Sword of Coming

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.

Tomorrow, on the other side of Xiandu Mountain, in the Qingping Sword Sect's Patriarch Hall, 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 Chitang?"

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 morally inappropriate.

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.

Zhu Lian is the housekeeper of Luopo Mountain, and he 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 a salary worth a snowflake on time, saying that he was trying to make up a small sum of money.

Chen Ping'an stood outside a kitchen, glanced at a few food boxes of Zhen Gourmet House, and joked: "According to my old chef, some so-called time-honored restaurants only maintain the level of cooking skills that they have just entered the industry."

Chen Ping'an had tasted bamboo 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 the capital city of Great Li. Of course, it was not flower wine. Now Jing Kuan has left Beijing and assumed the post of governor of Baoxi County in Xinchuzhou.

Qing Tong asked: "Old cook? Is it 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 face?"

Qing Tong nodded and said: "I am no stranger to Lotus 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 from a distance. He was really a... strange person. Of course, this guy 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. .

The romantic young master climbed up and looked into the distance, 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, it is the one you wish for, or you will 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 Zhu Lang when they are senile.

Qing Tong joked: "When will you hold the Moon in the Mirror in Luopo Mountain? If Zhu Lian is willing to restore his true appearance, I will definitely support him and guarantee that he will start with one Guyu coin every 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, but Zhu Lian had a different 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 Pingan said with a smile: "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’re full.”

Qing Tong stopped talking.

Qing Tong can be considered a well-informed and enlightened man, but it seems that he has never seen another handsome man like Zhu Lian. Even the woman who was praised as the beauty of the country would probably feel ashamed when she saw her.

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 an embroidered pillow with an empty skin. Later, Yu Zhenyi and his like 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 prince to being the mainstay of a country that turned the tide of collapse, and then becoming a martial arts lunatic who unified the world, became the undisputed number one in the world, just because the land of lotus root is so big.

It seems that 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 harvest 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 "stinky old man" in that war, his position seems to be slightly erratic, but there is no obvious bias. Generally speaking, he still stands On the side of Haoran Tianxia, ​​the old temple master did not choose to prefer the wild world just because of his great background. As for brewing wine in the world, it has always been a matter of peace and prosperity. If people who are free from chaos are not as good as peace dogs, who has the spare time to make wine? What's more, various dynasties and generations often have varying degrees of alcohol prohibition. As for the so-called chivalrous people in the books who frequently ask for a few kilograms of beef in restaurants and bars, this is actually not realistic.

A series of clues that seemed to be far away in the horizon, were put together intermittently, which made Chen Ping'an feel a little moved, 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 right and the year is good, there are many millets and grains, and there are also high crops, trillions and grains of rice, which are used for wine and li, to bring blessings to all the people, in order to meet the hundreds of rituals."

Qing Tong looked calm and said nothing. He probably felt that this move was inappropriate, a bit like acquiescence, and immediately added, "Master Yin Guan is really 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 master of Donghai Taoist Temple will have very high combat power? But if it is in troubled times, the Taoism will decline and the offensive killing power will weaken?

Qingtong felt very annoyed.

In the old days of the Donghaiguan Taoist Temple, the Taoist temple's inner corridors were filled with grains for drying, and the grain fields were bright and yellow. These were all done by the old temple owner himself. The little Taoist boy with eyes above his head 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". In fact, there is no such thing. So Xuanhu, to be precise, is Xuanzhixuanxuan, or is it a return to nature? It's 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 thought that this person would take the initiative to come to the door.

Afterwards, Wu Yi didn't have to think about Chen Ping'an's proposal at all. He agreed on the spot without any hesitation.

Not to mention that he could earn that precious and extraordinary merit in vain, even without this huge gift, Wu Yi would nod and help light a stick of water incense.

Because the path her father pointed out for her cannot avoid Chen Pingan, who is closely related to Yu Lu, the subjugated prince of the Lu family. Yu Lu and Chen Pingan have been friends for many years, and they are still half classmates. As for 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 was not interested.

Wu Yi asked Chen Ping'an to wait for a moment. She quickly went to the Jianchi Hall, opened a secret restriction, and took out a mountain treasure from the secret room.

As for the female cultivator wearing a power fence, since Chen Pingan didn't introduce her identity, Wu Yi didn't 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 immortal 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 disciple acceptance 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". After the barrier, Qing Tong twitched the corner of his mouth.

However, when Wu Yi silently recited the Taoist formula and erased the layers of restrictions on the pocket sword box with two fingers, sword energy overflowed and purple energy rose.

Qing Tong was slightly surprised, it was really a valuable thing.

There is a long list of purple gold characters with precious light flowing, including the sentence "Face the wall for thousands of years and no one knows it, and the three pure things only need a clay body."

Following the 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 his father's reminder 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 my father say 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 years" 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. .

Chen Ping'an still did not take the sword box, but said softly: "I heard that in ancient times, Xiyue people were mainly engaged in the casting and smelting of hardware, and they were also responsible for feathers and birds."

During those years, according to the etiquette 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 is not the tiger. The mountain king at that time was more like an auxiliary official. 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. Position, high authority. For example, there are two or three real people in Nanyue, one chief and two assistants, who are respectively in charge of the world's astrological divisions and the aquarium's fish and dragon matters. The most eye-catching responsibility of Huashan is of course the "casting" matter. To a certain extent, it is somewhat similar to the Ministry of Industry of the later imperial court.

The so-called real person's governance is the real "terrestrial deity", which is the permanent residence of the Taoist temple 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. It was not a term used to describe the monks in the two realms of Jindan Yuanying. It was more like the so-called so-called in the eyes of Xiaomo and Qingtong in ancient times. "Earth Immortal".

Wu Yi gritted his teeth, pushed the sword box forward again, 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." 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, lifted one sleeve, and gently put it in. When he raised his head, he smiled and said, "If it's just this, 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 the sword box, and secondly, she took refuge in Yu Lu. For the latter, wasn't it a timely help? So after all, Wu Yi wanted to build 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 something meaningful, reminding Wu Yi not to think that when he arrives at Tongyezhou, he won’t have to deal with Master Chen. The mountains are high and the rivers are long. We will meet often.

Chen Ping'an said: "Then it should be regarded as a gift in advance for us to establish the next sect in Luolu Mountain."

After the battle of slaying the dragon, if Narcissus, the descendant of the dragon genus, can travel across the river to transform into a dragon, it will be regarded as enlightenment. Only these dragons can change their appearance, join the temples in various identities, 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 about one party benefiting from it. 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 precursor to the end of the country.

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. For this thousand-year-old dragon, it may be just a way to relax in the world, but for Huang Tingguo's destiny and landscape, it is of great significance. Useful.

For the Taoist Jiao who entered the court and became an official, the only trouble and sequelae was that when a country was destroyed, it would be implicated, and it would be like facing a natural disaster.

This led to the fact that even Yuanying old dragons like Cheng Longzhou still dared not leave the dojo and easily enter the world to assist the king of the world.

Because according to the historical evolution of the world, for various 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. No matter what the calamity will be in two or three hundred years, it will not be too late to form an elixir and talk about other things, and become a golden elixir monk, and then bear the calamity.

However, Wu Yi was extremely shocked by the term "Xizong". Wu Yi was not too surprised when Luopo Mountain was promoted to a sect. But how many people could say that they established the Xia Zong without stopping and watched the vastness for thousands of years? Even less than the legendary Fourteenth Realm monks, right?

"The next sect is in Tongyezhou."

Chen Ping'an continued: "It seems that fellow Daoist Wu and I 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 an option, Fellow Daoist Wu might as well consider it?"

Wu Yi smiled and said: "Tell me and listen."

Chen Ping'an spoke from the bottom of his heart about the fact that a certain Dugu woman would soon establish a kingdom and proclaim herself emperor by the Ling River in Tongyezhou.

Wu Yi was extremely moved. Instead of returning to Tongyezhou with Edu Lu, 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."

Regardless of 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 understand this deeply."

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 irritated the young 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 realizing 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 never met before and has become an "old enemy".

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 the sword cultivator Liu Cai that 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 them, 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 obvious that Chen Ping'an's two natal flying swords when he first became a swordsman were aimed at, restrained, and defeated, 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 Ping'an didn't knock on the door, but just stopped, as if waiting for something.

Instead of exploring the words and deeds in the room, it helped to isolate the secrets between the tea drinking parties in the room, so that Qing Tong could not explore what was going on in the courtyard.

Chen Ping'an put his hands on his sleeves and said with a smile: "Ziyang Mansion's hospitality is still 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 over her chest, and sneered, "If our Ziyang Mansion frees up a big house for Mrs. Xiao to stay, I guess she won't be able to stay for a 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's tone was no worse than that of 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-level martial artist?

Mostly the latter.

It seems that the hidden official next to me always has some weird things to pay attention to. 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 "beneficiary" who had escaped halfway, Xiao Luan was completely confused after leaving Ziyang Mansion last time.

At that time, the Water Goddess couldn't figure out 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 while holding her nose.

Therefore, when Xiao Luan was with Sun Dengxian, he tentatively asked Chen Ping'an about his roots. Did he learn from Shantou? Hometown?

But there is a son of a wealthy family in the Dali court who likes to travel, and he is an anointed Chinese with a surname slightly inferior to that of Shangzhuguo?

In fact, when Xiao Luan asked her, 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 was indeed unaware of anything and did not intend 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 them at all. After all, the first time the two parties met was on the mountain road in front of the ruined temple in Centipede Ridge. But at that time, the other party was just a young man. He was accompanied by a boy in green and a girl in pink skirt. He was weird and smart. Sun Deng was an old man in the world at first glance. Seeing the parentage of the two little guys, it was just a small matter of reminding the young man casually. How could Sun Deng have imagined that something he had said and then forgotten could make the other person 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 a vague impression, otherwise Sun Dengxian would have been unable to remember just the young man's face.

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 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 seemed to have a strange look in her eyes, just looking at him.

Sun Dengxian asked doubtfully: "Mrs. Xiao?"

Xiao Luan held back his laughter, raised his hand, and smacked it hard.

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 felt that he was a few years older, so he didn't take it seriously at that time.

In the past, in Lizhu Cave Heaven, Huaihuang County, Longquan County, the young mountain master of Luolu Mountain and Liu Xianyang, the swordsman of the Longquan Sword Sect, joined hands to ask for the sword Zhengyang Mountain.

Then came the Shanshui Di newspaper from the Middle-earth Divine Continent. First, he became the last hidden official of the Sword Qi Great 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 to hold the moon together.

I was startled, and I was startled 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 hundred years 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 Huang Tingguo later surrendered without a fight, abandoned his alliance with the Gao family of the Great Sui Dynasty, and defected 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 discouraged, and Xiao Luan happened to be attentive. After being recruited, he took refuge in Baihu River Water 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 real person does not show his appearance, just like a high-ranking official riding a bad horse, and his wealth does not show 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 haven't you been there? The Shuifu Mansion won't ask you to do anything, just like those 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 all, 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, and it is difficult to talk about real Jianghu talk with her.

Let's get together for a drink, that's just human nature.

That kind of wine, even if it is Xianjia wine, is not intoxicating, and the taste is not as good as a pot of low-quality commercial wine when you meet by chance.

There are already so many smart people in the world, so I, Sun Dengxian, am one of them.

Xiao Luan just said it casually, so naturally he would not really let Sun Deng get close to the young hermit official for himself or Baihujiang Water Mansion.

But Xiao Luan also had an unspeakable secret. Every time he thought about 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 one side of the yard.

When a man and a woman are alone, do men and women accept each other or not? If the two of you are not placed in the same room, even if Ziyang Mansion treats guests well.

There happened to be a knock on the door outside the courtyard.

After walking 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 a young man standing in a green shirt and long coat. He had an elegant demeanor and was 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 the 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: "Xiao Luan, Baihu Jiang, I have met Mr. Chen!"

Sun Dengxian then clasped his fists and laughed loudly: "Sun has met Master Chen."

Wu Yi pouted, 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 in the Baihu River Water Mansion?

But Wu Yi had to admit that the Xiao Luan in front of him was really a beauty who "has a beautiful wife, who can move people, thrilling people, and cannot take their eyes off".

When women see me, they feel pity for me.

It’s no wonder that in Huang Ting Kingdom, there are so many fantasy novels that seek to gain fame for her in a roundabout way, praising her so much that there is a goddess on the river wearing a purple lotus scarf. The lotus root silk shoes are under your feet, and the waves are not dusty.

Ah. I don't know if poems and essays like this were written by Xiao Luan and then found someone else to write them.

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, while Daxia Sun and I drink our wine."

Sun Deng was troubled. He didn't bring any wine with him when he went out, and he didn't prepare any wine 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 The young Yin Guan was looking for a chat, and Sun Deng first took the initiative to chat about an interesting story, asking Chen Shanzhu 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 not embarrassed to say that I recognize you. If I occasionally interject a few words, I will be criticized for saying what the young hidden official told you? Or maybe you were there at the time.

Sun Dengxian easily hurts his face when drinking, and his face was already red. In fact, he was just a little tipsy. He 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 asked first: "Is it that which pot is not being opened and which pot is being picked up?"

"What's the point? I'm just asking Cao Ci for boxing and losing four games in a row."

Chen Ping'an raised the wine bowl and touched it lightly. They each drank a large 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 one’s 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. If you are not tired, you will have nothing, and if you are tired, you will have nothing."

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. You can't keep the side money, and 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 will go to our own Yangguan Road and single-plank bridge, each will eat his own food and drink his own wine. Besides, Daxia Sun and I are both martial arts practitioners, and our hands are not limited to holding bowls for eating and drinking. "

Sun Deng first raised the wine bowl and said with a smile: "That's right, let's go."

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."

As the previous saying goes, "A poor man's money is the sweat of his palms."

Finally, Sun Dengxian was able to confirm one thing. The young Master Chen in front of him was not a child of aristocratic family, he was really poor.

Meeting Sun Dengxian and his entourage back then was like a kind of validation, giving Chen Ping'an a reassurance that I was right to be so cautious in the world.

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 inner 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.

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In the corridor.

The Most Holy Master smiled and said, "I was exposed so quickly."

The master of 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.

There are prayers from the weather and the right time, and there are constraints from the right place, and there are also people who work with them. But it can integrate the three 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" seemed to have exactly the same tone as that of the old scholar. But judging from the seniority and age of both parties, it seems likely 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 a teacher for all 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 Holy Master said: "Although that ancient sword pill is not a rare and rare treasure, it can still be 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: "Bite 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, eat all kinds of hardships, there are no taboos, everything can be done."

Lu Yan lamented: "People who practice Taoism are the most selfish."

It’s just that people are selfless, how can they seek the Tao and cultivate themselves to 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 distant wanderers to go home.

It seems that at dawn, when you wake up from a dream, you will "open your eyes and see" the sound of selling flowers everywhere.

Lu Yan's Taoist heart was so tenacious that he quickly suppressed his faint melancholy. He was also quite curious, "That wild female swordsman with the pseudonym Bai Jing, is her swordsmanship better than that of a strange Taoist friend?"

The Holy Master nodded and said: "No, she is a very fierce woman with very high swordsmanship. But Xiao Mo is also 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 since ancient times."

However, sword cultivator Bai Jing is a bit like 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 generations.

The sky is high and the sky is high, and you can go freely.