Starting boy Ma Kongqun

Chapter 82 Anecdotes of Strange People, Legends of Immortals

Early the next morning, Ma Kongqun and Wang Qiong went out together.

They first went to a temporary base in Makongqun and picked up the thousand-year-old ginseng. Then Wang Qiong led them to a small wooden house in a secluded place on the seaside.

When the two of them arrived at the door, the two wooden doors suddenly opened inwards automatically, and at the same time a mellow and soft voice came: "Come in!"

Ma Kongqun followed Wang Qiong into the room and saw that the furnishings inside were very simple. There was only a couch in the corner, a table in front of the window, a chair in front of the table, a table by the door, and a few white grass futons on the sides.

An old man in commoner clothes with gray hair and gray hair sat cross-legged behind a futon behind several tables. On the tables was a set of "raindrop glaze" tea sets from Zibo, Shandong Province.

"Master!" Wang Qiong called out cheerfully when he saw the old man, walked up quickly, sat down on a futon next to the old man, looked at his face carefully and asked, "Are you feeling better? ?”

"It's just a little wear and tear, and it won't matter if you perform the work a few times." The old man looked at her lovingly and smiled, and then looked at Ma Kongqun who was stopping inside the door.

Ma Kongqun held the gift box in his hand and bowed in greeting: "Junior Ma Kongqun, I have met my senior."

The old man's eyes were full of admiration, and he smiled and said: "After Shen Lang, another young hero finally appeared in the world. It's no wonder that this girl Qiong'er fell in love with you at first sight."

"What's love at first sight? Master, don't talk nonsense!"

Wang Qiong and Yourong Yan were overjoyed to hear such a master like their master praising their sweetheart, but they refused to admit it.

Ma Kongqun was actually a little frightened, so he humbly said: "There are so many amazing and talented people in the world, how dare you, the younger generation, to be so famous?"

The old man shook his head and said: "Although there are many outstanding people in the world, and there are many who are above you in martial arts, at your age, none of them have your level of cultivation, nor are they as broad and strong as you. foundation. Therefore, your future achievements will definitely surpass them."

Ma Kongqun knew his own affairs. If he hadn't cheated by relying on the mysterious jade tablet in his mind, even though he had the advantage of foresight, he would not be able to compare with the real geniuses of the world, so he could only secretly say "ashamed".

The old man waved to him and asked him to sit down on the futon opposite the table.

Ma Kongqun hurriedly presented the gift box and explained the contents and uses.

The old man stopped smiling, then pointed to the tea sets on the table and said: "Because of your relationship with Qiong'er, I call you by your first name. This is the tea I picked and roasted by myself. How do you think it tastes if you come here to taste it?" ?”

Ma Kongqun saw the steam coming out of the teapot. He must have just made tea, but several cups were still empty. He hurriedly picked up the teapot and poured water into the teacups in front of the old man.

When the cup of tea was about seven minutes full, the index finger of the old man's right hand placed on the table suddenly lifted slightly, and an invisible force of energy suddenly locked onto the wrist of Ma Kongqun's right hand holding the pot.

Ma Kongqun instinctively had a premonition that when the cup of tea was seventy percent full, he would have to stop pouring the water. The moment a flaw appeared in the originally harmonious energy, the old man would find a gap and launch an attack.

Although this is just a small game, the old man most likely won't take action seriously, but if he doesn't handle it properly, he will inevitably seem to be unworthy of the old man's attention.

His mind stirred, and he remembered a story in which the situation was quite similar to what he was seeing before him. He immediately quietly started to use the "Heaven-Earth-shaking Power" to incorporate a ray of yin-yang cycle and endless internal force into the tea in the pot.

The tea water was still flowing continuously into the cup, but the tea water in the cup stopped at a position slightly shy of seven minutes full and stopped rising. Wang Qiong also saw that the master was trying to test his sweetheart, and was worried about Ma Kongqun at first. Later, I saw that he had come up with such a clever way to deal with it, and I couldn't help but admire his aura of mind again.

At this moment, the tea poured from the spout of the pot is still dripping when viewed from the front, and there seems to be nothing unusual about it. But when you look at it from the side, you can see that the water flow is actually divided into two. One stream flows down into the teacup, and the other stream goes upstream and returns to the teapot. One stream and one reverse, and the cycle goes back and forth, just like Yin and Yang. Round and round, without beginning or end.

After a while, the old man laughed and raised his hand to get the teacup.

Ma Kongqun lifted the teapot just in time and poured a cup of tea for Wang Qiong and himself.

The old man took a sip of tea, held the teacup in his hand and sighed: "I have never had a wife, no children, no worries. Ten years ago, I wanted to follow the example of my predecessors and go to sea to visit the fairyland, but I didn't know that I met Qiong'er, this girl, and everything happened. I have been worrying about it and delayed it until now. Now that she has mastered the 'Four Lights Magic Skill', and you have time to take care of me, I can finally go to sea with peace of mind!"

Wang Qiong's expression immediately changed, and he stretched out his hand to grab the sleeves of the old man and begged: "What kind of gods are there in this world? Master, why don't you stay?"

Ma Kongqun had many thoughts in an instant, and after thinking about it briefly, he asked: "As far as I know, many masters throughout the ages have finally chosen to go to sea to seek immortality. The most recent one is the famous hero Shen Lang. Senior, you and these masters With your knowledge, you will not know that the theory of immortality is vague and unfounded, but they all insist on doing it. Is there any hidden secret in it? "

The old man pondered for a moment and said: "With your cultivation level in Kongqun, you may be exposed to this matter within ten years, so it doesn't hurt to tell you in advance.

Then he started talking about his own life experience, and then talked about a secret in this world.

The old man's name was Rui Xuan, and he was the descendant of the strange man named "Rui Wei" whom Ma Kongqun knew.

He practiced the "Moon-Shaped Sect" martial arts from a single lineage in his family since he was a child. By the age of thirty-five, he had mastered the "Four Lights Divine Kung Fu". No matter how hard he practiced after that, he could never make any progress.

However, he can clearly feel that his potential has not been reached and there is still a lot of room for improvement. It was as if there was a shackle somewhere, locking the upper limit of his cultivation realm.

Later, the old man carefully read through the letters of the ancestors of the Rui family and found that before him, two ancestors had encountered the same situation, and they could not break this shackles throughout their lives, and they passed away with regrets.

He was unwilling to end up in the same way, so he secretly sneaked into the scripture collection centers of various sects to find a solution, and finally found the answer in a note of Zhang Sanfeng secretly hidden by the Wudang Sect.

According to Zhang Zhenren's notes, all warriors in the world, and even the legendary gods and demons, are thieves who steal the origin of heaven and earth to strengthen themselves. Each heaven and earth has its own consciousness in the dark, and will spontaneously restrict the upper limit of the practitioner's cultivation, so as not to cause irreversible harm to the origin of heaven and earth.

If a practitioner wants to break through the upper limit, there are only two ways. The first is to break the shackles imposed by heaven and earth on oneself, which is called "transcendence into the holy"; the second is to break the barriers between different heavens and earth and pursue a higher level of power in the wider world on the other side, which is called "breaking the void".

But the level of cultivation power in this world is too low. With the upper limit of a warrior, there is no possibility of "transcendence into sainthood" or "shattering the void".

Fortunately, the way of heaven is balanced and selfless, and always leaves people with a glimmer of hope. In this world, there is a "fairy gate" leading to other worlds. But this "immortal gate" only appears once every ten years, and it appears randomly anywhere on the endless sea. Even if there are some strange phenomena before they appear, finding them is not much easier than finding a needle in a haystack.

There are many senior masters in ancient and modern times who feel that the road to martial arts has come to an end, and they happen to know the secret. However, there are only a few who can find the "immortal gate" and cross the border. Most of them are killed in the storm or eventually die at sea.

But no matter how slim the hope is, it is still hope. The old man realizes that his remaining days are limited and has decided to gamble on this glimmer of hope.

After hearing this, Ma Kongqun and Wang Qiong looked at each other speechlessly, neither knowing whether to dissuade the old man.

(End of this chapter)