Helan Heiyun thought she would take her to the Jinguang Pavilion, but what he didn't expect was that the old woman did not take her to the Jinguang Pavilion. Instead, she went to the old woman's garden and came to the garden.
By the lotus pond.
In the early ten years of the Northern Wei Dynasty, lotus root cultivation was not popular at all. People in the Southern Dynasty liked to eat lotus roots and enjoy lotus flowers. However, people in the Northern Wei Dynasty felt that it was neither salty nor sweet. It was not as good as radish when eaten raw, and tasted like chewing wax when eaten cooked.
This kind of prejudice caused by regional habits also made the cooks of the Northern Dynasty have no interest in studying the correct way of making fresh lotus roots. For a long time, the cooks of the Northern Dynasty would rather kill sheep and clean up the feces in the sheep intestines than dig them out.
It is easier and more enjoyable to clean the mud on the lotus root joints.
In the past ten years, due to the migration of northern dynasties to the south, many cultures and customs have been integrated with those of the south. Many wealthy and powerful families also raise fish and lotus flowers in their homes. However, it is undeniable that even if they are carefully tended, when the lotus blooms in the north,
It has been too dry and rainless for a while, so when the lotus flowers are in full bloom in the lotus pond, they always seem to be a little less beautiful and different from the lotus ponds in the southern lakes.
The weather turns colder in the north and comes earlier than in the south. When autumn has just entered the Southern Dynasty, the lotus leaves in many lotus ponds in the Northern Wei Dynasty have often withered, which cannot be associated with beauty and poetry.
However, in the past ten years, some painters from the northern dynasty have become famous in the south for their desolate and miserable paintings of dry lotus and cold ponds. This can be regarded as an unexpected blessing.
Because ten years earlier, many academicians and painters in the north were always mentioned with sneer and disdain due to the prejudice of scholars from the southern dynasty.
"Do you think I will take you to Jinguang Pavilion?"
Perhaps she had finally decided on such an important matter, and felt that it was indeed very pleasant to talk to such a young and smart girl. The old woman looked at her somewhat surprised expression and couldn't help laughing.
"Any hobby has a unique reason. I think that if you like gold so much that you even use gold to cover the walls, there must be a special reason." Helan Heiyun nodded, "Actually, according to my imagination, you
It’s very possible that the most important thing is placed inside, and it’s possible that that thing needs gold to seal its vitality.”
"Actually, there is a special reason why I like gold, but it is just because I like the warm color. When I was a child, my father once planted a piece of golden sunflower for me. I like it very much. That piece of golden sunflower is now
It still appears in my memory constantly.”
The old woman reached out and pointed toward the lotus pond in front of her. As she pointed, the center of the lotus pond slowly swelled, and the water splash and mud waves rolled up. It was like a big black fish was suddenly disturbed and moved from the mud.
Jump up in it.
"Have you decided to accept this pain and power?"
The old woman did not look at the splashing water and mud waves, but turned to look at Helan Heiyun. She became serious and said: "In a sense, this can be regarded as inheriting me."
mantle."
Helan Heiyun thought for a while, looked at her and said: "When you talked to me before, you said that you think I am very young, many things have not been finalized, and my views on the world may change over time.
Just like I followed the Demon Sect before, but now decided to become his enemy, aren't you worried that I will betray the Demon Sect and become your enemy again in the future?"
"You are indeed very young, so you may not be able to understand that sometimes when people live at this time, it is not how they want to live, but they can really live how they want."
The old woman looked at her and said seriously, "If the power I am worried about really exists, if it is really as you and I judged, and the Demon Sect at this time has become a tool of that power, then as long as
You have inherited my mantle, and you will naturally have to fight against that force, because no matter how you change in the future, I am sure that you have limits in your heart. You are not the kind of person who gives in easily. If someone wants to kill you, you will not
Maybe they don’t dare to fight because of fear.”
"Thanks."
Helan Heiyun did not look at the churning water and mud waves at this time. She looked at the old woman and felt inexplicably moved in her heart.
"Did you originally want Yuan Yan to inherit your mantle?" She continued seriously: "It's just that because things happened so fast, it was impossible for Yuan Yan to get here in time. But I can guarantee that as long as you let me finish my work,
Whatever you want to do, I can pass on your mantle to Yuan Yan."
The old woman shook her head and said, "I never thought about passing on the mantle to her."
Helan Heiyun was slightly startled.
The old woman said: "Of course it's not that she is unworthy. If we look at it purely based on her qualifications and nature, she can certainly inherit my mantle. But I told you before that since the rebellion in the north many years ago, I have doubts
This power today is real. The more this happens, the less I can pass on my mantle to her."
Helan Heiyun was shocked and quickly grasped the key point, "Do you think she is related to today's power?"
"Not sure, but I can't risk it."
The old woman smiled slightly, "I believe Yuan Yan doesn't know it herself, but if it is as I guessed at this time, if I really pass on my mantle to Yuan Yan, then it is very likely that it will really happen."
Just like the spring rain that moistens things silently, I fell into the trap planned by this force for countless years."
After a pause, there was some emotion in her smile, "Actually, if this is the case, I really admire this power. This power can not only control people like the Demon Sect, but also make everything happen without any bloodshed.
It's logical. But everyone is actually kept in the dark."
Helan Heiyun looked at the old woman in disbelief.
She had already looked at this old woman with admiration before, and had re-examined this old woman who was deeply feared by the Demon Sect, but only now did she truly understand that the things this old woman could think of, and the world she saw, were far more complicated than...
She is much more.
If we say
There really was an invisible force in the Northern Wei Dynasty, like a demon king hiding in the shadows slowly eating away at the world, and she was like a god who had smelled the aura of this demon king many years ago.
.
"There is a spiritual vein under this lotus pond. I have been raising this thing for so many years. This thing was once the tooth of some kind of sea beast. It was refined into a unique magic weapon. It also requires a unique water element magic circle.
nourish."
When the old woman's voice sounded again, circles of bright water bloomed from the lotus pond, and something as big as an ordinary dagger flew out.
This thing is black, has a shiny surface, and is really shaped like a tooth.
"Sea beast teeth... were refined into unique magical weapons..." Helan Heiyun listened to her words and suddenly thought of a certain record. Her breathing stopped completely for an instant, "Could it be You Yue..."
The old woman knew that Helan Heiyun had guessed it. She looked at a place in the palace with some emotion and said softly: "For the entire world of practitioners, the techniques and methods of using true energy are constantly improving.
Passed down from generation to generation, a lot of valuable experience has been accumulated, but the funny thing is that after a certain peak, the power of later generations of practitioners seems to never be able to surpass that of the ancients, and the difference is getting bigger and bigger. Do you know what it is?
Why?"
Helan Heiyun did not answer. In addition to being shocked, a strong sense of alarm arose in her heart at this time. She intuitively felt that a powerful aura with murderous intent appeared in the direction where the old woman was looking.
"Because after the ancient practitioners just understood the method of cultivation, powerful and rare elixirs and spiritual materials that can be used to refine magical weapons have emerged in endlessly in this world. It is equivalent to the accumulation of hundreds of millions of years before the emergence of practitioners.
It is taken by these practitioners. Some things, after being used, will no longer be available in future generations."
The old woman laughed, "But the most important thing is that powerful practitioners have been fighting. In every era, many things that will no longer exist in future generations will be destroyed and disappear due to competition. So in my opinion
, if this spiritual famine lasts as long as before, after this spiritual famine, the power of the world of practitioners will be even more unbearable than before. Therefore, in fact, the teachings of those scholars in the Southern Dynasties, and the rules of benevolence, justice and etiquette, in the long run
, I am afraid it is more important than the strength of the practitioner. This is why the emperor and I must move the capital to Luoyang back then."
"This is my opinion, and it does not mean it is absolutely correct."
After saying this, she looked at Helan Heiyun and said very seriously: "I never think blood is the most important. In my opinion, a person's will and character are more important than talent and blood."
Helan Heiyun didn't know why she specifically said such words at this time, and she didn't have time to think about it. The powerful aura was approaching, and the black tooth had turned into a ball of light, falling on it.