Time flies, and it has been more than five years since Zhao Shu killed Qianxun Orochi.
In the past few years, Zhao Shui has been staying in Yunyan Peak for retreat, reviewing his past cultivation, sorting out what he has learned and comprehended throughout his life, integrating the essence of various immortal methods, and preparing to ascend to the throne of the Emperor of Heaven in the future.
Although Zhao Shu had never gone down the mountain to experience the world during these days, he still knew all the major events in the world.
Although the Xiong Kingdom destroyed Jiuli and annexed the Southern Territory in a battle five years ago, it also consumed a lot of manpower and material resources. This kind of war to destroy the country cannot be repeated in a short time, and the newly opened territories still need to be carefully rectified. This is absolutely impossible.
It is not a matter of day and night.
Therefore, the Xiong Kingdom has not used troops externally in recent years, focusing on recuperation and recuperation, but other countries cannot be said to be stable.
Dongyang Kingdom and Chiyundu fought frequently, because Dongyang Kingdom borrowed troops and horses from northern Xinjiang with a lot of money and silk, which indeed suppressed several rounds of Chiyundu's offensive, making the battle situation between the two sides anxious, and re-formed a criss-crossing front.
However, the secondment of soldiers and horses from northern Xinjiang cost a lot of money, and the Dongyang court could only increase taxes, which made the already difficult life of the people even worse.
In addition, the soldiers and horses of Northern Xinjiang not only demanded wealth, gold and silver, but also robbed men and women on a large scale. Sometimes before reaching an agreement with the Dongyang Kingdom, some tribes from Northern Xinjiang would directly rush into the countryside on horseback, burning, killing and looting along the way.
Caused public dissatisfaction
As for those tall white velvet people, the ferocious beasts in the snowfield under the command of the shaman were not enough to kill livestock, so they simply started cannibalism, causing many people to suffer unprovoked injuries and even had no way to complain.
Some people who couldn't bear it simply rose up and even raised a banner to respond to Chiyundu.
Zhao Huangguan, who came down from the mountain to join the world, initially went south to seek refuge in Chiyundu, but because his cultivation and magic power were sealed by Zhao Shu, and there was no one to recommend him, he could not meet the three elders of Chiyun at all.
Fortunately, Zhao Huangguan could read and write, and he also had some martial arts skills. He was also a talent that Chi Yundu needed. He was quickly promoted after joining the army and had some meritorious deeds.
When the civil uprisings in various parts of Dongyang raised flags, Zhao Huangguan was sent to the north instead, specifically responsible for contacting these rebels and assisting them in dealing with Dongyang officers and soldiers as a containment.
Nowadays, the Dongyang Kingdom is even worse than the Huaxu Kingdom back then. Xingluo County, located at the foot of Panlong Mountain, is the first to bear the brunt of the Rong and Di soldiers who are marching south in batches, and suffers the most severe plunder. The people of the county and county are helpless.
Either flee and wander, or stay in a stable position, like small islands in the vast ocean.
What is sad is that many people in Xingluo County recall the time when Huaxu Kingdom pacified Chiyundu. Some people think that it would be better to let Chiyundu succeed, and the people might have suffered less.
There are also some people who suddenly miss Zhao Shu, because ordinary people in the countryside do not know what happened to Zhao Shu after the battle at Difei Mountain. Most of them thought that he was dead. Occasionally they heard some rumors and were regarded as Zhao Shu.
After death, his soul remained and came to retaliate against Huaxu Kingdom.
At the place where Zhao Shu once stopped, some people directly set up a memorial tablet, and some people in Yanze City planned to change the City God's Temple to worship Zhao Shu.
The current situation was turbulent, and even people's hearts were in chaos. Zhao Shu, who was at Yunyan Peak, looked at the world with a cold eye, saw all this in his eyes, but did not interfere much. He knew very well that these people enshrined him just to be in the world.
Seek some peace amidst the chaos, even if it’s just a moment of respite.
With Zhao Shu's current level of cultivation, even if he does not deliberately attach spirits to those private private tablets, he can still sense the wishes of all living beings in the world.
As Ruomu said, his past deeds in the world have left traces in people's minds. Although this will change over time, even far beyond Zhao Shu himself, this does not prevent Xinyuan from going there.
But Zhao Shu did not respond to the complaints and lamentations of these people. He killed the demons and gods of the southern land. His intention was to prevent the world from falling into the trap of ghosts and gods.
If you take action on your own, it may seem like you have solved the temporary difficulties, and you can immediately win the support and worship of the people. However, doing so will undoubtedly make the world more deceived by ghosts and gods. In the long run, it will not be conducive to the prosperity of humanity, and it will go against your own wishes.
However, Zhao Shu also understands that the world is in such chaos that asking people to self-reflect and awaken is a fool's errand. Without education, they may become even more depraved.
The avatar who is now staying in Baihua Valley, as the husband-in-law of Miao Suoluo, has officially opened a school. What he teaches is not rituals and magic, but the secrets of the immortal family, but the reading of words and sentences, mathematical etiquette, and by the way, Han Yuan
He would ask for cultivated and selected seedlings from his son and teach him about farming.
Compared with the Eastern Territory, which is still mired in war and chaos, the Southern Territory today appears to be full of vitality and high-spirited.
In addition, Miao Saluo also gave birth to a daughter, but she is still young and her future is still uncertain. Moreover, the custom in Baihua Valley is that the woman is the head of the family, so Zhao Shui will not force too much.
The avatar left in Baihua Valley had no cultivation power. It was used by Zhao Shui to experience ordinary life and experience what it was like to be a husband and a father, so as to enrich the shortcomings of his human nature in the past.
This clone Zhao Shu will not deliberately take it back. When an ordinary person reaches the end of his life, he will naturally die and return to heaven and earth.
At this time, Zhao Xiao was seen sitting on the stone cliff, breathing and whistling. The whistling sound that ordinary people could not hear rippled out, stirring up waves in the sea of clouds and billowing smoke. The clouds and smoke suddenly turned into soaring luan and phoenix, and sometimes turned into dragons circling.
, they can also transform into countless birds and animals, racing around each other, and the scenery of the mountains and forests is also presented.
I have been spitting out and taking in for several days and nights. The stars are moving around, the sun is rising and the moon is setting. The energy is long and deep, as if it has the potential to swallow up the heaven and the earth.
But Zhao Shu seemed to have sensed something, and suddenly stopped doing the exercises, then stood up, bowed to the west, and said at the same time:
"Congratulations, senior, for ascending to the upper realm and achieving immortality!"
These words were sent thousands of miles away, and then the stars in the sky seemed to be affected by the same reaction, and they flickered one after another, as if a group of immortals were nodding towards Zhao Shu.
After a while, the stars in the sky returned to normal. Zhao Shu was silent and turned away from the cliff. Not far away, Lu Wangji, who was in charge of protecting the law, pressed the string and asked: "I vaguely noticed a change in the energy in the distance. Could it be that an expert has ascended?"
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Zhao Miao nodded and said: "Han Yuanzi, the head of Shangjing Sect, has reached a perfect level of cultivation and has taken the initiative to ascend."
Ascension to immortality is the unquestionable highest achievement for mortal monks. No matter how powerful the magic power is, how many killings they have made, or how many achievements they have made in the world, they cannot be compared with ascension to immortality.
Zhao Shui once had the honor to witness Tiegong's ascension. Even though it was guided by the immortal family from the upper world, it still left an indelible impression on Zhao Shui. Among them, the mysterious immortal fate benefited Zhao Shui greatly.
Now that Han Yuanzi has ascended on his own, it can be said to be a great blessing for the Shangjing sect who are watching the ceremony. Just the fact that the path to immortality can be expected is enough to strengthen people's determination to seek the path and eliminate all doubts.
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After all, Zhao Shu was not a member of the Shangjing Sect and could not go to Tiancheng Mountain to observe the ceremony in person. However, he was now at Yunyan Peak and could still sense the changes in the energy of heaven and earth when Han Yuanzi ascended, and paid his respects and congratulations from afar.
"Achieving immortality is ultimately a good thing, especially in today's turbulent situation." Lu Wangji said.
Zhao Shu put his hands behind his hands and looked at the sky: "The Immortal Way is certainly what we want, so that we can be free from all things and not be bound by the world. However, there are very few people who have achieved the Immortal Way in the past and present. The Immortal Way is a way out, it is not, and it is not.
It should be the way out for everyone.”
Lu Wangji, unlike Zhao Shu, didn't have too many complicated thoughts, and then asked: "I saw that you just roared, and you could turn the clouds into various birds and beasts. It seems to be another interpretation of "Qingluan Yin"?"
"Qingluan Yin" is the authentic immortal method of Fengming Valley. In recent years, Lu Wangji has taught it to Zhao Shu without any secret.
However, the Fengming Valley inheritance is to enter Taoism through the qin. Although Zhao Shui has a high level of cultivation, he can be said to have mastered nine out of ten in the way of music - he knows nothing. Even if Lu Wangji personally enlightens him in the past few years, Zhao Shui is only a master.
If you are not familiar with the music of the piano, you really can't tune the piano to soothe your mind and plucking the strings to soothe your mind like Lu Wangji.
But Zhao Shu was particularly good at drawing parallels and understanding the mysteries of magic formulas. He did not stick to the music of the piano, but instead used the sounds of nature and earth, and combined them with the whistling method of persuading qi and moving qi, and created something else.
"A group of northern Xinjiang shamans passed by the foot of the mountain these days. When I was sitting still, I occasionally heard them making various strange noises to communicate with birds and animals. Their breath went in and out of the room, implying the movement of breathing and breathing.
Kung Fu." Zhao Shu sat down and said:
"When I saw this situation, I couldn't help but think that outside the human world, birds and animals use various sounds to communicate with each other. Upon closer inspection, it is indeed somewhat mysterious. Although the use of the northern Xinjiang shaman's techniques is crude, it is not without merits worthy of careful study.
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Shamans in northern Xinjiang are different from those in southern Xinjiang. They do not believe in a specific god. Instead, they believe that everything in the world has spirituality. Mountains, rivers, vegetation, birds and animals, etc., can communicate with people and are related to life, old age, illness, death, misfortunes, etc.
Blessing success or failure.
However, these northern Xinjiang shamans' spiritual sacrifices are also full of crude and even bloody customs. They will even take out the hearts of living people and bleed them before the war begins, in order to pray for the spirit of bear bears to bless the soldiers.
Although Zhao Shu did not like these Northern Xinjiang shamans, he did not intervene. Moreover, when it came to the battlefield, these Northern Xinjiang shamans were often the first targets of the Chiyundu monks, and there were still many casualties in recent years.
It does not exceed the killings of worldly wars.
The reason why Zhao Shu imitated the shaman's channeling method in northern Xinjiang was because Fengming Valley's "Qingluan Yin" had similar magical effects.
According to the legend of Fengming Valley, their ancestors were a pair of Taoist couples, and the man was an ancient harp master. Playing the harp attracted a green luan, and the two of them got to know each other through harp music. Even though they were from different races, they developed a love.
In the end, they achieved enlightenment and ascended together.
However, later Jiang Yingke visited Yunyan Peak again, and Zhao Shui realized that the ancient guqin master was originally a tribe member who was under the protection of the Guishan Fairy Mother, and that Qingluan was simply the messenger in front of the Guishan Fairy Mother's throne.
We have known each other for a long time.
Perhaps Fengming Valley has a long history, and the origin of the sect has changed, so that the legend passed down by future generations is biased.
But it doesn't matter. Zhao Shu said to Lu Wangji: "I changed "Qingluanyin" to Xiaofa precisely because Xiaofa was first created by Guishan Fairy Mother. Ancient books once mentioned that Yaochi Guishan
The fairy mother is good at howling, and the sound is like the sound of the wind stirring up the long forest. Birds hear it, and the clouds flock together to sing. In addition, there is a legend that the fairy mother of Guishan has always commanded hundreds of birds, which is similar to the shaman's channeling of beasts, so I guess that the method of howling is
This is the origin of "Qingluan Yin"."
"I learned before that Fengming Valley is the inheritance of Guishan Fairy Mother, but now that I think about it, I still find it a bit unbelievable." Lu Wangji said.
Fengming Valley is located in the West, and Yaochi Guishan Fairy Mother has long been not only an expert in the fairy family, but also regarded as a deity by the local people. Long before the Tianxia Dynasty, the people of the West would carve stone carvings and sculpture statues in the mountains, almost
They are all built around Guishan Fairy Mother.
It is no exaggeration to think that the Guishan Fairy Mother used one person's power to collect and store the source of the river in ancient times to prevent the downstream from being affected by floods. Such supreme merits have been worshiped and praised by thousands of people for thousands of years.
In addition, in the eyes of immortal cultivators, the Guishan Fairy Mother is almost equal to the ancestor of all immortals.
Because Goddess Yuqing used her body to mend the sky and cut off all burdens, it was not known to the mortal monks. And the Goddess Guishan of the same era naturally received more praise. In addition to the Xiao method, it is said that it was the original method of refining Qi.
It was passed down to the world by Fairy Mother Guishan.
Originally, the Yaochi Kingdom was also a normal human kingdom. It was formed by the generals from the Tianxia Dynasty who came out to control the Western Territory to separate one side. In line with the people's wishes, the country was named Yaochi.
However, King Baixiang usurped the throne. Although he did not change the name of the country like Luo Yi, he committed indiscriminate killings and introduced Rong and Di on a large scale, which made the people of Yaochi miserable. Moreover, various immortal schools were invaded and slaughtered by King Baixiang, causing heavy losses.
Among them, there are some sect inheritances like Fengming Valley that have some connection with Guishan Fairy Mother.
In the past few years, King Baixiang has not shown up as usual, which has caused rumors to spread throughout the Yaochi Kingdom. Various civil changes have continued, and the forces that were intimidated by the force of King Baixiang in the past have also started to stand on their own.
It can be said that today's western soil has been turned into a pot of porridge, and the situation is even more chaotic than that of the eastern soil. However, this just gives the bear country an opportunity to recuperate.
Although Lu Wangji would not insist on revitalizing Fengming Valley, Zhao Shui still planned to leave a line of inheritance in order to express his gratitude to the Guishan Fairy Mother for saving all sentient beings.
"Are you planning to go to Yaochi Country now?" Lu Wangji asked.
"Firstly, I came to inspect the local customs and appreciate the mountains and rivers. Secondly, I came to visit the destined people and teach them the magic of the Immortal Family. Thirdly, I came to prepare for the future battle with the King of Baixiang." After Zhao Mangang finished speaking, his expression changed slightly.
"What happened?" Lu Wangji saw that Zhao Shu was rarely angry.
"This guy actually dares to come to Xingluo County?" Zhao Shu snorted coldly and explained: "Back then, Chiyundu was in Xingluo County to cause trouble. I came here with the army to suppress the bandits and quell the chaos. I once met a chaoyu.
The evil spirit of the walking corpse. It possesses the power of the evil god from outside the world and appears everywhere. Unfortunately, my magic power was limited and I could not destroy it and let it escape."
Originally, Zhao Shu had no intention of intervening in mundane affairs, and there was no need for him to deal with ordinary evil spirits himself. However, when this evil evil of unknown origin appeared in Xingluo County, Zhao Shu immediately felt it, and now it is actually trying to summon corpses again.
The evil god from outside the world who invaded the Qingya Wonderland would be a formidable enemy that Zhao Shui would have to face sooner or later, and his minions left in Kunlun Continent could not be easily indulged.