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Chapter 190: The Magic Lamp at Mount Hua

The preparation for this Dharma Assembly took quite a while, but it only lasted one day, after all, it was essentially about selling things.

The next day, the people from the Xuanmen sect on the mountain left one after another.

They carried a large amount of precious spiritual materials. Although the scenery of Mount Hua was beautiful, they were eager to leave.

Some lineages and sects have people waiting at the foot of the mountain to pick them up; even those from side sects seek companions among their acquaintances.

Xuanmen is also a world of martial arts, and there are many evil sorcerers who kill people and rob.

"Take care on your journey, everyone."

Shopkeeper Wan's eyes were a little moist, he shook his head and smiled bitterly, "I'm old now, I just can't stand separation."

He knew that Li Yan and others would leave after reaching Huashan. The journey to the rivers and lakes was long, and he didn't know when they would meet again.

He is old, and maybe he will turn into a pile of earth by then.

Li Yan didn't waste any words. He found some water and wine, clinked glasses with Manager Wan three times, and said in a deep voice: "Senior, I have been helped a lot. There is no need to say more. Please take care of yourself."

After Manager Wan left, Master and Apprentice Yuan Ba ​​also came over. Quan Wanzhong's trip went smoothly and he was in a very good mood. He smiled and bowed, saying, "If you go to Meishan, you must come to see me. I will definitely treat you well."

"That's natural."

Soon, Mount Hua became a little deserted.

The morning bell rang, and in Taoist temples, the sound of wooden fish and chimes could be heard, and green smoke was curling around. The Taoists had already begun their morning lessons as usual.

It was almost noon when Yu Fengzi came over and said with a fist salute: "I have some chores to deal with, so just follow me."

"Good work."

Li Yan had already made preparations. He had already brought the Shoushan Copper Essence, Twelve Yuanchen Coins, and the two Bailian Swords seized from Yao San.

This thing is made of meteorite iron. Although it is not an illegal weapon, it is also a top-quality material and is enough to be used as a scrap.

The two of them continued walking and came to the small valley again.

After entering the room, the old man took the Shoushan Copper Essence and the Twelve Yuanchen Coins, looked at them, picked up Yao San's sword and knocked on it, then nodded and said, "It's barely enough. Let's go, come back to me in five days."

Obviously, these treasures purchased at a huge price were nothing more than ordinary things in his eyes.

Li Yan knew that this mysterious old man must be of extraordinary status, so he did not dare to ask too much. After leaving the thatched cottage, he and Yu Fengzi went up the mountain again.

"Master, I'm going to ask you to do something."

"Don't worry, Fellow Daoist Li, I have already arranged it." Yu Fengzi said with a smile, "There are many free spiritual orifices on the mountain now, I have picked a good one for you, and all the magic tools you need are also ready."

What Li Yan was talking about was naturally about using the spiritual orifices of the blessed land to practice.

When practicing in seclusion, one inevitably needs someone to protect them, so the two of them first went to Chunyang Palace to get the instruments needed for building the building, and then returned to Chunyang Temple, taking Wang Daoxuan and Lu San away.

As for Sharifei and Yan Jiuling, they will stay in the temple.

The few of them first went down the North Peak, took a detour halfway up the mountain, and climbed another peak five miles to the north.

But here you can see undulating rock formations, lush pines and cypresses, flowing waterfalls, a stone chamber on the mountain, an archway built outside, and even a thatched hut where the guardians live.

This is the truly complete spiritual orifice of the cave!

The stone chamber has been renovated and is specially used for Taoist monks to meditate in seclusion. Unlike the one in Taibai Mountain, which is still undeveloped and very primitive.

Before entering, they saw a stone sheep statue standing at the entrance of the cave. Wang Daoxuan's eyes lit up immediately: "Could this be the Sheep Stone Chamber?"

"Yes."

Yu Fengzi smiled and said, "It is Yang Gong's stone chamber."

Seeing Li Yan's curiosity, Wang Daoxuan explained, "During the Warring States Period, the great monk Xiu Yang Gong practiced here, eating Polygonatum sibiricum and using vines as his bed. During the Western Han Dynasty, Emperor Jingdi invited him to preach in the court, but he was unwilling to go, so he turned into a stone sheep with the words 'Xiu Yang Gong Xie Tianzi' on his legs."

"This is it?"

"Of course not. This is a commemorative sculpture for future generations."

"This Xiuyang Gong is also the ancestor of the Yang family. His Taoist name is White Sheep Immortal. He is the author of the "Forbidden Mountain Seal" and the "Seventy Ways to Make Tiger, Leopard, Wolf and Bear Talismans". He is a great cultivator recorded in the "Biographies of Immortals"!"

After hearing this, Li Yan suddenly felt longing in his heart.

He had seen Mao Nu, and this Xiu Yang Gong was most likely real as well, and was able to perform transformation techniques. If it wasn't an illusion, he would be almost like an immortal.

Yu Fengzi smiled and said, "This spiritual orifice is one of the most famous even on Mount Hua, and it also has a name."

"Whenever a cultivator is practicing, if he has the chance, he can see lights like lamps on the cliffs of the mountain at night. There are three or five lights that flicker unsteadily. These lights are the famous Huashan Magic Lamps."

"This is also a sign. Fellow Taoists can count them at night. The more Huashan Magic Lamps that are lit, the greater the potential."

"Oh?"

Li Yan was even more surprised, "Why is this so?"

Yu Fengzi burst out laughing when he heard this: "Everyone says so. No one knows the reason, but this scene will indeed appear when the strong energy on the mountain gathers. This spiritual orifice is very popular."

"Thank you, Taoist Master."

After Li Yan expressed his gratitude again, Yu Fengzi left, leaving only the three of them.

Lu San, who was standing by, said in a muffled voice: "Hurry up and practice. We'll leave soon after we're done."

"Oh? What happened?"

Li Yan frowned slightly and asked quickly.

Brother Lu San doesn't like dealing with people and is usually silent, but if he speaks, there must be a reason.

Lu San stretched out his hand, and accompanied by the cry of an eagle, the falcon flapped its wings and landed on the leather arm cover, chirping several times in a row.

He listened attentively, then shook his head and said, "A lot of soldiers came down the mountain. I originally thought they were escorting the mages away, but they ran to the Tang Mausoleum outside Huayin City and dug out all the bodies we burned and buried, and are searching carefully around."

"Now they are blocked at the foot of Huashan Mountain. I am afraid they are here with bad intentions."

"Oh?"

Li Yan understood immediately after hearing this and sneered, "It seems that the lords of the Commanding General Office are still angry..."

The Commandery was responsible for the military guards in various places.

The nearby Tongguan is a strategic point for the three provinces of Shanxi, Shaanxi and Henan, and is also the gateway to Guanzhong. Therefore, the Tongguan Guarding Thousand Households there is quite powerful, with 3,000 soldiers stationed there.

The border of three provinces is a strategic military location. Without orders from above, no one would send troops out on their own. It seems that those people have already decided to take action.

The first thing they naturally did was to find evidence of the use of gunpowder. Although they had already made a mess of the place, there was nothing they could do if the other party insisted on framing them.

These old ruffians in the army were greedy and reckless, and it was not surprising that they did such things when they got carried away. After all, the Maitreya Sect was in chaos at the time, and these guys had killed innocent people to claim credit for their achievements.

All we can say is that we escaped reckoning at that time.

Li Yan thought for a moment, then quickly took out a pen and paper and wrote a letter, "Brother Lu, please give it to Sharifei."

Lu San nodded, and then an eagle cried, and the falcon flapped its wings and flew towards Wangxian Temple.

After a while, another letter came from the other side.

The person who replied was Yan Jiuling.

He decided to go down the mountain and return to Chang'an first to ask for an order from Li Siyuan, the governor of Shanzhou, to drive these people away.

Although this person is low-key, Sharifei still managed to find out his background.

Yan Jiuling's grandfather was a famous scholar in Bailu Academy. Although he has passed away long ago, some people still remember the friendship between master and apprentice. Li Siyuan, the governor of Shanzhou, is one of them.

Commander-in-Chief Tang Yang, seeing that things were not going well a few years ago, sided with the Li family. Regardless of whether this matter had anything to do with him or not, his words must have been of some use.

After seeing this, Wang Daoxuan nodded, stroked his beard and smiled, "This Master Yan has a blessed face and a righteous heart. He will surely achieve something in the future."

Li Yan nodded and said, "Of course we have to repay the favor. When we get to Yichang, we will go directly to his home to treat the disease."

After this matter was arranged, the three of them went into the cave to visit.

But it was empty inside, cleaned up neatly, surrounded by bluestones, with a stone platform in the center, forming a round sky and square earth pattern. Because the methods of building buildings for cultivation in different sects were different, Chunyang Palace did not randomly add any magic arrays, only a square stone altar, which became the altar after some arrangement.

After all the trouble, the sky was already dark.

Just like last time, Li Yan spread out yellow cloth, pasted yellow talismans all around, and then lit up twenty-four soul-guiding lamps in a circle according to the directions of the Earthly Branches.

The number of lotus lanterns has doubled compared to last time.

The difference is that this time he also bought a Yin-Yang Bagua bronze mirror, which is also a disposable magic weapon. It is not expensive, but it can help him stabilize the balance of Yin and Yang during practice.

After doing all this, Lu Sancai and Wang Daoxuan closed the stone door tightly. With a rumbling sound, the room suddenly became dark.

Li Yan didn't care. He sat cross-legged in meditation, adjusting his mind and putting himself in the best condition.

Before we knew it, midnight was approaching.

Li Yan suddenly opened his eyes, blew the fire stick, and lit all the lotus lamps one by one. A dim yellow light suddenly appeared in the dark cave.

He had already built a building, and he had been practicing the Northern Emperor Yinshan Method during this period, so he was already adept at activating the altar again.

He walked on the steps, one step for each star, with a high level of concentration, as if he was paying homage to gods and immortals, while at the same time he pinched the inverted lotus Luofeng Jue with his hands.

Soon, a cold and eerie smell rose from the ground, like a sharp sword stabbing at him. Li Yan dodged it, made a magic seal, and spat out water from his mouth.

Suddenly, the wind started to blow around them.

The lotus lantern flickered unsteadily, and the innate evil energy of the entire spiritual orifice connected with the altar, pouring in from all directions.

Li Yan sat cross-legged, practicing the Luo Feng Sutra to enter a state of meditation. He felt that the surroundings were getting darker and darker. Only the lotus lamp was protecting his mind and helping him to enter a state of meditation.

The surrounding scene changes again and enters the world of concentration and visualization.

The black fog below was surging like the sea, and the white mist above was swirling like clouds. A high black mountain rose from the dark sea, which was none other than the Visualization Luofeng Mountain.

On the Luofeng Mountain, there is an ancient temple where gods reside. This is the Luofeng Divine Que, also called the Yeguang Que, and below it is the Yin Sea.

During the previous several times of practicing Yinshan Method, Luofeng Mountain became higher and higher, showing its steepness, and the Louguan Temple also expanded a lot.

Li Yan slowly and steadily practiced the magic formula and felt it carefully.

Gradually, he became one with the spirit in the temple, and at the same time, he made hand gestures, first using the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches to move things on behalf of Heaven, and then he held his hands firmly to stabilize himself.

The surrounding space seemed to be under his control, and he used the evil energy from the outside world to continuously expand the scope of his visualization realm.

Rumble!
Before long, the black ocean of yin energy below expanded rapidly, like a surging wave, madly hitting Luofeng Mountain.

When you reach the second level, the key to cultivation is no longer to open yin and yang, but to make the sky one foot higher and the ground one foot lower, so that yin and yang can be more condensed.

Of course, the danger is also great. Under the impact of the sea of ​​yin energy, Luofeng Mountain seems likely to collapse at any time.

Li Yan did not dare to be negligent in the slightest and kept his mind focused.

Gradually, Luofeng Mountain began to stabilize and rose higher again bit by bit.

At the same time, at the top of the Shenque, the yin and yang changed again, and thick black and white fog began to surge and flow, as if something was gestating inside.

"Master, look quickly."

Outside the Lingqiao Cave in Yang Gong's stone chamber, Lu San, who was guarding the law, suddenly felt something and looked up.

Wang Daoxuan also quickly looked up and his eyes widened immediately.

Suddenly, a faint light appeared on the top of Baiyang Peak, wandering like a will-o'-the-wisp, but without any eerie feeling.

It was dim and looked more like someone was holding a lantern, floating up and down in the air, transforming into a magic lamp.

“It is indeed such a wonderful sight.”

Wang Daoxuan stroked his beard and smiled, his eyes full of inquiry.

After watching for a while, he couldn't help but shake his head and sighed: "The Xuanmen monks follow the laws of heaven and earth, but the avenue is infinitely mysterious and cannot be explored by human power."

"There are many things that even the people in the Xuanmen sect cannot understand, so they can only attribute them to the stories of immortals and gods, which sounds very mysterious. This Huashan Magic Lamp is probably one of them."

At this moment, another ray of light appeared.

"Two lamps are lit!" Lu San showed a childlike smile on his face. This kind of strange sight was also rare for him.

As he was speaking, another lamp lit up, and the three magic lamps were like fireflies, connected head to tail, circling left and right.

At the same time, two old Taoist priests were sitting cross-legged on the opposite mountain.

One of them was actually the abbot of Chunyang Palace, Jingxuzi.

"This boy is indeed extraordinary."

Jingxuzi smiled and said, "He has lit three lamps, which is not much different from ordinary orthodox disciples. I heard that he is practicing alone without any teacher to guide him. With such qualifications, he is not bad."

Then, he turned his head and said, "But that's all. Brother, you're probably overthinking it."

Next to him, sat an old man.

Even when sitting cross-legged, his back was straight and there was a sword-like gleam in his eyes, but he was too old to hide his aged look.

The old man said calmly: "A few days ago, I observed the sky at night and found a yin and yang energy under the mountain. Although it was weak, it was frightening."

"Later, there were immortal pine trees blooming on the mountain, which was a good omen. As expected, this man went up the mountain and saved Huashan from a disaster."

Jingxuzi burst out laughing: "Brother, your Qi-reading technique is world-famous. I admire you."

The old man glanced at him calmly and said, "Why bother saying these empty words?"

As he spoke, he sighed, his eyes becoming more tired, "I have been strong all my life. When I was young, I fought with swords and thought I was extraordinary. But after a hundred years, I still find myself trapped in the world."

"My Huashan Chunyang Palace may seem to be thriving, but the world is changing and humanity is changing. None of my disciples can stand alone. They must be disbanded as soon as possible, so that they can protect you for another hundred years."

After hearing this, Jingxuzi's eyes suddenly became anxious: "Senior Brother..."

Before he could finish his words, the old man waved his hand to stop him, shook his head and said, "I have made up my mind. I will do it while I still have a breath. If I hesitate, I am afraid that I will not even be able to achieve the state of liberation by then."

Jingxuzi was filled with reluctance, and turned his head to look at the opposite mountain, "Brother, perhaps you are wrong. Even if this boy has good fortune, it is probably limited. If something goes wrong..."

As soon as he finished speaking, his eyes widened.

I saw another light lit up on the opposite mountain.

It was as if some key was unlocked, and the magic lamps lit up one after another, until there were nine of them in total.

Nine flames gathered together, becoming noticeably brighter. They were connected head to tail, flying up and down, like a circling dragon.

"These... nine lamps?!"

Jingxuzi found it a little unbelievable.

The old man laughed: "Sure enough, he is just like me in the past. If nothing unexpected happens, he should have the blessing of the White Emperor. On Mount Hua, with his help, we will surely succeed in one fell swoop!"

"Remember, you are the only one who knows about this matter in Chunyang Palace. No matter whether you succeed or not, you must not vent your anger on others."

"Yes, senior brother."

Although Jingxuzi's eyes were filled with sadness, he had no choice but to agree with great reluctance.

And below, Li Yan also suddenly showed signs of abnormality.

Suddenly, a divine light shone in the cave, making the surroundings as bright as snow.

Li Yan was concentrating on meditation, so naturally he didn't notice it.

At the same time, on the outskirts of the Yin Qi ocean in his spiritual space, there was a vague human figure walking on the sea, moving very fast, like a stream of light.

"Whoosh",
Then he went directly into the clouds on the second floor...

　The third one will be later

　　
　
(End of this chapter)