The so-called golden incense refers to the precious ambergris wrapped in gold leaf, which ordinary people have never had the opportunity to use in their lives, and this thing can only be used by the elders of the great sect and those with the status of elders and above.

In fact, it is not too expensive, more than 10,000 sticks, mainly because this incense is a symbol of status, dozens of times larger than the size of normal incense, like a stick, and it burns magnificently.

Generally, the ritual of worshiping the heavens and ancestors is held in the morning and noon, and now it has passed, and the marble offering platform in front of the main hall is used to make do, and the old bachelor and I were invited into the Jiuxiao Wanfu Palace, waiting for the disciples who are busy taking care of the affairs of the ancestors outside.

An hour later, a drunken middle-aged man walked out of the apse of the Nine Heavens Ten Thousand Blessings Palace.

"Great Elder, you asked people to go to the back mountain to ask me to do something, so that I almost fell off the top of my grandfather's head and fell to my death, hiccup~" The middle-aged man said and burped.

"Master, you jumped off the top of your grandfather's head again? That's disrespectful. Elder Yan said.

"What's so disrespectful, I'm the head of Maoshan, who dares to be disrespectful to me?" The middle-aged man said drunkenly, a fart. The stock sits on the throne of the head of the Nine Heavens Ten Thousand Blessings Palace.

"This ......," the old bachelor looked at the Great Elder suspiciously.

The Great Elder said, "You have also seen it, this is the head of Maoshan that you want to see. ”

"Who called me?" The head of Maoshan asked with his eyes slightly open.

"Ma Zhenren has accepted two new apprentices, who are my uncle according to their seniority, and I also invite the head to come and meet." The Great Elder said with an impatient expression.

"Uncle Shi?" The head of Maoshan got up, walked to the old bachelor, pulled the old bachelor's beard, and said drunkenly: "Why is the Tao so low, you bad old man, you have a bad stomach." ”

The old bachelor looked embarrassed, and pulled the beard back into his hands twice from the head of Maoshan before pulling it back into his hands.

The head of Maoshan burped, walked up to me again, touched my chin, he suddenly clever, took a few steps back, with a kind of horror in his eyes, and at that moment I frowned, as if he knew all the secrets of my body.

"Master, is there any problem?" Ma Santong asked with a gloomy face.

"What's the problem?" The head of Maoshan immediately regained his drunkenness and said. "Ma Zhenren has a good eye, the three apprentices he received, all of them can stab the Daomen into the sky, and even his disciples and grandchildren can dominate the world and deter ten thousand doors, and now they have received a ruthless one, what is your name?"

"Back to the head, my name is Zhang Yang." I said respectfully.

"Oh, Zhang Yang, as soon as you hear it, it's the name of the dragon, look at your three senior brothers, one is called Wu Qingyun, one is called Wu Zhenqing, and the other is called Meng Brahma, you are actually called Zhang Yang, Zhentu!" The head of Maoshan said, touching his waist. "Where's my flask?"

"That, the master, my name is Zhang Shigeng, and I am the fourth apprentice of Ma Zhenren." The old bachelor said.

"You, don't laugh at people." The head of Maoshan laughed, waved his hand and said. "You, you're a giveaway!"

"Giveaway?!" The old bachelor was so angry that he blew his beard and glared.

"You bad old man is very bad, you have a bad stomach, don't think I can't see through it, you have a hammer hidden behind your waist, you want to beat me to death......" said the head of Maoshan, planted in the center of the hall.

"Master, wake up......," Elder Yan stepped forward and shouted as he helped the head of Maoshan. Ouch, Great Elder, what can I do about this? ”

"What else can I do, drag it down and force the wine in his body out, if you don't wake up, prick a needle to wake him up, I'm a little tired, go back to the apse to rest first, and then call me when things are done." The Great Elder said, getting up and walking to the apse.

The second elder and the third elder Ma Santong also left one after another.

Soon there were only a few of us left in the main hall of the Jiuxiao Wanfu Palace, Elder Yan supported the head of Maoshan and motioned to the two disciples standing in front of the hall to bring the spittoon, and then stroked the back of the head of Maoshan with his palm, and the Dao qi slowly penetrated, and after a while, the head of Maoshan vomited.

I saw that all he vomited was wine, and a strong smell of wine lees quickly spread throughout the hall.

"Master, why do you drink so much wine and don't eat anything, how many times have you told you?" Xiao Wu said distressedly.

"Get out!" The head of Maoshan pushed Xiao Wu aside.

Elder Yan patted the head of Maoshan on the back and said, "Little Wu, help the head of the house to rest in the side hall, and I'll go to the kitchen to get some stomach-warming soup for him to drink, otherwise he will die of wine sooner or later." ”

"Oh, I know Uncle Yan." Xiao Wu said, took over the head of Maoshan, and carried the head of Maoshan on his back, and the old bachelor and I hurriedly stepped forward to help.

When I arrived at the door of the side hall, I said to the old bachelor: "You go in with Xiao Wu, and I will go to the kitchen with Elder Yan to cook porridge." ”

After I finished speaking, I caught up with Elder Yan and followed him to the kitchen.

There is no electricity on this Maoshan Mountain, not even gas, so the most primitive boiler method is used to cook rice.

"Uncle Xiao, seeing that you are quick to do these chores, you are not from a rich family at the bottom of the mountain?" Elder Yan asked.

"No, I have been a single-parent family since I was a child, my father died early, and when I didn't study, I helped the family do some work, and I barely knew how to do it." I said.

"Oh, but when I saw that you bullied the Cao family's copper skin and iron bones and Cao Shaobao, your eyes were arrogant, not like you acted." Elder Yan said.

I smiled and said: "To deal with these people, you have to be more aggressive than them, these rich children are pampered, if you show a little cowardice, they will immediately ride on your head, especially the children of the family." ”

"Oh, I haven't gone down the mountain a few times in my life, when I broke the four olds, the brothers who went down the mountain died dead and crippled, Maoshan was blessed by someone and escaped a catastrophe, and then I didn't dare to go down the mountain again, aren't those wealthy children now not good people?" Elder Yan asked.

"Of course not, some people from rich and noble families are very reasonable, measured, and not aggressive, but I haven't had much contact with these people, among ordinary people, there are more gangs and cliques, and there are more bullies, and the good and evil of people are not accurate, it depends on the individual." I said. "By the way, Elder Yan, what's going on in our Maoshan Mountain, the Nuoda sect has made a miasma."

"You want to ask the boss about it, right?" Elder Yan asked.

"Well, yes, I don't know the name of the head yet." I said.

Elder Yan sighed and said: "This matter was originally a taboo in Maoshan, and the Great Elder strictly forbade anyone to discuss it in private, for fear of affecting the reputation of the sect, since the junior uncle asked, then I will tell you." It is rumored that the reason why he was abandoned by his biological parents was because he had a strange disease, and when Elder Taishang picked it up, Jiangliu's bones were knocked out by the riverside sand and gravel. ”

"Even if you can live like this, then it is estimated that this river is not suffering from a strange disease, but some kind of Taoist physique, right?" I asked.

"Yes, it is rumored that Jiang Liu was born when he was born, he spit out people's words, the first birth of two cheeks, scared the midwife to death, because his hometown is a fishing village by the river, so the village gentleman said that he was reincarnated as a monster crawling out of the river, so he threw him into the river, and was picked up by the elder Taishang several times, and the person was already dying when he picked it up, and gradually returned to the yang under the careful conditioning of the elder Taishang, and the gills on his face gradually disappeared. Everything he touched could be known by him instantly, and he could even read other people's minds, which made many people afraid, so Jiang Liu could be said to have no friends in the Maoshan faction. ”

"And how did he become what he is now?" I asked.

Elder Yan said, "It's because he married the big demon privately. ”

"Married to a demon?" Elder Yan's words startled me, because Xiao Bai was also a big demon who had turned into a human form. "I take the liberty of asking, what kind of big demon is it?"

"The first thing I found was a peach tree spirit."

"Can a tree also cultivate into a demon?" I asked, surprised.

"There is no wonder in the world, who knows if it can be, Jiang Liu has no friends when he fights small, he runs to the back mountain to play, sometimes jumps into the river to swim for a day, until one day, he was found talking to a woman squatting under the peach tree in the back mountain, it was close to the succession ceremony, someone told the high-level of the sect about it, several elders were furious, and ordered it to behead the peach tree essence, Jiang Liu refused, so he fled with the peach tree spirit that turned into a woman, who knew that when he fled outside, he accidentally killed the descendants of a large faction, The disciple was designated as the next head of the sect, and once this matter spread, it angered several major sects, and at that time, Jiang Liu had no way to escape, so he took the woman to hide back in Maoshan in order to protect him. ”

"That seems to be the cultivation of . . . The woman of the human being is still in trouble? ”

"Yes, she is an underwater dragon, in order to meet the river, her soul is hidden on the branches of the peach tree in the back mountain, and she gives up the dragon body and a body of Taoism. In human form, in the end, it is inevitable to die. Elder Yan said.

"Why don't the people from the sect help?" I asked, frowning.

"People from the same door can turn a blind eye, but they can't help, otherwise this is a blatant call for the rules set by the Daomen for thousands of years, and the world's Daomen, no matter how powerful Maoshan is, it can't beat so many sects in the world, not to mention that the ban has already been promulgated at that time, someone secretly notified General Yuan, that woman does not die, no one will let Maoshan go, Jiangliu inherited the Maoshan Taoist system but lost his wife, and since then he has been depressed, and has been drinking alcohol all these years. Therefore, matters of the size of Maoshan are basically asked by the precept elder Ma San. ”