Chapter 197: The Last Breath
The main dish for today's Yadong lunch is braised pork.
Ning Que squatted at the entrance of the cave, holding the rice bowl, chewing greasy fat meat in his mouth, looking at the clear cliff scenery, and asked vaguely: "Chen Pipi used to run over to grab food when he smelled the smell of meat, but in the past month or so, the number of times he has been a lot less in the past month or so, even if he comes over and leaves in a hurry after not staying for a while, what is he busy with?"
Sang Sang took the braised pork in the pot aside with a spatula, only the gravy soaked in the white rice, walked to him with a bowl and squatted down, and said after thinking for a while: "I don't know, but the day before yesterday, Tang Xiaotang mentioned it when he came up to play, saying that he often helped her solve difficult problems in her cultivation recently." ”
Ning Que was stunned, remembering the conversation about beasts two months ago, and said with a sneer: "Solve the problem of cultivation? The teacher asked him to help me, but he didn't want to help that little girl, the Daomen Demon Sect, I never got tired of looking at each other, and asked who was doing the beast in the mountain today." ”
Sangsang didn't understand what he was saying.
Ning Que suddenly looked at her and asked, "I heard that the Great Priest of the Heavenly Oracle has been to the Bachelor's Mansion?"
Sangsang nodded and continued to eat.
Ning Que asked again, "So you didn't go back to the Bachelor's Mansion this time?"
Sang Sang lowered his head and snorted.
Ning Que looked at her slightly dark forehead and asked in a low voice, "What do you think about this matter?" Looking at the temple's style, I really take you, the heir of the Bright Divine Throne, seriously, I have never heard of a descendant of the Divine Throne who has attracted so much attention from the Divine Throne before, and even asked a great priest to make a special trip to pick it up. ”
Sang Sang said, "Young Master, what do you think about this?"
Ning Que was silent for a moment and then said: "Although I don't have a good impression of the Xiling Temple, and I didn't imagine that you would really become a Great Priest of Light, until today I still think this matter is ridiculous, but if there is really such an opportunity, I must admit that this matter is very glorious and powerful, and it would be a pity to miss it." ”
Sang Sang suddenly put down the rice bowl in his hand, looked at him and said very seriously: "Now it seems that we should think more about how you broke the level than about these small things." ”
The stupid bird finally flew into the woods first, and the stupid man was finally blessed.
After dozens of days of exhaustion, Ning Que once again burst out with incredible perseverance and patience when facing a desperate situation, just like when he walked out of Minshan, climbed the old library, and realized the charm in the rainstorm, he completed this seemingly impossible thing, and successfully mastered all the essential characteristics of the breath of heaven and earth.
This also means that he can finally transform the Haoran Qi in his body into the natural formation of heaven and earth breath, so that when he walks out of the cliff cave, he will not trigger the prohibition laid by the master.
He was sure he could do it.
It was precisely because of this confirmation that when he failed again and was shocked back into the cliff cave by the ban, his face became extremely pale, and there was an extremely rare situation similar to despair.
His judgment was not wrong, the breath left by the master at the entrance of the cliff cave did not have any reaction to the Haoran Qi in his body, but to his surprise, just as his right foot was about to step over the line, his body suddenly hit an invisible but indestructible wall!
Why is this concubine?
In the depths of the cave, Ning Que curled up between his knees with his head in his hands, and it took a long time to suppress the despair and self-abandonment in his heart, and start thinking seriously again.
Suddenly, he figured it out, but he was really desperate.
The aura left by the Master at the mouth of the cliff cave, once it sensed the aura of Haoran or the unnatural aura of heaven and earth, would trigger the prohibition to simply summon the countless heaven and earth vitality between the cliffs, and then condense into a violent ocean, engulfing anyone who tried to force a breakthrough with a wave.
And when people who don't have any unnatural heaven and earth vitality try to get through this prohibition, the aura left by the Master will itself become a wall, a fence!
Compared with the raging Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi Ocean, this breath does not seem so terrifying, but after all, it is the breath left by the master, if you want to get through, how can it be so simple?
Maybe it's really simple.
Even with the cultivation of the Cave Xuan Realm in front of Ning Que, he can also pass guò, because he has Haoran Qi, and he has learned the method of cultivating Qi recorded at the end of the book of the original examination, as long as he can cultivate the Haoran Qi in his body to a majestic level, even if he only needs to be a little more vigorous, he will probably be able to break through the wall left by the master at the end.
In other words, he is just one breath away from it now, Haoran Qi.
However, the majesty of the majestic qi in his body increased by one point, and the danger of triggering the prohibition when he passed through the guò cliff cave increased by one point, and once the prohibition was touched, the fury of the Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi Ocean would be one more point.
He could indeed turn all the Haoran Qi in his body into the Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi in the natural world now, but this had already made him exhausted and exhausted, not to mention the more Haoran Qi, he really didn't have the spirit and determination to repeat this process that had been repeated countless times.
It was precisely for this reason that in the past two months, Ning Que had stopped cultivating Haoran Qi, and he vaguely understood that if he really cultivated Haoran Qi, he would not only be tortured like he was now, but he might even return to the old path of Little Uncle in the end.
This possibility made him wary, even frightened.
This is the contradiction.
This was the last question the Master gave him.
Seeing the light in a desperate situation, there is a great danger hidden in the dawn.
What would you choose in such a situation?
It is to continue to wait in silence, for the sky to get brighter and brighter, or for it to never be bright again.
Or take your life as a stake, and take another brave or crazy step into that piece of sky?
Sitting on the ground of the cliff cave, Ning Que thought painfully for a long time, but did not come up with an answer, but his feelings became more and more low, and he muttered to himself: "Is there an end?"
I don't know who he is asking this question for, Master or God?
His voice was a little louder, but it was still the same four words: "Is there an end?"
He stood up suddenly, grabbed the bamboo recliner next to him, and slammed it hard against the cliff cave stone wall, only to hear a crisp sound, and the bamboo chair fell apart and turned into a pile of garbage.
Imprisoned in the cliff cave for three months, watching hope, then disappointment and despair, repeating the process, boring and tiresome of giving up, at this point, he finally collapsed.
"It's endless!"
Ning Que shouted angrily, grabbed a qiē thing that he could catch beside him, and smashed it the cave wall, the bamboo chair, the soup urn, the water basin, the pen, ink, paper, inkstone, and even the two books, it seemed that only in this way could he vent the extremely depressed and unwilling stuffiness in his heart.
Everything in the cave was shattered by him, and the bunch of wild flowers that Sang Sang picked under the waterfall on the other side of the mountain yesterday was also scattered and fell to the ground by him.
He sat down among the branches, his head bowed in a lonely expression, and he looked very pitiful, like a child who had lost his way and could never find a home again.
Suddenly, he remembered his first encounter with his master.
That encounter took place on the terrace of the Pine Crane Tower, and ended with a very unreasonable blow from the master.
Ning Que never understood why a big man like Fuzi would lose his temper like a market vendor, and beat his students like thunder.
At this time, he finally understood how the master felt at that time.
It was the master's stick that reminded him of what the real truth of the academy was.
The academy educates students that if they think carefully and confirm that their actions are correct, then when they encounter difficulties and obstacles, they should not be afraid or evade, but should move forward bravely and use all means to adhere to their own principles, which is the principle of the college.
In other words, when the enemy is too strong for you to reason with, then there is no need to reason with it.
Ning Que raised his head and looked at the exit of the cave cliff.
At this time, he didn't think of any seniors, because there was only one senior on this road, and Uncle Xiao finally came to a ruined end.
He thought of the powerhouses of the Haotian Dao Gate, starting from the Daoist Ye Hongyu, to the great priest on the Peach Mountain, from the world walking Ye Su who carried the wooden sword, to the legendary Zhishou Guan Guan Master in green clothes, until finally his gaze fell on the clear blue sky outside the cliff.
"I will continue to practice Haoran Qi, I will try again, I don't care if it will trigger the ban you set by the teacher, and I don't care about what I may encounter in the future. ”
He silently said, "Because I don't want to stay here anymore, I want to go out and fuck you." ”
Sang Sang was washing dishes in the thatched hut, listening to the sound of falling things in the cave, he quickly wiped his hands and prepared to take a look, and when he heard these four words, he couldn't help but look slightly different, thinking that you were locked up in the cave for retreat, how did the aunt of the Buddha Sect in the Yuelun Country offend you?
She walked to the entrance of the cliff cave and was about to go in, but saw that the cave was in a mess, Ning Que was sitting cross-legged on the ground, looking quiet, like a statue of a god sitting on the ruins of ancient times.
In the past two months, Ning Que has been trying to transform Haoran Qi, but he has never cultivated and cultivated, and the Qi vortex deep in his lower abdomen is as calm as a small pool.
At this time, Hao Ran Qi seemed to clearly perceive his absolute intention at this time, and slowly flowed.
Perhaps it was because he had been lonely for too long, and when Haoran Qi flowed, he completely ignored Ning Que's mental power, and suddenly began to accelerate, and the speed became faster and faster.
In the end, the qi vortex in Ning Que's abdomen actually began to tremble and shake, almost spinning like madness, and the calm Xiao Chi suddenly became violent, as if it was about to roll up the wind and rain.
The Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi in the cliff cave struck from all directions like a slanting wind and drizzle, and then desperately poured into his body in an almost infused manner.
Ning Que clearly felt the current situation, and couldn't help but feel a little throbbing, thinking that if he allowed so much Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi to pour into his body, he would most likely die violently in the end, just like those who were selected by the Demon Sect as disciples but finally died tragically in the first level.
For a moment, he wanted to stop the whirlpool of qi in his abdomen.
But I don't know if he couldn't stop, or if he was desperate to regain his freedom, and wanted to gamble his life to bear the consequences of this sudden situation, in short, he didn't sit on anything.
Feeling the Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi constantly pouring into his body, Ning Que's face was slightly pale and his body trembled slightly, but he still sat firmly on the ground with his knees crossed, not moving at all.
The breeze between the cliffs, as if feeling the strangeness in the cliff cave, swept in and swept in, turning into a strong wind with gravel, passing through the grass hut and rain corridor by the cliff and pouring directly into the cave.
Sang Sang held on to the stone wall at the entrance of the cave, struggled to stabilize his body, looked inside worriedly, and wanted to wake up Ning Que loudly, but in such a strong mountain wind, he couldn't open his mouth at all.
Ning Que sat quietly in the cave with his eyes closed, his mind was all on the surging Haoran Qi in his body, he didn't know what was happening outside, and his clothes fluttered like a battle flag in the wilderness.
The mountain wind howled in the cave, and the fragments of the bamboo chair pen and inkstone that he had broken before floated up directly, hovering in the air around his body, occasionally hitting the cave wall and turning into finer pieces.
The rock wall of the cave looked extremely hard, but under the dense impact of this storm, the outermost layer of the stone wall gradually cracked, and many stone chips fell.
On one of the stone walls, four words vaguely appeared.
The Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi between the cliffs and cliffs entered the cliff cave with the wind, constantly pouring into Ning Que's body, filling all the holes in his snow-capped mountain qi in an instant, and then pouring into his body everywhere, constantly filling and occupying, refusing to give up even the tiniest trick in any place.
Ning Que felt that his body was bulging, as if it had turned into a skin full of wine, and even felt that his every hair and every eyelash was full of heaven and earth vitality.
The qi vortex in his abdomen became larger and larger, and the speed at the edge naturally became faster and faster, and even faintly made him feel the pain of his internal organs being cut raw.
He knew that if he allowed this situation to continue, he would be killed by the influx of Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi, but he still didn't stop, just silently chanted those four words, and kept waiting for the final moment to come.
Just when the Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi completely filled every part of his body and began to invade his real body, in that extremely short moment, Ning Que used his strong will to endure the nausea caused by the shock of the sea of consciousness, and endured the unreal but extremely terrible pain, allowing his mental power to fall on the qi vortex in his body.
For many years, he meditated non-stop, because he wanted to practice, whether he could practice or not, he was meditating, meditating when he was sleeping, meditating when he was in a daze, meditating when he was writing, meditating when he was giving Sangsang decoction, he was meditating all the time.
He had given him perseverance and desire that ordinary practitioners could not bear, so after he was able to practice, he had an abundance of mental power that ordinary practitioners could not imagine.
Therefore, when the Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi had been poured into his sea of consciousness, squeezing out the last bit of space and dispersing almost all the mental power, he could still retain the last clarity, the last trace of mental power.
When that trace of mental power fell, a bright light suddenly flashed in Ning Que's already muddy sea of consciousness.
The light was like lightning, and he woke up in an instant.
He thought of the simple breath that the master had left in the cave.
That simple breath can summon all the countless heaven and earth vitality between the cliffs and cliffs, and then compress and condense them into a sea of rain, isolating the cliff cave from the world.
Since the Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi can be compressed, then the Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi in the body can naturally be compressed.
The three months of being imprisoned in the cliff cave turned into countless pictures, which quickly passed by in front of his eyes.
The prohibition at the mouth of the cliff cave, the violent ocean of heaven and earth vitality, the ** called the original test of heaven and earth breath, the last qigong method, the academy recorded in the nameless book, countless kinds of heaven and earth vitality, these information fragments keep colliding and combining, deconstructing and rebirth.
If you want to be free, you need to be free.
Ning Que no longer worried about whether he would die violently, nor did he pay attention to the dizziness and pain, but just calmly looked at the qi vortex in his body, allowing it to rotate and expand freely at high speed.
The most critical moment came. The majestic Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi occupied Ning Que's body.
At this time, a wonderful scene happened.
The Haoran Qi Vortex, which was rapidly expanding and was about to break through the space, seemed to be a little thinner because of the extreme expansion, and the density of the aura at the edge became a little thinner, although it would soon be filled with the newly incoming Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi, but at that moment, the amount of the Qi Vortex itself seemed to be unable to resist the gravitational pull of the Vortex Heart, and there was a slight trembling.
Then the air vortex began to contract!
Although the speed of the air vortex contracted very slowly at the beginning, the acceleration was very fast, and in an instant, it contracted to only half of the initial area!
This is no longer a contraction, but a collapse!
Before Ning Que had no time to react at all, the majestic aura that had been imposing a moment ago had all collapsed into the vortex and turned into a pitch-black dot!
The vast qi in his body flowed back with the collapse of the qi whirlpool, leaving every bone, every fingernail, every hair, every eyelash, all poured into that little dot!
There was silence in the void of space, no sound, no movement.
There is only a drop of liquid like water, suspended in the very center of the space.
The liquid had no color, was crystal clear, and was as pure as water.
Ning Que looked at the water droplet, his heart moving slightly.
Transparent water droplets suddenly began to glow with golden light.
It's beautiful to the extreme. Every ray of light contained a majestic aura, and wisps flowed in his body, like a spring breeze and drizzle, moistening every dry land.
Tranquility returned to the cave.
There is no more storm of heaven and earth.
The mountain breeze that swept through the cliffs gradually stopped.
The fragments of the bamboo chair pen inkstone fell to the ground.
Only the bouquet of wildflowers that Sang Sang picked was torn into pieces by the wind before, but now the petals were relatively light, dancing slowly beside Ning Que with the light wind, like countless butterflies.
Ning Que slowly opened his eyes.
Flower petals sprinkled all over him.
A wreck in the cave.
Ning Que plucked the petals on his body and walked to the cave wall with a crisp outer wall.
There are four words on the stone wall, outlined like a sword, showing an unyielding and proud expression.
I think it was written by Uncle Xiao when he was imprisoned in the cliff cave, but for some reason it was covered by a stone wall.
Ning Que also said these four words before deciding to make this gamble.
At this time, looking at the four words left by the little uncle on the cave wall, and recalling the feelings when he said these four words before, Ning Que finally understood what was the key to breaking the ban on the cliff cave.
The breath he has been missing is not the vitality of heaven and earth, nor the aura of Haoran, but the unwillingness to breathe into this heaven because of his yearning for freedom.
He looked at the four words on the stone wall, as if he saw the little uncle who was as angry and unwilling as he was back then, and couldn't help but laugh happily.
He walked out of the cave and gently hugged Sangsang.
Then he walked to the edge of the cliff, looked at the cliff in front of him, the abyss, and the blue sky, put his hands behind his waist, and shouted, "Fuck you." ”
(To be continued)