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Chapter 348 Blooming in the Cold

Snowflakes are falling and the cold is biting, which has become the eternal theme of this era.

Even the most cold-resistant plants have fallen leaves and become bare. No one knows whether they are dead or continuing to wait for the right temperature and regaining life.

As for the hibernating creatures hidden under the heavy snow, many of them completely turned into frozen corpses during hibernation, with no hope of recovery.

And amid this extreme cold, the population of the once densely populated land dropped exponentially.

The "nations" of the past began to be reduced to "city-states", and many places simply had city-states, returning directly to the primitive state.

Withering every day!

And in such an environment, a frail middle-aged man, carrying a sword on his back, climbed over the snow-covered and dangerous mountains one after another, walked through the frozen rivers that became smooth, and found another place. A human settlement trying every means to survive.

The middle-aged man did not stay long, but left a kindling for them.

A bonfire that still burns brightly without the need for firewood!

This move directly shocked the people in one settlement after another. No one did not understand what a blazing fire represented in this era.

It is warmth, light and hope!

A middle-aged man with a clear skin and a sword on his back was directly worshiped as the god of fire by the people in the settlement. After the middle-aged man explained it dozens of times, he was too lazy to explain it again.

It doesn't matter even if he is considered the God of Fire. All he wants to do is to rekindle the flames of hope in this era.

Facts have proved that the efforts made by the Qinghui man were not in vain.

After he planted the fire of hope, he could obviously feel that the origin of the fire he obtained also grew stronger.

It seems to be burning with the hope of all living beings, and through this flame, it seems that the wishes of all living beings can be heard.

[Why does it feel like a Shinto method? ]

The Qinghui man is naturally Zhonglian who left Lishan and traveled around.

As a disciple of a famous sect, Zhonglian naturally has some knowledge of Shinto methods. Over the years, he has been planting fire and spreading hope in the world day by day. Naturally, he has become more and more aware that the fire-character Taoist patterns contain some shadows of Shinto methods. .

of course.

He couldn't be completely sure.

Can Shinto law burn without the support of the vitality of heaven and earth?

Logically speaking, it shouldn't be possible. Even if the Shinto method wants to release flames, it still needs to consume divine power.

From what Zhongli An had learned in the first half of his life, the vitality of heaven and earth was the foundation of all things.

But now, Zhong Lian seems to feel that the world itself is like fire.

In other words, there is the concept of fire in the world, and then he can ignite fire in the world with the Dao pattern in his heart.

No one gave him an answer to his thoughts, and there was no big feedback like merit from heaven.

Just when he was sowing fire and hope in the world, he encountered robbers again and again.

At first, Zhongli An destroyed their courage with the power of a ball of fire, scaring them into fleeing;

Later, after Zhongli secretly saw some of his compatriots being cooked in an animal pot, a fire burned away their bodies and sins;

Later, Zhongli secretly burned a team of robbers to death, leaving his cotton-padded clothes intact, and left these shabby cotton-padded clothes to the people who needed him.

Later, he lit a team to migrate in the wind and snow, telling them with continuous warmth that the snow and wind will definitely end, and warmth and light will definitely come again.

Later, fire-worshiping communities began to appear in the world, and there were sacrifices to explain the mystery of fire.

Slowly, some people in the world began to believe it.

Fire can sublimate everything in the world!

at the same time.

After successfully burying all the cruel slave owners by creating a ground crack, those slaves who had saved their lives from the cold mine simply worshiped He Qianyu as their master.

Perhaps not all of these slaves have great wisdom, but when faced with a life-and-death crisis, each of them has some cleverness.

They knew that in this absolutely cold environment, without the protection of a strong person, after a short period of freedom, they would be greeted by absolute death.

In the end, He Qianyu agreed to the slaves' request.

because.

The desperate and helpless eyes of these slaves are very much like him when he was weak in the past. They are very much like him watching the proud man of heaven make rapid progress, but he can always only stagger forward with difficulty.

Then, the first important thing before He Qianyu was to keep out the cold and food.

A catastrophe not only buried those cruel slave owners, but also destroyed a large number of houses that could be used to keep warm.

Looking at everyone's eager eyes, He Qianyu immediately began to use the earth pattern to build a warm house.

And this is nothing less than a miracle!

In the carnival of everyone, He Qianyu was also quite happy, and rarely experienced the feeling of being needed by the world.

After many years, He Qianyu finally understood the feeling that his brother and Yu Youquan often felt.

But because of this, He Qianyu was extra careful and cautious.

Not long ago, while building a house, he became aware of his own limits.

He Qianyu is no stranger to this feeling of limit, because he has encountered it often in the past.

So, he's very good at introspection.

What is soil?

It is warmth, down-to-earth, and a rock-solid sense of security!

This is He Qianyu’s understanding and answer!

After solving the housing problem, He Qianyu, a settlement composed of former slaves, had to consider other issues closely related to survival.

Still getting warmth and food.

When faced with these two problems, it was inevitable that He Qianyu would have high hopes from the world.

He Qianyu was frightened, but in the end he still lived up to everyone's expectations of him.

Through the perception of soil, He Qianyu gradually became aware of the "hope" buried in the heavy snow.

Through excavation, He Qianyu and his team successfully found some plant roots that were still sleeping in the frozen soil, and some animals that were still hibernating but may never wake up.

Later, He Qianyu was able to clearly perceive where there was groundwater and where there were rivers through his perception of the soil.

I even found a lake and learned ice fishing this way.

But these still cannot meet the needs of He Qianyu and everyone in the settlement!

In He Qianyu's understanding, soil should be able to grow plants as long as the temperature is suitable.

Later, He Qianyu learned to capture heat from the ground and extract the fertility from the soil that can support plant growth.

All these made He Qianyu think deeply!

What does the "Earth Pattern" he has mastered mean?

Obviously he did not consume the vitality of heaven and earth, but he was able to accomplish what he wanted to accomplish as always.

I always feel that this is beyond the scope of their previous practice!

Zheng Shichang and Zheng Yingxuan were also thinking the same way.

But the direction is slightly different!

What Zheng Shichang is thinking is, who says plants can’t grow in frozen soil?

With the blessing of the power of the wooden pattern, Zheng Shichang worked hard and finally found a group of plants that could grow in the frozen soil.

But this plant, as small as a bud, gave Zheng Shichang and the people behind him infinite hope.

Later, Zheng Shichang ran all the way on this road of playing with plants.

He gradually discovered various mushrooms that could grow crazily in the snow, and even twisted and mutated plants that could spit fire themselves.

After the news leaked out, coveting was inevitable.

However, Zheng Shichang had expected all this.

As a mad "scientist", he is the greatest villain among villains. He never underestimates the evil in people's hearts.

Then all the robbers who came looking for trouble were wiped out one by one by the wildly growing plants.

And on their corpses, many buds sprouted.

Not to mention outsiders, even the Zheng clan members began to become more and more afraid of Zheng Shichang.

It seems like the devilish lothario from the past is back!

But no one expected that Zheng Shichang wanted to decipher the nature of the power of this pattern.

Therefore, all kinds of strange and weird plants appeared under his hands.

Perhaps in Zheng Shichang's view, the so-called wooden pattern should be interpreted as life in essence.

Tough life, cruel life, crazy life, savage life, ugly life, life with infinite possibilities

If Zhongli An brings warmth and hope to the world, then what Zheng Shichang brings to the world is more madness and whimsy!

I have to admit that there is often only one step between genius and madness.

Even the people of the Zheng clan began to be afraid of the crazy Zheng Shichang, but they had to admit that the mushrooms with different looks and tastes, and even the plant fruits of different colors and shapes that Zheng Shichang spawned had indeed brought them Hope to survive the bitter cold and winter.

Unlike the crazy Zheng Shichang, Zheng Yingxuan's thinking is-the earth is too cold, can she transfer all the cold air on the earth to the moon?

After all, the moon has always been called the Guanghan Palace, the lunar opposite to the sun.

If the endless cold is transferred to the moon, will the earth be warmer?

Zheng Yingxuan didn't know if the coldness on the earth had diminished. She just did this day after day, year after year.

Perhaps the extremes of things must reverse, and when the power of the lunar calendar reaches its extreme, the sun may usher in.

This is the moon that Zheng Yingxuan understands. It is different from the past. She hopes that it will be its endless cold destination. I don’t know when it started, but a moon began to appear in the black sky.

The appearance of this moon really inspired all the sentient beings in the Yahai Realm.

Compared with the sky where there were only black holes in the past, now the moon has finally appeared again. It seems that all this proves that it is not too late for the sun to rise again after the moon has appeared.

Tonight, Yueming people are watching, I don’t know who will fall in autumn!

A small moon, a cold moon, but it seems to bring infinite hope to the world, making all living beings become much warmer in the desolation.

And this kind of "warm moon" feedback made Zheng Yingxuan slightly stunned.

She clearly defined Yue as "bitter cold" and "extremely cold", but Yue's feedback to her was "warmth" and "hope".

Could it be that the world has given the new meaning to the moon?

Zheng Yingxuan was thoughtful.

It was from this bright moon that the world seemed to be moving at high speed again.

There is more and more news about "practitioners" in the world. Of course, for ordinary people, they are more regarded as gods.

The God who brings hope to this world again!

I don’t know when it started, but there seemed to be a woman with thunder in the world.

Wherever she walked, she could always hear the sound of rolling thunder.

Some people say that she is the messenger of spring, responsible for bringing spring thunder and hope to the earth. As long as she continues to bravely drive away the monster winter, the earth will one day usher in life.

This put a smile on the face of the woman who kept spreading "thunder" across the earth!

It is obviously a divine thunder that destroys everything, but now it has the characteristics of spring thunder.

In essence, it seems to be synonymous with hope!

Others seemed to have seen a unicorn and a boy carried by it.

The world believes that this is a sign of the earth's rejuvenation.

After all, Qilin has always been the king of beasts and a sign of auspiciousness.

Others saw an old man walking barefoot on the earth. He was holding a cane in one hand. He seemed to be staggering, but the cane in his hand seemed to contain endless starlight.

But wherever he walked, new stars would appear in the sky.

I don’t know if it is because of the appearance of stars that the vitality between heaven and earth is becoming more abundant.

Even many seriously injured and dying cultivators began to rekindle hope and began to re-evaluate the relationship between the sun, moon and stars to the vitality of heaven and earth.

Some practitioners even begin to regard stargazing as the first step in their practice.

There are even dying practitioners who believe that monks may be able to find their own star in the starry sky.

Even after death, you may be able to raise your soul to the starry sky and completely merge with your beloved destiny star.

What’s even more amazing is that when they started to put it into practice, some people actually succeeded.

For a moment, the world was shaken.

Countless monks in their twilight years began to rekindle hope.

Even the Dao Fire mastered by Zhong Lian became infinitely stronger because of this!

Day after day, year after year.

There is more and more hope in Yahai Realm, as if no matter what new phenomenon is born, it will eventually fall on the warmth and hope of spring.

And this even surprised Yu Youquan and Zheng Yingyuan, who were cultivating the Tao above the embers of the sky fire.

I have a deeper understanding of Tao!

The Tao is always there, whether you notice them or not, like them or not, they always exist between heaven and earth.

but.

The existence of human beings and human judgment standards give the way of heaven a meaning above that of humanity.

Among them, Yu Youquan could even clearly sense that many humanistic judgments began to slowly affect the development and evolution of Heavenly Dao after they fell on the Dao itself.

Both Yu Youquan and Yu Youquan have very clearly perceived what it means. When people are united, Mount Tai will move; public opinion is the will of God.

When everyone in the world feels that thunder contains hope, then thunder contains hope and vitality.

When everyone in the world feels through various signs that winter should be over and spring is coming, the gears of fate begin to turn slowly.

of course.

In this process, Yu Youquan realized another side of the way of heaven.

Public opinion is the will of God, and perhaps there is another explanation, that is -

The Tao is always there, regardless of whether there are humans or other living beings, it will always exist in the world.

What humans can recognize is often only what they want to recognize and what they can recognize, and this is always only a very insignificant part of the Great Dao.

Yu Youquan slowly began to discover that the Tianxin Seal Dao Pattern seed that he planted in the ashes of the Sky Fire slowly began to sprout, and a small seedling grew.

Small spots of light can also be found on the seedlings, which flicker and light up from time to time. They are as shining and bright as stars.

One after another, the stars began to connect and entwine with each other, and finally weaved a network together, and this network was still rotating around the sapling.

And beyond the saplings, glowing stars, and networks, there is a larger and wider boundless darkness.

It seems like chaos, everything is in it, but there is no law.

Open up Hongmeng, open up the world, and give all living beings the space and possibility to survive.

This is a great favor from heaven!

but.

The existence of human beings also gives meaning to the avenue, making it more brilliant.

It's like death gives life meaning!

At this moment, Yu Youquan even felt a breeze blowing in his heart.

But this wisp of breeze seems to have stirred time again and wrinkled the dead laws of the legal world.

It seems that Yahai Realm has returned to the silent Dharma Realm, and the stagnant time has begun to flow again.

then.

Yu Youquan extracted the hope and warmth from all the shining stars above the seedlings, and used their power to rekindle a avenue.

Its name is the sun.

In Yahai Realm, perception is the most obvious.

The first thing the world saw was that the heavy snow that had been falling in the sky finally stopped.

Then, the sun that had been hiding for who knows how long finally reappeared.

The whole world ushered in unprecedented cheers!

And this is destined to be a very difficult process, although the return of the sun is expected by everyone.

but.

After all, the silent Yahai Realm has not yet completed its dormancy and regained its vitality.

then.

This requires Yu Youquan’s initiative!

It was also from this day on that Yu Youquan had one more job, and that was to control the sun!

Basically, it drives the sun to rise in the east and set in the west every day, so as to spread light, heat and hope to the world.

This is destined to be difficult, so in the early days, the sunrise time every day was very short, not even more than an hour.

But this still brings great hope to the world!

Everyone is very content and feels like everything is getting better and better.

The sun rises and sets without knowing the year.

I don’t know when a monk representing spring and a messenger representing spring breeze began to appear on the earth.

Later, a boy named Rongxue was added, and a goddess representing the awn species was added.

And more and more practitioners seem to have finally discovered the rules and begun to actively participate in the tide that drives the movement of heaven and earth.

(End of this chapter)