Chapter 31: The Moon in the Well, the Flower in the Mirror (I)
["Humanity is immortal, and there is no such thing in the world to come. ”
"The jade bottle is long and falling, and it is already less in the world. ”
"For 400 years, I have experienced a lot of troubles. ”
"Now that I am old, I look at my youth, and I am reincarnated. ”】
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Starlight hung down in a dilapidated thatched hut, and the young man in a light white coat closed the yellowed pages and calmly looked at the ordinary face in the mirror.
From the forehead, to the eyebrows, to the pupils, to the nose, to the mouth...... There is no place, and it is good to take it out alone.
He is also quite short in stature.
On the contrary, he did not feel inferior, but thanked God for this look.
It is precisely because of this face that he can live in the Giant Spirit Sect safely and soundly, and he can settle down in the whirlpool of many demons in southern Xinjiang competing for hegemony, and be the most obscure small role, taking care of a side of the elixir garden in the sect, and only need to take care of some low-grade spirit grass every day to receive subsidies.
No one cares about such a role, and no one deliberately embarrass such a small ant.
People like this are the most inconspicuous, shadows in the corners.
It is precisely because of this that I can let go of all my worries and devote myself to "this matter".
Southern Xinjiang is dangerous.
It's safe here.
The night is long, accompanied by yellow light scrolls.
That's enough.
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Jing Yue closed the page, and the words left by "Long Shengjun" still existed in her mind.
"Humanity and immortality, how can there ever be in the world?"
This question is a little lonely.
"Long Shengjun" is not a very famous person, Jing Yue knocked on the side and asked some familiar cultivators in the sect, his personality is very cautious, in order to avoid being found abnormal, even the way of asking has been carefully considered...... In the history of the Great Sui, those who can be called "Holy Monarchs" are generally the Demon Sect giants who founded a sect in southern Xinjiang, because the name of "Holy Monarch" is really contrary to the principles of heaven, if it is heard by the royal cultivators of the Great Sui Tiandu, within the four realms, I am afraid that they will be robbed by thunder.
Only in southern Xinjiang, 100,000 mountains, outside the law of the king.
It can be seen from this that the person who bears the name of "Holy Monarch" must be an extremely powerful cultivator.
Jing Yue pondered these words, and had been pondering for a long time, what this "Long Shengjun" was thinking about...... He doesn't have a way to understand it yet, but he can roughly understand one or two.
It is related to "immortality".
What he is thinking about now is how to eat enough and not go hungry.
In fact, it is not difficult for Jing Yue to do this, at least with this half of the "Immortal Law" in his hand now, even if he leaves the Giant Spirit Sect, it will be enough to eat his stomach.
Seven years of worship in the Giant Spirit Sect.
It has been seven years since he picked up the secret book of the "Long Shengjun".
This "great cultivator" who did not even leave a trace in the Great Sui Dynasty, this secret book left in Southern Xinjiang has nothing to do with the cultivation of the Demon Dao, and it seems to be a pure secret technique of divine cultivation.
You don't need to light the starlight to practice...... It's just that when you practice divine thoughts, you need to bear great suffering.
Cultivation is a painful thing.
The cultivators of Lingshan and the Demon Sect, tempering their physique, are actually tearing their own muscles, and then reorganizing them with vitality, becoming strong again and again in the midst of pain.
Man is one such species.
This secret book is called "Dayan", there are a total of ten realms, Jing Yue has now cultivated to the ninth layer, these ten realms must correspond to the ten realms in the Giant Spirit Sect, he knows very well that there are higher levels above the ten realms...... But this secret book is only recorded here.
A mutilated, but completely sufficient tome for Jing Yue.
After he practiced the Great Yan Secret Scripture, he used his own soul to steal the basic spirit gathering method of the Giant Spirit Sect, and also opened the path of Xinghui's cultivation, no one thought that in the Southern Xinjiang Giant Spirit Sect, in an inconspicuous medicine garden, there would be a young man who hid so deeply.
Every day, the smile is welcome, and the promise is submissive.
Jing Yue stayed in the medicine garden of the Giant Spirit Sect and hardly went out, but in fact, he knew everything, the great convenience brought by the Divine Soul Secret Book was to be able to hear the wind and grass within a radius of several miles, and the big people in the sect would never come to this kind of place, and the matter of taking medicine was also done by their personal boys, and these serving boys were the most well-informed spies in the Giant Spirit Sect.
Jing Yue knew that there were amazing geniuses in the sect, senior brother, who broke through the Seven Realms and became a hot figure.
I also know what kind of treasure the Great Elder of the Giant Spirit Sect has received, and in which hall to refine, waiting for the moment when the treasure will be returned.
The factional battles within the sect were fought by several geniuses for resources, treasures, and women.
He was like a flip-book, staying in the Giant Spirit Sect, calmly watching everything happen.
It's all about him, because right around him, factional strife will also affect the survival and change of this medicine garden.
None of this has anything to do with him.
Because he was always just a passerby.
From the moment he picked up the "Great Yan Secret Codex", he was doomed to Jing Yue's fate.
He will spend the humblest and most stable period of his life in the Giant Spirit Sect, and when the cultivation of this secret book is completed, he will leave here and leave the southern frontier.
Jing Yue has not practiced the Demon Dao in the past seven years, and he will erase his past completely, so that he can have an upright identity after leaving Southern Xinjiang.
When the time comes, go to Zhongzhou, go to the Imperial City of Tiandu, and find a stable and pleasant place to live.
It's really hard to leave southern Xinjiang.
It's also very difficult not to practice the Demon Path.
Jing Yue felt that she could do these two things.
Lying on the bed, Jing Yue felt a little insomnia, tonight is his eighteen-year-old birthday, eighteen years after coming to this world, it seems that life is dull and there is no change, but in fact, such a dull is an excellent good thing.
At least he's content with the moment...... Every time I hear those boys outside the medicine garden, discussing those quasi-holy sons who are highly respected in the Giant Spirit Sect in a sour tone, and then thinking of these "Tianjiao", the cultivation realm is only seven realms and eight realms, Jing Yue's mood will be very good.
In his own opinion, the genius of the Giant Spirit Sect was nothing more than a chicken-like dog.
It's not as good as a medicine picker in a small medicine garden.
The book says...... This is a brocade night walk.
Well.
Brocade night walk.
He loved it.
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The factional dispute of the Giant Spirit Sect is actually not complicated.
The great elder Su Changche is in the same vein, implementing the thoughts of the old sect leader Gu Hou, unwilling to disperse the mountain, and insisting on nailing the sect to the "Mayfly Mountain", many demons in southern Xinjiang are vying for hegemony, this vein is called the conservatives, and they are unwilling to take risks.
The vein of the young sect master's "Gu Quan" is that the old sect master is seriously ill
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After that, it was proposed to accept the Mayfly Mountain.
Today's southern Xinjiang is the era of the most fierce struggle, more than a dozen sects, the level of power is uneven, but those who have the ability to get a piece of the pie want to stand on the table...... Because of that "Mr. Manna Lu", he returned from the north to kill the dragon, obtained the edict of Tiandu, and became the first ghost cultivator in the history of southern Xinjiang to stand under the light.
Countless large and small sects in southern Xinjiang, going forward and successively, want to stick to Liuli Mountain in the east, to serve the first person in the ghost cultivation, and contribute to Liuli Mountain, now it seems to be a great thing, the catastrophe in the east has not yet returned, and the power under his command still needs to be filled, if you want to leave southern Xinjiang, then defecting to Han Yue is the best way.
This is the idea of "Gu Quan", keeping Mayfly Mountain as a foundation, separating forces, going to complete negotiations with Mr. Han Yue, trying to find the biggest backer, and then ending the embarrassing position of the Giant Spirit Sect in Southern Xinjiang.
Of course, Su Changche is resolutely opposed, when Han Yue left southern Xinjiang, he was full of resentment, many mountains in southern Xinjiang had given this "Mr. Manna a lot" a lot of hardships, and now the scenery is back to the powerful second prince, but how can he not keep old accounts? Han Yue said on his face that "past grievances are written off", but the spring breeze blows away and the wildfire still exists, if the Giant Spirit Sect really goes to the east, it is really "death and no life", this Mr. Manna Sect's methods do not look like a ghost cultivator, but like a benevolent Bodhisattva in Lingshan!
How can this be believed?
The reason why these two veins can be "evenly matched" is because of the decree left by the sect leader of the Giant Spirit Sect, "Gu Hou".
The old sect master made a mistake in his cultivation, and now his soul is disordered, and he has not been out of the customs for a long time, and before the retreat, he once left an edict, and the affairs of the sect are all handed over to the great elder to take care of.
In Jing Yue's eyes, it is not difficult to predict the direction of all this.
If "Gu Hou" had been asleep like this, then the power of the entire sect would be inclined to take care of this side...... This young sect master's personality is ruthless enough, and Su Changche doesn't look like a person in the Demon Sect at all, after being orphaned by Gu Houtuo, he is afraid of being infamous as a thief.
The ghost cultivators in southern Xinjiang talk about righteousness on the surface, and they are really like Su Changche, who sticks a knife in both ribs, and basically can't find a second one.
But...... Jing Yue didn't think there was anything to praise about this.
In the bottom of his heart, he just felt that this guy was unbearable.
Spring is shining, the day of the eighteenth birthday.
The medicine garden was not as quiet as usual, and today was not the time to take medicine, so Jing Yue simply took care of the medicine field, stood in the spring breeze, and stretched her waist.
Just as he was about to open the door and blow the wind.
"Squeak".
What catches your eye is a pretty face that is so white and tender that you can pinch out the water.
Jing Yue was stunned.
In front of him, there stood a woman in a wide black robe, the woman carried a huge "narrow thing" on her back, wrapped in black cloth, and when folded, it looked like a scroll, hot black lacquer, she had an innocent baby face, and there was still a light baby fat on both sides of her cheeks, but she deliberately kept a straight face, as if to intimidate the person who opened the door.
After seeing Jing Yue, the woman was also a little stunned, and then she frowned.
"I am ......"
Introduce oneself.
Before the woman could finish speaking, Jing Yue opened her mouth to say her unfinished words, "Su Shuijing, the daughter of Great Elder Su Changche." ”
Su Shuijing raised his phoenix eyebrows, "Have you seen me before?"
Jing Yue hadn't recovered from being alone yet, he looked at the woman's good-looking face, so close, he seemed to be able to hear the sound of his heart beating, and subconsciously smiled: "I've seen it, at the sect ceremony, of course...... You haven't seen me. Besides, even if I haven't seen it, I've heard your name and seen your portrait, so who in the Giant Spirit Sect doesn't know the Water Mirror Girl?"
As she said these words, Jing Yue's smile grew louder and louder, and her heart beat louder and louder.
But this is by no means the voice of the "heartbeat".
On the contrary, as his mind cleared, the bottom of Jing Yue's heart had sunk.
In this medicine garden where I am located, I usually come and go, and those who will visit the door are some sword boys, medicine boys who serve the medicine furnace of the big people, or young scholars, at most the children of the outer sect of the sect, who are not good at mixing, and they can't go to the medicine hall, so they can only come to this tattered medicine garden to exchange medicinal materials...... No inner disciple would ever come here, let alone a lady of heaven like Su Shuijing.
What did she come to do?
The sect has noticed itself...... Is it because the timing of the release of his soul is wrong?
No, it's impossible, every time I release my soul, it's extremely short-lived, fleeting, and I stepped on the right time, if I was found abnormal, I would have been exposed.
Jing Yue's mind was full of thoughts.
The woman on the opposite side opened her mouth faintly and said, "Jing Yue, seven years after entering the sect, seven years of guarding medicinal materials in the 'White Grass Garden', this year's eighteenth birthday, guarding four hundred and twelve medicinal herbs. ”
Jing Yue nodded and said, "Yes." ”
He lowered his head, hurriedly made a look of sincere fear, and said, "Do you recognize me?"
"Of course ......"
Su Shuijing did not hesitate at all about this question, she frowned and said neatly.
"I don't know. ”
How could she possibly know this medicine nurse?
And it still looks like this...... Ordinary.
It's just that the impression at first glance is not very bad, this young man is not the same as the other people he saw when he pushed open the door, the one who took care of the medicine garden for the Giant Spirit Sect has the wicked people who have committed serious crimes and redeemed their merits, and there are also old people who are nearly a hundred years old, these people are stained with the smell of decay and decay, which is why Su Shuijing has a straight face, she wants to draw a line with these people...... And the young man named "Jing Yue" in front of him is different, although his facial features are not good-looking, he has an ethereal temperament on his body.
In the mountain gate of southern Xinjiang, there are such "clean" people.
Dressed in a white-washed cloth shirt, neatly dressed, the first impression is clean.
Pure cleanliness.
The most ordinary, the most inconspicuous people, if you take it out separately and look carefully, will also find something unusual.
Su Shuijing stood in front of the door of the white grass garden, frowning and looking at Jing Yue, the young man lowered his head to avoid the collision of his eyes, countless thoughts flashed in his heart, and the irresistible voice of the great elder's only daughter sounded in his ears.
"Look up. ”
Jing Yue slowly raised her head, revealing a harmless smirk of humans and animals.
"I've seen your name in the name of the sect, don't get me wrong, I have written down the caretaker of each medicine garden...... Today, I checked the medicine garden for my father, everyone has to check, and you can't escape. Su Shuijing said lightly: "Although you don't look like a bad person, don't leave anything to chance." ”
"There are herbs stolen from the medicine garden?"
Jing Yue subconsciously asked.
Su Shuijing frowned and snorted coldly, "Don't ask what you shouldn't ask." ”
Jing Yue hurriedly lowered her head and turned sideways to get out of the way.
Su Shuijing entered the white grass garden, and she asked seemingly unintentionally
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Said: "Where is the seeking grass and how many plants have been raised?" ”
Jing Yue said quickly: "There are thirteen rows on the left, and there are nineteen plants, and seven plants were taken away from the Tianshui Peak scholar a few days ago, and now there are twelve left." ”
Su Shuijing walked all the way, carrying his hands behind his back and walking slowly.
She asked again, "Oneness Grass ......"
"The seventeenth on the right, four plants, one grass no one cares, and it has been raised for a year. ”
The woman narrowed her eyes, this medicine garden is not big, it is not small, there are a total of four hundred and twelve medicinal herbs, more than nearly a thousand, less than three or four, there is nothing good in southern Xinjiang, that is, there are countless strange materials and treasures, there are dozens of medicine gardens like this in the Giant Spirit Sect, this is still the lowest level medicine garden, providing low-level medicinal materials, the types needed for alchemy are densely packed with hundreds of kinds, and there are more than a dozen large and small medicine halls.
Under the guidance of her father, Su Shuijing has been familiar with these medicinal materials since she was a child, she walked all the way in the medicine garden, and asked all the way, speaking faster and faster, and the things she asked were no longer limited to the number of medicinal materials.
"The poisonous weed has been raised for a few years, at what stage, how many leaves have opened, and has it grown a 'glass heart'?"
And Jing Yue, who was following behind Su Shuijing, also answered very quickly in the face of these interrogations.
"Six years, the first to grow, thirteen leaves, as for the 'glass heart', it is the best that can not be found, and it is impossible for the white grass garden to raise this grade of poisonous herbs. ”
Jing Yue replied, and her thoughts were no longer here.
The Great Elder's lineage came to check the medicinal herbs.
I didn't get a response to my temptation just now, but in fact, the answer is obvious...... Presumably, the theft of medicinal materials from the medicine garden has attracted the attention of the high-level of the Giant Spirit Sect, and what can get the attention of the big people has nothing to do with the medicine garden in essence.
It's about the sleeping suzerain.
Gu Hou would have someone deliver medicine every day, and when this sect master woke up directly affected the factional dispute.
In just a short distance, Jing Yue's mind has already made up a vulgar power drama.
He sighed softly.
"You ......"
Su Shuijing suddenly stopped, turned around, Jing Yue, whose thoughts were flying, didn't have time to stop, and subconsciously bumped into the other party's chest, someone who was short in stature, just walked with his head down, and suddenly noticed a dense warmth...... When he realized what was happening, he got goosebumps all over his body and staggered and fell to the ground.
The wind swept and the grass folded.
The huge and narrow thing was instantly held by Su Shuijing's backhand, and the black cloth exploded, knocking him out of the air-
Jing Yue, who was defenseless, subconsciously wanted to fight back, but this thought was immediately choked by him, and at the same moment, he saw the pitch-black thing clearly...... After the black cloth was shaken away, a huge folding fan was revealed, which was full of dense talismans, but in the face of a subordinate guarding the medicine garden, Su Shuijing did not cast the talisman at all.
"Boom".
Lime Clusters.
Jing Yue, whose body was weak, hit his back against a stone wall, and he rubbed his chest and coughed up blood in pain.
After closing the fan, Su Shuijing let out an "ah" in surprise, her pretty face was flushed, she looked at the young man in front of her angrily, and she didn't know what to say for a while.
Just some cross-examination.
She found that the teenager in front of her was completely different from what she imagined.
In the past seven years, this young man has been able to clearly remember every medicinal herb, and even some advanced secrets, which is simply incredible.
This teenager is different.
Very different.
She just wanted to open her mouth to praise it, and then she felt the "abnormality", as the heavenly lady of the Giant Spirit Sect, the softest place encountered an "invasion", and she almost subconsciously put on a posture of defensive counterattack.
And then there was this scene in front of me.
Not far from the white grass garden, on that stone wall, the boy leaned against the wall in pain, gray, smoke and dust fell from the wall, and the clean clothes were also covered with dust.
Jing Yue coughed and said intermittently: "Miss Shuijing, if I remember correctly, three days ago, there seemed to be something unusual about the 'Qiu Lipu'...... If it's true that the herbs are missing, you can start there. ”
Su Shuijing's cheeks were a little hot.
In the midst of the swaying smoke and dust, the young man rubbed his chest and sat for a long time, as if he was pondering something: "Three days ago, late at night, there were night visitors to the Qiu Li Garden, and he slept lightly under it...... It's probably about another week, and we'll meet again, maybe it's suspicious, if the water mirror girl has a heart, she can ask in person, if the other party is honest, then it's fine, if there is something to hide, then everything will be clear and clear. ”
Su Shuijing frowned.
She looked at Jing Yue with some suspicion.
Jing Yue slowly lifted her knees and said softly: "If you don't believe it, the yellow light in the house can testify, and you have always stayed up late to read books." ”
The woman turned her head slightly, looking in the direction of the wooden house where Jing Yue was, the door was swaying, and there was a broken desk inside, the yellow lamp was like a bean, and the thick grease could not be faked.
She murmured softly, "No wonder ......"
No wonder this young man named "Jing Yue" is much better than other people in the medicine garden, whether he talks or learns.
She nodded, the apology on her face curtailed.
My father once said to himself that if you never give people a good face and occasionally show good intentions, if you always treat others well, if you don't want to be as usual, you will be read "evil" by people, good people need to be difficult to become Buddhas, and bad people only need to put down the butcher knife if they want to become Buddhas.
She still doesn't understand these big truths, but it's right to walk with a straight face.
Su Shuijing pretended to be indifferent and said, "I know." Thank you. ”
Jing Yue couldn't help but laugh out loud.
Su Shuijing's eyes widened, his phoenix eyes were angry, and he said angrily, "Are you laughing at me?"
"No, no, no. ”
Jing Yue hurriedly shook her head and grinned, "I remembered something funny." ”
"You're clearly laughing at me, you haven't heard of it. ”
Jing Yue simply stopped hiding it and laughed.
Su Shuijing stood silently in the smoke and dust, puffing out his cheeks, holding his fingers on the huge folding fan, and his bones crackled.
Jing Yue hurriedly restrained her smile.
Su Shuijing dragged the folding fan off the ground, the black cloth flew suddenly, turned into a piece of talisman again, wrapped the fan, carried it behind his back, and left without saying a word.
When leaving the courtyard gate.
Her heart hung slightly, and she carried an inexplicable expectation.
And Jing Yue did not disappoint her.
Jing Yue bowed down and suggested seriously: "Miss Shuijing can actually smile more, you really look good when you smile." ”
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