The Secret Art of Refining the Dead: The Walking Corpse File

Chapter 643 Inheritance
His attitude made me realize that this matter might be a bit secretive, but now that I have become an apprentice, I have even left home to save others, and it would be too aggrieved to be kept in the dark, so I put the broom in the Throwing it on Tan Ren, he said: "Whose side am I on, don't you know? Tan Ren, until now you are still hiding from me, what do you think of me?"

Tan Ren finally reacted, glanced at me, and said, "From now on, don't worry about Zhou Xuanye's affairs."

I said: "I didn't think about it, I just wanted to die to understand. You said, in order to save you, I practiced hard day and night in this place, with iron pieces tied all over my body, and I was not allowed to eat meat. You have to know the reason for suffering so many crimes, right?"

Tan Ren talked about it from left to right: "I won't take care of his business anymore."

I was smoked by his anger, so I said angrily: "Okay, you are awesome, don't tell me, right? You woke up anyway, and it's still early, so I'll go down the mountain now, and I won't serve you. Just treat me as the two of you." Yue's busy job is to feed the dog. Oh, I forgot, the dog is very fond of the owner, and I really discredited the dog by saying so."

Hearing this, Tan Ren's expression changed immediately, he gritted his teeth and said, "Say it again?"

I said: "Fight, right? Come on, you think you are Zhou Xuanye, you think I can't beat you, right? I'm letting you, come, come, come, if you don't fight today, you will cry and cry, and I will fight you." Don't believe Su!"

Tan Ren also had a bad temper, we almost jumped at each other, punched and kicked, and fought again.I, Su Tiangu, am no longer the Su Tiangu I was three years ago. This time, Tan Ren didn't take advantage of my ruthlessness. After the beating, we both collapsed on the ground panting, unable to get up.

Hitting people doesn't slap people in the face, but since I have become a pig's head myself, I also slapped Tan Guimao in the face to regain my sense of balance.

Panting on the ground for a while, Tan Ren suddenly said: "We all made a mistake."

I said, "What's wrong?"

Tan Ren said: "Everyone was deceived by him."

I didn't make a sound, knowing that Tan Ren had let go, so I lay on the ground, intending to listen to him continue.

"He's not Zhou Xuanye."

I froze for a moment, and said, "Isn't it Zhou Xuanye? Was he charged by a ghost?"

Tan Ren said: "He is Zhou Xuanli."

I sat up from the ground at once, looked at Tan Ren who was lying on the ground with an indifferent expression, the corpse in the corpse cave flashed in my mind, and tens of thousands of grass and mud horses galloped past in my heart.

what happened?

Hasn’t Zhou Xuanli been dead for 800 years?
I wiped my face, calmed myself down, grabbed Tan Ren's robe, grabbed him up, and said, "Please explain clearly, what's going on?"

Tan Ren said: "Back then, the three of us entered the corpse cave. For some reason, the refining corpse inside suddenly became abnormal. In order to cover the two of them, I stepped back and folded it. I didn't know until I woke up. In order to protect Zhou Xuanye, Xuan Li also broke up. The two of them walked the path of corpses, and they were extremely talented. Later, Master found out that when they entered the corpse cave, Zhou Xuanye had something on his body."

"what?"

Tan Ren said: "Not far from here, there is a forbidden place. Only the master knows about this place. After that incident, the master told me."

Forbidden place?

"Under the forbidden area, there are many bones buried. According to master's speculation, it should be a burial pit a long time ago."

My heart moved, and I said, "What was left during the Anti-Japanese War?"

Tan Yan shook his head and said: "It's been longer than that. That place is extremely dark and evil. Birds and beasts are extinct, and people can't get out after entering. Master listed it as a forbidden area. Now some tourists don't come out according to common sense. He likes to be adventurous and does not take the usual path. Master was worried about accidents, so he deliberately released a corpse guard. But at that time, there was no corpse guard. Zhou Xuanye accidentally entered it when he was playing, and got a "Yin Pearl" '. This thing is the evil spirit of yin, which is formed by gathering in chalcedony, which is extremely evil and evil, disturbing people's mind, and attacking yin and violating yang."

I said: "When entering the corpse cave, Zhou Xuanye brought this thing, so it disturbed the refining corpses inside?"

Tan Ren nodded: "Since then, he has been stimulated, crazy, and split personality. Things have already happened. He was not very old at the time, so he didn't blame him. He just thought that he could recover soon. I didn't expect..."

I had vaguely guessed something, but couldn't believe it.

Tan Ren said: "Zhou Xuanye and Zhou Xuanli are twins, their stature and appearance are exactly the same, but one loves to smile and the other is gloomy, so it is easy to distinguish them. We were all deceived by him, and the one who survived was Zhou Xuanli, who brought the Yin Pearl with him. He was also the one who entered the corpse cave. Zhou Xuanye was the one who died protecting him, but he directly changed his identity, he became Zhou Xuanye, and the one who died became Zhou Xuanli."

I took a deep breath and said, "That is to say... Zhou Lao San is the main personality, Zhou Lao Er is the secondary personality, what is the crazy one?"

Tan Ren said: "It's the pain in his heart."

I couldn't resist pinching my own thigh, it was fucking painful.

Zhou Xuanye is not Zhou Xuanye, but Zhou Xuanli.

This, this fox, played too well!
Yinzhu... wait!
I suddenly remembered what I saw when I peeked at Zhou Xuanye's carry-on bag. Could it be that thing...is the Yin Pearl?
"No." I said, "If he is Zhou Xuanli, how could Zhou Xuanli do such a thing?"

Tan Ren said: "It is precisely because no one believed that Zhou Xuanli would do such a thing, that's why we have been deceived by him for so long. He was influenced by Yinzhu, and in fact, his personality has already changed a lot. It's a pity that we were deceived. inside."

I just felt bitter, and then I thought of a question.

Even if this is the truth of the matter, it has nothing to do with cleaning up the door. How could Wuxu be soft because of this?When I thought about it, I asked directly.

Hearing this, Tan Ren's eyes drooped slightly, and he said slowly: "Although the scale of my three sons is not large, but the origin of inheritance, those who enter the Tao, have no blood relatives, and the inheritance is the most important." I know this. It is even more painful for ordinary people to lose their children and grandchildren. It is simply uneasy to die, and they have no face to see their ancestors.Parents and children sometimes turn against each other because of family property, but the master-student relationship is stronger than the kinship relationship.

Family disputes, turning against each other, and abandoning the old and the young are not mentioned on the table, but they are everywhere around. Who doesn't have such things around them?On the contrary, the master-student relationship is more stable than the kinship relationship because of the inheritance relationship.

In the family relationship, the son inherits the father's business and carries on the family line from generation to generation, so males are preferred to females; in the master-student relationship, the emphasis is on inheritance, and the status of those who inherit the same line is very different from other disciples.

Take Tan Ren as an example, although he did not take the path of refining corpses, he is Wuxu's first disciple. If he hadn't died back then, then after Wuxu passed away, he would be the master of the Three Sons Temple, so he has a detached position .

Therefore, when Tan Ren talked about inheritance at this moment, I immediately understood.Both Zhou Xuanye and Zhou Xuanli belonged to the lineage of corpse refining, and their identities were different from other disciples. Among all the disciples, Wuxu valued Tan Ren the most, but Zhou Xuanye and Zhou Xuanli were treated specially.That is, these three are 'biological' and the rest are adopted.

As a closed disciple of 'Adoption', I feel that my heart has been hit hard.

Sure enough, Tan Ren then said: "Both of them are descendants of the lineage of corpse refining, among them Zhou Xuanli's talent is even better, and his heart is like a child, he is kind and amiable, he respects his teacher, he is compassionate and merciful. , is also deeply loved by Master.”

I said: "However, when you died, Master made you into a corpse, and it took several years to train you to the level of corpse king, and 'Zhou Xuanli' died, but the corpse was preserved. In this way, Master Still love you more."

The corner of Tan Ren's mouth twitched, and he said, "I am the first disciple of the temple master, what do you think?" Not only the first disciple, but also the first disciple of the temple master, this identity, placed in the ancient imperial system, is the empress's birth. Tan Ren's eldest son was placed in the home of ordinary people who favored sons over daughters, that is, the son who was the leader of a group of daughters, and placed in an environment where inheritance was extremely important, Tan Ren's emphasis on Tan Ren was almost taken for granted.

I said: "It seems that the place to become a monk is not a pure land on earth, and the levels are still very clear."

Tan Ren didn't respond to my words, but said: "I'm sorry for Master, I failed his high expectations."

This was the first time Tan Guimao said such a thing. I was stunned for a moment, and realized that this girl was really guilty, so I patted him on the shoulder and said, "Look at it, let's go forward and continue, although you are gone , but there are others. The first student is gone, and the second child is still there, yes, the one named Tianqin... He has been closed for so long, he didn’t starve to death, right?”

Tan Ren glanced at me, and then showed that stupid look of yours, and said: "Since you have entered the door, you must follow the rules. I don't care about what happens outside, but inside the door, you must respect the teacher. , That's your second senior brother, the Dao name is not something you can call."

I said, "You can't call me Second Senior Brother. When you call me, I think of Zhu Bajie." I swear, I'm not looking for faults, but I really think so. I blame the brainwashing of Journey to the West every summer.

Tan Ren was twitched by the corner of my mouth in anger. If it weren't for the fact that both of us were exhausted, I think we would definitely fight again.

In the end he didn't fight with me, probably because he was in a heavy heart, so he didn't pay attention to me, and continued: "The first disciple and the beloved disciple, after all, separated by identity, although I am the first disciple, but if we really talk about the beloved disciple, it is still Zhou Xuanli won Master's heart even more. At that time, Zhou Xuanli and I were involved in it, and it was a great blow to Master. As for Zhou Xuanye, although he is talented, he has a gloomy personality and is full of viciousness. Master has been doing his best He is restrained and taught him, but this is only the duty of a teacher, from the bottom of my heart, I don’t like him.”

I recalled it, and said: "So, just when you were about to kill Zhou Xuanye, he told the truth and learned that he was Zhou Xuanli, so Master, did he soften his hand?"

Tan Ren nodded slightly, and said, "It's a big mistake."

I'll go, old man Wuxu, his heart is really lost.

(End of this chapter)