The national teacher does not practice

"How are you sure that I am not a reborn person?" Master Xingzhi finished with a smile.

As expected, the faces of Ji Ping'an and the others changed slightly, and Sword Spirit Huang Ying was even more frightened. She flew to his side in a swish, kept looking at him, and said firmly:

"This is your body!"

As a personal sword spirit, Huang Ying understood his body better than Xing Zhi herself.

Ji Ping'an, however, heard something different, and he hesitated and said:

"Senior brother, are you reborn into your original body?"

"Dead." Master Xingzhi smiled.

It's nice... Ji Ping'an complained that this word was something he taught his senior brother back then.

Master Xingzhi said this word at this moment, which only the two of them knew, and it also showed that he was the real Xingzhi.

It's not some other monster.

Liuli was stunned, her translucent eyes looking blank:

"But if according to what you said, you died hundreds of years ago, how could your body..."

As she spoke, she suddenly paused and understood something.

Xing Zhi smiled and said, "Have you figured it out? That's right, don't forget that I dug a hole and buried myself. That means that my body after death was buried under the soil of this land of ice and snow.

In this extremely cold environment, the physical body can survive for many years without decaying, and due to the slow flow of time, the physical body decays even more slowly.

When we are reborn, we will briefly gain the ability to repair our bodies and bring ourselves back to life. I relied on this method to come back to life. "

How can this be done? The three of them were shocked.

Ji Ping'an asked doubtfully: "But senior brother, how can you be sure that you will return to your original body? And even if you come back to life, won't your lifespan come to an end?"

Master Xingzhi said angrily:

"First, I only said that my life was approaching the end, and I didn't say that I died of old age. In fact, when I buried myself underground, I still had one or two years to live, but I committed suicide early, so after rebirth, I still have a year or two left to live.”

After a pause, he continued:

"Second, the reason why I committed suicide and became a martyr was actually a gamble. Remember what I said, I came to the right place, but at the wrong time.

Based on the contents I deciphered on those bamboo slips, combined with the speculations I collected from the notes of some ancient Qi practitioners, I believed at that time that monks might enter the so-called immortal world after death.

If I could really find the ancient saint, I might be able to return to the world.

Unexpectedly, he returned in this way.

As for why I entered my original body, I suspect it has something to do with me dying in the polar region, or maybe it has something to do with the bamboo slips I carried on my body. "

So you’re still betting, right?

Ji Ping'an was not surprised.

Because he knew very well that with his character, his senior brother could really do such a thing.

"It may not be the polar factors," Ji Ping'an thought for a while and said:

"I found that all the reborn bodies have many similarities with the original body to a greater or lesser extent."

This rule was summed up by him from his confidante.

Of course, "accidents" like the God-Emperor also exist... and can be interpreted as some kind of rules.

In particular, the physical body of senior brother still retains vitality. Perhaps in the eyes of "Tiandao", he is the most suitable object to seize the body.

"So you have been here since you were reborn?" Liuli was curious.

Xingzhi nodded, his expression changed:

"I was reborn in the Pole about three months ago and crawled out of the ground. However, I lost too much cultivation, and it was difficult to practice in this broken place. Before I had enough strength, I didn't dare to go outside. Fortunately, I brought someone with me back then. I bought some food to survive until now.”

As he spoke, his expression suddenly became excited:

"But it's fate, and it was precisely because I hid here for a while that I accidentally entered here."

He pointed to the temple at his feet and said:

"About half a month ago, the sky became dark for a short time, and then the polar regions were blocked, and this temple came out of thin air."

That's okay... The three of them sighed again, but Ji Ping'an said:

"Holy temple? Senior brother, what did you discover? Also, did you enter the so-called fairy world after you died?"

Master Xingzhi shook his head and said:

"I have no memory of my death. After rebirth, I only realized that many years may have passed. This should be the same as you all. This is where I really discovered the secrets of the world."

He suddenly stood up and faced the altar facing the main gate of the temple.

When Ji Ping'an came in, he noticed that there was no "god statue" on the stone altar, only an incense burner.

At this time, Master Xingzhi walked over, suddenly hugged the "incense burner" and started spinning it.

Just listen to the sound of "click, click, click", and dust bounces from the floor tiles.

The three of them were surprised to see that as the mechanism turned, except for the central area where they stood, the ground of the palace collapsed, and then stone walls rose up.

On the stone wall, there is a picture embossed in relief.

The first picture shows an ancient wasteland with a huge "ship" suspended in the sky.

The second painting shows a group of people getting off the boat and walking on the ground.

The third painting is an aerial view of Kyushu. Those people are scattered in various places, seeming to be performing some kind of ceremony...

He looked over suddenly, as if he was recording a story.

"what is this?"

Liuli Bodhisattva asked in surprise.

Ji Ping'an made some associations after seeing some of the pictures, but the information the reliefs could provide was limited.

Master Xingzhi was in high spirits, as if he were a scholar who had discovered a great secret and excitedly wanted to announce it to the world.

Some of them are like the lecturers who told stories to tourists when Ji Ping'an visited the museum.

The Taoist with a vicissitudes of appearance suddenly became solemn and said:

"Let me tell you a story. A long time ago, perhaps tens of thousands of years ago, the world we live in was still in a state of ignorance.

At that time, there was no "spiritual element" between heaven and earth, and this world was not suitable for practice, and there was no soil for the birth of practitioners. It was even extremely bitter and cold, the four seasons were not distinct, the earth was covered with ice and snow, and only a small area was suitable for humans. Survive.

One day, a group of people suddenly passed through this world in an ark in the starry sky.

For some purpose, they stayed here briefly. I call those powerful beings with great magic power across the starry sky 'Red Dust Fairies'.

The mortal fairies seem to have a certain destination and are not prepared to stay in this desolate world for a long time.

But maybe there are not many creatures in the universe, and they do not have eternal life and will also perish, so I hope to have more companions.

It's just that the creatures in this world at that time were too weak to follow their footsteps or provide help.

Therefore, the Red Dust Immortals decided to join forces to transform the world. They dispersed to all parties on the land and used their magic power to move mountains and fill the sea, transforming the land into the base of a huge magic circle.

It even moved the positions of the surrounding stars.

And after this huge and unimaginable formation was activated, an invisible cover appeared over the world we live in.

It's like a barrier guarding the mountain gate, or a huge glass bowl, holding back this huge world.

Therefore, from that moment on, what the creatures on the earth saw was no longer the real sun, moon and stars, but the projection of starlight, the transformed stars on the 'cover' that shrouded the world. .

The formation operates according to certain rules, so the movement of the stars we see has rules. ” ˆ ˆ Hearing this, Ji Pingan and Liuli’s expressions changed!

They thought of the cycles of the stars.

They all also realized that what Xingzhi said might be the past history of this world.

But the two of them did not interrupt, but listened to Master Xingzhi continue to narrate:

"The cover shields the dangers from the universe and regulates the four seasons of the earth. The environment begins to become more suitable for the survival of living creatures. At the same time, the formation draws a certain power from the universe and gradually fills it into the cover. We call it It's called 'Lingsu'.

As a result, this world has the conditions for practice.

The mortal fairies also finished their work and were ready to leave and continue their long journey.

But at that time, the new formation was not stable and needed strong people to maintain it. At the same time, maybe some of the Hongchen Immortals were also old and felt that they could not follow the team to move forward, so in the end four 'Red Dust Immortals' stayed. .

They sleep most of the time, waking up every once in a while and traveling around Kyushu.

Finally, with the prosperity of Kyushu, the world has reached a suitable point.

So in order to help monks be born here as soon as possible, these four mortal immortals began to travel around, show miracles, and actively spread the inheritance of practice. People at that time called them 'holy'.

And these four mortal immortals have completely different inheritances, and their purpose for doing all this is not simple.

They hope that a prosperous cultivation civilization will be born in this world as soon as possible, so that the Red Dust Immortal will be born, follow in the footsteps of the "big army" and become one of 'them'.

The specific reason is unclear. Maybe they are trying to conquer a powerful enemy? Need more colleagues?

Just guessing.

There may also be different factions within the Hongchen Immortal. In short, these four Hongchen Immortals all hope that the strong men born in the future will inherit their own mantles.

From this perspective, the four are both companions and competitors.

It's just that the birth of the Red Dust Immortal is slow. They don't want to wait for the natural development of the world and want to speed up the process.

Moreover, the promotion resources required by the Red Dust Immortal are also extremely huge and require the support of huge spiritual elements.

Not to mention that it requires an extremely high level of talent.

Taking the initiative to spread the practice lineage is one way to speed up.

But it's not the only way. In order to force this world to have strong people as soon as possible, they chose a method similar to 'raising gu'. "

"Raising Gu?"

Liuli was stunned, and a flash of light seemed to flash in her mind:

"Could it be..."

Ji Ping'an said: "Rebirth."

"That's right, it's rebirth!"

Master Xingzhi's eyes lit up. He walked among these stone walls and said:

"If cultivation is a kind of civilization, then as time goes by, more elites will be born, and the methods of cultivation will be more advanced, so they designed a mechanism in this formation that envelopes the world.

That is, when the powerful people in the world reach a certain critical line, the souls of the powerful people who died later will be collected through the formation.

They placed something outside the formation barrier, high in the sky, which I will call a 'dome'.

The souls of those who died will be extracted by the formation and enter the 'dome' to sleep.

From the moment the first soul entered, the formation started a countdown that lasted for 'one thousand years'.

In other words, in the thousand years since then, all souls that meet the conditions have not been naturally destroyed, but have been stored in the dome.

And when time approaches the end of a thousand years, the formation also enters a new cycle that has been set.

By then, the concentration of spiritual elements in Kyushu will rise rapidly, reaching an unprecedented peak in history, and the world will become extremely suitable for cultivation in a very short period of time.

at the same time.

The ‘dome’ opens, releasing the souls absorbed over the past thousand years into the human world.

This means that in the last one thousand years in Kyushu, a group of the best people in the history of cultivation were thrown into the same era to fight and fight with each other. The mortal immortals believe that only this extreme environment can create the strongest person. .

But at the same time, accommodating so many powerful people is a great test for the formation. It can even be said to be a kind of destruction.

The higher the concentration of spiritual essence, the more powerful there are, and the more turbulent the formation is, and the turbulence of the formation is reflected in the changes in the celestial phenomena.

For example, if the sun suddenly goes out...after all, it is not the real 'sun', it is just a false projection.

According to the imagination of the mortal immortals, when the 'countdown' reaches zero, the 'dome' will fall from the sky and descend to the mortal world.

The dome is the "hub" of the Jiuzhou formation, the "eye of the formation", and the "authority" of this world.

At that time, all the strong men will fight for power.

And the one who finally gains the power must be the strongest one, who is also the 'King of Gu' in this game of raising Gu. "

Having said this, the face of Master Xingzhi, who was walking among the stone walls, suddenly became extremely dignified and serious:

“And the birth of a new king will inevitably involve walking on a lot of bones, and the birth of the most powerful Red Dust Immortal will also come at the cost of the entire magic circle being shattered.

Once the magic circle is broken, it not only means that the spiritual essence will decline rapidly, but also the world will become difficult to practice again.

It also means that the originally stable laws of the four seasons will be broken. The practitioners may be able to barely resist, but trillions of mortals will die in pieces due to frequent natural disasters.

It will not stop until the number of living creatures on Kyushu decreases to a certain extent and civilization degrades to a certain extent.

In other words, when the dome falls, it is the moment when all life is destroyed. "

After a pause, Master Xingzhi looked at the two people who were stunned on the spot and said:

"And this is the final disaster that our generation will face. Now, do you understand?"

Quiet.

silence.

At this moment, only the cold wind blowing outside the temple made a gentle whimpering sound.

Time seemed to have frozen. Liuli froze on the spot, her black hair swaying in the wind. Her eyes fell on the paintings on the stone wall, and she could not move for a long time.

Ji Ping'an was also silent.

There was already a huge wave in my heart.

So, the "Red Dust Immortals" who only exist in legends are a group of ancient monks from a distant era?

The so-called saint is one of them?

The reason why the starry sky has cycles is because of the cycle and restart of the formation.

The strangeness of the sun and moon is also because they are "false".

The reason why Ji Ping'an couldn't locate himself based on the position of the stars and calculate the direction to find the earth was because the position of the starry sky above his head was simply not right!

It was "projected" through the barrier, and the location is wrong!

It turns out...this is everything.

After a long silence, Ji Pingan stared at his senior brother and suddenly said: "But these are not the only secrets."

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