Volume 5 The Stroke of God Chapter 19 A Ride into the Kingdom of God
Last year, the master ascended to heaven on the shore of Surabaya, and then it rained heavily for dozens of days, and on the night after the rain stopped, a bright moon appeared shining on the world.
No one has ever seen the moon.
Only the Heavenly Book of Bright Characters has made an obscure prediction about this, and the Buddha made a clear declaration in his notes after reading the Ming Scroll.
The appearance of the moon refers to the fact that before the arrival of this eternal night, there will be a thing called the moon in the world, and there will be those silver rays shining, how can the eternal night be called night?
For the unknown, human beings naturally inevitably panic. However, human beings also have a very strong or pathetic trait - when they find something that cannot be changed, they will accept it in the shortest possible time, bear it silently, and quickly become accustomed to it.
When people found that the bright moon in the night sky did not seem to disappear, they quickly accepted its existence, and the Tianqin Prison began to observe the trajectory of the moon, trying to deduce the good and bad from it, and the poets began to write many new poems to praise the beautiful bright moon, and even some people began to worship the moon god.
Since the moon, like the rest of the world in Haotian, seems so stable and full of solemn beauty, then let it continue to exist in the night sky, what do you need to worry about?
The premise of all these feelings is that the moon is stable, and in fact it is also stable, and it has not changed in any way since the day it appeared, it has always been so full and bright, and when night comes, it will always appear in the fixed night sky on time, and its position has not changed.
A qiē started to be different from tonight.
The bright moon will darken, as if the sky is sunny and cloudy, the full moon will be smaller, as if a piece is missing, and the face of the moon will quietly change, and it will be seen by everyone on the ground.
The sound of firecrackers resounded throughout the world for more than ten nights. Countless towns and villages were splashed with sparks, and people looked at the night sky in horror, beating gongs and drums for fear that the moon would fall from the sky, but they did not know whether these loud voices were cheering the moon or emboldening themselves.
People prayed to Haotian and worshiped the moon god, but Ning Que, who was walking in the mountains and forests, did nothing, he looked at the moon every night and was silent, his face was full of worry.
He had seen the moon wax and wane countless times, so he was not as alarmed as anyone else, but he didn't understand why the moon was also cloudy and waning, and he was worried that something was wrong with the teacher who was fighting in the sky - were you hurt? Can you hold on?
Ning Que came to the Xiling Divine Kingdom. This is the second time he has come here, and the last time he just walked in a carriage with the teacher and did not leave any impression, so the mood is still a little strange.
Along the way, except for those believers who pious and bowed to the mountain on the mountain road, he did not see anything commendable here, even the food was much worse than Chang'an City and the Song Kingdom.
It wasn't until he came to a place not far from the Xiling Temple, that he looked at the towering green mountains, the three cliffs between the mountains that were not like human beings could cut out, and the several majestic temples located between the cliffs, that he really felt the solemn atmosphere unique to this country known for its sacredness.
In the world of Haotian, Daomen has unimaginable authority and resources, and the status of Zhishouguan is transcendent and does not care about the world, and the Xiling Temple is the political and power center of this world, even if there are more academies in the south of Chang'an City of the Tang Kingdom in this thousand years, it still cannot change this fact.
There is still a long time before the light festival, the guard of the Xiling Temple has become extremely strict, because of this war, for the believers who hold the road deed of the Tang Kingdom and the Great River Kingdom, it is extremely careful to search, only through the inspection of the three checkpoints, can you go to the foot of the Xiling Temple.
Ning Que naturally didn't take the road deed of the Tang Kingdom, he used the identity of the Song Kingdom... There are four senior brothers and six senior brothers in the mountain behind the academy, and the strongest one in the world for forging all kinds of documents really makes him a little vigilant is the third level, more precisely, the old priest who leans on a bamboo chair and closes his eyes to recuperate.
The old priest was wearing a brown robe, and his status in the temple should not be high, but even the red-clothed priest who presided over the inspection showed him great respect.
This old priest was in charge of finding the cultivators who tried to infiltrate the temple, and if he didn't have some kind of special Dao method to find out all the cultivators, he must have advanced to the Eighth Knowing Destiny Realm.
It was really hard for Ning Que to imagine that Daomen had suffered such heavy losses in this war, and he could casually find a strong man who knew his fate to be in charge of such ordinary affairs.
He looked at the majestic temple in the distance, and thought to himself that it was indeed worthy of the Dao Gate that had ruled the world for countless thousands of years, and no one knew how many amazing characters were hidden in this mountain.
Thinking like this, he walked over like this, and the old brown-clothed priest lying on the chair did not react, his eyes were still closed, and he seemed to sleep more soundly.
In the battle with the Guan Lord in Chang'an City, the Astonishing Array infused countless heaven and earth vitality into Ning Que's body, and at that time, his own realm was raised to the peak of knowing his fate in a very short time. After the war, those heaven and earth vitality flowed out of his body and returned to the streets and alleys of the city, and his realm returned to the realm of knowing fate again, but now the real combat power is not only here, and it is a real powerhouse who is close to the peak of knowing fate.
The most important thing is that the Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi of Chang'an City did not leave all of his body, after all, it still left a trace of half in his body, for that thousand-year-old male city, the slightest wisp is not enough, and for a cultivator, those Yuan Qi is unimaginably abundant.
When he was in retreat on the cliff behind the academy, Ning Que completely mastered the method of cultivating and storing Haoran Qi, and after the third senior sister's curtain, he was even more skilled, and the remnants of the Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi in his body were slowly transforming into his own Haoran Qi with the passage of time.
Now the water droplets condensed by the Haoran Qi in Ning Que's lower abdomen have already become a pond, and it seems that it can be inexhaustible in battle, and it is used to cover the sea of snow mountain qi and disguise ordinary people who can't cultivate, and it is even more relaxed. Don't talk about the old priest on the chair, even if the head of the Xiling Shrine is in person, he may not be able to see the problem, he dares to repeat the red dust alone and go straight to the Xiling Divine Kingdom, that's why.
The Tang Dynasty court and academy have made sufficient preparations for Ning Que's trip to Xiling, and there is no possibility that there will be any problems with his identity, and the letter in his arms is really written by the master of the Baiyun Temple of the Song Kingdom.
The priest who managed the logistics of the Heavenly Oracle Academy, after reading the letter, looked at Ning Que again, his eyes softened a little, and said: "Since it is recommended by the senior brother, it is naturally inconvenient to refuse, you are doing things in the book hall, especially in the recent period, you must be honest and don't go out at will." ”
Ning Que thanked him, put the prepared expensive gift with Song Guo characteristics in the corner of the room, saluted the priest again, and then took the approval to the book hall to report.
His current identity is a miscellaneous servant of the Heavenly Oracle Academy, responsible for cleaning the book hall. The deacon in the hall threw him a large set of keys, and after saying a few words of caution, he ignored them.
It was difficult for anyone to notice his status as a miscellaneous servant, so he chose this when the academy began to discuss, and he wanted to stay in the study hall, because this was where the teacher used to stay.
Many years ago, the position of the Daomen Book Hall on Peach Mountain was still extremely important, but now it is no longer what it used to be, and it has even been directly under the Bright Temple and handed over to the Heavenly Oracle Academy to be responsible for management.
Ning Que looked at the deserted Dao Hall, looked at the dense classics on the bookshelf, and thought about the changes in the Book Hall, and couldn't help but feel a little emotional, feeling the decay of the Dao Gate.
The library hall is so deserted, it is a very unimaginable thing for the disciples of the academy, if you don't think about learning, you will naturally regress, how can a place where no one wants to read not decay?
This hall of books has produced countless great people, thousands of years ago, the master and the great priest of light who founded the Demon Sect used to be here to sprinkle and sort, but now?
Feeling for Daomen is like worrying about the ancients, which doesn't make much sense. He gathered up, picked up a broom and rag, did a brief cleaning, and began to read.
Ye Su said that there are a lot of Taoist classics hidden here, you can use some time to read, he likes to read, and judging from the current situation, it is estimated that no one will disturb him.
Because of the Battle of the Tang Dynasty and the Light Festival, some of the students of the Heavenly Oracle Academy were in Qinghe, some were in the Southern Jin Dynasty, and more people were busy on Peach Mountain.
Time passes slowly. Sometimes, he even felt as if he had become a reader. But this was not the case, and it was complicated when his eyes occasionally took his eyes off the page and looked at the temple on the mountain.
In front of the Temple of Light, two girls stood.
Both girls are very young. They were dressed in white, and their faces were ordinary, but it was difficult to look away when they saw them, because they were very white, and every inch of skin on their bodies was unusually white, and there was not a single blemish to be found, like snow, and their expressions were unusually pure, like water.
In the distance of the cliff, the deacons and priests of the temple who were busy looked at the two white-clothed girls, their eyes full of curiosity and awe.
These two white-clothed girls were selected from the more than 100,000 girls in the Xiling Divine Kingdom, and according to the edict issued by the Master of the Sect, they had the same status as saints, so no matter how curious the people in the temple were about them, how curious they were about the temple of light, no one dared to ask.
The people in the temple were rarely able to see the two girls, because they were always in the temple of light, and rarely took a step out of the temple, which seemed extremely mysterious.
Today they are standing outside the temple. What are they waiting for?
On the mountain road below Momoyama, smoke and dust suddenly rose up, and several horse-drawn carriages were heading towards the temple at an unimaginable speed, as if they were charging.
The people in the temple were shocked and thought to themselves, what had happened?
Is the war going to start again?
(All kinds of good, good chapter names, good small bridges, good puns, I like it well, hehehehe, tomorrow's update must be late at night, because I don't know when the plane will arrive, and the ticket hasn't been bought yet.) )