One Qi Chaoyang

Chapter 418 Tiandu Mountain's Mission
Sometimes, Zhao Fuyun felt that Tiandu Mountain was like a small world.

Mountain world.

A thousand years in the world seems like just a moment in the mountains.

Zhao Fuyun felt that the mountain had not actually changed. The only reason he felt there was a slight change was because his heart had changed.

Following Master Feng Hong out of the Tiandu Hall, he led the way and walked onto a small path. If Master Feng Hong had not led the way, he would probably not have been able to find the path even if he had kept passing by it. But now, with Master Feng Hong leading the way, the path that was crisscrossed with weeds and vines seemed to have opened up.

The vines seemed alive and seemed to be shrinking, but the road also seemed to be getting bigger, and at the same time, it seemed as if they themselves were getting smaller.

"Junior Brother Fuyun, do you know that cultivators in the Nascent Soul stage have another name?" asked Master Feng Hong.

"Infant God?" Zhao Fuyun answered from behind. He looked up and could see sparse starlight, but he felt that the vines and trees here were too tall, so big that it was amazing.

"This statement is of course correct, but it is no different from the Nascent Soul we know, and the other name is 'Infant Transformation'."

Master Feng Hong stretched out his hand and waved it in the air, and the thin mountain mist was cut away, revealing the scenery inside.

There was a small Taoist temple there, but now it has been broken by a plum tree.

The whole Taoist temple is grey, from the walls to the tiles, blending in with the dark mountain scenery, but that one plum tree stands out from the temple, blooming with luxuriant plum blossoms.

Zhao Fuyun thought of a sentence in his mind: "Deep mountains, ancient temples, Baimei ruined temples and pavilions, and the monsters rise up to the sky."

"The weather changes every five days, and things in the world are changing all the time. When people are young, they are most fickle. Not only their tempers, but also their bodies, change every day."

"So the infant spirit is also the most changeable." said Master Feng Hong.

Zhao Fuyun thought of the ever-changing methods he had learned in the mountains. He had no clue about it all along, as if he was looking at flowers in the fog and could not grasp the essence. Now he finally understood that this was because his realm was not high enough.

The plum tree in front of him looked vigorous and ancient, with black and simple branches and white plum blossoms on the branches. Zhao Fuyun felt a strong and strange aura from it.

It was as if this white plum tree was a demon tree, emitting an evil aura.

One can clearly feel that it is rooted deep in the Tiandu Mountain and seems to be connected with it.

Zhao Fuyun felt that since there were even dragons in Tiandu Mountain, it was not surprising that there was a plum tree that had turned into a monster.

But he also felt that this plum tree was related to the mountain sect's headmaster, Mei Zhen.

"This tree?" Zhao Fuyun asked.

"This is the place where the mountain master practices in seclusion. It is also the place where the founder and the mountain master lived in the beginning. I just said that after the Nascent Soul stage, the most obvious danger is the transformation of the infant. I haven't seen Senior Sister Mei for a long time. She said she wanted to go into seclusion. Later, only this plum tree broke out of the house."

Master Feng Hong's words surprised and unsurprising Zhao Fuyun.

Ever since the matter of infant transformation was mentioned before, he already felt that something might have happened to the head monk.

And it hasn't appeared in many years.

But when he saw it again with his own eyes, he still felt an indescribable sense of shock.

Zhao Fuyun approached, looked up, and looked at the plum tree. Tiandu Mountain was not visible from the Tiandu Palace, only vast clouds, but at this moment, the plum tree seemed to break through the clouds, opening up a corner of the sky, with a little ethereal starlight scattered down.

Master Feng Hong walked forward slowly and said, "I can monitor the entire Tiandu Mountain, but I can't see this place clearly. I don't know when Senior Sister left. It was only later that I came here to see her and saw this plum tree. Then I knew that Senior Sister's spirit left but her body remained. However, her body changed and turned into a plum tree."

Zhao Fuyun was surprised why he didn't transform into anything else but into a plum tree, and couldn't help but ask, "Is the true form of the Master of Meishan a plum tree?"

"No one has ever asked, but I heard that she was born in the polar night, met the ancestor, and traveled the world together. As for whether her true form is a plum tree, it is not clear, but no matter what, even if it is, she has already shed her tree form."

"If Senior Sister is trapped in the Hall of Rebirth, Junior Brother, do you have a way to get back to the Hall of Rebirth? If so, let's go and take a look together."

Master Feng Hong seldom made requests, let alone requests that would put people in danger.

Zhao Fuyun sighed, "I had no intention of entering the Hall of Rebirth before, and I went in for no apparent reason. I'm afraid it will be difficult for me to go back."

Master Feng Hong just sighed, pointed at the starlight and said, "I really want to go and see the starry sky in the room with the word 'Peng' that Junior Brother mentioned. And since you can come out directly from there and come back here, it must be related to this starry sky."

At this point, another question in Zhao Fuyun's mind was aroused, and he asked, "Brother, what are the stars in the sky?"

"Within the Zhoutian, there are celestial stones surrounding them, but they are all hidden. Someone needs to use great magic power to point them out, so that they can shine in the sky. They are called stars."

After listening to this, Zhao Fuyun thought about it and felt that this was not unacceptable.

"Then I wonder what these senior brothers are looking at while facing the starry sky?" Zhao Fuyun asked the question that was in his mind.

"It's just observing the stars, counting the stars, and trying to point them out." said Master Feng Hong.

Zhao Fuyun recalled the time when he looked up at the stars in the Tiandu Palace and was almost captivated by the mysterious aura of the stars.

But it is clear that pointing out these stars would involve great danger.

"Over the years, the red flames have dimmed, causing the stars in the entire Great Zhou sky to be shaky and ready to disappear at any time. I'm afraid it won't be long before the Great Zhou sky falls into darkness again."

"What should we do given the current situation?" Zhao Fuyun asked.

"This sky is the result of the hard work of many people pointing out the stars. The ancestors and Emperor Wu of the Great Zhou Dynasty even offered sacrifices to the heavens and pointed out the Red Flame Star. Now, due to various reasons, the Red Flame is about to disappear, and the starry sky is unstable. We need to re-determine the starry sky and the time."

Zhao Fuyun looked at Master Feng Hong with some surprise. He didn't expect that this mysterious deputy mountain master who was always looking at the stars was actually planning such a big plan.

For the sake of people's livelihood.

"Brother, you really have great ideas." Zhao Fuyun exclaimed.

"This piece of heaven and earth was created by our ancestors with great efforts. If we, the descendants of the later generations, were to watch it fall into darkness once again, how could we claim to be disciples of Tiandu Mountain? This is the mission of Tiandu Mountain."

"Is this also one of the secrets of Tiandu Mountain?" Zhao Fuyun asked.

"Yes, protecting the peace of this world is one of the meanings of Tiandu Mountain's existence." Master Feng Hong said affirmatively.

(End of this chapter)