Chapter 1493: The willing ones take the bait
The stream gurgled.
The old man wearing a bamboo hat was leaning against a stone with his chest exposed. He was nodding his head and taking a nap in the slightly tipsy spring breeze.
The old man has gray hair and wrinkles on his face, and he looks very old.
The sunlight shining through the gaps in the leaves illuminated his chest, which was as dry as a piece of skin, dark red.
Qu and his followers followed Su Wu and landed on the bank of the stream, facing the old man across the stream.
When they stood here, they all kept quiet and moved as gently as possible, as if they didn't want to destroy the quiet and peaceful atmosphere. They also seemed to feel that the old man himself naturally exuded a calming and gentle aura. Let their minds get rid of distracting thoughts and integrate into the nature of Taoism.
Su Wu sat cross-legged on a stone. His eyes fell on the stream, which didn't even have a fishhook and was just a fishing line flowing with the water. His expression was unclear.
While his eyes were deep in thought, the old man sitting with his back against the stone suddenly shivered, a few vague moans came from his throat, and then he slowly opened his eyes.
The old man raised his eyes and looked at Su Wu on the other side of the stream, with a hearty smile on his face.
He seemed to have known Su Wu for a long time and was an old friend of Su Wu. He greeted Su Wu familiarly: "Where is the king going?"
Su Wu looked stunned. He really didn't recognize this old man.
I just have a lot of guesses about this old man's identity in my heart.
Afterwards, Su Wu bowed slightly to the old man, and did not ask the old man's identity. Instead, he responded to the old man's greeting: "I'm going to Haojing."
“Oh, Ho Kyung.
The mountains are high and the roads are far away..." The old man shook his head, picked up the fishing rod in front of him, and casually threw the fishing line without a hook into the gurgling stream.
He watched the fishing line go with the water. It was impossible to catch a fish. He couldn't help but remind the old man: "Your fishhook was bitten off by the fish and taken away. How could it be possible to have a fishing line without a fishhook?" Did you catch a fish?"
The old man glanced at him and said with a smile: "It depends on whether the fish is willing or not.
If it wants, it will come.
It doesn't want to, and I can't force it. "
His eyes widened, and he was confused by what the old man said. He wanted to argue with the old man, but he saw that the fishing rod the old man was holding sank slightly, and the fishing line that was originally drifting with the water , sank below the surface of the stream——
Is this going to catch fish? !
Both Qu and Sui were in disbelief. They stretched their necks and looked into the stream. They could not see any fish swimming in the dark stream.
He wanted to say something else, but he couldn't make a sound at this time.
At this moment, he could only see Sui beside him - they seemed to be still at the edge of an unknown stream, while the old man and the king were already swimming on another colorless and invisible river!
“Knowing the male and guarding the female is the stream of the world.
For the world's stream, everlasting virtue will never leave, and return to the baby.
Know its whiteness and guard its blackness, this is the way of the world.
It is the way of the world, everlasting virtue, return to the infinite..." The old man raised the fishing rod slightly, then put it down again, as if he was pulling with the fish under the stream, he recited a verse, and then put it down. Looking at Su Wu on the other side of the stream, he sighed with emotion, "There is no one with such holy virtues as Wang in the world.
Wang, don’t forget where you come from, don’t forget where you come from...
Do you still remember the taste of carp in your hometown?
Before I say goodbye, let me give you a fish from my hometown..."
Wow!
The old man finally lifted the fish up. The golden scales were reflected by the sunlight in the forest and became more and more crystal clear. When Qu and Sui saw the golden carp suddenly leaping out from under the water, they were shocked beyond words for a moment!
Especially for Qu, he suddenly thought of what the old man said before, 'The fish will take the bait if it wants to' - could this golden carp that he had never seen before voluntarily bite the old man's fishing line and become his fish? A gift to the king and become his meal? !
How can fish be so ‘smart’?
There were many thoughts in his mind.
However, Su Wu looked at the fish that the old man handed him across a narrow stream, and he could sense that this fish was extraordinary - after the old man caught this fish, in his perception, The mysterious aura that enveloped the old man fell down like a waterfall!
The life of this fish and the old man is at stake!
If he accepts this fish, it will most likely lead to the death of the old man himself!
"Keep it, you need this fish right now.
This fish was of his own free will. "The old man stepped across the river, forced the fish into Su Wu's arms, and then stepped back to where he came from - he obviously just took a step back, but he was already thousands of miles away from Su Wu that was unreachable!
The layer upon layer of cobweb-like cause and effect obscured the old man’s figure;
The vast and empty Yuan River surged up, pouring towards the old man who was swimming on the river. Pale white arms stretched out from the river, vying to cling to his body. He waved gently to Su Wu : "King, don't forget where you came from..."
Hua Hua——
The torrential water and countless arms brought the old man's body under the Yuan River in an instant.
He was like a small boat capsized by the waves, capsized at the bottom of the river!
All kinds of scenes are blocked by the layers of the network of cause and effect. Only when Su Wu opens his eyes and starts to worship can he see them clearly.
But he and Sui knew nothing about all this.
They only saw the old man leaving a fish for Su Wu and then left calmly.
His mind was still trapped in a question. He looked at the golden carp in Su Wu's hand and couldn't help but said in confusion: "The pigs, dogs, dogs and sheep I usually see are not afraid of swords." To escape, a bird parked on a branch will flutter its wings and fly away when someone grabs it. A fish living in the water will swim hard to escape when it is struck by a harpoon - all wild beasts are afraid of Those who die want to live.
This is even more true for those slaves who were sacrificed.
If that's the case, why would any fish voluntarily bite the old man's fishing line and voluntarily die?
Since it voluntarily comes to die, there must be something more important than death that requires it to die to fulfill it - for a fish, what is more important than living? "
"Is the one who voluntarily sacrificed a fish or a human?" Su Wu asked him in a low voice.
He fell into increasing confusion.
At this time, the golden carp held in Su Wu's hand suddenly emitted a stream of golden energy. They poured in from Su Wu's eyes, ears, mouth and nose, and flowed through Su Wu's empty chest and abdomen, implicating There are clusters of blood vessels forming a pair of crystal clear lungs!
The lungs illuminated by golden light are contracting. Between heaven and earth, the Yuan River water is everywhere and cannot be sensed by people who are not on it. Inside and outside the noon body——
His arm that suffered a 'heavenly injury' and was coiled with purple-red roots and veins, was washed away by the clear energy of the sky, and all traces of the heavenly injury faded away!
As of this moment, his arm is just an arm that has been injured due to broken muscles and bones!
The golden carp the old man sent was actually a pair of lungs.
The fish transformed from this pair of lungs is the old man's voluntary sacrifice.
As the lungs of this unknown old man, which could swallow the water of the Yuan River, settled in Su Wu's body, his identity was discovered by Su Wu.
The old man is Diaosou.
"Where I come from...
Where I come from as a 'human being'..." Su Wu breathed deeply, and her deep breathing merged into the drifting of the wind, the flow of water, and the various changes in nature - all kinds of natural traces and natural breathing. In the middle, a man-made mud temple stands among them, hazy.
"So we began to worship the temple..."
Su Wu suddenly felt something in his heart. Just when he was about to find out the vague connection between the lungs in his body and the Gushi Temple, and to further confirm the 'location' of the Gushi Temple, suddenly there were layers of spider webs among all the natural traces. Kamiya came out and quickly blocked his perception.
Therefore, the Shishi Temple disappeared without a trace again.
He gathered his mind and frowned deeply.
Diaosou should be the 'Diaosou' in Taoyuan Village. Such an existence can directly isolate a village from time and time and stand on the Yuan River. He will sacrifice himself and hand over a pair of lungs to him. Su Wu's hands already showed how dangerous the situation he faced now was.
Based on Diaosou's previous vague and unexplainable words, and combined with his various experiences now, Su Wu concluded that his origin as a human being must be extremely important. It may be a coordinate that allows him to discover himself in the darkness. On the way forward, if we lose this coordinate, we may also gradually lose our true nature as a 'human being' in this darkness, and eventually transform into another existence that the trapper hopes to become.
That kind of existence should be the sky itself!
"I think you want to use the Great Shang era to make me become this damaged, ominous, and sinister 'Heavenly Way', and it will use my Human Dao Wheel and Earth Phase Wheel to change its identity and transform into a 'Human', carrying with it Everything I have accumulated will replace me!" Su Wu's thoughts changed rapidly. At this moment, he thought about many things——
And just when he figured out the key points and realized the real purpose of setting this trap, layers of causal spider webs suddenly came from all directions, and those causal networks actually stuck to him. Thoughts, looking back on everything——
A seal suddenly appeared in his mind.
On the seal, the eight ancient words "Ordered by Heaven, you will live forever" shine brightly. These eight ancient words capture Su Wu's thoughts, making his consciousness become chaotic, and his mind All the thoughts and joints that had emerged before suddenly disappeared!
He sensed that his thoughts were reversing with cause and effect, but he couldn't do anything at all!
He seemed to be in a cocoon wrapped in layers of spider webs. The huge spider surrounded the cocoon he was in with its jointed limbs. It spit out sharp mouthparts from a pair of coldly gleaming fangs, and began to extract from his body. Keep getting nutrients from your body!
‘If you receive orders from Heaven, you will live forever’!
Su Wu stared at the eight ancient and majestic handwritings for a long time, and saw the traces of the way of heaven flowing on them, and the purple-red heavenly roots that were intertwined with each other - between the indistinct clumps of heavenly roots, there were A pool of dripping blood!
The pool of blood looked like the claws of a warrior struggling to grab something!
‘Ordered by Heaven’!
Like a huge thunder across Su Wu's mind, he suddenly woke up - although those disappeared thoughts never came back, he couldn't remember what key things he had remembered in the previous moment. things, but I will always remember this feeling of being controlled by unknown existence and whitewashing the surface!
"Don't try to do anything to me!"
He suddenly shouted loudly!
The rage was gushing out in his chest, but he quickly suppressed it.
Qu and Sui were startled by the sudden sound coming out of Su Wu's mouth. They knelt on the ground in a hurry. Qu looked up at Su Wu's figure, as if he saw a dead volcano: "My King!"
Su Wu looked down at the two people kneeling at his feet. He was silent for a long time. A shadow covered his face, and the two people on the ground could not be seen clearly at all.
"Nothing." Su Wu finally shook his head. He took a deep breath and said to the two people, "Let's go to Haojing now."
"Yes!"
The two people did not doubt him, and hurriedly got up and followed Su Wu to leave the mountains.
This place was not far from Haojing. Su Wu took the two people and did not choose to rely on the disaster of heaven and earth to reach the destination directly. Instead, he walked between the mountains and rivers, contacted the people coming and going, and deepened his understanding of Da Shang - seeing is believing, and Dayi Shang is indeed prosperous.
Along the way, all the worldly affairs that Su Wu and others came into contact with gradually shaped Su Wu and others' impression of the King of Shang.
"Your Majesty, you are really a wise king!
Look at how rich the products of our Dayi Shang are, how much farmland has been reclaimed, and how many people are there?!
He appointed immortals like Fei Zhong to build water conservancy projects and manage agriculture and sericulture, which created such rich products in Dayi Shang. Generals like E Lai quelled wars everywhere, intimidated wild people, and killed disloyal people, which made it possible for Da Shang to have no unrest and people to live well!" Sui once again talked about his admiration for Emperor Xin, with a light flashing in his eyes.
But this time, Qu rarely refuted Sui strongly, or perhaps he could not refute what Sui said now.
What he saw and heard in Dayi Shang made it impossible for him to refute Sui's words.
He could only say sarcastically: "Since you are praising your king so much, do you still want to go back and be loyal to that Emperor Xin?"
When he heard the voice, he looked at Su Wu nervously and shook his head repeatedly: "I am the envoy of the Emperor of Heaven, I should die for the Emperor of Heaven! I will not be loyal to the king again!"
Su Wu shook his head and looked far ahead.
On the flat and fertile land, a city surrounded by earth walls, which is extremely rare today, rose from the ground. The wooden pillars supporting the city wall were painted with complex and exquisite patterns of blood-red atmosphere. People came and went in front of the city gate.
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