Old Man Jiang laughed loudly when he heard this, touched my head and said, "What's so strange about snakes in the soil? If you don't believe it, ask the local farmers. Sometimes when cutting bamboo, you can find a snake sleeping in a diabolo tube. I don’t even know how they got in. It got in by itself in the soil, you see.”
As he said that, Old Man Jiang pointed at the pit and asked me to see it. I saw it, right? In that pit, there were many long and pitted passages, which looked like there was a snake arching inside.
"It will enter a state similar to hibernation when it practices, and when it practices, it does not breathe through the mouth and nose to absorb spiritual energy, but breathes through the body's hair and skin. The same goes for animal cultivation." Old Man Jiang continued to explain to me .
"What? Animals are so powerful?" This is simply amazing to me.
"Animals are great? Humans can do it too! When you were in your mother's belly, did you breathe through your mouth and nose? The breathing method of a person in the mother's belly is the breathing realm most desired by cultivators, the fetal breath technique. , it is especially difficult to achieve this." Old Man Jiang sighed with emotion.
"Can people do it? So, do I have to practice too? Does Master also have to practice?" I simply can't imagine a day when I don't need to breathe through my nose and mouth.
"Haha, you will know after you officially enter the door! Your master and I are the most useless to say that the mountain line has declined, and all the people walking in the world are people from the other four lines, alas... .. This is the hardest part to say." Old Man Jiang sighed.
I didn't understand what Master was saying at all, but in order to give him face, I pretended to understand, but in the end I got a slap on the head.
Old Man Jiang squinted his eyes and said, "If you know something, you know it. If you don't know it, you don't know it. Are you just pretending? If you pretend again, I won't be able to kill you."
I... ...
In this way, the master and the apprentice were silent for a while, and Old Man Jiang took me away from the big pit. Outside the pit, a group of people were still waiting. As soon as I went out, a person came up to me.
I recognized him at a glance. He was a soldier in the courtyard, and he seemed to be the leader.
"Master Jiang, have you decided what to do?" the man asked respectfully.
"I have decided not to open the stone door, but to seal it, and then bury it. At night, I will kill the dead souls in this yin-nurturing place again, destroy this place, and then change the feng shui flow of this place. Slowly The things below have been resolved." Old Man Jiang said calmly.
"You really don't want to open it and take a look?" I guess that person was also curious.
"Open? Someone is keeping an evil weapon inside, and you want to open it too? Opening it requires a life, so curiosity is enough." Old Man Jiang said seriously.
However, what he doesn't know is that when we leave here, we will eventually open this place and experience a horror.
Old Man Jiang seems to be a wretched person, and he doesn't look like an upright person in contact, but when he is really serious, he has a power of his own. He has decided to seal the stone door and not open it, and others do not dare to say anything.
The problem stops at two points.
First, what exactly is inside this stone gate? Because everyone doesn’t know what the concept of raising evil weapons is
Second, how to seal this stone gate
At this time, the only one who dared to ask Old Man Jiang a question was me. As expected, I did not disappoint everyone's 'ardent' hopes. I immediately asked: "Master, what is an evil weapon? There are no ghosts in this stone gate." ?"
"It's hard to say what's inside this stone gate, but if you do it deliberately, the most likely scenario is to raise evil weapons. The righteous path has magic weapons that can be used as formation eyes, can protect people from disasters, and can do many things... But in this world Where there is good, there is evil, just like there is yang and there is yin. If there is a magical weapon, there will naturally be an evil weapon that can harm people. Magical weapons need spiritual energy to warm and nourish them. People are the spirit of all things, and they have a little spiritual energy in their bodies. It can be warmed and raised. But for evil weapons, you need to find a special evil place to raise them, and a place with overwhelming resentment is the best." Old Man Jiang answered patiently, he always takes the trouble to me. will explain a lot to me.
"But Master, why can't the place where the evil weapons are kept be opened?"
"Why is it necessary to open it? The place where the evil weapon is kept usually has an evil spirit. The things inside are weird and extraordinary, and they always kill people. Moreover, if you open it, you will only find something in the end. For an evil weapon, the most you can do is destroy it. If you can seal it and disperse this gathering place, isn't that the best way? No matter when, you must consider doing the best with the minimum cost. It's a matter of money. Among the costs, money is the least important, but lives are the most important, you know?"
"Um!"
Old Man Jiang's words always have the power to convince me. At this time, I remembered that every life is the most important thing.
"Master Jiang, when will this stone gate be sealed?" Thanks to me, everyone's questions were answered. At this time, the leader of the courtyard finally couldn't help but speak. After all, there are so many people waiting outside. People who dig bamboo to earn work points, if they wait for a long time, they are afraid that rumors will spread, which will be difficult to handle.
"Now!" After saying this, Old Man Jiang took out something very precious from his bag.
That thing was packed in a wooden box. The wooden box was rectangular, not too big, very delicately carved, and had a small golden lock.
I am an ignorant guy, and I don’t understand the material of the wooden box. Only later did I know that the so-called wooden surface of the wooden box was made of agarwood and red sandalwood, and that the small golden lock was real gold.
Old Man Jiang held the small wooden box in his hand, with a trace of nostalgia and sadness in his eyes. He stroked the wooden box and said to himself: "The things Master left me are one piece less. I don’t have the ability to do it. If I were to do it, I don’t know if I could succeed once in a hundred times. What’s even more pity is that I don’t have the ability to use such a thing a hundred times to draw a talisman. I didn’t expect it. A small mountain village actually allows me to use it."
Old Man Jiang's words were confusing, and no one could understand the full meaning, but everyone understood two things. The first was that this thing was extremely precious, and Old Man Jiang couldn't even copy it. Second, he actually mentioned his master for the first time.
These words made everyone curious about the contents of the box. Old Man Jiang rubbed the wooden box for a while, and finally used a special technique to twist the small lock on the box several times, and opened the wooden box. Box.
What people didn't expect was that the wooden box was also inlaid with a fine white jade lining. In other words, it was a jade box with a wooden cover on the outside. It showed the exquisite workmanship, but the contents inside were a bit disappointing, because There is only one talisman inside!
But the talisman turned out to be silver.
The silver talisman paper was a bit dazzling under the sun, and what was even more amazing was that the bright red writing on it also showed a glimmer of glaze, as if it were written with rubies.
Old Man Jiang took out the talisman and looked at it with some reluctance. At this moment, I saw clearly that the runes on the talisman were completely different from ordinary talismans. They were not similar to text shapes. Something, obviously a totem, with some unintelligible words surrounding it.
Of course, I didn’t know what totems were at that time, so I felt that the thing on the talisman was a big tiger that was about to roar, but it didn’t look like a tiger, so I couldn’t tell what it was.
"Have someone dig this pit open so that the stone gate can be completely exposed." Old Man Jiang held a talisman in his hand, and he had a sense of majesty. As soon as he ordered to go down, a small group of the People's Liberation Army came and picked up a shovel and started digging. Get into trouble.
Then he told the people in the yard: "Go find some glutinous rice. Freshly steamed rice is the best."
The next step was to wait patiently. Su Rou and I went to pester Xiao Ding. We wanted to ask him how he made the bamboo flute and how to play it. Being able to drive away snakes is really tempting for children.
But this is Xiao Ding’s master’s secret, how can anyone tell it? Xiao Ding was shy and clumsy with his mouth. He had no way to deal with us, so he simply shut up, lowered his head, and suppressed a big blush, just like a big girl.
His unscrupulous master just kept having fun and didn't help him at all.
After about an hour, the stone gate was completely dug out, and fresh glutinous rice was found.