Chapter 5: The Flood and the Heavenly Tribulation
Jiang Pingchuan looked at his grandfather, he always felt as if he had forgotten something, he held his chin with his hands and looked down at the ancient book on the ground, he only knew that he was asked by his grandfather to watch this book, and he couldn't think of anything else.
Looking up at the night sky full of stars, Jiang Pingchuan sighed again and shook his head helplessly, I am afraid that there is no way to realize my dream of ascending to the sky, the key is that this is not the most important thing, thinking about what he did a few days ago, Jiang Pingchuan was in a bad mood.
"Pingchuan, why sigh again, the road to heaven cannot be achieved overnight, everything needs to be done step by step, you must remember in the future" Hongwu patted Jiang Pingchuan's little head, Jiang Pingchuan nodded in response and drooped his head with a listless look.
"Master Zu, if I can't find a way to wait for heaven, the little flower next door is someone else's daughter-in-law" Jiang Pingchuan complained bitterly, the little flower in his mouth is the daughter of the village chief of Shanxia Village, half a year younger than Jiang Pingchuan, and she is also the little woman that Jiang Pingchuan has admired for a long time.
"Pingchuan, cultivators should abandon their desires, don't talk about these for the time being, you can tell me why you can't find the way to heaven, that Xiaohua is someone else's daughter-in-law" Hongwu looked at the little guy in front of him curiously.
Jiang Pingchuan is the pistachio of the entire Maoshan Road, compared with his eldest brother, Jiang Pingchuan is still a child, many times he makes a mistake and is only laughed and scolded by the head of the house, the little guy is hard to criticize and then shake the fat butt and then go to make mistakes, hearing Jiang Pingchuan talk about the little flowers under the mountain, Hongwu suddenly became interested.
"Master Zu, a few days ago I told Xiaohua that if she let me take a sip, I would take her to the road to heaven to see the stars, but now Master Zu is over 100 years old and has not found the way to heaven, Pingchuan is afraid that Xiaohua will not be able to wait for me to take her to the road to heaven."
Jiang Pingchuan said with a melancholy emotion, Hongwu heard the words and immediately slapped Jiang Pingchuan's little head, Jiang Pingchuan frowned at the top of his head and looked at his ancestor pitifully, Hongwu regretted slapping Jiang Pingchuan when he saw this, and put his palm on Jiang Pingchuan's head and stroked it gently.
"Pingchuan you are a Maoshan cultivator, destined to not be able to have a relationship with life in this life, the ancestor knows that this is very cruel, but it is an ancient admonition, in the future, maybe you will break through the confinement of the ancient precepts, then Pingchuan can wantonly pursue the person of his heart, why bother to trouble yourself all day long for a small flower"
Hongwu lost a smile on his face, looking at Jiang Pingchuan in front of him, he didn't know why the Heavenly Emperor Xiao Jiuhuang attached so much importance to the third generation of the Fifth Emperor Xiao, but looking at Jiang Pingchuan who was still in the ignorance period in front of him, Hongwu could predict that the future road of postponing this little baby would be full of thorns.
"Master Zu, Pingchuan knows that cultivators should be pure-hearted and have few desires, what Pingchuan is afraid of is not that he does not have a daughter-in-law, but that if I can't take Xiaohua on the road to heaven, she will tell her father about me fragrant her, and at that time, Pingchuan's ass will definitely be beaten by her father."
Jiang Pingchuan stood up and patted his fat ass and sighed, he agreed with Xiaohua to take her to the road to heaven within three days, so he ran to his grandfather in the hope that his grandfather could find the road to heaven, and took himself and Xiaohua to the road to heaven to see.
As a result, his ancestor not only found the way to heaven, but also asked himself to remember the ancient teachings of the mountain gate, which made the little guy's heart as heavy as a stone.
"Out of breath, if his father beats you, you won't go to harass his daughter every day" Hongwu smiled and pinched Jiang Pingchuan's fleshy little face.
Jiang Pingchuan looked at his grandfather with a shocked face, Hongwu looked at Jiang Pingchuan's puzzled eyes and nodded seriously, his old face revealed a trace of a child's naughty atmosphere, Jiang Pingchuan reached out and touched his grandfather's face and nodded thoughtfully.
"Master Zu, you are so sullen, Pingchuan has not seen it before, it is so deeply hidden" Jiang Pingchuan looked at his ancestor with disdain, Hongwu was neither blushing nor embarrassed when he heard this, and looked at Jiang Pingchuan who despised him with a smile.
"People are floating in the rivers and lakes, how can you not be sullen, you little rabbit cub, dare to make fun of your grandfather" Hongwu pulled Jiang Pingchuan's earlobe, picked up the ancient book on the ground, and slapped Jiang Pingchuan's buttocks.
Jiang Pingchuan angrily looked at his ancestor and put his index finger in front of his pouting mouth to signal Hongwu not to make a sound, Hongwu stopped the movement of his hand and looked at Jiang Pingchuan with a little doubt, Jiang Pingchuan slowly approached, Hongwu suddenly pulled Hongwu's earlobe with his hand, turned around and ran away, Hongwu watched Jiang Pingchuan twist his ass and run down the mountain, and was angry and laughed by Jiang Pingchuan's behavior.
"Little cub, you stop for me" Hongwu picked up the ancient book, put on his robe, and slowly followed Jiang Pingchuan down the mountain.
Jiang Pingchuan turned around and made a grimace at Hongwu, pinched his waist with both hands, and smiled, seeing Hongwu speeding up the pace of going down the mountain, Jiang Pingchuan hurriedly took a step and ran down the mountain.
Maoshan Dao is the most powerful and profound sect in the northern region of the entire Yuanwu Continent, and in this flood era, Maoshan Dao endures by relying on profound heritage and supreme exercises.
There are thousands of disciples of Maoshan Dao, and the entire north belongs to the sphere of influence of Maoshan Dao, and there are various sects in some of these areas, but there is no comparison with Maoshan Dao at all, Maoshan Dao has eight elders in charge, and these eight people will not come out of the retreat place until the moment of crisis.
And Jiang Pingchuan's ancestor is the most mysterious person in Maoshan Dao, his cultivation is unfathomable, and the biggest enemy of Maoshan Dao in the north is the Beishan Demon Cloud Sect, the Demon Cloud Sect and Maoshan Dao have existed in the Yuanwu Continent since a thousand years ago, and the changes in the Yuanwu Continent over the past thousand years have been carried out under the joint witness of the Maoshan Dao and the Demon Cloud Sect.
Jiang Pingchuan lay on Hongwu's back and fell asleep, the first peak of Maoshan Road is the enlightenment place of Jiang Pingchuan's ancestor Hongwu, except for Jiang Pingchuan Maoshan Road, no one can trespass into this area without permission, and it takes half a day to walk on board.
Jiang Pingchuan walked for a few hours and then lay on the ancient road sighing, Hongwu carried Jiang Pingchuan on his back and chanted unknown Sanskrit all the way, Jiang Pingchuan lay on Hongwu's back and listened to the Sanskrit mantra and fell asleep.
Hongwu carried Jiang Pingchuan down the ancient road and walked directly to Jiang Pingchuan's house, Jiang Pingchuan's grandfather Jiang Xingtian is the law enforcement elder of Maoshan Road, Jiang Pingchuan and his brother Jiang Yulong have followed their grandfather Jiang Xingtian to stay in Maoshan Road since childhood to learn the method of cultivation.
There is something about Jiang Pingchuan's parents, and the mountain gate has never mentioned it, Jiang Pingchuan's mother is the first and only female disciple of the Maoshan Dao Jian School, as for their whereabouts, no one knows, and those who know avoid talking about it, Jiang Pingchuan often asks his grandfather about his parents, Jiang Xingtian just said that their parents went out of the mountain gate and traveled among the thousands of mountains to find something about the future of the sect.
And Jiang Pingchuan's elder brother Jiang Yulong never asked about his parents, and stayed in the mountain gate all day long, concentrating on cultivation, in order to be able to take Jiang Pingchuan out of the mountain gate to find his parents one day.
Hongwu walked into Jiang Pingchuan's brothers, put Jiang Pingchuan on the bed, covered the quilt, looked at Jiang Yulong beside him, patted Jiang Yulong's shoulder, Jiang Yulong nodded, followed Hongwu out of the room, and stood behind Hongwu.
Jiang Yulong is four years older than Jiang Pingchuan, but he is seven and a half years old this year, but he is the leader in Maoshan Dao, he has penetrated Maoshan Mental Law at a young age, and used this to break through the realm of Qi training, becoming the first cultivator in Maoshan Dao for thousands of years to be able to break through the confinement of physical fitness at the age of seven and open up the potential of the body to become a cultivator in the realm of Qi training, which is compared to his useless younger brother, Jiang Yulong was famous in Maoshan Dao at a young age, and he was also admired by his peers in the northern part of the Yuanwu Continent.
"Yulong, you are now a cultivator of the Qi Cultivation Realm, and in three years, it will be the Yuanwu Continent Youth Elite Exchange Conference, there may be news of your parents at that time, you must remember not to be impatient in the past three years, the cultivation path is the heart, and it is difficult to achieve great success in the cultivation path of the broken state of mind."
Hongwu turned his back to Jiang Yulong and said in a deep voice, and walked to the main hall after speaking, Jiang Yulong's immature face was full of fortitude, and his thick eyebrows and big eyes looked incompatible with his fair and handsome face.
Jiang Yulong's whole person looked more mature than most adults, hearing Hongwu's words, Jiang Yulong clenched his fists tightly and walked into the room, sitting on the side of Jiang Pingchuan's bed, looking at his younger brother with a pampering smile on his face.
Hongwu felt the change in Jiang Yulong's aura and shook his head slightly, although Jiang Yulong was talented and intelligent, but his heart of seeking the Tao was too arrogant, he knew that Jiang Yulong's small body was shouldering a burden that ordinary people could not understand, which was also one of the reasons why Jiang Yulong was crazy about cultivating.
Hongwu looked at the lifelike bronze lion in front of the main hall, the lion's head roared in the sky, the lion body became a bow, as if he was waiting for an opportunity to move, Hongwu raised his sleeves to wipe the rust on the copper lion's body, looking at the increasing rust Hongwu's brows wrinkled deeper.
Maoshan Dao is now much worse than before, Maoshan Dao is declining day by day, ordinary disciples can't perceive it, but Hongwu can feel the weakness of Maoshan every day, like a male lion that has been rampant for thousands of years crouching on the land in the north of the Yuanwu Continent.
"Head" Hongwu walked into the main hall of Maoshan Road, and the three old men in the hall bowed to Hongwu, Hongwu waved his hand, walked to the chair of the head of the main hall, sat down, looked at the three people who wanted to speak and stopped, Hongwu sighed.
"Just say something straight," Hongwu said slowly.
At present, the things that can make the three elders in front of him sad are nothing more than two things, Hongwu has been sitting on the top of the mountain these days and meditating hard and can't find a way to solve the problem, the defeat of Maoshan Dao and the defeat of the entire Yuanwu Continent are the choices of this flood era, people can't go against the sky, and conforming to the destiny of heaven is the best choice.
"Boss, Tianhao and his wife have been away from the mountain gate for more than four years, since they sent the child from Pingchuan back to the mountain gate, there has been no news, and I don't know if they have found the source seal, without the source seal, they will not be able to activate the defense of the heavenly array, I am afraid that our Maoshan Road will not be able to survive this flood and catastrophe."
Jiang Xingtian sighed, many years ago, the head of the Hongwu Sect and the old head of the sect snooped on the Heavenly Machine, and they had a hunch that in the near future, the Yuanwu Continent would usher in a thousand-year catastrophe, and only the formation laid by the existence of the peak of the Supreme Realm could successfully avoid the attack of this catastrophe, and as far as the eye could see, except for a half-step Supreme in the Maoshan Dao, no cultivator had reached the Supreme Realm in this thousand years.
"Senior brother in charge may predict the exact time when the catastrophe is coming" The blonde-haired elder had a sad face, he was the elder of the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion of Maoshan Dao, Yan Qingxia, his strength was not under Hongwu, he had guarded the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion since he was a child, he was talented and intelligent, and now his strength was close to the peak of Yuanying as Hongwu, but it was a pity that the two of them had been in the late Yuanying period for many years and could not go further.
"It is a heavenly calamity, aimed at the entire Yuanwu Continent, I am like an ant in the sky, how can I spy on the accurate information of the catastrophe, Tianhao and his wife have left the mountain gate for many years without any news, I think it is fruitless to find, we can only think of another way, three years later, the outstanding disciples in the elite conference gate stayed, and the other disciples were sent home, and the core disciples who were willing to stay we will find a way to send them to avoid the catastrophe, whether we can go against the sky depends on whether I and the Qingxia junior brother can break through the late Yuanying period in the past three years."
Hongwu sat on the Nanmu chair and said with emotion, he was originally a supreme existence, but unfortunately the different periods in which he lived were controlled by the law, even if he couldn't.