Day and night tour

Chapter 200 The Bones Monk
Seeing the painter pondering over the knife marks, Zhou Xuan smiled knowingly: He was tortured after all.

He didn't have time to study this famous painting from his past life with the painter. He tapped the tea table and said, "Give me back the book first."

The painter was immersed in the painting and had no time to think about anything else. His behavior seemed to be a simple instinctive reaction - he vaguely heard Zhou Xuan asking him for a book, so he mechanically opened the drawer, then fumbled around for a while, finally found the book, and handed it to Zhou Xuan.

"Remember to attack three times."

Zhou Xuan reminded.

The painter uttered "hmm", and it was unclear whether he heard it clearly or not.

"Let's go first." Zhou Xuan took the book and urged Gu Ling who was drinking tea.

Gu Ling put down the teacup and said goodbye to the painter: "Hua Sichen, shall we leave first?"

The painter's mind was completely immersed in the painting. This time he didn't hear Gu Ling's words at all, as if he was possessed by a ghost.

"Reiko, stop shouting. I know the old painter too well. When he sees a painting he doesn't understand, he becomes hysterical. If you don't interrupt his train of thought, he will ignore you. If you do interrupt, he will stand up and bite you."

Zhou Xuan persuaded Gu Ling to leave.

Gu Ling had no choice but to follow Zhou Xuan out.

Just as the two were about to go downstairs, the painter suddenly came to his senses and called out to Zhou Xuan: "Little brother, don't leave yet."

"What's wrong? Do you want to regret it?"

"No, no, no, I don't have any other skills, but I'm a man of my word, and I'll never do anything that I regret."

The painter put down his "One Knife Painting" and asked Zhou Xuan: "There is just one thing that I really can't figure out. I feel like I am on a dangerous peak and can't see the mountains. I need someone with a discerning eye like my little brother to help me with some pointers."

"Tell me what your dilemma is?"

Zhou Xuan, with the attitude of "gold medal after-sales service", wanted to help the painter find his way out of the maze... Of course... the idea of ​​giving advice was very earnest, but whether it could be successful or not was another matter.
But at least, buddy tried.

"Little brother, look, the drawing paper can be considered as an independent space, and the gaps between the knife marks can also be considered as another layer of space. I call it the knife-crack space.
Suppose I move from the drawing paper space to the knife mark and enter the knife gap space, how can I touch the drawing paper space again without going back the same way? "

The painter asked devoutly,
But it's a bit confusing.

Zhou Xuan picked up the drawing paper and tried to understand the painter's concept. He took the "One Knife Painting" and asked, "Let me give you an example. Do you think I am right?"

He handed the painting to Gu Ling and asked her to spread out the paper with both hands so that it was parallel to the ground.

Then, Zhou Xuan put his right hand into the slit of the knife and asked the painter: "Old man, I have put my right hand in. You are asking me how I can touch the front of the drawing paper with my right hand without going back the same way, right?"

"That's what it means."

"That's so simple."

Zhou Xuan retracted his right hand, pulled out the bone tooth, and drew a second one-foot-long knife mark next to the knife mark on the drawing paper.

Then, he stretched his entire right arm into the first knife mark, bent his elbow, and pointed his palm in the direction he was grabbing, passing through the second knife mark. He then rotated his wrist so that his palm touched the front of the drawing paper.

"Forehead……?"

"You draw all the time, so your brain won't be able to think straight anymore."

Zhou Xuan withdrew his arm, placed the "Two Knife Paintings" on the table, and pulled Gu Ling out.

"Little brother, come to the teahouse often when you have time. You are a wonderful person."

"We'll talk about it later." Zhou Xuan raised his hand.
"Oh, I forgot one thing."

The painter took out a domino from his pocket and threw it in the direction of Zhou Xuan. The domino flew in front of Zhou Xuan and hovered.

On the front of the dominoes, there is a scroll carved, showing the identity of the owner of the card.

"When you need me to take action, I will definitely be there to crush the dominoes."

"Thank you."

Zhou Xuan, a domino collector, grabbed the dominoes, put them in his pocket, clasped his fists toward the painter, and strode away with Gu Ling.

……

"Wonderful man, so wonderful."

After Zhou Xuan and Gu Ling left, silence returned to the teahouse.

The painter looked at the painting again, hooked his finger, and the drawing paper floated and unfolded. He imitated Zhou Xuan and put his right hand into the first cut. Then he bent his elbow and reached his palm towards himself.

“Think of the real space as a piece of paper. If you tear a slit in it, you can enter the rest of the space. If you tear two slits in it, you can go back.”

The painter chanted the "Daoyan Divine Mantra" and lit two balls of fire in front of him with his left and right hands.

A beam of fire flew out of the house, and then appeared in front of the Gu Lao Temple at an extremely fast speed.
There was a fire in the teahouse.

After the two fires were positioned, the painter, through his feelings, actually saw the real space as a flat surface.

“Tear apart.”

The painter made claws with his five fingers, and under his urging, the two balls of fire quickly extended, tearing a ten-foot-long crack in the surrounding space.

The painter sensed that a crack had formed and walked into the crack in front of him.
Ten seconds later, he walked out from the crack in front of the Bone Temple.

"I finally understand the basics of the laws of space."

The Gu Lao Temple and the Bai Yu Teahouse are dozens of kilometers apart. After the painter walked from the real space into another space, the space in front of him shrank rapidly and the distance between the two gaps became extremely short.

A distance of dozens of kilometers can be covered in just a dozen seconds.

If the distance between him and his opponent was not tens of kilometers, but hundreds of meters, he could instantly walk in front of, behind, or above his opponent...

"After mastering a small part of the laws of space, you can not only rescue thousands of miles away, but also teleport to kill the enemy. Taoist, please come. If you dare to touch the fire of the gods, I will make you fall into the Soul Shepherding City forever."

The painter looked up at the faint fire in the sky, then gazed at the clear blue sky, and said confidently.

As a painter who holds the first clergy position in the Bone Elders' Society, he naturally knows that the lighting of the Fire of Gods means that Mingjiang Prefecture will usher in the Age of Gods. Even if the great masters of Taoism in the capital predict that troubled times will come in the near future, Mingjiang Prefecture is not afraid.

Mingjiang Prefecture now has a new master and a new patron saint, who can still protect the prefecture in troubled times.

However, the God's Fire is still weak, which means the most dangerous era is coming.
The gods above the sky will take advantage of the gods' weakness and put them into a sleeping state again.

……

At night, Yun Ziliang was tinkering with the record player again, while Lu Mingkun was playing "Four Kingdoms Chess" with Cuijie, Muhua, and Xiao Fuzi.

This is a small game that Zhou Xuan modified for them. The original version was "Four-Nation Military Chess". In order to enhance the sense of immersion, Zhou Xuan replaced the "commander" with a god, and the "army commander", "division commander", etc. with the clergy of the Bone Elders' Society.

Don't mention it, the effect is remarkable.
The four of them had a lot of fun.

Zhou Xuan sat on a recliner on the second floor, drinking tea and pondering the new talisman scripture for cleansing wrongs.

The new talisman scripture I collected from the library today, in addition to completing the entire "Blood Well Enlightenment Sutra", also includes another talisman scripture whose name appears on the Xiyuan Lu.

Zhou Xuan has summed up a small rule of the talisman scripture - when most of a talisman scripture appears, Xiyuan Lu will give a title.

The title of the new talisman scripture is "The Divine Silk Scripture of Ascending to Immortality". The Divine Silk Scripture of Ascending to Immortality is about the Taoists.

"It is difficult for the gods to descend, so they use the Taoists as their attendants. The Taoists are people without incense or fire.

Those who are above demigods in the world will be pulled up into the sky by divine threads after death, where they will attract five thunders and lightning, cut off their souls, cleanse their consciousness, and pull out their incense to turn them into Taoist corpses.

If the gods give the order, they will use divine threads to pull the Taoist corpse down to the human world.

When a Taoist corpse enters the mortal world, it randomly draws a stick of incense into its body. At this point, the Taoist corpse becomes a Taoist.

Taoists walk among the human world, eating mortals to increase their incense and start the path to immortality.

A senior officer will ascend to heaven in seven days, a middle officer will ascend to heaven in thirty days, and a junior officer will ascend to heaven in three months."

Zhou Xuan couldn't quite believe his eyes - it turned out that the corpse that was pulled up to the sky by the divine thread was called a Taoist corpse, and after the Taoist corpse came down to the human world, it was called a Taoist.

This Taoist does not have seven or eight incense sticks when he descends to the heavens. He, like ordinary people, also needs to accumulate incense.

They were people with extremely high incense burning speed during their lifetime, so naturally the speed of burning incense is very fast.

But the way they collected offerings was very cruel: they ate humans.

Zhou Xuan first put away the Woe-Clearing Scroll, went downstairs, and asked Yun Ziliang: "Old Yun, what exactly does it mean to ascend to the immortal realm?"

"It depends on whether you are talking about it in a broad or narrow sense."

"You tell me about it together."

Yun Ziliang put aside the cotton cloth that he had used to clean the record player and said to Zhou Xuan, "In a broad sense, ascending to the immortal realm means embarking on the path of worshipping the gods in the underworld. This is ascending to the immortal realm. In a narrow sense, it means ascending to the level of eight incense sticks or above. With the magical power of eight incense sticks, it's not an exaggeration to say that one is a minor immortal."

"Then I understand. A Taoist does not come to the human world with seven or eight sticks of incense."

Zhou Xuan told Yun Ziliang what he had learned from the Talisman Sutra.

"The upper officers will ascend to heaven in seven days, the middle officers will ascend in thirty days, and the lower officers will ascend in three months...they feed on humans...so this is how the Taoists' incense comes from? It turns out that there are different levels among Taoists."

After Yun Ziliang pondered for a while, he asked Zhou Xuan: "Where did you hear this?"

“I figured it out.”

"..." Yun Ziliang.

Yun Ziliang frowned when he heard this: "You are just an old man, but every day you are either contemplating this or that. Is this ever going to stop?
You can understand so much in just two incense sticks. By the time you have four incense sticks, you will be able to fly to the sky and become a god."

"It was just luck." Zhou Xuan said with a smile.

"Let's not talk about whether it's luck or not. I can tell you that if the Taoists were what we thought they were, and there were seven or eight incense sticks when they came down to earth, then it would be easier.
If there is no incense or fire when the gods descend to the earth, and then after seven or thirty days, there are seven or eight incense sticks, it will be difficult to deal with... Damn it, no wonder the gods always let Taoists do the dirty work, it's really immoral."

"Any idea?"

"Of course." Yun Ziliang explained, "Each state has monitoring instruments and arrays. The array is like an upside-down bowl, placed on the state's territory, and the instruments are hung on various transportation fortresses.

If a person with extremely high incense sticks enters the mansion, no matter how he enters, he will be monitored. For example, in Mingjiang Mansion, the monitoring of magic tools and arrays is extremely strict. If more than six incense sticks are entered, it will be detected, and the masters of the entire Mingjiang Mansion will immediately gather to deal with the Taoist. "

Zhou Xuan understood and said, "But when the Taoists descend, there is no incense or fire, so the magic arrays and artifacts cannot monitor them. They can enter Mingjiang Mansion quietly and then quickly ascend to immortality in the mansion."

"Yes, you say the gods are immoral or not, raising a group of monsters like this, without incense and fire, and they feed on humans." Yun Ziliang pointed to the sky with his right hand and said, "If the Taoists are so weird, the fire in the sky will not be able to burn well."

"There's always a way."

Zhou Xuan decided to teach the "Divine Silk Ascension Scripture" to Li Chengfeng tomorrow and let Gu Laohui deploy defenses against Taoists in advance. The fire in the sky must not be extinguished, as it is related to his "Law of Nature".

After returning to the second floor, Zhou Xuan opened the Book of Cleansing Wrongs again and read the entire "Blood Well Enlightenment Sutra".
The new content added to the Enlightenment Sutra today is nothing more than teaching Zhou Xuan how to open the blood well channel, the time rules within the blood well, and how to anchor the place and time to go.

"The past cannot be retrieved, so it is regarded as fate. The future can still be changed, so it is regarded as impermanence."

Zhou Xuan understood the rules of this period of time, which meant that things that had happened in the past could not be changed, but things that had not happened in the future could be changed.

He continued to read on, and the rest of the Blood Well Enlightenment Sutra taught him how to open the passage. This matter was relatively simple, requiring two things:
First, perform a well-opening ceremony.
Second, you must be a devout believer of the Blood Well.

These two points are not difficult for Zhou Xuan to achieve, especially the second one, as Zhou Xuan is the future high priest of the Blood Well.

As for how to anchor and trace back to a certain time and place in the past, there is a word that has always been mentioned in the Enlightenment Sutra - "bonds".

If Zhou Xuan wants to go back in time through the Blood Well to find out the ancient clan’s grand plan, he needs to find a place or someone who has a deep connection with the "Tattoo Ancient Clan’s Grand Plan."

This matter was not difficult for Zhou Xuan.
He has a very suitable place - the Totem Hall.

The bond between the blood tree in the totem hall and the ancient tattoo clan is as deep as it can be.

It is the ancestral tree of the ancient tattoo tribe.
In addition, the Nether Stone obtained from the ancient clan last time aroused the rage of the blood tree, and its branches whipped the Nether Stone into pieces.

If this isn't a bond, then what is?
"Go to the Totem Hall, open the Blood Well, then jump into the well to go back in time and find out the plans of the Tattoo Ancient Clan."

The steps of the matter are clear.

There is only one question left - what to do with the living people?
The "Blood Well Enlightenment Sutra" emphasized that there must be a living person when going down the well.

Someone has to hold the rope outside the blood well, and no one can go more than three feet down the well at a time.

As long as the time is almost up, someone outside the well must quickly pull him out of the blood well.

If Zhou Xuan opened the blood well somewhere else, he could naturally ask his fifth senior brother for help in pulling the living rope.

But the place where he dug the blood well was in the Totem Hall, and Lu Mingkun could not enter because he had not washed away the injustice.

"Who can I ask for help when I am still alive?"

Zhou Xuan felt that the Blood Well posed a difficult problem for him.

"Jingzi, you are so dishonest. I came to you to ask about the great plans of the ancient tattoo tribe, but you led me into a dead end with many twists and turns."

"How can I get down to the well?"

Zhou Xuan was just having a dilemma when suddenly the black water in the Shenqi Secret Realm rolled up thousands of waves, crashing into the secret realm and making a rumbling sound.

"Ah Qi, I'm irritable, but why are you irritable?"

When Zhou Xuan entered the secret realm, Shenqi's black water became even more violent, but this violence contained a sense of excitement.

"Xiao Zhou, there's a beautiful girl looking for you."

"Oh, here we come."

Zhou Xuan said goodbye to the irritable Shen Qi for the time being and went downstairs. Before leaving the secret realm, he warned Shen Qi: "Ah Qi, when I come back, you must calm down and don't be so irritable."

……

Zhou Xuan went downstairs and saw a familiar figure sitting in the outer hall. It was Huang Xi, the daughter of the eunuch of Mingjiang Mansion.

"Hey, isn't this Miss Xi?"

Huang Xi smiled at Zhou Xuan: "I used to call you Brother Xuan, but now I have to call you Young Master. It's only been a few days since I last saw you, and you've turned the tide in Mingjiang Mansion."

"I don't dare to claim to be a big shot, I'm just doing a small business."

"It's not a small business. You even got the painter's dominoes this afternoon."

Huang Xi's words caused Zhou Xuan to frown and asked bluntly: "Are you investigating me?"

"What are you looking for? Young Master, I'm afraid you forgot that the last time you came to us to do business, wasn't it because we were well-informed?"

Throughout Mingjiang Prefecture, there are yellow foxes from the Huangmen everywhere. They can climb walls, dig holes, and get into any hole. No news can escape their eyes.

Zhou Xuan put away his fierce look and said, "Miss Xi came to see me in the middle of the night. I guess she didn't come here just to praise me, did she?"

"I'm here to do some business with you." Huang Xi looked a little worried and said, "The Buddha head tattoo you gave us last time was indeed full of Buddha power, but... my father and his brothers worshiped day and night, and it hasn't been long since then, and the tattoo has been damaged."

Tattoos have a lifespan. After a while, they will die and need to be remade.

"You want to make another one, right?"

"Yes." Huang Xi said, "The price is negotiable. You can pay with money, or we can help you find information."

Zhou Xuan said: "Well, I do have a Buddhist tattoo here, but it's a bit tricky. I need a monk's corpse."

Zhou Xuan has three tattoo puppet pictures, one of which is "The Remaining Robe".

"Rump Robe" is a god-level White Walker. White Walkers are born with Buddha nature, let alone one of its level.

"Canpao is one of the White Walkers with the strongest and purest Buddhist nature." Yun Ziliang echoed from the side.

"There's no corpse of the monk, but does the old yellow-skinned man who eats vegetarian food and chants Buddhist scriptures every day count?"

"Has it ever been worshipped?"

"No." Huang Xi said, "Really not. She lived in the cellar of Puyuan Temple, chanting sutras all year round. She died two days ago. Her body was brought back to the Huangmen by other yellow foxes. My father was planning to bury her with honor."

"Okay, bring her here, and I'll tattoo a puppet of 'The Remnant Robe' on her. You Huangmen are not from the Remnant Robe Hall, so you can't control the magic of this puppet. But if you put it on the altar, worship it as a Buddha statue every day, and absorb some Buddha energy, it won't be a big problem."

"Thank you, young sir."

Huang Xi rolled up a yellow wind, and then his figure disappeared without a trace.

Half an hour later, Huang Xi came over holding the body of a skinny yellow fox.

Zhou Xuan placed the yellow leather on the Jingyi bed and began to tattoo.

This time, when making the tattoo, he first took out a razor instead of a bone tooth. The yellow-skinned creature was covered in fur, so how could he make the tattoo without shaving off the fur first?

He scraped left and right for nearly a quarter of an hour, and finally shaved the yellow fox's back hair clean. Then he began to use the bones and teeth to make tattoos.

Yun Ziliang was explaining the White Walker "Torn Robe" to Huang Xipu nearby.

"The hall of this Canpao is in the Snow Mountain Mansion. Canpao is a strange ghost, and his specific appearance is a tattered cassock. The disciples of his hall are all dressed in tattered cassocks.

In the Snow Mountain Prefecture, there is often heavy snowfall. There is a kind of snow goblin that often lies in ambush in the snow. When someone passes by, it will drag the person into the snow and eat him.

Later, the remnant robe appeared. When passers-by were about to walk on the snow, they would carry the remnant robe on their backs, and the snow goblin would not dare to come out to eat people.

As time went by, the remaining robe was worshipped by the locals as a Bodhisattva, and the Buddha's spirit became more and more prosperous. "

Huang Xi exclaimed that it was wonderful.

"Look how honest we are in doing business. Not only will we give you a good tattoo, but we'll also give you a good story."

Zhou Xuan said as he completed the last needle.

After the tattoo of "Remnant Robe" was completed, the yellow fox, which had been lying quietly, suddenly sat up with its two hind legs curled up, as if in a meditative position.

"Okay, let's move out."

Zhou Xuan waved at Huang Xi and said.

"Young sir, how much does this tattoo cost?"

"Okay, I'll give you the tattoo fee in exchange for information." Zhou Xuan said to Huang Xi, "You Huangmen have good information, so you can come to me more often to get tattoos and exchange it for information."

"So what kind of information do you want us to find out this time?" Huang Xi asked.

Zhou Xuan said: "Recently, Hungry has been committing murders everywhere. Please help me find out exactly which murders he has committed. Check the time and place carefully.

Then help me find a man with a big tumor on his back who is inextricably linked to hunger.

Finally, please keep an eye on Mingjiang Prefecture. If anyone is eating humans, please inform me."

"It will definitely happen."

Huang Xi felt that Zhou Xuan’s offer was not excessive at all, and happily left the store holding the "Ripped Robe Puppet".

"call!"

After making a tattoo, Zhou Xuan's incense easily burned through five inches and was still burning vigorously.

Zhou Xuan's incense had burned past five inches, which was already the sixth stick of incense according to the normal incense burning schedule of the Tattoo Hall.

"You can learn the tattoos of the fifth and sixth sticks at the same time."

Zhou Xuan was in a good mood. He took a shower, changed into new clothes, returned to his room, and prepared to learn tattoo design.

He took out the Wrath-Clearing Scroll and was about to use up one of his chances of returning to the palace when he remembered the irritable divine revelation and decided to go to the secret realm first.

Re-entering the secret realm, the black water of divine revelation has calmed down, with only shallow ripples.

Simultaneously,

These days, the "man of bones" who had been trying hard to float in the black water, this time, actually stood on the water completely.

"Oh? Could it be that Ah Qi wasn't irritable just now, but was just excited and excited after the Bone Man accomplished his mission?"

Just as Zhou Xuan was thinking about it, the skeleton man suddenly raised his arms, and two chains made of black water appeared in his hands.

It waved its hands, and two water chains wrapped around Zhou Xuan like spirit snakes.

Zhou Xuan was tied around his waist and couldn't break free. Then, the skeleton man pulled hard and pulled Zhou Xuan in front of him.

"The man of bones actually has the black water chain and can pull me?"

Thinking of this, Zhou Xuan had a bold guess. He first cut off the connection with the Divine Revelation Secret Realm, and then shouted, "Bai Gu, come out."

The man with white bones heard the command and walked out of Zhou Xuan's body, still holding the black water chain in his hands.

Zhou Xuan grabbed the bones, threw them to the door, and shouted, "Pull me."

Two black water chains were thrown at Zhou Xuan. After the chains wrapped around his waist twice, they quickly pulled Zhou Xuan to the door.

Zhou Xuan was excited. He pointed his finger at the air and praised it profusely: "Aqi, Jingzi, I have figured it out. You two both have special skills. With the bones, I have my living rope."

Zhou Xuan immediately removed the tattoo of "Monk Gazing at the Moon" and held the bones in his hand, saying, "You are made from the bones of the wine-cooking master. From now on, I will call you the White Bone Monk."

Bai Gu nodded mechanically.

"Enter the Totem Hall."

Zhou Xuan is going to learn a new tattoo and start his plan to go down to the blood well...

ps: Brothers, I updated a big chapter, muah.

(End of this chapter)