Lu Xiuzhi said, "I just don't have a magic weapon that works for now, so I'll use this as a replacement." He took off the purple crystal beads and handed them to Kou Xuanling: "Do you want to see it?"
Kou Xuanling took the amethyst beads and put them under the light. The faint purple fluorescent light was warm and beautiful. Each bead was crystal clear. Looking closely, he found that the beads were engraved with the Shangqing Dadong Sutra. "It's really a creation of the Heavenly Palace. What is this called Extra Chapter · Marriage 05?"
Lu Xiuzhi glanced at the purple crystal beads and said, "It hasn't been named yet. I was bored so I carved the scriptures inside the beads. After carving, I strung them together randomly. It just so happened that I didn't have any magic tools when I came down the mountain, so I used it. Therefore, it has no name."
Kou Xuanling touched the purple crystal beads and said, "From what you said, you have a lot of magic tools?"
"Not bad." Lu Xiuzhi straightened his back and looked directly at Kou Xuanling: "I don't spend much on a daily basis and have saved a lot of money. According to the current market value, all my belongings are worth several hundred million yuan. Although it's not a lot, I can still make money and save money, so there is absolutely no problem in supporting my family."
Kou Xuanling looked up at Lu Xiuzhi, forced a smile and returned the purple crystal beads to him: "I heard some noise at the door, let me go out and take a look." After saying that, she stood up and walked towards the door.
Lu Xiuzhi thought silently as he wrapped the amethyst beads back around his wrist; his plan to kidnap his wealth and property failed.
Kou Xuanling had only used this as an excuse to avoid Lu Xiuzhi, but when he walked to the door, he did hear a knock on the door. He turned his head to look at the wall clock, and it suddenly rang. The flowing air paused for a moment, and the tense atmosphere was about to explode. The hour hand pointed to ten o'clock, and there was still an hour to eleven o'clock. The knock on the door turned into a doorbell at this time, and Mr. Chang wondered: "Who else would come at this hour?"
Kou Xuanling: "I'll go take a look." He just stretched out his hand to open the door, and with a loud bang, the door was knocked open from the outside, and white mist was blown in by the night wind, with a few fallen ginkgo leaves. Kou Xuanling reacted quickly before the door opened and did a backflip to avoid being hit by the door. He looked up and saw a woman in black standing at the door. She had a thin, sunken face, high scapula, and heavy makeup on her face.
There was a mark on the woman's neck, which was deeply sunken and made the entire neck present a deformed arc. She stared at Kou Xuanling coldly, her mouth slowly opened and expanded to a distorted width, and her entire face was stretched and deformed. Then a scream that pierced human ears came out of her mouth. Kou Xuanling covered her ears and looked back at the Chang family.
The faces of the Chang family were filled with pain. The youngest daughter of the Chang family was the first to give up. Two streams of blood flowed from her nostrils and she began to roll her eyes. Kou Xuanling controlled the peach wood sword. The peach wood sword turned twice in the air and quickly became a phantom, directly piercing the woman at the door and nailing her to the wall. He took advantage of the victory and ran out of the villa to the courtyard. After running a few steps, his ankle was suddenly grabbed by a ghost hand that drilled out from the ground and he could not move.
The female ghost, who was originally nailed to the wall by the peach wood sword, instantly turned into a skeleton and collapsed on the ground. The door behind her slammed shut. The beautiful ginkgo tree suddenly lost its luster, and was covered with spider silk. The ground was covered with black and rotten leaves. Four ropes of different heights were hung on the thickest branch of the ginkgo tree. The black-clothed woman's neck was broken into two pieces. It was only because of the skin ligaments that she was able to hold her head and body together.
Four nooses, only the woman in black? The husband of the woman in black was put into the ancient wooden dice by Lu Xiuzhi, leaving two children, a son and a daughter. If they are not on the tree, then they are in the house!
Kou Xuanling turned around and saw the bright lights in the living room suddenly go out. He could faintly hear the sound of the light bulbs exploding and the Chang family's screams of fear. The black-clothed female ghost giggled, her voice rough and unpleasant: "Tianshi? Baiwu? You were no match for me when I was alive, not to mention that I'm dead now, and my witchcraft is even more powerful. Baiwu Tianshi is even less of a match for me."
Kou Xuanling tried to pull his ankles out of the ghost hands, but found that the ghost hands were trying to climb out of his feet. He was impatient to listen to the black-clothed female ghost's chatter, so he drove the peach wood sword that was inserted into the skeleton back. The peach wood sword trembled a few times and then pulled out, and was caught by a skeleton hand as soon as it flew out.
Although the peach wood sword burned the skeleton hand, the other party seemed to feel no pain and insisted on holding the peach wood sword to let his joints be burned and melted. The black-clothed female ghost laughed triumphantly: "They are all my masterpieces. If I melt one, there are still many. It's enough time for me to slowly refine you." She fell to the ground, the rope was still tied around her neck, and her limbs were uncoordinated and unable to walk. She simply crawled on all fours to Kou Xuanling and said greedily: "Third-level Heavenly Master? Haha, I've made a profit. If you refine it into a ghost slave, you can become the best helper. I didn't meet good materials when I was alive, but I didn't expect to meet them after I die."
Kou Xuanling shrugged and stopped struggling: "You didn't encounter good materials in your life, which only shows that your ability is poor. You are not a real black wizard."
The black-clothed female ghost was furious: "Who said I'm not? Now I'll chop off your limbs and head, sew them up and put them into the spell!" She crawled to the corner of the courtyard, got an axe and tried to stand up, dragging the axe towards Kou Xuanling. The axe dragged on the ground, rubbing against the ground and making a harsh sound.
This scene is very terrifying, if the target of the female ghost is an ordinary person who has no ability to resist. When the black-clothed female ghost picked up the axe and wanted to kill Kou Xuanling, she was suddenly pierced through the chest by a peach wood sword. She looked down at the "sizzling" sound coming from her chest. The white smoke and black thick liquid mixed together were enough for her to realize that her soul was about to be torn apart.
The black-clothed ghost screamed in fear, and Kou Xuanling drew out the peach wood sword and chopped down at the sunken part of her throat, directly separating her head from her body. "I thought she was a really powerful black witch, but it turns out she is not." Kou Xuanling easily cut off the ghost hand that was grabbing her ankle, and said to the curled-up black-clothed ghost.
The black-clothed female ghost's body arched into a shrimp shape and gradually melted. She screamed in fear: "I am a black witch! I want to return to the world! I want to enjoy eternal life!!!"
Kou Xuanling kicked the door open and entered the living room, and found that the Chang family was safe and sound. Lu Xiuzhi sat upright in a chair, fiddling with the purple crystal beads on his wrist. When Kou Xuanling stepped in, he immediately turned around and smiled: "Solved?"
Kou Xuanling was stunned for a moment, and found the smile a bit seductive. He looked away: "It's solved. Have you solved it too?"
“Just two little ghosts.” Lu Xiuzhi patted the chair beside him and said, “Sit down and have a rest.”
Kou Xuanling walked over and found that all the seats in the living room were destroyed, only the double chair under Lu Xiuzhi was intact. He felt a little weird but didn't think too much about it. He sat down and said to the Chang family, "It's solved, you can come out."
The Chang family subconsciously looked at the wall clock, and the time showed that it was not yet eleven o'clock. They all moved back and stared at Kou Xuanling and Lu Xiuzhi vigilantly: "Master Kou and Master Lu said that we can only leave after 1 o'clock. No matter who comes during this time, we can't trust them."
Kou Xuanling held his forehead with his hand: "If you are worried, just stay inside. You should have seen with your own eyes that the two ghosts that came in just now were subdued by Master Lu Tian. Don't you still believe it?"
Mr. Chang looked at the furniture that had fallen apart beside Lu Xiuzhi and recalled the scene of the two little ghosts making trouble. Although they had just moved and intended to replace the original furniture, seeing Lu Xiuzhi's evasion just now always made him feel like he was guiding the little ghosts to destroy the furniture. His originally nervous and fearful mood suddenly became indifferent. The exorcism ceremony was too simple. They had been terrified for two months, and finally they finished it easily in less than half an hour. They felt very embarrassed.
Mr. Chang and Mrs. Chang stared at Kou Xuanling in silence, huddled together in the area circled by the red rope and refused to go out. Even if it was to deceive themselves, they just didn't want to do it too casually.
Kou Xuanling explained to them: "I didn't lie to you before. The villa was originally a western-style house. The owner of the western-style house is indeed a real black wizard like you. He killed seven people and cut their bodies into pieces in an attempt to refine some kind of evil magic that can control zombies for his own use. According to the information we investigated, they refine zombies and hollow out their internal organs, and then use drugs as internal organs to transport the poison. However, during one of the drug transportation processes, they encountered a master and were discovered. After investigation, the police captured this family of four black wizards."
"When the police cooperated with the Heavenly Master to arrest this family, the black wizards were defeated by the Heavenly Master and committed suicide under the ginkgo tree in the courtyard. When they returned to the heavenly master on the seventh day, they fought with the Heavenly Master again, but good could not defeat evil. The Heavenly Master thought that he had completely defeated them, but he did not expect that the woman among the black wizards was eight months pregnant. Before hanging herself, she cut out the fetus in her belly and used evil magic to make it into a ghost baby. The Heavenly Master knew nothing about this. Later, another family of four moved into the villa. This family of four was hanged under the ginkgo tree by the ghost baby, and the incident attracted the attention of the Heavenly Master. The ghost baby was eliminated, but the family of four who died tragically believed in black witchcraft themselves. They did not reincarnate but tried to come back to life."
When they happened to meet the Chang family who were in a similar situation, they wanted to use black magic to occupy their bodies and live forever in the world of the living. However, their black magic was so messy that they could only threaten ordinary people like Mr. Chang.
Kou Xuanling said, "I initially thought they were dark wizards, because the time and date of their death were the same as reported. Since they used you as substitutes, they would definitely kill you on the date of their own death, so I thought it was around 11pm to 1am. But once we fought, I realized something was wrong, and they... were full of confidence in themselves."
The weakling evil ghost thought he was an executioner who could easily harvest human lives, but he was killed instantly. After hearing the explanation, the Chang family felt that it would be better not to listen, as they were weaker than the evil ghost. Mr. Chang rubbed his face and said, "First of all, thank you for subduing the evil ghost and saving us. But it's better for us to stay in the circle and wait until after 1 o'clock."
"Okay." Kou Xuanling shrugged and didn't object. He had already explained everything. Whether they believed it or not was up to the Chang family. Besides, they had believed what he said before too much. Safety was the most important thing. He said, "Tomorrow you can ask someone to come and dig up the big ginkgo tree in the courtyard. There should be a few corpses inside. Call the police and let them handle it."
Mr. Chang: "Okay, thank you." The little girl of the Chang family yawned, and there was still black blood on her upper lip. She had a nosebleed from the ghost's scream, but fortunately, she was fine. She tugged at Mrs. Chang's sleeve: "Mom, I'm so sleepy." Mrs. Chang picked up her little daughter and coaxed her to sleep in her arms.
Kou Xuanling stood up and took a blanket and handed it to Mrs. Chang. When she touched the red rope, she froze and felt like a fool. Lu Xiuzhi laughed softly behind him. He turned around and said unhappily, "You thought about it a long time ago but didn't remind me?"
Lu Xiuzhi quickly shook his head: "I just thought of it too."
Kou Xuanling glanced at Lu Xiuzhi, put away the red rope and said to the surprised Mr. Chang: "I forgot that ghosts can't touch the red rope stained with black dog blood, but people can. Now you believe me, right?" Mr. Chang also realized that he had made a mistake, smiled awkwardly and nodded. Kou Xuanling said to Mrs. Chang: "Take her back to her room to sleep." After a pause, he said: "You all go back to your rooms to rest. Master Lu and I will stay in the living room tonight to watch over her and go back tomorrow."
The Chang family was indeed tired. They had not been able to rest properly for nearly two months. Now that they found that the evil spirits that had been harassing them for two months had been dealt with, their tense nerves suddenly relaxed, and the fatigue surged up, making them extremely eager to rest uncontrollably. After hesitating for a while, Mr. Chang asked Mrs. Chang to take the two children upstairs to rest, and he stayed to ask Kou Xuanling: "Have those evil spirits really been dealt with?"
Kou Xuanling nodded: "Don't worry."
After thanking him profusely, Mr. Chang also went upstairs to his room to rest, and the lively living room became quiet. The broken pieces of furniture lay quietly on the ground, and Kou Xuanling's eyes moved from the broken pieces of furniture to Lu Xiuzhi, who was sitting on a chair fiddling with amethyst beads. As if he noticed Kou Xuanling's gaze, Lu Xiuzhi looked up and met her gaze, revealing a smile.
Kou Xuanling immediately looked away, walked up to Lu Xiuzhi and asked him, "Who are you?"
Lu Xiuzhi paused fiddling with the beads and asked him, "Are you hurt just now? Why don't you sit down and talk?"
"I'm not injured, don't change the subject." Kou Xuanling narrowed his eyes and said, "I found that I made a mistake. Among the four people living in the villa, the mother's black wizard had the strongest black magic. I naturally thought that the black-clothed female ghost who was killed later had the strongest black magic. But after entering the house, I found that the black magic should be the weakest except for the black-clothed female ghost. The other three ghosts are stronger. After all, they can even leave the place where they died. I didn't see you subdue the two little ghosts just now, but I saw you subdue the old ghost who attacked Mr. Chang before."
Kou Xuanling raised his index finger: "You subdued that old ghost in one move. The two little ghosts just now were subdued by you before they could make much noise, and -" He pointed at the purple crystal beads on Lu Xiuzhi's wrist: "I have never seen anyone who can carve the Shangqing Dadong Zhenjing inside the beads. You just said that you carved it yourself? The purple crystal beads are also extraordinary. The entire Shangqing Dadong Zhenjing is engraved inside. It is a top-grade magic weapon. Although I am not a genius, I know most of the geniuses in the world of heavenly masters. As for you, whether it is your magic weapon, your dress, etc., I can't find a person as famous as you in the world of heavenly masters. I just posted a message on the Tianshi forum, and no one in the 200 replies knew you."
He crossed his arms and looked down at Lu Xiuzhi: "Tell me, what kind of demon are you?!"
Lu Xiuzhi smiled faintly and answered the question irrelevantly: "I suddenly thought of what to call this string of purple crystal beads."
"Hmm?" Kou Xuanling frowned.
"Three Element Flowing Beads." Lu Xiuzhi took off the purple crystal beads and hung them on his palm. When he loosened his hand, they fell down. "You just said that this string of flowing beads is like Buddhist Zen beads? You are wrong. This is called Taoist prayer beads. Day and night, the universe is endless like flowing water, and the stars are round like beads, so they are called flowing beads." He grabbed Kou Xuanling's wrist and pretended to put the beads on his wrist. The latter pulled his hand back and was immediately caught.
Kou Xuanling was slightly horrified: "What are you doing?"
"I'll give it to you." Lu Xiuzhi said without even looking up, "Three Yuan Flowing Beads has a total of 108 purple crystal beads. The Taoist Three Yuan Flowing Beads Sutra classifies Taoist beads into different levels, including 365 beads and 108 beads. The latter is called the number of stars in the Zhoutian constellation, and the sum of the heavenly and earthly evil spirits. I personally selected the purple crystal beads and engraved the Shangqing Dadong Sutra inside. It took me three years to engrave them. Whether it's used for decoration or as a magic weapon to exorcise evil spirits, they are all top-grade. If you don't like them, I'll string 365 Three Yuan Flowing Beads for you another day."
Kou Xuanling wanted to take off the Three Yuan Flowing Pearl on her wrist and return it to him: "I don't want it. I have my own magic weapon, why do I need yours? Don't change the subject. Who are you? What is your purpose in appearing at the Chang family?"
"I said that I was practicing in the mountains. My purpose was to get to know you and make friends with you. Do you believe it?" Lu Xiuzhi raised his eyes, grabbed Kou Xuanling's wrist and said while he was stunned: "The Three Yuan Flowing Pearl is a token of trust. If you think it is too valuable and don't want to accept it, then we can exchange tokens. I think the peach wood sword in your hand is good, so let's use it."
After saying that, he took the peach wood sword away without waiting for Kou Xuanling to react. He used some kind of magic, and the peach wood sword disappeared in his palm in the blink of an eye. Kou Xuanling frowned: "Do you know that peach wood is used to seal love?"
"Really?" Lu Xiuzhi showed a slightly exaggerated surprise: "I don't know." He said solemnly: "My mind is as pure and clear as the bright moon outside the house now. I really want to make friends with you. Didn't someone use peach wood to pledge brotherhood in the past? This is my idea, and I have no other ideas."
Kou Xuanling was surprised: "What else do you have in mind? I don't have a sister at home, and my cousin has a stable boyfriend. If you want to get closer to me, I'm afraid it's impossible, unless you have a sister."
Lu Xiuzhi's face turned black: "I don't have any sisters."
Kou Xuanling spread his hands, pointed out the window and said, "There are only stars outside tonight, but no moon." He patted Lu Xiuzhi on the shoulder and said, "The heavens are unwilling to help you. Tell me, what is your purpose? There is no one like you in the world of celestial masters. Your Taoist skills must be stronger than mine. There is no reason to be so low-key that no one knows about it. Explain clearly, otherwise I can't be friends with you."
Lu Xiuzhi: "I have been practicing in seclusion, and I haven't been out in the world of the living for a long time. It's normal that there is no one like me in the world of heavenly masters now. The world of heavenly masters is changing very fast, and it changes with each passing day."
Kou Xuanling placed the phone interface in front of Lu Xiuzhi: "I asked Uncle Ma, and he said that he had never heard of you when he was young. Don't lie, even if you live in seclusion and practice, you can't be completely out of touch with the world of heavenly masters. Even the most mysterious Taoist sects are connected to the world of heavenly masters, so they probably know who you are."
Lu Xiuzhi: "When I came out, the world of Heavenly Masters was not as united and well-organized as it is now, and the news was also lagging behind. There were many hermits, and I was just one of them."
Kou Xuanling narrowed his eyes: "Really?" Lu Xiuzhi nodded, and Kou Xuanling buried his head in calling the people of the previous generation in the Tianshi world. Fortunately, he took advantage of his job convenience to add many old guys on WeChat. But those people didn't use WeChat much, except for President Chen Qingdai. After all, as the president, he still had to carry a convenient tool with him, and he got a response soon.
Skipping the earnest warnings and popular science about the harm of staying up late to health and jumping directly to the answer at the bottom, Kou Xuanling was surprised: "Is what you said true?!" President Chen Qingdai confirmed that he had indeed met such a person when he was young, and warned him not to be rude to his seniors if he met them again.
Lu Xiuzhi nodded, with the corners of his lips slightly raised.
Kou Xuanling was shocked: "So you are very old!!"
Lu Xiuzhi's smile was frozen, staring at Kou Xuanling, unable to speak. Kou Xuanling continued to be shocked, staring at Lu Xiuzhi's face and sighing. "Do you know how old Chen Qingdai is? Almost a hundred years old. He still calls you senior, how old are you? Why do you look so young at such an old age? You look no different from a twenty-year-old young man, you really have the secret to keep your youth." He touched his face and sighed for a long time: "Are you a half-immortal? Do you know how to make pills?"
Lu Xiuzhi was silent for a while and then responded with difficulty: "I... am not that old."
Kou Xuanling put his hand on Lu Xiuzhi's shoulder like a brother, "I understand. People who have the secret of keeping their youth don't like to mention their age. I won't mention it in the future. Hey, why do you want to be friends with me? Hahaha, think about it, I can be your grandson at my age." He rubbed Lu Xiuzhi's shoulder with his shoulder and winked, "What charm do I have that attracted you to ignore the huge age gap and hit it off with me at first sight? Tell me, when have you seen me? You must have known me a long time ago and you are here to catch me now, right? Hehehe, let me say that Big Brother has good vision. You can see that I am shining with gold in the vast crowd. Don't say too much nonsense, let's go have a drink together after get off work. Let's become brothers now!"
Lu Xiuzhi expressionlessly moved the hand that was clasped on his shoulder downwards: "Let's start by being friends."
"What? Don't waste time. From now on, I will recognize you as my brother. I will stick by you for my life. We will take care of each other in the future. Of course, you have to take care of me. In the end, I am the one who got the upper hand. I could have recognized you as my ancestor." Kou Xuanling laughed loudly, continued to hold Lu Xiuzhi's shoulders, and patted him vigorously several times: "I am so happy today."
Lu Xiuzhi covered his chest, which was stuffy. When Kou Xuanling saw him, she thought he was feeling unwell. "Did he get hurt just now?" He muttered softly, "When you get older, you will have some heart problems."
Lu Xiuzhi felt even more depressed, but he still shook his head and said, "I'm fine. You—" He forced a smile, "Just don't mention my age anymore."
"No problem!" Kou Xuanling agreed generously and expressed his understanding: "By the way, is there really nothing wrong with your heart?"
Lu Xiuzhi: "… It really has nothing to do with age. My physical strength, agility and reaction ability are no worse than those of young people. I am good in every aspect."
The author has something to say: The internet was down at home today, so it was even later.