Chapter 3: Spirituality
Cangling Mountain, a well-known mountain on the Apocalypse Continent, is also located near an unknown township called Shili Township. But this does not affect its fame, every year there will be a large number of people who seek immortals and ask for Taoism into the mountains, especially in the summer, so lively. This all stems from a legend of Cangling Mountain, a somewhat ancient and mysterious legend.
It is rumored that Cangling Mountain was a mountain dug by the old royal family when they opened up their territory, and it was originally a large river, which, although extremely beautiful, hindered the expansion of the old imperial family. The king of the old royal family did not want to build roads and bridges again, so he simply requisitioned millions of people to carry stones to fill the river and fill it into a tree-lined mountain, which was reserved for the royal garden. But he didn't expect this move to anger the Heavenly Emperor of the Immortal Realm, and the Heavenly Emperor was furious, and in one fell swoop ordered all the people who built the "Imperial Mountain" to be slaughtered, and cast a spell to turn all their corpses into trees and turn them into a huge forest. Later, because all the requisitioned people disappeared, the old royal family also covered up the fact that they were slaughtered, causing all the people to think that the people of the old royal family killed these people, which aroused public anger. In the end, the people collectively launched an uprising and broke through the palace gate of the old royal family in one fell swoop, and the old royal family perished. And that forest, under tens of thousands of years of changes and evolution, has become the current Cangling Mountain.
Because it is a mountain made by the fairy world, and it is rumored that there are immortals here, it has become a "fairyland on earth" in the people of the rivers and lakes for thousands of years. It seems that the ordinary Cangling Mountain, in fact, there is a hidden mystery in it, and the four major sects stand in it, because they are not very rare in and out of the world, so few people know that there is a real immortal sect in this mountain.
Liang Chen followed Yanling on this mountain for a long time, his legs were already sore and painful, although the air in this mountain was fresh, they did not walk fast. Yanling found a big tree that could block the sunlight and sat down, and motioned for Liang Chen to come over and sit and rest. Liang Chen saw that the big white tiger was lying on Yanling's right, hesitated for a moment, but still took a step and sat on Yanling's left.
"It looks like you're still quite afraid of our little white tiger!" Yan Ling smiled softly.
"Everyone has the heart of being afraid of tigers. Did you raise this white tiger?" Liang Chen said with a wave of his hand.
"That's nature, this tiger is what I raised since I was a child, and it has lived with me for more than three years. This white tiger is not an ordinary wild tiger, it is a spiritual white-spotted spirit tiger, which can only live in the deep mountains, and will not come out of the mountains under normal circumstances. Yan Ling touched the back of the white tiger, and the snow-white fur became smooth and elastic under the plucking of her jade hand. Baihu felt very comfortable and leaned against Yanling's skirt very happily.
"It turns out that this is a spirit tiger. No wonder I saw that its eyes were so spiritual......" Liang Chen muttered in a low voice.
As soon as the cool spring breeze came, Liang Chen took a breath of fresh air hard, stretched his waist very comfortably, and then closed his eyes and enjoyed the freshness of the spring breeze.
"Anyway, those people are quite afraid of you today! I think the leading official is about to pee!" Liang Chen said.
"Eh! Actually, I'm not as terrible as they think! It's just a psychological effect! You see, they call me a little fairy on the surface, but in fact, they all call me a little demon girl behind their backs, and they all think that I am using witchcraft. Yanling said lightly.
"Little demon girl, you are so cute, how can you let those people despise you? In my opinion, the title of little fairy is more suitable for you! You know the Tao, you look so cute, and your skills are so agile, how can you compare with those thousand-year-old demons who are old and coarse like ghosts?" Liang Chen said indignantly.
"Lovely? That's a good word! They didn't despise me, but because there had been a witch before. Do you know? In fact, this Cangling Mountain is divided into two peaks, the mountain we walked on is called the Immortal Dao Valley, and the inner part is full of cultivators, and the west end of the mountain, which is also covered with green trees, is called the Blood Demon Cave. In the deep mountains at that end, there are all some demon beasts or monsters that cultivate the Demon Dao, although they have nothing to do with us, but when they often go out of the mountains to harm people and suck people's essence and blood, they are all in the name of us cultivators!" Yan Ling said with some anger.
"I see. Then why don't you go over and annihilate them in one sentence? With the Dao methods of you cultivators, it is enough to beat them to the point that there is no scum left. In this way, how can they still go out of the mountain to harm people?" Liang Chen thought that these immortals should all have boundless Dao laws, and according to common sense, immortal people should resist, instead of sitting in the mountains and waiting for them to damage their reputation.
"It's not that I won't make a move, it's just that the time has not come. We've had a few fights with them in the past, but each time we've lost both sides, and in order to survive, we've kept our distance from them, and we're all right with each other. The immortal sect I belong to is the Cangling Sect, and there are nearly 100 cultivators under it, and the head and deputy head have been cultivating hard, in order to annihilate the demon sect in one fell swoop in the next immortal and demon war, so as to eliminate future troubles. Yanling looked at the peaks in front of her and said lightly.
"I see. What is the Great War of Immortals and Demons?" Liang Chen sighed. Yan Ling's words made Liang Chen, who had never touched the fairy road, feel very wonderful, although he had heard some stories of the fairy road, but most of them were tasteless legends or jokes, but today I heard Yan Ling say this, only to know that there is such a complicated relationship between the fairy sect and the demon sect.
"Immortal and Demon War...... You'll find out later...... In a few hours, I will be at the top of the Cangling Gate, and I will make up a lie with the master, and take this opportunity to take you under the door...... After that, you'll have to rely on yourself......" Yanling said lightly.
"Why are you helping me?" Liang Chen looked at Yanling's eyes full of complex emotions and asked softly.
"The sect will select some talented and spiritually remarkable teenagers from the human world of the Apocalypse Continent all year round to be accepted as disciples and introduced as disciples...... Immortals come from mortals, and without mortals, there can be no such thing as immortal dao...... As for you, I think you are quite spiritual, so I want to accept you......" Yanling's affectionate eyes picked upward, and said indifferently.
"Spiritual ......" Liang Chen was speechless for a moment, he was just a wandering little flower child, how could there be Yanling who said "quite spiritual"? Not to mention that others say that they are stupid all day long, and they can only beg for food and the like, even they feel useless. Liang Chen didn't know if this was the good luck given to him by God, or a coincidence by chance, anyway, this time he unintentionally inserted willows and willows, and finally succeeded in inserting them!
"That's right. Anyone has a fairy root, it's just a big and small difference. I've already figured out the immortal roots in you. This will not be because you are begging, nor because you are a royal noble, anyone can have spirituality, even if you are the son of the gods, but if you don't have immortal roots, you can't become an immortal in your life. Yanling said solemnly.
"Makes sense......" Liang Chen agreed with Yanling's words very much, if everyone's immortal roots are the same, then wouldn't everyone be immortal?
Yanling sat up from the side of the tree, it seemed that she was almost resting, stroked the white hair of the spirit tiger twice, and walked forward with brisk steps. Liang Chen also followed, he saw a thick white mist not far from the forest, and he couldn't see it clearly from a distance, so he was a little suspicious in his heart, and asked Yanling: "Why is there a white mist over there?"
"That's not the white mist, it's the confusion set up by the disciples of the Immortal Sect, in order to prevent people from outside from entering the Immortal Sect to make trouble. If ordinary people step into this confusion, they will be dizzy, unable to distinguish the direction, and will soon get lost, and the only way to go back is to go. If you follow me, you'll be fine. As she spoke, Yanling took out a black bead from the sleeve of her skirt, made a small mark on the front of the bead, and threw it straight into the confusion in front of her.
The bead was thrown so hard that the contents of it spilled all over the ground, but I saw a cloud of blue mist floating on the ground in front of me, and the mist rushed straight towards the white confusion. The two blended together, and the white confusion spread around like a frightened bird, but soon they were surrounded by a blue mist.
Immediately after, a fist-sized vortex appeared in the middle of the blue mist, and the vortex rotated rapidly under the control of Yan Lingyu's hand, and a mist in the shape of a human hand appeared from it. The mist of the human hand pushed the encircled confusion backwards, and then sucked them into the "palm" as if something was devouring the confusion. The confusion could not escape, it could only melt into the blue mist little by little, and finally turn into a piece of white smoke until it turned into nothing and was completely swallowed.
Yan Ling gently closed her eyes, controlling the blue mist with her own divine sense, and sucking them back into the beads on the ground little by little. Those blue mist looked very aura, and they drifted into the black bead very cooperatively. After a while, the black bead closed the gap of the jet again, and under Yanling's control, it returned to her hand.
Liang Chen was also stunned, he didn't expect that a small bead could play such a big role, the so-called Taoism, it turned out to be so magical. He had never seen a blue mist be controlled so easily, let alone the ability to devour. Therefore, this time Yan Ling's demonstration made Liang Chen suddenly have a strong interest in this cultivation, and at the same time, his determination to become an immortal was also strengthened.
The confusion in front of him had completely disappeared, as if a fierce battle had just taken place here, and the confusion had prevailed and was completely defeated by the hands of Blue Mist. The battle between qi and qi also happens from time to time. As the saying goes, everything is spiritual. Not only between living beings, but also the stones on the ground may have fierce confrontations with the surrounding stones after they have been spiritualized.
"How did you do it?Did you eat that white qi?" Liang Chen asked a ridiculous question, but in the eyes of ordinary people, this white qi was indeed digested by the "big hand" formed by the blue mist.
"Things are connected to each other, those confusions belong to the same attribute as the blue mist emitted by the beads in my hand, as long as the energy is large enough, you can completely devour the other party and include it in the bag. The trick just now is called Devouring, and it is the most common immortal technique in cultivation. As long as you can learn this immortal art, you will be able to take the advantage in battle, devour all the energy of the enemy, and absorb them into your own body, thereby consuming the opponent's energy, increasing your own strength, and achieving success. However, this immortal technique must first consume a large amount of its own aura, and if you don't prepare in advance, it is easy to be attacked by the enemy. That move of mine just now has already consumed some of my aura, but not a lot, so it's okay. After a lengthy explanation, Yanling put the beads back into her cuffs, and walked forward briskly.
Liang Chen felt that this was like listening to a book from heaven, he had never heard of such a thing as devouring, and he had no experience in combat. Cultivation may be a long and difficult period, Liang Chen, who has never been involved in immortal arts, does not know how to face the next entry, let alone where to turn his life trajectory this time to the immortal dao. In short, in addition to curiosity and a little joy in his heart, there was more strangeness and confusion.
"Actually, you don't have to be so nervous," Yan Ling's eyes carried a hint of gentleness, "I just made a guess about your spiritual results, as for whether you can get started, you still have to pass the entrance assessment...... Even if you can't pass the assessment, I can ask the deputy head to arrange a position for you as a handyman, and I will teach you some immortal arts in private. ”
Only then did Liang Chen notice that Yanling's eyes had been watching him, her purple skirt swaying slightly in the breeze, lining her graceful body, looking very much like a budding violet. It's just that her face is covered with a veil of the same purple color, covering her mysterious and desirable face, which makes this violet look a little shy.
Seeing that Liang Chen was also looking at her with the same eyes, Yanling felt her heartbeat for a while, I don't know if this is a normal psychological reaction, or the special feeling that his eyes bring to him, anyway, Yanling can't suppress the shyness in her heart, and she doesn't dare to set her eyes on him again.
"Why are you looking at people like this?" said Yan Ling a little shyly. She tilted her head to the side, but her eyes still glanced at Liang Chen from time to time.
Liang Chen also felt a little embarrassed, how could he keep an eye on other people's little girls from a big man's family? His eyes also shifted slightly, and he said softly: "Eh...... Aren't I looking at the scenery...... Didn't look at you......"
Yan Ling's heart didn't beat so hard anymore, she put on a serious expression, and said sharply: "Don't look at me anymore! If you let the disciples see it, you will gossip again." Let's go! Let's go to the Immortal Sect and report to the master. ”
Liang Chen's heart also calmed down slightly, it seemed that this Yanling didn't explain too much to his eyes, after all, she was also staring at herself just now. He paused slightly, and then followed Yanling's brisk steps towards the woods in front of him.
After the white confusion dissipated, the still life in front of him gradually showed its original form, and Liang Chen finally saw the specific location of the immortal sect clearly. After walking for about five minutes, Liang Chen vaguely saw several tall buildings in front of him, wiped his eyes again, and took a few steps forward to take a look...... It really deserves to be the legendary immortal sect......
Yanling's heart beat faster and faster as her pace accelerated, and she somehow couldn't control her heartbeat. Just now, I stared at others first, and then others looked at me, and I blamed others, isn't it a little bad...... But why do you always feel that this Liang Chen is so pleasing to the eye and so in love......