The light dust outlines the powerful and iron-like details hidden in the neat small calligraphy.
Jianchou read out the words one by one, and said: "Ksitigarbha... Reincarnated into the water of the pond... Thank you... and answered..."
Ding!
The moment he saw the remaining half of the sentence, Jianchou's heart almost jumped up, and he almost bit his tongue without paying attention.
"Reincarnation Pond Water?!"
I hope someone who cherishes flowers will be able to grow this plum tree for me.
The water of the Ksitigarbha reincarnation pond thanks you and answers you!
She had previously mocked this person for his extravagance. In the entire Jiyu, how many people could count on such a strange person to use the reincarnation pond to grow plum blossoms
Therefore, the sentence "Grow this plum tree for me" sounds like a fool's dream.
Who would have thought that there would be such a sentence following it!
The water of Jizo's reincarnation pond
Could it be that hidden above this piece of land is the water of the reincarnation pond used to grow plum blossoms
The water in the reincarnation pond is at the end of the cycle of reincarnation and can nourish all living things.
This is not some ordinary thing...
Jianchou knew that this thing was extremely precious, otherwise, with Chen Tingyan's extravagant nature and broad knowledge, he would not have shown such an expression.
He took a deep breath and used this opportunity to calm himself down. Then he looked at the plum vase in disbelief, slowly put it down, and looked at the ground beneath his feet.
The floor tiles were laid flat and tightly on the ground, plain and dull, like the most common black stones.
After hesitating for a moment, she gave up the idea of checking them one by one.
Looking back at the plum vase, the only one of the three plum branches that still had a bud was facing the window, motionless.
Although Jianchou now has a soul, his body was placed in the stone bead given by the Fairy in the Mist. It seemed that he had escaped the confinement of the extreme realm, but in fact he had entered another kind of confinement.
The cultivation level of Huazhu Realm has not been of much help to her spiritual consciousness, and the distance from the body is not far. It is as difficult as ascending to heaven to investigate the situation on the ground.
What's more, she is still injured.
The thought just flashed through his mind and was taken back by Jianchou.
The heat of that moment disappeared in the blink of an eye, she calmed down and discovered more strange things.
The plum blossoms have withered, and the owner should know that—
Who would like to see a withered plum tree when moving in
If an empty plum vase is placed here, it will definitely be taken away. Once the window sill is cleaned, won't it be clear what is written there
In other words, the owner of the house deliberately left the words here.
"Boss Zhou said that the previous owner of this house disappeared for unknown reasons..."
Jianchou started to think, and his frown did not relax, but became even tighter.
"But judging from this sentence, the owner knew that he would leave, so he left this sentence..."
Weird.
Totally weird.
The porcelain green plum vase still stood on the window sill of the snowy window, with three withered plum branches inserted in the vase, leaving three thin shadows in the light from the window, which had a somewhat withered and proud temperament.
Jianchou looked at the study again and then at the scene by the window. He suddenly felt that this house, which was rented for only 700 Xuanyu, was filled with an indescribable mystery.
She suddenly developed a strong curiosity about the original owner of the house, and even its previous owners.
But this is not the right time after all.
Jianchou suppressed his curiosity, found a clean place in the study, knocked the ground with the black sword, and found nothing unusual, so he sat down cross-legged.
After another moment of hesitation, she took out a formation plate from her Qiankun bag. On it were eighteen spirit stones inlaid, with long silver lines connecting them, forming a protective formation.
This house is quite peculiar. Since Old Zhou rented it to me, he must have inspected the house.
As long as she doesn't move around, nothing should happen.
Therefore, Jianchou did not look through books to find some method for the spirit to recognize its master, nor did he look at the plum vase or dig deep into the ground to find the water of Ksitigarbha's reincarnation pond.
At this moment, there is only one thing she needs to do -
Practice!
“Bang!”
As soon as the formation plate is placed, the formation is immediately released close to the ground.
A circular ring of light, centered on the place where Jianchou was sitting, immediately shot out towards the surroundings, vaguely isolating it from the surroundings, and there was a strong sense of defensiveness.
Jianchou lowered his eyes, and arranged ten middle-grade black jades in front of him. Then he spread his hands on his knees and began to regulate his breathing and meditate.
Xing Wu's sneak attack was not light for Jianchou, but it was not fatal either.
She had already swallowed two pills before, and her injuries had been alleviated a lot. Now she needed to take careful care of herself to absorb all the medicinal effects of the pills.
With seals formed with his hands, Jianchou guided the medicinal power of the elixir to flow throughout his body, through the wounds, and began the long process of repair.
The light in the room gradually dimmed, and only the window paper was snow-white.
A little light shone in through the window paper, illuminating Jianchou's straight back and the hand gestures he was making at that moment.
After a while, Jianchou became ethereal, as if he didn't exist at all.
Only in the ancestral orifice between her eyebrows, above the cool spiritual platform, there was a tiny speck of light that slowly lit up. If you look carefully, you can find that it is a round bead that is slowly rotating and absorbing the medicinal power from all parts of the body.
This is Jianchou’s “soul bead”.
Since it was formed, it has not grown much.
Jianchou didn't know what effect his cultivation method in the Jiyu would have on himself. At least for now, it was completely different from his cultivation in the Nineteen Continents and had nothing to do with each other.
Right now, healing and improving strength are the most important things. Jianchou didn't have time to think about anything else and completely immersed himself in the matter.
…
The light outside the window dimmed and brightened, bright and dimmed. Occasionally, the wind would blow through the window paper, making a rustling sound, and occasionally, drizzle would hit the window frame, splashing a dripping sound.
It can be seen that sorrow cannot be heard.
Time passed slowly in the dusty study. More than half a month had passed. The light of the formation formed by the formation plate became dimmer and dimmer, and the eighteen spirit stones inlaid in it looked a little gray.
Among the black jades placed in front of Jianchou, nine had already exhausted all their earth power and turned into powder lying on the ground.
“Bang!”
The moment the sound of rain outside the window stopped, the last black jade in front of Jianchou finally shattered, and a pink and white smoke splashed out and scattered into a pool of fine powder on the ground.
The last ray of earth energy flew directly from the ground into the outer periphery of the soul bead of Jianchou Lingtai, and slowly merged into the soul bead as the soul bead continued to rotate.
Then, as if it was fed, it actually made a strange sound.
“Click.”
A very thin sound.
The soul bead, which was originally the size of a speck of dust, suddenly expanded outwards and became a lot bigger the moment it absorbed the last bit of the earth's Yin energy!
In the blink of an eye, the soul bead floating above Jianchou's spiritual platform became the size of the tip of a little finger.
Although it still looks pitiful, the mixture of various colors has already revealed a little bit of light white.
The closer the soul bead is to white, the purer its texture is, which means the soul power in the body is more positive.
The only flaw is perhaps the cracks on the soul orb...
Although Jianchou did not open his eyes at this moment, he was aware of all the changes in the soul orb.
Previously, the soul bead was too small and nothing could be seen. But now that it has grown larger through cultivation, the cracks can be seen clearly if you look carefully.
Jianchou's heart sank.
Ever since the day she forcibly broke through the soul bead, she has never let go of her worries.
She couldn't find a solution to the problem of her incomplete soul, so she chose to skip the first two realms and directly condense it into a soul bead, which was considered a win in danger.
In fact, judging from her practice during this period, condensing the soul bead in advance is indeed beneficial to her practice. The speed of absorbing the earth's Yin energy has become faster and the loss has become less.
Jianchou should have been happy, but the moment she saw the cracks on the soul bead, her heart sank again.
The soul bead has cracks...
It doesn't look like a good thing no matter how you look at it.
Jianchou slowly opened his eyes and put away the hand gestures on his knees.
The whole room was surrounded by a dark aura of earth power, and at this moment, it finally slowly dissipated in all directions and disappeared.
Her body gradually became solid, and the soul orb suspended above her disappeared.
His brows were furrowed, and the feeling of being unable to move forward reappeared.
"After the Pearl Transformation Stage, there is Jade Nirvana..."
If she remembered correctly, the so-called Jade Nirvana was to "break the soul bead into powder, scatter it into powder, and transform it into the whole body", that is to say, with the soul bead as the origin, with the help of the majestic earth power, to lay the foundation for the soul, and finally reach the fifth realm of "Golden Body".
Jade Nirvana.
It also means "Nirvana", representing the danger of this state.
The shattered soul bead will cause the pain of the soul being torn apart. If one is not careful, the soul will be reduced to ashes when breaking through this state, and will no longer exist in this world, even the soul will disappear completely.
Therefore, the monks in the Jiyu realm call "Jade Nirvana" a "minor calamity".
The great calamity will only occur in the Nineteenth Continent's Out-of-Body Stage, which is called "questioning the heart". Although there are dangers in the previous cultivation, they are not too excessive and will not reach the level of "dangerous".
Comparatively speaking, the cultivation of extreme realm ghost cultivators is full of uncertain stimulation.
All of this is because it is too difficult to practice from the soul.
Of course, although the cultivators' self-examination calamity comes late, it is the most severe. It is common for their body and soul to be destroyed, and falling into the devil's path is easy.
Jianchou unconsciously compared the similarities and differences between the cultivation in the Jiyu Territory and the Nineteen Continents in his mind, hoping to gain inspiration from them.
"The transformation from pearl to jade is the soul-crushing pearl, which nourishes the soul and prepares for the condensation of the physical body..."
"That is to say, the soul bead will break sooner or later..."
Thinking of this, Jianchou couldn't help but smile bitterly.
The soul orb needs to be broken, but it cannot be broken at any time.
If it shattered when she had reached the right stage of cultivation, it would be the icing on the cake for her to practice Jade Nirvana. But if it shattered before she reached the right stage, she would probably disappear before she could break through this state.
"Little robbery..."
What may seem like a minor disaster to others may be a major disaster to her that may break out at any time.
Jianchou felt a bit bitter in his heart again, and could only hope that he had better luck and that the soul bead would shatter at the right time.
At worst, I can just go for it and try my best to achieve "Jade Nirvana".
He became ruthless in his heart, and the slight fear caused by his missing soul disappeared completely.
Jianchou showed a determined look on his face. He laughed, clapped his hands, stood up, picked up the formation plate on the ground, which had little spiritual energy left, and threw it back into the Qiankun bag.
After more than half a month of meditation and practice, Jianchou's injuries have all recovered, and on this basis, his cultivation has also improved a lot.
The energy of the earth and Yin flows through the body, making it abundant and full.
Although the soul orb has flaws, it can be seen that Chou is also very curious about his current strength.
Especially...
Her eyes flashed, and her thoughts went back to the day when she fought against Xing Wu. Scenes after scenes flashed before her eyes...
Jianchou turned his wrist, and suddenly a wind blew in the quiet study.
The black sword was unsheathed and fell silently into Jianchou's hands. The feeling of his blood beating and the whistling wind lingered in his heart for an instant.
She slowly closed her eyes and let her mind sink with the coming darkness.
At the moment when it sank to the bottom, Jianchou suddenly opened his eyes—
Fly the sword and ride the wind!
boom!
At that moment, a strange scene finally appeared!
Jianchou suddenly turned into a raging black wind, like a thick black tide of ink, filling up most of the study room and causing the bookshelves in the room to shake!
There was no track, only the vague black sword, surrounded by it.
Strands of black wind shuttled madly through the gaps in the black sword and entangled into one!
brush!
After expanding for a moment, the black wind immediately shrank back frantically.
When Jianchou's figure reappeared, he was already standing at the door!
Almost teleportation!
Unpredictable form and speed!
If Xing Wu and Chen Tingyan were here and saw this scene, they would probably scream out in shock.
How similar is this scene to the one in the alley before? !
Jianchou stood at the door with a wonderful expression on his face.
She stared at the long sword in her hand, recalling the feeling just now, the feeling that everything in the world is one with me!
It really melted into the wind, and also dissolved into the wind...
With the help of the black sword made of the unique material of Wind-Swallowing Stone, she took an almost terrifying step forward in her practice of "riding the wind"!
Any technique that is connected with nature and close to "Tao" depends on the inner realization of the cultivator. People like Jianchou, whose soul is incomplete, can be said to be unable to sense the existence of the rules of heaven and earth after entering the out-of-body state, so there is no way for them to merge into the "wind".
But with the help of the Wind-Swallowing Stone, she can stimulate this feeling and merge herself with the black sword, becoming the long wind that passes through the gap!
Riding the wind and holding a sword, how carefree it is!
Although there is only such a small house in front of me, it can be seen that my sad heart has already flown to the blue sky thousands of miles away, breaking through the misty clouds...
A smile appeared on his lips, and finally he couldn't help but let it flow out.
Jianchou stroked the black sword and slowly put it back into the sheath, feeling much relieved.
"After entering the Extreme Domain, I was constrained everywhere. Now I finally have a unique skill that can be used for self-defense. I don't have to worry so much..."
She stretched herself, stretched her muscles, sighed comfortably, then turned around and walked back to the door to study the plum vase again.
Unexpectedly, just as she was about to reach out her hand, the wide sleeves hanging by her side suddenly swayed without any warning.
It was as if something bulging was jumping inside her sleeve.
Jianchou was stunned for a moment, and finally remembered: little mink!
She reached out and took out the spirit beast bag hidden in her sleeve.
Sure enough, there seemed to be something stirring in the bag, anxiously, as if it wanted to come out immediately.
Xiao Diao had not signed any contract with Jianchou, so Jianchou could not sense what Xiao Diao's current state was. She just thought of a serious problem the moment she subconsciously opened the spirit beast bag -
Without Xiaomin's consent, she sold the pile of rags that Xiaomin had collected with great effort...
not good!
We can’t let the little mink out now!
Jianchou subconsciously wanted to withdraw his hand and tie the spirit beast bag tightly again.
However…
It's too late!
“Whoosh!”
But before my eyes, I saw a grey shadow shooting out from the bag like a cat that smelled blood, it was so fast and clever!
It landed on Jianchou's shoulder with incredible accuracy, "Awooo!"
He stuck out his tongue and licked the sticky saliva on Jianchou's neck with a "slurp, slurp" sound!
At that moment, Jianchou froze.
She stood there without moving, only to feel that half of her neck had lost feeling, as if she had been licked by a wolf.
Only one picture emerged in my mind.
Back then in the Killing Red World, this cute little furry creature suddenly opened its mouth without any warning, revealing a bloody mouth that was as wide as three or five meters!
A "Vajra Lion Roar" shocked Gu Qingmei so much that he fell out of the third heaven!
if…
If she told the mink that the rags it had collected with great effort were resold by her, would it open its mouth and bite her half to death
Jianchou slowly turned his neck and looked at the fur ball squatting on his shoulder. Seeing it licking his neck again and again, he felt a chill under his feet...