White Bone Monkey King

The cave is deep.

Over time, the underground lake dried up, exposing the riverbed underneath.

On the other side of the lake, a man and a sheep were quarreling.

"Hey." The goat looked sideways.

The old Taoist priest was annoyed: "I know you saved me in the lake just now. If you hadn't saved me, I would have been swept away by the lake water. But this is the ninth time you have mentioned it again! I will save you too, old Taoist." I’ll give you this once, but if my sharp eyes hadn’t reminded you that there’s a big yellow snake under the water and told you to be careful, do you think you could still call the ram?”

"Mea."

The old Taoist priest's face was full of disbelief: "What do you mean you have already discovered it. You were just playing with a little earthworm when you were bored on the road. I am still fishing with earthworms."

"Mea."

The old Taoist priest was unconvinced and retorted: "No, I am not an old Taoist. I won't open the pot and lift it. It's obviously you who lifted the nine pots in a row."

Listening to the constant bleating in the ears, watching the old Taoist priest and the goat quarreling with red faces, they had successfully landed on the shore. Mr. Yiyun and Qi Bo, who had taken off their gold and jade clothes, had curious expressions on their faces. They both felt that the five internal organs were Taoist temples. All the people are strange people, even the sheep are strange sheep, they can quarrel with others.

Qi Bo asked with a strange look on his face: "Daozhang Chen, can you talk to sheep?"

The old Taoist priest was confused when asked: "No."

Well.

Qi Bo was even more surprised this time: "Since you can't understand sheep, then how come you, Daoist Chen, can... uh, talk freely with this strange sheep raised by Daoist Jin'an?"

The old Taoist priest replied matter-of-factly: "This sheep is just like a human spirit. I don't even have to understand its words. I can just look at its eyes and expressions and I can figure out what it is saying. For example, it looks at me with a sidelong look." It will definitely not be a good thing.”

"..."

It turned out that he was talking to himself.

But the two of them always felt that something was wrong.

If sheep can't understand people, and people can't understand sheep, why don't they always feel that there is no sense of disharmony in the quarrel between the man and the sheep in front of them. The old Taoist priest was so quarrelsome that his face was red, and the goat was quarreling so much that white smoke came out of its nostrils.

It's really strange.

Fortunately, just when one person and one goat were about to go from quarreling to getting physical, Jin An successfully found them and joined them. The eyes of the old Taoist priest and the goat were instantly attracted by the dragon ball that Jin An carried back. forgotten.

"Okay, what a big dragon ball!"

"I didn't think it was big from a distance when I was standing on the shore. But if you look at it up close, it's too big... This is not a dragon ball. It's a stolen Dragon King's egg!"

The old Taoist priest was speechless.

The golden dragon's head is as big as a mountain. You can imagine how big this dragon ball is. Carrying Jin An on his head is like running with a water tank twice the size.

"This is not the place to talk. Let's quickly find a place to divide it up together. This thing fell out of Yuqi's mouth and made a small crack. There was a dragon spirit, dragon spirit, dragon spirit running out. I just used the magic talisman temporarily. Spirituality seals the cracks, but it won't last long." Jin An said quickly before having time to reminisce about the past.

Young Master Yiyun and the others went ashore first and had already explored the nearby terrain beforehand. The four of them and one sheep finally found an inconspicuous crevice in the cliff to hide in. The gold-studded jade clothes they took off after landing were also hidden here.

When Jin An opened the water talisman of Erlang Zhenjun, which had been sealed four times, the fragrant life essence leaked out along a small crack as wide as the width of a fingertip. The old Taoist priest only took a sip, and became energetic and rosy. His eyes were as bright as copper bells, as if they were glowing with a second spring.

The goat on the side has been following Jin An for so long, and its eyesight and taste have long been cultivated. It can tell at a glance that this dragon ball is a good thing, and it can't wait to stick out its tongue to lick the dragon ball.

How about talking about sheep licking salt bricks?

Regardless of the origin of this dragon ball, it is a rare treasure. Jin An just smashed it open with a simple and crude punch, just like eating a snake egg.

Click——

The cracks in the dragon ball expanded, and three rays of clear light rushed out. They were the first rays of clear light in the world that separated the yin and yang of heaven and earth when the world was in chaos. With this clear air, only the clear air could rise and turn into the sun, and the turbid air could sink and turn into dirty earth. Only when qi is divided into yin and yang can yin and yang appear in order.

The three rays of clear light condensed into three golden shadows, which were so bright and frightening that they raised their heads and roared, but this time it was no longer the cry of a baby.

The old Taoist priest was surprised: "Why do these three golden turtles have different cries from the big yellow snakes I encountered in the lake before? Could it be that there are already signs of dragon transformation and they are about to appear as real dragons?"

"Where to escape!" Jin An took out the four-time imperial edict of Erlang Zhenjun and posted it on the cliff.

Since this catfish only grows in weak water, it means it is still under the jurisdiction of Erlang Zhenjun's imperial water talisman. It was based on this consideration that Jin An used Erlang Zhenjun's imperial water talisman to block the cracks in the dragon ball.

This time he was right again.

The three golden dragon phantoms could not escape, and finally fell back into the dragon ball due to exhaustion, turning into dust-free spiritual liquid, with auspicious energy, exuding the astonishing dragon essence, dragon spirit, and dragon spirit nature.

But this is a dragon ball that is about to dry up. There is not much fluid left in the dragon ball.

Worried about the spiritual escape, the four people and one sheep quickly divided the spoils. Only the old Taoist priest suffered the most. He was so weak that he could not stand the nosebleeds after only half a sip. If he drank any more, his spiritual energy would explode and his body would die.

When he thought that the sheep were stronger than him, and that he himself was not as good as a sheep, the old Taoist priest beat his chest with regret. If he had known this, he would have focused more on his practice in his early years. Maybe he can take another sip today.

The spirit and life essence contained in this spiritual liquid is very large, and it is a great tonic for heaven and earth. After drinking the spiritual liquid, the four of them began to raise their hearts to the sky and calmly digest what they had gained this time.

Even the goat fell asleep like a drunken man.

Jin'an has the Immortal Temple of the Five Internal Organs to carry the energy of life together. His digestion speed is much faster than that of other people. The five internal organs resonate like a thunderous strike, like the sun fire tempering the internal organs. The Immortal Temple of the Five Internal Organs is filled with an endless stream of pounding energy. The vitality spreads to the limbs and bones, making it warm and comfortable.

He had an illusion, as if he was going to become an immortal, shatter into the void... But at the critical moment, his body was like a shackle, and he was pulled hard, and he fell heavily to the ground, and he suddenly woke up.

The moment he opened his eyes, a beam of light shot out. He felt that his ears and eyes were sharp. His eyes could see further in the dark, and his ears could hear details further away. His heart was beating powerfully, and every beat burst out more vigorously. Strong vitality.

The heart produces the spleen, the spleen produces the lungs, the lungs produce the kidneys, the kidneys produce the liver, and the liver produces the heart.

When the heart and lungs are strong, other organs will also grow stronger. The temple of the five internal organs will give birth to more vitality, nourish the soul, and make the body strong.

Less than a month after his last breakthrough, he achieved another breakthrough in cultivation!

Late stage of the second realm!

And we are only one step away from the Great Consummation in the later stage!

Jin An was happy at first, then frowned, and finally, his eyes were fixed on the dragon ball shell beside him.

At this time, several people were still in a state of confusion and had not yet woken up.

The first one to wake up was Qi Bo. When he opened his eyes, he let out a startled sound and had a look of astonishment on his face.

The next person to wake up was Mr. Yiyun. His beautiful eyes were wide open, his big eyes were lively, his small red mouth opened slightly in surprise, and then he burst out laughing, bright, brilliant and shocking.

The old Taoist priest was the last to wake up. His body was shaken and he jumped up in surprise: "Little brother, what are you doing!"

Jin An continued to concentrate on eating without raising his head: "Swallowing gold fossils, we can't waste all the treasures of heaven and earth."

The old Taoist priest was shocked again. His eyes were one big and one small. Then he asked curiously: "Little brother, what does the dragon ball shell taste like?"

Jin An thought for a while and said seriously: "It should be as crispy as rice crackers."

The greedy old Taoist priest stepped forward to take a bite, but he covered his mouth and cried out in pain. The thing was as hard as a stone and almost broke his old teeth.

"Sure enough, you are still young and have a tough mouth, so you like to eat hard food." There is something in the old Taoist priest's words.

Nuo Da's dragon ball shell was eaten by Jin An alone, but his stomach was not bloated at all. His internal organs were now strong and he could swallow gold fossils and digest them into spiritual medicine, while useless impurities turned into turbid gas and dispersed along his pores.

At this time, both Master Yiyun and Qi Bo saw that Jin An had made great progress again, so they came up to congratulate Jin An, and then asked Jin An about what happened after they separated.

The team talked as they walked and continued on their way. At this time, the goat had also woken up. When they heard that there was flesh and blood in the golden body of the dog, several people looked thoughtful.

Qi Bo: "Is it possible that there is no West Queen Mother's Palace here, but a vicious place left by our ancestors in ancient times, so there is a poisonous miasma and yellow snakes are raised with giant-bellied ice corpses?"

Jin An: "I think the people who built this ruins didn't want to kill us at first, because of the gold, the sacred jade tree, and the procession of jade figurines who worshiped the jade tree."

"On the way to find you, I also thought about what was going on underground, and then I thought of a detail... We encountered a poisonous miasma, and then escaped back to the ruins of the underground city to survive. This was the first time that the other party's subordinates Showing mercy was also a warning to us; later we put on the golden jade clothes and went down to the lake again, and the golden miasma turned into red miasma. This was the second warning; but we continued to climb the dragon's head, causing the golden miasma to collapse, thus revealing the The blocked hole in the middle of the lake turned into a lake of man-eating ghosts.”

"The reason why I have this conjecture is because I thought of the many gold mountains, gold artifacts, and jade cities I saw along the way. These are all tools used by the righteous to suppress demons and exorcise evil spirits. Even the 茰貐 was used in ancient times. A kind god who lost his mind after death and turned into a man-eating beast."

"But there is one thing I still can't figure out. I saw the Feng Shui topography here. This is the Dragon Vein True Cave. Logically speaking, this should not be a place to suppress demons and exorcise evil spirits. Could it be that those Jinshan and Jade City are used for It’s used to prevent external evil spirits, because there is really a divine tomb buried here, and you don’t want the divine remains to be disturbed?”

Jin An told the old Taoist priest about the Feng Shui pattern he saw when crossing the snow-capped mountains, as well as some guesses.

After hearing this, the old Taoist priest looked solemn and said: "Little brother, you only know one, but you don't know the other."

Jin An humbly asked for advice: "I also know that with my little knowledge as a beginner, in front of you, a veteran, I will be just trying to do what I am doing. If you, a veteran, have anything to say, it doesn't matter."

Everyone has his or her own strengths.

He is better at slaying demons and monsters, but in terms of feng shui, metaphysics and human sophistication, he is indeed inferior to the old Taoist priest.

The old Taoist priest twisted his beard and looked at Jin An with a smile: "Little brother, you are too self-effacing. Feng shui physiognomy is accumulated over many years. You can't take shortcuts if you can't rely on the treasures of heaven and earth. You can't take shortcuts if you can't rely on panacea. Little brother, you don't have a leader. It is purely self-study and the time is short. It is very valuable to be able to see so many terrain trends."

The old Taoist priest first praised Jin'an, and then talked about what he had seen and learned with a slightly solemn expression: "'If there are mountains but no water, don't look for land.' 'The method of Feng Shui is to obtain water first, and to hide the wind second.' These two sentences The old saying is indeed true. It is best to have living water flowing near mountains. If there is no open river, there is also an underground river. As long as there is living water, it can bring endless vitality and reconcile yin and yang. But what if, in this mountain? The underground river is a bad water that can eat people. So this river is not the Yang water that can bring life, but the Yellow Spring water that can trap people's souls. It is a dilemma. Little brother, you were right at the beginning. Those gold and jade stones It is indeed used to suppress demons, to suppress a big demon in the sealed mountain."

"Mountain God! The Four Symbols of the End of Heaven and Earth!" Jin An blurted out without thinking.

Yes, the Kunlun Mountains is the home of the gods, and only such a unique sacred land can suppress a mountain god or be used to arrange the overall situation of the world.

Did the Ghost Mother take such a long detour just to guide him to the Kunlun Mountains to kill the mountain god or to secretly point out the location of another Four Symbols Bureau?

But when they encountered another strange thing, Jin An again doubted whether there was something wrong with his guess. After passing through several dangerous places without any danger, they passed through a hot spring and came to a place with more open terrain. A huge forest of stone pillars.

Along the way they saw a large number of recently deceased people.

Those stone pillars are each huge, standing high in the sky, reaching into the dark shadow above the head, like a tall standing stone monument. Each stone pillar is surrounded by a relief beast.

"This is a dragon, a dragon species born from the reproduction of dragons and snakes..."

"This is Zhu Po Long, born from a dragon and a dragon..."

"This is a flying dragon, born of a dragon and a centipede..."

"This is a walking dragon, born of a dragon and a chicken..."

"This is Ram, born of a dragon and a pig..."

"Why are there so many dragon totems here?" The old Taoist priest recognized a kind of dragon every time he passed a stone pillar, and he couldn't help but exclaimed in surprise.

"The nine sons of dragon are different. When crossed with a horse, a dragon will be born. When crossed with a crane, a phoenix will be born. When crossed with an eagle, a roc will be born. When crossed with a wild boar, a wild boar will be born. Cross with a bear and give birth to a brave animal; cross with a leopard and give birth to a kiss; cross with a whale and give birth to a mirage..."

"Ahem." Jin An saw that the old Taoist priest was a little bit unable to stop the car after talking nonsense and wanted to continue talking. He quickly coughed and reminded that in addition to a few old and young men, there was also a Huanghua girl's family here.

The old Taoist priest also reacted and said with a smile: "People tend to talk a lot when they get old. Just listen to a folk tale and don't take it seriously. Don't take it seriously."

Hey, the silly sheep pushed the old Taoist priest's back from behind. It was listening with interest just now, why did it suddenly stop talking?

The old Taoist priest turned his lips to Mr. Yiyun, who was walking side by side with Jin An, and said nothing.

Mr. Yiyun, who was walking with Jin An, said calmly and generously: "Why did Master Chen suddenly stop talking? I am also curious about how many kinds of dragon children and grandchildren the dragon has given birth to. As expected, Master Jin An was right. Follow Master Chen You can always open your eyes and gain a lot of knowledge.”

Jin An quickly changed the subject: "No matter how many dragons and grandsons there are, looking at the situation in front of us, we seemed to have guessed wrong before. This is neither the tomb of the gods nor has anything to do with the mountain gods and the Four Symbols Bureau of Duan Tian Jue Di. There are so many dragons. , but more like a dragon burial place?"

Jin'an's words really reminded the old Taoist priest, and he remembered one thing: "Old Taoist, during the more than half a year I have been in Tubo, I have listened to many tantric monks singing some epic legends, including gods and demons, such as the Holy Spirit. The devil Zan is sealed under the lake, and the devil Rakshasa is suppressed under the snow-capped mountains. One of the epic poems sung the ending of a divine dragon and a demon dragon... He knows the scriptures, history, calligraphy and painting, medical skills, divination and other skills, heals the wounded and teaches people. The good dragon lives in the Holy Land of Shambhala. The brutal killing will only bring disaster, destruction, avalanche, plague and storm, which is another tragic ending. It is sealed in the deepest part of hell where no one can reach. He endures the pain of hell fire day and night, and his soul cannot find peace even after death."

This epic poem is relatively long to be sung, and the old Taoist priest will explain it in detail to everyone along the way.

This Dragon Forest is very large. Jin An and the others walked for almost a long time before they walked out of the Dragon Forest. When the view widened, they were already in another cave world. At the end of the view was the ruins of an endless group of ancient buildings. The ancient palaces were like mountains and tall. It's so grand, it's like coming to the kingdom of the giant spirit god, all built around a huge dead ancient tree.

The branches and leaves of the ancient tree have long since withered, but the tree body alone is as huge as covering the world, with towering creations, astonishing as a sacred tree.

"Such a big tree, how many thousands of years does it have to be? Tens of thousands of years old? If it really has to live for such a long time, this tree has already become a spirit and has survived the death of many gods!" The old Taoist priest looked at it for a long time, and waited for it to come back. After the god came, he couldn't help but marvel.

"Little brother, do you think that the sacred tree of heaven and earth is a tree that grows beside the weak water in Kunlun Mountain and only exists in ancient mythology?"

After saying this, even the old Taoist priest himself was shocked by his words, because his conjecture was so bold.

Jianmu is the channel that communicates between heaven, earth and people. It can lead directly to the heaven and connect the gods to heaven.

The meaning behind this cannot be summed up in a few words: it is related to various legends about becoming gods and immortals.

Jin An looked very far away and saw a lot of people moving in the ancient ruins. He thought for a moment and took the lead and said, "Whether it's Jianmu or not, we'll find out if we go down and take a look."

He had made a rough calculation before. They were delayed for one day in order to digest the Dragon Ball. This day would be enough for the large troops who were several steps behind them to catch up with their progress again.

…

The location where Jin'an and the others are now is a high cliff, very high from the ground. After walking for a long time, they finally got down to the ground. A large rice field was opened outside the ruins of the ancient ruins, but what was grown in the rice fields was not ordinary rice. , but a flawless jade rice that is three to four feet wide.

Each one is wonderful.

Confuse the real with the fake.

"With such a big rice, regardless of whether it is true or not, one grain of rice can kill me. If you use it to eat, just one grain of rice is enough for us in the Five Zang Taoist Temple to hold and chew for a day. Tsk tsk, it is said to be for the ancients. What the people eat is better said to be food for the dragons living here." The old Taoist clicked his tongue in wonder.

You really don’t want to say that.

What the old Taoist said is really possible.

It is possible that these huge palaces in front of us are really for the dragon sons and grandsons outside, and these dragon rice are also for those dragon sons and grandsons to eat.

Kunlun mythology has been circulated with legends about 茰貐, weak water, jianmu, jade tree, immortal tree, huge rice, and dragons, and these almost all appear in the same place and accompany each other.

Jin An and the others had a very clear purpose, which was to go straight to the sacred tree of heaven and earth at the end of the world. They did not stop except to marvel at the ruins of the grand ancient palaces along the way.

As soon as they arrived near the sacred tree of heaven and earth, they heard mournful cries. Finally, when they got closer, they found that it was the tantric monks who were mourning and crying.

The people from the five major tribes on the plateau also stood silently, and the atmosphere seemed sad and heavy.

On the contrary, the people from the Western Regions, Western Tianzhu, and Nanman people kept circling the sacred trees of heaven and earth looking at them, with no sadness on their faces.

It turned out that these tantric monks finally found several missing sages, but these sages all passed away under the trees. However, because of the profound Dharma of these sages, even though they had passed away for a year, their physical bodies were still intact.

On the huge tree trunks behind the venerables, there were several symbols written in golden blood. Jin An quietly asked Mr. Yiyun what they meant.

Mr. Yiyun: "Those are the last words of several venerables before their death. There are only two simple words: 'go back'."

Jin An lowered his head and thought.

Next, the tantric monks began to circle around spontaneously, praying for blessings and salvation for several sages, and the old Taoist priests also joined them.

During this period, Jin An also imitated others in sizing up the dead sacred tree of heaven and earth. This sacred tree was so huge that even though it was dead, it still had a vast and ancient feel, giving people a majestic and ancient atmosphere.

He noticed that there was a huge painted painting on the trunk of the ancient tree that looked like it was left by a giant. It circled around the trunk, and the painted painting actually mentioned what was at the end of the sacred tree!

Jin An hurriedly watched attentively.

The painting mentioned that climbing along the sacred tree to the end of the sky will lead to another world, where there are three snow-capped mountains shaped like triangular pyramids, where the gods live, guarding the human world and blocking many dragons and extraterrestrial demons. This road to the sky has been sealed, and future generations will never be able to climb it, unless the chosen one descends from heaven or three major disasters occur in the world: the sacred trees dry up, the sky collapses and the earth cracks, and the snow-capped mountains turn red.

The sky is falling apart and the earth is falling apart. It should be referring to the big avalanche last year. The sacred trees dried up, the earth fell apart, and the snow-capped mountains turned red. All three of these things have happened now.

"Could this end of the sacred tree really be the legendary holy land, Shambhala, that has never been found?"

Shambhala, this is the word Jin An heard most often while standing under the ancient trees.

According to legend, Shambhala is a holy land of happiness, a holy land of bliss in the West, where there is no poverty and hardship, no disease and death, and no intrigue, jealousy and vendetta between people. The flowers there are always blooming, the water is always clear, gold is everywhere, and the mountains are full of gems. There is no need for money here, and whatever delicacies you want will fly to you. The people of Shambhala have unlimited lifespans, and they will die in a blissful sleep only if they want to die... …

The serfs hope that they will endure all kinds of suffering in this life and live in Shambhala after death; ordinary people and nobles are also willing to dedicate all the gold they have accumulated in their lives to the Buddha and the Queen of Snow Mountain Praise God, hoping that after death they can live in Shambhala. Being able to live in Shambhala; even the ultimate goal of practice for Tantric monks is to spend their lives finding the legendary secret land of Shambhala, finding the Infinite Light Buddha, and listening to the Buddha explain the higher mysteries of the Buddha... Therefore, this Shambhala is popular among the locals It has a very high status in my mind and is the spiritual holy place of countless people. No one is allowed to slander the holy place.

Folks have always had different descriptions of the location of the entrance to Shambhala, and everyone has their own version of it, and it has never been found.

But Jin An knows very well that this is definitely not Shambhala.

Because the legends about Kunlunxu, such as squid, weak water, building trees, huge rice, and dragons, have nothing to do with Shambhala. This is Kunlunxu, the hometown of gods, and a place where all gods live. There are no traces of Buddha here, no Raden Mangopa who is the incarnation of Vajrapani Chanadoje, and no Infinite Light Buddha, also known as Amitabha.