In the third year of the Kaiyuan period of the Sui Dynasty, great changes came.
Thousands of huge meteorites, burning with terrifying blood-red flames, landed in various states and counties in the Sui Dynasty along with earthquakes, flash floods, tsunamis and other disasters.
For a time, mourning was everywhere in the Sui Dynasty.
From the emperor to the common people, no one will forget this year.
Emperor Wulong of the Sui Dynasty, who had just changed his reign name, had to issue three consecutive edicts to change his reign name to "Tianshun" again.
The disaster lasted for a full three months, and there were constant urgent reports with blood-red handprints, which were rushed to the capital. As long as the people of the capital saw tired horses foaming at the mouth, they would also rush to the capital in the same way.
The tired knight galloped through the streets desperately, feeling sad for a while, knowing that somewhere else had been affected by the disaster. Behind every emergency report, it meant thousands or even tens of thousands of innocent lives!
Fortunately, three months later, the emperor's edict of sin seemed to have really worked. This strange and unprecedented disaster was gradually coming to an end, and no emergency report of the disaster had been received for more than ten days.
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Today is a good day. Near Luomei Mountain in Yuzhou in the Sui Dynasty, it rains all year round. There are not many sunny and cloudless days like today.
The children in Lianhuatai Village finished their classes and dispersed in a bustling manner.
Sun Li, who was already thirteen years old, walked out among the crowd. The master stood solemnly at the door, and every student who went out saluted him and said goodbye.
The master was a scribe in his forties, with a slight build. It was said that he had a reputation as a scholar. The literary style has been flourishing near Luomei Mountain since ancient times, and small villages like Lianhuatai also pooled their money to hire this master to teach the children in the village.
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It's just that a man as old as Sun Li is already a good laborer in the family. He listens to the Master's sermons every morning and goes to work on the farm in the afternoon.
When meeting a proud student with excellent grades, the master would naturally smile, and maybe even touch his head and give him a few words of encouragement.
When encountering those who were stubborn and did not seek to make progress, the Master would naturally give him a few stern words of encouragement with a straight face.
Sun Li walked by, bowed his hands, and said respectfully and strictly: "Farewell, Master."
The master nodded and waved his hand to let him pass.
There is no encouragement or supervision. It is no different from treating ordinary people.
Sun Li has long been accustomed to it.
He is inconspicuous in this Lianhuatai Village. Many things and many eyes will inadvertently ignore him.
But Sun Li knew that he was by no means as ordinary as others thought. Looking at the group of children he looked at, he was different from them.
After leaving the school with five huts, he strolled home.
A group of classmates stood next to each other and said, "Third son, what are you doing this afternoon?"
"It's boring. Master asked me to read the Book of Changes, but I can't understand it. What's the point?"
"Hey, how about we go fishing in the afternoon?"
"No, I just went there yesterday."
"Then let's go and play with Widow Li's daughter?"
"Hey, I like this..."
"Hahaha!"
This group of people are all wealthy households in the village and do not have to work in the fields. The leader is Tian Yingdong, the son of the village chief.
Tian Yingdong turned around and saw Sun Li beside him. A strange smile immediately appeared on his face, and he called him: "Lili, are you going to pick up guests this afternoon?"
The children around burst into laughter.
Sun Li naturally understood that they were making fun of his name.
Sun Li is the eldest son in the family. His father gave him this name because he naturally hopes that as the eldest son, he can support the Sun family in the future.
But one day, word spread in the village that there was a fat kiln girl named "Lili" in Nihonglou, the county town. People like Tian Yingdong had a bad taste and often used this to tease Sun Li.
Sun Li ignored them. Tian Yingdong and his group thought they had won, laughed loudly, ignored him, and walked away quickly.
Sun Li shook his head, a wry smile appeared on his face, and he remembered a sentence he read in the book: Being ignorant makes mediocre people happy.
These behaviors that people think are funny have never really insulted Sun Li: monkeys grinning at people and showing off their peach blossoms at people. Will people feel frustrated?
He has been studying since he was a child, and his thoughts were formed at the age of thirteen.
The group of people in front were still laughing and joking, but suddenly a huge red flame fell from the sky quickly, and exploded among those people with a "bang" sound.
"ah……"
After several screams, three or four of those people fell down, some were injured by the explosion, and some had their clothes on fire.
Tian Yingdong stayed farther away and escaped by chance, but his face turned pale with fright. He stared blankly at his injured companion, not knowing what to do.
The two people who were burned by the fire instinctively rolled on the ground to suppress the flames.
One was injured on the face and the other on the hand. The wounds were very deep and he was groaning in pain.
Sun Li looked at the distant sky with horrified eyes, and suddenly reacted and shouted at them: "Run quickly..."
"Hoo, ho, ho..."
Streams of crimson flames quickly passed through the sky and fell down. The small ones were only the size of fists, and the large ones were as big as a human head.
Those guys were so frightened that they screamed and threw the books on their heads and ran away.
In the clear sky, three huge golden-red fireballs were falling slowly. Looking at the direction, they were clearly heading towards Lianhuatai Village!
And those numerous fireballs, accompanied by the three largest golden-red fireballs, were one step ahead to bombard the earth.
"Meteorite! Run!"
The whole village suddenly became chaotic. Faced with such a natural disaster, no one in this small mountain village could calm down at all. Chickens and dogs were jumping around, children were crying, women were screaming, and men were shouting. It was a chaotic mess.
Sun Li looked at the three huge flaming meteors in shock. The meteors trailed long fire tails, and there was a dazzling flame shield in front of them. The size was extremely huge, even larger than the natural disaster spread throughout the Sui Dynasty.
The largest meteors are several times larger.
Those fireballs accompanying meteors would explode every time they landed, shaking the ground, and some houses in the village began to shake.
Everyone panicked. They knew that the impact of such a huge meteor would definitely cause a series of disasters. It was so close to the small mountain village that they could not escape at all.
After panicking, they just waited for death. Everyone watched the three huge flaming meteors crash down and closed their eyes in despair.
But after a while, the expected big earthquake did not come, and the huge scream of meteors in the sky disappeared. People slowly opened their eyes, only to see thick smoke billowing in the mountains behind the village.
…
Three huge flaming meteors arrived silently, without even the ground shaking. The panicked villagers looked at each other, some of them couldn't believe that they had escaped the disaster so easily, and they didn't seem to understand why.
The Lord of Hell did not accept them.
The fire inside the mountain was burning fiercely. Let alone putting out the fire, the villagers did not dare to approach it at all. They were already frightened. Suddenly someone pointed at the thick smoke and said in horror: "There seems to be something in there!"
Everyone hurried to take a look. The smoke was billowing and it was difficult to see clearly, but it seemed that there was something hidden inside, and it should be very huge and ferocious!
What is that?! The villagers were silent.
…
On the seventh day, the fire was extinguished by a sudden heavy rain.
Since it started to rain, all the villagers have gathered together, looking at the direction of the falling meteor with trepidation, as if waiting for a judgment related to their lives. The thick smoke slowly dissipated, and the things inside were revealed.
Three huge stone statues stand firmly in the mountain.
Although this is only the outskirts of Luomei Mountain, the average peak is hundreds of feet high. However, these peaks only reach the ankles of the three huge stone statues.
The stone statues are ferocious and terrifying, and their condescending position seems to make the whole world look down upon in their eyes!
The stone statue on the left has hundreds of eyes, and the stone statue on the right has hundreds of arms. It seems that the stone statue in the center is respected, but there is nothing special about the stone statue in the center. It looks ordinary, just taller.
"ah!"
The villagers felt bad about such a huge and ferocious stone statue, and their faces were extremely ugly. Chief Tian wanted to report the damage, but there was not much damage to Lianhuatai Village. Hesitatingly, he could only shake his head and take a look.
It is strange to say that such three huge stone statues can only be seen in Lianhuatai Village. Once you leave the village, you can only see a cloud and mist in the distance.
This vision even caused many villagers to secretly discuss that this was a disaster coming from God to Lianhuatai Village!
So within a few days, the villagers spontaneously set up incense tables, incense candles and paper outside the mountain to worship the three evil gods. Some people even kowtowed and worshiped them every day.
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"Ali, come here, you also want to bow down and ask the Stone God to forgive our family's sins and bless our family and animals to prosper."
Sun Li was dragged by his mother, and he knelt down reluctantly in front of the incense table. However, Sun Li always had some inexplicable feelings about the three stone statues.
A thick layer of wax oil had accumulated on the incense table, and the smoke from the paper-coated incense candle curled up. Through the mist, Sun Li suddenly felt that the one in the middle of the three stone statues in the distant mountain seemed to have glanced at him!
Sun Li smiled heartily, he was dazzled.
"Hurry up and say goodbye, you see your brother is already kowtowing." Mother urged.
Sun Li's second brother, Sun Chun, was very obedient. He knelt down and worshiped devoutly, his little head banging on the bluestone. Sun Li was filial: "Mother, I will worship you right now."
He held up three sticks of incense, bowed respectfully three times, stood up and inserted the incense into the incense burner.
A distant voice suddenly sounded in my ears: "Come on..."
Qianshan responded in an instant!
Sun Lihan's hair suddenly stood up: "Huh?"
He looked around, and saw that his mother was still closing her eyes and making a wish, while his younger brother Sun Chun had already run to the side and was teasing an insect in the grass. The insect demonstrated to him, with its hair all over its body and became colorful.
Sun Li was surprised: Did I hear wrongly?
"Come on, come on..."
Sun Li was startled: "Who!?"
"You kid, what's wrong with your sudden shock? Kneel down and kowtow to the Stone God to apologize. If the Stone God blames you, our family will not be able to live in peace." His mother quickly grabbed him.
Sun Li had no choice but to do as his mother said. His mother muttered something, nothing more than asking for forgiveness from an immortal.
Finally, the ceremony was over. The mother stood up, dragged Sun Chun, and called to her eldest son: "Ali, you're back. If mother doesn't go back to cook, your father will starve to death."
Sun Li smiled and followed. After walking a dozen steps, he couldn't help but look back. In the smoke, he could clearly see the lips of the huge stone statue in the middle moving.
"bring it on……"
The voice came from afar again, and Sun Li was surprised: "Mom, second brother, did you hear someone speaking?"
"Where can anyone speak?" Sun Chun curled his lips.
The mother also shook her head: "What nonsense are you talking about? It's just the three of us, how can anyone else talk to us?"
"But I really heard someone talking..."
The mother stretched out her hand and tried his forehead: "This child, isn't he sick?"
"Mom!" Sun Li opened his mother's hand and said, "I saw the mouth of the stone statue moved. He was talking to me..."
"Pa!" Sun Li hit his mother on the forehead: "The Stone God is made of stone, how could he talk to you even if his lips move? Don't say this nonsense. If the people in the village know about it, they will definitely think you are possessed by evil spirits.
Already."
Evil!
The last person who was possessed by the evil spirit was burned to death, and his relatives were forced to leave Lianhuatai Village and live in a foreign land. The villagers had a natural and huge fear of such disasters related to ghosts and gods.
Sun Li shuddered and immediately closed his mouth and did not dare to say any more.
After walking a few miles, he couldn't help but look back. The three stone statues were motionless with white clouds above their heads. There was nothing strange about them. But Sun Li was filled with doubts.
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Every morning before the Master lectures, the children have to worship the saint's statue. The saint's statue has been hanging on the wall of the school for many years and has turned yellow. Sun Li has also seen it for several years and is very familiar with it.
He bowed and stood up. In Sun Li's eyes, the saint statue turned into a stone statue. His lips moved and his voice was deep and distant: "Come on..."
Sun Li was stunned on the spot.
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He didn't know if he was really possessed by evil spirits, but ever since he heard the stone statue speak that day, no matter where he was or what he was doing, there was a voice calling him from afar.
The almost ubiquitous calling was driving him crazy!
"If I'm really possessed by evil spirits, let me suffer alone and don't involve my family."
Sun Li sat by the bed and made up his mind.
He quietly opened the door and slipped out. He ran all the way into the back mountain. The stone statue looked even more ferocious and terrifying in the night, but Sun Li didn't know why, but there was no fear in his heart, and he walked on the mountain road.
Run wildly and head straight for the stone statue!
Ever since the stone statue landed here, no one has dared to approach that forest.
Zhang San, a gangster in the village, always boasted about his boldness. That day he bet three jars of old wine with others, saying that he dared to touch the stone statue. As a result, he was so frightened that he ran back crying and howling for half a month. He was seriously ill for half a month.
I would never dare to mention what I saw and heard that day.
Sun Li grew up in the mountains and had well-trained legs and feet. However, he ran at full speed and did not reach the mountain area near the stone statue until late at night.
He was already covered in sweat, his clothes were soaked, and his hair stuck to his forehead. However, he held back a lot of energy in his heart and climbed up a mountain peak using his hands and feet. He roared wildly at the three huge stone statues without even looking.
:"I am coming!"
The voice echoed, as if countless mandrills and ghosts responded to him together: "I'm coming..."
The old birds flew away in fright, making strange sounds of fluttering and fluttering.
Under the darkness, Sun Li clearly saw the three huge stone statues and looked down at himself!
The hundred-eyed stone statue on the left actually shook its head, and each eyeball glanced at itself.
When those eyes looked at him, Sun Li's mind buzzed, his body swayed, and he fell down softly!
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Sun Li felt that he had not slept well. He was still groggy when he woke up. Someone kept saying something to him in his dream...
"The heaven and earth are two instruments, and the yin and yang are in phase... The palms of the hands control the heaven and the earth, and the eyes capture the yin and yang!"
"Nine levels of extreme magic, the sky is full of immortals and demons, destroying nature without thoughts, overturning seas and mountains. Even though the avenue is endless, I have one thought to follow, and the journey is long. The ancients have not seen it, but those who are waiting to come..."
"Mediocre people disturb themselves, ordinary people condense, Taoists adjust and guide, sages unite with truth, true people guard gods, perfect people gather gods, saints sneak into the sky, immortals are unhindered..."
"Heaven and earth are unkind and regard all things as stupid dogs. If a stupid dog goes against heaven and takes lives by counter-cultivation, it will become an immortal!"
"There are three thousand avenues. Everyone knows that this is the door to immortality. I broke through the door alone and found another way. My life is not in the Five Elements, and my soul is not in the Six Paths!"
"..."
There was a lot of noise, mostly things he had never heard of.
The most annoying thing is that there is more than one voice, at least two voices arguing, and it gives people the impression that there is a third person. But the third person still refuses to speak, for some unknown reason.
Occasionally, images flashed by, and in the void, a hundred-eyed giant emitted countless rays of light, and stars fell one after another under the sweep!
There is another giant with hundreds of arms, its head and feet are in the infinite void, and each palm is holding a galaxy!
The third person seems to be illusory and illusory, and has a mysterious spirit that fixes the universe...
The mess is too messy to be clean!
He sat up, shook his head, woke up for a moment, and looked out the window. It was already midnight.
Sun Li suddenly became excited: Didn't he go to the mountains? He also saw the three stone statues, and then he fainted, but how could he wake up in his own bed?
He stood up suddenly, and something swayed from the corner of his eye. He turned his head and looked at it, and was stunned for a moment: on the old table next to the bed, there were three small stone figures.
The stone figures are only the size of a fist and look a bit rough, but they are clearly the three stone statues in the mountain behind the village!
There are hundreds of arms on the left, hundreds of eyes on the right, and the middle looks plain and ordinary.
It's just that I don't know how many times smaller it is.
At this moment, a burst of exclamation came from outside: "The stone statue, the stone statue is gone! The stone statue is gone..."
The crowd gradually became noisy, and people were talking about how the huge and sinister stone statue disappeared without a trace overnight. All kinds of unfounded speculations and rumors spread everywhere.
Sun Li looked at the three little stone figures and couldn't believe it: It's really them?!
Regardless of whether it was true or not, Sun Li didn't dare to let others know about the existence of these three little stone men, let alone talk about what happened last night. Besides, he felt baffled as to how he came back.
He quickly put the three little stone figures close to his body, opened the door and walked out.
"Father, mother."
Now is the off-season, and his parents didn't go out. When they saw him coming out, the two elders smiled. His mother, hearing the noise outside, was a little curious and glanced at Sun Li's father. Sun Li didn't say anything, so she swished.
Putting away the work at hand: "The stone statue is gone? What's going on? Master, I'll go out and find out..."
Of course Sun Li's father knew his wife's temperament, so he smiled and said nothing. Sun Li's mother had already ran out quickly.
Sun Li hesitated for a moment, but decided not to tell his parents and younger brother about Xiao Shiren. The tragic experience of the person in the previous family who was "possessed" made Sun Li frightened. He made up his mind: if he was really possessed, he would
If you carry it alone, you won't hurt your family.
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In the second year of Tianshun in the Sui Dynasty, Sun Li was already fifteen, but he had not yet gotten married.
Normally, Sun Li's family was considered well-off in Lianhuatai Village. He was a decent-looking man with no bad habits, but his marriages often fell through, and the other party always had various reasons, leaving Sun Li and his parents speechless.
His parents gradually became anxious, but Sun Li didn't take it seriously. On the contrary, he agreed with the matchmaker's perfunctory words: the fate has not yet come.
Sun Li felt as if something was waiting for him, because the three beings in his mind would jump out to argue from time to time.
There were still two people talking, but Sun Li could always feel the presence of the third person, and that presence was as steady as a prehistoric sacred mountain, unshakable.
The voices of the two people talking were extremely loud, like thunder.
In the first half year, it was only when he was sleeping, and then it happened regardless of time or occasion. Sometimes when he was drinking water, a sudden sound came from his throat, and he choked a mouthful of water into his nose...
But under such constant indoctrination, he gradually understood that what he was arguing about was actually an ethereal "cultivation" method.
According to what they said, there is a group of people in this world called "monks", and they divide the people in this world into levels.
Ordinary people are not even considered "mortal". They live a mediocre life, come into this world with a blind eye, and leave this world with a blind eye. They do not understand any truth. Such people can only be called
"mediocre".
Above mediocre people, we are "ordinary people".
After practicing martial arts, one's bones are strong, and when one reaches his peak state, even if he is respected as "the best in the world", he can barely be called a "mortal".
And those monks only need to go through the simplest practice to reach the realm of "mortal".
Above mortals, there are six realms: Taoist, sage, true person, supreme person, saint, and immortal. All monks are working towards the goal of becoming immortals.
But not everyone is qualified to practice, and there seems to be some strict requirements. But Sun Li didn't understand what the requirements were.
Sun Li was tortured by the quarrels for two years, and he still didn't understand how to practice.
The only advantage is that when he sees something, if it is something he cherishes, a voice will suddenly appear to remind him.
In the past two years, Sun Li has gone deep into Luomei Mountain from time to time, and occasionally saw some precious herbs. Reminded by those voices, he picked them all and gave them to his father to sell in the market.
It was really a big gain. With this, the Sun family built a new house.
Sun Li's father was extremely proud and often boasted about his son outside.
In addition to herbs, there are also some weird stones, animal horns, animal bones and other things in the mountains. Sometimes when they see the sound, they will tell him their names, effects, etc., but Sun Li can't understand it at all, but he puts it away.
There was no place to sell this thing, so he made a pocket and put it in it, treating it as his own plaything.
No matter how Sun Li's father proudly brags about his son outside, Sun Li is still the young man who was easily ignored by everyone two years ago.
Because in the past two years, another child from Lianhuatai Village has risen like a comet, shining brightly!
He is Tian Yingdong, the son of the village chief.
Tian Yingdong is also fifteen this year and has not yet gotten married, but that is the result of the Tian family rejecting at least twenty marriages.
Tian Yingdong, who was originally stubborn, seemed to have an enlightenment overnight after three huge stone statues landed on the back mountain and mysteriously disappeared two years ago.
I can even remember most of some obscure classics. Master was greatly surprised to be able to train such a disciple, which made Master feel that his life was not in vain!
After that, Tian Yingdong wrote many astonishing works, and gradually emerged in the Luomeishan area where literary style flourished. When scholars talked about young talents, they would rank Tian Yingdong first. Even many scholars in Yuzhou felt that there were more
After two or three years of training, Tian Yingdong has enough strength to win the imperial examination!
What is not known to outsiders is that Tian Yingdong is not only outstanding in literary talent, but also extraordinary in bravery. He can lift a three hundred kilogram stone lock with one hand. Last winter, Tian Yingdong accompanied the county magistrate who came here to walk in the snow in the mountains.
Unexpectedly, he encountered a hungry tiger, and Tian Yingdong actually fought and killed the tiger with his bare hands! This also made the county magistrate's wife secretly admire her.
Tamura Changle couldn't smile from ear to ear. It was inevitable that his son would be both civilized and martial arts, and he would shine brightly. Naturally, he wanted his son to settle down with his studies, and he had to at least wait until his son was in high school to consider getting married. Maybe his son would be the number one scholar in both civil and military arts, and the emperor would grant him a marriage.
Woolen cloth!
With such a radiant Tian Yingdong, Sun Li seemed bleak.
No matter how hard his father tried to brag, Sun Li was still just an ordinary young man in the eyes of others.
Chapter completed!