The town of Pishi is not big, it is a mountain and countryside, and many things are not so particular, how convenient and how to come.

The only temple is built next door to the Drunken Immortal Residence.

From the second floor, the temple is not big, and it is only two courtyards, the incense is good, and the smoky fire that is so thick that the eyes are spicy poured out from the dark red wall, and Chen Shiyi sneezed several times.

The gambling stall I saw in the private room of the wine shop just now was on the corner of the Chenghuang Temple.

I don't know if Lord Chenghuang still has the heart to practice in this hodgepodge of wine shops, gambling stalls and incense every day.

When Yue Ningan saw the gambling stall, it was like a cat seeing a fishy one, how could he still have the heart to eat, so he played two handfuls first and then came up to continue eating, dragging the boy and Lord Qi downstairs, and even the monkey was called by him.

The gambling stall was surrounded by three layers inside and three layers outside, and Chen Shiyi squeezed in only to find that this gambling stall was not the same as what he had seen before, not that there was anything new in the gameplay, but the people who gambled were very different.

Sitting in the village was a handsome little girl in a green dress, with two braids, and a red rope tied to her snow-white wrists, and two small brass bells fell from the red rope, which jingled as she shook the arms of the dice cup.

Behind him was a giant panda, yawning boredly.

"Buy and go! Bet big and lose small! Bet small and lose big! Open! ”

"Open! One, two, three, small! ”

"I'll go! It's small again! ”

The one who bets against the little girl sitting in the village is also a girl. Wearing a red dress and a red dress, festive like a New Year's painting, his eyes were as bright as apricot kernels, shiny and watery, his angry little face was flushed, and there were two playful dimples on his cheeks, which were sweet even when he was angry. Chen Shiyi couldn't help but take a few more looks, and then a few more looks. Beside her stood a little monk with a collapsed face, like a mourning woman.

The girl in red jumped to her feet in annoyance and scolded: "How can there be such a thing, open seven small ones in a row!" Dead frog, you play with me! ”

The little girl in green sitting in the village was happily putting away the dozen copper coins on the table, and when she heard this, she exploded: "You are the frog, and your whole family is a frog...... Forget it, this girl is not angry. Then he changed his face again, and while throwing the dice cup in his hand, he said with a smile: "This gambling money depends on character, and when people are unlucky, isn't it like this." Besides, you may not lose if you have a bet, or Miss Huang will try again? ”

The girl in red lowered her head and pinched the empty money bag, and suddenly saw the little monk next to her who was crying with her eyes closed and couldn't bear to look at it anymore, and pointed her finger and asked, "Do you accept the monk?" I'll bet him on you! ”

The little monk's face changed greatly, and he turned around and was about to run away, but she grabbed his collar: "It's not much, just bet ten taels of silver, vegetarian, it's very easy to raise!" ”

The little girl in green stared at the girl in red as if she was looking at a monster, and realized: "I seem to have heard you call him junior brother just now, right?" Did you do all this? Looks like you're better suited than me to be an emotionless killer......"

"Don't talk nonsense, do you take it?"

The little girl in green reacted for a while: "Don't accept it!" If you still have money or not, don't waste outside if you don't have money, go home and take your children! ”

"Dead frog, you're looking for a fight!"

"I'm afraid you won't make it! , don't sleep, get up and! ”

The little girl in green pulled out two huge hammer weapons with her backhand and crossed them over her shoulders.

The giant panda sleeping behind her stood up in a daze when he heard the cry, and before he could open his eyes, he pretended to be fierce and roared at the red wall.

"Idiot! Over here! ”

Amid the laughter of the onlookers, the little girl in green was furious and kicked the panda awake.

The two women stared at each other like fighting cocks, and with that look, they couldn't wait to poke a few holes in each other's bodies immediately to feel comfortable. The anxious little monk was next to him and pulled the corner of the girl in red.

"Humph!" The two of them turned their heads at the same time.

"The green mountains don't change, the green water flows forever, the dead frog, let's see!"

Putting down the cruel words, the girl in red pulled the little monk's collar and left.

The little girl in green pouted: "Who is afraid of whom." ”

With the giant panda and the sunflower on his back, he also left.

When it was over, I didn't forget to say hello to the owner of the gambling stall who had been standing aside for a long time: "Boss, eat red!" ”

Hearing a "pop", an object fell on the table, and everyone took a look: the eldest son.

After all, it is now noon, and the incense of the City God Temple can't cover the smell of vegetables and wine wafting from the Drunken Immortal Residence. Gambling money, don't worry, come back when you're full of wine and food.

The young man, Master Qi, and Yue Ningan returned to the private room on the second floor and sat down.

Since he arrived at the gambling stall, Lord Qi has not spoken, and he has a lot of worries along the way.

Even Yue Ning'an, who was so heartless, could see it: "My lord, who are you?" ”

Master Qi pinched the wine glass and slowly turned it around his fingertips: "Those two little girls just now are both masters!" ”

Chen Shiyi was also interested, raised his head with the bowl and asked, "How tall?" ”

Lord Qi smiled: "Very high!" Like you, you can hit a hundred casually. ”

Yue Ning'an took a breath of cool air: "Is it so powerful?!" To what extent? ”

"If I'm not mistaken, they should all be from the mountain gate. As for the realm, I can't see it, I can only say that it is unfathomable! ”

"What about you, my lord?"

"Yue Ning'an, it's not unreasonable for the official to find out that your kid is unlucky!" Lord Qi glanced at Yue Ning'an fiercely, saw Chen Shiyi's eyes full of curiosity, pursed his lips, and decided to tell the truth: "If this official fights with his life, maybe, maybe, he can resist a move......

"What?!"

As soon as these words came out, it was like a thunderbolt on a sunny day, and Chen Shiyi and Yue Ning'an were fried on the outside and tender on the inside.

The young man didn't even notice that the chopsticks had fallen to the ground, and Yue Ning'an was even more stunned.

The young man's eyes were blank, and he muttered: "Is there such a big difference between people in the mountain gate and the world? ”

"Not really!"

Master Qi drank the wine in one gulp: "There are still many outer disciples like you and me in the mountain gate!" There will be a lot fewer inner disciples in the middle four realms, and the descendants of the ancestor hall will be even rarer. ”

"Then those two women just now are the disciples of the Patriarch Hall?"

"Not necessarily. Powerful cultivators who have cultivated to the upper four realms can easily keep their appearance unchanged and even rejuvenate. It is true that the two women just now look like girls, but maybe they are actually old monsters who have been practicing for hundreds of years. ”

Chen Shiyi suddenly had a picture of a girl in red turning back into a white-haired old woman in his mind, and he shuddered, and quickly retracted his mind, unwilling to think about it.

I don't know if it's because I haven't drunk for more than half a year and drank a few more drinks today, Lord Qi's interest in speaking was also aroused, so I heard him continue: "If those two women are really the descendants of the ancestor hall, then their identities are not ordinary. ”

"Oh, sir, tell me more about it."

"The ancestral hall of the mountain gate is passed down, and it is shouldering the important task of inheriting the incense of the sect, and it is easy not to go out of the mountain gate, and it is rare to see it in leisure. Only the disciples who have cultivated their minds to become great will go out of the mountain gate, experience in the world, and find their own opportunities. And these disciples are all cultivation wizards and wonders in the world that they have not encountered in a century. In the secular world, they all represent their respective mountain gates, speak the mandate of heaven, and follow the law. Therefore, it is also called ...... by the world."

"Why?"

"The world walks!"

Chen Shiyi was fascinated when he heard it: "Does the imperial court also have a world to walk?" ”

"The whole world belongs to the imperial court!"

"Is there such a master in the imperial court?"

“...... Maybe there is, maybe not. ”

"Huh?"

"Chen Shiyi, the only thing you have to do now is to cultivate hard, enter the yamen, and even more so, do a good job, and strive to enter the mountain gate in the future."

"Can I enter the mountain gate too?"

Looking at the young man's expectant eyes, Master Qi seemed to see himself more than ten years ago, and Yue Ning'an looked at each other and smiled, and said, "As long as you go through the mountain gate, you can pick it up." Entering the realm of desire before the age of tying your hair is the first and most difficult threshold for the mountain gate, and you have already crossed it. Others, don't rush, take your time. ”

The young man asked in a daze, "Have I already crossed over?" When did it happen, how did I not know? ”

When Lord Qi heard this, he showed a hint of a smile: "It's really rare for someone like you to cultivate so quickly, it's really envious of others." Do you know the difference between the upper, middle, lower, and high realms of this cultivation? ”

"Can I not be confused, no one has taught me......" The young man muttered to himself, and replied honestly, "I don't know." ”

Then he looked at Lord Qi with anticipation.

Lord Qi picked up a chopstick dish and put it in his mouth, chewed it carefully, took another sip of wine, and motioned to the young man to fill it, and then said: "People have three souls and seven spirits, these upper four realms are cultivating souls, and the middle four realms and the lower four realms are cultivating spirits, but the lower four realms are forging the body and refining the soul, and the middle four realms are cultivating the essence, qi, and spirit to nourish the soul, until the three flowers gather at the top and open the eyes of heaven!" ”

"Open the eyes of the sky?!"

"Hmm. Above the middle four realms, it is to open the eyes of heaven, and if you don't open the eyes of heaven, you can't see the phantom sea and the three souls, and you can't enter the upper four realms! ”

"Oh......" The young man was so excited when he heard this, he hurriedly asked, "Then what do you think I am in now?" ”

"As I expected, should you be in the middle of the Lust Snatching Realm, or in the late stage? Just ......"

The boy was anxious: "Just what?" Don't sell it. ”

"It's nothing, although your physique is different from ordinary people, but the realm has indeed arrived, maybe this is the difference of the so-called talent." Lord Qi didn't say it explicitly, the young man's meridians are weird, maybe this is the intention of Father-in-law Yu to let the young man go back to Beijing alone, and it would be better to say less about it.

Then he changed the topic and said: "Among the four realms, the undersea realm is the first realm, and the cultivation is to condense the yuan and gather the ying, absorb the essence and blood in the hidden acupoint, sensitize its senses, and strengthen its body." The realm of seizing desire is the second realm, what you want is to seize your seven emotions and six desires, fill your qi and blood, strengthen your resilience, and recover your body. ”

When Yue Ning'an heard this, he interjected awkwardly: "If the qi and blood are full, the golden gun will not fall, and you don't feel it when you get up every morning?" ”

"Eat yours in peace." Lord Qi scolded with a smile, and continued to say: "Danshu is three, and he controls his strength with qi, and his strength is inexhaustible if he keeps qi; The purple mansion is four, absorbing the qi in the body, attaching the qi outside, invincible, and indestructible. ”

After speaking, he pulled out half of the long knife and slashed it across his arm, but when he saw the blade, only a white mark appeared, and no blood appeared.

The young man couldn't help but smack his tongue: "So powerful!" ”

"To put it simply, the training of the lower four realms is skin, flesh, muscles and bones, and improves the cultivator's speed, strength, recovery, endurance, and defense."

"What about the Middle Four Realms? What about the Upper Four Realms? ”

"The middle four realms are more about the use of qi, so that one foot has stepped into the threshold of cultivation, with the help of aura, while tempering oneself again, it also has more means to resist enemies. As for the Upper Four Realms, I haven't seen it, but I've only heard that if you cultivate to the extreme, you can move mountains and seas and open up the world! ”

Speaking of this, both Lord Qi and Yue Ning'an's faces couldn't help but show yearning.

Chen Shiyi was even more relaxed and imaginative, he couldn't imagine that the weak bodies of those two girls actually contained the power that could cause the mountain to collapse and crack: "If you want to cultivate to the Four Realms, do you have to enter the mountain gate?" ”

"Only the mountain gate has a complete cultivation method, which can help practitioners open their eyes and cultivate their souls! It was difficult for Wufu to open the Heavenly Eye, so it was almost impossible to cultivate to the Upper Four Realms. ”

"But, aren't we from the imperial court, can we also enter the mountain gate to practice?"

Lord Qi pinched the wine glass and said thoughtfully: "Every few years, the imperial court will offer money, food, materials, and even people to the mountain gate in exchange for the entry quota during the big challenge. ”

"People too?"

Yue Ning'an interjected: "Of course people count!" The people in the mountain gate are also human beings, and they also have to eat, drink, and slaves and servants. Not everyone can cultivate to the point of starving and drinking. Do you know how many people voluntarily sold themselves into slavery once they arrived at the mountain gate to worship, and they did not hesitate to go bankrupt and become lowly status? ”

"What?!" This time it was Chen Shiyi's turn to be shocked. His mother's background is not good, he knows. He even knew that his mother didn't want her children to become lowly too, and it cost him a lot to get out of his nationality and become an ordinary household. It is said that Mr. Ji helped a lot.

Now hearing that there are still people who are willing to spend money and even bankrupt their families to do lowly status, the young man suddenly feels a little unable to understand this world.

"Look at your strange look! The quota released by the imperial court was ten taels of silver, and it was fried to nearly one hundred taels on the black market. That's it, there are still people rushing to go. It's crazy! Speaking of this, he became indignant again: "Chunguan has relied on this, and he has eaten a lot of brain fat for so many years. I didn't see them leak some oil from between their fingers for us. ”

Yue Ning'an took a sip of wine, suppressed the dissatisfaction in his heart, and began to continue in his signature yin and yang tone: "Ordinary people always expect to be able to ascend to the sky in one step, and even if they are slaves and maids when they enter the mountain gate, they think that if they are close to the gods, they can change their lives against the sky. As everyone knows, blessings and misfortunes depend on each other. ”

"What's the trouble in there?"

"Otherwise, what do you think the mountain gate will replenish every few years with a group of slaves and maids?"

The young man suddenly felt that there was a great horror in this, his face turned pale, and the whole person was not good.

Master Qi glanced at Chen Shiyi, stretched out his hand and patted the young man's shoulder:

"Don't think too much, you're not like them."

"But ......"

Master Qi interrupted the young man's words, and said in a deep voice: "In this life, people don't have a choice nine out of nine, and it's rare to have a chance to make your own decisions, of course you have to gamble." Don't they know that when they enter the mountain gate, the blessings and misfortunes are unpredictable, and their fate is still in the hands of others? They know! But you always think you have a glimmer of hope, don't you? ”

"But ......"

"No, but! There are many things that you will naturally figure out in the future. ”

“...... Can't you make your own decisions about your own life? ”

"Unless you die, as long as you are alive, whose life can be your own decision, yours, mine, or Yue Ning'an?"

“...... What about the two women just now? Can't the lives of the upper four realms be decided by themselves? ”

"I don't know! This official only knows that practice is like mountaineering, the foot of the mountain, the scenery is different, the so-called countless scenery in the dangerous peak, if you want to know the answer, first stand on the top of the mountain and then say! ”

Chen Shiyi breathed a sigh of relief and lowered his head silently.