Volume 1 In the World Chapter 90: Flowing Cloud Sect
After not being able to visit Kong during this trip, Xiao He was still a little disappointed. When he walked along the corridor to the gate of Shaoshi Mountain, he suddenly heard a clear voice calling his name from behind.
"Fellow Taoist Xiao He, wait for me!"
Xiao He looked back and saw that it was Jushi Luo who had just come to say goodbye.
Xiao He quickly put away his disappointed mood, smiled slightly, and said: "The Suzhai in the ancient Shaolin Temple is so intoxicating, Taoist fellow Taoist, why don't you stay for a few more days?"
"I wanted to go down the mountain with you, but I didn't expect you to move so fast and take the first step!" the other party said.
"Forgive me that I am in a hurry during this trip and have trivial matters in my mind. I have no time to say goodbye to my fellow Taoist. Please don't blame me, fellow Taoist!" Xiao He said politely.
When the other party heard this, he smiled and said, "There is no room for blame. How about I go down the mountain with you?"
"Of course you can!" Xiao He smiled.
The two of them walked side by side like this, and when they strolled to the foot of Shaoshi Mountain, Xiao He couldn't help but ask: "Is this trip really just for a taste of the vegetarian food in the ancient Shaolin temple?"
"Huh? Girl?" the other party said doubtfully.
Xiao He couldn't help but smile and said: "Why, did Xiaosheng see it wrong?"
Speaking of this, the other party didn't hide it. He just handed the folding fan in his hand to Xiao He and said, "Fellow Taoist, help me take it!"
After Xiao He took the folding fan dullly, the other party raised his hands and untied his bun. His long hair fell down, and it actually reached the length of his waist. Just now, in the temple, he felt that the fairy spirit was floating, and now he was in the body of a woman.
When shown to others, it makes people feel more free and elegant, exhaling like orchid, and shining with glory.
After untying his hair, the other party was obviously much more relaxed and said to Xiao He: "I didn't dare to tell my name because of the inconvenience just now. My name is Luo Xin, and I am a disciple of Liuyun Sect. How did you know that I am a woman?"
Liuyun Sect? Xiao He's heart sank, but he answered first: "When we were in Wuguantang, Xiaosheng recognized it at just one glance. With your temperament like this, what's the difficulty in recognizing it?" After Xiao He finished speaking, he turned to ask.
, "I'm just a young student but I don't understand, why do you want to disguise yourself as a man?"
When asked about this, Luo Xin felt a little lonely and replied: "Every year on this day, Master comes here to eat vegetarian food. This year I also came to enjoy it as usual. And because I am a woman, it is very inconvenient to go to a Buddhist place of retreat alone.
In desperation, a talented woman disguises herself as a man."
"Then where is your master?" Xiao He asked tentatively.
Luo Xin shook her head and said, "I don't know either. After the master went down the mountain to find his senior sister, there was no news at all."
"Is your senior sister Roland?" Xiao He said.
"How do you know!" Luo Xin said excitedly, looking at Xiao He as if grasping a life-saving straw.
"I am a disciple of Guiyan Peak..." At this point, Xiao He couldn't help but feel hurt again.
"Gui Yanfeng, what next?" Luo Xin grabbed Xiao He's arm and continued.
"You really don't know? Your senior sister Roland and my senior brother Tongran fell in love, and because senior brother Tongran's cultivation was completely ruined, senior sister Luolan wanted to return to the sect to take care of us as a disciple of Yanfeng. Later..." Xiao He said
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In fact, how could Luo Xin not know what Xiao He said. Master Jiguang had already informed her of Luo Lan's return to Guiyan Peak with Taoist Master Tianyanzi and the subsequent disaster at Guiyan Peak. Now it is known that there are still disciples who survived in Guiyan Peak.
, how could she not be excited?
"I have always thought of Guiyan Peak to pay homage to my senior sister." Luo Xin said.
Xiao He was silent for a while after hearing this, and then spoke to console him: "After the incident, Xiaosheng returned to Guiyan Peak once. The top of Duanchen Cliff was really a scene of purgatory. There were so many corpses all over the mountain that it was impossible to tell them apart. You were just there.
It only makes you more sad, so why should you let yourself face such a scene?"
Hearing what Xiao He said, Luo Xin wanted to say something else, but she didn't say anything and asked instead: "Where are you going now?"
"As the elder of Nihan Cave Heaven, I have to return to the sect immediately. The sect master has something to discuss with me." Xiao He replied. "What about you? Do you want to continue to search for the whereabouts of your master?"
Luo Xin shook her head and said: "I am also going back to the sect. It is about to be the day when the sect recruits disciples. Master is not here, so I have to take charge of the recruitment of disciples on my behalf!"
Xiao He nodded and said: "Your master has a high level of cultivation and nothing will happen to you. Maybe he is caught up in some trivial matter and cannot return to the sect for a while!"
Xiao He's words were naturally meant to comfort, but they also seemed a little weak. Luo Xin did not point it out and said, "Thank you. Since you and I both have important things to do today, let's say goodbye again! Once the day of accepting disciples is over,
, I may continue to look for my master. If you are busy with the trivial matters of your own sect, I wonder if you can come to Liuyun Sect to talk about it. I have something I want to discuss with you!"
"Okay! When I finish my chores, I will definitely pay you a visit!" Xiao He said
"Then it's settled!" After Luo Xin said that, she turned around and floated up, turning into a white light and flying towards the sky.
"Hey!" Xiao He then remembered that Luo Xin had disappeared before he could return the folding fan in his hand.
Luo Xin has already left, and Xiao He is also walking in the direction of the Juliu River. He will cross the Juliu River again later, and he can't help but think of the old man who helped him cross the river when he was fleeing, in the small village on the edge of the forest.
On the day when the beast wave struck, he died of exhaustion and died in his own arms.
Thinking of this, Xiao He couldn't help but walk through the dense forest towards the small village.
Today, Xiao He has extremely fast legs. In the blink of an eye, the small village is in front of him. After a disaster, the small village looked a lot depressed. After the post-disaster reconstruction, the small village gradually returned to its previous appearance.
There were not many villagers living in the village. As Xiao He walked among them, he felt that the villagers he met on the road were hiding in the corner and quietly looking at him with fearful and awe-inspiring eyes. Xiao He did not take this into consideration and just said that he was alone.
The attire was incompatible with the people in the village, so it was normal for the villagers to react like this. He just planned to enter the village and walk around in memory of the old man who was in charge of the boat, and then left.
While walking around, Xiao He came to a simple ancestral hall in the village. When he entered the temple, he looked up and saw that the person enshrined here surprised Xiao He. The clay statue looked and looked the same as himself. Xiao He
While he was surprised, there was a noise behind him. When he turned around, he saw more than thirty villagers in the small village, kneeling on the ground and kowtow to Xiao He.
"What do you mean by this? Please get up quickly!" Xiao He said quickly as he had never been treated with such courtesy before.
After Xiao He finished speaking, the villagers still kowtowed and did not dare to get up. Xiao He had no choice but to take two steps forward, first helped up an old man who was kneeling in front, and said: "Old man, get up quickly!"
The old man was supported by Xiao He with both hands and could not hold on. He had to stand up, but his movements were a little shaky. After standing up, the man looked up at Xiao He, almost crying.
Seeing that this man seemed to be highly respected among the villagers, Xiao He quickly continued to ask: "Old man, why are the villagers like this? And the statues in this temple..."
Hearing Xiao He's question, the old man quickly replied: "Immortal! It was you who saved our village! When the monster came that day, if it weren't for you, the lives of the thirty or so people in my village would not have been saved!"
After the old man finished speaking, he burst into tears even more.
Xiao He couldn't interrupt, and the old man continued: "After that day, the villagers built this ancestral hall together. Several villagers who had seen your face clearly at the scene worked together to make this clay sculpture. Unfortunately, our abilities are limited and crude.
Please don’t blame me, Immortal!"
As the old man spoke, he continued to kneel down. Xiao He quickly helped him up and asked, "Old man, who are you?"
"I am the village chief here!" the old man said quickly.
"That's great." Xiao He said, "Please let everyone get up quickly. I'm not an immortal. I can't stand everyone's kneeling down!"
"Immortal, you are so polite. Everyone saw you display your magical power that day. Besides, you are our savior. We should worship you!" the village chief said excitedly.
The villagers' thoughts were simple and unpretentious, which made Xiao He a little unable to argue, but he still said: "Please get up quickly!"
The village chief nodded, turned around and said, "Since the immortal has spoken, everyone, please get up quickly!"
After hearing this, the villagers stood up and stood somewhere, still looking at Xiao He without saying a word.
After seeing everyone stand up, Xiao He felt much more relaxed, and then asked the village chief: "Your Excellency, village chief, I have something I want to ask you."
The village chief quickly said with sincerity and fear: "Immortal, you don't have to be polite. I have something to ask you."
Xiao He no longer struggled with what the village chief called him, and continued to ask: "When the monster came that day, there seemed to be an old man in the village who also fought hard to resist the monster. Can the village chief recognize this person?"
"Oh! You must be talking about Uncle Jiang!" the village chief said suddenly.
"Uncle Jiang?" Xiao He repeated.
"Exactly!" the village chief continued, "Uncle Jiang is not from our village. He came to the village many years ago. He is usually low-key and makes a living by fishing. He usually knows some Maoshan Taoism, and the villagers like it.
Ask him to draw some talismans to ward off disasters. Uncle Jiang is good to people, but he doesn't want to die at the hands of monsters. The villagers are very sad, and..."
When the village chief said this, Xiao He understood that the villagers probably didn't know that Uncle Jiang was an immortal cultivator, and the place where Uncle Jiang fought with the monsters that day was outside the village, so they didn't treat Uncle Jiang like an "immortal".
" misunderstanding, but when I used the protective mask that day, I was condescending and my appearance was clearly seen by the villagers.
Hearing that there was something wrong in the village chief's words, Xiao He asked: "And what? The village chief just said it doesn't matter."
"Besides, Uncle Jiang left behind two children, a boy and a girl. After Uncle Jiang died, the two children had to live in the village and survive on hundreds of meals." The village chief replied.
"Can I see these two children?" Xiao He asked.
"Okay!" the village chief said quickly, then waved to the crowd and said, "Jiang Feng, Jiang Yun, two kids, come here!"
After the village chief finished speaking, there were indeed two children, a boy and a girl, in the crowd. They were both seven or eight years old. They squeezed out from the gap in the crowd and stood next to the village chief. His little hands were still holding the corners of his clothes and using a pair of
Er's bright little eyes looked up at Xiao He.
Xiao He knelt down and looked at the two poor dolls. He couldn't help but feel distressed. Suddenly he seemed to think of something. He stretched out his hands to hold the right wrists of the two dolls. The children seemed a little scared, but they did not resist.
Caught by Xiao He.
After just a brief inspection, Xiao He sighed in his heart: What a child suitable for cultivating immortals!
After a while, Xiao He let go of his hand, looked at the two children again, turned to the village chief, and said, "Village Chief, can I chat with the two children alone for a while?"
"Of course!" The village chief still maintained a respectful attitude, led the villagers out of the ancestral hall, and dispersed.
After everyone left, Xiao He looked at the two children and continued to ask: "Do you know where your grandfather is from?"
The children all shook their heads.
"Then do you have any plans for the future?" Xiao He asked again.
The boy looked at Xiao He and said nothing. The girl lowered her head and said in a childish voice: "Grandpa is dead, I don't know."
"Uncle told you a place where you can learn how to kill monsters. Do you dare to go?" Looking at the two innocent children, Xiao He asked tentatively.
The boy still didn't speak, but the girl unexpectedly replied: "We dare, we must learn skills and avenge grandpa."
Xiao He thought for a long time and finally made a decision. He took out the folding fan left by Luo Xin from his arms and said to the two children: "Take this folding fan and walk westward after leaving the small village. You will walk a thousand miles.
If you see a mountain that reaches into the clouds, climb it and you can learn skills. Do you dare?"
"How far is a thousand miles?" The girl held the boy's hand and said timidly.
Xiao He thought for a while and replied: "Well... walk from the beginning of the village to the end of the village, and then from the end of the village to the end of the village, walking that distance a thousand times."
The girl thought for a while and said firmly: "We dare!"
Xiao He smiled happily, looked at the girl, and asked, "You are my sister, right?"
The girl nodded.
Xiao He added: "Then you have to take good care of your brother, and what my uncle said today, you can't talk to anyone in the village, not even the village chief, you know?"
The girl nodded again.
Xiao He smiled happily again, turned around, and disappeared into a ray of blue light. The girl and boy looked at the direction Xiao He left in shock, feeling that a very firm seed had been planted in their hearts. Many years later, they
They will remember this "uncle" who guided them on the path of cultivating immortals, and they will remember watching this man nodding vigorously, nodding his head inch by inch, with extremely firm eyes.