"It seems that this is the small temple he was talking about."
Luobei drove for more than fifty miles in the direction pointed by the villain on the black wooden guide car, and a small temple appeared in front of him. The two-way bay was only a dozen feet long and wide. It seemed to be a long time ago. Grass has grown, and it is late autumn now, and the grass is all withered, shaking in the wind.
The two temple gates were in dilapidated condition, and even the bolts had decayed and fallen off.
There were originally three characters on the plaque on the temple gate, but the paint surface was so mottled that one could only vaguely make out what it was called Wang Temple, and the first character could not be seen clearly.
"This may be a mountain temple built by the nearby mountain people. It's just that the world is in chaos now, and the mountain people themselves are too busy to take care of themselves. This mountain temple is also rarely visited, and it has been abandoned for a long time."
Luo Bei entered the temple gate and saw a statue of a golden armored god sitting in the temple. It didn't look like an ordinary Buddha statue or land. The incense burner and other things in front of the golden armored statue were also gone, and the whole hall was full of dust. Suddenly there was a rattling sound, and it turned out that a transom window at the back of the hall was also broken, and the mountain wind blew and rattled. Those fallen leaves all over the place should have been blown in through this transom.
"This golden-armored god statue seems to be solid, is there any mechanism?"
Luo Bei looked left and right, and then carefully looked around the golden armor statue in the temple. He found that although the temple was dilapidated, it might have been a prosperous time when it was built in the past. This statue of a golden armored god seemed to be solid when he flicked his fingers, and even the base was made of a whole piece of rock.
Luo Bei looked at the golden armored statue carefully for a long time, but he couldn't see any mechanism. Suddenly, he found a shallow mark on the base of the golden armored statue, which seemed to be left by a heavy object. Same.
"This mark seems to be the position of the previous statue. Someone moved the statue, and when it was put back, it was not completely placed in its original position. That's why this mark was exposed outside."
Seeing this imprint, Luo Bei's heart suddenly flashed, he picked the position of the statue's arm, and pushed it to the side.
Although this statue is not big, it weighs at least several hundred catties. It is also because of this weight and the reverence of the mountain people for the statue, so everything inside is lost, but no one dares to move this statue. . But Luobei is now exerting all his strength, and this statue is not particularly heavy for him. With a sudden exertion, the statue was slowly brought down by him, and fell to one side from the base.
"Sure enough, it is in the belly of this statue."
As expected, the statue is solid, and the inside seems to be made of copper and lead, black and yellow in color, but from the bottom to the top, there should be a two-foot-square hole dug out by the man in the blue cloth with a sharp knife. As soon as the statue was brought down, Luobei saw a small camphorwood box inside.
"This is the map that should be the Shenxiao Cave Mansion."
Luo Bei opened the camphorwood box, and saw a golden booklet inside, but when it was unfolded, it was a piece of gold leaf. It was made of gold mixed with some other fine gold. It was thin, tough, and foldable. This thin gold foil seems to be some pictures of mountains and rivers, which are indeed like a map, but on these pictures of mountains and rivers, there are some strange runes in the shape of tadpoles floating on them, which are similar to those of Luobei. All the ancient characters I've seen are different, and I don't understand what they mean at all.
"The man in the blue cloth is right. Even if Liu Daodan got this map, if he can't comprehend the meaning of these weird runes, he won't know where the map refers to, and it's impossible to know where it is. The location of the Shenxiao Cave Mansion."
"Liu Daodan deliberately plotted to seize this map, but never thought that this map has never been out of this mountain forest, and it is in the belly of this ordinary statue."
Luo Bei couldn't help sighing slightly again in his heart when he thought of the dead ancestor Heifeng and the man in blue cloth.
"En?" At this moment, Luo Bei suddenly became alert, and felt the slightest sound of wind coming from above his head. When he looked up, he found a large white python hanging down from the suspended attic above his head, curling towards him. come over.
It turns out that there are suspended attics above the Buddha statues in Dafan temples, and there are no stairs. Usually, long bamboo ladders are used to go up and down, and they are used by people in the temple to pile up some scattered sundries. This kind of attic is most likely to be inhabited by long insects. There is a famous story in Zhiyi. It is recorded that a monk in a temple once practiced bitter meditation. He did not eat grains, but only ate fallen leaves. I am so ecstatic that I can soar up just around the corner. The people in the temple didn't believe it. When they saw him sitting in front of the Buddha statue and chanted sutras, they found that he was really three feet off the ground, but fell again. All the monks in the temple were astonished, but suddenly someone noticed that there seemed to be a huge black shadow above the attic, and when they saw it clearly, they found it was a giant python. It turned out that the monk only ate fallen leaves, and his body was already weightless. The giant python wanted to suck the monk directly into its mouth. And this monk didn't know it, he thought he was about to ascend to Taoism soon.
Right now this temple is in the middle of a mountain forest, but this attic also happens to be inhabited by such a big python. This big python usually feeds on birds and animals in the mountain forest, and it has grown very large. Now that the statue fell, it When he found the breath of a stranger, he rolled down all of a sudden, but he wanted to swallow Luo Bei alive.
This quick roll was very fast, before Luo Bei could release the three thousand pagodas, he was already wrapped up by this large white python, but Luo Bei was not panicked at all, because the time between the rolls , Luobei already felt that this giant python was not a strange species like Wuqiu, let alone cultivated the inner alchemy, it was not enlightened at all.
"I'm just hungry, if you want to eat me, I'll eat you!"
With a sneer in his heart, Luo Bei took a sharp breath, and shook his whole body again, all the muscles and arms of his body exploded at once, only a few clicks were heard, and all the joints of this ordinary giant python were all blown away by Luo Bei. The support fell off, and it slid on the ground like a ball of mud.
At this moment, Luobei itself was extremely hungry and thirsty, and when he thought of the scene where Liu Daodan was killed by the sweat in the blue cloth because of his kindness, his heart hardened, and with a flash of sword light, he directly cut off the head of the giant python.
Together with Patriarch Heifeng, Luobei also endured a lot of days of drinking blood. At this moment, without lighting a fire, he drank the blood of the giant python, cut a piece of snake meat and ate it.
With a full stomach and a rush of blood, Luo Bei's resentful and violent mood gradually calmed down.
"Master is right, the law of the way of heaven is the law of the jungle."
Looking at the dead body of the boa constrictor in front of him, Luo Bei felt even more comprehensible about this sentence in his heart.
Strength, for the first time Luobei deeply felt how important strength is.
If he was just a mortal, he might be swallowed by this python right now. If he had enough strength, he would not have to stand by and watch when he met someone like Liu Daodan.
"Up to now, no one from the Beiman Sect or Gochen Tiandao has appeared nearby, and maybe they haven't discovered the fighting skills here. This attic is not bad, so why not just refine the true energy of Patriarch Heifeng here."
Luo Bei looked up at the suspended attic where the python jumped down, and instantly made up his mind.
First moved the python corpse to the mountain forest outside the temple, dug a hole and buried it, and then pushed the golden armored statue back to the base with all his strength, Luo Bei jumped up, touched the statue, and then lightly jumped into the air. in the attic.
The windows around this suspended attic have long since been dilapidated, making creaking sounds in the mountain wind, and there is still a translucent snake skin left on the ground beside it, which seems to be left by the big python when it shed its skin, but Luo Bei didn't care about it, he just cleared out a space of one or two feet square, and then sat down cross-legged, pinching the practice formula of the Heavenly Eternal Life Sutra.
The aura of heaven and earth in the mountains and forests here is also very thin, but the thinner it is, the more at ease it is for Luobei to practice, because if the aura is abundant, as long as there are people who know a little bit about the qi-watching technique, they can feel that the aura of heaven and earth has been suppressed. The absorption is so strong that it forms a funnel shape around the cultivator, and it is easy to see where someone is practicing. It is difficult to see the changes in the spiritual energy of the world in such a place where the spiritual energy is thin.
At this moment, Luobei is practicing according to the cultivation method of the Heavenly Eternal Life Sutra of Wonderful Thoughts, and the aura of heaven and earth that he inhales into his body is not even one-tenth of that when he practiced in his residence on Tianhao Peak in Shushan Mountain. But when the inhaled heaven and earth spiritual energy and true essence flowed through the sea of mud pill consciousness, and when the ancestor Heifeng poured the sapphire-like true essence into his sea of consciousness, the sapphire-like true essence After being slightly refined, Luobei felt that the aura of heaven and earth and true energy he inhaled had grown dozens of times, just like a small stream suddenly turned into a surging river.
Luobei had the experience of refining Wuqiu Neidan, and he was not at all alarmed when he encountered such a situation. He just continued to drive the aura and true essence to run in the body according to the formula of the Delusion of Heaven's Eternal Life Sutra, and it was only the second week. One day, a substantial golden thread of true essence was smelted. As soon as it merged into the sea of consciousness, Luo Bei immediately felt that countless golden stars in his sea of consciousness suddenly brightened up, only slightly fused with a trace of the black wind patriarch's light. The true essence, the true essence that Luobei lost before, was replenished all at once.
"The gap between me and these masters who rule the world is really too far."
At this time, Luobei could clearly feel the gap between himself and a person with such a high level of cultivation as Patriarch Heifeng.
Originally, when practicing the Sutra of Heavenly Eternal Life, this kind of perception can easily trigger the fear barrier, because the inner demons during the practice of the Sutra of Heavenly Eternal Life can magnify people's emotions ten times, dozens of times. It will cause people to have a fear obstacle that they are too small in comparison, and they cannot cultivate to the level of others. However, after these dozens of days of tempering, Luo Bei's mind has become more determined. Coupled with what he has seen and heard in the past few days, Luo Bei, who has a deep understanding of what Yuan Tianyi said, is more thirsty for strength than ever before. Coupled with the feeling of the all-conquering sword intent in the Three Thousand Buddhas, now Luobei is full of bravery, diligence, and indomitable momentum.
So this kind of heart demon came, and even the illusion that ordinary ascetics would see did not appear, and it was easily broken by Luo Bei.
And Luobei also discovered at the same time that what the ancestor of Heifeng poured into him was completely pure true essence, which was completely different from Wuqiu's inner alchemy mixed with mottled medicinal power. Compared with the speed of refining Wuqiu Neidan before, it can be said to be more than ten times faster.