Zhu Fugui left home when he was young, originally from Dayangshu Town, Dongting Lake District, and later drifted to the northwest to join the gold rush team. After years of hard work, he has accumulated more than 30 men and established Suzaku Hall. He was weak and didn't dare to fight with those big gangs, so he shrank in a barren stream in the Kunlun Mountains to pan for golden sand. Unexpectedly, one day he actually found a dog's head gold, which caused a catastrophe, and as a result, Suzaku Hall was destroyed and the creek was also forcibly occupied, and he was injured and had to return to his hometown.

When I was young, I left home and my eldest returned, my childhood friends didn't know each other, my parents' graves were arched, and my relatives had withered. Fortunately, the ancestral homestead was still there, so he built a straw hut on it, pretending to be a merchant to approach the young man named Man Jianghong and Grandma Mei, who raised him. Grandma Mei is still a distant relative who has not come out of Wufu, when he was a child, he wanted to call his aunt, and it was more convenient to act after recognizing his relatives.

He was alone, only occasionally resting in the big poplar tree, spending half of his time in Hezhou, and spending most of his time outside, and no one knew what he was doing.

He decided that the crow would not deceive, and thought that he had found the legendary "Son of God" in the rivers and lakes. But it backfired, Man Jianghong's birthday was two months before Christmas, and he was in poor health and couldn't practice martial arts.

He is a martial arts master, and he guesses that there are countless tiny holes in this child's meridians, which causes the true qi to be unable to operate and store, which is the legendary "big funnel". This type of person is often congenitally weak and lacks vitality, not only can not refine the true qi of the inner family, but also think that the external kung fu can live without disease and disaster to become an adult.

In the past three years, Zhu Fugui didn't know how many rare medicinal materials he had found and how many nutritional supplements he had brought, but after Man Jianghong ate it, his physique had only improved slightly, he was still as thin as bean sprouts, he was growing quite fast, and his head did not look big in comparison, and he returned to the appearance of a normal teenager.

The big yellow dog in Grandma Mei's house is famous far and wide and is a master of hunting...... No, it's a high dog that hunts, and when you go into the water, you will be able to catch fish, and you will be able to catch rabbits when you enter the forest, so there is absolutely no shortage of meat in Manjianghong. This kid eats a lot of food, he has to eat four or five meals a day, and he has to lose rhubarb, otherwise Grandma Mei can't afford to smash the pot and sell iron. Zhu Fugui saw Man Jianghong eat a big soft-shelled turtle with ten catties in one meal, and circled around him several times in wonder, thinking that ten catties of meat is a lot bigger, where did it go?

Although the God-man cultivation plan failed, the two were like father and son after three years of getting along. Zhu Fugui feels that it is a great blessing in life to accompany the child to grow up slowly. In the past few days, I heard that a Taoist priest was looking for a thirteen-year-old boy, and he was afraid that "the city gate would catch fire and affect the fish in the pond", so he hurriedly left overnight, but he didn't expect the other party's precautions to be so strict.

In the end, he was used to living a peaceful life away from the rivers and lakes, and lost the alertness that he had exercised on the line between life and death. But it was useless to regret the matter at this point, so he had to shake his head helplessly.

"I'm not leaving!" the young man wiped his eyes with a sour nose.

After listening to the young man's stubborn and sad answer, Zhu Fugui smiled and said:

"There is no turning back when you open the bow, and you will definitely not be able to return it, but it will be noticed by those people, and something will happen if you have nothing to do. While there are only two people here who can't stop my uncle, we rush over with a knife. Leave it alone, the faster you run, the better. There's rhubarb following you...... Hey, where's the rhubarb?"

The young man turned around and didn't see the big yellow dog that had been inseparable since he was a child, squatting down like a scoundrel, his body trembling, and said in a trembling voice: "If I don't leave, let them catch me, anyway, I'm not a son of God!"

"Naive, you say no, don't you? Take you away and study it, make people don't look like people and ghosts, dissect them in pieces, and then come to a conclusion and say, 'It's not fucking again,' do you think it's useful?"

Zhu Fugui's voice was full of emotion, and when he saw that the young man's tears were flowing out, his hand gently fell on his shoulder, and he made a grimace and said, "Don't worry, Uncle is an old sparrow in Dongting Lake, what kind of wind and waves have you never seen?"

He leaned close to Man Jianghong's ear, lowered his voice and said mysteriously:

"Uncle has a background, how could he fall into this little gutter. I'll tell you a big secret, but don't tell it. Uncle had met an immortal back then, and he was planted with a life-saving sword qi in his body. In case the fight can't be beaten, Uncle will sacrifice his sword qi to extinguish these miscellaneous pieces, hehe. You can rest assured, Uncle is fine, you will distract Uncle by being here. Besides, these two people must have helpers, if you don't run first, you won't be able to run after the helpers come. You really have to wait to cross the river, and if you see that the situation is not good, run south, and go to Dongfang City to wait for your uncle to come and meet. Don't worry, Uncle is running fast. The Divine Destiny Bird, flying in the fire, the legendary Vermilion Bird in the rivers and lakes is me, they can't catch up, hahaha!"

This search for the Divine Son is definitely a huge and incomparable force, even the old sparrow in Dongting Lake doesn't know if he can escape the net!

Zhu Fuguila stood up, and his heart was filled with sadness. Gently stroking his immature and thin shoulders, hearing his heavy and rapid snort, a song "Resentment of the King and Sun" poured into his mind for no reason.

"The wind on the lake is vast, autumn is twilight, and the red fragrance is scarce. The water and mountains are close to people, inexhaustible, infinitely good.

The lotus seeds have become old lotus leaves, washed with clear dew, and apple blossom grass. Sleeping sand gulls and herons do not look back, they seem to hate, and people return early. ”

He has been in the rivers and lakes since he was a child, and he doesn't have much culture, but he has listened to the opera of loyal ministers and good generals, talented and beautiful people, and he is an old-fashioned person, a low-level person who has been abandoned by modern society. Although he has seen the lights and wine, and has also experienced the light and sword shadows, he has been restless and floating, and only in the past three years in the countryside seems to have found a home and found peace. It's just a pity that good days will come to an end.

In the past, listening to the song "Resentment of the King and Sun" was nothing more than to feel some lakes and mountains, such as autumn and autumn, and beautiful women were picturesque. At this moment, facing the threat of life and death, I recalled this song at first glance, but I felt the pain and sorrow under that relaxed and leisurely background. Now the lotus seed is not completed, the lotus leaf will be old, what can I do about it?

"Brother Jiang, you are a candidate for the son of God, don't be so unproductive. In the future, if you walk the rivers and lakes alone, remember your uncle's words, moral articles are all farts, and the world is not as big as your life! In the past, you only walked to the big poplar tree at the farthest, and you have never even been to Changde or Yueyang, this time you have to seize the opportunity to see the outside world. Hehe, don't play tricks, stand up, bow forward and arrow back, and adjust your breathing. Preparation...... Run!"

Zhu Fugui pushed, and the two figures separated in an instant.

After a few seconds of hesitation, he slid down the embankment. The other rushed straight forward, like a galloping horse. The grass and loess rubble on the embankment were trampled and splashed, as if forming a soil dragon silently pounced on the front.

The grass on the slope is lush and flat, low and creeping to the ankle of an adult, and dotted with waist-high thatch and shrubs. Man Jianghong rushed down the slope and turned to the ferry, and only ran more than 30 steps when he heard a shouting from the embankment.

"Who?"

"Hey, Temple!"

There was a muffled sound, and it seemed that an object was thrown up and fell to the ground in a high-speed collision.

Immediately afterwards, there was a continuous sound of fists and palms, the sound of wind on clothes, and the sound of footsteps.

"Bang" a scream, it's gunshot!

Man Jianghong couldn't help but look up, only to see the two of them wielding sharp blades to defend back to back, and a thin figure jumped like flying, revolving around the two people like a marquee, and the two of them shook with a blow every few seconds, and the defensive circle shrank by one point.

The young man couldn't help but feel hot in his chest.

Uncle Zhu is really a big master, Oye!

The gunshots in the quiet night were particularly harsh, shaking the "buzzing" of the tiled houses in the distance. Before the aftermath subsided, a long howl came from the direction of Shawan Village, five or six miles away, high-pitched and unstoppable, like the Yangtze River, the waves were rolling endlessly, and it seemed to be close to half a mile away in just a few breaths.

The whistling stopped.

Three corpses were scattered on the embankment four miles away, and the smell of blood was thick in the air. One corpse was still convulsing, one was lodging, a bloody hole appeared on its back, and another body had almost dropped its head, leaving only a thin layer of skin on the back of the neck attached to the neck, and the trachea was "swishing" and blistering with blood.

The two Tsing Yi Taoists stopped, and one of the young Taoists bent down to examine for a while, then turned around and said:

"Master, the broken neck is irregular, there are bite marks, and there are paw prints on the body, which was killed by a demon beast. ”

The middle-aged Taoist priest with his back in the dust had a beardless face, frowned and looked around, and said:

"This demon beast killed three martial artists in an instant, which was extraordinary, and there was actually a smell of righteousness and light mixed with the demonic aura. Zhao Da Zhao Ershou ferry, one is a peak martial artist and the other is a middle-level martial artist, and he was actually forced to shoot, but he was afraid that the demon beast would go over there after killing these three people, if there was another person, it would also be a master at the palace level. The gunshot only rang out once, but I was afraid that there was no chance to fire a second shot, and I couldn't resist it. ”

"Master, as soon as your old man's Five Thunder Fa comes out, no matter what demon beasts are, they will be ambushed. As long as the martial arts people have not reached the realm of the grandmaster, they are not like local chickens and dogs, and they will be slaughtered if they are slaughtered. ”

"With a master escorting the demon beast to intercept it, we are likely to have found the main owner. Hurry to the ferry, be careful!"

The young Taoist priest stepped seven or eight meters with a kick, as fast as an arrow. The middle-aged Taoist floated behind, his body seemed to be slow but fast, as if he was walking against the wind and his feet were not dusty.

Man Jianghong panted and ran to the berth, and picked up the cable tied to the pile without waiting for the chest tightness to subside slightly, but he couldn't untie it in a panic. At this moment, a huge fluffy dog head poked out from behind him, and in one bite, it bit off the hemp rope as thick as a baby's forearm.

Rhubarb! Man Jianghong stroked it in surprise and found that its body was slimy, and it was black in the moonlight.

Rhubarb arched him towards the river with some agitation, and jumped on the boat after him.

Man Jianghong still wanted to wait for Zhu Fugui to go together, so he picked up the oars and didn't row away, looking up.

On the embankment, by the time the two Taoists arrived, the battle was over. More than twenty meters away, Zhao Da and Zhao Er were lying there, without struggling or groaning, and it seemed that they were completely dead. On the river, a young man stood at the bow of the boat, a big dog crouched, and the water slowly carried the boat to the center of the river, two or three meters from the shore.

"You killed those two people?" The young Taoist priest looked coldly at the thin man in front of him who was panting and holding a sharp knife, and didn't bother to go over to check.

"Idiot, who else is there but Lao Tzu?" the bloodied man raised his left thumb and raised the tip of his nose and sneered proudly.

The young Taoist priest's breath fluctuated for a while, and he shouted, "Who are you?"

"Tsk, you little Taoist priest is very unprofessional, you should call me a believer or a layman. You ask me who I am? If you don't tell me who you are first, how can I tell you who I am? Could it be that I made alchemy at a young age and refined my braincase?"

Zhu Fugui pretended to be posturing and continued to mock slowly:

"Are you arresting people and killing people, are you looking for the Son of God, don't you want to worship the 'Three Qings' Taoist Ancestor? I said how could Lao Tzu 'turn into three Qings in one gas', it turns out that you brutes who betray their teachers and deceive their ancestors have come out of the seat, and it is strange if you are not angry to death!"

He had just eliminated the two martial artists who were guarding the ferry, and the two Taoist priests arrived. This young Taoist cultivator is slightly inferior to himself, and the middle-aged Taoist is much stronger. Jiang Ge'er's ship has just left the shore, and only by delaying time to provoke the other party can he find a glimmer of life. One wrong step and one wrong step, the other party's strength exceeded expectations, if I knew earlier, I would rather take a long detour to Jinguidu to Jingzhou, and then turn south to Yueyang, and take the high-speed rail from Yueyang to the east. Of course, there will definitely be people squatting in that direction, but it is sparsely populated, and it will definitely not be so tight.

Sanqing refers to the Yuan Shi Tianzun, Lingbao Tianzun, and Daode Tianzun (Taishang Laojun), which is the supreme god worshiped by Taoism, and is said to be the ancestor of Taoism, Lao Tzu.

Although the man insulted the godfather, the middle-aged Taoist priest was good at cultivating his qi and kung fu, and waved his hand to stop the apprentice who was about to move. He slanted down the embankment and slowly walked in the boat, he couldn't escape anyway, but he didn't care about the man's delaying tactics. This afternoon, they broke a few arms in a row, and even if they were alarmed by the gunfire, they would never have the courage to come over and probe their brains at night. By releasing the qi machine just now, it was certain that there was no one else within a radius of a hundred meters, and there was only a beginner hall in front of him, so there was really no need to worry. There is only one man and one dog on the boat, where will the monster hide?

"The masters of the Heavenly Master Dao, the Shenxiao Sect, and the Lingbao Sect have arrived in Dongting, and you have created evil in the name of Taoism, and you don't want to escape!"

"Hahaha, you want to trick us and others to protect that kid on the river. Carving insect skills, what a lot of care!"

The middle-aged Taoist laughed and said contemptuously: "Even if the three sects of mages are all here, what is it? This Taoist is just a branch of us that has flowed into the world!"

Zhu Fugui was really taken aback this time, and took two steps back.

"You, you're Qi Refiners?"

Taoism sprouted from the Spring and Autumn Period, until Zhang Daoling of the Western Han Dynasty founded the "Five Bucket Rice Sect" (that is, the later famous Heavenly Master Dao), which was upgraded from a school to a religion, and it was called Taoism. Before Zhang Daoling, cultivators had not yet created magical powers such as alchemy, talismans, and exorcism, but absorbed wind and drank dew, cultivated the Yuan Shen, and were collectively known as pre-Qin Qi refiners.

These qi refiners have vast magical powers, they can fly to the sky, call for wind and rain, move mountains and reclaim the sea, can star and weft, divination gossip, know what is happening before and after them, and can chase the legendary immortals.

For example, Jiang Ziya destroyed the Shang and sealed the gods, for example, Guiguzi lived a thousand years old, and his disciples Su Qin, Zhang Yi, Sun Bin, Pang Juan, Mao Sui, etc. were covered with rain and clouds during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. For example, the "real person" mentioned in the "Huainanzi Spiritual Training" says: "There is no place to live, there is nowhere to go, its movement is formless, its body is static, it exists and dies, it is born and dead, it goes in and out of the world, and it serves ghosts and gods." For example, Zhuangzi, one of the ancestors of the Taoist family, once described the goddess in "Leisurely Travel", saying: "The skin is like ice and snow, and it is like a virgin." Suck the wind and drink the dew, and do not eat grains. Ride the clouds, fly the dragon, and swim beyond the four seas. ”

Taoism extracted the Lao Zhuang doctrine from the cauldron of refining qi as the ancestor, and carried forward the new, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a branch from the source.