Chapter 21 Chapter 21
"Silver, gilt chains, jade beads, velvet fabrics..."
Master Wen looked at the things Gu Xuanyou brought back from outside and said, "Are you going to make jewelry for the girl you love?"
Gu Xuanyou was almost shocked to the ground by these words.
"No, Master, it's not the girl you love..."
"Men should get married when they are old enough, and women should get married when they are old enough. What's there to be embarrassed about?" Master Wen spoke in a loud voice and patted Gu Xuanyou's shoulder with a smile.
Ling Suye just came out of the inner room. He had just applied medicine on his body, so he was not wearing a collar. His hair, which had been hanging loose all year round, was tied up on top of his head with a wooden hairpin.
He has thick black hair, and with it tied up like this, he looks even younger, and the youthful heroism between his brows attracts attention.
Gu Xuanyou only had admiration and respect for his master, and he just wanted to give his master a gift that pleased him.
But after being disturbed by his master's word "sweetheart", when he saw Ling Suye again, Gu Xuanyou actually turned his head to recognize his face.
Master Wen came over and looked at the patterns of the medicinal juice on Ling Suye's body in the candlelight.
"That's still not right. This sword wound on your chest probably didn't occur at the same time as the destruction of your Dantian and the severance of your tendons and veins, right? You used your body to draw the talisman, so you must include the cause and effect of both. Now the pattern is still not flowing... Tsk, boy, do you still remember who stabbed you with this sword wound?"
"Jiang Ji" uses his body as a medium and his soul as a guide to absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and use it for himself.
This is a method that goes against the will of heaven.
Therefore, this path of cultivation is full of thorns, and if you are not careful, you will go astray and be destroyed.
Ling Suye said, "I only know that this injury occurred ten years ago when I accompanied my parents to Chuzhou to watch the gambling stone competition. As for who injured me and under what circumstances, I have no idea."
Master Wen suddenly said, "Ten years ago, you were nine years old. Nine years old is not the age of a blind child who doesn't remember anything, let alone something as big as this."
Gu Xuanyou also came over and looked over here. He knew the wound on his master's body.
When I first saw it, I was shocked. I thought if it was stabbed a little off, it would be fatal!
But the owner just downplayed the injury and said it was an injury he suffered when he was a child, and he no longer remembered how he got it.
Ling Suye raised his head and faced the direction of Master Wen. His eyes were not open, but he gave people the impression that he was deep in thought.
After a long while, he finally said, "I really forgot."
"I don't have any recollection of it," Ling Suye added, "but judging by the scar, he must have been stabbed from behind."
"You can ask..." The three words "your family" were swallowed back by Master Wen.
He added, "Now this karma lies across your body. If you try to 'resolve it', you'll probably go mad before you even succeed. Boy, think carefully about where and who was present to cause you to sustain this injury."
Ling Suye's eyes moved occasionally under his thin eyelids.
"Now, apart from knowing that this wound was caused by a stab wound in the back, there are no other clues. Master, give me a pen and paper. When I have something to do, my thoughts can be focused more quickly."
Master Wen directly asked Gu Xuanyou to put away all his gilded chains first, and asked Ling Suye to sit where he had sat before and reminisce about the past.
"I remember clearly that I had never been fatally injured before I was nine years old."
After saying this, he wrote the word "九" on the paper.
"When I was nine years old, the biggest thing that happened was that I followed my parents to Chuzhou to watch the gambling stone competition." Ling Suye continued.
Master Wen asked, "Do you remember who won the gambling stone competition?"
Ling Suye was silent again for a long time. He wrote on the paper: "Amnesia?"
Finally, erase the 'question mark'.
He did have amnesia.
But in the ten years since he lost his memory, he didn't notice anything wrong, and even mentioned several times that he had watched the last round of the gambling stone competition.
Master Wen thought for a moment, "Is this the work of a demon? You've certainly lost your memory, but it's not the same as someone who's truly missing a piece of their memory. You... understand demons best. Is this a demon's magic?"
Ling Suye didn't hesitate this time: "It's a demon."
Moreover, it is a 'jade demon' raised in spiritual jade.
This kind of monster was born from spiritual jade, but it is different from the gold-devouring beast like Xiao Jin. The "jade monster" cannot search for treasure, but it can nourish the soul, strengthen the soul, and even swallow a small piece of soul that contains memory fragments.
Similarly, although ordinary people are unaware of the 'jade demon', they often use jade to suppress the souls of those with weak spirits;
The common saying "people raise jade, jade raises people" is also true.
Master Wen asked, "What kind of demon?"
Ling Suye didn't answer: "I need to think about it."
Master Wen sighed, "Well, you're still young after all. You definitely haven't read all the books in our home yet. Don't worry, think about it carefully, think about it carefully."
Ling Suye did not answer because he was wondering what kind of monster this was.
I also guessed who the second demon was - Jubao Pavilion, Yunniang.
Master Wen once said that Yunniang helped him live for decades longer and was very kind to him.
To help a dead person live longer, you can only help him strengthen his soul.
This is a natural skill that only the Jade Demon possesses.
In addition, Yunniang really took good care of Ling Suye. Ling Suye had doubts before, but now he can be sure that Yunniang is the "Jade Demon" who devoured a part of his memory.
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The next day, Gu Xuanyou continued to stay in the inn to draw talismans, while Ling Suye went to Jubao Pavilion again.
The door is still closed.
This time Ling Suye did not give up. Instead, he bit his fingertip and used blood as a medium to form a seal.
——After his cultivation was destroyed, he could only communicate with the monster by shedding blood.
There was bleeding every day these days. Ling Suye moved his fingertips slightly and felt that his fingertips were covered with wounds.
He placed his hands on his chest, and just as he was about to cross his slender fingers and finish the hand seals, there was a sudden "click" from the door.
Yunniang stood behind the door, her voice filled with a hint of distress: "Are you looking for me?"
"Yes. I have something to ask, young lady." Ling Suye slowly lowered his hands.
"Come in," Yunniang said, "If you want to see me, just knock on the door."
The shopkeeper of the nearby shop saw this and quickly interrupted: "My dear, this young man has come to see you many times. I think he is more handsome than the others. Hey."
Yunniang slammed the shop door shut.
After hearing no movement outside, Ling Suye said solemnly, "I have a sword wound on my chest. Do you know about this, young lady?"
Yunniang involuntarily took a step back, and when she spoke again, she choked up, "I'm sorry, it's my fault. If I hadn't transformed back then, I wouldn't have caused such trouble, and you wouldn't have nearly died."
The past remained in her heart for ten years.
Now that Ling Suye has come to him, the cause and effect have been completed.
Yunniang brought Ling Suye into the backyard and opened the demon domain at the same time. Her slender jade fingers lightly touched Ling Suye's eyebrows, and the memory belonging to him, along with the fragments of his soul, slowly returned to its original owner.
A long section of past events was seamlessly pieced together into Ling Suye's memory, as if he had never lost this memory.
At that time, Ling Suye was nine years old, still a half-grown child, and went to Chuzhou with his parents.
The reason is that the elders of the tribe sensed from afar that a "jade monster" was about to be born in Chuzhou.
'Jade Demon' is different from other demons that bring disaster to the world. 'Jade Demon' is often born when the spiritual energy and rhythm of heaven and earth are in harmony.
Therefore, before the 'Jade Monster' was reborn, it contained a lot of spiritual energy in its body, which was a great tonic.
Legend has it that it can also prolong life.
Monster catchers often catch "jade monsters" and sell them to powerful families for a good price.
However, when the orthodox monster-hunting families noticed this, they would often go to protect the Jade Monster from being reborn.
They didn't intend to take the Jade Demon as their own, but because it was too difficult for the Jade Demon to be born.
The right time, place and people are all essential.
For rare monsters that are basically harmless to the human world, monster-catching families generally rescue them from danger based on the principle of protection.
This time, Ling Ping, the head of the Ling family, went to protect the Jade Demon's rebirth.
As long as it can successfully transform, it can hide its own spiritual charm and no longer be coveted by those with ulterior motives.
In order to avoid leaking his itinerary and causing more disputes, Ling Ping chose to take his wife and children with him and set off for Chuzhou under the pretext of watching a gambling stone competition, without causing any suspicion along the way.
But Ling Ping never expected that this time, there were not only folk monster catchers waiting for the Jade Monster to be reborn, but also a group of anonymous men in black.
When the memory came back to this point, Ling Suye's heart began to beat wildly.
——It’s the man in black again.
He tried hard to remember the appearance and martial arts of the men in black, but because his memory was too hazy at the age of nine, he could only see his father and mother fighting with these men in black.
The scene at that time should have been inside the City God Temple.
His parents led the man in black away, leaving only him, a child about his own age, and the jade in the child's arms.
Before leaving, A Niang said, "Aye, you two find a place to hide. Hold on to your swords and protect him and this jade. Got it?"
Ling Suye nodded heavily.
The child looked somewhat familiar. He seemed to know that Ling Suye was there to help him. He took Ling Suye's hand and said, "Come with me. I know there's a tunnel here."
As he said this, he was about to take Ling Suye to climb up the railing and jump down into the tunnel along the rainwater pipe.
Ling Suye followed behind him, and when the child jumped, he noticed a sharp sword coming from the right!
He was so frightened that his breathing stopped. Thinking of A Niang's words, he immediately blocked it with his backhand.
The man in black was obviously surprised as well. He didn't expect that a nine-year-old child could block his sword!
He turned around and exchanged a few moves with Ling Suye, but there was no clear winner.
It was not the first time that Ling Suye had fought against someone much older than him, but it was the first time that he encountered such a life-and-death crisis.
He was a little nervous at first, but as the fights increased, he found that the man in black seemed to be in trouble.
Ling Suye then gained a bit more confidence, and actually slashed the black-clothed man's wrist with his sword, making his sword fall to the ground.
Ling Suye shouted to the child, "Hurry up, jump first."
The child quickly jumped down the road, and Ling Suye followed closely behind.
The square path was dark and quiet. The child held the jade in his arms, held Ling Suye's hand, and ran all the way.
After a long time, the child finally stopped and said: "This is the drainage channel in the temple. It leads to all directions. They will definitely not be able to find this place."
He was relieved and said in a light tone, "You are so powerful that you can defeat those bad guys."
After a pause, the child felt that the hand he was holding with Ling Suye was a little sticky. He sniffed and found that there was a smell of blood.
It was only then that Ling Suye discovered that blood was coming out of his palm.
"That man was too strong. My palm was broken, but it's okay."
His tone became serious: "Wipe the blood off your hands on my clothes before continuing to run. I'm afraid someone will follow the smell of blood."
The child was stunned: "What about you?"
Ling Suye said, "I'll follow you closely, covering your rear."
Seeing the child still hesitate, he added: "I'm very strong. You saw it. Don't be afraid. I will be fine."
Hearing the muffled sound of footsteps coming from the silent path, Ling Suye told the child to quickly wipe the blood and run forward.
After Ling Suye stopped the two men in black, he was shocked to find that the child was also being chased.
He didn't know where he got the courage from, but he rushed forward and stopped the knife that was about to stab the child.
"Run!" Blood was flowing from the corners of Ling Suye's lips.
The child was holding the jade, panicked and at a loss. He couldn't just leave the person who was protecting him and go away.
Just as Ling Suye was fending off the other two, a man in black stabbed him from behind with a sword.
The child actually rushed over quickly, stepping on the stone wall, trying to stand behind Ling Suye.
But he still couldn't be faster than the black-clothed man's sword. The snow-white sword light pierced Ling Suye's thin body, and the nine-year-old Ling Suye just... fell in front of the child.
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