Chapter 197: The Old Land
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Qingyun Mountain, Tongtian Peak, Ancestral Hall.
The verdant woods were still as dense and vibrant as ever, and a faint morning mist was wafting through the trees, and everywhere you could see the branches of leaves, and the leaves of the grass and wildflowers, and the dew drops fluttering gently in the breeze. In the distance, there is a crisp and pleasant birdsong in the depths of the dense forest, which makes people feel clear in the ears, as if they are in a fairyland.
In this earthly resort, Taoist fairyland, a short and fat figure slowly appeared on the path in the forest, it was Tian Buyi.
It seemed a little incongruous with the surrounding beauty, Tian Buyi's face was a little solemn, his eyes were looking straight ahead, and the expression on his face looked preoccupied. And at this moment, there was no one around him, and it seemed a little weird, although Tian Buyi was the first of the Great Bamboo Peak, and he was one of the most important people in Qingyunmen, but it was obviously a little strange to come to the ancestral hall of the ancestor of the mountain behind Changmen Tongtian Peak with his identity.
On the mountain road, there were no Qingyunmen disciples guarding them, and there was no sound along the way. In the breeze and the sound of birdsong, Tian Buyi turned the famous three-way crossing, and gradually saw the majestic eaves in the depths of the dense forest.
"When ......"
I don't know where the soft sound of bells and drums came from the direction of the front mountain, echoing at the top of Qingyun Mountain.
The empty and fluttering echo made Tian Buyi stop silently, look back, and look.
Heaven and earth are firm, and the sky is blue and infinite!
For thousands of years, it seems that it has not changed.
Tian Buyi's face gradually calmed down, stood silently for a while, and then turned around again and walked towards the ancestral hall.
The empty stone steps were displayed in front of him, and the ancestral hall of the patriarch remained unchanged, like a sleeping giant beast sleeping softly, lying in the embrace of the forest. The door of the ancestral hall is still open, and it is still dim inside, and even the light of incense and candles in the depths of the darkness seems to be sleeping, and everything is so quiet.
It's just that outside this ancestral hall, under the stone steps, there is still a young man standing at this moment, standing with his back to Tian Buyi. Tian Buyi frowned and walked over.
Hearing the footsteps, the young man seemed to be taken aback, he didn't expect that someone would come to this place at this time, and quickly turned around. Tian Buyi was opposite the man, both of them were stunned, and the young man was Lin Jingyu.
Tian Buyi immediately remembered that in the past, he had heard from his disciples that Lin Jingyu had been staying in this ancestral hall, and I heard that it was for someone to guard the spirit, but no one seemed to know who that "someone" was. However, Tian Buyi is naturally not in the mood to think about this at the moment. The relationship between him and Lin Jingyu was not very good, the two glanced at each other, but they didn't speak immediately, and the atmosphere was a little awkward.
In the end, Lin Jingyu coughed and said in a low voice: "Uncle Tian, why did you come here so early?"
Tian Buyi glanced at him, and then his gaze moved to the darkness in the ancestral hall, and said, "I'm here to find someone." What are you doing standing outside the ancestral hall early in the morning?"
Lin Jingyu's face changed slightly, a wry smile seemed to pass on his face, and he glanced at the ancestral hall, but did not answer. Tian Buyi said lightly: "Is anyone inside, isn't it the senior brother in charge?"
Lin Jingyu nodded and said, "Yes, the master is on top of the main hall...... He ordered me to wait outside, and without his summons, none of the disciples on Tongtian Peak were allowed to enter. ”
Tian Buyi snorted and said coldly: "I remember that you are a disciple of Longshou Peak, why did you come to Changmen Tongtian Peak and take care of the portal for Senior Brother Daoxuan?"
Lin Jingyu's face turned pale, bowed his head slightly, and did not speak.
Tian Buyi ignored him, raised his legs, and stepped onto the stone steps. Lin Jingyu next to him was stunned, took a step forward, and said, "Uncle Tian, what are you doing?"
Tian Buyi said lightly: "I came here, naturally I want to go in, I want to talk to the senior brother in charge about something." ”
Lin Jingyu frowned, and said: "Senior Uncle Tian, the head of the sect has said that no one wants to see it, without his permission to summon it, all the ...... under the Tongtian Peak Sect"
"I'm not a disciple of Tongtian Peak!" Tian Buyi coldly interrupted Lin Jingyu's words.
Lin Jingyu was stunned, and was choked by Tian Buyi for a while.
Tian Buyi didn't say much, walked up the stone steps, and walked towards the ancestral hall. (Qingyi Literature Network . Lin Jingyu's body moved, as if he wanted to stop it, but then he stopped again, looking at Tian Buyi's short and fat body, his eyes flashed.
Stepping into the high door, a faint sandalwood fragrance suddenly greeted him, and a huge shadow gently poured out from the depths of the hall, gently blocking the light that still existed just now on the outside of the ancestral hall.
Tian Buyi stood in place for a moment, and then slowly walked into the depths. As the footsteps slowly rose and fell, the expression on his face seemed to be slowly changing.
One by one, huge pillars painted with red lacquer stood in a staggered manner in the middle of the main hall, supporting the majestic hall, and the yellow curtains hanging from the ceiling dome hung quietly beside the pillars, many of which looked a little dilapidated, and seemed to be a vicissitudes of life, revealed from the aging yellow.
The past seems to be frozen here.
The ancestral hall was so quiet that barely a sound could be heard, only his footsteps, echoing in the silent shadows around him. Behind the huge offering table in the distance, countless incense burns brightly and quietly, just like mysterious and strange eyes, watching the figure shuttling through the shadows of the temple.
Turning the thickest pillar on the hall and walking behind the low-hanging yellow curtain, Tian Buyi finally stopped.
In front of him was an open space, and there were three rows of futons on the ground, seven in each row, and on the middle of the first row, a familiar figure sat there, motionless. In front of the futon, there was a large offering table, and the fruit offerings were placed all over the table, and in the middle was a large incense burner, but it was very strange inside, only three fine incense sticks were inserted, and the light smoke slowly floated up.
Through the smoke-filled offering table, in the deep darkness behind the table, a myriad of spiritual tablets could be faintly seen, each of which seemed to have handwriting on it, placed squarely on the spiritual tablet in the shadows.
Tian Buyi's face slowly became heavy and with a hint of respect, facing the spiritual position of the ancestors of Qingyunmen, his gaze first stayed on the once familiar back for a moment, and then walked up silently.
Dao Xuan Zhenren's body moved slightly, but he didn't look back.
Tian Buyi walked slowly to the offering table, looked at the countless spiritual positions shrouded in the shadows, inhaled deeply, and then took out three fine incense sticks from the incense bag next to the incense burner, carefully lit the candle next to it, took a step back, stood three feet in front of the offering table, respectfully held the incense and bowed three times.
The place where Dao Xuan Zhenren made the futon was only six feet away from the offering table, but the glimmer of light in front of him seemed to be unable to illuminate his location. In the dim shadows, he slowly raised his head, and Tian Buyi's figure stood in front of him with his back to him.
In the depths of the darkness, suddenly, like a ghost fire in the depths of the underworld, there was a "suddenly" sound, and two rays of light flashed instantly. Almost at the same time, like an invisible ghost howling sound wave swept through the main hall, all the incense candles and lights, except for the three fine incense sticks held in Tian Buyi's hand, all lit up.
Tian Buyi had finished his visit at this moment, and he was about to insert the fine incense into the incense burner when he stepped forward, but his body suddenly stopped, and even the hand holding the incense paused in mid-air.
In the main hall, there was a dead silence in an instant, and the two figures, one standing and one sitting, seemed to freeze and motionless. The yellow curtain in the distance, somehow, as if there was a breeze blowing in the main hall, fluttered lightly a few times, and then slowly stilled.
Outside the ancestral hall, Lin Jingyu was frowning and pondering, but suddenly he suddenly looked up and looked into the depths of the quiet and dim ancestral hall, with a faint surprise on his face.
In a trance, this hall, which was once a quiet and sleeping, was like a monster that woke up, coldly, and opened its eyes.
I don't know how long it took, the mysterious ghost fire in Dao Xuanzhen's eyes suddenly disappeared again, it came suddenly, and it went quickly. As the strange eyes slowly closed, the original slaughtering hall suddenly eased down, and the surrounding candle flames gradually lost their brightness and returned to their original glimmer.
The fine incense in Tian Buyi's hand was still lit carefully, and the three tiny incense sticks loomed in the dark. It's just that the fine incense trembled, but the white ash fell down lightly and fell on Tian Buyi's hand.
Tian Buyi's face was indifferent, he glanced coldly at the incense ash on the back of his hand, stood silently for a moment, shook his hand slightly, shook off the incense ash, and then stepped forward and respectfully inserted three fine incense sticks into the incense burner.
Six sticks of incense were lit in the incense burner at the same time, and the light smoke wafted and rose.
Tian Buyi didn't say a word, and bowed to the spiritual seat three more times, and then slowly turned around and faced the figure sitting on the futon on the ground.
"Senior Brother Daoxuan," he looked at that person deeply, his eyes were somehow surprised, sad, and even faintly painful, and said slowly, "We meet again!"
Most of Dao Xuan Zhenren's face trembled and shrouded in shadows, he couldn't see it really, but he seemed to be deaf to Tian Buyi's voice, and he didn't react at all, he still sat so quietly.
Tian Buyi stood and looked at him for a moment, and didn't say anything, but the expression on his face became heavier and heavier. The corners of his mouth moved slightly, and he stepped away, but he walked to Dao Xuan Zhenren's side, and sat down on another futon less than three feet away from him.
Above the main hall, there was silence.
Southern Xinjiang, 100,000 mountains, scorched black peaks.
Along the way, the eerie ghost howl became more and more vigorous, and the yin wind that blew from nowhere was also whining non-stop, blowing on people like knives, if it weren't for the ghost and the golden bottle are both profound, just this ghost crying wolf howl and cold yin wind, just afraid that it would be enough to make people mad.
It's just that the gloomy aura around here is getting stronger and stronger, and the two of them are becoming more and more cautious, but until they reached the bottom of the valley, they have reached a place where they can see the deep and dark entrance of the Demon Suppression Ancient Cave from afar, and they have not been subjected to any danger or ambush. This place full of mountains and fields like a ghost domain is incredibly quiet, not to mention that there are no fierce beasts and demons, even the poisonous insects and beasts that can be seen everywhere since entering the 100,000 mountains are nowhere to be seen.
This gloomy place seems to be the safest place among the 100,000 mountains, a land of poor mountains and bad waters......
Ghost Li and Jin Bottler stood on a small hill, looking at the ancient and deep cave from a distance, and could faintly see the stone statue standing at the entrance of the cave.
Both of them frowned slightly, and when they arrived here and now, they were unexpectedly calm, but they were even more worried.
Jin Bei'er pointed to the mouth of the cave and said, "That is the Demon Suppression Ancient Cave, when I first followed the man in black to this place, I saw the beast god resurrected from this cave. ”
Ghost Li nodded slightly, and then looked around the cave, only to see that except for the bottomless dark cave entrance, the cave was surrounded by vertical cliffs, strange rocks and hideous, and above the cave more than ten zhang high, there was a thick layer of black clouds close to the stone wall, slowly flowing in mid-air, like water clouds. Look at the dark color, you can tell that it must be a highly poisonous thing. At a glance, ordinary people definitely have nowhere to go, but a place of death.
Retracting his gaze, the ghost pondered for a moment, and said, "Let's go in?"
Jin Bei'er hesitated slightly, was silent for a while, and finally nodded, and said, "That's it, we've all come here, how can we retreat, let's go." ”
Ghost Li glanced at her, only to see that the expression on Jin Zhu'er's face was a little strange, and her face was a little pale, obviously still having some scruples about the mysterious cave. In fact, it's not just her, it's even the monkey Xiao Gray on the shoulders of the ghost, who seems to have changed her temper at this moment and seems to be very quiet.
As if sensing something, Jin Bei'er turned his eyes, looked at Ghost Li, and suddenly smiled, revealing a mouthful of beautiful teeth, and said with a smile: "I don't have to do anything, let's go over." ”
Ghost Li nodded and walked first. Jin Bei'er followed behind him and walked slowly towards the Demon Suppression Ancient Cave.
The sound of footsteps stepping on the hard scorched black rock was quickly drowned out in the howling yin wind, and the closer you got to the entrance of the ancient cave, the stronger the cold yin wind became, and the more cold the wind contained.
At this moment, both of them had already discovered that the cold yin wind that filled the mountains and fields was blowing out of that ancient cave.
As he got closer and closer to the entrance of the cave, the light around him seemed to gradually dim, and more and more of the light was obscured by the black clouds that were close to the entrance of the Demon Suppression Ancient Cave, as if such a place was not allowed to be entered.
And the stone statue standing at the mouth of the deep cave, facing the depths of the cave, finally appeared clearly in front of their eyes.
This section of the road is not very long, but for the two of them, it seems like they have walked for a long, long time, when they finally stood at the entrance of the Demon Suppression Ancient Cave, the sky has completely dimmed, and the sunlight that was still shining on them not long ago has completely disappeared above the black clouds.
Ghost Li slowly turned to the entrance of the cave and stood in front of the woman's stone statue.
The dim light shone on her......
Tens of millions of years of wind and frost have slowly carved the initial soft and beautiful smoothness into roughness, and in the changing time, how many eyes have stared at your face so faintly and quietly.
Time is like the water in the long river surging forward, never staying for half a minute, the initial touch, the initial memory, the countless wisps that have been deeply engraved in the heart, it turns out, after all, it will be forgotten.
Only a trace of the legend remained, and after a long time, it was inadvertently talked about by future generations.
Your former beauty, your former heroism, in the face of time, ashes and annihilation.
The cold wind swept through the placket and blew on the body, and the gaze of thousands of years, perhaps, could not compare to the regret of a thought after all!
The soft hand, gently patted on the shoulder, the monkey's little gray squeak, sounded in his ears, the ghostly body shook slightly, suddenly took a step back, and then woke up, he was unconsciously, staring at the young woman's stone statue, addicted.
As soon as he thought of this, Ghost Li's back felt as if he had been pricked by a needle, and his heart was slightly shocked. With his cultivation at this time, his heart is strong, and when facing this exquisite witch stone statue, he will unconsciously enter the Tao, and the strange power contained in this stone statue is really extraordinary.
The ghost froze his mind, and then turned his head to look at the golden bottle, if it wasn't for the golden bottle reminding him from the side just now, I really don't know how long he would have to indulge in the face of this stone statue, but how could the golden bottle be wary of this unaware stone statue, could it be that this woman unexpectedly has hidden strength?
Ghost Li turned his head to look, but he couldn't help but be stunned, only to see that although Jin Bei'er was standing beside him, and reached out and patted him on the shoulder, his whole body was in the opposite direction from where Ghost Li was standing, facing the entrance of the Demon Suppression Ancient Cave, with his back to the stone statue, and he didn't look at the face of the stone statue at all.
Ghost Li frowned and said, "What are you doing?"
Jin Bei'er smiled slightly and said, "This stone statue is very powerful, didn't I tell you?" )”
Ghost frowned again, snorted, and inhaled deeply. At this time, Xiao Ash, who had been lying on his shoulder, seemed to be a little impatient, and the monkey's tail wagged, and suddenly jumped out of the ghost's shoulder, and jumped on top of the stone statue at once, and after climbing a few times, finally sat on top of the stone statue.
Ghost Li's face changed, and he suddenly said in a deep voice: "Little Ash, come here." ”
The monkey looked at Ghost Li, reached out and grabbed his head, and squeaked twice, but finally jumped back to Ghost Li's shoulder from the stone statue. Jin Bei'er chuckled beside him: "What are you scaring the monkey for, it's just fun......"
Before he finished his sentence, Jin Bei'er was slightly surprised, seeing that the ghost was straightening his face, tidying up his clothes, and actually bowed to the stone statue quite respectfully.
Jin Bei'er was surprised: "What are you doing here?"
Ghost Li's face was indifferent, but he didn't answer, just stared deeply at the stone statue, arched his hand, then turned around, and said lightly: "It's nothing, let's go in." ”
The ancient cave is deep and dark, and the wind is gusting, and it is in front of them.
Jin Bei'er followed behind Ghost Li, looked at the monkey Xiao Gray who was looking a little bored, and then his eyes fell on Ghost Li, and said, "Why did you salute the stone statue just now?"
The ghostly footsteps paused, and then continued to walk forward, and said indifferently: "The demeanor of the predecessors, even though it has long been annihilated, but in people's hearts, there is always something worthy of respect. ”
Jin Bei'er frowned, obviously puzzled by Ghost Li's words like playing a dumb riddle, and was about to ask, but Ghost Li had already approached the entrance of the cave. Jin Bei'er hurriedly chased after him, frowning and said, "Hey, I'm talking to you, why are you walking so fast?" I haven't told you yet, the last time I came here, there was a fierce spirit here, although most of it was later eliminated by the beast god, but most of this cave entrance ......"
At this point, Jin Bei'er's voice suddenly became quieter, and almost at the same time, the ghostly footsteps also stopped.
The two of them stood a few feet away from the entrance of the Demon Suppression Ancient Cave, looking at the gloomy and dark cave, a white cold air slowly rose, blowing under the strength of the cold yin wind, but it did not dissipate in the slightest.
Seeing that the white gas gathered more and more, the volume became larger and larger, and finally it gradually condensed and formed, faintly appearing in the white gas, a huge figure appeared faintly, the roar was deep, roaring bursts, mixed in the yin wind whistling, even more powerful, like a fierce ghost god.
Jin Bei'er looked at the white gas, sighed, shook his head, and said, "Okay, now you see, there is a powerful and very bad-tempered fierce spirit here!"