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

Chapter 74 Causal Cycle
From this sleep, I fell asleep until the next morning.

When I opened my eyes, I saw the skylight penetrating into the tent, but I couldn't react for a while.

Why did you sleep until dawn?
Wait... Has Zhou Xuanye come back yet?
I sat up on my ass, and then I heard Han Xu's heartless laughter from outside the tent, counting while laughing: "...21, 22, 23..." This kid, early in the morning, What are you counting?

I rubbed my eyes, and immediately unzipped the chain of the tent and got out.It was only when I went out that I realized, oh, it's really lively outside.

There was a bonfire in the middle, and meat was still being roasted on the fire. I didn't recognize what kind of meat it was roasting.Sitting on the other side was Zhou Xuanye, who really leaned against a banana tree and closed his eyes to rest his mind.And not far from Zhou Xuanye, there was still a person tied up.

That person was none other than the savage who had been making trouble before.

At this moment, he was tied up to a tree by a bunch of flowers. Han Xu's unreliable braids braided the wild man's thick hair and beard into small braids, and he was counting the braids right now!
For a while, I just felt dumbfounded. Wang Zehai was roasting meat. When he saw me coming out, he greeted me: "Lizard meat, it tastes good after washing and peeling. It will be roasted soon." In the underground sewer before, what I felt was cold , Now back inside, once again shrouded in the scorching heat of the desert, I only feel extremely hot.

Wang Zehai roasted it by the fire, sweating himself profusely. I felt very sorry, so I said, "I'll roast it, Boss Wang, you rest."

Wang Zehai laughed loudly, the flesh on his body trembling: "Take care of the injured, don't call me Boss Wang, call me brother."

Han Zitong's face was paralyzed, but his voice was teasing: "Boss Wang, you are already so old, isn't it taking advantage of Tian Gu to call you brother?"

Wang Zehai stared, and said: "Am I old? I am old-hearted." Then he said to me: "Your Wang brother, I am old-hearted! I am always 28 years old man! Hurry up, or this Meat is not your share."

To be honest, I'm really not interested in lizard meat, but I still call him Brother Wang. Wang Zehai is fat, so his skin wrinkles are not obvious, and fat people generally don't look old. There is not even a single white hair on the face, and people who don't know it really can't guess that he is already in his 50s.

I don't know Wang Zehai's exact fifties, but he's already a round older than me, and he's still like an old urchin, with a rather amiable personality.Of course, I knew in my heart that this was just an appearance. Wang Zehai must have a lot of heart to do business like this today. Didn’t he poach Zhou Xuanye’s corner not long ago?

He didn't let me help, so I didn't join in the fun. Zhou Xuanye on the side opened his eyes and looked at me. I suddenly felt that Zhou Xuanye's expression had become much haggard after only one day of absence, as if he had aged several years all of a sudden. .

He waved at me and said, "Come here."

I walked up to him and squatted down, and said, "Brother Zhou, is your health okay?" Originally, I had a lot to ask him, but now that I saw Zhou Xuanye like this, I couldn't ask any more, I was only worried about his Is something wrong with the body.

Hearing this, Zhou Xuanye touched his face, sighed, and said: "This time I used the forbidden technique, and the lost vitality can't be replenished. Am I very old?"

I took a closer look and said, "Maybe he's three or four years older, but he's still handsome."

Zhou Xuanye heaved a sigh of relief, and said, "Fortunately, it looks like he can marry a wife." I couldn't laugh or cry for a while, and said, "Brother Zhou, it's already this time, and you are still in the mood to joke. The forbidden technique you just mentioned is What's going on?" Zhou Xuanye said that he lost his vitality, and I've heard of the term vitality, and Tang Linlin talked to me about it when he took the poisonous bath from the dead body.

Both Taoism and Chinese medicine believe that as soon as a person is born, there is innate vitality in the body. Innate energy determines a person's physical strength and life span, and it is brought from the mother's womb.Acquired vitality is what people ingest from food. In modern terms, it is nutrition.

Acquired vitality can be nourished through the day after tomorrow, but innate vitality cannot. Therefore, in Taoism, innate vitality is the treasure of the human body.

The corpse poison I got last time actually damages my innate vitality, but that kind of damage is very small and can be removed with medicine.But Zhou Xuanye's face was so emaciated in this day, it was obvious that his innate vitality had been greatly depleted.

What forbidden technique did he launch?
I subconsciously feel that this matter has something to do with me.

Asked this question, Zhou Xuanye didn't hide anything, and said bluntly, "There is only one divine talisman, and it was used on Qiu Huangxi to deal with the black snake before, but the black snake...is not an ordinary snake." His brows gradually frowned, and he said: "That snake is a little bit good, and it caused Tan Ren to lose his soul."

I remembered the bead in my pocket, and immediately said, "Is it a lost soul? I know where the boss is. It's with me." While talking, I touched my pocket, but suddenly I found that the beads in the pocket were gone.

I was so startled that I thought I had misplaced it, so I hurried to find other pockets.Zhou Xuanye reached out his hand to block me, and said, "It's here, I'll take it."

I breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Can you wake up the boss?"

Zhou Xuanye nodded, and said: "Yes, but we have to wait for the time, and the time has not come yet." He said, looking at the watch on his wrist.Seeing that Zhou Xuanye looked confident, I breathed a sigh of relief.Zhou Xuanye continued: "Later I went down to look for you, but found that there were no people there. Speaking of finding people, it is actually Tan Ren's specialty, and I am not comparable in this aspect. Do you still remember that you and Qiu Huangxi were in the cave? Here, how did I find you?"

I said, "Ask for directions?" Wang Zehai mentioned this matter to me.

Zhou Xuanye nodded, and said: "The person who was asked for directions, within three days, had a reaction with the caster. I felt the breath of death at that time." He pointed at me and said: " Your birthday horoscope is fake, and no one knows about your real fate. At that time, the feeling of death was very strong..."

I swallowed and said, "Brother Zhou, what do you mean?"

Zhou Xuanye pursed his lips and sighed: "Actually, that should be the time when you were destined to die."

I was choked, my head was buzzing, I didn't know what to do for a while, could it be that I, Su Tiangu, was destined to be a short-lived ghost?
Zhou Xuanye continued: "So, in a hurry, I used my own vitality to invite the three altars of descending gods. The loss of vitality is the price for me to change my life against the sky, but if you survive, you have to pay the corresponding price .”

"What price?" I asked subconsciously.

Zhou Xuanye looked up at the sky, and said: "First fate, second luck, third feng shui, and fourth accumulation of yin virtue. Your life is short, and it will not be much better when you are lucky. As for feng shui, there are mountain and river feng shui and yin and yang big and small feng shui. It is also difficult to show it in your body, the only thing you can do is to accumulate more yin virtues, otherwise, in the future, you will be rewarded with death at any time."

Accumulate virtue?
I said, "Just do more good things, right?"

Zhou Xuanye shook his head, and said, "Some things you think are good things, but you do them, but in fact, it may not be a good thing."

What he said was a bit forgiving, and I didn't quite understand it, so Zhou Xuanye said, "Do you think that Tan Ren helped find Gu Xin at the beginning, was it a good deed?"

Needless to say?Rescuing trafficked children is of course a good thing!

Zhou Xuanye said: "Heaven's law reincarnates, the underworld reincarnates, retribution of life and death. Some people are born to pay for the sins of their previous lives. The cause and effect of heaven predestined her to have this kind of suffering in her life. But people in my generation use all kinds of secret techniques to peek at the secrets of heaven. , Going against God’s will, seemingly doing good deeds, is actually a great loss of yin virtue. Therefore, accumulating yin virtue and doing good deeds are two different concepts.”

Doing good deeds starts from the subjective point of view of the individual, while accumulating yin and virtue considers the big angle of the cycle of heaven.

"There are very few truly powerful people who are willing to solve people's misfortunes. Even if there are, they are dedicated to serving dignitaries and nobles, asking for huge rewards, and using them to accumulate virtue and do good deeds. My senior brother and I only started this firm this year, and most of the money we got was used to help the poor, do good deeds and accumulate virtue. Over the years, we haven’t had anything good on us.”

After a pause, he said to me earnestly: "So Tian Gu, you really can't increase your salary."

After talking for a long time, why do I feel that what he really wants to say is the last sentence?

(End of this chapter)