Those who travel a hundred miles are half ninety.

Li Ping'an continued to use his spiritual sense to probe the way forward, and in the end, instead of slackening, he became more cautious in the last few hundred miles.

Until the familiar mountain forest came into view.

Li Ping'an stopped at the hill, across the lush valley, looking at the small Taoist temple halfway up the mountain opposite, full of emotion.

The empty mountains are raining freshly, and the white mist is hazy.

On that summer day five years ago, he relied on a firewood knife and a hunting bow, and under the guidance of several woodcutters, he drank mountain springs and ate game, and found this Taoist temple through hardships.

It was here that he knocked on the two closed doors and found the 'turning point' of this life.

Li Ping'an has always been grateful to Chen Gongmin.

Looking at the clouds in the sky through the glass mirror in his palm, Li Ping'an took out the disciple clothes he had prepared before, tied up the hoop, put on the cloth boots, and inserted a bamboo hairpin into the hoop, and hung two cyan long bands on the left and right of the bamboo hairpin.

Then, Li Ping'an groped his face with his hands for a while, and in front of the immortals on the clouds, he took off a mask as thin as a cicada's wings and restored his original appearance.

Li Ping'an pondered in his heart:

'The nun pretending to be an old woman has Transfiguration, which is a rare technique. ’

If she is also a disciple of the Wanyun Sect, she can ask where she learned the Transfiguration technique when she has the opportunity in the future. ’

His figure floated up with the mountain wind, allowing a little mana to spill out, which was counted as his identity.

Chen Gong Min Dao Chang is one hundred and twenty years old, still middle-aged, and his cultivation has stopped at the Refining Void Realm, and there is still a distance from the Hezhen Realm, and the ascension to immortal is slim.

Chen Daochang is the outer disciple of Wanyun Sect stationed in the mortal immortal dynasty, and his main responsibility is to take care of Wan'an City and its surrounding towns.

Like Daochang Chen, the Qi refiners of the Wanyun Sect stationed in various places can have two or three thousand people in the Linzheng Immortal Dynasty, most of them are in the realm of refining the void and the truth, and most of them are in the capital and the border.

In the border area where the Linzheng Immortal Dynasty often clashed, there would also be immortals from the Wanyun Sect stationed.

If there is no accident, Daoist Chen will practice here for the next few decades, if he can break through to the realm of truth, he can go back to the door to boil his qualifications, and if someone supports him, he can become a low-level deacon of the outer gate like the original Wei Yanzi.

When observing Wei Yanzi's ascension to immortality, Li Ping'an had a question.

[Why doesn't this world have an Immortal Ascension Tribulation? 】

After consulting a large number of classics, he found that there was no such thing as a catastrophe in this world since ancient times.

The way of heaven is not revealed, and order is self-generated.

The Heavenly Dao of this world refers to the 'Heavenly Way', not the 'embodiment of the will of heaven and earth', and the so-called order is constructed by the living beings themselves.

This made Li Ping'an a little helpless.

Whether you want to follow the old man of heaven, or you want to scold the thief, it is nonsense.

A moment later, the young disciples from the Wanyun Sect arrived in front of the Taoist Temple.

Li Ping'an collected his thoughts, lowered his head and tidied up the outer placket of his robe, smoothed the hairband in front of him, and knocked lightly on the firewood door.

Knock, knock!

He raised his head with his chest straight, deliberately showing off in front of Daochang Chen, and read jokingly in his heart:

'We're also homecoming. ’

At this time, a white mist rose on the periphery of the Taoist temple.

A shallow wall of light from the magic circle lit up, completely enveloping the courtyard, and the array gate was this gate.

'How could Daochang Chen be so extravagant? ’

Li Ping'an smiled first, and then became a little vigilant.

There are not many cultivation resources that can be obtained by the qi cultivators stationed in the gate of the mortal world; In order to reduce the loss of spirit stones, Chen Daochang usually only opened this place formation when he was in retreat.

Li Ping'an took two steps back and said loudly: "Disciple Ping'an, I was ordered to come here to deliver a letter, so my friend can practice?" ”

He used some mana to make sure his voice could get in.

The wall of the Taoist temple shook two or three times, and then closed.

Li Ping'an's heart was instantly full of vigilance.

The moment the formation was closed, he sensed an unfamiliar aura and Dao rhyme, although it was also a lineage of Wanyun Sect, it was quite different from Daoist Chen's aura.

Li Ping'an's right palm immediately buckled a self-made magic weapon the size of a jujube core.

Squeak - yo -

The doorshaft let out a sigh of imminent death.

A small head poked out of the door, and two pink hair buns stood out.

Double pill head?

The nun who pretended to be the old woman with Transfiguration was also in the same hairstyle.

The young female cultivator looked out, and when she saw Li Ping'an, she blinked a pair of big rippling eyes, and whispered in that gentle and soft voice:

"Who are you looking for, my master is out."

Li Ping'an frowned tightly, and his expression was a little cold.

Could it be that Daochang Chen was calculated by this group of people?

When the female cultivator saw Li Ping'an at this moment, her Dao heart was also a little fluctuating.

It's not that I was scared by the cremation that Li Ping'an said before, but ......

'Is this who he is?' It's so handsome. ’

Wen Ling'er opened the two wooden doors and continued to play the role of an innocent and harmless girl, with a short skirt no more than the knees, and a pair of white jade legs without extra decoration.

Slightly different from the usual female nun's attire, she wore 'straw sandals' made of jade strips with slender feet and a noticeably thick heel.

Wen Ling'er's apricot eyes were shining, and she said softly: "Look at your breath, are you also a disciple of Wanyun Sect?" ”

"I'm from Wanyun Sect," Li Ping'an frowned, "Daochang Chen is your master?" ”

"Uh-huh!"

"I have a good relationship with Daochang Chen, but now it's only been three years, I never thought that Daochang Chen actually had one more disciple of the Condensing Light Realm!"

Li Ping'an's gaze was a little compelling.

Wen Ling'er explained unhurriedly:

"Don't get me wrong, I've only only been apprenticed for the last two years.

"Previously, I had been practicing in Fang Town on the coast of the East China Sea, working in our Wanyun Sect's pill shop, and I had to practice the exercises outside the door, and I only got such a Dao fruit after practicing for decades.

"I heard that the master has the opportunity to become an immortal, and he also practiced in the mountain gate, so I relied on a lot of connections to become a disciple of the master.

"As long as Master returns to the door, I will be able to go back to the door and enter the immortal book with me......

"It's just for a future."

After speaking, Wen Ling'er's thin eyebrows lowered, her small body trembled slightly, and she lowered her head and sighed softly.

Li Ping'an's mind turned sharply, and his expression gradually softened.

He said: "I heard you say that these things don't look like falsification, but there is evidence?" ”

"Yes."

Wen Ling'er took out a few things—a few pages of account books from the pill shop in a certain town of Wanyun Sect, some empty jade bottles marked with the mark of Wanyun Sect, and the identity jade plate of the pill shop.

Li Ping'an decided to probe the other party's reality, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

He said: "It's that I blamed Daoyou, I don't know where Daoist Chen has gone, and when will he be able to return?" ”

Wen Ling'er hurriedly said: "The family master got an urgent letter a few days ago, saying that there is a group of evil cultivators who are eyeing a spiritual mine near here, and the spiritual mine has thousands of mortals doing errands, but there are only four qi refiners stationed in the door, so I asked the family master to go to help...... Let's stop talking here, if you let Master know, and you want to scold me for not being rude, please inside. ”

"Thank you."

Li Ping'an's spiritual sense had already explored the inside and outside of the Taoist temple several times, arched his hand, and followed the woman into the gate.

The Taoist courtyard is clean and tidy, the bluestone paved ground is dotted with a little moss, and in the center of the courtyard is a seven-foot square fish pond, and more than a dozen koi fish swim leisurely under the lotus leaves.

Li Ping'an smiled: "This courtyard has not changed from the last time I came. ”

Wen Ling'er walked quickly to the side room to make tea.

Li Ping'an sat on the stone chair in front of the door familiarly, and turned his head to look at Wen Ling'er's back.

She is not tall, but she is delicate and cute, but the proportions of her legs are the best.

Li Ping'an suddenly asked, "Didn't Daochang Chen mention me to you?" ”

Wen Ling'er, who was playing with the stone furnace of the Dharma Weapon, did not pause, and said with a smile: "I have just apprenticed to the master, and the master rarely mentions his friend to me, what should you call it?" ”

"Li Ping'an, like a fellow Taoist, has not yet entered the outer door."

Li Ping'an smiled:

"Now I'm doing the trial task of the outer gate, and I am lucky, the trial task I drew is very simple, that is, to send a letter to Daochang Chen.

"If I can pass it successfully, I will be considered a disciple of the Wanyun Sect."

"It's really enviable."

Wen Ling'er came with a tea tray and greeted with laughter:

"My fellow Daoist should not be very old, do you already have a condensing light realm cultivation? Daoyou used some spells to cover himself, but I couldn't see clearly.

"It stands to reason that Daoyou is so young and promising, and there should be immortals to accept apprentices, how can you go through the trials of the outer gate like this?"

Li Ping'an's eyes flickered slightly: "The internal situation here is quite complicated, and it can be regarded as being dragged down by my father." ”

"Dragged down by Lingzun?"

Wen Ling'er poured tea and said strangely: "How did you say this?" ”

Li Ping'an said calmly: "My father worshipped the ancestor of the opening of the mountain in the door, Kong Ming Dao, as his teacher, and became a disciple of the founding father, and my generation was also pulled up. Maybe the immortals in the door are taboo about these, and I think it's also my chance to come. ”

With that, he picked up the cup of tea and sent it straight to his mouth.

Wen Ling'er's smile froze on her face.

Open, open the mountain ancestor apprentice grandson!

The disciple grandson of the Golden Immortal Ancestor in the door!

What he wants to harm now is the apprentice grandson of the ancestor who opened the mountain in the door!

Li Ping'an made a gesture to drink water.

"Hey! My lord! ”

Wen Ling'er raised her hand to grab the teacup, but her movements were forcibly stopped, the whole person seemed to tremble, and her delicate voice became trembling:

"Dao, Daoyou! This tea was from last night! ”

"Huh?"

Li Ping'an looked up at Wen Ling'er, but he just brought the teacup to his nose and gently fanned with his other hand.

He seemed to be sniffing the smell, but in fact he had already sealed his mouth and nose with mana, put down the teacup with a smile, and looked up at Wen Ling'er.

At this moment, Wen Ling'er felt like she was standing under the scorching sun, and her Dao heart was a little trance-like.

Is she involved, involved in a power struggle at the top of the door?

Li Ping'an asked again: "What do you call Daoyou?" ”

"Ling'er...... My name is Wen Ling'er. ”

Wen Ling'er was not bad, although she was disturbed by Li Ping'an, she immediately showed a smile at this moment: "I never thought that you would have such a background." ”

"Just my father's light."

Li Ping'an said:

"I also had some fun when I came, and I met an old woman who claimed to be the mother of a disciple in my Wanyun Sect.

The old woman wanted to kill herself, saying that the heir was unfilial and did not want to live.

"I looked very funny, and deliberately teased her.

"The old woman thought she was in good disguise, but in fact she didn't do even the most basic details, and I saw through it at a glance.

"At her age, if her heirs are not filial, how can she have such a ruddy complexion, such a vigorous body, and even the tea she brews smells so bad."

Li Ping'an looked up at Wen Ling'er: "What do you think?" ”

Wen Ling'er subconsciously took a half step back, clutching her pink fist and glaring at Li Ping'an, her handsome little face was mostly tangled and dazed.

If Li Ping'an hadn't reported his 'father's virtue' before, Wen Ling'er would have been about to break out at this moment.

But now, she didn't dare.

"Fellow Daoist Wen Ling'er, don't you want to say anything to me?"

Li Ping'an maintained a gentle smile, and his voice was still not hurried:

"If the Taoist friend is telling the truth outside the Taoist temple, then the Taoist friend has gone through the world for decades, and he should understand what it means to judge the situation.

"You say that you are from the coast of the East China Sea, the coast of the East China Sea is quite narrow, there are more than 1,200 large and small square towns, and my Wanyun Sect has hundreds of shops, mostly gathered in dozens of square towns in the middle of the coast of the East China Sea.

"The shoes on your feet are not very common in Dongzhou, but they are quite fashionable in Yingzhou, an immortal mountain overseas, and among the few big cities closest to Yingzhou, there happens to be Dafang Town, which is jointly controlled by my Wanyun Sect and several other sects.

"If what I expected, you're practicing there?"

Wen Ling'er squeezed a stiff smile: "You are really well-informed, you are practicing in the door, and you have seen thousands of miles away." ”

"I just like to read miscellaneous books."

Li Ping'an sighed lightly:

"I didn't deny it, and I probably knew who the immortal on the cloud above my head was.

"The person in charge of those shops is Xiao Yue, the elder of the outer gate, she has the title of Xiao Boss in the door, and she is under the golden immortal in the door, and she is not afraid of offending my father.

"Come to think of it, today's events, eighty percent of those who have listened to the gossip and thought that my father will be the next head of the sect, asked her to come forward to make my trial a little more difficult.

"Whether this outer door trial is successful or not has no big impact on me, and the worst result is just to make my father lose some face.

"But what about you? Wen Daoyou. ”

Wen Ling'er's little face turned pale.

She subconsciously looked up at the air and said in a low voice, "Daoyou seems to be talking nonsense...... I'm—I don't know any of that. ”

Li Ping'an suddenly asked, "Is Daochang Chen okay?" ”

"Unharmed! It's definitely unharmed! He's at the Spirit Mine! ”

"Let's go, then."

Li Ping'an stood up, looked into Wen Ling'er's eyes, and suddenly laughed again:

"You are also a member of my Wanyun Sect, and today you are just following orders, so you don't have to be too embarrassed.

"Wherever you were going to lead me, take me now.

"Come to think of it, it's just that Elder Xiao wants to test my little disciple."

With that, Li Ping'an took out the jade talisman and put it on the table in front of him.

"This is a letter to me from the door, even if I put it here and hand it over to Daochang Chen, if Daochang Chen can't see it, I will ask the door to investigate this matter strictly."

Wen Ling'er blinked softly.

She suddenly came to her senses.

This guy in front of him has gone around in such a big circle, it seems that he just wants to keep Chen Gongmin safe and sound?

Li Ping'an looked up at the clouds where Xiao Yue was hiding, and gave up his hand from afar, without saying much.

On the clouds, Xiao Yue frowned tightly.

She was actually recognized by this Li Ping'an?

This son actually took the initiative to bring out the Golden Immortal Ancestor behind his father, and only used a few words to hold her up, making her make no sense to calculate......

Xiao Yue overheard the voice, but it was Elder Yan Sheng who took the initiative to call and invited her to ride the clouds to watch the ceremony together.