I immediately heard the voice of the Immortal Hidden Guo Shouzhen Daoist in the cave, so I quickly turned around and nodded wildly and said, "That's right, it's the returning Daoist!" ”

"What a pity"

I only heard a long sigh from the cave, and then I heard Hu Xiuzhi ask: "Old man, what, do you know that Taoist?" ”

Guo Shouzhen's voice came out again: "I recognize it." I still remember Chongzhen for three years, I was young and just enlightened, I traveled from Jiangnan to Liaodong, and occasionally saw the rise of several peaks of the Nine Iron Brake Mountains, and in the Yunguang Cave on the mountain, the eight treasures such as the stone dragon and the stone tiger were made in heaven and earth, lifelike, so I decided to live in seclusion in this mountain and concentrate on practice. Then I meditated in the Yunguang Cave for 17 years, but I was confused and encountered a bottleneck, and I could not leave the world and become enlightened. So since the fourth year of Shunzhi, he began to travel down the mountain again to visit the sages. And in the sixth year of Shunzhi, I came to the Juxian Palace on Ma'an Mountain in Jimo, Shandong by chance, and met Li Changming, the seventh generation disciple of the Longmen faction, and accepted me as the eighth generation disciple of the Longmen faction. Since then, I have been practicing in the Gathering Immortal Palace for two years before I finally became enlightened."

"But what does this have to do with the returning Taoist?" Hu Xiuzhi asked again.

The man in the cave said again: "Little fox, do you remember the poem I mentioned on the stone wall when you accidentally entered the Yunguang Cave that year? ”

"Yes."

Hu Xiuzhi nodded, and then whispered: "There is no day for the partition red dust. It has been worn through the iron pestle for many years. Suddenly break the seamless tower, and occasionally plant a fire lotus. Lift up the kan from the sky to the moon, and sleep in the water. The snow is deep and the cold plum is released, and the lotus immortal master points to the abyss. ”

"Yes, I didn't actually write this poem. And it was left to me by the returning Taoist Chief"

At this point, Guo Shouzhen let out a long sigh, and then continued: "I was twelve years old to seek the Tao, traveled all over the river but did not know where to go, and then at the age of sixteen I met the returning Taoist who was also traveling in a barren mountain. Seeing that my heart is pure and clear, I passed on a Taoist method, and gave me this poem when they were separated, although this poem seems to be just a few sentences, in fact, there is a heavenly opportunity, and the Taoist chief will break my life experience with this poem, and wake me up where to go, and then I continued to travel, and only after a small success did I escape into the Nine Peaks of the Iron Brake Mountain to concentrate on practice, and then encountered a bottleneck, it is also to recall this poem again, to point out the way out for me, and finally met the teacher Mud Pill Taoist, then I learned, The returning Daoist is the best of the seventh generation of my Longmen sect, that is, my own teacher, but we have never met again since we were sixteen."

After hearing this, I sighed with emotion and exclaimed: "I can't imagine that you and the returning Taoist have such a relationship."

"Yes, for the sake of repaying the favor. In the years that followed, I also asked people to search everywhere, and even opened the Heavenly Eyes to find the whereabouts of my uncle, but because my uncle was an otherworldly wanderer, even my Taoist magic could not find out his whereabouts. Returning to the master is like the world has evaporated, and there has been no whereabouts since then, and now I heard you suddenly mention him, I felt a burst of emotion in my heart, I thought that with the way of the uncle, I should have cultivated the immortal body above. But I don't want to be in the mountains because of the scourge of the Tiger Demon, it's really embarrassing."

I nodded and sighed: "Dao Chief, Bailong We also swore to get rid of the tiger plague precisely because of our admiration for the great virtue of the returning Dao Chief, but we returned to the Dao Leader and the ghost Yin with a wish, but our Dao is mediocre, and we are really powerless to be the enemy of the tiger demon, so we have to come to ask the black mother for help, I didn't expect the black mother to be such a cold-blooded person."

"Stinky boy. You sue me! ”

As soon as I heard my words, Hu Xiuzhi immediately widened her eyes, wrinkled her nose at me and threatened: "If you dare to talk nonsense in front of the old man, I will eat you raw now!" ”

As she spoke, Hu Xiuzhi bared her fangs at me again. I hurriedly shouted into the cave again: "Dao Chief! Your pet fox is going to eat people! ”

"Hey, you two don't make trouble, especially you, Xiaohu, you are already hundreds of years old, and you are the chief protector of the Shamanic Sect, so you can't be a little more steady?"

"Humph! You old and young join forces to bully me! ”

Hu Xiuzhi pouted impatiently, and then Guo Shouzhen said in the cave again: "Little fox, Uncle Shi has been kind to me, since this matter is also Uncle Shi's unfulfilled wish before his death, then you can go with Xiao Liuzi."

"But I haven't dealt with Xiong Cailian in the Taiqing Palace, and you don't know! Besides, Xiong Cailian is lazy by nature and never cares about the affairs of the world, even if I come forward. I may not be able to move her."

"If you don't try, how do you know you can't?"

The voice in the cave immediately became serious, and he said, "Anyway, don't say more, do what I say, don't disobey!" ”

"Humph! Old man, you just bully me! You're all bullying me! ”

Hu Xiuzhi grimaced at the cave, walked out of the cave with a huff, grabbed my arm and leaned forward, and in the blink of an eye, I was already in a cloud again

Seeing that Hu Xiuzhi was flattened and stared at and didn't speak, I couldn't help but laugh when I watched from the sidelines, and teased her: "What's the matter, why aren't you crazy?" You're crazy! If you bully me again, I'll go to your old man to complain."

As soon as I spoke, I saw Hu Xiuzhi turn her face faintly, and that face was no longer a cute little girl, but a hideous fox face, with a cold light in her eyes and fangs in her mouth

"Deflated calf, you dare to talk nonsense again. Believe it or not, I'm going to bite your throat right now and let your soul fly away, and see what you accuse me of."

"Yes, I'm sorry"

There was silence for a while, and in order to ease the atmosphere, I asked Hu Xiuzhi again: "Black mother, there is something I don't understand, seeing that you are so deep and so capricious, why do you only obey Guo Shouzhen's words?" Could it be that you owe him a lot of money? ”

"You know a fart, the old man once had a life-saving grace for me, a momentary grace, a lifetime of retribution, I am a fox and still understand this principle, you alone, don't you understand?"

Hu Xiuzhi glanced at me after speaking. Then talk to me.

Listening to Hu Xiuzhi, it was still the Ming Dynasty, although Guo Shouzhen had begun to cultivate, but still could not get rid of the entanglement of fame and fortune in the world, so he went to the capital from Shanxi, went to Beijing to catch the exam, but unexpectedly failed to pass the scientific examination several times, and felt shameless to return to his hometown to meet his father and fellow villagers, so he began to travel all over the world, and began to settle down in a Taoist temple on Tai'an Mountain in Shandong.

One day, Guo Shouzhen went down the mountain to make a fate. On the way back to the Taoist temple, he suddenly saw a black fox with injuries running in front of him, Guo Shouzhen guessed that it was the black fox in distress and came to him for help, so he used his Taoist robe to cover the other party in it and hide, and sat cross-legged on the ground and pretended to meditate. Then I saw two hunters running towards me, and asked Guo Shouzhen if he had ever seen a black fox passing by?

Guo Shouzhen pointed in the northeast direction with his hand, lied that the black fox was running in that direction, and then continued to meditate, pretending that nothing happened. When the two hunters saw this, they did not panic, and their faces did not change, so they believed that they were really chasing them to the northeast, and the black fox escaped.

After that, Guo Shouzhen took the black fox back to the Taoist temple and took care of it for more than a month. The black fox's injuries finally healed, so Guo Shouzhen released the black fox back into the mountains and forests, and warned it: "The fox fairy is good at wine, but if you drink and make a mistake, you won't drink so much wine in the future." If there is any more danger, I am afraid that no one will be able to save you."

The black fox really understood Guo Shouzhen's words, and after nodding three times, he ran away without a trace, this black fox was the black mother Hu Xiuzhi later, and Guo Shouzhen had already seen it at a glance at that time. This black fox is not an ordinary thing, but a Xuanhu Immortal who has cultivated into Taoism.

And that day when the black fox was saved, Guo Shouzhen pointed to the northeast, as the saying goes, monks don't speak, Guo Shouzhen's lie is to break the precepts, the black fox wants to repay the favor, for the circle Guo Shouzhen's lie, atonement for it, after leaving, he really went all the way to the northeast, and settled in Liaoning Jiuding Iron Brake Mountain.

However, this black fox did not correct the way, and after arriving at the Nine Iron Brake Mountain, he actually colluded with the local demon fairy to occupy the mountain as the king, although he did not harm people, but often transformed into a human form to rob the house, so that the merchants passing by along the way had to take a detour to avoid, and no one dared to approach a step, until one day later, a small Taoist priest suddenly came to the mountain