Chapter 8: The Legend of Tan Cyclamen
"Senior brother, are you really going to marry Senior Sister Baoqin?" can ask like this, who else can walk into my room so casually, except for Liu Xiaoqin, a little girl.
The little girl started with me, but she was one year younger than me, and Xie Baoqin was the same age. And Xie Baoqin ranked twenty-seventh, and her low point was twenty-eighth, which was not so bad that it was miserable.
Speaking of which, she was able to worship with me under the door of Master Xie Kang, and she still had the opportunity to do so. Her sister is the concubine of Master Xie Kang, the one who gave birth to a Lin'er for Master last month. Relying on this relationship, her position in the mountain gate is also very delicate.
Master only has two apprentices, one is me and the other is her. Master ranks third among the second generation of disciples, and his current power in Lian Yunfeng is second only to his ancestor Xie Daoqing and his second master, Liu Guanghe's father, ranking third. He is in charge of the Dharma Transmission Hall and is responsible for the cultivation of the third generation of disciples. And between Master Xie Kang and Second Master, there is a competition for the throne of the next head of Lian Yunfeng. Liu Guanghe and I have always had rumors about competing for the throne of the senior brother, and she was naturally implicated.
Speaking of which, I have always disliked going out, and I don't like to socialize with those rough juniors and sisters, except for the fixed time of the senior brother teaching every month, I can hide when I can. That is, Liu Xiaoqin, a little girl, was released by me and used as a little dog leg to collect information and intelligence.
I tapped the little girl's nose and looked into her eyes. It can be seen that she is a little depressed, but she does not look like she has been hit hard.
Hmm, the little girl looks like me?
"What? you have an idea?" I quipped.
"Senior brother, you are so bad. "The little girl knocked my hand off, and it looked like my mind was being debunked by me.
Hehe, the shy look of the little girl is really cute. That is, a little girl of this age is good, pure in mind, no interests, no money, and no grievances, just simple likes and dislikes.
The little girl looked at me timidly: "Senior brother, you are still reading this kind of big book." Don't you feel bored? Haven't you found the kind of aura you want now? Now that there are so many people out there who are saying bad things about you, how long are you going to spend it?"
I touched the back of her red hand and was silent.
Because of Liu Xiaoqin's special relationship with his master, he was also licensed to teach a lot of cultivation methods, according to the treatment of disciples close to the clan, of course, the Liu family in Huangyang City also had to come up with corresponding offerings. She also knows such hidden tricks as splitting qi and seeking spirits. Even, the aura that coincided with the spiritual root when she was cultivating was still differentiated by the master himself. In this way, after a year, with my senior brother behind her step by step, she is already a cultivator of the third level of Qi cultivation. In terms of spells, mana, and combat power, they are all a lot higher than me.
But what's the use? I want to pinch her nose or keep pinching her nose, and she is also very obedient and raises her nose for me to pinch like a little she-cat.
"Xiaoqin, you also know that the spiritual root on Senior Brother is very special. I've been doing this for so long now, and I still have only a little clue, and it's not time to really start. "I looked at the little girl lying on my lap, really like a kitten, and I was a little speechless.
"By the way, have you heard of the legend of Tan Cyclamen in the clouds?"
"Nope. ”
"Hehe, his story was edited by me from a set of classics given to me by my ancestor. There is a passage in the seventy-fourth volume of "Youyang Miscellaneous Talks" that said that he was once a member of the Tan clan of Lushan, the ancient cultivator. However, three thousand years after the last primordial god of Lushan was truly gone, no new primordial god appeared in the Tan family, and the Haojia family fell apart, and the fifteen Yuanying Zhenjun left Lushan with their relatives. For another three thousand years, the Heavenly Demon invaded, Lushan collapsed, and the Tan clan was killed and wounded. For another three thousand years, this Tan Xianke was born in a small Xiuzhen Gate Valve in Jiangyang City in the Northland. There is only one Jindan real person in the family, and he is dying of old age, and he is not long before he dies. ”
"Oh, what's down there?"
"Below, at that time, the people of the Tan clan found that Tan Xianke's spiritual root qualification was very good, so they forced him to cultivate. And when the hostile forces discovered his potential, they did everything possible to obstruct him. Then in that year, Jiangyang City was destroyed by the Yin Ghost Clan who attacked from the underground, and the wind disappeared. No one knows what follows. ”
"How can this be? There must be something down there. ”
"Naturally, there is, according to some of the background vaguely mentioned in the book "The Secret History of the Clouds", that Tan Xianke wandered in the Chu River valley after leaving Jiangyang City. Do you know what his identity and occupation are?"
"I don't know, alas. ”
The little girl shook her head for a while. I said to myself, of course you don't know. The "Secret History in the Clouds" mentioned above is actually a yellow book, which talks about the proud and glamorous history of a great poet who has been rampant for 34,000 years. His romance at that time, his arrogance at that time, and his talent at that time were really envious of the world. It is said that in every city, there are many noblewomen who take the initiative to be his mistresses, and even many nobles give their daughters as gifts, not to mention the famous prostitutes and oirans in the amorous field. Every time his poem came out, it immediately spread to the top and bottom of the Chu River. His every move is a great trend, and he has achieved the point of being even more coquettish than Yuanying Zhenjun as a mortal!
What is really jaw-dropping is that it was not until he was forty-nine years old, after the death of his beloved, that the world knew about his excellent spiritual root qualifications. One day to induce qi, ten days to build the foundation, 100 days of Jindan. On the day of the formation of Jindan, the dragon and tiger gathered, and the sky was full of golden flowers, which attracted the favor of the ancestors of the heavens. As soon as he took a step, he became a true disciple of the former true inheritance of the Great Immortal Constellation of Qingyun Mountain, and instead walked the world, judging the entanglement of interests of various mountains and peaks.
Who would know that when he was a mortal, he already had twelve Jindan nuns as lovers, and hundreds of Zhuji nuns made beds and quilts for him. After he achieved Jindan Yipin, after becoming a disciple of Daozu, and after becoming a world walker, he was even more powerful and happy. The humiliation and loss of the previous 49 years were washed away. If you owe someone a kindness, you will repay it a thousand times, and if you owe someone else, you will also ask for it a thousand times.
Who can refuse!
Because it only took him 12 years to complete the path of Danhua Yuanying that others would take hundreds of years to complete, and because he took another 100 years to become the youngest cultivator in heaven and earth to achieve the Yuan Shen in the past and present at the age of 161.
Xuan He is happy to be revenge, so he rebuilt the Tan family gate valve. Therefore, he named his valve after the Yunzhong Mountain where his beloved wife was buried, so he reunited the Tan monks scattered in the world and rebuilt the Tan clan.
"Do you know what his spiritual root is?" I pinched the tip of the little girl's little nose and played with it dotingly.
It's slippery and tender.
"I don't know. "The little girl is used to it, every time I tell an allusion, I only need to say that I don't know three words to praise it.
"Tan Xianke's spiritual spirit is said to be a rare ethereal root, so he only sank into the world for forty-nine years in front of him, and he did not attain enlightenment until he was in despair and everything was empty. So what is my spiritual root?"
"I don't know, alas. Master has never told me, and if you don't tell me, brother, you will know that you are bullying me. ”
Hehe, I told you the allusions to Tan Xianke, you can't guess what my spiritual root is, such a stupid little sister is really a gift from God. Well, it's a lot like a kitten, and it's fun to raise.
Yes, that's right, my spiritual root is indeed the same ethereal spiritual root as Tan Xianke.
That's why my cultivation is so troublesome.
There are many kinds of spiritual energy between heaven and earth, and there are also many kinds of spiritual roots corresponding to them. The five elements of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth are the most common, and the yin and yang light, dark wind, frost, ice, snow, thunder and lightning are relatively special, and there are many people's spiritual roots that are very strange. But really, the top-level spiritual roots, and the most troublesome spiritual roots, all have a little ethereal root flavor. Heaven, Earth, Sea, Abyss, Underworld, and Void, six kinds of spiritual roots, plus even fewer ethereal spiritual roots.
It's just that there are many kinds of ethereal roots, and I have only heard that there are subtle divisions, but I don't know about them. Thinking about it, this knowledge must also be locked in the depths of the deep classics and secret vaults of those cultivators. Except for those high-level cultivators and core clan members, no one else could see or even know the existence of this knowledge.
That's why Tan Xianke has been stumbling for so long.
So, I just stopped for a whole year.
So, a lot of my information was also blocked.
That's why my ancestor has been waiting for me. When I can really analyze the trace of pure qi that fits me from the aura of heaven and earth, or when I really come to the end, I can only choose the highest level of aura that I can reach.
The ethereal spirit root can be converted into almost all the spiritual roots between heaven and earth, and it is a special spiritual root that can use the Taishi Qingqi to almost all the spiritual energy, that is, it can be so extravagant, and it must be so extravagant.
I held up a finger and drew a circle, circling the air in front of me. Then a number of finely fragmented runes flew out of the palm of his hand, forming a dome circle. Then in a flash, all the five elements of aura in this cloud of air were shaken out, and then again, and then again. Finely and densely, the colorful aura was pumped out by me, and the space inside the circle darkened little by little, until it became a dull color.
I stopped.
"Senior brother, is this the aura you chose? ”
yes, that's weird.
But that's all I can do in the real world.
It can only be expressed to this extent.
It was perfect.
The perfect let the master think that he knows me well, and the perfect let the master think that I am "serious", and I have tapped my potential to a very deep, very difficult point, which makes her very surprised and very natural.
It's perfect, every day, every word, any action, every cultivation I create, the image I create is perfect, there is no conflict, it is a matter of course.
From the level of my study, I can deduce the depth of my thinking, from my temperament, I can deduce my preferences, and from my behavior, we can see the undercurrent that lurks beneath my temperament.
I was below, below an invisible layer of water, and my ancestor was above, above this layer of unseen water. I couldn't see her, she couldn't see me, the only thing I could see was the shadow I left on the water.
What is the actual me?