Encounter

When Xia Yuming went out, the sun was no longer so conspicuous, it sometimes disappeared, and the gray-white sky covered the sky above the city, cut into irregular shapes by the undulating tops of tall buildings.

The not-so-good weather didn't affect Xia Yuming's mood. He thought he had found the way, and his nerves that had been tense for the past few days finally relaxed.In addition, Shen Mo tugged at his sleeve before he left the door, which made Xia Yuming even more excited. He seemed to have the illusion that the old cat he had raised for many years was finally willing to act like a baby with him.

Baiyun Temple is far away from his home, but his trip this time was extremely smooth, except for a little searching when he finally arrived at the place, he didn't even encounter a red light along the way.

The Taoist temple was built in the downtown area, surrounded by high-rise buildings, and there was a lot of people in front of the door. Xia Yuming was surrounded by people, so he felt very safe.

He went in with the flow of people, and when he finished the steps in front of the door, he was stopped by a man with black-rimmed glasses.

The man looks very ordinary. He looks about 25 or [-] years old. He is wearing a long black down jacket and a pair of old-fashioned clamshell cotton shoes. piece.

"What are the people from the Bian family doing here?" His tone was flat, but Xia Yuming smelled unfriendly as soon as he opened his mouth.

Xia Yuming wanted to find the Taoist priest wholeheartedly, but he ignored him and shook his hand away.The man held his hand again reluctantly, "You didn't hear what I asked you."

"Crazy, no money!" Xia Yuming didn't know who the other party was, nor did he know whether the other party was a human or a ghost, so he waved his hands and said in a moderate voice.

After I finished speaking, I shook my hand again, and I was really thrown away.

Xia Yuming didn't dare to turn his head, and quickly walked inside with the flow of people.

The inside of the Taoist temple is not big, there is only a small courtyard, and the courtyard is full of people, and there are Taoist priests in Taoist robes standing at the door of each hall.

Xia Yuming followed the crowd and wandered around the main hall. Although he had never been to a place like Taoist Temple, he thought there should be people who asked for fortune-telling and fortune-telling.When he was taking the initiative to the entrance of the main hall, he was stopped by someone again, it was the same man just now.

"Your family has always been at odds with our Quanzhen sect. What are you doing here? Do you want to provoke?"

"Xiao Bo, what are you doing?" A square-faced middle-aged Taoist priest wearing a colorful Taoist robe came out and pointed at the man holding Xia Yuming, "You two come with me to the room."

"Master! This house..."

"He's not from the side family."

"But the aura on him..."

"Stop talking, bring it in first, don't be ashamed!" The middle-aged Taoist spread his hands anxiously, "Why did I accept such a rotten tree like you?"

"...Master, what have I done, you don't need to call me dead wood."

The middle-aged Taoist sighed and shook his head in silence.

"Master!"

"Sometimes I really don't want to recognize you as an apprentice."

The quarrel between the master and the apprentice finally ended with Jiang still being hot.

"Let's go."

In this way, Xia Yuming easily met the prison of Baiyun Temple.

It was an old man with white beard and hair who was sitting with his eyes closed. Before Xia Yuming went in, he said without opening his eyes, "I figured out that there are visitors visiting these few days. This divination is quite accurate. You are here." Then the second sentence asked, "What are your parents' names?"

Xia Yuming didn't answer right away and asked instead, "Why did Master ask me this?"

The old Taoist stroked his beard and said something interesting, and then waved to let the other people in the room exit. When only the two of them were left in the room, the old Taoist sighed and asked, "Have the things guarded by the Bian family come out?" ?”

Although Xia Yuming doesn't understand the situation in the magic world, he can also guess that Shen Mo is the core secret of the Bian family, so it is not appropriate to confess him. What's more, seeing the attitude of the person who grabbed him by the door before, the Bian family and They shouldn't have a good relationship.

So he pretended to be stupid and said, "The thing guarded by the Bian family?" After finishing speaking, he paused deliberately, and continued in a very embarrassed way, "It is such a Taoist priest, I have always been a materialist before, who knew that I could see ghosts suddenly last week , can scare me to death.

My mother later told me that her natal family was a master dancer.But we haven't been in touch for many years, which may have something to do with her natal family.Yes, my mother's surname is Bian, Daoist, are you... Hey, I don't know how to say it.In short... I am always seeing ghosts now, and last night I met someone who was completely unrecognizable, and it scared me to death..."

When he said it, he deliberately showed a stumbling and logical effect, so that it sounded more real.

Years of materialistic way of thinking made it difficult for him to feel awed by the manner of the supervisor.After careful analysis, he felt that the old Taoist priest was full of style. He didn't talk about the cause and effect of his words, and asked questions here and there, all in order to show his ability and establish an image in front of him so that he could occupy a strong position in the conversation.

The old Taoist was silent for a few seconds, and opened his eyes that had been closed all along.

Those eyes were not big, but they were piercing. When looking at Xia Yuming, there was a cold light in them, ruthless and majestic, as if it could penetrate him.

Xia Yuming guessed that this was to test him.

Under such circumstances, he couldn't back down, it would look like a guilty conscience, but he couldn't seem too undaunted, it was a strange reaction for anyone to be stared at without moving and let others stare at him.

His dad used to use this trick of marking people a lot.

Xia Yuming didn't know how to deal with it at first, but after being scolded a lot, he realized his own way.

He first put on a helpless look, and then added a little bit of sadness and anger to his impatience, and his voice was a little higher, "Master, don't stare at me, I... I don't know what to say what."

The master withdrew his gaze, closed his eyes again and asked, "What's your name?"

This time, Xia Yuming replied honestly, "Xia Yuming."

"Xia Guoxing and Bian Xiu's son. Heh, Bian's family hid it well, and they didn't allow you to be named Bian." He chuckled, "You came to us for help, but did you ever think about asking your parents?"

Xia Yuming was slightly surprised, but then felt that this was expected.

The reason for being entangled by Shen Mo is still unclear, and it cannot be ruled out that there is something special about his identity.This reaction from the Supervisory Court seemed to prove this point from the side. If he was an ordinary person, the old Taoist wouldn't be asking the first sentence, but would know the names of his parents in the next sentence.

However, knowing this, he still showed a face full of ignorance, "Master, how do you still know my parents' names? What are you talking about, what is the thing guarded by the Bian family?" He paused and sighed helplessly Said, "I told my parents, but they didn't understand. I said before that I would find relatives to decorate my house with a barrier, but it still didn't work. A female ghost came to my door, and I almost died. Fortunately, someone Let me buy a mahogany sword, and I only escaped death with that mahogany sword.

The old Taoist closed his eyes, not knowing how much he believed, and said mysteriously, "The old Taoist has his own magic tricks." He stroked his beard proudly, "As for that thing, your family guards it since the beginning of the world and has been preserved until now. , the only demon. If he comes out, there will be no peace in the Three Realms. I recently watched the sky at night, and there was a surge of demon energy, so I asked."

The Three Realms are not peaceful?Xia Yuming thought about Shen Mo who had been sleeping and refused to get up, and tried his best to suppress the weirdness on his face.

"Out?" he repeated, puzzled.

The old Taoist chuckled and said, "Bian's spells are not authentic spells, they are deviant. If we, decent Taoist monks, have to meditate every day to absorb the essence of the sun and the moon, and turn it into inner strength to drive the spells. Then you What the Bian family absorbs is the magic energy of the demon you are guarding, relying on that magic energy to support the spell."

He said with a flash of disdain on his face, "One of the ancestors of the Bian family was originally a real person of my Quanzhen sect, but because of his ties to a demon, I don't know what method he used to trap that demon and put him in Its devilish energy is used by my family to practice. The spells of the Bian family were not in a class at all, but after that they became top-notch."

"Really... I..." Xia Yuming pretended to stammer, as if he was shocked to come into contact with something he didn't understand at all, and didn't know how to evaluate it.

The old Taoist used it in his performance, and continued, "Therefore, the disciples of the Bian family who practice magic arts must have demonic energy on them. I watched the stars at night and calculated that there was a catastrophe in the Bian family. Just now I saw that you have demonic energy on your body, but Without the foundation of magic, I guessed whether that thing came out and was by your side."

Xia Yuming didn't deny it easily, "Master, you also know that I don't understand. I don't know about this. I'm so freaked out by what you said. Also, I'm haunted by a ghost, can you..."

"I will let Xiaobo take care of you during this time." The master waved his hand to indicate that he can go out, "Fate is the heart, and fate is hard to change because the heart is hard to change. Ha, the Bian family, the Bian family..."

Xia Yuming heard this passage very familiarly. Isn't this what the person who gave him the mahogany sword said? Shen Mo seems to be very interested in him.He thought for a while pretending to be surprised and said, "This sentence was also said by the person I met on the road last time who asked me to buy a mahogany sword."

"Oh?" The old Taoist asked in a daze, "What does he look like?"

Xia Yuming thought about it for a while, and found that he could not remember that person's appearance very clearly. This is relatively rare, and he has always been very good at remembering faces.

"It's just a middle-aged man with an average appearance, but he's quite fashionable. He wears red colored contact lenses, which are blood-red. I haven't seen anyone here wear them like this, but he's very suitable."

"What?!" The old Taoist stood up suddenly, fixed his eyes on Xia Yuming, his appearance was completely different from that of the calm god stick just now, "Have you brought that mahogany sword?"

Xia Yuming pretended to be ignorant and went out to take out the mahogany sword, secretly wondering what the red pupils meant to make him look like this.

Unexpectedly, after taking the mahogany sword, the old Taoist's expression became even more exaggerated. He stood up directly from the futon, looking crazy, with his eyes staring like they were about to protrude.

"A catastrophe, the Bian family is a catastrophe! There is a catastrophe in the three realms!"

He murmured it many times, without any superior demeanor at all.

"Big, master?" Xia Yuming called out to him carefully.

As if awakened by a start, the old Taoist turned to look at him and opened his mouth to say something and then closed it. He went back and forth twice before saying, "Please open the door for me, I, I will ask Xiaobo to take care of you."

Xia Yuming didn't ask any further questions, and did as he did.

Sure enough, Baiyunguan's supervisor did not break his promise and asked Xiao Bo to help him.Xiao Bo was reluctant at first, but Xia Yuming won Xiao Bo's sympathy with his acting skills and eloquence, which made him change a lot about himself, and he added WeChat willingly.

After the two became friends, they found out that they were studying in the same university.

Xiao Bo's full name is Zhu Bo. He is in the second year of graduate school. He is in the same university as Xia Yuming. He is Xia Yuming's senior. Their dormitory is quite close.

He gave him a few talismans and asked him to go home first and stick these talismans on the doors of each room.After returning to school on Monday, I will help Xia Yuming find out what happened.

Xia Yuming did so after returning home, and spent the rest of the weekend safely.

When returning to school, he ran into his roommate Wang Xian under the dormitory building.

Wang Xian still walked over talking and laughing as if he hadn't seen Xia Yuming, followed by a pretty girl.

Xia Yuming felt that this person looked familiar at first glance, so he couldn't help but stop and turn around.

As if feeling his gaze, the girl next to Wang Xian turned her neck at a strange angle, tilted her round head, and smiled at Xia Yuming.

She looks exactly like his dead counterpart.

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The saved manuscripts have been used up, and we will try our best to update it before the end of the first story, but there is no guarantee...

Because I feel that there is a problem with the rhythm of the story, after the end of this story, the second story will stop for a week and then start updating.