Pawn Crossing the River

In the blink of an eye, it is already the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, the day to drink Laba porridge.

The so-called Laba Festival originated from Buddhism. It was a festival to celebrate the Buddha’s enlightenment. Later, Buddhism and Taoism merged, and Taoism also retained this festival. However, after Buddhism and Taoism turned against each other, Taoism no longer used the saying of Buddha’s enlightenment, and instead used the term Taishang Huahu. statement.

Every Laba Festival, Dazhen Mansion will cook Laba porridge, and invite relatives and friends to Dazhen Mansion to drink porridge and spend the festival together. It can also be regarded as a party at the end of the year. However, even if they are relatives and friends, not everyone can be invited. They must be a third-grade Youyi Taoist or above, or a direct descendant of the Zhang family, or someone specially invited by the Da Zhen Mansion.

As for the Laba porridge in Dazhen Mansion, it is naturally not the ordinary Laba porridge. Originally, the ingredients used in Laba porridge were red dates, lotus seeds, cypress seeds, dried longan, red beans, etc. However, Dazhen Mansion added many rare medicinal materials, including the very cherished Zhu Guo.

Crimson fruit blooms for hundreds of years and bears fruit for hundreds of years. It is the most yang thing. If an ordinary person takes it, his internal organs will be burned to death by the strong fire contained in it. But if you can resist the fire, you can use the medicinal power of the Crimson Fruit. And gain realm cultivation.

There are very few red fruit trees in the world. There are only a few red fruit trees that are more than a thousand years old in Yunjin Mountain and Kunlun Cave. No one has the opportunity to see them. Even if they are lucky enough to get one, they would not dare to take it rashly. However, the red fruits added to the Laba porridge have been processed in advance to remove some of the blazing fire, and are neutralized by other medicinal materials, which can be said to be a great tonic. Therefore, being able to go to Dazhen Mansion to drink Laba porridge will not only make your face glow, it will also be of great benefit to your own cultivation.

Tantai Qiong, Zhang Yuyue, and Zhang Yuelu all received the invitation. Tantai Qiong is a third-grade Youyi Taoist priest, Zhang Yuyue is a direct descendant of the Zhang family, and Zhang Yuelu is named by the Celestial Master. So the three of them went to Dazhen Mansion to drink Laba porridge.

Only Zhang Kuqi and Qi Xuansu were left at home.

Qi Xuansu didn't care. He was a small seventh-grade Taoist priest, and his surname was not Zhang. It was reasonable that he was not qualified to participate in such a grand event. Going there made him not know how to deal with himself. He was surrounded by high-grade Taoist priests. He is just a low-grade Taoist priest who is not in the mainstream. He may not be as high-grade as the Taoist priest responsible for entertaining guests. It is embarrassing to think about it.

However, Zhang Juqi didn't receive the invitation, which was a bit unreasonable. Although he was not a third-grade Youyi Taoist priest, he was among the high-grade Taoist priests, and his surname was Zhang. More importantly, his wife and daughter all went to the meeting, and he was the only one left in the family of three, which was quite embarrassing.

But Zhang Kuqi looked at ease, as if he had been accustomed to it for a long time. Not only did he not feel disappointed or dissatisfied, but he was also interested in going out to play chess and drink with his old friends who also failed to have Laba porridge. From this point of view, it is not a year or two since Zhang Kuqi did not receive the invitation. Recalling that Zhang Kuqi had always been stuck in the position of Taoist priest of the fourth grade wine offering, Qi Xuansu couldn't help but guess that this uncle Zhang might have some conflicts with his family.

After Zhang Yuelu left, Qi Xuansu thought that nothing would happen. Seeing that Tantai Qiong and Zhang Yuyue were not there, he wandered alone on Yunjin Mountain. After all, it was not easy to come here, so he naturally wanted to see the scenery of Yunjin Mountain. There are of course some forbidden areas on Yunjin Mountain, but they are clearly marked and guarded by dedicated personnel, so Qi Xuansu is not afraid of entering the forbidden areas by mistake.

Unknowingly, Qi Xuansu came to a cliff.

There was a Taoist temple here, built on the cliff. From the Taoist temple, you can look out at the sea of ​​clouds outside the mountain. It is an excellent place for viewing. However, because of Xuan Sheng, the mountain peak collapsed, and the Taoist temple also slid into the abyss below, leaving only half of the extremely abrupt cliff, some ruins, and a bell tower that luckily escaped disaster.

Qi Xuansu climbed up to the bell tower and looked at the vast sea of ​​clouds.

In fact, he is not interested in the sea of ​​clouds, or not that interested. What really interests him is the majestic power that creates such scenes. In a rage, mountains and rivers shift, and the land changes shape. The so-called immortal power that moves mountains and seas, That's all.

I wonder when he will be so powerful.

With such great power, even the Dazhen Mansion would bow its head, and the Qingping Society would no longer be a big mountain pressing on his back. He could move the mountain or destroy it, it all depended on his will. Of course, Qi Xuansu is not a person who repays kindness with revenge. It was Qiniang who saved his life. He always kept it in his mind. However, he never regarded Qiniang and Qingping Hui as the same. If the day came, he would let Qiniang do Qingping Hui. The meeting leader, that must be very interesting.

While Qi Xuansu was daydreaming here, he heard slight footsteps behind him.

Qi Xuansu turned around and saw a woman appearing at the stairs on the first floor, seemingly planning to climb the stairs.

From Qi Xuansu's point of view, this woman is very beautiful, with a charming look in the corners of her eyes. When she walks, she looks like a weak willow supporting the wind. She is extremely beautiful.

However, Qi Xuansu has been traveling around the world for many years, and under Qiniang's words and deeds, he knows a little bit about the art of fortune telling, which is the basic content of "Ziwei Dou Shu" and "Innate Divine Calculation". Judging from the face alone, this woman's Dou Shupan In the middle, Taiyin in the Ming Palace will transform into Lu, with red Luan in the Ming Palace, peach blossoms on the face, and there will be Widows and Yin evil spirits. He is not a treacherous person, but he is not a kind person either.

To put it simply, this bitch doesn't look like a good person.

Qi Xuansu immediately became wary and slowly backed away.

He has been in the world a lot, and his heart will never be clean. Qi Xuansu is always not afraid to judge others with the greatest malice. Not long ago, he just offended Tantai Qiong and Zhang Yuyue. These two women are not good at all. He has been secretly Be prepared, after much thought, Tantai Qiong would not take his life directly in Yunjin Mountain, but would use some other means.

In fact, no matter whether it is in the Jianghu or the temple, many of the methods are the same, and there is no difference between them. The dirty tricks in the Jianghu can also be used in other places.

So what will it be?

The moment Qi Xuansu saw this woman, three words "immortal jump" popped into his mind. This is a very common method in the world, using beautiful women as bait to set up scams to extort money. However, Qi Xuansu quickly rejected the "immortal dance" and changed it to another five words: "rape the woman's mouth."

The so-called "raping a woman out of her body" is an ancient method. As long as a woman puts her face aside, identifies a man as having an affair with her, and says who it is, without any evidence, she can ruin the man's reputation. Because Neo-Confucianism attaches great importance to women's integrity, after a woman identifies her adulterer, her reputation will also be ruined, and she may even pay a greater price than a man, so few women will make false accusations.

After all, Confucianism was once the orthodoxy of the world, and Taoism was inevitably tainted with Confucian habits. Although there was no explicit rule, it still regarded "raping women out of their families" as an unwritten rule.

However, this involves another problem. After the rise of Xinxue, the social atmosphere has changed greatly. The Taoist sect no longer attaches as much importance to women's reputation as in the past, but it still continues to follow the rule of "raping a woman out of her mouth". Some people have seen that The price became smaller, the profit was more profitable, and the advantages outweighed the disadvantages, so false accusations became common.

If this kind of thing really happens, as long as two people have been in the same room, no matter whether it is true or false, it will be difficult to argue. Even a high-quality Taoist priest will inevitably suffer a bloody head and skin peeling off even if he is not dead. Even if the chest is cut open to prove the traces of the heart, so what, at most the onlookers will disperse, but the reputation has been ruined, and the cut chest cannot be restored to its original state.

Only a truly powerful person can suppress this kind of thing. How could Qi Xuansu, a small seventh-grade Taoist priest, dare to test the "dharma" with his own body.

As the saying goes, it is indispensable to be on guard against others. It is better to believe that they are present than to believe that they are not. That was enough in normal times, but now was the time when Qi Xuansu was most wary, and he believed that Tantai Qiong could use such despicable means.

Qi Xuansu looked around and found that there was only one way up and down the bell tower, which was already occupied by women climbing the tower. The other side was a cliff. Looking from top to bottom, the wall of the bell tower and the rock wall of the cliff were almost in a straight line. There is not even a bulge on the edge, and there is an abyss below.

Qi Xuansu suddenly fell into a dilemma.

The woman climbed the stairs slowly, and every step seemed to be stepping on Qi Xuansu's heart.

The woman's figure climbed higher step by step. When the woman's upper body was above the ground on the second floor of the bell tower, Qi Xuansu had already retreated to the edge of the bell tower and leaned her back on the railing.

The woman finally climbed up to the bell tower and met Qi Xuansu face to face. She raised a smile, and as soon as she said the word "Master", the expression on her face suddenly froze.

Qi Xuansu fell backwards and fell into the abyss below.

For a moment, the woman froze on the spot.

Of course, Qi Xuansu didn't want to commit suicide. During the fall, he had already pulled out the "Qingyuan" from his waist, then adjusted his body shape and stabbed into the cliff below the bell tower. With his tyrannical physique comparable to that of a martial artist, , the downward trend was stopped.

Then Qi Xuansu's five fingers were like hooks, piercing into the cliff, and while fixing his body, he pulled out "Qingyuan".

This idea is not ingenious, it is unexpected, and then Qi Xuansu uses his arms and ten fingers to climb out along the cliff like a gecko swimming on the wall.

Only then did the woman react and quickly walked to the railing, leaned out and looked down.

Only white mist was visible, and Qi Xuansu's figure was nowhere to be seen.

The woman stamped her foot fiercely: "Who is he? Am I so scary?"

As a result, the woman didn't know what to do, and all the means of advance preparation were useless.

Not long after, the footsteps climbing up the stairs were heard again.

After a while, three more people went upstairs. The leader was Zhang Yuyue, but she did not go to Dazhenren Mansion to drink Laba porridge. After all, she was the daughter of the Zhang family. She really didn't care much about Laba porridge, which was considered precious by others.

The other two, Shenhua, were restrained and obviously not mediocre. They were helpers that Zhang Yuyue had temporarily hired from the Dazhen Mansion, and they were guaranteed to capture Qi Xuansu.

Zhang Yuyue looked around and saw no sign of Qi Xuansu. She frowned and asked, "Where are the people?"

The woman pursed her lips in the direction of the railing and said, "I jumped down without even meeting each other. It was really eye-opening."

Zhang Yuyue walked quickly to the railing and looked over the railing. All she could see was the mist, and Qi Xuansu had already escaped without a trace.

Zhang Yuyue was filled with hatred and slapped the railing hard: "What a cunning boy! He is indeed not a good person!"