The speed of the golden snake at the moment of bounce is faster than that of the black panther demon, but every time it is ejected, it has to accumulate momentum, and the mana in the body must be transferred throughout the body to achieve that speed. So he will definitely not be able to catch up if he wants to chase, but he is not in a hurry, for so many years, there has been no one who can survive after being bitten by him.

He chased all the way along the breath of the leopard demon, and chased out three mountains before he saw the leopard demon fall to the ground. A few feet in front of the leopard demon was a golden flower, the size of a golden coin. There's no trace of fragrance, and it's not pretty. But this flower can solve the snake venom of the golden snake, and it is also the favorite flower of the golden snake.

He didn't know what the name of the flower was, just as he didn't know what kind of snake he was, so he didn't have a name yet.

The book was so thin that the golden snake bit out of the leopard's mouth and brought it back to its hole.

When he opened this volume, he found that he couldn't understand it at all, and he didn't know how to read the recipes in this book. Where in his heart have he faintly heard that he knows that this book is written in human words, but in this heaven and earth, there are people who say that beasts have beast words, and how can he know the cultivation method written in human words.

Suddenly, I thought, "I want to go to mankind to learn the mysteries of these words." ”

Sometimes a thought is enough to change a person's life, and when the Golden Snake Enlightenment will think, every feeling and thought of him will affect his future growth.

Enlightenment is only a matter of moments, but enlightenment is a long process, and the golden snake is walking on this path.

There are many mountains and rivers between heaven and earth, and there are few plains. Human beings, on the other hand, mostly lived by water, gathered in the plains, and slowly formed towns and countries. It has formed a kind of prosperity that cannot appear in the mountains, and many big demons in the mountains have transformed into humans to live in the world.

It was naturally impossible for the golden snake to go to a big town, he didn't dare, and there was a natural sense of fear in his heart. He didn't know how long he had been walking in the mountains, passing through the mountains and rivers, escaping danger again and again, and when the flowers had bloomed and fallen seven times, he finally saw a small village.

When he first saw a human, he was scared, and a long time ago he had left a shadow in his heart about the human who had instantly subjugated his natural enemy as a mount. However, after secretly observing for many days, he found that these humans were not terrible, and there was no danger on their bodies, so he was no longer afraid. Watching them walk upright one by one, doing all kinds of things, I suddenly had an idea in my heart that if I could walk like them, I would have two hands and two feet. After this thought was born, it was difficult to get rid of it, and a wisp of the thought of becoming a human was planted in his heart, but he did not forget the purpose of his coming to the human world.

"Learn the mysteries of words, and then learn the cultivation method. This is the motivation that supports him to climb countless mountains and encounter countless dangers and still find the human world. But now there is another luxury, the luxury of one day to walk and talk like these people.

The golden snake hid in the village and watched the people in the village do their own things, the men were working in the fields, the women were washing and cooking and weaving at home, and the children were some to herd cattle, some went to school, and sometimes fought and played. All this looked in his eyes, of course he didn't know what they were doing, he only felt that it was incomparably complicated, a hundred times more complicated than the world in the mountains.

He hid in the village for a long time, listening to human communication, but he didn't learn anything at all, let alone words.

Finally, one day he saw the birth of a life, and his heart moved, and he lived in that family.

In that family, he watched the little baby grow up, watched the baby's parents teach the little grown-up baby to speak, watched the little one get beaten for doing something, and listened to their education. When the baby went to school when he was seven or eight years old, the golden snake learned that the original writing had to be learned here, so he never went back to the man's house, but stayed in a school for many years.

The children in the school were studying, and an old master with a gray beard was teaching on it.

The Golden Snake also studied the words one by one, and he studied the syllables of each word and the meaning of each word more seriously than those students, and he remembered it deeply in his heart.

Every time he learns a text, he will be ecstatic to look up on the silk, if he does not find it he is disappointed, if he finds it he is happy.

Year after year, day after day.

The old master who taught was already old, and the previous batch of students had already grown up and left. And the golden snake finally knew that the book was indeed a scripture, called "Taishang Weiyan", but although he could recognize all the words on it, he could not understand the meaning of the words on the silk.

The golden snake hid in the eaves wall, desperately thinking about the meaning of each word, but once it was connected into a sentence, it was not clear. Then he thought of the old master, and he decided to ask him.

The snow is blowing and stretching.

The mountains are already white, and every family in the village is sitting at home, and the birds in the sky have long been extinct.

The old master has been teaching in this village for half his life, and he can be said to be the teacher of all the people under the age of forty in the village now. He lived in the house that the villagers had built for him, next door to the school. He was sitting there reading a book at this time, next to a brazier. The gray beard was clean and neat, and there was a bookshelf in the room full of books. He sat on a chair with a backrest, and on the table on his right hand was a pot of tea and some dried fruits, all of which had been sent by the villagers.

"Teacher...... Teacher ......"

A stiff voice suddenly sounded outside the door, like a person who had not spoken for many years, and suddenly it was inconvenient to speak.

The old master didn't look up, his eyes were fixed on the book, but he said, "The door is not locked, push the door in by yourself." ”

The door opened, and a cold wind blew in with snow, but the old master did not feel anyone entering. Looking up suspiciously, he saw a small golden snake in front of the door, and in front of the little snake there was an unknown large leaf wrapped in a few red and tender fruits.

The old master looked at the little golden snake and was stunned, and the golden snake shouted again: "Teacher......"

The old master came back to his senses and asked in surprise but not afraid, "Are you calling me?"

"Yes, teacher. The golden snake nodded and said, although the voice was awkward, it could be clear if you listened carefully.

The old master seemed to be interested all of a sudden, and said with a smile: "Why do you call me teacher?" ”

"I've been listening to my teacher for 10 years, so I should naturally call me a teacher. The golden snake said.

The old master was quite happy to hear this, and said with a smile: "I didn't expect that I taught a generation of learning, and there was an outlier among them. Then he asked, "What are you bringing the mountain fruit for?"

The golden snake said: "I saw that the people in the village would bring all kinds of food with them when they came to the teacher, so I also went to the mountains to find some mountain fruits, but unfortunately the mountains were covered with snow, and the mountain fruits were difficult to find, so I only found these few fruits." ”

After listening to the golden snake's words, the old master stood up in surprise and said, "It's really rare, an alien actually knows the etiquette of the world, haha, then I will accept you as a student." As he spoke, he walked towards the golden serpent, came to the door, bent down and picked up the leaf wrapped in the fruit, and from the beginning to the end there was not the slightest fear of the golden serpent, which could speak.

The old master put the mountain fruit on the table and sat down again, and the golden snake followed the house, stopping on the side of the brazier in front of the old master.

"You must have come to me today for something, right?" As soon as the old master sat down, he felt a sense of majesty, not the kind of harshness that made people fear, but a kind of aura that naturally exuded after being deeply learned.

"Teacher, I got a scripture in the mountains, I don't know what it means, I want to ask the teacher to explain it to me. "The golden snake is a snake after all, and although he works hard to learn words, he still speaks like a child, very directly.

"Oh, what kind of scriptures, show me them. The old master said with a smile.

As soon as the old master finished speaking, the golden snake had already swept through the void like golden light and disappeared. The old master was stunned for a moment, and then sighed: "How difficult it is to educate the common people. I was determined when I was young, and I never imagined that I would have this opportunity when I was old. At that time, there were thirteen outliers among the seventy-two disciples of the teacher, and today I know the depth of the teacher's knowledge. ”

The old master sighed for a while, and the golden snake had already returned, and came to the old master with a scroll of silk books in his mouth.

The old man took it and read it with some doubts: "Taishang Weiyan". Then he looked down again, and after reading a few lines, he turned a few more pages, and then looked at the last page, and said, "I have never heard the name of the scripture Taishang Weiyan, but the scriptures in it are very famous in the world." ”

"What is the scripture, the teacher will tell me quickly. The golden snake said hurriedly.

"Hehe, don't worry, this scripture is called "Tao Te Ching" in the world, and it is divided into two volumes. Among them, the "Tao Sutra" tells the foundation of the universe, the mystery of the changes of all things in heaven and earth, and the subtlety of the changes of yin and yang. ”

"Okay, good, it's really a good book, the teacher will explain it to me. The golden snake couldn't help but be overjoyed, he was originally a cautious person in the mountains, and after so many years of tempering, he acted even more cautiously. However, after so many years of helplessness in the face of that silk book, I was naturally very happy to hear that the scriptures in this book were so profound.

"Hehe, don't worry, this next volume is the "Book of Virtues", which tells the strategy of dealing with the world, and explains the art of personnel advance and retreat, including the way of eternal life. ”

"It's great to live forever. The golden serpent swam from side to side on the ground, evidently amazed.

The old master listened to the words of the golden snake, and couldn't help but think in his heart: "Although he is a demon body, his mind has been opened, but his heart is like a child. If he is a good student, he may not be a demon fairy in the world, benefiting the common people, and he will not be the worst in the world. ”

"Don't be in a hurry, you call me a teacher, but as a teacher, you have something to ask you. ”

"Teacher, please speak. ”

"You are the enlightened spirit and wisdom in the mountains, but you have cultivated the sex and wisdom in my world. Therefore, I don't ask about your affairs in the mountains, but only about whether you have killed and lived since you came to the world. The old master asked.

The golden snake replied seriously: "Back to the teacher, since I came here, I have observed the living habits of the villagers during the day every day, and practiced tuna at night. Since I met my teacher, I have rarely left, and I have never killed a life. ”

The old master nodded, stroked the wisp of white beard, and said, "This is very good, and remember what I said today, I have never killed a living being, and I will not kill a living easily in the future." ”

"I remembered. "Although the golden snake has been in the world for so long, he has learned very little, and his main mind is used to learn the language, and the title of 'rite' is always incomplete, such as calling the old master a teacher, but when he talks about himself, he says 'I', and does not call himself a student or disciple.

"Do you have a name?"

"I don't have a name. ”

The old master stroked his beard with a deep groan and asked, "Why did you come to the world?"

"I originally wanted to learn the mystery of reading in books, but since I came here, I want to take on human form and live like a human being. The golden serpent coiled on the ground, and spoke loudly with his head held high, and his voice was stiff, like that of a child who has just learned to speak.

"Hehe, you can already recognize the words on the silk book, and I will also explain the meaning of the scriptures for you. I can't help you with the transformation of a human, but I also know that it is not difficult for a demon to transform into a person. Since you don't have a name, I'll give you one. ”

"Good ......," the golden snake replied quickly with a shake of his head.

"Your body is like red gold, so your surname is gold, and you are a demon body, so I hope that one day you can conclude the Dharma and become an immortal. Then let's call it the Golden Elephant!"

"Golden Elephant, good, good, I will be called Golden Elephant in the future. The golden snake said happily.

Since then, he has lived in the old master's place, listening to the old master's explanation of "Taishang Weiyan" day and night.