Cultivation starts with time management

"I didn't expect someone from the Guan family to vote for Kunlun." An Zhisu said in surprise, "The Guan family in Longyou has all their resources and contacts in Mount Shu, so why did that person vote for Kunlun? To be different?"

"I guess there might be something inside." Ling Yunpo said with a sigh.

An Zhisu nodded, and had no objection to this statement.

She was unfamiliar with Guan Zhan, but she was just wondering what made Guan Shanyue show that suppressed expression as if she had been betrayed.

but……

If you substitute yourself and Junior Brother Ling into it, it seems to be understandable again.

If Ling Yunpo suddenly decides to switch to Kunlun, An Zhisu is not sure whether she will let go with tears in her eyes, or...

She dared not think about it any longer.

Chapter 22 Tomb Sweeping and Worship

After seeing off Guan Shanyue and Guan Zhan, the two returned to the inn room.

Ling Yunpo quickly fell into samadhi, but An Zhisu was a little disturbed and couldn't calm down no matter what.

She felt something was wrong with herself.

In the past, if Ling Yunpo wanted to leave Qingluo Peak, although she would be sad and painful, she would not force her to stay.

Because the reason is obvious: there is no teacher in the line of Qingluo Peak.

Without a teacher, and not being valued by the sect, how is it different from casual cultivators?

Coupled with the fact that Junior Brother Ling has the aptitude of "natural sword bones", there is no need to be trapped in Qingluo Peak.

Not to mention anything else, there were only two solicitations from the door-to-door.

Once it was Ziyun Peak, and once it was the ancestor of the Guan family. At that time, although I was heartbroken, I was still willing to let my junior choose.

If the younger brother wants to go far away, even if he is desperate, he will not force him to stay.

However, when Guan Shanyue said that Guan Zhan voted for Kunlun just now, she subconsciously imagined what would happen if her junior brother left. He changed his mind and left him on Qingluo Peak.

After all, Guan Zhan was born in the Guan family, and Guan Shanyue couldn't bear his betrayal because of his family blood.

But Junior Brother Ling...what kind of identity do I have, that I would have such a domineering idea of ​​forcing him not to leave?

Thinking of this, An Zhisu felt a little terrified.

It was as if he suddenly discovered that he was no longer who he used to be.

Upset all night.When I woke up the next day, I naturally had dark circles under my eyes.

"Hey, Senior Sister." Ling Yunpo met her face to face in the corridor, and asked with concern, "Why do you look so haggard? Did you not enter meditation last night?"

"It's okay." An Zhisu smiled helplessly and didn't answer, just talking about him, "It's about half an hour's journey from here to my hometown, let's go."

The two left Jiankang City, searched for deserted places, and stood up with their swords together.

Crossing the Yangtze River, the direction turns to the northeast, and soon arrives at an old village in the deep mountains.

The village is located in the mountains. Although the transportation is inconvenient, it can escape the military disaster when the world is in chaos. Therefore, it is very peaceful and quiet, and has not changed much for hundreds of years.

"Let's sneak into the village later, don't let the villagers see." An Zhisu looked at the houses in the valley in the distance, and said softly.

"Why?" Ling Yunpo asked curiously, "After so many years, do they still recognize Senior Sister?"

"I come back every ten years, and I always recognize someone." An Zhisu sighed, "One more thing is worse than one less thing."

Ling Yun made a sound, and immediately understood it in his heart.

People who practice Taoism walk in the world, they often choose to act in a low-key manner and try not to reveal their identities.

Probably because of being seen by mortals, a bunch of people have to come to ask for immortality and medicine, which is very troublesome.

The case of An Zhisu is even more special.Her mother is buried here, and the tomb is inconvenient to move, so she can only rely on the villagers to take care of her.

In this way, it is not easy to alienate the villagers, after all, the senior sister is not the kind of heartless and ungrateful person.

The two quietly circled around and came to the back hill of the village, where they saw large and small graves on the hillside.

The tomb of Anzhi Su Niangqin is located on the top of the highest mountain.

After landing in front of the tomb, Ling Yunpo took a closer look, and found that there was a lot of dust and fallen leaves around the tomb, but the weeds didn't grow very well. Someone should have swept the tomb here a few months ago.

He made a handy move, and when the Dao method on Qingping Sword was activated, there was a rain of water sword energy passing by, sweeping away all the dust, fallen leaves and weeds in front of the grave.

An Zhisu took out the sacrificial offerings, chicken, duck, fish, goose, eight-treasure dry pot, and placed them one by one in front of his mother's grave. He also took out an incense burner and lit sandalwood.

As a practitioner, you should not believe in these things.

After all, after death, the soul falls into the underworld, and then is reincarnated, which is something everyone knows well.

Senior sister came here to offer sacrifices now because the significance of the ceremony is greater than the actual significance, so Ling Yunpo also helped to take out the futon and put it down in front of the tombstone.

An Zhisu waved her hand, instead of taking the futon, she knelt down directly on the bluestone slab. After Yingying paid her respects, she lowered her head and closed her eyes, clasped her hands in front of her chest, and began to pray to her deceased mother.

Ling Yunpo saw that her lips moved slightly, which was exactly the same as "Praying to Master" in Qingluo Peak, and secretly thought whether Master could hear me or not, but your mother must not have heard.

Anyway, just asking for comfort...

His eyes fell on the tombstone, and suddenly he was a little distracted.

This teacher's wife, An Susu, didn't know how gentle and beautiful she was before she was alive, but she was able to make Su Jian's disdainful and unrecognizable temperament, and she was forced to change from forgetting love to cultivating love, which shocked almost the entire Shu Mountain.

Take a closer look at Senior Sister An's side profile, such a delicate and beautiful face, combined with Su Jian, who was transformed from the secret realm of the Li Palace, is a very handsome middle-aged old man. If you think about it, this teacher's wife's appearance probably won't be too bad go.

After An Zhisu finished praying here, she opened her eyes and got up, her face turned red for some reason, and she didn't know what she had said to her mother.

"Junior Brother." She said softly, "Okay, let's go back."

"Senior Sister, I was entrusted by someone before, and I will go to Kuaiji County when I have time." Ling Yunpo said tentatively, "I just came to Yangzhou this time, so I want to finish my work before returning to Shushan."

"Okay." An Zhisu nodded, "I'll accompany you."

Come, this is my senior sister!Ling Yunpo was very moved.

If it were Junior Sister Xu, Miss Shi and Witch Jiang, how could they agree so easily without asking anything?

Only the senior sister, who has unreserved trust in me, would agree to walk with me so readily.

"Before I leave, there is one more thing to do." An Zhisu said suddenly.

She and Ling Yunpo turned into sword lights, flew towards the village one after the other, and quickly landed in the backyard of a certain family.

In the backyard, there was a woman dressed as a peasant woman who was feeding the chickens when she saw someone falling from the sky, she was so frightened that she almost screamed.

Instead, the old lady beside her reacted quickly enough to pull her into her arms and covered her mouth.

"Gui Niang is well." An Zhisu nodded in greeting.

"Well, well." The old woman said with a smile, "Old An has gone out, is Shangxian here to have a light meal and rest?"

"Who is this?" An Zhisu didn't answer, but just cast his eyes on the strange-looking woman beside him.

"My daughter-in-law has been in the family for about five or six years." The old woman quickly explained, "The Shangxian comes every ten years. She had no chance to see her before, but this time she almost bumped into the Shangxian. Seeing the sin, seeing the sin..."

"It doesn't matter." An Zhisu took out the pill bottle from his sleeve, but it was a relatively common "avoiding turbidity pill" used in the monastic school for conditioning the body, and put it on the ground. "Over the years, I would also like to thank the village head for my mother Care over there."

"No thanks, no thanks." The old lady waved her hands and said, but her eyes were fixed on the pill bottle on the ground, "After all, they all belong to our village and have the same surname, so they should take care of them."

"Since the village chief is not here, I'm leaving." An Zhisu turned around and said, "Junior brother?"

"Well, let's go." Ling Yunpo nodded.

The two of them rose to the sky with their swords again, and disappeared.

The woman broke free from her mother-in-law's arms, picked up the pill bottle on the ground, and said hesitantly:

"Mom, this..."

"Give it to me!" The old lady snatched the pill bottle, first confirmed that there was indeed a pill in it, and then said solemnly, "No one else can talk about this matter except your father-in-law and me! Your husband and those restless uncles and nephews!"

"Understood." The woman also understood and said excitedly, "Isn't there an elixir inside?"

"Whatever your illness is, just take one!" The old woman tremblingly said, "Of course it's an elixir..."

Chapter 23 Tianmu Mountain Exorcising Demons

This time I went to Kuaiji County, Yangzhou, and the Lei Fa I was looking for was called "Shen Xiao Lei".

According to the general outline of the five thunders rectification, Shen Xiaolei is best at "exterminating vitality", which has miraculous effects on those monsters with strong vitality.

Together with Yushulei, who specializes in killing ghosts and evil spirits, and Dadonglei, who specializes in killing demons outside the sky, they are also known as the "three foundations of Leifa", and almost every Leixiu can master them proficiently.

Of course, the Leixiu orthodoxy is basically extinct now.The god Xiaolei, who was once widely circulated, also disappeared from the world with the departure of Chonghe Zhenren.

Fortunately, Ling Yunpo inquired and found that the Taoism left by the other party is still there. It is located on Tianmu Mountain in the south of Kuaiji County. It is said that there is only one Taoist temple and two or three disciples left.

The two Yujian set off from Guangling County and headed south all the way.I saw continuous paddy fields below, criss-crossed rice paddies, and caravans of tourists on the road, coming and going like weaving. It is obvious that this year is a peaceful and good harvest year.

Unfortunately, for rural Taoist priests, peace means no ghosts and ghosts, and a good harvest means no severe drought and natural disasters. However, hunting monsters and rainfall are the main sources of income for rural Taoist priests.

Yangzhou has been peaceful and productive for many years, which has caused the business of the rural Taoist priests to get worse and worse. Now Chong and the descendants of the predecessors are doing miserably, which can be explained.

After passing through Lin'an and Kuaiji, the two arrived at Tianmu Mountain and landed at the Taoist temple on the top of the mountain.

What a dilapidated Taoist temple!

To be honest, neither Ling Yunpo nor Qiu Changtian, Luo Yan, or Wei Dongliu have ever seen such a dilapidated Taoist temple.

There is not a single good tile on the roof, more than half of the wall skin has fallen off, and a corner of the threshold stone is actually missing... Ling Yunpo asked himself if he was looking for someone to pray for rain or catch ghosts, he would probably look at this dilapidated facade. Turn around and leave.

He went up and knocked on the door, but there was no answer.

"There's no one inside." An Zhisu said.

"It seems that we can only come again next time." Ling Yunpo just turned around, and saw a little Taoist priest turning from the end of the opposite mountain road.

The little Taoist priest was wearing a scruffy, patched Taoist robe, carrying a basket full of wild vegetables, and stared at the two visitors in front of him dumbfounded.

Ling Yunpo is handsome and resolute, with sharp eyes; An Zhisu is tall and heroic.In addition, both of them were wearing Shushan Taoist robes, so they were from the great sect. The little Taoist was so frightened that he didn't even want the basket, and when he rushed over, he slammed his head:

"Kunlun finally came! I beg seniors to save Master! Master was captured by a demon!"

Ling Yunpo: ...

An Zhisu: ...

"Calm down, we are not Kunlun monks." Looking at the little Taoist priest kowtowing in front of him, Ling Yunpo explained helplessly, "We are Shushan monks. And you said your master was taken away by a demon, what do you mean?  … ...Don't give me a knock!"

The little Taoist raised his head unsteadily, his eyes were confused, obviously he was a little silly.

An Zhisu was also speechless, so he took out a white jade jug.

First I poured a little in my hand, and then flicked it with my fingers, just right into the little Taoist's mouth.

"Cough...cough cough..." The child was suddenly so hot by the alcohol, coughed several times, and finally became clearer.

"Aren't you from Kunlun?" He looked at the two in a daze.

"We are Shushan Sword Immortals." Ling Yunpo replied.

"Where is Mount Shu...?" the little Taoist asked in confusion.

"You don't have to worry about where Shushan is." An Zhisu said patiently, "You just need to know that our relationship with Shushan is very good with Kunlun, so where exactly is your master caught?"

"In the deep valley of thousands of feet! To the east of Nineteen Peaks!" The little Taoist's eyes lit up, and he immediately told the whole thing like beans pouring from a bamboo tube, "The monsters over there are powerful! Master didn't dare to provoke them at first. Yes, but when we were exterminating demons in Kuaiji County, I accidentally killed the little demon under the other party's command."

"Later, the monster refused, so he came to argue with the master. The master couldn't argue, so he was taken away by the other party!"

"What is your master's cultivation level?" Ling Yunpo asked, "What is the cultivation level of the monster?"

"Cultivation? I don't know." The little Taoist said blankly, "But that monster is very powerful, it can ride clouds and fog, and fly around..."

He even talked and gestured for a long time, but couldn't make any point, Ling Yunpo could only interrupt him:

"Not to mention anything else, can the demon be transformed?"

"Transfiguration?"

"It's about becoming a human being."

"Probably not." The little Taoist recalled carefully for a moment, "Master said that the monsters that can turn into humans are powerful, and if we encounter them, we must run away quickly. There will be monks from some island to clean them up..."

"Penglai Island?" An Zhisu asked for confirmation.Yangzhou is the sphere of influence of Penglai Yuqingguan. Of course, Tian Mo Dao doesn't think so.

"Yes, yes, yes!" The little Taoist nodded repeatedly.