"When I found this Qingtong forest today, I seemed to see some figure in the clouds and mist. I don't know if I saw the miasma flowing in the clouds wrongly, or I was dazzled by the miasma." Yanzi said, turning his two dark eyes left and right.
, more uncertain, “I can’t see clearly either.”
"Like a magical bird?"
"It shouldn't...not be like that."
"That's it."
Song You sat cross-legged on the felt, raised his eyes and looked into the distance, and then said: "This place has a strong aura and a mysterious aura, and no one comes to disturb it. It is normal for a living being to attain enlightenment and become a spirit."
As he spoke, he glanced at Yanzi and knew that the monster he saw was probably not some little monster.
"It's normal even if there is a big demon."
"yes……"
The swallow stopped talking and looked up into the distance.
It was getting dark now.
According to his own personality and habits, Yanzi chose the tallest tree that did not block his sight, stood on the branches, curled up his neck, and looked at the Qingtong forest in the distance.
The calico cat squatted next to the Taoist and stared at the huge forest.
Just looking at it, she squinted her eyes, yawned, and turned to look at the Taoist:
"Taoist priest……"
"What's wrong?"
"How long are we going to wait here?"
"Let's wait a few days." The Taoist replied in a low voice, "I heard that the sacred bird chooses trees to roost in, and the phoenix likes to land on the tallest trees. Let's sleep here for one night. Tomorrow is the winter solstice. After we wake up, we will go to the middle
Go to the tallest tree and have a look."
"Will it be in those woods?"
"Just going to see it."
"Can't you wait for the divine bird?"
"It doesn't matter."
"oh……"
The cat stopped talking and sat obediently, raising a paw in front of her face and licking it. Although she was a little sleepy, seeing that the Taoist was not sleeping, she was not sleeping either.
Taoists sit cross-legged and close their eyes to feel the aura of heaven and earth.
The aura of this place is rich and mysterious.
I don’t know whether it was something unusual that caused the giant green tung tree and the sacred bird to roost, or it was the giant green tung tree and the sacred bird roosting that made it unusual. Song You couldn’t sense it for a while. He could only find it in the underworld.
I communicated with the aura of heaven and earth in this place, and I knew that the Qingtong tree might be even older than I thought.
The universe is vast and endless.
In these long years, whether it is gods, demons, Fulong Temple, or human civilization, as long as it relies on this heaven and earth to exist, it is only a short moment.
It's just that in this mysterious and long aura of heaven and earth, for some reason, there is a little miscellaneous color mixed in.
The heaven and the earth don’t know how many thousands of years have passed, and the Qingtong forest has also been there for many years. In the aura accumulated by time, this variegated color is almost imperceptible for a moment. This Qingtong forest is vast and boundless, perhaps compared to the ones I have walked through before.
The grassland is not small, and in this boundless sea-like aura, this variegated color is just a tiny bit that is almost invisible.
If Song You was not practicing the four-season method, and it is not the winter solstice now, it would probably be difficult to detect it.
It's not that there's a strange motley here, it's that there's only a motley strange here.
Although the world is huge, how many places have no demons and ghosts been born? How many places have not been set foot by human monks? If the mountains and rivers are beautiful and the spiritual charm is mysterious, powerful demons will be attracted to it as their lair or powerful human monks will be there.
This secluded practice is also normal. After living for a long time, it becomes a powerful existence. It becomes a part of the landscape, and the aura of the landscape is naturally integrated into the aura of the landscape. The aura of the landscape is no longer pure.
There's just a hint of color here.
It proves that for many years, except for this one, no powerful demon has been entrenched here, and no powerful person has come to live in seclusion here.
But I don't know if it was caused by the magical bird.
Song You had no intention of caring about this at the moment——
The sadness inside was obviously getting stronger.
There was even some palpitations.
Song You could vaguely guess why this was happening. It made him feel very tired. He felt like he didn't want to do anything or think about anything, and his brows became more and more wrinkled.
The night is getting darker.
At some point, the night wind came and blew away the miasma of clouds and mist that filled the mountains.
Above the head is a full moon, as big as a jade plate.
The bright moon casts its bright moonlight, and the whole night sky seems to have been washed. The mountains in the distance show clear shadows. Tall green paulownia trees grow in the distance, higher than the mountains, like giant pillars of the sky.
If you look up along the straight trunk, you can see the branches and leaves on the top, which are almost in the shape of a round nest.
Most are hundreds of feet tall.
These green tung trees, which are more than a hundred feet high, are surprising enough, but in the distance, there is actually a giant tree comparable to a mountain, soaring straight into the sky, perhaps hundreds of feet high.
It is still not the type with lush branches and leaves, most of the lower part has no branches, it is a bare straight trunk, only the upper part has branches and leaves, like a small nest, containing tonight's full moon.
Song You frowned and was stunned again.
If it weren't for the wind blowing and the clouds blowing, and the night was clear and cloudless, we would never be able to see its true appearance.
Even if the weather is cloudy, it should be in the clouds.
It's really like a scene from ancient mythology.
Suddenly there was a cry from beside me.
"gentlemen!"
It's the voice of Yan'er.
Song You followed the sound and turned to look at him. There was only a small dot on the tree in the dark night and he couldn't see clearly. However, he could hear the sound of wind coming from behind, like the sound of birds flying across the night sky.
Song You suddenly turned his head.
A big bird flew over.
But it's not a phoenix, nor a magical bird, but a myna that almost blends into the night sky.
Fortunately, the moonlight is like silver.
Myna did not fly close, but stopped on a tree, holding a letter in his mouth. He glanced at the swallow next to him, then looked at the cat sitting below, and finally turned his eyes to stare at the Taoist on the blanket.
The Taoist also looked at him, his eyes blank.
Both sides looked at each other, but no one said anything.
It seemed that neither of them knew how to speak first, and it seemed that there was no need to say anything more. Both parties just needed to make eye contact to understand.
"Puff puff..."
After looking at each other for a moment, the myna took the lead and flew over with its wings flapping, making a flapping sound.
This starling is much larger than the ordinary starling.
The Taoist stretched out his hand and put it on the head of the cat next to him, not only to reassure her not to be nervous, but also to use her to comfort himself.
Bage hovered in front of the Taoist, holding the letter in his mouth.
The Taoist was silent for a moment before reaching out to take it.
"Thank you, Master Dao."
"Plop..."
Myna flapped his wings and returned to the tree without saying a word. He just watched the Taoist sitting cross-legged on the ground, seemingly calmly opening the envelope and taking out the letter.
At the same time, the cat sensed his emotions and turned to stare at him. Seeing that he wanted to read the letter, it immediately transformed into a human form, took the lantern from the horse, blew in, and the lantern lit up.
Then he stood in front of him and held up a lantern to illuminate him.
The moonlight was so bright that you could actually read the words on the letter clearly without a lantern, you just had to get closer.
With the help of lights, it becomes much easier.
The warm yellow light shines on the yellow and white paper, the handwriting is wild, and the Taoist reads line by line.
The myna stood on the tree nearby, staring at him and the little girl who illuminated him without saying a word. Her eyes flickered and she remembered something, and she remained silent.
Time passed little by little.
The Taoist finished reading the letter and read it again.
"well……"
He just sighed, then looked up at the starling on the branch, and asked: "Where is the master buried?"
"Buried with her master."
Surprisingly, it was a very gentle voice.
Because they are not human, it is difficult to distinguish between men and women.
Just like people cannot tell the difference between male and female from the sound of a cat, nor can they tell the difference between male and female from the mouth of a parrot or myna.
"That's it..."
Song You nodded without any expression, but his whole body slowed down a lot.
Speak slower and think slower.
The pauses between words also became longer.
After finishing speaking, he paused for a while, as if thinking, still holding the letter in his hand, and then asked the myna on the tree: "Will Master Taoist return to Taoist Temple in the future?"
"The Taoist temple has been cleaned and locked. We will open it when you return."
"That's it..."
It's still to be expected.
Since Fulong Temple was built, no one seems to have stayed in the temple. Perhaps this has become a tradition of Fulong Temple.
Some things have nothing to do with blood, but are passed down from generation to generation.
"Master Tao...where are you going?"
"Let's take a walk around first."
"I mean……"
The Taoist paused again when he said this: "If one day I miss Master Tao, where will I go to find you?"
"I don't know either." The voice of the starling on the branch was also very calm. "When you return to the mountain after twenty years of traveling, I will come to visit you and tell you where I live."
"good."
"I'm leaving, don't be too sad."
"Master Tao, too."
Song You stood up and saluted him.
"Puff puff..."
Myna didn't say much, flapped her wings and flew into the night sky.
Even though the moonlight was good, the wind blew away the fog, and after just a short while, the pure black figure disappeared.
Song You was still staring in that direction.
Although he has lived more than one life, in this life, for the first twenty years, he has been accompanied by this myna for almost most of the time. Emotionally, he may be like a senior uncle or a senior brother. For him, Song You is naturally a
There is quite a bit of reluctance to part with.
As for the old Taoist in Guanzhong...
"well……"
Song You just sighed again.
I am afraid that among all the masters of Fulong Guan, this old Taoist can be considered short-lived.
I had no choice but to spread out the letter paper and read it again.
The cat is smart by nature, and vaguely guessed that the black bird was the black-feathered Taoist whom he had heard of several times. Although he didn’t know what happened, cats could always smell people’s emotions, so they just stood obediently in front of the Taoist.
She held a lantern for the Taoist with both hands. After a long time, she switched from two hands to one hand. The other hand was free, and she imitated the way the Taoist usually touched her, touching the Taoist's hair with an expression on her face.
serious.
Exactly 300 chapters, exactly 1 million words, spread the flowers! I’m going back to my hometown to be with my mother during the Dragon Boat Festival. In the next three days, I will update the leave request form at 8.05 in the morning!