Chapter Twenty-Three: Moon Shadow
When the moon is in the sky, the clouds and mist are shrouded, and the moonlight and fog are intertwined into a dreamlike landscape.
In the clouds and mist, the mountains and rocks are majestic, the majestic and the majestic and beautiful, between the looming, the mountains and rivers reflect each other, and the ancient temples are deep.
In the ancient temple of the mountains and rivers, the bright lights, the shadows outside the window danced with the candlelight, and a hazy figure of white and snowy stood in front of the window, looking up at the bright moon in the sky, her thoughts seemed to drift far away with her gaze......
It was as if she saw the figure in the depths of her mind and the distant past, who was she missing......
"Silly brother, are you okay?"
The warbler's tactful, quaint and ethereal call seemed to follow her thoughts to the moon, as if the moon would transmit it to the unknown of the vast Kyushu......
Under the bright moon, the moonlight shrouded Zhangjiatun, and the villagers had fallen asleep peacefully, but there was a place where the lights had not been drowning for a long time.
Zhang Tianci looked at the moon in front of the window, and the short three days were the most dangerous three days since he began to know the world, allowing him to further see the truth of this world.
Touching the Pegasus Yu Pei in his hand, there was a faint coolness, at this moment he thought of Xiao Rou again, just at the moment when death was about to come yesterday, he knew that she had always been his unfulfilled wish, for ten years, he had his own father and sister, he was reluctant to leave them to find Xiao Rou, he thought guiltily, is he too selfish.
"Xiaorou, where are you?Have you suffered?Is it a stupid brother, I'll definitely find you~~"
I called Xiaorou's name deeply in my heart.
"Squeak", the door opened, Zhang Tianci looked back and saw Zhang Tingwei walking in, and said, "Dad, why haven't you slept so late?"
Zhang Tingwei smiled slightly and said, "Haven't you slept yet?
"Well, how do you know?" asked Zhang Tianci after nodding.
"Ever since you came back with the iron ox on your back, I began to be suspicious, but I didn't ask Uncle Zhang Cheng when I was in a hurry to save you, but until you took out the blood lotus seeds, I confirmed the guess in my heart, you must have met an immortal cultivator, and you must have had a conflict with an immortal cultivator for the sake of the blood lotus seed, right?" Zhang Tingwei said solemnly.
"Yes, Dad's analysis is not wrong at all. Zhang Tianci said admittedly.
"Alas, why are you so reckless, you don't have any experience, don't Tie Niu know that immortal cultivators can not be provoked without provoking? Immortal cultivators are not easy to match, what if you can't fight them?" Zhang Tingwei said with some anger.
"Dad, it's not what you think! You misunderstood Uncle Tie Niu............ In the end, they killed each other to death! Then, Uncle Tie Niu lost his internal strength to me, so that we could come back in time. ”
Zhang Tianci slowly told the story.
"I see, your luck is really good, and it's too lucky, remember! The next time you meet an immortal cultivator, you can avoid the wall, of course, it's not that you're afraid of them, but you must always remember that we, as people who can cultivate in the human race, have the responsibility to protect our people, you don't just represent you alone, there are thousands of people behind you, often your careless behavior may affect them, Zhenshan City is the best lesson, so, I want you to meet them in the future, be cautious." Zhang Tingwei said earnestly.
Zhang Tianci nodded seriously and said, "Well, Ci'er remembers, Dad." ”
"Of course, if it reaches the point where there is no way to avoid it and can no longer bear it, we will take action when it is time to act, and we must not lose the dignity of our human race!" Zhang Tingwei said solemnly.
Zhang Tianci thought of the generals and soldiers who fought for dignity, and his face was solemn, "Don't worry, Dad, I will definitely not embarrass you." ”
"Well, of course I believe in Ci'er, I think you must be very puzzled, why are we afraid of immortal cultivators like tigers, this has to start with the power situation of the mainland, although I have already told you about it before, but you don't know the specifics, now, my father will talk to you about it......"
Zhang Tingwei slowly displayed a turbulent Kyushu power map in front of Zhang Tianci.
The Kyushu continent, I don't know its origin, I don't know its big, it's boundless, since ancient times, the place where human beings opened up and lived is divided into nine large states according to the region, so it's called the Kyushu continent.
Kyushu is Yongzhou, Yuzhou, Qingzhou, Yunzhou, Yangzhou, Huzhou, Shuzhou, Liangzhou, Mengzhou, and there are some wild places that human beings have not yet opened up or can not set foot in, surrounding the Kyushu continent, there are the East China Sea, the South Barbarian, the West Plains, and the Northern Wilderness.
After countless years of evolution, it has formed a world pattern in which Taoism leads the group, Buddhism and demons are independent, the demon race retreats, and the human race is humble. Nowadays, cultivation is prosperous, there are Taoist cultivators who cultivate immortals, there are Buddhist cultivators who cultivate themselves and worship Buddhas, there are demon cultivators who are free and blissful, there are demon cultivators who become spirits of plants and trees, and there are some small schools such as martial arts cultivation, Confucian cultivation, Legalist Yan Xiu, etc., of course, these are only developed in the last tens of thousands of years, and have not been valued and circulated in the cultivation world, and they basically live in the mortal world.
As a result, there are two worlds in the world, the world of cultivating immortals and the mortal world, because whether it is cultivating the Tao, cultivating Buddha, or cultivating demons, it is for the purpose of immortality and immortality. With the passage of time, there are more and more people cultivating immortals, and gradually they begin to consciously distinguish themselves from ordinary human races, becoming immortal cultivators, calling themselves immortal cultivators, and ordinary human beings are called mortal clans by them.
Nowadays, the world of cultivating immortals dominates the world, Buddhism, Taoism and demons are constantly in dispute, demons and evil are in chaos, good and evil are opposed, and in the torrent of these struggles, mortals are affected by the pond fish and become victims.
Finally, there are some wild beasts left over from ancient times, these wild beasts are few, but I don't know how many of them, they are all hidden in the wild places outside Kyushu, and rarely appear in front of the world, but do not underestimate that as long as there are fierce beasts in the world, it is a catastrophe in Kyushu, and it is inevitable that life will be ruined.
The Kyushu continent is dominated by the cultivation of immortals, the major sects control the various states and counties, the large and small sects are countless, occupying the most spiritual place in the Kyushu continent, the more famous is the seventy-two blessed land and thirty-six caves, among which the strongest one is a Buddha and a sword and three caves, a Buddha Liangzhou Xihuang Mountain Ten Thousand Buddha Temple, a sword Yunzhou Lingxu blessed land Liuyun Sword Sect, three caves have Yuzhou Fengjun Mountain Pengxuan Cave Tian, Huzhou Daheng Mountain Zhuling Cave Heaven, Yangzhou Tanggong Mountain treasure pole Xuantian, and to Pengxuan Dongtian as the righteous path of the bull's ear, outside the immortal world, the mortal world has a four-city alliance, the four cities are established by the king of the people, all have a history of tens of thousands of years, is the strongest force to protect the human race, but also the symbol of the belief of the human race, they are Yongzhou Luoyang City, Mengzhou Tianying City, Huzhou Jinxiang City, Yangzhou Lingxiu City, among which Luoyang City Luoyang Academy is the holy land of the human race, set the elite of the human race in the academy, determined to study and create the strongest way of survival for the human race.
There are nine realms for immortal cultivators to cultivate, which are divided into foundation building, enlightenment, fusion, golden pill, yuan infant, transformation of gods, refining void, merger, and Mahayana.
The nine realms of cultivating immortals correspond to the nine realms of mortals, cultivating immortals pays attention to the sublimation of the spirit, and the ultimate way is to combine the spirit with the way of heaven, and the spiritual sustenance with the way of heaven, so as to reach the same life as the sky. However, the Nine Realms of Mortals focus on the cultivation of the human body itself, and go the opposite way, only taking one rule of the Heavenly Dao and integrating it into the physical body, the physical body is the rule, and the rules are what the physical body does.
The two cultivation methods can't say who is higher and who is bottom, but it is indeed more difficult for mortals to cultivate in the Nine Realms, because it is also a physical body, and the qualification of the physical body determines the height of cultivation, the physical body is the heavenly moat for mortal cultivation, but the cultivation of immortals does not exist, and the physical body is just a skin for immortal cultivators, and it can be discarded and replaced.
The two people Zhang Tianci and Tie Niu met in the Canglu Mountains were both masters of the Yuanying realm, one burned the Yuanying Divine Soul, and the other was directly killed, so he couldn't see the scene of the immortal cultivator taking off his flesh and skin and surviving.
After Zhang Tingwei carefully told Zhang Tianci the basic knowledge of the Kyushu Continent, he asked, "Do you know why I told you this?"
Zhang Tianci pondered for a while and asked, "Dad, do you have anything to tell the child?"
"Ci'er, the reason why my father is telling you this is to tell you that this world is very big, you have to go out, you can't be bound by Zhangjiatun and your father and mother, your day is not in Zhangjiatun, but in Kyushu, go to Luoyang Academy, and then go to Kyushu to find your own sky!" Zhang Tingwei said encouragingly.
"Dad, the child is very confused now, you let me think about it, okay?"
Zhang Tianci is very contradictory, his reluctance to Zhangjiatun, his attachment to his relatives, his yearning for the world of Kyushu, and his longing for Xiaorou are all intertwined in his heart, and his heart is like numbness.
"Well, no matter what choice you make, your mother and I will support you. Zhang Tingwei said gently, in fact, he was just as reluctant. He silently closed the door and exited Zhang Tianci's room.
The lonely moon was starless, silent in the middle of the night, and the moonlight shone through the window, reflecting the silent shadow on his ground motionless for a long time......