Come in, take a seat.

Zhang Shan held two cups of tea and put them in front of Zhou Qing and Wu Laodao.

"I haven't seen you for many years, Senior Wu, you are still so spirited. Putting down the teacup, Zhang Shan stepped aside and sat down, stared at Zhou Qing for a while, and said with a smile, "This little brother is your senior apprentice." ”

When Zhou Qing heard this, he saw that his master nodded, and immediately saluted Zhang Shan, "Xiaodao Zhou Qing, I have seen Brother Zhang Dao." ”

Seeing this, Zhang Shan hurriedly replied with a salute and spoke a few words to Zhou Qing.

From the brief remarks, Zhou Qing could feel that Zhang Shan had great respect for his master, so when he talked to him, his tone was also a little respectful.

Then, Zhou Qing learned from the conversation between his master and Zhang Shan that the injury on the latter's body was injured by a monster a few days ago.

And the Yunlin Daoyou that Wu Lao Dao called before was Zhang Shan's master, who disappeared three months ago.

While talking, Zhou Qing, who had only eaten a little at noon, made a 'coo~' sound in his abdomen.

"It's me who was careless, Zhou Xiaodaoyou, wait a minute, I'll go and prepare some food for you. After Chen Shan left a word, he walked out of the house by himself.

Wu Laodao in the house looked thoughtfully at a certain place in the house, and was distracted for a while, Zhou Qing saw this, got up and followed Zhang Shan to the kitchen.

......

There was no dream all night, and before dawn the next day, Zhou Qing was woken up by his master.

"Qing'er, it's time to get up and practice. ”

"Master, can you have a day off today, I'm so sleepy. ”

"Yes, if you want to go without food for a day today, then sleep. ”

Although he knew in his heart that Wu Laodao was for his own good, Zhou Qing still let out a long sigh unconsciously.

Slipping on a long gown, he pulled open the door and walked out.

There was a large vat in the open space in front of the stilted building, Zhou Qing walked to the vat and washed his face with the cold water inside, and the sleepiness on his body suddenly subsided by seven or eight points.

Raising his sleeves to wipe the water stains on his face, Zhou Qing took a deep breath, and bent his legs to tie up the horse.

An hour later, a touch of red appeared in the eastern sky, and then Wu Laodao opened the door and walked out of the house.

Like Zhou Qing, after Wu Laodao washed his face by the tank, the master and apprentice went into the bamboo forest, and after walking for a while, they found an open place on the top of the mountain.

At this time, it was the sunrise in the east, and the master and apprentice sat cross-legged on the open space, concentrating and closing their eyes.

After another hour, the master and apprentice got up from the clearing and returned to the wooden building in the bamboo forest.

From Zhang Shan's account last night, the injury on his body was caused by a monster in Xiaowangzhuang, and after asking the direction of Xiaowangzhuang, Wu Laodao led Zhou Qing down the mountain.

After walking seven or eight miles along yesterday's official road, the master and apprentice came to Dongguo Town, and without staying, they went out of the town from the west, and walked more than 20 miles, and saw a village that was stumbling on the mountain and the river.

The master and apprentice did not rush into the village, but sat down on a field meadow across the river.

"Master, what are we cultivators cultivating? Are all the monks in the world just like you, taking it as their duty to eradicate evil and uphold righteousness?"

The old Taoist priest looked at the apprentice, then looked up at the sky, and only spoke after a long time.

"If we say that the Tao is like that, the teacher thinks that some people are for the sake of enlightenment and immortality, some people are for the sake of avoiding the world, and some people regard it as a kind of life and a kind of faith. There are three thousand Taoists in this world, each cultivating its own way, and what the teacher said is not necessarily true. ”

"As for the monks in the world, whether they are humans, ghosts, or demons, they are all divided into good and evil or neutral, just like the human heart, each with its own temperament, and cannot be generalized. ”

Zhou Qing agreed.

"Is it difficult for Master to attain immortality?"

"It's hard, it's hard to get to the sky. Your ancestor once said that cultivators such as me, even if they encounter great creations and can ascend to the mortal world, they only jump from the rules of the mortal world to a higher level of rules, and as for the gods, they are not all infinite longevity, the ultimate of the Tao is the rules, and only by mastering the rules can we achieve true immortality. ”

"Cultivators in the world, whether they are righteous, evil, or neutral, have their own ways to ascend, such as our monks based on the aura between heaven and earth, accumulate merit, and when the cultivation and merit reach the boundary beyond the mortal, can they ascend to the immortal realm. ”

The words were lightly remarked, but Zhou Qing's heart was surging, and an immortal seed was buried in his heart.

Originally, when he wore to this world, he just wanted to spend the rest of his life in that deserted village, but his master's words made him unwilling to be dull.

Although the road to immortality sounds difficult, he Zhou Qing has to take a walk, even if he can't go to the world to ascend and master the rules, he has to be a great road leader who turns his hands into clouds and rains.

"Qing'er, do you say that the monsters in that village are good or evil?"

When Zhou Qing's heart was surging, Wu Lichen's words opened the main topic here.

With a twist of thought, Zhou Qing recalled what he heard from Zhang Shankou last night.

Brother Zhang Dao said that he used his whole body skills, but he failed to hurt the monster in the slightest, but was seriously injured by the monster, from this point of view, the monster's strength is not small, and he didn't want to kill him, and he thought that the demon in the village was not evil. ”

"Let's go, follow the teacher into the village. ”

Standing up from the grass, the master and apprentice entered Xiaowangzhuang.

......

In the village, there are seven or eight children playing in groups, and three or five village women gather to sit and play family ......

After the master and apprentice entered the village, the villagers looked at the two of them.

The master has gray hair in a bun, kind eyebrows and kind eyes, a black wide robe, a black cloth bag attached to his side, hands behind his back, and a straight posture.

The apprentice also wore a bun, looked smart, put on a red robe, hung a red cloth bag on his side, and his short figure followed behind the master with his hands behind his back.

Under the eyes of the villagers, the master and apprentice after entering the village came to a mud house, where there was an old man of the same age as Wu Laodao.

"Disturbing the old brother, the old man has something to ask. ”

"Don't bother, the old Taoist has something to ask. ”

"Did a Taoist priest surnamed Zhang come to your village a few days ago?"

"That's the thing......"

After inquiring from the old man about Zhang Shan's visit a few days ago, the master and apprentice went down the back village along an alley.

In the middle of the back village, there is a very luxuriously built mansion, and there is a plaque in front of the gate of the house, which is engraved with the word 'Wangfu' in gold lacquer.

Walking to the front of the mansion gate, Wu Laodao stretched out his hand and patted the door, and after a while, the closed door of the mansion was half opened, and a young man in a rough shirt stood behind the door and glanced at the master and apprentice.

"What's the matter with the old Daoist?"

"I heard that something strange happened in your house, and the old man came to take a look. ”

After hearing this, the young man in the rough shirt hurriedly beckoned the master and apprentice into the mansion, and after placing them in a guest room and sitting down, he turned around and left.

After a while, a richly dressed middle-aged man with a sad face hurriedly walked into the guest room, and after seeing Wu Laodao, he raised his hand to give a salute.

"If the old Taoist can solve the matter of my Wang family, Wang will definitely thank him. ”

"Aside from the matter of gratitude, you can tell me about the affairs of your family in detail. ”