Ask the top of the mountain, inside the small bamboo house, next to the patio.

Crystal water beads are also dripping little by little. The warm sun accompanied the breeze, swaying the hemp rope for drying clothes. The resentful old eyes, blooming with resentful eyes, hatefully looked at the hemp rope edge, two snow-white nightgowns fluttering with the breeze and laughing in the warm sun. The old yellow teeth under the old mouth are bitten and creaked...

Resentment!

"Huh!"

"Brush brush!"

The rickety old man sat on a small stool next to the big well, and the two withered old hands scrubbed the clothes in the basin of water. Obviously, he did not wash a sackcloth, but a pot of splashes called "jealousy".

Whew...

Suddenly, the wind was a little stronger.

It was a headwind, and the wind came from the big hole in the main entrance of the small bamboo house. There was only one breath, and after one breath, the wind stopped. The warm sun is still lingering with the breeze, but there is more sound here. It's a step that lets people know who is coming...

"Da~"

"Da~Da~"

Those who go up the mountain, come up the mountain.

The big ruffian stepped on the wind from the hall into the patio and walked to the well. After tiding up the sloppy brown and red cotton coat on his body a little, and then taking off the cocktail feathers in his mouth, Xia Yuan bowed down respectfully towards the angry old man in front of him, and bowed to the younger generation.

"The juniors have come to greet the wise master. ”

“......”

"Brush brush!"

The old man didn't care, and still went his own way, vigorously scrubbing the linen clothes in the basin with resentment.

After waiting for a while, Xia Yuan was sure that the old man didn't pay attention to him, so he grimaced helplessly and stood up straight.

"Oops... The wise man's face is not very good today, could it be the reason for his unstable sleep?"

"Hmph!" The old man stretched his eyes and stopped his movements, and the old man stared at Xia Yuan fiercely. Although he didn't continue to speak, the resentment in these two eyes already contained all kinds of curses.

Xia Yuan couldn't help but shudder, and hurriedly took a step back.

"Hehe..."

Xia Yuan laughed dryly, leaned over and said with a smile: "Don't be angry, don't be angry, don't be angry." I'm just kindly asking, nothing else. Don't get me wrong... Don't get me wrong..."

“......”

"Huh~"

The old man looked back at the basin in front of him, and continued to wash his clothes with both hands.

Seeing that there were no words, Xia Yuan took a deep breath, as if he had decided something. casually threw the big rooster that was pinched in his hand and threw it into the big well...

"Giggles!"

The screams started again, and Xia Yuan pretended not to hear it, picked up the big wooden plank that covered the well, and covered the wellhead. Then he faced the old man casually and sat down on the well rock. He continued to laugh softly and persuaded: "Wise Master, you should also look at the point. Children and grandchildren have their own children and grandchildren. This dirty thing of beating mandarin ducks, let's do less. Isn't it nice that you're just waiting to hold a litter of apprentices?"

Brush!

"You pig!?"

"Brush! ”

The old man turned his head sharply and cursed. Frightened, Xia Yuan hurriedly stood up again and took two steps back.

Looking at Xia Yuan's funny appearance, the old man's resentful arrogance also eased a little, but he was still angry and shouted loudly: "I know, your Xia family will be left with your village single! I also know that you are in a hurry to find a sow to breed! But friendship is friendship, human favor is human affection, you can't find a pig to breed and find my daughter!"

Xia Yuan shrunk his neck and smiled embarrassedly: "Hehe, how can you say it so seriously, this person wants to have a full house of children and grandchildren when he is old, doesn't he? Our village chief just wants to hold a few more grandchildren..."

"That's not going to work!" the old eyes glared like fire. The veteran in the basin has slowly lifted a...

I felt the surging anger of the old man. Xia Yuan's hair immediately got up, he raised his hands, not only nodded, but hurriedly apologized: "Okay, good, no, no." Don't be angry, don't be angry..."

"Didn't our family Ah Xun talk about this yesterday, and in a few days he will go back to the village to change that word, don't be so excited. ”

"Humph!"

Snorted again, and only then did most of the old man's angry anger subside. It's just that by Xia Yuan, he didn't even have the mood to wash his clothes, wrung out the wet clothes at will, and threw them on the cover of the well. Fang Cai continued unhappily: "Then what are you doing today!?"

"Uh..."

Xia Yuan's face gradually turned back to a serious demeanor, pondered for a while, and said solemnly: "I want to ask you a few questions." ”

"Huh?"

Seeing Xia Yuan put on such a rare and serious appearance, the old man couldn't help but feel a slight difference. Then, he suppressed the slight anger in his heart and said coldly, "You say." ”

Xia Yuan didn't speak immediately. He took a few steps and sat down carefully at the well beside the old man. Then, he asked in a deep voice quite rigorously and carefully: "Dare to ask, in this heaven and earth now, apart from you and the other seventeen uncles and uncles, are there any other saints?"

As if he felt that what he said was not appropriate enough, Xia Yuan slowed down, and then added in a deep voice: "Of course, I'm talking about true saints who have been recognized by the Heavenly Dao, not those false saints. ”

The old man narrowed his eyes and looked deeply at Xia Yuan's face.

It may be obvious that Xia Yuan's words are not joking. Therefore, the old man did not reprimand Xia Yuan because of this person's well-known problems. Instead, he replied directly, "Definitely not." If there is, I will definitely be able to feel the changes in the Heavenly Dao. ”

"Yes. ”

Nodding deeply, it was obvious that Xia Yuan already had an answer to this question, and he just dared to be unsure before. After pondering for a moment, he cautiously asked again: "Then in this heaven and earth, above the saints, apart from the three immortals of Penglai and Chunyang, are there any others?"

"Yes. ”

The old man replied crisply: "Western Bliss, the ancestor of Buddhism, Sakyamuni." ”

"Is it him?" Xia Yuan was slightly puzzled.

The old man nodded, and continued, "Only this person..."

"He is a monstrous figure of the same era as Shizun. ”

According to legend, 800 years ago, in order to gain the cause and effect of the Dao, he also had a battle with his master on the East Tufang Inch Mountain. At the end of the battle, it ended with the master cutting off his evil thoughts and Dharma body. Since then, he has lost the opportunity to preach and ascend to heaven in the future. However, this can also be regarded as his serendipitous creation. A hundred years later, with his own supreme wisdom, he enlightened the Buddha's path of compassion under the Bodhi tree on Mount Meru, and became a blissful world by himself. Not subject to the cycle of life and death, beyond the three thousand avenues. Although he did not ascend to heaven with enlightenment, and he was neither a god nor an immortal, he was indeed standing on the nine heavens. Compared to the Dao of the master, it may not be as good as it, but compared to the two half-immortals of the pure yang, it must be much higher. If I explain it like this, you should know how tall he is, right?"

"Yes. ”

After listening to the long words, Xia Yuan nodded in a deep sense of understanding. However, the look on his face did not change much, and it was obvious that he still had the bottom in his heart about the old man's answer.

I thought about it for a long time.

"It's just, how could it be him?"

"Impossible..."

Xia Yuan shook his head and said to himself: "It can't be him..."

"It's really not possible..."

“......”

Seeing Xia Yuan's confused appearance, the old man was even more puzzled, and asked lightly, "What's going on?"

"Well, that's really not possible..."

"Absolutely impossible. ”

After muttering a few more words to himself, completely denying the speculation in his heart, Xia Yuan raised his head and stared at the old man again, and said solemnly: "I may have seen an immortal you don't know." ”

"Huh?"

The old man was stunned.

Without waiting for the old man to wake up, Xia Yuan continued to recount in a deep voice: "The night before yesterday, I passed by the cliff ditch from Kyoto south......"

Deep, soft, finely broken.

Under the planks, there were one or two screams from time to time in the depths of the well, and no one paid any attention.

Xia Yuan detailed how he met the mysterious Taoist who pretended to be a ghost the night before, and then what he said, what he had done, his demeanor, and his movements. And the old man next to him didn't interject, just listened quietly. As the story developed, the anger on the old man's face had all disappeared, leaving the same heaviness and caution as Xia Yuan at this time.

Obviously, he definitely didn't know the magic stick in Xia Yuan's mouth, and he had never heard of it. Therefore, the more he listens to the old lines on his face, the deeper the wrinkles become.

"When he got out of that black knife, he wants me to sanction it myself......"

"At that time, I was in a hurry, thinking that I would die, how could I not die in a nest, so I made the first move......"

"The elephant step I hit chased him more than 100 miles away, and then he disappeared......"

“......”

"Finished?"

"Well, that's it. ”

“......”

A long story, told for a long time.

After Xia Yuan finished telling the whole story, the old man's face couldn't help but show a little panic.

Truly...

After all, the magic stick in Xia Yuan's mouth is too mysterious, too unreliable, and illogical.

The master does not have the demeanor of a master, but he can calculate Xia Xun's blood and light disaster. And for cultivation, it is amazingly even higher. Not to mention anything else, just say that Xia Yuan tried his best to sacrifice the power of the peak king, but he didn't even blow a single whisker of the divine stick, which was something that even this old man who was a Heavenly Saint couldn't do. It can be seen from this that thief-eyed old god stick is how powerful he is.

Silent, there are thoughts that repel each other.

The warm sun had long since dried with the breeze, and the clothes hung on the hemp rope. The scream from under the well may not have been heard for a long time, and it is estimated that the lazy rooster has fallen asleep.

After waiting for a long time, seeing that the old man had been silent in thought, Xia Yuan opened his mouth and asked tentatively, "Is it possible that there is an unborn master under the Tianji Sect?"

"No way. ”

The old man shook his head and denied: "If there is, then we old guys will definitely know." ”

Xia Yuan frowned: "But he is playing the banner of Tianji, and he keeps saying that he is Tianji." I don't think any immortal would do such an unreliable thing, right?"

"Not immortals. ”

The old man shook his head again: "If it is really an immortal, he will definitely have to do the right thing for heaven and destroy you first, instead of saving you." ”

"Help me?"

"Yes, save you. ”

“......”

Browning puzzled, Xia Yuan was even more puzzled: "But he obviously wants to stab me half to death with a knife." ”

The old man did not reply immediately. Standing up, he picked up the wrung out linen robe next to Xia Yuan, raised it carefully, and then lightly hung it on the other end of the hemp rope for drying clothes.

While drying his clothes, he pondered and said, "He should have really calculated some heavenly opportunities, and also calculated your future calamity." Because, no matter where the situation goes in the future. If, as he says, you are seriously wounded and dying, and you are sent back to the north. Then you can't go south and do what Lao Yin has arranged for you. Then the plague of blood and light that he spoke of will naturally disappear from you. This is what he calls cause and effect, and although it is reluctant, it is not wrong. ”

After the Mai was hung up, the old man paused, and then said, "Judging from what happened to you and Xia Xun..."

"This man must be trying to stop something from happening. ”

“......”