Yin and Yang Taoist Code

"Then what should we do now?" Li Chuyi scratched his head, "I can't leave. Can I ask Zi Yuan to come out and try?"

The Taoist priest nodded and said, "Okay, let her come out and try."

Li Chuyi took out the Demon-Conquering Mirror from his arms, and after half a minute of silence, he saw a purple mist drifting by, gradually condensing into a beautiful silhouette, which was none other than Ziyuan.

Li Chuyi didn't waste any time and quickly told Zi Yuan about the situation. After speaking, Zi Yuan looked at the two of them and nodded, saying, "No problem, I'll give it a try."

A cool breeze blew by, and the purple kite floated towards the stairs made of piled corpse ashes. After looking at it, she stepped up. When her jade feet stepped on the first floor, the stairs did not float away like when Li Chuyi stepped on them just now, but firmly supported Zi Yuan's steps.

Li Chu suddenly became excited, but before he could express his joy, he saw a dark green light burst out from where Zi Yuan stepped. Zi Yuan let out a cry of pain and was knocked away by the light.

Seeing Zi Yuan get up with a look of pain on her face, the foot that was hit by the dark light turned into a purple mist that couldn't condense. Li Chuyi knew that she was injured, and it was probably serious. So much so that even the injured position cannot be condensed.

"How could this happen?" Li Chuyi looked at Zi Yuan and asked blankly.

The Taoist priest said in a low voice: "It should be the problem with this corpse dust. I just said that this corpse dust has been sacrificed and refined. It seems that the result of this sacrifice is not only that these corpse dust can be turned into stairs leading to the fifth floor, but also There are also some restrictions that I don’t know about.”

"That's right!" Zi Yuan came over and said, "I don't know what that green dark light is, but it directly hurt my soul body. If I hadn't been completely condensed, I would probably have just stepped on that That’s not all I suffered on the first floor.”

Turning to look at the dumbfounded Li Chuyi, Ziyuan added: "If they are like the five little ghosts who haven't even completed the process of condensation, I guess this first layer can completely break them up and even damage them. Wisdom.”

Li Chuyi scratched his head for a long time. He wanted to help Zi Yuan heal his injuries but didn't know what to do. He also wanted to help the Taoist priest come up with ideas but couldn't think of any other good way. After holding it in for a long time, he asked a little frustrated: "Master, we What should we do? If it doesn’t work, let’s leave first and come back when Zi Yuan’s cultivation is high.”

The Taoist priest had been thinking about something since just now. He came back to his senses after hearing what Li Chuyi said. He shook his head and said: "Don't worry, there is another way you can try. If it doesn't work, we will do as you said. We will come back when Zi Yuan's cultivation level is high."

"What can we do?" Li Chu looked at the Taoist priest, and he knew that the Taoist priest must have many backup plans.

The Taoist priest looked at him, then turned to look at Ziyuan, who was frowning and trying to re-consolidate the purple mist's feet. He pondered for a moment and whispered: "You can try to leave the body with the soul. Go to the fifth floor."

"The soul left the body?!" Li Chuyi's eyes widened.

The Taoist priest nodded and said: "That's right! Ziyuan has just proved my previous guess that these stairs are not for living creatures to walk, but for spirits like ghost cultivators to walk. The reason why she was beaten down was because of a It's because we don't have a way to break the restriction, so forcing a breakthrough will trigger a counterattack from the restriction. Another reason is that Zi Yuan's cultivation level is too low and she doesn't know how to use her own magic power. This is actually the same as the first reason. Yes, if you want to go upstairs, either you have a way to break the restriction, or you have to be strong enough to fight your way up."

Turning to look at the one person and one ghost who were listening carefully, the Taoist priest continued: "Although Ziyuan's cultivation is not strong enough to fight hard, his cultivation as a teacher is definitely enough. Moreover, the monk's soul is cultivated by his own soul. Come on, strictly speaking, they are a kind of ghost, they are just contaminated with anger. Then we might as well try to climb the stairs with our soul and see if we can get through and get through!"

At this point, the Taoist priest chuckled proudly and whispered: "Even if the soul can't break through, there is still a way for me as a teacher. Maybe I can get through it. In short, I have come this far, so I must try all the ways I can." Try it!”

Li Chuyi wanted to ask the Taoist what the last solution was, but when the Taoist simply mentioned it and kept silent, he gave up the idea of ​​asking. Based on his understanding of the Taoist priest, if the Taoist priest wanted to say something, he would definitely tell him. But if the Taoist priest didn't want to say it, then it would be in vain for him to ask.

Instructing Li Chuyi and Zi Yuan to move away a little, the Taoist priest sat cross-legged on the dusty ground and adjusted his breathing silently for a long time. His face trembled slightly and he saw a figure floating out from the Taoist priest's head, slowly It fell next to the Taoist priest.

Looking at the figure in front of him who was exactly the same as the Taoist priest in appearance and clothing, but with a slightly transparent figure, Li Chuyi knew that this was the Taoist priest's soul.

This was also the first time for Li Chuyi to see a person's soul leave the body. In the past, he had only heard Taoist priests mention it. He knew that powerful monks who cultivated their soul to a certain level could leave the body and hurt the enemy thousands of miles away. The detached soul can move within a certain range around the physical body. The time and range of detachment depend on the monk's level of cultivation.

At the same time, Li Chuyi also knew that the physical body of a monk whose soul had left his or her body was the most fragile and needed the most concealment and protection. After the soul leaves the body, the monk's physical body is in a state of suspended animation and will not have any sensory response except breathing. If the enemy discovers and destroys it at this time, the soul floating outside will have no physical body to return to. If you are lucky, you can be reborn or become a ghost cultivator; if you are unlucky, the soul will collapse when the time comes. Re-enter the reincarnation. The most tragic thing is to be captured by some monks who practice evil skills and use the soul to sacrifice their own magic weapons. Then they lose the right to reincarnation and can only suffer in the magic weapons forever. .

At this time, the Taoist priest left his body without saying a word. One was because of the limited conditions and there was no place to hide. The other was because of his trust in Li Chuyi, especially Zi Yuan, so that he could rest assured and for.

Li Chuyi looked at this "Second Taoist Priest" excitedly, looking at his slightly transparent body, and couldn't help but stretch out his fingers to see if there was any real feeling. Just when his fingers were about to poke him, two cold eyes fell on him. Looking at the Taoist priest's knife-like eyes, Li Chuyi smiled coquettishly, withdrew his hands and lowered his head and stood aside in silence.

Staring Li Chuyi back, the Taoist priest shook his head helplessly and was speechless towards such a disciple. Looking up at them, the Taoist priest said: "You two protect my body, I will go and check it out." After saying that, he turned around and turned into a white light, flying towards the corpse-ash staircase.

The moment the Taoist priest flew up the stairs, a green light burst out, which was several times stronger than when Zi Yuan had just climbed up the stairs. This green light shot towards the Taoist priest, and before he could get close, it was hit by a layer of people around the Taoist priest. The golden light mask blocked it.

The Taoist priest is not Zi Yuan, so how can a mere counterattack from a ban defeat him? The Taoist priest didn't even look at the green light, he flew up all the way, and was halfway gone in the blink of an eye. As the Taoist priest went higher and higher, the green light emitted from the stairs became stronger and denser. Countless green lights bombarded the light shield protecting the Taoist priest. Even though the light shield was extremely strong, it was compressed smaller and smaller by the endless attacks. By the time the Taoist priest had walked four-fifths of the entire staircase, the mask of light was already extremely thin and almost clinging tightly to the Taoist priest's body.

Although Li Chuyi broke into a cold sweat when he saw it, Zi Yuan secretly clenched her hands. Seeing that there was only a thin layer of the Taoist priest's protective mask left, Li Chuyi couldn't help shouting: "Master, if it doesn't work, just withdraw first. Leave the green hills behind. Don't worry about not having firewood. In the worst case, let's start all over again." Then again, he will be a good man after eighteen years, no, sixty years later!”

Upon hearing this, the Taoist Priest Bankong frowned and couldn't help but cursed: "What nonsense are you talking about, little bastard? Shut up and stay there and don't move!"

Looking at more and more green lights in a blink of an eye, the Taoist priest raised his eyebrows and said coldly: "Hmph! If the old weirdo Wuyang was alive, I would have to be more careful about him, but he is already a dead ghost, and what is left behind is How dare you block Pindao’s path even with the mere formation restrictions!”

"Open it!" The Taoist priest shouted angrily as he pinched a seal in his hand.

Following the Taoist priest's roar, bursts of black and gray billowing smoke were seen filling the air from all over the Taoist priest's body. The almost solidified death aura emitted by the thick smoke made Li Chuyi and others nearby... Zi Yuan even felt nauseous, bored, and extremely sad.

This thick smoke that was even more evil than the evil skills made Li Chuyi stunned on the spot. Before he could figure out how the Taoist priest who had always been decent could do such evil skills, he saw the figure of the Taoist priest transformed from the Yuan Shen in the sky. Trembling all over.

La la la~~

There was a sound like ice breaking, and a crack suddenly appeared on the Taoist Priest's body, and nothing could be seen in the crack.

Lal~~lalala~~~

The crackling sound did not stop. As the sounds became louder and louder, more and more black cracks appeared on the Taoist priest's body, and his body shook more and more violently.

With the last loud "click" sound, the Taoist priest's body stopped shaking, but except for a little bit of his left thigh, the entire left half of his body and the small half of his left face disappeared, and the right side of his body was also full of blood. black cracks. As for the fracture on the left where the body disappeared, there was no flesh and blood, but like those cracks, there was only a dark hollow, which made people shudder.

"Teacher, master?" Li Chuyi called out blankly.

The Taoist priest did not respond. He looked at his missing body, frowned slightly, and waved with his remaining right hand at the black smoke swirling around him. He saw that the black smoke exuding the indestructible aura of death suddenly billowed, covering the Taoist priest layer by layer. Wrap it up.

When the last trace of the Taoist priest disappeared into the black smoke, the endless green light on the stairs stopped immediately and disappeared in the blink of an eye, as if it had never appeared. The Taoist priest was covered in black smoke and flew towards the end of the stairs. At the junction of the stairs and the roof, there was only a flash of light, and the Taoist priest disappeared amid the black smoke.

Li Chuyi slowly turned his stiffened neck and looked at Zi Yuan, who also turned to look at him.

After half a minute of silence, Li Chuyi asked hoarsely: "How could this happen?"

Zi Yuan looked at Li Chuyi with a confused face and didn't know how to answer him. After being silent for a long time, Zi Yuan opened her mouth and said: "I don't know why this is happening. I only know that the black smoke emanating from your master's body should be extremely rich death energy, even worse than the mirror I was hiding in before. The death energy inside is even stronger. Even I don’t dare to touch it easily, I feel it can assimilate me.”

Li Chuyi was silent. Of course he felt the power of that deathly aura. But he couldn't understand how such a Taoist priest who liked drinking, visiting brothels, food, and all the fireworks in the world could practice such evil techniques? Are Taoist priests also evil monks?

After thinking about it, Li Chuyi suddenly had an idea and thought of a special kind of monk that the Taoist priest had mentioned before - the living dead! Living people refine the souls of dead people in an attempt to break through life and death and become enlightened. Could it be that Taoist priests also practice this heaven-defying technique?

The more Li Chuyi thought about it, the more likely it seemed. First of all, Taoist priests treat all monks equally, and there is no distinction between good and evil in their hearts, only those who are used to it and those who are not. Secondly, Taoist priests have great magical power and are not even afraid of disasters. They even roared to death. It must be because of their cultivation of life and death. The Tao of Heavenly Thunder strikes more and gives experience; finally, and most importantly, Taoist priests like the evening the most, and Taoist priests also like visiting brothels the most, because the Yin Qi is strong at night, and the Qi in brothels is extremely heavy. There is even some resentment in it. Isn’t this what zombies like? Although zombies are different from the living dead, they should not be much different. I wonder if a Taoist priest will become like a zombie when he reaches the end of his cultivation and needs to suck blood and drain himself dry.

The more Li Chuyi thought about it, the more he realized that his guess was correct. As he thought about it, his face suddenly became bright and dark, happy and sad. Zi Yuan frowned at him, thinking that he was overstimulated and going crazy.

Snapped!

There was a crisp sound, and Li Chuyi covered his face, looked at Zi Yuan angrily and said angrily: "What are you doing?"

"I'm saving you." Zi Yuan said lightly.

"Save me? Save me! You slapped me and told me you were saving me? Do you think I'm stupid? I want to save you ten or eight times, okay?" Li Chuyi almost burst into tears. Wow, it’s so bullying!

"You looked wrong just now, as if you were out of your mind and crazy. I slapped you to wake you up in case you really went crazy." Zi Yuan still had the same calm tone.

Li Chuyi, who was opposite him, had already rolled his eyes. Damn it, it was rare for me to think seriously once, but I was treated as crazy and slapped in the face. How can I explain this? Is this girl a liar?

Turning his head and looking at Zi Yuan's expression carefully, Li Chuyi found that she was serious. Li Chuyi sighed sadly, knowing that there was no way to get back from this.

Hey, this slap was in vain!

Zi Yuan looked at Li Chuyi who was covering his face with a resentful look on his face, thought for a moment, frowned, and asked: "Weren't you crazy just now?"

Li Chuyi looked at her with tears in his eyes. Is this girl really stupid or fake? !

Seeing that Li Chuyi didn't speak, but just looked at her with tears in his eyes, Zi Yuan knew that she had really misunderstood, and a trace of embarrassment appeared on her pale face.

I want to apologize, but I have never been too humble to others. After thinking for a long time, Zi Yuan stretched her little face forward and reached it in front of Li Chuyi.

"What do you mean?" Li Chuyi made her a little confused.

"Let you call back." Zi Yuan said lightly, staring directly at Li Chuyi.

Li Chu burst into tears immediately. Is this girl really stupid or fake? ! Is this the rhythm of killing yourself? ! Just don't apologize if you make a mistake. She meant well anyway, so everyone just pretends it never happened and gets over it. This is good, I even stretched out my face to fight back, let me go, let alone such a beautiful female ghost, even an ugly female ghost, I can't do this!

Um? No, I may not be able to kill an ugly female ghost. Li Chuyi secretly muttered in his heart.

After waiting for a long time, Zi Yuan saw Li Chuyi looking at her stupidly and not making a move. She frowned and asked, "Do you want to fight? This position is very tiring."

Do you think you are too tired to be the boss? Which teacher taught this the truth?

Li Chuyi had tears in his eyes and said tremblingly: "Sister, I was wrong, please stop playing with me. You hit me for my own good. Even if you hit me by mistake, how can I come back!"

Wiping his tears, Li Chuyi continued: "I wasn't crazy just now, I was wondering why my master was covered in black smoke like a big chimney!"

Zi Yuan retracted her figure and asked: "Why?"

Li Chuyi quickly told her his guess and looked at her with shining eyes after he finished speaking.

After hearing this, Zi Yuan did not speak immediately, but pondered silently for a while before speaking: "I think most of your points are correct. However, there is one problem that cannot be explained."

"What's the problem?" Li Chuyi was stunned.

"After the black smoke appeared, why was your master's soul incomplete?"

Zi Yuan looked at Li Chuyi and asked: "Although I am not very proficient in spiritual practice, I understand the truth that both our ghosts and the monks' souls should be intact. If there are any defects, then It's not complete, which means he was injured. Your master's soul was intact at first, but after the death energy appeared, his body was covered with scars, and even his body was only half intact. I feel that the black energy is not your master. What he cultivated seems to have damaged his soul."

When Li Chu heard this, he fell silent immediately. If you think about it carefully, what Zi Yuan said makes sense. According to my understanding of Taoist priests, Taoist priests who love beauty and care about appearance should not practice such evil skills that damage their soul to the point of being ugly and terrifying. But if this death energy is not cultivated by Taoist priests, then what is it that can hurt the Taoist priest who is like a god in his heart to this extent?

Perplexed, Li Chuyi became more and more annoyed the more he thought about it. At the end of the thought, I yelled "I don't want to anymore". Since you can't figure it out, just wait until the Taoist priest comes back and ask him. Why bother yourself. If the Taoist priest didn't tell me, it didn't matter. Anyway, I knew that he was the Taoist priest who saved me since I was a child, raised me little by little, and taught me how to practice. Everything else didn't matter.

After thinking about it, Li Chuyi closed his eyes and meditated next to the Taoist priest, waiting for the Taoist priest's return.