Chapter 51: Red Dust is the Way
The sky is shining. People are still living this morning.
A few young children with bookcases on their backs were walking in one direction of the street, thinking that there should be a school with a good reputation. The breakfast shop they passed by the street, and when the steamer opened and closed, a fragrant white mist rose.
Kunyang City gradually woke up with people.
The door of the Lu Mansion opened early today. There was another one: the boy and the little girl beside him.
Lu Qiming looked outside the door and saw the fallen leaves in the courtyard that were slightly curled up at the edge falling slowly. He stepped into the house, paused for a moment, and then continued on his way.
And the peace has been broken, no, it should be a more absolute silence.
Outside the door, the peasants were still wadding, the wheels of the carriages were turning, the wind was blowing, and the birds were flapping their wings...... It was clear that the wide open door was behind him, and all the vivid sounds were at the same time blocked out by some unshakable force.
Heaven and earth are silent.
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Dead silence can also be a terrible form of attack. It wraps people tightly and squeezes desperately, and it is unstoppable in everything.
The girl couldn't help but take a step closer to Lu Qiming's side to feel a little relieved. In fact, she wanted to hug his arm hard, but she was afraid that she would interfere with his response.
She could feel her heart pounding, but she couldn't hear it, in fact she couldn't hear anything at all—not even the faintest of it. The feeling of the sound being completely evacuated made her feel extremely suppressed even though she opened her mouth and tried to breathe hard.
What happened? Who was it? Why was it? Was the attack?
Xiao Dizi looked at Lu Qiming in a panic, eager to get an answer.
Lu Qiming's expression was fixed -- not solemn, but a solemn expression out of respect. But while holding this respect, he took a step forward without backing down.
At the same moment, the air was boiling!
The silence shattered completely.
Hong Ran let out a long roar -
The waves of qi rushed straight towards Lu Qiming, and it only rushed to the front of him in an instant, but the moment before the touch, it burst up like fireworks in a high place.
The power of the five elements was also boiling, and some kind of indescribable ethereal rhyme was blended into it, spraying in all directions with the air current, as if it had penetrated the heavens and the earth at this moment.
Because of this majestic vision was born a long and strange sound.
The tremor of the air flow is everywhere, and the sound is everywhere. They can be subtle, or turbulent, or shrill, or heavy – and finally they will be symphonic into a complex and incomparably harmonious chorus.
In the sea of sounds, the little flute's eyes widened in shock—she had been familiar to the extreme, wasn't this the most ordinary and ordinary voice of people in the small market in the early morning?
She thought she was mistaken, but when she looked up, she saw the young man's gentle, calm eyes.
Then the girl knew she was right. Because she felt the word "world" from Lu Qiming's gaze.
In the past, she always felt that her master was as tall as Haoyue, and she shouldn't be a mortal. But at this moment, at least in that moment, she finally felt clearly that Master was indeed living in this world.
And far more real than everyone else.
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That's a question.
-- Lu Qiming thought with a smile, and it was a topic he liked very much.
He had already recognized the identity of this questioner when he paused to enter the mansion - the peak cultivator of the Great Zhou Heaven who had guarded the family in the Jingyi Pavilion for more than three hundred years, and the Lu clan was one of the highest clan elders, Lu Fengshan.
Regarding the fact that there might be a Great Zhou Heavenly cultivator in the clan, Lu Qiming had some guesses before. After all, he rarely acted in a high-profile manner along the way, although he was sure, but the clan could not rest assured. But he really didn't expect this one to come.
As for the content of this question...... Lu Qiming looked at the black-robed old man who was sitting quietly under the tree with his eyes closed.
It seems that the old man re-entered the world after living in seclusion for 300 years in Jingyi Pavilion, and he had a new understanding in his practice.
The old man's voice of life with the title is warm and stable in the ordinary, and it is also the revelation of his state of mind at the moment. Since ancient times, there has been an endless debate in the spiritual circles about "birth" and "accession" -- but there was no need to distinguish between the two.
Lu Qiming lowered his eyes and felt the fluctuations of the aura around him, and suddenly raised his hand and plucked it again, as if there was an invisible piano.
The Five Elements Yuan Force was pulled by his qi machine, and a sharp sound was stirred out of thin air, and then went straight ahead!
The sound was heard, but it was the neighing of horses that started the game—a carriage came out of nowhere and passed through the crowded market, and the people hurriedly pushed to the sides to avoid it, and then looked at the carriage and continued on its way.
Little Dizi stared wide-eyed at the cascading void in front of her, and her face was full of incredulity—how could it be possible to create such a real and delicate change of sound with these alone? When she closed her eyes, she felt as if she had really become the little flower boy standing in the market with a basket of bamboo strips, and everything she heard was her own experience.
The old man under the tree had a heartfelt smile on his face. This question was a casual one, and it was only after it came out that he realized that it was too difficult, and that the test of perception and precise control was too harsh. But once again, Lu Qiming far exceeded his expectations.
With a flick of his fingers, the fine textures in the air changed again - these invisible and untouchable nothingness were as indistinguishable as docile cloth in his hands.
And so the voice continued—
The surrounding atmosphere gradually calmed down, and there was a swaying bamboo forest. The wheels of the carriage came to a leisurely stop, and friends walked into this elegant restaurant together.
After doing all this, the old man raised his eyes and looked at Lu Qiming. The quieter the background and the more delicate the changes, the more difficult it is to control freely, how will he deal with it this time?
Lu Qiming has many choices, but he will only choose this one-
He closed his eyes and intently, perceiving everything around him purely with mental power. He raised his hands slightly, and began to use his magic.
The sky gathered in the clear blue of the water element, and then gently flowed into this world.
If the previous voices were just extremely similar, the next moment what came into the ears was the real charm that shocked the four seats-
Everyone seemed to have come to the Linjiang Restaurant and suddenly pushed open the window, and their bodies and minds were thoroughly blown by the breeze.
Outside the window, there are rivers to the east, far from the end of heaven and earth.
The old man Huo Ran looked up.
He had already known that Lu Qiming's realm of perception was extremely high, so he shouldn't have been shocked to this point, but he also knew that Lu Qiming's level of achievement was not possible for Xiao Zhoutian's cultivation at all......
Lu Qiming waved his sleeves again - the sound of silk and bamboo rose in the air, and the conversation was whispered during the banquet. Then he looked back at the old man under the tree.
The old man shook his head and smiled. Because of that moment of swaying, in the end, he, the author of the question, did not continue the song in time.
He calmed his thoughts, refocused his mind on the moment, and then pressed his palms—
All the voices turned low again, but they were by no means thin—more like the summer of all things stretching out in their glory.
Lu Qiming raised his eyes to look ahead, but did not make any movements, because this was neither internal force nor technique, but completely controlled by spiritual power.
Change;
The sounds around me rose and fell slowly, rising and falling as gently as breathing.
Like a tide spreading in all directions, the low voice became wider. The square inch of land suddenly turned into an endless ocean!
It is as if the human perspective rises from a corner under the eaves, over the roof tiles, through the treetops, until it overlooks the whole city above the nine heavens.
The morning sun is clear, and life awakens.
What exists in the essence of ordinary life in the world is such a righteous and bright way.
The old man was silent for a long time, but in the end he still let it all dissipate naturally.
He knew that he could not give any follow-up to this argument that would go down in history.
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PS: I want to write every chapter and sentence of this plot to the fullest, which is what I consider to be the most fundamental responsibility of myself as a writer. The update has been slow lately, and I would like to say sorry to those who are looking forward to it. But this is not slack, please understand my intentions. Thank you very much.