Chapter Thirteen: The Road to Shu is Difficult
In front of the mountain road, Duan Yin subconsciously took a step forward with his right foot. All this was taken into consideration by Wang Zhi. The young man in a black long gown looked angry and worshipped a master of Yucheng as his teacher. This was a temptation that no one could refuse. If it weren't for the sect leader's loyalty in his hand, why would he have obtained such a great blessing?
However, Duan Yin refused and did not hesitate too much. For a verbal promise, he put the opportunity in front of him and insisted on going to Shushan. To put it nicely, this is stubborn, to put it bluntly, this is ungrateful.
However, because Wang Zhi knew how stubborn this ordinary boy was in his previous contact. Therefore, he could not say how unexpected Duan Yin's answer was. He was silent for a moment, and his face calmed down, and then he looked at Duan Yin seriously and said, "Before walking on Shu Road, I think there are some things that need to be reminded of you. That is, if you fail to walk on Shu Road this time, then you don't want to go to Shu Mountain again. What I mean is that you fail this time, even if you wait until Shu Mountain opens the mountain gate again, you don't want to go to Shu Mountain."
Wang Zhi bit the four words of this life and this life very hard, and after he finished speaking, he saw Duan Yin stopping. So a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. Now it was nothing to do with whether he could get the head of the sect's secret talisman back from Duan Yin. After several consecutive threats or temptations were rejected by Duan Yin, Wang Zhi's always calm mood was no longer peaceful. He felt that this ignorant boy had to compromise in front of him to calm his impetuous heart.
Regarding whether we can go to Shushan, this threat is obviously much more powerful for Duan Yin than the previous threats.
Duan Yin has always wanted to see this world, but he has been thinking about it for six years. It was Ning Zhiyuan who gave him this opportunity.
He promised Ning Zhiyuan to come to Shushan and watch the sunrise on the top of Yuntian. Therefore, he must do it.
Because Duan Yin's heart is full of words. The reason why he stubbornly insisted on going to Shushan under the threat of Wang Zhi was because he valued promises more than anything else.
Once he loses the opportunity to go to Shushan, he will throw away the promise he always valued the most and will become nothing.
Duan Yin hesitated. He knew very well how difficult it was to walk the Shu Road. He never even thought that he could finish the Shu Road. He came to Shu Mountain today just wanted to give it a try.
But now it's different, he only has one chance.
Wang Zhi looked at Duan Yin calmly from the side. He was very satisfied with Duan Yin's current appearance. He felt that Duan Yin was about to compromise with him. Now, Wang Zhi felt that his mood was unprecedentedly comfortable and calm.
Until Duan Yin raised his legs and took another step forward, Wang Zhi's face gradually became gloomy.
Swirling up the bluestone path, the plants and trees beside them gradually became taller and dense, with a bit of a smell of covering the sky and sun. The thin sun shadows fell on the boy through the layers of leaves, making them look deep and quiet. Inhaling in a mouthful of fresh air in the morning, and then exhaling a mouthful of turbid white mist. Within an inhalation, Duan Yin realized that his inner irritability was gradually fading, his body was relaxing, and his footsteps became lighter.
When you reached the mountainside, a huge rock fell into Duan Yin's eyes. A huge rock several feet in radius was cut open from the middle by a sword, standing quietly beside the mottled stone staircase. On the section, the two big characters "Shu Road" have sharp pen tips. After being eroded by time for thousands of years, you can still feel the vast sword intent on the pavement.
Standing in front of the stone staircase, Duan Yin reached out and held the sword-shaped jade pendant on his chest, and rubbed his fingers back and forth until the jade pendant became slippery due to a layer of fine sweat, Duan Yin decided to take the first step.
This stone path that is of great significance to the entire Southern Tang Dynasty actually looks extremely ordinary. Duan Yin is familiar with the stone stairs. There are many gray-white stones on Wushan next to Qingshi Town. There are also many small paths similar to this stone stairs in Qingshi Town.
The three thousand six hundred stairs Shu Road seems to be no different except that it looks like it has more years of precipitation and baptism from wind and rain than those in Qingshi Town.
However, even if it looks very ordinary, it will become unusual in the eyes of the world after he has the name Shu Dao.
When he stepped on the first stage of Shu Road with his right foot, Duan Yin's face suddenly turned pale, and the fine beads of sweat on his forehead were visible to the naked eye, and finally covered his forehead. An indescribable pain came from the soles of Duan Yin's right foot, and then rushed through the spine along the nerves in the soles of his feet and finally rushed into his mind.
The stone staircase looks plain, but when it is stepped on it, it seems that there are tens of millions of fine needles piercing into the soles of the feet at the same time.
Duan Yin softened his right foot and knelt on one knee. He supported his forward-leaning body with his palms, and his hands fell on the stone stairs. The same pain came. Duan Yin raised his head with difficulty, trying hard to pierce the clouds and mist entrenched in the middle of the stone path to look towards the end of the Shu path. Then he groaned, supported his body with strong will to slowly straighten his spine, and stood up tremblingly.
Then, he stepped onto the Shu Road with his left foot and thunder broke out in the flat ground.
Standing at the first level of the Shu Road of 3,600 levels, the young man endured the stinging pain of the soles of his feet and endured the heavy pressure that was acting out of thin air on his body. He slowly closed his eyes.
After a long time, Duan Yin's eyes opened gently, revealing his blood-stained eyes. A smile was squeezed out from his throat with difficulty, and a sentence popped out from his throat, "This is the Taoist Dharma of the Immortals."
Yes, he smiled.
This ordinary boy who came out of Qingshi Town was always fantasizing about how shocking the Taoist art of the immortal family would be, but he never saw it.
In the tavern, he has been talking about "A master in the world and the world cuts a river with one finger." He just holds an optimistic attitude of being able to look at the master's magical means one day.
At the beginning, on the top of Wushan, Ning Zhiyuan told him that the old sword god Ye Shenshen Shenhu had a sword. It was indeed a spectacular scene. But he had never seen it before.
However, just today, at this moment, on the Shu Road, he truly felt the magic of the Taoist Dharma of the immortals.
Although the target of this immortal Taoist ritual was him, he still laughed. He had a hard time laughing, but he laughed happily.
A little adapted to the tingling pain on the soles of his feet and the pressure on his body, Duan Yin raised his toes again with trembling body. His right foot moved slowly, and a skeleton exploded. He bit his lip tightly and stubbornly placed his right foot on the second step.
The boy's clothes were wet and his face was twisted, but his red eyes were still staring at the end of the Shu Road stubbornly.
Of course, his eyes could not penetrate the clouds and mist entrenched in the middle of the Shu Road, so he could not see the end of the Shu Road.
If he could see through the clouds, he would see another scene.
At the end of Shu Road, two figures stood one by one. The old man He, who was slightly hunched on his back, put his hands behind him, his eyes as broad and calm as the sky above his head, and his mood was mostly the same. The long years have allowed him to see too many scenery, and there are too few things that can show his expression on his old face. However, when he saw Duan Yin's wet clothes, he couldn't help but shake his head contemptuously.
He was too familiar with Shu Dao. Through Duan Yin's reaction, he could accurately judge that this young man was indeed as Wang Zhi said, without a trace of true energy in his body.
Even if you have never entered the world of cultivation, you dare to walk on the Shu Road.
Chapter completed!