sweep the heavens

Chapter 61
The old man led the three of them down the mountain, stopped in front of a stone house at the entrance of the village, and said in a hoarse voice, "Hurry up and go back to sleep, the village is not safe at night."

Regardless of the three of them after speaking, they staggered and walked back to the house. Immediately, the house was lit with dim candles, and the dim light shone in the vast surrounding mountains, like a bright light guiding the way. aperture.

"What a weird old man." Xu Jing muttered, the three of them were in different moods and continued to rush to the village.

Xu Jing also lived in a private house, but it was quite spacious, with three rooms on the left and right. Xu Jing lived in the sitting room of the main room, and we escorted her to the front door. Chu Ping and Ruan Qiuhua also went back to Tang Guangbo's house.

It was already 09:30 in the evening, and there was no one on the road. When we got back to the house, the people inside were still awake. Seeing the two of them coming back, they joked with them.

Ruan Qiuhua was terrified and exhausted. He briefly told a group of people what happened at night, and everyone was terrified. Tang Guangbo frowned when he heard this, and said in a deep voice, "I forgot to tell you, the village really There is an old saying that you should not go into the mountains at night, and the old man at the head of the village is named Lin, named Lin Tianfang, he has never been married in his life, but he is quite weird, he has a very surly temper, and usually does not interact with the villagers."

Chu Ping listened to it from the sidelines, only feeling mysterious and strange in his heart, only secretly guessing, but without any clue.

Just now the old man's simple word "retire" caused the heaven and earth to fluctuate, which was very strange. He had never seen any Taoist and Buddhist skills, even the magic and secret arts. He didn't have such supernatural powers. Extremely curious.

"Hey, Chu Ping, I didn't expect you to know kung fu. Why haven't I heard you mention it before. It's not easy to beat a boa constrictor with one punch!"

A girl asked suddenly, and the eleven people immediately remembered Ruan Qiuhua's statement, and asked questions in a hurry.

Chu Ping chuckled, "I have been weak since I was a child, and I hope to strengthen my body through practicing martial arts. Maybe it's because the snake can't help but hit it!"

Such a poor excuse made a group of people scoff at it, but they didn't think much about it.After all, with Chu Ping's thin body standing there, it is possible to say that he practiced martial arts since he was a child, but it would be too clumsy to say that the boa constrictor couldn't help beating.

A group of people who had never been there before naturally did not feel the danger. When they heard that there were pythons on the mountain, they felt a little uneasy at first, and then became very interested.

Amidst the noise, time gradually passed. Everyone had trekked for a day, feeling sleepy, and gradually fell asleep one after another, but Chu Ping was full of energy. After everyone fell asleep, he moved lightly. Walking out of the door, standing in the yard, looking up at the distant mountains behind the village.

Even though it was a hot summer night, it was quite cool in the middle of the night, and the slight evening breeze carried a cool and humid air. Even though Chu Ping was no longer afraid of the scorching heat and severe cold, he still felt that way. like.

The starlight gradually dimmed, and the whole world was shrouded in boundless darkness. Chu Ping looked at the time, and it was already midnight.

This hour, in ancient times, was called Zishi. Calculated according to modern time, since it is the moment from eleven o'clock in the middle of the night to one o'clock in the morning, it is the first hour of the twelve hours.

Li Chunfeng once pointed out that "the division of a day in the ancient calendar starts at Ziban". This is a rather strange time, which is not only the end of one day, but also the beginning of another day. The former belongs to Yin, while the latter belongs to Yang.

The time of yin and yang is also an important time in Taoist practice, and in the practice of Neidan school, Zishi is regarded as the time of fire!
And no matter it's monsters, Buddhas or Daoists, Zishi is the best time to practice.

This is a good time for yin and yang to exchange and collide with each other, but it is also the most turbulent time. Many tragic events and bad karma mostly occur at this time.

Looking at the distant mountains, Chu Ping slightly adjusted the real energy in his body, and felt that among the spiritual energy around him, the wood spirit was the strongest. He guided Zhou Tian in his body, and slowly exhaled a mouthful of turbid air, and his spirit immediately became lively.

When he looked again, he saw a huge resentment suddenly rising from the opposite mountain!

This resentment is extremely strong, hovering over the top of the mountain into a dark cloud, giving people a feeling of ferociousness, resentment, sadness, and extinction. It seems that there are countless ghosts flying in it, phosphorus fire is floating, hooks and chains are looming, and it is like a torrent Roaring, raging sea churning, the whole is like a hell on earth.

The first half of Zishi, also known as Yezishi, is the time when the yin energy is the strongest and the yang energy is the weakest. Hundreds of ghosts travel at night, and it is best to take advantage of this time.

"What a huge ghostly aura!" Chu Ping was secretly shocked when he saw it!
The ghostly aura floated for half an hour, and then a colorful and strange brilliance rushed up from the mountain, crashing directly into the strong ghostly aura on the top of the mountain, causing the aura to billow, like a sea of ​​clouds, mountains and mist, twisting in the air. into a giant vortex.

Ghosts swirled and danced around the vortex, jets of jet-black rays of light shot down like waterfalls, collided with the colored lights, and the ghosts hissed, their voices shrill and terrifying.

The colorful light is getting stronger and stronger, as if a huge pillar is about to pierce the sky and charge straight up!

Countless scattered colorful lights drifted in all directions like debris. Wherever they passed, the entire mountain seemed to vibrate. Chu Ping looked intently, and felt that the countless vegetation in the mountain seemed to become a part of the mountain, and become a stone carving. generally!
At this moment, I heard a hoarse voice, like tearing silk and tearing cloth, and like paper towels rubbing against glass, it was creepy!
"seal!"

The sound came from the stone house where the old man lived at the entrance of the mountain village. Although it was only two words, it seemed to be reciting a large volume of scriptures, and the sound of reciting lasted for a long time.

To Chu Ping, the sound was like thunder, but no one in the whole village was awakened by it.

Following this sound, countless streaks of black light burst out in all directions and corners of the entire mountain, melting into the ghostly aura.

With the help of these countless black lights, the ghost qi suddenly became huge again, like a piece of sky pressing down, tightly entangled with the colored light, and within half an hour, it suppressed the colored light again.

The colorful light disappeared, and the ghostly aura floated for a while, and gradually fell back into the mountain.

After Chu Ping looked at it, he couldn't understand it!
In the eyes of cultivators, ghosts are mostly first-class evil spirits who run amok and do evil. According to this, the colorful light should be on the side of the righteous way.But now, the colorful light is obviously suppressed and sealed by the ghost energy, not to mention the colorful light that spreads out, turning all the trees and forests into petrification, which may not be the right way!

What shocked him even more was that the mysterious old man was able to manipulate all the ghosts and spirits in the mountain!
This mysterious remote mountainous area is not simple!
The more he thought about it, the more confused he became, Chu Ping's heart was also in a mess, and the Lingtai was faintly covered with a layer of mist, making it difficult to see clearly!

"It's no wonder that people who practice the Tao should stay away from the hustle and bustle of the world. If they see a lot, but they can't explain it, they make their hearts obstructed, but they are demons that hinder their practice!"

Sensing the change in mood, Chu Ping let out a long sigh and pondered to himself.

Practitioners should be pure-hearted and have few desires, so as to conform to the way of heaven.The heaven and the earth are ruthless, so they can last forever. If the sky is sentimental, the sky will also grow old. Therefore, many people in the world are suffering from life and death, sickness, and disease. In fact, too much is involved, which is an obstacle to longevity!
This is why people who practice Taoism should live in seclusion in the mountains and forests to avoid the world of mortals!
Out of sight, out of mind, the world is vast, if I don’t see it, it’s no different from illusion to me!
At this time, Chu Ping suddenly had an urge to go up the mountain to find out the truth, but thinking about the power of ghosts and petrification just now, he felt jealous, thought for a long time, and finally made up his mind.

"It's better to go and investigate tomorrow during the day. After all, the old man said that the mountains are not peaceful at night, and the implication is that the daytime is much better!"

Now that he had made up his mind, he still had to make some preparations. He took out the magic armor he got from Sun Boji that day from the ring, stroked it lightly, and the light flowed like water, swimming back and forth on the surface of the magic armor. Chu Ping finally decided to Take it out and use it!
When he got the magic armor that day, Chu Ping also explored it, and found that the magic armor was a set of powerful magic weapon, but it was sealed heavily. After breaking through the first layer, it is really hard to guess who made the seal, and the origin of this magic armor also makes him unable to figure it out!
Since then, the magic armor has been left in the ring, and he has not continued to explore it. Now his strength has reached a bottleneck. Since his cultivation base cannot be improved in a short period of time, he must use some external force to boost his combat power!

Spiritual consciousness is like water, slowly soaking into the magic armor, and a boundless vast world immediately appears in front of you, with mountains, rivers and lakes, vast seas and sky, desert dunes, grasslands and greenery, rivers and cities!
It's just that under this vast sky, there is no human habitation, and there are misty gray fog everywhere, floating, floating, sinking and rolling, filling the whole world!
In the center of this gray mist, there was a little light. Chu Ping knew in his heart that this was a trace of Sun Boji's spiritual imprint.Since Sun Boji himself is not dead, this imprint still exists, as long as he erases this imprint and sacrifices with his mind, he can control this magic armor!
(End of this chapter)