Chapter 4 Kill the Tiger in the Mountain
At this time, Lanling City was peaceful and prosperous as usual, and there was no murderous intent and danger in the mouth of the old fox.
There is one less dog butcher in the city, but the pigs and dogs still can't escape death, and the stubborn donkey and fierce horse can't avoid a knife in the crotch.
The lanterns of Osmanthus Lane are hung high day and day, and the old teahouse is full of friends every night. More than half a year ago, Lao Bai's joke added fresh jokes about the slaughter of dogs by the gods of the world, and it could make the tea guests laugh when they returned. This is the only evidence that the dog butcher ever existed.
The extra Lanling palace in the city, but unfortunately except for the day of entering the city, no one has ever seen the Xuanhe red tiger chariot.
Only occasionally did General Yan talk about the madness of youth, leading Huang Huang on the left and Qingcang on the right, full of wild things shot in the mountains, surrounded by iron horses and passing through the city, people suddenly remembered that the Lanling Taishou and the Lanling County Army were no longer the most authoritative figures in the city.
Speaking of Taishou and Dutong, many people only realized after the king of Lanling entered the city, and the city was full of kings that day, although the city also dispatched red-clothed armor soldiers to guard the roadside, but there was no one who was powerful.
Not to mention the thirty miles of the suburbs, from the king of Lanling entering the west gate, passing through half of the city, until finally entering the newly built palace in the center of the city, which finally ushered in the master, those magnates have never been seen, simply ignoring the royal dignity and court etiquette.
What's even more intriguing is that the Red Tiger Rim, who came all the way west, did not choose the nearest east gate, but deliberately bypassed the entire half of the city, and took the crowded West Market, where small people lived, to avoid the East City, where the powerful gathered.
Lanling City, which is located in a remote corner, is far away from the treacherous clouds and swords of the court, except for the incomprehension and surprise when I first heard that His Majesty's favorite young son took the initiative to invite the small place of Lanling, ordinary people do not understand and are too lazy to guess the deep meaning, it is not easy to earn three meals and clothing for the whole family all day long, no matter how the dark tide is surging in the government and the army.
As for the young and handsome escort beside General Yan, who was dressed with no unusual temperament, except for the young girl and the amorous young woman, few people would take a look at his face.
As in the past, the old general went out on a safari with more than 100 silver-armored white horses and iron horses. As soon as he left the city, he rode his horse and galloped, kicking up a puff of smoke and dust for the boss. When they went deep into the mountains and saw no people, the young and handsome guards had been supported by more than 100 iron horsemen in the center.
Obviously, the young man in Lanling City who can be so protected by the royal guards can only be the King of Lanling who is talked about by people in the city but has only heard of his name but has not seen his true face.
This young prince, who seemed to outsiders to be a match, looked like a young man of sixteen or seventeen years old, with a slender figure and a steady and powerful hand holding the reins.
His eyebrows are like swords, the corners of his eyes and lip line also have deep contours like knives, and although his facial features have nothing to do with handsomeness, they are strong and resolute.
It is rumored that His Majesty the Emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty was born with a formidable tiger and wolf appearance, and the King of Lanling obviously inherited his father's tough lines, but he did not have the slightest domineering temperament.
Riding on a hill, he grabbed the reins, turned around and looked at Yan Tieyi who was behind a horse's head guarding the side, as his name suggests, the general broke the iron coat in a hundred battles, although he was old and his demeanor was undiminished, as strong as when he rode alone into battle.
"The old general is full of martial arts, and he doesn't go to the battlefield to find the marquis, but he wastes it in this wilderness and forest, and the little king is also at fault. ”
Yan Tieyi, who was not wearing armor and was wearing a black suit, hurriedly bowed down and said: "What did Your Highness say, if it weren't for His Highness's ancestor Xue Hou, the last general would have already been dry bones in the grave, and Niangniang and His Royal Highness are also very gracious, and now the last general rides a fierce horse, drives a hard bow, is hungry for meat, thirsty for wine, and what is there to be dissatisfied! It's just a pity that Your Highness ......"
King Lanling shook his head, and Yan Tieyi was silent. Although the prince is young, he is an assertive person, and he does not need a martial artist who can only bend the bow and wield the sword. If it weren't for that, Lanling, who refused to come to see him because he was sick, would have let him clean up the Lanling County Army, which was only strong enough to be a captain of the guard.
Although he Yan Tieyi is only barely a general, and he is still a hopeless step away from the realm of the Great Grandmaster, it really doesn't take much effort to pinch to death the supreme commander of this small county guard who lacks strength and has serious doubts about his combat strength.
In the distance, the wind drove black clouds, and the shadows covered a large area of lush forests and mountain peaks, and the heaven and earth were full of restless vitality that was about to come with wind and thunder. The cold and bleak mountain wind carried the water vapor across the hills, making people feel a chill from the bottom of their hearts.
Heavy rain is coming.
The sun is already in the west, the sun is not dazzling, and it is very comfortable to shine warmly on the body.
Liu Tugou walked on the mountain road, and the butcher knife in his hand faintly exuded a cold air, so faint that it was almost imperceptible. This is a sign of spiritual growth.
Lao Yan and the old fox passed on one word and taught one by example, so that the former dog butcher was reborn. One is a loyal and brave veteran in the army, and the other is a treacherous Zen Sect Wild Fox, they seem to be two completely different people, and they are incompatible in philosophy.
However, Liu Tugou has a kind of characteristic of accepting all rivers, and although the old fox is not light, he does not want to correct him. In the final analysis, who can say that he is right about the so-called Tao.
The technique has been practiced to the extreme, like the Dragon Slaying Clan, and the Tao is naturally under his feet.
Liu Tugou walked on the mountain road with only his own, thinking about his tiger skin jacket. When he has a goal, he doesn't like to think about things. It doesn't matter if he is confused, or if he is innocent, he acts according to his own will, this is the realization he had when he was ten years old when he raised a knife alone against the fat pig rushing madly.
The mountain road is not easy to walk, the vines and weeds are unscrupulous, the snakes, insects, rats and ants are unguardable, it is inevitable to be cautious and overcome thorns, and only the literati who are shallow and even willing to look at it from a distance can see the poetic and picturesque.
Fortunately, the wolfskin pants were thick and tough enough, blocking the little trouble of scratching and scratching, pain and itching, which also made Liu Tugou, who was still naked, more urgent, as for whether the white-fronted tiger with hanging eyes was willing to obediently offer fur, he didn't think about it at all.
At last he arrived at the top of the ground when it was dark, and it was a hill that was not outstanding in height or scenery, and without even bothering to look for it, the main owner lay on a large smooth bluestone in the open area of the mountainside, and lazily watched him climb up from the foot of the mountain.
Liu Tugou climbed to the front, and looked up and down with the same critical eyes that he had cultivated since he was a child and when facing the fat pork on the chopping board, and was a little disappointed.
This tiger was not big, far less than the four crimson beasts who pulled the cart for the king of Lanling, and his fur was snow-white but lackluster, and he was sickly and listless, and he turned a blind eye to him, the murderer who carried the knife.
With a sigh, Liu Tugou turned his head and went down the mountain.
He secretly took nearly a hundred steps on guard, and there was no movement behind him.
As soon as I subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief, I heard a joking voice behind me: "You kid is really eyeless, why can't you look down on the uncle's fur?"
Liu Tugou's cold hair stood upside down, stopped, turned around, and crossed the knife in one go, seeing that the sick tiger was just squatting on the bluestone and looking at him, he couldn't help but say angrily: "Grandma, the master hates someone talking behind his back the most!"
Needless to say, this is the shadow left on him by the old fox. The old fox spoke behind him a few times in the illusion, and how many times his head rolled on the ground was really unforgettable.
"Yo, I don't have a lot of ability, and I don't have a small temper. Didn't the old ghost of the wild fox tell you to be respectful when you see my uncle? Why doesn't the uncle remember that there is such an idiot brother as you? ”
Liu Tugou was dumbfounded, and suddenly remembered the demon clan that the old fox had mentioned lightly, and blurted out: "You, you are the Great Demon of the Inspiration Realm?!"
I saw that Uncle Tiger's body was shocked, and he was so arrogant that he raised his chin, revealing the chest that was so thin that he could see the ribs, and said proudly: "Hmph, the tiger Shiyuan who is sick at the house is also!"
The old fox himself made the evil spirit of Zen ginseng awe-inspiring, and it was even more messy to teach his apprentices. He taught Liu Tugou the method of quenching the knife and killing people, but when talking about the realm, he did not use the set of martial artists' skin, flesh, muscles, and periosteum, nor did he use the obscure methods of Zen Buddhism that made beginners confused, but quoted Taoism.
In his words, there are 10,000 kinds of Fa and 1,000 Dao, and there is never a single standard that can be applied to all cultivators, and compared with the statements of each family, it is rare for those bull noses who cultivate the ethereal Heavenly Dao to be plain and to the point.
Building a foundation, practicing qi, inspiration, supernatural powers, celestial beings.
Taoists call them the Five Realms of the World.
There are many ways to build a foundation, such as meditation, body forging, swallowing pills, and refining tools...... There are various methods, and in the end, different paths lead to the same end, so that ** can accommodate the aura, and from then on lay the foundation for seeking the Tao.
Practicing qi, absorbing the aura of heaven and earth for one's own use, the exercises are also numerous, and the effects are different.
Inspiration, aura accumulation finally changed, in the underworld to give birth to induction, until this realm does not know the mystery.
Magical powers, inspiration heaven and earth, return to the source, all kinds of methods give birth to great magical powers, turning over the river and the sea is also idle, is the real sense of ten thousand enemies.
Celestials, in the words of the old fox, if you can become a celestial, you can completely run rampant in Zhou Tian and kill whoever you want.
The demon clan usually has no intelligence when it builds its foundation, and it is still a beast, so most of the people who can become demons are naturally strong beasts.
After ignorance builds the foundation, or the heaven and earth favor the coincidence or the predecessors' mercy and supernatural powers, luckily can be channeled, and since then they have entered the realm of qi refining, and can take the initiative to absorb essence and cultivate on their own, which is called a little demon.
The lame old wolf was already a fierce beast in the foundation realm, a hundred years old and his hair was black, and only a wisp of white hair representing Huigen was left in the center of his eyebrows, and he had gradually become psychic.
It's a pity that the luck is not good, and he can't go further, and in the end he is old and weak, and he is injured, so he taught Liu Tugou to pick up a bargain, and he really didn't look away.
When you practice hard to reach the Enlightenment Realm, you can be called a great demon, and speaking out is the ability that you can only have above the Inspiration Realm.
The inspiration realm, placed in the martial arts, is the grandmaster, enough to open a sect, and in the army, it is the command of a county and an army, and there are 10,000 soldiers under his command.
In other words, this sick tiger is a fierce existence comparable to Yan Tieyi, and it can be easily suppressed by raising his paws against Liu Tugou, who has just stepped into the threshold of foundation building.
So, Liu Tugou smiled brightly at the sick tiger Ishihara, who was full of Wang Ba's anger, and said, "Scare the little master, it turns out that he is just a second-rate character!"