In Longquan Town, in an old school that has been abandoned and not used, the young Taoist with a lotus crown on his head sits alone behind a small desk, looking at the position where Qi Jingchun stood for a long time, the Taoist was silent, and his fingers subconsciously swiped it on the table.

After coming back to his senses, Lu Shen raised his arm, and then grabbed He Xiaoliang, who left from the Kunchuan Yufeng, was directly "fished" out by him from the surging sea of clouds, even if it was a Jindan realm qi practitioner like He Xiaoliang, the thousands of miles of travel were approaching, and he felt dizzy and stumbled before he stood firm.

He Xiaoliang was solemn, his clothes were straight, he concentrated on the lake, took three steps back, and bowed to the ground, "Disciple He Xiaoliang, meet Master." ”

From a jade girl of a continent of Taoism to a disciple of the head of a Taoist sect, it is tantamount to a carp jumping over the dragon gate.

Lu Shen nodded, raised his hand and motioned for He Xiaoliang to get up, "Get up, under the poor Dao Gate, you don't have to stick to the ritual of apprenticeship, just get your mind." Most of you don't believe it now, but after getting along for a long time in the future, when you see the other five senior brothers and sisters, you will understand. Beyond the avenue, it is all vanity. ”

For the secular etiquette of Confucianism, and even the golden rules in his own Taoism, Lu Shen, who was born in the vast world and really grew up in the green world, never cared too much, or before his ascension, he was such a figure who deviated from the world, so he lived a very open and unrestrained life, and the articles he left behind were also famous for the word "leisurely".

is different from the senior brother's thoroughness, the second senior brother's proportionality, even if he is in front of the master, he doesn't pay much attention to the rules, and for this reason, he was persuaded by the senior brother, and even beaten by the second senior brother, after that, Lu Shen still went his own way, but fortunately, the master who occasionally appeared in the Little Lotus Cave didn't mind it.

Lu Shen looked at the slightly cramped young Dao Gu, and said with a smile: "Why, once I was bitten by a snake for ten years and was afraid of the well rope, I always felt that the poor Dao, who was a master, thought about giving people a trick every day? So every sentence I say, you have to think carefully and weigh carefully? Then you are wrong, too much, not good, the reason why you can become the descendant of the poor Dao this time is that you have passed three hearts in a row, first, you noticed the calculation of the poor Dao, and immediately made a decision, and quickly traced back to ask your own heart, set aside the illusion of 'match made in heaven', and caught it. The truth of 'shallow'. Once this level is passed, you will not die prematurely in Juluzhou, otherwise when you go to that place where sword cultivation is everywhere and there are as many as cow hair, everything only relies on fast swords and fists, you will eventually encounter a big setback in the future, once your mood is flawed, because your life is too smooth, it will be shattered extremely completely, and you don't need to look for your next life. ”

Lu Shen stretched out his finger and nodded at He Xiaoliang, and said with a smile: "You must know, this time Xie Shi and Da Li asked for three people, Li Xisheng didn't talk about him, Ma Kuxuan was the lucky one selected by my second senior brother, one old and one young, with the same smell, as for whether there are other insiders, there are rules in the Taoist system, and the three brothers are not allowed to deduce and calculate each other." And you, He Xiaoliang, are the candidates selected by the poor Dao, because your Dao heart is very similar to the original cultivation process of the poor Dao, breaking through the obstacles and pointing directly to the original heart. So it's much simpler than what you imagine to be a chess piece puppet or a Taoist in this battle of hundreds of schools of thought in the world. ”

"Do you really think that those old men in the Temple of Literature will not stare at Poor Dao's every move? Therefore, this is an upright and upright plan, whether you He Xiaoliang can gain a firm foothold in Juluzhou in the future and live well to the end, it only depends on your own ability, after the poor road goes to the green world, you will not deliberately take care of your disciples, the Confucian sages will not deliberately harm you, and you also have a senior brother who travels in the Middle Earth Divine Continent, and a senior sister who has experienced on the side of the Great Wall of the Long Sword, if something really happens, you can ask them for help, since you are now a fellow believer, you have the friendship of the same door...... I want to fight for a breath for the poor Dao, who is a master. ”

Speaking of this, Lu Shen smiled and said, "Don't worry, Poor Dao is not your master in the Divine Sect, and I won't ask you to be a double cultivator." ”

He Xiaoliang has become the beautiful Taoist aunt with a cool temperament again, and there are all external objects outside the avenue. She asked a question that she had been thinking about for a long time, "Does our Taoist sect master of the Qingyin world also have the secret layout of Confucian sages?"

Lu Shen laughed, "Of course, it's the same everywhere, everyone is very busy." Do you think that Ma Kuxuan, Wei Jin, Song Changjing and the like are the top heavenly pride?"

Lu Shen smiled happily, "Then you should really go to the Middle Earth Divine Continent in the future, or go to Bai Yujing in the blue world in the future, you will understand that there is always a mountain high." ”

He Xiaoliang sat behind a desk not far away, twisting her waist and limbs, just looking at Lu Shen, she frowned slightly after hearing this, as if she couldn't figure it out.

Lu Shen asked playfully, "Do you want to ask why the three sects don't just make an agreement, only develop their forces on their own territory, and squeeze out other sects' doctrines?"

He Xiaoliang nodded, this was exactly what she was thinking.

Lu Shen said with emotion: "Because now this territory is completely the largest ancient battlefield, which is the result of the sages in exchange for their lives, and we are afraid that the world will change color in the future." If you choose to rest on your laurels, or let the people below feel that the avenue is blocked, what kind of end will it be, and the world is the best proof today. ”

Lu Shen pointed casually, which was the direction of the fairy tomb in the town, "The mountains and rivers are still the same, but the once high master has been reduced to a pile of stumps and broken bones in the muddy field." ”

He Xiaoliang was a little enlightened.

Some things are too far away, obscure, and those who know are unwilling to say it, and they are not written in books, and the people of later generations are of course at a loss.

There are too many speculations, fueled by the family, the imaginative literati notes, and the history of barnyard officials who pretend to be profound, and there are countless mud and sand year after year, and I am afraid that occasionally a little bit of truth has surfaced, and they have all been quickly submerged in it, and in the end it has been regarded as a fallacy.

Lu Shen smiled, "It's far away, back to the topic." Your second level lies in the need to determine whether your trip to Kuluzhou will make you dependent on Heavenly Monarch Xie Shi, or whether you will set up your own door and open a sect. So I deliberately set a trap for you, making you think that you had given up the two right choices, and chose the most wrong decision, making you mistakenly think that you were going to pass by the Great Dao, and you would feel remorse and question your own Dao heart. ”

He Xiaoliang said calmly: "It's just by relying on the only trace of clarity left in my mind that I can pass the test." ”

Lu Shen said with a smile: "Regarding this point, Poor Dao is finally used as a finale to explain why you and Chen Ping'an were able to get married. Let's talk about the last level first, which is relatively complicated, and it is a serial pass. One word of love can be solved in all ways. ”

"Between men and women, it is the most easy to be tempted, so the poor road has been planted between your heart lake early, planted a grain of love, unconsciously, it will take root and sprout when it encounters the rain of chance, and it is incomparably swift, this is a quick method that does not enter the stream, but it works for you He Xiaoliang, not to mention the method that does not enter the stream, the poor road is used to go out, and it is the same as entering the stream. ”

"The master of the Divine Sect with the grace of master and apprentice, the amazing and brilliant contemporaries of the Fengxue Temple Wei Jin, and the market boy of Mud Bottle Lane, you have successfully broken through the first two, successfully abiding by your heart, and not moved at all. Only in the last level, because the poor road deliberately made it difficult and helped pave the way and build bridges, you He Xiaoliang fell into a dilemma, if you ......"

Lu Shen stood up, his fingers bent, and gently tapped the lotus crown that symbolized the identity of the sect, and continued: "In a daze, the Dao heart was shocked by the word Lu Shen, so he chose to walk on the path that the poor Dao helped you open up, then the poor Dao will still allow you to start a sect in Juluzhou, but it will definitely not accept you as a disciple." ”

"How difficult it is to accept apprentices. ”

Lu Shen restrained his smile, "If you want to become Lu Shen's disciple, you should have the idea that one day, my Dao method is higher than Lu Shen, and the road is longer than Lu Shen." What kind of scriptures are deviant, what scriptures are just written by the sages, what kind of way is the rebellion? The Tao is just the path taken by the sages, why don't you try it yourself?"

Rao is a cold-tempered character like He Xiaoliang, and his heart is full of horror and respect.

She stood up and saluted respectfully to Lu Shenbi: "I hope that one day, disciple He Xiaoliang will be able to sit at the same table with Master and sit and talk." ”

Lu Shen sighed: "It's a little difficult. ”

He Xiaoliang sat down again and asked, "What is the explanation of Master's so-called 'closing'? The relationship between the disciple and Chen Ping'an also has a deep meaning?"

Lu Shen nodded and said, "Of course." If you are an ordinary person, you are not He Xiaoliang, he is not Chen Ping'an, then Poor Dao has worked hard this time to pull the red line, and he can't see the wisdom at all. Qi Jingchun's chaotic mandarin duck spectrum is a burden, hoping that one day, the young man will be able to pick the mountains with people's hearts, and the two ends of the red line in the hands of the poor road are two people, and they are two clear and clean mirrors, reflecting each other, not just letting Chen Ping'an share your fortune, and then using Chen Ping'an to help you get through the relationship. ”

Lu Shen turned his head to look in the direction before He Xiaoliang appeared, "Chen Ping'an's temperament, there are thousands of strange people and strange people in the world, and the poor road has also seen thousands of them, it may not be very surprising, but it happens to be similar to your He Xiaoliang's temperament, similar but not the same, and it is quite consistent in the dark, so even when you meet for the first time, the identity of the two is very different, you still see the 'shallow fate', in fact, you are not shallow, but your cultivation is limited, and you are shallow." ”

He Xiaoliang asked softly, "Master, is this another test?"

Lu Shen laughed, "You have already become a disciple of the poor Dao, what other tests do you need? Why, do you want to become the descendant of the Dao Ancestor and sit on an equal footing with Lu Shen before you give up?"

He Xiaoliang's eyes were clear, he shook his head and smiled: "I don't want to think about it." ”

Lu Shen smiled and said, "Since you have become a master, you should give your new disciples a meeting gift." This gift is not small, and it is still a little 'Tao' that you finally got from your master before he came down. ”

He Xiaoliang was stunned for a moment.

Just cut off the "bridge" with Chen Ping'an on the Kun boat, and he became the He Xiaoliang who was blessed again?

Lu Shen seemed to see through the thoughts of the beautiful Dao Gu, laughed loudly, and slapped his palm on the table, "Poor Dao will take you on a long journey and go upstream!"

A Lizhu Cave Heaven, even if the magic is forbidden, it is naturally difficult to escape the rules between the heavens, such as spring, summer, autumn and winter, birth, old age, sickness and death.

Then under the great supernatural power of teaching Lu Shen.

Winter, autumn, summer and spring, death, sickness and old life.

He Xiaoliang, who is still in the school between heaven and earth, but seems to have no connection with heaven and earth for the time being, watched the strange scenes around him regress, and the beautiful Taoist aunt's eyes were shining.

That's exactly the path she wants to take!

Lu Shen smiled and said, "Follow behind Poor Dao, go to a place, and take you to meet two people." ”

The two of them started to leave, behind them was the more and more brand-new school and the sound of the children's reading, the children of Mengxue were literally backwards, but it was probably some kind of prohibition, or the relationship between Qi Jingchun and Daozu had made a deal, the appearance of the children, delicate, sound, clear to the ear, but the teacher they faced no longer existed, as if completely disappeared in the long river of time.

All the way through the streets and alleys, He Xiaoliang followed closely behind the Lotus Guandao people, for fear that if he made a mistake, he would get lost.

In the end, Lu Shen stopped and said wait a while, He Xiaoliang didn't dare to move, and stood in place.

Lu Shen waved his sleeves, the universe reversed, everything returned to normal order, and the long river of years began to flow downstream.

After that, Lu Shen took her to a stall, He Xiaoliang didn't know why this master in charge brought him here, could it be that the stall was weird? He Xiaoliang looked at it, it was a middle-aged man who seemed to be simple and honest, and he was selling sugar gourds.

Then He Xiaoliang saw a dark and emaciated child coming slowly, stood beside her, quietly looked at the busy stall, swallowed his saliva, and waited until the business was colder, and the child walked away silently.

Lu Shen snapped his fingers, and the day and night passed in a flash.

The vendor was doing his usual business day after day, and the child either went up the mountain to collect medicine, or went to the stream to catch fish, or helped the neighbors carry water and passed by the stall again and again.

Finally one day, the child who was supposed to go up the mountain to collect medicine for money, even if he had walked to the mouth of the mud bottle alley with a basket on his back, but when he thought of the luck of the previous trip, he picked a few valuable herbs, and the millet tank at home was filled with most of it for the first time, at least he didn't have to worry about hunger for ten years, so the child looked up at the gloomy sky, as if telling himself that it was going to rain heavily, and even if he went to the mountain, he would most likely return halfway.

So the child ran back to the courtyard of the ancestral house, put the basket down, took out a few copper coins from a small clay pot at the foot of the wall, and then ran quickly in the mud bottle alley to the stall.

But as the child got closer and closer to the stall, his steps became heavier and heavier, and he ran slower and slower, so that when he was quite far away, the child stood in place, looking like a man at war, clenching his fists and holding the extra copper coins.

Finally, the child took a few steps closer, squatted down, and looked up at the bright red rock sugar gourds.

Lu Shen and He Xiaoliang stood beside the child.

Lu Shen smiled and asked, "If you put yourself in your shoes, what do you think the child is thinking, is it human nature?"

He Xiaoliang said without hesitation: "I think it would be nice if I could eat the sugar gourd without spending money." ”

Lu Shen smiled and nodded, "We'll see." ”

After that, the vendor finished his business, and when he was resting, he seemed to accidentally see the child who passed by his stall again and again, but never bought sugar gourds, the man thought about it, sat on the stool and made no sound, and finally seemed to be really compassionate, stood up, beckoned to the child and smiled: "Come on, I'm going to close the stall and go back, there are still some sugar gourds left that can't be sold, if you want to eat, I can give you a bunch, no money!"

The man smiled very honestly, no different from the crop man, pulled out a string of sugar gourds, and shook it at the young man, "Take it." ”

But the boy quickly stood up, shook his head with a smile, and ran away.

He Xiaoliang was a little puzzled, if this was Chen Ping'an when she was a child, she would not be surprised to make such a choice.

Lu Shen stretched out his hand and pointed at the man who sold sugar gourds, "This person is a Yin Yang family in the Middle Earth Divine Continent who has a low reputation in the world, in fact, he can compete with the entire Yin and Yang family Lu Clan with his own strength, quite a strange person, even the senior brother can't completely guess this person's thoughts." ”

He Xiaoliang became more and more puzzled.

Lu Shen smiled: "These are not the key, the next thing is." ”

Lu Shen stretched out his palm, and slowly wiped it from top to bottom, and a small "Chen Ping'an" appeared next to He Xiaoliang.

This child, ran over and accepted the string of sugar gourds that didn't cost money, jumped back to Mud Bottle Alley, very happy, after eating the sugar gourds, he was addicted, after a few days, he went to the stall for the second time, and got a string of sugar gourds that didn't cost money. This poor child, who had just become accustomed to hardship, gradually became lazy, and from time to time he would think of those sugar gourds, and he would go up the mountain to collect medicine and catch less than usual...... Day after day, year after year, the boy has not become a bad person, but in He Xiaoliang's eyes, it is true that he is no longer the straw sandals boy who met for the first time on the back of a green cow.

After that, back to the original place, Lu Shen swiped his palm again, Xiao Ping'an appeared again, this time he did not choose to collect sugar gourds for nothing, but chose to spend money to buy, after that, the child became more and more willing to endure hardships, desperately to make money, but tired of eating sugar gourds, once fell in love with pastries, when the child grew into a teenager year by year, in He Xiaoliang's eyes, it seems that this Chen Ping'an is not quite right.

As Lu Shen raised his palm again and again, He Xiaoliang looked at Chen Ping'an, one by one, and all kinds of life situations with subtle deviations.

He Xiaoliang was in the end and fell into deep thought.

Lu Shen smiled, "Go back." ”

One after the other, I walked to the school.

At this time, this scene is actually very much like the real river flowing through the world, when Qi Jingchun took the young man to the old locust tree and asked for a locust leaf.

Lu Shen walked in front with his hands behind his back and asked, "Have you figured out something?"

He Xiaoliang replied softly: "Only by guarding your heart is one person." ”

Lu Shen snorted and stopped talking.

He Xiaoliang asked, "Could it be that the disciple wants to diverge, or does he not see high enough and not far enough?"

Lu Shen suddenly turned his head and smiled: "No, no, it's a good idea, the only fly in the ointment is that you, a disciple, can't be in the dark, and you can't see your master's Taoism." ”

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When Lu Shen took He Xiaoliang to see all the states of life, in a certain section of the long river, there was a Confucian with slightly frosty temples, after Meng Tong got out of class, he sat in the house and played music alone, his face was clear, no longer blurred, in the "present" of Lu Shen and He Xiaoliang, or the "back then" of Lizhu Dongtian, Qi Jingchun bent down and picked up a chess piece, and said with a smile: "But Erer." ”