Chapter 41: NPCs Disappear!
Yu Ji said that he could lead Zhang Lu to the abyss and try to find out, and Zhang Lu listened, and at first he was quite moved—his curiosity was also very strong—but then he shook his head with a wry smile and politely refused. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info to probe secrets is indeed an interesting thing, but there must be enough strength to rely on, as far as he can do at the moment, another giant blows a breath, and his bones will be broken on the spot, can Yu Lao Xian'er still be able to keep himself?
Forget it, let's report this matter to Pei Xuanren and Zhang Jian, and let them find a way to go - if Zhang Jian is willing to go to Tianyuan to find out, it is estimated that he will soon be able to understand the truth.
Therefore, he politely rejected Yu Ji's kindness, saying that I was ordered by my master to inquire about this matter from you, and I got your answer without concealment, it would be enough, and I must return to the mountain to restore my life. As for going to investigate in person, Master has never given such an explanation.
Yu Ji was quite regretful, although he did not dare to go to the abyss to make a second investigation, but he also hoped that he could fake his hands on others and dig out a little more secrets - maybe it would have an auxiliary effect on his own immortalization. So he took out a bamboo piece that had been prepared a long time ago from his arms, handed it to Zhang Lu, and said that the specific address of Tianyuan is in it, when do you want to go, as long as you get into the true qi, you can be guided. When I was done, I heard that several of you had come to me in groups to inquire about this—not just you and Xuan Jian—and that you were going to share what you had heard with them?
Zhang Lu said that I was also thinking about this matter, and then gave Yu Ji a big gift, and asked the old immortal chief to help me calculate it, if I revealed the truth to my companions, would it be evil or auspicious? Yu Ji happily agreed, and immediately took a small bamboo tube from his waist and poured out six copper coins.
This is the art of money divination, theoretically the same as Yarrow Zhan, is to first discharge the hexagram, and then correspond to the text of the Book of Changes, in order to determine the good fortune. Qian Bu can be regarded as a super simplified version of yarrow, and there is no need to divide yarrow, and there is no need to count the remainder, six copper coins are each a line, the front (there is a side of the yang text "five baht") is considered yang, and the back is counted as yin, as long as you pray silently in your heart, shake the bamboo tube, and pour out the six coins in turn, you can achieve a hexagram.
Whether it is yarrow or money, it is a method of communicating the yin and yang of heaven and earth and exploring the connection between things, focusing on the soothsayer's own supernatural powers, rather than divination techniques and processes. To put it bluntly, no matter how complicated the process is, no matter how many tricks and changes are made, the result will be nonsense; Therefore, the greater the ability, the simpler the means of divination - complicated and useless - Xuan Jian must be occupied, and Yu Jiguang is enough for divination.
The result of the divination was Xiao Ji, and Yu Ji told Zhang Lu that it was okay for you to keep quiet, even if you said it, it would not be too much of a problem. This is different from my own divination on this matter, and if I really trumpet the source of that proverb, I will be in trouble—of course, it may be that I am not sure because it concerns me, but I dare not take the risk.
So Zhang Lu said goodbye to Yu Ji and Zuo Ci's master and apprentice, he first told Xuan Jian the source of the proverb, and then waited near Huiji Mountain, and a few days later Bai Qi'er and Bu Jue came, and reported to the two. Bai Que'er didn't know that the sky was high and the earth was thick, and suggested that we might as well go to sea and visit the abyss, Zhang Lu and Xuan Jian waved their hands again and again. Bu Jue also said: "I know the power of the great river, if the wind and waves rise, it is not invincible to manpower, and the sea?" "Where have you seen a great river, let alone the sea, do you think it is so easy to go to the sea? I'm afraid that we haven't been able to find the abyss yet, and if we go to sea less than a hundred miles, we will encounter wind and waves, and the boat will be capsized and people will die."
But these two came all the way to come over on the orders of their master, but they couldn't even see Yu Ji's face, so they said that the task was completed and they could go home, but they were a little unwilling and reluctant. Bu Jue said that my brother Bu Qi was in Huiji, and he couldn't visit a few days ago, so he planned to stay a few more days to see if he could meet him. When I find my brother, I will take you back to the mountain to meet my teacher, and you will listen to his teachings, which will be beneficial to your cultivation.
So the four parted ways, and Zhang Lu and Xuan Jian returned to Jiangbei. More than ten days later, Xuan Jian returned to Yangcheng first, and soon Zhang Lu also arrived at Jingmur Mountain.
There was no word or risk along the way, Zhang Lu was more cautious this time, trying to see a third person as little as possible, and sure enough, he didn't encounter any more attacks. Seeing that the scenery room was in sight, he couldn't help but breathe a long sigh of relief: "I'm back!" This has been going for many months, if you add the previous visit to Zhang Mink in Mixian County and Zhang Jujun in Songshan, it will be a year younger before and after.
Although the practice on the top of the mountain is boring, it is not interesting to go down the mountain. Zhang Lu was an otaku in his previous life, as long as he had a computer and a mobile phone, he really couldn't make a few books, so he didn't have any motivation to go out. Of course, otaku and otaku are not the same, some people are not good at or even afraid of interacting with people, and some people just don't have much interest in the outside world. Zhang Lu belongs to the latter type, he also has times when he is bored at home, occasionally goes to parties with friends, goes to restaurants, goes to bars, sings karaoke, and may even travel. But in these days, he basically had no friends - this time he went down the mountain and met the Yuan Festival of Xuan, he could barely be regarded as a friend - and the mortal world was full of soldiers, everywhere was the flow of people fleeing the famine, most of the fields were barren, and the market was extremely depressed, so what was there to visit?
As for those primitive and undeveloped natural landscapes, in fact, Zhang Lu doesn't care much, he has always liked reinforced concrete more than green mountains and green waters. And you have to go everywhere these years, it's best to take a carriage, the road is tired enough, how can you still have the heart to travel in the mountains and rivers?
So after coming out for a long time, I miss the peaceful and quiet life of Zhongdingshang. And Zhang Lu was full of questions, he had planned to report to Pei Xuanren, Pei Xuanren would be able to contact Zhang Jian as soon as possible, and more or less solve his doubts - and he also planned to directly question Zhang Jian, how could there be three "white sparrows"? How much are you hiding from me?
But I didn't think about it, after I boarded the Zhongding, I searched everywhere, but I didn't see any trace of Pei Xuanren at all--Did the teacher go down the mountain again? Didn't he say that the immortal was about to ascend and he couldn't leave easily?
was full of depression, and turned around three times inside and out, but Pei Xuanren didn't even leave a note. was slandering, and scolded Pei Xuanren several times in his heart, when he suddenly heard a voice behind him: "You are back." ”
Zhang Lu turned around abruptly -- alas, isn't this Pei Xuanren? It turns out that he just left for a short time and came back soon? After a closer look, his eyesight is now extraordinary, and he immediately saw that it was just a phantom -- although he didn't leave a note, he left a video anyway, and it wasn't like saying goodbye, I couldn't help but scold him too hard in my heart just now...... Good, although the teacher's grace is not too deep, I should indeed repent.
Seeing Pei Xuanren's phantom smile slightly, he opened his mouth to say the second sentence, and shocked Zhang Lu on the spot-
"Thou hast come back and have not seen me, without him, I have become an immortal now. ”
Zhang Luxin said that you won't just leave, right? Can't you even wait for me to come back? Chengxian is not reincarnated, can you be so impatient?! Okay, I received a task, and I worked hard to complete it, and when I came back, I couldn't find a big question mark everywhere, the original version was modified, and the NPC who handed in the task has been removed from the game--what is this special thing called?!
Pei Xuanren's phantom then said a few more words, nothing more than saying that he left everything on Zhongding to Zhang Lu and asked him to continue to practice and so on, but Zhang Lu didn't listen to it at all. There was only one voice in his head: I have to hand over the task first! Since Pei Xuanren is gone, let's find Zhang Jian. rushed into the quiet room where Pei Xuanren lived, and rummaged through the bookshelves to find the kind of incense stick that Pei Xuanren summoned Zhang Jian to go down to earth that day, but unfortunately he couldn't find it. recited Zhang Jian's name silently in his heart, but Siye was lonely, and there was still no movement......
After being busy and irritable, Zhang Lucai finally sat down in disappointment, and then recalled what Pei Xuanren's phantom had said just now. Pei Xuanren did not completely bid farewell to his teaching career, and completely stopped caring about Zhang Lu's studies, so he left a textbook. Zhang Lu found two bamboo baskets behind the bookshelves, lifted the lids, and stuffed them with bamboo slips—estimated to be more than 30 volumes.
He took out a roll of bamboo slips, untied the rope, and opened it to look at it, but he couldn't help but sigh in his heart: This era without paper is really annoying.
In fact, the Eastern Han Dynasty already had paper, and the commonly known as "Cai Lun papermaking" is not an invention, but an improvement. Before Cai Lun, the folk already had the most primitive paper, but because of the poor quality, it was not convenient to write, most of them were just used to wrap items, and some people used it to wipe their buttocks. After Cai Lun's improvement, high-grade paper could be used for writing, but because of the high cost and small size, it was not quickly popularized.
At this time, the paper is a bit up and down, and the status is awkward. In terms of cost, it is much higher than bamboo slips and wooden slips, and in terms of quality, it is far inferior to silk silk, so the poor (relatively speaking) still use silk slips, and the rich would rather use silk silk, and only a few avant-garde people will use paper.
Of course, there is no silk silk on the top of Zhongding, and there is no paper, but it is full of bamboo wood, and it is relatively convenient to bake bamboo and cut wood. This time, all he left behind were bamboo slips that he had cut and roasted by himself, and kneaded them with hemp rope by hand - Zhang Luxin said that this thing would inevitably fall apart if he couldn't read it three or five times.
The first volume of bamboo slips can be regarded as the general outline of this textbook, mainly pointing out how Zhang Lu should go on the next path of cultivation, what issues need to be paid attention to at each stage, and then a list of books is listed, explaining which of Pei Xuanren's books are just idle books, and which ones are really of guiding significance for practice. At the end of the volume, Pei Xuanren also left a message saying that this time he ascended to heaven and became an immortal, he first had to familiarize himself with the heavenly environment, understand whether he still had a road to go next, whether there was a new practice, and when everything was settled, he would go down to earth to meet Zhang Lu again - of course, how much time it would take, Pei Xuanren himself could not say, and he could not be sure whether the speed of time in heaven and on earth was the same, if it was different, who was faster and who was slow, and what the relative ratio was.
You can see this scroll of bamboo slips when you open it, but the latter ones are different, Zhang Lu must inject a certain strength of true qi before he can open the book and read it—that is to say, at what stage of cultivation he has reached, which volumes of textbooks can he read, and it is not allowed to preview in advance.
But more than 30 rolls of bamboo slips, Zhang Lu tried them one by one, and as a result, he opened more than 10 rolls in one go. According to the text left by Pei Xuanren, he could only read nearly half of the textbooks if he broke through the foundation building period and entered the refining period. Zhang Lu came to the conclusion from this that he had indeed made a breakthrough in the realm after Zuo Ci's "Lingtai Mirage". So I pulled aside all the bamboo slips related to qi refining, and I will study the Divine Passage Method first.
Zhen has never been on the Zhongding, probably because he can't attach the body of Pei Xuanren, who is already an earth immortal, but now there is only one Zhang Lu left above the Zhongding, and he lacks a strong protector, so he is a little weak. Yes, there is no second person on Zhongding now, but who knows if he will attach whose body, and then penetrate the clouds and mist, and climb up? At that time, he is cultivating his qi, and his spirit is not released, and he is almost in a state of complete defense, and he is likely to be poisoned. Zhang Jian said that he would come to the rescue when there was a crisis, who knows if his words will be done accurately?
Therefore, striking iron must also be hard, and it is more important than anything else to master a certain amount of Taoist supernatural powers.
The supernatural powers of Yu Ji and Zuo Ci are mainly biased towards the use of information, especially the illusion department - Liu Gen is the same - Zhang Jujun and Xuan Jian are also in the information category, but they are mainly prophecy......
Zhang Lu regretted it a little, he knew that he would hurry back and not see Pei Xuanren for the last time, and Zhang Jian refused to show up, so it was better to follow Bujue and go to Suishan to visit his teacher Ruan Qiu. The plastic energy department has a strong attack magic, if you want to deal with it, how many big fireballs will be stronger than what? It's really not good, you can also go to the Nine Doubts Mountain with Bai Que Er to visit Du Lanxiang and try to learn some protective spells.
As for Pei Xuanren's cultivation, he attaches more importance to laying the foundation and guiding the qi, and puts the magic power in a second-class position, but it does not mean that the use of the magic power is completely rejected, and according to the D&D system, it can be classified into the change system. The change system is practiced to the high end, and it is said to be able to "turn stones into gold", that is, to completely change the properties of matter. Zhang Lu didn't crave gold, but when he thought about it, if he could smelt a linen cloth into a golden silk armor and an ordinary long sword into a dark iron heavy sword, would he still be afraid of any invasion?
From this, it is further reasoned that the change system is also the best at refining weapons and making treasures, but it is a pity that that part of the content cannot be opened or read with Zhang Lu's current level.
Wait, the D&D system is trained to the highest level, and it can interfere with time and space, I don't know if my faction can do it......