In people's minds, maple trees always seem to be lonely yellow, or bright crimson. Summer hasn't passed yet, and the maple trees are still keeping their verdant green. The ten members of the Red Shield Mercenary Regiment walked on the wide road, and the maple trees on both sides were like elegant dancing girls, gently brushing their sleeves, causing a charm.

"It's so beautiful!"

The cute girl bent down to pick up a fallen leaf, and the maple leaf, which was still green, was dangled in her hand. Carrying her own small backpack, she walked in the front, looking here and there, and never seemed to get tired.

The picturesque scenery is always refreshing, and the surroundings are quiet, with foliage and light and shadow under the trees. Xing Zeyuan looked at Youyou who was running around, worried that she would accidentally fall.

"Is it really a Blood Alliance mercenary group?"

After a few glances at the information, Ganso nodded.

"Although the carriage that passed us before was fast, I could still see the driver clearly, his eyes were flat, handsome, and he still had small eyes. It should be Wang Jiwei of the Blood Alliance Mercenary Group. ”

"They are estimated to have arrived in front of us, and when the Blood Alliance arrives, it will be a stigma. ”

"Hmm~"

"Commander, you haven't said it yet, why do you want to park the carriage at the bottom of the mountain, the mountains here are heavy and heavy, and the place we are going to is still in the deep mountains!"

"Don't worry!"

Xing Zeyuan looked around and said with a smile:

"You see the scenery here is so good, of course you have to enjoy it. ”

"You're not afraid of being preempted by them?"

"Didn't the villagers at the bottom of the mountain say that this mountain is in the hands of a monk, how can they enter it so easily? besides, they may not be able to find it if they go in, otherwise it will be more than a myth. ”

"That's right. ”

Luo Tian and the others rented a small yard at the foot of the mountain, and the carriage was parked and taken care of.

"There seems to be a temple ahead!"

Standing on the lookout stone, Youyou said to them.

Although it is far away, on the other side of the mountain, there is indeed a very high temple, but it is the only one. The lonely temple is surrounded by maple trees, sitting like a hermit deep in the mountains.

"Commander, where do we have to go?"

Xiao Fu always felt that this kind of scene was a little weird, there was a temple in the cool maple mountain. Usually it is ordinary, but when someone enters, it opens its mouth and eats the people in the temple.

"Yes, it's the only way into the mountain here, and if we enter without permission, it's illegal. ”

"I always had the feeling that the temple was going to open its mouth and eat us. ”

"What is the content of divination?"

Xing Zeyuan suddenly raised his vigilance.

"It's not~"

Xiao Fu must have remembered the ghost books he read at home. ”

"Uh-huh, Sister Qin, how do you know?"

"Because I and Van'ao also watched it. ”

Sneering, Fan Ao said:

"Xiao Fu, don't be afraid, there won't be any monsters. ”

"Maybe that's a deal!"

Luo Tian said:

"Chirp, don't forget the mission of our trip. ”

"Is there really such a thing as a maple tree becoming a fine tree?"

When Mo asked, he said quietly:

"Everything has spirituality, and spirit beasts can become divine beasts after reaching the sixth order, and they can also speak human language, which is impossible, but nature is so magical. ”

"That's right!"

When he said this, Fan Ao was a little interested, and she looked into the mountains, not knowing what would be inside. Their mission this time was to find a creature, and when they came to Neihai Prefecture, they inquired around and heard that there was something they were looking for in this deep mountain. But whether it is a legend or not they don't know yet!

After all, there are very few people in this mountain, one is too far, and the other is that the mountain keeper is very stubborn, he does not let anyone stay in it, and it is said that there is a very strange rule for going up the mountain. The intransigent attitude has made the mountain, which could have been a good attraction, still desolate, and the life inside follows the laws of nature, and the old monk has been here for decades.

"Donors, please stay!"

Hundreds of meters away, the old monk held a bamboo broom, he stood in front of the temple and swept the floor quietly, and only when he saw a carriage did he put the broom in his hand aside.

"The horse is good~ don't sing, don't sing. ”

The old monk was dressed in a brown-gray sangha pear, white socks and cloth shoes, a crane-colored long beard and chest, and a brown and black Buddhist bead around his neck. He came slowly, stopping at the side of two fast horses before the three men who had dismounted.

"Zen Master, we want to go into the mountains. ”

"Wait a minute, donor, there are still people in the future. ”

"Who?"

"Heaven must not be divulged. ”

The old monk's tone was elegant, his eyes were not as cloudy as those of the old man of the same age, and he bent down slightly, as if apologizing.

"Then how long are we going to wait. ”

"I don't know, everyone can decide. ”

Gadol Amic sighed and clenched his fists. Ganso's analysis was indeed correct, they were the Blood Alliance mercenary group. Wang Jiwei stood next to Gadol Amici, the former was short-tempered, but his personality was quite mild.

"Zen master, I'm really sorry, we just want to go into the mountain to determine something, do you think it's okay now?"

"No, I can't. ”

"How long will it take?"

"Wait for everyone!"

The half-headed Zen master had a lot of wrinkles on his face, but his attainments were very high at a glance, his eyes were like a golden Buddha, Wang Jiwei saw that he couldn't, so he and Wang Wei pulled Gadol Ammich back two steps.

"Zen master, can the temple be inhabited?"

"No, it is a place to honor the Buddha. ”

"And where do you live?"

Gadol Ammich hated such rambling people, but what the old monk said made him horrified.

"If it is windy and rainy, the donor can go in and rest. ”

"Thank you, Zen Master!"

Wang Jiwei said, smiled at the old monk, and then pulled Gadol Ammiqi and said:

"Captain, will you wait?"

"Wait! ”

Angrily sat in the carriage to eat the dry food brought by the trip, Wang Jiwei folded his hands, and then bent down to salute the old monk, pulled the horse to the side, and could not stop in front of the temple.

"What are they doing?"

Seeing that the Blood Alliance mercenary group pulled the carriage to the side, not far away, Xing Zeyuan took a look, and then looked at the old monk.

"I'll go over and ask. ”

Although Xing Zeyuan doesn't understand the monk's intentions, he is very polite.

"Zen Master, do you know how to enter the mountain?"

Gadol Ammich opened the window of the carriage and took a bite of the flesh, and looked at the old monk and pointed to the path by the temple.

"From the stone road all the way up, you can go up the mountain. ”

"Can we go up the mountain now?"

"No!"

"Xiaosheng is dull, please ask the Zen master for advice?"

"Wait for everyone to go up the mountain. ”

Xing Zeyuan glanced at the Blood Alliance, and then at the road he had walked when he came, is there anyone else here? Who else are you waiting for?

"Don't be impatient, just listen to the words of the old man. ”

"Thank you, Zen Master. ”

When Xing Zeyuan saluted and was about to turn around, Luo Tian walked over.

"Monk!"

After the standard hands were folded, the bending reached ninety degrees, and when Xing Zeyuan was surprised, Luo Tian said sincerely:

"Thank you to the monk for carving the mantra for me when I was young, the Wooden Aegis, it saved my life many times, thank you very much!"

"Don't thank you!

After turning around, Xing Zeyuan asked Luo Tian in a low voice.

"Do you know this Zen master?"

"He was my benefactor, and when I was a child, he used to come to our house, and my parents gave him a lot of food, and in return, he engraved a mantra for me. The last time I faced Jiujiu, if it weren't for the 'Wood Aegis', I might have died. And when I was away before, the wooden shield brought me a lot of benefits. ”

Now the contradiction between Luo Tian and Fan Ao has been resolved, after all, what Fan Ao did was also for his uncle and aunt, since he chose to accept her, the thing that almost lost his life in the past was just "no fight, no acquaintance".

"Thank him well. ”

"Thank you?"

"I don't know about this, wait until this mission, see if there's a chance to talk to him. ”

The old monk picked up the bamboo broom and continued to sweep the floor, Xing Zeyuan and they retreated outside the temple, the temple had no walls, but the ground was paved with stone bricks. The land of stone and bricks is a place of purity, and the old monks sweep away the dust from the ground, and they set up camp at the intersection. There were three vaults in total, because by the temple, they didn't light a fire to cook, but ate the food they brought with them at dinner.

"Isn't it nice to eat meat by the temple?"

Put away the meat, the old monk brought tea, and the old monk caught everyone off guard was silent.

"Thank you, Zen Master!"

"Donors use slowly!"

"Thank you. ”

Youyou looked at him, and the old monk turned around and carried another pot of water towards the Blood Alliance mercenary group.

"Why is he sitting there?"

Facing the big Buddha in the temple, the old monk who had simply eaten the meal sat cross-legged on the yellow futon, picked up the wooden fish with his left hand, and beat it with his right hand. After that, he pinched one hundred and eight prayer beads with his fingers, and the prayer beads, representing one hundred and eight kinds of afflictions, passed through the finger face. When you reach the Buddha's head, you don't jump over it, but continue to pinch it in reverse.

"This is a monk's evening class, don't say it if you don't understand. ”

"Oh oh~"

Even if you eat the cake, you eat it very well, and after choking for a while, she sighs.

"I don't think this old monk wants us in?"

It was dark, it was pitch black, two lamps were lit by the carriage, and the fast horses that had eaten enough grass were also resting, but the three of them sat in the carriage and looked at the temple with only one lamp and talked in a low voice.

"Maybe we'll have to wait two days. ”

"Can't wait. ”

Gadol Amic has a bad temper and speaks impulsively.

"There are only three mercenary groups in total that can take on this task, and now that Red Shield is also here, we already have a strong opponent, what if we wait for others to come?"

"You mean to say?"

"We'll ask him again tomorrow, and if he doesn't, we'll be tougher. A thin old monk, even if we don't move, can't help us. ”

"That's right. ”

Wang Wei looked at an intersection, the Red Shield mercenary group quickly fell asleep, and when they also lay down, the old monk sitting in the temple was still reciting scriptures.

"Is it late at night?"

Glancing at the darkness outside the window, the old monk blew the lamp and meditated.

"I really don't know how this old monk survived here?"

Gadol Ammich, who got up in the middle of the night to relieve himself, muttered, and then fell asleep on the floor.

The sky is like a street at night, and the stars are the lights. The quiet night allowed them to sleep peacefully under the premise of a certain vigilance, and they would always wake up several times at night when they were outside, but tonight was different, even if Gansuo, who slept very lightly, did not wake up. The old monk in the temple is like a Buddha, praying for a peaceful night and a calm world.