Chapter 167: Gains and Losses
Zhuang Zhou led people to rush back to Yunmeng Mountain overnight, and Li Geng led people to quickly rescue those disciples who were imprisoned by Gong Dingren, and then acted non-stop, and quickly controlled all the backbone elements such as Jia Youdao and Hua Chunling.
Then Zhuang Zhou sneaked into the patriarch's room, and happened to encounter Gong Dingren invading Ma Shanhao's dream. Zhuang Zhou had an idea, thinking that he already had two dream-making talismans, why not take the opportunity to enter the dream realm and set up a bureau for Gong Dingren, so that he would be scattered?
So, Zhuang Zhou used the low-level dream talisman to disguise himself as Ma Shanhao's dream realm and lure Gong Dingren into the Lock Dream Pagoda. Originally, he wanted to absorb the power of his mind, but firstly, Zhuang Zhou was not proficient in driving the pagoda, and secondly, Gong Dingren had already sensed that the situation was different. Zhuang Zhou didn't stop doing it, so he activated the second intermediate dream talisman to bring Gong Dingren into the second layer of dreaming, and used Ruohong's beauty to lure him into being fooled. Unexpectedly, Gong Dingren was very vigilant, and he was able to restrain his ** and not be fooled, in desperation, Zhuang Zhou had no choice but to urge the other dream captives in the dream talisman to transform into the images of Jia Youdao, Hua Chunling, ** and others, and used the remaining breath in the talisman to transform the images of other disciples working in Yunmeng Pavilion, forming a dream world that was enough to be fake.
Rao is like this, the suspicious and alert Gong Dingren still almost saw through the trick! One is the doubt about the dream time, and the other is the doubt about Ruohong's identity. Zhuang Zhou was the first time to urge the dream talisman, and he was not very familiar with it, and the image of those remaining breath illusions was difficult to be as clear and perceptible as those dream captives after all, so Gong Dingren immediately became suspicious when he saw their blurred faces, fortunately, Ruohong appeared in time and seduced him with beauty again, Gong Dingren finally fell for it and became a ghost in a dream......
At this time, Zhuang Zhou was sitting in the main hall of Yunmeng Pavilion. In the past few months, no, the things that have been experienced in the past few years have come to mind one by one.
More than two years ago, I inadvertently probed into my parents' past, and I was so confused that I almost did something wrong to Liu Ling, and I was provoked by Liu Ling's words. Liu Canglong took himself away from Yunmeng Mountain and implanted a twenty-year-old dream-making talisman, making him think that he was a teenager who had lived in the world for twenty years. Later, he returned to Yunmeng Mountain, but his past memories were not completely erased. also inexplicably went to Bicui Valley, met his biological father Zhuang Tianyang, got along for two years, condensed the red tiger into a dream, and obtained the silver dragon. On the way back. and skillfully collected the purple whirlwind into his mind...... Later, he was deceived by his master Liu Canglong. Full of hatred for his father Zhuang Tianyang. and used hatred to deal with the revenge of her mother Ye Xuan'er. In the end, Liu Canglong became the head of the line, and he became the lord of Yunmeng Mountain, and then saw through Gong Dingren's conspiracy, dreamed of killing cold ghosts, and killed Li Qiaosheng's family. After returning to the mountain, he went on a killing spree and turned dozens of living people into ghosts......
What he has gained over the past two years. And what is lost?
He turned Liu Canglong into a walking corpse, which can be regarded as avenging the loss of his parents; he ascended the throne of the patriarch and killed all those who opposed him, which can be regarded as the fulfillment of his wish; on the way of cultivation, he refined the red tiger, turned into a silver dragon, collected the whirlwind, obtained the secret method, and quickly upgraded to the dream realm within two years, defeating several enemies who were stronger than himself, Zhou Bonian, Ling Yan, Li Chaowen, Liu Canglong, and Leng Ghost......
From these points of view, Zhuang Zhou has achieved great achievements that the ancestors of Yunmeng Mountain have not achieved in the past few hundred years! However, Zhuang Zhou, who was sitting in the main hall, looked at the winter sun at the door, but there was no trace of excitement and relief in his heart.
Why is that?
Because, he felt like he had lost more!
Father Zhuang Tianyang is still missing, biological mother Ye Xuan'er was driven down Yunmeng Mountain by her own indifference, senior sister Wen Tian also followed with resentment, and Liu Ling was full of hatred for herself...... These people who should be his closest people have now left him, and even become his enemies!
On this Yunmeng Mountain, does he still have anyone close to him? Yin Ji, Zhou Long, Ma Tianhu, and Ma Tianhu used to be his best friend, but since he put on the hat of patriarch, there have been some very subtle changes in the relationship between the two......
Why is that?
Zhuang Zhou raised his hands and looked at the lines of his palms in the sunlight. These hands, still as wide and sturdy, criss-crossed with fine lines, seem to tell a complex and deep story. The ten fingers are slightly bent and placed side by side to form a shallow container, with sunlight between the fingers, but a shadow in the center of the palm. Zhuang Zhou suddenly felt that these hands were a little unfamiliar, and he couldn't remember why they were so unfamiliar, he leaned them forward, put them under his nose and sniffed them, and suddenly put them down in a panic!
He smelled a strong smell of blood!
Zhuang Zhou finally understood that these hands had killed too many people during this time, Li Qiaosheng's family, Gong Dingren and his henchmen...... Did all of these people deserve to be killed? Since when did he become so murderous? Not only did he kill the cold ghost, but he also had his body dragged out for parade through the streets......
At the moment of killing, he seemed to flash a trace of hesitation and uneasiness...... But, is there really one?
Zhuang Zhou can't remember it anyway!
From the eyes of Yin Ji and Zhou Long, Zhuang Zhou saw strangeness and fear. Now he himself is a stranger to himself!
However, Zhuang Zhou knew that he had to continue on this road!
At this time, Li Geng walked in from outside, bowed down and said, "Patriarch, those people have woken up, but they all look a little demented......
Zhuang Zhou suddenly came back to his senses and knew that those who had been driven into their dreams by his own dream-inducing sound had woken up and become half-demented people. He saw Li Geng's face that was absolutely loyal to him, and felt a little comforted in his heart, and said: "Li Geng, I was going to send you to return to the mine with this group of people to find the ore vein, and now, I have a new idea......
Li Geng was at a loss and said: "What does the patriarch want Li Geng to do, Li Geng has no words, go to the soup and go to the fire, and he will not give up!"
Zhuang Zhou saw that Li Geng's words were true, and he was also a little excited in his heart, and said: "Look, after Li Qiao's death, there was no village chief in Qixia Village, and I saw that you were doing things in an orderly manner these days, and you were very assertive, so it was better for you to go back to the village to be the village head, and I would send someone else to ...... to find the ore vein."
Before he finished speaking, Li Geng knelt on the ground with a thud and said, "Patriarch, Li Geng is a lowly slave, how can he be the village chief......
Zhuang Zhou sighed: "No one is a natural slave, with your talent, you can be the head of any village, so you don't have to shirk." ”
Li Geng kowtowed like pounding garlic and said: "Li Geng doesn't want to be a village chief, he just wants to stay with the patriarch after finding the ore vein for the patriarch, loyally protect the patriarch, and be the patriarch's dead soldier!"
Zhuang Zhou heard him say extremely sincerely, and knew that this was indeed what Li Geng was thinking, so he couldn't help but be greatly moved, and said, "I understand your intentions...... However, you must know that I can't stay in Yunmeng Mountain all the time, one day, I will enter the secular world, where it will be a much bigger and more dangerous world than Yunmeng Mountain, you and I have never been there, aren't you afraid?"
When he said this, Zhuang Zhou's mind flashed a vague fragment of the secular world in that twenty-year dream......
Li Geng said categorically: "I'm not afraid! My life in the second half of my life is not my own, but yours the patriarch!" His resolute face was full of two words: loyalty!
Zhuang Zhou had mixed feelings, just now he was still asking himself if there was anyone really close to him on this Yunmeng Mountain, now it seems that others dare not guarantee that Li in front of him will be the closest person on his road in the future, no matter what kind of difficulties and obstacles he encounters, even if the whole world is against him, he also believes that Li Geng will always be in front of him!
Zhuang Zhou helped Li Geng up and said: "Okay! In the future, I will regard you as my Zhuang Zhou's brother! The changes during this period of time have delayed a lot of time, you can take people to the mine now, find the ore vein in the fastest time, and after you come back, you will be my closest guard, follow me!"
Li Geng burst into tears, his heart was excited, but he couldn't speak, he hugged his fists and said, "Patriarch, I'm going!" As he spoke, he turned around and walked out of the main hall, and after a while, he heard his shouting voice, a chaotic sound of footsteps, and then heard him speaking to everyone. Finally, the sound fades.
Zhuang Zhou knew that Li Geng had already led people to the mine.
Zhuang Zhou also left the main hall and came to Yunmengge Square. I saw that the square was empty, and only some left-behind miscellaneous disciples occasionally appeared in the field of vision, and when they saw Zhuang Zhou, they shouted respectfully: "Patriarch!"
Zhuang Zhou suddenly remembered the book "Aoki Secret Method", he hadn't really read it seriously since he got it, he had been hiding in the cultivation room, and he didn't know if he was okay? Thinking of this, he quickly came to the side of the flying shuttle, flew to the cultivation ground, and then walked through the dense forest to the waterfall, and got into his own cultivation room, and couldn't wait to move away from the stone that covered the robe, and when he saw it, the robe was still lying there quietly.
Zhuang Zhou picked it up and saw that the robe was still the same, but because of time, it became more and more old. Looking at the Taoist robe, Zhuang Zhou thought of his father Zhuang Tianyang again, and couldn't help but be stunned for a while, and the question that had been tumbling in his heart many times flashed again: How did Ye Xuan'er get the Taoist robe? He laughed self-deprecatingly, why did he not rush to cultivate every time he saw this "Aoki Secret Method", but poured into those unreasonable questions?
Zhuang Zhou took the robe out of the cultivation room, came to the waterhole under the waterfall, soaked the robe in water, and soon those small characters were exposed, dense. Sit down on a piece of bluestone by the Zhuangzhou Disaster Relief Pond and take a closer look at the roar of the waterfall.
Zhuang Zhou stared at the small words on the fly's head, and the feeling of being unstoppable came up again, and there was a tingling pain in the Yin Hall, and his mind was a little disordered. However, unlike before, at the same time as the dizziness, a breath in the dantian immediately rose, converging in the Yin Hall, and vaguely felt that it was a silver dragon that would only appear in a dream, and gradually resisted the stinging pain caused by the words in the Taoist robe, like a breeze blowing away the dark clouds, and the mind became clear and comfortable......
Zhuang Zhou was pleasantly surprised, knowing that after fighting with the cold ghost, he entered the dream-making realm by himself, absorbing two dream-making talismans, and the breath power in his mind was even stronger, and the magic brought by the words of the Dao robe could no longer bring harm to himself as before!
Splitting the beast method, Zhuang Zhou saw these three words, looked down without hesitation, recited the condensing mantra silently a few times, kept it in mind, and then stuffed the robe into his arms, condensed cross-legged, and began to cultivate. (To be continued......)