Chapter 4 Huilong Temple
Waking up from a beautiful dream, it is already early spring.
The brocade snake crawled out of the rat hole and walked two miles along the river. Then it saw the rice fields, the water wheels and the brick walls of thatched huts. It was a human village!
Bypassing the fierce looking local dog at the entrance of the village, the brocade snake shook its head and plunged into the human village and lived.
When sleeping on the beam during the day, in the early morning and at sunset, they use the protection of the night to catch mice for the villagers and act as a good snake to guard the house. As for the middle of the night, the brocade snake often enters the main bedroom, with its distance between the bed and shoes, and listens to the secrets of the boudoir.
Of course, snakes have no interest in pickling trivial matters, and they are boring in reproduction of human beings. They act in this way just to understand the humanities in this world and then explore their own path to seeking immortals and seeking the way.
This country is not in any dynasty in the ancient times, and the Jinshe is sure that it has traveled to another world.
However, it is worth studying that although the earth was irrelevant in the previous life, the appearance, clothing, and even language and writing of humans here seemed to be different from that of China, which is very convenient for time travelers.
Half a month later, the village had no secrets in the snake.
The Jinshe finally locked in the goal of seeking immortality, and went ten miles eastward to return to Huilong Temple on Longshan on the bank of the river!
It is rumored that three hundred years ago, a black dragon was committed evil in the mountains and fields. The evil thing was hidden in the day and came out at night, invading nearby houses, and choosing people to eat them, which was extremely violent. Then a Taoist priest came and suppressed the black dragon on the top of the mountain, and established Huilong Temple to pass on the inheritance to this day. The mountain was also renamed Huilong Mountain through this.
Jinshe decided to leave the village, and immediately cleaned up. After taking revenge on the spotted dogs in the village before leaving, she shook her tail and walked up the mountain.
A few days later, at the beginning of the third month of the lunar calendar, it was raining.
On the banks of the river, back to the middle of Longshan, on the quiet ancient road full of vines and calamari, the brocade snake climbed leisurely, and beside it, a Taoist priest led two children to hide from the rain under the stone wall.
"Viol snake!" The tall one among the children suddenly screamed.
The old Taoist and the short child looked in the direction of his finger.
A long snake about four feet long and two inches thick is climbing the mountain path with difficulty, which is Jian Jing.
The snake is not good-looking, with its green and yellow scales mixed with black stripes, mottled like rotten branches, and many ugly scars are spread on its body. Although new skins have grown, the obvious depression and atrophy are still visible to the naked eye - it may take at least two more skins to completely heal.
The old Taoist smiled silently, "It's just an ordinary vegetable, melon and snake. It's full of vegetables and you can tell at a glance that it's not toxic. Meeting is fate, and you don't have to drive it away."
The snake spitted out a letter and looked over, then entered the mountains and forests on the roadside and disappeared without a shadow.
If you are an expert who is good at snake language, you will definitely hear it saying, "Caigua Snake, your whole family, your whole family is a Caigua Snake!"
Climbing from the rocky mountains is obviously more difficult than climbing from a clean area next to the stone steps.
The rain stopped and then fell. The brocade snake crawled for a while and turned back to the stone steps again.
There is a pavilion beside the road. The three Taoist priests I met before actually climbed faster than snakes. They moved when the rain stopped, and when the rain fell, they took shelter in the pavilion first.
The snake drove away and accelerated, trying to stay away from the three of them, but the people in the pavilion immediately noticed the arrival of the snake.
"Oh, that snake is right in front!" This time a short child shouted.
Hearing the cry, the old Taoist frowned and looked over.
It was still a pattern like a vegetable melon. The long snake curled up on the rocks outside the courtyard, constantly groping. The climbing direction was the same as the mountain road, as if leading the way for the three Taoists.
The old Taoist took out the talisman paper and made a gesture. The wrinkled talisman suddenly burned out. He then put his thumb and index finger together and dipped it into the paper ashes, and finally wiped it on his eyes.
This is the [Qi-Looking Technique], which allows you to observe the degree of spiritual energy enrichment in the bodies of sentient beings.
However, in the eyes of the old Taoist, the cauliflower snake in front of him had not changed at all, and was still so ugly, and the spiritual energy on his body was pitifully small, no different from livestock.
The old Taoist sighed to himself, "I am too concerned."
He shook off the ashes on his hands, shook his head and said, "It's really a big fate. It's a pity that Changshou is an ignorant bird after all, and you don't contain the blood of divine beasts. Unless you have the fortune of Tongtian to eat the heavenly treasures, you will not have the opportunity to open your spirits in your life.
Alas, with such an opportunity, if it weren't for being unable to be trained, the old Taoist would have taken you as a mount under your crotch."
"Puchi..." The short boy laughed, "This snake is thin and soft. When he rode on it, the master's butt was so harsh that he didn't say anything. The snake was afraid that it would be about to fall on the spot!"
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The master and apprentice said this, and the long snake on the rock shook slightly and almost fell.
Jinshe cursed in a snake's words, "Bad old man! I won't be humiliated by your crotch! Tear!
And you naughty boy, I'm so strong that I'm so strong! Be careful to use your waist to stir you up so hard that you can't breathe at night! Hiss!"
I met this old man with a bull's nose halfway and was insulted by him repeatedly. Jinshe felt very depressed.
The intelligence of the human soul is that emotions will not affect thinking and can draw information from details.
The brocade snake left the two people in the pavilion and continued to wind on the rugged mountain road, thinking carefully about the known information in his heart.
According to information obtained from the village at the foot of the mountain, there were four Taoist priests living in Huilong Temple. The old goat-beard who just wanted to collect snakes as a mount, had both eyebrows and beards and beards. He was over 50 years old. He must be the current Taoist Songxia, the head of Huilong Temple.
And these two kids with horns are probably the newly accepted apprentices of the old Taoist.
Then there is the information revealed during the conversation between Lao Dao and Xiao Dao.
First of all, the old Taoist who returned to Longguan was indeed a practitioner of Taoism. He must have used a spell of exploration just now, and saw the brocade snake up and down, inside and out clearly. Otherwise, there was no need to wipe the eyes with paper ashes on this empty mountain road and do strange behaviors.
Then he learned from the Taoist people that his talent was the same as the self-cognition established during the past few years of travel, with low bloodlines and a low level of existence among the time travelers.
Finally, there was news that was beneficial to the Jinshe. The old Taoist, except for knowing that the snake's bloodline was low, did not detect the identity of the snake's time traveler.
Perhaps his soul is completely in the shape of a brocade snake, or perhaps the Taoist magician cannot detect a deeper soul area. In short, the snake's biggest secret and reliance has not been exposed.
It also provides a foundation for subsequent exploits and learning!
"Old Master, since you are insulting me, don't blame the snake who is too jealous to take revenge! Hissing!" As he said harsh words, the snake drove the thin waist to climb hard.
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At night, the rain had just stopped, the sky was dark, and a few remaining flowers dripped from the door.
The old Taoist priest stroked the broken leaves of his temples and gently knocked back to the front door of Longguan.
Then, a young Taoist priest opened the viewing door and the octagonal lantern illuminated the four of them.
"Master, I'm back! Dinner is ready!"
The old Taoist pulled the two children behind him, "Well, I've seen my senior brother soon."
"Hello, senior brother!"
"Hello, senior brother!"
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After a greeting, several Taoist priests walked into the courtyard.
"Hey, there is a snake!" The young Taoist priest who was about to close the yard gate said.
The old Taoist priest turned around and happened to see the ugly pattern of the vegetable snake. He crawled into the courtyard through the crack of the door and disappeared into the night accidentally.
"Hey, it's this vegetable snake again!" The old Taoist stroked the goatee's beard.
The young Taoist priest asked, "What?"
The little Taoist priest said, "We and the master have already met twice on the way up the mountain!"
The young Taoist priest asked, “Has he born spiritual?”
The old Taoist priest shook his head, "I have seen it with the Qi-seeking technique. The spiritual light does not appear, and the body and energy dissipates, just ordinary wild snakes."
The young Taoist priest was amazed, "Hey! There is such a coincidence in the world. You can meet the same wild snake three times a day! It's true fate!"
The old Taoist shook his head, "There has not been a spiritual wisdom and his bloodline is low, so he can only be destined to be without separation.
Forget it, don’t worry about it. I’ve been traveling all day and I haven’t eaten yet!”
Several people walked into the temple.
The snake with the beginning of the shadow inevitably contempts several Taoist priests who have no eyes to recognize the time traveler, and the rich smell of vegetarian rice rolled up on the tip of their tongues.
Well, I also reached the prey point.
However, after climbing the mountains and forests for a day, some of them were trapped and they really didn't have the heart to hunt in the wild.
The Jinshe found the lotus pond in the temple, aimed at a sleeping little carp, jumped down, and swallowed it.
Hiss, the fish scales were scratching in the stomach, which was not very pleasant. After eating, I spit out the scales one by one, and the flesh was loose as loose as rotten wood, not as fat as a house rat.
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After eating and drinking, the snake found a crack in the rock without water and was about to fall asleep.
Chapter completed!