Chapter 7: Dragon and Tiger Mountain

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In the early morning, the warm sun rises slowly, and soft light enters the house through the glass windows stained with snow crystals.

In the house, a man was sitting cross-legged, until the soft light reflected on his face, he slowly opened it, exhaled lightly, stood up, picked up a cup, took a glass of warm water, and stood in front of the window looking at the village outside.

"Don... Uh, no, uncle, good morning" At this time, Tang Lan walked down from the second floor, wearing a cotton jacket and a cotton hat, and seemed to be preparing to go out.

"Good morning, Tang Lan" Tang Mu turned around and continued: "Just call me Tang Mu in the future, you don't need to call uncle"

"Hee-hee, you look younger than me, call you Uncle weird"

"Want to go out?" Tang Mu asked

"Yes, I have to go to work, although today is New Year's Day, but the hospital has not changed shifts, so I can only go back to work."

"It's only six o'clock, do you need to be so early?

"No, I can't afford to leave early, I'll be in a traffic jam later, I'll go first, big... Eh, Tang Mu, see you in the evening"

"Okay, stay safe"

After speaking, Tang Lan pulled up her scarf and wrapped her face around her face, opened the door and drove away.

Eight o'clock in the morning –

"Big brother, don't you feel cold with such long sleeves?" Liu Xuemei said with a bowl of porridge and put it in front of Tang Mu

"Thank you" Tang Mu picked up the chopsticks next to him and continued: "Fortunately, I didn't feel cold in this weather, maybe it has something to do with my body."

"Big brother, do you have any plans for the future?" Tang Feng took a few dishes, took a sip of porridge, and then said.

"Speaking of your eldest brother, Tang Feng, do you know a girl, introduce your eldest brother, as the saying goes, start a family first and then start a business, this is all ancestral training. Tang Qiguo looked at Tang Mu and said with a smile

"Ah, yes, Dad is right, what do you plan not to do, you plan to start a family first and then plan to do so" Liu Xuemei hurriedly accosted her

"Let's talk about this later, hehe" Tang Mu was a little speechless: "Father, I'm going to go to Longhu Mountain later and come back in the evening"

"Oh?!, Longhu Mountain??, going on a tour?" Tang Feng asked

"No, go find someone, you all know each other," Tang Mu said after taking a sip of porridge

"We all know each other, our family has no relatives who are Taoist priests in Longhu Mountain," Tang Qiguo was a little puzzled.

"Okay, I'm done eating, you eat slowly, I'm leaving, I'll be back before dinner in the evening" After speaking, Tang Mu stood up and walked outside the house, leaving Tang Qiguo and them with a stunned face.

"Longhu Mountain, well, over there in Jiangxi, hehe, sure enough, he is in retreat and cultivation, and he doesn't feel any aura at all, if it weren't for Qi Ling saying that he is still alive, I would still think that he has passed away."

"Whoosh"

In an instant, Tang Mu, who was still standing on the steps of the door, suddenly disappeared in place.

Longhu Mountain is the birthplace of Taoism in China, and the Danxia landform of Longhu Mountain is two Danxia Mountains developed in the southern margin of the middle section of the Xinjiang Basin in southeast China, which are composed of Late Cretaceous continental foothill flood-alluvial fan massive red conglomerate.

According to Taoist classics, Zhang Sheng, the fourth generation of Zhang Ling's grandson, had settled in Longhu Mountain during the Three Kingdoms or the Western Jin Dynasty, and since then, the descendants of Zhang Tianshi have lived in Longhu Mountain for more than 1,900 years.

Longhu Mountain a courtyard, two small Taoist priests are clearing the snow in the clearing, although Longhu Mountain is now a 5A-level tourist attraction in China, but there are also some places that tourists are not allowed to set foot in, such as in the depths of Longhu Mountain, this is about a football field in the big temple group, the antique breeze, all the top beams and pillars are golden silk nanmu, showing the luxury, bursts of nanmu fragrance full of surrounding.

"Knock knock~"

There was a sudden knock at the main gate, which surprised the two little Taoist priests who were cleaning the snow, it stands to reason that no one came out this morning, and it was impossible for the elders to come to the main court so early.

"Who could it be?"

"I don't know, I'll open the door, you go and report to the master"

"Good"

After speaking, a little Taoist priest placed the cleaning tools in his hand and walked towards the gate.

"Squeak~~"

The red and black door was slowly pushed open by the little Taoist, and after pushing it open, he found a thinly dressed young man standing at the door.

"This donor, tourists are not allowed to watch here, if the donor is lost, I can let the donor take the donor down the mountain" The little Taoist priest saw the person in front of him, thinking that it was a tourist who got lost and broke into the wrong way, although he was a little angry in his heart, but as a Taoist, etiquette should still be there.

"I'm bothering you, I'm not a tourist, and I hope that the Taoist chief will inform your master that there is something to ask to see here" Tang Mu arched his hand and said with a smile.

"Oh?!Do you want to see my master?....." The little Taoist priest was a little surprised, he had never seen the person in front of him, but seeing that Tang Mu was only dressed in thin clothes, in this snowy day of dozens of degrees below zero, there was no trace of cold, thinking that he should be a master, he didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly continued: "This Taoist friend, Xiaodao's junior brother has already gone to inform the master, please wait outside the door for the time being, without the master's permission, Xiaodao can't let people in casually, I hope Daoyou understand."

"Okay" Tang Mu didn't say anything, just responded lightly.

Just after a while, an old man in a Taoist robe appeared in the main hall, followed by the little Taoist priest who had just cleaned up the snow. He is Zhang Xiran, the ninth-generation head of Longhu Mountain, who is 329 years old, and his current cultivation has reached the out-of-body stage. Taoism in Longhu Mountain is divided into inner court and outer court, the inner court is a place where outsiders can't see and are not allowed to touch, and the Taoist priests who can live in the inner court are all real cultivators, and their strength is almost above the spiritual wisdom period, except for some newcomers who have just entered the Tao. The outer court is a Taoist priest that everyone can see in the world, they mainly promote Taoist culture, and the Taoist priests in the outer court want to enter the inner court to practice, unless their own talent is very superior or their strength has reached the enlightenment period, and the two little Taoist priests who swept the floor just now are born with superior talent, which is accepted by the inner court. The head of the outer court is the elder of the inner court.

"Senior brother, the master said to let the people outside the door come in," the little Taoist priest shouted at the gate in the distance.

"Fellow Daoist, Xiaodao is rude, please" The little Taoist priest stood aside and made way.

"I'm tired" Tang Mu said with a smile, and then walked straight to the main hall, but every time Tang Mu took a step, the snow under his feet instantly melted away, revealing the stone bricks of the original courtyard, and the old Taoist priest standing in the main hall looked at Tang Mu in front of him, and his heart was also shocked.

"Poor Dao is polite, I don't know what advice Daoist friends have in the cold?" Zhang Xiran arched his hand and said with a smile, during this period, the little Taoist priest also served hot tea and put it next to Tang Mu.

"Please also ask the two little Taoist friends to avoid it, I have something to talk about with your master, forgive me" Tang Mu took a sip of tea, and then looked at the two little Taoist priests standing behind Zhang Xiran and said.

"Master..."

"Well, you two go out first. Zhang Xiran said

"Yes, master" After speaking, the two little Taoist priests arched their hands and walked outside the main hall.

"I don't know which faction Daoist friends come from, poor Dao doesn't seem to have seen it" Although Zhang Xiran is more than three hundred years old, his mind is still very clear, just now he saw Tang Mu stepping into the snow melt, and he knows without asking that the young man in front of him has profound spiritual power, and as for cultivation, it will definitely not be lower than the Yuan Infant Stage, and it is definitely a terrifying existence to have such strength at such a young age.

"To make a long story short, I want to see someone today" Tang Mu didn't want to say anything, how much Zhang Xiran's cultivation was in front of him, he had already seen that in the environment where spiritual power was so scarce on the earth, it was extremely difficult to cultivate to the out-of-body period, and it was estimated that it also cost a lot of precious pills to assist.

"Oh?!Who do you want to see?

Tang Mu stood up, looked at a huge portrait hanging on the wall in the middle of the main hall, and then turned to look at Zhang Xiran.

"Your Heavenly Master, Zhang, Dao, Ling"