After the world collapsed

Chapter 8 The Beginning of Vitality
"What's the matter?" Princess Wenyang was a little confused when Zhang Sheng suddenly dragged her out of the stone room.

"Don't you think those two dents look like..."

Before the words fell, the sudden intensified vibration interrupted Zhang Sheng's words.

If the two looked up at the sky at this time, they would definitely see a huge phantom appearing in the sky. It was the phantom of the mansion with the word Guhua on it that appeared above Ningcheng before.

The phantom disappeared in a flash, accompanied by the intensified vibration of the secret valley.

The earth fire veins not far behind Zhang Sheng and Zhang Sheng seemed to become active as the surrounding vibrations intensified, and some flame rocks that had cooled down a long time ago began to shatter little by little.

"Hurry up, the underground volcano is really about to erupt this time."

"The sun fruit?"

"I can't handle that much anymore."

Zhang Sheng is also speechless, what time is this, this princess is still thinking about Diyang Fruit.Although Zhang Sheng didn't know what happened, the scene at this time reminded him of a passage that the old Taoist had told him a few years ago.

The general meaning is that the old way of divination may have a shocking change in a few years, and he can't figure out whether the result is good or bad.

"It seems to be referring to this time, no good, let's go!"

Zhang Sheng suddenly had a feeling of being watched by something, and said hastily.

……

The person who counted this shocking change was sitting cross-legged in a small pavilion in the valley.

It was Zhang Tianfeng, the old Taoist, and the place he was in was shaking violently at the moment, and gravel flew by from time to time, but he seemed to be alone without these disturbances.

The old Taoist opened his eyes and got up slowly, pacing around a stone statue in the hall as if he was thinking about something.

"Sure enough, the old man did not make a mistake in his calculations back then, but he just doesn't know what will happen in the end?"

Suddenly, the old Taoist seemed to feel something. With his right hand, he made a pinch, which was exactly the qi-watching technique he had taught Zhang Sheng. However, it was different from the qi-watching technique performed by Zhang Sheng. Be a gourd as tall as a person, and go straight to the huge phantom in the sky.

If Zhang Sheng saw this scene, he would not believe it.Although the old Taoist knows some strange magic spells and talismans, they are all external things. Using the Qi Watching technique like this is definitely not something an ordinary mortal can do.

Although the qi-watching technique also belongs to the category of Jue Jue, it is not something that can be done by a single jue-jue transformation like he is now. He can use the qi-watching skill like this entirely by relying on his proficiency in the Celestial Eye. .

"Guhua Immortal Mansion?"

The old Taoist obviously recognized the huge phantom in the sky, and this answer made his guess somewhat certain.

During this pause, the old Taoist was a little slow in withdrawing the gourd's thoughts, and the gourd formed by the qi-watching technique was stabbed by the sword light that suddenly shot out from the phantom, and the gourd broke instantly.

"puff!"

A mouthful of blood spewed out, but the old man didn't care about his injuries. Instead, he looked excitedly at the phantom in the sky that gradually began to fade.

Just when the old Taoist gourd was hit by the sword light shot from the Guhua Immortal Mansion, Zhang Sheng, who was not far from where he was, suddenly felt something.

Zhang Sheng, who was still running wildly in the forest with Princess Wenyang, stopped suddenly, took a few steps quickly and rushed up a relatively tall tree.

"What are you doing, aren't you afraid of being struck by lightning?"

Wen Yang shouted anxiously, and looked back at the forest not far behind him from time to time.The leaves in the forest behind kept moving, as if something was approaching them, accompanied by this chilling air pressure.

Zhang Sheng, who climbed the tree, vaguely saw the huge phantom in the sky that had almost disappeared, and pinched it with the qi-watching technique. To Zhang Sheng's surprise, he actually saw traces of orange aura around the phantom in the air that dissipated!
Zhang Sheng still doesn't know what orange represents, but it must be more terrifying than the purple aura that Ning Cheng saw before.Immediately, he withdrew his qi technique and dared not look at it.

Then he was thrown headfirst from the tree by the coercion that followed from behind the two of them. Fortunately, Princess Wenyang below had quick eyesight and quick hands, and with the blessing of the Spiritual Wind Talisman, she jumped up and threw him Volley caught.

"Thank you, princess, for saving me." Zhang Sheng was quite surprised when he saw Wen Yang accepting him. It turned out that the rumors were true, and Princess Wen Yang was really good at both literature and martial arts.

If he fell down, even if he had the spirit wind talisman, he would have to break a few bones. What's more, if he was injured in this situation, once he was caught up by the thing behind, he might be dead.

Feeling the cold coming, Zhang Sheng struggled to sit up hastily, pointed to the direction he saw on the tree just now and said:

"Go there, Master may be there."

He doesn't know if the master is there, but there must be something extraordinary happening over there. It would be even better if there is an expert here, and he can take the opportunity to deal with the giant python behind him.

That's right, ever since he left the stone room just now, he felt something was staring at them.So he didn't care about any sequelae, so he hurriedly took Princess Wenyang to pick up the spirit wind talisman again and ran into the woods.

After entering the woods, something followed from afar. In the process of escaping, Zhang Sheng inadvertently turned his head and saw the tip of the iceberg of that thing.

What was chasing them was a huge python with a diameter of one person and a height of a person. As for how long it was, Zhang Sheng didn't even dare to see it all. He was so frightened that he accelerated his pace.

The giant python didn't know whether it was a little cautious because of the violent vibration between the sky and the earth, or it was playing with its prey, but it didn't directly catch up and attack them, but kept wandering around behind them, just not showing up easily.

Zhang Sheng didn't have time to think about so many reasons, he ran all the way until he felt something abnormal in the sky, and then he went to the tree to check.

But at this time, Zhang Sheng, who had overused the spirit wind talisman and the qi technique, was a little exhausted.Even though the Spiritual Wind Talisman was still on his body, he couldn't feel the weight loss of his legs at all, and the excessive use of the Qi Watching Technique made his head a little dizzy at this time, slightly numb to the point of affecting thinking.

If he hadn't just withdrawn the qi technique in time, he would have been lying on the ground unconscious now if he looked at the orange breath for a second longer.

Princess Wenyang also felt the gradual failure of the spirit wind talisman at this time, but she practiced martial arts since she was a child and was able to gather spirit arts, so the situation was better than Zhang Sheng.

Zhang Sheng didn't know how long he was being helped to run in a daze, but he felt that his eyelids were gradually getting heavier.

Although Wen Yang didn't know what happened to Zhang Sheng, he couldn't help but feel a little worried when he saw that the young man was about to fall asleep while running around.

"Junior brother! Zhang Sheng! Hold on, look, we are about to come out of the woods!"

Hearing this shout, Zhang Sheng suddenly became sober. Compared with the pursuit behind him, he wanted to know what the vision in front of him just now represented.

Perhaps sensing that the prey was about to disappear, the giant python behind him suddenly accelerated its pursuit.At the moment when Zhang and Sheng ran out of the woods, the giant python's huge head appeared right behind them.

"Bold monster!"

Hearing a shout in front of him, Zhang Sheng dashed a few steps and felt a sharp pain in his back, then passed out when his eyes darkened, and the last thing in his eyes was the old Taoist coming from a small pavilion in front of him scene.

……

On the hill outside Ningcheng.

"Wang Daoyou, have you ever heard of the name of Gu Hua, an expert?"

"Never."

"Do fellow Daoists know what this vision represents?"

"Old Taoist Xu, you might as well ask your master about this. I am a small alchemy cultivator. I can't participate in this kind of thing at all. I have to go back."

The old man surnamed Xu seemed still unwilling to give up and continued:

"Wang Daoyou is going back now? This vision doesn't seem to have the slightest sign of retreating."

The old man in white robe said that he wanted to go back, but he didn't move because he knew that the matter should not be over yet.

"You crow's mouth, you are here again!"

Accompanied by lightning and thunder in the sky, almost the same vision as before reappeared. This time the phantom does not look as grand as last time, but its outline does not look sharp and angular as before, but quite curved , but still very shocking.

"Ow!!"

The old man surnamed Xu and the white-robed old man heard a roar from the phantom, which sounded like a wild beast roaring, mixed with the momentum of thunder, and then turned from virtual to real, and a giant bear as tall as a mountain roared.

……

Zhang Sheng felt that he had been in a strange place, surrounded by endless darkness, and there seemed to be something staring at him in the darkness.

He kept walking like this for an unknown amount of time. Maybe the existence in the darkness couldn't wait any longer, and a bloody smell suddenly came from behind. This feeling seemed familiar to him.

"Master, Junior Brother is awake."

Opening his eyes, Zhang Sheng heard a familiar voice, thinking that Princess Wenyang called her master and younger brother really naturally, and she was promoted to his senior sister so soon.

"How do you feel?" came the old man's voice.

Zhang Sheng wanted to speak but found that his mouth was a little dry, so he struggled to get up and felt a sharp pain in his back.

"Don't move around, your back is hurt."

The voice of the old man came from another direction, and Zhang Sheng remembered that he finally saw the old man running towards them.

He could only continue to lie quietly, not daring to move his neck, moving his whole body with one hair, wanting to speak but not daring to clear his throat, for fear of being involved in the wound on his back, he could only blink and close his eyes helplessly repose.

Seeing Zhang Sheng's immobile and honest appearance, Princess Wenyang couldn't help laughing.

"Junior brother, I know what you want to ask. It has been two days since you fell into a coma. The giant python seems to dare not come out of the forest and has disappeared. The injury on your back was serious at first, but after applying Master's medicine, it should be gone now." It's all right now."

Zhang Sheng closed his eyes and nodded slightly to indicate that he was still alive and understood.

Being bored, he tried his best not to think about the injury on his back, even if it made him unconscious for two days, it would not be so easy to recover.

But at this time, he felt that his surroundings seemed to be a little different.

There is nothing wrong with silently starting the Juyuan Jue. It is the Juyuan Jue taught by the old Taoist to Princess Wenyang, and Zhang Sheng will naturally know a little bit.Practicing Juyuanjue on weekdays will only make you feel refreshed, and doing other things will occasionally have the effect of getting twice the result with half the effort.

But this time it was different. Zhang Sheng felt a special existence gathered by him and entered his body, as if he had filtered his body once.Not only was he refreshed, but he seemed to feel that the wounds on his back were healing faster.

"What's the situation? Why is Juyuanjue different from before?"

Zhang Sheng ran Juyuanjue for a while, then felt different from the past, and then slowly stopped.

Before he could react from the changes around him, he felt that his upper body was bound by an invisible force, and then he was slowly lifted up.

Seeing this, Princess Wenyang hurriedly supported his shoulders, the invisible force disappeared, and he was actually lifted up by the air, sitting up his upper body.

"Don't be too surprised, didn't you feel it just now?"

The old Taoist walked behind Zhang Sheng and said, he took off his gauze and began to change his dressing.

"Hiss!" Zhang Sheng gasped, it really hurt a little.

"Immortal vitality has also begun to infiltrate here. It seems that the old man's choice back then was not wrong."

While applying the medicine, the old Taoist said something to himself.

"What is immortal energy?" Wen Yang couldn't help asking.

"Immortal vitality is what you gathered and absorbed from the surroundings with the Spirit Gathering Technique just now. I will talk to you two in detail after I finish applying the medicine."

Soon, the old man changed the medicine for Zhang Sheng, Wen Yang brought another bowl of water for Zhang Sheng, and Zhang Sheng took it, which surprised him, his arms recovered some strength, and his back didn’t hurt so much up.

"This is the benefit of the immortal energy entering the body. It can speed up the recovery of internal injuries, not to mention the ordinary pain of the flesh."

The old man smiled and continued:
"If it's not what I expected, there should be a lot of immortal energy outside at this time, and the people here will get used to it soon. As for whether they know how to absorb and use it, it's not our business."

It seems that only the spirit gathering art passed down by the old Taoist is effective in absorbing and using immortal energy.

"Don't worry, Master, I will definitely not pass the Juling Jue to outsiders! Well, can my father do it?"

Princess Wenyang asked pitifully.

The old Taoist said with a smile that it doesn't matter.

After drinking water and resting for most of the day, Zhang Sheng found that he could barely speak, and he even felt that he could go down to the ground.

"Master, where does this immortal energy come from? Is it related to the vision in the sky I saw before?"

"Oh? Then what you saw should be the Guhua Immortal Mansion."

Immortal mansion?

"It seems that this mortal world is going to change, no, if the old man is not mistaken, there should be only this world in the future."

The old Taoist suddenly said to himself, and there seemed to be some elements of gloating in his tone.

"Junior brother, you don't know. After you fainted, several phantoms appeared one after another. Some seemed far away, and some were quite close, but they were all spectacular."

Wen Yang recalled what happened that day and couldn't help feeling a little excited.

"Those are not ordinary illusions, you will know in the future." The old man said pretending to be mysterious.

"By the way, Master, where is this place?" Zhang Sheng remembered that he was in a strange place, like a cave.

The old Taoist looked at the familiar surroundings and said slowly:
"This is the place where I came to the mortal world as a teacher at the beginning of the year."

(End of this chapter)