The sun and the moon rotate, reflecting the vicissitudes of heaven and earth.

For a long time, the Golden Elephant would only instinctively swallow the vitality of heaven and earth, and the vitality between heaven and earth would not be much if it was intimidated into the body, and most of it would be dispersed. Therefore, over the years, although he has practiced diligently, if he fights with Daomen disciples who have practiced for more than ten years, he will definitely lose, and this is the difference between having a cultivation method and not having a cultivation method.

Although all these years of cultivation were not much compared to the life he didn't know how many years he had lived, he himself did not find that his mind was much clearer. I already know many things that I didn't know before, and I can now think about things that I wouldn't have thought about before.

This is the enlightenment of demons, and many demons only belong to the initial stage of spiritual wisdom throughout their lives. Human beings still have to keep learning to open their minds, not to mention demons.

It's time for the snow to melt and the glacier to unfreeze.

The old master was explaining the scripture to him all winter, but the scripture was too mysterious compared to the golden elephant, even if the old master explained it sentence by sentence, he couldn't understand it, and more mysterious words could not be explained at all, and there was no way to explain it. Half a winter has only explained the first four sentences, and Jin Xiangdi still seems to understand it.

After the beginning of spring, the old master accepted another group of students, and Jin Xiangdi still went to listen to the lectures every day, and now it is much easier to listen again, he doesn't have to work hard to memorize those words, so he found a lot of things that he hadn't heard before, or didn't care about. Every time I hear something I didn't know before, I feel a sense of excitement in my heart, whether it's useful or useless.

In his spare time, the old master would tell some stories for the golden elephant, and tell some relatively simple and easy-to-understand articles and scriptures. And the old master of "Taishang Weiyan" will explain a paragraph every once in a while.

Time passed day by day, the autumn wind blew the red maple leaves, blew the yellow grass, and it was another year of heavy snowfall.

The aura on Jin Xiangdi's body became more and more pure, and he could already know why the people in the village were always doing repetitive things and why they were always so busy. However, he still had a lot of things he didn't understand, such as when the old man who didn't know how much strength he obviously didn't seem to have much power scolded those powerful young people, the young man would just keep silent. There's a lot more I don't know.

He still practiced hard, day and night, except for listening to the old master, or hiding on the highest roof in the village and watching the villagers work. Although he hadn't learned any cultivation methods from the Taishang Weiyan yet, and he still didn't understand what it meant, he had a feeling in his heart that as long as he understood the meaning of the scriptures in that book, he would be able to learn the cultivation method.

Year after year passed.

The old master had finished explaining the "Taishang Weiyan" with not many words for Jin Xiangdi, and when the old master asked Jin Xiangdi if he understood the meaning of the scriptures, Jin Xiangdi shook his head and nodded, and finally just said that he didn't know.

The old master said with a smile: "I have explained the scriptures for you, then you should also know that 'Tao is the way, the very way', I explain it is just a very simple meaning, mainly to take you to the beginning, look at your current appearance should be almost touching the threshold, so you should not always think about the things I explained for you now, but to see, think, and recite silently." In small words, how can the truth of heaven and earth be clearly expressed in words. ”

Jin Xiangdi thought for a moment, then nodded.

The old master said, "One day you will have your own understanding of the verses in this book, and you will be able to transform into a human being." ”

Jin Xiangdi remembered the old master's words, recited the entire scripture in his heart silently, and then thought about it sentence by sentence to understand. Although most of the time his mind is chaotic and he can't think of anything, but after thinking about it for a long time and thinking about it a lot, he will occasionally have a flash of inspiration and think of something, and then he will run to tell the old master very excitedly, and the old master always flicks his white beard and nods with a smile. In this way, he would have been even happier, but he did not notice that the old master's health was getting worse day by day, and the cloudiness in his eyes was getting thicker and thicker, and his walking speed was getting slower and slower, and he was already on crutches.

When Jin Xiangdi silently recites "Taishang Weiyan" day and night, he thinks of more and more things, and the time of meditation is getting longer and longer, sometimes when he wakes up, the mountains are full of flowers, and when he suddenly wakes up, it is already snowy.

Suddenly, one day, he felt that people were not complicated, but they had more arms and feet, and he thought that I would also give birth to arms, so he gave birth to arms. He was overjoyed and secretly said, "It's really that simple. ”

I also thought about giving birth to feet, and the lower body was clear and flowing, and I immediately gave birth to feet. Then he imagined the whole person, and immediately turned into a single person, dressed in golden clothes. He was so happy in his heart that he wanted to run to show the old master, so that he could know that he had been transformed.

But as soon as I moved my feet, I realized that I was only the size of chopsticks at this time, and then meditated in my heart that I had grown up, and my body suddenly rose with the wind and turned into a young man.

He looked down at his body, pinching left and right, and was surprised in his heart. Immediately ran towards the old master's residence, at first he was very unaccustomed to walking, always crooked, to twist from side to side, but after walking a few steps, he walked straight and walked slowly, so that he could be regarded as walking like a normal person.

He has been in the village at the beginning, and then he hid in the back mountain to practice, but at this time he is going to walk back from the back mountain, for his snake body, those miles of road is just a blink of an eye, but for the beginner to walk Jin Xiangdi has to walk for a while, but he doesn't care, is walking happily. On the way, when I met the woodcutters in the village, I would greet them warmly, and they would respond with the same smile, and then they would turn around and ask the people around them if they knew the golden elephant.

The road of two or three miles made him familiar with the way of human walking, and soon he arrived in the village, and his golden clothes made the villagers look at him one by one, but he greeted him one by one as if he was extremely familiar. He forgot that he knew them, but they did not recognize him.

He walked straight to the old master's residence, and before he could get closer, he had already shouted, "Teacher, teacher, the disciple has taken shape." ”

"Teacher......" he shouted, as he walked to the door and pushed it with one hand.

But before his hand touched the wooden door, it was already open.

Out of the door came a man of about forty years old, dressed in a washed white scholar's robe, wearing a scholar's scarf, and a black beard on his forehead, looking quite charitable, holding a book in his hand, apparently just reading.

"Old ......" Jin Xiangdi's teacher was stuck in his throat, which translated: "Who are you and how are you in my teacher's room." ”

He was also obviously stunned, looked Jin Xiangdi up and down and said, "You are looking for Li Lao." ”

After thinking for a while, Jin Xiang Di thought that his teacher's surname was Li, and he realized that he didn't know his teacher's name at this time, and at the same time immediately nodded: "Yes, what about my teacher?"

"Uh, Elder Li was already immortal a year ago, where did you come from?"

Jin Xiangdi was stunned and repeated: "The immortal is gone, why is the immortal gone." He thought about it for a while, and immediately knew that the immortal was dead, and in his thoughts, he never thought that the old master would die one day, in his opinion, how could a good person die if he was not killed by others.

When this fact was placed in front of him, he immediately thought that people would indeed die, even if they did not fight for food and not get hurt, they would die of old age.

The new teacher listened to Jin Xiangdi's muttering words, frowned, and said, "You are a disciple of Elder Li?"

"Yes, I'm a student of the teacher. Jin Xiangdi didn't know what was wrong with him, and he felt very sad in his heart.

"And what's your name?" asked Mr. Teach.

Jin Xiangdi was a little dazed, he once asked the old master what it meant to be sad, and the old master said at the time, "When you lose something you care about, you will be sad." At that time, he thought about it very seriously, but he didn't think that he had anything very interesting, except for "Taishang Weiyan", but after memorizing all the scriptures, he didn't care much about it. In the end, he came to the conclusion that he didn't care about something, and he wouldn't be sad.

"My name is Jin Xiangdi. He replied, but thought to himself, "Is this sadness?" ”

Mr. Teaching looked at Jin Xiangdi again and said, "Here is a letter left by Elder Li for you. After he finished speaking, he returned to the room, and Jin Xiangdi looked at the furnishings in the room that had not changed much, but there was a sense of strangeness.

Mr. Jiaoshu took out the letter, and the words "Golden Elephant Founding Relatives" were written on it.

There he quickly opened the letter, and he wanted to see what the old master had left for him.

"I have been teaching for 40 years, and I don't want to meet you in my later years to study, but I am very lucky. I often think about the words of the sages and educate the people, and I feel full of emotion in my heart, now my limit is approaching, and you have not shown it for several years, and I am very worried. If this letter is seen, there is a gift that says, 'Trouble arises at a small moment, and action must be done when the heart is clear.' Hope to persevere, permanent, may people be as famous, the law is concluded, and the immortal book will be recorded forever. ”

The letter was short and few words. But Jin Xiangdi watched it for a long time, over and over again.

Mr. Teaching looked at the young man in a golden dress in front of him, and finally saw a trace of sadness on his face, which was not faked, and he secretly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, knowing that he had not given the wrong person.

"Where is the teacher buried?" asked Jin Xiangdi.

"Shagong Mountain, you can see it when you go. ”

The golden elephant turned around and left, walking very fast, forgetting that he would twist from side to side as soon as he walked fast. The teacher in the back frowned and looked at the golden elephant who was writhing and walking, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

The place where the old master lived was a relatively remote place, and Shagongshan was in front of the village, and he walked through the village again, this time he was not in the mood to greet the villagers, as if he was blind, but everyone was staring at him.

Suddenly, a string of bells rang in the distance, and the sound of the bells was clear and clear, coming from the entrance of the village.

The golden elephant was naturally unconcerned, his footsteps did not stop, and soon he saw a green-robed Taoist who could not see his age appeared in front of him, with a simple gourd hanging from his waist, and a yellow flag in his right hand, on which were written four big characters: "Catch ghosts and eliminate demons." "There is a yellow brass bell in the middle of the yellow flag, which is swaying and emitting a series of crisp bell sounds.

As soon as he saw the golden elephant, he stopped, and the brass bell still trembled.

Jin Xiangdi seemed to see that Taoist at this time, and suddenly, he thought of the person who had accepted his natural enemy, the White Crane, as a mount for many years, and he was also wearing such clothes, and the smell on his body was very similar.

Suddenly, a sense of danger welled up in his heart.

"Youkai?" said the Taoist coldly.

"I'm not a youkai. The golden elephant did not stop to pass by him, but immediately replied.

"When did even a little demon like you dare to come to the world. The green-robed Taoist said coldly.

There have been people looking at the golden elephant from far and near, when they heard the Taoist priest say that the golden elephant was a monster, they retreated in horror, shouting and hiding far away, and some young and strong people also held the farm tools in their hands tightly, it seems that they want to help the Taoist priest get rid of the demon together.

There are a lot of Taoist priests walking in the world, any Taoist priest will have a few magic techniques, they wander around, and they will get rid of demons and catch ghosts everywhere they pass, which makes Taoist priests have a very high status in the world, and everyone believes what they say.

"I'm a human, not a youkai. Jin Xiangdi said loudly, deciding not to pay attention to this inexplicable Taoist priest, and to bypass him far away to go to Shagong Mountain in front of him.

The Taoist priest sneered and said, "A demon is a demon, even if you transform into an adult, you are still a demon." A demon like you, who thinks that he has become a human being is a human being, is the most stupid, how can he peep into the heavens and lead to the avenue, it is better to enter reincarnation early and be a human in the next life. ”

Jin Xiangdi suddenly felt very angry, and wanted to kill the Taoist priest in front of him, with murderous intent in his eyes. At this moment, the bell he heard in his ears suddenly changed, becoming rapid and hazy. If the previous sound was crisp and pleasant, and it made people feel clear, then now when I listen to it, I have a drowsy thought, and the ringtone is like wrapping around the soul, tightly bound, and suffocating.

Jin Xiangdi was horrified in his heart, he had never encountered such a thing, and suddenly he found that he was not safer in the world than in the mountains.