The night gradually faded away, and the sky became slightly brighter.
The light rain that had been falling intermittently all night had completely stopped half an hour ago, and the dark clouds in the sky were slowly dispersing.
In late autumn and near winter, even on Sifang Island, it is extremely cool at the turn of day and night. In Qingxi Town on the coast of Qu State, the quiet streets and alleys have begun to have sparse pedestrians.
The not-so-thin white mist shrouded the entire Qingxi Town. Pedestrians walking in the mist could only be seen roughly as human figures if they were more than five feet tall. Pei Muzhi was sitting on a small wooden stool, looking at the people walking by the road in a daze. It's a hot, popular stall that sells baked sweet potatoes and other delicacies.
Less than half a month has passed since the weird man in black robe took over the wine shop, and Pei Muzhi has not found a new job yet.
As a result of his status as a poor householder and his reputation was revoked, Pei Muzhi could not even farm - the land at home had been sold out long ago.
In addition, he couldn't lift it with his hands or carry it on his shoulders, and he thought he couldn't do any physical work, so there were even fewer jobs for him to choose from, except setting up a stall to write for others, or working as a teaching assistant in a private school. I can only find some kind of work like a waiter in a shop, dealing with people every day.
But Qingxi Town is not big after all.
Pei Muzhi didn't want to follow the same old path.
So he could only go to the private school in the town to ask, and he was told clearly that there was no shortage of people, and then a guy who went with him was left behind.
Later, after he inquired about it, he found out that the guy who went with him sold half of his family's land and asked someone to buy a painting in the county town - the senior gentleman from the private school was said to be quite accomplished in painting.
The matter at the private school was ruined, and Pei Muzhi had to set up a stall to write for people. However, after working as a waiter for so many years, he could no longer hold his pen steady. After writing an elegiac couplet that looked like a ghost painting for the big man who opened a martial arts school in the town, He was beaten so hard by the big man that even the stall he had just set up was smashed.
The pen that had been broken into three pieces by the big man who had been opened to the martial arts school was still lying quietly in Pei Muzhi's arms.
"Sigh... I think this little brother has had bad luck lately, so it's better to be careful and not get into any big trouble!"
A deep old voice sounded, and a blind old man walked over from a distance. The old man was dressed in a torn yellow robe, with messy white hair piled behind his head. He held a flag in his left hand, with the words "Final End" embroidered on it. There are four big characters in Tianji. He holds a rolled scroll in his right arm and rests on it with his right hand. His greasy and black cheeks reflect the red light of the fire beside the road.
After saying those words, the sloppy old man sat next to Pei Muzhi, carefully spread the things he held under his right arm on the ground, and then sat down behind the spread things.
Pei Muzhi noticed that what the sloppy old man spread out on the ground was an extremely exquisite Bagua picture, with many things on it that Pei Muzhi could not understand. In short, this exquisite Bagua picture was really in keeping with this sloppy old man. The image of the old man shows obvious contrast.
"Why did my father say this?" Pei Muzhi asked back.
Pei Muzhi had never seen this sloppy old man before, and he didn't even feel half familiar. This man was probably not from their Qingxi Town, and judging from his accent, he might not even be from their Qu country.
The blind and sloppy old man inserted the flag in his hand on one side of the Bagua Diagram. Without seeing that he was using too much force, he inserted the flag between two floor tiles on the ground and it got stuck.
"Don't say it, don't say it!"
The slovenly old man stroked his sparse beard, shook his head, and said, "You must know that the secret of heaven is precious, and you will understand after leaving it behind."
Pei Muzhi was silent for a while.
He raised his hand and touched his arms, as if hesitating, but in the end he did not take out the few possessions he had left and handed them to the sloppy old man. He felt that this man was probably a swindler. If he took out the money, he would give it to this man. , that would be taken advantage of, how could he be so stupid?
The reason why Pei Muzhi acted hesitant was because he wanted to see what kind of reaction this blind and sloppy old man would have.
Unfortunately, he was disappointed.
This sloppy old man seems to be really blind.
So Pei Muzhi turned his head and quietly moved away from the blind old man.
Continue to squat in front of the closed door of the wine shop.
He planned to give it a try to see if he could get a job under the black-robed man who owned a wine shop and spent a lot of money. If this failed, he would leave Qingxi Town and seek refuge elsewhere.
The flags were blowing in the wind, and a blind, slovenly old man sat cross-legged behind the Bagua Diagram. His eyes, which were almost entirely white, looked at the wine shop in front of him. There seemed to be a strange light in his eyes, which flashed away.
The originally bustling wine shop was extremely deserted.
Empty large and small altars were piled aside, as high as the tree in the courtyard, like a wall.
On the second floor of the restaurant, in the private room deep inside, one side of the wall is missing, and the fracture is extremely flat. The original bed in the private room has also been cleared, and only a futon has been placed. Gu Qing, in black robe, He sat on the futon and held a wine jar.
There was only a very small layer of wine left in the wine jar.
Even with only this very small layer left, one can still see the surging light purple in it, as well as the five-color spiritual light locked in the light purple.
'No wonder many monks are flocking to spiritual wine. For monks in the fake elixir realm such as Li Hengyang, the cultivation and strange light emanating from their bodies after death can actually be integrated into ordinary wine, and Ten times, or even a hundred times sparse, in order to speed up the refining of this strange light flakes.
Gu Qing controlled the spiritual power of the lavender power that he used to seal the wine. He mobilized almost half of the spiritual power in his body to suppress the remaining lavender power.
For Li Hengyang, who was in the fake elixir realm, there was nothing he could do about the cultivation that dissipated after his death, the purple light that turned into catkins in the space of the stone tablet, and Gu Qing's spiritual power at the second level of Foundation Establishment.
If he hadn't carried the inheritance of the ancient demon, he would no longer be able to use the stone tablet space to practice until his cultivation level reached enough to refine the purple light catkins!
at this time.
Gu Qing had already drank most of the wine stored in the wine shop, and used these ordinary wines to dilute and refine almost all the remaining purple light in the space of the stone monument. His ancient demon power once again experienced a surge. , the ancient demon’s true form reached a terrifying eighty-three feet! .
In the jar in Gu Qing's hand, the remaining lavender power is the last small half of purple light.
'This thing is precious. Even if I use the remaining half of the purple light flakes, it will be difficult to raise my ancient demon's true body to eighty-four feet... It is better to keep it for the time being, in case of emergency.
Gu Qing's eyes flashed slightly, and he held the wine jar with one hand, mobilizing the power of the surrounding heaven and earth to seal off the surrounding area to prevent outsiders from prying, and then began to condense the prohibition with his other hand to seal the wine.
Needless to say, Gu Qing chose the Five Elements Ban.
The Five Elements Ban is condensed from five basic bans belonging to the Five Elements. It is still the strongest ban that Gu Qing has mastered.
In the world of Cauldron, Gu Qing has not encountered restrictions stronger than the Five Elements Forbidden, but if he wants to get it, it will cost a lot of money, and even if he gets it, the stability of the restriction will definitely not be comparable to that of the Five Elements Ban. Five Elements Ban.
Just when Gu Qing began to refine the Five Elements Taboo.
He suddenly raised his eyes.
It seemed like I was looking at someone from afar!
'...This person's soul power is far inferior to mine, but he must have practiced some kind of secret method of perception, so he can detect some fluctuations on my side. Gu Qing withdrew his gaze and his expression changed slightly, "Is that the monk that Tang Yun recruited?" Tang Yun is not a stupid person, and he would not invite a foundation-building monk to deal with me just to win a breath.
'So... you're just passing by?
'Sifang Island is just an island where ordinary people live together. It is rare to have a Qi-refining Great Perfection cultivator like Tang Yun here. This time, a foundation-building monk appears... What will happen to Sifang Island in the near future? ?
Gu Qing was distracted and the speed of condensing the restrictions slowed down.
The white spiritual power nodes look like tiny cyclones. Multiple spiritual power nodes are connected together, turning into a basic restriction of water movement. This water path
Gu Qing's fingertips trembled slightly as he struck out the four basic restraints on the palm where the previous four restraints were.
As a result, the five basic prohibitions belonging to the five elements condensed into a five-element prohibition with excellent stability. The five-element prohibition showed the appearance of golden light spots. If you look carefully with the secret technique of urging spiritual eyes, you can find this five-element prohibition. , it looks like a natural snowflake, but one corner is missing.
In fact, the restrictions do not have clear-cut divisions like formations, elixirs, and spiritual talismans. Those with high cultivation level can exert the power to seal the world even if they only condense the most basic restrictions.
As for those with low cultivation, even if they try their best to condense the most exquisite restraints, they may not be able to exert much power.
To seal the lavender-glossy wine in the wine jar, Gu Qing used twenty-four Five Elements Bans. Then he removed his own Five Elements spiritual power, and the wine jar immediately shattered.
Bang!
The exploded wine jar turned into the finest powder. During the fall, it was swept up by the oncoming wind and disappeared.
In Gu Qing's hand, he held a pool of wine that was blocked by a golden forbidden layer, and put it into the storage ring at his fingertips.
Today, Gu Qing is not placing all his things in the stone monument space. After all, the previous lessons are still fresh in his mind. That is really not a good choice. Relatively speaking, although the storage ring may be taken away by others, Even the storage ring was taken away, and he was probably dead. In other words, putting things in the storage ring is basically foolproof.
The space in the storage ring is stagnant, and the things inside it will basically not be damaged. Although the storage treasures have their own unique lifespan, the storage ring has a longer service life than the storage bag. I don’t know how many times it comes out, and it can easily last for thousands or tens of thousands of years.
After dispersing the stagnant power of heaven and earth around him, Gu Qing sat in the house where he had demolished a wall, looking at the pedestrians coming and going on the street in the distance, trying to find the same feeling as before.
Only by entering the state of unity between man and nature in Guanzi Jue can he truly master the power of the ancient demon that has skyrocketed.
Gu Qing just looked at the pedestrians coming and going on the street. The smell of fireworks was very strong, and the world of mortals made people nostalgic. But he kept looking at it for several hours until he became a little irritable, and he couldn't find any trace of the previous feeling. , but all kinds of distracting thoughts arise in my mind.
Gu Qing's brows relaxed, and with a thought in his mind, he entered the Qinxin state. He flicked his fingertips and let distracting thoughts flow through his heart. He just sat here. Three days passed quickly.
The sun rises and sets, the wind comes and the rain comes.
Three days is just a blink of an eye.
Gu Qing touched the threshold of the state of unity between man and nature in Guanzi Jue, but he only lingered inside and outside the threshold. Although the golden light on the bones of his body came out again, strengthening his flesh and blood, the snow deep in his soul The divine will is also active.
However, the state he entered this time was far inferior to the last time, and it only lasted for half a day. Then he came out of this state with an inexplicable idea.
"this……"
Gu Qing felt as if he was just waking up from a dream, his body shook, and he came out of the state of unity between heaven and man in the Guanzi Jue. Even the Qinxin state could no longer enter, and a feeling of depression appeared in his heart.
Gu Qing lowered his head and looked around.
His pupils turned into a light golden color, and he could see through his body. He could only see the golden luster among the flesh and blood, which was gathering into the bones of the whole body. After a moment of induction, he discovered that the divine will of snow deep in his soul was no longer active, and It was after he left the state of unity between man and nature in the Guanzi Jue that he fell silent.
'It seems that the state I can enter through this Guanzi Jue at this time is quite rare... It was not so difficult before. Was it because my understanding of the Guanzi Jue at that time was not thorough enough?
Gu Qingru thought.
When the golden light all over his body naturally converged into his bones, Gu Qing stood up, took a step forward, and disappeared from the spot.
On the street outside this open-air restaurant.
As the door of the wine shop was opened from the inside, everyone squatting on the street stood up one after another. Most of these people were men, but there were also a few women with big shoulders and round waists.
, all of them smelled of alcohol. It was obvious that they had been drinking alcohol all year round, and the alcohol smell had already entered their bones. They had to fast for three months, otherwise they would not be able to get rid of the alcohol smell.
These people rushed towards the open door of the wine shop, shouting for drinks, and the scene immediately became noisy.
Among them was a bearded man with a knife on his waist. His voice was like beating a drum, and he shouted: "The store has finally opened. If it doesn't open, I will climb over the wall! Don't worry about others. Come and serve me a few altars first..."
The big man didn't finish speaking.
His figure seemed to be frozen, and he still maintained his walking posture, but stopped motionless in front of the door of the wine shop.
The same goes for other drinkers.
On this street corner, only the sound of the howling autumn wind is left.
Gu Qing, who was wearing a black robe and had a fair and handsome face, looked calm. Through the gap between the bodies of these drinkers, he looked at Pei Muzhi who was squatting not far away. He glanced at the blind man beside Pei Muzhi. The blind man was sitting Behind the Bagua diagram, there was a flag standing, and the old god was looking at him.
The two people's eyes missed each other.
"Sir! Your Majesty..." Pei Muzhi had been watching for three or four days. He suddenly woke up from his daze when he saw Gu Qing's figure. He didn't care why the surroundings suddenly became quiet. He almost rolled and ran over. In front of him, there were all the words of praise, flatteringly complimenting Gu Qing.
Gu Qing ignored Pei Muzhi's compliment.
He glanced at the bearded man with the knife on his waist, and quietly withdrew the consciousness he had exerted on this man.
The bearded man with a knife on his waist shook his body and resumed his movements. However, it was due to excessive force during the struggle. Once he resumed his movements, he lost control of his body and almost fell to the ground. Fortunately, he was still able to move. Calculated by his agility, he could barely stabilize his body.
Although he had stabilized his figure, the look that the bearded man looked at Gu Qing was completely different from before. He became extremely frightened. He fell to his knees on the ground with a plop, his face as white as paper.
"Sir Immortal Master, have mercy!"
"The little man has an eight-year-old mother and an eighty-year-old son. His wife is bedridden and the whole family's lives depend on him. I beg the immortal master to spare my life. I am filled with gratitude!"
There are often monks coming and going on Sifang Island, and a large formation is deployed to protect the island, so most of the people on the island are aware of the existence of the monks.
Therefore, after experiencing what happened just now, this bearded man immediately concluded that the young man in black robe who glanced at him and others and were immobilized was a powerful monk.
The bearded man kowtowed repeatedly. The other drinkers who were captured by Gu Qing's spiritual consciousness also looked panicked and their eyes became horrified.
They actually offended an immortal master!
As a result, everyone was shocked, and even those with relatively weak temperaments shed tears involuntarily. Gu Qing even smelled a fishy smell, and it was obvious that some people were so frightened that they could not control themselves.
Gu Qing simply withdrew his spiritual consciousness that had captured all the drinkers, and shouted in a low voice: "Everyone, go away! Don't spread the word about what happened today!"
As he said that, Gu Qing looked around at the crowd, his eyes pausing for a moment on a man who looked much stronger than the bearded man at the front. The fishy smell was coming from this man.
"yes!"
"Master Immortal, I will take my leave!"
One by one, the drinkers woke up from a dream and left quickly, all gone in the blink of an eye. The big man with the curly beard also wanted to leave, but was stopped by Gu Qing's gaze. Immediately, the man with the curly beard turned pale, as if he was about to die. As if stunned, he gritted his teeth, knelt on the spot, and continued to suffer.
The street corners of Qingxi Town were quiet as never before.
Only the voice of the bearded man kept ringing.
The blind and sloppy old man sat there with the presence of the old god, while Pei Muzhi stood beside Gu Qing, looking at his nose and heart without saying a word. This continued for two or three breaths, and Gu Qing finally moved.
Gu Qing held it in his hand, and six gold ingots appeared in his palm. He had obtained this item in the world of cauldron before. There were a hundred pieces in total. He was originally going to melt it into a weapon, but he had not yet done this in the future. After that, they left the world in the cauldron, and these hundred gold ingots have been placed in the storage ring.
This gold ingot is not ordinary gold.
ingot.
You can tell just by its luster.
Compared with the gold ingots circulating in the world, this gold ingot has a purer texture without any impurities. It can be used as an auxiliary spiritual material for refining some magic weapons.
Gu Qing handed these six gold ingots to Pei Muzhi.
Pei Muzhi took the gold ingot and felt his hands sink. The eyes of the bearded man kneeling on the ground almost popped out of his head.
The bearded man had never seen such a big gold ingot in his life. Not to mention that he had never seen it before. Even his distant relative who worked in the governor's mansion had probably never seen it before!
Pei Muzhi respectfully held six gold ingots in his hands. Then he saw the black-robed man in front of him, pointed at the bearded man, and said to him: "Gu is not here often. From now on, you two will be responsible for taking care of this place. You must do it as soon as possible." This place was built into a piano house. Gu will come back from time to time. If he sees you two being neglectful..."
thump!
Pei Muzhi knelt on the ground and said loudly and respectfully: "This villain will never show any slightest care! Please rest assured, Sir!"
"So does the villain!"
The big man with the beard was originally filled with despair, but upon hearing Gu Qing's words, he was immediately overjoyed. Following Pei Muzhi's response, he kowtowed several times in a row, causing blood to flow from his forehead.
Life's ups and downs, great joys and great sorrows, come too quickly.
Chen Hui, who looked like a big man with a beard, couldn't recover for a while. He was still kowtowing until Gu Qing left.
Until a cold wind blew.
Chen Hui was startled, raised his head, and saw Pei Muzhi, who usually shrank in fear when he saw him, standing in front of him, looking at him with a very strange look in his eyes.
"Oh! Brother Chen, how can Pei accept such a great gift? Please get up quickly!" Pei Muzhi pretended to help Chen Hui up. He had already stood in front of Chen Hui and received Chen Hui's kowtow several times.
Who would have thought that Pei Muzhi, a mere man like him, could actually ask Chen Hui, who had relatives working in the governor's mansion, to kowtow to him?
Chen Hui got up from the ground in silence, his head still a little dizzy. He looked at Pei Muzhi, composed himself, and smiled.
"I really admire you, Brother Mu, you have actually hooked up with Master Gu Xian. It's really gratifying! It's a pity that your father left early and couldn't follow Brother Mu and enjoy the blessings for a few more years." Chen He said sincerely, but because of the blood flowing from his forehead, he looked a little ferocious.
The corners of Pei Muzhi's mouth twitched.
However, he did not scold him back, but took a deep breath and said, "Brother Chen Hui, we will work for Mr. Gu in the future, and peace is the most important thing! Don't miss Mr. Gu's affairs because of the two of us!"
"That's right! Brother Pei is right!"
Chen Hui also responded sternly.
The two of them just talked and walked into the courtyard together.
Chen Hui and Pei Muzhi, as well as the crowd watching from a distance, had never noticed that the sloppy old man who originally set up a fortune-telling stall by the road had disappeared without knowing it.
Among the clouds in the sky, there is a cloud boat.
Gu Qing and the sloppy old man sat opposite each other.
"Yi Li Yuan Zhen, Zhou Xing is in the center of concentration, the universe is empty, and Chi Hong can be seen..." Gu Qing recited these sixteen words again, with a little doubt on his face, and looked at the sloppy old man holding a flag opposite.
Gu Qing glanced at the flag and paused for a moment.
Soul flag!
Never wrong.
Although this flag is embroidered with the words 'Calculate all the secrets of heaven', it is a real soul flag, and only soul flags can have such fluctuations!
His eyes passed over the soul flag held by the old man, and Gu Qing looked at the old man's wrinkled cheeks. At this time, although the old man's eyes were cloudy, they had returned to normal. It was obvious that he was not really blind.
The sloppy old man, facing Gu Qing's gaze, chuckled and said, "Fellow Daoist Gu, these sixteen words were obtained by one of my descendants from a direct descendant of a declining monk clan."
"The last monk of the declining monk clan once took out three marrow-washing spiritual fruits from a secret place in the clan and sold them on Changming Island. This kind of spiritual fruit did not exist at that time.
People recognized it and only knew that it had the effect of cleansing the marrow... Only later did they learn that this fruit was called the Red Blood Spirit Cleansing Fruit. "
Gu Qing's eyes flickered: "Wash the spiritual fruit with red blood?"
You can buy this kind of spiritual fruit in the virtual world of Lingxu Island!
However, the spiritual stones he needed were beyond his reach...
