Twelve Trials from Scratch

Saying so, Su Qi took off the pendant neatly, transformed the holding spirit into a ghost fire form, then grabbed it, and slapped the tiger's teeth casually.The next moment, a group of transparent flames exploded, retracted, and shaped, and in an instant, a ferocious, sharp, almost real super-spiritual body appeared, giving people a strong sense of oppression.

It was a sword, a large sword without a handle, which was directly integrated into the right forearm.

Its gauntlet is a mane-haired halberd, with bloody eyes and sharp teeth. The lines are as cold and hard as a knife, and the cut surface is smooth and sharp, like a huge tiger's head polished and carved from a whole piece of steel.A knife blade is bitten in the tiger's mouth. The blade is more than four feet long, as thin as a cicada's wing, as smooth as a mirror, with a smooth arc in its slender length. It is like a pool of autumn water in the sun, and the cold light flows.

This is the primary form of the super-spiritual body made by Su Qi - tiger bite!

"Is that the child's super spirit body? It looks like it's about to be cut in half, and it shouldn't be weak."

"Pay attention. Compared with Lian'er's translucent super-spiritual body before, his super-spiritual body is almost solid. It is obviously formed by compressing a large amount of witchcraft into a stable structure, and the degree of completion is much higher than that of Lian'er. "

"From this point of view, he may be able to pose a little threat to my husband."

"But there is no doubt that if it stops here, Daoyuan will definitely win."

"Of course. Husband is also the master of Taoism after all, how could he fail so easily."

On the viewing platform, Dao Lan and Dao Zhen observed Su Qi and commented casually, with extremely serious expressions.After all, the one below is the one who defeated Daolian. If there is no accident, he may even replace Daolian and become the next Patriarch, and with the support of Taoism, seize the throne of Shaman King.

It is their Taoist tradition that the strong are respected, and today's Daoyuan is the strongest Taoist today.And Su Qi also has Taoist blood, according to the rules left by his ancestors, he has the basic qualifications to inherit Taoism.

Damn it!Another genius appeared, and he was much stronger than that brat Dao Lian...

Just as the two were commenting on Su Qi, one of the palace masters behind them had a gloomy expression, and a trace of coldness flashed in his eyes.

At the same time, on the ring below, Su Qi and Dao Yuan finally fought.

Then, Su Qi lost and was injured by lightning.

There are two reasons for losing.One is that he didn't intend to win at all, and he didn't want to be too conspicuous when his strength was not formed, so he didn't put in all his strength. After fighting back and forth for a while, he saw the right time and lost to Daoyuan; Starting from the original book, Dao Yuan's strength has obviously been strengthened. At least in the original book, he has never used any spells other than the super spirit body, let alone "Five Thunders".

And in addition to spells, Dao Yuan's super spirit body strength is also higher than Su Qi's.First of all, he maintains a super-spiritual body all year round, reaching the point where the naked eye can't distinguish it. Needless to say, its strength and degree of realization; secondly, Su Qi's possessing spirit is just an ordinary tiger who has only been dead for more than ten years. That's it, Daoyuan's holding spirit is the ancestor of Taoism.

Generally speaking, the longer the ghost of the deceased survives, the more time will wear it down, and it will become purer, closer to a certain concept, and closer to a great soul. After more than 500 years, it can evolve from an ordinary ghost to an elf level.

And Taoism has a history of more than 2000 years, and the ancestors of all dynasties were powerful psychics during their lifetimes, so the holding spirits manipulated by Daoyuan are basically powerful spirit bodies at the elf level.Besides, they can also give him various bonuses in spells and combat with their rich experience, so even if Su Qi tries his best, he may not be able to do anything.

After all, it has only been more than a month since he came to this world. Even though he has super witch power, he is limited by resources and experience, so it is normal for him to be unable to win for the time being.

But even after losing, Su Qi's performance still amazed all the high-level Taoists.

Taoism is currently one of the largest psychic organizations in the Ming Dynasty. The Taoist Patriarch is naturally one of the strongest psychics in the Ming Dynasty. He can fight back and forth with the current Taoist Patriarch. Considering Su Qi's 11-year-old age, the five-thunder rectification method, which is the head of all laws, is simply indescribable even as a monstrosity.

Therefore, even though he suppressed the killing intent in his heart, Daoyuan still did not attack Su Qi after all.Because compared to Daolian and Daorun's father, his identity as the Patriarch of the Taoist School is more important. He is very satisfied with Su Qi's strength and talent, and he has to be satisfied.

As long as the revival of Taoism can be accomplished, let alone Su Qi kills Dao Lian and Dao Run, even if he is asked to do it himself, he... I'm afraid he will kill him.Because he was trained by Taoism in this way since he was a child, and revival of Taoism is his highest goal in life. For this reason, he is willing to sacrifice everything, even himself.

After the war, Su Qi, who was injured by lightning, was sent to Kanli Temple, which is in charge of medicine and alchemy, for treatment.

The lord of the hall, Dao Shuo, was very enthusiastic. He personally applied medicine and bandaged him as the lord of the hall, and personally sent him off when he left.Anyone with a discerning eye can see that Su Qi's future is limitless, and it seems understandable for him to do so.

"Daocheng, you have completed the super-spiritual body at the age of 11, and you can also compete with the Patriarch. It can be said that you are very talented and have an unlimited future."

The clear sunlight slanted into the promenade outside the hall, and while leading the way, Dao Shuo praised Su Qi with the kind and gentle smile unique to the elders of the master's school.

He looks about 35 or [-] years old. He wears a nine-beam scarf, holds a dust whisk in his hand, is dressed in an elegant Taoist robe, has three short beards under his jaw, fair skin, clean facial features, and restrained divine light in his eyes. appearance.

"Wherever it is, it's all because of the mercy of the Patriarch. The masters have carefully cultivated it, and the Palace Master praised it."

Su Qi was also smiling, courteous, with the appearance of an obedient student.

Afterwards, the two chatted with each other a few unnutritious words, one praised, one humbled, one praised, and the other praised, the atmosphere was respectful and harmonious.It wasn't until the end of the road that he was about to send Su Qi out that Dao Shuo changed the subject, and said in a concerned tone of a teacher: "However, Dao is accomplished. As the saying goes, if a tree is as beautiful as a forest, the wind will blow it. You are so outstanding even though you are a Taoist." Blessing is not necessarily a good thing for yourself."

Su Qi frowned, "You mean?"

"In such a big Taoist school, there are many branches and different people's hearts. Although they are all under the command of the main family, they each have their own positions. The position of the next Patriarch has long been watched by everyone. If Daolian succeeds, the main family will suppress Now, of course no one dares to stroke a tiger's beard, but you are quite different."

He asked strangely: "But even if I die, the next Patriarch will be Dao Lian, right?"

"You forgot, Daolian lost to you, and he will be closed to death. It is not certain whether he can come out alive."

"So as long as I'm excluded, the position of the next Patriarch will be vacant... That's how it is. Thank you for the reminder, if I become the Patriarch in the future, there will be a report."

"It's okay, it's just that I can't bear to see my Taoist genius destroyed by internal strife, so I just want to remind you first, Daocheng don't blame me for my simple words and deep words."

"Hall Master was joking, it's too late for me to thank you, so how can I blame him?"

Afterwards, the two exchanged a few hypocritical polite words, and finally separated from each other and left each other.

As soon as he walked out of the range of Kanli Hall, Su Qi's face turned cold, and he turned his head to look in the direction of Kanli Hall, narrowing his eyes slightly, "Hmph, there are always people who want to harm me!"

While brushing the energy of Secondary School, he thought about the reason why Dao Shuo had murderous intentions towards him.

That's right, Dao Shuo, who looked like a gentle teacher just now, actually had murderous intent hidden in his heart, but he didn't show the slightest bit on his face, but he never dreamed that Su Qi could directly sense other people's emotions, so his performance was all in vain.

It's just that Su Qi can only sense emotions after all, but can't read minds, so he doesn't know why Dao Shuo wanted to kill himself.

Could it be that, as he said before, he is one of the people who wants to kill me and support others to take over?But it's too early, Daolian is not cold yet.Or are you simply being a mortal, jealous of my genius?Or is it a deliberate warning to me, so that I will be sympathetic to Taoism, so that I can reap the benefits?

In an instant, Su Qi thought of several possibilities, but because he knew too little about the Palace Master, it was difficult to be sure.So he had no choice but to put it down for the time being, and went to pay his respects at Danyuan Palace as Daoyuan had instructed him to do.

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Not long after, in a certain empty hall, red pillars were affixed with pictures of real immortals with cloud patterns carved in gold leaf, and yellow curtains hung between the beams. At the end of the hall facing the gate was a altar , a tall statue of the Supreme Old Monarch sits upright in it, and smoke rises from the incense table in front of it, vaguely covering that face with drooping brows and benevolent eyes.

Daoyuan still maintains that exaggerated super-spiritual body, sitting in front of the incense table, while Daolan and Daozhen are separated from each other, and the eyes of the three are all focused on Su Qi in front of him.

"Daocheng, you also have the blood of Taoism, and we are very satisfied with your strength and aptitude. We have decided to send you to fight in the war of psychics three years later, and fully support you in improving your strength..."

After the opening greetings, Daozhen, the head of the previous generation, spoke first and got straight to the point, but in the middle of speaking, she suddenly changed the subject and said with a serious look: "But before that, we need to make sure that you are not from the other side."

Chapter 12 Two Conditions

The so-called other side is Xuanzhen Dao, which is another psychic organization split from Taoism, and it is also one of the main targets of Taoism for revenge.

Over the past month, Su Qi has used all kinds of methods, either insinuating on the sidelines or asking directly, and has already understood the basic situation of Taoism and the world.As for Xuanzhen Dao, the great enemy of Taoism, of course he has also heard of it.

The grievances between Taoism and Xuanzhen Taoism can be traced back more than 100 years ago.

First of all, the world line of this world is different from the original earth. It is the world line of the successful anti-Qing and Ming Dynasty. The new Ming Dynasty after the restoration of the country is called Zheng Ming.Afterwards, history progressed, the industrial revolution emerged, and capitalism spread. Zheng Ming, who was impacted by various foreign countries, opened his customs under the influence of various factors, and gradually connected with the world. The domestic bourgeoisie was also affected and began to develop.

But as a latecomer, other capitalist countries who took the lead certainly do not want Zheng Ming to climb up the table of dividing up the world, but want to turn him into the biggest piece of meat on the table.As a result, the conflict intensified, and a war similar to the invasion of China by the Eight-Power Allied Forces in the history of the original earth also broke out.

And it was in that war, under various internal and external pressures, that Zheng Ming successfully completed the bourgeois revolution and became a parliamentary monarchy.It was also under the influence of that war that many people of insight opened their eyes to see the world. Traditional ideas were greatly impacted, and they gradually diverged from conservative forces representing tradition. Xuanzhen Taoism was the product of that situation.

At that time, under the influence of various advanced ideas from the West, some people in Taoism gradually became dissatisfied with the domineering and cruel style of Taoism, and finally left together in groups to establish the Northern School of Taoism, which was the predecessor of Xuanzhen Taoism.

Because of the problem of philosophy, the northern sect of Taoism and the main sect of Taoism hate each other, and they will never die.In the beginning, there was no doubt that the main school of Taoism with 2000 years of experience had the upper hand, and even nearly wiped out the Northern School several times.

However, during the war of Japanese invasion of Ming Dynasty 50 years ago, the Beizong of Taoism and the Xinming government secretly joined forces, and publicly hired Taoist psychics to fight against Japanese psychics. The trap, selling their information to the Dongying people, caused most of the Taoist elite psychics to be wiped out in one battle, and they could no longer compete with Beizong.

So after the war, the Beizong and the Xinming government joined forces to attack and wiped out all the strongholds of the Taoist sect in the country.The latter had no power to fight back, and suddenly became a street mouse that everyone shouted and beat, and was eventually expelled to the deep mountains and old forests, losing most of his territory, and could only linger in the Taoist city of Fushan.

In fact, if it weren't for the fear that Taoism, which has been passed down for more than [-] years, might still have a hole card, and heavy casualties would be caused by trapped beasts fighting to the death.

However, neither the Xinming government nor the Xuanzhen Taoism, which was later designated by the government as the head of local religions, has never relaxed its suppression of Taoism for more than 50 years.

In the struggle between the two sides, there are many operations of sending undercover agents to each other to carry out sabotage.The most hated person is never the enemy, but the undercover agent, so before deciding to train Su Qi with all his strength, the Taoists need to make sure that he is definitely not someone from the other side.

"On the other side, Xuanzhen Dao?"

Su Qi is very calm, anyway, he is not a boy, so there is nothing to be afraid of.

"Yes, would you like to be tested?"

If you don't want to answer here, I'm afraid you will come in vertically and go out horizontally...

Seeing that the three of them looked like they might violently commit murder at any time, Su Qi nodded wisely, "Of course, please do whatever you want."

"it is good!"

Daozhen's face turned serious, and she took out a vermilion writing brush with a blue luan bird painted on it, and said softly, "Super spirit body Fuluan pan!"

The next moment, a purple-clothed hair, the spirit of a beautiful woman appeared behind him, turned into a stream of light and threw it into Qingluan's pen; then, the flames exploded, condensed, and transformed, and turned into a flying machine in front of him. Come to the sand table for Fushi divination.

The so-called Fuji is an ancient method of divination.Fu means to support the shelf; Qi means divination to ask questions.

To put it simply, it is to clamp a pen under a Y-shaped, T-shaped, or inverted triangle shelf, hang the pen head on the sand table, and then two people hold the two ends of the shelf respectively, and invite the gods to attach to the luan shelf.Then move the shelf and draw graphic characters on the sand table to get the answer, a divination ritual, which is somewhat similar to inviting a pen fairy.

"Come on, hold on to the right side."

After the sand table appeared, Dao Zhen lifted the Y-shaped shelf, hung it on the sand table, asked Su Qi to hold the right side, and supported the left side by himself, and then asked, "Daocheng, answer me, are you a person of the Xuanzhen way?"

In the next moment, Su Qi felt a seemingly invisible force coming from the palm of the hand holding Luanjia, and it merged with his own witchcraft regardless of each other.

mind reading?Or lie detector?

Similar to the feeling of being spied on by the Wuxin ghost in the previous world, Su Qi's intuition told him that it was best not to lie at this moment, otherwise he would either defect or go back, and would definitely break with Taoism.

"I'm not." He answered without hesitation while the thoughts were circulating in his mind.

After the words fell, the two moved by themselves while supporting the shelf, and drew six horizontal lines on the sand table below.The upper three horizontal lines are disconnected from it, which is "Kun"; the lower three horizontal lines are continuous, which is "Qian".

"Heaven and earth meet, all things communicate; up and down, they share the same aspirations. The hexagram image is Thai, the gentleman's way is long, and the villain's way is eliminated. He is telling the truth."

As soon as these words came out, the stern faces of the three Taoists immediately relaxed a little.

"Next is the second question, Dao Cheng, are you loyal to Taoism?"

Are you loyal to Taoism?nonsense!I am only loyal to myself, how can I be loyal to Taoism, but this answer will definitely cause problems...

The situation was not good, Su Qi's thoughts changed sharply, thinking about how to answer.

Seeing his hesitation, the faces of the three Taoists darkened again, they exchanged glances with each other, secretly prepared, if the answer did not satisfy them, they would work together to take him down on the spot.

"I don't like the current Taoism." In the end, Su Qi decided to tell the truth selectively, "In my opinion, the current Taoism's behavior style is a bit too extreme and cold, but I have no intention of betraying Taoism."

He really didn't intend to betray the Taoists, because there was no need, and he had to deal with the big boss Ma Cang Yewang, so there was no time and energy to waste on the little Taoists.

Upon hearing this, Dao Zhen and Dao Lan's expressions softened immediately, but Dao Yuan said coldly: "Now I am the head of the Taoist school, and I have set the rules in recent years, so... you Are you dissatisfied with my ideas?"

"Daoyuan, why bother to be serious with a child who is only 11 years old? As long as he is still a Taoist, it is enough. And... your recent actions are indeed a bit extreme."

Seeing Dao Yuan seemed about to get angry, Dao Lan remained silent, but Dao Zhen spoke to persuade her.One is because Dao Cheng is a talent after all, and he cannot be easily compromised; the other is that he actually has some opinions on Dao Yuan's actions, but it is difficult to object because of Dao Yuan's identity and strength as the Patriarch.

"I asked him!"

Daoyuan ignored it, controlled the super spirit body to bend down, pressed his huge head and upper body to the top of Su Qi's head, and said in a deep voice, "Answer me, do you have any opinion on my approach?"

Su Qi raised his head and looked at him, and said calmly: "Yes, I think the Taoist practice of wantonly plundering other people's lives and manipulating zombies is too evil, and it goes against the mainstream morality of today's human society. Once exposed, it will be punished." All the people are hostile. And with the development of science and technology, the power of ordinary people will become stronger and stronger, even if the Taoists have psychic powers, they will be wiped out one day."

Dao Lan and Dao Zhen looked at each other, feeling a little surprised.They thought that Su Qi, an 11-year-old child, would use some reasons such as "love and justice", but they didn't expect to focus on reality and point to the main reason why Taoism has become weaker and weaker since modern times.

However, Daoyuan said coldly: "Stupid! Do you think we don't understand this truth? Combining modern weapons with zombies, this kind of thing has been done for a long time. We have also tried to transform, we have also tried to use The so-called science is used to strengthen oneself, but Xuanzhen Taoism and those insidious villains are blocking and putting pressure on the outside. If we Taoism does not use this unscrupulous way to fight, we will not be able to survive at all.