The two of them boiled soup and cooked rice, and it was already morning time after eating, Li Ye looked at Xiaobai who was lying on the bamboo chair and said, "Do you want to go down the mountain tomorrow, or stay on the mountain for one more day?"

Xiaobai, who touched her belly, didn't want to think about it, so she shouted: "I'll go down the mountain tomorrow, I want to go to the city with Xiaoqing, and she promised to take me shopping to buy delicious food." ”

Li Ye was angry, walked over and gently carried Xiaobai's ear and said, "You foodie, what else will you do besides eating and playing? If you want to go back, you can go down the mountain tomorrow morning after practicing the sword!"

"I want to play before I go down the mountain, it seems that I will ask Mr. to discipline you well in the future, and I can't let you be lazy with those people in the city!" Li Ye pulled a chair and sat down against the door.

"Oh, are you still my brother, so cruel to your brother!" Xiao Bai glanced at Li Ye with disdain.

"Two different things, play is play, you must not be lazy when you should practice, you have to distinguish this truth. Li Ye looked out of the house and said. "Maybe I'll have to spend the night in the temple tomorrow before I can go back to the city the day after tomorrow. ”

"What's wrong again? Didn't you say you went down the mountain to the city?"

Looking at the dark sky outside the house, Li Ye said faintly: "Xiaoqing brought Mr. and asked me to go to the Big Buddha Temple to find my old monk master before entering the city, probably because I wanted to solve the problem of cultivation." ”

Xiaobai was stunned for a moment, thinking that there was really such a thing.

He stopped making a sound at the moment, closed his eyes and said, "I'm sleeping, don't make noise with me tomorrow morning, let me sleep a little longer." ”

Li Ye was stunned, looked back at Xiaobai who had closed his eyes, thought about it, and waved his hand, and blew out the pine resin oil lamp on the table with a strong breath.

......

In the late summer and early autumn Tianshan Mountains, it will light up after half the day.

Li Ye, who opened his eyes, looked at Xiaobai, who was snoring on the side, shook his head, and thought to himself that he would let you go today.

got up from the recliner, carried a wooden bucket and an iron pot to the cave to fetch water to wash and wash rice, and waited until he made a fire to cook porridge, Xiaobai did not wake up.

Shaking it, he took the wooden sword he had sharpened from the wooden frame and walked out of the wooden house.

Standing on the edge of the cedar forest, sensing the wooden sword in his hand, the Heart Dao Iron and Wood Sword was indeed more important than the bamboo sword, and with a wave of his hand, he continued his daily practice.

Just thinking about the reason why he went down the mountain again today, he didn't practice the left-handed sword, but after practicing the right-handed sword, he went to the cave and stripped naked, and carefully washed the sweat stains on his body with cold water.

I thought that I had bathed, and going to the Big Buddha Temple was also considered to be in line with the rules.

......

"What do you think? Didn't you just eat porridge? I was distracted before I got down the mountain, and I didn't dare to take you out to mix in the future. Li Ye smiled and patted Xiaobai's shoulder.

"I didn't think about anything, this is not the first time I've been in the city, and I'm so excited, and I want to see your parents and sister, and I don't know what to call them. Xiaobai looked at Li Ye and shook his head.

"What's your name? You're my brother, of course I'm my name, what's your name? It's also your parents and sister after the mountain, what are you thinking about in your confused mind?"

"Oh!" Xiao Bai responded, ran in front of Li Ye in a flash, and ran down the mountain.

After breakfast, the two cleaned up the hut, closed the prohibition of the woods, and went down the mountain one after the other.

Li Ye, who has been away from home for more than two years, is timid.

Xiaobai, who has just entered the world, is eager to try, full of unknowable joy.

When the two of them spent two hours walking to the place where Li Ye had carved the words on the stone slab, Xiaobai pointed to the words on it and asked, "What does this mean, I don't seem to know a single word." ”

Li Ye looked up at the words he had engraved on the stone slab, did not speak, asked Xiaobai to borrow a black knife, and jumped forward.

In less than a quarter of an hour, he carved a few words on it again, clapped his hands and returned the black power to Xiaobai.

smiled and said: "These words were on it when I went up the mountain with my husband back then, and read them together: Lingyunzhi for a long time, and go down the Tianshan Mountain with a sword." ”

Xiao Bai followed the black knife with a good heart, and gently followed in his heart: "There has been Lingyunzhi for a long time, and he will go down to Tianshan with a sword." ”

"What does that mean, explain it to me. Pulling Li Ye's sleeve, Xiaobai shouted.

"Go back and let the gentleman tell you, hurry down the mountain, see if you can get a carriage on the official road, you can't go back on foot." Taking Xiaobai's hand, the two continued to walk down the mountain.

Xiao Baizui gnawed on the jerky, Li Ye hummed a small song in Fengyun City, the two walked leisurely on the official road to the city, and met a carriage back to the city in less than two miles, beckoning, the two jumped into the carriage.

"Please send me to the Big Buddha Temple outside the city first, and then send my younger brother back to the Zizhu Temple in the city. Li Ye said to the coachman with a smile.

Xiaobai refused to sit in the car, sitting outside the car next to the coachman, with an excited face, this was the first time he took the carriage, and the joy and excitement were not enough to describe his mood at this time.

"Okay, it's the Zizhu Courtyard where Mr. Mo and his master live in the city, I know that place. "Please be seated. The coachman waved his whip, and the two black horses galloped merrily.

The speed of the carriage was very fast, and it took less than half an hour to see the mountain gate of the Great Buddha Temple.

Li Ye asked the coachman to stop the carriage, jumped down and took out two silver coins and handed them to him.

took Xiaobai's hand and said, "When you arrive at Zizhu Courtyard, you will say that I will let you come, and they will let you in the name of Mr. and Xiaoqing." I'll be back tomorrow noon at the latest, and I'll talk about my affairs when I come back, and Xiaoqing will tell them about you. ”

Li Ye thought about it and decided to let Xiaobai go back to the city first.

He knew that Xiaobai was thinking about playing with Xiaoqing, and it was estimated that he would not return to the city so soon when he went to see the old monk master.

Xiaobai nodded, took Li Ye's hand and said, "Brother, you have to come back early, or they keep asking me, I don't know how to answer." ”

"What are you afraid of? You're a master in the city, who would dare to bully you. Let's go, remember to kowtow to my father and mother for me, do you know how to call them?" Li Ye said with a smile.

"I know, I know, isn't it just to call my father and mother with you?"

"Sit down, little gentleman, let's go back to the city!" the coachman thanked Li Ye, raised his whip, and left the Great Buddha Temple and ran to the city.

Watching the carriage gradually run away, he turned around and walked towards the mountain gate of the Big Buddha Temple.

"I've seen Uncle Wuchen. The little novice standing at the gate of the temple clasped his hands together and saluted Li Ye.

Li Ye was stunned, hurriedly returned the salute, and asked softly, "When did I become the little master's uncle?"

"Uncle Shi is a disciple of the abbot, so naturally he is our uncle. The abbot already knows that you are coming and is waiting for you in the temple. After saying that, he turned around and led the way in front of him, and walked towards the temple.

Looking at the temple after two years of absence, Li Ye felt a lot of emotion in his heart.

The two walked through the two halls and came to the front of the Buddhist hall where the old monk was, and the little novice saluted Li Ye again and turned to leave.

After tidying up his clothes, he exhaled quietly, took off his shoes and put them outside the Buddhist hall, and Li Ye walked in gently.

I saw the old monk sitting under the Buddha statue with his eyes closed, holding the Bodhi in his left hand and turning it gently, and reciting the scriptures in his mouth.

Walked up to the old monk and knelt down, and shouted softly: "Master, I'm back." ”

When he opened his eyes, the old monk smiled on his face, looked at Li Ye and said, "After a year or two, you finally came back." ”

"Although I am in the Tianshan Mountains, I can't come to the master to pay respects, but I always think about you, master. Li Ye thought about all the doubts he had in his stomach, and finally had an answer, and he couldn't help but rejoice.

The old monk got up and lit a stick of incense, pointed to the stove on the desk and said, "You come to boil water and make tea." ”

Li Ye got up and added two pieces of charcoal to the stove, because he was nervous, his movements were a little clumsy, his hands trembled and he added water to the kettle, and gently put the tea leaves into the teapot,

With great difficulty, I picked up two teacups and rinsed them with hot water. Then the kettle is warmed, the tea is washed, and the cup is washed.

In a moment, the fragrance lit by the old monk, together with the fragrance wafting from Li Ye's brewed tea, inhaled into his nasal cavity together, making him involuntarily lower his eyes, and his face showed an intoxicated expression.

"Why are you so careless, just going to practice how you can make your face look like this, or is it your adventure in the Tianshan Mountain, so quickly broke through to Yuanying?"

The old monk took the teacup handed by Li Ye and frowned.

"When I broke through the Jindan, I let the thunder split a few times, and then it became like this, I'm used to it. In recent months, by chance in the mountains, I have broken several realms, and I have become like this. ”

Li Ye also picked up the cup in front of him and sniffed the tea gently.

"In this way, you can no longer conceal your realm after you practiced the mental method of the first half of the "Phaseless Dharma Body", and our previous preparations will have to be rearranged, and you will have to suffer a little. ”

Monk Li, who was smiling, couldn't stop the worry in his heart.

Lowering his head and turning the Buddhist beads in his hand, the old monk pondered for a moment and finally made a decision.

looked at Li Ye and said, "Two choices." As soon as you set off now, go to Fangcun Mountain in the Western Xuan Domain, and practice there until the "Phaseless Dharma Body" is consummated, and then go down the mountain. ”

Looking at Li Ye's appearance in a daze, he continued.

"The second is that I will use pills and Buddhism to lock your realm, leaving only the physical exercises of the "Phaseless Dharma Body", you can continue to practice in the temple and the city for a while, and then you will follow Mr. Mo to Fangcun Mountain in the spring of the next year. ”

"It's just that in this way, you not only have to endure hardships, but you also have to face the blank eyes of all those who know you, who will think that you have been practicing the Tianshan Mountain for two years, but you are still in the realm of gathering qi when you come down the mountain. ”

The old monk looked at Li Ye and said.

Li Ye was stunned, but he didn't expect that because he broke through the realm with a hard head, he would cause so much trouble.

"I can't leave for the time being, I've been away from home for two years, I have to go home for a few days, and then go to Fangcun Mountain with my husband next year!" Li Ye clasped his hands together and looked at the old monk and said.

The old monk nodded, looked at Li Ye with a smile and said, "There is no difficulty in the way, but I have to choose." It's a joy that you have a choice to make. ”

When Li Ye heard this, a faint smile appeared on his face, and he looked at the old monk and smirked.

"The practice of Buddhism has the path of wealth and suffering and the path of suffering, since you have broken through the realm to the Yuanying, and the "Phaseless Dharma Body" has also completed the Shangguan volume, so you can practice the method of suffering, which will be of great benefit to your state of mind and many future encounters in the world. ”

The old monk's words determined Li Ye's future cultivation path.