Chapter 98: Kikyo's Master
The stone steps of the Medicine God Valley are not as long as the Spirit Beast Sect that Lu Tao has walked through, and after passing the mountain gate, you can soon see people coming and going like a street market, no matter who it is, after seeing the bellflower, they will respectfully come forward and shout "Little Uncle".
The buildings here are relatively scattered, the higher they go, the denser they become, the top of the mountain is covered by a cloud of mist, Lu Tao can't see what is there, the roads that extend in all directions will stretch the Medicine God Valley into a large area where the border cannot be seen, among the past Medicine God Valley monks, some people look hurried, some people are leisurely, and some people frown and seem to be meditating, but almost everyone who passes by has to look at Lu Tao curiously, and then greet the bellflower.
Continuing to walk up the mountain, Lu Tao and Kikyo stopped in front of a door, and the monks standing on both sides of the door were wearing red shirts, and after saluting Kikyo respectfully, they said: "Uncle Xiao, if you go up, only those who hold the decree of the god of medicine can go up, of course Uncle Xiao can go up, but ......"
As he spoke, he looked at Lu Tao, which roughly meant that he couldn't go any further.
Lu Tao didn't care, he nodded, and was about to speak, but the bellflower spoke first: "Tianqingzi Daoist has something important to report to my master, don't miss a big thing!"
In fact, Lu Tao didn't want to go up anymore, since Lu Tao just wanted to wait for Jin Lingzi's seniors and Hei here, he didn't need to go to the sect at all, according to Lu Tao's idea, just wait at the door.
As a result, the two monks in red shirts nodded after listening to Kikyo's words: "Then please ask Uncle Xiao to take care of you a little more, and don't let this fellow Daoist strayed into the forbidden land of the Medicine God Valley." β
"Of course I do. With a wave of his hand, Kikyo Shi Shiran continued to walk up, and Lu Tao couldn't say that he could wait outside, so he had to follow behind Kikyo.
Lu Tao looked at the surrounding scenery curiously as he walked, there were continuous greens on both sides of the road, interspersed between various buildings, at this time, Kikyo pointed to a piece of green and said: "That is the largest medicine garden in the Medicine God Valley, and there are two hundred disciples in the Medicine God Valley who are responsible for cultivating medicinal herbs in the medicine garden alone. He pointed to his feet again: "Most of these plants on both sides are also medicinal herbs, but they belong to the kind of medicinal herbs that are not of high value, and the seeds will take root when they fall here, and the disciples in the valley have no interest in picking them, so they are left to fend for themselves." β
Finally, Kikyo pointed to a tall building above: "That is where the elders of the Medicine God Valley or the worship and core disciples live, my master is there, of course, I also live there!"
Lu Tao understood that Kikyo wanted to tell himself that she was the "core disciple" of the Medicine God Valley, so Lu Tao opened his mouth and said, "It turns out that you are a core disciple!
Kikyo pouted: "Are you so boastful? There is no sincerity at all! Forget it, let's go back quickly!"
Although he said so, the bellflower only showed a slightly unhappy expression, Lu Tao was also desperate, there must be something to boast about, Lu Tao didn't even know what the core disciples of the Medicine God Valley were, and he hadn't even heard of the very lofty-sounding name of the Medicine God Valley, so he didn't know where to praise it.
Lu Tao knew that the Spirit Beast Sect was a very large sect, but unfortunately, the Spirit Beast Sect collapsed before Lu Tao could figure out how big it was, so it was impossible to compare the size of the Medicine God Valley and the Spirit Beast Sect.
"That's right!" Lu Tao suddenly remembered a question: "Kikyo, why is your Dao name called Kikyo?"
Lu Tao remembered that the Vermilion Bird of the Monk Alliance was also like this, only the Vermilion Bird, not called the Vermilion Bird.
"Because I haven't reached the realm of being able to go down the mountain on my own, so I only have the Dao number, and I don't have the title behind it, so you don't even know this?"
Ignoring the contemptuous gaze that the bellflower looked at, Lu Tao finally figured out this question that had been buried in his heart, in this way, if it was a casual cultivation, there would be no such habit, Lu Tao had his own Dao name before he cultivated, and the "son" of Tianqingzi was the title, right?
Halfway through, Lu Tao followed the bellflower onto a road paved with stone slabs, at the end of which was a small courtyard, from the courtyard wall, there were vertical and horizontal branches stretched out, through the door outside the courtyard, the bellflower took Lu Tao directly to a two-story building in front of the door, the bellflower pressed his hand in the middle of the door, and after a while, the two gates on the left and the right opened by themselves, revealing the inside of the building behind.
There are three paintings hanging on the wall, two of which are old men with fairy wind bones, and the middle one is indeed a girl in purple, Lu Tao glanced back at the bellflower.
Well...... It's not at all like the girl in purple in the painting.
Beneath the three paintings is an offering table with an incense burner on it, and white smoke is billowing outward, but there is nothing on the offering table.
The smell of incense was peaceful, Lu Tao smelled the faint smell of herbs, and suddenly felt that his spirit, which had been a little bad because of various things in the past few days, suddenly improved a lot, as if a person who had not slept for a long time could finally sleep well.
"Master, I'm back!"
Kikyo opened his mouth and shouted, and then, Lu Tao heard an old voice: "Hmph!
From the stairs on the first and second floors, an old man with a white beard was walking down, wearing a gray robe to reveal the old man's slender figure, even though his hair and beard were white, his skin was glowing red, and he couldn't even see wrinkles.
"I know that the cultivation realm is not peaceful now, but you are still running outside! I don't want to think about your cultivation at the second level of qi refining, any person can slap you to death!"
The old man put his hands behind his back and glared at the bellflower fiercely, under Lu Tao's gaze, the bellflower ran to the old man's side in a few steps, shook the old man's arm and said coquettishly: "Master~ I'm not back! Hehe~ Outside, as long as others hear the name of the Medicine God Valley and Master, they won't embarrass me at all!"
"In order to find you, several of your senior brothers are all anxious to die! I don't know how to be considerate of being a teacher...... The old man stroked his gray beard and continued: "You have been in your room for the past three months!
"Master~~"
"If you can't say it, you can't say it!, why don't you go back to your room?!"
Kikyo lowered his head: "But ......"
"It's nothing! Go!" the old man said, as if he was really angry, the bellflower head lowered lower, turned around and glanced at Lu Tao, and ran away.
Lu Tao: "???"
What's the situation? Why did you run away? At least explain what the situation is now?!
Seeing the old man glaring at him, Lu Tao personally felt how much pressure it was to be stared at like this by a powerful monk, Lu Tao felt as if he was being targeted by a fierce beast ten meters tall, and the cold sweat was about to come down.
Reluctantly showing a smile, Lu Tao just wanted to open his mouth to explain the cause and effect, but the master of the bellflower opened his mouth first: "I am the master of the bellflower, you can call me Poria cocos, which sect are you a disciple of?"
It seems that the master of the bellflower, Poria Cocos, did not mean to blame himself, Lu Tao replied with a sigh of relief: "Senior Poria Cocos, I am not a disciple of any sect, I am a casual cultivator. β
β...... So, what the hell is going on with Kikyo and why did she bring you to me?"
Lu Tao twitched the corners of his mouth, he didn't know! Originally, he just wanted to find a safe place to wait for Jin Lingzi's senior, but he followed all the way hereβno matter how you look at it, it is the place in the core area of the Medicine God Valley.
After brewing in his heart, Lu Tao opened his mouth and told the master of the bellflower, Lingzi, about what happened before, starting from a post on the monk's forum, including the pictures posted by the bellflower, the phoenix real person in the back, and then to the Tianlong Pavilion, Longshou Mountain and Longtan.
By the way, Lu Tao also told Lingzi that someone would come here to pick him up, so as not to have any misunderstanding.
After Lu Tao finished speaking, Poria pondered for a while, then waved his hand, and then, from the next room, a monk who was also wearing the same shirt as the disciple of the Medicine God Valley outside, Poria Zi commanded the monk in the shirt: "Take this Tianqingzi Taoist friend to stay in the guest room, Tianqingzi, you take a rest here first, if someone goes up the mountain to find you, I will go and inform you." β
The last sentence was said by Poria to Lu Tao.