Chapter 9: The Vortex
Lungabani Festival is a unique festival in Tonglan, also known as the Ten Thousand Buddhas Festival, which lasts from August 22 to August 25 every year, when Tonglan temples and believers across the country will do preaching, candle patrols and other rituals, this day is needless to say how important it is for more than 95% of the country to believe in Buddhism. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
These days are also the national holidays of Tonglan, and the official will hold large-scale parades in major cities, attracting a large number of tourists from all over the world to visit and enjoy the charm of this unique festival in Tonglan.
During the festival, the major cities of Tonglan are crowded with tourists from all over the world, and the main streets are full of people of all kinds, and in this case, the combination of a young woman with two and a half children is not very conspicuous.
This kind of festival is a great opportunity for traders to make a fortune, and there are all kinds of promotional offers, and women happen to be the least resistant to this kind of activity. So after completing the scheduled activities of visiting the city's scenic spots in the first three days, the content of the next two days of activities became to shop out from one shopping mall after another, and identify the level of local goods on the beautiful day, of course, the main force is one big and one small two women, Xin Yuan is responsible for carrying bags - at this point, the treatment of all men is the same, and there is no difference in age.
At this moment, it is like the epitome of these two days, the sisters Xia Zhen and Xu Youran in front of them are going around this house and that house with great interest, and Xin Yuan is following alone, carrying a few paper bags in his hands, and his eyes are slightly dazed, but they are thinking about getting that thing from the statue of Sinaro.
It was a seed-like object, emerald green, not gold or stone, and its whole body was crystal clear, very beautiful.
Now this emerald seed is being sealed in the wooden sign that Xin Yuan hung on his chest. It seems that the cold snap that broke out when he first started the lock was more like a test, and after passing it, it stopped making noise and began to provide him with an endless stream of cool breath.
Xin Yuan can't find an answer to what kind of breath it is for the time being, but he has a certain analysis of that breath - this breath is a bit similar to the legendary internal force true qi on the earth, which can enhance and improve people's physique from the inside.
In the past few days, breath will be generated from the seed and enter his body every moment, and it will eventually be absorbed. At first, I just felt refreshed and didn't feel anything special, but after a few days, Xin Yuan could clearly feel the increase in his speed and strength during daily exercise. This kind of enhancement is very insidious, not the kind of strengthening that the body induces to repair the muscles from repeated injuries, but is a fundamental improvement directly from the cellular level, and can even replace food to provide the body with energy to a certain extent.
Like the two girls sometimes forget the time when they go shopping in the past two days, but they can't stand the hunger, but he is still in good spirits, not very hungry, you must know that he is usually in the growth and development period, he can't wait to eat a cow.
On the other hand, as the time to absorb the breath increased, he found that the cooldown period of the Breeze Rune also decreased. It used to be 72 hours, but now it's 71.5, and if he doesn't subconsciously pay attention to how much cooldown time is left in the Breeze Rune every day, he doesn't necessarily notice it. Although this shortening is not large, it is a good trend after all, and more importantly, it is the rune stone itself that produces the breeze rune, since this breath can have an effect on the breeze rune, can it have an effect on the rune stone itself? Will it be possible to repair the runestones in the future?
With this in mind, he became more interested in studying the emerald seed, and almost every moment he was thinking about various questions about the emerald seed, and he was also looking forward to whether he could find something similar from other temples, after all, Tonglan was the most important thing to do. It's a pity that he has followed Xia Zhen to visit no less than ten temples these days, including well-known temples with extremely strong incense, as well as small remote temples that are little known but have unique feelings, but he has never found a trace similar to this emerald seed, and he has to admit that he was able to find this emerald seed is only a lucky event with a small probability, and it may even be the only one.
There is a float parade today, and both sides of the street are tourists who stop to watch and take pictures, and Xia Zhen and Xu Youran in front also stop from time to time, leaning on the railing and using the parade float as the background, posing for various poses, and taking a photo as a souvenir.
"Wow, Sister Zhenzhen, look, look! That's an elephant! It's still white! ”
There was a leisurely and cheerful voice in front of him, Xin Yuan raised his head, looked at the road from the gap in the crowd, and saw a white elephant striding forward.
The head of the big white elephant is draped with colorful silk, the silk corner is also hung with a silver bell, and the body is draped with a colorful blanket, on which a Buddha shrine is placed, which resembles a pagoda, and there is a sitting Buddha statue in the middle, which is almost exactly the same as the Buddha riding the elephant in the famous painting of Tonglan.
The big white elephant walked all the way, the local residents on both sides saw it with respectful hands and ten bows, extremely religious, and the flash of the tourist's camera and mobile phone flashed non-stop, ordinary beasts must be crazy in this environment, but this big white elephant is very calm, as if he has seen more of this scene, leisurely walking, just like ordinary people shopping on the street after eating a full meal.
Behind the big white elephant followed by a few floats, the car is full of the seven treasure trees, the national tree of Tonglan, connected to the lush, some monks of all sizes sit in it with their eyes closed and their heads bowed, sit upright and chant the scriptures, from the outside it looks like a feeling of ascending to immortality.
Xin Yuan looked interesting, took out his mobile phone and took a few photos, and then was directly called over by the two women, picked up Xia Zhen's SLR camera to help them take a group photo.
Xin Yuan is very willing to serve this, after all, one big and one small are all beauties, and posing for all kinds of delicate and beautiful shapes is like a beautiful picture, which looks pleasing to the eye and makes people happy.
Click...... Click...... Click......
After a photo, change the look, according to Xia Zhen, this kind of white elephant parade is actually very rare, even if there are few large-scale parades organized by the government, it is not seen at all on weekdays, so it is especially necessary to take this opportunity to take a few more photos, so as not to have no chance in the future.
Originally, he had been taking pictures well, but Xin Yuan, who was adjusting the position of the camera, suddenly changed his face, and the camera in his hand suddenly fell without grasping it, but fortunately, he reacted immediately and hurriedly caught the camera before it landed.
"Hey, Xin Yuan, what are you doing?!" Seeing that Xin Yuan almost dropped Xia Zhen's camera, Xu Youran asked a little angrily.
"I'm sorry, my hand suddenly went numb just now, so I didn't catch it." Xin Yuan said apologetically. He lowered his head slightly, as if he was embarrassed.
"Forget it, I didn't fall anyway, and I took enough shots." Xia Zhen said generously: "Are you okay?" ”
"It's okay, I'm probably a little tired just now." Xin Yuan shook his head.
"Well, it's been a bit long to shop today, let's find a shop to eat and rest for a while."
Xia Zhen's proposal was approved by the other two, so the three of them continued to walk forward to see which store was more suitable in front of them.
Xin Yuan pulled behind the two women again, his head slightly lowered, and a trace of gloom flashed on his face.
Nourished by that mysterious aura these days, what he has enhanced the most is not the physical quality of strength and speed, but the ability to perceive. Perception is the comprehensive interpretation ability of the human heart to receive various signals from the outside world, such as sight, hearing, touch, smell, taste and even more are all part of perception, but they vary from person to person.
Originally, Xin Yuan was at most more sensitive than ordinary people, but as he continued to absorb the mysterious air flow in the past few days, he found that as long as he concentrated on it, he could hear a small sound through the wall, and then simulate the scene that was happening on that side in his mind, and he could barely feel the flow of the air around him, and he could use it to see people more often than not, or the light of life.
For example, when he looked at Xia Zhen, he felt that the other party's body was filled with a layer of raging flames, while Xu Youran compared Xia Zhen was just a bright flame, which obviously represented the difference in vitality between a fighting master and an ordinary person.
Of course, the results he can perceive now are still very crude, and the distance is not too far, but it is a very good way to distinguish the strength level of the people around him.
But just now, he sensed an aura that was not an ordinary person. At first, he didn't pay much attention to it, because there were really a lot of people practicing boxing here, and their life breath was more or less stronger than ordinary people, and he had already met many of them these days. But as the breath approached the distance between him, when he reached a certain distance, he suddenly felt that his consciousness was suddenly pulled by some invisible force, and then, he "saw" a huge whirlpool, a monstrous whirlpool that led to the endless abyss as if to completely submerge all consciousness!
That's when he suddenly lost his mind and didn't grab the camera.
Fortunately, the vortex was not directed at him, but was only involved in its natural gravitational pull, and after a struggle like a conditional launch, he smoothly detached his consciousness and came back to his senses.
But this experience was enough for him to clearly understand the level gap between the two sides, which is like the oppression that ants bear in the face of elephants - it is completely beyond the horror of cognition - as if the opponent's unconscious action will crush his body and soul together - this is the most terrifying.
Compared with the heaviness in his heart, the ordinary people around him were all happy and excited, and their emotions were high, and they were not affected by him at all.
The ignorant are fearless, this is also the happiness of ordinary people, it is precisely because they don't understand that they will not be affected by this great terror, which is also the price that Xin Yuan had to bear after making a decision that night.
Regret it?
Xin Yuan couldn't help but ask himself, and then after a while, his eyes returned to clarity again, without a trace of waves.
Regret? What's that?
The gloom on his face was swept away, and he looked up, his face full of lightness and pleasure, just like the crowd around him.
It's just that a picture still flashes in his mind from time to time - in a float, the pale yellow flower bones on the Bodhi tree are blooming vigorously, and the dry black and thin red-robed monk under the tree sits quietly with his eyes closed, smiling with flowers......