The "A Song" in Beiquan's mouth is, in a sense, Beiquan's senior brother.
Ah Song is also an orphan.
It should be said that all those who can be adopted by the master are orphans with special "birth" or "talent".
It's just that A Song entered the secret realm of Zhuling much earlier than Beiquan. When Beiquan knew him, the other party was already a mature man in his forties.
A Song was already a steward in the secret realm of Zhuling at that time, working in the bookstore, responsible for the sorting and transcription of some classics.
Beiquan had little contact with this Senior Brother A Song, and the number of times they met each year could be counted on ten fingers.
In Beiquan's memory, A Song was a gentle, taciturn person. When the two met, they mostly nodded politely and said hello to each other. Apart from that, there was very little other communication.
Although Beiquan grew up as a baby after he came to the secret realm of Zhuling, the soul in his heart was an adult who had been dead for hundreds of years.
Therefore, it was not until after A Song betrayed his master and fled to the world with the fascination flag, he learned the origin of this senior brother from his master.
A Song is from the Wu ethnic group.
In fact, not only Ah Chan, but the people in the secret realm of Zhuling, including the body of Beiquan, more or less have the blood of the Wu clan.
Legend has it that in ancient times, the Wu clan once prospered and shared the divine state with the human clan and the demon clan.
The bloodline talent of the Wu people is very powerful. They have strong inspiration and are better at learning and using spells than the human race. This makes them have a single-handed combat ability far better than the human warriors. culture.
It's a pity that the people as powerful as the Wu people, like many civilizations that followed, were crushed into powder by the torrent of history.
In order to maintain the purity of blood, the Wu people marry within each other all the year round, and even marry close relatives.
In those days, the Wu people would let their younger sister marry their elder brother, or directly make their daughter and biological father a partner after the death of their mother, because they felt that this would give birth to the purest child.
If any clan dared to have an affair with the human race or the demon clan, they would be regarded as traitors and executed, and the hybrid children born would also be discarded in the mountains and forests, and let the beasts take them away.
In this way, hundreds of years have passed, and the bloodline talent of the Wu clan has become stronger and stronger, but it has gradually declined.
I do not know since when, the birth rate of Wu clan newborns has dropped to a terrifying level, and more and more deformed children are born.
At that time, Wu Zu felt that this was a curse.
Some witches began to try to use their knowledge to create spells that could break the curse, and a small group of people took a different approach and tried to solve the problem in another way.
It's just that before the crisis of blood inheritance has been resolved, all ethnic groups began to compete in the Central Plains.
After several wars, the Wu clan was almost slaughtered as a loser, and the remaining clansmen were also incognito and scattered everywhere for survival.
The remaining shamans and humans intermarryed, the blood was diluted from generation to generation, and most of the inheritance was lost in the changing times and the vicissitudes of life.
After thousands of years of inheritance, the existing blood of the Wu clan has become so thin that it is almost negligible, but even with such a thin bloodline, there are still one or two "monsters" that appear from time to time, possessing talents and endowments that are incomprehensible to ordinary people. .
In fact, today's Taoism, alchemy, Nuo rituals, witchcraft, and even the head-dropping technique, which is prosperous in Southeast Asia, are inextricably linked with the inheritance of the witch tribe.
The secret realm of Zhuling was once a secret realm where the Wu people hid in seclusion to escape pursuit. The more than 100 ghosts were also born here.
Yes, the ghost, it is another method that the Wu people finally tried to solve the curse of blood.
They gave up their aging, sick, and mortal bodies and transformed themselves into another life form.
It's a pity that although this group of Wu people have become ghosts, they still haven't been able to really solve the problem.
Because ghosts need to be attached to human beings and feed on the negative energy of human beings.
So they can only leave the secret realm of Zhuling, join the world, transfer from one host to another, and continue to absorb food.
There are many tragedies caused by ghosts, and they will naturally be noticed by the practitioners of the right path.
From the time the first ghost was sealed into the fascinated spirit banner, to the recovery of the last known ghost, it has gone through three dynasties and more than two hundred and thirty years.
After that, Beiquan's "master" officially took over the secret realm of Zhuling, and the fascinated gods were also sealed together with other dangerous objects, and were deeply locked in this side hall...
…
…
…until Ah Chan stole the fascination and fled to the human world.
[A Song has lived in the secret realm of Zhuling for nearly one hundred and eighty years.]
Puppet said:
[I never found him with such ambition before.]
A Song was very low-key when he was in the secret realm of Zhuling. Apart from reading books, he seemed to have no other hobbies.
Even the manager of the secret realm of Zhuling, Beiquan's master, didn't know the level of his apprentice's cultivation, and when did he know the secret of the ghost, and he even got the idea of the ghost.
"A-chan seems to be trying to 'create' a new ghost."
Beiquan briefly told the puppet what he had seen and heard when he was investigating Zhu Hongcai:
"But what does this mean to him? It can't be a love of scientific research, can it?"
[Bullshit!]
The puppet wanted to hit Beiquan again, but was limited by his sitting position, and his hands were not long enough.
[What about your brain? ! Think about it!]
Beiquan regained his joking look.
He had actually thought about it seriously.
"I'm thinking, Ah Chan... does he also want to become a ghost?"
[Um.]
The puppet nodded again exaggeratedly.
[exactly.]
The master told Beiquan that Ah Song's real age was close to two hundred years old.
A Song is a cultivator, and has lived in the secret realm of Zhuling for a long time. His lifespan is longer than that of ordinary people, and his appearance has always remained in his early forties. He looks very young.
But two hundred years old is already close to the limit for a human being.
Beiquan's master once calculated for him that Ah Song's Yangshou only had five years left.
Unfortunately, it was obvious that Ah Chan felt that he had not lived enough.
At the last stage of his life, he decided to take the risk and escaped to the world with a fascinated flag.
"I see."
Beiquan nodded:
"No wonder A Song will use the technique of seizing the house."
Although "seize the house" is a forbidden technique, if you want to learn it, you can easily find a detailed ancient book in the bookstore in the secret realm of Zhuling.
As the steward of the bookstore, A Song does not need to report, nor does he need to worry about attracting suspicion. He can learn when he wants to.
However, there is a very fatal flaw in the technique of seizing the house, that is, the body of the house being seized cannot be compatible with the soul, and it will rapidly age and become weak.
Moreover, repeated seizures will make the energy of the three souls and seven souls of the caster become weaker and weaker. It is not certain that one of their own souls will be lost when they are transferred, and the consequences of incomplete souls, any magician would not be willing to try.
Therefore, "taking the house" is just A Chan's expedient measure.
He's buying himself time.
In order to live for a long time, Ah Chan wanted to turn himself into an existence like a ghost who could live forever without relying on the physical body.
Beiquan died in the Juyin Land, so his body did not rot and his soul did not disperse. He "lived" as a ghost for hundreds of years until he entered this body.
Although he didn't want to be a ghost, Beiquan felt that he should have some say in this regard.
Comparing his past and present life, if he had a choice, he would be willing to be a person.
After becoming a "North Spring", it means that he will experience birth, aging, sickness and death like an ordinary person, and finally walk to the end of this life, like thousands of deceased people, take Huangquan Road, enter the Temple of Samsara, cross the Naihe Bridge, and then Abandoned the past, and went to the next life alone.
But at least he had this life.
He has experienced the joys, sorrows, joys, joys and sorrows, love and hatred of being a human being.
He owned Wei Fuyuan.
Beiquan could guess what A Song was thinking, but he didn't want to understand him at all.
Now Beiquan just wanted to get rid of the thorny trouble of A Song quickly, and then capture all the ghosts who were wandering in the world one by one, and finish the task assigned to him by the master.
-Then
Beiquan curled his lips into a smile.
Do you still need to ask
- Of course, from now on, I will live and fly with my little boyfriend, and I will only be envious of mandarin ducks, not immortals!
"In this way, in order to prevent more innocent people from being taken away, the most urgent task is to quickly catch A Song's Primordial Spirit."
Beiquan straightened his sitting posture and said to his master:
"But I'm not sure what kind of 'slaughter house' Ah Chan is using."
Yes, although they are called "seize the house", in fact, "seize the house" is a general term for a spell category.
Just as Taoist magic spells and Tantric magic spells are two completely different things, depending on the source and school of magic, each school's "seize the house" has its own characteristics.
Unfortunately, there are many books of sects in the bookstore in the secret realm of Zhuling, and five or six kinds can be found just by the art of seizing the house. Figure out who the person who was taken away by him was.
Beiquan remembers that there is a technique of seizing homes in the Western Regions, similar to the so-called "devil possession" in the West. The method of selecting targets is very random - attaching his soul to a certain accessory, as long as the victim wears it, he will be attacked by him. Soul possessed.
If Ah Chan had used this trick, then Beiquan would have to find him in the vast sea of people, it would be like looking for a needle in a haystack.
[Heh, is there no way?]
The puppet gave a sneer with its dry mechanical sound:
[It doesn't matter, I have a plan for my teacher.]
After that, it raised its hand and stretched out to a Bogu shelf on the left.
[Take the box off.]
The puppet's hand is a fully carved fist, and it can only show a general direction, so it adds:
[I mean, the one with the peony pattern on the red silk face.]