Pawn Crossing the River

Qi Xuansu would dream every time he was unconscious. For him, dreaming was already a normal thing.

This time was no exception.

Qi Xuansu had a long dream.

In the dream, he didn't know he was dreaming. No matter how unreasonable it was, he would take it for granted.

In a daze, between sleep and wakefulness, Qi Xuansu vaguely heard someone calling him.

Qi Xuansu slowly opened his eyes. The first thing that caught his eye was the eight-step bed curtain. A woman was half leaning on the bed, pushing his shoulder and calling him softly.

This was obviously a bedroom, so there were no bookshelves, desks, etc., and no tables and chairs for entertaining guests. Instead, there were matching dressing tables and ebony carved lattice cabinets, as well as a small round table and two embroidered cushions. On the table was a set of purple sand tea sets.

Looking at the woman in front of the bed, her black hair was casually scattered, and she was wearing a home dress, very casual.

This woman was none other than Zhang Yuelu. However, compared to the Zhang Yuelu in Qi Xuansu's memory, the Zhang Yuelu in front of him seemed to be a little more mature and older, more like Cihang Zhenren and Qi Niang.

"Hurry up and put on your clothes." Zhang Yuelu saw that Qi Xuansu had woken up, so she stopped calling him, turned around and came to the dressing table and began to comb her hair.

Qi Xuansu got up from the bed and opened the window.

Outside was not the dark Lingshan Mountain, but a place with beautiful mountains and clear waters. It was not the mountains and waters of Jiangnan, but a mountain similar to the high mountains in the Western Regions. The foot of the mountain was still covered with green grass, and the top of the mountain was covered with snow. The sky was hanging over the vast plains, and the peaks of the mountains were surrounded by white clouds, as if they had touched the sky.

The vast green fields rose and fell, and there was a small village at the foot of the mountain, peaceful and isolated from the world.

This was

Qi Xuansu's current location.

Qi Xuansu was stunned.

To be fair, Qi Xuansu is in his prime, the most energetic and motivated, and he is full of ambition and ambition. He doesn't like to return to the countryside.

It's just that Qi Xuansu has been too tired during this period of time. Since arriving in Borneo, Qi Xuansu has basically had no free time, and the pressure is really not small, especially since the accident of Lan Da Zhenren, Qi Xuansu has been on his own, exhausted, and used two pages of the "Xi Rui Sutra" in a short period of time. If he didn't have the "Heart of the Immortal Stone", he would have collapsed long ago.

Now the most dangerous moment has passed, Qi Xuansu can finally relax, and seeing the scene in front of him, Qi Xuansu actually felt a little happy from the bottom of his heart.

"What are you looking at?" Zhang Yuelu's voice sounded from behind Qi Xuansu.

Qi Xuansu came back to his senses: "Nothing. What are we going to do?"

"Didn't I tell you? Today is the graduation day of Wanxiang Dao Palace." Zhang Yuelu said.

Qi Xuansu turned around and looked at Zhang Yuelu's mature face carefully, and then looked at himself in the mirror. He had grown a beard and looked a bit like Donghua Zhenren. He said uncertainly: "We are all this age. Do we still need to go to Wanxiang Dao Palace for retraining?"

In this moment, Zhang Yuelu had simply tied her hair and was putting a jade hairpin on her bun. She said: "Did you sleep and ruin your brain? Today is the day when my daughter graduates from Wanxiang Dao Palace."

Qi Xuansu was surprised: "My daughter!"

Then he suddenly remembered.

Yes, he has a daughter who is 20 years old this year, and he

is already at the age of knowing the destiny.

Just a few years ago, he retired from the position of Canzhi Zhenren and lived a life of seclusion in the world as a great Zhenren. This kind of life is very comfortable, but the child cannot live in a remote place like them, so they sent the child to Wanxiang Dao Palace. Today is the graduation day. Their daughter successfully passed the big test of Wanxiang Dao Palace and entered the Taoist sect to become a ninth-grade Taoist priest.

This is a day worth celebrating.

As parents, they both had to attend the graduation ceremony. Qi Xuansu, the senior Taoist master, had to give a speech. The Taoist master had prepared the speech in advance. They just had to go. As for Zhang Yuelu, she was not from Wanxiang Taoist Master. She was from the Zhang family. She was not a "palace friend", so there was no need for her to give a speech.

Qi Xuansu also began to tidy herself up, put on the crane cloak that she had not worn for a long time, and put on the platinum lotus crown of the great master.

In ancient times, there was a saying of "three golds", namely gold, platinum, and purple gold, of which platinum was silver and purple gold was copper. However, with the development of smelting technology, the definitions of platinum and purple gold have changed. They no longer refer to silver and copper, but to a type of gold, and together with gold, they are called the three golds of the new era.

The Taoist sect believes that both platinum and purple gold are better than gold, because the Taoist sect worships purple. The Taoist ancestor has an allusion that purple air comes from the east for 30,000 miles. Ziwei Hall is the head of the nine halls, and Zixiao Palace is the residence of the great master. Purple is respected, so the Pingzhang Great Immortal uses purple gold, and ordinary Great Immortals use platinum.

After the two of them packed up, they left the village and went to the Daxue Mountain Palace. From Yaochi, they took a flying boat to the Wanxiang Taoist Palace located in Longmen Prefecture, Zhongzhou.

The journey along the way was very easy, no longer as urgent as in the past, and there was no danger of the flying boat crashing.

Qi Xuansu and Zhang Yuelu can enjoy the scenery along the way and taste this year's new tea.

This is really very pleasant.

Qi Xuansu recalled every bit of himself and his daughter while drinking tea.

But no matter how he thought about it, he couldn't remember his daughter's appearance, and he couldn't even remember what his daughter's name was. He just vaguely remembered a figure.

This father is too incompetent.

In the blink of an eye, the flying boat had landed at Xingye Lake in the Wanxiang Taoist Palace. The Taoist Palace arranged for many Taoist boys to line up in two rows on the shore to greet them. Qi Xuansu and Zhang Yuelu walked down the gangway and waved to the crowd.

Then it was the same old process. The Taoist palace first invited them to a living room to rest and wait for the ceremony to officially begin.

Taking advantage of this free moment, Qi Xuansu deliberately said: "Qingxiao, I want to test you."

"What do you want to test me for?" Zhang Yuelu asked with great interest, "No matter what the question is, I won't refuse anyone who comes."

Qi Xuansu pretended to ponder for a moment and said, "What is our daughter's name?"

Zhang Yuelu's first reaction was that there were some puzzles and traps here, and his second reaction was that Qi Xuansu had forgotten his daughter's name, right? But Zhang Yuelu felt that the second possibility was too outrageous. She still believed in the first possibility, so she said: "Do you want to play with me like 'it's not the wind that moves the flags, but the heartbeat'? Or are you a Westerner?" The so-called broad sense and narrow sense?”

Qi Xuansu did not dare to say that he had completely forgotten his daughter, so he could only laugh and say nothing, pretending to be profound.

This is just to make things mysterious, Zhang Yuelu naturally

I couldn't think of any profound meaning, so I had to say: "Of course our daughter's name is Qi Miaobai, have you forgotten?"

"Qi Miaobai?" Qi Xuansu felt that the name sounded familiar. He seemed to have heard it somewhere, but he couldn't remember where exactly.

Zhang Yuelu said: "Yes, you heard that Westerners like parents and children to have the same name, so you changed your name and made it your daughter's name. Taishang Taoist ancestor has a saying, the door of all mysteries is mysterious and mysterious, so it is said 'Xuan Miao'. Su means Bai. Xuan is opposite to Miao, so Xuan Su becomes Miao Bai.

"Is that so?" Qi Xuansu was a little hesitant, thinking that the name was outrageous and nonsense.

Zhang Yuelu was very sure: "That's it."

Qi Xuansu couldn't bear to ask further, so he asked instead: "By the way, where is Miaobai?"

Zhang Yuelu said: "Logically speaking, she should have come over."

While talking, Zhang Yuelu's eyes were also looking around.

At this moment, I suddenly heard a cheerful voice: "Lao Qi, mother."

Qi Xuansu was a little unhappy.

Whose child is so uneducated, and you called him Lao Qi?

Wait, who is the mother?

Could it be Zhang Yuelu?

If mother refers to Zhang Yuelu, then why is the casual title "Lao Qi" juxtaposed with the written and formal title "mother"?

Qi Xuansu suddenly had a bad premonition.

He slowly turned around following the sound.

I saw a woman standing not far away, dressed like a ninth-grade Taoist priest.

Zhang Yuelu had already waved the woman over: "Miaobai."

The woman is Qi Miaobai.

Qi Xuansu looked at the woman's face and suddenly understood the meaning of "Qi Miaobai"

The origin of the name.

Any talk about the Gate of All Wonders, so-called "Su Zhe Bai Ye", "Xuan Du Miao" or "Su Du Bai Ye" are all nonsense. The origin of this name is the combination of one word each for "Wan Miao" and "Da Bai".

Although the woman in front of her has grown up, there are still shadows of the past between her eyebrows. She is clearly what Xiao Yin will look like when she grows up.

Yin Wanmiao plus Yin Dabai is Qi Miaobai.

Qi Xuansu felt his eyes go dark and fainted without taking a breath.

I don’t know how long it took, but the darkness in front of me gradually receded, and all the illusions gradually became real.

Qi Xuansu slowly opened his eyes, and what he saw again was no longer the mountains and countryside, nor the Vientiane Taoist Palace, but his residence in the Water Palace.

It turned out to be a dream.

Qi Xuansu breathed a sigh of relief.

Qi Miaobai is really terrible.

It was even scarier than when he climbed Lingshan Mountain and saw the eleven great witches.

But there was one thing he didn't understand: what did this dream mean? Qi Xuansu has now made it clear that every dream he has is not meaningless. Just like his previous dream of Lingshan, it actually revealed the secret of the "Heart of Immortality Stone".

So what did his dream about Xiao Yin reveal this time? Could it be related to his choosing the Ghost Kingdom Cave Heaven as his divine domain? After all, Xiao Yin was born from the cave of the ghost country, so it is okay to say that she is an elf from the cave of the ghost country.

Is there any relationship between the two?

Because he is one with the Ghost Kingdom's Dongtian, Xiao Yin, who was born from the Ghost Kingdom's Dongtian, naturally became his daughter?

Isn't that too far-fetched?

At this moment, Qi Xuansu suddenly heard a familiar voice ringing in his ears: "Old Qi!"

Qi Xuansu was agitated and looked for the sound.

Yin turned around and looked: a small head, a pair of big black eyes, not tall, was holding the edge of the bed, who could it be if it wasn't Miss Xiao Yin?

Qi Xuansu's expression suddenly froze, and he forced a smile: "It's Miaobai."