Originally, there were bandits in this mountain, but on the opposite mountain, this Gulou Mountain was originally divided into two, and the opposite one was higher and more dangerous than this.

In recent years, there is no place to rob, the thieves have "retired from the army and returned to the farm", self-cultivation and self-food, more than 100 people gathered together, settled in the village and lived, because the two brothers of the big boss are also surnamed Dong, so it is called "Dongjiazhai".

There are also temples and Taoist temples in the mountains, but they are all small temples and small temples, I heard the old generation say that there was a Taoist named "Liu Dao Zhenren" who lived in seclusion in this mountain, and now I don't know if it is still there, anyway, the old woman has never seen it at this age.

Xie Mingzhou inquired about what she wanted to know, and the old woman went back to the room to rest, and she wanted to ask her two grandsons to sleep with her, and make room for Xie Mingzhou, but Xie Mingzhou naturally insisted on refusing, hugged a bundle of dried wheat straw, and spread it in the hall to meditate.

On the second day, I said goodbye to the old woman's family and continued to move forward, because I had an understanding of the mountain, and when I walked again, I already had a direction and a goal.

He decided to follow the mountain range first, and then turn back from the opposite mountain range if there was no suitable place.

Xie Mingzhou traveled all the way to the mountains and waters, drank mountain springs when he was thirsty, ate wild fruits when he was hungry, or danced all the way to the Wuji Sword under the waterfall, or played a set of Tai Chi boxing in the forest and sea, intoxicated between the mountains and rivers, and found a cave to meditate and practice the Yuan Shen at night.

Unconsciously, he has been in this mountain for more than ten days, the spirit of refining is extremely condensed, and it can also be out of the body for a few zhang, and it can also be out of the body without entering the concentration, as long as the thought moves, within a radius of a few zhang in an instant, the snakes, insects, rats and ants are aware of every move, and they have initially practiced a trace of divine thought.

The true qi in the abdomen is also gratifying, like a goose egg, and like clotted fat, the true qi is self-discarded between every move, and there is no need to mobilize the mind as before.

After more than ten days, Xie Mingzhou has almost traveled all over the entire mountain range, during which he met more than 20 mountain people, all like the old woman's family, living a difficult life, but very simple, there are those who are sick, Xie Mingzhou is to help a gang.

There are indeed a few temples in the mountains, but there are few people and small temples, the largest temple has only three monks, and the face is yellow and thin, in this troubled world, they can't eat enough, who will have the leisure to pay tribute to the Buddha and Zen?

There is also a Taoist temple, there are two Taoists, but they are not congenital, and at a glance they know that they are not people who have attained the Tao.

On this day, Xie Mingzhou climbed a mountain peak, and his eyes suddenly lit up, and he saw a bend in the lake. Under the blue sky and white clouds, surrounded by four mountains, the lake is as green as a piece of jasper, sparkling in the sun.

Layers of slowly rippling out of the water waves, just like gently swaying silk, a few fish jumped out of the water, splashed a few splashes, the lake was surrounded by green trees and green mountains, although Xie Mingzhou was used to seeing mountains and rivers in the past few days, he couldn't help but admire.

Coming to the bottom of the mountain, Xie Mingzhou walked slowly along the lake, the lake water was clear, the grass and trees were fresh, so he was reluctant to leave, so he simply found a dry place in the woods by the lake to meditate and practice.

In the evening, Xie Mingzhou stood up and walked towards the lake, wanting to see the lake scenery at sunset, before he reached the lake, he heard someone talking, and his mind moved, but it was two farmers who set up a cage to fish by the lake, and he walked over and chatted with the two people.

These two people are two fathers and sons, they live not far from the lake, mainly to plant for a living, occasionally catch some fish and shrimp, catch a small beast, live in this lake three families, are related to the family.

Xie Mingzhou asked him if he had ever heard of a Taoist haunting, and the old farmer said: "I have never seen it, but I heard that there was a Taoist priest who lived on the top of that peak in the early years, but it was a long time ago." As he spoke, he pointed to a mountain peak to the east.

Xie Mingzhou looked at the peak, the peak was not very big, but it was towering and steep, and he asked, "Is there a road up and down?"

The farmer said, "No, the road only goes to the foot of the mountain, which is too steep for people to climb." No one ever went up there. ”

Seeing that it was getting late, the two fathers and sons were about to go home, and asked Xie Mingzhou to rest at home together, Xie Mingzhou said: "I can just meditate by this lake, and I have to leave early tomorrow morning, so I don't have to bother." ”

The farmer saw that Xie Mingzhou was indeed unintentional, so he was polite again, and then told him to leave.

The next day, when the sun was rising and the birds were singing, Xie Mingzhou woke up and turned around, and there was nothing to pack, so he patted his ass and went to the mountain peak in the east.

After a while, he reached the foot of the mountain, and without stopping, he climbed up the mountain.

At first, I didn't feel that it was difficult to walk, and before I reached the mountainside, the mountain was steep, and in the end it was almost upright, Xie Mingzhou circled around the mountainside, and did not find a feasible road.

He looked at it for a while, and although the mountain was steep, it was not smooth, and there were many abrupt rocks, and there were trees and vines, and it was not difficult for him to climb up. He stepped on the abrupt rocks and tree trunks and leaped all the way to the top of the mountain.

The top of the mountain is very wide, but not flat, overgrown with a variety of trees, lush, and there are countless large trees that the two of them hug together, most of them are fruit trees, and the species is not single.

When Xie Mingzhou looked at it, he knew that there must have been people living on it, and this fruit tree was obviously planted by others, but after searching all over the peak, he didn't see any traces of human habitation. Xie Mingzhou became puzzled and slowly searched along the edge of the cliff.

Finally, at a height of more than two zhang from the edge of the cliff, Xie Mingzhou found something strange, there were two pine trees growing underneath, one on the left and one on the right, extremely symmetrical, and the size and shape were not much different, not like they were grown in the wild.

Xie Mingzhou jumped down, climbed along the trunk of the tree to the mountain wall, brushed away the dense vines on it, and a gloomy cave was revealed. He tore open the vines, and the sunlight shone in, and he could see clearly. The entrance to the cave is not large, the wall of the cave is very flat, there is no soil, and at a glance you can see that it was carved out by a person with a sharp weapon such as a knife and axe.

He walked in and found that the cave was not deep, and a stone wall appeared to block the way before three feet.

I saw four lines of poetry engraved on the stone wall: "Liu Daozhen is also pitiful, leaving magic for future generations." Running around for this is not a life, and the three fans are not gold".

Behind the stone wall turned out to be a stone house, with a white jade bed on the left, and a jade table against the wall, on which two jade boxes were placed and talismans were pasted. There was a lamp embedded in the stone wall, but it was not a lamp, but a pearl of the night! It was emitting a misty white light, and nothing else.

Xie Mingzhou became excited, this stone house was exactly the place he wanted, since he wanted to live here, he couldn't destroy this stone gate.

Thinking of this, as soon as he scattered his mind into the stone gate, he immediately understood that this mechanism was on those four lines of poetry, but how to open it, it would take some time to refer to it.