168 times, the thousand-year-old road of the world, the beautiful rivers and mountains are thousands of miles away

Out of Haozhou to the northwest, without passing the Zhongnan Mountain, along the foot of the mountain range through the Shannan Road, through the An, Liang, Qin Zhufu into the Loess Plateau. The topography here is very different from that of the Jiangnan area, with flat slopes and mountains intertwined, and huge ravines distributed vertically and horizontally. Most of the houses where the local people live are made of mud and make walls of the base, which is the oldest method of plate construction, and some people dig caves on the steep soil slope to live.

Before the chariots and horses crossed the Yellow River, they turned southwest and entered the territory of Tuyuhun Territory, the terrain gradually became higher, and there were endless mountains along the way. Everywhere they passed, they could see steep red sandstone mountain walls, with large and small holes in them, and the occasional drifting clouds seemed to be so low that they often obscured the summit, and sometimes horse-drawn carriages even passed through the clouds.

Princess Yuzhen, Gu'er, Sui'er and others had never been to this kind of place, and pointed to the hole in the mountain wall and asked Mei Zhenyi what was in it? Mei Zhenyi smiled and said that it was the eagle's nest, Yuzhen didn't believe it, but in a blink of an eye, she saw a goshawk flying from afar, landing on the cliff and burrowing into the hole and disappearing. Even Mei Zhenyi herself was taken aback, and Mei Yi smiled and said that it was Hai Dongqing.

Mei Zhenyi also traveled thousands of miles with Zuo Youxian, and after leaving Peng Ze, he was taken to the northern desert grassland by Zuo Youxian Feitian. Many of the things he encountered along the way were something he had never seen before in his life.

From the Loess Plateau to the south-west, take the route of Princess Wencheng into Tibet, pass through the Sun Moon Pass, the front suddenly opens up, it is an endless prairie, and there are only rolling and steep mountains on the horizon. Mei Zhenyi knew that he had entered the scope of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau at this time, but he didn't expect that after Riyue Mountain, it would be such a thousand miles of plain scene.

On the left side of the road they walked was the mountains, with intermittent peaks like ingots, chairs, tigers and leopards, reclining Buddhas, and pen holders, all strange but majestic, and on the right was the prairie, with endless pastures about two feet long. Like a huge carpet, spread out very neatly. The time has entered the early summer, the grassland is dotted with all kinds of flowers, red, blue, pink, purple, yellow, the flowers are not big, some of them are close to the ground and can only be seen in the near distance, and some of them have more than one person looking at a cluster of beautiful colors, just like the embroidery decorated on the grass carpet.

There are few human tracks on the plateau, and the herdsmen's tents can only be seen far away. Cattle and sheep are scattered around. Occasionally, they could see wild birds and animals, and at the foot of a mountain they even saw a few pure white yaks, with long white fur like clouds and snow, long curved and beautiful horns, long eyelids and pink eyes, standing on the side of the road to watch the carriages and horses pass by.

"It's so beautiful!" Zhiyan, Lilan, Yuzhen, and Xingyun Shitai and other women all clapped their hands and exclaimed when they saw the white yak, people were looking at the yak, and the yak also stared at this group of people with curious eyes.

Needless to say, the scenery is far and open. At this point, I seem to feel that my mind is open and comfortable. But the feeling is not entirely wonderful, others are nothing, the pair of maidservants Lu Hong and Lu Cui who were taken away in the Shuangfeng Collection, felt unwell before they arrived at the Sun Moon Pass, chest tightness and shortness of breath and headache.

This symptom is now typical of altitude sickness. The speed of the plateau on the carriage horse is not fast, but it is not slow, and it is normal for people with average physique to have this kind of reaction, not to mention these two maidservants, even the four horses pulling the cart are exhaling white breath much slower than in the past.

Among the group were two famous doctors in the world. Mei Zhenyi casually picked medicine in the mountains and fields passing by, and after passing the Sun Moon Mountain, he found a few flowers and plants in the grassland, and refined dozens of red pills, so that these two people could take one pill a day, and their bodies would be naturally fine.

Yu Zhen saw that the two maidservants became lively again after taking the medicine, so she asked Mei Zhenyi: "What kind of elixir are you refining, I also feel a little weak in the past few days, let me take a few, okay?"

Mei Zhenyi smiled: "This medicine has no name. It's what I've refined for the symptoms, and the effect is nothing more than replenishing blood and qi, and you don't need it. Three years ago, I taught you the Bigu Meal Xia Technique, and gave you a box of Yellow Bud Pill, one every twelve days should not be used up, right? Although you have not practiced supernatural powers, you also have the effect of maintaining health and rejuvenating your face, and you have almost no discomfort on the plateau this time, which is effective. ”

Qu Zhensheng also smiled: "Senior Brother Mei has refined the Blood and Qi Enhancement Pill. It is the best medicine for the symptoms. Lu Hong and Lu Cui did not accept the water and soil customs here, and it was just right to use this medicine. But it's not something that asymptomatic people can take anytime and anywhere. ”

Qu Zhensheng saw Mei Zhenyi refining medicine, he was not idle, and Li Lan picked medicine along the road, refining it into a red powder, people have already let Mei Zhenyi treat, he used this powder to feed the horse, Zhang Guo and others laughed and called him Qu Da Veterinarian.

Along the way, they not only refined a pill and scattered, but it was a rare opportunity to walk thousands of miles of mountains and rivers, Mei Zhenyi, Qu Zhensheng, and Lilan were all collecting elixirs along the way, and the elixirs in the world were not just the three hundred and sixty-five kinds needed for the Nine Turns Purple Gold Pill. Qu Zhensheng also brought a small medicine pod with him, and the collected elixirs were simply refined, collected and preserved, many of which were not available or difficult to see in ordinary medicinal material shops.

Qingfeng also came in handy for Zhiyan's gourd, and Mei Zhenyi collected a lot of elixir seedlings to keep them, and when he returned, he could build a suitable place for the earth and qi in the three mountains of Qingyi.

If you want to talk about the way of refining medicine, for example, few people can surpass Mei Zhenyi today, but Li Lan is in charge of the medicine field in the Donghua Gate Taigao Spirit Realm, and when it comes to collecting medicine in the mountains and fields, he is much more familiar than Mei Zhenyi. She helped Qu Zhensheng and Mei Zhenyi compete to collect elixir, but found that she always lost, and Mei Zhenyi always found it faster and better to collect medicine, which was also very strange.

Later, Zhiyan pierced Mei Zhenyi's bottom line - he has the help of magic weapons and demon needles, and is good at finding earthly qi. Qu Zhensheng wanted to borrow the demon needle, but after the refining of Mingyue, the mana and divine consciousness required to use it were too high, so he couldn't use it for the time being, so he could only wait for the future cultivation to talk about it.

Zhong Liquan also continued to instruct his apprentices along the way, explaining various ways of cultivation in the world, and taking advantage of various opportunities. For example, through the alchemy of medicine, he mentioned the inheritance of various sects of cultivation in the world, and the technique of outer pill bait medicine assisted in the cultivation of internal qi cultivation, which had been developed to the extreme in the hands of Sun Simiao. The Danxia faction is good at this way, in order to assist them in inheriting the cliff Danxia technique, and it is already the number one faction in the world.

Zhong Liquan inherited the Jindan Avenue and specialized in cultivating the Inner Dan Furnace Ding, which was occasionally used as a bait, but it was another school of practice. Back then, Emperor Donghua passed on Zhong Liquan Jindan Avenue, and there were only a few simple volumes of mantras, but Zhong Liquan combined his own cultivation and insights when he passed on the disciples of Donghuamen. It has become a complete system of "Nine Turns Jindan Zhizhi".

The Taoist Inner Dan Method is great in the world, it should be said that it began with Zhong Liquan, not that the cultivators did not cultivate the furnace before Zhong Liquan, but Zhong Liquan organized this Dao method into a complete sect inheritance system, and it is more convenient to refer to the confirmation when the master and apprentice pass on the law. And with this system as the foundation, even if the disciples of later generations do not have Zhong Liquan's achievements, the Dao Dharma inheritance will not wither with others.

Mei Zhenyi is both a disciple of Sun Simiao and a disciple of Zhong Liquandi, and Zhong Liquan hopes that he will inherit the Dao in the future. It can become a pioneer of a generation that connects the past and the next. ——This is the first time that Mr. Donghua has raised his own expectations for his disciples in some aspects.

In addition to Mei Zhenyi, other people along the way asked Zhong Liquan for advice on various problems in his practice, and Mr. Donghua also gave them one by one based on his own understanding. This is not the same as teaching his own disciples, Zhong Liquan will not take the initiative to teach any mental formulas, but he can answer some questions and let everyone confirm it themselves. With the guidance of the immortals, Zhang Guo, Mei Yi and others naturally gained a lot.

In short, this 10,000-mile journey is not only to enjoy the scenery of various places. Collecting the world's elixirs, experiencing all kinds of interesting anecdotes, and listening to the guidance of the fairy family's wonderful methods. After entering the plateau, Zhang Guo sighed: "The ancients said that 'traveling thousands of miles and reading thousands of books', I am honest and do not deceive!"

Mei Yi said in the back: "If you say that you have traveled thousands of miles, I have also walked it many times. But it was all a march, and it was not as interesting as today's journey of thousands of miles. ”

Master Xingyun also asked, "Knowing Flame Fairy, it's also a shame that you can come up with such an ingenious way to travel like this." I really have no regrets in this life. ”

Zhang Guo hurriedly interjected: "Why should Mrs. Shi say that there are no regrets, if you like the fun of traveling, there will be opportunities in the future, and I will be happy to drive for you." ”

The Zhiyan Fairy replied: "I have been cultivating in the Kunlun Wonderland for a hundred years, and when I came to the world to meet Zhenyi, I realized a lot of unknown wonders in the world, so I have this suggestion." ”

Mei Zhenyi said with a smile: "Qing Xiu and Xing travel, each has its own wonders. The realm of all kinds of mystic laws needs to be obtained in the fixed realm, but there are also many things in the world that cannot be appreciated in the dry sitting, even including the supernatural powers. My Shennong Hundred Grass Whip Technique is self-realization when I was coerced by Zuo Youxian, if I didn't have that experience, I wouldn't have been able to think of it at home. ”

Zhong Liquan gave him a fan and said, "Stinky boy, don't be too complacent." If it weren't for Sun Simiao's teaching, there would be no god worship whip that I refined for you. You've been caught 10,000 times and slipped around the world. There's nothing to do with Shennong's grass whip!"

Everyone talked and laughed, and a river appeared in front of them. The rivers in the great meadows of the plateau are very different from those seen in the Central Plains. There is no embankment, the riverbed is dozens of feet wide, and there are miscellaneous trees and wildflowers growing on the surface of the water in many places, and the river is very shallow and will not reach the horse's hooves, and the deepest part is no more than a knee.

The river is known locally as the Inverted River, which gives it its strange name in part because it flows from east to west into Western Haiti, as opposed to most of the rivers that flow down the plateau from west to east. On the other hand, the topography of this area is high in the west and low in the east, and the valley of the Inverted River is slightly lower in the west, so from a distance there is an illusion that the river flows backwards.

After crossing the inverted river, a short walk along the river valley is the vast West Sea.

In ancient times, the West Sea was wider than the modern Qinghai Lake, a saltwater lake located in the interior of the plateau, but the lake was much more salty than the seawater, and in the Tang Dynasty it was lighter, and it was used by birds and animals. In particular, the banks where rivers flow into them are also a frequent drinking place for various animals in the grasslands.

The West Sea is even larger than some small states and counties in the Central Plains, so it is called the sea, and the plateau climate is unpredictable, often with high winds and waves. The horizon is not visible in such a large land and lake, because it is surrounded by plateau mountains. The local herdsmen do not eat fish since ancient times, so there are no fishermen in this large lake, and the lake is a kind of fish, also known as naked carp, which has only a few fine scales near the pectoral fins around the upper and lower parts of the body.

To describe the scenery of mountains and lakes, people often use the words "lakes and mountains", but what is the real scenery of lakes and mountains, to the west coast to take a look at the most experienced.

The color of the water surface of the West Sea will change at any time, sometimes blue, sometimes dark, sometimes dark, sometimes bright, sometimes dark, when bright like a mirror reflecting the mountains, when dark like jadeite condensation. The color of the water changes with the day, and the reflection of the distant mountains also changes in the lake, which is different from one lake to the next, and different from day to day.

Mei Zhenyi and others set out from Wuzhou, and walked all the way to the west coast, a total of three months. It's time to break up, Mei Zhenyi and Zhiyan will fly to Kunlun Wonderland with Zhong Liquan. And Zhang Guo and Mei Yi returned to Wuzhou with everyone, and when they parted, they were naturally reluctant, and Mei Zhenyi decided to stay on the west coast to enjoy the lake and mountains for three days before parting.

Mei Yi set up two marching tents by the lake, and Lu Hong and Lu Cui helped take out the sleeping utensils in the carriage and place them, and lit a bonfire in front of the big tent. Rest that night, watch the sunrise in the West Sea together the next morning, take out the local food and fruits, and drink by the lake. Picking some wild flowers and fruits is very fun.

The next day, Mei Zhenyi taught Princess Yuzhen to ride a horse by the lake, the advantage of this place is that the field of vision is wide and unobstructed, you can run happily, and there are so many masters who are not afraid of falling down. Jade was really riding a horse, and suddenly there was a low sound like rolling thunder in the distance, although it was very faint, but all the masters heard it.

Mei Zhenyi shouted: "Yuzhen, come back quickly!"

Mei Yi frowned and said, "This is the sound of a herd of horses running past." Presumably a wild horse on the grassland. ”

Master Xingyun asked, "This grassland is different from Mobei Saiwai, what kind of horses are produced?"

Mei Yi: "The name of this horse is Qinghai Cheng, which is not as big as the horse of the Western Regions, but it is good at long-distance running, and it is also commonly used in the army to chase with light horses. ”

It didn't take long. I saw a large group of horses running in the distance, as Mei Yi said, it didn't look as tall as the kind of tall horses used in the honor guard, but the running posture was also quite elegant. There were thousands of horses in this herd. Running across the grassland made a lot of noise, but instead of coming to the tent of Mei Zhenyi and others, he went to the lake not far from the mouth of the Daoliu River to drink.

Mei Yi pointed to the herd of horses and introduced some of the things in the army to everyone: this group of horses should be wild horses on the grassland, which can be tamed and raised by herdsmen by throwing ropes, and they are often traded with the Han land, exchanging the tamed Qinghai skull for the iron, tea cakes, salt and so on they need. Finally, he said, "This kind of horse is not easy to ride without taming, and you see, it runs very bumpy. tends to turn the rider upside down. ”

Zhang Guo said with a smile on the side: "With General Mei's riding skills, what horse can't be dealt with?" Hearing you say this, I want to get a Qinghai skull to ride." As soon as he said this, his face suddenly changed: "There is such a dangerous demonic aura in the lake!"

At this time, Zhong Liquan waved the immortal fan, cast a spell to envelop the place where everyone stood and the two big tents, and shouted: "There are monsters in the lake, protect the princess and others!"

As soon as the words fell, a fierce yin wind swept from the surface of the lake, and the weeds flew around him, if it weren't for Zhong Liquan's spell. Even two big tents will be blown down. This wind is weird and sinister. Mei Zhenyi brought the four horses to the ground, and let out a long neighing like a mournful roar, and involuntarily retreated again and again, and the front hooves were weak and knelt down.

The wind was coming towards the herd. The place where Mei Zhenyi and the others are is only affected by the aftermath, and the frontal direction of the edge can be imagined. The horses were frightened, neighed in unison, and turned to run. Although Mei Zhenyi and the others are superb, although they are not afraid of ordinary monsters, they are also secretly frightened when they see this scene.

At this moment, the ground water on the shore suddenly receded, revealing more than a dozen feet of damp silt, and then a huge whirlpool appeared in the distance, a wall of water surged to the shore, and a horse did not have time to run far and was hit by the waves, and then it seemed to be bitten by something, struggling and neighing on the waves, and disappeared in a blink of an eye!

"What's in the water?" asked Mei Zhenyi.

Zhong Liquan squinted his eyes and said, "It should be that a certain Huang fish has become a climate, and it is a rather vicious anomaly, different from ordinary spirits. ”

The huge wave swept away a horse before it was over, and this strange wave could still wash ashore, like a long dragon with a waterline, and swept two startled horses running around one after another. Then there was a loud neighing of horses, and the tallest stallion stood still on a high slope in the distance, and all the startled horses that were running around approached it, and it was supposed to be the leader of the herd.

The lake flooded up, and the long dragon of the waterline circled around the high slope, and the grassland was inexplicably flooded with waves everywhere, and the horses neighed in unison and rushed down the high slope. There was a strange howl in the water, and something appeared in the air, Mei Zhenyi's eyes were sharp, and he saw that it was a strange big fish that was four feet long.