The sky is getting darker and darker, and the fog seems to be lighter, but in the summer, the cold wind is blowing again.
To be honest, Zhang Xing once wanted to use the compass again, but feeling the pain in his shoulder socket, he could not make up his mind.
"Zhang Sanlang."
Li Ding stopped under a rock and turned to look at each other. "It's going to get dark soon. I'm afraid it's too late tonight. What I mean is that we don't waste our energy... Look, how about we go there?"
Zhang Xing on the mule pointed at the other party, but he was slightly stunned: "Up the mountain?"
"Go up the mountain, go to the main peak of this mountain." Li Ding said sincerely. "Firstly, you won't get lost. Secondly, you see that there is a bare patch of land on the top of the mountain that looks like horse hair, just like a human forehead. Tomorrow morning, you can
I came to inspect the house and found it in no time... I felt that the feng shui here was not right and it was not good to stay there, but I couldn't find a second way out for a while."
"Indeed." Zhang Xing obviously noticed something strange. "The wind is blowing so unseasonably. The mountain should be cleaner and more open."
Having made the decision, the two men and the mule stopped circling at the foot of the mountain and headed straight for the top of the mountain.
Oddly enough, once you turn up the mountain, the road becomes smoother, and you feel like you are making great strides, making a thousand miles, let alone trying to hit the wall.
I really went up the mountain with a huff.
When they reached the protruding white land at the top of the mountain, they saw the big moon hanging high and the small moon crescent. The white light illuminated the ground like snow and frost. The two of them didn't dare to move much, so they tied up their mules here and then stood there.
After getting some dry food and clean water from the mule, and setting up the weapons, Li Ding went to the side to pick up some dead branches, and then spent a lot of effort, cutting them with the knife, lying on the ground and blowing on them.
It was blown out twice by the mountain wind before I could barely light a bonfire.
Zhang Xing just watched the whole process and did not dare to use the Lihuo Qi he had stolen.
The bonfire was lit, they chewed dry food, and drank two sips of ice-cold water from the water bag. The two of them didn't know what to do anymore. The wind was so strong that it was hard to sleep well easily, so they hoped that Bai Yousi would take a look at it.
, flew up to chat with me, and had no choice but to gossip.
Of course, the atmosphere at the beginning was a bit awkward.
"Zhang Sanlang, are you still doubting me?" Li Ding clasped his hands and looked at the moon. "After all, we have known each other for a few days. Although I have made an explanation with you, it has always been difficult to prove my innocence, and after all, I have concealed something."
"It doesn't matter." Zhang Xing was lying there on his side, looking up at the twin moons in the sky, his eyes rolling around in a daze. "I'm not a lord, I belong to the prime minister, and my subordinates must not hide anything...Besides,
You are not one of my subordinates either... As long as you don’t harm anyone else and don’t harm me, it doesn’t matter how many little Jiujiu you hide?”
"You are open-minded, but these days, people as open-minded as you are becoming increasingly rare..."
Li Ding looked at the sky and sighed in response. "I won't say anything about the saint from Ziwei Palace. Go down. The princes of Nanya and the dignitaries of the two capitals. Whenever someone wants to take refuge, they are all eager to ask you to cut out your heart and liver and show them. This
Not to mention, we still need to test you again and again... Even the father-in-laws in Beiya and the great heroes in the world have learned the tricks and will try to pinch you for no reason... But, no one is in trouble.
?Who doesn’t have a bit of stubbornness and ambition? I have my own abilities and I am clean and tidy, so why do I have to dive in like this if I want to get ahead?"
Zhang Xing was bored as he listened.
Otherwise, this kind of vernacular expression of complaints within the system is an outdated language that no one reads on Reddit. Before I come here, I have to provide specific examples to explain the hierarchy, point out the work location, and imply specific leaders and regions.
, only someone would read it. Only Li Ding said it so sincerely that he almost burst into tears. He must have suffered a lot at the hands of those noble people in recent years. Plus, isn’t this the evil feudal era plus theocratic era? The so-called fixed body
Asking... only makes it look a little different.
"We've been talking for a long time." Zhang Xing suddenly joked. "What do you have to hide, Xiao Jiujiu? Give me an example."
It was obviously teasing, but Li Ding glanced over at the bonfire. It was probably due to the environment. It was rare for him to indulge, but he actually nodded:
"Then let me tell Zhang Sanlang something to cheer up... When I was young, like my uncle, I also met Hu Yunjun."
"Huyunjun?" Zhang Xing was stunned for a moment before he finally realized. "Is it the dragon who was wrestling with your uncle?"
"That's right." Li Ding said seriously. "Huyunjun is a very strange real dragon... He was born at the mouth of a large river. There were records very early on, but he was not limited to place or position. The Qing Emperor confirmed his throne.
He was there to help him, and he was also there when Emperor Bai was enthroned. However, for some unknown reason, he never took a canonization tablet to live under a supreme being. Instead, he often interacted with mortals... Suddenly he went to see someone.
An emperor who climbed a mountain suddenly went to drink with mortals, suddenly glanced at the moon in the sky, fell down from exhaustion, and even participated in a mortal conquest that was not touched by the Supreme. It is really puzzling. "
"Why are you talking about this suddenly?" Zhang Xing suddenly asked seriously.
"Because my uncle and I both met Mr. Huyun in the Qinling Mountains." Li Ding pointed to the surroundings and answered casually. "Isn't Funiu Mountain also a small mountain in the huge Qinling Mountains? Seeing the place and thinking about the past."
"Are you trying to say that Hu Yunjun suddenly poked out his head as big as this mountain from the side later and grinned at us?" Zhang Xing responded jokingly, but his face quickly turned pale. "Don't do that.
joke."
"Hu Yunjun's true form is not that big..." Li Ding laughed, but immediately realized. "Is Zhang Sanlang afraid of dragons?"
"Like you, I have seen a real dragon." Zhang Xing replied coldly. "The tiger jumped out of the ground and killed more than ten thousand deserters. How could I not be afraid... I have never told anyone about this.
"
Li Ding was startled for a moment: "Yes, I vaguely remember that night you said that you were on the front line of Luolongtan. Unexpectedly, there is such a hidden secret... But don't worry, Huyunjun and Fenshanjun are not the same."
The thing is, Lord Fenshan is the guardian of the Eastern Territory. He is forced to be a motivator, and he only has eyes for Lord Bihai. Of course he will be dismissive of human life. Moreover, it is too early for this Lord to become a dragon, and his cultivation is actually not enough, while Lord Huyun seems to be early.
After taking off several layers of shackles, the world is free and my temper is completely different."
"Maybe the Xiaoyao sect is the worst." Zhang Xing shook his head repeatedly, but couldn't help but be curious. "What does Mr. Huyun look like?"
"It's just an ordinary white dragon with a snake body, antlers, no wings and four legs. It's only more than ten feet. Otherwise, how could my uncle fight with him after getting drunk... But you must not underestimate him." Li Ding said.
I made a gesture.
"I know, it's like our Zhongcheng is like a little old man, but with just one wave of his hand, someone like Wu Erlang will be slapped away. After a certain level, it would be too disrespectful to use body shape to show others." Zhang Xing immediately expressed his opinion.
The martial arts imagination is explained.
"It's really not like that." Li Ding said with a bitter smile. "I heard my uncle say with my own ears that after reaching the great master, cultivation and body size are symbiotic... You will know who is more powerful if you look at who is bigger, because they
You need a place to store, exercise, and circulate your own vitality of heaven and earth, which is what we call true energy."
Zhang Xing thought for a moment and immediately shook his head: "Nonsense."
"It's not nonsense. I figured it out later." Li Ding continued to laugh. "These true dragons and grand masters are really like this. It's just that their bodies are not necessarily physical bodies for a long time, but specialized ones."
Refers to the 'body' that circulates the true energy... For example, your Zhongcheng's black tower, and another example, the clouds that are often hundreds of miles around Huyunjun... As for the so-called true body of Huyunjun, and the body shape of the Grand Master and the others, they are
They were born as dragons and as humans, they are just that big."
Zhang Xing was suddenly stunned.
This body is basically a conceptual body, a body that can place its own small world; just like the so-called dragon, it is never a dragon with clear characteristics, but a conceptual dragon, a kind of flesh and blood life imbued with
The ultimate form of Qi... Li Snake Lord dyed red in the mountain is obviously more like a big snake in various descriptions, but he is also a real dragon; Fen Shan Lord looks very different, but it is recognized that he is also an ordinary person.
Dragons are the most encountered and common ones; Zhang Xing even saw real dragons that looked unusually like birds in some novels.
In this way, the two chatted for a while. Maybe Li Ding had relaxed a lot, and neither party talked about any serious topics, which made Zhang Xing more knowledgeable.
Just like that, while we were chatting, as the moon went up in the sky, suddenly, a cloud of mist came towards us and quickly enveloped the entire top of the mountain. In the mist, the two could only see each other through the fire.
At a further distance it becomes completely blurry.
This is a common thing in the mountains, but Zhang Xing looked at the fog passing by and remembered his previous words, but he couldn't help it:
"What did Mr. Huyun do when he saw you? Did he ask you to arm-wrestle or drink with him? Can he turn into a human?"
"I don't know if I can transform into a human being, but I guess I can't. As for drinking and arm wrestling, he just said that he learned a new divination technique. It just so happened that I was the descendant of an old friend. It was a rare fate, so he used
He fiddled with the clouds and mist with his paws and made calculations for me." Li Ding recalled this incident with a look of confusion on his face. "Fortunes and fortune-telling should be the specialty of the Qingdi Temple, but that doesn't mean that he, a true dragon god, can't do it.
Let me do the math, but it still feels weird."
"What's the result?"
"He said that I was defeated by a dragon, wasted by a pig, rich by a guest, prospered by a mountain, and stopped by a tide." Li Ding spread his hands in response. "He said it with a pinched voice, and his voice was terrible."
"It's weird to have a dragon make the sound, but it's quite reasonable to be depressed when encountering a dragon." Zhang Xing responded sincerely. "Isn't it just that you fell into depression when you met Hu Yunjun and calculated this hexagram?
Right now?"
"More than that." Li Ding took a long breath and clasped his hands again and replied. "The Holy Emperor's nickname was immediately '彘', which means wild boar... On the day of the expedition to Nanchen, my uncle recommended it to the Holy Emperor who had not yet ascended the throne.
He had no use for me after seeing me once, and from then on, I was basically completely useless... But I didn’t wake up to this truth until seven or eight years after His Majesty ascended the throne."
Zhang Xing also folded his hands and was silent for a long time before saying: "Looking at the best, this means that sooner or later you will be rich, prosperous, and rebound from the bottom."
"Yes, yes, yes." Li Ding nodded. "If it weren't for this, I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to hold on long ago... Do you know? When I was most unlucky two years ago, I asked my younger brother to change his name to Li Ke."
"What's the effect?" Zhang Xing asked curiously.
"Immediately transferred from the official position of the Ministry of War to the Foreign Ministry of the Ministry of War, full-time road construction." Li Ding could only smile bitterly. "This job is actually not bad, but for some reason, I still can't save money... On the contrary, my brother
, after changing the name, we have managed to stay in one state."
Zhang Xing nodded understandingly: "Then just wait until you encounter the mountains and get excited. No wonder you have to go up the mountains."
"If it were just any mountain, I wouldn't be in this situation." Li Ding shook his head repeatedly. "It's you, Zhang Sanlang, it's a long night, how about you tell some interesting stories? When we go down the mountain, we won't mention it anymore.
, feel free to speak."
"There is really an interesting thing." Zhang Xing rubbed his hands and said. "Ever since I got water in my head at Luolongtan, I have often had strange dreams... There are no dragons and supreme beings in the dreams, but there are some specious people and things...
For example, in the dream there was a man named Han Qinbao. When he was young, he went into the mountains and accidentally captured a tiger. He changed his name to Han Qinhu from then on."
Li Ding opened his mouth, but only held his hands and said nothing.
"Han Qinhu has a nephew named Li Jing..." Zhang Xing continued. "He was a late bloomer and eventually became the general marshal of the world's military."
"That's almost it." Li Ding was speechless after hearing this. "Even if it's really reflected, then there's a real dragon, so it's not the same thing. I know you want to comfort me, but Zhang Sanlang, I really don't think so."
"That's right." Zhang Xing also sighed, looking up at the bright moon that was gradually reappearing. "Even the dynasties can't match up... I don't know if there was Han, how about Wei and Jin? And today's emperors don't like digging canals and
Going down to the south of the Yangtze River? After all, without a dragon or a little moon, who would dare to compete?"
When Li Ding heard the other party start to talk nonsense, he just thought it was because the other party didn't want to tell him the truth, and he became bored.
But Zhang Xing didn't know what he touched, and suddenly he was so moved that he held up a water bag with one hand and blurted out:
"When will the bright moon come? Ask the sky for wine.
I wonder what year it is today in the palace in the sky?
I want to ride the wind back home, but I'm afraid it's too cold in the high places.
Dancing clear shadow, like in the world.
Turning to the green mountains, the low clouds illuminate the sky without sleep.
There shouldn't be any hatred, so what's the point of being happy when we say goodbye?
People have joys and sorrows, partings and reunions, and the moon waxes and wanes. This is a difficult thing in ancient times.
Nung, moon and new moon."
Li Ding was dumbfounded as he listened. After a long while, he came to ask: "You used to be the vanguard of the First Army and the Fifth Army, but now you are a patrolling cavalry in a brocade uniform?"
"I was banished to the gods in one day." Zhang Xing turned around and smiled.
Li Ding was stunned in place, not daring to move or speak.
"Just kidding." Zhang Xing finally laughed. "I copied it...with a few words changed."
Li Ding still didn't dare to move: "Who did you copy?"
"Anyway, I didn't do it, it was just a matter of circumstances." Zhang Xing couldn't explain it, but he didn't care about Li Ding's wild thoughts. Copying poems, wouldn't it be a waste of time if he didn't copy them?
What's the difference between this and not rebelling?
Li Ding was doubtful, and tried to straighten up, turned to Zhang Xing, and was about to speak again, but suddenly he froze in place.
"What's wrong?" Zhang Xing, who was lying there, asked in surprise. "Is there a dragon behind me?"
"There is a temple at the back. It's very shabby and very small." Li Ding was a little nervous. "It's true that the moon has shifted, but why didn't either of us notice it at first?"
Zhang Xing turned around in surprise, and sure enough he saw a temple standing crookedly outside the smooth area where he was, next to the top of the mountain, looming under the moonlight.
With a strange mood, Zhang Xing reached out and grasped the compass in his hand, struggled to stand up, and approached. Li Ding quickly pulled out a piece of firewood from the bonfire and used it as a torch to follow.
As I approached, I saw a crooked temple with very small regulations. It looked like it had completely collapsed and it was impossible to enter.
However, the looming Yin-Yang fish under the futon on the ground in front of the temple undoubtedly pointed out the owner of the temple.
Zhang Xing held the compass and instinctively tried to kick the futon away with his feet. Unexpectedly, the futon broke into pieces, and a thread-bound book was placed on top of the yin and yang fish pattern.
What is this?
Regular inspection tasks? If you use the compass several times in a row without dying, will you be given a guaranteed reward?
Zhang Xing did not pick it up, but instead motioned to Li Ding to pick it up. The latter picked up the book and shined a light on the torch, and three big characters "Yi Jin Jing" appeared.
Zhang Xing was stunned, but he had nothing to say that Buddha is the Tao.
"Zhang Sanlang, do you recognize this temple and this book?" Li Ding had already seen the clues.
"I understand." Zhang Xing came back to his senses and chuckled for a moment. "The temple is the temple of an ancient divine monarch... The book, the book is an old book written by this monarch's later disciples to regulate the body and assist in spiritual practice... You first
Take it and read it, and then teach me when you understand it."
Li Ding nodded and put it in his arms without any care. It was a book on body conditioning.
And right next to him, Zhang Xing took the opportunity to look around. Unfortunately, he couldn't find any doubts, but he suddenly realized something absurd and natural. Isn't the main peak of Funiu Mountain Laojun Mountain?
Go to a worldly banquet and eat instant noodles on Laojun Mountain!
"Go to bed early, it should be safe here."
At this thought, Zhang Xing suddenly relaxed and patted Li Ding on the shoulder... Within half a year, he was completely different. "I have to go on my way tomorrow morning."
Li Ding's mind was spinning, but he still nodded and carefully helped Zhang Xing back.
The two of them had their own thoughts and lay down in front of the bonfire. Li Ding didn't say what he was thinking. He only said that Zhang Xing touched the compass in his arms, but he became stubborn again and inexplicably remembered a sentence:
The water is placed on the flat ground and flows east, west, north and south.
If there is a destiny in life, how can we walk and sigh and sit still in sorrow?
PS: Thanks to Mr. An for his silver alliance, Shu is like the third cutest of the 12 masters. He changed the second cutest of the master of the human empire. Master 196, I will move the train station to the master, the little seaweed explosion master, the official family can
I still remember the cuteness of Mr. Chu Long (Deposed Dragon?).
Everyone has a hard working day.
By the way, I may not be able to do it at nine o'clock tomorrow morning. Please allow me to move it to noon.