The mixed vegetable soup has been boiled, and the bacon and dried vegetables are mixed into a mouth-warming aroma.

The old man threw in the last piece of firewood, and then stood up, and the two men didn't know why, and glanced at him.

"There is not enough firewood to burn, Xiaosheng has to go out and find some back. ”

After that, the old man ignored the two men and walked out of the shrine with a limp.

It wasn't until he reached the gate of the shrine that he raised his right hand.

When he raised his hand, there seemed to be an invisible force born, and suddenly a shadow was torn out of the shadow of the shrine gate!

"Ahhhh......h

The long shadow rolled violently on the ground, and then it clutched its jaw and screamed, and on its lips, there was a bright red cinnabar spot, which was burning and emitting red light.

The soft red light stretched into a thin line in the air, and the other end was connected to the rabbit hair cinnabar pen in Zuo Laoweng's hand.

The mouth was hooked by this invisible spell, and the long black shadow did not dare to move, but carefully got up, and followed the old man into the black pine forest. In the cold light reflected in the snow, the true face of this black shadow can be vaguely seen.

This is a slender monster, although it looks like it has a rough human form, but the appearance of a square head and a wide mouth is not yet out of the demon form. The few whiskers on the side of the mouth drooped, but they did not look like dragon species, and the head, face, and palms were all white, but the rest of the place was blue-green. This monster has a black head wrapped in a black curtain, wearing a soap-colored gauze jacket, but a snow-white calf-nosed robe on the lower body, and it doesn't look like the kind of mountain spirit monster that feels like a spirit, but like a servant in the mansion of some magnates.

Zuo Laoweng didn't care, only pulled the rabbit cinnabar pen again, the monster couldn't eat pain, so he had to hold his chin and scream while walking closer to Zuo Laoweng: "Don't pull, don't pull, big immortal, upper immortal, old immortal, the small one is just a moment of greed, stealing some food, and has not hurt life." But please ask the old immortal to read it for the sake of my master, raise your noble hand, and spare this cheap life!"

Hearing this monster shouting for mercy, Zuo Lao Weng loosened the red line on the rabbit hair cinnabar pen slightly, and asked in a polite tone as if "Xiaosheng, please drink some pulp water to quench your thirst": "Hmm, the monster who runs for the servants? Where is the master of your family, take Xiaosheng to see him. ”

It's okay that he didn't ask, but under this question, the monster who looked like a fish and not a fish suddenly howled and cried:

"The Lord, the Lord went to the west to hunt at the invitation of the Duke of Helan ten years ago, and has not returned. The little one guarded his shrine, but he saw that the divine light left by the Lord was fading day by day, and now the shrine was also abandoned, and the little one was also without food and clothing...... Old immortal, if you don't dislike it, please accept the small one to be a long-term follower by your side, and you can also enjoy the small bowl of rice to eat!"

As soon as these words came out, the lame old man also had a headache: "Xiaosheng's side, where can I use the demon to serve - ah, there is a Taoist friend who brazenly claims to be Xiaosheng's junior brother, and there are many demon servants around him, maybe you can go to him......?"

Although he is also a member of the Daomen, this old man Zuo's path is completely different from that of Taiping Dao.

Taiping Dao is a lineage, aiding the study of all sons into Taoism, called the Yellow Emperor and Laojun Houxue, but it is mixed with Confucianism and Moxi, which is not a pure Taoist first-class. Although there is also a tradition of studying magic, for example, Zhang Jiao, the great sage and good teacher of the Taiping Dao, uses the art of Fu Shui as a means of preaching, but it is only regarded as a terminal skill. The so-called heavenly master, the great sage and good teacher, the upper teaching of the Son of Heaven, the lower education of all surnames, and the doctrine of the family to become the good law of all generations, is everyone's serious pursuit.

What Zuo Lao Weng learned was closer to the lineage of Fang Xiandao, and he first studied the technique. In this vein, the wise people live quietly in the mountains, obey Ruzhi, burn the pill and combine the medicine, cooperate with Kanli, and seek the road of eternal life. As for those who have not learned but have not succeeded, they concentrate on calligraphy, charms, spells, soothing evil, astrology, and divination, which can be regarded as benefiting both others and themselves.

In later generations, the so-called "mountain doctors' fate divination" and other warlocks were probably classified into this vein.

As a person in the two veins of Taoism, the origin is different, and the natural style of acting is also different. Regardless of anything else, there is a bit of a dirt between Taiping Dao and Fang Xian Dao, although it is not yet to the point of burning heretics, but there are also some signs of seeing each other as a demon path with the wrong route.

These arguments are only small sections, and the bigger problem is that-

"Since the reign of Emperor Huan, there have been about hundreds of demon stars attacking the three walls, and the qi of heaven and earth has lost its order. The sign of earth movement should be born, and this sign is signed, the country is mourning, the people are in turmoil, and there are soldiers in the four seas who are mourning and starving. ”

Unlike those Confucian ministers who engage in party disputes with the prophecy of calamity, there are many people in Fang Immortal Dao who are good at divining and testing, and they can see the signs of changes in heaven and earth even more clearly. The so-called "Demon Star invades the Three Walls, and the Qi of Heaven and Earth is out of order", to put it bluntly, it is the original direction of this time and space, from the rise and fall of a country and a family, to the survival of a family and a surname, all under the interference of some people who should not appear in this time and space, they got out of their established fate.

If such changes are only on a small scale, no one has the leisure to pay more attention to them. However, the demon star has deeply affected this land, Luoyang changed overnight, the eunuch party was wiped out, the Liangzhou cult was rampant, the Qiang chaos broke out in advance, and all kinds of people in this chaos began to run wildly in the direction of derailment and disorder, what kind of changes will there be in the future, even if the masters join forces to deduce, they can't come to a suitable conclusion!

Compared with such trivial things as the rise and fall of human dynasties and the overlapping of chaotic times, another thing makes the immortal masters who can't cultivate secretly fearful. The Taiping Dao lineage, although it is also a Taoist lineage who claims to be passed down from Laojun, has been writing and lecturing for two hundred years, and the various efforts to try to sideways the temples have never been small, but there has never been much gain. However, with the appearance of the vision of heaven and earth where the demon star invaded the three walls, the Taiping Dao vein suddenly flourished, and the fate star of Zhang Jiao, the head of the Taiping Dao, who originally seemed to be weak, also flourished, and there was a tendency to invade the crape myrtle wall several times!

But Taiping Dao is so prosperous, but there is something faintly wrong with the Fang Xian Dao line, and even with the frequent earthquakes and disasters in various places, there are faint signs of the loss of earth qi between the famous cave mansions known as the blessed land of the immortal family!

Therefore, although both sides are still hanging the signboard of the Daomen, it seems that they are seeking immortality, and they are still staying at home to seek immortality, and they are gearing up to change with the times. But how good is the relationship between the two sides?

Zuo Laoweng traveled all the way west, more or less, which is also related to the increasingly chaotic world situation.

However, the boundary of Liangzhou is very strange - it goes without saying that cults are rampant everywhere, and it goes without saying that Han and Qiang regard each other as enemies, and they are mediocre and greedy for officials, which are carbuncles left over from decades of government corruption, and they don't need to touch it. Even the local ghosts and gods in Liangzhou, as if they had made an appointment, collectively played missing, down to the land and the gods, and up to the gods of mountains and waters, but none of the gods were in power, and even the monsters disappeared!

Such a situation really makes people's hearts involuntarily tense for a while.

Zuo Laoweng can also be regarded as a long-time monk, how can he not know that there is something strange in this Qiang chaos? However, a traditional mountain hermit like Zuo Laoweng has always been cautious and conservative enough to interfere in world affairs, and the methods that these conservative immortal people can deal with are nothing more than a few in the past.

If the powerful ministers are in power, this kind of master is nothing more than writing a few prophetic poems at other people's doors, and then pretending to be crazy and stupid to splash ashes and brooms to make a scene.

As for the demons making trouble, there are also one or two high-ranking people who will apply for jobs in the army incognito. However, even if they go out with the army, these masters often secretly break the opponent's spells, even if the task is completed, they will never reveal their true colors. knows, saying that this is a high immortal family, and he doesn't want to show off his Taoism in the turbid world, but in the eyes of others, at least he can't escape the evaluation of a "weird and confusing public".

This road was also workable, and it was more in line with the style of the immortal master's "wave your sleeves and not take away a cloud". It's a pity that so far in Liangzhou, no one has organized a real crusade army. The only people who have the name and the strength to do so are only a group of people.

It was after the Liangzhou Thorn Shizhi Office was moved to Anding County, Duan Gang's group of Liangzhou guards who lost their land and land!

Although defeated and fled to Anding County, the Qiang Rebellion has not yet spread, and the so-called rebellious army only occupies the land of Wuwei County, and the strength of the border county state army has still been preserved. Duan Gang and the others, if in the name of sticking to Anding County, and relying on the three auxiliary important places under the subordinate department, to supply ordnance, and reinforcements from various states, will definitely come in an endless stream, and with the size of the entire Han Dynasty, it is only a matter of time before the Qiang army is crushed.

However, what are these two thousand stone nobles led by Duan Yan doing in such a favorable situation?

They didn't do anything but block the post road.

With a slight sigh in his heart, the old man Zuo was about to walk, but his steps were suddenly horizontal, and his right hand gently poked into the blanket hanging on his chest, as if he was holding something. The monster that he had been holding on to was even more agile and buried its head in the snowdrift, and its long tail flicked around, while pulling all the snow into the snowdrift where it was hiding.

And in front of them, a red lantern shone ominously red through the dim black pine forest, and with the sound of the feet of beasts running on the snow, they swooped quickly!