"The sky of the pot, the sky of the lake."
Pang Jian, who was keeping quiet and relaxed, suddenly had mutual feelings one day and realized something clearly.
The human soul is like a calm and clear lake.
The water is extremely deep, but it is clear enough that you should be able to see things at the bottom of the lake.
However, whenever distracting thoughts arise and wild thoughts arise, the clear and calm lake surface becomes like stones being thrown, causing ripples to appear on the lake surface.
After the ripples formed and merged with each other, the lake surface was stirred up, making it difficult to see clearly any scene at the bottom of the lake.
Only by eliminating many distracting thoughts in your mind, keeping your heart calm and focusing on yourself, will your inner lake stop being rippled and can you look at yourself with clarity.
After realizing this, Pang Jian concentrated on practicing for a long time. He felt increasingly calm and his mind gradually became clearer.
In this state, Pang Jian can feel that when he takes a deep breath, his abdominal cavity is gently inflated, like a gentle massage of the internal organs, making them active and full of strength.
He immediately understood that being able to penetrate one's own internal mysteries was the so-called awakening.
At this point, he had his first glimpse of the cultivation method of "Hutian Qi Nourishing Technique".
Just this step made Pang Jian feel great benefits. Every time he woke up from meditation, he felt refreshed and his mind was clear.
His hearing and vision have also improved slightly, and his inner anxiety and irritability have also been greatly reduced.
"Huh?"
One day, Pang Jian, who was concentrating on feeling the presence of Qi, noticed the warmth in his chest.
After frowning, he lifted up the clothes on his chest and looked at a bronze pendant close to his skin.
The pendant is simple, fits the back of the skin, and is as smooth as warm jade.
The front is in the shape of a copper door, filled with unknown textures, and there are two ring handles, which seem to be able to open the copper door through the handles.
This thing was the only thing his father had torn off from his neck before he left that day and left him.
Pang Jian has been wearing a bronze pendant for several years, and there has never been anything unusual or special. However, he has been practicing the "Hutian Qi Nourishing Technique" recently. Whenever he feels the movement of "qi", the bronze medal always becomes too warm.
Holding the bronze medal on his chest, Pang Jian rubbed the front of the medal with his fingertips, feeling the rough texture, and gently pulled the ring handle.
The copper door-shaped pendant did not open the door, and there was no other strangeness due to his operation.
The unusual warmth of the object was broken by his clarification of his state of mind and quickly returned to its original state.
Pang Jian didn't take it seriously. After getting up, washing himself and eating, he began the next round of concentrating on "qi".
During this process, the bronze medal on his chest became warm again, but Pang Jian no longer paid attention to it.
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this day.
Pang Jian, who was quietly observing himself and focusing on his practice, was disturbed by the noise from the outside world.
After stepping out of the stone house, he saw a few dead bones suddenly appearing in the gloomy sky above him, falling like meteors towards the north of the Fourth Realm.
They disappeared deep into the Silent Mountains, causing the ground thousands of miles away to tremble and roar, causing the stone house behind Pang Jian to shake violently.
From such a distance, Pang Jian could hear the frightened and excited roars of the beasts in the mountains.
Pang Jian naturally thought of the image of a piece of white sacred bone piercing the sacred bird Green Vulture, and vaguely felt that the withered bones falling from the sky might have the same origin as the sacred bone.
The difference is that the sacred bones that assassinated the green eagle are as bright as jade, and their divine light is brilliant.
The dead bones that fell towards the Silent Mountains were gray and dull, and the mysterious power they contained seemed to have been exhausted, making them appear dim and lifeless.
Pang Jian was alarmed by the abnormality in the sky, so he suspended the practice of "Hu Tian Qi Nourishing Technique" and paid close attention to the changes in the sky.
Half a day later.
Pang Jian saw a golden chariot bathed in divine light, first emerging from the depths of the thick clouds and swooping all the way to the depths of the Silent Mountains.
When the chariot landed, a roar erupted in the mountains, and a dazzling golden light pillar rushed into the air, and it took a long time to slowly fall back.
One day passed.
Another huge sailing ship also descended from the sky. The black flag was fluttering on the sailing ship. In the center of the flag, there was a bloody crescent moon rising and falling, releasing a fascinating and eerie brilliance.
Not long after, there was another translucent five-story white tower, slowly rotating and sinking from the upper world.
The chariot, the sailing ship, and the white pagoda were all extraordinary things, which fascinated Pang Jian.
Pang Jian gradually came to his senses and knew that something must have happened deep in the Silent Mountains.
The high-ranking figures in the upper world are either searching for dead bones, or they are coming because of the abnormality of the "strange fog".
Pang Jian, who has been hunting in the Cenji Mountains for many years, knows most of the areas in the mountains very well. He knows exactly where there are dangers in the depths of those mountains, rivers and lakes, and where his father has set up forbidden areas and is not allowed to enter.
Although he was infinitely curious, since he knew that great changes had taken place in the Serenity Mountains, he decided to postpone hunting in the mountains for the sake of caution and focus on the rare spiritual secrets in his hands.
After that, he paid attention for a while and saw that no more strange objects from the upper world fell, so he returned to the house and continued to practice.
The "qi" recorded in "Hu Tian Qi Nourishing Technique" is different from the air he breathes. It does not need to be breathed into the abdominal cavity, but needs to sink into the spiritual sea of Dantian.
This kind of "qi" is called "spiritual energy". It has magical power and is also the basis of the strength of the Qi Refiner.
Pang Jian, who restrained his inner curiosity and suppressed his desire to explore, often heard the roar from the depths of the Silent Mountains, the roars and screams of people, and the wails and roars of wild beasts when he felt the presence of "spiritual energy".
He was sure that a fierce battle would break out deep in the Silent Mountains, so he restrained his desire to explore even more.
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"right here."
Pang Jian, who was practicing hard that day, was alarmed by the sound outside the courtyard and hurried out to visit.
Outside the fence, a group of seven people rode tall armored horses and arrived in front of his house at some unknown time.
Perhaps because he was practicing too seriously and focusing on examining the subtleties of his abdominal cavity, Pang Jian did not hear the sound of horse hooves.
"Crack!"
The visitor drove the horse forward unceremoniously. The heavy horse's hooves destroyed the fence and rushed directly into the courtyard.
"People from Linshan Town say that you hunt in the Silent Mountains all year round and are most familiar with that side of the mountains, but is that so?"
A gloomy old man with a goatee rode an armored war horse in front of Pang Jian. He had no intention of dismounting and spoke. He just looked at Pang Jian condescendingly and said with an attitude that could not be refused: "We are going to the Cenji Mountains. , we need to find someone who is familiar with the terrain and environment to guide us, it’s your boy.”
"I won't go." Pang Jian, who knew that the mountain was not peaceful recently, gritted his teeth and refused.
"That's not up to you."
The old man bared his teeth and smiled strangely, untied the thick black rope from the saddle, and assumed a posture of taking Pang Jian away by force.
"Let me talk to him!"
Behind the old man, a young girl shouted softly and rode a divine white horse.
When she reached the old man, she also had no intention of dismounting. She just threw a cloth bag at Pang Jian and said coldly like giving alms: "We are not unreasonable, we are paying you."
On the white horse, the girl is wearing a neat outfit. She has a pretty face, curvaceous curves, and looks very heroic.
Those young women in Linshan Town are like the light of grains of rice compared to the brightness of the bright moon when compared with the girl in front of them.
Pang Jian, who had only been around the Silent Mountains since he was a child, and rarely even went to Linshan Town, fixed his eyes on the girl and was distracted for a moment.
"If you look again I will pluck out your eyes."
Before Pang Jian could take a few more glances, there was a thin young man in white robe pulling on a black horse behind him, his slender eyes full of cold scolding.
Pang Jian said nothing, silently withdrew his gaze, and then picked up the bag on the ground.
After opening it, he found that it was filled with large pieces of silver, enough for him to exchange for several years of rice, flour, grain and oil to meet his daily needs.
Pang Jian, who held the bag tightly, then thought that since the mountains had been silent for a long time, perhaps the previous riots and disputes had subsided.
He also wanted to know what happened inside, so he said: "Okay."
"Hey, he turns out to be a money-grubbing boy." The gloomy old man chuckled, raised his hand and pointed to the Cenji Mountain Range, and said, "You lead the way."
Pang Jian looked at the snow-white horse the girl was riding on and said, "It's too slow to walk. I want to get on the horse."
"Mount?"
The young man in the white robe on the black horse looked at Pang Jian with cold eyes. Hearing this, he became angry again: "You will do whatever I ask you to do. If you dare to say another word, I will cut out your tongue."
Pang Jian was gouging out his eyes and trying to cut out his tongue. Pang Jian couldn't help but look at the angry young man, and then at the beautiful girl with a heroic spirit. He guessed that the young man was in love with the girl in front of him.
"Can you ride a horse?" the girl asked coldly.
"I am a hunter in the mountains, do you think I can do it?" Pang Jian asked without answering.
The girl was surprised. She didn't expect Pang Jian to dare to ask her back. A strange color appeared in her bright eyes. She nodded lightly and then ordered: "Liu Qi, you and Zhang Heng ride on the same horse. Let him ride your horse." .”
"oh."
One person reluctantly dismounted, pulled the reins and led the horse to Pang Jian, patted the red horse's head, whispered something, and then said: "It has a fierce temper. If you get hurt by it, , don’t blame me.”
After saying this, he turned around with a smile and glanced at the young man in white robe.
The young man's eyes showed approval.
Pang Jian remained silent. When he returned to the house, he first prepared his bow, arrows and sword, and put the bamboo basket on his back. Then he took the reins and mounted the horse in the stirrups, then whipped his horse and rushed towards the Cenji Mountains.
"Deng Deng Deng!"
The maroon war horse suddenly ran wildly, swinging wildly along the way, like a violent and ferocious beast that had never been tamed.
Pang Jian's upper body swayed violently with the horse, but his lower body always stayed close to the horse's back, as if it had taken root. No matter how hard the horse tossed him, he was not thrown off.
The war horse galloped wildly towards the Cenji Mountains, trying every means to get away from Pang Jian, but in the end it failed.
After a while, the exhausted war horse gradually calmed down as if it had accepted its fate.
"This kid has something." The old man stroked his beard thoughtfully.
"Hope the trip goes well."
The heroic girl sighed softly, her face full of sorrow. Her eyes did not linger on Pang Jian and the irritable horses at all, but always fell in the depths of the Silent Mountains, saying: "The blood moon of the upper world, Yinling Temple, There are also people from the Lieyang Sect who have gone deep into it and their life and death are unknown, and none of them have been able to get out so far."
The girl paused for a moment, then continued: "The northernmost area of the Silent Mountains is partially shrouded in mist, and it is most likely a forbidden area. I don't know how many unknown terrors have been spawned."
"You shouldn't have gone there. You are destined to go to the upper world, how can you take risks there?" shouted the young man in white robe.
"From the moment we set foot on this path of cultivation, it is impossible for you and me to have a stable life." The girl shook her head slowly, her white and flawless face full of determination, and said calmly: "The great changes have subsided, and it is relatively safer."
"If I die while exploring the Serenity Mountains, it proves that my ability and luck are insufficient, and I won't survive long in the upper world."
"Let's go."
After giving the order, she took the lead and rode forward, and everyone had to hurry to follow.
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