It rained heavily for three consecutive days and took a break for one day. It seemed like wine was about to enter the mountains, rivers and the earth.
At the top of the mountain that was formerly known as "Baiyue" and is now called Qiyun Mountain, Gu Can rested here for a while and Feijian sent a message to Liu Chicheng, who liked to show off in the market. He came here to discuss something.
As soon as Liu Chicheng, who was flattered, received the letter, he hurriedly set off from the Xianjia Inn in Chuzhou City without delaying for a moment. Before leaving, Pavilion Master Liu specially put on the pink Taoist robe again. As an uncle, he always has to
To support my nephew, so as not to look shabby to outsiders and lose Gu Can's face. I never thought of that Feng Shui-shaped place called Qiyun Mountain. Apart from Gu Can, the only one who came from the wild world
The maidservants stood together on the mountainside and the cliff. Liu Chicheng was a little confused. He fell from the clouds and did not dare to complain. He just couldn't help but asked: "Gu Can, you are bored here.
Are you going to have a drink with your uncle?"
Gu Can said: "Someone wants to see you by name."
Liu Chicheng sneered, "You are so arrogant, you want to meet me by name?"
Gu Can suddenly raised his hands and saluted outside the cliff, lowered his head and said in a deep voice: "Gu Can has met the founder."
Liu Chicheng turned around, without even raising his head, and immediately knelt down on the ground and kowtowed, "Disciple pays homage to the master."
After a while, Liu Chicheng, who couldn't get up from his knees after hearing the wild female cultivator covering her mouth and laughing sweetly, realized that he had been tricked by that bastard Gu Can. He stood up angrily, shook the sleeves of his robe, and shook off some dust.
, Liu Chicheng was not angry either.
At this moment, there was a rustling sound behind him. Liu Chicheng mistakenly thought that it was Gu Can who was causing trouble again, and said with an angry smile: "That's enough, no matter how good my temper is, there is a limit."
Immediately afterwards, Liu Chicheng was kicked and scolded, and the voice was extremely familiar, "You are such a shameful thing, and you still have the nerve to go to Luo Luoshan? You dress so showily every day, why don't you just carve a line of gold characters on it?"
On the forehead, it is engraved 'My senior brother is Zheng Juzhong'?"
Liu Chicheng turned around and saw the majestic old man Qing Kui. Liu Chicheng's lips moved slightly and his eyes were red. He fell to the ground again and said in a trembling cry: "Master!"
Wearing a green shirt and long coat, it was Chen Qingliu who was having nothing to do.
Next to him was an unkempt, barefooted Taoist priest with nothing else on his body and an umbrella slung across his back.
Two old friends who have known each other for a long time had previously arranged to meet here.
Chen Qingliu raised the toe of his shoes and then landed on the ground, "Get up, respect your teacher and cultivate your realm. It would be great if you two brothers could even out."
Liu Chicheng stood up, turned his head and wiped his tears. He couldn't help himself. He really wanted to care about it. He had only seen the master since he was suppressed by the great master of Longhushan in Aquarius Island a thousand years ago. After he escaped from trouble, not counting today, he had only seen his master once.
. As for why Senior Brother Zheng didn’t save him, Senior Brother must have his own reasons. Why Master was unwilling to break the restriction with a sword when he was clearly in Aquarius Continent? Master must have had his own reasons. Liu Chicheng really had no complaints at all.
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Chen Qingliu introduced to the Taoist priests around him with a slightly sarcastic tone, "Fellow Taoist Ziqing, this is my proud disciple Liu Daochun. The master of Liu Pavilion in Baidi City seems to have been renamed Liu Chicheng. He is that 'other person'."
They laugh at me for being too stupid, and I laugh at Pavilion Master Liu who has no senior brother."
The sloppy Taoist priest smiled and said: "He has countless deeds and has been famous for a long time."
He is not a swordsman, but he dares to run rampant in the Middle-earth Divine Continent just by virtue of his Jade Purity Realm.
Chen Qingliu smiled and introduced the sloppy Taoist priest next to him, "This fellow Taoist Ziqing, whose common surname is Ge, calls himself Sanbaiqian Taoist, and is also nicknamed 'Huainan'. He is a real high-minded man who travels to famous mountains and his whereabouts are unpredictable. He is not
The kind of half-hearted hermit who is just trying to gain fame. He had several dojos in his early years. The more famous one was the Yulong Palace. The less famous one was the Xujiang Wenbi Peak. The other one was later occupied by scholars.
I can’t get it back. Your relationship with me is okay, can we let it go?”
The barefoot Taoist priest carrying an umbrella smiled and answered: "Half a friend."
Gu Can glanced at the Taoist priest's shoulder intentionally or unintentionally.
Liu Chicheng, on the other hand, was as if he was falling into the clouds.
It is also the Yupu realm, where everyone can judge from superior to superior.
Gu Can said, "Gu Can has met Ge Xianjun in Baidi City."
Liu Chicheng moved to stand next to his master, not knowing how to speak appropriately. When Gu Can spoke like this, Liu Chicheng followed suit.
The Taoist priest surnamed Ge, whose Taoist name is Ziqing, looked at Gu Can, nodded in approval and said: "Scholars must be like this in order to practice Taoism and obtain the Dharma."
Chen Qingliu glanced at the wild female cultivator. The old man frowned slightly. She immediately realized what was going on and left without daring to say a word.
The Fourteenth Realm is the Fourteenth Realm.
Even if the Taoist methods of the Fourteenth Realm each have their own strengths and weaknesses, and each method has its own strengths and weaknesses, that is only a matter between the Fourteenth Realm.
The dragon-slaying man in front of me, who defeated all the water people in the world with his swordsmanship, had been missing for three thousand years. When he officially appeared for the first time, he once said "Whoever you kill is not the one you kill." No one thought that this sentence should not be taken seriously.
Big talk, empty talk.
Chen Qingliu smiled and said: "Fellow Taoist Ziqing, we haven't seen each other for a long time. If someone hadn't said you showed up in Zhongyue, I wouldn't have known you were wandering around Aquarius Island."
The Taoist priest smiled and said, "It's just because Master has ordered me to go see Junior Brother Wei."
Chen Qingliu smiled and said: "Wei Benyuan from Taoye Lane, this stinky old man, finally remembered what happened in the past?"
The Taoist priest nodded and said: "It is mainly due to the two talismans that Li Xisheng presented to Junior Brother Wei."
Chen Qingliu gloated and said: "I can't blame others. If I want to blame, blame him for his lofty ideals. It's not good to quarrel with anyone. I have to go to Zou Zi to fight, especially the content of the discussion, which is the five elements."
The Taoist priest smiled bitterly and was speechless. It is normal for this Junior Brother Wei to have extremely high talents and a high spirit. Moreover, Senior Brother Wei is only the anonymous disciple of the Master and is never allowed to enter the palace and become the direct successor, so he wants to prove himself to the Master more than anyone else.
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Chen Qingliu laughed and said: "When I entered the town, Wei Benyuan had already left Taoye Lane, otherwise I would have to come to ask for advice and ask him what he was thinking back then and why he was so hard-headed."
The Taoist priest coughed and reminded you that your disciples and further disciples are here. Don't speak so openly.
Chen Qingliu smiled and said: "A stupid person only knows how to respect the teacher and has no other merits. A lawless and deviant person will one day bully the teacher and destroy the ancestors. What can I pretend to do?"
Liu Chicheng's face was full of pride.
Gu Can looked calm.
The Taoist priest hesitated for a moment and said, "I heard that Fellow Daoist Chen is particularly close to Luopo Mountain?"
Chen Qingliu hummed, "Part of it is Mr. Qi who blocked all the counterattacks from Heaven. I owe him a favor, so I have to express it. Part of it is that there is a close friend in the mountain of poverty. Drinking without him is completely meaningless."
The Taoist priest nodded, "That's it."
In the eyes of ordinary qi practitioners, the dragon-slaying battle has long ended.
But in the eyes of the Taoist priest named Ge, Chen Qingliu only killed more than half of his body back then.
When Wang Zhu appeared, she gradually gathered the world's true dragon luck into her body. If Qi Jingchun hadn't taken over all the cause and effect, there would have been a scene where luck counterattacked, as if Chen Qingliu returned the favor with a sword from afar. There was no way to avoid it. That's not to say that
Chen Qingliu couldn't catch it, but it would be more troublesome. It would not be as refreshing as it is now. He could just sit back and wait quietly for the second real dragon besides Wang Zhu to appear.
Chen Qingliu lifted up one of his shoes, stepped on a stone on the edge of the cliff, gently rubbed the yellow mud off the sole, and said with squinted eyes: "The battle to slay a dragon becomes more and more difficult the more you slay it. The joys and hardships here cannot be explained to outsiders."
This statement is true. It was so difficult that Chen Qingliu had to stop his sword and rest for a while, because at the last moment, what he killed with the long sword in his hand was not a real dragon, but the fate of the dragons in the world. So this
That's why those Qi practitioners were crazy about picking up leaks. Every time a giant thing fell, there would be an opportunity to accompany it. This was a rule on the mountain in ancient times. It was because of this that the Lizhu Cave Sky came into being.
, then gradually there were four tribes and ten surnames in the town, with a total of more than 600 households, more than 30 dragon kilns, and mountains stretching to the west. Old Yang had a chessboard for the big exam that was filled with incense and mist...
The Taoist priest sighed: "Those who travel a hundred miles are half ninety."
Gu Can said: "It drives birds away from the bushes and fishes from the abyss."
The Taoist priest exclaimed and asked with a smile: "Can this statement still be used in this way?"
Gu Can slapped his head again and said, "It's my junior who is making fun of me."
Chen Qingliu asked: "In so many years, Bai Shang has not come to you as a senior brother, and now he wants to ask Mr. Sanshan Jiuhou for some lost ancient swordsmanship?"
The Taoist priest shook his head and said: "Junior Brother Lu and Junior Brother Wang are generally high-spirited. Since the Master is unwilling to take the initiative to see them, they will never go to the Master."
Taoist priests once dug wells to refine elixirs in Jingshan Mountain in Luzhou, Beiju. The local people made statues of gods to offer sacrifices to the gods, and the incense was kept there. A beautifully carved white jade toad was placed on the shoulders of the statues.
Chen Qingliu explained to Gu Can: "Wei Benyuan's predecessor, whose surname was Wang Minmin, was a Taoist priest. Taoist fellow Ziqing, Lu Yue, and Fangzhushan Qingjun, who once held great power, were all disciples of Mr. Sanshan Jiuhou.
I don’t want to overdo it by being named or anonymous. Among them, Wang Min, I guess, followed his master’s front and rear feet into the Lizhu Cave, and the method of trapping the dragon was probably his master’s idea. It was Wang Min who actually laid out the formation, as
The reward is the Immortal Tomb, otherwise I can't think of any other reason why an outsider could occupy most of the Immortal Tomb. Then he had a quarrel with Zou Zi and lost, so that's how the old head of the Wei family became today?"
The Taoist priest surnamed Ge sighed, "Except for the wrong order, everything else is correct. Junior Brother Wang first lost the argument with Zou Zi, and then went to Lizhu Cave to wade through the muddy water to help Master arrange the formation.
After that, he retreated on his own and reincarnated again and again in the Lizhu Cave. His mind became increasingly confused and confused. Junior Brother Wang could only barely keep a little bit of his Tao Seed true spirit alive, fluttering like the fire of a lantern in the wind."
Chen Qingliu asked with a smile: "According to the rules established by the Qingtong Tianjun, the town's main roads have circulated in an orderly manner for three thousand years. Is there a hidden process of constantly stripping away, expelling, and clearing out the immortal seeds? The emergence of the natal porcelain is
In order to eliminate all the Qi practitioners, the so-called Taoist embryos, eliminate the bad and retain the good, so that when one abdicates, the temple can be rebuilt? When the immortals retreat, can the gods be invited to return?"
When Chen Qingliu said the word "green", the barefoot Taoist priest had already opened the umbrella behind his back to cover the sky and prevent the partition wall from having ears.
Therefore, Liu Chicheng, who was so close, couldn't hear what the master said at all. Logically, Gu Can couldn't hear it either, but Chen Qingliu did it deliberately. He put his fingers together and swiped lightly, using his sword energy to open a gap.
The secret was deliberately leaked so that Gu Can, an insider, could hear it clearly.
Taoist priest surnamed Ge looked solemn and said from his heart: "This truth is the result of what Senior Brother Qingjun deduced a few years ago."
Chen Qingliu smiled strangely, "The deal is already done, so why continue to deduce it? The established facts are right in front of us, and what's the point of wasting merit and moral energy in vain?"
Taoist priest surnamed Ge sighed, "Taoists seek truth by nature."
Chen Qingliu laughed and said: "I don't know how many smart people have worked in vain in the end. He deserves to be the Duke of the East, and he deserves to be the ancestor of the male earth immortals."
After a moment of silence, Chen Qingliu rarely showed a sad and sentimental expression, and said softly: "He is worthy of being the first human being to become a god. He has been planning for thousands of years. This move can be sung and wept for."
Chen Qingliu put away his thoughts and asked with a smile: "The specific operation of the rules is really curious. It makes me extremely curious. Does your senior brother Qingjun have any clues and have he deduced it all?"
The Taoist smiled bitterly and shook his head, "Brother made an analogy. The curtain is as heavy as a mountain and is unreachable. Then he is just a speck of dust on the road at the foot of the mountain. It is a luxury to take a detour."
Chen Qingliu nodded, "That's right, otherwise the Taoism of the founder of the Three Religions would become a decoration. But it can be seen that Mr. Sanshan Jiuhou has his own ideas about the trend of this world, and there must be some kind of disagreement.
.Coupled with the push by Mr. Qi and Cui Chan, it is even more confusing for outsiders to see things through smoke and mirrors."
The Taoist priest looked embarrassed and said, "I sincerely ask fellow Taoist Chen to speak carefully."
Fellow Taoist, you are a lonely person, but I am a poor Taoist who has teachers and brothers.
The Taoist priest surnamed Ge suddenly asked, "Why does Fellow Taoist Chen call Xiu Hu by his first name, but Qi Jingchun respectfully calls him Mr. Qi?"
Chen Qingliu said with a smile: "The first person who found the Taoist priest Jia Sheng was Mr. Qi. He invited us to have a drink. In short, we had a good conversation at the wine table."
If you give me face, I will give you face.
This is called Jianghu.
What's more, Qi Jingchun also gave himself a very high evaluation. The key was the other party's sincere words.
When I was young, I had a great longing for Jianghu, just because there was a blue-shirted swordsman in the Jianghu whose only name was Chen.
Chen Qingliu signaled that the Taoist priest could put away the "Yunwo" umbrella, turned to look at Liu Chicheng, and asked: "When you arrived at Luopo Mountain, did you have a drink with fellow Taoist Jingqing?"
Liu Chicheng was confused, "That boy in green named Chen Lingjun, a Nascent Soul realm water dragon?"
Chen Qingliu reached out and held down the disciple's head, "In terms of seniority, if he calls you nephew, you have to nod."
Gu Can asked abruptly: "Master, according to your statement, is Chen Ping'an able to become the final winner because of fate or because he asked for it?"
Chen Qingliu raised his chin towards the Taoist priests. Their Taoist priests were the best at telling fortunes.
The Taoist priest smiled and said: "He who seeks for himself will be blessed."
Gu Can suddenly smiled brightly.
Chen Qingliu had something else on his mind, just because Qi Jingchun took the initiative to drink with him at the same table and said something strange like a prophecy.
It's a pity that there is no white emperor to open his eyes, but fortunately there are green mountains with white heads, which seem to be warm. The old poems are as light as goose yellow wine, and the new sorrow is as thick as the Yellow River waterfall, as if they have not been touched.
Chen Qingliu asked again, but Qi Jingchun only said that he would wait and see, raised his wine bowl and toasted with him, saying with a smile that he would be the first to spare the world, and we will drink.
After thinking about it, Chen Qingliu was still puzzled, so he made a rare trip to Baidi City and asked Zheng Juzhong, "Don't you have the same surname as me?"
Zheng Juzhong immediately understood the crux of the matter, and said with a smile on the spot, since I am not the Taoist ancestor, of course I cannot be Chen Ping'an who went against the current.
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There is a quiet place with beautiful mountains and clear waters outside Qingfeng City. A foreigner has built a mansion here. Today, a foreign guest with a strange face came.
The person who opened the door was a graceful young maid. The middle-aged man took off his bamboo hat and said with a smile: "My name is Lu Yue. I am from the same hometown as you. I came to visit Senior Brother Wei to reminisce about old times."
The maid named Tao Ya was surprised and said: "Senior Brother Wei?"
Grandpa Wei, who has never accepted a disciple or talked about his master's legacy, when did he have a junior brother? She didn't dare to open the door randomly. The Xu family of Qingfeng City had always suspected that they were accomplices in the theft of Hu'er Town over the years, in case a bad guy came.
?Grandpa Wei has been closed to guests for many years.
The middle-aged man who claimed to be Lu Yue changed his explanation, "I'm looking for Wei Benyuan, Taoist Boyang. I left the town earlier than you, and now I am practicing in Luzhou, Beiju. It is a hilltop that is like incense. For the time being, there are only
Master and apprentice, Tao Ya, please go help and report. If Wei Benyuan doesn’t recognize Lu Yue, I will go home right now, which means the time has not come yet, and I will come to visit next time."
Tao Ya hesitated for a moment and asked Master Lu to wait while she went to report the news to Grandpa Wei who was busy refining alchemy all year round. Wei Benyuan, who was sitting cross-legged on a futon in the alchemy furnace, opened his eyes and saw the girl walking to the door.
At that time, the old man had already stood up and sighed softly. Sooner or later, he would come to the door, but it was just a few years earlier than expected. Now that Bai Shang is here, if he continues to avoid seeing her, it is indeed suspected that he does not care about the friendship of the same family.
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Wei Benyuan's Taoist name is indeed "Boyang", but this Taoist name has not been used for many years. He only remembered it "accidentally" a few years ago. At that time, the old man quietly left his hometown, Lizhu Cave Sky, with only the old man with him.
Tao Ya, who is regarded as a junior in his family, exchanged land for land with the Xu family in Qingfeng City and chose to settle down and practice Taoism in the place where the Xu family's ancestral home was. This was Wei Benyuan who asked him to take it with him according to the instructions in a certain family letter in the early years.
Tao Ya came here, waiting for the opportunity, and it seems to be related to the Fox Kingdom. Facts have proved that the content of the "letter from home" is true. Tao Ya did get two blessings in the Fox Kingdom, and took the initiative to recognize the owner of a colorful satin belt.
There is a piece of silk that guides the owner to a dry peach branch picked up in the mountains.
The sender of the letter was none other than the famous "Qing Jun" in ancient times, but the person signing the letter was "Jun Qing". Wei Benyuan did not know the true identity of the sender at the time, and mistakenly
He thought he was an ancestral figure who left his hometown in his early years. Wei Benyuan's ability to embark on the path of spiritual practice in this life was also attributed to a letter home sent to Taoye Lane by "Grandmaster Junqing" when he was young.
Wei Benyuan only knew the true identities of himself and the other party after recovering his memory.
Qingjun of Fangzhu Mountain was once personally invited by the Li Sheng, and his seat was located in the revered Fangzhu Mountain. This real land man was responsible for taking charge of the Cave Heaven Blessed Land on the earth and all the earthly immortal books.
Qingjun is also one of the direct disciples of Mr. Sanshan Jiuhou. He once left some footprints in Qidun Mountain.
As a reward for cooperating with his master in setting up the Cave Heaven Formation and the Zhenjian Tower Archway, Qingjun only received a dispensable symbolic reward, which was to take away a carp from Lizhu Cave Heaven, which is what he is today.
Li Jin, the water god of the Chongdan River.
Wei Benyuan went out in person to greet Bai Shang, or the earliest Lu Yue from Fulu Street, later Lu Qing, the founding emperor of the Lu Dynasty, and now the number one swordsman in Luzhou, Beiju.
The old Taoist priest looked complicated and made a bow.
Bai Shang smiled and said, "I've met Senior Brother Wang."
The real person does not show his appearance, and the real person does not show his true appearance.
Both parties are unnamed disciples of Mr. Sanshan Jiuhou, and both parties have been in Lizhudongtian Town, but there are still not many people who know about it.
In the past, there were many people who liked to play chess in the small town. Many wealthy families in Fulu Street and Taoye Lane liked to talk with each other, but there were only three who could be called masters of the chessboard.
In addition to the head of the Li family on Fulu Street, and the Wei Benyuan of Taoye Lane, the town is recognized as the head of the "big landowner" Wei family. The two old people have similar temperaments and have a sworn relationship. They also have a hidden identity.
He is an accomplished monk. In the Lizhu Cave, which is extremely unsuitable for cultivation, he actually cultivated a golden elixir earthly immortal in the past years.
As for the third master, of course it is the gatekeeper Zheng Dafeng.
When Chen Pingan was delivering letters to make money, he once sent two letters to the Wei family at the corner of Taoye Lane. The old man also invited the young man to come into the house to rest and drink water, but the boy declined. Wei Benyuan also reminded Chen Pingan,
In his free time, he went to sit under the locust tree. The reason was that he picked up locust leaves and branches and could take them home to prevent ants, centipedes and other things. The young man silently remembered it in his heart and bowed to the old man at the foot of the steps to thank him.
In his hometown, Wei Benyuan often played chess with Li Xisheng, presented him with several chess books, and repeated those few chess principles.
Li Xisheng and Li Baoping's grandfather preferred talismans in their early years. When the Li Zhudong sky shattered and fell to the ground, the suppression of Qi practitioners by the Great Dao disappeared, and the old man quickly reached the Nascent Soul realm.
Wei Benyuan was fond of refining elixirs, but he was still unable to break the bottleneck of golden elixirs. He continued to refine elixirs in this paradise-like place for more than twenty years, and the old man was not in a hurry.
Later, Li Baoping traveled here and paid a visit. She brought to Grandpa Wei two talismans belonging to her eldest brother Li Xisheng. They were the Pill Formation Talisman and the Niwan Talisman, both of which were Taoist talismans made of blue material. The former Talisman is as bold as a blessed land.
, the golden clouds flow, and the latter is like a purple lotus altar. This is a return gift to thank the old man for helping to protect the Tao. Wei Benyuan can give it to the "peach bud" of a very good background to help her successfully form elixirs.
, and since then, it has been a smooth journey to reach the upper five realms.
Bai Shang glanced at Tao Ya who was still kept in the dark, "Senior Brother Wei, it's a pity."
A pun.
That is to say, Taoya missed out on the blessings of the town and did not stand out from the younger generation and become the winner with the greatest profit. Because according to the arrangement of the old man in the backyard of Yang’s pharmacy, the young people in the town who participated in the “Jiazi test”
Among all generations, the demon race will definitely occupy a place, and the woman in front of me, Tao Ya, is the most promising one.
In other words, Tao Ya's failure to enter the Fox Kingdom is equivalent to staying out of the family, unable to recover the memory of her past life, inheriting a broken Qingqiu ruins, and thus becoming the legitimate fox master of the world.
The old Taoist priest looked upright and carefree, stroked his beard and said with a smile: "It's not a pity. It's just that the people with good intentions lose to the people with good intentions. Otherwise, the wealth will not go to outsiders."
Tao Ya was confused when she heard it, but before today, she had only heard of the term "people with a heart" once, and she remembered it deeply.
I remember that time Grandpa Wei said that she was as caring as the boy who delivered the letter.
Wei Benyuan said with a smile: "Blessings in the world come in different sizes, and just the right amount is the best. Taoya girl has the fortune she has today, which is enough. In the future, the level of her achievements on the great road will only be determined by taking one step at a time."
In the Three Thousand Sayings of Taozu, there is a saying that "the virtue is thicker than that of a child". Yasheng also said something similar, "He who does not lose the heart of a child is called a great man".
Bai Shang asked: "How did senior brother recover his memory?"
Wei Benyuan smiled and said: "There is nothing else to do in refining alchemy in the mountains. I will remember it as I practice it.
Bai Shang couldn't help but laugh. How could he be so alienated when he met a fellow disciple from the same lineage?
Wei Benyuan, the head of the Wei family, is the "ego". The "real self" is the ancient Taoist man whose real name is Wang Min and whose Taoist name is Boyang.
Just like the blind Taoist priest Jia Sheng, the coachman in vain, and the scholar Chen Zhuoliu, these three people are all the "ego" of Chen Qingliu, the man who killed the dragon.
But there are some differences between Wang Min and Chen Qingliu. The Taoist's ego may be an adult. The real self may be a villain.
As one of the unnamed disciples of Mr. Sanshan Jiuhou, Taoist Wang Min. According to legend, this Taoist who likes to observe the precepts and travel to the five capitals has achieved great perfection. He once went to sea to visit immortals according to his master's decree.
It's just that he once had a Tao discussion with Zou Zi and lost. Wang Min, who was determined not to be limited by Yin Yang and the Five Elements, failed miserably. As a result, his Taoist mind and body were stuck in the mud and he could not extricate himself.
Discussions on the mountain top may seem illusory, but in fact they are far more dangerous than the seemingly life-and-death battles between monks.
The price for losing that debate on Taoism was that Taoist Wang Min had to stay in the Lizhu Cave for life after life, with the earth as a prison.
Wei Benyuan sighed: "In fact, this journey is not in vain. In the rolling world, cultivate one's true potential, cultivate one's aspirations, stay simple and simple, and only follow the Tao."
Bai Shang smiled and said: "Sure enough, refining elixirs and drawing talismans is not as good as practicing swordsmanship."
Wei Benyuan glared and said, "Why are you talking to senior brother?"
Bai Shang said: "They are all anonymous."
Wei Benyuan asked: "Do you regret leaving your hometown?"
Bai Shang shook his head and said: "A woman is afraid of marrying the wrong man and entering the wrong profession. If she can't afford it, don't go to the gambling table."
Wei Benyuan nodded and took Bai Shang with him into the study. An unusually large desk was covered with long bamboo strips, like a long curled green snake.
Bai Shang glanced at it and quickly realized the mystery. The shapes of the bamboo blocks were almost exactly the same, but they were engraved with different numbers, from one to more than nine hundred.
Bai Shang asked: "Why not start from the beginning and arrange them in order?"
Looking carefully again, Bai Shang was finally sure that the numbers on the bamboo were chaotic and there was no pattern at all.
Wei Benyuan stroked his beard and said seriously: "This is a difficult problem assigned to me by Senior Brother Qingjun. There is only one reminder. Senior Brother asked me why I occasionally feel that certain scenes seem familiar."
Bai Shang thought for a moment, stared at the densely packed bamboo strips on the table, and said slowly: "What Senior Brother Qingjun means is that the passage of time is not one-way, so there can be no talk of downstream or countercurrent.
Assume that each piece of bamboo is a certain me at different times. Most people will think that the me today is the successor of yesterday’s me, and the me tomorrow is the continuation of today’s me. As a cultivator, no matter how bold you are, it’s just that
It is assumed that life is a journey of going upstream and turning the pages upside down. However, according to Brother Qingjun’s explanation, the journey of life is completely disordered. The me of yesterday may be neighbors with the self of the day after tomorrow, and the me of the day after tomorrow may be with someone the year before last.
Am I a neighbor in the sun? It makes sense to predict the future. The sage said that things have their origins and things have their beginnings and ends. If you know the order of things, you will be short-cut and have a place to stay. But in this case, there are two questions that must be answered.
The only solution is to solve it. First, in the past and present life, we got together and dispersed at the same time. Is it really the impermanence of destiny? Then there is our memory..."
Wei Benyuan quickly interrupted Bai Shang's words and sighed sincerely: "The way of sword is indeed a shortcut."
Wu Yuan is the first county magistrate in the history of Huaihuang County, and the second official official position after the kiln affairs supervisor. As one of the county government officials, Fu Yu, a son of an aristocratic family, once accompanied Wu County Magistrate on Fulu Street.
I bumped into a lot of soft spots with Taoye Lane and suffered a lot of cowardice.
It is only said that the Ministry of Rites of the imperial court once issued a secret official document to the county government, requiring Wu Yuan to open up the Laoci Mountain into a Wenchang Pavilion and convert the immortal tomb into a martial arts temple when he took office. Laoci Mountain belongs to Fulu Street.
The Liu family, and the Wei family occupied the largest area of the immortal tomb. As a result, Wu Yuan failed to accomplish these two things. This was also the reason why Wu Yuan left sadly later. There could be many reasons. The four surnames and ten clans were too exclusive.
A strong dragon cannot defeat a local snake, and so on, but Da Li values work, and if you can't do it, you can't do it, and you only look at the results. Therefore, during the original Beijing inspection plan, the evaluation of Wu Yuan by the officials was extremely low.
Fu Yu once fought against Magistrate Wu, but the threshold here was higher than that of Yichi Lane and Chier Street in the capital.
Later, Yuan Zhengding, who was as busy as a spinning top every day, and Cao Gengxin, the superintendent who claimed to be diligent and never greedy for drinks, cooperated with the two sons of the Shangzhu Kingdom, and they were able to break apart the monolithic four-surname and ten clans.
, helped the imperial court really open up the situation here. They were two peers who started their official careers in Old Longzhou. Now, in terms of official reputation, they are on par with each other, and in terms of official career, they are both on the same level.
The fun of the children in the small town is to listen to the old people telling old stories in the shade of the old locust tree that is like a big umbrella, and to wait for the elders to lift the bamboo basket with watermelon from the iron lock well.
Running across the stone arch bridge across the stream, the children have long been accustomed to the rusty old sword, fishing on the bumpy green cow's back, or taking off their pants and bare buttocks in the summer
Jump into the pool and go to the old porcelain mountain to pick and choose. When you step on it, it will creak. The broken words and pictures on the broken porcelain pieces are like talking or singing in the street.
Hide and seek in the alley, go to the immortal tomb to release paper kites and catch crickets, have snowball fights and build snowmen in winter, play who will marry who will marry, and play house games with hand-carried sedans. Every time there is smoke from the kitchen, the elders of each family stand and stand.
The voices at the door calling someone for dinner kept coming and going.
As they get older, when the children gradually become young and strong, they may follow their parents to work in the fields. However, most of them go to the Long Kiln outside the town to serve as apprentices and then become kiln workers. They are talented and skilled.
Okay, if you endure it, you still hope to be the master fireman of a dragon kiln. The salary will be doubled. The owner of the kiln may have to look at their face. In a small town, this is a huge salary.
When he is about middle-aged, he takes on an apprentice, and when he becomes an apprentice, he takes on another apprentice, and he is probably an old man.
And those girls carrying woven bamboo baskets to pick wild vegetables by the waterside may take off their embroidered shoes, and their smooth and white feet will leave a series of shallow footprints on the soft soil between the fields. Then one day they will get married.
When they have children of their own, they may go to school for a few years, and when they are young, they go to the fields to help work, herd cattle, drive ducks, or go to the dragon kiln to bake porcelain for the legendary emperor.
The five biggest opportunities in the town in the past are closely related to the Five Elements Theory founded by Zou Zi, a Yin-Yang master in China.
His Royal Highness Gao Xuan, the prince of the Gao family in Yiyang of the Great Sui Dynasty, received a golden carp with Taoist meanings, and an additional Dragon King basket. It was obtained from Li Er and symbolized war.
Zhao Yao, Fulu Street, was the school boy who lived by Mr. Qi Jingchun in the old school. He was given a gift from his study room and found a wooden dragon-shaped paperweight. It is difficult to put the finishing touches on an ancestral item.
The little loach that Gu Can keeps in the water tank in Mud Ping Alley was obtained from Chen Ping'an's fishing in the ditch in the field and passed it on to the little slug on the side.
Ruan Xiu's fire dragon bracelet was forged in her own shop by the stream. The girl in green with a ponytail, every time she hit it with a hammer, bright sparks suddenly flew out in the room. , magnificent and beautiful, like a star map, and finally condensed into a bright red bracelet in the shape of a dragon's tail, entwined around the girl's wrist. It was like "made in heaven".
The four-legged snake in the courtyard of Song Jixin and his maid Zhigui took the initiative to go to Mubo Alley to meet Song Jixin to recognize its master. It was naturally afraid of Wang Zhu and did not dare to approach the boy with straw sandals next door, just because Wang Zhu was the last snake in the world. The incarnation of a true dragon, and Chen Pingan was the one who had made a secret contract with him, so it naturally did not dare to make any mistakes. Later in Shujian Lake, the water dragon Tanxue grew up from the "little loach" and was afraid of Chen Pingan. At that time, the girl There are three reasons why she dare not rely on her realm to kill Chen Ping An. First of all, Chen Ping An is her first master in a sense. She just didn’t have time to “settle down” in her ancestral home on Mu Ping Lane. After completing a formal ceremony, which was like the signing and monogramming of the land deed by both parties, it was quickly given to Gu Can. Secondly, she knew very well the status of Chen Pingan in the heart of the owner Gu Can, but the most important thing was that Chen Pingan and the True Dragon King What Zhu signed was an equal contract, and provoking Chen Pingan was provoking Wang Zhu. As a member of the true dragon, Tan Xue naturally did not dare to do the following.
At that time, Chen Ping'an, whose life was as thin as paper and could not keep any good luck, was able to catch this "loach", which was also related to the box of rouge buried in the alley outside the door of his ancestral home. This way he was close to the water.
The five elements of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth both support and restrain each other, and each has its own assistance and suppression.
But when they get the five biggest fortunes on the table, the five of them have completely lost the possibility of becoming half of one.
There is no thick and thin in the circulation of Heaven's way, and it is impossible for anyone to get an advantage and take advantage of it.
This is one of the lowest rules set by old man Yang of the drug store. In addition, almost every young generation in the town has different ways of gaining and losing incense and winning chances.
For example, Hu Feng's grandfather was Cai Daohuang, who opened a wedding shop and was the owner of the wedding shop in Matching Mountain. He was once in charge of the world's marriages.
Because Cai Daohuang is one of the living gods, he may be one of the first beings to notice Qingtong Tianjun's plan.
On the premise of not violating the rules and not offending one of the twelve high-ranking gods, Cai Daohuang tried his best to let Hu Feng take the lead and plan for his descendants Daoliang.
When his grandson was a child, Cai Daohuang began to repeatedly tell Hu Feng that he was not allowed to pick up money from the ground. He should not ask for help when something happened. He had to ask for help. Any debt he owed must be paid off as soon as possible. It is even better to pay back more. .But you can ask for more "happy money". For example, when someone is getting married, you can stop the road and ask for a red envelope, but don't forget to say a few auspicious words, be kind to others, and build good relationships. If your neighbors have something to do, Just go and help. If someone needs to keep watch, the old man will ask Hu Feng to stay overnight in the mourning hall. He must be sincere and not sleepy. He must wait until dawn before going home. You must not give up halfway, otherwise it is better not to help than to not help in the first place. Entering the mourning hall. On a certain day every year, the old man will take Hu Feng to kowtow at the tomb of the immortal. It is unshakable, rain or shine.
But the old man didn't know that when Hu Feng got the cicada and put it into his pocket, Hu Feng had already quit the gambling table from that moment on.
Before that, Hu Feng's popularity was already high enough, ranking among the top three. If he could proceed step by step, Hu Feng would most likely reach the top.
Zhu Lu, of the Li family on Fulu Street, actually had a huge first-mover advantage, but at a certain moment, she lost all her bets to Li Baozhen.
Tao Ya, the maid of the Wei family in Taoye Lane, has been steadily raising her stakes. When a certain Lu family member almost beat Liu Xianyang to death in a strange alley, his popularity was extremely high.
Kiln fires at the entrances of thirty-six dragon kilns. An old porcelain mountain. Peach trees on both sides of Taoye Lane. Longxu River and Tiefu River.
As for the archway building, commonly known as Crab Fang, it is actually one of the nine majestic town buildings in the world and the real sword town tower.
The mountains wind and twist, eventually forming like a dragon, unable to stretch its trunk.
The Qilong Lane is located at the top of the steps. There are two small water pools not far away from each other. The old man in the town said that it is a pair of dragon eyes. According to this statement, the Qilong Lane with 122 steps is a pair of dragon eyes.
The dragon's neck was cut off, and the street next to the pool was called Huo Lu Jian by the people.
At the entrance of Baoxi kiln, one of the many dragon kilns outside the town, the kiln head master's surname is Yao. I don't know his name, and he has no relatives in the town. The old man is old-fashioned, unsmiling, and extremely strict with his apprentices. Liu Xianyang, who entered the dragon kiln late,
On the contrary, he became an apprentice earlier than the boy from Mu Ping Alley who went to the kiln entrance first. Moreover, Chen Ping'an failed to catch the eyes of old man Yao in the end. He was always an apprentice, not a disciple who entered the family.
"Master Yao", "Medicine Buddha".
Dongbaopingzhou, the leader of Dongfang Jingliuli world.
When shaping a statue of a god, whether it is clay sculpture or casting, whether it is gilded or painted, the appearance of the face is very important. In addition to this, there is also the importance of placing gold, silver, scriptures and other objects in the statue, or writing to support people.
There was an orphan from Mu Ping Alley who used to go to the immortal tombs and kowtow to the three statues of Bodhisattvas. This child carried a basket on his back and went up the mountain to collect herbs. He wore out pairs of poor straw sandals that he had knitted by himself. At that time, he was a boy who had made a living every day.
Children who are always looked down upon and poked in the spine by gossips only think that Bodhisattvas are easy to find but herbs in the mountains are hard to find.
Many years later, everything came to light. There was a middle-aged monk who set foot here for the first time. He once took a look at the completely new world of the immortal cemetery and chanted a Buddha's song to make endless wishes.
Nowadays, on the desk on the first floor of the bamboo building in Jilingfeng, Luolu Mountain, there are several pens made of different materials, both porcelain and wood. They are filled with bamboo bookmarks. On each bamboo stick, there are engraved
The beautiful words that the owner saw and heard during his travels are all content that the owner of the mountain truly recognizes. There are simple truths, elegant poems, and old sayings that he heard from hearsay.
The small bookbox Cui Cheng left to Nuanshu was filled with Buddhist classics. This is why the old man took Xiao Heitan to travel to the Lotus Flower Blessed Land, and finally chose the Xinxiang Temple in Nanyuan Capital City.
The reason for resting is that the old man has sincerely worshiped the Buddha in his twilight years.
In the southeast of the town, most of the statues of gods in the past were dilapidated. The tomb of the gods gradually blended into the soil, as if the soil was coming in and out. This place was later funded by the Dali court and built into a high-standard martial arts temple. Three
In the "belly" of the statue of the deity, there are both market copper coins and gold spirit offering money.
When Cao Qinglang returned to the house where the well was located, Cui Dongshan asked with a smile: "Is it going well?"
Cao Qinglang smiled and said: "His Majesty the Emperor agreed very readily. She also asked me to send a message to Senior Sister Pei and go and sit with her when I have time."
Cui Dongshan asked an impossible question, "Which do you think is more difficult, being denied by everyone or being recognized by everyone?"
Cao Qinglang thought for a while, "If you add the word 'all', it will be difficult."
Cui Dongshan asked again: "Let's get rid of the word 'all'. Back then, in the county town, our husband and... Zhao Yao, for example, were completely unaware on both sides, and no external personnel did anything.
Under the premise of change, one is recognized by more people and the other is rejected by more people. Which one is more difficult?"
Cao Qinglang thought seriously for a moment and said, "It's more difficult for Zhao Yao."
Cui Dongshan nodded and gave a thumbs up, "It is indeed a breath of fresh air for our poor family!"
Cao Qinglang asked in confusion: "Brother, why are you asking this?"
Cui Dongshan curled his lips and didn't say anything. He just muttered and cursed the old bastard for being nothing. He would even lie to "himself" if he became so cruel.
Cao Qinglang is used to it.
Cui Dongshan suddenly asked: "When did you recognize yourself, sir?"
Cao Qinglang looked confused and shook his head: "How do you know about this kind of thing?"
Cui Dongshan imitated millet grains and scratched his face.
How difficult it is to make a complete pessimist optimistic and to make a habitual self-denial recognize himself.
It's no different than climbing to heaven.
In the past, at the Qing Niu Bei Stone Cliff by the river, in the backyard of the medicine shop where he rarely went out, Old Man Yang and the young man in white who shared the same soul as Xiu Hu Cui Cheng had a frank conversation. It seemed that their identities were
, the realm and family fortune have returned to the national master Cui Chan, who is the master, and the young man in white who has not named himself Cui Dongshan at that time is the assistant. This means that Cui Chan's mental cultivation and calculation strength on the chessboard must be far superior.
It is only right that he is much higher than the boy in white.
But at that time, Old Man Yang asked a very interesting question, "Even Cui Chen in the capital doesn't know?"
The boy in white gave a more sincere answer, "I probably don't know that."
Regarding Shenhun Dao, both of them are masters among masters. There are only a handful of great monks in the world who are qualified to talk to them about this matter.
In such a question and answer, "Cui Chan" has actually revealed a lot of secrets.
This means that before that, Cui Chan had already started to make plans, began to deceive himself and others, and deliberately suppressed his own computing power to hide the truth.
Otherwise, you can't deceive the founders of the three religions, nor can you deceive the sophisticated people in the wild world.
After that, under the pressure of the old scholar, Cui Dongshan took Yu Lu and Xie Xie to accept Chen Pingan as his teacher.
At the same time, Cui Dongshan was unwilling to follow in the footsteps of the old bastard and stop being a senior brother, so he made an agreement with Pei Qian that you would be your senior sister and I would be my junior senior brother. Everyone has his own business.
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Longquan Sword Sect's ancestral mountain, Shenxiu Mountain, and several direct disciples of Dong Gu noticed the strange weather that passed over there, guessed the truth, and rushed here from their own mountain peaks, their faces full of joy. However, they were hindered by their master's stubborn temper.
, just a few words of congratulations, but saying too much will make the master unhappy. Ruan Qiong walked out of the blacksmith shop, wearing a noble and concise immortal air. Facing the congratulations of his disciples, the short and muscular man said nothing.
, Liu Xianyang came from Youyi Peak, "Tiejiang Ruan, is this the Immortal Realm?"
Ruan Qiong hummed.
The disciple asked very casually, and the master answered in an understatement. After all, the style of Longquan Sword Sect is very different from that of its former close neighbor, a mountaintop.
Liu Xianyang asked cautiously: "Master, what about the position of this sect leader?"
When he took the initiative to give way to his superiors before, it was because the master and his disciples were in the same realm. I guess Blacksmith Ruan was too thin-skinned to continue squatting in the manhole without shitting. Now that he has been promoted to a higher realm, he shouldn't turn his back on him and ask for his return, right?
Ruan Qiong said angrily: "Continue to be your sect leader. When you feel that your virtue is not worthy of your position, you can just give it to someone in the Yupu realm."
Being able to reach the Immortal Realm was due to a deal. In his early years, Ruan Qiong gave away his Dragon-Slaying Cliff in exchange for an ancient swordsmanship related to forging.
However, he is still limited by his own strength and understanding. Ruan Qiong has only now broken through the bottleneck of the Yupu realm. Maybe if it were Liu Xianyang or Xie Ling, he would have broken through it long ago.
As for who Ruan Qiong will teach this secret swordsmanship to in the future, he has already made plans. He will teach it to Xu Xiaoqiao first, and then to Li Shenyuan. In short, he will teach it to Zhuo Haifeng.
Liu Xianyang immediately squinted at Xie Ling, hinting to this junior brother, don't be rebellious, be careful of the sect leader's senior brother coming to clean up the family.
Xie Ling was a little panicked. He was now the only Jade Pu Realm member in the sect, but he had no interest in being the sect leader. He hurriedly said: "Senior Brother Liu can cultivate more Li Shenyuan of Boil Haifeng. I think that young man has the potential to be the sect leader."
posture."
Ruan Qiong nodded. That young man's qualifications are good, his character is good, and he deserves to be entrusted with such a big responsibility.
Xu Xiaoqiao is the current peak master of Boil Haifeng. She smiled brightly, and was indeed a little surprised. She never thought that her master would value the direct disciple she had just accepted so much.
Liu Xianyang was relieved, rubbed his hands and said, "Why don't we set up a table and have a good meal?"
Ruan Qiong began to issue orders to expel guests. He clasped his hands behind his back and walked to the edge of the cliff alone. He said calmly: "We'll wait until you serve the wine. Let's all go back."
Remembering something, Ruan Qiong slowed down and said without turning his head: "Since we have all moved out of Chuzhou, Xianyang, please go back and inform the Dali court that the Qi practitioner and martial artist did not hang the sword talisman.
, just get rid of the old rule that you are not allowed to control the wind above mountains and small towns, so as not to be talked about behind your back, saying that the shallower the foundation of our Longquan Sword Sect, the greater our arrogance. No matter how poor the Longquan Sword Sect is,
It’s not like I can live off just a few sword talismans.”
Xie Ling didn't dare to get into trouble and made up his mind not to get involved in this matter. Dong Gu and Xu Xiaoqiao looked at each other, and they didn't dare to express their opinions. Now the issue of casting sword talismans and sending them to the Chuzhou government and Huaihuang County Yamen is mostly caused by Xu Xiaoqiao
Being responsible.
Liu Xianyang nodded, "I'll say hello to the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Punishment first, and then I'll teach that boy Chen Ping'an a lesson. I'll remind them that Luo Luoshan has restrained himself a little. He has overshadowed me and the Longquan Sword Sect, and has already angered Master Ruan.
I’m not happy anymore, let him take it easy.”
Xie Ling's expression was complicated. Not many people dare to tease Shanzhu Chen like this nowadays. Liu Xianyang is really big-hearted.
Ruan Qiong, who had already walked away, said with a smile: "If you are enshrined in Dali, it doesn't matter whether you are the chief or the lowest. As a rule, they are all under the control of the national master. It's hard to say who wears small shoes for whom."
Liu Xianyang was speechless. Blacksmith Ruan, who couldn't beat him with a few sticks, could talk like this now. It seemed that he was really holding his breath, quite a bit.
Looking at the disciples leaving Shenxiu Mountain with swords, Ruan Qiong squatted on the edge of the cliff. Under the man's feet were the big letters written on the steep cliff.
Ruan Qiong's true eldest disciple was not Dong Gu, the later leader of Longquan Sword Sect, but a Nascent Soul monk who was still practicing swordsmanship in Fengxue Temple.
In fact, in the early years, the group of disciples that Ruan Qiong recruited at Fengxue Temple were almost all monks of the fifth middle realm. At that time, Ruan Qiong had not yet taken the initiative to ask to go down the mountain to replace Qi Jingchun as the military saint in charge of the Lizhu Cave.
Later, Ruan Qiong felt that this trip was about to be stormy and the future was uncertain, so he did not let them follow him down the mountain. Later, Ruan Qiong broke away from the Fengxue Temple genealogy and founded the Longquan Sword Sect in the old Longzhou territory, but still did not let those disciples enter.
Longquan Sword Sect.
Ruan Qiong has always had a huge shortcoming in his heart, just because among those disciples, there was a person who once had high hopes for him. This disciple was named Liu Jingzhuang. His cultivation qualifications were very average, and he was very slow to break through at the Fengxue Temple.
, but the young man had a very good temperament and was very fond of Ruan Qiong, so much so that Ruan Qiong felt that it was okay to let him become a closed disciple. But in the end, this man not only severed the master-disciple relationship with Ruan Qiong, but even broke away from the Fengxue Temple genealogy.
, has disappeared since then, like a mud cow drowning in the sea, as if such a number one figure has never appeared in Aquarius Continent.
Although Liu Jingzhuang was a military monk of the Fengxue Temple lineage, he worked hard and worked hard without complaining. He worked with Ruan Qiong in forging iron and making swords without complaining. He liked to use yarrow for divination in his spare time. Later Ruan Qiong moved to the building inside Lizhu Cave.
In fact, all the guys in the blacksmith shop were bought one by one by Liu Jingzhuang in his early years. But for such an ordinary Qi practitioner, the monk at the top of Haoran Mountain whom he most admired turned out to be Liu Qi, who was recognized as having the best monastic qualifications.
Let Liusujijing become a genius among geniuses in Liurenjing.
In his career as a Taoist monk and swordsmith, Ruan Qiong had almost no regrets in his life. If he really cared about it, there were only two things. The first one was that he ignored Liu Jingzhuang's Taoist heart.
According to the Fengxue Temple genealogy records, Liu Jingzhuang's ancestors can be traced back to the Liu family of Shenshui Kingdom, the Shenshui Kingdom where Wei Bo served as the Lord of Beiyue Mountain.
Ruan Qiong turned his head and looked at Piyun Mountain.
As the smallest continent in the world, Aquarius Continent has only one military commander in the history of the Zhongtu Martial Arts Temple, but his worship time was short. This person is the famous general Zhang Ping of Shenshui Kingdom, who is now the City God of Chuzhou City God Temple.
Gao Ping, Zhang Ping and Wei Bo, a martial arts temple attendant who once enjoyed the world's incense, has become a land lord of the Mantou Mountain near Hongzhu Town, a majestic tiger. His golden body was smashed and submerged, and then he was killed.
Some fragments of the golden body were salvaged, and he was demoted to the land of Qidun Mountain. However, he fell into the same fate as the Liu family of Shenshui Kingdom and became a low-level subordinate in the Shanshui officialdom. His former colleagues could see each other just by raising their eyes.
, what a pair of incompetent brothers.
As the North Mountain of Dali, Piyun Mountain governs the territory, including the Tiefu River.
The first Water Goddess who was enthroned by the imperial court was a maid named Yang Hua who was beside Queen Da Li in her early years.
She is now the Changchun Marquis of Qidu.
Life is like the dust on the road, like poplar flowers and thousands of duckweeds in the water.
At that time, the cultural fortune of Shenshui State was prosperous, especially in the northern half of the continent with its farewell poems. They often borrowed objects to express their ambitions, and poplars are catkins. According to the explanation of the text, poplars and willows are also the ones that rise.
Ruan Qiong is still not sure who Yang Hua is the reincarnation of the old Shenshui Kingdom, nor is he sure whether his disciple Liu Jingzhuang has any connection with Yang Hua.
Outside of the sword forging, it was a mess.
As Ruan Qiong's favorite disciple in his heart, Liu Jingzhuang, after his fellow disciples continued to improve their realm, especially when Ruan Qiong himself reached the upper fifth realm, unknowingly, Liu Jingzhuang, who was already at the bottom of his realm, without any warning, one time
During the retreat, he seemed to have gone crazy. If Ruan Xiu hadn't sensed something was wrong and came to the rescue, then Brother Liu, whose character would change drastically as soon as he left the retreat, would have made a big mistake with disastrous consequences. After that,
Liu Jingzhuang, who believed that there was no hope for his spiritual practice in this life, sadly left Fengxue Temple. Ruan Qiong did not stop him because he knew he could not stop him.
Later in the town, Ruan Qiong once explained to his daughter why he only let the boy from Mu Bottle Lane do part-time work.
The reason is that she doesn't want her to see the second Senior Brother Liu.
This was also the real reason why Ruan Qiong was unwilling to accept Chen Pingan as a formal apprentice at the pawnshop.
Ruan Qiong has occasionally wondered over the years, if he had thought less and not been afraid of making mistakes, Xiuxiu would have stayed, and the person who followed Zhou Mi to the sky in the end would have been Li Liu?
Ruan Qiong took out a pot of wine, which was a local brew he bought from a small town in his early years. The unshaven man took a sip of wine.
Regret cannot be eaten as food, but it can be drank as wine.
Those four big characters are carved on the cliff.
From top to bottom, you can see the beauty of heaven.
From bottom to top, the God of Show opens the sky.
I remember that the young Taoist priest who set up a fortune-telling stall once told Xiu Xiu a fortune.
The signature is an ancient saying that seems to be deliberately mystical, "If you don't open up the sky for people, you open up the sky for heaven. If you open the sky, virtue will be born, and if you open the sky for people, thieves will be born."
Ruan Qiong remembered the last time he and Xiu Xiu had dinner at the same table. Xiu Xiu said something lightly, saying that she had met Senior Brother Liu.
Ruan Qiong didn't ask any questions at that time.
But later, Wenhai Zhoumi and Ruan Xiu left hand in hand.
There were once 600 households in Huaihuang County, with large and small streets crisscrossing each other. There are actually many narrower lanes than the Mud Ping Alley. If you go to Suolongjing to draw water from the Mud Ping Alley,
If you can take a shortcut, you will pass by this place. The two walls are facing each other, the eaves are low, the sun cannot reach it, and it is dark. Chen Pingan often visited this place when he was young, especially in the cold winter, the darkness
When the ground in the alley is frozen and no one is around, Chen Pingan will first place the bucket at one end of the alley, push it forward, then take a few steps back, rush forward, and slide sideways through the alley.
Meet the barrel filled with water at the end of the alley.
Later, Chen Pingan took Chen Lingjun for a walk in the town. When they passed by this place, they saw a well at the entrance of the alley. The water in the well was small and shallow, and it was only enough for a few nearby households to draw water. Chen Pingan was once regarded as a water thief and was scolded.
There was a vegetable garden with poor soil beside the well, and while chatting and taking a walk, Chen Lingjun walked out for more than ten steps before suddenly thinking about something.
The master of the mountain actually stole vegetables from the vegetable garden when he was a child?! Otherwise, how could the master of the mountain know that the vegetables in the garden taste astringent?
Chen Ping'an did not deny anything at that time. Instead, he just told the boy in Tsing Yi not to spread the rumors.
This is to admit that he did steal things when he was young.
Think back to those days.
In the night, a black cat wanders around Xinghua Lane all year round. Its body is pitch black, and it is difficult to tell whether it is a domestic cat or a wild cat. It walks lightly and silently on the roof of Yang's medicine shop.
It looked through the patio at the old man puffing away smoke in the backyard.
Old Man Yang said: "Fellow Taoist monks from the temple, you are already here, why don't you come in and talk for a while? You can't hide your words outside the courtyard."
The black cat, who was called "fellow Taoist of the temple" by the old man, first shook his head gently, then nodded like a human, jumped up, and landed on the bench under the eaves.
The old blind man from the wild Shiwanda Mountains contributed a lot in the battle to reach the sky. Because he was dissatisfied with the subsequent internal strife, he felt that the world was not much better after it had been turned upside down. He was extremely disappointed. As a human monk, he chose to stay.
In the wild world not far from the Great Wall of Sword Qi, I once cut off my eyes and threw them into the vast mountains and rivers outside the wild world. They turned into two wild cats, one black and one white, wandering around the world, coldly watching the changes in the world.
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However, the old blind man has not collected these two "visions" for thousands of years. He is too lazy to look at it, and out of sight is out of mind.
One of the black cats now often follows Ma Kuxuan, and the other white cat was supposed to stay in Qing Ming Tianxia, but somehow ended up running away to Donghaiguan Taoist Temple.
The wild cat had just arrived here from that alley, and a skinny boy as black as coal took advantage of the darkness to steal some vegetables and return to Mud Bottle Alley. His feet were weak and his back was covered with sweat.
Old Man Yang seemed to know what he saw, and said calmly: "It finally looks a little human."
The wild cat squatted on the bench, combing its shiny fur with its paws, raised its head, and stared at the old man with its dark eyes.
Old Man Yang just squinted his eyes and stared at the scene on the ground in the courtyard. There were countless incense sticks. Each stick of incense was the incense of someone in the town. The bottom of the well was covered with incense ash, layer after layer, year after year.
But in the eyes of the black cat, there was nothing in the courtyard.
It put down its paws, leaned against the bench, and asked with its eyes the old man who had been in charge of men on earth and immortals.
Qi Jingchun chose the book boy Zhao Yao?
Not necessarily. Maybe just the opposite.
Not necessarily? Otherwise, why would Qi Jingchun start telling Zhao Yao so early on that he should pay attention to forming good relationships in ordinary places?
Qi Jingchun knew that he couldn't see through my rules, so he didn't want to delve into the matter, fearing that it would be self-defeating and not beautiful.
You chose this orphan from Mudbottle Alley?
No. His life is as thin as paper, he can’t afford it, and I’m not worth it. Fellow Taoist priest, believe it or not, he has already left the gambling table with one foot since I taught him the breath-taking technique.
Is there a "but"?
Yes, "but" God will never give up on those who strive for self-improvement. The gambling table I set up is not for monks to climb mountains. There are no requirements for qualifications or backgrounds, so there is no distinction between superior and inferior.
In the courtyard in the sight of the old man, a stick of incense was inserted into the pile of incense ashes. The firelight flickered and the incense mist curled up. Some of the incense was about to burn out, but the incense mist was extremely low. Some incense seemed to have just been lit, but the incense mist was extremely low.
High, only a little distance from the entrance of the patio. Some of the incense mist dispersed and could not be retained, and fell into the other incense. Some of the mist dispersed without being messy, like a canopy, blocking the wind and rain, and sheltering some sparks.
, half-dark incense, some cigarettes are condensed into a line, floating straight to the heights, some incense tilts to the side, resisting the nearby incense, and is about to burn out the latter, the scenes are different, and there are many.
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It was raining heavily, and Song Jixin was blocked when he returned to Mud Bottle Alley. A skinny and much shorter boy of his age strangled his neck. The tall young man had his back against the wall, unable to resist.
The straw-shoe boy's eyes were red, his five fingers were like hooks, and he strangled his neighbor's neck. He stared hard at Song Jixin, who had lied to him about breaking his oath, and hated this peer who obviously had no worries about food and clothing, but still wanted to harm others. In the heavy rain, the two men
There were tears on the faces of both boys, one was filled with hatred and anger, the other was filled with fear and regret.
At the entrance of the Baoxi kiln, one day the sissy who was responsible for keeping watch over the kiln fire was sitting alone on the bench. It rained heavily. The man just watched the rain. When he came back to his senses, he was shocked to find that the kiln fire had stopped.
This means that almost half of the harvest at the entrance of Baoxi kiln has been wasted. From Master Yao to all the kiln workers, they will all regret his dereliction of duty, and will also be held accountable by the officials from the Kiln Supervision and Construction Department afterwards. This
The timid man named Su Han was so frightened that he ran away after digging such a big basket. He didn't dare to tell anyone. He hid in the mountains while the heavy rain hit his face and body.
It hurts, as if every drop of rain is a whipping.
All the young and strong men at the entrance of the kiln were chasing him, searching the mountain. When the heavy rain stopped, they lit torches one by one.
Liu Xianyang was wearing a raincoat and a bamboo hat, and the tall young man was holding a torch. After holding it in for a long time, he still couldn't help but said to the old man next to him, "Old Man Yao, why don't we just let it go?"
Old Man Yao was walking on the muddy mountain road, making one mark at a time, and said something weird to the tall young man, "Forget it? Why don't you forget it? It's all on you?"
Liu Xianyang grinned, ok, then he owes it, and I will help him pay back the money later. After a moment of silence, Liu Xianyang added, Chen Pingan and I will pay it back together.
This is called sharing blessings and sharing hardships. He is good at making money, and Chen Ping'an is good at saving money. I believe that the two of them can eventually pay off this stupid debt.
After all, it is a life. No matter how arrogant that sissy is, she has been slapped by Liu Xianyang, but after careful examination, it seems that she has not done anything harmful to nature.
With the situation tonight, why don't you beat him to death if you catch him? Old man Yao is famous for denying his relatives and accepting death.
Old Yao said expressionlessly in a low voice, "You are asking for it all. In this life, you have to pay off your debts. If you can't avoid them, you should pay them off as soon as possible."
Liu Xianyang didn't hear it clearly, but he probably heard it clearly. The tall young man at that time was simple-minded and wouldn't take it seriously.
In the dark night, there was a sudden thunder and lightning. Su Han, who was in a state of confusion, looked at the skinny young man who walked out from behind the tree with the light that seemed to be given by God. The latter silently shook his head and stretched out his fingers.
It seemed to show him a way out.
The spineless poor like to make fun of people who are poorer than themselves, and they are probably talking about people like Su Han.
But the person who let him go that night was the boy he usually liked to provoke and bully the most. His surname was Chen, he was taciturn and a dull gourd who couldn't fight back or scolded him.
But the man was caught in the end, and the sissy was tied back to the dragon kiln. In fact, she was not beaten to death on the spot. It was said that her muscles and bones were broken for a hundred days, not to mention the person whose hands and feet were broken. She almost died lying on the bed.
For half a year, the kiln workers and apprentices who were supposed to take turns taking care of the sissy all regarded this work as hard work, which did not earn them half a copper coin, was tiring, and the most important thing was that the room was full of stinking filth.
Mixed with the smell of boiling medicine, it was really painful, so they each found their own reasons, or simply didn't find any excuses, leaving Chen Ping'an busy. The result was that the two people who hated each other the most at the entrance of the kiln were lying on the ground.
On the hospital bed, one was sitting on the bench, and they were silent. Both of them often didn't say a word. The other was staring blankly at the old window paper that no one would replace because it was missing. It was really not beautiful.
A skilled man prepared the medicine and then helped to feed it to the sissy. He acted like a mute, repeatedly practicing the drawing posture.
Old man Yao went there once and asked Su Han if he had any grievances and if he wanted to leave the Long Kiln and make a living elsewhere. The sissy grinned, shook her head with difficulty, and pulled at the wound, which was uglier than a ghost.
In fact, the sissy had a delicate mind and knew that if she did not receive this beating, and if the beating was not severe, the owner of the kiln would definitely not be able to get around him, and even a hundred deaths would not be enough to compensate for his miserable life.
So old man Yao is helping him.
Liu Xianyang couldn't stand the smell, so he would sit on the threshold and call sissy a lot of nasty things, and then call Chen Ping'an a bad person. No one lying or sitting in the room said anything back, and no one dared to follow him.
When Liu Xianyang quarrels, it doesn't matter.
But as long as Liu Xianyang is not at the door, the sissy's injury is a little better at first, and she has a little energy, and she will curse the heaven and the earth in a low voice, scolding God for not opening his eyes, and when she gets angry, she starts to curse loudly.
The young man named Chen was a bitch who had a father but no mother. Later, he got tired of scolding, and quarreling had to be enjoyable only by scolding each other. It was really not interesting to get into a fight with a young man who never talked to each other.
Later, the sissy gradually subsided. One time, the sissy was really aggrieved, so she asked the boy what he thought, but he didn't say anything back. Are you really not angry? Or is it because he was scolded by the neighbors because he was a child?
Are you used to being scolded a few times, but you feel uncomfortable all over? The young man was silent for a long time with a dark face, and then he said something sincere, when you get better and can work in the fields one day, I will give you some big mouths.
Son, if I don’t knock out a few teeth from your stinking mouth full of shit, I’ll take your surname... The sissy who just survived hell didn’t get angry when she heard this and smiled. She couldn’t laugh, and she probably hurt her wounds.
, then bared his teeth and grinned.
Later, the sissy was able to get out of bed and walk, but she still needed to recuperate. When men went out occasionally, it was always the kind of weather that was about to rain, and they met kiln workers on the road.
Raising her orchid finger or stroking her hair on the temples, others would at least joke that a dog can't change its habit of eating shit, or make fun of her face to face. Sissy people didn't take it seriously before, but now they look sad. Su Han is walking alone on the road, or
Slap yourself in the face, or secretly stretch out your left hand and hold your right hand tightly, without knowing what you are thinking.
There was only one real chat between him and the boy from Mud Bottle Lane, just once. The sissy chattered about ten sentences, and the boy could only say one.
And from the beginning to the end, the boy only said one thing that could be considered a good thing. It was true, he said that the sissy's paper-cutting was very beautiful.
Finally, Sissy, who seemed to be in a good mood, asked the boy why he was the first one to see him on the mountain, but didn't report it to Master Yao and the others?
The skinny boy's answer couldn't be more truthful. You are cowardly. If you are captured and beaten to death, even if you become a ghost, you will definitely not dare to seek revenge from others, only me.
The sissy laughed happily, and when she finally stopped laughing, she first gave him a feed, called the boy's name, and then asked a question, is this considered a good person without good rewards?
The boy didn't say anything.
But that very day, the sissy stabbed her neck with scissors, rolled up the quilt, and seemed to be hiding inside, not wanting anyone to see the ugly state of his death. In short, he died so quietly.
On the day Su Han died, the sun was shining brightly and there were no clouds in the sky.
At that time, Chen Ping'an was not very sentimental. He just took Liu Xianyang to wake up the sissy. The young man just couldn't understand two things. If the sissy is so afraid of pain, why is he not afraid of death?
How could such a cowardly person dare to poke a big hole in his neck with a pair of scissors? A sissy would die with just one sentence. But the words that the kiln worker came to the house and said were just another sentence.
Ordinary gossip, light and airy, worse than cotton wool. Logically speaking, the sissy has been able to listen to Cocoon for a long time in his life. Why can't he suddenly not stand it anymore?
No matter what, when Chen Ping'an later met the swordsman wearing a bamboo hat, the latter casually said a truth without saying anything behind his back, and the young man silently remembered it.
Not only did Chen Ping'an, who didn't understand a few principles, cherish them very much, but he knew very early on that sometimes one sentence could really kill someone.
There are dozens of mountains stretching to the west, some are high and some are low, some are big and some are small, but there are only a few hills with three points of water in their names, and the one closest to the town is the smallest hill.
There is a record in the archives in the official office of the Kiln Affairs Supervisory Office that it is called Yishan. Of course, the Ministry of Etiquette of the Dali Imperial Court also has a more obscure name, Zhenzhu Mountain. Yishan, the name of the mountain carries water, and it is also a fussy jin.
Su Han liked it very much, and he was timid by nature and was most afraid of ghosts in his life, so before he was alive, he actually thought about where he would be buried after his death, and he "settled" there, as close as possible to the town.
These hills are barren and overgrown with weeds. There are not even a few trees suitable for chopping down for firewood, so people from small towns almost never climb this hill. After his death, he does not need to be scolded. A small tomb is hidden.
Being among the weeds, you won't be in anyone's eyes, so that's the best thing.
A man eats earth for his whole life, and earth eats a man once.
Rest in peace.
Su Han is buried here.
Zhenzhu Mountain was finally bought by Chen Ping'an for only one gold and copper coin.
At that time, Chen Pingan did not think deeply about why it must be the Spring Festival coin among the three types of gold and copper coins.
This is karma. Good karma that starts well and ends well.
One is Chen Pingan, who is least afraid of ghosts, and the other is the sissy who is least afraid of Chen Pingan.
Later, in Sudian, a girl named Yanzhi, together with Shi Lingshan from Taoye Lane, became the apprentice of Old Man Yang, and usually worked as a miscellaneous person in the drug store.
She is Su Han's niece.
After becoming a master and apprentice, after a certain boxing lesson, the old man sat in the backyard and puffed away. It was rare for him to talk a few more words that had nothing to do with martial arts.
The old man asked: "You learned boxing and want to repay your kindness?"
Su Dian nodded.
"Are you going to help your uncle pay off his debt?"
Su Dian still nodded.
"What about paying off debts and repaying favors?"
"My uncle and I both think he is a truly good man."
"Your uncle Su Han, the word "drought" is easy to understand. It means it is not raining. Meng Tong, who has only been studying for a few days in the school, knows the meaning. "It means drought when there is no rain and the sun is shining."
The old man then used a dry tobacco stick to write a word in the air. Su Dian, who had never read a book, naturally did not recognize it at all, but the girl guessed the answer.
"But the word 'Su' has many more meanings. The ancient word 'Su' is a pictographic character, which means to pick up fish with branches or straw through the gills. And the shape of the character has the appearance of drooping whiskers."
There are two meanings here. Just a surname has revealed Su Han's situation and... origin.
A waterless fish suspended by its gills, unable to reach the sky or the earth, this is punishment and suffering. The Rain Master was relegated to the dust, like a rain dragon's whiskers hanging down to the ground. This is the origin.
"The surname is a good surname, but it's a pity that the name is wrong. In the military discussion of an old scholar, there was a saying, "Those who are so sharp will die", which means that the word "Su" means "toward"."
A fish leaves the water and reaches the shore, but it is not really put to death. As long as it returns to the water, it can be resurrected. Therefore, the resurrection from the dead is called su. This also involves the so-called retreat in Buddhism. If it is said that turning back is the shore, if it is said to be the shore again,
What about turning around? Doesn’t it mean that the fish is already in the water, but it is just suffering from dissatisfaction? That’s why Su Han chose the Baoxi kiln where Old Man Yao was in charge, out of God’s will among dozens of dragon kilns.
mouth.
The priest brings precipitation, and the rain master burns fire. The female rain master, the male body is suhan.
After suffering all kinds of hardships, you will finally find relief. Use your boat to get across and don’t ask for help from outside.
God helps those who help themselves.
When Su Dian was learning boxing in Yashan, Qingmingtianxia, he accidentally saw a collection of poems, which happened to contain a poem about praying for rain in Yishan.
Although there are feet of snow in the sky, it will not save the drought in spring and summer. Screams are heard all over the fields, and dragons are singing and dancing all night... There are constants in the movement of water in the heaven and earth, and there is no change in the comings and goings year after year...
Unconsciously, Su Dian's face was full of tears. She raised her head and looked at the rain curtain outside the window. She whispered, "This is God."
On this day, the black cat visited Yang's medicine shop again, jumped off the ridge of the roof, and landed gently on the bench. Just now in an alley, Hu Feng got the cicada's slough.
This young man who walks around the streets has liked to go to Lao Porcelain Mountain with Dong Shuijing since he was a child to pick up the broken pieces of porcelain that he likes. The occasional gains are like picking up a piece of gold from a dung heap.
The one you chose is the brat wearing crotchless pants who poops and pees randomly?
Old Yang shook his head, thinking of Li Huai. There was a rare smile on the old man's dry and wrinkled face.
Li Huai was the only exception. He was never dragged into the gambling table by the old man from the beginning. Even Li Huai's natal porcelain was bought by the old man and then returned to the child.
But this does not mean that Li Huai's existence is not important. On the contrary, Li Huai is to a large extent arranged by Heaven and is responsible for "conferring gods", similar to the current Feng Zheng. This child distributes opportunities. At the same time,
, Li Huai can stay out of the matter again.
When a girl in a red cotton jacket ran out of school in a hurry, she led Uncle Li to find Li Huai.
This made Li Huai, who was wearing crotchless pants, immediately fall in love with this eccentric classmate. At that moment, Li Baoping, the incense stick in the backyard of the drug store, instantly rose up a lot.
In the Mud Bottle Alley, two people with very different identities and realms bowed to each other.
After the huge incident at the covered bridge, there was an unknown question and answer.
"Mr. Qi, is this really a good thing for him?"
The scholar with frosty temples remained silent and felt guilty.
He once carved a seal and presented it to his junior disciple, Chen Shiyi, who was acting as a disciple.
The girl in green clothes sitting on the edge of the blue stone cliff, eating cakes, looked at the boy with straw sandals whom she met for the first time.
Food is the most important thing for the people, and the greedy girl seemed to have seen the most delicious food in the world, and she couldn't help but take a few more glances.
Because she is a practitioner, she saw the young man first, and then the young man with very good eyesight who was different from ordinary people saw her.
In the end, the boy traveled far away again and again, and the former girl finally ascended to heaven and left.
The Longquan sword sect removed mountains and created a Hoan Kiem Lake.
The boy once left his hometown and returned to his hometown, and brought a gift to Miss Ruan, who helped look after the home and nursing home.
It was the first time that Chen Ping'an went on a long trip, and it was not in vain. When he returned home, there was a girl in a pink skirt and a boy in Tsing Yi beside him.
Maybe the fine tradition of mountain owners going out to "pick up people and bring them home" started at that time?
Later, I went to the Sword Qi Great Wall for the first time and returned from Tongyezhou, and there was a little black charcoal around me.
I traveled to Luzhou in Beiju and brought back a little girl in black standing in a basket, the big water monster of Dumb Lake.
The Great Wall of Sword Qi "awoke" from its dream in the Creation Cave on the sea, and there were nine more Sword Immortal embryos around it.
That gift was a worthless object, just a green bamboo slip with a line of small words engraved on it.
There are five words to be correct, "Lands and rivers meet again".
When Ruan Xiu received this gift, she was so happy that she didn't even hide her happiness. Even the boy in green and the girl in pink skirt could see it clearly.
After the town opened, Cai Jinjian of Yunxia Mountain was plotted by Zhenjun Jiejiang. His Taoist heart was unstable and he took action to interrupt the longevity bridge of the boy in Mubo Alley.
Chen Ping'an's left hand was wrapped with a piece of broken porcelain, and he suddenly rushed out in an alley, slashing Cai Jinjian with his hand.
This was the first person among the younger generation in the town, before Ma Kuxuan, to personally kill a Qi practitioner on the mountain.
At that moment, in the patio in the backyard of the medicine shop, a stick of incense that was about to burn out suddenly burst into flames, filling the air with fragrant mist, and the momentum skyrocketed.
The man who led the donkey and wore a bamboo hat and claimed to be a swordsman was escorting a group of children to Sui Dynasty to study. On the way, he once made a joke to Lin Shou, which was an unintentional remark.
He asked Lin Shouyi and Chen Ping'an to exchange their names. Lin Shouyi's father, Lin Zhengcheng, was the gatekeeper at that time, and the deepest meaning of the gatekeeper was, of course, the gatekeeper.
Naturally, gatekeeping is something that needs to be taken care of. For example... "Guard that one, let that one be safe."
On the way to school, Li Huai, who was best at being a quarrelsome person, once made up his mind to give the most important thing to Chen Ping'an in the future.
At a certain Xianjia Inn in Huang Tingguo, Lin Shou said sorry to Chen Pingan for the first time.
But what really made Lin Shouyi recognize Chen Pingan was Chen Pingan's next words, "I want to get my money back!"
Earlier, at the stall selling candied haws on Xinghua Lane, the man looked at the kid running away on the roadside, and Zou Zi nodded lightly.
The first time he was exposed to the Sword Qi Great Wall and practiced boxing while walking on the wall, it was probably the first time in his life that Chen Pingan was so determined, recognized himself so much, and had no doubts about himself.
Thinking of the golden arch bridge, the fairy sister said that she did not approve of herself, but only because she believed in Mr. Qi, she was willing to believe in herself, so she took the one-in-a-ten thousandth bet.
The boy in straw sandals walked on the high wall. Instead of being discouraged at all, he said to himself in his heart, "Having this one, and me being this one, is enough!"