The two of them avoided the dead bodies and white snails, retreated to a safe place, and fell into silence.
The giant snails on the mountain road have been fossilized for a long time, and their age cannot be verified. It is just like Wuyi Mountain was once a corner of the seabed, and it seems to be natural that there have been countless evolutions in the vicissitudes of life.
Not only that, every dynasty in Chinese history has more or less records of fossils. The famous pre-Qin ancient book "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" contains descriptions of "stone fish", that is, fish fossils. Shen Kuo of the Song Dynasty also recorded snails and clams.
Fossil and Du Wan have a correct understanding of the origin of fish fossils.
Special mention should be made of the fact that during the Qi-Liang Dynasty of the Southern Dynasty, the Immortal Master Tao Hongjing of the Shangqing Dynasty also conducted special research and descriptions on ancient insects found in amber.
Thinking of this, the jade insect pebbles in my hand and the rough suspected fossils in front of me appeared at the same time, giving these ordinary things a psychedelic color.
"I suspect that these two jade pebbles are what Luo Chunyi obtained from the tomb of Immortal Master Tao Hongjing."
Yuan Huazi said slowly, looking at Jiang Wen with an unnatural expression.
Jiang Wen nodded in agreement. It might be a coincidence that these things appeared alone, but as the influence of human factors increased, the problems gradually became clear.
For example...who wants to go up the mountain?
After touching a hint of enlightenment, Jiang Wen's expression was a little strange, as if he was holding back something and pretending to be calm.
"Master, in the past few years, I have been living in Huixian Temple. Thanks to your blessing, I have also read through the collections in the temple. I am familiar with the strange anecdotes from the Wei and Jin Dynasties, but the books of various schools have been collected or painted.
I may have torn off the chapters involving the pre-Qin Dynasty... Can the real person teach me?"
A biting cold wind came in the heavy fog. Yuan Huazi seemed a little afraid of the cold, but the sweat on his forehead was thickly oozing out, and his face was red.
"Is there still this matter? I don't know anything about it."
The old Taoist priest's expression became even more secretive, his wrinkled lips pursed tightly, "You and my disciple have read all the classics of our sect, but neither of you are interested in medical skills and never go into the alchemy room to read. I know that you have a strange destiny."
He is good at medicine, but being erudite may not necessarily be good. Extensive knowledge will lead to great thieves, so it is better to give up."
Jiang Wen sensed that something was wrong. Just when he was about to speak, his vision filled with fog became confusing. He felt that the strange fragrance on his body became so intense that it filled his eyes. The cold air in his body seeped out from between his bones and slowly fell towards him.
to the ground.
"Although the longevity palace incense of the Han Yuan Dynasty can make people travel through the fairy mist, it is the cold incense of the heavenly fairyland. It condenses the air and cold the marrow when touched, and the guards and guards will freeze. You must first take the extremely dry and extremely yang Wushi Powder to resist.
Fragrance."
Jiang Wen sat down on the ground slumped, flicking the ancient bronze sword randomly, but unable to control his arms freely, pointing crookedly at the old Taoist priest.
"You should read medical books."
Yuan Huazi looked at it coldly.
Smells of alcohol, lost osmanthus, five stone powder, Han Yuan longevity palace fragrance...
The moment before he fell to the ground, Jiang Wen finally connected these clues and discovered that he had been plotted long ago.
In order to use the longevity palace incense of the Han Yuan Dynasty, he had to take Wushi Powder, but Wushi Powder was difficult to withstand the heat and poison of ordinary people, and if it was not distributed properly, the five poisons would attack the heart, so he hid in the alchemy room and drank it many times with wine, avoiding visitors.
During this period, for the purpose of testing, the old Taoist priest also lit a small amount of the Hanyuan Shougong incense to test the dose - this is what he smelled when he entered the alchemy room, and the reason why Yuan Ziyi's body was occasionally stained with the fragrance.
Yuan Huazi had practiced non-meat and wine for many years, so naturally he couldn't stand drinking a lot of alcohol. Therefore, the osmanthus that the little Taoist said was lost was secretly taken by Yuan Huazi and made into osmanthus wine, and he drank it with his favorite osmanthus flavor!
In this case, it was not the White Lotus Sect who held the old Taoist priest hostage up the mountain, but the old Taoist priest had made preparations for a long time and had planned to go to the "Feast of Ascension to Immortality" in person!
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In the thirty-fifth year of the First Emperor's reign, the First Emperor arrived in Yunyang on his fourth eastward tour.
Along the way, the First Emperor claimed to be a real person, not me, and his whereabouts were kept secret and no one knew about him. Subsequently, the ministers and the emperor held discussions in Xianyang Palace, ordered a large-scale corvee recruitment, and ordered Mengtian to preside over the construction of a straight road from Jiuyuan to Yunyang
.
In the same year, more than two thousand men and women in the Wuyi Mountains heard that the corvées who had narrowly escaped death were coming again. They embarked on the Immortal Banquet at Manting Peak together and disappeared since then. The scene horrified the Qin officials who came to conquer the people.
Since then, every time a disaster or disaster strikes a county, some people will embark on the road of no return, put aside all pain in the world, wipe away all worries behind them, and embark on the road of "becoming an immortal" at Manting Peak.
The origin of everything is that when people in Wuyi Mountain accidentally found a cliff coffin, they found the secret method of ascending to immortality left by the hermits of the pre-Qin Dynasty from the dead bones.
In the year when Yuan Huazi came to Wuyi Mountain, "the city was destroyed by water and the walls were destroyed by soldiers. There was a great famine and epidemic, and the people mostly gathered leaves for food."
The year Yuan Huazi came to Wuyi Mountain, he was not that old, nor was he young anymore. He just came back to preside over the Immortal Temple according to the order of the masters.
The year when Yuan Huazi came to Wuyi Mountain, he witnessed the Qing soldiers massacred all over the foot of the mountain, and the Jiuqu River was full of blood. However, the expressions of the surviving mountain people were particularly calm, with a strange attitude towards life and death, and no traces of tears.
There was a weird smile on Qian's face.
A few days later, Yuan Huazi heard the noise and opened the gate, and found the refugees scattered outside. They were all sallow, thin, and sickly, but they were wearing the most decent clothes, and they were helping each other walking towards the mountain road in the dusk.
I don't even know who secretly left a seriously ill child with a fever outside the gate.
No one wants to admit that they are the child's parents.
There was a suppressed joy in their silence, and they resolutely went up the mountain one foot at a time. The winding team of these night marchers had a terrifying expression. Ordinary people would only be surprised to see their uneven movements into the mountain.
Sincerely terrified.
Yuan Huazi opened his mouth and wanted to say something like "the road to heaven is far away, the road to humanity is short, and the hardships have been difficult to describe since ancient times", but he was speechless.
That night the red light on Manting Peak filled the sky, the Immortal Banquet in Jiahe was filled with encouragement, and the voices of the Immortals filled the air with music and flutes, but no one came back.
Since the Han Dynasty, the emergence of cicadas has been used as a metaphor for people's rebirth, but how can people be resurrected after death? How is ascending to immortality different from seeking death? It's just that compared to all the suffering in the world, this ethereal and nihilistic road is worse than seeking death.
It's easier to accept lying cold in the dirt.
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The child whose whole family disappeared later became his apprentice, and also knew the destination of his parents and relatives. He often looked at Manting Peak in trance, with an expression of fear and curiosity, just like what Yuan Huazi saw on the faces of the mountain people that day.
Maybe one day, the apprentice will walk into this Manting Peak with absolute determination like his parents and relatives?
Therefore, Yuan Huazi has been reluctant to teach the Dharma to his disciples, and he is not even willing to take the Taoist title.
He inherited the Taoism left by Immortal Master Bai Yuchan and had to stay at the foot of Manting Peak in Wuyi Mountain to prevent the "immortals" on the top of the mountain from spreading and causing greater disasters. Originally, he did not dare to provoke the strange things on Manting Peak for fear of
Counterproductive.
As Jiang Wen said, the scholars of the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties visited the underworld, hooked up mysteries and concealed themselves, claiming to use their rhinoceros to clear away the guests, leaving countless disasters behind.
Yang Fu of the Han Dynasty recorded in "History of Foreign Objects": "The mysterious rhinoceros represents the soul with its horns, contains essence and spits fire, and looks like a candle. It is placed in the wilderness and cannot be touched by animals."
Ever since Xuan rhinoceros horn was made into longevity palace incense in the Han Yuan Dynasty, and combined with the effectiveness of Wu Shi Powder, Hui rhino Qingke really discovered many indescribable things in the mountains, ravines and abyss of this world. Then they drank and feasted.
I was drunk and dreaming, and I wanted to forget all this in panic, but I didn't know that the seeds of darkness had spread everywhere along with the nightmare.
Intelligent people from ancient times have deeply hated the Qingke who wielded rhinoceros, because from the Wei and Jin Dynasties to the Tang Dynasty, the influence of the way of wielding rhinoceros has never disappeared.
Wen Qiao Ranxi Zhaozhu saw strange-shaped aquariums under the water. Since then, Niutouzhu has continued to have supernatural phenomena. In the Tang Dynasty, Qinglian, a layman, even "caught the moon in the water" and drowned himself. As a person who received the punishment, no one knew that Li
Taibai saw something under the water before he died.
Sun Simiao, a Taoist master, also had lingering fears. Before he died, he earnestly told his disciples to destroy the Hanyuan Shougong incense prescription and the Wushi powder prescription: "When you encounter this prescription, you must burn it immediately, and don't keep it for a long time!"
The White Jade Toad Immortal was born in Qiongzhou, Hainan, and practiced Taoism in Wuyi. After exhausting the power of Taoism, he finally destroyed the Han Yuan longevity palace incense formula left in the world, just so that no one would cause trouble by wielding the rhinoceros.
But laymen seek liberation, monks seek immortality, and everyone in the world has desires. There are so many mysteries in Wuyi Mountain. How many people can resist the temptation of immortality?
Yuan Huazi thought that Hongyang Saint Child was not good, Jiang Wen was not good, and he was not good either, but he did not expect that his apprentice could not resist the temptation and broke into the road to the cave while he was in seclusion.
But I should always do something, such as closing this door that should not be opened for mortals, such as persuading the lost to look back and see the love in this world, such as doing a willful act when I am old.
Yuan Huazi dragged Jiang Wen to the side of the road, stood in the fog without showing a sad face, and Shi Shiran walked towards the dense fog of the Yanxian Altar, where the red glow was brilliant.