Please call me Huanxian

Chapter 20 Strange things in Hongliu Village
"boom!"

Xu Yuanchang rubbed his painful forehead, took a step back, and stared at the blue brick wall of his home, puzzled. Did his wall penetration technique fail?

After returning from my eldest brother's house, everything was fine, and my magic power had been restored, so I practiced magic to deepen my understanding.

Unexpectedly, he was knocked back.

where is the problem?

If it is a critical moment, not being able to pass through and delaying the opportunity can be a fatal matter.

Thinking about the realization of passing through the wall the night before, after a long time, Xu Yuanchang walked to the corner wall. With a calm mind and mana flowing, he silently recited the mantra and stepped back. His eyes went dark and then brightened. He had already stepped on the steps outside the house. Stand facing the wall.

There was a smile on his lips, and he had no problem mastering the wall-penetrating technique.

He also roughly guessed the reason. When he stared at the wall and cast spells, he would subconsciously feel that he hit his head, causing his thoughts to be blocked, and he would fail to pass through the wall. What if he closed his eyes?
Out of sight is the same as turning your back and walking backwards.

After many attempts, his guess was verified.

I feel a little helpless, maybe in the future when my magic power becomes more advanced and the habit becomes natural, it won't matter if I open my eyes or close them?
In the monk's travel notes he had read, there was an interesting anecdote about a master.

Because of his fear of heights, the master did not dare to fly three feet high in the air, otherwise he would turn pale and sweat, and fall down. Therefore, he was nicknamed the "three-foot master".

I read the book for half an hour and sketched out the lines for practicing the Illusion Breaking Talisman.

Seeing that the sun was getting low, I got up and went out.

After dinner at the eldest brother's house, the whole family sat around the brazier to watch the New Year.

We had a lot of fun chatting about eating melon seeds and peeling peanuts in ancient times.

When they were still young, the two little guys couldn't stand it after playing all day long. Their eyelids were fighting and their heads were clicking for fishing.

Xu Yuanchang took out twelve coppers strung with a red string, stuffed a bunch of lucky money into each person, sent them off to bed quickly, and stuffed a bunch of lucky money into the milk baby sleeping in the cradle.

The family sits leisurely and the lights are friendly.

While he was practicing, he enjoyed the fireworks.

On the first day of the first lunar month, after breakfast, Xu Yuanchang, led by his eldest brother, led the dog, who was wearing a brand new cotton robe, and walked to the village ancestral hall with a bamboo basket. The men he met on the road saluted each other and said auspicious words.

After attending the ancestor worship and offering incense on the first day of the Lunar New Year, he went home, picked up gifts, and took the two little kids to his second uncle's house to pay New Year greetings. He drank a bowl of frosty sugar tea and sent the little ones home to play by themselves. He took the rest with him. Gifts, go to the house of the patriarch and several elders to pay New Year greetings.

I stopped going out in the next few days.

I practice Qigong, read books, draw talismans, practice throwing knives and spells every day, and enjoy myself leisurely.

On the morning of the tenth day of the lunar month, I was practicing blindfolding and knife-throwing skills in the yard when I heard a knock on the door, followed by Lao Ding's loud voice: "Taoist Master Xu, good luck and good health, and everything goes well!"

Xu Yuanchang didn't expect that Master Ding would come to pay New Year greetings, so he went to open the courtyard door.

"Master Ding, may you be blessed with good luck, good health, and compassion!"

The two of them saluted and exchanged greetings.

When he walked into the main room and put down the gifts he had brought, Master Ding pulled out the shy and shy black and thin boy from behind, scolded him for being a child and did not understand etiquette, and asked him to bow down and kneel down to say New Year greetings.

Xu Yuanchang smiled and helped him up, stuffing a bunch of copper coins into his body.

After sitting down to drink tea and chat for about a quarter of an hour, Master Ding got up and left. He couldn't be bothered for too long.

I have come and visited, and the courtesy is enough.

The spiritual life of living in seclusion in the countryside is monotonous and dull, as quiet as a stream flowing over cobblestones.

Xu Yuanchang never felt bored. In his previous life, he had had enough of the anxious life that was so involved that it was smoking.

For a few taels of silver, running around and working hard, drinking with a smiling face and pretending to be a grandson, changing jobs more frequently than changing new shoes, wallets cleaner than faces, wanting to sleep flat but not having favorable conditions.

Since God allowed him to live a new life and he had the opportunity to change his life to a new one, why not live for himself?

What others see as dull and boring, he enjoys being indifferent and contented with it.

He can feel his progress every few days, and he likes the novel feeling brought by constant breakthroughs.

From the mountains and rain in spring to the sound of cicadas in midsummer. Unconsciously, another half year has passed.

On a rare cloudy day in summer, Xu Yuanchang stood on the high place of Gushipo. He moved his hands and recited a mantra silently. Suddenly he turned his hand and pointed in the air and shouted: "Urgent like a law!"

The mysterious spell affects the power of the world, and a hot wind surges out of thin air.

"Huh", dust and sand were blown up and flowed around him.

As the fingers moved, the hot wind circled twice and slowly dissipated invisible.

As early as a month ago, Xu Yuanchang suddenly resonated with the "Wind Calling Technique" during a thunderstorm and storm in early summer. Due to the limitations of his cultivation and mana, the power of the Wind Technique was still insufficient and consumed a huge amount of money.

He still insists on practicing breathing wind every day.

In recent days, he found that his cultivation had entered a slow stage.

Understand that you need to go out and move around and change your cultivation environment and method, otherwise it will cause obstacles to your cultivation.

In the words of the classics: "If the state of mind is not forward, obstacles will arise of their own accord."

It is easy to become complacent after practicing for a long time, so you need to go out and travel, get in touch with new things and people, and look for changes in your mood. This is why.

There was a knock on the door and a call coming from the direction of the yard.

Facing the green distant mountains, Xu Yuanchang woke up and thought about something. He walked down from the top of Drum Rock, walked to the front of the yard, and spoke to Lao Ding who saluted in return. Lao Ding also brought a man dressed as a butler in a long gown.

After the introduction, I learned that the middle-aged man was from Hongliu Village, ten miles away in the south, and his name was Liu Dong.

Push open the ajar door and invite the guests in to talk.

Liu Dong seemed very urgent. He said that he had heard about the name of Master Xu for a long time, and asked him to go to Hongliu Village and help his family to have a look. In recent days, Mr. Liu always said that he saw a figure suddenly appearing, no matter day or night, with Liu Dong. The master looked at him, stared at him, and then disappeared.

The strange thing is that no one else in the house can see him.

Such a strange thing happened, which made everyone in the mansion uneasy, and the day laborers resigned one after another.

Xu Yuanchang pondered for a moment and asked carefully. Seeing that Liu Dong couldn't explain the reason, he agreed to go.

Carrying a custom-made bamboo box in the town, it contains a complete set of talisman paper, talisman pens, cinnabar ink, scriptures and other items. He cherishes his identity as a Taoist priest who can exorcise evil spirits.

Having the opportunity to see different evil spirits is also a spiritual practice experience.

Lock the courtyard door and walk to the east.

Passing by the door of the eldest brother's house, Xu Yuanchang stopped Gou Wa who was playing crazy and asked Gou Wa to inform his parents of his whereabouts, otherwise the eldest brother would be worried. He didn't know how many days it would take to go out to do errands.
Walked to the bottom of the mountain and got on the carriage prepared by Liu Dong.

The groom drove quickly.

Chatting with Old Ding on the way, I found out that after Old Ding washed his hands in Jinpen and came to Wei Mansion to work as a nursing home, he was introduced by the matchmaker to a woman from Hongliu Village, who was also a relative of Mr. Liu.

Mr. Liu's condition was serious, so he asked the goddess and nearby Taoist priests to help him, but they couldn't get rid of the figure who was pestering Mr. Liu.

When Lao Ding learned about this, he strongly recommended that Taoist priest Xu, whom he befriended, specially accompany him on this trip.

There are many famous people in the countryside.

After getting off the car at the place, Xu Yuanchang started to observe the plaque of Liu Mansion and the pair of stone lions outside the door. Shortly after entering, he noticed a strange yin energy. He looked up at the red willow tree outside the courtyard wall. Some of the hanging green branches were covered by it. Wall top.

Normally, in a high-end mansion, no big trees should be planted near the walls to avoid being taken advantage of by predators.

Walking to the door of the bedroom in the east wing of the third courtyard, Xu Yuanchang looked carefully at the house-securing charm affixed to the door frame and thought he was dazzled.

The house security talisman was posted upside down, uncharacteristically.

In such an obvious position, making such a stupid mistake, people coming in and out didn't notice it?

That master who drew the talisman, who sent him to make fun of him?

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(End of this chapter)