Chapter 36: Stepping Sky Illusion
The ancient hall stands there, occupying a few miles in a circle, up to three hundred meters high, circling up on seven floors. The entire ancient hall is full of green and looks down like a god. In the center of the ancient hall, the four golden characters "Wen Cang Sheng Temple" are eye-catching, revealing an incomparable power. In front of the hall, four long green pillars stand, with blue reliefs on the surface entangled in clouds and dragons, lifelike.
The temple was paved from top to bottom, with eight hundred green long steps underneath, Gao Lan's mind was shocked. With this temple, you can imagine how prosperous the Cang Sect was! Only those top sects could have such a big deal.
Gao Lan took a deep breath and Fang Shi climbed up the steps. At first he hadn't noticed something unusual, but later he found that he was actually very tired! This feeling was like a mortal being climbing the stairs, but now he is a cultivator with the strength of the Golden Pill.
He tried to use his true qi, but here, the true qi could not gather at all. He felt that this strange ladder contained a special aura.
Gao Lan gasped heavily, but he insisted on walking upwards. The eight hundred-level level was undoubtedly extremely difficult for him, who was equivalent to a mortal.
After more than an hour, he finally walked all the steps and stood at the entrance of the temple.
Although Gao Lan's face was a little pale, he couldn't help but smile with relief at this moment. He had persisted.
His gaze then fell on the ground inadvertently, with a look of surprise on his face, and the ground was engraved: "In the temple and under the tribulation, all of them are mortals."
Seeing this row of words, a fire of hope ignited in his heart. In this way, no matter how strong his strength is, as long as he is not a master above the Tribulation Period, he is like a mortal. In this way, he has no disadvantage compared to his previous sect. It seems that this has nothing to do with his strength by passing the temple.
Gao Lan was even more curious about the temple. If he didn’t test his strength, what would he test?
He looked inside the temple gate and felt very strange. The gate was clearly open, but he could not see anything.
Unconsciously, he gently stretched out his right hand to touch it, and the air rippled strangely.
Then, before he could think, he felt that the space around him fluctuated. In an instant, everything changed.
He was sitting by a small river, and another strange old man was sitting beside him, and he was fishing there.
Gao Lan said funnyly: "Old man, are you learning to fish in Jiang Taigong?"
The old man was stunned: "Jiang Taigong fishing?"
Gao Lan was ashamed that there was no Jiang Taigong in this world, so he had to tell the old man a story:
Once upon a time, an old man named Jiang Shang, who ordered to be punctual and set up a hook to catch fish in the Wei River without using fragrant bait. He was three feet away from the water surface. Shang said to himself, "Those who have the will to take the hook!"
Jiang Shang, also known as Jiang Taigong, often drapes bells beside the stream of Fan. Most people use a hook to fish, followed by a fragrant bait on it, and then sink it in the water to lure the fish to get on the hook. However, Taigong's hook is straight, and there is no bait on it, nor does it sink into the water, and it is three feet high from the water surface. While he raised the fishing rod high, he said to himself: "A fish that doesn't want to live. If you want, just take the hook yourself!"
One day, a firewood man came to the stream and saw Taigong fishing on the water with a straight hook that did not place bait. He said to him: "Old sir, if you fish like you, you will not be able to catch a single fish for 100 years!"
The Taigong raised the fishing rod and said, "Tell me the truth!"
At that time, there was a kingdom named Ji Chang. When Ji Chang found out, he sent a soldier to call him. But the grandfather ignored the soldier and only cared about fishing on his own. He said to himself: "Fish, fish, fish, fish, the fish don't take the hook, the shrimps come and make trouble!"
After hearing the soldiers' reports, Ji Chang sent an official to invite the grandfather. However, the grandfather still ignored it and said while fishing: "Fish, fish, big fish don't take the hook, small fish don't mess around!"
Only then did Ji Chang realize that this angler must be a talented person and should go to him personally. So he ate for three days, took a bath, changed his clothes, and went to Fanxi to hire Taigong. Seeing that he was sincerely hiring him, Taigong agreed to serve him.
Later, Jiang Shang assisted King Wen Jichang to build a country and also helped King Wen's son King Wu Jifa to destroy the previous dynasty and establish a new dynasty.
Some of the plots were slightly changed by Gao Lan, but the old man still smiled and said, "You are really strange, but I have never known that there was such a dynasty in history."
Gao Lan said: "Of course, this was made up by the boy himself. How dare you ask the old man's name?"
The old man smiled: "The country folks have no names. However, I was puzzled and wanted to ask others for advice, but unexpectedly, no one has come for three hundred years!"
Gao Lan knew that the old man was joking, so he said, "The old man is really long-lived - long-lived than the sky!" He wanted to say long-lived than Nanshan, but thought that he would explain a lot later, so he simply changed it to long-lived than the sky.
The old man said calmly: "You are asking the leader of Cang Sect?"
Gao Lan was secretly shocked. The old man knew a lot, so he said, "That's it."
The old man said, "Then I ask, if one day, ask the Cang Sect that the destruction of the clan is, what would you choose between the lives of you and your disciples and the foundation of the sect's Taoist sect?"
Gao Lan said without hesitation: "Nature is human life."
The old man didn't expect Gao Lan to answer like this, and said with a hint of excitement: "In the past thousand years, you are the second one to answer like this. Can you tell me why you think so?"
Gao Lansheng was influenced by the thoughts of his previous life, so he naturally chose human life between human life and house. But he didn't know that in this world of cultivation, he regarded the Taoist sects as higher than human life.
In the eyes of most major sects, as long as the sect is in power, disciples can be recruited again. This also reflects the contempt of cultivators towards the lives of living beings, which also reflects the selfish psychology of cultivators. They have been competing for life with heaven, but they often go to the top of others' lives and use other people's lives to block disasters.
Gao Lan said funnyly: "You still need to ask? Everyone is dead, why do you still want a house?"
The old man smiled heartily: "Okay, okay, what's your name?"
"Gao Lan!"
"Gao Lan, okay, don't you want to know who I am? Now, I can tell you, my name is Bu Tian."
Gao Lan nodded and smiled, "So it's Senior Bu Tian!"
Then, he remembered something and said in surprise: "What? You, are Bu Tian, the ancestor of this sect?"
Bu Tian smiled and said, "That's right, but you don't have to wonder, my body has ascended, this is the illusion I left behind."
Chapter completed!