Chapter 3: Aftermath.

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When the sun rose from the east, when the sunlight dispelled the darkness, the various negative feelings that originally surrounded Xu Qingfan's heart seemed to ease a lot under the sun. The full-text and ad-free novels are all biquge.info on Aishang Novel Network

Feeling the warmth of the sun on his face, Xu Qingfan woke up from meditation, slowly opened his eyes, and looked at the familiar furnishings in his house, chairs, bookcases, and various wooden objects in the dim and light transformation looked calm and elegant, Xu Qingfan's heart couldn't help but flash a trace of dazedness.

"Is it all over?"

Xu Qingfan muttered to himself in a low voice, although a whole night had passed, but at this time, there was a lot of disbelief in his tone.

Treachery, intrigue, scuffle, gore, betrayal, death.

It was as if it was the same thing that had happened in the previous moment, and it was as if he was still in that endless crisis, dealing with a deadly threat that would suddenly appear at any time.

Whether it is on Huandao, or in the back mountain of Jiuhua, or in front of Hualing Palace, carefully thinking back about the experience of these days, Xu Qingfan can't believe that he has experienced so many life and death wanderings in such a short period of time, every moment between life and death, Xu Qingfan is still in a cold sweat when he looks back now, and it is even more difficult to believe that he has survived so many life and death fights.

But Xu Qingfan no longer dared to guarantee that if he was allowed to re-experience the events of these days, he would still be fine.

It is hard for Xu Qingfan to imagine that with his elegant and lazy character, what kind of mentality and methods have been used to spend the excitement of these days.

And even if he survived these abnormal waves, Xu Qingfan paid a lot of price, not counting the internal injuries and spiritual losses suffered in his body for the time being, just the wound on his right leg does not know how long it will take to heal, especially the cold qi entangled in his leg, even if Xu Qingfan has the phoenix aura, it will take a lot of effort to get rid of it all.

Suddenly returning to the original tranquility and tranquility from the chaos, Xu Qingfan was a little uncomfortable at this time. The nerves that had been tense for more than ten days could not be relaxed again in a short period of time no matter what.

Feeling the leisurely smell of the air and sunshine, a dreamlike feeling hit Xu Qingfan's heart, as if he was in a dream now, and as if those previous experiences were just the vivid dreams of last night.

After waking up and checking his current body, Xu Qingfan couldn't help frowning. Even after a whole night of meditation and recuperation, the aura in his body at this time was still only less than thirty percent recovered, and the internal injuries were only slightly relieved, but fortunately, his movements were fine, but his right leg was still a little slight.

Shaking his head helplessly, Xu Qingfan stood up and pushed open the door, and the thin sunlight that was originally just shining through the cracks in the room suddenly became intense. In just a few moments, it was sprinkled all over every inch of Xu Qingfan's room.

Squinting his eyes and carefully feeling the sunlight outside the door, I took a deep breath of the fresh morning air, and the dreamlike feeling was relieved a lot. After a long time, Xu Qingfan laughed self-deprecatingly, shook his head, and put aside the remaining illusory feeling in his heart.

The past is gone, now that it is over. Then we must cherish the present even more.

And at this moment, there was a "squeak" and another sound of pushing the door, Xu Qingfan turned his head to look, but in the room next to him, Ting'er pushed the door out, as if she had already known that Xu Qingfan was outside, and looked at Xu Qingfan with inquiring eyes.

"When are we going to the top of Jiuhua Mountain to cultivate?"

Although Ting'er didn't speak, her eyes seemed to have spirituality, just an inquiring look. It clearly expressed her meaning.

Xu Qingfan looked at Ting'er's well-behaved appearance, and found that the indifference and unruliness in her original eyes seemed to have dissipated a lot, and it seemed that after Xu Qingfan's subtle transformation over the years, Ting'er's hatred for Xu Qingfan and the influence of the magic bead seemed to have faded a lot, and it seemed to be hidden deeper.

A hint of relief flashed in his eyes, and Xu Qingfan asked with a smile: "Ting'er, we are about to move out, and it is estimated that we will not return here for many years, do you have anything to take with you?"

Hearing Xu Qingfan's question, Ting'er's eyes showed a hint of thought. After a few moments, she turned back to the house, and when she came out of the room again, she had a puppet toy in the shape of a puppy and a yellowed book.

And the puppet toy that looks like a puppy was bought on the road when Xu Qingfan took Ting'er back to Jiuhua Mountain before. But the reason why Xu Qingfan bought this puppet. It's not because of how much Ting'er likes this puppet. In fact, Ting'er is very precocious. There has never been the slightest interest in these toys.

The real reason is that on the way to visit the town, Xiaobi in Ting'er's arms suddenly became extremely interested in this dog-shaped puppet, and suddenly jumped up from Ting'er's arms, rushed to the stall selling puppet toys, and bit the puppet. Looking at the puppet with tooth marks and saliva, the stall owner's eyes were full of anger, and he wanted to bite Xiaobi twice, Xu Qingfan had no choice but to buy this puppet and use it as a toy for Xiaobi.

And it turns out that after having this puppet, Xiaobi is extremely attached to this toy. After returning to Jiuhua Mountain, whenever Ting'er practiced the Dao and ignored it flawlessly, Xiaobi would run around the puppet with great interest, looking like she had found a playmate, which saved Xu Qingfan a lot of trouble.

But Xu Qingfan now knows that Xiaobi is about to evolve into Dabi after being fed a lot of elixirs by Liu Huaxiang, and imagining that from time to time in the future, Xiaobi, who is several feet tall, will run around this doll of several inches, Xu Qingfan can't help but feel a chill in his heart.

And that book is the "Three Quests" that Xu Qingfan left for Ting'er before he went to Zhantai to participate in the newcomer competition. Judging from her behavior of taking this book with her before leaving, maybe Ting'er didn't get anything from this book, but she cared a little more about what Xu Qingfan gave her.

Thinking of this, Xu Qingfan was even more happy in his heart, and said to Ting'er: "Ting'er, you wait outside the hospital, and I will take you away immediately." ”

Seeing Ting'er obediently walking outside the courtyard, Xu Qingfan also walked to his house, and Xu Qingfan, the magic weapon spirit stone pill that he had collected over the years, was all on his body, so there were only some books to take away, such as the thirteen volumes of "Strange Tales of Mountains and Seas". There are also ten volumes of "History of Cultivating Immortals", which can be read twice in your spare time.

After putting those books of interest in his sleeve, Xu Qingfan walked into the courtyard again, first bowed to Yue Qingru's grave, and then got busy in the courtyard again. And bury one of them in this courtyard and set up a protective array to protect the cave. But later, it was broken by Nangong Qingshan and was damaged and unusable.

I don't know how long it will take to leave this time, although the "Baicao Garden" on the top of Jiuhua Mountain is not far from here, Xu Qingfan will not return much, so Xu Qingfan will bury another "three-yuan array" array in the courtyard this time, and once again set up a "three-element array" to protect this cave. This was not because Xu Qingfan still had any treasures hidden here, but because Xu Qingfan didn't want any wild beasts to stray into here and disturb Yue Qingru's rest. or the destruction of courtyard houses.

Although the previous "Three-Yuan Array" has been destroyed by Nangong Qingshan, the ground spirit stones buried in many positions still exist, and it is the second time that this formation has been arranged, so this time Xu Qingfan is much faster than the previous one. After a while, the white mist once again shrouded the courtyard of the wooden house, and Xu Qingfan's cave mansion in the back mountain immediately regained its original familiar appearance.

One last look at this place where I have lived for more than 20 years. A trace of nostalgia flashed in Xu Qingfan's eyes, and then without hesitation, he patted Ting'er's head and said softly: "Ting'er, let's go." ”

Saying that, Xu Qingfan made the "Wanli Cloud" and flew quickly towards the front mountain with Ting'er.

On the "Wanli Cloud", Ting'er also took one last look at this courtyard like Xu Qingfan, and then turned her eyes to the top of Jiuhua Mountain, as if expecting something fresh there.

When Xu Qingfan and Ting'er finally disappeared. The back mountain has once again regained its former appearance, quiet and distant, with continuous shade of trees, full of life but no traces of people.

Or, this is what Jiuhua Houshan should look like.

It's noisy, it's really not suitable for here.

After flying to the front mountain, Xu Qingfan hesitated a little in mid-air, and then flew in the direction of Xiao Huazhe's cave mansion with the "Wanli Cloud". Originally, Xu Qingfan wanted to go to Jin Qinghan, Li Yuhan, Sheng Yushan and others to say goodbye to them first, but he thought that Jiuhua was about to close the mountain. And they are about to enter the "Nine Pole Cave" to experience, and cultivating in the "Nine Pole Cave" is very dangerous, presumably they are making all kinds of preparations for this at this time, and it is inconvenient for them to bother, so they have dispelled the idea of going to them. turned to find his local teacher, Xiao Huazhe. This is also Xu Qingfan's only acquaintance in Jiuhua Mountain, except for Liu Huaxiang.

Xiao Huazhe's cave is located in a bamboo forest on the mountainside of Jiuhua Mountain, which looks very elegant under the shroud of early morning mist. Compared with Xu Qingfan's cave in the back mountain, although it is less clean, it is more exquisite.

After Xu Qingfan descended the "Wanli Cloud", he led Ting'er to stand respectfully outside the bamboo forest, and then said loudly at the bamboo forest: "Uncle Xiao, the junior Xu Qingfan came to visit. ”

With the assistance of aura, Xu Qingfan's earthly voice clearly spread to every corner of the bamboo forest.

A moment later, Xiao Huazhe's solemn voice also came out clearly from the bamboo forest.

"Is it Senior Nephew Xu? ”

Hearing Xiao Huazhe's voice, Xu Qingfan did not hesitate any longer, and led Ting'er to stroll towards the exquisite bamboo house in the bamboo forest.

When I entered the house, I saw that Xiao Huazhe was not sitting cross-legged on the bamboo bed meditating as usual at this time, but standing quietly in front of the window, looking up at the wind blowing and bamboo outside the window, the clouds were rising and falling, as if he was thinking about something, and seemed to be thinking about something, and there was a faint sense of loneliness in his back.

After hearing Xu Qingfan's footsteps, Xiao Huazhe also turned around slowly, first glanced at Ting'er beside Xu Qingfan, but did not express any surprise at the dark flame pattern on Ting'er's face, and then looked at Xu Qingfan deeply, as if he wanted to see something in Xu Qingfan.

But after Xu Qingfan saw Xiao Huazhe's face, he was taken aback.

It turned out that Xiao Huazhe, as the eldest disciple of the "Hua" generation of Jiuhua Mountain, was the first master of Jiuhua Mountain (except for Li Xuhan). He has always paid great attention to his appearance, although he doesn't dress up much, but he has always been neatly dressed, his hair is neat, and he is not messy at all, but at this time, he looks at Xiao Huazhe. But his sideburns were messy, his clothes were wrinkled, and it seemed that he hadn't cleaned himself at all since the Jiuhua Rebellion yesterday.

Although he was surprised, he thought that Xiao Huazhe might be worried about Jiuhua's appearance at this time, so Xu Qingfan didn't think much about it, but just led Ting'er to give him a deep salute. But just as he wanted to greet him, he heard Xiao Huazhe suddenly speak: "Qingfan." To be honest, neither you nor Qingru are at all like my junior brother. ”

Hearing Xiao Huazhe say this, Xu Qingfan was slightly stunned, but he didn't know what Xiao Huazhe's words meant, so he didn't dare to answer lightly, but just looked at Xiao Huazhe suspiciously. Wait for him to continue.

But I heard Xiao Huazhe continue: "My junior brother, since the first day he entered Jiuhua Mountain, has been very persistent in cultivating immortals. And you and Qing Ru, although they are my junior disciples, are not so persistent in cultivating immortals, but are more interested in reading books and planting flowers

Hearing Xiao Huazhe say this, Xu Qingfan felt slightly ashamed. He said in a low voice: "Master, his old man is awe-inspiring, and he is expected to find the way to immortality, so he naturally cultivates diligently. However, my senior brother and I have inferior qualifications, even if we are diligent, it is in vain, so we don't care so much about cultivating immortals on weekdays. ”

Xiao Huazhe shook his head and said slowly: "I hope that my junior brother can learn more from your two disciples, so that he will not have to fall into reincarnation so early." ”

Xu Qingfan was slightly stunned, and his doubts were even worse, looking at Xiao Huazhe's messy and lonely face, he didn't know what to say for a while.

But I heard Xiao Huazhe say again: "There are three stages of cultivating immortals. The difference between the foundation building period, the knot period, and the Mahayana period, has my junior brother told you?"

Xu Qingfan shook his head and said: "Master, he only told the juniors about the difference between the Qi refining period, the valley period, and the spiritual silence period in the foundation building period. But he never mentioned it to his juniors. ”

Xiao Huazhe nodded. Said slowly: "If the immortal cultivators in the foundation building period are using the aura of heaven and earth to transform themselves, then the monks in the foundation building period are comprehending the way of heaven. The Mahayana monks, on the other hand, merge themselves with the Heavenly Dao. When the body and the Heavenly Dao are completely fused, they will reach the state of coexistence with the heavens and the earth, which is what we often call the path of eternal life. ”

Hearing what Xiao Huazhe said, Xu Qingfan hurriedly held his breath and remembered these words in his heart, because Xu Qingfan knew that although Xiao Huazhe's words seemed ordinary, they were all his experience in cultivating immortals for many years, and they were precious and abnormal.

Sure enough, Xiao Huazhe continued: "During the foundation building period, the battle between the monks was completely based on who had strong aura and whose Dao was pure, and after the Dan period, whether the monk was strong or not completely depended on the monk's comprehension of the Heavenly Dao. ”

After Xiao Huazhe paused, he continued: "It's just that since it's the way of heaven, where is it so easy to comprehend? If you want to comprehend the way of heaven, you must maintain a natural and peaceful state of mind at all times, only in this way can you keenly sense the subtleties of the way of heaven, and then comprehend the way of heaven." And the junior brother is because he is too persistent in cultivating immortals, unable to maintain a calm heart, but instead fell into the inferior, before his death, I told him many times for this, and although he also understood these truths, but he just couldn't put aside the heart of the attachment, as a result, after cultivating to the Jindan period, he could no longer advance an inch, and finally died of old age, which can be described as desolate. ”

Although Xiao Huazhe's words were full of accusations and faults against Xu Qingfan's master Lu Huayan, Xu Qingfan knew that what Xiao Huazhe said had his own reason, so he couldn't refute it, so he could only listen silently.

Xiao Huazhe continued: "That's why I said that my junior brother should learn more from you two disciples in terms of mentality. Because if he can have your mentality, the progress of the realm will naturally increase greatly, so if nothing else, then after a hundred years, he can enter the Mahayana realm with me and continue to explore the mystery of immortality. ”

Hearing Xiao Huazhe's words, Xu Qingfan first felt sorry for his master, and then his body was shocked, and he looked up at Xiao Huazhe incredulously. He exclaimed, "Uncle Shi, do you mean that you will be able to step into the Mahayana period in another hundred years and become a generation of grandmasters?"

Xiao Huazhe nodded, but the strange thing was that at this time, instead of seeing happiness, his face showed a deep sense of loneliness and gloom.

When he saw Xu Qingfan, he was about to congratulate, but Xiao Huazhe waved his hand and said, "You don't have to congratulate me." Because I don't have a hundred years left for me to continue my practice. ”

Hearing Xiao Huazhe's words, Xu Qingfan was puzzled at first, then his body shook, and he asked urgently: "What do you mean by this, uncle? Could it be that you are like my master, and Shouyuan has ......?"

Xiao Huazhe sighed, shook his head, and then nodded again, and said softly: "My land Shouyuan was not exhausted. But before, in order to deceive Zhou Huahai's trust, I took a Heavenly Spirit Pill, and my longevity was greatly consumed, and now I only have less than thirty years to live. ”

Xu Qingfan's face was shocked, and he hurriedly asked, "With your cultivation realm, Master, can't you even remove the medicinal power of this Heavenly Spirit Pill?"

Xiao Huazhe nodded gloomily and said, "Zhang Xusheng is a rare genius in Jiuhua's lineage. The heavenly elixir he made, I Jiuhua gathered the strength of the whole faction, and I couldn't even solve it. ”

As he spoke, Xiao Huazhe sighed heavily.

Looking at the thick despair in Xiao Huazhe's eyes, he finally understood why Xiao Huazhe, who has always paid attention to his appearance, is now so messy in his clothes and sideburns.

Although he had the heart to comfort Xiao Huazhe, Xu Qingfan found that he couldn't find any reason to comfort him at all, and at this time. But there is no reason to comfort Xiao Huazhe.

So Xu Qingfan moved his lips, but in the end he didn't say anything, just sighed after being silent for a long time, and said softly: "Heaven is unfair." ”

seems to be complaining to Xiao Huazhe, and seems to be talking to himself.

Seeing Xu Qingfan's worried eyes, Xiao Huazhe's originally decadent and lonely expression seemed to ease slightly, and after a moment of silence, he suddenly changed his words and asked, "Qingfan, do you remember what I said at your master's funeral?"

didn't wait for Xu Qingfan to answer. Xiao Huazhe continued: "I said that after I die, I don't know if there will be filial disciples like you and Qingru to send me to the end, and whether someone will put incense in front of my tomb on the death day every year, but unfortunately I have never liked to be lively. So although cultivating immortals for hundreds of years. But I haven't accepted a single disciple so far, so I don't think anyone will send me to the end. ”

There was a thick sense of loneliness and exhaustion in his voice.

Heard Xiao Huazhe say this. Xu Qingfan was also sad in his heart, and hurriedly said: "Uncle, you don't have to be sad, although the junior is not your personal disciple, but as the younger generation's personal uncle, if you fall into reincarnation after thirty years, the junior will definitely carry your coffin in person." ”

Although Xu Qingfan assured this, Xiao Huazhe's face was not much happy, but the decadence and loneliness were slightly reduced, staring at Xu Qingfan's expression for a long time, and seeing that the sincerity in Xu Qingfan's eyes was by no means a fraud, Xiao Huazhe nodded lightly and said: "Count it out, you are also the only successor of me and my junior brother, let you send me to the end, it is also the past." ”

Xu Qingfan hurriedly said: "Yes, if you have an accident, the juniors will only do their part." But Uncle Shi, you don't have to be so depressed, the world is impermanent, the fate is unpredictable, maybe, maybe Uncle Shi, you will have some adventures over the years, and maybe you can get rid of the harm of the Heavenly Spirit Pill in your body. When the time comes, you will become a grandmaster, and the younger generations will always be by your side to listen to your teachings. ”

Xiao Huazhe shook his head gloomily and said: "If chance can really appear from time to time, then it is not called chance." ”

After a pause, Xiao Huazhe suddenly waved his right sleeve, and several spiritual magic weapons suddenly appeared on the bamboo table beside him, but it was a two-foot-long ring ruler with colorful light, a bronze mirror with ghostly light, a black stone tablet, and a green slip.

But I heard Xiao Huazhe say: "Since you are sending me to the end, then you can count me as half a disciple." Life does not bring it, death does not bring it. The things I have cultivated and collected over the years, I am afraid that after I die, they will all be collected by Zhang Hualing, the old guy, but I can't leave nothing for you, these things I think you may use, even if I give them to you, the specific usage is recorded on the Qing Jian. ”

Xu Qingfan knew that Xiao Huazhe was in a desperate mood now, and he would not be in the mood to be polite to him at all, so he didn't make much excuses, but silently put those three things in his sleeve.

Seeing Xu Qingfan's movements, Xiao Huazhe nodded with satisfaction, suddenly sighed again, and then said: "If there is nothing to do, you can go back, originally I wanted you to stay with me for the last period of time, but I learned to be lonely when I died." But as far as I know, you have to go to the top of Jiuhua Mountain to practice with Senior Brother Liu Huaxiang, right? Senior Brother Liu's cultivation is to the sky, and his knowledge and cultivation are far better than mine, but it is also a great opportunity for you to get his personal guidance, you must cherish it, and don't lose the face of me and Senior Brother Lu. ”

Hearing that Xiao Huazhe admired Liu Huaxiang's cultivation so much, Xu Qingfan was slightly stunned, but thought that Xiao Huazhe was just polite, so he didn't care much, and just wanted to express his idea of staying with him, but saw that Xiao Huazhe had turned around and continued to look at the bamboo forest outside the window, as if he couldn't see enough, and waved his hand at Xu Qingfan at the same time, signaling that Xu Qingfan could leave, and he didn't want to say a word to Xu Qingfan.

Xu Qingfan sighed slightly, knowing that Xiao Huazhe just wanted to be alone at this time, although his heart was gloomy, it was very similar to staying to comfort him, but he still bowed helplessly and said: "Then the disciple will leave, and you should take care of yourself, uncle." ”

At this time, Xu Qingfan no longer called himself a "junior" to Xiao Huazhe, but changed to a "disciple".

After finishing speaking, Xu Qingfan pulled Ting'er and left slowly.

When Xu Qingfan walked out of the bamboo forest with a gloomy mood, he heard a burst of sad singing suddenly from the bamboo forest, and his voice was full of helplessness and loneliness.

The lyrics say: "When I look forward to the west wind and resent, when the red reeds are broken." There is no trace of the empty fence in the old garden, and the cold moon and frost are known in dreams. The heart is far away with the wild goose, and it is too late to sit and listen to the anvil. Whoever pities me for the sake of heaven, there will be a period of consolation for Chongyang. ”

Hearing this mournful song and feeling the helplessness in Xiao Huazhe's heart, Xu Qingfan's body was shocked, and he sighed gloomily again, and then did not stop, and flew quickly towards the "Baicao Garden" on the top of Jiuhua Mountain.

Since the old one is gone, it means that the new one is about to begin.

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