Tai sui

At the beginning of Yin, before dawn, a lantern was lit in the Qiuzi courtyard, and Yao Qi got up in humiliation.

Because he couldn't get out of the inspirational seed, he had to go to morning class an hour earlier.As soon as he left the house, Shanfeng slammed the door behind him shut with a bang, and the dew covered his face, as if the word "foolish" had been tattooed on his face.

Yao Qi raised his sleeve and wiped the water from his face, his eyes were red.

For some reason, Xi Ping, who was usually unable to wake up without being struck by lightning, was startled by the sound of the door.

He sat up in a daze, squinted his eyes and looked out the window, watching Yao Ziming go out with the lamp, and then stared blankly at his hands for a long time—I don't know where he was sleeping, and his fingers were trembling all the time.

While he was in a daze, he inadvertently raised his head, and suddenly saw a figure floating out of his bed.

Xi Ping was unprepared and almost bit his tongue - the half puppet who ate his box of sapphire jumped almost two feet overnight, looking like a teenager.

His small round face was deformed, as if the remaining human skin was not enough, it stuck dryly to the bones of his face, turning blue in white.The little jacket and trousers were no longer connected to each other, and the shoulders were stretched out. They just stared at Xi Ping without saying a word, not knowing whether it was to ask for life or to collect debts.

"Damn you..." Xi Ping came back to his senses, and couldn't help but swear, "I'm scared to death and I don't have any spirit stones for you to steal!"

Half even shrank into the shadows as if feeling ashamed.

Xi Ping stared at his long-shouldered face and got used to it for a long time before he said angrily, "Come here, work—put away the quilt for me first."

Ban Ou walked over with low eyebrows and started to tidy up his bed.

He seemed to have grown up not only physically, but also mentally. After digesting thousands of taels of gold, this guy finally knew what he was doing.

Suddenly, Ban Ou let out a "ha" sound from his throat, and picked up a fresh leaf from Xi Ping's quilt.

Xi Ping's pupils shrank imperceptibly.

Ban Ou pinched the leaf, his face changed several times, finally he seemed to have made a decision, turned around and held the leaf up to Xi Ping as if he was heroic.

But before he raised his hand to gesture, the moody young master kicked his legs for no reason, and suddenly said: "Where do you think the leaves came from? It's not because of you, a money-losing thing, that you made me go to the place in the middle of the night." Run up the hill!"

Ban Ou was stunned by his whirlwind temper.

"Anyway, you owe me 100 taels of sapphire!" Xi Ping said impatiently, "If you still don't know, you have to treat me like an ox."

Ban Ou hurriedly stretched out his hand to pull him.

Wait, listen to me, you have...

"Get out of the way, don't get in the way!" Xi Ping pushed him away in a vicious voice, "I don't understand your gesticulations, you're a dumb man, talking so much."

An eager "ho ho" sound came from the half-even's throat.

Xi Ping's rare patience ran out, and he grabbed the dragon-training lock around the half-doll's neck.

The boy's throat was immediately locked by the dragon training lock, his limbs were locked tightly, and he couldn't move.

Xi Ping said coldly: "I said, go away, don't bother me."

The dragon taming lock flashed silver light, and then got into the half puppet's neck.

"Go and pick up the clothes and shoes I changed yesterday."

Ban Ou was led by the Dragon Trainer Chain, and mechanically picked up the brocade robe and boots he had thrown away.

Xi Ping glanced at him arrogantly, and ordered: "I don't want the clothes anymore, wash them and wear them yourself. Take off your shroud, don't go out and embarrass me."

After finishing speaking, the wayward young master yawned and ignored the half-even.Strolling to the study, he stretched himself, took out the white jade, and began to write a letter to his grandmother to renew the safety of the previous day.

After writing a few words, he suddenly thought of something, and when he raised his head, the half-court who had been forced to retreat to the door of the bedroom stopped following his thoughts.

"By the way, what's your name?" Xi Ping seemed to ask casually, and without waiting for the other party's answer, he made the decision domineeringly, "Forget it, the ghost name given by Xie Sui is not auspicious. Since you do If you become my slave, your surname will be Xi from now on... Well, you can be called Xi Yue."

When the white jade was lit up, King Zhuang had just returned to the palace—he knelt in the East Palace for half a night, and the guards carried him back.

The servant served hot tea and snacks, but he only touched his lips with the cup, and pushed the snacks aside without touching them.

Bering appeared out of nowhere, took out a small medicine bottle from his arms, poured a pill and handed it to him on the snow-white brocade handkerchief.

A refreshing fragrance came out from the mouth of the bottle and floated out of the window. A budding crabapple quietly bloomed by the window.

Zhuang Wang's complexion was not very good, but he seemed to be in a good mood. He shook his head with a smile and said, "Chunhui Pill is rare, you can keep it for yourself. I can't make it up with this thing... There is a letter close by, bring it to me."

Bering held the pill motionlessly, his face sinking like water.

King Zhuang had no choice but to take the elixir and swallow it: "Tsk, you paper man, why are you so temperamental like a rock."

The father-son relationship between His Majesty and the Crown Prince cannot be wiped out once or twice because of political disagreements - back then, Zhang's head was not even implicated in the East Palace.He went to ask sincerely for mercy, and His Majesty could come down the steps.

Things had to be forcibly turned over to allow the cracks to remain.

Resentment and hatred are just like love, they are all to be saved, there is no reason to accomplish it overnight, and it is too late to let it out once.

Besides, His Majesty likes him "deeply affectionate".

Bering said bluntly: "This subordinate is just a man of paper and has no understanding of the world. I just hope that His Highness will inform you beforehand, so that this subordinate will not be stretched and cannot find the elixir."

Zhuang Wang nodded at him like pampering the black cat Sapo, and made a gesture to get up: "You don't care, I will take it myself."

Only then did Bai Ling turn around without saying a word, picked up the white jade and held it in front of him.

"God, why is it so long?" Zhuang Wang glanced roughly, and saw that there was a whole piece of self-promotion on the ground. Wudon's nonsense made Zhuang Wang's eyes hurt, "Okay, take it away, then you will know that he has nothing to do... Wait."

His gaze suddenly stopped at a corner close by, and he saw Xi Ping write at the end: "The half-human boy sent by Pang Dutong is ugly, can't speak or write, is very stupid, far inferior Zhong. But in Qianxiu Temple, I had to make do with it, and my grandson named him Xi Yue, hoping that he could borrow some spirituality."

Zhuang Wang's pale fingers stroked the handwriting on the ground: "Xi Yue..."

If he remembered correctly, Xi Ping originally had a brother who was three years younger, but he raised him until he was almost a year old, and he couldn't stand up.When the child died in infancy, he already had a great name, and it was called "Xi Yue".

How come you're so good at giving the semi-even this name?

Don't all his servants use the name of the piano?

This is... homesick?

Zhuang Wang frowned——no, every time his cousin slipped out, he seemed to be out of the rein. The Marquis of Yongning kept on giving him his pocket money, but he couldn't tie the wild donkey back. He didn't feel "sick of home" at all. Root soft intestines.

That kid has been reporting good news but not bad news since he was a child, and when he got into trouble outside, he would act as if nothing happened when he came back. He was so forced that he couldn't help but say something, for fear that something happened to him.

King Zhuang pondered for a moment: "Did Princess Xincheng go to Nansheng Temple for a short stay recently?"

"Yes," Bering said, "I didn't have a good time with the son-in-law."

"Go and write a greeting card," Zhuang Wang said, "I will go to the Nansheng Temple to pray... I wish the safety of my family and the country, the harmony between my father and brother, and I will also pay my respects to my eldest aunt."

In Qianxiu Temple, apart from Yao Qi and others who unfortunately failed to pass the inspirational seed, no one else had to go to the Qiankun Pagoda early in the morning to suffer——Elder Su has freed up time, and he wants to take them around to familiarize themselves with the environment and talk about the door regulation.

Xi Ping was gossiped by Chang Jun's ears all the way, only then did he realize that this kind-hearted old man was actually an extraordinary person.

"Elder Su is the former governor of Tianji Pavilion. After six dynasties, he retired when he was old. When Lancang rebelled and besieged Jinping, the elites of Tianji Pavilion were trying to break out of the siege and send a message to Xianshan. He was a fledgling at that time and stayed with General Zhi He has guarded the city, and he has a very close friendship with General Zhi. It is said that his spirit bone has been completed... which means the great completion of the spirit orifice period, and it is only one step away from the establishment of the foundation."

Xi Ping didn't know whether it was because he got up too early and lacked sleep or something, he was absent-minded, and he didn't even listen to Chang Jun's words very carefully, so he prevaricated: "Then why didn't it be built?"

A voice behind him laughed and said, "How can you build a foundation at will? To build a foundation, you have to enter the inner door first."

All the disciples rushed forward to salute: "Elder Su."

Wearing a straw hat and carrying a bamboo stick, Su Zhun looked like an ordinary old woodcutter.

He walked up the stone steps slowly: "Building a foundation is not a matter of course. The spiritual bone is formed after cutting the scriptures and washing the marrow, and it is only the physical body that meets the conditions for foundation building. In addition to the spiritual bone, you have to find your own 'Tao Heart' I, I don't know which Monkey Mountain Dao Xin is on, I can't get in, I'd better soak in the world of mortals until I die of old age."

Zhou Xi followed up to answer the conversation: "Elder, Taoism is hard to come by, isn't it?"

"Naturally." Su Zhun said with a smile, "Look at all living beings, how many of them don't work hard every day? How rare are they who know where they are headed and why they live. They don't know who they are all year round, let alone looking for a thousand-year-old What about the heart of the Tao from one end to the end?"

Another disciple asked: "Elder, is it possible to build a foundation as long as you find the 'Dao Heart'?"

Su Zhun shook his head: "You have to follow the rules. Outer sect disciples are not allowed to build foundations. You have to obtain the 'introduction order' personally signed by a certain master of Shengling Peak in Xianmen. Under the name of the peak master of Yinling, the peak master will allocate a fairy mountain 'daotang'... Hey, look, we have arrived at the 'Yanhai Tower'. Yanhai Tower is the library pavilion in the Qianxiu Temple. You can come here to borrow classics from time to time—but there are spells on the rare rare books, which can only be read in Yanhai Tower, and you have to copy them yourself if you want to take them out.”

Xi Ping was not interested in the towering Yanhai Tower, he just glanced at it casually, then turned his head and asked Su Zhun: "Elder, does the foundation have to be built in the fairy mountain? Then how did the evil spirits outside build it?"

His question was like thunder, and all the disciples who were whispering to each other suddenly fell silent - Xi Shiyong really had a good mouth when the elders of the punishment hall asked Xie Chong how to build a foundation, and he offended a fairy elder on average for three days.

Su Zhun was silent for a moment, then glanced at him: "You ask me... evil?"

While everyone was waiting to see how the benevolent and kind-hearted Elder Su would react, he raised the bamboo stick in his hand and tapped the rice boy on the side of the road: "Remember, Xi Shiyong, add a 'spiritual stone point' this month."

Xi Ping: "..."

What to add?

"Your monthly rule is three sapphires, which will be distributed on the last day of each month. If you have accumulated ten spirit stone points, you can go to Chengjing Hall to exchange for an extra sapphire spirit stone. Monthly fines will be deducted."

Su Zhun leaned on a bamboo stick and continued to walk leisurely: "I gave him a Lingshi point because he asked a good question. I know you are all taboo to mention 'evil spirits'. In the mortal world, if someone If you are unlucky for a few days, it is said to be "stained with evil spirits" and touched evil things; when the epidemic is prevalent, it is said to be "evil winds enter the body". 'If you feel it clearly, how do you know what is 'righteous'? Just by keeping your mouth shut, the evil won't cease to exist."

Zhou Xi took the lead, bowed her head and frowned, "Yes, the disciple has been taught."

"Your Highness, don't be cautious," Su Zhun waved his hand, "The reason why the Immortal Sect requires disciples to enter the inner sect to build foundations is because Xuanyin Mountain has a spiritual stone mine to nourish them. The stone, inside it, can introduce the purest spiritual energy to ensure that the Lingtai is clear and clean. Evil cultivators are different from us. You know how much the price of spiritual stones is outside. They often steal the aura of heaven and earth for their own use."

"Elder, what is 'heaven and earth aura'?"

"The reason why flowers bloom, why trees grow, and why everything reproduces is the 'reiki of heaven and earth'." Su Zhun said patiently. It won't stay in the body for a long time, and it still has to be returned to the heavens and the earth. It's different after the foundation is established. The monk who established the foundation has become a spiritual body. If he wants to improve his cultivation, he must refine the aura for his own use. The aura must be retained in the body. For example, if a monk in the early stage of foundation establishment retreats in the mortal world, within ten years, there will be no grass in the area of ​​more than ten miles around him, and the people will suffer from many disasters and diseases. These are stillbirths or deformed children, this is called 'Jie Tian Shi'. Our so-called 'evil spirits' do not mean those who are born in martial arts, but these monks who live by 'Ji Tian Shi'."

All the disciples usually talk about "evil spirits", but this is the first time they have heard what "evil cultivators" are.

Xi Ping thought to himself: Oh, it turns out that the monk who established the foundation is a brave man who only eats but does not pull.

Zhou Xi blurted out, "Wouldn't that be a disaster for the country and the people?"

Chang Jun suddenly realized: "No wonder the 'walking on earth' in Tianji Pavilion is only monks in enlightenment stage!"

"Otherwise you treat me as a big Xuanyin, can't you afford a few powerful figures above the foundation?" Su Zhun smiled, "In order to end the chaos, the North Kunlun, Nanlancang, Xilingyun, Dongxuanyin, Zhong The Three Sacred Mountains and Five Sects took the lead and established rules for Taoism: Although practice is a journey against the law, the righteous way should put the world first and not steal the sky for one's own selfishness. Fortunately, God left a thread and gave us an ancient spirit stone. Pure, use it to practice twice the result with half the effort, and it has nothing to do with sentient beings. We can only use the spiritual energy in the spiritual stone for righteous practice, and the enlightenment period is worth it. Bring your own spiritual stones down the mountain. Even if you have a mustard seed with you that can bring a lot of spiritual stones, it will be inconvenient for you to stay in the mortal world for a long time, so only the "half immortals" in the awakening period are used for "traveling in the world".

Xi Ping always pays attention to things different from others: "Then if we meet an evil spirit who builds a foundation and ascends to the spirit, won't the Tianji Pavilion suffer a lot if we fight?"

"How can there be so many evil spirits who build foundations? Dao heart is hard to come by. The vast majority of people grow up in the spirit stone mine and stop at the spirit aperture. If you are lucky enough to forge a dao heart and practice with the method of 'stealing the sky', there will be residual There are a lot of impurities and turbidity. Few people can pass the hurdle of foundation establishment, and even if someone has a firm mind that is different from ordinary people, at most in the middle stage of foundation establishment, they will go crazy and become insane."

Hearing this, Xi Ping became puzzled: Since those who can build foundations are so rare, doesn't that mean that the vast majority of "evil cultivators" in the world are actually "half immortals"?

Since a half-immortal can't retain spiritual energy, of course it doesn't damage the environment too much.

The half-immortals at the outer gate of Xuanyin Mountain can walk freely in the world, why should the evil cultivators who are also half-immortals be exterminated?It won't be too late to kill after the foundation is established and the charges are confirmed.If you are afraid that they will hurt the heavens, why not recruit them to the fairy gate and lead them into the right way?

Besides... If you will go crazy in the middle stage of foundation establishment at most, what happened to the "Tai Sui" who ascended to the spirit?

Without allowing him to ask, Elder Su has already explained Xuanyin's 48 rules one by one.

Xi Ping filled his left ear with a bunch of "don'ts", and his right ear soaked half a bucket of "must have". In summary: hard work and plain living, eating bran and swallowing vegetables, working hard, sleeping late at night, playing with a lantern!

After listening to it, he only felt that all things are empty, and there is nothing to love in life.

Elder Su finished reading the family regulations in one breath, and exhaled softly, as if exhaling all the stagnation of ten years.With a holy light on his face, the old man was satisfied and led the dull-faced disciples to visit the "Pine Window Hall", "Chengjing Hall" and "Jie Hall" of Qianxiu Temple.After shopping around for a long time, the sun was sinking, and then Mr. Su let them go to eat without getting enough.

Xi Ping, who has always been the most active in eating, dawdled for a while and didn't leave. After everyone else had dispersed, he followed Elder Su into Yanhai Tower like an idiot.

When Elder Su took off his straw hat, Xi Ping leaned over it winkingly, brushed off the moisture and fallen leaves, and hung it up.

"What else is there?" Su Zhun smiled, "Old Su is very stingy, and I will give you one Lingshi. There are no more, you can find someone else."

"I'm not here to beg for food," Xi Ping said, "Elder, I'm very curious about something and I want to ask you about it."

"Ok?"

Xi Ping said: "You said that the evil cultivator would go crazy after building the foundation, but before I entered the Qianxiu Temple, I met an evil cultivator who claimed to be in the late stage of ascension and a half-step cicada. What, he was bragging?"

As soon as Su Zhun heard it, he knew who he was inquiring about: "It is a disaster when evil cultivation reaches a certain level, and the inner sect will naturally send powerful people to deal with it. You, it is right to concentrate on practicing and strive to open the spiritual orifice in Qianxiu Temple. I have seen it before." It’s also a kind of good fortune, so don’t inquire about it in such detail.”

Unrelenting, Xi Ping asked, "Then what if someone slips through the net?"

"There is an abyss in the inner gate, called 'Xingchenhai', where you can see the secrets of heaven." Su Zhun said with a smile, "Haven't you heard of 'the sky net is restored, sparse but not leaking'?"

Xi Ping: "That's not right, Elder Su, why didn't 'Huihui Tianwang' say anything when the south and the north were advancing?"

Su Zhun: "..."

Elder Su had a lot of prestige in the Tianji Pavilion. After many years, he actually relived the embarrassment of being dumbfounded by the little brat who broke the casserole. One of the five sects back then, it was not a cultivator."

Sometimes Xi Ping gets confused and deliberately doesn't listen to what others say, but it's not that he really doesn't understand the subtext.

As soon as Elder Su said this, he immediately understood that the several sects were divided and coexisted harmoniously. Of course, "Skynet Huihui" will not network with each other, because everyone is "Tian".

Evil cultivators rely on "stealing the sky" to cultivate, and everyone will be punished if they get it. Why do they harm others and benefit themselves?Because they don't have spirit stones.

The spirit stones are all in the hands of "Heaven".

"Cultivation methods bring disaster to the country and the people" and "not from a decent family" actually mean the same thing, but the former sounds more justified.

But as always, it's none of his business.

These thoughts only flashed, and Xi Ping threw them aside, and he asked: "It's nothing else... But Elder, is that evil cultivator really dead?"

"Naturally," Elder Su took out a thin booklet from the small bookshelf and handed it to him, "I have no objection to your understanding of evil cultivators. If you intend to enter the Tianji Pavilion in the future, it would be good to read more."

After finishing speaking, Elder Su patted him, took a few books and left.

Xi Ping took a closer look, and there were three words written on the cover of the booklet: "The Spectrum of Evil Spirits".

It was produced by Tianji Pavilion, with rich pictures and texts, depicting the most heinous evil spirits caught by Tianji Pavilion in the past 500 years. Xi Ping turned it over at a glance, and saw that except for a few monks who were enlightened and could maintain their complete human form, what else did they look like? They have everything, but they don't look like human beings anyway.

He thought he had opened up some third-rate ghost story.

In the past 500 years, the number of evil cultivators whose cultivation has reached the middle and late stages of foundation establishment can be counted on one hand, and there is no spiritual ascension.

According to Elder Su, if that Tai Sui hadn't died, the inner sect would definitely be able to monitor it.

but……

The night before, Xi Ping connected the dragon taming lock with blood, which meant that he had a little consciousness left on the half puppet.Then he "dreamed" half-occasionally saw "myself" who had fallen asleep, stood up like a ghost, and went to the backyard!

All the details in the "dream" were so clear that he was still terrified after waking up.

And what made him sure that it wasn't a dream was the leaves that Ban Ou found on his bed.

No matter what unlucky things Ban Ou had done, Xi Ping decided to forgive him—that little monster was so funny, he was choked and warned, but he didn't care about giving him a tip... It was just a little careless.

If the ghost thing that got on him that night is still nearby, wouldn't they both have to finish playing?

So he deliberately lost his temper and interrupted the half-event several times, not daring to "listen".

Calm... don't show any abnormalities.

Xi Ping reminded himself repeatedly in his heart, put the "Evil Spectrum" back, and casually flipped through a few other books, but none of the words in the book caught his eye. He planned to use the dragon lock again tonight. Observe" yourself once.

If it didn't work, he told the stewards of Qianxiu Temple to take him to General Zhi.

However, just as he was about to leave Yanhai Tower, Xi Ping froze suddenly.

He can't even blink!

Xi Ping watched helplessly as "myself" turned around uncontrollably, brought back the "Evil Spectrum" that had just been put back in front of him, and opened it again.

In his ear... no, it was in his head that a soft accent that made the scalp tingle sounded: "Don't put it down, I haven't finished watching it yet."

"Being discovered by you so quickly, I really lack a bit of luck sometimes."