Lao Dao knocked on the door three times, and a door slowly opened.

"Let's go!" With a wave of his hand, he walked into the courtyard first.

When I walked into the courtyard, I immediately felt a sense of relaxation, everything in the courtyard, including the buildings and trees, was full of antique fragrance, and I felt a soft and comfortable feeling all over my body, which was indescribable.

"This is the cave where my brother practiced, and in a hundred years, I will be yours!"

When I heard it, I trembled, and my first reaction was that I had heard it wrong!" Who do you say this yard will be given to in the future? I couldn't believe what I was hearing and asked again.

"Everything here will be yours in the future!"

I have been humble for more than ten years, I have grown so big, I usually live by looking at other people's faces, and when I heard that Lao Dao wanted to give me this palace-like courtyard, I couldn't believe it. I rub! Happiness came so suddenly!

After saying this, Lao Dao didn't say anything more, but walked to a small hall on the northwest side. I'm already happy in my heart! When I made sure that my ears were correct, I first looked around the wide courtyard excitedly, and unconsciously thought that Li Yanli and I were sitting on the stone bench in front of the door......

"Come in!" The old way opened the door to the hall.

Entering the quaint wooden vermilion door, the first thing I saw was that on the opposite side of the door, there were four painted stone statues, three of which were deified, and one looked like an ordinary old man, and there was a bronze incense burner in front of each stone statue.

As soon as he entered the door, Han Laodao knelt down and kowtowed three times, muttering, "After more than forty years, the task taught by the master to the apprentice can finally be completed!" After kowtowing, he called out to me: "Little junior brother, you should also come and kowtow to the ancestor and the master three times!" ”

"Master? Where did I come from, Master! "I, Chen Xiaozhen, have been lonely since I was a child, but I am looking forward to having a master, but who wants to accept me! Let me worship the master, this is not equivalent to asking a eunuch to comb the daughter-in-law's hair.

"You kowtow first, and I'll tell you about it slowly!"

The old words are not loud, but they make people feel very dangerous and dare not resist.

I said in my heart: Worship and worship! It's not a bad thing to worship a few more gods, it's not strange to have more gods!

After the three knocks, Han Laodao raised his eyebrows, stroked his beard with one hand, and helped me up with the other.

"Senior brother, you come here!"

After I got up, the old way pulled me to the north (in front of the stone statue).

As soon as I stood up, he immediately took two steps back, turned around, knelt down facing me, and kowtowed three times in a row.

Since I came to this courtyard, I have been in a dizzy state, and when I reacted, I wanted to reach out to stop it, but the three rings of the old way have been finished!

"Master Han, you are ......"

After standing up again, Lao Dao's expression was even more relaxed! Before the big change, he looked cold and profound, and he seemed to be in a good mood, just an ordinary kind and kind old man.

"Don't call me master, I told you before that we are commensurate with brothers, now I will correct it again, I am your senior brother, you are my junior brother, understand? Will you call me senior brother in the future? ”

Han ...... Senior brother! What the hell is going on! We didn't know each other before! The point is that I don't have a master either! ”

Lao Dao smiled and asked me, "Do you know why that cat-faced old man is afraid of you?" ”

I shook my head.

"That's because of what you ate before! Now that you have the essence of cultivation in your body of the eighteenth generation of the Yellow River Dao people, you are the inheritor of the mantle of our Yellow River Dao people, so I kowtowed to you three times just now, and I also said that I would like to meet the heirs of the mantle of the ancestors. ”

"Recently I ...... I just stole a chicken from the village chief of Xue Chunshan's house......"

"You didn't eat dragon eggs?"

"Dragon eggs?" As soon as I heard this, I immediately remembered that afternoon when I was teased by the mad old man by the Yellow River. I still don't know what I'm eating, and I'm not sure if the changes in my body in the last few days are related to the black things I've eaten.

Lao Dao asked me to tell me in detail the process of meeting the crazy old man that day and eating the little black stone by mistake, and after speaking, he actually shed two lines of old tears.

"He is our master! The eighteenth generation of the Yellow River Daoist, what he gave you to eat was dragon eggs, and all this was exactly what he said forty years ago......"

As he spoke, Lao Dao pointed to the mortal-like sculpture and said, "I haven't seen him for more than 40 years, I asked someone to invite this sculpture, and burning incense on the fifteenth day of every month is considered to be the way of discipleship." ”

Lao Dao lit three sticks of incense again, and kowtowed respectfully three times with me.

"Master, Haicheng has always remembered your words, forty years ago, you saved me and taught me a skill, and now the apprentice will abide by Master's last wish and give what you left behind to my junior brother."

After getting up, Lao Dao walked to the offering table again, held one of the incense burners in both hands and turned it vigorously, only to hear a roar on one side of the wall, and then a small door-shaped hole appeared in the wall.

Lao Dao took one look at me and walked into the cave.

I followed the old road into the cave, only to know that there was a hole in the cave, and walked through a section of corridor with seven bends and eight turns.

"Sting". Lao Dao struck a match and lit the two oil lamps in the corner.

Through the glow of the oil lamp, it can be seen that this is a hidden room of about 20 square meters, and a bronze wooden box is placed on the stone table in the center.

Other than that, there is nothing else.

"Senior brother, this is what Master asked me to transfer to you forty years ago......"

Before I finished speaking, the hot feeling in my chest appeared again, and it was stronger than the previous times, as if I had eaten a mouthful of hot sweet potato, and I couldn't swallow it, and I couldn't spit it out.

Lao Dao opened the bronze box with a "snap", and inside was a small vermilion wooden sword, about ten inches long, a compass the size of an adult's palm, and several books bound in thread.

He took it out with both hands and handed it to me carefully.

"Senior brother, forty years ago, Master watched the heavens at night and calculated everything today, he asked me to hand over these things to you, and teach you a few mantras, as long as you memorize the mantras and then practice with reference to the content of these books, your cultivation will be limitless!"

"What is such a small wooden sword for?" I asked my senior brother Lao Dao.

"Haven't you heard of the Taoist Three Treasures 'Wooden Sword, Compass and Dust'?"

I shook my head in embarrassment.

"Then you can take it first! When the time comes, you will know that these are a few rare treasures! ”

I asked again, "Han ...... Senior brother, I'm also a disciple of the Yellow River Dao now, but ...... But I don't know yet, how do the people of the Yellow River Dao practice! "Actually, at this time, I have calmed down, and I secretly pondered in my heart, these words are very suspicious!

How can there be such a good thing in the world? Even if there is, how can it be so coincidentally smashed on my Chen Xiaozhen's head! Could it be that this is a pyramid scheme that lures me into falling for it with this suspicious method?

Lao Dao smiled, probably guessed my thoughts, and said slowly: "Tao is Tao, very Tao, there is a Tao in the beginning of the world, we believe in the unity of heaven and man, and the Yellow River is our true monarch." I don't pay attention to special cultivation methods, everything is cultivated, and the cultivation of the mind is in each heart. ”

Listening to the old words, I didn't seem to understand, and unconsciously opened the top book.

On the title page of the book are a few words I know: "Xiao Zhen remember: Don't be afraid of trouble, good words in your heart." On the day of the meeting, I will make a decision. ”

It's only now that I fully believe the old way.

Lao Dao looked at least seventy years old, and the old man he met in the Yellow River that day—who should now be called Master—must not be more than a hundred years old? Senior brother Lao Dao asked me to keep these books properly, and the wooden sword and compass were also carried with me.

The two of them chatted in the dark room for a while, and he told me about the process of meeting the master back then, and to my surprise, the senior brother said that the master was already an old man with gray hair.

"Xiao Zhen, I'll call you that in the future! In the past few days, when the night is ugly (after asking, I found out that it is from nine o'clock in the evening to three o'clock in the morning), I, you, come to this secret room, and I will pass on the mantra to you on behalf of the master, your task is really heavy! ”

I asked, "Master...... Senior brother, I want to go to the hospital tomorrow to see Yanli, is this okay? ”

Senior Brother Lao Dao smiled bitterly and said with a smile: "Don't be stressed!" I don't care what you do during the day, as long as you make sure that you come to this secret room within five days, at the time I said. ”

The dinner was made by Senior Brother Lao Dao himself, and it was then that I realized that there were only two of us in this spacious courtyard, and there was no electricity here, and the lighting tool was kerosene lamps.

After eating, Lao Dao let me sleep in a room opposite his bedroom, and told me not to enter his bedroom no matter what happened.

I snorted coldly and said in my heart: My sexual orientation is fine, besides, you old arms and legs...... That's not right! Could it be that this old guy is hiding in a golden house?

I'm not used to it, so if I think about it, I guess that maybe the behavior of cultivators is so weird! Thinking of this, I already had the idea of slipping away.

After getting up the next day, I walked to the hall, and my senior brother Lao Dao had already prepared white porridge.

While eating, I mentioned again that I was going to visit Li Yanli in the hospital, he nodded, took out a wad of money from his pocket, and said, "You not only go to see her, but also bring her here." ”

"Why?" I was shocked, I didn't swallow a mouthful of rice, and almost squirted out, I didn't expect the old Taoist brother to say that.

"This girl is not overly surprised, but she has been condemned to her soul, if no one helps her unseal her soul within seven days, then there will be another walking dead in the world in the future."

As soon as I heard that, I could still eat, and hurriedly asked, "Who did it?" Could it be the cat-faced Aunt Li? ”

"Didn't I tell you? This evil is also controlled by people, she is just a tool. The murderer may still be hiding in your village, which is why I am in such a hurry to call you here. ”

I wanted to ask something more, but my brother waved his hand and told me not to ask yet, and in five days, he would naturally tell me.