On the west bank of the lake, in Sanzhuang Town, in an ordinary alley, an ordinary family is in the house.

The middle-aged man took out the wine from the back room, accompanied his wife and children around the stone table, and continued to tell stories to the three children.

"Knock, knock, knock..." There was a knock on the door outside the courtyard, and it only rang three times, and then there was no more sound.

The woman was about to get up and open the door, but the man stopped her, motioned for her to sit down, and let herself go.

The woman glanced out of the door with worry in her eyes, said nothing, sat down silently, and at once a gentle and loving smile appeared on her face, and then spoke to the children.

When the man saw the woman's appearance, his heart was slightly calm, and then he walked resolutely to the gate of the courtyard.

The courtyard gate was opened, and a young Taoist priest stood outside the courtyard gate.

This Taoist priest is wearing a simple Taoist robe, holding a simple Taoist bun, carrying a simple Taoist sword, wearing simple Taoist boots, and even his appearance is very simple, the kind that people can forget at a glance.

In short, this young Taoist priest is simple.

Of course, he also has a simple name, which is called Rice.

The homonym of Daozi is Daozi, but it is not because he is the son of Daomen that he is called Daozi, but because he was born in a rice field three hundred years ago, and then the name Daozi followed him.

Daozi bowed seriously to the middle-aged man who opened the door for him, and said, "Long time no see, senior brother." ”

"Why are you here?" the middle-aged man asked.

"Can't I come?" Inako asked rhetorically.

"If you participate in such a thing too early, it is not conducive to the growth of your Dao heart. The middle-aged man said gently.

"Thank you for your concern, Daozi traveled in Dongzong, met a wonderful person, followed him, and when he arrived nearby, he inadvertently sensed the fluctuation of Daomen's spiritual power, so he came to take a look, and he didn't think that it was the senior brother who lived in seclusion here. Daozi explained, saying that he didn't come here on purpose, but just met by chance.

"I see. Who??, the middle-aged man asked.

He said his name was Su Yun. Inako said with a smile on her face, as if something very interesting had suddenly come to mind.

"Oh. Is it in or out now?" The middle-aged man saw Daozi's expression, an unfathomable smile appeared on his face, and he suddenly said such an inexplicable sentence.

"The door is closed all day long, and once it is open for the king, I hate not to come from the west, how can I go in and out?" replied calmly, and said a poem.

The middle-aged man smiled heartily, turned half of his body to the side, gave up his seat, and let the rice into the house.

When Daozi entered the house, she saw the woman and her three children at the stone table, and she was slightly stunned, and her surprised expression flashed, and then she calmed down, saluted the woman, and smiled at the three children.

When the woman saw that her man had led a young Taoist priest into the courtyard, she stood up very virtuously and beckoned Daozi to sit down, and then prepared to let the three children go back to the inner room, leaving room for her man to talk with the Taoist priest.

But the three children did not listen, clamoring to listen to their father finish the mythical story that he had just finished.

The woman was about to continue her persuasion when she heard two simple words from Daozi: "It's all right." ”

The middle-aged man smiled at the woman, nodded at her, and then sat down as well, while the woman went into the house to prepare tea and snacks.

"Father, father, what happened to Tianxuan Shizun later?" asked a little boy anxiously.

"Father, father, Ming'er wants to know if Su Xiaobai and the fairy sister are together later, father will talk about it quickly. On the other side, a little girl was pulling at the sleeve of the middle-aged man's shirt and shaking it vigorously.

The last child, who was only two or three years old, watched his brother and sister coquettish with his father, thinking that he was asking for something delicious, regardless of thirty-seven twenty-one, climbed onto the table with difficulty, stepped on messy steps, and walked crookedly in front of the middle-aged man, opened his pink and tender little arms, and pounced on the middle-aged man with a strong "doodoo" and "doodoo" in his mouth, regardless of whether he would fall under the table because of his stepping.

The middle-aged man saw his youngest child acting like this, and the smile on his face was full of happiness.

Daozi looked at the smile of his senior brother at this moment, and an inexplicable window in his heart was opened, which was a dusty memory for a long time.

Three hundred years ago, he also had his own parents and his own happy home, but later, time changed all this, and he once asked the master about the afterlife and reincarnation, but the master avoided answering.

He could only watch his parents who gave birth to him and raised him disappear in the years, and the hateful thing is that in his long life, he only accompanied them for ten years, and he could not see each other again.

In those ten years, I was as happy and happy as my brother's current family, but unfortunately, I couldn't go back.

Inako looked calm and did not show any sentimentality.

After three hundred years of cultivation, he has already broken through the barrier between life and death, and all he has is endless regrets and determination to reach the world at the end of Tongyou.

"Senior brother, I also want to hear the story, where is it?" Daozi asked the middle-aged man calmly.

"This little brother, my father talked about the time when Tianxuan's Great Immortal Shizun and Su Xiaobai left Tianxuan, and you came. The little boy volunteered.

"Oh... What happened to you, brother. Daozi asked the middle-aged man meaningfully.

"Later, let's ask the person concerned. The middle-aged man sighed and looked at the unknown void outside the courtyard with feeling.

"I didn't expect that the famous Finger Return Road would live in seclusion near my Tianxuan, what an honor. A voice came from the void, inaudible and tasteless.

"Laugh, Shizun, I didn't expect you to be in this world. Pointing home, he put down the sleeping child and bowed to the void.

Then carefully and gently picked up the three children and walked to the back room, leaving a fluttering sentence: "Hey, three unconscious little cubs, Shizun, wait a while, I will come back and listen to you finish the rest of the story." ”

"Don't be in a hurry on the way home, I still have to meet a few old friends, and I'll come back in a moment, you have to prepare good wine and meat." The voice in the void faded away, until at last it seemed to sound in the distant sky, inaudible.

After a while, there was only rice left in the whole yard.

Needless to say, the moment the breath of the World-Honored One appeared, the woman who had not appeared in the inner room for a long time wanted to come and sleep peacefully.

Daozi has fallen into loneliness for more than 300 years at this moment, walking alone in the world, without friends, relatives, and the teacher is not by his side, he has always silently carried a simple Dao sword, measuring every inch of land in the world with his feet.

In the past 300 years, Daozi has practiced in the Taoist Gate for a hundred years, and successfully reached the Great Perfection of the Patrol Field.

After entering the West, he walked in the secular world for more than 100 years, once he had an epiphany, and found his own Nagisa Ze in one day, and then went straight to Tongyou in less than a month, breaking the five realms of cultivators.

Now that he is already the Great Perfection of the Enlightened Sage, he is about to become the youngest Enlightened Sage in the history of his cultivation, but he has not been able to take that step for a long time.

According to the Taoist gate, rice is the Tao, born from the Tao, born for the Tao, and born for the Tao.

He appeared in order to spread the Taoist mysteries all over the world, so he had already seen Middle-earth at a young age, because this kind of journey was too fast, and not many people could keep up with him, so he was very lonely.

Now Daozi is sitting alone on the stone bench in the courtyard, under the illumination of the cold and bright moonlight, his body seems to be draped with a layer of silver shirt, which sets off him even more lonely and lonely.

Rice picked up the flask on the table, put it under her nose and sniffed it, then put it back on the table as if nothing had happened.

"Little Taoist, drink as much as you want, don't worry about so much. Another unfamiliar voice came from the unknown void.

Daozi frowned, looked up at the void, the moonlight was still bright and cold, and the remnant star had not yet hid in the dark clouds, so the wine still could not be drunk.

At this moment, on the eastern shore of the Great Lake, one after another beams of light rushed into the sky, and then pierced the entire night sky, and the night was no longer dark.

Daozi slowly looked at the east bank, and muttered in his mouth: "Dao Wuwei, Dao Wuwei, you have always thought that Dao is not doable, so why are you born? Will you appear this time?"

"He's supposed to show up. The wonderful person named Su Yun you mentioned appeared, so it was impossible for Senior Brother Tianxuan to appear without doing anything. ”

The way back appeared silently beside Daozi, and said slowly: "Back then, Su Xiaobai told me that he had found a pretty good apprentice, and I didn't think about it. It wasn't until three hundred years ago that you appeared in my Dao Gate, and I deliberately compared you with Dao Wuwei, only to find that Dao Wuwei was really quite good, although you were already very good, but compared to Senior Brother Tianxuan, there was still something missing. ”

"Yes, you know Su Yun too, tell me about him. Daozi didn't care if he was worse than Dao Wuwei, but he was very interested in Su Yun.

"Senior brother doesn't know much. When I traveled with Shizun, Su Xiaobai and others, they told me some bits and pieces. He pointed to the way back and said, and then was silent for a while, as if the storyteller deliberately sold a pass and paused for a moment after finishing a paragraph, just like a poet standing in the sunset looking at the sunset, recalling a long story.

In less than a cup of tea, a bunch of rainbows appeared on the west shore of the lake, and then the sky above the lake became more colorful and colorful.

Pointing home, he looked up, and a hint of surprise appeared on his face, but it didn't last long before it disappeared into the middle-aged man's face.

Zhihui smiled awkwardly at the rice who was quietly waiting for the next step, and then continued: "I'm sorry, I just thought about a lot of things. ”

"Su Yun appeared in the Tianxuan Mountain Range before the establishment of the Tianxuan Sect. No one knows where he came from, and for 70,000 years, or more, he has been staying in the Hongmeng Realm.

It is a mythical existence that a Hongmeng realm cultivator can live a thousand years old, but he doesn't know how many years he has lived in the cultivator's world. However, except for the cultivators in the Tianxuan Sect, there were very few people in other cultivation forces who knew about him.

Senior brother is fortunate to know some because of his friendship with Shizun and Su Xiaobai.

I heard that every few thousand years, Su Yun would appear in Tianxuan Sect and appear in various ways that were almost nonsense.

However, the eight woodcutters who guarded the Chaimen and each generation of Tianxuan bigwigs would still treat him like an ancestor and obey him. No one knows the reason, even if Shizun, Su Xiaobai and others know, they will not tell outsiders, this may be one of the biggest secrets of Tianxuan Sect.

Therefore, Senior Brother Tianxuan Dao Wuwei will inevitably collide with Su Yun this time, that Su Yun is very narcissistic, how could he let go of such an excellent Dao Wuwei.

Maybe this matter of the Tianxuan Great Array dissipated inexplicably, which was convenient for Su Yun to relate. ”

"Oh, and things like that. Indeed, these things have never been heard of in the spiritual world. Daozi said with a smile.

"Senior brother, you were born for the Tao, and in just three hundred years, you have understood the mystery of the Tao. But Senior Brother still has to say that there is still a lot of difference between you and Dao Wuwei. Because thousands of years ago, Dao Wuwei had already reached your current state. ”

"Really, then I'm going to meet this Tianxuan Senior Brother even more, and I ask Senior Brother not to stop me when the time comes. ”

"I won't stop it, but today, the Tianxuan Sect has changed greatly, and it's really difficult for me to choose how to make a trade-off. Pointing home, he said leisurely.

"Maybe that Su Yun can solve this crisis, because he makes me unable to see through. Rice said suddenly.

"Actually, Senior Brother also thought so, when I heard Shizun, Su Xiaobai and others worship him like that, I am also curious about what kind of person this is. "Pointing home, looking at the lake, I don't know what I'm thinking.

There was silence in the courtyard, save for the rustle of leaves in the breeze, and nothing else.