Volume 4: The Eventful Years Chapter 222: Kendo [I]
The quarried stone husk material will be sent to the Grinding Sword Peak to Uncle Agen, but the Wufu Meishi will be sent to the Fire Peak to Uncle Agen. Everyone often calls Uncle Huo as Uncle Huo. Huo Bo is in charge of the treasury on the Fire Peak, and there are not only heavenly treasures in the warehouse, but also many artifacts and elixirs, which are sometimes used as rewards for disciples.
Hanxiong was taken aback when he first met Huobo. Some stammered, "How, yes, it's you?"
On the first day Hanxiong came to Wufuqiu, he had met Huobo. Huo Bo looked about sixty years old, and his face was wrinkled like half-dried jujube skin. But his complexion is very good, with a very healthy ruddy luster, and his gray hair is tied up in a bun on the top of his head. That day, he set up two large baskets to sell melons and fruits on the side of the path to the sky. Hanxiong also bought a lot of cucumbers from him.
Huo Bo said with a smile: "You don't have to be surprised, on the day of the annual opening of the mountain gate, the climbers will always be thirsty, I pick some melons and fruits to sell on the mountain road, not only to meet the needs of the comers, but also to make some money by the way." ...... Big man, I remember you, you bought a lot of my melons and fruits to share with your companions, you are very generous, and you also rewarded me with a lot of money as an old man!"
This made Hanxiong a little embarrassed, on the first day of going up the mountain, he met the Venerable Elder on the Fire Peak, but he didn't know it, and he was joking with his companions. At that time, Huo Bo said that he had given too much money, but Han Xiong waved his hand very generously and said, "I rewarded you!" and Huo Bo accepted it with a smile, and thanked the strong man for his generosity.
When they handed over all the martial arts stones they had collected, Huo Bo was also taken aback, looked the two of them up and down, and asked, "You have mined so many martial arts stones, it's really not easy! What kind of reward do you want, magic weapon or elixir? The fourth elder said that the tasks of the three of you are counted together, who should I reward?"
Hanxiong said very honestly: "These beautiful stones are actually taken by Xiaolu Junior Brother alone, if you want to reward him, then reward him!"
Huo Bo looked at Baoyu again and asked, "Child, what do you want?"
Baoyu asked rhetorically, "Uncle Huo, what is the usual way to reward miscellaneous disciples on Wufu Hill?"
Huo Bo replied, "Then maybe, all kinds of mundane things and treasures are possible. Generally speaking, for miscellaneous disciples, the highest reward is usually Takefu Meishi. ”
Baoyu: "Then I'll take a martial arts stone." ”
Huo Bo laughed and said, "Two or three pieces are fine! You mine it yourself, so take it yourself." If you think these martial arts stones are not in good condition, you can go to the warehouse with me to pick them. ”
Baoyu: "Then I don't have to, I'll just take a piece of the martial arts stone I mined." As he spoke, he stooped down and picked up the smallest of them, which was a lot smaller than an egg, but about the same as a wild egg.
Huo Bo nodded and said: "Yes, yes, you are neither greedy nor discerning, the color of this piece is the best, much better than the largest one." Then he said to Hanxiong, "Big man, if you want to eat melons and fruits in the future, come to me, you don't need to spend money, just help me carry water and water the fields." ”
In the winter on the snowy peaks of this plateau, it is an incredible thing to be able to eat fresh melons and fruits, but they can be grown in the melon fields of Huobo. It is more of a rare medicine field than a melon field, and it cleverly borrows the heat of the hot springs in the mountains. Hanxiong nodded happily and said, "Okay, I don't want to eat melons, if you want to find someone to carry water, please feel free to give me orders!"
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If the disciples of Wufuqiu Zhengchuan need to use Wufu stones when refining magic weapons, they will either ask the Venerable Elder for them, or they will mine them themselves. And the people who can refine the weapons in the mountains are also the disciples of the orthodox, and the miscellaneous disciples usually do not have this ability, and the martial arts stones that everyone collects when they are doing miscellaneous work cannot be kept quietly, those are the things that belong to the Wufu Qiu sect.
Baoyu has mined so many martial arts stones, but none of them have been secretly left by herself, and they have been handed over to Huobo. In fact, not only was he so simple, but many people in that era would naturally do so.
The martial arts stone that Baoyu received the reward and got back was of the same texture as the one he had instructed the little sprinkler girl to pick, and it was the purest heavenly treasure, but it was much smaller. His purpose was to repair a magic vessel, an empty mulberry branch that the little sprinkler girl had accidentally damaged.
Of course, it is impossible to use ordinary refining techniques, but Baoyu has studied its physical properties for a long time and found that the inner "texture" of this heavenly and earthly treasure is still very complete, but the spiritual use of the once refined has been lost. If you use a certain physical nature of heaven and earth to fuse it with it, and follow its natural texture to refine the spiritual wonder, it can become a magic weapon again.
This newly refined magic weapon not only has the original magic of the empty mulberry branch, but also can exert more magical powers. This was what Baoyu realized on his own in the process of refining the weapon, and it was related to his experience in refining medicine. He originally refined the juice of Bi Ling Hua into essential oil and harvested it on the spot, and later Hanxiong asked him if he had ever cultivated the great weapon passed down by Emperor Shennong?
Of course, Baoyu has not received this inheritance, and the reason why he was able to refine the essence oil of Bi Ling Flower like that was his own cultivation, especially related to the essence of the essence he cultivated. Cultivating the Essence Essence Technique can sense the vitality between heaven and earth, and this secret method of supernatural power is not used for refining weapons, but for cultivators themselves.
But if people are used as tools, then Jinghua Jue is equivalent to refining tools, and the so-called spiritual magic is the vitality of people!
With the artifact of Lang Yu in the form of the gods, Baoyu can use the essence to sense and refine the vitality between heaven and earth, which is also a kind of texture, which is constantly evolving. Mr. Cangjie once said that the texture can not only be the physical properties of natural treasures, the spiritual effects of exotic flowers and plants, but also the magical use of various magic weapons and utensils.
In the world, Emperor Taihao first created the Essence Formula, and five hundred years later, Emperor Shennong created the Great Recipe. Baoyu now understands how Emperor Taihao created the Essence Recipe back then, and how did Emperor Shennong create the Great Recipe? Listening to the legend introduced by Hanxiong, Emperor Shennong was able to refine plants and trees into elixirs with a long whip, and then create the Great Recipe.
It is obviously a means of refining medicine, how can it become a magical power for refining weapons in later generations? Is it because the spiritual use of artifacts is regarded as vitality, and the physical properties of heavenly and earthly treasures are regarded as elixirs?
Baoyu was very interested in this legend, and he wanted to try it in combination with his own spiritual insights. He once used the essence of refining the essence to govern the future, but in fact, he used people as tools and wonderful methods as natural treasures. And now using the martial arts stone in his hand to smelt the damaged empty mulberry branch is to use the instrument as a human being, and the treasure of heaven and earth as the elixir, if he can succeed, his idea will be confirmed.
But Baoyu contemplated enlightenment for a few days and found that he couldn't succeed because the cultivation realm was not enough. In order to perfectly fuse the properties of two different heavenly and earthly treasures, and endow a piece of artifact with a spiritual use that it did not previously have, it requires at least five realms of cultivation. So he put the matter aside for the time being, and waited until he broke through the Five Realms.
A month after Baoyu ascended the mountain, the peaks of Wufu Hill had been sealed by heavy snow. Except for the masters with special skills, even ordinary miscellaneous disciples can no longer travel to and from the mountain, and the mountain has become an isolated cultivation dojo. With the help of Hanxiong's newly refined Pujian Sword, Baoyu dug a quiet room in the rock wall and used it as his own cultivation cave, and he began to open the valley again.
Baoyu told the housekeeper Dajun that he would not return to the house during this time, and would retreat and practice halfway up the mountain of Chopping Wood Peak. Hanxiong and Xiaotian took turns to protect the Dharma, in order not to disturb Baoyu in retreat, they only practiced the mountain-opening kung fu on weekdays, and no longer excavated stones, anyway, they had already mined enough to complete the task for next month.
Baoyu first cultivated in the cave mansion the realm of the wonderful void that had just been attained, which was also an indescribable feeling for a teenager who had just grown up. Baoyu cultivated the realm of the Wonderful Void from scratch, and from the initial realm to the perfection of the four realms and nine transformations, as if from the beginning of life until he became an adult, feeling and sensing his own body and mind, and operating his divine energy.
This is both cultivation and a reaffirmation of practice with a new and wonderful method. The realm of the wonderful emptiness is also a kind of fixed experience, and the harvest sought is to have and clarify the extreme pleasure of desire, which is the wonderful desire in the realm. I'm afraid no one would have thought that Baoyu was on Wufu Hill, the most famous place of asceticism in Bayuan, from the wonderful empty to the wonderful desire, and verified the secret of desire.
The enjoyment and feeling in it are not enough for outsiders!
And Baoyu's retreat cultivation this time is not limited to this, he wants to make his skills and state of mind reach the state of breaking through the four realms and nine transformations. In fact, he was able to do it before he climbed the Takefu Hill, but he never tried.
The breakthrough of each level of the realm may be accompanied by some kind of danger or test. For monks, if they want to break through the level, they must practice kung fu enough, and they must also take that wonderful step, and some people have reached the consummation of the nine turns, but they have not been able to take a step out. For example, when breaking through from the Three Realms to the Four Realms, the attack of the demons in the Deep Silence Realm is a pass.
If people are afraid of this pass, then they will definitely not be able to pass, and there is no such thing as deliberately suppressing cultivation. Because when you reach a certain realm, you can not cultivate, and you can let your cultivation retreat or stop moving, if you don't have that state of mind to continue to improve. will not usher in the opportunity to break through. But the vast majority of monks in this world, who doesn't want to break through to a higher realm of cultivation?
The mountain god once reminded Baoyu that breaking through from the four realms to the five realms may be accompanied by great danger, that is, to attract the invasion of foreign demons, and it is necessary to choose an absolutely safe place. Baoyu can already take this step, so he chooses to be on Wufu Hill, which should be safe enough!
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In the middle of the night that day, the sleeping miscellaneous disciples dimly heard the sound of the sword, as if it came from the depths of their minds. Quite a few people have had a dream. I dreamed that the five huge peaks had all turned into sharp swords, emitting a sharp sword aura. These miscellaneous disciples did not have the mana in their bodies, but they had cultivated the martial arts of Kaishan Jin or higher, and their daily labor consumed a lot of physical strength, so they slept very soundly, so they did not wake up.
But in the same room, monks like Dajun and Xiaojun suddenly woke up, and the night was quiet and there was nothing abnormal, but they felt their hearts beating. Because the mountain peak he was on faintly emitted a sword aura. But the edge was not pointed at anyone, but only revealed a powerful coercion, as if it made people breathless, and even the original god felt trembling.
Dajun was already a disciple of the True Transmission, and immediately reacted that this was the power of the Lock Mountain Sword Formation. For some reason, it was suddenly triggered! Could it be that another demon king in the wilderness wanted to attack Wufu Hill? Dajun had heard of this kind of legend soon after he went up the mountain, but he had never experienced it. It is said that the last time there was an eyeless demon king who wanted to break through Wufu Hill, it was nearly a hundred years ago.
The so-called demon king usually refers to a demon cultivator who has reached the realm of transformation. The power of its supernatural powers has transcended the differences between the races of all beings, and as long as the realm is raised to the next level, it can cross the path to heaven and obtain the legendary immortal achievement. Such a demon king. Why did you come to attack Wufuqiu, is it because you are tired of life and want to die? The matter has to start from 500 years ago
Five hundred years ago, General Wufu came to the Southern Wilderness, suppressed and expelled the demon clan who were in trouble, killed the big demon who was the troublemaker, and finally hid on the Wufu Hill. It was from that time that rumors gradually circulated in the Southern Wilderness: it is said that the purpose of General Wufu guarding the Southern Wilderness was to prevent the Demon King from ascending to the sky, and to cultivate to the Demon King who had reached the realm of transformation, he must first break through the Wufu Hill before he could cross the path to the sky.
I don't know who made up this rumor, but it should have been the work of General Wufu's enemy, and as soon as I heard it, I knew that it was nonsense! Whether or not we could ascend to heaven and live forever had anything to do with the capture of Wufu Hill? However, it was very tempting and inflammatory, and we must know that the mountain and wild demons were cultivating for their own enlightenment and exploring the path to heaven step by step.
But how difficult it is to ascend to the heavens and live forever, when these demon kings can no longer make breakthroughs in order to reach the transformation realm, they often make various attempts. Especially some demon kings whose longevity is about to end, with the attitude of believing what they have rather than believing what they don't, they came to attack Wufu Hill.
During the decades that Takefu was in seclusion, several fierce battles broke out on Takefu's hill, and those powerful demon kings who came to attack were either repelled by Takefu Shogun wielding a divine sword, or were killed on the spot. General Wufu later sent his disciples to go deep into the Southern Wilderness to clarify the rumors, and laid a sword formation on Wufu Hill.
The Suoshan Sword Formation takes the five peaks as the center, and the Wufu Divine Sword refined by General Wufu himself as the array, and no outsider knows how many divine swords he has laid in the array. It is said that after his cultivation broke through the Eight Realms and Nine Turns, and before the immortal immortal went, more than ten swords were refined into artifacts, and the sword array of the lock mountain was also formed at this time.
This sword array is left to future generations, once the demon king attacks, open the large array to kill it, and also avoid the casualties of the disciples in the mountain. In the nearly 400 years that followed, the Great Array was opened three times, killing four demon kings who came to attack the mountain, and the last time was to kill two demon kings who shot at the same time. Since then, the Lock Mountain Sword Array has never been opened, nor has anyone touched it to warn.
The cultivation of monsters is not only difficult and takes a long time, how can there be so many demon kings in the wilderness, and there are even fewer people who have just heard this legend and can believe it, believe it and dare to fight hard, and it is difficult to meet one in a hundred years!
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Of course, there is no demon king attacking tonight, and this movement is all caused by Baoyu. On the four peaks other than the main peak, ordinary disciples vaguely felt their hearts pounding, and all the venerable masters who were in charge of the martial arts divine sword jumped up in shock!
Xiao Tian was guarding outside Baoyu's cave to protect the Dharma, and it was also cultivating its divine qi in the meditation, when it suddenly had a creepy feeling, opened its eyes and stood up and let out a low whining sound. The dog didn't know what was going on, its mission was to protect Baoyu from being disturbed in retreat, and if any demons and monsters attacked, it would naturally stop it.
But now the entire mountain peak exuded a fierce sword intent and threat, and Xiao Tian couldn't stop it, it didn't even know what to do? As soon as it stood up, it saw three faint rays of light like unobtrusive meteors in the night sky, flying from three directions, and it looked like it was going straight to the ashram where Baoyu was retreating.
Although Xiao Tian was under the inexplicable coercion, and even the Yuan Shen vaguely felt trembling, it had not forgotten its duty, and jumped up with all its strength to try to block the three streamers from entering the cave. But if people are in the sky, Xiaotian can't fly, and its pounce can't reach it at all.
It was only when I got closer that I could see that they were three sword lights, and the comer did not shoot directly into the quiet room, but suddenly stopped in the void outside the cliff, and turned into the figures of three people one after another. The martial arts sword behind them was unsheathed, hanging in the air with brilliance, as if they had been summoned by some kind of summoning.
The moment Xiao Tian jumped up and landed again, he suddenly felt that he couldn't move, as if his form and spirit were frozen, and he lost consciousness before he could see what the three people looked like. Xiao Tian still has two hits, and he has sneak attacked all kinds of monks more than once, but today it is very unlucky, and his mana and talent have not yet been used for half a point, so people are inexplicably dizzy.
A person shouted in mid-air, "Little Four, what happened?"
The voice of the junior fourth elder replied, "I don't know, I was suddenly alarmed by the Lock Mountain Array, and I noticed that the source of the sword intent was here, so I immediately rushed here...... Second Elder, Third Elder, you are not slower than me. ”
Then he heard Huo Bo's voice and said, "That's the cultivation cave built by the new path up the mountain. ...... Second Elder, haven't you been staring at him recently, why did you still let him make such a big move?" It turned out that the Huo Bo who was in charge of the treasury on the Fire Peak turned out to be the Third Elder of Wufu Hill.
The second elder's voice was both annoyed and embarrassed and replied: "How do I know what the hell he is doing? This is the second time! Last time, it woke me up from my meditation before dawn, but this time it was simply changed to midnight, and I almost thought that a demon king was coming to attack the mountain!"
The tone of the fourth elder was also a little annoyed: "I have never experienced the demon king's attack on the mountain, I was quite excited just now, I thought I could finally open my eyes, but I didn't expect it to be this kid's movement." What is he doing, do you think he's a demon king?...... It's broken, it's broken, and the Lock Mountain Sword Formation really seems to think of him as a demon king! But he didn't fly to attack the mountain?"