longevity road trip

And the owner of Wanling Valley, who was chatting and laughing with Zhang Shiping before, clasped his hands together after Zhang Shiping replied, and the voice buzzed from his belly: "Mu Donglin, my junior, pays homage to Senior Xiao. Because of a bet with a friend, this junior has nothing to say. For 30 years, I still hope that the seniors will forgive me."

The owner of Wanling Valley is apologetic for speaking from his belly, but he lost the bet with Jueyue that bald donkey. Since he has agreed to not say a word for 30 years, no matter whether Jueyue is present or not, he will Everyone should keep their promises!

"You people in Wanlingu don't know that the bald donkeys in the White Horse Temple are sharp-tongued and dare to argue with them about Zen? The old man will teach you a trick. When you see these bald donkeys in the future, give them a knife first. You It will be quieter and more peaceful. Otherwise, they will be like flies, buzzing and annoying." The Pu Dao in Xiao Chengwu's arms buzzed, and he glanced at Mu Donglin in surprise, and then Squinting his eyes, he said in a calm tone.

"The younger generation is entrusted by Venerable Kutuo." He said in a low voice, and took out a jade slip with his hands lowered, holding it in front of him with both hands.

The Nine Birds Bronze Token inherited by Wanlingu is not a secret thing in the Western Desert. Many high-ranking monks know it, but Wanlingu's own strength is not weak, so naturally he can defend this mere Nine Birds Bronze Token!Unlike Zhang Shiping, who has something good in his hand, he has to hide it so as not to cause others to snatch it.

As soon as the jade slip came out, the plain knife buzzed a few more times, and a feeling of disgust came from it.Zhang Shiping next to him could easily feel his presence, there was a trace of weirdness on his face, could it be that the simple knife in the hands of the Venerable Xiao is already psychic, and he has emotions and desires like a human being?

Zhang Shiping didn't ask rashly, and after he responded to the Venerable in front of him, seeing that he didn't say anything, Zhang Shiping was also happy to be a transparent person.Although in the Nine Birds Mystery Realm, there seems to be some restrictions left to this day, and you can't kill rashly, but your identity was guessed by the owner of the Wanling Valley. They can come and go freely, so how can they stop this Huashen Venerable?

"If he has anything to do, he will come to Beijiang in person. The old man has nothing to say to this bald donkey!" Xiao Wucheng said with a cold face without even looking at the jade slip.

"The Venerable Kutuo said that if the senior refuses, let the junior mention the word 'Suppressing Demon Valley', and the senior will naturally accept it!" Mu Donglin didn't show surprise on his face when he heard this.He still said to Venerable Xiao with a smile on his face.

Xiao Wucheng touched the inch-short silver beard on his chin, as if he had thought of something, his face changed slightly, but then he recovered as before, and then his jade slip flew up and was caught in his hand, with a light sweep of his consciousness, he Showing such an expression, he said: "Okay, tell him, the old man still has some things to deal with recently, ten years later, on the eighth day of April, see you then!"

Seeing that Senior Xiao had accepted the jade slip, Mu Donglin breathed a sigh of relief just now.Hundreds of years ago, this Venerable Xiao went to the White Horse Temple angrily, cut off countless stupas, and forced out that Venerable Kutuo. Fortunately, his Wanlingu who had been in seclusion for many years The Supreme Elder intervened for the two of them, otherwise the matter could not be resolved.

"The junior knows!" Mu Donglin put his hands together and said leisurely.

As for what the two venerables were doing, he didn't want to know, nor did he want to ask for a word.As long as you are fine, don't worry about others too much.The more things, the more trouble!If it wasn't entrusted by Venerable Ku Tuo, he wouldn't run this errand.

Meddle less and eat less farts, meddle more and sloppy!

As soon as the voice fell, the hazy blue light around him brightened a little, and after a while, he disappeared.

Seeing that Mu Donglin was so knowledgeable, Xiao Wucheng nodded, then turned his head to look at Zhang Shiping, and said with an unchanged expression: "Have the Nanzhou Haizu and Yaozu not stopped recently?"

"It hasn't stopped at all, and the situation is still the same?" Although Zhang Shiping did not go to Nanming Island to fight against the third-rank monsters of the Sea Race Monster Clan, he was in charge of the pill matters in Nanxiao City. From the changes in the demand for pills, he I can even guess a little bit about the situation of those real monarchs, and I have a general understanding of them!

Chapter 502 No gain

"It's hard for him." After listening to Xiao Wucheng, he said something without beginning or end.

Zhang Shiping didn't know who he was referring to, and he didn't want to ask.He lowered his eyebrows and waited, but he was a little anxious. It would take more than twenty years for this Nine Birds Bronze Token to be restored to its original state, and he could only keep himself here for less than three days. Every second is extremely precious.

After Xiao Wucheng said it, his brows were slightly wrinkled, and after a while, he showed a look of deep thought again.

Zhang Shiping waited expressionlessly, seeing that the Venerable didn't ask him any more, he naturally didn't want to bother him.

It would be best if the venerable disappeared from his eyes in the next moment, so that he wouldn't be frightened anymore.In front of the venerable, not to mention the mere Jindan Daoist himself, even if those Nascent Soul cultivators are here, they are not much better.

While waiting quietly, he glanced far into the distance. Under the gray sky of the secret realm, a black chain reaching the sky slanted down, pierced through Kunpeng, and submerged under the black sea.The Kunpeng's upper body raised its head and cried, and the Kunpeng's lower body raised its tail from below the sea surface, intending to slap it.But at this moment, time seems to have stood still around the corpse, and even the black and gray strange fog that lingers around and blocks sight, from the first time Zhang Shiping came in, to the third time now, decades have passed, They remained motionless.

Zhang Shiping has heard that among the five great secret realms of the sect, there is one called the Chaotic Wind Secret Realm, where the clouds are like the strange fog here, and even after thousands of years have passed, they may not have moved even a little bit.

"Wait and do the old man a favor!"

Just when he was thinking about whether there was any relationship between the two, a faint word suddenly came from his ear.

After Zhang Shiping heard this, he was stunned for a moment, and then his face was full of doubts. He couldn't understand what he could do to help a venerable, but since this venerable Xiao asked like this, he had no choice but to bite the bullet and speak. Responding: "I don't know what the senior has ordered. Although the junior is weak, he will definitely do his best to complete the tasks that the senior has given."

Anyone can say beautiful words, Zhang Shiping can't just refuse directly, right?

"Don't worry, the matter is very simple. You can just take this sumeru bag out after your comprehension is over. But your time for comprehension here may be cut in half, how about it?" Xiao Wucheng took out the bag expressionlessly. A yellow leather bag, a bit larger than ordinary storage bags, seems to be made of some kind of animal skin, with a thin layer of light yellow fluff on it. .

Immediately afterwards, he seemed to see the doubts in Zhang Shiping's heart, and said very simply:

"Looking at you like this, you probably don't know much about this place, right? This is the Kunpeng Realm in the Nine Birds Cult. You've seen it, too. I don't know what it is that can make the legendary true spirit fall, and even It was too late for the Kunpeng to take form, it was truly awe-inspiring! The death of the true spirit, the mourning of the world, this realm was born because of the Kunpeng, and naturally it would also be destroyed because of it. If it hadn’t been for tens of thousands of years, the breath of silence would have dissipated Even if we have the protection of the Nine Birds Order, we will not be able to withstand the erosion, and our souls will disappear between breaths."

Xiao Wucheng pointed to the place in the distance, with awe in his eyes.The more I know, the more awe I will feel in my heart, I am in awe of this day, and I am grateful for this place.

After Zhang Shiping heard this, he knew the origin of this place, but he still didn't understand why the sumeru bag would halve the time he stayed here, he was a little puzzled.

It's just that this hale and hearty Venerable Xiao still has a calm expression on his face, neither in a hurry nor in a hurry, "This meru bag contains an incarnation of the old man, and your token aura will protect the two of you." , the stay time will naturally be halved. Anyway, you will not be able to comprehend anything this time, and it’s the same if you add a day or a day.”

"Senior, what do you mean?" Zhang Shiping asked calmly, feeling strange.Before he even had time to start comprehending, this senior Xiao asserted that he had gained nothing. Could it be that he also practiced divination, the prophet?

"Oh, you will understand after the fact, and you don't believe me now! How about it, how do you think about it, do you want to agree to help this old man? It doesn't matter if you don't agree, this old man still has some courage, but you just want to ask for advice when the time comes The reason is not so easy." Xiao Wucheng said very candidly.

"Since the seniors have said this, what else can the juniors say. But if the juniors really get nothing this time, then I ask the seniors to explain my doubts to me. The juniors will definitely remember it." Zhang Shiping thought for a while after hearing this. , they responded very simply.

Sure enough, after seeing Zhang Shiping's agreement, he sent the sumeru bag in his hand forward, which was covered with a thin layer of aura, and flew into the aura shield around Zhang Shiping.

Then a vortex-shaped portal manifested behind Venerable Xiao, and he turned and submerged into it, and turned around without saying a word, as if he had nothing to do, and seemed a little anxious.

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After the dawn of the next day, at a place about ten feet above the sea surface in the Heixuan Sea Territory, faint auras gathered and turned into a continuously rotating portal, from which a monk in green shirt came out. Because of the volley, as soon as the monk came out, he landed on a reef the size of a millstone like a lead stone.

The man stroked the beard on his lips, with a dull expression on his face,

Zhang Shiping weighed the sumeru bag in his hand and called out a few times, but the bag didn't make any movement, he didn't see the incarnation of Senior Xiao coming out, and he didn't stay here any longer, he simply took out the black wooden boat and headed towards Cross out.

This black mysterious sea is too dull, there are no swimming fish or birds, and there is no vitality and greenness on the island, only the black trees grow strangely.What's more important is that the aura here is far duller than that of the outside world, and there is almost no inspiration in it.The monks practicing here are like mortals chewing candles dryly, which is tasteless.

After Xiao Wucheng narrated it, Zhang Shiping already knew about this black and mysterious sea area, and it was because of the influence of the Nine Birds Secret Realm that it came to this state, but this kind of situation is lighter, and there is no need for the spiritual protection of the Nine Birds Token.

After getting out of the Black Xuanhai, as expected, the yellow leather sumeru bag hanging on his waist was pulled suddenly, and immediately flew up, and then a human-shaped silhouette appeared in a burst of yellow light.After a few breaths, the yellow light dissipated, and an old man in a blue shirt with a childlike face and white hair and skin like a baby floated in the air.

The man looked around and saw that there was no one here, so he looked at Zhang Shiping with a deep voice: "Is it as the old man said, did you gain nothing in the secret realm this time?"

"I still hope that senior will let me know!" The blue-shirted old man flickered.

Chapter 503

The old man in blue shirt appeared in front of Zhang Shiping, less than three feet away, and he said leisurely: "Since the old man said to help you, he will definitely say so. But before you think about it, What is the reason behind it? Instead of asking others to point it out, it is better to wake up and suddenly."

Zhang Shiping gave a wry smile, and began to think deeply.

Seeing this, Xiao Wucheng turned around, grabbed a cloud of air casually, after a few breaths, he dispersed it again, with his hands behind his back.

The truth is this, but if I can figure it out, no one in the authorities will be obsessed with this sentence.But this senior has already said so, he has to think about it for himself, to see what is the reason for this time, so that he got nothing and wasted this opportunity that only came once in more than twenty years.If he can't figure this out, then he doesn't have to come here in the future!

After half a cup of tea, on the ancient ocean, among the clouds and mist thousands of feet above the sea, an old man in blue shirt stood with his hands behind his back, looking at the distance leisurely with his face, and saw the sky above and below, a vast expanse of green.The wind blows the fog away, and the clouds flow through the ages.

And behind the old man, a young monk in green clothes floated in the air, the wind from the sky was blowing his clothes, making a 'squeaky' sound, but Zhang Shiping still closed his eyes at this moment, he frowned slightly, his face full of thoughts color.

I saw Zhang Shiping's right index finger sketching in the air, and the speed was getting faster and faster.

Then only the sound of the waves was heard, and the aura of wind and water that was abundant in the ancient ocean gathered towards Zhang Shiping, lingered around him, and finally condensed into a pair of blue-black auras under his ribs. Feather wings, vaguely present, illusory and illusory.

The old man suddenly turned his head, with surprise in his eyes, he immediately moved behind Zhang Shiping, looked at the pair of phantom wings, and the surprise on his face became stronger.

Feeling the flow of aura around him, Zhang Shiping recalled the shape of Kunpeng's feathers he had recorded before, and wanted to reproduce it, but just after a small hair tip was condensed, the aura in the world suddenly became violent for some reason, as if The runaway wild horse, the pair of wings suddenly collapsed, and turned into an aura without an owner.

"Oh." Two sighs sounded almost in sequence.

"Senior, who are you?" Zhang Shiping looked at Senior Xiao, who was staring at himself with a strange expression, and asked with some doubts.

"It's all right, have you figured out the joints just now?" Xiao Wucheng suppressed his curiosity and asked leisurely.

"Please forgive me for being stupid, I don't know what the reason is. Is it because I didn't observe carefully enough, and I couldn't even imitate one ten-thousandth of the charm of Kunpeng's feathers?" Zhang Shiping finally thought of a reason that he thought was reasonable. His face was a little dazed, and he really couldn't figure out why?

Xiao Wucheng raised his hand, tapped Zhang Shiping's heart a few times, and then said in a deep voice:

"If you are stupid, then the younger generation of Wanlingu can solve it directly. Do you know how many times he has come to this secret realm? It has been four hundred years since he was born, nearly twenty times, but what he understands The income is even worse than yours. He still can't produce this pair of wings in two years, let alone reach the level of condensation like you. And you and this time have only passed three times, this kind of comprehension is already better than other monks. It's a lot taller, it's really unusual!"

"Senior praised you." Zhang Shiping bowed his hands in salute.

"There's nothing to be modest about. Yes, yes, yes, no. Young people should be more energetic." Xiao Wucheng waved his hand.

Then he continued, "Think about it for a second, how many times have you come to the secret realm, what has changed in your heart?"

"Change?" Zhang Shiping murmured, he seemed to have thought of it, and his expression changed.

"When the old man saw you in the Nine Birds Secret Realm, you were still very young at that time. Not only did you have a pure heart, but you also fit the term 'pure heart'. But this time, when the old man saw you, it seemed that he was suppressing a lot of things in his heart. Things, the heart is uncertain, the thoughts are chaotic, how can we really calm down and understand."

"So that's the case, thank you senior for your guidance." Zhang Shiping's face changed, and after a while, he said.

"No, no, don't ask if there is any way to solve this problem?" Xiao Wucheng shook his head.

He looked at Zhang Shiping and saw that there was nothing strange about Zhang Shiping, so he was a little bit puzzled.But more than ten breaths passed, and the two of them still stood quietly in the air.

"This heart disease needs to be healed by heart medicine, and this junior still knows about it. It's just that this junior doesn't seem to be able to find a cure for heart disease for a while." Zhang Shiping smiled wryly, looking a little lonely.

Xiao Wucheng withdrew his hand and flew forward slowly, Zhang Shiping immediately followed after seeing this, he said lightly:

"Old man, although I don't know what happened to you, but in this world, all the troubles of people are all in the six characters of 'I can't ask for it, I can't do it'. The rivers and lakes are deep, and all living beings are suffering. Some people can't get what they want; Ask but can't. So and so, over and over again."

"Senior, do you want the younger generation to learn to let go?" Zhang Shiping responded.

It is very simple to take it up, put it down, and preach to others; write it on paper.It's just a waste of pen and ink, but only when things happen to me, I want to persuade myself to let go, stop thinking about it, and just pretend that the past is like wind, and nothing happened.

This point is really too difficult. It's like knowing that there is a quagmire ahead, but you still fall into it without hesitation, unable to extricate yourself!

After hearing what Zhang Shiping said, the old man turned his head and glanced at Zhang Shiping with a strange look, then turned around, shook his head and said:

"Once upon a time there was a young man in northern Xinjiang, full of enthusiasm, who thought that with the knife in his hand, he could cut off all injustices and return the world to a bright future. It's just that this young man was still too young. , Offended the senior officials of the aristocratic family; after practicing, he hated the immortal sect, but this person has a stubborn temper, as always, but in the end, he harmed his family and himself. However, nothing has changed in the slightest. What a pity!"

Zhang Shiping didn't know why Venerable Xiao mentioned this, he felt a little strange, and asked in a puzzled tone: "Senior, you seem to..."

"Did you change someone else? This old man is also Xiao Wucheng, but he is the deity, and this old man is just an avatar?" The silver-haired old man said calmly.

Then he asked again: "Is this place Nanzhou?"

"Senior, this is Nanzhou!" Looking at the old man before and now, Zhang Shiping felt as if there were two people, and he suddenly became a little nervous.

Chapter 504

"Nanzhou, did he finally release me?" Xiao Wucheng sighed.

Looking at the incarnation of the venerable, Zhang Shiping showed a look of surprise on his face, and then immediately restrained himself, changing into a respectful expression.Zhang Shiping murmured to himself, although he didn't know the specific refining method of the avatar, but he had read some related introductions in the classics, it stands to reason that the avatar of a monk should have the same thoughts as the deity.

In order to ensure that the avatar does not give birth to a new consciousness, the monk will sacrifice the avatar every once in a while.But judging from the words and deeds of this senior, even he can clearly find the difference.But from the looks of it, this incarnation has a good temper, giving him a feeling of spring breeze, not like the previous deity of Senior Xiao who was so cold.

And under such influence, the tension in Zhang Shiping's heart also gradually subsided, and his guard disappeared little by little.

As the two of them flew, a long and narrow island more than ten kilometers away from the Hexuan Sea became bigger and bigger in their eyes.This place is different from the barren hills in the Heixuan Sea. Although the island is small, under the blue sky and white clouds, the green trees on the island are shaded by the wind and waves, and there are faint sounds of birds and beasts singing and roaring. Patting the silver-white sandy beach for a while.

"Young students, let's go down with the old man for a walk." Xiao Wucheng looked at the island in front of him, with a hint of satisfaction in his eyes, he turned his head and said to Zhang Shiping.

Afterwards, his flying speed increased slightly, and he flew forward.

Zhang Shiping said yes, the two of them turned into streamers, and after a dozen or so breaths, they flew several miles away and landed on a huge reef in the beach of the island.

Xiao Wucheng stretched his waist, took a deep breath, hammered his shoulders a few more times, sat on the rock with a relaxed expression, looked at the vast sea, and said slowly:

"The air is so good. I haven't come out for a long time, and my bones are a little stiff. Young man, do you have a chart? Let me take a look, so I can know where I am."

And Zhang Shiping, who was beside him, also sat down casually. After hearing Xiao Wucheng's words, he flipped his hands over and took out a piece of jade slip that was slightly smaller than a palm, and threw it over.

Xiao Wucheng took the jade slip, glanced at it casually, threw it to Zhang Shiping, and said with an unchanged expression: "Thirty miles to the northwest of the Black Xuan Sea, it's not far away, and it's only seven or ten thousand miles away from Nanzhou. + That's all. It turns out that there is also a Nine Birds Mystery Realm here, no wonder everything in this place is dead, and the inspiration is gone. Future generations, don't let others know about the Nine Birds Token in your hand, so as not to lead to the disaster of killing yourself!"

"Thank you for your concern, senior. This junior still understands." Zhang Shiping was lying lazily on the reef at the moment, looking at the sky and listening to the sound of the waves, and said calmly.

Seeing Zhang Shiping's relaxed appearance, the old man also had a smile on his face, "It's good to understand. By the way, in recent years, apart from Hongyue, Xuanshan, and Xifeng, there are also new Huashen in Nanzhou. A monk?"

"These venerables can't see the head and tail, how can the junior know? But the junior heard that the two venerables Xuanshan and Xifeng seemed to have ascended to the upper realm more than a hundred years ago, and now only the venerable Hongyue I'm alone. I don't know what the upper world is like. If the younger generation is lucky enough to practice and reach the realm of transforming gods one day, he must go and see, otherwise he will come to this world for nothing. Senior, tell me..."

Suddenly, Zhang Shiping's words stopped abruptly, he stood up abruptly, with a wry smile on his face, he bowed to the old man and said, "I hope seniors will forgive me, this junior didn't know what happened just now, it was really rude."

Zhang Shiping was very puzzled, why did he behave so frivolously just now, and why was he not alone?He thought about it carefully, it seemed that after the awakening of this senior's incarnation consciousness, there was an inexplicable breath, which made him forget the worries in his heart and the distinction between seniors and juniors in the world of cultivating immortals, as if he had returned to his childhood, without worries concern.

After Xiao Wucheng stopped, he patted the rocks around him, didn't care, but said with some pity:

"Don't stand still, sit down. You can wake up so quickly, you have a good temper. But it's a pity, the old man wanted you to let go of the worries in your heart for a while, and you will be safe for a while. Worry accumulates in your heart Too long is not conducive to practice. Why do you have such a monk, after a hundred years and a thousand years, but the cultivation base is still stagnant, it is a mental disorder."

Seeing that the old man didn't seem angry, Zhang Shiping followed what he said, and slowly sat beside him, but he didn't sit down firmly, he was still a little cautious.

Xiao Wucheng put his arms around Zhang Shiping's shoulders and pressed it down. He said in a puzzled way:

"Sit down, look at you. You are from a cultivating family, right? You have been taught to behave well since you were a child, and your words and deeds are too rigid. This is not conducive to practice. Think about it, there are so many cultivating families in the world, why Even Yuanying monks are so rare, even Xifeng, she also achieved Huashen first, and then founded the family. You have to think about it carefully, let go of what should be let go, don't cling to the family sect, and open your eyes , focus on the world, don't confine yourself to a square inch. Shallow water can only raise some fish and shrimp, and no real dragon can emerge. Now that the small world is not the time of the ancient spirit world, there is no such thing as one person attaining the Tao, and the chicken and dog ascending to heaven. Now the monks are able to protect themselves, it is already a blessing."

Hearing the old man's words, Zhang Shiping's expression changed, and he was about to stand up to thank him for his advice, but before he stood up, the old man pressed him on his shoulder again, he frowned slightly and said:

"Look, this is coming again? It is right to be in awe, but there is no need to follow the rules and lose your true temperament, then your future practice will become more and more difficult. At that time, Mo will waste time and delay Practice."

"Thank you senior, but this junior is a bit puzzled, so I dare to ask senior, you and I have met for the first time, and I don't know what kind of person this junior is, so I just help each other like this?" Zhang Shiping looked at Xiao Wucheng, and said with a trace of doubt on his face

He and this senior Xiao had no relatives and no reason. I believe that this little opportunity of his own would not be seen by the Venerable Huashen who was already standing at the top of the world of cultivating immortals. Therefore, Zhang Shiping really didn't understand?

Xiao Wucheng just said lightly, "The old man sees that you little guy has a good sense of understanding, so I just give you a little help. As for whether you are good or bad, what does it matter?"

Then he changed the subject and asked a little puzzled:

"By the way, you just said that Xuanshan and Xifeng left more than a hundred years ago, and now Hongyue is alone. On the other side of Baimang Mountain Town Demon Valley, there are Qingjiao, Xuangui, Qianmu Are the old fellows of the Toad Clan ready to move? Has the Nanzhou Human Clan withdrawn from the Inner Sea?"