Two wings grow on its back, its body soars into the sky, it floats on the blue clouds, and it ascends to the great steps.
The newly released pair of crane wings set off strong gusts of wind, lifting the young man up into the air. It was not fast, let alone flying. At most, it was riding the wind, climbing on the clouds, and climbing up the stairs. , just like the original mirror-armored centipede.
Qi Jingzhi was surprised and happy.
In his induction, the pair of crane wings behind him were made of Qinghua Shaoyang as the bone, pine and cypress armor as the flesh, Ruomu Yanghuo as the blood, dragon-like Qiuqiu as the skin, mirror-armored centipede as the feathers, and so on. The spiritual objects blended with each other under the refining of the torrent of flames, and completely became one.
The scales of the mirror-armored centipede were originally like dark iron and fine steel. After turning into feathers, they became less rough and ferocious and more elegant and gorgeous. With each movement of the crane's wings, The first time you stretch and drum, you can hear the armor plates touching each other and making a sonorous sound. It is by no means flashy.
What's especially rare is that his Angry Crane's heart and bones interact with the pair of wings, as if he has an extra pair of limbs in addition to his limbs. The crane wings can fly on their own without any deliberate control.
Qi Jingzhi had a new understanding in his heart. It seemed that with just a few thoughts, he could converge these wings into the strange-shaped wing shield with overlapping armor plates. If he still felt that it was not cool enough, he could use the silver belt of his black robe to It's not impossible for the black boots to turn back into green grass crane shoes or even green-feathered cranes with angry eyes.
The only shortcoming is that he has not yet practiced the "Secret Scroll of Qingyu" and cannot freely mobilize Qinghua Shaoyang Qi. Therefore, he cannot truly use the crane's wings like an arm, and he is always a little sluggish. place.
As his thoughts rose and fell, Qi Jingzhi was flying higher and higher. He couldn't help but look down and saw the entire Xuandu Temple at his feet. His mind couldn't help but be agitated, and a crane full of joy and pride suddenly blurted out.
"I would like to use my fairy wings to fly into the sky!"
Since his practice, Qi Jingzhi has been visualizing the fairy feathers and flying cranes. Now that he finally has a pair of wings, he naturally has the desire to fly.
So, while trying to communicate with the crane's wings, he tried to twist his body, trying to change the direction of Yukong.
Unexpectedly, the operation of the crane's wings would be fine if he didn't interfere. Once he started to interfere, the newly obtained wings were twisted into twists, and the whole person immediately lost his balance. His body suddenly tilted, as if it was broken. Like a stringed kite, it plummeted towards the Zixu Pavilion below.
Just looking at this posture, it is much faster than when I climbed up just now.
There was a chaos in the flower garden and medicine field of Zixu Pavilion. The exotic flowers and herbs pulled out their roots from the soil one after another, dispersed in a hurry, and huddled together under the surrounding walls.
There were some smart ones among them, who crawled to Feng Zixu's side and huddled under the skirt of the Xuandu Guanzhu.
Qi Jingzhi danced in the sky, and finally managed to stretch out the twisted wings of the crane, but in his haste, he still failed to stabilize his body.
Just as he was about to hit the ground, Helu's wings suddenly wrapped around him, and instantly turned into a pair of bright iron armor, glowing with a brilliant golden light under the bright sun.
"Seeing the light of the sun, the world will be bright."
Feng Zixu chuckled lightly and watched her disciple fall into the empty flower bed and medicinal field with leisurely eyes.
If the soul corpse had not been fused with the Qingqiu belt long ago and was also refined into the crane shoes just now, Qi Jingzhi would have been thrown into the ground and chewed in the mud.
He got up in embarrassment and raised his hand to pat the dirt on his body, but found that he was as clean as new from head to toe, not stained at all.
The Mingguang armor quickly faded away, and the two crane wings formed a strange iron shield again, covering Jianren Shou's scabbard.
Qi Jingzhi looked at Feng Zixu with a bright smile on his face: "Thank you, Master, for the treasure!"
Feng Zixu nodded and chuckled: "My master has refined the "Secret Scroll of Green Feather" into your pair of crane shoes. It will serve as your manual for manifesting your mind and even the realms of wandering and the holy fetus. From now on, you only need to Just understand and practice step by step. When you really get started and can absorb and refine Qinghua Shaoyang Qi, you no longer need to deliberately suppress the mind and let it manifest naturally. "
Qi Jingzhi naturally nodded in agreement: "To be honest with you, Master, at first my disciple was not satisfied with a full bottle, half a bottle was sloshing around, and his thoughts were always ready to come out. However, after the guidance of Lord Langya and Master, he realized how shallow he was before. , especially after learning the humility of "Quegu Shiqi Pian", I always feel empty in my heart, and the previous restlessness has completely disappeared."
"Well, it's not a bad thing to accumulate a lot. As the saying goes, things come from the heart. As long as you keep your mind steady and your Tao thoughts firm, the rest will just fall into place."
Feng Zixu was very satisfied with the attitude of his disciple who was neither arrogant nor impetuous. He thought about it and then said: "Speaking of this Taoist mind, I see that you paid a lot of attention to Soapwood before. I think there is only one friend who is interfering with it." The Jade Pillow died tragically after being exposed to Sambucus Ajax, and it was also because I received great benefits from the Jade Pillow’s dream.”
Qi Jingzhi was startled when he heard this, and immediately thought of Lu Qiyun.
What he gained from his dream in the pillow was undoubtedly that he transformed into the ambitious young Taoist priest and experienced a series of power struggles and battle battles. Although he only had a brief taste of it, he also saw another kind of life and played a role in the world of mortals. The effect of refining the mind.
Especially at the end of the big scene in the dream, he clearly understood who I am, completely relaxed his heart, drew his sword and flew into the sky, waved the moon in his hand, and killed the Faceless Demon Lord with one sword.
Without this rare experience and insight, it would not have been so easy for him to gather the heart and soul of Angry Crane after he came out of the dream.
In comparison, he learned the sword skills of shaving his head and shaving his face and the passable riding skills in his dream, but it was just by the way, and it was nothing.
Thinking of this, Qi Jingzhi nodded and admitted: "The disciple experienced a dream in the jade pillow. It was as if he had become another person. He had lived half a life again in a serious manner, so that his subsequent actions were more or less different. Affected by the identity in the dream, I have called myself by that identity in front of others more than once."
When Feng Zixu heard this, she frowned, shook her head and said: "Just looking at Angry Crane's heart and bones, I know that your mind is quite strong. You can be affected to this extent. Just the Huanxin Jade and Ashoka Tree can't do it." It can’t be done, even with the help of Duke Qinghong and even the divine power of the White Immortal Sect, it’s absolutely impossible, and it’s almost the same if it’s replaced by Huaimencao!”
"There must be something weird about that jade pillow! Since the little girl of the Mu family told you about dismantling the jade pillow, didn't she say anything else?"
Qi Jingzhi thought about it carefully and said hesitantly: "She also said at that time that she dreams of thousands of mountains and an arrow in the window. Sometimes dreams are not just dreams. She also warned her disciples that as a monk, you cannot take dreams lightly, otherwise Maybe one day I will fall asleep and never come back..."
The more Qi Jingzhi said, the more frightened he became. At first, he had little knowledge and did not take Mu Yingxian's advice to heart. Now, when he thought of these words, he immediately thought of Ding Lingwei.
Seeing the strange expression on the young man's face, Feng Zixu seemed to have guessed what he was thinking, and nodded gently: "There are many strange and unpredictable secret realms in the Wuji Wilderness. In addition to the Mirror Country mentioned by the teacher before, this Dreamland is also one of them. one."
"According to legend, after Taoist ancestors opened up the land of Wuhe, the dreams of all living beings were reflected in the Wuji wilderness, and gradually gathered into a mysterious place, which is called Dreamland, and is known as the place where the dream souls of all sentient beings in the world return."
"Originally, this was nothing, but in the past thousand years, some bad changes seemed to have occurred in the Wuji Wilderness. All kinds of external demons blocking the way became more and more restless. Among them, the dream ghosts and nightmare monsters came out of the dreamland. The harm is especially serious. Once they invade the dream, at least the thoughts in the mind and even the soul of the dream will be swallowed up, and the person will become stupid and foolish. At the worst, his own spirituality will be pulled into the dreamland, and he will not even have the chance to reincarnate."
The more Qi Jingzhi listened, the more frightened he became. He never thought that he could encounter such danger even in his dreams.
He thought about it carefully, and it seemed that except for that pillow dream, the last serious dream he had was the night when he killed Chen Er.
The dream that night seemed extremely long, making him very tired when he woke up, but he couldn't remember what he had dreamed about. But before he had time to think about it, he was startled by Lu Yunzi who suddenly spoke, and he completely forgot about the dream.
Feng Zixu had become accustomed to his disciple's wandering mind and racing thoughts from time to time. When Qi Jingzhi turned around, he continued angrily and funny: "As for whether Ding Lingwei was lost in his dream, it is not yet certain. After all, Wuji is There are many similar dangerous places in the wild."
"All in all, the so-called constant concentration of mind and perseverance in Taoism is by no means a useless empty talk, but something that must be remembered and followed at all times. Even if it is a dream, one must remain alert."
"Especially after you manifest your mind and ascend the spiritual platform, there will only be a Wuji Gate between you and the Wuji Wilderness, so you must be even more careful. Speaking of this, the monks of the Cangyue Temple are very fond of poetry. One of the poems that declares Zen principles is the most vivid."
Feng Zixu suddenly stopped to try her luck, and her face showed some reluctance. It was obvious that she did not want to pronounce the Buddhist verses, but she had to do it in order to teach her disciples.
Then I heard her chant softly: "The body is like a bodhi tree, and the mind is like a mirror. Always brush it diligently to prevent any dust."
"Bodhi tree? Mirror stand?"
Qi Jingzhi felt that he had become more knowledgeable. Just as he had heard Deng Fuqing mention it before, Buddhism in the heart and bone is to integrate the strengths of all the concubines and all the Jiangs, open up a blessed land of love, and plant the seeds of the heart beads and Taoism.
Based on this inference, the "Bodhi Tree" should be the place where the Heart Bead Tao Seed took root, sprouted, and grew into the form of the mind. As for the "Mirror Stand", it obviously corresponds to the spiritual stand in the third realm.
While the master and the disciple were studying Buddhism, a small bronze mirror suddenly emerged from the palm of Qi Jingzhi's left hand, and immediately turned into a stream of light, shooting towards the flame of the furnace that was dying out.
At the same time, a pearl as big as a goose egg quietly flew out of the furnace, and was immediately caught by the small bronze mirror.
Seeing that he took the mirror without asking and swallowed the pearl without any ceremony, Qi Jingzhi immediately looked at Feng Zixu, fearing that his master would be angry.
"This is the pearl in the mind of the Mirror-armored Centipede. It is bound by its soul and essence. If your mirror does not lock the demons but only refines them, this clan will be completely wiped out."
Unexpectedly, Feng Zixu just sighed softly, shook his head and said: "Originally, I wanted to give this dead remnant a chance to reincarnate, but I didn't expect that your companion weapon spirit would not let you go. Hey, who made it happen before? If I kill you, I will take the blame for myself."
Qi Jingzhi couldn't help but be silent. According to his true feelings, he hoped that the small bronze mirror was really the magic locking mirror.
He turned to look at the small bronze mirror hanging above the furnace, but immediately noticed that it was different from the past.
It turned out that this time, the mirror did not swallow the pearl completely, but left half of it outside.
Now the half of the pearl outside is melting rapidly, like flowing moonlight, seeping into the cracks on the mirror surface.
"This is……"
Qi Jingzhi's eyes widened immediately. The pearl in Mirror Armor Tian Centipede's mind could actually repair a small bronze mirror?
He couldn't help but take a few steps forward to take a closer look, and saw that in just a few moments, the mirror-armored centipede's pearl had completely melted away. The cracks on the mirror were still there, but they seemed a little lighter.
The next moment, the shape of the pearl still appeared in the mirror. It still looked like a complete one, but it was almost transparent and no longer had the moonlight-like brilliance before.
A string of small characters condensed in the smoke revealed the origin of the bead: "Moonlight corpse, the light of toad and the shadow of cinnamon, condensed into a bead. After death, the qi is exhausted and the body is left empty. It is cold in nature, sweet in taste, and non-toxic. See the moon. That is to say, it is clear and collected into pulp.”
"It turns out that it's not the pearl that can repair the mirror, but the moonlight condensed inside."
Qi Jingzhi had a realization in his heart, and then he started to scratch his head.
Most of the time in the Xianyu Xuandu Cave Sky, the sun and the moon are in separate glory, that is, the moon can be seen at any time.
The Mirror-armored Centipede has this unique convenience. During the hundreds of years from an egg to the actual birth, the moonlight it collected was only one bead, but it could not even repair a crack in the small bronze mirror. Even if you now know how to repair a mirror, where can you find so much moonlight?
Qi Jingzhi thought for a moment and immediately thought of the Moon Lord among the Eight Lord Gods.
"The God of Si Qiu from Baiyun Palace in Jiuzhen County is so miraculous, but in terms of status, he is only the god of the Four Seasons Lord, and the Moon Lord is still ranked above the Four Seasons Lord. His power can be imagined. Those who worship the Moon You should be able to find Moonlight in the Lord's palace, but this thing is probably extremely precious, and it is not easy to obtain it in large quantities."
"Or maybe I wonder if there are any temples dedicated to the Mother of the Moon in Daqi? Hey, the original blade of Jian Renshou only had a little bit of the divine power of the Mother of the Moon, and not half of the moonlight. Otherwise, it would have been swallowed by the mirror. .”
Feng Zixu was also a little surprised when he saw this: "I didn't expect that the Mirror Armored Centipede clan would have such a foot."
She frowned and thought for a while before continuing: "I heard that there is a Taoist lineage of Guanghan Qingxu Tianzun in Beihengzhou, called Yuchan Mountain. They live in the Yuchan Yue Cave and are sheltered under the gate of Xilingshi Yin Palace in Xiaogu Mountain. It can be regarded as one of the Dagu Mountains. But my master has never dealt with this sect, and I don’t know if it’s easy to talk to him..."
Qi Jingzhi immediately shook his head after hearing the words: "Master's great kindness in teaching me and bestowing treasures is hard to repay in this life, so how can I let you work so hard! This mirror is innately associated with my apprentice, whether it is repairing the spirit of the instrument or refining it in the future. To make the innate natal weapon, all my disciples want to do it themselves!"
Feng Zixu glanced at the young man and nodded happily: "The disciples of Xianyu Mountain must have such a spirit! In the future, you can let the little girl of the Mu family add the spiritual materials needed for refining the innate natal weapon to her dowry. As a teacher, you don’t have to worry about this!"
Having said that, the Xuandu Temple Master ignored the shocked disciple and changed the topic: "As for repairing the mirror, if you don't want to ask for help, there is a way you can try."
After hearing this, Qi Jingzhi immediately became energetic and said, "Master, please give me some advice!"
"Because of your mirror, I once told a legend about King Chicheng who was drunk and shot a locked magic mirror. Now because of this Yuehua corpse, I suddenly remembered that when I was a little girl, I once heard a story told by my elders. Anecdotes…”
Feng Zixu smiled slyly, as if coaxing a child: "Why don't I tell you, little He'er, another story?"
(End of chapter)
