355 times, Xuanguang refers to the moon and shoots, forgetting to move to Lingxian Mountain
355 times, Xuanguang refers to the moon and shoots, forgetting to move to Lingxian Mountain
However, the strange thing was that the little boy was not frightened, it felt not only like a touch on his face, but also like a kind of comfort in the depths of his heart, those cranky thoughts were gone, he stopped crying and forgot his fear, and looked up and opened his eyes.
There was no one in front of him, and his tears were still hanging on his face and had not been wiped away, but the valley in front of him was no longer gloomy and dark, and there was a bright moon rising on the tall mountain peaks in the distance, like snow falling like a ray of light, it was so quiet and peaceful that people were fascinated.
The moonlight was like a silent call, and the little boy involuntarily stood up and walked forward, suddenly frowning and realizing that something was wrong. Although he is naughty and playful, he is not confused, he can remember the day, today should be the beginning of the lunar calendar, and it is impossible to see the full moon.
Is there a light on the mountain, how can it shine so far? Is there a family on the mountain, who will live in that place, is it a legendary god? In any case, he has to go up, and since he can't find his way home, he has to find someone to ask for directions.
The little boy walked in the direction of the moonlight, but he did not notice a single detail, and there was no shadow of him in the moonlight. Not only him, but if you look closely on the ground, the Yao grass in the valley has no shadow in the moonlight, which is a strange brilliance that he has never seen before.
Passing through the Floating Valley, we came to the ladder of forgetfulness, which was a long straight and steep staircase that split into the mountain, each step was neatly drawn as if measured with a ruler, I don't know how many years it had been excavated, it still looked "new", not a trace of weeds or even moss growing.
This was obviously built by hand, and the boy's first reaction was that there was someone on the mountain! Well, there was probably a big temple on it, and there should be a monk in the temple, so you could ask the monk how he should go home? In the concept of a child at that time, the most common man-made structure on the mountain was a temple.
The full moonlight floated silently at the end of the long steps, illuminating the way up the mountain, and the child was now sure that it was not the moon, because there were no laurel-like shadows in the moon rings. I don't know what the force sustained him, or maybe he had forgotten his tiredness and climbed up the long steps, and kept climbing upwards.
There are a total of 9,999 steps of the ladder of forgetfulness, surrounded by auspicious clouds all year round, guarded by the cloud gate fog array, but at this moment the clouds open and the fog disperses under the moonlight, among which all kinds of obstacles, traces, rolls, surges and other magic circles, the little boy's sight is like nothing to walk up. He climbed the ladder of forgetfulness for a whole night, and when he climbed the Three Dreams Peak, it was already bright in the sky, and the full moon when he looked up again had disappeared, and the morning sun on the horizon was erupting.
On the top of Sanmeng Peak is an open plain, in the wilderness of strange flowers and plants, clear springs and strange stones, pavilions and pavilions are embellished, and auspicious clouds are surrounded, which is not like the scene of the world. Looking at it from a distance, wow, there is really a big temple, and the nine gates are faintly surrounded by colorful lights.
The little boy opened his mouth and froze in place, looking amazed or shocked, because the "temple" was not located on the flat ground, but stood in the sky in a condensed white cloud stack, the morning glow reflected the auspicious clouds, as if there were countless fine rainbows intertwined, so beautiful!
How was this temple built, who built it, and was it done by aliens?
At this moment, his stomach rattled, and he suddenly felt very hungry, and he had not eaten for a day and a night since yesterday morning, and had walked so far and climbed such a high mountain. When I thought of this, I felt deeply tired at the same time, my whole body was sore, and when I looked back at the bottom of the mountain, I was surprised that I could climb so high overnight, and I didn't feel tired at that time!
The little boy was not afraid for a long time, and in this kind of immortal scene, people would only feel refreshed, but he was indeed tired and hungry at the moment. Look at the big temple in the distance, it's quite far away, and I don't know how to go up, I can't see a single figure around, but I suddenly find that there are attractive fruits not far away.
On the edge of the top of the Three Dreams Peak, there are more than a dozen trees growing on the edge of the cliff, the main trunk has the thickness of a bowl mouth, the fork is not high and easy to climb up, the leaves are like a beating flame shape, the leaf surface is emerald green, but the leaf veins are like fiery red silk threads. The tree bears fruit, bright yellow with a faint pink vein, and the shape looks like an apricot, which should be ripe.
The child found a tree far away from the cliff, picked an apricot, took a shallow bite, stretched out his tongue and tasted the juice that flowed out, it tasted really good. He picked a handful and threw it down the tree, jumped under the tree and picked them up, looked for a spring nearby, washed it, and devoured it all.
The shell of this almond is very special, and the white powder is very beautiful, and the children wash it in the water one by one, and put it in their jacket pockets.
It is implied in the book that what grows on the Three Dreams Peak is not an ordinary apricot, but an immortal elixir that has been cultivated for thousands of years. The Shengyuan Pill made from it greatly replenishes the vitality, which can assist in restoring the divine energy consumed by spell casting, and is a good bait and medicine for practitioners to take when they sit and recuperate.
Its most important medicinal properties are not in the pulp, but in almonds, and Shengyuan Dan is also refined from almonds. Shengyuan apricot can not be eaten raw at will, as the saying goes, the body of ordinary people is indeed very weak compared to the cultivation masters, if you want to eat its flesh as a fruit, at least you must have the realm of five qi and above the yuan, and there is no defect in the furnace.
If ordinary people only eat one or two raw apricots, it may be that they are just hot and thirsty, and it doesn't matter if people with great health eat three or five, as long as they don't take almonds directly. But if the child is full of thirty or forty pieces, he may be so angry that his limbs will be paralyzed, his breathing and his heart will beat faster than his body can bear, and he will die of exhaustion.
But the strange thing is that this kid doesn't seem to have any special feelings, he just feels that his body is hot and warm, and the medicinal power of Shengyuan apricot pulp should be effective, but it does not stimulate his meridians and spiritual energy.
After eating, he burped and stretched, and walked towards the big temple in the distance, and suddenly frowned as he walked, and covered his stomach with his hand, and there was a sound in his stomach again. This time he wasn't hungry, he hadn't eaten for a day and a night, and he had eaten so many juicy fruits on an empty stomach, so it was strange that he didn't have a stomach upset.
His dark eyes were rolling around, and he looked around at no one, and there were a few luxuriant flowers not far away, and he got into the flowers for a while before they came out.
At the moment, he was a lot more relaxed, he no longer felt tired and hungry, and while walking, he enjoyed the beautiful scenery around him, the more he looked, the more he was amazed, the more he looked, the more pleasant he felt, the corners of his mouth and eyebrows were slightly raised, and he hummed a song out of tune. Humming and suddenly frowning again, the only thing that is not commensurate with this immortal beauty is himself, and he smells a sour smell of sweat.
The weather in midsummer is very hot, and if you walk in the sun for a while in a different place, you will be sweating profusely, but the Sanmeng Peak is very peculiar, and it seems to be the most comfortable temperature all the time, and you don't feel cold or hot. But the little boy climbed up from the bottom of the mountain, and yesterday he had been drilling in the dense mountain forest all day, and his body was already drenched with sweat, and now the sweat was dry.
He felt uncomfortable, especially walking in such a wonderful "paradise", he even felt dirty. I can have whatever I want, and when I turned a small hill ahead, I happened to see a pavilion that seemed to be carved out of jade.
In the pavilion is a pool, in the center of the pond there is a lotus flower, this lotus looks real, the stem of the flower grows from the center of the pool, the flower floats on the surface of the water gently ripples, but from the heart of the flower constantly gushing out of the spring.
The pool was about seven feet in circumference and three feet deep, and was surrounded by three steps, and the water was less than half of the third. The water in the pond is flowing, and the little boy can only see the water flowing out of the lotus core, but he does not know where the water is going? This pavilion has four pillars and eight corners, and there are balustrades on three sides, and it is not visible on the way to the hill and mountain recess.
When the little boy saw it for the first time, he immediately remembered three words - bathhouse.
"Well, it's much more beautiful than the Nine Dragon Pond opposite my house when I was a child! It's just a bit open-air, it doesn't matter, no one looks at it anyway. The little boy nodded happily and muttered to himself. Jiulongchi is the largest bathhouse in Wucheng, just opposite the largest state-owned Wucheng hostel in the area, where children lived for a long time before going to middle school.
When he looked up again, he saw a plaque on the pavilion, and the three characters on the plaque were ancient seals, and he could actually recognize them, and said to himself: "Huancao Spring? If I go down to take a bath, won't it become grass?...... It's always okay to do the laundry, right?"
The child looked around again, took off his shoes, put on his clothes and entered the pool, the pool water was slightly warm, not cool or hot, just suitable for bathing, and the tentacles were smooth and smooth with the fragrance of lotus leaves, which seemed to be able to wash the body particularly clean. The child took off his clothes in the pool, scrubbed them, wrung them out and hung them on the railing to dry.
When I was washing clothes, all the almonds in my pocket fell out, but they did not sink, and they floated and swirled on the flowing water. The child thought it was funny, soaked in the pool and fiddled with the floating almonds, and after playing for a long time, his body was cleaned, and the clothes hanging on the railing were dry, and then he scooped up the almonds and got dressed.
Looking at those almonds at this moment, the shell has changed subtly, and it is as clear as jade, the moon white is slightly pink, and the little boy didn't pay much attention to it, and put it back in his pocket.
After taking a shower, he felt that his body and mind were pure, and he suddenly yawned when he walked forward, and a wave of tiredness hit him, he was sleepy, after all, he didn't sleep all night last night.
The grass under the hillside was like a cozy and soft green carpet, and the little boy found a shade and sat down, wanting to rest for a while before walking, and sat and sat down involuntarily, and snored slightly in his sleep.
The little boy climbed the Three Dreams Peak and walked towards the Heavenly Palace of Forgetfulness, and actually fell asleep halfway, this sleep was very sweet, and when he woke up, it was late at night. Tonight is completely different from last night, and the scene you see when you wake up is no longer eerie, and can even be described as beautiful.
Above the "big temple" on the clouds in the distance, there is a "bright moon" quietly suspended, and the soft moonlight shrouds the top of the entire Sanmeng Peak, and the four fields are quiet and peaceful, full of mysterious atmosphere. This round of "bright moon" seems to know that the little boy is afraid of the dark, and appears silently at night.
The little boy rubbed his eyes and stood up, suddenly stunned for a moment, because he had discovered one thing—there was no shadow of himself in the moonlight.
Could it be that when you wake up, you become a ghost? The ghosts in the legend have no shadow. But he was only surprised but not afraid, and the moonlight was a kind of comfort, which invisibly made him forget his fear. Looking around again, he suddenly realized that there was nothing wrong with him, the mystery was in the moonlight.
He had fallen asleep in the shade of a tree, and the tree beside him had no shadow in the moonlight, as did the flowers and trees around him. This moonlight seems to be invisible and qualitative, and where it shines, it can contain everything.
The child couldn't hold back his curiosity, and ran towards the Heavenly Palace of Forgetfulness, the moonlight was not dazzling, but it clearly illuminated the road. Coming to the huge white cloud stack, the child stretched out his feet and tried it, and found that this strange auspicious cloud did not disperse and seemed to have substance, and it was indescribably gentle when stepped on, but it did not sink into his feet.
The child cheered and turned his head on it, and climbed down the clouds into the Heavenly Palace, when the first ray of the rising sun shot out from the sky, and the bright moon disappeared in the sky.
......
"Are you a ghost?" the little boy was startled, jumped under a wall covered with inscriptions, and shrank back, holding a transparent stick in his hand as a warning.
This "stick" is about three feet long and short bamboo-shaped, carefully look like a slender Ruyi, the two ends are a large and a small slightly arced shape, completely transparent and colorless, without a little impurities, it is one of the nine artifacts of the Nine Heavens Xuannu Palace.
This is the sixth day that he has ascended the Three Dreams Peak, these days except for the Ancestor Hall in the center of the Forgetful Palace, he has not found a way to enter, he has turned around the Jiumen Palace, and found that this is not a temple, there is no Bodhisattva on the altar, and he has not even seen a monk, not only no monk, not even a figure, just like an ancient ruin.
A person is in such a large palace, but he does not feel a trace of fear, he can't use the words to describe the palace of forgetfulness such as magnificent, elegant and exquisite, comfortable and tidy, and it is difficult to describe it. If you can barely describe it, you can only use the word "mysterious", and the child's feeling is close to "suitable for ambition".
Just one point, there are no lights and candles in the Palace of Forgetfulness, and there is no such thing as the legendary night pearl to illuminate, you can know the alternation of day and night outside the palace, but there is no dark feeling at all, as long as you can see the place, you can always see clearly.
Not only is the temperature lukewarm and the most comfortable state here, but even the "brightness" is not dark or dark, and it seems that there will be subtle changes with your eyesight. If you close your eyes and go to sleep, you don't feel the light at all, and when you open your eyes and want to see things, what the light looks like in the best of the light is what you see.
The first thing the child walked into the palace of forgetfulness was the Fengmen Palace, and when he saw the Chengfeng Festival on the altar, he took a fancy to it at a glance, climbed up to the altar and took it down, feeling that he couldn't put it down, and he kept it with him.
There are countless magic weapons, utensils, elixirs, and classics in the palace of forgetfulness, which are dazzling and dazzling, and they are all strange and interesting things in the eyes of children. There are a total of nine halls around the Palace of Forgetful Love, and there is an altar in each main hall, which is about nine feet above the ground and one zhang eight in length and width.
On the front of each altar, there is an inscription, an ancient text the size of a copper coin, without broken punctuation, densely carved on the front wall of the altar nine feet high and one foot eight feet wide. It is said that it is impossible for a child who has just finished the first year of junior high school to understand this, but he did, and after reading it, he "understood", and it took almost three days.
At that time, he was sitting cross-legged on an auspicious soft straw mat, and his posture was also upright and decent, and there were a lot of utensils scattered around him, which he had brought to climb the altar with a ladder to take advantage of the wind. Now, in order to see the inscription on the front of the altar, these things have been removed.
I only heard him shake his head and say to himself: "Merry **, I see!"
At this moment, there was a sudden strong feeling in my heart, and I clearly felt that there was someone behind me. He jumped up from his cushion as if he had been stepped on by his tail, turned around and leaned against the altar with the Wind Festival in his hand, and asked, "Are you a ghost?"
This was the only time he was frightened in the Palace of Forgetfulness, and it was also the first time he saw Tianyue.
......
At some point in front of me stood a "person", described as a sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl. It is hard to imagine that a person's complexion can also be described by the word "Jiaojie", her complexion is fair and pure without any flaws, but there is no paleness that has lost the color of blood. The black hair is draped casually over the shoulders, but it feels better than the most elaborate carving and grooming in the world.
Her face can't just be described as "beautiful", if you haven't seen her, it's hard to imagine such a face with your eyes closed, so bright that people forget to be stunning, and its beauty is unstained.
Her black eyes looked at the little boy, inexplicably déjà vu. When you see her, you may have the illusion that she is there to watch you all along, neither distant nor out of reach. She was wearing a moon-yellow dress, and she couldn't tell what the texture was, like a condensed moonlight, but it didn't shine.
Why was the little boy startled? Because he didn't hear the footsteps, he suddenly felt that someone was "coming," and appeared behind him out of thin air, and when he turned around, he saw her.
Child: "Are you a ghost?"
The girl replied: "I am Tianyue, this is the Palace of Forgetfulness, and the mountain you climbed is called Sanmeng Peak." Her voice was soft, crisp but not greasy, like the moonlight soothing the child in the night.
Hearing her voice, the little boy suddenly laughed, put down Chengfeng Festival and said, "I'm not afraid of you, even if you are a ghost, I'm not afraid." ”
It was he who was frightened, and it was he who said he was not afraid. The girl didn't speak, but the look in her eyes was naturally understandable, and she was asking—why?
"People are afraid of ghosts, not because they are terrible, but because they are afraid of the unknown. You're not scary at all, no matter who you are, I'm not afraid. The child puffed up his chest and raised his face, pretending to be an adult, and replied, looking very funny and cute.
The girl still didn't speak, but her eyes were clearly asking - who told you?