For more than twenty days, in the high mountains to the north of Shanju County in Dali and south of Tubo, Zhao Qing walked alone on the mountain road with a colorful lightsaber and a scabbarded crape myrtle sword. The higher he went, the harder the road became. It's getting steeper and steeper.
These days, her mastery of "Taiyin True Water" has finally returned to the level before the breakthrough, and she will advance in a more subtle direction based on her understanding of "the unity of heaven and man".
At the same time, Zhao Qing also tried to refine the golden energy contained in the crape myrtle soft sword, but he was unsuccessful due to the excessive sharpness on the surface of the sword and the strange energy.
According to her estimation, it may be necessary to improve the purity of the "Taiyin True Water" by one or two steps, reaching the state of the ultimate Yin Taiji, and only after the quality is close to the strange energy, can it break through its barrier.
Otherwise, although he can rely on the accumulated amount of "Taiyin True Water" to forcefully break through the edge of the strange energy, he will probably destroy the entire crape myrtle soft sword along with it, which is really not worth the gain.
When leaving the Jueqing Valley, Zhao Qing, like Dugu Qiubai, carved his sword theory into the valley leading to the Cold Water Pond.
After that, she headed towards the general direction of the "Everlasting Valley of Eternal Life", and when passing through Dali, she asked the locals for advice on the Naxi language and found out the more accurate location of the "Everlasting Valley of Eternal Life".
According to rumors from neighboring areas, the outside of the "Eternal Spring Valley" has deep streams, dense forests, and high peaks blocking the way, making it difficult for outsiders to enter the valley. Everyone there lives to be over a hundred years old, and the centenarians all have black hair and beautiful faces, just like teenagers.
Occasionally there will be people in the valley pulling the long vines on the big pine trees and swinging out of the valley, but once they come out they can't go back.
The people who came out had fair faces and red lips, and were very young and beautiful. However, within a few days of living outside the valley, their black hair turned white, their backs were hunched, and their faces were covered with wrinkles. Within a few days, they seemed to have aged a hundred years. He died in a few days.
Therefore, people outside said that there were monsters in the valley, and no one dared to enter.
In Zhao Qing's view, people in the valley will die of old age in a few days after coming out. This is probably because they are out of the environment in the valley and can no longer drink Changchun spring water, so they have returned to physiological functions that match their age, completely different from the so-called monsters. Nothing to do.
Even if there are monsters, due to the limitations of the world, they will only be large clams and ice silkworms at best, and they lack intelligence, so they will never have amazing strength.
Two hundred years ago, Xiaoyaozi's martial arts at that time was only at the level of "god refining", but he was able to take away the "god book" from the Eternal Spring Valley. It can be seen that even though there is danger in the valley, the threat level is only average.
As the road became more dangerous and steeper, Zhao Qing climbed mountains and ridges, crossing deep ravines. In the evening of this day, he finally arrived at the edge of the Everlasting Valley.
But there was an abyss in front of them that was hundreds of feet deep. In the distance, a cliff rose from the ground. Dangerous peaks stood tall, and strange rocks were rugged. They went straight into the sky, like a blue dragon holding its head high, with extraordinary momentum.
There are tall ancient pines growing in the cracks of the cliff. The trees are wrapped with green vines. Some of them hang down from the edge of the cliff. They are forty or fifty feet in length. They are densely packed and cover a spot on the cliff. The humble entrance to the valley.
Looking at the cliffs and ancient pines on the opposite side, Zhao Qing's heart moved, and he knew that he had found the entrance to the Valley of Eternal Spring.
No wonder you can't go back after you say the valley. There is an abyss of twenty to thirty feet wide as a barrier, so you can just swing out by leaning on the vines. If you want to return to the valley, you will only need the light kung fu of a top master.
Of course, for Zhao Qing, this insurmountable chasm in the eyes of ordinary people could be passed easily.
She just jumped across the abyss, grabbed the long vine hanging from the tree, swung straight into the entrance of the valley, and caught a glimpse of a large number of animal bones piled up on the edge of the cliff.
These animals died suddenly before they completely left the valley, so their bones were piled on the edge of the cliff?
Zhao Qing's thoughts moved slightly, and he couldn't help but be a little more vigilant. He used the aura integrated into the "Taiyin True Water" to distort the air and entered a semi-invisible state, and continued walking towards the valley.
Passing through the entrance of the Everlasting Valley, I saw stretches of dense forest in front of me. Looking up the mountain, the cliffs stretch like a screen, with caves and ravines everywhere, and there are flowing springs, flowing through rugged rocks, sparse trees, and blooming flowers. , very different from the cold winter outside, just like spring.
The quiet spring in the empty mountain, the melodious sound of the water, the sound of the water waterfall cracking like a silver vase, the rustling of the trees in the mountain breeze, and the chirping of insects and birds full of spring feel like a fairyland on earth.
After walking for a few more miles, she finally saw the first figure in the valley. She was a young girl wearing Naxi costumes. She was wearing a bright and colorful cloth robe with a large front and wide sleeves. She was singing Naxi folk songs. Some kind of fresh fruit was picked from the bushes by the stream.
Further away, on the flat and empty grassland, along a clear stream, there are some wooden houses dotted here and there, with about twenty or thirty households.
It was evening, and a bonfire had been lit in the open space in the center of many wooden houses. A large pot of food was set up on it, and there were dozens of young men and women dancing around the fire.
Further out, a dozen men and women dressed like elders, but equally young in appearance, looked at their children with smiles and chatted about today's trivial matters.
What surprised Zhao Qing was that according to her perception, each of the forty or fifty people in this settlement possessed first-class or even top-notch zhenqi and internal strength in the world outside. The Shaolin Temple of the big sect is much stronger.
Relying on the Naxi language that he had just learned, Zhao Qing was somewhat surprised to learn from the chats of these people who had similar but not identical accents to the Naxi people outside that this was just a small settlement in Changchun Valley, with a total population of Less than one-twentieth of the population in the valley.
If there were really thousands of top-notch warriors, they could completely defeat an army of hundreds of thousands, which would be a bit outrageous.
Moreover, after Zhao Qing got closer, he sensed more carefully that the internal energy in these people's bodies was quite similar to the internal energy of the Xiaoyao Sect. Although it was a bit rough in operation, the true energy was full of vitality and most likely had the effect of extending life.
Could it be that everyone has practiced a weakened version of the "Eternal Life Eternal Spring Kung Fu" and has achieved some success?
However, when he saw a young man struggling to carry a two-hundred-pound cauldron, Zhao Qing immediately changed his original view and judged that although these people had internal strength, they did not know how to use it correctly at all, and could only use it to their full potential. Less than half the effect.
This kind of efficiency in the use of internal force is undoubtedly low to an absurd level: you know, even if there is no method to use internal force at all, just relying on the strength bonus when the true energy flows normally outside the body, you can generally use 30 to 40% of it. Effect.
Under such circumstances, the internal strength that is no less than that of a top-notch player can basically only perform at the level of a fourth- or fifth-rate mediocre player. If there are no matching moves, it is only equivalent to a strong man with a strong body. .
As far as Zhao Qing knows, the only examples in the martial arts that cannot display much power without learning external skills are the Xiaoyao sect.
In the original work, after Xu Zhu was taught the martial arts by Wu Yazi, he could use less than 10% of his internal strength because he had never learned the martial arts of the Xiaoyao sect; until later, after a period of guidance from Tong Lao, he Beiming's zhenqi has only reached 30 to 40% of its heat.
As for the Naxi people in the Immortal Changchun Valley, the efficiency of their internal energy movement is even more extreme. It can be said that they are quite closely related to each other.
Using spiritual suggestions, Zhao Qing made several of the elders ignore their outsider characteristics. Zhao Qing asked them some relevant questions and found that these people did not know what internal strength was at all and had no understanding of acupoints and meridians. After living in the valley for a long time, deep inner strength naturally developed.
At the same time, she also found out some information about the "Eternal Spring Spring" in the valley. She learned that the "Eternal Spring Spring" that can keep people young after drinking it is located deep in the Everlasting Spring Valley, and the owner of the valley lives next to it. with some elders.
Except for the most precious spring in the depths of the valley, most of the other streams and springs in the valley are interconnected with the water of the "Eternal Spring Spring" underground, and they also have some weakening effects.
However, if you want to live over a hundred years and still look like a boy or a girl, you have to drink the water from the "Eternal Spring Spring" every few days.
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And the grain owners and elders? By the way, if you rely on some kind of "Eternal Youth Kung Fu" to extend your life and keep your appearance, people in the valley shouldn't die of old age very quickly when they reach the outside world, right?
Zhao Qing was deep in thought, and walked nearly ten miles into the valley along the road beside the stream, passing through four or five similar settlements to the previous ones, and arrived at the core area of the Everlasting Spring Valley.
I saw here a short peak of about thirty feet high. At the top of the peak was a clear and deep water pool seven or eight feet wide, and about ten feet away from the water's edge, there were five or six exquisite-looking stone houses. .
There is a gap on the edge of the pool. The clear spring water, as cold as fairy dew, pours down from the high rocks here and falls into the other two sinking pools that gradually descend, showing the appearance of a waterfall. The water mist Diffuse and extraordinarily beautiful.
Knowing that this is the rumored "Eternal Spring Spring" that can keep people young forever, and the biggest secret of the Eternal Spring Valley, Zhao Qing took some clear spring water and carefully explored and sensed it.
I found that although it contained vitality and was considered a good natural and earthly treasure, it was still far from being able to allow the drinker to generate deep inner strength and extend his life and appearance.
What's going on? Could it be that the reason why the people in the valley live longer is related to their own physical constitution?
With the doubts in his heart, although Zhao Qing had some suspicions that there was some danger in it, which might bind the drinker's life to the scope of the Eternal Spring Valley and prevent him from leaving the valley, but with the ability to decompose it into the essence of heaven and earth at any time, She decided to try some herself.
Feeling the spring water that tasted like fairy dew and nectar, and carefully sensing the situation after drinking the spring water, Zhao Qing thought for a while, relaxed his mind, let the true energy in his body flow naturally, and quietly waited for the changes in his body to appear. .
After a period of time, she gradually felt that her true energy seemed to be affected by waves of invisible fluctuations, creating a weak resonance with each other, and there was a tendency to slowly change the direction of flow.
Is it really possible for people to circulate their true energy on their own and gradually generate internal energy? how did you do that?
Zhao Qing thought secretly in his heart, and silently recorded the changes in the flow of Qi in his body, and used this to deduce the matching technique. After drinking a lot of spring water and spending half a day, he finally launched a corresponding technique. "Eternal Age Eternal Spring Kung".
After trying to run her internal energy according to the route of this "Eternal Life Kung Fu" for a while, she gradually felt that the true energy in her body was increasingly affected by invisible fluctuations, and the resonance was no longer subtle.
As the resonance of the true energy becomes stronger and stronger, as if a boundary has been broken, Zhao Qing imitates a small amount of the true energy of the Everlasting Changchun Gong, and circulates and exchanges with the essence of the outside world in all directions, as if connected to a huge Yuanqi Network.
In her sense of "the unity of heaven and man", small worlds and vitality bridges seemed to appear between heaven and earth, forming a huge spiritual energy cycle, connecting her with other people in the valley. .
After carefully sensing and confirming this, Zhao Qing was suddenly shocked and finally discovered part of the mystery.
The spring water of the Everlasting Spring is not the real source of the longevity of the people in the valley, or in other words, it is just an introduction that makes them live longer.
What really has the effect of extending life and preserving beauty, as I had guessed before, is indeed the self-operating effect of the "Eternal Age and Changchun Kung".
But the reason why their internal strength is quite deep is because the Changchun Spring acts as a lead, and coupled with the abnormality of the Everlasting Valley itself, it connects and fuses the auras of everyone in the valley;
This caused the essence, energy and spirit of the residents in the thousands of valleys to resonate, thus forming a super large aura field with the Changchun Spring deep in the valley as the core and covering a radius of more than ten miles, and inspired the people in the aura field to absorb the essence of heaven and earth on their own. Even without deliberate practice, the rate at which internal energy is accumulated is many times faster than that of normal people.
This unknown but extremely special situation caused the inner energy of the residents in the valley to form a unified whole that was difficult to separate from each other.
The real "Eternal Age Eternal Spring Kung Fu" is actually a group technique composed of thousands of people in the valley as the basic unit of the magical technique. Only within the scope shrouded by a giant aura can it have the effect of extending life and maintaining beauty. amazing effects.
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Once the people in the valley leave the Eternal Spring Valley, they will be like a giant whose body has lost a small piece of flesh. It is no longer connected to the human body. It has lost its source of nutrition and will soon lose its activity, become rotten, and decompose. For a pile of bones.
Similar to the people in the valley, some animals living in the valley should also have a very small amount of the "Eternal Age and Eternal Spring Kung" internal energy;
However, due to the lack of spiritual intelligence, the meridians are weaker than humans, and the cultivation level is almost non-existent. When one reaches the end of his lifespan, he will die of old age as soon as he leaves the range of the aura, and the time he can sustain is far less than that of humans.
Thinking of this, Zhao Qing had some doubts. The reason why Xiaoyaozi finally developed a magical skill similar to the realm was probably partly inspired by the strange situation in the Valley of Everlasting Spring.
And just as she temporarily stopped simulating the "Eternal Age Skill" and prepared to go to other locations in the valley to use zone induction to explore this group magic skill, two girls walked out of a stone house next to the water pool, heading in the direction of Zhao Qing He looked over and said hello:
"This foreign guest is invited by our Valley Master."
