Chapter 24 Listening to the Golden Curse by Poyang Lake
Chapter 24 Listening to the Golden Curse by Poyang Lake
In May, the locusts move their legs, and in June, the sedge chickens flutter their feathers.
When Yunqi heard the cicadas start chirping, he knew it was time to set off.
On the morning of the first day of June, Yunqi put on a bag of suitable size, put on "Qiu Shui" around his waist, and walked out of the house.
This time he did not leave secretly, he had already told the town in advance.
He pushed open the door. Although there was still only a dim light in the sky, the entrance to the Cheng family's yard was already full of people. When they saw the cloud coming out, the crowd moved and made way for him.
Yunqi smiled and waved to everyone, "I'm going on a long journey today, so I'd like to ask you to take care of my old house and my parents' graves."
The silent crowd suddenly burst into noise.
"It should, it should."
"Be careful on the cloud road."
"Young Master, come back often!"
"..."
Everyone was talking at once, and Yunqi nodded with a smile.
He walked along the path that the crowd had cleared, and after three or five steps, he looked back at the words on the houseplate on the eaves. It was:
The journey begins, and happiness and blessings come.
He strode away with a smile on his face.
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After leaving the town, he still took the familiar road to Yulin Temple. However, Yunqi did not enter the temple this time. Like many pilgrims, he lit three incense sticks in the incense burner in the square in front of the temple gate.
When he bowed down, he saw the abbot standing at the entrance of the temple. He picked up "Qiu Shui" and waved it in the air a few times.
In the past few days, he came to the temple almost every day to discuss swordsmanship with the master, and he really benefited a lot. Although the old master could not tell Yunqi what to do next, he told Yunqi about the detours he had taken without reservation. It is not an exaggeration to say that he is Yunqi's half-master of swordsmanship.
But at this moment of parting, there is not much to say.
The master of the temple also had a faint smile on his face as he watched the clouds go away.
The little children following the master looked up at the old master and wondered why the master looked younger. Could it be that the master was really a god?
The cloud went down Yuxiu Mountain and headed west. Unless he encountered insurmountable natural dangers during this journey, he did not plan to ride the cloud.
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More than twenty days later, in late June, the heat began to get worse.
The early morning in summer is very interesting. It is pitch black the moment before, but as if in the blink of an eye, the sky turns dark blue, and if you are not paying attention, it turns gray. Daybreak comes very quickly.
In an unknown forest, on the top of a not-too-high mountain, there is a dead tree with charred bark, a hollow trunk, and broken branches and no leaves. It looks like it was scorched by a lightning strike.
This tree is the tallest within a few miles, with no other obstruction.
Yunqi was sitting cross-legged on a thin branch at the top of the dead tree, and the early morning summer breeze made the man and the branch sway slightly.
Last year, He Bingkun told Yunqi that sitting on a galloping thunderbird was the key to mastering meditation. Yunqi could not even stand steadily at that time, but now he is as light as a leaf and can enter into a state of meditation on a thin branch in the wind. It has only been one year.
Yunqi's eyes were slightly closed, and his lips were slightly closed, but there was a small opening in his lips. When he exhaled, the turbid air leaked out from the small opening, and a faint "hush" could be heard. When he inhaled, strands of wood-element spiritual energy were sucked into his nose, and then into his throat, passing through the twelve floors, running a small wood-element single-phase circulation, and turned into a wisp of wood-element magic power, which stayed near the liver orifice.
Suddenly, a bright light came from the eastern sky, and the red light shone on Yunqi's eyelids. The word "hush" in Yunqi's mouth naturally turned into "ha", absorbing the fire energy.
If Master Sukong enters the small world inside the human body in the clouds again at this time, he will be able to see that there are countless red fireflies surrounding the Fire Palace, which is much more spectacular than the other four palaces. Among the four palaces, the power of water and earth is the heaviest, followed by wood, and metal is the least.
The weather today is very good, with a clear sky, no clouds in sight, and scorching sunshine. In such good weather, the clouds are in no hurry to travel. From the morning till noon, they did not move, absorbing the sun's heat.
It was not until after noon that Yunqi slowly opened his eyes and stopped eating. From then on, the sun's fire energy was mixed with dusk energy. He wanted to refine the positive yang Bing fire, and eating too much dusk energy would be useless.
The Taoist priest tilted his body, fell from the tree, picked up the bag on the ground, and prepared to set off again.
He had been doing this for the past half month. He took in gold energy when he encountered a mineral vein, wood energy when he encountered a forest, water energy when he encountered a river, fire energy when he encountered the sun, and earth energy when he encountered the rest. Taoist priests only traveled to deep mountains and swamps, places where few people went, because in the mortal world, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth was too thin.
But before he left, he had one more thing to do. He drew his sword and cut off a palm-sized piece of burnt bark from the tree. He had seen that this was a jujube tree. When struck by lightning, jujube wood would have the masculine energy of thunder and fire, and could be used to make talisman paper for thunder or fire talismans.
This thing is not very precious, but it is enough to make people happy if they come across it by chance. This kind of thing is always like planting flowers with care but not blooming, planting willows by accident but growing into shade. When the day comes when you really want to find this thing, I am afraid it will take a lot of effort. This is also one of the benefits of traveling. As long as you pay attention, there will always be unexpected surprises.
Yunqi did not take too much, just cutting a small piece was enough, and leaving the rest for other people who were destined to take it.
He put the bark of the jujube tree struck by lightning into the bag, put the sword back to his waist, and set out on his journey again.
Walking through this not-too-small forest, a plentiful amount of water vapor came with the wind and hit the Taoist priest who had just emerged from the forest.
Yunqi took a deep breath, and almost subconsciously, began to absorb water vapor with the "blow" technique.
He suddenly realized something and looked into the distance. To the south he saw an endless lake with misty waves and sparkling waters. Many mountains and islands dotted the lake. At this moment, a group of white cranes were flying by, making the lake look like a water resort.
We have arrived at Poyang Lake.
Poyang Lake, also known as Danshi Lake, is one of the Five Lakes and one of the few large lakes in the world.
Sanqing Mountain is located in the southeast of Poyang Lake. After the clouds leave the mountain, they keep moving westward. At this time, they should be located in the southern corner of Poyang Lake.
The Taoist walked towards the lake. Of course, he couldn't miss such a scenic spot when he passed by. The clouds planned to stay for a while. There was abundant water vapor here, which could accumulate a lot of water magic power. Moreover, the five lakes each had their own elements. Among them, Poyang Lake belonged to gold, which was also beneficial for gold cultivation. Gold-natured land was the rarest among the five elements, and the gold in front of him was the weakest among the five elements.
Moreover, Poyang Lake Stone has a long-standing reputation. There must be gold ore with both gold and water properties under the water. If you happen to find three or five of them, it will also be a way to save food for "Qiu Shui". In Yunqi's own house at the mountain gate, there is a stone lamp sent by He Bingkun, which is made of Poyang Lake Stone.
The big lake was right in front of him, but when Yunqi really reached the lakeshore, it took him more than an hour to walk there, which showed how vast the lake was.
Standing on the lakeshore, the afternoon breeze was somewhat warm, and the rippling waves were like gold foil floating on the lake, a little dazzling.
Yunqi squinted his eyes, but he could not see where the north shore was no matter how hard he looked. He had never seen the sea, and thought that they were both infinitely vast and far away, so what was the difference between a lake and the sea?
Looking left and right in the cloud, he could not see the end of the south bank alone. He did not know where the east and the west ended. He only knew that the place where he was was lush with vegetation, and he could hear the roars of tigers and the howling of monkeys. He could see groups of rhinos and crocodiles, but there was no sign of human habitation.
Yunqi looked around, walked and stopped along the south bank, and after half a minute, he finally found a treasure land.
There is a flat area on the south bank that protrudes into the lake. There is nothing around to block the morning sun. There are tall osmanthus trees all over the place. There are a few huge rocks scattered among the osmanthus trees. The bigger one is taller than the trees. It is a good place for meditation.
The most important thing is that he has been consuming air along the way, and the gold energy is the strongest here. No wonder there are forests of osmanthus trees.
The clouds summoned a "dragon chariot" which flew high into the sky and patrolled the osmanthus forest within a radius of fifty miles. It did not find anything unusual, nor did it see other people's caves or traces. It was a desolate scene.
Returning to the huge rock in the center of the osmanthus forest, Yunqi planned to build a hut here for a while, perhaps a dozen days, or a month or two, or until the osmanthus flowers bloomed.
He took off his bag and took out a piece of vine. There were nine wooden bells growing on the vine, eight of which were the size of a fingernail, and one was about half the size of a palm.
This is a set of magic tools, called Bagua mother and child bells. The eight child bells are placed around the eight trigrams, with the person in the middle. If there is any fluctuation of magic power or something with strong blood and qi passing by, the mother bell will ring to warn.
This is also one of the few magical tools that Yunqi purchased for his travels in the mountains, and it is worth ten taels of silver.
He took down the eight small bells and hung them on a tree about three miles away from the boulder according to the eight trigrams. As soon as the bells were close to the tree trunk, the stems on the top automatically connected to the trunk, as if they had grown on the tree originally.
Returning to the center of the Bagua, he moved the vine close to a cassia tree, and the vine automatically climbed up, no longer needing to be taken care of.
A simple guardian warning was set up. It is different outside than inside the sect. You must not have the intention to harm others, but you must be on guard against others. If you plan to stay for a long time, you still have to be prepared.
However, magic weapons are still inanimate objects after all. It would be much more convenient and safer if there was a zombie or a spiritual pet to protect them. Yunqi has none now, and there is only a motionless insect corpse in his pocket.
Yunqi glanced at the huge rocks. There were four boulders in total, each of which was more than ten steps square. The small one was as tall as a person, and the big one was two meters high.
Yunqi chose one that was about two people tall, patted it, and found that it was firm and not brittle. He sat down on the ground next to the osmanthus tree where the mother bell was hung, and said to himself, "I hope it doesn't rain in the next few days."
He took out a jade slip that he had kept close to his body from his bosom, which was the "Guangcheng Chixu Suixin Mantra".
He placed the jade slip between his eyebrows and probed into it with ease. He saw the forty-nine golden characters in the white void again. Yunqi looked at the word "crack" and without hesitation, he pressed his mind onto it.
This time, Yunqi's thoughts were pulled into a blazing white world again, like a hell of knives and a dome of sword rain. It was full of sharp energy and golden threads floating everywhere. A white tiger across the sky was looming.
An illusory Taoist priest was sitting cross-legged on the tiger's back, his face could not be seen clearly. The Taoist priest made a seal with his left hand, with his thumb bent and pressed on his middle finger and ring finger, while his index finger and little finger were straight and pointing at himself.
At this moment, countless weapons in the world all moved towards the direction pointed by the hand gesture, clanging and whistling, responding to the syllable bursting out from the Taoist's mouth:
"crack!"
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