longevity road trip

Chapter 583

"Zhang believes that with Fellow Daoist Jiang's strength, it shouldn't be a problem to hunt down a few big monsters. It's just that it may take five or ten years at least, or a hundred years at most. It's a pity that Zhang can't wait that long. , Besides, the world is vast, if I let you go this time, how can I have such a great ability to find you again? But Zhang, seeing that you and I have known each other for many years, I have a question in my heart now, If fellow daoist can clear up my doubts for me, then Zhang can promise not to do anything to fellow daoist this time! Otherwise, the world is boundless, if I let you go this time, how can I have such a great ability to find you again ?” Zhang Shiping said without changing his expression.

"Ghosts have known you for many years!" Jiang Ru secretly said in his heart.

But on the surface, it put on a joyful expression like after a catastrophe, and said in a grateful tone: "Thank you Brother Zhang Gao Yi, just ask if you have anything, Jiang knows everything, and he can talk endlessly! "

It was just that Jiang seemed to think of something suddenly, and tentatively said: "Brother Zhang, you don't want to ask the master about it?"

"Now that you understand, it saves me a lot of talking. Bi Yu Yaojun was able to regain his youth. What happened to him? Could it be because the blood beads swallowed by Fellow Daoist at that time were really so mysterious? With a wave of Zhang Shiping's sleeve, he and Jiang Si put a mana shield for warning, then nodded, looked at it with a half-smile and said.

"Brother Zhang, this, can I say that I don't know? Over the years, I have not done anything other than refining the blood beads that I swallowed from the palace of Mingxin Bieyuan at that time. You’ve seen the life-prolonging liquid, haven’t you? A few months ago, the master looked like this after he came out of closed-door training. How can I know what kind of spiritual thing this true gentleman took, or what kind of rejuvenation he performed? The secret technique." Jiang Ru said with a look of embarrassment.

It understands very well that the human cultivator in front of him is the same as himself, and it is difficult to fool him with a few words. It is better to tell the truth, anyway, it does not know the details!

As for the Jindan cultivator of Xuanyuanzong, if he doesn't believe it, then he has nothing to do with it.But when it comes to turning his face, even though this person is a late Jindan cultivator, he is not easy to deal with.The hands of the two sides have seen the truth, and it is enough to have a fight. It is best to escape, and it is the worst thing to knock out a few teeth of the opponent.

Fighting is the most straightforward method, but it is also the most helpless one. At this point, it means that the two sides have completely turned against each other.It would be the best if the other party could be completely wiped out and there would be no future worries.

"That's right, I have indeed seen the life-prolonging liquid you refined. The vitality contained in it is indeed majestic, far exceeding that of ordinary spiritual things. However, it is absolutely impossible to make a Shouyuan The demon king who is about to regain his youth? I want to know what happened in it, otherwise Zhang will have to do it himself and search for his soul!"

Zhang Shiping recalled that when he was in Xiaotanggu, Chisha Island, an ancient cave, he saw that old fire crow once drank a bowl of blood-colored spiritual liquid refined from Jiang Xi's body, which had a remarkable effect of nourishing vitality, but if it could He didn't believe that the monk could regain his youth all of a sudden.It's just that in today's meeting, Zhang Shiping clearly felt that the young fire crow was not just a mere change in appearance, but a complete change from the inside out. It felt like a breakthrough in the realm, becoming a The deity cultivator is average.

Although he is young now, facing this kind of strange incident about Shouyuan, which monk would not be tempted to get to the bottom of it?

"Brother Zhang, Jiang really doesn't know the reason for this. Think about it, if I knew, Bi Yu Yaojun wouldn't let me go so easily? Don't say what oath it made before , you also know that these oaths still have some binding force on us Jindan monks, but they can't restrain Nascent Soul monks. The two monks of Mingxinzong who got up may know more than I do. After all, that secret place is called Mingxin Bieyuan. If the two have nothing to do with each other, I don’t believe it at all. Jiang can tell you about the token and the method of entering the country, how about treating you and me as friends? Otherwise, you and I are not the only Jindan monks here, and it’s not good to be a fish in others’ mouths.” Jiang Si’s attitude is also A little tougher, it stared at Zhang Shiping and said.

After finishing speaking, it lightly stepped on the air with its front foot, and took out a palm-sized token from the storage magic weapon. It looked like iron but not iron, and it looked like stone but not stone.

Immediately after Jiang Rushen's thoughts moved, the token slowly floated in front of Zhang Shiping.

Zhang Shiping didn't take it directly, but used his spiritual sense to check it first, and then picked it up with a palm made of mana. After looking at it for a while, his expression remained unchanged. Putting this token into the magic weapon of storage, he said with a light smile: "This token is accepted by Mr. Zhang, and the previous affairs between you and me in the secret realm of Mingxin Bieyuan will be cancelled. This once-in-a-thousand-year encounter The Nanfa Temple has been opened, Jiang Daoyou, do you want to be with Zhang, so we can take care of each other?"

Ten years is not too late for a gentleman to take revenge, but it is not too late for a Jindan cultivator to take revenge even after seven or eighty years.

In the past, when they were in Mingxin Bieyuan, they were set up in an ambush by Jiang Si and Gu Quan. Min Caiquan even destroyed his physical body, and had no choice but to seize his home and reincarnate.If Zhang Shiping hadn't been quite alert, he might have followed in his footsteps.

He hasn't forgotten this hatred, it's just that he didn't have the chance before!

Zhang Shiping has never been the kind of person who can repay kindness with kindness. What he pursues is to repay kindness with kindness and to repay grievances with straightness.In this world, it is already a kind of virtue for a person with higher cultivation to stick to himself and not persecute others.

A person who barks at others for his lack of merit, once he has the opportunity to sit in a high position, nine out of ten will become the person he hated before, or even worse. A scholar said.

But this is not to say that these dog slaughterers are more virtuous and righteous than scholars. The reason for all this is because of opportunities.The dog-slaying generation is because they can only slaughter dogs and pigs all their lives, while the scholars are Tian Shelang at first, and then they go to Tianzitang. The sudden change of status and status is unimaginable.

"No, no, I've stayed in Xiaotanggu for 40 to [-] years, and my bones are rusted. Now I just want to walk around, so I won't be with Zhang Daoyou." Jiang Ru shook his head and said.

"Since this is the case, then Zhang will not be reluctant. Next time, if fellow Taoists are free, come to Qinghuo Valley in Binhai City, and Zhang will sweep the couch to welcome you!" Zhang Shiping said calmly, and he and Jiang Bi went to a separate place , and flew towards the stone bridge hundreds of miles away.

Jiang Ru looked at the back of Zhang Shiping going away, after a few glances, he turned and flew in the direction of Cangguyang.

But Zhang Shiping sensed that Jiang Bi was leaving, turned his head to look at it, and put the Qingshuang Sword that was ready to go in his sleeve back into his dantian.

Immediately afterwards, he galloped in a flash, and flew a hundred miles to the stone bridge that runs through the sea and sky, which is thousands of miles long.

As soon as he flew to the edge, before landing, Zhang Shiping felt an extremely heavy pressure, which made him sink tens of feet unconsciously.

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About [-] miles of this stone bridge slanted into the bottom of the sea, and the other [-] miles extended to the white clouds.

As he flew forward for more than ten miles, when he was standing in the middle of the stone bridge about four to five hundred miles away, it seemed that there was a heavy burden on his shoulders, and it seemed that he was hundreds of miles away and could not see at a glance. Under the blue sea at the bottom, a giant deep-sea beast lurks with its huge mouth open, sucking Zhang Shiping like devouring the sky, causing him to fly back several miles suddenly.

But Zhang Shiping already knew it, he didn't show the slightest panic, as soon as he felt the force, he raised his mana and stopped his figure easily.

He looked around with a calm expression, and then he was more than ten feet away from the stone bridge, and flew up along the way, and flew for hundreds of miles, until he felt the sudden increase in the consumption of his mana, and then slowly landed on the stone bridge .

As soon as he landed on the stone bridge, Zhang Shiping felt that his soul seemed to be imprisoned. In the past, he could easily detect tens of miles away, and vaguely perceive the tyrannical consciousness nearly a hundred miles away. a cent.

Zhang Shiping felt a little uncomfortable. In the past two or three hundred years, the number of times he relied on his spiritual sense to explore the outside world was no less than the number of times he used his eyes to see and ears to listen.It is very normal to summarize this situation in the world of cultivating immortals. The release of spiritual consciousness is a means for monks to perceive the outside world differently from ordinary people. The higher the cultivation level, the more monks rely on it.At this moment, Zhang Shiping felt as if he was blind, he could only observe external objects with his naked eyes, and he couldn't understand everything about his body.

He took a deep breath, suppressed these discomforts, and activated the evil magic eye. Only then through the misty mist could he vaguely see the stone lions, stone elephants, stone unicorns, and stone stones carved on the railings of the stone bridge in the distance. Turtles and other stone animals.

On the bridge deck under his feet, there are relief sculptures of dragons, phoenixes, bamboos, lotus flowers and Bodhi in various shapes.

Zhang Shiping stepped on it hard a few times, the stone bridge condensed with spiritual energy was as firm as black iron and fine steel, and a body-refining cultivator in the late stage of Jindan could only make a footprint one inch deep on it.

As soon as he lifted his foot, the footprint recovered in an instant, without any trace.

Zhang Shiping turned his head and looked back and forth. The big monk Bi Yu just now had disappeared, and there was no one around, which seemed quite deserted.

This Nanfa Temple is very strange. If a monk wants to take a shortcut and fly directly to the portal of phantom light, it will be like looking at a flower in a mirror or fishing for the moon in the water. No matter how many times you try, you will never enter it. field.

"This thousand-mile stone bridge can only fly to a distance of seven or eight hundred miles with my cultivation base in the late Jindan stage. As expected, without the cultivation base of the Nascent Soul stage, it is impossible to fly directly along the stone bridge into the phantom light." In the gate." Zhang Shiping thought in his heart, stepped forward alone, walked out with one step, and in the next moment he appeared several feet away.

If Jindan cultivators want to enter this Dharma hall, they must pass through the stone bridge and walk the rest of the road step by step.

Zhang Shiping jumped several feet, this speed is naturally not comparable to the flying escape of a Golden Core cultivator, but it is not too slow.

But for the remaining two or three hundred miles, he walked for two full hours before passing through layers of clouds and mists and standing in front of the gate.

Zhang Shiping skipped the mirror-like phantom light, walked in without hesitation, and walked through it as if there was nothing.

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Entering the Dharma Hall, none of the scenery Zhang Shiping saw was similar to the ones shown by the phantom light.

How can there be all kinds of phantom light shown before, neither beautiful flowers, Yao grass, ancient cypresses, pines, blue lions roaring with their heads raised, white elephants with long trunks curled up, and red phoenix flying gracefully. In the Moshan Mountain, you can still see the general outlines of the Linggong Baoque and the Linguan Pearl Court, but there are no golden gods walking through here, and there is no spiritual protection.

Floating lights and shadows are fleeting, Zhang Shiping has no intention to explore, and his attention is all on the front at the moment.

In front of him, not more than a mile away, there is a river of unknown length, which seems to flow from the horizon to the distance with no end in sight, boundless with boundless cliffs.But the strange thing is that the river is not wide, only more than ten li.

The green and black river is rolling and flowing, and it is rushing.

There are countless flying birds 'Yesun' circling on the river. They have a wingspan of about ten feet, black heads and white feathers without feet, and two long feathers behind their tails. They emit a faint fluorescent light and occasionally make a few crisp calls. , its posture is roughly similar to that of a crane at first glance, with a slender and graceful body.

But under the blue-black water surface, it is a completely different scene.Looking from a distance, Zhang Shiping saw black shadows that were tens of feet long swimming in the river from time to time.

With a sound of 'bang', a strange snake covered in khaki broke through the water, opened its huge mouth, and bit the night grand bird flying more than ten feet high.Before the bird had time to struggle, the strange snake fell into the water, and there were only balls of blood gushing out from the water surface, which were quickly diluted.

Zhang Shiping took a light step, and within a few breaths, he appeared on the shore. Along with him, a narrow and slippery wooden dock appeared in front of him out of thin air. wooden boat.In addition, there is a stone tablet at the same height as him standing in front of the wooden dock, on which the word "Lingyundu" is written in ancient Sanskrit characters in scriptures.

The strokes of these three characters are mellow and seamless, as if the heaven and the earth were formed, as it should be!

He looked at the 'Night Sun Bird' flying in the sky, and then at the strange snake under the water, with a trace of fear unavoidably showing on his face.

After pondering for a while, Zhang Shiping took a few steps to the left, then immediately turned to the right and walked a few feet, but no matter how he walked, as soon as he stopped, the stone monument, the wooden dock and the small wooden boat would all be gone the next moment. appeared in front of him again.Wherever the docking boat went, all the strange snakes in the river dodged, not daring to approach within a hundred feet.

Zhang Shiping casually took out an ordinary flying sword weapon, sacrificed it with mana, and controlled it to fly forward.However, as soon as the flying sword flew to the river, the magic power attached to it dissipated without a sound, and it fell straight down, without even a "plop" sound of falling into the water.

"Sure enough, it is as recorded. This river is like the weak water in the legend. The night sun bird can fly on it, and the snake dragon can swim on the bottom. If monks want to cross it safely, they must take this small boat. !” Zhang Shiping sighed secretly.

He walked past the stele, stepped onto the wooden dock, and came to the side of the boat.

Sure enough, it was the same as what was recorded in the Zongmen, it was a broken boat with no bottom in the middle, but it could float on the water without sinking.

As Zhang Shiping walked the bow, a boatman in coir raincoat and bamboo hat immediately manifested at the stern. This man lowered his head, his figure was illusory and his face could not be seen clearly. He held the handle of the oar and shook it.

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The setting sun is half hidden, and the red clouds are long.

Zhang Shiping wore a green shirt and stood on the bow of the boat, looking at the distant mountains, he could only see the light of the smoke, and the mountains were gray and purple at dusk.

The boatman in the bamboo hat still lowered his head, shaking his oars, and walked slowly in the middle of the river.

Wherever the wooden boat went, the nocturnal birds in the sky sang and flew to high places, and the earth pythons swimming in the river swung their tails and moved away, none of them dared to approach within a hundred feet.

Just a stick of incense, the boat arrives in Jiang's heart.

"It is said to be the Dharma Palace, but it is far wider than the secret realms controlled by various factions today. The Xuanyuan secret realm of the Zongmen has experienced many tribulations and Mahayana monks since ancient times, but even so, several secret realms are not comparable to this place. Except for some of the dangerous and secret realms that have been left behind in the world of cultivating immortals today, except for some that were born naturally, the rest were opened up by powerful monks in ancient times. Such a heaven-shocking power that is so powerful that weeping ghosts and gods is really unimaginable." Zhang Shiping put his hands behind his back and sighed, his eyes revealed a look of longing for the great supernatural power of the ancient Da Neng who shook the world and wept ghosts and gods.

From the time he set foot on the road of practice, Zhang Shiping once felt how powerful the monk Yuanying is, but up to now, although he can't compete with those true kings with his cultivation base of Jindan stage, these monks are no longer mysterious in his heart.They are neither gods nor immortals, and they will die like ordinary people when they reach their longevity.

It is said to be longevity, compared to the short life of ordinary people who live for decades or hundreds of years, the lifespan of monk Yuanying's two to 3000 years can indeed be said to be longevity.

But if compared with mountains and rivers, earth and rocks, and the sun, moon and stars, it is just like the morning fungus scorpion, just a young year!

"The six dusts can be returned to one, and ten thousand calamities can be safely and freely. It is difficult for a bottomless boat to cross the sea, and it has passed through the past and the past." The boatman seemed to have heard Zhang Shiping's sigh, and sang leisurely to himself.

After hearing the sound, he secretly said in his heart: "Here we come. Sure enough, as recorded, monks entering Nanfa Temple crossing the Lingyun River for the first time will experience a cleansing of the gods. So stubborn. It’s just a pity that this kind of opportunity is only once. If you go back and forth many times, then you will go back and forth here a few times to completely remove the spiritual barrier that shackles your practice. In this way, practice for another two or three hundred years. At that time, At least there is a perfect cultivation of the golden core, and after some proper preparations, it is not impossible to get through the Nascent Soul Tribulation Thunder."

From this point of view, one can imagine what kind of grand scene it was in the world of cultivating immortals in ancient times.Not to mention the abundance of inspirations in the world of immortality, the inheritance of each sect and sect is intact, and there are even more means to make the disciples break free from the cage and get rid of spiritual barriers. In this way, it is no wonder that among those Mahayana sects, the monks of Jindan Yuanying can only be regarded as mediocrity. Outer disciples.

The boatman sang softly again, Zhang Shiping quickly discarded his distracting thoughts, purified his soul and mind, and listened carefully to the Dao song, his mind became much lighter for a while, and the flow of mana became much smoother.

In this song, he felt as if something had come out of his body, and suddenly he had the illusion of becoming an immortal.

But suddenly, there was a 'plop'.

Zhang Shiping looked down intently, and there was a drowned lifeless man in green shirt in the hole in the boat, his back turned to the sky, and he drifted down the river and slowly floated out from the bottom of the boat.This person hadn't drifted more than ten feet away, and he turned over without sound, and his appearance was exactly the same as him.

Although Zhang Shiping had already seen the vision of this slough when crossing the river from the classics in advance, but when he saw it, he still felt a little strange in his heart.

However, this remnant is more like the boatman at the stern, his figure is illusory, not like a real thing, but more like the aura of heaven and earth, reflected in the river.

It is recorded in the Zongmen classics that there was an ancestor of Huashen who entered the Nanfa Hall holding the inherited spirit treasure, and tried to salvage the remnant slough in the river just like him to see if it was imaginary or real.

However, according to what this venerable said, the first time he struck, Huang Zhong Dalu rang in his ears, shaking his mind, and the second time, there would be a heart-wrenching pain added to his body.As for the third time when he wanted to make another move, he was warned by his spirit and felt a great terror, so he stopped trying with his life.

But even so, Zhang Shiping still couldn't help condensing his mana into a giant hand with a width of ten feet, trying to pick up the slough that gradually sank into the river, but when the giant fingertips touched the river water, the mana collapsed.

A loud sound of Huang Zhong Da Lu rang in Zhang Shiping's ears, piercing his soul, making his mind tremble a little.

He unconsciously snorted, just about to strike again, but cold sweat immediately flowed down his forehead, because the remnant in the river opened his eyes at this moment, and was looking at him blankly, Zhang Shiping felt that if he did it again, In the next moment, he will end up in a state of extinction.

Therefore, Zhang Shiping looked at the corpse in the river with heavy eyes, and there was no other change.

After his parents, relatives and friends, fellow clansmen, and the younger generation of the family left one by one, all he has left in his heart is the word 'Longevity', half of which is because of obsession, and half of it is because of the fear of death. fear.

In the past, Zhang Shiping still felt that he was not afraid of death, or he still felt uncomfortable when he saw his own slough today.

He got up thoughtfully, no wonder everyone said that the great horror between life and death is hard for the world to get rid of!

"The six dusts can be returned to one, and the ten thousand calamities can be safely and freely..." The boatman still sang to himself leisurely.

Zhang Shiping put away his hands, and the remnant in the river slowly closed his eyes amidst the Taoist song sung by the boatman, and sank into the river expressionlessly.

After ten breaths, the distance between the wooden boat and the remnant metamorphosis seems to be almost a hundred feet apart.

Even though Zhang Shiping had used the evil eye, with his eyesight, he could barely see through the turbulent river, and vaguely saw the remnant that was still slowly sinking.

Over the past tens of thousands of years, the predecessors of the sect and other monks who have crossed this river do not know how many people are there, and there is nothing wrong with it. On the contrary, after the sloughs have faded, these monks accumulate mana almost faster than before up some.

Zhang Shiping comforted himself in this way, then withdrew his gaze and didn't take another look.

But he didn't know that when this remnant was about to sink to the bottom, billowing black flames erupted from his body for no reason, and obliterated the green and black river water, leaving not even a trace of ashes.

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After about another stick of incense, Zhang Shiping stepped onto the opposite river bank. Where he was standing, there were several shallow and invisible footprints, which should have been left by the monks who came here earlier.

He looked at the surrounding scenery, the vegetation was lush, and in front of him were two embracing trees of unknown species, which were breaking off in the middle and fell into the weed pile.

Zhang Shiping's spiritual consciousness was activated, and he didn't realize that there were others hiding around, so he walked forward slowly.

When Zhang Shiping walked a hundred feet away from the Lingyun River, the scenery in front of Zhang Shiping changed dramatically. He found himself standing on a piece of dead wood protruding from the cliff, and under his feet, the fog was thick and cloudy, and the bottom could not be seen!

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He looked around, and scanned a radius of [-] to [-] miles with his spiritual sense, only found a few dark places at the bottom of the valley, and did not notice other monks nearby.

Only then did Zhang Shiping feel a little more relieved. With a thought in his mind, he flew up into the air for more than a thousand feet, until it was higher than the peaks on both sides, and then stopped.As far as he could see, there were either ridges like sharp knives or bottomless ravines, going away like overlapping waves one after another. There are thousands of miles wide!

He looked into the distance, where there was an extremely high mountain called "Pan Kongding", which stood up against the sky and the earth.

Going up this mountain, you can enter the second floor of the Dharma Hall, where the purpose of his trip is Skull Ridge!

After confirming the direction, Zhang Shiping drove the escape light, turned into a blue rainbow, and galloped away.

When Xuanyuanzong was in ancient times, it was clearly recorded that there were five Mahayana monks in total, and there were 41 monks who crossed the catastrophe. However, the Xuanyuan secret realm expanded and maintained by these powerful monks is only 3000 or two hundred miles away. about.Zhang Shiping thought about it in his heart, and couldn't help being a little surprised, thinking back in ancient times, what a magnificent scene this Nanfa Temple was!

It's just a pity that now, the inheritance has been cut off and it has become a thing without an owner. It has been more than one hundred thousand years.

During this period, it is not that no monks occupied this secret place. As for the entrance, each Jiazi only opens once. It is not a big problem before the 800-year lifespan of the Jindan monk and the 3000-year lifespan of the Nascent Soul monk.However, once the monks left in the secret realm, they will disappear without a trace when it is opened next time, without even leaving a trace!After this happened several times, no monk dared to stay in the secret realm anymore.

In fact, in the world of cultivating immortals in Nanzhou, there are not no examples of monks occupying secret realms and then living in them.