At the end of June, the new campus of Songcheng University.
"It feels like I haven't been here for a long time …" Yan Zheke stood on the long bridge, gazing at the Weishui Lake illuminated by street lamps, as well as the lakeside road that she and Lou Cheng had walked on day after day. She felt that every scene and every corner reminded her of a different scene.
The past pierced through the gap of two years and reappeared vividly in her mind.
Lou Cheng also sighed and echoed, "I haven't walked on this road for almost a year."
But from time to time, she would recall the initial throbbing and the purest beauty. She would think about how hard it was to come by and tell herself not to get used to it, but to cherish and protect it.
"Let's go, big sister invites you to take a walk again ~" Yan Zheke's eyes lit up, smiling as she extended her slender right hand.
Lou Cheng grabbed it and looked ahead. He coughed twice and chuckled.
"I remember that every time you took the initiative to invite me to take a walk by the lake, you were hinting and tacitly allowing me to be intimate …"
What about today?
Yan Zheke's eyes widened and her mouth was half open. Her pretty face couldn't help but blush.
"No way!"
"It's all because you're such a hooligan!"
"I'm not going to take a walk with you!" She added bitterly as she tried to pull her hand back. However, Lou Cheng's grip was so tight that she couldn't break free no matter how hard she tried. She had no choice but to grit her teeth and follow him from the other end of the bridge to the lakeside. She followed the memories of the past, crossed familiar scenes, and wandered the intertwining journey between reality and illusion.
Holding hands, first kissing, the girl taking out the tissue and the boy cleaning the wooden bench, the casual gossip, the inexperience of sneaking a few kisses every night after taking a stroll … Suddenly, Yan Zheke and Lou Cheng seemed to have walked into the gap between the past and the present.
"Luckily, luckily we're still together. Otherwise, it would definitely be very, very regretful …" Yan Zheke suddenly said and sighed with emotion.
That kind of regret would be a wound that wouldn't heal for the rest of their lives.
Lou Cheng's fingers moved slightly and tightly interlocked with his little fairy's. He solemnly promised,
"We'll always walk on this road."
"Yes, yes!" Yan Zheke nodded vigorously.
After a few more steps, Lou Cheng pointed to the side of the road and chuckled.
"This is where I found Qing Yu and the Golden Core."
"Here …" Yan Zheke's eyebrows relaxed. She looked over curiously and whispered.
She stared at it for a few seconds, then suddenly turned sideways to face the lake. She put her palms together, closed her eyes, and began to chant.
"Ke, what are you doing?" Lou Cheng asked blankly.
The girl's dimples appeared. She pursed her lips slightly and smiled sweetly.
"I'm thanking Qing Yu! If it wasn't for it, a certain idiot might have retreated on his own. This is the cause of everything! "
"It probably won't like you saying that … A bad life is better than a good death." Lou Cheng laughed and shook his head. Then he cleared his throat and said, "The real reason was that I saw you standing outside the Martial Arts Club in your Han Chinese costume and finally plucked up the courage to strike up a conversation with you. Otherwise, I wouldn't have come running by the lake."
Yan Zheke rolled her starry eyes and asked him back with a funny smile,
"Could this be the lyrics of the song, 'Just because I took an extra look at you in the crowd'?"
Her voice was clear and delicate, and her voice was beautiful.
Lou Cheng listened with a smile and teased, "Ke Ke, are you whispering sweet nothings to me?"
"If you say so, then so be it." Yan Zheke put her hands behind her back and walked forward lightly.
The couple circled the lake, revisiting the places where they had been intimate before. After calming down the heat on their faces and the rhythm of their breathing, they finally waited for Geezer Shi.
He was still old, but the frequency of his coughing had obviously decreased. Although the Nine Words Formula had not completely healed his old injuries, it had eased him a lot.
"Let's get into the water. If you didn't mention it, I would have forgotten about it." Shi Jianguo admitted frankly.
Yan Zheke covered her mouth and laughed. She felt that this pair of master and disciple were very similar in some aspects.
They were a family, and they would enter the same house!
Hmm, am I scolding myself …
Unreliable old man … Lou Cheng thought to himself. He took out his phone, wallet and other things and handed them to his wife.
After thinking for a moment, Geezer Shi felt that there was no need to pretend to be a master. He also left his phone behind and walked into the lake step by step. The cold air around him condensed into crystals, as if it was going to freeze his body but not affect his movements.
Lou Cheng imitated him. After taking a deep breath, every inch of his skin shone with cold light.
The master and disciple walked further and further away. Less and less of their body parts were exposed to the water. Finally, they steadied their center of gravity and completely disappeared in front of Yan Zheke.
Light rippled around him and a faint pressure came. Lou Cheng let his body enter the embryonic state, just like when he practiced underwater to seek the mutation of his root pulp.
At his current level, there was no problem for him to stay underwater for ten to twenty minutes.
In the swaying of the lush water plants, Geezer Shi's mouth opened and opened, stirring up ripples. The ripples flowed to Lou Cheng in circles and brought a voice that seemed to come from the horizon.
"The bottom of the lake is quite big. I did a rough search last time and didn't find anything. Are we going to search inch by inch this time?"
Lou Cheng replied in the form of voice transmission, "Master, think about it. The black carp swallowed the Jindan and it must have acted up on the spot. The range of its swimming and jumping is limited. We may find something in the area near the spot where we found it."
"If we can't find it, I'll give you a big slap!" Geezer Shi always felt that his disciple was unreliable most of the time.
Moving forward slowly with their feet on the ground, Lou Cheng and Geezer Shi looked around in the dark, sparkling water. They tried to discern the peculiarities and formed Ice Mirror or Enemy Heart Freezing Move to comprehend the finer details.
After searching around the area near the lake, Geezer Shi suddenly stopped. He frowned and said in the form of voice transmission,
"You don't say. The feeling here is a little different from the last time I was here. It seems to be changing according to the phase of the moon …"
The problem couldn't be found by searching alone. But after comparing the two, the abnormality appeared!
With his strong night vision, Lou Cheng grasped the faint light under the water and looked around. He had a panoramic view of the entire area.
Gravel, rocks, swaying water plants, and rubbish thrown down by someone. Other than these, there was nothing else, not to mention a place that looked like the entrance of a cave.
After a few seconds of silence, Lou Cheng followed the plan he had prepared. He formed a hand seal with his hands and changed it continuously. The visualized ancient characters in his mind jumped as well.
"Confrontation! Army! Dou! Swordsman! "He opened his mouth and his voice shook the surroundings, making the water undulate in a regular manner.
"Wholeness! Formation! Deference! Forward! Attainment! "
As soon as the word "Attainment" came out, the nine seal scripts in the depths of Lou Cheng's mind appeared at the same time. They combined to form the three-dimensional, mysterious rune.
Rumble!
At this moment, a low buzzing sound came from somewhere. As the water rippled, the bottom of the lake formed by gravel and rocks cracked open, revealing a stone staircase that extended downwards.
"A camouflage set up with the help of the moon …" Geezer Shi commented with disdain, "Brat, the night you got the Jindan was when the moon was waning, right? And the black carp doesn't have much intelligence. "
"I don't remember …" Lou Cheng answered honestly.
"What else do you remember?" Geezer Shi shook his head and laughed. He walked along the stone staircase into the cave. It was moist inside, but there was no water.
Lou Cheng suppressed the surge of emotions in his heart and followed his master to the bottom. He saw a simple and empty stone room.
There was only a cloud bed here. On it were a few pieces of yellowed paper and a tattered feather robe.
"It doesn't look like the cave residence of Longhu Immortal …" Geezer Shi, who had seen many relics of cultivation, frowned and whispered.
Lou Cheng looked around and guessed.
"Maybe it's a place for seclusion?"
The feather robe seemed to be worn by Longhu Immortal before he died. What about his body?
"It's possible." Geezer Shi approached and was about to pick up the feather robe. However, the light breeze caused the robe to instantly decay and scatter in the stone room.
The notebooks, on the other hand, were still intact.
Lou Cheng looked at them and read the words on the first page.
"My life is coming to an end. A hundred and thirty years of hard work is all in vain. What a pity, what a pity."
"Predecessors sought the independence of the soul and tried to give birth to a baby in the Jindan. They wanted to break free from the shackles of the body and travel between heaven and earth. Unfortunately, for thousands of years, no one succeeded. I didn't follow this path. I imitated the immortal world to form the Jindan and sought longevity. However, the road ahead was boundless and full of dangers. It ended here."
Geezer Shi flipped over the other pages and read quickly. At the end, the master and disciple finally understood what Longhu Immortal did and why his Jindan was preserved until today.
According to what Longhu Immortal said, once a cultivator passed away, the Jindan that lost the control of the "spirit" would either quickly lose control and explode, or barely maintain the balance and dissipate quickly. He used ice and fire to imitate Yin and Yang and the starry sky to form the Jindan. He wanted to reflect nature and rotate in balance, hoping to be immortal like heaven and earth.
Because of this, before he passed away, he decided to give it a try. That was to reverse the spirit and feed the body back to the body, so that the body would be completely destroyed. This would ignite the spirit and completely integrate the "spirit" and the Golden Elixir into one, using the "immortality" of the Golden Elixir to achieve longevity. In consideration of the possibility of success, he changed the order of the stars inside the Golden Elixir and "engraved" the Nine Words Formula and his own cultivation methods inside.
This idea was unprecedented. Longhu Immortal wasn't confident at all. Before he tried it, he wrote down notes for his friends to refer to as a trial and error.
As for what happened in the middle, Lou Cheng and Geezer Shi didn't know. They only saw the final result, which was that Longhu Immortal didn't live forever. The Jindan didn't have an independent will, but it was strangely preserved until now.
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