Volume Two, The Lake of Winter, Chapter 54: Peach Blossoms Bloom
Volume 2: The Lake of Winter, Chapter 54: Peach Blossoms Bloom
Emotions such as hatred, unwillingness, anxiety, and fear are the most terrifying mental barriers for practitioners. They are like firewood, suspended next to the Taoist heart, forming a fence, blocking the fresh wind and moisture outside the fence. If this
If the situation continues for too long, things within the fence will gradually wither.
Not being able to climb the mountain behind the academy was the first hurdle on Prince Longqing’s path. Ning Que was the firewood outside Prince Longqing’s heart. An important purpose of his trip to the wilderness to practice was to get rid of this firewood.
There are many ways to remove and break the barriers in the heart of the Tao, such as practicing hard, comprehending the scriptures, or forcing yourself into a desperate situation and then breaking out, but there is no doubt that the easiest way is to chop the firewood into wood chips and blow them away in the wind.
So when Prince Longqing knew that the firewood called Ning Que had come on his own, and the barriers outside the Dao Heart were broken, the Dao Heart that was covered by the gray dust gradually became brighter, and he felt a surge of open air in his chest and abdomen.
When I came out, I wanted to scream at the vast mountains like the sea.
It was at this moment that the world in his eyes was different. The breath of heaven and earth flowed slowly between the snowy peaks and black rocks. The rich, complex and unspeakable flow patterns seemed to be able to be grasped. In the clear air between the distant mountains,
A door appeared, and it became much clearer than before.
Once you open that door and cross that threshold, you will know your destiny.
Prince Longqing put his hands behind the black clothes, looked at that place emotionally, and remained silent for a long time.
He didn't know how much time had passed, but he slowly withdrew his gaze and looked at a snow tree beside him.
As far as the eye can see, the snow on the branches gradually turns into water. The water droplets wet the dead branches and gather on the branches, and then condense into a crystal water droplet, which quickly turns into ice in the cold mountain wind.
In the process of the water droplets on the branches freezing into ice, it was as if there was a wonderful carving knife in the wind. Instead of making the water droplets condense into circles or ovals, they gradually opened up and peeled off one by one until they took shape.
It is a peach blossom that is crystal clear and yet gives people a vivid and ecstasy feeling.
Colorless pure water is ice, but it seems to show colors visually, which is very magical.
Prince Longqing quietly looked at the ice peach blossoms swaying gently in the wind on the branches. There was no pride or satisfaction on his beautiful face. Instead, there was a touch of self-mockery between his handsome eyebrows, and he sighed softly:
"It's only half a minute away."
When he returned to Xiling from the Tang Dynasty in the spring, in the carriage leaving Chang'an City, he once thought that he was about to enter the realm of knowing his destiny, and that he might even complete it during the journey. However, what happened next made him shake off this emotion.
After waking up, I returned to practice calmly.
The long and long road of spiritual practice, once embarked on it, cannot be turned back. It is very fast at the beginning, but becomes more difficult and dangerous later on, and the threshold of knowledge that separates great practitioners from ordinary practitioners is even more towering.
Clouds are extremely difficult to climb. Although he has seen them, he doesn't know how long it will take to get close and cross them.
However, Prince Longqing did not feel depressed at all, because he was still very young and he had already seen the threshold. Compared with those people who had practiced for hundreds of years but still did not know where the treasure mountain was, he had enough qualifications to be proud, especially
It was at this moment that he knew that he was getting a little closer to that side again.
At the moment of breaking through, every step forward is so difficult, so every step forward is so moving and even intoxicating.
All the snow on the dozens of bare branches of the winter tree has melted and flowed to the branches, condensing into crystal clear peach blossoms, which reflect the light in the sky and are so beautiful that they seem to be unearthly.
Prince Longqing's jade-white right hand stretched out his black sleeve, gently held an ice peach blossom with three fingers, held it in the air and looked at the sun for a long time, and said softly: "Longqing, you are really strong."
At this moment, a childish voice suddenly sounded from far away on the mountain road, and the voice was full of surprise and curiosity.
"Are all you Central Plains people so thick-skinned?"
Prince Longqing suppressed his smile and looked there expressionlessly.
Standing on the snow-covered cliff was a girl with a childlike face.
The girl was tightly wrapped in many tattered furs, wearing a pair of dirty black boots on her feet, and a fur hat on her head. Her long black hair was braided into a long and thick braid, hanging down on her head.
Her knees kept swaying, and a furry animal tail covered most of her face, but it couldn't hide the innocence between her eyebrows.
Prince Longqing didn't notice the fluctuation of telepathy in this girl. He raised his brows slightly and thought, if he were an ordinary person, how could he appear in the bitingly cold Tianqi Mountain, and why didn't he notice it?
He thought of a possibility, looked slightly cold and asked: "Nangui Huangren?"
The girl was only fifteen or sixteen years old, and her little face was flushed by the cold wind blowing in the mountains. She nodded vigorously when she heard his question, and then said: "My name is Tang Xiaotang, what's yours?"
Prince Longqing did not answer. He looked at the white and furry little beast next to the girl, frowned and asked: "Rabbit?"
Tang Xiaotang shook his head and said: "It's not a rabbit, it's a cute little white wolf."
Prince Longqing didn't want to say anything more to the little girl Huangren, so he gently turned the ice peach blossoms with his fingertips, preparing to let her return to the Kingdom of Haotian.
The little snow wolf, which had been squatting quietly beside Tang Xiaotang, suddenly stood up with its front paws on the ground and hunched over, grinning and looking at him with a low howl, but the snow wolf was too small, even though the snow-like white hair on its body exploded,
It just looks like it has turned into a bigger snow ball. It is extremely cute, but there is nothing scary about it?
Prince Longqing thought about the white horse his fiancée had given him, and suddenly smiled slightly. He thought that if he killed this little deserter girl later, he would not hurt this rare little snow wolf. She would definitely like it if he gave it to her.
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Tang Xiaotang was not disturbed by Little Snow Wolf's vigilance. His dark eyes were full of smiles as he looked at Prince Long Qing and asked, "Do you want to kill me?"
In the vast snow-capped mountains, a deserted land, a cute little girl of fifteen or sixteen years old, facing a strange man who had murderous intentions, asked with a smile if you want to kill me, without any fear at all, so there were only two
In this case, either she is a stupid girl, or she is the truly terrible person.
The corners of Prince Longqing's lips curled up slightly, and he smiled self-deprecatingly, thinking about those boring and even corrupt words that had been mentioned in this novel. He believed that this deserted little girl might be a little weird, but there has never been such a little girl in this world.
A young girl who can threaten herself despite her age.
Just as he was thinking this, a bright red appeared in front of his eyes, like a koi carp wagging its tail in the lake. That red appeared a few years ago, representing a past event that made him feel extremely unhappy, because this memory
, his mood became a little irritable at this time, his face gradually became gloomy, and his beautiful face gradually turned into an ice peach blossom held between his fingers.
He looked at Tang Xiaotang and said expressionlessly: "The remnants of the Demon Sect have killed many, but the remnants of the Demon Sect among the people who migrated south to the wilderness have not been killed yet. Little girl, you should feel honored."
Tang Xiaotang giggled, stretched his little hands behind his back, looked at Prince Longqing under the tree in the distance and said happily: "I have killed many animals like wolves and sheep, but the people in the temple have never killed them, so you just
You should feel honored."
Laughter represents contempt, contempt represents provocation, and in Prince Longqing's view, provocation to him is a provocation to the temple and disrespect to Haotian, so he becomes more and more angry while his expression becomes calmer.
No matter how you look at it, this will definitely be a one-sided battle, more like an adult bullying a little girl. However, unexpectedly, it is the little girl wrapped in tattered animal skins who takes the lead.
What Tang Xiaotang did was not a hand.
It's the feet.
She stepped on the snow, and a deep footprint appeared on the snow, so deep that it seemed to be digging into the ground, and the ordinary-looking black and dirty boots were only slightly deformed and not cracked.
Then Tang Xiaotang started running towards the winter tree with branches covered with ice peach blossoms.
Every time she stepped on the snow, a large cloud of snowflakes would be stirred up, carrying an extremely huge force, as if her small body was like a heavy hill, causing the entire cliff to tremble slightly.
The crystal clear ice peach blossoms were so shaken that they fell from the branches and fell to the ground.
Tang Xiaotang came in a blizzard.
Prince Longqing's eyes narrowed slightly, and his right hand hanging outside the black robe shook slightly. The ice peach blossoms that were falling from the branches were stirred by the fluctuations of vitality between heaven and earth, like countless feather arrows, whizzing
It flew through the air and arrived in front of Tang Xiaotang in an instant.
These crystal clear ice peach blossoms reflect beautiful light in the sun and set up many obstacles between the cliffs. The seemingly fragile petals contain extremely powerful power.
The cold wind blew against Tang Xiaotang's reddish face, and the beast's tail covering her face whirred. Her speed was so fast that it was almost invisible to the naked eye, and she didn't know how she could move in her thin body.
Containing such huge energy, it is unimaginable that her slender legs could not break at such speed.
Because the speed was too fast, when those beautiful and terrifying ice peach blossoms appeared in front of her eyes, they were already very close to her innocent face, and it was impossible to avoid them at the current speed.
Tang Xiaotang learned fighting from his elder brother since he was a child, and he didn't even know what avoidance meant.
When she was running at high speed, she kept her right hand stretched out behind her. Then she looked at the sky filled with ice and peach blossoms, and finally pulled it out.
She pulled out a huge blood-red scimitar.
This scimitar was exaggeratedly big, especially compared to her thin body, and it looked even more terrifying. The blade was as red as blood, and she didn't know where the knife was hidden in her body.
The bloody giant sword slashed down in the air, making a whistling sound.
The transparent ice peach blossoms cracked and shattered into ice flakes all over the ground.
The superb Taoist technique performed by Prince Longqing could not be so simple. When the transparent ice peach blossom shattered, a powerful force of heaven and earth energy emerged from the ice peach.
However, at this time, Tang Xiaotang had already ran out more than ten feet away and had already split the fifth ice peach blossom.
The peach blossoms bloomed and turned into useless boulders, falling to the ground.
The Taoism contained in the peach blossoms set off countless air waves among the cliffs, shaking up the broken snow and black rocks. However, it could not catch up with Tang Xiaotang's speed at all, and could only set off the little girl's momentum, making her look so dejected and helpless.
The bloody giant knife held by Tang Xiaotang's little hand chopped open one peach blossom, two peach blossoms, and three peach blossoms.
Then he slashed in front of Prince Longqing.
Prince Longqing's eyes suddenly brightened, and the ice peach blossom held in his right hand was gently moved forward, blocking the blade of the bloody giant knife. The transparent petals opened instantly and flourished.
Sharp blade.
The seemingly fragile ice peach blossom.
Once we met.
He has conquered countless people in the world.
Among the snowy cliffs, the vitality of heaven and earth shook violently.
The winter tree that had just produced countless peach blossoms was torn into pieces by the turbulence in the air.
Prince Longqing snorted lightly and did not take a step back.
But the tie holding his black hair suddenly broke, and his black hair spread out like a waterfall, making him look a little embarrassed.
The pale right hand holding the ice peach blossom was trembling slightly.
A tiny crack appeared on the ice peach blossom between her fingers.
Tang Xiaotang stepped lightly on the smoke clouds like a nimble bird, turned over and landed on the snow gently and skillfully.
She giggled, looked at Prince Long Qing with messy black hair, and said, "You are so pretty, just like those girls from the River Kingdom in the embroidery books, but it seems like you don't know how to fight."
Prince Longqing stared at this little deserted girl and used a lot of effort to calm down his teeth that were trembling with anger. A stream of blood seeped out from the corners of his lips.
The bright ones have pistils like peach blossoms.
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The black hair was slowly blowing on the beautiful and pale face of Prince Longqing. His eyes were extremely focused and indifferent. The hands exposed outside the black sleeves were trembling slightly. The peach blossom with a small crack was already gone.
It disappeared, and the divine sword beside his waist, given by the headmaster himself, began to hum softly.
Tang Xiaotang looked at him and scratched his head, and said: "You are at a very high level, but you really don't know how to fight. Your peach blossom is quite interesting and is better than your sword. If you want to cut me head-on with my sword,
You have to use the sword on your family's headmaster's waist. If you abandon Taohua and use a sword at this time, you will only die faster."
Prince Longqing slowly wiped away the blood stains from the corner of his lips, looked at her with a half-smile and said, "You can try it."
Suddenly, a strange color appeared in Tang Xiaotang's clear eyes. It was neither fear nor excitement, but she seemed to sense that something strange and disturbing was approaching.
"I don't have time to try today. I have something to do and I have to leave first."
Tang Xiaotang looked at Prince Longqing and said, "But I must remind you that this mountain belongs to my family. If I see anyone from your temple again, I will kill them one by one."
Prince Longqing also noticed the aura coming at high speed in the distance. He couldn't help but frown slightly, feeling extremely irritated. He stared at Tang Xiaotang and said in a deep voice, "Do you think you can leave today?"
"The third time you said you can't fight."
Tang Xiaotang looked at him and said sympathetically: "We Daming Sect disciples are best at running. Unless you advance to the realm of destiny knowledge, how can you catch up with me? Don't your temples teach these things now?"
A very clear voice came from the distance: "Tang Xiaotang, if you have the ability, don't run away."
Listening to that voice, Tang Xiaotang couldn't help but shudder and angrily replied loudly: "Ye Hongyu, you crazy bitch, if you have the ability, don't act like a hooligan!"
Then she turned around and ran away with the little white wolf, running faster than the wind.