After being pulled up by the master

Black cicada wings flew across the blue sky, under the sunlight, Cao Ruoyu was lying on the cart, playing with a small mirror.Fu Ji sat next to him, Shi Wei and Li Xian sat on the other side, and Zhang He drove the donkey in front, walking among the mountains and rivers.

Fortunately, it was the twelfth lunar month, the mountain roads were rugged, and there were few people. Otherwise, the scene of a donkey cart with a beautiful woman would be very funny no matter how you look at it.

Shi Wei was very depressed, he didn't want his senior brothers to get involved in his past, but compared to sneaking into the magic capital, it was still safer, no matter how reluctant he was, he couldn't make fun of the safety of his master.

It's just that Cao Ruoyu, a heartless person, with his legs crossed, occupies most of the cart.

Shi Wei couldn't help asking him: "Junior brother, you have been looking at this mirror for a long time, what's so special about it?"

"I picked it up from Linglong Slope."

What Cao Ruoyu was holding in his hand was the Nine Turns Resurrection Mirror that Xue Wendi dropped that day. He shook it and looked at Shi Wei, "Does this look good?"

Shi Wei glanced, perfunctory: "Well, it's quite delicate."

"I think this mirror is probably made by Elder Wen."

"Then why don't you return it?"

"I forgot." Cao Ruoyu stuffed the Nine Turns Returning Soul Mirror back into his arms, put his hands on his chest, looked at the blue sky above his head, pretending to be deep, "I was also very busy at that time."

"It's not bad if you don't make trouble for others." Shi Wei choked, Cao Ruoyu didn't care, and even sighed: "Let me tell you, I went to Mingshu Pavilion quietly, and a good place was blown out one after another. The pit is like a hornet's nest."

"And then?" Shi Wei asked again, "Could it be that you went to clean up the ruins?"

"Isn't that so?" Cao Ruoyu smiled, "I was just thinking that the master is really good, no wonder the elder brother is so good."

"Eldest brother is the master's direct disciple, which is different from us."

"Then third senior brother, you are still the son of the ghost master, why are you mixed up with us?"

Shi Wei gouged him out: "Cao Ruoyu, sooner or later I will sew your mouth shut!"

The young man smiled and said: "Senior brother, you have a lot of adults, don't argue with me, I'm just curious."

"What are you curious about? Curious about why I don't have a good relationship with the dead old man?" Shi Wei didn't have a good face, Cao Ruoyu turned his head to look at him, unexpectedly, the wheel of the car hit a protruding stone, bumped, Cao Ruoyu's body was crooked, He almost rolled down, but fortunately Fu Ji stopped him in time to avoid the tragedy.

"Look, have you been punished?" Shi Wei also gave his hand and dragged Cao Ruoyu back from the side.

"retribution."

Li Xian, who was originally quiet and silent, repeated two words abruptly, his pupils were dilated, and his expression was calm. Cao Ruoyu felt cold behind his back, sat up straight, and looked at Shi Wei: "Did Miss Li speak?"

"She is neither deaf nor dumb, of course she can speak."

Shi Wei was not surprised, and under the suspicious eyes of several fellow students, he slowly explained, "Her seven souls were burnt, but fortunately they were not separated from her body, and she can be recovered by reweaving with a weaving shuttle. The three souls are still alive. , She is conscious, but she has no way to communicate with us normally, she can only repeat one or two meaningless words like just now."

Fu Ji thought of the archer in the secret room, and asked: "When I was in Linyuan, I heard the person who shot the Burning Soul Arrow give her an order, and she also returned, saying that she obeyed."

"The Burning Soul Arrow itself is just a killing weapon, it has no effect of manipulating others, but if other runes are attached to the body of the arrow, this effect can be achieved. Now that person is dead, the thread controlling her consciousness is broken. So now the Burning Soul Arrow has returned to its most primitive state."

Shi Wei lifted Li Xian's heavy cloak and glanced at the feathered arrow.

Already shorter than before they set off.

"Before the Burning Soul Arrow is completely integrated into her body, we must find the owner of the Spirit Weaving Shuttle."

Shi Wei sighed. After they parted from Xue Wendi outside Qingbo City, they walked with swords, then changed to the waterway, and finally found a donkey cart to enter the mountain. It was already very fast, but time waited for no one, they only had The next 22 days, within these 22 days, if they can't see the holder of the Zhiling Shuttle, they will definitely fall short.

"Isn't the shuttle in the hands of the ghost master?" Cao Ruoyu was puzzled, Shi Wei asked him: "Do you understand the way of ghosts?"

The other party shook his head, and Fu Ji replied: "The way of ghosts is both black and white, and its whereabouts are unpredictable. Among the three parts of the world, it is the most mysterious."

"The ghost way originates from the same three veins, which are divided into Zou Malantai, mid-night wind and dew, and flat gazing at the green mountains. The three veins all worship Zhong Kui as their ancestor, but not the ghost master." Shi Wei said lightly, "also That is to say, although the dead old man is called the ghost master, he does not have any real power, and the leader of the three veins can easily turn against him if he is not pleasing to the eye."

"Ah?" Cao Ruoyu opened his mouth wide, "Then, isn't your father a bit dangerous?"

"What's the danger? He's too capable to die."

Cao Ruoyu thought about that night in Pinghu City. Indeed, the old man was very powerful and taught them sword formation, so he nodded and said, "Well, even the master respects him as an old gentleman."

A flash of inspiration flashed in his head, and he asked, "Hey, why did Master call you Mr. Father? Are they familiar? Third senior brother, do you know about this?"

Shi Wei remained silent.

Seeing this, Cao Ruoyu vaguely sensed something. He looked at Fu Ji, but the other party shook his head slightly, motioning him not to ask further questions.

The mountain road is far away, the mountains are majestic, there are no birds, no cold wind, and it is surprisingly quiet.

After a while, Shi Weicai said softly, "I know."

Cao Ruoyu's eyes widened, Fu Ji was also taken aback, and even Zhang He, who was driving the car, leaned back slightly and pricked up his ears.

"I met Master when I was eight years old."

Shi Wei lowered his eyes, "At that time, the chaos in the demon capital had just subsided, and the righteous energy was greatly reduced. My father took me to live on the mountain."

Life on the mountain is very difficult, especially when there is only you and your homeless father within a hundred miles.

That mountain is a mass grave.

Counting forward, it is a place where good and evil confront each other. There are countless casualties. If you step on it, you will be covered with rotting corpses.

Shi Wei doesn't like it here at all.

But his father said that his family tradition is the art of exorcising corpses and summoning souls, suppressing ghosts and killing demons. He must be here to learn how to get along with these resentful corpses underground.

Shi Wei felt disgusted every time he saw it. He asked his father: "Why do I have to learn this? There are so many ways to suppress ghosts, why is it so disgusting that I learned it? Can't I hold a sword? I can't learn those clean, elegant, free and easy things. Spiritual spells?"

His old man smiled, smoking a pipe, and squatting on the big rock on the top of the mountain to bask in the sun: "Everyone in this world wants to be clean, but this world is so muddy. How can we be clean here? We ghosts It is standing on the edge of the underworld, guarding the entrance of yin and yang, one step forward, it is yang, it is positive, and one step back, it is yin, it is eternal.”

At that time, Shi Wei was only eight years old, and he couldn't understand what his father was saying at all. He only remembered the other party blowing out smoke rings and stubble on his face.

He was disgusted.

"I was thrown from the top of the mountain into a mass grave by him every day, and I had to stay with those stinking dead people every day." Shi Wei recalled the past, and could even smell the rot that made him sick Breath, "I want to learn how to launch a wave of corpses and let them become my weapons. Sometimes there will be evil spirits exuding strong resentment coming out of the ground, and their eyes are green and want to eat me."

At that time, Shi Wei was not willing to learn at all, he couldn't figure it out, and he even felt that these dead people were as pitiful as he was.

"Why don't you save them? Instead, keep them and squeeze out their last bit of value and dignity?"

Shi Wei went to ask his father, but the other party smiled: "Okay, then you go and save them."

He went, and fell flat.

Those evil spirits were too obsessed, and his mantra of passing away had no effect.One of them swelled with resentment because of being stimulated, and the soaring resentment almost brought him into the endless hell.

Shi Wei climbed up the mountain in disgrace, and went to ask his father again, but that man met a guest today.

It was a man in white wearing a gauze hat, with a clear voice and a calm demeanor. Just looking at his back, he felt very noble and clean.

Shi Wei hid behind the stone, looked at the dirt all over his body, he didn't know when he was contaminated with resentment, he was afraid to go forward.

His father said, "Sorry, I couldn't figure out where he is either."

"Thanks for your hard work, I will continue to look for him."

"Is it possible that he has been reincarnated?"

The man was silent for a moment, and said: "No, he promised me that he would always be by my side."

"Oh." His father was rare serious, neither smoking his pipe nor stooping like a rascal.

With just a few words, the meeting ended hastily.

The man in white clothes quickly went down the mountain, Shi Wei saw the sword box on his back, his heart skipped a beat, that man, is he a cultivator of immortality?It must be very powerful, otherwise his father wouldn't be so serious.

The child took a shortcut, rolled and crawled down the slope, and landed at Xue Si's feet covered in mud.

The other party didn't seem surprised, just looked at him quietly.

Shi Wei didn't feel the pain at all, he stood up, wiped his face, opened a pair of black and white eyes, sparkling: "Are you a cultivator?"

"Yes."

"Then do you accept apprentices?"

Shi Wei asked very directly, and he heard the other party smile: "I didn't go up the mountain this time to accept apprentices."

"Then what are you doing?"

"Find someone."

"Who is it?"

"My apprentice."

Xue Si speaks very concisely, but is also very gentle, and the fragrance on his body is just right, which makes him not stained with the world.

"Then you have an apprentice, do you mind having one more? I am the second child, so I won't compete with your eldest apprentice, okay?"

Shi Wei was a little anxious, he wanted the other party to nod, he could kneel down and kowtow to worship the teacher now, but Xue Si asked him: "Why do you want to be my apprentice?"

"I want to get out of here, I don't want to learn those dirty things, I want to be like you, clean and powerful."

Shi Wei said, his face was a little hot, and the courage to run all the way seemed to have dissipated, leaving only embarrassment, apprehension and uneasiness.

Xue Si looked at him quietly and asked, "Your way is not with me. But if you can walk out of this mountain by yourself, I will accept you as my apprentice."

If you want to talk about disappointment, there are still some. Shi Wei originally thought that the other party could take him away immediately, but because he was abrupt, it would be nice if he could get a promise.

He agreed: "Then what's your name, where can I find you?"

"We will meet by chance."

Xue Si left him a mahogany sword and left the mountain.

"Later, after my unremitting efforts, I finally escaped from that ghostly place."

Shi Wei took a deep breath, and like a normal peacock spread his tail, he became complacent, "You don't know, the old man set up a barrier on that mountain to prevent me from escaping, and it took me a long time to break one. Xiaokou, escape from birth."

After Cao Ruoyu listened, he pondered for a moment: "Why do I feel that Master doesn't seem to want to accept you as an apprentice?"

"I don't care. Anyway, he accepted it. I have won all of this myself."

Cao Ruoyu scratched his head: "Master has been to your house, looked for your father, and asked about the whereabouts of the elder brother. Then what is the relationship between your father and Master? You still haven't explained clearly."

Shi Wei choked, and said awkwardly: "That's all I know, you can ask my father for details."

This time it was Cao Ruoyu's turn to be silent.

Zhang He suddenly asked: "Then, third senior brother, do we still have to pass through mass graves to get to your house?"

"Yes what's the matter?"

Shi Wei took it for granted, Cao Ruoyu shivered, and shrank towards Fu Ji who was beside him: "Second Senior Brother, will we be eaten?"

"Uh, I don't know."

Fu Jiqiang pretended to be calm.

"Don't worry, with me, I can't die."

Shi Wei comforted them, the donkey cart turned a corner and drove towards the hinterland of the mountain.

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Oh no, I updated it early in the morning, help me (I finally remembered to click the one-click thank you button below, I wanted to customize the thank you words, but I found that I can’t qvq)