Volume 4: The Eventful Years Chapter 188: The Monarch [I]
Baoyu had only seen the words created by Cangjie, but he had not seen the secret treasures refined by Cangjie. But now using this rune stone, he thought that he should be able to do so.
Baoyu is just understanding at the moment, and wanting to get it may not mean that he can do it, and creating this kind of thing still needs to be cultivated and tried. But he wouldn't be too surprised to see a similar treasure in the future, and he wouldn't be caught off guard if someone suddenly hit it.
Uncle Dao is really a good person, he gave Baoyu this rune stone. It also helped Baoyu comprehend a new secret magic power. What's more, if he encounters this kind of thing when facing the enemy in the future, Baoyu will not be unaware of it.
However, everyone was taken aback by Baoyu, and after the aftermath of the power of the rune stone secret treasure dissipated, they all came over and asked, "Mr. Li Lu, what are you doing here?" It's not that you encountered a strong enemy, why did you use it like this?"
Baoyu said with a smile: "Didn't Uncle Dao just say, let me study this kind of secret treasure, I just want to study it." Without it, how can you study it?"
The questioner was a little stammered. I don't know what to say, this Mr. Li Lu is really generous! Such a rare treasure. It's all left at a critical moment to deal with a strong enemy, it's a one-time thing, and it's gone. Mr. Li Lu just used up the secret treasure, saying that it was to observe its subtlety, and it was indeed not something that ordinary people could do.
What can we study if we just hit it out like this? This method of making runes is the secret inheritance of Mr. Yuan Deng, and even a personal disciple like Ji Ying has not yet learned it. If you want to study it in this way, how many runes are not enough, Mr. Yuan Deng has to be tired and vomit blood, and if he is not tired of vomiting blood, he will have to vomit blood!
But everyone didn't say that Baoyu spoiled the treasures, but praised him for his extraordinary and superior demeanor.
In fact, Baoyu made such a rune stone, of course, it is impossible to get the secret inheritance of Mr. Garden Lantern, and he cannot make the same rune stone from this. However, he understood this technique, and in the future, he could study it on his own, and make further attempts on the basis of observing the rune magic power demonstrated by Cangjie, and it was not impossible to create a similar secret treasure.
Ji Ying watched from a distance, gritting her teeth and even twitching her cheeks. At the critical juncture when he was attacked by a mad mastiff, he would rather pass on the danger to Baoyu than use the secret treasure, which was wasted by Baoyu at this moment. It's like throwing away something worthless and just to hear that sound.
Everyone knew what was going on in the valley and knew where the rune stone came from. Although Baoyu didn't scold Ji Ying like Uncle Dao, this secret treasure was not what he asked for. But since Uncle Dao forced Ji Ying to take it out, Baoyu accepted it unceremoniously, and used it in front of everyone. For Ji Ying, this silent slap was too hard!
Some people are still speculating that Mr. Li Lu did this because he had another deep meaning, and he was showing Mr. Liangfeng Dingyuan Deng, not only to give Uncle Dao face, but also to show that he was not greedy for the secret treasure of Liangfeng Ding. But of course, Baoyu didn't slap Ji Ying, even if Ji Ying stretched his face over, he was not interested in bothering his hands, and he didn't know who the garden lantern was, just to study the mystery of the rune.
In the midst of everyone's lively conversation and laughter, they finally came to the Pengshan Forbidden Land where the dragon blood treasure tree grew. There was a secret passage leading to the valley from that high cliff, and the people had just walked a short distance when a group of sergeants suddenly appeared out of nowhere, holding swords and guns to block the way, and shouted: "There is no forbidden place in the country, and you must not trespass...... Oh, General Sword, why are you?"
In the forbidden land of Pengshan, there are two of the most elite military formations of the Bamuro country. Some of the monks recruited from various sects were directly incorporated into the military formation, and the other part also practiced with the military formation on weekdays. There was no shortage of space in the valley, and there were large barracks built under the high slopes, enough for more than a hundred people.
This place has been in business for many years, and many of the so-called barracks are actually the cultivation retreats built by the monks of various sects, in addition to this, it is also the residence of the monarch. Beyond the high slope where the dragon's blood treasure tree grows, that large area of the mountain is the hunting garden of the ancient clan, but the monarch rarely comes to hunt.
The monks stayed here, observed the military drills every day, sat down under the dragon blood treasure tree to practice, exchanged and learned from each other, and also helped the soldiers stationed in the station to take care of the medicine garden with the fellow practitioners of various sects, take care of the crops in the fields, catch a few pheasants and rabbits from time to time, and pick some delicious wild vegetables, and lived a very comfortable life.
The monks who were originally stationed here also came from various nearby sects, and most of them were old acquaintances, and many of them were still in the same sect, and of course they had a good time chatting together, and it was rare to have such a lively time in the forbidden land.
Uncle Dao and Xiao Miao sent everyone into the forbidden land, and after settling down, they left in a hurry. Before leaving, Uncle Dao also used his military talisman to order that no one should leave this place without permission before he returned, nor should he disclose any news to the outside world, and instructed the principals in the forbidden land and the soldiers in the military array to treat Mr. Li Lu respectfully and try their best to meet his various requirements.
In fact, there was no need for Uncle Dao to order, everyone heard what happened in the mountains and what Baoyu was going to do, and they all respected him very much. Especially those soldiers in the military formation, they have great respect for Baoyu.
Baoyu didn't have any special needs. He lived in a separate ashram and was once again in retreat. The monk's so-called retreat varies from sitting in an ashram undisturbed to being in a relatively closed environment, where the body and mind remain in a certain state.
Baoyu occasionally exchanges various experiences in cultivation with the monks here, although it does not involve the secrets of everyone's respective sects, but the realm perception is the same, and the more everyone listens, the more they admire. This Mr. Li Lu is young, and he always seems to be able to touch the same in his cultivation,—— is he really just a Four Realms cultivator?
As for Baoyu. No one has ever taught him any specific secret methods, and it doesn't matter whether he hides or doesn't hide his personal selfishness when communicating with others, he makes his own feelings very clear, and whether others can reach the same realm depends on their own cultivation. Baoyu himself also benefited a lot, and more importantly, he gained all kinds of knowledge about Ba Yuan and the monks' circles.
There are many things that the mountain god has not told him. After all, most of the things introduced by the mountain gods are things from hundreds of years ago in Ba Yuan. Since leaving the wilderness, Baoyu was the first time to officially contact and enter the circle of communication between the monks of various sects in Bayuan.
Most of the time, Baoyu just sat alone in the ashram to comprehend Xuantong, because there was one thing at hand that he had not yet figured out, and that was the strange small five-flowered ginseng in the jade box. Baoyu has never understood where this "elixir" came from. And why is it happening in such a way?
Sensing the wonder of its physical properties, it should be the vitality and spirituality of the golden bell vine condensed for hundreds of years, and it will actually escape along the root system, and after being ingested, it will turn from invisible to tangible, but it is still the appearance of a five-flowered ginseng. In fact, the rhizome of that ancient vine is still rooted at the bottom of the cliff. The real elixir wasn't taken, so where did it come from?
Even Baoyu, who is extremely familiar with the elixir of immortality. I don't know what this ginseng is. The reason why he agreed to save the monarch was that he wanted to find an excuse to keep this thing in his hands, at least until he figured out what it was, and he couldn't just use it as an "elixir".
After pondering for two days without getting the essentials, Baoyu opened the jade box and put it in front of him when he sat down, and took out the golden flower, which was urged by the method of the imperial weapon to make it bloom in mid-air. When the golden flower was temporarily released, there was a trace of mana fluctuation from the small five-flower ginseng, which had a subtle inductive connection with the golden bell flower.
This five-flowered ginseng originated from that ancient vine, which is a kind of spiritual manifestation with supernatural powers, but the farther away from that ancient vine, the weaker its supernatural mana becomes, until it completely loses its sense and becomes like an ordinary plant. And Baoyu's golden bell flower is picked from that ancient vine, and under the urging of mana, this kind of mystery can be sensed.
After repeated sensing and experience, Baoyu was very surprised to find one thing, and couldn't help but think of what Cangjie said - everything in heaven and earth has its texture.
This thing was originally condensed by the formless spirit, and it was only after he took it out that it turned into a tangible body, just like the runes that Cangjie had drawn in the void, it was in a certain critical state, and there could be two completely different changes in the future.
One of them is to re-establish itself in a suitable place to grow and become a new golden bell vine that is the same as before. This is related to the characteristics of the plant itself, the ginseng can be cut off and transplanted, but of course the ordinary ginseng cannot be transplanted by itself, and the ancient vine can do it in this way.
If that is the case, the original ancient vine will lose its special spirituality and will gradually wither, because ordinary ginseng cannot survive for so many years, leaving only the shell of the heavenly and earthly treasures that have been sacrificed for hundreds of years in the same place. The newly grown ginseng seedlings will gradually inherit this spirituality as they grow, but it is difficult to say whether they were lucky or not.
If it hadn't been accidental, it might have become the same vine again. This is equivalent to some kind of cultivation process, which was interrupted by a sudden accident and had to start again.
That ancient vine does not yet possess a clear spiritual mind, but it already has some supernatural powers, can make certain stress reactions, and is in a state of wanting to be psychic but not psychic. Birds and beasts in the world can self-realize and cultivate, and plants and trees can also feel themselves as spirits, and even eventually transform into the essence of plants and trees. The years required for its cultivation are much longer than those of the genus of beasts, and they are even rarer in the world.
Baoyu heard the mountain god say that there are grass and tree spirits in the world, and after the cultivation equivalent to the four realms, they can also walk in human form, but the farther away from the place where the original body is rooted, the weaker its spiritual power will be, and if the original body is damaged, its cultivation will also be greatly damaged or even disappear. Only after breaking through the Six Realms can you basically not be trapped by the original body, and until you break through the transformation realm, you can completely transcend the limitations of the original body.
Baoyu had never seen the essence of plants and trees with his own eyes, and perhaps he might not be able to recognize it if he did. And that ancient vine has not yet been cultivated, but it is only the spiritual gathering of hundreds of years of natural growth, and it has the possibility of channeling. That's why it reacts when it senses the danger it faces.
Even if the original body is not secured, it can take root elsewhere and start this long cultivation process again in an unobtrusive way. If Baoyu and the others hadn't broken into that valley, of course Gu Teng wouldn't have been like this, and in the long years to come, it might have cultivated into a true essence of plants and trees, or it might never succeed.
But this process has been artificially disturbed, and it is now in a state of both success and failure, a concept that is difficult for ordinary people to understand. Because although the small five-flowered ginseng was covered in soil and nourished by the spring of evergreen for ten thousand years, it still maintained its vitality and spirituality, but it was stored in the jade box and was sealed by mana, and it did not really take root and grow again.
If the ancient vine died, the small five-flowered ginseng in the jade box would also lose its vitality, leaving only a rare elixir. If Baoyu replanted it in a certain place, it could grow a spiritual ginseng, but it would be equivalent to the hundreds of years of cultivation of that ancient vine being wasted.
And if Baoyu returns this strange small five-flower ginseng to its place, it is actually equivalent to the golden bell vine successfully breaking through a very important barrier, and this unintentional experience will become the beginning of its psychic cultivation. In the future, if he is lucky enough to break through the four realms again, he can also walk in the mountains in human form, and even transform into a five-flowered ginseng and run around the mountains.
But the premise of all this is how Baoyu chooses, and Baoyu has already made a decision, he wants to send this small five-flower ginseng back to reintegrate it with the original body of the ancient vine.
Throughout the ages, many high-ranking monks have seen the essence of plants and trees, but no one has ever seen such a strange thing. Ordinary plant and tree essences are not known until they are cultivated, and this kind of thing will not appear. For Baoyu, it is also a great opportunity to understand the creation of heaven and earth.
When Baoyu sat in the quiet room, Xiao Tian didn't go out to run around, just squatted aside as if to protect the Dharma for him, and seemed to be looking strange, but he looked a little distracted from time to time, I don't know what it was thinking about anymore - was it thinking about Xiao Miao?
Baoyu explained his feelings about studying this five-flowered ginseng to Xiaotian as it was. Xiao Tian can now fully understand what Baoyu said, including those complex and profound mystical meanings.
I don't know what Xiao Tian realized from this, and every night for the next day, he sat and practiced under the moonlight in the valley. A few days later, on a full moon night, the bright moonlight reflected the outline of the mountain scenery very clearly, and Baoyu walked out of the quiet room and saw Xiao Tian sitting facing the moon, looking up and spitting out something.
This thing is a hazy light and shadow, and it seems to be the manifestation of the outline of the moon, round and bright, dripping and rotating in the air, not yet fully condensed and formed, as if condensing the moonlight, is becoming more and more clear.
Baoyu stood quietly from a distance and watched, not disturbing Xiaotian. He felt that the light and shadow that Xiao Tian sacrificed was obviously inspired by the small five-flowered ginseng, and the pseudo-conjunctive god was condensed with supernatural mana, but it had not yet been fully formed, was this the legendary demon pill?
It is said that the monster that transforms after breaking through the four realms has successfully condensed something called the demon pill. It is an invisible but manifest thing, and it can even be used as a life magic weapon, and it takes a long time for demons to realize and cultivate, and Xiao Tian has already begun to take this step.
This shows that as long as it cultivates to perfection in the three realms, it is expected to break through the four realms and successfully transform into a form, and Baoyu is of course very happy.
On the tenth day when Baoyu came to the forbidden land of Pengshan, the queen arrived. The monarch did not travel on a chariot or horse, and ordinary chariots and horses could not have traveled through the mountains to get here, but he came on foot.
The so-called chariot has a lifting bar underneath, and people can sit on it and be carried by servants to walk. If you pay attention to the point, you can open an umbrella cover above to shade the sun and rain, and if you are more particular, the umbrella cover is surrounded by a gauze curtain to cover people, and you can also prevent flying insects from blowing the wind.
The king's chariot is, of course, the most elaborate, like a luxurious covered carriage, except that it is not horse-drawn, but is carried by four strong men. The four strong men who carried the chariot were even more simple, they were actually the four generals of Zhendong, Zhennan, Zhenxi, and Zhenbei in Ba Muro Guozhong. With the kung fu of these four people, carrying the chariots and wading through the mountains and rivers is also like walking on the ground, which will not make the monarch feel the slightest discomfort.
There are two people behind the chariot, one is the Gongzheng Lord of the Ba Mur Country, who has the cultivation of the Six Realms, and is also a famous senior master in the country. The other person is a long-term gentleman of the Six Realms of Bamuro Country, who is good at healing and rescuing, and was invited to the national capital not long ago to regulate the body of the monarch, and he has not left again, and at this moment he also followed the monarch to the Pengshan forbidden land.
The monarch was accompanied by only these six people, and the brigade was still far behind, but he didn't need the protection of others.
The monks and soldiers in the forbidden land felt a little flattered to see so many big people at once. Needless to say, the monarch is also highly respected in the country of Bamuro, and he has held this hard-working important position for more than 20 years, and he has broken through the cultivation of the six realms in Gongzheng's office.
After the ordinary monks broke through the Six Realms, they rarely took care of mundane affairs in person, just like idle clouds and wild cranes. Not to mention officially serving in the country, dealing with busy official duties, and accepting the fictitious title of a national worker. Occasionally do something, which is already considered a lot of face.
Unless he has been cultivated by the state, cultivated in the process of performing his duties, and after breaking through the Six Realms, he may continue to serve as the head of the country, but he will generally not stay in office for too long. This is the case with Lord Shrike, but it has been three years since he broke through the Six Realms, and he is still the Gongzheng of the Bamuro Kingdom.
As for the elder of another national worker of the Six Realms, he traveled all over Bayuan in his early years. He specializes in the art of alchemy, and is also good at treating injuries and illnesses. Ten years ago, he broke through the six realms of cultivation, and established the Qing Xiu Cave Mansion in the Ba Mur Kingdom, and found a group of heirs to be taught under the door, known as the Changling Gate, and was already the identity of the sect master.
Coincidentally, Mr. Changling also has disciples who go into the mountains to collect medicine. broke into the valley with Ji Ying and others, but was bitten by a flying snake and almost died, but fortunately was saved by Baoyu.
But this master didn't come to see his disciples, he was more interested in Baoyu. Listening to Xiao Miao and Uncle Dao relay the "miracle" of Baoyu's on-site alchemy and rescue, Chang Ling was also surprised, and he thought that he could do it with this skill. But it will definitely not be as skillful and natural as General Dao described, and it is after breaking into the valley to fight with the flying snake, and repeatedly rescue many people.