Suddenly, I saw that the miasma around me had all dissipated without a trace, and the primeval forest in front of me was completely calm. Master bent down and picked up the Demon Refining Pot, sealed it, handed it to me, and said, "Put it away." Hearing this, I respectfully took the demon refining pot and put it in the yellow cloth bag, and the master stumbled, so frightened that I hurriedly stepped forward to help, and the master slowly waved his hand, indicating that there was nothing wrong.

I asked with some concern, "Master, why is your face so bad?" Isn't it ......"

"Hmm." The master didn't wait for me to speak, he nodded, and then said: "Although the golden light array is not a special formation, it has been consumed like this, and the innate aura in the master's body has been emptied. Alas, if the foundation of the teacher's cultivation is not broken, this mere formation will not make the teacher so embarrassed. "When I heard Master's words, I felt a little uncomfortable in my heart.

Hu Qingxuan also said with concern: "Senior Brother Yang has worked hard, it is better to find a nearby place to meditate cross-legged and regulate your body." Master's discomfort was not only visible to Hu Qingxuan, but even Shangguan Jin was also in his eyes, but from beginning to end, he didn't say a word of concern, but had an anxious expression, as if he wanted to leave at this moment.

The master sighed lightly, then found a spacious place, sat down cross-legged, and said casually: "I am pranayama now, at most three hours, at least one hour, during this period, it is difficult to guarantee that there will be no more accidents, you must be careful to take precautions!" After receiving our unanimous acceptance, Master slowly closed his eyes, pinched the Tai Chi seal with both hands, and soon fell into silence.

Shangguan Jin silently walked to a remote place, silently pranayama, but Wujin still looked at us all blankly, for the previous miasma, and the golden light array, maybe the impact on him was too great, and he was still difficult to digest for a while. Hu Qingxuan casually said to Wujin: "You can also go to the side and rest." After getting Hu Qingxuan's instructions, Wujin nodded again and again, turned around and left.

At this moment, Hu Qingxuan and I glanced at each other, slowly came to the other side, and found a place to sit down, Hu Qingxuan immediately asked: "Ergou, you led me here with a puzzled face, do you have anything to say to me?" ”

I grinned, nodded and said, "Uncle Hu, I still have doubts about what I encountered before, and I hope Uncle Hu can tell me what Uncle Hu has to do with that child who is desperately chasing you?" Of course, this is purely out of my curiosity, if it is inconvenient for Uncle Hu to say, I will not continue to ask, as if that incident never happened! ”

"Alas, it turned out to be because of this incident......" Hu Qingxuan sighed lightly, looking up at the towering ancient trees and the dots of stars in the gaps between the branches and leaves. For a while, Hu Qingxuan seemed to be stuck in a long memory, but in the end, Hu Qingxuan still withdrew his gaze and said in a low voice: "This matter, it's too far to say, if you really want to say it, you have to start talking about it from the day I learned the Tao......

According to Hu Qingxuan, he was in his youth back then, and he had read a lot of books, and his family was well-off, but among many ancient books, he only preferred Xuanmen miscellaneous studies. Especially the things that spy on the mysteries of heaven and earth, the abnormal persistence, can be said to be a deep root of wisdom. On a trip by chance, he met an old Taoist priest on Taihang Mountain, and when he saw that Hu Qingxuan was quite Taoist, he gave him several Taoist books, and as a result, Hu Qingxuan was twenty years old when he really came into contact with Taoist classics.

Several Taoist books, Hu Qingxuan studied day and night, and frequently comprehended the mystical principles in them, gradually, Hu Qingxuan came up with the idea of cultivating. When he was twenty-one years old, his old father asked someone to be a matchmaker for him and fell in love with a girl from a neighboring village. That girl is also a person of good character and knowledge. But it was that day that Hu Qingxuan quietly left home and rushed to Maoshan to find the old Taoist.

The old Taoist priest only told him that he came from Maoshan and that he didn't know the way, so he had to go to Maoshan to find it. When he arrived at Maoshan Daomen, Hu Qingxuan decided to learn from his teacher. However, the old Taoist priest shook his head and sighed, saying that he had not yet had the opportunity to become a monk for the time being.

But Hu Qingxuan was blindly persistent, made up his mind not to refuse, and lived in the Taoist temple, serving tea and pouring water for the old Taoist priest all day long, and like other little Taoist priests, chanting and meditating every day, never falling behind in morning and evening classes. Three months later, Hu Qingxuan's persistence deeply moved the old Taoist priest, and although the opportunity did not come, the old Taoist priest still agreed to Hu Qingxuan's request and allowed him to become a monk. At that time, the Maoshan faction cultivated the Fa, and there was a rule, that is, if you want to cultivate the Fa, you must first choose the three types of life: lonely, young, and poor.

Loneliness means loneliness, if you choose loneliness, you are destined to be lonely all your life, and you can't marry a wife and have children. If you choose to die, you are destined to die in this life, and you can only die in middle age. Poverty means poverty, if you choose poverty, you are doomed to be poor in this life, and you can't even keep overnight money, that is, how much money you have on your body has to be spent on the same day, and you can't keep it until the next day, and you can't wear new clothes.

There are many theories about the choice of these three types of life, and they are roughly determined by the master who teaches the method. One day, Hu Qingxuan returned from chopping wood in the back mountain, and as soon as he entered the master's back hall, he heard the master's voice coming out and asked, "Alone?" ”

Hu Qingxuan looked back in astonishment, and after finding that there were no other fellow disciples and brothers, he was sure that he had come to the master's back hall alone, and immediately nodded without thinking and said, "Yes, Master, I am alone!" ”

"Hmm." The voice of the master came from the back hall again, and soon, the old Taoist priest walked out of the back hall and motioned to Hu Qingxuan to follow him to the main hall of the Taoist temple. Hearing the words of the old Taoist, Hu Qingxuan immediately reminded him, saying that he had not yet chosen the three life qualities of loneliness and poverty, so how could he teach the method now?

The old Taoist priest responded with a smile: "Actually, you have already chosen, and the question just now is the choice given to you." ”

Hu Qingxuan was immediately stunned, and soon, he slapped the back of his head hard, and understood what the master meant, it turned out that the sentence that the master asked him was to let him choose his future life. And Hu Qingxuan replied "I am alone" at that time, then a person means loneliness, thus invisibly choosing the pattern of loneliness. Originally, Hu Qingxuan wanted to choose the pattern of poverty, but since the master had already decided, he was powerless to change it.

I had to follow the master to the main hall to receive the teachings, and after the teachings, Hu Qingxuan practiced diligently, and gradually forgot the life he had chosen. After such a clean year, when the spring flowers bloomed in the second year, there was an uninvited guest at the foot of the mountain, not someone else, it was the other party girl who was designated by her father to marry last year, the girl actually came to the mountain to look for Hu Qingxuan, Hu Qingxuan looked at the person who came to wear tatters, and unkempt hair, and his skin had also experienced wind and sun, and became extremely haggard. Hu Qingxuan learned that the girl came to find Hu Qingxuan to go back and marry her because of the marriage, Hu Qingxuan was deeply moved at that time, and you can imagine how much suffering and sin the girl suffered along the way.

Leaving the girl to live on the mountain for a few days, I never thought that Hu Qingxuan and the girl gradually developed feelings, and when the girl parted, he kept persuading him to go down the mountain and reunite with his family, which undoubtedly deeply touched Hu Qingxuan's heartstrings. For some reason, since the girl came and went, his cultivation heart has become more and more unstable, but he misses home, his family, and even the girl.

But Hu Qingxuan suddenly remembered that at the beginning of his study of the Fa, he had chosen his future destiny, which was a pattern of a lonely life, so he could not marry a wife and have children. Can...... The old Taoist priest ordered his disciples to summon Hu Qingxuan to the back hall, and saw Hu Qingxuan's homesickness, but he warned him, although you can go home, you are already destined to be lonely, and you can no longer covet the marriage in the world, otherwise you will violate the mandate of heaven, but you will be punished by heaven.

After some earnest teachings, the old Taoist priest ordered Hu Qingxuan to go down the mountain. When Hu Qingxuan left, he confidently promised the old Taoist priest that he would not disobey his master's orders, but when he returned to his hometown, his family barely gave him a chance to refute and explain, and within three days, he beat gongs and drums to complete his marriage with the girl. Hu Qingxuan didn't dare to disobey his teacher's orders, but he didn't dare to disobey his parents' orders, on the wedding night, Hu Qingxuan and his wife told him that he couldn't marry a wife and have children, but he didn't expect his wife to understand him unexpectedly.

Not only that, but the wife also helped Hu Qingxuan hide his parents, and told her in-laws that they already had husband and wife, but in fact, they slept in separate beds every night. The good times didn't last long, and after more than half a year, Hu Qingxuan's parents found out that their daughters-in-law had been married to their sons for so long, why didn't their stomachs move? It stands to reason that it is time to conceive a child, but gradually, Hu Qingxuan's parents thought that this daughter-in-law would not be able to have children, and their attitude towards her deteriorated.

Seeing that his wife was frequently excluded and harassed by his parents, Hu Qingxuan was angry in his heart, but he didn't dare to explain the reason for it for a while, he knew that his wife was not infertile, but that they had been married for more than half a year, and there was no husband and wife at all. Finally one day, under the mother's troubles, his wife fainted on the ground because of the water to wash the dirty clothes of the whole family, before this, Hu Qingxuan knew that his parents had never let his wife eat at all, and this series of abuse made Hu Qingxuan really unbearable.

So, Hu Qingxuan changed from that moment on......