There is no vulgar rhyme, and sex loves hills and mountains. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info fell into the dust net by mistake and went for 30 years. The birds love the old forest, and the pond fish thinks about the old place. Open up the wilderness in the south and return to the garden. There are more than ten acres of square houses and eight or nine thatched houses. The elm willow shades the back eaves, and the peach and plum Luo Hall are in front of the hall. Ambiguous and distant village, smoke in the ruins. The dog barks in the deep alley, and the rooster cries on the top of the mulberry tree. There is no dust in the courtyard, and there is spare time in the empty room. After being in the cage for a long time, you can return to nature. -- "Returning to the Garden and Pastoral Dwelling: Part I", Eastern Jin Dynasty, Tao Yuanming.

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The years are quiet, the time is long, and half a month flies by.

The weather in early summer is sunny but not hot. Looking at the sky, I saw that the blue sky was like a wash, and a dazzling golden sun hung high in the blue sky, sprinkling countless lights on the world.

On this sun-drenched Tiancheng Continent, it seems that everywhere is full of hustle and bustle and blurred dust, but the top of Qinshan Mountain, located in the hinterland of Tiancheng Continent, has an incomparable silence from the world.

On the top of the mountain hundreds of zhang high, on the edge of the fields planted in the shape of a gossip map, in the bright and dazzling sunlight, surrounded by green bamboos, but seeing a head full of green silk on the back of his head with an azure hairband tied into a high ponytail, wearing a thin azure robe, stepping on a pair of azure boots, Yan Ziming was hunched over, holding a wooden bucket containing half a bucket of water in one hand, holding a gourd scoop out of the barrel in the other, carefully watering the flowers, plants, trees, vegetables and fruits in front of him.

Since going down to the top of Qinshan five years ago, Yan Ziming has not enjoyed such a quiet and indifferent day for a long time.

The hustle and bustle, prosperity and purple drunkenness of the outside world are the invisible demons that can devour all the wills and dreams in people's hearts, making people sink and fall unconsciously, until they finally fall into the quagmire and cannot extricate themselves.

Running back and forth in the hustle and bustle of the world, calculating the world and people's hearts, Yan Ziming only felt that his body and mind were more tired, and he was extremely tired.

However, Yan Ziming did not dare to stop the seemingly never-ending rush and calculation, because once he stopped, he would not move forward, and what was waiting for him would be a cliff that would break his bones......

However, on the top of Qinshan Mountain, which is lonely and isolated from the world, like a paradise, no matter how dirty and dirty the hearts of people are, they can also be calmed until they completely settle down and return to their original intentions.

Therefore, compared to the chaos of the outside world, especially compared to the countless and never-ending gloom and treachery in the court, Yan Ziming preferred to live on the top of this quiet Qin Mountain.

But...... Like can always be like, the burden on Yan Ziming's shoulders, since the moment Yan Ziming was born, has been destined that Yan Ziming can't stay on the top of this Qinshan Mountain for the rest of his life, and be this idle cloud and wild crane who lives in seclusion.

On the contrary, Yan Ziming can only face the difficulties, even if he knows that there is no way back, and the road ahead is even more difficult and vast, Yan Ziming must rush into the worldly land without hesitation and enter the quagmire......

But as the saying goes, steal half a day! It is a wonderful thing to be able to relax for a day, and to live in the moment!

"Ziming, I'm afraid your original plan to stay at the top of this Qin Mountain for three months needs to be changed, because the teacher has an urgent matter that you need to do." A calm but energetic voice suddenly came from behind Yan Ziming, interrupting Yan Ziming's somewhat fluctuating thoughts.

At this time, Yan Ziming, who was concentrating on watering the flowers, plants, dwarf trees, vegetables and fruits planted into a gossip map, was stunned when he heard this, then stopped watering, stood up straight, turned around, and looked behind him......

I saw that under the eaves of the bamboo house in the middle of the three bamboo houses in the shape of "Pin", there stood a man wearing a light blue corset robe, a wide belt embroidered with dark patterns of the same color at the waist, a light gray long Confucian robe with wide sleeves, and a white mask with no expression on his face.

The man's full head was tied up in a small section with a gray headband at the back of his head, but most of it was casually draped. The man was wearing a white expressionless mask, with only two round holes in his eyes for seeing, making it impossible to see his face.

For more than ten years, it seems to be an unchanging outfit forever, even if they are a hundred meters away, even if they don't look at it carefully, Yan Ziming can easily recognize each other.

Seeing that the person who spoke was their master, Yan Ziming only paused slightly, then bent down and put the wooden bucket he was holding on the ground at his feet, threw the gourd scoop into the barrel, and then stood up straight again, and asked: "The master has something to do with the apprentice, and the apprentice doesn't dare to refuse, but I don't know what makes the master so anxious?" ”

Since he was a child, although more than 20 years have passed, Yan Ziming has never seen the true face of their master, but in Yan Ziming's heart, their master is the same as the dustless master who practices Buddhism, ignores the world, and his whereabouts are erratic.

After knowing their master for more than 20 years, Yan Ziming had never heard the word "urgent" come out of their master's mouth. But today, as soon as their master opened his mouth, he said that he had an urgent matter......

can let their master say the word "urgent", come to think of it, that matter is really urgent to a level that even Yan Ziming can't understand......

Just when Yan Ziming was thinking a lot in his heart, the man standing under the eaves of the bamboo house on that side had already explained: "It's not for others, but the catastrophe of your three junior brothers has arrived, and you need to leave for Nanling County in the south of the Great Liang Country immediately and save him." ”

When Yan Ziming heard this, his face was unabashedly stunned. Immediately, but hearing this, Yan Ziming was so puzzled: "When the master put the third junior brother down the mountain, didn't he calculate the calamity of the third junior brother?" ”

"Your third junior brother is different from you and Ziyan, he has followed his teacher to the top of Qinshan since he was a child, and then he has been practicing on the top of Qinshan for the next eighteen years, and he has never been involved in the turbid world, and his heart is pure and good, which is very comparable." Faced with Yan Ziming's question, the man standing under the eaves of the bamboo house gave a plausible answer.

Yan Ziming heard this answer, and even felt a sense of helplessness that he wanted to sigh: here it is again......

Before Yan Ziming could really sigh, he could already hear the calm but energetic voice and say: "Therefore, the mental method of teaching the teacher and your three junior disciples is slightly different from the mental method of teaching the teacher and you and Ziyan. But it is precisely because of this that all the calamities in your life and Ziyan are born of human will between a thought, and it is not difficult to resolve them.

But the calamity of your third junior brother is determined by heaven...... Since it is determined by heaven, being a teacher is to calculate the calamity of your third junior brother in this life, but before your third junior brother should be tribulated, he can only vaguely calculate an approximation. Today's teacher also calculated a hexagram on a whim, but suddenly it was extremely accurate, I am afraid that it will be the doom of your third junior brother...... It's already done. ”

Hearing this, Yan Ziming was silent for a moment, then looked at their master, clasped his fist at their master, and asked with a puzzled face: "Master, please forgive the apprentice for daring to ask, since the master has calculated the doom of the third junior brother, why didn't the master personally go down the mountain to save the third junior brother?" ”

After asking like this, Yan Ziming felt that there was something wrong with these words, and even added in a respectful tone: "Please don't misunderstand, the apprentice's words are not that the apprentice is unwilling to save the third junior brother, but the apprentice thinks that compared with the master, the apprentice's little ability is really not on the table." If the master personally went down the mountain to save the third junior brother, wouldn't it be more secure and foolproof? ”

Before Yan Ziming's words fell, the man standing under the eaves of the bamboo house had already sighed: "Why didn't you think like this as a teacher? It's just that the calamity of your three junior brothers is determined by heaven, although your three junior brothers have not left the mortal womb of the flesh, but this calamity can also be regarded as a 'small heavenly tribulation'. ”

"Little Tribulation?" Three words full of doubts spit out from Yan Ziming's two thin lips.

The man standing under the eaves of the bamboo house nodded invisibly, and explained in his calm but energetic voice: "In ancient times, there were cultivators and immortal cultivators, and cultivation was the way for such people to improve their realm, and in order to achieve a certain realm, they must destroy some things, such as removing the three corpses, which is to see through good, evil, and me. But people's own limitations can form obstacles, such as greed and attachment.

As a result, when the cultivation reaches a certain level, the contradictions intensify, and some unexpected things occur, which is called calamity. A heavenly calamity is a calamity, when a person does something contrary to the principles of heaven, God will give him punishment or disaster. Just like an immortal cultivator who goes against the sky, vainly trying to cultivate a true immortal with the body of a mortal, the heavens will send down a catastrophe.

For example, killing and robbery means that you have to kill people to understand something, break down barriers, and improve your realm. And the higher the cultivation, the more powerful the calamity. If you want to achieve positive results, you have to go through many calamities before you can attain the right path and become immortals. And the calamity to be experienced at that time is called 'heavenly calamity'. ”

Listening to every word and sentence that their master said, a sense of powerlessness suddenly arose from the bottom of Yan Ziming's heart.

Listening to the calm but energetic voice of their master, Yan Ziming only felt that he had a little bit of understanding in the past, and his incomparably smart brain was obviously not enough today.

Yan Ziming heard every word that their master said clearly, but when these words were connected together and said in a sentence or paragraph, Yan Ziming felt that he couldn't understand it at all......

Yan Ziming even felt weirdly that he didn't bow down to heaven and earth when he got up today, which was really a mistake......

On the other side, the man standing under the eaves of the bamboo house continued to say tirelessly: "In ancient times, Taoism collectively referred to these calamities that cultivators and immortal cultivators would experience in their lifetime as 'Heavenly Tribulations', and divided them into: Forty-Nine Heavenly Tribulations, Sixty-Nine Heavenly Tribulations, and Ninety-Nine Great Heavenly Tribulations of No Return to Destroy Souls.

Every 490 years, the 'Heavenly Tribulation' that must be encountered, also known as the 'Taoist Four Nine Tribulations'. During this period, the good and bad deeds done by the cultivators in the world must be counted once, and the Yuanqing Yuan Shi Tianzun, one of the three Qingzun gods of Taoism, decides whether they can continue to be 'free'.

And from the day of Sanxian's 'enlightenment', he must avoid three 'heavenly tribulations' in succession and pass all kinds of strict tests before he can cultivate the 'immortal body'. At this time, those who have completed their internal and external deeds will ascend to the realm of spiritual immortals and become 'heavenly immortals' (with duties); ”

Their master said this for a long time, and Yan Ziming finally understood in the end: the so-called "Heavenly Tribulation", that is, the punishment of the heavens for the cultivators and immortals (maybe more like a curse?). To put it nicely, it's called a test or tribulation. But...... When did his third junior disciple embark on the path of cultivating immortals? Otherwise, how could it attract a catastrophe??

seemed to have spied on Yan Ziming's thoughts and questions, only to hear the man standing under the eaves of the bamboo house suddenly say: "The teacher knows that you have many doubts in your heart, but now is not the time to explain to you. ”

When Yan Ziming heard this, he was silent for a moment, and then said so respectfully to their master: "Yes, master, the apprentice knows." ”

Because the man standing under the eaves of the bamboo house was wearing a mask on his face and could not see his expression, he could only hear his calm but breathless voice as if he sighed: "Although the 'Little Heavenly Tribulation' that your third junior brother is going to experience now is far below the 'Forty-Nine Heavenly Tribulation', it is still a Heavenly Tribulation. However, there are many obstacles to the identity of a teacher, and you must not interfere, otherwise once you make a self-defeating decision, I am afraid that you will save a 'small catastrophe' that could have been resolved into a 'big catastrophe' that cannot be resolved......"

The words were stunned, and then, I could only hear the calm but breathing voice sighing unabashedly: "If this is the case, I am afraid that even if you do your best for the teacher at that time, you will not be able to protect your third junior brother." ”

"It's so serious?" Yan Ziming exhaled in disbelief.

Nodding, I could only hear the man standing under the eaves of the bamboo house answer affirmatively: "Determined by heaven, it is inevitable." ”

Yan Ziming opened his mouth and said a little snortingly: "Then ......" only hesitated for a moment, and Yan Ziming continued: "Can you dare to ask again, what is the doom of the third junior brother?" ”

However, the man standing under the eaves of the bamboo house did not answer Yan Ziming directly, but only said in an unfathomable manner: "The secret of heaven must not be revealed, you will know when you go on this trip." ”

"Yes, master, the apprentice will go down the mountain." Their master didn't want to say it, so Yan Ziming didn't ask anymore, and after saying so respectfully, Yan Ziming turned around without hesitation and walked towards the outside of the bamboo forest.

"Ziming......" Yan Ziming had only taken two steps before a soft call came from behind him.

Yan Ziming immediately stopped and turned to look at the man standing under the eaves of the bamboo house, but there was suddenly no sound on that side.

The two sides were silent for a long time, and only then did a sigh come out from under the white expressionless mask: "Take care of your third junior brother, he is still young." ”

Yao Yao shook his fist at the man standing under the eaves of the bamboo house, and Yan Ziming said in an extremely firm tone: "Master, please rest assured, the apprentice will not let anyone hurt the third junior brother!" With that, he turned around and walked away without looking back...... (To be continued.) )