I don’t know which day started, but strange phenomena began to appear in the sky of Ba City.
Thick clouds always gather over the outskirts of the city, like an upside-down ocean. The wind lingers for a long time, and the dark appearance makes people feel heavy.
Not only that, there seems to be something hidden in the clouds, and strange light occasionally shines through, sometimes a red-purple glare, sometimes a jade-like pink-green light. It would be too bizarre if it was just an ordinary electric shock phenomenon.
In the end, even the emperor in Bo City couldn't keep his temper and called Zhenren first: "What is the sign of this cloud?"
Zhenren are fortune tellers, responsible for recording celestial phenomena, horoscopes, and history for the court, as well as for sacrifices, medicine, and divination for national events.
Zhenren checked the records of sages and found no record similar to "There is light in the clouds".
The emperor had no choice but to ask Zhenren to perform divination.
The process of divination is very complicated and time-consuming. First, the turtle must be boiled alive, the bones and flesh separated, then the cartilage is taken, carved with hollows, and then burned in the hollows until cracks are produced, and then used. Tortoise shell cracks form to account for the break.
After Zhenren got the result, she rushed to the palace and reported to the emperor: "The oracle clearly indicates that there are guests coming from afar to meet you."
"Far away? Where do you come from?"
"...King Bu Wen has not made it clear that this direction is not the four directions, and there is nothing to know or know about it."
The emperor was very confused after hearing this.
He had just seized Xia Jie's kingdom, exiled Xia Jie to Nanchao, and changed the capital of the country to Bo City, using the clan name "Shang" as the country's name.
When a country was first established, people's hearts were still undecided. Whenever there was any disturbance, the emperor would be very panicked. Now he is even more frightened when he hears people say that there are unknown visitors from afar.
"Could it be an alien attack?"
The large dark clouds on the outskirts of the city have moved over Bo City, still shining with strange lights, but there is no thunder or lightning.
"It's a bad omen..." Rumors spread among the city residents.
"It was King Tang who took over the throne of King Jie, so God is angry, right?"
"No, it's a monster. The monster wants to swallow the sun!"
"There is a dragon in the sky. It is a good sign! Don't the clouds follow the dragon?"
The sky, which had been hazy for a long time, said nothing and allowed people to speculate.
On that day when the autumn mood was thick and the west wind was getting stronger, there was finally a change in the clouds.
Something emerged from the clouds and slowly flew into Bo City.
Everyone in the city and outside was shocked, and everyone looked up to the sky to see this strange object.
Emperor Shang Tang Ye and his ministers gathered on the high platform, looking forward to it with excitement and fear.
The object looked like a two-wheeled vehicle from a distance, with long wings extending out from both sides, shrouded in a layer of silver-white light.
"What is that?" King Tang murmured.
No one knew how to answer him.
The thing actually slowly flew over the high platform, and then slowly descended.
"Protect the king!" A group of guards immediately surrounded King Tang, all pointing their weapons at the strange flying object.
The flying object looked like a chariot, with a man standing inside.
Whether it was a civil servant who was usually pampered or a veteran who had killed thousands of enemies on the battlefield, he couldn't help but hold his breath and stared blankly at the flying object.
That person... no, it should be said to be a humanoid creature. His whole body was covered with a layer of silver cloth. He slowly stepped off the flying object.
No one dared to speak.
"Is he a messenger from heaven?" someone thought.
They soon knew the answer because the man spoke.
"King... I am... Qie... Kong..." He spoke very stiffly, like a child learning to speak.
"Hey!" A guard stepped forward and shouted: "Who are you? Tell me your name!"
"Cut... cut holes, cut holes..."
The man didn't realize that his aircraft was already surrounded by guards.
A few days later, the big cloud in the sky suddenly stopped shining.
One morning, people found that the ground was brighter than usual and the sky was clearer than usual. Only then did they realize that the clouds had dispersed at some point.
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"Although all things in the world are born when Qi gathers and die when Qi is dispersed, they each have their own physical properties." Po Lu said while helping Yun Kong's luck. While teaching his disciples, "Just because of the differences in physical properties, there are situations in which mutual growth and mutual restraint occur."
Po Lu ordered Mo Er to fetch a basin of water and place it in front of Yun Kong.
"The reason moths fly into fire is because they are easily attracted by light, so if the voodoo you are cultivating is an insect voodoo, you can use a mirror to confuse it so that it cannot do evil."
"That's it." Yun Kong's face turned pale and a heavy cold sweat broke out from his forehead from time to time. "Master, does he know what kind of poison is in my body?"
"I don't know, but it's a common characteristic that all Gu like water." Po Lu moved the water basin in front of Yun Kong, "Disciple, open your mouth..."
Po Lu had asked Yun Kong to go on a hunger strike for two days. At this moment, the poison in his stomach was churning painfully, making him feel uncomfortable both inside and outside his body.
Yun Kong opened his mouth wide and faced the basin.
As soon as the vapor evaporated from the water surface approached his mouth, he suddenly felt something violently tugging in his internal organs, something trying to come out of his stomach and squeezing its way towards his throat.
Yun Kong couldn't make a sound, he just felt like vomiting.
His neck suddenly swelled very thickly, and soon a ball of furry yellow stuff was squeezed out of his mouth.
The thing fell into the water, causing ripples. It turned over and began to splash the water happily.
"It's a little duck!" Mo Er exclaimed from the side.
Polu signaled Mo Er to be quiet: "There is one more."
Yun Kong raised his head in pain and leaned back in pain: "Nose... nose..."
A small hand protruded from his nostril, the pimpled arm of a toad!
Brochure pressed Yun Kong's head to the water's surface, letting Toad's hand touch the water's surface.
With a splash, the toad squeezed out without knowing how. Its fat and ugly body rolled into the water and swam comfortably. But as soon as the duckling saw it, it started to peck at it. The toad was frightened and kicked the duckling with its strong hind legs. .
Two exposed Gu were fighting in the water basin. Po Lu then ordered Mo Er: "Take this harmful thing and burn it." Mo Er took the water basin and went outside.
Yun Kong felt relieved and fell down.
"Take good care of him, I have to be busy with your senior brother." Polu wiped his palms and went to take care of Yankong.
Yankong was also about fifty years old. He had been trained to look like a young man, but he lost 70% of his vitality to save a fox spirit. Yi forced himself to use armor and horse skills to rush on his way, and then insisted on taking care of the affairs of Lingjiazhuang. Finally, he fainted and became as thin and sallow as an old man.
Now, after two days of resting in a dilapidated mountain hut, he has improved a lot.
After Mo Er's incident in Lingjiazhuang, he lived with Polu, growing vegetables and fetching water for him.
Polu once asked him if he wanted to learn Taoism and become his disciple. He replied: "I am not talented enough to learn this kind of thing."
"Then where did you get the recipe for refining Gu?"
"It's been passed down from ancestors, and many people understand it."
As time passed, both Yankong and Yunkong recovered their strength, so Polu spent a day talking to them in detail.
"Our Mid-Autumn Festival master-disciple meeting, I didn't expect it to turn out like this. It's really unexpected."
"The master saved me from the disaster." Yankong sighed, "The disciple is too conceited, but the master is still great."
"Being a master is also a blessing. However, I am already seventy-four this year. It is not suitable to walk in the rivers and lakes anymore. I will probably spend the rest of my life in this thatched cottage. Perhaps this is the last time for our master and disciple to get together."
Yun Kong felt very sad after hearing this.
Polu raised him as a child and took care of him like a biological father; Yankong should have been traveling alone, but because of him, he accompanied his master to take care of him. The three of them have gone through many arduous journeys in the world together, and have also spent their days studying Taoism in peace at Yinshan Temple. Now they are about to be separated, and maybe their fate will end here.
The north wind blows through the woods, heralding the coming of winter.
Brochure was sitting cross-legged, preparing to tell his story as a parting gift to his apprentice.
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After Po Lu became a master, he traveled around the world in search of masters to learn Taoism. He often stayed overnight in the wilderness. Occasionally he was lucky enough to find an unoccupied house, so that he could avoid the danger of wind and rain.
When you stay in the wilderness at night, you often encounter strange phenomena. For example, in the southern region, you see a human head flying across the night sky, which is called a flying-headed beast, or you see a gathering of ghosts and demons in the barren mountains, etc.
But the most incredible thing is that when looking for the Night God, he encountered a Night God who was neither human nor ghost, nor fairy nor monster.
"Does Iwakora remember what happened in the Immortal Village?"
Yan Kong sneered: "How could you forget?"
"Remember that after the Night Traveling God got the Sky-Covering Seal, he gathered at the Confucius Temple, and then a big round light flew up from the forest next to it, and finally the forest turned into a lake?"
