Chapter 3: The Mysterious Taoist Temple
"Li Laohu picked up a grandson outside......" This news spread at the speed of light in this mountain village with only about 100 households. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
So, when Li Chen and Li Laohu came to the house, the two men had just hurriedly cleaned up a bed, and before Li Chen could carefully observe the home where he was going to live in the future, they were surrounded by people who came one after another.
"This kid is so handsome"
"Oh, he's so white, look at that face, I really want to pinch it, see if I can pinch the water"
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The old, middle-aged women were the first to come to the house, and the women in the mountains had a spicy and cheerful personality, no matter whether Li Chen could accept it or not, they just surrounded Li Chen and kept commenting. More daring, from time to time reach out here to touch, where to pinch. Under the crown of the Grand Duke, who has been in a high position since birth, how can we try our best to survive such a battle? Soon, Li Chen was completely confused by these women, and was at their mercy.
Fortunately, when the men also came one after another, it turned out that the men had gone to their respective hunting spots in the forest to collect the day's prey. Due to Li Laohu's big wedding today, the men directly brought the small game covered in the sleeve to Li's house and handed it to the women waiting here as ingredients for the dinner. The women began to get busy, and Li Chen was liberated.
The men in the mountains were very bold, and when they saw Li Chen, they didn't say anything, but each man patted Li Chen's shoulder a few times with his hand, and shouted loudly, "This small body has to be practiced well, and when you grow up, you will be a good man in the mountains" and the like, and Li Chen always had to cooperate with the man's strength, grinning and rubbing his shoulders, causing the men to laugh.
It was relatively cold in the mountains, the pond fire was raised, and the old rice wine was drunk.
People didn't ask Li Chen how he came, but went straight to the wine, shouting all kinds of titles such as Uncle Li, Brother Li, Li Laohu, and Grandpa Li, and then desperately poured wine into their stomachs.
At this time, the old man Li, who was congratulated by everyone and was so happy that he went crazy, did not refuse to come, and soon became drunk. Fortunately, there were a few old people here, and in the happy sleep of Old Man Li, all kinds of orders were issued in a gossip but in an orderly manner, some went up the mountain overnight to invite Lao Li's brother over, and some prepared sacrifices overnight, cleaned the ancestral hall, and so on.
Then, the crowd dispersed, and gradually the mountain village fell into silence.
And Li Chen was temporarily laid on the floor in front of Grandpa Li's bed, sorting out the information he learned through everyone's gossip tonight.
This village is called Lijia Village, and it is all surnamed Li. It is a descendant of a Li family who was exiled here when a Song dynasty in the history of China fell, because the Yuan soldiers have been chasing and killing behind, just when the mountains and rivers are exhausted, a Taoist priest led the Li family, threw off the chasing soldiers, and came to settle here.
Due to the remote terrain and sparsely populated people, it has not experienced the scourge of swords for hundreds of years. He has been living a paradise life of self-cultivation and self-cultivation, and the mountain people of other ethnic groups deeper in the mountains on weekdays. It wasn't until more than 20 years ago that a group of self-proclaimed Xinhuaguo census teams came to the mountain village, breaking the century-old tranquility of the mountain village.
This generation of patriarchs is the bald old man Li Chen sees today, who is currently the highest-ranking patriarch in the village, and also serves as the village chief appointed by the Republic - Li Wenfeng.
Lijiacun is ranked according to the generations of Wenwu Dequan and Dachang Jiguang, Grandpa Li is called Li Wuhu, and Li Chen's father is called Li Dechen. Originally, Li Chen should have been called Li Quan or something, but it was probably due to Li Chen's timely reminder, and Li Wenfeng's belief that Li Chen might still be found by his family in the future, and now there is no need to make the child unhappy and cause things to change, the situation is special, so he doesn't care so much, which has been recognized by the villagers.
Because Huaguo attaches great importance to the life of the mountain people, every year there will be cadres who come to the village by trekking through mountains and rivers to introduce national policies, social development and other information to the villagers, and also encourage the villagers to go out of the mountains and create a happy life.
Nowadays, children learn literacy or in the ancestral hall of the private school, with ancient books such as the Three Character Sutra and the Analects as teaching materials, and several elderly people take turns to teach. But it is precisely because the village has begun to connect with the outside world that the idea of being silent for a hundred years has gradually begun to be brought up by young people.
However, the mountains are really blocking the way out of the mountain, and the mountain village is at the bend of the Nu River, and the cliffs of the Nu River are so deep that it is difficult for mountain eagles to fly.
A strong young man returned to the village from the outside world with 50 pounds of grain on his back. After crossing the river from the bridge leading to the mountain from the small town of the commune station outside, in order to bypass the cliff, you have to hike more than 50 kilometers to the other side of the mountain to go up the mountain, climb over 5 mountains, walk about 30 kilometers of mountain road, and reach the mountain cliff gap that people in the mountains call a line of heavenly ghosts and sorrows, and climb upward, which is a steep path that is almost inclined to nearly 60 degrees, you have to bend down, crawl 2 kilometers with your hands and feet, and then reach a higher zipline, and then go to the mountain next to Lijia Village through the zipline, and then hike over 2 mountains. to return to the village.
This trip will take the most capable young man a full 2 days. This kind of road almost blocked the hope of the people in the village to get out of the mountains, because the mountains cannot communicate with the outside world, because they cannot communicate with each other, the mountains have always been poor, because of poverty, the children in the mountains can only follow the footsteps of their ancestors and be trapped in the mountains from generation to generation.
The young generation who do not give up on the idea of opening up channels to the outside world, especially Li Chen's cheap father, who is the only one from Lijia Village who was sent out of the mountains to study.
After graduating from junior high school, Li Dechen returned to the village and began to promote the story of "Yugong Moving Mountains". At his instigation and leadership, the great project of carving out a road to the outside world on the mountain by hand began. The local government was also too poor, but still without financial assistance, it sent geological personnel to help complete the geological exploration, and formed the mountain viewing team led by Li Dechen into a youth commando, which was divided into centimeters with the project.
One day, when Li Dechen hung himself on the cliff with a rope to measure the route of the mountain, he fell into the cliff due to the slippage of the rope, and there are no bones left to this day. And Li Wuhu's wife couldn't accept the pain of losing her child, and died after a serious illness.
Li Wuhu originally had an elder brother, but because the ancestors of the Li family had an agreement with the Guan Zhu at that time, each generation of Guan Zhu chose one of the young children in the village and became a monk since childhood. The Taoist temple on the mountain above the village is a monk, and the last Taoist master chose Li Wuhu's elder brother, the current Yunhe Taoist chief.
Therefore, after Li Dechen's death, Li Wuhu has been depressed because he has no queen, and has lived alone for more than ten years, until he met Li Chen today.
In the early morning of the next day, Li Chen was taken by Li Wuhu to the innermost courtyard of the village to start worshipping the ancestors, the ancestor worship in the mountains is very simple, that is, the patriarch - the bald old man Li Wenfeng, reviewed the deeds of the ancestors in front of the ancestral tablet. Then Lao Li Tou took Li Chen forward and kowtowed a few times, informing the ancestors and ancestors that Li Dechen, the son of Lao Li Tou, had a stepson Li Chen. Then the patriarch took a pen and wrote Li Chen's name under Li Dechen on a booklet that looked old but was very well kept, and the salute was completed.
Since then, Li Chen has had a second identity as the Li family in Lijia Village, Huaguo.
During the whole ceremony, what attracted Li Chen the most was to meet Lao Li Tou's brother, well, he was going to become a grandfather in the future. From the first time he saw his grandfather, Li Chen found that he was not an ordinary person, because from the moment he saw him, whether he was sitting, walking, or standing, the Taoist grandfather had an inexplicable charm in his gestures.
Soon the ceremony ended, and the adult laborers began their day's labor, and the Taoist priest grandfather greeted Grandpa Li and said that he would take Li Chen to his Taoist temple to recognize the way. Then he pulled Li Chen and walked towards the mountain.
The two walked up for about 1 hour, and after rounding a ridge, a small stream immediately appeared in front of them, clear and thorough, and flowed happily down the mountain, and in the stream you could even see small fish the size of willow leaves, spitting bubbles, happily drilling in the stone crevices.
Walking along the creekside path, the cliffs are steep, the valley is murmuring, and the ecology is primitive. Due to the baptism of summer, the green native forests on the mountainside at Li Chen's feet lifted thousands of green leaves into the sky, showing endless emerald temptation.
As for Li Chen's location, the altitude should be about 2,600 meters, and as far as the eye can see, there are low shrubs and grasslands. On the hillside, it is covered with large and small, different forms of boulders, vivid, like flying things against the background of the blue sky and white clouds. Not man-made, but better than man-made.
Walking and walking, at the end of the stream, after going around a large rock that is more than 10 meters high like a giant cow lying down, facing a cliff that rises to the top of the clouds, and following the narrow path carved out on the steep cliff, it is a turn. An oval-shaped hole for two people to enter side by side suddenly appeared in front of him, and the two sides of the cave were carved with 8 big characters of "Dadao Wuwei" and "Dadao Wuji".
Across the entrance of the cave is a platform about 5 meters wide and 12 meters long, the platform is not known by someone using what means, it is a rectangle dug out of the steep cliff, the top and the ground are very neat, it is obvious that it is not naturally formed.
The south side is close to the cliff side to retain about 40 centimeters thick, 1.5 meters high a stone wall, forming a natural weatherproof barrier, the bottom of the stone wall is chiseled with several water outlets, outside the stone wall is a thousand cliffs, unfathomable, the feet are surrounded by clouds and mist, and the distant mountain shadow is sufficient.
On the other side of the platform, about 50 centimeters higher than the ground of the platform, there is a water intake with a square opening of about 40 centimeters, and there is a cistern in the hole, which is also dug out of the stone wall, and the pool goes deep into the mountain without end.
Li Chen tried to extend his spiritual power inward, and found that there were countless tiny gaps and small holes densely packed inside, and the water was flowing out of these in a steady stream, but Li Chen didn't know why, the water stopped flowing out at a certain height, and it would definitely not overflow from the hole. The water in the reservoir was very clear and cold, Li Chen took it with his hand, and his mouth was extremely sweet, and Anoma said that it was rich in all kinds of elements that were beneficial to the cultivation of the human body.
Facing the stone wall facing due south, he also took out three rectangular caves with small ones on both sides of the middle, the big hole in the middle has no door, Li Chen can see that there are many large and small bluestone statues inside, each with its own majesty, rich expressions, with kind eyebrows and kind eyes, and staring eyes; The clothes are simple and the knife is rough, but it has quite a chapter charm. The small caves on both sides are sealed by two stone slabs, you can't see a single gap, I don't know what's inside, there is a stone table and 4 stone benches in the middle of the platform, Li Chen can't help but think, sitting here, looking at the four fields, is it a lot of pleasant things.
After a brief look at the temple, the Taoist priest took Li Chen directly to the stone wall directly opposite the platform, where there was also a cave, and the entrance of the cave was pressed with a wooden door. It should be the residence of the Taoist grandfather. Entering the cave that was used as a bedroom, it was very simple, with a mattress on a stone platform that was half a height at a time, and a few round cushions were randomly placed on the ground.
When Li Chen sat cross-legged on the mat according to the Taoist grandfather's instructions, he was still thinking about what he had seen just now, if he had arranged for a construction robot to come or use a small laser equipment, he could easily dig such a standard courtyard on the cliff. But obviously, this is definitely not the result of some high-tech action, but there is no trace of hammer chisel, like a giant, holding a large carving knife, forcefully swung a few times on the cliff to create this Taoist temple. What exactly do the people here do?
The eldest grandfather sat in front of Li Chen with a smile, ignoring Li Chen's obvious distraction at this time, and did not speak, reaching out and pressing on Li Chen's shoulder, although not as hard as other men. But when Li Chen pressed his grandfather's hand on his shoulder, he almost punched out with all his strength that could blast a hole in the earth.
Because Li Chen's spiritual power clearly felt that as the eldest grandfather's hand touched his shoulder, a very mysterious air flow appeared in Li Chen's body, and followed a certain law to travel towards the whole body.
Although this air flow was very weak, Li Chen firmly believed that he could repel it with one percent of his strength, but this kind of energy and energy operation mode that Li Chen had never seen before.
It is not like the Rice Empire's mode of washing the body through spiritual power and gradually changing the cells of the whole body so that it can carry more cosmic energy. This energy did not enter the muscles and blood vessels, but circulated in another unknown channel of the human body, although this circulation was forcibly established in Li Chen's body by the external force of the grandfather, and it ran very reluctantly and intermittently. But it was such a fragile energy that made Li Chen keep shouting in his heart, and there would be some more .......
Because Li Chen obviously felt that as the number of channels to join the cycle increased, the strength that had not progressed for many years began to change. It's not that it has increased much energy, but Li Chen discovered this mysterious power, and began to quietly fuse the cosmic energy scattered in the muscle tissue, and drove the cosmic energy to begin to seep into the newly appeared channel, and slowly, the airflow in the new channel began to be supplemented by the newly generated ability in Li Chen's body, and began to gradually increase, although it was very slow, but Li Chen obviously felt that his strength was undergoing earth-shaking changes compared to the past.
Li Chen forcibly suppressed the shock in his heart, and asked Arnold Zhizhi to record the fluctuations of this ability and the circulation channel. At the same time, he ordered Arnold to suspend all other information collection plans and make every effort to collect Taoist history and classics in China.
"Your crown, your cell division rate has slowed down by 1/10,000 compared to the record, but your cell viability has increased by 2/10,000, and the peak of your mental power fluctuations has also increased by 1/10,000 in the past ten minutes!"
"Oh, Your Majesty, this kind of energy is definitely not found in our universe, it is definitely a cosmic-level ability. He is able to change your physical and mental power at the same time, and he has also formed a new energy in your body that combines cellular energy and mental energy, which is basically the same as the energy fluctuations of the dark universe. In other words, the speed at which you cultivated and condensed cosmic energy was actually equivalent to the efficiency of your use of the third-level concentrating device. If you cultivate in this way, with the help of the level 9 gathering device that you have researched, you will definitely break through to the god level within 10 years, how is this possible? Apparently Arnold was also frightened by this ability
Li Chen's heart was turbulent, but he didn't know that the grandfather on the other side was not calm in his heart.
"The Taishang is above, the innate innocent Dao body, the meridians are fully open, the flesh is unblemished and unharmed, the strength is infinite, I have not cultivated, but the sea has been opened. Where did this kid pop out of, ah......, Fusheng Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable! The Li family is very fortunate that this kind of demon came to my Li family. ā
Thinking of this, the eldest grandfather collected his heart and said to Li Chen: "Xiao Chen, the eldest grandfather's Taoist name Yunhe, is the host of this Taoist temple in the clouds, and he is also the keeper of the Huaguo Daomen, can you live with the grandfather in the future, the grandfather will teach you a lot of interesting things?" ā
"I don't want to be a monk, otherwise Grandpa Li will be sad." Li Chen was obviously not happy to be a Taoist priest.
"Won't let you become a monk"
"Really?"
"Really!"
"What's in it for me?"
"Uh......?"
"Can you teach me to make money?"
"Uh, you can't ......, I'll teach you to read."
"I can read and write, and I don't need you to teach me."
"Do you know the acupuncture points? Know the meridians? Do you know what spirit is? Do you know how to recuperate and dissolve qi and concentrate on stopping thoughts? ā
"What are you talking about? I don't know, what's the use of these? ā
"It's kung fu."
"Kung Fu, what is Kung Fu? Is that the source of the hot air you just made? I want to learn this, but I don't want to leave home, I want you to tell Grandpa Li yourself, I want meat to eat, I want to ......"
The Yunhe Daoist, who has been a monk since he was a child and has never been out of the mountain, is the opponent of Li Chen, an old interstellar monster, and is attracted by Li Chen's demonic physique. Just as the two began to talk, and in a short period of time when they went down the mountain to Li Wuhu's house, Daoist Yunhe was fooled by Li Chen to sign countless treaties that he regretted after that.
After returning home, Li Wuhu, who was furious with his brother's idea of Li Chen going to live in the Taoist temple, was defeated by his brother's 4 words in his mouth: literacy and martial arts.
For the sake of Li Chen's future, in desperation, Li Wuhu forced his brother to make a promise that Li Chen could go down the mountain for 1 day every 7 days, and would never allow Li Chen to become a monk. I watched helplessly as Li Chen was taken back to the mountain by his brother.