Chapter 16: The Firmament is the Tomb
Thick clouds lay overhead, moving heavily, like a about to collapse.
Yun Zhenren walked in the forefront, his steps like floating, and his robe rose and fell rhythmically in the wind.
Ji Luoyang and Wang Erguan walked together.
Xiao He followed Lin Shouxi's side with small steps, holding his sleeve, obedient and lovely.
Lin Shouxi quietly looked at the surrounding environment.
It is still an ancient and half-decayed courtyard, and when you look to the right is an endless dry lake, often filled with thick fog, blackbirds hovering, and looking up at the towering cliffs, the wind howls against the wall, like a ghost crying against the wall, whimpering incessantly.
"Has the cultivation been going well these days?" Yun Zhenren suddenly asked.
"It went well."
The first to answer was Ji Luoyang, he said: "The disciple has succeeded in condensing the pill, and the heart method taught by the real person is also reciting it backwards, although the three spells engraved on the courtyard wall are difficult to learn, but the technique of 'driving away the cold' has also been practiced by the disciple." ”
"Not bad." Yun Zhenren nodded, "Your talent is already excellent. ”
He praised Ji Luoyang like this, Ji Luoyang just wanted to be humble, and the next moment, Yun Zhenren stopped in front of him like a ghost, he didn't stop, and bumped into him all of a sudden.
Ji Luoyang's heart was shocked, and he subconsciously activated his true qi, and went to take the wooden sword behind his back and stab it forward, but his hand was empty.
The wooden sword has been held in Yun Zhenren's hand.
"Who allowed you to wear a sword?" Yun Zhenren opened his mouth coldly, and his left eye shot out a fine light.
"I ...... The disciple admired the demeanor of the real person, so he ......"
Click-
There were countless cracks on the wooden sword, and a whole wooden sword turned into sawdust in an instant.
Yun Zhenren pointed at Ji Luoyang's heart, and the young man snorted and fell to his knees with a painful expression.
"The sword is a noble thing, and you are not allowed to wear a sword without cultivating the way of the sword, this is the rule!"
Yun Zhenren scolded coldly, raised his hand, and the sawdust flew into the cliff and disappeared in a blink of an eye.
"Disciple...... Got it. ”
Ji Luoyang struggled to get up, lowered his head, and his expression was hidden in the shadows.
Wang Erguan wanted to gloat, but saw Lin Shouxi step forward and help Ji Luoyang up.
Wang Erguan hurriedly restrained his smile and followed to caress people.
"Go on." Yun Zhenren said.
The next person to report on the progress of his cultivation was Wang Erguan.
Not only did he succeed in condensing pills, but he also learned two of the three small spells left by the real person, which was indeed an achievement to be proud of.
"It's a pity that the disciple is only shallow in learning, and the third spell 'Enemy Maker' has never been learned, which is a pity." Wang Erguan also humbled himself.
"Cultivating enemies is the most difficult one to learn, ordinary cultivators can only succeed in cultivating in a year and a half, you are already an extremely rare genius." Yun Zhenren said.
In the past ten years, Wang Erguan has never thought that the words 'extremely rare genius' can be used to evaluate himself.
Ten days ago, he was a mediocre little fat man, but what changed all that was ......
"It's all the credit of the town guard!" Wang Erguan shouted with amusement, "The vast supernatural powers of Lord Zhenshou are really unheard of and unseen!" Although the adult was killed by the gangsters when he was dying, Wang must have believed in the town guard all his life and did his best to eradicate the real murderer! ”
Yun Zhenren didn't say anything.
But Wang Erguan suddenly felt that his body was cold, his heart trembled, and Yun Zhenren's cold words sounded in his ears:
"Wuzhu Lake is the last place of residence of the town guard, and it is also the place of death, and the places we have traveled are all the tombs of the town guards, and you are wearing such clothes and walking between the tombs of the gods?"
Wang Erguan was frightened, he didn't dare to hesitate, he knelt on the ground, hurriedly took off the young master's clothes on his body, he used his aura to urge the ring, the ring spewed flames and ignited the clothes, Wang Erguan pinched a corner and threw it out.
The precious clothes caught fire and swirled down the cliff, as if the flowers were suddenly withering.
"What about you?" Yun Zhenren glanced at Lin Shouxi and Xiao He.
"The disciple's injuries are half healed, and it won't take long to resume his cultivation." Lin Shouxi lied again.
Just last night, his injuries had basically healed, and the circulation of true qi in his body had been unhindered, but he didn't know what realm he was in now.
He hasn't had a chance to try yet.
"I didn't ask you." Yun Zhenren said.
In his eyes, no matter how good Lin Shouxi's talent was, it was useless, because the inheritance ceremony of the god of the town guard was about to begin, and there was no place for him in the gods.
"The key to the heart method taught by the real person, Xiao He has completed his practice." Xiao He replied.
"What about the three spells?"
"Xiao He's talent is dull and he hasn't practiced."
"Hmm."
Yun Zhenren had already walked to the edge of the cliff, and there was a thick fog in front of him, and with a wave of his sleeve, the fog obediently dispersed, revealing a hidden divine path that he had never seen before.
Yun Zhenren walked on the path of Shinto.
Wang Erguan, who was originally following the most, saw this extremely narrow stone path, and looked at the abyss of the giant lake covered by the fog under the stone path, his legs were swung in fright, and he didn't dare to move forward for a while.
Instead, Lin Shouxi walked over casually.
He stepped on the stone path, walking steadily, Xiao He followed him, holding the stone wall on one side with one hand and grasping his back with the other.
"What to pretend to be ......"
Wang Erguan took a deep breath, and the true qi erupted from the qi pill in his chest, giving him enough strength, and after Ji Luoyang stepped on it, he also followed.
On the stone path close to the cliff, the cold mist blows on the face, and it is obviously the height of summer, but the light shining in cannot make people feel the temperature.
In this dangerous environment, Yun Zhenren really talked to them about cultivation.
"There are three steps to becoming a true immortal: opening the pulse, condensing the pill, and seeing the gods. It takes years for ordinary people to complete the first two steps, but it only takes you ten days, which is rare even if it is placed on three sacred mountains. ”
"The Pill of Condensation Pill is a Qi Pill, and the Qi Pill is located at the center point of the intersection of the spiritual veins, like a vortex, drawing true qi from the spiritual veins and gathering at one point, it can also reverse the vortex, and the true qi that is extremely condensed at this point is sprayed out, supplying all the spiritual veins, in other words, this is the second heart unique to the cultivator."
"This qi pill will accompany you for a lifetime, whether the qi pill is strong or not determines how much true qi you can absorb, the more true qi the qi pill condenses, the more terrifying the moment the true qi gushes out."
"Now that you have preliminarily condensed the pill, the next big pass is to see God."
Walking along the Shinto, the wind became colder and colder, and the face was like a knife cut, and the boys and girls were walking on thin ice while listening to Yun Zhenren's words.
"Dare to ask real people, what does it mean to see God?" Ji Luoyang took the opportunity to ask.
Yun Zhenren stopped on his own, and the people behind him were forced to stop.
I saw Yun Zhenren pointing to the sky with one hand, and his words were leisurely:
"Above the sky is a grave."
"Graves, how can there be graves in heaven?" Wang Erguan was a little scared, "The sky won't fall, right?" ”
"It is the tomb of the old gods, their bones have long since decayed, and their spirits have turned into countless dead spirits, trapped in the heavens, and cannot be reborn."
Yun Zhenren's tone was full of vicissitudes: "We can't pass through the cold sky to reach the true firmament, but our divine consciousness can." ”
"We sit in oblivion on earth, reach the true sky with our divine consciousness, touch the soul of a god who has been dead for countless years, pluck it out of the sky, and plant it into our own body. This is to see God! ”
Yun Zhenren's words were sparkling, as if the spirit in his body had woken up in response, and his left eye was glowing with holy golden light.
"Only when we see the gods can we call ourselves immortals."
The wind stirred the cold fog, and everyone shivered involuntarily.
Lin Shouxi involuntarily glanced at the sky.
It was not much different from the sky and his previous world, the same boundless and incomparable, the same wind, clouds, rain and snow drove in the middle, and the sun, moon and stars hung over it.
But behind this seemingly ordinary curtain of the sky, there are actually floating black oppressive souls, they don't know how many years have been silent, their consciousness has long been extinguished, and they have become pure spiritual bodies, existing without self and no other, waiting for people to reach them.
"This ...... How is this possible? Ji Luoyang shook his head weakly, "After condensing pills, do you want to touch the sky?" ”
"No, it's still too early for you to see the gods, there are still five small realms between the condensing pill and the seeing gods, which are the five orders of the qi pill, and every time you advance one step, the qi pill will change its color once, which are white, green, purple, gold, and red."
"Cultivating Akamaru is a rare half-immortal in the world, and then carrying Akamaru to see the gods, if it is successful, it is an immortal who sees the god realm."
Immortals......
This word was so far away that as soon as it penetrated Wang Erguan's ears, it made his bloated body tremble.
He remembered some of the words he had overheard his uncle say when he was communicating with other immortal cultivators, among which there were words such as Xubai, Cangbi, Xuanzi, Hun Jin, Yuan Chi, etc., he didn't know why at the time, and felt that they were mysterious and mysterious, so he silently wrote them down.
Until today, Wang Erguan knew that this was the five realms between the condensing pill and the god of seeing.
The Wang family is already a big family, and the strongest person in the clan is only a monk in the Xuanzi Realm, and there is still an extremely long distance from the legendary immortals.
He felt that the road was long, but also had a fanaticism in his heart.
This ladder to heaven that he couldn't think of in the past is now approaching, and he only needs to move his body again, and he can walk on that road to heaven!
"Dare to ask real people, do you see that there is a realm above the god realm?" Lin Shouxi's question interrupted Wang Erguan's thoughts.
Wang Erguan was stunned for a moment, and then a nameless anger burned in his heart, if it weren't for the presence of a real person, he would have to ridicule 'I don't know the height of the sky'.
"You don't need to know." Yun Zhenren was equally too lazy to explain.
Wang Er's concern was a little more relaxed.
A white mist poured up from below, and in the middle of it there was a faint curl of ice, getting colder and colder.
They finally knew why Yun Zhenren left the 'cold ward' spell.
"Wuzhu Lake is the divine domain of the town, even if you die, the season is meaningless here, extreme cold and extreme heat may alternate at any time, some are based on the will of the gods."
Yun Zhenren suddenly took a big step, the fog suddenly dissipated, the road ahead was open, and they came to the Wu family.
It looks like a ghostly mansion.
It is a large piece of black and blue buildings relying on the mountain, surrounded by stele pavilion towers, there is a big hall in the middle of the high place, the four corners of the hall are sharp, the roof is gentle and tortuous, the tiles on the top of the heavy eaves rest are neat and tidy like scales, the load-bearing wooden pillar is entrenched with a thin dragon, and the kiss is two ghost vultures, which are not carved decorations, but living creatures!
The Wu family was originally built near the lake, and at this moment the lake is steaming, it seems to be located on the top of the cliff of the mountain, like a giant beast with rugged bones.
Cumulonimbus clouds spilled in from behind the mountain-like rooftops.
An invisible sense of oppression swept over the people looking up like a gale.
The boys and girls held their breath, no one spoke, they followed Yun Zhenren's steps, and walked up the middle steps, and the black and blue ancient hall was at the end of the road.
The stone steps were mottled and shattered, and the road was lined with towering iron trees, which obscured half of the sky in black, and there were many turtle-like things in between, but under the stone monument were not turtles, but octopus-like monsters.
Yun Zhenren led them to the top of the stone steps, and several young men in gray Taoist clothes happened to pass by, and they all saluted the real people.
Yun Zhenren walked straight forward.
"The place I'm going to take you to is called the Pool of Evil." Yun Zhenren introduced: "In the ancient god war, the town guard has killed countless demons, and the resentment after the death of the demon gathers and merges into a wicked pond by the Wuzhu Lake. ”
"There are a lot of people in the Demon Killing Courtyard, and their realm may not be high, but they are all good killers."
"I'm the head of the Demon Slayer Academy."
One by one, the doors opened naturally, and they made their way from the main hall to the apse.
The people they met on the road stared at them with strange eyes, as if they were looking at something strange.
Behind the main hall is a high white stone wall, and the two stone gates as thick as city gates are tightly closed.
Lin Shouxi smelled a sense of solemnity and solemnity, this high wall that could not be seen was a barrier, and inside and outside the wall should be a completely different world.
Yun Zhenren didn't take them directly into the stone wall.
There is a courtyard of considerable scale outside the stone wall, and the words "kill demons and kill evil" are written at the door of the courtyard.
An old dwarf man greeted him.
He looked at Lin Shouxi and the four of them, and asked, "They are the chosen ones?" ”
Yun Zhenren nodded and said, "Before the inheritance ceremony of Lord Zhenshou began, they were disciples of the Demon Killing Academy, remember to tell them the rules." ”
"The old slave knows." The old dwarf man bowed and saluted.
In the blink of an eye, Yun Zhenren disappeared again.
The old dwarf led the four of them into the demon killing courtyard, and there were many young men and girls about the same age as them in the courtyard, they were holding swords or swords, staring coldly at the people not far away.
At first, Wang Erguan felt that this demon killing courtyard was not much different from the place where they lived, but when he entered the house, Wang Erguan almost screamed in fright after taking a closer look at the load-bearing pillar.
The beams of the house were not wooden pillars, but living demons with chains one after another!
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(There will be a chapter of four thousand ~ The author doesn't want to update it regularly, but he changes the draft every day for half a day, and it is difficult to clarify the time qwq)