The sudden torrential rain had no intention of stopping, but when Shi Wudu touched the astrolabe, his whole body stopped.
From a very young age, Shi Wuduan was dishonest. He learned to turn over and rolled himself off the bed. When he learned to crawl, things in the room suffered. After he learned to run, things got even worse. It's a little catastrophe with legs. To restrain him, unless someone is by his side all the time, staring at him closely, killing his mischievous signs in his infancy at any time.
Until one day by chance, Daozu discovered his interest in the astrolabe.
No matter what he is tossing about with excess energy, as long as there is an astrolabe, even if it is only the size of a palm, it is enough for him to calm down and sit there obediently for a long time—even if it is just a slate without stars and lines. thing.
The only sound in the cave was the sound of rain, the crackling of burning wood, and the sound of the boy scratching the dirt with a wooden stick in his hand.
Shi Wuduan knelt and sat on the ground, his body was still dripping wet, his hair that was not dry was draped behind him, and a few strands fell down from the corners of his forehead and sideburns, and hung obediently on the side of his round face, the mud on his face hadn't been wiped off yet. It's clean, it looks like a gray-faced little tabby cat after it's done, but his expression is very quiet.
It was almost childlike in silence.
The faintly shining star lines entangled on his fingers as if they were alive, intertwined with some inseparable complexity, but the half-foot-square astrolabe was scattered with countless sand-sized planetesimals, slowly Turning slowly, it seems that one hand can help the chaos, but it seems that there is a huge, unimaginable pushing hand, pushing it forever behind, no one can stop the movement of the stars, hundreds of millions of years If so.
For some reason, Bai Li suddenly felt that this young man seemed very far away from him, as if the ground was so far from the clouds that he couldn't reach it no matter how he stretched out his hand, so he couldn't help but said, "Don't forget it, it's your fault." Yes, among our fox demon clan, which one with a little practice has not experienced a catastrophe? Just get through it."
Shi Wuduan replied, but the small wooden stick in his hand didn't stop. I don't know if he listened.
The calculation formula he drew in his hand may look complicated to outsiders, but it is actually just a "triple formula" just getting started, and it is nothing. Shi Wuduan took it for granted that Bai Li was a child like himself, and he couldn't figure it out After living for a few years, what causes and consequences can there be, so I chose such an algorithm.
Unexpectedly, after a while, he frowned and said "Hey", the mud on his face was dry and itchy, so he scratched his face with a wooden stick, and said to himself: "How can it be counted?" Out? Strange."
Bai Li said again: "Then don't forget about it."
It's okay if he doesn't say this, Shi Wudu has a childish heart, and the astrolabe on Jiulu Mountain is not allowed to be taken out of the mountain at will. It's easy to get a small piece, and he wants to show the other party his own ability, so he is willing to let it go ? So he pretended to be generous and waved his hand: "Don't worry, the triple formula is for children who are just getting started. Even if you touch the fate star, you can only get a glimpse of it. It often doesn't work. Wait for me to change it." You can look at an algorithm."
Bai Li opened his mouth, and before he could stop it, Shi Wuduan had already waved his dirty hands, wiped off the pile of calculations he wrote just now, and at an extremely fast speed, densely listed a dozen things that made people even more dizzying go up. Bai Li saw that the star threads in the astrolabe exploded out of nowhere, from a few that were quietly entangled with Shi Wuyuan's fingers, suddenly turned into a ball, and all fell on the young man's fingers. It was completely buried from the wrist down.
The stars on the astrolabe gave off a strange light, even suppressing the flames on one side, Bai Li took a look inside, and felt that with his own cultivation, he could make the chaotic interstellar world dazzle, and hurriedly Shaking his head, he looked away, not daring to look again.
After all, Shi Wuduan was young, halfway through the calculation, sweat began to break out from the corners of his forehead, and the hand hanging on the astrolabe was also called the star silk pendant that gushed out from nowhere and entangled endlessly around his hand. He felt a little trembling, but those star threads slowly lit up from his fingers, and Shi Wuduan's face showed a bit of green under the cover of the light.
Bai Li was shocked when he saw it, and felt that the thing was sucking something from Shi Wuduan's body, so he stretched out his hand to grab Shi Wuduan's fingers wrapped in star silk.
As soon as he touched Xingsi, a strong force bounced him away, his fingertips were burning like burning, Bai Li looked down and found that the finger touching Xingsi was red and swollen.
He couldn't help shouting: "No reason!"
Shi Wudu didn't seem to hear it, he quickly drew on the ground, as if the whole person had fallen into the boundless sea of stars.
Although the art of astrology may sound like a mystery to ordinary people, it seems so great, but it is actually not too remote among people who practice Taoism. Needless to say, a famous school like Jiulu Mountain is an ordinary small school. It is also likely to teach this technique. It's just that most of the cultivators on the mainland of Yin Sheng tend to prefer "martial arts" or "Taoism". Even when laying the foundation, learning some astrological calculations like literacy and reciting the three-character scriptures when they were young is just a superficial superficial, not a superficial one. Anyone who has the patience and talent to peek through this door.
The vast majority of ascetics may barely understand the "triple formula" in their entire lives. I have heard that there is a five-link algorithm at the highest. Individuals who are well-learned and quick-witted can use the "small stone throwing" technique to do some mountain-hunting and finding people things like that.
Shi Wuduan finally got the chance, and he wanted to show off in front of Bai Li, but just now a triptych failed to connect. He pretended to be nonchalant, but in fact he was a little annoyed, so he listed what he had learned so far, The most handy astrological calculation is the "nine-star layered formula" of Tantric Buddhism.
It is said that the ever-changing changes in this set of calculations are all secrets. Rao can be called a genius in this respect. After all, he is young and he has just learned it. It's very dangerous, just look at the secrets of the sky, and don't use them for ordinary things." The words were thrown out of the sky.
Bai Li doesn't know astrological arithmetic, but seeing the abnormal shape of the astrolabe, he looked up again, and saw that the torrential rain had become smaller at some point. It was supposed to stop, but the sky was getting darker and darker, faintly The muffled sound of thunder came from a distance, as if it contained a warning from the nine heavens, how could one not know how severe it was.
The Cuiping bird exploded its wings, desperately fanning Shi for no reason, screaming with its neck stuck.
When Shi Wuduan's stupid and bold temper came up, he never cared about it, and turned a deaf ear to the thunder that changed the color of the world outside. At the critical moment, his brows became tighter and tighter, and he felt that he had never touched such a complicated and chaotic fate. Somehow, there are two of Baili's life stars, their trajectories are entangled with each other, and a strange line is drawn in the middle, making him sink deeper and deeper as he counts.
The stars on the astrolabe turned faster and faster, and the Xingsi almost entangled his entire forearm.
Seeing that the thunder was getting louder and louder, a bolt of lightning almost exploded at the door, blinding people's eyes, Bai Li didn't dare to hesitate any longer, at this time his green onion-like fingers that turned into a little girl suddenly flashed like metal. Cold light, swung his hand violently, cut off all the star wires that the steel knife could not do anything about in a flash, and then others rushed to Shi Wuduan, picked him up, and rolled to the side.
At this moment, a thunderbolt suddenly broke Baili's seal, and it struck right beside the fire where the two of them were sitting just now. The light soared, and for a moment it was indistinguishable from the lightning.
Only then did Shi Wuduan realize that he had caused trouble again, and he let Bai Li hug his shoulders blankly, his eyesight recovered from the dazzling white light, and then he saw a long hole struck by lightning in Shitou Cave Mansion, It cracked all the way to his ankle, and the ground trembled faintly.
The star in his hand fell to the ground lifeless and withered, and the calculation on the ground was wiped away by the wind and rain blowing in. The kingfisher jumped on his shoulder and pecked hard on his forehead. Shi Wuduan covered his forehead with one hand, unconsciously patted Bai Li's back with the other hand, and said, "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid", but his face was still blank, as if he hadn't recovered.
But Bai Li pushed his hand away, knelt down upright, bowed towards the direction of the northern sky, and said in his mouth: "Young children are ignorant, offending Tian Yan, Zhu Xingjun calm down."
Then he pressed Shi Wuduan's head with brute force, and Shi Wuduan said "Ouch", not daring to resist, so he could only follow him and say, "Grandpa Tianshen, I was wrong, please stop the thunder, it seems to scare my wife... "
It felt like Bai Li's hand pinching the back of his neck was hard again, pushing down Shi Wuduan's head that was about to be raised, and the remaining half of the nonsense words were stuck back in his throat.
After a long while, the thunder weakened and subsided slowly, and the dark clouds began to disperse. Bai Li then heaved a sigh of relief, let go of Shi Wudu, and glared at him, but saw the little ghost looking at him with trepidation and flattery. Looking at him, the fire in my heart that wanted to strangle him suddenly couldn't help but dissipate in half.
Shi Wuduan saw that his face was not good-looking, so he leaned over with a sullen face, and tugged at the corner of Bai Li's clothes: "Little Ion, I was wrong, don't ignore me..."
Bai Li glanced at him with a frosty face, lowered his eyes sullenly, and didn't look at him.
"Oh," Shi Wuduan scratched his hair, sighed like a little adult, and said, "When Master taught me this, he also helped me protect the law and asked me to practice it with some rare birds and animals he raised in the backyard. Once, but there has never been such a big movement, little ion, I think it is rare for you to hit the double star, a line pierces through the gate of heaven, and it is just that it is stuck there, and you can't get it out. I just saw a little sign, and it even attracted thunder, which is clearly a warning to me that I can't see it... "
Bai Li was taken aback, raised his head to look at him, and Shi Wudu frowned slightly, holding the tip of his chin with one finger, there was an indescribable solemnity on the face of this naughty boy.
But then, Shi Wuyuan was distressed for a moment, then shook his head, patted his chest with great thought, and said, "It's okay, you don't have to be afraid, I have me, I will protect you."
As soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly turned his head away, sneezed loudly, turned around in embarrassment, wiped his nose, tried his best to put on a small face, and put on a "wipe your nose is a good man again" ", with his chin raised a little, trying to make himself appear taller.
Bai Li sighed, feeling that the last bit of anger in his heart had dissipated, and he really didn't know what to do. I thought to myself, when will this silly boy grow up
Thinking about it, and looking at Shi Wuduan's small appearance, he almost gave birth to a bit of happy melancholy.
When the sky finally cleared, Shi Wuduan carried his small bundle on his back, and held the struggling Kingfisher under his arm, saying goodbye to Bai Li who sent him to the exit of Cangyun Valley. Li, bouncing and ran away.
Bai Li leaned against the edge of the valley, watching his back jumping up and down but not walking well for a while, until the figure was no longer visible, then turned around, changed back to the original youth, and faced the The golden cardamom was stunned for a while, then turned and went back.