Chapter 111: Story
"If it's for the sake of leaving the kite, you can consider it, after all, if you wake up the kite, the emperor owes us a lot of favors in the Tang Kingdom." Emperor Tang said with a smug face, in addition to the Dragon Transformation Pool, they have other ways to cultivate resources, the spirit pill and the spirit fruit can be found by them, so Li Xuan's cultivation resources are not lacking at all, even if he does not enter the Dragon Transformation Pool, there is not much loss, and the favor of leaving the emperor is extremely rare.
"You, you've never been a master who will suffer, it's just that the one who wants to enter the Dragon Transformation Pool this time is a cultivator in the transcendent realm, I really don't know what happened to this person that impressed the emperor." A hint of curiosity appeared in the queen's eyes, the crown prince of their Tang Kingdom, the cultivation realm was already the initial realm of the Void God Realm, and among the younger generation, except for those peerless Tianjiao, who else could reach it, so the person who could make him look at him differently definitely had his brilliance.
"A kid from the transcendent realm actually wants to enter the Dragon Pool, isn't Xuan'er dizzy this time?" When Li Tianyang heard the queen's words, his temper suddenly rose, if he was a genius, he would be fine, and at the very least, he would be a person from the Dao Source Realm. It turned out to be a small transcendent realm, what ability did he have to enter the secret realm of their Tang Kingdom, originally looking at the favor of leaving the emperor, he was a little relaxed, but when he heard this, his heart seemed to be blocked again, and he was even more annoyed.
"I heard that there is something called internal force in his body that can save the lika, but his internal force has not been cultivated enough to save the lika. Xuan'er let him enter the Dragon Pool, that is, he wanted him to practice his internal strength, so that he could have enough strength to wake up Liji, for the sake of Xuan'er and Liji's face, the concubine pleaded for this transcendent little life, Your Majesty should not embarrass him too much. The queen said with some concern, but she sweated a little in her heart for the kid who had not yet entered the Tang Capital.
"Don't worry, since I have made friends with Xuan'er and him, I won't embarrass him too much." Li Tianyang waved his hand casually and said, but the queen sighed helplessly, looking at the emperor's attitude, it didn't necessarily seem like he was really embarrassed Xiao Bai's attitude.
The grandeur of the Tang capital has already shocked Xiao Bai, under the city wall, in a luxurious carriage pulled by a Bapin horse, Xiao Bai lifted the curtain and walked out, looking at the magnificent city wall. This city wall was the highest city wall he had ever seen, the city wall was more than 100 zhang high, towering like a mountain, and Xiao Bai standing under the city wall looked a little small. Above the city gate, a huge head roared up to the sky, revealing the hideous fangs, it seemed unwilling to bend to the sky, it was a huge stone carving, and the carving was a huge tiger head, and the city gate was under the tiger's head, it seemed a little small, such a magnificent capital, just seeing this city gate is enough to be daunting, let alone attack it.
"Prince Li, it's not that I flatter your Tang Kingdom, but this Tang Capital is the most magnificent city I have ever seen, and there is absolutely no one." Xiao Bai said with emotion.
"I know that Brother Xiao is definitely not a flatterer, and I am very pleased to be able to get a praise from you." Li Xuan also said a little heartily, in these days of hurrying, Xiao Bai and Li Xuan hit it off at first sight, Li Xuan is a person who attaches great importance to affection and righteousness, but he has an atmosphere of rivers and lakes, and he doesn't feel how noble his identity as the crown prince is, as if he is no different from ordinary people.
"Your father must be a great person, and it must be stressful for you to ask me to enter the Dragon Pool." Xiao Bai looked at him and said.
"No matter what pressure my father has, I will bear it, everything is worth it for the sake of leaving the kite." Li Xuan said with a firm face.
"It's good to have you as a friend, but I think you don't lack friends, and it's not uncommon for you to be a nobody like me, otherwise I really want to bow to you, but unfortunately, I still have a lot of things to do." Xiao Bai's eyes also had a hint of solemnity in his eyes.
"Brother Xiao also has troubles?" Li Xuan stared at the majestic city gate at this time, and gradually became a little unfocused, Li Xuan could see it. At this time, Xiao Bai must be thinking about someone again, and with his eyesight, how could he not see that he was thinking of a woman.
"Yes, it's the same as you, for a woman, we are very similar, we are all lovers, some people say that for women to die or live, never do big things, think of us are not people who do big things." Xiao Bai sighed and said, that year, she was in the imperial capital of Xiguo, and her name moved to Kyoto. Her fame in that year was known to the whole world, and a scroll of holy decrees that year involved them together, but she always looked down on herself, and she never thought that one day she would like someone she hated. In the Chunfeng Building that year, the four princes were killed, Xiao Bai's life was hanging a penny, and the last thing he expected was that Shangguan Zizhen saved her, maybe at that time she had this constant entanglement with him. That year he thought that his only woman would not be her, that year she stubbornly followed him, that year she lost everything, and her only piece of the world collapsed. But he reconstructed a world for her, and he is her only heaven, her only land, her world only lives for one person, his name is Xiao Bai. After that, she always looked forward to a good wish in her heart, one day he wore a phoenix cloak and a crown of xiaxia, he made up red for ten miles, and with her, he was located in the East Lake, fishing and drinking, men and women weaving, what an ordinary wish, what a simple plan, but heaven and earth seemed to not allow them. Xiao Bai is unwilling, Shangguan Ziqi is not reconciled, the sky does not allow them, then they all pierce this sky, so he needs strength, the strength to be able to pierce this sky.
"I don't have the ambition to reign over the world, nor do I have the idea of climbing that pinnacle, because I just want to work with her to guard this thousands of miles of mountains and rivers, he is the emperor to me, and she is the queen." Li Xuan smiled and said.
"I used to want to do this, to live in seclusion in the mountains and forests with her, and spend my life in peace, but this sky can't tolerate me, so I want to fight until this sky can accommodate us, and there is also to trample those who regard us as ants under their feet, so that they can also try the helplessness and sorrow of becoming ants." Xiao Bai looked directly at the sky coldly and arrogantly, and the sharp aura in his eyes seemed to pass through the void, Li Xuan was stunned. At this time, he had a feeling that Xiao Bai of this transcendent realm was a little more proud than himself, a powerhouse of the Void God Realm.
In the spring of the thirteenth year of the Tang calendar, the imperial capital ushered in the biggest rain of spring, and there was a separate courtyard in the darkest corner of the entire street and alley in the East Street and Alley of the Tang Dynasty. Heavy rain is pouring down, this is the thirteenth day that Xiao Bai has stepped into the Tang Capital, his realm has reached the peak of the transcendent realm, and with such a fast cultivation speed, even the demon is no longer comparable. Li Xuan returned to the palace to fight for him to enter the Hualong Pool, but he never came out, and he could only live here, the entire imperial capital is monstrous, only this East Street Alley is where ordinary people live, although it is an ordinary person, but the people who can live in the imperial capital are not ordinary, and Xiao Bai seems to be the most ordinary one among these people, because this courtyard is still rented by him by Li Xuan to give him the silver taels.
"Little baby, are you here to listen to the story again?" Outside the courtyard, there is a small pond with some stones at the edge of the pond, and every day an old man with a white beard sits here and tells some stories about Kungo. These stories have been heard by anyone who has been Kunwu, and he has always told them tirelessly, and he has been telling them tirelessly, day after day, from black hair to white hair, and the people who listen to the stories have changed from adults to children, and gradually those children do not want to listen to them anymore. Because he was talking, his story was no longer new, no matter what the story was, it became an old story, even a child didn't want to listen to it, he sat here and told it for thirteen days, but Xiao Bai came to listen to him tell the story for thirteen days. has never been absent, no one wants to listen to him tell the story of thirteen days, because he tells only one story, a story can be heard for thirteen days in a row, and the old man has only seen one Xiao Bai in these years. Especially in today's downpour, Xiao Bai still came, holding an umbrella, the old man was dressed in a robe, holding a wine bottle in his hand, and came to the edge of the pond.
"Yes, is the old man's story still the same today?" Xiao Bai said unhurriedly.
"What? Are you tired of listening? The old man frowned.
"No, I haven't heard of it when it's raining." Xiao Bai looked at the pouring rain and said as if he was very serious.
"You don't seem to be in a hurry?" The old man said lightly.
"What is there to be anxious about, I have never been a person in a hurry." Xiao Bai said with a chuckle.
"I'm tired of telling the story of Haotian God, and today the old man has a new story, I don't know if the little baby is interested in listening to it." The old man said lightly.
"Listen up." Xiao Bai said very politely, he is not a particular person, he is not an impatient person, he listens to stories every day, as long as you listen to that story as a new story, then it is not difficult to listen to it for thirteen days.
"It's a story that's been a long, long time, a story that many people have forgotten, and only some people who really like stories remember that it's a story." The old man, dressed in a robe, sat on the rocks on the edge of the pond as usual, staring at the splash of water that had fallen into the pond, as if the rain had frozen in his eyes.
"It's a long story, it's very interesting to think about." Xiao Bai said lightly.
"After listening to it, for a long, long time, there was nothing in this world, only a big bird." The old man muttered.
"There is a fish in the North Underworld, and its name is Kun. The Kun is so big that I don't know how many thousands of miles it is; Turned into a bird, its name is Peng. Peng's back, I don't know how many thousands of miles it is; Flying in anger, its wings are like clouds hanging from the sky. It is a bird, and the sea will migrate to the south. I don't know if it's not? Xiao Bai said with an interesting face, after all, it is difficult to hear a familiar story in this world.
"Your statement is interesting, but the old man has read very little, and he can't speak the words, and at that time there was no division between heaven and earth, only a dark void. And because the big bird is in the dark, the eyes are useless, but what are the eyes for, they are used to see, to see the light, so it gets angry, and then roars the heavens and the earth, and the green wings spread across the boundless. Zhen, and shattered the void, the void shattered to see the sky full of stars, to see the brilliance, although it was only for an instant, I can't tell the real or the illusory, but the beauty of that moment, I think it will never forget. The old man gazed at the sky, although the dark clouds were rolling, as if he had seen the sky and night, and he could see the galaxy, the bright moon, and the sea.
"A starry sky, a sea, and an eternal beauty in an instant, I think this bird has a huge relationship with Kungo, right?" Xiao Bai seemed to understand that kind of beauty, because he had also seen it in the darkness, and he had seen this kind of beauty. Seeing that moment of brilliance in the endless darkness, it is like a touch of color in the cold and desperate world, and that touch of color is hope, endless hope, for a bird in the dark, I am willing to give up everything for that moment of brilliance, that moment of hope.
"You are really very smart, that bird is called Kunwu, after seeing the brilliance of that moment, Kunwu was overjoyed, extradited the three thousand avenues into the body, shattered the void into the sky, and turned the cage into a cage, sealing the dark void above the Shangqing sky, named Eternal Night Heaven. And the extradition of the Three Thousand Great Dao turned into the Heavenly Dao Monument, which shook the dark void, and under the Heavenly Dao Monument, the Three Thousand Great Dao gave rise to the Kunwu World, as well as more or less secret realms. The old man sighed and said.
"Isn't it a good story to create heaven and earth with the power of your body?" Xiao Baidao, in ancient times, Nuwa created people, Pangu opened the world, such myths and stories, it seems that every world will have them, and Kunwu Continent is no exception.
"The extradition of three thousand avenues to create heavenly beings, this is naturally a good story, but this story is taboo in the Kunwu continent, few people tell this story, that is, there are some bad things, the world thinks that the three thousand heavenly daos are the best, but they don't know that Kunwu himself is also one, extraditing three thousand daos, destroying heaven and earth, and turning the avenue into reincarnation, this is a taboo." The old man said very solemnly.
"Reincarnation?" Xiao Bai was surprised, isn't reincarnation a doctrine that exists in Zen Taoism?
"Yes, reincarnation, to be precise, it is the reincarnation tomb master, the reincarnation tomb master controls the reincarnation path, the reincarnation tomb master awakens, every time it is a catastrophe, the last time was 100,000 years ago, the bloodline of the ancient four spirit clans was cut off, and such a tragic price was the only way to save Kunwu." The old man said with a sigh, the four spirit clans are now only the legendary spirit beast clan, and the strong ones among the four spirit clans are like clouds.