Chapter 13: The Sea of Fog and the Sideburns
Floating on the surface of the sea in the mist, a blue bamboo raft slowly walked forward in the deep blue.
A dark-skinned shirtless boy drove towards the thickest part of the smoke with a two-tall penny.
"It's really unfortunate that the two guest officers came, they caught up with the foggy sea sideburns, if they hadn't met me, they really wouldn't have been able to cross the East China Sea today."
Behind the boy sat on the bamboo raft two men and women dressed in cloth clothes, who should be about twenty years old.
The woman sat cross-legged and looked at what she looked like she was recuperating with her eyes closed, and the man was playing with the fish in the sea with his bored hands.
"Little brother, what are the misty sea sideburns you are talking about?" The woman suddenly opened her eyes and asked.
"Does the girl know about the dock? That's where the legendary immortals live, and I heard that this misty sea sideburns are the enchantment that those immortals prevent mortals from straying into. ”
"The clouds and mist linger on the sea, and the mottled sideburns are not returned, this is the origin of the foggy sea sideburns."
The speed at which the young man held the penny did not decrease, but the fog around the three of them became thicker and thicker.
"The enchantment made by the immortals to prevent mortals from straying into the fairyland, how many mortals have lost their way home because of it, and how many women have not waited for their husbands' return until their temples are gray."
The young man's voice seemed to blend into the layers of dense fog, and it was extremely ethereal when it came from afar.
"It's a sad story."
The woman's voice was calm and cold, so that people couldn't hear a sad word.
"Sadness? Probably these two words are only written in the stories of mortals. His voice was long, long, and compassionate.
"Mortals ring the bell and chant every day, praying night and night just for the protection of the gods, but the immortals live in the spiritual veins of the fairy mountains, do not think about the pain of mortals, and are afraid of the world to find their whereabouts."
"Girl, do you think this world is interesting?"
I don't know if it's because of the shroud of thick fog, the sea is too calm today, if it weren't for the underwater fish swimming in the pool.
The young man's penny crossed the water, like a blade tearing through a cracked brocade and a sharp pen carved into three points of solid wood, but this ordinary action concealed a bit of rigidity and softness.
The male guest who was playing with the fish still didn't say anything, but just looked at the long penny in the young man's hand, and his eyes were a little more interested.
"The little brother is old-fashioned, not like a teenager." The female guest quipped.
"But I've seen a little more than ordinary people, but I think female guests don't look like ordinary people!."
"Hahaha, the little brother praised me for being just a wild woman in the mountains, just going to the East China Sea to find relatives."
The boy smiled and continued to walk towards the mist.
"I see that there seems to be a sorrow between the girl's eyebrows, I wonder if I can help?"
The female guest looked at the young man with a bit of concern in her eyes, and she thought for a moment before slowly asking, "Little brother thinks I should be worried?" ”
"Hahaha, the girl's words are in a dilemma, and there are thousands of sorrows in the world, but I can say it all as a ferryman."
"Little brother doesn't look like a person who can't talk."
The female guest still insisted, she felt that this young man could probably solve the knot in her heart.
"Although I don't know why the female guest is worried, I can't escape a word of desire for all things."
This word was like a heavy drum that smashed open her heart.
"Desire..."
"Those who think for their own desires are the foundation for maintaining all things."
"I've never heard of this statement, I've heard that those who become immortals are ruthless and cut off their desires, if desire is the root of everything in the world, then isn't it ironic to become immortals?"
"Hahaha, no, no, no, in my eyes, the so-called non-existent is the extreme, the extreme of the desirer is the way, and those who have the Tao are not immortals."
"Then how should you get the Tao according to your words?"
"There are three thousand avenues, what you want is invisible, what you want is my way, all things and sentient beings have their own way, it doesn't matter if it's immortals, it doesn't matter if it's a demon."
The female guest looked at the young man's back freely and boldly, not like a young ferryman at all, but more like a fairy in the mouth of mortals.
"And what do you see of me?"
"There must be a good solution to everything you want, and this is for the girl herself."
"Who the hell is sir?" She was completely hooked up by the person in front of her.
"Hahaha, there is only one scattered person in the world, the world is leisurely and a ferryman, there is nothing to make the girl care."
The young man's voice fell, and the fog around the three of them became thicker, and they couldn't see what was in front of them clearly.
The woman waved her sleeve lightly in front of her, and the mist dissipated, but she could no longer see the young man in front of her.
"It's a monk from the upper realm, so you don't need to look at it." Qiu Rakshasa got up from the bamboo raft and said.
Seeing that he didn't like it, he said again: "I'm here to save you, it seems that there are people above who don't want you to sit like this." ”
Qiu Rakshasa cast a spell, and the bamboo raft under the feet of the two was powerless, and the fog faded everywhere they went.
"I didn't expect to have such an adventure in the East China Sea this time, but it was worth the trip." Qiu Rakshasa is really happy for his dislike.
Dislike is still a little unfinished, although the young man's words have peeled off a lot of fog for her, but he is a little confused.
"Rakshasa, thank you."
"Thank me for what?" Qiu Rakshasa looked at her in surprise.
"If you hadn't insisted on coming to find Xiao Xiami, I wouldn't have met such a mysterious person."
"How do you know he didn't find you?" Rakshasa looked at her with a smile and a little cunning in his eyes.
"You are more transparent about cause and effect than me, where should we find Xiao Xiaomi next?"
"The boundary where the Wu family is located is located in the south of the hundred houses of Haiwu, I want to go there to Haigao first, there are you and I deceased, the purpose of our trip this time is a little different, why don't we change our faces and go again?"
"You're right."
Not liking that Qiu Rakshasa's suggestion was good, she took out two pieces of paper as thin as cicada's wings from the storage bracelet, and looked closely at the outline of a mask.
"You still have this thing?" Qiu Rakshasa was stunned when he saw what she was holding.
These two masks were obtained by him from Xun Li back then, and later he put these two masks in the dislike, but he didn't expect her to throw them away!
"I didn't throw it away if I still had a use." I don't like to answer honestly.
Qiu Rakshasa didn't ask again, took the mask and put it on, only to see that as soon as the mask touched his face, it immediately merged together.
It didn't take long for him to change into a different look, a middle-aged male cultivator who looked to be in his thirties and looked unremarkable.
I didn't like to put on a mask after that, and I saw that her pair of phoenix eyes had become round, her original straight nose had collapsed, and the corners of her mouth had become very drooping, and she looked like she was in her thirties.
The two looked at each other for a moment, and they both seemed very satisfied with each other's appearance.
"Don't you think we look like a couple?" Qiu Rakshasa said with a grin.
"It looks a little similar, and it could be a brother and sister."
"You're a bad guy!" Qiu Rakshasa glared.
"When we get to Haigao in a while, what kind of names should the two of us change?"
Qiu Rakshasa looked her up and down and said casually: "I think you might as well be called Gu Wuwu, I will be called Gu Wuwu." ”
"Carefree... Sounds pretty good. I don't like to praise it.