Back at Chongyun Temple, when Yu Xuzi was treating Zhanye and Liu Enzai was treating his wounds, Yao Ping told Qu Shun about what they had experienced before.

"All those bastards in Sakura have been killed here? And snatched your knife? After hearing what Yao Ping said, Qu Shun said excitedly, "I'll go to his uncle's, if my leg hadn't been injured, I would have to kill them." ”

"They are good at sneak attacks, even Enzai was injured, let's meet them again in the future, Junzi, you have to be more careful." Yao Ping said.

"What are you going to do with that mysterious knife?" Qu Shun asked.

"I'll have to take it back if I have a chance." Yao Ping said, "If the people of Yingzhou kill our people with that knife, then I also have a share of responsibility." ”

"Those grandsons," Qu Shun muttered.

"Junko, your injuries are all right?" Chen Dahua looked at the gauze tied to Qu Shun's leg and asked, "Does it still hurt?" ”

"My injuries are much better, daughter-in-law." Qu Shun said to Chen Dahua, "Seeing you come back safely, my leg doesn't hurt at all." ”

After smearing and bandaging his arm with the ointment Bo Ling'er brought, Yao Ping looked at the people who were recuperating in the hall, found Yuxuzi, and said to her, "Daoist Yuxu, thank you for your kindness to us this time. ”

"The good lord does not need to say thank you, the poor road has said before, and it is the duty of the poor road to help the world." Yu Xuzi said.

"Dao Chief, having said that, I still don't want to go in my heart. Though I am a common man, I have nothing of value on me. But you still have to express your gratitude to Sanqingyi. Yao Ping said and untied the money bag from his inner waist, and took out the silver from it and said to Yuxuzi, "Xiaomin, I can only repay the kindness of the Taoist chief by giving this piece of silver cake with these broken silvers and giving them to each other in gratitude." ”

"The good lord is a person who has fled from his homeland, and I do not think that he can receive a gift from you." Yu Xuzi refused.

Between the two of them, Yu Xuzi suddenly saw Yao Ping's slender waist around the end of his money bag, and there was still a ring-shaped jade jade pendant firmly tied. There was a hole in the jade pendant, and one end of the money bag was pierced and fastened through that hole.

"Good master, you jade..."Yu Xuzi stared at the jade jade pendant and couldn't help but say curiously.

Yao Ping was stunned for a moment, and then said, "Dao Chief, this jade pendant is my heirloom.... I can't..."

"Good lord, do not misinterpret the meaning of poverty." Yu Xuzi paused for a moment and then asked, "Poor Dao just wants to know... In order to tie the jade pendant to this money bag, the good lord wrapped the money bag around his waist? ”

"Oh, that's what the Taoist chief said." Yao Ping took the money bag and said, "This is all because I used to run a business outside the customs, because I was worried about the theft of horse bandits and robbery of property, so I learned to tie the money bag around my waist, so that even if I ran for my life, I was not afraid of losing my money bag, and I was not afraid of being stolen by the thief in the market." And I tied this jade pendant to the money bag, also for fear of losing this heirloom. ”

"Can the good lord give the jade pendant to the poor road to take a closer look?" Yu Xuzi asked.

"Oh, yes, the Taoist wants to see it." Yao Ping said as he untied the jade pendant from the money bag and handed it to Yu Xuzi.

Yu Xuzi took the ring-shaped jade pendant in his hand and looked at it carefully, but saw that the jade pendant was carved with a jade dragon curled up and head and tail connected! Looking closely at this jade dragon jade pendant, Jade Xuzi immediately found that this jade dragon was quite different from the common jade pendant carved dragons at the moment, she saw that this dragon had neither dragon horns and dragon scales, nor dragon claws and dragon whiskers, it was an extremely primitive dragon image.

Looking at this ink-colored jade dragon with a simple shape, but extremely smooth and smooth carving, and the corners are very sharp, Yu Xuzi couldn't help but be shocked after a little pondering. Then she hurriedly walked outside the hall with the jade dragon and rushed to the sunshine. Facing the strong light, Jade Xuzi raised the jade dragon in his hand, and turned to carefully observe and figure it out against the sunlight again.

After a while, Yu Xuzi slowly returned to the hall with the jade dragon in Yao Ping's puzzled gaze. Yao Ping listened to her walking and looked at the jade dragon in her hand and couldn't help but murmur, "There are things mixed, born congenitally, lonely, independent and unchanging, Zhou Xing without dying, can be the mother of heaven and earth." I don't know its name, the word is the way, and the name of the strong is big. However, the big is gone, the past is far away, and the distance is reversed. ”?

Looking at the jade Xuzi who was holding his jade pendant and staring at it for a long time and saying some inexplicable words, Yao Ping couldn't help but ask, "Dao Chief, you know jade very well?" Do you like this jade pendant very much? ”

Yu Xuzi looked at the jade dragon with his eyes down, as if he didn't care about what Yao Ping said.

Looking at the jade Xuzi who did not speak, Yao Ping continued, "Seeing that the Taoist loves this jade pendant so much, if this is not my family heirloom, I will definitely give it to the Taoist chief, but unfortunately, my ancestor has a family motto, and I would rather lose my life than lose this jade pendant.. Xian Kao once said that even in the year of famine, when the whole family of the ancestor almost starved to death, this jade pendant did not go to exchange food. ”

"Good master..."Yu Xuzi looked up at Yao Ping and asked, "Dare to ask the good lord that this jade dragon jade pendant is really a family heirloom?" Didn't you get it from him? ”

Yao Ping was stunned for a moment and then said, "This is really an item left by my ancestors, and I have never heard the first examination say where it came from." ”

Yu Xuzi exhaled in disbelief, and then she turned to Bo Ling'er, who was cleaning up the medicine jar on the side, and said, "Bo Ling'er, go to Guanwei Pavilion to get the gossip plate." ”

"Yes, Uncle Yuxu." As she spoke, she put down the medicine jar in her hand and ran out of the hall.

Soon, Bo Linger returned to the temple with an old disc in his arms.

After placing the gossip plate reported by Bo Linger on the table, Yu Xuzi also placed Yao Ping's jade dragon in the center of the gossip disc. Immediately afterwards, Yu Xuzi took out eight pieces of rune paper with Qian, Kun, Xun, Dui, Gen, Zhen, Li, and Kan written respectively, and carefully placed them on the eight directions of the Jade Dragon.

Yao Ping looked at the gossip plate curiously, but when he saw Yu Xuzi, he suddenly pulled out a whisk and stroked a breeze towards the gossip plate. Immediately, seven of the eight runes on the Bagua Plate were blown off by the breeze. There was no kun character left to spin around on that board.

After seeing this scene, Yu Xuzi gently picked up the jade dragon on the plate in disbelief, and she took it in her hand and checked it repeatedly.

Yao Ping looked at the jade Xuzi who was holding his jade pendant in a daze, Yao Ping didn't know how to speak for a while, he hesitated for a moment, and then asked, "Yuxu Daoist, I just heard what you said about the big pass, the death is far away, the far is the opposite, I don't know what that means?" ”

"The vast and boundless but endless, the endless and far-reaching, the far-reaching but returning to the origin." Yu Xuzi said in a low voice.

"The vastness is boundless... Running non-stop... Stretch far... Back to the roots.." Yao Ping's confused murmur repeated.

Without waiting for Yao Ping to speak again, Yu Xuzi suddenly looked at Yao Ping and asked, "Dare to ask the ancestor of the good master, but there is a master who cultivates the truth and asks?" ”

"The master who Xiuzhen asked?" Yao Ping shook his head after thinking about it and said, "I haven't heard of it, I shouldn't have it, I don't know why the chief suddenly asked like this?" ”

"Please put this thing away." Yu Xuzi carefully handed the jade dragon back to Yao Ping, and then said, "This thing is a very unusual treasure handed down by the good master, and I hope the good master will not lose it." Indeed, as the good lord says, even if you lose your life, you cannot easily lose it. ”

Yao Ping took the jade pendant. He looked at the jade pendant that accompanied him day and night, but it was flat and almost useless, and then he asked Jade Xuzi, "Dao Chief, is my jade dragon also like that shadow cut, insight is an artifact?" ”

Yu Xuzi shook his head lightly and said, "It's not an artifact, but it's something that can't be exchanged for any artifact." ”

"Huh?" Yao Ping asked, "Can't you exchange all the artifacts?" Can't even get the shadow that can cut off the shadow and the insight that can sense the murderous aura? ”

"Maybe what Poor Dao just expressed is not clear, and Poor Dao does not intend to express the exchange value between them." Jade Xuzi said, "Poor Dao wants to say that the meaning of the jade dragon in the hands of the good lord and the things it can do are beyond all artifacts. ”

"It's so amazing?" Yao Ping looked at the jade dragon in his hand and continued to ask to Jade Xuzi, "Then what can this jade dragon do?" ”

"Tongxuan." "To put it simply, it's a key to the Gate of Xuanqi. ”

"The Gate of Xuanyi... Yao Ping thought for a while and asked suspiciously, "Xuanqi Gate, isn't that the four characters engraved on the archway under the mountain?" Then this jade dragon jade pendant is... The key to the mountain gate? ”

"The key is just a metaphor." Yu Xuzi said, "And the carving of the four characters of the Gate of Xuanqi at the mountain gate at the foot of the mountain is just a metaphor, and the carving of the four characters of the Gate of the Xuanqi at the mountain gate is just to use the mountain gate to express the great wish of the people who ask the Tao such as the Mixed Yuan Sect of the Sect of Mixed Yuan." ”

"A big wish?" Yao Ping thought for a moment and asked, "Yuxu Dao Chief, the great wish of the people you sent wants to enter the Xuanqi Gate?" ”

Yu Xuzi nodded lightly and said, "That's roughly the case." ”

"But if the gate of Xuanqi is not the mountain gate of this quiet Taoist temple, then what kind of gate is it?" Yao Ping asked puzzled.

"That's also a metaphor." Yu Xuzi said slowly, "The gate of Xuanqi is the root of heaven and earth, and it is not used diligently. The Gate of the Mystery is also the Gate of the Root of All Things in Nature. ”

"Jade Void Daoist, I don't understand what you're saying, this Xuanqi Gate.... What is Xuan and what is Xuan? Yao Ping looked at Yu Xuzi in confusion and said.

"The good master can know, the way is the way, the way is not the way. The name is famous, and the name is not very famous. Nameless, the beginning of heaven and earth; Famous, the mother of all things. Therefore, there is often no desire, in order to observe its wonder; There is always desire, in order to observe it. These two have the same name and different names, and they are the same mysteries? ”

Yao Ping scratched his head blankly.

"Mysterious and mysterious, the door of all wonders." Yu Xuzi said, "The god of grains is immortal, it is called Xuanqi. ”

Yao Ping glanced at Qu Shun, who was scratching his head on the side, and then said to Yu Xuzi, "Dao Chief, I am only a shallow learner, and I really don't understand what Dao Chang is saying. If it is not far away, I can accompany you and use this key to open the door for you, so as to help you achieve your wish. ”

Yu Xuzi shook his head and said with a light smile, "It seems that the good master has not understood the meaning of the poor road at all. It's better to put it simply, this door is not really a door, it is a metaphor for the way to get a glimpse of the operation of the avenue. And if you want to let the door of the passage that can peek into the mystery of the avenue appear and open, it is not only necessary to use the jade dragon jade pendant in the hand of the good master, but also to use the yuan stone full of vitality, as well as eight dragon-shaped artifacts representing the eight hexagrams and a dragon-shaped artifact representing Taiji. In other words, the jade dragon in the hands of the good lord is only one-ninth of the key, and if you want to get a glimpse of the mysterious avenue, you still need to collect the remaining eight dragons. ”

Yao Ping pondered for a while, and then asked, "Jade Void Daoist, just now I saw that there was only the Kun character hexagram left on the gossip plate, does that mean that this jade dragon jade pendant in my hand represents the Kun hexagram in the gossip?" ”

"Exactly." Yu Xuzi said, "Kun hexagram, earth also." The dragon jade pendant in the hand of the good lord represents the earth. ”

"Earth..."Yao Ping looked at the jade dragon in his hand and after thinking for a while, he continued to ask, "Jade Void Daoist, you must really want to collect all the Nine Dragons and then open the Gate of Xuanqi, right?" ”

"Poor Dao naturally wants to." Yu Xuzi smiled slightly and said softly.

"Then the rest of the Eight Dragons, do the Dao Chiefs have eyebrows?" Yao Ping asked instead.

Yu Xuzi smiled and shook his head lightly and said, "Although Poor Dao wants to open the door of Xuanqi and peek into the Great Dao, Poor Dao has never looked for this Nine Dragons artifact. ”

"Since the Taoist wants to open the door of Xuanqi, why has he never looked for this Nine Dragons?" Yao Ping asked.

"Because if you want to collect all the Nine Dragons, it is really more difficult than climbing to the sky. The gathering of Kowloons is really a distant legend. Yu Xuzi said with emotion, "Actually, don't say that if you collect all the nine dragons, just if you can see a dragon, it is already an extremely lucky thing." And according to the knowledge of the poor Dao, even though there have been countless people who have pursued the Great Dao for thousands of years, there are only two dragons in this Nine Dragons that have been vaguely found by people. ”

"For thousands of years, people have only found two dragons in the Nine Dragons? Yao Ping asked in surprise.

"Don't misunderstand the meaning of the poor road, the poor road does not say that the world has found two dragons, but that the world has only obtained a vague clue of two dragon artifacts." Yu Xuzi continued.

"It's just two clues..."Yao Ping continued to ask in surprise, "Can the Daoist tell me about those two clues?" ”

"Naturally." Yu Xuzi said softly, "Let's talk about the clue of this first ring dragon artifact, which was discovered by a tomb robber in the ancient tomb he stole long ago before the Four Dynasties. According to the records of the ancient scroll, the dragon holy relic, which represents the sky, was owned by the Yellow Emperor in the land of Kunlun and passed down in the hands of the Yellow Emperor's descendants. ”

"The descendants of the Yellow Emperor..."Yao Ping said in surprise, "I think the ring dragon must be in the hands of the Ji family?" ”

Yu Xuzi didn't answer Yao Ping's question, she continued, "As for the clue to the second artifact, it's a rumor. It is rumored to be in Chanla, located in the middle of Mount Meru. ”

"Mount Meru? Where is that? Yao Ping asked.

"This is the mystery of Buddhism, and I don't know the way of poverty." Yu Xuzi said.

Yao Ping nodded and looked at the jade dragon jade pendant in his hand, and then asked, "Dao Chief, are there really no clues about the other dragon-shaped artifacts that can open the door of Xuanqi?" ”

"Except for those two and the remaining six in the hands of the good master, the poor road does not know anything at all." Jade Xuzi said, "Maybe they have been submerged in some corner by the river of time, maybe they are far away in the sky. ”

"Dao Chief, do you know the rest of the ring dragons, and their styles are also like the jade dragons in my family?" Yao Ping asked.

"This... It's hard to talk about poverty. Yu Xuzi said after thinking for a while, "But Poor Dao personally thinks that they should be different from material to image. That's not only because they represent different hexagrams, but also because the image of the dragon is also understood differently in different people's minds. This is only the dragon that ordinary people in the Central Plains of Yiluo talk about, there are more than ten kinds of dragons, dragons, dragons, dragons, etc., and in ancient times, I don't know what shape the dragon is in people's hearts. ”

"These Kowloons are all different, and it's even harder to find them." Yao Ping thought for a while and said, "Speaking of which, if I can't find the other eight ring dragons, this ring dragon in my hand is actually not very useful." ”

"Don't say that, the good lord, although this ring dragon needs to collect nine to open the door of Xuanqi, it is still extremely significant as a symbol." Yu Xuzi said, "Just as Poor Dao said before, this ring dragon actually contains the great avenue of greatness, death, distance, and anti-Dao. ”

Yao Ping nodded.

Yu Xuzi continued softly, "Speaking of which, this nine-ringed dragon has not been found by people for thousands of years, but now when this flood is flooding, there is a dragon who has the opportunity to appear in the view, and the poor Dao has to think that even if this Nine Dragons are artifacts, they must also have their own fixed number in the underworld." ”

"Dao Chief, you say... If someone gathers in Kowloon, they open the door of Xuanqi and get a glimpse of the avenue. In that case, will that person be able to comprehend the method of river water management like Dayu, and comprehend the method of controlling sea water? Yao Ping asked.

Hearing Yao Ping's question, Yu Xuzi stared at him for a while, and then said softly, "You can peek into the avenue in the gate of Xuanjiao, and you can get all the mysteries in the avenue... What the good lord said.... That... That might be possible. ”

Yao Ping nodded in response and said, "Hmm... Since it is possible .. Then I might be able to give it a try. ”

"What will the good man try?" Yu Xuzi asked in astonishment.

"I can try to collect the Nine Dragons and the Yuan Stone. It's unlikely, but if you really collect it, open the door to the Xuanqi, and realize the way to control the sea, wouldn't it be a good thing for everyone? When the sea is gone, I can go home and live. Yao Ping said.

Yu Xuzi was stunned for a moment.

At this time, Qu Shun, who had been holding back for a long time, couldn't help but say, "Hey! Bottle, not ordinary, I didn't think you still have a big treasure that can ask God to retreat the water. ”

"What kind of big baby who asks God to retreat the water, Junzi, don't talk nonsense after listening to half of the words." Yao Ping said as he tied the jade dragon back to the money bag, and then wrapped the money bag around his waist again.

In the process of winding the money bag, Yao Ping looked down and saw the sachet tied inside the belt. Then he untied the sachet and leaned close to the tip of his nose to smell it, and the fragrance of the lotus flower came to his nose again.

Just as Yao Ping was smelling the fragrance, Bo Linger suddenly walked over from the side holding a medicine jar.

Looking at Bo Ling'er, who had been helping everyone with the medicine, Yao Ping opened his mouth and said, "Bo Ling'er, thank you for helping me apply the ointment just now." Do you like this sachet? Why don't I give it to you? ”

After hearing Yao Ping's words, Bo Linger immediately looked up at Yu Xuzi.

"Yuxu Daoist, if you don't collect money, I really don't want to go." Yao Ping turned to look at Yu Xuzi and said, "I really don't have anything else to give away, so you can let Bo Ling'er accept this sachet of Hanluo to comfort my gratitude." ”

Yu Xuzi looked at Bo Linger after a little hesitation, she looked at Bo Linger and smiled slightly, and then nodded in agreement. Seeing that Yu Xuzi agreed to this, Bo Linger happily stepped forward and took the sachet handed by Yao Ping a little shyly, and then, she said to Yao Ping with a smile, "Thank you for sending me a gift." ”

"Child, you're welcome, you can smell the sachet or not." Qu Shun interjected and said to Bo Linger at this time.

Bo Linger put the sachet close to the tip of her nose and sniffed it, and then said to Qu Shun, "Incense, it's really fragrant." ”

"Really? Then you can let me smell it, too? Qu Shun said with a smile.

"Don't give it to him." Yao Ping smiled and said to Bo Ling'er, "If you give it to him, he won't give it back to you." ”

Bo Linger was stunned for a moment, and then said to Qu Shun, "Good master, can I take it for you and smell it?" ”

Bollinger's words immediately drew laughter from the crowd.

"What a lovely kid." Zhan Ye on the side couldn't help but say after seeing this scene.

"Jingle Bell... Jingle Bell·· Jingle Bell··"

Just as everyone was talking and laughing, suddenly the voice of Liulan came from the cliffside pavilion. Someone went up the mountain.