Chapter Thirty-Six: The Old Ape in the Mountains
Lin Xi wiped the sweat on his forehead with his sleeve, his body shook, and he almost fell to the ground, he was really weak now, his eyes were in a trance, and he couldn't see the road more and more clearly.
However, he has been adjusting his state, and the cave is very dark, and it is not too big or too small to allow a person to pass through.
Every time he walked a distance, Lin Xi would rest for a while, he was too tired.
There is no harm to him when the aura is separated from the body, but the draining of all the aura is equivalent to draining more than half of the blood of ordinary people, and it is already very good that he can still see the vision in front of him.
The cave was crooked, he couldn't see any points of light at a glance, and he didn't know how long he had been walking, anyway, it was dark when he looked back, and Lin Xi could only feel the flow of air, so he could judge that the road ahead was smooth.
The aura on his body was forcibly drained out of his body, and at this time, Lin Xi had become an ordinary teenager, except for some basic enemy skills, he could barely use them, and other means, or barely walking, were really not easy.
When Lin Xi really walked out of the cave, instead of piles of stones or cold stone walls, he saw a vast and lush jungle!
Above the jungle was a piece of sky, Lin Xi stood on the cliff at the entrance of the cave and simply swept the bottom, if everything below was as good as he thought, but at a glance, it was full of life that Lin Xi did not dare to continue walking.
He hesitated for a while, but still didn't move.
A small wooden plaque floated out, it naturally felt the aura around it, the word "star" on it appeared, and a large star map loomed. The wooden sign guided Lin Xi in one direction, and seeing that the young man did not move, he did not run around at will.
Without the boy reaching out to take it, everything on the wooden card disappeared, and an ordinary wooden card returned to Lin Xi's hand again.
"When the wooden card gets the aura, it will automatically show the location of the sect. "Before, Lin Xi thought that the wooden card could only be effective if it was injected with spiritual power, but now that he looks at it, it turns out that the aura is the same.
Lin Xi casually picked a leaf and took a closer look at its veins, sure enough, all the vegetation in the cave has a very high lifespan, and the vegetation at the mouth of the cave alone has been three hundred years old, and this place should be a place to raise spirits.
There was no spiritual energy left in Lin Xi's body, which didn't mean that he couldn't absorb the spiritual energy, this spiritual cultivation land was exactly what he needed now.
After the cave came out, there was a cliff, and when you looked at the past, there was a big mountain, and the big mountain on the opposite side was so high that you couldn't see the end at all, and there were two other mountains on both sides of it, and the same appearance was straight into the sky.
Lin Xi looked up and saw that there were no clouds or anything like that above him, but there was no end in sight.
The strangest thing is the center below, it is a lake, even if Lin Xi stands far away, he can see clearly, there is no duckweed above the lake, there is no soil, but above the lake is a big tree, Lin Xi has never seen such a strange tree.
Its branches are not green leaves but red leaves, and it is impossible to say that kind of red forest stream, and the small section of the lake below with the big tree as the center is sparkling with blue light, and the same is true above the big tree, and the blue light is faint.
It's so weird, this place. Lin Xi had only heard Master Yang talk about the place of spiritual cultivation, but everything here was too strange to be called weird.
The place where the soul is nurtured is mostly the thing that is raised in one place, and this place is obviously nourishing all living beings.
Lin Xi didn't rush down the cliff, he sat quietly at the entrance of the cave, closed his eyes and recuperate.
Closing his eyes is meditation, and Lin Xi is constantly contemplating the breathing method in his mind.
He had been reading this breathing method since he was very young, and he had already memorized it backwards, and the strange thing about the breathing method was that once the book was left and the aura was gone, you couldn't remember the slightest bit of information about the breathing method.
In the past, this breathing method had been placed under Master Yang's desk, as long as Lin Xi returned home, he forgot what he had learned on the first day after a night, and he didn't dare to say that he had forgotten it, otherwise he would be scolded by Master Yang again.
It took about half a year for Lin Xi to never forget, and later, after Master Yang taught him to use aura, he could remember it from the aura even if he left his body with the breathing method.
In his mind, pages after pages appeared, and Lin Xi read each page very slowly, very carefully, and did not dare to slack off.
A few hours later, the aura around Lin Xi began to slowly swirl and rise around him.
In the middle of the night, Lin Xi opened his eyes, raised his hand and ran the breathing method, and wisps of aura appeared with the operation of his exercises, but they disappeared completely in the next second.
Lin Xi immediately stopped the spiritual energy leaking out of his body, "As long as the spiritual energy is running, it will automatically leak out." Lin Xi looked around, the sky was still clear, and it was still blue sky and white clouds.
The sky inside was day and night, and Lin Xi was sure that several hours had passed.
Lin Xi exhaled, relieved, exhaled a little bit of spiritual energy, looked around as fast as he could, and then immediately stopped the operation of the breathing method.
All the aura around him had been absorbed by him, and there was no more aura left on the cliff.
"Do you still have to go down?" Lin Xi walked to the edge of the cliff, and there was a path below him, which was enough for him to descend the mountain safely.
In fact, there was a lot of aura at the mouth of the cave, but it was all absorbed by Lin Xi at an astonishing speed.
Lin Xi really needed his aura too much now, and he wanted to take advantage of the short time when his aura was out of his body to recover a little.
Once the aura is completely separated from the body, it can be regenerated, this time it is different, that strange spiritual power has drained all the aura from Lin Xi's body.
Not only that, but it also blocked the wellhead in Lin Xi's body, making Lin Xi no longer able to operate the aura on his own.
The only way is to constantly integrate the new aura with oneself, but it is only a drop in the bucket.
If you want to truly regenerate the aura in your body, it will take a few years.
This is a place to nourish the soul, Lin Xi strives to remedy his breathing method in the shortest possible time, and the rest can be practiced slowly when he goes out.
Lin Xi slowly descended the mountain, which was very steep here, and if you were not careful, you would fall to your death below.
In the process of descending the mountain, there were several very dangerous moments that were resolved by Lin Xi using the breathing method.
The only aura was basically used up, and Lin Xi entered a dilemma again.
After adjusting his state slightly, he immediately leaned against a big tree and closed his eyes to recuperate.
This time it was very fast, and almost the time for a stick of incense was not used, and Lin Xi opened his eyes.
The aura in this jungle is too lush, like a large ocean, enough for Lin Xi to restore his breathing method.
Lin Xi wandered in the outermost jungle all day, entering the jungle is generally to find some food, Lin Xi found that as long as he entered the jungle, these trees and flowers would consciously give way to himself, and more importantly, after walking around this day, Lin Xi was sure that there were no living creatures in it.
There is no living thing between the trees!
In this place, whether it is a grass, a flower, a stone or a big tree, they are surrounded by aura, it seems that these auras are all innate to them, and these auras cannot be absorbed by Lin Xi, only the aura wandering in the air can be absorbed by Lin Xi.
It is said that there are no living creatures in this place, but if you think about it carefully, these flowers and trees can also be regarded as living creatures.
That night, when Lin Xi was about to rest for a while, he suddenly sensed wisps of aura coming towards him from a distance, not man-made, but wind.
A gust of breeze is like rain and dew moistening the earth, all the trees and flowers are fluttering, welcoming these breezes, of course Lin Xi will not let go, how can the trees and flowers fight for him, the breeze swept over this side, Lin Xi gathered a large amount of aura into his body for the first time.
As long as there is enough time, Lin Xi can turn these spiritual qi into his own use. But now Lin Xi is like a jar, even if the water of the entire river is in front of him, he can only fill himself.
But what embarrassed him was that he was not what he used to be, his jar was like a hole leaking, and as long as it was opened, it would leak out.
Lin Xi asked jokingly, "I don't have a little way now, don't you want to come out?"
The soul in the body scolded: "Your mother, do you really want to find a way to let Lao Tzu be cannon fodder to break through this spiritual power?
"Where is that spiritual power?" Lin Xi didn't know its exact location, only knew that his wellhead had been blocked.
"What do you care about the spiritual power there, you're not a monk, just block it. ”
Lin Xi laughed at himself: "But now I'm back to an ordinary person, and my breathing method is also restricted." ”
The soul in the body said: "It's not the problem of this spiritual power, you are not a monk, and you don't understand what you say." ”
Lin Xi didn't ask, he slowly looked ahead, the little monkey came, these times, the little monkey often ran to Lin Xi's side, although Lin Xi closed his eyes and recuperated, he still felt it.
This time, the little monkey didn't dodge, facing Lin Xi directly, and then ran towards the innermost.
Lin Xi understood and hurriedly followed.
The two of them went one after the other, and they didn't stop until they reached the lake, and the little monkey turned his head and looked at Lin Xi with a smile, and ran in and out.
Instead of falling into the water, it runs on it.
Lin Xi's eyes were closed, and when he opened them again, he was already under the big tree in the center of the lake.
It wasn't until he actually stood under the tree that he realized how big it was!
Towering trees.
It would take at least dozens of people to barely surround this tree, and those red leaves above the tree, Lin Xi knew what that red was, it was the color of blood.
The aura on the surface of the lake ascends upward, and then the towering trees feed back to the place, and the trees and flowers that have been gifted retain most of the aura in their roots, so that the place can have an endless cycle of aura.
Lin Xi saluted forward solemnly and solemnly: "Senior Lin Xi, I have no intention of intruding into the territory of my seniors, and I hope that my seniors will forgive me." ”
A figure slowly walked out, similar in shape to a teenager like Lin Xi.
He was wearing a broken hat, his clothes were in tatters, and what Lin Xi paid the most attention to was his sleeves without arms.
An ape! Lin Xi was shocked.
Demons? Lin Xi felt uneasy, Cheng Yi had bragged to him before, monsters all eat people for life, no matter what monsters they encounter, they have to run, and if they can't run away, they will give it in vain.
Lin Xi didn't run away, and the old ape stopped some distance away from Lin Xi.
"Have you ever heard of the Demon Clan?" the old ape was the first to speak.
Lin Xi replied, "I've heard a little bit. ”
"How do you say that?" the old ape narrowed his eyes and swept over Lin Xi.
Lin Xi didn't hide it, and said directly: "Demons eat people." ”
The old ape sneered, "People don't eat demons?"
Lin Xi was helpless, it seemed to be such a reason.
"Tell me, what are you doing here? I don't think you have any spiritual power in you, so you shouldn't be a monk. The old ape walked a few more steps as he spoke, but he always had a certain distance from Lin Xi, his face was very old, and his two curved white eyebrows were particularly eye-catching.
Lin Xi said: "If you accidentally break in, I hope your seniors will forgive me." ”
The white-eyed old ape snorted and said coldly, "Why do you think I don't know?"
The old ape continued: "Your well mouth is blocked, your aura is scattered, and your cultivation path is cut off, do you want to come here to recover a thing or two?"
Lin Xi was secretly shocked, the distance between the old ape and him was more than a dozen steps, and he just glanced at him and told him all his fiction and reality?
"As my predecessors said, I'm just an ordinary person now, and I can't resist any matter how my predecessors want. Lin Xi got straight to the point, he wanted to know the attitude of the old ape directly.
The white-eyed old ape didn't think much of what Lin Xi said, and he said in a deep voice: "The life spring is like a dead silence, the wellhead is constantly destroyed, and the spiritual energy up and down the body is scattered, and there is no hope of cultivation. Everything you are doing now is useless, nothing more than tearing down the east wall and making up the west wall. ”
Lin Xi boldly asked, "Does the senior have a remedy?"
The old ape asked rhetorically, "You are a human and I am a demon, do you think I will help you?"
Lin Xi looked at the figure of the old ape, and finally shouted: "Is it okay for seniors to call juniors here?"
The old ape turned around and smiled, "When did I call you?"
Lin Xi glanced at the little monkey and didn't continue. Since outside the cave, the little monkey brought him in one by one, it means that he came to find himself.
Yesterday's breeze was mixed with spiritual power, Lin Xi had already guessed a little, but he didn't expect it to be an ape.
The old ape sneered: "The little baby of the human race is much smarter than the people of our demon race. ”
"It's not difficult to continue the spiritual path, and it's not even a matter of time for me. All I need is to get out of this place, and that's where you can help. ”
Lin Xi didn't refuse or ask more, and agreed directly.
The old ape nodded, stretched out his hand and shot out a spiritual power, and that spiritual power passed through Lin Xi's body at an extremely fast speed, bringing out some other spiritual power.
"The spiritual power of your body is a kind of Tao, a secret method, you can't forcibly break it, I need some time, it's time for you to show me a little bit of your usefulness. ”
Lin Xi ran the breathing method, and the aura in his whole body returned to his body, but it was still a symptom but not a cure, once it was not well controlled, all the aura would leak out again.
The old ape said coldly: "Terran baby, it's not good to be anxious, no matter how you use the aura, you won't lose it, you just need to concentrate on it." ”
Lin Xi nodded and asked, "What does the senior need?"
The old ape looked to the north, the mountain that passed by the mouth of the cave, and said in a deep voice, "I want you to climb that mountain!"
Lin Xi glanced at the mountain peak that went straight into the sky, and couldn't help but smile bitterly.
The old ape said happily: "Terran baby, there is no loss-making business in the world. ”