Chapter 22: Penglai
Wu Lu came to Gao Tianbao's residence and called a few times, but no one answered. When I came to Zhou Luowei again, there was no one in the house.
I don't know where the two have gone.
When Wu Lu was looking around, he saw the North Korean Li Youhe driving a donkey cart along the mountain path.
Li Youji also saw Wu Lu and hurriedly greeted him from afar. Wu Lu was not in a hurry to find Gao Tianbao and the others, so he went up to see what he brought back from outside.
In the past two months, Li Youhe would go out to the mountains every ten days and half a month to replenish some supplies in Neyin City. Now he is very angry, he has a daughter with a fairy fate, and his status in Neyin City is also good, and the family who stays there lives very well, but it is much better than starving in North Korea.
"Brother Wu, I haven't seen you for more than half a month, I heard that you have found a remote place to cultivate?" Li Youji sat on the donkey cart and didn't salute anymore, it seems that her woman Li Shanxuan has grown a lot of courage for him.
"Do you have anything to eat?" Wu Lu was not polite to Li You, jumped on the donkey cart and rummaged through. There are freshly milled rice, unpeeled beans, freshly baked jerky, and tea pickled vegetables, etc., this day is cold, and fresh melons and fruits are not to be considered.
Wu Lu grabbed a handful of jerky, bit it, and sat on the donkey cart, just like that, he rode back.
"How is Li Shanxuan's cultivation now?"
Hearing Wu Lu's question, Li Youji immediately smiled and said, "Just a few days ago, my cultivation broke through again, and I was already at the second level of the Qi cultivation period. ”
Wu Lu was a little deflated, and originally thought that he had just stabilized the cultivation of the first layer of the Qi training period, and he should be on an equal footing with Li Shanxuan, but this girl had broken through to the second layer of the Qi training period in less than two months. Listening to Pei Lingyun, Wu Lu Linggen's qualifications are better than Li Shanxuan's, but Li Shanxuan's cultivation is so fast, obviously he has the advantage of his age, and his cultivation at a young age is fast.
"Listen to my daughter, when you reach the seventh or eighth layer of the Qi cultivation period, you can open the valley, and then you don't have to eat whole grains all the time, isn't that an immortal?"
"Of course, when Li Shanxuan's cultivation reaches the seventh or eighth level of the Qi cultivation period, not only can he clear the valley, but he can also drive flying magic weapons, and he can do anything in the sky and the earth, and then he will really be a land immortal. ”
Wu Lu's words obviously scratched Li Youji's itch, which made him feel very comfortable. Li Youji thought that he would be the father of the gods in the future, and he was even more happy. Originally, I thought that Wu Lu was born as a pawn in the army, and he must be vulgar, but now seeing how Wu Lu looks at it, this mind begins to turn to the old man's son-in-law.
I have to say that Wu Lu's appearance is not bad, maybe he has been in the army for a long time, and he looks heroic between his eyebrows. Li Youji thought that his daughter could be regarded as embarking on the path of immortals, and if there was a like-minded person who formed a fairy couple with him, it would be a great thing. Calculating the age, Wu Lu is ten years older than his daughter Li Shanxuan, and the age is not too different.
Li Youji looked at Wu Lu with a smile, which made Wu Lu a little unnatural, and thought that this old boy was playing some bad idea in his heart.
When the donkey cart arrived at the wooden house where Li You and he lived, the wooden door creaked open. A little girl jumped out and shouted in surprise when she saw Wu Lu: "Brother Wu!"
The little girl is Li Shanxuan, this North Korean girl is not like she was starving in the shack more than two months ago. In the past two months, I have not worried about food and clothing, and I have practiced the qigong method, my eyebrows and eyes have become more and more flexible, and my complexion has become more and more fair and delicate.
"Haha, don't call me Brother Wu anymore! Your cultivation is higher than me now, according to the rules of the immortal cultivation world, I still have to call you Senior Sister!"
Wu Lu got out of the donkey cart, turned into a very serious look, bent over with his hands, lowered his head and said solemnly: "Senior Sister Li is on top, Senior Brother Wu Lu is polite!"
Li Shanxuan was amused by Wu Lu and giggled, and she also responded with her hands in a straight Ming Dynasty official dialect: "Senior Brother Wu needs to be more diligent on the road of cultivation in the future, but he can't slack off!"
"Huh..." Wu Lu raised his head in surprise, he only reacted at this time, this Li Shanxuan can actually speak the official dialect of the Ming Dynasty, you must know that some time ago she was still babbling and babbling the Korean flavor of the Ming Dynasty, and she couldn't move behind Gasmitta.
"Half a month ago, that is, when Brother Wu was in retreat and cultivating, Pei Shangxian entered the official words of the Ming Dynasty into my Zhihai, and now I no longer speak with all my fellow disciples and brothers..."Then, Li Shanxuan held his little head with both hands and said in a very frightened tone: "The process of entering the Divine Consciousness into Zhihai is very painful, and after recording that day, I almost fainted in pain." ”
Wu Lu, who had endured the pain of entering the divine consciousness three times, felt the same way, thinking that this little girl had also endured such inhuman pain, he felt pity, and was about to say a few words of relief, but he heard a girl's surprised voice in the distance.
"Brother Wu!"
Zhou Luowei was overjoyed and incredulous and strode over with her skirt in disbelief, and ran to Wu Lu's side with a happy face, while Gao Tianbao who walked behind her also looked incredulous.
"Brother Wu, I thought you were dead in that monster's mouth..."Zhou Luowei regretted it as soon as she finished speaking, she glanced at Li You, who was a little curious, and her father and daughter, smiled, thinking of Hu Xiaoling's warning, she hurriedly pulled Wu Lu and went away.
Gao Tianbao looked at Wu Lu and the others, and followed with a complicated face.
It turned out that after Gao Tianbao and Zhou Luowei came out of Hu Xiaoling, they always felt that this matter was not simple. Zhou Luowei was delicate, and she sensed something wrong from Hu Xiaoling's rhetoric, after all, Hu Xiaoling's statement of the mountain god of Changbai Mountain was too untenable.
Zhou Luowei is good at miscellaneous books, since she has been cultivating with Pei Lingyun, she has always begun to feel that those gods and strange characters in history should actually be cultivators, but because mortals are short-sighted and don't know the truth of cultivation, they always feel that those characters are the reincarnation of mortal gods from heavenly immortals, of course, it is not excluded that those cultivators are playing tricks and defrauding mortals to gain benefits.
But Hu Xiaoling said that there are mountain gods in Changbai Mountain, and Zhou Luowei is a hundred who don't believe it, but looking at Hu Xiaoling's swearing, in order to let Zhou Luowei and the others not tell Pei Lingyun the truth, and even threaten the two of them with the matter of issuing magic weapons, obviously there is something to hide from Pei Shangxian. In order to avoid causing an unwarranted disaster, Zhou Luowei pretended to be obedient and promised together with Gao Tianbao that she would not inform Pei Lingyun about Wu Lu.
But in fact, the two of them have always had doubts, and just now the two of them took advantage of the night to quietly hide in a place that Hu Xiaoling's consciousness could not cover, whether they should wait for Pei Lingyun to come back and tell the truth, and frankly admit that there is something wrong with Hu Xiaoling.
However, now that Wu Lu has returned safely, these doubts are not important at all.
Zhou Luowei hurriedly told Wu Lu what happened after Wu Lu was taken away by the water beast, and then asked Wu Lu how he got out of danger.
Wu Lu naturally didn't tell the truth, but said that the water beast was not trying to kill him, but to save him, and after Yan Long'er and the others left, he came back from Tianchi safely.
After mentioning Yan Long'er, Zhou Luowei said with a somewhat strange face: "She... Is it pretty?"
"What?" Wu Lu was a little confused.
"I mean... Does Yan Long'er look good in the shower?" Zhou Luowei stomped her feet a little coquettishly, and her voice was a few degrees higher.
"Uh... It's okay!" Wu Lu replied a little stupidly.
When Zhou Luowei heard this, her face immediately turned a little ugly, and she said hatefully: "Men really don't have a good thing, don't they know a knife on their heads? Just to watch others take a bath, he almost gave away his life in vain, is it worth it?"
Wu Lu was a little stupid, how could he listen to her tone, thinking that he was like a thief stealing incense and stealing jade because of his lust to provoke that Wan Yan Long'er? He hurriedly pulled Zhou Luowei over and explained in a low voice.
Wu Lu told Zhou Luowei and Gao Tianbao everything he saw and heard in the hot spring grottoes at that time, and frankly admitted that he had to do it because he wanted to save his life. also said that he was afraid of affecting the two of them, so he hurriedly borrowed the bird gun from Gao Tianbao that night and took it in the direction of Tianchi, planning to ask for his shelter after Pei Lingyun returned.
After listening to Wu Lu's explanation, thinking that he was afraid that he would be affected by himself and disappeared, Zhou Luowei couldn't help but feel sweet in her heart.
Speaking of the bird gun, Wu Lu remembered that he had discarded the bird gun in the mountain rock pile after he had burst the gunpowder at that time, and he said to Gao Tianbao with some apologies: "Brother Gao, I'm sorry about the bird gun, I'll go and find the bird gun and return it to you later." ”
Gao Tianbao waved his hand generously and said: "This bird gun is yours, and I used a set of clothes to exchange a bird gun from you, which was what I took advantage of... Besides, Pei Shangxian went out this time to find some materials to refine magic weapons for us, I have long been tired of playing with this bird gun, where can I play bird guns with magic weapons... No need, no need"
After Gao Tianbao finished speaking, he then hooked his shoulders with Wu Lu with a somewhat strange face and said with a wicked smile: "If Brother Wu really wants to express his apologies, why don't you tell me about the situation when I peeked at Yan Long'er's little girl's skin in the bath, can this woman's breasts be big, and can her legs be straight?"
Wu Lu was also a little excited and wanted to describe, but Zhou Luowei on the side couldn't listen to it anymore, and stomped her feet heavily and said, "You two ruffians just continue to talk, I'll go back..."
Wu Lu was interrupted by Zhou Luowei, and he lost the mood to communicate with Gao Tianbao about what he had seen and heard. He suddenly thought of something, hurriedly stopped Zhou Luowei, and asked, "Senior Sister Zhou, you read a lot, have you heard of a person named Cao Jingxiu in the Song Dynasty?"
Zhou Luowei paused, turned around and replied, "But Cao Jingxiu from Foggy Pig Mountain?"
Wu Lu was suddenly pleasantly surprised: "Yes, yes, yes! It's Cao Jingxiu of Foggy Pig Mountain! Senior sister, do you know this person's deeds? Is he very famous?"
"Famous?" Zhou Luowei rolled her eyes and said, "How famous is he, it can be said that women and children know it, you don't know?"
Wu Lu was stunned for a moment, and turned his head to look at Gao Tianbao, who shrugged his shoulders and said that he had never heard of this person at all.
"It's so famous that women and children know it, at least I've never heard of him!"
Zhou Luowei said with a look of disdain: "If you don't learn no skills, you don't know that Uncle Cao Guo has heard of the Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea! Cao Jingxiu of Fog Pig Mountain is the famous Uncle Cao Guo among the Eight Immortals, and his master is Lu Dongbin!"
"Uncle Cao Guo!" Wu Lu was stunned after listening to Zhou Luowei's pause.
Uncle Cao Guo, one of the Eight Immortals, was actually the cultivator that Jiang Mei and the three met! Moreover, he was also a cultivator in the middle stage of foundation building! Doesn't that mean that the legendary Eight Immortals are all cultivators! That Eight Immortals crossing the sea is true, and the Penglai Immortal Island that the Eight Immortals crossed the sea to is also real?
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And just when Wu Lu sighed at Penglai Immortal Island, on the continent 30,000 miles east of Changbai Mountain, Wan Fayi looked thoughtfully at the broken ruins in front of him.
It was night in the Changbai Mountain area where Wu Lu was located, but it was day where Wan Fa was located.
At this time, there were eleven disciples and seventy-two disciples standing behind Wan Fayi. These 83 people crossed the ocean on a sea ship intercepted by the port of Busan, and finally arrived in this strange land after nearly two months.
If it weren't for the fact that they had already entered the Qi training period and had a physique that surpassed ordinary people, I am afraid that such a long sea-crossing career would have killed more than a dozen of them.
The sea ship he intercepted was a Siamese ship purchased by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, with a load of 3,200 stones, which could transport 300 samurai to Korea at a time. Wan Fayi forcibly recruited more than 30 Japanese sailors as the Grand Master of Jiawei, and then carried enough food and fresh water, and finally arrived at the place where he was going with nearly 100 cultivators, which was the Penglai Immortal Island that Wu Lu thought of through the allusion of the Eight Immortals crossing the sea.
It is said to be an island, but in fact, it is simply a continent with a territory of thousands of miles. The cultivators left the ship and traveled hundreds of miles to the southeast, finally finding the Penglai Pavilion mentioned in the jade slip near a large mountain.
At this time, Penglai Pavilion had been deserted into ruins, and it took a long time to find some clues on a broken stone tablet.
The stele is actually written in Chinese characters: "Li Xuan, Zhong Liquan, Zhang Guo, Lu Dongbin, He Qiong, Xu Jie, Han Xiangzi, Cao Jingxiu, eight of us who knew that they had become immortals crossed tens of thousands of miles in the East China Sea, and finally had a glimpse of Penglai Immortal Pavilion." However, it is a pity that the fairy road is cut off, and Penglai Immortal Pavilion has become a ruin. Yang Shou is near, the immortal stones are exhausted, the aura is declining, and the way for us to cultivate immortals is almost a dead end. Ghosts and evil are prosperous, witches and demons are prevalent, and the eight of us who have become immortals are invincible to one of the witches and demons in the old land of Langya, and they drive their monsters to feather snakes, and their ferocity is far greater than that of Daluo immortals. Eight of us were lucky to survive, and a monument was erected here to warn future generations that we must not go thousands of miles south to find the old land of Langya, which is dangerous and unpredictable. In the first year of Song Chongning, it was engraved. ”
Wan Fayi read it carefully, and then said with some disdain: "How dangerous is the Dao, the Feathered Serpent is just a demon beast below the third level, and it is also at the level of the foundation building period." ”
"The first year of Song Chongning?" Wan Fa beckoned: "Cui Qi, do you know how many years have passed since the first year of Song Chongning?"
A young man in his twenties stepped forward and calculated carefully: "Master Hui Jiawei, this Chongning is the second year name of Zhao Ji of Song Huizong, and the first year of Chongning is almost 500 years ago. ”
This young man named Cui Qi, his father was a Chinese in the Ming Dynasty, and his mother was Japanese. In order for Cui Qi to return to the Ming Dynasty to inherit the family business, it is also to familiarize him with the classics, which naturally includes historical classics. Therefore, Cui Qicai is quite familiar with the historical era name of the Central Plains, and can deduce the year from this.
"It's been 500 years... Since the so-called witch and devil can drive the feathered serpent, it must be around the foundation building period, and it is impossible for the aura to break through to the knot stage here, and after such a long time, it should have been resolved. After weighing it for a moment, Wan Fa immediately decided to take his disciples to the south to explore the old land of Langya.
Wan Fa glanced at the stele again and again, and sneered and slapped his palm into crumbs.
"The lonely monk in this world is also embarrassed to leave me without warning?"
In this way, the nearly 100 people left the ruins and headed south.