manynovel Chapter 273 Spring Breeze and Green Tomb
Chapter 273 Spring Breeze and Green Tomb
Chapter 273 Spring Breeze and Green Tomb
A strange ceiling, strange floor tiles. Jiang Wen rubbed his eyes and woke up from the eerie Shengzhen Cave again. He greeted his two roommates naturally.
The cave was dark and damp. On the left was a thousand-year-old boat coffin carved out of nanmu wood. The worm-eaten and leaky wooden boards were full of air leaks. There were milky white mold spots on the surface of the coffin, but he could not see clearly what was inside the coffin. He always felt like someone was grinning at him from inside, but when he thought about it carefully, there were only some intact remains in the coffin and pottery outside.
On his right hand side was also a stone coffin that was old and had blurred carvings. He could faintly see a relief of a Mani Buddha smiling at him strangely, as if mocking his arrogance - folklore said that the "rainbow bridge board" of the ship coffin could "eliminate stomach pain, avoid fire evil, and expel evil spirits", but Jiang Wen now only felt stomach pain and inflammation, which was very strange.
Since the day Hong Wendi and Xiao Shitou came down the mountain, Jiang Wen has tried to fall asleep here many times, hoping to achieve the achievement of ghost communication with the Little Ming King in the bluestone coffin as the Red Lotus Mother and the others said.
But after three or four days, Jiang Wen felt that apart from the sharp improvement in sleep quality and increasingly obvious rheumatic symptoms, other effects were completely invisible. Even though he practiced the Wudang Nine Yang Gong, Shaolin Nine Yang Gong, Emei Nine Yang Gong, Nine Yang Magic Art, Pure Yang Wuji Gong, Holy Fire Order Magic Art, and the Great Shift of the Universe in turn, he practiced them again and again, until sparks were almost coming out of his mouth, but he still could not get in touch with the Little Ming King.
The Red Lotus Holy Mother, who had had successful experience, was also helpless about this matter. They only knew that among those in the Mingzun Sect who had practiced the "Holy Fire Kung Fu", there were always some saints who could sense the little Ming King in the coffin. They sensed a little light in the misty dream, and their bodies first felt as if they were in a pool of cold water, and then they felt an extremely intense heat approaching, instantly igniting a flame in their dantian, and from then on they were able to pass on this extremely profound internal Kung Fu method.
Jiang Wen has always believed that the key to making Little Ming Wang enter his dream lies in the true energy and state of mind that share the same origin.
But a state of mind is something that can only be encountered by chance, and the "Holy Fire Power" is extremely strange and is naturally incompatible with Hanshan's internal energy. He can't just treat himself as a Gu jar and throw all kinds of demons and monsters in to try, right?
Jiang Wen looked at the Mani Pearl in his hand, which was emitting a faint glow. It seemed that only when encountering a Xiyi event would the pearl reveal its true bright form that illuminated the four continents of Mount Sumeru. Now, there was nothing unusual at all.
So Jiang Wen could only suppress the urge to open the coffin and examine the body, and returned to Tongtian Rock to start a new busy day.
On the scenic Tongtian Rock, a tall horse was running around with its hooves up. When it saw Jiang Wen coming, it rushed forward and snorted affectionately. Fortunately, Jiang Wen reacted quickly and avoided the unknown liquid splashing from the horse's mouth and nose. He also pulled a handful of grass from the roadside to temporarily send it away.
Old Ye, the groom who had not been seen for a long time, was chopping wood and making a stove under a pine tree, diligently doing his duties during the time he was missing. In the open space at the entrance of the main hall, four big white fat men were squatting in a mess, posing in strange postures, acting out the stone lions in their minds.
They were either standing upside down or squatting sideways, or sitting cross-legged or glaring, keeping their postures fixed, unaware of their bare chests in the cold wind. But once no one was paying attention to them, they would grab their hair out of boredom and try to lift themselves up with their hands. For a moment, they were like a shining crowd of stars.
Seeing Jiang Wen coming down from the back mountain, the five of them smiled and remained silent, not daring to say much, and all looked at him with understanding, trust, respect and blessings. From Jiang Wen's expression, they could tell that today's attempt was still not smooth.
The groom Lao Ye and the four stone lions who had disappeared for a while actually had no other choice but to go on a escort mission with the Fuwei Escort Agency some time ago.
When Jiang Wen left, he basically did not leave any property behind, and Old Ye did not expect the stone lions to be so greedy. The income from his roadside teahouse was simply a drop in the bucket. In addition, Jiang Wen had been away for such a long time without a sound, so it was no wonder that Old Ye could only take the valuable belongings of the sect, lead a horse and four stone lions, and start the business of escorting and delivering goods again.
Although the industry of escorts and porters is highly competitive in times of chaos, with countless bandits, refugees and defeated soldiers posing potential dangers, the four stone lions of the Wuyi School are by no means vegetarians.
They were all invulnerable to swords and guns, extremely strong, with extremely simple minds and weak legal awareness. They only listened to the orders of the groom, Lao Ye, because of Jiang Wen's orders. Every time they heard the order to beat someone up, they would rush up screaming and beat the criminals to pieces. Over time, in the eyes of the robbers on the road, even their silly smiles were a bit evil, and no one dared to provoke them anymore.
Considering that Sect Leader Jiang was indeed negligent in this matter, and that the groom Old Ye had paid up all the sect funds after returning, Jiang Wen let the matter go and asked them to return to their posts as soon as possible and make contributions to the Wuyi Sect's cause.
After Sect Leader Jiang finished talking cordially and amicably with the servants of Wuyi Sect, he turned around and ran into the Red Lotus Mother, the guest elder and visiting professor of Wuyi Sect, who was taking a stroll along the mountain road with six plump and slender ladies.
Over time, they seemed to have gradually adapted to the leisurely life in Xiamei Town. Several of them set out from the town early in the morning, and came to the Great King Peak like an outing in the early morning, and left quietly until night fell, as if they had found the meaning of their lives in doing nothing. However, this also led to many scoundrels from the town coming to the town. They would wait by the Jiuqu River every day and look forward to seeing the real face of the Great King Peak. It was not until the Six Ding Goddesses and the stone lions took action one after another, causing many seriously injured patients to appear in the town's clinic, that this trend finally subsided.
But Jiang Wen was too embarrassed to drive away these women who had caused trouble to Dawang Peak, because the Red Lotus Mother had recently used her money power again and invited more than a dozen musicians from opera troupes that had worked with Jiang Wen in Guangzhou City - this made Jiang Wen, who already had a piece of music score in his hand, very excited and ready to shine again at the founding ceremony of the Wuyi School!
After hearing Jiang Wen talk about his failure to enter the dream again, the Red Lotus Mother had no choice but to say that she was powerless.
The "Holy Fire Power" was originally the secret of the Mingzun Sect, but after suffering a severe blow more than ten years ago, the Mingzun Sect did not intend to give it a try. Relying on the stone coffin of the Little Ming King, it quickly created a group of masters in the sect.
However, this plan soon fell through.
Among the martial arts elites selected from all branches of the sect, only Ling Shuanghua, who escaped death, was fortunate enough to receive the ghostly dream instruction from the blue stone coffin and truly learned the "Holy Fire Kung Fu". Most of the saints from other branches learned it incompletely and were unable to bear the heavy burden. Next on the list, only the Six Ding Goddesses had outstanding qualifications and were able to learn the basics with the help of the Red Lotus Mother's further teaching, but they were still unable to take on the heavy responsibility and had to rely on the "Jade Girl's Anti-Sealing Technique" to keep up appearances.
In other words, if the Mingzun Sect had mastered an effective method, it would not have suffered the loss of talent after the death of the Holy Child Hongyang, with only two or three kittens left in the entire sect. When Sect Leader Jiang heard this, he became even more jealous of the Little Ming King who passed the throne to daughters and not sons, and the idea of opening the coffin for an autopsy arose again.
The Red Lotus Mother was actually very puzzled by Jiang Wen’s strange behavior.
In her opinion, Jiang Wen's martial arts have reached the pinnacle and he has mastered the art of heaven and earth. There is no need for him to touch this martial art with great flaws. Even if Jiang Wen is genuinely curious about it, he can discuss it with her. Why does he have to go and hang out with Gu Ju?
The youngest of the Six Ding Goddesses once speculated that Jiang Wen might have wanted to learn this martial art for several of his disciples rather than for himself, but the Red Lotus Mother quickly denied this speculation.
Putting aside the many directions of martial arts training, which is not limited to internal strength, just look at the several disciples under Jiang Wen, each of them is vigorous and powerful, and immeasurable. Even the laziest Fu Ningdie actually possesses the power of "Six Yang Converging at the Top". It doesn't seem like the Wuyi School would lack people with a certain martial art.
What she couldn't understand the most was why Jiang Wen didn't seize the time to teach and guide, but instead dismissed the promising disciples and sent them out to do some completely useless things - if her Mingzun Sect could have such rising talents, no, even if there was only one of these disciples, she wouldn't have to worry so much.
Jiang Wen's answer to this question was very straightforward.
"That's because you haven't mastered the trick: the secret to raising fish is to change the fish frequently, and the secret to teaching apprentices is to change apprentices frequently!"
Jiang Wen told the Red Lotus Mother that the Wuyi Sect was very different from the Mingzun Sect, and the biggest difference was the distinction between a sect and a religion.
Regardless of whether the Mingzun Sect has any elements that can mislead people, its existence itself is to continue a certain belief. Therefore, while pursuing spiritual things, it relies more on material things. It's just that such needs are too abstract. The reason why the Red Lotus Mother can't find the person she is looking for is because she can't clearly describe the person's appearance, quality and character.
The significance of the Wuyi School's existence is undoubtedly to recruit disciples to teach and impart knowledge, and the master-disciple relationship and ideological inheritance are even more important. Since the disciples are carefully selected by him, he must spend time to cultivate them into talents. Otherwise, they will live in the mountains and ignore worldly affairs. Once they go out into the world, they will be deceived and confused. No matter how high their martial arts skills are, they will only be as good as Gui Xinshu and his wife, and they will not be able to discredit Jiang Wen.
According to Jiang Wen's teaching philosophy, it is impossible to give several of his disciples a complete nine-year compulsory education, so the first step is to "establish moral character based on the Taoism of the Song Dynasty, and engage in worldly affairs with the elegance of the Jin Dynasty."
Although the Confucian scholars of the Song Dynasty were pedantic and old-fashioned, they already had the rudiments of following the principles of nature and investigating things to gain knowledge, so they were not afraid to move forward when faced with Xi Yi; although the Jin Dynasty was unrestrained, it contained a spirit of being unsage and lawless and daring to break through barriers, so they were not restrained when faced with the world.
One who possesses both qualities and compliments each other, does not compromise on moral bottom line and is open-minded in his attitude towards life, is considered a barely qualified disciple in Jiang Wen's eyes and has the qualifications to travel the world.
What he feared most was that his disciples would go with the flow in their conduct and be confined by prejudices. Then, they would never be able to understand the deeper spiritual core of the Wuyi School.
As for this deeper spiritual core, even Jiang Wen himself is constantly learning and comprehending it. He never dares to forget it, for fear that after learning martial arts and recovering his inner strength, he would become lazy and stand in a proud manner, thinking that he is the greatest hero, great hero, great knight, and great master in swordsmanship, boxing, inner strength, and hidden weapons throughout history.
It was another busy day. Jiang Wen finally settled the many chores of founding his sect. He changed into a clean Taoist robe, put a few silver ingots on his waist, and walked out.
As Old Ye and the stone lion returned to Dawang Peak, the Wuyi Sect's manpower was replenished again, and many things no longer required him to do personally, so today he had to gather everyone down the mountain and head to Songxi Zhanlu Mountain.
"Old Ye, our Wuyi Sect is no longer the same as it used to be. If anything is lost in the sect, it will cause a big incident. You should take the stone lions and guard the gate honestly. You are not allowed to leave at all."
Jiang Wen carried three ancient swords on his back and gave careful instructions to the groom, Old Ye, while also explaining the arrangements for the other people.
"By the way, Hu Fei, Pingzhi, and Ningdie will stay here this time. They still lack some skills and temperament, so learning is important. If there is any news from Wen Ding and Xiao Shitou, send someone to tell me."
Not far from Jiang Wen were Luo Shuang'er and Yuan Ziyi, one woman wearing two swords on her waist and the other wearing a silver whip. Behind them was the rather shy Yan Yongchun, also dressed neatly as if she was going on a long journey.
The groom, Old Ye, agreed immediately, but his eyes looked towards the pine tree where the stove had just been lit, not knowing what to do with the food he had just cooked. But when the breeze blew, he pointed hesitantly behind Jiang Wen, as if he wanted to say something but hesitated.
I saw a group of people walking towards me from a distance. They seemed to be the Red Lotus Mother and others who were also preparing to go out. Jiang Wen could clearly sense the Red Lotus Mother's ill intentions. Without any words, he felt a sense of tension coming and could only pat Old Ye's shoulder meaningfully.
"... Now that things have come to this, let's eat first."
(End of this chapter)