When the mountain road under his feet became steep, Ding Qi saw Mengshenghua. It does look a bit like a daylily flower, but the flower disc is larger than the daylily flower, the slender flower body is divided into five petals at the top, the edges of the petals are crimson, and the stamens are purple, and the color of the whole flower is excessive like a spectrum of colors.

Dream flowers do not grow in patches, they are distributed in clumps on the hillside, and you can see several bushes every short walk, and the leaves look like bluegrass. Tintze heard the buzzing sound again, and then saw the thumbbee, and was almost startled.

He had never seen a bee of this size, much larger than a hornet or a hornet, and almost the size of an adult's little thumb. From time to time, thumbbees fly around among the flowers, and Cui Shanhai told everyone that as long as they don't provoke them, thumbbees will not take the initiative to attack people.

Tan Hanchuan asked again: "Is this thumb bee poisonous?"

Cui Shanhai replied: "It is very toxic, and I deliberately tried to be bitten, and immediately puffed up a big bag, which was very painful." Ordinary people who are bitten three or five times may not be fatal, but they will be extremely uncomfortable, but if they are bitten more than a dozen times, it will be dangerous if they are not treated in time, it will cause nerve palsy, which will lead to breathing difficulties and even cardiac arrest......"

Shanny: "You're so daring, dare to try?"

Cui Shanhai: "Like Lao Tan, I'm engaged in scientific research! In fact, it doesn't matter if I get stung a few times once in a while, but it can increase resistance." As long as you don't smell of bamboo wine, or steal their nectar, Thumb Bees won't swarm you. ”

Shi Buquan: "Stealing nectar?

Cui Shanhai smiled: "I did it." The antidote to the poison of thumb bees is the nectar they brew, the best of which is the dream nectar, which happens to be the honey collected in this season, and it can be stolen in about half a month. ”

Tan Hanchuan laughed and said, "Xiao Cui, you also have such naughty times, so how can you avoid the pursuit of a large group of thumb bees?"

Cui Shanhai: "It's hard to hide, you have to be bitten a few times, and then I used protective clothing." ”

Tan Hanchuan: "Looking at the size of this thumbbee, the kind of protective clothing and mask worn by ordinary beekeepers is definitely not very easy to use." ”

Cui Shanhai: "Of course, the fencing suit and fencing mask I tried at the beginning were not for training, but for regular competitions, and the leg protection was a little weaker, so I had to wear thick leather boots. Later, I tried several new materials, which were better than fencing suits. ”

Tan Hanchuan: "Is it the spacesuit material worn by astronauts?"

Cui Shanhai: "As soon as I said it, you guessed, it was." ”

Yan Binbin was surprised: "Lord Cui Feng, are you wearing a spacesuit to steal honey?"

Cui Shanhai explained with a smile: "Of course it's not a real spacesuit, then I can't afford it, even if I can afford it, I can't get it." I have tried many materials for the development of spacesuits, and several of them are very suitable for making protective clothing for stealing honey, so I chose one of them, and then I still wore the mask of the fencing suit, which is very useful!"

Shi Buquan: "You really know how to play, can you take us to steal honey when you can?"

Cui Shanhai: "It depends on the situation, I'm not prepared today, it's best not to provoke the thumbbee." And that thing, in addition to being able to detoxify the toxins of thumb bees, is not much different from ordinary honey, so there is no need to steal too much. I just had some stock in case of accidents, and that thing has a long shelf life and can last for a long time. ”

Zhuang Mengzhou, who was walking in the front, turned around and asked: "If you drink the bamboo wine brewed with Mengsheng stamens, you will be attacked by the thumb bee, what if you directly sprinkle the nectar of the thumb bee on your body?"

Cui Shanhai: "You must not try it, the effect is similar to stabbing a honeycomb." ”

Zhu Shan seemed to joke: "If you dilute the honey and put it in a spray bottle, who will you accidentally spray on your body...... In this realm, that's a good medicine for home travel and stumbling on people!"

Shui Ruo was slightly stunned: "Is District Chief Zhu here to help us come up with an idea? If someone comes here to plot evil, just give him this...... But be careful, you have to stand in the limelight and surprise yourself. ”

Tan Hanchuan nodded and said, "In this way, the area where the thumb bees are distributed is a natural barrier and trap...... Today's words are where to talk, and those present must not talk nonsense to the outside world. ”

Ye Zongqing hurriedly spoke: "According to the constitution of the Fangwai Alliance, what we see and hear when visiting other Fangwai worlds is not allowed to be disclosed to other members of the alliance, of course we will abide by it." Thank you for your trust today, I won't tell anyone else in the Valley of Five Hearts, Bobo, Xiaoshi, you all have to remember!"

There are three groups of people who came to visit Xiangshui Peak today, Cui Shanhai, Shui Ruo, and Li Zhiyao are from Xiangshui Peak, and Tan Hanchuan and other seven people trust each other very much. Ye Zongqing, Yan Binbin, Shi Heyu and the other three are relatively unfamiliar, but being able to invite them here, Xiang Shuifeng also shows a frank and trusting attitude.

Having said this, Ye Zongqing immediately expressed his attitude, many of the secret times he saw today would definitely not be leaked, even to other people in the Five Heart Valley.

While they were talking, Ding Qi was also paying attention to the reactions of everyone, and found that Li Zhiyao had stopped talking. Ding Qi and Xian Hao exchanged glances and understood each other.

The thumb bee colony is a means of protection in Xiangshui Peak, even if Zhu Shan doesn't remind him, how can the ancestors of Xiangshui Peak and Cui Shanhai and his wife not think of it? It is estimated that they have already known this trick!

But Zhuang Mengzhou made the topic clear just now, and Cui Shanhai and his wife can't say that we have already mastered this method of dealing with people, so we have to pretend to be surprised, presumably Li Zhiyao also knows about it.

As he spoke, the road under his feet became steeper and steeper, but it was not beyond the limits of ordinary people, but it was very difficult for the infirm to get up. After walking for about half an hour, everyone walked out of the mountain forest only to hear the sound of water like thunder, in front of them is a waterfall tens of meters high, under the waterfall is a deep pool of waves and white mist.

Cui Shanhai led everyone to the mountain wall on the left, along the cliff there is a carved stone staircase road, you can enjoy this waterfall from the side high, after winding hundreds of meters, finally climb to the top of the cliff, looking at a lake. I saw that the surrounding mountains were hugging, and there were nine streams that converged into a lake from different angles, and the outlet of the lake was the waterfall.

Ye Zongqing sighed and said, "Good realm! This lake and that waterfall should have names...... Hey, what's wrong with you?" Halfway through her words, she noticed that the three people in Xiangshui Peak all looked a little strange.

Li Zhiyao touched his nose and said: "The big lake above is called Upper Dragon Pond, the water pool below is called Lower Dragon Pond, and the waterfall we see is called Feilong Waterfall." ”

Everyone laughed, there are so many places called Longtan, even in the world outside the square, and they met it here again. Walking along the shore of the lake with laughter is very relaxing. The mountain streams are not deep, and the water surface of the small streams that flow into the lake is so open that you can directly flow through, and there are many places where there are large rocks as bridges to settle on.

Walked to the end of this valley, but Cui Shanhai did not take them to continue to visit the lake, and pointed to a gap in the cliff wall and said: "From here, you have to enter the cave again, it is a shortcut to the main peak, and people with almost physical strength can't go up." ”

There are many such crevices in the ravines in this area, and the inside is dark and I don't know what it is. This rock crack is inconspicuous, you can stand up straight and walk in a little sideways, turn on the flashlight and find that it is curved and deep, and the space is getting wider and wider, and it actually enters a complex underground cavern with various branches.

The temperature in the depths of the cave is extremely cold, almost close to freezing, and there are not many bats that are common in caves. Fortunately, everyone has excellent physique, at least they have practiced, and they climbed up and down with Cui Shanhai, the guide, and after about half an hour, they finally came out of the mountain wall.

This place is very hidden, just in the depression under the cliff, is a semi-artificial and semi-natural Yongdao connected by a stone niche, you can see the outline of the Shanglong Pond under the mountain and the yard in the distance, but it is difficult for people under the mountain to see here. Walk along a half-open stone niche at the bottom of the cliff face, with a row of hewn stone chambers in front of you, and statues in the stone niches beside the road.

Different from ordinary religious statues, each statue here is extremely realistic, life-size, and lifelike, including every fold on the clothes, every wrinkle on the forehead and the corners of the eyes, are clearly carved, it is hard to imagine that this is hand-carved, as if it was 3D printed after being scanned by a real person.

Moreover, these statues are not carved and placed here, their bases are completely integrated with the mountain rock, or they are directly hewn out of the mountain rock. There are a total of 25 statues, including men and women, and even monks and monks. In the eyes of an expert like Ah Quan, the age can be judged from the clothing, and the earliest statue is dressed in the costumes of the Tang Dynasty and is a plump woman.

According to Cui Shanhai, these statues are the ancestors of Xiangshui Peak, and the next peak master chiseled and built statues for the previous peak master, which is also the tradition of Xiangshui Peak. Shi Buquan was surprised: "How can it be carved so realistically? There is no kind of sculpture style in ancient and modern China and abroad!"

Cui Shanhai introduced: "This is the style of Xiangshui Peak, and it is also the cultivation inheritance of Xiangshui Peak......

The inheritance of Xiangshui Peak includes the Fire Gate Furnace Ding Technique, and it is based on the Furnace Ding Technique, but the secret transmission is not limited to this, there are other cultivation and sealing methods, and the statue of the ancestor is one of them. In ancient times, there was no photographic technology, let alone laser holographic technology, after the previous generation of peak masters left, the future generations of peak masters will make statues for them, how can they be carved so realistically?

They have not studied sculpture, let alone graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts, but they have all cultivated a kind of contemplation - contemplation of the master. Many schools of practice have the lineage of contemplation, for example, Tantra has methods such as visualizing Buddha-figures, visualizing gurus, and so on, but contemplation is not limited to a certain sect or school.

By visualizing a specific image of the Guru at a certain time, and then carving out this image accurately, the image is like a person. Visualizing and carving represents a state of cultivation. There is no room for failure, and if you are not sure, you can take it slowly, but you must succeed from start to finish.

After listening to Cui Shanhai's introduction, Ding Qi felt that this cultivation inheritance in Xiangshui Peak had a profound meaning. If you have already attained great cultivation, of course it is not difficult to do this, with your divine sense to control the axe and chisel, as long as you are willing to spend some effort to enter, even if you have never studied sculpture, you can complete such a statue.

However, it is impossible for the previous peak masters of Xiangshui Peak to have Dacheng cultivation, and most of them may not have broken through the Dacheng realm in their lifetimes, so they must use the idea of unique views.

Every time he walked past a statue of the patriarch, Cui Shanhai would bow and salute, and everyone followed suit. After looking at all 25 statues, Ding Qi also found that the "authors" of three of the statues should have completed their cultivation. These three statues all appeared in the Ming Dynasty, and they were arranged consecutively, and the author of one of the statues should have a higher cultivation realm than he was at this time.

Although these 25 statues are all life-like recreations, there are some differences. Twenty-two of them seem to be peeled out of stone, how to describe it, that is, there is already an image of the master in mind, and the wrapped rock is peeled off layer by layer, so that the portrait is revealed, which is completely in line with the process of carving with the idea of visualization introduced by Cui Shanhai.

As for the other three statues, it is not like this, as if a real person is standing here and turned into a stone statue. Of course, it is impossible for a real person to be turned into a stone statue, which can only show that the carver has mastered the divine thought, so at least he has achieved great cultivation.

In particular, one of the statues is a high-hairpin Taoist, which gives Ding Qi the feeling that he is almost alive, which makes Ding Qi think of Tao Xin again. Ding Qi even speculated that if he sensed this image, he would be able to communicate with a certain ancestor of Xiangshui Peak, and it would even be possible to get all the inheritance of Xiangshui Peak from the other party.

But Ding Qi didn't do it without permission, he was just an invited guest at the moment, and it was impossible for him to be so rude in front of Cui Shanhai. Moreover, sensing the divine thoughts in the stone statue, it is like seeing the real people of the year, and they can't deceive each other in that kind of divine thought exchange situation, and the other party will naturally know his identity, and if there is no special reason, he will not give it to him for no reason.

I think that Ding Qi saw "Tao Xin" in the world of Qin Gaotai, but Tao Xin did not hand over the inheritance of the secret realm of heaven and earth and the treasure of the control realm to him, but only had a friendly exchange with him. This also shows one thing, even if an outsider comes here and can sense the idea of the god in the statue, if he is not good, I am afraid it will be difficult to use this to plan the inheritance and inheritance of Xiangshui Peak.

Seeing the statue of the Taoist, Ding Qi paid special attention to the next stone statue, which was a scholar, and this scholar was the master who left the idea of the gods. Because according to the tradition of Xiangshui Peak, the statue of the Taoist is carved by a scholar, and he should be the one who leaves the idea of the god.

Thinking of this, Ding Qi quietly said with a divine thought: "Master Cui Feng, carving the image of the previous generation of peak masters with the idea of contemplation is simple to say, but it is actually very difficult. The biggest effect of bamboo wine is probably to help cultivate the contemplative mind, right? But for ordinary people, it only has a psychedelic effect, which can make people dream what they want to do. ”

Cui Shanhai's sudden surprise was probably because of the first contact with the Divine Thought, but also because the real effect of bamboo wine lies in this, and it is impossible for non-Xiangshui Peak inheritors to know. He turned around quietly and said, "Master Ding, in fact, please come to visit today, I still have a lot of things I want to ask for advice privately, and after dinner, can you talk alone?"

Ding Qi: "Okay, no problem! Actually, it's still early, I don't have to wait for dinner, as long as Master Cui Feng is free, I can do it at any time." ”

Shui Ruo was puzzled: "You two, what do you have to whisper?"

In front of everyone, Cui Shanhai was also inconvenient to say clearly, and said haha: "There are some questions to ask, which may involve some secrets." ”

Shui Ruo joked: "Is your man's secret?"

Cui Shanhai shrugged: "You say yes, that's it." ”

Tan Haichuan interjected: "Xiao Cui, how to open Xiangshui Peak next, you really have to ask Teacher Ding well." ”