Chapter 22: The Staircase
Looking at the empty fourth floor, Li Chuyi was stunned for a moment. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
He thought that there might be some powerful seals on the fourth floor, there might be some powerful formations, and he was even ready to start a war when he came up, but he never thought that there was nothing on the fourth floor!
Except for the faint glow of the roof and walls, which provided the only light to the empty environment, the fourth floor was empty.
"As you can see, there's nothing on the fourth floor. The Taoist priest glanced at Li Chuyi, lowered his head and stomped his feet gently, and a burst of dust suddenly flew up with the trampling of the Taoist priest.
"Except for this thick pile of dust. The Taoist priest added.
Li Chuyi looked at the dust on the ground that had accumulated for an unknown amount of time, and was silent. Along the way, the entire Wuyang Tomb has never felt like a tomb to Li Chuyi, but like an empty city that is empty and uninhabited but regularly cleaned, and everywhere is clean and clean. Whether it is the flowers and trees encountered on the first floor, or the magnificent grassland created by the illusion on the second floor, Li Chuyi feels full of vitality, and the soil that raises them is also full of vitality.
And this fourth floor made Li Chuyi feel that this was a tomb for the first time, because although the fourth floor was empty and there was nothing, it was this empty feeling, as well as the thick dust on the ground, that made Li Chuyi feel the unique feeling in the tomb - dead air, cold and silent dead air.
"After years of investigation, I have determined that there is a high probability that the Ghost Book was hidden on the fifth floor of this library. I've been here a few times before and tried everything, but I didn't have a clue. The Taoist priest said on the side, "At first, I thought that there was a phantom array covering the road to the fifth floor, but later, I thought that the old monster of the five sheep had arranged some method of space transfer here, so that I could not find the way." However, after trying many methods, I found that none of them were. ā
Looking at the empty fourth floor, the Taoist priest said helplessly: "The results of my experiment tell me that this is the fourth floor, there is no illusion, and I have not been transferred by any space secret method, this is the fourth floor, the fourth floor that is empty and has nothing." ā
Looking at the roof that was not high overhead, Li Chuyi asked, "Then have you tried to go directly through the roof to the fifth floor?"
The Taoist priest didn't speak, but just slapped his palm into the sky, and a golden light flew out of the Taoist priest's palm and hit the roof.
Rumble~~~
After a loud noise, Li Chuyi's development was unscathed except for the dust everywhere.
Boom ~ Boom ~ Boom ~ Boom ~~~~
The Taoist priest slashed around with a few palms, but except for the smoke and dust flying in the sky, the place where he was hit was not damaged either on the roof or the surrounding walls, and even if it weren't for the flying ash in the sky and the bombardment sound that was still buzzing in his ears for a long time, Li Chuyi would even think that it hadn't happened.
How powerful the Taoist priest's skills are, Li Chuyi knows very well. But it was precisely knowing the power of the Taoist priest that Li Chuyi was very surprised by the solidity of this place.
Fanning the flying ash in front of him, the Taoist priest turned to Li Chuyi and said, "Now, you are the last method I can think of at the moment." You have the Yin and Yang Dao Eye, and you have the talent that I don't have as a teacher, I hope you can see the situation here and find out the hidden secrets. ā
Glancing at the Taoist priest with an expectant face, Li Chuyi did not speak.
Closing his eyes and hugging Yuan Shouyi, Li Chuyi seriously and fully mobilized his life's cultivation for the first time in his life. Feeling the breath in his body like a wild horse running wild, Li Chuyi silently recited the mantra of Tianyantong, and slowly opened his eyes.
This time, it was no longer a millilight, but two rays of essence that seemed to be a substance flashed from his eyes, and Li Chuyi's vision suddenly turned black and white, and the objects in his vision seemed to become clearer than before.
Staring at his eyes, Li Chuyi walked forward slowly.
In the black and white vision, what Li Chuyi saw was not any different from before. The thick dust on the ground had turned grayish-white, and the glowing walls had turned bright white, but nothing of the colourful things associated with the monks had ever appeared in the eye. Just like when he went upstairs, Li Chuyi's first impression was the same, there was no formation, no illusion, nothing.
"Do you see anything?" the Taoist priest asked earnestly.
Li Chuyi shook his head silently.
Seeing this, the Taoist priest was silent for a long time, shook his head and sighed, and said with a little bitterness: "Hey, fate shouldn't have it, chance!"
Li Chuyi looked at the Taoist priest and felt very uncomfortable. I learned that I was talented, and I was excited, and I felt that I could do anything. As a result, it didn't take long for this situation to happen, and it was immediately poured on his head like a basin of cold water.
Li Chuyi knew that it was not his talent that was not good, but that his cultivation was too low. Although this is a very helpless and helpless thing, but the Taoist priest rarely asks for himself, but he can't help him, Li Chu still feels really sorry for the Taoist priest in his heart.
In this way, the master and apprentice each thought about their own thoughts and fell silent. The empty dead building returned to dead silence for a while, and only occasionally could the inaudible breathing of the master and apprentice be heard.
After a long time, the Taoist priest straightened his waist and said in a loud voice: "That's it, I am fortunate to have it, and I have lost my life, it is not my own fate, I can't ask for it!"
Hearing the voice of the Taoist priest, Li Chuyi also came back to his senses, bowed down and said to the Taoist priest: "Master, I'm sorry, the apprentice is incompetent and couldn't help the master." ā
"It has nothing to do with you!" the Taoist priest laughed, "I brought you here this time, just in case, just give it a try." It's good that you can see through it, but it's reasonable that you can't see through it, so you don't feel guilty. Besides, I can't even see through what I don't understand as a teacher, if you can crack it as a little kid who has only been cultivating for ten years, then you're still a fart as a teacher?"
Li Chuyi smiled slightly when he heard this, and his guilt suddenly lightened a lot.
"Master, what should we do now?" Li Chuyi asked, looking up.
"What else can I do?
After the Taoist priest finished speaking, he turned his head and walked to the staircase, ready to leave, and Li Chu hurriedly followed when he saw this.
At the moment when the Taoist priest went downstairs, Li Chuyi seemed to see something, and the whole person was stunned and fixed there. And the Taoist priest who was walking in front felt that Li Chuyi had stopped, so he also stopped, turned around and looked at Li Chuyi strangely.
Li Chu had been staring at the staircase for a long time, and suddenly rushed to the side of the staircase with a few steps, raised his foot and continuously hit the dust on the ground around the staircase, and suddenly a burst of dust and mist filled the air.
Seeing that Li Chuyi stopped strangely, the Taoist priest knew after a little thought that Li Chuyi should have discovered something, rushed back to the fourth floor in a few steps, stopped Li Chuyi, who kept kicking, and said, "I'm coming." ā
After speaking, the Taoist priest waved his sleeves, and suddenly a strong wind swept through, and the ground around the entire staircase became clean, and the dust flew in the sky, faintly covering the staircase.
"Master, look, look!" Li Chuyi suddenly grabbed the Taoist priest excitedly, pointed to the staircase and kept shouting.
The Taoist priest heard the sound and looked, but he didn't see anything except the dust in the sky, and he asked for a long time, "What are you looking at?"
"Look at the ashes!" Li Chuyi's face was excited, "Look at this dust, although it is flying all over the sky and gradually falling, it has all fallen on the ground on the fourth floor, and this staircase leading to the fourth floor is still spotless, isn't it strange?"
The Taoist priest was stunned when he heard this, and turned his head to look again.
Li Chuyi ignored the Taoist priest, stared at the staircase with bright eyes, and continued: "This fourth floor is empty and invulnerable, except for the invulnerable, invulnerable and invulnerable, there is nothing left, not even a little strange. The only thing that's strange is the dust on the ground. Isn't it strange that the dust that we have passed all the way through is not spotless, but at least it is clean, but there is such a thick layer of dust here?
Seeing the thoughtfulness on the Taoist priest's face, Li Chuyi continued: "When Master Fang Cai walked downstairs, a piece of flying ash was stirred. I found that the ashes disappeared when they flew there, and at first I thought it was a dust mantra or something like that, but they all kept the dust out or dispersed it, not made it disappear. But the dust here is gone, and that only means one thing!"
Li Chuyi looked into the eyes of the Taoist priest and said word by word: "There is a problem here!"
The Taoist priest had already understood at this time. Looking at Li Chuyi's dirty little chubby face that was covered with flying ash in the sky, he smiled with satisfaction and praised it: "Not bad! This time you did a really good job! I didn't even notice that you did a beautiful job this time!"
After speaking, regardless of Li Chuyi's objections, he reached out and pinched Li Chuyi's chubby face, and then wiped the dust on his face, but the horizontal and vertical ones became even dirtier, and the Taoist priest couldn't help laughing when he saw this.
After laughing, the Taoist priest turned his head and looked at the staircase again, with a thoughtful expression. Li Chu on the side didn't dare to disturb when he saw the Taoist priest thinking, staring at his pair of shining yin and yang Dao eyes, and staring straight at the staircase.
Suddenly, the Taoist priest seemed to think of something, and grabbed a handful of dust, watching the handful of dust slowly slip from his fingers, the Taoist priest's face turned grim, and he muttered: "Sure enough!"
Li Chuyi asked strangely, "Master, what is the truth? There is something wrong with this ash?"
The Taoist priest nodded when he heard this, and said, "This is not ordinary dust, this is the ashes of the corpse that has been sacrificed!"
Li Chu was stunned, and instantly felt nauseous. What's the matter, just now it was smoky, and I seemed to have eaten a lot, and now I am still looking everywhere, and now I heard that this is actually corpse ashes, Li Chu was stomach reflux in an instant, and he almost didn't vomit.
The Taoist priest ignored Li Chuyi, who was retching next to him, his eyes were slightly closed, his hands were held in the two toilets of his body, and he was silently half-paid, and suddenly shouted: "Gather sand into a tower!"
With the shouts of the Taoist priest, I saw as if a strong wind swept by, and the ashes of the entire fourth floor were suddenly swept into the sky, circling towards the direction of the Taoist priest's head.
Seeing this, Li Chu quickly covered his mouth and nose and held his breath, for fear of swallowing a few more mouthfuls of this disgusting thing.
When the ashes of the corpse gathered into a big ball above the Taoist priest's head, the Taoist priest folded his hands, instantly changed several legal decisions, and stretched out his hand to point in the direction of the staircase.
"Hurry!"
Then I saw that the ball of ashes changed in response to the sound, turned into a river of sand, and flew towards the staircase, where it flew and circled, gradually forming a spiral staircase like when Fang Gang came up.
When the last wisp of corpse ashes fell on the piled up stairs, the Taoist priest took it away and muttered, "It's done!"
Looking at the staircase turned into ashes, although Li Chuyi was still disgusted, he couldn't hide his excitement.
"Let's hurry up!" Li Chuyi said excitedly.
The Taoist priest smiled slightly and said, "You go up and try it." ā
Although Li Chuyi felt strange in his heart, he still walked up with his feet raised.
When Li Chuyi stepped on the first staircase, the staircase formed by the corpse ashes suddenly dispersed and turned into fly ash again, and Li Chuyi almost fell when he stepped on the air. After Li Chuyi retreated, the flying ash in the sky gathered into a ladder again and appeared there, as if it had never changed.
"Why is that?" asked Li Chuyi, puzzled.
The Taoist priest smiled slightly and said, "Because, this staircase is not for people to walk. ā
"Not for people?"
"That's right!" the Taoist priest nodded, "To be precise, this staircase is not for living creatures. This staircase is for ghosts. ā
Li Chuyi's eyes widened suddenly, and he asked in a daze, "What do you mean? Could it be that the old monster of the five sheep is not a demon cultivator but a ghost cultivator?"
The Taoist priest nodded, shook his head again, and said, "Yes and no." ā
Seeing Li Chuyi looking at himself with a puzzled expression, the Taoist priest smiled slightly and explained: "The old monster of the five sheep is indeed a demon cultivator, but he has five primordial gods. I used to think that his five primordial gods were cultivated according to the five elements, and judging from the various signs he left behind, it was proved that this should be the case, but it seems that this is not the case today. At least one of the five primordial divine powers of these five sheep old monsters is cultivating the dead soul!"
"Dead souls?" Li Chuyi scratched his head, "Is it the same as cultivating with ghosts?"
"It's pretty much the same, but it's still different. The Taoist priest explained, "Ghost cultivation is that the physical body is dead, but the ghost is still in the shadow, and finally the soul body is condensed, and it is the ghost body that is cultivated." And the dead soul, it is true that the living person cultivates the ghost path and refines his life soul into a dead soul, in order to master the two qi of life and death at the same time and achieve enlightenment. The body is not destroyed, but the soul is dead, these people can no longer be regarded as people, but they are also not considered ghosts, we generally call them the living dead. ā
Li Chu was dumbfounded when he heard this, and it took a long time before he said: "I'm going, the living dead? It sounds like it's very powerful! You can also practice in this way?
The Taoist priest smiled and said, "It is very powerful, and when it is cultivated to a high level, it can almost be said that it is an immortal body." Not to mention that the ordinary Three Tribulations, Nine Tribulations and Eighteen Tribulations are more powerful than ordinary monks, or even a hundred times more powerful than ghost cultivators, even at that ordinary time, if you are discovered by this Heavenly Dao, you will be given a thunder tribulation at any time. To put it simply, it will be struck by lightning at any time. ā
Li Chu couldn't close his mouth. How powerful the thunder tribulation is, although he has never experienced it, he has heard a lot. Except for the old monster like the Taoist priest, which other monk doesn't talk about the thunder color change, and the mention of the thunder tribulation is like having died in three lifetimes? This living dead man not only has to cross the tribulation that ordinary monks have to cross, but if the heavens don't like you, he can give you a few dishes to try at any time. This taste, Li Chuyi really couldn't imagine how many crazy people would have to cultivate this kind of Tao.
After being demented for a long time, Li Chuyi asked, "Master, is there really anyone who cultivates this kind of Dao?
The Taoist priest pondered for a long time and said, "There are indeed people who cultivate, but it is unknown whether anyone succeeds." It's just that if a person who cultivates this path is immortal, and finally achieves the right fruit and ascends, the degree of power is several times or even hundreds of times higher than that of ordinary monks, and even in the legendary fairy world, no one dares to mess with it. But these are all legends, and teachers don't know whether it's true or not. ā
"Then these five sheep old monsters have cultivated dead souls, aren't they also living dead? No, they are living dead demons?" Li Chuyi asked again.
The Taoist priest shook his head when he heard this, and said: "Although this five sheep old monster has cultivated the dead soul, it is not a way of life and death that he has cultivated. He has five souls and cultivated into five primordial gods, I estimate that he only refined one of them into a dead soul, and the other four primordial gods are the normal cultivation of the five elements of the way, usually these four normal primordial gods cover up the dead soul, so as to confuse the way of heaven, so although the five sheep old monster has profound mana and a great reputation, he has never heard of him as a person with many thunderstorms. It is estimated that it was because he walked to that last step and was ready to become an immortal, but he couldn't hide it and was discovered by the Heavenly Dao, so he died on that last step. ā
Speaking of this, the Taoist priest sighed and said with emotion: "But even so, this five-sheep old monster can be regarded as a person of great perseverance." With five souls, he does not follow the ordinary way of the five elements, but he wants to penetrate yin and yang, refine a primordial god into a dead soul, and deceive the way of heaven for so long, and he is extremely powerful. It's a pity that he died in the end, if he didn't die and let him succeed, then his future achievements really don't dare to think about it. ā
After the Taoist priest finished speaking, he was speechless, his eyes fluttered, and he was very fascinated.
Li Chuyi was also listening from the sidelines, and his blood was boiling. But although he felt that the old monster of Wuyang was very powerful, Li Chuyi still felt that he was very stupid.
What's the matter, the five primordial gods, such a good talent condition, and they are better than others when they take the right path seriously, but as a result, he has to cultivate some dead soul, take the way of life and death, isn't this looking for death?
If you were yourself, it would never be possible to kill yourself. Just kidding, I'm just an ordinary little boy who wants to live comfortably. His own cultivation is also because the Taoist priest asked him to do this since he was a child, and he himself doesn't know if he is cultivating the Tao right, why he cultivates, and how far he can cultivate. Anyway, experience has taught him that it is right to listen to the Taoist priest.
If you can have the opportunity of the five sheep old monsters, it is almost obvious that you can cultivate into a positive fruit and become an immortal, so that you will not seek your own death for something higher, faster and stronger.
Come to think of it, the teachings of the Taoist priests in the past are not wrong at all.
is not exposed, low-key life.
Being alive is the last word!
Li Chuyi felt that he had found the Dao heart that the Taoist priest said.