frightfiction #579 - Six thieves appear
#579 - Six thieves appear
Zhang Chen decided to participate in the selection for entering the mysterious academy. Now that he had decided to live in seclusion in Jinling, losing his source of skills, he naturally had to find ways to obtain information about skill sources, and the academy was a good choice.
Zhang Chen stayed in the carriage for a while, feeling bored. He flashed to a distant tree and sat down to cultivate, carefully polishing his primordial spirit.
He was cultivating every second, unwilling to waste his time, because to him, time was life.
As time passed, about three hours later, a sudden burst of footsteps awakened Zhang Chen, who was meditating on the tree. Hearing the sound, Zhang Chen looked through the dense branches and saw two figures, one red and one white.
"It's my cheap cousin and that woman in red." Zhang Chen recognized them at a glance.
One was Zhang Gaoqiu, and the other was the red-clothed girl who had been close to Jiang Nan. At this moment, the two stood side by side in the dense forest, very intimate, talking about something, but Zhang Chen couldn't hear them because they were too far away.
"So they're a pair of lovebirds! My cousin is quite capable. He hasn't been in Jinling for long, but he's already hooked up with a young lady. He's really a womanizer," Zhang Chen thought to himself.
Zhang Chen's cultivation was complete, and he was about to rest his mind, so he didn't continue to cultivate, but sat on the tree and watched the show.
The two stood in the dense forest and talked for an hour. The red-clothed woman was gradually drawn into the man's arms, and the two were very intimate, which Zhang Chen watched with great interest, but there was no R-rated scene as he had imagined.
After a while, a call came from afar. Zhang Gaoqiu said something to the woman, and then Zhang Gaoqiu left first, leaving the red-clothed woman in the forest to tidy her clothes. Then, the woman looked around, hesitated slightly, and walked in the direction of Zhang Chen. Then, she lifted her red skirt, revealing a dazzling whiteness.
Zhang Chen looked at the two round whites and the gushing sound of water, and couldn't help but be stunned: 'Is this something I can watch?'
Thinking that this was not something a gentleman should do, Zhang Chen quickly closed his eyes, but Zhang Chen didn't know that at the moment he closed his eyes, a bug fell from the tree, landing right on that piece of whiteness. Then, the woman screamed, startling Zhang Chen to open his eyes. He saw that the red-clothed woman's delicate eyes were now staring at him with anger.
"You lecher!" A sword appeared in the woman's hand, and she jumped up and stabbed at Zhang Chen on the tree.
"Not good! I've already restrained my aura, how did she find my trace?" Zhang Chen was shocked and quickly used his escape technique to leave, not wanting to cause too much commotion.
The sword energy slashed through the tree, splitting the entire tree in half, but there was no trace of Zhang Chen.
"You pervert! Don't let me catch you, or I will tear you to pieces!" The red-clothed woman's eyes were spitting fire. She didn't expect that she would lose her innocence due to a moment of carelessness. She was extremely frustrated.
Moreover, she didn't dare to publicize this kind of thing, and she was really depressed and aggrieved. She could only take her sword and chop the tree into pieces, then turn around and walk back in a huff.
On a distant tree, Zhang Chen's figure appeared, his face feeling hot: "I haven't touched a woman for too long, my fire is so strong, it's really difficult!"
The two round whites were firmly imprinted in Zhang Chen's mind, causing Zhang Chen's heart to feel agitated, and he only felt a fire rising in his heart.
"I, Zhang Chen, am a gentleman. If I want a woman, I will marry or whore, but I must never do such dirty things," Zhang Chen secretly warned himself, wanting to close his eyes and calm down, but as soon as he closed his eyes, he saw the dazzling whiteness. No matter how hard he tried to calm down, he couldn't suppress the fire in his heart.
"Something's not right!" After a long time, Zhang Chen only felt that his heart was still restless and he couldn't enter meditation. He opened his eyes and pondered. With his current cultivation, it shouldn't be difficult to subdue distracting thoughts and enter meditation, so why is he so restless now?
"Your six thieves have acted up." At this moment, the Great自在天魔 appeared beside Zhang Chen, slowly saying.
"Six thieves? What are six thieves?" Zhang Chen looked at the Great自在天魔.
"The six thieves are the ears, nose, tongue, mind, body, and eyes. The eyes see joy, the ears hear anger, the nose smells love, the tongue tastes thoughts, the mind desires, and the body is inherently worried. You are now preoccupied with the desire for men and women, and you cannot let it go, which is the work of the six thieves. Now that you have awakened your body consciousness, the six thieves will cause the leakage of essence, qi, and spirit, which are the great thieves of longevity. If you want to solidify your foundation forever, you must kill the six thieves," said the Great自在天魔.
"How to suppress the six thieves?" Zhang Chen asked his doubts.
The Great自在天魔 shook his head: "I don't know! I don't cultivate immortality, how would I know how to suppress the six thieves?"
"It's difficult!" Zhang Chen scratched his head. The road to longevity is indeed full of obstacles, and if you are not careful, you will die.
"The six thieves disturb people's essence, qi, and spirit, which will make people lose their minds for profit. You must be careful and cautious, and don't cause a catastrophe during this period," the Great自在天魔 reminded, and then his figure dissipated in the world.
Zhang Chen sat cross-legged on the tree in silence, thinking about how to subdue the six thieves. He remembered that when he watched Journey to the West in his previous life, Sun Wukong killed the six thieves, but what about himself?
His six thieves have not awakened and turned into robbers, what should he do?
Just as Zhang Chen's thoughts were tumbling, the sky had already begun to darken, and the Shen family's caravan was preparing to return.
Seeing this, Zhang Chen put down his thoughts and silently followed behind the carriage. As expected, the soldiers guarding the city did not dare to offend the Shen family's carriage, and the Shen family's carriage entered the city all the way. Then, Jiang Nan found an excuse to stop the carriage at a nearby shop to buy things. Then, the little girl Mi Gao dismissed the nearby servants and released the Zhang family. Zhang Chen was already waiting in the crowd. Seeing the Zhang family, he waved to them, and the family disappeared into the crowd.
"Junior brother, this Jinling City is really prosperous, it's simply crowded with people," Cheng Yu followed Zhang Chen, looking at the passers-by, his eyes showing a hint of joy and curiosity.
The two little ones and Zhang Shi were also shocked by the prosperity of the past, and followed Zhang Chen closely, their eyes showing a hint of nervousness.
Zhang Chen led the donkey, watching the passers-by like a surging tide, and the small vendors were constantly shouting. This kind of prosperity was absolutely incomparable to the northern land.
The most important thing was that the passers-by naturally had a spirit, and their clothes were not luxurious, but they were neat and clean, without broken patches.
The Zhang family had been on the road all the way, thousands of miles away, with gray faces and dirt all over their bodies, which was out of tune with the entire Jinling City.
If the gap could not be seen outside the city, today, as soon as they entered the city, their family seemed to have broken into a flock of swans, becoming a strange alien.
"Hehe, it's just that they are dressed better, we are not bad either. Let's find a place to settle down first, everyone wash up, and we won't be worse than anyone else," Zhang Chen greeted his family to walk in the crowded crowd, and came to the inn all the way. He saw that the waiter greeted him with a warm face, and there was no scene of looking down on people.
After verifying the road permit, the family booked three rooms. Zhang Chen had one room, Zhang Shi and Cheng Yu and Zhang Tuowei had one room, as for Zhang Fei, Zhang Chen arranged a room for this kid. He still had to meditate and cultivate, and he didn't want to share a room with Zhang Fei, this restless bear child.
Zhang Fei had come all the way, and with the martial arts practice of washing the marrow and forging bones, he could no longer be regarded as a child. He began to have a gender awareness, and it would be inappropriate to share a room with Zhang Tuowei, Cheng Yu, and others.
Zhang Chen returned to the room and washed up, and then ordered the waiter to bring the best wine and dishes, and the family happily ate.
Sure enough, the Zhang family, who had finished washing up, looked like sparrows turned into phoenixes. Everyone was a person with extraordinary blood, and that spirit was definitely not comparable to ordinary people.
After eating, Zhang Chen began to think about what to do next. Zhang Shi asked, "Chen'er, what is your plan? When will we visit the Shen family?"
Zhang Chen said: "We can't be anxious, we still need to buy some decent gifts before we visit, so as not to let people think that we are poor relatives who come to beg for food."
"But... the matter of money..." Zhang Shi's voice was hesitant.
"I'll find a way." Zhang Chen had a plan in his heart.
After the family finished eating, they washed up and rested. Zhang Chen got up and walked out of the inn, and began to stroll around Jinling City. After encountering a pharmacy, Zhang Chen walked in: "Is the shopkeeper here?"
"Guest, what can I do for you?" The young apprentice walked up with a humble expression and bowed to Zhang Chen.
"I want to buy some ginseng seeds, do you have ginseng seeds here?" Zhang Chen asked.
"Buy ginseng seeds? Yes, ten ginseng seeds cost one penny of silver, how many do you want?" The waiter asked respectfully.
"Give me a hundred!"
Zhang Chen took out the silver to pay the bill, and then took the ginseng seeds to the wilderness. After filling some loess into the Ascension Pool, he got up and walked towards the city.
Ginseng has extremely harsh requirements for the environment, and loess is certainly not suitable for the growth of ginseng, but Zhang Chen's Ascension Pool can produce creation liquid every day, and its liquid has incredible effects. Not to mention loess, no matter how harsh the environment, Zhang Chen can make it grow.
However, if the Ascension Pool is filled with loess, it can no longer be put into the Ba Snake space. After all, loess does not have mysterious attributes, so Zhang Chen can only shrink the Ascension Pool to the size of a fist and put it in his sleeve. Then, he hummed a little tune slowly and strolled on the street. After going to a tailor shop to customize a few clothes, he made an appointment for the tailor to come to measure his figure.