Mysterious Martial Arts: The Record of the Swordsman

Chapter 103

The several-meter-high, wall-like skin has sparse mane and no scales to protect it. It is only covered by a layer of weird tissue that does not seem to be part of its body. It is unknown how deep it spreads in the hole.

Its mouth was in the shape of a combination of a narrow hole and a slit, and a dozen or so eyes were sunk deep into the flesh to form a row of potholes, twisted and squeezed together.The glimmer of the gilt-bronze quill was concentrated on its skin, reflecting only a sinister arc of red.

The ancient bronze sword collided with the hard flesh, and the sound was like hitting a boulder. The ancient sword Canglanglang of the Yue Kingdom, which was heavy on piercing but not good at cutting, wiped out continuous sparks, and the huge wall continued to rotate without any damage. Injury!
As the huge wall of corpses continued to rotate slowly, making a loud noise, Jiang Wen saw that the monster in front of him was huge and wrinkled. Jiang Wen's height was only about a quarter of its height, and the exposed rocky edges and corners were sharp and stiff. .

It is very similar to some primitive lower animals, but it has some inexplicable human characteristics in its temperament, so it looks even more terrifying.It gave Jiang Wen the feeling of a deformed conch, with a rock-hard body hidden deep in a soft and disgusting shell, which kept oozing weird mucus.

It seemed that it was the mucus that made countless shriveled corpses stick to it—this disgusting creature actually used the corpses to form another shell to protect itself, wriggling outward.

Extreme panic and disgust made Jiang Wen unable to move. For a few long seconds, he even thought he had turned into a deep-sea fish in the prehistoric seabed, and accidentally broke into the nest of a nautilus on the ocean floor!
He should have thought earlier that this miraculous method of exhaling fog into paintings, turning smoke into scenery, the sun and the moon, and towers suddenly appearing has been recorded in ancient books, but because the Manting Peak is located deep in the Wuyi Mountains, the legend of the miraculous has continued for thousands of years , Jiang Wen never thought about that.

Mirage is a legendary monster. According to ancient books, it looks like a snake and is big, with horns like a dragon. It often spits out a red mane, and its scales are completely reversed below the waist.It can exhale and form a mirage. Since ancient times, there has been a saying that pheasants enter the sea and become mirages.

"Shuyuan Miscellaneous Notes" mentions that "the theory of mirage air towers comes from the "Tianguan Shu", and its origin is far away. Or mirages are used as big clams, and "Yue Ling" says that pheasants enter the sea as mirages. Or think that snakes Transformation, there are many such things in the sea."

Strictly speaking, "it" should not be used in front of you, but "it".Because Jiang Wen had already guessed that the mere existence in front of him would make people feel overwhelmed with pain, and it should be called a monster—the snail of the phantom mirage!
At this time, Jiang Wen could imagine that beyond the stone gap, the cold Polaris had already hung high at the end of the sky. Some kind of mysterious and irresistible force was spreading to this corner of the mountains through the weird and complicated cosmic space. Then, dispelling the abnormality on the monster in front of him, it was able to meet Jiang Wen so close.

Out of Wang Mang's head, streams of foul-smelling mucus suddenly flowed out. It is strange that the unknown substance on the soft shell of the phantom snail is turning into a breeding ground for fungi. A spore-like creature quickly It grew rapidly from Wang Mang's tongueless mouth, and evolved into a dry and ugly black spore plant, which sneaked towards Jiang Wen's body with malicious intentions.

The Immortal Mushroom is actually a part of it!

Seeing this scene, the four Liujia gods stepped on the ground at the same time, raised their upper bodies, turned their eyes wildly, and slammed down the gilded bronze feather box.

The four people put their arms up, leaned on their shoulders, pressed their middle fingers and index fingers together, and at the same time formed the seal of the Northern Emperor who commanded the ghosts and gods of the three worlds and entered the temple.

The surging internal force contained in the Celestial Master's Dan Qi method echoed each other, just like a surging wave, the four of them either fisted or palmed, and struck together with the evil ghost method tacitly, and hit the conch of the monster's mirage at the same time.

The shell of the phantom snail is soft and sticky, and its flesh is as hard as a rock. Jiang Wen's sharp sword just now can't cut through it. Therefore, it is an excellent way to break open the door with a powerful internal force-please God's upper body state seems to be true. In the dark, these four people who should be stupid and stupid have mysterious and mysterious intuition.

The powerful force of the external power blessing is enough to break the stele and crack the stone, even the real rock wall will be shattered into powder, but the four palms slapped on the smooth and strange flesh of the phantom conch, but there is no wave.

"Back back quickly! Since the fairy mist it spits out can create a void space, it must also be able to dissolve the external force!"

No one understood Jiang Wen's shout, and the body that touched the top of the cave began to hiss and wriggle, without stopping for a second, but the Liujia God General suddenly vomited blood and flew back, flying straight out of the stone chamber , as if facing a powerful man with amazing physical strength, he suffered a lot.

Jiang Wen was silent for a moment, kicked out the gilt bronze feather box, and slowly moved backwards.

No matter who faced monsters at close range, especially monsters of this size that were filled with underground caves and lived in caves for an unknown number of years, they would feel extremely troublesome.

After the four were knocked down, the soft back shell of the Mirage Conch turned back again. Wang Mang's head was open and his mouth was empty, as if laughing sinisterly. stand up.

As time passed, the monsters started to move again, and the vast white mist once again filled the dense stone room, and the terrifying red glow was also lingering in it, lurking in the foggy unknown figure.

The stalemate is still going on, Jiang Wenye has already retreated to the place where the stone gap is, and the stars outside the cave shine into it, and a few clouds hover in the night sky, but they can't block the sinking Beichen star.

time is limited!
Jiang Wen has already noticed that the snail of the barbarian monster in front of him is different from the six-toothed and seven-branched barbarian monster buried under the Wuyi Mountains. It is not burned to death by magma, and then suppressed by the Xuanwu Mountain For billions of years, the vicious resentment that rotted and melted in the darkness.

The monster in front of him, the snail of the mirage, lives under the dark rocks, and there is something in his body that can give people immortality.

If you want to take it, you must first give it.

Its dozens of pitted eyes are full of the strongest greed and cruelty, and all creatures that come here driven by desire will become part of its nourishment.

Because there is the desire of those who seek liberation, the obsession of those who seek longevity, the greed of those who seek immortality, and the assiduousness of those who seek to explore the truth.The strange mirage understands people's hearts. After all, from the moment it spits out the fairy mist on Manting Peak, what it comes into contact with is the ever-changing desires of human beings.

The person who ate the elixir would eventually turn into a deformed and twisted black dragon, and transform into a walking corpse like a holy child of the red sun. The ending of this immortality is already doomed.

But what did those people who saw the Immortal Banquet at Manting Peak, who claimed to cross the Hongqiao and become immortals, see?What happened to them? !

Jiang Wen thought pessimistically that the deepest desires of these human beings are nothing but the nourishment for their own maintenance and the food for their spiritual growth.The legend of eternal life in Wuyi Mountain has lingered for thousands of years. In the final analysis, it is the indelible obsession of human beings, supporting a lie that no one wants to expose...

Longevity and immortality may just be a curse set by human beings themselves.

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The mirage snail slowly approaches Jiang Wen. It never uses violence to hunt, it only uses the most secretive means to lure its prey to take the bait. Maybe one or two people can escape in the past thousands of years, but they will only give Himself, bring more food.

The experience of barbarian predation made it slowly turn out of the back, and restored the high wall composed of Wang Mang's head and densely packed corpses. I saw fairy mist and red clouds flying, twists and turns that are indescribable, but suddenly turned into a solidified round mirror The round light-like picture reflects the dark and quiet, dripping stalactites and stalagmites in the cave.

The situation was tense in an instant, Jiang Wen caught a glimpse of Wang Mang's head with the ancient sword stuck in it, and decided that since it could be pierced by a ranger from the Western Jin Dynasty, it should be the weak part of Yiguai's body.With the shell as the void and the flesh as the substance, the snail of the strange phantom mirage is so bizarre that it hardly seems like a creature conceived by the earth.

Jiang Wen circulated his internal energy in an attempt to kill with one blow. Countless martial arts circulated in his heart endlessly. His moves ranged from complicated to simple, and his murderous aura changed from present to non-existent. He had already raised his swordsmanship to a level almost In the realm of Tao!
But at the next moment, Yiguai Mirage generously and sinisterly unfolded the scene of the fairy world for him, interrupting his entrance!

What Jiang Wen saw in the round light was neither like the beautiful fairyland in the Taoist legend, nor even the scene of the boundless hell in the Buddhist scriptures.This fairy world seems to have nothing, but it seems to contain everything, and it descends on the real land in an instant with an indistinguishable "emptiness".

Bits of sound were like falling leaves and branches, and some dark and ominous things seemed to be turning into virtual images like light spots and flying past Jiang Wen. The line segments and light spots circled the gradually ethereal cave wall and the stalactites growing everywhere, forming some indescribable creatures and pounced on Jiang Wen.

They are composed of irregular red lines, but they have no essential body. They dance flat or curved on the stalagmite stalactites, and sway and dance with the shadow of the illuminated stone pillars, creating rustling and chaotic footsteps. .

Jiang Wen didn't know whether what he saw now was different from what other people saw, but was this the so-called residence of the immortals?Is this the Queen Mother's Immortal Banquet that mortals dare not set foot in?

This is the destination of the other road up the mountain, and it is the inevitable ending of the road to the immortals in the caves and valleys that the little Taoist village people say.

They transcended their bodies in advance, resisted the temptation of the elixir, and plunged into the weird "false world" unfolded by the strange mirage without hesitation.

Since then, the passage of time and the coming and going of spring and autumn have nothing to do with them in the "Void Immortal Realm", even if there are vicissitudes outside.

Since then, they have entered a "imaginary fairyland" that humans cannot understand, and have become part of crumbling and distorted red dots and lines.

From then on, they would only swim from the "virtual fairyland" to dance wildly on the rock altar at the climax of the fairy banquet at Manting Peak, just like now, cursing this world where reason has not disappeared with a vicious shape!

They have become immortals, but they have become ghostly immortals in the imaginary world, entering into a possibility that is irrational, transcends logical cause and effect, frightens the Milesians, and makes Pythagoras would rather kill than erase. Preface, madness, chaos, a universe that is completely imaginary!

In the circle of light displayed by Yiguai, he also cunningly added fragments of past images and inserted messages that interfered with thinking—all of them were traces left on the wooden goblet. The thoughts conveyed when he came here, now Together they turned into weapons to seduce Jiang Wen, disturbing his mind.

Only when Jiang Wen barely understood the nonlinear relationship could he take the opportunity to interpret the dialogue across time and space on the wooden goblet.

First of all, it was the doctor who left the extremely scribbled handwriting, hunched over and lost in thought.

The apocalyptic panic in the last years of the Western Han Dynasty caused the newly ascended Emperor Ai of the Han Dynasty to believe that there must be a curse factor flowing in him - why did he suddenly suffer from paralysis at the age of 17 despite having a very healthy youth.

At this time, the aristocratic families and foreign relatives of the Western Han Dynasty, seeing the faintness of the emperors and the weakness of the central government, had already wanted to win the throne.At that time, the Confucianism of the unity of man and nature was popular, so all parties deliberately released all kinds of panic to challenge the authority of the Han Dynasty, trying to prove that the Liu family had been rejected by the destiny and was about to lose the emperor's position.

In the final analysis, this was just a vicious political act, but it touched the fragile heartstrings of several emperors after the Western Han Dynasty, so they resorted to the art of illusory, and the result was like drinking poison to quench their thirst, accelerating their own fainting decline.

The doctor determined that this was a disease, but Jiang Wen speculated that he actually suffered from "Beck type muscular dystrophy", with an incidence rate of 1/30000 and an average age of onset of 11 years.The clinical manifestations of patients with this disease are relatively mild. Not many patients need to rely on wheelchairs at the age of 16. More than 90% of patients can live beyond the age of 20, so there is no symptom before ascending the throne.

The more important one is: This disease is usually only a female recessive carrier.Mourning the emperor, the grandson of the Yuan emperor, and the prince Ding Tao Gong.Mother is Ding Ji.

That is to say, the mother of Emperor Han Ai may carry the disease-causing gene, but she has no symptoms, but she gave birth to the son of Emperor Han Ai, and there is a 50% chance of suffering from this muscle atrophy disease.

Unfortunately, Emperor Ai of the Han Dynasty was 50% hit by fate.

So he turned to the technique of the blue bird descending from the truth collected in the Han Palace, and embarked on the path of fallacies of the previous emperors.

As the last emperor of Han who had the hope of turning the tide, he didn't believe these rumors when he came to the throne, but he suffered from this rare disease by accident, and his death became a strong proof of prophecy - since then Wang Mang Instead, it has entered the countdown.

Relying on his clinical treatment experience, the doctor abandoned the mysterious and deliberate panic of the end of the world, and saw the dusty truth under this crevice, but it was too late, and he could only lament the doomed decline of the Western Han Dynasty after thousands of years of unique events in the world.

Afterwards, Jiang Wen saw the ranger sent by Zhang Hua, holding a white jade sword, entered under the stone gap, his actions were swift and swift, unstoppable, and his martial arts had reached perfection.

When he used Wang Mang's head as bait to lure the monster in front of him, he also fell into deep thought.

In his later years, Sima Yan, Emperor Wu of Jin, suddenly realized that the Western Jin Dynasty was facing a great crisis, and the royal blood seemed destined to decline. Among his 29 sons, only nine grew up, and the crown prince, Sima Zhong, was mentally retarded.

After Fu Luan, the sorcerer who was invited, saw the prophecy that "two horses can eat", saying that only two of his sons would die well in the end, and the remaining seven would die unexpectedly!
Seeing that it is difficult to preserve the Jin family in this way, Sima Yan thought of Wang Mang's head that was dusty in the arsenal.

He recruited many doctors of Confucianism and yin and yang alchemists to study, trying to restore the blue bird descending the truth in the Han Palace, and use it to prolong life.

This huge prophecy revival movement has caused countless celebrities to flock to it. They think they have mastered the heavens and the people, and they turned their personal interests into public lands to serve as bureaucrats in various places, chasing ghosts and ghosts, in order to find a way to communicate with Wang Mangtou. The method has caused both political and ideological corruption.

Emperor Hui who ascended the throne was weak, and Empress Jia was cruel. Zhang Hua and Zhang Maoxian, who were dedicated to assisting the government, were envoys to Yan Ran in Hainei. With the respect and support of Jananfeng, they finally put an end to this absurd movement and sent someone to send Wang Mangtou to where he should go. The place.

It is a pity that in the Eight Kings Rebellion five years later, Zhang Hua suffered a tragic accident, and the gentry's search for the ghost could no longer be curbed. Closing the curtain on the show...

The ranger has calculated everything, but he doesn't understand the mysteries of the star position, let alone the shell on the back of the snail of the strange mirage, which is covered with corpses, but the flesh on the front is so hard that it cannot be penetrated by ordinary methods.

It was too late when he missed a hit, so he could only throw the Snake Sword into Wang Mang's head angrily, and was swallowed by the accompanying Baishuisu girl, and turned into bones after failing.

And then, Immortal Master Bai Yuchan appeared in the shadow of the circular light with a wide robe and long sleeves, like a fairy, holding the Thunder Jue in his hand without saying a word.

A Taoist priest once met Emperor Ai of the Han Dynasty with the method of descending the truth, and found that the reason why the imperial edict of the Queen Mother of the West he carried out was unimaginable and unprecedented, because what he asked for was completely different from that of the previous emperors.

Emperor Xuan, Emperor Yuan, and Emperor Cheng of the Western Han Dynasty were all strong and prosperous emperors, but because they were fascinated by the method of ascending to immortals passed down by Emperor Wu, they had something in their hearts, praying day and night for the Queen Mother of the West's Qingluan to descend and take them to the fairyland.

And Emperor Ai burned incense and prayed, only hoping to cure his own body's ills, that is, like the holy boy of Hongyang, who longed for cicadas to molt into feathers and live forever. So after several months of sensationalizing the capital, he finally got green in the fairy fog. The "Pharmaceutical of Immortality" presented by Luan...

After Emperor Ai of the Han Dynasty took the medicine, due to the congenital paralysis of his body and the accumulation of lack of Qi training and food intake, under the horrified gaze of the palace people, his body melted and shrank on the spot into a jade cocoon the size of a fist, unable to emerge at all.The corpse seemed to be dead but not dead, its eyebrows were still moving, so it had to be buried in Yiling hastily.

Later, Wang Mang, who was ordered by the Queen Mother to rebuild the mausoleum, was a erudite man proficient in Confucianism. He discovered the secret of keeping immortality in the jade cocoon of Emperor Ai-the green-gold immortal seed, which was living in the Lingtai Cave and was shining. .

Wang Mang was overjoyed, thinking he had mastered the secret of immortality, so with the help of Ai Zhang from Zitong, he tried to plant the green-golden seeds into his body.

Until his defeat, Wang Mang believed that all this was God's favor. "Zizhi Tongjian" records that before the defeat, Wang Mang was dressed in cyanotic clothes, holding the dagger of Emperor Yu, Tian Wenlang was in front of him, and Mang sat on the handle with the handle, saying: "He was born with virtue. !"

It's a pity that the rebel army has already invaded Chang'an. The businessman Du Wu killed Mang, and the school captain Donghai Gongbin beheaded Mang. Mang still opened his eyes and breathed like a constant day; .

This green-gold impermanent seed has been passed down since then, and has a new name in the Taoist sect——Tai Shang Bu Xing Sheng Gang Lu!

Bai Yuchan knew that whether he was praying for immortality with the Jade Bird's Immortality Technique, or he was eager to take the medicine of immortality, it was an act of eager for quick success and quick profit.The portal connected by the Jade Bird's Immortality Art is in Wuyi Mountain, and only the path opened from Manting Peak in Wuyi Mountain can truly ascend to the fairyland.

He read the Taoist classics and thought for a long time, and finally decided that if he wanted to truly rise to immortality and cross the Hongqiao, he must first practice in the realm of golden elixir!

The so-called golden elixir is not an omnipotent skill of the gods, but a unique thing formed by the three talents of the human body. chemicalized seeds.

Only when the golden elixir is achieved can the tragedy of the Holy Child of the Red Sun be avoided, and after taking the elixir of immortality, he can overcome the three corpses in his body, break out of the cocoon, and return to his innate body smoothly.

Only if the golden elixir is not broken, can you step into it when the Wuwuxianmen is opened, unlike the villagers of the little Taoist priests who are consumed and alienated by the wind of the nine heavens and the plain water of the Han Dynasty, and will always maintain the true self!

Bai Yuchan faced the snail of the strange mirage for a long time, and finally sighed, guarding this seemingly only remaining road to immortality in the world until he died.

The outstanding people who have stepped into it for thousands of years have all read their thoughts by the mirage conch like the palm of their hands, and more previous figures and thoughts are staged like a kaleidoscope.

The dotted line ghosts exuding red light come from all directions, trying to drag Jiang Wen into an unpredictable abyss. The mirage snail is still chattering about the inside story of Mixin, disturbing Jiang Wen's attention However, even if Jiang Wen flicked around with his superb body skills, he still couldn't guard against the pervasive information projection.

But among these people, there was a sloppy and strange-looking person who impressed Yi Guai the most, and even faintly flinched.

It's all because this slovenly person came here and immediately recognized the heel of the Yiwei Void Mirage at a glance.

The sloppy Taoist recognized the snail of the phantom mirage as something that fell from the Tianhe River to the lower world. It fell on the Yanzi Mountain beside the West Sea in the age earlier than Yao and Shun.

(End of this chapter)