Huaishan Castle.

It's another year of Qixi Festival, the city is full of lights, the decoration is new, the pedestrians from the south to the north are hurrying, but the faces are full of bright smiles, it seems that something happy is about to happen.

Wen Shen and Jun Zhu entered the city with a group of wandering artists.

They traveled in the mountains and rivers for five years, and happened to arrive in Nanyi Prefecture, where the Temple of Heaven is located, so they wanted to visit Shen Qingxue by the way, and it was the Qixi Festival, and they also experienced the customs and folk customs of Nanyi Prefecture by the way.

After entering the city, Wen Shen said to Liu Lao, who was the leader: "Since you have entered the city, you will say goodbye here." ”

Liu Lao hurriedly gave his hand: "Thank you to the benefactor for escorting you all the way, don't dare to delay the benefactor's major affairs, if you can use it when the time comes, the benefactor will only come to summon." They encountered bandits on the road, and they thought they were going to die in Huangquan but they were rescued by two benefactors, and they escorted them all the way into the city, and they were really grateful to Dade.

Wen Shen smiled and said, "Elder Liu doesn't need to be like this, hurry up and take everyone to renovate and settle down." "These wandering artists were met by him and Jun Candle on the road, and when they saw that they were in trouble, they rescued them, and the reward was to listen to the drama along the way, maybe others would feel a loss, but he felt that it was very cost-effective.

"Brother Wen, will you still come to see us?" Two small heads with double buns poked out from behind Liu Lao, two girls of five or six years old, the two looked exactly the same, obviously twins.

Wen Shen leaned down and touched the hair of the two: "Yes, my brother will come to see you after visiting his friends." ”

The two little girls suddenly smiled sweetly.

Waving goodbye, Wen Shen and Jun Zhu turned around and left first, the two of them did not go directly to Shen Qingxue, after all, the Heaven Replenishing Temple belonged to a unique domain, and it was not in this Huaishan City, and the two planned to find an inn to live in first as usual.

Along the way, I saw pedestrians in a hurry, and if it weren't for the happy look on my face, I would have thought that I had fled.

When Wen Shen and Jun Zhu came, they had already heard about the Qixi customs of Huaishan City, and the lanterns were equivalent to those of Wei, but there was no meeting with the Magpie Bridge, and some were throwing flowers from Fenghu.

Fenghu Lake is a lake in the north of Huaishan City, it is crescent-shaped, the surrounding scenery is beautiful, there are many people who come to play on weekdays, and it has become a scene of Huaishan City over time. And the so-called Fenghu throwing flowers, is a custom of Huaishan City Qixi Festival, teenagers and girls will take a boat on Fenghu Lake to play, teenagers hold flowers, girls hold flower baskets, if teenagers see their favorite women, they can put flowers into the flower basket, if the girl is willing to find a way to catch, if you don't want to dodge.

Huaishan City's Qixi Festival does not stick to the night before it starts, generally from after lunch there will be men and women to come out to play, Wen Shen and Jun Candle are ready to be crowded with crowds, but into the city only to see pedestrians in a hurry, and do not see the lively crowd, can not help but wonder in the heart.

The two went to a nearby restaurant, ordered a meal and asked Xiao Er what was the reason.

The second brother took the copper plate and said with a smile: "The guest is a foreign traveler, right?" In the past, there were indeed people on the streets at this time of Qixi Festival, but this time it was different, this time it was just in time for us to choose a son-in-law for the Holy Daughter of the Heavenly Temple! ”

The saint chooses a son-in-law? Wen Shen was stunned, and suddenly remembered that there really seemed to be such a thing, this was a rule set by the Temple of Mending Heaven in the past dynasties. The temple of mending heaven is dedicated to Nuwa Niangniang, and the heads of the past dynasties strictly follow the words of the first generation of the founder, taking the safety of the people in the world as their own responsibility, and will come out to help the people in troubled times, and send the holy woman to find the true son of heaven who can set things right, and help them dominate the world.

Therefore, the Temple of Heaven is extremely prestigious in the mortal world, and every candidate saint has a country to worship.

In order to prevent one person from talking big, the temple changes the hall master every hundred years, that is, the real saint. The new hall master ascends to the throne, and the remaining nine alternate saintesses either become elders or marry in the Xuanmen sect or die dead, and after the new hall master succeeds to the throne, he will start to choose the new ten alternate saints, that is, her ten disciples, to start a new round of competition.

In Shen Qingxue's generation, there are still nearly forty years before the change of the hall master, and she is not in a hurry, and the so-called saint daughters who choose sons-in-law are those who think that the Xuan Dao is hopeless or have no intention of the dispute between the hall masters, and choose a way out for themselves in advance and stay away from disputes.

The little second brother is still talking: "...... Two guests came at the right time! I heard that this time a total of five saints came out to choose a son-in-law, the world Xuanmen shook, a month ago each sect sent people, if you come at that time can see more lively! But it doesn't matter, tonight is the most lively time, the saint's choice of son-in-law will be held in Fenghu, and all of us people in the city can go to see the excitement! The villain has never seen what the saint looks like when he is so big, so he must take a look at it tonight, hehe......"

Five of the ten alternate saintesses chose to give up the competition for the throne to choose a son-in-law? Wen Shen was slightly surprised, it seems that Shen Qingxue has done a lot of things in the past five years.

Sending the little second brother away, Jun Zhu stretched his waist and said, "It seems that this Shen Qingxue is really good, but she is much stronger than Su Yang." Thinking of Su Yang's pestering Wen Shen, he was haunted, and hoped that those female partners in the world in the future would be as trouble-free as Shen Qingxue.

Wen Shen stuffed a piece of meat into his mouth: "Eat!" ”

Jun Zhu grabbed the meat with a look of grievance and accusation.

After eating, the two went to Fenghu Lake according to the road pointed out by the little second brother, and saw the lake surrounded by people from a distance, as if the boys and girls of the whole city had gathered here, and some even dragged their families to occupy a seat early, and many vendors set up stalls on the roadside early, and people came and went endlessly.

Fenghu Flower Throwing has officially begun, there are ten tall boats in the lake, and there are small boats scattered around, and there are teenagers and girls holding baskets and flowers standing on the deck.

Wen Shen looked at the nearest boat with great interest, on which stood two delicate-looking girls, wearing the same style of blue skirts, three small boats came one after another to surround them, and seven or eight teenagers rushed to throw the flowers in their hands into the flower basket that the girls held in their hands.

The two girls obviously had a fancy, holding the flower basket in the corresponding direction, the flowers fell and hit, the crowd burst into cheers, and the two pairs of teenagers and girls each got on the same boat in the laughter of everyone, and gradually rowed away.

The crowd erupted in cheers and boos from time to time, as well as cheers from relatives and friends.

Jun Candle walked around somewhere, and when he came back, he held a flower basket and a bouquet of flowers in his hand, and he smiled and handed the flower basket to Wen Shen: "Here you go, let's try it later." ”

"Okay." Wen Shen smiled slightly, then went around the flower basket and took the flowers.

Jun Zhu shrugged, it doesn't matter, it's all the same anyway.

The two big men held a flower basket and a flower in their hands, which really attracted everyone's attention, and it was not uncommon for the folk Longyang to break his sleeves, so most of them were goodwilled, especially the two of them were handsome and looked very compatible.

Wen Shen and Jun Zhu rented a boat, and instructed the boatman to float slowly in the lake, and the two sat on the deck to taste wine and enjoy the scenery.

Time passed, the sky in the West Mountain became dark at dusk, all the lanterns around were lit up, the whole Fenghu Lake was brightly lit, and more people gathered, almost surrounding the entire lake shore.

Almost at the moment when the sky was completely dark, several streamers of light from the sky came towards the lake, and the people around first cheered, and then they were silent, which showed the prestige of Xuanmen.

For a while, there was no sound around, only birds chirping, cicadas chirping, and water waves roaring.

Those streamers approached in a few breaths, and when they reached the nearby crowd, they made a shocking gasping sound, only to see that the leader was a Qingluan flying car, the body was like a three-story attic, the eaves were green tiles, the ring hung light bells, and there was a pleasant sound between walking, like music, and the four eaves of the attic were covered with white yarn, fluttering like a fairy.

After the Qingluan flying car, there is a dragon pulling a cart and a spirit turtle carrying tower...... The ten major mysteries show their own magical powers, which makes people dazzled.

The Qingluan flying car fell from the sky and fell on the high platform of the isolated island in the middle of Fenghu Lake, the high platform was built very tall, ten zhang high, covering the entire isolated island, and the rest of the Xuanmen behind him also looked for a landing point to fall.

It wasn't until they all sat down that the people around finally came back to their senses and talked about it.

I don't know what to say on the high platform, and after a while, a lady in green walked to the edge and said to the bottom: "Today's Qixi Festival is also the day when the holy daughter of my temple to make up for heaven chooses a son-in-law. With a wave of his hand, colorful flowers fell from the sky, and almost every one of them accurately fell into the hands of the next people.

Wen Shen and Jun Zhu also received one, one white and one red, the flowers exuded a clear glow, and a drop of transparent dew rolled in the stamens, which was obviously the hundred flowers and jade dew in the mouths of the ladies.

"It's just a light body, this Heavenly Temple will buy people's hearts." Jun Candle sniffed and put the flower aside.

Wen Shen poured the flowers into his mouth with a little curiosity, the clear and sweet fragrance was fragrant, and the flowers in his hands also dissipated in the glow: "Even if you buy people's hearts, at least the Heavenly Palace has done it, it is much better than those Xuanmen who look up to the people like ants." ”

No matter what the purpose of the Temple of Heaven is to help the world, but at least it has helped the world, and it has really done good things for the people, it is much better than those in the Shenxiao Palace who look down on mortals in the sky but keep mortals in captivity as slaves, Wen Shen really can't understand the concept of Shenxiao Palace, obviously they are also mortals before they cultivate the Xuan Dao, and half of the disciples under the disciples are from the mortal world in addition to the family, why should they be so harsh on the people.

Jun Zhu stretched his legs lazily: "Human nature has been like this since ancient times, even the so-called immortals in the upper realm cannot be avoided, not to mention these so-called mystics trapped in this small realm?" If they are thrown into the world of Xianxia, they will also be mortal ants. ”

Wen Shen thought back to the world of modern Xiuzhen and compared the two systems, indeed, although Xuanshi already had the ability to turn mountains and seas, it was still not enough to put it in the world of Xianxia.

"It is said that there are also Dacheng Xuanshi who have ascended and left in this Xuan Realm, where did they go after they ascended? Fairy? ”

"That's right." Jun Zhu nodded, "Including those in the martial arts world who have cultivated to the Broken Void, they all went to the Immortal Realm, and for them, Ascension is not the end, but the beginning." ”

Wen Shen was about to ask again, when suddenly a lady in white appeared next to her, bowing to the two of them: "I have seen Senior Brother Wen, the Holy Maiden sent me to invite Senior Brother and this Han Gongzi to come to the stage for a talk." ”

Wen Shen and Jun Candle glanced at each other, and said to the lady: "Okay." ”