"Killed?" A gentle and low voice came from behind Zheng Zhenzhen. en8.
She felt herself being helped up, and when she looked back, she found Yun Qing, who was dressed in blood, blind and barefoot. She had lost control of her anger and killed several mortals, so she simply borrowed a Fang Cunzhan from the inn and went directly to Amang's side.
"How's it going? Did he hurt you?" Yun Qing asked gently.
"No..." When Zheng Zhenzhen spoke, he realized that his voice was choked.
Yun Qing nodded: "That's good. It's not suitable to stay here for a long time. Let's go directly to Jingdu from here."
Song Liyou was surprised. He thought that even if Yun Qing could not be killed this time, she would be seriously injured. As a result, there was nothing wrong with her except that she was covered in blood.
"Liyou..." Yun Qing turned around and faced Song Liyou, smiling more gently, "You were reckless this time."
Song Liyou lowered his eyes, looking much more honest than the arrogant look just now. Even if he is just an outer disciple, people from the Seven Holy Lands are not easy to kill. If he kills him, he will definitely bring trouble to Yun Qing, which is something he naturally likes to see.
"Yeah, I got it." He replied lukewarmly.
"Do you have anything to pack?" Yun Qing asked Zheng Zhenzhen. Zheng Zhenzhen shook her head in a daze. She didn't expect that the world would change so unexpectedly that a life would pass away in front of her in the blink of an eye, but she was powerless to save it.
"Well, if not, then let's set off." Yun Qing decided, patting Amang on her body, and Amang bowed and hugged her to his shoulder.
Song Liyou looked at Zheng Zhenzhen, who was standing there in a daze, and said displeasedly: "Let's go!"
He gets angry when he sees this guy now.
"Are you scared?" Yun Qing said to Song Liyou, "How about you hold her for a while?"
Song Liyou was almost frightened and wanted to refuse, but Zheng Zhenzhen answered faster than him: "No need!"
"I'm causing trouble to senior sister... My letter bird is dead, and there's no need for me to go to Jingdu..." Zheng Zhenzhen was a little depressed.
"Why be so polite." Yun Qing said lightly, "If you don't go to Jingdu, how will you heal me?"
"I… "
"There are so many people in the world, but you can't save every one of them." Yun Qing raised her head. At this time, the new moon was born, but the place where she stood was blocked by shadows and there was no light.
She could sense light, but could no longer see it.
Yun Qing went on to say: "Those who do not understand the past and present in their knowledge, do not understand heaven and man, are not talented enough to be close to immortals, and whose heart is not close to Buddha, would rather farm and weave for food and clothing than mistreat the world by practicing medicine."
"I... have neither talent nor knowledge, and my state of mind is not like that of gods and Buddhas..." Zheng Zhenzhen's eyes were slightly red, and he sobbed softly.
"I didn't say you meant to mislead the world." Yun Qing said with relief, "I just told you what you should do as a doctor. You saw someone dying in front of you but couldn't do anything. In the final analysis, it was just because you were not as powerful as Song Liyou. What's the use of crying like this?"
"If you can only cry and shout to persuade people not to kill, then you might as well go to plowing fields and weaving. Why should you let down your Yellow Emperor heritage?" Yun Qing dropped this sentence, and Amang turned around with her. Walking towards the north, "If you just stop here, then it won't be of much use to me. There are countless medical methods in the world, and you are not missing. en8."
Song Liyou quickly followed. He didn't expect Yun Qing to stimulate the girl so much. Zheng Zhenzhen is timid and timid, and is simply afraid of getting into trouble. What if she really doesn't follow her after being told this, or simply can't think about it and commits suicide
Could it be that Yun Qing could really find other medical inheritance
Song Liyou was a little uncertain and looked back secretly. Unexpectedly, he suddenly bumped into the girl who was running towards her.
Before Song Liyou said anything, Zheng Zhenzhen turned to Yun Qing with tears and runny nose and said, "Wait! I want to heal you!"
"I can't call myself a doctor yet! But I want to give it a try. I want to know how far I can go! I want to understand the principles of heaven and man, I want to study the meaning of yin and yang, and I want to teach the way of saints, and I don't want it to be buried. On this piece of trash like me!”
"Please, please take me to the Capital of Mirrors!"
That pretty little face was a little ugly with tears at the moment, but it looked more agile and confident than every moment before.
Yun Qing's expression remained unchanged, but he just sighed softly, took an animal skin jacket from Amang's backpack and wrapped it around her: "We drove all night, don't catch a cold."
Zheng Zhenzhen tried hard to stop her tears and bit her lower lip to keep from making a sound. She had no relatives and no family, and was ostracized in Lutian Temple because of her beauty. After leaving like this, she really had no worries.
She touched the warm animal skin clothes with a bit of animal smell, and suddenly felt that if she traveled with Yun Qing this time, she might never be able to return to the original place.
But that’s how it is with Taoism. Once you’ve decided and taken the first step, you can’t look back.
No matter whether there is a mountain of corpses, a sea of blood, or an abyss ahead, we must go forward step by step.
When Zheng Zhenzhen took this step, it felt like a lifetime ago.
The stars are bright tonight, and countless shimmering lights from across eternity turn into silver rivers and pour down from the sky. And where the starlight cannot reach, the shadow of the void is still spreading wantonly.
Yun Qing sat on Amang's shoulder and walked at the front facing the starlight, feeling unable to rest in her heart for a long time.
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The Hundred Flowers Sacrifice is held once every thousand years and is a major sacrificial activity at the Temple of Heaven.
Although it is called the Festival of Flowers, it is actually a sacrament to worship ancestors and pray for future generations. This kind of large-scale festival, covering almost several cities, can only be held in the peaceful and prosperous times. Therefore, the actual interval of the Hundred Flowers Festival is much longer than a thousand years.
A hundred years ago, the late emperor conquered the south and made Jingdu the capital. The Temple of Heaven also dismantled its altar and moved it to Jingdu. Once the altar is moved, the inheritance of the Temple of Heaven will also enter the central and southern areas, spreading the faith and disintegrating the power of the previous dynasty. As a result, there is less and less resistance to the enemy, and the people are unwilling to fight with it. In the end, the Mirror Kingdom's ability to defeat the Tianzhu Kingdom with overwhelming force was also related to the help of Lu Tiantan.
Therefore, Lutian Temple is a very special existence even in the monastic world. Generally speaking, ascetics stay away from the chaos of the mortal world, but Lu Tiantan always engages with the world and practices humanity based on the wishes of all people. As Song Liyou said, there are countless avenues in the world, and it is not without reason that such an inheritance can become one of the seven holy places.
The path of immortality, the path of demons, the path of humanity, the path of ghosts, the path of monsters. No matter which one, as long as it is orthodox, you can enter the Tao and achieve positive results.
"It's called the Hundred Flowers Festival... but there are no flowers at all here?"
The autumn wind is bleak, and the eyes are filled with bright red maple leaves, but once they fall on the ground, they look like butterflies that have lost their color. The stone steps in the forest are covered with layers of fallen leaves, and stepping on them is like falling into the body of a soft and fragile creature. On both sides of the stone steps, tall trees have branches and leaves. The gentleness is mixed with the unique chill of autumn, and the air is a bit dry. The sound of clear spring combing stones came from the gaps in the grass and trees.
Song Liyou was wearing a thin green shirt and looked extremely chic. While looking at the suspended city built for the Lutian Holy Altar, he sighed: "It is indeed a holy land. Such a generous effort..."
Under this mountain is the Mirror City, and above the Mirror City there is a city exactly like it. The two cities echo between the sky and the earth, like looking into a mirror.
"The City in the Mirror will only appear when major sacrifices are held at the Temple of Heaven. It will be even more glorious and magnificent at night." Zheng Zhenzhen explained.
"But the magic weapon manifests?" Yun Qing asked.
"I don't know about that..." Zheng Zhenzhen blushed and lowered his head, but then raised his head again, "Have you taken any medicine today?"
Yun Qing smiled bitterly: "Yes. Thank you for your trouble."
It took them about ten days to get from Ci'an City to Jingdu. Zheng Zhenzhen began to prepare some suitable medicine for Yun Qing and slowly nursed him back to health. Basically, Song Liyou either went to the mountains to collect the medicinal materials or bought them at a high price in the city, so they spent a lot of time walking around. During this period of time, Zheng Zhenzhen finally stopped calling Yun Qing senior sister, and her fear of Yun Qing also eased slightly.
"It's a pity that there are no more precious medicinal materials..." Zheng Zhenzhen was a little worried. She knew that these ordinary prescriptions had little effect on Yun Qing, but there was no better way to deal with this situation. Don’t seek merit but seek no fault.
"Hey! It sounds like you spent a lot of effort to find medicinal materials! Aren't I the one who has been digging in the mountains all this time!?" Song Liyou said angrily.
"No, I, I didn't mean that!" Zheng Zhenzhen waved his hand hurriedly.
"Besides medicine... is there any other way?" Yun Qing rubbed the square cup in his hand habitually. She is reluctant to try the treasures of heaven, materials and earth. Any repair caused by external force is always accompanied by damage in other aspects. Although it is not visible for a while, it is not good for practice in the long run. The prescriptions Zheng Zhenzhen prescribes now are all dietary remedies or relatively mild supplements, which are acceptable. If it goes further, Yun Qing is unwilling.
"This..." Zheng Zhenzhen hesitated.
"It's not convenient to say?" Yun Qing didn't force it, "Then forget it."
"What's the inconvenience? She's clearly a quack like this, okay? Do you believe that her brain was damaged?" Song Liyou was very tongue-tied. He had been honest in front of Yun Qing for a few days, but now he's back to his old ways.
"No..." Zheng Zhenzhen glanced at Song Liyou. She knew that Song Liyou and Yun Qing were not on good terms, and she favored Yun Qing decisively between the two. There were some things she didn't want Song Liyou to know. Although she is simple, she is not stupid.
"Liyou, go help us get the paperwork for entering the city." Although Yun Qing can't see, her mind is open. Recently, I have gradually become accustomed to the state of blindness, and I have become much more sensitive to my surroundings.
Song Liyou knew that she was about to get away from him, so he sneered and disappeared into gray mist.
"Tell me." Yun Qing leaned over Amang's shoulder and touched her head, telling her not to worry about Song Liyou.
"Are you... feeling unstable lately?" Zheng Zhenzhen hesitated for a long time before saying.
Yun Qing was silent for a while, with murderous intent already in his heart. She shouldn't let someone who knows her weaknesses be around.
"I said from the beginning that I can't save you. In fact, no doctor in the world can save you. You must also know..." Zheng Zhenzhen seemed to have made up some kind of determination and gritted his teeth.
"You're not sick or injured at all, right?"
"Not bad." Yun Qing had been stroking Fang Cunzhan's hand and stopped. She was afraid that she would kill Zheng Zhenzhen if she moved her hand smoothly.
Yun Qing sighed: "It's a punishment from heaven, it's what I deserve...it's the price."
"Where is the specific injury? It must have affected the mood..." Zheng Zhenzhen was not surprised at all, but began to consider Yun Qing's situation from the perspective of a doctor.
"Soul, life, qualifications, foundation... everything." Yun Qing actually smiled as he spoke, and this smile had no warmth at all.
Zheng Zhenzhen's face changed drastically, his eye circles immediately turned red, and he looked like he was about to cry: "The five degenerations of heaven and man!?"
"It doesn't count. I already have all the five minor signs of decline, but there is only one of the five major signs of decline, 'Unhappy Benzuo'."
"Yes, yes, Xiao Wu's declining appearance is 'reluctant to let go'. Originally, ascetics had a pure mind and had no other attachments, but once the declining appearance appears, they will be reluctant to let go..." Zheng Zhenzhen said with a cry again.
Yun Qing has never seen a monk who likes to cry so much. It seems that if it weren't for the "reluctant" Xiao Wuxiang, she would have dealt with the threat of Zheng Zhenzhen, why would she have restrained her mood to talk to her here.
"This, how do you want me to cure this! The five declines of heaven and man are natural apoptosis, just like the leaves will naturally fall in autumn. This is already the rule of heaven... ah..." Zheng Zhenzhen stamped his feet and squatted down to cry.
"I've already said that it's not the five debilitating diseases of heaven and man..." Yun Qing was stunned for a moment, jumped off Amang's body, patted her back and said, "It's just that some of the symptoms are very similar, so it's not that difficult to treat."
"Yes... yes, it's no problem... I can cure it... ugh..." Zheng Zhenzhen cried endlessly.
While she was crying, she was thinking about what Yun Qing had just said, "I already have the five minor signs of decline, but the big five signs of decline are only 'not happy with me.'" The problem with her mood was particularly obvious. In the final analysis, the problem should be Out of the soul. The human body is closely related to the soul. Once the soul is damaged, it makes sense that other parts will be implicated.
She tried her best to persuade herself to calm down. There was no way to recuperate her soul. If she carefully recalled every bit of the Yellow Emperor's inheritance, there must be a way.
Yun Qing waited for a long time, and she finally stopped crying. She said in a whimpering voice: "As you...as you said, her soul must have been severely damaged."
"If you don't want to seek treatment from heavenly materials and earthly treasures, then you can only get a supreme inheritance of soul cultivation..." Zheng Zhenzhen looked up at her with red eyes.
Yun Qing nodded, closed his eyes and didn't answer, not knowing what he was thinking.
"Hey, are you bullying your junior sister Zheng?"
Just as the two of them fell into silence, a gentle but harsh voice came over.
Yun Qing took a quick look and found that this guy was actually holding a disciple who was walking in the Temple of Heaven in one hand.