Chapter 2 The Blind Bear and the Emperor's Corpse

Morning and twilight, Nanshan Saga. The spiritual wind blows my breasts, and the nectar sprinkles my hair. Twilight picks the woods, and there are two bright moons on the shoulders. Picking woodcutters and picking woodcutters, and they are free together. In the world, how can Jiazi remember, the peach blossoms at the entrance of the cave float by themselves.

"Qiao" is a general term for a class of people engaged in mountain and forestry work.

Some people pick wood for fire, and some people pick wood to make medicine. Those who chop firewood and chop wood, make brute knives, carry serval baskets, and do not understand the value of grass and trees, and are "under the woods"; Walking in the square Langzhong, the herbs in the mountains are picked with the crescent moon sickle, and the herbs are noble and low, which is regarded as "Zhongqiao"; Then there is a mountain Taoist, a kind of ghost hand in the forest, good at distinguishing the sky and recognizing the qi, knowing the withered glory of the grass and trees, and being able to catch the mountain spirit and the ground monster, which is the "Shangqiao".

The woodcutters are deep in the mountains, and the mountains are deep and the trees overlap.

The bridge collapsed and was embraced, and the road was dangerous.

The sunset will be scarce, and the mountain breeze will blow the clothes.

The long song bears the light policy, and the plain field looks forward to the smoke.

It can be seen that only the woodcutters who enter the mountains know the difficulties of the things in the mountains. Clouds and mist white cliffs, broken mountains and torrents, trees cover the sky and the sun, it is inevitable to encounter miasma and cold dew, poisonous snakes and green thorns, and man-eating beasts, and the climate is more changeable, and the torrential rain and torrents can be described as dangerous.

Each high mountain in the "Wushan" group has its own housekeeping skills, the city god temple on the centipede mountain, the medicine farm on the mountain, and the ancient tower on the mountain......

Liulidi takes medicine as the industry and medicine as the market, bringing together a lot of woodcutters, and also hiding a lot of masters, which can be said: "Qiaohu people see everywhere, and Xianyuan Cloud Road is sometimes open." Among them, the most famous is the name of Liulidi, which is called: "Liuli Sanqiao".

The head of the three woods is the shopkeeper of the Huangquan Pharmacy - the blind bear.

The bear is blind, and he is from Tongxian County. The body is thin, skinny and bonely, and the pimples on the face of the national character are like clam skin, and there is no flat place. He often wears black sunglasses, hence the name Bear Blind, but in fact he is not blind, but lame.

The dress is also strange, wearing a cardigan robe, stepping on black cloth wide shoes, unkempt, white flowers and sideburns, long beard, and a sloppy appearance.

is such an "ugly monster", but his conduct is very good, he is filial to his father at home, he is bright and upright outside, he is honest and honest, and he is praised for both loyalty and filial piety! In short, it is a very rare talent, which is in line with the old saying: people should not be good-looking.

The Huangquan Pharmacy is not screaming, at night, in the depths of the bluestone alley, an antique courtyard house, the door is dotted with two lanterns, with a gloomy red light, revealing an evil spirit everywhere, this must be the residence of the blind bear, many people come to find this old guy by relying on a kind of atmosphere at night.

That year, five people came from Guanghan to find medicine, but when they arrived at the door, they were suspicious, hesitant, and frightened by this Huangquan pharmacy.

The dark door suddenly opened. There was a man standing in the courtyard, with gray hair and his back to the visitor, who coughed twice, and the visitor followed him into the house.

The medicine seeker sat down to see clearly, he was wearing a pair of sunglasses, he talked a lot, couldn't control his mouth, scratched his head, leaned into his companion's ear and said: "Wearing a pair of sunglasses at night, either neurotic, or really unfathomable, this old boy is a charlatan." ”

The old man sat on the chair, sniffed, seemed to smell something, and suddenly his face changed and he was a little hesitant. The blind bear couldn't help but be surprised. He smiled reluctantly: "I don't know what the four of you are visiting late at night, what are you doing?" ”

The visitor was about to speak, when he suddenly thought that this was not right, and his face became solemn. This old guy is blind and hard at ear, and that makes sense. The person closest to him also suddenly became vigilant, and deliberately threw down a keychain, the keychain had not yet landed, the old man didn't even look at it, reached out and caught the keychain that was about to fall to the ground, gently put it on the table, and said with a smile: "Girl, be careful, your things have fallen." ”

The birds were silent, and they all stood up, covered with goosebumps. This blind bear can not only recognize people, but also their gender, and even all the movements around them. Such a person walks in the crowd, and no one will think that he is blind. There were five of us, but he blurted out four, which means that at least one of us is not human.

The atmosphere in the room suddenly became tense, the air seemed to freeze, and the visitors looked at each other, there were indeed four people, and there were four shadows in the light.

The grumpy man couldn't hold it back, rolled up his sleeves and scolded and said, "Old boy, what the hell are you doing." ”

The blind bear said indifferently, "From the moment you entered this room, I smelled the smell of rotting death. ”

He was suddenly stunned and took off his sunglasses, which were extremely terrifying eyes, and the indifferent eyes seemed to freeze the air around him. The eyes had no pupils, all whites, and he sniffled, catching a certain smell in the air, and looked behind a man.

A handful of ashes was scattered, and five people became four people, and one of them fell in front of him and turned into ashes, which turned out to be a paper man, who must have been in contact with living things for many years and became a spirit.

This is just one of his stories. Speaking of this blind bear to have such ability, he has to go back to the age of sixteen.

When he was sixteen years old, he met a Taoist priest from Panshan who claimed to be a woodcutter in the south, and the old man greatly appreciated the blind bear's "wisdom roots", especially the eyes that could turn white and black, in the words of the old man, it was a golden pupil, black and white all-encompassing, and he wanted to take him as an apprentice in vain.

The southern woodcutter is a "strange man", two eyes one big, one small, one like an egg, one like a pearl, a pair of blue eyes for picking mountains, self-proclaimed: travel all over the world, continents and oceans, undercover seventy-two immortal mountains, at the same time will pick the secret method of Qiaomen and Dandaomen, and occasionally go to get some antiques of Qingzimen.

Young and ignorant, the bear blind man could not withstand the repeated flickering of the southern woodcutters, so he worshipped him as a teacher, entered the mountains and forests, learned the skills of "rolling cliffs", "lying on the tree", and "flying in the nest".

The southern woodcutter said: Don't underestimate the rolling cliffs, lying on the trees, and flying in the nest, these are the foundations for learning the secret art of woodpicking.

The bear blind man's "heel" flipped three times in the air and landed, called "turning in the clouds" on the opera stage, and called "shaking the clouds and fog" in the mouth of the southern woodcutters, practicing to the back can smell the wind and recognize people, step on the clouds and chase the moon, whip the mountain to move stones, row the river into land, the bear blind man flickered dizzy, in the middle of the night three watches into the mountains to dig the wild goblin, dig yellow essence, Shou Wu...... It is used by the southern woodcutters to make secret pills.

The so-called "Dan" is an inorganic compound exercised by the furnace fire, and the name of the pill has considerable significance, mostly named after the color and shape of the "Dan" seen when the furnace is opened, such as "Xiaguang Wandao", "Bright and Beautiful Sun", "Liuxia Fresh Cui", "Falling Moon Shocking" and so on, as for the kind of "heaven and earth change color, earth-shattering and crying ghosts and gods" of the pill bear blind man has never seen.

In Caiqiaomen, it is a southern woodcutter, and at this time, alchemy, looking at the light in the Dan furnace, the glow is bright, and he calls himself "Zixia Zhenjun", which is from this kind of sustenance. In addition, there are a few pills named after the effects of imagination, such as: "Channeling the Spirit", "Servant Envoy", "Soul Return", "Soul Restoration", "Returning to the Sun", and some are named after the refining method of the pill, such as: "Nine Changes", "Nine Turns", "Three Strikes", "Seven Returns", and some pills are corpse blood pills with his own so-called "True Monarch Blood", which is specially used to deal with mountain spirits and ghosts.

Zixia Zhenjun is crazy, and he prepares the elixir all day long, and he must refine it every day. He specially fooled the blind bear, went to the deep mountains and old forests to dig termites, pick up bullfrogs, dig out snake gall bladders, and look for ...... The elixir that was refined, but said: "Apprentice, master try this thing first, your body is tender, and if you eat it, you will hurt your vitality and lose your ability to reproduce." ”

The blind bear has been with him for many years, and he has seen a lot of pills, but he has never taken a pill of the old man's practice, of course, his own understanding of these medicines has also improved to a great level, Fang Yuan Baili, the treatment of incurable diseases is his best, and his method is not something that ordinary people can think of.

Due to eating Dan for a long time, Zixia Zhenjun's skin scabbed all over his body, as if he had been coated with a layer of black carbon, just like the blacks in Congo and Zambia.

Count nine snow days, just wrap a white cloth around your waist, and don't feel cold. The white cloth on the body is like a white dragon enclosure, walking on the street, passers-by all look sideways, thinking that the immortals are going down the mountain.

At that time, the folk popular preparation of drill through the bones, activate the wind of the "poisonous dragon pill", this medicine, not furnace fire refining, the production process is the secret art of the Xuanmen, the original prescription from a secluded in the mountains of the old way. Later, it was stolen by the Jianghu doctors, renamed "Golden Top", and became the secret medicine in the bag of the Jianghu doctors.

The golden top the size of a grain of rice is enough to last for ten days and half a month, and the body does not feel tired, and the strength is doubled. This is very popular for people who walk the rivers and lakes. It's a pity that the production method is locked, and the "corpse of the emperor's daughter" in the ingredients has long been extinct in the pharmacy, if you want to get the top genuine product, you have to go into the Tibetan Dragon Stream to collect it in person, of course, this is just a guess, and in the end I couldn't find it, which has also become the heart disease of the blind master and apprentice, and I have been looking for it all these years.

"Hidden Dragon Stream" refers to a boundary of Xihua Mountain, said to be a demon country, only because of Xihua Mountain, inaccessible, see Dai Mountain wild, full of clouds, sea of clouds such as lotus canopy, ancient forests in the lotus canopy, mountain peaks are stacked on top of each other, strange beasts haunt between the mountains, the shark people often appear at the bottom of the water dive, so it is called the magic country, because of the geographical location, the wind blows the water and moves, such as the sound of the dragon's chant, so it is also called the hidden dragon stream.

Due to the "immortal energy", the "Imperial Corpse" of Hidden Dragon Stream is a top-level product, perhaps it can be said that only Hidden Dragon Stream has such a thing, of course, the "Imperial Corpse" is not a corpse.

It is said that it is a plant that grows in the deep abyss on the Huangquan Road, also known as Yao Cao. After Yaoji died, she was buried in Wushan, because she was a virgin all her life, and only a kind of flowers and plants grew on her corpse.

The fairy bones are buried in the phoenix mound, according to the "Classic of Mountains and Seas": the emperor dies, its name is called the female corpse, turned into a remote grass, its leaves are Xu Cheng, its Hua Huang, in fact, it is like a mound, and it is flattering to people. For many years, there have been people exploring, but there is no way to find it, according to legend, these materials are hidden by Yongzheng, and then scattered among the people, at the end of the year, a copy of "Cave Hell" quietly spread among the crowd.

"Cave Darkness" means to say that it has insight into the things of the desert and the underworld, and reveals the secrets of cultivation and seeking the Dharma through the ages. It records the incident of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty asking for immortals and asking for medicine, and there is a record that arouses the curiosity of many people: in the north of the dark river, there is a forest of purple cinnamon, which is actually like a jujube, and a group of immortals bait. Han Zhong took medicine and declared: "If you get it, you will eat it, and you will grow old the day after tomorrow." Among them, it is recorded in the "Cave Meditation Record": Lin Guo went to Chang'an for nine thousand miles, giving birth to jade leaves and plums, the color is like jasper, it is ripe for decades, and the taste is sour. In the past, Han often baited this Li, because of the name Han Zhongli.

Many ignorant people thought that this thing was transformed by the corpse of the emperor after her death, but this Zixia True Monarch didn't think so.

It is likely that Haruka is a new creature that was cultivated in a special way by its owner, Yao Ji. Yao Ji is the daughter of Emperor Yan, and the Shennong clan is good at pill medicine, and has mastered the long-lost secret art, which is also reasonable, it is absolutely impossible that Yao Ji's body turned into Yao Cao after her death, which is pure nonsense. This herb is supposed to belong to the herbaceae family and can produce a medicinal fruit that is as colored as jasper. Han Zhong clearly confirmed its existence, and Haruka grass is also vermilion grass.

Ge Hong's "Hug Puzi Jindan" describes: Zhu grass is like a small jujube, planted three or four feet long, the branches and leaves are red, the stem is like coral, under the rock of the famous mountain, the juice carved is like blood, and the jade and eight stones of gold and silver are thrown into it, and the pill can be like mud for a long time, and it becomes water for a long time, and it is called gold pulp; With jade, it is called jade liquor, and all of them are immortal. In terms of the description of medicinal properties, this grass has the characteristics of the dragon's blood tree, but it is completely different from the medicinal properties of the dragon's blood tree, and the dragon's blood produced by the dragon's blood tree is mainly used for antiseptic, blood circulation and stasis.

It is rumored that Hu Dai, a disciple of Ge Xian Weng (Ge Hong's grandfather), once picked the corpse of the emperor by chance in the Xihua Mountain of the Demon Kingdom, and after refining for 7749 days, he got a top-level golden top, and his whole body was stiff, his eyes shot golden light, he lay on the ground and could not move, his mouth was full of forty-four new teeth, and his white beard was heavily dyed black, and he needed to learn to walk and learn pronunciation from the new, if he got a new life.

Hu Dai became the ancestor of the later "Caiqiao Gate".

People in the profession of Cai Qiao are extremely rare, even if they are in the industry, they don't know each other's identities, and they are almost extinct, and the inheritance of apprentices is all online to find the downline, just like Zixia Zhenjun accepts the bear blind, and the dead beggar wants to accept you as an apprentice, and if you don't want to, you can't do it. If it's the other way around, if you go downline to find an upline, you want to learn from a teacher, and you can't find where the upline is. Therefore, it is difficult for outsiders to spy on the industry market.

Caiqiao and Dandao are almost like this, so they are called "hidden", and such "hidden people" are all strange and strange, some unusual, perhaps in the eyes of outsiders, they are purely old madmen.

The center of the Tibetan Dragon Stream is the Nanbi Peak, where there are strange flowers and trees, the sky is clear and the clouds are clear, and the crane-winged beasts are soaring, and the people are extremely rare. Among them, there is the legend of the "Lotus Heart Bodhi Miao" in the Jin Dynasty.

Nanbi Peak is south to Lotus Peak, north to Heitou Mountain, east to Mingsha Cliff, west to Naguang Ridge, all are cliffs, medicinal materials grow on these cliffs, for thousands of years, the clouds and mist that are constantly swirling dissipate the mundane gas, in the eyes of Zixia Zhenjun, they are different from other plants, they are fairy grass in the world, suitable for calcining pills.

For the medicinal herb of the emperor's corpse, the master and apprentice entered the demon kingdom, went through hardships, went up to Xihua Mountain, and arrived at Nanbi Peak, looking around, the field of vision was full of white mist, and the clouds were intertwined and changed in the peaks and peaks, as if they were in the vast ocean, as if they were feathering and ascending to immortals, but the result was still that they couldn't even see the shadow of the emperor's corpse.