"The Immortal Banquet...don't go..."
"Did you hear it this time?"
Two slightly familiar words rang in Jiang Wen's heart again, as if someone was whispering against his ears.
Jiang Wen suddenly turned around with alarm, and the pores on his scalp and body exploded. A sense of absurdity spread throughout his body, as if he was a thrush locked in a cage for viewing, and was being watched unscrupulously by the mixed eyes of the outside world.
This is clearly Zhizhi’an!
Why is he back here again!
But as the sound burst out from the heart, more sounds came from all directions. Noisy and sad sounds came from the courtyard, the back of the house, and even the roof and the air, converging into a familiar and childish voice.
"it's me."
The Songgui and ancient wells in the courtyard are still quiet, bathed in the thick night, as if they are frozen models, and the shadowy houses, walls and corridors overlap with each other in reality.
Jiang Wen looked for the sound, but what he saw was a figure that was a little blurrier than the fog, accompanied by wisps of smoke, waving to him faintly.
"This is a dream...are you a little Taoist priest?!"
Although the figure was blurred to the point of nothingness, Jiang Wen recognized his identity at a glance.
"it's me."
The other party's expression was unrecognizable, but his tone was particularly indifferent and distant, as if the vague and floating smoke was his various human emotions.
His actions seemed to be greatly disturbed, and he stared blankly in the direction of Jiang Wen. The skirt of his ill-fitting Taoist robe fell heavily to the ground, like an iron lock, which reminded Jiang Wen of the Earthbound Spirit. .
In Zhi Zhi'an's nightmare of poisonous smoke, Jiang Wen had heard this voice, seen the same scene, and even dreamed of the exact same words.
Jiang Wen didn't guess his existence at that time, so he turned around to look for a way out of the dream. But this time he knew very well that the other party was looking for him, otherwise he wouldn't have gone to such trouble to pull him out when he fell into coma again. Returning here created the same dream.
From a psychological level, creating a familiar environment is to relieve alertness, and constant repetition is used to deepen the impression. These psychotherapeutic methods can still explain his current situation.
"Master Jiang, I only have the last two chances to come out. Please listen to what I have to say."
Seeing Jiang Wen's doubts, the little Taoist priest didn't say much and went straight to the topic.
Jiang Wen suddenly raised his head and saw a familiar sight - it was the light-polluted night sky that only existed in the city before traveling through it, and it was now reflected in the skyline of the peaks of the Wuyi Mountains...
"Tell me, it seems that tonight is destined to be uneventful."
The little Taoist priest paused for a moment before starting to speak.
"Shortly after you left, I stole the Zhenlu seeds and Han Yuan Shou Gong Incense that Master had preserved, and escaped under the cover of night."
Without the slightest emotion, the little Taoist said as if he was eating and drinking, "Although Master never told me, I know that these days he is trying to use elixirs and external medicine to enter the True Ascension Hua Xuan Realm alone, trying to ascend. Going to the Jiahe Immortal Ascension Banquet tonight..."
At this time, hundreds of pavilions and colorful houses were opened on the originally desolate peak of Manting. Candlelight illuminated the sky, and singing and dancing orchestras were noisy on the cliff in mid-air. All that could be heard was disorderly drumming and noisy drums. The singing persists throughout the day, like an absurd movement that never stops...
"No! Aren't you on the mountain? Why are you in Zhizhi'an again!"
Jiang Wen suddenly interrupted his description, and the huge sense of fragmentation of reality in his words made him feel a little palpitated, which gradually turned into fear.
The little Taoist priest said slowly: "The Taoist Sutra says that there are caves in the mountains and famous mountains. The caves penetrate the mountains and reach heaven, so they are called 'cave heavens'. In fact, I am neither on the mountain nor at the bottom of the mountain. I have always been there." In this Zhizhi Temple, in the 'Zhen Sheng Hua Xuandong Tian' under the ancient well."
The little Taoist priest knew about the existence of Zhizhi'an Cave Heaven, but he never told others because his parents told him that the bones of his ancestors in the village were there, and that it would one day be his destination.
The village was impoverished and they made a living as fishermen and woodcutters. The little Taoist priest's home only had two thatched houses, and there was nothing to play with. However, the houses were filled with painted wooden plaques with portraits, which made him extremely curious.
Jianyang's woodblock painting skills are outstanding, and these woodblock immortals are also painted lifelike, but the body and clothing are obviously like immortals, but they have an overly realistic face of an old rural woman, with an abrupt and constrained happy smile, as if One after another, the country bumpkins ascended the dragon throne.
His parents told him that there were never spiritual tablets in the village. These were portraits of their ancestors, just like the feather-colored ribbons and the golden light of the sky on the wooden tablets. They all lived a good life in which they could become immortals.
During the Qin Dynasty, the princes of the Kingdom of Wei had possessed immortal bones and Taoism skills since childhood. Their ancestors were the remnants who followed Prince Qian of Wei to Wuyi Mountain to practice Taoism. Prince Qian of Wei drank too much at the banquet of the Queen Mother of the West, which offended her. The Queen Mother of the West ordered him to be banished to this mountain for eight hundred years before he could die and become an immortal.
But ordinary people can't live to be 800 years old. Fortunately, the master of the immortals here, Wu Yijun Peng Zu, taught him the immortal method and taught him to use yellow heart wood as a letter to place the corpse in the cliff cave. After 800 years, the corpse will not rot and the bones will be replaced. Naturally, one can ascend to immortality and attain enlightenment.
After the death of Prince Qian of Wei, their ancestors settled down and guarded the body of Prince Qian of Wei on the cliff for generations.
Later, Prince Qian of the Wei Dynasty successfully ascended to immortality. He was grateful for their efforts and regarded these tomb-keepers as his descendants. He often waved at Manting Peak and held the immortality banquet from time to time, agreeing that as long as the members of their clan enjoy all the benefits, they can go forward. Go to a banquet and become an immortal.
But the young Taoist priest only felt very scared when he saw this, because he always felt that the head and feet of the immortal on the wooden sign were separated, and the body was cut off, and there was nothing ethereal about it.
With the passage of time, fading and poor-quality paint, the so-called immortality on the wooden block seemed to him to be just a matter of tying up the stumps with feather-colored ribbons, hiding the bones and blood with the golden light of the sky, and then installing a shriveled heart that didn’t quite match. The head, even the smile on the face, looks like it was deliberately manipulated after death. It is so stupid that it makes people mad.
The little Taoist priest was only three years old at that time and could not understand many things. It was not until he became a disciple of the master and experienced several events that he realized that the smile was not the appearance of an immortal, but an expression of relief.
They seem similar, but they are worlds apart.
The little Taoist priest originally thought that with the disappearance of his whole family, there would be no worldly things for him to worry about, let alone the need to cry and laugh when he was sent to the world. He just wanted to live his whole life in a Taoist temple with a pure heart and few desires.
But that night, he saw the same expression on his master's face...
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"Master Jiang, maybe you don't know, this is already the thirty-fourth time I have tried to use the power of the cave to influence the outside world..."
The little Taoist priest spoke indifferently, with deep exhaustion in his tone. It seemed that the long-term efforts had exhausted him and made his body slowly fade away.
"I was trying to block the master, but I tried countless times, but couldn't change his actions; I tried to break into the fairy mist to stop the fairy banquet, but Hongxia blocked the door; the only time I succeeded in affecting others, I I said two sentences to you in a dream, but I didn’t grasp the time well, and it was too early to tell you..."
too early……
What does it mean! ?
Why can the little Taoist priest say this so easily, as if he has a clear grasp of all the causes and consequences, and everything is clear to him. He is like an audience who has watched the movie a thousand times, commenting on some inadvertent detail. ?
And the so-called thirty-four attempts, does it mean that he has already tried it during this period?
"Wait a minute! Just now when I was unable to move in the fairy mist on the mountain, you were the one who pushed me back and lit the incense of Han Yuan Shou Palace?!"
The strange thing suddenly came to light, and Jiang Wen remembered the sound he heard on the mountain just now.
The familiar voice told him to get down quickly, and the right amount of force helped him avoid the black dragon flying through the air. It was as familiar as the current situation. Could it be that it was all done by the little Taoist priest? !
"Yes, it's me."
The fuzzy shadow drifted away from the smoke, becoming more hazy and blurry, and nodded slowly.
"This cave has endless mysteries. Patriarch Bai Jade Chan destroyed the clues to the Ascension to Immortality and sealed the entrance to the True Ascension Huaxuan Cave. Only our sect knows the secret. Master accidentally revealed that only those who carry the seeds of the Taishang Step Star Ascension System , so that you can use it freely."
"Baizu Jian'an blocked this place because people with insufficient cultivation forcefully entered this cave. They could not withstand the power of the true ascension. The three souls and seven souls would turn into darkness and perish, and they would never be able to escape. It's a pity that I am not good at cultivation and have not achieved gold. Dan, I think that the number six or six is the limit, and when the time comes, it can only be transformed into a wisp of breeze."
"...You won't be able to come back for two more times?"
Jiang Wen was shocked and said, "Then stop now!"
The little Taoist priest said without sadness or joy: "Maybe it was possible at first, but now it's too late..."
Just like Jiang Wen didn't know where Cave Heaven was, the little Taoist priest had never been here before, because to him, this place was like an ominous place and a tomb of sorrow filled with the bones of his relatives.
The little Taoist priest said that his villagers knew very well that if ordinary people wanted to bypass the black dragon, white snail, and fairy mist and Hongxia to successfully attend the banquet, they had to enter from the cave under Zhizhi'an and follow the "ravines" left on the cliffs of the mountain. "Boat" and "Hongqiao Board" climb up the stairs.
When Yuan Huazi saw the villagers going up the mountain for a banquet, the reason why he did not stop them was because the villagers quietly ascended from the cave. What Yuan Huazi saw in front of the door were just rows of seemingly non-existent objects. In the seemingly grand scene of refugees, only the old Taoist priest and the crying child are real.
Bai Yuchan's worries had no impact on them, because these villagers never planned to go back alive. …
The sudden attack of the White Lotus Sect tonight reminded him of this place. After being surrounded by dangers, he finally broke in and became what it is now.
"The sky is meaningless, and the mountains are meaningless caves. The cave sky is originally the sky in the mountains. The Taoist priest Zhizhi'an Huoju once said that he heard the footsteps walking at night. I'm afraid it was just the footsteps of the people in my parents' village and the sound of pushing the door, echoing in Caused by the cave..."
The little Taoist priest said it without any disturbance, but it made Jiang Wen feel shocked again.
Can the footsteps from ten years ago still echo to this day? The cave is empty? "Inner Biography of Ziyang Zhenren" states: It is said that the real person lives in heaven, mountains and people, and enters the infinite. Penglai Mountain is covered with millet, including the body, and heaven and earth cannot contain it.
So that’s it!
Perhaps in this "Zhen Sheng Hua Xuan Cave Heaven", "Zhen Sheng" not only refers to becoming an immortal, but also refers to "ascension to a higher dimension"; "Hua Xuan" is not just another name for enlightenment, but "Xuan" is "Xuan", what about the "subtle multitudes" that have transformed into mysterious and mysterious things in the long river of time?
If it is true as he said, the true body of Dongtian should be a point where time and space distortion occur, which can break the originally stable four-dimensional coordinate axis of the world, temporarily jump to a higher level, and at the same time, from a "human" perspective Observing and influencing the outside world is like entering a "quantum cloud state". To a certain extent, you can rely on "observation" to change the existence of the outside world.
The cliffs at Manting Peak are rugged and the cliff coffin is not as dangerous as the cliff coffin. However, the cave sky can blend the distance of space, and everything can be touched and shaped. Therefore, if the villagers want to climb the cliff and walk on the waves, they can easily do it. .
The little Taoist priest sometimes walked alone on the top of the mountain, and sometimes talked with him in Zhizhi Temple. It was also because the cave sky can circle the passage of time and form a loop here. Therefore, the little Taoist priest was able to observe a total of thirty-four times. Find an opportunity to talk to him.
This is not Jiang Wen's whim, but records like this can be found everywhere in ancient books.
Wandering into a cave by mistake and traveling thousands of miles in a day is not an ordinary thing. It is also recorded in "Jiu Guo Zhi" that Taoist Wang Zhi went into the mountains with an ax to collect tung trees for his qin. When he met Mr. Chi Songzi Anqi, his ax was broken. It has been more than a hundred years since he returned and he has never returned. Man, this is probably a cave that can speed up the flow of time.
At that time, Bai Yuchan was teaching at Zhizhi'an. He could walk in the heavy rain without getting wet, and used this magic to break Zhu Xi, leaving behind the allusion of "accidental middle ear". I am afraid that he also relied on his advanced cultivation to enter the world. This cave!
There seems to be no way to avoid the heavy rain, but Bai Yuchan can change in an instant, see through every second, and find the possibility of not getting wet among billions of possibilities. This is an unimaginable level of cultivation!
Jiang Wen's voice was a little hoarse. The power of the cave was so wonderful that he couldn't understand it, but its limitations were also extremely huge. The little Taoist priest went through all kinds of hardships to find himself in his dream. He must have found something in the thirty-four time loops. The key to breaking the situation.
But even the White Jade Toad, whose cultivation is as high as the sky, can't stop the Immortal Banquet on the Manting Peak. What solution can Jiang Wen and the little Taoist priest come up with?
The little Taoist priest nodded slowly, and the smoke on his body became more blurred, which confirmed Jiang Wen's theory of "quantum cloud state".
The so-called "power of metamorphosis" is the sequelae caused by relying on the acceleration force of the "time vortex" to ascend to another dimension. All matter and spirit will fly into the air. When it lands, it will be difficult for the particles that make up the body to return to their original state. Order.
He excessively wants to exert influence on the outside world, causing the force of interaction to also destroy the order of particles and destroy the "concept" that makes up the little Taoist himself. Once the endurance reaches the limit, the "concept" of the little Taoist priest will turn into smoke that disperses at the touch of a touch, completely disappearing in the air of reality.
"Master Jiang, we don't have much time. The effectiveness of Han Yuan Shou Palace's Fragrant Ice Soul is almost over. I will find a way to break the problem of the fairy mist causing people to enter the void and let you resume action."
The little Taoist priest glanced at him, as if he had read all of Jiang Wen's inner thoughts at a glance, and his tone was full of determination.
"I have about two more chances before the six-sixth, except for one chance to wake you up. This last time, I will knock on the fairy door at the moment when the Beichen Star is high. All hope lies in this move... "
"I'll leave it to you to prevent Master from attending the banquet...".
