Sword of Coming

Chen Ping'an led Ning Yao to a colorful statue, which was about a head taller than a strong young man. It originally had three pairs of arms, but now only the highest one with a fist, raised high, and the lowest " "Handshake" arm. The reason why one arm can shake hands is because the fingers of the statue are intertwined. Therefore, even if the other arm is cut off at shoulder level, the palm and wrist still have to be left.

The colorful clay statue is an armored god with a big beard, clanking armor, and continuous scales. The edges of the armor are decorated with two bead lines, and the beads are full. Compared with the ugliness of the ancestral armor of Liu Xianyang's family, it is only good for appearance. In other words, it is really the difference between Zhigui and Granny Ma.

The statue of the god is stepped on a square black stone pedestal. Compared with the headless statue that the two of them stayed under the fence last night, this painted statue has many broken arms and mottled painted sculptures, but it still exudes a spirit of high spirits. Vibrant and spirited. The most important thing is that at the waist and abdomen of the clay statue, the hands are intertwined in an extremely weird posture.

Ning Yao saw the clues at a glance and understood why Chen Pingan brought him here in a hurry. He nodded and said: "It is indeed a bit like the standing boxing frame in the Shanshan Book, but it is a bit different from the sword furnace in the boxing book. different."

Ning Yao thought for a moment and asked, "Can you find other severed arms nearby?"

Chen Pingan squatted on the ground, shook his head with regret and said: "I searched, but found nothing. I guess they were trampled to pieces by the children who came here to hide and seek. After so many years, these earth gods, immortal mud bodhisattvas, must have suffered a lot. I've eaten them all. Look at this one, the tallest fist, there's a big piece missing at the wrist, and there are many cracks next to it. It's obviously been damaged by someone using a slingshot or a stone. Children in small towns are all In this way, the less adults are allowed to come here to play, the more they like to come here secretly to catch crickets and dig wild vegetables. Especially when it snows every year, dozens of people often have snowball fights here. It is very lively. After playing crazy, , I don’t care about anything. When I was a kid, I liked to compete to see who could climb higher. Some people also liked to climb to the top of the statue to pee, to see who could pee farther. So you think about it, after every year, you won’t have everything. In fact, when I was a child, I had several wooden statues of gods. Later, I heard that some lazy people thought it was too tiring to go up the mountain to chop firewood, so I set my sights on them. At the beginning of winter, I secretly took them home and chopped them into firewood. The grain is burned.”

The young man kept muttering there, a little low and sentimental, "At that time, I was rejected by Old Man Yao and had no understanding of how to burn kilns, so he rushed to the mountain to burn charcoal. If I know someone in the town doing this, I must give him some advice. Really No, I can agree to help him cut firewood. Even though the clay Bodhisattva, a god of earth and wood, has never appeared, he is still a Bodhisattva after all. However, he was chopped into firewood. How can he do such an unethical thing..."

Ning Yao and Chen Ping'an focused on completely different things at the moment.

Ning Yao held his chin with one hand and supported his elbow with the other. His eyes were shining and he said slowly: "If I'm not wrong, the sword furnace of your family's boxing book was born from this, but it's not what you see now. The hands are actually the middle pair of arms in front of the statue of a Taoist spiritual official. They are the sword furnaces formed by the disappeared hands. Although I don’t know why the person who wrote the boxing manual only chose one of them and didn’t choose one. The gesture we see now, but I can be sure of one thing, the sword furnace, or the spirit officer pointing the sword and making the secret, may be different in size."

Chen Ping'an was confused after hearing this, but he did not forget to retort and remind: "The boxing score belongs to Gu Can, and I am keeping it for you."

Ning Yao did not argue with Chen Ping'an. He pointed at the sword furnace stand of the Taoist spiritual official and explained: "Did you see that in the boxing chart, the last finger of the right hand protrudes, but here, the nine fingers are entangled, surrounded, and intertwined. To buckle, only one index finger of the left hand is extended, making it stand out. The purpose is to pinch the fingers to form a sword formula, and ultimately to nourish the index finger."

Ning Yao said to himself: "I have been traveling in your world for many years, and I have seen the Four Heavenly Kings of many temples, and the spiritual officials of various Taoist temples. This clay statue..."

Chen Ping waited quietly for the next sentence, but after waiting for a long time, he didn't get an answer, so he had to ask: "Is there anything strange?"

Ning Yao nodded and said seriously: "He is the shortest."

The boy squatting on the ground didn't say anything, he just extended his thumb towards her.

Ning Yao turned around and asked, "Have you ever seen the Taoist spiritual official statue that is higher than your Piyun Mountain?"

"Of course I haven't seen it before." Chen Ping'an was stunned and asked doubtfully: "Is Piyun Mountain from our side?"

Ning Yao suddenly understood and explained: "It's the highest mountain here. A long time ago, it is said that a master of Taoism buried a Celestial Master Seal on the side of Piyun Mountain to suppress the power of this world. Dragon spirit."

Chen Ping'an's eyes lit up, "Do you know the general direction? Can we dig it?"

Ning Yao smiled and said: "What, you want to dig it up and sell it for money?"

Chen Pingan, who was exposed to the truth, blushed slightly and said frankly: "It doesn't have to be sold for money. As long as it is good and valuable, it is good to keep it at home as a heirloom."

Ning Yao pointed his finger at the guy who was looking at the money, and said angrily: "If you can open a sect in the future, I guess there will be a sect leader like you who swallows mud like a swallow and manages the family well. My disciple Ke Qing will definitely I won’t have to worry about food and clothing for the rest of my life, just lie back and enjoy the blessings.”

Chen Ping'an didn't think that far, and he didn't even understand what it meant to establish a sect.

He stood up and asked: "No matter how big or small, the sword furnace in front of you can be regarded as a kind of sword furnace?"

Ning Yao nodded and said: "The large and small sword furnaces are divided into left and right hands. The real objects of nourishment are definitely not the index finger of the left hand and the tail finger of the right hand, but all the way upstream until..."

When Ning Yao said this, she closed her eyes and concentrated. She didn't even need to make a gesture to set up a stake, but she could feel it. After opening her eyes, she bent her fingers and pointed at two places on the back of her head, namely the Jade Pillow and the Tianzhu. The two acupoints are indeed more suitable places to warm and nourish the natal flying sword. She smiled and said: "The sword furnace in the left hand corresponds to this, and the right hand points to this."

Chen Ping'an said blankly: "Miss Ning, actually I have always wanted to ask, this sword furnace is said to be a stake in the boxing manual, but the fingers are twisting like this, what does this have to do with practicing boxing? Can it increase strength?"

Ning Yao was a little dumbfounded.

If Ning Yao had to explain the ins and outs of martial arts or cultivation in detail, it would be too difficult for her, let alone ask her to explain how to successfully overcome the big and small pits along the way. After all, for Ning Yao himself, do these most boring truths still need to be spoken out? Isn’t it natural that you should be familiar with the roads?

So the young girl scolded the young man with a straight face: "If you are not at the advanced level, what you say is in vain! Why do you ask so many questions? Just practice hard! Why, you can't bear the hardship?"

Chen Ping'an was doubtful and said cautiously: "Miss Ning, is this really the case?"

Ning Yao crossed his arms across his chest, with a righteous expression on his face, and asked, "Otherwise?!"

Chen Ping'an stopped asking about the matter, looked up at the painted statue of the god that Ning Yao called the Taoist Spirit Officer, and said, "This is the god of Taoist Master Lu and his family."

Ning Yao said helplessly: "What do you mean by the immortals of Mr. Lu's family? First, although Taoism has a family name, it is definitely not the family of ordinary people in your small town. Taoism is far bigger than you can imagine, even Even I don’t know how many Taoist priests there are in the Taoist sect, and how many branches there are. I only heard my father say that the ancestral court is now divided into four parts: upper, lower, north and south... Forget it, telling you this is just playing the piano to an ox. Secondly, the gods and immortals, although you We are used to reciting them together, even ordinary people all over the world are like this. But in the final analysis, gods and immortals take different paths. Let me give you an example. People compete for a breath, and Buddha competes for a stick of incense. Listen to this sentence Have you passed?"

Chen Pingan nodded and said, "Mother Ma in Xinghua Lane used to quarrel with Gu Can's mother, and I could always hear these words."

Ning Yao had some pointers at this time, "Buddha fights for a stick of incense, why fight? Because gods do need incense. Without incense, gods will gradually weaken and eventually lose their boundless magic power. The reason is simple. Just like a person who doesn't eat whole grains for several days, where does he get the strength? Why does the secular court ask officials from all over the country to ban prostitution temples? What they are afraid of is that the incense in the world will be messy, causing some people or things who should not become gods to become gods. To say the least, even if they become gods without authorization, they are good-natured people who are willing to protect the local people year after year and never violate the rules of heaven and earth. But for the emperor and monarch who claims to be a 'true dragon' , these obscene temples that are not enshrined by the imperial court are ruining the feng shui of a place, tantamount to separatist rule in vassal towns, weakening the destiny of the dynasty, and an act of poaching, because it will shorten the years of Guo Zuo, how can others be allowed to snore next to the couch? "

"As for immortals, it's very simple. Nine out of ten outsiders you see are considered to be immortals. Even the old ape in Zhengyang Mountain is considered to be half an immortal. He walks on the road by himself and climbs the mountain step by step. It leads to the mountaintop of immortality. Those who practice are also called Qi Refiners, and the things they practice are called cultivating immortality or cultivating the truth."

Chen Pingan asked: "So is this Taoist spiritual official a god or an immortal? According to Miss Ning, he should be regarded as an immortal in the Taoist sect, right?"

Ning Yao looked solemn, shook his head slightly, and did not continue to reveal the secret.

She frowned suddenly.

A stone shot out of nowhere and hit the fist of the Lingguan statue that was higher than its head, causing a lot of debris to fall down.

Ning Yao waved his hand to disperse the mud and dust above his head.

Chen Pingan stood up, followed Ning Yao's line of sight, turned his head and saw an unexpected figure.

There was a short, dark and lean boy squatting on a fallen statue in the distance, throwing and catching stones with one hand.

Chen Pingan turned around and stood side by side with Ning Yao, and said softly: "His name is Ma Kuxuan. He is the grandson of Granny Ma in Xinghua Lane. He is a very strange person. He has not been talkative since he was a child. I met him last time in the creek. , Ma Kuxuan even took the initiative to talk to me, he obviously knew that snake gallstones are very valuable."

The young man named Ma Kuxuan stood up and continued to weigh the stone. He smiled brightly at Ning Yao and Chen Ping'an and said straight to the point: "If I go to Li's house on Fulu Street and tell the old ape in Zhengyang Mountain that I have found it, You two, I think you can get a bag of money no matter what. But as long as you give me two bags of money, I will pretend not to see anything. As promised in advance, it is just a business, don't think about killing people and silencing them. There are so many gods and bodhisattvas on the ground looking at us, so be careful of retribution."

The angry Ning Yao was about to speak, but Chen Pingan grabbed his arm. He took a step forward and asked Ma Kuxuan in a deep voice: "If I am willing to give you money, can you really not tell me?"

Ma Kuxuan was slightly stunned, as if he didn't expect that this young girl, so easy to talk to, would actually start a business with him.

However, he was too lazy to continue acting. He took out a gorgeous and expensive money bag, threw it on the ground, and said with a smile: "I have already received payment from the Li family, but I am not doing it for money. Chen Pingxiang Ping'an, Song Jixin's next-door neighbor, right? If you want to blame, blame the guy next to you, it's so annoying, she ruined a lot of people's affairs yesterday."

The young man twitched his lips and pointed to himself, "Like me."

Chen Pingan looked around.

Ma Kuxuan looked at Ning Yao and said with a smile: "Don't worry, that old ape has some things to deal with for the time being. I will take this opportunity to ask for something from you. You know what it is, right?"

Ning Yao sneered and said, "Be careful if you lose your life."

Ma Kuxuan said happily: "You are not my wife, why are you worried about this?"

Chen Pingan really couldn't imagine that for such a ghostly guy, how could anyone think that he was a fool?

Ning Yao's face was gloomy, he touched Chen Ping'an's shoulder and reminded softly: "I don't know why Feijian can't get in when it gets around here."

Ma Kuxuan shifted his gaze slightly and grinned at Chen Pingan: "The battle on the roof yesterday was very exciting. I happened to see it. Oh, by the way, you can take off the sandbag tied to your calf, otherwise you are chasing Don’t fuck me.”

As expected, Chen Ping'an squatted down and slowly rolled up his trousers, keeping his eyes on Ma Kuxuan.

It was only then that Ning Yao was surprised to find that there was a circle of medium-thick sandbags tied inside Chen Pingan's trousers and around his calf.

Chen Pingan explained to Ning Yao: "When I was very young, Grandpa Yang from Yang's shop once told me not to take it off even if I die. It was originally intended to be used to deal with the fourth breath of the old ape, but now that I think about it, , that’s about it, because I always feel that this guy named Ma Kuxuan is as dangerous as the old ape.”

Ma Kuxuan lightly jumped off the statue, glanced at the heroic girl in dark green robes, and said to himself: "I thought that I would not meet the first enemy of the avenue until I left the town, but I didn't expect it. We met so quickly. Haha, it’s so lucky that I can’t stop it.”

Ning Yao suddenly asked: "Chen Pingan, that guy was also swung by a cow's tail when he was a child?"

Chen Ping'an stood up, lightly stamped his feet, several times with his left and right feet, thinking seriously about Miss Ning's question, and replied: "Mother Ma is very rich, so I remember that this scalper from Ma Kuxuan's family has an extraordinarily large body shape. Big, that cow’s tail swings, it’s very scary.”

When Chen Pingan stood up, Ma Kuxuan squatted down again, grabbed a handful of stones and placed it in the palm of his left hand.

In the end, the boy from Mu Bottle Lane and the boy from Xinghua Lane, two peers, faced off from afar.