The twenty-fourth (below) Taojiang Pond looks for shadows, flies Pengcao, and Qiaowang Temple secretly inquires about the Mandate of Heaven Stone

Cangyun County, Tonghe County, Taoyuan Village.

The village dogs barked fiercely.

As soon as the three of them walked into the village, the child Shui Sheng had to take the firewood and carry it himself, and when he arrived in front of his own yard, he put it on the ground, and led Shi Nianyuan and Liu Zisu to Mu Zitao's house.

The aquatic "hiss" ran away from Mu Zitao's house with a few sounds, and the big yellow dog who was afraid of retreating while barking, and called loudly: "Brother Muzi - Brother Muzi -"

"Is it aquatic?" Mu Zitao agreed in the house, and walked out of the chai door with a kerosene lantern.

Next to the peach tree in the courtyard, Shi Nianyuan smiled and waved his hand, and greeted: "Yo, Mu Zitao, happy New Year!"

"Stone ...... Shi Gongzi?" Mu Zitao was surprised and said, "Why are you here?"

Shi Nianyuan said with a smile: "I happened to pass by, and I happened to come to pay New Year's greetings." ”

Where would Mu Zitao believe that Shi Nianyuan could happen to pass by from Liuye to the remote countryside of Tonghe County?

Seeing Liu Shisu beside Shi Nianyuan, Mu Zitao asked, "I don't know who this girl is?"

Liu Zisu turned his inquiring gaze to Shi Nianyuan, Shi Nianyuan waved his hand and said, "Mu Zitao, he once saved my life, there are not so many rules, just tell the truth." ”

Liu Zisu's delicate body was shocked, and he bowed respectfully and said: "Hundred ghosts Liu Zisu, I have seen Muzi Gongzi." ”

Mu Zitao didn't care too much about what the hundred ghosts meant: "Shi Gongzi, Miss Liu, you haven't had dinner yet, have you?" Come into the house and make food for you." ”

Shi Nianyuan tugged at the corners of his mouth, and said unhappily: "You are always on top and bottom, and you are so polite that you are forced to ......" Shi Nianyuan looked at Mu Zitao's wooden house, and his eyes lit up and said: "I haven't enjoyed the food you made for a long time, where is your kitchen?"

"The kitchen is full of scraps, how can it be used to entertain guests? Shi Gongzi hurry up and wait in the house, and then go to make something fresh. Mu Zitao walked towards the chaimen of the hall first, and greeted as he walked: "Shuisheng, come-come into the house and eat some together." ”

The child was embarrassed: "Brother Muzi, I just returned to the village from the slope, and I haven't entered the house yet...... My mother must be worried about me, I have to go home first, and then ask my mother if she wants me to come......"

Mu Zitao said with a smile: "Then you go home first to report that you are safe, and then ask your aunt, if you come to my house, your aunt should not refuse." ”

Hearing Mu Zitao say this, Shui Sheng's eyes lit up, and he let out a "hmm" and ran away.

Mu Zitao turned to Shi Nianyuan and asked, "It was Shui Sheng who brought Shi Gongzi and Miss Liu here?"

Shi Nianyuan nodded and said, "I met on the opposite mountain." ”

Mu Zitao pushed open the wooden door of the hall and said, "Shi Gongzi, Miss Liu, you go into the house and sit down." Seeing that there was no light source in the house except for a candle emitting a sparkle of fire, Mu Zitao was stunned and said shyly: "The countryside is like this...... You don't need a night pearl to illuminate ...... Wronged Shi Gongzi and Miss Liu......"

Shi Nianyuan didn't bother to pay attention to Mu Zitao, looked at the woman sitting in front of the candle, holding a mille-feuille bottom in one hand, and holding an embroidery needle in the other, and when she heard the movement of opening the door, she stepped into the room and said with a smile: "Hello aunt! I am Mu Zitao's classmate, my name is Shi Nianyuan." ”

"Okay, okay, sit down, sit down. The woman put down the work in her hand and was about to stand up to greet her, Shi Nianyuan hurriedly went over and grabbed the woman's arm, not wanting the woman to get up at the same time, he squatted down and said, "Auntie, are you doing a thousand layers of bottoms? Mu Zitao is really blessed." ”

Mu Zitao's mother was innocent and simple, and when she heard Shi Nianyuan say this, she didn't know how to answer, so she just smiled vigorously: "Yes, yes." ”

Shi Nianyuan shook his head and said to Liu Zisu: "You go to the kitchen with Mu Zitao, if you see that there is enough cold rice and cold dishes, you can quickly serve it as soon as it is hot, the black light is blind, make a fart of fresh vegetables, you can eat it!" Suddenly thinking that there were elders next to him, he was afraid that the slang in his words would dislike the elders, Shi Nianyuan turned his head in embarrassment, and found that the woman's face was not different, but she smiled happily.

The woman who has lived in Taoyuan Village all her life, since Mu Zitao was a child, has been extremely supportive of all the decisions made by Mu Zitao, Mu Zitao said that he wanted to buy books, and every time his husband, who worked long in Tonghe City, came home, he told him to save money outside the home, so that he could buy more books for Mu Zitao. I am at home, I work hard during the day, the beans are ripe and the beans are sold, the radishes are ripe and the radishes are sold, the peaches are ripe and the peaches are sold, the rice is ripe every autumn, the wine is made and the wine is sold, and the insoles are woven all night long, and the mille-feuille bottom is sold.

Mu Zitao couldn't resist Liu Shisu, so he heated the chicken soup he cooked today, and then re-washed the rice and cooked a pot of rice.

When Mu Zitao and Liu Zisu divided labor, one person carried the stove and the other person brought the pot to the hall, Mu Zitao saw Shi Gongzi and his mother happily chatting about their past interesting things, and his heart couldn't help but warm.

"Oh! That's right! Auntie, we had a good chat, and I forgot about it. Shi Nianyuan turned around pretending to be in his pocket for a long time, and took out a huge night pearl, and at the same time, the room suddenly lit up, and at the same time, it also startled the simple woman.

Liu Zisu, who stacked the iron pots on the stove, sighed and said, "Young master...... Can you pretend to be a little bit more ...... This pearl of the night is bigger than my head...... How could a pocket fit ......"

Shi Nianyuan smirked twice, put the night pearl on the square table under the shrine at will, blew out the candle and said, "Auntie, this light bulb is for you." ”

"Light bulb......" the woman murmured, trying to guess the meaning of the term as hard as she had guessed the meaning of "classmate."

"Thank you, Shi Gongzi......" Mu Zitao brought two more benches from the side and thanked him sincerely.

At this moment, the excited voice of the child Shui Sheng came from outside the house: "Brother Muzi! My mother really agreed!" Speaking of this, Shui Sheng had already pushed open the firewood door of the hall, and saw that the room was extremely bright, first "wow", and then obediently called "Auntie", and then called "brother and sister", and then took the stool handed by Mu Zitao and sat down: "Thank you, Brother Muzi." ”

This meal Shi Nianyuan ate leisurely and comfortably, just like the rice wine brewed by Mu Zitao's mother, the degree is not high, and the taste is not very good, but from the mouth into the throat, and then all the way to the stomach, the mellow fragrance gradually returns, and it is a peaceful taste far away from the hustle and bustle.

During the banquet, Mu Zitao's mother was delighted, and said a lot of Mu Zitao's childhood anecdotes, and the child said a lot of experiences of the mountain gods.

The child's mother came up and called a few times, and Shui Sheng also returned home happily with a night pearl given by Shi Nianyuan.

Only then did Mu Zitao ask again about the purpose of Shi Nianyuan's visit, listened to Shi Nianyuan's story, and mentioned to Shi Nianyuan that two women from the Western Regions had arrived today.

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The next day, Shi Nianyuan, Mu Zitao and Liu Zisu went to the mountains according to the aquatic story about the location of the mountain god last night.

After finding the thorny path cut by the water with a wood knife, he naturally found the mountain wall and saw the ordinary-shaped stone.

Shi Nianyuan stretched out his hand and compared a kennel avenue: "I thought that the so-called mountain god of aquatic life should at least have a small temple, and no matter how bad it is, there should be a stone statue......"

Mu Zitao said with a smile: "In the countryside, every February two dragons raise their heads, but also maintain the tradition of sacrificing bridges, sacrificial wells, and sacrificing stones, but this mountain god, even in the next has not heard of it, or yesterday after asking the mother to learn, it is said that this mountain god is very effective, in previous years, the villagers often come to pray for abundance, pray for children, pray for peace, but in recent years, Cangyun vigorously develops the rural economy, the post road is repaired to the town, the people are no longer extremely poor, the villagers are no longer cold, so they gradually no longer enter the mountain to worship this mountain god. ”

Did reform and opening up cause feudal superstition to disappear? But ...... In this world, it can't be said to be feudal superstition, if the so-called mountain god is really some kind of spirit, but can really do many things without ordinary people being aware of it...... But why "apparitions" and why?

Shi Nianyuan was thinking in his heart, but unexpectedly, in the distant mountain stream, there was a loud explosion, and spiritual pressure came from afar. The three of them glanced at each other, and they were about to use the instantaneous turn method to rush towards the place where the movement occurred.

Shi Nianyuan, who had already taken a step, said in vain: "You go first, and I will arrive later." ”

Liu Zisu, as a member of the hundred ghosts, naturally obeyed Shi Nianyuan's words, and Mu Zitao had always trusted Shi Nianyuan in his heart, and even sacrificed himself to save Shi Nianyuan in Wangbei Cliff, so both of them nodded and swept towards the mountain stream first.

After the two of them disappeared into the dense forest, Shi Nianyuan turned around and walked towards the stone, or rather, the mountain god.

The aura flowed, and the light and shadow of the short humanoid appeared in front of Shi Nianyuan. The spiritual pressure of the spirit body fluctuated up and down in the unstable Lingzhi Realm, and it seemed very weak, and the weak spiritual power vibrated in the wording of the unified language of the demon clan, because the spiritual power was too weak, Shi Nianyuan was still a half-witted person to the unified language of the demon clan, and it was extremely difficult to understand.

The unification of the demon clan is transmitted through the vibration of the demon element, and the weak spiritual power vibration like this spirit body is probably like a person's voice is both low and vague, and intermittent stammering.

"Flying Peng...... Benefactor...... Mountain Ghost ...... Associated...... Shemale ...... Kill...... Benefactor...... Help me!"

The messy and brainless content in front of him made Shi Nianyuan frown, but the last sentence of "save me" with a much stronger spiritual shock, Shi Nianyuan could hear it clearly.

Shi Nianyuan summoned his spiritual power and asked in the unified language of the demon clan, "You appeared because you sensed the faint demonic energy on my body?"

"Yes...... Benefactor ......"

Shi Nianyuan muttered to himself: "Strange...... What is the name of the benefactor...... Some kind of relationship in the demon clan?"

Boom –

In the distance, there was a rumbling sound in the mountain stream, and there was the sound of water under the sound of water.

The unified language of the demon race, which distinguishes various meanings by the oscillation frequency of the demon element, belongs to the mechanical language, and the emotional transmission is more direct than the logical language of human language.

Shi Nianyuan felt the horror and endless pleading of the spirit: "Help me!"

Shi Nianyuan sighed, did not agree, did not refuse, mobilized spiritual power, and swept towards the mountain stream in the distance.

When Mu Zitao and Liu Zisu came to the mountain stream, they saw a small lake in front of them.

On the other side of the small lake, two women wearing Western Regions costumes were fighting with a half-human-tall cloud-patterned leopard cat by the lake, and the two women both overflowed the spiritual pressure of the Condensation Yuan Realm, and the cloud-patterned leopard cat already had multiple sword wounds on its body, and a low hum came out of its neck.

Sensing the arrival of a monk, the two daughters and the cloud-patterned leopard cat were temporarily separated, confronting each other more than three feet apart.

Lilac's eyes were staring at the cloud-patterned leopard cat, and she didn't look at Mu Zitao and Liu Zisu, and said coldly: "Xiyuan Funeral Palace is looking for medicine so far, and I also ask the two Taoist friends not to interfere in the funeral Palace." ”

Mu Xiang glanced at it with his afterglow and recognized Mu Zitao, who had a relationship with each other yesterday: "The funeral palace will not be unreasonable, and it will inevitably compensate the two as appropriate afterwards." ”

After that, the two long swords flashed like water sword light, and the two girls once again deceived and plundered the cloud-patterned leopard cat, and the tacit understanding cultivated over the years made the swordsmanship of the two of them cooperate seamlessly, the cloud-patterned leopard cat has been seriously injured, and the action is restricted.

Lilac took advantage of the situation to raise another sword, from static to moving, in the blink of an eye, the sword light was silver, the sword momentum was like a snake, Liu Shisu, who was watching the battle, shrank his pupils, and actually recognized this sword move!

Silver Serpent Sword.

A figure swept out of the dense forest, and the person who came held an azure long sword, and swept the lilac to the side with the grid technique of the Baiyue Sword Pond but the evil sword technique to the three swords, and then hugged the cloud-patterned leopard cat with one hand and retreated backwards.

The monk had a strong memory, and Lilac raised his eyebrows, and recognized the young man he had seen in Liuye City in front of him: "Three swords to the sky...... You are not an official of Liuye, you are a disciple of Baiyue Sword Pool......"

Liu Zisu saw his young master make a move, turned around in an instant, stepped on the small lake step by step, swept to the other side of the lake, and stood beside Shi Nianyuan, Liu Zisu, who had a sword and a sword on the left and right waists, took out the thick-backed big knife and threw it aside, the long sword was unsheathed, and it was held obliquely in his hand.

Shi Nianyuan Danfeng looked at the second daughter calmly, but his words were aggrieved: "Little Meow Meow is so cute, why do you want to hurt Little Meow?"

Lilac saw that the flying puff grass companion beast cloud pattern leopard cat was hiding behind Shi Nianyuan, looking like she had already known each other, and couldn't help asking, "This flying puff grass, is it your medicine pet?"

Shi Nianyuan didn't know what the medicine pet meant, and after thinking about it for a while, he didn't answer, but took out the Lieyang Order and threw it to the second daughter: "I am indeed an official of Liuye, and I am a disciple of the foothills of Lieyang Mountain, not a member of Baiyue Jianchimen." ”

Mu Xiang took the Burning Sun Order, flipped to the back, saw the word "Jiazi", raised his eyebrows, and handed the Burning Sun Order to Lilac.

The monk spared his life, but it was not like in the Jiangnan Prefecture scholar's book, he didn't ask about thirty-seven twenty-one when he met, and he was angry with Ping Pong.

"Xiyuan Funeral Palace, Funeral Envoy Lilac, I have seen Jiazi Daoyou of Lieyang Courtyard. ”

"Xiyuan Funeral Palace, Funeral Love, Mu Xiang, I have seen Jiazi Taoist friends in Lieyang Courtyard. ”

The two girls clasped their fists and saluted, and said in unison.

Shi Nianyuan hugged his fists and saluted back: "Shi Nianyuan of Lieyang Courtyard has seen two Taoist friends of the Funeral Palace, Lilac and Muxiang. ”

Lilac took a step forward and said solemnly: "Shi Daoyou, the six holy places of the Immortal Dao each spread the immortal fate, leading ordinary people to step on the immortal road, and have always been non-infringing on each other, our sisters have a little understanding of the foothills of the Lieyang Mountain, and know that the Taoist friend is a Jiazi sequence, with a respected status and an unlimited future, however, the flying Peng grass has no important use in my funeral palace, and I can't say that I have to ask the Taoist friends to cut their love." ”

The so-called medicine pet, that is, after the elixir is born into spirituality, in addition to the companion beasts, some elixir spirits with higher intelligence will also make an agreement with the monk to regularly send the essence as a reward in exchange for the monk's protection, for the monk, if you don't really need the elixir, this kind of reciprocal way of trickling water is obviously better than killing chickens and taking eggs.

As the two women spoke, the spirit pressure of the Ning Yuan Realm trickled over, obviously, in addition to the kind words, there were also warnings.

The cloud-patterned leopard cat swayed the demon yuan and said: "Feipeng has turned into a mountain ghost, not a pure elixir, killing the god will damage luck, please tell the demon lord." ”

"Killing God?" Shi Nianyuan muttered to himself, compared to the weak spirit, this companion beast cloud pattern leopard cat is obviously in a much better state, and even "speaks" a lot more fluently, suppressing curiosity and doubts in the bottom of his heart first, Shi Nianyuan helped translate: "It said that it has turned into a mountain ghost, let me tell you that killing it will ruin luck." ”

Lilac is obviously better at communicating with people, and laughed at herself: "Shi Daoyou, the immortal path is ethereal, for our sisters, the theory of luck is too distant and ethereal, exchanging flying canopy grass for spirit stones, exercises, and spiritual treasures is the right way for our sisters to seek the fairy way." ”

And Mu Xiang's body suddenly lingered with a strong murderous aura: "Sister, he understands the demon language." ”

The long sword in Lilac's hand, which suddenly reacted, suddenly pointed at Shi Nianyuan, and after careful perception, the spiritual pressure overflowing from Shi Nianyuan's body did indeed carry almost undetectable wisps of demonic energy, and his voice became extremely indifferent: "Are you having an affair with the demon clan?" Or are you a half-demon miscellaneous?"

Shi Nianyuan was stunned, racial discrimination?

I was still thinking about why the companion beast of Feipeng Grass only had the realm of the Combined Product of the Dust Micro Realm, but the spiritual wisdom of the spirit body far surpassed that of the Shouyang Ginseng Spirit Body of the Baicao Valley at the foot of the Lieyang Mountain, and he actually understood the language of the demon clan, and he was still thinking about why the spirit pressure fluctuated between the product of the Gnosis Realm and the inheritor, and the spirit body that was obviously weak was so far different from the state of the companion beast, and the two sword lights like water had already rushed towards him.

With a sigh, in the spiritual power circuit in Shi Nianyuan's body, the spiritual power began to circulate at an accelerated pace, especially in the axial-shaped circuit that stretched out from the Qi Sea Dantian, and the spiritual power in it was even more turbulent, and the spiritual sense captured and deduced the two women's moves, and defended with the three swords that reached the sky.

Liu Zisu knew that his realm was low, and the frontal battle would not only not help, but would even drag down the young master, and he was keeping an eye on the battle situation, condensing his spiritual power to the long sword in his hand, ready to wait for the opportunity.

Shi Nianyuan sighed that the second daughter was worthy of assassinating the disciples of the Xiyuan Burial Palace, while still maintaining a defensive posture, because she couldn't do it without leaking, in a short period of time, there were already a few more sword wounds on her arms.

"Lao Tzu doesn't understand, this cat is purely a demon, you don't hate it so much, Lao Tzu has a little demonic energy, just like Lao Tzu stabbed your mother?"

"Spirits, demons, aliens!"

"How can they be confused!"

Unexpectedly, when the second daughter heard Shi Nianyuan's words, she stepped up her offensive, and her sword moves were even more tricky and deadly.

At the same time, Cangyun County Heling Ferry, Qiaowang Temple.

Qiaowang Temple is actually a river temple, the river temple of the Jiachuan River, said to be a temple, in fact, it has nothing to do with Northern Desert Buddhism, in the territory of the Minglei Empire, many temples are dedicated to the gods who protect the world as children say "immortals" in the folklore.

Qiaowang Temple is splendid, and the incense is prosperous.

According to legend, in the turbulent times of the Spring and Autumn Period, Xuqian County still belongs to the land of Nanyan, at that time, in order to develop the domestic economy, the monarch of Nanyan spent countless manpower and material resources, several shallow stalls in the Jiachuan River dug deep, several narrow valleys widened, several winding roads straightened, the result angered the river god, has always been calm Jiachuan set off dozens of zhang high waves, devouring countless lives, do not believe in ghosts and gods of Nanyan monarch under a rage, it can be said that exhaust the national strength, after burying countless dry bones at the bottom of the river, finally change the river channel, but after the Jiachuan diversion, the launching boat river is difficult to frequent, nine out of ten sinking, until later Nanyan was thundered iron riding to break the country, the emperor Yuwen Luo personally arrived, and a black Jiao fought for three days and three nightsFinally, an agreement was reached, and the thunder consumed infinite manpower and material resources to plant yellow orange fruit trees on both sides of the Jiachuan River, and built Qiaowang Temple at the Heling Ferry to worship a dragon, and Jiachuan returned to calm.

In front of the golden bronze statue of Jiaolongdu in Qiaowang Temple, there is a seven-colored stone, which is called the Mandate of Heaven Stone.

It is said that mortals can ask the Destiny Stone for an indefinite number, and as long as they are sincere, they will respond.

The flowing wind and snow that rushed back to Cangyun County from Jiangbei City lined up for a long time, and finally came to the dragon statue and the Heavenly Mandate Stone, according to the instructions of the old man in the temple, worshiped sincerely, and then stretched out a slender hand and stroked the Heavenly Destiny Stone.