In the quiet courtyard, the breeze swept slowly, raising the white temples.

Youquanzi stretched out a hand towards the stone chair next to him, and said with a slight smile: "Sit down." Today, it is rare for two junior brothers to come to my Youquan Valley, and I, who am a senior brother, have called you too. It's good for brothers and sisters to get together. ”

On crutches, the monkey stood in the elegant courtyard and bowed slightly, "Hello three senior brothers." ”

"Hmm. Dan Tongzi yawned lazily, held his chin, and pointed to the stone chair casually: "Sit down, don't stand." ”

"Sit down. Qingyunzi also said.

The monkey walked over on crutches and sat down on a stone chair.

Youquanzi rolled up his sleeves, made a cup of tea and pushed it over, and said softly: "We are in the three-star cave of the slanting moon, maybe it has not been a long time since so many senior brothers have been together." ”

The monkey held the teacup in both hands, gently breathed and blew away the steaming hot mist, and a pair of eyes skimmed to Qingyunzi and Dantongzi from time to time.

Dan Tongzi glanced at Youquanzi on the side: "It's not that I didn't get together, but I didn't get together with you." Hey, I said you haven't been back for fifty or sixty years, right?

"I went back more than ten years ago, and you just weren't watching. Youquanzi said lightly.

"More than ten years? Dantongzi raised his head and swallowed a large cup of tea in one gulp, wiped his mouth and pushed the cup in front of Youquanzi: "Although Dantong's cultivation of the practitioner is a rough person, this master never dares to forget." I, three or four years at most, will definitely go back to see the master and his old man. ”

Youquanzi smiled, lifted the teapot and filled his teacup, and pushed it back: "I can't see the master when I go back, it's the same whether I go back or not, just contact Yujian." ”

"Tsk!" Dan Tongzi's brows immediately furrowed: "That's because you don't heal yourself." Even if you can't see it, you should let the master see you, so that the master knows that he still has an apprentice like you. ”

As he spoke, he glanced at the monkey and said, "What about you, how often are you going to go back?"

The monkey smiled awkwardly, his eyes lowered, holding the teacup, and did not answer.

"Naturally, I'll go back when it's time to go back. Youquanzi interjected while holding his long beard.

Qingyunzi took a deep breath, casually took the long stick wrapped in linen cloth leaning on the pillar next to him, and handed it to the monkey: "The master asked me to give it to you." ”

He took the hand, untied the rope and spread out the numbness, and inside was a brand-new cloud walking stick, which felt much heavier than the previous one.

"Thank you on my behalf. The monkey arched his hand and said, "Did the master say anything else?"

"The master said that Taishang Laojun has already left, if you want to go back to the temple to practice, you can do it at any time. ”

"And ...... Anything else?"

Qing Yunzi shook his head slowly.

The monkey blinked, held the stick in the palm of his hand, and held it in his arms: "Then, thank you for me, master." ”

Qing Yunzi sighed lightly and said, "It's okay if you don't go back, so that Senior Brother won't worry about his little apprentice wind chimes all day long." ”

"Are the wind chimes alright?" asked the monkey, looking down.

"It's good, I practice hard, and I have made a lot of progress. But she doesn't know about you yet, and now she always runs over to ask me if the Yue Dynasty has returned to the Guanli, and your reply has arrived. ”

The monkey nodded slightly, pursed his lips, and blinked, "It's good, it's good." ”

After a moment of silence, Qingyunzi stared at the monkey and asked, "You're out here, I'm afraid it's not going to be good, right?"

The monkey lowered his head, raised his head again, and repeated this several times, but did not speak. Holding the Xingyun stick, he blinked, and his eyes were slightly red.

"I see. Qingyunzi laughed dryly, picked up the teacup and took a sip.

After hesitating for a long time, the monkey spoke: "Fifth Senior Brother, Senior Brother wants to ask a question. ”

"Say it. ”

"Why, I didn't do anything, Taishang Laojun will target me. ”

The small gazebo suddenly fell silent.

Dan Tongzi and Qingyunzi both looked at the monkey faintly and were silent, while Youquanzi still closed his eyes and said nothing.

After a long time, Qingyunzi sighed softly: "You did it." ”

Turning his head, he glanced at Youquanzi and said, "You have been here three hundred years ago, right?"

The monkey's heart trembled slightly, and the cloud walking stick in his hand couldn't help but clench tighter.

With a long sigh, Qing Yunzi said slowly: "My cultivation is still shallow, and I can't do such a thing as the Heavenly Dao. But the second senior brother can. Before, several of our senior brothers were very puzzled, why did the master take you. And at first he was so resolute not to accept it, but then he accepted it again. Your character...... In fact, it is not very suitable for cultivating immortals. It's not like a master's style. ”

After a slight pause, brushing his long beard, Qingyunzi continued: "Later, Taishang Laojun sent someone to keep an eye on the three-star cave of the slanting moon, you had another accident in Kunlun Mountain, and the eighth senior brother came back alone, and a few of us immediately realized that there was a problem here. But the master kept his mouth shut, and the senior brother knew it but refused to say it. Therefore, we let the second senior brother waste some cultivation to explore the inner world. ”

With that, he lowered his head and smiled, then looked up at Youquanzi again.

Youquanzi smiled faintly, clasped his hands in front of the table, and sighed: "After counting, I knew that you had apprenticed three hundred years earlier." Moreover, it is not the one who should come. I'm afraid you should know this better than we do. ”

The monkey's hand clenched tighter and tighter, and he nodded blankly.

Youquanzi smiled helplessly: "So there's a problem." Do you know what the Heavenly Dao is?"

The monkey looked up at him and shook his head.

"The way of heaven is the law of operation of this world. All of them, which are immutable, are collectively known as the Heavenly Dao. Therefore, the fifth order is called 'Heavenly Dao', and the Taishang Laojun and the Buddha are all Heavenly Dao cultivators. They are the ones closest to the laws of heaven and earth, Taishang Laojun holds the law of 'non-action' and knows the core of the way of heaven. The Buddha holds the law of 'selflessness' and incarnates into nothingness. ”

"However, the way of heaven is not only 'non-action' and 'non-self', it also encompasses everything that must happen and what should not happen. Buddhists say that there is a cause. Because it has come true, the effect is inevitable. Youquanzi shook his sleeves and stood up, and a fallen leaf fell in the courtyard, just caught by his two fingers: "Just like this fallen leaf, when it grows and when it withers, in the dark, it is already doomed." This is also the way of heaven. Even your apprenticeship time is included in the Heavenly Dao. ”

"You mean, because I apprenticed early, that's why I ......"

"Not just apprenticeship, to be precise. Let me give you an example, if the Heavenly Dao dooms a person to not die, but he dies, do you know what will happen?"

The monkey stared at him silently.

Youquanzi smiled slightly and said, "If he dies, then his descendants will be gone." Assuming that each of his descendants gave birth to two offspring, then his life and death would change the existence of countless people dozens of generations later. In the same way, if a person deserves to die but lives, he should not have offspring, but he gives birth to offspring, and the result will be the blood of countless people dozens of generations later. This is just a relatively extreme example, what I want to say is that in the trajectory of the Heavenly Dao, as long as there is the slightest change, even if I reach out now to pick a leaf that should not have withered at this time, after tens of millions of years, it can still affect the pattern of heaven and earth. ”

As he spoke, he laughed dryly again: "However, there are many people who want to change the Heavenly Dao, and there are also many people who can measure the Heavenly Dao on a certain distance, but no matter how hard they try, it is impossible. Because they themselves are people in the Heavenly Dao, even if they deduce the Heavenly Dao, it is also predestined by the Heavenly Dao itself. In the end, it's just a pointless act. ”

The monkey narrowed his eyes slightly, and asked slowly, "But I'm not from the Heavenly Dao, so everything I do will change, right?"

"Yes. ”

"Heavenly Dao, can't you change it at all?"

"Nope. Youquanzi rubbed the dead leaves in his hand, waved his hand and said, "The Heavenly Dao is allowed to change, and the Heavenly Dao is also constantly correcting itself. It's just that the person who has mastered the way of heaven does not allow the way of heaven to change, because the change of the way of heaven is not the way of heaven that he has mastered. In other words, he would not be able to grasp the Heavenly Dao. So, do you understand?"

Holding the Xingyun stick tightly in his arms, the monkey slowly lowered his head, pursed his lips, and thought for a long time: "So, he has to let Yiqiē return to its original position?"

"It's not exactly in place, the Heavenly Dao is layered on top of each other, and there are already several established trajectories, but the rest of the people except Taishang can only deduce one of them. So, he has a lot of ways to deal with it. It's just that for you, he has to deal with it carefully. Because you are involved in a major event three hundred years later, the whole impact is unimaginable. Moreover, you yourself are the source, and the damage you can cause to the Heavenly Dao is also the greatest, and every move you can make can cause disaster. What he needs to do is to stop your destruction, destroy the factors that you are offset, and then reorganize the trajectory. ”

In the quiet courtyard, the wind gently brushes the monkey's cheeks and strokes the fluff.

He lowered his head and rubbed the cumbersome lines on the Xingyun stick with his hands, and for a long time, he looked into his mind.

After half a ring, he raised his head, took a deep breath, pursed his lips, and asked, "The master already knew about this, right? Later, I was accepted because I wanted to add fuel to the fire and let me break the way of heaven. This must be the master's plan, right?"