Volume 1 The Human World Chapter 1 The Temple of the Wind and Snow Mountain
Han Chi chewed half of the baked stiff dry cake, although the fire in front of him was burning vigorously, it was difficult to drive away the cold wind coming around, and the snow outside was not small, it could always be described as a sentence of heaven and earth, but Han Chi didn't have time to appreciate it, if he had to ask what he felt, it would be a word "cold".
The cold wind blew from nowhere, and went straight into the people's clothes, Han Chi shivered, wrapped the clothes on his body a little tighter, and then moved closer to the fire, fortunately he found a few bundles of thatch to put on the ground, otherwise this cold ground is really pleasant.
At this time, he was in a mountain temple with wind leaking on all sides, although the statue of the god was still well preserved, but the offering table had already been overturned, Han Chi looked at it carefully, and there was no charm and aura, compared with the statues in those big temples, it was really cold.
You must know that some temples with flourishing incense, not to mention that the statues of the gods have their own auspicious spirits, even the places where they are located are mostly smooth and rainy.
Receiving an incense and protecting the people, although Han Chi has not really seen the Shinto in this world, but it is indeed something that can be truly felt, and Han Chi's original world is very different, there are really many legends of gods, ghosts, fairies and demons in the original world, and there are not a few people who make a fortune with this kind of thing, but if you ask it is mysterious and mysterious, if you ask again, it is all in your own heart, you need to introspect and self-realize, if it is a good thing, it is all recruited by gods and ghosts, if it is a bad thing, it must be your belief is not pure.
In short, it's just a sentence, there is anyway, but you just can't see it.
But this world is different, not to mention the things of gods and ghosts for the time being, that is, if the time is right in the sky, you can use the naked eye to see the immortals who are walking by with flying swords or other strange treasures in the sky, of course, if you are unlucky, even the demons can also see the black wind raging.
In short, this is a world of immortals and demons.
As for how Han Chi was reborn, and why was he reborn? Even he himself didn't know, and he probably remembered the memories of his previous life, some of the details were clear and some were vague, in short, what he could be sure of was that he had lived that life. And the memory of this life is also waking up leisurely on the hospital bed, from the muddy to the gradual clarity of thinking, the body is also like this, just ordinary people.
When he first woke up, Han Chi also felt that he might be the chosen one, or with a system treasure or something messy, but it took Han Chi three months to finally determine that he was just an ordinary person.
Although he is an ordinary person, Han Chi at least carries the memories of his previous life, so Han Chi wants to rely on the scientific knowledge he has mastered that is different from this world to change the environment he is in. Of course, if you want to change, you have to say something that is incompatible with this world, and do something that is incompatible with this world, and then Han Chi was poured a few bowls of talisman water by the goddess invited by the elders of the family, and in the following year, Han Chi tried his best to make himself look like an ordinary person, not seeking wealth in the world, isn't it good to live?
It's not that the rune water is not delicious, but Han Chi knows that the goddess once presided over a ritual, and there was nothing strange about this ritual, just simply and rudely burned a baby who was born without a nose.
At this time, Han Chi realized that the truth of this world is different from the previous life, and everyone's fear of gods and ghosts is far greater than human nature and life and death.
It was also that day when Han Chi saw the immortal sword passing by in the sky, and he also knew why this world was so reverent of ghosts and gods, as if there was a guide in the underworld, and the heart that was out of step with this world and hid the biggest secret began to be restless, and it could be regarded as finding what he wanted to do.
Although he is an ordinary person in this life, but this world is not an ordinary world, if you don't ask for immortals, how can you be worthy of this life?
It's just that asking for an immortal doesn't mean that you can ask for it, that day I saw the sword fairy and the sword gone, that kind of demeanor is really fascinating, but Han Chi has suffered for three years, at this time Han Chi has already been twenty-one, that year Han Chi's parents entered the ground one after another, in fact, Han Chi's parents in this life are not considered to have died early, you must know that this world is roughly similar to Han Chi's Song and Tang dynasties in his previous life, and ordinary people who are looking for a way to survive in the fields can live more than forty to be considered a long life.
This incident also strengthened Han Chi's determination to find immortals, and it was absolutely unacceptable for Han Chi to die at thirty or forty, so Han Chi sold his not very rich family property, and said to your family members who were not close to him that he wanted to go to Fucheng to study, so he ignored the kind dissuasion of everyone and embarked on a journey to find immortals.
In fact, there may not be much resistance at that time, one is that his parents have long passed away, and Han Chi himself is the person in charge after the separation; and the other is that studying and scientific research are definitely the right way in this world, and Han Chi has been seriously ill before, and he has recruited evil things, naturally no family is willing to marry his daughter, he has not yet married a family in his twenties, and there is no output in the family, I am afraid that this life is doomed, it is better to study in case he is really admitted? This is also considered to be a death to survive.
The rest is a question of where to ask, this is really not a secret matter, since it is a world of immortals and demons, then the demons are not easy to say, the immortals do have to communicate with the dynasties, so of course the immortals have to go to the capital!
This journey has really been the same road through thick and thin, and there is no complaint.
It stands to reason that asking for immortals should be a mental work, but as soon as he walked on the road, Han Chi found that this was actually a physical work, if you want to go to find immortals, then you must hurry, this world is not like the previous life, the roads extend in all directions, here ordinary people can travel on behalf of horses or boats, horses can not be bought and raised, boats can be done, and it is okay to cross the river, because it is not by the way.
Finally arrived in the capital, Han Chi found out that cultivating immortals was compared to family background, and each immortal mansion would also recruit some disciples, and there must be some news on the street, such as the son of a certain squire's family going to the immortal, and so on. It's just that the doorway in this is very deep! Han Chi has no connections, no family background, not to mention whether his roots and spirituality are good, he can't even see the face of an immortal, what kind of cultivation is he talking about?
In the end, Han Chi went around the capital, and only after half a year did he find out that the poor were going to form a group to cultivate immortals.
After the coils on his body were used up, Han Chi had to do some odd jobs to make a living, and when he was brushing dishes in a restaurant, he actually met an old man who also came to the capital to seek immortals, the old man's surname was Zhang Mingqiusheng, and he had been begging for immortals for more than 20 years.
It turns out that the immortals on this side of the capital do have long contacts with the secular dynasty, and they will also select disciples with roots and spirituality to enter the mountain gate every three years, but they are recruited by the children of the powerful people of the secular dynasty, of course, if you are rich and rival the country, you can also use yellow and white things to buy a chance to enter the body, as for success or not, then let's talk about it, but you can always see the face of the immortals, and ordinary people are not a question of whether they have a chance, there is no door.
Since there is no opportunity to seek immortals in the capital, why is Zhang Qiusheng still waiting in the capital? The reasons are simple and not simple: one is that immortals are difficult to find, that is, there may not be an immortal in some places in a lifetime to visit, and there must be immortals in the capital.
But such a chance must be slim, and they, the poor people seeking immortals, are waiting for news in the capital. That's right, it's news, each immortal gate must be far away for ordinary people, and the news of this era is originally closed, for example, which county in the frontier has died in a county, and the report is in Beijing, and the selection of candidates in Beijing is sent to the county for two or three months, and it is more than half a year. Therefore, if mortals want to get the news of Xianmen, only the capital is the most likely, although there is very little news of Xianmen in the capital, but there will always be a little in three or five years.
For example, if a family recruits disciples, whether rich or poor, it is always an opportunity, right? For example, if a family expands the mountain gate or the medicine valley, it always needs to recruit more servants and add more manpower, isn't this also an opportunity?
There are always hopes anyway, and whether you can find them depends on chance.
In this way, Han Chi can be regarded as joining the Beijing Piao circle of poor people cultivating immortals.
Next to Han Chi sat an old man with a goatee that was already half white, in fact, he was forty years old, he was like Han Chi nibbling on the dry cake that had just been baked with fire, but there was a broken bowl under the dry cake, this person was Zhang Qiusheng who led Han Chi into the gang.
"Lao Zhang, do you say that this time the Immortal Forest Sect expanded the Purple Bamboo Forest to recruit immortal servants who took care of the forest, whether it was reliable or not, just for this news, we were on the road for a month, and we were played by those few bad goods. Han Chi bit the cake and had a toothache, so he stopped and chatted with Lao Zhang casually, which was an idle egg pain to find himself a fun.
Lao Zhang replied unhurriedly, "It's the same two words, you can't call Zhang Lao twice to listen to it, and it doesn't take you a breath more, but it can make me happy, why not do it? Young people do more things that are not beneficial to themselves and do not harm others, and you can accumulate some merits." ”
Han Chi seized the loophole in Lao Zhang's words and hurriedly asked, "Merit is not the statement of Buddhism, you Lao Zhang is going to change the Dharma?"
Lao Zhang shook his hand and said, "Don't talk nonsense, if I go to practice Buddhism, don't say what kind of fruit I can achieve, this is not a big loss for Xianmen?"
Han Chi asked again, "How big can it be?"
Lao Zhang pretended to look around, and then said, "Naturally, it's bigger than the mountain temple." ”
After speaking, both of them laughed, this is also the tacit understanding of the two companions, such a difficult journey must learn to have fun in the bitter.
After the two of them finished laughing, Lao Zhang put the last bite of scones into his mouth, then turned the broken bowl in his hand upside down, poured some residues into his mouth in the cold wind, and then said to Han Chi, "You rest, I'll keep watch for the first half of the night"
The two of them were in a hurry, it was a snowy night, and they slept in a desolate temple, but they didn't dare to sleep together, they didn't guard against mountain bandits, and a few wild wolves came out of the woods, and the two of them were also dead, so the two people could only alternate vigils.
Han Chi has nothing else to say, seeing that Lao Zhang's spirit is still good now, it is better to stay up in the first half of the night than in the second half of the night, Han Chi pulled out the quilt in his bag, rolled it up on his body and sat down to rest, you must know that you don't dare to lie on the ground to sleep in such weather, the ground is too cold, and you may not be able to get up again if you are not careful.
Lao Zhang stood up and moved, then walked to the statue of the mountain god, tidied up his clothes, and then bowed, "Lord the mountain god, the two of them are sleeping in the precious land, borrowing a place to settle down, disturbing your old Qing Xiu, the villain also has no long things, so he bowed three times, and has done gratitude" After speaking, he solemnly bowed three times, and just turned around, but heard the sound of the bridge door.
Lao Zhang instinctively turned his head to look in the direction of the temple gate, Han Chi was not asleep, he heard the knock on the door and hurriedly stood up, and he couldn't even care about the quilt on his body falling to the ground.