Heaven's Path

Ye Chuanyun's face turned green, and he smiled wryly and said: "Junior Sister, don't take offense, Senior Brother just said it casually, don't take it to heart."

Han Jiangyan glanced at him, and then said to Chen Yunsheng: "Little Ba, don't hang out with Brother Six from now on, even the master said he was a fool, so don't lead you into trouble." Without returning, it disappeared into the sky in a flash.

Ye Chuanyun and Chen Yunsheng stared at each other, and Chen Yunsheng finally realized why Ye Chuanyun emphasized the big characters of his sixth eldest disciple when they met for the first time. , but even Han Jiangyan, who is Xiaoqi, doesn't take him seriously, and his status is indeed not high.

The two of them were speechless all the way, and in a blink of an eye, they arrived at a terrace suspended on three sides, surrounded by white jade railings on three sides, leaving only one side for pedestrians, the area of ​​the terrace was not too big, and there was a golden magic circle in the center, the eyes of which were in front of it. In the center, a golden spirit stone is inserted on it.

There were two monks guarding the magic circle, and when they saw Ye Chuanyun coming, they hurried forward to salute, and said, "Master and uncle, are you going to pay homage to the True God Xiaotian?"

Ye Chuanyun nodded in agreement, and then walked to the center of the magic circle with Chen Yunsheng. The two monks skillfully pasted four talismans on the four directions of the magic circle, east, west, north, south, and then typed out two magic formulas.The golden light radiated around the magic circle, and a dazzling light fell from the sky, pierced the sky and directly shot onto the magic circle.

Chen Yunsheng only felt that the surrounding air was suddenly compressed extremely densely, as if it was about to condense into a liquid. His body was infinitely elongated and slowly turned into a thin line, but this feeling was fleeting. When he When I came back to my senses again, it was no longer on the terrace just now.

He looked around and found that he was on a larger platform at this time, and there was no shadow of trees around.The water vapor in the air is condensed into ice crystals here. Large pieces are the size of a palm, and ice crystals as thin as a cicada's wings float in the air, and the temperature is extremely cold.Chen Yunsheng couldn't help running Qi Ling Yin, using the fire energy in the Qi Jing to fight against the cold air outside.

In the middle of this square square with a length and width of one hundred feet, stands a one hundred feet high obsidian sculpture. An old man with a beard and hair is screaming at the sky. Be wild.

He holds a shield in his left hand to protect his chest, and holds a long sword in his right hand pointing to the sky.Seeing this sculpture, an aura of being the only one between heaven and earth swelled in Chen Yunsheng's chest, and he was fascinated by it.

Ye Chuanyun pressed Chen Yunsheng's waist with his hands, awakened him from his contemplation, and asked mysteriously, "Where do you think we are now?"

Chen Yunsheng looked around and found that the surroundings were covered by a white haze of chaos, except for the square in front of him, he couldn't see anything at all. He thought for a moment and guessed: "Could it be that the two of us are at the top of Taibai Peak?" ?”

Ye Chuanyun nodded and said: "You can teach me. The top of Taibai Peak here is nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine feet high. Even if you have a flying magic weapon, it is difficult to fly to such a high sky with your foundation building cultivation."

As he spoke, he turned his mouth to the statue in the square and said, "This is the true god that my sect believes in—Xiaotian clan. Let's go pay homage."

The two came in front of the statue, and there was an incense burner and some dishes on a table carved from white jade. Ye Chuanyun took out incense candles, fruit offerings and other items needed for offerings from the storage ring.

He breathed out Danhuo and lit the incense, inserted it into the incense burner on the table, placed the offerings on various plates, and respectfully kowtowed three times in front of the statue.Chen Yunsheng concocted it according to the law, and dared not show any disrespect.The two knelt in front of the statue like this until the incense in the censer died out, Ye Chuanyun got up, and left the mountain using the small teleportation circle they had used when they came.

On the way back, Ye Chuanyun's expression was not as serious as when he was on the mountain.Chen Yunsheng asked about the story of the Xiaotian clan on the mountain. Ye Chuanyun took the posture of a senior brother very well. He cleared his throat and said slowly: "If you want to talk about this Xiaotian clan, you have to talk about it from the time when the world was first formed. rise."

"It is said that when the world was first formed, there was a permanent wormhole connecting different worlds. Immortals and demons from all walks of life could come and go freely in this world through the wormhole. At that time, the creatures in this world had just opened up their spiritual intelligence, so they were very stupid , do not know how to practice, and are often enslaved by immortals from outside."

"It's okay to be a slave. If there is a demon from the demon world, it will be a catastrophe for the creatures in this world. The last slavery came from a race called Baiji. They specified laws and held a bunch of sticks. , this world has fallen into a rigid shackle."

"Did they kill people?" Chen Yunsheng asked suddenly.

"Although they don't kill people, this kind of slavery is even more terrifying. They imprison people's thoughts, and the whole world, including animals, becomes lifeless. At this time, Xiaotian descended like a god, and he led a group of monks with a giant sword to defeat The Baiji tribe, cut off the wormholes connecting the demon world at the same time."

"Because the wormhole was broken, he couldn't return to the original world, so he lived in this world for 3000 years. However, the spiritual energy in this world is thin, and he cannot improve his cultivation. It is equivalent to only going out but not entering. Finally One day, the essence was exhausted, and he was buried in the millions of mountains and forests in the Eight Desolation Continent."

Chen Yunsheng looked up at Liu Yun in the sky and murmured, "What kind of terror is it to confine one's mind?"

"If you don't even have the freedom you imagined, then it's no different from a dead person." Ye Chuanyun patted him on the shoulder.

There was a slight ripple in Chen Yunsheng's calm as water heart. He kept asking himself, what's the matter with high cultivation? Could it be possible that with a tyrannical cultivation, he can regard everything as a dog and take whatever he wants?Is this the way of heaven?The black line in the depths of his sea of ​​consciousness became thicker and became as thick as a finger.

Ye Chuanyun glanced at Chen Yunsheng, saw that his eyes were straightened, and he was already deeply involved in the story, he laughed and said: "This is just my legend about the creation of the world. They are not the same, if you want to know more legends, you can ask Zhuge Jingyu of Tianxing Pavilion, he knows a lot about barnyard officials and unofficial history."

"Zhuge Jingyu? Tianxing Pavilion? Could it be the place where my uncle ordered me to take charge?" Chen Yunsheng asked.

"Yes, it's there."

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Tianxing Pavilion is the place where the Tianqiong Sect collects classics, and it belongs to the important place of the Sect.If Tianxing Pavilion is an attic, it is better to say it is a pagoda.

The Tianxing Pavilion has seven floors. The first floor has a maximum area of ​​several tens of feet, and the area of ​​the upper floors decreases gradually. The seventh floor's spire is only a few feet wide and narrow.Tianxing Pavilion is located on the upper side of the many temples in Taibai Mountain. It overlooks most of the Tianqiong School in front of the window on the seventh floor, and has the best view.

On the first day of entering the Tianxing Pavilion, Chen Yunsheng only brought Liu Xiaoshan with him.Bai Murong has taken leave since he came to Tianqiong Mountain, saying that he wanted to get familiar with the environment, and then disappeared.

The two monks guarding the door are Jiang Yu's disciples, one is Huang Zhang and the other is Li Hao. Both of them have cultivation bases in the late stage of foundation establishment, and their supernatural powers are not weak, so they were assigned as deacons of Tianxingshuge.

They were all present when listening to Master Tianqiong in Paiyun Palace that day, so before Chen Yunsheng could speak, Huang Zhang spoke first: "Master Uncle is here, I was worshiped by the junior, I heard that Master Uncle is going to become the master of Tianxing, I’ve been waiting here for a long time.”

Li Hao also bowed his head and came over, and said with a smile: "Master Uncle came to Tianxing Pavilion for the first time, and he is not familiar with the daily affairs of the Pavilion. Let me tell you." Chen Yunsheng nodded in acquiescence.

Li Hao went on to say: "Tianxing Pavilion mainly has three daily tasks. First, check the classics in the pavilion once a year. If any classics are found missing, you need to report to Master Gu in time;"

"Secondly, if a disciple comes to search for the classics, he needs to be registered in the register. The content of the classics that the disciples have access to is different depending on the level of the disciple. There are 27 detailed rules, which will be submitted for the master and uncle to read in the next meeting;"

"Thirdly, the Tianxing Pavilion does not allow you to take out the classics to read. If a disciple wants to borrow them, they need to copy them by themselves and charge a certain copying fee. The above three things seem to be cumbersome, but the juniors will do it themselves. Really There’s really not much that needs to be done by the master.”

Chen Yunsheng nodded in understanding, and Huang Zhang accompanied Chen Yunsheng into the first floor of Tianxing Pavilion. What came into view was not only books but also books. The walls around the hall on the first floor were densely covered with bookshelves.

There are all kinds of rare ancient books on the bookshelves, including slips made of bamboo sticks, silk scripts recorded on silk, oracle bone inscriptions engraved on animal skin and tortoise shells, and some are directly engraved on stone tablets. The most common inscriptions above are books written on a kind of yellow paper.

Huang Zhang picked up one of the most common books recorded on yellow paper and said: "This kind of paper is called pineapple paper, which is made of crushed pineapple wood. Easy to keep."

After speaking, he pointed to a stack of books engraved on the animal skins and said, "These animal skins have to be soaked in the juice squeezed from pineapple wood for three days every year to ensure that they will not be eaten by insects within a year."

Huang Zhang introduced the repairing and preservation methods of books in detail, so that Liu Xiaoshan almost fell asleep. Seeing Chen Yunsheng listening attentively, she was quite speechless. Could it be that Chen Xiaoba, who is extremely talented, is really going to guard the Tianxing Pavilion forever?

Chen Yunsheng ignored many puzzled looks cast by Liu Xiaoshan, and continued to understand the situation of the books in Tianxing Pavilion.Huang Zhangxu babbled all day, until night fell, and Chen Yunsheng finally figured out the daily work and all the procedures of Tianxing Pavilion, and also had a general understanding of the distribution of books in the pavilion.

For example, the books collected on the first floor mainly introduce the hydrology, humanities, rare birds and animals, and the good fortune of the heavens and the earth on the Qingzhou Continent.The second floor contains classics about the specializations, historical exchanges, and blood inheritance of various cultivating sects and royal clans on the Qingzhou Continent.

The books on the third floor are mainly some memorabilia that happened in the Tianqiong Sect, recorded in chronological style.The fourth layer stores various methods of cultivation of outer alchemy, such as formations, refining tools, and talisman making.The fifth floor stores all kinds of cultivation essence collected by the Tianqiong Sect, and the methods of meditation and breathing.

The sixth floor is some secret methods of controlling swords and driving knives.The seventh floor stores some taboo techniques of the Tianqiong Sect, as well as some obscure books. Only disciples of the generation of Master Tianqiong can enter, which means that Chen Yunsheng's seniority is also sufficient to enter.