Chapter 246 Who is the first to realize the big dream
When he woke up the next day, Zhao Shu couldn't wait to run to the entrance of the village, holding a handful of rice in his hand and calling softly, looking for the blue bird.
I saw the bluebird lazily emerging from the treetops, combing its feathers, and singing endlessly towards Zhao Mi.
"Okay, okay, stop yelling." Zhao Shu opened his hands and said, "I know you must be hungry, so I brought you food specially. Come down quickly!"
The blue bird seemed to understand what he was saying. It flapped its wings and landed on Zhao Shu's hand. He lowered his head and pecked a few grains of rice. As expected, he became well-behaved and stopped knocking and pecking at Zhao Shu's face.
"Come, come home with me. Mother has made a nest for you. You won't have to be beaten by wind or rain anymore." Zhao Shu tried to stroke the bluebird gently, but the little guy looked like he didn't like others to get close to him and jumped up.
Lean away.
Zhao Shu felt helpless, so he carefully held the bluebird, took it home and put it in the bird's nest by the window.
Mother was very clever and made a bird's nest out of dead branches and leaves. The bluebird landed on the edge and tilted its head for a few glances, then looked at Zhao Shu.
For some reason, even though this blue bird had no expression at all, Zhao Shu could still feel that it was a little unhappy.
"Okay, you stay home obediently. I'm going to class." Zhao Shu picked up the bamboo basket and was about to go out. The blue bird started making noise again and landed directly on Zhao Shu's head.
"Oh, don't make trouble!" Zhao Shu took it down, but the bluebird refused to let go. In the end, it just held Zhao Shu's hair in its mouth and refused to let go.
"This little guy is targeting you." Mother said with a smile: "Why don't you take it to two teachers and see what they can do?"
Zhao Shu had no choice but to let the blue bird stand on his head. Along the way, his neighbors and the people in the village were amazed when they saw it.
"This bird follows you and won't leave?"
There are two hills outside Huaxu Village, one is called Huaiying Mountain and the other is called Chongxuan Mountain. The two teachers of Zhao Shu lived in cottages at the foot of the mountains.
Zhao Shui came to the foot of Chongxuan Mountain. Teacher Liang looked at the blue bird above Zhao Shui's head with hawk-eye eyebrows and said: "The bird implies the emergence of a flying immortal, and the green color represents the energy of the east. This shows that you have the right to become an immortal."
, an opportunity that will last forever!"
"Really?" Zhao Shu was surprised when he heard this.
"I don't think so." Not far away, Mr. Zhang, a grey-haired teacher, came with his hands behind his back and retorted: "There is a saying in the Immortal Sutra - 'A blue bird comes flying, holding a purple book in its mouth, and gathers it in Yuxuan'; it also says, 'A blue bird holds a purple book in its mouth.
The book is written to inform the five directions and to divide the sky. It can be seen that the blue bird is the messenger of the immortal family, and it is here to deliver the news."
"The blue bird's message is nothing more than an edict from the immortal family, and it is also a sign of the coming of immortality." Teacher Liang said.
Teacher Zhang shook his head and said: "In this world, good and bad fortunes depend on each other. Immortal fate will not happen for no reason. There will definitely be trials that will follow."
Teacher Liang questioned: "You are not an immortal, so why don't you allow others to promote immortality and spread the magic to the world?"
"Not distinguishing between good and bad, spreading and harvesting indiscriminately, at least it will not be useful, at worst, it will be violent and wrong, and it will not abide by the precepts, but it will tarnish the Taoist Taoism." Teacher Zhang's attitude is stubborn: "If you don't clear the turbidity, you will sink.
Sha Tai Zang Bu will only gather greedy and despicable people. If things go on like this, it will cause trouble to the common people and destroy the tranquility of Xuanmen."
"All the magic methods of immortals have always been obtained by looking down and understanding the creation of heaven and earth, so why should we keep it to ourselves?" Teacher Liang said.
Teacher Zhang said: "The lineage of the Immortal family has a long history and has never been cut off. How can we only maintain the principle of cherishing ourselves? If we are just for the sake of promoting the Dharma, regardless of the changes in the world, we will cause many disasters, which will be harmful to others and ourselves."
It is a calamity. This is not the way to immortality in heaven, nor is it the way to peace on earth."
"All sentient beings are sinking into this world, and there are many who are ignorant and confused. They can't understand and understand clearly, so it's up to me to understand for them." Teacher Liang said with a smile: "The top is like a branch, and the people are like wild deer. It seems natural.
In fact, all sentient beings are allowed to kill each other. Only by using great power to quell the chaos can we truly achieve peace and longevity."
"These thoughts together are the source of disaster." Teacher Zhang said.
"Standing alone in peace and quiet may not necessarily lead to true peace." Teacher Liang said.
Zhao Shu felt dazed after hearing this. Sitting next to him, his head fell and fell, his eyelids kept moving closer together as if they were fighting, and he felt sleepy.
"If you are truly pure, you will not be confused when faced with disasters, and you will transform into a human being and live in this world without forcing yourself to do anything."
In the daze, a cold female voice echoed in my mind: "The world has its own ups and downs. Periods of decline and confusion. In prosperous times, it is difficult to suppress celebrations. The heart fluctuates with the situation and is unstable. This is the root of the disease. It is precisely because the world has its own ups and downs, and it is endless.
, How can there be a method that can travel through all the worlds and ten directions? How can a sword be able to level the troubles of ancient and modern times?"
Zhao Shu was in a trance, feeling that the boundless darkness was quickly swallowing up everything inside and outside Huaxu Village. He suddenly woke up with a start.
"What's wrong?" Teacher Liang asked.
Zhao Shu rubbed the corners of his eyes: "I accidentally fell asleep just now. It seemed like I was having a nightmare."
Teacher Zhang asked: "What nightmare?"
Zhao Shu shook his head: "I can't explain clearly. It feels like everyone in Huaxu Village has disappeared, and I am the only one left in the world."
"Don't think nonsense." Teacher Liang handed over a bamboo basket: "Let's go, today we go to Bai'e Cave to mine gold and silver."
Zhao Shu put aside his distracting thoughts, picked up the bamboo basket and went into the mountains with Teacher Liang.
After a day of intensive study, Zhao Shu returned home at dusk. His mother saw that he still had the blue bird on his head and asked, "Didn't the two teachers teach you how to deal with this little guy?"
Only then did Zhao Shu remember this. He took the blue bird off his head and sighed, "The two teachers are busy arguing again."
"What are they arguing about all day long?" Mother brought delicious food to herself.
Zhao Shu shook his head and said: "They are all mysterious words, I can't understand them."
"Forget it if you don't understand." Mother said without any harshness, "By the way, your father..."
Halfway through her words, her mother suddenly stopped motionless, and everything around her seemed to be completely frozen. The blue bird looked left and right, and noticed that Zhao Mi's eyes were moving rapidly, and the surrounding lights and shadows were also flickering and changing.
After a flash of light, the stagnant situation returned to normal. A tall man dressed as a fisherman pushed open the door and entered. He had a very similar appearance to Zhao Shu.
"Have you been waiting for a long time?" Zhao Ziliang held a roast chicken in his hand and said with a smile: "I gave Lao Chu a fish, and he gave me a roast chicken in return. It's still warm."
The whole family sat together, laughing and chatting happily, feeling peaceful and peaceful until night fell, not noticing anything strange at all.
"Don't worry about playing, go to bed early." The mother spread the quilt for Zhao Shu, and Zhao Shu put the bluebird in the bird's nest beside the bed.
"I'm afraid of nightmares." Zhao Shu was suddenly frightened and threw himself into his mother's arms.
"Ah Shu is not afraid." His mother patted Zhao Shu's back gently and softly hummed a song that was both strange and familiar, making him gradually fall into a drowsy state.
"No, I can't sleep." For some reason, Zhao Shu suddenly had this thought: "If I fall asleep, all this will disappear. I can't sleep..."
"How long will you be addicted?"
The cold female voice sounded again, and Zhao Shu felt that everything in front of him was empty, and his mother's warm embrace suddenly disappeared.
Zhao Shu was horrified. He saw the ground in front of him collapse and sink, and everything was swallowed up by the boundless darkness. He instinctively rushed outside the house, and the entire Huaxu Village was crumbling, as if it was about to fall into the abyss.
Zhao Miao was so distraught that he only knew how to run as fast as he could. He fled Huaxu Village without hesitation. In the distance, the two hills of Chongxuan and Huaiying were also swallowed up by darkness. Only the big tree at the entrance of the village was left standing, exuding
Faint light.
Zhao Shu had no way to go, so he could only huddle under the big tree and watch everything around him disappear into the darkness.
"The method of keeping one in the nine palaces that I taught you is the result of careful thinking. It is to preserve my spirit, think of my body, and achieve immortality. It is not for you to make up out of thin air or indulge in illusions."
The sound of Lingxiao came from the other side of the big tree.
Zhao Mi no longer looked like a young man, but became more mature. He turned to the other side of the big tree and saw the Lingxiao sleeping against the tree with loose black hair. He asked in a deep voice: "How many times have you destroyed me?"
Sweet dream?"
"Since it is a dream, there will always be a day when you wake up." Lingxiao said in a cold tone: "Then have you ever thought about how long I allowed you to indulge in the illusion?"
Zhao Miao did not answer, but Lingxiao said: "Ten years have passed, and you still haven't been able to come out. You are addicted to the illusion you have carefully weaved, and you are unwilling to face the world calmly."
"I'm exhausted physically and mentally. Now I'm just a walking corpse." Zhao Shu lowered his head and said.
Lingxiao did not scold him, but remained as cold as ever: "I don't care what you think. But I hope you still remember the matter of Zhenyuan Jade Mansion."
Zhao Mi said nothing, but Lingxiao saw him like this, so she said: "When you persuaded Li Lu Wangji and those otter demons to set a ten-year period for them, wasn't it because you expected that you would suffer a great disaster?"
"I would rather have died in Difei Mountain." Zhao Shu regretted very much: "Because of my delusional thoughts, disasters have spread all over the world, so countless people have died... This kind of sin must be blamed for thousands of deaths!
"
Lingxiao sneered: "Can you make up for your mistakes by dying? You were extremely weak when you attempted to commit suicide in Difei Mountain."
Zhao Mi's lips trembled and he could not speak. Lingxiao continued: "What do you think your mother, Zhang Duanjing and other people close to you will think when they see you abandoning your life? I'm afraid they are mostly disappointed. I didn't expect that you have worked so hard to cultivate you.
He is such a weakling who is afraid of difficulties and has no responsibility."
After hearing this, Zhao Shu knelt down on the ground. He looked blankly at the life tree that represented his own cultivation level. It was much stronger than before.
"Ten years of treasure storage, the fetal breath will bring its own destiny. This is the opportunity that Zhang Duanjing and Liang Tao jointly left to you." Lingxiao said: "Their ambitious plans have failed, but they have gained nothing. If you give up on yourself, I'm afraid
It’s a waste of the work accumulated by our predecessors.”
"What should I do?" Zhao Shu kowtowed to the ground.
"Don't ask me." Lingxiao looked coldly: "That's your path. It's up to you whether you want to go or not, and how you want to go. But before that, you have to wake up from your dream."
…
There was a roar, the cave shook, the stalactites broke, the tall stone door was shattered by the huge force, Hong Shangwu was covered in smoke outside the door, his skin was as hot and red as a cooked shrimp and crab, and his blood steamed towards the body of the semi-immortal body, which transformed,
If it were someone with a slightly lower level of cultivation, I'm afraid they would have been burned to charcoal long ago.
Exhaling a long breath, Hong Shangwu spewed out boiling white mist from the orifices all over his body, like a boiler. Then he took a deep breath and absorbed the clear air that filled this place into his hundreds of meridians.
Qian Shaobai, who was slowly adjusting his breath on the side, watched Hong Shangwu speak so loudly, and couldn't help but feel shocked in his heart. With a body tempered by Xuanmen immortal martial arts, he really couldn't take it lightly. Even wrought iron and fine steel couldn't withstand such violence.
His energy was coming in and out, but Hong Shangwu persisted.
Just now, in order to break the restriction of the stone gate, everyone tried their best, especially Hong Shangwu, who used Wu Ding to open up the mountain and hit the stone gate with hundreds of fists and thousands of palms like a violent storm. Finally, there was a flaw in the restriction defense. After Qian Shao
With Bai's cooperation, he smashed the stone door into pieces in one fell swoop.
Compared with the previous grand and domineering, Qian Shaobai noticed that Hong Shangwu had a slight stagnation in his breathing at this moment. It can be seen that such a technique can also hurt himself.
Qian Shaobai was already secretly thinking about whether to take this opportunity to kill Hong Shangwu directly. This would make the Shiliang Twelve Villages leaderless and immediately fall into chaos, which would be greatly beneficial to the situation of suppressing bandits.
"Okay." Hong Shangwu immediately adjusted the Qi Camera, hiding the slightest flaw, and said to everyone: "The door of the cave has been opened, please follow me in to explore!"
Qian Shaobai sheathed his sword, but he still did not take action after all. Hong Shangwu was a man with deep foundations and was extraordinary. It was really difficult to deal with him alone.
After crossing the rubble on the ground, everyone came to an empty cave. The pearl on the dome glowed, illuminating the cave for dozens of feet. A large number of cabinets were carved out of the surrounding walls, filled with various bottles, boxes, and scriptures.
Scroll. And on the jasper pedestal in the center of the cave room, there is a coffin.
"Coffin?" Hong Shangwu and others were also confused. They originally guessed that there should be someone in retreat in the cave, but they never thought it was a coffin.
"Is there any sect that practices while lying in a coffin?" a casual cultivator asked uneasily.
"Could it be the Corpse Cult?" someone said.
"Nonsense!" Hong Shangwu was the first to retort: "The Ji Corpse Sect's coffin refining method requires finding a place where Yin Qi is extremely strong. The Qi here is abundant, pure and unmixed, and the evil cultivators of the Ji Corpse Sect come here to practice.
It’s only half the result with half the effort!”
"Then what should we do now?" A casual cultivator suggested: "How about we finish searching the things and leave?"
Hong Shangwu said with a ferocious smile: "It's just a coffin. Maybe the people inside have died long ago. Even if you turn into a flying zombie, if you have succeeded in cultivation, are you still afraid of the failure of these things?"
"I'm not afraid, of course I'm not afraid!" The others encouraged each other.
Hong Shangwu was about to step forward to open the coffin when he suddenly stopped and turned to Qian Shaobai and said, "Fellow Taoist Qian, why don't you open the coffin?"
"For such a grand event, Qian doesn't have to do anything for you." Qian Shaobai sneered.
"The magic method of Shangjing Sanguang is the best to restrain all evil spirits and ghosts." Hong Shangwu smiled with murderous intent: "Fellow Daoist Qian, am I right?"
Qian Shaobai didn't expect that he would be seen through. He thought that when he secretly used the Hongying Pearl, he revealed his cultivation skills. After all, the Shangjing Sect had a good reputation, and there were some things that simply couldn't be concealed.
"Master Hong is joking. I'm here to open the coffin. Please retreat for a moment." Qian Shaobai had no choice but to come to the coffin. At the same time, he was careful to watch out for Hong Shangwu and quickly thought about how to break out of the encirclement.
When the situation was about to break out, the coffin lid suddenly opened on its own. Zhao Shui sat up, saw a group of unfamiliar faces, and asked blankly: "Who are you?"