Don't have a hole in the sky.

1

Luo Xingshan was introduced by a girl in an elegant cheongsam into an antique hall with two rows of tables embroidered with a cloud-patterned brown tablecloth, a seat behind the table, a number plate on the table, the serial number number on his table was 8, Luo Xingshan took a look at the number plate, and then looked at the guests in front of him, secretly self-satisfied.

He has made great achievements in business in the past two years, his value has soared, and it has been rumored in the circle that he has entered the top ten of the Arashiyama business community, but this ranking is privately said and played, and there is no endorsement by institutions such as Forbes, but today,taking a look, the Lin family of the local business community also seems to recognize that he is strong enough to enter the top ten, and crossed two seats at once.

A few days ago he was looking forward to today's auction, unlike the auction house, today's auction is an internal auction sponsored by the Lin family, but the value of the collection will definitely not be lower than the spring auction and autumn auction of the major auction houses, the main reason is that today's auction is the collection of Lin Yuan, the old master of the Lin family.

Mr. Lin is a famous local collector, born in the twenties of the last century, if the legend is true, to this day is more than a hundred years old. When he was young, he engaged in business, created a great reputation, and built a huge business empire, and then gradually became a mastermind behind the scenes, and it is said that in recent years, he has lost his energy and transferred the control of the Lin family to his descendants.

A few days ago, it was rumored in the circle that Lin Yuan, the old master of the Lin family, was critically ill and wanted to find a good home for the antique treasures he had collected for a lifetime before he died.

There is a saying in the collecting circle that the collector flows water, and the treasure is eternal. As a human being whose life span is sometimes exhausted, it is doomed that there is no way to always have those antique treasures that have been passed down for thousands of years, so when their limit is approaching, finding a good master can also be regarded as an account of these treasures that have accompanied them for many years.

Luo Xingshan sighed in his heart, this is the real collector's ⻛⻣. The time soon came to the auction time, the auctioneer took the stage to give a speech, very much praised the high value of Mr. Lin's collection, and then the auction began, and a series of collections were auctioned in front of it.

Luo Xingshan was not interested in these things, and only liked jade and bronze, but it was said that There were not many such collections of old master Lin, so he did not have much hope. When the auction reached the second half, Luo Xingshan was already sure that he would be disappointed this time, but just when he was hesitating whether to find an excuse to leave first, the staff used a small "to launch a mountain stone" with a small ⻋.

This is not a regular collection!

Luo Xingshan was immediately attracted, and his heart beat like a drum in his chest. "This collection is mr. Lin Lao's special ⻔ for this auction, according to Lin Lao's requirements, this object is secretly auctioned, interested guests can use the pen on the table to write the amount on paper and seal it into an envelope, our staff will take back the envelope uniformly, and then publish the name of the recipient."

As soon as the auctioneer's voice fell, there was a whisper in the hall. Luo Xingshan listened to two people in the row behind him talking in a low voice. One person was astonished: "Isn't it the Immortal Mountain that will have mist steaming out of the crevices of the mountain stones every full moon night?" Another said, "You can't go wrong, that's the one."

The previous person said, "Isn't Old Master Lin gone?"

The latter asked, "Why do you say that?"

The previous person said, "I heard the old man say that this piece of stuff will never be sold unless he dies."

Luo Xingshan listened with his ears open, thinking that he had never known that the old man had such a magical collection, it was really lonely and unheard of, so he thought about it, and he wanted to get the rockery even more, but this collection took a secret shot, it was very troublesome, playing psychological tactics, the old Lin family really deserved to be a generation of business, and knew how to make people psychological.

Luo Xingshan scolded for a while, forcing himself to calm his head, like it or like it, but not to the point of losing his mind for it. Luo Xingshan thought for a moment, wrote down the numbers on the paper, and tucked them into the envelope. He gives a price that he thinks is appropriate. If you don't shoot it, it can only mean that you don't have this thing in your life.

Looking at the number of envelopes received by the cheongsam lady, there were not many bidders, but they were all in the forefront, and only two who did not bid before him had seven bids, that is to say, there were thirteen bidders counting him.

"Okay," said the auctioneer on the stage as he opened a piece of paper and glanced at the contents of the paper, "The winner of this rockery is revealed below, Mr. Zhao Ren No. 2." The voice fell, the hall resounded with applause, and Zhao Ren, who was in his forties, stood up and thanked the other guests.

Luo Xingshan was lost for a while, and immediately adjusted over, the Zhao family was rich after all. However, just when Luo Xingshan thought the dust had settled, a young man hurried up and snatched the microphone directly from the auctioneer's hand, "Sorry, my grandfather said that this collection is not for sale." ”

The young man said, bowing in the direction of Zhao Ren and apologizing, "Mr. Zhao, my grandfather said that in order to express his apologies to you, the auction below will give you one piece for free." ”

As soon as these words came out, Zhao Ren, who had already hung up on his face, was not good to say anything more, after all, the lowest price of the previous collection was more than one million.

"What about this one?" Zhao Ren asked a question without dying.

The young man replied, "My grandfather said he would give it to someone who was related."

Luo Xingshan skimmed his lips and complained in his heart: What is related to people, it is not because the price is not enough. After that, seven or eight pieces of the collection were photographed one after another, and Zhao chose one of the vases.

Towards the end, everyone got up to greet each other and then prepared to leave. Luo Xingshan and two acquaintances walked and chatted, cold, someone behind him called his name, he turned to look, did not expect that it was the young man who passed on the message for Old Master Lin.

"Mr. Locke, please wait a minute, my grandfather wants you, I don't know if you have time." While following the young man through the Chinese courtyard, Luo Xingshan was still recalling the surprised expression of the two friends when they heard that Mr. Lin wanted him. In their view, being able to be the old side of Lin can already be regarded as a thing worthy of boasting.

After walking for about five or six minutes, Luo Xingshan was taken into a courtyard deep in the complex, where the young man asked him to wait in the hall house, and after a moment an old man with white hair was pushed in in a wheelchair.

Luo Xingshan took a step forward and bowed to the old man, "Hello Old Mr. Lin." Lin Yuan waved his hand, smiled and said, "Don't be polite, I don't like politeness the most, this older person, generations and generations, inside and outside are polite to me." Sick of it. "The old man's face is wrinkled and ravine, but his face is rosy and full of breath, and some people believe it when he looks at his face and says that he is seventy or eighty." Just the right eyebrow when speaking ⻆ from time to time up.

Luo Xingshan pressed the excitement and was about to speak, but Lin Yuan interrupted him. "Don't think about it, there's nothing else to do with you, that rockery, I want to give it to you."

Luo Xingshan's eyes widened and he stood still for half a moment: "Why?"

Lin Yuan smiled, "I think you are related to it, you don't need me to say it, you should know it yourself."

Luo Xingshan has never believed in this kind of reason, but he likes the artificial mountain stone when he looks at it, so it can be regarded as a fate.

"Okay, just look at your reaction and you'll know I'm right, so let's go, I'll go back to sleep, Ah Chu, send me back." The young man who was called Ah Chu answered "yes," pushed his wheelchair out, turned his head and said to Luo Xingshan, "Someone will take you out in a moment."

2

Luo Xingshan had been returning home and still had some clouds in the fog, feeling that the whole thing was strange everywhere, and after many years in business, he had never believed in the good things of pie falling from the sky. At this moment, however, such a thing was happening to him so that he could not believe it.

The next morning, the housekeeper came to inform him that a family member surnamed Lin had come to deliver the goods.

Luo Xingshan was overjoyed, and hurriedly changed his clothes to greet him at the mouth.

Two "east" cars came, and the east was placed on the escort," and a uniformed professional delivered a collision avoidance safe containing a rockery to Luo Xingshan's villa.

The person who came from the Lin family was the young man named Ah Chu last night. Luo Xingshan, dressed in black and with a sad face, his heart jumped and he tentatively asked. Ah Chu told him that in the early hours of this morning, Old Lady Lin Yuan had passed away.

Luo Xingshan listened to his heart shake and stood still for half a moment, and when he returned to his senses, the delivery person had already left. Shaking his head and sighing, Luo Xingshan returned to the room, opened the safe, and the rockery was displayed in front of him.

It was carved into a rockery by a whole piece of Shoushan stone, about forty-five centimeters high, about twenty centimeters wide, fifty centimeters, with a pavilion the size of a thumb, a tiny notch-like staircase, a red cliff with the word "Cloud Dream", a hole in the yang side of the rockery, and a hole in the yin side.

Luo Xingshan guessed that these two numbers corresponded to the numbers of Tiangang and Di yan. The whole rockery is warm and light, and the light flows on it, which feels vaguely like a temperature, not as cold as ordinary jade.

Luo Xingshan looked more and more liked, took a magnifying glass in front of the view, only the tourists in the pavilion above the peak of the mountain were delicate, the eyebrows were vivid, vivid, Luo Xingshan saw it fascinatingly, slammed one of them twisted his face and smiled at him, he was startled, and the magnifying glass fell to the ground.

The left hand was followed by a pain, and when it turned out that when it had just been frightened, the unconscious sharp mountain in the left hand had drawn a wound in the palm near the base of the thumb, the wound was not large, and a few drops of blood oozed out, dripping on the ochre mountain stone.

Luo Xingshan couldn't care about the wound on his hand, and quickly found a soft deerskin handkerchief to wipe it. But when he returned with the handkerchief, he was shocked to find that the few drops of blood on the shower had been soaked into the mountain stone at some point, and there was no trace at all, as if the rockery had just spit out his tongue and licked the blood clean little by little.

Luo Xingshan cleaned up the wound, picked up the magnifying glass, and then looked at the laughing stone man, but it was no different. Perhaps it was the refraction of light that appeared at the edge of the magnifying glass, Luo Xingshan guessed in his heart, and then moved a chair to sit next to it and continue to watch.

The holes in the mountain come in different sizes, shapes, and depths, and even slight air currents can be felt when the palms of the hands are placed at the mouth of the caves. It is also not known whether there will really be a steaming mist coming out of these holes on the night of the full moon. Luo Xingshan opened his mobile phone to check the calendar while thinking, and his heart suddenly became excited, today is the night of the full moon.

Anxiously waiting until the night, Luo Xingshan was sleepy and yawned, and he relied on strong tea to hold on until the middle of the moon. Turn off the lights in the house, and mercury-like moonlight flows in from the window and sprinkles on the rockery. Luo Xingshan lay on the side of the large sofa, his eyes staring at the rockery, and in a trance, it seemed as if there were real clouds gradually spilling out of the hole.

Then the smell of strange smells filled his face, and Luo Xingshan's original sleepy consciousness suddenly became energetic and sat up straight from the sofa. Only at this moment, the milky white cloud leaked out of the hole like running water.

Luo Xingshan was stunned, trying to find a mobile phone to film this scene, when he suddenly noticed that someone was calling his name. The shouts seemed to come from far away.

Luo Xingshan subconsciously responded, and in an instant he felt that he was in a trance, and then the whole person seemed to suddenly soar into the clouds and drive the fog⻜ up, no, not rising, but falling, he yelled, desperately waving his limbs, but the body fell completely uncontrollably, about ten seconds fell, the speed slowed down, and suddenly fell to the ground.

Solidly under his feet, Luo Xingshan breathed a sigh of relief, so that he had not been thrown to death.

Only the clouds around it are lingering. Luo Xingshan was afraid of walking around randomly and falling, so he only dared to explore inches and feet, so tentatively took a few steps, and suddenly a stone stele stood out from the fog, he walked closer, carefully examined, and there were three words written on it in seal characters between them--Receiving Fantai.

The stone stele is a whole piece of Hetian jade, how tall a person is, and it is cold to the touch. Luo Xingshan was stunned, thinking that such a large piece of jade was a priceless treasure. Just as he was looking at the jade stele, the fog around him suddenly parted, and a boy riding a white deer stepped out of the fog and stepped on the stone slab under his feet, making a crunching and crisp sound.

Luo Xingshan turned his head to look at the comer, and shouted in his heart, Mo did not have some strange dream, subconsciously biting the tip of his tongue, he could feel a slight pain, indicating that he was conscious.

The deer riding boy gradually approached, looking at his face about seven or eight years old, tied to the sky, wearing a very simple " color clothes and pants, under the seat of the white deer with a chestnut-shaped horn on the top of the head, the size of the donkey, the body is as white as snow.

Stopping nearly three meters before Luo Xingshan, the boy stared at Luo Xingshan with his eyes, and suddenly said, "Luo Xingshan, this is the Cloud Dream Cave Heaven, now that you are fortunate to be invited, why don't you come with me, and when will you stay?"

3

The boy rode forward on a deer and sang a melodic Qingyue tune in a childish child's voice.

Heavenly White Jade Jing, the Twelfth Floor Five Cities, the Immortals Caress my Top, Tie Hair, Suffer birth, mistakenly chase the world's happiness, quite poor and chaotic. Ninety-six holy kings, floating clouds hanging empty names. The fate of the time is a great fallacy, and it is abandoned to sail on the sea. The children's play is not enough, and the five out of "Jing" are out. Breathing away from a hundred rivers, Yanran can be destroyed. The heart knows nothing, but it wants to inhabit the fluffy.

Luo Xingshan followed behind, listening carefully, he could hear from the first few sentences that it was changed by a poem by Li Taibai, but he did not remember whether it was the words and phrases in the original poem, the boy sang childishly, and the song echoed in the misty mountains, but Luo Xingshan really had a sense of "jumping out of the three realms, not in the five elements".

After walking for a while, the mountain road winded, higher and higher, the fog gradually dissipated, only the sky was full of moons, and the silver light was sprinkled everywhere. A burst of clarity came, Luo Xingshan only felt that his body was full of heat and was dispersed by the mountain, and when he turned back to look in the direction of coming, he had already fallen into the clouds and disappeared.

It was really magical, he sighed in his heart, obviously not long ago he was still admiring the rockery in the living room, as far as he knew, there was no mountain under his feet around Arashiyama, if what the boy said just now was true, he was in the "Cloud Dream Cave Heaven" at the moment, and the rockery given by Mr. Lin was engraved with the word "Cloud Dream".

It seems that the strangeness of the rockery is far from being as simple as "the night of the full moon, the clouds and mist are steaming", and I don't know what forbidden spell I accidentally touched, causing myself to be ingested into it, fortunately, the boy's attitude is kind and good, and what lives in this mountain should not be an evil.

Luo Xingshan wanted to walk while walking, and the mountain road seemed to have no end, and his legs gradually became sour. "Boy, boy, how long will it take?" He cried out to the boy.

The boy ignored him and continued to sing the song over and over again.

Luo Xingshan did not dare to ask again, he could only stagger and follow, fortunately, not far from walking, a dark cave appeared in front of him.

From a distance, the cave was not big, and when I approached Luo Xingshan, I was startled, good fellow, tall and wide, like the mouth of the city cave.

The boy stopped and looked back at him with the deer, his eyes wandering in the moonlight, meaning something unclear.

Luo Xingshan thought that the boy was going to speak, but he did not expect that the other party would twist his head back, and his small hand patted the deer's body, and one person and one deer walked into the hole.

Luo Xingshan's throat tightened, stretching his neck to look inside, the hole seemed to be extremely deep, the cave was pitch black, he couldn't see where it led, it should not be closed, standing at the mouth of the cave could feel the cold ⻛ blowing from the inside out.

Luo Xingshan gritted his teeth and plunged headlong into the dark cave.

It was dark in front of his eyes, and he could not see the boys and deer, only the sound of crisp hooves.

Luo Xingshan quickly chased after it, and after a few minutes, he slowly adapted to the light in the cave, and found that the cave was not pure darkness, the rocks on the cave wall were faintly glimmering, and the pavement under his feet was almost strange, as if he was walking on top of smooth glass, walking for about a quarter of an hour, looking at another round of full moon in the distance, emitting white light, Luo Xingshan accelerated his pace, he knew that it was the exit.

The "full moon" expands from the size of the basin to form an exit about the size of the entrance to the cave.

Luo Xingshan stopped at the dividing line formed by the light from outside the cave into the cave, and then carefully crossed it, without any abnormality. The exit is near the top of the mountain, and at the bottom of the mountain is a green field, thinking that it should be midnight at this moment, but this side of the world is as bright as day. Luo Xingshan looked up, there was no sun or moon on the heavenly dome, and there were no glowing celestial bodies.

But none of them were luminous bodies, and the whole canopy was like a light plate that radiated soft white light hanging at a very high place. Looking at the distance, the wilderness is vast, the river is meandering, the mountains at the end of the line of sight are stacked, the clouds and the sea are vast, this piece of heaven and earth is unexpectedly vast, Luo Xingshan is shocked in his heart, and the secret path is this the means of the gods, "Nasumi in mustard seeds, hiding the sun and moon in the pot."

Luo Xingshan sighed to himself, the boy had already ridden a deer to the bottom of the mountain, Luo Xingshan thought about the mountain path he climbed when he came, and sighed, thinking that the immortal means were so magical, why couldn't he use Tengyun to drive the fog or something to pick him up.

Fortunately, when going down the mountain road, the mountains on both sides of the mountain are full of flowers, the scenery is beautiful, after walking for a while, passing a forest of raw " unknown wild fruits, Luo Xingshan stopped and picked two, the fruit is red and lustrous, like cherries, but it is bigger than cherries, afraid of poison, he does not dare to eat.

But seeing that there were two strange creatures with "thin color" tail feathers on the tree, pecking, plus they were really thirsty, so they wiped on their clothes, stuffed them into their mouths and took a bite, but they didn't expect that the fruit juice was so sweet that Luo Xingshan almost groaned, ate one in three or two bites, and quickly ate it in his hand, and then reached out and picked two from the branches, eating while walking.

I don't know if it is the cause of the fruit, but I am tired and swept away. After the physical strength recovered, walking no longer became a burden, and Luo Xingshan also had leisure to carefully observe this square world. As far as the eye can see, everywhere is green, the soft soil between the stone slabs under the feet, the breeze with the atmosphere of the mountains and the wilderness, everything is real and can no longer be real.

This had a great impact on Luo Xingshan, who had been educated in materialism since childhood, and his senses told him that the world was real, but his intellect was constantly doubting.

4

Luo Xingshan thought they would go all the way down the mountain, but halfway up the mountain, the mountain path turned diagonally to the other side. This time it didn't go far, but when we reached a terrace, the white deer stopped.

The boy turned his head and said, "You are waiting here, and I will return to my master." Don't wait for Luo Xingshan's reaction, "self-driving deer along the mountain path, slightly leaning around the mountain rock and disappearing.".

Luo Xingshan had to go to the terrace, which was about two or three acres in size, facing the cliff on one side, leaning against the mountain wall on the other, and there was a huge tree in the middle, but it was not high, the branches were like umbrellas, and the canopy was like an umbrella, covering a large area secretly.

Stone chairs and stone tables are arranged under the trees, and the copper incense burner is placed on the table, the incense is burned internally, and the purple smoke rises straight up in the air, and five or six Daoists dressed in various ancient costumes play against each other, or taste tea and laugh, or "look at the cliff from afar, greet" and stand.

Luo Xingshan was taken aback, and as he walked, he wondered if this was the immortal who lived in this piece of heaven and earth. When you get closer, you quickly bow and salute, "Hello immortals!"

Those people all laughed and shook their hands to humble themselves: "Don't dare to call them immortals, they are all just cultivators."

Luo Xingshan glanced at them roughly, and the age difference between those people was obvious, some looked seventy or eighty, and some were even more tender than him. The clothes worn on the body are also different, some coarse cloth linen, some silk satin, but there is no column, all of them are rosy, looking healthy and energetic.

When he looked at the people, they looked at him. A forty-year-old middle-aged Daoist wearing an ochre robe took the lead in an ancient and clumsy accent and asked, "What dynasty and what dynasty did Xiaoyou come from?"

Luo Xingshan was stunned for a moment, did not find a suitable word, and could not be divided by dynasties at present, so he had to say the Gregorian year. Knowing that the people around them were all confused, Luo Xingshan knew at a glance that these people might all be ancient and earlier, just like the relics of "avoiding the chaos of the Qin Dynasty" living in the Peach Blossom Garden, "I don't know if there is a Han, no matter Wei or Jin", he asked them when they came to the outside dynasty.

Some people say Tang, some people say Song, some people say Yuan, the most recent person came here during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty. It is nearly five hundred years away from the era of Luo Xingshan.

"Didn't anyone come here and go back?" Luo Xingshan asked.

One of them laughed and said, "It's hard to find a blessed place, but if you don't grow old, who will be willing to go back?"

"It is, it is." Everyone else echoed the chorus.

"Little friend, you don't know," an old man with white eyebrows shook his head in admiration, "this is a place of forgetfulness, no pain and suffering, no fame and fortune, hunger and fairy fruit, thirst and clear springs, talking about the world on weekdays, tasting tea, it is really a fairy day." ”

"Is there a master here?" Luo Xingshan continued to ask.

Yes, that's a real fairy figure, you'll be able to him in a moment. As soon as his voice fell, the sound of a deer riding boy came from behind Luo Xingshan, and he didn't know when he would return.

"Everyone, the master said that in order to welcome the new people into the mountain, please come to Qushui Cave to meet."

"Why did you go to Qushui Cave?" The middle-aged Daoist in red asked questions in doubt.

"Don't you forget that whenever a new friend arrives, the mountain lord will hold a feast of meandering waters and streams." A dwarf said.

"But no, heck, it's been too long, I forgot about it, or you remember it well." The gray-haired Daoist praised. "Don't talk nonsense, go fast, I want to be in the upper class position, the fairy fruit is the freshest." Another man in a colored robe shouted. "Brother Yun You, that's not okay, the upper class position has always been a new friend." The dwarf said.

The crowd laughed and laughed, and the atmosphere was cheerful. Luo Xingshan was somewhat confused and huddled up the mountain path, turned a corner, and saw a mountain wall full of large and small caves, the distance between the caves and the caves was different, there were winding paths or stone steps connected, there was a big hole below, and everyone went straight to where to go.

Luo Xingshan followed everyone into the cave, only the space inside the cave was vast, the light was bright, the cave roof could be seven or eight meters according to the ground, and the fist-sized beads were embedded in the top of the cave, radiating light like fluorescent lamps.

The small bridge in the cave flows water, strange flowers and grasses, there is even a small piece of bamboo forest, go forward for a moment, walk to the depths of the bamboo forest, you hear the sound of babbling water, and take a few steps, a narrow stone canal carved in the cave appears in front of you, the water in the canal flows, gentle and roundabout, each roundabout, there are a few short futons, obviously the place to sit.

The crowd began to scramble for the position of the canal, and Luo Xingshan was invited to the uppermost part of the stone canal. That place is not far from the spring, the spring is actually above the ground, surrounded by white stone with a circular pool, the spring water output is quite large, gollum out of the water, the pool outlet connects the stone canal, Luo Xingshan sits down, the water vapor is pouring out.

Looking out into the canal, there were two or three tails of smaller tails rising against the current, jumping out of the water from time to time to make a crackling sound.

Luo Xingshan was feeling interesting, and suddenly he heard the sound of a silk bamboo musical instrument in his ear, vaguely coming from the bamboo forest on the other side, and everyone on the side of the canal followed the prestige, and in a moment, a young Daoist came out of the bamboo forest, more than forty years old, of medium height, wearing a colored Daoist robe, and a jade pendant hanging from his waist.

As he walked and shook, his hair was combed in a bun at the top of his head, a jade hairpin of " color was inserted, the face was narrow , the face was white and beardless , the facial features were upright , at first glance it looked no different from mortals, and then looked at it would feel strange , the whole person gave people a sense of otherworldliness, it is difficult to describe in words, it is an extraordinary atmosphere from the inside out.

The crowd stood up and faced the man, saying, "Lord of the Mountain." Luo Xingshan also stood up and bowed his hand to the man.

"You Daoist friends are not welcome, please sit down." The Daoist's voice was qingyue, like jade hitting each other, paused, turned his face to Luo Xingshan, and said: "Luo Daoyou is new, there may be a lot of questions, don't worry, in the future, I will explain with Luo Daoyou, at this moment, we Yunmeng Mountain Immortal Friends ——"

Listening to this, Luo Xingshan's body gave birth to extreme disgust and disgust, his personality is like this, he hates to be controlled, and his heart says why do you think I must like to stay here. When he thought this in his heart, the words also rushed out, "Please forgive the mountain lord," he interrupted the person known as the mountain lord, "Luo Mou wants to know how to get back from here." ”

The young Daoist looked at Luo Xingshan in surprise and asked, "What does Daoist friend mean?"

Luo Xingshan said, "I just want to know how to get back to the world I came from."

"Daoyou really wants to go back?"

"I really want to."

"Daoist friends can know that my cloud dream cave heaven is a divine realm, beyond the world, can be born, how many people want to enter for thousands of years but can not, those who have the fate are allowed to enter,"

Speaking of this, the Daoist paused, his eyes staring at Luo Xingshan, and his voice rose sharply, "Of course, if The Daoist friend insists on leaving, it is not necessary, but also after today, the banquet is ready, or let me wait for the friendship of the landlord, Luo Daoyou can also feel the mystery of my cave heaven." ”

Since the young Daoist said so, Luo Xingshan didn't have to say anything more, so he had to sit down.

The young Daoist was in the most ascendant position, and when he sat down, he seemed to be unwilling to be watched by everyone, and the milky white mist shrouded his vicinity, and only the sound was heard from it.

The banquet began quickly, and the music came from nowhere, nor did the band play, but there was still a soothing sound in the ears. Dressed in flowing Xian'e, she shuttled back and forth with various kinds of fairy fruit wine.

Luo Xingshan was curious that those clothes did not know what material they were, but they could float in the air, and they came in groups and placed the plates they held in their hands upstream of the canal, and those plates snaked down with the current.

Luo Xingshan looked at the scene in front of him, and from beginning to end, he had an illusory feeling, as if he was in a very realistic virtual scene. Those Daoists who sat by the flowing water rebelled against the mountain lord because of fang cai luo xing shan pestle, and they all looked at him coldly and only cared about drinking and enjoying themselves.

In front of him, all kinds of melons and fruits flowed through the canal, he did not take them, and when he came, he ate a few wild fruits from the mountains, and he was not hungry, and the main reason was that he was vaguely aware that here was not as peaceful and joyful as it seemed on the surface. There is an eerie atmosphere swirling in between. It is better not to eat those fruits until you know what the consequences will be after use.

He was wondering in his heart whether all this was an illusion, and if it was how to break the illusion, he overheard the deer-riding boy standing next to the mountain lord who was shrouded in fog, and crisply said, "The mountain lord has decided to give him five hundred years of life today."

When the crowd heard the loud cheers, they all thanked the mountain lord in the direction of the mountain lord, and the red-robed old man who looked the oldest even fell to his knees in tears. Then the fruits of the color were placed in the emerald jade cup and went down the river.

Luo Xingshan could not hold back his curiosity to pick up one from the flowing water, put it in front of his eyes to see, like an unripe peach, the touch was cold and elastic, placed on the end of the nose to sniff lightly, the slight aroma entered along the nostrils, Luo Xingshan suddenly felt a shock, the internal organs seemed to be blown by a clear stream, the brain was slightly dizzy, but it was the kind of vertigo that obtained pleasure.

Just sniffing has such a big effect, I don't know what it will be like to eat it? Can you really live an extra five hundred years? It was impossible to think about it, and as he thought, Luo Xingshan turned his head to look at the rest of the people, only that they were holding the fruit in their hands, each of them regarded it as a treasure, some of them took small sips, and some of them sniffed at the end of their noses like him.

Intellectually Luo Xingshan felt that there was something wrong with this fruit, but from his heart he had an uncontrollable desire, as if a voice in his heart had been encouraging him, he struggled hard but still could not resist, holding the fruit in his hand to send it to his mouth.

At this time, a crisp sound suddenly occurred in his ears, the sound was clear, piercing through his ears and brains, and it shattered the voice in his heart in just one moment, and then, suddenly, he felt a burst of "circling in his ears," and a voice said, "Don't eat, don't eat."

5

Luo Xingshan's heart was cold, and he took out the fruit that he was going to put in his mouth. Sneaking into his pocket of his clothes, he looked around, trying to find the person who was making a sound in his ear. But I heard a voice in my ear continue, "Don't look, I'll come back to you, remember, drink only water."

Luo Xingshan quickly turned his head back, and in order to cover up his strange appearance, he pretended to eat Dong. I don't know if anyone noticed that the Daoist people sitting by the water's edge were relieved, but those Daoists were full of red light one by one, as if they were drunk.

Some eyes are straight, some are shaking their heads, some are laughing, some are singing wildly, anyway, it doesn't look particularly normal, maybe this is what the reaction after the "Sheng Dao Fruit Dress", how to look like a drug, Luo Xingshan broke out in a cold sweat, thinking that it was good that he was stopped.

I don't know how long later, the deer-riding boy said in a loud voice, "Pass on the mountain master's order, come here today, everyone can disperse."

Luo Xingshan listened and looked at the location of the mountain lord, and the place between the cages that had originally been shrouded in fog was already empty.

"Luo Xingshan, your cave house is in the Zi Void Cave." With that, the boy turned and fell into the depths of the bamboo forest.

As soon as the mountain lord and the boy left, the Daoists at the edge of the water got up and walked toward the outside of the cave one by one, like drinking alcohol. Luo Xingshan walked behind and pulled the Daoist named YunYou to ask where the Void Cave was, but the man threw away his hand in disgust and glared at him with hatred.

It seems that while disobeying the mountain lord, he also offended these people, Luo Xingshan secretly thought, so he was discouraged from asking others what they thought.

The twilight outside the cave is gradually rising, and it is dark, and there are many caves on the mountain wall, and one by one I don't know when to find it. Just as he was distressed, a whispering voice sounded again: "Out of the hole, turn right, go up the stairs, and the first one on the left is."

Luo Xingshan followed the instructions of the voice and came to the Zixu Cave, originally thinking that the stone table and stone bench in the cave were unexpected after entering.

The cave is divided into inside and outside, the outside is the living room, the inner room is the bedroom, with a washroom and toilet, the table and chair cabinet bed in the cave, are all high-grade mahogany, the bed is covered with brocade futons, if you do not know that you are in a strange rockery, Luo Xingshan almost thinks that this is a high-end hotel with special decoration.

Luo Xingshan walked around the cave curiously, touching here and there, not seeing any traces of the lives of previous generations, everything was as clean as new.

The voice in my ear sounded again: "Go to the pool."

Luo Xingshan circled around the house, and finally found a pool in the cave. The pool water is clear at the bottom, it is living water, there is a water outlet on the cave wall, a small hole, from time to time there is clear water flowing into the pool, and it is not known whether it is used for drinking or cleaning.

He stood in front of him, and a figure appeared on the calm and waveless water, not him, but a round-faced man with an ancient face. Luo Xingshan was startled and took two steps back.

"Don't be afraid, it's me." The sound came from the direction of the pool.

He calmed his mind and walked again to the edge of the pool, and sure enough, the man inside was talking to him.

"You're the one who speaks in my ear?"

"Yes, it's me." The man in the pool nodded.

"What are you?" Luo Xingshan asked thoughtfully.

"Alas," sighed the man in the pool, "you may not believe it, but in fact I am the lord of this Cloud Dream Mountain." ”

Then, the man in the pool who claimed to be the lord of Yunmeng Mountain told him about his tragic experience. It turned out that this mountain stone came from the ancient times, may come from the multicolored stone left behind when Nuwa supplemented the heavens, or it may be a soil that can continue to multiply, and the specific origin of the people in the pool themselves is not clear.

After all, at that time, he was still a stubborn stone, and later after countless days and moons, he gradually gave birth to sanity, but he found himself carved into a rockery, but after all, it was only the surface, in essence, the connotation of this mountain stone was dry, and the essence of the sun and moon, the aura of heaven and earth, and the universe of its own.

The man in the pool is the mountain god of this Cloud Dream Mountain, and its essence is also the heart of a stone of the mountain stone, and after he has a sanity, he gives birth to loneliness and loneliness, so he will absorb the people who have collected his good hearts into the mountain when his life comes to an end, give them a life, and also relieve his loneliness and loneliness, but he is defenseless, but he does not prevent the invasion of evil demons.

According to him, it was a demon from the Jin Dynasty, commonly known as Lu Jinyang, the Dao number ⻘ Lingzi, who did not know where to learn about the miracle of this mountain stone, killed the owner of the mountain stone at that time, used the demon method to forcibly invade the mountain stone body, took away the stone heart, and dispersed the mountain stone essence, falsely claiming that he was the mountain lord, but he did not know that as long as the mountain stone body existed, the essence would not be destroyed.

The mountain stone spirit hid in this square world to recuperate, and it took two or three hundred years to regain its sanity, but it has not been able to find the opportunity to regain the stone heart.

"Having said all this, what do you want me to do?" Luo Xingshan asked

"I want you to help me regain the Stone Heart." The man in the pool answered.

Luo Xingshan raised an eyebrow and said, "You can't do anything, what can I do as a mortal, that's a demon."

"I can't do it because he took my stone heart," said the man in the pool, "and as soon as I get close to him I will make him alert, but you can." ”

"What do you take in exchange?" I'm a businessman, unprofitable and not up early. ”

"What do you want, ⻓to be immortal?" I can give it to you too. ”

"In the rockery ⻓ not old? Forget it, I prefer the bigger world. ”

"I see, you want to go back, back to the world you came from." The person in the pool said, his eyes staring directly at Luo Xingshan, "Then we have the same goal, I take back the stone heart, I have the ability to let you go back." ”

Luo Xingshan knew that letting others know that his hole card would be very passive, so he said, "I can go to the rockery lord, and he said that I can leave if I want to."

The man in the pool smiled, and the surface of the calm pool rippled, and said, "You take out the fruit in your pocket and look at it."

Luo Xingshan was stunned for a moment, not knowing why the other party suddenly mentioned this, and subconsciously reached out and took out the fruit: "What's wrong?"

"You see what's that?"

Luo Xingshan looked at it again, and with a frightened cry of "Ah", he threw Na dong on the ground. What was the fruit, but a huge flesh worm curled up together, still alive, thrown on the ground and squirming and stretching, with rows of tiny teeth like barbs inside.

"This is called the soul worm, you eat it, it parasitizes in your body, the demon can control you through the soul worm, even if you die, you will be willing." The man in the pool snorted and asked, "Do you think a person who wants you to eat this will really let you leave?"

Luo Xingshan's face turned pale, and he stomped the worm into a pool of juice, looked at the pool, and asked, "How can I help you?"

"Let me enter your body, you have just entered this world, you have not been assimilated, he cannot detect."

Luo Xingshan was stunned: "What is the meaning of entering my body?"

"You can also see that I am in a state of spirit now, if you are happy and defensive, I can enter your mind and control your body, just like driving a steam," you should understand, your body is your son, your soul is the driver, now I want to ask you to lend me your son." 」

"Do you still know about steam?" Luo Xingshan asked in surprise.

The person in the pool raised an eyebrow and said, "I don't have any contact with the outside world at all, and I know a little bit about social changes."

"It's very graphic, and I understand your needs, but what if you don't borrow it?"

"I think there should be a basic trust between us."

"Don't tell me about trust," Luo Xingshan shook his head at the pool, "trust is the most unreliable, I only believe in contracts, I believe in agreements that have legal constraints." ”

"That's hard to do," the pool man scratched his head and wrinkled his thick black eyebrows, "I can swear." ”

"Swear? Is this East ⻄useful?" Luo Xingshan rolled his eyes.

The people in the pool had a solemn face: "My immortal gods, the heaviest oath, if they violate it, they will be struck by heavenly thunder and their spirits will be destroyed."

"Anyway, you said it, how do I know if it's true or not?" Luo Xingshan questioned.

"You man, really," the pool of people narrowed their eyes angrily, "this also does not believe, that does not believe, since this is the case, then we will each have a destiny, anyway, I have waited for hundreds of years, and I am not afraid to wait for hundreds of years, you can think well, here and outside the time scale is different, delay a few days, wait for you to go out, the outside may not be the world you are familiar with." ”

Luo Xingshan chuckled in his heart and asked, "What do you mean?"

The man in the pool smiled mysteriously, "You should have heard the saying that there is a day in heaven and a year on earth." ”

"You mean it's been a year out there?"

The man in the pool shook his head, "Not so fast, but if you delay a little longer, it won't be a problem for a year or two."

Luo Xingshan felt sweat oozing from his armpits, every time he was anxious and nervous, other places were fine, breathing steadily, his heart was beating as usual, there was no cold sweat on his forehead, his back was dry, but his armpits would expose his true mentality.

That's right, don't say a year or two, if you let him stay here for half a month, he has been operating for twenty years, and the "business empire" that has just begun to take shape will collapse. He had been caught, damn, he cursed in his heart, and now, he could only pray that what the people in the pool said was true.

"You say you can swear?" Luo Xingshan listened to his own voice became dry and astringent.

"Yes, I will not lie to you," the pool man smiled, "and as long as I swear, you will have feelings, and there is no way to cheat." ”

"So what are you waiting for?" Luo Xingshan said angrily that he didn't know who he was angry with.

The person in the pool hesitated for a moment, and then stretched out his hands and made a gesture on his chest, Luo Xingshan looked at it carefully, not the kind of gesture he had seen on TV.

While making gestures, the people in the pool muttered the name of a god, and then said in a strange tone: "I, the Lord of Yunmeng Mountain, swear here, borrow luo Xingshan's body, and successfully regain the heart of the stone and return it as promised, during this period there is no second thought, if you violate this oath, I am willing to be destroyed by thunder and fire."

As soon as the words fell, Luo Xingshan felt that something in the void seemed to fall on his body. He subconsciously shook his body, trying to shake Na dong off, but he knew that it was not an entity, but an illusory substance like some kind of oath constraint. Don't say, he thought secretly, he really had feelings.

"Do you feel it?"

Luo Xingshan nodded and asked, "What's next?"

"Relax your mind and whisper three times: East of Qishan, Qu Zezhi, Yun Xi Dream, Divine Soul System."

Luo Xingshan meditated on his words, and after three times, he felt a cool breeze flowing in from the Baihui Cave above his head. Like dripping water in the heart, wisps seep into the body.

6

The "water" is the spirit of the people in the pool. After successfully entering the body, Luo Xingshan was like a puppet with a cut silk thread, losing control of his limbs, but it did not seem to be completely lost, as if he could take it back as long as he wanted.

It was strange, as the man in the pool said, as if sitting in the co-pilot of the car, watching others drive their own bodies, but this " has two co-pilot systems, and the co-pilot also has a steering wheel. Luo Xingshan was relieved in his heart, if the people in the pool were really suspicious, he could regain control of his body as long as he turned his mind.

After turning around the cave twice, the man in the pool seemed to be adapting to the body, shaking his head and turning his arm while groping with his fingers on Luo Xingshan.

"Ah, there are some lesions in your lungs," said the pool man, pointing to his left chest.

Luo Xingshan said: "Yes, I smoked very badly a few years ago, and I went to the hospital, and the doctor said that I couldn't smoke anymore, and I only quit in the past few years."

"Little problem," the man in the pool pulled his mouth and smiled, "when you get the stone heart, it will not only cure you of these diseases, but also help you prolong your life." ”

"Can I? That's great. ”

"Hands up."

The two men talked in their heads for a while. After a moment, the man in the pool said, "The time has come." I sensed that the demon had taken the stone heart, and we went to steal it. After saying this, the people in the pool went out of the cave house, took advantage of the night, walked to a smooth stone wall, and then reached out and pushed, and the stone wall shook, revealing a dark one behind it.

Luo Xingshan watched all the way, only "he was familiar" to open various secret passages, and walked freely through the cave, as if walking in his own backyard, his heart was amazed.

After walking for an unknown amount of time, the people in the pond entered a cave house that was like a tropical rainforest with vines and roses.

"Here it is, here it is." The man in the pool said.

Luo Xingshan thought to himself how there were so many exotic flowers and plants growing here. The people in the pool immediately read about his mental activity and said, "The stone heart is the core of vitality, and when vitality overflows, it will change the surrounding environment."

Luo Xingshan thought that this was the case, but where was the stone heart?

The man in the pool held out a finger, "Isn't that it?"

Luo Xingshan looked down at his fingers, and only one side of the emerald jade, tied with red rope, hung on a branch that grew out of the tree.

He felt familiar, and suddenly remembered that at the previous banquet, the pendant hanging from the waist of the rockery lord when he appeared was this East⻄. The man in the pool walked to the jade, reached out and plucked the jade from the branch, it turned out to be a party seal, and the insect-shaped ⻦ symbol at the bottom was engraved with words, and he didn't have to guess to know that it was the word "Cloud Dream".

Luo Xingshan felt the excitement and excitement coming from the spirit of the people in the pool, and he was also happy, but at this time, the change was abrupt, and a membrane-like barrier was invisibly born around his body, and Luo Xingshan immediately felt the pressure like a mountain, and his consciousness became sluggish.

"I've caught you," a voice suddenly appeared, and then the demon-dressed mountain lord emerged from the void and looked at Luo Xingshan with an evil smile.

Luo Xingshan felt the spirits of the people in the pool vibrate and was shocked.

"I didn't expect it," laughed the rockery lord happily, "I guess you can't help but cooperate with this new person." ”

The man in the pool gritted his teeth in anger, "You are so despicable, but I have already got the stone heart."

"Really? You look again. ”

The man in the pool was shocked and opened his palm to look. Luo Xingshan also followed suit, only in the palm of his hand was not a stone heart at all, but an ordinary stone.

"It's just a trick, who let you borrow a mortal body, hahaha, since you came, you two don't leave." Luo Xingshan only felt that there was a rope that could not be seen, and the tighter it became, the sharper it was, and the pain was unbearable, as if the invisible rope was about to be strangled into his flesh.

"Demon, I'm going to die with you." The people in the pool were furious, scolding with all their hair, and their bodies struggled vigorously, but with little effect.

"Quick, open up your whole mind, let me control my body, in order to exert my strength, otherwise neither of us can escape." The people in the pool shouted loudly at Luo Xingshan in their hearts.

Luo Xingshan's heart was broken by the horror, and he asked urgently, "What should I do?" How to put it?"

"South of the Styx, north of the Flame Mountain, the essence of the mountains, the spirit of the gods." Repeat it three times, quickly. "The people in the pool keep urging. A huge oppressive force came back from all over his body, as if to crush him, and Luo Xingshan did not have time to think deeply and read it three times according to his words.

After the third recitation, I suddenly felt a cold chill rise from the bottom of my heart, and then my consciousness stagnated and my soul dissipated.

7

"It's done." Luo Xingshan smiled.

"How's it going, how's this new body?" Demon Dao asked with a smile. Luo Xingshan stretched out his arms, beat like looking at new clothes, and said, "It's okay, save some time and use it for at least fifty or sixty years." "It's really troublesome, this guy, too suspicious," the right eyebrow of the demon dao said, "from time to time, "otherwise there would be no need to be so crunchy." ”

"Yeah, if it wasn't for Brother Jinyang's clever plan, it wouldn't have been so easy." Luo Xingshan smiled.

"Don't mention any clever plan, in fact, to dispel his soul, even if I don't say it, you have a lot of ways, right?"

"Yes, there is," Luo Xingshan triumphantly said, "but it is not as dramatic as this, how fun!" Thank you Brother Jinyang for cooperating with my acting. ”

"You don't have to be polite," the demon Dao who called Jinyang smiled, "we both help each other and reciprocate, haven't we been like this for more than a thousand years!"

Luo Xingshan smiled and said, "This is also true, then you are not welcome."

Jin Yang said slightly jealously, "This time, you go to enjoy the world of flowers and flowers, and while you have fun, don't forget to find a good body for me."

"Rest assured, rest assured, I know your preferences, make sure you are ready, then I will go."

"Go, go."

Luo Xingshan nodded, and his body dissipated into a cloud of mist.

8

Luo Xingshan woke up from his sleep in the early morning, the sun was shining outside, and the sound of chattering in the trees in the courtyard.

Morning light shines in through the window glass, and the Yunmeng rockery placed on the coffee table glows with demonic light in the sunlight.

Luo Xingshan stood up from the sofa, walked to the rockery, brushed his fingers over the surface of the rock, and said leisurely: "Sure enough, this red dust world is still at ease."