The few of them remained silent, just staring at the paintings on the wall, until Luo Wei opened his mouth and yawned.
"Sorry, I didn't sleep well last night."
Yin Xiu glanced at him and said, "Why don't you find a place to sleep first, and then we'll call you after we've negotiated?"
"No, no, you can just chat."
Luo Wei walked aside wisely and sat down in a corner.
Yin Xiu turned around at this time and said to the old woman: "Mom, maybe this is what you want to say, the story of my mother finding the fairy mountain Kunlun and ascending to enlightenment?"
"No, my mother has not ascended." Grandma glanced at Yin Xiu strangely.
"That means death?" Luo Wei interjected.
After all, in many traditional folk stories, when those emperors, Taoist priests and monks died, others would say that they ascended and were taken to heaven to enjoy blessings.
Since this old mother has not ascended, it must be that she is dead.
Mammy said calmly: "My mother is not dead either. She entered the Heavenly Gate and later returned from the Heavenly Gate, giving up the opportunity to attain enlightenment and become an immortal."
"Why?" Yin Xiu asked.
"Why? Anyone would ask that."
Mammy laughed dryly and said, "For what reason did I ask my ancestor to give up the opportunity to attain enlightenment and ascend, and was willing to stay in this world and waste his time.
The world didn't understand it at first, but later they realized that my mother was doing it for a man. "
"A man?"
Ma Xiaoyu looked at the picture, and finally cast her eyes on a man in rich clothes and a crown underneath.
This man is tall and straight, with a face like a crown jewel. He is dressed in yellow clothes and has a sword on his waist. He is obviously dressed like a noble.
And unlike those soldiers and people, he was the only one standing at the foot of the mountain without wearing armor.
Standing among the people prostrate on the ground, a person looked particularly dazzling, eye-catching, and eye-catching.
"Yes, it's him."
Mammy stretched out her hand and pointed to the position on the map where Ma Xiaoyu was looking at just now.
"Do you know who this is? Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty! It was he who escorted my mother to the foot of Kunlun Mountain and personally sent her to the immortal world."
"But my mother refused to ascend?" Ma Xiaoyu asked.
"Yes."
Mammy nodded, "For the sake of my beloved emperor, my mother gave up the opportunity to become an immortal and stayed in the human world, wasting time. This wasted time has already passed a thousand years."
It turns out that what this picture records is a story that happened in the Tang Dynasty.
No wonder Ma Xiaoyu already feels a sense of distance and the heaviness of time just by looking at the words and ink on it.
"Love brings sorrow, love brings fear. If you are separated from the one you love, you will have no worries and no fear."
Grandma's voice echoed in the ancestral hall, as if it had also been coated with a layer of film by time. It seemed particularly desolate and ancient, echoing in everyone's heart, leaving them speechless for a long time.
After sighing, grandma continued: "So our mission is to help my mother find Kunlun, the immortal mountain, and become an immortal again."
"Mom is still alive?"
"As I said just now, my mother is not dead, she is still alive."
When Luo Wei heard this, he immediately stood up from the ground, "Then where is the old mother you mentioned?"
Mammy glanced at him lightly and said, "No matter what you ask me, I won't tell you. I can only tell you that my mother is in the middle of nowhere, waiting for the opportunity to ascend."
"What about Emperor Taizong?"
Ma Xiaoyu asked suddenly, which seemed strange and abrupt, but at the moment it seemed reasonable.
"Emperor Taizong?"
Mammy swept some gravel off the case and said, "Emperor Taizong has become the dust of history along with the prosperous Tang Dynasty. Neither a mortal nor a dynasty can survive such a long period of time.
But the old mother can, and the old mother no longer has any attachment in the world. She is now only waiting for Kunlun to come again.
As for those of us Qi Refiners, of course I prefer to call ourselves my mother’s followers. What we have to do is to help my mother find the Kunlun Fairy Mountain earlier and help her ascend. "
"Then you all follow together and the chickens and dogs soar?" Yin Xiu asked.
"Yes, this is our chance, destiny, or destiny." Mammy's eyes were firm.
"And what about the people who died from this?"
"They will also transcend the moment when my mother ascends and attain enlightenment together. Whether it's the people we kill or the people you kill, this is everyone's fate and opportunity."
Seeing the strange look in Yin Xiu's eyes, grandma patiently explained again.
"In the Tang Dynasty, there was a Taoist priest named Huang Sang. He killed a mandrill and became a Taoist. The five people he killed using different methods, from the perspective of ordinary people, some of them deserved to die, but There are innocent ones too.
But their death is their fate. By chance, Huang Shang killed these five people and ascended to the Dao. The five people he killed also attained the Dao and ascended together. This was also their fate. "
"You mean, some people are destined to die? For someone's chance of enlightenment and ascension?"
"Yes, just like the only son around me, Du Chen, he was killed by you, I am not sad, nor do I hate you.
Because this is his chance and fate. His death in your hands is one of the many causes and effects of my mother becoming an immortal. "
[Damn, a room full of lunatics! 】
Yin Xiu took a deep breath and rubbed his eyebrows. He just felt that if he stayed with these people for a long time, he might fall into some kind of hysteria and become abnormal.
"The last question is, how are you sure that the Kunlun Fairy Mountain that my mother wants to go to is under the ground. Even in this picture, the fairy mountain that my mother wants to go to is also floating above the clouds! Could it be that you can't fly up, so you are hiding your ears and stealing bells, and forcibly built a fairy mountain underground for yourself? "
Yin Xiu was very direct and expressed her thoughts without caring whether it would irritate the grandmothers and shake their faith.
But obviously, he thought too much. Nanny's face was always like a mask carved from wood, without even a trace of ripples.
She said calmly: "Kunlun Fairy Mountain, of course, should be in the sky, but that is a thing of the past.
You young people like you can't imagine that 200 years ago, there were still people in this world who could achieve enlightenment and ascend, right?
The Taoist just sat there and talked with others, and then auspicious clouds appeared under his feet. He stepped on the auspicious clouds step by step, laughed and crossed the gate of heaven. It was not a legend or a myth, but a fact.
200 years ago, it was an era when Kyushu's spiritual energy was rich. At that time, Kyushu had outstanding people and countless spiritual treasures in the world.
But later you also learned that it was just the last glory before the end of the Dharma era, but the decline of Kyushu did not only start from that time.
As early as thousands of years ago, in the process of searching for Kunlun, my mother discovered that the aura of our world was gradually disappearing and degenerating.
Penglai, Kunlun, fairy mountains and fairy islands disappeared from the world and lost their traces.
Liu Qingtian's killing of all the dragon veins in the world certainly exacerbated the decline, but his mother discovered that even if he did nothing, Kyushu would inevitably fall unstoppably.
It keeps declining for no reason until it falls into the abyss.
But for 30 years in Hedong and 30 years in Hexi, every place has a life. My mother has been running around in the world for thousands of years. How could she not know the changes?
Therefore, she judged that right here and now, underground in Hong Kong Island, the fairy mountain Kunlun had reappeared in another form in this world of eternity.
The fairy mountain is ethereal. How can it exist and how can it be inferred using common sense? "
Yin Xiu remembered that Fang Yin had said the same thing before to demonstrate why Taoists from all walks of life would search for fairy mountains in different places.
This sounds very absurd and nihilistic, but when it is said by the nanny, it has a sense of logical self-consistency without any violation, and no loopholes can be found.
It's as if this is not a pursuit of legend, but a rigorous scientific experiment.
The qi masters among them are all scholars, and they are using their own methods to accurately measure, record, and find the exact coordinates of Kunlun. .
After a pause, Yin Xiu asked: "But you have been searching underground for many years, right?"
"I know what you want to say."
Mammy laughed softly.
"Young man, do you think the technology you rely on is so powerful? Even today with the roar of steam engines, it is common for people to starve to death.
As long as it doesn't rain for a month, or if the temperature drops sharply, it won't take long for people to starve to death everywhere.
It takes humans several years to build a building, but when an earthquake strikes, it can collapse in the blink of an eye.
A village that has been inhabited for several generations will no longer exist as soon as a mudslide occurs and there will be nothing but flat land. "
No one yet knows how vast Infinity is, and it is changing all the time.
We are like little bugs living on a leaf, thinking we know the whole tree.
But if there is a strong wind one day, we will fall from the tree. Even then, we are still ignorant and don't know what happened!
What we do is, on the one hand, searching, and on the other hand, we hope to trigger certain causes and effects, causing Kunlun to appear and descend.
I have told you before that Kunlun cannot be inferred by common sense. It is a collection of some kind of cause and effect. What we do now and every word we say affects and stirs these causes and effects all the time. "
Yin Xiu put her hands behind her back and walked around in front of the painting, not looking at the painting, but just looking down at her toes.
At this moment, he only felt that there were two voices in his mind, one from Fang Yin, and the other from Mammy. Both sides' explanations became reasonable in his own side's explanation.
"However, someone told me that Kunlun Fairy Mountain is a place that is not bound by cause and effect. It transcends everything."
Upon hearing this, Grandma's expression changed drastically, her face became ferocious, and her cloudy eyes became even cloudier. As the pupils opened, it was like lime spreading in the water, blurring the entire surface of the water.
Changing from her previous silence, she stretched out her withered fingers and almost poked them into Yin Xiu's eyes. Her voice was sharp, like a knife scratching the glass.
"Be careful! Someone is lying to you! There are always people in this world who want to lie to you!!" (End of Chapter)