Chapter 17
Thanks to "Yugu Yuko" for making Lao Lei look so generous.
Thanks to Qu is the Prime Minister, 9167.qdn, not strong enough, he is a sensible dragon, Xuanyuan Xingye, half-wise man, militia iii generous rewards!
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After Lu Yuan knocked on the door, Yuqing Temple was silent and no one responded for a long time. The breeze blew, and the peach blossom petals fell down, piled under the stone steps like powder snow, and stuck to the edge of the straw sandals.
Looking at the grass growing in the cracks of the stone steps and the thick moss marks on the gate, perhaps this temple located in the deep mountains has long been abandoned. It is important to know that Zhang Xianzhong was entrenched in Shu in front, and then the Qing Dynasty was knocking on the gate. After years of war in the late Ming Dynasty, the number of people in Shu had dropped by one third. If it weren't for the later General Li Dingguo who stabilized the seven southwest provinces and killed Hu Ling to block the Yangtze River, maybe Shu would have been empty at this moment, let alone a nunnery in the deep mountains.
But after knocking on the door three times, Lu Yuan stood in front of the door like green pine, watching the peach blossoms like rain, as if he was sure that there must be someone in the temple.
Sure enough, after a long time, the sound of intermittent footsteps sounded in the temple. The footsteps were slow and scattered. Lu Yuan listened to her walking from the hall to the back of the temple gate, and it took a full quarter of an hour. The man stopped behind the door for a long time before pushing the temple gate open with a "creaking" sound.
The moment the door opened, Lu Yuan took a breath of air conditioning. He saw the old nun standing behind the door, with a hunched body as shriveled as dry wood, and her face was as thin as a skeleton. She stood shakingly at the door, as if she was about to fall to the ground and die at any time. Looking at the temple behind her, most of the temple had collapsed. In addition to a huge peach tree, the small courtyard was full of grass that could flood her knees, and was extremely desolate and dilapidated.
"Xiaohe...shang, here is not...should you put the order..." The old nun opened her mouth and showed her bare gums after her teeth fell off. The opening and closing look was very terrifying, which made Lu Yuan's heart burst again, and his hair was about to stand up.
"I, I. I'm looking for someone." Xiao Luzi stammered.
"There are no people here." The old nun continued to answer in that floating tone.
Lu Yuan swallowed, "No, no one?" I'm sorry, are you a ghost?! Xiao Lu never thought that he was afraid of ghosts... No, it should be said that even ghosts would be scared when facing the terrifying appearance of this old nun! "I, I. I heard that Master Yuqing is here."
It's over, this stutter cannot be cured.
"Are you looking for Yuqing? Who introduced you?" The old nun rolled her eyes, revealing grayish whites.
"Zhunyunsou Baiguyi."
"So it's him," the old nun suddenly stopped shaking his legs and his body no longer floated, and he even straightened his waist. He was so scared that he jumped out seven or eight feet away! The old nun floated slightly and said, "What are you running away!... Since it was introduced by Bai Guyi, why are you pretending to be a tourist? Can't you go directly to the door? Come with me." After that, he turned around and walked towards the ann quickly.
It seems that it is not that simple. Although Lu Yuan twitched his lips, he still followed the old nun into the temple. Sure enough, after a few steps, the scene in the temple changed. First, the collapsed houses were replaced by a brand new house in a blink of an eye, and then the space in the temple was expanded thousands of feet wide, and the exquisite and elegant house gardens were presented one by one. Although it was not as exquisite as the Suzhou-Hangzhou generation, it also had a unique flavor. This hidden technique was extremely delicate, with unique ingenuity. Even Lu Yuan had not seen through it before, and it should have been written by a woman.
Through the hall, a huge peach tree hundreds of meters high is planted in the courtyard in the middle of the temple. The branches are stretched out to a size of hundreds of steps, covering the entire sky above the temple like a canopy.
"You wait here, I'll call Yuqing to come out to see you." The old nun pointed at the location under the peach blossom tree and ordered, then walked to the back of the temple alone.
"Okay". After the old nun left, Lu Yuan came to the peach tree alone and sat cross-legged on the grass on the peach tree. The main trunk of the peach tree was unable to hug it. From below, the peach tree became taller and taller, with flowers blooming among the branches, and millions of peach blossoms were blooming. This peach tree was obviously not an ordinary species. When Lu Yuan approached the trunk, he could even feel the spiritual energy appearing in a mist shape around the trunk, floating in mist, and the grand scene was not like the world.
Lu Yuan was immersed in it and needed great perseverance to restrain himself from sucking the strong spiritual power.
To put it another way, the end of the fairy tale is the prosperity of the fairy tale culture. For example, in the Qing Dynasty, poetry, songs and essays had come to an end. But from another way, it also means that the entire poetry culture has gone through three stages of rebirth, prosperity, and decline, and has completed the entire life. When looking forward from the Qing Dynasty, you can almost see the entire life of the entire poetry culture.
During the great poets and wonderful psalms, the bright ones were like stars in the sky, shiny in the whole sea of poetry.
Nowadays, the same is true for the fairy tale culture. The entire fairy tale developed to the Shushan era was the last prosperous era. Looking back at this time, you will find that from breathing out the vital energy of heaven and earth to establishing the sixteen-character way of "refining essence into qi, refining qi into spirit, refining spirit into emptiness, refining emptiness and combining emptiness"; from the inner alchemy and golden elixirs born at the end of the Jin Dynasty, to the later Yuanying and even the "sixteen-part immortals"; from the martial artists practicing qi to break the innate nature, to the sword god, the emergence of the sword immortal... one ascension road after another was born with the changes in the world, and was eliminated with the changes in the environment of the world.
Many powerful existences in the Lingkong Immortal Realm need to rely on the incense of faith provided by the human world. Therefore, although the Lingkong Immortal Realm regards the mortal world as a dirty place, it cannot be completely separated from the human world. Not only that, the immortal sword also had to provide a certain number of ascension places to comfort the increasingly powerful practitioners in the human world. The so-called ascension to heaven is the "rules of heaven and earth". In fact, most of the rules were formulated by people in the Lingkong Immortal Realm. After the list of gods, the heaven court had a master. The rules of heaven and earth became more and more strict, and it was impossible to ascend independently like in ancient times.
In the Shushan era, the art of ascension of golden elixirs was no longer the mainstream. Because with the thinness of the energy of heaven and earth and the changes in nature, it was very difficult to cultivate the Nascent Soul and almost impossible. However, with the emergence of the path of sword immortal cultivation, the combat power of practitioners who rely on flying swords and magic weapons to practice has been greatly improved. In this case, the Lingkong Immortal World also adjusted the rules based on the situation, further reducing the conditions for ascension, and strengthened the role of external skills. Now that it is not possible to ascend if it accumulates a lot of good skills, it cannot ascend, which has become a consensus in the cultivation world.
Lu Yuan did not need to ascend, but he still needed a skill that fits his own attributes to promote himself to a higher level.
Although the golden elixir technique of Lu Daxian is very good, it is only suitable for Lu Dongbin himself. When he reached Lu Yuan's level, after reading a lot of books, he took the path of independent innovation. The reason why he has been stuck in the Qi training stage has not taken a step further is because of this. Now after obtaining Master Lianshan's Demon Sutra, Li Jingxu's "Qingcheng Jile Taiqing Immortal Art", Lu Chunyang's Golden elixir technique, Nuwa's Five Spirit Immortal Art and some Shushan Sword Art, he extorted one from Bai Guyi, and he has already gained a lot.
However, Lu Yuan also wanted to learn from the Buddhist practice technique, so he came to Chengdu to visit Master Yuqing with the introduction of Bai Guyi. He heard that Master Yuqing came from a side of the school and later became a master of Youtan Shenni. What is more valuable is that Master Yuqing did not have the orthodox prejudice of being a side of the school and was willing to help others. The Buddhist method she had may be the best way to start with an authentic practice method.
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Lu Yuan leaned against the tree and thoughtfully, but did not notice that at some point, there was an old girl under the tree. She stood quietly by and watched the peach blossoms fall together with Lu Yuan's eyes. The girl wore a magic crown on her head, climbed the clouds, and wore a yellow satin monk's robe. She had a slim and tall figure, and looked very beautiful.
"Is Mr. Bai guiding you to come and find me?" The nun asked gently, as if he was afraid of disturbing the monk in front of him to see the peach blossoms.
Lu Yuan withdrew his gaze and turned to the nun who was over 20 years old. When he saw her appearance, his expression was obviously stunned, and then he blurted out in disbelief. "You, are you really Yuqing?"
"The Pond Ni is Yuqing." Yuqing looked at Lu Yuan curiously, showing a thoughtful expression. She was wondering when she had seen this person before? But after searching for memories, she gained nothing.
"Ha! You, you are really Master Yuqing?" Lu Yuan repeated again, as if he still couldn't accept that the person in front of him was Master Yuqing. Even though Master Yuqing had been practicing for many years, he was still a little angry when he heard him say that.
"Has the monk ever seen another Yuqing?" Yuqing said with a cold face.
"Of course," Monk Lu suddenly looked stern, as if his face changed. "Of course I've seen another Yuqing!" He raised his right hand, and there was a black silk thread between his index finger and thumb, which was obviously removed from the black robe he was wearing. The other end of the silk thread was stuck to the corner of Master Yuqing's robe... "Isn't there one just now? The old nun who pretends to be a ghost is you."
"Just a little joke." When I was caught, the girl Yuqing just raised her nose and admitted it readily. What can you do to me?
She heard Lu Yuan gritting his teeth and muttering, "I knew... I knew that stinky girl had this kind of virtue! I should have thought of..."
"Who are you talking about?" Seeing Lu Yuan's changing expression, Yuqing's nun suddenly became curious. It should be noted that most of the practitioners in Shushan world have been reincarnated several times before they can accumulate good skills to ascend. Therefore, it is not uncommon for some people to get entangled for generations. But Yuqing believes that since his practice for several lifetimes, he has not been much cause and effect, so it should not include the talent in front of him.
"Me?" Monk Lu changed his face again and said with a smile, "I have never mocked monks but have beautiful hair. The monk's robe is cut and waisted to highlight the figure. This behavior that is obviously not in line with my Buddhist philosophy. I dare to swear with my conscience!"
"Whose conscience are you touching?!" Yuqing's girl's eyes were spitting out, and she stared at a dog's hand pressing on her left chest. "Believe it or not, I'll chop it down for you!"
ps1: Starting this month, we will resume the tradition of thanking and rewards. Lao Lei also urges himself to have more money.
ps2: The meme about "not every exiled immortal is Chen Taizhong" comes from "Official Immortal", and Chen Taizhong can be called the second exiled immortal in history.
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Chapter completed!