"Zi Mo red dust came to his face,

Everyone looks at the flowers back,

Xuandu Guanli peach thousand trees,

It's all planted after Liu Lang goes."

On the twenty-fourth day of the first month of the seventy-first year of the Great Qiankang Yuan, at the beginning of Mao, the western suburbs of Chang'an City, the Xuandu Guanzhong.

In the early morning of the Xuandu Temple, a touch of morning sun shines into the view through the fog, rendering the entire Taoist temple into a golden color. A giant pine in the compound, under the reflection of the morning sun, the pine needles are shaking, the leaves are shadowing, and from a distance, the pine branches are tall and lush. The morning light shines through the doors and windows, and also shines on the statues in the temple, those gods who stand tall and arched, or round eyes, stride proudly, or stand with their heads bowed, kind eyebrows, under the light of the streamer, the demeanor is myriad and lifelike......

The whole Xuandu Temple, in the soft morning light, is so solemn, magnificent and quiet......

Xu Ke and Zhang Chengpeng walked into the temple together, and saw several Taoist priests in the front yard carrying buckets with brooms in their hands to sweep the courtyard. As they cleaned, they recited aloud a poem written by someone who did not know who had written it. Xu Ke explained his intention to a Taoist priest, and the Taoist priest asked them to stay in the courtyard for a while, and he went to report from the inside.

Xu Ke walked in the courtyard, looking up at this verdant and upright giant pine, secretly thinking that this pine did not know how many years it had lived, the world was in a hurry, and the tree was still like this! Now that he came to the world, he was only twenty-one years old, could it be that the destiny of heaven was like this, and that his verdant and upright life really stopped in three days?!

......

Yesterday night, when Xu Ke heard that Zhang Chengpeng in the Suzhou Xuanmiao Temple came to Chang'an thousands of miles away, just to find Li Chunfeng, the master of the Xuandu Temple, for help, he suddenly remembered that on the eighth night of the first lunar month, his second brother Zhu Wuneng handed him a piece of jade, and told him at that time that after returning to Chang'an, wouldn't he also hand over this piece of jade to Li Chunfeng, the master of the Xuandu Temple?

Along the way, Xu Ke was first poisoned and comatose by an assassin raid in the valley, and then woke up after returning to Chang'an, thinking that he would die soon, so he kept thinking about what to do before he died, who to meet, but forgot what his second brother had entrusted him. Last night, when I heard Zhang Chengpeng mention the name of the Lord of Xuandu, I immediately remembered it.

Xu Kexin said: "No matter how many days I have to live, the matter entrusted by the second brother must be quite important, and it must be done first" It was because he made an appointment with Zhang Chengpeng, and early this morning, the two came to the Xuandu Temple together.

At this time, a young Taoist boy about fourteen years old walked out, and when the Taoist boy saw Xu Ke and Zhang Chengpeng, he didn't salute, and opened his mouth and asked:

"Which of you is surnamed Xu and not surnamed Xu?"

Xu Ke couldn't help but feel sorry when he heard this question, and hurriedly stepped forward and said: "The next surname is Xu Mingke, I don't know if it's the one who the Taoist chief said in his mouth?"

Xiao Daotong nodded and said, "It's you, come with me!" The family teacher has been waiting for a long time......

That Zhang Chengpeng was about to step forward to talk, but was stopped by the little Taoist boy who stretched out his hand and said, "You are from Suzhou...... Leave the letter and you can go back......"

Zhang Chengpeng had to take out his senior brother's handwritten letter from his arms and hand it to Xiao Daotong, and said with a smile:

"Poor Suzhou Xuanmiaoguan Zhang Chengpeng, can you also take me to meet Brother Li Dao......

"No need!" The little Taoist boy replied from afar, leading Xu Ke, but without looking back, Gu Zi walked inside......

Zhang Chengpeng looked at the figure of Xu Ke and Xiao Daotong in the distance, and felt a little uncomfortable in his heart. He had the heart to follow the past cheekily, but he was still afraid of Xu Keqingyiwei's identity. Since he has brought the letter, the task of the senior brother has been completed, I have heard that Chang'an City is prosperous and lively, and now that he has come to the capital, it is better to take a good look...... Thinking like this, he was happy again, and at that moment he didn't even have the intention of paying homage to the statues of the temple in the Xuandu Temple, so he turned around and hurried away from the Taoist temple......

Xiao Daotong led Xu Ke through the halls and walked to a back garden in the innermost part of the Xuandu Temple. I saw that the garden covered a very large area, and it was full of peach trees, and there were hundreds of them. Although it is the middle of winter, it is not difficult to imagine how gorgeous it would be if the peach blossoms of thousands of trees bloom in March when the spring is in full bloom!

Xu Ke and the little Taoist boy walked through the peach forest, and when he saw that the little Taoist boy was very delicate, he asked with a smile: "Little Taoist chief, what do you call the Taoist name, how old is this year?"

"My name is Xiyan, I'm fourteen years old this year, big brother ......" Xiyan jumped in front of me and laughed.

"I hope that it is natural, so the wind does not end, and the showers do not last all day...... Little Daoist, your Dao number was given by your master, right?" Xu Ke asked with a smile again.

"Isn't that the name that the little old man gave me?! The name that the old man gave me 'Xiyan' is not funny at all! What did he say about 'Dayin Xisheng', which made me usually say little and nothing, saying that only Xiyan is the way of nature...... But I just like to talk a lot, and if you have a mouth, isn't it just to speak? If you have a lot of words in your heart, but someone doesn't let you say it, how uncomfortable it must be! Between people, if you also want to speak, I also want to say, everyone does not speak, they have to guess each other's thoughts, how tiring this is! Big brother, do you say ?......?" Xi Yan pouted, and kept talking while jumping forward with joy.

"Xiyan Dao, you are ...... It's not unreasonable, but it's not unreasonable, life is between heaven and earth, walking on the rivers and lakes, no matter when and where you are, there are always some things to say, and some things should not be said, if you don't know what to say or not to say, but it's better to 'hope'......" Xu Ke replied with a smile.

"Huh...... Big brother, your reasoning is somewhat similar to my master's! My master's stinky temper bumped into you today...... Maybe I've met a soulmate!" Xiyan said with a smile.

......

While talking, the two of them have walked to the door of a tiled house, that small room, Daiwa white wall, hidden in the depths of the peach forest, the scenery is very quiet, but the wall powder is peeling off, it looks quite simple, and the door is just a broken door panel.

Xiyan walked to the front of the room and knocked softly, calling a few times: "Master! I brought my eldest brother over!" Master ......" but no one responded in the room.

Xi Yan grimaced at Xu Ke behind him, opened his mouth and stuck out his tongue again, and muttered in a low voice: "Dead old man, tell me not to speak all day long, and I refuse to speak...... No matter!" So he stretched out his hand and pushed, and the door was pushed open, and Xi Yan Gu walked in, beckoned to Xu Ke behind and said:

"Big brother come in! my master is inside......

Xu Ke only felt that the darkness behind the door was very blurry, as if the house was not sunny enough and looked quite dark. At this time, he saw that the door of the room was open, and Xiyan had already entered, so he didn't have time to think about it, and raised his left foot and stepped in......

Xu Ke stepped into the room, his feet firmly on the ground, but he saw that the scene in the room was quite different from what he had imagined. The room is not only bright and clean, but also very elegant and neatly arranged, only to see that although there are not many furnishings in the room, there are tables, chairs, desks, tables, pens, ink, paper, inkstones and other daily things are readily available. There was a small bed in the easternmost corner of the house, and there was a futon next to the bed, and the one sitting cross-legged on the futon was a middle-aged Taoist.

The middle-aged Taoist, wearing a gray preaching robe and a bun on his head, saw that he was about forty years old, very thin, with a very pointed chin, very long eyebrows, the tail of the eyebrows almost hanging to his ears, and most of his eyebrows had turned white. At this time, the white-eyed Taoist was sitting cross-legged on the futon, with a pair of thin and long eyes that seemed to be closed, as if he was closing his eyes to recuperate......

"Big brother, you sit ......" Xiyan brought a stool to Xu Ke and asked him to sit down opposite the Baimei Daoist. Then he shouted to the white-eyed man:

"Old man...... Your guests have arrived!"

"I'm not deaf, why do you shout so loudly?" said the white-eyed Taoist's eyes slightly open.

"I've been calling you for a long time, who told you to ignore people!" Xi Yan shouted, while pouring Xu Ke another cup of tea.

"How can you be an apprentice, and the master won't shout...... There are no rules!" The white-eyed Taoist glanced at Xiyan and said angrily.

"I don't call you master, just call you old man......! Hmph!" Xi Yan grimaced at the white-eyed Daoist and said in a strange voice.

Xu Ke saw the pair of masters and apprentices arguing endlessly, and he also felt interesting in his heart, in order not to make the middle-aged Taoist lose face too much in front of outsiders, he stood up, saluted the white-eyed Taoist with a fist, and asked:

"This Taoist leader, who has not consulted the Taoist number?"

"Poor Dao is Li Chunfeng, this bad guy of mine, you must already know his name, he...... It's really naughty!" Li Chunfeng sighed and said.

Xi Yan ignored his master's blame, secretly grimaced at Xu Ke, stuck out his tongue again, and went out of the room, and did not forget to close the door when he left......

"Junior Xu Ke, I've seen Daochang Li!" Xu Ke bowed to Li Chunfeng again and said.

Li Chunfeng stood up from the futon, and also bowed back to Xu Ke, saying: "Speaking of which, if according to the law of the Great Qian, I have to call you 'Lord of a hundred households', if according to the seniority, I still have to respect you as a 'senior', forget it, let's call you according to age, I call you 'Brother Xu', and you will call me 'Brother Li'...... I don't like to hear anything like 'seniors' or 'Taoist leaders'......"

Xu Ke saw that although this Li Guanzhu was a Taoist person, he had a Jianghu demeanor in his gestures, and he couldn't help but feel a sense of pity in his heart, so he immediately said: "Brother Li, today's little brother can have the fate to get to know Big Brother Li, it is really a blessing for the little brother to live three lives!"

Li Chunfeng glanced at Xu Ke, snorted coldly, and said:

"I'm lucky to have three lives, I think...... You've got only three days left to live!"

Xu Ke was surprised in his heart, so he asked: "I haven't entered the peach forest before, junior brother, Li Daochang...... Oh, Brother Li has already calculated that my surname is Xu, and I am about to visit me today. Later, before the younger brother reported his home, Brother Li calculated my identity as a hundred households in Tsing Yi. Now, Brother Li, I have even calculated that I have been poisoned in my body, and my life will not be more than three days! Brother Li is superb, and the younger brother admires it so much! It is no wonder that even Liu Chenghe, the master of the Suzhou Mystic Temple, has to ask Brother Li for help. However, the younger brother also wants to ask, what kind of knowledge is Brother Li's algorithm based on? Is it all the study of divination and word measurement?"

Didn't I say that your surname is Xu or your surname is Xu? (There are no more surnames in the world) You Xu Ke is a hundred households appointed by the emperor, and he was promoted to six levels in a row, and he gave you the Kunwu sword, this matter has caused a storm in the city, who in this Chang'an City does not know? As for the poison in your body, as soon as I smell the smell on your chest, I already know that it is the world-famous 'Seven Days Soul Devouring Dispersion', and looking at your complexion, it must have been poisoned for three or four days...... Why do I need to calculate this?!" But seeing Xu Kewu standing there with a sincere face at this time, he was really angry and funny in his heart, so he walked to Xu Ke's stool and sat down, reached out and took the cup of tea that Xiyan had just brewed, took a big sip, and said angrily:

"I'm all on the sidelines, and I can't get into the hall of elegance, I say...... Brother Xu, you are a person who is about to die, right now, you don't care how you can live a few more days, but you still have the heart to learn my divination and word measurement?"

Xu Ke also smiled, found a low chair next to him and sat down, and replied curtly: "Brother Li, life and death are fate......!

"What 'life and death have a destiny, and wealth is in heaven' is all decadent and decadent sayings! My fate is up to me, not to heaven! Wealth and nobility can only be obtained by people's own efforts. If you don't want to forge ahead, heaven can't help you! Are you just falling for the 'Seven Days of Soul Devouring Scattering', knowing that you will die?!" Li Chunfeng said angrily.

Xu Ke's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly asked, "Could it be ...... Brother Li can cure this poison?!" He suddenly rekindled hope in his heart, in the end, no one wants to die, life is so colorful, it would be good if he could live one more day!

"This poison ...... I can't solve it! In the whole world, except for finding the person who administers the poison, I'm afraid no one can solve it......" Li Chunfeng said, and couldn't help but lower his head. He said in his heart that I am just a Taoist priest, not Langzhong, besides, this kind of strange poison in the world in your body, no matter which miracle doctor comes, it is helpless......

Xu Ke's earnest eyes dimmed again, and he stopped talking, and the house fell into a short silence for a while.

After a pause, Xu Ke broke the deadlock and said:

"Brother Li, the younger brother took the liberty to come to the door today, but he was entrusted by my second brother to bring something to Brother Li. ”

After that, Xu Ke took out a flannel bag from his arms, opened the flannel, and took out a piece of crystal clear jade, which was shaped like a copper coin, and there was a faint red light in the center of the jade.

Li Chunfeng took the piece of jade in Xu Ke's hand, looked at it carefully for a moment, couldn't help but be overjoyed, and said busily:

"Brother Xu, didn't I just say, 'My life is up to me, not to heaven'...... Look, isn't this a fulfillment? With this stone, your poison will be saved!"

Xu Ke just said "oh", and he was suspicious in his heart, and Li Chunfeng said again:

"Brother Xu, I won't tell you, the person who gave you the stone is a person with a heart! This stone is not simple! It is a 'East China Sea Spirit Stone' This stone has been sunk at the bottom of the sea for hundreds of thousands of years, absorbing the essence of the sea and the aura of countless water tribes, it is not only a psychic stone, but also a magic weapon......

Xu Ke asked, "Is this small piece of jade still a magic weapon?" Brother Li, you can't be mistaken, right? Even if it is a magic weapon, what can it be used for?"

"Take drugs!" Li Chunfeng laughed: "This 'East China Sea Spirit Stone' is like a ruin under the sea, which can accept all kinds of poisonous things in the world like a hundred rivers returning to the sea." With this gem in hand, why is it difficult to cure the strange poison in the world on your body!"

Li Chunfeng took the East China Sea Spirit Stone in his hand and played with it, and he didn't feel a little in love. I saw that the smooth spirit stone fell in Li Chunfeng's palm, and the red light in the center of the jade brightened up a few points, as if it was intertwined with the spiritual power in Li Chunfeng's body.

"Xiyan!" Li Chunfeng shouted, and before long, the naughty Taoist boy ran in in a hurry and asked, "Old man, what is so urgent?"

"Take ten buckets, fill them with clean water, remember, ask for the water in the 'Siyuan Well' next to the bell tower, don't forget it, do it quickly!" Li Chunfeng commanded.

Although Xi Yan looked naughty, he was not ambiguous at all, listened to his master's instructions, knew that the matter was serious, and responded to the call, and went in a hurry......

After only a while, I don't know how Xiyan did it, Li Chunfeng already had ten more big buckets around him, which were filled with water. The clear water is crystal clear, with a faint hint of turquoise......

Next, Li Chunfeng instructed Xu Ke to sit cross-legged on his futon, untie Xu Ke's upper clothes, and wipe off the black blood. He also ordered Xu Ke to close his eyes and meditate, and secretly breathe......

Li Chunfeng stood three feet away from Xu Ke, and as soon as his right hand was raised, the East China Sea Spirit Stone in his palm slowly floated to Xu Ke's chest, as if he had eyes, tightly embedded in the "Jizhong" big hole on Xu Ke's chest. Li Chunfeng silently recited the mantra, pushed it flat with both palms, and a true force was like a trickle, running around the spirit stone......

Xu Ke only felt a chill in his chest, and the original feeling of depression and disgust was slightly relaxed. He said in his heart that this spirit stone was indeed a treasure. At the moment, there was no hesitation, so he dived into the true yuan, turned his mind at will, and slowly guided the breath of true qi in his chest to the vicinity of the body, following the trace of coolness emitted by the spirit stone of the East China Sea, and slowly circulated around the body intentionally or unintentionally......

After half a moment, Xu Ke only heard Li Chunfeng recite the word "receive", and then felt that the spirit stone had left his chest, and it seemed that with a slight sound of "poof", it had fallen into the clear water bucket next to him. Before long, his chest was cold again, and at this time, he clearly felt that the East China Sea Spirit Stone had been embedded in the "Qi Sea" acupoint on his chest.

Xu Ke saw that Li Chunfeng was silent, and thought to himself that the method just now must be right. At the moment, as before, he also followed the same as before, secretly lucked the true yuan, guided to the vicinity of the "sea of qi" in his chest, and followed the bursts of refreshing coolness of the East China Sea spirit stone, without any thoughts in his heart, he completely let it go and circulated at will...... He only felt that all kinds of sluggish pain, tingling and discomfort that had accumulated in his chest, and wherever the slightest coolness went, they all dissolved into invisible, and between his chest and abdomen, his breath became smoother and smoother......