Chapter 60 Immortal

Chapter 60 Immortal

Chapter 60 Immortal
Li Wuxiang looked at him silently and waited for a while: "No buts? Are you serious?"

"Seriously." Zeng Jianqiu frowned and thought for a while, "Before Zhao Kui wanted to take over your body, oh, when he was in the stove, he must have used the golden entanglement to refine himself into a ghost fairy, so he attached himself to Zhao Xi's body. The golden entanglement is indeed a treasure. You don't know how difficult it is to take over someone else's body. I haven't heard of anyone who has done it in all these years."

"So after he came out of the stove... I thought you had used your method to ward off evil spirits on him. He wasn't an ordinary ghost, but he wasn't a ghost fairy either. He was somewhere in between. Then the problem came up with what Zhao Qi did. Generally speaking, when you go to a place to invite a god, people's incense and wishes gather together. How should I put it? Just think of it as a seat reserved for the true god, waiting for him to sit down."

"This seat, no matter if you invite the real god down in the end or not, it still belongs to someone else. You invite the Kitchen God in Jinshui, no matter if you invite him down or not, it is still the Kitchen God's seat, it has an owner. Sometimes some lonely ghosts, mountain spirits and monsters, who have a little bit of Taoism and are brave, go up and sit, enjoy the incense, and claim to be the Kitchen God or some real god, and help people with things. After that, he still has to leave."

"But Zhao Qi used the talisman technique of Ranshan. I don't really understand it, but I guess he drew a talisman of the Kitchen God on the roof of every household. This thing must have stolen the incense that people originally gave to the Kitchen God. This is what I don't understand. Something stolen like this should be useless, but I don't know what's wrong with their Ranshan talisman, but he really made a fake Kitchen God... It's similar to your fake emperor back then."

"In this way, the incense and the offerings formed a small fake shrine, and Zhao Kui sat on it. You can say it's fake, but it's also the real power of the incense and the wishes... So I think Zhao Kui may have really become a god or an immortal."

Li Wuxiang exhaled slowly: "You mean Zhao Qi created a god."

"That's about right. But I don't understand why Ranshan's talisman is so powerful?"

"Is it related to their ancestor?"

Zeng Jianqiu shook his head: "I don't know about that."

"What should I do?"

Zeng Jianqiu scratched his head and sighed again and again: "How can I know if it is so weird? Anyway, it is definitely not with you. I guess it is still in Jinshui. For this kind of thing, we should find people from the Netherworld. They understand this. But if you insist, we can't let people from Jinshui worship the Kitchen God in the future. It is easy to worship Zhao Kui again. In fact, it is best not to stay in Jinshui. After such a commotion, it will easily attract ghosts in the future."

"Yeah." Li Wuxiang nodded, slowly let out a breath in his heart, and then tried to use a more casual tone, "When you asked me to leave before, you told me to find You Jiuyuan--"

Zeng Jianqiu raised his hand and said, "Hey, let's not talk about this now. I don't mean anything else. You are not a Taiyi swordsman, so I can't bring it up with you again."

"Oh, then you told me that Zhao Kui had become evil. Does this evil refer to external evil? Zhao Kui mentioned it to me. What is that thing?"

As he spoke, he felt his whole body tense up, but until he finished speaking, there was nothing unusual in his consciousness.

Zeng Jianqiu seemed to be relieved: "Oh, this. Alas, I really don't know where you came from, and I don't know this either. Let me put it this way, when a cultivator has a deep understanding of Taoism and practices powerful methods, he must imagine offering sacrifices to his own god. This is similar to ordinary people burning incense and worshiping. Ordinary people may attract ghosts if they do this, but the offerings of cultivators are much more powerful than ordinary people. If you are unlucky, you will also attract evil things. You should treat these things as extremely powerful and powerful lonely ghosts, demons and monsters. They will pretend to be the god you worship. If you are not careful, the external evil will enter your body. Some people even think that they are really possessed by the ancestor god, and their cultivation increases rapidly, but in the end they become confused and crazy. Anyway, it is not a good thing."

"So, the higher the level of a cultivator, the more dangerous it is?"

Zeng Jianqiu hesitated for a while reluctantly - in this trance, Li Wuxiang thought he saw Zhao Qi's expression when he talked about the declining Ranshan Sect - and then said: "The Dharma Sect has no such thing. The Six Mysterious Sects have no such thing. This matter is between the Thirty-Six Sects and Taiyi Sect, otherwise why do they always say that we are unorthodox, bah."

"Then..." Li Wuxiang paused, "Will the external evil know what the person whose body is possessed is thinking?"

"How could that be? Did Zhao Qi tell you that?" He was stunned for a moment after saying this, and suddenly looked at Li Wuxiang and slapped his thigh: "Oh, I forgot about this!"

"what?"

He looked Li Wuxiang up and down for a while before saying, "I shouldn't be talking about their Ranshan Sect, but your Ranshan Sect - the golden entanglement is on you, and there is a seal on it. Brother, you are now the leader of Ranshan!"

"Oh? What do you mean by this French post? Is there any benefit?"

Zeng Jianqiu clicked his tongue twice: "You are a very patient person. As for the calligraphy, Zhao Qi told you that the thirty-six sects made it themselves. There is nothing surprising about it. Even if it is a seal, come on, stretch out your hand."

Zeng Jianqiu held his palm and exerted a little force. Li Wuxiang immediately felt a flow of air into his body, but it only turned slightly and disappeared without a trace.

Zeng Jianqiu was stunned for a moment, then let go of his hand. "Oh, I forgot you were an evil spirit. Come on, listen, it's quite simple. Take the thing with the seal on it and circulate your Qi through the five major acupoints: Yunmen, Zhongfu, Shenfeng, Zhangmen, and Taiyi. Then the seal will appear on the treasure. I have never seen anything with a real seal on it before. This is what an old friend of mine told me. He said that this thing can only make the seal appear after a person has formed a pill. Then you can try it yourself."

"But..." He shook his head, "You are different. I don't know what you will do when the time comes. You figure it out yourself. It's just a seal. Tell others that there is a real seal on it. When the officials of other sects see it, they will recognize it."

Li Wuxiang frowned: "It's gone? Is it really just a seal? What if someone else snatches it away? Then he will also be the leader of Ranshan Sect?"

Zeng Jianqiu looked at him for a while and sighed: "You told me that you were captured by Zhao Kui before, but if you were really an ordinary person, you wouldn't have such a magnanimous attitude now. Then I will assume that you were living in seclusion somewhere before and you really don't know anything. We are a life-long friend this time, so I won't ask any more questions."

"Yes, it is really just a seal. If someone else snatches it away, it will be your fault that you are incompetent. That's how things work in this world. As for what use this seal has, let me put it this way. If you achieve Dan formation one day and feel that you have made it, and find a good place to establish a sect, you can tell others that I am the leader of Ranshan and I have the seal."

"Once this matter gets out, nearby sects may send people to take a look. If you show the seal in front of them and verify it, then you will be the leader of Ranshan Sect, and no one will question you. But then, if someone with deep Taoist skills nearby knows about it and wants to be the leader too, what will you do if he comes to kill you? If you are killed and he takes it away, then he will be the leader."

"If you kill him, then the thirty-six sects will think you are a good person who has fought against evil and defended the Way. But if you can't defeat him and escape, then you can go to the thirty-six sects nearby and tell them that your Ran Mountain has been invaded by evil heretics, and that you are from the same thirty-six sects and ask for help. Then they will help you with all their strength without hesitation."

"Do you understand? This is how the world works. Zhao Qi spoke nonsense today, telling you that the strong prey on the weak in this world. I won't talk about his other twisted theories, but he is right about this point. Brother, it was me today. If it was someone else, they would be injured and might not be able to do anything. But knowing that the golden entanglement is in your possession, you are equivalent to a magic weapon. Once you recover, I will come back to catch you and refine you!" "Don't think it's just because you have the golden entanglement. Even if you don't, as a cultivator, you always have treasures on you. We are polite to each other because we can't figure out each other's special skills when we just met. But if someone finds out by mistake, they will kill you and take the treasure!"

Li Wuxiang had thought about what this world would be like, but he didn't expect it to be even more sinister than he thought... No wonder town masters like the Chen family and the Li family didn't really care about asking their own children to practice.

"Killing and killing... all for the sake of immortality, aren't you afraid of retribution, karma, or anything like that?"

"Hehe, some people are afraid. The big sects, the six branches of the Xuanjiao, which have everything, are naturally afraid. They don't take action easily, fearing that their own cultivation will be ruined. But think about what kind of people would walk in the martial arts world? How much can a cultivator improve by meditating and breathing every day? Why spend time on a bunch of mundane affairs? It's just poverty. You need materials to make pills, medicinal baths, and refine weapons. You are a small sect without any blessed land. You can only go down the mountain and find a town to make offerings."

"But the offerings from mortals are limited, and you have to get some things yourself. If you keep getting ahead of yourself, your youth and lifespan will soon be over. At this point, why would you care about karma? Just practice cultivation first! So when you walk around in the martial arts world, the younger you look, the better your aptitude must be. The older you see, the more careful you should be."

He pointed at himself: "Just like me."

"You look no more than thirty years old."

Zeng Jianqiu laughed loudly: "That's just to watch. I'm already over fifty years old. But there's no rush. Zhao Kui has fallen on me this time, and my youth and life span have been exhausted. Wait a few more years, and I'll look like your town master. Alas, when I met him back then, he was young, but so many years have passed, and I almost forgot about him."

Li Wuxiang was silent for a moment: "Zhao Qi told me that if the youth and life span are exhausted... you can no longer practice."

Zeng Jianqiu nodded: "That's right. As people get older, their innate Qi leaks out, and all the illnesses that ordinary people have slowly come to them. In the end, they are just a handful of dirt, no different from ordinary people."

"I……"

"Hey, you don't have to fight me about this." Zeng Jianqiu waved his hand, "I never thought that I could become a land sword immortal. I entered the Tao in a daze, and by the time I was in my thirties, I had already let it go. I don't like the world today, and I can't be called a saint. I just want to live a happy life in this world. Over the years, I have killed a lot of demons and used a lot of the methods I wanted to use on you before. I definitely can't say that I have a clear conscience, but I am much better than those other bastards. Okay, I have not lost out in this life."

Li Wuxiang sighed: "Brother Zeng, you..."

"Hey, didn't I tell you not to nag me?"

"No, I want to ask, in this case, can you teach me your flying sword technique?"

Zeng Jianqiu stared at him and said nothing.

Li Wuxiang spread his hands and said, "I understand. Cultivation realm is one thing, and killing skills are another. I think your methods are particularly to my liking. You can't bury your skills. We are so predestined. Why don't you teach me?"

"Don't teach."

"Because I'm not a swordsman of Taiyi Sect? I can be one too. Then your Taiyi Sect will have a new leader of Ranshan."

Zeng Jianqiu snorted angrily, stood up with his gun, and walked towards Bishan: "Because you have evil intentions! Taiyi Dao does not accept disciples with evil intentions!"

Li Wuxiang followed him and asked, "What do you mean?"

"Have you forgotten that you cut my tendons and handed me over to Zhao Qi? Can a good person do this?"

"No, brother, if I remember correctly, you were the one who threatened me first? You weren't a good person, were you?"

"That's right, I also have evil intentions. My master misjudged me. But I know that I have evil intentions, but I don't know about you!"

Li Wuxiang sighed: "Okay, where are you going now?"

Zeng Jianqiu said nothing, but walked with his gun. Li Wuxiang walked beside him for a while, and when they began to enter the dense forest and the light above their heads began to be obscured, he said: "What's the matter? You are not the kind of person who would be angry just because I asked you to teach me the flying sword technique."

Zeng Jianqiu walked a few more steps, stopped and turned around. He thought for a while, raised his hand and patted his head hard: "You have to ask! Well, let me put it this way, aren't you curious why I followed Zhao Qi all the way here?"

"Isn't it because of the bounty?"

"That was just a matter of convenience." Zeng Jianqiu looked at him, "Let me tell you the truth. The person I was looking for at first was not Zhao Qi, but Zhao Kui. I was chasing Zhao Kui, and then I caught up with Zhao Qi on the road, and then I followed him to find him. If you ask me why I was looking for Zhao Kui, actually I went to Ranshan to look for him at first. I wanted something from Ranshan, but it wasn't really me who wanted it, it was Taiyi Dao and You Jiuyuan who wanted it. But that thing is now in your hands."

　These are mostly narrative plots that explain the settings, so I won't separate them to avoid annoying you. Today is still two in one.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)