I am a swordsman in a strange city

Chapter 34 Dream Thunder Curse
Pei Ju entered the temple world while he was sleeping.

This world is continuous, and the place he entered was a thatched hut in the wild.

He discovered a problem. Ever since his uncle entered the temple, time seemed to have suddenly become synchronized with the outside world.

It is dark when I come in every day.

When his third uncle was around, many years passed in one night. From childhood to adulthood, and then to traveling the world with his third uncle, all happened overnight.

Pei Ju looked at the dark world outside and didn't dare to walk around. He could vaguely hear the howling of wolves coming from the darkness.

During the day, he knew that this was the outskirts of a small town, surrounded by farmland. The place where they lived actually belonged to a wealthy family. The reason they were given the place to stay was mainly because the wealthy family asked them to exorcise the evil spirits in the mountain temple.

This thatched hut was used by the servants of a wealthy family to live in when the crops were ripe.

Pei Ju lit the lamp and left the door open. A gentle night breeze blew in from outside. Although the lamp was placed in a sheltered place, it still swayed in the swirling wind.

He wanted to go out for a walk, but his intuition told him that it would be better not to go out. It seemed like something was watching him in the darkness, and it would be very dangerous if he left the house.

So he closed the open door again. Even though he thought the door was of no use, he felt more at ease when he closed it.

There is a breathing technique in the Ghost Killing Sword Technique.

This was actually the same thing he had practiced since he was a child learning sword, but the breathing methods he had practiced since childhood could only make his breathing even, prevent him from getting tired easily, and allow him to wield the sword rhythmically, but they could not give him the legendary true inner breath.

But after reading through the Ghost-Killing Sword Technique here and looking at the breathing section in Uncle San's cultivation experience, I had some special feelings.

He felt that he had gotten it, but it was just a feeling, and he was going to put it into practice today.

He stood still in the hut, his legs spread out and slightly bent.

Then inhale slowly, and let your consciousness sink with the breath.

The book said that the qi should sink into the dantian, but he found that he could not absorb the qi into the dantian at all. Although the content was in his mind, it was very difficult to do it.

He took one breath after another, practicing.

Swallowing slowly, his consciousness was swallowed down with that breath, held, and then slowly exhaled.

He did it over and over again, and suddenly, there seemed to be some sound coming from outside the door.

Like footsteps.

There was a rustling sound as if someone was stepping on the grass. He immediately exhaled the breath he had just swallowed and picked up the sword from the table.

In reality, he didn't have a real sword. His family had one, but his grandfather wouldn't give it to him. He only had a wooden sword for practice and a flat wooden stick he had planed himself.

But here, he has a real sword and has been practicing with it since he was a child. When he followed his uncle on the road, his uncle even tailored a sword for him.

He didn't know what it was, but he stared at the gap between the simple thatched door.

The sword in his hand was slowly drawn out.

He felt a negative energy approaching, and he didn't know if it was a psychological effect, but he felt that the surroundings suddenly became cold. The pores on his back stood up involuntarily, and his body felt stiff, especially the back of his neck.

He felt something was wrong. How could he fight the enemy with his whole body stiff like this? He understood very well that when fighting the enemy, he had to concentrate his mind highly, but his body had to be relaxed.

Because only when you are relaxed can you react quickly, while when you are tense, your body will become stiff.

He immediately took a deep breath, and continued to take deep breaths, but the effect was not very significant.

When he followed his uncle before, he was the one who killed ghosts and monsters and seemed to be fearless. But now it was his turn alone, and a sense of panic spread in his heart.

That kind of panic took root in my heart like the roots of weeds.

Just then, he saw an eye looking inside through the crack in the thatched door.

It was an eye with more white than black, as if it had no eyelids, and flesh could be seen around it.

Being stared at by this eye, his whole heart seemed to be lifted up.

In reality, he felt that he was not afraid, but for some reason, here, a little bit of fear would be magnified countless times.

I saw it, that one eye, and then I saw the other person's mouth.

The other person's mouth was red, as if he had just drunk blood.

Then Pei Ju saw the mouth smile, revealing the yellow and black teeth under the lips.

"Young Master, what are you doing here? Can I come and keep you company?"

Her voice was unpleasant and hoarse, but she chose to say the kind of words that only a delicate woman should say.

He was stared at by those eyes, and his body became stiffer and stiffer. It was impossible for him to answer. Although he was holding the sword in his hand, he had lost the strength to stab it out, and was just holding it stiffly out of instinct.

"Young master, why don't you speak? If you don't speak, then I'll come in." As she finished speaking, a dark blue finger reached in and lifted up the simple door rope buckle.

Then the thatched door opened.

There was a woman in a wedding dress outside the door.

Her face was already festering, her complexion was dark blue and shriveled, and she was wearing red shoes embroidered with gold thread. She stood at the door, but her eyes were exceptionally moist, and her mouth looked as if it had just sucked blood.

However, the eyelids around her eyes had festered, causing her eyeballs to bulge out, looking extremely terrifying.

Her eyes were fixed on Pei Ju, and under her eyes, it seemed as if all the prey could not move.

At this time, Pei Ju had countless thoughts in his mind, and one of his thoughts contained a sentence, which was a sentence from the Ghost-Killing Sword Technique.

"When the Qi sinks into the Dantian, the mind becomes one with the Qi, which can increase courage and relieve fear."

He couldn't help but take a deep breath, close his eyes, no longer looking at the other person's eyes, concentrate his will, and swallow the breath all the way down. When his consciousness was concentrated in his body, his perception of the outside world quickly disappeared.

The woman in the wedding dress approached step by step until she was close to Pei Ju and stretched out her dark blue hand. The nails on her fingers still smelled of dirt and blood.

She stretched out her hand to Pei Ju's face and placed it on his eyelids. Then she chuckled and scratched his eyelids with her fingernails, as if she wanted to dig out his eyeballs. Pei Ju's eyelids trembled, as if they were about to open, but in the end they didn't.

Her fingers ran across his cheek again, along the carotid artery, and down.

He just paused at the carotid artery, chuckled again, and said, "What a delicious smell, the sweet smell of youth."

Her hand did not stop, and fell to Pei Ju's chest, her fingers pointing at his heart like sharp blades.

She slowly stabbed her finger towards Pei Ju's heart.

He felt pain, as if a cold sharp object was piercing his body. At this moment, he finally swallowed his breath to his dantian. He felt as if his body was full of strength again. The fear in his heart quickly melted away like snow in the sun.

So he opened his eyes and exhaled the energy that had circulated in his dantian directly onto the other person's face. The eyes of the woman in the wedding dress were sprayed as if they were burned by fire, and she actually let out a strange cry.

Almost at the same time, Pei Ju thrust out the sword in his hand. With a forward thrust, the opponent retreated after being hit in the eyes by his breath, creating a little distance between them.

The intention arises from the heart, the mind is focused and the sword is released in harmony with the qi.

He stabbed the opponent's chest directly, and the sword went in. It was like stabbing rotten leather.

The woman in the wedding dress fell to the ground all of a sudden, but then turned over again, got on all fours, and ran into the darkness like a wild beast.

Pei Ju chased her out of the door, only to see her figure quickly disappearing on the ridge of the field, and the direction she was running in was exactly the mountain where his third uncle had entered.

Pei Ju finally breathed a sigh of relief, gasping for breath and sweating all over his body.

Looking at the rice fields outside, I saw fireflies dancing in the fields. Looking at the sky, I saw thick clouds and no stars at all.

He couldn't even tell the direction.

In the distance, there were some strange cries of birds, and vaguely a little green fire could be seen floating on the distant hillside. It was a ghost fire.

Looking in the direction of the village in my memory, I could vaguely see some lights there.

He had only been to that small town once with his third uncle and was not familiar with it at all, and then he stayed there with his third uncle.

After that, every time he came in, it was dark and he didn't dare to walk around casually.

Back to the thatched hut again.

He sat on the bed, calmed himself down, and remembered that the breath he just exhaled seemed to have hurt the other person. He couldn't help but think of a sentence in the "Ghost Killing Sword Technique".

The energy in Dantian, pure Yang energy, when exhaled, can hurt evil spirits.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but pick up the "Ghost Killing Sword Technique" and read it again. He actually gained some new insights.

Learn from the past.

Suddenly, he seemed to hear thunder in his ears.

He went outside again, but did not see any lightning at all. However, he heard thunder in his ears, as if it came from the distant sky, or from the dark, or from his heart.

The thunder seemed to last for a while. He sat cross-legged in the thatched hut, listening to the thunder. He felt that the trace of fear that had remained in his heart had been shattered by the sound of thunder.

He couldn't help but sit there and start practicing breathing techniques again.

Swallow the air into your dantian, let your mind follow the air in, hold it still, and then exhale slowly.

Once, twice, three times.

……

When he woke up again, he felt refreshed. He felt that he could definitely help more people cure diseases today.

But when he got up, he found that his chest was very painful where his heart was. He couldn't help but think of the situation the next night when he was almost dug out of his heart by the wedding dress ghost.

I couldn't help but pull open the clothes to take a look. I didn't see any wound, but I felt a sharp pain there.

I couldn't help but think of what my grandfather said.

You can't die in there.

I got up and saw my grandfather sitting in front of the eight-immortals table, seemingly reciting something.

He walked closer and heard the scripture his grandfather was reciting, which was "Laozi's Scripture of Constant Purity and Tranquility". It was not that his grandfather couldn't recite it, but that he didn't get the true essence of the sutra.

But grandpa still recites it here.

He walked around, lit a stick of incense for the tiger, and then went to cook breakfast.

Wash up.

Finally, I thought about how many people would come today.

However, no one came until I finished breakfast with grandpa.

I couldn't help but ask my grandfather in surprise, why there were so many people yesterday, but no one today.

But Grandpa said, "Last night, someone struck thunder in everyone's dreams, and it immediately dispelled the cries of the fish monsters."

Pei Ju was stunned after hearing this.

Thunder in a dream? No wonder I heard thunder in that temple world but didn't see lightning. No wonder I felt like all distracting thoughts disappeared after hearing the thunder.

"Can you cast spells like this?" Pei Ju couldn't help but ask.

"A group dream-entering technique, followed by a thunder curse. The thunder curse naturally has a restraining effect on evil spirits and ghosts." Master Pei Si seemed to be used to it.

Pei Ju couldn't help but think, no wonder the swordsman tradition declined, he was exhausted yesterday and couldn't kill ten people, but the other party could kill everyone in a city in one night with a group dream-entering technique.

"Who is this person? Grandpa, do you know him?" Pei Ju asked curiously.

"It should be Lei Rushui, a member of the Super Committee." Pei Ju knew that the Super Committee his grandfather was talking about was called the Extraordinary Personnel Management Committee, also known as the Super Committee for short.

The Super Committee has seven members, and one of the seven members is the chairman, or president.

Each member is extremely powerful.

Mr. Pei Si did not say whether he knew him or not.

Pei Ju didn't ask any more questions, but just yearned for it wholeheartedly.

In the morning, he received a notice that he could go to school in the afternoon.

In the afternoon, he saw Ye Youruo again. She looked no different, except that he didn't see her every time he went out, but she was almost the same when he went to school.

But the other people looked at Ye Youruo differently. Her scream in the classroom that day left a deep impression on everyone.

Even Pei Ju couldn't help but ask during the break: "What is that screaming ability of yours?"

Ye Youruo looked at Pei Ju, as if considering whether to tell him or not. However, under Pei Ju's burning gaze, she still spoke: "That is the banshee's scream."

"What's the use?" Pei Ju asked.

Ye Youruo pursed her lips and said, "You know, you can't ask other people about the effects of their abilities. They shouldn't even tell you their names."

Pei Ju could understand what she meant. Once your abilities were known to others, you would be easily targeted. Once all your abilities were known to others, it would be easy for others to ambush and restrain you.

But he still said stubbornly: "What's the big deal? I won't tell anyone, and I won't hurt you."

"You said this today, but it doesn't mean you will be sure about the future." Ye Youruo said casually. She regretted saying that name.

"Okay, okay, I swear, okay? I will never hurt you, and I also told you that I'm learning the 'Ghost Killing Sword Technique'."

"Your swordsman's stuff is very simple, it's all on the sword. It doesn't matter whether you say it or not." Ye Youruo said.

Pei Ju was originally dissatisfied, but after learning that someone had cast a thunder curse in a dream last night to heal the people of the city, he felt that the swordsman's methods were indeed simple, so he swallowed the words of rebuttal.

(End of this chapter)