Chapter 23: The Temple
Just when Liu Xu strangled Xiong Zhen, thousands of miles away, among the vast mountains, a Taoist temple was built by the mountain, covering an area of several acres, including the Spirit Palace, the Jade Emperor Palace, the Sanqing Palace, and dozens of other houses.
The palace is magnificent, the scenery is elegant, the bronze wind chimes on the cornices, the looming swaying, if you are in the place where the crowd gathers, it is really a good place to play.
It is a pity that in this wilderness, only the occasional wild creatures passing by look twice, and then flee, as if there was a great terror inside.
In one of the houses, there was an old man with protruding eyebrow bones, a pair of bloodshot eyes, a hooked nose, a pointed head and a narrow forehead, who was roaring wildly: "Who is it? Who killed Xiong Zhen? I finally found a Ding Furnace, and you dare to spoil my good deeds, and you are angry with me! Don't let me catch you......
This person is Xiong Zhen's master Feng Ba, who has been cultivating for two hundred years, and seeing that Shouyuan is approaching, he found Xiong Zhen as a ding furnace, ready to refine the Seven Killing Yuan Gods and extend his life.
Feng Ba roared for a while, turned around and went to the Jade Emperor Palace, bowed his head and bent over, and shouted respectfully: "Senior brother." ”
As soon as the Daoist was meditating and cultivating, the man didn't look back, and asked directly, "What's the matter?"
"Senior brother, my apprentice was killed in the morning, and I, as a master, can't help but ask, and ask my senior brother to calculate, but it's also good but cause and effect. Feng Ba.
"Senior brother, how can you hide your calculations from me, but I need to remind you that I have fallen into this situation precisely because of that unangry apprentice, could it be that you also want to follow in my footsteps?"
The man turned around, and he was only half of his body, as if he had been slashed by a sword from the waist down.
Feng Ba's humble state became more and more serious, and his face was terrified, "I still forgot my senior brother!" But there was no other embrace in my heart, "Feng Jiu was beheaded by that yellow-faced boy, and he no longer had the same high-spirited appearance as before, like a turtle with a shrunken head hiding here, but he still has the cheekiness to occupy the position of the great elder, I will definitely cut off your crippled body in the future!"
Great Elder Feng Jiu sighed and pinched his fingers, "That's it, you can see it in the southeast Kurong Valley, you can do it yourself, go." ”
Liu Xu is preparing for a rainy day at the moment, studying the stealth technique taught by the idlers of Wuyue.
Thinking that he is about to enter the ground of Heshan Road, he can learn one more spell, and he also has a little more self-protection power, although this stealth technique is rare, but it is also a commonly used spell for cultivators, as long as he knows the mantra and has mana, as long as he practices it, he can get started thoroughly.
In his heart, he silently recited the mantra "There is no self in the law of man, there is no self in the law of the earth, there is no self in the law of heaven, there is no self in the law of all things, and the ashes are gone, and the void is completely dissolved, and the urgency is like a law!"
Bai Ruojin was boringly combing her hair, and suddenly saw that Liu Xu only had her upper body left, floating like a lonely ghost, and immediately exclaimed: "The stealth technique you cultivated will not make you a ghost or a ghost, and you will go directly to see the king of Hades, right?"
Boss Hu also came over to have fun, and scratched Liu Xu's lower body with his paws, which immediately broke the effect of stealth and showed his whole body, Bai Ruojin immediately laughed coquettishly, and rolled back and forth with his tail.
Liu Xu sneered: "Isn't this just the beginning of the practice, you two are playing together, don't make a mess for me here." ”
After practicing it several times, I was able to complete the cultivation of this stealth technique, from top to bottom, from head to toe, all hidden, no longer like before, looking at the head and not caring about the front.
Just now he was laughed at by the two of them, so if he was scared, he used his stealth technique to touch him.
When they got closer, the two of them seemed to be unaware, Liu Xu roared, and it appeared, the frightened Bai Ruojin jumped and jumped, and Boss Hu fled in embarrassment.
After laughing for a while, Liu Xu took out bear bile to check, in addition to a pile of black star sand, there was also a large piece of mysterious stone, maybe Xiong Zhen hadn't had time to sacrifice.
When I played with it in my hand, I only felt that a cool breath only penetrated my brain, and there was a faint sharp breath. At this time, the sword technique seeds of the Huagai Cave trembled slightly, revealing the meaning of longing.
Liu Xu blessed his soul, and immediately used the method of raising the sword, only to feel that the palm was even more cold, and a transparent cloud floated in the mysterious stone, containing a sharp and unstoppable killing intent.
As soon as he opened his mouth and inhaled, he immediately burrowed into the canopy hole in his lungs, and the seed seemed to have been hungry for a long time.
"It seems that this wisp of cloud qi is the rumored Gengjin qi, I don't know what the origin of this mysterious stone is, it actually contains the essence of Gengjin, which is just right for me to refine the sword fetus. "Five hours after using the method of raising the sword, this mysterious stone completely turned into a puddle of powder.
The sword trick seed does not refuse, and there are as many as it takes, but it has never changed.
Liu Xu didn't stop doing it, refining most of the star sand, but it was still a little worse, and he begged Bai Ruojin with a salivating face, and collected her into pieces and begged for it.
As the last wisp of Gengjin Qi entered the body, the seeds began to swell in an instant, and a tiny bud broke out of the cocoon, and the clouds rolled up, and finally formed a branch and leaf, standing opposite to the original one, which was covered with tiny talismans.
Before they could take a closer look, the two branches and leaves rolled back upside down, wrapped the seeds in one place, changed several times, and finally turned into a white pill the size of a dragon's eye, rolling back and forth in the Huagai Cave.
This white pill is the foundation of the Taibai Sword Sect in the past, it is called the sword pill, the sword pill, the shape is the pill, which means the sword, the sharp can sharpen the iron like mud, and the soft can be around the ring, which is the foundation of every sword cultivator, and the sharpness is unparalleled.
However, with the dispersion of the Taibai Sword Sect, this method was almost lost, and Yao and Yang of the Canglang Sword Sect could only carry flying swords on their backs.
Ordinary monks, only after passing the level of sensing heaven and earth, after the soul is out of the body, can the flying sword be used against the enemy, and after the Jindan Dacheng, the flying sword can be put into the dantian for recuperation.
However, the Qinglian Sword Song of the Taibai Sword Sect does not have such restrictions, as long as the sword pill is condensed, it can volley the enemy, and refine it with his heart in the body.
Liu Xu condensed the sword pill, his heart moved at will, and immediately appeared in his palm, only to see that this pill was crystal clear, dazzling, and it was full of small talismans, and the air of Gengjin was circulating, and it was even more mysterious.
Visualizing the Qinglian Sword Technique, twelve kinds of talismans were manifested in the dantian, and then into the sword pill, a loud sword chant came out, and the mind had a connection with it.
True Qi poured into the seed talisman, the sword pill flew in the air, and in an instant, a terrifying sword intent rushed out, and the heaven and earth were filled with a desolate and murderous aura.
With the unfolding of the sword style, the sword rain is colorful, as if the Nine Heavens Milky Way is pouring down, and between the flashes of sword light, countless substantial sword qi emerges, and the cold light flashes, like silver frost, which can be described as a sword qi that spans 100,000 miles, and a sword light is cold in 19 states.
Bai Ruojin and Boss Hu were playing by themselves, but they were frightened by the sword intent, and they trembled on the side.
Liu Xu took pity on his performance, and with a long roar, he closed the sword style, and the sword pill turned into a wisp of smoke and fell on the canopy point in his lungs.
This sword pill is just formed, and there is only one layer of prohibition in it, and it will be practiced from time to time in the future, and when the one hundred and eight layers are perfected, it can become an innate sword weapon and achieve a generation of sword immortals.
Now that I have been out for more than ten days, the return date is approaching, but I already have clues, and I am not in a hurry, and I have obtained two new talisman techniques.
Liu Xu plans to delay overnight, recuperate, and set off tomorrow.
In the early morning of the second day, I sorted out some items, stepped on the white tiger, and headed to Kurong Valley.
According to the guidance of the idlers of Wuyue, Liu Xu climbed a low mountain, and as far as the eye could see, the fog was faint and foggy, and he saw a large green mountain field, dotted with a gray valley, which was very conspicuous.
From a distance, the valley seems to be small, and when it comes closer, it is not to realize that the mistake is outrageous, this place is boundless, and there is no edge in sight.
The green pines and cypresses at the mouth of the valley, the cicadas chirp and the frogs chirp, the clouds and mist are like a fairyland, and when they arrive in the valley, they have another color.
The big tree hugged by several people, the branches and leaves withered, as if it was burned by the sky, it was pitch black, the half-human tall artemisia grass, dry and swaying with the wind, and occasionally a few crows chirped "quack... Quack...", but also fill in the meaning of desolation and depression, the grass and trees are sparse, and the scene of the end of the world is sparse.
Liu Xu stood at the mouth of the valley, feeling melancholy, "Master once said that the Blood Hell Ghost Lotus draws vitality and is only a few miles away, why is this place so vast, could it be that there is another reason?"
As you go deeper into the valley, the scenery becomes more and more terrifying, and the ground is covered with all kinds of animal bones, some are huge like mountains, some are as small as rats, and there are white flowers.
Stepping on it, there was a rattling sound, as if these inexplicably dead creatures, the wails before death echoed in their ears.
Bai Ruojin got into the deerskin bag and couldn't hide, and Boss Hu slowly retreated, the hair around his body stood upside down, and he felt a huge danger, so he clamped his tail and escaped.
Along the way, Boss Hu is lazy and lazy, greedy for life and afraid of death, there is really no merit, but for the sake of his fellow villagers, Liu Xu can only shake his head and smile bitterly, and let him go.
In the evening, there was still nothing to be found, but a temple stood alone.
After some investigation, it was found that only one Daxiong Treasure Hall was still perfect, and the rest of the meditation rooms were dilapidated, and they could see the stars in the sky.
There are several statues in the treasure hall, due to disrepair, scattered space, only two bodies are still complete, one of them is like a yellow sac, red like a red fire, six legs and four wings, Hun Dun has no face.
There is another person with a tiger face, covered with golden scales, with wings, a snake in his left ear, and two dragons on his feet, and the rest are either severed or collapsed, almost unrecognizable.
Liu Xu has also read some Buddhist texts such as the "Diamond Sutra", and knows a little about the essence of Buddhism.
In general, the temple enshrines nothing more than the Buddha, the Jizo King Bodhisattva, and the Four Heavenly Kings...... , but the temple in front of me is full of weirdness, a few statues, unheard of, unseen, I don't know what the reason is.
He also had no intention of probing, lit a bonfire, and took out dry food to nibble on.
From this valley, watching the performance of the rat and the tiger, Liu Xu also felt that there was a great crisis here, and in the face of the fear of the unknown, only the warm light of the fire could make people feel a little comforted.
At this moment, there was a sound of footsteps outside the hall, and I saw a great monk about forty years old, with kind eyebrows and kind eyes, stepping inside.