Chapter 14 Chapter 1 King Xuan of Zhou Came to the Mountains to Hunt

The lush and lush mountains and forests are full of joy and curiosity. A fourteen-year-old boy, Yang Tongye, is bouncing around in the quiet mountains. Looking around, the whole world is already another scene. Not long ago, he got the guidance of Di Menghun and Yao Sheng, and finally let his unique plant ability enter another level. In the past, Yang Tongye had a rather vague impression of this ability, because no one gave advice, and only knew that this ability allowed him to play some games where plants grew and withered alive. Even his father didn't know much about this ability. He only knew that with it, crops could grow better, and even in bad years, he could easily grow a considerable harvest in the field.

But this ability brought bad luck to his father, causing him to be regarded as a monster by ignorant villagers, and finally died unexpectedly. Back then, the grandfather who told the story had witnessed the appearance of Hou Ji, the plant superpower behind Yang Tongye and his son, and mentioned it briefly to Yang Tongye, but over the years, Yang Tongye himself I couldn't see what that "Houji" looked like with my own eyes. Because although both he and his father have such a strange ability, neither of them can see what this primordial spirit looks like. Only occasionally, Yang Tongye would still play the game of growing plants when he was a child, to tease the little girl Bao Si, and make her giggle. This is also a game they never tire of playing between the two of them.

However, after being instructed by Di Menghun and Yao Sheng, Yang Tongye finally saw the appearance of "Houji" for the first time. What Yao Sheng taught Yang Tongye was the inner contemplation technique that "Guang Chengzi", a strange man from the Conferred God era hundreds of years ago, was good at. If someone with special abilities like Yang Tongye, once learned it, he can See the world that ordinary people can't see. Yang Tongye's plant wonder is an innate magical instinct. Although he doesn't know how to use it, his ability becomes stronger as he grows older.

The "Hou Ji" that the old story teller once witnessed has actually grown a lot in the past few years. Yang Tongye remembers hearing that the story grandfather once described "Hou Ji" as a tall and thin man. A green and transparent person, but at this moment, Yang Tongye activated the mind-watching technique, and saw "Houji" for the first time in the grass not far behind him. At this time, Houji was no longer a transparent green human figure. From Yang Tongye's eyes, this "Houji" had a shell like green armor, and its texture was like a shiny tree heart, covered with Intricate texture.

Strictly speaking, Hou Ji should have no face, because its head is like an old tree head with tangled roots, it is densely packed, and there are only two holes in the eyes, which can be faintly seen. A red light emerges from it. After walking a few steps in the forest, Yang Tongye carefully observed Hou Ji's movements, and found that his movements had a certain coherence with his own, basically following his own movements. For example, Yang Tongye touched his head tentatively, and "Hou Ji" would imitate his own movements stiffly. However, it is not always true to say that it completely imitates itself, because sometimes Hou Ji will take a few steps away by himself, walk over to explore a few plants, like a curious child, standing in a daze in front of the flowers and trees.

And the plants touched by it will grow lush flowers and leaves like magic. However, most of the time, Hou Ji always followed Yang Tongye faithfully, following him at a distance of about two steps. This kind of faithful following seems to have started from the moment Yang Tongye was born. Several times, Yang Tongye also turned around tentatively, wanting to feel something strange about Houji's body. Originally, Hou Ji still kept a distance of two steps from him, Yang Tongye moved forward, it retreated, Yang Tongye moved backward, it also followed. But after Yang Tongye tried a few times, he discovered the trick. It turns out that he and Houji can communicate, as long as Yang Tongye whispers in his mouth: "Come here... come here..." or in his heart Whenever he wanted it to come over, the green Houji would obediently come over.

Touching Houji is a very interesting experience. Its appearance does not feel like wood, it feels soft to the touch, but it is not like the skin of a creature. Moreover, after touching the part of Houji, it will grow vigorous little flowers and grasses like vines and melon seedlings in the sun. After playing with "Houji" for a while, Yang Tongye turned his eyes to look at the surrounding mountains and forests carefully, but couldn't help but startled. It turned out that among the giant trees, flowers, and stones, a strange scene that had never been seen before had appeared at this time.

Behind an Aristolochia plant, there was something like smoke floating faintly. Yang Tongye walked over curiously to have a look, but saw a few lines of words floating on it: "When you meet a sheep, you will be prosperous, and when you meet a horse, you will be weary." He looked at the two lines of words, but he became a little dazed. With this flash, the concentration of the "mind-observing technique" disappeared slightly, and the smoke-like thing faded away. There was a sudden shock in his heart, and he quickly regained his concentration, only then did he see the words emerging from the smoke again.

Aristolochia is a common plant in the mountains and forests. The clusters of flowers look like small bells. Aristolochia is often found in the mountains and forests. It is known that it can be used as a herbal medicine. But why do these two lines appear on this Aristolochia plant? If you meet a sheep, you will be honored; if you meet a horse, you will be weary. He stood in front of the aristolochia for a while, but still couldn't figure it out, so he turned his head to look at other scenes. Of course, Yang Tongye would not know that these two sentences corresponded to a story hundreds of years later, about the grievances between the coaches of the two countries, Sun Bin and Pang Juan, during the battle between Qi and Wei in the future.

This is of course an afterthought. On a giant tree not far in front of Yang Tongye, there is an image of an old woman floating. The old woman's face is pale, but her tongue sticks out red, seeing Yang Tongye staring intently. Looking at her, she had a ferocious expression on her face, as if she wanted to drive him away from here. But at the top of a huge boulder, Yang Tongye saw a group of characters like newborn children playing there unrestrainedly. Looking at it, I can't help but think of some legends told by my grandfather who told stories when I was young. "Mountains and rivers have spirits, and everything in the world has their own spirituality," said the grandfather's old laughter, which is still very clear when I think about it now. "Don't think that they can't move or talk, just think that they don't have spirituality, grass has grass Immortals and trees have tree spirits, so you can't just joke around and be disrespectful..."

It seems that these are the "spirituality" that grandpa said, right?The art of observing the mind that Yao Sheng taught Yang Tongye seems to be a strange window, peeking out from such a window is a strange and beautiful world completely different from the ordinary world. After all, Yang Tongye is just a teenager, and he doesn't know what kind of influence this ability has on him. He only knows that the world seen in this way is very interesting, like a child who has a new toy. I want to match it with this toy and have a good time. Just like this, the boy played and walked in the mountains and forests, occasionally looking at the traces of prey, and when he encountered strange trees and mountains, he used the "art of observing the mind" to look at them, and occasionally asked the primordial spirit "Houji" behind him to caress them. Get some plants and let them grow happily. After playing like this for a while, before I knew it, I had reached the end of the forest. There was a small mountain stream at the end. Yang Tongye washed his face in the mountain stream, looked at his own reflection in the water, and couldn't help but resorted to it again. "The technique of observing the mind". In the depths of the Jianshui, at this moment, one can vaguely see a strange creature that looks like a dragon or a dragon, sleeping deep in the Jianshui. However, if you don't use the "heart-watching technique", you won't be able to see the giant dragon. Yang Tongye looked at it curiously for a while, and when he was about to wade in to get a better look, he suddenly heard the loud noise of thousands of horses coming from not far away. Those who are curious about good things like goat tongues, of course, will not let go of this great opportunity for nothing. He followed the direction of the sound, walked out of the water "crash clatter", and rushed towards the mountain road beside him, leaving a splash of water all over the place. It's just that he didn't know that the eyes of the giant dragon hiding in the depths of the stream opened suddenly, revealing a savage light. Of course he didn't know that he had actually walked before the gate of hell just now. This giant dragon has a lot to do with the special ability of Yang Tongye. It hides in the mountain stream and usually doesn't eat people. People with strange physiques like Yang Tongye will open their huge mouths, drag them into the depths of the stream, and swallow them up. The noise of huge people and horses came from the east, and Yang Tongye climbed up a row of small hills in three steps at a time. When he looked around, he saw a wide plain. In the middle of the plain, a large group of people and horses lined up mightily, and the sky was full of sand and dust, criss-crossing on the plain, but in the gap between the people and horses, there were wild beasts in the mountains and forests scurrying in panic. It turned out that this was the team of Qiuhun, King Xuan of the Zhou Dynasty. A few days ago, Yang Tongye had met the leading team of Autumn Hunting on the mountain, and had rescued a court official of the Zhou Dynasty in the team of Autumn Hunting with a slingshot. Yang Tongye is also a standard teenager, how can he let go of such a commotion?So he hid aside with great interest and concentrated on watching this rare royal hunting event.