On the eighth day of May, on Laohua Mountain in the northeast of Jiudaokou County, there was a man walking on the mountain road holding a book, but paying attention to his surroundings with his peripheral vision and hearing.
He was wearing a gray long-sleeved robe, with a wooden hairpin stuck in the small bun on his head, with bangs in front of his hair. He was carrying a baggage and an umbrella. He seemed to be walking slowly, but in fact he was walking very slowly.
In order to prevent getting lost, Ji Yuan traveled neither too fast nor too slowly these days. Whenever he had the opportunity, he asked for directions and stopped briefly in various counties to appreciate the customs and customs that were rarely seen in his previous life.
Naturally, there is a purpose for walking slowly on Laohua Mountain this time.
Although Laohua Mountain is far less vast than Niokui Mountain, it is not small either. It has a radius of about twenty or thirty miles. Don’t underestimate this number. A radius of twenty or thirty miles is equivalent to a circular area with a radius of more than ten kilometers. In addition, the mountain road is difficult Okay, for ordinary people who are not Laohuashan, it is already quite difficult to cross Laohua Mountain.
There is a deep pool in Laohua Mountain, which was actually mentioned in a heretic biography. There have been few stories in Jizhou for many years, so Ji Yuan planned to set aside a day to visit the deep pool.
What to do? fishing!
There is a saying in a heretical biography: There is Laohua Mountain in Jizhou, Dazhen Kingdom. There is a secluded pool in the mountain. There is no river on the top and no swamp on the bottom. The fish in the pool are the essence of the water.
Ji Yuan just wanted to see if this fish was the so-called water essence, or was blown by a typhoon and tornado, or both.
At this moment, when he walked to the corner of a mountain col, Ji Yuan finally found what he was looking for. He collected the book directly, stuffed it into his arms, then stood up and jumped towards a burst of green in the distance.
Borrowing strength from a few trees in the forest, we finally landed in front of a bamboo forest.
Look at the bamboos in this bamboo forest. Most of them are long and thin and sway with the mountain wind. They are exactly Ji Yuan’s ideal fishing rods.
Take a piece of suitable size and length, bend down and tap lightly on its root with two fingers.
With a "click~" sound, the bamboo cut smoothly.
While walking in the mountains, he chopped off the bamboo branches with his knife. Within a moment, a slender green bamboo pole appeared in Ji Yuan's hand.
I grabbed it and shook it, and it made a "woohoo...woohoo..." sound that broke through the air, which was very pleasant to listen to.
"Looks good!"
Ji Yuan was very satisfied with the bamboo.
There was fishing line and hooks in the bag, and he had no need for a buoy.
What made Ji Yuan a little curious was that the fishing line he bought was also a transparent silk thread, and it was quite tough. After asking the seller, he found out that it was actually made by extruding silk pulp and stretching it. Each fishing line represents a One or several poor silkworms that failed to spin cocoons...
When Ji Yuan arrived at the deep pool, a brand new emerald green fishing rod was ready. He did not need additional processing and reinforcement, because once a fish bites the hook, as long as it is not too exaggerated, at that moment he will supplement the fishing rod with The aura can be thrown up directly.
The deep pool in front of him was round in shape, with a diameter of only ten or twenty feet at most, which was much smaller than Ji Yuan had imagined. Look at the water in the pool, it was turquoise, but deeper, it was completely black, and there was nothing visible at all, and there was nothing there. movement.
"Can there be fish here?"
After muttering, Ji Yuan found a cool and suitable place to cast his fishing rod. The bait was not earthworms, but a grain of cooked rice, but it contained a trace of spiritual energy.
Thread the bait on a thin hook and swing the fishing rod.
The flexible green bamboo swayed with force.
With a "dong~" sound, the fishhook was thrown into the pool, causing a small ripple.
Fishing requires patience. With Ji Yuan's current keen sense of touch, he can immediately feel any special movement of a straight fishhook under the water, without having to worry about missing the fish if he is distracted.
So Ji Yuan took out a book to read. This time he read "Tong Ming Ce".
Although it is also a heavenly book, the content is completely different. Ji Yuan had briefly read it before and knew that Tongmingce was much more "serious" than the heretical legends.
Although it is not a true method of cultivating immortality, it points out the difficulties and dangers in various cultivation passes. The author of the book should have collected the opinions of many cultivators and combined them with his own experience to summarize them. The book contains It even includes some Shinto and fairy content.
In the words of Ji Yuan's previous life, it is a book that can truly benefit those who cultivate immortality.
But why is Tongmingce still a "miscellaneous book"? Ji Yuan's point of view is that the author of the book has too many assumptions and guesses, and the proportion of practical information is relatively small compared to the content of the book. And who can read the Book of Heaven does not know that content, so it has become a "miscellaneous book" .
But Ji Yuan is different. Although the content is much duller than the other teachings, it is still useful knowledge. However, in theory, Ji Yuan cannot use this knowledge for the time being, because he does not even practice Qi Jue.
"Practice Qi to transform into the spirit, and the spirit to appear and the Dharma to be born are both magic power and spiritual power... The so-called mysterious entrance to the heart is either dispensable or crucial..."
'Hey... the road is still long! '
He was fishing and reading at the same time. After waiting like this, an hour passed. There was no movement from Ji Yuan's fishing rod, so he couldn't help but lift up the fishing rod and take a look, and found that the rice grains were still there.
'Pagans are deceiving people? Or is this fish extinct over time? '
He looked up at the sun high in the sky.
'Could it be at night? '
Ji Yuan was not impatient, maybe it was from the mountain temple that he had developed good qi-nurturing skills.
He took out a piece of bread from the bag and started to chew it slowly. This pancake was bought in Jiudaokou County. It is as big as two palms put together. There are 5 pieces in the bag. It is still soft. The pancake is slightly sweet and there are some dried vegetables in it. The fillings are very tasty.
As the sky gradually darkened, the sunset appeared on the horizon and the stars began to show above the head, but Ji Yuan heard a special sound in his ears, not from the deep pool, but from the mountains.
"Hehehe... there is Bishuitan ahead, we are finally here! Walk faster, walk faster!"
"Oh, you're so energetic, I'm exhausted!"
Crisp sounds came intermittently from a distance, and as the sounds approached, bursts of light footsteps also entered Ji Yuan's ears.
A man and a woman, two children of about thirteen or fourteen years old, wearing clean light blue silk robes, nimbly climbed over the rocks and jumped over the stream, walked through the trees to the most tranquil place in Laohua Mountain.
"Oh, there's someone there!"
The girl among them was shocked, and her companion seemed to have just seen Ji Yuan in the distance.
"Really, it's getting dark. What is he doing? Fishing?"
"It seems so! Hahaha... He thought he could catch it!"
"Come on, come on, it's so rare, let's go and tease him!"
"whee!"
The two of them slowed down as they were far away, and quietly approached the deep pool, as if they wanted to scare Ji Yuan. When they were about ten meters away, the two of them looked at each other, smiled, and then moved their hands forward in a tacit understanding. Open your mouth.
"Hey~~!"
The image of the fisherman being so frightened that he threw his fishing rod away did not appear at all. Ji Yuan looked like a deaf man, holding the fishing rod and reading the book on his lap, taking a bite of the pancake from time to time.
"Not scared?"
"Deaf?"
"Disappointment!" "Hey!"
The two children felt quite bored and walked towards the edge of the deep pool. At this moment, Ji Yuan's upright voice suddenly rang out.
"Not fun?"
The two people who were walking were suddenly frightened and trembled.
"Aren't you deaf?"
"How unreasonable are you to still scare us?"
The two children, a boy and a girl, seemed a little angry. Ji Yuan turned around and smiled.
"It's so rare!"
The two children's momentum suddenly froze, and they looked at each other with slightly stunned expressions.