In late June, the new campus of Songcheng University.
"It feels like I haven't been here for a long, long time..." Yan Zheke stood on the long bridge, looking at the Weishui Lake illuminated by street lamps, and the waterside road where Lou Cheng and Lou Cheng walked around countless times day after day. , I just feel that every scenery and every corner can remind me of different pictures.
Everything in the past, breaking through the time gap of two years, reappeared vividly in her mind.
Lou Cheng also sighed, and echoed with emotion: "I haven't walked this road for almost a year."
But from time to time, I will think back, thinking about the initial throbbing and the purest beauty, thinking about the hard-won share, and telling myself not to take it for granted, but to know how to cherish and maintain it.
"Let's go, my sister invites you to take another walk~" Yan Zheke's starry eyes were bright, and she stretched out her slender right hand with a smile on her lips.
Lou Cheng grasped it, looked forward, coughed twice, laughed and said:
"I remember that every time you took the initiative to invite me to take a walk by the lake, you were implying and acquiescing that I could make out..."
What about today
Yan Zheke's eyes widened and her mouth was half-opened when she heard that, her pretty face blushed uncontrollably and said:
"No!"
"It's all because you are too rascal!"
"I won't go for a walk with you!" She added bitterly, trying to withdraw her palm, but Lou Cheng held it tightly, unable to break free, so she gritted her teeth and followed behind "aggrieved", From the end of the long bridge down to the lake, along the memories of the past, across familiar scenes, wandering in the journey of reality and illusion.
The holding hands at that time, the first kiss at that time, the wooden bench that the girl took out the tissues and the boy was responsible for cleaning it, the casual gossip at that time, the youthful feeling of being satisfied after taking a walk every night and secretly kissing a few times , suddenly vividly, Yan Zheke and Lou Cheng seem to have stepped into the gap between the past and the present.
"It's okay, it's a good thing we're still together, otherwise it would be a pity, a pity..." Yan Zheke suddenly said with emotion.
Such a regret will be a wound that will never heal for a lifetime.
Lou Cheng moved his fingers secretly, intertwined with the little fairy, and solemnly promised:
"We'll keep going."
"Yeah!" Yan Zheke nodded vigorously.
After walking a few more steps, Lou Cheng pointed to the side of the road, laughed twice and said:
"This is where I found the herring and picked up the golden elixir."
"Here..." Yan Zheke stretched her eyebrows, looked curiously, and whispered.
She stared carefully for a few seconds, then suddenly turned sideways to the lake, clasped her hands together, slightly closed her bright eyes, and muttered.
"Ke Ke, what are you doing?" Lou Cheng asked blankly.
The girl's dimples appeared, her lips were slightly pursed, and she said with a sweet smile:
"I'm thanking classmate Herring! If it weren't for it, maybe some fool would have retreated by himself. This is the origin of everything!"
"It probably won't like it when you say that... death is worse than life." Lou Cheng smiled and shook his head, then cleared his throat and said, "The real reason should be that I saw you wearing Hanfu standing outside the Martial Arts Club, and finally mustered up the courage To strike up a conversation, I wouldn't be running by the lake at all if it weren't for this."
Yan Zheke half-turned her starry eyes, and asked back with a rippling smile:
"Is that the line, 'Just because the crowd took one more look at you'?"
She has a clear voice and a beautiful singing voice.
Lou Cheng listened with a smile, and joked: "Student Ke Xiaoke, are you talking sweet words to me?"
"If you say yes, then yes~" Yan Zheke put her hands behind her back and walked forward lightly.
The young couple circled the lake, relived the feeling in the place where they had been intimate before, and after calming down the heat on their faces and breathing rhythm, they finally waited for old man Shi.
He is still old, but the frequency of coughing has decreased significantly. The nine-character formula improves the spirit, and the spirit nourishes the body. Although it did not completely heal his old injuries, it also eased him a lot.
"Go into the water, don't tell me, old man, I really forgot about such a thing." Comrade Shi Jianguo admitted frankly.
Yan Zheke covered her mouth and laughed, she just felt that the master and apprentice are really similar in some aspects!
It's not that the whole family does not enter the house!
Um, am I scolding myself...
Unreliable old man... Lou Cheng secretly slandered, took out his mobile phone, wallet and other items, and handed them to his wife.
After thinking about it for a while, he felt that there was no need to force himself to be an expert. Old man Shi also left his mobile phone behind and walked into the lake step by step. The cold air around his body was filled with crystals, and if he wanted to freeze himself, it would not affect his movements.
Lou Cheng imitated and did as he did, and after taking a deep breath, every inch of his skin shone coldly.
The master and apprentice walked farther and farther, with fewer and fewer body parts exposed to the water. In the end, they settled down and completely disappeared in front of Yan Zheke.
Surrounded by waves, there was pressure coming, Lou Cheng let his body enter the state of fetal breath, just like practicing underwater, seeking the alienation of the root marrow.
—At his current level, he can stay underwater for ten or twenty minutes without any problem.
Amidst the swaying lush aquatic plants, old man Shi's mouth moved, causing ripples, causing them to rush to Lou Cheng's side in circles, bringing a voice that seemed to come from the horizon:
"The bottom of the lake is quite big. I did a rough search for my teacher at the beginning, but found nothing. Is it necessary to investigate inch by inch this time?"
Lou Cheng also replied via sound transmission: "Master, you think, the herring swallowed the golden core, it must have had an attack on the spot, the range it can swim or jump is limited, we may find it near the place where we found it. Gained."
"If you can't find it, I will smack you for the sake of the teacher!" Old man Shi always felt that his apprentice was often unreliable.
Keeping their feet on the ground and moving forward slowly, Lou Cheng and old man Shi looked around in the dark sparkling water waves, discerned the peculiarities, and condensed the "ice mirror" or "cave enemy ice heart" to understand the subtleties.
After searching for more than half a circle in the area near the lake, old man Shi suddenly stopped, frowned and said:
"Don't tell me, the feeling here is different from the last time my teacher came here, it seems to be changing according to the phase of the moon..."
A single inspection cannot find the problem, but after two comparisons, the abnormality appears!
With his powerful night vision ability, Lou Cheng grasped the faint brilliance underwater, looked around, and had a panoramic view of this area.
There are dense gravel stones, swaying water plants, and garbage thrown by someone. Apart from these, there is nothing else, let alone a place like the entrance of a cave.
After pondering for a few seconds, Lou Cheng formed seal formulas with his hands according to the pre-drawn plan, constantly changing, and the ancient characters of visualization in his mind jumped accordingly.
"Come! Soldiers! Fighters!" He opened his mouth and uttered a sound, and the sound shook the surroundings, causing the water waves to rise and fall in a regular manner.
"All! Array! Row! Forward! Go!"
As soon as the word "Xing" came out, nine seal characters appeared in the depths of Lou Cheng's heart lake, combining to form that three-dimensional rune that seemed to hide a strong mystery.
Rumble!
At this moment, there was a low buzzing echo from nowhere, and as the water waves swayed, a gap opened in the bottom of the lake composed of gravel and stones, revealing the stone steps extending down.
"Using the moon to attract and arrange the blindfold..." Old man Shi commented "disdainfully", "Stinky boy, the night you got the golden elixir was the waning moon, right? And herrings don't have much wisdom."
"I don't remember..." Lou Cheng answered truthfully.
"What do you remember?" Old man Shi shook his head and scolded with a smile, walking along the stone steps to the inside of the cave, the inside was wet but there was no water.
Lou Cheng resisted the surge of his heart, followed behind the master, went deep into the bottom, and saw the simple and empty stone room.
There is only one cloud bed here, on which are several pieces of yellowed paper and a tattered feather coat.
"It's not like the Dongfu where Daoist Longhu lived in daily life..." Old man Shi, who had seen many relics of cultivation, frowned and whispered.
Lou Cheng looked around and guessed:
"Maybe it's a closed place?"
The feather robe seems to be worn by the real dragon and tiger before his death, so what about his body
"It's possible." Old man Shi moved closer, just as he was about to reach out to pick up the feather coat, but the breeze caused the other party to rot instantly, and it was scattered in the stone room!
On the contrary, the notebook-like pages remained intact.
Lou Cheng stared at it, and read the text on the first sheet:
"The deadline is approaching. It is a pity, a pity, a pity that I have worked hard for a hundred and thirty years to paint cakes."
"The predecessors seek the independence of the soul, want to bear a baby in the golden core, get rid of the shackles of the flesh, and travel between the heaven and the earth. Unfortunately, for thousands of years, no one has succeeded, and the rest will not go this way, just like the immortal heaven and earth. , to seek the longevity of life, but the road ahead is boundless and full of dangers, and it ends here."
Old man Shi flipped through the other papers and went down quickly. At the end, the master and the apprentice finally understood what Master Longhu had done and why his golden elixir had been preserved to this day.
According to Daoist Longhu, once a cultivator sits down, the golden pill that loses the presidency of the "spiritual soul" will either quickly lose control and explode, or barely maintain a balance, and then quickly disperse in the follow-up. It reflects nature, balances and rotates, and hopes to be "immortal" like heaven and earth.
Based on this, before he sat down, he planned to try his best, which is to reverse the spirit to feed back the physical body, so that the body will be completely wiped out, so as to ignite the spirit, and completely integrate the "spiritual soul" and the golden core. The "immortality" of the golden elixir has gained its own eternal existence-for possible success, he changed the order of the stars inside the golden elixir, and "engraved" the nine-character formula and his own exercises in it.
This line of thinking is unprecedented, and Daoist Longhu is not sure at all. Before trying it, write down notes for the reference of fellow Taoists, which can be regarded as trial and error for latecomers.
As for what happened in the middle, Lou Cheng and Old Man Shi have no way of knowing, they can only see the final result, that is, Daoist Dragon and Tiger failed to survive forever, Jindan did not have an independent will, but it survived strangely until now.
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