The wooden sliding door slowly opened to both sides, and Lin Yuan felt mysterious.

He stood at the door and glanced at the expressionless man in black, who said, "Please." ”

"So polite?" Lin Yuan felt uneasy in his heart, this man in black was almost like two people with his previous attitude, and he didn't know what was waiting for him inside.

Lin Yuan walked in, and as soon as his two feet stepped into the door, the wooden door closed.

He looked around the room, it was very long, with a huge wall painting on the left and a screen on the right, on which was a landscape painting, with mountains and mountains, babbling streams, and smoke, like a fairyland.

At this time, the voice of an aging dragon bell came from behind the screen.

"Come in, young man. ”

As soon as Lin Yuan heard the voice, he could basically judge that he was an old man.

He walked towards the screen, and the room was so quiet that he could hear his own heartbeat.

He walked around the screen and walked behind the screen, only to see that behind the screen was a platform, on which there was a futon, and on the top of the futon sat cross-legged an old man with a fairy wind bone, white beard, who was extremely smart, without a single wrinkle on his face, smooth as ice, wearing a white vest and a big blue trousers.

In front of the old man was a pot of incense, two feet high and one foot wide, and three sticks of index finger-thick incense were burned in the incense burner, emitting bleached green smoke.

Lin Yuan asked, "You came to me?"

The old man closed his eyes and nodded, and stretched out his hand to signal Lin Yuan to sit.

Lin Yuan glanced at the old man's face, there was also a futon, only half a foot away from him, Lin Yuan saw that he didn't seem to be hostile, so he walked over and sat cross-legged.

Behind Lin Yuan was the incense burner, the aroma wafted out, and a strange aroma mixed with sandalwood came to his face.

Lin Yuan shrugged his nose and asked, "Who are you, why are you looking for me?"

The old man smiled: "Haha, don't be in a hurry, the old man will ask you for the time being, where did you come from and where are you going?"

Lin Yuan looked confused when he was asked, and asked rhetorically, "Why are you asking me this question?"

And you answered, yes. ”

Lin Yuan thought for a while and said, "I came from all things, and eventually returned to all things." He only remembered it, and he couldn't remember where he heard it.

"What are all things?"

Lin Yuanxin said: "Come back, it's over, right? Let's play with you first and see what tricks you play." ”

"Between heaven and earth, there are all living beings, the living, the dead, the running, the flying, the swimming, the moving and the static, all of which are all things. Lin Yuan vaguely remembered the meaning of all things, and said with his own understanding.

The old man smiled and nodded: "All things are born from yin and yang, yin and yang are two instruments, two instruments give birth to four elephants, four elephants give birth to gossip, and all living beings and all things exist in gossip." ”

"I Ching, I understand a little. Lin Yuan heard the words in the Book of Changes, and felt very familiar.

"I asked again, what is the difference between humans and immortals?"

Lin Yuan kept looking at the old man, he didn't have a whole eye from beginning to end, he sat there with his eyes closed and asked questions steadily, he felt a bit like an immortal, listening to his question, Lin Yuan secretly wondered: "Why is he asking this?"

The old man said, "Just answer, and don't be suspicious." ”

"What difference can there be, people are earthly, immortals are heavenly, people have no immortals, immortals have immortals, people have birth, old age, sickness and death, immortals can live forever. ”

The old man shook his head and said slowly: "Fool, immortals are also human beings before they become immortals, since they are all human beings, why make a difference!"

"I've told you everything, and I'm going to say anything. Lin Yuan was a little impatient, thinking that I was not in the mood to chat with you here now.

The old man asked, "Why are you here?"

Lin Yuan sneered and said, "I should ask you this, I was forced by your subordinates, not of my own volition." ”

The old man smiled and said, "You could have escaped halfway, why did you come here so dishearteningly?"

"How can I escape? You have so many subordinates, I am just an ordinary person, and I have no weapons, can I escape or not, am I stupid?"

"You have a demon attached to you, and you came with you, and on the way you could have let that demon rescue you, but you gave up, why?"

Lin Yuan was shocked, where did he expect this old man to seem to know everything, so that he could confirm that this old man was not an ordinary person.

"How do you know?"

The old man laughed: "Haha, the old man naturally knows that everything in this world is under the control of the old man, why don't you know?"

"Which immortal are you under your control?" Lin Yuan faintly felt that the kind of temperament exuded from him was not in the world.

The old man slowly opened his eyes and looked at Lin Yuan.

Lin Yuan saw the old man open his eyes, swallowed his saliva, and looked into his eyes.

The old man nodded and said, "The talent is acceptable, it has not been carved, and it can be made into a tool after carving." ”

Lin Yuan didn't understand what he was talking about, so he didn't take a stubble.

The old man continued: "The Great Dao is invisible, giving birth to the world, the Great Dao is ruthless, running the sun and the moon, the Great Dao is nameless, and all things are nourished for a long time. ”

Lin Yuan didn't know what he meant, and he was at a loss.

"Tao gives birth to one, one life into two, two into three, and three into all things. ”

Lin Yuan listened to two sentences, sleepiness came to his heart, his brain was chaotic, he didn't know where he was at all, his eyelids fought, and as soon as his upper eyelids and lower eyelids closed, he fell asleep.

When Lin Yuan opened his eyes again, he looked up and saw a tall stone platform in front of him, about two meters high, on the stone platform sat an old immortal wearing a white robe and holding a dust, his hair was as white as snow, his beard was as long as his chest, and he had a bun on his head, and a hairpin was crossed horizontally.

When I looked up again, there was a horizontal stone tablet on the top of the old immortal's head, and the stone tablet was engraved with three words [Sanxingdong].

When Lin Yuan saw those three words, a few words immediately appeared in his mind.

[Lingtai Fangcun Mountain, Leaning Moon Three Star Cave]

Lin Yuan pointed at the old immortal and exclaimed, "Bodhi Patriarch!"

As soon as he shouted, he consciously lost his words, and immediately covered his mouth and lowered his head.

The child looked up. The old immortal said.

When Lin Yuan heard this, he knelt on the ground and raised his head to look at the old immortal.

"If you know me, why are you here?"

Lin Yuan recalled for a while, he was still in a building just now, listening to an old man talking, listening to it and falling asleep, and then waking up and being here.

Lin Yuan really couldn't contact what was going on in these two places, so he shook his head.

Bodhi Patriarch said: "Between heaven and earth, all living things, in the underworld, there is a fixed number, if it comes, it will be safe, and if it is encountered, it will be received, Lin Yuan, are you willing to worship me as a teacher?"

Lin Yuan smacked his tongue and exclaimed, "Patriarch Bodhi, are you saying that I should worship you as a teacher?"

"Your qualifications are acceptable, although you are dull now, but you can carve a tool, I am entrusted by others to take you as an apprentice, are you willing?"

Lin Yuan thought of Sun Wukong, he also worshiped under the Bodhi Patriarch, and learned the seventy-two changes and the ability to control the clouds, but he Lin Yuan is not Sun Wukong, he does not have the same lofty ambition as Sun Wukong, and he does not want to become a Monkey King, what is the use of learning immortals?

He has always been taught that life is not about length, but about breadth.

Cultivating to become an immortal and immortal, this is not his long-cherished wish, as long as he is worthy of himself, his family, and being born as a human in this life, it is enough.

Lin Yuan kowtowed to Patriarch Bodhi and said, "Patriarch Bodhi, I never thought of cultivating to become an immortal, if I can worship you as a teacher, it is a blessing that I have cultivated in several lifetimes, and I am afraid that I will not be able to cultivate this immortal fate in a few lifetimes." ”

Lin Yuan kowtowed again and said, "This worship is to thank Patriarch Bodhi for looking up to me." ”

After speaking, Lin Yuan kowtowed again and said, "This worship, I want to ask Patriarch Bodhi, who entrusted you to take me as an apprentice, I want to know." ”

Patriarch Bodhi shook his head and said, "The time has not yet come, and the opportunity cannot be leaked. ”

"In this case, no matter who entrusts you to take me as an apprentice, I am an ordinary person, if I reject you, it is a great disrespect to you, such as Patriarch Bodhi does not give up, I Lin Yuan is willing to worship Patriarch Puti as a teacher. The master went up again, and was bowed by the apprentice again. ”

While kowtowing, he secretly said: "MD, I will become the junior brother of the monkey, next time I borrow something from him, I think he will dare to push back." ”

After kowtowing, Patriarch Bodhi said, "Lin Yuan, get up." ”

Lin Yuan stood up, and Patriarch Bodhi said: "What you want in your heart, I already know, if you don't want to ask the immortals to ask, that's fine, but since you worship me as a teacher, I will teach you some skills, tell the teacher, what do you want to learn?"

Lin Yuan thought for a while and said, "Master, I think you also know, I am now doing things for the Heavenly Court, I am not the same as the monkey, I am friendly with the Heavenly Court, so Master, you don't have to worry about me getting into trouble outside and expelling me from the Division." The apprentice doesn't want to learn any immortal arts, it will take a few years, and the apprentice doesn't have the patience, so I want to ask the master, do you have anything that can improve the limit of the human body's ability, I can learn it. ”