Chapter 35: Apprenticeship

Luo Yin knocked on the door of Qingyang Temple, and the gate of the Taoist Temple opened without wind, and the sound of immortals came from inside.

With a little nervousness, he carefully tidied up his clothes again to make himself look more tidy. Then he raised his feet, stepped over the threshold, and walked into the Taoist temple.

Walking into the Taoist temple, he looked around a little, and found that the entrance of this small Taoist temple was a small courtyard, with two wings on each side of the courtyard, and the main hall about two or three feet high was facing the gate.

He just looked at it for a while, and then didn't look at it anymore, and walked towards the main hall step by step. Entering the main hall, I saw a man in a cyan robe sitting upright in the middle, smiling at the scholars who came from afar.

Luo Yin walked closer, bent his legs, and knelt in front of the Taoist, "Disciple Luo Yin, according to the order of the immortals, set off from the southwest and south Yongguo three years ago, and walked all the way on foot, and it took three years to come here, kneeling and begging the immortals to accept me as a disciple and teach me the Tao." ”

The man smiled and said, "Do you remember what year, month, and day we first met, and what year, month, and day today?"

Luo Yin knelt on the ground, raised his head, looked at the Taoist and replied without thinking: "The day the immortal saved my life was the third day of the eighth month three years ago, and today is the twenty-seventh day of the seventh month. Six more days are the three-year period. ”

The Taoist smiled: "Very good, it's hard for you to remember it so clearly." Let me ask you again, I said that day, that you need to walk here on foot without relying on chariots and horses, do you have any disobedience?"

Luo Yin replied firmly: "Since the disciple sent Young Master Shen to the state city to participate in the imperial examination, he left the state city and set off for it. Regardless of the high mountains and dangers, or the rivers and rivers, they only relied on their legs to walk on foot, and never relied on chariots and horses. ”

The Taoist said, "Do you remember that at that time, you begged me to take you as a disciple, and vowed to take cultivation as your life's ambition, and never change your original intention regardless of hardships and hardships?"

Roy never forgot the oath of the day, nodded and replied, "Disciple remembers." ”

The Taoist recalled the situation at that time, and then said: "At that time, I only thought that you made an oath just to beg me to take you as a disciple, so I made this request that was impossible for you to fulfill, so that you could retreat from the difficulty. I was amazed that you had actually come here on your feet before the appointed date. ”

As he spoke, he smiled, "I promised that day that I would take you as an apprentice as long as you could finish it, and I would not break my word." Today, I will accept you as a closed disciple of my sect, pass on your supreme Dao method, and help you go straight to the path of immortality. ”

When Luo Yin heard this, he was overjoyed, knelt on the ground and knocked down heavily, knocked three times in a row, and thanked him loudly: "Master Xie, the disciple will definitely cultivate hard in the future, and he will not dare to slack off for a moment!"

The man sat down and accepted this ceremony, and set each other's master-apprentice status. After Luo Yin finished saluting, he stretched out his hand to help him up, "From today onwards, you and I will be masters and apprentices." ”

The Taoist looked outside the door while speaking, the sky was already a little dark, and he said: "It's not early, you go back to rest, come to our place early tomorrow morning, and start to officially preach your Taoism." There are several wings in the courtyard, the first room in the east wing is the teacher's room, and you can choose the room to live in the rest of the rooms. ”

Luo Yin agreed and said, "Master rest early, disciple retires." After saying that, he exited the main hall and walked to a few side rooms in the courtyard.

He looked at the remaining rooms, and found that each one was almost the same, so he chose the first room of the West Wing as his residence.

The room seemed to have been uninhabited for years, dusty and covered with cobwebs on the corners of the roof.

He put down the luggage on his backpack, found a broom and a rag in the view, and began to clean the room that had not been inhabited for many years, and only cleaned the room when it was completely dark.

Looking at the room that had become spotless, Luo Yin grinned happily. This is my room, and I will probably live here for many years to come.

At this moment, he suddenly felt a sense of home in his heart. Ever since he crossed into this world, he has always felt that he is out of place in this world, as if he will always be just a wanderer in a foreign land, and it is difficult to integrate into this world and find it difficult to find a sense of belonging in this world.

Even if he had been a servant in the Shen family for nearly ten years, he couldn't find a trace of home from there. After all, I don't belong to this world, and if I am not forced by life, I don't want to be a servant of others at all, and I listen to others at will.

Now, this is the real home of your own, and it is also the place where your dream begins......

When night fell, the sound of insects was heard all around.

Luo Yin came all the way, although he was exhausted, but now he finally got what he wanted, his heart was excited, he couldn't sleep at all, and he kept fantasizing about what spells he could learn tomorrow.

In the excitement and excitement, time passed little by little, and he fell asleep at some point.

Tomorrow is a new beginning......

Early the next morning, as soon as the sun rose, Luo Yin woke up, he stretched his waist, and felt that he had slept very comfortably last night.

Since the beginning of the search for immortals, I got up early every day to hurry, and I had to be careful whether I would miss the agreed period, and I always had an anxiety in my heart, and I couldn't remember how long I hadn't slept like this.

Now that I have finally come to this place, I have been accepted as a disciple by the immortals, and the big stone in my heart has finally been put down, and I can finally sleep comfortably.

After getting up and washing up and taking care of his body and mind, Luo Yin came to the door of the main hall, only to see that the Taoist in the main hall was already sitting upright.

He hurriedly walked in, knelt in front of the Taoist, and said to the Taoist with apologies: "The disciple is late, and the master has been waiting for a long time. ”

"As a teacher, you don't need to sleep now, so you were meditating in the temple last night, it's not that you're late. Get up, move a futon and sit down, and have something to say to you. The man looked at Luo Yin and said with a smile.

"Yes, Master. Luo Yin agreed, brought a futon from the side, placed it, and knelt in front of the Taoist.

When the Taoist saw that Luo Yin had already sat down, he said: "The teacher's surname is Zhang Mingxing, and he calls himself Qingyang Taoist, when he was young, he was a little shepherd boy under this Qingyang Mountain, and he only got a volume of immortal cultivation by chance, and since then he has embarked on the road of cultivating immortals, and it has been nearly three hundred years. ”

When Luo Yin heard him talk about his past, he couldn't help but be stunned, and thought in his heart: "Obediently, three hundred years, so the master is almost three hundred years old, and he is indeed a man of the Tao." It's just that the appearance of the master is only in his forties at most, it seems that this cultivation can really prolong life and not look old!"