Chapter 114: Crossing the River
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This section of the Santu River crossing is the narrowest part of the whole river, hundreds of miles wide, as small as the sea, even if there is no white mist, even if you come to the middle of the river, it is difficult to see the opposite bank.
There are masters who take Dapeng up the river, and they will return for a hundred years.
It is said that the upper reaches of the river are an endless ocean, even if they have been flying by Dapeng for more than ten years, they only see a wave of water, no islands, and no land, only countless powerful sea beasts, even if they suppress their own realm and can break the void at any time, they dare not continue to go deeper.
The man stepped down again, alarming countless water mansions along the way, shocking the dragons at the bottom of the river.
In the lower reaches of the river, there is also an endless ocean, but this vast ocean is dotted with countless islands, both large and small, and there are also cultivators.
This master is the first generation of Bashan Huifeng Dancing Willow Temple, the first generation of Gu Taoist Gu Qingyang.
This incident is recorded in an ancient scroll called "Qingyang Travel", which is a rune book that can last for thousands of years without decay.
The young Xiao Gu had flipped through this ancient scroll in the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion in the Guanzhong, mostly some of Gu Qingyang's state of mind and insights on the way to practice, as well as his experience in this world for hundreds of years, what he had seen and heard in these hundreds of years was in the book, and he had to read it with his divine mind to see it.
Qingyang's travelogue did not involve anything like cultivation classics and law decisions, so he lay quietly in the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion, and no one had read it for many years.
The young Xiao Gu also read this ancient scroll by chance, and was attracted by the feng shui and some small stories recorded in the travelogue.
It only took him more than a year to read the entire travelogue intermittently.
After that, in a trance, the young Xiao Gu also came to the peak of the first layer of Lingxiao True Decision, a year ago, he was able to practice to the seventeenth level, in just one year, he practiced the ten heavens, broke through to the twenty-seventh level of Lingxiao True Decision, and pushed open half of the door.
As long as he pushed this door open and stepped into the twenty-eighth layer, he would be able to enter the second layer of the Lingxiao True Decision, and at that time, it was completely different from now.
The first layer of Lingxiao True Decision is only to build a foundation, and can only be regarded as a Taoist child, and only when he steps into the second layer can he hope to turn the rune book in the sea of knowledge into a rune and become a real Taoist.
At that time, the young Xiao Gu Fang could be called a little Gu Taoist.
Bashan Huifeng Dancing Willow Temple is not a huge Taoist temple, the entire Taoist temple plus miscellaneous servants is hundreds of people, there are more than 30 true disciples of the upper and lower generations, Gu Xiaozhao's generation has only eighteen disciples, Gu Xiaozhao is the youngest junior disciple.
Although the number of people in the Huifeng Dance Willow Temple is small, the strength is very strong.
In the entire Nanchuan Mansion, there are many cultivation sects, and there are also large sects with tens of thousands of people, however, the real one who holds the bull's ear can only be the Huifeng Dancing Willow Temple.
In ancient times, the first generation of patrons of Qingyang Dao shattered the void and flew to the upper realm.
After that, every thousand years, one person will fly away, and so on, it has a history of tens of thousands of years.
Let's not talk about history, let's talk about the present.
Today's contemplation of the Taoist cultivator's cultivation of Lingxiao is already seventy-nine heavens, and it only took a hundred years of effort, but it is a genius that comes out once in a thousand years.
There are also three or four elders in retreat, and it is said that there are real people in the out-of-body period, who are the strongest combat power of the sect, like the existence of nuclear weapons.
Therefore, although the number of people is not large, Huifeng Wuliuguan is the boss of Nanchuan Mansion, and if there is a decree passed down, it will be transmitted to Bashan, and then from Huifeng Wuliuguan to the entire cultivation world of Nanchuan Mansion.
In this world, there are all kinds of cultivation sects, some of which are located in the mountains like the Returning Wind Dancing Willow Temple, however, most of them are located in the city.
Children in the secular world, over the age of seven, must go to the local spiritual sect to test the spiritual root, and if they have a spiritual root, they must start cultivating.
After all, this world is rampant with demons and monsters, and if ordinary humans want to survive, they must be under the protection of these cultivation sects. And cultivators don't jump out of stones, they are also ordinary people in the beginning. Therefore, the relationship between the two is mutually reinforcing.
In this world, although cultivators are respected by ordinary people and called immortals, they are not high.
This is because human beings have a strong enemy and must work closely together.
Unlike the Tianyun Realm, humans occupy the peak of the entire food chain, and there are no strong enemies watching, and the so-called fierce beasts are just human prey, and they can only survive in the deep mountains and rivers. Although there are enemies in the cultivation world, those guys who are called extraterritorial heavenly demons are just human beings, and they can only come through the rift in time and space, and they can't make much of a storm.
The enemy of humanity is only human beings, which is why the division of classes is so clear.
The class has been solidified, and occasionally some geniuses and brilliant guys will appear, but they can only change the fate of themselves and some people, but they can't pry the foundation of the world's existence.
In the Tianyun Realm, the Heavenly Temple is the highest existence, and it is said that it is the residence of the Heavenly People, and only through the Heavenly Temple can one ascend to the upper realm.
The ruling class was a dynasty based on the clan of the Gate Lords and supplemented by the martial arts cultivation sect, whether it was the small Three Kingdoms in the Southwest or the huge Great Jin Dynasty north of the Hengduan Mountains.
This world is not.
In the world that Gu Qingyang called the Cangwu Realm in Qingyang's travels, there is no dynasty, and the so-called government is just some cultivation sects.
People live in the city, and there are some villages within a radius of 100 miles outside the city, and the fields where crops are planted are mostly near the city, and more than 100 miles are deserted. Each city has a number of cultivation sects, with a certain sect as the leader forming an alliance to be responsible for the affairs of the entire city.
Dozens of cities formed a prefecture, each headed by a sect.
For example, Nanchuan Mansion is dominated by Bashan Huifeng Dance Willow Temple, and Qingcheng Dao Palace, where Yan Dan Yan Chixia is located, is the boss of Beichuan Mansion.
These two live next to each other, take care of each other, and communicate with each other, which is the intermediate force against the demon clan on the other side of the Santu River based on the reckless forest sea.
In the Cangwu realm, the Dao Sect is respected, and most of the cultivation sects belong to the Zhengyi Sect.
The foundation of the Daomen is Longhu Mountain.
Of course, there are also some other cultivation systems, such as the Garan Temple that has disappeared inexplicably, they believe in Buddha and yearn for the Western Heavenly Elysium.
In Qingyang's Travels, in the lower reaches of the Santu River, the cultivators who lived in those overseas immortal mountains were not from the Daomen, but a different cultivation system.
In short, it's a hodgepodge of worlds.
Here, humans and demons are at loggerheads.
Gu Xiaozhao could see that all the creatures in this world were just a pawn in the upper realm, fighting for the interests of their respective upper realms.
This is the so-called plane war.
Dimensional wars have always been protracted, and it is common for them to last for tens of thousands of years.
In the end, either the winner or the loser will be divided, the loser will withdraw, and the winner will take possession, seizing the heart of the plane, changing the world's Heavenly Dao laws, and becoming only suitable for their own cultivation system. Either way, they will lose both, shattering the world, damaging the heart of the plane, and turning it into a barren place that is not suitable for any living thing.
To be honest, Gu Xiaozhao prefers the Cangwu Realm.
Although, this world is more dangerous than the Tianyun Realm on the surface.
Here, however, there may be more serendipity.
Taking a deep breath, Gu Xiaozhao walked out of the cabin, and suddenly his eyes suddenly opened up, in the distance, a black line was faintly visible, and the cheers of the sailors came from the bow of the ship not far away.
"It's landed!"
It's really fast, hundreds of miles of river, and it can be crossed in one day.
Gu Xiaozhao walked to the side of the boat, pressed the edge of the boat with both hands, poked his head out of the side of the boat, and looked forward.
Dozens of feet in front of the big ship, there was a black shadow the size of an island floating in front of it, it was the head of a giant tortoise, and the whole body of the giant tortoise sank under the water, the size of a football field.
The power of the big ship comes from the giant tortoise.
It is said that the giant tortoise was convicted of an accident and was demoted here by the dragon of the Santu River to pull a ferry, and had to work for a hundred years before it could be liberated.
I don't know how many years the giant turtle has lived for, and its cultivation is profound, worthy of the human Yuanying monk, and in actual combat, it is not inferior to the Jiedan monk in the world.
After being demoted to a boatman, the giant tortoise seemed to have been hit hard and had no temper. Even so, ordinary people still don't dare to provoke easily, after all, that body is too huge!
The speed of the ship is related to the giant tortoise, but it is not only related to it.
The ferry boat that Gu Xiaozhao was on was not an ordinary ship, the ship was full of runes, flashing with golden light, it was a huge rune array.
The Fu array plays the role of lightweight, this ship is so huge, about a hundred zhang long, more than thirty zhang wide, more than ten floors high, can carry thousands of passengers. In general, this ship, which is about the size of an aircraft carrier on Earth, should be very heavy.
However, in the role of the talisman array, it only takes more than a dozen strong men to use the cable to drag the ship, which is similar to the weight of some yachts.
The combination of the two is what makes the ship so fast.
The distance of hundreds of miles is half a day.
Departing from the ferry port early in the morning, the sun was over mid-sky, and the ferry was about to reach the opposite shore.
Seeing that the black line on the opposite side was getting thicker and bigger, and when he could see some buildings on the shore clearly, the giant turtle pulling the boat shook its body, and at this time, the sailors on the boat hurriedly untied the cable tied to the bow of the ship and threw the cable into the river.
The giant tortoise raised its head and glanced at the bow of the ship with an indifferent look in its eyes, and then it sank its head into the water.
On the surface of the water, a very large whirlpool appeared, and after a while, it dissipated.
After a while, another talisman drawn at the bottom of the cabin was activated, and the ferry relied on this momentum to speed towards the shore, not as fast as before, but not slow.
"Finally back on the North Shore......"
Minghui beside Gu Xiaozhao let out a light sigh, although he did not escape from the barren forest like Gu Xiaozhao, he also experienced a bloody battle with Gu Daoren, during which he also saw his fellow Daoists being besieged to death by the demon clan, and it was inevitable to sigh a little when he was able to return to the world alive.
Second Senior Brother Tie Guan stood five feet behind Gu Daoren, his expression was serious as usual.
The place at the bow of the boat, the place where the Huifeng Dancing Willow Temple is located, is three zhang away, there are no idle people, Gu Daoren stands at the front, and he is quite tall and slightly hunchbacked.
He looked across the bank as if he was in a trance.