When I returned to the Taoist temple, it was already evening. Wind and sand have risen on the vast mountains at some point, making the weather even more desolate at the end of autumn.

On the hillside of the City God Temple, the ruins and broken walls covered in mud and grass are just like they have been for thousands of years, telling the prosperity of Qingfeng Temple in the past.

"Master, there seems to be someone in the Taoist temple. On the dirt road after the Taoist temple, the master and apprentice walked together, and suddenly saw the lights flickering in the Taoist temple, and Li Chao couldn't help but be surprised.

Daoist Yunyang nodded, stroked his beard and said with a smile: "There are guests from afar, or distinguished guests." ”

"Distinguished guest, aren't you a pilgrim who came to offer incense?" Li Ming's eyes lit up, rolled up his sleeve robe, and ran to the Taoist temple excitedly.

Li Chao trotted all the way to the door of the Taoist temple, but saw that there were eight figures sitting on top of the main hall at this moment. It can be vaguely seen that these people are all dressed in green shirts and carrying long swords, and they are knights at first glance.

It's just that when he swept to the last one of the crowd, he couldn't help but be startled when he saw the person coming. Sitting at the end of the hall was Mu Yusheng, who had been beaten by him. He stopped his steps, hurriedly turned around and hid behind Daoist Yunyang, and peeked at everyone timidly.

Li Zhen really didn't expect that this Mu Yusheng would hold a grudge like this, as soon as he was beaten by fat on his front foot, he came to seek revenge on his back foot. Moreover, the people who brought it were all angry and angry, and they were not good people at first glance! Thinking about it like this, his cowardice became even stronger.

And when the two stepped into the Taoist temple, the people in the Taoist temple naturally noticed the movement at the door. In the crowd, Mu Yusheng's swollen pig-headed face couldn't see clearly, but a pair of eyes that chose people to devour were staring at Li Chao behind the old Taoist priest at the moment.

Daoist Yunyang glanced at everyone present, strode forward, arched his hand towards everyone, and said, "I don't know why you are visiting the Contemptible Temple?"

And when his voice fell, a middle-aged man walked out of the hall in time, only to see him dressed in a blue orchid corset, with his hair in a bun, sideburns and sword hanging, carrying a hanging feather white-scaled sword, pacing, extraordinary bearing.

The middle-aged man greeted the Yunyang Dao Chief, hugged his fists and said: "Lin Quan, the deputy head of the Xiali Flower Sword Sect, is disturbing late at night, and it is not strange to look at the Dao Chief." As he spoke, he turned to the side and said, "These are all bad people below." ”

With Lin Quan's introduction, everyone present hugged their fists and saluted.

Yunyang Dao Leader clasped his fists one by one and saluted: "The Pear Flower Sword Sect is one of the top major sects in Yutang County, and the disciples of your sect are all heroes of the rivers and lakes, and the poor Dao has already heard of it. ”

Lin Quan smiled faintly and continued to salute: "The Taoist chief is the master, and we are guests, so please talk inside." ”

This is naturally polite words, and his conversation is gentle and elegant, which is really impossible to fault with.

"That being the case, inside please. Daoist Yunyang bowed slightly, waved his robe, and walked into the main hall. After a while, after he and everyone sat down, he instructed Li Ming: "Bastard, watch the tea." ”

Li Chao answered, and immediately ran out of the main hall.

"I'm scared to death. After walking out of the main hall, Li Mian breathed a sigh of relief. I thought that Mu Yusheng would bring his elders to seek revenge, but it didn't seem to be the case, and he had no worries, so he let go of his anxiety and took out a pot of tea left over from last night from the firewood room and ran back to the main hall.

It's not that he doesn't want hot tea, it's just that he went out of the Taoist temple early in the morning, and the spark in the stove has long been gone. Since it's too late to boil water, last night's herbal tea can naturally make up for a while.

As he thought, Li Chuan had already come to the main hall with the overnight herbal tea. He poured the tea with everyone, and stood beside the Yunyang Dao Chief obediently.

Mu Yusheng, who was sitting at the end, saw Li Ming's well-behaved appearance, and his teeth itched with hatred. If he hadn't suffered from it, I'm afraid even he would have thought that the little Taoist priest was harmless to humans and animals.

Li Chao naturally noticed someone's gaze, Xu is heart was weak, and he stood in Yunyang Dao Chang and kept his head drooping.

"The Taoist chief is famous in Fenyang Town, and a Taoist method is praised far and wide, and I heard it when I was in Yongcheng. In addition to wanting to witness the demeanor of the Taoist chief today, there is another thing I want to ask the Taoist chief, and I hope that the Taoist chief will not refuse. Lin Quan sat on the side of the Yunyang Daoist and looked at each other and talked, and when the tea was served, he took a sip. Just swallowing the tea, he suddenly frowned slightly, and then he was relieved.

Daoist Yunyang was about to speak, but Lin Quan continued: "Daoist Yunyang don't be in a hurry to answer me, this matter is not a big deal, but it happened for a reason, so it is all abrupt." ”

Daoist Yunyang shook his head with a smile and said, "But it's okay to say it." The poor way has always come from people to be kind, as long as they can help, they will naturally help. ”

Hearing that the old Taoist priest was so reasonable, the last scruple in Lin Quan's heart was gone, and then he went straight to the point: "I want the Taoist to be the worship of my Pear Flower Sword Sect, and follow me to Yongcheng." ”

Daoist Yunyang was stunned for a moment, and said in surprise: "Go to Yongcheng?"

Lin Quan nodded slightly, and explained: "Don't rush back to me first, and listen to the reason for ......."

It turned out that when Lin Quan traveled to the north and south of Da'an a few months ago, he found a strange stone tablet outside Yundang Mountain in Yutang County, and when he saw that the stone tablet was strange, he wanted to go forward to check it, but he never thought that he was suddenly ambushed by a group of horse bandits. They were outnumbered and had to flee. After returning to the sect, Lin Quan depicted the appearance of the stele overnight, and then ordered the Taoist priest of the Pear Flower Sword Sect to start studying the mystery of the stele. After months of exploration, the Ewha Sword Sect came to an astonishing conclusion that the stele was likely to be a legendary treasure that would be the cause of future generations. So, Lin Quan and the Sect Leader once again recruited people to go to Yundang Mountain, but at this time, there was a strange scene, no matter how they went, they were always wandering in the stone mountain, unable to set foot in Yundang Mountain.

In the end, the Taoist priest of the Pear Flower Sword Sect told him that this strange was a legendary maze, and ordinary people could not set foot on it. As for the aftermath, it came to the present, after returning to the sect, Deputy Lin and the head of the sect recruited capable people for several months to go to break the maze of mountains and rocks, but the effect was very small. It wasn't until I learned that in the depths of Fenyang Town and the boundary mountain range, there was a down-and-out Taoist temple, and there was a master of Taoism in the temple, that the next thing happened.

The reason is roughly like this, in order to break the last barrier in front of the strange treasure, Lin Quan would rather catch the mistake and not let go, and came to Fenyang Town overnight.

At this point, Lin Quan sighed deeply.

Yunyang Dao Chang closed his eyes and listened, and when he finished telling the strange story, he said with an uncertain expression: "It's just an ordinary anecdote, how can there be any maze in the world." ”

Lin Quan looked at Daoist Yunyang deeply, and asked in surprise, "Daoist doesn't believe in ghosts and gods?"

Ghosts, rumored to be another way of being formed after the death of mortals, when the soul has no place to return. But it is contained in the book, but no one has ever seen the real face. It's unbelievable that someone has said that they have bumpered with a ghost.

Daoist Yunyang was silent for a long time, and said indifferently: "Naturally, I don't believe it, it's just to deceive ignorant laymen." ”

Lin Quan disagreed with this, and asked again: "Since the Taoist chief doesn't believe it, why do you believe in the Sanqing Divine Position, and why do you light incense to cultivate your body and qi?"

Daoist Yunyang stroked his beard, sighed, glanced at Lin Quan, and said quietly: "Taoist inheritance is nothing more than a process, whether to do it or not, to believe it or not to believe it, only in people's hearts." Since it's true, false, false, true, true, you already have the answer in your heart, so why bother asking me. ”

"I'm not here to ask Dao Chang to prove what he thinks, but I want to ask Dao Chang, does Dao Chang believe that there are immortals in this world?" Lin Quan's tone was high-pitched, obviously very dissatisfied with Yunyang Dao Chang's ambiguous answer.

Daoist Yunyang pondered for a moment, slowly withdrew the palm that was about to hold the coffee table, and muttered: "Immortals......" His tone was quiet, and he breathed for a long time. When he came back to his senses, his cloudy gaze must have been cloudy, and he said in a deep voice to Li Ming: "Bastard sending off guests." ”

Lin Quan was waiting for the following, but unexpectedly, someone suddenly expelled the guest, and his face was stagnant: "Dao Chief, you ......"

He didn't expect that Daoist Yunyang would give an order to expel guests like this, and he was about to have a seizure, but he saw a little Taoist priest come up to him and bow down and make a word of invitation.

The so-called words are not speculative for more than half a sentence, and the reason why the Yunyang Dao Commander issued the eviction order was naturally clear about Lin Quan's intention. It's nothing more than encountering the legendary maze and wanting to ask a master to help him. spared a big circle and said a bunch of inexplicable words, just to let him go to Yongcheng, this matter is different from Zhao Kun's words, true or false or easy to distinguish, but this Yunyang Daoist is obviously not interested.

The conversation broke up unhappily, and Mu Yusheng and the other six people also stood up one after another.

At this time, Mu Yusheng, who followed the last, walked to Lin Quan's side and asked with a little embarrassment, "Master, how many boxes of heavy gifts are there for us?"

Lin Quan was about to step out of the threshold, when he heard Mu Yusheng's words, he glared at him fiercely, and said angrily: "Take it away!"

A box?

Daoist Yunyang, who was sitting in front of the hall, heard Mu Yusheng's words, and his eyes flickered. And he stood up and hurriedly shouted towards the door: "Lin Zhangjiao is slow!"

Lin Quan was about to go down the mountain, but was stopped by a shout from the old Taoist priest, and he turned his head and said inexplicably: "What else does the Taoist have to do?"

Stopping everyone, Daoist Yunyang coughed lightly, shrank his head and said with a dry smile: "Since you have something to ask for, if you have something to say, let's talk about it, since Lin Zhangjiao is convinced of the first-class immortals, why don't we discuss it in depth, what do you think?"

Li Chao followed the head of Yunyang Dao, his big eyes kept glancing at him, and he had a bad premonition in his heart.

Obviously, you don't have a good chat, what does it have to do with me?" Lin Quan scolded for a while, and then said suspiciously: "Dao Leader agrees with Lin's words?"

Yunyang Dao bowed his head and smiled repeatedly: "Naturally, naturally." ”

The disciples who stopped in the courtyard looked at each other, looking at the old Taoist priest with a lewd smile on his face, and his expression was strange.

Returning to the main hall again, Lin Quan didn't say much, but hugged his fists and said: "It's not a secret, this time I invited the Taoist chief to come out of the mountain, and prepared a small gift below, and the gold and jewelry are not respectful, and I hope that the Taoist chief will smile." As he spoke, the two young men carried a small wooden box to the front of the temple and threw it heavily on the ground.

Yunyang Daoist swallowed his dry throat and said with a smile: "Lin Zhangjiao is so divided, although I Yunyang Daoist is not a master of Taoism, but I am still extremely good at Taoist talismans......"

Bang......

Before he had finished speaking, he saw two more young men carrying a wooden box to the front of the temple.

Yunyang Dao Chang's two old eyes were round, and immediately, he looked at Lin Quan, who was waiting for him, and then looked at the two big boxes in front of the hall, and said with a red face: "Although I know a little about Taoist talismans, the most proficient thing is the means of exorcism and evil spirits......"

Lin Quan, who was waiting for him, opened his eyes when he heard this, he was slightly stunned, and then waved his hand towards the disciple again, and then Mu Yusheng and another disciple carried the third wooden box up.

These boxes are not very large, but you can tell from the sound of falling on the ground that there must be a lot of treasures in the boxes.

Staring at the three swarthy wooden boxes on the ground, Daoist Yunyang snorted, and after a while, he stepped forward and opened one of the wooden boxes casually.

The wooden box was opened, but I saw that gold bars and jewelry were quietly stacked in it, and the gold was shining, which made people's eyes shine.

Daoist Yunyang withdrew his fingers and sat back in his seat. After a while, he looked at Li Ming, who was standing beside him, and said earnestly: "Bastard, it's a long way to Yongcheng, you should prepare early, and leave with Lin Zhangjiao tomorrow." ”

Listening to Master's admonition, Li Chao nodded again and again, but when he heard the end, he felt more and more wrong, and he said in a daze: "Master, aren't you going?"

Daoist Yunyang bowed slightly, pretending to sigh and said, "For the old teacher, even if you go, it won't be useful." As for the means of exorcism and evil spirits, you have already obtained the true inheritance of being a teacher, so you might as well go through it for your teacher. ”

Lin Quan, who was sitting on one side, listened to it clearly, and offered such a valuable gift, it was really annoying that someone only lined up a little Taoist priest who had not dried up in a milky manner. He raised his eyebrows and couldn't help but clench his fists.

Suddenly, he forcibly suppressed Wen Nu and gave Mu Yusheng a look.

Mu Yusheng, who was sitting at the end, was slightly stunned, he didn't know what he meant, he looked at the master's ugly face, and quickly took out a stack of silver tickets from his arms, and threw them on the wooden box angrily.

Seeing that the plan succeeded, the head of Yunyang Dao pretended to be stunned, and said righteously: "Lin Zhangjiao, what kind of person are you to be a poor Daoist, you actually use these red dust and mundane things to test the poor Dao, it is really infuriating!"

And after saying that, the sadness and indignation on his face are difficult to distinguish between truth and falsehood.

Lin Quan and the seven disciples were all stunned, and their heads were as big as a fight for a while. Is this guy really a master, don't you give money, don't you give it, what do you want, what do you want?

"That being the case......" Lin Quan sat on the wooden chair, his teeth gurgling. I only feel that I am famous in Yutang County, and I am in awe of others wherever I go, but at this time I was seriously teased. He was about to order his disciples to put away the boxes and leave the Taoist temple without looking back. But he heard it and said: "Since this is so, it is so decided." Lin Zhangjiao can come to pick me up early tomorrow morning, master and apprentice. ”

Lin Quan's eyes widened angrily, and he didn't take a breath. He blinked, his mind blank. Immediately, when he thought of the stele, he swallowed his breath again.

The deputy head of the Pear Flower Sword Sect, who has always been breezy and calm, has a wonderful expression one after another, and His Royal Highness's disciples see it in their eyes, and they all look at their noses and noses, and they dare not come out of the atmosphere. It is the first time that the famous Cloud Flower Sword Master can eat such a big deflated temple......

In the end, Lin Quan left three wooden boxes and a stack of silver tickets, and left angrily, leaving only the master and apprentice here, holding the gold, silver and jewelry for a burst of joy.