Chapter 34: Tracing the Trail
"Yi'er, why are you here again, aren't you practicing today?" Wen Zhongquan looked at Chu Yunyi, who he hadn't seen for many days, with a smile, picked up the wine gourd he had placed on the side of the stone bench, and gently handed it over: "Come, this is the osmanthus wine that Huaiying and the others brought from the bottom of the mountain yesterday, drink two sips to refresh yourself!
"Thank you, Uncle Wen!" Because he has never been down the mountain since he was a child, and his father is very strict in discipline, although he is over eighteen years old, Chu Yunyi has only heard of such things in the collection of books, so when he took the heavy wine gourd with both hands, he hesitated for a while before putting it to his mouth, and carefully poured it in, but found that there was no spicy and choking feeling as rumored, on the contrary, the taste was warm and with a faint floral fragrance, which was very pleasant, so he couldn't help pushing the gourd up and drank it in a big gulp.
Seeing this, Wen Zhongquan immediately reacted, knowing that Chu Yunyi must have never drunk wine before, and he didn't know how powerful it was, so he hurriedly snatched the wine gourd and said with a smile: "You, don't patronize the comfort of the moment, and when the stamina comes up, you will vomit." β
"What is that? And Uncle Wen, I don't think this wine is as rumored to be, and it doesn't taste much different from flower tea!" Chu Yunyi shook his head in confusion and asked.
"Silly boy, this is brewed with fresh osmanthus, yellow rock sugar, mellow honey with mountain spring water and fine river rice, all kinds of sweet flavors melt together, the pungency of the wine is completely masked, and the rest is only refreshing sweetness and mellowness, but after all, after two or three years of aging, the strength of the wine is by no means ordinary, like you who have never drunk a stunned boy, I don't know how deep and shallow a few sips go down, it is estimated that it will not be noon, and it will be drunk into a puddle of mud!" Wen Zhongquan explained, and waved his long sleeves: "Let me take a look at a set of punches?" β
"Okay!" Chu Yunyi nodded, and began to fight according to the fist path he had asked Wen Zhongquan for advice before.
From slow to fast, from soft to rigid, the flowing and sticky fist road has gradually become strong and domineering for some reason. Chu Yunyi also gradually found that a warm current began to surge all over his body, and slowly split the vitality gathered in his body into his limbs and emitted it. It's just that as the power becomes more and more powerful, the moves that were originally like the fingers of the arm began to gradually get out of control in the fluttering feeling that arose at some point.
"Ahh
"Gollum!" I heard a muffled sound, and the copper ball rolled forward a little.
Chu Yunyi's eyes widened in disbelief, he raised his hand in front of his eyes, and looked at it repeatedly.
Yes, obviously three months ago, I couldn't make this copper ball move even a little bit with all my strength!
"Don't look at it!" Wen Zhongquan patted Chu Yunyi's head with a smile, and asked with a smile: "Did you feel that the spiritual power around your body suddenly tightened just now, and the vitality that gathered with it suddenly jumped to the limbs and released out?"
"Hmm!" Chu Yunyi nodded slightly puzzled and asked, "Is there any special significance to this?"
"Sure enough, extraordinary people need to use extraordinary methods, and what Master Xue said is indeed right. Hurry, hurry!" Wen Zhongquan didn't answer, just laughed and muttered to himself. After a long time, he came back to his senses, and hurriedly asked, "Silly boy, have you recently reached the upper level of Guiyuan, but you always feel that the vitality gathered in your body is not pure and thick enough?"
"Yes, yes!" Chu Yunyi hurriedly nodded and said: "In the past three months, the exercises of the Guiyuan class have basically been familiar with the heart, and the fusion and gathering of the five spirits can also be regarded as easy, but it is true that the gathered vitality cannot be fixed in the body, even if it is controlled by the immortal power of the Biqiong Rejuvenation Ring, it always does not take long for it to fluctuate again and dissipate silently." β
"Well, that's exactly how it should be...... Come, silly boy, take it, take a few sips whenever you feel that you are resting or cold and poisonous, and then beat a set of Tai Chi. Wen Zhongquan bowed slightly thoughtfully, then turned around, threw the wine gourd in his hand to Chu Yunyi, and said: " Also, the set of cultivation methods that Rulan has studied, although it can constantly maximize the effect of Biqiong's rejuvenation ring by damaging the body, helping you gather and deposit vitality and improve your cultivation, but after all, it is only a palliative method, not only can it not last long, but once dependence occurs, I am afraid the consequences will be even more unimaginable, in addition, it is difficult to guarantee that the constant injury will not hurt the muscles and bones to form permanent wear and tear, and not everyone has a Biqiong rejuvenation ring, even if you can keep going, but Bingyan's child, can he stand itοΌβ
"......Uncle Wen" silently took the wine gourd, then frowned and lowered his head slightly.
"It's not too late to make amends. When you are young, you will inevitably make mistakes, and you are bent on improving your cultivation as soon as possible, but the limitations of your body cannot be overcome, I can understand that feeling, I don't blame you, you don't need to blame yourself too much. Wen Zhongquan's old but powerful hand gently placed it on Chu Yunyi's shoulder, and then tried to change the topic: "By the way, I came here early today to find my uncle, is there something wrong?"
"This ...... Uncle Wen, in fact, I have a question I want to ask you!" Chu Yunyi didn't want Uncle Shi to worry too much, so he settled down, so he put aside the things in his heart, and then revealed the Biqiong Rejuvenation Ring in his sleeve, and asked, "You are well-informed, I don't know how much you know about the past of this treasure?"
"Biqiong Rejuvenation Ring?" Wen Zhongquan closed his eyes slightly, pondering for a moment: "If you hadn't mentioned it, I wouldn't have thought about it, this treasure was originally the only woman among the eight ancient gods and generals - the Dinglan Holy Maiden's personal ornament, according to legend, although this holy woman is not good at killing, but can maintain her status among the gods with the power of rejuvenation and eternal life, no one underestimates it, presumably the eight achievements are because of this treasure." But with the end of the battle between gods and demons, after Yuanchen Daxian turned into Huayang Mountain to garrison the mortal world, the eight great gods and generals also disappeared, and there was no news of this Biqiong Rejuvenation Ring, until our fourth generation of Huayang head Qiong Ying Zhenren succeeded to the throne, and it was only then that he reappeared in the Central Plains, but before that, he had never heard of the past. β
"Then there is no record of when someone found it and handed it over to Huayang?" Chu Yunyi, who did not get a satisfactory answer, obviously refused to give up and continued to ask.
"This really isn't!" Wen Zhongquan shook his head and replied: "Not only is the history before it came to Huayang blank, but after Qiong Yingzhenren passed away suddenly, this magic weapon seems to have been sealed, and because it is not of much benefit to the improvement of cultivation, it seems that no one has taken it out for more than a hundred years, I really don't know how Yao Tianyun thought of using this as a prize for Huayang Battle." β
"Suddenly passed away?" Chu Yunyi couldn't help but be very disappointed when he heard Wen Zhongquan's explanation, but he suddenly seemed to think of something, and asked, "Can you tell me the specific situation of Qiong Ying's real immortal death?"
"Yi'er...... Why are you asking this?" Wen Zhongquan looked at Chu Yunyi incomprehensibly, thought about it, and finally shook his head: "I really don't know much about this, I only know that the real person seems to have died young after only five years of reign, and she doesn't seem to be thirty years old when she dies?"
"What? five years?" The woman in purple in the dream turned into a giant hammer and smashed it into Chu Yunyi's mind, he couldn't believe that the characters in the fantasy world he dreamed of every night were really people, and they were actually the same as himself, just above this Huayang: "Uncle Wen, then tell me quickly, where can I find the ...... at that time?"
"Senior Brother Yunyi, why are you here?" However, Chu Yunyi's excited words were interrupted by a cute and immature voice, a girl in a plain robe with big eyes and bangs was holding an open oiled paper bag, as soon as Fang saw him, he jumped up and ran towards him: "It's been a long time, Senior Brother Yunyi, hug it!"
"Uh......" Although she knew that she was an adult, there was a difference between men and women, but she couldn't stand Star Swirl's coquettishness, so she still reached out and gently hugged the little girl in that enthusiasm.
"Yunyi," however, Wen Zhongquan's voice suddenly became low, and he sounded: "This is not Qingluan Peak, don't mess around!"
"Daddy, what's the matter!" Star Swirl heard his father-in-law scolding Chu Yunyi, and hurriedly said with a hug, "Senior Brother Yunyi and I have been playing since childhood, what's wrong with hugging, how can you ......?"
"I didn't mean this!" Wen Zhongquan looked at his adopted daughter with a slightly red face, shook his head, and his serious expression did not relax a little: "Yunyi, I don't know why you want to inquire about Qiong Yingzhenren, and I don't know why these secrets are so valued by you, but you must remember that this is Yuanchending, and it is not your father and mother who are in charge, and there is no problem with observing the rules, but no matter how anxious and anxious you are, you can't do anything wrong and break the rules, do you understand?"
"I'm sorry, Uncle Shi, what you said, Yunyi understands!" Chu Yunyi understood in his heart that what Wen Zhongquan said was not excessive, because it was true, when he was still in the wind gate, as long as he didn't understand anything, he would drill into the library pavilion or forbidden land in the back mountain. And at the moment, Yao Tianyun is already thankful that he doesn't take the initiative to trouble himself, if he still does anything illegal, I'm afraid he can only be slaughtered by others!
"It's good to understand, then you want to go back, leave this matter to me, if you find out any news, Uncle Shi will naturally notify you as soon as possible!" Wen Zhongquan waved his hand, but he gave an eviction order.
"Daddy, what are you doing here, Senior Brother Yunyi just came here with great difficulty, why did you just drive people away!" Star Swirl pouted, scolded Wen Zhongquan, and then grabbed Chu Yunyi's hand and handed over the oiled paper bag: "Senior Brother Yunyi, don't leave yet, this is the mung bean crisp I just brought back from the mountain, it's delicious, I was going to take it to Daddy for breakfast, just when you came, let's try it together!"
"Thank you, little girl, but Senior Brother has to go back to practice, next time!" Chu Yunyi didn't have the slightest intention of staying, waved his hand, and then clenched his fist and saluted Wen Zhongquan: "Then Yi'er will leave first, and I will ask Master Wen to bother with this matter." β
"Eh..... Senior Brother Yunyi!" Star Swirl wanted to pull Chu Yunyi but didn't stop him, only to see him turn around and walk out very simply, Star Swirl also said that it was a dispute between the two, Wen Zhongquan left Chu Yunyi angrily, so he stuffed the mung bean cake in his hand into his hand and pouted: "Bad daddy, Senior Brother Yunyi finally came to see us, you just drove him away, then who will play with me!"
Looking at the little girl's innocent and ignorant appearance, Wen Zhongquan could only shake his head helplessly.
"Hmph, you can eat this mung bean crisp daddy alone, I'll go find Senior Brother Yunyi!" Seeing that Daddy didn't reply, thinking that he was just feeling the loss, Star Swirl made a face at him, took out a piece of mung bean crisp from the paper bag, and turned to chase after Chu Yunyi.
"Stop, you are not allowed to go!" Wen Zhongquan hurriedly stopped, but the little girl who was spoiled obviously didn't take her words seriously.
"Hmph, don't listen to Daddy!" Star Swirl didn't look back, she replied arrogantly, and then shouted as she ran, "Senior Brother Yunyi, wait for me!"
"Children and grandchildren have their own children and grandchildren, I can't care if I can't take care of it!" Looking at the two backs that were gradually drifting away, Wen Zhongquan muttered to himself helplessly, picked up a piece of mung bean crisp, and walked towards the house while chewing.