Chapter 2 Is it possible to live forever?
Ye Ming obtained the spiritual power of the second turn of the human immortal, and walked on the forest and mountain roads, no longer looking difficult, and the road was extremely easy, as if walking on the ground. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Out of the forest, the black rabbit left, saying that his own cultivation was still shallow, and the demonic qi could not be restrained, so he could not get too close, so as not to infect innocent humans with the demonic qi.
Ye Ming shook his head and let her leave, and walked alone towards the village not far away, and said in his heart that this monster was very kind-hearted.
In this world, the common people are very superstitious, and the theory of ghosts and gods is also extremely rich, and they are convinced of the existence of monsters such as ghosts and ghosts.
I have to mention that Taoism in this world is very strong, and even the establishment of the dynasty has a layer of Taoism, and there are Taoist people in the court.
This is an era of Taoist manifestation, Buddhism has disappeared from vision, and Confucianism has gradually declined due to the blowout rise of Taoism.
Even the legendary gods who have always been high above seem to bow their heads in front of Taoism.
Even so, there are still thousands of students who study hard, and they are convinced that studying to gain fame is the only orthodoxy.
As the saying goes, the son is silent and confused.
Readers read Haoran righteousness, those gods and ghosts are not worth believing, even if there is, as long as the heart is open, it still can't mess with my heart.
But in fact, Confucianism was indeed severely suppressed by Taoism, and it gradually declined, so in the hearts of those scholars, they also hated Taoism very much.
The same is true of the original Ye Ming.
The temple holds a large festival every year, which is a tradition that has lasted for many years, and whenever it is time to make a sacrifice, each family has to pay 50 yuan for the purpose of holding the sacrifice.
It's just that since the change of temple blessings, the frequency of sacrifices has changed from once a year to two or even three times, and the amount that each family needs to pay has also changed from 50 yuan to 70 yuan.
This undoubtedly adds a lot of pressure to the villagers who only rely on working in the fields and hunting in the mountains.
Their income for a year is not much, except for feeding themselves, only some of them can be sold in the town.
The fifty yuan a year is easy to say, barely enough for every family to pay, but now it has inexplicably increased by nearly half.
The villagers are angry but dare not speak, worshipping the mountain god may be superstitious, but there are times when it works.
Many times, because of the worship of the mountain gods, the fields will no longer be ravaged by mountain beasts.
But this kind of worship, which has almost reached the level of exploitation, is bound to cause dissatisfaction among some villagers, and several of them try to resist, at which point the temple will threaten to say that if they do not listen to the advice, sooner or later there will be disaster.
Some of the more tough villagers even insulted the temple blessing, and finally it was an inexplicable serious illness, and since then no one dares to disobey the meaning of the temple blessing, for fear of angering the mountain god and being condemned.
And just after everyone acquiesced in this behavior, the original Ye Ming somehow suddenly had a hot brain, and scolded Miao Zhu when Miao Zhu came to collect money, and as a result, he caused a disaster like those villagers and became seriously ill.
Not long ago, when Miao Zhu collected money, he insulted the other party again, and at that time Miao Zhu threatened him and said, "If you don't pay the money for the sacrifice, you are destined to fail this imperial examination."
At that time, Ye Ming's mother and sister were frightened, the two of them worked hard to maintain a family, and never let Ye Ming do even the slightest work, just let him study hard, just hoping that one day he would be able to be named on the gold list and show his fame in the examination.
It's just that Ye Ming said at that time that he wouldn't let his mother pay money, he was a scholar, how could he believe in these gods and ghosts, if his father was still alive, he would never agree, this is simply ridiculous!
In the end, his mother secretly handed over the money used for the sacrifice to the temple when Ye Ming was not at home when he went to the county to take the exam, and worshiped in the mountain temple, hoping that her son could get the fame of Xiucai.
However, it backfired, Ye Ming fell off the list, and when he returned to the village, he learned that his mother secretly handed over the money to Miaozhu while he was not at home, and he was even more furious, and finally came to the mountain temple, and it was another war of words to find Miaozhu.
A few days after that, Ye Ming committed suicide by jumping into the river.
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If it weren't for going out secretly tonight and meeting the black rabbit, and being able to recall what happened that day, it is estimated that Ye Ming would have pointed the finger at Miaozhu for this whole thing.
However, although jumping into the river by himself was not caused by Miaozhu, he did get sick because of insulting the other party before, and when his father was still alive, he also had a conflict with Miaozhu, and he couldn't afford to be sick afterwards and passed away.
"I guess it can't be separated from that damn temple Zhu!" Ye Ming gritted his teeth and said indignantly.
Although he was thinking in his heart, he never stopped under his feet, and when he was about to enter the village, a voice suddenly came from behind him.
"What a strange fate...... This little friend, please stay!"
Ye Ming turned his head to look, and through the moonlight, he could barely see an old man with a cow's nose with some unkempt hair, who was walking over with a smile on his face.
The old Taoist priest walked very slowly, but he could pull a large distance in one step, Ye Ming only felt that in front of him, he had already appeared in front of him.
The old Taoist priest grinned, and a mouthful of white teeth was exposed, and it was able to reflect the luster in the moonlight.
Ye Ming's heart suddenly became vigilant, a strange person suddenly appeared in the middle of the night, not to mention whether it was a person or not, in short, there should be nothing good.
Ye Ming took a step back, distanced himself from the other party, and said vigilantly, "Dao Chief, is there something wrong?"
"Little friend, Lao Dao, I see that you are walking alone outside this village late at night, and your brows have been locked, you seem to have something to worry about, you might as well say it, let Lao Dao and I help you solve your worries. The old Taoist priest smiled all over his face, revealing a mouthful of Cheng Liang's white teeth.
In Ye Ming's opinion, the face of this old Taoist priest was like six big characters written "I am a charlatan".
In this poor and remote country, who is okay will run out alone in the middle of the night, whether it is really troublesome or not, he is the most conservative and reasonable statement to say this.
Thinking of this, Ye Ming didn't want to say anything more to him, it had been a long time since he came out, if his mother or sister got up at night and found that he was not there, this matter would definitely be a big deal again.
Ye Ming arched his hand at him, and said impatiently: "Dao Chief, if it's okay, I'll leave, come out for some time, I'm afraid that my family will worry, so I won't stay longer, you still blow the wind here alone, farewell!"
After speaking, Ye Ming turned around and left, the old Taoist priest suddenly became a little anxious, and hurriedly said: "Slow, slow! I'll be honest!"
"Just now, Lao Dao, I observed you for a while, the luck on your head is mostly white qi, but there is a trace of red qi that keeps converging in it, you are just a scholar who has failed the list, but you can have red qi luck to increase on its own, it is really incredible. ”
For this kind of mysterious and mysterious things, Ye Ming has read some novels in his previous life, although he doesn't know much about it, he doesn't understand it completely. But there is such a thing as luck, which cannot be seen or touched, and this is nonsense.
"How would he know that I fell off the list?" Ye Ming heard him speak, although he felt a little strange in his heart, he didn't look back, and he didn't stop at his feet, and walked back directly.
"Xiaoyou, Xiaoyou, listen to me......" The old Taoist priest saw that the other party didn't seem to believe him, and suddenly became anxious again, and his feet moved and instantly appeared in front of Ye Ming to block his way, and then said: "Although your luck is weird, but your life is even more unpredictable to me, when I first saw it, it was mottled and chaotic, and when I looked closely, it seemed to be covered by something, and I couldn't even see it clearly, which is really extraordinary." The old Taoist priest shook his head and said.
Ye Ming was suddenly shocked in his heart, this person was obviously behind him just now, and he appeared in front of him in an instant to block the way, as if he was teleporting, but looking at the other party's actions, he didn't want to harm himself.
After all, he is just a down-and-out scholar, what is there to be greedy for the other party, and the other party has been chasing him to talk, which is obviously looking for something to do.
Ye Ming also had some confidence in his heart, looked at the other party with a suspicious gaze, sighed, and said, "Dao Chief, please talk to people, what do you want to do, I'm in a hurry." ”
"Well, Xiaoyou's words are also straightforward. The old Taoist priest smiled awkwardly.
He has an inexplicable unearthly aura on his body, but the Taoist robe on his body is tattered, and there are obvious oil stains on the corners of his mouth, which looks like a halfway monk, or a wild Taoist priest who is bankrupt and outcast.
His eyes kept rolling on Ye Ming, as if he was thinking about something, he smiled lightly and said: "Your life, the clouds are weird, the old way I have never seen and heard in my life, such a strange life, it is too much of a pity to fall between this red dust, if you are willing, you can worship me as a teacher, he will inevitably be free in the world, become an immortal and be at ease, is it not happy? I don't know what you think, Xiaoyou?"
Ye Ming looked at the old Taoist priest, opened his mouth, didn't know what to say, for some reason, the old beggar who sold cheats in the movie "Kung Fu" he watched on the earth in his previous life suddenly appeared in his mind, and at this moment, he only felt that the figure in front of him completely coincided with that person.
Seeing that the other party didn't speak, the old Taoist priest was perhaps moved by his own words, and asked again: "What does the little friend think?"
"Become an immortal and be at ease?" Ye Ming asked.
"Not bad. The old Taoist priest touched his beard and nodded with a smile.
And whether it's true or not, just say that it's so easy to become an immortal, if you can really become an immortal casually, then wouldn't this world be full of immortals.
Which slightly accomplished immortal cultivator is not piled up by a lot of time and resources, although this is only what Ye Ming saw from the novels of his previous life, but it is not completely unreasonable, otherwise the immortals will not become rotten streets.
Moreover, in this world, people in Taoist temples basically do not come to the countryside to preach and preach the Fa, only those Taoist temples are almost bankrupt, or have gone bankrupt, and there are charlatans who will come to fool these simple villagers.
The various performances of the old Taoist priest in front of him, although he is also suspected of being a liar, cannot be said to have no ability at all, at least the method of suddenly appearing and changing his position just now is not something that ordinary people can do.
It's just that instead of spending ten and a half years to be a Taoist priest and reciting scriptures and practicing all day long, just to become that ethereal immortal, it is better to use this time to study hard, and get a show of talent and fame in a serious way, so as to repay his mother.
What's more, now that there is a system, compared to the system, worship an eccentric old Taoist priest as a teacher...... Hehe, what's that, is it more powerful than the system?
"Thank you for your kindness, but I don't really have that idea. Ye Ming refused directly without hesitation, bypassed the other party's body and continued to walk forward.
"Eh, you wait, you'll regret it. The old Taoist priest was really getting more and more anxious, and hurriedly said, "Do you have to show me a few tricks before you are willing to believe it?"
Ye Ming was also anxious, how could this person be so annoying, in order to get rid of the other party, Ye Ming stopped, turned his head and said: "A thousand spells, the avenue is endless, I only ask you, can you live forever?"
"Can you live forever?" the old Taoist priest asked himself, looking at Ye Ming with some surprise, obviously stunned by this sentence.
Yes, there are thousands of spells, and the avenue is endless, can you live forever? I have been pursuing it for so long, constantly breaking through the realm, what is it for?
Although the lifespan can be increased, but what can it be, I don't know how many heroes and heroes have stopped on the way to cultivating immortals, and how many cultivation bottlenecks have made geniuses sigh with admiration, but in the end, they will not be reduced to a handful of yellow sand, what is all this for?
Ye Ming just said nonsense, all according to the meaning of the novel he read in his previous life, I remember seeing a scene similar to this time in a novel before, so he said casually, how did he know that he would make the other party react like this.
The old Taoist priest looked up at the night sky, couldn't help sighing, and finally disappeared directly, Ye Ming was also stunned for a while when he saw this.
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