Chapter 11: Changes
Zhang Xiaofan looked at the bead for a long time, his breathing gradually calmed down, but other than seeing that the color brightness was a bit worse, he didn't see anything else, so he just had to put it back on his chest. He looked towards Tian Ling'er beside him, only to see that she was still unconscious, but her face had gradually gained blood color, her condition was much better.
He picked up that amber vermillion damask and looked at it carefully, this was the first time he looked at this treasure so closely, but felt that it was soft to the touch and very comfortable, recalling Tian Ling'er's beautiful posture in the air just now, his heart was envious for a while.
He looked at it for a while, his hand also learned Tian Ling'er's way of comparing it, and called out, "Rise!"
Amber Zhuya was like a dead snake, ignoring it and not moving.
Zhang Xiaofan glared at it, but just now with this monkey through thick and thin, do not feel a few points of cordiality, the previous point of hostility are also dissolved into nothing. He spat out his tongue at the monkey and made a face, ignoring it, placing the Amber Vermilion Damask next to Tian Ling'er, and his gaze then looked towards the water pool in the clearing.
It was a small pool of water, not large in scope, not seeing the source, presumably made by underground spring water gushing out. The water in the pool was turquoise in color, from here it was unknown how deep it was, there was a gap on the west side of the pool, and the water flowed out from there, converging into a small stream that meandered away.
In the center of the pool, piled up a pile of rocks, different sizes and shapes, revealing a small part of the water. In the middle of the messy rocks, there was a short black stick inserted diagonally, exposing a foot of the water surface, the rest of it was submerged in the water, black in color, it was hard to see what kind of material it was made of, it was very ugly.
Zhang Xiaofan did not think, only think this place is weird and unusual, or early to go for the best, but beside Tian Ling'er although has calmed down, but still unconscious, how to call also can not wake up.
In contrast, the gray monkey is extremely spiritual, touching ears and scratching cheeks, scratching the itch and catching lice, a moment is not quiet, between also scampered up to the woods, I do not know where to pick a few wild fruits, threw two to Zhang Xiaofan, and then sit on his butt on the ground, deliciously ate up.
Zhang Xiaofan picked up the wild fruit and took a bite, but felt that the mouth was sweet and juicy, and could not help but have a big appetite. Since he went up the mountain in the early morning and chased all the way, by now it was almost noon, he hadn't entered a drop of water, and had long been hungry.
At that moment, he ate one in three bites, and was about to pick up the second one, but suddenly shook his head and gently placed it beside Tian Ling'er.
Wild fruits down, Zhang Xiaofan abdomen hunger slightly reduced, the spirit is also much better. He stood up and stretched his waist, looking around, but saw the ancient trees, the brook murmuring, the scenery is quite beautiful, who knew that there would be this kind of weirdness.
Right at this moment, Zhang Xiaofan suddenly felt a heat in his chest, a moment only to hear "card card card" a few muffled sounds, as if there is something broken in general.
He was startled, hastily pulled out the bead from the chest, suddenly startled, only to see the whole bead green light, inside the green gas like a wolf like a tiger, desperately hit the bead wall, and prevent it from "d" word of truth more and more fragile, more and more is dim, it seems to be unable to resist.
Zhang Xiaofan how to know, this seems ordinary and strange beads, in fact, is the world's most vicious thing - "blood devouring beads". The origin of this bead is unknown, but there are strange characteristics, eating the blood of living creatures, if there are living living creatures close to it, in a moment or three moments will be this "blood devouring bead" erosion of blood and death, only a skin, is really a horrible evil thing.
More than a thousand years ago, this bead had been the devil elder black heart old man, because of its sucking essence of the blood of the special ability and will be refined into a treasure, a time invincible, I do not know how many people killed the right way, reputation, and then become one of the four treasures of the devil. After the death of the black heart old man, this bead disappeared, and has never been known.
Tianyin Temple Pu Zhi God monk by chance, in thirty years ago in the West in the swamp inadvertently found this murderous bead, then within a radius of ten miles, white bones, no living thing, can be said to be the souls of the charcoal, the grievances of the heavens.
Pu Zhi compassionate heart moved, so the Buddha's great law will be put away, and then every day and night to the Buddha's secret method of subduing the devil to implement on, deterring the evil force, thirty years never stop, and to the Buddha's most precious treasure, "emerald rosary beads" strung in parallel to the purity of the gas to resist the evil idea of devouring blood, and finally the murderous spirit of the pressure down, tightly bound to the beads in the layer of Buddha's power! The spirit was not allowed to see the light of day under the layers of Buddha's power.
Unexpectedly, the battle in the village of grass temple, Pu Zhi for the mysterious man in black even like a heavy blow, nearly exhausted, although the man in black is also injured to escape, but Pu Zhi knows that he did not hurt the fundamental, and I expect that its "blood devouring bead" is determined to get, he served "three days must die pill" can only be strong extension of the life of three days. life.
Under the thought, he was risky, this blood devouring bead will be handed over to Zhang Xiaofan, and instructed him not to show in front of the people, when he has time, he will throw down the cliffs of the deep valley, although it may hurt some innocent creatures, but compared to the hands of the demon is much better.
Just Pu Zhi never thought, Zhang Xiaofan remembered his kindness, actually will be this great evil thing to stay down as a souvenir. This "blood devouring bead" lost Pu Zhi to Buddhist law suppression, and no emerald rosary bead clean gas resistance, the evil spirit of the gas will begin to gradually erode the prohibition.
But the heavenly sound temple demon-subduing law is not idle, that heavy prohibition although lost the master, but has been loyal to the duty, will be this fierce spirit of the gas deterrent for three whole years. Just a long time, ultimately can not resist, gradually out of control, just today, it is about to be that blood murder bead broken out of the ban, for the scourge of the world.
Although Zhang Xiaofan does not know this many twists and turns, but the heart has vaguely felt bad. When the battle of the grass temple, Pu Zhi and the man in black when the fight "d" word of truth appeared many times, although he was young but already remembered very deeply.
At this moment, see the beads on the truth is more and more critical, anxiety, a ruthless, tighten the palm of the hand to grab the beads, transported a little bit of his shallow "Brahma Prajna", injected into the beads.
The two is the same source, blood devouring bead on the "d" word actually bright a lot, but not yet wait for Zhang Xiaofan to reveal a smile, instantly after the dark, at the same time a cold gas is the trend invaded his body, a moment Zhang Xiaofan half of the body are numb.
Next to the gray monkey suddenly saw Zhang Xiaofan face pain, the face of the green gas flourished, "squeak" called two, quite anxious. But Zhang Xiaofan already couldn't care about much, he only felt that his whole body's essence and blood flowed backwards, and all of them flowed towards the direction of that weird bead on his right hand. And his own body's Da Brahma Prajna collapsed at the touch of a button, not at all a match for that icy cold gas, at this time his whole body meridians spasm and pain, pain.
He can no longer endure, staggered a few steps, backward, suddenly his whole body is a shiver, a familiar feeling of nausea actually rose again, straight to the five viscera, but he accidentally into the empty space, but at the moment, but no longer have the warmth of the Qi up and resisted.
The gray monkey was anxious, "squeak squeak squeak" screamed endlessly, but no matter how do not dare to step into the open space again.
Zhang Xiaofan's soul, do not know what to do, but feel the body burst of cold and hot, such as ten thousand ants gnawing, nausea want to vomit, but there is nothing to vomit, really is worse than death. His mind gradually blurred, stumbled forward, but did not know that he had gone in the wrong direction, only to feel the strength of his body gradually disappeared minute by minute.
His whole body is shaking, hands and feet are weak, feet a soft, already paralyzed on the ground. At this time has come to the edge of the water pool, he used the last point of strength, transported the Taiji Xuanqing Road, barely attracted some of the heaven and earth qi into the body, to the body and then transformed into a great Brahma Prajna, actually a little relief from the pain, but only a few moments later, has already turned into nothing, Zhang Xiaofan at this time can not care about so much, barely exerted, can be comfortable a point is a point.
Just that the cold air is too powerful, and there is a strange nauseating feeling, almost turned his internal organs over, straight to the brain. His eyes flashing Venus, breathing disorder, suddenly a sweet throat, "wow" sound, a mouthful of blood sprayed out, nearly fainted.
At this moment, only heard a muffled sound, in an instant, as if the sky is darkened, blood devouring bead on the green light, the entire bead is green, a burst of dull golden light flashed, the Buddhist "d" word of truth was completely shattered, Zhang Xiaofan whole body was immediately covered by the green gas, such as bloodthirsty demon, reborn again.
However, the strange things are still not finished, almost at the same time as the green gas to get free, a big sound, from the water pool in the middle, suddenly the wind and clouds, the pool in the gravel to the surrounding shot out, thumping sound. The turquoise pool water suddenly waves, around the center of the sharp turn, into a big whirlpool. And from the vortex, splash crevice, slowly born a thing, black gas, it is that a black stick, two feet long, non-golden, non-iron, a ferocious gas, come to the face.
Zhang Xiaofan screamed, fell backwards, that blood devouring bead seems to stick in his hand, shake off the general, which also vaguely see, there is a light color of blood from Zhang Xiaofan's body slowly injected into the bead.
A whistling, in the sound of water waves, the black stick suddenly shot out sharply, rushed to the green light flashes of the blood devouring bead, a moment later a loud noise, two pieces of the great ferocious things collide together, Zhang Xiaofan, such as a huge shock, the whole person was shaken upwards more than a ten feet high, in the open space under him, was also hit by the force of this big pit.
Zhang Xiaofan fell back to the ground, his seven orifices were bleeding, dizziness, but the pain in his body seemed to be lighter. He only felt a blood red in front of his eyes, but his eyes were bleeding, he wiped his eyes with his hands with force, only to see that the branch of the strange black rod smashed on the blood devouring bead, and the black gas was like a wisp of unceasing, forward attack. The blood devouring bead seems to have spirituality, know is the enemy, recover the green gas full resistance, the two sides can not hold each other, Zhang Xiaofan's body's cold gas and nausea feeling is gradually recede.
Zhang Xiaofan huffed and puffed, shocked, subconsciously threw out his hands, but the two strange things are like a part of his palm, like, thrown away, black and green light, still fighting.
Zhang Xiaofan heart scared, just want to leave these two strange things as far away as possible, he used all his strength to climb up, not yet out of a step, they only feel dizzy in the head, the whole person staggers, weak feet, body a crooked, and fell to the ground. In front of that green pearl black stick two gas intertwined, fighting, but the black gas steam, seems to have the upper hand.
After only a few moments, I really see the black gas invasion, green light retreat, seems to be unable to resist, is at this time, Zhang Xiaofan suddenly felt a sharp pain in the palm of his hand, a look, the heart almost jumped out of the mouth. But see his palm, in the blood devouring beads attached to the surrounding circle, crimson blood actually oozing skin and out of the source, gradually converged into a large blood drop.
Zhang Xiaofan's whole body shivered, his face lost all its blood color, accordingly, the Blood Devouring Pearl bathed in the blood droplets, suddenly the green light flourished, and counterattacked in a big way, not only to bring back the situation, but also gradually overwhelmed the black qi.
As more and more blood seeped out from his hands, Zhang Xiaofan gradually lost consciousness. The bright red blood poured and diffused up, gradually flowing to the interface between the Xuan black short stick and the blood devouring bead, and then stopped flowing, allowing the green light and black qi to fight non-stop, and after a few moments, it seeped in here, gradually slowly dyeing the part of the top of the stick and the bead that touched it into red.
A faint smell of blood, floating in the air.
With the passage of time, that piece of red is getting deeper and deeper, to later almost brightly colored, and somehow, the original entanglement of green light and black gas are darkened, from the original exclusion of the appearance of the fight, gradually even turned out to be a fusion of the situation.
I do not know how long, this strange change finally came to an end, the black stick green beads completely lost its luster, each other fusion, "card" sound, from the unconscious Zhang Xiaofan hands fell down, fell to the ground.
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"Xiaofan! Little Fan! Little Brother... ⋯⋯..." A series of anxious calls echoed in Zhang Xiaofan's ears.
His mind was in a state of confusion, he only felt a sharp pain in his head, and it seemed that even opening his eyes took all of his energy. Tian Ling'er's anxious face with a hint of panic seemed far away but still close, slowly becoming clear in front of his eyes, he moved his lips and called out in a low voice, "Senior sister."
Tian Ling'er was overjoyed and said, "Xiaofan, you're awake?"
Zhang Xiaofan forced a smile and said, "I'm fine, senior sister."
Tian Ling'er helped him sit up, and Zhang Xiaofan's first glance was towards his palm, but he saw that the skin of his right palm was unharmed, and there was no abnormality at all except for some paleness. He was dumbfounded for a moment, but in his heart, he clearly remembered that a large amount of blood had gushed out from his palm just now, but how come there was not even a trace of it?
Could it be that it was a nightmare?
"Little Fan." Tian Ling'er saw that after he sat up, he was in a daze, his mind was a bit worried, and pushed him a bit.
Zhang Xiaofan awoke with a start, and was about to tell her about the strange incident just now, but for a moment, he didn't know where to start, and in his heart, he felt that the incident was too strange, and even he himself was not sure about it, so he froze for a while, and finally said, "No, it's nothing, Senior Sister."
Tian Ling'er only then put down her heart, she woke up, see the sky is late, they lie under a large pine tree, but the senior brother fell in the distance above the open space, unconscious. She was scared in her heart and rushed to Zhang Xiaofan's side, fortunately waking him up a few moments later.
At this moment, Tian Ling'er looked around and said to Zhang Xiaofan, ''Senior brother, there seems to be something strange here, we'd better leave here as soon as possible! Wait until tomorrow when I ask Mother to come over and take a look."
Zhang Xiaofan nodded and was about to climb up, when suddenly his whole body was in severe pain, dizziness, if not for Tian Ling'er's quick hand to hold on, he would almost fall down again.
Tian Ling'er saw his face pale, even a trace of blood can not be seen, the heart is really worried, at once careful to help him up, Zhang Xiaofan fixed his mind, and looked at the body, not see any wounds, then said: "Sister, I'm just a little dizzy, nothing big."
Tian Ling'er took another closer look, and indeed, this was the case, so she nodded and said, "Then let's go back quickly! It's getting dark, I'm afraid that father and mother and all the senior brothers are worried!"
Zhang Xiaofan said, "Yes."
Tian Ling'er took a deep breath, checking all around her body that there was no abnormality, and muttering in her heart about how she had fainted for no reason. With a gesture of her hand, red light flashed, and the "Amber Vermilion Damask" whistled and fled out.
Tian Ling'er with Zhang Xiaofan just want to go up, suddenly heard "squeak" sound on the side, the two turned their heads to look, but the gray-haired monkey do not know when to stand next to them, rushing to crack their mouths and laugh, the hands are also dragging a black whirring a foot long, I do not know what the material of the short stick.
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Big Bamboo Peak guard quiet hall in front, Tian not easy to pace back and forth, frowning tightly, face slightly anxious color. Early this morning, my daughter and the seven disciples of that no good on the back of the mountain to cut bamboo to play, to now dark still do not see the shadow of the people back.
Su Ru is early in the morning out to look for, now the disciples have been sent out by him, but the big bamboo peak on the missing, around the rolling hills, dense jungle, to find two people really like a needle in a haystack.
He is anxious, above the sudden sound of broken air, Tian not easy to look up, but Su Ru with two small children back. Look at Tian Ling'er two people look nothing serious, but in Zhang Xiaofan shoulder actually also lying on a gray-furred monkey, also do not know where to come from.
Tian not easy to put down the heart, but the face of anger does not recede at all. Zhang Xiaofan looked at the master two eyes, heart hairy, do not dare to move, put his head straight down to the chest, but the gray monkey is very naughty, there is not a moment to reach out to Zhang Xiaofan's hair scratching, seems to want to find a few lice from there.
Tian Ling'er put away the amber vermillion damask, out of the corner of her eye saw her father standing in front of the hall with an angry face, her eyes turned a few times, smiling like a flower, innocent and cute, jumping and running to Tian Yiqian's side, pulling his hand and said, "Father, we're back."
Tian Yanyi hummed and said, "Where did it go?"
Tian Ling'er smiled and said, "Xiaofan was bullied by a monkey while chopping bamboo, I went to catch it to help Xiaofan out, lo, it's that monkey." Saying that, her hand pointed in Zhang Xiaofan's direction.
The gray monkey on Zhang Xiaofan's shoulder was startled, and rushed this way to "squeak" twice, making an angry gesture, then scratched its head and put its attention into Zhang Xiaofan's hair again.
Tian Ling'er made a face at it, then the chase all the way about the situation, and said: "⋯ later chase to the valley, I suddenly felt a burst of nausea, somehow fainted, woke up to see Xiaofan also fell to the ground, unconscious. But fortunately none of us were hurt, and by the time we were about to come back, I saw that the monkey seemed to be very attached to Xiaofan, so I brought it back as well."
Tian Yi's brows furrowed as he turned to his wife and said, "What's going on?"
Su Ru shook her head and said, "When I found the two of them in the back of the mountain, I went down to check it out, and there was nothing unusual about it. I think it's mostly because Ling'er didn't have enough cultivation, and she forced herself to bring the two of them to ride the amber vermillion damask together to ride in the air, and in the end, she lost her strength."
Tian Ling'er pouted, "Mother, what are you talking about, where would I not have enough cultivation. Little Fan, do you think so?"
Zhang Xiaofan hurriedly said, "Yes, yes, yes!"
Tian Yuxi blankly glanced at Zhang Xiaofan and coldly said, "As a disciple of the Qing Yun Sect, you were actually bullied by a monkey, if word gets out, my face will be disgraced by you."
Zhang Xiaofan's face reddened, not daring to say a word and hanging his head low.
Su Ru walked over, pulled up Tian Ling'er's hand, and softly said, "You haven't eaten anything for a day, are you hungry?"
Tian Ling'er spat out her tongue and laughed, "So hungry! Mother!"
Su Ru glared at her and pulled her towards the kitchen, saying under her breath, "Human child!"
Zhang Xiaofan at the moment also feel hungry, but in front of Tian not easy, which dares to move on a move, ear listening to Su Ru and Tian Ling'er to go far away, the master but no movement, secretly raised his eyes, but see the hall in front of the empty, Tian not easy do not know when to go, I guess in his heart, cursing on this idiot disciple also think it is a waste of energy.
Zhang Xiaofan momentarily bewildered, stayed for a long time, until the thunder in the abdomen, only then turned around, but subconsciously do not want to walk towards the kitchen, but toward their own room.
Back to the room, close the door, the gray monkey in his shoulder looking left and right, "squeak" called out, seems to know that the home, jumped from his shoulder, three steps two scampered to the bed, flopping and jumping, but also grabbed the pillows flinging, great joy.
Zhang Xiaofan looked at the gray monkey, the corners of his mouth also revealed a little smile, but immediately was hungry to suppress the past, he sat down at the table, from the teapot poured out a cup of cold overnight cold water that had long been cooled, and drank it down.
A coolness that went straight to his heart.
He sat for a while, reached out and pulled out an object from his bosom, it was that ugly short stick. At this moment, Pu Zhi gave him the beads and the unknown short stick has been tightly linked together, even the color has changed together into a basalt blue, black, and in the interface of a dark red, as if solidified blood stains, not only unsightly, but also a little bit disgusting.
He looked for a long time, suddenly a bitter smile, force a hand, will be this short stick thrown to the wall, short stick hit the wall, a big sound, and fell down, fell in a corner of the house.
The gray monkey was startled and looked up at Zhang Xiaofan, not knowing why he lost his temper. Zhang Xiaofan sighed, took off his shoes and got into bed, covered his head with the quilt and slept. The monkey touched his head, not knowing why.
This night, Zhang Xiaofan tossed and turned, his belly was hungry, until late at night, only then did he fall asleep in a daze.
