Chapter 133: The Night of the First Snow
"Invitation?"
The goddess of pity has a letter between her jade fingers, which is pasted with gold on red paper and sealed with jade, which is unusually gorgeous.
Lin Shouxi's eyes were not attracted by this invitation, but looked at her waist, her waist was wrapped around an elegant pear-colored brocade ribbon, revealing a delicate and delicate beauty, more eye-catching than the beauty of the thin waist, the sword.
The scabbard was pitch black, and the pattern was as simple as the face on the bronze tripod, and he faintly felt that if the sword was withdrawn, what he could see was not the bright sword body, but a handful of angry flames.
"What is the purpose of the Holy Soil Temple?"
Chu Yingchan didn't rush to receive the invitation, she knew that it would be a big deal to be personally invited by the seven goddesses.
The goddess of mercy covered her lips with her fingers, and said with a soft smile: "I have nothing to say about the concubine for the time being, but the concubine guarantees that this is a rare event in a hundred years, and only those who are destined to witness it, and the two of them are one of them." ”
The Holy Land Temple, like the Three Divine Mountains, is also a holy place for cultivators in the world, but Chu Yingchan does not have a good impression of the seven pure goddesses, their temperaments are too extreme, and they are almost human.
After hesitating, Chu Yingchan still took the letter, she opened the envelope, but it was empty.
"When the time comes, there will be a date for the appointment on this letter, and then you can go to the temple according to the period stated in the letter, and the concubine will wait for the two of you in the temple." The Goddess of Mercy explained their confusion.
"What if you don't?" Lin Shouxi asked.
"You're coming." The goddess of pity is delicate and full of confidence.
"How many people have received this letter?" Chu Yingchan asked.
"It's only ten." The goddess of mercy said.
"Ten?"
This number is far smaller than Chu Yingchan imagined, there are far more than ten immortals in this world, why did this letter be delivered to them?
"It's inconvenient for the rest of the concubines to say more, and I hope the two guests can be considerate."
The goddess of mercy is holding the white yarn under the fence with one hand, and the other hand is on her waist, quite politely blessed herself, this goddess has a very high realm, but she has no shelf, but she is like a girl who picks lotus in a boat.
"The letter has been sent to the two of them, and it is inconvenient for the concubine to stay for a long time, so she will retire for the time being." The goddess of pity pursed her lips and smiled, and then withdrew.
But she didn't retreat immediately, but leaned down, picked up a handful of ice and snow with both hands, and closed it. The white mist floated out of her palm, and when her hands bloomed like lotus flowers, there was a solid ice crystal in her palm, and a newly withered full petal was wrapped in the center of the ice crystal.
"What are you doing?" Lin Shouxi asked.
"The flowers are blooming, devastated by the wind and snow, withering and shattering into dust. Fanghua can't stay forever, Xiahong is fleeting, you see...... Don't you feel pity? The goddess of mercy held the ice crystal petals in her heart, and her words trembled slightly.
"I don't think so."
Lin Shouxi and Chu Yingchan said in unison.
The goddess of pity was even more sad, she rose lightly, turned away, and drifted into the vast snowstorm, from where her words floated, and those who heard them were like listening to the chime:
"The two of them are also clear and flawless people, you should be more careful when you go to the East, if you fall on the way, the concubine will also be pitied."
I don't know if these words were blessings or curses, and the voices dispersed.
This was an inexplicable encounter, Chu Yingchan looked at the letter in her hand for a while, and handed it to Lin Shouxi, who couldn't find anything unusual after repeated exploration, so she took it into her arms.
"If I'm not mistaken, her name should be Su Hexue." Chu Yingchan said: "She is also from the ancestral mountain, and in a sense, she is still the same sister as Shi Yirao." ”
"Su Hexue ......" Lin Shouxi read the name softly and asked, "Are the seven goddesses of the Holy Land Hall like this?" ”
"Hmm...... They are all sick. Chu Yingchan said.
"The sword at their waist?"
"Yes, it is said that there are seven immortal and immortal demons during the flood period, they are not ordinary demons, they feed on the seven emotions of all spirits, shuttle through the 'twilight sea' that symbolizes the dream god domain, the emperor personally captured them, crushed them into dust with divine power, and sealed them in the sword, although the person holding the sword can get the power of immortal ancient inheritance with the help of the sword, but they also have to pay the price, the extremes of emotions are just their means of resistance, they don't care about themselves, what can we criticize?"
Chu Yingchan told the legend of the origin of the seven swords, but when she saw that Lin Shouxi did not stretch her brows because of the confusion, she asked, "What's wrong?" ”
"I don't think that sword looks like a human thing." Lin Shouxi said.
"Excalibur is not a mortal product in the world." Chu Yingchan was puzzled.
Lin Shouxi couldn't tell his instincts, he didn't think about it anymore, when he turned around, those poor children had already run away, Chu Yingchan also went to eat something with Lin Shouxi, it was dark and snowy, if it was out of the wilderness, they would definitely find a place to rest, but the sacred mountain domain was a holy place, and there were few demons and evils, and they did not delay, and they hurried through the snowy night.
Ahead is the territory of the Chu State.
A human dynasty like the State of Chu is not uncommon, but most of the monarchs of the dynasty are immortals with extremely high realms, so they are said to be dynasties, but they are more like behemoths living in the people.
The streets of Chu are straight, the neighborhoods and alleys are very regular, although it is night, but when Lin Shouxi sets foot here, he can still feel its richness and tranquility.
Chu Yingchan also told him the story of her father's mother, her mother was the princess of the fallen country of Chu, and her father was also the son of a big family in the past.
"It is said that there is also the help of the master, but there are rules in the sacred mountain, and the immortals on the mountain are not allowed to get involved in the personal grievances of the royal family in the world, so the mother never mentions this." Chu Yingchan walked on the street and slowed down a little, and Chu Guo was also brushed by the new snow, and it was covered with water.
"Why don't you stay here?" Lin Shouxi asked.
"Because I have lived here since I was a child, I am too familiar with the palaces, streets, and mansions here, and I can't get a new feeling when I walk around, so of course I want to go to other places to see." Chu Yingchan said.
"Don't you like your mother because she disciplines her too much?" Lin Shouxi asked.
"Not quite." Chu Yingchan said: "Xu is me...... Rebel against it. ”
"I can't see it." Lin Shouxi said with a smile, and asked again: "There is nothing special about you meeting your master on a snowy night, what do you like about her?" ”
"Do you need a reason to like it?" Chu Yingchan asked rhetorically.
Lin Shouxi couldn't answer.
The two of them were silent again, each with their own thoughts.
On the way, Lin Shouxi closed his eyes, and then practiced the Ding technique on a cold and snowy day, perhaps because this Qingguang Ding was already swallowing the wind and spitting snow, and when he cultivated on a snowy day, his progress was also twice as effective with half the effort.
Lin Shouxi's Ding technique has basically been completed, and now, as long as he enters the heart method of the Hehuan Sect in the inner Ding, he can directly conceive Hehuan San in the Ding, of course, he doesn't dare to do this.
Lin Shouxi also tried other mental methods, he entered the Wu family's Heart Sutra into the Inner Ding, and he could get a white pill, after this pill was integrated into the body, it could make him as light as a swallow for a period of time, Luo Shu and Dragon Snatcher were not specific words of inheritance, so they could not be put into the Inner Ding, and when he tried to enter the White Pupil Black Phoenix Sword Sutra, his body emitted a violent alarm, as if the next moment there was a fire phoenix reviving from his body, smashing this Inner Ding and the qi pill.
After coming to this world, it was difficult for Lin Shouxi to have time to calm down and practice, so although he had cultivated the Ding Technique, he did not have too many kinds of mental methods for alchemy, but it didn't matter, when he settled down in the future, every time he learned a new spell, it was also equivalent to mastering a new way of refining a pill.
At the beginning of the new snow, the waning moon was in the sky, and at midnight, the state of Chu was shrouded in a hazy phantom.
They hurried and were tired until this time, so they walked across the bridge over the snow and ice, and entered a courtyard to rest for a while.
"What are you cultivating?" Chu Yingchan watched the flow of true qi around him and asked.
Lin Shouxi was stared at by the clear eyes of the fairy in white, and he was not too embarrassed to say the name of the exercise for a while, he took out the ancient scroll and handed it to Chu Yingchan, letting her read it for herself.
Chu Yingchan took it, turned the title page, her eyes fell, and she read softly: "Yin and Yang Refining Ding Hehuan Creation Technique......
"Why, do you want to say that this is a crooked way that cultivators despise?" Lin Shouxi didn't wait for her to speak, and preemptively said these words, when he was in the Dragon Palace, he was sneered at many times by Mu Shijing, and he opened his mouth and closed his mouth to call him the leader of the Demon Sect.
"Nope."
Chu Yingchan shook her head lightly and unexpectedly gave a negative answer.
She sat upright in the snow pavilion, her fingers gently flipping the not thick ancient scrolls, and said calmly: "Where is the real demon Dao practice in the world, many of them are just the words of a family that excludes dissidents, your Dao heart is stable, your heart is kind and peaceful, no matter what you practice, you will not do that hurtful thing, and I think this is ...... It's funny. ”
"Interesting?"
Lin Shouxi was stunned by Chu Yingchan's words, after getting along with Mu Shijing for a long time, now he is really flattered when he faces this fairy in white.
"yes."
Chu Yingchan, who was dressed in clean clothes, sat in the red pavilion, flipping through the scrolls, her elegant and beautiful eyes were full of ethereal rhyme, she said: "This is what most people must go through, but for some reason, everyone is secretive about it, avoiding it like a snake and scorpion, as if this is a taboo that should never be mentioned, and touching it is close to a demon and a demon, and it is despised, I have always felt that it does not have to be so." Although it is infatuated to indulge in it, it is not human to break off love. ”
Chu Yingchan said slowly, her words were calm and gentle, as if it was the wind in April, dispelling the coldness of the snowy night.
"Master is wise." Lin Shouxi couldn't help but say. This voice of the master is pleased.
"It was also this year's travel that made me think about many things, and the more I thought about it, the farther away from the tip of the horns, and my heart became more tolerant." Chu Yingchan said softly.
Lin Shouxi nodded, feeling that her heart was broader than that of Xiao He and Mu Shijing, of course, the truth was also true......
Chu Yingchan stopped flipping through the ancient scrolls, raised her head, looked at Lin Shouxi again, and asked:
"Over the years, you've endured a lot of criticism, haven't you?"
"Me." Lin Shouxi thought for a while and said, "It's okay." I rarely left home in the past, and there were like-minded people in the door, and the most criticism came from Xiao He and Mu Shijing. ”
"Mu Shijing......" Chu Yingchan didn't know whether this was her senior sister or junior sister, "What is she like?" ”
Chu Yingchan originally thought that Mu Shijing was a very good person, but that night's punishment changed her opinion, she rarely saw her master beat so hard, compared to her, Shizun's attitude towards herself can be described as gentle.
"You'll understand it when you spend time with her." It is difficult for Lin Shouxi to evaluate Mu Shijing.
Chu Yingchan nodded, and continued to look down at the book, this book is mainly about refining the tripod, so Lin Shouxi did not stop it, Chu Yingchan read it roughly, and when she saw the life of the author, she couldn't help but sigh, and sighed that he was a poor person.
When turning to the last page, Chu Yingchan saw the words at the end, the author said that he didn't want to go into detail about Hehuan, but he still mentioned it, saying that if a cultivator has some special habits, Hehuan can be used as a guide, and it will get twice the result with half the effort.
Chu Yingchan was curious, her clear autumn water eyes looked at Lin Shouxi again, she pointed to that sentence, and asked softly, "Do you have it?" ”
"I ......" Lin Shouxi never thought that this pure and noble fairy in white would ask such a question.
"Can't that be asked?" Chu Yingchan said.
"What do you think?" Lin Shouxi asked rhetorically.
"I don't think there's anything to be ashamed of, on the contrary, I think it's a gift from the gods." Chu Yingchan said seriously.
"Gifts?" Lin Shouxi was surprised.
"That's right, it's a happiness that belongs to you alone, you can feel it, but other people can't, it won't hurt you, it can give you pleasure and make your practice twice as effective with half the effort, isn't this a gift from the gods?" Chu Yingchan's words are sincere and moving, which makes people hear Zhong Chi.
"You're right." Lin Shouxi couldn't refute it, and even wanted to say, 'The disciple has understood'.
"Then ......" Chu Yingchan pulled a few lines of green silk behind her ears, and stopped talking.
"Do you have one?" Lin Shouxi asked rhetorically.
"I ......" Chu Yingchan lowered her neck and pondered for a while, but shook her head, "I don't seem to be favored by the gods." ”
"Then I am also the abandoned baby of the gods." Lin Shouxi still didn't want to suffer.
Chu Yingchan smiled quietly, picked up the ancient scroll with both hands, returned it, and didn't ask anything more.
The snow didn't fall again.
After resting for about half a pillar of incense, they set off again, crossed the ice bridge to the other side, and continued on their way.
The territory of the sacred mountain is very vast, their figures are obviously fast, but the road in front of them is never endless, according to Chu Yingchan, until the early morning of the day after tomorrow, they can see the city wall in the east.
"By the way, there are two senior sisters and brothers in the Daomen Immortal Tower, where are they?" Lin Shouxi asked.
"They ......" Chu Yingchan thought for a while and said: "The second senior sister and the senior brother are both in the Western Wilderness, facing the yellow sand every day, guarding an ancient place, although I have only seen them once, but they are all very good people." ”
Lin Shouxi nodded.
In the blink of an eye, it was a few hours again, and it was dawn.
They drank a cup of morning tea together, rested for a while, and went on the road again, Lin Shouxi looked at the woman in white beside him...... It was his own private matter to find Xiao He, but if he wanted her to work hard with him, he would inevitably feel a little guilty in his heart.
At noon, they saw Mt. Shinsho in the distance.
The Divine Guard Mountain is the same size as the Yunkong Mountain, all of them are towering, high into the sky, but the Divine Guardian Mountain is more lonely, and there are more sub-peaks, looking up like the Ten Thousand Swords Dynasty, the momentum is magnificent. It is not as rich as Yunkong Mountain, Qionglou Yuyu, at a glance, Shenshou Mountain is full of simple bamboo and wood buildings, back to the basics, almost with the mountains and forests into one color.
"Are you familiar with this area?" Lin Shouxi asked.
"Not familiar." Chu Yingchan shook her head and asked, "What's wrong?" ”
Lin Shouxi hesitated and said, "I want to find someone." ”
"Looking for someone? Do you have any friends here? Chu Yingchan asked.
"Well, it's a little girl of seven or eight years old." Lin Shouxi added a sentence after speaking, "I met by accident." ”
Chu Yingchan nodded and continued to ask: "What else do you know, can you tell me, although I am not familiar with this place, my mother has lived here for a long time in the past, and she may be able to help you." ”
"All I know is her nickname, huh...... She also has a very powerful mother-in-law. Lin Shouxi said.
"Is that all?"
"Hmm."
"If that's all there is, I'm afraid it's hard to find." Chu Yingchan said slightly apologetically.
"I tried my best to find it, but if it didn't work, I ...... Anyway. ”
Lin Shouxi believes that Xiaoyu's father and mother who are so powerful should be safe and sound, even if they can't find it for the time being, but where they don't meet in life, the years will be long, and there will always be a time to meet when she grows up, but I don't know if she will remember this master who only taught her for six or seven days at that time.
In front of the Sacred Guard Mountain, the streets are full of people and bustling, and it is hard to imagine that such a place was once trampled by the giant feet of the King of Cangbi, and was once razed to ruins for thousands of miles, and the ground was full of corpses.
Lin Shouxi looked at it from afar, imagining the picture of the king of the blue tearing the high wall, and couldn't help but think of the three-flowered cat, and his heart was in a trance.
Chu Yingchan saw that he was a little absent-minded, so she invited him to learn swordsmanship again.
Lin Shouxi was also quite curious about the magic of the Daomen, which was Mu Shijing's most commonly used fingering and swordsmanship, which once forced him to breathe when he was in the dead city.
He wanted to find a way to crack it through Chu Yingchan.
Similarly, Chu Yingchan also sought a way to crack the witch family's swordsmanship through him, in case of emergency, although she did not regard Xiao He as an enemy, but Xiao He, a girl, always likes to provoke, if she is really annoyed by the provocation, she can also have a way to counteract.
Neither of them knew the other's intentions, and it was just a pure swordsmanship study.
At dusk they stopped in a small walled city, ready to rest for the night, and then went out early tomorrow morning, all the way east, without stopping.
They chose a small inn and booked two rooms to stay.
When they got downstairs, Chu Yingchan and Lin Shouxi stopped together.
As yesterday, they saw a beautiful fairy in a white dress again.
But this time it wasn't the goddess holding the sword of the Ring, it was ......
"Mother, why are you here?" Chu Yingchan asked suspiciously.
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