The master comes down the mountain: I don’t want to be a son-in-law

There is a special bond between Li Muchen and Lantian.

Before that, his strength did not allow him to accept disciples. Shortly after that, he realized the great truth and treated all living things equally, so naturally he no longer accepted disciples.

Lantian possesses natural spiritual perception, which is a very rare thing. Even among the geniuses in Tiandu, it can be considered an excellent gift.

Such a talent certainly cannot be wasted, so Lantian became Li Muchen's only disciple.

Although she was his apprentice, Li Muchen never taught her for a single day.

When leaving Huangze, Li Muchen originally wanted to take Lantian with him, but Lantian's grandfather had just died, and she didn't want to be far away from her parents. So she stayed in Linhuang Town and was temporarily entrusted to Grandma Xie in Baihua Valley.

Just because Li Muchen never taught her doesn't mean there is no master-disciple relationship between them.

He saved Lantian's life, Lan Bazi's family's life, and the entire Linhuang Town.

And when he escaped from the secret realm of the wilderness after a life-and-death experience, Lantian was the only person who stayed with him.

When he was unconscious, it was Lantian who scooped water for him to drink with her shoes. He still remembered the playful look of the little girl, who looked a little guilty and a little smirking.

The water in his shoes saved Li Muchen's life.

The master and disciple have experienced life and death, so how could they not have feelings for each other?

Even after so many years, this feeling has not faded at all. On the contrary, with Li Muchen's enlightenment and Lantian's growth, it has become more mellow and more worth remembering.

Lantian rushed out without hesitation and threw herself into Li Muchen's arms.

"Master!" Her tears flowed down her cheeks. "Master, why didn't you come to see me for so long? Have you forgotten me?"

Li Muchen stroked Lantian's hair and said with a smile: "How could I forget? You used your shoes to give me footbath water to drink, how could I forget!"

Lantian raised his little face and laughed, revealing two small dimples and a row of white teeth.

Li Muchen could feel the changes in Lantian. Not only had she grown bigger, but there were also changes in the meridians and blood in her body. More importantly, her spiritual perception ability had become stronger.

Mu Nianfeng picked up the medicine box on the ground, walked out of the shop, smiled at Li Muchen, and called out, "Mr. Li!"

He tried his best to suppress his inner excitement, but his voice still trembled a little.

Li Muchen nodded at him and asked, "You've been doing well these past few years, haven't you?"

"Thanks to you, my business is booming." Mu Nianfeng said, but after thinking about it, he felt something was wrong. He touched his head and said with some shame, "Oh, how did I become so worldly? You weren't asking about business, were you? Thanks to you for guiding me on the right path. I have been peaceful and calm in my heart these past few years. I haven't practiced much, but I feel my cultivation level has improved!"

Li Muchen laughed and said, "The secular world may not be a bad thing. It's not that you haven't practiced martial arts. Your martial arts skills are in the secular world."

Mu Nianfeng seemed to understand something and bowed, "Thank you, Master Li, for your advice."

He handed the medicine box to Lantian and reminded him, "Don't forget to save people when you see the master!"

Lantian took the medicine box: "Well, thank you Uncle Mu, I won't forget it."

After leaving Mu Nianfeng's mountain goods store, Li Muchen accompanied Lantian to Baihua Medicine Store.

"Sister Hongling! Sister Hongling!" Lantian trotted in, "Look who's here!"

"Who is it? Look how excited our little fairy is..." Xie Hongling came out and was stunned when she saw Li Muchen. It took her a long time to recover. Somehow, her pretty face flushed and she said a little embarrassedly, "Oh, it's Master Li, please come in!"

Of course Li Muchen remembered Xie Hongling. Among all the disciples in Baihua Valley, Xie Hongling was the kindest and gentlest.

Xie Hongling took Li Muchen into the main room and wanted to serve him tea.

Li Muchen said: "You have patients, so don't worry about me, go take care of the patients first."

Xie Hongling said, "This patient's condition is a bit special. We are at a loss as to what to do. It's a coincidence that you came, Mr. Li. Please take a look at him."

Li Muchen asked with a smile: "Grandma Xie is a skilled doctor, why don't you ask her for help?"

Xie Hongling said: "My mother-in-law came this morning, and she didn't have any good ideas. She left a prescription that required the use of strange incense, and asked Lantian to go to Mu Nianfeng to see if there was any. I didn't expect to meet you!"

Lantian said: "Master, please go and take a look!"

Of course Li Muchen would not object, so he followed the two of them to the ward which was converted from a wing room in the hospital.

As soon as the door opened, a foul smell hit my nose.

The patient was lying on the bed, his skin and flesh were rotten, and the foul smell was coming from his body.

Li Muchen frowned. The stench on this man was not the ordinary smell of rotting flesh, but a whiff of death from the underworld.

Xie Hongling showed Li Muchen the prescription written by Grandma Xie and asked, "Grandma said that this prescription is just a try and there is no certainty. Because of the lack of spices, the medicine has not been refined yet. Mr. Li, do you think we should refine the ambergris into it?"

Li Muchen took a look and said, "Thank you, Grandma, for your excellent medical skills. There is nothing wrong with this prescription. But this person's illness is not an ordinary one. He has the aura of death in his body, which cannot be cured by medicine."

"The aura of death?" Xie Hongling was shocked.

Lantian opened his eyes wide with curiosity: "Master, what is the spirit of death?"

Li Muchen said: "It is the deathly aura from the underworld, which does not belong to this world. When a person is about to die, he or she will sometimes have this smell on their body. People with this smell are basically beyond help. Ordinary people can sometimes sense that smell, and they do not necessarily need a doctor. But the smell on this person is too strong, the deathly aura is condensed and does not dissipate, it is not caused by natural decay or disease."

"Why does the death energy from the underworld appear on people in our world?" Lantian asked puzzledly.

"Because the two worlds overlap."

"Overlapping?"

“Yin is within Yang, not opposite to Yang.”

"Oh..." Lantian seemed to understand, but also seemed not to understand. She blinked her curious eyes and continued to ask, "If they overlap, why are there living people around us, but we can't see the dead? Where did they go?"

"Is it a return to the original avenue?" Xie Hongling next to him was also curious and couldn't help but interrupt.

Li Muchen glanced at her approvingly: "Why do you think so?"

"Well, although Linhuang Town is remote, it is not a completely closed place. Your reputation has grown in recent years, and your Taoism has been passed on by word of mouth, and we have also heard about it. I heard that you preached under the phoenix tree, and the whole city was crowded with people who came to hear your teachings. I really envy those people in Hecheng, who can listen to you preach in person." Xie Hongling said.

Li Muchen couldn't help but smile at this rumor and said, "Why are you still not satisfied now that I'm standing in front of you?"

Xie Hongling exclaimed, and suddenly realized that Li Muchen was really standing in front of her. The distance between her and him was less than two meters. This distance was probably much closer than that of most people who had heard the truth.

Her face turned red, and she said with a little happiness and a little shame: "So I am the lucky one! Mr. Li, please forgive my stupidity, was what I said just now wrong?"

Li Muchen said: "You are right. Everything originates from the Great Dao, including you and me, but we do not return to it after death. We are all part of the Dao and do not need to return to it after death. We are the Dao ourselves. You, me, Lantian, and all people are the Dao. We are the Dao ourselves. It's just that we have been blinded and blinded in our hearts. We cannot see our own Dao, but we are looking for it everywhere."

Xie Hongling seemed to understand something and nodded repeatedly.

Lantian thought for a moment and said, "Master, if we are the Tao, then we are eternal, so why do we still die? Is death just an illusion, and those who died are not actually dead?"

Li Muchen looked at Lantian in surprise. It was extraordinary that this little girl could think of this. So he smiled and said, "Then have you ever thought that being alive is also an illusion?"

"Ah?" Xie Hongling exclaimed in surprise. She couldn't imagine how being alive could be fake?

If being alive is fake, then who are we now?

Lantian didn't seem shocked at all. He just thought about it for a while and said, "When I see things with my spiritual sense, it's different from what I see with my eyes. This means that the world we see is probably fake, and someone deliberately hides the truth, or most of the truth. When a person is born, he has no feelings; when a person dies, he has no feelings either. Life and death are only meaningful to others. My life is meaningful only when I feel that I exist. Tao is in our lives, is that right, Master?"