vstars Chapter 732: Suzaku Sacrifice, only east wind is missing
Chapter 732: Suzaku Sacrifice, only east wind is missing
Dugu Lou did not say where he was going, but went north all the way, and happened to be on the same road as Li Changxiao. The two of them rarely talked on the road, and Dugu Lou walked in front alone, braving the cold wind, and every step was extremely difficult. Li Changxiao was about 70 feet behind him, following his footprints.
When they reached the depths of a snowy mountain, Dugu Lou's beard had turned white from the cold. Suddenly one day, he stopped, showing a satisfied look, and then sat cross-legged on the ground, chanting profound Buddhist teachings.
His body was hunched, swaying in the wind and snow, but he was like a pine tree facing the wind, never falling. The Buddhist sound became smaller and smaller, and when Li Changxiao walked to his side, he could no longer hear it. He sniffed his breath and was shocked to find that this Buddhist disciple had passed away in the wind and snow.
The cold wind is biting.
Li Changxiao knew that Dugu Lou had no intention of living for long, but he didn't know that he would die so suddenly. After Dugu Lou died, the expression on his face was half happy, half sad, and half pitying, which was really complicated.
With a sweep of his spiritual sense, he discovered that there was a group of dead snow ants sitting under Dugu Lou. This type of snow ant is a unique product of the polar region, living between ice and snow. Its entire body is black and red, and it likes to eat carrion.
Li Changxiao didn't know whether Dugulou's death by sitting on snow ants was a coincidence or intentional. Dugulou died suddenly, but naturally. He started from Washe Village, crossed the swamps and mountains of the Green Domain, walked in the snow, and died in the snow. Li Changxiao pondered for a moment, walked around Dugulou's body, and continued on his way.
Dugu Lou's road has come to an end here, but Li Changxiao's road is far from over. He can't stop, and he won't stop. Li Changxiao braved the wind and snow, took out the mountain and sea random notes in his arms, and wrote down everything he saw and heard in recent days.
In the howling cold wind, he turned around and saw that the great monk of that generation, who had boundless Buddhist teachings, was covered in snow and frost, with his eyes looking north. He sat on the ground and died suddenly, but only a few snow ants died while sitting on it.
Li Changxiao thought to himself, "What exactly is his path? What is the step I have not yet realized?" Looking at the corpse from afar, Li Changxiao vaguely understood something, but he could not explain why. In the end, he walked farther and farther away and disappeared at the end of the wind and snow.
Long after he left.
Several people in black robes followed the footprints. The snow and wind were so strong that the footprints should not last long. Li Changxiao's footprints had long been worn away by the snow and wind, but Dugu Lou's footprints were still clearly visible.
When the black-robed men saw Dugu Lou, they were all delighted. They quickly walked to Dugu Lou's side, and after confirming that he was dead, they all cheered, "Suzaku sacrifice, just waiting for the east wind."
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The polar regions are sparsely populated, and all you can see is ice and snow. The plum blossom that Li Changxiao picked and inserted it into the scabbard stood proudly in the snow, blooming in the wind, and was truly beautiful.
Li Changxiao teased Meihua, starting from the inn, and followed Mei Sanniang's footsteps all the way to the extreme area. At this moment, with the raging wind and snow, Li Changxiao sighed softly. When the cold wind scraped his skin, he could vaguely feel the bleakness left in the air.
He discovered a palace.
The spiritual energy was exhausted, and countless forces disbanded, and the Snow Sect in the Extreme Region was no exception. The name of the Snow Sect was well-known, and it was deeply involved with the Dao Sect.
Tang Shen, the second in command of the Snow Sect, is not only the disciple of Zhang Kuiyi, the former leader of the Dao Sect, but also the leader of the White Tiger Altar of the Extreme Evil Sect. In addition, the Venerable Fengxue, who was discovered by Li Changxiao before, also came from the Snow Sect and was an elder of the Snow Sect.
Li Changxiao had been involved with the Snow Sect without realizing it. At this moment, after crossing the iceberg and seeing the Snow Sect ruins, he walked in naturally.
The remains of the Snow Sect are vast and boundless, like a fairyland standing in the snow, majestically towering. The buildings are all grayish white. Even though they have been abandoned for nearly a thousand years, the solemn and murderous aura can still drive away those with shallow Taoism skills.
Li Changxiao stepped into the place and saw a footprint, which was obviously from Mei Sanniang. She left the footprint intentionally, probably to tell someone that she had been here before.
Li Changxiao held a long sword in his hand, and released his spiritual awareness to several feet around him. Every inch of the land he passed by could not escape his eyes. All he saw was a ruined building in the wind and snow.
As we went deeper, our spiritual sense was no longer useful. The building material had been changed to "spiritual piercing stone", and forcing our spiritual sense to explore would hurt our mind. It would be better to observe with our eyes.
We spent three days exploring the ruins.
Li Changxiao gained a lot. Some of the Xue Sect's books on magic and insights were put into his pocket, and he would study them carefully when he had free time in the future. Some of them he just glanced over to leave an impression in his mind.
Three more days passed like this.
In the ruins of the Xuezong, there are more and more traces of Mei Sanniang. Li Changxiao follows the traces to find her, picking up the remaining dream fragments along the way, and gradually finds out. The woman who is known for her coquettishness also changed her usual playful mood when she walked here. There are also thousands of emotions changing in her heart.
In a deep bedroom.
Li Changxiao found a portrait. The person in the painting looked 70% similar to Mei Sanniang. Especially her eyebrows and eyes, but judging from the temperament in the painting, the person in the painting was gentle and virtuous. Not Mei Sanniang's fiery and unrestrained personality, so it was obvious that they were not the same person.
Behind the portrait, Li Changxiao found a notebook. He opened it and a long-ago event gradually came to his mind.
Zhang Kuiyi, the former leader of the Dao Sect, has a disciple named Mu Chengfeng, who is Su Qianqiu's senior brother. The path he walks is called the Love Dream Path, which is rarely walked by people in the world. Only people with the most passionate and natural emotions can have the possibility of stepping on this path. In ancient times, it was regarded as a kind of magic path. Indulging in passion is like a demon, indulging in lust is like a demon.
Mu Chengfeng was in the Dao Sect, so he couldn't take this path. Why did he take this path? There must be something strange. But there was no record in the notes, so Li Changxiao didn't pursue it and just read on.
The Way of Love and Dream, as the name suggests, is related to "love" and "dream". It is about building a dream lover in your heart. The deeper your love for him/her, the deeper your Taoism will be.
It was fine when he first started, but as his practice became more profound, Mu Chengfeng's love became more and more crazy. In the end, he left the Taoist sect and traveled around the world to find the trace of his beloved.
But that book was an illusion, how could it be found? So Mu Chengfeng became more and more crazy, a mad man who was awake, full of love, but with nowhere to vent, he could only record it in his notebook.
Seeing this, Li Changxiao was stunned. This dream book has some similarities with his own miscellaneous notes on mountains and seas.
Perhaps all lonely people are like this.