Zhang Lisheng's expression changed when he looked at the centipede that had grown to more than 70 centimeters in size that resembled a grass snake. He calmed himself down and began chanting witchcraft incantation again. As the centipede made 'pst shh …' sounds, it began to move like an arm. It was the wizard gu that was being formed.
Using incantation and witchcraft power to refine ordinary insects into a wizard gu could only be a witchcraft technique.
In Chinese mythology, the Incipient God Pangu split the chaos with a giant ax and split the world apart. After he died of exhaustion, his breath turned into spring breeze and clouds; his voice turned into thunder; his eyes turned into the sun and moon; his hair turned into stars; his torso turned into mountains; his blood turned into rivers; his veins turned into roads; his muscles turned into plains; his bones turned into underground minerals; his skin and hair turned into plants.
After Pangu, there was a goddess, Huaxu, who was fishing in a big lake and became pregnant by stepping on the footprints of the Thunder God. She gave birth to the siblings, Fuxi and Nüwa, who had a human head and a snake body.
Nüwa created humans from soil and gave birth to witchcraft through her brother, Fuxi.
Later on, the Water God Gonggong and the Fire God Zhuanxu fought for the throne. Gonggong could not win so he hit Mount Buzhou with his head, causing the Sky Pillar to collapse and the Kyushu Island to collapse. The sky tilted in the northwest and the earth sank in the southeast, causing floods and fires to spread.
To save the people, Nüwa traveled all over the world. She borrowed the Sun God's fire and used the Tiantai Mountain's five-colored soil to refine 36,501 five-colored boulders to mend the sky.
Nüwa succeeded in mending the sky with 36,500 boulders. She also killed the God of Tiantai Mountain with its four legs to support the four poles of heaven and earth. Finally, the disaster of the Kyushu Island's collapse was resolved. However, her blood dried up and turned into dust.
Therefore, her and Fuxi's son, Wu, replaced his mother in educating humans. Therefore, the meaning of Wu in ancient times was to communicate with the gods, control ghosts and monsters, predict good and evil, know good and evil, and govern the world and the people. It was the most powerful.
However, later on, the human race became stronger. There were the Three Emperors, Suiren, Shennong, the Yellow Emperor, the Five Emperors, Taihao, Yan Emperor, Shaohao, Yao, and Shun, who were all talented and had the power to tear the stars and the sun. They chased the descendants of witchcraft to the desolate land of Jiuli. That was how the witchcraft slowly evolved into a unique culture of the barbarians in the history of China.
For this reason, it could be said that witchcraft was originally the Dao of inheritance of the ancient Chinese gods' bloodline. It was definitely not a small evil technique that could cause chaos in the minds of ignorant people.
"I did it! I did it! I actually did it! I, I'm a wizard now!
B-But how did this happen out of nowhere?! "Although Zhang Lisheng had a premonition since he woke up in the hospital, he was still pleasantly surprised when it actually happened.
Unfortunately, his joy only lasted for a moment before he blurted out, "Father, father, I've succeeded, ah, ah …" He subconsciously wanted to share the joy of success with Zhang Daowu, but he suddenly remembered that his father had already died and he was the only one left in the old house.
At this moment, an inexplicable sorrow gripped the youth's heart and crushed it.
"Dad! Dad! D-Dad …" Zhang Lisheng felt as if he had been fed countless blood essence to a poisonous insect. All of his strength was taken away in an instant. He collapsed onto the ground and cried until he could no longer control himself. Without realizing it, he fainted.
When he woke up, the sky was already bright. 'Bang bang bang …' sounds of knocking resonated from outside the door, followed by an anxious shout, "Mountain Worm, Zhang Lisheng! How are you? Open the door! Are you going to open the door now?"
Zhang Lisheng stood up from the ground in the courtyard in a daze. He did not forget to chase his wizard gu to hide in the dark with a few 'pst shh …' sounds before shouting in a hoarse voice, "Who is it? Who's outside the door?"
"It's me, Tao Lulu! Open the door now!" The person outside the door replied loudly.
Zhang Lisheng walked to the door unsteadily and pushed the heavy door bolts open one by one. He opened the door and looked at a dark-skinned girl who was the same age as him outside the door with the help of the misty morning sunlight in the mountain. He asked, "What are you doing?"
"I've heard about what happened to your family from my father, so I'm here to see you," The young girl, Tao Lulu, said softly in sympathy, "Are you alright? Why are you covered in mud?"
"I'm fine, I fell in the courtyard. It was all thanks to Uncle Ah Lie's help yesterday. Thank you so much."
"We're all from the same village, don't mention it," The dark-skinned girl, Tao Lulu, shook her head and lifted a muddy yellow clay pot. "This is ginseng hen soup that my mother stewed. She asked me to send it to you to nourish your body.
Are you still going to school today? "
"It's not like I was hit by a car, why would I need to nourish my body?
I won't be going to school these few days. Your father said that my mother is still alive, so I need to look for her first, "Zhang Lisheng said that but he still took the clay pot from the young girl's hand gratefully.
"Dad said that he'll look for your mother for you. Kid, it's better for you to go to a good school. You'll only be successful if you go to university and walk out of this mountain hole. It's better for you to rest for two days and go to class."
"I need to look for my mother myself, I'll go to class a few days later as well."
"Alright then, eat the chicken and have a good sleep. Don't lie in the courtyard anymore, you'll fall sick. I'm going to class now," The young girl nodded and felt that there was nothing else she could say. The sky was bright, so she turned around and left.
Zhang Lisheng waited until the young girl's silhouette disappeared on the village road before he closed the wooden door in a daze. He hugged the clay pot to his chest and opened it. A hot, rich aroma rushed to his nose.
The Miaowei people's ginseng chicken stew was very simple. It was nothing more than feeding the aged chicken they reared with liquor to clear its stomach and suffocate it. They would then stew it with old ginseng roots from the mountain, lard, water, and various condiments over a low fire. It tasted extremely delicious and it was the most nourishing one.
Zhang Lisheng had not eaten anything for half a day. He had only eaten two tea eggs and fed his blood to the venomous worms twice. He was famished, so how could he hold it in when he smelled the aroma coming from the clay pot?
He wiped his hands hard on the clean part of his school uniform and grabbed the tender hen in the clay pot while enduring the heat. He put it into his mouth and started chewing. He only had a few bites when he recalled what Tao Lulu said to expose his lie. "Don't lie in the courtyard anymore, you'll fall sick." Tears gushed out of his eyes and dripped into the clay pot.
However, since Zhang Lisheng had become a wizard, he was naturally much stronger. Soon, he stopped feeling sorry for himself and got rid of his sadness.
Zhang Lisheng finished the entire pot of ginseng chicken soup with salty tears in his eyes. He felt much better now that he was exhausted. The mysterious wizard power in his body was growing naturally as he digested the nutritious food in his stomach.
After calming himself down, he walked into the old house and put down the clay pot. He took out over 200 yuan of change that he had saved before and took out a few sets of clothes to change from his residence in the side room.
Zhang Lisheng returned to the courtyard and took off his dirty school uniform. He fetched two buckets of well water from the old well and washed the mud on his body with cold water and soap. He planned to go to the county after changing into clean clothes.
Just when he was about to go out, he suddenly recalled that he had refined the centipede Qing Hong into a wizard worm. According to the ancient legend, he should be nourishing it with him. He hissed a few times and commanded Qing Hong to crawl onto his body through his pants. It hid in his clothes and hovered around his waist.
Although Qing Hong, the centipede that Zhang Lisheng fed was not a mutant, it was just a normal worm so that he would not lose too much of his body and lose his life. Even if a new wizard refined a normal poisonous worm into a wizard worm, it would not have much power.
However, as the wizard worm leaned on Zhang Lisheng and nourished the worm with wizard power that seeped out of the pores on his abdomen, he felt refreshed all of a sudden. He felt a lot better and a feeling that everything was under his control grew within him.
The feeling was actually illusory but it was like a drug that would make one intoxicated as soon as he touched it. Zhang Lisheng changed his mind all of a sudden. He felt that it was impossible to find his mother that he had lost contact with for more than ten years in one go. The most important thing to him was to understand the changes after he became a wizard.
As he thought about this, he walked out of the old house's wooden door and walked out of the village after closing the door.
As he stepped on the cool stone road, many of the villagers who went out to work in the morning sighed and said sympathetically when they saw Zhang Lisheng who had a blank expression on his face, "Mountain Worm … Sigh, what a sin …"
Some of the early backpackers or tourists from the bustling city walked out of the mountain people's farmhouse. They shouted happily as they breathed in the cool air of the mountain village.
Some of them treated Zhang Lisheng as a scenery when they saw the young man from the mountain village who was dressed in simple clothes walking past them.
However, Zhang Lisheng turned a blind eye to the villagers and the tourists from the mountain village. He walked out of the village quickly and arrived at the urban-rural road. He looked around and saw that there was nobody around him. He then quietly turned into the jungle beside the road.
During the period when the Red Revolution had just succeeded, the more daring the people were, the more productive the land would be. During the special historical period where man could conquer man, many of the mountain villages in Western Sichuan burned the mountains to make farmland. They turned the forest into farmland and chased away the large animals that escaped into the deep mountains. Guawo Village was no exception.
However, as the awareness of environmental protection rose more than ten years ago, returning farmland to forest became one of the basic policies of the Western Sichuan government. Most of the mountain villages in the province gradually returned to their original appearance. Although it was impossible for the destroyed virgin forest to be restored to its original appearance in a short period of time, other than some of the designated scenic spots, it was an extremely dangerous act to enter the jungle outside the mountain village recklessly.
Zhang Lisheng felt his vision turning dark as soon as he entered the jungle. His eyes gradually adapted to the darkness in the jungle as he fumbled around and walked a few steps. A wild world that was completely different from the civilized world was presented in front of him.
It was difficult for people who had never experienced it to imagine that everything would change so completely in just a distance of more than ten meters. This kind of wonder might be the reason why adventure-type travelers who pursued thrills would always take risks.
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