That was Gong Wei's first year as the head of punishment and punishment, and it was also the 236th day that Xu Shuangce kept his door closed.
Gong Wei suddenly appeared in front of the gate of the Cangyang sect, holding the seal of the leader of the alliance high in his hand, and asked the sect master Xu to come forward in person and lead him to the Cangyang sect library to look up an ancient book.
Each sect has its own secret collection, and unless the leader personally orders it, it will never be easily revealed. As for the ancient book that Gong Wei asked to read, it really belonged to the Cangyang Sect, but because most of the volumes were lost, it has not been seen for many years, but the content of the legend is related to the long-lost third greatest illusion in the world.
One of the three major illusions in the world is "mirror to connect yin and yang", and that "mirror" refers to the ancient artifact thousand-degree mirror world. No one knows whether it was made by what dynasty or generation, or which immortal left behind when he ascended. All they know is that it is currently stored in the Punishment and Punishment Court, and is under the full control of the leader of the alliance, Ying Kai and the president, Gong Wei.
The second is "the sun and the moon in the pot", and the "pot" actually refers to the pupil technique. Once activated, it will take effect in an instant, and it can control everyone within the range of vision. The monks who practice this method have bright eyes, like the radiance of the sun and the moon, but a crimson eyeball like Gong Wei is born with a method. Yes, it can only be described as weird.
As for the third, because it has been lost for many years, so there are different opinions, no one in the world knows what it is, but there were rumors that it may be related to the few remaining ancient books of the Cangyang Sect.
Gong Wei has been trying his best to sneak up to Cangyang Mountain to find Xu Shuangce, but he has been shut out many times, and now he finally said that Yingkai gave him the seal of the alliance. The gate of Cangyang Sect.
Sect Master Xu is the number one person in the world, and it is hard to say whether the seal of the alliance leader can make him move. But before Wen Xiuyang went up the mountain to pass the message, he saw President Gong swaying with the decree of the alliance leader in one hand and the other behind his narrow waist. He leaned over with a smile and said, "If Xu Bai refuses to see me, then you are right. He said that the dean is wearing a new robe made in the first month of the month today."
The "new robe" he said refers to a robe embroidered with dark-gold maple leaves in Yanzhi-colored silk satin. President Gong's skin is so white that his skin is icy white, and a color like dark red and dark gold would look stable on other famous masters, but he has an indescribable halo around him. I couldn't help but be fascinated and wanted to see him more.
Wen Xiuyang couldn't help but glanced at him, thinking that no matter what new robe you put on, it has nothing to do with our Sect Master Xu, you are not his, why would he want to come out to meet you when you put on new clothes
Gong Wei himself probably felt that the temptation was not enough, so he smiled and beckoned Wen Xiuyang back, adding: "Also, I dreamed of him last night."
Wen Xiuyang was still young at the time, so he almost didn't roll his eyes, but fortunately he didn't dare to make trouble, so he swallowed his anger and went to the ground.
When he passed the message, Xu Shuangce was sitting high on the Tianji Pagoda and meditating. Wen Xiuyang knelt on the ground and first told about the fact that Dean Gong was holding the seal of the alliance leader in his hand. He could only bite the bullet and change the headmaster of the palace into a new robe. He also talked about such trivial things as what dream he had last night. After speaking, he felt absurd and disgusting. Move lightly.
Xu Shuangce actually got up and opened his eyes, and said lightly, "Since there is an alliance leader's seal, let's meet."
Wen Xiuyang was completely confused that day. He only knew that Sect Master Xu, who had been in seclusion for a long time, went down the mountain in person, dismissed the disciples around him, and looked down at the robes of the President of the Palace for a while without saying a word, and then he turned around and said coldly, "Come here."
Gong Wei didn't care about Sect Master Xu's attitude at all. He couldn't remember the last time the two met each other, and now he would be very happy as long as he saw Xu Bai again. He walked very briskly along the way, and he had to ask anything he saw: "Xu Bai, have you been here recently? What are you busy with, why don't you come to Xianmeng to find me?"
Xu Shuangce said, "Retreat."
"Shouldn't the retreat be full of spiritual energy, why are you so haggard, when was the last time you went out?"
Xu Shuangce was silent for a moment, then whispered: "Two hundred and thirty-six days ago."
Gong Wei was shocked: "I haven't gone out for so long! Aren't you going to be bored?!"
Xu Shuang clenched his teeth slightly, and said after a while, "Cultivators should be clear-headed and have few desires, and ignore the mundane affairs."
Gong Wei regretted: "You are wrong, Xu Bai, the most interesting thing in this world is the things in the world. Changsheng and I have traveled all over the country during this period of time, and ate the flower carving drunk in Linjiang. Chicken, drank the Chunwei champion red from the capital, went to the Weishui River to kill a monster, and also rode the dragon boat on the canal. Ah yes, we also went to the Goulan Courtyard together to open our eyes, that boy Changsheng didn’t understand anything, originally I don't think it's interesting. Who would have thought that he ran into the little emperor of the mortal world who secretly came to drink the flower wine... Hey, I said Xu Bai! Why are you walking so fast all of a sudden, wait for me!"
Cangyang Sect is known as the No. 1 sect in the world, and it is naturally the richest sect. Xu Shuangce opened the door of the book collection hall with his own hands, and the two of them walked back and forth among the bookshelves that were so high that they could not be seen topped for half an hour before they stopped in a corner in the depths of the labyrinth.
Gong Wei felt very fresh, looking around all the way and complaining constantly: "Xu Bai, your Cangyang Sect's library is too old, do you have to walk on your feet so hard? You can't send someone to sort it out, I'll find it later. What kind of ancient scroll can be picked up from the air with just a single call, and it will come out when you call it?"
Xu Shuangce said coldly, "If you don't want to leave, you can go back."
After going back, he didn't know how long he would have to wait to see Xu Bai next time, but Gong Wei immediately said, "Then I won't go back."
Xu Shuangce said, "Volume 5 from the left in row 183."
Counting from the top to the bottom is the 183rd row, but the distance from the ground is higher than Gong Wei's head. Gong Wei looked up at the mottled jade slip, stretched out his hand and wanted to pinch a magic formula for taking objects from the air, but his eyes rolled and stopped, and he slyly said with his hands behind his back: "Xu Bai, you library can't even use magic. , I can't reach it. Would you like to carry me up?"
Xu Shuangce turned a deaf ear.
Gong Wei said, "I can carry you up." As he said that, he wanted to hug Xu Shuangce's waist.
Sect Master Cangyang dodged slightly, then ducked, stretched out his hand and flicked the sleeve of his robe, and the scroll of jade in the high place automatically appeared in his hand, and threw it to Gong Wei.
Gong Wei suddenly "ha", patted his hands and said: "I knew that magic can be used here! You just want to make fun of me walking with you and get tired!"
Xu Shuangce walked away with a swirl of his sleeves and came to the high carved window of the library hall. As soon as his feet landed, he performed a five-ghost fortune-telling technique. The whole set of sandalwood bookcases and cushions rose from the black jade floor tiles. He lifted his robe, turned around and sat down, only to see that Gong Wei had already come up to him, spread the incomplete jade slip on the desk, and said with a smile, "The name of this scroll should be called "Dream or something, but the one on it" The text is too ancient. When was it collected by your Cangyang Sect?"
Xu Shuangce said, "I don't know."
Gong Wei browsed for a while: "Have you really not come to study secretly? Everyone in the world says this is the third greatest illusion in the world."
Xu Shuangce said lightly, "It's just a rumor."
The library hall is vast and silent, and this hidden corner is shrouded in darkness all year round. As soon as Gong Wei came, he seemed to be swept away by the sensuality of the whole world. He seemed to be out of tune with the ancient scrolls of green lanterns around him, but he also had a strange and elegant air about him, which subtly blended in with the entire palace. one.
Xu Shuangce looked away, only to hear Gong Wei suddenly say without raising his head, "Xu Bai."
"… "
"You were looking at me just now."
Xu Shuangce spit out two words: "No."
Gong Wei said proudly: "Just watch it, don't deny it. I traveled down the mountain with Changsheng during this period of time, only to find that no matter where I go, there are many people peeking at me, and some people pretend to meet me by chance and ask me where I live. Where do you make a living and want to be friends with me..."
Xu Shuangce's jaw line was extremely tight, but Gong Wei didn't notice it, and said happily: "I have lived for so many years, but I didn't know that I was so attractive. Thief, these people should be the thieves mentioned in the book. They think I have money on me, and they want to stun me so they can steal the money... What do you think Changsheng knows? How can a thief spend money on a target before he starts? I Several times when I went to a restaurant in Beijing, I was preemptively paid by the person at the next table..."
A frosty voice interrupted him: "Have you finished reading?"
Gong Wei: "Huh?"
Xu Shuangce's face was ice-cold: "Go back after reading it."
Gong Wei quickly waved his hand: "I didn't finish reading it."
He didn't dare to chat with Xu Shuangce anymore, he pretended to look at it for a while, and flipped over the ink jade slips with only three or four pieces left in the ten pieces, and finally sighed: "This text should be the seal used by Huangquan Guiyuan in the ancient times. , I'm afraid it has been thousands of years, and if I find a big ghost to repair it, I may not be able to recognize it all. I can only guess the general meaning, but there are too many missing words before and after, so I may not be able to guess one or two points in ten miles. "
The incomplete jade slips are black and warm, reflecting with his slender and slender knuckles, black and white contrasting, like a pair of ink paintings.
Xu Shuangce closed his eyes, as if he was deliberately trying to dispel the image from his mind. After a while, he took a deep breath and asked in a low voice, "Why?"
Gong Wei didn't pay attention to his expression, and stared at the jade slip attentively: "Probably means that there is a kind of dream technique that can reverse life and death."
"… Dream?"
Gong Wei nodded, he supported his chin with one hand, and the eyelashes under the blue light looked like two butterfly wings: "Pupilism has a limit to the range of sight, and mirror art has a limit to what it can reach, but dreams have no boundaries. A dream can To accommodate the realm master itself, it can also accommodate all things in the world; it can be traced back to time, and naturally, it can also follow the existing logical cause and effect in the world to infer and construct future scenes."
As he spoke, he lay down on the table like a boneless body, and the scent of peach blossoms in the robe sleeves almost lingered on Xu Shuangce's nose. Xu Shuangce paused for breath, lowered his gaze, and asked hoarsely, "What's the solution to reversing life and death?"
Gong Wei still looked at the ink jade slip in his hand, and said with a smile, "I don't know if Zhou's dream is Hu Dieyou, and Hu Die's dream is Zhou Yu?"
"… "
"A dream is called a dream only when you wake up. It is not called a dream if you don't wake up, but the reality in your eyes. In a dream, the living can die, the dead can live, but life and death are nothing but the aggregation and dispersion of heaven and earth, and there are endless changes; biochemical, Death and dreaming are both 'materialization', and that's why."
"—However," Gong Wei smiled, and his voice changed abruptly: "Xu Xu is a butterfly, and a butterfly is a circle; the butterfly in the dream is happy, but the person after waking up may not be. So if we let I choose, I'd still like to be the butterfly in my dream, wouldn't it be good to live happily forever in a dream?"
Xu Shuangce's heart moved, and for some reason he wanted to refute him: "What if you die in a dream?"
Gong Wei didn't take it seriously: "How can you really die if you are dragged into a dream? Unless you are expelled by the realm master, you will naturally be out of the dream and wake up in reality."
Xu Shuangce said, "What if the realm master dies?"
This question stopped Gong Wei.
He got up and sat upright, thought for a moment, and said, "If the dream is not broken, the cycle will continue. The realm owner should not really die in his dream... Unless there is a situation."
Xu Shuangce asked, "Which situation?"
But he had already guessed the answer faintly in his heart.
Gong Wei said "uh" approvingly: "Yes. Although the realm master will not die in the dream, but if the realm master's body dies in reality, then the object he drags into the dream will also die with the collapse of the dream. All are destroyed, thus ushering in true death—this is probably the most terrifying part of dream art!"
As he sat upright, the wisps of peach blossom fragrance also disappeared, like a charming and short-lived hurried dream.
The Cangyang Sect Master, who is widely feared by the world, sat there quietly, no one knew what he was thinking, and he seemed to think nothing. After a long while, he exhaled, took back the ink jade slip from Gong Wei's hand, and said, "This kind of spell will burn all jade and stone, you should not learn it."
Gong Wei has an instinctive affinity for all illusions, but he actually wants to learn it in his heart. But he has a good temper and is not too persistent in anything. Since his favorite Xu Shuangce doesn't let him learn, that's fine, he smiled and raised his eyebrows, "I don't need to learn, I could have dreamed of you. , as long as I want to dream, I can dream."
As Xu Shuangce rolled his fingertips, he silently crushed Mo Yujian into powder, and he paused slightly when he heard the words.
After a while, he lowered his eyes, and he didn't know whether it was to Gong Wei or to himself with a light sneer: "Nonsense."
The deep red silk satin blew through the air, and the next moment Gong Wei appeared beside him like a ghost, still holding his cheeks, his eyebrows and eyes were smiling with affection, as if he was quietly telling a great secret: "Do you know, Xu Bai ? I dreamed of you last night."
"… "
"As long as I see a butterfly during the day, I'll dream of you that night, but I've never told anyone about it - have you ever dreamed of me?"
Sect Master Cangyang was still sitting upright, with a handsome and indifferent face, and said nothing.
Gong Wei got closer, the corners of his soft lips almost pressed against Xu Shuangce's ear, and asked with a soft smile, "What do I usually do in your dreams?"
boom!
In fact, it was a muffled sound, and the back of Gong Wei's head slammed directly into Sect Master Cangyang's leg.
Xu Shuangce grabbed the lower half of his face with his palm, forcing him to fall on his back. He couldn't even make a sound from his covered mouth and nose, so he could only lie on his back when he saw Xu Shuangce finally leaning down. Every word is light and cruel:
"Of course I dreamed that you and people traveled all over the country, and your friends were all over the world."
Gong Wei's eyes widened in surprise.
Xu Shuangce suddenly let go of him, as if he couldn't even stay for a moment, got up and walked away, quickly disappearing into the stacks of bookshelves.
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