Chapter 259: Vulture History, Underground Grotto (4k)
"Zhao Qingxiaoyou, who are you?" Seeing Zhao Qing falling from the sky, Xiaoyaozi couldn't understand whether he was going to ascend in three months, or the other party?
Could it be that after only half a year, she came from behind and miraculously caught up with her own cultivation?
"I came on a giant wither, so I was able to fall from the sky." Quickly landing on the top of the peak, Zhao Qing couldn't stop his high speed for a while, and after rushing out of dozens of steps, he stopped, his body shook, and he jumped back to the top of the ethereal peak, and explained in a loud voice.
"I see......
Xiaoyaozi seemed to understand this statement, stretched out his hand to check the Yaoqin, whose sound had stopped abruptly just now, and found that because he was too excited when he saw Zhao Qing, the movement of the internal force on the strings fluctuated, and several strings were shaken loose, and he couldn't continue playing for a while.
What birds can fly with people? Even if you really fly into the sky, how do you achieve it?
He carefully sensed the breath of the other party, and found that her realm cultivation had indeed improved greatly, and her skill was as deep as the sea, without a single thing, and omnipresent, making it impossible for people to grasp the void and reality, and the qi was also traceable.
At the same time, Zhao Qing smiled slightly and added, "Isn't there a statue of a vulture in the Vulture Palace here? The big bird that carried me here must be one of the vultures."
When she arrived near the Ethereal Peak, she saw the Mengwu Stone Sculpture on the edge of the Vulture Palace from a distance, which had some similarities with the Dugu Divine Sculpture, and it looked as if it was the same bird.
In fact, according to Dugu's claim for defeat, he was in a cliff cave in the Ethereal Peak at the beginning, and found the withering of a fledgling.
Perhaps due to the mutation, the withered feathers of the gods are different from the black of other vultures, showing a light golden color, so they were abandoned by their parents, and before they were starved to death and froze to death, they met Dugu, who went to the Ethereal Peak to find Tong Grandma to try his sword, and was lucky to become his friend.
Now, returning to the ethereal peak where it was born after decades of absence, the god withers fly freely beside the cliffs everywhere, evoking the memories of its childhood, and it seems to be deeply touched.
After chatting with Xiaoyaozi for a while, Zhao Qing gradually learned about his past experience and the general history of the Vulture Palace.
More than 200 years ago, the young Xiaoyaozi traveled everywhere, looking for the relics of the ancients, and found that the ethereal peak of the Tianshan Mountains, which has many natural dangers, but there is a flat land suitable for building castles at high places, which can be used as a place to avoid danger during wars.
At that time, it was the end of the Tang Dynasty, Huang Chao, Wang Xianzhi and others rebelled, the world was in chaos, a large number of scholars perished, and the famous sects were destroyed, so that he gained many esoteric secrets, and obtained the inheritance of Sima Chengzhen, the great master of the Tang Dynasty.
Feeling that the wars were becoming more frequent and difficult to stop for decades, Xiaoyaozi took his family and some good friends and companions, gathered a team to build a fortress that was easy to defend and difficult to attack, so that people with low martial arts could live here.
As for himself, he continued to travel around the world and successfully cultivated the life-prolonging exercises he had obtained from the Immortal Changchun Valley, but it was difficult to teach them due to the lack of qualifications of his relatives and friends.
After the familiar family and friends died one by one, Xiaoyaozi was touched, and finally understood the essence of the life and death cycle of "Heaven and Earth Immortal Changchun Gong", and became one of the few peerless masters in the world.
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Returning to the stone castle, Xiaoyaozi was accompanied by the vulture living here, named it "Vulture Palace", and dug a large number of secret passages underground, retreated and studied martial arts, and created many exquisite masteries, which were engraved on the stone wall in the depths of the tunnel.
In the end, he summarized and sublimated the original exercises into a "free and easy wind", breaking through the realm of heaven and man, and entering the martial arts realm of "refining the void".
After the success of martial arts, he left the Ethereal Peak again, walked around the rivers and lakes, adopted a baby girl who was abandoned as a monster because of her natural precocious wisdom, taught her superior internal skills since she was a child, and gave birth to the idea of opening the door and building a school.
In Tiantai Mountain, where Sima Chengzhen lived in seclusion, and Tongbai Temple, where he left his Taoist treasure, Xiaoyaozi met Li Congqian, who had met in the Southern Tang Dynasty decades ago and faked his death and became a monk, exchanged Taoism and martial arts with each other, and agreed to accept the other party's newborn granddaughter as an apprentice.
He took the girl back to the Vulture Palace and took care of her for a period of time, so that she successfully started the "Heaven and Earth Immortal Changchun Gong", he calculated the time to go out of the mountain again, and first accepted Wuyazi as an apprentice along the way, and then accepted Li Qiushui as the third apprentice, teaching the two of them the internal skills of entry.
After a few years, Xiaoyaozi found that Li Qiushui had a bad heart and was not a suitable apprentice, so he took her sister Li Qingning to the Vulture Palace, and did not teach her martial arts, but only taught miscellaneous studies such as piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, poetry, hops, and tea, to investigate her character.
As a result, he was about to accept Li Qingning as a closed disciple, Li Qiushui deliberately let the eldest apprentice break the merit in order to compete for Wuyazi, and the three apprentices made a mess, which made him quite disappointed, and took Li Qingning to live in the Immortal Changchun Valley for a few years.
When I came back, the contradiction between the three apprentices not only did not resolve, but intensified, and he passed on the position of head to Wuyazi, the highest martial artist, away from the Ethereal Peak, and went to overseas retreat to practice, pursuing the attainment of the Tao and ascending.
Because of the guilt of his senior sister, Wu Yazi gave up the Vulture Palace and left with Li Qiushui, only Grandma Tong lived alone in the empty Vulture Palace, feeling deeply lonely, traveling in the surrounding area, breaking into a famous reputation, and saving some baby girls who had similar encounters to himself, and gradually established this powerful sect located in the remote place of the Tianshan Mountains.
The entire Vulture Palace is divided into nine heavens and nine parts, namely Haotian Division, Yangtian Division, Chitian Division, Zhu Tianfaction, Chengtian Division, Youtian Division, Xuantian Division, Luan Tianbei Division and Jun Tianfaction, each of which has nearly 100 people, although most of them are only twenty or thirty years old, but basically have the level of third-rate masters.
Each of these women was rescued by Grandma Tong in a very difficult and distressed situation, because although Grandma Tong was strict, everyone was grateful for her kindness.
Among them, Granny Yu, Shi Sister-in-law, and Fu Minyi, who have the highest martial arts, are already regarded as first-class cultivators, although they are weaker than Su Xinghe, a disciple of Wuyazi, but they are also much younger.
Obviously, in the treatment of these subordinates of the Vulture Palace, Grandma Tong also taught with all her heart, and did not hide her secrets, but due to her lack of skills, she couldn't learn advanced martial arts such as Tianshan Folding Plum Hands.
However, because these maids are from ordinary backgrounds, their qualifications are uneven, and there are no geniuses, if they lose the seat of Grandma Tong, it is estimated that after two or three generations, the Vulture Palace will decline.
Xuzhu, who succeeded to the position of the lord in the original work, has average qualifications and an honest personality, somewhat similar to the later Guo Jing, although his skills are better than Tong's grandmother, but the effect of teaching the younger generations is far less than her.
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Therefore, although Grandma Tong has also done some evil things, wantonly using life and death charms to control the thirty-six caves and seventy-two islands, she has also saved the lives of nearly a thousand poor women and cultivated them into talents.
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After getting a token identifying the identity of the guest from Xiaoyaozi, Zhao Qing descended from the highest point of the Ethereal Peak, found a lot of blue and white snow lotuses along the way, and arrived at the Vulture Palace below.
She felt the temperature rise rapidly, and knew that this was due to the special topography of the surrounding peaks, and the effect of a warm wind blowing in it made this place not as cold as the rest of the Tianshan Mountains.
And because it is close to the place where the cold and heating meet, the yin and yang qi are more active than ordinary places, and it is easy to sense and attract the aura of heaven and earth, which is very suitable for the cultivation of superior internal strength.
It can be seen that when Xiaoyaozi chose the location of the Vulture Palace, it was really a subtle design made after mastering the surrounding weather.
Along the way, she caught a glimpse of many women wearing turquoise cloaks, who were members of the Nine Heavens and Nine Divisions of the Heavenly Mountain Tong of the Ethereal Peak Vulture Palace, with a brocade hanging down from their chests in front of their cloaks, embroidered with a black vulture, squatting with their heads held high, and their expressions were majestic.
Seeing these small black versions of the gods, Zhao Qing also had a good impression, looked around casually for a while, and caught a glimpse of a few little black eagles walking on the roofs of nearby houses that were not afraid of people, and with a wisp of warm true qi as a guide, he casually invited one of them.
The black vulture here is called the vulture, which is quite spiritual, and after more than 200 years of breeding and companionship by Xiaoyaozi and others, it is very close to people.
Walking around the Vulture Palace, and being warmly welcomed by the group of girls who had been ordered in advance, Zhao Qing heard that Grandma Tong was currently in the apse of the Vulture Palace to learn martial arts, and knew that she should
It should be in the stone room inside to figure out the map above.
According to Dugu's account of seeking defeat, he was still in his forties at the time, and he heard that there was a secluded master in the Ethereal Peak of the Tianshan Mountains, and he came to the door to challenge, and found a golden wither abandoned by his parents and cooing on the road, and rescued it.
When he came to the Vulture Palace with Xiao Wither, Grandma Tong had a good impression of this weak bird, and thought of his own origin, the two tried to have a try, and also had some friendship with each other, and printed a bird-shaped picture carved on the underground stone wall and gave it to him.
Speaking of which, that day, after comparing swords and sensing the immortal gate, Dugu sought defeat in martial arts and swordsmanship, and soon gave birth to a large number of related deep understandings and began intermittent retreat.
Although he learned about the existence of Xiaoyaozi from Zhao Qing's side, he knew that he was Grandma Tong's master, and he had the willingness to come to see one or two, but due to his serious injuries, he needed to recuperate for a period of time.
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"Miss Zhao, the Lord is invited." Just as Zhao Qing was enjoying the scenery of the Vulture Palace and teasing the little Vulture, four eighteen or nineteen-year-old girls walked up to her, bowed down, and whispered.
They are not only tall and short and slender exactly the same, but also have no difference in appearance, the general melon seed face, eyes like paint, elegant and beautiful, only the color of the clothes is different, one wears light red, one wears blue, one wears light yellow, it is the most favored Mei Lan bamboo chrysanthemum four shu.
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"When the old lord returns, he tells the servants to obey grandma's orders if they have something." Mei Jian, the leader of the four swords, spoke, "Miss Zhao, please come with the four of us."
They led Zhao Qing to the garden, pulled the trigger, removed a rockery, and showed the entrance to the tunnel.
The tunnel twists and turns, spirals downward, and sometimes suddenly opens up, revealing a huge grotto, which can be seen that the tunnel is opened according to the natural cave in the belly of the mountain.
After walking for more than two miles, Mei Jian stretched out his hand and pushed away a rock on the left, and inside was the martial arts center of the Vulture Palace, and the four of them guarded outside, not daring to enter.
Zhao Qing walked into the stone room, only to see that the four walls of the rock were polished and smooth, and the stone walls were carved with countless circles of diameter and length, each circle was carved with a variety of figures, some were portraits, some were beast shapes, some were incomplete words, and some were just marks and lines.
Next to the circle are the numbers "A 1", "A 2", "Zi 1", "Zi 2", etc., and at a glance, there are at least eight or nine hundred. There is also a part of this stone room that is more than 100 zhang long, with some twists and turns, which is blocked from view, and it is impossible to see it at once.
The outermost twelve circles are engraved with detailed diagrams of "Tianshan Folding Plum Hands" and "Tianshan Six Yang Palms"; Looking inside, they are martial arts such as "Transmission of Sound Soul Searching Dafa", "Lifelike Dream Butterfly Step", "White Rainbow Palm Power" and so on.
Those figures, which looked like marked lines, some were the changing routes of the light martial arts of the Carefree School, and some were several martial arts composed of musical rhythms.
There are also some engraved with arithmetic operations, using special symbols created by Xiaoyaozi, which are more concise than ordinary text descriptions, and seem to be some mathematical and physical laws of different shades.
has the education foundation of his previous life, although he doesn't know much about the way he uses symbols, Zhao Qing can guess one or two of them, and he is quite impressed that the other party is in ancient times, but he can also have such insight.
There are only more than 60 circles with incomplete characters, and judging from the remaining traces, it should have been a diagram that recorded the route of "Heaven and Earth Eternal Changchun Gong", "Northern Shengong" and "Xiao Wuxiang Gong".
According to Zhao Qing's speculation, perhaps after Xiaoyaozi taught the three internal skills to his apprentices separately, he was worried that when they went to the underground stone wall to comprehend martial arts in the future, they would be affected by the other two exercises and go into a fork in the road, so they destroyed the three internal skills that were originally engraved here.
In general, the martial arts of the Loose Sect that she had obtained from Wuyazi were only equivalent to two or three percent of the parts of the stone wall diagram.
Many of the other profound mysteries of the Loose Sect were something that Wu Yazi had not yet comprehended before leaving the Vulture Palace, and some of them were quite different from the direction of the martial arts he had learned, and had no reference value for him, so there was nothing special
Meaning memory.
Glancing at the dozens of circles dedicated to recording the internal exercises of animals, Zhao Qing saw diagrams of apes, vultures, tigers and leopards, pythons, and so on, confirming her conjecture that such exercises originally came from Xiaoyaozi's exploration of the results of animals in the Immortal Changchun Valley.
What is more outrageous is that in addition to this kind of animal version of internal strength, Zhao Qing actually discovered some strange secret methods of biological transformation, which made her quite surprised.
There is a diagram of transplanting the meridians of innate spiritual creatures to human beings, so that the transplanted person has some characteristics of the realm of "unity of heaven and man"; There are diagrams that integrate the eyes, horns, palms, and claws of various animals to simulate some monsters in the Classic of Mountains and Seas;
There is a diagram of purifying the poison in the poisonous object through true qi and transforming it into a natural spiritual object; There are also illustrations of using different kinds of animal minds to intervene in the meridians of young animals to make them mutate......
However, most of these secret methods are full of speculation and improvement ideas about the reasons for their failure, and they are obviously not successful.
After pondering the above content for a while, Zhao Qing suddenly thought that the withering of the gods, who were born different from ordinary vultures, could not be the result of Xiaoyaozi's experiments on its ancestors, but the effect was not obvious for a while, and it finally took effect in its generation, right?
Having said that, which martial arts is Grandma Tong comprehending now? She looked into the depths of the stone chamber and saw a passage that seemed to have been newly hewn out, and with a slight sense, it led to a new stone chamber.
Stargazing is like a dream