Chen Ping'an did not cross the threshold and entered the Jianchi Hall. After all, it was the ancestral hall of Ziyang Mansion. He turned around and said with a smile: "Let's go to the kitchen to learn more."
Among the portraits of the founder inside, the one in the middle is Wu Yi wearing a Taoist robe and walking on cloud shoes. In addition, the portraits of the previous palace masters are lined up on the left and right.
And tomorrow, on the other side of Xiandu Mountain, in the Patriarch Hall of the Qingping Sword Sect, a portrait of Chen Pingan will be hung in the center.
When Qing Tong moved, he turned his head and glanced at the plaque, "Sword Shout Hall?"
The generals or knights in the books often say "reach out and press the sword and scream".
It's just that a sect in Ziyang Mansion that doesn't even have sword cultivators has the nerve to use such a title? This is very unworthy of the position.
However, it can be seen that Wu Yi, whose Taoist name is Dongling, seems to have inherited part of the water transport left by the ten-thousand-year-old dragon. The rest, Cheng Shanchang of Dafu Academy, should have given it to the Hanshi River Water God.
The New Year's Eve dinner in Ziyang Mansion was held in Xuemang Hall, which was originally used to entertain distinguished guests.
After all, not many of the larger mansions on the mountain would actually have New Year's Eve dinner.
Genealogy monks either travel, practice in seclusion, or participate in various ceremonies and celebrations.
Near the Xuemang Hall, there is a long row of kitchens, divided into rooms for delicacies, wine, melons and fruits. The maids and maids of the house who serve as cooks come and go like fish.
A wealthy family with a profound cultural background always has to pay attention to the fine food and fine food. If you pay more attention to it, you should work hard on offering sacrifices in the mountains and fields.
Luo Po Mountain has Zhu Lian as its housekeeper, who is not afraid of trouble. Everything big and small is taken care of, so there really is no need for others to worry about it.
Every year, not just every month, Zhu Lian would receive his salary on time, which was worth a piece of snow, saying that he was trying to make up a piece of summer money.
Chen Ping'an stood outside a kitchen, glanced at several delicacies food boxes, and joked: "According to my old chef, some of the so-called time-honored restaurants only maintain their cooking skills at the level of newcomers."
Chen Ping'an had tasted bamboo branch crabs in Shujian Lake and Shuicheng. It was the first time in his life that he had hosted a serious banquet.
There are only a handful of such things. The most recent time was when Guan Yiran and Jing Kuan were invited to drink wine at the Changpu River in Dali Capital City. Of course, it was not flower wine. Now Jing Kuan has left the capital to take up the post of Baoxi in the new province.
County governor.
Qing Tong asked: "Old cook? Is this the noble son Zhu Lian who was born in the blessed land of Ouhua?"
Chen Pingan asked back: "Have you seen Zhu Lian's true appearance?"
Qing Tong nodded and said: "I am no stranger to the Lotus Root Flower Paradise. I often go there to relax. Of course I have met Zhu Lian."
And I didn’t dare to look more.
Because Zhenyao Tower and Guan Taoist Temple were neighbors, Qing Tong had met Zhu Lian twice before. He was really a... strange person. Of course, he was very good-looking.
One time was when Zhu Lian was young and he went on a spring outing to the outskirts of the capital. The other time was when Zhu Lian was a young man and walked around the world alone with a sword.
In the legends of ghosts and rivers and lakes, there are often vulgar plots about a woman falling in love with a strange man at first sight. Don’t believe it. Zhu Lian didn’t even need to speak when he was in the rivers and lakes. He only relied on his face to incur many love debts.
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The romantic young man climbed up and looked far away, standing on the railing. He just twisted a strand of hair on his temples with his two fingers, as if he was about to break the hearts of the women who were watching.
It seems that as long as you are infatuated with one person, no matter whether you are married or not, you will be able to grow old together, and your love will never end until you die.
How many white-haired old women in the world still want to see Zhu Lang, but are ashamed to see him when this life comes.
Qing Tong joked: "When will you hold the Moon in the Mirror in Luo Po Mountain? If Zhu Lian is willing to restore his true appearance, I will definitely support him and guarantee that he will start with one Grain Rain coin each time."
The four picture scrolls and Wei Xian who were brought out of the Lotus Flower Blessed Land by Chen Ping'an did not show their true bodies to others. Only Zhu Lian changed his appearance and became an old man with a stooped figure and a mouthful of obscene words.
At that time, Chen Pingan was kept in the dark anyway, but Qing Tong found it very interesting.
Chen Ping'an laughed and said: "Seriously? I can discuss with Zhu Lian and open a copy of Mirror Flowers and Water Moon for fellow Taoist Qing Tong. As agreed, for just one Grain Rain coin, I guarantee that you can see Zhu Lian every day.
See it until you are full.”
Qing Tong stopped talking.
Qing Tong can be regarded as a well-informed and enlightened man, but it seems that he has never seen a handsome man like Zhu Lian. It is a woman who is praised as a beautiful and fragrant woman. I'm afraid.
We should all be ashamed of ourselves.
Beauty and beauty are not only exclusive to women.
The beauty of youth, the wind is clear and the moon is white, and the thoughts are innocent.
The young man is handsome and unique, and he is relegated to immortality.
But don't think that Zhu Lian is just an embroidered pillow with an empty skin. Later, Yu Zhenyi and others so-called climbed to the top and became the best in the world, just because the Ouhua Blessed Land is so big.
And Zhu Lian, who went from being a noble nobleman to being the mainstay of the country that turned the tide of collapse, and then becoming a martial arts madman who unified the world, became the undisputed number one in the world, just because the land of lotus root is so big.
It may seem like the results are the same, but in fact the two sides are in completely different situations.
Chen Ping'an suddenly asked in his heart: "Is the old temple master's method of combining the Tao similar to the Tao of 'when there is no trouble in the world and when the year is prosperous'?"
Qing Tong asked back: "Yin Guan said that there will be a good year in the world?"
Chen Ping'an smiled and said, "It's just a random guess."
It was really just a random guess, because just now Qingtong talked about Xiaomo making wine in Luobaotan, and Xiaomo's identity was known as "a blessing from heaven" in later generations.
Coupled with the true identity of the old temple master, as well as some of the actions of this "smelly cow-nosed old man" in that war, his position seemed to be slightly erratic, but there was no obvious bias. Generally speaking, he still stood on the side of
On the side of Haoran Tianxia, the old patron did not choose to prefer the wild world because of his great background. As for the matter of brewing wine in the world, it has always been a matter of peace and tranquility. Who has the leisure and energy to brew wine as someone who is free from chaos is not as good as a peace dog?
What's more, various dynasties and generations often have varying degrees of prohibition on alcohol. As for the so-called knights in the books and restaurants, who often ask for a few pounds of beef, it is actually unrealistic.
A series of clues that seemed to be far away, and they were put together intermittently, which made Chen Ping'an feel a little moved in his heart, and he quickly began to look through the books in the library in the lake of his heart, and finally found an ancient anonymous "old saying", which was connected with each other.
There is an underlying thread that is difficult to detect.
Chen Ping'an said slowly: "When the time is good and the year is good, there is a lot of millet and crops, and there are also high crops, trillions and grains of rice, which are used to make wine and sweet wine, to bring blessings to all the people, and to pay tribute to hundreds of rituals."
Qing Tong looked calm and didn't say a word. He probably felt that this move was inappropriate and seemed to have acquiesced. He immediately added, "Sir Yin Guan, what a wonderful idea."
Chen Ping'an glanced sideways. No matter what the final truth was, Qing Tong's general guess could not escape from this context.
Does this mean that in the peaceful and prosperous times, the old Taoist master of Donghai Temple will have very high combat power? But if it is in troubled times, his Taoism will decline and his offensive power will weaken accordingly?
Qingtong felt very annoyed.
In the old Donghaiguan Taoist Temple, the Taoist temple's inner corridors were filled with sunbathing grains, and the grain fields were bright and yellow. They were all done by the old temple owner himself. The little Taoist boy with eyes above the top and a big gourd on his back all the year round was not qualified to be involved.
And these, and the sword gourd that was one of the gourd vines planted by Taoist ancestors in the past is called "Dou Liang". When ordinary monks hear this name, they will immediately think of the saying "Sea water cannot be measured", but in fact there is no such thing.
So Xuanhu, to be precise, is Xuanzhixuanxuan, or is it a return to nature? It is really just a measure of things.
And the most necessary thing in the world is the rice that is planted and harvested every year, right?
Chen Ping'an walked towards Xue Mang Hall, ripples appeared, as if he had stepped out of the mirror, and his figure appeared. Then he said to Qing Tong: "Don't hide your figure anymore."
In the entire Ziyang Mansion, it happened that only Wu Yi, who was in the Nascent Soul Realm, could sense the energy. She left Huang Chu behind and rushed here with murderous intent, but was stunned on the spot.
I never expected that this person would take the initiative to visit me.
Wu Yi didn't have to think twice about Chen Ping'an's proposal and agreed on the spot without any hesitation.
Not to mention that he could earn that precious and unusual amount of merit in vain, even without this huge gift, Wu Yi would nod his head and help light a stick of water incense.
Because the path her father pointed out for her cannot circumvent Chen Pingan, who is closely related to Yu Lu, the subjugated prince of the Lu Dynasty. Yu Lu and Chen Pingan have been friends for many years, and they are still half classmates. As for
Wu Yi was not interested in why his father could be sure that Yu Lu, an "idle" remnant of the subjugated country, would settle down in Tongyezhou and restore the country to Zuo for the Lu family.
Wu Yi asked Chen Pingan to wait for a moment. She quickly went to the Jianchi Hall, opened a secret ban, and took out a mountain treasure from the secret room.
As for the female cultivator wearing a power fence, since Chen Pingan did not introduce her identity, Wu Yi did not ask any more questions.
Returning to the carved corridor, Wu Yi handed Chen Ping'an one small wooden box after another.
The wooden box is engraved with images of a priest, a dragon, a female fairy, a phoenix, and an ancient real person riding a turtle.
This thing is the treasure of the Ziyang Mansion, and no lord of the past dynasties would even think of seeing it.
Wu Yi originally planned to give it to a certain Sword Immortal embryo in the future, who would be accepted as his direct disciple, and then wait for the other person to form an elixir, and then use it as a belated apprenticeship gift and a congratulatory gift.
Chen Ping'an laughed dumbly, "I'm not here to beat the autumn wind, what are you doing?"
"Contained inside is an extremely rare ancient sword pill."
Wu Yi mistakenly thought that the other party did not like this meeting gift, so he had to suppress his temper and patiently explained: "It was a gift given to me by my father when I entered the cave realm."
Of course, the most important thing is that my father was full and in a good mood at that time, so he rewarded me with this valuable treasure.
Qing Tong just glanced at the wooden box casually and heard Wu Yi say the word "extremely rare."
However, when Wu Yi silently recited the Taoist formula and wiped away the layers of restrictions on the pocket sword box with two fingers, sword energy overflowed and purple energy rose.
Qingtong was slightly surprised, it was really a valuable thing.
There is a long string of purple gold characters with the precious light flowing, including the sentence "Face the wall for thousands of years and no one knows it, the three pure things only need a clay body".
Following the several secret restrictions set up by Cheng Longzhou and opened by Wu Yi, the words melted like snow and dispersed in an instant. Even Wu Yi was caught off guard and had no time to collect them.
Obviously, Wu Yi most likely got the reminder from his father and opened all the restrictions for the first time.
Chen Pingan rolled up his sleeves and put all the Taoist rhyme in his sleeves.
Wu Yi felt a little regretful, and said in a low tone, "I heard from my father that this sword pill came from Huashan Mountain in China in ancient times. It was refined by a certain Taoist Master. It was originally given to a Huashan Vice-President.
The mountain’s treasure.”
In a general sense, what today's monks call the ancient era is compared to the "ancient times" ten thousand years ago. It started with the four points of the world. For example, Haoran Tianxia established the Confucian Temple, and then started with the dragon-slaying battle.
"There are no more true dragons in the world" is taken as the end point. This is the ancient era in a broad sense. Of course, it can also be pushed back three to four thousand years and uses a certain unrecorded incident as a hidden node, which is a more narrow sense.
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Chen Ping'an still did not take the sword box, but said softly: "I have heard that in ancient times, people from Xiyue were mainly engaged in the casting and smelting of hardware, and they were also responsible for feathers and birds."
During those years, in accordance with the ritual system established by the sage of rites, the emperor worshiped the famous mountains and rivers in the world. The five mountains were regarded as the three princes, and the great mountains were regarded as the princes.
But the real master of the Five Mountains was not the tiger. The mountain king at that time was more like an auxiliary official, and the assistants were "real people", and the Five Mountains were the governance of those real people. Each of these real people had their own duties.
A position with high authority. For example, there are two or three real people in Nanyue, one master and two assistants, who are respectively in charge of the world's astrological divisions and the aquarium fish and dragon matters. And the most eye-catching responsibility of Xiyue is of course "casting"
"This matter, to a certain extent, is somewhat similar to the Ministry of Industry of later generations of the imperial court.
The so-called real person's governance is the real "terrestrial immortal", where the Taoist temple is permanently located in the human world.
Of course, the land gods at that time were not as proliferated as in later generations. They were very good-looking. This was not a term used to describe the monks in the two realms of Jindan Yuanying. It was more like the ancient times when Xiaomo and Qing were with him.
The so-called "earth immortals" in our eyes.
Wu Yi gritted his teeth, pushed the sword box forward, and said in a deep voice: "It's not for nothing. If someone returns to Tongyezhou in the future, I plan to assist him. Then Chen Shanzhumei may be needed."
Just say a few words."
Chen Pingan asked with a smile: "Is this the trick that Chief Cheng Shan taught you?"
Wu Yi nodded.
Chen Ping'an took the sword box, lowered his head and raised one sleeve, and gently put it in it. When he raised his head, he smiled and said: "If it's just this, then you may suffer a big loss."
Wu Yi laughed it off.
Her father didn't ask her to give her a gift as soon as they met. Firstly, Wu Yi really underestimated the weight of this sword box, and secondly, she took refuge in Yu Lu. For the latter, it was a timely help. So, let's talk about it.
Go, Wu Yi still wanted to build up a personal friendship and affection with Luo Luoshan, especially this hidden official. Because before that in the study room of Dafu Academy, his father said a meaningful word, reminding Wu Yi
Yi, don't think that when you arrive at Tongyezhou, you won't have to deal with Master Chen. The mountains are high and the rivers are long, so you two may meet frequently.
Chen Ping'an said: "Then it should be regarded as a congratulatory gift in advance for us to establish the next sect in Luolu Mountain."
After the battle of slaying the dragon, Narcissus, the descendant of the dragon genus, would be regarded as enlightened if they could travel across the river to turn into dragons. Only these dragons could change their appearance, join the temples in various capacities, and compete with the mountains and rivers of a country.
Complementary fortune is a long-term deal that is mutually beneficial. It is not just a gain for one party. It is equivalent to stealing the dragon spirit of a country's monarch and secretly cannibalizing the "Guo Zuo". In the history of various countries in the vast nine continents, there are occasionally some
The jade seal that passed down the country seemed to have cracks for no reason, which was a sign that the country would be destroyed.
The reason why it is "occasionally" is of course because there are seventy-two academies staring at the vast mountains and rivers of Jiuzhou.
Once discovered, if there are any members of the dragon family who dare to cause such troubles, gentlemen and wise men can kill them.
On the other hand, Wu Yi's father, Cheng Longzhou, served as Huang Tingguo's Minister of Rites in his early years. To this thousand-year-old dragon, it may be just a way to relax in the world, but it is of great significance to Huang Tingguo's destiny and landscape.
Useful.
For those who entered the court as officials, the only trouble and sequelae was that they would be implicated when a country was destroyed, and it would be like facing a natural disaster.
This led to the fact that even Nascent Soul elders like Cheng Longzhou still did not dare to leave the dojo and easily enter the world to assist the kings of the world.
Because according to the historical evolution of the world, for large dynasties and small countries, there is often a disaster every three hundred years.
Only some descendants of dragons who have stagnated in the Dragon Gate realm and are destined to be unable to break through the bottleneck for a long time will choose a newly established court as an opportunity to break through. Regardless of the disaster that will happen two to three hundred years later, they will form a pill based on this.
Let’s talk about other things. If you become a Golden Elixir monk, it won’t be too late to bear the catastrophe.
However, Wu Yi was extremely shocked by the term "Xizong". Luopo Mountain was promoted to a sect. Wu Yi was not too surprised. But to say that he founded the Xizong without stopping, after seeing the vastness for thousands of years, how many people are there? Even
It’s less than the legendary fourteenth realm monks, right?
"The next sect is in Tongyezhou."
Chen Ping'an continued: "It seems that I and Wu Daoyou have become neighbors again."
Having said this, Chen Ping'an looked at Qing Tong again.
Fellow Taoist Qingtong, tell your conscience, is it a coincidence or not?
Qingtong has already accepted his fate.
Chen Pingan and Wu Yi walked side by side, but it was more like Chen Pingan was leading the way to a certain place and said: "I don't know yet whether Yu Lu will return to the country. If that happens one day, I will definitely help introduce him. In addition to this, there are also
There is a choice, Fellow Daoist Wu might as well consider it?"
Wu Yi smiled and said: "Tell me and listen."
Chen Ping'an said from his heart that a certain Dugu woman would soon establish a kingdom and proclaim herself emperor on the banks of the Ling River in Tongyezhou.
Wu Yi was extremely moved. Instead of returning to Tongyezhou with Etihad, why not just be safe?
Or do you think you actually have hope...two countries and one national division?!
Wu Yi said, "Let me think about it."
Chen Ping'an smiled and said: "Such a big matter must be considered carefully."
Qing Tong said from his heart: "This Wu Yi is still blind. The real preciousness of this sword pill is that it is an ownerless thing that can be easily refined."
It doesn't matter what it is, it can be used. In short, compared to the sword cultivator who conceived the natal flying sword by himself, the difference between difficulty and ease is the difference between cloud and mud.
If it were given to a Qi practitioner who was not a sword cultivator, it would still be difficult, but if it was given to a sword immortal embryo who was already a sword cultivator, it would be even more powerful.
Chen Pingan nodded and said: "I have a deep understanding of this matter."
Originally, Qing Tong wanted to say, "A gentleman does not take away what others like, how can you be so ignorant of this sword pill?" He deliberately responded to the young hidden official, but after careful consideration, he felt that he should not provoke this person, so instead
He changed his words and said: "We meet but don't know each other, and we are in Baoshan without knowing it. After all, we are still fetching water from a bamboo basket before the fate has arrived."
Chen Ping'an said: "I also have a deep understanding."
For example, that Zou Zi.
In fact, there is also a certain young swordsman who seems to have become an "old enemy" even though the two parties have never met.
While Chen Ping'an was attending the meeting at the Confucian Temple, there was a young man in Yuanyangzhu who made money by helping people copy scriptures as his main job. He often went fishing there in his spare time.
This person is Liu Cai, the swordsman who Chen Pingan has always wanted to find, and he is also one of the ten young people in the world.
Liu Cai owns two sword-raising gourds, named "Xin Shi" and "Ji Shi" respectively. The flying sword raised by the former is the sharpest, and the flying sword raised by the latter is the fastest.
Liu Cai, like Chen Ping'an, has two natal flying swords, among which the flying sword "Bi Luo" is known as one sword breaking ten thousand swords.
The second natal flying sword "White Horse" can even ignore the constraints of the long river of time.
Liu Cai uses "care" to raise the sword gourd to warm the flying sword "Bi Luo", and uses "immediately" to warm the flying sword "Bai Ju". It is simply a match made in heaven.
Since it was tailor-made for Liu Cai, how could it not be tailor-made for Chen Ping'an?
Because it was clear that he had the right target and restraint to defeat Chen Pingan's two natal flying swords when he first became a swordsman, the Bird in the Cage and the Moon in the Well.
Chen Pingan asked: "Does this sword pill have a name?"
Wu Yi nodded and said, "I heard from my father that it's called 'Niwan'."
Chen Pingan smiled and said: "It's a big name."
Wu Yi said angrily: "Master Chen, please don't rub salt into my wounds."
The three guests, the host and the guest, walked around and approached a secluded courtyard. Chen Pingan did not knock on the door, but just stood still, as if waiting for something.
Instead of exploring the words and deeds in the house, it helped to isolate the tea-drinking parties in that room from the secret, so that Qing Tong was unable to explore what was going on in that courtyard.
Chen Ping'an put his hands on his sleeves and said with a smile: "Ziyang Mansion's hospitality is as good as ever."
Wu Yi pretended not to hear the thorn in the words of the young hermit official. She leaned against the pillar, crossed her arms across her chest, and sneered, "If our Ziyang Mansion frees up a big house for Mrs. Xiao to stay, I guess she will be here for the next few days."
I don’t have a good night’s sleep anymore, how can I be as leisurely as I am now, boiling famous springs and drinking good tea.”
Qing Tong clicked his tongue and marveled, the little Nascent Soul Water Dragon has a tone as good as a real dragon.
It's just strange that Qing Tong found that Chen Ping'an didn't seem annoyed at all. Instead, he smiled and nodded in agreement: "That's right."
Qing Tong was inevitably curious, who could allow Chen Ping'an to treat him as such an exception?
Is it the famous Baihu River Water Goddess? Or that bad Six Realm martial artist?
Mostly it's the latter.
It seems that the hidden official next to me always has some weird things to do. If you guess the opposite, you can always guess the answer.
In the small courtyard house, the fragrance of tea was pleasant. Xiao Luan recalled the past and was filled with emotion. What a coincidence in life.
As for the "benefactor" who had escaped halfway, Xiao Luan was completely confused after leaving Ziyang Mansion last time.
At that time, the Water Goddess couldn't understand how a young martial artist who was so respectful to Sun Dengxian could be so highly regarded by the founder of Ziyang Mansion. She finally changed her mind and let her go without a care in the world.
Therefore, when Xiao Luan was with Sun Dengxian, he tentatively asked Chen Ping'an about his roots. Did he study at Shantou? His hometown?
But there is a son of a wealthy family in the Dali court who likes to travel, and he is a noble Chinese with a surname slightly inferior to that of Shangzhuguo?
In fact, when Xiao Luan asked the question, she was a bit complaining. Why didn't you, Sun Deng, have such a love for you on the mountain and didn't reveal it earlier?
Sun Deng was also helpless at the time. He really didn't know anything about it, and he didn't mean to hide anything from Mrs. Xiao.
That night at the house, Sun Deng first accompanied Xiao Luan to Xue Mang Hall for a banquet, and happened to meet the other party's group. If Chen Pingan hadn't taken the initiative to reveal the reason, he wouldn't have recognized him at all. After all, it was the first time the two parties met.
On the mountain road in front of the ruined temple in Centipede Ridge, the other party was just a young man at that time. He was accompanied by a boy in green and a girl in pink skirt. They were weird and clever. Sun Deng was an old man, and he could tell at a glance that the two little guys were there.
It was just a small matter of reminding the young man of his origin. How could Sun Deng have imagined that something he had said and then forgotten could make him miss him so much for many years.
If it weren't for the two "book boy maid"-looking children who were so eye-catching that Sun Dengxian had some vague impressions, otherwise Sun Dengxian wouldn't be able to remember just the face of the young man.
So much so that when the two sides reunited again, they were able to help Baihujiang turn danger into disaster.
At that banquet with hidden murderous intentions, Chen Ping'an helped stop the drinking and allowed the Ziyang Mansion to ignore the past grievances. After that, the relationship between Bai Hujiang and the Ziyang Mansion was somewhat relaxed, at least in terms of face.
Gao Niang, the God of the Quanhe River, has made less insinuations in recent years.
Sun Deng drank a lot of tea first, and suddenly found that the Water Goddess sitting opposite had a strange look in her eyes, just looking at him.
Sun Dengxian asked doubtfully: "Mrs. Xiao?"
Xiao Luan held back her laughter, raised her hand, and took a photo.
Sun Dengxian became increasingly confused. Was he playing a riddle with himself?
Xiao Luan pursed his lips and smiled, and stopped pretending and said, "If I remember correctly, after you made such an action, you said to him, 'Good boy, you have become famous.
, everyone can come to Ziqi Mansion to eat and drink.'"
Sun Dengxian was so ashamed when he heard this. After holding it in for a long time, he could only say "He who doesn't know is not guilty" without any confidence.
After the reunion, Fang Fang kept calling Sun Daxia.
Not to mention whether he was a hero or not, Sun Dengxian just thought that he was a few years older, so he didn't take it seriously at that time.
In the past, in Lizhu Cave Sky, Huaihuang County, Longquan County, the young mountain master of Luopo Mountain and Liu Xianyang, the swordsman of the Longquan Sword Sect, joined hands to seek swords at Zhengyang Mountain.
Then there was the Shanshui Di newspaper from the Middle Earth Divine Continent. First, he became the last hidden official of the Great Sword Qi Wall, and then guarded half of the city alone. Finally, as a hidden official, he led four mountaintop sword immortals deep into the wilderness.
In the hinterland, we ask the sword Tuoyue Mountain together.
I was shocked, and I was shocked again.
Sun Deng is nearly sixty years old, but his body is still strong and strong. There are only stars on his temples, but his face does not look like he is half a century old. This is due to his early military career. The territory of Huangting Kingdom has always been peaceful, and the general who leads the army has no battles to fight.
, Sun Dengxian had no complaints about this, but because later Huang Tingguo surrendered without a fight, abandoned his alliance with the Gao family of the Great Sui Dynasty, and switched to the Song family of the Great Li Dynasty, Sun Dengxian was so angry that he resigned from his official position and only worked as a demon hunter.
As a result, because of the evil spirit fox that he captured with his own hands, he turned around and changed his appearance, and became the emperor's pillow. He also made Sun Dengxian angry to death, completely frustrated, and Xiao Luan happened to be attentive.
After being recruited, he took refuge in the Baihu River Mansion and became a half-rich idler.
Think back to those days.
"My surname is Chen Ping'an, so Sun Daxia can just call me Chen Ping'an."
"Okay, I'll call you Chen Ping'an."
Reminiscing about the past.
Drinking tea is like drinking alcohol.
If you are drinking, you should not shed your tears.
Xiao Luan said softly: "Sun Congfeng, I can see that Master Chen has some sincere admiration for you."
That person back then didn't just say casual polite words to anyone.
Xiao Luan thought that he still had some good eyesight.
A true person does not show his appearance, just like a high official riding a bad horse, or wealth and honor without showing his appearance.
Sun Dengxian smiled and said: "It was like this back then, but I don't know if we can still chat a few words now that we meet."
Xiao Luan hesitated for a moment, and said with a resentful look in his eyes: "Then I asked you to go to Luopo Mountain as a guest, why don't you go there all the time? The Shuifu Mansion doesn't ask you to do anything, just like those people who visit during the holidays.
, just have a drink with the young hermit official and chat a few interesting stories about the world."
It was hinted that Xiao Luan had tried it, but the chief minister of his own water house refused to nod and never said the reason. He was very stubborn.
Sun Deng smiled first, but still didn't explain anything.
After all, the Water Goddess is not a Jianghu person, so it is difficult to talk about real Jianghu talk with her.
Let's get together for a drink, that's just the way of the world.
That kind of wine, even if it is immortal wine, is not intoxicating, and the taste is not as good as a pot of low-quality wine from the market when you meet by chance.
There are already so many smart people in the world, so I, Sun Dengxian, am not the only one missing.
Xiao Luan just said it casually, naturally he would not really let Sun Deng get close to the young hermit official for himself or the Baihu River Mansion.
However, Xiao Luan also had an unspeakable secret. Every time he thought of it, he wanted to dig a hole in the ground.
This matter can be regarded as a handle that fell into Wu Yi's hands.
Sun Deng first said goodbye to the Water Goddess, left the house, and prepared to walk around the courtyard to stretch his muscles.
He actually lives in a wing on the side of the yard.
There is a man and a woman alone. Can the man and woman be intimate? If they don't arrange you two in the same room, even if the Ziyang Mansion treats guests well.
Just then there was a knock on the door outside the courtyard.
When he walked to open the door, Sun Deng was stunned for a moment, except that Wu Yi came to the door in person.
Next to Wu Yi, there was also a young man standing, wearing a green shirt and long coat, with an elegant demeanor and full of Taoism.
Xiao Luan also walked out of the house quickly, with a pair of long autumn eyes flashing a hint of embarrassment, but soon returned to normal.
The man raised his hands in salute and said with a bright smile: "Master Sun, Mrs. Xiao, we meet again."
Sun Dengxian was only a worshiper of Jiangshen Mansion, but Xiao Luan was the righteous god of Jiangshui. However, the man in front of him intentionally or unintentionally put Sun Dengxian in front and Xiao Luan in the back.
How could Xiao Luan dare to care about such a trivial matter? He quickly gathered his clothes and knelt down, gave a blessing, lowered his eyebrows and said softly: "Baihu Jiang Xiao Luan, I have met Mr. Chen!"
Sun Dengxian then clasped his fists and laughed loudly: "Sun has met Master Chen."
Wu Yi curled his lips, this Xiao Luan is really lucky, he always seems to meet this guy next to him, does this mother-in-law come early rather than by chance?
Why, could it be that a wooden tablet for a god was quietly erected inside the Baihu River Water Mansion?
But Wu Yi had to admit that the Xiao Luan in front of him was really a beautiful woman with the ability to move people, thrill them, and keep their eyes fixed on her.
When a woman sees me, she feels pity for me.
It’s no wonder that in the Huangting Kingdom, there are so many strange novels that seek to gain fame and reputation for her in a roundabout way. They praise her so much. There is a goddess on the river, wearing a purple lotus scarf on her head. She walks on lotus root silk shoes, and the waves are not dusty.
Ha. I don’t know if poems and essays like this were written by Xiao Luan and then asked someone to write them out.
Wu Yi looked at Xiao Luan and asked directly: "Mrs. Xiao, tell me, what do you want from me?"
Chen Ping'an smiled and said, "You guys talk about your own affairs, and I'll drink our wine with Master Sun."
Sun Deng was in a dilemma. He went out without bringing any wine, and there was no wine prepared in the courtyard. However, Chen Ping'an had already helped him out, "I have two pots of home-brewed Zhuhai Dongtian wine with me."
When they arrived at Sun Dengxian's house, they poured two large bowls of drinks. Sun Dengxian actually didn't know what to say. Chen Ping'an asked Sun Daxia if he had ever traveled to Sui'an County. With this conversation, the two sides started chatting, and soon they had two bowls of drinks.
After eating, Chen Pingan simply took off his cloth shoes and sat cross-legged on a chair. Sun Dengxian followed suit, and his whole body was no longer tense. Lao Jianghu, as long as he is not so reserved, is actually quite eloquent. No need to
Young Yin Guan was looking for a chat, and Sun Deng first took the initiative to chat about an interesting story. He asked Master Chen if he still remembered the other people in Centipede Ridge. Chen Pingan smiled and said of course he did. Sun Deng wiped his mouth first and said with a smile.
These old guys, whenever they get together, they always talk about Shanzhu Chen. As for myself, I am too embarrassed to say that I recognize you. If I occasionally interject a few words, I will be blamed for what the young hidden official told you? Or?
It means you were present at the time.
Sun Dengxian easily hurt his face when drinking, and his face was already red. In fact, he was just a little tipsy, and asked: "Can I ask a question?"
Chen Pingan smiled and said: "Master Sun wants to ask Cao Ci how his boxing skills are?"
Sun Deng first asked: "Is it not possible to open which pot?"
"What's the point? I'm just asking Cao Ci for boxing and losing four games in a row."
Chen Ping'an raised his wine bowl and touched it lightly. They each took a big sip and raised the back of their hands to wipe their mouths. "Cao Ci's boxing skills are as if they were made in heaven. Every time he strikes, it's like he knows the unknown. He's so powerful that he really can't beat him."
However, Chen Ping'an quickly added, "Of course it is temporary. The one in Gongdelin is much better than the three that I had at the top of the Sword Qi Great Wall where I had no power to fight back."
Sun Dengxian asked in confusion: "How did Master Chen learn boxing?"
Chen Pingan thought about it seriously and said: "In the early years, I had a master who taught me boxing, so I can endure hardships. In addition, I have not slackened off for so many years. If my later status as a swordsman is a way to climb higher, then my early martial arts training
Practicing boxing is the foundation of a good life, and both are indispensable."
Sun Deng smiled and asked: "How did you think of making your own wine?"
Chen Ping'an joked: "It's important to make money, but I'm afraid of being poor. If you don't have much money on hand, you will feel panic. The money of the poor is just sweaty palms. It's nothing if you're not tired, and it's nothing if you're tired."
Taking a sip of his drink, Chen Pingan continued: "Of course there is no shortage of money now, but making money is similar to drinking. It is easy to become addicted. At most, I just remind myself often, don't make unconscionable money, and don't think about those things.
If you can't keep the side money, you have to find peace of mind after you have some money. Because I heard the old people in my hometown said that saving money for children and grandchildren may not be a blessing. If you can't catch it, you can't catch it. You can only do good deeds.
Accumulating virtue, the blessings left to the children and grandchildren, they can't even think about it. The most important thing is that as the old saying goes, every household has a field called a field of blessing. Wisdom can easily grow in the field of blessing, so I give my descendants a field of blessing, which is better than anything else.
, better than money, even better than books."
Sun Deng nodded first, "It's a pity that many people don't think that way now. They only think that as long as they are not cruel, they can't make big money."
Chen Pingan hesitated for a moment, "I just have to admit that many times, it seems that this is really the case. People with evil intentions should live a more prosperous life."
Sun Deng sighed first.
Chen Ping'an smiled and said: "It's okay. At most, we can go to our own Yangguan Road and single-plank bridge, eat our own food, and drink our own wine. Besides, Sun Daxia and I are both martial arts practitioners, and our hands are not only good at holding bowls for eating and drinking.
"
Sun Deng first raised the wine bowl and said with a smile: "That's right, let's go one."
Chen Ping'an then raised the wine bowl and said: "Go back to my place at Luopo Mountain, Master Sun. I will cook myself and cook a few dishes to go with the wine."
Sun Dengxian smiled and said: "With this sentence, it is the best dish to accompany wine."
There is a previous sentence: "A poor man's money is just sweat from his palms."
Finally, Sun Dengxian was able to confirm one thing. The young Master Chen Shanzhu in front of him was not a child of aristocratic family, he was really poor.
Meeting Sun Dengxian and his group back then was like a kind of verification, giving Chen Ping'an a reassurance that I was right to be so cautious in my travels.
Speaking more broadly, it proves that Chen Ping'an is right to be so cautious in his words and deeds in this strange world that is very different from his hometown.
Chen Ping'an has never mentioned these thoughts to anyone. Today he met Daxia Sun and he was not drunk yet, so he couldn't speak out for the time being.
It's like a sermon that combines self-realization and other-realization.
In the corridor.
The Most Holy Master smiled and said, "I was exposed so quickly."
The master of the Bixiao Cave, who has a high seniority in Taoism, is of course not limited to this, and the method of joining the Tao to reach the fourteenth realm is more complicated than Chen Ping'an's guess.
It has the prayers of the right time, the constraints of the right place, and the coordination of people. But the three can be integrated into one, so it is still a very interesting path.
After one "world" was divided into four worlds in the early years, many "young" mountain monks at the fourteenth level and the ascension level would naturally be curious about how and why the old temple master who "reached first" figured it out.
Instead of staying in the wild world, he went to the vast world and became an alien.
The great monks speculated on this matter and thought about it for hundreds or thousands of years, and they could only think of Chen Ping'an.
Lu Yan said: "Books in later generations were widely circulated. To a certain extent, Chen Ping'an took advantage."
The Holy Master sighed, "Is it so difficult to admit that a young junior has a brilliant mind?"
And this "Alas" seems to have the same tone as that of the old scholar. But judging from the seniority and age of both parties, it seems that the literary sage imitated something and got the essence?
Lu Yan shook his head and said with a smile: "Pindao doesn't look down on Chen Ping'an at all. He had looked up to him in the hotel on the left side of Handan Road before."
The Holy Master insisted on his opinion and still said: "You have it."
Lu Yan felt helpless, "The most holy teacher has been my teacher for generations, so don't embarrass Lu Yan, a member of the Taoist sect."
The Holy Master smiled and asked, "Do you think Chen Ping'an has guessed the identity of Lu Sheng?"
Lu Yan replied: "It's hard to say."
The Most Holy Master said: "Although that ancient sword pill is not a rare and rare treasure, it is worthy of the word 'impressive'. Fellow Taoist Chunyang, do you think Chen Ping'an is taking it?" Come and refine it yourself, or give it to someone else?"
Lu Yan said: "You can't chew off more than you can chew. Most of it will be given away."
The Holy Master smiled and said: "You can bite the roots of vegetables and eat all kinds of hardships. There are no taboos and you can do anything."
Lu Yan lamented: "People who practice Taoism are the most selfish."
It’s just that people are selfless, how can they seek the Tao, cultivate truth and become immortals?
The greatest desire is to live long, and then to live forever, and finally to live as long as heaven and earth.
The Holy Master exclaimed, "Fellow Taoist Chunyang, are you scolding yourself, me, or both?"
Lu Yan shook his head and said: "I just said it casually. I am about to travel far away, so I will inevitably feel melancholy."
The green mountains, white clouds, small bridges and flowing water in my hometown are waiting for the wanderers from far away to go home.
It's like when it's dawn and you wake up from a dream, you'll "open your eyes and see" the sound of flower sellers everywhere.
Lu Yan's Taoist heart was so tenacious that he quickly suppressed his faint melancholy. He was also quite curious, "That barbarian female swordsman with the pseudonym Bai Jing, is her swordsmanship better than that of a strange Taoist friend?"
The Most Holy Master nodded and said: "No, she is a very fierce woman with very high swordsmanship. But Xiao Mo also feels very embarrassed. Faced with such entanglement, he cannot face Bai Jingzhen in a sword fight. Otherwise, he would annoy Xiao Mo, and Bai Jing would also be frightened once he used a certain flying sword. It can only be said that in that pursuit and killing, if they really had to fight for their lives, Yang Zhi and Zhu Yan would suffer even more, with three flying and two dying. Once injured, there is no escape. In the wild world, if Zhu Yan suffered such a serious injury, it would be the same as death."
"Xiao Mo can certainly do a good job as a swordsman who protects the people, but being a dead warrior is the most worthy of the name."
"So a certain senior's eye for selecting people has always been very good from ancient times to the present."
However, sword cultivator Bai Jing is a bit similar to Xiao Xun from the Great Wall of Sword Qi. He prefers a pure and unrestrained style.
Back then, Chen Qing was at the Sword Qi Great Wall and couldn't control Xiao Xun. Now that Bai Ze has returned to the wild world, he may not be able to control Bai Jing.
It's not that you can't control it, it's just a kind of respect, or a kind of consideration similar to that of elders towards younger ones.
The sky is high and the sky is high, and you can go freely.