Chapter Eighty-Eight: The Gatekeeper
A large knife broke through the door and entered, and the cold light rose in the room.
But it's not my dragon-slaying knife.
The old Taoist priest stretched out his hand to take the knife, with affection in his eyes, stroking the blade of the knife, like looking at a lover, like caressing a beloved.
"Old man, it's been hundreds of years, and today is the opportunity to get you out of the sheath. The old Taoist priest pointed a knife at me and said, "I will send you back today." β
"You...... What are you going to do?" I was shocked. If you don't agree with each other, you will pick up a big knife, this is not my style of Quanzhen Sect.
"Make a move!" said the old Taoist.
"You're going to kill me?"
"You shouldn't have come. "The old Taoist priest said.
A gale blows.
The yellow wind in a radius of dozens of zhang seemed to be static for a moment, and a lot of flying dust stopped in the air.
Xu Qianxue smiled charmingly and did not move. But I knew she was ready to make a move. As soon as the old Taoist priest picked up the knife, she already knew that I was no match for him.
But now, he wants to kill me for no reason.
The old Taoist priest walked behind Xu Qianxue in one step, and slapped her heart lightly, and almost at the same time, the old Taoist priest's right hand changed into a flirtatious one, and Xu Qianxue kicked it, and threw her out in one turn. At the same time, my big knife has already been shot, and the knife is close to the center of the old Dao's eyebrows two inches, and it hovers and trembles slightly, and it can't get any closer. Xu Qianxue fell and got up again, her body was as fast as a flying swallow, and she pounced on Lao Dao again. Suddenly, the sky and the earth changed color, and the old Taoist priest said "hey", the knife was not killed, but I clearly felt the knife of the world's slaughter!
"Broken Waterfall Knife!" I suddenly shouted, and the true qi in my body quickly flowed, and I gathered the power of the peak and rolled out with a knife. The old way is still not moving, just a horizontal knife.
Still, and then moving, there was a sudden storm between heaven and earth.
Following an invisible arc, all the qi flowing on the ground flowed upside down, like a boat sailing against the current, converging on my dragon slaying knife.
It's just a matter of seconds.
But in an instant, it is life and death.
"Longevity?" the old Taoist priest's eyes narrowed into a needlepoint.
"Bell!" the old Taoist priest's knife was cut in two. The corners of my mouth were bleeding, and I was knocked to the ground with Xu Qianxue.
Lao Dao looked at the broken knife in his hand in despair, and muttered, "Old brother, why did you just go like this." β
He was depressed, but my heart was under heavy pressure, and I was very sad. My heart was sweet, and a mouthful of blood spurted out. His internal strength is strong, and just such a style, I feel that there is an infinite force attacking, and it does not belong to the practice of swords in front of the waterfall that day.
However, I can still break the waterfall with one sword, but I can collide with his two knives, but only break his knife.
"Haha," the old Taoist priest laughed loudly, and there seemed to be a thousand years of vicissitudes in his laughter, and when he stopped, he sighed, "It seems that I am indeed old." β
The old Taoist priest put the knife on the altar, waved his hand to me, and said, "Come with me, and I will tell you a story." He said to Xu Qianxue again: "Little girl, I'm thirsty, you buy me a pot of wine down the mountain." β
The new rain in the empty mountain seems to see the mountain getting green after the rain. Xu Qianxue and I couldn't beat him, and I didn't know what he wanted, so I simply settled down and followed him to sit on the stone table outside the house.
The old Taoist priest looked at the green mountain, as if recalling something. After a long time, he said: "The Big Dipper Seven Star Array was created by me, and the creation of this array was unintentional, but I didn't expect it to cause a catastrophe." The sins of heaven are forgivable, but the sins of man cannot be lived!"
I was puzzled: "Senior, where did you start with this? Listen to my master, this Northern Seven Star Array is the treasure of my Quanzhen Sect, and it has been more than a thousand years now, why did it become created by you again?"
"Listen to me slowly. "There is a teapot on the stone table, and in the pot is bitter tea.
The brown color is dark and the tea taste is bitter.
"About 500 years ago, King Yingzheng of Qin was ordered by the heavens, got the luck of the world, and became the first emperor of the country. However, the tyrannical King of Qin not only enslaved the people to build the Great Wall and consolidate the foundation of eternity, but also searched for immortals overseas to sit on the immortal emperor. If it is so contrary to the way of heaven, how can heaven forgive it? In such a way, Qin Bu II was defeated by Gaozu Liu Bang. Who is Liu Bang? He is the White Emperor of the sky. Xiang Yu was originally the reincarnation of the Zhenwu Emperor, and went down to support the White Emperor, but Xiang Yu held himself with high merit and wanted to dominate the world, so there was a big war with the White Emperor. After the defeat of the army, the immortal body woke up and killed himself on the bank of the Wujiang River. β
His story was incredible, and I slowly fell into it when I listened to it. I saw the old Taoist priest take a sip of tea, and then said: "The Han Dynasty has been ordered by the heavens, and the successive sons of heaven have worked hard to govern the country, and the immortals have descended to stabilize the government, of course, it should last forever." But unexpectedly, all of this was ruined by one of my northern Seven Star Array...... A thousand years ago, I cultivated the true enlightenment, penetrated the changes of heaven, earth and stars, and gained insight into the coming and going of the universe. One day drunk, young and frivolous, he founded this Big Dipper Seven Star Formation. The subtlety of this formation lies in the fact that it can come and go freely between heaven and earth, without being constrained by time and space, and can go to the past and the future, and it is extremely powerful. After the record, I was really excited, and I felt that it was comparable to the heavens, but I was negligent and didn't notice that there was a major loophole here. β
"What vulnerability?" I couldn't help but interject.
"Heaven and earth run in an orderly manner, and all things grow according to their natural laws. How can it be changed artificially? I didn't use this formation at first, but it was just a whimsical idea. Unexpectedly, it was later transmitted to the Quanzhen Sect, and a disciple used the formation, and since then, the heaven and the earth have been unbalanced, and everything has begun to change, and the rule of the Han Dynasty is no longer stable, so there is a Yellow Turban Uprising, and the world is in chaos. So far, the world has changed from a unified situation to a general trend of the world, which must be divided for a long time. Is this what the White Emperor wants to see?"
"Stop!" I gulped down a cup of bitter tea and poured it for myself, only to feel that the taste was dry and my forehead was sweating. Asked, "Who is using the Big Dipper Seven Star Array?"
"Hey!" the old Taoist priest sighed, "This person is none other than Wang Chongyang, the founding patriarch of your Quanzhen Sect!"
I was shocked: "Senior, as far as I know, isn't he a hero in the Northern Song Dynasty?
"Hey, Wang Chongyang inadvertently got the old man's formation diagram and founded the Quanzhen Sect. However, he hated the weakness of the Northern Song court, so he wanted to travel back to the time when the Song Dynasty opened the country and change the situation of this weak Great Song Dynasty. As the saying goes, if the foundation is unstable, it will naturally be abandoned in chaos. This idea is naturally good, but how can the Heavenly Dao cycle be changed by one person? In the end, he still returned in vain, and finally died in the tomb of the living dead. β
"I don't read much, don't lie to me. Didn't you say that he first crossed through with the help of the Big Dipper Seven Star Array, and then the Han Dynasty fell apart? If there was no Chongyang Patriarch's crossing before, how could there be a Song Dynasty? No, how could there be a Song Dynasty Wang Chongyang, and then there was his crossing ......?"
I was confused when I said it, and shouted: "Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable!"
"That's a good question, you're not a fool after all!" the old Taoist priest said with a smile, "This is the way of heaven!" It's really the so-called 'Tao can be the way, the way is very Tao!' The way of heaven is impermanent, how do you know whether there is a cause or an effect first! Everything in the world is actually destined to have an effect, but you don't know it. Just like when you came to the Three Kingdoms at the end of the Han Dynasty, do you know what the future holds?"
I looked down and pondered, but I felt that my IQ was obviously not enoughβwhat was this? So, I'm going to start with the simplest question:
"Senior, who are you?"
The old Taoist priest waved his sleeves and did not take away a cloud, and said lightly: "I am no one else, I must know you, my surname is Li." β
"Lao Li, what's your name?" I asked again.
The old Taoist priest said angrily: "It's terrible to have no culture! Poor Dao is Li Dan's true body in this life!"
"Who is Li Dan, I haven't heard of it, so what is your name......" I thought about it and came to such a conclusion.
"You...... You ......" The old Taoist was speechless and shouted, "Who is that statue you saw in the hall?"
I was stunned, and a sip of tea squirted out, and I shouted, "You mean to say that you are the Lao Tzu of the Three Halal Truths?"
"It's the poor road. β
The old Taoist priest smiled, and there seemed to be a blood in my heart, attacking my brain.
PS: I'm superstitious, so I'll make a note in this auspicious chapter: The force setting of this book is high martial arts and low mysteries, in fact, in order to cater to the taste of most readers who have watched fantasy for a long time. But the heart of martial arts will not change!Anyway, this chapter has killed countless brain cells in me, and I beg for support and comfort......