longevity road trip

Zhang Shiping and Wang Daoxiu also casually praised this senior brother Dan for his generosity.

On the other hand, Senior Brother Dan showed all his eyes, looked at the three of them teasingly, and said confidently: "Everyone, don't think that Dan is doomed to lose, let's just watch."

"Then the old man will just watch and see what kind of confidence you, Master Bihai, have."

"Brother Dan's junior disciples are pretty good, but it's hard to say what the result will be." Zhang Shiping said quietly. There is also a jade ointment made from the egg liquid of the phantom locust. Of course, this jade ointment is just the eggs laid by the first-order phantom locust locusts.If under such circumstances, his eight junior clansmen are still inferior to others, and if none of them can survive, then he will admit it.

"It seems that you brothers are so interested in elegance, why don't you come and take a gamble?" In front of the two, after hearing the words of Huo Ming, Dan Yuchun, Zhang Shiping, and Wang Daoxiu, Jinhua Daoist smiled at him. Qi Feng said.

"No, this kind of money-losing thing, the old man won't do it." Qi Feng shook his head immediately when he heard Jin Hua jokingly said, and resolutely refused, his treasures were not brought by the strong wind.

After hearing Qi Feng's words, Master Huo Ming booed a few times, and everyone talked and laughed.

When flying over a towering peak, Qi Feng asked everyone if the six of them really wanted to patrol around the secret realm for a month without sleep, or find a place to rest.

This kind of matter naturally obtained the unanimous consent of Zhang Shiping and the five people. Could it be that the six Jindan real people really have to work so hard?

Qi Feng led the way ahead, leading the crowd towards the top of Juefeng, and slowly flew down.

An absolute peak, surrounded by clouds.

On the top of the peak, there is a flat ground that was specially cleared earlier. There is an ashlar table and four round stone chairs.On the stone table is a three-foot chessboard carved from sapphire stone. There are nineteen vertical and horizontal chessboards. There are black and white chessboards in the chess box.

There are many strange rocks around the top of the mountain, rugged and arrogant, and there are one or two clusters of yellow bamboo, three or four stubborn pines, the old bamboo is old and the pine is old, the old bamboo is knotty, and the old pine has young leaves.There are also some weeds growing between the stone cracks, some withered and yellow, and some green.

On all sides of Jue Peak, there are floating clouds, and the sea of ​​clouds is rolling when the wind blows.The stronger the wind blows, the lower the grass bends. Only the pine and bamboo are strong against the strong wind, and they would rather bend than bend.

"Brothers, there are people who have played a few games with me. Win or lose, there will be good wine." After landing on the ground, Qi Feng walked three steps in two steps, sat on the stone chair with a big horse, and yelled at everyone shouted.

When Zhang Shiping saw Qi Feng, seeing his rough and heroic appearance, the black and white hair was not as big as his fingers, he thought it was a bit funny, but Master Huo Ming was also interested in hunting, and shouted: "Wait for me." Will meet you."

"Two stinky baskets, it's a good face to play chess." The dragon-headed crutch in Jinhua's hand leaned on the ground, looked at the two people who were guessing, and said awkwardly, but she didn't walk away, but sat on the stone. Chair, watching Qi Feng hold the black and drop down first

"tatter"

The two of them stood on the top of the mountain, holding on to black and white, and there were more than a thousand disciples down the mountain, but they were not so calm and calm.

Chapter 403 Under the Mountain

Zhang Shiping stood on the top of the mountain, the broken stones under his feet thumped a few times, fell down the cliff, and disappeared into the clouds.Where he was standing, one step further, there was a cliff thousands of feet deep, watching a few hawks flying in the distance.

The strong wind blows the clouds and flies upwards, and the strong wind on the top of the mountain shakes the corners of his clothes, and what comes with the wind is not only the sound of falling chess pieces, but also the mellow aroma of wine scattered in the wind.

"Zhang Daoyou, what's the scenery here?" Wang Daoxiu saw Zhang Shiping standing alone by the cliff, looking into the distance, and walked over with a smile on his face.

This peak is called Pankongding, and it is more than three thousand feet high. This kind of mountain can only be regarded as ordinary in the outside world, but in this mysterious realm, it is already regarded as the peak.

"Shang Ke, what's the matter, fellow Daoist Wang?" Zhang Shiping replied calmly without turning his head.

"It's nothing, just want to ask Zhang Daoyou, I have some sword business in Sword Valley, can your Zhang family do it?" Wang Daoxiu stood shoulder to shoulder with Zhang Shiping on the edge of the cliff.

"Then thank you Wang Daoyou." Zhang Shiping said to Wang Daoxiu.

The two of them stared at the sea of ​​clouds in silence, at the lower mountains in the vast sea of ​​white clouds, appearing and disappearing from time to time.

Behind them, Qi Feng played chess with Huo Ming, Jinhua Daoist stood on the stone table with his head and crutches, watching silently.Although she joked just now that Qi Feng and Huo Ming played chess is a stinky basket, but as a Jindan cultivator, one move counts as seven or eight moves, how can chess skills be really weak?

Go has studied the way of the sky, and it has countless changes, so it will attract the interest of these Jindan real people. Otherwise, if it is another game, they will see through it at a glance. Without the mystery of changes, it will naturally be too boring.

Dan Yuchun leaned against the old pine, and played a jade flute in his hand, the sound of the flute disappeared in the wind.

That is to say, at this time, everyone has no more calculations, just now they are more relaxed, and they seem to have more so-called fairy spirits, but it is just a flash in the pan.

Immortal cultivators say they are cultivating Taoism and longevity, but they have been busy all their lives, fighting for luck with others and fate with the sky.

Today's world of cultivating immortals is not the grand scene of hundreds of clans in ancient times. According to legend, the spiritual energy between the heaven and the earth was so strong that it melted into liquid. Instead of the current Jindan Nascent Soul Transformation God, the distance between them is like the difference between heaven and earth.

At that time, the so-called heavenly root monks were those monks with five elements of spiritual roots, not the single-attribute spiritual roots of today.The disciples with five-element spiritual root aptitude have a slow practice speed, but they can't match the elixir that was everywhere at that time, and the massive amount of elixir can completely break through to the next level before the monk's lifespan is approaching.

But there is prosperity and there is decline, and there is life and death. After the peak, all dharmas are not manifested, and the aura is desolate. This is the world of cultivating immortals today.

What caught Zhang Shiping's eyes was the sea of ​​clouds, but he didn't remember these turbulent and invisible things.

He thought about the Wang family's affairs in his heart, thinking about the pros and cons of it.

The flying sword of the Jiangu Wang family is very famous, but the Wang family did not open a large shop, but chose to cooperate with other Jindan families of the Zongmen, and even the Yuanying family. Although the profits obtained are small, they are stable and no one will lead Offending and destroying a group of people's financial resources is the long-term way of the Wang family.Generation after generation, after so many years, even if the Wang family's golden core is cut off, the other families can still afford to wait for one or two hundred years because of their past affection.

Most Jindan families often only have one generation, only a few hundred years, and those families that can pass on for many generations and occasionally produce Jindan have their own way of life, just like the Wang family's way of being kind to others.Under the good relationship, even if the Jindan cultivator in the family is temporarily terminated, the other families will more or less come forward to defend them because of their past affection, not to mention that they all belong to the same sect.

But when it comes to Zhang's side, it's a lot worse.The Zhang family is based in the Cuizhu Valley and the Chongling Mountains. It has only been 50 years. The family has a lot of livelihoods, but there is not a single name that outsiders can say without thinking.The Zhang family is still doing some merchants and ships, as well as the business of shops.

Time passed day by day, and it has been half a month in a blink of an eye.

From the calmness in the secret realm at the beginning, it began to smell more bloody at this time.Nowadays, everyone has more or less collected some elixir in their storage bags, and some people's net worth exceeds that of a foundation-building monk. How can it not make others jealous? How can anyone think too much of elixir

In the secret realm, there is a valley with stronger aura than other places.

Most of the valleys grow a kind of crimson spiritual wood, the tallest is no more than two feet, and the short ones are like weeds.In the whole valley, nothing but red is red, and even the stream flowing out of the valley is reddish brown.

A few immortal cultivators who entered the secret trial were wearing red clothes that were similar to the surrounding environment, with hidden figures attached to their bodies, and talismans with their own mana fluctuations. The three of them walked cautiously.

After drinking two cups of tea, they touched the valley from outside the valley. The three of them hid beside a red tree and looked at a small tan in the valley. spring water gushed out.The surrounding area was silent, not to mention any monster roaring, even if it was the chirping of birds and insects, there was no sound at all.

But on the red stone in the pool, there grows a red vermilion grass that is as tall as an ordinary person's calf, and its long leaves are like weeping willows.

This extremely weird feeling gave the three members of the Zhang family hiding behind the tree, especially Zhang Hengshun, the leader, an extremely weird feeling.

Zhang Hengshun frowned, looked at Zhang Hengming and Zhang Hengyu on the left and right, and motioned them not to make any noise, let alone make any noise.These small signals had already been discussed before the few of them entered the Tongxuan Secret Realm. They only needed a small gesture, which was simple and quick.

Then Zhang Hengshun suddenly stretched out his palms and pressed them down, all three of them stared at the pool in front of them, a bird with a whole body of vermilion red rushed out of the pool, spread its wings a few times, and flew to Tanzhong On the red rock, it flapped its wings, stretched its neck, and held a scaleless fish covered in white snow in its beak, which fell into its mouth at once.

After the fish entered its stomach, it uttered a cry of great joy.

Looking at the bird, Zhang Hengshun didn't let the other two clansmen make a move. His expression changed suddenly, and he saw another bird rushing out of the pool. It was obviously much taller than the red-feathered bird in front, and even its breath was weak. It should be a lot thicker.

Chapter 404 The bird with wings

The big bird spread its wings and let out a high-pitched cry, extremely loud and clear.

The young bird that had just swallowed the scaleless fish heard the cry, and it, which was still combing the red feathers on its chest, suddenly raised its head and stared at the big bird impressively, with puzzled expressions in its eyes Then it clucked a few times, as if it was asking something.

"chirping"

But what followed was a high-pitched cry, tearing the gold and tearing the silk.

Zhang Hengshun and the others who were squatting in the distance thought it was the red-feathered bird at the beginning of the second level, but when they discovered their hiding place, their muscles were tense, and the mana in the dantian was also flooding the meridians of the whole body. , holding the magic weapon in one hand, and the talisman in the other, like a bow full of momentum, ready to shoot at the touch of a finger.

But what happened next made Zhang Hengshun and the others overjoyed.

I saw that the young bird with full wings still had a look of nostalgia in its eyes, but the red-feathered bird at the beginning of the second level spread its wings, and the strong wind howled, directly blowing the newly grown young bird. With a flutter, he fell from the red rock in Tanzhong and fell into the water, and the red vermilion grass rooted in the rock, how could it withstand such a strong wind, it was directly blown up by the roots, and fell into the pool together.

That half-sized red-feathered bird has excellent water quality. After it fell into the water, it floated on the surface of the water as soon as it turned over, and then flapped its wings. Stretching its neck, it pecked at the top of its head with its slender vermilion beak, and this half-sized bird, with stars shining on its head, knocked against the edge of the red stone and fell heavily into the pool.

This time it learned how to be good, instead of flying up immediately, it floated on the surface of the water, singing in a low voice, but what it got in exchange for the low voice like before was not the previous care, but the anxiety like an enemy ll.

A second-order red-feathered bird stood on the red stone with its wings flapping, and a half-sized red-feathered bird floated helplessly on the water. After the red vermilion plant fell into the water, a pink scaleless fish was attracted by the spirit grass. , secretly eating grass blades bite by bite.

After a while, the fish had already eaten half of the red vermilion plant in the water.

After seeing this situation, Zhang Hengyu, who was squatting behind the tree in the distance, had anxious eyes, as if the fish ate the spiritual grass he planted, which made him extremely heartbroken.But Zhang Hengshun and Zhang Hengming next to him looked like old gods.

Seeing this, Zhang Hengyu felt a little strange, but he didn't ask, for fear that the slightest change in himself would be noticed by the second-level red-feathered bird.And Zhang Hengshun and Zhang Hengming, who looked quite refined, signaled Zhang Hengyu with their eyes and gestures, telling him to be calm.

As a newly promoted Jindan family, the Zhang family only has more than 900 monks, which is far less than the thousands of people in the old Jindan family. But if you want to gather a few monks who have completed their Qi training period, that is A breeze.In fact, during this trip to the mysterious realm, the dozens of monks in the Qi training stage of the Zhang family, especially those in their fifties, fought to the death.

There is no other reason, it's not because the Zhang family's foundation building pills are simply not enough to supply all the clansmen who have completed the Qi training period.

Zhang Hengshun looked forward with half-lidded eyes. He is now 53 years old, but when he was 48 years old, he had already practiced to the perfection of Qi training.The Zhang family was able to protect him from his cultivation to the late stage of Qi training, but the family had clear rules regarding the matter of building foundation pills.

I am not a talented person with dual spiritual roots and different spiritual roots, so naturally I can't get one for nothing, and his ancestors who counted up to three generations were ordinary mortals, so how could he accumulate family contributions? Let him exchange for Jidan, so he can only rely on his own hands to fight for it.He was still young when he completed his qi training, so he naturally wanted to see if he could accumulate a foundation building pill. Without the help of the foundation building pill, he would only have one chance to build a foundation, so why would he rush to build a foundation?

Since he practiced to the late stage of Qi training, he followed the foundation-building monks in the clan to travel across the sea and business.After completing Qi training, he also traveled alone to several secular dynasties near Binhai City. He traveled for several years and saw those casual cultivators who had no choice but to bow down or harbor malicious intentions for a few or a dozen spirit stones. I have made several friends who met by chance.

Some of those people have spiritual roots similar to his aptitude. Among them is an old man with long eyebrows who calls himself Tianlong Sanren. He is seven or eighty years old and has eight levels of Qi training. He lives in seclusion in a valley with thin spiritual energy. There are three or two thatched huts, and four or five mu of Susukida are cultivated, with a peaceful appearance.When Zhang Hengshun saw it, he thought he had met an expert, but when he sat down and chatted, he realized the unwillingness and helplessness of the old man. In the end, he resigned himself to his fate, and plowed the fields for fun to pass the few remaining days.

Zhang Hengshun still remembered that when he was leaving, when the long-browed old man was seeing him off, he said that if he was like him, a disciple of a big family, maybe he could build a foundation in this life.Seeing the sad look of the old man, Zhang Hengshun could only smile wordlessly, and then waved goodbye, but felt somewhat resentful in his heart, fortunately, he was backed by the Jindan family, the Zhang family.

After two months like this, he returned to the Chongling Mountain Range in a somewhat complicated mood. After returning, he wanted to retreat and prepare to build a foundation, but just happened to encounter the opening of the Tongxuan Secret Realm this time.

Such a good opportunity given by God, even if every loss in the secret realm is on the third or fourth floor, it is already much better than retreating to build a foundation.

As for Zhang Hengming and Zhang Hengyu beside him, the situation of these two people is similar to his. They are both from the secular Zhang family, so they got together.As for the other five, the reason why they were not together was because they couldn't get along and they had their own plans.

Zhang Hengshun has no intention of compromising, everyone has their own temperament and temperament, how can they be smooth in everything, abandon themselves, and cater to others. The ancestor just let them help each other after entering the secret realm, but did not explicitly say that the eight of them must be together.

Everyone is not a piece of wood. Since the two sides have different tempers, it is better to separate than hate each other. Maybe the eight of them can gain more in the secret realm like this.

So after they entered the secret realm, they divided into two teams, each looking for opportunities.The three of them have been searching all the way for the past few days. After they found Chishui this time, they followed the red stream, upstream, and carefully touched the Chishui Pool along the way. Only then did they discover the two red-feathered birds. There is also red vermilion grass growing on the red stone in Tanzhong.

Chapter 405

In the Chishui Pool, the red-feathered bird floating on the water fluttered twice, but was pecked off by the second-order red-feathered bird standing on the red stone. Finally, it let out a somewhat resentful cry, and the sound was no longer "cluck." There was a low sound of clucking, but a sound of "beeping".

As soon as it turned its head, it pecked and swallowed like lightning, and the fish that had eaten most of the red vermilion grass had already entered its belly, and this red-feathered bird with plump wings was about to float on the surface of the Tan water again. Picked up the half of the red feather grass on it, and swallowed it together.

After the red vermilion grass entered the abdomen, the red feathers on its body emitted a faint red light. The feathers all over the body seemed to be much more shiny, and the breath suddenly caught the wind, and it looked like a horse.

After swallowing the fish and the spirit grass, the red-feathered bird flapped its wings. This time it didn't choose to fly towards Chishi, but turned around and flew out of the valley resolutely.

It just so happened that this red-feathered bird was the direction where Zhang Hengshun and the three were lurking, but this red-feathered bird flew over the three of them unsuspectingly, and Zhang Hengshun did not signal Zhang Hengming and Zhang Hengyu to do it.Zhang Hengyu was also patient, and the three of them started at this time. The red-feathered bird, which was only in the middle of the first order, would naturally die, but the second-order red-feathered bird was not easy to mess with.

If the opportunity is lost and the offensive and defensive forces are different, it is really not worthwhile, so Zhang Hengshun did not choose to attack the half-sized red-feathered bird.As for whether to attack the second-order red-feathered bird, he had other plans.In the family's scripture library, he had seen this kind of red-feathered bird monster in a book that recorded the habits of monster birds.

Zhang Hengshun was waiting, waiting for a good time. The three of them worked together to hunt down the second-order red feather bird. No matter how careful they were, they might lose their hands.

He recalled what was written in the Zhushui Sutra in the Middle East of the family scripture pavilion, and after confirming that he had remembered correctly, he looked at Heng Ming and Heng Yu, and gestured to them to wait and not to be impatient.

A small part of the books in the Sutra Pavilion are accumulated by the Zhang family for hundreds of years, while most of the rest are some Zhengyang Zong jade slip books given to Zhang Shiping by Wang Patriarch.

Zhang Shiping made a choice and put some books into the family's scripture library, among which there are many books about strange insects, monsters, monster birds, spirit grass, spirit flowers, and of course there are some ordinary alchemy formations The jade slip of the law.Some of these things are placed on the first floor of the Sutra Depository, and some are placed on the second and third floors of the Sutra Depository.

All the monks of the Zhang family can read the jade slip books on the first floor for free, but the books on the second and third floors need to pay some spiritual stones.

The Dongzhu water passage, the real person of Dongzhu, once recorded some things about red-feathered birds, "Standing stones are close to Chishui, and they like to eat scaleless fish, young birds with feathers and vermilion grass."

Most casual cultivators, even some family monks, think that apart from the red-feathered bird, the red vermilion grass is the most precious, but what he saw from the Dongzhu Water Scripture is the real treasure, not the red-feathered bird, It wasn't the red vermilion grass either, but that ordinary-looking red stone.

If they could wait for the red-feathered bird to leave for a while, the three of them would be able to take the red stone without bloodshed, and save the three of them from fighting desperately.

Gambling with one's life is the last resort, and also the most helpless one

After opening the secret realm, half a month passed by in a hurry.

Qi Feng didn't want to move on the top of Juefeng Peak in the Mysterious Tongxuan Realm, and the other five of them couldn't leave at will, so they could only play chess, play flute, or dance swords here.

These days, Zhang Shiping is the most leisure time.He played one or two games with the other four players, and he won or lost, but he didn't care about winning or losing.

Everyone sits and stands on top of each other, holding on to black and white, falling across the galaxy.Chess is like a human, and humans are like chess, after all, the two have somewhat similar temperaments.

Qi Feng's chess moves are thick and subtle, it seems reckless, but Zhang Shiping thinks it is not as good as taking a single move and counting more than ten moves.

The real Huo Ming looks sloppy, but in fact he is free and easy, but there is a bit of sadness in this free and easy.

Wang Daoxiu played chess like a sword, showing his sharpness, but he was more than enough to attack, but not enough to defend, he was slightly inferior to him.

There is also the Jinhua real person who surprised Zhang Shiping the most. She likes to watch people play chess, but she is really a stinky basket, so it is not worth mentioning.Zhang Shiping played two rounds with her, beating her big dragon easily.

As for Dan Yuchun these days, he hasn't played more than half a game against anyone, and he hasn't made a single move. Naturally, he has never lost a sentence.His clothes are fluttering, like a banished immortal, and a flute blows the mountain wind and clouds.

After playing a few games of chess with everyone, Wang Daoxiu invited Zhang Shiping to play another game.This time Zhang Shiping didn't activate the Black Flame, nor used the Wucai Liuli Jue, but used the four Qingshuang Flying Swords to fight this madman with ten thousand swords.However, amidst the cheers of the other four people, the two gradually felt that they were watching monkeys, and stopped after a dozen moves.

Wang Daoxiu is a sword lunatic, so naturally he couldn't bear the appearance of the four of them, so his interest suddenly disappeared.But Zhang Shiping had a smile in his eyes, when they were fighting, the few of them secretly transmitted voice, and based on the two of them fighting each other, they made a new bet.

Zhang Shiping has the strength to spare, and he can also take care of some small movements of the four of them. Sure enough, when Wang Daoxiu rushed over, the Jinhua Taoist stuck the dragon-headed crutch in his hand on Shiyan, urging Qi Feng and Huo Ming. Zhenren and Dan Yuchun quickly conceded the bet and surrendered, one by one, and quickly handed over what they had in their hands.

Then, the golden flower real person with a smile and kind eyes, after putting away the three spirit objects, she raised her eyebrows instantly when she saw Wang Daoxiu passing by, "It's just a bet, you kid has an opinion."

The real Jinhua and the Wang family have been friends for hundreds of years. The former real Jindan of the Wang family was a good friend of her. Not long after Wang Daoxiu was born, the real Jinhua hugged him.Moreover, during the period when the Wang Family Jindan Daoist was cut off, the overall situation was still presided over by the Jinhua Daoist. Facing this kind of Jinhua Daoist who was both a senior and an elder, Wang Daoxiu really had no choice but to pinch it. Nose, resentfully hid aside.

Seeing this, Zhang Shiping shook his head lightly, with a slight smile on his face, turned around and walked to the edge of the cliff alone.

It was very lively behind him, but for some reason he felt a little cold.

Zhang Shiping looked at the front from a distance, the clouds and mist in front of him, a kind of desolation of the ups and downs of the world, suddenly filled his mind, he looked around, a little panicked.Although the brothers behind him are friends, they are not close friends, and now he is considered close relatives and friends, and only Su Shuang is the only one.

"Oh..." Zhang Shiping couldn't help but sighed.

Chapter 406 Blue Wave Island

"Why are fellow daoists sighing? It's because you are worried about the younger generations in the clan. Friends daoists, rest assured. Children and grandchildren have their own blessings, so how can they always be treated as infants and take care of everything, and I'm afraid I won't talk about it. Life and death have fate, and wealth lies My God, we have gone through many hardships before we can form the alchemy, and those juniors cannot avoid that if Junior Brother Zhang takes care of us too much, it will be a disaster rather than a blessing for them."