Martial Arts Master

In late 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, looking at the Weishui Lake illuminated by the street lamps, and the waterside where Lou Cheng and I walked around countless times day after day. On the road, I feel that every scenery and every corner can remind me of different scenes.

Everything in the past, breaking through the two-year gap, appeared vividly in her mind again.

Lou Cheng also lamented and echoed with emotion: "I haven't walked this road for almost a year."

But I always think back to the initial thrill and the purest beauty, and the hard-won share, and tell myself not to take it for granted, but to know how to cherish and maintain it.

"Let's go, sister invites you to take another walk~" Yan Zheke's starry eyes were bright, and he stretched out his delicate right hand with a smile on his face.

Lou Cheng held it, looked forward, coughed twice, and said with a smile:

"I remember that every time you took the initiative to invite me to go for a walk by the lake, you were hinting and tacitly allowing me to be intimate..."

What about today?

Yan Zheke's eyes widened when he heard this, his mouth was half-opened, and his pretty face couldn't help but blush and said:

"No!"

"It's all because of you that you are such a gangster!"

"I won't go for a walk with you!" She added bitterly and tried to pull her hand away, but Lou Cheng held it tightly and couldn't break free. She had to bite her teeth secretly and followed behind "aggrievedly". Walking down from one end of the long bridge to the lake, along the memories of the past, crossing familiar scenes, wandering on a journey where reality and illusion intersect.

The hand-holding at that time, the first kiss at that time, the girl taking out the paper towels and the boy cleaning the wooden bench, the casual gossip at that time, the youthful feeling of being content with just taking a walk every night and secretly kissing a few times. , suddenly vivid in their minds, making Yan Zheke and Lou Cheng seem to have stepped into the gap between the past and the present.

"Fortunately, fortunately we are still together, otherwise it would definitely be very regretful..." Yan Zheke suddenly said with emotion.

That kind of regret will be a wound that will never heal for a lifetime.

Lou Cheng moved his fingers secretly, intertwined tightly with the little fairy, and solemnly promised:

"We'll keep going."

"Yeah!" Yan Zheke nodded vigorously.

After walking a few steps forward, Lou Cheng pointed to the side of the road, chuckled twice and said:

“This is where I discovered herring and picked up golden elixirs.”

"Here..." Yan Zheke stretched her eyebrows, looked curiously, and whispered softly.

She stared carefully for a few seconds, then turned sideways and pointed at the lake, clasped her hands together, closed her bright eyes slightly, and muttered something.

"Keke, what are you doing?" Lou Cheng asked blankly.

The girl's dimples appeared, her lips pursed slightly, and she smiled sweetly:

"I'm grateful to Mr. Qingyu! If it weren't for it, some fool might have given up. This is the origin of everything!"

"It probably won't like what you said...it's better to die than to live." Lou Cheng laughed and shook his head, then cleared his throat and said, "The real reason is that I saw you standing outside the martial arts club wearing Hanfu, and finally got the courage to Courage to strike up a conversation, otherwise I wouldn’t be running by the lake at all.”

Yan Zheke half-turned his starry eyes and asked with rippling laughter:

"Is this the lyrics, 'Just because I looked at you one more time in the crowd'?"

She has a clear voice and a beautiful singing voice.

Lou Cheng listened with a smile and joked: "Classmate Ke Xiaoke, are you talking sweet words to me?"

"If you say yes, then that's it~" Yan Zheke put his hands behind his back and walked forward lightly.

The young couple walked around the lake, reliving the feelings in the places where they had been intimate in the past, and calming down the heat on their faces and breathing rhythm, and finally waited for Old Man Shi.

He is still old, but the frequency of coughing has been significantly reduced. The Nine-Character Jue has improved his spirit and nourished his body. Although his old injuries have not been completely cured, it has also eased him a lot.

"Go into the water. If you don't tell me, old man, I really forgot about such a thing." Comrade Shi Jianguo admitted frankly.

Yan Zheke was hiding his mouth and laughing beside him. He felt that the master and apprentice were really similar in some aspects!

It’s not that one family doesn’t enter the same house!

Well, am I scolding myself...

Unreliable old man... Lou Cheng cursed secretly, took out his mobile phone, wallet and other items and handed them to his wife.

After thinking for a moment, he felt that there was no need to act like an expert, so Old Man Shi also left his cell phone behind and walked step by step into the lake. The cold air filled his body and crystals formed. If he wanted to freeze himself, it would not affect his movements.

Lou Cheng followed suit and took a deep breath, letting every inch of his skin shine with a cold light.

The master and apprentice walked farther and farther, with fewer and fewer body parts exposed outside the water. Finally, they calmed down and completely disappeared from Yan Zheke's eyes.

Waves of light floated around him, and there was a hint of pressure. Lou Cheng let his body enter the state of fetal breath, just like when he was practicing underwater, seeking the alienation of the root essence.

——At his current level, he can stay underwater for ten or twenty minutes without any problem.

As the lush water plants swayed, Old Man Shi moved his mouth, causing ripples to flow to Lou Cheng in circles, bringing a sound that seemed to come from the horizon:

"The bottom of the lake is quite big. I did a rough search around it for my teacher, but found nothing. Do we want to check it inch by inch this time?"

Lou Cheng also replied via voice transmission: "Master, think about it, if the herring swallowed the golden elixir, it must have had an attack on the spot. The range in which it can swim or jump is limited. Let's look for it in the area close to the discovery location. Maybe we can find it." It’s rewarding.”

"If you can't find him, I'll slap you on the head for the master!" Old Man Shi always felt that his apprentice was often unreliable.

Keeping their feet on the ground and moving forward slowly, Lou Cheng and Old Man Shi looked around in the dark sparkling water, distinguishing the special, and forming an "ice mirror" or "piercing the enemy's ice heart" to understand the subtleties.

After searching for most of the area near the lake, Old Shi suddenly paused, frowned and said:

"Don't tell me, the feeling here is different from the last time I came here. It seems to be changing according to the phases of the moon..."

A single investigation cannot find the problem, but after two comparisons, the anomaly appears!

Lou Cheng used his powerful night vision to grasp the faint light under the water and looked around, taking in a panoramic view of the entire area.

Densely covered gravel and stones, swaying water plants, and trash thrown by someone. Apart from these, there is nothing else, let alone a place that looks like the entrance to a cave.

After pondering for a few seconds, Lou Cheng followed the pre-planned plan and formed seals with his hands, which were constantly changing, and the ancient characters in his mind also jumped.

"Come! Soldiers! Fight! Those!" He opened his mouth and shouted, the sound shook the surroundings and caused the water waves to rise and fall in a regular manner.

"Everyone! Formation! Line up! Forward! Go!"

As soon as the word "行" came out, nine seal characters appeared in the depths of Lou Chengxin Lake, forming a three-dimensional rune that seemed to contain a deep mystery.

Boom!

At this moment, a low hum echoed from somewhere, and as the water swayed, a gap opened in the bottom of the lake composed of gravel and stone, revealing the stone steps extending downward.

"The trick of using the moon to attract and arrange..." Old Man Shi commented with disdain, "You brat, the night you got the golden elixir was when the moon was waning, right? And the herring doesn't have much wisdom either."

"I don't remember..." Lou Cheng answered truthfully.

"What do you remember?" Old Man Shi shook his head and cursed with a smile, and walked along the stone steps into the cave. It was moist but without water.

Lou Cheng held back his surging heart, followed his master, went deep into the bottom, and saw the simple and empty stone chamber.

There is only a cloud bed here, with a few yellowed papers and a tattered feather coat placed on it.

"It doesn't look like the cave where Master Longhu lives every day..." Old Man Shi, who had seen many cultivation relics, frowned and whispered.

Lou Cheng looked around and guessed:

"Maybe it's a place of retreat?"

That feather coat seems to have been worn by Master Longhu before his death. Where is his body?

"It's possible." Old Man Shi came closer, and just as he was about to reach out to pick up the feather coat, the breeze caused the man to instantly decay and scatter in the stone room!

On the contrary, the note-like pages were still intact.

Lou Cheng stared at it and read the text on the first sheet:

"The deadline is approaching. It's a pity that I have been practicing hard for 100 and 30 years to paint cakes in one day."

"The predecessors sought the independence of the soul, wanted to give birth to a baby in the golden elixir, get rid of the shackles of the body, and travel between heaven and earth. Unfortunately, for thousands of years, no one has succeeded. I will not take this path, imitating the immortal heaven and earth to become elixirs. , praying for a long life, but the road ahead is bleak and full of dangers, and it ends here."

Old Man Shi turned over other papers and read quickly. At the end, the master and the apprentice finally understood what Master Longhu had done and why his golden elixir had been preserved to this day.

According to Master Longhu, once a cultivator is dead, the golden elixir that loses the control of the "spirit" will either quickly lose control and explode, or it will barely maintain a balance and then disperse quickly. However, he used ice and fire to imitate yin and yang and the starry sky to form elixirs. It reflects nature and rotates in balance, hoping to be "immortal" like heaven and earth.

Based on this, before he sat down and passed away, he planned to try his best, which was to reverse the technique of the spirit to feed the body, so that the body would be completely wiped out, so as to ignite the spirit, completely integrate the "spirit" and the golden elixir, and use it to The "immortality" of the golden elixir gained its own eternal existence - for the sake of possible success, he changed the order of stars inside the golden elixir and "engraved" the Nine-Character Technique and his own skills in it.

This idea was unprecedented, and Master Longhu was not sure at all. He wrote down notes before trying it for reference by Taoist friends, which was regarded as a trial and error for those who came after.

As for what happened in the middle, Lou Cheng and Old Man Shi have no way of knowing. They can only see the final result, which is that the real person Longhu failed to survive forever, and the golden elixir has no independent will, but it has been strangely preserved until now.