Chapter 186: Respect the Earth, Let’s Start the War
The dark and endless sky, the vast expanse of desert sand.
Su Hanshan sat cross-legged in front of the Temple of the Five Internal Organs. He had been motionless for a long time, staring at the strange five-color tree.
Yang Baifa, Du Yuanzhen, including Li Baisui, Cui Bai, Zhang Anshou and others, all the warriors who have entered the physical realm have gathered here.
Unconsciously or not, when everyone arrived, Su Hanshan just started to show obvious changes.
His breath was quiet, and his figure began to fade and become transparent, gradually allowing people to see through his body and see the scenery on the other side.
Everyone's body in dreams is ultimately the manifestation of spirit. After entering the sky dream, most people will manifest into a state that is close to the entity, and there is no way to adjust it by themselves.
The movement of the mind of a strong person can greatly affect the state of his mental body.
Su Hanshan's figure has faded like this now, not because of injury, but because his mind is in an extremely gloomy and depressed state.
Du Yuanzhen and others could clearly feel the gloomy thoughts emanating from him. Sun Xingzu, who was the weakest, even felt sad and inexplicably depressed.
But soon, the dim thoughts began to change, light but not dark, calm and tenacious, day after day, calm and composed, year after year, gradually becoming calmer...
This process became very slow, but also Obviously, it is a process of gradually rising mentality, such as sadness, fear, joy, anger, joy, wildness, and so on, step by step.
Du Yuanzhen and others watched for maybe an hour, feeling that Su Hanshan's emotional changes at every stage became more subtle, complex, and specific, as if they were actually facing certain events, certain events. a situation.
Du Yuanzhen and others can also adjust their emotions in this way. It may be slower, but this is not a problem.
The problem is that Su Hanshan has not deliberately directed his energy towards the Five Zang Temple, but only focused on changing his mentality.
The people watching did not see any sign that he could establish a connection with the Five Zang Temple, and they were full of confusion.
They all lacked this patience, but they couldn't help but make some guesses of their own and speculate.
Could it be that Su Hanshan has some secret method that allows him to suddenly burst out with a mental shock that is far beyond normal through drastic changes in emotions and after a long period of accumulation, hitting the dream symbol and getting a response?
Everyone watched and waited in confusion.
Su Hanshan's mentality continued to change, but each stage transitioned slowly. Finally, when his mind slipped into a new stage, his eyes changed slightly.
The bystanders were all keen enough, and they immediately became energetic and observed carefully.
But Su Hanshan did not launch an attack, and there was nothing strange about the Five Zang Temple.
"No, it seems that he and the tree have become harmonious?"
Du Yuanzhen had this suspicion in his mind.
Su Hanshan had already shown a smile, raised his hands, and clasped them in front of his chest.
The action of putting hands together has a lot of meaning in Buddhism.
However, even before the 180th generation ancestor of Buddha was born, this gesture could already represent awe, prayer and gratitude.
At that time, the objects of our ancestors' prayers were not the immortals, saints, gods and Buddhas with specific personality symbols, but the wind, rain, thunder and lightning, mountains, forests, rivers, the vast sky, and the boundless earth.
Whether you live by farming, gathering, or hunting, they are all born from the earth and taken to worship the five internal organs.
That is the most simple desire to continue life. Sacrifice the five internal organs in exchange for life, and be grateful to the earth because the five internal organs have been sacrificed.
The so-called temple of the five internal organs can actually be regarded as an earth temple with the closest connection between man and the earth.
Five fingers on the left hand, five fingers on the right hand, put the hands together, worshiping not only the five internal organs of people, but also the five directions of the earth, feeling extremely fulfilled and grateful.
Yes, it is just enrichment and gratitude. There is no penetration and observation, no attack and analysis, and no attitude of studying the Five Zang Temple opposite as a martial arts collection.
However, everyone watching can feel the strong sense of fulfillment and gratitude.
The Temple of the Five Internal Organs naturally glows with a jade-like luster. It no longer looks like a strange tree, but more like a palace surrounded by five kinds of jade.
It is clearly divided into five colors, but it is simple and thick, and the luster that does not make people feel dazzled at all shines on Su Hanshan.
Between one person and one temple, the light is getting stronger and stronger.
“Without trying to understand the deeper mysteries of martial arts, this dream symbol gave him a response?!”
Du Wentong was puzzled. Is it enough to just be grateful and worship these dream symbols?
No! Du Wentong had caught something in his mind, but he couldn't figure it out yet.
"Maybe it's because the main body of the Five Zang Temple is not martial arts..."
Du Yuanzhen raised her beautiful eyebrows, and her eyes as black as paint showed a very clear look.
“Understanding and gratitude for the five internal organs and the earth are the earliest and deepest foundation of this five internal organs temple. If we follow this analogy, other dream symbols do not have martial arts as the main axis.”< br>
Although the dream symbol can correspond to a martial arts concept, it contains more than just martial arts-related culture.
In this world that attaches great importance to visualization and emotional feelings, all martial arts concepts are derived from the insights of a certain period of life.
If you have been in a certain status for a long time, engaged in a certain industry, your cognition and feelings about the world may develop into a kind of martial arts artistic conception. After being sublimated through freehand metaphors, it can evolve into an object of visualization.
From this perspective, martial arts in this world does not yet exist as a complete discipline. In the process of cultivation and breakthrough, it relies heavily on the psychological profiles projected from other walks of life.
This is very different from the Great Chu Dynasty. The martial arts of the Great Chu Dynasty were too mature and too objective. The development of martial arts relied on the observation and summary of the laws of the movement of the vitality of heaven and earth, and then developed more applications. Methods and psychological feelings can at most play a catalytic role when individuals break through the realm.
There, simply studying martial arts can be a lifelong career, and other things can, in turn, be regarded as ancillary values to martial arts.
Because of the different worlds, Su Hanshan was the first to realize that he could not approach these dream symbols with the mentality of understanding martial arts.
For example, the symbol of the golden cicada, although expressed in martial arts, is about capturing thoughts, creating resonance, and breaking people's souls into pieces.
But it is very likely that the most fundamental and broadest artistic conception is the compassionate desire to enlighten people with their hearts, to enlighten people, and to lead everyone to liberation together.
One is to kill with extreme force, crushing the heart and soul, and the other is to be compassionate and merciful, these are really opposite mentality.
However, if these things that Su Hanshan knows are simply conveyed to Yang Baifa, Du Yuanzhen and others in words, they may not be of much use. Instead, they may increase some wavering suspicions.
In a world that pays attention to spiritual feelings, the best effect will be achieved by letting them witness it with their own eyes and discover this truth for themselves.
As Du Yuanzhen spoke, he recalled his experience of being in contact with the Nine-Headed Phoenix for a long time, and already had further conjectures.
The nine-headed phoenix is the noble and noble god of fire control and the symbol of the monarch. If you don’t get enough response from the perspective of marksmanship and flames, you should probably try to get in touch with your usual political state of mind. .
The dream symbol that Yang Baifa found was not one of the twenty-four holy spirits, but his speed of realization at this moment was no slower than that of Du Yuanzhen.
The saying that fireflies entrust their souls is actually a memory of the deceased and a recollection of past lives.
If he were to approach that dream symbol with a reminiscence mentality, then there would be too much to reminisce about in his old life.
"It's really a dream symbol suitable for the elderly to practice."
Yang Baifa laughed and turned around to leave without looking at the subsequent developments at the Wu Zang Temple.
Du Yuanzhen stayed for a while and found that Su Hanshan maintained that state and became more and more into a better state. He confirmed his thoughts and turned around to look for the nine-headed phoenix.
After hearing these words, and combined with Su Hanshan's performance, everyone else understood what was going on.
Most of them, although their current strength levels are different, had the help of the Holy Spirit when they broke through the soul and entered the body. It was very simple to find the dream symbol that corresponded to them. They hurriedly leave.
In the next ten days, every time they entered a dream, they would imitate Su Hanshan's approach, adjust their mentality in front of the corresponding dream symbol, and try one after another.
However, although they can rely on visualization to induce various emotions such as joy, anger, sorrow, and joy, they are only a rough category. If they want to form a specific state of mind, they can only rely on memory to help.
But in their memories, there may not be suitable scenes, no specific experiences and feelings can be found, and it is always difficult to elicit a symbolic response from the dream.
Even Du Wentong, when he went to comprehend the Nine-headed Phoenix with his sister, only had a weak response, which was one step behind Du Yuanzhen, and the process was not as smooth as Su Hanshan's day. Compared with law.
"Nine Phoenix Pills are the Holy Spirit developed by Wude Taizong. At that time, they did not have such a convenient medium as the Cangtian Dream, and they were able to vaguely access the mystery symbolized by the dream and get a response. Now I am also the Lord of Chang'an, Is the King of Martial Virtue really so far behind?”
A trace of unwillingness appeared on Du Wentong's face, and he stared blankly at the nine-headed phoenix.
The heyday of the Wude Dynasty has long passed. In the middle of the dynasty, when the local Jiedushi rebelled for the first time, they even captured Chang'an.
At that time, the imperial court was defeated and lacked elite troops. They even borrowed foreign legions from the border to recapture Chang'an. They also claimed that the area around Chang'an had been occupied by rebels in recent years, and the people were all traitors, so they were in the realm of thieves. , "naturally" allowed these armies to plunder wantonly as their reward.
It was always like this in the middle of the dynasty, let alone the end of the dynasty.
As a person who was born in the last years of the dynasty, Du Wentong always only listened to Taizong's prosperous times as legends, but deep down he did not believe them to be true.
After the corpse transformation, the Du family took the lead to unify the surrounding areas of Chang'an, conquering the cities outwards, and connecting them together. Although limited by the general environment, the territory and the number of people could not be compared with before.
But deep down in Du Wentong's heart, he was extremely confident in terms of political governance. Perhaps he had already far surpassed Emperor Taizong.
But in front of this nine-headed phoenix, his confidence was knocked down by a head-on blow.
Not to mention Emperor Taizong, he seems to be worse than his sister.
“I still don’t believe it.”
Du Wentong secretly gritted his teeth and made a wish in his heart, "If I can repel the living corpses and stabilize the situation, I will definitely ask you, the nine-headed bird, to see more of what I am capable of!" He had free time to think here, and it was also because he tried his best today. The process of emitting thoughts and trying to gain the resonance of the nine-headed phoenix was already very exhausting.
Although I feel unwilling to do so, I still have enough self-control and know how to relax.
After calming down, Du Wentong left the Nine-Headed Phoenix and patrolled around in his dream.
The dreamland is still so lively. Recently, the number of people entering the dreamland in various cities has been increasing.
According to Su Hanshan, this means that the vitality of Cangtian's will is being awakened more and more, and the scope of Cangtian's dream in reality will also expand accordingly.
Although I still don’t know how the will of heaven will finally help on the battlefield, Du Wentong’s initial doubts have dissipated with the development of the dream.
He himself can now feel that the will of heaven is indeed accumulating strength and waiting for the opportunity.
Unconsciously, he walked near the Five Zang Temple.
Su Hanshan was still sitting in front of the Five Zang Temple as usual.
Experts can control the length of their sleep, but due to exposure to dream symbols, different levels of fatigue lead to different lengths of time spent in dreams.
Su Hanshan has been able to stay in dreams for more than eight hours a day recently. It is obvious that the Five Zang Temple has far more benefits than burdens for him.
Du Wentong was a little puzzled by this.
The Five Zang Temple has the connotation of worshiping the five internal organs and being grateful to the earth. It is easier for ordinary farmers to have a similar mentality, but they cannot bear the pressure of dream symbols.
A true master, no matter where he is, must have a good status. Even if he is in charge of a party and pays attention to farming, it is only because when the farming is good, the place is stable, easy to rule, convenient for supply and training, and other factors.
The idea of being grateful to the earth is really difficult to come up with.
Su Hanshan was so young and so cultivated, how could he have the mentality of being grateful to the earth and still be able to maintain it?
This kind of long-term thought cannot emerge from the root simply by manipulating emotions.
This is actually due to Su Hanshan's previous life.
In his previous life, he was born into a farmer's family. When he was a child, the adults in his family farmed their own fields. During busy farming days, he would help turn over the grains on the drying field, run around and play in the harvested fields, and enjoy himself. As a child, I have an affinity for the land.
More importantly, he loved all kinds of novels, miscellaneous books, and TV popular science programs. In that era, you could often see the greatness of agriculture being promoted everywhere.
According to archaeological discoveries, humans have known how to dig canals and cultivate and harvest tens of thousands of years ago. This kind of thing is almost equal to a myth in the minds of the people of the Takeru Dynasty.
Not to mention he is a true form warrior, even if he transcends the Xuantai, steps into the divine palace, flies into the sky, and travels thousands of miles, compared with the tens of thousands of years of fate between man and the earth, We must also know how to be in awe and praise.
Du Wentong could see that over the past few days, the large areas of empty desert sand around the Five Zang Temple had been dyed with five-color light.
Those strange trees and mountain peaks that have not been awakened must also be bathed in this light.
Su Hanshan sat ten feet in front of the Five Zang Temple, bathed in this light, and the connection with the Five Zang Temple became more and more stable.
The tone of his self-created Wu Zang Fighting Boxing Technique comes from the Dachu Dynasty, and the framework comes from the Southern Song Dynasty. Now, it has the finishing touch of the essence of martial arts.
“Huh?”
When Su Hanshan’s connection with the Five Zang Temple was completely solidified, he suddenly felt that in the sea of dreams of all living beings that had been silent for fifty years, there turned out to be other dream symbols. In a state of arousal.
It is not a nine-headed phoenix or a fluorescent stone lamp, but an existence that makes the Five Zang Temple feel very repulsive and hostile.
Su Hanshan also noticed a hint of familiarity in it.
"Is it...the corpse demon?"
In another place, Prince Bai, under the corpse banyan tree, also looked suspicious and turned his head to look.
He pondered for a moment, then flew away in that direction, and soon came to the edge of the range covered by the source of the corpse transformation, but he did not stop, his eyes were bloody, and he took a steady step. Stepped out.
The monster corpse banyan tree split a branch and spread in that direction. The top of the branch hung above Prince Bai's head, following him like a shadow.
As Prince Bai strode forward, the branch became longer and thinner. Its light was restrained, as thin as a hair, hidden in the dark sky.
When he climbed a peak, the distant scene came into view.
Between the vast desert sand, trees and rocks, large groups of figures as small as ants moved, gathering and dispersing, in full swing.
Because there are so many people, perhaps more than a million, you can still feel the passionate atmosphere even though you are so far away.
Prince Bai was shocked: "Is this the method prepared by the will of heaven through the hands of that person?"
Prince Bai was aware of the ignorance of the will of the sky. He originally thought that even if someone made a mistake and understood some guidance, they should continue to follow the route of Burning Sky Baoyu.
A one-time killer weapon that is difficult to distinguish between friend and foe and less controllable, at most it takes less time to make and the quantity is larger.
He has also been thinking recently about how to test this situation.
Now it seems that his guess was wrong, and the opponent might use another method.
“This is forcing me to take action in advance.”
After paying attention for a moment, Prince Bai murmured and retreated suddenly, hiding in the darkness and quickly moving away and disappearing.
Not long after he left, there was a figure among the crowd in the distance, flying over at high speed and setting foot on the mountain peak.
Looking ahead, Su Hanshan saw strange peaks, sparse rocks, yellow sand on the bottom of the sea, bubbles rising, everything was as usual, nothing unusual could be seen.
When you are far away, the direction sensed by the Five Zang Temple is still relatively obvious. The closer you get, the more blurry it feels.
After thinking about it, Su Hanshan cautiously moved forward.
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In the three northwest cities, blast furnaces roared with wind and blazing flames.
A large number of people from the Baiwang Mansion's army are here to smelt copper and iron, and hammer copper and iron, making a clanging sound.
The senior officials who showed the appearance of the corpse demon also took matters into their own hands and cooperated with the craftsmen in the army to cast chariots. After each chariot was cast, it was moved to the mountains, scattered and hidden, and when the time was right, all of them were launched. .
“How is the chariot casting going?”
Prince Bai's figure fell from the sky, his white hair flying, and his golden crown shining brightly.
The deputy general said quickly: "There are still three unfinished vehicles. The copper and iron in the city are of a lot of inferior quality and are not enough to be cast. We have appropriated some of the less urgent weapons and armor carried by the army and sent people Go to the mine to dig for ore and come back to smelt it."
"No need! "
Prince Bai said, "Let's use good wood and wrap it with copper and iron sheets to replace the missing parts. "
"These chariots are not real chariots after all. It’s a mobile altar, and only a few wooden accessories are used to replace it, so that’s okay.”
The lieutenant general was surprised and said: "Why are you so eager?"
"It's just a small change. Leave the chariot to me."
Prince Bai said with dark eyes, "You go Inform Dingchen that the army of living corpses they gathered from the southwest can be driven toward Chang'an overnight. "
Bai Dingchen is the eldest prince of Prince Bai and the eldest brother of Bai Zhongtuo.
As soon as he finished speaking, Prince Bai stretched out his hand to grab it.
There was no corpse air flowing out, but within a radius of a hundred feet, blood-red air flow was generated out of thin air, and several large houses in the surrounding area were all washed apart.
In the blink of an eye, it was as if a dozen bloody whirlwinds had sprung up from the ground, whirling, whirling, and swaying, and all the tiles and wood in the houses that were in poor condition were shattered.
There was just enough solid wood left, which was absorbed and fell towards the chariot.
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All living beings dream of the bottom of the sea.
After exploring for a long time, Su Hanshan stopped in a desert that was too empty.
He was able to determine that the dream symbol with the aura of the corpse demon was nearby, but it seemed impossible to observe it through normal means.
Su Hanshan did not act rashly, but looked at the back of his hand, considering whether there was any way to take the initiative to mention the matter to the will of the sky through the eyes of the sky.
While thinking, the eyes of the sky flickered.
Su Hanshan’s heart suddenly shook.
This flicker does not mean that the will of heaven has sensed his thoughts, but it means that at that moment, a large number of dreamers were awakened and escaped from the dream.
"Everyone in Xiongguan in the west has just escaped from the dream."
"Did the army of living zombies launch a huge offensive in the middle of the night?"
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