"The presence of the gentleman really makes the valley shine." The old fox said, and his two front paws made a gesture.

Looking at a serious old fox, Lin Yi smiled slightly, and said: "Your Excellency is polite, I heard that the nobles have a rich collection of books, and they came to visit. ”

"Sir is gracious." The old fox said with a straight look, and he didn't know where he learned the etiquette, a living old country pedant.

At this moment, a gust of incense blew, and a slim and graceful girl dressed in pink lady's dress appeared next to the bonfire, this woman was about eighteen or nineteen years old, gorgeous and unbelievable, and looked like there was a kind of breathless beauty.

"Tu Lao, there are guests in the valley today." The woman in red asked the old fox.

Before the old fox, known as "Tu Lao", could speak, he heard the sound of "chirping, chirping".

Among the little foxes that had been in a mess because of Lin Yi's sudden appearance, three young foxes screamed, and jumped up and down around the woman in red, looking cheerful. Obviously, I was very familiar with this woman in red.

Tu Lao reprimanded: "Xiao Sang, Xiao Fei, Xiao Shu, don't make trouble, there are guests here today." Don't lose your courtesy. Why are you crawling on the ground with your hands, and you can't change the habits of birds and beasts, and make the guests laugh? ”

The woman in red smiled, turned her head to look at Lin Yi, and said, "Haven't asked Mr. for his name?" ”

"In Xia Linyi, from overseas." Lin Yi said, thinking to himself in his heart, the woman in red in front of him should be the reincarnation of the "Xianghu King", one of the eight demon kings in the world, the concubine of the current Emperor Daqian, and the concubine of the Yuan Concubine.

In the deep valley, two people looked at each other, the bonfire crackling and burning, and the light and shadow swayed.

"Sir is also a cultivator?" Concubine Yuan broke the silence of the night and asked out loud.

Lin Yi nodded and said, "I'm a qi practitioner. ”

"Qi practitioner?" Concubine Yuan said with some doubts.

Lin Yilang said: "There are three treasures in the sky, sun, moon and stars, there are three treasures in the earth, water, fire and wind, and people have three treasures of spirit and spirit. There are immortal martial arts in the world, mainly the cultivation of essence and blood and physique, there are ghost and immortal Taoism, and the cultivation of the will of the divine soul. ”

After hearing this, Concubine Yuan looked at Lin Yi in surprise, she never expected that this young man who looked thin and thin would have such great ambitions in his heart.

"Qi, the origin of heaven and earth, the outline of all things, the parents of change, the origin of life and death......"

Lin Yi talked eloquently, secretly thinking in his heart that if he could really carry forward the Great Dao of Qi Cultivation in this world, the position of the Hundred Sages "Yi Zi" of the Hundred Sons would have to be replaced by someone else.

The more Concubine Yuan listened, the more the divine light in her eyes grew. It seems that a new door has opened in front of you, and behind you is an incomparably magical, uncharted world.

Suddenly, Concubine Yuan raised her head to look at the sky and shouted, "Huh? It's getting late, I'm going back. Tu Lao, let's talk to Mr. Lin. Mr. Lin is a trustworthy person, I will come to see you again. ”

Before the words fell, she jumped into the body, and the person was thirty steps away, and a few jumped and disappeared into the mountains and forests.

Concubine Yuan actually said that she would leave, without the slightest bit of mud and water, and it was clean and neat.

Lin Yi looked at the distant back of Concubine Yuan, and said secretly in his heart: "Concubine Yuan, this flower, has not been harmed by Emperor Qiandi yet, do you want to strike first, the identity of the imperial concubine is more exciting than the princess." ”

Well, it's all the fault of the vain.

"Sir, let's take a tour of my library." Tu Lao seemed to want to find someone to show off his book collection, and after talking for two or three sentences, he immediately invited Lin Yi to visit his book collection in the stone cave.

The place where the fox tribe hides books is a stone cave in the south of the valley, and it is also the place where the foxes live, the stone cave is big and wide, there are five or six hundred steps in a square circle, and the height is also five or six people high, after walking in, it is like a palace, and it does not feel restrained at all.

There are many small holes in the stone wall of the stone cave, and on the small holes, oil lamps are lit one by one, and this oil does not know what kind of oil it is, with this fragrance, but there is no smoke. The light is also bright, and the fire does not shake.

And the stone cave is all surrounded by wooden bookshelves, and there are volumes of books on the shelves, all kinds, there are large books, small books, manuscripts, lithographs, woodcut books, paper is also various, there are bamboo paper, sandalwood paper, silk books, parchment rolls, and even Danshu iron coupons!

Four walls, dozens of large bookshelves, under the corners of the four walls, there are countless yellowed books stacked. There are mutilated ancient books, and there are scriptures.

This book full of stone chambers, conservatively estimated, is as many as 100,000 volumes.

Lin Yi glanced at it and saw that all the books were put together, and there was no classification. It's like a big nouveau riche, who has become rich, and wants to decorate his home as a scholarly door, and instead spends money to buy a lot of books and place them indiscriminately.

He walked to a large bookshelf, pulled out a book, opened it, it was a Buddhist scripture, woodcut printing, and there was a long seal on the back, the seal was "Great Zen Temple", it was an ancient book, and it was worth a lot of money when sold in a bookstore.

Later, a few more books were flipped through, and the back of the books was also engraved with the seal of "Great Zen Temple".

"Great Zen Temple." Lin Yi sighed slightly.

Zhongzhou Dachan Temple, located in the middle of the Daqian Dynasty, is a thousand-year-old temple, the peak to the extreme, many books have recorded the grandeur of this temple.

It is said that this temple, the main hall layer by layer, every morning, the little monk who gives incense to the Buddha and Bodhisattva has to ride a horse to run over. So there is a saying of "running horses and lighting incense".

At the same time, this temple is also a holy place for martial arts, a holy place for cultivation, and a holy place for wealth.

Buddhist temples do not need to pay taxes, there are many fields, and incense is at its peak, accumulating for thousands of years, and the wealth is comparable to the country.

It's a pity that 20 years ago, because the Great Zen Temple contacted the old people of the previous dynasty to rebel, it was cleared by the army, and the thousand-year-old temple was burned, and the treasure was scraped away. It is said that the finances of the Daqian Dynasty have since become unprecedentedly stable.

The rise and fall of success or failure is really fantastic.

Throughout the ages, there has never been an eternal protagonist in the world.

But this is also normal, monks are different from Taoist priests.

Buddhism has a strict organization, strict precepts, from the very beginning to the believers to escape into the empty door as the goal, to live in the monastery, in fact, there is a large amount of land tax exemption and tax avoidance, so that the imperial court lost a large number of people and taxes.

Whether it was the destruction of the Great Chan Temple, the holy land of Buddhism, or the destruction of Buddhism several times in the history of China on the earth, in the final analysis, it was the development and growth of Buddhism, which had seriously damaged the interests of the imperial court.

In fact, those who admired metaphysics and focused on the Tao practiced at home, no different from ordinary people, still married and had children, paid food and taxes, and had no privileges.

There are few people who are really monks, live in Taoist temples, and are pure and solitary.