Chapter 6 Dilemma
Li Wuxiang's arm retracted, and the stone door was immediately slammed shut by the air waves outside. The sound echoed several times in the empty room before gradually disappearing.
But the roar in his head continued——
Is what Zhao Puppet said true? !
It's really a sea of fire outside! !
He rushed back to the front room, picked up an empty sack and returned to the door. He pushed the stone door open a gap for the second time with his arm and threw the sack out.
After falling ten feet away, a faint light suddenly appeared on the sack, as if it had passed through an invisible wall. Then it was suddenly swept up by the airflow, instantly bursting into flames and turned into flying ash.
He retracted his hand, took a few steps back, sat on the wooden couch and sighed.
Zhao Xi looked at him timidly: "Do you believe it now?"
I don’t want to believe it at all, but I have to accept the reality and think about it for the future - for example, sitting on the wooden couch like this and sighing.
Li Wuxiang wanted to use this action to cover up his shock and at the same time give himself some time to think quickly.
Because, maybe Zhao Xi hasn't realized it yet, but she will realize it sooner or later - the two are about to fall into a cruel death battle.
She was still acting a little scared of herself. I don't know how Zhao Puppet described "external evil" to her, but this "fear" is not enough. She was also afraid of Zhao Puppet before, but after discovering the opportunity to kill him, she took the risk without hesitation. She may not be a person who knows much, but because of this, she seems to have a beast-like temperament and instinct...
"You asked me to vomit him. So he taught you some skills?" Li Wuxiang turned to look at Zhao Xi, "Tell me about it."
Zhao Xi immediately spoke, with a hint of flattery: "He taught me how to eat less, so I just need to eat a little for a day or two. Zhao Puppet said this is called Bigu, but said that I didn't have enough heat and only learned how to consolidate the foundation. , you still have to take supplements... you just have to eat something..."
Li Wuxiang stood up and slowly walked to the cabinet table while listening. There were four drawers on the cabinet table. He opened them all and inspected them. Two of them are empty inside, and one has some porcelain bottles inside. There are many knock marks. It looks like it has been used for many years, but it is basically empty. There were various minerals piled up in another drawer - there were also some paints on the table, and Li Wuxiang guessed that these were also used to prepare paints.
As for the use, Zhao Xizheng said this - Zhao Puppet is a Qi alchemist who is about to form an elixir, but he is neither a true disciple of Xuanmen nor a true disciple of a famous master, so he only knows some inferior spells, and paper puppetry is one of them. . Tie up thick bamboo paper into a paper figure, then carefully trace it with paint, and apply magic to it to become the thing you killed underneath.
This kind of paper mannequin seems to have endless uses, but in essence it is a kind of evil ghost. It is most afraid of human spittle. As long as it gets on it, the spell will be broken immediately.
But Zhao Puppet hasn't taught this method to Zhao Xi yet. This made Li Wuxiang breath a little relieved.
He had no intention of harming anyone at this time, but he knew that if the fire outside did not stop and Zhao Xi gradually discovered that she was not the "external evil" that she and Zhao Puppet were afraid of, she would almost definitely take action.
She had a terrible scar on her chest before, but after taking the elixir for only two quarters of an hour, she was now able to speak calmly while covering her chest. She said this was because Zhao Puppet taught her some Qi-refining skills, so that she could strengthen her body and waste less food. Looking at it this way, what she has learned is far more than just "strengthening the body", but she doesn't know it yet.
And his body has not seen the sun for a long time, and he was starved to death not long ago. If he really wants to fight against the recovered Zhao Xi, he is definitely no match, so he has to take advantage of Zhao Xi's fear of him. time, find adequate means to protect yourself. If Zhao Puppet, the elixir-enhanced Qi practitioner, is really as powerful as he says, then there might be something here...
——"Book of Tao" and the like. This word suddenly jumped out of his memory again.
He pushed aside the ores and really touched something under a layer of stone powder of different colors.
It was a thin, thread-bound volume, wrapped in a piece of linen. Li Wuxiang removed the linen and saw three words written on the booklet: "Guangchanzi". He flipped through the book and confirmed that it was a Taoist book. The text in it was difficult and obscure. At first glance, one would think that it was just moral articles and philosophical talks. However, upon closer inspection, it seemed that it was something else. There is a deep meaning.
After coming back from the dead, this was the first time he saw this kind of thing, but his chaotic memory told him to know what the book was called and what the mystery was - these Taoist books recorded all the methods of Qi refining and practice. , in order to prevent others from easily prying into their secrets, the author often uses code words when writing, which is similar to a password. It should be called... yes, it is called Dao Jue.
Only by knowing the "Tao Jue" can we understand the various human ways and retributions for good and evil mentioned in the book, which may refer to principles such as the circulation of qi and blood, the profit and loss of essence. Otherwise, even if a person obtains a supreme classic, it will be extremely difficult to understand and get started. Li Wuxiang took the book and waved it towards Zhao Xi: "Has he read anything in it to you?"
Zhao Xizheng was talking with great interest about how Zhao Puppet taught her how to use charcoal to make fire in the alchemy furnace. When I saw the "Guangchanzi" in his hand, my eyes immediately widened: "Don't touch this! This thing will suck human blood. If you touch it a few times, you will get sick!"
"He said that to you?"
Zhao Xi was stunned and frowned: "...He lied to me?"
So smart. Li Wuxiang felt a little pity because of her intelligence. He nodded: "He lied to you. Come, tell me in detail the principles of refining qi and preventing grains that he taught you before."
"Ah..." Zhao Xi hesitated for a while and whispered, "Actually, I don't remember clearly."
She has gradually begun to realize that she is not as ignorant as she appears. Li Wuxiang smiled and threw the booklet beside her: "What is recorded here should be Zhao Puppet's Qi Refining Technique. Zhao Puppet taught you some skills and taught you how to live without grains, but you haven't learned it yet, right? ”
"Then I have to eat now, and you have to eat too. Sooner or later, the food in here will be finished. When that day comes, the two of us may not be able to talk so harmoniously." Li Wuxiang weighed his hands. dagger, "I am an external evil."
Zhao Xi swallowed his saliva: "He said that external evil spirits like you are not very scary now..."
Li Wuxiang sat on the chair next to the cabinet table, looked interested, and squinted his eyes: "Oh? What did he say?"
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"He said...external evil spirits like you are not very scary at first, and are no different from ordinary people. The possessed person may still get help during practice, but over time, you have sucked the essence and blood of the practitioner. If you have spiritual energy, it will drive the cultivator crazy..." She said while observing Li Wuxiang's expression, "Then he will become a demon and kill people on sight, so we must not let external evil absorb the cultivator. The essence of..."
Li Wuxiang smiled at her: "Listen, you yourself said 'it will take a long time' - but now our food cannot be eaten for a long time. Besides, what he said is also a lie to you. I This kind of external evil only harms practitioners with poor moral character like Zhao Puppet. You helped me find a way to deal with him and then helped me kill him. How could I harm you?"
Zhao Xi hesitated, so Li Wuxiang added: "If I really want to hurt you, why did I feed you the pill before? Tell me how he taught you - you can't read, right? Wait until I learn it, continue Teach you, we can live here as long as we want.”
Zhao Xi wrung his hands and then said: "Then you keep your word... I have to keep this."
"External evil never deceives people."
So she told Li Wuxiang what Zhao Puppet had taught her before, including how to think about something, feel where the body was throbbing, and how and when to adjust her breathing. She didn't say much, just a dozen or so sentences. As she spoke, she took the booklet and showed him the first page.
Li Wuxiang was stunned as he listened.
It's not that I didn't understand what she said, but I understood it quite easily - while listening to what she said, I compared it with the words in the Taoist book, and gradually found the correspondence. Logically speaking, what Zhao Xi said was too little, and he should not be able to fully understand the book based on these alone.
But his situation was as if he had read this book a long time ago, or at least something similar. After reading it over many years later, he couldn't find a clue for a while, but once Zhao Xi reminded him a little, he immediately felt like I found a piece of thread and figured out most of it in one go.
In this way, he was not confused about Taoism, but he was a little confused about himself. When he was down there, he was quite sure that he was a time traveler, because at that time he had no impression of the world he was currently in. But now that I am gradually exposed to more things, I find that I seem to be quite familiar with many things in this world...at least I was familiar with them before.
...who am I? Could it be that it is really an external evil?
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