Chapter 6 Chapter 6: The Dragon Mark Box

The whole body of the big snake was red, and it glowed in the night. It looked like a red-hot thin iron pillar in the dense bushes.It held its head high and greedily inhaled the fragrant smoke. Everyone had heard about Zhang Erzhu's poisoning experience and knew how powerful this strange snake was. When they saw it with their own eyes, they were even more frightened out of their wits. He stepped back a lot, and the hand holding the guy couldn't stop shaking. Little did they know that Niu Laodao was also playing a dirty trick just now. The so-called Jiuhua Yulu Pill he gave to everyone was just worried that these people would drink too much and make a mistake, so he gave everyone a hangover medicine made from cauliflower.The old man knew that this thing was not invulnerable to all poisons, but at best it was just a spiritual comfort. He didn't dare to neglect, picked up the pipe, and hurriedly told everyone to back away from the strange snake, and handed Wu Qi a piece of it. A strange black stone the size of a palm.

"With this thing protecting you, this Chiguihuo Lian will not dare to hurt you easily, and take care of yourself!" The old man Niu said while he and Ghost Wu formed a formation, and it seemed that there was going to be a fierce battle. That Ghost Wu tore off his shirt, exposing his red upper body. His body was thin, his muscles were tight, and a sleeved arrow box was tied to his left arm.Under the light of the fire, one can clearly see a strange pattern tattooed on the back. The pattern goes down the spine of the back. It probably was tattooed when he was young. As the body grows, the pattern appears a little deformed. It looks like It's like an ancient temple, and it's like a towering tomb, which feels weird.

Wu Qi, Niu Laodao, and Ghost Wu stood in a zigzag shape, surrounded by the strange snake. The strange snake raised its triangular head and stared at them vigilantly, as if looking for a breakthrough.This Niu Laodao's Taoism is unfathomable, and that Ghost Wu doesn't look like a kind person. The softest persimmon is Wu Qi, but the strange snake dare not attack easily. Wu Qi knows that it must be the black snake. The role of strange rocks. The flame in the copper incense burner was gradually extinguished, and the fragrance also faded. The strange snake couldn't hold back anymore, and looked at the people provocatively.Niu Laodao stared at the strange snake, and warned Wu Qi who was beside him: "Be careful of its dark yin energy, this thing will hurt people with that!"

As soon as the words were finished, the strange snake suddenly stretched its head following the sound, opened its mouth wide and spewed out a puff of black smoke at Niu Laodao. The situation was exactly the same as what Zhang Erzhu described.Ghost Wu moved very fast, blocking the poisonous smoke like a gust of wind, and the strange snake also moved very fast, taking advantage of the moment when the poisonous fog harassed it, it jumped up and saw a line of fire heading towards Ghost Wu. , fell firmly on him and wound up. The figure of Ghost Wu suddenly became thinner, and the strange snake wrapped around his body more than a dozen times, and tightened up. Suddenly, there was a "creaking" sound, and it was unclear whether it was the snake bone or Ghost Wu. extruded from the bone.

Everyone was stunned, and Wu Qi was also shocked. Immediately, he picked up the guy and was about to go up to help, but Niu Laodao stepped forward and grabbed him, "Don't move, it's not the time yet! We have to watch this kid now!" Wu Qi saw that Ghost Wu's body was as soft as noodles, and the big snake wrapped it around his body so hard that his whole body was almost deformed. This is the most common method used by snakes to catch prey. The prey's breathing tightens further until the prey stops breathing.Wu Qi was sweating for him. If it was an ordinary person, he would have broken his muscles and bones and died.

The strange snake seemed to be determined to win, and coiled a few more times, its head stood up high, then opened its bloody mouth, and swallowed Ghost Wu's head.And Ghost Wu seemed to be unconscious, straight up unconscious, allowing the strange snake to slowly devour his head, seeing that this man was about to become the snake's supper. Everyone's scalp was numb, and they didn't dare to look any more. Wu Qi cast his eyes on Niu Laodao in astonishment, but found that he was full of ambition and didn't look worried at all, as if he had already won the victory. Before Wu Qi was amazed, the strange snake had already swallowed Ghost Wu's neck, and his whole head had entered the snake's mouth, and anyone would have been suffocated to death.At this moment, Ghost Wu straightened up suddenly, and his originally shrunken and softened figure suddenly swelled up.The body of the big snake was also tensed. He quickly reached out and grabbed the upper jaw of the strange snake, and tore it upwards violently. The hand holding the black-handled dagger swung sideways.There was a flash of cold light, the big basilisk screamed, and the upper jaw was separated from the body immediately. This move was clean and neat, without any muddy water, and everyone couldn't help screaming after seeing it.

The strange snake didn't react at all to this sudden blow, and when it realized that half of its head was gone, it let out a scream, and spit out the half-swallowed Ghost Wu in one gulp.Ghost Wu tumbling on the spot and dexterously moved away from the strange snake. The strange snake lost its upper jaw. If it wanted to bite, it would fail, but if it wanted to entangle it, it couldn't find its target. Thinking about how it had suffered such a loss when it was running rampant in this mountain for a long time. Angry and anxious, he kept slapping the ground and breathing black air indiscriminately around.After a lot of tossing, the original light on his body gradually faded away.

Niu Laodao yelled badly, and quickly winked at Ghost Wu, Ghost Wu quickly understood, and hurried forward to grab the snake.The strange snake was filled with grief and indignation, and when it saw someone approaching it, it desperately entangled it, but it was a pity that it bumped into the wrong person.Ghost Wu grabbed its neck fiercely with one hand, quickly measured with the other hand, settled on a position, raised the knife with his hand, and pulled out a peach-red stone ball the size of a walnut.Then he measured the distance, cut open the snake's belly, took out the snake's gall with bloody hands, stuffed it into his mouth and swallowed it.

Wu Qi had never seen such a fierce person before, and he was stunned. Ghost Wu seemed to have no fear of the poison of the strange snake.The strange snake gradually slowed down after he tossed and tossed, and soon lost its breath.Everyone saw that the strange snake had died, so they bravely stepped forward, Niu Laodao ordered everyone to burn the big snake and the coffin together, and after a while, the flames shot up to the sky, finally driving away some chill in the dark night. After returning to the village, Niu Laodao ordered Wu Qi to use the black strange stone to grind the stone balls taken from the giant snake's belly into powder, heat them and make soup for Zhang Erzhu to drink.Wu Qi didn't understand the reason, but Niu Laodao told him: The black strange stone is called the soul-fixing stone, which is a treasure formed underground for tens of thousands of years.The peach-colored stone ball in the belly of the giant snake is called the Spirit Snake Orb. It is refined from the pure yang fire in the snake's body and can expel the poison of Yin and Cold in its own body. Therefore, using the Spirit Snake Orb as medicine can completely eradicate the poison in Zhang Erzhu's body, but It is only effective if you have to get the pearl from a live snake.And that kind of pebble like a pigeon egg is a special medicine, called Chenxiang pill, which can keep the corpse from decaying when placed in the coffin. The Chi Guihuo Lian has an extremely keen sense of smell, coveting the fragrance of the pill, so he was attracted to it.

It was only later that Wu Qi realized that the so-called spirit snake beads were just a kind of concretion in the body of the snake. Maybe the snake had a habit of eating different foods and formed concretions over time. Such concretions are generally porous and have strong adsorption capacity. A rare mineral, so it has a strong detoxification ability. After Zhang Erzhu took the soup made from the spirit snake pearl powder, a layer of dark scales grew on his body that night, and it was covered with green hairs. In the middle of the night, the scales began to fall off gradually. In the morning of the next day, the scales were already on the bed It has accumulated a thick layer, and it is indescribably disgusting.However, the effect of the medicine was indeed unique. After drinking a few doses of the decoction, Zhang Erzhu never suffered from madness again, and he should be cured.

This action made Wu Qi very envious of Ghost Wu, and his attitude towards Niu Lao Dao has also changed a lot. Accept, after all, Wu Qizhi is learning from a teacher to increase his cultivation. Later, Wu Qi learned through understanding that this Niu Laodao, formerly known as Niu Ziyang, was actually over a hundred years old. When he was young, he participated in student movements and served as a soldier. Famous teachers practice.Niu Lao Dao is good at wind and water, numerology, medicine, Maoshan and many other strange arts and thaumaturgy.Later, in the campaign to wipe out all ghosts and monsters, he was punished miserably, and he was criticized every day, which almost ruined his old life.Since then, he has lived in seclusion in the mountains of Xiejiaji. The mountains in this area are full of poisonous insects and snakes. In recent years, there are many people in the surrounding areas who have been cured by experienced doctors and saved their lives. This has given him great prestige in the local area. Probably because of the bullish temper of a bully, this old man is very perverse. He obviously uses advanced medical skills to save people, but he never admits it. Instead, he instills in people that he uses the method of exorcising ghosts and sending gods away. In Wu Qi's opinion , This is because I have been mentally uncomfortable after fighting all these years, and I deliberately tossed and tossed to find a psychological balance for myself. Wu Qi worshiped such a master, and his life would not be much easier. The habit of smelling and distinguishing various herbs every day made his nose almost abolished, and it was as swollen as a cow's nose.Then there are the tattered books of the old Tao, piled up in a thick pile, such as "Jie Zi Fang", "Golden Medicine Essentials", "Tsing Yi Jing"... The old Tao regards it as a treasure, but insists on Wu Qi's Stuffed in the head.It is also necessary to master it well, otherwise Niu Lao Taoist can't serve him, and Wu Qi can't bear the taste. After more than half a year, Wu Qi was almost tossed and changed his world view. I don't know if Ghost Wu's red-faced boy was tortured like this forcibly. I am really worried that if this continues, I will be as virtuous as him. But such days are finally coming to an end. Niu Laodao’s perverseness is also manifested in another aspect. He never accepts apprentices easily. Even if he accepts, he only studies together for two years. He waved his sleeves as usual.One day, Niu Laodao called the two of them to his side, said a few words such as "the master leads the door, and the cultivation is up to the individual", and then took out a white stone box and handed it to the two for safekeeping. Wu Qi knew that It's time to part. When Wu Qi heard this, the first thing he felt was not a sense of relief, but more confusion.Looking at the white box again, I was even more astonished: Isn't this something that I took out from the jade pillow in the headless coffin of the Ming Dynasty when I went out of the mountain last time, and it was still placed with ugly stones like pigeon eggs? together.The box is carved from white marble, embroidered with exquisite patterns of double dragons playing with beads, and a precious city lock locks the jade box firmly.It may have been a long time ago, but the overall stone box is off-white, and the two coiled dragons soar in the auspicious clouds, which are lifelike, and the longan's eyes are expressed with blood-colored jade, which adds a bit of weirdness to it. It can be said with certainty that in ancient my country, expensive objects decorated with dragon patterns were most likely owned by the royal family.Wu Qi and Niu Laodao got along for more than half a year, but he didn't expect the old fox to hide this treasure. It seems that his two years of suffering were not in vain, at least he got a treasure. But this is not important anymore. In all fairness, this Niu Laodao is very good except for being too strict with himself in terms of academics and teaching. Wu Qi feels very uncomfortable when he suddenly has to part ways with the two for no reason. . The ghost Wu seemed to understand the old Taoist's state of mind, and had been standing blankly waiting for everything to happen, as if this was what he expected.And Wu Qi couldn't help showing his usual attitude of studying, asking the bottom line. "The deadline is up, and I can't violate the way of reincarnation. For you, the secret in this dragon-marked secret box is none of your business. You should keep it safe. Before the fate comes, don't open it to spy on it! Remember it, remember it! "Niu Laodao showed a rare loving expression, stroking Wu Qi's head and speaking, and formally awarded him the dragon pattern secret box.