Chapter 568 566 Looks Like a Human Being
"The king ordered to report and hand over the small worlds. I have three in Taiyi Dao. I brought these two to the court this time.
The other one is fixed in the back of Suling Mountain and cannot be carried.
We call these small worlds secret realms. Secret realms are large and small. Some are passed down from ancient times, and some have suddenly appeared in recent years. The secret realm in the back of Suling Mountain appeared in Chongqing in the 21st year."
Qingwei Zhenren took out two, one was a coffin and the other was a glass lamp.
Qingwei Zhenren introduced: "These two, one is suppressed in Jiulongkan of Suling Mountain, and the other is enshrined in the Patriarch Hall."
Ren Pingsheng stretched out his hand, and the coffin and the glass lamp flew into his palm.
The space in his palm seemed to be compressed. The two objects became miniature and floated on his palm.
The coffin was surrounded by black mist, and the senses gave people a feeling of evil spirit overflowing, thinking that it was not a good thing.
The glass lamp was shining brightly, and even under the sun, the halo was shining all around, and the air was filled with mist, like the ripples reflected from the water, with light and shadows floating.
"This coffin is so evil, like something from a horror movie I've seen."
The black clouds in the sky receded, and the sheriff turned into a black cat again, floating in the air, approaching the coffin and staring at it carefully.
The sheriff finally knew that the world in the movie was a virtual world woven through light and shadow.
"In this coffin, there is a secret realm. According to the records of my Taoist sect, there is a powerful zombie called 'Fengluan'.
It was sealed into this secret realm by the ancestors of Taiyi Dao a long, long time ago.
During the years of suppression in Jiulongkan, there were ancestors of Suling Mountain who entered this secret realm because of the lack of spiritual energy outside, but none of them could come out again."
Qingwei Zhenren introduced.
After talking about the coffin, he looked at the lamp in Ren Pingsheng's hand: "This lamp is a magic weapon in the ancestral hall. It has always been regarded as an ordinary magic weapon. But on the night seven years ago, this lamp suddenly burst into light. Every night from midnight to yin, when the moonlight is shrouded, the range covered by the light of the lamp is pulsating. Entering it will enter another secret realm.
This realm is like the Penglai Fairy Island described in Journey to the West. There are fairy grasses and fairy birds, fairy mountains and fairy people, and it is in the same vein as my Taiyi Dao. It is really a wonderful place for the immortals."
Listening to the introduction of Qingwei Zhenren, Ren Pingsheng glanced at him.
Such a wonderful place, Qingwei Zhenren was willing to give it to him, which made him a little unbelievable.
Qingwei Zhenren continued, "My king, this coffin is extremely dangerous inside. No one knows what the zombies inside are like now. It is not suitable to explore it.
This lamp can be explored. Perhaps it will provide an additional path for the king and the practitioners in the world."
Ren Pingsheng nodded, and he understood.
The secret Taoist tradition in the glass lamp comes from Taiyi Dao.
And Taiyi Dao is now eager to practice Taiyi Dao's skills. If the skills are spread, it doesn't matter. Anyone who practices Taiyi Dao's skills must understand and agree with Taiyi Dao's Taoist scriptures and concepts, so that they can better understand the skills and better fit the "Tao" it describes, so that they can truly achieve success in their practice.
By then, Taiyi Dao will sweep the world again, and the general trend will not be lost, and it will flourish vigorously.
This is actually a conspiracy of Taiyi Dao.
But Ren Pingsheng doesn't care about this conspiracy. Whether it is Taiyi Dao or Tianyi Dao, the skills of these Taoist traditions are particularly talent-oriented, and most people cannot practice them.
Ren Pingsheng knew very well what the foundation of Qi was.
"Xiao Wan, seal it up for now."
Ren Pingsheng handed the two secret realms to Xiao Wan.
"It's best to find a place with strong yang energy to suppress the coffin! This secret realm communicates with the outside world, and the 'Phoenix' inside may come out.
The guy who can make the ancestors use a secret realm to suppress him must be very powerful!"
Qingwei Zhenren said.
Xiao Wan nodded at him after hearing this.
"These small worlds have been discovered in recent times, some large and some small, but according to previous research and speculation, they are all cut off from our world.
They are like a fragment of the history of our world's civilization. Some are very old, and even the language and writing are no longer understandable.
Some are closer in time, and the only difference between them is some accent differences, and the writing is even more consistent and recognizable.
The reason for the existence of these secret realms is a mystery. I don't know if it was done by the great powers in the past, or if there is another hidden story."
Ren Pingsheng thought of the bronze door and the little man he found in the black box world, and he guessed more in his heart.
"It is said that in ancient times, there were immortals who could create the world. Perhaps these small worlds were created by these immortals."
Qingwei Zhenren speculated.
"In Suling Mountain, there are some miscellaneous notes that once recorded some things in ancient times. Although it is difficult to distinguish the authenticity over the years, it should be of some reference value.
After I go back, I will ask someone to send the rubbings to me."
"Okay."
Ren Pingsheng nodded.
This question cannot be solved by empty talk. If these things are sent to the Ancient Culture Research Institute of Qiguo University, they may be able to verify with some cultures in the small world and come up with some research results.
After taking a look at the sky, Ren Pingsheng no longer wasted time on other questions and asked, "The Taoist has practiced for more than a hundred years and studied countless Taoist scriptures. Do you know what state the Yuanshen is in?"
"There are three ways of practicing: refining essence into qi, refining qi into spirit, refining spirit into emptiness, and refining emptiness into Taoism. This is the process of realizing the heart of heaven with oneself, seeking the outside with the inside, realizing the inside with the outside, and integrating the inside and the outside.
And the Yuanshen is already in the stage of refining spirit into emptiness."
Qinghui Zhenren did not give a lengthy explanation, but simply described the process of Taoist practice.
But it is simple to say, in fact, every step is like climbing a ladder to heaven, and every stage is full of difficulties.
"What does it take to break into the Yuanshen?"
Ren Pingsheng asked again.
This time, Qinghui Zhenren could not help but be shocked.
Because the other party asked this step, it means that the other party should have touched this threshold.
And now he has just cultivated the Yang God, and is still far from the Yuanshen Dao!
"Is this the 'Great Heavenly Venerable' called by Tianyi Dao? Is he really a deposed immortal from heaven?"
Qinghui Zhenren couldn't help thinking again.
"I have never touched the Yuanshen Dao, so I have no right to comment on it. But I practiced according to the records in the scriptures, and understood that the Yuanshen is the connection and fusion of consciousness and spirit. In the experience of the world, I sought the 'true self' and made the true self a transcendent existence with a higher level of consciousness and cognition.
When consciousness gradually returns to its original nature and transcends individual obsessions and desires, it communicates with the universe, reaches a state of non-attachment, and enters the Yuanshen realm... "
In the palace, when Ren Pingsheng was chatting and discussing Taoism with Qingwei Taoist, in the north of the earth, the war was in full swing.
As winter passed, the glaciers melted, the chronic diseases were gone, the green trees sprouted, and all things came to spring.
This is true for nature, for animals waking up from hibernation, and for the people in the north who have suffered from the oppression and destruction of the Darug barbarians.
"What is Daddy doing?"
Huducheng County is located in Yuanzhou Province. Many people here are former Jingjun households. These people have been oppressed more by the Darug people. After two years, many of them have been destroyed beyond recognition.
In Baili Village, a girl with dark red skin and two ponytails on her head asked her father who was packing up the flatbed truck at home.
"Go to the front line and deliver food and supplies to the Qi army."
The man replied, "Go to the front line, the army will give you food and you can eat enough."
"Then I will go too."
The girl immediately stopped what she was doing.
"How do you manage the land at home?"
The man raised his head and frowned and said, "Now is the time to water it. You are going with me. This year's harvest will turn yellow!"
"It won't turn yellow. Uncle San is back. Just ask Uncle San and Aunt San for help with the three acres of land at home."
Their family actually has no land. They are tenants who rent the land of the landlord.
The two mu of thin land that the family originally had had had been snatched away by those damn barbarians!
This three mu of land, a corner outside the village that no one wanted, was leveled out by them and barely counted as land, but in fact it did not belong to them.
"That's fine."
The man thought for a while and said, "I heard that the county government issued a notice. The official from the south said that we will all be registered here and the land will be distributed uniformly according to the number of people. If there are acts of supporting the army, each person can get three to ten mu of land. You can go with me. When you get two certificates, your family can also get a few more mu of land."
After a simple tidying up, the door of the house was locked.
After being robbed by the barbarians, their family had long been torn apart, leaving only the father and daughter.
"Duck Egg, are you going to the transport team too?"
The same villager saw Duck Egg sitting on the cart and asked in surprise.
Women are rarely seen in the transport team.
First, women are not strong enough and are not suitable for such heavy physical labor.
Second, they have to take care of the family.
"I don't have many people at home, so I'm going to follow my father to make a living."
Yadan said.
"That's right."
The villagers said after hearing this.
The reason why the army needs these people is that the army is advancing too fast, and the speed of building railways and roads can't keep up. In many rugged places, the passability of cars is not as good as the carts in the hands of these ordinary people.
"Long..."
There was a deafening sound in the air, and Yadan looked up at the sky. A jet was flying low.
The silver wingspan reflected the dazzling light in the sun, which made Yadan fascinated.
She couldn't help but say, "Dad, the people of Qi are really amazing!"
The man couldn't help but smile when he heard it: "We will soon be Qi people too!"
"Yes, I heard from the military commander of Qi that as long as we complete the Qi household registration and enter the household register of Qi, we can get an ID card. Then we will be genuine, upright, and upright Qi people!"
The people from the same village heard it and immediately started an excited discussion.
They had already heard a thick layer of calluses in their ears about the rumors of Qi.
The people there were rich and prosperous, and the people didn't even eat rice, they just ate meat.
Eat three meals a day, eat all you can!
"Yesterday I heard on the radio that 12 more work carts were opened in the capital. I don't know what they are, but they say they can carry a lot of people..."
"My distant nephew fled to the south two years ago. I don't know where he is now and what kind of life he is living."
The people were discussing enthusiastically.
"Dad, how do you think my eldest brother is doing now?"
On the cart, Yadan suddenly said.
Since my eldest brother went to the south, he has lost contact with his family.
Now in this chaotic war, there are countless corpses of travelers on the road, casually falling to other places.
In order to prevent the corpse from turning into a corpse, the locals often smashed their skulls and buried them hastily on the spot when they found them.
Perhaps the biggest possibility is that my eldest brother was buried silently somewhere.
But the two of them tacitly did not say or think in this direction.
"Your elder brother must be enjoying life in the south now. When the world is settled, we will go to the south to find your elder brother."
The man bent over, pulled a cart, and walked on the road with his fellow villagers.
This thin man who had experienced endless suffering had high cheekbones, a pair of rough hands with cracked skin, and black lines crawling up the back of his hands.
His ribs were clearly visible, and even with clothes on, one could see how thin he was.
There were five boys in the family, and now only the eldest son was left, and he was the only hope for his survival.
"The main road is much easier to walk on."
"I don't know how it was built, the ground is so flat."
"I saw a few days ago that there was a steel truck that broke through the ground directly, and the cars behind it were pressed over."
After getting on the main road, the road suddenly became flat and wide, and the people pulling carts and pushing wheelbarrows felt much more relaxed.
"Beep beep beep~"
Amid a series of beeps, a group of motorcycles drove from behind, surpassing the transport team at lightning speed.
Looking at the motorcycle teams swarming in and whizzing away, the people couldn't help but be surprised again.
"These soldiers are so handsome!"
Yadan couldn't help but sigh.
The flowers are so dazzling.
The straight black military uniforms, the heroic military postures, and the upright bodies obtained by adequate nutrition and long-term exercise are so different from the people in the north. In the eyes of a rural girl like Yadan, it's like a group of world-class models breaking into a small town!
"Eat in front, then load the car. Today we have to pull the food and supplies across Gongxi Mountain."
Someone was directing the transport team.
When they arrived at a transfer station, the food piled up like a small mountain deeply shocked Yadan's heart.
The white rice was put into the pot for steaming, and the fragrant rice fragrance wafted out of the transfer station. Yadan couldn't help swallowing his saliva, looking at the big pots with envy and desire.
When they were arranged to line up for rice, Yadan, her father, and the villagers could not believe that such good white rice was for them, the cheap people!
When Yadan was ordered, she put down the broken bowl in her hand and took a clean stainless steel plate. Looking at the plate, which was so bright that she could see her face, she thought that even the mirrors she had seen in the landlords' houses were not as bright as this, let alone the rice bowls she had seen since she was a child!
In addition, the cook generously gave her a full plate of rice and a small bag of greasy pickled vegetable shreds.
Perhaps because she was a girl and too thin, he also gave her a handful of fried peanuts.
When she and her father carried the plates and went back to the front of their cart to eat, they did not eat as fast as they had imagined. For the first time in their lives, they felt like a human being. (End of this chapter)