A few days later, the little Taoist priests who went to various palaces to send invitations returned to Sanqing Palace one after another.

This time, taking advantage of the fact that the old Taoist priest Xu Xinyou broke through to the late stage of foundation building, a celebration was held to gather Xuanmen monks from all over the world, but it was also a grand event that had not been seen for decades.

Originally, in the Xuanmen, there were only two monks in the late stage of foundation building, one was Guo Daozhen, the old master of the Baiyun Temple of the Taoist Ancestral Court in Jinghua City, and the other was Zhang Yuzheng, the little heavenly master of the Heavenly Master Mansion of Longhua Mountain.

But not long ago, in the Xuanmen Festival, Zhang Xuanming, the successor of the Ziyang Sect, made great progress due to the guidance of Mo Fei, and then broke through to the late stage of foundation building. This incident had a huge impact on the entire Xuanmen.

Ever since Little Heavenly Master Zhang Yuzheng broke into the late stage of foundation building ten years ago, no one in the entire Xuanmen has been able to advance successfully. Therefore, the impact of Zhang Xuanming's successful advancement on many immortal people is undoubtedly huge, and a glimmer of hope has faintly risen in everyone's hearts, maybe as long as he is working harder and working harder, he will also succeed in breaking through.

And this time, Xu Xinyou, the old master of the Sanqing Palace of Jicui Mountain, actually advanced to the late stage of foundation building, which is undoubtedly more sudden and shocking than Zhang Xuanming's successful advancement.

The situation of Xu Xinyou's real person has been heard of by the monks who cultivated above the foundation building period. Not to say that it is shaped like a tree, but it is also a sharp decrease in cultivation. In the past few years, Sanqing Palace has sought medical advice for this matter, and all Taoist friends who are good at medicine and stone have been invited. But the old Taoist priest's health has not improved. Many people even think that this Xu Zhenren is afraid that he will not last long.

But no one thought that this old Taoist priest who was about to die would not only become vigorous again. And it actually broke through the cultivation in the later stage of foundation building. This could not but amaze and puzzle many monks.

It can be said that the old Taoist priest Xu Xinyou's successful advancement. It was very sensational in the whole Xuanmen, and many monks who received the invitation were impatiently surprised. hurriedly arranged the big and small matters in the Taoist temple, and then got up and went to Sanqing Palace.

In the past few days, Zhou Chongxuan, the master of Sanqing Palace, in order to do a good job in reception, was busy hitting the back of his head. Although it is now the end of the Dharma period, and the immortal path is difficult, it is not a small number to gather the scattered Xuanmen monks scattered all over the country, and there are hundreds of foundation building monks.

Of course, it is not possible for all the foundation building monks to come. Generally, it is just a representative of each palace. Even so, at least there would be dozens of Foundation Building True Immortals who would be able to participate in this celebration, and counting some disciples, that number would be even greater. Therefore, if this preparation is not done in advance, it will be hectic at that time.

So in the past few days, the old Taoist priests and little Taoist priests up and down the Sanqing Palace have been assigned tasks by Zhou Chongxuan, the master of the temple, to purchase all kinds of melons, fruits, vegetables and vegetables. Dim sum, candy accumulation on the mountain will often see small Taoist priests carrying large bags of items back and forth on the mountain road. All of them were in a hurry, which surprised the guests who came to Jicui Mountain to play.

The old monk Baojing, the abbot of Longhua Temple, saw that the Sanqing Palace was not manpowered. He sent the little monk in the temple to the Sanqing Palace to help. All of a sudden, there was a scene of cooperation and mutual assistance between the monks of Buddhism and Taoism on Jicui Mountain, which attracted the attention of some tourists in the mountains.

The happiest are the vendors at the bottom of the mountain. These days. The masters in the Sanqing Palace came and went to purchase goods, which made these traders make a lot of money. The turnover in a few days has actually caught up with the income of the previous months. Everyone smiled with joy.

The most leisurely people in Sanqing Palace are Mo Fei and Mei Lao. Boil water for tea every day. Playing the piano is very pleasant. The Tao is in nature, as long as you taste it carefully, you will find that the mountains and rivers are clear, and the flowers, birds, insects and fish all contain the true meaning of the Tao.

Of course, this is not something that everyone can understand, only when their own spiritual realm has reached a certain level, the qi is harmonious and tolerant, and the mind is as calm as emptiness, can they have this realization.

Under the shade of the bamboo in the small courtyard of the guest room, Mo Fei and Mei Lao each held their own colors, and Ding Ding played chess.

The elegant young man, the old man, the bamboo and green forest, and the snow-white crane lying prone next to him, combined into a picture scroll with great artistic conception. That kind of leisurely and ethereal, unrestrained atmosphere is quite in line with the Taoist sincerity of leisure. For a moment, this small courtyard seemed to be beyond the world.

Mei Lao fell down and said with a smile: "There is a cloud in "Si Xuan Fu" that 'surpasses the leaping world, and the sky cannot be scarce'. The immortal people in the imagination of secular literati are all cold and lonely, high up, isolated from the world, looking up and absorbing the morning glow.

But I don't know that immortals are also people, immortals are made by people, and they are still people after all. It's just that I have seen through the delusion and the obstacle and recognized the true self. Returning to the original party is a true immortal.

These days, getting along with Brother Mo Dao has made the old man realize that the body and mind are pure, that is, the dojo, as long as he has no desires and no desires, it is the red dust city and the blissful fairy town. ”

Mo Fei snapped, dropped a son, and said with a smile: "Old Mei, you lost again." "But it's Mo Fei who is a good player, and he has already won several games in a row.

A gentleman has four arts, piano, chess, calligraphy, and painting. In his previous life, Mo Fei was born in the family of Shili, so he naturally dabbled in and studied these four arts, and was no stranger to chess.

Later, he cultivated in the Yuxiao Temple of Tiantai Mountain, and in his spare time, he often pondered this chess skill, and occasionally played against the people in the view.

Don't underestimate this small black and white chess piece, the small chessboard has a big world, containing the rich content of Han national culture, and is the embodiment of Chinese culture and literary name. In the pre-Qin period, the "Shiben" recorded: "Yao made Go, Dan Zhu is good", and Jin Zhanghua also said in the "Naturalist" that "Yao made Go, to teach his son Danzhu", which shows its long history.

And the immortals also prefer to play chess, "The Legend of the Immortals" has recorded such a story, there was a person named Wang Zhen in the Jin Dynasty, one day he went to Xin'an County Shimur Mountain to collect firewood. I saw two old men playing chess on the big rock by the stream, so they put the axe used to chop wood on the ground by the stream and stopped to watch. The old man gave Wang a thing shaped like a jujube pit, and after he swallowed it, he didn't feel hungry anymore. After looking at it for a long time, the old man said, "You should go home," and the king got up and went to get the axe, which was already rotting. When I returned home, I realized that hundreds of years had passed. Only then did Wang Zhen know that he had met a god, one day in the mountains, and a hundred years in the world.

It can be seen that Go has a long history in China, and it has been loved by many people and has been passed down to this day. As a professor of the Chinese Department of Tianshui University, Old Man Mei loves traditional culture, and has also studied the four arts of this ancient gentleman, although he is not a master in this way, but in this era of decline of traditional culture, it is also rare.

Old Man Mei shook his head and said with a smile: "Playing chess with you is really a big hit." Mo Daoyou's chess skills are high, and I am afraid that there is no opponent in the world. ”

"The game is also the way of cultivation, as Mei Lao said, the body and mind are pure is the pure land of the fairy town, in the game, you can also understand the true meaning of the Tao, unconsciously, you will naturally clear your mind, the body and mind are pure, for us, it is from the chess road into the fairy land."

In the small courtyard, Mo Fei and Mei Lao collected the chessboard on the stone table, and there was already a little Taoist boy standing on the side pouring tea, and for a while, the tea fragrance in the small courtyard was overflowing, and in the slow words of the two, it seemed to be more quiet and quiet.

In the swaying bamboo shadow, the snow-white crane suddenly let out a clear sound, shook its feathers, nodded at Mo Fei, and then fluttered its wings and soared into the air. (To be continued......)

PS: The Four Arts of Gentlemen are not the Six Arts of Confucianism