"A place that turns ordinary people into aliens?" Zhang Zhiwei asked, "What is your understanding of aliens?"
Wu Gensheng said: "Those who have acquired Qi are aliens!"
Zhang Zhiwei shook his head: "Then our understanding is biased. I think only those who have mastered superpowers are considered aliens."
The simplest example of Zhang Zhiwei's understanding of foreigners is that when Wang Ye was a boy, he went to Wudang Mountain for his summer vacation. Wudang Taoist Master Yunlong saw that he was well-behaved, so he taught him Zhanzhuang Kungfu and gave him Qi.
Regarding this, Xiao Wang also felt that it was like eating a new Gai Zhong Gai. His waist was not sore, his legs were not hurting, and he could go up to the 50th floor in one breath. Hey, it was effortless.
But Wang Ye's true mastery of supernatural powers was only after graduating from college and joining Wudang and receiving the true inheritance of Yunlong.
"Senior Brother Zhang's plan is very big," Wu Gensheng said: "Senior Brother Zhang, do you think it would be a good thing or a bad thing if there was such a place where ordinary people could get Qi?"
Zhang Zhiwei smiled and said: "That's naturally a good thing!"
Wugensheng disagreed and asked Lu Jin, Lu Ci and others: "Have you ever experienced hardships when you entered the path of spiritual practice?"
Lu Jin nodded and said, "Of course I have experienced it before!"
He still remembered the difficulty of becoming a stranger, which had to go through both physical and mental training.
When he was only a few years old, he spent several months chopping firewood and carrying water in the lower courtyard of Trinity Gate before finally successfully entering Trinity Gate.
There were two friends with him at that time, one was named Li Muxuan, and the other was a little fat guy. He had always called him Senior Brother Liu back then. Only later did he remember that this person should be the one who asked him in the Lu Family Courtyard last time. Challenge Liu Deshui.
Of these two people, one is smarter than him. He is one step ahead of him in everything he does and can always think of things he can't think of.
A man with perseverance, the size of a small pea, can carry more than a dozen tanks of water and chop more than a dozen bundles of wood.
But they all failed, and only he successfully entered the Trinity Gate, which shows how difficult it was.
This is because he is a descendant of the Lu family, a foreign family, and is born with a talent for cultivation. If it were an ordinary person, it would be even more difficult, just like Liu Deshui.
Therefore, Lu Jin was surprised to hear about a place where people could directly become aliens.
Because becoming a stranger is never easy.
"I was trained hard by my father when I was a child. It is really not easy to practice on a water tank full of oil!" Lu Ci also said.
"Me too, I almost escaped death during the test of immortality. At that time, I even saw my wife waving to me!" Guan Shihua also said with a considerate expression.
"I...I...find it quite relaxing. My master led me to practice, and it didn't take much difficulty to get sick!"
When Wang Ai talked about his spiritual path, he felt that he was a little out of place, but he soon found a partner.
Zhang Zhiwei said calmly: "It's not difficult for me!"
In fact, as a branch of the Zhengyi Sect, the practice of the Tianshi Mansion in Longhu Mountain is by no means simple. It also requires chopping wood, carrying water, hoeing the ground, reciting rituals, and reciting Taoist canons...
Zhang Zhiwei continued: "I don't regard hoeing the ground, chopping firewood, carrying water, or reciting the Taoist canon as hardships. Carrying water and splitting firewood can strengthen the body. The Taoist canon contains the spiritual understanding of the sages. Every time I read it, I will gain new understanding. , there will be new progress, how can it be called suffering? Isn’t that the time of cultivation? "
Wu Gensheng said: "People like Senior Brother Zhang are still too rare. In fact, in my opinion, anyone who has become a strange person through cultivation must have walked a path of pain that is unbearable for ordinary people."
"And every step on the road, many years later, is still engraved in my heart. It is hard work and physical exercise. If you don't grit your teeth and persevere, you will want to give up every second. To temper your mind, the boredom and irritability during meditation can even make you feel sad. People miss the pain in their bones and muscles.”
"And if you don't go through these hardships and just go to the sky in one step, the consequence will be that you lose your sense of reality, you will be like a dream in the clouds and fog, you don't know what to do, you will be frivolous and arrogant, and you will do evil. This kind of place is not advisable!"
"There is no such thing as a place that is desirable or undesirable. The only thing that is undesirable is the people!" Zhang Zhiwei said: "It's like some people have some talent in practicing a way and can feel Qi as soon as they practice. Some people only feel Qi after practicing for a year and a half. To Qi, this is not a reason to deny the former."
"The reason why the latter have to go through these sufferings is just the process they have to go through to enter the path of spiritual practice, rather than going through these processes before entering the path of spiritual practice."
"There is no point in praising suffering. If you think that people must suffer some hardships to become noble and sublime, this idea is very problematic!"
"Whether a person does evil or not has something to do with the person himself, but it has little meaning with the difficulty of practice. It's like some congenital people, after awakening, think that the greater the ability, the greater the responsibility."
"And some people who have gone through hard work and become successful think, I have suffered so much and finally acquired all the means, but I still can't enjoy it?"
Zhang Zhiwei looked into Wu Gensheng's eyes: "Suffering can sometimes polish a person, and sometimes, it can also... distort a person!"
Zhang Zhiwei knew about the place Wu Gensheng mentioned that allowed ordinary people to obtain Qi. It was called Twenty-Four Sections Tongtian Valley, somewhere deep in the Qinling Mountains. It was also the place where the thirty-six thieves later became sworn brothers.
The Qinling Mountains are in Shaanxi, and Wu Gensheng is from Shaanxi. They live in the same place. It seems that he discovered this valley very early.
This valley is very magical. It was created by Zhang Boduan, the real person of Ziyang, so that everyone who enters the valley can get a sense of energy and enter the path of spiritual practice.
Who is Zhang Boduan? He is a master of inner alchemy, a top figure in both life and life cultivation, and one of the founders of the Quanzhen religion. Although his reputation is not as good as that of Zhang Daoling, Bodhidharma, Zhang Sanfeng and other saints, in terms of his cultivation, he is not inferior at all. .
However, as a saint and ancestor, Zhang Boduan did not create his own Taoism, but created such a valley, which can be regarded as leaving his own inheritance in disguise.
Moreover, he seemed to have left some very important secrets there, from where he learned the Eight Wonders. As for what the secrets in the valley were, Zhang Zhiwei didn't know, but he guessed it had something to do with Tianshidu.
Because, during the Luotian Grand Ceremony in later generations, Zhang Chulan asked the old Celestial Master about the Jiashen Rebellion. The old Celestial Master was very sincere and did not play tricks, so he would teach him the Celestial Master's teachings and give him all the answers.
How could Tianshidu, nearly two thousand years ago, be related to the Jiashen Rebellion?
In the past, Zhang Zhiwei's thought was that his big-eared thief junior brother ran away when his master taught him the Celestial Master's Degree. In the process, he got a glimpse of the secret of the Celestial Master's Degree from his master.
Then he led a group of sworn brothers to crack the Heavenly Master's Code and obtained the contents. Therefore, the Eight Wonders of Skills highly overlapped with those of the Taoist sect.
But now, he has a new idea. Perhaps it is not that they have cracked the Tianshidu, but that they have cracked the things left by Zhang Boduan, the real person of Ziyang.
The reason why this thing is related to Tianshidu is because Zhang Daoling and Zhang Boduan are both people of the same level, and the things they left behind are also of the same level in a sense, and may even be the same secret.
As for this, with his rootless intelligence, he may have been vaguely aware of it, or he may have known about it, but he had never explored it.
But as Zhang Zhiwei said, suffering will change and distort a person.
According to Wu Gensheng's little fan girl Jin Feng, Wu Gensheng's temperament changed drastically when he was in the Jiashen year.
He never points out the path for others, but only serves as a guide. For the first time, he is a good teacher. He forcibly plans a path for the little fan girl Jinfeng and drives her away.
After that, he summoned thirty-six thieves and gathered together in the Tongtian Valley of the Twenty-fourth Festival, where they drank and chatted and became brothers with different surnames.
After the banquet, the thirty-six thieves went back to their respective homes to find their mothers, but before they could return to their respective sects, a short masked man delivered the sworn names to each sect.
At this point, the Jiashen Rebellion broke out, and the thirty-six thieves who were chased by various sects and sects had no way to go to heaven and no way to go to earth. Under another invitation from Wu Gensheng, they turned into desperate desperadoes and once again He came to the Tongtian Valley in the 24th Festival and performed eight magical skills.
Zhang Zhiwei didn't know what role Wu Gensheng and his junior brother played in this matter, and he didn't want to speculate.
"By the way, you can invite me to see this magical place!" Zhang Zhiwei said.
It was related to the Heavenly Master, so he was a little curious about the secrets in the Twenty-Four Tongtian Valley, but only a little. If Wu Gensheng invited him to go, he would go, but he would not deliberately go. try to find.
Since Zhang Daoling, Zhang Boduan, and Zhang Sanfeng could all get the secret, it would only be a matter of time for him to know it, and it didn't matter whether he took shortcuts or not.
Does he really believe there is? ... Wu Gensheng was stunned for a moment, then nodded and said: "If there is a chance, definitely!"
After that, the sleigh became quiet, no one spoke, and the sound of the wind around was like a ghost crying, sharp and harsh, and it was impossible to hear it without a loud roar.
Trekking in the snow is very dangerous even for strangers. At this time, the temperature in Changbai Mountain may be minus 34 degrees, and as they go deep into Qi Bureau, the temperature here is undoubtedly even lower, and they need to use Qi to lock in the body's heat.
After walking for a while, the golden sled climbed up the snow-capped mountains. Everything here was white, making it difficult to distinguish between the sky and the ground.
"Senior Brother Zhang, are we going astray?!" Guan Shihua shouted loudly.
Zhang Zhiwei glanced at the compass: "Follow the pointer, you can't make a mistake!"
Guan Shihua said loudly: "The destination is okay, but the road is wrong. There was a canyon on the left before, and it seemed that was the road. But we didn't take the usual road just now, and climbed over the ridge of the snow-capped mountains."
Zhang Zhiwei: "…………"
"You mean, I went astray, missed the way to rendezvous with the main force, and went straight into the depths of the Qi Bureau?"
Guan Shihua nodded, then widened his eyes, pointed at the Dragon Patrol Compass, and said with a look of surprise:
"Senior Brother Zhang, quickly, look at the compass, the compass needle!"
With a thought in his mind, Zhang Zhiwei stopped the golden sleigh and took it over to take a look. He saw that the pointer on the compass was spinning rapidly.
This compass was given to him by Liu Wei to make it easier for him to go to the imperial mausoleum to find the large army. Now that this situation occurs, it should be that the destination has been reached.
"What's going on?" Wugensheng asked.
"I pushed too hard and ran too far!" Zhang Zhiwei said.
Everyone was speechless.
"Then what should we do? Let's go back first?" Guan Shihua said.
Zhang Zhiwei looked forward, his eyes suddenly darkened, and his eyes flickered. He saw the Qi energy in front of him was disordered, and the Qi energy was tangled together like a thread, entangled, dense as a sea of smoke, and vast.
"You're here, come and take a look!"
Zhang Zhiwei slowed down and pushed the sled forward. After crossing the ridge, he saw a white valley ahead.
In the valley, eight small peaks that look like flags stand abruptly.
The reason for the suddenness is that there is no snow on these eight small peaks. They are all black and scorched, as if they have been struck by lightning.
As soon as the few people approached, the sky suddenly became overcast with clouds, and they could only hear the sound of drums and horns in the sky and the earth, the strange wind howling, and all kinds of shouts of killing filled their ears, as if thousands of troops and horses were coming to kill them all.
Wu Gensheng stared ahead and said: "There are eight extremely strong qi waves ahead. You should have noticed something unusual!"
"I felt it too. Not only that, I also heard the sound of horse hooves, shouts of death, and the sound of armor clashing. It was like being on a battlefield!" Guan Shihua looked surprised.
"Me too!" Wang Ai said.
Zhang Zhiwei didn't speak, and was looking solemnly at the valley below. In the eyes of others, the valley below was just a vast expanse of white.
But in Zhang Zhiwei's eyes, there was a surge of energy, the wind and clouds were meeting, and dark clouds were pressing down on the city. One flag after another was erected in the sky. Countless Qing troops wearing Eight Banners armor were arrayed below, with murderous intent and scorched earth everywhere. A gloomy mist.
The reason why this scene occurs is because he has reached the realm of inner saint and outer king. In this realm, he has clearly understood his own pattern, gained insight into the small world of the human body, and built his own pattern like a kingdom.
And these Qi from the outside are like invaders who want to attack his country. This scene is the embodiment of this.
"What's going on with those drums and horns and the shouts of killing down there? I just used Ruyi Jin to check it out, and I didn't feel anything." Lu Ci said.
"Because it is Qi that makes those movements, you naturally cannot feel the entity!" Zhang Zhiwei said.
"Is it because of Qi Bureau? In my understanding, Qi Bureau is the same as Feng Shui, but why does Feng Shui make sounds?" Lu Jin asked.
"Feng shui is only a very small application in Qi Bureau. Qi Bureau also has another application called formation!" Zhang Zhiwei said.
"Formation?" Lu Jin was puzzled: "Is it a formation for arranging troops?"
"The formation is too low-level. It should be a higher-level formation!" Zhang Zhiwei said: "Have you heard of Zhuge Wuhou's eight formations?"
"I've heard of it, but isn't it a legend?" Lu Jin said.
"It's not a legend, it's true!" Wu Gensheng explained: "On the riverside of Kuizhou Prefecture in the Sichuan-Chongqing region, where Liu Bei was entrusted with his father's son, Baidi City, Zhuge Wuhou built piles of rocks to resist the Soochow navy. Create a stone formation and divide it into eight gates: Life, Injury, Rest, Du, Jing, Death, Shock, and Open according to Dunjia, creating an ever-changing Qi formation that can withstand hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers."
"According to legend, those who entered the formation suddenly sensed the appearance of a heavy fog, and then thousands of troops and horses appeared in the formation, arrayed in front according to the Bagua pattern. Anyone who trespasses, no matter how many, will die without a burial place. Zhuge Wuhou relied on this formation to block Soochow's offensive. What does Senior Brother Zhang mean that the following Qi Bureau is actually the Eighth Formation?"
Zhang Zhiwei shook his head: "Probably not. The eight formations can block a hundred thousand elite soldiers. After unfolding, they can block the Yangtze River and block the Soochow army. This should be just a fake and shoddy version, but even so, it is quite extraordinary. This should be a It was done by an extremely advanced warlock, no wonder our alien alliance is trapped here."
"A highly skilled sorcerer?" Lu Jin asked, "Is it Fan Wencheng who helped Manchu rule the country and bring peace to the world?"
"Who else besides him?" Zhang Zhiwei said.
"Damn it, that's fucked up. Even if this person is not as good as Zhuge Wuhou, he can rule the country and bring peace to the world. How can he be so weak with just one magic skill? There are no warlocks of this level in this era. It exists!" Lu Jin said with a sad look on his face.
"Who said there isn't one?"
"Who said there isn't one?"
Two voices sounded at the same time.
The speakers were Wu Gensheng and Zhang Zhiwei.
(End of chapter)
