Although it has snowed, the colors in the mountains are not all white. An exposed mountain wall a few miles away on the right actually has colorful patterns of the sky, like a rich splash-color oil painting, unfolding towards the canyon in the distance. . The snow only covers the tree crowns and mountaintops, but exposes the tree trunks, hot springs and cliffs, making the contrast of orange, dark green, dark indigo, blue and other colors more intense.
Cheng Tianle watched the trajectory of the drop of water falling to the ground in silence, and clearly heard the sound of water droplets splashing into the ashes and dust. A boiling roar suddenly came from the bottom of the lake not far away, and then a column of water spurted out from the rolling waves, rushing into the air more than ten meters with a whistling sound.
This is a common geyser in Yellowstone Park. The scale of this place is still small. In some places, the geyser erupts like an upside-down waterfall, and the sudden roar can be heard far away. After the geyser finished erupting, the hot blue water was still rippling, and Cheng Tianle looked at the wider valley, which was dotted with similar lakes of various sizes.
They are here to find the Heart Marrow Flame, but they do not take the Heart Marrow Flame as their only goal. Appreciating the mountains and rivers along the way and feeling the spiritual breath of heaven and earth are also practices. Cheng Tianle said: "Yellowstone Park is so big. Bai Shaoliu gave me the coordinates. Based on the terrain here, if we go at this speed, it will probably take a day or two to walk through it. But as soon as I enter here , there is a very special feeling, the so-called heart marrow flame may not be in that place."
Xiao Shao said thoughtfully: "I have watched the eruption of this geyser more than ten times, and I have also sensed the changes in the aura of the heaven and the earth. The mountains and rivers we have walked through have geothermal activity, and there are geothermal activities deep underground in this area. The huge geothermal flow, what you see on the surface is these hot springs and active volcanoes, but there is an invisible rhythm permeating the spiritual breath of heaven and earth.
Cheng Tianle nodded and said: "I also sensed it in the state of concentration. It seems to resonate with the flow of divine energy and enter a strange state. It allows people to touch an origin in the nature of heaven and earth. The magical power we use Dharma is not so much a force as it is a change, a change caused by controlling various energies.¡±
When a monk experiences the pill fire tribulation, his ordinary perception will become very sensitive, even overly sensitive. It is very easy to be stimulated by the environment, and a little carelessness in the operation of the spirit can lead to the so-called misfire. The key to mastering this is to have a pure mind and respond to the subtleties of things with your mind. The essence of energy they have obtained is the vitality of the original energy, so this heart marrow flame. It seems to be a kind of energy rhythm in the movement of life. I am afraid it can be obtained in a similar way to extracting essence energy.
The two of them have already realized that the Heart Marrow Flame is not a treasure buried in the ground waiting for them to dig out, but a trace of the original spiritual breath that permeates the heaven and earth. They must first resonate with it. Only then can the refining of the soul be carried out in a calm state, and a ray of heart marrow flame be adopted. Like the essence of energy, it seems to come out of nothing, but it is indeed in the spiritual breath of heaven and earth.
This is no ordinary skill. The world that needs to be developed and compatible with the inner and outer scenes of the soul is broad and clear enough. Only then can we resonate with the rhythm of the snow-capped mountains and rivers. The reason why Cheng Tianle was able to try this and feel this way was also related to his cultivation experience. The world of his soul is expanded to completely and clearly accommodate the city of Suzhou in the scroll. Otherwise, he would not have been able to refine the artifact and finally bring Xiao Shao into this world.
Xiao Shao added: "The location pointed by Bai Shaoliu should be the central location of this strange spiritual energy of heaven and earth. Only by performing martial arts there can one successfully harvest the Heart Marrow Flame."
Cheng Tianle: "I also learned a lot from Melander, looking at the terrain of this mountain and river. The place Bai Shaoliu pointed to should also be where the Lingshu Earth Eye is. How are you feeling here? Can we Can you move on?"
Xiao Shao smiled slightly: "It's almost done, let's move forward."
They wanted to reach the place designated by Bai Shaoliu. It would be very fast if they flew away, but the two of them walked leisurely through the primitive jungle, resonating with the strange spiritual energy of heaven and earth along the way, capturing and sensing that trace. The secret of refining the inner marrow flame.
Although there are countless tourists visiting Yellowstone Park every year, the prescribed stopping areas are all developed tourist routes. The park management also warns tourists not to wander into the wilderness at will. The park has security personnel and local police patrolling the roads to ensure and protect the safety of visitors. Deep in the reserve, only wild animals roam.
¡°But there will always be people in the world who don¡¯t listen to advice, and there are also people who can¡¯t hold back their desire for adventure. They carry backpacks and mountaineering equipment, park their cars in hidden places to avoid police patrols, and quietly leave the road and enter the depths of the park. This kind of people appear every year. Some people disappear in the mountains and fields and never appear again, becoming a file in countless missing persons cases. Some people disappear without leaving any police records.
Cheng Tianle also saw the remains of several victims in the depths of Mount Tai in China a few years ago, far away from tourist routes. They may have been victims in the mountains, or died for other reasons. Now walking through the depths of Yellowstone Park in the United States, he also discovered several human remains. The time of death varied, and the most recent one was no more than a year old.
Some people fell from a high cliff, some got lost in the mountains, and some were attacked by wild animals. The latest victim was even shot to death, which was obviously a homicide. What happened deep in this isolated primitive jungle is unknown to anyone. These were encountered by chance on the road, and the locations were not too far from the highway.
Walking in the deep mountains, Xiao Shao suddenly said: "This place is not suitable for human habitation, but it is a natural paradise for monsters."
This area is indeed very suitable for monsters to practice and build caves. Before they transform into the mortal world, they can also stay away from the interference of human beings. Cheng Tianle also encountered some demon birds and beasts that had turned on their intelligence. They discovered Cheng Tianle and Xiao Shao. Some of them tried to attack, but Cheng Tianle drove them away with the pressure of nature. Some monsters were powerful. I avoided it from afar.
Although the monsters they encountered were not many, and there were no more than ten in total on the way into the park, they were not too few. In the area of ??nearly 10,000 square kilometers, there should be many monsters that had turned on their intelligence. Cheng Tianle also discovered some traces of suspected caves. Although they were very rough and seemed to be no different from naturally formed caves, they had obviously been artificially processed and simply built, and there were traces of magic.
Cheng Tianle saw two or three such places on the road, and found the skeleton of a monster in a long-ago, semi-collapsed "cave". There once was a bison who opened his spiritual wisdom here, realized himself as a demon and mastered his innate supernatural powers. It spent many years groping for self-realization and practice, and finally died here. It should have been long before the establishment of Yellowstone Park.
In this dangerous mountain wilderness, survival is the biggest test, and various accidents will happen. Cheng Tianle saw with his own eyes a bison accidentally inhaled the toxic gas that accompanied the eruption of an underground hot spring, and fell to the ground and died beside the spring. After the cattle moved away, the carcasses attracted a group of coyotes, and birds circled in the sky.
By the afternoon of the next day, they finally arrived at the location pointed by Bai Shaoliu. There is a huge volcano nearby, but at the foot is a small hill that is not too high in an open valley. The exposed rocks are red in color, with streaks of flowing clouds, which may have been deposited by volcanic eruptions. It looks like burning and dancing flames.
Xiao Shao's spiritual sense was even sharper. She climbed the hill and fell into meditation for a long time. Then she opened her eyes and said, "Yes, it should be here. It is the easiest place to extract the heart essence flame. But I tried it just now and thought It may be difficult to adopt the Heart Marrow Flame, and you and I may not be able to succeed."
Cheng Tianle: "Now that we have found this place, we must try our best. In fact, Brother Qiao also said that there is no need to force yourself to get the Heart Marrow Flame, and we have discovered and sensed its existence, so this trip will not be in vain. Even if If I can¡¯t collect any trace of the Heart Essence Flame today, I can refine my form and spirit here to survive the Dan Fire Tribulation.¡±
Xiao Shao looked at him and smiled: "But even if you don't tell me, I know that you still want to try your best to take the Heart Marrow Flame to see if it can transform into the chaotic world in the scroll?"
Chengtian smiled happily: "You and I have the same spiritual thoughts, and you are the only one who knows my thoughts best. At the beginning, Alliance Leader Shi quoted Mr. Feng's words and said that letting you go to the picture scroll world was not to destroy the weapon, but to choose a method of refining the weapon. Method. This shows that the scroll should be able to continue to be sacrificed, but we have been unable to do so. Now we have finally discovered that the essence of energy can be transformed into the chaotic world in the scroll, causing new changes. Perhaps the Heart Marrow Flame and Shen Yinpo can also, Of course I want to see the results.¡±
If Qiao Caifeng and Bai Shaoliu hadn't figured it out, even if Cheng Tianle came here and could sense the strange rhythm in the spiritual breath of heaven and earth, and knew that it was the most appropriate place to experience the Dan Fire Tribulation again, he would never have imagined that there was such a thing as the Heart Marrow Flame in the world. . This is the so-called "true message", but only by traveling thousands of miles and reading thousands of books can we understand and master the mystery of this sentence.
Xiao Shao looked around and said: "The method of extracting the heart essence flame that we have figured out along the way is to sit in retreat and spread the soul into the mountains and rivers of heaven and earth. And this place does not seem to be absolutely quiet. I am afraid someone will come. disturb."
It is surrounded by a relatively open and gentle valley surrounded by mountains. The meadows under the snow are very soft. There is a clear stream passing by the red hills. There are also several large and small hot springs scattered around. The depth and temperature vary. Different colors appear differently. This place is only about five kilometers away from the nearest road. There is a winding natural passage in the mountains ahead. There are not many obstacles to walking from the road.
Someone has obviously been here before, and those people are certainly not here to extract the soul.??, but for hiking and camping tourists.