The two of them avoided the dead bodies and white snails, retreated to a safe place, and fell into silence.
The giant snails on the mountain road have been fossilized for a long time, and their age cannot be verified. It is just like Wuyi Mountain was once a corner of the seabed, and it seems to be natural that there have been countless evolutions in the vicissitudes of life.
Not only that, every dynasty in Chinese history has more or less records of fossils. The famous pre-Qin ancient book "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" contains a description of "stone fish", that is, fish fossils. Shen Kuo of the Song Dynasty also had a correct understanding of the origins of the snail and clam fossils and Du Wan's fish fossils.
Special mention should be made of the Qi-Liang Dynasty of the Southern Dynasty, when Master Tao Hongjing of the Shangqing Dynasty also made special research and descriptions of ancient insects in amber.
Thinking of this, the jade insect pebbles in my hand and the rough suspected fossils in front of me appeared at the same time, giving these ordinary things a psychedelic color.
"I suspect that these two jade pebbles are what Luo Chunyi obtained from the tomb of Immortal Master Tao Hongjing."
Yuan Huazi said slowly, looking at Jiang Wen with an unnatural expression.
Jiang Wen nodded in agreement. It might be a coincidence that these things appeared alone, but as the influence of human factors increased, the problems gradually became clear.
For example...who wants to go up the mountain?
After touching a hint of enlightenment, Jiang Wen's expression was a little strange, as if he was holding back something and pretending to be calm.
"Master, in the past few years, I have been living in Huixian Temple. Thanks to your blessing, I have also read through the collections in the temple. I am familiar with the strange and strange anecdotes from the Wei and Jin Dynasties, but the books of various schools have been collected or painted. I may have torn off the chapters involving the pre-Qin Dynasty... Can the real person teach me?"
A biting cold wind came in the heavy fog. Yuan Huazi seemed a little afraid of the cold, but the sweat on his forehead was thickly oozing out, and his face was red.
"Is there still this matter? The old man knows nothing about it."
The old Taoist priest's expression became more secretive, his wrinkled lips pursed tightly, "You and my disciple have read all the classics of our sect, but neither of you are interested in medical skills and never go into the alchemy room to read. I know that you have a strange destiny. He is good at medicine, but being erudite may not necessarily be good, and being well-informed can lead to robberies, so it is better to give up."
Jiang Wen sensed that something was wrong. Just when he was about to speak, his vision filled with fog became upside down and confusing. He felt that the strange fragrance on his body became eye-catching and extremely strong. The cold air in his body seeped out from between his bones and slowly fell towards him. to the ground.
"Although the longevity palace incense of the Han Yuan Dynasty can make people travel through the fairy mist, it is the cold incense of the heavenly immortal world. It condenses the air and cold marrow when touched, and the guards and guards will freeze. You must first take the extremely dry and extremely yang Wushi Powder to resist. Fragrance."
Jiang Wen sat down on the ground slumped, flicking the ancient bronze sword randomly, but unable to control his arms freely, pointing crookedly at the old Taoist priest.
"You should read medical books."
Yuan Huazi watched coldly.
Smelling of alcohol, missing osmanthus, five stone powder, Han Yuan Shougong incense...
The moment before he fell to the ground, Jiang Wen finally connected these clues and discovered that he had been plotted long ago.
In order to use the longevity palace incense of the Han Yuan Dynasty, he had to take Wushi Powder. However, Wushi Powder is difficult to withstand the heat and poison of ordinary people. If it is not distributed properly, the five poisons will attack the heart, so he hid in the alchemy room and took it many times with wine, avoiding visitors.
During this period, for the purpose of testing, the old Taoist priest also lit a small amount of Hanyuan Shougong incense to test the dose - this is the origin of the fragrance that he smelled when he entered the alchemy room and occasionally stained Yuan Ziyi's body. …
Yuan Huazi had practiced abstaining from alcoholic beverages for many years, so naturally he couldn't stand drinking a lot of alcohol. Therefore, the lost osmanthus mentioned by the little Taoist priest was secretly taken by Yuan Huazi and made into osmanthus wine, and he drank it with his favorite osmanthus flavor!
In this case, it was not the White Lotus Sect that held the old Taoist priest hostage up the mountain, but the old Taoist priest had already made preparations and planned to go to the "Feast of Ascension to Immortality" in person!
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In the thirty-fifth year of the First Emperor's reign, the First Emperor arrived in Yunyang on his fourth eastward tour.
Along the way, the First Emperor claimed to be the real person, not me, and his whereabouts were kept secret and no one knew about him. Subsequently, all ministers and the emperor discussed matters in Xianyang Palace, ordered a large-scale corvee recruitment, and ordered Meng Tian to preside over the construction of a straight road from Jiuyuan to Yunyang.
In the same year, more than two thousand men and women in Wuyi Mountain heard that the corvées who had narrowly escaped death were coming again, and they embarked on the Immortal Banquet at Manting Peak together and disappeared since then. The scene horrified the Qin officials who came to conquer the people.
Since then, whenever a county encounters a disaster, someone will embark on the road of no return, put aside all pain in the world, wipe away all worries behind them, and embark on the road of "becoming an immortal" in Manting Peak.
The origin of everything is that when the Wuyi Mountain people accidentally found a cliff coffin, they found the secret method of ascending to immortality left by the hermits of the pre-Qin Dynasty from the dead bones.
In the year when Yuan Huazi came to Wuyi Mountain, "the city was destroyed by water and the walls were destroyed by soldiers. There was a great famine and epidemic, and the people gathered more leaves to eat."
The year Yuan Huazi came to Wuyi Mountain, he was not that old, and he was no longer young. He just came back to preside over the Immortal Temple in the order of his masters.
In the year when Yuan Huazi came to Wuyi Mountain, he witnessed the Qing soldiers massacred all over the foot of the mountain, and the Jiuqu River was full of blood. However, the expressions of the surviving mountain people were particularly calm, and they had a strange attitude towards life and death. There was a strange smile on their still tear-stained faces.
A few days later, Yuan Huazi heard the noise and opened the gate. He found the refugees scattered outside the door. They were all sallow, thin, and sickly, but they were wearing the most decent clothes. They were supporting each other and walking towards the mountain road in the dusk.
I don't even know who secretly placed a child with a serious illness and fever outside the gate.
No one wants to admit that they are the child's parents.
There was a hidden joy in their silence, and they resolutely went up the mountain one step at a time. The sinuous appearance of this group of night marchers is terrifying, and ordinary people would only feel sincere fear when watching their jagged movements into the mountains.
Yuan Huazi opened his mouth and wanted to say something like "the road to heaven is far away, the road to humanity is short, and the hardships have been difficult to describe since ancient times", but he was speechless.
That night the red light on Manting Peak filled the sky, the Immortal Banquet in Jiahe was filled with encouragement, and the voices of the Immortals reverberated around the place, but no one came back.
Since the Han Dynasty, the emergence of cicadas has been used as a metaphor for people's rebirth. But how can people be resurrected after death? How is being promoted to immortality different from seeking death? But compared with all the pain in the world, this ethereal and empty road is easier to accept than lying coldly in the soil.
Which one is more difficult, living a hard life or getting over it once and for all? Which one is easier?
The child whose family disappeared later became his apprentice, and also knew the destination of his parents and relatives. He often looked at Manting Peak in trance, with an expression of fear and curiosity, just like what Yuan Huazi saw on the faces of the mountain people that day.
Maybe one day, the apprentice will walk into this Manting Peak like his parents and relatives? …
Therefore, Yuan Huazi has been reluctant to teach the Dharma to his disciples, and he is not even willing to take up the Taoist title.
He inherited the Taoism left by Immortal Master Bai Yuchan and had to stay at the foot of Manting Peak in Wuyi Mountain to prevent the "immortals" from spreading out and causing greater disasters. Originally, he did not dare to provoke the strange things on Manting Peak for fear of Counterproductive.
As Jiang Wen said, scholars in the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties visited the underworld, hooked mysteries, and claimed to be purging guests with their rhinoceros, leaving countless disasters behind.
Yang Fu's "Foreign Objects Chronicles" of the Han Dynasty records: "The mysterious rhinoceros represents the soul with its horns, contains essence and spits out fire, and looks like a candle. If it is placed in the wilderness, no beasts can touch it."
Ever since Xuan rhinoceros horn was made into the longevity palace incense of the Han Yuan Dynasty, and combined with the effectiveness of Wu Shi Powder, Huixi Qingke has really discovered many indescribable things in the mountains and valleys of this world. Then they drank and feasted, drunkenly and dreamily, anxiously trying to forget all this, but they didn't know that the seeds of darkness had spread everywhere along with their nightmares.
Intelligent people from ancient times have deeply hated the Qingke who wielded rhinoceros, because from the Wei and Jin Dynasties to the Tang Dynasty, the influence of the way of wielding rhinoceros has never disappeared.
Wen Qiao Ranxi Zhaozhu saw the strange-shaped aquarium under the water. Since then, Niutouzhu has continued to have supernatural phenomena. In the Tang Dynasty, Qinglian, a layman, even "caught the moon in the water" and drowned himself. As a person who received the punishment, no one knew that Li Taibai saw something under the water before he died.
Sun Simiao, a Taoist master, also had lingering fears. Before he died, he earnestly told his disciples to destroy the Hanyuan Shougong incense prescription and the Wushi powder prescription: "When you encounter this prescription, you must burn it immediately, and don't leave it for a long time!"
The White Jade Toad Immortal was born in Qiongzhou, Hainan, and practiced Taoism in Wuyi. After exhausting the power of Taoism, he finally destroyed the Han Yuan longevity palace incense formula left in the world, just so that no one would use rhinoceros to cause trouble.
But laymen seek liberation and monks seek immortality. Everyone in the world has desires. There are so many mysteries in Wuyi Mountain. How many people can resist the temptation of immortality?
Yuan Huazi thought that Hongyang Saint Child was not good, Jiang Wen was not good, and he was not good either, but he did not expect that his apprentice could not resist the temptation and broke into the road to the cave while he was in seclusion.
But I should always do something, such as closing this door that should not be opened for mortals, such as persuading the lost to look back and see the love in the world, such as doing a willful act when I am old.
Yuan Huazi dragged Jiang Wen to the side of the road, stood in the fog without showing a sad face, and Shi Shiran walked towards the dense fog of the Yanxian Altar, where the red glow was brilliant.
"That's true today."
