After receiving the skills given by Chengshuo, Nangong Yongchang and four other Nascent Soul monks spent the whole day practicing in seclusion at Tianmen Station.
And it’s not just Nangong Yongchang and the other four.
Half a month later, monks from various sects on Guangyu Star gathered at the Haoyue Sect's headquarters to discuss the fight against the great catastrophe of heaven and earth.
At the conference, Cheng Huo printed more than a hundred copies of the method of absorbing the 'emotional power' from Xuanwu Star and presented it to the heads of various sects.
Using the techniques, the masters began to search for disciples possessing the 'power of destiny' in their sects and even the mortal cities under their jurisdiction.
Once discovered, they will immediately take away the luck of these chosen ones.
——Originally, according to the survival requirements, all these fortunes should be returned between heaven and earth to maintain the balance of the Light Feather Star's fortunes, thereby preventing the coming of the catastrophe of heaven and earth.
But everyone has selfish motives, and the leader is no exception.
Therefore, the heads of various factions often only return a small part of the "power of destiny" to the children of destiny to heaven and earth.
This is just a pretense to deal with the inspection by Nangong Yongchang and others.
As for the remaining luck, he will use it for his own use in order to break through to a higher realm as soon as possible.
The leaders of each faction are only willing to return a small part of the luck to the world, which results in the luck on Guangyu Star never being able to return to balance.
Therefore, the great catastrophe of heaven and earth has only been postponed for a period of time.
It will still come.
And this is exactly what Chengshuo wants to see.
He had no intention of saving Guangyu Star at all. He was just using the heads of various factions to extend the time for Guangyu Star's demise.
Only in this way can Chengsheng have enough time to complete the first step of "transforming gods into mortals" on Guangyu Star - enlightenment.
After the enlightenment is successful, a great disaster will come on the Guangyu Star, and then after the mortals are almost dead, the survivors will be able to take the second step of "turning gods into mortals" and "determining".
Just perfect.
…
Guangyu Star, the capital of Zhao State, Daye City.
High in the sky.
Chengsheng hung in the air and watched for a long time.
Listening to the shouts and cries of the vendors and footmen in Daye City, and looking at the bustling crowd in the city, he couldn't help but reveal a trace of reminiscence in his eyes.
After being dazed in the air for nearly a quarter of an hour, Chengshuo finally came back to his senses and landed on a remote street in Daye City.
There was an old man with a white beard selling candy on the street.
Judging from his appearance, he must be in his late seventies.
Although the old man is over seventy years old, he speaks with great energy.
Seeing Cheng Huo appear in the alley and looking at his stall with interest, the old man opened his mouth and shouted: "Candy man~, do you want to buy a candy man?"
"I'm not an adult." Chengshuo replied with a smile: "Uncle, you are so old, I really can't bear to call me an adult."
"Hey,"
The old man laughed dryly and said with a sly expression: "Not to mention much, just by looking at the clothes you are wearing, I know that your identity is not simple?"
"Huh?" Chengshuo asked with interest, "Is there anything else I can say about my clothes?"
The old man explained: "When I was young, I worked as a waiter in the Xianyi Pavilion in Fangshi, so I can recognize it at a glance: the clothes you are wearing are the clothes that practitioners would wear, and judging from the materials used, It is very likely that they are a small group of people with a relatively high status among practitioners."
"good eyesight!"
After Chenghuo praised the old man, he nodded and admitted: "You guessed it right, I am indeed a monk, and I am indeed a small group of monks with a higher status."
As he said this, a look of reminiscence suddenly appeared in Cheng Huo's eyes: "Actually, I haven't had a candy bar for nearly ten years. Time flies so fast!"
"Yes, time flies by so fast!" The old man agreed with deep sympathy.
Chengshuo added: "Looking back, I actually had my life saved by a coincidence more than ten years ago by a candy seller."
"Saved by the candy seller?"
Everyone likes to listen to stories when they are old.
The old candy man immediately asked: "As a monk with a high level of cultivation, how did the candy seller save you?"
"That's a long story."
Chengshuo thought for a while and said: "I remember that I had some mental problems in Guyang City. But just when I couldn't hold on anymore and completely collapsed, a candy seller suddenly shouted in Guyang City. I shouted, and then sold me a candy man."
"Then what?" the old man asked curiously: "So the adults got better after eating the candy man? Is there something else going on in the candy man?"
Chengshuo shook his head and said: "That's just an ordinary candy man. But sometimes, things develop so inexplicably."
"At that time, I was in so much pain that I was about to go completely crazy."
"But after I ate the candy monkeys made by the vendor, I suddenly regained my fighting spirit and regained the courage to face everything."
"Then I carried it."
"I really envy you cultivators." After hearing the story of life, the old man showed an envious look: "You all have stories. Unlike me, I am now a person with half a foot in the coffin, but I still have I have never left Daye City even half a step."
As he said that, the old man skillfully drew a candy monkey on the burden table and handed it to Chengshuo: "Sir, you just told me your story, so I will treat you to this candy monkey even if I treat you to it." Come on! I don’t want your money.”
Chengshuo took the candy monkey and didn't say thank you. He just stared at the old candy man without saying a word.
"Hey," the old man looked a little embarrassed, so he lowered his head.
Chengshuo saw him and took the initiative to ask: "Uncle, do you want to ask me for something?"
"It really does!"
Seeing that Cheng Huo took the initiative to speak, the old man changed his playful smile from before.
With a serious expression on his face, he respectfully bowed to Cheng Huo and said, "Junior Shang Hongfu, please give me the way to practice!"
Chengshuo accepted the other party's gift calmly and replied: "I have a lot of cultivation methods here, I really can't help but give them to you."
"I even have a special method that can be practiced without spiritual roots."
"But the problem is, you are now in your seventies. At your age, even if you develop Qi Sense in your lifetime, it will be difficult to go further."
"If you practice the Kung Fu, you will only be able to live for a few more years. But in these few years, you have to endure countless hardships in exchange for it. I think it is not worth it."
"This" sugar-man old man is also self-aware.
He did not retort, only smiled bitterly and said: "Senior, you just said that even among monks, you are still considered a small group of people with a higher status, so even seniors can't let me step into the realm of cultivation. Dao?"
"I heard that most monks in the Qi training stage can live to be over a hundred years old, and monks in the foundation building stage can live to be over two hundred years old."
"If I can successfully build the foundation in my lifetime, then my seventy-year-old age will not be considered old."
"So you want to get a shortcut from me?" Chengshuo looked at the old man and said, "Do you know that there is no shortcut to everything in the world?"
"This" the old man was speechless for a moment.
But Chenghuo suddenly changed the subject and said, "But, I can really point out a shortcut for you."
The old man was shocked when he heard this, and immediately knelt down and worshiped Cheng Huo: "Senior, please give me some advice!"
Chenghuo said: "I have recently been walking on a path of spiritual practice that few people take - this path is called 'Transforming God into Mortal'."
"There are two steps to transforming a god into a mortal."
"The first step of 'Enlightenment' requires the monk to voluntarily abandon his cultivation and become a mortal, and then as a mortal, understand the rules of a certain thing. After doing all this, the first step of enlightenment can be considered completed."
"But the problem is."
As Chengshuo spoke, he suddenly pointed at himself and said: "I don't know how to dissipate the cultivation in this body. I can't make this body become a mortal."
"So I decided to settle for the next best thing and just take a new mortal body."
"Senior," although the old sugar man is very young, he is not confused at all.
In just a few words, he understood the meaning of survival: "So the senior is planning to use the old body to complete the first step of 'transforming a god into a mortal'?"
"Yes." Chenghuo nodded and said: "If you are willing, when the time comes, I will let your consciousness fall into a deep sleep, and then use your body to take the first step of enlightenment by 'turning gods into mortals'."
"When I succeed and retire from your body, the remaining cultivation in this body will be the benefit you get."
"As expected, those remaining cultivation levels should allow you to break through to the foundation building stage in one go."
Foundation building period?
Hearing the words "Foundation Building Stage", an unconcealed excitement flashed in the old man's eyes, and he agreed without thinking: "Okay, anyway, I don't have many years left to live, senior. If you want to lend me my body to practice, just take it." ”
Chengshuo looked at the old man and said, "Aren't you afraid that I'm lying to you?"
The old man chuckled lightly, and his words were full of wisdom belonging to the old man: "Senior, if you want to kill me or take my body, you can do it directly. There is no need to waste so much time, right?"
"He is a sensible person!"
On the alley.
In front of the candy man stall.
After Cheng Huo praised the old sugar man, he fell straight to the ground. The next second, Cheng Huo's body hidden in the heart of Wang Hu's body used the "Insect Dream" skill to turn into a line of black smoke, which shot straight It penetrated into the chest of the old sugar man.
The old sugar man was shaken all over as the black smoke from Chengshuo entered his body, and he collapsed to the ground.
Lean less.
After successfully seizing the body, he took control of the old sugar man's body and stood up from the ground again, and his whole personality changed drastically.
He imitated the old man's technique of drawing a candy man, and first stirred the syrup in the iron bucket.
Then he carefully scooped some with a spoon and tried to pour it on the bamboo slices to draw various patterns.
——The dark shadow in the Shadow Pavilion once said: Everything in the world can be used for enlightenment, so it is not just music, chess, calligraphy and painting, butchers on the street, beggars at the end of the alley, and even the old man who draws candy figures. What they have done Everything has its own way.
And to live, it is precisely because he wants to understand his own Tao from the work of painting sugar figures.
…
time flies.
Nearly a year has passed since he became an old man in Daye City.
Due to the skills taught by Chengshuo, coupled with the efforts of four Nascent Soul stage monks including the old man Nangong of Tianmen, as well as the heads of various sects, the coming of the great catastrophe of heaven and earth was postponed.
During this year, although natural and man-made disasters continued throughout Guangyu Star, most of them were minor disasters.
The number of mortals and monks everywhere has not declined significantly.
(End of chapter)
