There are huge cross-shaped steps formed by natural weathering on the huge mountain. These stone steps will only be revealed when the blizzard stops slightly, giving people a miraculous power.
Most people in Donghu regard this snow-capped mountain as a sacred mountain, not only because of the appearance of this snow-capped mountain, but because many real ascetic monks live in the grottoes of this snow-capped mountain.
Ever since the old monk came out of this snow mountain, he entered the Donghu Palace with only one person's strength, which caused great changes in Donghu. At this moment, this mountain has more extraordinary meaning in the eyes of all Donghu people.
Because the old monk returned to this mountain after killing Donghu Emperor Yelu Zhenying.
At this moment, he was still sitting at the end of the penance grotto, motionless, his body seemed to gradually become exactly the same as the stone venerables carved on the stone walls on both sides, and even the facial features became somewhat blurred in the dim light.
Li Xixing walked into the grotto from the outside.
The old monk opened his eyes, looked at the young man in Changling and smiled, then he touched the purple-red quilt with his hand, and a golden light fell in front of Li Xixing.
This is a pure gold face, and I don't know what kind of heaven and earth energy is condensed. In the dark, there is the brilliance of the sun. There are several unique runes like tear stains, flowing from the cheeks on both sides to the tip of the chin. There are crystal light spots flowing inside these runes, like the souls of fireflies locked in a golden cage.
Li Xixing caught the mask, his eyes froze, and he said, "This is Wanyan Honghua's mask."
The old monk smiled and said: "The piece of wood that person asked you to bring to me told me the true meaning of my practice, that is to let me abandon the prosperity and just pursue the straight. Wanyan Honghua should be the most opposed to Yelu Canglang becoming the new One of the emperor's people, so before I came back, I stopped by the East Hu border army and beat him to death."
"By the way, I went to the Eastern Hu Bianjun and beat him to death..."
Hearing these words, Li Xixing was speechless.
This sentence is easy to say, but the Donghu border army, in fact, has countless powerful people gathered, it is even more difficult than going to the Donghu Palace to kill the emperor.
"In terms of cultivation, in terms of killing people, where do you rank in the world?" So Li Xixing couldn't help looking at the old monk who seemed a little compassionate and cute at this moment and asked.
"second?"
Obviously killing people is easier and more casual than mowing grass, but at this time the old monk felt a little childish, but after saying the second, he was inexplicably shuddered, and said seriously: "At least the third."
Li Xixing was speechless again. He looked at the mask in his hand and asked, "Then what is this, a gift for me?"
The old monk grinned slightly, looking a little happy, and then he was serious: "Cultivation is most about chance, you came with news, you and I are destined, and you are a very interesting Changling person. No, you should have refined a certain natal object, this mask is called Tianliang Tears, and your natal object should also come from Tianliang, there is a connection between the two."
Li Xixing was stunned for a moment, he could feel that the mask in his hand contained a very powerful vitality, but he didn't expect that it was also from the cool sky in the past.
"I needed to hide my identity, and this mask is perfect for me."
He hesitated for a moment, thanked first, and then said: "We entered the Tianliang Ancestral Land before, and the things I refined came from the Tianliang Ancestral Land."
The old monk didn't seem to care much about the four characters of Tianliang Zudi, but said: "It's just a chance."
"You come to find me now, what chance are you going to bring me?" Then, looking at Li Xixing who was wearing a mask, he asked.
"Someone is looking for you." Li Xixing said, "The person who asked me to bring you something will pass by here."
The old monk was stunned, and the light and shadow in the grotto seemed to be confused in an instant. He suddenly became excited, and asked in a trembling voice, "Where is he now?"
Li Xixing said: "According to the time, it is only a few hundred miles away from here."
"take me."
The old monk got up anxiously and stood up from the purple-red mattress.
Following the direction pointed by Li Xixing, he started to run wild.
This is a terrifying state of practice, there seems to be no fluctuation of vitality between the heaven and the earth, or all the fluctuations of vitality are gathered in his body.
There is no abnormality outside his body, and he looks no different from ordinary people walking.
However, when he stepped out in one step, it was a distance of hundreds of feet.
It was as if the distance between heaven and earth had shortened under his feet.
His eyes were full of enthusiasm.
It's like comprehending the teachings of the master for the first time, and feeling the existence of the vitality of heaven and earth for the first time.
Even Li Xixing at this time may not be able to understand his mood.
This is indeed a kind of mood that a practitioner who has just entered the practice feels like seeing a teacher.
Because only practitioners who have reached Changling in the past and experienced that battle can truly appreciate how far that person has traveled on the road of cultivation, and can realize how terrifying that person's understanding of the vitality of heaven and earth and the way of swordsmanship is.
The means of practice can be inherited, but the realm of practice cannot be replaced.
So when the piece of wood that was enough to guide his practice was passed to his hands, he already understood and thoroughly understood who the other party was.
Because he was too excited and enthusiastic, he didn't even care about the depletion of his true energy in his body.
This is a terrible thing in the world of practitioners, but he didn't notice it.
He just walked straight towards the direction pointed by Li Xixing, until the wolves and the breath colder than ice and snow appeared in his perception.
He keenly sensed that the extremely cold breath was blooming on purpose to let him know.
Knowing that the man was coming, he couldn't control his excitement, so he knelt down in the wind and snow, throwing his body to the ground.
This cultivator, already invincible in Donghu, knelt down deeply in front of the chariot dragged by the wolves, and the snow covered his head.
The wolves stopped, terrified.
Ding Ning got out of the chariot and bowed in return to the old monk kneeling in the snow.
The old monk stood up now, his hair and eyebrows were covered with snow, he was inexplicably happy, seeing Ding Ning's peaceful and peaceful face like a miracle, he exclaimed in surprise: "I never thought you were still alive."
Ding Ning's expression did not change. Looking at him, he said calmly: "Life and death are hard to define."
The old monk was stunned, and then said sincerely: "This is an area that other practitioners cannot touch."
Ding Ning said: "I have something to ask of you."
The old monk said very simply: "Any request will be granted."
"You are indeed an odd number." Ding Ning looked at him and laughed. He looked at the old monk's smile at this time, and there was also a joy that ordinary people could not understand.
The old monk stood obediently like a junior, and said, "I still want to ask Master a question that has puzzled me for a long time."
Ding Ning said: "You can ask."
The old monk said: "Back then in Changling, you completely let go of killing. No strong man in the world could take your sword. At that time, I don't know how many were stronger than me. You just glanced at me from a distance, and then you have seen me." To show my flaws, but why did I survive?"
"As I said just now, you are an anomaly."
Ding Ning looked at him and said seriously: "Practitioners from all dynasties in the world gather in Changling, all fearing that one person is too strong, and they will be destroyed in groups. But you are different. You have been shackles in your cultivation realm. I really want to see that person If you can’t reach the realm, you will die without regret if you take a look at it. You have the heart to seek the Tao and ask for death. This is a pure practice.
"I was originally a child of an ordinary herdsman's family in Donghu. I was adopted by monks because I was too poor to support. After being instructed by my master, I learned how to practice and felt the vitality of heaven and earth. I felt the most wonderful thing between heaven and earth, life. This is what makes sense. The master took me into the mountains, raised me and brought me to practice, and you gave me birth in Changling, and made me see realms I have never seen. This kindness is the same."
The old monk looked at Ding Ning, "So I will serve my master."
"I'm going here to go to the glaciers in the northwestern border of the East Hu, and I'm going there to get a sword and refine it into my natal sword." Ding Ning looked at the old monk and said, "Although I have cleared the pass of your practice, let you It is only the last half step away from the eight realms, but the mysteries between these half steps are the most crucial. You can't explain it clearly, you can only understand it by yourself. There are many mysteries in the eight realms and nine realms that even I can't fully understand. Going there with you to get the sword, I hope it's your chance and I will get something for each."