Without the gathering of crowds and the protection of city walls and houses, the wind in the countryside is much stronger.
The snow has not yet melted, and there is no one to clean it. Many places are frozen and hard, and you will slip if you are not careful when walking on it.
In the biting cold wind, a white robe fluttered around, occasionally picking up the transparent threads filled with blood.
The crunching sounds continued one after another.
It was a group of people stepping on the snow at the same time, constantly moving forward.
Their eyes were closed and their faces were smiling.
Oblivious to the howling cold wind around me and the thick snow under my feet, it was like I was having a sweet dream that I didn't want to wake up from.
Whoosh!
From time to time, a piece of human skin floats high.
Then it disappeared in the fluctuating transparent ripples, turning into fragments flying all over the sky and blending into the black soil and white snow.
There was a crisp click sound.
A dead branch hidden under the snow was broken into two pieces.
At this moment, the white-robed figure surrounded by people stopped.
She turned around slowly and looked at a group of shadows against the snow in the distance.
It's like a giant beast that has fallen into slumber, lying there quietly, letting the wind and snow blow, without moving.
"We will soon arrive at Qizhou Fucheng."
After being silent for a long time, Luo Qingjun sighed lowly, his voice was calm and soft, but it was still as cold as before.
The next moment, a gentle man's voice sounded quietly, "This is the Acropolis to the north of Fucheng. It is about less than a hundred miles away from Fucheng."
"Senior Gui lived in Qizhou for several years. Now that he has returned to his hometown, do you have any special feelings?"
"Qizhou is a sad place for me."
Gui Shufang seemed to be lost in memories, "At first I thought that this place was far away from the capital of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and with the Red Lotus envoys of the Green Lotus Sect taking care of it, it should be relatively safe anyway.
At least it allows me to calm down and advance my research on the mysterious silk threads to a new stage.
Unfortunately, it didn’t take long before the imperial court and the religious sect joined forces to attack. Their response was swift and powerful, completely beyond my imagination.”
Speaking of this, Gui Shufang paused, and when he spoke again, he was still full of emotion.
"Tianji Mansion Dong He, Patrol Director Qiong Mang, Supervisory Officer Li Xing, and Xuanwu Dao Feng Wei, these four people joined forces to act together, plus Luo Daozi and the elder of Lingming Mountain, they really gave me Guishu face.
Fortunately, Yuan Dao Ning Xuanzhen didn't go down the mountain at that time. If he had been added to the group, I would have been directly crushed and killed, so there wouldn't be a series of subsequent struggles for survival."
Luo Qingjun smiled lightly and said, "We did send a message to Dao Master Ning, but he didn't respond.
Of course, for those who organized and planned this matter, Luoshui is close to Qinglin Mountain, so it is unreasonable not to inform them, but informing Ning Xuanzhen that he will not come is exactly what they want."
"It is understandable that the mysterious threads that can carry mysterious thoughts and entrust true spirits naturally have as few people as possible sharing this secret."
Luo Qingjun suddenly changed the topic, "Senior Gui, haven't you ever thought that the Red Lotus Envoy has been lurking in the imperial court for so many years without being exposed, and even reached the position of Qizhou Jiedu Envoy smoothly along the way.
He is considered to be the most successful high-level person cultivated by the demon sect, but in the end he failed and ended up in a miserable end?"
"I thought about it, but didn't think about it carefully. It's nothing more than Qinglian's split and internal fighting, plus someone wants to target me.
After all, since things have already happened, it doesn’t make much sense to pursue them anymore. People’s energy is very limited when they are alive, and even more so when they are dead. There is no need to put too much energy on this.”
Luo Qingjun frowned slightly, "Senior Gui said he was dead, but I think you are alive and well.
Not only here, junior, but also in other places, but your shadow remains in all of them."
"It is an undoubted fact that Gui Shufang died by the Luoshui River.
The others, whether it is me or us scattered everywhere, are just part of his true spirit.
You can never go back to the past, and you can’t be the real Uncle Wei."
Luo Qingjun said, "But the feeling that Senior Gui gave me is no different from before.
Even Youshengzhi brought tremendous pressure to me."
Gui Shufang gave a rare sigh, "The Place of Rebirth is a good place, and the four green, red, and purple lotus terraces are also good things. When you go there and see them, you will know that what I said is true."
"I also hope this day can come soon."
Luo Qingjun nodded, and an inexplicable smile appeared on the right half of his face, "Since discovering the existence of Senior Gui, this seems to be the first time we have communicated calmly."
She sighed secretly, but the smile on her face grew stronger, "Perhaps this is also the last time. After all, the senior will disappear soon and will no longer be able to leave a single trace in the world."
"I have worshiped in Dingxuan Mountain since I was a child, and I have gradually risen from being an outer disciple to the position of leader of Dingxuan Sect. Over the years, I have met many amazing and talented people, but if I want to say who has the highest spirit, it is none other than Senior Gui. Genus.
If you say that you want to be the king of the Northern Wilderness, maybe the juniors will seriously think about what senior Gui should do to take over the golden tent and become the new king.
But what the senior thought was completely beyond my expectation, and what he was looking at was Brahma's rebirth in heaven, which is really so whimsical that it's breathtaking."
"The Ming Dynasty will destroy people's desires. The lord of the Northern Wilderness, the virtuous will live in it. The senior's words are indeed very domineering, but unfortunately, he can't recognize himself. He treats himself too much as a dish, but he doesn't know that he is just an ant."
"Master Luo, don't overestimate Beihuang Brahma, and don't underestimate the person who is the head of all spirits, especially our true spirits. It is not impossible to pull off a thousand pounds and accomplish great things that seem to defy the heavens.
To take a step back, no matter whether I succeed or fail, it is something worth looking forward to for you, isn't it?"
Luo Qingjun's smile faded and his tone turned cold, "Every time comes, heaven and earth all work together to transport heroes without freedom. Senior Gui's situation at this moment is completely different from when he first entered the land of the afterlife.
Only by knowing the heaven and the earth, and knowing yourself and the enemy, can you survive for a long time. After the battle on the Luoshui River, you were already crazy, and now it is just the last madness before destruction."
The voice fell, and strange threads surged.
In an instant, dozens of human skins flew up at the same time.
It was shattered by the rippling transparent ripples and disappeared into the vast night.
Without the drag of the crowd and absorbing all the essence of flesh and blood, Luo Qingjun stood up and moved forward again.
The cold wind howled and blew towards my face.
Although life was cut off and the harsh winter was everywhere, Luo Qingjun's body was full of vitality and vitality, making her become more and more ethereal and light, and she walked on the snow without leaving a trace.
Like a ghost, looming in the depths of darkness.
Not long after, she stopped on the outskirts of the Acropolis, quietly watching the smoke rising from the city from time to time, with a slightly nostalgic expression on her face.
"Counting the days, the New Year is almost here again."
Gui Shufang's voice slowly sounded, "Seeing the fireworks in the small town, I couldn't help but recall that when I was a child, what I looked forward to most was the New Year. I would have meat to eat, new clothes to wear, and a few copper coins as lucky money to buy on the street.
A gadget that I have long admired."
"Do you really not regret it?" Luo Qingjun asked.
"Master Luo has been trying to mess up my mood, but it actually makes no sense.
Because I have never regretted it. Compared with the bliss of ignorance, I still prefer this overriding situation."
"I think you are crazy."
"If you don't go crazy, you won't survive." Gui Shufang sighed, "Headmaster Luo, you don't have to blame me. You are showing your murderous intent right now. I don't know how many people will be left alive in this acropolis after tonight."
Luo Qingjun did not speak again, but turned his head and looked into the distance.
"I actually sensed Ning Xuan's real presence, and he was approaching quickly."
She was a little surprised, "And through the spiritual power of Brahma, I inexplicably sensed his energy."
"What are you going to do, Master Luo? Do you want to have a fight with Master Ning?"
"I only have one purpose for going south this time, and that is to kill the person surrounded by Brahma's evil intentions, and then retrieve the blood lotus from him. Everything else is not in the plan. If I can do it without causing unnecessary problems, I will not cause unnecessary problems.
Not to mention fighting for a chance of survival with a great master of Yang Yang."
Luo Qingjun sighed lowly, and his energy suddenly converged like wood and stone, completely cutting off the connection with Brahma's spiritual mind.
The next moment, she took a step forward and disappeared quietly.
When she reappeared, she was already in the city, in the busy streets and alleys. She even held a child with a runny nose in her hand, no different from other housewives who had been burnt by smoke.
The sun sets quickly and night falls quietly.
The Qizhou Acropolis is brightly lit.
Most people had just finished dinner and it was not time to go to bed, so they gathered with their familiar neighbors and friends to chat and kill the boring time on winter nights.
A crescent moon poked its head out from between the clouds, covering the earth with a layer of white gauze.
On the top of the tower, light mist was surging, and even though the north wind howled, it could not be disturbed and blown away.
In the mist, a thin figure loomed, silently staring at the city below, as if it had merged with the stone wall and turned into a human sculpture.
…………
………………
The moonlight is like water, and the night wind is cold and cool.
Li Kun quickly arrived with people and took the bodies of the two Northern Wilderness warriors away from Green Bamboo Garden for disposal.
Immediately afterwards, the entire Qingfeng Temple started to move.
Everyone is on alert and ready to deal with possible sneak attacks again.
Wei Tao had already entered the practice room.
As he said, time is precious and cannot afford to be wasted at all.
The status bar quietly appears in front of you.
Wei Tao stared at the illusory interface in front of him, looking at the exercises one by one, and fell into silent thinking.
Fifteen gold coins is a lot less, but it's not much if you really need to use it.
Therefore, you must carefully plan and deduce how to use it to maximize your strength.
"There is no room for improvement in the Emperor's Seal."
"After using the Vajra Secret Technique to break through the Grand Master, there is currently no clue of the follow-up yin and yang becoming one and becoming chaotic and formless."
"My sect's Guiyuan Gong... let's forget it. I haven't had the fate to do it yet, so I can't force it."
After thinking for a long time, Wei Tao finally set his sights on Xuanwu Zhenjie Qisu Chapter.
Name: Qisu Chapter.
Progress: one hundred and forty.
Status: Breaking the limit of four levels.
Realm: five constellations combined attack.
Description: Mutually confirmed with other exercises, this exercise has undergone changes and improvements.
Quietly, a gold coin disappeared.
The mysterious aura begins to pour into the body.
Time passes little by little.
I don’t know how long it took, but the tide of mystery gradually stopped.
Dramatic changes followed.
Wei Tao had no expression on his face as he felt a main orifice explode in his body.
"It turns out that this main orifice corresponds to the camp in Qisu."
"After reaching the level of breaking the limit of the fifth stage, the room of Qisu will break through the barrier and can resonate with the other five places to attack together."
He slowly exhaled a hot breath, and his body expanded rapidly. The black and red breath surged, covering up the dark golden light inside.
Qi and blood surged, and the scarlet silk threads twisted and grew wildly.
Together with the complicated blood network, it constantly spreads through the body.
After a while, all changes tend to stop.
Wei Tao took a short rest and started the second improvement again.
In an instant, a more powerful mysterious aura poured into the body, causing even more drastic changes than before.
Time passed little by little.
Finally, everything calmed down.
In the status bar, the description of the Qisu Chapter has also reached its climax.
Name: Qisu Chapter.
Progress: one hundred and sixty.
Status: The final stage of breaking the limit.
Realm: Qixu combined attack.
Description: Mutually confirmed with other exercises, this exercise has undergone changes and improvements.
Wei Tao stood up from his cross-sitting position, held his hands empty, with his fingers slightly spread, and his palms slightly raised. He assumed the starting position of the Yuantai Fist Seal.
Boom!
A soft sound like a heartbeat, mixed with rumbling thunder, quietly rang out in the dark and silent practice room.
He was in harmony with his mind, and his body moved with his thoughts, slowly walking in circles in the practice room.
The pounding heartbeat and the rumbling thunder merged together, eventually blending into the humming rhythm of an ancient temple morning bell.
As the first arc was completed, Wei Tao accurately landed his feet on the starting point.
In an instant, the ink lotus bloomed quietly, and the image of a turtle and a snake intertwined appeared.
Then an illusory figure with a black body appeared, standing on a black turtle and surrounded by snakes, located in the middle of the ink-colored lotus platform.
Wei Tao's spirit and will reached its peak, and scarlet silk threads emerged from his body at this moment.
The silk threads were woven into a net, and the artistic conception of red thread fists and mountain legs loomed inside, slowly covering the entire virtual image.
After a dozen breaths.
Suddenly, the threads were scattered, the artistic conception disappeared, and the practice room returned to darkness and silence.
"It's still a little bit off, but it's not a big problem. If you try it a few more times, you can successfully integrate these two techniques into the Yuantai Fist Seal.
After all, Red Line Boxing and Mountain Crossing Kick are both my starting skills. I have practiced them countless times since I started practicing. I also experienced the enlightenment experience of Taixuan Abyss. I have already memorized the artistic conception in my mind, and I can pick it up easily.
The realm of coming.”
"Unfortunately, it doesn't mean much if it succeeds. After so many attempts, it can be predicted that after integrating the red thread through the mountain, the improvement of the Yuan Tai Fist Seal will not be said to be close to nothing, but it will be very small.
Therefore, the previously conceived idea of practicing hundreds and eighty kinds of heretical exercises and then integrating them all does not have much implementation value."
Wei Tao slowly opened his eyes, reviewing the previous practice over and over again in his mind, and sighed secretly after a moment.
Although he was slightly disappointed with this situation, it was still expected.
The upper limit of the Red Line Fist and Mountain Kick is right there. It is not at the same level as Xuanwu True Solution and Diamond Secret Technique. To be honest, a little improvement is considered a good result, but you can't expect too much.
Next, Wei Tao turned his attention to the status bar again.
There are thirteen gold coins left.
Then how to use it later becomes a difficult problem that requires judgment and choice.
Thirteen gold coins are simply not enough to allocate the Turtle Snake Crossing, which has broken the fifty-level limit, the Rengui Chapter, which has broken the one-level limit, and the Ming Dynasty Chapter, which has just reached 30% progress.
Wei Tao sat cross-legged and thought for a long time.
Various deductions are going on in my mind.
Finally, he made up his mind.
The circulation of qi and blood in the body is the foundation of strength and strength. It is also closely related to the Moon Washing Picture Record, so it is obvious how to choose.
A gold coin disappeared silently.
The status bar blurred for a while, and a mysterious atmosphere began to be injected.
Dramatic changes followed.
Then the second one, the third one, the fourth one...
Until the ninth gold coin is put in.
In the status bar, Xuanwu Zhenjie Turtle and Snake Chapter has reached a new node.
Name: turtle and snake crossing each other.
Progress: six hundred and ninety.
Status: Breaking the limit of fifty-nine paragraphs.
Description: Turtle and Snake intersect Yuanshou, Beigong Xuanwu Yisheng.
"Whether to consume the gold coins in the status bar to increase the progress of the practice of Xuanwu True Interpretation of Turtles and Snakes."
Looking at the line of handwriting that appeared in front of him again, and feeling the blood network in his body becoming increasingly complex and unspeakable, Wei Tao couldn't help but feel emotional, and at the same time he also aroused strong curiosity.
I want to know if there will be any new changes after reaching the 60th level.
And this time the handwriting also does not indicate that one gold coin is consumed, which means that if you want to upgrade to the 60th level, it will be at least the same as when you broke through the 50th level. You will start with at least two gold coins, and there may even be more.
However, he still has four gold coins left, so he doesn't need to worry about this problem.
Without much hesitation, he directly chose yes.
Whoosh!
The status bar suddenly blurred, followed by three soft beeps.
The number of gold coins decreased by three in an instant.
The next moment, a mysterious aura suddenly arrived.
Flowing into the body like a tide.
"This feeling……"
Wei Tao narrowed his eyes suddenly and almost cried out in pain at this moment.
However, he couldn't shout out after all.
Because just when the change started, an unprecedented mysterious spiritual intention came at the same time, making him involuntarily immersed in it, and even forgot about the unbearable pain in the circulation of Qi and blood.
In Wei Tao's perception, he seemed to be rising higher and higher, and would soon touch the ceiling of the practice room.
But unexpectedly, the solid and heavy roof did not hinder him in any way.
He passed right through it and continued to climb.
Everything below him was blurry, and even the starry sky above his head that should have been there became hazy.
At this moment, Wei Tao saw a stone wall.
Appeared without warning, standing strangely above our heads.
It occupied almost all of his field of vision.
The black wall surface is also engraved with complex patterns, giving people an ancient and distant feeling.
Looking carefully, some of the lines even gave Wei Tao an inexplicably familiar feeling.
In addition, he also faintly smelled a faint smell of death, which was escaping from this wall.
It was as if it were a corpse, floating in the dark depths, slowly decaying.
"This patch of lines seems to be somewhat similar to the blood network in my body."
Wei Tao's thoughts moved slightly, and suddenly there was another flower in front of his eyes.
His field of vision expanded rapidly at this moment, and he didn't know whether it was the black stone wall covering his head that was getting smaller, or whether his body was growing endlessly.
Finally, he saw its entirety, and his mind was suddenly shaken.
It was like a spark falling into a frying pan, instantly causing a fire that could explode all spiritual consciousness.
boom!
In just a short moment, everything disappeared into nothingness.
Wei Tao opened his eyes at this moment and found that he was still sitting cross-legged in the practice room, with the roof above his head not moving at all.
It seems as if the encounter that just came without warning and went away quietly is just a dream.
Now that I have woken up from the dream, everything is back to where it started.
All I was left with was a splitting headache, as if my skull had been split open and something had penetrated deeply and kept stirring.
There was also an inexplicable depression in Wei Tao's heart.
He couldn't help but spit out a mouthful of blood, and his expression looked a little confused.
"The wall that blocked my perception just now turned out to be an ink-colored turtle shell."
"The last thing I saw in the blink of an eye, if I hadn't been dazzled, should have been a black turtle cultivating a snake, and it was also a turtle-snake intertwining with a strong aura of death."
Wei Tao slowly adjusted his breathing and calmed down his somewhat chaotic thoughts.
In the status bar, there is only one gold coin left.
As for the interface of Turtle and Snake, there have also been new changes.
Name: turtle and snake crossing each other.
Progress: 700 percent.
Status: Breaking the limit of 60 paragraphs.
Description: Turtle and Snake intersect Yuanshou, Beigong Xuanwu Yisheng.
Wei Tao stared at the last line of description with some trance. After a moment of silence, he suddenly sighed, "According to the scene I saw, the body of the black turtle repairing the snake stinks. Where did the theory of longevity come from?"
He stood up slowly and once again performed the Yuantai Fist Seal.
The spirit and will are concentrated in one place, the true energy and blood circulate spontaneously, and a virtual image gradually appears behind him.
But at the next moment, the virtual image that had not yet fully appeared disappeared.
Wei Tao stood there motionless, with his eyes half open and half closed, and his brows slightly wrinkled, as if there was something unsolved lingering in his heart.
After taking a few breaths, he lit the lights embedded on the walls of the practice room, took out the crystal-clear hairpin, and drew a line on his arm with force.
The skin automatically appeared with a dark golden color, blocking the sharp tip of the hairpin.
He had to deliberately restrain his energy and relax his body before he opened a thin wound on his forearm and watched as a wisp of blood seeped out and dripped down his fingertips.
Under the bright light, the blood beads lingered on the floor of the practice room, and there was a faint hint of dark gold light inside.
Wei Tao picked up a blood drop and placed it in front of his eyes to observe carefully.
You can even feel a slight sense of oppression from it.
"This strange feeling has never happened before. Is it a new change brought about by breaking through the turtle-snake cross to sixty levels?"
"I have also reached the limit-breaking stage in the Rengui Chapter and Qisu Chapter. The Qisu Chapter has even reached the final stage, but it is far less intense than the changes brought about by breaking the limit in the Turtle and Snake Chapter.
As for the Ming Fei Chapter, I haven’t gone deeper into practice and improvement, so I don’t know yet how effective it is, but according to the annotations written by Master Xuanwu, it seems that it can’t reach the height of a turtle and a snake crossing each other.”
"So, in the entire Xuanwu True Interpretation, the most basic one, which can even be said to be the cross between turtles and snakes in the bad street, may be the most important one to me.
As the saying goes, if the foundation is not strong, the earth will shake; if the foundation is not laid well, the wind will blow down the tall buildings. But now I have dug the foundation a little too deep, and if I step on it, I will probably throw the person to pieces.
"
Wei Tao calmed down his thoughts and his expression was calm and peaceful.
He cleaned up the floor and slowly pushed open the heavy iron door of the practice room.
It was dawn at this time, and the eastern sky lit up with a piece of fish belly white and a touch of gold, as if it was about to break through the clouds.
Wei Tao took a deep breath of the cold and fresh air and was about to walk out of the yard when he suddenly remembered that there was still a gold coin left in the status bar, so he immediately returned to the practice room and closed the door heavily.
It wasn't until half an hour later that the status bar was exhausted again.
After the Xuanwu Zhenjie Rengui chapter was upgraded to the 120th level, breaking the limit of the second level, he walked out of the Green Bamboo Garden where he had stayed all night, and slowly walked outside.
"I saw the ladyboy, and the ladyboy saw me."
"That person is coming from north to south, and his next stop should be Qizhou Fucheng."
Wei Tao climbed up the stone slope outside Qingfeng Temple and looked northward.
Li Kun came nearby, "Breakfast is ready. If Daozi wants to enjoy the scenery, I will ask them to bring the food."
Just as Wei Tao was about to speak, his eyebrows suddenly jumped.
He slowly turned around and faced south.
A great sun rose slowly at this moment, spreading its light to the earth.
The surface of the Luoshui River is sparkling, and from a distance it looks like a long and narrow mirror, perfectly embedded in the center of the black earth and white snow.
In Wei Tao's eyes, the scene he had seen so many times seemed to have changed at this moment, turning into a fresh and pleasant beautiful picture.
The sun is rising and the water is rippling.
There are green lotuses blooming among them, and a small boat with leaves is swimming upstream.
Wei Tao gently exhaled a breath of turbid air, looking at the boat traveling in the Luoshui River in a daze, as well as the illusory green lotus that appeared quietly on the water and then disappeared silently. He had an inexplicable feeling of time and space being confused.
It seems that this is not the snowy and cold Qizhou in the north, but a southern water town with a mild climate and beautiful scenery.
Even the morning breeze blowing over the stone hills seems to have turned into a vibrant and intoxicating spring breeze.
And all of this comes from the people on the ship.
A man in a green shirt stood quietly on the bow of the boat, crossing without an oar, with a leisurely posture and an indifferent expression.
He also slowly turned his head at this time, his gaze penetrated the void and landed on the stone slope outside the Qingfeng Temple Gate.
The two people's eyes collided head-on, and immediately intertwined, almost indistinguishable from each other.
"Daozi?" Li Kun instinctively felt the solemn atmosphere, but did not discover where the source came from.
Wei Tao lowered his eyes, with an inexplicable strange expression on his face, "I haven't figured out how to find that demon yet, but I ended up meeting one."