In the main hall of the bamboo house, everyone ate the pastries and tea sent by the servants, and after a short rest, Su Laodao continued to tell Su Dahai and them the story of Luo Xianshi.

The land of Bashu, its majestic, dangerous, secluded, beautiful famous, is the country of abundance, among which there are many immortal mountains, temples. Jiugong Temple is located on the cliff of the Yangtze River, from east to west, divided into upper, middle and lower according to the mountain.

One night in August of the first year of the Tang Dynasty, a super strong gravitational force descended from the sky above the Jiugong Temple, and a colorful super-large ball of light pierced the sky, as fast as a meteor, and instantly silently shot into a room in the temple and disappeared.

A white-haired Taoist priest in the room sat cross-legged on a futon, closing his eyes and exercising. When the Taoist priest sensed the arrival of gravity, he opened his eyes, quickly got up, and looked at the big ball of light hanging one meter away.

The sudden vision actually made the Taoist priest kowtow while kneeling, and shouted in a panic: "Disciple Luo Gongyuan, welcome the gods, I don't know which god from heaven has come to the cold house, the disciple is guilty, and he failed to greet him in time, please atone for his sins." ”

The large ball of light in front of him gradually converged on the aura of light, and transformed into a human form, which was a translucent virtual body. At this time, the virtual body communicated with Luo Gongyuan with his mind: "Luo Gongyuan, I am your ancestor Taishang Laojun, you are a teacher, your ancestor is a real person is my apprentice, you are my apprentice, you are my apprentice, Luo Gongyuan, the apprentice, get up quickly, no need to be polite, how old are you?" Where? ”

Luo Gongyuan got up and replied: "If you go back to the ancestor of the gods, the disciple is ninety-four years old this year, and he is from Jiuqiu Mountain in Pengzhou. ”

"Disciple Luo Gongyuan, how are you cultivating?" Taishang Laojun asked.

"If you go back to the Master Ancestor Divine Venerable, the disciple Zhudan has not yet arrived at the fire, and there is still some time before he can improve the realm again." Luo Gongyuan replied respectfully.

"Your cultivation progress is a little slow, it doesn't matter if it's not enough, this Divine Venerable can give you a great opportunity this time, you only need to help this Divine Venerable complete a task, how about it?"

"If you go back to the Ancestor Divine Venerable, although the Ancestor Divine Venerable, you have commanded that as long as the disciple is capable, he will definitely live up to the expectations of the Ancestor Divine Venerable, even if the disciple goes up the Sword Mountain and goes down to the sea of fire, he will not give up." Luo Gongyuan replied with an oath.

Taishang Laojun nodded with satisfaction, and continued to probe: "This god venerable this time in the private mortal world, divided two wisps of divine consciousness to rely on the things of the gods, instilled fifty percent of the power of heaven to drive, in order to save all beings in this world from the misery of life, the Tang Dynasty in the near future, fear of national fortunes, this god venerable wants you to guide the newly enthroned Tang Xuanzong Li Longji Emperor, extradite him to take the right path, so as not to go astray and ignite his immortal path." Things in the world are changing rapidly, and during this period, if you are contaminated with the cause and effect of the world, it is all your own doing, and you still need to bear it yourself, can you think clearly about whether you are willing to accept all this? ”

"If you go back to the Ancestor Divine Venerable, the disciple doesn't have to think about it, I will do my best to complete the mission of the Ancestor Divine Venerable, please rest assured." Luo Gongyuan replied firmly.

After Taishang Laojun heard Luo Gongyuan's words, he smiled strangely at the translucent face, and said in a calm tone: "The secret of heaven must not be revealed, you know that I know, and the third person must not know, and those who violate it will be punished by heaven, and you must understand the power of it." ”

"Back to the words of the ancestor god, the disciple understands." Luo Gongyuan replied.

Taishang Laojun quietly explained the task to Luo Gongyuan at this time, and said: "You only need to ...... then"

After Taishang Laojun finished explaining the task, let Luo Gongyuan take out a golden talisman and three yellow talismans, Taishang Laojun took out four heavenly powers (called heavenly gravity in the world), and used supernatural powers to divide one into one heavenly power, transferred and instilled into these four blank talismans, and successfully instilled and introduced, and the golden light flashed in the room instantly, and each talisman was covered with golden texture patterns. Luo Gongyuan was given four divine runes by Taishang Laojun, which were three yellow runes, a dragon driving rain talisman, an invisibility talisman, an illusion talisman, and a legendary golden talisman of the god of Dan'an.

A wisp of Taishang Laojun's divine consciousness entered Luo Gongyuan's spiritual sense, and taught Luo Gongyuan a "Innocent Emperor Nine Immortal Sutra" attack method.

Taishang Laojun entered the wisp of divine consciousness in Luo Gongyuan's mind, and after teaching the exercises, he erased Taishang Laojun's divine consciousness consciousness by himself, in order to let Luo Gongyuan absorb and digest it. Taishang Laojun's move can completely eliminate the causal impact of Luo Gongyuan in the future.

After Taishang Laojun did all this, his virtual body was extremely thin, and gradually transformed into a small ball of light, and the small point of light carried only a wisp of divine consciousness, driving it back to the Heavenly Palace with a heavenly gravitational energy.

Soon Luo Gongyuan chose to retreat, concentrating on practicing the "Nine Immortal Sutras of the Heavenly Emperor" taught by Taishang Laojun, and thoroughly absorbing and digesting the wisp of divine consciousness left by Taishang Laojun in the future, Luo Gongyuan believed that he would be able to succeed in building Dan.

At the end of the spring of the second year of Kaiyuan, when the drought began, the rain did not fall in most areas of Nanshan Road, and there was no harvest in the fields, and thousands of hungry people searched for grass roots and bark in the fields to satisfy their hunger.

The government of Ezhou invited the Taoist monks to set up an altar to pray for rain, and led more than 100 gentry and believers to kneel and bow three times, and burn the prayer documents for rain.

And so for three days, but there was still no rain.

On the 4th, a young man with a face of only sixteen or seventeen years old appeared at the scene, with nothing to do.

The young man who was wandering around took a bundle of hay from nowhere, walked towards the high platform away from the altar, and when he came to the foot of a big tree, he stopped, threw the haystack on the ground, and simply sat on the ground with his buttocks, and tied up the hay for his own amusement, and soon the hay was tied up by him into a straw man.

I saw the young man meditating on the spot, took out a yellow rune paper from his arms, pinched the formula with his right hand, chanted words in his mouth, and waved the talisman in his left hand, as if the talisman weighed a thousand catties, otherwise his forehead would be covered with fine and dense beads of sweat.

As the speed in the young man's hand increased, the voice of the words in his mouth turned into a Nanyin mantra: "Taishang Laojun is as anxious as a law." ”

After the young man finished reciting the mantra, his right hand pinched the trick and pointed in the direction of the straw man with the yellow talisman in his left hand, and shouted: "Facheng, go." ”

A yellow talisman flew smoothly in the direction of the straw man, sticking straight to the straw man's forehead, and something magical happened, the straw man turned into a tall and burly person wearing white clothes, with an extraordinary temperament.

The boy walked up to the straw man and said, "Go." ”

The straw man suddenly came to life, moved his body, shook his head from side to side, and soon after his movements were skillful, he turned to the young man and made a Taoist salute, and went in the direction of the altar.

The straw man came to the altar ground, looking left and right, his expression was extremely flustered, and he looked out of place with his surroundings.

Someone in the crowd noticed that something was wrong with the straw man, and it was very strange, so they asked him, "Sir, where are you from?" As if you're not a local? ”

The straw man replied, "My surname is Long, and I am a local." ”

As he spoke, the young man from before also came over, pretending to be angry and scolding: "It's been dry like this, you are still hanging out, why don't you go to rain to save the local Li people?" The straw man was terrified, and he bowed his hand again and again, and apologized: "Immortals! It's not that I can't rain down, and if the heavens don't give me the heavenly talisman, I can't use my supernatural powers to get water, and I'm also in a hurry. So there's no way! ”

The young man pondered for a moment and said, "Go to the rain quickly, I will help you with my magical powers." ”

The white-clothed man surnamed Long, that is, the straw man, saluted the young man in front of the audience, thanked him again and again, and rushed away.

Everyone present was taken aback, and someone asked the young man, "Who is that?" ”

The young man replied: "He is the dragon king of the local river, I ordered him to come to the rain quickly to alleviate the great drought, but who knows that the dragon king has not received God's Fengtian charm, so he will not be able to take water and rain, I will use my magic power to help him today, let him take water and rain to relieve the local crops." ”

After the young man explained to everyone at the scene, he looked around, and saw a large inkstone on the table where the monk chanted sutras, so he had an idea and shouted: "Fathers and elders, you will cast great magical powers and great spells in the lower ranks, please keep quiet when you arrive, and don't disturb the casting of spells below." ”

After hearing the young man's words, everyone at the scene fell silent and quietly looked at the young man.

The young man walked towards the monk's chanting table on the side of the altar, picked up the inkstone in front of the table, drank a mouthful of ink, held it in his mouth, shook his right hand, and a handful of dust appeared in his hand, his body moved, and after playing a set of dust-sweeping moves, his body stood upright, took a deep breath, raised his head, and squirted out a mouthful of ink into the air, and shouted loudly: "Dragon King, come quickly to the rain!" ”

In an instant, dark clouds filled the sky and the wind was blowing.

The young man shouted to everyone present: "It's about to rain heavily, everyone hurry up and run away, let's all go and take shelter from the rain, don't get wet in the rain." ”

As soon as the young man's voice fell, a downpour fell from the sky.

It rained for a while, and the rain was about a foot long, and then the rain stopped.

Strange to say, if the boy hadn't found out that the dragon king was at the scene, and the dragon king used his magic spell to help the dragon king get water and rain, the local drought could have been alleviated. Everyone at the scene was amazed and everyone rejoiced.

The local people asked the young man's name Luo Gongyuan, and they went to see the Taishou of Ezhou.

Everyone chattered in unison and praised Luo Gongyuan, who looked like a young man in front of them, and told Taishou about the rain.

When he heard this, he was overjoyed and was about to give him gold and silk.

Luo Gongyuan smiled but did not accept it.

Seeing this situation, Taishou said: "The Son of Heaven respects the Taoist immortals, and Mr. has this Taoist technique, and the lower officials should be introduced to the front of the emperor, and they will be reused." ”

"I didn't like to travel around the palace, but I heard that Zhang Guo and Ye Fashan were two immortals in the capital, so I wanted to meet them, so let's go there and have a look." Luo Gongyuan replied to Taishou.

When Taishou heard that Luo Gongyuan readily agreed to go to the capital to meet the emperor, he was naturally overjoyed.

After settling Luo Gongyuan, Taishou immediately wrote a letter and sent officials and chariots and horses to escort Luo Gongyuan into Beijing.

Soon after Luo Gongyuan arrived in the capital, the official sent the letter to Emperor Li Longji of Tang Xuanzong, Li Longji read the letter sent by Taishou, and knew the rain of the Dragon King of Ezhou, he was very happy, and immediately sent a holy decree to summon Luo Gongyuan.