Beyond the Divine States Chapter 145: : Seven days in a small town

The lotus boat drove into the lake, and the duckweed separated. Ning Changjiu looked at the color at the junction of water and sky with a calm gaze. He tapped his finger lightly on the ship's side and let the lotus boat follow Qiusheng's guidance.

Ning Xiaoling looked complacent, but she was a little nervous with drums in her heart.

Xiao Lian lay on the side of the lotus boat, stretched out his hand to lift the water, listening to the sound of water, smiling constantly, looking energetic and not tired at all.

Ning Changjiu asked: "What monster is it?"

Qiu Sheng replied: "A big snake! The wounded big python is a big one. In the past, a fairy master was scared and couldn't help but draw a sword."

Ning Xiaoling was determined in her heart, thinking that she had seen the world, how could a python scare her?

They had good luck today. After the lotus boat sailed away, a large amount of black floated under the originally dim water surface. At that moment, Ning Xiaoling found that she had far underestimated the length of this big python.

The black shadow is dozens of times longer than their lotus boat. When it emerged from the bottom of the water, Ning Xiaoling felt a little dizzy. She always felt that the next moment, the big python was shaken, and the little lotus boat would take an instant. Turn over, and then the python opened its blood basin, and they all became the big snake's belly.

Ning Changjiu gently grabbed her hand to signal her to be relieved.

And Ning Changjiu's hand in his sleeve pinched a sword tactic, ready to deal with sudden changes at any time.

But everything was calm from beginning to end.

The dragon-sized figure under the lotus boat slipped silently across the bottom of the boat, revealing a little black back, and when it swam, it brought a very long and narrow triangular water pattern.

In the twilight, the big python accompanies Lian Zhou for a while, and Qiu Sheng did not urge him, but made a quiet gesture to the two immortals, as if he didn’t want to disturb the river. God".

Before the sky disappeared at the end of the lake, this river god-like python finally raised its head. Its head was dark blue, like the color of old tiles, full of time. And its eyes were painted with scarlet lines on both sides, a bit fierce, it turned its huge cone-shaped head, and spit out a long and thin tongue at the person on the lotus boat.

"Master, chase after." Qiu Sheng whispered.

Ning Changjiu tapped the ship’s side and drove the lotus boat to the side of the big snake. The big snake’s head was the size of a lotus boat. It looked terrifying. Ning Xiaoling was embarrassed, but looked at Xiaolian’s seven. The eight-year-old girl was not afraid, even reaching out to touch the head of the snake, her heart was much easier.

Ning Changjiu looked at the dark blue head, and stretched out his hand, stroking the fine and hard scales. The scales are very smooth, like pebbles that have been washed countless times with running water.

"Does it have a name?" Ning Changjiu asked.

Qiusheng scratched his head a little embarrassedly, and said, "It's called Dahei."

Ning Chang was silent for a while, then calmly said: "Good name."

Ning Xiaoling tried her mouth, holding back her smile.

The snake named Da Hei played with them for a while, and then it rolled over its body as if to prove the origin of its name, and Ning Changjiu looked down its extremely long body, brows Suddenly wrinkled.

Ning Xiaoling also let out a small exclamation.

Only then did they know what Qiusheng said earlier that the big snake was injured.

I saw the big snake almost torn apart from the center of its body. Its abdomen was empty. There was only a thick, rugged white bone connecting the two ends of the body, which looked like a piece of iron rope connecting two. Soft stick, the snake was indifferent to such a fatal injury, swayed leisurely and sank into the depths of the lotus pond.

A cold mist appeared at the end of the lotus pond.

The moon has hung in the sky unknowingly, the deep blue sky is like a huge cloth, the stars are like fireflies, the silver light on the water is shaking, and the moon shadows are rippled into parallel silver strings.

Lian Zhou turned his head, going slowly, returning to time quickly. It didn't take long to get to the shore. Qiu Sheng went to return the lotus boat, and then returned home with the two immortals.

Ning Xiaoling met a lot of strange monsters today and felt very happy. When she returned home and settled in a clean new room, she suddenly realized a very important thing.

She turned her head, looked at the brother, and asked: "What are we here for?"

Ning Changjiu said: "It seems to be here to help eliminate demons."

Ning Xiaoling said: "But all the monsters here have been probated...what shall we remove?"

Ning Changjiu sighed and said, "This is a good thing for the townspeople here."

Ning Xiaoling held her face, half of her previous satisfaction disappeared, and said: "Then other disciples have accumulated countless feats in this month, are we here to cheat and drink?"

Ning Changjiu said with relief: "It is a good thing to be able to practice with peace of mind."

Ning Xiaoling grabbed her saber, drew it out of its sheath, looked at her face on the mirror-like sword, frowning, and said: "Then we just eat and drink for nothing?"

Ning Changjiu said: "Who would have thought that the weather is so smooth in this wilderness."

Ning Xiaoling held her cheeks and said: "If I were one of those demons, with such a **** snake sitting on the ground, I would not dare to come."

Ning Chang thought of the **** snake for a long time, his mind loosened, and some dusty fragments appeared vaguely, slowly piecing together an unformed picture.

Ning Xiaoling complained over there and said: "Brother, or let's go out of town and have a look, maybe there are big monsters outside watching!"

Ning Changjiu dismissed: "Lu Jiajia said, let us not run around, and the physique of senior brother really attracts some monsters, but no one can come to rescue him."

Ning Xiaoling thought of Mrs. White Bone. The sword that fell from the sky always thrilled her every time she thought of it. Suddenly she felt that it seemed good to live a rural life for a month. There are delicious cakes, fun monsters, and strong snakes. The aura is also quite abundant.

"It is quite suitable for the elderly." Xiaoling, who was only fourteen years old, commented.

Ning Changjiu smiled and said, "You said the same last time you went to Linhe City."

Ning Xiaoling snorted, and said: "The cultivator, the world is home, brother, this time you want to be shallow."

Ning Changjiu smiled and nodded.

Ning Xiaoling burned a pot of hot water, then went to spread out the neatly stacked quilts, recalling today’s experience, and curiously said: “What’s the mouth of that girl named Xiaolian? I’ve explored it, and it’s normal. , Why can't you talk?"

Ning Changjiu had also explored and was puzzled, so he had to say: "This town is really strange, and some strange weird things are not difficult to understand."

Ning Xiaoling asked again: "Then what about those monsters? Why are they so behaved, especially the big snake. Putting it elsewhere is probably the demon king alone."

Ning Changjiu nodded in agreement. The giant python with a blue head and a black body, eyes painted with red lines, but a large torn abdomen, is difficult to estimate, and when it appeared, it gave itself natural In short, his sense of oppression is by no means weaker than that of King Blood Feather, and King Blood Feather was also a generation of monsters that swept Nanzhou back then.

And such a giant python, logically speaking, is also a spirit beast that needs to have horns and melts at any time. Somehow, it is willing to guard this lotus pond.

"Perhaps there is an expert in this small town." This was the only reasonable explanation Ning Changjiu could think of.

One word to wake up the person in the dream.

Ning Xiaoling suddenly realized that she nodded her head again and again: "It makes sense! It must be a very powerful expert living in seclusion, maybe it is an old senior from the Sword Tianzong!"

Thinking of this, Ning Xiaoling's mourning mood has disappeared for the most part, and the regret that she can't kill demons and demons is suddenly overwhelmed by the expectation of finding a mysterious expert.

She looked at the brother with watery eyes and begged: "The brother will accompany me to find the old **** tomorrow."

Ning Changjiu thought that the old gods live in seclusion here because they don’t want to be disturbed? But he couldn't hold back the begging of the junior sister, so he had to agree.

The night is getting deeper.

Ning Xiaoling has fallen asleep, but Ning Changjiu habitually comes to the window and looks at the scenery outside.

The bright moon is like water, and the eaves are like frost. The bamboo windows are covered with a large plantain leaf. Large patches of bamboo are swaying in the night breeze, and the bamboo shadows swaying on the courtyard wall covered with slender vines.

The world is quiet in silence. I don't know if it is because of the departure of the gods that the stars are projected onto the sky more clearly.

On weekdays, he should be marrying Lu marrying his body at the moment, and Lu Jiajia has gone through half a month of tempering, and once again fell into a bottleneck. Ning Changjiu has seriously discussed with her, but he no longer thinks about it. She came up with a better method, believing that the next path could only rely on her to complete the sword-body training journey of thousands of miles.

Lu Jiajia can also perceive that she is only a short distance from Zi Ting. After Ning Changjiu returns a month later, the person who greets him may be a peak master of the Zi Ting realm.

Ning Changjiu's heart became calmer and quieter.

The pale golden spiritual veins in the body began to flow, and the sea of ​​qi opened up like a vortex, the surrounding spiritual energy poured in, and began to rotate at an incredible speed. If he opens his eyes at this moment, he can see his eyes as if they contain the sun. Like glowing with thousands of strands of golden light.

The spiritual energy is refined into spiritual power after several cycles of weeks.

Ordinary practitioners can clearly feel their bottlenecks before entering each realm. There are obvious boundaries in each realm of entering the Xuan, Tongxian, Changming, and Zi Ting.

But Ning Changjiu couldn't perceive his line.

At the moment when the Golden Crow arrived, all the obstacles were swept away. To him, the path of cultivating the path was already a flat river. He could only see a line in a distant place. He was not sure what that line represented. Is it a long life or a purple court, or even further.

Practicing peacefully all night, Ning Changjiu sleeps for a while, the starry sky gradually fades, and the dew is already rolling on the tips of the grass.

In the early morning, Qiusheng called two immortals to have breakfast.

The dish is fish made by Xiaolian.

Ning Xiaoling originally hesitated, thinking that yesterday she promised the little black cat not to grab the fish to eat, but after she put down the first chopsticks, she didn’t see the chopsticks flying, and the black cat who got up also early He leaped on the long wooden bench lightly, whimpered at the girl, and reprimanded her for not keeping promises.

Ning Changjiu simply took two bites.

He has never been very interested in the delicacies of the world.

After breakfast, the sun shines into the house. In the bright hall, the paintings mounted on the walls are much clearer.

Ning Changjiu looked at the past. The paintings are rich in themes, with misty and misty pictures of fishing boats on the river, dazzling green landscapes, and finely drawn flowers and birds. This very aura of the black cat at home also has a A portrait, vivid.

Ning Changjiu's sight slowly passed, and finally landed in the center of the hall. There was a painting hanging there. This painting was very inconspicuous compared to the others, even because the pattern was too square and the lines were too rigid to make it seem quite satisfactory. .

That is a map of the layout of a small town.

Ning Changjiu stared for a while, and shook his head lightly. He didn't see anything famous. Instead, he had the illusion that he could draw with a pen after three months of apprenticeship.

And the left side of the painting also wrote a poem upright, this poem is equally ordinary:

Sweet lotus fragrance shakes the wind bell, and the lights reflect the photos of the bamboo wall courtyard

Homecoming bird looks high at a distance, and a solitary lamp is like water and the moon is bright

Ning Xiaoling noticed her brother's eyes and looked over, and after reading it twice, she also commented in a low voice: "It seems that I can write too."

Ning Changjiu thought that he and his junior sister were a perfect match in poetry and painting.

In the morning, Ning Changjiu and Qiusheng chatted a few words, Xiaolian put on a bench and sat aside quietly listening, gesturing something from time to time.

Ning Changjiu asked him something about the hidden master in the town.

It’s hard to live with Qiusheng. Although Qiusheng is only ten years old, the town is not big and the relationship between the neighbors is good. He has visited him all the time. There are many strong and capable men. But I have to say something about hermits...

He thought of the famous grandfathers in Liantian Town, but he shook his head every time he thought of one. Most of their fame came from erudition and skill. If you want to really talk about martial arts, you might even like to patrol at intersections. , The little white rabbits who are empty and showy can't beat it.

"It seems...not really." After thinking hard, Qiu Sheng shook his head helplessly.

Ning Xiaoling didn't feel disappointed, she wondered if she would be called a Hidden Expert, if she was easily discovered, an expert is hidden in the dark!

Ning Changjiu originally thought of Qiusheng’s grandfather and that the old man in the bamboo building would be a master, but he carefully observed the pen-and-ink power of these paintings. Although the brushwork is fluent and sophisticated, it is only because of the skill that makes perfect. , There is no trace of a monk.

Ning Xiaoling was teasing the black cat with a small fish on the side. The black cat jumped dexterously and waved its paw pads. After a few rounds, it suddenly jumped. After a blink of an eye, Ning Xiaoling only had a small finger between her fingers. The tail of the fish is cut off.

Xiaoling was very surprised by the black cat's skill, and re-evaluated its combat effectiveness in her heart. She thought that a kitty here is so powerful, and there must be other big people who are not obvious.

After playing for a while, Ning Xiaoling grabbed Ning Changjiu's hand and dragged him to find an expert.

Qiu Sheng asked if he wanted to accompany him, but Ning Changjiu declined.

This small town is really not a big one. The whole town's layout appears to be a "rich" character, which means auspiciousness.

The sun is not strong in spring, and it is warm and lazy and gentle.

They wandered around the town for a whole morning, carefully perceiving the spirit sense, and looked at the map displayed in the spirit sense shop for any bright or unusual shining points.

But all morning, they wandered the town back and forth twice, but found nothing.

"An expert is worthy of being an expert." Ning Xiaoling is unwilling to admit her failure, and firmly believes that an expert is too tall.

Ning Changjiu smiled helplessly.

"Hey, our battle result, how can we go back and explain to the master at that time?" Ning Xiaoling was still a little worried, and the rest of the disciples Feijian and Slaying Demons could not help but feel the sassy and heroic posture in her mind.

Ning Changjiu said: "This is only the next day, and there may be some strange things in the future."

Ning Xiaoling curled her lips and agreed with distrust.

In one room, they saw a huge lizard spirit lying on the roof tiles basking in the sun. This lizard spirit was raised by an old grandmother, who claimed to be the general gecko, and was quick to move.

It saw the white-robed brothers and sisters. General Gecko pointed his throat and said: "Master, eat spotted frog."

On the roof opposite him, a toad spirit was awakened, with its big round cheeks swollen and vying to face each other: "Master, slaughter the four-horned snake."

Ning Xiaoling chuckled and greeted each of them.

At the intersection, the rabbit spirit wearing a tile also rushed to hear the news, and was entangled with them for a while, speaking the bunny language they didn't understand.

When the two of them sat in the lotus pond and looked at the lake in the afternoon, Ning Xiaoling was finally desperate: "Brother, I don't know whether I should be happy or not."

Ning Changjiu said: "Guotai Minan is certainly worthy of joy. You have to learn from your sister, and you have to be king."

Ning Xiaoling held her face, watching the sunset slowly sinking into the lake, and said helplessly: "Then brother, give me a picture of the country, I also go to sit in the seat of the empress?"

Ning Changjiu smiled and threw the stones into the water one by one.

"If the other disciples get chance by chance, will the Four Summit Sword be defeated by others." Ning Xiaoling began to worry.

Ning Changjiu said: "After returning to the summit, there is still half a month before the Four Summit Swords. There is time to touch their virtual reality. Besides, there is plenty of aura here, and your peace of mind may not be worse than them."

Ning Xiaoling feels somewhat reasonable.

After that, seven full days of such quiet days passed. When Ning Xiaoling was looking for a plan to find a peerless expert, there was finally another thing that aroused her expectation.

On the seventh day, outside the memorial archway in Liantian Town, with a mace in one hand and claiming to be one of the top three on the Baili Spike Ranking, a fierce monster, came to worship the village.