Chapter Twenty-Three: Three Teachings and Nine Streams, the Past is Past
What is this Wuling Mountain, but I have no impression, listening to the little old man, I know that it is a mountain range in Xiangxi. After pondering for a while, he told him to stay here and guard the water sheng, and not to go anywhere.
When Lao Zheng heard this, he asked me if I was planning to go to Wuling Mountain. I said "um". This little old man is very fine.
Seeing that he frowned, with a bitter face, he said with some worry: "Master, this thing is very strange, shouldn't you find more people to go with?" "Although this little old man didn't know that I had become the sect master of the burial gate, he knew that I had always been good friends with the funeral gate and had a very close relationship with Kunlun Mansion, so he encouraged me to go to them for help.
I originally thought about it this way, but it's a pity that Aoko's dead woman went out into the wilderness, and there was no one to discuss. After pondering for a while, I decided to go and see it alone. I've thought about it over and over again these days, and I just think it's weird everywhere. The timing of the appearance of this strange corpse was too coincidental, just in time for the Xuannu tomb to be broken and the burial method was turbulent.
And the design of this strange corpse is really delicate and terrifying, interlocking, and not leaking. If it weren't for the fact that I happened to meet Shui Sheng and the two ghost girls, it would have been impossible to explore the secrets hidden here. Such a delicate and terrifying layout will never be an accident.
After pondering for a moment, he said to Lao Zheng: "You write down this matter, don't publicize it, just guard the water sheng here." ”
The other party came treacherously, once too many people are implicated in this matter, I am afraid that I will have to startle the snake, it is better to take advantage of the other party's unpreparedness, and I will investigate first. Anyway, the Yin Patrol has always been a loner, and it's not a big deal.
After a few more words of explanation to Lao Zheng Tou, he quietly walked out of the cave. After wandering among the mountains for a while, he deliberately exposed his whereabouts, and was immediately discovered by several Heavenly Master Dao disciples. I turned around and fled, and then led Zhao and Li, as well as Lionnose and Skinny Daoren. I relied on the terrain, advanced and retreated in the mountains and forests, went around with them in several circles, and finally escaped from Meilongling, which attracted the two factions to chase after them.
All the way to Meilongling, they turned their heads and went in the direction of Pankou Village, going around all the way, taking a group of people around in this mountain range, until a day later, they got rid of it, rushed straight to Xiangxi, and arrived at the Wuling Mountains in a few days.
Listening to Lao Zheng Tou, Wuling Mountain is entrenched in the west of Hunan and belongs to the eastern extension of Yunwu Mountain on the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau. In fact, when you go to the place, you will find that this mountain range is too vast, from the south and west to the northeast, running through the state border Longshan, Baojing, Guzhang, Yongshun and other places, and the branch veins are stretching the whole territory, the strange peaks are showing, and the momentum is magnificent.
I inquired with the nearby mountain people at the foot of the mountain for a while, but for a while I didn't know where to start.
After wandering for a long time, I didn't think of any other way, so I simply went up from Baiyun Mountain and went west along the ridge. Survey the terrain in the mountains as you walk. It's just that this mountain is majestic and vast, and I only searched all the way to the inaccessible deep mountains, although I also found a few treacherous places, but under careful inspection, there is nothing too special.
After climbing in the mountains for more than ten days, he arrived at the westernmost place of Wuling Mountain on this day, and then went further, and it became the boundary of Yunwu Mountain. This place is extremely high and extremely deserted, and there are no people to be seen along the way, let alone any villages.
Over the years, thick dead leaves have accumulated on the ground, and when it rains heavily, it becomes slippery and rotten, making it extremely difficult to walk. There are also some naturally formed deep pits, covered by dead branches and rotten leaves, if someone enters the mountain and accidentally steps on it, they will die in it. When the rainstorm came, it was filled with rainwater and became a deep pool.
Especially those places where the yin accumulates for a long time, the bones in them breed evil, and they are even more ferocious. For example, this Zhu Wen, who happened to be bumped into by me, almost became another corpse in this pool.
I was thinking a little about it, when I heard the sound of the rope, it turned out that the person named Zhu Wen woke up, yawned, got up, walked to the entrance of the cave and looked out, turned back, and said, "I don't know when the rain will stop." Then he shivered, "It's cold." ”
It's a bit cold in this cave, but it's raining so hard that even if you want to make a fire to keep warm, you can't find dry firewood. The man rubbed his hands, put it to his mouth and sighed, jumped in place a few times, shivered again, and said to me: "Brother Lu, do you have any wine in your bag, give my brother a sip." ”
I laughed and said no. After walking in the mountains for so many days, even the dry food I had prepared earlier was already finished. Zhu Wen rubbed his hands vigorously, walked around the cave for a few steps, stomped his feet, took a few breaths, looked at me a few more times, and said with a smile: "Brother Lu, you are a person in the sect, right?" ”
I was slightly stunned when I heard it, but my face was impassive and I didn't answer, just "um", in a questioning tone.
That Zhu Wen rubbed his hands, stared at me for a while, and said with a smile: "Brother, you just said it, right?" ”
I smiled too. Zhu Wen laughed and said, "Even if you don't say it, I know who you are." ”
I let out an "oh" and said, "What do you say?" I thought, could it be that when I rescued him from Tanzi just now, he saw the clue.
I saw that Zhu Wen stretched out a finger, pointed at me, and said with a smile: "You don't have a mobile phone on you." ”
I smiled dumbly and said, "What's this, it's raining so hard, maybe I'm hiding in my bag." But I was a little surprised in my heart, this person seemed to know quite a lot about the arts.
Zhu Wen shook his head and said, "No, no, you look like a person who doesn't use this thing." ”
I didn't argue with him, I just said, "What does that mean?" ”
Zhu Wen rubbed his hands and said with a smile: "There is a rule in the sect, and all disciples are not allowed to use that thing. Speaking of this, he waved his hand again, "After all, disciples are not allowed to touch all the things of the new school!" ”
I listened to what he said interestingly, and said with a smile: "You mean to say that the people in the sect are all old antiques, old and stubborn? ”
Zhu Wen smiled and said: "The sect has been inherited for hundreds or thousands of years, and it is now a yellow flower of yesterday, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is an old antique and rotten wood." At this point, he paused, looked at me a few times, and said, "However, that's not what I said. ”
I'm not going to interject. Actually, I know what he means. There are thousands of large and small techniques in this world, and most of them have been lost in the long river of time. Now the remaining sects are just surviving.
Cultivation is an extremely difficult thing in the first place, and it requires a pure mind and few thoughts, preferably just like in ancient times, an ancient book, and a green lantern. But in these days, there are a few people who can endure this thought and live an ascetic life for a long time.
In all the large and small sects I know, including the three sects of the Dao Gate Fu Gong, the Burial Gate, the Incense Burning Society, etc., they all strictly order their disciples to live a hard life according to the ancient method according to the laws of this sect, without exception.
This is not that the helmsmen of the major sects want to be an old antique, an inflexible old stubborn, but the sect itself is an old antique.
This may seem ridiculous and bizarre, but it is actually a last resort. Because once the gate becomes less old, it is dead and no longer exists.
Those of us can only stay in the old world, which is incompatible with the present world.
It's just that even so, it can only be kept for a while. The changes of the times and the torrent of the years, how can human beings stop them?
The red dust is rolling, the waves are sweeping the sand, and the old-school things left over from thousands of years ago are a thing that will be eliminated, as little as a few decades, and as many as a hundred years.
The world has changed, and it is no longer what it used to be. Sooner or later, we eccentrics who are out of step with the world will be swept into the dustbin of history.
I sometimes think that it is also the "slut" in the tomb of the Xuannu who is unlucky, if she can hide for a little longer, then she doesn't have to do it, and the door itself will be destroyed.