Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Matter of Taoism
After escaping the interrogation of the servant girl Qingyun, Zhi Xian, who had calmed down, looked at the path in front of him at the moment
"Where are we going?" asked the curious Zhixian
The Taoist priest who did not wear a robe and should change his robe smiled
"You have to get out of the realm of Wind and Snow City first, otherwise you won't have a peaceful day" tells a story that, although it is true, is a little scary
Zhi Xian smiled helplessly, he was already a martial artist at this moment, and now he was looking forward to his cultivation future
"Daoist Lin, what kind of immortal are you?" After throwing out a very curious question, Zhi Xian, who had a light in his eyes, looked at the Taoist priest in front of him at this moment
The Taoist priest pondered for a moment and said, "Are you referring to the heavenly immortals?"
"Are there immortals in the world?" asked Zhi Xian
"No, there are more people than immortals, what, you want to be an immortal?" Lin Chen asked with a smile
The black-robed young man shook his head, "I don't want to be a god, I want to"
He never said what he thought in his heart, and the Taoist priest in front of him had not yet asked what the young man in front of him thought
"Childe, what do you want to be?" the maid behind him didn't bother to ask
"I haven't thought about it yet, but maybe I won't be easy in the future" Zhi Xian boasted a little embarrassed, and smiled helplessly
"Childe is not simple now" The woman with a lot of scheming is the most true at the moment
The three of them walked on the path, surrounded by barrenness, this is the atmosphere around Wind and Snow City, which is deserted, and it is even more difficult for some killers to hide
After last night's accident, today's itinerary is unusually calm, and I am afraid that the killer will sense the exuberance when he is sealed
I'm afraid that there are some masters hidden here, I don't dare to show my head easily, or the most careful people in the rivers and lakes, the rivers and lakes, the romance is romantic, the righteousness is also righteous, not without chic, but there is really only one life
Zhixian, who first arrived at the martial arts, had no fist piles around him, so he had to find a Taoist priest around him to temper
There are many servant girls with higher realms around her, but for this beauty in front of her, she can't raise the righteousness to make a move no matter what
"Girl, your realm is so high, why do you want to be a maid if you don't want to be a fairy in the rivers and lakes?" After throwing out a very curious question, Zhixian was silent, as if waiting for an answer
The woman's eyes wandered, and she didn't say a word
Seeing that the woman in front of him was a little stumped, Zhi Xian turned his head, the corners of his mouth raised, and his heart stirred up a little waves
The Taoist priest also smiled, and continued to lead the way, it was he who was Xuanhua all the way to Tianxuanhua, and he was most familiar with what it was like outside Fengxue City
"Ahead, there is a Taoist temple, I rested here for the night before I came, and I can go there at night," Lin Chen explained
I was curious about whether the Taoist temple in the book was the same as this place, and I was excited
The Taoist temple is not big, there are not many disciples, and if you count them slightly, the master and the apprentices are combined, but there are only a dozen people
If it is comparable to those thousand-year-old Dao systems, it is really incomparable
The small Taoist temple also has the benefits of the small Taoist temple, the number of people is small, and the Taoist heart is clear
Unlike the Dao family that has been going on for thousands of years, there are many people, but the Dao heart is not one
Lin Chen, who pushed the door in, saluted, and then entered
Naturally, you have to say hello to the main person of Vipassana before you can enter
The old Taoist priest in front of him in a Taoist robe, with a lotus view on his head, sat on a futon like a pulsatilla, with a solemn expression, although he had reached the twilight of his life, but his face was full of glory
"Xiaodao, I'm going to use the ground to disturb the viewer again," Lin Chen smiled embarrassedly after saluting
"They are all Taoist priests, why bother, in my small Taoist temple, Taoist priests are not enough to practice, and they are really ashamed to go down the mountain to Xuanhua compared to Taoist friends," the old Taoist saluted and said
"The chairman of the Guan committee has really won some awards" Lin Chen didn't talk about this topic earlier, his expression was flat, and there was no fluctuation in his heart
"Why did Daoist friends fall into the realm?" the old Taoist was really curious and asked
Lin Chen sighed, "It's just a trivial matter, not enough to mention" and didn't have any intention of praising himself, just a sentence about it
The old Taoist smiled, and the young Taoist priest in front of him was really a little rare
Looking at the communication between the two Taoist priests in front of him, Zhi Xian was a little bored, so he turned his head to look at the courtyard
The Taoist priests in the courtyard dance the sword, or meditate cross-legged for a peaceful life
Lin Chen sat down, also looked at the Taoist priest in the courtyard, and asked, with a curious expression
"Why don't you see Song Xiao's figure, have you gone down the mountain?"
Song Xiao is a small Taoist priest in the Taoist temple, and he can be regarded as the little junior brother of these Taoist priests, when he came, he talked with him very happily, but he didn't see him today, Lin Chen was a little curious
Speaking of this, the expression was a little delighted, and the old Taoist looked heavy, and he didn't know where to start
"If it's inconvenient, I haven't asked," Lin Chen said
The old Taoist who sighed smiled helplessly
"It's okay to talk to you, but don't be ashamed of the old way," the old man shook his head helplessly and sighed
Lin Chen, who had already changed his robe, frowned and was speechless
On the side, he stopped envy and Qingyun, and he also came to the spirit, looking at the old Taoist in front of him
"I'm a little apprentice, I have fun in my heart, I feel that I have some Taoism, so I always want to go down the mountain Xuanhua, and I always say that I will be Xuanhua on behalf of the heavens, and I will help the world, although the words are good, but he is still too young"
Speaking of this, Zhi Xian turned his head and skimmed Lin Chen, holding back a smile and saying nothing
Lin Chen tried his best to make his face not ugly, and listened to the old Taoist with a smile
Although there was a relationship in the Tang Mansion that day, the words containing Dao Qi also shocked Zhi Xian, who knew that this words were deceiving the little Taoist boy
"I thought it would be good to let him go down the mountain to practice, with his ability, he couldn't get out of this state, and he would come back" Speaking of this, the old Taoist sighed again
"Is something wrong?" Lin Chen asked
The tone was actually a little hatred of iron and steel, and the old Taoist scolded angrily
"This little cub seems to have no chance, and he has come back before he comes out of Blizzard City."
Looking at the domineering old Taoist in front of him, Zhi Xian was a little surprised, but he didn't expect that the Taoist immortals would also burst into foul language
"This kid hasn't come out of the snow city yet, so he went back to the Taoist temple, and the next thing is that he doesn't want to eat, as if he is enchanted."
Zhi Xian was curious, isn't this a novel scene? Is it a Taoist priest who went down the mountain and had someone he liked?
"Daoist, Daoist priests can marry wives and have children, right?" Zhi Xian asked
This time, the old Taoist is even more popular
"Xiaoyou, Taoist priests can't marry wives and have children, but he...."When he said this, he stopped talking
The old Taoist who was silent for a moment said helplessly
"This kid, I thought he fell in love with the girl of that family, which is easy to say, but one day he secretly went down the mountain, so I sent a disciple to follow quietly, and finally this kid really had a private meeting with a girl" The old Taoist's words were full of embarrassment
Lin Chen rescued the scene and said, "It's a good thing to have a girl, just ask the master to propose marriage, right?"
"There is no father and no mother, born and raised, with the mountains as their home, how can we talk about proposing relatives!"
Zhi Xian looked confused, obviously not understanding what he meant
The maidservant girl on the side smiled and whispered in Zhixian's ear, "Childe, it's a mountain spirit"
After being stunned for a while, Zhi Xian knew in his heart that this was a trail going down the mountain, meeting a mountain spirit, and finally falling in love
Well, it's a bit like a novel, but it's a little bit more bloody than a novel
is also a Taoist priest, so he naturally knows what is going on, and Lin Chen, who is really a little embarrassed, is silent and has an embarrassed expression
Obviously, this matter is not completely unrelated to himself, and it is not that the Taoist priest has a prejudice against the mountain spirit, but the two cannot be together
One is a Taoist priest who destroys ghosts and demons and keeps peace, no matter how good or bad the mountain spirits are, they can't be together
It's just a matter of identity, and nothing else matters, but this heavy identity is a doomed indecision thousands of years ago
Lin Chen, who was full of guilt in his heart, looked a little ugly at the moment, but he really couldn't say anything to the old Taoist in front of him
"Dao Chief, is that disciple still in Guanzhong?" Zhi Xian asked
The old Taoist shook his head and said, "This kid went to the village early, and he actually sent back an invitation to Lao Tzu, saying that he was going to get married."
It is even more angry that the old Taoist who came from one place couldn't help but burst out with a full body of energy
got up and hurriedly wanted to let the old Taoist in front of him dissipate his envy, but after getting up, he was a little embarrassed, but when he was together, the old man's qi was withdrawn
A little embarrassed, Zhi Xian turned his back on his hand, "I'll go outside to see what the Taoist elders are cultivating" and turned away in embarrassment
The maid in Tsing Yi, smiling without saying a word, also got up and made a blessing, and then followed Zhixian and turned away
In the courtyard, a Taoist priest in a green shirt and Taoist robe who was not stained with wind and dust was wiping his Dao sword at the moment, and he smiled brightly when he saw Zhi Xian
Zhi Xian also smiled, but he didn't know that the eyes of the Taoist priest in front of him were staring closely at his back, and Zhi Xian turned his head, and the woman was behind him
intentionally or unintentionally blocked some of Qingyun's figures, and then said, "Dao Chief, isn't it boring to cultivate here every day?"
The Taoist priest in the green shirt showed a tall portrait, and then said, "I think of the avenue, but I will not feel bored, and the three Qings are always there."
Next to the Taoist priest in green shirts, there was also a Taoist boy who came to ask his senior brother, and at this time, he looked at his senior brother with a master's appearance, and he was curious
The senior brother in the middle of the day, from time to time, will smile and secretly tell himself how beautiful and good the girl under the mountain is
Dao Tong turned his head to look at Zhi Xian, and then at the woman behind him, oh, it turned out that there was a beautiful woman from the Taoist Temple, and the senior brother was pretending to be a master at this time
I kept my mouth shut, trying to keep myself from laughing, and the Taoist boy who demolished the stage had some difficulties, so he simply turned his head and fled in a hurry
A burst of high-level words made Zhi Xian a little dazed, smiled awkwardly, and left
"Do Taoist priests talk like this?" Zhi Xian asked
"No, I've seen it, it's generally quite kind, I don't know why this Taoist leader is like this..."Qingyun was also a little embarrassed
"I'm afraid to see you behind me, showing a hermit master, giving you some good impressions" Zhi Xian squatted on the top of the stairs and said with a smile
Qingyun was silent, and her eyes drifted to the sky outside the Taoist temple
It didn't take long for Lin Chen, dressed in a Taoist robe with a serious expression, to walk out of the house
Zhi Xian, who was squatting on the steps, turned his head and looked, "What, has the Taoist chief thought of a good way?"
"I thought of it, I'll persuade him" Lin Chen looked serious, dusted off the dust on his robe, and walked into the courtyard
"Big brother, that's someone's feelings, do you know what feelings are" Zhi Xian looked helpless, if this thing can be persuaded, how many less infatuated women are there in this world?
Qingyun thought for a while, "Dao Chief, it's really a little hard to persuade."
Lin Chen has already made up his mind, "If the two of you don't come with me, then I will go by myself, and he will go down the mountain, and it will be related to me."
When he turned around, he had already walked through most of the forest dust in the courtyard, leaving only this one sentence
The surrounding Taoist priests all looked at Lin Chen with a curious expression
The two of them had to be a little helpless, and followed Lin Chen out of the hill where the Taoist temple was located
Zhixian, who went out, turned his head to look, and under the mountain in the south, it was actually green, and on a hill, the north was barren, and the south was green
"I've been in Blizzard City for so long, and I haven't seen a tree like yet," Zhi Xian complained
"The south of the Taoist Temple is within the scope of the Wind and Snow City," Lin Chen explained
In fact, it is not out of the range of Wind and Snow City, in fact, this place is also the boundary of Wind and Snow City
Later, because a city was built in the south of the Taoist temple, it was the city lord and defenders sent by the capital of the Great Departure Country, and it was not as free as the Wind and Snow City
And its name is called Shanshui City, which is a little unfriendly to Wind and Snow City
As the sun began to set in the west, the three of them had to speed up their walk, hoping to find a village to rest before it got dark
Zhi Xian, who was walking in the woods with the Taoist priest, sighed a little secretly for the persistence of the Taoist priest in front of him, and he actually did what he said
The maidservant behind him whispered, "Childe, in this forest, I'm afraid there are mountain spirits and ghosts, be careful"
"That's it, is there a mountain spirit?" Zhi Xian was curious, and his face was even more excited
Just like the mountain spirits and ghosts described in it, except for the appearance of their own search, they naturally can't see the real thing, so are you going to encounter it at this time?
"Naturally, there are, the surrounding area of Wind and Snow City is barren for thousands of miles, not to mention the existence of mountain spirits or something, they can't survive at all, so even the mountain spirits around Wind and Snow City have to practice in places where they can absorb the aura of heaven and earth."
While talking, Zhi Xian faintly heard a small and fragmented sound, and he stopped walking in the middle for a moment
His face was slightly surprised, "Girl, Dao Chief, did you two hear the voice?"
The expressions of the two were a little puzzled, "I haven't heard a sound"
Lin Chen was the first to speak, and then looked around, his expression clear
"I'm afraid it's the conversation of the mountain spirits and ghosts, and you accidentally overheard it."
Zhi Xian asked curiously, and then looked helpless
"Why am I the only one who hears the voice?"
Qingyun covered her mouth and smiled, and then continued on her way
Daoist Lin Chen said flatly
"Maybe it's because your realm is too low."
The state of mind or mood has been hit a little bit, and he is silent, thinking that one day, he will definitely surpass the realm of the two people in front of him, and mock them again
Halfway through the woods, Zhi Xian, who looked around, suddenly saw a stone in the distance, and on top of the stone was a quilt made of small stones in the shape of about three wine glasses
"Dao Chief, what is that?" asked with a slightly trembling tone of envy
Lin Chen turned his head to look, his expression was still flat, as if he had seen the objects here earlier
"That's what the mountain spirit put away, don't pay attention to it, just turn around and leave, it's okay," Lin Chen said comfortingly
Then the next sentence poked a little into the heart of Zhi Xian
"There's no need to make a fuss, with your current realm, as long as it's not a hundred-year-old mountain spirit or something, you can repel it with one punch"
Zhi Xian was curious, "If it is a hundred-year-old mountain spirit, what should I do?"
Lin Chen, who thought for a while, explained
"If you run, you can still run away if you have some injuries."
Zhi Xian's smile was extremely embarrassing, "Well, Dao Chief, you are really sincere"
The maid in Tsing Yi laughed, as if she couldn't hold back any longer, and covered her stomach with laughter
"Brother Zhi, what I said was all about thinking about it later?" Lin Chen asked curiously
"No, what you said is quite right" Zhixian waved his hand awkwardly, glanced at the small stone beside him, suppressed surprise in his heart, and left indifferently
Mountain spirits and ghosts, Rao is too many legends, even with the legends of the people in the market, in addition to the Taoist priests who walked down the mountain to know the true meaning of the accident
I'm afraid I haven't seen any qi practitioners and martial artists in the world, and I haven't seen mountain spirits a few times
Lin Chen, who had a qi machine and a Dao qi, led the way, and there was no strange thing that happened along the way
In addition to the few wine glasses on the small stone just now, it was also a few mountain spirits who gathered here, felt the Dao qi and quietly left
It is rumored that there was a priest who had been cultivating for 20 years and had never come down the mountain, and when he counted with a turtle shell one day, when he threw out the copper coin, it was actually a small piece of broken money
The Taoist priest's face was ugly, and he was terrified, and after noon, he went down the mountain in plain clothes, just because he remembered a word that his master had told him
"In troubled times, the Taoist priest went down the mountain and remembered it."
Then there is a legend that when the Taoist priest went down the mountain and crossed the mountains and forests, there was a mountain spirit who took the initiative to show the way
After this incident, in the next hundred years, people's treatment of mountain spirits is also better, and the Taoist priest also chooses a place near the woods between mountains and rivers, beheads the three corpses, and ascends to the Tao!
Lin Chen, who was telling the story he had pieced together and heard while walking, said that when he ascended to the sermon, his face was extremely longing and yearning
"Dao Chief, isn't it a Taoist priest, can you behead three corpses?" Zhi Xian doesn't care about the story, he has seen too many of this kind of romantic stories, and what he cares about is whether the three corpses in the book are true
Lin Chen thought for a while, "Probably not, I am a scattered person for specific matters, how can I know"
Looking at the two men chatting in front of her, Qingyun couldn't help but wonder in her heart, the man could really talk about anything