Chapter 49, the eternal soaring phoenix

Wang Zhen cast a "secret technique" on Zhang Lu, and Zhang Lu's first reaction: What about my body, my body is gone!

In fact, not only does he have no body, he may not even have a head—in just a moment, he completely loses control of his body, like a high paraplegic patient...... No, even if he is paraplegic, he can always feel his presence, he can feel his breathing, and maybe his heart beating, but at this moment, he can't feel anything at all on the material level!

But his consciousness was still clear, and it would be more accurate to describe it as if Wang Zhen had pulled his soul out of his body. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info is just that although he can't control his eyelids and eyeballs, he can still see and sense his ears, but he can still hear. Moreover, this kind of seeing and hearing is all-round, and the vision is the same as the hearing, which is enough to take care of all directions. It was as if he was watching a big movie with 3D surround sound, and as if he was like some animal, he instantly gained a 360-degree full viewing angle.

Of course, it's not really seeing with your eyes and listening with your ears -- what about my eyes? Where are my ears? -- it's seeing with your heart, listening with your heart...... Well, that's too literary, he's just been forced to stuff a series of images and sounds into his head.

Extreme Eyes...... It should be said that where the pseudo-vision can reach, there are no longer Qianmo, barnyard grass, tombs, and trees, but just a boundless void. Then the originally gray void suddenly opened up, and a red sun slowly rose, reflecting the surrounding sky in a clear blue. Yes, the heavens are endless, and they don't just cover the top, Zhang Lu can now observe the situation around the border in all directions, and he finds himself below - well, that's just an illusion of consciousness, since there is no body, how can he perceive up and down - there is no earth, the same sky is clear, and there are occasional floating clouds.

A man's words came from his ears: "The elder holds the bow, what is the one who is speaking? What is your name, Earl, and what is the relationship with the white bird? I want to wait for you to explore yourself, so as not to impact too strongly and damage your heart." However, now I have to talk to you, and I have to show you the truth—the root cause of which must be known in a moment. ”

The sound of these words is slightly similar to Wang Zhen, but they are not exactly the same, and vaguely carry the impression of another acquaintance, coupled with the fact that the words are not literate, Zhang Lu immediately recalled his taste - no wonder his name is Wang Zhen, and the word Zideng! The word "true" is explained in "Shuowen Jie Zi", that is, "the immortal transforms and ascends to the sky".

"Brother stab, why do you have to play?"

"It's not a joke, you know it after watching it. ”

Immediately, he saw a little bright red in the distant sky, and then this bright red quickly enlarged - in Zhang Lu's sense, it should be his consciousness flying towards the bright red at a very alarming speed, or on the contrary, the other party was rapidly approaching. Soon, the whole picture of the object was completely revealed in front of his "eyes".

It was a giant firebird...... In fact, the image of the phoenix has been basically formed in the Han Dynasty, and it has been described in the "Shuowen Jie Zi": "The elephant of the phoenix, the front and the back of the deer, the head and fish tail of the snake, the back of the turtle of the dragon, the beak of the swallow-jawed chicken, and the five-color preparation." But the firebird or phoenix in front of him is far less complicated than mortals think, it is simply a patchwork of animal parts—the real phoenix, which looks much more concise and bright.

In general, it is a large bird, similar to a bird, but with a crested head, a beak as sharp as a falcon, and a tail like a pheasant, but all the feathers are bright red and piercing, and they are still drifting and fluttering, as if they were made of flames. Since Zhang Lu has lost his physical body and his vision is "pseudo", he naturally can't rely on visual inspection to accurately judge the size of this phoenix, but he instinctively feels that it's too big, there shouldn't be such a creature in the world!

He remembered what kind of space whale he had seen in science fiction dramas, and it was estimated that this phoenix had such a large body, and the whole thing looked like an asteroid! And the posture of this phoenix was also very similar to that kind of space whale, although it spread its huge wings, it was not inciting, as if it was just gliding against the wind.

Getting closer, getting closer and closer, Zhang Lu suddenly found that there was a small gray-brown protrusion at the tip of the phoenix's wings, and when he got closer, he realized that it was actually two mountains! The phoenix faces the south and turns its back to the north, soaring forever, Kunlun and Zifu, and will not fall for ten thousand years. ”

"Kunlun Mountain...... Isn't that the abode of the legendary Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor?"

"Yes, Kunlun was made by Xuanyuan, and Xuanyuan was hidden, so it was taken by the Queen Mother of the West as her own. The Queen Mother and the Maharaja created this heavenly world together. ”

Zhang Lu roughly understood that what Zhang Jian was letting him see now was a part of the Heavenly Immortal Realm, a strange world jointly created by the Queen Mother of the West and the Prince of the East. This world is vast, and all living beings gather on the two immortal mountains supported by the wings of the fire phoenix - the Queen Mother of the West lives in Kunlun, and the Prince of the East lives in the Purple Mansion.

His consciousness is now moving rapidly towards Kunlun Mountain. This Kunlun is so high, it is estimated that even if it is not as good as the Himalayas, it will not be very far away, the mountains are lush, full of all kinds of herbaceous or woody plants that they have seen or have not seen, and occasionally see strange-looking small beasts jumping among the grass, and there are green or white birds shuttling through the forest - yes, this is a bit of a fairy posture, just when I saw the "Royal Dragon Pool" of Liu Ti, it is a fart!

- If you compare it with science fiction films, then Kunlun is like a big deal like "Avatar", and the Dragon Pool is only a five-cent special effect.

As you approach the top of Kunlun, you can see that there is a city built among the lush trees. There are no walls in this city, and the main body of the houses is built on towering trees, and some are even directly covered on the trees, which has the flavor of the elven city in Western fairy tales. There were many inhabitants of the city, all of them young and beautiful women, and at least they glanced over, and found not a single man-like man, nor an old man or child. Most of these women were white-skinned, with high noses and slightly sunken eye sockets, as they resembled Xinjiang people – the "Western Regions" as they were often referred to in those days – or a little bit of Altai ancestry, and their costumes were colorful and often decorated with bird feathers.

Then in the middle of the city, in one of the largest palaces on one of the largest trees, Zhang Lu met the Queen Mother of the West. In fact, it can't be regarded as a palace, because similar to other buildings in the city, the main body is built of wood, with leaves as tiles, covered layer by layer, and decorated with vines woven into patterns, which is pure and natural, but it looks a little shabby. In terms of appearance, the Queen Mother of the West is older than her subjects, estimated to be thirty years old, tall and plump, ********, and thoroughly mature woman. She wore a white robe, long curly hair, a crown of red feathers, a long tail of a beast around her waist, and a necklace of animal teeth around her neck......

"The Queen Mother attained enlightenment 10,000 years ago, so she can create this magnificent realm...... "Zhang Jian said don't look down on Liu Lei, he has a limited time to go to heaven, even if he wants to build a huge and beautiful residence, he must have that time, the immortal man-made world, not to say that he waved his hand, and said that it was accomplished-" The clothes he is dressed in are all the styles of 10,000 years ago. ”

Zhang Luxin said no wonder, I said how she dressed so primitively - "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" said: "The Queen Mother of the West is like a human, with a leopard tail and tiger teeth and a good roar, and a hoopoe ......with fluffy hair" It turns out that she really has a book, I don't know who wrote the book, and whether I have really seen the Queen Mother of the West?

Seeing that the Queen Mother of the West frowned slightly, she seemed to be worried, and then beckoned: "Blue Bird, I'll wait for the East to come." I saw a beautiful woman in a green shirt walking quickly to the queen mother's side, and then as soon as the queen mother took a step, she actually crossed an astonishing distance of almost a million miles and stepped directly on the purple mansion.

Zhang Lu's eyes also followed the Queen Mother and arrived at the Purple Mansion - this feeling is very strange, it is absolutely impossible to see it in the world, but he is used to seeing all kinds of montages and special effects in the movie and Zhang Lu, and he is not uncomfortable.

Zifu seems to be shorter than Kunlun, and it is also verdant, but according to Zhang Lu's observations, the vegetation species are more coastal. It's just a city at the top of the Purple Mansion, although the scale is smaller than Kunlun, but the style is much more advanced and brilliant. Most of the houses are made of earth, but when they are painted with chalk, they look unconventional, and some of them are made of stone, which has the feeling of ancient Greece and Rome.

The palace of the Eastern Maharaja is also made of stone, a bit like an ancient Roman temple, but there are no human sculptures to decorate, and it is similar to traditional Chinese architecture, except that there are no cornices and ridged beasts. The prince of the east had long been standing at the gate of the palace, waiting for the queen mother of the west, and at a glance, it was a middle-aged man, with a face like a crown of jade, a black beard and abdomen, his hair was not tied, his forehead was decorated with beautiful jade, and he was wearing a robe similar to a deep coat, but compared to the real deep coat, the placket was not long enough, only to the calf, and the sleeves were not wide enough.

Zhang Luxin said that the ancient Chinese 10,000 years ago used to be dressed like this...... I thought it would look like a cave man......

When the prince of the east saw the arrival of the queen mother of the west, he bowed his hand. The queen mother returned the salute, and then asked: "Does the prince know about the invasion of the immortal heaven by an invisible and intangible thing?"

The prince of the east nodded: "I heard a little." ”

The Queen Mother of the West smiled slightly bitterly: "I'm afraid it's difficult to stay out of the matter - the right wing of Tianfeng has already sprouted a gap......"

As soon as he said this, the two immortals disappeared in an instant along with the surrounding world, as if the camera was switched, and Zhang Lu saw another world again. It was an endless mountain that seemed to be connected to the end of the world, and the sky was clear, but there was no red sun or clouds. These mountains are not the same as Kunlun and Zifu, the mountains are all very dangerous, the strange rocks are craggy, the strange peaks stand side by side, or like human shapes, or like birds and beasts, or like pen holders, or like swords......

And most of these peaks are grayish-brown, rarely greenish. Zhang Lu's consciousness quickly approached a certain mountain peak, only to find that it was all stone mountains, only occasionally growing some small grass in the crevices of the rocks, or struggling to produce one or two rock pines.

Suddenly, a tall rock pine disappeared from Zhang Lu's eyes, as if the computer painting had been erased by the mouse, so abrupt that people were caught off guard. Immediately, not only the rock pine, but also the cliffs at the root of the rock pine were erased layer by layer......

"Yes?"

"Exactly. Let's see. ”

One mountain is gone, followed by another. Zhang Lu's vision followed the invisible "brushstroke", and then he saw that on the mountain peak opposite that was about to suffer, a figure of Zhuo Li suddenly appeared. It was an old man, with white beard, a bamboo crown, and a simple linen garment, tied around his waist with hemp rope. The old man's face was full of consternation, and he saw that he raised his right hand, and the palm of the hand was facing Zhang Lu, which was also facing the direction of the contribution.

The flight of Zhang Lu's consciousness stopped, and the erasure of Zheng also stopped at the same time.

Zhang Jian's words were in his ears again...... It should be said that it sounded in my mind: "This old man is Qiong Shu, this is the history of Zhou Zhifeng, and he obtained the Tao nine hundred years ago, and he is the teacher of Zhang Jujun of Taimur Mountain." In the mortal world, it is good to boil chalcedony to take it to support practice, so after ascending to heaven, he built this stone clock world to live. The first birth of the gap outside the sky, the first sight of the world, that is, in this stone clock world......"

Later, Zhang Jian showed Zhang Lu a lot of images, all of which were scenes of different immortal dwellings being invaded. However, Zhang Lu is not very interested in these, anyway, he has already heard about the basic situation, and he is used to watching later science fiction blockbusters, and he can't have the slightest sense of shock at the special effects that instantly erase the existence.

Besides, although the stone bell world is magnificent, compared to Kunlun and Zifu, the peculiarity of imagination and the grandeur of scale are not at all on the same order of magnitude, and the next worlds are not as good as the stone bell world.

Considering that the Queen Mother of the West and the Prince of the East have become immortals for more than 10,000 years, it is said that they are the oldest immortals who are qualified today-Pangu, Fuxi, Nuwa, Xuanyuan, or something earlier than them, and they have long been nowhere to be seen-then it is reasonable for the later generations of immortals to create dwellings that are not as elaborate as them. But Zhang Lu couldn't help but think: Is it true that with the progress of society and the development of culture, the imagination of human beings is gradually shrinking? It doesn't matter if you make a little smaller, but most of them are projections in the mortal world, so that there is no special creativity to show up, so that Lao Tzu can open his eyes?

However, in the end, Zhang Jian still showed a different heavenly world......