Chapter 63: The Valley Bound Soul
Dugu Takihyun was just a little wolf who had just turned on her wisdom when the demon king raised troops to go south, she seemed to be particularly difficult to transform successfully, until eight hundred years ago, she was transformed for the first time under the guidance of Wu Feng, and then she had been practicing in the Youyue Cave for five hundred years, until three hundred years ago, for some reason, she left the Youyue Cave and Jing Feng went north alone, into the depths of the Taihua Mountains, neither Jing Feng nor herself seemed to be reluctant to mention the reason for leaving, after all, there was a Feng Feng at that time, and the general heavenly demon did not dare to go to trouble casually, it can be said that it is quite comfortable, perhaps because of the comfort, it may also be rebellious, after all, at that time, he did not experience much in the world, and he was still a child, and the wolf itself is unruly.
Dugu Takihyun only said lightly about his experience in the past three hundred years, first wandering in the mountains, and also opened up a few caves and mountains, but they were all driven away by some other powerful spirits, until a hundred years ago I inadvertently walked into Zhanghua Academy, saw a room of books that were often bitten by myself when I was a child, and remembered the days when I got along with my father-in-law and Fengfeng, very kind, so I stayed, but this time I didn't bite it, but took the initiative to open it and read it.
Five years ago, the news of her in Zhanghua Academy was known by Yu Qiu, Yu Qiu may have been afraid of Wen Zhang's face, and he has not done it directly, until a time when the students of the academy went out to forage for food, of course, Yu Qiu's son Jingyang also advanced to the academy in five years, so in the face of the siege of Yu * his two women, Dugu Taki's ability to escape without support, each of the three bodies with a soul, in fact, the cool spirit and the ghost spirit are all to cover the fetal light, and in the end, only the fetus light escaped by using a human spell to create a stand-in fake death.
Shuang Ling and the ghost spirit were captured, the fetal light was seriously damaged, and they met Yuanxian and Li Zhubei halfway, so they took them to Beifu Mountain, thinking about how to make Yu Qiu give up his cool spirit and ghost spirit, or simply snatch it back, he definitely can't, so he told some secrets of Shengyang Mountain to the monsters of Beifu Mountain, hoping that they would take the initiative to conflict loudly with Yu Qiu, and then they would fish in troubled waters again.
Of course, all this is Zheng Yan's description after sorting it out, as for the "rebellious", "unruly", "biting", "foraging", "fishing in troubled waters" or something Dugu Takihyun must not be able to say, he is still very dissatisfied with Zheng Yan's understanding and translation, and he really wants to pounce and bite, Zheng Yan just put the spear across his chest, and the woman who was fierce and inward-looking immediately became docile, and the two of them were playing at random, Zheng Yan felt that she might have overlapped her with the two she met before, but I don't know what she thought.
The next morning, he ate something casually and was ready to go on the road, Dugu Takihyun didn't move, just looked at Zheng Yan's expression was a little inexplicably complicated, Zheng Yan cast an inquiring look,
"I can't go with you like this",
Zheng Yan wondered, "What do you say?"
"I have to transform into my body, the human form is too weak to withstand the climate and bumps in the mountain road in Taihua Mountain",
Zheng Yan nodded,
"Don't make fun of me, don't say anything wolf cubs, bites, unruly words",
Zheng Yan crossed his arms and nodded seriously,
The woman hesitated for a moment and took a deep breath, her body began to overflow with Xuanguang, and the next moment she had turned into a big wolf with a black body, with a beautiful body, clear eyebrows, and some unspeakable handsomeness, Zheng Yan was suddenly startled, completely unable to understand the thoughts in his mind at this time, and then thought that Uncle Kaiyuan's letter had mentioned that there were desolate people in the Western Wilderness who could summon desolate wolves to be their mounts, and then saw that the black wolf in front of him was slightly taller than ordinary horses, and then hurriedly stopped this strange thought,
"Maybe you should make your body smaller, don't you say that the smaller the body, the more power you have?"
There was another burst of light, and the black wolf finally became a normal size, Zheng Yan nodded and said that it was very good, "Can you speak now?" There are people in humans who practice spirit magic, and after turning into animals, they generally can't speak, and can only convey meaning through their thoughts,
"Yes, it's just that you need to expend strength to change your voice into a human voice", as soon as Zheng Yan's words fell, a female voice came out of the wolf's mouth, it was Dugu Taki's voice, and it was only now that Zheng Yan had a feeling of getting along with spirits, and the so-called ones he had seen before had always felt that they were some monks with special abilities.
In fact, it is a bit reluctant for a wolf to walk on mountain rocks, and it is also a shame that this is an "old wolf" of more than 2,000 years old Speaking of whether it is human beings or demon cultivators, in fact, there is no clear statement on how to open the spiritual wisdom and how to practice the grass, trees, fish, insects, beasts, birds, and birds, of course, the understanding is also a little vague, some people say that living beings are born between heaven and earth and are bathed in the heavenly way all the time, because of some mysterious chances, some creatures with opportunities extract a little creation from the heavenly way, and then open the spiritual wisdom, which has little to do with long-term practice, after all, only a few creatures in the wild can live for a long time;
It is also said that most of the creatures who can open their spiritual wisdom and practice have some strange bloodlines, which can be ancient inheritances or mutations of the fusion of different races, so that they have the prerequisites for opening spiritual wisdom, and it is also because the bloodlines make it easier for them to capture the heavenly Dao creation between heaven and earth than their peers;
In this way, there is naturally a question, human beings are also a member of the thousands of living beings between heaven and earth, so it can be said that even if the spiritual wisdom is opened from birth, why is there so little practice?
Not counting the generational inheritance, according to incomplete statistics, there will be only one person with cultivation qualifications for every 10,000 people, and in some places, that is, places commonly known as "outstanding people", the proportion may be higher, and the talent and qualifications of each person who can practice are different in terms of level and direction. But the spirit does not have these problems, as long as the spiritual wisdom is turned on, you can basically continue to practice, and it is rare to encounter bottlenecks and stop moving, of course, the time it takes for the spirit to practice is longer, such as Dugu Taki Hyun around him, it has been more than two thousand years since he opened the spiritual intelligence, and the actual cultivation is probably only the level of the earth-level monks who have practiced for more than ten or twenty years in the human race, and the same is true for Xingwei Shuangyun, I have to say that the way of heaven is really elusive.
The two, no, to be exact, a man and a wolf went north, just because the road they took was a mountain range, so they couldn't go smoothly, sometimes climbing the mountain, sometimes going around the beam, sometimes going deep into the valley, according to Dugu Takihyun, even if the mountain is cold and the valley is warm, don't easily step into the valley, Zheng Yan has never been here, and he has rarely heard people talk about it, and he can't see much in books, so he asked a few more words under curiosity,
It turns out that some ghosts and evil things are mostly negative, there are scorching sun and wind on the mountain, and there are also spirits and demons that can take them to supplement, and those who are shallow may be directly scattered, and those who are deeper will also suffer a lot of trauma, so they like to live in valleys and mountain streams, and there is no shortage of some poisonous monsters in these places, according to Dugu Takihun, in these six thousand miles of Taihua Mountains, plus the adjacent arm ridge and Zhiyin Mountain, the really powerful ones are these, and many heavenly demons who have a relationship with each other are also afraid to avoid it, so the caves of demon cultivation are mostly on the top of the mountain or on the mountainside。
On this day, the two companions still entered an extremely deep valley, mainly because this valley was across the east and west, just blocking their way, if they bypassed the estimated two-day journey, now Dugu Takihyun himself can barely cross the width of five or six miles, but Zheng Yan still has to walk on two feet.
Because of the steep rock wall, so Dugu Takihyun has turned into a human appearance, the two of them along the rocky cliff all the way down, but also continue to climb the vines, when really down and then look at the top, it is completely a feeling of sitting in a well and watching the sky, the blue sky is only a small piece, "well wall" There are about 100 zhang, and behind him is a lush forest, most of which are some trees that Zheng Yan doesn't know, each of which is extremely tall, almost a dozen zhang, as if to break free from the shackles of this valley, it is said that the valley in the east-west direction should not lack sunlight, why do these trees still seem to want to escape from the ground?
Zheng Yan said the confusion in his heart, Dugu Takihyun seemed to be a little puzzled, put his bare hand on a tree trunk, and after a while, he suddenly turned his hand back as if he had to take it back, Zheng Yan leaned over to check, the palm of the white-clothed jade was not unusual, and it was normal to look at the trunk again, and couldn't help but look at the girl who seemed to be a little frightened,
Dugu Takihyun frowned and stared at his palm, Zheng Yan couldn't wait and couldn't understand that he had already begun to observe the surrounding environment, not to mention the tall trees, the shrubs and flowers under the trees were indeed yin-loving, but why was the ground not damp, but a little dry and a little hard?
"It's weird", Dugu Takihun, who had been silent, finally opened his mouth,
Zheng Yan was digging the soil, and said casually, "It's really weird, the land is hard and dry, and it feels like there's still a hot breath, no wonder the grass and trees are still lush at this time, you see, there are a lot of wildflowers in the flowering period, we've also gone down to a few valleys before, but there's no such place at all, right?"
Dugu Takihyun walked to Zheng Yan's side and squatted down, looked at Zheng Yan and said seriously, "Have you ever heard of the Soul Binding Land?"
Zheng Yan nodded, and said as a matter of course, "Of course I know, more than two hundred miles west from here, the entire six thousand miles of Fengyan Continent is a soul gathering place, wait, you mean that this is also here?
Zheng Yan has always been very interested in the Soul Gathering Land, but like the world, he can't understand the cause, his uncle Zheng Kaiyuan guards the Great Wall in the western boundary of Fengyan Continent, and sees that many living souls who die there can only enter the specially set up "Little Spirit Realm", and cannot directly enter the reincarnation of the underworld, so Zheng Yan has collected a lot of information in this regard, but he has no clue at all.
Facing Zheng Yan's question, Dugu Takihyun nodded lightly, "I am very sensitive to souls, and the plants and trees here do not have a little soul breath",
Zheng Yan wondered, "How can ordinary plants and trees have souls? Doesn't it mean that plants and trees will be struck by lightning when they have souls?"
Dugu Takihyun said seriously: "What does the vine spirit tree monster say? If there is no soul, how can it be possible to open the spiritual cultivation and creation?",
Zheng Yan didn't know what to say, I remember that some qi practitioners once said that the soul is based on the living body, and the living body can absorb the creation between heaven and earth according to its own conditions to condense the soul on its own, and some people say that the grass and trees only have a soul without a soul, and only after getting certain opportunities will they absorb or condense the soul according to the spirit, which is the so-called opening of the spiritual wisdom, is this what she meant?
"I mean there is no trace of the soul on the grass and trees, the soul is actually the same as everything we see, you treat it as something visible and touchable, as long as it is a concrete thing, it must have a smell, just like if you rub the bark with your hands, the bark will leave the smell of your flesh, that is, your breath, and the taste of your soul", Dugu Takihyun explained seriously,
Zheng Yan nodded, "No wonder tigers often rub against trees within their territory, it turns out to mark their own scent, will you do the same?"
As soon as the words came out, the woman knocked a chestnut, and then the woman was a little embarrassed, and said angrily, "When are you still joking with me, I'm sure this is indeed a soul-binding place, let's go up and detour",
Zheng Yan smiled and said, "Don't worry, you can give up this skin anyway, right?If something really happens, I can guarantee to leave with this soul of yours", Zheng Yan really wanted to explore this soul-binding place, and even some did not hesitate to give up the body, but it was only possible, not necessarily so unlucky, he just had no luck, and he was not without luck, so he wouldn't be so unlucky.
Seeing that Zheng Yan moved Dugu Takihyun nodded, probably not so unlucky, so the two began to explore and walk forward, for the sake of insurance, Zheng Yan let Dugu Takihyun turn into a little milk wolf of one or two months in size, lying on his back, she could hide in the backpack in an emergency, and it was also convenient for her to explore the surrounding movements.
The more you go inside, the more strange it becomes, the grass and trees are so lush but there is not a single living thing, not even a single thing at all, and some broken stone carvings began to appear in the woodland after walking for a long time, which makes Zheng Yan can't help but think of the Ten Thousand Buddha Immortal Cave, but there are Buddha statues there, there seem to be golems here, and there are many carvings of tomb beasts, who will set up the mausoleum here? Feng Shui must not be counted on, even a yin ghost can't be raised, the soul binding land is imprisoned for ghosts, imprisoning their free movement, and also imprisoning their cultivation, which can only dissipate in the end.
Zheng Yan is very familiar with the ground structure of the mausoleum, after all, not far northwest of Luoyang is Mangdang Mountain, during the Qingming Festival or what sacrifice will also go to see, relying on this familiarity soon found the outermost stone archway, there are actually twelve stone pillars, the handwriting on the archway has long been mottled, walk through the archway and walk on the Shinto that does not give birth to a weed, the surrounding is dead and silent, the stone bricks have been somewhat broken, and the stone elephants on both sides are not much better, Zheng Yan is more and more frightened, this seems to be the royal tomb!
After walking through the one-mile-long Shinto Road, he finally stood in front of the tomb door, the stone tomb door three zhang high and two zhang wide, who has such courage? Zheng Yan naturally would not push such a huge tomb door, whether it can be pushed or not is still a problem, there is no other mechanism, although few people do anything in the tomb door, but what if there are people guarding the tomb behind?
So Zheng Yan turned into a little wolf Dugu Takihyun into his arms, jumped on the tiger skin wall next to the tomb door, and finally saw the scene inside, a very wide courtyard, the front is a large hall, than the Luoyang Imperial City that is not much more reckless, the key is that the whole body is black, depressed and deep, there are many temples behind the main hall, the whole mausoleum seems to come from the Nine Hells, the key is from the yard Some grass and trees are pruned traces can be known that there are indeed tomb keepers, but Zheng Yan is a little skeptical about whether this is a mausoleum, now it seems to be more like a temple, or a mysterious sect。
"Someone," the little wolf in his arms suddenly whispered.