Chapter 2: Trapped in the Canyon
As time passed, the lightning faded away, the earth gradually returned to calm, and the colorful raindrops gradually subsided. The dark clouds dispersed, and people gradually came back to their senses at this time, looking back left and right, and suddenly looked at everything around them in astonishment.
The relatives and friends who should have been at hand have been more than ten meters away, the originally bare land has become overgrown with weeds, the seeds that have just been planted have broken through the soil and are strong enough, the dry trees have rejuvenated the second spring, but the soil slope of three or four meters has also become thirty or forty meters, and the houses have collapsed. Decay and rebirth are intertwined into an eerie and harmonious picture.
As time passed, the government was already in disarray, because the satellites had no signal and the power lines had long since been destroyed. Without satellites, it is equivalent to the absence of all kinds of symbols to deter the world, the existing order will inevitably be broken, and then they may not have the capital to rise above them at all. But God is fair, some people are sad and some people are happy, because after this shocking change, people are pleasantly surprised to find that their physical fitness seems to have doubled, and the old man in his sixties seems to have returned to the peak of his forty years old!
This is not the most crazy thing that makes people crazy, the most crazy thing is the 100,000 meteor stele that fell from the sky. Why? Because after the stele cooled down, someone went to check it and saw that there were words and formulas on the stele! That was the mantra for cultivating immortals! That was the practice of cultivating immortals! It was a sensation, and it was impossible to block the news at all, and no one could refuse the temptation of immortality after learning the news, which was the most primitive desire of man.
At first, the government also wanted to take coercive measures to "protect" the stele, but it was to no avail. One is that the world has expanded tenfold, and the area is too wide, and the steles are too scattered, and not everyone wants the government to intervene, because the government is not one mind, and the people in the government also want to live forever. It's not that no one thought about taking the stele away, but it was useless, after the stele fell to the ground, it seemed to take root, and the stele was ten meters huge and seven meters wide, so it was impossible to take it away. And it's not just people who are crazy about the stele, but even animals are fighting and killing frantically for the stele. They didn't know what it was, but their instincts told them it was a great opportunity.
After the initial period of chaos, it gradually stabilized, because on the one hand, the government intervened in the suppression of the army, although the weapons of mass destruction war could not be used, but small thermal weapons were still no problem, and the government did not say that it should be taken for its own use, but to guide the crowd to pacify the crowd, conduct batches of observation and practice of the immortal law, and then select those who can practice the immortal law to make other arrangements.
After all, although the immortal law is good, not everyone can cultivate, because there is a layer of coercion around the stone tablet, and only when you enter a range of ten meters can you learn the immortal law, and you can't learn it at all beyond ten meters, and the immortal law can't be taught, or it's not necessary at all, and others can't practice it because they haven't entered within ten meters. According to speculation, it may be that the people within ten meters either have good qualifications, or there is a force within ten meters that has changed their qualifications, and they are also suitable for cultivating immortals. And the beast gradually settled down and began to cultivate itself quietly. Everyone and beasts leave when they get something, and replace the next batch, and those who don't succeed leave without wasting time. Of course, there are also those who refuse to leave, but there are really a few who succeeded, but they couldn't do it, but they persevered and obtained the immortal law.
This sparked another wave of enthusiasm, but the overall level of calm down. A year later, when the basic test was completed, about 70,000 people had succeeded. Don't look at a lot of people, 70,000 people sounds like a lot, but there are more than 1.3 billion registered people in China. Compared to this, this rate is a little scary. But in any case, the apparent calm has finally calmed down, and the 70,000 people and their relatives have been resettled independently, and the world seems to have seen a short period of strange peace.
These 70,000 people entered the beginning of the intense period of cultivation, and all those who were not selected began to rebuild their homes and build houses and places to live. According to statistics, by this period, the population of China had plummeted to one billion, and 300 million people lost their lives in a disaster. After all, it is a living person, a living life!
In fact, it is not that no one noticed the 3,000 lightning bolts at the beginning, and many people noticed them, but after searching for them, they disappeared at all, and no one knew what happened to the 3,000 lightning bolts, where they went, and in the end they had to be gone.
And in a cave in an unknown valley halfway up Mount Emei, there is a stench, black and greasy person lying at this moment.
This person is Zhang Xu, who has been in a coma for three days. Zhang Xu, who was falling off the cliff three days ago, saw lightning slashing towards him, and he fainted directly with grief and fright, and then was brought here by the lightning and helped him improve his qualifications.
With a slight movement of his fingers, he opened his eyes with difficulty, and what he saw was the appearance of a cave, with a futon in the distance, and the exit of the hole on the other side. Zhang Xu shook his head vigorously and felt that his brain was confused, as if there was something more, and he was a little ignorant as to why he was here. And his whole body was sore, but before he could think about it, he suddenly wrinkled his nose and wrinkled his forehead deeply. I looked at it and jumped down. "I'll go, how did I get it, so dirty". After speaking, he looked outside, and without saying a word, he swayed towards the creek and ran.
It took nearly two hours to wash it thoroughly, and there was no odor all over my body, and my brain was a lot clearer, and my whole body also recovered a lot of strength, and the sour numbness dissipated.
I went ashore and found a bracket to rack up my clothes and let the wind blow freely. Then he sat down beside his clothes and got up in earnest, and although he had done a lot of work in the bracket and in the shower, this was the first time that he had done a lot of it. The whole valley doesn't look big, the length is only about 100 meters, but the environment is good, there are small rivers, there are small trees, there are fruits on the trees, the red ones don't know if they can eat it, but there is no living thing in the whole valley, it is strange and deserted. In the middle of the valley there was a stone cave, and there was nothing in it except three futons. On one side of the stream was a waterfall rushing straight down, and if you looked at the height of at least thirty meters next to it, you would definitely die if you fell down. On the other side, there was actually a way down the mountain, but unfortunately, Zhang Xu was surprised to find that there was a transparent shield blocking the way out.
Back at the entrance of the cave, I sat down under a fruit tree and thought about what to do. Suddenly, he seemed to remember something, and immediately closed his eyes and searched. After a while, he saw a silvery-white ball of light in the depths of his mind, and it was that light that had brought him here.
As the consciousness got closer, the light became clearer, and in the end, I saw that it was a book. When I really got to the front of me, I also saw the whole picture of the book. On the surface, there is a very mysterious pattern that seems to be deeply attracted to people's hearts, and there are a few words on it. Zhang Xu was extremely sure that he didn't know the word, but he inexplicably understood the meaning of those words: "Shangqing Immortal Dictionary". Then I opened the cover with my mind, and one of the pages inside was actually a paragraph, my brows were slightly wrinkled, and I slowly read it, "I am the true immortal Zhao Gongming, who has cultivated to the sky, how could I have been plotted by that land pressure child, so that he died on the list of gods, so that he even harmed my sister-in-law, alas, it's a pity." Today, the Tao has a purpose, and the catastrophe will come in advance, so 3,000 great powers are selected to leave the inheritance, and 100,000 gods and demons are selected to benefit all sentient beings. Therefore, I have this inheritance, and from now on you are my disciple. Therefore, you do not need to call yourself a disciple of three generations of the sect, but only recognize my disciples. Although the magic power of the exercises is strong, what suits you is the best, and don't develop the habit of relying on external objects, only when you become stronger is you really strong. Apprentice, for the teacher's words are all here, you can do it yourself. After reading it, Zhang Xu couldn't calm down for a long time, it was actually Zhao Gongming's inheritance and became Zhao Gongming's disciple.
sighed, and then opened the first page with his mind, only to see that it was a very concise table of contents, the first line reads: common sense of cultivating immortals, the second line: exercises, and the following are: spells/supernatural powers, refining tools, formations, and miscellaneous;
"It looks really concise," and then casually opened the common sense of cultivating immortals, and casually took a look, such as what are the realms of cultivating immortals, the level of weapons and magic weapons, the items that assist in cultivation, and the precautions when cultivating, etc. There are more than a dozen articles on the exercises, and the top one is the Shangqing Immortal Law, Eight or Nine Xuangong. What are the 36 methods of Tiangang and the seventy-two methods of earth evil, and so on. The refining tools and formations were directly skipped and looked at the miscellaneous articles, which were some messy things, everything, alchemy, talisman making, and so on, and it could be seen that cheap masters were not good at it.
After reading this, Zhang Xu was excited for a long time before calming down, after all, he suddenly got this kind of opportunity, especially exercises like Eight or Nine Xuangong, anyone can't help but be excited. However, he still calmed down, because he thought of the two words that his master said, three thousand powers, one hundred thousand gods and demons, that is to say, there are still two thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine inheritances that someone inherits? 100,000 low-level inheritance?
"That means I have to stand out from the 3,000? I have them, right?" Thinking of the last warning quotation of that paragraph, I couldn't help but feel warm in my heart, it seems that the cheap master still loves his apprentice very much. "And, that's right, the best should be the best for yourself and not the strongest!"