Chapter 8 Lao Tzu Riding a Bull(1/2)
The Celestial Cloud Cave.
Located in the middle of Phoenix Mountain, there is a maze outside that allows people to turn, so ordinary people can't come here at all. Even the old hunter who has lived in Phoenix Mountain for a lifetime has never heard of such a place.
Ai Ming and his group came here after a long journey. It seemed that it was only three or four miles from the foot of Phoenix Mountain to the middle waist, but it took them nearly a day.
It's strange that according to Lan Ruoshi, the maze array set up outside the Xuanyun Cave, was an ancient strange array called the Illusion Mirror Array. It was not very useful, that is, it could allow people who accidentally entered the array to turn out without realizing it, but those who are interested can pass it.
However, it is not easy for those who are interested to come here. Even with the guidance of Lan Ruo, they avoided many detours, but the mysterious path of the mirage array, coupled with the complicated grass and tree roots, still made Ai Ming and others suffer a lot.
When they finally saw the Xuanyun Cave, they were exhausted. They asked the soldiers to set up tents at the entrance of the cave and told them to wait for themselves to come out. If they didn't come out, they would never leave. After Ai Ming stepped into the Xuanyun Cave alone.
The outer periphery of Xuanyun Cave looks very ordinary, and there is nothing to notice except that there is three ancient seal script "Xuanyun Cave" engraved on the top of the cave. If it weren't for Lan Ruo's point, if it were normal, even if Ai Ming came here by chance, he wouldn't have noticed it, let alone Ai Ming didn't know anything about ancient seal script. At the beginning, Ai Ming thought it was a ghost painting talisman.
After entering the Xuanyun Cave and walking hundreds of steps away, Ai Ming came to the innermost part of the cave. There were only mountains and rocks around him, and there was no difference between them and ordinary caves.
Ai Ming tweaked in the corner of the cave and found an iron ring the size of a palm. The iron ring was engraved with many patterns. Ai Ming general wore the iron ring on his wrist and silently said in his heart, "Heaven and spiritual spirit, the earth and spiritual spirit, the clouds open the hole." The iron ring emitted a red light, shining on a corner of the cave wall. Another hole suddenly appeared on the cave wall. This is the real secret of the Xuanyun Cave.
Restrained her excitement, took off the iron ring and put it back in place. If she entered it with the iron ring, it would bring great disaster. This was what Lan Ruo had told her before. She said that a Taoist who broke into the cave without authorization because she forgot to take off the iron ring and was crushed into powder by the defense spell in the cave.
Ai Ming carefully stepped into the cave entrance and saw a white light flashing across Ai Ming's body, sweeping away all the dust on Ai Ming's body without a trace.
The cave is simple and natural, and the exposed mountain has no unnecessary decoration. Only a few futons are placed on the ground against the wall. Behind the futon is a picture of Laozi riding a cow. There is also a low jade table on the other side with some objects on it. The most bizarre thing is that there are no ventilation holes in the cave, but there is no feeling of stuffiness, and there is a fragrance of natural flowers and plants.
Ai Ming had no interest in other things and rushed to the low table.
There are only two objects on the low table, one is a ring and the other is a jade bottle.
Ai Ming couldn't wait to hold the ring in his hand, but when his fingers just touched the ring, a large red light suddenly appeared from the ring, shaking Ai Ming's fingers open.
Ai Ming felt that his hands were no longer at all. When he looked down, he found that his hands were covered with bloodshot by the red light, especially the part of the tiger's mouth, which had a hole in the boss.
Only then did Ai Ming remember that every item in this cave had a defensive spell. If the spell was not unlocked, he would be damaged by the spell.
There was no way, Ai Ming simply bandaged the wound, and waited for his hands to recover from consciousness, then he pinched the magic trick with both hands, muttering words, and gradually, a lotus emitting a holy light gradually emerged from the center of his hands.
Ai Ming gently sent the magic trick, and saw the lotus slowly falling on the low table. A brilliant light and shadow on the low table flashed like water waves. After a while, there was no movement silently.
Ai Ming then reached out and picked up the ring. He raised it in front of him and saw that a gem of about three carats was inlaid on the holder of Feijin Feishi. (At this time, the author couldn't help but mutter, Feijin Feishi? Is it plastic?) The gem looked very ordinary at a high level, but the color was a bit special, black and gray. But when you looked closely, there was a golden spiral flowing slowly in the black and gray gem. After a closer look, although the gem was not big, the space inside seemed endless.
The Qiankun Ring!
I remember when I first saw Feng Xiaoyu, he had a Universe Ring on his hand, but it really made Ai Ming envious. Now he also has one, and it looks a few ranks higher than Feng Xiaoyu. That would not make Ai Ming overjoyed.
Ai Ming couldn't wait to put the Qiankun Ring on his middle finger, straightened his palm and admired it carefully. It was cool, and I really liked it the more I looked at it.
But after a while, Ai Ming was greatly disappointed because no matter what method he used, he could not open the Qiankun Ring.
Alas, I really came back empty-handed in Baoshan. The greater the hope, the greater the disappointment.
By the way, there is another jade bottle. General Ai’s attention is turned to the jade bottle. He picked up the jade bottle. He was actually made of a thousand-year-old cold jade. He held it in his hand and felt a sense of coldness. Just this thing is a treasure, because what people who practice Taoism fear most is the cause of the demons. As long as you keep the jade bottle in your heart, you will not be afraid when you meditate and practice your skills.
If you can't open it, Ai Ming pulled the bottle plug hard, but it just couldn't open it. No, even if these two things are precious, if they are useless to you, it will be no different from garbage.
Ai Ming became more and more angry the more he thought about it. He couldn't help but resent Lan Ruo. If it weren't for her, how could he make his heart beat faster and lower, and he was so uncomfortable. He couldn't help but raise his head and throat and shout, "Damn Lan Ruo."
"At this, I'm dead."
Hearing a sound behind him, Ai Ming was so scared that he jumped three feet high. He turned his head and saw Lan Ruo standing behind him with a smile, tilting his head to look at him.
"How did you...you... come out?" Ai Ming stammered.
"Oh, it's very simple, because the jade bottle was made by Hanyu and it was very helpful to me, so I came out."
If I don’t understand, Ai Ming is confused.
Seeing Ai Ming being dizzy, Lan Ruo had to explain carefully. It turned out that Lan Ruo was attracted by the cold air emitted by the cold jade bottle. She broke through the limit of the armor plate and appeared in front of Ai Ming. However, she could only leave the distance between the armor plate and the jade bottle, and she would be scattered even if she was far away. As for her daughter, Cat, because she was not practicing enough, she could not get out of the armor plate.
After listening to Lan Ruo's words with fear, Ai Ming felt relieved after seeing that Lan Ruo had no reaction to what he had cursed just now.
He smiled at Lan Ruo with a wry smile, raised the jade bottle and said, "Sister Lan, I can't open it." To be honest, Ai Ming's ability to change the topic is not yet home, it is too conspicuous, but this is the best topic he can find.
"That's because your cultivation level is too low. As long as you practice hard, you will open it. Also, these two things are not something that can be opened just by opening. They need to cooperate with certain techniques."
So that's how it is. Ai Ming suddenly realized. "Then I will start practicing now."
"Don't worry, do you find out what's the mystery of this picture of me riding a cow?" Lan Ruo pointed to the picture hanging on the wall and said.
Look at Ai Ming, nothing special. A flash of inspiration. Is this a treasure map? No, if it is, it will be lucky. Hehe, Ai Ming is in a daze...
Lan Ruo seemed to know what Ai Ming was thinking, so he stretched out his hand and knocked Ai Ming's head. Ai Ming squatted on the ground and Xuexue was so painful.
"What are you thinking? Meditation in front of this picture and take a closer look at this picture." Lan Ruo played the pipa on Ai Ming's head.
Ai Ming escaped from Lan Ruo's hands in a panic, sat down on the cushion, and looked carefully at the picture of me riding a cow.
Oh, good pictures, I can see that this painting is a long time ago, and it should be worth some money when I sell it. I also painted it well, portraying the eternal temperament to the fullest. There is also the cow, who looks so old that even the open mouth can be found missing a front teeth.
And, and... nothing more.
Turning his head to look at Lan Ruo. Seeing Lan Ruo looking at him with cold eyes, he felt a chill in his heart, so he had to turn back to look at the picture.
My clothes are well drawn, as if the wind is blowing; the bun is standing tall, is it that something is placed on the top of the cave? Ai Ming looked up and couldn't tell. He was really annoying.
At this time, Ai Ming felt a thick cold current coming from behind him, which penetrated his heart and lungs, and he couldn't help but use his skills to resist.
It's so cold, and her body seems to be frozen, and it's impossible to even move. No, there's only Lan Ruo behind her. Does she want to make money and kill her?
Let me die.
Ai Ming's frozen body went from numbness at the beginning to tingling pain all over his body. After experiencing a real time, he finally collapsed. Especially now, there is no part of his body that is not needle-like pain, and the pain is from the outside to the bone. But his head is very clear, and he doesn't even have the freedom to faint.
It’s not that easy to die, but you don’t have the strength to commit suicide by biting your tongue.
Ai Ming had to focus on the picture of Lao Tzu riding a cow in front of him. I wondered if Guan Yu, a martial saint in ancient times, played Go to divert his attention when he was scraping his bones and curing his injuries. I think this damn thing is going to be done.
After a while, Ai Ming felt that his body was not so painful, and he became more and more convinced that it was a diversion effect, so he worked harder to look at the picture. In fact, the reason was that the pain lasted for a long time and the body had the ability to adapt.
Hey, why did the painting move?
In Ai Ming's eyes, my picture of riding a cow gradually became vivid.
look.
I sat quietly and comfortably on the cow's back, raised my head slightly, squinted at the fiery sun, as if the hot weather had no effect on him. A happy expression appeared on his face, and his body swayed with the old cow's undulating footsteps. His big sleeves fluttered.
If you don’t know that he was a sage of a generation, others would think that it was a famous old farmer who had just returned from harvesting grains and was enjoying a rare leisure time.
look.
The old ox ruminated the grass from his stomach, chewed it with his teeth, and was drooling. A oriole stood on a curved horn and sang happily, with a big head twisting towards him and looking at his master, as if saying, "You are too comfortable, let me ride you too."
The yellowish skin is smooth and smooth, and the big tail is swinging, driving the cow flies that are climbing up.
besides.
There are tall willow trees growing by the river bank in the distance, and the long branches of Buddha light up ripples on the water. Three or two water birds flew over low and flew into the distance. An old turtle climbed on the shore and stretched its neck to bask in the sun.
besides.
Not far away, a plum blossom bloomed in full bloom against the cold, and the trembling flowers exuded a charming fragrance.
...
Plum blossoms, plum blossoms?
No, how could plum blossoms appear in the summer?
Ai Ming was shocked, as if he had realized something, but he seemed to have nothing.
plum bossom………………
plum bossom…………
plum bossom……
plum bossom!
Ai Ming couldn't help laughing loudly, "The plum blossoms."
At this time, he didn't feel that his body was no longer cold, but was warm. His intuition came from the painting the breath of spring, and everything was renewed, but that's it, but that's it.
Gradually, Ai Ming's mind became ethereal, he held his heart and thought about it quietly, and gradually entered the state of meditation, and his cross-sitting body slowly floated in the air.
A stream of spiritual energy from heaven and earth poured in from the Tianmen, circling in the body, opening up the closed veins. Thousands of pores opened, greedily absorbing the surrounding spiritual energy, filling the shortcomings of the body.
Time passes...
I don’t know that after the Shao Zhoutian, Ai Ming woke up leisurely from meditation.
Open his eyes and accept all this calmly.
The world became much clearer and richer in colors. Only then did I realize that the natural caves were mostly traces of axe-chief. The blue stone walls were mixed with many golden wires.
The sounds suddenly increased in my ears. It turned out that the cave was not quiet, there were the sound of wind, water drops, and even the sound of my own heartbeat.
It turns out that the world is so wonderful.
An inexplicable emotion surged into my heart, and Ai Ming's eyes were wet.
"Oh, the big man even lost Yin Doudou, it's so embarrassing."
A woman's voice suddenly came from behind, which scared Ai Ming. After thinking about it, I realized that it was Lan Ruo's voice, but how could her voice become so round? No matter how gentle she spoke, she always felt a little chilling in her voice.
I turned my head unconsciously and saw...
To be continued...