Chapter 30: Blood Sacrifice (3)
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The freezing talisman under his feet and on his body had already been changed once, and Xiao Xia's whole body was still soaked with sweat.
What is the sea of fire? This is the sea of fire. Heaven and earth are full of fire in front of and on the left and right, except for fire and fire. Xiao Xia could only discern the direction by relying on the direction of this big array.
Tang Chengcheng behind him didn't have a drop of sweat all over his body, not only that, every step he stepped on the rock that was burned to the point of melting, and the cloth shoes on his feet did not have the slightest abnormality, as if even the concept of 'heat' was automatically shattered and destroyed when he approached him.
Three fiery red figures shot out silently from the sea of fire behind them, flying towards them. These are three big cats with red bodies and leopard-like shapes, they are the spirit fire cats domesticated by the Tianhuo faction, and their actions are integrated with the surrounding sea of fire, as soon as they appeared, they were extremely close to the two of them, and their movements were fast, and in the blink of an eye, the front paws of the first one had touched Xiao Xia's clothes.
However, Tang Chengcheng's hand also touched the spirit fire cat at the same time, but lightly touched, this spirit fire cat seemed to have become a sculpture made of sand, and it fell apart. Then Tang Chengcheng's hand also lightly touched the other two, his movements were not fast, but he could always touch the Spirit Fire Cat at the same time as the Spirit Fire Cat touched the two of them.
When Xiao Xia heard the sound and turned around, he could only see three piles of blood-soaked bean dregs on the ground, and the skin, fur, bones, and flesh of these three demon beasts cultivated by Dao Technique were all shattered into pieces of the same size, and he couldn't even tell what it was before.
Xiao Xia is not surprised, from the moment they walked into this sea of fire, these demon beasts hiding in this sea of fire began to appear, and by now there were at least twenty spirit fire cats, and more than a dozen or all the snakes with flames all over their bodies. Or other monsters such as toads spitting magma suddenly jumped out from the side, if he himself had died no one many times, but with Tang Chengcheng behind him, he almost didn't have time to see the appearance of these monsters.
"Brother Xia, how far is it?" asked Tang Chengcheng. His voice seemed a little hoarse.
Xiao Xia pointed to the upper right and said, "This time, we will walk a hundred zhang to the Weiji position first." If you walk back to the position and walk about 100 zhang, you will probably not be far from the top of the mountain. The fourth brother should be anxious, the closer he gets to the top of the mountain, the closer he gets to the center of this big array, and the more firepower is left in this big array. If you don't go where the change has slowed down, even if you open the passage, it will close again in a few breaths. ”
"It's not that I'm in a hurry. I'm afraid I won't last long. Tang just smiled. The two streams of blood under his nose flowed more happily. Xiao Xia could also see that the chaos, silence, and killing in his eyes seemed to be getting thicker and thicker.
After speaking, Tang Cheng drew his knife and slashed out in the direction that Xiao Xia was pointing at. A passage dozens of zhang wide and just a hundred zhang long opened up in this sea of fire with the momentum of his sword.
At the same time, the ground shook slightly, and the ground in the passage that had just been cut out cracked, and a giant beast with fiery red magma rolling all over its body came out, looking like a rat that had only been magnified hundreds of times, and like a huge pangolin. The body was full of flowing flames and magma, as if it was a five-element puppet solidified by the Innate Dao Technique like a fire armor soldier, but the two points of essence light flashing in the position of the eyes indicated that this was indeed a living being.
"Molten Gold Fire Armor. This day the volcano's mountain guardian spirit animal. It seems that we are really not far from the core of the Great Array, which is the top of the mountain. "The first time Xiao Xia saw this monster, he had already known what it was from the mouth of the First Yang Dao. Although the Chuyang Daoist was just a puppet of the person in the mysterious sedan chair, everything that came out of his mouth was actually not bad at all.
"yes, that's good. Tang Chengcheng breathed a sigh of relief. The breath that came out of his mouth sounded like the sound of dozens of broken bellows pulling desperately together.
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Inside the top of the mountain, on the edge of the lava pool, Jin Zhiyang, the sect leader of the Heavenly Fire Sect, suddenly raised his head and glanced in the direction where Tang Chengcheng and Xiao Xia were walking. Although all he could see was the stone wall. But he still noticed something strange and frowned, glancing at the sweaty Tang and chuckling.
But then he looked at the small purple fire in his hand again, his slightly furrowed brows loosened, and he smiled disapprovingly.
"Grandpa, what's wrong?" Lin Xiaoyan asked.
"Nothing. Some little bugs want to fly in and run into the rats that my grandfather raised here, so I don't have to worry about them. Looking at his granddaughter, Jin Zhiyang's face became soft again. "Now grandpa will tell you what grandpa is doing, and what is going on with these grandfathers and uncles. ”
"Xiaoyan, grandpa asks you first, do you know why people live?"
"Why, why, why?" Lin Xiaoyan stared, unable to even understand the meaning of the question itself. To be alive is to be alive, and what else can there be.
"Silly boy, but this question may be a little hard for you to understand. Jin Zhiyang smiled and touched Lin Xiaoyan's head lovingly. "Maybe it seems to you that it must be good to eat a lot of delicious things, see a lot of beautiful things, and play a lot of fun things, so that you must be alive?"
"Okay! That's good!" Lin Xiaoyan nodded affirmatively and pulled the arm that pulled Don chuckling. "But I still have to be with Ah Xiao!"
"Hehe, that's because you're a child, you have seen too little, you know too little. You just think that's the case. Jin Zhiyang glanced at the young man pulled by his granddaughter and shook his head with a smile. "When you really grow up and understand a lot of things, you don't think that way. ”
"Eat, sleep, male and female desires, safe and comfortable. The so-called fame and fortune are just for the sake of better eating and sleeping more comfortably for men and women, just like every monkey is the king of monkeys. To live is to live, to live like animals and beasts for the sake of living, this is what nine out of ten people in the world think. But this is just because they are stupid, stupid, short-sighted, in the words of Buddhism, the roots are shallow, they can't see, they can't feel the world and scenery higher, farther, and deeper. ”
"Grandpa is saying I'm stupid?" Lin Xiaoyan could only roughly understand this meaning.
"It's not stupid, it's just like most of the others. Jin Zhiyang smiled.
"But fortunately, there are always many truly wise people in this world who can feel that they are different from the essence of animals. Throughout the ages, the sages who have searched for the mysteries of the universe have followed this instinct. I want to know more, I want to know more, I want to know where I came from, I want to feel more and more deeply connected with the universe and myself. Buddhism says that life and death are liberated from the supreme Bodhi, and Taoism says that you are at ease. Even Confucianism, regardless of the **, there is also a saying that there is no other way of learning, just ask him to rest assured. As he spoke, Jin Zhiyang's gaze gradually became distant and profound, as if he was looking at an unreachable distance that only he could see. "That's what we cultivators do. This is true even for those who study martial arts, or rather, they are also cultivators. What is cultivated is to enter the Tao with martial arts, to see the world with the body, to see the original heart with the body, to temper the physical body to the deep realm, and to rely on the talent and qualification to understand a certain point of truth in all things in the world, so as to enter the innate nature in the future. Achieving a master, but the realm that countless people are striving for is actually only the beginning of martial arts. As for the other people who only know how to fight bravely and ruthlessly, showing off their magic powers, they are just stupid and vulgar weapons, at most they are just stronger tigers, wolves and monkeys, which are not worth mentioning. ”
"Grandpa, I don't understand what you say" Lin Xiaoyan scratched her head.
"Huh. It doesn't matter, you'll understand it slowly. Jin Zhiyang patted her head lovingly and continued. "The three thousand avenues mentioned by Buddhism are all Bodhi. My grandfather's faction is spread by the ancient Taoist sect, and he took the path of figuring out the power of fire, sublimating his heart through fire, removing the essence of the turnip, and finally attaining the supreme realm of coexisting with heaven and earth. It's just that it has been circulated for many years, and after many changes and wars, the classics of the faction have been lost. The method of that last step is no longer known. Over the years, no matter how the seniors and fellow Daoists in the sect cultivated, they had honed their hearts to be pure and flawless, but they didn't know the method of the last step, and in the end they could only wait for their bodies to decay and collapse. Or make a mistake and turn into a body of fire and burn out your own spiritual mind, which is really sad and lamentable. Until we found this. Jin Zhiyang turned his gaze to the small purple flame in his hand. "It is completely different from those innate realms that have only touched a trace of the rules of heaven and earth, the innate Dao method, and this Vermilion Bird Spiritual Fire is the real essence of fire, the innate fire. Everything in the world can be burned and smelted, including flesh and soul, and it is only a little bit away from the fire and the way we are pursuing. ”
"So so, those grandfathers and uncles, are they willing to be burned by this fire?" Lin Xiaoyan's expression was like listening to a story about eggs eating people.
Jin Zhiyang shook his head and smiled, "No." They just lodged their souls and spirituality in it, and waited for their grandfather, who had finally sacrificed the spiritual fire, to also put in the middle of it, and then they could take that last step together and shatter the void and leave. ”
"Grandpa, grandpa, you want to burn it in too?"
"Hehe, this spiritual fire has been successfully refined by my grandfather, and it is one with my grandfather's body and soul, and my grandfather just took them with him. ”
"Where are you going?"
"I don't know" Jin Zhiyang's eyes and expression became so distant again, as if he was indifferent, as if he included a qiē feeling. "I only know that that is the origin of all living souls, the deepest and most essential point of this heaven, earth and universe, in the words of Buddhism, that is the eternal quiet bliss of no sorrow, no joy, no birth and no death. ”
"I can't quite understand that my grandfather is leaving, I just met with my grandfather," Lin Xiaoyan pouted.
Jin Zhiyang smiled kindly: "Don't worry, grandpa will also take Xiaoyan with you." ”
"Hey??" Lin Xiaoyan's eyes widened, and she immediately waved her hand and shook her head. "I don't even know what it is, I don't know. ”
"Silly boy. You are my grandfather's only concern, how can my grandfather be willing to leave you to suffer alone in this filthy red world. Jin Zhiyang shook his head, and the kindness on his face did not decrease by half.
"The other elders in the sect have all joined the sect since childhood, cultivated hard, and finally had no worries and one heart to the Tao. Only your grandfather is a halfway monk, although his talent is still acceptable after joining the sect, but he has always had a trace of concern when he cultivates to the depths, and he almost went mad fifteen years ago. After that, my grandfather learned from the pain, pondered the wall, and finally understood that the trace of blood and family affection was not an impurity that needed to be burned and melted, but the duty that should be one with his own spirituality, so he quietly left the mountain and returned to his hometown to find my daughter who had not been seen for decades, who knew that she had passed away" Speaking of this, Jin Zhiyang sighed. "But fortunately, Xiaoyan is still left, so that my grandfather can make up for that trace of family affection. I quietly took you out to play for a few days, and then returned to the Heavenly Volcano to retreat, and sure enough, the realm improved by leaps and bounds, and finally everyone elected me as the sect leader of the Heavenly Fire Sect. And I secretly come out to take you to play every year without telling everyone, but I'm afraid that you will be young and ignorant, and you will cause trouble after talking nonsense, so I have never dared to tell you who I am. ”
"And when I get this Vermilion Bird Spiritual Fire, and have a way to take this last step, Grandpa and I can only practice this spiritual fire day and night, and there is no time to quietly come out to find you. And when I was refining this spiritual fire, I thought that if I succeeded, I would leave you alone in the world, and my heart would not be stable no matter what, so I finally made up my mind to take you with me. Fortunately, in order to take care of your dart game, I have been secretly letting the people in the faction quietly pay attention to your father's dart game, so I will find a way to let you come to Jizhou and bring you to this volcano. ”
"No, no, I don't want to go somewhere" Lin Xiaoyan's expression was a little frightened, and she unconsciously took two steps back and hugged Tang's chuckling arm. "I'm going to be with Ah Xiao. ”
"Don't be afraid, Xiaoyan. I know you can't bear this turbid world, but it's just that you don't see a lot of things clearly, and you don't understand the essence of many things in this world. Just like a baby quitting breastfeeding, the baby will feel frightened and uneasy, but because he doesn't know anything about more and more vast worlds, he only feels that ** is the whole world. Jin Zhiyang smiled slightly, pointed at Tang and chuckled: "For example, this young man you like, you call him Ah Xiao, right? Then do you know who he is, why is he by your side, why is he here?"
An inexplicable fear suddenly rose from the bottom of Lin Xiaoyan's heart, she could only try her best to hug Tang Xiaoxiao's arm tighter, for fear that the people around her would suddenly disappear, and said loudly to Jin Zhiyang: "Ah Xiao is Ah Xiao, who else will it be?" Ah Xiao has forgotten all the previous things, Ah Xiao will take over the dart game in the future! We are going to get married! Of course, we will be together everywhere!"
"Not true. Jin Zhiyang shook his head and said lightly. His surname was Tang, and his name was Tang. He is a disciple of Tangjiabao in Shuzhou. Six years ago, when the Jingzhou rudder refining that unearthed the original Vermilion Bird Spiritual Fire, it was he and another accomplice who sneaked in and almost stole the spiritual fire. And then his so-called coma and amnesia, probably found out the relationship between your mother and me out of nowhere, and thought of this method to quietly lurk around you. And what he is plotting is this real innate spiritual object, the Vermilion Bird Spiritual Fire. ”
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