The Story of the Third World (38)
There are two words on the plaque that I don't know how long they have been buried, and they are still bright red as blood, because the plaque is only half, and I don't know what is written about the Three Realms, but these two words exude their own mystery.
Su Hang was a little distracted, even if the surrounding bamboo forest turned into some low shrubs after he stepped out, it didn't attract too much attention to him, and he still walked like this, and a path was divided into the plants that should have been disordered, with bluestone as the face, antique.
Since being beaten by Lan Yan, Su Hang feels that he is relaxed, and there is no shackles tied to his body here, but on this path, every step out feels that he is untying the shackles on his body, and he always feels that he can get great freedom when he walks to the end of this road, which sounds very beautiful, but it is inexplicably terrifying.
Some want to escape
He unconsciously used the Nine Palace Footwork, which left a sentence in the last chapter of the exercise, "One step at a time, ten steps to measure the world", but only the whole exercise is only nine steps, not lost only nine steps, even if it is the initial embodiment of its subtlety, but after all, it is the early stage, and it is not easy to practice, so it is chicken ribs, only a poor disciple like Su Hang will practice.
The runes flickered, Su Hang's figure faded, and then appeared, he felt that he had walked a long way, and he should have walked half of this road.
Although there was no end in sight at the beginning, there is no end in sight now.
In fact, it was only one step away, and he didn't dare to turn back, because he felt that the shackles on his body had been loosened again.
The Nine Palaces footwork was used, and a total of eight steps were taken, and it took eight steps.
He wanted to use the nine steps, but a pavilion appeared in front of him, and there was a plaque on the pavilion, but he couldn't really see it, he felt that this pavilion could explain some doubts, but if he took the ninth step, maybe he had passed
Su Hang was stunned like this, his right foot hanging in the air, not knowing whether he should fall or not.
Heaven and man are at war in their hearts
Counting the first step, he took a total of nine steps and untied nine shackles, nine is the extreme.
Su Hang did come to the pavilion in nine steps, but the nine-palace footwork only took eight steps, and he always felt that he had lost a lot of one step less.
In the end, I decided to go down, and if I crossed it, there was still a chance to go back.
One step out, he felt that he had taken many steps, the ninth step had been taken many times, but the first time he walked was so long, it was like walking all the eight steps he had just walked and then taking the ninth step, this step he felt that he had crossed the years.
I remembered the time when he was like a beggar in the library of the academy, and the road that he couldn't walk through, when he learned the nine-palace footwork, and naturally he didn't need to learn it again at this time, but what he got was a little unclear.
This step did not cross the years, not even the pavilion that was close at hand.
Su Hang felt that the step just now was a bit like he had a hysterical attack, so he looked up at the sky and laughed at himself
He saw the blue sky and white clouds, and there were three big characters "Three Realms Pavilion", but not in the sky, on the plaque of the pavilion, bright red as blood, attracting attention.
Suddenly feeling a little bored, Su Hang simply leaned on the pillar and thought about something.
For example, how to get out of here, because the way from which there is no longer there, and there are two roads in front of you, this feeling of being at the mercy of others is always uncomfortable.
At this time, I am actually trapped here, and it seems that there is no other way out except to make a choice, but the unknown makes people instinctively resist.
He had just walked through all the nine palace footsteps, and he didn't walk out of the amazing ninth step before, nor did he find the way he came, he just spun in circles.
He glanced up at the plaque in the pavilion again, and he felt that it attracted his Dolando soul.
In the end, I chose the left road, for no reason, it happened to be closer to the left.
After taking a step, he felt a dark shadow flashing on the road next to him, and when he looked back, there was nothing, including that road.
Now that you've stepped out, let's walk, the scenery on the side of the road is still good, and I don't feel any hidden murderous intention.
Calm and peaceful, like a small mountain village away from the hustle and bustle of the world, it is slightly sunny after the rain, and I don't know if it will continue to shine or brew for the next storm
Su Hang stepped on the wet bluestone slab, his heart was at peace, and he couldn't help but want to hum a small tune, he forgot the nest and unwillingness he had just been forced to choose, everything was very real, very comfortable, I believe that this is the real world, and the real can't tolerate the unreal.
The sky is gradually darkening, and it should be another hearty rain that is about to wash this already thorough world.
Su Hang had a smile on the corner of his mouth, his figure flickered on the mountain road, and under his feet was the Nine Palaces footwork, he wanted to find a place where he could shelter from the rain, it was not a comfortable thing to be wet from the rain, even if he could use his skills to resist the rain, but how could it be more comfortable than watching the heavy rain pour wantonly in a dry place.
There is a cave halfway up the mountain, and it may take only three steps to walk there with your feet up.
When his feet fell, he felt that time had passed, and when he stood in the cave, he looked back just in time to see a drop of rain hanging above his head and smashing on a delicate peach blossom.
It's not far away, and you can see it as far as the eye can see.
Su Hang was stunned, there was already heavy rain outside the cave, and the cave was very comfortable, dry and exuding a comfortable atmosphere.
He wanted to find the drop of rain that had just fallen on the peach blossom, and he saw that a lot of it had been smashed on the flower just now, but it was not the drop just now, maybe he should go over and take a look.
Ignoring the dense rain and the waterlogged ground, he took four steps to the edge of the peach blossom just now, and the tip of his nose was so good that he could smell whether it was fragrant or not.
Naturally, the rain could not be found, and the cool rain slapped on the face, wetting the clothes and hair. He wanted to take a walk in the rain
One step out of the peach forest, one step into the bamboo sea, and another step up the mountain road, just like this, Su Hang felt very interesting, like naively stepping on a puddle of water after the rain when he was a child.
Suddenly, I wanted to go to the top of the opposite mountain, which has a wide view, and let's go there and see the scenery.
If you want to go, let's go there!
Standing on the top of the mountain in just one step, Su Hang was a little stunned, and then delighted. He understood what the world of ten steps is, the rules are actually not that important, the rules are limited to people, so why should they be limited by it.
I couldn't help but look up to the sky and roar, and suddenly I had a sense of pride that I could achieve wherever I wanted
He now wants to go to Blackwater City to see his old mother, the proud old man, who is actually not old, but the pressure of life makes her an ordinary person die before she gets old.
If you can't suppress your inner thoughts, let's go check it out
Walking in the direction of the heart, this time did not realize the chic of the heart
He fell on a mountain path, a little out of breath, just walked too much, and a little tired.
The rain still had no intention of stopping, Su Hang felt that he might get sick, although the cultivators were no longer sick, he just felt that he would get sick.
It's a little hard to stand up, and the body without real qi is really not used to it
Su Hang saw a huge black oil-paper umbrella on the opposite side, pinching it in a hand with some vicissitudes.
"Where is the boy going?"
I couldn't see the face under the umbrella clearly, and my voice was a little muffled, but it was clear.
"Go home!"
I don't know why, Su Hang was unguarded at this time, even if the other party revealed an impenetrable mystery.
"Actually, you can give up these, the path of cultivation is ruthless, and only by being ruthless can you go further, and there is still some truth in being too forgetful."
The words are full of demagoguery, but they speak the truth.
Su Hang felt a little dizzy in his head, thinking that he was really sick, but that person's words made him a little angry, for no reason, he always felt that he was coming to get rid of some of his own things, as if it was human nature
"What is the point of being lonely in a lifetime, even if you stand at the peak of monasticism and live with heaven and earth? How can you call it human? ”
"Oh? But then there is a chance to become a god! God is naturally not a human being, so what is called a human being? ”
Su Hang has lost the ability to think, listen to the voice, and answer according to instinct.
"Actually, I also want to become a god, but if God needs to extinguish emotion, then I'll be a man, I always feel that there are these things, even if I go on the road alone in the future, there are still things worth remembering"
A miserable white lightning pierced the gloomy sky, illuminating Su Hang's pupils, as if he was being illuminated by a strong light in his sleep, and then woke up.
The rain was still falling, the mountain road was still slippery, there were no dark umbrellas and vicissitudes of hands, and of course there was no illness.
At this time, Jiugong Bu can no longer be used, shake the rain on his body, and still walk like flying, but after all, he is a little embarrassed, and suddenly he misses the cave before.
Now some of them can't find their way, so they can only walk around and see, wait for the rain to stop or find a place that will not be disturbed, and restore their true qi.
Without warning, Su Hang lowered his head and laughed, like an idiot.
Once I realized it, I became a little arrogant.
The laughter stopped abruptly, for he saw an umbrella, black, and the heavy rain formed a curtain of water on the side of the umbrella, and the face of the umbrella bearer could not be seen clearly.
Su Hang's breathing became a little short, and he just woke up in a trance, feeling that the conversation was an illusion of sin in his heart, but there was an umbrella in front of him
If you can't distinguish between good and evil on the other side, even if you have a much stronger physique than an ordinary person, it's useless in front of a cultivator. If it wasn't a dream just now, then the other party would definitely be a cultivator, and he wouldn't be weaker than himself.
Now he couldn't do anything, and the heavy rain slapped his face wantonly, blinding his eyes, and a little cold.
"What a young man! Don't hide from such a heavy rain, it's going to catch a cold! ”
The black umbrella came to the top of Su Hang's head, blocking the joyful and wanton rain, and his vision was no longer blocked by the rain curtain, and he saw the other party's face clearly.
A face that has been worn by years, with the wrinkles of a knife and an axe, and the eyes are a little cloudy, but they reveal love and distress.
Of course, such a pair of eyes would not be what a cultivator should have, and even if they were imitated, they would not be imitated, so the other party was an ordinary old man, and he even had a broken tooth, which looked a little funny.
When he had just walked through this mountain forest with the Nine Palaces footwork, Su Hang saw a village at the foot of a mountain, but the two black umbrellas were too similar, overlapping and separating in his mind, and then his thoughts were also torn apart, and he did not answer the old man's words.
Su Hang's whole body was soaked, his hair bun was also half open, he looked unusually embarrassed, and there was no color in his eyes, looking stupid.
The old man was a little heartbroken, too, it had been raining for so long, how could a normal child's child not take shelter from the wind and rain outside.
Reached out and pulled Su Hang, but he didn't pull it, and his strength was amazing, and he almost made the old man fall.
Su Hang's thoughts were finally pulled back, an ordinary old man, a black umbrella larger than an ordinary oil-paper umbrella, a bamboo basket on his back, and a few fresh plants, which looked like herbs.
"Let's go to the old man's house to hide from the rain, this will be ruined! Also drink a bowl of hot porridge by the way"
Seeing that Su Hang's eyes seemed to have a hint of color, the old man called again.
I don't know what kind of mentality, Su Hang nodded and walked through the rain curtain with the old man.
The cyan tiled house was dyed black in the gloomy rainy season, a little low, and a burning bonfire could be seen through the half-hidden doorway, and Su Hang wore a dress that did not fit well and had patches, which was not abrupt, as if he should have been like this, his long hair was casually scattered, and only half of his face was exposed.
A pair of black and slippery Dolandots moved their eyes and looked at Su Hang with curiosity
"Grandpa, is this big brother stupid?"
The owner of the eye was a girl of about fourteen years old, and she should have married another woman in such a family at this age, so as to reduce the burden on the family, especially if she was so good-looking.
The girl not only does not, but also retains a rare innocence, and her words and deeds have not had time to be affected by this utilitarian world.
"Looking at his appearance, he should have changed a lot, and he should come back to his senses in a few days."
The more love in the old man's eyes, the more he thinks that the girl is the concern of his life.
Su Hang is naturally not stupid, it can be regarded as a big change in life, Su Hang found that the recovery speed of true qi was so slow that it was almost non-existent, no matter how to attract the power of heaven and earth into the body, it was useless.
There is nothing wrong with the method, and there is no problem with the body, so it is probably that there is a problem in the world, and I heard the teacher say in the preface of the book that there are several places where God abandons the continent and cannot practice inexplicably.
"Uncle, where is this?"
Su Hang finally spoke, but he startled the girl and hid behind the old man, just poking out a small head of Ji Duo Landuo.
The old man is quite calm, after all, the experience is different, and the old man has already been prepared.
"This is Longshan Village, belonging to Jiulong Town, look at the young man, your arm strength is outstanding, I want to be the child of a big family in the town, it's good to be a child of a big family."
Jiulong Town has naturally never heard of it, the climate here is warm and humid, I think it is the north of the continent that the gods have abandoned, the gods are located in the middle of the continent, and they have to go south. It's just that I don't know how big such a place that can't restore my true qi, how long I need to go, and how good it will be if I miss the admission assessment of the book order, thinking of this, I feel a boredom in my heart.
"I wonder if my uncle knows that this is the place that belongs to the north of the mainland? The kid has something to do and needs to go south. ”
"You boy, you're so confused! How can there be such a scenery in that bitter cold land in the north?"
The old man didn't care that Su Hang's cognition was exactly contrary to his own, and he took it for granted that it was just that after he was drenched in the rain, his mind was a little chaotic.
"Yikes! You're from the outside world of Kowloon Town! I've heard that the outside world is beautiful! And the gods! You can call the wind and rain! Have you seen it? ”
The girl rushed to Su Hang's eyes as if she had seen some fun toy, her eyes full of expectations.
"I've seen it, their swords are in the air, their palms are open, and they are powerful and magical."
Su Hang didn't dare to say that he was also a cultivator, he felt that he had come to a different world, a world that was in tune with the north and south in his cognition, but the girl's longing eyes made him unable to say nothing.
It was night, Su Hang had a jumping bonfire in his eyes, talked about not being afraid of death, talked about Zhang Fang's handsomeness, and did not mention anything related to him.
"Cultivators seem to be the darlings of heaven and earth, perfect as fake"
The girl muttered, the morning sun dispelled a trace of cold after the rain, and the bonfire also burned out the last trace of light and heat under the last jump.
The girl who is sleeping quietly and peacefully is also easy to calm down, and carries the girl to the back room.
In the early morning after the rain, the air is pleasant, but Zhenyuan still only recovers the slightest, not enough for a spell to squander, and there is no clue to go back, although it is very comfortable here, but it is not the life you want.
Sleepless all night, still full of energy, since he couldn't cultivate the true yuan for the time being, Su Hang played a set of boxing techniques on the bluestone slab in the courtyard.
The figure of Dolan Duo moved, and every punch and kick was secretly in line with the way of heaven and earth, which attracted the chickens and ducks raised by the old man to tilt their heads and look at them with great interest, and the scene was harmonious and funny.
"Young man, come over for dinner"
The old man called out, interrupting Su Hang's follow-up movements.
The girl didn't close her eyes all night, there was an old man and him at the dinner table, and the old man's eyes stopped talking.
Su Hang thought that the old man's family was poor and wanted him to leave, so he spoke
"Don't worry, boss, the kid has something important to do, and he will leave in an instant."
The old man knew that he would be mistaken, so he hurriedly waved his hand, did not even eat, said please wait, and then turned and went to the living room where the bonfire had been lit last night.
In the middle of the living room hung a painting, a very strange painting, an old man with long hair and fluttering hair, fairy wind bones, sitting cross-legged in the middle of a pile of rocks, a single one resembling dry bones. When he saw it carefully, Su Hang was even taken aback.
The old man pulled out a worn-out notebook at the back of the painting
"Actually, I heard you tell the story of a cultivator yesterday, you should be a cultivator, the Bright Continent is very high-level, how can ordinary people describe the world of cultivators in every detail?"
The old man's words were naturally not finished, and Su Hang waited, because he heard the Bright Continent, and it might not be so easy to go back.
"Our family was also a family of cultivators thousands of years ago, but unfortunately more than 8,000 years ago, foreign races entered the Qing Dynasty, and for their own living space, the ancestors who had achieved cultivation all threw themselves into battle, but unfortunately none of them came back."
"Even if people don't come back, the exercises will always stay, but I don't know why they will fall so far"
"It should be like this, but it is guilty"
The old man sighed when he said this, not knowing whether to sigh for his own life or for the misfortune of his ancestors.
"The news that the ancestors could not return was only one day after they came back, and the house was rushed into by a group of masked people, who killed anyone they saw, and only one infant child Lan fled from the middle of the continent to this small mountain village in the south with a portrait and half a fragment of the book under the desperate protection of the wet nurse."
"For thousands of years, no one has broken the method of cultivation?"
Su Hang was very puzzled, since the ancestors could become a family, and if they wanted to do the exercises, the qualifications of the descendants would naturally not be bad, so how could there be no one to break the fragments for thousands of years.
"The fragments are only left with techniques, no exercises, and when they escaped from the family, they were still in infancy, and no one taught them, so naturally they couldn't practice."
"Why do you tell this?"
Disgraceful things, many people have done, if the victims are gone, then this can make a glorious deed, because the story is told by yourself, but if you know that there are victims alive in this matter, it is a stain, it is good to listen to the story, but I don't know why the old man told the story.
"What do you want me to do, old man?"
Listening to the story is naturally very interesting, but if it is a person who is not doing well and tells you some bad past, then there will often be requests later, Su Hang knew very well that he asked directly.
The old man was surprised, the young man was too straightforward, and the prepared words were useless, so he couldn't help but pause for a moment, and then laughed self-deprecatingly.
"Although I can't practice, I can also practice kung fu, otherwise how can I take an orphan girl and live a plain life"
Perhaps thinking of something bad, the old man was silent for a while, his face gloomy.
"Thirteen years ago, a plague struck our town, and the plague broke out faster than people could react, and Fluttershy's parents died before the monks' rescue came, and I was reluctant to wait for my granddaughter's rescue, leaving the root of the disease behind."
Speaking of this, the old man coughed, coughing heartbreakingly, and when it calmed down, the old man drank a mouthful of turbid liquid, which looked like some kind of herb boiled, and Su Hang also smelled one of the verdant plants in the old man's bamboo basket yesterday.
"After persevering for so many years, I am finally about to run out of oil, and we have actually given up thousands of years ago on the matter of cultivation, and we just want to live a plain life. But when I saw you, I thought that if Fluttershy could protect herself, my old bones would fall apart freely."
Su Hang did not agree, but took the fragment in the old man's hand, but did not open it.
"Have the old man ever heard of the Three Realms Pavilion?"
Su Hang asked a sentence without beginning or end, but did not cause any waves.
"Can I help you inquire?"
For some reason, the old man unconsciously used honorifics.
"I don't have the true element in my body at all now, but I will teach you what I know, granddaughter, don't expect too much, after all, I have never been a strong person"
In fact, Su Hang wanted to refuse, but he remembered the girl's innocent eyes and curiosity about the book on his hand.
Even if he doesn't have a true yuan, he can take advantage of it, but he can't pass the level in his heart.