Chapter 9: Pointing to the Immortal Gate
readx;? The tunnel is more than ten miles long, and when everyone came in, they were worried about any danger in the tunnel, so they stopped and stopped, and it took two or three hours to enter the cave. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
Now Duguxin and Hengjiang are speeding all the way, and it only takes a moment to return to the beginning of the tunnel.
The bluestones blocking the other end of the tunnel have been blasted open by those who left first, leaving only a mess of rocks on the ground.
The sword light carried the two of them into the gap, and after a few breaths, they came to the ground.
As Dugu Xin let go of Hengjiang's palm and waved his arm again, the snow-white sword light disappeared immediately, and the two fell into the soft yellow sand.
The sun sets in the sky, sprinkling thousands of miles of afterglow.
Those Xianmen monks who took the lead in running out of the cave mansion have disappeared without a trace.
As far as the eye can see, there is no one around, only the desert is desolate, and the west wind is bleak.
Hengjiang has been underground for most of the day, and now that the sun shines, he only feels that his eyes are stinging. When he opened his eyes again, he found that Dugu Xin's eyes were closed, his face was pale, and the corners of his mouth were bleeding.
"I have already written the letter of recommendation you want, as long as you take the letter of recommendation to the Xuanming Dojo, you can become a scribe of the Xuanming Dojo. ”
Dugu Xin wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, took out an envelope, and handed it to Hengjiang.
"Thank you. ”
Yokoe took the recommendation and stuffed it into his arms. He looked as usual on the surface, but his palms were trembling slightly.
He left the city at the age of seven and spent ten years wandering the world.
When he returned to the market at the age of seventeen, Hengjiang was already scarred, how many people knew about the hardships and bitterness of the past ten years?
After three years in the market, Hengjiang is only for a wisp of immortality.
The moment the recommendation arrived, Hengjiang's heart was filled with infinite joy. But just a moment later, there was an infinite sigh, presented in Hengjiang's heart.
Yokoe knows that when people are young, it is the golden time to study and seek Taoism.
This year, Yokoe is 20 years old.
He only found a wisp of immortal fate at the age of twenty, and Dugu Xin, who was standing in front of him, was only seventeen or eighteen years old, and already had a formidable strength.
Yokoe missed the best boyhood, and only at the age of twenty did he get the fairy fate and have the opportunity to become a scribe in the Xuanming Dojo. It's like an illiterate person who wants to study, but he doesn't have to wait until he is 20 years old to get a chance to read and write! If he wants to become a full-fledged disciple of the Xuanming Dojo, he has to go through an examination.
The past is like smoke, and many pictures in his memory, like countless lightning bolts, flashed in Hengjiang's mind, making the smile on Hengjiang's face more and more indifferent, vicissitudes, and lonely......
Dugu Xin suddenly asked, "Are you happy?"
Yokoe nodded and said indifferently, "Happy." ”
"I thought you'd be cheering, but I didn't expect you to be so calm. ”
Dugu Xin smiled in surprise and asked again: "Now that you have the immortal fate in hand, what are your plans for your life after becoming a scribe and after becoming a disciple of the Xuanming Dojo?"
Hengjiang's eyes froze, and he said: "The road is long and long, the road is long, and I will go up and down to seek!"
Dugu Xin's eyes were stunned, he looked up at the sunset sinking in the west, he didn't know what he was thinking in his heart, his body shook slightly, as if he was drowsy.
Smack!
Xuanming's sword seal slipped from Dugu Xin's palm.
Immediately afterwards, Dugu Xin's body swayed and fell on the yellow sand.
"Dugu Xin!"
Yokoe shouted, and suddenly heard the buzzing sound of dragonfly wings flapping.
His expression changed in shock, and he quickly picked up the Xuanming Sword Seal, stuffed it into Dugu Xin's arms, and then carried Dugu Xin on his back, and ran away!
Countless blood-colored dragonflies flew out of the yellow sand, like locusts all over the sky, and there were countless ......
When he was running wildly, Hengjiang turned his head behind him to look at it, and he was suddenly shocked to break out in a cold sweat all over his body, and his body was cold, but his steps were not a little messy, but he ran faster.
In a hurry, Hengjiang didn't notice that when he stuffed the Xuanming sword seal into Dugu Xin's arms, Dugu Xin's eyes flashed with murderous intent, nor did he notice that when he was sweating and smelling of sweat, Dugu Xin's slender eyebrows wrinkled slightly......
As he ran, the buzzing sound in Hengjiang's ears gradually weakened, and he even heard a hoarse roar and scream.
He looked back again and saw a puff of green smoke from the blood-colored dragonfly flying in the air in the sun.
After the green smoke cleared, the blood color on the dragonfly's body also disappeared, and the shell fell to the ground, blown by the west wind in the desert, and the body turned into sand and dust and dissipated, leaving only an empty skeleton support, lying in the sand like a dead branch.
In the direction of the tunnel in the distance, countless dragonflies flew out one after another, and the moths chased towards the Hengjiang River like a fire, but they were covered in green smoke by the sun, and then fluttered and fell.
"It turns out that these dragonflies are afraid of the sun, and they will die when they are exposed to the sun!"
Yokoe gasped for breath and walked away in the direction of the setting sun. And Dugu Xin, who was lying on Hengjiang's back, had already quietly opened his eyes.
It wasn't until after dark that Yokoe came to the foot of a sheltered stone mountain, stopped, and put Dugu Xin on the ground, while he himself leaned on a stone, gasping for breath.
The night wind gusts, flying sand and rocks.
Hengjiang's bones seemed to be scattered, his whole body was sore, exhausted, and he said weakly: "This place is more than ten miles away from the tunnel, if those dragonflies are not all sunburned to death, and chase after them, you and I will definitely die." Dugu Xin, if we really die, don't blame me, I did my best anyway. ”
Dugu Xin opened his eyes, stood up, and asked, "Do you know I'm awake?"
Yokoe nodded and said, "There was a broken stone just now, and when the wind blew on your face, your eyebrows moved a few times. ”
"You're as careful as a hair. ”
Dugu Xin took out two pills from his sleeve, ate one by himself, gave the other to Hengjiang, and said: "I am seriously injured and weak, why don't you abandon me, if you run alone, you will definitely run faster." ”
Hengjiang took the pill in one bite, with a faint smile on the corner of his mouth, and said, "You have never abandoned me, why should I abandon you?"
Dugu Xin looked stunned, not knowing how to answer.
Hengjiang saw that Dugu Xin didn't speak, so he told about meeting Gu Xiao and Zhuge Jing, and asked what the effect of the I Ching Bone Strengthening Pill was.
"I Ching Bone Strengthening Pill has the effect of dredging the meridians and strengthening the bones. The effect of this pill is domineering, after ordinary people eat it, the medicinal power will run rampant in the body, like a burning fire, until half a day later, the domineering medicinal power gradually becomes calm, and the feeling of burning the body will slowly disappear. In another half year or so, the medicinal power will be completely digested by the body, making your qi and blood vigorous, helping you to cultivate your foundation and strengthen your foundation, which is at least worth your three years of penance. After you ate this pill, you were able to endure the pain of burning all over your body, and ran for more than ten miles with me on your back, your perseverance is really ...... It's daunting. ”
With a hint of amazement in Dugu Xin's eyes, he was about to say more, but found that Hengjiang had fallen asleep, and could only hear the sound of even breathing in his nose.
With the body of a mortal, carrying a person on his back, trekking for more than ten miles, Hengjiang is really too tired.
There was no word all night, and the blood dragonfly that Dugu Xin was worried about did not reappear.
Early the next morning, the two set off on their way.
Maybe it's because Gu Xiao's I Ching Bone Strengthening Pill has a long medicinal power, or maybe it's because Dugu Xin's healing pill is very effective.
Dugu Xin was too seriously injured, and he was not as fast as Hengjiang, and he didn't let Hengjiang help him, so the two stopped and stopped along the way. It wasn't until a few days later that Dugu Xin's heavy injuries slowly recovered, and the two walked faster.
The two of them didn't know where they were, so they could only move in one direction in the vast desert, but fortunately, both of them had eaten beauty fruits, but they would not die of hunger and thirst.
However, this time they walked together, although Duguxin didn't say much, the relationship between the two became more and more familiar, and they became quite friends.
After more than ten days like this, Dugu Xin's injuries were not healed and he still couldn't fly, but at the end of the two of them's sight, a desert oasis appeared.
There was a post station in the oasis, where several soldiers who managed the post house lived and some camels were raised.
Yokoe asked someone in the post station and knew that this oasis was called Crescent Bay.
With Hengjiang's understanding of the desert, when he heard the words Crescent Bay, he knew that he had come to a place seven hundred miles away from the market.
Obviously, the two of them walked all the way west in the desert, completely in the wrong direction, if they went all the way to the east, I am afraid that it will not take three days to return to the ruins.
The two of them slept in the open for more than ten days, and finally found the post station, so they decided to stay here for one night and rush to the market tomorrow.
The soldiers in the post station saw that Dugu Xin was wearing a cloud-patterned white robe, with a Xuanqi jade pendant hanging from his waist, and a high crown on his head, so he didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly brought up good wine and food.
When the soldiers saw that the two of them did not eat, they said that there was a well in the post station, and the well water was clear, and if you stood in the sun and poured the well water from head to toe, it would be very refreshing!
When the soldiers saw that the two were unmoved, they showed them the original one.
They ran to the well, took off their bare stripes and only their shorts, then twisted the bucket to draw water, poured it on their heads, and shouted "Cool"!
This scene is as happy as a fairy!
Dugu Xin frowned slightly and said, "You go." ”
Yokoe shook his head and said, "I'm not used to bathing in front of others. ”
Dugu Xin turned around and said, "Me too." ”
Hengjiang didn't say much more, but he said in his heart: "On this journey, I have been a wild man for more than ten days, how can I not want to take a bath? I don't want to take off my clothes in front of others, because I have a sail wrapped around me and don't want others to see it." Dugu Xin is not a woman, why doesn't he take off his clothes and take a bath, is he also wrapped in treasures?"
After resting in the inn for the night, the two bought camels and headed east.
When Yokoe returned to the market, it was mid-April. It has been more than a month since Hengjiang left the market.
The city walls are still mottled with vicissitudes, and the city gates are still dark and dilapidated.
Outside the city, there are thousands of miles of yellow sand, and there are few pedestrians, and the two of them ride camels and park on the sand dunes hundreds of meters outside the city.
Hengjiang did not enter the city directly, but asked Duguxin to go to the city first.
"The people of the market thought you were dead, and someone built a temple for you on Qingshi Street to enshrine your spiritual seat. As for the property you left in the ruins, most of them were handled according to your will, only one armory shop, which was once monopolized by a shopkeeper, but later the treasurer of the armory shop was jointly killed by other shopkeepers, and finally used seventy percent of the income to help the orphans, widows, the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled in the market. ”
Dugu Xin inquired in the city, and when he came to talk to Hengjiang again, his tone was already quite embarrassing, "People in the world are unpredictable, even if I declare that the dojo has strict precepts, it is inevitable that there will be some treacherous people. But those shopkeepers under you, even if they think you are dead, they can still act according to your will, which shows that you have a good way and far-reaching wisdom! If you were not born in an ordinary poor family, you have been displaced for more than ten years, and you have lost a good time, if you are like me, your parents are both Xianmen monks, and you have entered the door of cultivation early, but I am afraid that your achievements will no longer be under me. ”
"I have done unto others with faith, and men have done unto me with faith. ”
Hengjiang stared at the city gate and stone wall of the ruins, shook his head, and said, "If I were like you, born in a family of cultivators, and became the second generation of immortals in the mouth of mortals, maybe I would become a prodigal who was pompous and had nothing to do. ”
"I'm not a prodigal. ”
Dugu Xin snorted, but in his heart he was figuring out the word "Xinyi" that Hengjiang said.
Hengjiang smiled freely and said, "Which direction is the Xuanming Dojo in?"
Duguxin pointed to the southeast.
Yokoe turned around and strode towards the southeast.
Dugu Xin asked in a loud voice, "Hengjiang, you really don't plan to enter the city?"
"The immortal gate is in front, and the mortal dust is behind. I have been searching for more than ten years before I found a chance to enter the immortal gate, so I should go forward bravely and point to the immortal gate!"
Hengjiang didn't stop walking, didn't look back, and said loudly: "Brother Dugu, anyway, your injuries are not healed and you can't fly, are you willing to walk with me again this time?"
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