The Taoist Temple of Haicheng Jade Emperor Palace is located on the top of the east mountain of Haicheng. Legend has it that it has been abandoned several times in history. In the third year of Song Jingding, after the East China Sea pacified Shi Zhang Hanying and rebuilt, the carved railings painted the building, the palace was uneven, and the courtyard was deep. The statue of the Jade Emperor sits on the top of the main hall, the Queen Mother and Guanyin sit on the left and right sides, and there are Li Jing, the king of Tota, Yang Jian, the god of Erlang, and the gods of Lei Gongdian. There are ten bell and drum towers in the north courtyard, all of which are the painstaking works of skilled craftsmen. It can really be said that "the fairy palace is built on the fairy mountain, and the gods seem to be in the dust", and the incense was prosperous for a while.

It is said that the current Jade Emperor Palace was built and rebuilt in the 20 years of the Ming Dynasty. At the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the peasants revolted, the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, and the war was ignited everywhere, and many carved fences and jade masonry, cultural relics and historic sites have been destroyed in the war. Of course, whenever there is a war on this land, it is the ordinary people who bear the brunt of the destruction of their families and deaths.

Where is the carved fence and jade brick? Since the beginning of human life, most of the time, they have always been reborn in destruction, rebuilt prosperity after destruction, reborn and then destroyed, and rebuilt and prosperous again into hell on earth. And so on and so forth.

The eternal romance is always blown away by the rain and wind, and the Taoist Temple of the Jade Palace is no exception. However, in addition to the ferocious and savage desire and ability of human beings, the great power of infinite construction and creation seems to be conceived in every ordinary being, as if human beings have been implanted with some kind of spirit from the moment Nuwa Niangniang made human beings from the clay.

A crooked crescent moon is quietly shining her brilliance to the world, and the time is already in the middle of the day.

In front of the door of the Jade Emperor Palace's Taoist temple, a young Taoist priest was knocking on the door knocker firmly under the cool moonlight, making a knocking sound, not knowing if he could wake up the boy guarding the door.

The "squeak...... still heavy door finally opened a gap for one person in the persistent knocking, revealing a small head from inside.

"The person who came is a nameless Taoist brother from Guigu Mountain, Hebei?" The boy guarding the door rubbed his eyes, and after seeing the outfit of the person who knocked on the door, he suppressed the annoyance in his heart that had been disturbed by his sleep, and walked out of the door and asked.

"It's Xiaodao, it's so late that I disturb my junior brother's sleep, I'm really uneasy in my heart, dare to ask my uncle if his old man is in view?"

"Senior brother, don't blame yourself, the old man has been waiting for you for many days. These days, I have been instructed to sleep at night and be vigilant, so that you can take advantage of the nameless brother. Today, however, I slept soundly again. Speaking of this, the doorkeeper raised his hand and scratched his head, and hurriedly opened the door of the Taoist temple a little, "Nameless senior brother, please come in, the master said, no matter when, I will take you to the ashram to see him as soon as you come." ”

"There's Lao, the junior brother."

"My Taoist name is called Wuhua, it's good for my senior brother to call me Wuhua, don't be polite, when you get here, it's the same as on Guigu Mountain." The little Taoist boy Wuhua closed the gate of the Taoist temple and walked in front to lead the way for Nameless.

After a while, in a small courtyard behind the main hall of the Taoist temple, a lonely monastic retreat stopped in front of it, and through the lattice window of the clean room pasted with a layer of thick yellow paper, you could see that the candle flame inside was swaying slightly, reflecting a figure meditating.

"Lord, the nameless senior brother who returned to Gushan has arrived."

"Oh?" There was a long "oh" from the clean room, and he paused for a while before speaking again, "Wuhua, let your nameless brother come in, you go to the back kitchen of the Taoist temple to see what kind of food you can prepare, and you will serve it to the clean room that your nameless brother arranged half a month ago, and your nameless brother will have a meal later." ”

"Yes, Lord. The disciple will arrange it. Dao Tong Wuhua turned around, "Senior Brother Nameless, please come in, I'll retire first." ”

"There's Senior Brother Lao."

Nameless pushed open the door of the clean room and walked in, closing the door casually. When the candle flame flickered, I saw a very thin white-haired Taoist man sitting cross-legged on a futon and looking up at him.

"Uncle, Master, he ......" Nameless walked a few steps forward, came to the old road and knelt down, for a while full of sorrow, a little choked.

"Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable, there is no need to be sad for my nephew, my senior brother is driving the crane west, I have already sensed it, but your arrival has confirmed this fact."

"Master, Master, before he died, he asked me to come to this Haicheng to see my uncle, and said that you know everything about your uncle."

"Nameless, you get up first, in the blink of an eye for sixteen years, you were still in your infancy back then, but now you have grown up, and your cultivation has reached the peak of the late stage of Qi cultivation, which is really not easy. My Guigu faction is also considered to have a successor. ”

"The disciple can have today's cultivation, this is all thanks to the master and his old man, originally, I ......"

"This uncle knows everything, my senior brother, when he was young, before he cultivated the Tao, he was a very kind and kind person, a humble gentleman. There is nothing to say about the kindness of my apprentice and my junior brother. Come on, nameless nephew, sit down on the futon on the other side of this low table. Let's have a good chat with our uncle and nephew now, let's talk. In my quiet room, this can be regarded as a candlelight night talk. The old Taoist priest looked at Nameless and sat down opposite him, and continued: "In the past sixteen years, your master has spent countless cultivation resources on you that are rare in a hundred years in the mortal world, but I think why are you still just a little Taoist priest at the peak of the late stage of Qi cultivation?" Compared to the resources consumed, you're still a little slower to cultivate. ”

"As Uncle Shi said, Master, for me, before he died, he used Taoism to move the Golden Tripod Dafa and forcibly instilled his life's skills in me, so that I could forcibly break through from the original three layers of the Qi cultivation period to the current realm, but I have always faintly felt that my realm is very unstable, and it seems that I may fall at any time."

"Everything was predestined. This is exactly the reason why your master, that is, my senior brother, asked you to come to me, and it is also the agreement we made on Huaguo Mountain at the beginning, and this is also the fate of the disciples of the Guigu faction who can hold the "Guigu Heavenly Book" for thousands of years. ”

"The Book of Heaven in the Ghost Valley? This, this book is now in the burden of the master and nephew, but except for the four small seal characters on the cover, there is no content in it. When Master was cultivating to the third level of Qi cultivation, Master gave me this book of heavenly heirlooms from my ancestors, and asked me to spend a certain amount of time every day to meditate on it. But the teacher and nephew are stupid, and in the past ten years, they have not been able to make the slightest progress. But the master has never instructed me in this regard, and asked my uncle to teach me, so that my master and nephew can understand it as soon as possible and live up to the teacher's kindness. ”

"We'll talk about that book later. Master and nephew, it was sixteen years ago on the day of the third day of the third month of the third month, your master suddenly came to Haicheng to find me, at that time, the old master suddenly passed away, and I had just taken over as the master of the Jade Emperor Palace for only a month. He said that in the past year, he has been having some strange dreams, and a voice in his dreams always shouted to him, telling him to rush to the Huaguo Mountain Water Curtain Cave on the day of the Shangsi Festival. So he came to Haicheng that day and found me and invited me to go with him. Hehe, your master's road number is dreamy, and my uncle's road number is rainy. Hehe, he came to Haicheng because of a dream to go to the Huaguo Mountain Water Curtain Cave, the weather was very good that morning, there were many people outside the city and in the city for spring outings, the moat, and the East China Sea, there were officials and some wealthy families drinking and feasting parties, young men and women. We climbed the stairs from the foot of Huaguo Mountain, originally the senior brother was anxious, wanted to cast a spell and flew directly away, to the water curtain cave to see what is strange, after all, we have visited the water curtain cave several times in the past, except for some broken stone benches and a monkey statue roughly carved by the descendants of a good thing, and the feces and urine stains of those wild monkeys in the mountains all over the ground, there are no civilization monuments and fairy weather. At that time, I grabbed your master, first, there were too many people who came to visit the mountains and rivers, and secondly, your master came to explore because of a dream, and we Taoists always have to pay attention to sincerity. So we walked up the narrow mountain road step by step, but when there were about 50 twists and turns from the entrance of the water curtain cave, suddenly the sand and rocks were flying, the sky and the earth changed color, and the heavy rain poured down, and everyone in the mountains was caught off guard, and some people unfortunately rolled down the cliff and died, which was a good time to travel on a good day. It is said that the East China Sea was also covered with huge waves that day, and many people who were playing, playing in the water, picnicking, and fishing were swept away by the rolling waves and disappeared. In the whole city of Haizhou, many houses were also downed that day, and many big trees were uprooted and fell on the side of the road. At that time, this incident alarmed the imperial court, and the governor of Haicheng was later imprisoned, saying that he was an official in Haicheng, but he did not respect the god of the sea for many years, so disasters fell from the sky, which violated the peaceful and prosperous scene of this dynasty since Kangxi. It's really unpredictable. Over the years, since that year, every Haicheng Zhizhou Lord has to come to this Jade Emperor Palace early before the first day of the third month of March every year to test the good fortune, and it is your uncle and I who have been in charge of this piece all these years. On the first day of the first month of March, the successive Haicheng Zhizhou lords will personally lead the civil and military officials in the city to prepare the ten animal gifts, instead of today's saints, first go to my Jade Emperor Palace to worship the Jade Emperor Daojun Emperor, and then go to the sea to worship the sea god, and each time a lot of fresh pigs, cattle and sheep and other livestock will be put into the East China Sea. It's been peaceful over the years. This year, Lord He of Nazhizhou even invited Lord Gao, the governor of Liangjiang, to watch the ceremony. No, Uncle Shi has been busy until today since late February. Hey, I'm getting old, my cultivation is stagnant, and my physical strength is declining. Look at it, let's talk about the past, and I will always pull away unconsciously. Ay...... I really want to sigh a few times to the sky, so let's get down to business now. That day, just as your master and I were about to rescue some people who had been injured and fallen into the mountain stream, there was a burst of baby's cry from the direction of the Water Curtain Cave, and your Master jumped up and flew straight to the mouth of the Water Curtain Cave. Following the sound, in that cave we saw you crying loudly in your infancy. ”

"Me? It's me? Me, I...... Master has never told me about that. ”

"This is an agreement between me and your master, because when we were examining your body to see if we could find your source, we actually found a legendary water-repellent bead on your body."

"Avoiding water droplets? Isn't that the legendary immortal treasure that even a mortal can hold this pearl and enter and exit the deep sea at will, avoiding the surrounding sea water and the sea beasts fleeing away? ”

"yes. But at that time, the water-repellent bead had already recognized you as the master, because somehow, there was a wound on your left chest that was bleeding, and it happened to be soaked in the water-repellent bead. At that time, the water-repellent bead was running down the bleeding wound, like a living thing burrowing into your heart. At that time, my brother and I were afraid that it would endanger your young life, and we tried our best to stop it, and watched as the water-repellent bead finally turned into a golden light and melted into your body, but when we explored it with divine sense, there was no trace, and even your originally injured chest was gradually healing. Later, after carefully identifying the surrounding area of your wound, before the scars disappeared completely, we deduced that it should be a wound left by the paw of a wild monkey in Huaguo Mountain. All of this is providential. The moment the senior brother saw the water beads, he was overjoyed, as the holder of the "Guigu Heavenly Book" of the Guigu faction at that time, he saw that he might be able to break through the path and opportunity of the path of cultivation that is not only fate and responsibility, but also a trace of the path of cultivation that will have a great immortal fate. ”

"I don't know what Uncle Shi's mouth is, what are the fates and chances of my Guigu faction? And what is the agreement between you and Master? Why is it that the water-repellent bead that entered my body that I have been unconscious and uninductive for so many years. Why Master never mentioned these things to me in ordinary times, but just blindly urged me to cultivate hard, and sometimes even forcibly passed on the merits to me, trying to help me break through, many times, I could feel that Master seemed to be very anxious in his heart. Uncle Shi......"

"Alright, nameless. It's past the time now, at this time, it's already the third day of March, and it's really a matter of time. Thinking of my senior brother and your master, in this era when there is no slightest vitality of heaven and earth, relying on those low-grade yuan stones left by the master, practicing the remote mountain, this practice is a hundred and ten years, and I probably can't remember how many times it was. There is no time in this mountain. Your master wants to complete the mission that has never been completed by many predecessors and masters of the master for thousands of years. Uncle I can't help but feel deeply sad every time I think about this, the rabbit is dead and the fox is sad, your master has cultivated to the peak realm of Jiedan, and he is bent on breaking through, it seems that now he is really dead due to the failure to break through the realm. What a pity, how pathetic, my poor and venerable brother, you have not been able to go to the next level, you have not been able to prolong your life for another hundred years, and you have left me like this, woo hoo lament. Unknown teacher and nephew, your uncle and I have been entangled in mundane affairs for many years, and my cultivation has only been in the late stage of the construction period until today, so I think I am a little self-ashamed. Your master has taken on the heavy responsibility of the master for thousands of years, but I, as a junior brother, can't help much, and I have to ask my senior brother from time to time for some low-grade yuan stones and other cultivation resources that are not much. Anonymous nephew, you have come from afar, you have been hungry for a long time when you think about it, and here you listen to Uncle Shi and me nagging about these old things, Uncle Shi, you are also old, and the future is still your young people after all. Well, let's not talk about that, it will only add to the sadness. Nameless nephew, you go to the clean room to have some food first, I think that the flowers have been arranged, and then rest for two hours after use. At three o'clock, you come here with me, Ao, then call my boy, let's go to the Huaguo Mountain together, see the sunrise in the east, go to the water curtain cave where the senior brother and I found you together, and talk about comfort. As far as you're concerned, this is the first time you've been here since you grew up. Go ahead, and I'll tell you more about it when the time comes. Go, go. Daoist Duoyu seemed to talk too much, and felt sad about his senior brother and himself, and seemed to feel a little tired, and his body that was originally sitting and standing was a little sluggish, and he was obviously relaxed.

"Yes, Uncle Shi. The disciples retired first. ”

A candle flickered, and Nameless respectfully exited the ashram.