"How many more days will she need to comprehend?"
Standing on the bank of the Lan River, Hongdie's red dress fluttered in the wind from the river, but there was a hint of smile in her eyes, and she seemed quite emotional.
Qu Zhengfeng was standing beside her, also looking from afar at the figure that had been standing in the Yinxue Pavilion in the middle of the river for three days.
It was already the early morning of the fourth day.
“It is not easy to get an epiphany. Sometimes it lasts only a moment, and it is gone in a flash. Sometimes it lasts for a hundred generations, and you can’t get it even if you die. If you ask me, I don’t know.”
He drew his sword and spoke a few words, just to "set his mind" on Jianchou.
But who could have thought that she had such a high level of understanding
The opportunity of "sudden enlightenment" is often something that monks seek but cannot obtain. For some people, a sudden enlightenment can catch up with other people's three to five years or even thirty to fifty years of practice.
And now, after three days of enlightenment, I am afraid that the harvest should be not small.
"When I first saw her talent, I thought it was ordinary. But later I realized that her mind was the key to her progress in practice. You said..."
Hongdie spoke slowly, and was about to ask Qu Zhengfeng what he thought.
But at this moment, the figure that had been standing in the stone pavilion in the middle of the river in front of him suddenly moved!
Hongdie was startled for a moment, then showed surprise on her face and said with a smile: "It seems that you have realized it."
I have indeed realized it.
The flashes of swords and shadows in his mind finally slowly dissipated. When Jianchou opened his eyes, he saw the Lan River rushing past him, never stopping.
The morning mist was mixed with the scent of sweet osmanthus that drifted from somewhere, and it had a refreshing and elegant feel.
She felt that countless turbulent currents like hot springs gathered together in her limbs and bones, flowing through her non-existent meridians towards the ancestral orifice between her eyebrows.
That was actually extremely pure spiritual power!
At the same time, the soul power that had been hidden deep in the spirit platform for a long time also surged out!
An impulse that is completely uncontrollable!
A sense of grandeur that arises spontaneously from the bottom of my heart!
It seemed that even if the mountains and seas were destroyed, it would not be able to stop her will in the slightest!
Don't draw the sword unless you have the intention to kill!
Don't draw your sword unless you are determined to die!
Without selfishness, the sword will not be drawn!
The so-called drawing the sword, the "intention" of drawing the sword is more important than drawing the sword itself.
Once you understand the true meaning of the word "draw the sword", you will realize that among all the weapons in the world, which one is not drawing the sword? !
At this moment, her spiritual power and soul power have quietly merged, and a chaotic aura gradually emerged. But in this long world, in the Yinxue Pavilion, a dazzling sword light that was enough to shock the world rose up steeply!
“Boom!”
A loud bang that shook the earth!
The broad river surface in front of him was slashed by the sword, and waves rose up. Wherever the sword energy went, all the waters retreated!
The river water on both sides rolled back to the sides, and actually created a wide road that was more than fifty meters wide and connected to the sky in the river!
The real "drawing a sword to cut the water"!
Compared with the vast river, a Snow Drinking Pavilion is insignificant; compared with the countless waves, Jianchou standing in the pavilion is even smaller than a grain of rice; even if it is thrown into the river, it may not cause any ripples.
But even such a tiny existence could cut off the flow of the Lan River with just one slash of its sword!
Hongdie saw this magnificent scene from afar and couldn't help but take a breath, with her eyes shining with infinite amazement.
After a full half moment, the river that was cut off by Jianchou's knife slowly returned to normal.
At this time, the red butterfly took a step, floated up from the river bank, and soon landed in the pavilion.
At this moment, the wind on the river was very strong, lifting Jianchou's robe, giving it a fluttering style.
Even though she had been standing here for three days without sleep, she looked energetic and there was no sign of fatigue in her eyes.
When Hongdie came up, she looked down at the deer-cutting knife in her hand, as if thinking about something.
"Three days of enlightenment, it seems that you have gained a lot."
She walked to Jianchou, smiled, and seemed to be in a good mood.
Jianchou finally came back to his senses from his deep thoughts. He looked up and saw that it was Hongdie. He was surprised for a moment, then smiled and said, "Before, I was trapped in my mind and there was always something I couldn't understand. Now I feel that I have suddenly understood. I have gained a lot, right?"
The move that Jianchou had previously learned in the dungeon of the Night Ship was named "Drawing the Sword".
Now, thanks to Qu Zhengfeng's "instructions" on how to draw his sword, not only did she succeed in "drawing the sword", but her cultivation had also made considerable progress in these three days, and she could barely be classified as a late Nascent Soul stage.
Hongdie could naturally see such changes.
She said, "Your junior brother Bai Yin was originally going to leave three days ago, but because you had an epiphany and he was worried, he stayed here for two more days. It wasn't until there was some news from your master's sect that something seemed to be wrong that he left with Zuo Liu and the kid holding the watermelon. What are your plans now?"
"I?"
Jianchou couldn't help but turn around and look towards the Jiexing Villa on the shore. His eyes paused, and he saw a tall figure on the shore.
Qu Zhengfeng was standing by the river, with his hands behind his back.
When Jianchou turned around, he naturally saw Jianchou, but he had no intention of going over. He just glanced at her calmly, without saying a word, and turned around, walking towards the Jiexing Villa built on the mountain.
Step by step, after a while, the figure gradually faded away.
Jianchou was silent for a while, and then he replied to Hongdie after a long while: "I am going back to Yashan, but before that, I want to find a fellow Taoist from Kunwu to learn from. After returning to Yashan, I should go to the Hidden Realm to fulfill the agreement with the senior."
"…The hidden world?"
Hong Die also saw Qu Zhengfeng leave. She sighed in her heart but did not show it on her face. She only looked up at Jianchou after hearing the second half of his words.
The red butterfly is a demon.
A pair of eyes, with that kind of natural enchantment, as if shrouded in wisps of smoke, making it impossible to see through them.
At this moment, Jianchou only felt a strange emotion in her eyes: "Is there something wrong?"
"No." Hongdie shook her head, lowered her head and sighed, "Hidden Realm, you don't have to go there anymore."
"Don't have to go again?"
Jianchou was a little surprised, and almost immediately thought of the sixty years he had spent in the cracks, and he was afraid that it was too late.
But Hongdie still shook her head, as if she saw what she was thinking: "It's not too late, but..."
And what
He stopped talking in the middle of his words, which was really not what an old demon like Hongdie, who had practiced for thousands of years, should do.
Jianchou became suspicious.
Hongdie waved her hand and looked into the distance: "Why don't you go? You will know when you go."
Once you go, you will know why you don’t have to go.
This sentence was really interesting. And Hongdie's hesitation and vagueness really made Jianchou suspicious. But she didn't say it clearly, and she wouldn't ask more questions.
All in all, you have to go to the hidden world no matter what.
Jianchou thought so and didn't think too much about it. He just raised his hand and bowed to Hongdie, saying, "It's been a long time since I've had this sudden enlightenment. I'm leaving now and bidding farewell to Fairy Hongdie."
"I hope we can meet again some other day."
Hongdie also nodded, and then stood in the Yinxue Pavilion, and saw Chou directly turned into a vague shadow and went straight to the west.
Soon, the figure turned into a blurry shadow.
In a trance, there was no trace of worry or entanglement.
Just floating and swaying like this, free and easy.
Qu Zhengfeng had already stopped on the mountain path not far in front of Jiexing Villa. He just turned sideways and stared at the figure that was gradually moving away, without saying a word.
"If you let her go, I'm afraid you won't have such a good opportunity again in your life."
A slightly cold voice suddenly sounded beside him. Qu Zhengfeng didn't need to look back to know that it was Hong Die who came up.
She didn't say it very clearly, but he knew what she meant.
only…
"I don't want to."
Unwilling.
These two simple words clearly revealed a strange sense of willfulness and insolence. Hongdie thought that these two words would not be surprising if they came out of anyone's mouth, but at this moment, it happened to be Qu Zhengfeng!
"You're crazy! Apart from her, where else in these 19 continents can you find another person who can allow you to truly 'enter the world'?!"
"Who told you that I have not entered the world?"
Qu Zhengfeng's voice was very light, as if it would be blown away by the wind and dissipate into the lush and verdant forest, and disappear in an instant.
He took one last look to the west in the direction where Jianchou disappeared, then took a step and headed back to the top of the mountain.
Hongdie stood there, looking at his back, her ears ringing with his ambiguous words just now, and she suddenly felt endless shock in her heart!
"you-"
"Buzz..."
Before she could finish her words, a mysterious aura descended from the sky between the mountains and rivers, covering an area of a hundred miles!
On the eastern horizon, the red sun was rising, barely illuminating a small half of the sky, but it was not bright enough, so between heaven and earth, there was still a dim remnant of dawn.
But at this moment, there was a stream of light like the Milky Way in the sky, pouring down!
With a loud "boom", thunder shook the four directions!
Then the thousands of feet of light scattered in all directions, and in an instant it had refracted into a faint colorful phantom light, shining on the previously dark and gloomy clouds in the sky, and in the blink of an eye it turned into endless auspicious clouds...
What a tremendous power that is
Sense the heaven and earth and make all things bow down to you!
Many years ago, Hongdie had seen such a scene before.
But she didn't expect that at this moment, in this situation, under this circumstance, she could actually see it!
But Qu Zhengfeng clearly...
Don't understand.
I am extremely confused.
From entering the world to returning to the void, one must comprehend the seven emotions and six desires and transform them into the word "void", so that all these will no longer affect the cultivator, thus being more in line with the way of heaven and nature.
Qu Zhengfeng has indeed reached the pinnacle of his worldly life and is only half a step away from a breakthrough.
But this last point is also the most difficult one!
We had a conversation yesterday, but he was still stuck and hesitant.
How come there was a sudden breakthrough now
Looking at Qu Zhengfeng who had stopped in front of her, enveloped in flowing light, Hong Die felt as if something was stuck in her throat, and her voice was slightly dry and trembling.
"What did you realize?"
What did you realize
Qu Zhengfeng looked up at the dome covered with thousands of auspicious clouds, and in his mind he recalled the pair of eyes he saw when he drew his sword against Jianchou three days ago...
With one hand behind his back, he remained straight.
But at this moment, he slowly closed his eyes, as if to completely bury some thoughts in his heart, and only said to Hongdie: "Let it go."
-lay down.
Hongdie stood there, unable to see Qu Zhengfeng's expression. She could only see him rising up again and climbing the stairs. The mountain breeze blew up his robe, and the light pouring down from the sky illuminated the golden cloud-thunder pattern embroidered on it, sparkling...
At this moment, Jiexing Villa has become the focus of the entire Nineteen Continents.
Northern Zen Buddhism, the top of the hundred-meter-high pagoda.
A monk holding a Zen staff and 108 prayer beads looked far to the southeast. The wind was strong at high altitude, blowing his unique snow-white cassock, but it did not move his body even a little.
At this moment, he only uttered the Buddha's name: "Amitabha..."
The Snowy Tantric Sect, on top of the vast frozen snowfield.
A huge deep blue lake, like a piece of clear glass or a shining gem, is inlaid on the snow-covered plateau.
A pair of eyes the same color as the lake water slowly opened at the bottom of the lake, and the flowing lake water condensed into her vaguely graceful body.
"Ask the world, what is love..."
Under the Moon-Lanyue Palace on Yashan Mountain, on the high platform of the altar.
The huge mirror seemed to sense the changes in the world and suddenly lit up. Then, the withered skeleton covered with dust sitting on it slowly came to life.
The plump flesh and blood reappeared on his body.
A pair of old eyes looked towards somewhere in the void, and let out a long sigh.
…
Just like when the night ship accident happened that day, at this moment, all the powerful monks who could sense the strange phenomena in heaven and earth had already learned of Qu Zhengfeng's breakthrough.
For a cultivator, entering the secular world is the sixth level, and returning to the void is the seventh level.
The former can be called an "old monster", but the latter, whoever sees him, has to call him "mighty". It can be said that in the entire 19th continent, there are only a few cultivators who can be called powerful!
In less than sixty years, he leaped through three realms!
From the Nascent Soul to the Out-of-Body state, from the Out-of-Body state to the In-World state, and then from the In-World state to the Return to the Void state…
Qu Zhengfeng's speed was so fast that it frightened everyone!
Even Hengxu, who is now a giant, could not help but remain silent.
Kunwu Peaks are located in the left three thousand. At this time, the sun has not yet risen, and the night is still coming to an end. In the One Crane Hall, the candle on the bronze crane lamp is about to burn out, and the light and shadow appear dim.
Zhenren Hengxu stood at the entrance of the hall and looked in the direction of the sea of tomorrow's stars.
The colorful glow in the east pierced through the darkness before dawn and illuminated all directions, but it cast an even deeper shadow in his heart.
He stood there for a long time, without moving an inch until the glow of the sunset disappeared.
In the back hall, there were light footsteps.
Each step seemed to follow a certain rhythm, and it was very comfortable to the ears. But in that clear voice, there was a hint of coldness that was hard to detect: "Master."
Hengxu didn't look back.
He just slowly closed his eyes and said in a very calm voice: "This boy has been harboring evil intentions for a long time. Now that he has returned to the void, he will surely cause great disaster in the future."
The person standing behind him, his shadow cast by the flickering candlelight on the dark and cold ground, looked exceptionally tall and indifferent.
Hearing Hengxu's words, he did not respond, but slowly put his hands behind his back.
Then, the foot-long rectangular shadow he held in his hand on the ground also moved and disappeared in the shadow cast by his body.
…
At this time, Jianchou had just entered the Shattered Immortal City and stood outside the Tiandi Nilu Inn.
A figure in a gray robe stood quietly under the old willow tree in front of the store. In his hand, there were no longer the lotus leaves and lotus pods that he used to hold when boating on the lake, but a long sword with a gray-green scabbard.
It was none other than the Hermit Sword that Jianchou was looking for, Wang Que, who is now the number one on the Fourth Heaven Monument.
"Fellow Daoist Jianchou, we meet again."
The first one to say hello was Wang Que, still looking indifferent.
Jianchou smiled and walked forward: "When we met by chance in the lake that day, I wanted to compete with Daoist Wang Que. Now I am here, fortunately Daoist Wang Que is still here, I wonder if you are willing to give it a try?"
"It's okay to test your strength, but why should I agree?"
Wang also smiled, but raised a seemingly tricky question.
Jianchou immediately raised his eyebrows.
She was delayed for three days because of her sudden realization and did not come to see Wang Que in time. But when she arrived today, Wang Que was standing under this old willow tree. No matter how you looked at it, it didn't seem like he just happened to be here.
If you want to fight, just fight. What other excuses do you need
But since the king wanted a reason, then what was wrong with her giving one
The smile in his eyes deepened for a moment, and also had a dark and ambiguous meaning.
Jianchou stretched out her hand into the void, and the Human Emperor Sword, which had fallen into her hand since Qingfeng Temple disappeared into the hidden world, appeared in front of Wang Que. His pupils shrank instantly, and he felt an unprecedented sense of danger!
The Human Emperor Sword!
Isn’t this the sword of his junior brother Xie
How could it fall into Jianchou's hands!
In his mind, the countless rumors he had heard in the past, as well as the various inside stories he had learned during his recent contact with Kunwu, all flashed through his mind one by one.
The king clenched the Hermit Sword in his hand, but said nothing, just looked at Jianchou.
Jianchou didn't keep him in suspense and just said calmly: "If you can win, you can take this Human Emperor Sword back to Kunwu and return it to its original owner; if I win, you must tell me the truth about my recent situation - in this battle, do you dare to bet with me, fellow Daoist Wang Que?"