Chapter 218 Lifeless Swamp, Gate of Beasts

"Pretending to be a holy place, I was signed to Millennium ()"

Lingshu Temple, Patriarch Hall.

Zhang Ming woke up from the meditation, frowning slightly, as if he was in some kind of confusion.

"I have found my own path of practice, but why have I been unable to succeed?"

he muttered to himself.

The goal of this retreat is very clear, which is to cut out the third clone of the self.

And the thinking about this clone is also very clear, which is to cultivate the "Lingshu Sutra" and cut out the self in this life.

However, he had been meditating for many days, but he was still unable to cut out this corpse of himself.

"Forget it, eat something first."

Zhang Ming took out the prepared dry food and supplies from the space in his sleeve, and dealt with them accordingly.

In fact, he has practiced to his current state, even if he does not eat or drink, he can live for a few months even if he swallows the spiritual energy between heaven and earth.

However, as a human being, he couldn't let go of the delicacy of "food" for a while.

While eating, he wondered what went wrong with him.

"I, I, that is to find myself and turn it into a clone. Could it be that I haven't found the real me at all?"

Zhang Ming roasted a chicken leg with real fire, stuffed it into his mouth and muttered.

"But I...isn't it me?"

The more he thought about it, the more confused he became.

Thinking like this, he suddenly remembered some words from the previous world.

I remember that it was written in a book: "I have dealt with me for a long time, and I would rather be me."

Is it possible to realize what the real "I" is only when you find the "I" who is dealing with yourself?

Zhang Ming frowned.

He still remembers a person named Ding Yuanying once said: "You don't know you, so you are you. If you know you, you are not you!"

Zhang Ming was slightly stunned, and immediately chewed this sentence over and over again.

"I don't know me, so I am me?"

At this moment, he had some understanding.

"The reason why I can't find myself is because the existence of 'I' interferes with the appearance of 'I'?"

Zhang Ming's eyes slowly lit up.

He hastily swallowed the last pinch of chicken leg meat, then sat cross-legged and closed his eyes.

"Perhaps, when the current 'I' is completely silent, the real 'I' will recover from the body."

Zhang Ming's consciousness quickly entered the ethereal and silent place.

Retreat, it is said to be a retreat, in fact, every person who retreats retains his own ethereal primordial consciousness, and is self-enlightening, enlightening, and practicing.

But as long as this primordial consciousness is awake, he will always be his current self.

After Zhang Ming entered meditation, he didn't stop, but continued to silence all his spiritual consciousness.

The reason why the "Immortal Heart Sutra" is called "immortal" is that the original soul, spiritual consciousness and physical body will always maintain a trace of activity and remain immortal.

But what he is doing now runs counter to the "Immortal Heart Sutra".

He is trying to... die!

All the true essence of the Indestructible Heart Sutra stopped functioning as the spiritual consciousness was blocked.

His body gradually withered away its vitality, and his body was shaped like a dead tree.

Withered glory, withered glory, originally he was a luxuriant tree, but now it is a dead wood that has returned to silence, and when the dead wood comes back to spring again, it will eventually sprout new shoots.

With such silence, Zhang Ming soon lost all consciousness.

There is only one young man sitting in the ancestral hall.

There was no vitality on his body, like a corpse that had been dead for many years.

If someone accidentally broke in at this time, they would definitely mistakenly think that Taoist Qing Hui had passed away.

In this way, day after day passed.

Dust covered Zhang Ming's whole body.

After an unknown amount of time, a tremor suddenly appeared on his body, as if a dead tree was trying to rejuvenate.

Then I saw a mass of light green luster, shining from its lower abdomen.

That is the position of the lower dantian.

Zhang Ming once deduced his own way of proving the way of the three corpses. In his mind, the upper dantian is where Zhang Xiaofo is; the middle dantian is where Zhang Xiaoyi is located on the chest; land.

Now, everything is coming true.

Next, I saw this light green light flowing from him into the hall.

Then, these rays of light gradually condensed into a ball of true essence.

This is the appearance of a successful practice of the "Lingshu Jing".

The true essence gradually solidified and turned into a frozen solid, in which spiritual light was bred, occasionally blooming with a light green luster.

Then, I don't know how long it has passed.

The frozen solid edges and corners gradually fell off, forming the appearance of a Taoist standing quietly.

Looking at the calm brows, it looks very much like Zhang Ming when he first practiced Taoism.

An ice sculpture, and a withered body sitting cross-legged, are in opposition to each other.

Suddenly one day, a beam of light shone on the ice sculpture in the Patriarch Hall from the edge of the window. It seemed to feel the warm light, and suddenly a flame burned on itself.

Every inch of ice melted in the flames.

All these visions are very similar to the process of cultivating from Guiyi Realm to Yangshen Realm.

Returning to oneness to shape one's life, transforming a sculpture of one's own life, accumulating one's life form, and then breaking through the ice, life is born from fire, refining the soul into a god.

This god is the primordial spirit!

In the flames, a man in a blue Taoist robe slowly emerged.

His eyes are as quiet as the Milky Way, as if the years have passed, watching the clouds and clouds in this world.

"Friend Daoist, thank you for allowing me to come into this world."

The green-robed Taoist stood quietly for a moment, then suddenly bowed respectfully to the withered corpse sitting cross-legged.

Unfortunately, there was no reaction from the other party.

He immediately stopped being entangled, and smiled softly: "Since I am an incarnation from the Spiritual Pivot Sutra, to you, you are just a mortal in this world, seeing the way of this world and walking the way of this world, from now on I will be called Zhang Xiaofan. "

As soon as the words fell, a ball of light emerged from the lower abdomen of the withered corpse, pouring into his body.

The green robe is rippling, as if it is truly moving from nothingness to reality.

Zhang Xiaofan bowed and bowed: "Thank you, fellow daoist, for your fulfillment!"

Then, he turned around, walked towards the door of the Patriarch Hall, and gently opened the door.

The sun was shining brightly outside the door, shining into the hall.

"Qing... Daoist Qinghui! You're out! Great, you're finally out!"

Li Changshou's excited voice sounded outside.

Then the green-robed Taoist stretched his arms into the Patriarch Hall and closed the two gates tightly.

boom.

The moment the door was closed, only dead corpses remained in the hall and fell into darkness forever.

"Er Gouzi, Pindao is hungry, go to the kitchen and cook something for me."

"Come on! Daoist Qinghui, please go to the Zhaitang and wait for a while!"

Li Changshou's busy voice sounded in the Lingshu Temple.

Everything seems to be on track.

In the dark patriarch hall, it seems that Master Lu's words sounded when he was transformed into a Buddha.

"Hey! I don't cultivate good fruits in my life, I only love to kill and set fire. Suddenly the golden rope was broken, and the jade lock was broken here. Eh! In the dream, I didn't know that I was a guest, but today I know that I am me."

...

At the junction of Tangling County and Nanfang County, there is no living swamp.

This place is a well-known Jedi, not only filled with boundless swamps, but also entrenched with all kinds of terrifying monsters and beasts.

Because the people who enter it will die ten times and there will be no life, so it is called the lifeless swamp.

On this day, two uninvited guests came outside the swamp.

"Master, is the beast gate really hidden deep in this swamp?"

Bai Yao glanced at the endless dark swamp, feeling a little apprehensive.

Although she is a snake demon in human form, she doesn't like this dark and damp place either.

It turned out that these two people were Qingquan and Baiyao.

Among them, after Bai Yao cooperated with Lu Xueqing to go to the Scarlet Fire Demon Sect, he had already turned back and accompanied Qingquan to go straight to the gate of the imperial beast.

As for the affairs of the Tianmo sect, Yin Xue took over and cooperated with Lu Xueqing to investigate.

Qingquan stood on the edge of the swamp, saw a vulture flying by inside, couldn't help shaking his body, waved his hand and punched the mark of the imperial beast into its body.

"Yiyao, we don't need to worry. If the beast gate is really hidden in the swamp, it will definitely not be able to escape. Let this bald bird go over to explore the terrain first, Master."

As he spoke, he stretched out his finger, and the vulture flew deep into the swamp.

And he found a clean place to sit cross-legged.

His vision has switched to the interface of the vulture, following its gaze into the swamp.

From time to time, something squirmed in the wet mud, as if an unknown monster was lurking.

There are trees standing in the swamp, and endless unknown aquatic plants, entwined like weeds.

Roar--

Occasionally, beast roars sounded in the depths.

The deeper you go, the more there are traces of beasts. Occasionally, some muntjacs jump out of the forest, and when they see vultures, they shrink their heads in panic.

There are also strange monsters such as spiders with three pairs of compound eyes.

With a move in Qingquan's heart, he drove the vultures to control some monsters and spread them out in all directions to collect information together.

Before long, he finally found something unusual.

In the very depths of the swamp, where even the sunlight is blocked by the surrounding mountains, where the sun does not shine all year round, there is actually a dark palace standing.

At the outermost part of the palace complex, there is a tower, which seems to be used for welcoming guests.

On it was written the words "The Palace of Royal Beasts" in ancient characters.

"Yes! It turns out that this is really the residence of the Beast Sect!"

Qingquan was instantly happy.

As one of the three sects and seventeen sects of the Great Jin Dynasty, this Yushoumen is both good and evil, and it does everything according to its will.

And the disciples of his disciples occasionally walk in the world, and they have their own styles, but they all have one thing in common, that is, they are not afraid of offending others.

Even if you are a member of the three sects, they will not be afraid at all.

The ultimate reason is that they rely on the impoverished land of the lifeless swamp to block most of the enemies. They can attack when they advance, and they can defend when they retreat.

Not to mention that the Yushoumen raised countless monsters in the lifeless swamp.

These monsters are even combined with the Zongmen's guardian formation, which can exert ten times the usual power.

Therefore, they have proud capital.

"I'll let the bald bird go in and have a look."

Qingquan drove the vulture into the gate of the imperial beast with the mind of being careful and making no big mistakes.

However, immediately he felt something was wrong.

From time to time, a disciple from the Beast Control Sect walked out of the palace. They seemed to have spotted the vulture above, and couldn't help frowning.

"Which disciple is controlling this monster? Why is it so impolite that it dares to hover above the sect?"

"Hey, no, this doesn't seem to be the beast control technique of our Beastmaster Sect?"

"Not good! Could it be that an outsider sneaked in? Quick, send someone to report to the elder!"

"..."

Soon, Qingquan's probing behavior alarmed the people of Yushoumen.

Before he could react, he saw an old man in a black robe suddenly appearing in the sky, stretched out his finger, and tore the vulture apart.

At the last moment of his death, Qingquan only heard an angry shout: "How dare you peep at my beast gate!"

Then, sitting cross-legged outside the lifeless swamp, he suddenly woke up.

Bai Yao who was standing by could not help asking: "Master, what's the matter?"

Qingquan's face was serious: "I found the hiding place of Yushoumen! However, there are countless monsters hiding around there, and there are still many strong people in the sect. I'm afraid it will not be easy for us to attack."

Bai Yao was at a loss: "Then what should I do?"

Qingquan paced twice, rare and calm.

"Let's linger for another two days. Although the bald bird died just now, I still left many monsters in the depths of the swamp."

He pondered for a while and said, "As a teacher, let these monsters assimilate the pet beasts from the Beast Sect first, and then we will fly directly to their camps and give them a cohesion from the inside out, a thunderous blow!"

Bai Yao recalled the last time they dealt with Ao Qi, the master of the Yushou Sect, and had some understanding of Master's ability and trust.

"Okay, let's do it after the master finishes the arrangement!"

She was a little eager to try.

Qingquan nodded and continued to sit cross-legged.

Then, I saw the vulture going offline under the control of the Beast Master's Book just now, and sneaking towards the Beast Master's station little by little.

In the middle, whenever he encounters any monsters that move a bit, he successfully directly controls them through the Beast Mastery Book.

In the blink of an eye, the monsters in the depths of the lifeless swamp were marked by him one by one, after offline contact and offline again.

However, there are many monsters controlled by the disciples of the Beastmaster Sect, or some monsters guarding the sect. After Qingquan finished marking, he did not control them at all, but let them act as usual, so as not to overwhelm the snake.

Such a secret arrangement quickly took two days.

On this day, Qingquan finally opened his eyes happily and let out a long sigh of relief.

"Yiyao, I'm hungry as a teacher, order some food by express delivery!"

He grinned, his stomach was suffocated.

Seeing his expression, Bai Yao knew that things were almost ready.

"Master has worked hard. Here, this is the plum cake I brought from Nanling City. I haven't finished eating it yet. Let me share it with you."

She said and took out a bag of snacks.

Qingquan stared blankly, uncertainly: "It's been so long, is it not broken?"

Bai Yao covered the bag in an instant: "Master, if you don't eat it, I will eat it."

Qingquan immediately refused to let go, quickly grabbed the bag, swallowed it into his mouth three or two times, and said falteringly: "Well, not bad, let's eat and drink enough, let's go!"

After playing around for a while, the two officially set off.

They turned into two rays of light and went straight to the depths of the lifeless swamp.

At the same time, some people in the beast control gate had already discovered their traces.

In the dark palace, two disciples hurried into it, and reported: "Elder Wu Xing, some disciples found the trace of the Taoist priest Lingshu on the outskirts of the swamp! According to the comparison, it should be Qingquan and Yiyao. !"

The eyes of the black-robed old man above were fixed: "Oh? It seems that the two of them were the ones who spied on my beast gate two days ago! They really don't know how to live or die!"

The two disciples bowed and said, "How should we deal with it? I also ask Elder Wu Xing to show me!"

Ao Qi, the master of the Yushou Gate, and Fan Yuhua, the great elder, both fell into the hands of the Taoist priests of the Lingshu Temple, and now the second elder Wu Xing is in charge of the overall situation in the gate.

And the hatred between them and Lingshu Temple is even more irreconcilable.

Therefore, the black-robed old man suddenly waved his sleeves, and ordered: "All the disciples in the life-shaping realm, drive the monsters, let's go directly and take those two down!"

As he spoke, he stepped out of the Beast Temple first.

However, at this moment, a disciple came over in panic from outside, shouting: "It's not good! Elder Wu Xing! There are two escaping lights flying towards the position of our sect!"

The black-robed old man paused, and laughed angrily: "Okay! Such a spiritual pivot, he is really looking for a dead end! Pass the order, and all the disciples will follow this elder to fight!"

Several disciples quickly bowed: "Yes!"

The next moment, the message was quickly transmitted to the entire palace group, alarming every disciple who was practicing.

Countless disciples of the Beast Sect gathered in the square in front of the hall in an instant, all looking up at Elder Wu Xing above.

And the black-robed old man, relying on his emptiness to control the wind, was quietly staring at the rapidly approaching light in the distance.

Those are the two Taoists from the Spirit Pivot Temple!

PS: I accidentally remembered it wrong, the people who attacked the Scarlet Fire Demon Sect should be Lu Xueqing and Yin Xue.

But the chapter has already been released, so it can only be wrong, so I added a sentence in the text, Bai Yao came to join Qingquan after defeating the Scarlet Fire Demon Sect.

As for Yin Xue's plot, I can only ask my friends to make up their minds. 4400 words are sent!