Chapter 404: Midyear Festival Worship the Souls of the Dead
The second day of the seventh month.
Early morning.
Su Yi and Yuan Heng, a cloth-robed young man transformed by the old turtle, set off to leave the Tianyuan Academy.
Yesterday, Su Yi had already handed over the white bone seal left by the Demon Emperor to Ning Xi'e, telling her that if she encountered an irresistible danger, she would take everyone from the Xuanyan Dao Sect to the depths of the Chaotic Spirit Sea.
With the power of the White Bone Seal, you can take refuge in the ruins of the Immortal Sword Tower.
In fact, Su Yi left more than that.
In the Yuping Mountain, which is a hundred miles away from the Tianyuan Academy, there are also the "Five Elements Xuanyan Array" and the "Beidou Gathering Spirit Array", which are enough to block the attack of the Great Cultivator of the Transformation Spirit Realm.
The so-called three holes of the cunning rabbit are like this.
In addition, there is also the supreme secret treasure of the Immortal Sword Tower, the "Ten Thousand Souls Sword Sutra", in the white bone seal.
Su Yi had already told Ning Jiwen that she could regard this Dao Sutra as the inheritance power of the Xuanyan Dao Sect and teach it to the people in the sect.
Of course, the Xuanyan Dao Sect is not so much a sect as a gathering place for relatives and friends related to Su Yi.
Like Wen Lingxue, Cha Jin, Ning Xiwen, Huang Qianjun, Feng Xiaofeng, and Feng Xiaoran, they had already obtained the cultivation method taught by Su Yi in the past, so naturally they didn't have to cultivate the Ten Thousand Souls Sword Sutra anymore.
In short, Su Yi left the Ten Thousand Souls Sword Sutra behind, which is equivalent to helping the Immortal Sword Tower continue its inheritance, and it can be regarded as living up to the expectations of the original Hun Tian Demon Emperor.
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For Su Yi, going to Great Xia is really needed for cultivation.
There is no way, the cultivation resources in the worldly realms such as Great Zhou, Great Wei, and Great Qin may barely be able to meet his current cultivation.
But it is not destined to last long.
The Bigu Realm is the first realm of Dao cultivation.
According to Su Yi's estimation, with his incomparably strong Great Dao foundation, if he didn't have enough cultivation resources, his cultivation was destined to be stagnant for a long time.
This is naturally intolerable to Su Yi.
And Great Xia, as the overlord of the Cangqing Continent, has a peak of cultivation power, and there are also spiritual monks haunting.
This also means that the cultivation resources in the territory of Great Xia are absolutely abundant, and they are naturally enough to meet their own cultivation needs.
As soon as he thought of Great Xia, Su Yi remembered many things in his mind.
For example, the "Lantai Puja" will be held in Bactria in a few months.
For example, Hua Maofeng once said that Sumeru Immortal Island is related to the origin of the "Dark Ancient Forbidden".
Even, the clan power where Hua Maofeng is located also made Su Yi very interested.
After all, the token of this clan can be engraved with a totem belonging to the true spirit bird "Dragon Sparrow".
Of course, Su Yi will not forget Ge Qian.
As for Zhou Zhiqian, who had entered the Great Summer Pivotal Dao Sect to cultivate, Su Yi didn't pay attention to it at all.
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Starting from Great Zhou to Great Xia, it is extremely far away, you need to pass through dozens of countries scattered on the Cangqing Continent, and you need to cross many mountains and rivers.
Su Yi didn't rush away.
As before, when he embarked on his journey, he preferred to trek between mountains and rivers, and wander through the worldly places.
View the mountains, the water, and the nature.
See the sky, see the earth, and see all living beings.
The itinerary is the practice.
Confucianism has the saying of "traveling thousands of miles", Buddhism has an ascetic journey to measure the universe, and Taoism has the test of "entering the world".
Even the demon cultivation vein also pays attention to the appearance of all living beings, and investigates the thieves of seven emotions and six desires.
All of this is for the sake of cultivation and precipitation of the state of mind.
The so-called insight into the world is knowledge, and the practice of human feelings is the article.
The path of cultivation lies between this birth and entry into the world.
Therefore, on the next road, Su Yi was interested, so he took the sword
Okay, with the wind of nothing, look at the beauty of the mountains and rivers.
Occasionally, I will slow down and walk among the different cities.
When he was pleased, he stayed for a few days.
If you get bored, you will sweep thousands of miles.
Along the way, Yuan Heng served him, whether he was sleeping in the deep mountains and old forests, or lingering in the prosperous places of the world, he followed suit, like a servant, taking on all kinds of trivial matters.
With the cultivation of the two, although they occasionally encountered some disputes along the way, they didn't need Su Yi to come forward at all, and Yuan Heng could easily resolve them.
More than ten days have passed.
The figures of the master and servant have already passed through seven or eight secular countries, crossing countless mountains and rivers.
this day.
In the territory of Daliang Kingdom, there is a gurgling river in the distance of a mountain range called "Fuxian Ridge".
On the banks of the river is a very remote mountain village.
It was night, the river was surging, and the Fuxian Ridge in the distance was like a behemoth, shrouded in ink-like night.
"Master, you see in the distance, the nearby villagers are putting river lanterns on the riverside. β
Yuan Heng pointed to the river in the distance.
There are many lights lit there, and the men, women and children of the village gather there, and put the river lanterns of different shapes and candles into the river.
At a glance, the lights and shadows are coming downstream, which looks very eye-catching in this night.
"Is this a sacrifice to the dead?"
Su Yi asked.
Yuan Heng said: "Exactly, master, today is the July 15th Midyear Festival, which is the so-called Ghost Festival in the world, it is rumored that every year today, the yin qi is the most prosperous, and the ghosts scattered in the world will wander today." β
"People in the world will put river lanterns, burn paper money, and worship the souls of the dead today, in order to have a peaceful life. β
After listening, Su Yi suddenly knew that he naturally knew about the Midyear Festival.
In the eyes of the world, this is Halloween.
In the eyes of cultivators, this is the heaviest day of the 365 days of the year, when the yin qi of heaven and earth is the heaviest.
It's just that the yin qi is a little heavier, and there is nothing important about it.
"Hurry up, go quickly, go back to your own house, no matter who you are tonight, you are not allowed to go out again! Even if you hear any movement, you can't open the door and go out, otherwise, you will be eaten by ghosts!"
In the distance, on the riverside, a thin old man shouted at the top of his voice.
Soon, the villagers scattered.
The night was deep, there were no stars and no moon, and in this remote mountain land, you could even hear the roar of wild beasts in the distance.
Each villager carried a paper lantern and hurried back with their children and daughters.
Suddenly, two lanterns approached Su Yi's side.
When I got closer, I saw that it was a teenager of twelve or thirteen years old and a little girl of seven or eight years old.
The young man had a dark complexion, a lean body, and a hatchet knife stuck in his waist.
The little girl has pigtails on her head and has yellow muscles.
It was clearly a brother and sister, dressed in old coarse cloth garments covered with patches.
When they saw Su Yi and Yuan Heng standing in the grass, the brother and sister were obviously startled and retreated a few steps back.
The young man pulled out the firewood knife suddenly, protected his sister behind him for the first time, and said vigilantly: "Are you human or ghost?"
"If we were ghosts, you'd be dead by now. β
Yuan Heng laughed and said, "The people in your village have all gone home, where are you two little guys going?"
The young man was vigilant and said, "What are you asking for?"
The little girl poked her little head out from behind the young man, looked at Su Yi and Yuan Heng with her eyes, and said timidly: "Brother, they are not fierce at all, they are definitely not ghosts." β
The young man sneered: "Sister, you don't understand, those ghosts are the most changeable, they look like good people, but they are actually the most vicious and vicious." β
Yuan Heng was about to say something, Su Yi waved his hand and said, "Get out of the way, let them pass." β
With that, he got out of the way.
Yuan Heng was stunned, and also silently retreated.
Seeing this, the young man hesitated for a moment before taking his sister's hand and hurried away from the side.
"Go, follow, remember, don't alarm them. β
Su Yi walked in the direction where the young man left.
Yuan Heng was a little puzzled, could it be that the master noticed something?
He didn't ask, and followed behind Su Yi with his head stuffed.
In the night, the young man held a firewood knife in one hand and took his sister in the other, and walked away quickly.
Half a quarter of an hour later.
The boy and his sister stood in front of a weedy grave.
The young man chopped the weeds with a wood knife and repaired the lonely grave, and then took out incense candles, paper money, and a plate of sugar cakes from the cloth bag beside his waist.
The young man lit the incense candles, and offered the sugar cakes in front of the tomb, and then knelt on his knees, and said:
"Mother, my sister and I came to see you. β
As he spoke, he pulled the little girl next to him, "Sister, kowtow to my mother." β
The little girl was just about to kneel, but suddenly her eyes widened and she shouted in horror: "Brother, ghost ββ!"
The young man got up suddenly, and saw that in the darkness in the distance, a little bit of green ghost fire was fluttering, faintly visible, and a fluttering white clothes flickered.
"Let's go!"
The young man was so frightened that a cold sweat broke out on his back, and he grabbed his sister's hand as soon as possible, turned his head and fled.
But halfway through, the boy stopped abruptly.
Not far away, a wriggling shadow sprung up like a vine, ghostly, billowing black smoke towards the boy and girl.
The young man's face changed drastically, and he grabbed his sister violently, turned and fled in the other direction.
It's just that soon, in this direction, that swaying white clothes appeared, blocking the front.
This time, the young man had clearly seen that the white clothes were a female ghost, with a cloak of hair, and in the eyesockets without eyeballs, there was a pair of oily ghost fires, and her face was miserable and transparent.
Swish!
The female ghost in white came to kill, and it was incredibly fast.
The boy and the little girl had no time to dodge.
At this moment of great crisis, the young man gritted his teeth violently, stood in front of his sister, and shouted: "Sister, go quickly!"
As he spoke, he clenched his hands on the knife and slashed forward.
Click!
The wood knife shattered, and the young man's figure was violently shocked and flew out.
I saw that the white-clothed female ghost didn't look at the young man, and rushed straight towards the little girl, and the luster of greed and evil surged in the blue eyes.
"Brotherβhelp meβ"
The little girl sat on the ground, her small body curled up, screaming in terror.
The young man's eyes were split, his heart was like a knife, since his parents died, his sister was his only relative, seeing this scene, his eyes were red with hatred, and he was furious.
But he was too late to help.
Seeing that the little girl was pounced on by the white-clothed female ghost, a cold snort suddenly sounded:
"Little ghosts, dare to hurt people, look for death!"
The sound was like a thunderous roar in the sky, full of great divine might.
Immediately after, a touch of golden light appeared, piercing the night like ink, dazzling.
Bang!
saw that the female ghost in white didn't have time to dodge, and her figure was like paper paste, suddenly shattered, turned into bursts of green smoke and disappeared.
The boy and the little girl froze.
The brilliant golden light was still there, and in their field of vision, a figure appeared in the field like a god descending from the heavens.