Chapter Forty-Eight
In the northwest of Taiqing Mountain, here near the sea but the heat is abnormal, and the two local products, Yanjing grass and honeysuckle fire trees, are considered good things. Among them, the Yanjing grass is the necessary main material used by the doctors and monks to grind and treat burn talismans, and once the dwarf branch fir tree of the red branch and silver leaf tree is more than 100 years old, the silver leaves will become brighter and brighter, and the branches will be revealed like the veins of people, which is an excellent tree product used by many immortals to decorate the scenery, especially the Jin Yuanshan, which is not bad for money, will buy a large number of trees from Taiqing Qingmen every ten years to "celebrate the year" of its ancestor Guanglu Hou.
This is the Jiuyue Mountains, to be exact, more than 300 years ago, at that time it was still the Jiuyue faction that relied on Taiqing.
Today, the founding patriarch of the Jiuyue faction has been sitting for more than 200 years, and after a term of the mountain master, the old mountain master handed over the position of the mountain master to Xun Guozhong, a disciple who is better at managing the mountain, and went to the Huagai Continent to find an opportunity to break through. And this Xun Guozhong is also the only monk in the vein stage of this coastal mountain range, and there are more than 40 disciples and re-transmission disciples, all of whom are in the enlightenment period.
At this time, Xun Guozhong looked at Liu Kan, the house slave who had given him the opportunity since he was a child, and stood there so straight, like a chicken in soup, and he didn't fight in one place.
Because what this little slave was carrying behind was the family's highly valued grandson Xun Qiqi, and at this time he did not wake up under Mohe's heavy punch regardless of the identity realm, Liu Kan just briefly described the flowers on the head of the murderous woman, and the incomparably praised ancestor in the mouth of the descendants of the family told him to shut up, although he still wanted to add a few words to some of the detailed remarks on the road, but the ancestor didn't let him say, this is not to suffocate himself.
After Liu Kan helped Xun Qimeng to the bed, Xun Guozhong held the hand of his grandson, who was nominally his grandson and nephew, and crossed the qi machine one by one, that is, more than ten breaths of kung fu.
Although he has never met, this eyebrow is true of his own family, Xun Qimeng struggled to sit up, and wanted to kowtow a few times to this ancestor who had been supporting him behind his back, but before he could get up, he was held down by this old man with white hair.
"Your family doesn't need to be polite, enlightenment, Liu Kan, the minion's tongue is knotted, and he can't say it clearly, you want to tell the matter of Yihu in detail."
"Yes, Ancestor." Xun Kaimeng rubbed the piece of the brain that was hit by Mohe, and said with a wry smile: "I climbed the three thousand steps with Liu Shi, and reported the name from the Taiqing main gate, and the child in the door said that he was going to pass on the pavilion to report the news for the two of us, according to the rules, I need to wait for the ancestor to send someone to pick me up, since it takes time to go back and forth, and I have nothing to do, so I went to the Yi Lake in the world to enjoy the scenery, and then I saw the three people by the lake, and I don't know which words offended the female senior, and threw Liu Shi in the lake not to say, but also almost beat the grandson and nephew to death. After speaking, he glanced at Liu Kan behind Xun Guozhong.
"You two don't know, this person's name is Mohe, he does whatever he wants, his preferences are all based on the calyx on his head, the flower color is delicate, it is a good mood, the flower color is dull, and he has no good temper, even if I go to Liang Jun, the master of the Qingmen, I will not give a good face."
Xun Guozhong paused, and then said: "My Jiuyue faction was like this when Mohe was cast in Taiqing, and I was fortunate to have seen her at that time, nearly a hundred years have passed, I am already an old man, but she is still the same as when I first saw her, although most of the female monks have skills, but like her, it is really rare, not to mention you, ordinary monks in the rank period will not easily provoke her, so I want to ask you well, have you mentioned my name in front of her?" But tell the truth. ”
Liu Kan wanted to say, but he didn't dare to say it, he looked directly at the future head of the family on the bed, Xun Kaimeng saw that this old guy looked like he had cultivated a closed mouth Zen, so he had to bite the bullet and said: "Back to Uncle Zu, but there is a mention of your old man, it was only mentioned after Liu Shi was thrown into the water, that Mohe senior, only showed a hand to the grandnephew to know that we are not his opponents, but the grandnephew has learned some techniques of looking at qi, that Mohe senior, no matter how you look at it, is like the person who has no cultivation." ”
Xun Guozhong smiled, "So you moved out of my name?" I'm afraid it's not going to work, right? ”
"It really didn't make the Mohe seniors stop, and even made up a clumsy reason to beat me, saying that I didn't untie the knife, and I didn't have time to defend myself, so I lost consciousness."
"I know, although there is usually no intersection, it is nothing to prepare an apology gift for her Mohe." Xun Guozhong touched the red and swollen forehead of this first-time great-grandson, got up and said: "Take advantage of your youth, enlightenment, I gave you this name, the meaning is that I hope you are young and sensible, step by step faster than your peers, gradually ascending, the avenue can be expected, do you know the good intentions of your uncle?" ”
"Enlightenment will definitely live up to the expectations of the uncle," Xun Qimeng only now knew that his name was given by the uncle who was the most talked about by the family on weekdays, and he forgot the pain excitedly and knelt straight on the bed.
"Take out Tongyu's letter, I sent you here this time, and I won't even have a message."
Xun Qimeng took out a golden note, and there was no handwriting on the two pages, Xun Guozhong smiled slightly and weighed it, good guy, the rank of the wrist.
This kind of gold note is only willing to be used for communication by monks above the rank of Jin Yuanshan, and the identification of the quality of this Jin Yuanshan note is even simpler, just look at the weight, the heavier the better.
Xun Guozhong injected the qi machine, and the handwriting inside gradually appeared, and once this handwriting appeared, it would not disappear again, so did anyone peek at this letter, and see if there was any handwriting to see, how could there be any envelopes? Such a heavy envelope, isn't it a change of direction to give money? After the second page showed Tong Yuzhen's autograph, Xun Guozhong's mouth opened slightly, and he began to read silently.
Xun Qimeng sat on the bed and looked at his uncle nodding frequently, very curious about what the master wrote when he was leaving, but he was in awe of this uncle when he urinated, and it was really difficult to ask something.
After Xun Guozhong "rolled" up the letter and paced around the house twice, his eyes lit up, and he couldn't hide his smile and said: "Enlightenment, your master said that he would help you go to Neize to fight for opportunities, are you willing to go there?" ”
"My nephew is willing to go!" Although there were many speculations on the way here, the content of the letter turned out to be the result that Xun Qimeng was most looking forward to, how could this not make him overjoyed? Jin Yuanshan has been increased from one to two since the last time he was in the enlightenment period, although he hinted to his master many times that he wanted to go, but he was shirked by his master because his cultivation was not enough, and he dared to be in his chest for a long time, and deliberately covered it up in front of his junior?
"Heh, your master said that you are young, less than thirty years old and already a four-trick martial artist, this is okay, what is even more rare is that your innate hidden qi trick that was only able to emerge last year was actually born on the wrist of your left hand like me, so this ancestral sword technique of our family will have a successor!"
Just after saying this, Xun Guozhong shook his head again and sighed: "Although I knew that your master needed to go up and down to get the quota, I never thought that it would cost so many twelve spirit coins, and their mountain master wanted to celebrate the tenth year and ask me for a two-hundred-year-old silver flower fire tree." It's not difficult to get the spirit coin, and you can still get it a little, but for such an old fire tree, you need to report to the door master to get out of the Taiqing Mountain Gate. ”
Xun Guozhong hesitated for a moment, sat in front of the desk, studied ink while thinking, and soon had a plan, spread out a brocade silk and wrote a few numbers, and threw the pen with the brocade silk to Liu Kan, "Go to Jinyuan Mountain, find something to wrap this letter, hand it to Tongyu, and even send him the one he has been asking for me, and then bring a message to Tongyu, saying that the enlightenment is browsing the details of Neize in Taiqingji, and returning to the mountain a little later, don't go too fast, you can go back to Suhe for a few days before going on the road, hear clearly?" ”
Liu Kan hurriedly kowtowed, and when he withdrew, his buttocks were higher than his head, and then he carefully wrapped the letter and stuffed it into his chest with a pen, and ran away with a smoke.
Huang Ming said goodbye to the two of them, jumped on a lotus boat and rowed in the direction pointed by the lotus, the giant salamanders under the Yi Lake were flocks, and there were also the size of the lotus boats in the small area, and the eyes went deeper into the depths, and there were many larger shadows slowly swimming. Huang Ming was amazed, looking left and right, thinking that if he wanted to catch one, how many days would he have to eat!
Estimating the kung fu of a pillar of incense, Huang Ming generally controlled the control of the lotus boat's air engine, so he put the oars on the lotus boat, and concentrated on using the foot soles gas machine to control the lotus boat, moving forward, backward, left and right, all by heart. The slightly fishy lake breeze gradually rose, the corners of Huang Ming's mouth turned up, and he was a little proud of being able to control the lotus boat so quickly, but he thought of the Han Han in the Huxin Pavilion again, so he obediently propped up the oars and concentrated on covering up, but he didn't know that the Yi Lake within a radius of hundreds of miles was under Han Han's control. So Huang Ming's heart lake came from Han Han's voice: "What's the point of being lame and covering up?" If you know everything, why hide your ability? Since he was entrusted by Senior Brother Dong Jin, he took the lotus and left quickly. ”
Huang Ming smiled bitterly, and after bowing in the direction of the Huxin Pavilion, he withdrew the two wooden oars, and from then on, he was no longer restrained, and quickly drove the lotus boat to the lotus pond that was carefully maintained by the symbol mountain.
The lotus pond is very easy to identify, because all the way to see, are the large petals of the pink lotus, the lotus leaves are not small, but not as big as the foot, looking at the direction of the lake pavilion, it is the bright red lotus, and the symbol of the mountain that is not big lotus pond, but the bone is very small yellow lotus.
The lake breeze blows gently, and the lotus leaves sway, slightly sweet. The yellow lotus's lotus canopy is dark yellow, and there are few dragonflies standing on it, but whoever stands up is the size of a palm, but the one who stands is dead, and soon drowned in the water, and there is no giant salamander swallowing this insect below, Huang Ming, who did not stand up, sailed over and flew away, Huang Ming fixed his eyes, and the extreme depth of the water emitted a shallow light, which seemed to inspire some kind of magic circle, Huang Ming stopped, frowned slightly, and looked at it for a while.
At this time, Han Han's voice came again: "You have a good eye, there is indeed a formation arranged by Senior Brother Pomegranate here, since you have seen through it, you have passed the test of his eye for you, and the array is on my side, so I will remove it for you." I have to say that although you can come forward to stay for a quarter of an hour, but remember not to take more petals, so as not to hurt the root of this Buddha lotus, each petal Buddha lotus contains how little there is aura, a flower and a petal, all by chance. ”
Huang Ming said loudly: "More guidance from seniors, great virtues from seniors, and memories of juniors." ”
Huang Ming's mind dictated, the lotus boat swept forward, like hands and feet, the Buddha lotus in the mouth of the cold Han trembled, swaying with the rippling splash, it seemed to have eyes, all the lotus flowers were like the sunflowers all towards Huang Ming's direction, the underwater formation has been withdrawn, then this psychic Buddha lotus turned his head, what is the reason?
According to Han Han's statement, just twist a lotus petal, Huang Ming used the eye qi machine, hoping to choose the best petal from it, just look at it, Huang Ming no longer hesitated, directly picked a piece from a yellow lotus next to him, and flattened the back end of it in a pomegranate prepared in advance to preserve the aura in a box, the whole process without condensation.
A surprising scene happened, the lotus flower was actually wiped out in the blink of an eye after the petals were removed, and even the stalk ceased to exist, as if it had never appeared there. Huang Ming turned his head abruptly and hurriedly looked in the direction of the Huxin Pavilion.
"Hey, Xiaoyou Buddha is not small, it is actually a certificate of this lotus, it is rare and rare, the symbol mountain rune array is in the same vein, it seems that there is a successor." Han Han took a deep breath, covered up the ecstasy in his heart, and continued to say calmly: "Take the lotus quickly, delay for a while, you will delay your own chance." ”
"Yes, in accordance with the law." Huang Ming knew the stakes, held a spiritual bead with one hand to quickly absorb the aura, and locked a lotus flower in his right eye, after quickly picking it, it was the same as the first one, after the petals were separated from the body, Huang Ming heard it clearly, the Buddha lotus seemed to be a Buddha singing, quickly dried up, turned into fine debris, and the small lotus canopy was blown away by the breeze between heaven and earth.
It didn't take a quarter of an hour at all, but only a few dozen breaths of effort, Huang Ming chose a ten-petal lotus flower and put it in a box for preservation, at this time, the qi in the body was gone, and it also confirmed some of the pomegranate's statements about the eyes, which are really used to inspect the amount of spiritual energy of something, and the speed of consuming spiritual energy often exceeds the load of ordinary monks.
Huang Ming turned his head to leave, and Han Han's voice came from the heart lake again.
"Little friend, are you leaving?"
"Han senior," Huang Ming clenched his fists and said loudly in the direction of the Huxin Pavilion, "Master Pomegranate said, with my current cultivation, the ten-petal lotus is the limit, just ask the disciple to take off the ten petals, the Buddha lotus is precious and can't bear to spoil it, there is a lot of trouble, so say goodbye to the senior." ”
Huang Ming stopped for a moment, and when he saw that the person in the pavilion in the center of the lake didn't mean to say anything more, he rowed to the shore with interest.
By the time Huang Ming arrived at the shore, Mo He had disappeared, and only Han Qiao was still waiting for him there.
"Senior brother, what the pomegranate senior explained, has this been done?" Han Qiao hit the surface of the water with an oar and said to Huang Ming with a smile.
"Yes, Senior Sister Han, the predecessors of Huxin Pavilion Hanhan have a lot of guidance, so the matter of taking the lotus went quite smoothly, so I went to the place to find the pomegranate master to study the talisman, and I said goodbye." Huang Ming shook the rectangular box in front of Han Qiao, smiled indifferently, and was about to leave.
"Wait a minute, my sister has something to say to Senior Brother Huang, and I hope that Senior Brother will leave after listening," Han Qiao saw Huang Ming making a gesture to leave, opened her arms, and blocked the way with a red face, "My sister said that this lotus is precious, even in the Western Regions Buddha Country, it is as rare to see, and today Senior Brother takes the lotus and destroys the lotus, so there is no need to mention it to Uncle Pomegranate, otherwise you will be held accountable, I am afraid that Senior Brother Huang You can't afford it." ”
Huang Ming had several thoughts in his mind, but he didn't want to ask Han Qiao a question, so he said with a wry smile: "The Buddha Lotus was destroyed by me, but I'm afraid that this matter will be hidden for a short time, so it's better to give an explanation to the pomegranate master." ”
Han Qiao's fingers twisted the corners of his clothes, and when he saw Huang Ming looking at him with a smile, his pretty face turned even redder, and when he didn't know how to reply, a wisp of "wind" that Han Qiao could see with the naked eye drilled into Huang Ming's body, and Han Qiao knew that it was his sister who personally confessed to Huang Ming.
Sure enough, Huang Ming bowed deeply to the center of the lake and strode away.
The journey to the memory office was not short, and during the three hours before and after, Huang Ming thought about it and gave up the idea of informing Dong Jinlian of the destruction of the lotus pond, because Huang Ming smacked it carefully and tasted a little dangerous.
And Han Han's last words are the most intriguing.
"Some rumors may as well be heard, when the lord of the symbol mountain had not yet ascended the mountain, he personally slapped to death a personal disciple who destroyed the Buddha lotus, named Zuo Ni, who was expected to pass on the family rune array, and I heard that this disciple also had a mirage. Later, there was a pomegranate going up the mountain, the elders of the symbol mountain died in the battle, and the elder brother Dong Jin broke through the realm and single-handedly picked up the later events of the symbol mountain beam. So in the matter of destroying the lotus, you might as well test Dong Jin's reaction. ”
Soon after Huang Ming left, in the pavilion in the middle of the lake, the figure of a man appeared out of thin air, this person was nine feet tall, his hair was black and draped over his shoulders, his hands were behind his back, his cheeks were wide and his face was wide, he was slightly broken, and he was dressed in a gray and white robe, which was elegant.
The man pointed with his finger, and put on a ban on sound, and Han Hanxiu frowned slightly in the pavilion, this person's appearance was reasonable and expected.
"Han Daoyou," the man paced into the pavilion, "can it be done this time?" ”
Han Han snorted coldly.
The man didn't think about it, and his mouth was able to sing the same Buddha chant as when the lotus petals were destroyed, and then laughed and twisted up a bundle of hair, "This kid is the most intelligent, although he has not entered your lake pavilion, but whether the heartstrings have trembled when taking the lotus is the best thing you know." Why mention Nazogne? Don't you feel like it's too much to do? ”
Han Han didn't reply for a long time, and when the man was about to leave, he said a word lightly.
"Be careful to sail the ship of ten thousand years. But you're a brute, and you don't need a boat to get into the water. ”
Yi Jianghai, a powerful man in the dantian period, smiled disapprehantly, turned over and entered the water, and the mist-like silence and prohibition dissipated in an instant.