Chapter 1: Ten Years
A vigorous and powerful eagle roar cut through the calm sky, injecting a bleak and vicissitudes of life into this Qingyun Mountain. Dense forests and bamboos, clear streams and turbulence, between the peaks and ravines, clouds and mist, quite a paradise weather.
Qingyun Mountain is located in the east of the Shenwu Continent, in the east of the Tang Dynasty. It is Fengyang Country, a famous strange mountain in Dalin County. This mountain is 889 zhang high, there are countless rare and exotic beasts, and there is a holy flower that is famous in the whole country of Fengyang - ice and fire magnolia.
The reason why the ice and fire magnolia is well-known to the world is precisely because of its unparalleled ornamentality, the so-called "flowers bloom half a degree, ice and fire shine in the sky." "It's this magnolia of ice and fire.
At this time, halfway up Qingyun Mountain, there was a blue-tiled hut, and a young man in the house was sitting cross-legged.
"It's been ten years, and I've spent a full ten years cultivating the peerless martial arts that the old man said, and I've spent a full ten years with this bullshit orchid!"
The young man's right hand shook, and a magnolia of ice and fire, which was worth a thousand gold in the world, turned into dozens of fragments and drifted away from the young man's fingers.
The young man slowly opened his eyes, and his eyes were full of unwillingness! Is it really worth it to insist on this? The young man also questioned in his heart. However, the confusion in the young man's eyes was instantly replaced by tenacity. I can't regret it, it's been ten years, and the harvest time is almost here.
The boy raised his head and looked at a lone peak towering into the sky in the distance. There is the reason why he has been sticking to it for ten years.
There is a medicine garden on the lonely peak, which is said to be a medicine garden, but in fact, it is only half an acre of land, and there are only two flavors of medicinal herbs planted in the huge medicine field!
I saw a white grass shaped like a snowflake and a big tree as red as thunder flame, standing quietly on the lonely peak......
Jiang Li took another ice and fire magnolia from the wooden table beside him, and looking at this orchid grass, his thoughts drifted away.
Sixteen years ago, he was an orphan, uncared for and cared for, like forgotten by the world. But one day, a strange old man who was not serious came to him and said this to him.
"You and I have a relationship with the old man. ”
So everything changed, and a new world appeared in front of Jiang Li. He knew that there was still a kind of existence in this world called monks. This kind of existence is above all ordinary beings, even the unattainable secular emperor in the eyes of Jiang Li in the past, he is just an ant in front of the monks.
The monks seize the creation of heaven and earth, gather the spirit of all things, condense the heart, and build the spirit body. Opening mountains and splitting seas, stepping on the sky and breaking the stars is just a matter of raising your hands! It can be described as a land immortal, omnipotent!
However, not everyone can become a monk, and if you want to cultivate immortals, you must have excellent qualifications. Spiritual roots, spiritual veins, spiritual bodies, Dao souls, etc., are all the keys to measuring qualifications. And why mortals are mortals, this is because mortals do not have the above conditions, so the difference between immortals and mortals, such as the next heaven and earth, is very different.
Unfortunately, Jiang Li belongs to the mortal ranks. The Spiritual Root Dao Body is all mortal assets, and it is impossible to cultivate and advance at all.
Ever since Jiang Li reached the strength of the third layer of quenching body when he was ten years old, his skill could no longer improve in the slightest. And how could he be so easy to give up, how could he retreat when he had already seen such a great world!
So he went to ask the old man how he could break through the bottleneck of this mortal. After all, the guide of his immortal path is the old man of his family.
That day, the old man threw Jiang Li a bamboo slip, did not raise his head, and said flatly.
"If you're unwilling, you can try this. Day after day, year after year, can you do something that is extremely boring?"
"Of course. ”
It was an incredibly determined voice.
At that time, even though Jiang Li was only a ten-year-old child, he also understood these truths, and he knew better than any of his peers that his own strength could survive in this cruel world. The weak ones will only be eliminated by the world and then slowly forgotten......
On that bamboo slip, an exercise was recorded, and the whole article was only a few hundred words, and Jiang Li fully understood it after a few hours of enlightenment, but Jiang Li's face became worse and worse.
This exercise is called the Mixed Yuan Sutra, which has been passed down for a long time, and the core of the whole exercise is only one - "swallow the bell spirit of heaven and earth, melt into your own body, and create mixed yuan." ”
To put it simply, it is to absorb the vitality of all things, improve one's own physique, so as to improve one's qualifications, and it is easier to absorb the aura of heaven and earth.
However, this exercise has a huge flaw, that is, the effect is extremely slow, extremely time-consuming, and once the origin of an attribute is selected, it cannot be changed in the future, otherwise there is a danger of spiritual power hedging and dying from explosion.
Until the current position, Jiang Li has gone through six springs, summers, autumns and winters, and his skill progress is only measurable. At most, there is no room for improvement at the peak of the three layers of the quenching body, because further up is the celestial bottleneck that prevents countless people from entering the realm of cultivators-the Celestial and Human Pass.
The origin of Jiang Li's chosen attribute was the Ice and Fire Magnolia, which was instructed by the old man. Jiang Li didn't know why, he guessed that maybe it was because this ice and fire magnolia could be seen everywhere in this Qingyun Mountain Range, making it easy to pick.
Taking a deep breath, Jiang Li stepped out of the door and walked out. Walking slowly, Jiang Li came to a huge rock lonely. Leaning back, he gently leaned against the ancient tree next to the boulder, and slowly closed his eyes, enjoying the peace that could not be obtained.
Between the branches of the trees, wisps of sunlight scattered out, the ancient trees rustled with the breeze, and a leaf quietly fell on the young man's eyebrows, as if he wanted to soothe the uneasiness in the young man's heart.
But just then, a discordant voice shattered the serenity.
"Yo, isn't this a waste Jiang Li, a mere mortal, what kind of artistic conception is pretending, it's really stupid as always. ”
A figure appeared fifty meters away from the ancient tree at some point, the man clasped his hands and his voice was full of disdain.
"Wei Tao, do you dare to enter my forbidden land in Qingyun Mountain? Get out of here, otherwise when the old man gets hairy, even your master won't be able to save you!"
Jiang Li opened his eyes suddenly, and a trace of anger flashed in his eyes. The fists were clenched together, and the green tendons were faint.
"Heh, it's so majestic, could it be that this Qingyun Mountain Range has become your home? Where does Lao Tzu want to stay, and he has to get the consent of your garbage?"
That Wei Tao seemed to be very afraid of the old man in Jiang Li's mouth, and directly ignored Jiang Li's questioning, making it clear that he was trying to find fault, and his eyes were full of sarcasm.
Qingyun Mountain, to be precise, should be Qingyun Mountain. There are a total of eighteen mountains in the Qingyun Mountains, which are known as the eighteen peaks of Qingyun by the world.
The peak occupied by Jiang Li and his old man is called Qingyun Peak, which is also the main peak, and the entire mountain range is named after it.
The other seventeen peaks were occupied by the other seventeen monks, and Wei Tao's master happened to occupy the second peak, so Wei Tao often came to stay near the main peak. So Jiang Li and Wei Tao often meet.
Jiang Li and Wei Tao both belong to juniors, so they will not be affected if they wander among the eighteen peaks, as long as they do not enter the places where the other eighteen peak monks live, they are all allowed.
After all, other senior monks can't save this face to deal with juniors.
And this has also led to the juniors of the Eighteen Peaks having contact with each other, but if there is too much contact, there will definitely be friction.
With friction, it is natural that there will be "learning". And Jiang Li and Wei Tao had a conflict because of the exchange. Half a year ago, Jiang Li was broken by Wei Tao because of the absolute gap in cultivation, and he was seriously injured and didn't get out of bed for a month.
As a result, the two became enemies. But after all, this is a junior competition, as long as there is no disability and death, the elders will not care, this is a battle that is tacitly accepted by everyone.
So Jiang Li will not go to the old man to avenge him, this is his Jiang Li's pride, he will prove himself with his own hands.