The old master said that Mo Liuzi's original surname was Cao, and he was the head of the old Cao family a hundred years ago, and he became the head of the Cao family and the elder of Baiwu Mountain when he was less than ten years old.

As for why Mo Liuzi left Baiwu Mountain, and what kind of opportunity he entered Buddhism, the old master couldn't say clearly, he just heard that Mo Liuzi had been to Lingyan Temple a year before he disappeared, and that time, Mo Liuzi lived in Lingyan Temple for more than half a month, and after that, he lost interest in the power of Baiwu Mountain, and disappeared a year later.

After Mo Liuzi's disappearance, Baiwushan mobilized all the forces he could to find his whereabouts, but except for some scattered rumors, there were almost no clues.

The old master said that after Mo Liuzi left Baiwu Mountain, he often corresponded with a fortune teller, and most of the rumors about Mo Liuzi also came from him.

A hundred years ago, this fortune teller was also a celebrity in the divination world, but very few people knew what his real name was, and people in the industry called him "Mr. Yijie". So he got the nickname "Mr. Yijie".

Mr. Yijie has said a lot about Mo Liuzi's deeds, but I don't know if he didn't say it in detail enough, or the old master didn't listen to it all, most of the stories sound fragmented, without a beginning or an end.

However, before Mo Liuzi went to the mouth of the Yellow River, he lived with this Mr. Yijie in Laoyang Mountain, and the old master was relatively complete about what happened during that time.

It is said that during that time, Mo Liuzi also encountered a civet cat, given that Laoyang Mountain is very close to Bohai Bay, when I heard this story, I began to suspect that maybe the civet that Mo Liuzi met at the beginning was also inextricably linked with the black cat raised by the old man.

Since the old master always talked about this past at that time, he always said something east and west, and there was no point at all, and it took me a lot of effort to make the whole thing clear.

To be honest, I finally understand now why the old master has a good way of doing things, but he can't teach a good apprentice, he is easy to lose the point when he talks for a long time, and even forgets what he said before, and repeats it again and again in the end, which is very annoying.

By the way, now the old master's cultivation has recovered, but listening to Yan Xiaotian, he has also seen it since the failure of the last breakthrough, and no longer pursues great improvement in cultivation.

Okay, let's get down to business. Let's talk about Mo Liuzi, the incident that the old master said also happened eighty years ago, I expected that Mo Liuzi should have met the civet cat, and then took Yin Yu to the mouth of the Yellow River.

The reason for this incident is that Mo Liuzi went to Laoyangshan to find a gentleman to discuss chess skills, the two of them are old friends, and the relationship is extraordinarily good.

Mr. Yijie said to Mo Liuzi that there is a custom of worshiping cats as gods, not only worship cats, but also many people have the habit of raising cats, a few years ago there was a famine in the village, and the villagers would rather eat the trees on the mountain than fight the idea of those cats.

After the famine passed, perhaps the cat god was touched and moved his disciples and grandchildren to Laoyang Mountain, so that birds and beasts could no longer be seen in the mountains, and at night, there would be a series of cats from time to time.

Mo Liuzi had also heard in his early years that some cats were born with spirits, and even some old cats who had cultivated to be able to communicate with ghosts and gods, but if he talked about worshipping cats as gods, he had heard of them for the first time in his life.

Mr. Yijie said that the local custom of worshiping cats as gods began to have at the end of the Ming Dynasty, when the army was in chaos, after the army, the fertile fields became wasteland, the local people had no crops, cut off the way to live, and then a big insect came up on Laoyang Mountain, and it did not know where to get the food to distribute to the villagers, after that, the big insect lived on the top of the mountain, and the villagers regarded it as the mountain god.

The big worm is the tiger.

Mo Liuzi was very curious, so he asked Mr. Yijie, since it was the tiger that saved the villagers, why did the locals worship the cat instead of the tiger?

Mr. Ichisuke said that although the thing looked like a big insect, but there was only a tiger stripe missing on the brow, and the tiger had the word "king" on its head, but it did not, so some people said that it was not a big insect that saved the villagers, but a big cat that became a sperm.

In addition, since the big insect lives on the top of the mountain, the local cat cubs can often be seen, these cats are not afraid of people, they run to the village to find food during the day, and at night, they all return to the top of the mountain.

The custom of the villagers to worship the cat god began after the appearance of wild cats.

Speaking of which, the big cat who saved the villagers in the early years did not stay in the mountains for long, and after it left, it was a black cat with jade on its head that took over the cats.

The cat looked smaller than ordinary domestic cats, dark throughout, but there was a tuft of golden hair on its abdomen, which grew down the neck to the tail, and at night, the strand of golden hair could still glow, like a golden thread, and the piece of jade on its forehead, which also glowed like a night pearl at night, and looked like a third eye from a distance.

I heard that during the Kangxi period, there was a person named Zhang Chongwu in the village who met an evil spirit on the night road and was scared to lose his soul, and then the black cat sat at the entrance of the village, barking again and again, and called Zhang Chongwu's soul back.

The people in the village just thought that the black cat worked, but no one knew where it came from.

But the villagers don't know where it came from, but Mr. Ichisuke knows some inside information.

He was a fortune teller, who traveled all year round, ate all over the world, and heard strange rumors all over the world, and one year he passed through the South China Sea, and heard of a strange thing.

It is said that in the early years of the Ming Dynasty, there was a wandering monk in the South China Sea, this old monk usually does not recite the Buddha's name, nor is he fasting like the monk in the temple, he wanders around the coastal area all day long, but he does not go to the fate, he drinks the stream water when he is thirsty, and when he is hungry, he drives a small boat and goes to the sea to catch some seafood to satisfy his stomach.

A few fishermen saw that he was wandering around all day, and out of curiosity, they asked him what he was doing, and the wandering monk told the fishermen that he was looking for a jade, and said that if he really found the jade one day, he would go to the dragon king to pay off his debts and never come back.

Hearing the monk say this, the fishermen just felt strange, but no one understood what he meant.

Until one year, the sea rose without warning, and the fishermen did not dare to go out to sea again, so they waited for the sea to calm down day by day, but the wind and waves showed no sign of abating, but became more and more violent.

It was also when the wind and waves were at their most fierce that someone saw the monk running to the beach in a panic and driving his small bamboo raft into the sea.

He ran as fast as he could, and several young men tried to stop him, but they couldn't catch up.

The monk walked all night, and the wind and waves continued all night, and the next morning, the wind and waves stopped without warning, and when the fishermen were about to pack up their fishing gear and go out to sea, they saw the monk's bamboo raft slowly floating back from a distance.

Just like the monk said, once he found the jade, he never came back, there was no monk on the bamboo raft, but there was a black cat with a dark body, and on the forehead of the black cat, there was also a piece of jade embedded in it, looking from a distance, it seemed to have three eyes.

The black cat had a majesty on it, and the people who rushed to the sea looked at it from afar, but no one dared to approach, and when they saw the bamboo raft float to the shore, the black cat jumped off the raft, and then disappeared without a trace.

The locals never saw the wandering monk again, nor did they see the black cat again, but they left such a legend in the local area.

Such an old story has gradually lost its original charm in the polishing of the years, and the locals only regard it as a rumor, and no one will verify its authenticity.

When Mr. Yijie heard this story, he didn't take it seriously, until he came to the foot of Laoyang Mountain and heard that there was also a black cat with a jade on his head in this place, and he faintly felt that the story that came out of the fishing village in the South China Sea was true.

Mo Liuzi was a little unimpressed by Mr. Yijie's remarks, not to mention how the wandering monk got such a cat back from the sea, just talking about the distance between the South China Sea and the Bohai Sea, how many miles, even if this cat is magical, relying on four meat legs alone, it is unlikely to travel such a long distance and run to Laoyangshan to settle down.

However, he was very curious, why did the local villagers worship cats as gods, could it be that there were really gods on this mountain?

With this curiosity, Mo Liuzi stayed in Laoyang Mountain, and he also wanted to see what was on the top of Laoyang Mountain.

Mr. Ichisuke told him that if he wanted to explore the magic of Laoyang Mountain, he could enter the mountain in the new moon next month, when the mountain would be foggy, and if Mo Liuzi was trapped on the mountain and couldn't get out, he would have the opportunity to see the black cat.

Laoyang Mountain, although the name of the mountain has a "yang" word, but in fact it is a place with a very heavy yin energy, hearing Mr. Yijie's words, Mo Liuzi understood, the moon fogged, indicating that there are unclean things on this mountain, the so-called "trapped in the mountain", it should be said that when the fog rises in the mountains, it is likely to meet the ghost hitting the wall.

Mr. Yijie made a living by fortune-telling, but he didn't have any Taoism, he only knew that Mo Liuzi was a wild monk with all five meats, but he didn't know that he still had cultivation.

Mo Liuzi probably thought that he would come anyway, so he simply went into the mountain to have a look at the new moon, and by the way, he cleaned up the evil on the mountain, which can be regarded as saving a merit for himself.

But what he never dreamed of was that he couldn't break the ghost wall on the mountain, and finally relied on the black cat to relieve him.

On the day of the new moon, Mo Liuzi hastily ate something, and then said goodbye to Mr. Ichisuke, and went up the mountain alone, before leaving, Mr. Ichisuke handed him a pearl bracelet, and told him that if he met a black cat on the mountain, he would offer this chain to it, and said that this chain was an offering prepared by the villagers to the cat god.