It all started on a long summer afternoon – at that time, Xiaoyun Mountain was no different from the outside world. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info There is no difference between the four seasons, and there is no difference in time.

At that time, the vast platform at the top of the cloud mountain was not empty and lonely—there were many halls and houses densely packed on it, and there were countless plants and trees that thrived due to the power of the talisman spell. People in the secular world say that there is a heavenly kingdom with gold and silver as decoration and white jade as a bridge on the cloud mountain, but it is not delusional. At that time, there was indeed such a thing.

Then, a huge cloud of fire fell from the sky, right in the middle of the cloud mountain.

At that time, there were 234 monks on the top of the mountain, and 23 people on the top of the real realm. Fourteen thousand six hundred and sixty-five mortal servants. The cloud of fire fell right in the middle of the mountaintop, erupting with terrifying force. In an instant, all the people and buildings on the mountain were wiped out, leaving no trace.

Su Sheng emphasized that the "instantaneous" here is not a word to describe, but indeed a shorter time than a blink of an eye.

No one knows where this terrible power comes from or what it is in the clouds of fire.

After destroying the people and buildings on the top of the mountain, the fire cloud went down again, blasting out a passage on the cloud mountain that led directly to the small cloud mountain inside. With its menacing momentum, it should have destroyed the small cloud mountain inside it. However, Xiaoyun Mountain is not an ordinary thing-

In the floating mountain inside it, there is a magic circle laid by the celestials. It was that magic circle that drove the entire cloud mountain to patrol the ten worlds above the high heavens, and it possessed a tremendous power that even the monks could not imagine.

So the fire cloud suddenly disappeared after floating all the way to the top of the mountain.

No one knows where this cloud of fire came from and what it contains. However, some monks believe that perhaps this is one of the signs that the celestial beings will not send down the decree again for the next thousand years—that the human monks may have done something wrong to anger the celestials. And this is a sign of the coming punishment of the heavenly beings.

But in the end, the actual effect was that some kind of strange power began to appear inside this small cloud mountain. Since then, the space that has restricted the supernatural powers has slowly grown. At first, it was just one or a few dots, but it soon spread out to connect into lines and pieces. In the end, the entire space within Xiaoyun Mountain was filled with this strange power - the supernatural power was finally banned.

And at that time, there were three saints on top of Yunshan.

"This kind of thing, don't say thousands of years. It has not been heard of since the flourishing of humanity. So when the three of us were at that time, the first thought was not panic, but curiosity. Su Sheng leaned his back against the stone wall and said to Li Yunxin.

Previously, Li Yunxin's supernatural powers were also banned, and he couldn't release this Su Sheng. And Su Sheng only told him to go to a certain place at a certain time and night, and by what means he could get to this floating mountain. None of the rest was said. He was brought into Xiaoyun Mountain by Li Yunxin and complained first. After complaining, he asked Li Yunxin to take him to the air - planning to get his body back.

But at least in the matter of "going up the floating mountain", the purpose of the two is the same. And so came the matter of tonight.

At this moment, when they climbed to the "inverted top" of the floating mountain, Li Yunxin found that some magical powers were actually available.

But he doesn't plan to continue to follow Su Sheng's guidance in a daze-these centuries-old monsters are very scheming. If he can't figure things out first, how can he trust his life and time in such a place to him?

Although he doesn't value his life very much now, he has come this far with difficulty, and he doesn't want to fall short.

So—he asked Su Shengxian to explain things clearly, and then he decided to do something more tonight.

When he heard this, he heard Su Sheng mention the "Three Sages", and some subtle emotions suddenly appeared in his heart. So standing on the edge of the bottom of the mountain, after a moment's thought, interrupted him: "Draw a holy ...... What's your name?"

"She's ......" Su Sheng smiled, meaning unclear, "but she asked the right person." Her real name is under the whole world—only two people know it now. If you are counted, there are three people. ”

She claimed to be surnamed Chen, with a single name. ”

"Chen Feng. Li Yunxin saw Su Sheng write a few strokes in the void while saying this word, so he repeated it in a low voice.

Since it is what the book saint said, it should not be false. It's just that...... Slightly disappointed. I thought it would be a funny woman's name. How do you know that there are only these two words? The surname Chen is common, and the character 豢 -- the character 豢 for raising is even more common. He ...... for the first time

Suddenly stunned.

The first time Li Yunxin knew this word was because he heard a little story. Naturally, I didn't hear about it in this life, but in the previous life - it was said that there was a person who raised dragons for the Yellow Emperor. Because of his good raising, the Yellow Emperor gave him a surname - Fenglong.

Dragon's ......

Dragon's ......

Dragon.

The painting saint Chen Feng appeared in the world about 2,200 years ago, when the 213th generation sword saint Pei Yun failed to survive the catastrophe and traveled the world [Note 1].

She only practiced for two hundred years before she entered the realm of Taishang forgetfulness and founded a sect. And then, 2,000 years ago, it was a time of eventuality. The true dragon is alive, and the king of Jinpeng is alive.

Dragon, dragon. In between...... Will it matter.

The thought lingered in his mind for two breaths. Then he smiled and shook his head slightly: "You know her name, and now I'm the third person to know her name." What about the other one?"

Su Sheng also smiled, a little proud: "Another person." Actually, you've already seen it. I've seen it many times. It's just that I won't tell you, I want you to think about it slowly. ”

——It seems to be revenge for Li Yunxin's quarrel with him just now. This saint, who has lived for thousands of years, is about to become a real young man after reincarnating and regaining his emotions - I don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing.

Li Yunxin really tried to think about it for a while. But then I gave up - this is not a good time to guess this kind of thing. If it is crucial to tonight's operation, Su Sheng will not hide it. That being the case, I don't want to think about it for the time being, but just keep it in my heart first.

He said, "You are curious. And then what?"

"And then......" Su Sheng smiled, "and then, Chen Feng got some gadgets." You should know that this space was just a few 'dots' when it first appeared. Later, it was connected into pieces, and the original spaces became 'points'. So she used the method of painting the Tao to wrap up those dots. ”

"That's the birds you see. The birds were drawn by her. There is a space in the body that was not originally forbidden, so the aura is hidden. You can come and go here freely, and you have become the treasure of Shangyun Mountain. Su Sheng pointed down, "The reason why the pseudo-saint left you below and didn't worry about it is because this thing can only be used on the mountain and when you know the method." At a height of nearly a thousand meters, I am not afraid that you can come up in any way. ”

Li Yunxin sighed: "Yes." At such a height, there are treasures who can look at me at any time, but I am not worried. But—"

When he said this, Su Sheng suddenly laughed, and looked quite disdainful.

Li Yunxin frowned: "What?"

"Look at you at any time?" Su Sheng grinned, two rows of teeth flashing white in the darkness, "You mean the mirror talisman - he stretched out his hand and compared it in the air, and a mirror appeared." You can see people from outside the mountain, and you can also recruit people from outside the mountain, right?"

- Su Yusong did use such a method that day.

said that he was asked to see that the time outside passed very slowly, but he was actually showing him Liu Gongzan. Moreover, it is also a reminder to him - although his supernatural powers are forbidden here, Su Yusong can fly around in this space, and he can also see his actions at any time, which can be described as killing three birds with one stone.

But now listening to Su Sheng's words and looking at his expression, it seems that this is not the case.

Li Yunxin did ask him about this before tonight's action - you must know that after six full days here, he did a full six days of play. Every move, word and deed was performed for Su Yusong, who was on this floating mountain and might be staring at him. However, tonight, Su Sheng only told him, "Keep you safe."

"So, that's a strange thing. Li Yunxin sighed, "That thing is called a mirror talisman......? Did he play tricks for six days?"

"Hmph. Mirror Talisman - It is said to be a talisman, but it is not actually a means of the Dao system, nor is it a means of the Sword Sect. Su Sheng sneered, "It's Chen Feng's means." Earlier she had said that she had drawn the birds when there were only 'dots' left—and she had the mirror sigil when there were still 'faces' left before that. The number is very small, but only a hundred. ”

"That false saint is indeed worthy of you because you used one. There is also the purple talisman - you can talk to people thousands of miles away, thousands of miles away, and it is also Chen Feng's means. It's just that there are more of them—there are tens of thousands of them that have entered the world. Alas...... Although your painting is also considered to be the Heavenly Heart Fa, at the root, it is different from the book and the sword. ”

Speaking of this, he paused, and deliberately squinted at Li Yunxin.

What does he mean, where does Li Yunxin not know?

He was a saint after all. I have also spent many years with the painting saint who cultivates the Tao as the highest painting, and even if I don't cultivate this way, I understand some Taoist ideals very well. If you look at the practice from the perspective of a saint, you must be different from them. He had real material hidden in his heart - but Li Yunxin didn't have much respect for him before, so he took it up, just wanting to see Li Yunxin's unwilling and reluctant awkward appearance.

However......

Li Yunxin simply bowed, leaned over and bowed: "The true saint is above." For the sake of the love of being in Yunshan for a thousand years with the ancestor of my painting school, please solve the doubts for the younger generation Li Yunxin!"

Su Sheng was stunned, and he didn't know what to say—although he had already learned Li Yunxin's ability to turn his face faster than turning a book, how could he have imagined that he could be so shameless......

I was stunned for a long time before I sighed helplessly: "Ah...... What a ...... Is...... Alas. That Chen Feng and your temperament are really-just-that's it. ”

"I'll tell you about it. ”

He sighed twice before he said, "Dao Tong and Sword Sect, the fundamental means is to use this spiritual power that exists between heaven and earth. We, the cultivators, refining the soul of the body and refining the spiritual energy from the outside into the body, are actually only borrowing a very small part. If you really want to cast a spell and magic power, that spiritual power doesn't come from the snow mountain qi sea. Rather, it is to use the spiritual power in the sea of snow mountains and qi to attract the spiritual power between heaven and earth. This is the path of the Dao Sect and the Sword Sect. ”

"And you're painting the way—" He glanced at Li Yunxin.

This Li Yunxin is still listening, respectfully and gently!

He's doing this...... But I can't find a few in the world.

sighed again: "You are painting the Tao, looking at it on the surface, you are also using the spiritual power of the snow mountain qi sea to mobilize the spiritual energy between heaven and earth." But actually...... Looking deeper, it is carved into the depths of this world avenue. ”

When he said this, he paused and looked at Li Yunxin.

Li Yunxin also looked at him.

And so it goes...... After three breaths, he realized that Su Sheng was waiting for Li Yunxin to give him feedback, but Li Yunxin didn't understand anything and was waiting for him to continue.

So Li Yunxin frowned: "...... again Popular?"

Su Sheng also frowned: "How can it be popular?"

Li Yunxin sighed.

The reason why he sent out the Tongming Jade Jane was also for this reason - the thinking mode of painting saints...... It's very similar to this Su Sheng. Many things that he thought needed a lot of theoretical support and basic systems to understand, but they took them as a common thing. For example, if you explain a world-class problem to a high school student, it is all about "easy to prove" - get a ghost!

Such a treasure is actually very frustrating for him - its role and the trouble it brings are not even as good as the matter of "handing it over to Xin Xiliu to verify her identity".

That's what it was for in the first place...... They have been in seclusion for so many years, and they have brought such calamity.

So he spread his hands: "Then can I understand that the method of painting the Tao is very unique. At the lower level, it was indeed the same as many of the cultivation modes of the Dao Sect and the Sword Sect. But the more advanced they get, the greater the differences and differences. To the end...... Almost everything you can't do with the first two - like the birds and the mirrors?"

"There's also the rope you just had. Su Sheng looked at him meaningfully, "A few days ago, you painted in front of Xin Xiliu. This place should be forbidden to supernatural powers, but your painting has not diminished. Just now, you have resorted to turning the virtual into the real at the foot of this mountain. It's because in such a forbidden space of Dao Sect and Sword Sect supernatural powers...... Drawing a way can work. Although it is also restricted, you can still find a trace of the gap and get a glimpse of some avenues. ”

And this gap was also left by Chen Feng. Previously, she said that she used the dot to turn the bird and the face to turn the mirror talisman - just where we came from, it was the 'emptiness' of the dot and the surface. This is empty......" Su Sheng sighed, his expression darkened, "Alas, this is empty...... but from the past...... Alas, before the Great War, alas...... Wrong...... Wrong...... Alas......"

His face darkened, and his tone was low. Then he sighed incessantly, and gradually it was difficult to even finish his words.

It's just a blink of an eye......

It was as if his whole body had been torn off his bones and he collapsed on the ground.

"Alas...... That's it. There's not much more to say...... Alas...... Life ...... in the world"

So Li Yunxin knew that he had pulled out the third personality from Su Sheng's subconscious level...... It was flooded again.

The "emptiness" and "past" mentioned by Su Sheng seem to refer to the time when "painting the saint into the devil", the double saint and the painting saint are opposed. After telling that past, the remorse triggered a melancholy in his heart like a river and a sea, and made him fall back into a terrible depression.

But right now his mind is focused on another word – emptiness.

His current identity is also the "emptiness" of the kiss. He had never heard an explanation of this word from the Dao Sect, the Sword Sect, or any of the demons, but now he had heard it from the former Book Saint.

These two empty ...... Is it the same concept, or rather, a similar concept?

The essence of the painting...... And what does it have to do with this?

Li Yunxin suddenly felt that he seemed to be able to understand a little bit of what Su Sheng meant by "carving into the avenue". But it's still just a vague concept, not clear. If he wanted to know more, he had to know more about painting.

And this is also one of the purposes for him to want to go up the Floating Mountain. Su Sheng told him that among the halls of the Floating Mountain, there were many relics of painting saints. The ruins were more loose and fragmentary than those in the Tongming Jade Slips. Some of them were left by her when she was experimenting with new tricks, and some were left over for the two saints to play with.

But more ...... It was to be passed on to the Danqing Taoist priests under her at that time.

Li Yunxin knew that the former painting talent had withered. The number of monks above the True Realm is extremely small. This may have something to do with the fact that the painter is accustomed to the tone of "easy to prove", but on the other hand, it means ......

With his current cultivation, those things that were painted and left in the halls of this floating mountain were exactly what he could learn and understand!

Previously, on the way to painting, he was like a genius child from a scholarly family, with a solid foundation and good grades since he was a child. But the family was ruined overnight, and he couldn't enter the higher-level school when he saw that he could only take lessons from the Tongming Jade Slip in bits and pieces. Although the talent is good, it is not systematic after all. [Note 2]

But now...... I finally knew that there was an easy-to-understand "textbook" to exist.

He wanted it.

Because he felt that there might be some great secret hidden in this painting.

On the other hand...... feeling of not being proficient in the field in which he should have been proficient was absolutely unbearable to him, both in his previous life and in this life. He's used to being the best and the best. Now it's a dead end in the way of painting. Even if it was just to make his own mind clear, he had to ......

You can't break into the halls of this floating mountain!

So he took a deep breath and sighed again. Walked up to Su Sheng and picked him up—he had to take the risk of splitting a fourth personality out of his sea of consciousness. Danger ahead...... Without this Su Sheng, he might not be able to move an inch.

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[Note 1]: See Chapter 349 for details, Sword Saint and Painting Saint.

[Note 2]: This is a quote from the lovely anonymous.