Water!
Fresh water everywhere!
We must say that we were happy at this time. It was like a long drought and a good rain. Even if the coffin we were riding in was full of corpse stench, it could not affect our mood.
Who in this line of work is delicate? Who has not seen a zongzi and smelled the stench of a corpse? Unless it is as stinky as the mysterious corpse, otherwise this smell really can't affect us too much.
As soon as the coffin left the shallows and floated forward for less than a mile, the fat man and his friends were no longer quiet. We only heard the fat man cheer, then took out our long-empty water bottle and scooped water from the river. As soon as the water was filled, he started to drink it "gulp, gulp" from behind, and at the end he had to shout "happy" to vent the depression of being out of water and food during this period.
"Drink less!"
Qing Yi said to the fat man behind him: "This water has a lot of Yin Qi. If you drink too much, it won't dissipate and you will have diarrhea. Take it easy."
After that, he took the kettle from his waist and scooped a pot of clear water from the river. However, he drank the water in a more gentle manner. He drank it in small sips, not anxious or impatient, and slowly. Even in this environment, he still deserves the word "elegant"!
Perhaps he noticed that I was looking at him, Qing Yi stopped after drinking a few sips of water, looked up at me, and then gently wiped his mouth with his sleeve a few times, and then said casually: "Xiaotian, maybe you have a lot of questions to ask me now?"
After hesitating for a while, I nodded.
"I don't know much about the murderous aura of your Ge family."
Qing Yi sighed softly and said slowly: "The murderous aura of the Ge family and the Xiang Qi of the Xiang Men are the two most difficult and mysterious doors in our industry. The murderous aura is against the harmony of heaven and against the will of heaven. The Xiang Qi is mysterious and unpredictable, and it repeats itself in thousands of ways! In comparison, I know much more about Xiang Men than about your Ge family. At least I know that the ancestor of Xiang Men was Jiang Ziya in the late Shang Dynasty and early Zhou Dynasty. Whether it is the Eight Diagrams and Six Yaos, or observing celestial phenomena, or Xiang Qi, they all came from Jiang Taigong. Later, at the end of his life, Jiang Taigong gave lectures everywhere. He taught all he had learned throughout his life, and eventually formed several divine families. Zhou Jingjia is one of them, and Jiang Taigong's The art of observing celestial phenomena even spread to the West, giving rise to Western astrology.
However, as for your Ge family, I don't even know where the family tradition originated from. I only know that the first General of the Fa Qiu established his own school at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, leaving your lineage behind, and passed on the art of looking at mountains and dragons, and the art of Qimen Dunjia to future generations, which is the book "The Secret Art of Fa Qiu" in your hand. In fact, at that time, the Ge family's craftsmanship was still passed down to the women in the family. However, it is certain that the first General of the Fa Qiu only passed down the art of looking at mountains and dragons, and the art of Qimen Dunjia, which means that he was not the founder of the Ge family's murderous aura!
The period when the Ge family's murderous aura appeared should be during the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, but unfortunately, the world was in chaos at that time, and the Five Barbarians The Han Dynasty's historical records were greatly damaged during the chaos in China, so the person who first created the murderous aura was not recorded in the books. However, I think the person who really created the murderous aura should be the Ge family of that period. It was from that period that the Ge family left the rule that the craft was passed down to men but not women. It is probably because the person who created the murderous aura realized the horror of the Ge family's murderous aura, so he was unwilling to pass the craft down to women, because women are outgoing, and once they get married, they are the wives of his family, and they are likely to teach the Ge family's murderous aura to outsiders, causing chaos in the world!
In short, I know very little about the murderous aura of your Ge family, and I can only answer you very limitedly. I can only try my best to solve your doubts. "
I nodded and bit my head. I gritted my teeth and asked Qingyi: "Then do you know what happened to me just now?"
"Frenzy, madness!"
Qingyi gritted his teeth, uttered these two words, exhaled a long breath, and asked me: "You have been practicing the murderous aura of the Ge family for a while, and you must have discovered some problems with the murderous aura? The murderous aura of the Ge family... is actually very evil! After practicing for a long time, the temperament will even change greatly, becoming gloomy and unpredictable, fierce and violent!"
I couldn't deny this, so I admitted it very straightforwardly. Since I practiced the murderous aura, I felt that the beast in my heart was more and more difficult to control. There were several times, if it weren't for the Buddha's relics suppressing it, I almost went astray!
I can feel that once the beast in my heart is released, I will step into the abyss and there will be no recovery!
"That's it. Most of the practitioners in our line of work feed on the essence of heaven and earth, and follow the right path! But the murderous aura of your Ge family is a sword that goes off the beaten track. It absorbs yin energy, evil energy, and foul energy. It is reasonable that people's temperaments change over time after these evil auras of heaven and earth enter their bodies!"
Qing Yi sighed softly: "Sometimes I even feel that the end of your Ge family's murderous aura is not to become a saint, but to become a demon! Taoism and Buddhism are all about being pure and desireless, and having a calm mind, but the murderous aura of your Ge family is a ball of fire. Murderous aura exists to slaughter living beings. Rage, resentment and other negative emotions are precisely the best medicine to ignite murderous aura!"
After listening I didn't quite understand what Qing Yi said, and after a moment of hesitation, I asked him, "You mean, I was inspired by negative emotions such as anger and resentment?"
Qing Yi nodded, and asked me with a complicated expression, "Do you know why others are afraid of the murderous aura of your Ge family?"
I asked tentatively, "Is it because once the murderous aura breaks out, it is uncontrollable?"
"This is just one reason. The second reason is that it is terrible. The great reputation of your Ge family is earned through fighting, not by going crazy. You must understand this!"
Qing Yi said in a deep voice, "Now your cultivation is still shallow, and the power of the Ge family's murderous aura has not yet been demonstrated. What I can tell you now is Yes, the power of the Ge family's murderous aura is far more than what you have shown, because your current cultivation has not yet reached the stage of murderous aura explosion! The murderous aura of your Ge family, when it is below the seventh stage, is not obvious, and it hurts people with the sharp edge of the actual murderous aura. But once it reaches the seventh stage, it will usher in a terrible qualitative change. The murderous aura penetrates the body, like a flood erupting, and the knife can cut the target a hundred steps away. Not only can it kill evil things, but it can also kill people as easily as taking something out of a bag. Cross-level fighting is not a problem! "
Speaking of this, Qingyi looked at me with a complicated expression: "That is to say, once you reach the seventh stage, if you fight head-on, even I, the Heavenly Master, may not be your opponent! Moreover, if you have hatred in your heart , if you drink hatred and go crazy, your strength will increase sharply in a short period of time, and your negative emotions will easily release your potential. You just went crazy, and your strength ushered in a very terrible explosion in an instant. My preliminary estimate... just now, your strength may have reached the level of the seventh stage in a short period of time. So, it's not that I didn't stop you just now, but... I couldn't stop you!! This is also the reason why your sister doesn't let you kill people below the seventh stage, because at this time, your control over murderous aura is weak. If you hurt someone, evil thoughts will arise in your heart, and you will be unable to stop from then on. You will go astray and become a complete murderer! "
Stimulate potential?
My face suddenly turned ugly: "So, using power beyond my ability must have a price, right?"
"Life span!"
Qingyi glanced at me, shook his head and said: "Xiaotian, unless it is absolutely necessary, you must control your emotions. Your life span has been damaged too much. If you continue to toss, I am afraid you will not live for many years!"
After a pause, Qingyi asked me: "You have read all the history in the world, so you must know the Vikings' berserkers. After cultivating the murderous aura of your Ge family, you are actually similar to the Vikings' berserkers!"
Vikings' berserkers? My eyes twitched fiercely a few times.
Vikings, I believe that anyone who knows something about Western history should know this group of looters who lived in the early Western Pirate Age. To be precise, they should be the largest sea looters. They looted not only merchant ships, but one country after another. This is a country that produces many warriors. Every adult man will become a warrior, fighting and looting on the decks soaked with the blood of their ancestors. They once caused smoke all over Europe, and finally arrived in North America!
In every battle, the first group to rush onto the enemy ship are the berserkers among the Vikings, that is, the most vigorous warriors. They are wild in battle, without shields, supporting swords and axes to kill people, completely releasing their animality and potential to fight. The berserkers who rush onto the enemy ship can often tear apart the enemy's defense line in the first place!
To put it bluntly, the Viking berserkers are a group of people who constantly squeeze their potential to fight. Because these people release too much potential when they are young, they often cannot live too long. All the potential of their bodies has been released. To put it bluntly, their life span has ended. Therefore, there are very few Viking berserkers who can live beyond the age of 30. If they don't die in battle, they will die of illness or old age. No one can escape this fate!
Qingyi compared me to a Viking berserker, which made my situation clear. Every time I burst out my strength in rage, I would lose my life span. Judging from Qingyi's face, I'm afraid that I'll lose quite a lot of life span. It may be the next time or the next time, because I have lost too much life span along the way. Let alone saving Hua Mulan, I gave up half of my life span in one go!
Even without a mirror, I knew that my face looked very ugly at this moment. After hesitating for a while, I asked Qingyi: "Did my father and grandfather go crazy like me?"
"They didn't live a depressed life."
Qingyi sighed: "When they were still there, the Ge family was extremely powerful and respected everywhere. They had no resentment, no hatred, and no deep-rooted hatred in their hearts!"
Qingyi didn't say it directly, but I understood the meaning - my father and grandfather didn't bear as much hatred as I did. Their lives were relatively happy. How could they go crazy with hatred? So far, I am the only one who has experienced this situation!
"In short, take care of yourself and don't take off the Buddha's bone relic!"
Qing Yi said with a somewhat unpleasant expression: "Otherwise, if this happens a few more times, I really don't know how long you can live."