When Qi Wufu turned around and left, the sea of flowers behind him gradually closed, like a door closed, when the sea of flowers gradually closed, the place behind him that was like the cultivation of earthly immortals disappeared in Qi Wufu's induction, Qi Wufu walked in front of the old man, handed over the jade slip to him, the old man did not show how sad, or disappointed, still gentle and quiet.

Let the disciples choose their own path.

Such a grand gentleness and compassion is too vast and vast, and if it seems to others, it is almost ruthless.

The palm of his hand brushed over the jade slip, and the two words on the jade slip dissipated, but the old man did not smash this jade slip again, but handed it to Qi Wufu, this time the choice was different from the previous Yuyang senior brother, and said gently: "Five hundred years later, you come to see her again and ask the same question again." ”

"See how she answers."

Qi Wufu was thoughtful, as long as he was chasing the road, could he wait?

The old man turned around and left with Qi Wumiao, and slowly walked away, this time he didn't ask Qi Wufu what he felt, one old and one young, so he slowly walked on the road outside Yumiao's hermitage, the flowers on both sides bloomed, the fragrance was rich, those flowers had grown as tall as the boy's waist, and when he walked through this road, there were butterflies dancing and falling on the boy's shoulders.

After being silent for a while, the young man asked, "Teacher, is this the case with Taoist priests?" ”

The old man shook his head and smiled gently, "Naturally not. ”

"There are many kinds of sects and methods of my Taoist sect, and the lineage has also spread out, and slowly there are many sayings spreading, but just like the misunderstanding of the spirit and spirit, there is also a misunderstanding of the wealth and land of the Dharma couple, and the couple is especially deep, the meaning of the Taoist couple is not a mortal couple, if the husband and wife are Taoist couples, why bother to create a word?"

"Originally, it was because of the impermanence of destiny."

"Monks also have to face all kinds of calamities, calamities, and life and death."

"Illness helps each other, life and death are reasonable, this is the Taoist."

The old man joked, "In other words, they are supporting each other on the road." ”

"The original meaning is to walk together on this road, I buried you when you die, and you don't have to be sad when I die, there are green mountains everywhere, where is not the way back, bury me, continue to find the way forward, the so-called Taoist couple, it's just that."

This sentence was still a bit joking at the beginning, but when it came to the back, Qi Wufu felt a great sense of vastness, just in an instant, in a few words, it was far more than the compassion of the senior sister, the young man paused slightly, looked at the teacher's back, and suddenly felt that this back was obviously only one step, but it was so far away.

The old man stopped and looked back at him.

Gentlely: "What's wrong with no confusion?" ”

Qi Wufu shook his head: "Nothing." ”

He thought for a moment and asked, "Senior sister and senior brother should also know that they can't be attached to fame, and there is also the meaning of Taoist companions, right?" ”

The old man replied, "Yes, but [know], [hold the way], [supreme way]." ”

"But it's three different realms."

"Knowing that you may not be able to execute, and execution may not be able to reach, the avenue is not something that can be walked by making a wish, there are many hardships and hardships along the way, all kinds of tortures, and it is precisely because it is easy to enter the dark room when practicing alone."

"It is said that it is a Taoist couple, you must choose people first, and then you will become a Taoist couple."

"You can't fall in love, but love is tied to your heart; You must know, and if you don't know, you will be separated. ”

"Taoist couples have three combinations, said to have a clear heart, wisdom, and ambition."

"There are also three inconsistencies, ignorance, lack of wisdom, and lack of ambition."

The old man stretched out his hand to stroke Qi Wufu's hair, and suddenly joked: "What, do you want to find a Taoist companion without confusion?" ”

"Do you want the teacher to introduce you to that Cui family immortal?"

"That immortal man is indeed a person with a Dao heart as tough as iron."

"He doesn't rely on the edict of the Emperor of Heaven every day, but he can also gather three flowers at the top and lift the sun to rise."

Qi Wufu never thought that this fire could still burn on himself, the expression on his face was slightly stagnant, slightly reddened, and he said, "Teacher, don't be joking." ”

So the old man burst out laughing.

It seems that teasing this upright little apprentice will make his mood unusually happy.

He stroked his beard and sighed: "Taoist couples are also the basis of cultivation, not for love, but for the sake of the avenue, reflecting each other and supporting each other." ”

"Is love wrong? No, who doesn't have affection? ”

"It's just that it's not my way."

"As the old man and you said, I am looking for Taoist friends."

"They have their own choices, and they are all right, but our way is also right."

"They go their own way, and we also walk our way, there is no right or wrong, no superiority, but choose, when there is a fate, go with each other for a while, and leave each other when there is no fate, but there is no need to be attached to, no need to be concerned,"

"Origin and extinction."

"That's it."

"Your senior sister has taken another path, so you can wait for her for the time being."

He walked forward with the young man, Qi Wufu gradually had some understanding in his heart, but those understandings were still a little vague, not clear enough, not specific enough, and felt that many concepts and truths collided in his mind, but when he was thinking, his own charm gradually precipitated, like a stubborn stone, hidden jade, was being knocked by the world, and was in the trace of wanting to open.

The old man said in a gentle voice: "Let's go, go and see the next ......"

So the young Taoist understood that this path of questioning one's heart had not yet been able to end.

He said yes, followed behind the old man, and walked forward step by step.

This is such a long road, and it takes the experience and life of this Xuanmen disciple as the length.

After that, there were several senior brothers and sisters, and they all went to witness one by one.

They all have their own attachments, each of them is talented, I don't know how much stronger than the current Qi Wufu, or they are attached to the landscape, and they have no desire to chase the avenue, or they like to play in the world, and the world is holy, Qi Wufu personally took back their jade slips, and the old man would ask him every time, what did he get?

Each time, they asked, was their choice right or wrong?

Every time Qi Wufu answers, there is no mistake.

It's just that every time, the young Taoist thinks longer and longer.

When asked for the last time, the young Taoist suddenly felt something and replied:

"Disciple understood."

"Each of them has their own attachments, they have their own choices, but there is nothing wrong, it is not wrong to leave a name in future generations, it is not wrong to place love on the landscape, it is not wrong to have love, and it is not wrong to be willing to stay together for the rest of their lives, these things are the same as choosing the avenue, they are just their own choices."

"Who said that if it is as vast as the Great Road, in the eyes of all beings, it must exceed what they are pursuing?"

"If that's the case, the world will be boring."

The old man laughed and said, "Good good." ”

He was quite pleased, and said: "There is no confusion to realize this, this gift is also received, if you are a stubborn stone, this walk will have no effect except for vigilance, you and I should be separated here, but now it is not, I can mention the high place in cultivation with you a little, but it is also worthy of the word Xuan." ”

The old man flicked his sleeves, then sat casually under the two pine trees, on a bluestone, and asked with a gentle smile:

"If you don't have any doubts, you can know the immortals?"

Qi Wufu nodded and replied: "Traveling in the twilight of the North Sea, you can gain immortality, have magical powers, and have thousands of wonderful methods, which are unspeakable. ”

The old man said: "Do you know the level of the immortal god? ”

This is a knowledge that the boy did not know in the past, so he said, "Please teach me, teacher." ”

The old man stroked his beard and said: "Ordinary qi refiners, taking the wrong path, exhaling vitality, playing with spirit, only know cultivation but do not know cultivation. ”

"Those who enter the lowest grade are for the autopsy."

"Although there are three or five hundred years of life, there is no avenue, and there is no leisure."

"Although it is called an immortal, it is actually a ghost."

"It is the fate of those who take the wrong path and are eager for quick success, and there is no confusion about it."

"And ordinary cultivators, exhaling and refining qi, cultivating their lives, and not realizing the Great Dao."

"Get a method in the way, get a technique in the law, faith and hard will, and never waver. The qi of the five elements, mistaken and misunderstood, qualitative and solid, and finally came to the road of the top of the three flowers, such a realm, it can be called a human immortal. ”

Qi Wufu suddenly realized, and said, "It's Senior Brother Yuyangzi......"

The old man bowed his head and said lightly: "A person like him has also accumulated external strength, but he is too persistent, and he is not even a seeker. ”

"Although it is an immortal, it is just ordinary, and there are many such officials under the names of the major emperors and emperors in the heavenly court."

"In the heavens, he is the heavenly official, in the earth, he is the earth's official, and in the water, he is the water official."

The old man said: "Those who are higher than human immortals have been able to penetrate these attachments but are difficult to let go, and they have realized the Tao but can't get out, and they are trapped in the eight difficulties of the Daomen." ”

"He is a genius of heaven and earth, but he is obsessed with it, and he does not get rid of it, and he is a small success after all."

"Can live forever, and be called a land immortal."

Qi Wumiao's heart was touched, and he thought thoughtfully: "It's the current Senior Sister Yumiao." ”

The old man bowed his head, and said casually: "Under the Yuqing Sect, although there are many disciples, ninety percent are just such talents. ”

"It's not as good as your senior sister."

"And if she can break through it one day, she will come out on her own, and since then she has worked hard and practiced to the point of transcendence."

"To the point where yin and yang are pure, and can be incarnated outside the body."

"Can gather three flowers, but the five qi are in the mouth, in the mouth of the old man, so that he can be called a fairy."

"Yu Daomen can law the heavens and the earth, and he can be at ease in the Buddha Gate."

"Of the twelve disciples of the Shangqing Sect who have received the true transmission, most of them are just like this."

Under the two old pines, the tone of the white-haired and white-bearded old man was as plain and gentle as ever, but everything in heaven and earth was extremely quiet.

The silence was eeri.

I don't know when the wind started, and the whole sky was obscured, and the sun and moon were dark.

But the wind did not flow here, and the flow of water stopped changing.

All the surrounding land gods disappeared, as if everything was silent, and the voice was gentle, only in Qi Wufu's ears.

"As for the talents of the gods and immortals of heaven and earth, he cultivates hard and breaks the calamity, does not cling to things, but has the courage to dare to enter the Three Realms."

"Or preach to get the luck of heaven and earth, or enter the robbery to accumulate meritorious deeds by breaking the evil qi, and wait until you reach the completion of three thousand merits, eight hundred walks, step by step, successively serving as thirty-six cave heavens, and returning to eighty-one yang heavens, it is a heavenly immortal, if it is under the Sanqing Gate, it is called the Daluo Tianxian above the mixed yuan one qi, and if it is not under the Sanqing door, it is the Taiyi Tianxian above the mixed yuan one qi."

"Under the Shangqing Sect, the most top-notch disciple under the Yuqing Sect; the Buddha of the West; Many Heavenly Venerables and Emperors in Heavenly Court are all in this place. ”

Qi Wufu listened to it and his heart moved.

The old man stroked his beard and said plainly:

"But it's just a multiplication."

So it was even more like thunder.

PS:

The realm comes from "Zhong Lu Ecclesiastical Collection", which is very classic.

It is not a journey to the west, it will be biased towards Taoist mythology.