Chapter VIII
Purple bamboo is a kind of bamboo unique to Cangjie Mountain. Because of its dark purple body, it is named "purple bamboo". Generally, the adult purple bamboo is full of rough bowl mouth, which can grow to more than ten zhang. The purple bamboo has no heart, but it is divided into sections, it is difficult to cut down, and the bamboo leaves show a beautiful purple red.
Purple bamboo forests can be seen everywhere in Cangjie Mountain, and the bright purple and red in the large area of pale green add more color to Cangjie Mountain.
On this day, the morning sun was rising, the mist evaporated the cold of the silent night, and the entire Cangjie Mountain was vast and full of fog.
A thousand-step ancient road that winds into the distance is lined with shrubs, verdant and dripping, and the crystal morning dew hangs on the tips of the leaves, crumbling, and there are more pleasant birdsongs, and towering giant trees shade the sky.
The sound of footsteps sounded, disturbing the poetic mood in the forest.
"Oh, I'm so tired, senior brother, how far is the purple bamboo forest you are talking about, we have been walking for half an hour!" Ah Man complained with a sharpened scythe in his hand, with candy in his mouth.
"It's not far, it's not far away, it's coming soon!" Zhang Xiaoqi said.
"You've said this eight times......" Aman glanced at Ah Ying, who was silent and only cared about walking, and said helplessly.
Aman glanced at Zhang Xiaoqi's slightly chubby back in front of him, "Senior brother, why don't you tell me about your qi veins, so that I can have a long experience." ”
Zhang Xiaoqi began a tirade:
"The reason why qi veiners are different from ordinary people is because qi veiners can control the qi in their bodies as they want, because all qi vein people who refine qi have a much longer lifespan than ordinary people, and some old guys can even live to be more than two hundred years old. The Qi Vein can fly with a sword, gather qi condensation, and take things from the air, just like the immortals, all of them are completed by manipulating qi. According to the degree of cultivation of qi veins, it can be divided into ten realms, namely Tongmai, Condensation, Judan, Yangchu, Zhongtian, Mingcheng, Liqi, Ruoling, Qingxu, and Shenyu. Each of these ten realms is divided into early, middle and late stages, and most of the first five realms can reach the general qi veins, but those who can reach the last five realms can really be called qi vein powerhouses. Among our qi veins, it can be divided into two categories: Xuanmen and Demon Sect, and the way Xuanmen cultivates Qi and veins is more upright and bright than the Yin and evil spirits of people in Demon Sect. In the Xuanmen, we are in the Broken Cloud Pavilion and the Afterlife Temple of Manhai, the Zongwumen in the Valley of the Strange Sword is the most famous, and the powerful ones in the Demon Sect are Wushan Zifeng Tianmo, Cangfeng's Heavenly Desolation, the Ghost Sect in the Baiyou Cave, and there is also a demon called Situ Yuanyin who is neither male nor female, I heard the master say that the Heavenly Desolate was originally called the Desolate Earth, and the Heavenly Desert belongs to the same religion, and the Heavenly Desert was renamed the Heavenly Desolate after separating from the Heavenly Desert for unknown reasons three hundred years ago. ”
Zhang Xiaoqi glanced at Ah Ying, who seemed to be listening, "On Guyue Mountain that night, it was the young master of Tianmo, the second and third degrees of Bei Mingxuan, who was from the Demon Sect!"
Ah Man secretly said in his heart: "It turns out that Brother Xuan, who saved me, is a man in the desert! But he doesn't look like a bad person." ”
As they spoke, the three of them had already walked to a bamboo forest.
The purple bamboos that break through the soil are bright in color and extremely thick. The sunlight shines through the lush purple and red bamboo leaves on the ground.
Aman approached a purple bamboo that was thicker than his thighs, struck it with a sickle, and looked at Zhang Xiaoqi with a confused expression, "Are you kidding, senior brother, cutting this kind of ...... Bamboo?"
Zhang Xiaoqi walked over slowly, patted Aman's low shoulder, and said with a warm smile: "Otherwise, I also cut this kind of bamboo when I came to Broken Cloud Pavilion at the beginning of that year, and I couldn't cut a single one in a morning at first, but after a long time, my qi vein cultivation has reached a certain point, and I can cut three or four trees in one morning!"
"And now?" Aman asked with a blank look, Zhang Xiaoqi asked.
"Now, let's cut down seven or eight trees, if you don't say anything!" Zhang Xiaoqi replied confidently after thinking for a while.
Zhang Xiaoqi glanced at Ah Ying, who was standing quietly holding a sickle, and said with a smile: "Actually, this solid purple bamboo is not something that ordinary people can cut off, and the master wants you to come to cut the purple bamboo every morning is nothing more than to feel the qi in your body, mobilize the qi veins in your body as much as possible, and gather the qi on the sickle in your hand when you cut." ”
Zhang Xiaoqi took the sharp sickle in Aman's hand, and secretly exercised his skills, only to see a white light visible to the naked eye on the sickle, and a scold, the sickle was only three points into the wood, but it was not easy to cut down the purple bamboo.
Zhang Xiaoqi took the effort, handed the sickle to Aman, glanced at the not deep and shallow traces on the purple bamboo, and said with a light smile: "See, just like my senior brother and I cut like this." ”
Ah Man nodded heavily, glanced at Ah Ying, held the sickle shaped like a crescent moon in his hand, and learned from Zhang Xiaoqi to snort, and slammed the sickle up.
I only heard a crisp sound of "bell~", and the sickle was instantly bounced out.
Ah Man looked depressed, rubbed the shocked tiger's mouth, and sighed lightly.
Zhang Xiaoqi said with relief: "Don't be discouraged, I was like this at first." ”
"Sister, why don't you try it?" said Aman, looking at the silent A-Ying.
Ah Ying walked over slowly, took a cursory look at the towering giant bamboo with a thick bowl mouth, and clenched the sickle in his hand.
"Brush~"
Zizhu didn't move, Ah Ying split the air!?
"Sister, haha, sister, you didn't even cut it! But it doesn't matter, I'll cut it next time. Aman laughed.
Zhang Xiaoqi also smiled bitterly.
Ah Ying stared at the purple bamboo in front of him quietly, "It's hit." ”
Zhang Xiaoqi took a few steps forward and looked at Zizhu who didn't move, "But Zizhu didn't move, it seems that it really didn't cut it." ”
"Wow~Wow"
As the breeze blew, the towering giant bamboo in front of the three of them began to fall to one side, with a surging momentum, and the forest birds screamed, like a giant pillar between heaven and earth crashing to the ground!
Ah Man and Zhang Xiaoqi saw Zizhu propping upside down among the other Zizhu, cold sweat oozed out, their faces were frightened, and they cried out.
"I'm a mother! I'm a mother! This is a purple bamboo that is thicker than a bowl, and it's solid! Ah Ying, you, you actually cut it off with a knife?" Zhang Xiaoqi shouted loudly.
"There is no qi vein, and there is no gathering qi, Ah Ying, you, you, how did you do it? I have a mother, junior sister, are you still human?" Although the facts were in front of him, Zhang Xiaoqi still asked in disbelief.
"Sister, you, hello, so good! I thought I didn't hit at all. Aman looked at Ah Ying's calm eyes and sighed.
In the face of Aman, Zhang Xiaoqi's panic, Ah Ying was as calm as ever, as if there would never be emotion in her eyes, and there would never be the slightest change in her face.
Zhang Xiaoqi secretly exclaimed in his heart: "I am a mother, when I cut bamboo for the first time, I couldn't cut a purple bamboo for a whole day, even now that I have cultivated to the middle stage of the Zhongtian realm, I can only cut seven or eight trees, Ah Ying doesn't have any qi veins, and he only needs to cut down one with one knife." Call me this senior brother in the future, alas!"
"Senior brother. Ah Ying called out to Zhang Xiaoqi in deep thought at his own rhythm.
"How many trees to cut?"
"Master didn't say anything about this...... Whatever!"
Before the voice fell, Ah Ying clenched the sickle in his hand a little tighter, and only listened to "brush ~ brush"
The three towering purple bamboos were only misplaced at the moment when Ah Ying's hand took up and fell! The knife technique was clean and neat, leaving no traces. It's a very thick purple bamboo, and it's still solid!
With a sound of "whoosh", three purple bamboos were dumped and erected in the bamboo forest, looking at Aman, Zhang Xiaoqi looked stunned and speechless.