Long Qiu walked through the forest, pushed aside the weeds, and saw a shallow trench at his feet, winding like a snake to the foot of a mountain. The color of the desolate and cold southern winter forest changed instantly.
The mountain is less than a hundred feet high and less than a hundred miles in circumference. It is hard and straight, with prominent edges and corners. It is made of black, white, red, blue and yellow rocks, and there is no grass, barren and strange.
The Qi of the Five Elements comes from all directions, and once it arrives here, it is absorbed by the mountain and deposited. Yin and Yang, however, flow unimpeded, converging and converging on the mountain, entangled for three moments, and then flow away separately.
"Sure enough, it's a treasure land. You are so blessed to be next to this mountain." Long Qiu sighed.
"It wasn't like this in the past. About ten years ago, the vegetation gradually became barren, and the rocks also changed color. A master accidentally caught a wild soldier, and it became the forbidden area of Meishan."
Long Tang took Ajie down the mountain, and took out a token. Several sailors who guarded came over, seeing that it was the order of the head of the Fu family, looked at Long Qiu, and asked, "Who is this?"
"She is my elder sister. Master asked her to come and see with me. We will go back in a while."
"Then pay attention, the mountain is not very flat recently."
"Are rampant soldiers making trouble again?"
"It's no wonder they don't make trouble. Well, you guys go up quickly."
They guard here and don't often go back to the county seat. They only think that Long Qiu is a disciple of the younger generation that the Fu family intends to cultivate.
The two were allowed to hike up the mountain. Xiaoqiu looked at it all the way, and there were indeed rocks of five colors all over the place, and the five elements qi gathered and crystallized here, like a dead place. But who would have thought that this dead place is an excellent place to breed another kind of life.
"Rampant soldiers are different from ordinary wandering ghosts. Although they have no intelligence, they are unrestrained, rude and direct, arrogant and domineering. They will make trouble every once in a while, making us uneasy, so we will give them some wine and meat Eat."
When the two of them reached a certain distance, Long Tang stopped, opened the bag, first pulled out a piece of red cloth and spread it on the ground, then took out several bottles of wine and bloody meat.
"Rampant soldiers have a simple mind. If you give them good food and drink, they won't make things difficult for you. It's also easy to accept rampage."
As she spoke, she took out another earthen talisman and pasted it on the wine and food, muttered a few words, and then with a loud sound, the whole piece of red cloth burned.
In an instant, Long Qiu felt that the atmosphere around him was not right, as if a few groups of extremely restless guys were rushing in, hovering above the flames. And as the wine and meat burned out, the breath showed a satisfied mood, and they dispersed one after another.
"Okay, they won't be arguing anymore, let's move on."
Long Tang stood up and pulled his sister straight up to the top of the mountain. There was nothing special about the top of the mountain, it was bare. After the two of them strolled around and returned to the mountainside, she said again:
"The grades of rampant soldiers are different. You can compare them with living creatures. For example, men with average physiques are the lowest, then stronger ones, then very strong ones, and then tigers, bears and other ferocious beasts. Of course The best ones are the high-ranking rampant soldiers who have the bravery of a million men, and they can even be rampant generals, but unfortunately I have never seen any of them."
"Are they formed regularly?"
"Uh, the environment before death has something to do with it, but not too much. It mainly depends on the chance after death. Sister, do you want to take one for a try?" Long Tang asked.
In the booklet given by Fu Fasheng, there are recorded the formulas of restraining rampant and letting rampant. Long Qiu had already read it through, thought for a while and said, "Let's forget it. I don't think there are too many rampant soldiers here. Let's talk about raising them. Or I'll look for it again to see if there are similar places elsewhere."
"Alright, you're so powerful, you can't take a trash under your command..."
A-mei's eyes fluttered, her nose wrinkled slightly, and she said with a smile: "Maybe you can be like Zhang Wulang, with 300,000 soldiers under his command, and be a majestic female marshal!"
"Are you looking for a fight?"
Long Qiu pinched her face and tugged, the two of them were laughing and laughing, as if they had returned to their childhood.
Before he knew it, Xiaoqiu had stayed in Anhua for more than ten days, and during this period, except for Long Tang, he had never seen any Miao people.
Maybe they have ghosts in their hearts, guilt, and fear, and they hide anyway and dare not show their faces.
Long Qiu didn't care either, she was mainly investigating the situation of the Fu family. The Fu family was also a big family in Meishan a hundred years ago, but it is a pity that one generation is not as good as the previous generation, falling to the middle and lower classes of the twenty surnames.
The patriarch Fu Fasheng, three uncles and masters, and the younger generation Fu Yao and disciples with foreign surnames, there are only fifteen people who practice the Meishan method. The poor ones are about to die.
After Xiaoqiu's observation, he found that the Fu family has a simple population and is extremely united. Although they are somewhat selfish, compared to the Luo family and others, they can be called good-natured.
"Grandpa Fu, I've carefully considered what you said before. Let me ask you again, do you really want to merge your family and become the Lower House of Phoenix Mountain?"
In the old house, Long Qiu asked with a serious face.
"Exactly!" Fu Fasheng was even more determined.
"Okay then, I'll do it."
Xiaoqiu nodded, counting on accepting this trust, and said: "Now the relationship between all parties is sensitive, you don't want to disclose it to the outside, just know inside."
As she said that, she took out two things, one was a round jade pendant, and said: "With this thing, you can freely enter and exit the mountain gate. If you have any difficulties, just ask, we will send some disciples over from time to time to communicate."
The other is a few pieces of handwritten thin paper, the handwriting is scribbled, obviously written temporarily, "The Meishan Dharma system is very complete, only slightly insufficient in the cultivation of Qi in meditation. This Dharma formula can consolidate the foundation and temper the mind. You Keep it."
"Thank you, thank you!" Fu Fasheng was overjoyed, and put it into his pocket like a treasure.
As a folk art, Meishan has both advantages and disadvantages. The advantage is that the content is complete, all-inclusive, quick to learn, and aggressive enough. The disadvantage is that the mind is not firm, it is nothing if the cultivation base is low, the higher the cultivation base is, the more obvious it is, the floating is unstable, and the room for improvement is limited.
Now that there is a formula, Fujia can finally get closer to the authentic Taoism, and is no longer a wild way of Minke.
After everything was arranged properly, Long Qiu turned to Long Tang and said, "A-mei, since you don't want to go back with me, you should practice hard here. Ask Grandpa Fu if you don't understand, or you can ask me anytime, I have time See you again."
"I'm not a child, what are you looking at!"
In front of everyone, Long Tang was a little embarrassed to be treated so warmly. Long Qiu smiled, his mind opened up for a moment, the sky and the sea were wide, and he also used the technique of blurring shadows, turning into a wisp of smoke and fleeing far away.
Soon after, on Phoenix Mountain.
When Gu Baba received Xiao Qiu's message, she was a little surprised at first, and then relieved, showing an old father's smile. It can be said that the tide of the spring river is even with the sea level. There is a girl in my family who has just grown up, and the twinkling waves follow the waves for thousands of miles.
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"Huh... It's so cold today!"
Squeak! The double gates of the Taiqing Palace opened, and Xu Ziying ran out first. She breathed out a mouthful of white air, and when the warmth met the cold, it actually condensed into a short-lived hoarfrost in the air, which slowly dissipated.
"It wasn't so evil in the past few years, but this year's winter is very strange!"
While muttering, she circulated her inner qi, reaching her whole body, and bursts of warm current gushed out in an instant.
Xu Ziying is fourteen years old. She was already tall and tall. After more than two years of growth, her young skin has faded away, and she has peeled off a young girl like a spring onion.
At this moment, the fine snow is flying, and the girl in Taoist robe is standing in the snow. The vermilion lacquered wooden door and the ancient temple with cornices are like a picture scroll that attracts passers-by.
She has a lively personality, seeing so many eyes watching her, she jumped up suddenly, Kaka deliberately jumped a few times, and she was completely destroyed in an instant.
"Senior sister, stop jumping, the master will punish you again in a while!"
With a yell, another person stepped out of the door. He was much shorter, with immature eyes, but an unusually calm demeanor. The two twisted painting styles are entangled together, but there is a very subtle sense of cuteness.
"Xiaohe, don't be so stern all the time, you are only ten years old, you look like a little old man, come and laugh!"
Xu Ziying leaned over and reached out to pinch her face. He He had been on guard for a long time, tipped his toes, and slid around behind the opponent, while Xu Ziying raised his eyebrows, and as if he had succeeded in his trick, he grabbed it with his backhand, which happened to be under the hood.
He He's figure circled around, and miraculously circled behind him. Like butterflies wearing flowers, the two of them passed a few moves lightly and delicately, and the snowflakes splashed.
At this time, a middle-aged female crown also stepped out, seeing the situation and having a headache, she shouted: "Enough, what's the point of fighting!"
brush!
The two figures separated suddenly, lowered their heads in a quail shape, and accepted the reprimand honestly, "Master, we know we were wrong."
"Copy the precepts a hundred times at night!"
"Yes, Master!"
Daoist Qinghui shook his head, quite helplessly. Xu Ziying is the elder sister among the female disciples, with first-class strength and high-spirited temperament. He He is usually calm and never causes trouble, but as long as the two of them are together, they will be like enemies in the previous life, and all kinds of chickens will fly around.
She led twelve female disciples and gathered in front of the temple. Not long after, Daoist Fang Chengzi also led eleven male disciples out, and at the end was the abbot of Taiqing Palace, Daoist Huayang.
There were twenty-three disciples in total, all between the ages of ten and eighteen. They were wearing white tunics, dark blue Taoist robes, and round-toed shoes. Their hair was tied up in a bun with wooden hairpins.
They stood in three rows and waited in front of the temple together.
Hua Yang glanced at these children, feeling relieved and emotional. According to the original plan, after training for three full years, he could go to the Taoist Academy to participate in the selection. It has been less than three years now, but Qi Yun is preaching to the Taoist sect that a grand ceremony is going to be held.
The abbot of each view is clear that the situation is delicate now, and the Taoist temple is eager to expand its personnel and strengthen its foundation, so it has to be implemented in advance. As teachers, they knew their apprentices very well, most of them would be eliminated, and it was a fluke that they selected four or five of them.
But I also take it with me, after all, the opportunity is rare, and it is good to gain insight.
"Didi!"
Not long after, a bus came slowly from a distance covered in snow. Everyone got in the car and went straight to the airport.
And almost on the same day, in the thirty-six provinces of Xia Kingdom, excluding Tanggute and Qingning, thirty-four forests in ten directions, and five hundred and twenty-eight disciples finally entered Qiyun.