Chapter Twenty-Four: Learning Art in a Dream
Huo Xiaofan groped his way in the direction of the wind and kept walking, his eyes were pitch black, but he could vaguely see some white light in front of him.
As I walked, I suddenly smelled a hint of sweetness mixed with the mountain breeze blowing in front of me, like a ripe peach or sweet apricot, and the light was getting stronger and stronger.
He walked a few steps out of the road, and there was a world outside, saying that heaven and earth were actually just a large flat rock protruding from the mountain, and its area was a little smaller than the courtyard of Qiyuan Mountain.
But the viewing location here is wonderful, looking forward from here can see all the other thirty-five peaks of Tianqi Mountain, the scenery is unobstructed, and the nine curves and eighteen pools under the mountain are also unobstructed, in recent years, Huo Xiaofan has almost run all the corners and corners of all the peaks of Tianqi Mountain, but it is the first time to watch in all directions.
As he was staring, the strange fragrance he had smelled in the cave wafted over again. Huo Xiaofan sniffed his nose and looked in that direction, it turned out that the smell came from the three fruit trees on this cliff, the fruits of these three trees were the size of a fist, he had never seen them, not peaches, not apricots, not pears and not plums, crystal clear and bright red, constantly wafting bursts of sweet fragrance, and he was salivating.
At this time, a few bits of rain fell from the sky and fell on his face, and he could not help but wonder how it could rain when there was a great sun in the sky, and looked up to see that there was a line of mountain spring water flowing down the cliff above these three trees, and it was no wonder that the fruit tree closest to the cliff was the most fat, and it must have been nourished by the spring water the most.
On the left side of the cliff is a tree, and on the right side it looks like a small mountain, he hurriedly went in to see if there are any martial arts secrets, but after entering, he was disappointed, there was nothing in it except a stone bed, and he carefully checked the stone wall in the stone cave and found nothing.
Huo Xiaofan said in his heart: "As the most important place in the Heavenly Sword Gate, there are eating, drinking, and living here, why don't you learn anything alone."
While thinking about it, he finally couldn't help but pick a fruit and eat it, this fruit smells sweet and tastes more beautiful, Huo Xiaofan has never eaten such a delicious fruit since he was a child, he even swallowed the core of the belt and just wanted to pick another fruit that suddenly felt like it was burning in his stomach, and the fire spread to his whole body.
He looked up and saw a smooth and flat stone on the edge of the cliff that seemed to be a place for the predecessors to meditate, so he hurriedly sat down to do the exercises, this sitting did not matter, the stone was extremely cold.
He didn't have time to find another place, so he hurriedly used his luck to dissipate the two breaths of heat and cold, and after a long while, his body melted the fire in his body into his heavenly cover gong, and at the same time absorbed the cold qi from the stone, and it was the joint impact of this yang and cold that he was able to save the day.
He slowly opened his eyes and saw a few lines of words written on the stone under his belly: delicious and difficult to pull, the fire yang fruit heaven and earth to the yang thing, do not eat more, one in ten days; a good chair is difficult to sit on, the Xuanyin stone, the thing in the world to the yin, do not stay longer, sit once in ten days.
Huo Xiaofan gasped, and hurriedly exercised his skills, which he felt a lot more after eating and sitting just now, and thought that this cliff was really a treasure, but why not write such an important thing in a conspicuous position, if it was the three fat people who ate the fruit just now, he would definitely eat two at the same time, and he would be killed directly after eating, but this thing that should be learned is there.
At this moment, as soon as the sun reached noon, Huo Xiaofan, who was thinking down, found that there were handwriting and human shadows on the rocks on the ground, and he couldn't help but look back and couldn't help but be stunned.
It turned out that the stone wall directly behind him was smooth as a mirror, and the mirror-like stone wall showed countless handwriting and human shapes under the sun's rays, and at the same time, the image was vaguely reflected to the ground.
Huo Xiaofan looked at these words and human figures as if he was fascinated, they were all the martial arts of the essence of several generations of Heavenly Sword Sect heads, until the sun did not shine on the stone wall in the west, and the image disappeared, he collapsed and walked underground, due to excessive concentration and exertion, he fell asleep unconsciously, and when he woke up again, it was already dark, and when he raised his eyes, it was full of stars.
Sure enough, it is a vast world, and there are no wonders, and the information on this stone wall is like a book from heaven, which makes people benefit immensely.
Huo Xiaofan walked into the stone house to meditate and rest according to his usual habits, but the amount of information he was exposed to during the day today was too large, so he couldn't settle down at will, so he could only digest it slowly.
Day after day, he looked forward to the sun coming out every day, and when he came out, he watched intently, and tried to remember that before the sun came out and after the sun went down, he worked hard to digest it, and when it rained on cloudy days, he also kept evolving tricks on days without the sun, and when he was bored in this big place, he picked up stones and attacked the birds of prey that passed by.
As his skills continued to grow, the distance and accuracy of his shooting were getting farther and more accurate, so that he almost caused the birds in the sky to fly away.
And under the continuous nourishment of the Fire Yang Fruit and the Xuanyin Stone, his Heavenly Cover Gong also rushed through the fourth layer realm and rushed towards the fifth layer.
After more than half a year of study, Huo Xiaofan has mastered a lot of palm techniques and swordsmanship, but there are two kinds of kung fu on the stone wall, which have only flashed their names but have no words and human shapes, one is the swordsmanship "Heavenly Sword Thirty-six Styles" and the other is the palm technique "Nine Dragons Thunder Palm" , He has carefully studied it many times and is puzzled, this day the sky is full of dark clouds, it rains lightly, the thirty-five peaks on the opposite side are verdant green, and the Jiuqu landscape under the mountain is also due to the increase in the waterline in the rainy season, suddenly the sky draws a lightning bolt, followed by thunder, Huo Xiaofan's mind lit up and thought that these two martial arts are not related to the opposite mountain peak and the twisting and winding Jiuqu water.
With this question in mind, he began to look intently, the thirty-five peaks on the opposite side appeared and disappeared in the rain and mist, and the nine curved waters stretched between the peaks like nine dragons, and the more he looked, the more he felt that the mystery might be in the picturesque scenery on the opposite side.
With this thought, he didn't continue to learn kung fu on the stone wall, but stared at the opposite mountain peak and the Jiuqu water in a daze all day long.
Thinking about it day and dreaming at night, Huo Xiaofan, who was sleeping in the heavy rain this night, suddenly heard the sound of the sword slamming outside and the thunderous dragon groan, he came out to watch regardless of the wind and rain, and found that there was a person in the opposite sky who was fighting fiercely with a sword like a god with a sword.
The god of heaven sometimes appeared on the stargazing peak, sometimes appeared on the peak of Zaobli, he kept jumping on the thirty-five peaks on the opposite side, swinging his sword and the nine dragons around with ease, and the nine dragons also showed their own methods, each showed their might, and attacked the god of heaven respectively.
This person Jiulong fought hundreds of moves without winning or losing, Huo Xiaofan had never seen such a magical move, and he was fascinated by it, and suddenly the gods and the nine dragons seemed to have reached a move to fight to the death, and they rushed towards Jiulong Peak, and the gods stood on top of Huo Xiaofan's head and slashed out an earth-shattering sword, and one sword turned into nine sword shadows, attacking Jiulong respectively.
The nine dragons each spat out nine bolts of lightning to meet the final killing move. I saw that the nine extremely strong rays of light collided together, and the people and dragons were gone, leaving only the discolored sky, the trembling earth, and the Nine Dragon Peaks that were high in the clouds began to collapse in an instant, and the stone cliff where Huo Xiaofan was was also broken and fell rapidly, Huo Xiaofan desperately tried to grasp something, but he couldn't catch anything and fell into the abyss.