Judgement

Chapter 67 Depths of Peach Blossom

The two brothers had no other way to force Zhu Polong from Bishui Hantan to come out, and they agreed to hire a donkey cart to go to Pingyang Mansion at dawn tomorrow.Hit Huzhou Mansion all the way to the west, and after three days of driving, we will arrive in Pingyang Mansion.

Xiang Xiaotian is already familiar with the road and told the driver how to drive the road. It is estimated that the donkey cart hired from Huzhou Prefecture will come to Luoxia Mountain next time, and he will also be familiar with the road.

The car stopped at the foot of Luoxia Mountain, Xiang Xiaotian and Chen Mengshan got off and walked.Chen Mengsheng looked up and saw that the Luoxia Mountain was thousands of feet high and there were no roads between the mountains, and there were thorns all over the mountain. Chen Mengsheng thought that the barrenness of this mountain must have been left by no one for a long time. Could it be that the mountain people have immortals?

Xiang Xiaotian smiled and said: "I don't know who wanted to practice Taoism on this mountain back then? There is no word on the tombstone on the mountain, brother, can't you call back souls? Just ask the dead ghosts in the tomb and you will know. "

Chen Mengsheng shook his head and smiled secretly: "Brother, most of the wordless tombstones are clothes tombs. Where can I go to summon the soul?"

The two of them chatted and joked to the halfway up the mountain. Fortunately, the supernatural power of Xiaotian was so powerful, otherwise the 120-pound Overlord Bow in the back would have been exhausted if it hadn't been crushed to death.He looked like a normal person, his expression remained unchanged and he was out of breath.

Looking around on the hillside, Chen Mengsheng suddenly stopped Xiang Xiaotian, who was on his way, and said, "Brother, stop. Come here and see what that is?"

Xiang Xiaotian was confused when he was asked and said to himself: "What are you looking at? There are only trees and stones in this barren mountain." He came to Chen Mengsheng muttering.

"Brother, what kind of flowers do you see on the south side of this mountain?"

"I said brother, you are so sweet, isn't that just some ordinary peach blossoms. What's so strange?" Xiang Xiaotian looked at Chen Mengsheng's half-smile and lowered his head in thought, so he couldn't say anything more .

"Brother, that's a good peach blossom. But it's unusual. What time is it, he thinks?"

"Oh, yes. If my brother didn't think that I really didn't pay attention, wouldn't it be the beginning of winter now, how could there be peach blossoms? Why didn't I think of it, and walked more than ten times in vain."

"Brother, you don't need to blame yourself. You didn't notice it because you were disturbed. I also found it by accident. It's just a fluke." So the two walked along the mountain road to the peach blossom forest. The forest is not far in front of you, but if you really walk there, it's really far away...

When we reached the peach blossom forest, it was dusk.The days and nights of winter are long and the days are short, and the sky is as black as a stick of incense.

"Brother, I said we have been wandering around here for so long, why haven't we come out of this forest yet?"

"Brother, don't you think the crooked-necked peach tree in front of you looks familiar?"

"Well, yes. It looks familiar..., have we turned back?"

"It should have turned back a second time, let me jump up into the air to have a look. Alas..." Xiang Xiaotian saw Chen Mengsheng was knocked down by an inexplicable force as soon as he jumped up.

"Brother, what's the matter with you? You fell down just fine?" Xiang Xiaotian felt strange. Although he was not a god, he practiced bow and archery since he was a child, and his eyes are the same at night and during the day.Even in the pitch black night, you can clearly see the wind and grass moving a hundred paces away. Could it be that this fairy brother jumped up and hit a tree without being able to distinguish objects at night?

Chen Mengsheng patted his head, walked seven steps sideways and then three steps forward.Just like that, he disappeared into the peach grove out of thin air. Xiang Xiaotian was terrified and ran over in a hurry, but he couldn't see Chen Mengsheng.Just as he was about to shout, someone patted himself from behind, and when he turned around, it was Chen Mengsheng.

"Brother, what kind of fairy art is this? You were clearly invisible in front of me, but why did you get behind me in the blink of an eye?"

"Brother, it's not that I cast some spells. It's that an expert set up this impenetrable formation. There are eight or eight 64 peach trees in this formation. They are arranged in five elements and eight trigrams, so the peach trees can absorb the energy of heaven and earth. It blooms all year round."

"Brother, have you seen this array?"

"Well, my master and eleven uncles were also trapped in this formation back then. Fortunately, one of my senior brothers, Yang Jian, brought people to break the formation. That's when I remembered this formation."

"Brother, why do you think Wu Yazi set up such a broken formation?"

"Brother, you can't use any kind of fairy magic or Taoism in the trapping fairy formation, and Daluo Jinxian is like a mortal. I think Wu Yazi must be trapped by an expert. As for why he was trapped, I don't know? You just Follow me closely, let's go together for a while." Xiang Xiaotian nodded and ran after Chen Mengsheng.

"Seven steps, three steps, four steps, two steps..." Chen Mengsheng was muttering something. Although Xiang Xiaotian didn't understand, he felt like he was going around in circles, but he was circling around the person in front of him. The Peach Blossom Forest has obviously changed, and it is no longer the familiar old road as before...

Chen Mengsheng walked dozens of steps, then suddenly stood still and said, "Brother, what sound do you hear?"

"Brother, this dark place full of peach trees must be the wind, right?" Xiang Xiaotian listened carefully after finishing speaking.

"No, it seems that someone is crying. The sound is erratic, and sometimes disappears. Brother, is this the sound of a ghost crying?"

"Brother, you are joking. The sound of a ghost crying is absolutely audible. This should be a woman crying. The sound is uncertain because she is also lost in this peach blossom forest. The crying will come and go when you run around." Chen Mengsheng Following the sound of crying, Xiang Xiaotian has been spoiled by this peach blossom grove, so he followed Chen Mengsheng all the way...

"There are monsters..." Xiang Xiaotian took the bow and pointed the arrow at the woman's head on a peach blossom tree a hundred steps away...

"Brother, stop." Chen Mengsheng stopped shouting, stretched out his hand and pressed down the Overlord Bow in Xiang Xiaotian's hand.The woman behind the peach blossom tree was overjoyed when she heard Chen Mengsheng's cry, and rushed from the peach blossom tree.Xiang Xiaotian groaned inwardly, thinking that the peach blossom tree must be very beautiful in the daytime.The luxuriant branches and leaves look like a human hand with five fingers facing the sky, but it looks very strange at night. The head of the woman behind the peach tree is right in the middle of the peach branch. It looks like a human head growing on the peach tree...

The girl came to Chen Xiang and said anxiously: "Shangguan Yanran, a member of the Danding sect, begged the gods to save my master..."

Chen Mengsheng looked at this woman who was about the same age as him and said, "It turns out that she is a junior sister of the Danding School, and we are also here to beg Wu Yazi."

Xiang Xiaotian looked at Chen Mengsheng, then at Shangguan Yanran and said, "Brother, you call her Junior Sister, do you know each other?"

When Shangguan Yanran heard that her face was more shy than this peach blossom: "I...I, I don't know you two."

Chen Mengsheng had no choice but to say awkwardly to Xiang Xiaotian: "Brother, you don't know something. From the pre-Qin period, in addition to cultivating immortals and alchemy, this sect was divided into three schools of Yin-Yang Bagua and Alchemy and Immortal cultivation. There are not many people practicing in the other two sects, and the three sects have begun to merge, so that people will think that the Taoist sect is a magician."

"Hehe, I don't know how many of you don't wear Taoist robes." Xiang Xiaotian laughed loudly.

Alchemy is one of the main Taoist arts.It is the collective name for refining outer alchemy and inner alchemy.Wai alchemy originated from the pre-Qin immortal alchemy, which is to smelt minerals in the alchemy furnace to make "elixir".Later, the human body was imitated as a furnace to practice the essence, energy and spirit, which is called inner alchemy.Wai Danshu means that Taoists use various secret methods to burn and refine elixir, and use it for consumption, or take some sesame herbs directly, so as to attune one's own yin quality and turn it into yang energy.In addition, Taoist Wai Dan can also refer to "clear spirit in the void".Waidanshu can also refer to alchemy or Taoist spells such as talismans and thunder methods.Inner alchemy is the name of qigong by Taoists and Taoists, and the ultimate goal is to practice immortality and achieve immortality.Inner alchemy started before the Warring States Period and flourished in the Tang and Song Dynasties.

The Danding sect is also the general name of various sects in Taoism that focus on alchemy and immortality. It was first developed from Fang Xiandao in the pre-Qin period.But in Taoism, immortal cultivators are respected, so it is understandable for Chen Mengsheng to call Shangguan Yanran his junior sister. Even a middle-aged aunt can be called a junior sister, as the saying goes.

"Junior Sister, my name is Chen Mengsheng and this is my elder brother Xiang Xiaotian. What is the reason why you came to ask Wu Yazi to save your master in the middle of the night?"

Shangguan Yanran's eyes were red when she heard Chen Mengsheng's question, tears were dripping down and she cried: "Shangguan Yanran was abandoned by her parents since she was a child, but fortunately was adopted by her master, and she has been studying art in the Danding School. She was always doing well. Yes, since Liu Datong, a rich man in Pingyang Prefecture, asked my master to refine Yishou Pill for his mother a few months ago, there has been a catastrophe..."

The Danding School of Pingyang Mansion is well-known in the local area, and its master Yun Qingzi is even a living god-like figure.Every year at the beginning of September, Yun Qingzi will refine a furnace of Yishou Dan and give it to the old people in Pingyang Prefecture.

Most of the elderly who benefited from the Yunqingzi Yishou Pill of the Danding School can prolong their lives, and the elderly over 5000 years old in Pingyang Mansion even worship Yun Qingzi as gods.In July of this year, Liu Datong, a rich man in Pingyang Prefecture, offered 5000 taels of silver to Danding School Sanqing to reshape the golden body, in order to ask for a longevity pill for his mother.Yun Qingzi's alchemy is not based on the poor and the rich, since Liu Datong had a request, of course he readily agreed.Liu Datong was rich and powerful and would not care about the 16 taels of silver. Liu Datong's father died on the battlefield when he was a child when he went out with the army.Thanks to his mother Xue's support, Liu Datong is also very filial to his mother. He started to study business at the age of 20. After more than [-] years of operation, he is now a wealthy family. The only wish is to make his mother a hundred years old.That's why he asked Yun Qingzi for a longevity pill, and planned to give his mother a gift on her [-]th birthday at the end of the year.

On the third day of December, Xue Di's [-]th birthday, Liu Datong invited his relatives, friends, neighbors and country gentry to celebrate his mother's birthday.I also invited Yun Qingzi from the Danding faction. Yun Qingzi was originally a hermit who didn't like to participate in this kind of excitement, but he couldn't stand Liu Datong's kindness. On the day of the banquet, Yun Qingzi brought his favorite little apprentice Shangguan Yan Ran went...

After drinking for three rounds, Liu BuTong took out a Jinna bordered with gold thread from his body, and in the Jinna was the Yishou Dan dedicated to his mother.Xue Shile couldn't close his mouth, and swallowed the Yishou Pill in front of all the visitors.Only Xue Shi yelled "Aw", foamed at the mouth, rolled his eyes and passed out...

(Zicao wishes everyone a Happy New Year!)