Chapter 18: Revisiting Leshan
After the first day of the Lunar New Year, Zhang Xiaoyao began to visit relatives in the second year of junior high school, in order to leave more time to see those places that he had not seen carefully, Zhang Xiaoyao only went to his aunt and uncle's house in the second year of junior high school to visit relatives.
On the third day of the first month, it was cloudy, Zhang Xiaoyao rode up the mountain, the first stop was to worship the Taiwan Palace, but unfortunately there was only a big lake left in the place of the Baitai Palace, the water depth was not bottomless, Zhang Xiaoyao put the car in the village of Baitai and began to go to the direction of the Xiangshui River to see the remains of the Hanging Tai Palace, along the steep mountain road that was mostly gravel and mud, Zhang Xiaoyao climbed to the Hanging Palace under the belly of the mountain on the north side of Leshan.
Thousands of years have passed here, Taoism is not prosperous, only vaguely from the rock to see three red characters hanging the palace, there are several half-cut cyan steles on the ground, the names are densely engraved on it, the decayed and fallen layers of blue brick walls and several thick old tree roots grow from it, the large scattered broken bricks and tiles are very ancient, so there is no longer a building on the ground that looks like a palace, at a glance the ruins and broken walls, this is what kind of wind and frost years can be worn out so thoroughly?
It is said that during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the mountain was the battlefield, and the Hanging Terrace Palace was the battle line defense, and now there is no appearance of the Taoist Palace that has been broken, leaving only the ruins empty and people sighing.
Zhang Xiaoyao walked step by step, found a spring that did not dry up under a big stone by the Dao Palace, and drank a handful of cold spring water with his hand, the spring water was a little sweet, at this moment, Zhang Xiaoyao's mind once again sounded the voice of Zhang Qiankun in the chaotic yin and yang beads for a long time, "Xiaoyao, get closer, dig it down, the spring water here is strange, there is a trace of aura, see if there is anything under the spring." ”
The chaotic yin and yang beads that had lost their aura and all their functions and had been silent for a long time were moving again at this time, and the heavens were not in vain for me! Zhang Xiaoyao, who was excited, hurriedly found a stone like a shovel, and broke a big wooden stick, and began to dig the spring frantically, and piles of small stones mixed with soil were cleared out by Zhang Xiaoyao, and the spring gradually expanded into a small puddle, Zhang Xiaoyao continued to dig hard, and suddenly the spring under the big stone began to gurgle out, and the water instantly became a big spring.
The water is clearer, Zhang Xiaoyao hurriedly lay down and drank the spring water, at this moment there was a rumbling thunder in the sky, suddenly the wind and clouds surged, the sky was full of dark clouds, seeing that a heavy rain was coming, but Zhang Xiaoyao did not care about the weather, but kept digging the spring, the spring under the boulder was dug up by Zhang Xiaoyao with the water flow to the stone wall with the three big red characters of the Hanging Taiwan Palace, and the block of the thick stone wall obviously could not continue to dig forward.
Zhang Xiaoyao found a thin wooden stick more than one meter long and probed into the spring, in a blink of an eye, only one end of the small wooden stick was left, obviously the small wooden stick was not long enough, Zhang Xiaoyao replaced a more than three meters long, began to probe inside, when about three meters into it, the strange spring did not come out of the water, Zhang Xiaoyao pulled out a little after the spring began to bubble again, tried several times, and after a while the spring began to flow bloody red water.
Zhang Xiaoyao touched the blood-red water with his hand, and Zhang Qiankun said to Zhang Xiaoyao with some excitement in his mind, "Hurry up and block this water, don't let it flow away, there is more aura in this water." Zhang Xiaoyao hurriedly blocked the vicinity of the mouth of the spring with a dirt fool, and then began to drink the blood-red water, and the blood disappeared in an instant, and the water changed back to a clear appearance.
Then Zhang Xiaoyao pulled out a small wooden stick, and a small thing like a thumb-sized lizard with black whole body flowed out of the spring hole, and there was a little blood stain on the tail, which was obviously stabbed by Zhang Xiaoyao's stick, but the little lizard looked at Zhang Xiaoyao who was holding the stick strangely, and retracted back into the spring.
I saw its front two paws raised high, its tail standing up and staring at Zhang Xiaoyao with its mouth open, if Zhang Xiaoyao could understand the meaning of his eyes, then he would find that it was a murderous look like a great hatred.
At this moment, Zhang Xiaoyao's eyes emitted a trace of black and white light, and it hit the little lizard directly, and in an instant, the little lizard lay down its head and closed its mouth, staggered to Zhang Xiaoyao, and climbed up Zhang Xiaoyao's left hand pressed on the ground, very affectionate and motionless.
Zhang Xiaoyao communicated with Zhang Qiankun in his mind about the current situation, only to know that due to the effect of the chaotic yin and yang beads, the little lizard regarded Zhang Xiaoyao as his own relative, which was an indirect recognition of the master, but unfortunately it was not a fierce tiger that recognized the master, but such a small lizard, Zhang Xiaoyao stretched out his right hand and touched the little lizard lying on his left hand, and the little lizard crawled to Zhang Xiaoyao's right hand.
Zhang Xiaoyao gestured to the little lizard and pointed to the hole of the spring, the little lizard climbed in, and when it came out again, the little lizard used its head to push out a small black bead the size of a thumb cover, the moment Zhang Xiaoyao picked up the black bead, a ray of black light did not enter Zhang Xiaoyao's head, the bead instantly shattered into powder, and the voice of Zhang Qiankun who was excited came from his head, " This is a spirit beast inner pill, the essence has been absorbed by the Chaos Yin Yang Bead, the silent function of the Chaos Yin Yang Bead is back for the time being, if there is a large amount of essence aura, it would be better, but unfortunately, this is a sealed earth where the aura is not visible. ”
Zhang Xiaoyao didn't know how to raise a baby lizard, so he let it continue to enter this spring hole and let it continue to survive in the wild.
At this time, the pouring rain also followed, looking at Nanshan and the towering Leshan peak, Zhang Xiaoyao suddenly found that there seemed to be a cyan figure in the heavy rain, rubbing his eyes and still there, Zhang Xiaoyao ran towards the figure, only to see that it was a Taoist wearing a cyan robe, holding a bun, and a white long beard, and the Taoist seemed to be looking at the ruins of the dilapidated Hanging Palace, his eyes were full of loneliness, and he was full of sighs for all this.
Zhang Xiaoyao didn't care how heavy the rain was, whether there would be mudslides and other dangers, chased the direction of the Taoist, followed all the way to the south, passed through the dense forest mountain road, climbed over the mountain rocks and vines, and went straight into Leshan, until it was higher and higher, after the recovery of the chaotic yin and yang beads, Zhang Xiaoyao felt that he did not feel tired after running for a few hours, and finally the Taoist stepped into the Nantianmen on the top of Leshan Mountain, and Zhang Xiaoyao also stepped into the Nantianmen.
The moment Zhang Xiaoyao stepped into the Nantianmen, the scene suddenly changed, the Taoist stepped over several high-rise buildings like a few steps, jumped into a circle of light and disappeared in a blink of an eye, and at the same time the Taoist disappeared, a paragraph and a cyan light came to Zhang Xiaoyao, "Xiaoyou, you have a fate with my Tao, so you can see my Tao, but your dust is not finished, and my Taoism cannot be passed on lightly, just pass on a simplified Tai Chi method to you, it is enough to defend yourself and save your life in your world, please go back." ”
Zhang Xiaoyao stood lonely on the dome of the South Tianmen of Leshan, the pouring rain continued, Zhang Xiaoyao was still immersed in the set of Tai Chi exercises and supporting Tai Chi boxing methods in his mind, one by one the light and shadow played different boxing methods in an all-round demonstration, with that set of strange formulas: "Tao is born without Ji, Wuji and Taiji, so that all things are born, hold the yin and keep the yang, Taiji gives birth to two instruments, two instruments give birth to four elephants, and four elephants give birth to gossip, which is to turn all things into yin and yang, lonely yin does not give birth, lonely yang does not grow, yin and yang are not long, and yin and yang can enter the Tao." ”
Zhang Xiaoyao played Tai Chi over and over again on the top of the mountain as if he was obsessed, dozens of times he was relaxed, and he felt more and more powerful, and finally Zhang Xiaoyao, who stopped, looked at the Nantianmen in the rain blankly, knelt down and kowtowed three times in the direction where the Taoist disappeared and then turned around and went down the mountain.
Zhang Xiaoyao's speed down the mountain can be described as a brisk walk, easy, if you usually run down the mountain in one go, your legs are tired and you have to rest for a few days so that you won't be sore, Zhang Xiaoyao who returned to Baitai Village rode a car and rushed home, and when he got home, Zhang Xiaoyao changed his clothes that were covered with muddy water, took a cold shower and sat in the room alone.
At this time, Zhang Xiaoyao communicated with Zhang Qiankun in his mind: "Qiankun, when that Daoist appeared, why didn't you move at all along with the Chaos Yin Yang Bead?
Zhang Qiankun said: "The reason why I don't stand up with the Chaos Yin Yang Bead is that you don't know the truth of the guilt? Fragmented innate spiritual treasure, I'm afraid to finish playing with you, the Tai Chi exercises you get are definitely good exercises, the old Taoist cultivation is also unfathomable, my Leshan Sect is only a small sect, although the Tai Chi Exercises are said to be simplified Taoism, but they are more powerful than any kind of exercises in my Leshan Sect, the exercises I practice require a lot of aura and resources, and it is impossible for you to cultivate in the current situation of the earth, even if I can't afford one of the garbage medicinal materials used in Wagang Village to quench the body, so don't think about it, but the exercises given by the old Tao do not need aura, resources, the end is very extraordinary. ”
"Remember that this exercise should not be easily revealed, in the future, you have to secretly practice diligently, it will only be of great benefit to you, just on the top of the mountain, how long have you practiced that boxing technique for a while? Don't you see your progress? How long did it take you to go down the mountain to come back? What was it like for you to go up and down the mountain before? Hey, don't talk about it, it's all tears! I'd better be quiet and sleep, save more aura, who knows that you can get more aura in the year of the monkey and the month of the horse, you have to pay attention to it in the future, don't be a hero anymore and run out of aura, please!"
Time flies in a hurry, and in a blink of an eye, it is the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month, just a few days ago, Zhang Xiaoyao also made an appointment with Xu Wenjing, but unfortunately Xu Wenjing was forced by her mother to study at home harshly after her relatives left, and school started immediately, Zhang Xiaoyao also knew that there was no way to see Xu Wenjing again before the start of school.
On the night of the Lantern Festival, Zhang Xiaoyao and the adults in the village went to the city on a motorcycle to watch the lanterns, fireworks and iron flowers in the city, but the neon lights and flowers of the city are not as good as her and the warm home in her heart.
This night, the moon is full, the heart is round, the reunion is reunited, the dream is round, this night, the moon is bright, the heart is bright, the dream is bright, this night, the moon is quiet, the heart is quiet, the dream is quiet.