Chapter 4: A Shocking Change
Early in the morning, this rain finally stopped.
The water droplets on the trees were crystal clear, slipping quietly from the edge of the leaves, falling down, because there was a wind, drawing beautiful arcs in the air, hitting Zhang Xiaofan's face.
The cold coolness of the Zhang Xiaofan woke up from the dream, he opened his eyes, subconsciously to call out: "Master..." but no one in the four fields, only Lin Jingyu lying beside him, a good dream is sound.
It seems like a dream.
But the broken grass temple in the distance, beside the sleeping playmates, all told him that all this is true.
He thought in a daze for a while, shook off his head, walked over to Lin Jingyu's side, pushed hard, Lin Jingyu muttered a few words under his breath, slowly woke up, rubbed his eyes, and before he could say anything, he felt a chill come over him, and couldn't help but sneeze.
He opened his eyes and looked, but saw himself and Zhang Xiaofan soaked to the skin, lying under a pine tree in the wilderness, he could not help but be dumbfounded and said, "Wasn't I sleeping at home, how did I get here?"
Zhang Xiaofan shrugged his shoulders and said, "I don't know, but I'm cold, it's better to go back quickly!"
Lin Jingyu had all sorts of questions in his head, but his body was indeed cold, so he nodded and climbed up to run towards the village with Zhang Xiaofan.
Before arriving in front of the village, the two of them have found that something is not quite right, usually at this time, the villagers have gotten up, but today it is quiet and incomparable, even the shadows of people are not seen one, and with the morning wind blowing, there is also a vague smell of blood.
They looked at each other, both saw the suspicion in each other's eyes, and at the same time accelerated their pace, running towards the village. It did not take long for the two of them to arrive at the entrance of the village, from the entrance of the village that big road to look in, but see the village in the middle of that piece of flat land, Grass Temple Village, more than forty families, more than two hundred people, large and small, men and women, are lying in the open space above, the body stiffened, into a corpse, blood flow into a river, flies fly, bloody gas, come to the face.
Lin Jingyu and Zhang Xiaofan two people suddenly saw this horrible scene, under the shock, screamed, fainted.
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I do not know how long, Zhang Xiaofan woke up, sat up, gasping for air, hands slightly trembling. When he fell asleep just now, his mind was filled with vicious ghost faces, blood and white bones, it was a nightmare after a nightmare.
He fixed his mind, looked around, only to see that this is an ordinary room, two small windows, room furnishings simple and clean, only a few pine tables and chairs, on the kettle water cups. Occupying half of the room was a large kang connected together, with four beds on it. In addition to the one he was currently lying on, the bedding beside him was also a bit messy, as if it had just been slept in. As for the other two, the quilts were folded neatly and meticulously.
On the wall directly above the four beds, there was a banner hanging with a big word:
Dao!
Looking at this, it was like an ordinary guest room in an inn, or a room where a few disciples who were seeking to learn the art of mastery shared a room.
Zhang Xiaofan sat for a while, his heart suddenly involuntarily rose a thought: last night's everything may be a nightmare, right? Maybe I have been sleeping here all along? Maybe when he walked out of this room, his mother would laugh and scold him as usual: "You little lazy bum!"
He slowly got out of bed, put on his shoes, and took a step toward the door of his room.
The door, hidden. From the crack of the door, if anything, a wind blew in, cool and silky.
He took one step at a time, but his two small hands got tighter and tighter. His heart was beating so hard that he held his breath, and very quickly, he walked to the door and put his hand on top of the doorway.
In that one instant, the wooden door was actually heavy and heavy like iron.
He gritted his teeth, and with a determined effort, he opened the door with a "sip-ya" sound.
The bright light from the outdoors immediately shone in, causing him to squint his eyes. The warm and gentle sunlight fell on his body, with a faint warmth.
Only, his heart, however, fell to the ice cellar all of a sudden.
Outside the door was a small courtyard, with a few pines and cypresses, a few clumps of grass and trees, and a few small fragrant flowers in between, happily open. In front of the door is a corridor, leading to the outside of the courtyard. Four feet in front of the door, there are several layers of steps, connecting the courtyard and corridor.
At the corner of the steps, there was a child sitting alone, with his hands on his cheeks, sitting there in a daze, not moving at all.
Perhaps the sound of the door opening had startled him, the child hesitated for a moment and slowly turned his head.
Lin Jingyu.
Zhang Xiaofan opened his mouth wide, a thousand questions in his heart, but when the words reached his mouth, they turned into silence.
He wanted to let out a loud shout again, but his heart was so depressed that he couldn't even shout.
Two lines of tears, so, silently, sliding down.
Two children, just like this, silent, speechless, staring at each other.
In the unknown distance, there is a quiet bird song, the sky is blue, a few white clouds.
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Zhang Xiaofan sat on the other side of the steps, his head lowered, looking at the stone paved path in the small courtyard.
In the small courtyard, there was silence.
Just like this also don't know how long, Lin Jingyu slowly said, "I woke up earlier than you, at that time there were still a few people in the house, I asked them, this is the Qingyun Mountain Tongtian Peak."
Zhang Xiaofan whispered: "Qingyun Mountain..."
Lin Jingyu said: "Listen to them, is a few passing disciples under the Qingyun Sect, see the village, the village..." said here, his voice could not help but choke up. He reached out and rubbed his eyes vigorously, stretched and inhaled, then said, "Later, they found the two of us at the back of the village, so they brought us up the mountain."
The corner of Zhang Xiaofan's mouth twitched, but he did not look up and said, "What are we going to do from now on, Jingyu?"
Lin Jingyu shook his head and said ruefully, "I don't know."
Zhang Xiaofan was about to say more when he suddenly heard an unfamiliar voice from the corridor behind him, "Ah! You all woke up?"
The two of them looked back at the same time, only to see a young Taoist priest standing there, dressed in a blue Taoist robe, quite heroic. Only to see him walk over quickly, saying, "It just so happens that a few masters also want to meet you and ask you some questions. You guys follow me here!"
Zhang Xiaofan and Lin Jingyu glanced at each other and stood up as Lin Jingyu said, "Yes, please ask this big brother to lead us there!"
The young Taoist priest glanced at Lin Jingyu, nodded, and said, "You guys follow me."
Following the Taoist priest, the two of them walked out of this courtyard and were presented with a longer and larger circular corridor with red pillars every two feet along the edge. In the middle of every two pillars, there was also an archway.
They walked forward along the corridor, passing through each archway and pillar, only to realize that in each archway was a small courtyard almost identical to the one they had just seen, and it seemed that this was where the disciples of the Green Cloud Sect lived and lived.
Not to say anything else, just from this scale, such a small courtyard is afraid of not less than a hundred, visible Qing Yun disciples.
Walked for a while, only to see the end of this corridor, but a towering incomparable white wall, below opened a door, two thick large wooden door plate, up to ten feet high, almost to raise their heads to look up, also do not know how to find such a huge wood at the beginning.
The young Taoist priest as if he was blind, probably weekdays in and out, see are numb, the face of the two children did not have that kind of color, expressionless, straight from the door went out. Zhang Xiaofan and Lin Jingyu hurriedly followed.
As soon as they stepped out of the door, the two children held their breath at the same time, looking at everything in front of them unbelievably.
Here, it was almost like the legendary fairyland.
An extremely huge square, the ground is paved with white jade, bright and shiny, at a glance, making people feel small. White clouds in the distance, like a light veil, actually floating underfoot.
The center of the square, every dozens of feet will be placed in a copper tripod, divided into three rows, each row of three, a total of nine, the rules placed. From time to time, there was light smoke in the cauldron, and its flavor was clear but not dispersed.
"Go here." Seeming to understand these two children's thoughts, that young Taoist priest had a hint of a smile on his face, letting them look at it for quite a while before waking up the two and continuing forward.
"This is the 'Sea of Clouds' amongst the Six Scenes of Qing Yun, there are even better ones ahead!" The young Daoist said as he walked.
Lin Jingyu couldn't help but ask, "What is it?"
The young Daoist pointed his hand and said, "'Rainbow Bridge'."
The two of them looked far into the distance, only to see that far ahead, at the end of the square, behind the fog-like hazy clouds, something seemed to be shining, they quickened their pace and walked forward.
Gradually, there is the sound of water coming from the intervals, there are one or two thunder-like strange sounds, I do not know where it comes from.
They walked closer and closer, the clouds like gentle nymphs, gently around them, gradually pulling open the veil of vagueness, revealing a clear face.
At the end of the square, a stone bridge, no seat without pier, rising up in the air, one head on the square, straight diagonally up, into the depths of the white clouds, such as the dragon leaps to the sky, the momentum of the lonely and proud. There is a fine water sound, sunlight, the whole bridge emits colorful colors, such as the sky rainbow, fall into the earth, gorgeous and colorful, beautiful and brilliant.
Zhang Xiaofan and Lin Jingyu looked dumbfounded.
The young Daoist smiled and said, "Follow me!" Saying so, he walked onto the stone bridge first.
Stepping onto the stone bridge, the two of them realized that there was a constant flow of water flowing down from both sides of the bridge, which was crystal clear, but the middle portion was dripping with water. The sunlight through the clouds colored photos on the bridge, and for the water refraction, so into a gorgeous rainbow.
That Taoist priest looked at their mesmerized appearance and said, "You guys be careful, under this bridge is a bottomless abyss, if you don't carelessly fall down, then you will die without a burial place."
Zhang Xiaofan and Lin Jingyu were both startled and hurriedly calmed down, walking carefully.
This rainbow bridge is extremely high and long, the three walk on it, only feel the left and right white clouds gradually sink to the feet, think the higher up the higher. And the front of that strange sound, is still constantly coming.
Walked for a while, the white clouds gradually thin, actually out of the sea of clouds, the eyes suddenly bright, only to see the long sky like a wash, blue is like transparent general. Four sides of the sky, wide and boundless; under the vast sea of clouds, gently floating, a glance, the heart suddenly for a wide.
And in front, is the Tongtian peak peak Qingyunguan main temple "Yuqing Hall" is located.
The green mountain contains emerald, the temple is majestic, "Jade Clear Hall" is located in the peak, the clouds surround, sometimes there are a few cranes, long fly over, the air circling does not go, such as the immortal family spiritual realm, one's heart to admire.
At this time the rainbow bridge is no longer rising, in the air to do an arch, fell in front of the temple a bay of turquoise water pool side. At the same time, the jade clear hall vaguely emanate Taoist song, a fairy aura. There was also that strange sound that was getting louder and louder.
The three of them walked off the rainbow bridge and came to the edge of the pool, a spacious stone staircase that led upwards from the edge of the water pool straight to the gate of the Jade Clear Hall. The water of the pool was turquoise and clear as a mirror, and the shadows of people and mountains were clearly visible.
They walked up the stone steps, was about to walk towards the gate above, suddenly heard a roar from the depths of the water pool, sound like thunder, it is the previous strange sound. Look, the center of the water pool suddenly up a huge whirlpool, a moment later, only to see a huge wave rolled up, a huge figure jumped out, the sky splash.
That young Taoist seems to have been prepared, left hand a lead, body floating in the air, fast backward floating more than two feet away, stopped in mid-air. And two children where to escape, immediately drenched all over the soup chicken.
Just his two people have never noticed their own situation, only staring blankly at the appearance of a behemoth in front of them, more than five feet high, dragon head and lion body, all the scales and armor, huge eyes and big mouth, two sharp fangs in the sunlight glittering, the face of the hideous, and look at the fear of life.
The beast shook its body, hula and a burst of water splash, and then as if it found something, put the giant head toward the steps over.
Zhang Xiaofan and Lin Jingyu see that monster a head than the two of them is also much larger, under the sun, sharp teeth clearly visible, watching it closer and closer, the heart is really afraid, can not help but tightly together, heart thumping.
At this time, that young Taoist monk floated back at some point, single palm erected in front of his chest, respectfully said, "Spirit father, they are specially summoned by the masters."
The monster glared at him, "giggling", snorting, a pair of large eyes actually turned, like a human brain in general. Then no longer pay attention to the three people, staggering to the side, in the water pool on the dry ground down, yawned, lazily put his head down, sunbathing, sleep.
The young Taoist monk signaled the stunned two to continue walking, saying, "Spirit Dignity is an ancient beast that our sect's Ancestor Qing Ye took in a thousand years ago, named 'Water Qilin'. Back then, when Ancestor Qing Ye honored Qing Yun and subdued the demons and eliminated the devils, it made a great effort. Nowadays, it is our Qingyun Sect's Mountain Suppressing Spirit Beast, respectfully known as Spirit Dignity."
After saying that, he also bowed to the water qilin, Zhang Xiaofan was watching intently, but was pulled by Lin Jingyu, saw him make a wink, then also together respectfully bowed to the water qilin. Only the water qilin head also does not return, do not move, but snoring loudly, afraid to see.
After the three people salute, continue to walk forward. Walked through the high stone steps, far from the golden plaque, written on the "Yu Qing Hall" three words. Come to the majestic hall before, only to see the door is wide open, inside the light is sufficient, enshrined in the beginning of the heavenly father, Lingbao heavenly father and moral heavenly father three Qing gods, the solemnity of the atmosphere.
And before the god seat, above the hall, stood dozens of people, some Taoist and some secular, it seems that they are all under the Qingyun Sect. Before the crowd, there are seven sandalwood chairs, left and right each three, in the center of the most forward and one, but only six people sitting on the top, only the last chair in the right row, empty no one sits.
