Fang Xian's practice, according to the precepts and inheritance of practice, is usually divided into alternatives, one is the fire dwelling Taoist, and the other is the temple Taoist.

Huoju, as the name suggests, lives in the world, eats fireworks, and is usually a family teaching, you can marry a wife and have children, do not abstain from meat, live at home and practice, and everything in the house is private property, such as Shangqing Dao.

The Taoist priest of the temple is also very simple, that is, the Taoist priest who lives in the Taoist temple.

The Taoist priests of the temple must be ordained, they cannot marry their own children, they cannot eat meat, they are cut off from the world, they are not touched by the seven emotions and six desires, and some have to keep the precept of killing, etc., everything in the temple is public property.

Because the Taoist temple is a temple dedicated to the immortals, and the Taoist priests who live in the Taoist temple are to serve the immortals and guard the incense for the immortals, they must keep their bodies clean and keep the precepts, and they cannot be contaminated with any worldly filth, otherwise they will defile the immortals, and the property of the Taoist temple also belongs to the immortals, and the Taoist priests cannot possess them privately.

But Zhang Xian checked the Nanxi Temple, hung the sign of the Taoist Temple to solicit incense, but married a wife and had children, and raised women in the backyard, which completely occupied the Taoist Temple as a private property.

"This spiritual rune Dao, Taoism and temple have become personal transactions, no wonder there is such a miasma. ”

Zhang Xian understood that this Taoist temple was not a Taoist temple at all, but the mansion of the Zhou Guan master's family, the Dharma protector disciple was the family member who took care of the family, the Taoist apprentice was the servant servant, and the only true disciple was his own son.

However, the Tao of the son of Lord Zhou Guan is really not very good, and only the lower level practices refining qi.

At this time, there was a sound of ringing the bell in the Taoist temple, and the time had come and the evening class was over.

Lord Zhou Guan opened his eyes, waved the gold whisk dust in his hand, and said: "Go back to rest for a good life, sleep quietly, become your own way, and continue to collect hundreds of money tomorrow, before the summer solstice festival, open the altar and hold a demon suppression ceremony." ”

"Yes, Master. ”

Everyone got up, bowed respectfully, and went back to sleep, still expecting to become immortals, but they didn't know that the master only regarded them as servants and servants, and he couldn't teach the real thing at all, and he couldn't learn the real skills after staying in this Taoist temple for a lifetime.

After everyone left, the main hall quieted down, leaving only the young Taoist priest, the son of Zhou Guan Lord, named Zhou Shiwen.

"Shiwen, how much money did you collect in total?" Zhou Guan began to speak his own words.

Zhou Shiwen said, "Dad, I have already received 12,000 taels, Lord Taishou has divided 30 percent, and the other 30 percent has been sent to take care of other relationships, and we have 6,000 taels left." ”

Lord Zhou Guan nodded and said: "It's only six thousand taels, this money is not enough for a few catties of ginseng, tomorrow I will call more people from the government to cheer, and I will say that the drought demon is too powerful, and I have to double the money to be able to suppress it." ”

"Tsk, understood. Zhou Shiwen smiled, he knew what to do.

"Well, let's rest in the backyard. ”

Zhou Guan Zhu got up and went back to the backyard, his son followed behind, Zhou Guan Zhu said again: "My father's path is about to be completed the day after tomorrow, I am ready to retreat and concentrate on cultivation, and strive to step into the practice of the gods and return to the void as soon as possible, and practice that piece of spirit jade sacrifice into a five-spirit magic weapon, so that we can cultivate the authentic immortal method of our spirit rune Dao, and we will not fail your grandfather's teachings." ”

"Shiwen, you have to practice seriously, we cultivators, Taoism is fundamental, your age is not young, you should take care of your heart, otherwise it will be difficult to achieve Taoism for another ten years. ”

Zhou Guan said earnestly, this son is the same as when he was young, and he can't control his heart.

"Dad, isn't there a secret method of double cultivation, you arrange a few more concubines for me, increase my luck, and adopt Yuan Yin, I will definitely be able to cultivate the Tao." Zhou Xiucheng said, wanting to do double cultivation.

"Hey......" Zhou Guan sighed, the matter of double cultivation is appropriate, and if it is excessive, it will be damaged, but the son can't cultivate the Tao, so he has to use this method, and said: "Okay, the thing that is adopted is to use the woman as the furnace, deplete the woman's vitality, and greatly reduce the life span, this matter must not be passed on, after all, our Lingfu Dao is still Shangqing and upright, if you let other Taoist friends know, your grandfather will not be able to protect you." ”

"Yes, I see. With his father's consent, Zhou Shiwen nodded hurriedly, his face was very happy.

During the conversation, the father and son returned to the backyard, and Zhou Guan took a quiet rest.

Zhou Shiwen went back to the house, and the concubine sent a bowl of ginseng soup to supplement yang, Zhou Shiwen drank it, smiled, hugged the concubine and went to the bed, took off the concubine's clothes, and saw that the concubine's back was painted with a talisman, as if it was the secret method of Zhou Guan's chief envoy, and he adopted it for his son.

In the woods outside the Taoist temple, Zhang Xian looked at all this, although he didn't know what the father and son were talking about, but when he saw this talisman, he also recognized it at a glance It was definitely not a good talisman.

He closed his eyes, rested for a while, kept his sights, and then continued to look at the rest of the temple.

Soon, he found the place where the Taoist temple stored valuables, just behind the room where the Lord of Zhou Guan was resting, there was a dark room, his eyes were fixed, and he checked the things in the dark room, large and small boxes, jewelry, gold, jade, elixir, ginseng, Ganoderma lucidum, and so on.

And among these boxes, one of them caught his special attention, and inside this box was a pebble the size of a plate.

Indeed, this is a piece of jade rough stone, has not been carved in any way, the surface is like an ordinary stone, and this jade is like a goose egg, perfect, the egg contains a breath of turbulent gas, clear and pure, like a spirit fetus.

"Could it be that this is a piece of spirit jade?"

Zhang Xian was surprised, there is a record of Xiangyu in the book, jade has a spirit, but not all jade has a spirit, the original stone of the spirit jade is generally oval-shaped, the appearance is a stone, the center is a jade, the weather is from the outside to the inside, absorbing the spirit of heaven and earth, like a natural spirit fetus, chiseling such a rough stone, in order to get the spirit jade.

Spirit jade and spirit wood, these are all materials for the immortal family to practice magic weapons.

"Hehe, this piece of spiritual jade is just cheaper for me. ”

Zhang Xian couldn't help but laugh, how long has he been cultivating, and he still needs a worthy magic weapon.

However, in this dark room, it is full of thin wires, bells are tied on the line, there are almost no gaps, even the corners are arranged, and the boxes are all tied with bells.

He also saw that there were dogs in the Taoist temple, and there were also more than fifty or sixty Dharma protector disciples, who lived around the Taoist temple, and Taoist students also patrolled the night watch, and once something happened, the Dharma protector disciples could guard the Taoist temple as soon as possible.

Seeing all the situation, as well as the topography of the Taoist temple, he began to think about how to act.

"It's not difficult to sneak into the backyard of the Taoist temple, but to take away the things in the dark room, it will inevitably touch the bell, it seems that you can only come to the east and west, set the firewood room on fire, once the fire starts, everyone goes to put out the fire, I will take the opportunity to enter the dark room. ”

He had a plan in mind, and watching everyone fall asleep, he walked out of the woods and came to the side of the Taoist temple.

With a fixed gaze, he locked on the two dogs here, took out the soul suppression talisman from his clothes, pinched his two fingers into a sword trick, held the talisman, and whispered a spell to urge: "Fixed!"

The sword trick pointed out that the black dog's body trembled for a moment, and then froze the Taosheng who was patrolling the night.

Using the talisman drawn on the rune paper can save his thought mana, so as not to consume too much.

He came to the wall of the Taoist temple, recited the five elements mantra, raised his hand to sketch, and performed the technique of piercing the wall.

The technique of piercing the wall must draw a talisman in the void, drawing five talismans in a row, metal, wood, water, fire, and earth, with him as the center, the five elements of talismans are surrounded and connected, forming a formation to run, and the calm void is like a circle of ripples on the surface of the water.

"Over!"

With a low shout, he squeezed forward, through the wall, into the backyard of the Taoist temple, through several corridors, to the firewood room.

The firewood room was full of firewood and grass, and after taking down a few lanterns, still in the firewood and grass pile, he quickly left, went to the back of the Zhou Guan Lord's room, hid in a corner, and got ready.

After a while, the firewood room was burning, everyone was sleeping, and they didn't find out that there was a fire at the first time, the fire was fast, and the whole firewood room was burned in a blink of an eye, and the fire spread to the stove house next to it, and it was so crackling that no one found it.

Seeing this, Zhang Xian couldn't help but secretly say to him, is this Nima a pig, and he didn't know if he was burned to death.

He was worried that the fire would hurt the innocent, so he had to lock up a Taoist who was patrolling the night and fighting the watch, and with a poke of his sword, he broke the soul suppression talisman.

Nadao woke up suddenly, but he didn't think much about what was going on, only to see the fire soaring into the sky, and hurriedly knocked the gong in his hand, and shouted loudly: "There is a fire, quickly put out the fire!"

As soon as this voice spread, the Taoist temple seemed to explode a pot, and everyone was immediately awakened, and shouted in panic that there was a fire.

Zhou Guan Zhu also woke up immediately, hurriedly got up and went out, and when he saw the apprentices running over, Zhou Guan Master immediately stepped forward to command, and shouted loudly: "Go and fetch water to put out the fire." ”

Everyone went to fetch water to put out the fire, but they couldn't find so many guys who fetched water for a while, and they were busy.

Zhang Xian hid in the corner, watching Zhou Guan Zhu leave, he also made a move, drawing talismans in the void, entering through the wall, and ringing the bell as soon as he entered, he was already prepared, knowing that he couldn't avoid these bells, he could only rely on speed.

He picked up the box containing the spiritual jade, pulled out the firewood knife on his waist, used the knife to smash the iron lock of the box, turned around and split open another box containing medicinal materials, grabbed two handfuls of ginseng or something and stuffed them into the spiritual jade box, and then took out the malaria Gu, pulled out the cork and sprinkled it in the rest of the medicinal materials.

When he was done, he didn't stop at all, he picked up the box in one hand, drew a talisman in the void in the other, came out through the wall, and ran away.

The wire bell in the dark room has been connected to the outside, and Zhou Guan Master also heard the bell for the first time, and was slightly stunned, and then reacted and shouted: "It's not good, there are thieves sneaking into the dark room, come with me." ”

Zhou Guan turned around and ran back to the room, several disciples followed, opened the dark room and saw that things were neat, only one box was opened, the medicinal herbs were caught in a mess, and another box was missing.

"It's not good, it's my father's spiritual jade that is missing, and this thief has stolen my spiritual jade. ”

Zhou Guan Zhu found out that the spirit jade was stolen, his face was gloomy and terrifying, and he immediately shouted: "Hurry up and catch the thief, don't care about the fire, immediately seal the surroundings, and don't let the thief escape." ”

Several disciples listened to the order, shouting not to care about the fire, just catch the thief, the Dharma protector disciples who lived around the Taoist temple, were rushing to put out the fire, heard the shouting, they all reacted, returned to their respective positions, surrounded the Taoist temple, and the rest of the Taoist students, regardless of the fire, all picked up the guy to catch the thief.

Zhang Xian's eyes were fixed, his eyes were heavy, he glanced around, and couldn't help but secretly said: "Oops, there are people all around, how can this be good?"