Volume 21 "A Few Smoke and Dust on the Immortal Road in the World" Chapter 2 Asking the snow with affection, if you have fun, you will be a true immortal
The laughter stopped, and the goddess said to the people who were awake:
"Actually, the concubine is quite fated with this little sister, so I don't care about it now, I will come here three days later, and I will help your brother and sister go to Kunlun!"
Awake and heard, he was overjoyed, and hurriedly hugged his fists and bowed deeply, thanking the goddess for her great kindness. It's just a surprise, and after carefully experiencing the words of the goddess, Xingyan couldn't help but be a little surprised, and blurted out:
"Dare to ask the goddess, what is the honorific title?"
Xingyan asked this question, but it was really because of the great sorrow and joy in his heart, and his heart was upset, so he didn't hear Xi He's previous claim. And Xi He is Bing Xue smart, knowing that he has already said his name before, but when he heard the young man asking, he still turned sideways slightly, and did not humble himself as a mortal at all, and replied softly with a woman's courtesy:
"The concubine is in peace, and she lives in the southeast corner of the sea; β
β......β
Hearing the words of the goddess, Xingyan suddenly sweated profusely. It turned out that he remembered the ancient saying, "In the southeast and overseas, between the sweet waters, there is the country of Xihe, and there is a woman named Xihe, who bathes in the sweet abyss." Xihe, the wife of Emperor Jun, and the mother of the Ten Days. β
Vaguely remembering the origin of this goddess, and then thinking carefully about her words, she was shocked when she woke up, but she was even more hesitant, and turned her face to look at Qiong Wei next to her, but saw that she was still cute and cute, and only smiled and looked at the goddess, because she had never heard of the name of Xihe.
Just as she was looking at herself, Lingyi'er next to her suddenly spoke, and begged the goddess Xihe to allow her to go to Kunlun together. Hearing the dragon girl's begging, Xihe had a worried face and told them that although she had rescued Lingyi just now, she was actually quite seriously injured. was hit with all the strength of the universe by Meng Zhang with the power of the universe confusing origin, and he had already injured the spiritual root. Therefore, needless to say, if Lingyi wants to fully recover and return to her past, she should go to the East China Sea Dragon Palace of her ancestral clan as soon as possible to choose a place to cultivate and protect the spiritual root of the divine vein.
At this point, the sun goddess said no more. Chao Xingyan gave another salute here, and then disappeared into the waves. Waiting for Xihe to leave, Xingyan returned with the second daughter, and told Yun Zhongjun and the others what had just happened, and these respected gods invariably bowed down to the place where the goddess disappeared, and called "great god".
There is no need to dwell on everything after that. After the catastrophe, Rao Shixi and Shi Li buried the corpse of the ruins, and the South China Sea Dragon Domain for the rest of his life after the catastrophe was still a mess. The ruins of the broken wall that were swept out of the sea by the waves drifted with the waves, the blood of thousands of victims steamed like a blood cloud in the sun, and then the demon gods who lost their comrades and relatives howled and cried bitterly.
In such a grief that covers the sky, even if she is very concerned about the ice and snow woman who is sleeping in the undersea Dragon Palace, Xingyan also fulfills the identity and obligation of the Xuanling Demon Lord and the Four Blasphemy Dragon Sons-in-law, assisting Yun Zhongjun to bury the dead and comfort the living. In this way, they ran around until nightfall, and the aftermath was largely completed. When the sun was setting and the twilight was beginning to fall, Xingyan was already busy with weak limbs and hoarse voice, but he still fought hard and went to the cold cave in a corner of the dragon domain under the sea accompanied by the new lord of the South China Sea, Bo Yulonghou, to retrieve Xue Yi's body.
...... How many times have I fought and suffered disasters, I thought about it every night, and when I saw Xue Yi's quiet face again, I still couldn't help but sigh with emotion. In the cold cave, the woman on the ice bed was serene and quiet, and her face was as good as when she was born. Although life has passed, the face is more serene. And since that hasty parting, Xingyan has not had time to carefully examine his face, this time after experiencing thousands of disasters and twists and turns, he met again, and he saw a little joy and calmness in Xue Yi's solemn face after death.
This mind, which was frozen in the moment of life and death, took a long time to understand it after parting with life and death, and the slightly open beaded lips and mouth shape were vaguely recognizable as the unspeakable "hall master". When he finally saw it very clearly, the ignorant hall master couldn't hold back anymore, and held the woman crying bitterly. And the two girls beside him, seeing that the gentle and aggrieved Mei Soul was still delicate, but there was no longer life, they couldn't help crying together.
Tears poured down, and when he finally stopped his sorrow, he flicked the sleeves of his combo and wrapped Xue Yi's delicate body in a crystal shining snow cloud, left the cold cave at the bottom of the sea, and broke out of the water accompanied by Lingyi Qiongwei, all the way to Luofu. According to the covenant of Xi and Sanyue, he planned to place Xueyi's body in Luofu Snow Peak, where she was born, the next day, and then go to Raozhou Horseshoe Mountain to bid farewell to his parents, and finally return to the South China Sea to fulfill the covenant of the goddess Nakunlun. In this arrangement, Xingyan didn't want Lingyi to accompany him, because after listening to Xihe's words, Yun Zhongjun urged Lingyi to go to the East China Sea Shrine to recuperate and cultivate as soon as possible, so Xingyan didn't want her to follow her to work hard, even if it was only two or three days. It's just that, although she tried every means of persuasion, Lingyi'er had made up her mind, no matter how she persuaded her, she would definitely stay with her left and right for all the time before Xingyan went to Kunlun.
So this way turned around, and Xingyan walked with Qiong Wei and Lingyi. In the evening, in the eyes of everyone to say goodbye, they finally left this place of intrigue and tiger fighting, and went straight to the familiar cave in the world.
When they turned, it was just past the beginning of the month, and a crescent moon hung like a bow over their heads to reflect their journey. The crescent moon is faint, faint as water, and the smoke of the sea and moon lake is bleak and unclear. In such a quiet and vast moonlit night in the world, the young hall master who returned from the wind suddenly found that compared to the vigorous and magnificent waves in the South China Sea, even if it was cold and ordinary here, he liked it more. With such a discovery, under the cold moon and starry sky, Xingyan carried the icy and misty snow cloud, and walked more firmly towards the north.
Precisely:
The lotus silk is like a caraver, and the people of the South China Sea return to the moon.
The new tide in February has not yet risen, and the spring breeze does not live up to the plum blossoms.
Walking with the stars and the moon, when the next morning light was faint, they rushed to the cave Tianluofu. Although it is only early spring, the Luofu of Changchun in the four seasons is already full of green mountains and thousands of purples and reds. Crossing the layers of grass and flowers, throwing down the chirping of thousands of swallow warblers, about the time when Xu Yue rose into the sky, Xingyan finally found that strange and lofty ice and snow lonely mountain. Although the climate in the Lingnan peaks is warm and hot, the peaks and peaks with high clouds are still cold, and the ice and snow are covered with ice and snow all year round. When you get close to the snow peak, you can see the lonely ice cliffs standing majestically under the clear blue sky, and the wind blowing from time to time blows up bursts of snow powder, blurring the edge between the blue sky and the snow-capped mountains. Although the sun was shining, in front of this high mountain snow peak, I still felt a chill that hit my bones.
Seeing such a lofty snow-capped mountain, although I had never been here before, there seemed to be a mysterious revelation in the darkness, guiding Xingyan to come here and recognize it. When the mighty wind saw this small snow peak isolated like a blade for the first time, he had no doubt that it was the ice cliff cold peak mentioned by Xue Yi in his words.
So, facing the snow-capped mountains that sparkled in the sunlight under the blue sky, he bowed reverently twice in mid-air, and Xingyan placed Xue Yi's body under the ice cliff where the mountain wind echoed under the snow peak. After carefully placing it, Xingyan laid a criss-cross snow spell ice pass around him, attached layers of strange magic circles that could attract the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder, and finally laid a blinding cloud and mist, so that this small world where the incense soul was placed seemed to be separated from another time and space, and then he left with peace of mind.
This return is not to stay in Luofu Mountain for a long time, and now Xingyan does not want to go to his hometown more, only looking forward to the completion of the future, so he is not in the mood to fulfill those red tape. So this time he returned to Luofu, he didn't even return to the Thousand Bird Cliff, and after settling Xueyi, he only bowed three times to Feiyunding, where the master was located, and then took Lingyi Qiongwei to his hometown Horseshoe Mountain.
Nothing to say all the way.
When he approached Horseshoe Mountain, crossed the familiar Liangliang Kankan, the ditch forked, and when he was still in mid-air, he saw his newly completed tiled house halfway up the mountain from the gap between the clouds and mist. In front of the brick wall of the tiled house, the familiar virtuous figure was leaning against the brick wall and choosing the cotton in front of him one by one. And the old father, who was also idle, was squatting in front of a loofah rack in front of the house, staring intently at the vine seedlings of the loofah in front of him, catching insects. I haven't seen him for a long time, and it seems that this father, who has worked hard all his life, has finally gotten used to the good conditions now, and knows how to enjoy happiness; in this way, he has no distractions in his labor time, but he holds a wine glass in one hand, and every time he catches a worm, he stops to drink a sip of wine, and stops for a long time.
...... I don't know if I have experienced a big war, or if there is a lot of wind and rain blowing in the changing southern sky, and the young hall master, who is optimistic on the surface and tough in his heart, suddenly feels that he is living more and more, and I don't know why he has become so sentimental now, and there are some mothers-in-law. Why is it that I have only been separated for more than a year, and I see my father and mother living a good life, but somehow my nose is sore, and I seem to be crying again.
suppressed his excitement, rubbed his eyes, and said hello when he woke up, pressed the cloud head together with Lingyi and Qiong Wei, and landed on the halfway of the horseshoe mountain. After walking a few steps, he finally turned to the door of the tiled house, and Xingyan called softly:
"Dad, Mother~"
...... The reunion of father and son, mother and son, no need to mention in detail, for the old couple of Lao Zhangtou, who have not seen their son for more than a year, they are naturally very excited. I don't know why, although they have never been a family in their lives, they have always hoped that their son will have a good way out of food and clothing, and even as long as he lives well, even if they don't see each other in this life, they will not complain. I think well, but when my children don't see each other outside for a longer and longer time, the longing in my heart is like a bamboo shoot in March, which grows and spreads overnight, and the longing is endless.
As for the old Zhang Tou couple, in the past year, it has been different from before. From the mouths of the scavengers on Horseshoe Mountain, they had heard a lot of news of the Great War in the South China Sea, and even in the past year, the couple had been transported back and forth between Luofu and Horseshoe several times to escape the revenge of the evil dragon henchmen on the south side of the sea. All these things happened to let the second elder, who had been simple all his life, know that his awakening words were in greater danger.
Because of this, I was worried that although I had the spiritual lucidum immortal qi nourished by the last awakening and dedication, and the qi replenishment method taught by the Shangqing people, when the children returned to their hometown a year later and saw their parents again, they found that they were obviously old. The wrinkles on the second elder's face were deeper, his hearing was not as good as before, and his movements were obviously slower than before. Seeing this, while Xingyan was happy on the surface, he was really sad inside. So in this homecoming, Xingyan secretly made up his mind that when the snow was right, he would use the sword technique to go back and forth to the Luofu horseshoe, and do his due filial piety.
Of course, needless to say, when I went home again, I remembered how happy I was when I went home last year with Qiong Wei Xueyi;
Without further ado, this evening, the second elder of the Zhang family did his best to entertain his son and his two distinguished female guests. The slightly sweet pine cone wine has been brewed since the last time I left home; Not only Qiong Wei's saliva flowed, but even Lingyi was also aroused by many wine worms. And those absolutely original wild vegetables, fruits and dried meats are the first time for Lingyi to enjoy them. When chewing and sucking, I only feel that the deliciousness is endless! So in the simple family banquet in the middle of the mountain, in the face of these folk foods that are far from being on the table, the dragon girl in brocade clothes and jade food and the little sister laughed and competed.
Obviously, Xingyan could see that such a free and warm dining atmosphere in his house was unprecedented for the dragon girl, but Ling Yi'er still couldn't bear to leave the table when the wine was cold.
was reluctant to give up like this, until Lingyi suddenly realized that the second elder who accompanied him in the banquet would be his kind of elder in the future, then he was so ashamed that his face was flushed, and he was secretly alert, and quickly got up to stop the little sister who was still chewing, and set an example, and the two girls worked together to help Xingyan Niang clean up the dishes, chopsticks, and tables.
Naturally, Lingyi'er was recognized by Xingyan Niang as the beautiful goddess who came to the house to give her son a Mid-Autumn Festival gift, so between the pots and stoves, there was a chaotic and sincere humility.
When the night was getting darker, the table was removed, the dishes and chopsticks had been cleaned up, and Xingyan was about to talk to his parents more, but his father pulled him aside and said:
"Wake up, those two fairy daughters are delicate and expensive, they will take a bath later, and my family's thick towel and ugly basin will definitely damage their skin. β
"Uh...... It's all right! They ......."
Hearing that Dad was worried, he was about to explain, but was interrupted by it. I only heard the old Zhang Tou say:
"Scared! Even the fairies are not strange, and we feel sorry for them. In this way, a hot spring has recently gushed out from the mountain behind our horseshoe mountain, and it has become a pool on the cliff. I think you might as well take them over there to take a bath. I heard a Taoist priest who went up to the mountain say that the hot spring can cure all kinds of diseases. Didn't you say that the Lingyi Fairy had an internal injury when you were eating just now, so you can just try it, maybe you can get medical attention!"
"Really?"
Hearing my father say this, the awakening words also aroused a lot of interest. Turning around and talking to Lingyi Qiongwei, of course the two girls were enthusiastic, and immediately picked up their clothes, and asked Xingyan's father to lead the way in front of the head, and Xingyan escorted him in the back, and walked towards the hot spring in the mouth of the old man. It seemed that the spring was not too far away, and after walking a few ridges in the moonlight, they found the peak of the mountain where the hot spring was.
When I arrived at the hot spring mountain, I looked up and realized that I had to walk through a rugged mountain road to get to the hot misty spring pool. The road doesn't look too long, but it's steep. At this time, his father also reminded them that if they wanted to go to the hot spring, they had to climb up carefully.
Of course, at this time, this difficult mountain road is just a piece of cake for them to Xingyan Lingyi. Listening to his father's careful advice, Xingyan just smiled, and told him not to worry, and then the two girls had clouds on the soles of their feet, and they stood in the middle of the hot mountain. By the time Lao Zhangtou reacted, he found that his son and two female guests were waving at him in the middle of the mountain.
"Uh......"
Seeing this scene, Lao Zhangtou patted his head and muttered to himself:
"Scared, it's really old and confused. The immortals of Shangqing Palace can come and go in the clouds, and my baby has learned spells from them for a few years, so she will naturally fly!"
Immediately, Lao Zhangtou shook his head and went home first.
Let's talk about it again. When the two girls came to this hot spring, they saw that they were surrounded by three peaks, hugging a hot spring. After a little inspection, I saw that the hot spring was on the east side above the spring pool, and it was bubbling with spring water, and the wisps of heat were constantly pouring into the natural stone pool in front of me.
Since he arrived at the hot pool, he bent down by the pool and tested the temperature of the spring water with his hands, and found that although it was hot, it was just right for bathing, so he turned back and called the second daughter to bathe, and he floated up, ready to go down the mountain first.
It's just that, seeing that he was leaving, the Lingyi'er flashed with bright eyes, and half-shyly said:
"Wake up, they're not outsiders, you can come down too......"
"Yes, yes, wash together!"
Lingyi wanted to speak and stopped, that Qiong Wei didn't expect that there was any defense between men and women with her cousin brother, so she immediately screamed confidently, took off her shirt, pulled her pants on the ground, and only wore a bright red belly pocket on her small body as clean as Kunlun fat jade, and jumped into the hot spring!
And between the words, the four blasphemous dragon girls also generously untied their shirts, faded off the beads, and only kept the profane clothes and skirts of light woven yarn, standing slim and jade by the pool, looking back at the awakening words, then smiled and quietly slipped into the pool.
Seeing this, although the already informalized Lord of the Four Seas Hall blushed, he also decided to put aside the secular etiquette for the time being, and took advantage of it to wash it together. As a thief, he looked around the mountains and wilderness, and when he saw that there was no one, he quickly took off his shirt and trousers, and stepped into the hot pool.
When they arrived in the hot pool, the dusty Four Seas Hall Master only knew what it meant to be comfortable for the first time in many days. The warm spring water seemed to be everywhere, kissing every inch of his skin under the water. At first, the water surface where the hot spring and the air met swayed and rippling, and it could also make your chest tingle and itchy, and after a few ups and downs, the hot spring soaked every inch of your skin, and the silky hot spring became empty, leaving only a pool of pure hot air to wrap your whole body and mind. And in such an ethereal hot spring gifted by God, the nearby grass and vines floated leisurely with bursts of familiar mountain fragrance, so it was only a short time later, and Xingyan felt that his body and mind were clear, and how much the tiredness of the past was gone!
In such a hot and smooth hot spring, even Qiong Wei became quiet, and her delicate face like a white lotus floated on the water, leaning close to her sister Lingyi, quietly staring at the distant mountains outside the spring pool, not knowing what was on her mind, or not thinking about anything at all.
After looking at Qiong Wei a few more times, Xingyan also felt that he had lost the slightest wit and restraint; casually following her eyes into the distance, he suddenly realized that in such a small hot spring corner that could not be compared with the clouds and fog of the South China Sea, he could see an incomparably majestic and ethereal scene!
It turned out that this mist-shrouded hot spring came out of the high cliffs of the majestic Horseshoe Mountains, and between the cliffs facing each other on both sides of the line, it seemed to form a full picture frame, and all the natural scenery was included in front of his eyes. A crescent moon hung high in the sky, like a silver boat, appearing and disappearing among the flowing clouds. The crescent moon is half-bright, and the February night sky is as dignified as black velvet, and the stars are brilliant and the galaxy is crossed, illuminating the sparkling water in the pond in front of you. Under the starry sky, outside the mountains, I saw a little light, which should be the lights of ten thousand homes in Raozhou City; so occasionally a gust of wind came, and the starlight, moonlight, and light of the stars and moonlight in the sky and outside the mountains flickered together, as if in this moment, the whole universe was shaking and breathing together!
And the spring night is quiet, the stars are moving, and after an unknown time, a piece of clouds flies, slightly covering the stars and moon, and the horseshoe mountains at night have been fluttering snow. When the snowflakes first danced, the awakening words in the hot spring suddenly thought that the starlight on the horizon fell to the ground, or the catkins and poplars in the distance flew into their arms. After waiting for a while, the cold snow flakes fell on his cheeks, and he reached out to take a few more pieces, only to know that it was snowing.
It's just that although the snow flakes are flying, in such a slightly cold spring snow, bathing in the open air and hiding in the warm pool water, I can let the cold snowflakes flutter in front of my eyes, but I don't feel the slightest chill. At this time, Na Qiongwei finally changed her appearance of meditation, and kept leaning out and reaching out to catch the snowflakes flying in the moonlight.
Unlike her, in such a peculiar sunny moon and snow, Xingyan looked at the steaming heat in front of him in the spring pool, and then looked at the night clouds floating higher among the mountains in the distance, and thought that at this time, when he looked at the ethereal mountains in the high places, in the eyes of the night walkers under the mountains, the endless steaming heat in front of him was also a series of ethereal mountain clouds? Looking at the twinkling stars in the distant sky and the snow falling nearby, he suddenly felt that he was suddenly approaching the edge of some philosophical thoughts, and in an instant he got some kind of mysterious inspiration, as if his whole soul was going to float up with the flying snow clouds and mist, and plunge into the endless and faint snow, moon and starry sky...... Precisely:
The ice soul is vivid and faint, and the heart is exquisite.
The snow moon is full of pond flowers, and the dark fragrance floats over the clear pond.
β»β»β»Note: Some detailed explanations left over from the South China Sea War will naturally melt into the text of the next chapter, you don't have to worry, I never dig holes or fill them.
(To be continued)