Chapter 52 I Want to Become an Immortal
Chapter 52 I Want to Become an Immortal (Twenty-One)
Liu Sheng watched She Chan slowly walk into the black fog outside Qingxu Hall, still holding the practice notes that She Chan had just left for her.
In the end, she didn't stop She Chan.
There is no reason to stop.
If we stay here, we will just be trapped in this world, facing this strange eternal night. If we are not careful, we might lose our lives.
And She Chan had to go as well, as the monsters didn't seem to want to see someone who had broken through the Qi Refining Stage but was reluctant to leave.
Liu Sheng said in his heart, "Take care and best wishes," and turned and left.
She didn't know that She Chan, who was standing in the fog, was turning his head and looking at her silently.
……
The next day, She Chan did not return to Chongdao Temple.
Liu Sheng continued to go to the library, and this time, she chose a biography.
"The Biography of Master Qixuan" records the magnificent and inspirational life of Master Qixuan, the founder of Qixuan Mountain.
There are a few words written on the cover:
[The first generation leader of Xiaoyao Liumai Sect, Wu Yunzi, said: "If it weren't for Master Qixuan, I wouldn't have thought of founding Xiaoyao Sect."]
【Master Kongming, the abbot of Fanyin Temple, said: “Without this book, I would never have chosen to convert to Buddhism.”】
[The Fairy Biluo said: "This is not just a book, it is a man's journey, a path to the ultimate cultivation."]
Of course Liu Sheng didn’t go there for these.
The book begins by saying that Master Qixuan was a country boy who was born in the mortal world. One day he picked up a large stone tablet in a stream and unexpectedly realized the method of cultivating immortals from it. From then on, he embarked on the path of cultivating immortals.
The following chapters talk about how he gradually became stronger because of various adventures, how he fought back against those who looked down on him, and his love affair with many fairies.
Finally, Liu Sheng saw that he was going to establish his own school, and he became excited and watched carefully.
After watching for a while how Master Qixuan occupied and divided the mountain, recruited soldiers and horses, she finally saw what she wanted to see:
【Master Qixuan did not forget the stone tablet that had given him enlightenment, so he erected it on Wudao Mountain. Miraculously, as soon as the stone tablet was erected, a golden light flashed, and the stone tablet seemed to grow naturally on the ground, completely natural and without any gaps. Everyone praised that this was worthy of being the divine object that led the head master to Taoism. But Master Qixuan was troubled about how to name this stone tablet.】
[One day, Master Qixuan fell asleep and suddenly dreamed of a stone tablet that was countless times larger than Qixuan Mountain and towering into the clouds. It bowed its head and said to him, "My daughter Tianyan is entrusted to you. Take good care of her." The Master woke up with a start and named the stone tablet Tianyan Stone.]
[Tian Yanshi may have been grateful for the name given by the Master, and also gave the Master a peerless magical skill - "Qian Kun Chaos Art". No one knows what it is, but they only know that Master Qixuan has been invincible since then. With a wave of his hand, a space rift appears, and with a step, he can travel thousands of miles. He can also easily predict other people's moves. Everyone guesses that Master Qixuan has stepped through the long river of time and can predict the future.]
[According to what I have heard, Master Qixuan established a very secret school on Qixuan Mountain based on this technique, named Qiankun Hall. Master Qixuan summoned the most knowledgeable people in his school to be the lecturers of Qiankun Hall, carefully selected the most gifted and talented disciples to enter Qiankun Hall, and distributed the Qixuan Order as a token of trust, which could only be used to enter.]
[Inside the Qiankun Hall, time and space intersect, and everything is still. Here, there is no distinction between day and night, and no passage of time. Therefore, in the Qiankun Hall, everyone can absorb knowledge at the same time. A year here is just a moment in the outside world, leaving enough time to improve their cultivation.]
[It’s a pity that the existence of Qiankun Hall is still in doubt. The author interviewed many disciples of Qixuan Mountain, and they all denied it.]
[However, since then, Qixuan Mountain's strength has grown by leaps and bounds, and many powerful people have emerged, eventually establishing itself as the number one immortal sect in the southern Sichuan continent. ]
Liu Sheng was a little confused by this paragraph, but he roughly understood it after considering the context.
In other words, in this rumored Qiankun Hall, no matter when anyone enters, they can be at a point in time.
For example, the teacher from fifteen years ago can teach the students who enrolled this year, and the teacher who accepted students this year can also teach the students for the next ten years.
Moreover, the time in Qiankun Hall is not synchronized with the outside world, and it is extremely outrageous that one year is faster than another moment.
Then for teachers and disciples, teaching and learning becomes a very time-saving process. While ensuring everyone's learning time and quality of learning, there is still plenty of time left for cultivation.
Furthermore, disciples can also attend lectures given by any gifted predecessor in the history of Qixuan Mountain, regardless of era, which will surely benefit them greatly.
According to the gossip this author has gathered, the Qixuan Token was actually originally a token of the Qiankun Hall, but somehow it became the disciple token of the Qixuan Academy, with each disciple holding one.
From this perspective, if this Qiankun Hall is real, it is indeed a bit too outrageous.
If all of this originated from the "Qiankun Chaos Art", then it is no wonder that Master Qixuan has become the best in the world.
But this seems to be just a rumor, written like a storybook, at least Liu Sheng did not see it in the official history of Qixuan Mountain. Liu Sheng continued to turn to the end and learned that Master Qixuan disappeared at the age of 76,000 because he fought against the strange disaster in the sky. Some people said that he had fallen, while others believed that Master Qixuan must have ascended to become an immortal.
……
Liu Sheng closed the book and suddenly thought of something, his face turned pale.
He put the book down, stood up suddenly, closed his eyes and took ten steps back.
When she opened her eyes, she was already outside the library.
The waning moon was in the sky, and the old man outside the door was still sweeping the floor, but there were no fallen leaves under the broom.
Liu Sheng pretended to pace and slowly approached the small room where the candles were placed on the side of the door, with his back to the door.
The small tentacle twisted into a thin thread from the back and carefully extended into the door, then went up along the table leg, opened the drawer of the table, took out the registration list inside, and quietly returned to Liu Sheng's hand with the list.
Liu Sheng rolled up the list and hid it in his sleeve, then quietly walked into the shadows of the pine and cypress forest and left the library.
Only after returning to her room in the Chongdao Temple did Liu Sheng dare to open the book and start reading.
She turned to the page she wanted to read and stared at one spot for a long time.
Then she put away the booklet and ran out the door.
She walked along the rows of disciples' rooms, checking at the doors, and stopped only when she saw a room with a wooden sign numbered "57".
That was the house where She Chan lived when he was in Chongdao Temple.
The big red lantern on the door was lit, and candlelight was shining through the window frames.
Liu Sheng looked at the lantern, his heart sank, and he walked forward and knocked on the door.
The door opened and a woman with a round face walked out, looking at Liu Sheng unfriendly.
At this time, the statue in the Chongdao Temple had just awakened. Everyone had been practicing for a whole day and just returned to their rooms to rest. Naturally, they did not want to be disturbed.
"Senior sister or junior sister, I just want to ask you a question." Liu Sheng said.
The woman said impatiently: "Ask."
"May I ask how long have you lived in this room?"
The woman thought this person was very strange, but seeing that she looked pale and very fragile, she suppressed the urge to get angry and said unhappily, "You have been living here for ten days. What's wrong?"
After hearing this, Liu Sheng finally confirmed what he was thinking.
He bowed briefly and turned away.
The woman was left standing at the door with a puzzled look on her face, angry but unable to express herself.
……
In the Hall of Heroes, Liu Sheng followed the years and finally found the one she was looking for among the densely packed small wooden plaques hanging on the entire wall.
[She Chan was born in the ninth year of Honglian, a native of Dachu. He entered the abbot in the twenty-ninth year of Honglian and died at the age of twenty-one.]
The wooden plaque is small, only the size of a thumb, but it contains a person's life.
Liu Sheng remembered that she had just seen in the registration book of the library that the time She Chan registered when she entered the building was exactly "the 29th year of Honglian".
The twenty-ninth year of Honglian, according to Liu Sheng's understanding of the history of Da Chu, was one hundred and thirty-three years before the twenty-third year of Tianhe.
In other words, She Chan, who had just said goodbye to Liu Sheng with a smile not long ago, was a senior sister who was more than 130 years older than her.
Moreover, he died more than a hundred years ago.
After all, it was a knife 5555
(End of this chapter)