Chapter 100: Angry Crane
Qi Jingzhi walked slowly to the edge of the stone platform, looked down, and saw that there was no longer half a figure at the bottom of the valley, most of the fire light that had been surrounded by a circle was extinguished, and the rest was extremely weak, like a candle in the wind.
He turned around and looked up, only to see that the body of the strange snake that had been used as a rope was still hanging from the stone wall, and the end of the snake's tail was still several feet away from the stone platform.
Lao Wei has passed away, and there is no one to urge the cloud snake and fog tiger to help him cross the void.
Qi Jingzhi pursed his lips, only to feel that his eyes were slightly hot, and a bad breath was stuffed in his chest.
"The blue sky is high, the yellow ground is thick, the moon is cold and the day is warm, come and fry life!"
The inscription on the body of the fried life knife appeared in his heart: "Life is not eternal, and the sky is not a holiday!" In the world of life, not only will we be consumed by the rotation of the sun and the moon, but also all kinds of calamities! What should I do when I see this?"
"What should I do when I see this?"
Qi Jingzhi withdrew his gaze from the snake corpse on the mountain wall, and then glanced at the deep and dark cave in front of him, and suddenly kicked his feet on the ground fiercely, and his body suddenly sank and floated, and the whole person actually jumped up more than three feet out of thin air!
At the beginning of the Komatsu Mountain, he climbed to the treetops of the ancient trees in the epiphany of boxing, and he was unaware in the process and did not know the reason afterwards.
In the dream, he held the knife in his hand at the last moment, flapped his wings into the sky, and jumped into the sky, but the dream was illusory after all, and he couldn't do it either.
Until this moment, Qi Jingzhi suddenly realized in the turmoil of his mood, but he did not feel half happy, only full of evil anger and loneliness.
"Qi Jingzhi, do you remember why I gave you this name?"
"Students remember! Qi respect, solemn and respectful. The Master named me Jingzhi to encourage the students to be sincere and upright, to respect the Heavenly Ancestors, and to behave in a dignified manner and to be worthy of respect!"
"The student's knife head is stained with blood, and he has a clear conscience!"
The questions and answers between teachers and students suddenly echoed in the teenager's heart.
Before today, Qi Jingzhi valued the last word "no shame" the most, and it was not until this moment that he suddenly woke up to the fact that his mind was undecided, and he had never really thought about how to respect the heavens, how to act in order to be considered a proper party, and how to truly be worthy of it?
"I like to think a few more steps and try to be thoughtful, so I think I have a plan, and I am often complacent about being thoughtful and intelligent, but I don't know that these are all stubbles, and the most important thing is to be sincere! I named the Ox Ear Sharp Knife Tiger Zen, isn't it an expectation for myself?"
"The road ahead is long, the road is long and difficult, only with sincerity and righteousness can we be brave and diligent!"
"So, what is sincerity? What do you mean?"
At this time, Qi Jing's upward rush was exhausted, he did not raise his hand to grab the corpse of the strange snake not far above, but leaned out and kicked the stone wall in front of him, and the whole person rose rapidly again, and soon rose above the cliff.
"I look at this great Qi, no matter the mortal monks, ghosts and demons, they are all involuntarily, with the ups and downs of the world, the sun and the moon are urging, and there are blessings and misfortunes, sooner or later, they will enter the Yellow Spring together, and they will all become ghosts! Even if it is a so-called god, there will be a day when the life of the gods will end and the temple will collapse!"
"The moon is cold and the day is warm, come and fry life! If you can't really transcend it, then the heavens, the earth, the mountains and rivers, and all the things in the world are just an upside-down dream of all beings! How is such a short and vain life different from the dream in the jade pillow?" ….
Thinking of this, Qi Jing's heart seemed to have something breaking through the ground.
"The only way to attain truth is to march forward on the path of cultivation and cut through all vanity with the sword in your hand! Whether it is the ghosts and gods of heaven and earth, or the demons of mountains and rivers, whoever disturbs my mind and obstructs my path, there is only one killing word!"
"In the future, I can act as I please, follow my own heart, and be upright! What should be done is what you want, what you do is what you want, and what is the rest!"
With a bang, this thought suddenly exploded, dispelling the haze in Qi Jing's heart.
Faintly, something suddenly revealed itself in the bottom of his heart, flying high and whistling.
Qi Jingzhi tried to distinguish it, only to feel that it seemed to be a white feather with red feathers, or a pair of wings with white wings and blood-red wings, and finally the true face was revealed, it was actually a pair of ordinary straw sandals, the soles were stained with mud, and the shoes were stained with blood, as if they were ...... Jiao Yulang
The crane shoes mentioned in the story!
"This is the immortal throwing his shoes and stepping on the crane to ascend?"
"Is this the heart shaking like a dancing crane and the bones like a flying dragon?"
"That's ...... My heart?"
A flash of realization flashed in Qi Jingzhi's eyes, and the strength and blood of his body suddenly penetrated, and his body, which had nowhere to borrow strength, suddenly seemed to give birth to a pair of wings, and he was several feet tall out of thin air, far above the cliff at the top of the valley, and then slowly fell down like a light feather.
In mid-air, he raised his eyes to look around, but saw the big moon hanging high, the mountains towering, the long wind was mighty, and the forest sea was booming.
The next moment, a high-pitched and agitated crane chirped straight into the sky!
Compared with the past, there was obviously an angry anger that fought the heavens and the earth in this crane chirping.
It's an angry crane!
What should be done is what you want, and what you do is what you want! Angry cranes for the shoes, fluttering wings in the sky!
This is Qi Jingzhi's backbone!
Maybe it is extreme, or it may deviate from the original elegant and chic atmosphere of the "Crane Sutra", and the so-called "Dancing Crane", and even more or less with the shadow of the young Taoist priest in the dream in the pillow.
"If life will bring disaster to the country and the people, and death will be praised by all people? Lu Qiyun, maybe you really are another me."
"It's just that although you and I have similar temperaments, what we do and what we wish are completely different, and a dream is just a dream after all!"
Qi Jingzhi fell to the ground, and suddenly pulled out the fried life with his left hand, and slashed at the small cypress tree with the body of the strange snake.
"Oops!"
Frying the long knife, Jiao Yulang shouted loudly and emerged, and had to roll on the spot, narrowly avoiding the blade.
"My brother is so quick and ruthless!"
The little baby got up from the ground in embarrassment, complaining and patting the dust off her body.
Qi Jingzhi ignored him, and swung out with a fierce knife, cutting the little cypress tree to the roots, and then kicked it out, kicking down the cliff with the tree and snake.
Jiao Yulang was dumbfounded, and immediately reacted, shouting, "Old Wei hasn't come up yet!" He has old arms and legs, and he always can't bear it with a red gold knife!"
Qi Jingzhi looked at the little baby quietly, his expression was gloomy, and he shook his head slightly.
Jiao Yulang closed his mouth when he landed, his gaze wandered, swept over the body of the white snake corpse wrapped around Qi Jingzhi's body, and then looked at the jade pillow in his right hand.
"Lao Wei has brought back your aunt's birthday gift, so you can send the jade pillow back to Pengze Water Mansion for him." ….
The little baby didn't answer, but turned around and rushed to the edge of the cliff, looked down silently for a long time, and then asked without looking back, "Is Old Wei dead below?"
"Well, dead. I burned his body and buried him in a cave below. Before he died, he smiled and said that he used the mountain as a coffin, and he was the king of men."
Jiao Yulang seemed to nodded, and his voice was a little low: "What about the White Immortal Sect Holy Maiden?"
"This white snake on me is."
Qi Jingzhi's tone was calm, and suddenly he changed his words and asked, "How many white-clothed immortal attendants are there who are presiding over ***?" Where are you now?"
"There are two white-clothed immortals!"
Jiao Yulang turned around suddenly, and a fierce color flashed in his eyes: "After the *** is over, they will guard the two valley mouths below respectively, and no one will be allowed to approach again. I saw that they didn't seem to be in a hurry to leave, and there was no movement on this side of the cave for a long time, so I made a detour and climbed up."
"Guarding Taniguchi?"
Qi Jingzhi understood after thinking about it for a while, those two so-called white-clothed immortal servants seemed to have a certain status, but in fact, they were far less trusted than the two demon snakes ambushed on the top of the valley.
He looked at Jiao Yulang carefully, except for some fierce light between his eyebrows and eyes, there was no sadness, so he handed over the jade pillow in his hand.
This time, the little baby trotted over and took it with both hands, and at the same time gave Qi Jingzhi a big smile.
"Brother, don't be surprised! The younger brother was born in a military family, and when he went up to the clansmen of each branch and room, down to the guards and horsemen in the house, there were always some familiar faces around him who suddenly couldn't see them. I have seen a lot of life and death things, and my heart will inevitably harden.
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Jiao Yulang explained two sentences lightly, and his tone became solemn: "Lao Wei has found the jade pillow, whether it is my Chaozhou Jiao family or Peng Zeshui Mansion, I will give him an explanation!"
As early as when he was in the ancient temple of Xiaosongshan, Qi Jingzhi felt that Jiao Yulang's temperament was a little extreme, and now it seems that it is not without reason. The so-called son of a family, what he has seen and thought since he was a child is indeed different from that of a young man in the mountains.
Seeing that the little baby didn't need to worry about it herself, and had already entrusted the jade pillow, Qi Jingzhi immediately nodded, turned around and walked down the mountain: "I'm going to take care of those two immortal servants, and the inside story of the White Immortal Sect also needs to ask them."
Jiao Yulang hurriedly stepped forward to follow, turned his head to look at the white snake corpse on Qi Jingzhi's body and asked, "I never thought that the so-called White Immortal Sect Holy Maiden turned out to be a snake! Whether it's the black donkey spirit, Li Huang, or that gold clerk, they all keep saying that it is a woman they see."
Qi Jingzhi's footsteps did not stop, and he bowed his head slightly: "When I first saw it, it was indeed a woman's appearance, and its illusion methods were so high that even Lao Wei was fascinated."
As he spoke, he suddenly remembered the mountain patrol day trip he had encountered earlier, and it seemed that the Yin God had not been able to see through the true form of the White Immortal Sect Holy Maiden, saying that it was because of the divine power of the righteous gods.
When Qi Jingzhi entered the cave, he did see the layer of white smoke outside the naked woman's body, but it had disappeared without a trace after breaking the dream, otherwise with the weirdness of the white smoke, it was unlikely that Lao Wei would be entangled with the white snake.
Hearing this, Jiao Yulang opened his mouth, and finally sighed: "The good traveler drowns, and the good rider falls!" Lao Wei can also be regarded as an expert in illusion, and after all, he met a more ruthless one. This is one of the great shortcomings of the charlatans, once the foreign objects they rely on and the thaumaturgy they practice are not called or restrained, life and death cannot be autonomous." ….
The little baby seemed to think that something was wrong, and never asked about the whereabouts of the red gold knife, even when it came to Lao Wei's illusion at this time, he still avoided mentioning that strange thing.
"Before Lao Wei died, he asked me to send the red gold knife back to Liaozhou, and I will set off when this is over."
Qi Jingzhi explained simply, and while hurrying on the road, he roughly talked about what happened in the cave, but he didn't say a few secrets involving himself.
Jiao Yulang listened quietly on the side, without interjecting a word halfway, but his mouth was opened and never closed, and his face was full of incredulity.
After Qi Jingzhi finished speaking, the little baby raised the jade pillow in front of her eyes, turned it over and looked at it carefully: "Brother, something is wrong with this! I have never heard of such a treasure in Pengze Water Mansion, even if there is one, Qinghong Gong is willing to take it out, and he will only give it to the king of the river, how can it be given to my aunt and grandmother?
Qi Jingzhi's brows furrowed slightly: "You mean, this jade pillow is very precious and rare?"
In his eyes, aside from the fact that it can attract people into dreams, from the perspective of appearance alone, this jade pillow is not surprising except for the material is more valuable, whether it is workmanship or style, there is really no appearance of a rare treasure, and it is stronger and limited than the bronze mirror.
"It's not just precious, it's priceless!"
Jiao Yulang's face was still full of incredulity: "Speaking of which, it's not uncommon to have things in this world that can calm your nerves and help you sleep, but they just make people sleep more comfortably. No matter how rare it is, there are indeed some that can lead to dreams, which can help people to organize their thoughts and calm their minds, which is beneficial to their spiritual practice."
"This kind of treasure is mostly used by the high-ranking family to cultivate those talented juniors, so that they can be one step ahead of others and achieve their hearts. I heard Lao Wei mention the jade pillow at the time, and I thought it was like this. But to be able to do what my brother said, can make people reincarnate as human beings and refine their hearts...... It's unheard of, I'm afraid that the lord of the country will be tempted when he sees it!"
When he said this, Jiao Yulang's gaze at the jade pillow was obviously a little eager.
"This thing is a little weird, so don't try it lightly." Qi Jingzhi hurriedly reminded the little baby.
Jiao Yulang was a little dumbfounded, but he still nodded: "I just think it's fun!" I've just started my life, and I haven't lived to understand it, so why should I go to reincarnate in my dreams and refine my mind?"
Qi Jingzhi saw that his eyes were clear, so he nodded, and asked instead, "Since your family is friendly with the Great River Water Tribe, do you know what it is?"
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Hearing this, Jiao Yulang withdrew his gaze from the jade pillow in his hand, turned his head to stare at the corpse of the white snake, and his expression became very complicated: "Patronized the jade pillow, I almost forgot about this stubble!" If this white snake is really the legendary, this matter is a bit complicated, maybe there is no trouble, maybe it's just a *** annoyance!"
The little baby didn't sell it, and then explained: "Qiu Fu is a very special kind of white snake, which likes yin by nature and is highly poisonous. It is said that it is special because this white snake is known as a dragon, and it is said that the dragon blood on its body is extremely strong, and once the yin poison in the body is refined into pure yang, it can be transformed into a dragon."
"The name 虬褫, there is no need to mention the word 虬, the word 褫 is the meaning of taking off and depriving."
Qi Jingzhi understood: "You mean, Qiu Fu seems to be a snake, but in fact, it is a dragon species with noble blood, and most of them have the Dragon Clan Water Monarch as a backer behind it? Have you ever heard of a descendant of the Dragon Monarch who is a delinquent?"
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