Chapter 63: The Yin Pond in the Mountain

The collection of the morning sun purple cloud energy after New Year's Eve is no different from the usual energy collection.

Under Chu Tai's guidance, Guo Shan found a suitable location in the mountains outside the city, completed it quickly, and then conducted morning lessons under the leadership of Chu Tai.

The peaceful sound of chanting echoed in the mountain. Driven by Chu Tai, the vital energy rolled up and down, cleansing the little filth accumulated between the mountains and forests. Many birds landed and stood on the treetops and under the shade of the trees, listening quietly.

When all the mantras were chanted, a sound came from not far away.

"May you be blessed with infinite blessings! I was wondering why I saw a magpie on the tree branch on the first day of the new year. It turns out that a fellow Taoist has come."

Chu Tai stood up and greeted the Taoist priest who had appeared with Guo Shantong.

"Greetings, Taoist priest. My friend's cultivation method is inclined towards the underworld, and he needs to borrow the energy of the human world to balance it out. So I came here to absorb energy. I hope you will forgive me for the inconvenience."

Chu Tai's attitude was very humble. He was frightened by the fluctuation of vital energy early in the morning, and the Taoist who came in a hurry felt a little embarrassed.

"Fellow Daoist, you are too polite. Everything in the universe is created by nature. You two are free to go wherever you want. As for collecting the smell of human life, it is also the freedom of all living beings. How can you forgive my sin?"

"If I'm not mistaken, you are the cultivator who is stationed here to protect the peace of this place. The two of us came here suddenly and rashly collected energy, which must have caused you some trouble. You came here early to check, and you even waited for us to finish our morning lessons..."

Before Chu Tai could finish his words, he was interrupted by the Taoist priest: "Protecting this place is the contract that my lineage made with the local residents when we established the Taoist temple here in the past. It is just our duty. If you really feel bad, you may come to my temple to help. It just so happens that we are holding a blessing ceremony in the temple these days, and we have some vacancies..."

After looking at the Taoist priest, Chu Tai nodded in agreement.

On the way back, Chu Tai also learned from the communication that this Taoist was named Dachun and was practicing in the outer Qingqi Mountain.

"Although my Jicui Temple is the only Taoist temple outside Guanglu City, the people in this city live and work in peace and contentment. On weekdays, they just draw amulets and perform rituals. Except for some major festivals, it is quite free."

"This is also due to your protection, fellow Taoist."

Chu Tai complimented him, and Taoist Dachun was delighted. But before he could say anything else, Guo Shan sensed something and looked towards a place and said, "Master... Taoist, there seems to be something wrong there."

Chu Tai and Taoist Dachun looked at it and frowned at the same time.

The two men quickened their pace and moved forward quickly. They pushed aside the trees and vegetation and saw a half-acre pond.

This pool is very peculiar. Normally, the pools in such mountains and forests are emerald green in color, but this pool is different. There are strands of velvety blood-colored substances inside. Even when the morning sunlight shines on it, it only emits a slight cold light.

"How could this be?"

Taoist Dachun's expression suddenly changed, and Chu Tai also frowned.

The pool of water in front of you may seem ordinary, but in fact it contains traces of death and corpse energy.

The appearance of such an evil place in the mountains has a certain impact on the ecology of the mountains and forests, and even the surrounding land veins.

Not to mention places far away, the possibility of corpses buried nearby turning into zombies is much higher than in other places.

Chu Tai looked around and found a Bagua mirror in a corner.

Seeing Chu Tai's actions, Taoist Dachun followed his gaze and discovered the magic mirror hanging on the tree. His cheeks turned red with anger.

According to the position of the Bagua mirror, Taoist Dachun looked around again and saw some signs of burning.

It looked like someone was casting a spell on this altar.

Taoist Dachun has already figured out that this is an evil place specially set up by someone.

In addition to regularly opening the altar to cast spells and accumulate Yin energy, a Bagua mirror is also placed on the side.

When the morning sun shines on this place every day, the mirror with rusted edges can refract it onto the surface of the pool, attracting purple air from the east and shielding the negative energy in the pool from leaking out.

It just so happened that today, Chu Tai brought Guo Shan here to practice and gather energy, which resulted in a lot less purple energy coming from the east in the mountain.

This is nothing. After all, this kind of arrangement is not achieved in a day or a night, but the result of several years or even decades. If there is a little lack of Eastern Purple Qi one day, it will not have much impact.

But the problem lies with Guo Shan. The true Qi he cultivated is too sensitive to Yin Qi and death Qi, so he was able to sense problems that Chu Tai had not even discovered.

Such a big problem, such a hidden arrangement.

Whenever Taoist Dachun thought of what he had said to Chu Tai before and Chu Tai's compliments, his face turned red with shame.

Chu Tai didn't have much to say about this. He could only watch Taoist Dachun inspecting. After arriving at Jicui Temple, he saw Taoist Dachun asking people to prepare various things, ready to fill up the pool and break up the shady place.

Chu Tai, who was arranged to stay in the temple by the other party, was also unable to go out because of this incident to avoid causing any misunderstanding.

In return, Taoist Dachun also opened the Sutra Library in his own Taoist temple to Chu Tai and allowed Chu Tai to copy the contents.

Therefore, in the following days, Chu Tai took Guo Shan to read books in the temple, do morning and evening lessons, and practice magic weapons on a daily basis. His life was quite leisurely.

Until one day a young man in rich clothes came to Chu Tai.

As soon as he saw Chu Tai, he asked with a smile what happened in the mountains.

Chu Tai didn't want to communicate too much with this familiar person, and just perfunctorily replied that Taoist Dachun was praying for blessings.

"Don't lie to me. I have already made it clear. You were brought back by Taoist Dachun. It was only after you and the big guy came to the temple that Taoist Dachun asked someone to arrange the ritual."

"Come to think of it, this is the first time I've seen my father look so serious. Did some monster appear in the mountains? Is Taoist Dachun going to subdue the monster?"

At the end of the story, the young man was beaming with joy, and no one knew what he was thinking about.

"Really nothing?"

Chu Tai still responded perfunctorily. Seeing this, the boy pushed Guo Shan out.

"Don't lie to me. I asked that big guy before, and he said there was a problem in the mountain. It was the pool, right? Was there a problem with the water source in the mountain?"

Chu Tai, who had some understanding of Guo Shan, knew that he would not tell such things to anyone. He raised his eyebrows and responded nonchalantly.

"Since you've already asked, why don't you just continue asking him?"

The young man stared at Chu Tai for a long time but couldn't see any problem. He asked him indirectly for a long time, but Chu Tai still didn't give him an answer. He couldn't help but feel a little annoyed, but when he was leaving, he saw the books in Chu Tai's room and his eyes rolled.

On the second day, the young man came again. This time he brought a lot of ancient books to Chu Tai, hoping to learn something from Chu Tai.

(End of this chapter)

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