Chapter 65: 65 Cart and Axe Dao

65 Cart and Axe Dao

Bai Yu originally planned to first invite Tushan Jiu to eat.

But Tushan Jiu directly had him bring that customer too.

As a result, as soon as Bai Yu brought the people over, Tushan Jiu's eyes lit up.

And it was utterly undisguised.

"Cough, Sister Jiu, uh, you'd better pay attention!" Bai Yu lowered his voice to give her a hint.

Tushan Jiu, called back to her senses, gave an embarrassed laugh: "Hehe, sorry, I just got a bit excited sensing the aura on him."

She hadn't seen a spirit monster in a long time.

The last time she saw one was when she was five or six years old.

That thing is a great tonic, and it can even add several points!

This time, after capturing it, she used her connections to have the office staff turn the demonic power into food ingredients, then go back to give everyone in the Xie Family a boost.

Sun Ying, upon hearing that his body had been tainted with that thing's aura, instantly felt a chill down his spine, shuddered, and hurriedly related what had happened to him.

His main profession is a makeup artist, and he usually does makeup for celebrities.

Besides, he has a hobby of stone carving.

A year ago, he met a man who shared his hobby, named Shi Ji, and they got along very well.

Afterwards, several times, they agreed to meet up to carve stone sculptures together.

Over time, their relationship grew better, and they jointly completed a City God statue.

But after completion, Shi Ji said he wanted him to carve eyes onto it.

At that time, he was quite surprised.

Because anyone who isn't a complete novice knows this taboo: you don't lightly carve eyes onto stone carvings.

Actually, this applies not only to stone carvings, but also to other sculptures—wooden, metal, jade, and so on.

Because they usually believe that the eyes are the soul of a statue.

Other things are fine, but especially for human figures, deity statues, and divine beast statues, the biggest taboo is carving both eyes.

Those that have eyes carved onto them are usually done only after completing a specific ritual.

Because once the eyes are carved, it is tacitly accepted that the statue can be possessed by the mysterious power in the pupils, or by a spirit object, and thus be allowed.

Everyone knows the story of "painting the dragon and dotting its eyes," which is the same principle.

So he found it strange, wondering why he would say such an amateurish thing.

But Shi Ji repeatedly insisted that he carve the eyes.

He refused to carve them, saying that if he wanted to carve eyes, he would do it himself.

Because of this, the two of them even had a small argument.

Later, Shi Ji called him several more times.

These past few days, he has become even more relentless, calling day and night, making dozens of calls a day, and if he doesn't answer, sending messages.

Finally, fed up, he deleted his contact information and blocked him on social media.

As for that City God statue, just give it to him—I don't want it; whoever wants to carve it can go find whoever they like!

As a result, over these past few days, strange things have kept happening around him.

First, the small animal figurines he had casually carved for amusement at home would occasionally change position on their own.

Because he has a bit of OCD, everything in his house is in a fixed place, which is how he could be certain that the positions had changed, rather than him simply forgetting where he put them.

Then came something even more terrifying.

One night, while he was sleeping, he heard someone knocking on his bedroom door.

But he hadn't started a family, nor did he live with his parents.

He was the only one living in that house—who would come knock on his bedroom door!

So he steeled himself and asked, "Who is it?"

As it turned out, someone really was speaking from outside.

He said: "Sun Ying, I want you to carve eyes onto the City God statue within three days, or else I will never let you have a peaceful day!"

Upon hearing that voice, he was completely frightened stupid.

That was none other than Shi Ji's voice!

But he still forced himself to stay calm and asked, "Which faction are you from?"

He said he was a green stone from Spring White Mountain, practicing the Cart and Axe Great Dao, and if he didn't comply, he would keep haunting him.

He didn't know which path the Cart and Axe Dao belonged to, but he could personally attest that he was indeed a lump of stone!

Shi Ji is a stone spirit!

Even though he moved out of his house right away.

But wherever there is stone, he will hear the stone 'speak,' urging him to go carve eyes onto that City God statue.

This left him suffering immensely, both mentally and physically worn down.

He couldn't eat well or sleep well, and kept making mistakes at work.

The day before yesterday, he even forgot that a celebrity was allergic to mint, directly applied a mint-containing cosmetic, sending the person to the hospital, compensating a large sum of money, and not to mention losing the job with that film crew.

He and Bai Yu, having worked together before, often played games together.

Since that incident, he certainly had no mood to play games, each day spent hiding east and west.

Bai Yu called him to get him online, but at that time he happened to be out and wanted to say he wouldn't play.

But the nearby stone pier suddenly spoke, startling him, and he panicked, rushing onto the road, almost causing a traffic accident.

After Bai Yu found out, he originally thought he wouldn't believe it, but he then said he knew someone who could resolve this.

He was like clutching at the last straw, and hurriedly followed along.

After Sun Ying finished speaking, Bai Yu also heard the full version.

He couldn't help crossing his arms, gave a light scoff, and said disdainfully, "Turns out it's just a stone spirit—pfft, I thought it was something else."

Back then he told him something about the stone speaking, and something else following him, and he thought he had provoked some ghost that had attached to the stone.

Tushan Jiu, whose line had been stolen, tilted her head to look at Bai Yu, raised an eyebrow at him, "Yo, long time no see, you're back in action?"

That's obvious—if you can do it, you go ahead; I won't compete with you.

Bai Yu pressed his lips together, properly took his hands from in front of his chest, clasped them and placed them on the table, sitting upright and attentive, like a primary school student listening seriously.

Come on, he's coming?

What does he have to offer?

His neat, clean big white teeth can't bite through stone!

Seeing Bai Yu already behaved, Tushan Jiu shifted her posture.

She unwrapped a lollipop and put it in her mouth, arms crossed before her chest, and said disdainfully: "He's just a measly stone spirit, yet he dares to claim he cultivates the Cart Axe Dao? Give him face?"

Sun Ying has heard of the Ruthless Dao, the All Beings Dao, the Good Dao, the Ghost Dao, the Carefree Dao, the Innate Dao, etc., but has never heard of what the Cart Axe Dao is.

As a demon, Bai Yu also felt himself ignorant and narrow-minded.

Thus the two simultaneously asked Tushan Jiu: "What Dao is that?"

Tushan Jiu didn't speak, just picked up the lemon water beside her and poured a little onto the table.

Then she extended her index finger, dipped it in the water, and wrote on the table one "cart" character and one "axe" character.

The two characters combined—slash.

Bai Yu's pupils contracted sharply: "He cultivates the Slash Dao?!!!"