young Master Uncle, just call me Hui'er."
Shi Wuduan poured her a cup of tea and explained: "Sit down, I know there are people in the room. When you came in, you touched the welcome line I put there. It seems that the number of people can know where you are from. "
Naturally, the weight of a little girl cannot be compared with that of an adult man, and the only place where there are little girls in Xuanzong is Kuruo's sect. Shi Wuduan only explained to this point, then stopped talking, and went straight to the point: "Master Kuruo, do you have something important to tell me?"
He seemed to be used to that slow-moving way of speaking. At this time, his voice sounded not in a hurry at all, and he played it very lightly. It was the girl's first adventure, and she was terrified in her heart, but she followed him to relax for no reason. After getting down, he took the teacup to thank, and said: "Master let me see if my little uncle is doing well. The master also said that she knew that my little uncle was trapped here by... the villain Bitan. Yes, I told you not to act rashly, she must find a way to rescue you."
Shi smiled for no reason, thinking that if I don't act rashly, no one will want my life? Besides, Master Kuruo is now like a bodhisattva crossing the river, so he still cares about other people's merits? But he also accepted her affection in his heart, nodded and said: "There is no reason to be unfilial, thank you for your trouble, if you are suffering, how is the old man?"
Hui'er's eyes turned red, and she was about to shed tears, Shi Wuduan secretly sighed, and could only remind him: "Hui'er, I'm not safe here, so cut the long story short."
Hui'er nodded, wiped her eyes vigorously, but she couldn't help but twitch the corners of her mouth. She bit her lip and tried her best to hold back. After a while, she said: "Master Patriarch and all senior uncles and uncles, and All the masters and sisters know that the head of the sect was murdered by two villains named Bitan and Banya, just because the head of the sect did not agree with them lighting up mountain lanterns to borrow the fortune of the country. If you don’t accept the order, then I never thought that there would be such a bad person in our Xuanzong..."
Sure enough—Shi Wuduan knew it in his heart, there was no change on his face, he just listened calmly.
"Master Patriarch went to the mountains to cultivate in the early years, and she didn't care about the disputes in the secular world. She said that it doesn't matter whether you borrow or not, but how dare they ... How dare they commit crimes and order to hunt down their fellow disciples?"
Seeing that her eye circles were red again while she was talking, Shi Wuduan waved his hand to silence her, and asked: "Just now at the martial arts conference, I saw that Master Shishu can't move freely, what's going on?"
Tears fell from Huier's big eyes, and she choked up and said, "The conflict between the two sects in Xuanzong was fierce that day, and we lived a little far away with our master. When the master heard the news and rushed over, he saw Bi Tan was fighting with the sect master, but the villain Banya secretly attacked him, he appeared suddenly, and smashed the master's lute bone from behind..."
Shi Wuduan's eyebrows twitched, and he was silent for five years. It was the first time he heard this with his own ears. He thought he had calmed down, but at that moment his chest seemed to be on fire. For a long time, his face remained calm. A smile suddenly appeared on Mu Ran's face, but his voice was lowered. He let out an "oh" and asked, "It's Ban Ya, have you seen it with your own eyes?"
Hui'er nodded and said: "We followed the master and we all saw it."
Her eyes fell on Shi Wuduan, and she suddenly felt that his half-hanging head and the smile on the corner of his mouth were a bit frighteningly cold. Afterwards, she left behind a few vague strokes, she couldn't see the other person's eyes clearly, and couldn't help asking: "Little uncle?"
Shi Wudu ignored it, and just asked softly: "What is Master Kuruo bound by?"
Ku Ruo has always been aloof from the world, and he doesn't take too much control over his disciples. There are many young girls like Hui Er who are not high in cultivation under the sect. It can be imagined that the situation was one-sided at that time. It's not easy to get away alone, let alone with the burden of a bunch of apprentices and grandchildren.
On the other hand, because of Bitan's illusory "fellowship", and because of Xuanzong's four major sects, they suddenly lost half, making outsiders look really unreasonable. I'm afraid that some kind of agreement was reached, but it's hard to embarrass Master Kuruo's temper like a firecracker, but he has endured humiliation for many years for these people under her sect.
"The master bears the sacred pattern."
Shi Wuyuan was stunned, and his brows slowly frowned—he still knew about this thing, it can be integrated into the seven meridians and eight meridians of a person, and he can't see it normally, and it doesn't affect normal activities, but he can't use his true power rashly, otherwise he will be tied The holy pattern then emerged from the blood, and tied the person to death.
At this moment, suddenly above Huier's head, a small bell hanging on the beam rang softly, Huier was taken aback, but Shi Wuduan stood up, pressed his index finger to his lips to stop her voice, and whispered Said: "Someone broke in, don't make a sound."
Huier's eyes widened, her face turned pale with fright.
Shi Wuduan dragged her into the room, opened an old cabinet in the bedroom, pulled out the rabbit spirit who was eating vegetable leaves, and then pushed Hui'er in: "Hide here, don't make a sound."
Hui'er clenched his sleeves tightly in desperation: "Little uncle, this is... this is..."
Shi Wudu moved swiftly, but there was no sign of worry on his face, he just smiled calmly, patted her hand, and said: "It's nothing, I've lived for too long, and there will always be people who can't see it .”
Huier was taken aback, and suddenly covered her mouth. She seemed to realize that this little uncle who looked about her age was different from herself. In the past five years, he didn't have a master who was willing to sacrifice his life to protect him, and he didn't have a fellow disciple to support him. In the lonely mountain courtyard, I spend my days guarding a dead astrolabe.
He's like... living in another world.
Shi Wuduan didn't pay attention to her, and closed the cabinet door without any explanation after speaking, stood alone in the room for a moment, and took a deep breath.
"If I were Banya, I would choose this time to do it. There are not many such opportunities." Shi Wuduan thought, glanced at the cabinet door again, and thought, "Originally, with the help of Master Kuruo, Now it seems that I can only ask for more blessings.”
He straightened his robe, walked outside in a hurry, leaned over and lit a piece of candle - the wax was extremely short, but the thumb of an adult was long, and the color was so red that it dripped down unexpectedly. As if it was bleeding, there was a hint of blood in the smell of fireworks.
Shi Wuduan raised his hand to pick up the lampshade, covered the candle flame, and the Cuiping bird sleeping on one side of the shelf immediately woke up, staring at his round eyes, and flew to Shi Wuduan's shoulder, the rabbit spirit also seemed to notice Seemingly dangerous, he galloped out with short legs and shrank at his feet.
Shi Wuduan opened the wooden door of the outer room, straightened his robe sleeves respectfully, bowed his hands to several people in the courtyard, and said, "I don't know how many senior brothers have arrived, but for no reason, they were greeted from far away, disrespectful and disrespectful."
Zhao Chengye and the others entered the yard, before they could go in, suddenly white mist rose around the astrolabe, and they were immediately engulfed in the mist of clouds and mountains. Order, and also said that it is easy to kill such a little thing secretly, who knows that there is another mystery in this courtyard-this little devil has been doing what the uncle expected all these years, and has been keeping a low profile and pretending to be confused
"It's a formation." Jiang Chongwen, who was following behind him, said that he consciously had some research on the method of illusion, otherwise he wouldn't make a fool of himself and perform illusions at the martial arts conference, and illusions and formations have the same effect. After dabbling, Jiang Chongwen looked around for a while, pointed to the gravel road on the ground and said, "I see this fog looks like a 'blood candle formation', it's not a very advanced formation, follow me closely, don't going wrong."
Unexpectedly, as soon as he finished speaking, he heard a knock at the door, Shi Wu was standing at the door leisurely, with a smile on his face as if welcoming guests from all over the world, he didn't have the slightest bit of confusion during the day.
I saw his eyes slowly sweeping over the few people present, shook his head, and sighed very calmly: "Uncle Banya really thinks highly of me."
Jiang Chongwen sneered and said, "Boy, it's just a blood candle array, and you want to trap us, so we should say that you are too bold, or too spectator?"
Shi Wudu humbly said: "Senior brother taught you well."
Jiang Chongwen: "..."
Shi Wuyuan shook his sleeves, and said with an apologetic smile: "Little brother, it's very simple here, and I really can't get any good things out, only a few inches of candles and a few pieces of spirit stones in the yard, using local materials. "
He has not often smiled in recent years, but when he smiles this time, he vaguely looks like he was when he was a child, with two canine teeth faintly exposed, and a dimple that is not too deep or shallow on his left cheek seems to be filled with a glass of bad water. Man... wants to punch him badly.
Zhao Chengye gritted his teeth and said, "Brother Jiang, what are you talking about with this little bastard?"
Jiang Chongwen also didn't take Shi Wudu seriously in his heart. In order to show his attainments in formation techniques, he immediately stepped forward without hesitation.
Then... strange things happened.
Zhao Chengye felt that Shi Wuduan was standing two feet away from them with a green screen bird on his shoulder, and a rabbit spirit under his feet, always standing two feet away from them with a half-smile - but these two feet seemed to be farther than thousands of rivers and mountains. Unable to move forward, he couldn't help but look at Jiang Chongwen with some doubts, only to see that this senior brother was also sweating coldly on his forehead.
Shi Wuduan has only learned formations for a few months. In terms of the types of formations he has seen, they are absolutely inferior to Jiang Chongwen, but what he learned from Jianghua Sanren is the essence of formations—that is, arithmetic.
Ordinary people's accounting is arithmetic, and deducing the transformation of the stars is also arithmetic. In fact, even though the formations are ever-changing, they are still invariably the same-there is a spiritual creature as the eye of the formation, and a formation master as the medium, following a certain algorithm. As long as you understand these algorithms, in fact, there is no formation technique in the world. Even if someone else has the details of a thousand formations, the person who set up the formation has his own way to change any number of them and turn it into The thousand and first shape.
It's just that Shi Wuduan pretended to be calm with a smile on the surface, but in his heart he knew how heavy his formation was. Bitan never was harsh on his things, but he would never let him touch anything that could have spirituality. Except for the astrolabe he brought back.
That piece of blood candle was made by melting his own blood and a star thread into wax. After trying it countless times, it ended up being such a small piece, which will disappear after burning.
So he didn't dare to delay any longer, and after confirming that the group of people was trapped by the formation, he cupped his hands and said politely to them: "Senior brothers, I'm sorry, it's really a coincidence that you came here, and my younger brother is planning to travel to the lower reaches of the mountain. , I'm afraid it's too late to entertain distinguished guests, so I won't accompany you here, I hope you can make tea and snacks as you please."
After finishing speaking, Shi Wuduan turned around and left, as if he disappeared in front of the trapped people in a flash.
Which way did Shi Wuyuan go? Naturally, it was the road that Banya deliberately cleared in order to be quiet and not disturb anyone to kill him. Zhao Chengye is also barely a talent, and he has done a lot of work, so that Shi Wuduan has no one to stop him from Daozu's small courtyard to the guard at the first checkpoint down the mountain, and the road is unimpeded.
Shi Wuduan hid in the bushes, looked at the guard, and thought to himself—this is troublesome, it seems that he hasn't gone down the mountain for a long time, and he is not familiar with the location of the checkpoint, why is there someone guarding here
Knowing that the blood candle wouldn't last long, he frowned slightly. Cuipingniao told him to let him fly, so he picked up Rabbit Jing with one hand and stuffed it into his bag with all his strength, but the rabbit was too "majestic" and the small bag couldn't fit in. Shi Wuduan was a little annoyed, poked the rabbit spirit's head with his finger, and asked in a low voice: "Are you really a fairy? How can you be so..."
Rabbit Jing blinked at him flatteringly, arched his fingers with his head, moved his three-petal mouth, and Shi Wuduan's shoulders slumped. The only living creature who has been with him for the past three years, no matter how stupid he is It's a bit emotional, and I can't leave it alone.
He squatted there and turned his head, and suddenly looked at the grass all over the ground, Shi Wudu had a thought, pulled out a few, and flew his fingers, and after a while, he made a bunch of small animals in a decent way, and Shi Wudu said After chanting the mantra silently, for a moment, all the little animals stood up from the ground staggeringly, and ran in all directions.
Shi Wuduan smiled softly, and pointed, and those straw objects caught fire at the same time, jumping up and down with those small flames. There are many vegetation in the mountains, and most of the houses are made of wood. Open fire is the most taboo. Deliberately doing bad things for no reason, the fire started in a short while.
There was smoke everywhere, and no one knew where it started first. The guard at that place was drowsy after drinking too much wine, when he suddenly smelled the pungent smell of smoke, jumped three feet high, jumped out, and shouted: "It's water! It's water!"
The sound of confusion gradually increased, and Shi Wuduan pointed at Rabbit Jing's forehead and ordered: "Play dead!"
Rabbit Jing looked at him ignorantly, and Shi Wuduan said again: "If you don't pretend to be dead, I will kill you!"
Rabbit Spirit immediately rolled his eyes, turned his legs to the sky, and stopped moving.
Shi Wudu grabbed it by the ear, picked it up, cut his finger and wiped it on the rabbit fur. It was like picking up an ordinary game in the dark. He lowered his head and messed up his hair. He wiped a handful of ashes on his face and walked out while in a mess.
Out of the corner of the eye, I glanced at the growing flames, and recalled that year in the Cangyun Valley, when I was young, I made up a grasshopper to make Bai Li smile, and I couldn't help feeling that it was like a lifetime away.