The fish biting the hook interrupted the Sanhua Empress's verbal attack on the crane, making her busy raising the pole.
It's a big fat fish.
Sanhua Empress put the fish into the bamboo basket, looked at the harvest inside, and saw that it was quite abundant. Then she threw the bamboo basket back into the lake. As she went and came back, she easily forgot about the crane and turned to the fish.
From food, I thought of Taoist priests. I couldn't help but hold my chin and stare at the lake, feeling sad.
"Swallow, tell me, how long will it take for the Taoist priest to come out?"
The Sanhua Empress looked up at the swallows on the branches.
"I, I don't know."
The sudden question caught him off guard.
"You're so smart and you don't even know?"
"San... Sanhua Empress is smarter than me, don't you know it?"
"You are really smart."
"..."
"Then you ask, why won't he starve to death even if he doesn't eat?"
"Sir, your Taoism is profound and your spiritual power is vast. He is nourished by the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, and nourished by the essence of the sun and moon, so he will naturally not starve to death."
"Then will he be hungry if he doesn't eat?"
"..."
This puts the swallow in trouble.
"My cultivation level is shallow and my Taoism is low. I have never reached that level. I only know that people and demons who are successful in cultivation can go without food or drink and will not starve to death or die of thirst." Yanzi said as he spoke.
Thinking, "But judging from the fact that many monsters and monks with great cultivation also need to eat and drink water, they will probably feel uncomfortable even if they are hungry or thirsty, right?"
"Well……"
"Especially at the beginning?" Yanzi guessed, "Some advanced people and monsters also need to eat and drink at first, just like ordinary people and monsters. Later, as time goes by, they eat and drink more and more.
It’s less, and it’s getting lighter and lighter. Sometimes I only eat fruits, eat spiritual fruits, drink nectar, dew and the like, that’s what my ancestors were like.”
"Old Yanxian!"
"Yes."
"Keep talking!"
"Especially when you are thirsty?" Yanzi continued to guess, "Some gods still drink wine and tea even if they don't eat. My ancestors were like this. They rarely ate, but they made a pot of tea every day and sometimes boiled wine.
.”
"Well……"
Sanhua Empress was lost in thought.
As I thought about it, my sadness became more intense.
"Ms. Sanhua, don't worry. You have your own arrangements, sir." Yanzi lowered his head and said after a pause, "Sir, he has his things to do, and we also have our own things to do. We just need to do ours well and wait for him to come out.
That’s it.”
"right……"
"Yes."
"But I have one more question."
"What?"
"Why can this crane grow so big?" Sanhua Empress pointed back at the crane in the distance that was taller than the woods and bigger than the largest tree. She looked up and stared at the top of the tree in the snow.
A smaller swallow came out, "Are you so small?"
"It's not difficult to understand."
"Um?"
"Don't you know, Sanhua Empress? You will never grow as big as a tiger in your life."
"!"
"Puff puff..."
The swallow flapped its wings and flew away.
I flew to a farther place and stopped, turned around and looked at Yeshan Mountain in the distance, feeling a little strange.
From the early autumn to the cold winter, the second cold winter is almost over. In the past year or so, the Yeshan Avenue has evolved with infinite mystery and charm. Even outside Yeshan, you can feel the extreme extraordinary of this place.
, I don’t know how many gods in the sky cast their eyes here from a distance. Many monsters on the ground who have just transformed, or some ignorant birds and beasts who have just born their spiritual wisdom are also attracted, and spontaneously gather here. On the contrary, it is those monsters with higher moral standards.
, seems to have known for a long time that this is Fengzhou Ghost Town, with the Yue Wang Shenjun sitting in charge, and even if he feels the mystery of this place, he does not dare to approach easily.
However, since recent times, the inside of the ghost town has become more mysterious and has changed greatly. But once you leave Yeshan, all the mystery has disappeared.
It seemed as if there was just an ordinary mountain in front of me.
Even more common than a year and a half ago.
Perhaps the underworld has begun to take shape.
Yanzi thinks so...
It is precisely because of this that the world inside Yeshan is no longer in Yeshan. This place is just an entrance, so the inner mystery cannot be sensed.
"Rumble..."
There was some movement in the distance.
Swallow turned his head and looked.
As expected, after Sanhua Empress finished fishing, she found that her words were of little use and started fighting with the Crane Demon again.
…
Winter passes and spring comes again.
The five earths have disappeared, and the Four Seasons Spring has been completely exhausted. Only the aura of heaven and earth, and the essence of the sun and moon are pouring in from the outside, shaping the structure and rules of this small world. Song You perceives this world more and more clearly.
, this small world that Fang built in front of himself.
This place relies on the outside world but is different from the outside world.
Song You regained his sense of space and direction, regained his perception of the aura of heaven and earth, and the essence of the sun and moon, and once again touched the rotation of time.
But there are no four seasons here.
Why do we know that winter is leaving?
All because of the dissipation of the dark fragrance of yellow plums.
Song You smelled this subtle fragrance three times in total.
In the beginning, time and space were very blurry, and the laws of the Great Dao and the nature of heaven and earth also made it easy for people to not realize the passage of time. Just like on Yunding Mountain, you really didn't know that time was passing. But later, everything became clear again, and time passed relatively slowly.
.
Song You began to realize that every time he smelled the fragrance of wintersweet, a year had indeed passed.
But he still hasn't opened his eyes.
It’s waiting, it’s also enlightenment and practice.
The last plum blossom fragrance should be in the winter of the sixth year of Da'an.
I'm afraid it's been seven years since Da'an.
In Song You's perception, it was a slow and steady process, but to the outside world, it seemed more like something sudden——
The underworld was successfully condensed.
This is a world of ghosts.
In an instant, all the ghosts and ghosts in the world were affected, and all the gods and Buddhas in the sky were shaken.
The merit is immeasurable and the creation is endless.
The Taoist on the high platform has also opened his eyes.
At this time, the place where I am is already a vast world. There is no top, only a deep black. There is no sun and moon, but there is a faint light. There is no boundary in the distance, and only dots of will-o'-the-wisps can be vaguely seen below.
, or pale green, or light blue, or pale, all far away, and there is faintly visible Yin Qi on the ground that turns into a cold wind and moves away gently.
Even the stone pillar he was sitting on turned into a mountain at some point.
The mountain is straight and steep, like a huge stalagmite, showing a perfect and slender cone shape, getting smaller and smaller as you go up. The top of the mountain is a stone pillar. The top of the stone pillar is flat, but it is still where the Taoist originally sat cross-legged.
The size of the mountain. If viewed from below, this mountain should also be a good scenery.
Looking down, everything is far away.
Even the original Yeshan Ghost City has been expanded and torn into four pieces, distributed in four different directions. The three palaces that were originally close to each other have also been separated.
Song You slightly lowered his head in front of him.
The table on the top of the mountain is not clean, but there are many things piled up. Some fish and meat dishes can be vaguely seen, and some random fruits, some of which are rotten. They were probably sent before the underworld began to take shape, and the others were probably here.
Those sent later, due to changes in the world and rules, will no longer rot or deteriorate here, but will lose moisture little by little over time and become shriveled.
There are also some that have not even lost their moisture, as if they were just sent here and placed here.
Song You saw a braised chicken placed on dried lotus leaves and a bowl of preserved egg and lean meat porridge.
"..."
The Taoist stretched out his hand and the braised chicken and porridge flew over.
Tear off a piece of chicken leg and put it in your mouth to taste.
It's ice cold, but you can still taste it, it's not made by Sanhua Empress.
The spices Song You buys are always of high quality. The fragrance will be much purer without so much foreign smell. Moreover, Empress Sanhua learned the complete recipe from him, using more types of spices and more precise proportions.
.
The most important thing is that there are more Sanhua Niangniang peppers.
Of course, it is not ruled out that after too long, the spices she originally bought were used up. When Sanhua Empress went to buy them again, she bought lower quality ones for the sake of cheapness, and some of the spices were missing and she did not buy them.
Try another bite of preserved egg and lean meat porridge.
It's also already cold.
I can't taste this anymore.
It’s just that there’s less meat, which is also not Sanhua Empress’s style.
"..."
The Taoist stood up silently.
He didn't move for a long time, and his body became much stiffer. Fortunately, he didn't grow up with the rocky mountain below.
I don't know where the hanging steps went, they were all gone, but the Taoist didn't care. He waved his hand again, and stairs automatically appeared on the stone mountain, and there were thousands of steps going around the mountain.
I took one step and felt a little stiff. Then I took another step and it felt much more natural. After a few steps, I was completely back to normal.
Suddenly I felt something and stopped.
Song You turned his head and looked northwest, his sight instantly passing through an extremely far space.
A yellow plum tree can be vaguely seen, which is lush and green when the branches are in full bloom. Under the tree, there is a stone platform, a guqin, and a figure sitting in front of the stone platform, looking up at him.
"Thank you."
Song You said something from a distance, bowed to him, and then continued.
The original stone pillar platform was tens of feet high, but now the mountain is more than ten times higher. It is like a miracle. At the pace of a Taoist, he walked around the mountain for who knows how long. However, it didn't take long for him to reach it.
Arrived at the bottom of the mountain.
Yuewang Shenjun and the two palace monarchs are already waiting below.
Not far away there was a monk sitting cross-legged.
"Congratulations, fellow Taoist, for successfully condensing the underworld and the underworld. With this good fortune, you have achieved immeasurable merit."
"Respect good deeds, and the underworld will be united forever."
"Thank you sir..."
Yuewang Shenjun had a free and unrestrained temperament. He was originally the god of freedom of heaven and earth. He was invited to sit in the underworld by him, so he just congratulated him. He Dianjun was a prime minister of Dayan during his lifetime and had some official aura. Naturally, what he said first was different from that of Yuewang Shenjun.
After the death of Divine Doctor Cai, he became a ghost and never became a god. He could best understand the thoughts of the ghosts and could best represent the ghosts. The first thing to do was to express his gratitude.
"The underworld has been completed. From now on, this world will no longer be in the outside world. It will be thousands of miles wide and will continue to grow. The ghosts no longer have to worry about where to stay." Song You said, "This entire mountain is a gathering of auras.
Each stone taken can be used as a gateway from the outside world to the underworld. Ask the ghost emperor and the palace king to take some and send them to the city god's official residence in the outside world.
Can."
"Fellow Taoist is thoughtful."
"You can also take some more and use them as tokens to distribute to the underworld officials who hold important positions, so that they can enter and leave the underworld freely." Song You said and paused, "It's just that the rock is so hard that only the Ghost Emperor can dig it.
The power of stone."
"Thank you."
"I just want to know first."
Song You personally promoted the cohesion of the underworld and the underworld, taking advantage of a lot of convenience and opportunities. He either naturally knew many of the rules of this world, or he also obtained the results through his insights and experiences during this period, so he will explain them to you first.
They listen, which prevents them from taking detours and saves them the time of fumbling.
But that’s all.
Although Yuewang Shenjun has a free and easy temperament, he is also a man of great principles. He Dianjun is a famous minister of the generation, and his wisdom is beyond the reach of ordinary people. Cai Shenjun is also very thoughtful, otherwise it would be difficult to practice medicine. He does not need to give instructions on other matters, they will consider it on their own
You have to be more thoughtful than him.
Song You withdrew his gaze, looked northwest again, and then asked a few people:
"What time is it outside now?"
"Autumn, the seventh year of Da'an." He Dianjun said to Song You, "It has been three full years since you came here."
"It's been three years..."
The Taoist murmured to himself, full of emotion.
Big things really take time, and time really cannot be used in front of a great practitioner.
But this is pretty fast.
If it were not for the promotion of the national master, it would probably take hundreds or even hundreds of years for the underworld to begin to condense, and it would probably take decades from the beginning to the time when it is condensed.
Taoists have greatly shortened it.
"Where is my child?"
"Sanhua Empress and the descendants of Yanxian are all in the outside world. Originally, they often came in and out, but after the underworld and the underworld were successfully condensed, the living beings in the underworld were not allowed to come in and out at will. Sometimes the two souls left the body or the Ghost Emperor made an exception and invited them in, and
It's hard to stay for a long time, and I stay outside most of the time." He Dianjun replied, "But the maid of the great demon in the northwest often goes out to accompany them, so it's not boring."
"I know that Mr. Yue has woken up, and I have sent someone to invite them outside." Shenjun, the King of Yue, said.
"That's it..."
Song You nodded.
It turns out that the interior of Yeshan is just a small world that he condensed after imitating the world in the painting. It is equivalent to an upgraded version of the formation used to trap the Snow Demon King in Heyuan, Hezhou. Although it is used to provide shelter for the Yin spirits and ghosts,
But it is just a place for them, and other creatures can also enter and exit. Today's underworld is a small world where the heaven and earth conform to the general trend and are specially formed for the ghosts of the underworld. It was created specifically for this purpose and is naturally not suitable for the creatures in the underworld.
Life.
Song You didn't feel any discomfort staying inside.
"Amitabha." The voice of Master Yi came from the side, "Taoist Master, you should go out and have a look first. Maybe the growth of Empress Sanhua will be beyond your expectations."
"I will take my leave first."
Song You didn't say much, and didn't stay for a long time. He took a step and disappeared from the spot.