fairy family

Chapter 88: Leaving Seclusion and the Ordination Ceremony

Yu Que hid in a secret room underground and carefully cultivated the Ganoderma lucidum.

This training took more than half a month.

During this period of time, the Ganoderma lucidum he raised became shiny black, but its size had shrunk a lot, now only the size of a baby's head.

It’s not that Yu Que failed to raise the Ganoderma lucidum, but that most of the body and roots of the Ganoderma lucidum have taken root in his body.

Now the remaining and missing internal organs, bones, etc. all have traces of this thing.

His body had been completely parasitized and corroded by this thing.

But the strange thing is that during the process of parasitism, Yu Que not only did not feel any pain, but instead had a strange sense of fulfillment every day.

He was in high spirits, and could eat and sleep well. He even liked the dim environment in the underground secret room more and more.

It was as if he was meant to live in such a dark and damp place.

However, with Huang Guishan's teachings, Yu Que understood that all this was just a "trick" of the Ganoderma lucidum when it was parasitic on him as the host.

And if Yu Quexiu did not have the spiritual awareness that allowed him to observe his internal organs at any time, he would not dare to plant this thing directly on his body.

Otherwise, if the Ganoderma lucidum grows abnormally and damages any organ in his body, he will be asking for trouble and death.

With his spiritual awareness, Yu Que will not be deceived by this thing. Once this thing wants to penetrate into his internal organs, Yu Que will pinch out its roots and let it only grow among his flesh, blood and bones.

One day, the sarcophagus underground made a hissing sound.

Yu Que climbed out of the sarcophagus on time, came to a bronze mirror, and looked at the Ganoderma lucidum that was parasitic on his chest.

The condition of this thing is still very good, and it has completely grown from an umbrella cap to a ghost face, but the expression is wooden.

This indicates that the old ghost of the Fu family has become completely indistinguishable from the Ganoderma lucidum, and has lost its intelligence, becoming a ghost-like minion of the Ganoderma lucidum.

Even if this old ghost is released from the Ganoderma lucidum now, it will be in a daze and will not remember Yu Que, its enemy.

But at the same time, the ghost face formed by the Ganoderma lucidum had a strange aura, which was nearly ten times more solemn than before Yu Que entered the underground secret room!
It was precisely because of Yu Que's tireless care day and night that the old ghost's quality increased dramatically and became infinitely close to a sixth-grade evil god.

Even according to Yu Que's estimation, the old ghost's current ghost aura is much stronger than that of the sixth-grade evil spirit in the book.

It's just that it currently lacks a breath of evil spirit, so it has been unable to break through and become a sixth-grade evil god.

This situation made Yu Que feel both regretful and relieved.

What he regretted was, of course, that this thing could not become a sixth-grade ghost or god, which might have an impact on the final quality of Tai Sui.

He also realized that the use of the black gourd also had certain limitations.

That is, he wants to use the cheapest wronged souls to cultivate ghosts that are a thousand years old or even ten thousand years old. This is feasible.

However, if one wants to make such an old ghost cross the threshold between the sixth and seventh grades, or even between higher grades of ghosts and gods, it is not enough to rely solely on the strange water in the black gourd.

It must also be combined with various medicines such as the evil spirits and the strong spirits between heaven and earth. Otherwise, no matter how profound the ghost's Taoism is, it will be difficult to cause qualitative changes through quantitative changes.

However, in the process of cultivating the old ghost of the Fu family, Yu Que also discovered that as the ghost grew older, it would become easier for it to transform into a sixth-grade ghost.

Now, we just need to let this ghost go out and kill some lives. By absorbing some murderous aura, this ghost will immediately transform into a sixth-grade ghost god.

But Yu Que will not give Lao Gui this opportunity.

When he discovered the threshold between the "sixth rank" and "sixth rank" ghosts and gods, he also deeply realized that the ghosts and gods after this watershed were by no means something that an ordinary fairy boy like him could suppress and subdue.

Unless he really became a disciple of the King of Hell and possessed various formations and magical weapons of the third grade of the immortal family!
Also, the old ghost of the Fu family has been unable to break through at the moment, but the ghost aura on his body is even stronger than the sixth-grade ghost in the book, and he is like an old ghost who has been practicing for thousands of years.

For Yu Que, this situation does not require him to worry about the backlash, and it can also allow the Ganoderma lucidum to receive maximum nourishment.

in the secret room.

After Yu Que carefully examined the ghost-faced Ganoderma lucidum, he felt satisfied and planned to retreat back into the sarcophagus and take a nap with the Ganoderma lucidum.

But at this moment, he glanced and suddenly found that in the chimney used to communicate with the outside world, in addition to several bottles of tonics and several jars of wronged souls, there was also a piece of letter paper.

Yu Que walked over, unfolded the letter, and immediately a look of disappointment appeared on his face:

"The county school is finally opening."

The content of the letter was that his uncle was urging him to leave the country, saying that the county had sent someone to notify him that school would start in three days.

Once the time comes, if you fail to report on that day without any special reason, you will be regarded as giving up your admission qualification.

Yu Que read the letter again and again, and looked around the dim underground secret room. Although he felt a little sad, he was reluctant to leave this place, but he still took the whale oil candle that had been burning for more than half a month.

He threw the letter into the slide, and the bamboo basket caught fire with a puff, releasing a puff of smoke, indicating that he was about to leave.

Then Yu Que returned to the sarcophagus, stepped into it, and slowly closed the lid.

This action of his was not to continue taking a nap, but after he came out of retreat, school would start, and after school started, the temple would be opened. Naturally, he could not continue to let the old ghost of the Fu family live in the Ganoderma lucidum.

This is to avoid the old ghost being discovered by others after he comes out of seclusion, and having the beast and the Ganoderma lucidum taken away by force.

bang bang!

Not long after the sarcophagus in the secret room was closed, black smoke began to billow from inside and a faint light emerged, as if a ferocious beast was charging inside and trying to jump out.

There were also densely packed black silk threads that hissed out from the sarcophagus and covered the lid and opening of the coffin, forming a cocoon.

After nine full hours, there was a crackling sound.

Yu Que pushed the sarcophagus open suddenly, and the lid of the coffin flew out and hit the top of the secret room, making a dull sound.

He stood up from the coffin, his face covered with black hair and beard, but upon closer inspection, it was not hair, but something more like spider silk or mycelium.

Black mycelium grew out from all over his body, as if he was moldy.

But Yu Que didn't feel anything about the scene. Instead, he happily pulled the mycelium in front of him, then touched his heart to neck with a look of satisfaction on his face.

At this moment, he jumped out of the coffin, and there was no more look of disappointment or reluctance to leave on his face.

Instead, there is only anticipation for the start of school.

In the dim light, Yu Que laughed with his teeth bared: "The Tai Sui has come, I wonder what kind of ancestral temple this Taoist can get!"

At this moment, he had let the Ganoderma lucidum completely devour the old ghost of the Fu family, and the process of raising Tai Sui was completely over.

Even if he could raise other evil spirits, without the old ghost of the Fu family as a transit, the Ganoderma lucidum could no longer grow rapidly, nor could it increase the degree of connection with his bloodline.

Yu Que no longer hesitated. He randomly spread some mycelium on his body, put on his Taoist robe, and kicked open the stone door of the underground secret room with a clang.

at the same time.

In the old ancestral hall of the Fu family, two cousins, Fu Yuan and Fu Yun, were standing sleepily in front of the underground secret room, waiting for Yu Que to come out.

In their hands, one was holding a robe and the other was holding a towel.

There were even several stoves in the ancestral hall, with a large bucket of hot water on the stoves, waiting for Yu Que to come out and take a bath and change clothes, as if this place was a bathhouse.

When a clanging sound was heard, both cousins ​​were startled and looked towards the exit quickly.

Immediately afterwards, a thin figure staggered out of the secret room and appeared in the eyes of the two.

"Brother!", "Que'er!"

The two sisters Fu Yun and Fu Yuan smiled and hurriedly came forward, motioning Yu Que to wipe his body and change his clothes.

Yu Que was also surprised that it was his two younger sisters who came to welcome him out of seclusion, and these two guys could wait obediently until now and take the initiative to come forward to serve him.

Faced with the goodwill of his two sisters, he was not polite. He immediately threw off the damp and smelly robe draped over his shoulders, took the hot towel from Fu Yuan's hand, and applied it to his face.

What's more, just applying hot compress on his face made him feel like he was back to the world and reborn.

His stern expression instantly melted away. But suddenly, a scream rang out from behind Yu Que.

Xiao Fuyuan's face was filled with horror, and he sat down on the ground in fear.

Seeing this, Fu Yun, who was standing next to him, also leaned over to take a look. He also looked shocked, but he didn't scream out in fear.

Yu Que paused in wiping his body and was stunned.

He twisted his neck backwards, all the way to his back, then looked down, touched his back with his backhand, and smiled.

I saw a tumor that looked like a ghost face, wriggling and jumping on the back of his heart, which was extremely terrifying.

This tumor was the result of the Ganoderma lucidum being suppressed by Yu Que after it had eaten the old ghost. Its treasures retracted themselves and all of them drilled into his body, but they drilled too deep and tried to pop out from the heart on his back.

After looking at Rouzhi for a few times, Yu Que raised his head and looked at his two cousins ​​with a half-smile on his face, as if he was going to kill them to silence them.

Seeing this, the two sisters Fu Yun and Fu Yuan were so frightened that they trembled again, but they held their robes and did not dare to leave.

Finally, there was a burst of laughter.

Yu Que drove his two cousins ​​out, closed the door of the Fu family ancestral hall, walked into the bathtub, and took a comfortable bath surrounded by tablets.

..............................

Three days later.

The gate of the Seventh Ward County School was once again crowded with carriages and horses, and vendors also came to join in the fun.

School starts today. Even the poorest children can afford to rent a ghost car or hire a rickshaw to take them here.

The excited freshmen, each wearing their most impressive robes, poured into the gate of the county school in a colorful manner.

When they meet familiar freshmen on the road, they will bow to each other and greet each other with a smile on their faces.

Yu Que is one of them.

And after he got off the car, soon a dozen people gathered around him.

Eight of them were the candidates who had fought and killed Lengtan Yinshi together. The others were those who had gathered together in recent days and wanted to keep each other warm.

"Hello, Brother Yu!"

A group of more than ten people gathered together, and they stood out among the 120 candidates.

Especially when everyone saw Yu Que, the top person in the crowd, more eyes turned towards him with different expressions.

But soon, servants from the county school came to welcome them, and invited the new students to the ordination hall one by one, where they changed their robes and were taught etiquette.

The examinees who were gathered together were separated, and when they walked out of the ordination hall one after another, their robes were changed into the gray formal robes of the county school, with bramble hairpins in their hair and black boots with white soles on their feet. Their faces were solemn, and they were no longer as cheerful as when they entered the hall.

When the servants were teaching everyone etiquette, they also warned the freshmen explicitly and implicitly that today's opening ceremony was a ceremony for everyone to choose their teachers.

The head of our school will also appear at the ceremony later.

If you accidentally misbehave in front of the principal, the severity of the situation is no less than failing the exam. Not only will you lose the favor of famous teachers, but if you are too cheerful, even if you are not expelled, you will be ordered to go home and reflect on your behavior for several months, wasting your precious time in the county school.

Under the guidance of a servant, Yu Que walked out of the ordination hall and came to an altar in the center of the county school.

This altar is of different heights and is divided into three layers. The smaller one is three meters wide and the larger one is thirty meters wide. It is decorated in five colors. There is a criss-crossing chessboard-like grid on the altar surface with clear grid points. There are also flags and banners, and the aroma is wafting in the air.

Yu Que and the other 120 candidates came forward one by one and lined up on the altar like chess pieces, forming a fan shape.

Standing on such a large altar, the expressions of candidates such as Yu Que became even more solemn, and they only dared to exchange glances with each other.

When everyone thought that everyone was present and the time was just right, the sun was still young but not too strong, the entrance ceremony would soon begin.

As a result, they waited for three full cups of tea, and many of them were thirsty before they could hear the cracking sound of whips from all directions of the altar.

Amid the sound of whips, figures flashed and stepped onto the altar.

There was also an old man wearing a tall hat and dark clothes, holding three incense sticks as thick as his arms in his hands, and walking up to the high altar with a solemn expression.

He stood on the altar and shouted:
"In the 871st year of the Incense Calendar, the New Students Admission Ceremony is officially underway!"

The old man in black faced the altar on the high altar, bowed, raised the incense stick in his hand, and inserted it firmly into the tripod on the table.

After bowing several times, the man finally took the gold paper scroll that the official had placed on the table and slowly unfolded it.

The old man in black looked around at the freshmen at the altar and said:
"A newborn is born with a name and receives the destiny from heaven.

Anyone who hears the name should take one step forward to answer, take two steps forward to bow, and take three steps forward to kowtow.

As soon as the other party finished speaking, all the students under the altar remembered the etiquette teachings and shouted:
"Students take orders!"

The old man in black clothes on the high altar showed a look of delight, and then he began to chant:
"Where is the remaining vacancy at the top of the list?"

Yu Que, who was standing at the front of the line of examinees at the altar, stepped forward and shouted, "The students are here!"

After responding, he took another step forward as he had said, bowed to the elders and other teachers on the altar, then took another step forward, prostrated himself, kowtowed towards the heaven and earth, and performed the great ceremony of bowing his head.

During this process, all the teachers and examinees fixed their eyes on him, which actually formed a tangible pressure that made Yu Que dare not even breathe.

When he finished bowing, he suddenly felt a buzzing in his ears and realized that the pressure just now was not an illusion.

There was a roar, and a golden aura emerged from the altar and landed on his body. It was so heavy that his whole body stiffened and he fell on the altar, unable to get up.

The other candidates on the left and right widened their eyes upon seeing this.

They stared at the aura descending upon Yu Que, all of them were shocked: "Is this aura the destiny of the country?!"

"This must be the incense of the imperial court!"

After Yu Que responded, the old man on the altar did not delay any longer and immediately called out the next person's name:

"Where is Xie Qingjie, the county student?"

"The students are here!"...

In this way, their names were called out one after another, and the one hundred and twenty candidates bowed and prostrated themselves on the altar.

The aroma of incense on the altar is lush and growing slowly, and the ground is golden all over, like a ripe wheat field.

After the names were called out one by one, all the 150 students in the county school were counted. There were actually 30 more people than the 120 who had been named when the results were announced previously!
At this time, the old man on the high altar also bowed to heaven and earth, and the luck on the altar shook again, and finally rose straight up like a wolf smoke, piercing through the sky and sinking into the unknown.

Yu Que and other students who were lying stiffly on the altar were finally able to move their hands and feet. They were gasping for breath, but continued to look at the stone altar beneath them obediently, and no one raised their heads at random.

Another lengthy sound of offering sacrifices to heaven and earth began to be chanted from the old man's mouth, followed by the sounds of chanting scriptures, burning talismans, beating gongs, drums and wooden fish, and releasing the flames of the mouth...it was complicated and detailed.

Fortunately, when the old man stood up, Yu Que and others had also stood up. They no longer had to lie down, but sat cross-legged on the stone altar one by one.

They looked at the altar, their eyes gradually becoming dull.

As time went by, everyone got over their initial fear and trepidation, and as the sun was about to set, they all lost themselves in thought and felt that the ceremony was rather lengthy.

Yu Que is one of them.

Until the old man on the high altar suddenly chanted:

"The elite of learning are born with a name, and all those who are named must come forward and be granted the name by the schoolmaster... What is missing?"

At this moment, Yu Que finally regained his spirits. He stood up suddenly and shouted:

"The students are here!"

The other freshmen around also came to their senses when they heard the words "name of the certificate" and "granting of the certificate".

When they saw Yu Que walking forward and climbing up to the podium, they all looked envious and eager.

(End of this chapter)