Chapter 119 Life experience

Chapter 119 Life experience

Chapter 119 Life experience
Li Wuxiang glanced at Pan Muyun and Helian Ji. Both of them looked stunned and had obviously never heard of this matter.

Zeng Jianqiu sat on the ground and glanced at Wu Hao in the distance: "Only Senior Brother Lou, Sword Master Mei, and the Sect Leader know about this. Now that it has come to this, I will explain it to you clearly."

The three of them also sat down. Zeng Jianqiu said, "It happened almost forty years ago. You guys take a look first—"

"Wait a minute." Helian Ji stood up again, walked to the load on the ground not far away, opened the cargo box and rummaged through it for a while. He actually took out a jar of wine and two oil paper bags, then walked back and spread them out on the ground.

Two oil paper bags, one with raisins and the other with peeled hazelnuts. He uncorked the small wine jar and handed it to a few people: "Do you want some?"

Zeng Jianqiu kicked him and said, "Drink less."

Helian Ji laughed out loud: "I live in the open air, how can I listen to such things without wine? You talk, don't worry about me."

Zeng Jianqiu sighed, raised his hand and pointed in the direction of the city wall, looking at Li Wuxiang: "You are the only one who doesn't know what's going on here. Look at the mountain behind the city, can you see what's on it?"

Li Wuxiang took a closer look. The mountain was also gray-black, with little vegetation, mostly on the top and the foot of the mountain. The rocks on the mountain wall were exposed, and if you looked more carefully, you could see that there seemed to be many light-colored dots, and some zigzag light-colored lines in between.

He thought about it for a moment and realized that those lines should be roads, and those small dots and cliffs - he suddenly thought of "hanging coffins". But are all the cliffs covered with hanging coffins? Who knows how many there would be!

He squinted his eyes and said, "I can't see it. It's too far away."

"Come on, you are the only one who can see clearly among us." Zeng Jianqiu put his hand down, "Those are all coffins. Guanshan and Guancheng, do you think they mean pass? They are actually coffins."

"The True Form Dao worships the True Form Emperor, the incarnation of the world's mountain luck. Although worshiping this emperor can borrow the magical power of moving mountains and filling the sea, it is also taboo to destroy feng shui. Speaking of destroying feng shui, the most powerful people in the world are humans. When the Ye Dynasty was still there, from Jinshui to here, there were towns everywhere. Reclaiming wasteland, cutting trees, hunting, at that time, even jackals were rare around here."

"So after the fall of the Ye Dynasty, the True Form Dao forbade people from destroying mountains and rivers. But the Six Sects of Mysterious Sect didn't want too many people in the world, and they also wanted the people who could practice in the diocese to have good aptitude. What do you think we should do?"

Li Wuxiang immediately remembered the tall and strong people from the Coffin City that he saw on the boat.

"So, generation after generation, if a person is born with a congenital disability or serious illness, then naturally, it is impossible. But the Great Emperor has the virtue of loving life, so naturally he cannot drown the baby, so he puts the baby in a coffin made with the magic of the True Form Sect, which is called 'hiding the spirit and nourishing the energy'."

"If a person grows up to 18 or 19 years old and has an incurable serious illness, or is physically disabled, or has extremely poor aptitude, he will also be placed in a Dharma coffin to 'hide his spirit and nourish his energy'."

"This goes on for generations. When you go to the Coffin City, you will find that the people in the market are healthy, happy, and carefree, as if they were in a paradise on earth. The worst are ordinary residents who do some production and business. The slightly better ones practice the skills I passed on to Xue Baoping in the Anmin Mansion and the Zhenshou Mansion, which can also prolong their lives. Even better ones are accepted as disciples by the mountain masters or walking disciples stationed in the city, and they are the best of the best."

Zeng Jianqiu sighed, "As for me, I was born into a wealthy family in the city. If the wealthy families outside the parish are not from a family of cultivators, they often consider family background and wealth when they marry. The wealthy families within the parish are similar. If they want to have a wife, they also consider family background. But the wealthy families within the parish must also be large families with many cultivators. Apart from family background, if they want to have more offspring, they have to look at their qualifications."

"In the Coffin City, ordinary people cannot marry casually. They have to go through a series of selections. Men and women from ordinary families with good aptitudes are generally used by the wealthy families for breeding. Because no matter how noble or humble a man and woman are, they can only have two children. If you are the head of a family and you marry someone, and you have a child, you don't need to send him to the academy to store his spirits and nourish his qi, but his aptitude is not good, so you naturally have to have another child."

"At this time, we have to try little by little." Zeng Jianqiu narrowed his eyes and looked in the direction of the coffin city, "Find a woman or man with good qualifications, and if you are not satisfied with the first one you give birth to, you can naturally make him seriously ill and disabled, so send him to the coffin mountain, and then give birth to another one. If you don't mind wasting your own cultivation, you can try until you are satisfied."

"I was born this way, and this is my business." Zeng Jianqiu said this, and stretched out his hand to Helian Ji. Helian Ji handed him the wine jar, and he took a sip and held it in his hand, "And Brother Lou. Brother Lou, his background should be similar to mine. But his background is more... I don't know how to put it, anyway, he used to be a walking member of the True Form Sect."

Pan Muyun was surprised: "Him!?"

Zeng Jianqiu nodded, "Yes. He is a disciple of the True Form Dao who came to Coffin City for training. He is extremely talented. One year after arriving in Coffin City, he was promoted to a walking disciple by the Wushan Lord stationed in Coffin City. When I was five years old, my family invited him to be my teacher. I followed him to learn the magic of the True Form Dao. When I was twelve years old, I had already reached the realm of practicing Qi and transforming into emptiness. I was just one step away from advancing to practicing spirit and transforming into emptiness."

Pan Muyun and Helian Ji took a deep breath. Li Wuxiang almost forgot to pretend. When he reacted, he took a deep breath and said, "Then..."

"When I was thirteen, Senior Brother Lou was twenty-three, and he had already reached the peak of the Qi Refining Realm." He glanced at Li Wuxiang. "In our Jian Sect and Sanshili Sect, after refining Qi, we need to form a golden elixir. We need to form the innate Qi in our body into a golden elixir and cultivate the Yang God seed. But in the Six Departments Xuan Sect, the next realm after refining Qi is 'refining the spirit', which is the opposite of our forming a golden elixir. It requires refining all the gods in the hundreds of joints and organs in the body and integrating them into the three souls and seven spirits."

"Brother Lou, we were about to break through to the realm of soul refining. Most of the people in the Six Sects of Xuan Sect had better aptitude than us, and they had no shortage of materials for cultivation. They also had the guidance of their teachers, so the process of cultivation was very smooth. But every time they reached the realm of breakthrough, they were more dangerous than us. This danger was because of the Coffin Mountain."

He glanced at Li Wuxiang again and said, "Those who hide their spirits and nourish their qi in the Coffin Mountain are all unconscious and usually die after twenty years. During these twenty years, they are said to be hiding their spirits and nourishing their qi, but in fact, their innate qi, willpower, and human energy are slowly taken away by the great formation on the mountain. The great formation takes those things and supplies them to the monks in the city."

"Outside the diocese, we won't think of cultivating the power of incense and vows. Because if we do that, once we reach a realm of breakthrough, evil thoughts will arise, which is the way to death. But in a place like Coffin City, practitioners will use it. Day by day, slowly use it. Since the people on Coffin Mountain have no consciousness, they have fewer distracting thoughts. In this way, when they break through, they can use the magic tools of the sect to suppress them, and it will work."

"There is another way that can make people more stable when breaking through the realm, which is marriage. When you reach the realm of Senior Brother Lou, you can transfer part of the evil karma involved in the evil thoughts to your children when you get married. Senior Brother Lou found a suitable woman in the city at that time. Usually in this case, the matter is over after the birth of suitable children. It is not considered marriage, but only borrowing seeds." "But the two of them have been together for a few months, and Senior Brother Lou is very affectionate. He said he really wants to marry a woman. This kind of thing also happens in the Xuan Sect, but it is different for Master Wu of the Coffin City."

"From the perspective of the people in Xuanjiao, Wu Shanzhu is a good Shanzhu. He is upright and abides by the precepts of the sect. He will also raise a talented offspring for himself like an ordinary person. People outside the diocese will think this kind of thing is cold and cruel, but within the diocese, no one thinks there is anything wrong with this kind of thing."

"This Wu Shan Lord likes to support the younger generation, and is very enthusiastic about those with good talents and character. If we use the words of those outside the diocese, he is a bit old-fashioned. He hopes that everyone will be like him and aim to ascend to the wonderful realm."

"He knew what Senior Brother Lou was planning, so he felt that this woman distracted him. He was about to reach the state of refining the spirit, and he couldn't be distracted. So he sent that woman to hide her spirit and nourish her energy. For something like this, once she is put into the magic coffin, there is no way to save her, it is the same as death."

"But there is always an exception to everything, and that is our Sword Sect. If one cultivates to the level of Donghuang Taiyi, or does not need to become a great Dao, but only the cultivation of the spiritual gods under his command, then he can also pick up the destiny of humanity and manipulate the souls of the living at will. That Wu Shanzhu probably did not expect that Senior Brother Lou was so deeply in love. After knowing that the woman was sent to the Coffin Mountain, he immediately betrayed the True Form Sect and left the diocese."

"Afterwards, Senior Brother Lou met Mei Zhangjian in Huaiyang and wanted to learn the flying sword technique from her. You all know Mei Zhangjian. She always does things differently. After listening to Lou He's story, she said to him, you have the skills of the Zhenxing Sect, you can't learn the flying sword technique."

"So Senior Brother Lou immediately gave up his cultivation in front of her to prove his determination. Mei Zhangjian felt that he had the character to be a swordsman, so Senior Brother Lou became a swordsman."

"Things like giving up one's own cultivation are extremely damaging to the body. With Senior Brother Lou's aptitude, it took him another six years to reach the Qi Refining stage after giving up his cultivation. At that time, I was exactly nineteen years old, and I had also reached the point where I was about to impact the Spirit Refining stage... It's not that my aptitude is better than Senior Brother Lou's. It's just that he was born in an ordinary family, while I was born in a wealthy family, and I had no shortage of magic materials and guidance. My family planned to have me cultivate to the point of Spirit Refining before going to the main temple."

"When I was nineteen, Senior Brother Lou came back. He later told me that when he came back, he wanted to kill Wu Shanzhu. But when he left Coffin City, Wu Shanzhu was still refining Qi. When he came back this time, Wu Shanzhu had already refined the spirit, and he could not kill him."

"He couldn't do anything, so he came back to see me. The wealthy families in Coffin City are no different from those outside. I have never felt the love of my parents or friends since I was a child. It was Senior Brother Lou who accompanied me. He and I are both teachers and friends, brothers and fathers. He is an ordinary person, so his thinking is different from that of the True Form Sect. Otherwise, he would not have run away for a woman."

"He taught me from the age of five to thirteen. During those eight years, my character became similar to his in some ways. In fact, if I had only practiced cultivation, I would not be a swordsman today. It was because when I was nineteen, I encountered the same thing as Senior Brother Lou—I wanted to break through, and my clan also wanted me to get married."

"With Brother Lou's experience as a lesson, the clan won't allow me to stay with that woman for a long time. In fact, I haven't even seen what she looks like. But this makes me feel very uncomfortable - am I no different from a breeding cow or horse? Moreover, after Brother Lou left, the clan has been very strict with me for six years from the age of thirteen to nineteen, which makes me even more uncomfortable. I just want to cultivate to the spirit refining stage as soon as possible and go to the main altar."

"It was at this time that Senior Brother Lou met me. Later I thought, he was also very unkind. He only told me the good things outside the diocese and didn't say much about the bad things. But to this day I don't regret it. He asked me if I wanted to be a swordsman, and I agreed without thinking, so I left the coffin city with him. Later, I did the same as him, giving up my cultivation to learn the flying sword technique. But my aptitude was not as good as his, and my vitality was more seriously damaged. It took him six years to build his foundation, and it took me more than ten years."

He raised his head, his throat moving, and drank all the wine in the jar, then threw it aside and wiped his mouth: "That's all we have to do. So I came back to save him by myself. It may seem very risky to you, but for me, it's actually no more dangerous than killing evil spirits outside the parish."

"I have been away from home for thirty-three years now, but a place like Coffin City is different from the outside of the parish. As long as they are not ordinary people, everyone can live to be over a hundred years old. The changes in the city in the past thirty-three years are not his. Didn't Wu Hao just say that Senior Brother Lou came back six times in these years? I know this. He was looking for opportunities to kill Master Wu Shan. Every time he went to explore the city, he would tell me after he came back."

"I used to be familiar with the governor of the Coffin Town Defense House. After he came back, he could easily become a garrison soldier with a little trickery. I have met Senior Brother Lou. His cultivation has been abolished, but he is still alive. According to Master Wu Shan's style, he will not kill him immediately or hand him over to the Xuan Sect - he has not reported this matter to the sect over the years."

"Even if he wants to kill Senior Brother Lou, he must do so after asking him to 'sincerely repent.' This way, there is actually a lot of room for maneuver."

Li Wuxiang nodded: "Could it be the mayor you mentioned——"

Zeng Jianqiu glanced at Wu Hao and said, "No. The governor of the garrison is named Ying. He has a handle that I learned a few years ago - he has six children. If this kind of thing is known in a religious place, there will be severe punishment, probably depriving the position and sending the children to hide the spirit and cultivate qi. But in the coffin city, the punishment of the mountain master Wu will not be so easy."

"Mr. Ying is not a disciple of Xuanjiao, but since he has practiced the art, he is considered half a practitioner, so Wu Shanzhu can take care of it. He has only two children, and he hates this kind of thing the most. Once he finds out, Mr. Ying's family will have to go to the coffin mountain to hide their spirits and cultivate their energy. Even if he has made great contributions by informing on the secret, he will only be honored after his death. He knows it clearly."

"Besides, he doesn't know that I'm a swordsman. He just thinks that I escaped from the Coffin City and became a wandering knight in the parish. I came back now because I couldn't stand it outside, but I was ashamed to see the people in the tribe, so I became a town soldier. In his eyes, if I was found and accepted in a few years, he should be glad that he has climbed a big tree."

"As for Wu Hao, I didn't have a chance to talk to him the last time I met Senior Brother Lou. If I could meet him again, it should be clear."

Several people looked at Wu Hao again and frowned.

After hearing what Zeng Jianqiu said, it was a bit difficult to deal with him. If he was really the grandson of Senior Brother Lou, and was indeed Senior Brother Lou's spy left in Coffin City, then I was really a bit unfair to him just now.

but……

"Brother Wu, you said you want to be a swordsman in the future, right?" Li Wuxiang thought for a moment, then stood up and walked to Wu Hao's side. "Then let's destroy your cultivation first. It will be destroyed sooner or later anyway."

(End of this chapter)