Chapter 3: The Beast in the Dream
Zhang Lu took a selfie in the mirror, but the more he took the photo, the more depressed he felt. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info
In fact, to be serious, this pair of skin in the mirror is quite good: 7 feet 6 inches tall, about 1.75 meters in the future, because of his young age, maybe he can jump again, and his face is slightly long......
All in all, thinking about it, he couldn't help but sigh, and was about to put the mirror down—alas, it was all the fault of the beard. But at this time, I suddenly heard a light laugh behind me, and then a low voice sounded: "Why bother to shine often, that is, Xu Gong in the north of the city, is not as beautiful as Jun." ”
When Zhang Lu heard this, he put down the bronze mirror, turned around, and saw that it was his own colleague, surnamed Zhang Mingjian, a native of Yuyang, who was in his thirties, and his beard was old, I don't know why, he still sank into his subordinates, and he couldn't even mix with Langzhong. Zhang Luyi frowned: "Brother don't play with me, why are you here?"
Zhang Jian said what else, the lunch break is over, the big guys have gone to work, and you are still looking in the mirror here, so I came to urge you. When Zhang Lu heard this, he hurriedly straightened out his clothes, and was about to go out to stand guard with a mirror, when suddenly the door of the dormitory, which was originally half-covered, was knocked open with a "bang", and a colleague hurriedly ran in and shouted: "Woe to you, woe to you!"
What kind of "disaster" did Zhang Luxin say? Could it be that Sun Monkey came to the door to ask for Tang Seng? Just as he was about to open his mouth to ask, he suddenly saw that his colleague's eyes were wide and his mouth had not yet closed, but he suddenly stopped moving, as if he had suddenly been given a slap in the head.
No, if you look closely, this person will suddenly be stunned, and he will not land on one foot, with the other leg behind him, and his arms spread left and right, just maintaining such a difficult movement, and suddenly he will be disguised. What am I relying on here? Immobilization or time stopping?
Fortunately, he was able to move on his own, and instinctively turned his face to look at Zhang Jian at the moment. Zhang Tingchen was not fixed, but he frowned slightly, stretched out his right hand in front of his eyes, closed his four fingers slightly, and kept tapping his thumb on the joints of the fingers - the so-called "pinching the fingers" is probably such a virtue.
Sure enough, Zhang Jian raised his head, looked at Zhang Lu, and then opened his mouth: "I suddenly had a whim, pinched my fingers, I am afraid that the earl will have a great disaster, if you don't save it, after many years of planning, it will be fruitless." ”
Immediately, his left arm waved, his big sleeves fluttered, and he directly grabbed Zhang Lu's shoulder: "You can go with me, you have to avoid great disaster!" After a pause with his left foot, Zhang Lu felt that the scene in front of him instantly switched - there was no Lang Guan's dormitory, and there was no colleague who had complained about the disaster, but he saw the river surging and gushing......
I know this river by my heart, isn't this the water!
Then the camera switched again, and I saw the mountains and green shows, and the ridges and acres were vertical and horizontal...... Zhang Lu was stupid on the spot, and couldn't help blurting out: "I can't rely on it, I thought it was through history, did it turn out that Xianxia Xiuzhen came?!"
The camera in front of him switched back and forth, Zhang Lu began to feel that something was wrong, he was like some people dizzy in 3D, feeling that everything in the world was spinning, his stomach began to spasm, and his heart was beating wildly...... This feeling is really uncomfortable, but I want to ask Zhang Jian to pause...... But he opened his mouth dryly, his throat choked, and he was "dumb" and speechless. I don't know how long it took, but he finally couldn't stay up anymore, and his eyes went dark, and he lost consciousness.
Zhang Lu felt that he had fallen into the abyss, surrounded by pitch black, boundless silence, completely invisible and inaudible, only his body surrounded by the heaviness of what seemed to be an eternal fall. Is this death? But why does my consciousness still exist in a trance? Is it true that death is the severance of almost all external senses, but still retains personal consciousness? Isn't that more terrifying than complete extinction?!
Just as he was in the midst of horror, a shadow suddenly appeared in front of him—although there was no light around him, this shadow was directly projected into his consciousness. It was supposed to be a large animal, on all fours, as if stepping on the void, slowly pacing past his oblique side, and when it passed in front of him, it turned its head and glanced at Zhang Lu, and then Shi Shiran disappeared in the other direction of vision.
Large animals, with large, oblate heads, and the fur on the head is basically white, with only round ears and pupils that are brownish-black above and below......
Ahh
Zhang Lu said to himself in his heart, and he also hoped that he could really believe that I was not dead, and I was not taken away by some weird man's sleeve, it was just a nightmare...... No, no, seeing a panda in the dark can't be considered a nightmare, it should be said to be a desolate dream......
Then he came to his senses, and when he opened his eyes, he saw that it was a very ordinary hut of these days, with mud walls and withered grass roofs—as soon as he opened his eyes, he could see the roof, and he must have been lying flat on the ground. Moved his limbs slightly, and there seemed to be no discomfort, so he sat up and looked left and right: the thatched hut was not big, only five or six square meters, under him was a straw mat, and on the side wall of the left hand was a rough wooden unplaned and unpainted shelf, piled up with some bamboo slips, and on the right hand side was a crooked and slanted, haphazardly patched together low table.
The face was facing the small door of the thatched hut, and there was a straw curtain hanging on the door, only to see the straw curtain lifted, Shi Shiran walked in a middle-aged man and nodded at him: "You are revived." ”
Zhang Lu looked this person up and down, about forty years old, with a narrow face, thin eyes, long hair, wearing a plain scarf, wearing a plain middle coat, covered with a blue-gray robe, the neckline was open left and right, holding the placket of the robe in his right hand, and holding a tail in his left hand...... Who is this person who is dressed as an official or a civilian?
After all, this body was from the second century A.D., and he had lived for sixteen or seven years before he crossed over, so he instinctively changed his sitting to kneeling, and waved his sleeves: "Who is the elder? Where do I see it?"
The other party smiled slightly, and waved his tail: "I'm Pei Xuanren." Then he sat down opposite Zhang Lu: "Zhang Thorn is suitable to bring Rulai, the beads in Yun Ru's eyes are like the Beidou Yaoguang Star, and his back has been like a river Kui, and he is also a talent for cultivating immortals, so he temporarily put me aside and ordered me to teach it." ”
It's really Xiuzhen...... Zhang Lu asked, "Where is Brother Assassin?"
Pei Xuanren replied: "There are still mundane affairs to be taken care of, and I have already gone down the mountain, and I will visit you again in a month or two." Zhang Lu hurriedly asked: "What kind of mountain is this mountain?"
"This view room also, the mountain is high and thousand, and the person who lives there today is called Zhongding. ”
Jingmur Mountain Zhang Lu is known, belongs to the Funiu Mountains, later called Laojun Mountain, located in the southwest of Luoyang City more than 300 miles away...... I haven't been out of Henan Province for a long time, and it was like traveling through time and space just now, and I thought I had run far......
Listening to Pei Xuanren's introduction, in fact, he is not the age shown by his appearance, he was actually born in the second year of the former Han Xiaowen Emperor, and now he is 368 years old! And that Zhang Jian Zhang Tingchen is actually thirteen years older than Pei Xuanren, and he is also born in the early Han Dynasty. Both of them had a fairy fate when they were young, had to preach, and were prominent in the world, and when they were old, they entered the mountains to cultivate immortals, and worshiped under the door of Taisu Zhenren - the two are brothers, but the immortal family does not have such a clear inheritance system and the status of master and apprentice, so they treat each other like friends.
While listening to Pei Xuanren's "background" introduction, Zhang Lu secretly sorted out his thoughts, and he could basically be sure that the here and now that he had inexplicably crossed over was not the historical line in the original time and space. In the original time and space, as an ordinary city dweller, he was theoretically a materialist, and he did not believe in any demons and monsters in the world, nor did he believe in the theory that there were immortals who had attained the Tao - or more accurately, even if they existed, they would all have died out in the twenty-first century in which he lived.
The crossing itself is a strange thing that violates the common sense of physics, and the crossing is even more fairy and ghostly...... This must be a magical world that is superficially similar to a certain period of history in the original time and space, but the essence is very different! As for the high and low demons...... At present, it is not easy to see, he has grown up in the mortal world for sixteen or seventeen years, but his ears are full of stories of immortals and ghosts, but he has never seen it with his own eyes, it can be seen that it is not easy for mortals to cultivate immortals, and the possibility of low demons is greater.
Sure enough, I listened to Pei Xuanren's introduction, saying that it was more convenient for mortals to cultivate immortals in ancient times, but it is becoming more and more difficult to catch in modern times - it is not that it is difficult to cultivate immortals, but that good seedlings with qualifications to cultivate immortals are becoming increasingly scarce. Since the Han Dynasty, he has achieved some success in cultivation, and he has lived for more than 100 years, and as far as Pei Xuanren knows, there are only twenty or thirty people, including Zhang Jian, only four of them have been able to soar in the day - even Pei Xuanren himself is not a real immortal, or according to the concept of later generations that Zhang Lu knows, he can be called "earth immortal", not "heavenly immortal".
As far as many online immortal cultivation novels that Zhang Lu had read in his previous life are concerned, most of them do not mention the origin of the immortal cultivation system, and it seems that the history of the immortal world is not within the scope set by the author at all, so since he has caught up with a set of immortal cultivation system, he is curious to ask: "According to the elders, it was easy to cultivate immortals in ancient times?"
Pei Xuanren said that this is indeed the case, the immortal road has been inherited since Pangu opened the world, Nuwa created people to make up the sky, and Fuxi performed gossip, so what is said in the classics is Chi Songzi, Rong Chengzi, Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor, East Prince, West Queen Mother, etc., are all celebrities who ascended to immortals in ancient times - at that time, I felt that individuals had the opportunity to cultivate the Immortal Dao. Later, Emperor Yao made Chongli "Jedi Tiantong", and the aura in the mortal world gradually thinned, and there were fewer and fewer people who cultivated immortals, and even fewer people were able to ascend to immortals. But there are occasional examples, such as Zhang Jian, and for example, the teacher of him and Zhang Jian, Tai Su Zhenren, became an immortal during the reign of King Weilie of Zhou.
Zhang Jian went down to earth this time, the purpose of which was to search for the cultivation of immortal seedlings everywhere and guide him to the sky, and it is said that he found three or five, one of which was Earl Zhang Lu.
According to Zhang Jian, he originally wanted to observe Zhang Lu for a while longer, but today he suddenly had a whim, pinched his fingers, and calculated that Zhang Lu's fate should be killed, so he was taken to Zhongding in advance and handed over to his junior brother Pei Xuanren to teach for the time being.
If this is an ordinary person, he suddenly heard about this large set of fantasy settings, and it is estimated that he will be stunned on the spot, but fortunately, Zhang Lu is a traverser, and he has seen a lot of Xiuzhen novels in his previous life, and his logical thinking is also relatively thorough. Dare to love on this surface in the late Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms era, there is also a small scale of the immortal cultivation realm, and then the immortal realm, and he has the opportunity to jump out of the mortal world, cultivate the true enlightenment, and then according to Pei Xuanren's paraphrase of what Zhang Jian said, it is quite possible to soar in the day and go to the immortal realm.
But he knew that cultivating immortals was a drudgery, and according to the novels of the relevant background, he had to sit and meditate, or go around to subdue demons and defend the road, which ...... Is this any good for himself? So he directly asked, "I don't know how to cultivate immortals?"
Pei Xuanren said that this cultivation of immortals, the benefits are too many, simply put: "Life is not more than 100 years old, confused by the seven emotions, cut down by disasters, or only half of the ...... will die" In fact, the average life expectancy of people in these years is probably less than forty years old, and half of the hundred are fifty years old, and they are all lifted up to the top - "If you can cut off the edge of the dust and spit out the self-cultivation, then all diseases will not invade, and the life expectancy can be ten times...... "Look at me, I am almost 400 years old, but my appearance is still like a person in his thirties."
In addition to being able to prolong life with cowardice, cultivating immortals can also get rid of the suffering of most of the **** in the world, keep the soul quiet, and explore the avenue of the universe.
Pei Xuanren said very excitedly, but for Zhang Lu, all this is nothing, he really wants to live in isolation, eat fasting and refine qi, meditate all day, see the five colors, and hear the five sounds, is there any difference between living and dying? A life without fun, even if it is a thousand years or ten thousand years, it is meaningless, let alone only three or four hundred years.
It's just that Pei Xuanren's words later finally moved him slightly-"If you make your cultivation successful and soar during the day, as for the heavens, you can get rid of the cause and effect of the world, and you can be free from the cause and effect of the world, and you can be free and free, and you can do everything without doing anything, and you can do everything without doing anything." It is not human, but it is also immortal, once you enter the immortal path, you will regard the mundane as a cloud and smoke, and you can live with heaven and earth, and you will not die or die. ”
Well, if you can really shatter the void and reach another realm or even a world, and explore the unknown that only exists in Xiuzhen's novels, it would be a bit interesting. But...... If this is compared with the chaotic times, with Guan, Zhang, and Zhao as friends, and Zhuge and Sima as friends, which path should I choose? It's really a bit difficult to choose.
He was silent here, and Pei Xuanren couldn't help but ask, "What do you think, thinking about your family and brothers?"
Zhang Lu shook his head lightly - he only retained Zhang Lu's memories and knowledge in this life, but he really didn't retain any emotional entanglements, not to mention that his parents had died, and he didn't leave a little brother behind. The key is - "The world is going to be chaotic, and when the Zhengda husband has made great achievements, how can he abandon it?"
When Pei Xuanren heard this, his eyes flickered slightly: "You don't have to hear the prophecy of 'Taiyao', and you want to respond to it?"