Deers roar deep in the wind and snow.
Nan Dequ frowned as he walked on the stone roads covered with wind and snow, while Chen He was struggling behind to push his Tianyan car, which had been frozen countless times.
Although the young man said countless times that he wanted to leave the car here, he probably couldn't bear it in the end, so after shoveling away the snow, he started pushing the car towards the mountain again.
The two of them have been walking on this dilapidated stone path for more than ten days.
But for some reason, they were still under those windy and snowy mountains. The scenery was exactly the same as when they first stepped onto this stone path. When the wind and snow were fierce, it even made the two of them feel that they were even far away. Those distant mountains are getting further and further away.
Nan Dequ frowned and walked with his sword behind his back. He finally stopped in front of him and looked back at Chen He who was pushing the Tianyan cart noisily. He said softly: "Let's rest for a while."
Chen He thought for a while and said, "Senior brother, don't worry about me, and I'm not very tired either."
Nan Dequ was silent for a while, pulled out his sword from behind, sat down by the stone path, lit a sword fire, and said slowly: "I'm tired."
"..."
Previously, Nan Dequ had been walking in front with his head down, and Chen He couldn't see his face. It was only then that he realized that Nan Dequ's face was indeed a little pale, as if the divine energy of the sea was driven too much.
Compared to Nande Qu, although Chen He was shivering from the cold, he looked like a vigorous overhaul.
Chen He pushed the Tianyan cart to the sword fire, stretched out his hand to roast it on the fire, then took out a shovel and shoveled the frozen snow on the wheels of the cart.
"Have we been possessed by some magical power?"
Chen He asked while shoveling the snow and turned to look at Nan Dequ who was sitting there adjusting his breath.
The sword cultivator who had been using his sword to protect his body and was looking into the wind and snow was silent for a while, and said slowly: "I don't know."
After a pause, Nan Dequ continued: "Buddhism has disappeared from the world for too long, and we don't know what kind of magical powers they have."
Chen He turned back and said, "Didn't you say that your master Cong Ren also practices all kinds of human dharma? Doesn't he know the Buddhist dharma?"
Nan Dequ raised his head, looked at Feng Xue quietly for a long time, and said softly: "It is the master who trains concurrently, not us. He has taught us nothing except swords."
After all, it is a human sword sect, not a human Buddhist temple.
Cong Renhui's Nine-Character Mantra has never been taught to them, let alone anything else.
Chen He was a little melancholy, and moved the Tianyan car to a comfortable position, facing the sword fire, and then sat there with his elbows and chin like a young man, looking through the wind and snow into the depths go.
In the distance, there is a vast wind and snow, and the stone path is old. I don’t know how many years ago it was built. Beyond the stone path, there is a vast expanse. There may be snow lakes and plains under the mountains in the distance, but the two of them can’t go out. This reminds Chen He of those people. Go to the temple to pray for His Majesty.
Maybe only those with sincerity can go up.
The young man thought sadly.
Of course I was not sincere. I came to Luming to sell tofu. I wanted to go up there to see if there was anything new, but it turned out that I was fine when I came and couldn't go back.
But maybe it was a blessing in misfortune that Chen He would not starve to death here. Sometimes there would be snow rabbits and other things jumping around outside the stone path.
Sometimes when Chen He is bored, he will think about some weird things - for example, he sets a number for himself, from one to one hundred. He divides this into levels. Every time he eats a rabbit, he will use As your level increases, you need to eat two rabbits from the first to the second level, and four rabbits from the second to the third level.
Chen He comforted himself, by the time you reach level 100, you will be strong and strong, just like the great monk in white. With sufficient martial virtue, you will be able to walk out of this stone path!
Later, in order to make this setting more interesting, he would collect some bones and fur after eating rabbits, saying that when a certain amount was collected, he could use sword and fire to temper some magical weapons.
Later, some interesting stones on the mountain were also collected.
For example, this one is called a crystal soul stone, which contains extremely strong vitality of heaven and earth. When it is cast, the strength of the weapon can be increased to a higher level - Chen He was holding that thing that looked like frozen rabbit shit. While talking seriously to Nan Dequ, the human sword cultivator patted his head in melancholy, thinking that he might have been in the wind and snow for too long, causing his brain to freeze.
While Chen He was sitting there in a daze, another rabbit ran out of nowhere on the ancient stone path covered with wind and snow, and was jumping from the left to the right of the not-wide stone path. .
Chen He's eyes lit up and he shouted loudly: "Senior brother!"
As soon as Chen He finished speaking, the sword in Nan Dequ's hand had already gone away, nailing the rabbit to the stone path. Chen He jumped out of the car with a smile, ran over, pulled out Nandequ's sword, and then brought the rabbit back.
The young man from Xianyun Yehe, who was traveling around, peeled off the skin of the rabbit very neatly and muttered: "The quality of the fur this time is good, one piece is worth ten..."
Nan Dequ was silent.
Chen He wiped the blood clean with snow, threw the rabbit on the fire, and threw the fur in Tianyan's car - the magic weapon was Chen He's lie, but the fur that could bring some warmth was certainly not.
Nan Dequ did not divide Chen He's rabbit. It was not that Chen He was reluctant to part with it, but he was a practitioner after all. As long as he still had vitality in his body, he naturally did not need to eat - this fact probably made Chen He envious.
Killing a rabbit will drop a magical weapon, and eating a rabbit will improve your self-level. Why does it make your scalp numb just because you don't eat rabbits all day long?
Chen He comforted himself and ate the rabbit seriously, then threw the bones aside and muttered something.
"You are at level five, Chen He. Your fists are stronger and your energy and blood are more abundant."
"..."
Nan Dequ was speechless, took back his sword, sat beside the sword fire and adjusted his breath seriously.
Chen He was playing with the bones there for a long time, while Nan Dequ, who had probably rested, stood up with his sword on his back. Chen He looked up at him and said, "Do you want to continue leaving?"
Nan Dequ quietly looked at the snowy stone road in the distance, thought about it seriously, and said, "I'll keep walking. You wait here for a while."
Chen He looked at him with some confusion.
Nan Dequ said softly: "I'll try to see if the sword light can break through this snowstorm."
In fact, Nan Dequ has always had the idea of igniting the divine sea and forcefully traveling through it at extreme speed.
Just because this snowy stone road is too strange, Nan Dequ has never taken action. After all, although igniting the divine sea can bring the ultimate explosion to the sword cultivator, it also means that there will be a long period of weakness.
However, they had been wasting here for so long, so Nan Dequ naturally became a little anxious.
Chen He looked at the sword behind Nande Qu that was gradually igniting green fire. He knew that this swordsman was beginning to burn the sea of the gods, so he pushed back. After all, if he was blown by the sword wind, it would be terrible. Not a fun thing to do.
"Be safe, senior brother."
Nandequ nodded, and then his figure instantly disappeared. An extremely long sword mark suddenly appeared in the wind and snow, but the sword cultivator had disappeared.
Chen He stood there and stared for a long time, and then withdrew his gaze. The sword fire lit by Nande Qu was still there, otherwise Chen He would have to retract into the rabbit fur of Tianyan's car to keep out the cold.
The young man from Xianyun Yehe sat alone by the sword fire. He didn't feel any panic on such a weird stone path. Instead, he took out all the bones from before and threw them into the fire. It gradually became larger and brought more warmth.
As for the so-called magic weapon, there was no shadow of it. There were only some red-hot leg bones that gradually charred in the fire.
"There's nothing better than a magical weapon like a pile of fire."
Chen Hebao said with a sigh as he held his hands.
"In a place like this, that's true."
But a voice suddenly came from the stone path.
Chen He looked back in surprise and saw a sword cultivator in black robes, carrying a sword on his back and walking towards this place on the crunching snow.
Chen He looked at the black-robed sword cultivator with some surprise. He probably didn't expect to see a sword cultivator in such a place.
The black-robed swordsman was probably very cold. While rubbing his particularly young hands, he stopped by the fire in front of Chen He and sat there to warm himself up.
Only then did Chen He see the face of the sword cultivator under the black robe.
Probably a bit sharp, just like the meaning of a sword, but it is not like this at this time. On the contrary, anyone who sees him will feel that his face is very bitter and aggrieved - because one eye is swollen and there is The brow bone is flat.
It was like being punched by a great monk with great martial arts.
Chen He looked at him with a strange expression for a long time, and then said, "Are you Zhuang Baiyi? A disciple of the Human Sword Sect?"
Zhuang Baiyi said sincerely and truthfully: "Yes."
Chen He slapped his thigh: "It's bad, Senior Brother Nan has just left, otherwise we can just retreat."
Chen He and Nan Dequ walked together and naturally knew what the disciple of the Human Sword Sect was looking for.
Zhuang Baiyi said melancholy: "If he doesn't leave, of course I won't come out."
Chen He looked at Zhuang Baiyi strangely and said slowly: "Are you afraid of him? Don't you look very powerful? I heard from him that you even beat up the prime minister."
Zhuang Baiyi sat by the fire, rubbing his hands, and said, "That's because the dean fell into the realm. He pulled out his Tao tree and fell back to the small Tao realm."
It's just that the Taoist Dao cultivator under the Three Views is really hiding his secrets. He had a hard time fighting those spiritual wizards on the Youhuang Mountains, but when he met Zhuang Baiyi, he directly gave him a hand. Gu Guan's Taoist skills almost killed Zhuang Baiyi there.
As the black-robed swordsman spoke, he raised his head again, looked at Chen He and said seriously: "And I've been trapped in front of the mountain gate for too long, so naturally I'm not as good as before."
"Shanmen?"
Chen He looked at Zhuang Baiyi in surprise. The latter raised his head, looked towards the distant distance of such a stone path, and said softly: "Yes, this was the mountain gate of Ami Temple, one of the four great places of cultivation in the world. .”
The black-robed swordsman raised his hand and pointed towards the cascading mountains deep in the stone path.
"Going through the mountain gate, you can see many magnificent temples that have fallen into the snow. They used to be full of monks, but now they are empty and there is nothing left."
Zhuang Baiyi told a joke that was not very funny.
"They are probably all in bliss."
Chen He looked at Zhuang Baiyi and asked, "Have you already gone inside?"
Zhuang Baiyi shook his head and said calmly: "No, but I walked to the mountain gate and saw such a scene, but I couldn't get out of the last step. My junior brother was probably like this too. Then he would find himself Faced with a problem, I am stuck at the mountain gate, the divine sea is empty, and I can neither advance nor retreat."
Chen He looked worriedly at the sword mark heading deep into the snow.
"Where will he die?"
Zhuang Baiyi thought for a while and said: "It's possible. After all, I relied on sword light to forcefully travel through the past, and then stayed there for a long time. Finally, I finally recovered a little and walked back from there."
The sword cultivator looked calm and looked at the other side without talking about brotherhood and said: "If you die there, you can't blame others."
There is probably no friendship between two swordsman brothers who are separated by hundreds of years.
What's more, the two of them are not in the same river now.
Chen He didn't say anything. After all, this was the matter of the Human Sword Sect, and it was of no use if he said it. He just sighed melancholy.
Zhuang Baiyi was warming himself by the fire and didn't say anything else. The sword cultivator did look a little weak. As he said, he had been trapped in front of the mountain gate for too long.
Chen He looked at him for a long time, and then asked, "It seems you are going back."
Zhuang Baiyi smiled softly and said, "That was indeed my original idea, but it's not necessarily true now."
This sentence made Chen He look very surprised.
The sword cultivator raised his head, his face under the black robe looked at such an ancient stone path for a long time, and then he drew his sword from behind.
Chen He shrank back subconsciously, arching his buttocks so much that the rabbit fur behind him fell off.
It's just that Zhuang Baiyi's sword did not fall towards Chen He. He just held the sword in his hand and knocked on the ground under the snow, as if he was testing something. Then suddenly the sword intention flowed, and he raised the sword like a barbarian. Like a martial artist, he chopped straight down.
The vast sound like a bell and a big Lu suddenly sounded on the snowy stone road.
With the sword intent, many pieces of wind and snow were cut away, revealing the ancient stone slabs on the stone path below.
Zhuang Baiyi calmly sheathed his sword and sat there. As the sword intent spread on the stone path, suddenly many Buddhist sounds sounded, and many scriptures instantly rose from the stone path, driving away the sword intent.
Everything gradually settled down and the wind and snow settled.
After those Buddhist sounds dispersed the sword's intention, they disappeared between the stone paths.
It was as if Zhuang Baiyi had never used such a sword before, and everything remained the same as before.
Chen He looked at Zhuang Baiyi curiously and asked, "What are you doing here?"
Zhuang Baiyi said softly: "This is the reason why we can't walk through it. On such an ancient Buddhist path, there are still many Buddhist scriptures left before the disappearance of Ami Temple. Those who have no great supernatural power cannot cross it. "
Chen He nodded thoughtfully, just looked at the sword cultivator of the Human Sword Sect, and said, "Then how did your master get in back then?"
Zhuang Baiyi said softly: "Master is a person with great supernatural powers."
For such a Thirteen-fold Sword Cultivator, who is proficient in all the methods of the four major cultivation areas, there are probably many things that cannot stop him.
In other words, a sword that can walk up the Sword-Mooning Cliff can naturally travel all over the world.
Even if you don't have the so-called great magical power, you can naturally break it with one sword.
It's just that neither Zhuang Baiyi nor Nan Dequ is someone who can defeat him with one sword.
Chen He thought there thoughtfully for a long time, but suddenly found that the black-robed swordsman named Zhuang Baiyi was carrying a sword on his back, and he looked at him for a long time.
He wiped his lips subconsciously.
"Is there something on my face?"
Zhuang Baiyi shook his head seriously and said, "No."
"Then what do you want me to do?"
Zhuang Baiyi said sincerely: "But there is something under your butt."
Chen He almost jumped up in fright, thinking that he had eaten so many rabbits and that the ghosts of those rabbits were seeking revenge as karma.
As a result, when I lowered my head and saw nothing, there was only the Tianyan car that had started to make a sound after passing through the human world.
Chen He thought for a long time before realizing that Zhuang Baiyi was talking about this Tianyan car, and looked at the human sword cultivator with sudden realization.
"You want to borrow my wheelchair? Can this thing help you pass through that mountain gate?"
Zhuang Baiyi said very seriously: "Such an ancient Buddhist path is full of Buddhist methods. It is difficult for ordinary swordsmanship and Taoist charm to break through such a blockade. Perhaps people with supernatural powers can overcome this blockade." The distance seems short but is actually long. Unfortunately, I don’t know that kind of Buddhist magical power. But of course the human world is not static. Even I have never thought that there would be such a thing in the human world. The masters of Ami Temple earlier How can you guess it? Although the Buddhist law on this ancient road prohibits the power of witches and ghosts, swordsmanship, and Taoism, it is the art of human civilization..."
The black-robed swordsman chuckled softly: "So I changed my mind."
Chen He looked down at the Tianyan car under him, thought for a moment, and said: "But this thing is frozen, so it is difficult to burn it and drive it forward. Besides, according to what those people said, Senior Brother probably doesn't look like anything Good guy, why should I help you?”
Zhuang Baiyi said calmly: "I will use sword fire to help you boil water. Besides, you don't want that swordsman named Nan Dequ to really die there."
Chen He thought for a long time with a frown on his face.
This is probably a very troublesome issue indeed.
After a long time, this young man from Xianyun Yehe said melancholy: "Okay."
Zhuang Baiyi sat there calmly, the wind and snow kept blowing on the ancient road, and the black robe was fierce, but the clothes on the back of the sword cultivator seemed to be frozen, very stiff. ——Maybe this swordsman who talked a lot calmly was actually breaking out in a cold sweat.
