The morning light is faint, and in the early morning of the town, the smoke curls up, covering the town with a thin layer of smoke, like a veil, half covering the woman's delicate cheeks. The air is fresh, take a deep breath and refresh your heart.

As soon as Zhang Yuan pushed open the door, he found that Zhang Daoling had been waiting outside the door for a long time.

Zhang Daoling wore a green shirt and carried a peachwood sword, which was the one enshrined in front of the hall, his long black hair was simply tied with a purple star tassel belt, his waist was tied with a flowing cloud Ruyi belt, and he was wearing Taoist Shifang boots on his feet. The eyebrows and eyes are gentle and do not look evil, and the body is slender and does not look weak.

Zhang Daoling looked at Zhang Yuanyi and said solemnly: "From today onwards, I will officially teach you the Tao and lead you to practice." ”

After that, he took out a scripture book from his sleeve and handed it to Zhang Yuanyi, "This book of "Five Qi Dynasty Yuan" is the foundation of my sect's cultivation, you can comprehend it well and cultivate according to the content of the book." ”

Zhang Yuanyi borrowed the scriptures, his eyes were full of expectation, but he was not in a hurry to read it, he planned to find a good opportunity to study it again.

"Then I'll teach you the Four Elephants Sword Technique, look at it!" Zhang Daoling's right hand shook, and the peachwood sword on his back flew out of the sheath and flew into his hand.

"Qinglong!" Zhang Daoling's hand shook, and the peachwood sword drew a gorgeous sword flower in the air, "The main wood of the green dragon lies in the endless life, and the sword moves are all in one go, and they are integrated." ”

Zhang Daoling's sword tip is a little bit, the water in the water tank next to it is provoked in the air, the water gathers but does not disperse in the air to form a long water column, under the traction of Zhang Daoling, the water column flows rapidly, like a swimming dragon, swimming all over the world.

"Go!" Zhang Daoling pointed at the tip of his sword, and You Long rushed forward, and the wall in front of him was directly pierced through a large hole.

"Come!" Another sword tip turned, and the arrogant dragon turned back, returning to Zhang Daoling's sword body.

"Xuanwu!" The sword body slapped, and the water dragon scattered in all directions, scattering into water droplets in the air, hanging but not falling, "Xuanwu's main water, water-based impermanence, lies in the thousands of changes, unexpected." ”

Zhang Daoling quickly knocked out a grain of water droplets, each water drop flew in a different trajectory, some straight forward like a bamboo, some meandered and circled to the sky, some were indifferent and still hanging in the air, and even fell into the dust and disappeared.

"Now!" Suddenly, from all sides of heaven and earth, all the water droplets concentrated a little bit, because there was no target, all the water droplets collided together, forming a huge wave of water, surging.

"White Tiger!" Zhang Daoling's body was like a swallow, like a fierce tiger, cutting off the water waves from it. "The white tiger is gold, gold is a symbol of sharp weapons, what you want is to break ten thousand laws with a sword, as fast as thunder. ”

A few more leaps, swinging the sword, all the water droplets were cut square at a very fast speed, it was too late to restore the original state, each drop of water was sharp and angular, like a piece of glass beads and even the sunlight refracted the brilliance in it, and all this happened in an instant, Zhang Yuanyi's naked eye could not see the master's movements at all, only saw countless afterimages in front of him, and soon disappeared without a trace.

"Vermilion Bird!" If the white tiger has already made Zhang Yuanyi feel difficult, then Suzaku Zhang Yuanyi doesn't know how to start at all, because Zhang Daoling just swung a sword from beginning to end, and after a sword, all the water droplets disappeared, not even the mist, as if they disappeared out of thin air. For a time, the world is clear!

After the peachwood sword was returned to the sheath, Zhang Daoling said slowly, "Vermilion Bird is the main fire, water and fire are incompatible, and everything is burned!"

Zhang Yuanyi was dumbfounded, and he couldn't come back to his senses for a long time.

It wasn't until Zhang Daoling took off the peachwood sword and threw it to him in the air that he came back to his senses and caught the peachwood sword in a panic.

"This sword is given to you, so let's practice it yourself in the future. I'm not going to demonstrate. Zhang Daoling said softly.

"Ah, master, but I still have a lot of moves that I haven't seen clearly, and I haven't memorized a lot of them. Zhang Yuanyi hugged the peachwood sword and complained.

"That is, your own comprehension is not enough, the master leads the door to practice by yourself, and you should work hard yourself. After saying that, he didn't stop and left the courtyard.

Zhang Yuanyi was speechless, and it was okay to meet such a master.

Zhang Daoling walked into the back room and smiled lightly, "It's strange when others say they understand me, you say you don't understand, who believes it." ”

The implication is that Zhang Yuanyi must have understood.

In fact, it is true that Zhang Yuan has an excellent memory in his life, which is as good as his brother Dayong. As long as Zhang Yuanyi has seen it, it is unforgettable, even if it is a martial arts move, although he may not understand the charm inside, but those movements, the feeling of the moves, he will not be mistaken, these things are like landscape paintings, and the images are generally imprinted in Zhang Yuanyi's heart. He can repeat it as he wants it as he wants. That's why Zhang Daoling said that he would only repeat it once, because a few more times would be the same for Zhang Yuanyi.

In this way, Zhang Yuanyi practiced those sword moves with a peachwood sword all morning, of course, a few times at an extremely slow and slow speed. After all, he hasn't really entered the house yet, and without a little spiritual power blessing, no matter how fast the speed is, it's useless, and there are a few actions to take off, run, and point water...... How can ordinary people do it, the reason why they practice with a sword is that on the one hand, they want to feel the charm of the master, and on the other hand, they are purely Zhang Yuanyi's love for this wooden sword, and he likes these swordsmanship from the bottom of his heart, and he yearns for the so-called rivers and lakes too much. I feel that as long as I take this sword, I will be a charlatan.

Zhang Daoling looked at Zhang Yuanyi from a distance, although he didn't show it, he did definitely have a lot in his heart. A lot of things interest is the first element, if you don't like to practice, don't like to practice martial arts, once you reach some bottlenecks, the easier it is to give up, being chased to learn is always not as motivated as what you are willing to learn, of course, practice is far from enough to rely on interest alone, understanding, chance, background, and most importantly, perseverance are indispensable. The road to the mountain is never easy, and the hardships are not for outsiders.

It wasn't until noon that Zhang Yuanyi stopped practicing, because he still had to cook for the master. Sword training is sword training, and if you forget your business because of this, it will be worth the loss.

In Zhang Yuanyi's heart, cooking for the master and helping the master is always a more important thing than practice.

After lunch, because of the visit of guests in the afternoon, Zhang Yuanyi followed the master to do carpentry until the sun was about to set.

After the work was over, Zhang Yuan looked at the sky, casually found an excuse and ran out with a basket, but promised to come back within an hour.

Zhang Yuan trotted all the way to Persimmon Lane, and only after looking around at no one did he call to the Candle River: "Little demon, little demon." ”

There was no response, he picked up a small stone on the ground and threw it into the water, at this time the water ghost just poked his head out, and the stone hit her head straight on, "Oops!"

Seeing this situation, Zhang Yuan immediately turned his face to the sky, put his hands behind his back, shook his legs, pretended not to see it, and later opened his throat and scolded, "Who, do you have a merit heart, is it good to throw stones into the water, what should I do if I hit someone?"

But when Zhang Yuanyi looked down at the water ghost, he found that the water ghost had a puffed cheek and looked at him with a coquettish face.

Zhang Yuanyi smiled embarrassedly, scratched his head and said, "Don't be angry, next time I catch that person, I will definitely avenge you." ”

The water ghost also ignored Zhang Yuanyi's three hundred taels of silver here, and asked: "What is the matter with the son, I have nothing to do, little demon, I have to leave." ”

As he spoke, he was about to burrow into the water.

"No, no, no, I do have something to ask you for help with today. Zhang Yuanyi immediately stopped the water ghost.

Zhang Yuanyi cleared his throat and said, "Do you have any silverfish here?"

"Huh?" the water ghost couldn't laugh or cry with a question mark on his face, "What do you mean?

"That's right, whitebait. Zhang Yuanyi said seriously.

The water ghost glanced at Zhang Yuan and said, "What should I do, you are waiting here." ”

After saying that, he jumped up, leaving a dashing purple figure in the setting sun, and fled thousands of miles along the river. For a water ghost like her, swimming in the river is like a tiger entering the mountains and forests, which cannot be done in an instant, but can still be done for dozens of miles.

It didn't take long for the water ghost to return with a full load, only to see her spread out her palm, and there was a puddle of clear water on the palm of her palm, and nothing else, but it didn't take long for several small silver-white fish to leap out of this puddle of clear water. The size of the small fish's palm was like a pebble, and it smashed straight towards Zhang Yuan's head.

Zhang Yuanyi didn't have time to react, he was smashed by the small fish and was powerless, and no one was spared in the hair on his face, and when all the fish flew out, there was still a silverfish that stopped on Zhang Yuanyi's head, opening and closing his mouth and spitting bubbles as if he was laughing at Zhang Yuanyi.

Zhang Yuanyi's embarrassed appearance made the water ghost hide his face and giggle, and said with one hand on his waist: "Hmph! ”

Zhang Yuanyi didn't care about her, and put all the whitebait in the basket.

The water ghost was not angry with her at all when he picked up the silverfish on the ground, and he was a little tired, and said, "Then it's nothing, I'll go back." ”

Zhang Yuanyi finally finished picking up the whitebait, and said to the water ghost with a smile: "See you tomorrow." ”

The water ghost looked confused and asked, "Tomorrow?"

"Yes, it's still this time, it's still silverfish. Zhang Yuanyi replied.

"Hmph!" the water ghost was not happy and dived into the water.

When she entered the water, she heard someone on the shore shouting, "My name is Zhang Yuanyi, may I ask the name of the most beautiful little demon girl in the Candlewater River." ”

"Why don't you tell you?" thought to the water ghost, "you mortals are in the most trouble. ”

Zhang Yuan didn't react when he saw it, and it didn't matter, he turned around and left with a smile.

He hadn't walked a few steps when he heard a voice from behind him, "My name is Xu Yifan!"

Zhang Yuan smiled slightly, and rushed to the market with the basket.

When he arrived at the bazaar and saw the familiar figure, he breathed a sigh of relief, and the stone in his heart fell, "It's good to catch up." ”

Zhang Yuanyi walked to the vegetable stall and shouted, "Grandma, I've come to see you." ”

The old woman raised her head, her face was kind, she took out a handful of green vegetables from the vegetable basket next to her, and said, "Big Niu, come on, come on, the spinach that grandma just cut today, there are still two pockets left to take back to make soup." ”

Zhang Yuanyi was not polite, took the spinach, and handed the vegetable basket to the old woman, "Grandma, this is a few whitebait that I caught in the river today, don't you have a sore throat these days, this whitebait is specially designed to moisten the lungs and relieve cough." You can take it back and make it yourself. ”

Zhang Yuanyi learned about the role of whitebait from a few books of his master, which was called "Food Treasures", and I remember that when I turned to whitebait, it was recorded that "nourishing the lungs and clearing gold, nourishing yin and replenishing deficiency". I didn't care about it at the time, and I didn't remember it until I heard the old woman say that my throat had been dry recently.

The old woman took the basket and smiled even more, "You child has a heart, if anyone becomes your daughter-in-law in the future, he will be happy." ”

After that, Zhang Yuanyi chatted with the old woman a few more words, looked at the sky, and left on the grounds that he wanted to help the master cook. Anyway, I also caught up with the cooking for the master.

Zhang Daoling's carpenter shop is not the same as other shops, the heaviest day of the month is not to accept customers, Zhang Yuan heard the master say that it is because carpentry is a job that requires yang energy, if the yang energy is insufficient, not only the carpenter itself will lose the yang life, but also the effect of the tools made will be greatly reduced, especially some magic weapons used to deter evil spirits, not only lose their efficacy, but also may become the evil spirit's dependence.

And this yin qi is the heaviest month and there are a lot of exquisiteness, which is calculated according to the chronology of the dry branches, and it is different every year.

On the fifteenth day of October of the lunar calendar, it happened to be the heaviest day of the year and month, Zhang Daoling took Zhang Yuanyi into the mountain, saying that he was looking for something.

The forest is misty in the morning, and it is late autumn, and the leaves that fell last night accumulate on the woodland, combined with the moist morning dew, making the woodland even more slippery, and the slightest mistake can make people slip. The dew usually doesn't dissipate until noon, but today the clouds are too heavy and may last all day.

The master and apprentice walked all the way to the depths of the mountain, and they didn't see the slightest sign of stopping, Zhang Yuan didn't ask, and Zhang Daoling didn't say that the two of them just hurried silently. During this period, Zhang Daoling just told Zhang Yuanyi not to take anything from the mountain, and they could only take one thing today.

The town is called Baozhu Town, because there is a huge mountain range in the north, this mountain range stretches from north to south, looking down like a fierce tiger ready to attack, facing the town in the south, doing the hungry tiger pounce. The town is like a jewel in front of the mountains, just big enough to swallow and turn into a real tiger. And this mountain range is rightly called the Tiger Mountain Range.

In the depths of this Tiger Mountain, Zhang Yuan has seen rare herbs and rare and rare tonics many times. There is cold grass honeysuckle, it has the effect of removing fire, heat dissipation and detoxification, there is Guanyin offering pearls, it has the effect of nourishing the kidney and nourishing the spleen, there is bergamot ginseng, it has the effect of treating lung deficiency and cough, fatigue and emaciation, and neurasthenia...... There are also a lot of herbs with high medicinal value, so Zhang Yuanyi can't help but want to pick them in his medicine pocket, but Zhang Yuanyi no longer moves these thoughts when he thinks of his master's teachings.

As for all this knowledge about herbal medicine, Zhang Yuanyi saw it from Zhang Daoling's collection. Zhang Daoling has very few books in his collection, only one "Compendium of Materia Medica", one "Yellow Emperor's Inner Diameter", all about medicine, one "Food Treasures" about food, and one "Classic of Mountains and Seas" to record the geography of Zhiwei. The rest of the books are gone, and Zhang Yuanyi has read these books in his free time, as for whether Zhang Daoling has other books, Zhang Yuanyi does not know. It's like he never saw Zhang Daoling's "Wuqi Chaoyuan" to Zhang Yuanyi last time.

So Zhang Yuanyi sometimes really yearns for Zhang Shi's house, which is full of books, how long does it take to read it to finish it, just thinking about who can stay in that house makes people envious for a long time.

In fact, Zhang Daoling's collection of books has never been missing, although it may not be as good as Zhang Shi, who is known as the "collection of millions of books", but it is more than enough to take out hundreds of thousands casually, but these are not in a hurry, and now giving Zhang Yuan a look at these books is no less than pulling out seedlings. It is much better to travel thousands of miles and then read 10,000 books, or read 10,000 books and take care of both the 10,000 miles of the road than Zhang Yuan to read 10,000 books and then travel 10,000 miles.

Zhang Yuanyi is now like a blank piece of paper, a little wind and grass may leave traces in his heart, now reading too many books will only stereotype Zhang Yuanyi's mind, and when the time comes, it will only be difficult to correct it, as the saying goes, "it is better to believe in books than no books" is this truth, only when Zhang Yuanyi has experienced more, he has his own judgment ability on things, and then when he reads 10,000 volumes, he can have the ability to take its essence and remove its dross.

Zhang Yuanyi was very curious about why there was no rural villager to pick these herbs, even if they couldn't understand it, some medicine pickers should be able to understand it, why it seemed that there was a mountain of rare treasures, and a hundred herb garden was not used.

"The depths of this mountain are full of miasma, these miasma mortal bodies are irresistible, and inhaling a little bit will cause great damage to the body, and the risk of coming here to collect medicine is not worth the loss. Zhang Daoling saw Zhang Yuanyi's doubts and answered.

Zhang Yuanyi suddenly realized, no wonder he looked at the place a few zhang away from them has been foggy, he can't see it really, I think it was some tricks of the master to shield this miasma from a radius of a few zhang.

The two of them walked until it was dark, and they climbed a small hill, and it was already dark at night, and the scene before them suddenly became clear. Behind the hill is a plain, which is a bit big, but it should only be a flat dam. In the middle of the dam, there was a large, pitch-black shadow in the fog, walking back and forth.

"Here we are. Zhang Daoling was the first to speak, waved his sleeves again, and said calmly: "Scatter!"

All the miasma spread out, and Zhang Yuanyi saw the scene inside. In the center of the dam, there is a towering ancient tree, which leads to the heavens and the earth, like a giant sword rising from the ground, poking out a big hole in the sky. And around the ancient tree, there was a huge white-fronted insect, this big insect was so big, Zhang Yuanyi in front of it was only in front of the big insect's toes, just like a small hill.

When the big insect saw the two of them, perhaps sensing the threat of being invaded by someone, the big insect grinned, revealing the sharp fangs in its mouth, and roared in bursts.

Zhang Daoling walked forward and said with a smile: "Kitten, retreat quickly, I want to take this Xuanyuan cypress today, you are only halfway to kill, I will wait for it for a much longer time than you." ”

Where can the big insect listen, and a fierce rush rushed towards Zhang Daoling.

The big insect is menacing, and its rapid body shape drives the surrounding plants and trees to turn with the wind. opened his bloody mouth, like an abyss, and wanted to swallow Zhang Daoling into his mouth.

A mortal who doesn't know the height of the sky, he dares to snatch this ancient tree with my master if he is lucky.

Zhang Daoling was still indifferent, shook his head and said: "If you don't listen to good words, you must suffer some hardships." ”

Zhang Daoling slowly raised his hand, and fell suddenly, above the sky, there was a pair of huge hands that broke through the clouds and fell to the world, in front of these hands, the so-called king of beasts as big as a small hill is really just a kitten.

The big hand grabbed the neck of the big insect, and the big insect couldn't move in an instant. The big insect shook its body frantically, and the dust was flying, but to no avail, it still couldn't break free in the slightest, and the more it shook, the more it found that the strength of this hand increased even more, and in the end it became difficult to breathe.

The gap was too big, and since he couldn't beat it, he simply accepted his fate, and the big worm gave up struggling.

Zhang Daoling called Zhang Yuanyi to walk towards the ancient tree, and patted the big insect on the head when he passed by, "It's really not worry-free." ”

When he really walked in front of the ancient tree, Zhang Yuanyi saw this ancient tree clearly, the crown was wide and spherical, and the branches were flattened, arranged in a plane. The leaves are small, scaly, clinging to the twigs, and arranged in cross-opposite pairs.

Zhang Yuanyi looked up at this ancient tree and sighed: "If it is used for medicine, how much medicine will be made and how much money will be sold!"

The efficacy of cypress Zhang Yuanyi also learned in the "Compendium of Materia Medica" that "seeds, roots, leaves and bark can be used as medicine, and branches and leaves are slightly poisonous"

Zhang Daoling was amused by Zhang Yuanyi's thoughts and said, "This is not for medicine. ”

I saw Zhang Daoling kick the ground and step on a branch, lowered his head and said to Zhang Yuanyi: "You wait for me below, I'll come down immediately." ”

After a few jumps, I easily climbed the canopy with the help of the branches.

Climb the canopy of the tree to see the whole world and the whole world. Zhang Daoling looked up at the sky, and it was overcast. "There's still half an hour left in the ion, so it's okay to wait." ”

Later, he looked down at the ground, Zhang Yuanyi kept looking up at him, he gently brushed his sleeves against the ground, the fog shrouded the canopy, and Zhang Yuanyi, who was on the ground, could no longer see Zhang Daoling. Then Zhang Daoling sat cross-legged on the canopy, closed his eyes and rested.

As soon as Zhang Yuan on the ground couldn't see the situation above, he didn't look up at the crown anymore, but looked at the big insect instead, and the big insect looked contemptuous, as if he was very disdainful of Zhang Yuanyi.

Zhang Yuanyi didn't care about these, just looked at this big insect carefully, he hadn't seen such an ordinary appearance but a big insect with a larger head, but in "The Classic of Mountains and Seas, the North of the Sea" he saw another very similar beast, "Qi Qi", Qi Qi looks like a tiger, has a pair of wings, likes to eat people, and will start eating from people's heads, it is a vicious beast. It is known as one of the four fierce beasts, and is as famous as Chaos, Hanzhu and Gluttony.

After being watched by Zhang Yuanyi for a long time, the big insect Xu felt insulted, and looked at Zhang Yuanyi angrily, Zhang Yuanyi was not frightened, his expression was indifferent, and he still looked at the big insect like a plaything.

The big insect was even more angry, and its claws rubbed wildly on the ground, as if it was necessary to tear Zhang Yuanyi to pieces to relieve the hatred in his heart. However, the hand was still firmly holding his neck, and everything could only be thought of.

In this way, these two guys, staring at each other with big eyes, continued to look at each other until Zhang Daoling came down.

About half an hour later, the aura between heaven and earth is agitated, the wind is howling like a hundred ghosts crying, the leaves of Xuanyuan cypress rustling, every day is the heaviest day of the day, and then the heaviest day of yin every month, at this time the yin energy reaches the extreme, under the yin flourishing and yang decline, it is most suitable for some yin things to practice, and it is most suitable for doing the thing of collecting yin spirits.

Zhang Daoling opened his eyes and stood up, at this time, the thick dark clouds still shrouded the sky, making it impossible to see the bright moon behind it.

Zhang Daoling frowned slightly, and then soothed, only to see him raise his five fingers with both hands into claws, and tear it violently, the dark clouds were torn open a huge opening, and the bright moonlight poured down from this opening like flowing water, forming a column of moonlight waterfall, and the weather was magnificent!

And Zhang Yuan under these trees has never seen it.

If you don't see the bright moon, then clear the clouds.