Chapter 19: The Mountaintops, the Sunset, the Clouds.
Mountain, very high. If Kina's face to this mountain is always a small ant, then this mountain is a giant elephant, or even bigger.
The mountain is majestic and unclimbable, but the more it is, the more Kina has the idea that he is bound to reach the top.
Kiina has been to the bottom of the mountain more than once, but he never imagined that one day he would have to climb from the bottom of the mountain to the top of the mountain, which would be a challenge.
Ah Gong was also by Mu Ming's side at this time, but he didn't speak, just stood quietly, looking at Mu Ming with a smile.
"Ah Gong, can I get to the top of the mountain before the sun sets?" asked Kina.
"Haha....this lies in you, the mountain is so high, unmoving, it is you who climb the mountain, it can be fast or slow, it can be early or late, the fast is fast, the slow is slow, the fast is still not reached, and the slow will eventually reach it. That's up to you. Do you understand?" Ah Gong glanced at Mu Ming meaningfully, and if he understood some words, he would understand, and if he didn't understand, he shouldn't say it.
Mu Ming listened to Ah Gong's words quietly, as if he understood or not, as if he understood a little but did not understand. However, after seeing Ah Gong silent, he didn't ask any more questions, and some things had to be realized by himself.
"Ah Gong, then I'm leaving, you go back. Mu Ming smiled and glanced at Ah Gong, then turned and walked to the stone staircase.
There is a huge stone monument at the foot of the mountain, and perhaps it has been dead for too long and there are no traces of carving, or it has not been carved at all. In short, it has existed for an unknown number of years.
The same is true of these stone stairs, some of which have long been weathered in the long years, and some of which have gradually lost their shape under the wind and sun.
It is covered with moss, obviously no one has been here for a long time, and the fact is also true, although the wood tribe lives here, but most of the time is in the deep mountains and barren forests to hunt and pick wild fruits, there is little leisure to come here to watch the scenery, even a few older children will be controlled by their parents here tightly, without him, this mountain climbing is very dangerous. But Ah Gong obviously didn't think so.
Ah Gong looked at Mu Ming carrying an animal skin bag on his back, climbing up step by step without hurry, and there was some relief in his eyes. Then his body moved, turning into a black shadow and disappearing.
Kikina walked with a serious face, silently counting the steps, unhurried.
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"Three thousand three hundred and thirty-three....three thousand three hundred and thirty-four..."
At this time, there were already beads of sweat on Kimina's forehead, and the morning light was waiting here early. Kina, feeling a little tired, sat down cross-legged, but fortunately there was enough food and water in the leather bag, otherwise Kimina's small body would really be difficult to hold onto. Immediately, he didn't care about the image and tore it up.
Ki Na felt that his appetite had greatly increased since he entered the mysterious world to meditate, which made Ah Gong a little surprised, but a Ki Na didn't care if he just had a long body.
After swallowing the dates, Kikina began to climb again. When Mu Na looked up, he felt that the stone stairs were like a dragon, winding around the end of the stairs, and many of those stone stairs were no longer in their original form, and sometimes they were even broken.
This made Ki Ming frown slightly, it will not be so easy to climb the mountain in the future.
But now is not the time to think about it, so I collected my mood and continued to climb. One stone staircase at a time, no more, no less.
Slowly, Kimina's clothes were soaked with sweat, but Kimina didn't know it, and all his thoughts were on these stone stairs at this time. I don't know how long it has been. Kikina paused.
"10,000 stone stairs. Kinama was a little excited. Kinawa couldn't help but look down, only to see Kimura appear in front of him as if it had shrunk countless times, but the only thing that remained unchanged was the boundless forest, no matter how high he stood and how far he looked, he couldn't see its edge.
However, when Mu Ming looked back and looked up, he couldn't help but feel helpless, and he could only see that the white clouds seemed to be above his head but untouchable, close to the end of the world.
If you look for Kina's figure from the foot of the mountain, you can only see a black shadow looming in the white mist.
I don't know how long it has been, and the sun has gradually reached the top of my head, but Kinawa can't see this, he is still immersed in his own world, his mind is full of stone stairs, and he walks one step after another, and repeats it like this. Slowly, Kimina felt that his mood was unusually calm.
It seems that he has forgotten all his troubles, forgotten that he walked in the majestic mountains, forgot that he was in the clouds, forgot whether he could finish the stone staircase today, and only felt that he was leading to a world, where there were thousands of palaces, and the islands suspended in the sky hung in the sky like stars, and the waterfalls flew down from the nine heavens like a picture scroll, and I don't know where to fall.
And now I am like walking on the heavenly steps leading to this world, my body is peaceful, my body is shining, and my feet are stepping on the clouds, as if I can fly away as soon as I lift my feet.
This was the scene in Kimana's mind, but in fact, Kimina's body was in the clouds at this time
Like a small volcano, it constantly spews out wisps of brilliance like substance, constantly spitting out the surrounding fog, and when you look at it from a distance, you can only see that the depths of the clouds and mist, which are invisible to the naked eye, are like a treasure, and they are full of mystery.
The purple leather scroll in Kimina's arms was also constantly absorbing the light emitted by Kimina's body at this time, and then wisps of golden mist emerged from it, and the mist wrapped Kikina and slowly condensed towards his eyes, making Kimina's eyes look like gold. However, he didn't cover Kimina's eyes, and Kimina stepped on every step accurately, and walked faster and faster.
There is no more sweat coming out of the body, and the sweat from the clothes is also dried. It's as if it's really a furnace, and it's blazing.
Kiena is still immersed in his own world, and I don't know how long it has been, and I don't know how many tens of thousands of stairs I have walked, but I still can't touch the gate of that world, but in Kimina's eyes, the gate stands in front of his eyes, but what Kikina doesn't know is that the gate doesn't know how many thousands of miles long and wide.
Just like an ant looking at a big mountain, even if it is thousands of meters away from the mountain, when looking at the mountain, it can only feel like it is in front of you, a black expanse, and you can't touch the edge. But even if you stand in front of the mountain, a distance of one zhang, you can still see a black expanse. Still can't touch the edge.
It seems to be very close, but it is actually the difference between the sky chasm.
Slowly, the morning sun became the setting sun. Kina didn't know how long he had walked, he only felt like he had walked one hundred and seventy-seven thousand nine hundred and ninety steps. But unfortunately, I still can't get to the gate of that world.
At this moment, Kiona felt a change in his body, and a black mist was born out of thin air.
"Is it going to appear again?" Kiina muttered to himself.
Kina knew what was going on in his body. I felt extremely calm before, and after a few steps of complete selflessness, I slowly entered a world. This is something that Ki Ming didn't expect, and he didn't need his own blood to enter that world?
I don't know if it's my own reason or the reason for the leather roll, maybe it's both. At first, Kinawa was excited, but when he saw the world again, he forcibly suppressed his emotions. Not to mention anything else, every time I enter that world, my body is changing. But what makes Kina most helpless is that the curse of the mountain god is like a parasite. Every time it will be troublesome at this time.
But fortunately, every time I appear, I will encounter the dissolution of that divine light, and it is a pity that I will be forced out of that world.
However, as soon as the black room appeared, it was overwhelmed by a large amount of divine light, and after a while, the black fog dissipated, and Kikina did not feel the cold breath, but felt that he was lying on a warm grass bathing in the sun, which was extremely comfortable, and the bones of his body seemed to be growing, but there was no pain, and it was indescribably comfortable.
Every inch of flesh and blood in the body blooms with immeasurable light, and finally it is condensed in the void a lotus bud, and then the wind blooms, the lotus flower blooms seven petals, each petal presents a color, and then it withers, the sky is scattered with lotus petals, in which the light shines together, gorgeous, Ermu name seems to be born from the lotus, the body surface emerges with colorful light, and constantly condenses the lotus flower to fly into the sky and turns into petals and falls, like a flower rain. The soles of the feet are emerging a holy lotus, every step out of a colorful lotus flower appeared, every step out, the lotus flower will fall, the petals fly, a lotus withering may not be beautiful, but thousands of lotus flowers withering and dancing that is absolutely spectacular. The sky is lit up with colourful light. It's like a lotus world.
Slowly, the divine light in the body melted into the flesh and disappeared, turning into a part of the flesh and blood, making Kimana's body look full of life, which has nothing to do with his eyes, it is all an intuition. Even when you look at it, your eyes are bright, and taking a breath of air is like drinking a sweet spring, which is amazing.
The lotus flowers in the sky dispersed, and Kimina's body appeared from the clouds, and by this time Kimina had already walked 108,000 steps.
108,000 stone stairs, Mu Ming even admired himself a little, he actually walked in one day! It's a little incredible to think about it.
I couldn't help but take out the leather roll in my arms and look at it carefully.
It seems that the leather rolls are really different from before. The purple color is even more intense, full of mystery, as if looking at it again and turning into it, and losing his mind, but Kinawa feels very kind, like his own flesh and blood, and he is faintly implicated. But this feeling is very hazy, and Kinama can't tell why.
"Someday, I'll know everything, including where you came from. Ki Na felt that the purple scroll was very mysterious, but at the moment it was not something he could understand, so he muttered to himself.
I immediately collected the roll and cleaned up my mood. When I looked around, I was very surprised, I only felt that all around me were white clouds, and my head appeared on the clouds, but the parts below my head were in the clouds and were submerged.
Kina's only felt that the clouds in the sky were like the surface of a lake, and now he felt as if he had raised his head from the water.
It is indescribably weird, but it is also true, if you look at it from a distance, you feel that a skull appears abruptly in a white lake, destroying the peace of the lake, or a head floating on the white lake.
Kina also felt this at this time, only to feel that his body was cold and had goosebumps. Immediately turned his neck, but felt that the world in front of him was a white mist, his feet stepped on the stone stairs, and when he looked back, he could still see a few steps vaguely, but he could not see the sky above, as if the clouds had cut off all the light. obscured the view.
I can't see any scenery around me, and it's white.
So, he showed his head again, took a deep breath and walked forward, Kikina didn't worry about where his footsteps were, Kikina remembered that when Ah Gong brought him here before, it was a flat land, although it was the top of the mountain, it was indeed flat, as if it had been slashed by a huge sword. However, I was still a little worried in my heart, for fear that the flat land would disappear out of thin air, and only the sharp top of the mountain would be miserable.
So he gently lifted one foot and stepped on it tentatively, feeling terrified.
Finally, I touched the ground, but I still stepped on it somewhere else, and I was relieved that it wasn't when the flat ground was still there.
However, Kiona still feels weird, he can't see his body below his head, it's just a head that rises and falls in this sea of clouds, and anyone who sees it will feel wrong.
However, fortunately, the clouds around him slowly drifted into the distance like flowing water, and slowly, Kikina saw his chest. At this point, the clouds are moving faster. Soon, the admiring body appeared on a flat stone floor. And the cloud ceased to flow.
However, a section of the mountain was exposed, as if people could distinguish the edge, otherwise someone would really fall down.
When it all stopped, Kimina looked into the distance.
Wisps of purple light poured in from the red sunset, and the clouds beside the sunset were dyed red and purple. I was on one of the peaks of several peaks exposed in the water in the vast sea of clouds, and the clouds around me were covered with purple light, white and red, like a sea of fire in the sky, and sometimes the steaming clouds were the purple flames, which were extremely beautiful.
Where had Ki Na seen such a beautiful scenery before, Ki Na felt that he was a big old man at this time. I couldn't think of a word to describe such a beautiful scenery for a long time. I just don't feel like I said a word.
"It's beautiful. Then he continued to immerse himself in the painting.
In the painting, a purple sunset dyed the entire sky red, and the clouds in the sky set off the sunset. It seems that he is reluctant to set the sun, for fear that the night will come, so the boundless and endless clouds cover the horizon.
But when Ki Ming looked at all this, he slowly integrated into all this. I only saw a ruddy young man staring at the sunset, the clothes on his body seemed to be poured with a layer of red pigment by the sunset, dyed red, with a red little face, a pair of eyes full of purple clouds fluttering, and a purple sunset.
It's all so beautiful, it's a fuchsia picture.
Kikina watched the purple sea of clouds stir, the sunset continued to rise and fall in the sea of clouds, but his mother and father flashed in his mind.
Although Kinaa had never seen them, Kimina still struggled to imagine two vague outlines. They looked at themselves through a hazy veil and smiled. Look at yourself lovingly.
Blurred outlines, but the smile is really real.
"The purple is the mother, and the rolling clouds are the father. A man whispered softly. His eyes were full of longing, and when he saw all this, Mu Ming seemed to see his parents, but it was indeed the same as the sunset and clouds, close to the end of the world, within reach but unable to grasp it.
I was slightly disappointed.
But Kina, too, was content. Just like the clouds and the sunset at this time, all this envelops me, and the love of my mother and father is this scenery, which is the most beautiful.
Ki Na didn't say anything anymore, and quietly watched all this, as if looking at his parents, a family of three just looking at each other quietly.
The sunset does not set, the sea of clouds does not disperse, and the wooden name will never close its eyes.
It's just that at this time, the leather scroll in Kimina's arms is indeed constantly absorbing the purple light around him, but all this Kina's name is completely unknown.