Chapter 73 Dreaming
Li Chuan and his party followed Ming Xianpei's prompts and relied on the guidance of senior Orion Tong Luo to find three man-eating monsters around Yunqiao Township. A black bear, a turtle, a toad.
They were all hibernating, and they were woken up by Wu Kong with a stick. He chased them for two steps with the anger of waking up, and shot them with arrows, and they died within a few hits.
But the piebald snake demon has never been found.
Li Chuan gradually became more comfortable using the Mingxian Pendant. He felt that this jade pendant was not that simple.
Maybe it's because he has no spiritual consciousness, so he can only use some basic functions.
They stayed in the cave at night, gathered firewood, and lit a fire. The cold wind still made their noses runny.
It's snowing again.
Wukong poked the fire with a stick. Seeing Tong Luo's unwilling eyes, he comforted and said, "The snake demon may have died somewhere else."
Tong Luo wiped the fire. Arrow's hand stopped, "I know."
"Let's stop here this time." Wu Kong stood up and looked at the large falling snowflakes. "It is estimated that in more than ten years, ordinary little monsters will not dare to come to Yunqiao Township to cause trouble, and even Jinhong County will not dare to come. I will recite the scriptures more when I go back, so as not to get any business in the future.”
“The scriptures you recited when you interrogated the pig demon were very powerful,” Li Chuan boasted.
"That was taught to me by an old monk. I helped him collect the corpse, and he taught me this passage."
Wukong said about the old monk: "When I rescued him, he He claimed to have been floating in the river for seven days and seven nights. He told me to burn his body clean, and then he died after teaching me this scripture. I don't know his origin, but when he passed away, the room was filled with Buddha's light. , he should be a person who has profound attainments in Buddhism."
He added: "My stick technique was actually learned from this passage, and I improved the original demon-conquering stick. It’s really extraordinary.”
Li Chuan and Tong Luo began to guess the identity of the old monk.
Wukong said: "Since he didn't tell me this and asked me to raise the ashes directly, he obviously didn't want me to know his identity. I know that Brother Li and Brother Tong are trustworthy, so these I just want to talk to you, but don’t tell anyone else.”
Li Chuan and Tong Luo said they would never tell anyone else.
After chatting for a while, we were all a little tired.
Li Chuan held Gong Er in his arms and covered his hands, and said, "Go back at dawn tomorrow and spend the New Year in peace."
Wu Kong and Tong Luo both agreed.
Suddenly Li Chuan felt Mingxian Pendant shake heavily. According to previous experience, only when the evil demon is close will the shaking be that severe.
After taking it out, it didn't move. When I knocked it with my hand, a layer of white light appeared.
“Are there any monsters?” Wu Kong noticed Li Chuan’s actions.
"Maybe I'm hallucinating," Li Chuan stared at the Mingxian Pendant for a while, then put it back, "But if it's not a hallucination, everyone should be careful and take turns keeping vigil at night. It’s the last day, don’t make any mistakes.”
"I'll stay up until midnight." Wu Kong said.
"Then it will be late at night. Brother Li, it's not easy for you to come with us. You should have a good sleep." Tong Luo said.
Li Chuan accepted his kindness. He was really tired and exhausted.
Everyone goes to sleep.
Li Chuan got colder and colder as he slept. Suddenly, he felt someone pushing him and a voice calling him.
"Master Li, get up quickly. Immortal Changquan invites you to speak."
Li Chuan opened his eyes and found himself lying on the bed. A girl in green clothes and pink face was pushing him, and said crisply: "Quickly Get up, Changquan Immortal is waiting for you.”
Where is this?
Who is Changquan Immortal?
Li Chuan was so dazed that he was pulled out of bed. He followed the girl unconsciously and walked around the winding corridor. He was taken to a beautifully furnished room, where many people wearing gauze clothes walked out. When the girl saw him, she said, "It's Mr. Li. Go and take a bath quickly. Immortal Changquan is waiting for you."
With that said, they surrounded Li Chuan and walked into the house. While trying to take off his clothes, they said, "Hurry up, Immortal Changquan is waiting for you." Qi Ba touched his body with both hands.
Li Chuan wanted to stop them, but he couldn't speak or move his body. He was about to take off his clothes. Suddenly, a woman was frightened. Said: "There are rats, why are there rats?"
What rats?
"There are rats, big rats..." The women screamed, and the sound hurt his ears.
Then all these women suddenly fell to the ground, turned into centipedes and earthworms, and crawled out.
Li Chuan felt a chill.
At this time everything around became dark and quiet, the houses were gone and the corridors were gone.
Li Chuan walked forward in the darkness with an intuition. After walking for a long time, he saw a group of light. He suddenly realized that this was his sea of consciousness, and inside the sea of consciousness, he lay A mouse, with its little tail wagging, sleeping in a very comfortable position.
"Wake up." He reached out and poked the mouse in the belly.
The mouse opened his eyes dissatisfied: "Don't make any noise, I'm asleep."
"This is my sea of consciousness."
"What does it matter if I take a nap?"
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“You have to pay some rent, right?”
“What do you want?”
"I want to ask..."
"Don't, don't, don't!" The mouse immediately interrupted him and said, "I can live for so long just by adhering to three maxims: don't ask what you shouldn't ask, and don't know what you shouldn't know. I don’t know, and...this one is useless..." The mouse sat up, his mood obviously depressed.
"What's the third rule?"
"It's good to enjoy the shade under the big tree." The mouse was half-hearted, "Go, let me guard your sea of consciousness, no one can come in."
The mouse waved his hand and Li Chuan opened his eyes.
Several black shadows passed above.
The fire was out, Wukong Tongluo and the two demons were all asleep and unconscious, and there was a fishy smell in the air.
He pushed Wukong Tongluo, but they didn't wake up. He kicked them a few times, but they still didn't wake up. After thinking about it, he brought some snow outside the cave and wiped their faces.
"Leng Leng...Brother Li, what are you doing..." Wu Kong finally woke up. As soon as he saw it, he knew that he was in trouble. He picked up the stick and smashed it on the ground before standing up.
Then they woke up Tong Luo and Er Yao again.
Wu Kong, who was responsible for watching the whole night, said that he remembered watching Tong Luo get up after watching him for the first half of the night, and they chatted for a few words before he fell asleep.
Tong Luo said that he never got up, but he slept very deeply and had a very strange dream. In the dream, he was mowing grass, and it seemed that he had to cut a lot of grass and transport it somewhere. Keep cutting, keep cutting.
Gong Er and Pang San said that they just fell asleep and had no dreams.
After a discussion between the three people and the two demons, they came to several conclusions.
First of all, there are monsters, maybe centipedes, earthworms and the like; secondly, this monster is very cunning and can avoid the detection of Mingxian Pendant, and has the ability to confuse smoke into dreams, etc., so it should not be underestimated; thirdly, The monsters didn't want to face them head-on.
Tong Luo said: "Centipedes, earthworms and the like probably live underground. Let's explore around first."
(End of this chapter)