The book continues from the previous chapter, and Mu Qingshan listens to the giant in a daze and continues to tell the story he knows:

After a few days, Wu Xian Tianshi had returned to his residence, remembered the order of the Queen Mother of the West, got up early, went out of the highest peak of Wu Mountain, called a disciple, drove on the auspicious clouds, and carefully checked where the vase had drifted.

The name of the Wuxian Heavenly Master's mount is called the Pig, the legend is that it is the son of the dragon, it is as big as an ox, the appearance is similar to a unicorn, the whole body has thick black hair, the eyes are bright and spirited, there is usually a single horn on the forehead, there are wings, can distinguish the straight, because there is only one horn, also commonly known as the unicorn.

Wu Xiantian's apprentice's mount is an eagle vulture, called the Divine Eagle.

This wizard's apprentice is a chick who has only been receiving it for a few years, his qualifications are not too high, and he can't learn the method of witchcraft, but in terms of serving tea and water, he is very diligent and fast, and he doesn't say much.

The two immortals and four golden eyes of the master and apprentice scanned the three mountains and five mountains, the four seas and five lakes, and the hundred rivers and thousands of rivers, and turned around for a few days, but there was no trace of the vase. He was about to go home, when suddenly, the disciple pointed to the distance and said, "Master, you see that remote place, there are a few bright lights, but the vase has fallen to the ground and has fallen to pieces." ”

Wu Xian Heavenly Master was thinking about how to go back to prevaricate the shrewd Queen Mother of the West, so he said, "Go over and have a look." ”

When I got to the bright spot, I had already arrived at the cloud top where the Wuling Mountains and the Da Lou Mountains intersected.

After looking at it for a moment, Wu Xian Heavenly Master smiled and said, "Sure enough. I expected that when the vase fell, the wind was blowing wine, causing a strong wind, and the vase grew when it saw the wind, and the longer it grew, the more it grew, but fortunately, it fell in this desolate place, otherwise, I would have been responsible for what I said in front of my mother. However, if I fall to pieces, even if I am an old immortal, where can I recover?"

"What then?" said the apprentice worriedly.

"What should I do? ”

Wu Xian Tianshi looked at the mountains and rivers below, and suddenly said, "It's a coincidence!"

"What's the coincidence?"

"The place where the vase landed was a forbidden shrine of the Queen Mother of the West. Presumably, those who are confined inside, several of your senior brothers, have already died. ”

Wu Xian Heavenly Master did not guess wrong, this forbidden god palace of the Queen Mother of the West is a dark lake, and the facilities and equipment in it are not complete, but under the thick earth, there is no daylight, and there is a long dark river connected to the outside world. The little fairy god and his co-defendant who committed the crime were temporarily detained here before the rebellion, a bit like today's detention center.

The son of the witch who broke into the catastrophe, Wu Xi, the benevolent beast and the god Wu have just been escorted into the forbidden god palace, and are introducing each other to the criminals who came in before, after the five elements of the landscape map of the imperial vase fell from the garden of the Queen Mother of Kunlun Mountain, it was encountering a strong wind, seeing the wind was there, drifting west in the east of the wind, and after many days, it had just fallen to the world, and it was falling on the top of the forbidden god palace, and the bottom of its gossip shape smashed out a big hole, and the witch who was forbidden in it, The benevolent beast god and the apprentices of the Ten Witches of Lingshan who were previously sent here by the Wuxian Heavenly Master were stoned to death, and the souls flew out and turned to the human world. That big hole is the sinkhole.

When the apprentice saw the sinkhole and knew that the senior brothers had been stoned to death, he couldn't help but shed tears.

"What are you crying about, O vain? You have followed me for a few years, and you have achieved nothing, so it is better to go down and refine a few serious pills, and then I will be of great use. ”

"Please ask Master for advice. ”

"The five elements vase, the fragments after falling, happened to splash on several nearby mountains, so that those mountains have the number of five elements, if you take the essence of the five mountains, you can refine into Dan. ”

The disciple was displeased and said, "Master came to visit me again." ”

Wu Xian Tianshi said with a smile: "It's because you are not good at learning and refining some things that are not good, but you have to blame me." How many times have I visited you?"

"Those five mountains, the location of gold, wood, water, fire and earth is not a unified system, how can you refine a good pill?"

"Say that you are not good at learning, and you have to be stubborn! Although the position of the five shapes is not correct, its nature has been completed. Give you ten years, that is, more than three years in the world, to refine the Baodan, and come back to see me on time. ”

The apprentice was overjoyed and made an appointment with the master to see him again.

Wu Xian Tianshi went to the Queen Mother of the West, saying that the vase had been broken, no living beings were injured, and the flower seeds were scattered, and the Queen Mother of the West was very regretful.

Wu Xian Tianshi said: "The old ones don't go, the new ones don't come, the flower seeds are just the middle grade among the best, and the mother doesn't have to regret it." ”

The Queen Mother of the West smiled and said, "That's it, that's it, just let those flowers be the best in the world." After many years, in the water of Dan, Baguo, sixteen flower-like beauties were conjured (see Chapter 13 of this book, "Autumn Dream of Bamboo Branches").

Besides, Wu Xiantianshi's apprentice, pressed the low clouds, and searched the mountains and rivers near the vase landed, but he couldn't find a good place for alchemy.

Go down to the sky above an unnamed mountain, this mountain was later called the Tiger Mountain by the Ba people, and there is a Taotao Forest Sea (note: later called the Ten Thousand Winds Forest Sea by the Ba people) in the distance, and there is a grass flat land in it, and he said happily: "There is just the erection type." ”

The Heavenly Master and Apprentice urged the mount Condor to land quickly.

The eagle was overjoyed when he heard this, and he was in a hurry for a while, and a fierce son went down, and then there was a sudden brake when he landed, and Wu Xiantian's master and apprentice were planted in an instant, and fell on a small grass pile.

Wu Xiantian's apprentice got up, was furious, and shouted at the divine eagle: "What the hell! I don't want to see you again, get out of here!"

When the eagle saw that he had left his master, he increased his temper, changed his servile nature, and really lost his temper, and when he was angry, he really flew into the sky, circled for a week, and left him.

Only then did the disciple realize that not all slaves were like him, and scolded angrily: "Joke! I have never drunk the east wind, I have not drunk the west wind! You think I can't ride the clouds!"

After getting off the haystack, Master Wu Xiantian saw that there was a fault rock layer about 20 zhang high and more than 30 zhang wide behind this flat land, and the stone wall was flat, and he said to himself: "You can lay out the map here." ”

The Heavenly Master and Apprentice first went to the stone wall and laid down a picture of alchemy gossip. Before the Dan furnace was erected, a voice was suddenly heard: "Ouch!

Wu Xiantian Master and Apprentice said secretly: "How can anyone speak?"

Shouting: "Who's talking!"

"Little brother, you just flew down and smashed me on the back, the old man can't stand it!"

The Heavenly Master and Apprentice hurriedly turned around, he saw that the grass where he had just landed moved, and then he got up, thinking that something dared to pretend to be strange in front of me, so he could play it, but he saw that it was a giant turtle, and his back was covered with grass, Wu Xiantian Master and Apprentice exclaimed: "Who are you?"

The giant tortoise said, "Brother, you have forgotten me. Many years ago, the birthday meeting was held in Changyang Mountain, where the sun and the moon landed, and I remember that Wu Xian Tianshi also went to drink to congratulate, and you also followed behind your buttocks.

"At that time, I was too far away, I walked for several years to arrive, and I was late, and the old turtle king of the West Sea was already sitting on the table. I asked him how long he was going to live, and he said he was 102,000 years old, and I said, 'I am still a few days away from being 106,000 years old, so this seat is mine.' Unexpectedly, he said, 'You are too late, and you deserve to be punished.'"

Of course, I couldn't let go of my old face, so I argued with him. He actually splashed saliva in my face, and I was so angry that I raised my leg and kicked it. It's a coincidence, just that kick, he was actually kicked in the stomach and died.

"When this misfortune happened, the Queen Mother of the West, in a fit of rage, sent me to this place to suffer. When I got here, the scenery was very good, but there was no water, and there was nothing to talk about, so I had to sleep all day. Only this time, I've been sleeping for decades, so grass grows on my back. ”

"Oh, I remember. Look at your bird's head and snake tail, is your brother the king of the Xuan Turtle on the mountain of Qiyang?"

"Exactly. ”

"When the eagle heard that I was going to stay in the world for many years, he was unhappy, so he deliberately made me angry!

The old turtle said: "It's okay, my thick shell is a thing." As long as someone can talk, you can spit in my face. ”

"That's good. I'm not trying to slash you, you don't have to think about it at the time, the king of the turtle in the West Sea is a relative of the Queen Mother of the West, what are you doing climbing mountains and wading through rivers to compete with him for fame?"

"It is exactly, I have lived in a trance for more than 100,000 years, and I have figured it out when I am about to come. ”

The two recounted some old things that had been old for 80 years, and Master Wu Xiantian said, "Is there a two-legged walk here?"

"There are a lot of birds. ”

"I'm talking about not being able to fly. That thing is best to look at. ”

The old turtle said: "Understood." Brother, it's not strange for you to say it, listen to the seniors, people are slowly changed from orangutans, and they change when they change, and they just take off their good hair, and they have to find leaves to keep warm, isn't it too troublesome?"

Wu Xiantian Master said with a smile: "It's all smart and wrong. ”

Old Turtle Dao: Here, there are no people. It's just that birds and beasts often come here to feed, and I rarely care about him, so I can't rest on my back. ”

Master Wu Xiantian thought: "During my alchemy here, I have been in the world for thousands of years, and it is inevitable that there will be many living creatures to disturb me, where can I get pure?" "Say goodbye to the giant tortoise.

It's rare for a giant tortoise to see an old friend, how can I bear to be separated for a while, and the old tears are rampant.

Master Wu Xiantian comforted: "Brother, don't be sad, when I find a place for alchemy, I will come to see you often." ”

The old turtle said: "I have one last question." ”

"Please. ”

The old turtle said, "When will I be able to return to my hometown?"

Wu Xiantian's apprentice said: "To tell you the truth, I don't know. ”

The old turtle said: "The old man understands that the secret of heaven cannot be revealed. ”

Later, this giant tortoise ran to Lin Yunguan and was taken in by the Yue people, and now he is accompanied by Du Qinglian, a Shu man (see Chapter 021 of this book, "The Descent of the Sinkhole").

After the separation, Wu Xiantian Master and his apprentice continued to look for the ideal place for alchemy.

On this day, Wu Xiantian's master and apprentice drove a canoe to swim Pangu Lake.

The disciple saw the lake and mountains, the blue waves rippling, and saw the lakeshore mountainside, there is a hole, walk in, the strange stones in it or stand or hang, check the whole hole, and be overjoyed: "If you don't do alchemy here, where will you stay?"

Wu Xiantian's apprentices were on a small platform in the cave, made a method, set up a Dan furnace, and first took the nearest fine stone and exercised it. I don't know how many days and nights have passed, it is estimated that the pill in the furnace has gradually been achieved, and when I take it out, I am disappointed: "There are too many impurities." ”

The Heavenly Master and Apprentice threw the waste pill back into the furnace, closed his eyes and summarized what was wrong, and suddenly realized in his heart: "The five elements are mutually reinforcing and mutually reinforcing, and the five pills must be refined together to balance yin and yang."

Wu Xiantian's master and apprentice were overjoyed, took the essence stones in the five mountains, and restarted the refining, and it went well.

Seeing that the great work was about to be completed, the disciple thought: "Master often says that my understanding is not high, and I must take the essence stone from the top of the five mountains and refine five swords. ”

So he began to refine his sword again.