Tai sui

Qiu Sha looked him up and down, and his attitude was actually quite polite: "My little brother looks good, he looks like a Wanren. Which mountain are you from Xuanyin? Have you seen me?"

Xi Ping: "..."

He failed in killing Qiu Sha in Tao County, and he was ready to be beaten, but he became nervous because the other party didn't recognize him.

That's right, it turns out that Qiu Sha has never seen his real face, the reason why he was able to easily reveal his existence in Tao County last time was because she was also a descendant of the Companion Wood, and her cultivation level was higher than his at that time.

Right now, both of them are in such a half-dead state, and "before they were alive", they were both ascended spirits. If she hadn't seen the reincarnation tree just now, it would not be so easy to recognize him.

"I have admired your name for a long time, and no one in the Four Great Immortal Mountains knows about it." Xi Ping made a guilty haha, and then said, "I am a disciple of Xuanyin Feiqiong Peak. You may not have heard of it."

If he mentioned his master directly, because of Nanhe Lancang, Qiu Sha should know.But Feiqiong Peak was too "young" for her. It was mastered after Zhixiu ascended to the spirit, and because the master was lazy, the mountain has not been officially opened yet.

"It doesn't matter if the moon is painted. I can't tell the difference between the top of the mountain and the top of your Xuanyin Mountain." Sure enough, Qiu Sha didn't know Nan Wan who didn't grow late autumn red at all. In the whole Xuanyin Mountain, she only knew Lin Lin. Chi, waved his hands and said, "Why did Xuanyin's people come all the way here, and still fall into the hands of that bald donkey?"

Xi Ping then said: "Oh, the head of the Sanyue Mountain is full of moon, and there is no fight with the Great Elder of the Eastern Block..."

"What?" Qiu Sha's lazy shoulders straightened suddenly, "You said Xiang Rong is full moon?"

Xi Ping's heart skipped a beat: Qiu Sha didn't know, that is to say, she didn't recognize him, either because she just didn't see the reincarnation tree, or because she couldn't communicate with the outside world at all.

That is to say, those mouths hanging everywhere are not Qiu Sha's spiritual consciousness swallowed up by Wu Xinlian... The bald man created the effect of gossip.

It's crazy...

But it's good, so he has room to play.

Xi Ping continued without changing his expression: "Yes, it's dawn at midnight, the four regions of Western Chu are in turmoil, and the cicadas from all over the world are already at the border. We are ordered by Xianshan to be the first to sneak into Sanyue Mountain."

He observed Qiu Sha's reaction, and told a series of things about Xiang Rong's battle with Xuanwu and Xiang Rong's integration into Xianshan, omitting all kinds of outrageous operations in the furnace, and only said that he was laundered Being blinded, in order to sneak into Sanyue Mountain and cooperate with the bald lunatic, he brought Wuxinlian into the furnace outside the furnace, but finally escaped from birth, and was attacked behind the back of the bald donkey. An image of an inner sect stick in the deep mountains and old forests who is ignorant of the world.

After listening to Qiu Sha, he was speechless for a long time, and then he laughed lowly and said: "This crazy little bastard is so good at it. Fuxinhuo can still be used like this."

Seeing Xi Ping staring at her blankly, Qiu Sha slowly tied up her long hair that was too much to grasp: "Do you think you can trick Xiang Rong by sneaking into the furnace alone? Those old things , live longer than bastards, face the wall and introspect when nothing happens. Any thought that flashes on the altar can be immediately noticed if there is a slight violation. This is a delicate work that is startling step by step. . . . It appears that I was right in entrusting him with the fire."

"Anyway," Xi Ping said, "I think we should find a way to get out first, here..."

He suddenly shut up, because Qiu Sha looked at him strangely, with a bit of surprise and ridicule.

"Let me tell you, little brother, which one did you cultivate, the Dao of the Vase? Is your brain growing into your face?" Qiu Sha said, "You are already dead, and you don't know it yet? Still 'find a way out'—where to go? ? Move your ancestral grave?"

Xi Ping: "What do you mean? Hey, where are you going? Wait!"

Qiu Sha heard his tragic experience and full of stupid words, and decided that the little boy's mind was not very bright, and suddenly felt dull, and lost the interest in chatting with him.

As soon as she got short, she got into the hole of the lotus root.

Xi Ping hurriedly followed.

In the long hole of the lotus root, there are more "earth-bound spirits". Some half of their bodies have already melted into the lotus root, leaving only a section hanging outside, like a grotesque statue.

Except for Xi Ping's special situation where the spiritual consciousness is attached to the hidden bone, for ordinary monks, the mind will also disappear as soon as the body is scattered. It is for this reason that this checkpoint is called "Ascension to Spirit".

And even if it is the spiritual consciousness of Shengling, if it can't be seized, it won't last long. Any kind of cat or dog fighting can cause some spiritual fluctuations to send them away.And seizing the house can only be "living". After getting a new body, the spiritual platform of the original body will be abolished, and you will never be able to step into the Taoist door again, and your life span may be a little shorter than ordinary people.

Although this "reckless" young Shengling looks quite heartless, there is still a difference between the good-looking heartless and ordinary two hundred and five. After all, one can be used as a vase, and the other can only be used as a spittoon.

Although Qiu Sha looked down on him quite a bit, he didn't turn his face when he saw him following him with a stern face.

It may be because she is already "dead", she is calmer than "before she was alive", and it is much more difficult to say a few words: "The consciousness absorbed by Wu Xinlian is completely separated from the original body, even if you return to your own body, you will lose all your cultivation. , It's equal to taking away yourself-not to mention that you can't go back, your spiritual consciousness has been parasitized by that Wuxinlian, it's not so much that you are you, it's better to say that the current "you" is just a split in the bald man's heart It's all about divine sense... as long as he thinks, he can know what you are talking about at any time, so I advise you to be careful when you speak."

Xi Ping: "..."

He drew inferences from one instance, and immediately realized that the "Qiu Sha" who was talking to him in front of him could be said to be the remaining spiritual consciousness of Qiu Sha, who had lost both body and spirit, or it could be said to be a spiritual consciousness split by Zhuo Ming!

At this moment, on the surface, it looks like he is talking to Qiu Sha, but in fact it can be regarded as two "Zhuo Ming" talking.

"Don't be afraid," Qiu Sha coaxed contemptuously, "That bald man would rather watch you gather a bunch of earth-bound spirits in the lotus root to rebel against him than control your spiritual consciousness. Divine consciousness is very fragile, he Once you touch it, your consciousness will completely disappear, so what's the fun in that? Well, all around you are the consciousness that was 'raised to death' by him."

Xi Ping bumped into a hand drooping from the top of his head in response to the occasion, and when he looked up, he saw a hanged ghost looking straight at him, half of his face was melted into the lotus root wall.

"Wuxin lotus nourishes the spiritual consciousness. Ordinary people can live for 20 years when they come in, and they can open their minds for [-] or [-] years. It is said that there is a foundation building with a particularly condensed spiritual consciousness that has lived for a hundred years. Ascension... There are only you and me here, I don't know yet .When they were 'alive', there were those who screamed and scolded the streets all day long, and some who wanted to escape like you, and some who gave up on themselves after despair. They were in various poses, and the bald man never interfered. Wait until these spiritual senses are completely dead. Slowly digested by the lotus root."

Xi Ping felt the scalp that was touched by his hand go numb: "So what's so interesting about it?"

"I don't know about the fun, I guess he can't stop." Qiu Sha spread her hands, her hands and feet are too long, and there is a different kind of flair in every move, "You should have heard of Wuxinlian, the ancient demon god. There is a problem, it is cracked like a pomegranate, and it is still a top-level inspiration for reading books. It is said that this bald man was forced into the Wuxin lotus by his ruthless master. He either inherits or dies, although he managed to survive Yes, but quite reluctantly—he was actually not so blessed, he was born with a divine sense, and after inheriting Wuxinlian Daoxin, he was split into many pieces. So I guess, he desperately collected his divine sense, maybe he just wanted to fill it up. Full of those lotus hearts."

While talking, Qiu Sha walked into the depths of the lotus root with ease, and murmured: "There is someone else in the lotus root, so he can be his comparison and let him find himself, even if the captured person talks about his ancestors every day... Forget it, madman If you don’t understand the matter, you don’t understand it, I think you are innocent, and you can’t even understand ordinary people’s things—ah, you’re right, he really got the furnace!”

Xi Ping followed her gaze and saw a large space deep in the lotus root, and the heartbeat he heard before seemed to come from here.The blood-red "wall" was pulsating rapidly, and there was a mural on it, which depicted a flame as tall as a person, and a vague figure inside.

The figure was a middle-sized woman from Chu State. She just reached Qiu Sha's chest. She bent down and approached the mural without blinking her eyes, as if she wanted to tear the blurred figure off the wall.

"She has a shadow, doesn't she?" Qiu Sha didn't know whether he was talking to Xi Ping or talking to himself, "I didn't have it before...Look at her, her facial features have blurred outlines!"

Xi Ping: "Who? What is this?"

"It's the projection of her Dao heart." Qiu Sha seemed to be disturbing the person in the painting, and his voice was very soft, "After Wu Xinlian swallows her spiritual consciousness, she will slowly digest her Dao heart. In this way, Dao heart will be left on the lotus root. The projection of the heart. The bald man can’t catch up with the heat even if he eats shit. It’s too slow. He took the heart fire from me for more than two years, but he still hasn’t penetrated the fire. This time he got the body of the furnace, I think he finally I understand."

Xi Ping's eyes flickered slightly in the dark, and he picked up Lin Zhaoli's face that couldn't find Bei all the time, and asked repeatedly: "What? Is it the Dao heart of Senior Hui Xiangjun? Dao heart shouldn't be Is it in the outer furnace of her natal artifact? And what does it mean to 'haven't penetrated the furnace fire'? He killed the full moon, so he still hasn't penetrated it? Then he penetrated..."

"It's so noisy, shut up." Qiu Sha thought he was noisy, so he "shushed".

She sat down cross-legged in front of the mural, facing the phantom with invisible facial features, waiting for the phantom to become real, just like a farmer waiting for the time of day.

Xi Ping acted as if he couldn't read people's faces, and once again he opened his mouth to be annoying: "Since her Dao heart is in your hands all the time, why don't you find her a suitable master of the art of refining?"

Qiu Killed his head and said softly without looking back: "Get lost."

She has a gloomy beauty, compelling, like a demon knife just dug out of the coffin of a ghost.An overly tall figure can easily give people the illusion of being "inflexible" and "reckless". When people mention it, they always think of her "cutting people like cutting melons" and "acting upside down". Almost sent away half of the Taoist Ascension Masters.

Back then, Ah Xiang just took the breaking method by accident, which aroused her killing intent. Since she knew that the furnace heart fire was so important, how could she easily give it to Zhuo Ming in order to kill Xiang Zhao? ?

unless……

Xi Ping's eyes fell on her back: she had expected this day.

She knew that if she made such a big commotion, no matter whether it was successful or not, Sanyue Mountain's mountain-suppressing artifact would definitely come down to earth.She knew that she was bound to die, so she still put all her eggs in one basket. Wuxin Lotus Root Heart was the grave she had chosen for herself.

This is not some fool who only knows how to fight and kill, this is an [-]-year-old old ghost.

"Senior," Xi Ping was quiet for a moment, and imitated her in lowering his voice, "Since ancient times, evil spirits have never ascended to spirits. You are alone in the forest, and you will be driven by the wind. Why didn't you draw it slowly?"

Qiu Sha was silent for a while, and asked, "Just ascended to spirit?"

Xi Ping responded vaguely.

"Ordinary people regard 'opening the spiritual aperture' as the threshold of Taoism, and think that 'building the foundation' completely separates humans and immortals. Then do you know what 'ascension to the spirit' is?"

Xi Ping really didn't know that he was hunted down by Yueman just after he was robbed by the thunderbolt, he was not crushed to death by the mountain, but was eaten by lotus roots, and he didn't even have the chance to talk to Master, how could he have the time to stop and feel the cultivation? for?

Thinking about it this way, he suddenly felt very sad, so he lowered his head and felt sorry for himself.

Qiu Sha thought that he "bowed his head" because he finally knew how to be ashamed, and said with a sneer, "How on earth did you get out of this ascension?"

Xi Ping said truthfully: "Elder Cicada's life was smashed."

After hearing this, Qiu Sha gave a "tsk", thinking that he was from a prominent background.

However, at her age and experience, she is not likely to be filled with righteous indignation at the inequality of life-in fact, indignation is just worthless self-pity.

When she sat facing the wall, the demonic aura on her body faded a lot, and her body wrapped in a plain robe was like a jade mountain: "Although Zhuji also has Dao heart and true energy, you can only be qualified to listen to it if you pass the Ascension Pass. Listen to the sky, touch the way of heaven—rather than let your teacher feed you, or read the clichés of those useless classics copied from each other."

It turns out that "asking the world" means this!

When Xi Ping first started, he said to his master without shame that "everyone asks the world, and the world will be annoyed to death"... It turns out that there are very few people in the world who are qualified to ask.

"Let me ask you, who said that since ancient times, evil spirits can't rise up?"

Xi Ping recalled what Luo Mingdeng of Qianxiu Temple said: "Because folk monks often have no resources..."

"Don't talk nonsense." Qiu Sha interrupted him impatiently, "Do you know how many monks there have been in this world for thousands of years? When Lingshan was completed, you threw a needle in the East China Sea and asked each of these people to grab a basin of water. Now the needle It should be fished out, is it so difficult to ascend to the spirit? I have never seen it before, so I dare to be sure that there is no such thing in the world, do you think those powerful people are as brainless as you?"

Xi Ping: "..."

That's right, he was a majestic Ascendant, and he was still imitating Qianxiu Temple Luo Zhuji's tongue, Fei Qiongfeng's face made him lose his face, and he didn't dare to say a word.

"Cats and dogs live for tens of years, and ordinary people live for hundreds of years. Spring flowers don't bloom, and evil spirits are not recognized by Lingshan. Until the foundation is established." Qiu Sha raised his chin slightly, "This is the way of heaven and the way of Lingshan. For example, the 'axiom' in breaking the law."

Xi Ping's eyes widened suddenly, and in an instant, he was enlightened: axiom is everything in breaking the law, unless the axiom is broken!

If Lingshan is a great breaking law, if this kind of heavenly rule is also like breaking law axiom... That is to say, as long as someone can escape this rule and successfully ascend to the spirit, the "heavenly rule" will be broken and invalidated!

"Of course I will die when I rise to the spirit, but wait, after I die, evil spirits will spring up like mushrooms after rain, blood moons will always hang in the night sky, and the collapse of the heavens will start with me... This is her original intention of breaking the law and looking at the river." Qiu Sha said lightly but loudly, "Wan Qiuhong is Yongchun Jin's guard, her only wish is my heart's desire - let me try to make a chicken slowly! When my old lady is like your spirited mountain, she only knows how to run Do you climb up with the carrots given by Heaven?"

Xi Ping's scalp was all over.

He suddenly realized that Zhuo Ming was wrong. Late Autumn Red was the accompanying wood of Yongchun Brocade. How could Qiu Sha not understand the relics of Mr. Huixiang?

She is too understanding.

The day she was born from the secret realm, she knew what kind of path she was going to take, and why she would die... Just like a cicada grows underground for several years, once it breaks through the ground, it sings and sings loudly, no matter the path is poor or not. .

Zhuo Ming said that "Heaven" and "Earth" have been fighting, "Heaven" is the disciple of the sage Moon Man, and "Earth" is the demon god who was defeated in the past. Mr. Huixiang inherited Yongchun Jin's Dao Xin, and it seems that he should belong to "Earth". ", but... is that really the case?

Why is there a heart fire in Huawai Furnace, but Lin Chi has never seen it?

Why isn't Mr. Huixiang's Dao heart in the outer furnace of his natal artifact?

Xi Ping asked, "What kind of person is she?"

Qiu Sha raised his head when he heard the sound, facing the vague figure on the mural 800 years away.

They asked her why she died, where her relics were, what Tao she practiced, what is the essence of her outer furnace, why the heart fire can burn in ice and water... Finally someone asked, what is she? Such a person.

"She's...a very patient person." Qiu Sha's voice was unmistakably ambiguous, and she narrowed her eyes, as if her eyes had pierced through the long years.

Qiu Sha didn't know his parentage, but he probably wasn't very rich. Rich people would never throw their newborn children into the barren mountains.

There are a few Yongchun brocades growing on that mountain, and Wan Qiuhong climbs all over the mountain. There is no such a "Lan Qiuhong" among the ancient demon gods, that is a half puppet made for him by the weak craftsman.

This kind of parasitic vine is born with the Yongchun Brocade, and it can grow like crazy. The delicate main tree can't supply the nutrients needed by such a large area of ​​vines, so it eats and catches insects, birds and young animals that can't resist... and abandoned babies .

Late Autumn Red is the companion wood of semi-dolls. When encountering a creature with a spiritual orifice, it will penetrate into the spiritual orifice and make a human or spiritual beast into a puppet that grows on the vine.

As long as Qiu Sha can remember, he has been competing for living space with countless people who are as ignorant as her, and even spirit beasts, struggling to maintain his consciousness.

Until one day, the Yongchun brocade on the mountain suddenly bloomed, and the accompanying wood had a new owner.

All the vines were cheering, only Qiu Sha was in fear.She is connected with the late autumn red vine, and instinctively knows that this parasitic vine belongs to Yongchun brocade. The new owner will definitely clean up this mess like late autumn red, like weeding, get rid of all the messy consciousness on it, and herself... Or your own half-marion takes over.

Xi Ping asked softly, "Did she choose you?"

"At that time, late autumn hongxichu was everywhere, and it wasn't just born on that mountain top. I didn't know how many spiritual senses there were in it. Most of them were incomplete. How could she choose clearly?" Qiu Sha shook his head. , "That's a filthy garbage dump, even messier than this lotus root heart. The most reasonable way is to clean up those vines that have been stuffed for hundreds of thousands of years."

Is the remaining consciousness in Fujiri human?Are those fragments human?Or a troublesome tree scar?

Xi Ping imagined it and found it hard to say.If it was him, he probably wouldn't take action to clean it up, but it's very troublesome, so he probably wouldn't bother.

"Then she..."

Qiu Sha said: "She taught the late autumn red vine for 120 years."

Xi Ping: "What?"

"She watered the vines with spiritual energy and preached, so who could understand? We couldn't even speak human words at that time." Qiu Sha said, "For the first eight years, she was talking to herself. Every time she spoke Talking, only the noise of fear and anger in Late Autumn Red, there is no response, and she doesn't care, just talking...have you ever seen such a person?"

Do what she wants, day in and day out, don't care about the feedback, don't care about the result.

"I haven't, I never have." Qiu Sha said almost inaudibly, "Cultivate a bunch of wild vines, as if she just wanted to try, if you have enough patience, miracles will definitely appear."

For the consciousness struggling in the parasitic vine, it was a glimmer of life.It took her eight years to master the Chu language with difficulty. Following Hui Xiangjun's guidance, she communicated with her spiritual energy and continuously refined her spiritual consciousness. In the 20th year, she gave Yongchun Jin the first stumbling response.

Qiu Sha remembered that Mr. Hui Xiang paused slightly, listened for a moment, and then smiled.

A clear idea popped up suddenly, she thought: I also want to grow up like this.

She was the first flower that bloomed in late autumn red. When she led the spirit into her body, she cleared all the noises in the vines and became the master of late autumn red.

Then he embarked on a... vigorous road that could dye Tianxin Zhiyue blood red.

"Zhuo Ming took the Heart Fire, but he still couldn't get Senior Huixiang's Dao Heart." Xi Ping sat with her for a long while before saying, "I understand."

Qiu Sha was taken aback for a moment, raised his slender eyebrows: "What do you understand?"

"What do you understand?" Zhuo Ming's ghostly voice came from deep in the lotus root.

At this time, Xi Ping realized that the violent heartbeat calmed down at some point.

On the lotus root wall, next to the mural of Mr. Huixiang protruded a human face, staring straight at Xi Ping.

Zhuo Ming looked at him in amazement: "You actually woke up so quickly, you didn't have to sleep for several months, and you touched this place... I have never seen a newborn Shengling with such a strong spiritual consciousness."

Xi Ping smiled unhurriedly at Zhuo Ming: "I also want to lie down for a while, but I can't help it, after all, I'm in a hurry."

Suddenly, Zhuo Ming's eyes twitched.

Qiu Sha suddenly realized something: "Who the hell are you?"

Xi Ping didn't answer, and cupped his hands at her: "I came here specially to see you. After Tao County said goodbye, I didn't have time to talk about it in detail. Thank you, senior, for your guidance today."

As soon as the words fell, his entire body... his entire spiritual consciousness shattered without warning, leaving only a cluster of unintentional lotus root belts in the shape of a human being. With the collapse of his spiritual consciousness, it also turned into light smoke and burrowed back into the lotus root.