The twenty-fourth (middle) Taojiang Pond looks for the shadow of the flying pengcao Qiaowang Temple secretly inquires about the Heavenly Destiny Stone

Xuqian County, Earl's Palace, nameless Taoist temple.

The half-iron-faced figure had disappeared, and the consciousness of Liufeng Liang Tianxin diffused, conveying an idea to Nalan Zuochen and Liufeng Xue who were on the mountainside.

Before tea time, Liu Fengxue ran into the Taoist temple and called happily: "Dad, when did you come back?"

Liufeng Liang turned around, looked at Liufeng Xue, and said with a complicated gaze: "Xue'er, are you quite close to Shi Nianyuan, the prince of Wuhou Mansion in Cangyun County?"

Liu Fengxue was stunned for a moment, unable to guess how his father would know the news, and flew up with two red glows, and said in a glutinous voice: "Also...... It's not particularly close...... Stinky scoundrel...... Not...... Shi Nianyuan was met by mistake in Liuye City when Grandpa Nalan sent Shuang'er to the foothills of Lieyang Mountain, and we ...... It's a good friend......"

On the Taoist temple offering platform, Taiyi Relief Tianzun showed compassion on his face, but Liufeng Liang's words were like a piece of cold ice poured into Liufengxue's stomach.

"Your mother's death may be related to Wuhou Shi Qinlian. ”

Liufeng Xue's eyes glared in vain, and he subconsciously turned his head to look at the Liu Ran Pavilion not far from the nameless Taoist temple, and his mother was buried in the peach forest by the pavilion.

Liufeng Xue's head hung down, and his bangs blocked his eyes: "Dad...... I'm going to Cangyun, so I'll leave now. ”

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The foothills of the Lieyang Mountain, the seventy-two hanging peaks of the Tianshan Mountains, the Yuelong Peak, and the Jiachen Cave Mansion.

Tian Haotian sat cross-legged in the cave cultivation room, but he did not open the Spirit Gathering Array for cultivation, and the Quan Yin Sword lay horizontally on his lap.

Once, there was a young man with sword eyebrows and starry eyes who taught Tian Haotian to ask the sword and the heart.

Tian Haotian muttered to himself: "...... Later, I no longer pretended that I had many friends, but I was relieved to immerse myself in loneliness, and began to search for myself as the real me, and sometimes, I could not bear the torture of emptiness because of loneliness, but I still didn't want to trust anyone. ”

Tian Haotian picked up the spring groan, took out a silk handkerchief and wiped it gently: "I have exchanged my interests for many superficial friends, and I am always on guard against the sword that may appear behind my back at any time. ”

After Tian Haotian carefully wiped every inch of Quan Yin's sword blade, he cut a hole in his hand, and the blood flowed down the sword body, and then disappeared quietly, Quan Yin was actually drinking blood: "In recent days, Quan Yin has drunk some disgusting blood......

After a pause, Tian Haotian said with a smile: "I take my naked body as the bottom line of the most corrupt virtue acceptable in the human world, above me, from darkness to light, people want to be vertical and horizontal, and the hue is galloping, under me, in addition to the abyss, there is also the abyss." And the things in the abyss, I don't recognize them as human. ”

Tian Haotian shook his head and said: "To put it mildly, last night, I dreamed of myself in my twilight years, with my back bent and ragged, walking on a muddy road to hell, and the sins of my life emerged clearly bit by bit. The beauty of childhood, the obedience of youth, and the arrogance of today, have all become sharp blades, become icicles, cut through time, and then run through my body. Tian Haotian laughed at himself: "It's still not firm enough, when I see in my dream that the coming and going scenes are all nothing, there is no way forward, the kind of despair that will be infinitely magnified in the dream almost collapsed me, fortunately, the dream was broken in a falling flower, and I woke up......"

Tian Haotian sensed that the scorching sun caused the spiritual power to fluctuate, and at the same time as opening the protective spiritual prohibition of the cave, he put away the Quan Yin Sword and walked out of the cultivation room.

Guibei and Fang An saw Tian Haotian come out of the cultivation room, and stepped forward in a few steps: "Tian Shao......"

Tian Haotian saw the complicated looks on the faces of the two, and frowned: "Didn't you just give the two of you spirit stones?

Gui Bei hurriedly shook his head and explained: "No, Tian Shao, we got the news ......" Speaking of this, Gui Bei and Fang An glanced at each other, and Fang An continued: "Mr. Qin Mo died in Guanpu City......

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At noon, at the mouth of the mountainside, under a big maple tree, there are a few travelers resting on the stone bench at the bottom of the tree, the so-called stone bench, in fact, is a few relatively regular big stones, I don't know when someone moved here, over the years, has been rubbed smooth and smooth by pedestrians.

Shi Nianyuan listened to the travelers talking in the Tonghe dialect, mostly talking about some trivial matters of the farmhouse, as well as the plans to go to Tonghe City to catch the market in a while.

A woman with a load of white rice in front of her was saying: "I went to Tonghe to catch the market on the last day, and I saw a notice from the government, saying that from this year's Lantern Festival, half of the grain tax will be reduced. No, the rice that needs to be taxed can be sold at the market for money to buy a new coat for the dog's eggs. ”

A man next to him grabbed the rice in the woman's basket and touched it: "Damn it, your rice is too thin, didn't you go to the grain and grass department to get new grain seeds last year?"

The woman shook her head and said, "Don't you know whether the new grain seeds will bear rice or not?" After that, she looked enviously at the man's basket, one end was a large grain of white rice, and the other end was a barrel of rice wine.

The man was opening the lid of the barrel, took a sip and said with a smile: "Knot! It is very knotted, not only is it good, but the wine is also fragrant, and the mother-in-law is in charge of it at home, so she is not allowed to drink, and you can only steal a few more sips when you go to Tonghe to sell it in a hurry." ”

The woman was dissatisfied: "You men, you know that you cheat your mother-in-law, before my man picks wine to sell, I have passed the scales, and when I come back, I can't even lose a copper plate." ”

The man laughed and said, "I'm not a fool. After that, he touched the rice, found two scales, lifted one with one hand and said, "This one is for the mother-in-law, and this one is for the guests." ”

The woman's face was dissatisfied, and she said, "I'll tell your mother-in-law to go when I get back." Also, Tiegen's father, you two scales, but don't take less than two to do business, the ancestors passed down the saying, business is not true and honest can be discounted!"

The man said sharply: "How is it possible! That must be done with two full of two, okay?

After the two left, Shi Nianyuan on the side said with a smile: "For these villagers, happiness and troubles come very easily, it's good. ”

Liu Zisu asked curiously, "What about the young master's happiness and troubles?"

Shi Nianyuan picked up a dead branch and played with it at hand and said: "I, what can the second generation of the gentleman have to worry about, what do you want, I am so happy every day that I want to die." After a pause, Shi Nianyuan continued: "Regarding troubles, two days ago, I looked at Li Shutu's reading hand, and found that there was a sentence that was quite well written——"

Shi Nianyuan wrote a "skimming" on the ground with a withered branch, and said in his mouth: "There is a corner of the heart, and the big troubles of the thatched toilet can only be squeezed into a corner, and the heart has a world of four directions, and the troubles of Wuhou Mansion are just a drop in the ocean." Shi Nianyuan wrote another "pinch", and continued: "If you don't put it aside, it will be bitter in the end, and everyone will become famous if they can hold it." ”

Throwing away the dead branches and wiping off the word "human" on the ground, Shi Nianyuan clapped his hands, got up and patted his buttocks and said, "Let's go." Huh?"

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North of Taoyuan Village, between the mountains, deep in the dense forest.

A child of about seven or eight years old, holding a firewood knife in his hand, walked along a path that could not be considered a road, and when he encountered a thorny tree blocking the way, he skillfully waved his hand and cut it down.

Finally drill out of the "dog hole", in front of it is a sunken mountain wall, under the mountain wall, there is a stone of ordinary shape, in front of the stone inserted a few bamboo strips tied to the sacrificial paper hanging.

The child knelt down in front of the stone reverently, took out a small lump of glutinous rice wrapped in leaves from his pocket, and the child placed the glutinous rice in front of the stone, put his hands together and said: "Mountain God, I have come to see you again, I hope you can bless Daddy and let him get better soon, and during the Chinese New Year, I saw my mother crying secretly in front of Daddy's bed......

After the child finished speaking, he meticulously kowtowed three times, and then picked up a firewood knife to clear the new bushes and weeds that had grown next to the stones.

After doing this, the child returned to the stone and knelt down and said, "Mountain God, then I have gone home, and I still have a dozen firewood to carry back, and I have been with you for too long to come home late, and my mother will have to scold me again." ”

The child crawled back along the "dog hole" cut out of the thatch and the trees.

Wood incense and lilac, dressed in Western Regions costumes, manifested in front of the stone and looked at the ordinary-shaped stone.

Mu Xiang's spiritual sense extended out, and after perceiving it, he said, "I didn't perceive the spirit body. ”

Lilac withdrew his gaze from the stone and said, "Keep looking, Feipeng Grass is one of the main elixirs for refining the Funeral Pill." ”

Mu Xiang asked in a somewhat complicated tone: "Sister, if the Feipeng Grass Spirit Body has really turned into a mountain ghost, will we still arrest it?"

Lilac glanced at Mu Xiang indifferently and said, "We are no longer ordinary people, but immortal monks. The so-called mountain ghost is nothing more than the spirit body incarnated by the grass and trees, as long as the realm can suppress it, it is natural to catch it, a flying grass, do you know how much credit it is worth?"

Mu Xiang's eyebrows lowered and said, "But sister...... When we were young, we were also blessed by mountain ghosts......"

Lilac frowned and said, "Mu Xiang, you've been in the Immortal Dao for decades, why do you always mention those mortal pasts?"

After the two of them left, a glowing spirit flowed from the stone, and a humanoid spirit more than two feet high manifested and chased after the child.

The sky is getting dark.

The mountain is far away and the road is steep, and the child's small shoulders carry a large load of firewood, which is taller than the child.

The child suddenly slipped, the firewood fell from his shoulder, and the person fell forward, and just as the child was about to hit the rock on the inside of the mountain road, the child felt as if someone had helped him and stabilized his body.

The child's eyes widened, he turned back, looked in the direction of the stone, bowed deeply, and said, "Thank you, mountain god......"

After all, the peasant children who have not stepped on the immortal path and have not been born with spiritual consciousness are mortal fetuses with the naked eye, and they can't see the small blurred light and shadow in front of them, and they can't see that there is a wisp of mysterious spiritual power hairspring connecting the two.

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When the stars were in the sky, Shi Nianyuan and Liu Zisu came to an intersection where several mountain roads intersected.

Shi Nianyuan looked at the opposite hillside, and the dozen or so houses scattered on the slope had already lit up candlelight.

The monk's six senses have been nourished and strengthened by the spiritual power of heaven and earth, and have a connection with the spiritual consciousness, even in such a dark night, Shi Nianyuan still clearly saw the peach trees all over the mountains in the opposite village, stopped and said: "Taoyuan Village, it really lives up to its name, when spring begins, it will be a beautiful scene of ten miles of peach forests blooming." ”

Liu Zisu's immortal realm was not as good as Shi Nianyuan, and he chased after his young master with an instantaneous turn method all the way, and he was a little tired and panting: "Less...... What the young master said is extremely true. ”

There was a sound of rustling in the distance on another mountain road, Shi Nianyuan turned his head to look, and saw a half-old child picking up a bundle of firewood from the eldest and approaching in the dark.

When Shui Sheng saw two figures in the distance, he thought they were from the village, so he quickened his steps a little and prepared to go home with the villagers, but when he came closer, he found that they were two unfamiliar faces.

Shui Sheng glanced at the young man and the woman a few more times, and knew that it was very expensive brocade, so he ignored it and chose the road to continue walking down the mountain.

It's so dark, after going down this slope, you have to go up half a slope to get home, and you must be scolded by your mother again.

Shui Sheng suddenly heard a nice male voice calling in a not very pure Tonghe accent: "Child, are you a Taoyuan villager?"

Shui Sheng looked back and saw that the young man Danfeng's eyes narrowed slightly, put on an easy-going and intimate smile, nodded and replied, "Yes...... Brother and sister, who are you...... Whose distant relatives are they?"

Shi Nianyuan approached with a smile after three or two steps: "No, but I have a friend who lives in this Taoyuan Village, and I came to play with him." Well...... His name is Mu Zitao, do you know him?"

Shui Sheng still had a trace of defense in his heart, and after hearing Mu Zitao's name, the simple child smiled and said: "There are sixteen families in Taoyuan Village, everyone knows each other, and Brother Muzi's house is above my house." ”

Shi Nianyuan stretched out his hand and lifted the firewood on Shui Sheng's shoulder and asked, "Brother will help you carry firewood, can you take your brother to Mu Zitao's house?"

Due to Shui Sheng's short stature, Shi Nianyuan easily took the firewood away, and Shui Sheng didn't have time to refuse, and said shyly: "Then why are you embarrassed? I can do it myself!"

Liu Zisu walked up from behind, took the firewood from Shi Nianyuan's shoulder and said, "Young Master, I'll come." ”

Shi Nianyuan was not pretentious, and handed it over. Unexpectedly, Shui Sheng was anxious: "Brother, how can a man let a woman work!" After saying that, he turned his head to face Liu Zisu and said helplessly: "Sister, let me come by myself!"

Liu Zisu was already a cultivator of the Gnosis Realm, and the weight of a handful of firewood was nothing to Liu Zisu.

Liu Zisu lightly lifted the whole pick of firewood up and down with one hand and said, "Sister is very powerful." ”

Shui Sheng blinked, a little incredulous, Liu Shisu, who seemed to be unable to help the wind, could easily lift the firewood up and down with just one hand.

Shi Nianyuan smiled: "Lead the way, it's not early, by the way, what's your name?"

"Aquatic. Shui Sheng replied with a smile, because his face was a little dirty, his eyes were very bright, and his teeth were very white.

This mountain road, Xiao Shuisheng doesn't know how many times he has walked it, only by the faint fluorescence of the stars in the sky, he is familiar with it and walks briskly.

Originally, I was worried that these two brothers and sisters who were dressed in good-looking clothes would not be able to keep up because they were not familiar with the road, but the two of them followed suit, and Shui Sheng couldn't help but ask curiously: "Brother, are you martial artists?"

Shi Nianyuan blinked, nodded and said, "Well, that's right." ”

Shui Sheng pondered for a while and asked, "Brother, how can I become a martial artist? If I am as powerful as my sister, I will be able to protect my mother in the future." ”

Shi Nianyuan said with a smile: "There are many martial arts halls in Tonghe City. After a pause, Shi Nianyuan continued: "However, optical martial arts are not good, Hui is not worthy, just like virtue is not matched, huh...... That is to say, if you don't learn knowledge and don't understand reason, you can't control the powerful power well. ”

Shui Sheng nodded vigorously and responded: "Brother Muzi also said so, all along, Brother Muzi has been teaching everyone in the village to read and write, until half a year ago, Brother Muzi suddenly left Taoyuan Village, and no one has taught us to read and read since then." Shui Sheng suddenly laughed: "However, I am trying to save money, and my mother said that as long as I can save enough money myself, I will be allowed to go to the town to study in school." The dog's father and mother didn't let him go, always scolded him, and didn't let him study, saying that it was useless to study, and he could learn to farm hard, so that he could support himself and get his mother-in-law in the future. ”

Shui Sheng is not born, since he opened the chatterbox, it seems that there are endless topics, and before Shi Nianyuan can say anything, Shui Sheng continued: "I don't think that's right, I also want to be like Brother Muzi, I can read and write, and in the future, I can be like Brother Muzi, go out of the village and see the world outside the mountain." ”

Shi Nianyuan said with a smile: "That's right, it's good to read thousands of books and travel thousands of miles." ”

When Shui Sheng heard Shi Nianyuan's words, he said excitedly: "I know I know!" I have read more than 10,000 volumes, and I am like a god in writing, Brother Muzi taught me this sentence and gave me a pen, but I still can't draw." ”

Shi Nianyuan smiled softly, and did not deliberately correct the simple child's wording.

Along the way, Shui Sheng and Shi Nianyuan talked a lot, and after descending the mountain, when they were crossing the river, Shui Sheng suddenly asked, "Brother, do you believe that there are immortals?"

If it was before he stepped on the Immortal Dao, Shi Nianyuan would definitely blurt out a sentence "There are Nima coins!"

But since stepping on the Immortal Dao, in the eyes of ordinary people, aren't Immortal Dao monks immortals? Shi Nianyuan nodded and replied: "Well, in fact, in addition to martial artists, there are also Immortal Dao monks in this world, and when they cultivate to a high depth, they can fly around, like immortals." ”

Shui Sheng jumped lightly on the stepping stone on the stream, turned his head and said, "No, no, I'm not talking about immortals, I've heard of immortals, I'm talking about immortals......! Like the mountain gods!"

Shi Nianyuan laughed at himself, knowing that the obstacle was really a terrible thing: "It turns out that Xiao Shui Sheng knows immortals!"

"Of course! Brother Muzi said when he left that he was going to look for immortals and asked. Shui Sheng asked again: "Does my brother believe that there are immortals, not the people who go to seek immortals and ask questions, but the kind of ...... That...... It's a god like a mountain god......"

Shui Sheng stepped on the last stepping stone, jumped to the opposite shore and continued to explain: "It is the kind of immortal that people can't see or touch, but as long as they worship sincerely, they will bless people and protect people!"

Hearing the words of the aquatic life, Shi Nianyuan's mind came to mind the elixir spirit body that he had seen in the Baicao Valley at the foot of the Lieyang Mountain, for mortals whose six senses were not connected with the spiritual sense, was it just invisible and intangible?

"Yes......" Shi Nianyuan replied.