Volume 1: Rise Chapter 5: Descending the Mountain
In the courtyard under the mountain, the pride of the six younger generations of the sky is tirelessly watching Yang Qi's "Five Elements Escape Method", indulging in it and unable to extricate themselves, Zhang Qian was the first to enter the study and got the general outline, and several other people found the corresponding escape books for their own exercises, which recorded various spells and tricks, as if opening a door to practice in front of everyone.
Next to the magic well on the mountain, the three of them opened the seal of the magic well again, and this time the seal was different from before, because they had to take out the black stone in it, although the demon qi did not gush outward, but when they took out the black stone, the three of them took a lot of effort to cut off the connection between the demon qi and the black stone, which was also thanks to the black stone the size of the thumb and finger.
"Zhihan, let's see if you can absorb the demonic qi in the black stone" As soon as the wellhead of the magic well was resealed, Yang Qi couldn't wait. Guo Zheng on the side saw that this long-time friend was so eager, and he could only shake his head and sigh: Asking what is the situation in the world, he jumped up and down with the old Yang who did not change his color in front of him.
Lu Zhihan looked at Yang Qi gently, everything was silent. Silently sat down cross-legged, holding the black stone in his hand, running his own true yuan, and began to communicate with the demonic qi in the black stone, as Lu Zhihan practiced all over his body, he saw that there was black demonic qi infiltrating from the black stone into Lu Zhihan's palm, and then it was absorbed by her. After the seventh overflow of demonic energy, Lu Zhihan stopped exercising, and after absorbing this wisp of demonic energy, there was no new demonic qi overflowing, she slowly stood up, calmed down the excitement in her heart and nodded lightly to Yang Qi and Guo Zheng.
"Great, great......" At this moment, Yang Qi seemed to have lost his ability to speak, hugged Lu Zhihan tightly, and kept muttering that it was great.
"It's okay, otherwise Lao Yang is afraid that he will go crazy this time. Guo Zheng breathed a long sigh of relief, and he could finally let go of the boulder that had been pressing on his heart for twelve or five years.
"Old Yang, let me go quickly, Ah is watching from the side, what have you become like here?" Lu Zhihan had tears in the corners of her eyes, and although she said that she wanted Yang Qi to let go of her, she didn't really break free.
"Forget it, I won't stop you from showing affection here, I'll go out for a walk. Guo Zheng said teasingly, turning around and walking outside. I thought that Lao Yang would not be able to calm down for a while, after all, he had been working hard for twenty-five years, and it was clear that his beloved was nearby, but he couldn't be with him all the time, and he was afraid that he would have gone crazy on ordinary people.
Walking out of the cave, Guo Zheng was not idle, and began to cast spells to seal the demonic energy around the platform in case of emergency, and the sealing speed that Guo Zheng cast was of course much faster than that of a few students. The Demon Descending Mountain Range was not called this name at the beginning, more than five hundred years ago, when it was still called the Qilian Mountain Range, an elder of the Senate found the demonic energy in the mountain range, and exhausted all kinds of spells still could not completely eliminate the demonic energy, the Elders attached great importance to this matter, and mobilized the power of the whole continent to find a solution to the demonic energy, fifty years later, Lin Yu, a genius of the Lin family in the Eastern Regions, created a wooden sealing technique, after actual testing, it can seal the demonic qi but can not last, and after another thirty years, gather the power of all ethnic groups in the continent to create a universal sealing technique in later generations: the Five Elements Seal, but unfortunately the Qilian Mountains at this time have been full of demonic energy, and there have begun to appear demons, It is unrealistic to forcibly seal the mountain range, and after twenty years, that is, about four hundred years ago, a sect in the Central Plains that made a living from refining weapons: the Instrument Making Sect, based on a kind of pot-bellied gourd abundant in the Eastern Regions, refined a sealing demon gourd, which can seal the demonic qi very well. The Elders gathered the top cultivators of the whole continent and began to seal the demonic qi of the Qilian Mountain Range, but after the demonic qi was cleared, the mountain range was shrouded in demonic qi again. The Senate will once again gather the major academies and sects on the mainland to purge the mountain range, trying to find the source of the demonic energy, but to no avail. At this point, the Senate decided to change the name of the Qilian Mountain Range to the Demon Descent Mountain Range, and asked the major academies and sects to seal the demonic qi on the periphery of the mountain range as a necessary item for training.
Guo Zheng is using the Demon Sealing Gourd, the total amount of demonic energy that can be sealed is quite amazing, as the base material of the Demon Sealing Gourd, the pot-bellied gourd is born with the power of space, and the internal space is far larger than the external space, so the Demon Sealing Gourd is not big but can be installed. There were predecessors who wanted to use the pot-bellied gourd as the base material to refine the space magic weapon that could contain things, but they failed to succeed due to the size of the gourd itself.
It was almost dusk, Guo Zheng's demon sealing gourd had been filled a quarter of an hour ago, and seeing that Zhang Qian had not returned to the mountain, Guo Zheng thought to himself that the two of them were not tired enough for the time being, so he simply went to pick up Zhang Qian back to the mountain. Coming to Yang Qi's compound in an instant, sensing that several young men and women were in the study, Guo Zheng walked slowly to the study, thinking: Sure enough, I still can't help but want to see it. "Cough" pushed open the door, and saw that several people were fascinated, and did not find out that they were coming, Guo Zheng could only cough lightly to attract the attention of several people. Zhang Qian turned her head to look at Guo Zheng, frowned with some disgust, as if she was blaming Guo Zheng for interrupting her, and then continued to look at the book in her hand, not even saying hello. The other students were not as calm as Zhang Qian, and when they saw Guo Zheng, they hurriedly put down the books in their hands, and said in a low voice like children who had made a mistake: "Sir", and their heads were lowered and they wanted to squeeze into their chests. "I know that a few of you must be tempted to watch it, and you will watch it when you read it, but don't forcibly cultivate those high-level spells, otherwise it will be easy to suffer backlash" Guo Zheng said as he walked towards Zhang Qian, and after saying this, he had already walked to Zhang Qian's side and reached out to snatch the book in her hand. "What are you doing? Zhang Qian was like a little wild cat that had been provoked, waving her teeth and claws at Guo Zheng. "It's getting dark, you have to go back to the mountain, you have a lot of time to read these books in the future, why rush for a while. Guo Zheng pointed outside the house. "Let's go, I'll send you back. Don't go with you, just stay in the courtyard, and I'll be back by this time tomorrow at the latest." After speaking, Guo Zheng put away the "Five Elements Escape Law" on the table, pulled Zhang Qian and walked out, poor Zhang Qian was a Yuan infant cultivator, and there was no way in front of Guo Zheng, so he had to let him pull out of the study, and then rushed to the sky and galloped away towards the Demon Descending Mountain Range.
On the platform of the Demon Descending Mountain Range, Guo Zheng took Zhang Qian in an instant, as soon as her feet landed, Zhang Qian just wanted to say something, Guo Zheng waved her hand and signaled her not to ask questions first, at this time Yang Qi and Lu Zhihan sensed their arrival and had come to the platform. "Old Yang, are you okay now?" Guo Zheng looked at Yang Qi and asked, Yang Qi didn't speak, just nodded to Guo Zheng, and his eyes fell on Lu Zhihan again. Guo Zheng didn't say anything anymore, but stood silently by Yang Qi's side.
"Qian'er, are you going down the mountain?" Lu Zhihan's warm voice couldn't hear joy and anger.
"Master, it was Uncle Guo who took me down, not me who wanted to go down the mountain myself. Zhang Qian replied nervously, for fear that the master would be angry, and she didn't even dare to take the initiative to look at Lu Zhihan, but turned her aggrieved gaze to Guo Zheng, which means: Explain it to me!
"Master didn't blame you, don't you miss the life under the mountain?" Lu Zhihan's gentle voice relieved Zhang Qian's nervousness, hearing this question, the loss in his eyes flashed over, and he replied insincerely: "No, there is nothing good under the mountain, I am used to staying in the mountains." ”
"Then if you have the opportunity to walk down the mountain in the future, would you like to?" I didn't care about the apprentice's careful thoughts, after all, she was still a teenager, several times Lu Zhihan saw her sitting on the edge of the platform looking at the bottom of the mountain in a silent daze, as a master, Lu Zhihan also had no good way to solve this apprentice, she was only fourteen years old, and she was forced to be trapped on a mountain before she had a good look at the world.
"Is it okay master?" Zhang Qian looked at the master with a look of hope, her eyes were shining with excitement, as long as the master allowed her to go down the mountain, even if she could only walk around, it would be excellent for a girl of her age.
"I didn't let you go down the mountain before, because I was worried that it would arouse your yearning for the outside world, and there was no way to stay away from the mountains, so my heart would only be more bitter, and we might have to leave here in the future. Lu Zhihan gently stroked the hair of this fourteen-year-old girl, saw that the apprentice's eyes were full of doubts, and continued: "Your Uncle Guo came this time to completely seal the magic well, after tomorrow, the magic well will be sealed, there will be no more demonic qi leakage, and there is no need for us to stay on the mountain." And we already have a way to continue cultivating after leaving the mountain range, so in the future, we don't have to be trapped here anymore, and we can take a good look at this continent like ordinary people. Hearing this, Zhang Qian couldn't help but be excited, and grabbed Lu Zhihan's arm tightly: "Great, master." Thank you, Uncle Guo and Uncle Yang", the girl turned her head to look at Guo and Yang, and cried with joy with her confident gratitude.
"Look at you, who just said that there is nothing good under the mountain?" Lu Zhihan said jokingly about his apprentice, looking at Guo Yang and the others with a smile. "Qian'er, before going down the mountain, you bring all the things that can be taken away in the utensils room and the spirit plant room, and you may use them at the bottom of the mountain in the future, go and pack up your things!" gently helped the girl wipe the tears that flowed, knowing that it was difficult for the girl at this time to think about other things, besides, she and Guo Yang still had something to discuss, so she instructed the girl. "Well, master, I'll go now. Wiping the tears from the corners of her eyes, Zhang Qian turned to face Guo Yang and the others, and thanked the two of them with a salute in the middle, and then it was no longer possible to suppress the excitement in her heart, and she jumped to clean up her things.
The girl's excited mood is not a portrayal of the three people on the platform, feeling the girl's excited mood, Lu Zhihan and Yang Qi's mood has also become extremely relaxed. Although Guo Zheng was also full of smiles, there was a faint worry in his heart, now Zhihan's problem is solved, and then Yang Qi's breakthrough has brought new problems, the first time someone in the mainland has reached the Great Perfection of the Merge Period, to create a new realm of cultivation, what kind of variables will it bring, no one can be sure. Throughout the course of cultivation in the mainland, the emergence of each cultivation realm is accompanied by the lessons of blood: before the appearance of the foundation building period, there were more than 20 people whose dantian was overflowing with true qi and were crippled for life; before the appearance of the Jindan period, three more people were blasted by the overflowing true yuan, and two were directly killed and one was seriously injured and difficult to recover; the appearance of the Yuan infant period went through as long as 200 years, and many of the amazing and brilliant people of that era were exhausted because they did not have the path of cultivation. After the emergence of the god period and the merger period is one step at a time, I don't know how many mainland leaders have broken and sunk into the sand, and now most of the masters of the merger period on the continent are still in the realm of the combination of the primordial infant and the primordial god, and have never been able to get out of the first step, the primordial infant and the physical body are combined, Yang Qi has not only come to this step, but also immediately achieved the great consummation of the perfect combination of the three, Yang Qi has always suppressed his own cultivation in the past few days, and he will start to break through after sealing the magic well, and the blessings and misfortunes are unpredictable.
"Taking advantage of the time when the Sealing Demon Stone absorbs the demonic energy, let's also calm down and share our experience in the past two years?" As he spoke, Guo Zheng sat cross-legged on the platform and made a gesture of invitation to Yang Lu and the others. The two looked at each other and smiled, sitting on the ground opposite Guo Zheng, they were no stranger to this, their friend who was more than ten years younger, was a cultivator, cultivating all the time, although the qualification was not the top in the mainland, but the understanding was absolutely unique, and the path of cultivation taken was also different from the mainstream of the mainland, ordinary people began to conceive the Yuan Shen in the Yuan Infant when the Yuan Infant was waiting for the body, but he forced the Yuan Infant to be six times the size of ordinary people and extremely condensed, it is impossible to conceive the Yuan Shen in such a Yuan Baby, and the divine consciousness will be crushed by the power of the Yuan Infant before it enters the Yuan Baby。
The three of them gathered their minds and began to share their own spiritual experiences. Lu Zhihan's current cultivation has also reached the stage of the formation of the law body and the body of the original god and the yuan baby, she is now the first demon cultivator in the real mainland, every step has no experience of predecessors to learn from, it is completely crossing the river by feeling the stones, she has completed the combination of the demon baby and the yuan shen three years ago, and practiced the law body, a year ago the seal of the magic well was loosened, and a large amount of demon qi overflowed, at that time, the refining speed of the law body alone could not maintain the speed of the diffusion of demon qi, and she could only try to combine the law body with the physical body, and the effect of accelerating the refining speed of the demon qi had been achieved, but fortunately, the initial combination was successfully completed, Yang Qike, who was guarding her at the time, was really in a cold sweat. Compared with Lu Zhihan, Yang Qi's step is much smoother, and it is easy to complete the initial combination of the law body and the physical body, but the more he cultivates, the closer the combination of the law body and the physical body becomes, and he also feels the rejection of heaven and earth towards him.
Hearing Yang Qi say this, Lu Zhihan's heart was filled with a burst of sadness, it was really not easy for the two of them to come together, first she was trapped in the Demon Mountain, so that the two of them had to get together from time to time, just got rid of the shackles of the Demon Mountain, Yang Qi was in such a situation, could it be that this world really did not allow the two of them. Sensing her worry, Guo Zheng comforted her: "Zhihan, don't worry, Lao Yang is in front of you and me for breaking through this time, even if there is any mistake, there is nothing we can't solve." ”。
What Guo Zheng didn't say was: even if Yang Qi unfortunately fell this time, he still had a way to keep Yang Qi's soul immortal, and the strange gourd obtained from Chaos could restrain his soul and keep it from dispersing. Seeing that the hands of the two were clasped tightly together, and there was no intention of speaking for the time being, Guo Zheng sighed that the fate of the two was troubled, and at the same time began to slowly tell the two of them about his cultivation experience in the past two years. Since it is no longer possible to conceive the Yuan Shen in the Yuan Baby, Guo Zheng plans to find another way, preparing to warm up the Yuan Shen in another trick Heavenly Court, although this way of cultivation makes the Yuan Shen less protected by the Yuan Baby, the relative Yuan Shen will be much more free, in the previous practice system of the mainland, the Yuan Shen can not be separated from the body alone, and the Yuan Ying must be controlled, and once Guo Zheng's Yuan Shen is successfully condensed, it can be separated from the body alone; according to the experience of predecessors, the Yuan Shen can improve the monk's perception of the aura in the heaven and earth, and can use the power of heaven and earth to cast some powerful spells, but there is always a Yuan Ying between the Yuan Shen and the heaven and the earth, and there will be a hindrance in communication,A single primordial god can better communicate with heaven and earth,Whether it is cultivation or casting, it will be stronger than the traditional primordial spirit;Moreover, for the later advanced merger period,The traditional primordial spirit can only be combined with the primordial infant to form a dharma body,After that, it can be combined with the physical body,And the primordial spirit is independent,The benefits are self-evident,When the advanced merger is in the order of the combination, the choice space is larger。
Qi Hai gives birth to Yuan Ying, and Heaven sits on Yuan Shen, this is Guo Zheng's most appropriate summary of his own cultivation path, if Guo Zheng takes this road through, then the monks and Yuan Ying can be cultivated with confidence, and they will no longer be limited by the standard of equal body.
Time spent in the exchange and discussion of the three of them, I don't know when, Zhang Qian also returned to the platform, sat down cross-legged behind Lu Zhihan, and listened to the top three people on the continent discussing this future cultivation path, maybe she can't absorb all this knowledge now, but there is no doubt that once her cultivation is enough, she will be able to appreciate the benefits of today's audit. In the great historical event known as the Three Ancestors on the Tao by later generations, Zhang Qian was the only one who witnessed it other than the Three Ancestors.
Before they knew it, the sun in the sky had come to the middle of the sky, and the three of them ended the discussion and began to prepare to seal the magic well. Lu Zhihan looked at the unfinished apprentice with a smile, she really loved Zhang Qian very much, and she was also happy that Zhang Qian was able to listen to the arguments of several people, with today's harvest, I believe that Zhang Qian's future cultivation path will go very smoothly, even to the point that no one can reach it.
Because he had already had the experience of casting the Liangyi seal twice, this time the seal was not alarming, after taking out a small piece of magic stone, Lu Zhihan taught the yin seal in the Liangyi seal to Zhang Qian, as for the yang seal, Yang Qi jokingly said: When will Xiao Qian'er find the person who has been with her for life, this yang seal is the dowry given by Yang Qi's master. Zhang Qian's face turned red when she brushed it, and she couldn't help laughing when she saw that the three of them were comforted, and Zhang Qian ran out of the cave as if she was running away.
The seal has been completed, this is no longer the cage of Lu Zhihan's master and apprentice, walking out of the cave, Lu Zhihan turned around and glanced at the place where he had been imprisoned for twenty-five years with a complicated face, as if he was nostalgic and relieved, Yang Qi beside him noticed her look, and with a wave of his big hand, the cave was quickly closed, leaving no gaps, as if it had never appeared.
The flush on Zhang Qian's face had not faded, and she was also staring at the location of the original cave with a complicated expression, Guo Zheng said: Let's go. After that, he picked up Zhang Qian and went away.
Lu Zhihan glanced around the platform again, the demonic fog had dissipated, she sighed lightly, and took Yang Qi's hand, the latter understood, and the two followed Guo Zheng in the sky together.