fairy family

Chapter 40: The Black-Faced Youth and the Test of Master Huang
Yu Que stood in the fire room for a long time, pondering, and finally gave up the idea of ​​performing the "Seven Corpses' Last Light Ceremony" again.

Although this lantern ceremony is good, the process of setting it up is too horrifying, painful and terrifying.

Even though Yu Que had been prepared, he felt quite depressed while performing the ritual and did not want to perform it a second time for the time being.

Moreover, although this item is good for rituals that nourish the spirit, it also consumes a lot of the energy of the caster.

Yu Que had just finished performing a display. Although he was in high spirits due to the breakthrough, he was actually just "falsely strong". He would have to spend a considerable amount of time recuperating afterwards.

Otherwise, excessive joy may lead to sorrow, which may result in physical harm, obsession, and hidden dangers.

So he suppressed the greed in his heart and secretly warned himself: "You can't chew too much."

At the same time, Yu Que looked around the fire room again and said to himself:

"Even if I perform this lantern ritual next time, I won't have to do it so extravagantly. This time, I just had to do it out of urgency in order to enter the Dao."

In the "Ceremony of the Seven Corpses' Returning Lights", there is actually not only the "hanging tongue from the beam" method, there are other feasible methods that do not require such painful suffering. Among them, there is even a method that can invite a living dead person to come and let the other person suffer in your place.

It's just that Yu Que wanted to use this method to enter the Tao this time, so what he chose was naturally the most rigorous step in the Lantern Ceremony.

In this way, he can reduce the side effects of cultivating into a Yin God with the help of the lamp ritual to the minimum, or even to the point of almost disappearing.

Now it seems that although he suffered a lot, the effect is indeed good.

Whether it was his body or his soul, after the ritual, neither showed any signs of going astray, so there were no major problems, and he only needed to spend some more time polishing them and there would be no worries.

Now that Yu Que's Yin Spirit has been accomplished and he has spiritual consciousness to assist him, he can make adjustments when he uses this lamp ritual to practice in the future. He does not need to be overly afraid of its side effects, nor does he need to suffer too much pain.

After thinking it over, although Yu Que gave up the idea of ​​pushing the family god's maturity to perfection in one breath, his eyes were still full of expectations and he felt that the future was promising.

"The better days are yet to come."

He whispered, packed up the things in the fire room, opened the stone door, and strolled out.

When he saw the light of day again, Yu Que felt the sunlight outside was dazzling for a moment.

But he did not stop, and walked out quickly, intending to thank the doorman, Mr. Qing, and once again "show off" the results of his retreat, and then get some advice from the other party.

What made him feel pity was that only Uncle Qing's recliner was still there at the door of the fire room, but the other person's figure had disappeared and no one knew where he had gone.

There was still someone at the gate. Instead, there was a young man with a gloomy face and a face as black as charcoal. He was standing at the gate with his sleeves gathered up and his eyes narrowed, as if he had temporarily replaced Uncle Qing's duties as the gatekeeper.

Yu Que didn't need to say hello. As soon as he appeared, the black-faced young man suddenly opened his eyes, with lightning in his eyes, and looked at Yu Que fiercely.

When he saw that it was a living person who walked out of the fire room, not a fleeing ghost, he was surprised, and then his expression eased a lot. After looking at Yu Que for a few times, he narrowed his eyes again and said lightly:
"Now that you have passed customs, you can file it yourself. Those who need to pay should pay, and those who need to put it on record should put it on record."

After hearing what the other party said, Yu Que hesitated a little. He suppressed the excitement in his heart and coughed lightly.

He entered the fire room seven days ago thanks to a favor from Grandpa Qing and did not pay for the rental, so he did not even have a number plate in his hand. This time when he came out, naturally he had no number plate to file and pay for.

Yu Que took a few steps forward and saluted the dark-faced young man: "Master, I am here to visit Master Qing."

He was a little embarrassed, spread his hands, and smiled at the other person: "I didn't know that I needed a license plate."

The black-faced young man raised his eyebrows, opened his eyes again and looked at Yu Que, narrowed his eyes and said:
"Master Qing's nephew?"

When Yu Que heard this, he hesitated and didn't know how to answer.

In the end, the other party didn't wait for his answer, but closed his eyes again, put his hands in his sleeves, arched towards the door, and whispered: "Then move quickly and get out quickly, don't let others see you."

"Yes." Yu Que hurried down the slope. He thanked the young man, lowered his head, and walked quickly towards the outside of the crematorium.

When he was about to step out of the crematorium, he suddenly heard the black-faced young man's voice again. Although it was more than ten feet away, it was still clearly audible:
"That's right. Your Yin Spirit has just been formed, so be careful not to be arrogant or impatient these few days. Don't eat incense first. It's best to fast for a few days and sleep like an ordinary person. Wait until the anger in your heart has completely dissipated before you can meditate. If Master Qing has already told you the rest, you can ignore this."

Yu Que paused for a moment. He stood at the door of the crematorium and turned to look at the black-faced young man. He found that the man was still holding his sleeves and closing his eyes, with an expression that said "no strangers allowed", as if the words just now were not said by him.

Yu Que looked surprised, bowed deeply to the man, and then left completely.

After leaving the crematorium, he continued to stroll around the county school until it was late, then he reluctantly left this precious place of the county school and returned home by car and then on foot.

After arriving home.

After not seeing him for seven days, his uncle and others took good care of him, asking him all kinds of questions. Only after they saw for sure that he was intact and without any missing anything did they feel relieved.

Yu Que secretly breathed a sigh of relief in this harmonious family atmosphere. He suddenly felt that a lot of the depression and frustration he had accumulated during his seven days of seclusion were relieved, and his mind became clear.

That night.

He originally wanted to strike while the iron was hot, summon out the Yin God he had cultivated, consolidate it, and feel the wonderful feeling of being in the Yin God state again.

But he remembered the warning given by the dark-faced young man in the county school. After hesitating for a long time, he chose to suppress his restless mind.

"It's only a few days' delay anyway, it's not a big deal, just treat it as a reward for yourself and take a few days off."

Yu Que thought secretly in his heart, and simply stopped doing his previous immortal studies. He kicked his legs, closed his eyes and fell asleep.

The next few days.

He ate and slept at home, occasionally picked up and dropped off his two cousins, and even went to the talisman painting studio where his cousin Fu Yun worked and sat in on one or two classes to see if he himself had a talent for talisman painting.

The results of the audit disappointed him greatly.

Standing outside the talisman painting room, the ghostly talismans in the room looked like twisted and irregular snakes and insects in his eyes.

Just a few more glances made him a little confused, proving that he was not even average in the art of talismans and had no talent at all.

In this way, he was sometimes idle and sometimes busy, and his life was quite fulfilling.

After seven days, with the help of medication, the wound on the tip of his tongue had completely healed, without even a scar.

He also returned to his former self, and even more sunny and cheerful than before, as if glass had been washed clean, dust-free, clear and clean, and no longer had a ghostly and cold look on his face. At this time, when Yu Que picked up the Huangshan Baosong Visualization Method to practice again, it was different from usual.

He just closed his eyes, and in less than thirty breaths, his mind and body were already in a state of tranquility, and that state seemed to last for a long time.

In a state of tranquility, with green smoke lingering in the room, his Yin Spirit suddenly jumped out of his body and appeared outside.

Under Yu Que's Yin Shen, the cat-faced family god also jumped out. The other party was hunched over and was being ridden astride by him, extremely obedient.

Yu Que had a hint of yellow light on his body and was riding on a cat-faced household god, circling around his physical body in the room.

This was his second time leaving his body, but he still felt the experience was extremely novel.

If the guardian incense was not only lingering in his room, he would have wanted to leave his body and walk into the rooms of his uncle and others to see what it would be like if he met other living people in the Yin Shen state, and whether it would be really dangerous.

After having a good time, Yu Que did not play too much, but his yin spirit returned to its place in time and put himself into a state of visualization.

A huge precious pine tree, shaped like a mountain, appeared before his eyes again.

As Yu Que was contemplating this thing, he suddenly felt a sense of admiration in his heart and was immersed in it.

During this process, his Yin Spirit emitted a bright yellow light, which slowly flowed inside and outside of his Yin Spirit, polishing his Yin Spirit's body, and absorbing a little bit of spiritual light from the cat-faced family god.

During this process, the cat-faced household god remained obedient. Even when its spiritual power was being drained, it did not dare to act rashly in front of the huge precious pine tree and remained very peaceful.

Day two.

When Yu Que woke up, he opened his eyes and felt refreshed and hungry.

He looked up at the light outside the window and found that he had been practicing for most of the night and endured until dawn, only to be awakened by the morning light.

This is a world of difference compared to when he could only meditate in silence for half a minute or a quarter of an hour before.

As for the results, Yu Que didn't need to check them carefully, and an excited smile appeared on his face.

At this moment, apart from being hungry and feeling as if he could eat a whole cow, he did not feel anything wrong with his body and was in great shape!

So he no longer had dinner with his family as usual, but took out his alchemist robe, put on his belt, shoes, socks and other items one by one, and then headed towards the Alchemist Guild with great interest.

He had been following the advice of the black-faced young man these past few days and had already calmed down his anger. Now that time had stretched to seven or eight days, it was time to go find Huang Guishan to report the good news and ask the Alchemist Guild for the "Spelling Position".

Yu Que was full of expectations in his heart: "I have cultivated my spiritual consciousness not long after joining the guild. I am still young. I wonder what kind of position the guild will give me. The grade should not be too bad..."

With great anticipation, he walked into a tavern on the road and had a feast. Although he failed to finish a whole cow, he ate a whole suckling pig and drank several large cups of herbal tea to relieve the greasiness.

The reason why Yu Que was so hungry was because he stole the spiritual power of the family god during his meditation, and the family god devoured more of his essence, which forced him to restore his essence through eating.

This also made him want to open a ancestral temple as soon as possible and use incense to support the family gods more strongly while he was having breakfast.

Not long after, Yu Que walked into the Alchemist Guild and successfully found Lao Huang in a corner.

Huang Guishan was dozing off early in the morning, but he was not asleep. When Yu Que walked up to him, he automatically sensed someone coming and opened his eyes drowsily.

Yu Que stepped forward and bowed to the other party with a smile: "Greetings, Master Huang."

As a result, he didn't need to say anything. Huang Guishan just glanced at him, and his still confused eyes suddenly widened.

The man straightened up and looked at Yu Que's whole body with surprise and suspicion.

In an instant, a spiritual consciousness spread out from the other party and landed on Yu Que's side.

The feeling of being watched immediately made Yu Que feel uncomfortable. Fortunately, Huang Guishan's spiritual consciousness did not try to invade Yu Que's body. Yu Que suppressed his disgust and let the other party look at him.

Huang Guishan pondered for a while, and after confirming that he was not mistaken, his eyes lit up, and he subconsciously looked around twice, then grabbed Yu Que's sleeve and asked Yu Que to follow him:

"Come on! Follow me."

Yu Que was slightly surprised, but he did not resist. He took small steps and followed the other party into the interior of the guild.

The two of them walked into a quiet room. After Huang Guishan sealed the doors and windows, he looked at Yu Que again with a sharp gaze.

This person's eyes were too hot, and he suddenly clapped his hands: "Great, great!"

This action made Yu Que even more confused. He muttered to himself that it was he who had made the breakthrough, not the other person, so why did this person seem happier than him.

"I didn't expect that you could become a Yin God in just half a month. If my estimate is correct, you only had to perform the Seven Corpses' Returning Light Ceremony once and you succeeded!?"

The other party stared at Yu Que with expectation in his eyes.

Yu Que did not hide anything and nodded slowly.

His heart was beating fast at this moment, and he felt quite uneasy, worrying whether there were problems in the lantern ceremony that he was not aware of.

Huang Guishan was overjoyed when he got the answer. He patted Yu Que's shoulder and said:

"Good boy. If you want to use the Seven Corpses Returning Light Ceremony to enter Taoism in one go, you will either have to tie your neck with steel wire, or pierce your tongue or collarbone with iron wire, or even endure the pain of being skinned, and then endure at least seven days and seven nights of suffering before you can succeed."

What this person said was exactly what was written in the ritual booklet. Yu Que nodded slightly.

Huang Guishan said again, "We haven't seen anyone who can endure such torture in our guild for at least thirty years. In the past thirty years, many people have been interested in this lantern ceremony, but not many dare to choose it. Even if someone chooses it, they will give up before the seventh day, which is a waste of time."

This person exclaimed: "I originally estimated that there was a 60% chance that you would back out at the last minute and ask me to change the rituals to practice. There was a 30% chance that you would give up halfway and ask me to help you recover... I was just waiting for you to come to me again.

Tsk tsk, I didn't expect you to make it through in one breath!"

When Yu Que heard this, he was stunned for a moment.

He really didn't expect that this man with thick eyebrows and big eyes, who didn't speak clearly, was actually waiting for him here.

(End of this chapter)