Volume 1 Shadow Chapter 6 The Shadow of the Heavenly Immortal
Heavenly Killing Peak!
Zhong Lingyu is beautiful, and the forest is quiet. The pines and cypresses are luxuriant, and the fence is green. Yao flowers are everywhere, and the grass is abundant.
Taiqing jade steps, colorful light, dazzling. Reflecting with the Yao Hua Rui grass next to the steps, a fairy ladder was cast. At this time, the person walking on the Taiqing jade steps, as if he was in a fairyland, looked like stepping on auspicious clouds from a distance, and walked through the clouds and fog.
This time, it was not Han Yu or Liu Yuan who led Yue Chen to the Heavenly Killing Peak, but his senior brother Ouyang Xiu, who had started fifteen years earlier than him. This person is also a closed disciple of Hao Xian Zhenren, and his cultivation has reached the eighth level of the Qing Realm. When climbing the Taiqing Jade Steps, the two walked side by side, and Ouyang Xiu also explained many questions one by one, Yue Chen memorized them in his heart, and occasionally asked some small questions.
After climbing the jade steps for three hours, under the guidance of Ouyang Xiu, they turned into a mountain trail from the middle of the peak. didn't take a few steps, Ouyang Xiu said "ahh
Yue Chen couldn't help but ask, "Senior brother, isn't it where I went, not with you?"
Ouyang Xiu was also a little confused, scratched his head and thought for a long time, patted his head sharply, and said, "Senior brother, you can be regarded as guessing correctly! According to Master, where you are the third person to live. However, I remembered that I should go a little further up, turn into the small mountain road on the left, and we will be on the right path. As he spoke, his footsteps did not stop, Ouyang Xiu led the way in front and said, "Do you know what that place is called?"
Yue Chen replied, "Senior brother, it's the first time I've come to Heavenly Killing Peak!"
Ouyang Xiu grinned, shook his head and said, "Yes, I have been on this Immortal Peak for twenty-one years, if it wasn't for the master yesterday to tell me, I wouldn't have known that there was such a place." After a pause, he continued: "My master and his old man said that that place is called Tianjitai. Speaking of this, Ouyang Xiu glanced back at Yue Chen and explained mysteriously: "This urn is the urn of the talisman, not the killing of the heavens. ”
He also said: "According to the ancestral teachings, only the inheritors of the talisman can practice on the heavenly urn platform. As for the rest, I don't know. Anyway, listening to the tone of the old men, it probably means that your attainments in the talisman have completely reached the level of staying in the Tiangong Terrace. Moreover, the seniors who stayed in Tiangongtai last time were also the thirteenth generation disciples. Which one is the earliest, it should be the second generation disciple of Chengming Sect, how much, I think my master and they are a little unsure!"
Yue Chen asked, "Why can only the disciples of the Fu Sect Inheritor go there?"
"Good question!" Ouyang Xiu shouted loudly, startling Yue Chen, only to hear him explain: "This is what Master told the nine of us. It is said that a long, long time before the founding of the Chengming Sect, the Heavenly Altar already existed. When the sect was opened, the ancestor of the Taiqing lineage went to check it in person, and it took three hundred years of yuan power to take out the "Taiqing Divine Immortal Book". As a result, it was learned that this platform was laid out by the ancient immortals with a talisman array, and only those who practiced the mystical method on the immortal book could freely enter and exit the Tianqi platform. If a person who has never cultivated enters it, he will be invaded by a resentment between heaven and earth, and the whole person will gradually disappear into nothingness and become a shadow.
We are too clear and there are few people, and it is also related to this Tianzhentai. Why? Because our ancestor who was too pure returned to the West too early, he only accepted three disciples during his lifetime, and it seems that he is still a senior with mediocre qualifications. And the ancestors of the other two lines of people are all long-lived and have many disciples. In this Jinting Immortal Mountain, the first batch of heavenly and earthly treasures naturally all fell into the hands of those two veins. From then on, we were too clear to prosper.
In the Taiqing lineage, the most prosperous is the eighth generation, and there are only 60 people. I can't even hook a fraction of the other two veins, alas!"
Ouyang Xiu said this, scratched his head, turned his head and smiled, and said, "That's all! Senior brother, you have also arrived! The next road depends on yourself!"
Yue Chen looked at the Heavenly Altar in front of him, and it was easy to find that this Heavenly Altar was a section of the peak body that naturally stretched out from the Heavenly Killing Peak. There are seven houses on the terrace, with a flat field in front and a hill behind the house. This doesn't look like some kind of fairy blessed land, but like a small farm yard placed in the middle of the mountain.
Ouyang Xiu tried hard to remember something, looked at Yue Chen, who was also thinking, and said, "Senior Brother Yue, the piece of land in front of the house may be used for spiritual cultivation. In the future, if Hyun Jing has a surplus, you can go to Tianmu Peak to have a look and buy some spirit seeds to come back and plant. Actually, this kind of spiritual cultivation, don't underestimate it, if it is planted well, it will be a very important source of income?"
Yue Chen asked, "Spirit seeds, what is the approximate price?" Yue Chen has never cared much about things that have nothing to do with him, and this spirit cultivation is one of them.
Ouyang Xiu laughed out loud again, and replied: "Let me think about it, oh, that's right! The first-order spirit seed is fifty hyun crystals per serving, the second-order spirit seed is two hundred hyun crystals per serving, and the third-order spirit seed is still quite expensive, each one needs eight hundred hyun crystals." As for the fourth-order and above, I haven't bought it either, probably Yayun Crystal!"
As soon as Yue Chen heard this, he was directly deflated, and said in his heart: "It seems that you can only think about it!" Why do you think so? Because one cloud crystal is worth a thousand yun crystals, therefore, for Yue Chen, cloud crystals are like spirit grass of the fourth grade and above, which can only happen in legends and dreams. After thanking his senior brother, he slowly walked towards the heavenly altar. Ouyang Xiu, who was behind him, did not leave, but muttered to himself: "Uncle Haojing has instructed that only when Yue Chen enters the house will it be considered successful." Otherwise, we still have to call him out and arrange for him to go to the stone mansion. I really don't know why!"
Let's say Yue Chen, after walking a hundred steps along the path, he could feel a qi barrier pressing on him, forcing him to stop. Yue Chen gritted his teeth and moved forward against the resistance, and after a hundred steps, this pressure receded. Immediately afterwards, there was a cold current realm barrier, invading the meridians around him. And his body seemed to be awakened again, and a warm current was born in the Jade Mansion, evacuating to the meridians. The power of Xuan Yu attached to the meridians was also awakened again, and began to eliminate the invasion of this cold momentum. After walking a hundred steps, the cold current slowly receded, and Yue Chen clearly felt that there was another strange spiritual power that had integrated into his Jade Mansion.
Three hundred steps later, Yue Chen had already come to the courtyard, looking at the largest room in the middle, only to see two big characters engraved on the door plaque "Tianzhen". After a closer look, I found that these two characters were painted with golden runes, and the faint golden light on them was still extremely abundant. It's like the eye of the heavenly altar.
After thinking for a while, Yue Chen took out a Tai Chi seal talisman given by Ouyang Xiu, and with a movement of his mind, he injected spiritual power into it, and the seal emitted a golden light, which reflected the word Tianqi on the plaque, and the door slowly opened. When Yue Chen entered the house to watch, the first thing he saw was dozens of scattered talismans, red, purple, blue, and yellow. The bed, on the other hand, is an ancient jade bed, and there are bursts of spiritual mist on the bed. Tables and chairs are all very complete.
After looking at them for a while, Yue Chen decided to put away these talismans first. Of course, he was also thinking in his heart, maybe he could still use it! However, after sorting it out over and over again, Yue Chen's face was full of doubts and surprises, and his face changed rapidly. Because this thousand and one talismans were definitely not refined by the disciples of the Chengming Sect.
Why is that? because of the runes!
The runes drawn on these talismans have not appeared in the "Taiqing Shenqi Immortal Book", and the construction of the spell diagram has not appeared in the immortal book. Moreover, these talismans are all semi-finished products that have not been refined, and the most complete ones are only the complete drawings of the cloud seals.
At this moment, Yue Chen seemed to understand why the first twenty predecessors of the talisman inheritance had a lifespan of one less than the sword cultivators of the same initiate. I'm afraid that the real reason lies in these talismans. In this way, what Senior Brother Ouyang said, I am the third person to stay in Tianzhentai, and I have said. What he really meant should be: I am the third person to go to the Heavenly Urn Platform when I was in the Hundred Refining Realm.
After Yue Chen figured this out, most of the mysteries in his chest were solved. However, countless larger and stranger secret groups came one after another, which made me a little careless. After thinking about it again, I looked at the original talisman in the room over and over again. Because Yue Chen is a natural person with a good memory, many things, he only needs to go through them once, and it is enough to remember them clearly. So far, there are only five pieces of dark iron on the secret method, which he has spent five years to unravel little by little. Nothing other than the rest was something he had seen three times and couldn't remember.
This time, Yue Chen encountered something even stranger than the Xuantie Piece - the Ancient Talisman. After Yue Chen entered the room, he sat there motionless, looking at a thousand and one talismans repeatedly. These talismans seemed to be able to hook people's souls, firmly sucking Yue Chen away. When Yue Chen was looking at some talismans, his eyes were dull, his expression was dull, and he was alive and well from a lost soul. In this way, Yue Chen actually sat quietly for as long as seven days. It wasn't until the end of the eighth day that I woke up from a big dream, and the whole person seemed to be exhausted. Trying to put down the talisman in his hand, he tried his last bit of strength, climbed onto the ancient jade bed, and fell asleep.
Another three days have passed. Yue Chen was completely unaware of the changes outside the house. When he woke up, it was the twelfth day when he came to the Heavenly Urn Terrace. Yue Chen only felt that his body seemed to have been baptized again, and the spiritual power in the Jade Mansion was tumbling abnormally, as if he was about to break through the realm to the Guanqing realm. But he also knew that his judgment was absolutely correct, and the strangeness must have appeared on the ancient talisman. He said, "With my current Dao cultivation, it's not easy to look at those half-finished talismans with magic. However, judging from the situation of the Yuan Power stored in my Jade Mansion, my top priority is to get the elixir needed to break through the realm first, and be ready to break through the realm to the clear realm at any time. ”
At the end of the day, it was the time for cultivation, and after Yue Chen cleared his heart and descaled, he began a day's cultivation schoolwork. After cultivating the Xuanfa in the Taiqing Divine Immortal Book, and then cultivating the Xuantie Tablet Secret Method, I found that something strange appeared. The Xuanyu aura in his meridians seemed to be suppressed by the spiritual power on the jade bed, and all of them poured into the jade mansion. greatly increased the power of his own Jade Mansion. At the same time, the new spiritual power was filled into the meridians around the body, forming a new layer of Xuanyu spiritual power.
After finishing his cultivation, Yue Chen got up to look at the jade bed and exclaimed, "If that's the case, then one day of my cultivation on this bed may be better than the months I spent practicing in the bamboo house! Perhaps, if I break through to the Guanqing Realm, I can even save the elixir." Then he shook his head and said, "If you come here, you will be safe! I really can't care about so much! Now, it's time for me to practice the runes!"
Yue Chen still took out dozens of pieces of coarse linen paper, put pen and ink, and began to practice. However, at this moment, every time I draw a rune, a similar but completely different rune will appear in my mind. Until the twenty-eight basic runes are cultivated, the twenty-eight corresponding runes appear in my mind, and they always linger.
Yue Chen began to compete on his own, and practiced the base level runes again, and twenty-eight similar but completely different runes still appeared in his mind. When I was ready to draw it, my mind went blank again. Then he said to himself: "It turns out that this is really the case." No wonder, Zhang Huan said that the predecessors who practiced talismans were all mentally deranged people before they died. If I keep going like this, I'm going to go crazy. And which predecessors, at least they have cultivated to the Divine Realm. It seems that I must find a way to solve the strange things on the Heavenly Altar. ”
In a trance, a month passed by in a snap of a finger. Yue Chen hadn't gone out for half a step since he entered the house more than forty days ago, and he forgot how long he had been here. Yue Chen, who was in the Tianqitai Immortal House, did not feel hungry or thirsty, and whenever he was tired, he would lie on the jade bed to rest, and he would be able to recover as before in no more than three hours.
At first, Yue Chen didn't feel anything wrong, but this night, Yue Chen began to feel that something strange was happening, and his body was getting lighter and lighter. Yue Chen was very sure that he did not become an immortal as described in the books of the Divine Strange Monster and other books, but the Xuanyu spiritual power that spread all over the meridians around his body, and at some point, like a new layer of skin in his body, wrapped himself. This feeling is like a grotesque elephant in myths and legends - feathering!
I don't know that from that day on, the spiritual power form in my Jade Mansion has changed from cloud-like to dew-like beads, and this is precisely the most important characteristic of the Guanqing Realm monk.
In other words, Yue Chen was completely unaware of the changes in his cultivation, or in other words, he was completely unable to control the changes in his cultivation. As long as you stay in this house, it seems that everything will happen naturally. Everyone knows that this is not a normal thing. In this world, there are not so many strange fates for no reason!
Yue Chen, who has come to his senses, can he not find out about this? It seems impossible!
At three o'clock, Yue Chen opened the door gently, wanting to go out to blow the mountain breeze and sober up. He first poked his head out and looked out, then slammed the door shut, and the sound of "dong dong" heartbeat echoed in the room.
Yue Chen couldn't believe it, at this time, in the open space on the right side of the courtyard, there was a person standing, looking out of the mountain. For some reason, a red shadow person flashed in Yue Chen's mind, and that person was also like a shadow. This night, Yue Chen spent the night in anxiety.
It's just that Yue Chen's natural courage can't be regarded as small. The next day, the cultivation continued as well, and when he arrived, he still quietly poked his head out and looked to the right. Sure enough, which figure is still there. On the third, fourth, 、......、 seventh days, Yue Chen repeated the same thing.
At this moment, this figure gave Yue Chen the feeling that he was like a person who had made a mistake, thinking about it every day and repenting deeply. What's even more weird is that there is nothing in the place where the original shadow stands, but when the figure appears, it seems that a wall will also appear.
Yue Chen had already made up his mind to pay attention, if this person wanted to harm himself, it would probably be like stepping on a bedbug to death, and it would be superfluous to worry about it, so it was better to go over and take a look. Then he clasped a talisman with his right hand and tiptoed towards the figure. When Yue Chen approached, the figure did not react at all, and when Yue Chen and the figure looked back, he still saw his back, and at the same time, there was no wall in front of him. Yue Chen's childlike heart rose for a while, chasing the back to see his true face, but no matter how he chased it, he could only see a thin back.
When I was tired and about to collapse, I stopped and walked back to the house slowly. When I returned to the house, I still looked back at the back, and the figure was still standing in place, as if it had never moved.
Yue Chen sighed and said, "So many strange things! If the twenty seniors before me were not insane, then it would be abnormal! Go to the Moon Viewing Hall tomorrow to see if there are any relevant ancient records to figure out this kind of strange thing." ”