The moment I saw her appearance clearly, I subconsciously took a step back.
It wasn't until she slowly walked in front of me and looked up at me that the tension in my heart slowly subsided.
"Big brother."
"Can you take me home?"
I was silent for a while and then nodded mysteriously.
"good."
She reached out and took my hand. I didn't feel any touch, only a hint of coldness.
She is none other than Xu Er's daughter, the child who is still restless after death.
I 'held' her hand and returned to the house that was still burning with raging fire. She looked at the house, but she didn't have any big mood swings. She just looked up at me.
"Big brother."
"I'm home now."
"I want to go find my parents."
As soon as she finished speaking, before I could react she was already walking towards the fire.
She was just a soul, but when she stepped into the fire, her body began to become illusory, and she disappeared from my sight in just a moment, as if she had never appeared.
And the fire is still burning.
Watching this scene, I was completely stunned. It took me a while to feel the corners of my eyes feeling a little sour. I admit, this was the first time I had the urge to cry.
I seem to understand somewhat what Li Bowen taught me.
Whether it is the first class or the second class.
In fact, there are only two words.
mercy.
It can also be said that there is only one word.
Keep.
I don't have to admit my identity as a village guardian.
You can also reject this identity in your heart.
But I can't help but care about those people who have helped me and cared about me.
I can be indifferent to the world, but I must also distinguish between good and evil and be compassionate.
If I am always thinking about myself, what is the difference between me and the walking dead?
Just like the City God.
Everything he did, I hated from the bottom of my heart.
How could I be like him?
After thinking about this, I suddenly felt that the previous depression had dissipated. After bowing to Xu Er's house, I turned around and left.
At the same time, footsteps came one after another.
That's when the villagers from Xiawei Village arrived.
Even though the villagers in Xiawei Village had a lot of objections to Xu Er's family because of Xu Er's daughter's matter, at this moment, they were here.
Isn't this compassion?
It was already early morning when we returned to the ghost building.
I originally thought that Li Bowen was not here, but when I walked into the ghost building, I saw him sitting on a chair in the dark, as if waiting for something.
Seeing that I was back, he said calmly: "Have you figured it out?"
I nodded and knelt down towards him.
This time I didn't have any other thoughts in my mind, I just simply thought that I owed him this kneeling.
Because before, even if I recognized him as my master, I just felt that he taught me something. It was not shameful for me to call him master.
I kowtowed heavily and shouted from the bottom of my heart: "Master!"
However, Li Bowen did not have any emotional changes because of my voice. He just looked at me calmly and said, "What do you understand?"
I thought for a moment and said, "Mercy."
"I shouldn't be so selfish."
Li Bowen stared at me.
"Then I would like to ask you, how did you feel when I killed the city god?"
I was stunned for a moment and subconsciously replied: "He deserves to be killed."
"Since you think he deserves to be killed, how can you show mercy?" Li Bowen looked at me with a sneer.
I fell silent.
Li Bowen stood up and walked towards me.
"Compassion? That's just a ridiculous and grandiose excuse that a group of sanctimonious people found for themselves."
I was stunned again.
Li Bowen suddenly pointed at me and cursed: "My teacher only teaches you eight words!"
"Kill those who deserve to be killed, and save those who deserve to be saved!"
"Do you understand?"
After saying that, Li Bowen threw up his sleeves angrily and went up to the second floor.
"Kneel there and reflect."
"When did you understand?"
"When will we go upstairs again?"
It wasn't until his figure disappeared from my sight that I came back to my senses. It took me a while to smile bitterly. He always seemed so unreliable.
But I understood it all at once.
It's true that I think too much.
Kill what needs to be killed.
Save what needs to be saved.
That's enough!
It is wrong to kill without saving, and it is equally wrong to save without killing.
After thinking about it, I stopped kneeling on the ground and walked directly towards the third floor.
When passing by the second floor, Li Bowen's voice came again.
"Is it okay to reflect on it so soon?"
I smiled and said, "I'm not that stupid."
"I think you are quite stupid." Li Bowen's voice sounded a bit disgusting.
I couldn't help but twitch the corner of my mouth slightly and said, "Next time what you want to say, just say it directly. There is no need to be so long-winded."
"Get serious."
"Very scary."
After saying that, I ignored Li Bowen and went directly to the third floor.
I didn't read any more, but just lay on the bed and fell asleep quickly.
After waking up the next day, I followed Li Bowen's instructions and went to find Liu Shan.
Liu Shan was surprised that I asked him to move to Xiawei Village, but after I explained to him that it was good for Liu Buyi, Liu Shan readily accepted it.
After settling this matter, I continued back to the ghost building.
In the next few days, everything was quiet.
Except for Li Bowen coming to teach me how to draw talismans from time to time, he didn't take me anywhere else. He went out often, but he came back quickly every time he went out.
Maybe it's because there aren't as many things going on as in the first few days, but I've completely calmed down in the past few days, and I've mastered one-third of the entire talisman book.
I am already very good at drawing the most commonly used talismans.
Although it is still not as good as Li Bowen who can fabricate talismans out of thin air, it is still a big improvement for me.
It's just that Li Bowen never taught me Taoism from beginning to end.
Even for the Taoist techniques I saw him use before, he only asked me to remember the Golden Light Mantra. As for the other ones, he said that learning too much would be bad.
On the seventh day, he asked me to stop drawing the talismans and asked me to take out "Tong Shen".
He said my heart has calmed down.
I can learn the skills that suit me best.
The most suitable one is naturally the secret skill of the village guardian, "Tongshen"
Li Bowen said that "Tongshen" was actually a secret technique created by a living earthly immortal to protect the villagers, and asking the gods to post it was not a gift from the city god.
Being able to control the invitation to the gods is the threshold for becoming a living earthly immortal.
And if you can cultivate "Tongshen", you will definitely become a living immortal.
This secret skill has disappeared for a long time.
The last time it appeared was when it was acquired by the living Earth Immortal a hundred years ago.