Chapter 1 Shangqing Ancient Town

Longhu Mountain is the "ancestral garden" of Taoism is a heavenly master faction, formerly known as Yunjin Mountain, the peaks stretch for dozens of miles, the dragon and the tiger are in the country, the shandan water is green, and the spirituality is full. Since Zhang Daoling in Longhu Mountain cultivation alchemy, starting from the fourth generation of the late Han Dynasty Heavenly Master Zhang Sheng, the past generations of Heavenly Master Hua lived here, guarding Longhu Mountain to find immortals, sitting on the Qing Palace to perform and teach, living in the Heavenly Master's Mansion Self-cultivation, hereditary Taoist 63 generations, enjoying the worship and canonization of the past dynasties, the official to a product, a very human minister, to this day, still not broken.

Maoshan and the Heavenly Master, a small hidden in the city, a big hidden in the court, so in terms of orthodoxy and power, the Maoshan Sect can't catch up.

It is worth mentioning that the same as the Maoshan Sect, the Heavenly Master Dao is divided into two sects, the north and the south, and more than a dozen sects, such as Li Jiahu's daughter Xue Rui and Qianyang Religious Affairs Bureau Hu Wenfei all belong to different mountains.

However, after the experience of the fire of the new era, especially the four old and ......, the so-called "South Zhang and North Kong" mansions have followed the laws of market economy and opened up into tourist attractions; Above the court, there are also many people who judge the level by strength and relationship, so whether it is the Maoshan faction or the Longhu Mountain lineage, the disciples in the door all serve in the relevant departments all over the country, and the strength is staggered, regardless of the equal, and work together for a harmonious and stable situation.

On December 24, 2008, I came to Shangqing Ancient Town in Guixi with a lewd Taoist with a dull plumage and a hen-like plump.

Stepping on the ancient street paved with the cobblestones in the Luxi River, looking at the weaving tourists and the occasional Taoist who pass by by in a staggered manner, looking at the pebbles on the ground that are arranged in the shape of Tai Chi or Bagua, smooth and round, flat and long, looking at the dazzling Taoist utensils and incense, the typical Taoist architectural styles such as heavy eaves, Danying, Tongbi, Zhu Fei, etc., all of which render the Taoist culture here vividly and vividly.

We walked through this ancient street that was built in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, passed by the Taoist ancestral garden, the Tianzun Mansion of the Heavenly Master's Mansion, and came to the rows of stilted buildings along the river and between the boat port, and saw the lonely fishing boats on the cold Luxi River.

The stakes are very high, and before I came here, I had already contacted Senior Brother Chen Zhicheng through the miscellaneous hair path.

As the introducer of my entry into the relevant departments (although he is only a contract worker and a supernumerary), the senior brother is naturally my number one backer, and he has a close relationship with the miscellaneous hairy path, and in terms of position, the senior brother is naturally on my side. However, the senior brother is busy with affairs, and he has been on a field trip in Lebanon recently, so he can't come back to deal with it personally, and because someone is watching, his main relationship in the country can't be touched, so everything still has to rely on ourselves and Zhao Zhonghua's mediation and help.

However, he spoke, saying that he was just a disciple in Longhu Mountain, although he did it, if something happened, he would just carry it for us.

But it's no wonder that the senior brother is unhappy in his heart, this guy with the name of "Qingxu" is almost the same as the name of their ancestor "Xuqing Daoist", I don't know if Lu Dao is intentional or not. But this charge of blaspheming his ancestors must have been detained in his head.

We were going to do it secretly, but this time with the tough attitude of the senior brother as a guarantee, Zhao Zhonghua, Cao Yanjun and others were able to put aside all their worries and throw off their arms to come over to help.

After waiting for a while by the quaint stilted building by the Luxi River, a man in a trench coat wearing a sauce-red scarf and sunglasses greeted us. I looked at the half of my face covered by the wide sunglasses, and it was really Cao Yanjun's kid, so I laughed and said, "Why do you make it look like you're doing underground work?" Cao Yanjun said that it is not an underground work, come with me first, and we will find a place to talk.

So we followed, Cao Yanjun is a local, familiar with the shape of the road, turned around, came to a teahouse, and went straight to the box.

After waiting for the waiter to put the tea, melons and fruits in place, and turned to leave, Cao Yanjun told us that this town is the base camp of the Heavenly Master's Dao, and there are dark lines everywhere. I looked around the quaint teahouse and wondered, saying that if this is the case, why did you bring us here?

Cao Yanjun waved his hand and said that it didn't matter, this tearoom was opened by his third uncle, and the safety was guaranteed.

After that, he invited us to drink tea first, saying that this is the scary fragrance planted in the Qinglin place on Longhu Mountain, although the tea leaves are all broken and not famous, but there is a strong aroma, very refreshing. Where do we have the elegance of tasting tea, hurriedly drank two sips of tea soup that burned people's mouths, and then asked him where Qingxu lived. Cao Yanjun shook his head and said that although Qingxu had an old house in the south of the town and more than a dozen people in his family, when he came back from Southern Province yesterday, he had already quietly inquired from the side, and the neighbors around him said that he did not live at home.

When we came, Zhao Zhonghua had already told me that the reason why Cao Yanjun would spare no effort to help us was not only because of his face in the Black Hand Twin Cities, but also because he himself had some grudges against Qingxu.

This Qingxu was forty years old, and he was also a big family in this ancient town of Shangqing earlier, and his common name was Li Mingban, and he entered Longhu Mountain to practice since he was a child. This Heavenly Master Dao Dragon and Tiger Mountain is divided into two doors, all the children start from the outer door, if the qualification is good, then enter the inner door by the master to lead, if there is no achievement, then a few years out of the door, return to the world. Cao Yanjun turned twenty-eight years old this year, and he was also an excellent seedling in the outer gate in his early years, and he is very likely to enter the inner gate, inherit the mantle, and become a true disciple. However, because in the mountains, there was some conflict with Qingxu, who had been a disciple of the inner door, and he was designed to be framed, and no one knew what it was, but he didn't get into it anymore, and he barely entered the religious bureau to make trouble, and he still regrets it.

How can we not keep in mind things that stand in the way of people's progress, such as the revenge of taking a wife and killing a father?

Cao Yanjun's mind has not yet been broad-minded to the point of Taoist Buddha, so he has always been obsessed. As soon as I heard Zhao Zhonghua mention it, he immediately asked for annual leave and returned home, called visiting relatives, but in fact, he was helping us find trouble for Qingxu. And Qingxu is frivolous and impetuous, and he has also offended many people, so that Cao Yanjun can quickly find out a lot of useful news.

Zhao Zhonghua had already received the news from his senior brother Wan Zhong, saying that Qingxu had indeed returned to Guixi, but after Zhilu Dao exposed the news, his whereabouts became erratic, and few people knew, but Cao Yanjun directly pointed out to us the three places where Qingxu might be hiding, which shows that he has done his homework.

In the teahouse, Cao Yanjun explained a lot of information about Qingxu to us.

For example, this guy is extremely lustful, always "messing with flowers and grass" everywhere, often indulging in the land of fireworks, and lingering.

But this guy's talisman is deeply rooted in the true legend of Mochizuki's real person, and the effect is very obvious, and he often takes these talismans to the black market to sell them to maintain his luxurious and lascivious life. He has an extremely irritable temperament, often does things with others when he disagrees, and likes to come to the yin, and he will repay him, bullying the weak, and even Wan Zhong, a neutral person, talks about him, and describes him as a mad dog that bites people indiscriminately. However, on the contrary, his attainments in the path of the talisman are amazing, and the efficiency of communication with the gods is also high, so that there are many people in the door who ask for him, and the elders above also tolerate him with one eye closed.

For example, this guy didn't want to practice in the Taoist temple, so his master asked him to return to his home and become a layman at home.

For example, some of Qingxu's unique personal hobbies......

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After talking about this, putting aside my temperament, I suddenly found that there are many striking similarities between the miscellaneous hair Xiaodao and that Qingxu: the same famous teacher, the same talent, the same free and uninhibited, and the same good at talismans...... There are too many similarities, so that the miscellaneous Xiaodao himself is aware of it, and he looks disdainful. However, Miscellaneous Xiaodao is a lazy person, open-minded, and will not fight with ordinary people because of some disputes of will.

If you are in a good mood and you pull his ear and scold him all morning, he will not be angry.

I've always called him "Miscellaneous Hairy Path", and I haven't seen him seriously stretch his face a few times. This point shows that Xiao Keming's so-called red dust refining heart has reached a certain realm, and because he let go, he is liberated. At the same time, he is still an old-fashioned and warm-hearted person, emphasizing righteousness and feelings, but these are things that he can't let go, and they are also obstacles that he can't get rid of in his life.

We talked about four o'clock in the afternoon, Cao Yanjun took us to a nearby hotel to settle down, and after having dinner together, he was going home to prepare some things, and took us to the first place to find Qingxu at seven o'clock in the evening. If there are clues, just knock the sticks and solve them decisively.

After Cao Yanjun left, Zamao Xiaodao and I began to pack our luggage.

We came in a hurry this time, and we didn't make any preparations, that is, the things that went to Padang, the thunderbolt peach stick on the miscellaneous hairy road, had been sent to my home through the logistics company, and my uncle helped him contact the sword-making master; As for Zhou Lin's matter, we had already talked to the Xiao family about it as early as during the recuperation period. Knowing that Zhou Lin had fallen into the devil and might join the Evil Spirit Sect, the third uncle, who had some thoughts of the master-apprentice relationship in his heart, said that if he encountered it again, he would be killed.

The uncle of the Xiao family also began to officially reward Zhou Lin through the relationship within the organization.

We waited in our hotel room until seven o'clock, and Cao Yanjun called and said let's go downstairs. When we came downstairs, we found him driving a black SUV waiting for us, and after getting in the car, Cao Yanjun told us to go to Yingtan city now, to a very famous bar. There, you might be able to find Qingxu.