In the middle of the night, the rain was pouring down, and the raindrops the size of soybeans smashed on the water surface of Jinshan Lake, splashing thousands of rain flowers.

Click!

A thunderbolt struck, the dazzling thunder light through the sky, the sky above Jinshan Lake is illuminated, there is no half a figure on the road by the lake, the tourists who hug and shout during the day have long left, even on the island in the middle of the lake, the monks in the Jinshan Temple have also closed their doors.

The thunder roared incessantly, and the electric light became lower and lower, and it could be pressed on the surface of the lake, and the scorching thunder struck the icy water, raising a thick fog, like a steamer.

The thunderstorm continued until the second half of the night, when it gradually became lighter, and as dawn approached, the wind and rain finally stopped.

After a night of rain, the sun shone on the lake, turning into a faint rainbow.

There is a hill surrounded by water in Jinshan Lake, called Jinshan, there is a temple named Jinshan Temple on the top of Jinshan, it is one of the four famous temples in the south of the Yangtze River, a thousand-year-old temple, the Buddhism is authentic, and the great virtues of the past dynasties emerge in endlessly.

The ancient trees outside the Jinshan Temple are towering to the sky, full of greenery, under the shade of this layer of ancient trees, a stone arch bridge made of white marble runs through it, connecting the golden mountain in the lake with the outside road, at this moment, under the stone arch bridge, there is a dark face, tall young man in Tsing Yi.

The young man looked to be no more than sixteen or seventeen years old, wearing a pale cyan robe that had been extinct in the world for many years, his hands spread out in front of his knees, his eyes were bright, and he looked at the rainbow on the lake with great interest.

"Eight hundred years, I have finally cultivated to adulthood..."

This young man in Tsing Yi is not an extraordinary person, but a crab in the lake has cultivated to perfection.

It was originally an ordinary crab on the coast of the East China Sea, eight hundred years ago, the snake fairy Bai Suzhen was to save the prime minister Xu Xian, borrowed the water of half the sea from the East China Sea to flood Jinshan, it was one of the 100,000 crabs that were swept by the sea, and then the tide receded, most of the crabs returned to the East China Sea, but it stayed in Jinshan Lake.

A few years later, Bai Suzhen's meritorious deeds were successful, and the catastrophe soared, but because the water flooded the golden mountain and drowned countless living beings, it attracted the bombardment of the Nine Heavenly Thunders.

This bead has a strange origin, it was obtained from a hidden grotto in Qingcheng Mountain when Bai Suzhen's cultivation was not completed, it is invulnerable, water and fire are invulnerable, no matter what spell you have, hitting the pearl, there is no effect.

Bai Suzhen knew that this bead was a strange treasure, and after getting it, she also thought about refining it, but unfortunately this bead was like a stubborn stone, and she tried all kinds of means to make no response.

Today's thunderstorm is fierce, and it is really impossible to resist, so she remembered this pearl and planned to take a risk.

After a try, it was successful, this bead successfully carried the thunder, and she also took this opportunity to survive the thunderstorm, but unfortunately after the catastrophe, the pearl was destroyed by the thunderstorm, and only a little essence remained, falling into the bottom of Jinshan Lake.

The crab was foraging in the lake at the time, and inadvertently swallowed the essence of the pearl, so it gave birth to a little wisdom.

After Bai Suzhen's successful escape, he wanted to recover the essence of the pearl from its body, but found that it had given birth to wisdom, and he couldn't help but feel pity, so he let the essence of the pearl stay in its body, and passed down a method of cultivation, hoping that it would become an adult as soon as possible, set foot on the Jindan Avenue, and fly to the sky.

After Bai Suzhen left, the crab started its cultivation path, but it did not practice the method passed on by Bai Suzhen, because in the essence of the pearl, there is a cultivation method implied, and after it is swallowed, it is imprinted in its brain, as if it is an innate ability, and it will unconsciously practice according to this method.

This method is profound and mysterious, more sophisticated than the method passed on by Bai Suzhen, but in a few years, the crab has already achieved a small achievement, cultivating into the body of a spirit immortal, if it is at this rate, it is expected to be an earth immortal within a hundred years, and it is not out of reach to ascend to the sky.

Unexpectedly, just as it was cultivating wholeheartedly, the vitality of heaven and earth suddenly turned down, and within a few days, it was exhausted, and no matter how you ran the exercises, you would not be able to absorb the slightest vitality, not only would you not be able to continue your cultivation, but even your own existing cultivation would be difficult to maintain.

The world's Kyushu, all like this, the land of China, no exception, for a while, the people who practice in the world are almost extinct.

In desperation, the crab had to fall asleep at the bottom of the lake, trying not to use mana, just waking up once every ten years to understand the changes in the world, this predicament has only changed slightly in recent decades, and the vitality of the world has gradually recovered, and it can barely absorb some and maintain its cultivation without falling.

It's just that although the situation has improved, it can't wait any longer, this is because although the lifespan of the demon spirit is far longer than that of humans, it is only a thousand years, and now more than eight hundred years have passed, and there is only more than one hundred years of lifespan left.

After thinking about it, the crab finally decided to give up the demon body and use a secret technique contained in the essence of the pearl to transform into a human.

The human body implies the way of heaven, and the cultivation speed far exceeds that of the monster, if it is turned into a human body, maybe there is a way to practice diligently, but in this way, not only will you have to give up the existing cultivation, and start from scratch, but you will also lose the innate ability and long life of the demon bloodline.

However, the crab is not an indecisive person, and after weighing the pros and cons, he made a quick decision, exhausted what he had learned in his life, and finally survived the thunderstorm last night and turned into a human.

......

A fresh breeze blows, and the lake ripples.

The crab thought to himself under the bridge, the life span of the human body is only a hundred years, it is too time-consuming to explore alone, and if you want to achieve something in this short period of time, you must either find a master to guide you, or find a fellow practitioner to communicate, but unfortunately it has no teacher in this world, and no relatives, even if there are a few acquaintances and friends back then, after experiencing eight hundred years of exhaustion, you don't know whether you are alive or dead, let alone where you are.

If there is still a little relationship with it, and there must be a living person, I am afraid that only the snake fairy Bai Suzhen, who has achieved cultivation, wants to find someone for guidance, I am afraid that the only way to find her is to find her.

It's just, where is Bai Suzhen?

After Bai Suzhen flew to Tianque, he never came back, and he had to go to the legendary Shenxiao Heavenly Court to find her, but he had just transformed into a human, and all the demonic energy he had accumulated in the past was used for last night's tribulation, and only the faint aura that had been converted from his body was left, and he couldn't fly at all, let alone fly to Tianque.

The crab looked at the clouds on the horizon, and sighed in his heart, if only it were a bird of essence, it would be able to leave this place early, and it would not have to stay in this small pond for eight hundred years.

It didn't know that since the Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi was exhausted, the Shenzhou Continent had been repeatedly killed and robbed in the past eight hundred years, if it hadn't been in the lake for eight hundred years, and it had the support of the essence of the pearl to maintain the immortality of the spirit, I am afraid that it would have turned into ashes long ago, and it would not have been able to wait for the day when the vitality would recover.

The crab was worried, and when he looked up, he saw a temple in Jinshan, and his heart suddenly moved.

On that day, there was a monk named Fahai who flew up with Bai Suzhen, the old monk was the host of this Jinshan Temple, and Bai Suzhen was not a fighter, although there were some grievances at first, but later he was able to release his suspicions, and finally flew up to heaven together, which can be regarded as a complete merit.

The monk can't run the temple, Bai Suzhen has no news, but the old monk has a successor, as long as he finds the disciples and grandchildren in the temple, he will not worry about the news of the old monk, and it will not be difficult to find Bai Suzhen when the time comes.

It is not worried that the monks in the Jinshan Temple will catch demons, the Jinshan Temple is the Taoist system of Fahai, Fahai and Bai Suzhen soared together, and it is considered to have formed a little friendship, it is half of Bai Suzhen's people, do not look at the face of the monk to see the face of the Buddha, the two sides can always be at peace with each other, otherwise, before the Jinshan Temple was a master like a cloud, how could it dare to practice in Jinshan Lake with a crab that had not yet done his deeds.

Thinking of this, it walked sideways to the bridge along the path on the side of the stone arch bridge, and after taking two steps, it suddenly stopped again.

It turns out that it has been rampant in the water, but now it has just cultivated its human body, and it is still a little unaccustomed to going straight.

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Jinshan Temple is located in Zhenjiang Mansion, under the jurisdiction of Yangzhou, one of the 34 states of China, together with the surrounding Jinshan Lake, it forms a five-star scenic spot in Huaguo - Jinshan Scenic Area, known as the first scenic spot in the south of the Yangtze River. Every day, the tourists are like weaving, like the carp that crosses the river, never stops from morning to night, that is, now, just seven o'clock in the morning, the large and small tour groups have not yet come, and the temple is quite clean.

The crab jumped on the stone bridge and came to the temple along the road, and the tall archway had two big characters written on it, "Jinshan", and nodded slightly.

For more than 100 years, the practitioners in the world have gradually become extinct, it has not communicated with the monks in the temple for more than 100 years, just before coming to the temple gate, I was worried that the inheritance has long been cut off, and I changed the inheritance of other families, and now it seems that this worry is redundant, the temple plaque has not been changed, and the inheritance has not been broken.

The area of Jinshan Temple is very large, in the heyday it can live 3,000 monks, the mountain road is also extremely long, walk from the mountain gate to the Daxiong Treasure Hall, walk for more than ten minutes.

In front of the Daxiong Treasure Hall, a thin monk was smiling at the flowers in front of the hall.

This monk's name is Yuanxiang, about forty years old, wearing a sea blue monk's robe, and a pair of cloth shoes with thousand-layer soles under his feet.

Yuanxiang has been a monk when he was a teenager, practiced in the temple for more than 20 years, and now he has become a guest of Jinshan Temple, responsible for the welcome and delivery of the temple, and every time a senior political official and business celebrity come to worship the Buddha on weekdays, he is received.

After today's morning class, Yuanxiang took advantage of the fact that the visitors had not come to the door, and it was rare to be busy and leisurely, and he was enjoying the flowers in front of the palace, and suddenly heard the sound of footsteps, and looked up to see a young man in Tsing Yi dressed like an ancient man walking towards him, and he couldn't help but be stunned.

However, Yuanxiang has been trained for many years, and has seen countless strange people, and he has long been surprised, his hands are folded, and Shi Li said: "Donor, Amitabha!"

The crab clenched his fists and returned the salute: "Monk, it's polite!"

It practiced in Jinshan Lake for 800 years, and in the early days it often communicated with passing practitioners, and also made a lot of friends in the cultivation world, but later the practitioners gradually became extinct, but there were more and more tourists by the lake, and occasionally when they woke up, they could hear the lake and listen to people's conversations.

Yuan Xiang smiled: "The donor is very polite, I don't know if the donor is here to travel today, or to worship the Buddha?"

The crab shook his head: "Neither, I'm here to find someone." ”

Yuan Xiang smiled: "Looking for someone? I don't know if the donor is looking for that? The poor monks in the temple are all familiar with each other." ”

"I'm looking for Bai Suzhen!"

"Bai Suzhen?" Rao is Yuan is well-informed, and he couldn't help but be stunned.

"Doesn't the monk know?"

"If the monks don't speak, the poor monks will naturally know. ”

More than 20 years ago, a TV series called "The Legend of the New White Lady" swept China, Yuan Xiang was not a monk at that time, and he had also seen it, so the name Bai Suzhen was naturally familiar.

"Monk Ke knows where she is? I have something to look for her. ”

"This..."

Yuan Xiang was slightly stunned, looked the young man in Tsing Yi up and down, saw that he had a straight face, not like he was joking, suddenly understood something, showed a trace of pity on his face, and asked: "I don't know what the donor is looking for her? Can you tell the poor monk first?"

The crab also glanced at it, the monk in front of him didn't have any cultivation, but he was afraid that he didn't know how to practice, so he shook his head and said, "Forget it, it's useless to tell you, you have to find her to do this." ”

"There may not be only one solution to the things in the world, the donor will tell you what is going on, and it is good for the poor monk to help you refer to it. ”

"Then do you know where Fahai is?"

"This..."

"The monk doesn't even know where the patriarch went?"

"I'm ashamed..."

"Forget it, I'll ask in another place. ”

"Donor, slow!" Yuanxiang hurriedly stopped the young man, "The donor has worked hard all the way, it is better to rest in the temple for a while, and then it is not too late to go." ”

The crab nodded and agreed to Yuanxiang's request, and for a while, it didn't know where to go, and it was better to rest here.

......

Along the Daxiong Treasure Hall all the way to the east, through the Guanyin Pavilion and the Jiangtian Pavilion, there are two rows of quiet meditation rooms, and the residence of Yuanxiang is here.

Yuanxiang invited the young man in Tsing Yi to sit down in the meditation room, made a pot of tea, and then took out his mobile phone, turned around and left the meditation room, and closed the door with his backhand.

"Hey, hey, is it the Second Psychiatric Hospital of the Yangtze River? There is a suspected mental patient here as a poor monk... What are the symptoms? He said he was looking for Bai Suzhen, and he also said that he was looking for Fahai... Where am I? I'm at Jinshan Temple. ”

"What? You also want to find Fahai? The poor monk didn't joke with you! I am a confidant of Jinshan Temple, and I have met you Dean Chen. ”

"When are you going to be there? It will take an hour? Okay, okay, the poor monk will stabilize him first, oh, the patient seems to be more stable... It doesn't look like it's going to bite. ”