Chapter 163: Pain, Loss, and Forgetting
readx;? The voice was not loud, and it was in the wing room, but for Shi Xuan and Mo Jingqiu's clear and mirror-like hearts, the distance of ten or so steps was not at all hindered from hearing the content of the Guan Lord's own words, and they couldn't help but smile at each other, in this land of the end of the law, there are still people who pursue the way of immortality in the outer pill. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
When the little boy heard the explosion, he hurriedly turned around and rushed in, and after a while, he coughed and complained and pulled out a tall man whose face and clothes were covered with pitch black dust: "Grandpa Guan, what are you still standing in there with such a big smoke?"
The tall man's voice was quite old, and he said a little distractedly: "Maybe if you feel what is abnormal in this smoke, you can find the reason for the failure." As he spoke, he had the intention of continuing to walk into the wing, but the little boy covered his face with a moist handkerchief that had been prepared a long time ago, and a cool feeling came, which made him sober up a lot, and he couldn't help sighing, and carefully wiped his face clean with the handkerchief.
"Grandpa, there is a passing couple who want to spend the night. The little boy hurriedly took the opportunity to tell Shi Xuan and Mo Jingqiu about the master.
After wiping his face, the viewer did not look as old as his voice, in his forties, with a well-rounded appearance, and his sideburns were a little gray, which seemed to be too consumed.
He looked up at Shi Xuan and Mo Jingqiu, and saw that they didn't look like the most vicious people, and they had a good demeanor, peaceful and indifferent, and they were not far from the capital, and there were often travelers and merchants who stayed overnight, so he smiled and said: "If the two of you don't dislike the simplicity of the original view, and the old way is too noisy, just pick a side room." ”
As he spoke, he stepped forward to meet him, but something that had just rolled out of his alchemy room happened to be at his feet, so he was stepping on it, and he stumbled and was about to fall, but at this time, a pair of white and steady hands firmly held his shoulders, so that he would not collide with the ground.
"Thank you. The viewer was grateful, although if he really fell, with his relatively strong body, there would not be any serious consequences, but the other party was kind after all.
Standing firm and taking a closer look, he couldn't help but have a faint doubt in his heart, the woman in the purple dress was by the gate seven or eight steps away, and the moment he took a step just now, he clearly saw that the man in the green robe was standing side by side with her, how could he have time to support himself? Even those swords, fists and feet that he had seen in the past were at most three or four steps out when he fell.
Shi Xuan said with a smile: "In Xia Shi Xuan, he can also be regarded as a scholar, this is my friend Mo Jingqiu." ”
"The old way is self-proclaimed, and as for the common name of the past, it has long been forgotten. The Lord of Wu Guanguan was a little happy when he heard that Shi Xuan admitted that he was a Taoist priest, and then pointed to the little boy, "His name is Jiang Liu, he is a child from Shanyin Village, and he likes to listen to the old Taoist talk about some strange things, so he loves to run to Benguan and later became interested in the way of alchemy and the art of immortality, and often helps the old Taoist to make some starts, although he has not yet officially started, he can also be regarded as half a disciple of the old Tao." ”
After finishing speaking, the Lord of Innocent Observation said expectantly: "I don't know if Shi Daoyou has any insights into the way of alchemy? Can you help Lao Dao understand the reason for the failure just now?"
"Maybe the fire source is wrong. Shi Xuan didn't know what his alchemy method was, but there was one thing that he couldn't overcome, and the world with the power of the five elements as the material base involved slightly more complex material changes, either requiring the blessing of the Dao Fu Seal, or having to use all kinds of true fire and true water to refine, such as the true fire of the stars, the heavenly thunder and the dazzling fire, etc., and this kind of foreign matter is very rare, and in the land of the end of the law, it is almost non-existent.
The eyes of the Innocent Contemplation Lord lit up: "Yes, how can the Pill of Immortality be refined with mortal fire!"
As soon as he finished speaking, a scolding voice came from outside the temple: "Jiang Liu, why did you come to the crazy old road again." A sturdy peasant woman in her early thirties walked in and pointed to the small river that had been hiding behind the Lord of the Void Void, "Don't go back with me yet." ”
Jiang Liu shook his head: "Mother, it's still early, let me stay a little longer." ”
"Hmph, this old man is crazy, he has never married his own son in his life, he is not very filial, you have been with him for a long time, if you learn what kind of bullshit life he wants, the old lady will not die unjustly. Jiang said sarcastically, if it weren't for the fact that she could learn to read for free here in Lao Dao, she would have let Jiang Liu go to school a long time ago.
The Lord of Infinite Illusion couldn't help but retort: "All things in the world, mountains and rivers, have existed for a long time, why can't we, the spirits of all things, seek the way of eternal life, wait for peasant women, who are shallow in knowledge, and don't talk nonsense." ”
Jiang sneered: "No vain old man, then let me ask you, have you ever seen someone immortal in the world?
"Hmph, those swaggering and deceiving people can only deceive fools and fools like you. "No nonsense, no old way, disdainful and authentic.
Jiang continued to ask: "Then what do you gain from seeking immortality? There is no immortal family method at all, parents and parents died of old age, they were originally famous doctors in the capital, and their family was rich, but now they can only guard this dilapidated Taoist temple, and the refined pill made the last disciple go crazy to death, just over forty, but it is like a flower armor, and you are sick, the old lady sees that you are not seeking immortality, you are seeking death!"
This peasant woman seems to have read for a few days, her tongue is good, and she is very organized, and she doesn't care about the old ways after she finishes speaking, and pulls the river straight away.
Jiang Liu didn't dare to resist, turned his head and winked at Lao Dao, saying that he would sneak over again later.
"You, you don't understand. "The old Tao of Wu is a little desolate and lost," In the remote and backward southern Xinjiang, there is a voodoo spell. They can all have supernatural powers, and we and other cultivators who seek immortality will not have the means, but the old Tao himself is stupid and difficult to get started. ”
Despair is more painful than admitting frustration.
Hearing this, Shi Xuan and Mo Jingqiu were quite puzzled, but they quickly figured it out, the Mixed Yuan Jin Dou was just a congenital Dao fetus, there was no spiritual intelligence, and the power was scattered and could not be even, the farther away from it, the less suppressed it would be, and in extremely remote places, it was normal for a little thing similar to the law to appear, but this world, no matter how remote it was, it could only reach this step, and it could not become a real spell.
After being lost for a moment, the old Dao of Wu was lost, then he restrained his emotions, put these behind him, and thought about what Shi Xuan said just now, "You don't need to be mortal, where can you find the true fire of the Immortal Family?" I don't know if those Daoists have any news about this. ”
For a moment, he fell into deep contemplation.
Shi Xuan and Mo Jingqiu are both dashing people, taking care of their own fires to cook, and only after the meal is cooked, will they wake up the old man and eat with him.
"Lord, I don't know where it is a hundred miles away in that direction?" Shi Xuan pointed to the southeast.
The old man looked at it and replied woodenly: "The capital." He was still thinking about it, and it was not surprising that someone would arrive nearby and didn't know it was the capital.
It turned out to be the capital, Shi Xuan and Mo Jingqiu were stunned at first, and then a little relieved, where the congenital Dao fetus is placed, it is inevitable that some supernatural things will appear, and it will naturally be regarded as a place of strong luck.
In front of him, there is such a person who does not linger in his heart and is not strange and doubtful, Shi Xuan and Mo Jingqiu naturally asked each other quickly, and gradually determined the whereabouts of the mixed yuan golden bucket.
When the capital was built here, someone found a golden bucket in a cave, the pattern is complex and mysterious, the light is dim but far away, it is regarded as a spiritual object from the sky, an auspicious omen, enshrined in the ancestral temple, and the ancestral temple is on the side of the palace, and the guard is strict.
Shi Xuan and Mo Jingqiu were both half relieved, as long as they were not buried deep underground, they had to spend a lot of time digging it, after all, the longer the time, the greater the variables, many strong bows and crossbows were shot without interruption and without space, even if the two of them were like a mirror and reflected in Fang Yuan, they couldn't dodge, with the ancestral temple as a barrier, fire attack, breaking the wall and other means, the other party couldn't use it.
And sneaking into the palace is not as difficult as climbing to the sky.
After determining the goal, Shi Xuan and Mo Jingqiu each chose a wing room and began to recuperate, striving to recover their state as soon as possible.
In the dead of night, outside the dilapidated Taoist temple, several black-clothed people in strong costumes suddenly sneaked in, and their faces were covered with thick scarves.
"Is this here?" a man in black asked the leader very suspiciously, "How could the Taoist man who the national teacher asked me to arrest be in such a dilapidated Taoist temple?"
The leader nodded, and said affirmatively: "This is it, the national teacher said that he was born and concentrated on alchemy, and he tasted one of his pills by chance, and felt that it was very helpful to his spiritual cultivation, so he planned to invite him to go back, even if it was a coincidence before, it was difficult to refine it, but it was good to refine some longevity pills to coax the emperor, the older the emperor is, the more he is addicted to the immortal pill Dao, the more alienated he is from the national teacher, and he is close to the Taoist priests who play with the Danhuo." ”
Above them, a black crow hovered silently, melting into the darkness, its eyes without intelligence, but its movements were different from those of ordinary crows, as if it had been tamed by someone in a special way.
"What about the rest of the temple?" asked another man in black.
The leader replied coldly, "Kill them, blame them for their bad luck." ”
After determining the place, these black-clothed men began to climb over the white wall with great dexterity, but as soon as they landed, they felt a flash of cold light and lost consciousness.
The two people who came in the back saw the front fall silently, and in a daze, they threw out a bag of highly toxic powder overwhelmingly, this is a life-saving thing given by the national teacher, within the scope of the shroud, it will erode when it touches the skin, and even if there are dozens or hundreds of people in ambush on the opposite side, it will also end.
But before they could get complacent, they felt the opponent's sword light swirling, the strong wind blew, and some of the highly poisonous powder rolled back, so that they didn't even have time to scream, and they corroded to death.
The heart was clear, Shi Xuan and Mo Jingqiu's footsteps were strange, and in the shroud of the residual poisonous powder, they found the weak spot and flashed out with a sword to protect themselves.
"Door-to-door kidnapping, and relying on a lot of nonsense, disturbing people's dreams. Shi Xuan shook his head and smiled, and together with Mo Jingqiu, he directly withdrew and went back to the room to rest, without dealing with it, so that the old man could be more vigilant when he saw it, and the meaning revealed in the words of these black-clothed people made the two of them have some ideas.