Judging from the speed of his cultivation in the past two years, it is no exaggeration to say that it is a thousand miles per day. Even the top-level Taoist qualifications that Master Luo said are rare in hundreds of years are completely incomparable. .
It’s a pity that no matter how good your qualifications are in the dream, no matter how fast you practice, and no matter how high your realm is, you can only be in the dream world and cannot bring you back to reality.
"Okay, let's leave here quickly. The previous fight and the bloody smell of the crazy leopard will probably attract other monsters." Shen Luo lightly patted Yingluo's shoulder. said.
Yingluo suddenly came back to her senses. She was shocked and felt that the origin of Shen Luo was becoming more and more mysterious. .
Then they continued to climb the mountain along the mountain path. The hike was relatively stable, and they stopped and stopped along the way. However, they did not encounter any powerful monsters. Occasionally they encountered some unscrupulous little monsters. Actively avoided them.
"Brother Shen, I heard my father mention it before. When a cultivator reaches the soul condensation stage, the power of spiritual consciousness can be released. Is it true?" Yingluo asked curiously.
"Yes. When you reach the soul-condensing stage of cultivation, the three souls and six souls of a person can be condensed into a human form, and the power of spiritual consciousness will be greatly enhanced, which can achieve the effect of being cast outside to perceive changes in the surroundings. "Shen Luo thought for a while and replied.
"How far can Brother Shen's spiritual consciousness be spread?" Yingluo asked again.
“With my current cultivation level and the power of my spiritual consciousness, I can only detect the movement within a radius of ten feet. However, if I encounter someone who is good at hiding his whereabouts, it will be difficult to detect it in advance.” Shen Luo said.
"Ten feet... is already amazing." Ying Luo admired with some envy.
"Your qualifications are not bad. As long as you practice diligently, you will definitely be able to achieve it in the future." Shen Luo smiled and said.
The two chatted for a long time. As Yingluo understood Shen Luo's strength, the nervousness he felt when climbing the mountain at the beginning was gone.
"Yingluo, I remember when you last climbed the mountain, you told me a story about a guide butterfly, followed by a story about a woodcutter. Before I could tell it, a crazy leopard appeared. It was interrupted." Shen Luo remembered something and said suddenly.
"Brother Shen, I will tell you what you want to hear. Speaking of which, it happened a long, long time ago. At that time, our longevity village..." Yingluo thought about it. Thinking about it, there was a smile on his face, and he narrated.
It turns out that a long time ago, there was a woodcutter in their village who went into the mountains to cut firewood every day, but most of the time he was just near the foot of the mountains and never went too deep into the mountains.
But one day, when he was chopping firewood, he met a white rabbit with bright fur. He wanted to catch it and play with his children, so he chased the white rabbit for a long time.
When he came to his senses, he realized that he was already halfway up the mountain. The woodcutter failed to catch the white rabbit, but instead met two old men with white beards and hair sitting on a cliff. , playing chess with black and white chess pieces in hand.
He was originally a farmer from the countryside, and he didn't know anything about the art of Go. He just saw that the two people were not as good as ordinary people, so he didn't dare to say anything, so he stayed beside them and looked at the chessboard.
At this sight, the woodcutter was stunned on the spot. He felt that he was suddenly on a battlefield, watching a group of white-clothed soldiers and a group of black-clothed armored men coming and going, fighting. Continuously.
I don’t know how long it took, but the woodcutter felt a tap on his shoulder, and he woke up with horror and looked aside blankly.
The woodcutter heard one of the old men say to him, "Although you have wisdom, your earthly fate is not over yet, so go back." Before he could figure out what was going on, he fell into a trance for a while. Returned to the place where I originally collected firewood.
He looked around and saw luxuriant grass and towering ancient trees. It was very different from before.
The woodcutter panicked and leaned over to pick up the axe, only to find that the ax handle was rotten and the ax blade was also rusty.
When he returned to the village, he found that the village had also changed drastically. No one in the village knew him.
After much questioning, the woodcutter finally found his home, but things in his home had also changed.
It turns out that a full sixty years have passed since he went out to collect firewood that day. Both his parents and his wife have died successively, and now there are three generations of children and grandchildren in the family.
As soon as this incident came out, it immediately attracted widespread rumors. Later, the rumors became more and more bizarre. People thought that he had obtained some magic method of immortality and had lived for sixty years without aging. In addition, there were indeed many people in the village after that. It’s the centenarians who got the name of longevity village.
"This happened, what happened next?" Shen Luo also felt strange and couldn't help but ask.
"Later, the woodcutter remembered the words of the immortal, said goodbye to his children and grandchildren, and went into the mountains to practice Taoism. It is said that some people saw him in the mountains later, and his appearance did not change at all. He often chopped firewood in the mountains. , while humming a ballad." Yingluo said.
"It's indeed strange, but I wonder if this person is still in the mountains now?" Shen Luo looked at the dense forest in the mountains and said with a smile.
"They are all rumors, and they should not be taken seriously. In the village..." Before Yingluo finished speaking, a wild beast roar suddenly came from a distance.
"Roar..."
The entire mountain forest was shaken, and large leaves rustled down.
Ying Luo felt a roar in her ears, and when she looked around, everything was spinning.
"This voice is still outside the detection range of my spiritual consciousness, and the penetrating power is so strong. I am afraid it is another big demon in the soul-condensing stage. Let's not disturb it." Shen Luo also had a look on his face. Change, said immediately.
When Ying Luo heard this, his face turned slightly pale, and he hurriedly followed Shen Luo's footsteps and walked towards the mountain.
"That thing noticed us and has already caught up with us..." Shen Luo suddenly stopped her just after running a dozen feet away.
As soon as he finished speaking, the forest in front of him was shaken, and patches of thick trees fell towards both sides.It collapsed, making a cracking sound.
Shen Luo's eyes were fixed, staring at the movement in front of him.
A moment later, the forest in front suddenly collapsed, and a huge figure of a ferocious beast flew out from it and landed in front of them.
This beast is two feet long, with a tail that is almost as long as its body hanging from the back. It is covered with snow-white hair mixed with black stripes. It is clearly a ferocious tiger monster.
There is a circle of light blue mane around his head, a pair of dark red round eyes as big as copper bells, a beard like steel needles growing around his mouth, and the canine teeth on both sides are as sharp as... The knife protruded from the lower lip, shining with a cold light.
“Sky-devouring tiger!” Yingluo exclaimed when he saw this.
Hearing this, the tiger demon didn't even look at her. He just stared at Shen Luo with his dark red eyes.
"You smell like a crazy leopard, no, it's the smell of its demon elixir, and the smell of a coquettish fox..." The Sky-eating Tiger suddenly wrinkled his nose and sniffed the air. said.
His voice was calm and sounded like that of a middle-aged man.