Wet viviparity

Chapter 47: Three Boys Under the Cave
In the southwest of Hengshan, there is a wild peak with a deep cave under the peak, which is occupied by a monk.

A gust of cold wind blew in from outside the peak, whistling and landing on the cave. A black centipede half the height of a man stood upright and looked into the deep cave.

“Okay, okay, okay.

This cave should be my place of practice."

Ji Ming clapped his hands and smiled.

After chuckling, he jumped down into the cave, using his long arms and legs to gain leverage from the protruding walls, and within a few breaths he had landed at the bottom of the cave.

"But has the master come back?" Three boys who had not seen the sun for a long time, deep in the cave, tiptoed nearby and asked tentatively.

"He is not the master. I am afraid."

The girl among the three boys burst into tears when she saw a blurry figure with many legs and long joints coming down from the cave.

Suddenly, the three boys hugged each other and trembled continuously.

Ji Ming touched the three bags tied to the back of a centipede shell and patted one of them. A cassock came out and was draped over the half-human-high centipede shell.

The bag spit out another item, an old peach wood sword and a string of sandalwood prayer beads, which Ji Ming put on his back and held in his hands.

This outfit barely concealed a third of his ugly appearance.

"Don't be afraid!"

Ji Ming took a few steps forward, clasped his hands together and said, "From now on, I will be the master of the cave and the new lord. You can live here as usual."

As Ji Ming got closer, the three boys finally saw his true form.

What a monster! Half of its body is covered with a cassock, two rows of black feet are like sickles, it puts its hands together in worship, its mind is calm and peaceful, seven parts monster and three parts Buddha.

The three boys took care of poisonous insects and snakes in the cave. After all, they had seen the "big world" and were not scared by the evil appearance that Ji Ming had not concealed.

"Are we unable to go back?"

The girl asked with tears in her eyes.

“Haha~” Ji Ming smiled and replied, “Don’t worry, once the cause and effect here are settled, I will set you free and return you to your hometown.”

Perhaps because Ji Ming was easy to talk to, a boy bravely asked, "New Master, can we go outside the cave?"

The two boys next to him immediately covered his mouth and looked at the monster in the cave nervously and expectantly.

Ji Ming thought about it for a moment, but didn't reject it outright. He asked, "What are you going to do?"

"I want to find a piece of land to bury my former companion and build a new grave. I don't want him to become a wandering ghost, and I don't want to become one either."

"Wow~"

At this moment, the three boys burst into tears.

Ji Ming grew up in the medicine cauldron and remembered clearly the way Yu Xiao managed the boys in the cave, which was why he acted ruthlessly.

"Yes!"

Ji Ming waved his hand, and before the boys could get excited, he lowered his voice and said, "Let me be frank with you. If one of you escapes, the remaining two will be dead."

The boys nodded meekly, as if they were accustomed to this verbal death threat, and then they led the new master around the cave.

There are three small rooms and a stone hall in this cave.

In the middle of this stone hall, there is a square medicine cauldron, which is the cauldron used by Yu Xiao in his daily practice of cultivating the Five Immortals.

Ji Ming stayed in this cauldron for a long time.

Next to the stone hall, there is a quiet room specially used for meditation and retreat, as well as two stone rooms for storing venomous snake seeds and making poisonous food and medicinal bait.

After getting familiar with the new residence, Ji Ming went back and forth many times, moving the eighteen boxes of treasures outside into the cave one by one.

As a result, more than half a month had already passed just to move the treasure.

Nowadays, in Lanyinfang, especially the Thirteen Great Villages adjacent to Liling, there is a mix of good and bad people, and the number of unorthodox people is increasing day by day. In order to hide, Ji Ming had to move things little by little with the two bags on his body, just like an ant moving house.

Only when all the eighteen boxes of treasures were put into the cave did Ji Ming feel truly at ease.

"Precious Eye Refining!"

He was expecting this in his heart.

Eighteen boxes of treasures should be more than enough for sacrifice.

In his mind, the preferred place for sacrifice and refining was still among the Fox Society tombs.

The corpse resources there are extremely abundant, and it will be more convenient to build a fire altar for corpses.

Another point is that the Hengshan Fox Society is covered by the master's illusion, so even if he makes a little noise, he will not be afraid of attracting the attention of those who are interested.

This is particularly important in today's troubled times.

He didn't want to be treated as a rare treasure by passing monks and have them rush over in droves during the ritual process.

The second alternative location is the riverside beach, the old nest of the White Bone Lady.

When I was refining the White Bone Heart Pearl, there were also two sets of plans.

It's just that I offended Master Hu Tu when I was refining the treasure before. If I go there again this time, I might have to fight to see who is better.

After the battle in the Watchtower, Ji Ming's inflated heart had calmed down a bit.

Although he was not afraid of Master Hu Tu, he was not sure of a complete victory.

He decided to wait for a while. In more than two months, it would be June 20th, the birthday of Taishan Goddess of Tianhu Temple.

By then, Master Hu Tu will go to Gaoli in Taishan to participate in the annual Tianhu Academy examination. That will be his chance to practice.

Taking advantage of the rare free time, Ji Ming showed some kindness and helped the three boys sort out the remains under the cave. After cleaning up, there were as many as seventeen bodies, and none of them had grown up.

Looking at the remains of these boys, Ji Ming felt angry for a rare time and regretted that he had not crushed Yu Xiao to ashes in the dark room.

"What kind of hero is this? He is nothing but a crooked villain.

In this frontier mountain stronghold, relying on the Panku sect and the witch's disciples, there is no one to control them, so they act recklessly. "

Ji Ming hated it in his heart.

I thought I had lowered my bottom line enough in my pursuit of the truth, but compared with Yu Xiao, I was nothing but a dwarf.

Previously, when he was in the medicine cauldron, a boy failed to take good care of him, so he was killed by Yu Xiao. He thought it was just an isolated case.

It seems that I have not completely broken away from the moral values ​​of my hometown, and my judgments on many things are still influenced by the logical inertia of my hometown.

This kind of thinking is too civilized and not applicable to the present.

But Ji Ming also knew that changing his past thinking logic was as difficult as replacing his own brain.

This kind of change can only depend on time.

"Ugh!"

After hastily burying the remains, Ji Ming sighed deeply.

He clasped his hands together in front of the grave and recited a passage from the Sanyuan Tianzun Sutra for the Salvation of Suffering. The three boys beside him followed suit unconsciously.

Outside this mountain cave, under the setting sun, three boys were chanting scriptures together, which looked strange yet harmonious.

One night, Ji Ming finally took out three tablets from his bag, ready to try to subdue the three ghosts.

Without the guidance of Taoist books, Ji Ming's attempt was somewhat dangerous, but the risks were still controllable.

Ji Ming believed in his heart that this attempt was definitely worth it and was a small step towards becoming a hexagonal monk in the future.

(End of this chapter)