Volume Two, The Lake of Winter, Chapter 53: The Beginning of a Cultivation
Volume 2: The Lake of Winter, Chapter 53: The Beginning of a Practice
"How did you shoot those horse thieves that night?"
"It's very simple, use your mind to locate their location in the dark."
"But how do you identify their vital parts?"
"It's still telepathy."
"How can you achieve such a long distance?"
"Because my telepathy is very powerful."
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"But... your cultivation qualifications are not very good, and the amount of heaven and earth energy you can control is so small."
"A needle is not as heavy as a knife, but it can still prick someone."
"It's a really strange idea, and... fighting in this way, don't you think it's a waste? Using telekinesis to lock the opponent's position and also judge the body shape, telekinesis in the sea of consciousness is consumed too fast."
"As I said before, my telepathy is very powerful."
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"Have you ever thought about becoming a great telegraph master?"
"No."
"Why?"
"Because I am a genius of Talisman Dao, of course I want to become a Talisman Master like you."
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"When you killed the temple deacon that night, you didn't use a talisman."
"I'm used to using a knife, and the knife is engraved with talismans."
"Your fighting style is really different from ordinary practitioners."
"A genius, of course, doesn't take the usual path."
"But why do I always feel that this is like a helpless choice made under duress?"
"My self-esteem has been hurt by you again."
"I won't lie."
"That's why you can hurt me."
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"Have you ever felt that the vitality of heaven and earth in this sparse forest at the foot of the mountain is very abundant?"
"Well, it seems a little bit."
"You seem to pay little attention to the atmosphere between heaven and earth around you."
"I care more about the breath in my body."
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From the wasteland snow ridge to the foot of Cangshan Mountain, this kind of dialogue kept happening between Ning Que and Mo Shanshan, so that sometimes Ning Que's mind would become a little confused, and he always felt as if he was back in the mountains behind the academy or in the old school.
, was talking nonsense with that annoying guy Chen Pipi.
What seemed like nonsense discussions to him were very important to Mo Shanshan. This young Tianjiao who was obsessed with calligraphy and talismans gradually deepened his understanding of Ning Que's practice method through these conversations, and then followed the footsteps of the two of them.
The snow-capped peak at the foot of Tianqi Mountain was getting closer and closer, and her expression became more and more worried and a little at a loss.
Next to a very small hot spring hot spring, the two of them took a short rest. Ning Que looked at her slightly drooped eyes and the long eyelashes that rested quietly on her fair skin. He thought about the changes in her emotions along the way and how he could no longer
Suppressing the confusion in my heart, I asked seriously: "What are you worried about?"
Mo Shanshan raised his head and looked at Ning Que silently, as if watching a most dazzling gem gradually being buried by the wind and sand. His eyes were full of worry and worry, and he said softly: "I'm worried that you are possessed by a demon."
Ning Que was startled for a moment, then laughed.
Influenced by the novels in that world, also because of his life experience in this world, and even more because of the enlightened environment of the academy, it is really difficult for him to have instinctive resistance and dislike towards the Demon Sect, but he is a very realistic person
, understanding your thoughts may not be a crime, but actually practicing the Demon Sect's skills will definitely cause countless troubles.
He smiled and said: "I am a direct disciple of the Master. Naturally, I cannot sell my soul to the devil for the sake of strength or power like those poor people who have been insulted and harmed but are unable to retaliate."
Mo Shanshan looked at his clean and pleasant face quietly, thinking about what he saw and heard along the way, and became more and more convinced that he was a guy who didn't care about the means to achieve his goals, and he couldn't feel that he had any affection for Haotian at all.
The spirit of awe, and the way of practice he now chooses passively or actively, is particularly focused on his physical skills, but rarely studies how to communicate with the breath of heaven and earth. If he continues on this path, it is easy to go astray.
Especially now that he is getting closer and closer to the mountain range abandoned by Haotian.
Mo Shanshan stretched out his hand to pick up the snowflakes beside the hot spring's eyes, and then gently blew them down. He looked expressionlessly at the black and white mountains not far away, and after a long silence, he said, "Can you promise me something?"
matter."
Ning Que asked: "What's the matter?"
Mo Shanshan looked back at him and said seriously: "If you encounter the Demon Sect's Kung Fu in this mountain, don't learn it."
Hearing these words, Ning Que couldn't help but be stunned. He looked at the desolate and uninhabited mountain range in the distance that stretched between heaven and earth. He thought that he knew from the desolate tribe that people from the temple had entered this mountain.
The guess is that it has something to do with the heavenly book. Why did Mo Shanshan suddenly mention some demon sect technique at this time?
Mo Shanshan blinked his eyelashes slightly and said softly: "The Demon Sect's mountain gate is in this mountain range abandoned by Haotian. It's just that the mountain is vast. Except for the senior expert who destroyed the mountain gate, not many people know where the mountain gate is.
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Ning Que gradually digested the shock in his heart, frowned and looked at the mountain range, and after a moment of silence he said: "I really don't know about this, no one has told me,"
"The message given to me by the Desert Man Tribe made it very clear that those in the Temple sneaked into the wilderness to cause trouble in order to attract the attention of the Desert Man strongmen and the Council of Elders, and the real strong men in the Temple have all sneaked into this mountain."
"The news that Chang'an gave me is that the temple wants to retrieve the scroll of the Heavenly Book, and they believe that the scroll of the Heavenly Book is among the Huangren tribe, so I was a little surprised as to why they wanted to go into the mountain."
He withdrew his gaze, looked at Mo Shanshan and frowned and said: "If the temple believes that the Heavenly Book is still at the Demon Sect Mountain Gate, and the Demon Sect Mountain Gate has always been in the Tianqi Mountain, then why didn't the people in the Temple come to look for the Heavenly Book before? But they had to find it in the deserter.
Did you come here to look for it when you go south?"
Mo Shanshan shook his head, used his fingers to push the flying hair behind his cheeks, and said: "Such extraterrestrial things as the Heavenly Book and the Mingzi Scroll, once they appear in this world, must be in accordance with the heavenly secrets. This is beyond what you and I can understand."
Or the chance of speculation, but in my opinion, the possibility of the Heavenly Book in the Huangren tribe is certainly not as high as the possibility of it being in the Demon Sect Mountain Sect."
Ning Que asked: "Why?"
Mo Shanshan replied: "Because things like the Book of Heaven seem to be in an unknown place."
The conversation in the forest at the foot of the mountain kept shocking Ning Que. He vaguely remembered that he had heard of some unknown place, but he couldn't remember what he was talking about.
He asked seriously: "What is the unknown place?"
Mo Shanshan was stunned for a moment, realizing that he was not joking, and replied seriously: "A place that the world cannot touch."
Ning Que rubbed his eyebrows and said helplessly: "Can you be more specific?"
Mo Shanshan frowned and looked at him, as if he were looking at a very strange tree. After a moment of silence, he said: "The unknown places refer to those mysterious areas outside the secular world. Very few people can see these places with their own eyes. Even if they go
People who have experienced it will not talk about it after they come out, so for thousands of years, only some legends about the unknown place have been circulated in the world of practice."
Ning Que said in confusion: "If the temple is not an unknowable place, then in my opinion the Demon Sect is just a branch of the temple. Why is its mountain gate called an unknowable place?"
Hearing this question, Mo Shanshan answered seriously: "I once asked the teacher when I was a child. According to the teacher, it was because the great priest of Guangming who founded the Demon Sect had already established the gate of the Demon Sect.
Become an immortal demon that transcends the five realms, that's why it's said like this."
"Crossing the Five Realms?"
Ning Que couldn't help but feel shaken as he thought about the legendary saints, the apocalypse and the terrifying realms that the old man Lu Qingchen told about.
"Except for the abandoned Demon Sect Mountain Gate, I believe that there must be powerful people who transcend the five realms in other unknown places. However, these powerful people are very few in number and basically do not appear in the world. There is only one person every few years.
When young disciples enter the world, they are called World Walkers. Once these World Walkers appear in the world, they are great practitioners in the realm of knowing fate. Even Liu Bai, the strongest swordsman in the world in the Southern Jin Dynasty, would feel a little wary."
Mo Shanshan looked at Ning Que with a very complicated look. The message in his eyes seemed to be that her previous words were different from the world she saw with her own eyes, so she was not confident.
Ning Que didn't notice the look in her eyes. He was still immersed in the shock brought by these secrets of the world of cultivation. Thinking back to his daily life in the mountains behind the academy, he became increasingly slanderous and angry at the second senior brother, third senior sister, and Chen Pipi.
Guy, you didn't even tell yourself such an important thing.
He frowned and said: "If things like the Heavenly Book can only exist in an unknown place, then the people who are qualified to snatch the Heavenly Book should logically be those who come from the unknown place and walk around the world. I thought I might encounter competition.
The opponents are at most Daoist idiots or people at the level of Long Qing, who can always compete with each other, but if you meet those great cultivators in the realm of knowing fate, it seems that you can't play with them."
For some reason, Mo Shanshan felt that he couldn't understand what this guy wanted to express at all. His eyebrows were furrowed as if drawn by an ink pen, and he asked, "What are you thinking about?"
Ning Que looked at her and said sincerely, "I'm wondering if we should go back to the south immediately. If you feel unhappy, I'll invite you to visit Chang'an City and take you to eat sweet-scented osmanthus cake."
Mo Shanshan stared at him with big eyes and looked at him inexplicably, not knowing what to say.
Ning Que didn't know what to say and fell into silent thinking for a long time.
It is really inexplicable that this trip to the wilderness has developed to this point. One big event after another jumped out in front of me, and no one reminded or warned me beforehand. Even Liantian Shuming
Such important news as the scroll was actually notified to him until it was about to happen. No matter how you look at it, this kind of response and planning ability cannot match the reputation of the Tang Empire and the academy...
His Majesty the Emperor and Imperial Master Li Qingshan should not harm him, and his master Yan Se would not harm him. The brothers and sisters in the academy may not be involved in this matter, but if it involves an unknown place, he does not believe that the second senior brother will do anything about it.
I have no interest at all, but why did these guys let me come without explaining anything?
As a guy who participated in practical training for the first time in the history of the second floor of the academy, His Majesty and the elders in the south gate may have other ideas. What is the second senior brother thinking? Ning Que became more and more distracted, and his eyes gradually lit up.
Then it dimmed instantly as if suffering some kind of fear, and the body became very stiff.
Because he remembered a passage, which said: Destiny itself is a very cruel guy. If it wants to choose you to take on a mission, it will do everything possible to interrupt it before it is sure that you can take on this mission.
Every bone of yours is stripped of every trace of your flesh and blood, allowing you to endure the most extreme pain in the world. Only in this way can your will and heart be strong enough to be chosen by fate...
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This passage was told to him by Chen Pipi.
This passage was told to Chen Pipi by the second senior brother.
This passage was said by the legendary Junior Master.
Everyone in the back of the academy knows that the second senior brother is the most stupid follower and the most fanatical supporter of the junior junior uncle. No matter his words, deeds or handling style, he wants to get closer to the junior junior uncle. It reminds me of the episode about the junior junior uncle.
The famous saying is that the answer comes when the second senior brother throws Ning Que into the vast wilderness and lets him, a weak person who is not confused, face the many strong men in the temple, face the world that may come from unknown places, and face the bleak life.
Ning Que couldn't help but shudder, like a child about to drown, looking innocently and helplessly at the mountain, already scolding his second senior brother for the ancient crown on his head - that is, the mallet.
At this time, the big black horse went to nowhere to fill his stomach with difficulty, and slowly walked back with resentment in his eyes.
Ning Que looked at the big black horse and recalled its unparalleled victory at the Royal Court Horse Racing Conference. He gradually calmed down the fear and uneasiness in his heart. He frowned and thought for a long time, and suddenly asked:
“Is the result or the process more important?”
Mo Shanshan was slightly startled and replied: "I think it's a process."
Ning Que shook his head and said: "I used to think it was the result, but then when I realized the talisman, I thought the important thing was the process. Now I understand that both are equally important, but if the process is missing, then the result will not be obtained."
Mo Shanshan said: "You are not a person who usually says such things."
Ning Que looked at her and suddenly laughed, and said, "Because I confirmed my purpose of coming to the wasteland."
"What is it?"
"It has nothing to do with the Heavenly Book of Mingzi Scroll or the Demon Sect's Mountain Gate. The reason I came to the wasteland in the first place was to participate in the academy's training. The purpose of those academy students' training is to march and fight. The purpose of my training is naturally to practice."
Ning Que said in a very affirmative tone: "The academy asked me to come to the wasteland in the hope that I can understand something during this process. This is the process, and breaking through the realm and entering the mysterious cave is the purpose of this journey of cultivation.
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Mo Shanshan's eyebrows slowly raised and he said in disbelief: "You have enlightenment at the beginning of spring, feelings at the end of spring, and no confusion at the end of spring. Do you want to be able to break through the mysterious realm in less than a year?"
Ning Que said seriously: "I have told you before that I am not far from Dongxuan."
Mo Shanshan shook his head gently and said: "The Tang Dynasty King Jinglue entered the cave at the age of sixteen, but he became enlightened at the age of four. I entered the cave at the age of fourteen, but I became enlightened at the age of three. I am a Taoist idiot and I don't know, but Prince Longqing entered the cave."
Although Xuan is younger, I believe it took him a long time. I have never heard of anyone who entered the cave within a year. Even if you are a direct disciple of the Master, you have never even seen the Master.
, this kind of thinking is really..."
Ning Que thought with a smile, that's because you have never stayed in the back of the academy. There are too many perverts in cultivation there, but except for the second senior brother, the other senior brothers and sisters don't seem to be very interested in cultivation. If those guys put
If you put your obsession with chess, music, and flowers into practice, you may have already entered the realm of knowing your destiny.
Thinking of the amazing senior brothers and sisters in the mountains behind the academy, Ning Que regained his confidence. Looking at the vast snow-capped mountains, his chest and abdomen were full of pride and pride, and he said loudly: "Is it amazing to walk in the world?"
Listening to these words, Mo Shanshan's thin red lips were slightly opened, but he could not speak. He looked complicated and embarrassed and thought about how he fell in love with such a stupid person by the Mochi in the summer.
people?
Ning Que looked at her speechless expression, laughed proudly and said, "Don't be shocked, don't be impressed, I am a naturally chosen person who dares to face a bleak life, cruel fate, dripping blood, and countless dangerous peaks."
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Prince Longqing stood between the black rock walls. He was tired of looking at the leaden clouds in front of him and the flying snow in the distance. He turned back and looked into the depths of the desolate and deep mountains. This mountain range was originally the end of the northern foothills of Minshan Mountain, but no matter in the grassland
In the language of the barbarians and in the records of the temple scriptures, it is called the Tianqi Mountain Range.
Because that year, after the Great Priest of Light betrayed the temple and founded the Demon Sect, he led his followers to build the Demon Sect's mountain gate in this mountain range. From that day on, this mountainous area eroded by filth waited as if it had been abandoned by Haotian.
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A small snowflake was brought to his face by the wind from the front of the cliff. Unable to touch his beautiful face, it flew away slumped, but his brows gradually wrinkled.
After a lapse of thousands of years, another great priest of light has betrayed the temple. I don’t know what kind of stain this will bring to the glory of Haotian, and what kind of damage it will cause to the cause of the temple.
Although he is the beloved son of heaven trained by the temple, the perfect son of god in the eyes of the world, and is in charge of most of the specific affairs of the Judgment Department, he is still young and junior. He has a Taoist idiot named Ye Hongyu, a Judgment God's Seat, and a headmaster.
Sir, he has no qualifications to participate in the matter of the High Priest Guangming's apostasy, he can only think about it.
The Great Priest of Guangming destroyed the cage, left You Pavilion, and rebelled against Taoshan, causing Xiling Temple to fall into great chaos. At almost the same time, the Great Priest of Tianyu, who had returned from the south, issued a Haotian edict at the cost of half a bunch of white hair.
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In response to the deserted people heading south, the filthy and unknown place in Tianqi Mountain reappeared after decades.
The temple has never given up on searching for the scroll of the Book of Heaven that was lost in the wasteland. After that madman split the Demon Sect's mountain gate into ruins with his single sword, it was said that someone from the Taoist sect went to search for it in person, but found nothing, so the temple has been
I thought that the heavenly book was taken away to the far north by deserters.
However, at this time, the Oracle of Heaven issued such an edict.
Prince Longqing's brows furrowed even more tightly, which did not affect the beauty of his face, but made him look a little dignified.
The Demon Sect Mountain Gate is the only unknowable place that has been destroyed. Once it is reopened, many things will be discovered. To the madman and the person who went to explore the Book of Heaven afterwards, those things are probably no different from garbage, but to the Taoist idiot,
It is very precious to him and other young practitioners in the world.
He fanatically believes in Haotian and yearns for the light. Naturally, he is not interested in those dirty and dark demon sect techniques. But after all, he is the chairman of the Judgment Department and knows some historical truths that have been annihilated by time. He thinks that even if he can find out
If you can inherit the mantle of that madman without reading the Heavenly Book, this trip will be of great significance.
But how big a chance does that take?
Prince Longqing looked at the mountain range abandoned by Haotian and said calmly: "This is also a kind of practice."
At the foot of the cliff dozens of feet away, a deacon in black clothes appeared. The deacon bowed humbly to Prince Longqing, and then said a few words. His voice was broken by the cold wind in the mountains.
Humans couldn't hear it at all, but in Prince Longqing's ears it was extremely clear.
The masters of the temple all came out, and the strong men of the Huangren tribe and even several elders of the Elders Council were attracted to the west. The Tianqi Mountain to the east now seemed very clear, but...
"Three deacons are missing?"
Prince Longqing looked at the subordinate at the bottom of the cliff with no expression on his face. He seemed to be just asking a simple question without showing any emotion. Only he knew that he was a little irritated when he heard the deacon's name.
One of the three missing Adjudication Department deacons is named Luo Weiyang, a low-ranking Dongxuan realm, and a very capable subordinate of his. But this is nothing, the important thing is that he is Luo Kedi's brother.
Luo Kedi himself is nothing. The important thing is that he is the leader of the divine guards who is most trusted by the leader.
Because of the gloomy expression on his face, the subordinate under the cliff became more and more frightened and nervous. He lowered his head and continued to report: "The thirteenth gentleman on the second floor of the academy also left the royal court. He should have come this way. Specifically,
I don’t know the route, I only know that I should be traveling with the bookworm from Mochiyuan.”
Prince Longqing raised his sword eyebrows slowly, with a faint smile on his face, and said to himself: "It's interesting, he actually started to walk around the world, but has anyone been as weak as you in the past thousand years?"
Then the smile gradually faded away and turned into frost as the cold wind blew on his cheeks.
As a young and powerful man who is absolutely entitled to be proud, Prince Long Qing has only lost once in his life at the hands of Ning Que, so his pride will naturally turn into anger and displeasure after hearing Ning Que's name.
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Although he hid it well and remained peaceful and calm, no one in the temple could see it from the time he climbed the mountain in spring to today's mountaineering in the harsh winter, but he knew that the anger and displeasure were always there.
When he left Chang'an City in the spring, thanks to that failure, he saw the threshold of the realm of knowing one's fate, waiting for him to cross it on the other side of the mountain. But it was also because of that failure that he saw the threshold on the other side of the mountain.
During this period of time, there has been no way to get close, let alone get one step ahead.
Anger and displeasure will not have an essential impact on the Dao Heart, but the unwillingness and imbalance hidden in it are definitely the greatest damage to the transparency of the Dao Heart.
He was very proud, so he was unwilling to give in. He did not dare to question the Master's choice, but he believed that the Master did not personally host the admission examination, so there must be other reasons why he lost to Ning Que.
Because, he cannot be worse than Ning Que.
To prove this, he needs to defeat or even defeat that guy in all aspects.
The Judgment God's Throne said this, the headmaster didn't say it, but the cold look in his eyes before leaving also said this, and the mad woman Ye Hongyu's contemptuous smile also said this, so he knew he had to do this.
"I will wait for you in this mountain."
Prince Longqing looked at the black and lowly stones at the foot of Xuefeng, laughed at himself and said: "I am about to become the first person in history to defeat the world's walking, why don't I have any sense of accomplishment?"