Zhang Lu held the piece of rice paper, looked up and down, left and right, and raised his head for a long time: "Good words." Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info"

"Thanks for the compliment," the bald man picked up a cigarette again, "brother, I've practiced too." ”

"So what does that mean ......"

"If I'm not mistaken – of course, that's not possible...... Oh, I mean, I couldn't be wrong. Brothers, your surname is Zhang, you look at this 'long man holding a bow', the left bow is long and the right is long, which happens to be a Zhang character. And the left text and the right knife, that is the word Liu - I guess that you recently had a conflict with a person surnamed Liu, and you even beat people ......"

"Please, is the golden knife Liu?"

"That's traditional Chinese, I see that you don't look like Hong Kong and Taiwan compatriots, do you like to use traditional Chinese? Anyway, do you think I'm right, have you ever beaten someone surnamed Liu?"

Zhang Lu couldn't help but think of Liu Gen - "Yes, yes, but that was many, many years ago......"

As far as his sense of time is concerned, it should have been less than a month ago, but if you observe it from the outside, it must be more than 2,000 years......, right?" It's too much of a mouthful, right?"

The big man pouted: "You see, you young people, you are instinctively suspicious of everything. Then why didn't I dismantle the king, why didn't I dismantle Li, and I dismantled the character Liu in particular? Do you dare to say that you haven't beaten a person surnamed Liu, and you beat him quite hard?"

Zhang Lu couldn't answer, he couldn't help but turn his head, his eyes swept left and right, and he sighed for a long time: "Even if you're right, it's a thing of the past after all, can you count the future?"

The big man stiffened his neck, and his expression was quite smug: "Of course." As he spoke, he stretched out his hand, pulled Zhang Lu's wrist stiffly, palmed up, and looked at it for a while, and then pulled out the golden abacus from under the counter, and said to himself while pulling: "Jiazi is born, Yihai Yue ......"

Zhang Lu couldn't help laughing: "Face to face, look at palmistry, plus Liuren, brother, you have a lot of fun." ”

The big man didn't raise his head, continued to dial the abacus, and said in his mouth: "The process is not important, as long as the result is correct." Then there was a "snap" and slapped the abacus on the table, which scared Zhang Lu a lot - "What's the matter?"

"Worked it out. ”

"The result?"

"You're going to die. ”

Zhang Lu couldn't help but show a sneer on his lips: "Actually, I've already died once, have you counted it?"

Dahan also smiled: "Of course." ”

"Why did I die?"

"It doesn't count. ”

"You can count what I know, and you don't know what I don't know......" Zhang Lu showed a wry smile on his lips, and suddenly lowered his head.

"What's wrong?"

"A little dizzy......" Then Zhang Lu slowly raised his head and stared at the big man in front of him, "I suddenly realized just now that since I almost stole my mobile phone on the subway, all the things I have experienced are very continuous, but what I haven't experienced, such as chasing the beggar, and now talking to you, my consciousness is vague, and I always jump, like a fragment......"

The big man looked at him with a smile, but did not speak.

Zhang Lu turned his head and looked at the thick stack of books on the counter: "You are on the edge of the Lama Palace, but all the books you sell are Taoist books, is there a Buddhist scripture?" ”

The big man didn't look back, he took out the "Heart Sutra" and put it in front of Zhang Lu.

"So thick...... This must be hundreds of pages, right? How many annotations have been inserted? Even if you add a vernacular translation, you can make up enough pages to ......" Zhang Lu stretched out his hand and wanted to open the book, but was held down by the big man with a slap: "You have figured it out, why bother to confirm it?"

"What if it's confirmed?"

"Will wake up. ”

Zhang Lu smiled: "You don't want me to wake up?"

Dahan also smiled: "Don't worry, we can talk a little more." ”

"Who the hell are you?"

"Who else can I be in your own fantasy? I am you, according to the immortal family, I am your spiritual platform, according to what we are used to, I am your subconscious. Pei Xuanren can't understand the nagging, I'll analyze it, but the surface consciousness and the deep consciousness have to be combined, emotion and reason have been integrated, and the cultivation of the mind can be regarded as home. Now you can see me, congratulations, it's not far from becoming an immortal. ”

"Looks like someone gave me a chance?"

"Looks like ......"

Zhang Lu smiled first: "No wonder I see that your abacus is not good, because I have been throwing this thing away for more than 20 years." But he still didn't understand: "Since you are me, why do you want to appear as bald and strong?"

Dahan shrugged his shoulders: "Haven't you always been annoyed that you are not burly enough? As for the bald head...... If you don't want a beard, it's normal not to have hair. As he spoke, he lit a third cigarette.

"I've quit smoking for a long time. ”

"You've smoked once, and dare you say you haven't thought about it since?"

Zhang Lu didn't answer and changed the topic: "So, did I fall into the 'Lingtai Mirage'?"

"That's why I say I'm your altar. ”

"Hello, Brother Lingtai," Zhang Lu raised his eyebrows, "It's comfortable to talk to yourself." ”

"Because you're narcissistic. ”

"If you can say that I am narcissistic, it means that I am not narcissistic. ”

"King Liang Hui also said, 'The widow is sick, and the widow is lustful', he is really lustful. ”

Zhang Lu sighed softly: "Estimate all this...... You have to really cultivate to become an immortal to figure it out. ”

"Don't worry," Dahan comforted him, "Even if you can't really live forever, you can live with heaven and earth, and you have a lot of time to explore the mysteries of the universe...... Also explore the mystery of connecting yourself. As he spoke, as Zhang Lu expected, he slowly retracted the hand that was pressed on the Heart Sutra.

Zhang Lu said "BYE", and then opened the first page of the "Heart Sutra", only to see that there was no preface, no table of contents, only two lines of big characters: "Color is not different from emptiness, emptiness is not different from color, color is empty, emptiness is color." No way, the Heart Sutra is the only Buddhist scripture he remembers, and these two sentences are the only content of the Heart Sutra that he remembers. It is impossible for something that you don't know at all, an article that you haven't read at all, to appear in your own hallucinations, although the subconscious mind can be created, but it can't cover up the loopholes all over the body, and the shallow consciousness can easily puncture the illusion.

The premise, of course, is that the shallow consciousness is aware that this is an illusion.

Zhang Lu stumbled, and then stood firm. He suddenly turned his head and stared at the Qingzhi scholar who was pushing him: "What do you mean?"

The man was stunned: "The son woke up early." ”

"But all of a sudden, whether it's early or late?" I was just pushed and stumbled for a while, and then went to the illusion for a long time, did I wake up quickly? If I wake up later, don't you want to lie face down on the ground?

The scholar smiled and said: "Although I don't know what Qing has experienced, the law is applied by myself, waking up early and waking up late, I can know it - waking up late is confused, waking up early is close to enlightenment." As he spoke, he took a step back, put his hands together, and took a deep look: "Because I see that the son is extraordinary, I will try my ear." I should apologize for not saying anything about trying first. ”

Zhang Luyi frowned, and the first thing that came to mind was to ask: "Ziyun: 'Jun is not a person in the world, and the fate is here?' What does this mean?"

The other party replied with a smile: "But the words, first mess up the Qingzhi, but you can try each other." ”

It turned out to be just casual nonsense, and I thought he really saw through the essence of my traverser. Zhang Lu couldn't help but secretly breathe a sigh of relief, and then thought, who is this person? Liu Gen is also a famous earth immortal, and he is good at illusion, using his little bit of poor imagination to create illusions, I can see through it in a few minutes; this person himself does not create illusions, but stimulates my deep consciousness and weaves illusions on my own, causing me to take half a day to wake up—that should be the profound illusion called "Lingtai Mirage" mentioned by Pei Xuanren - so it is easiest for me to deceive myself. This person is so powerful, could it be said that he is looking for Nanhua Immortal Yu Ji?

"Earl Zhang Luzi of Mi County. Dare to ask for your name. ”

"Don't dare," the other party nodded his nose, "I am from Lujiang, Zuo Ciyuan is also." ”

When Zhang Lu heard this, his eyebrows couldn't help but twitch - he had the impression that the name Zuo Ci was often listed as the four major demon NPCs along with Yu Ji, Guan Ke, and Nanhua Laoxian in the Three Kingdoms game. I wanted to find Yu Ji, but I recruited Zuo Ci, and I am also proficient in illusion, this thing is really weird, could it be that after Liu Gen, before meeting Yu Ji, he arranged another trial of illusion for himself?

"Why did you try me?"

Zuo Ci smiled: "I want to find a teacher for Qing." ”

Zuo Ci Zuo Yuanfang was born in the second year of Emperor Huan's eternal life, more than ten years older than Zhang Lu, originally a native of Lujiang, a young Ming Five Classics, and a warp and weft. When he was only 14 years old, he sighed and said: "At this time of declining luck, those who are high in rank are in danger, and those who have more money are dead." When the world is prosperous, it is not enough to be greedy. So he threw away the red dust and entered Tianzhu Mountain to visit the teacher and cultivate. A few years later, Yu Ji traveled to Tianzhu Mountain, and saw Zuo Citian's strange resources, which were rare in a hundred years, so he accepted him as a disciple and taught him all the Taoism.

According to Zuo Ci, three years ago, Yu Ji crossed Tianzhu Mountain again, and saw that Zuo Ci had reached the peak of refining the truth, and he was one foot away from the end of the day, so he shouted violently: "You are not a person in the world, but you are limited by the world?" Zuo Ci tossed in the illusion for more than ten days, and then finally woke up, and was able to break through the bottleneck and join the ranks of earth immortals.

Yu Ji recently summoned him that he was going to Wuhui to preach the Fa, and ordered Zuo Ci to come to greet him and wait for the master and apprentice to meet. Zuo Ci happily left Tianzhu Mountain and crossed the river to the south, but he didn't know where his master would go, so he simply walked around as he wanted - his master's inheritance was originally based on the method of entering the world to assist in cultivating his mind, so playing Hongchen was the homework he had to do in the next stage.

Turning around, he came to Wucheng, got acquainted with the Yan Baihu brothers, temporarily took refuge in Yanjiazhuang Courtyard, and pointed out the cultivation methods of the two brothers by the way. Yesterday night, Zuo Ci suddenly had a whim, so he secretly learned a lesson, knowing that someone came to Wuhui to visit Master Yu Ji, so he deliberately waited with the Tao today.

With Zuo Ci's ability, as soon as he saw Zhang Lu, he knew that this was the person he was waiting for, and he was also a cultivator. After a closer look, this young man's foundation building has been completed, and he almost can't get involved in refining the truth, so he can't help but say that I will help him. In this way, he copied the tricks that Yu Ji played that day, and used the "Lingtai Mirage".

There are many types of illusions, "Lingtai Mirage" is a more profound, but also more specific type of spell, to put it bluntly, it is to stimulate the person's outer Lingtai (forehead), release the person's inner Lingtai (heart), and let the other party weave their own illusion, so as to wrap themselves in. I think that the illusions that Liu Gen used on Zhang Lu that day, the basic content and situation were woven by the caster himself, and the caster also participated in them - so Zhang Lu punched Taishan Fujun in the face, and as a result, Liu Gen was knocked down and his method was broken. To put it bluntly, in this game, Liu Gen is the manufacturer and operator plus DM, with the highest authority, as long as he hangs, the game will crash immediately.

The "Lingtai Mirage" is different, the manufacturer is not the caster, but the recipient, and the caster just opens a private room for the other party to play by himself. There is no DM in the game, and the caster does not participate, control, or observe the content and process of the game. As Zhang Lu thought, he is the easiest to deceive himself, so once he is hit, it is only the interaction between his shallow consciousness and deep consciousness, and the interaction between his own reason and emotion, whether he can break through the encirclement, regardless of the skill of the practitioner and the recipient, purely depends on his own understanding.

The most important thing is that the caster of the "Lingtai Mirage" does not observe the illusion itself, which is equivalent to not snooping on other people's privacy - it involves the deep consciousness and inner world of the recipient, and if he does not tell him, it is really breaking the moral bottom line. It's hard to say whether the immortals talk about morality or not, since the earth immortals are still tossing and turning in the red dust, they can't act recklessly after all-that's why Liu Gen insults his parents, Zhang Lu will be so angry. If you really peep into people's privacy casually, then I'm afraid you will have a deep hatred that will not be solved to death, even if it is the relationship between father and son, master and apprentice, I am afraid it will not be able to offset it.

As soon as Zuo Ci roughly explained, Zhang Lu also understood, dare to love you as Yu Ji's disciple, no wonder the illusion is so slippery. He said in his heart that it was a "Lingtai Mirage", you don't know what I saw in the illusion, otherwise would you be scared to pee on the spot? Even if you have cultivated to the earth immortal, you don't have the slightest concept of mechanical civilization, and suddenly you see the subway roaring by, and there are buses, taxis, and private cars all over the ground, I'm afraid even Zhang Jian and they will be dumbfounded for a long time, right?

In these years, there is neither the concept of time travel nor the concept of aliens, how would Zuo Ci conceive of this?

Although Zuo Ci cast a spell on himself without saying hello, he also apologized later, and as far as the result is concerned, it can be regarded as giving himself a chance to break through - as for whether there has been a breakthrough, he himself has not felt it - so Zhang Lu is not angry. In addition, Zuo Ci explained his identity and origin very clearly, Zhang Lu naturally couldn't help but repay the favor, and then explained his reason - "Lu was ordered by the teacher to visit the teacher and inquire about the source of the rumors." ”

Zuo Ci said that the origin of that rumor, Master also told me, but it was very vague, only said that it was obtained from the "Heavenly Abyss", and as for what the "Heavenly Abyss" is and where it is, only you can ask him in person. Why don't you follow me for the time being, I made an appointment with Master to meet at Wuhui, and sooner or later we can meet.

"Let's stay in the White Tiger Village first, how about it?"

Zhang Lu and Cao Cao have seen it, and they really don't have any desire to meet Yan Baihu, but since Zuo Ci is warmly invited, he has no choice but to give up. However, unexpectedly, in the courtyard of the White Tiger Village, he was once again troubled......