"Brother." Suddenly, a crisp female voice came from behind Lu Sheng, as if someone was calling him.
"Brother."
There was another voice.
Lu Sheng turned around and saw two people walking quickly behind him. A man was fifteen or sixteen years old, with a handsome appearance, with innocence and rebellion in his eyes. , heroic.
The other person is a girl, a little younger, about fourteen years old, with bangs, long hair reaching her waist, big eyes and watery eyes, with a kind of lovely and pitiful temperament.
"Little Quan and Zhenling." There were two people in Lu Sheng's memory, Lu Quan and Lu Zhenling, who were the closest brothers and sisters in name of his eldest son.
"Brother came to see the ancestral hall again." Lu Quan said carelessly, "What's so good about the ancestral hall? The ancestors liked to be clean when they were alive. Could it be that they want people to come to watch them all day long after they die? Why don't we go and practice together, brother?" !"
"What nonsense are you talking about?" Lu Zhenling helplessly patted Lu Quan's head, "Brother got up from rest before his body recovered, and now he is clamoring for sparring. It seems that you haven't lost enough?"
"It's not like that,..." Lu Sheng smiled, revealing Lu Zhong's usual gentle smile.
These two younger brothers and sisters are not in the same line as him, they are both biological parents.
"Maybe one day, he will suddenly have the qualifications to beat me." Lu Sheng reached out and touched the young Lu Quan's head.
Two younger siblings began asking him for tips on daily practice of the family martial arts.
The Lu family in Ziyan Villa has always passed down a simple martial arts called Shanglin Swordsmanship. Lu Zhong has practiced this sword technique thoroughly, but most of the moves in this sword technique are not used for sparring, but are required for ceremonies.
After Lu Sheng answered the two carefully one by one, he watched the two younger brothers and sisters off, and left happily. Someone approached and reminded them in a low voice.
"Eldest son, the owner of the village wants you to go to the Liancaotang."
"Understood." Lu Sheng nodded, and he was in better health, able to stand up, and immediately there were a series of things waiting to be dealt with.
He waited for his younger siblings to go away completely, and then he set off, walking along the corridor of the villa, and soon stopped in front of a dark, cold, strange house with a dignified atmosphere.
The door of the house was open, and there was a middle-aged man with a serious face standing quietly inside. The man has a handsome appearance, and it can be seen that he is also a rare handsome man when he is young. He is wearing a light gray suit that is simple, capable, dignified and exquisite.
As soon as Lu Sheng arrived, the man spoke in a deep voice.
"Chonger? Come in."
"Yes." Lu Sheng answered with his head bowed, completely following Lu Zhong's original way of responding.
Before he figured out the surrounding situation, he didn't intend to break through the protective disguise of Lu Zhong's identity.
The middle-aged man, Lu Dangfeng, is the owner of the current generation of Ziyan Mountain Villa. At this moment, he is also looking at his troubled son in front of him with complicated emotions.
During the ceremony a while ago, suddenly the eldest son was not accepted by the guardians due to some special reasons. Instead, he was kicked out of the ceremony because of his wild thoughts and being rude to the guardians, and was seriously injured as a result.
From the looks of it now, although the injury is mostly healed, it is still very difficult to pass the ceremony and inherit the position of the owner.
"Does it still hurt?" Lu Dangfeng looked at the respectful eldest son in front of him, his heart softened after all, and he asked softly.
"Go back to father, no." Lu Sheng replied in a low voice.
"Don't blame the father, you will understand in the future that our Ziyan Villa has this tradition of communicating with the guardians, offering sacrifices and holding ceremonies for them, and protecting the powerful seals underground. This is what we must do. "Lu Dangfeng's lips moved slightly, and his words were a little low and vague, as if he was talking to himself, or just whispering softly.
"Your siblings have their own corresponding guardians. If you can't be recognized by the guardians, you may not be able to inherit the tradition of the villa for thousands of years in the future." Lu Dangfeng said helplessly.
"I understand." From Lu Zhong's memory, Lu Sheng also knew this allusion about the guardian.
Father Lu Dangfeng often said some incomprehensible words on his own, such as guardians, guardian spirits, and evil seals, guarding for thousands of years and so on.
But since he was a child, Lu Zhong has heard these words cocoons, but he has never seen any special scenes beyond his imagination.
So I didn't care anymore.
"There will be an additional ceremony in the afternoon, you can join me to participate." Lu Dangfeng continued.
"Yes." Lu Sheng nodded. He was also quite curious about the effect of this inexplicable ceremony.
"Okay, go down and get ready." Lu Dangfeng waved his hand.
Only then did Lu Sheng slowly exit the dark and damp inner hall and return along the original path.
When returning from the original road, he accidentally passed by the family soldiers who were training. Standing in the corridor passing by, looking out, he could see a team of about 20 people surrounding the school field on the left. run fast.
"knife!"
Suddenly the leading family will shout loudly.
Swish! !
Immediately, all twenty people slashed forward with their blades, and their movements were not sloppy, full of murderous intent.
The bright silver blade reflected a bright knife light in the sun.
"shield!"
The family will shout again.
Immediately, all the soldiers put away their swords and turned around, with the other arm holding the shield in front of them, covering their heads and most of their upper body.
"Good quality." Lu Sheng nodded secretly in his heart. This kind of movement speed that is prohibited by orders can be regarded as an elite soldier even in Dayin.
After withdrawing his sight, Lu Sheng didn't stop all the way, and went directly to his courtyard to rest.
After lunch, he drank some medicinal porridge to invigorate Qi and blood. Lu Sheng was arranged to take a bath and cleanse himself, and burn incense to meditate. Then, led by two maids in red dresses with cold expressions, they returned to the Liancaotang where they had seen their father Lu Dangfeng before.
This time, Lu Dangfeng was not the only one standing in the Liancaotang, there were also five old, gloomy and lifeless family elders.
The five elders were sitting in the Cottage Hall in a fan shape, and Lu Dangfeng was sitting in the middle. The floor of the room was carved with a large circle of densely packed symbols and patterns, which looked like children's random graffiti. It also seems that some kind of law and distortion are hidden in it.
The lines of the pattern are blood-colored, deeply imprinted on the floor, exuding a mysterious and cold atmosphere.
Lu Sheng was ushered into a black stone seat and sat down, like everyone else, sitting on the edge of the formation pattern on the ground.
Then the two girls in red skirts who led him in walked slowly to the center of the formation.
ah! ! !
There was a scream in an instant, and one girl suddenly screamed with inexplicable frenzy, and the other girl began to open her hands and perform some kind of mysterious dance.
Her dancing posture is a bit like a puppet dance, but her eyes are wild, and her mouth is hissing from time to time like bugs and snakes.
The screams kept changing ups and downs, and even had some inexplicable rhythms.
Even the door of thatched cottage closed slowly.
Lu Dangfeng stood up, and placed a fist-thick white candle at the front of the formation, which became the only light source in the entire Liancaotang.
He began to whisper something to the candle.
The five elders on the side began to grab handfuls of paper money-like things and kept throwing them on the two girls.
Lu Sheng was not arranged to do anything, but just sat quietly.
Strange screams, weird dances, mysterious chanting, dim candlelight, and five weird elders who had half their feet in the coffin.
No matter how you look at this picture, something is wrong.
Time passed slowly, and Lu Sheng gradually felt something was wrong.
In the thatched cottage, at some point, some inexplicable aura gradually appeared in the air. It was very cold, but very ordinary.
He scanned the surroundings calmly, but was surprised to find that on the edge of the formation pattern, in the darkness, at some point, there were a few blurred shadows inexplicably.
These black images are like passers-by watching the excitement, surrounding the periphery, quietly watching the dancing and screaming of the two girls.
Time passed slowly, and more and more black shadows gathered around.
The black shadows stood in the darkness, at the outermost edge where the candlelight could shine, and ordinary people couldn't see them at all, but Lu Sheng was different.
He didn't use Lu Zhong's physical perception, but relied on his own body's perception to detect, so that these black shadows were clearly revealed.
Lu Sheng took a deep breath, a trace of worry inexplicably welling up in his heart.
He looked at the owner Lu Dangfeng who was reciting something. The worry in his heart was precisely for him.
"Every generation of owners died young, and my father has been getting older recently... Don't worry about it." A thought came out from the bottom of his heart.
Huh
Lu Sheng was taken aback. Immediately, he quickly realized that this should be Lu Zhong's thoughts and wishes that he had integrated and absorbed.
He closed his eyes and meditated, carefully sensing the situation in his soul. This thread of thought is like a white line on a blackboard, clearly highlighted, and extremely solidified and conspicuous.
He tried to dispel this inexplicable thought, but it was useless, it seemed that this thought had become an obsession.
He had an inexplicable feeling that as long as he could complete this cause and effect, he would be able to completely end the matter here. Get clues to return to the Great Yin.
This intuition comes from the depths of the soul, the structure of the soul is too mysterious, even in today's Great Yin, no one can study it thoroughly. At this moment, he couldn't figure out whether he should trust his intuition or not.
"If my guess is correct, I should have been born in response to Lu Zhong's demonic thoughts, and it was his extraterrestrial demon in disguise. Heavenly Demon, Heavenly Demon, maybe I came here because of Lu Zhong's accidental change of inner demon. According to the traditional routine , if I want to completely complete this fusion, I should fulfill Lu Zhong's wish in order to completely obtain this spiritual power."
Thoughts swirled in his mind, and he quickly decided to try one or two according to his intuition. Anyway, there are no other clues now, so it's better to do it first.
When I came back to my senses, the ceremony had already started a new change.
At some point in Lu Dangfeng's hand, there was a small bowl, which was filled with a dark, viscous liquid full of fishy smell.
In front of the candlestick in front of him, there was also a big black toad with green eyes.
While muttering something, Lu Dangfeng picked up the black mucus with his hands and sprinkled it on the head of the toad in front of him.