Chapter 32: The Ferryman!
Under this step, the bridge deck paved with white jade under Zhou Qian's feet instantly emitted a dazzling light, and the golden runes also shone brightly.
"Xiaoxiao, do you want to walk this big ancient bridge with your brother, or take the small ancient bridge next to it, but first tell you that this ancient bridge is in danger, and the ancient bridge next to it is safe!"
Zhou Qian looked at Xiao Xiao at this time, his expression was solemn, he wanted to try if he could cross this bridge, but he didn't want Xiao Xiao to take risks, if Xiao Xiao was hurt in the slightest, then Zhou Qian was very unhappy in his heart, let alone the terrifying old man beyond the sea.
"Brother Zhou Qian, Xiaoxiao is not afraid, it is very comfortable here, Xiaoxiao didn't feel anything unusual!"
Xiaoxiao was holding Xiaobai in her arms at the moment, looking at this huge ancient bridge, and she didn't feel much surprised. On the contrary, when he looked at Zhou Qian, his little face turned red, and he quickly buried it, and when he stroked Xiaobai, he muttered to himself.
"Eh, okay, Xiaoxiao, if you feel uncomfortable, you must tell Brother Zhou Qian, do you know?"
Zhou Qian actually didn't worry about Xiaoxiao alone, so he took Xiaoxiao's hand and walked towards the other end of the bridge.
As for Xiaobai, he quickly jumped onto Xiaoxiao's fragrant shoulder and gestured to Zhou Qian.
"What, you say this ancient bridge is weird?"
Zhou Qian saw what Xiaobai meant, and when he looked up and pondered, a chestnut fell from the sky and smashed directly on Xiaobai's snow-white forehead, and Xiaobai kept scratching his head in pain.
"Do you still need to be reminded of this, the ghosts can see that this bridge is strange!"
When Zhou Qian spoke, he raised his hand to reward Xiaobai again, but when he saw a flash of essence in Xiaobai's eyes, he immediately turned around and scratched his hair with emotion!
"This ancient bridge seems to be waiting for someone who is destined!"
When Zhou Qian spoke, he had completely stepped onto the ancient bridge, and the moment he stepped on, there was obviously a strong force of rejection. If you hadn't stepped on the old bridge, you wouldn't have felt it at all!
"There was only one monk before, and when I was halfway through the old bridge, I was bounced away by the force of repulsion, and I don't know where I could go. ”
Zhou Gan was already nervous in his heart, but curiosity drove him to find out! He took a deep breath, took heavy steps, and slowly walked up.
When Zhou Qian walked to the fifth step, he obviously found that the force of repulsion had almost doubled, his body gradually became unstable, and his feet seemed to be sticky, as if he was stepping on the mud.
Just as he was about to lift his feet hard, Zhou Qian's eyes lit up violently, and in the roar in his mind, he hurriedly clenched Xiaoxiao's jade hand, and couldn't help but tremble.
"Xiaoxiao, why don't you feel any pressure at all? Don't you feel an invisible force of rejection?"
Zhou Qian looked at Xiao Xiao, who was still shy, and hurriedly asked. Because he found that Xiaoxiao had almost no impact, just like walking on an ordinary water bridge, without the slightest discomfort.
"No, Brother Zhou Qian, Xiaoxiao didn't feel the repulsion, but the statue on this ancient bridge is still quite scary!"
Xiao Xiao said with a smile, her eyes narrowed into a line, and her jade hand kept counting the statues on the ancient bridge.
"Could it be that this ancient bridge is more feminine than male?"
Zhou Qian tried hard to recall the monks who were excluded by this ancient bridge, and he really found that the rejects were all male monks!
"Who built this bridge, if you let me know that you have to give him a kick, it's too annoying......! Whom to reason. ”
When Zhou Qianzheng was complaining, Xiao Xiao had already been attracted by the statue and ran over, looking at it with a pair of watery eyes.
"Ah, Xiaoxiao, wait a minute, your brother Zhou Qian, come soon!"
Zhou Qian looked at Xiaoxiao's relaxed pace, and cursed the owner of this ancient bridge in his heart.
But curse is curse, and this road must be walked by itself.
Zhou Qian lifted his heavy iron felt-like feet, and it was difficult to walk step by step, and there was a repulsive force squeezing his body, as if it was about to pop him out of this ancient bridge, as if facing a strong wind!
"Xiaoxiao, you go to the other side of the bridge first and wait for Brother Zhou Qian, and I will go to you immediately." ”
Zhou Qian didn't want Xiao Xiao to see him like this, so he pretended to have a calm expression and waved his hand at Xiao Xiao.
"Well, then Xiaoxiao is on the other side of the bridge, Brother Zhou Qian, you have to come quickly!"
After Xiaoxiao heard Zhou Qian's voice, she nodded obediently, and then hugged Xiaobai, and gradually walked away with lotus steps......
"Could it be that Xiao Xiao really can't feel this powerful repulsion? And this damn wind. ”
Zhou Qian sighed and continued to move forward. By this time, he had already walked a quarter of the way.
But this ancient bridge is boundless, and there is still fog in the distance, and the most terrible force of repulsion is getting bigger with the distance traveled, and if this continues, Zhou Qian will never be able to come to the end! At most, he will be ejected halfway through.
"No, you can't break through, it is undoubtedly self-inflicted suffering to fight against this force of rejection, but how to get rid of this invisible force?"
Zhou Qian began to spin his clever little spirit head frantically. His eyes kept scanning everything on the bridge deck, white jade bricks, golden runes, purple and black chains, vicissitudes of life......
"It's no different, it's the same as the outside world!"
After careful observation, Zhou Qian looked up at the seven-colored sky and sighed.
Zhou Qian didn't want to leave at the moment, so he simply sat down cross-legged to rest, he hadn't had a good rest on the way, and he could recover his strength by taking this opportunity.
While Zhou Qian was sitting cross-legged, countless monks also knew that the largest ancient bridge could not be crossed, and they had gone to the other twelve ancient bridges. So far, thirty percent of the monks have crossed this first hurdle and successfully stepped on the shore. However, there are also some monks who have even passed the smallest ancient bridge, and their lives have stopped here!
As time passed, the figure gradually thinned, except for those monks who couldn't even pass through the smallest ancient bridges, on the thirteen ancient bridges, only Zhou Qian was left!
"The nameless boat in the nameless river, the true spirit pattern in the True Spirit Temple. Mortals on the shore of the ancient road, crossing gods and immortals, not people!"
When Zhou Qian rested and settled, a voice came from his ears, the voice was extremely ethereal, at first glance it seemed to be close at hand, but after listening carefully, it seemed to come from afar.
Zhou Qian immediately stood up, plucked out his ears, and was about to listen carefully, when the voice disappeared again.
"It's my auditory hallucination!"
Zhou Qian pinched himself, implying that he didn't hear the sound, he didn't want to scare himself!
But this hint in his heart didn't have any effect, and the voice echoed leisurely in Zhou Gan's ears again, which scared him this time!
"Which way the gods are here, why don't you show up and see them!"
Zhou Qian forcibly suppressed the fear in his heart, pretended to be a master, raised his head and looked at the seven-colored sky calmly, as if he could already see the comer, but in fact, he was panicked!
"Nameless Boat ...... in the Nameless River"
No one responded, only the voice of vicissitudes echoed.
If someone responds to Zhou Qian, he can still imply that he has someone, but no one responds, which undoubtedly makes him even more afraid and afraid.
"There can't be ghosts here!"
Zhou Qianxin couldn't help but shudder when he thought of this.
"Haha, this little Taoist friend, handsome, looks like a nobleman, and meets the old man here, it's really fate, fate!"
Suddenly, an old voice came from above the river, because there was water vapor, and after a while, Zhou Qian saw the person clearly!
A small blue-gray boat slowly emerged from the mist on the surface of the river, there was a fire at the head of the boat, and a lilac teapot hung on it, the fire was dizzy, and the fragrance slowly floated out of the teapot, and there was a thin figure at the end of the boat.
It was an old man, wearing a black hat and a yellow robe, and holding a cyan fishing rod and a purple fishing line hanging from it. The most striking thing was the black hook, and even though it was far away, you could still feel a terrifying aura coming from the hook.
Even if Zhou Qian's gaze stayed on the hook for a while, his soul seemed to be hooked out!
"Little Daoyou, you want to cross this bridge, but you can't cross this ancient bridge now, but, take the old man's boat, the old man crosses the river for you!
The old man parked the boat under the ancient bridge, stroked his beard, and smiled at Zhou Qian.
Zhou Gan just wanted to open his mouth to agree, but after thinking about it, how could this old man be kind enough to help him for no reason? He was originally a smart person, although he was usually naughty, but when it came to really making a choice, he Zhou Qian was still cautious, and he couldn't help but hesitate for a while.
"Little Daoyou, do you suspect that the old man is harmful to you, haha, you can be careful, the old man has no ill intentions towards you, if it is really harmful to you, why bother, just take your life. ”
The old man in the robe saw through Zhou Qian's thoughts and said with a smile.
After hearing this, Zhou Qian felt that there was some truth in his heart, so he jumped off the ancient bridge and landed on the boat.
"Haha, Xiao Daoyou is really a decisive person, come, the old man invites you to drink a cup of tea!"
When the old man in the cloth saw Zhou Gan on the boat, he immediately nodded and smiled, and finally took out a turquoise teacup, put it in front of Zhou Gan, picked up the teapot on the stove, and poured a full cup for Zhou Gan.
As soon as this tea came out of the mouth, a strong fragrance came to his nose, and when Zhou Qian smelled it, he immediately felt refreshed and relaxed.
Zhou Qian didn't think much about it, he directly picked up the teacup and drank it!
When the tea entered his throat, a strange feeling arose, and a sense of coolness instantly filled Zhou Qian's limbs, as if the qi and blood of the whole body were absorbing this clear qi! And this clear qi did not completely dissipate, and the remaining part turned into a cyclone and remained in his body.
"Comfortable!"
Zhou Qian stretched his body and shouted unconsciously.
"Haha, little Taoist friend, tea is not drunk like this, you have to taste it carefully, spirits are the way you drink it!"
The old man in the cloth looked at Zhou Qian's demeanor drinking tea and laughed.
"By the way, senior, I seem to have heard a strange voice just now, and the last sentence says, 'Crossing gods and immortals and not crossing people!' What does that mean?"
Zhou Qian also remembered his voice on the bridge at this moment, so he asked the old man in the cloth.
"Little Taoist friend heard it clearly and clearly, yes, the voice is talking about the old man's boat, and I am the ferryman! The meaning of that sentence is that the gods and immortals can cross this river in my boat, and mortals can't take my boat, and they can't cross it!"
The old man said with a smile as he cleaned up the fire.
This sentence frightened Zhou Gan, he originally thought that it meant so when he heard the voice, but when it really came out of the mouth of the old man in the cloth, he couldn't help but feel a chill on his back.
"Haha, little Daoyou, don't panic, you're not a mortal!"
As soon as Zhou Qian heard this, a roar suddenly set off in his mind, his breath was short, and his face showed disbelief.
"Could it be that I am a god, or an immortal?!"
Zhou Qian opened his mouth tremblingly, and when he thought of his extraordinary, he was excited.
The old man closed his eyes at this moment, did not speak, and quietly stared at the black sun in the seven-colored sky!!
After a while, he turned to look at Zhou Qian and said lightly.
"You are a person of fate!"