Chapter 336: Li Yingqiong Seeks Immortality, Gu Yanwu Seeks Benevolence

Although Li Yingqiong is only in her teens, she is very opinionated. The red mole between her eyebrows makes her look particularly heroic.

This woman is one of the contemporary heroines of the "Shushan" world, the first among the younger generation of Emei, and the leader of the three heroes of Emei. She has a deep fortune and has experienced many wonderful encounters. She is the future inheritor of the Taoist tradition of Emei.

Cao Jie didn't dare to act recklessly and use some unconventional methods to fool her.

The sky was bright and clear, Cao Jie caught a ray of moonlight in his hand, the riverside was glittering with brilliant light, reflecting on the water surface, and the whole world seemed like a dream.

"This inheritance of the Treasure Moonlight King Buddha can control the moonlight, and the soul can fly thousands of miles away with the help of the moonlight. This is the fundamental law of Buddhism. If you practice it to perfection, you can ascend to become an immortal."

"hiss!"

Li Ning and Zhou Chun both took a deep breath: This is the legendary sword immortal! There is a sword immortal who is against the Qing Dynasty, why the hell am I still hesitating? Big things can be accomplished!

Li Yingqiong was also itching to watch, but in the end, he was possessed by a ghost and asked, "How lethal is this Buddhist inheritance?"

Cao Jie smiled and said, "The moonlight can be condensed into a flying sword. Its power is less than that of pure sword and thunder cultivation. However, the moonlight is Taiyin, so it is suitable for girls to practice."

As he spoke, the captured moonlight condensed into a seven-star sword in Cao Jie's hand, flew towards the river, and cut off half of the river.

"hiss!"

Li Ning and Zhou Chun took a deep breath again: This is the skills of a sword immortal!
"Brother Cao, can I learn the sword and thunder skills?"

Cao Jie withdrew his magical power. This clone did not have much talent for conceiving a god, and its divine consciousness recovered slowly, so it could not be wasted. He smiled and said, "You have a strong character and hate evil, and you speak your mind directly, so you are suitable for sword cultivation and thunder cultivation. But..."

Seeing Cao Jie's embarrassment, Li Yingqiong said anxiously: "Brother Cao, I can become your disciple."

"It's not a question of becoming a disciple. This Treasure Moonlight King is a skill I discovered by chance. I can pass it on to anyone I want. Although I also know the Thunder Technique, it was taught by an elder. If you want to learn, kowtow three times to Dongfang and become his registered disciple!"

"May I ask this elder's name?"

"You can call him Master Luo."

"Disciple Li Yingqiong pays homage to Master Luo Zhenren."

After kowtowed three times, Master Luo, who was far away in another world, suddenly felt that a cause and effect was being imposed on him.

He counted again and again with his fingers, but found nothing.

…………

Mount Emei in Sichuan is a famous scenic spot in Shu.

People in the past said that the mountains and rivers in Western Sichuan are of great beauty, and Mount Emei is the best. This statement is indeed true.

The divine authority is the highest here, and there are no less than hundreds of temples and monasteries on the mountain. Every year, devout believers come from thousands of miles away to make pilgrimages. In addition, the mountains are high and the waters are beautiful, with peaks overlapping and a variety of scenery. There are quite a few people who come here just to enjoy the scenery.

The scenery of the back mountain is particularly mysterious. There are many dragons and snakes in the deep mountains and swamps, and the deep forests and valleys are mostly the habitats of tigers, leopards, jackals and wolves. People who visit the back mountain often never return. Most people speculate that some say they were eaten by tigers, wolves and demons, while others say they were saved by immortals and Buddhas. There are many different opinions and no consensus.

After all, human beings are made of flesh and blood, and eight out of ten of them have weak wills. Because of the lessons learned from the past, people who want to visit the back mountain have gradually become hesitant. This has benefited those masters and extraordinary people who live in peace in the back mountain, who can avoid many worldly troubles and enjoy the tranquility of the sacred mountain alone.

Cao Jie and his party came to the hill where Zhou Chun lived in seclusion.

Brothers Li Ning and Zhou Chun had already made up their minds to fight against the Qing Dynasty, but at their age, they would not act as rashly as they did when they were young.

If I don’t take action, then it’s fine. But if I do take action, I will give Yaoqing a fatal blow.

Cao Jie and his little tail Li Yingqiong stood on the top of the mountain, looking out over the surrounding mountains, towering ancient trees, and everywhere on the mountain. Mount Emei is a blessed land of immortals, with beautiful peaks and ridges, and mysterious caves and valleys. The mountain behind it is even more of a fairyland within a fairyland.

Unfortunately, the legendary ancestral home of the Emei Sect was shrouded in a large formation, invisible to the naked eye and undetectable with divine thoughts.

At this time of year, although it is spring and flowers are blooming at the foot of the mountain, the mountain top is still very cold with a light snowfall.

Decorated by the snow, looking down from the sky, it is all white and the snowy scenery is magnificent.

The ground in the south of the mountain is warm, and there are many plum blossoms. They are opening their petals and blooming. They can be seen slanting along the cliff and the water, blooming in the cold, and their wonderful fragrance can be smelled from time to time.

The empty mountain is silent and spotless, with kingfishers chirping and other colorful birds bathing in the snow, flying back and forth against the cold, singing and jumping among the flowers and trees, their colorful feathers and flowers shining against each other.

The more Cao Jie strolled through the scenery, the more he felt that it was beautiful and pure.

He calculated with the help of his fingers that the sword fighting plot in Ciyu Temple would begin around the twelfth month of the second half of this year, and both the righteous and unorthodox sects, demons and monsters would appear on the stage one by one.

The plot develops extremely compactly. In just a few years, Li Yingqiong is able to reach a height that even the older generation of practitioners cannot reach.

'The Golden Court Jade Pillars of Ziyun Palace, the treasures of Lianshan in Yue'er Island, the golden boat of Guangchengzi in Yuanjiang, the treasures of Lingcui Peak in Ningbi Cliff, the ancient treasures in front of Qiaoling, the treasure house of Baixitan in Minshan Mountain, the treasures of the Saint Lady in Huanbo Pool, the treasure house of Daxiong in Kongtong Mountain, the treasures of Ai Zhenzi in Jinshi Gorge...'

Cao Jie counted several treasure locations in his mind, but he was not tempted at all, and not even a single wave of emotion in his heart.

'In the world of Shushan, I don't like ordinary magic weapons. Most of the ones I like have causes and effects. It's easy to get them, but the follow-up is very troublesome.

Guangchengzi planned so many good deeds, it is best not to touch the magic weapon he left behind... Although Changmei Zhenren also ascended, he also calculated everything clearly. Even if I am a person from outside the realm, and I have the talent of a demon star to turn the world upside down, I can't transcend the three realms after all, and I am also in this cause and effect...

Those refining materials without cause and effect can be calculated... the mysterious pearl of the green-robed ancestor, the fire spirit pearl of the thousand-year-old spider, the jade silkworm condensed from the ten-thousand-year-old Yin ice energy in the Mangcang Mountain... Although they are all within Changmei's calculations, it is not impossible. After all, it depends on whose skills and strength are stronger...'

In the world of Shushan, the web of cause and effect is too dense, and it is difficult to get involved personally.

They could only secretly promote anti-Qing movement and gather the good fortune of the world belonging to the Great Wei.

As for teaching Li Yingqiong the Tiangang Five Thunders Method in the name of Luo Zhenren, this is just poaching from Emei.

If you practice our method, you become our person.

"Yingqiong."

"exist."

"I will wait for Master Luo to teach you the Heavenly Gang Five Thunder Method. This is the Taoist Pure Yang Thunder Method. How much you can understand depends on your understanding."

Li Yingqiong's eyes showed a sharp look, she took a deep breath, and said in a tender voice: "Brother Cao, I will definitely study hard."

Cao Jie looked at the sky. The spring rain was about to come and half of the sky was dark.

"Thunder comes!"

Without chanting any spell or drawing any thunder talisman, Cao Jie made a move towards the thundercloud, and a flash of light appeared in the sky.

A sudden thunderclap sounded out of nowhere!

Destroy evil, slay demons, and conquer monsters!

A huge and deep dark vortex rotated rapidly in the sky, lightning flashed and thunderous, and the wind howled.

In the sky above, a terrifying lightning bolt as thick as a bucket suddenly appeared, striking down with a tearing blue-white light! !
"ah……"

Li Yingqiong is an extrovert. She has been with Li Ning for more than ten years since she was born. She has seen everything, but this scene frightened her.

That's Thunder!

A terrifying electric current erupted in the sky above. It was blue-white in color and was at least twenty to thirty meters long!
It was just like an extremely thick and ferocious lightning snake!

"go……"

A huge rock on the cliff was instantly completely submerged in the terrifying lightning! !
"boom!"

The gravel exploded and the lightning was still flashing. After flashing for five or six seconds, it reluctantly dissipated slowly, and a faint, strange and fresh scent immediately filled the air.

"This is the magical power, this is the magical power I want to learn...Brother Cao, I want to learn this thunder method..."

"Don't worry, I have a few words to tell you. Although you are a registered disciple of Master Luo, you are not prohibited from joining other sects. However, you must not forget to practice the thunder method, which must be your life-long skill."

"Disciple will remember this!" "Okay..."

"Don't resist, let go of your mind..."

In an instant, Cao Jie raised his palm and placed it on Li Yingqiong's brow, and sent the practice method of Tiangang Five Thunders Orthodox Method into her sea of ​​consciousness between her brows.

This is what Buddhism calls enlightenment.

Li Yingqiong's black hair was like a waterfall, and her eyes were wide open. There seemed to be electricity in her eyes, which made her sharp eyes even more full of murderous aura.

The spring rain fell continuously and thunder appeared from time to time.

Li Yingqiong opened her eyes and saw her father Li Ning sitting in front of the bed.

"father……"

"You're awake. Brother Cao sent you back and said he taught you a Taoist magic..." Li Ning looked at his daughter, hesitant to speak, with a serious expression.

Li Yingqiong was a smart person. As soon as she saw her father's expression, she knew what must have happened.

"Where is Brother Cao?"

"Brother Cao..." Li Ning opened his mouth and said, "He left and said he wanted to travel around the world. I'll let you practice well... Yingqiong, I'll teach you swordsmanship tomorrow..."

"Brother Cao... is gone..."

……

Cao Jie turned around and glanced at the mist-shrouded Mount Emei.

At the same time, on the Ningbi Cliff of Mount Emei, a tall monk with a red face and white eyebrows was thinking deeply.

He counted with his fingers, but found nothing unusual.

"Li Yingqiong is not showing any abnormalities. That person is also practicing the fundamental principles of Taoism and Buddhism. Although I don't know who his master is, his magical power is righteous and peaceful, and he is a person of the right path. Am I really worrying too much?"

Cao Jie left Shuzhong because the people of Emei started to pay attention to him and he had to stay away.

It’s just right. I will continue to look for people who can help in the anti-Qing movement.

Just in front of the Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum, Cao Jie saw a middle-aged man wearing a wide turban and full of ancient charm walking in.

The man had a strange appearance, with two extremely thick black eyebrows that went straight into his temples. He looked no more than fifty years old, but his expression was as wise as that of a man in his seventies or eighties who had seen through everything.

Looking more closely, he was an old scholar who had shaved his head and was only wearing a turban, with his rat-tail bun not showing.

Confucianism has a sense of righteousness, which Cao Jie is very familiar with. This old scholar who shaved his head and changed his clothes does have some righteousness in his heart.

Naturally, it attracted Cao Jie's attention.

That kind of awe seems to reach the will of heaven. This is still the power released by the heart, without practicing Confucian magic.

If one cultivates the magical powers of Confucianism and has the support of the Divine Dynasty, he will undoubtedly become a great Confucian scholar.

Cao Jie still had some impression of the three great scholars in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. Seeing this upright old scholar who had shaved his head and changed his clothes, Cao Jie hesitated again.

Could it be one of those three?
"Suzhen, go check on that old scholar. I'll be waiting for you in the back hills!"

"Yes!"

Soon, Bai Suzhen led the old scholar to the back hill and said, "Master, this is Mr. Tinglin!"

It is very simple for a cultivator to invite an old scholar from the mortal world to meet him. He just needs to show off his skills.

When Bai Suzhen showed her skills, the old scholar knew in his heart that the person before him was a true practitioner.

According to what Bai Suzhen said, the person he wanted to meet was an old senior, an immortal. However, he didn't expect that when they met, he turned out to be a young man, and... he didn't shave his head!

No shaving?!
How enviable!
The old scholar was slightly surprised, bowed, and said, "Gu Tinglin, hello... Senior!"

Because I didn’t know what to address him, I ended up calling him “senior”.

"Gu Tinglin?"

Cao Jie raised his eyebrows, secretly recalling in his heart, a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind: "Are you Gu Yanwu?"

The old scholar smiled bitterly and nodded: "That's right! I wonder why you called me here, senior?"

Cao Jie looked at the skinny and strange old scholar seriously and said, "You are the first scholar with a noble character that I have met in Jiuzhou, so I came to meet you. I have heard that there are three great scholars in the world, Gu Yanwu, Huang Zongxi, and Wang Fuzhi. It is fate that I meet you here."

"I dare not. I am just a descendant of a fallen nation. I have read a few books. How can I call myself a great scholar? Moreover, senior, look at my rat-tailed appearance. I use a headscarf to cover my shame all day long. I am ashamed of my ancestors! I will not have the face to meet my ancestors after death. I am not worthy of being a scholar... May I ask, now the world is ruled by foreign races, and all Han people are slaves. The country is broken and the mountains and rivers are shattered. The world is about to perish. I wonder how the world of immortal cultivation is doing?"

Gu Yanwu looked at Cao Jie with eager eyes.

"Those righteous people in the cultivation world all say that immortals and mortals are separated, and they are afraid that the mundane world will affect their ascension. They are nothing but cowards!"

Gu Yanwu felt a little depressed. If the immortal cultivation world cared about the dynasty disputes in the human world, they would have done so long ago. Why would they wait until now?

Cao Jie smiled and said, "You said that in this world, the demon Qing has only 500,000 people, and my great China has nearly 50 million people. How could the demon Qing take over the world?"

"There are only so many traitors! If it weren't for Hong Chengchou, Wu Sangui, Shang Kexi, Fan Wencheng, Geng Jingzhong, Kong Youde, and Zu Dashou, how could this great country be stolen by the Qing people?"

Cao Jie continued to ask: "Is there no problem with the civil and military officials in the court?"

Gu Yanwu frowned, "The Liaodong generals nurtured the enemy and made the evil Qing Dynasty powerful. The internal strife and internal friction within the court led to the fall of the Ming Dynasty. The world fell into the hands of the Qing Dynasty, and we scholars are half responsible. Alas! If the ancients saw what is happening before us, I wonder what they would feel in the afterlife!"

"Then do you still have the ambition to fight against the Qing Dynasty?"

Gu Yanwu shook his head: "Between the destruction of the country and the destruction of the world, I feel that there are more important things waiting for me to do."

"To establish a mind for heaven and earth, to establish a destiny for the people, to carry on the lost knowledge of the past sages, and to bring peace to the world for all eternity?"

"I am so embarrassed that I dare not mention Hengqu's four words. But compared with the morality of the world, what is personal honor and disgrace?"

The look in Gu Yanwu's eyes became determined, it was the will to save the people of the world.

Cao Jie understood the truth in his heart, the so-called destruction of a country and the destruction of the world: the destruction of a country is the change of dynasties, which is the law of nature and the business of emperors and ministers. The destruction of the world is the decline of morality and the subversion of ethics, to the point of leading beasts to eat people, and even people will eat each other.

In fact, it means going from Chinese to barbarians, which is something he cannot accept.

What the Qing Dynasty is doing now is "Chinese but barbaric"!
In order to avoid this fate of the demise of the country, people with lofty ideals must fight back. How to fight back? Gu Yanwu was quite pragmatic and agreed to endure the humiliation for a while. For the sake of a man's ambition, sacrificing some small details is acceptable.

For example, shaving your hair!

This well-read scholar emphasized that one should keep a useful body, so that one can live a good life. Although he had to risk his life to keep his hair for many years at the beginning, after thinking this through, Gu Yanwu shaved his head without hesitation.

He no longer sought to overthrow the Qing Dynasty, because the evil Qing Dynasty was already a foregone conclusion. He could not do it with his own strength, and he did not think that anyone else in the world could do it. Therefore, he turned to saving China in a roundabout way, so as not to let China's moral ethics fall into the hands of the evil Qing Dynasty...

Maybe, he did!
Cao Jie smiled at the great scholar and tempted him, "Come with me to cultivate immortality, are you willing?"

"This……"

Gu Yanwu took a deep breath and shook his head, saying, "I once said that every citizen has a share of responsibility for the fate of a country. Now that the country is doomed, the world is doomed too. How can I retreat to the mountains and save myself?"

"I promise you immortality, but you don't want it? But you have to know that immortality is hard to come by! If you miss it, you'll miss it in this life."

"I don't want to!"

Gu Yanwu said it with absolute certainty.

(End of this chapter)