Chapter 20, go to Zhongzhou
The formation was completed, and the follow-up operation was handed over to the Ren family. Pan Long also left that information to Ren Changsheng so that it could be easily inspected and repaired.
He himself returned to Guangling City and told several of his close relatives and elders about the incident.
"So, when things settle down, I'm going to live in Suitao Mountain?" Grandpa Pan Shou touched the beard on his chin, looking a little unhappy, "I don't like to live in the mountains......"
"The top of Suitao Mountain is a blessed land, except that the place is not wide enough to ride a horse and gallop, the environment is no different from the ground. The climate is mild, the scenery is pleasant, and the flowers bloom all year round. Ren Yue persuaded, "If you are old and cultivate for some years, your martial arts may be able to go to the next level and become a real person in the future." Then change to Brother Lei to cultivate...... In a few years, the three generations of the Pan family will be passed on as a beautiful talk all over the world. β
"Don't joke, how can a real person master be so easy to cultivate! My in-laws are better than me, their cultivation is harder than mine, and their family's resources are more abundant than mine, so I still don't see any hope of cultivating into a real person, let alone me!" Pan Shou shook his head, disapproving.
"It never hurts to work hard. Pan Lei persuaded, "You are only in your early seventies this year, and you are still very young!"
"Are you still young in your early seventies?" Pan Shou shook his head with a smile, "How old is that?"
"The best...... Nature is immortality. Pan Long said.
Pan Shou laughed a few times and said, "Immortal...... Everyone wants to live forever, but how many people can do it in the end? What's more, immortality is not necessarily a good thing, and life and death are the norm in the world. I'm a bad old man, always dragging on and refusing to die, what's the point?"
As he spoke, he seemed to remember something, and suddenly became silent, and after a long time, he shook his head and turned to walk outside.
"Father!" Pan Lei couldn't help himself.
"Say no more. Pan Shou didn't look back, and said in a very casual tone, "When Ah Long gets married, my life's wish will be over." Even if it takes one more day in the future, it will be earned, so why pursue immortality?"
He walked farther and farther, and his voice gradually deepened: "What's more, living too long is actually not something to be happy about......"
Seeing him leave like this, the family of three looked at each other.
"Father-in-law, does he have anything on his mind?" asked Ren Yue.
"I'm going to ask. Pan Lei said, chasing out.
After a while, he came back and told his wife and son: "Father he doesn't want to leave his mother......"
Ren Yue and Pan Long were silently sad, and they couldn't think of any words of persuasion anymore.
Pan Shou's wife was not yet forty years old when she died, which can be described as an early death. Back then, when her physical condition was not very good, she often talked about wanting to leave the cold northland and go to the warm Central Plains to have a look. Later, Pan Shou resigned from his official position, put down everything, and accompanied her to the Central Plains.
When the spring flowers bloomed that year, she died in the Central Plains. Pan Shou buried her in an elaborate garden with a variety of flowers and trees that bloom all year round.
All these years, he lived in this garden and almost never left it, unless something happened.
Presumably, for him, if the price of immortality is to leave his wife, then he would rather die and be buried in the garden, and the husband and wife can be regarded as life and death......
Ren Yue and Pan Long knew these things. It's just that they thought that Pan Shou had become much more cheerful in the past few years, and maybe they had changed their minds.
Now it seems that Pan Shou's mind has not changed.
On the contrary, because his grandson is very good, beyond imagination, he feels that the burden on his body can be completely removed. After Pan Long's marriage is completed, he may live in seclusion in the garden for the rest of his life and never leave.
Even...... Perhaps, he may not live long.
Although the innate master can live to be one hundred and twenty years old, and he has also taken a life-prolonging elixir, it is estimated that he can live to be one hundred and forty or fifty years old. But if a person himself feels that he has fulfilled his wish and can die, then of course he is not far from death.
The more proficient you are, the more so.
But they can't think of this situation either.
There is no way to change people's minds, even if they are immortal immortals, Buddhas, demons, and gods, they can't let a person who has lost his desire for life continue to live - not to mention that Pan Long is just a real person.
Grandpa feels that his wish has been fulfilled, he feels that his life has come to this point, and he has lost his desire for life, what can he do about this kind of thing?
Unthinkable!
After a while, he said, "Maybe we can push the wedding a little later......
Ren Yue immediately reacted, thought about it, and said: "When choosing the auspicious day of the zodiac, it is more rigorous, and if the requirements are higher, it should be able to be delayed until August next year." But it is unrealistic to delay it any longer, this is already the specification of the auspicious day for the wedding of the Son of Heaven. β
"Then let's delay it until August next year!" Pan Lei immediately decided, "Maybe before then, things will take a turn for the better." β
Speaking of this, he reacted suddenly and looked at his son: "Ah Long, I'm going to wronged you......"
"What kind of grievance is this, it's just a matter of waiting a few more months. Pan Long smiled, "But I think we still have to find a way to get grandpa back on his feet in these few months." β
Pan Lei and Ren Yue nodded at each other, sighed in unison, but smiled with satisfaction.
(The son has grown up...... οΌ
Because of the need to try to delay time, the date of Pan Long's next visit to Wufu was naturally postponed.
According to the date, it will probably wait until the middle of this winter month (November) to be the most auspicious day.
Now that July has not yet arrived, there are still more than three months before the winter moon, Pan Long plans to take advantage of these three months to go to Zhongzhou to have a look and find out what the imperial court has done after the rebellion of the hundred schools of thought.
At the same time, he also wants to meet Cangyuan, or Di Luonan.
In the midst of that chaos, he had met with these two people, and he also gained the friendship of the other party because he eliminated some people in the green forest who took advantage of the fire to rob.
At that time, it was in a hurry, and the two sides didn't have time to discuss in detail, so Cangyuan temporarily lent his waist card to Pan Long, so that he could use this waist card as a certificate to facilitate his actions.
After Bi Lingkong killed Emperor Cangqiong, Pan Long took Cangyuan's waist card and dealt with several groups of robbers who robbed the people, and then found a yamen at random, handed the waist card to the local officials, and asked them to return it to Cangyuan on their behalf.
He thought that this matter would be over, but more than ten days later, Cangyuan's messenger came to visit the Pan Mansion in Guangling City and sent an invitation.
It was an invitation to this year's Mid-Autumn Festival Moon Viewing Conference.
The Great Xia court will hold a number of large and small celebrations and banquets every year, among these celebrations and banquets, the most important is the New Year's main festival, followed by the autumn harvest sacrifice, and the Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival two banquets.
Among them, the time of the autumn festival is often not far from the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the sacrifice and the banquet are connected together, forming the most famous "autumn festival" of the Great Xia court.
At this time, the imperial examinations will also be held in various places, and the outstanding talents who stand out in the imperial examinations will gather together, which can be described as a gathering of heroes.
Because of the cold climate in Dingfeng Town, winter comes early, so there is no "autumn festival". Over the years, Pan Long hadn't even attended a celebration like that.
Now, I can take advantage of Cangyuan's invitation to go to Zhongzhou to see the autumn festival of the Great Xia court, and see how lively the most prosperous place in Kyushu will be before and after the autumn festival.
So he explained it to his family, and then went to Yitian Courtyard, intending to tell Wu Jixing about this as wellβmainly to prevent the Wu family from worrying.
As a result, when he arrived at Yitian Courtyard, he found that Wu Jixing was recuperating from his injuries, sick and listless.
"What's wrong with you?" he asked, surprised, "and you've been on fire again?"
Wu Jixing smiled bitterly: "Where, I was injured by someone." β
β...... I knew as soon as I could see that you had been wounded, and the injuries were so severe that they should be almost life-threatening. But what's going on?"
Wu Jixing sighed and said, "Do you remember the little man named Lei Zhentian at the beginning?"
Pan Long recalled for a moment, and quickly remembered: "Isn't that a guy who might be a spy? Why, could it be that he died and deceived you into falling into the trap?"
"No, I didn't intend to believe anything he said, and even if he died, he wouldn't be able to fool me. β
β...... So how did you get hurt like this?"
Wu Jixing smiled bitterly: "That guy I thought was not worth mentioning, in fact, he has cultivated a very powerful secret technique, and he can burst out with a power close to the real person level in one blow." β
She shook her head again and again, with a slight fear in her eyes: "That day, I took Lao Ding to find him, and I was going to settle it for him." When we met, he saw that my face was full of murderous anger, and without saying a word, he made a moveβjust a knife, and Lao Ding and I were both seriously injured. If it weren't for the presence of other brothers, if he hadn't slashed me like a piece of sun-dried wood, you'd have only seen me in the cemetery. β
Pan Long was taken aback - he was able to almost kill Ding Lao Hum and Wu Jixing with one sword, this method can be said to be the pinnacle in the innate realm, and even compared to the weaker real person realm, it is probably not inferior.
That Lei Zhentian actually has such a great ability?
Where did he come from?
"Have you checked his origins?"
"Checked, as he said, he is a down-and-out Jianghu who has been wandering in the East China Sea for many years, but has never been able to make a fortune. Wu Jixing sighed, "The identity is very clear, the entire life experience, every stroke can be traced, and it looks innocent." β
"If it weren't for that, we wouldn't have been deceived by him before. Song Xiaoha said with a wry smile, "At that time, I personally went to his family, and it took almost a month before and after, and even the three generations of his ancestors were clearly investigated." To be honest, I really can't imagine that he turned out to be a spy. I can't even imagine that he has such great skills!"
"To be honest, if I hadn't seen that knife, I might have wronged him. Ding Lao, whose face was a little better than Wu Jixing's, but also looked a little weak, hummed, "My initial thought was, who doesn't have a few unjustly killed ghosts under his hands...... It was wronged. As it turned out, we really didn't wrong him!"
"With his origin, there shouldn't be such a means at all!" Wu Jixing's face was gloomy, and his face was full of anger that he had been fooled, "I investigated many times afterwards, and I learned that the move was called the 'Blood Transformation Divine Knife', and it was a Demon Sect master. Blood sacrifice knife, blood knife, blood draining knife, blood stabbing knife...... It is the method of the Demon Gate Blood River Sect. And the Blood River Sect is the inheritance of the Blood God Sect back then. Among the four knives of the Blood River, the most powerful is naturally the Blood Sacrifice Knife, according to legend, as long as the sacrifice is enough, even the immortals, Buddhas, and demon gods can be killed. And although the power of this Blood Knife is lower than that of the Blood Sacrifice Knife, it is better than being hidden enough that no one can see it until it is shot......"
"I have fought against people who use blood sacrificial knives. Pan Long said, "That person's martial arts are mediocre, but that knife is really unpredictable and should not be underestimated!"
"yes, the same goes for the Blood Knife. Wu Jixing sighed, "Lei Zhentian's knife is also mediocre, in terms of sword technique, I can find at least twenty flaws in his sword, and each flaw is enough for me to kill him at least three or four times." But when that knife came at me, all the flaws were no longer flaws, only the one knife crossed the world and locked all my movements. β
Ding Lao snorted and nodded, his face still palpitating: "If it weren't for the two of us at the time, he attacked the two of them with one sword, and his strength was scattered a lot...... If I had been the only one at that time, I would have died with that sword!"
"Me too. β
Pan Long frowned, thought for a while, and said, "The person who used the Blood Sacrifice Knife at the beginning, the black and white Dao in the northwest of Jingzhou should be tracking him, you might as well contact them and ask them about it." There is no reason for the four swords of the Blood River to appear separately, and these two people should have some connection with each other. β
Wu Jixing nodded, and instructed Song Xiaoha to record this incident, and prepare to investigate when the injury healed.
And Pan Long also said that he was going to Zhongzhou.
"The Autumn Festival of the Imperial Court...... I have the opportunity to participate, but it's a very face-saving thing!" Wu Jixing smiled when he heard this, "If it weren't for the injuries and the things inside the help, I would have liked to follow and see the excitement!"
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"Me too. β
Pan Long frowned, thought for a while, and said, "The person who used the Blood Sacrifice Knife at the beginning, the black and white Dao in the northwest of Jingzhou should be tracking him, you might as well contact them and ask them about it." There is no reason for the four swords of the Blood River to appear separately, and these two people should have some connection with each other. β
Wu Jixing nodded, and instructed Song Xiaoha to record this incident, and prepare to investigate when the injury healed.
And Pan Long also said that he was going to Zhongzhou.
"The Autumn Festival of the Imperial Court...... I have the opportunity to participate, but it's a very face-saving thing!" Wu Jixing smiled when he heard this, "If it weren't for the injuries and the things inside the help, I would have liked to follow and see the excitement!"