Volume 2: The Lake of Winter, Chapter 53: The Beginning of a Practice

"How did you shoot those horse thieves that night?"

"It's very simple, use your mind to locate their location in the dark."

"But how do you identify their vital parts?"

"It's still telepathy."

"How can you achieve such a long distance?"

"Because my telepathy is very powerful."

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"But... your cultivation qualifications are not very good, and the amount of heaven and earth energy you can control is so small."

"A needle is not as heavy as a knife, but it can still prick someone."

"It's a really strange idea, and... fighting in this way, don't you think it's a waste? Using telekinesis to lock the opponent's position and also judge the body shape, telekinesis in the sea of ​​​​consciousness is consumed too fast."

"As I said before, my telepathy is very powerful."

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"Have you ever thought about becoming a great telegraph master?"

"No."

"Why?"

"Because I am a genius of Talisman Dao, of course I want to become a Talisman Master like you."

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"When you killed the temple deacon that night, you didn't use a talisman."

"I'm used to using a knife, and the knife is engraved with talismans."

"Your fighting style is really different from ordinary practitioners."

"A genius, of course, doesn't take the usual path."

"But why do I always feel that this is like a helpless choice made under duress?"

"My self-esteem has been hurt by you again."

"I won't lie."

"That's why you can hurt me."

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"Have you ever felt that the vitality of heaven and earth in this sparse forest at the foot of the mountain is very abundant?"

"Well, it seems a little bit."

"You seem to pay little attention to the atmosphere between heaven and earth around you."

"I care more about the breath in my body."

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From the wasteland snow ridge to the foot of Cangshan Mountain, this kind of dialogue kept happening between Ning Que and Mo Shanshan, so that sometimes Ning Que's mind would become a little confused, and he always felt as if he was back in the mountains behind the academy or in the old school.

, was talking nonsense with that annoying guy Chen Pipi.

What seemed like nonsense discussions to him were very important to Mo Shanshan. This young Tianjiao who was obsessed with calligraphy and talismans gradually deepened his understanding of Ning Que's practice method through these conversations, and then followed the footsteps of the two of them.

The snow-capped peak at the foot of Tianqi Mountain was getting closer and closer, and her expression became more and more worried and a little at a loss.

Next to a very small hot spring hot spring, the two of them took a short rest. Ning Que looked at her slightly drooped eyes and the long eyelashes that rested quietly on her fair skin. He thought about the changes in her emotions along the way and how he could no longer

Suppressing the confusion in my heart, I asked seriously: "What are you worried about?"

Mo Shanshan raised his head and looked at Ning Que silently, as if watching a most dazzling gem gradually being buried by the wind and sand. His eyes were full of worry and worry, and he said softly: "I'm worried that you are possessed by a demon."

Ning Que was startled for a moment, then laughed.

Influenced by the novels in that world, also because of his life experience in this world, and even more because of the enlightened environment of the academy, it is really difficult for him to have instinctive resistance and dislike towards the Demon Sect, but he is a very realistic person

, understanding your thoughts may not be a crime, but actually practicing the Demon Sect's skills will definitely cause countless troubles.

He smiled and said: "I am a direct disciple of the Master. Naturally, I cannot sell my soul to the devil for the sake of strength or power like those poor people who have been insulted and harmed but are unable to retaliate."

Mo Shanshan looked at his clean and pleasant face quietly, thinking about what he saw and heard along the way, and became more and more convinced that he was a guy who didn't care about the means to achieve his goals, and he couldn't feel that he had any affection for Haotian at all.

The spirit of awe, and the way of practice he now chooses passively or actively, is particularly focused on his physical skills, but rarely studies how to communicate with the breath of heaven and earth. If he continues on this path, it is easy to go astray.

Especially now that he is getting closer and closer to the mountain range abandoned by Haotian.

Mo Shanshan stretched out his hand to pick up the snowflakes beside the hot spring's eyes, and then gently blew them down. He looked expressionlessly at the black and white mountains not far away, and after a long silence, he said, "Can you promise me something?"

matter."

Ning Que asked: "What's the matter?"

Mo Shanshan looked back at him and said seriously: "If you encounter the Demon Sect's Kung Fu in this mountain, don't learn it."

Hearing these words, Ning Que couldn't help but be stunned. He looked at the desolate and uninhabited mountain range in the distance that stretched between heaven and earth. He thought that he knew from the desolate tribe that people from the temple had entered this mountain.

The guess is that it has something to do with the heavenly book. Why did Mo Shanshan suddenly mention some demon sect technique at this time?

Mo Shanshan blinked his eyelashes slightly and said softly: "The Demon Sect's mountain gate is in this mountain range abandoned by Haotian. It's just that the mountain is vast. Except for the senior expert who destroyed the mountain gate, not many people know where the mountain gate is.

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Ning Que gradually digested the shock in his heart, frowned and looked at the mountain range, and after a moment of silence he said: "I really don't know about this, no one has told me,"

"The message given to me by the Desert Man Tribe made it very clear that those in the Temple sneaked into the wilderness to cause trouble in order to attract the attention of the Desert Man strongmen and the Council of Elders, and the real strong men in the Temple have all sneaked into this mountain."

"The news that Chang'an gave me is that the temple wants to retrieve the scroll of the Heavenly Book, and they believe that the scroll of the Heavenly Book is among the Huangren tribe, so I was a little surprised as to why they wanted to go into the mountain."

He withdrew his gaze, looked at Mo Shanshan and frowned and said: "If the temple believes that the Heavenly Book is still at the Demon Sect Mountain Gate, and the Demon Sect Mountain Gate has always been in the Tianqi Mountain, then why didn't the people in the Temple come to look for the Heavenly Book before? But they had to find it in the deserter.

Did you come here to look for it when you go south?"

Mo Shanshan shook his head, used his fingers to push the flying hair behind his cheeks, and said: "Such extraterrestrial things as the Heavenly Book and the Mingzi Scroll, once they appear in this world, must be in accordance with the heavenly secrets. This is beyond what you and I can understand."

Or the chance of speculation, but in my opinion, the possibility of the Heavenly Book in the Huangren tribe is certainly not as high as the possibility of it being in the Demon Sect Mountain Sect."

Ning Que asked: "Why?"

Mo Shanshan replied: "Because things like the Book of Heaven seem to be in an unknown place."

The conversation in the forest at the foot of the mountain kept shocking Ning Que. He vaguely remembered that he had heard of some unknown place, but he couldn't remember what he was talking about.

He asked seriously: "What is the unknown place?"

Mo Shanshan was stunned for a moment, realizing that he was not joking, and replied seriously: "A place that the world cannot touch."

Ning Que rubbed his eyebrows and said helplessly: "Can you be more specific?"

Mo Shanshan frowned and looked at him, as if he were looking at a very strange tree. After a moment of silence, he said: "The unknown places refer to those mysterious areas outside the secular world. Very few people can see these places with their own eyes. Even if they go

People who have experienced it will not talk about it after they come out, so for thousands of years, only some legends about the unknown place have been circulated in the world of practice."

Ning Que said in confusion: "If the temple is not an unknowable place, then in my opinion the Demon Sect is just a branch of the temple. Why is its mountain gate called an unknowable place?"

Hearing this question, Mo Shanshan answered seriously: "I once asked the teacher when I was a child. According to the teacher, it was because the great priest of Guangming who founded the Demon Sect had already established the gate of the Demon Sect.

Become an immortal demon that transcends the five realms, that's why it's said like this."

"Crossing the Five Realms?"

Ning Que couldn't help but feel shaken as he thought about the legendary saints, the apocalypse and the terrifying realms that the old man Lu Qingchen told about.

"Except for the abandoned Demon Sect Mountain Gate, I believe that there must be powerful people who transcend the five realms in other unknown places. However, these powerful people are very few in number and basically do not appear in the world. There is only one person every few years.

When young disciples enter the world, they are called World Walkers. Once these World Walkers appear in the world, they are great practitioners in the realm of knowing fate. Even Liu Bai, the strongest swordsman in the world in the Southern Jin Dynasty, would feel a little wary."

Mo Shanshan looked at Ning Que with a very complicated look. The message in his eyes seemed to be that her previous words were different from the world she saw with her own eyes, so she was not confident.

Ning Que didn't notice the look in her eyes. He was still immersed in the shock brought by these secrets of the world of cultivation. Thinking back to his daily life in the mountains behind the academy, he became increasingly slanderous and angry at the second senior brother, third senior sister, and Chen Pipi.

Guy, you didn't even tell yourself such an important thing.

He frowned and said: "If things like the Heavenly Book can only exist in an unknown place, then the people who are qualified to snatch the Heavenly Book should logically be those who come from the unknown place and walk around the world. I thought I might encounter competition.

The opponents are at most Daoist idiots or people at the level of Long Qing, who can always compete with each other, but if you meet those great cultivators in the realm of knowing fate, it seems that you can't play with them."

For some reason, Mo Shanshan felt that he couldn't understand what this guy wanted to express at all. His eyebrows were furrowed as if drawn by an ink pen, and he asked, "What are you thinking about?"

Ning Que looked at her and said sincerely, "I'm wondering if we should go back to the south immediately. If you feel unhappy, I'll invite you to visit Chang'an City and take you to eat sweet-scented osmanthus cake."
To be continued...