Chapter 3 Life is like an empty illusion, a sad teenager

Outside the courtyard, Jian Yang had already stood under the apricot tree and waited for the Hou, the three of them arrived at the alchemy hall, the door outside the hall was locked, and Zhang Ming helped Jian Yang and Yuan Cen to cross the wall and arrive in the hall.

I saw the faint light in the hall flickering, a few candles faintly dimmed, in the center of the alchemy hall, the bronze Dan furnace was pulled by eight iron cable chains in the center, and a raging fire was ignited under the Dan furnace.

There were eight Dao Tong guarding the Dan furnace, and the Dao Tong was dozing with his eyes half-closed, but whenever there was any movement, they would immediately open their eyes to check.

"Light Movie" Jian Yang took advantage of the furnace fire and moonlight, and shuttled through the alchemy hall at will, he followed an iron chain, easily got on the Dan furnace, opened the Dan furnace with a sword, and saw that there were eight Eight Treasure Pills that had been refined in the Dan furnace, Jian Yang said silently in his heart: "Okay, you Gao Xuan, obviously there are eight Eight Treasure Pills, but you say that none of them have been refined." ”

The Eight Treasure Pill is a panacea, Jian Yang only took one, and one was enough to cure the poison of several people. Zhang Ming and Yuan Cen responded outside, but they got the Eight Treasure Pills without knowing it, and they were overjoyed.

After a quarter of an hour, the young man's complexion became ruddy and improved, and his breath became stable.

After taking a golden pill, the young man regained some strength. After that, he began to beat his feet and chest, and his whole body was in severe pain like a knife.

The young man was in unbearable pain, and kept screaming, which alarmed Yang Xi, who hurriedly helped the young man up and conveyed true qi to him from the back of the young man.

"Oh no! This young man's true qi in his body is actually flowing backwards!" Yang Xi exclaimed.

Zhang Ming said anxiously: "Then isn't his life in danger?"

A few night dog barks came from the main hall not far away, cutting through the silence, the courtyard became restless, and the footsteps were getting closer and closer, Gao Xuan led the disciples of the Lingbao Sect to surround the wing room of Yang Xi and others, and said sharply: "Okay, you Yang Xi, I will treat you like a guest, but you let the apprentice come to my alchemy hall to steal the Eight Treasure Pill!"

Yang Xi didn't know the reason, and wondered: "What does Daoist Gao mean by this, when did I let my disciple steal your sect's Eight Treasure Pills?"

Gao Xuan looked inside the juvenile's room, picked up a ball of oiled paper and said, "Look at what this is, you still want to quibble!"

The oil paper was originally pursed outside the Eight Treasure Pill, and Zhang Ming was in a hurry to give the Eight Treasure Pill to the young man to eat, so he had time to clean up the oil paper in the future, and he still had a little oil paper stuck to his hand.

Yang Xi knew the approximate reason, and said angrily: "Ming'er, you listen to the words of your teacher the most on weekdays, and you are the most upright, why did you do such a ridiculous thing!"

Zhang Ming knelt down and said: "It's so hard to save people's hearts, so I can't care so much!" Zhang Ming is a famous chivalrous warrior in the rivers and lakes, and if the news of stealing the Eight Treasure Pills gets out tonight, it will definitely make him ruined.

According to the rules of the Shangqing faction, if a disciple of this sect commits theft, he will abolish his martial arts and expel him from the sect. But Zhang Ming is Yang Xi's most important disciple, and he has regarded him as his own son since he was a child, and he has been carefully cultivated as the future head, how can Yang Xi bear to expel him from the school.

"Today I ...... I'll clean up the portal!" Yang Xi said, and he used his internal strength, and he was about to hit Zhang Ming's back.

"Master, slow down! You can't blame Senior Brother for this!" Yuan Cen, Jian Yang, and Cao Long all hurriedly stood in front of Zhang Ming.

Yuan Cen wandered in the room, put his hands behind his back and said loudly: "Those who can forget their bodies, how can they love their bodies again? ”

Gao Xuan was surprised: "This is a scripture that I can't pass on, how can you know!"

What Yuan Cen recited is the "Lingbao Sutra" created by Ge Chaofu, the celestial master of the Lingbao School, which contains wonderful martial arts such as the art of flying immortals, but in order to cultivate the art of flying immortals, you must understand the essence of it.

Yuan Cen Jianghu people called the "Ghost Valley Boy" full of classics, extremely strategic, good at debate, disdainful: "The Lingbao Sutra was created by Ge Tianshi, and the scriptures can be known to everyone, but only Ge Tianshi is the only one who understands the essence, why is this?"

"I want to hear about it!" Gao Xuan had already wanted to cultivate the art of flying immortals, but the senior brother in charge always refused to pass on the art of flying immortals because he had not reached the conditions for cultivating immortals.

"If you don't love your body, you will no longer pursue the immortality of the body, that is, you will become an immortal, but only pursue the accumulation of merits, and you can cultivate the art of flying immortals. The young man in front of you who is about to die, but you don't even want to give a Eight Treasure Pill, what kind of accumulation of merits, what kind of flying immortal art to cultivate!"

"If you don't love your body, you don't love your body, then even if this young man dies physically, and death is equivalent to getting rid of his spirit and sublimating him, then why do I continue to save him and let him suffer from his flesh again?"

"What my Shangqing faction advocates is 'loving the body and maintaining health', which is very different from your Lingbao faction's tenet of 'not loving the body', how can it be confused!

"Life is an illusion, forget about yourself to help things, thank you for your advice!" Gao Xuan suddenly realized that he seemed to understand something, and generously took out the two Eight Treasure Pills he was carrying, and said: "The Eight Treasure Pills are things outside the body, how can people who cultivate immortals be greedy, you can take them!"

After Yuan Cen's words, Gao Xuan seemed to have the gist of the matter, so he no longer pursued the matter of the Shangqing faction stealing the Eight Treasure Pills, and led the disciples away.

The teenager who took one Eight Treasure Pill became more uncomfortable, Zhang Ming only said that it was the neutralization reaction in the detoxification process of the Eight Treasure Pill, or that the life talisman had been in the young man's body for too long, and the toxicity had soaked into the internal organs, so he asked him to take two Eight Treasure Pills in a row.

Eight Treasure Pills can be taken eight in a row, but the Golden Pill is swallowed one after another, and the young man is first panting with a rapid heartbeat, and suddenly there is no breath and pulse.

"Isn't it true that even the Eight Treasure Pills of the Lingbao Sect can't solve the amulet?

"Guiding and Initiating" is one of the three methods of internal cultivation of the Shangqing School, Yang Xi has already injected his own three layers of true qi for the young man, only to feel that the inner body of the young man is constantly rising and disappearing. Yang Xi sighed and said: "Alas, there is nothing that can be done as a teacher, and the bell must be tied to the bell, it seems that only the divine spell Dafa can solve this charm, and now that he is approaching, he only has a few hours to live!"

Helplessly, Yang Xi, Jian Yang, Cao Long, and Yuan Cen went back to their rooms to rest. Chenshi, in the young man's room, only Zhang Ming was left on the edge of the bed, Zhang Ming was sad that he couldn't save the life-saving benefactor in front of him, and even the benefactor was about to die and he couldn't know the benefactor's name, hometown, and parents, and he was extremely ashamed.

The boy slowly opened his eyes, only to see the dim candle flame, and the tongue of fire stretched out into the gloomy night. He screamed in horror.

Zhang Ming rubbed his sleepy eyes, he just wanted to keep a night spirit for his benefactor, and find a good place to bury his benefactor at dawn the next day, he clearly heard someone make a sound, could it be a ghost? He lit more candles in a panic, and found that the young man was moving!

Zhang Ming didn't know whether he was frightened or happy, and ran outside the room and shouted, "Master, Master!

Yang Xi, Jiangdong Sixia and others rushed over when they heard the sound and watched the dynamics.

Yang Xi was also surprised, and said, "This young man has been hit by the life talisman, and it has been three days, and he has not died!

The young man saw Yang Xi, Zhang Ming and the others in front of him clearly through the candlelight, he shrank in a corner in fright, and when his hand brushed over his empty waist, he found that the things he was carrying were gone!

The boy jumped up and kicked the quilt away, screaming like madness, and no one could understand what he was saying.

Yang Xi said: "Little brother, don't be afraid, we are here to save you, what is your name?"

The boy was still manic and restless, and the language was incomprehensible, so Yang Xi and the others naturally didn't understand what the boy was going to do.

Zhang Ming said: "Master, he should be looking for something." By the way, I remember he had a purse on him, and the necklace around his neck was missing!"

Yang Xi said: "These things should be very important to him, could it be that they were lost on the road?"

"Smack!" a purse was thrown to the ground by a young girl, and it was the same purse that the teenager had.

The girl was Yang Ruo, she yawned, rubbed her eyes and said, "This broken bag contains a piece of rotten copper and iron, I thought it was a good thing." ”

It turned out that Yang Ruo was woken up in his sleep, so he came to the boy's room to find out, and when he saw the young man's painful appearance, he said in his heart, "This child should not be much older than me, and he is going to die at such a young age, it's so pitiful!"

The boy was able to walk freely, and rushed forward, clutching the rotten iron in the broken purse, but some of his things and the necklace in the purse were missing.

Yang Xi scolded Yang Ruo: "Ruo'er, you are naughty again, did you still take something from others, take it out quickly!"

Yang Ruodao: "He is dressed in tatters, what else can he have of value!"

Zhang Ming said: "Little junior sister, you really didn't see the benefactor's necklace?"

Yang Ruo said: "I didn't! Maybe he lost it on the road!" The necklace is full of precious animal bones, wolf teeth, gold and stones, etc., where is Yang Ruo willing to hand it over, this matter will not be mentioned for the time being.

The young man's broken purse was vaguely embroidered with some words, Zhang Ming took it over carefully, and saw that the broken purse was embroidered with twine with the crooked words of Niu Niu, he could only recognize the two Chinese characters "Shi Ning", and there were two kinds of characters he didn't recognize.

It turned out that the young man's name was Shi Ning, and that day on the outskirts of Wuling City, corpses were strewn all over the field, and the suffering people either died of the plague that raged in the hot weather, or died of hunger and cold in the winter.

The deserted countryside was full of people who had died of hunger or disease brought in from all directions, and there was no time to bury them. There was a sudden movement in the pile of dead people, and a teenager crawled out alive, it was Shi Ning.

Shi Ning's home was originally in the Wuling Mountains, originally lived an isolated paradise life, not long ago his people were slaughtered by a group of unknown people, he escaped by luck, was injured and fainted to death, and encountered the plague, was pushed as a dead person in the suburbs.

The cold wind was bitter, Shi Ning shivered with cold, and the scene of his father's killing came to his mind again and again, and he woke up in nightmares again and again, and survived with tenacious perseverance.

Forced to leave Wuling Mountain, trekking through mountains and rivers, drinking the spring water of the high mountains when thirsty, catching wild things on the mountain when hungry, sleeping on the branches with leaves when tired, sleeping in the open air, the hardships can be imagined.

After walking for a long time, it was no longer a scene of wilderness and corpses, Shi Ning looked up at the tall city wall, and the center of the city tower was written with the three big characters of "Wuling City", of course, he was illiterate.

According to his father's last words, Shi Ning was supposed to go all the way north to Xiangguo County to find his lost relatives. But he didn't want to spare a circle and went outside Wuling City, people carried goods in and out of the city gate, and there were also convoys carrying corpses from the city to the outskirts of the city. Shi Ning had never seen so many people, everything was too strange to him, and he followed the bustling flow of people and entered Wuling City.

There are fresh fish buns and sugar meat steamed buns in the city, and the vendors are vying to be the first to sell, so it's not lively!

Shi Ning smelled the smell of the fish meat of the buns, and his mouth watered, in the barren mountains and mountains, he could also catch some wild things to satisfy his hunger, but it was not good to enter Wuling City, where to find wild things in the houses?

Appetite prompted Shi Ning's dirty, cracked hands to reach for the hot buns in the steamer.

The vendor grabbed Shi Ning's hand and shouted, "You little beggar, dare to steal, see if I don't kill you!"

Shi Ning didn't care about the pain, grabbed the bun and desperately stuffed it into his mouth, and suddenly the vendor stopped fighting.

It turned out that the vendor took a fancy to the white wolf tooth on Shi Ning's neck, and said with a wicked smile: "Little beggar, you are lucky today, as long as you mortgage the things around your neck on my bun, I will let you go, otherwise I will arrest you and go to the official!"

Shi Ning was accustomed to his ethnic language, but he didn't understand a word of the Chinese language of the merchants.

The merchant said angrily, "Are you dumb?" and snatched the wolf tooth from Shi Ning's neck.

This wolf tooth is a valuable gift that the patriarch once gave to Shi Ning's father, it is bright and complete, and the tip of the tooth is sharper than gold, which is a rare and superb wolf tooth. Later, his father gave the wolf tooth to Shi Ning, which was a relic of his father and was extremely important to Shi Ning.

Shi Ning resisted and shouted in his ethnic language, "Don't rob my things!"

The vendor was willing to let go, and said: "The wolf tooth on this little beggar's neck is a good thing, everyone come and help me catch him, and when the wolf tooth is sold at a good price, I will share your benefits!" So the surrounding vendors rushed up to grab the wolf tooth on Shi Ning's neck.

Shi Ning was surrounded by all the traders, and finally got out, and ran out with his life, who knew that he happened to run into the God Spell Sect Li Hong and Zhang Ming were fighting, just when Li Hong played the life talisman, Shi Ning ran over to block Zhang Ming impartially, and hit the life talisman, which was really a great wrong!

Due to the language barrier, the Shangqing faction naturally did not know what Shi Ning had experienced. Why did the Shangqing faction save him? Where is it now? Shi Ning also does not know.