Immortal Formula

   Chapter 577 The Secret of Asking the Sky

The man was dressed in a white robe and had an air of immortality, but his appearance seemed ordinary. He saw Gu Yan and chanted, "Where is Xizhou? Crossing the bridge with two paddles, the shrike flies at sunset, and the wind blows the Wujiu tree. ."

He gently plucked the strings with his hands, rippling the surrounding night, the moonlight in the sky was like water, quietly pouring on this leaf and flower, and a thin layer of green mist floated in the pond, reflecting the The faint clouds in the sky, the moonlight can't shine brightly, but it seems to have a unique flavor.

  Gu Yan stood here blankly, her heart suddenly felt at a loss. The distant mountains reflected the treetops, the willows moved slightly, the sound of frogs and cicadas chirped everywhere, but the surrounding crowd was noisy, but Gu Yan's heart was empty. In her heart, there seemed to be a distant thought, under the pressure of self-control, to stubbornly rush out a nod, but it was misty and unknown.

   just seemed to be saying: This place belongs to them. I have nothing.

   The feeling of incomparable loneliness and loneliness deeply enveloped her heart at this moment.

   It seems that there is something in my heart that has been sealed for a long time, and I have long forgotten it in my memory. At this time, I look back and realize that it is actually hidden in the deepest place, but I dare not touch it easily.

   Seeing that Gu Yan was silent, the man asked again, "Where did you come from and where are you going?"

   This is an ordinary verse, and Gu Yan answered at will in Yanyu Tower. But at this moment, she actually couldn't answer. It seems that at this moment, this sentence touched the deepest string in her heart.

  Where did this body come from and where will it go? Gu Yan suddenly felt that there was a vast expanse between heaven and earth, but she was like a lonely leaf Piaoping, with nowhere to go. Why are there people in the world, and why are there me in the world?

  I am the lonely guest in the world!

   Her eyes were filled with tears for some time.

   Seeing that Gu Yan didn't answer, he didn't sing anymore, the strings in his hand moved slightly, and he remained silent. Between heaven and earth, there seems to be only this monotonous piano sound, clanking.

The meridians in Gu Yan's body suddenly all throbbed. It seemed that there were countless tiny airflows in the meridians, and they exploded at the same time. The chaotic space in the body was shaken, and a voice kept in her mind. asked:

   "Where did you come from and where are you going?"

   In normal times, she has thousands of answers, all of which are in line with the true purpose of the Dao, but in this situation, there is only a blank space left in her mind.

   She murmured, "Where did I come from and where did I go?"

  Like countless steel needles, stabbing in her mind, the incomparable pain tormented her nerves instantly, but deep in her heart, the memory that was sealed by her was never opened.

   Between heaven and earth, only Gu Yan's painful echoes seemed to echo: "Where did I come from and where do I go?"

  The white-robed guest on the bow suddenly let out a sigh inaudible, and when he lifted his finger, the clouds and rain disappeared, the dark clouds dissipated, and the sky was blue as blue as a wash. His long sleeves flicked slightly, and the boat turned its bow on its own and sailed towards the depths of the lotus pond. The corners of his sleeves were slightly raised, and a beam of brilliance flew up on its own, and then landed in front of Gu Yan.

   "Whenever you can answer me, follow this order and go to the lotus pond in Gusu City and come to me. I will take your order of blue sky!"

   The voice is indistinct, and the reverberation is not exhausted, and the person has dissipated in the smoke and water.

  The pain in Gu Yan's whole body stopped suddenly, she looked around, the lotus leaves were floating like a canopy, and the water in the pool was clear, and everything just now seemed like a dream.

   There was only a jade pendant at her feet, reminding her that what she just saw and heard was not a dream.

   Is this person really the mysterious lotus pond owner from Longyuan Pavilion? But he lured himself into the phantom array, and he tested himself like this, what was his intention?

   Gu Yan remembered what happened just now, and felt like he was suffering from a nightmare. But at that moment, she felt that she had entered a mysterious and mysterious realm, as if she was isolated from this world, overlooking everything with only one pair of eyes. But I am like a duckweed in the universe, I don't know where to go.

   She has a firm mind and has never been disturbed by illusions. Even if she is trapped in the formation, she will definitely be able to escape. However, under the voice of the lotus pond owner just now, she is ignorant and has no resistance. Could it be that this mysterious lotus pond owner, as everyone guessed, is a Nascent Soul cultivator who can compete with the masters of the nine major factions?

  Although the owner of the lotus pond has not appeared in front of the people of Cangwu for thousands of years, everyone agrees that he has at least formed a Nascent Soul. Otherwise, it is impossible to have such a high lifespan. But no one knew whether he was a cultivator of the Empress Yuan who stood on the top of Cangwu. Perhaps those at the highest level of the Nine Great Sects would have some understanding in their hearts. But the following people have different opinions and no one knows.

  Gu Yan stood there blankly for a long time, until the sky turned pale, and she suddenly turned her head back. But she didn't know that in the deepest part of the lotus pond, in the mist and mist, there was always a boat docked, and the two people on it had been silently paying attention to her movements.

   One of them was the owner of the lotus pond who had just been running the boat, and the other, if Gu Yan saw it, would be shocked. It was a witty old man with white beard and white hair, but his face was very serious at this time. This is the old man Gu Yan saw in the Longyuan Pavilion sub-altar in Yunyang City, who used obsidian as a mysterious crystal to deceive people. (Does anyone remember this guy?)

   What he showed at the time was only his cultivation at the stage of forming an elixir, but now, he is standing beside the owner of the lotus pond, Yinghua is restrained, full of energy, and clearly has formed the image of Nascent Soul.

He looked at Gu Yan's retreating back, and asked thoughtfully: "Little sister, you have already tested with Jiulun's fairy sound, I don't know if you can test out the Qi pulse in her body, whether it is the person I am waiting for. ?"

   It turned out that the mysterious owner of the lotus pond was actually a woman. With her cultivation, she seemed to be above the famous Qingniao Zhenren and Lin Zimei.

It's just that her voice is still very cold, and she can't hear happiness or anger faintly, "I don't know, the blood in her body doesn't seem to have the World Cup. With her cultivation level, this is absolutely unimaginable. Perhaps it can be said that over the years, she is the closest person to the person we are looking for."

"Ha!" The old man clapped his hands, "The six major pavilion masters are divided into different parties, and finally let me succeed first, right? Needless to say, I think she is the one. For the past seventeen years, I have been silently observing She, especially under the Nantianmen, where the eyes of the earth and the sea are, if she is not the person we are looking for, with such bloodline, how can she escape safely?"

  The owner of the lotus pond shook his head, "No hurry. I've waited for so many years. In fact, sometimes, I'm willing to wait like this forever. It's better to have such an expectation than to have no hope at all."

The tall and straight figure of the old man slammed down all of a sudden, "That's right. I didn't dare to talk to those brothers, so as not to be disappointed again. Let's see. Anyway, you gave her the real Qingtian order, probably In your heart, do you think there are some points?"

The owner of the lotus pond didn't answer, she turned around, plucked the strings, and sang softly: "Hongfei is all over Xizhou, Wangjun goes up to the tall buildings. The tall buildings are invisible, and the railing heads are all day." In her voice, there was a hint of The meaning of endless loneliness, it seems that I am just a passer-by in this world, searching for it all my life, but I don't know where to go.

  Gu Yan turned around, and naturally walked back to the original road. Looking back, he found that the end of the road to the lotus pond was just a cloud without exit. It seemed that all that had happened just now was really like she had taken a nap in the lotus. She was even more certain that the owner of the lotus pond trapped herself with the illusion, but what kind of illusion was so powerful that even the chaotic space in her body could confuse her, and why did the famous lotus pond owner treat herself like this? Small role shot? You must know that although she has some reputation now, the top experts in Cangwu will not put her in their eyes at all.

   And the Wentianlu, which was silent for a long time in her body, was instantly aroused by the sudden question of the owner of the lotus pond. It was real and could not be faked. Judging from his appearance, he seemed to have come prepared and made a special trip there to wait for him. Does he know this big secret in his body, or does he have anything to do with Gu Hongye back then?

   Thinking of this, Gu Yan felt terrified, but now, she couldn't do anything.

   Since she knew she couldn't do something, she simply left it aside. She walked back along the original road and walked to the city gate in a short time. Seeing that there was no one here, she knew that Shen Mengli and others should still not return to the Tiange Pavilion, so she went to find it on her own.

  The Heaven Pavilion and the Yanyu Tower are located on two opposite corners of the city. It is very easy to find. Looking at the monks here, most of them are going there. Among them, Gu Yan saw many familiar figures from Yun Ze, and some with strange costumes, probably from overseas or from the northern celestial pole.

  Jietian Pavilion is a very high-rise building, straight into the sky, surrounded by rays of light, and it is difficult to see how many floors are there. The door is very narrow, with only two passages one in and one out. The flow of people shuttles, and the exchanges are endless.

  Gu Yan lined up to walk over, and a monk stopped the road and said, "Please include the fee!"

   Gu Yanqi said: "How much?"

  The cultivator stretched out **** and waved it, as if he had spoken a number, which would taint the immortal energy of this place.

  Gu Yan saw the man in front and took out 200 spirit stones and handed them over. He couldn't help but stunned inwardly. He thought that he would not pay the fee for entering the city, but he was Susong, but he didn't expect that it was a mouse pulling the wooden shovel, and the big head turned out to be behind! Two hundred spirit stones, this is outside, you can buy a low-grade magic weapon!

   But this is the rule of the Jietian Pavilion, and she can't be exempted from it. After taking out two hundred spirit stones and handing them over, the cultivator's expression did not change, but he just reached out and invited her in.

After   Gu Yan entered, only to find that the entire Jietian Pavilion was like a large gourd with a transparent body, rising from bottom to top, surrounded by layers, and each layer of railings and handrails were surrounded by countless clouds. She remembered that when she was in Yanyu Tower, she had heard the monks here and mentioned it with pride: the Jietian Pavilion here was built by the power of more than ten generations of monks, using countless magic weapons and rare treasures, built layer by layer. The tower of the sky! Every floor is suppressed by magic weapons, and there are dozens of spiritual meridians in Nantang. In terms of style, the southeast half of the wall, the place where the shape is superior, is no longer comparable to this place.

   I heard that there are seventeen floors in the entire Jietian Pavilion. On the top of the top floor is the place where the seven big city lords of the entire Gusu City reside in Xixi. These seven loose cultivators control the entire Gusu City. Let this place become another force in Nantang, independent of Cangjian Villa.

   Gu Yan thought with some humor in her heart, and she didn't know how the owner of the lotus pond, who lived in seclusion in Gusu City all year round, and these seven big city owners, how to deal with each other.

   She came here, and she didn't rush to find Qin Mingyue and others, but just wandered here and saw half of the southern foot of Cangwu, the largest square city.

   This place has really been out of the scope of the market, just like the collection of the mortal world, it is all-encompassing and all-encompassing. In fact, as long as two hundred spirit stones are handed in, all the monks can enter and trade on their own, while the people from the City Lord's Mansion are responsible for tapping here. This is also the operation of the entire Suzhou City, the largest source of spiritual stones. As for the two parties to the transaction, the City Lord's Mansion has never cared about what to trade, except that they must not be forced to buy or sell. Therefore, it is also the largest black market in Cangwu. Some magical treasures of exterminated families and stolen heart tricks from major sects will also be sold here openly, but they will be put on the guise of "ancient treasures". Those sects with insufficient power can't make trouble in Gusu City, so they can only watch helplessly.

   It’s just that the City Lord’s Mansion will not go too far. At least the face of the nine factions, as well as the royal families of various countries, they must give it. But for the rest, you'll just have to consider yourself unlucky.

   Therefore, the place is full of people, far from being comparable to other places. As soon as Gu Yan came in, he was shocked.

   Countless people are surging here, the rays of light are endless, and the sound of hawking is one after another. From the outside, she felt that the area was huge, but now from the inside, it is even more vast, and even if tens of thousands of people are stuffed, it doesn't seem to be a problem!

Gu Yan only took a few glances, and found that there are mostly foundation-building cultivators wandering here, but there are few disciples in the qi-refining stage. Think about it, ordinary qi-training disciples, who can afford the entrance fee of the two hundred spirit stones ?

   She swept it with her divine sense, and found that most of the items sold here were spiritual stone instruments, as well as the monster beast Yuandan, so she took steps to move up.

   "Huh?" She walked to the handrail of the stairs, and her spiritual sense suddenly jumped slightly. She felt that in the chaotic space, Xiao Jiang seemed to be making a silent tweet to her.

Gu Yan stopped and penetrated a ray of spiritual thought, and saw that Xiao Jiang was waving his small paws, constantly swaying upwards, and Qi Qi on the side shook his ears and stretched his head lazily. After looking at it, he went back to sleep on his own.

Gu Yan's thoughts moved, she waved her hand, and placed an invisible mask around her. Then she released Xiao Jiang and covered it with the mask. Xiao Jiang squeaked twice, her nose twitched slightly, Point in a certain direction.

Gu Yan looked at its direction, and at the corner of the railing over there, there was a very inconspicuous stall, a man wearing a gray linen with a downhearted expression, standing there, bowing his head, looking at the place in front of him. The drapery that was laid.

   On the cloth curtain, there were a few dead branches with no spiritual energy, and there was a small bottle on the side, I don’t know what it was used for.

   His position was inconspicuous, and the things he put there were not important, so naturally no one came to answer. This man was also stubborn, and he didn't open his mouth to shout, but just kept looking at the people who came and went with his eyes.

Some people were very uncomfortable by him, so they deliberately walked around, but this is the corner of the stairs, the only place to go upstairs, and a few people glared at him, almost to the point of fighting. to the point.

Gu Yan released the spiritual sense and sensed it, but did not find anything unusual. Although those branches were peculiar in shape, they did not have the slightest spiritual energy. Maybe they were just rare species, but they were useless to cultivators. . But why is Xiao Jiang so interested in this?

   She smiled and touched its ears, "Are you hungry? You want something to eat. When did you change your taste?"

  Xiao Jiang shook his head and cried out eagerly, grabbing Gu Yan with his small paws, as if to drag her over.

  Gu Yan said curiously: "You mean, this is useful to me?" Xiao Jiang nodded suddenly like pecking at rice.

  Gu Yan was about to walk over to take a closer look, when a tall, purple-faced old man suddenly grabbed ahead of her. He stepped on the curtain with one foot and said, "My friend, I don't see anyone looking at your stuff. It doesn't seem appropriate for you to block the way here?"

   That man in ge clothing, he seemed to be very simple and honest, and he spoke in a loud voice with a slight accent, not like a native of Cangwu. He opened his mouth and said, "What's the matter with me, I'm not blocking your way, right?"

   The old man laughed a few times, "You are here, and you are in the way of everyone's business. I am on good terms with the master here. I think if you stay too long, you will cause trouble sooner or later. Go back quickly!"

  The man shook his head: "If I don't sell these things, I won't go back!"

   The old man frowned and said, "Who would buy these things from you, it's worse than junk. My friend, I think you're also a fellow person, and you can't see it. These things don't even have a trace of spiritual energy, right?"

   At this time, some people have gathered here. When they heard the old man's words, they all nodded and said yes, "Not bad!"

   "This old man, what he said makes sense!"

   "I said this friend, even if you want to come here to make a few entanglements, it seems that you need to find some reliable ones?"

   Some people said: "Our Gusu City is a holy place for scattered cultivation in the whole Cangwu. If you have any difficulties, if you find a few old city owners, they will reach out to help. Why bother with these flowers?"

   The man's face turned a little red. He was just a little cultivator who established a foundation, but the old man in front of him couldn't see his cultivation base at all, obviously he was at least at the stage of forming pills. He murmured for a moment, then said: "This is what my father left me on the island back then. Along with this thing, there is also a jade book, but it was transformed into the sky and flew away. This is an ancient treasure. , how can it be useless?"

Everyone burst into laughter, apparently thinking that this man was talking nonsense in order to save face, the old man shook his head and sighed, and said with a wry smile: "Friend, you're just a fool. Forget it, it's not easy for you to see. For my sake, I'll give you three hundred spirit stones to make up for your entry fee, and let you have some left over. You can go."

   After he finished speaking, he threw 300 spiritual stones over and ripped the curtain on the ground. After a random group of two, it was about to be stuffed into his arms.

  The man looked at the spiritual stone on the ground, hesitating, not knowing whether to take it or not. At this time, Gu Yan suddenly said, "Hold on!"

  She stretched out one hand and blocked the old man's chest, and stopped the cloth bag he wanted to put in his arms.

  The old man was stunned for a moment and said, "What advice does this fairy have?"

   Gu Yan said with a smile: "This old man, it's really a coincidence, I just happen to be interested in your thing."

  The old man's face changed, "Fairy is abrupt, right? Follow the rules of Tiange, and you will have no regrets. Even the seller can't take the things back. Do you want me to invite the people from the City Lord's Mansion to preside over justice?"

  Gu Yan smiled and said, "That's what I said, but it seems that this brother hasn't picked up your spiritual stone yet, right?"

She turned her eyes slightly and looked at the man in Ge Yi. Sure enough, he seemed to wake up at this moment, waved his hands in a panic and said: "I don't want your spirit stone, my father asked me, these things can't be shot at will. !"

The old man's face slowly turned cold. He looked at Gu Yan with sword-like eyes, and Gu Yan did not avoid looking at each other. As soon as the eyes of the two men met in the air, they instantly disappeared. Go, the old man suddenly smiled and said: "I'm reckless. It's just that I have this thing in my hand. If I put it back again, I won't be able to put it down. Fairy should give me the face, why don't you argue with me?"

  Gu Yan smiled and said, "I'm also a person with great face. My husband might as well set a price and see if I can compete with you?"

   The old man lowered his body and asked for it, and ordinary people went down the slope, but Gu Yan didn't have this hobby. She was determined. Since she decided to get this thing, she must get it. Since you don't want to mess with me, then I will naturally.

   The old man snorted, ignored Gu Yan, and said to the man: "Your Excellency will sell it here, naturally it is the asking price, I don't know how many spirit stones you want?"

  The man in Ge Yi was a little timid again at this time, he stretched out a slap and shook it tremblingly.

  The old man said, "Five hundred dollars, right? I'll give it to you!"

  The man murmured, "It's not five hundred, it's five thousand..."

   Suddenly there was an uproar. "are you crazy?"

   "Is this person a liar, planning to mess around here. Don't let the people from the City Lord's Mansion drive him out!"

  5,000 spirit stones, this is definitely not a decimal. You know, this is almost all the belongings of a small and medium sect. For example, when the Bixia Sect was in the southeast, it also had some reputation locally. There were elders who formed the core and more than a dozen people who built the foundation. There were only so many spiritual stones that Gan Biwu could use at that time. It was not until he came to Yunze and developed and expanded that he gradually became rich. Therefore, everyone thinks this man is talking crazy.

   At this moment, a fluttering hand reached out, "This spirit stone, I'm out!"

   (end of this chapter)