Twilight Boundary

What’s so difficult about practicing?

With this batch of blood food in hand, Hu Ma felt calm and even felt relieved.

As a Shou Sui man, he himself has two advantages. One is that his body is dead, and the other is that he has a statue of his natal deity to see him. Now what limits his progress is nothing more than his own Taoism.

And this batch of blood food has solved an urgent need. As long as you replenish your Tao practice, you can practice without any worries. Maybe, you can complete the entire third level of practice.

After refining his skills, he had already reached the first level.

Now that I have quietly revitalized my limbs, I have theoretically reached the second level.

After refining the five internal organs, he will reach the third level, and his abilities will be no worse than Shopkeeper Wu.

I was pleasantly surprised and wanted to eat all the blood food, but I just thought about it. I stuffed a blood food pill into my mouth first, and then I prepared to hide most of the blood food first and wait for the water to flow. , slowly refine the Taoism.

Of course, the main thing to hide is the batch of green food. The blood food pills are too valuable, so I have to keep them with me.

But fortunately, this blood food pill occupies a small space and is easy to store.

And after feeding Xiao Hongtang a piece of green food, she also worked very hard, without using any tools, squatting in front of the stove, sticking her butt out and digging for a long time, which made her face black. She turned around and smiled, and could only see a row of The snow-white sharp teeth look weird but cute.

Hu Ma put away the blood food pills and hurried over to help. He buried the bag in the pit at the bottom of the stove, filled it with soil and paved it with bricks.

Then spread a layer of mud and put the ashes back, and this little treasure house is ready.

Although it has been refined, how to safely hide the blood food is also a big question. The people taught by Tan'er are vicious and just peel off human skin to make a bag. It can be kept for a year without the smell of blood food leaking out.

The Red Lantern Festival is different. Although the Red Lantern Lady is also a danger to Mingzhou, she can't do things like killing people and skinning them in such a big way...

…At least they don’t do it now.

Therefore, it is usually held in a large vat, sealed with a blood talisman, and then escorted manually.

Logically speaking, this batch of flax has been refined and is much safer. However, there is a piece of rare Tai Sui that has not been refined, so flax did not dare to be too careless and used an earth recipe taught by the second master to hide it. Under the stove.

Under the stove is the essence of the meal, the essence of the herbs, and most importantly, the smoke of human fireworks. It can cover up the smell of blood and food. It is the cheapest thing he can choose now.

"What is this piece of golden thread Tai Sui the white wine lady said about?"

After doing this, Hu Ma felt strange that inside the oil-paper bag was the strange Tai Sui that looked like blood but had traces of gold patterns.

Miss White Wine made other blood foods into blood pills and gels that were easy to carry and store. But this one was not processed in any way. She just divided it into three equal parts and asked herself and Erguotou to keep it well. .

The golden thread Tai Sui is wrapped in is a special oil cloth, which can prevent Tai Sui's energy and blood from being exposed and rotten. In fact, it is easier to use than a human skin bag, but it is too expensive.

It is far less troublesome and efficient than finding someone to peel off the skin to make a cloth bag.

"Either it's useless, or it's a life-saving thing."

When Miss Baijiu divided the piece of Tai Sui between Hu Ma and Erguotou, she just talked lazily and looked not in a good mood.

Hu Ma guessed that she might also feel distressed in her heart. She could obviously keep this thing secret...

After arranging everything, he took Xiao Hongtang out and locked the door.

Looking up at the dark night sky, walking on the stone road in the town, looking at the stars in the sky, I felt refreshed as if I had done something bad.

Perhaps, later on, I will find a suitable reason to move here directly.

Of course, you can't be in a hurry when it comes to living here now. You can be irritable now and then without arousing suspicion.

Returning to Zhuangzi, he rested for the night. When he got up the next day, Hu Ma began to arrange for the workers in Zhuangzi to open the warehouse in the outer courtyard that had been locked for a year, repair rat holes, broken window edges, and repair all the materials needed for the beginning of spring. The arriving carts and weapons were also checked one by one.

In the busy afternoon, the shopkeeper Leng Buding asked the old servant to come over and call Hu Ma. After arriving in the inner courtyard, he saw two oil lamps placed on the stone table. There was also an old-looking vine placed at the feet of the old shopkeeper. boxes.

He was drinking tea, but he didn't pour the flax or ask him to sit down. He just said, "I'm telling you, listen."

"I won't explain much about what happened earlier."

"But the method I taught you is real, and the four ghosts' unique skill of knocking on the door is also real."

"You have only mastered one hand and one foot now, and the fire level is still too low. I'm afraid you won't be able to handle it as the shopkeeper of this Zhuangzi. Therefore, you should start to understand the other hands and feet. With two lamps, you Take it away and light it when the time comes."

"As well as the ones in this box and the two you took away before, you don't have to return them."

"..."

"The shopkeeper means..."

Hearing this, Hu Ma was slightly surprised. Through the tiny gaps in the rattan, she could see oil lamps inside.

I had seen it in the shopkeeper's cabinet earlier.

These oil lamps are the basis for people to practice death and survive, but he wants to give them to himself?

Faced with Hu Ma's doubts, the old shopkeeper did not explain much, but frowned slightly and asked hesitantly, "You said before that your mother-in-law is a ghost walker, so she must be someone with some knowledge. Have you ever heard of the Zhao family, a magic hand?"

"The Zhao Family of Magic Hands?"

Hu Ma hesitated for a moment and slowly shook her head.

"well……"

The old shopkeeper said no more, just sighed lightly and said: "Tell the guys to help me keep an eye on it if you have the chance."

"You should be more active during this period. I'm afraid I won't be able to teach you for much longer."

"..."

Hu Ma understood what he meant.

The old shopkeeper had hinted to me a few years ago that he would recommend himself to be the shopkeeper. He also said that he had aroused the suspicion of the people above him, and he was afraid that it would be meaningless to continue to stay here.

Looking at it now, what he said about leaving was true. It was not just that the Red Light Club would leave no one behind, but that he wanted to find the magic hand Zhao family to treat sister Wu He, but he hadn't found out clearly yet.

But the key is, I actually don’t know.

Miss White Wine told herself about this, but she didn't reveal any other information. Firstly, even if she knew some specific information, she couldn't talk nonsense about it, because it was not something she should know, and secondly, neither did White Wine. Know the whereabouts of the Zhao family.

She knows this family and knows that they have treated Wu He sister well, but this family is so mysterious that no one knows where they live.

I brought the rattan box back and opened it. Sure enough, it was full of oil lamps.

After checking, there were fifteen in total.

It seems that the old shopkeeper really gave himself the secret of keeping the year.

Normally speaking, the Shou Sui people cannot practice the Shou Sui method without these oil lamps. The limbs, five internal organs, eyes, ears, nose and tongue all have specific oil lamps corresponding to them.

Speaking of which, these are actually poisons that can be precisely targeted to kill a certain part of oneself, but they are also the poisons that watchers need most. I don’t know how much painstaking effort of previous generations it contains. Although I don’t need it, I also know its value. .

However, upon entering the mansion, there are actually seventeen lamps in the entire set.

This set passed down by the old shopkeeper is already good, except for the most mysterious brain and secrets.

This is not because the old shopkeeper is hiding his secrets. In fact, he has not been informed of it.

In addition, in fact, Tan'er teaches many demonic arts, and Shou Sui people have many abilities. Whether it is the hands, feet, organs, ears, eyes, nose, and tongue, some special abilities can be cultivated accordingly.

But each skill requires a lot of effort to figure out. The old shopkeeper himself is an idle shopkeeper who took refuge in the Red Lantern Queen, so it would be good to have a unique skill.

"I just hope that sister Wu He will be lucky enough to find the Zhao family smoothly..."

Hu Ma sighed in her heart, but vaguely felt that the word "human feelings" is really complicated.

In fact, according to his previous calculations, Miss Baijiu pointed Sister Wu He in a direction, and she secretly informed her that she would repay the favor to save her life. But in the end she couldn't bear her suffering and helped her beg for a jar of green jade ointment. Unexpectedly, this It brought benefits to myself again.

The old shopkeeper now treats himself better than his own apprentice.

But there has been a rift between the two, but it is impossible to return to the previous confidant relationship.

He put away all the oil lamps, but his right hand was also wrapped with a strip of cloth. After all, the old shopkeeper was still in the village. He had to be more careful, but his limbs were mature. The next step was to consider the refining of the five internal organs. .

There were relevant records in the old shopkeeper's notebook, and he had already memorized them in his mind. It was just a simple note. After all, it was not as detailed as a step-by-step instruction.

But first of all, it was impossible for me to go to the old master like before, and secondly, since I had the statue of my natal god to see me, I didn't worry about going the wrong way.

All that needs to be determined now is where to start with these five internal organs?

…

At night, Hu Ma was thinking about her spiritual practice, but she started to get busy during the day. Now that the day has come, a few waves of people came to the city earlier to explore the road conditions, see if the livestock were healthy, how the warehouses were repaired, and whether the accounts were clear. Clear and so on.

Now, the seven blood food mines belonging to the Red Lantern Lady Guild have all worshiped Tai Sui, and all the manpower in the city has been dispatched.

Presumably the first batch of blood food will arrive soon, and every village will start making preparations.

Whenever these people come, the shopkeeper will also come out to accompany them. I don't know what method he uses, but he looks very energetic.

But he was just accompanying him, letting Hu Ma participate in and preside over most things. Moreover, as soon as he returned, he quickly returned to the inner courtyard. It seemed that every time he managed to maintain a normal state for a while, he had already let go. He felt very tired.

But after a period of time like this, Hu Ma became more and more familiar with these matters and the people involved.

Especially when Manager Xu from the city came down and presented something that the second master had given him, he was actually overjoyed when faced with this worthless thing.

Since then, they have become friends with Hu Ma Lun in private.

Even Hu Ma couldn't help but think sometimes: "Could I really be a shopkeeper?"