Chapter 63: Tangram
Early the next morning, the master and apprentice went down the mountain, Su Huang was still wearing a long robe with wide sleeves, a small sword diagonally inserted at his waist, and Gao Feng was wearing a gray cloth shirt, holding a small bowl and following behind. After climbing over several hills, I finally came to the plain area outside the mountains. A muddy avenue spreads north. After walking for more than ten miles, a city with earth and stone walls appeared in front of him.
"This is Yunan County." Su Huang casually introduced that there was a two-story city tower on the city gate, and a black flag fluttering in the wind on the flagpole on it, embroidered with the word "moon" of Douda.
Walking into the city gate, bursts of tempting aromas came to his nose, Gao Feng couldn't help but salivate in his mouth, and his stomach also made a gurgling sound. Su Huang glanced back at him: "Except for Qing Shui, you can't eat any food!" Otherwise, all the previous cultivation would be in vain. ”
The two turned left and right in the city, and soon came to a large mansion, but they saw the weeping poplars surrounding the house, with white walls and black doors, and the style was not small. It's just that there are two white lanterns hanging in front of the door, indicating that the main family is holding a funeral.
Su Huang stepped forward and grabbed the knocker and tapped it a few times. Immediately, a white-clothed family opened the door, and Su Huang said without waiting for him to ask more: "I'm sorry for you to inform the master's family, and say that Su Huang, a Qi refiner of Yunan Mountain, wants to see him." The family didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly turned around and went in, and in a moment saw a middle-aged tall and thin man dressed as a merchant in Haoyi walking out.
The tall and thin man bowed and said, "In Xialiu Chun, I don't know what advice the immortal chief has?" ”
Su Huang twisted his beard and said: "I see that your mansion is full of demons, and I am afraid that there will be monsters to make trouble, so I will eliminate the disaster for you!" ”
Liu Chunlai's face changed slightly, and he said with a forced smile; "The immortal chief laughed, how can there be such a thing?" Again, he said; "Shexia is handling the funeral, it is inconvenient to receive the immortal chief, please forgive me!"
Su Huang sneered and didn't say much. Turn around and leave. Gao Feng hurriedly followed two steps and asked; "Master, forget it?"
Su Huang glanced at him and said, "What if you don't do this?" Hmph, sooner or later he'll come to me on his knees! The two of them went out of the city gate one after the other, and came to a ruined temple. When you get inside and look at it. The statue of the god in the temple is blurred, and the incense sticks on it have traces of decay, which shows that no one has sacrificed for a long time.
"Huh!" Gao Feng glanced at the portrait and felt very familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had seen it.
"This is the ancestor god Emperor Jun of the Great Shang Kingdom, and according to legend, he opened up this world." Su Huang flicked his long sleeves, rolled the wooden fence in front of the shrine into a pile, and then made a fire.
The two sat down by the fire, and Gao Feng thought about the myths and legends of the earth about Emperor Jun. vaguely remembered that he was the ancestral god of the Yin nation, so it seems that the Xuanqi World should be a descendant of Yin Shang. At that time, it was the era of the war between the Pres and the Angsu people, and I wonder which side of the world is the masterpiece of the world? After thinking about it for a long time, Y couldn't think of a reason, so he turned his head and asked, "Master, what's going on with that monster of the Liu family?" ”
"It's just a little snake, pretending to be a ghost, and it can't make much of a storm! It's just ......" Su Huang suddenly changed the subject: "Tell me about the world outside." Gao Feng didn't hide it. From the Earth to the Solar System to the Milky Way, from the Earthlings to the Prelessens to the Pleiades. Then he told me about my experience in the past few years. Su Huang listened carefully, pondered for a long time, and sighed: "The world outside is indeed as the sect secret scroll says, it is very big and exciting, maybe I should take a risk and strive to soar as soon as possible." Go to the outside world to see and see. ”
"Immortal cultivators all know that there is an outside world in the Dao?"
"The history of the Xuanqi Continent is not long, only about six or seven thousand years, the ancestors are said to have escaped the scourge of war to come to this world, and some of the Taishang elders of the Great Gate Sect were originally born in that era. There is something strange about the world outside the Dao of Knowledge. ”
"Are you saying that those Supreme Elders have lived for six or seven thousand years?" Gao Feng felt incredible: "As far as I know, the body of matter can only be maintained for a thousand years at most. ”
Su Huang showed a look of disdain on his face: "The evolution methods of the Pres and Pleiades you mentioned are far inferior to our immortal cultivation methods, after reaching condensation, the body of matter will be transformed into pure energy, and it can live for hundreds of millions of years." ”
"Isn't this immortality?"
"Because of this, in this world, the competition for immortal cultivation resources is extremely fierce and cruel, the weak eat the strong, demons are rampant, and you must be careful everywhere you do."
Gao Feng suddenly remembered a question and asked, "Is it difficult to cultivate to the level of Xuanxuan?" ”
"Of course!" Su Huang glanced at him: "The most difficult thing is to transform into shape, it takes a lot of pure energy to replace the original rough material body, once the impurities in the body are not completely removed, it is easy to deviate when entering the condensation, and when it changes into other species, it can no longer be transformed into energy, and it can only be reduced to demons and monsters." ”
Gao Feng's heart jumped, and he hurriedly asked: "In the past historical records, how long did it take to go from Bigu to Tongxuan?" ”
"The third-generation patriarch of the Heavenly Axe Sect, Qian Yuanzi, is recognized as a peerless genius, and it took him more than seven hundred years to ascend from Bigu to Tongxuan. And the princesses of the Inviting Moon Palace are said to have practiced for thousands of years, and they are only at the peak of condensation, and they have not yet pierced the last layer of window paper. ”
"Seven hundred years at the earliest?!" Gao Feng's face suddenly turned to ashes, even if he was able to use the fastest speed to cultivate Dacheng and return to the outside world, but seven hundred years later, the world world realm no longer knew what the Dao had become? Although relatives and friends have used genetic drugs, if there is no breakthrough in the cultivation of mental power, I am afraid that they will all be wiped out! In the future, even if the space belt can be recovered, the Longhua World Realm may have undergone countless changes of dynasty, and Shui Linglong and Shui Yaoyue, two beautiful women like flowers and jade, have also become white bone skeletons.
"Remembering your relatives outside?" Su Huang showed a hint of mockery on his face: "As an immortal cultivator, why can't you let go of your seven emotions and six desires?" Since you have chosen the path of cultivating immortals, you are destined to endure loneliness and calmly face life and death. ”
Gao Feng lowered his head and was silent, this news hit him too hard, his mood suddenly fell to the freezing point, and he had to replan his future life. There was a dead silence in the ruined temple, except for the occasional chirping of crickets in the corner.
Suddenly, Su Huang jumped up violently and ran towards the temple gate quickly, Gao Feng then followed to take a look, only to see a green light in the sky, six or seven feet long, winding and flickering. It's like a green dragon.
"This ...... What is it? ”
"Centipede Spirit, this beast has become a climate, and I don't think it's any match for it! Tomorrow I will go to Tangram to change a few treasures to deal with it. ”
Gao Feng was a little puzzled and asked, "Since you can't beat it, don't mess with it, why take the risk?" ”
Su Huang sighed: "It's been more than thirty years since I stayed in the middle stage of transformation. Because of the lack of sufficient pure energy, it is difficult to make progress in cultivation. This centipede essence turned out to be one of the ten elders of Bailingmen, and when it entered the condensation period, because the impurities in the body were not completely removed, after becoming like this, it could no longer be transformed into energy, so it had to wander in this barren mountains and mountains. ”
"Why didn't it go back to the sect if it went wrong?"
"Cultivating to that extent, the whole body is full of pure energy, in the eyes of immortal cultivators. It is more precious than any elixir, once you lose the strength of self-preservation, it is difficult to ensure that you will not be assassinated by people with evil intentions in the same sect, this kind of thing has happened too much. ”
"Don't you miss the friendship of the same family at all?"
Su Huang Ha Lu Ha Da Lu said with a smile: "Immortal cultivators originally pay attention to cutting off mortal dust and cutting off the five desires, and their relatives still give up, let alone the same door?" ”
Gao Feng's heart sank. secretly thought that Su Huang had nothing to do with him, but he cared so much about himself. I don't know what the purpose of the road is? It seems that it is better to keep an eye on it in the future.
The next day, Gao Feng followed Su Huang into the city and came to a huge market, and the plaque in front of the door was shining with three big characters of "Qiqiao Fang". According to Su Huang, the Qiqiao Fang was opened by the Heavenly Axe Gate, the first major sect of Xuanqi Immortal Cultivators, and it was specially designed to provide a place for immortal cultivators to exchange items, and they only withdrew trading commissions in it. Due to the strength of the Heavenly Axe Gate. The reputation is good, and many immortal cultivators are willing to hand over their items to them for sale, so the Qiqiao Fang is getting bigger and bigger, and the business is getting better and better, and the semicolon has opened almost every corner of the entire continent.
Walk into the Tangram Workshop. On the surface, it is a shop that deals in calligraphy, painting and antiques. Su Huang was obviously familiar with the guys here, and after a few words of greeting, the master and apprentice were invited into the backyard.
There is a hole in the backyard, a small bridge and flowing water, a forest of green bamboo, and an Accord in the depths of the bamboo shadow. At the entrance was a large and bright hall, with two counters made of noble paulownia wood, and seven or eight attendants dressed in uniform yellow shirts.
There are many various items placed on the counter, and there are all kinds of pill magic weapon cheats. A mild-mannered middle-aged man greeted him and said with a smile; "Lao Su, what treasure do you want to change?"
Su Huang bowed his hand and said, "Shopkeeper, what I want to find this time is the angry eye chicken." ”
"Your idea to fight that old monster?" The middle-aged scribe named Ma Shopkeeper's face changed: "It's inconvenient to talk here, please go to the inner hall to talk." Su Huang nodded, turned back to Gao Feng and said, "You wait for me here." After speaking, he walked into the inner hall with the shopkeeper.
Gao Feng didn't care, he put his hands behind his back and slowly browsed through the counters, what he wanted most now was the flying sword, after all, the weapon that was commonly used in the past was the Flowing Shadow, although the flying sword in this world realm was not as powerful as the Flowing Shadow, but judging from the sword that Su Huang killed the gray wolf, the lethality should not be underestimated! He fell in love with a small yellow sword the size of a leek leaf, and the price was 100 Transformation Pills. Gao Feng shook his head, he only had dozens of Bigu Pills on him, judging from the fact that Master Su Huang had been unable to break through the Transformation Period, it was estimated that his old man's Transformation Pill was not in stock.
When I came to the secret counter later, I didn't realize that my eyes lit up, and there were all kinds of secrets, including basic spells and pills. There is a sword control technique. He knew that the so-called spells of the Dao were actually the skills of using the power of the mind, and in the past, he mainly concentrated on the cultivation of the power of the mind, and rarely dabbled in the aspect of spells, and now he didn't know how long the Dao would stay in this world, and it didn't hurt to learn these. He took a look at the price, most of the prices were a few Bigu Pills, which were not too expensive, and it seemed that the most valuable ones in this world were pills and weapons.
He summoned a yellow-shirted waiter and bought a copy of "The Basics of Five Elements Spells" and a copy of "Dragon Slayer". So he found a corner and sat down, waiting for Su Huang to come out, while looking through the newly bought secrets. A maidservant girl held a cup of tea, and the elegant fragrance of tea hit her nose. Gao Feng took a small sip, only to feel that his teeth and cheeks were fragrant, refreshing.
After about an hour, Su Huang came out of the inner hall with the horse shopkeeper, he glanced at Gao Feng and ordered; "I'm going to go to Wangcheng with the shopkeeper, and it is estimated that it will take more than ten days to go back and forth, and you will wait for me to come back in that broken temple." Gao Feng nodded in agreement.
Out of the Tangram Workshop, Gao Feng watched the figures of the two of them go away, and then went out of the city alone and returned to the ruined temple. Took a Bigu Dan, was stunned for a while, and took out the book "Five Elements Spell Basics" to read it in a bored manner, the spells introduced here are not complicated, and their basic principles are to change the properties of matter through telekinesis, and then turn it into a means of attack, the stronger the telekinesis, the greater the power of the spell.
Gao Feng first picked a "Freezing Technique" exercise, his mental power cultivation was not bad, in less than a day, the "Freezing Technique" had been completed, and then he practiced the "Quicksand Technique" and "Fire Dragon Technique...... Only through unaware day and night cultivation can he numb his nerves and free himself from the pain of missing his relatives.
After a few days, he was practicing the "Dragon Descending Hand" on this day, this set of spells is actually the same as the principle of telekinesis control, but it is more refined and ingenious, condensing the telekinesis into an invisible big hand, and performing offensive and defensive techniques such as shooting, taking, grabbing, and sealing, there is no way to change. I was practicing happily when I suddenly heard a rush of footsteps outside. When I came out to take a look, I saw twenty or thirty men, women, and children standing outside the temple, and the tall and thin man at the head was Liu Chunlai, who I had seen a few days ago.
"Immortal Chief, help!" As soon as Liu Chunlai saw Gao Feng, he bowed his head, and the men and women behind him also kowtowed. "What are you doing here?" Gao Feng was made to cry and laugh, and finally persuaded everyone to get up, and when he asked the reason, it turned out that since Gao Feng's master and apprentice went to the Liu family, the Liu family had died three people in a row in just seven or eight days. Only then did they believe that there were monsters at home, and they worked hard to find Gao Feng's place to live.
Gao Feng shook his head: "The master has gone to do something, you can come back in a few days." Liu Chunlai pounced and knelt on the ground again, and said: "The immortal chief can't see death without help, wait a few more days, and I don't know how many people will die in Lu Dao." Gao Feng sneered: "When my master came to kill the demon, what did you say?" Liu Chunlai kowtowed again and again: "The villain has eyes and doesn't know the true immortal, and the crime deserves death!" Please ask the fairy chief for the sake of the family, take action to get rid of the demon for us, I am willing to thank you generously. When the other people in Liufu saw it, they also knelt down again.
Seeing the men, women, and children kneeling on the ground, Gao Feng really couldn't afford to refuse, he remembered that Su Huang had said that Liufu was just a small snake that didn't make a climate, so he wanted to try his newly learned spell, so he asked, "You can first tell me about what unusual things have happened in the mansion recently." ”
Liu Chunlai thought for a while, and told a strange thing, about a month ago, he was resting in the room, suddenly heard the sound on the beam endlessly, opened his eyes to see, there was actually a big cyan snake coiled on the beam, more than a foot long, the thickness of the bowl mouth, was swinging his head at him and spitting letters, he was horrified, and wanted to go out to ask someone to drive him away, but found that the whole body was paralyzed, and he couldn't move. When he was panicking, he found that the head of the green snake was hanging down, and it seemed that some force was pulling it. Looking at the ground again, a small red snake about a few inches long and the thickness of chopsticks was raising its head and inhaling as it stretched and contracted. As soon as the little snake inhaled, the head of the big snake sank downward, looking very painful.
Suddenly, the little red snake flew in from the mouth of the big snake with a "whoosh", and the big snake writhed in pain, shaking the dust of the beams of the house to fall. After a while, the serpent stopped struggling, and its head hung limply, apparently exhausted. After another moment, with a "wave", the big snake's forehead suddenly cracked, and the little red snake Shi Shiran came out. Then a voice came to his head; "I am the guardian of your family in the house, and I will show up today to save your life, so there is no need to panic too much." At this time, his body was already able to move, and he hurriedly burned incense and prayed, and the red snake shook its head and tail on the beam and stared at him for a moment, and the red light flashed and disappeared.
So he set up a tablet of great immortals, and burned incense in the morning and evening. At first, it was peaceful, but recently there have been a series of dead people in the house, and the deceased is not suspicious except for the gray face of the corpse.
"It should be this little snake who is doing the trick, you take me to see it." Gao Feng picked up the small bowl and motioned for Liu Chun to lead the way. (To be continued......)