Zhengyang 465 years
Hengshan, Zhongzhou, Zhengyang Empire.
The blue sky of Hengshan Mountain enters the Purple Darkness, and the Canopus star in Antarctica can be seen below. The wind blows away the snow from the five peaks, and the flowers often fall into the cave.
Hengshan Mountain is located on the south side of Dongting Lake. The name of Hengshan Mountain comes from the division of stars in the sky.
The division in the sky is for the stars that govern life and death, while underground is for growth and development. Like a scale, both ends must be kept balanced, so it is called Hengshan.
Because Hengshan Mountain corresponds to the wings of the 28 stars in the sky, and the scales correspond to the scales, it is like a scale, which can weigh the weight of heaven and earth, and can also maintain the balance between heaven and earth. Fake, evil and ugly.
The scenery of Hengshan Mountain is very beautiful. It is not only full of lush forests and bamboos, but also green all year round. There are also exotic flowers and plants all over the mountains and plains, which are fragrant all year round.
Shortly after the Beginning of Winter, Liu Xin, who had just become the senior disciple of the Holy Sect, was encouraged by his sister Liu Li to come to the foot of the unique Hengshan Mountain. In fact, Liu Xin is very willing to accompany Liu Li, because last year, Liu Li was favored by the evil Demon Lord for some reason and became the Demon Lord's introductory disciple. However, Liu Xin's master, the leader of the Sheng Sect, did not stop him. The Demon Lord took Liu Li away, and they had not seen each other for a year.
Liu Xin was very happy to be reunited with his sister. He would have been even happier if there wasn't a drag bottle beside his sister.
That guy in snow-white clothes, who is so sexy, is the son of the Demon Lord, and he is also his only son.
In terms of status, Xuesheng, the young master of the Demonic Way, has a much higher status than Liu Xin, but every time Liu Xin sees the way Liu Li treats Xuesheng, he feels that Xuesheng is like Liu Li's subordinate.
A young devil master was so accommodating and considerate to his sister, which made Liu Xin feel inexplicably uncomfortable, so he did not treat Xuesheng with the respect he deserved, but instead targeted Xuesheng everywhere.
The three of them have known each other for three years. When they first met Xuesheng, Xuesheng was still aloof and serious about Liu Xin and Liu Li. After getting along for a long time, Liu Xin knew that Xuesheng was a slut. The man looks very cold, but in private he is a bastard who can tell dirty jokes.
He was obviously one year older than him and Liu Li, but the words he said made people want to beat him, especially when Xuesheng couldn't help but tell these jokes in front of Liu Li.
The three of them traveled to the beautiful Hengshan Mountain, and Liu Li was the happiest.
Shopping has a natural attraction for women, and in the process, the limits of physical strength will be stimulated and exceeded infinitely. They won't feel tired at all!
As for Liu Xin, who had endured seven years of hard work in the Holy Sect and had already achieved some basic martial arts skills, and Xuesheng, who had received the most advanced martial arts education since childhood and had eaten countless treasures from heaven and earth. Even though they were both out of breath and exhausted, Liu Li still showed no sign of fatigue.
For two whole hours, they were still at the market in Hengshan. As for the stairs up the mountain, they were not far away. Liu Xin and Xuesheng looked at each other and saw the burning desire to go up the mountain in each other's eyes.
With countless paper packages in their hands and a bulging bundle behind them, Liu Xin and Xuesheng finally set foot on the mountain with the same image, led by Liu Li.
There are some small Taoist temples on Mount Heng, but they are not martial arts forces. They are just ordinary Taoist temples with a few Taoist priests in them. When passing these Taoist temples, he saw the dilapidated appearance of the Taoist temples. The Taoist priests were all in ragged clothes and their robes were full of patches. Liu Li couldn't bear it and even forced Liu Xin Xuesheng and Liu Xinsheng into the Taoist temples who were unwilling to enter.
When the Taoist priests of the Taoist temple saw someone coming in, they immediately lost their previous lazy and weak appearance, and each of them tried their best to show a detached atmosphere. But when all seven Taoist priests in this gym gathered together, Liu Xin still saw a strong secular atmosphere from them.
"Are this young lady and these two gentlemen here to worship the Supreme Lord or the Jade Mother?"
An old Taoist priest who looked to be the oldest held his sparse beard and raised his hand. The next moment he realized something was wrong. Originally, there should be a whisk in his hand, but now his hands were empty.
Even so, Liu Xin did not see the slightest hint of embarrassment on the old Taoist priest's face. The old Taoist priest had nothing in his hands, so he naturally turned his hands into seals and assumed a posture that Liu Xin could not understand.
"Which one is more powerful, Taishang Laojun or Jade Mother? Are they husband and wife?" Liu Li's mind was very simple. What bad thoughts could a little girl have?
The old Taoist priest stroked his beard and did not feel any anger because of the little girl's blasphemous words about Laojun and the Empress. Instead, he patiently explained the relationship between Taishang Laojun and the Jade Mother Empress, and told Liu Li two stories. .
Neither Liu Xin nor Xuesheng was interested in the content of the story. This group of Taoist priests obviously saw that the three of them were well-dressed and had the ability to donate to the Taoist temple, otherwise they would not be so attentive.
After quietly sizing up the seven Taoist priests, Liu Xin was sure that these seven were ordinary people, not people from the martial arts world.
I heard from the master that there is very little Taoist inheritance in the martial arts world. Buddhism has always been powerful and Buddhism and Taoism are not mutually exclusive, so Taoism has almost no inheritance in the martial arts world.
There are only four places in Daozang that may have martial arts inheritance, Wudang, Qiyun, Qingyun, and Longhu.
Now that Liu Xin really saw a Taoist temple, he understood that what the master said was true.
The seven Taoist priests did not surround Liu Li alone. There was only one old Taoist priest who was good at telling stories beside Liu Li. The other six were divided into two groups and led Liu Xin and Xuesheng to visit this small Taoist temple respectively. .
This kind of activity is loved by Liu Xin and Xuesheng in their current state, because all the things Liu Li bought can be stored here. Several Taoist priests swore that their things would not be lost unless they died.
What's more important is that Liu Li is entangled by the old Taoist priest, and the two of them can relax.
Xuesheng's knowledge is very broad, and he can also pick up some Taoist allusions at his fingertips. The three Taoist priests who took him were very surprised. They kept communicating with him, and the four of them had a great time talking.
Liu Xin was not interested in the history and culture of Taoism and Buddhism. He just looked at it and touched it. The most asked question was whether it was an antique. This gradually turned the three Taoist priests who led him into one, the youngest one with the lowest status. As for the two Taoist priests, they went to Xuesheng's place under the resentful eyes of the young Taoist priest.
"Are you living a very poor life now? Don't you farm your own land?" Liu Xin finally stopped asking about antiques, and the young Taoist priest finally became interested in talking.
"Who says otherwise? Nowadays, the people are poor, and not many people are willing to come to the Taoist temple to worship the old man and the empress. With fewer people coming to worship, there will be fewer people giving alms, and our lives will be miserable. As for the earth, we There is no such thing." The young Taoist priest sighed deeply as he spoke, feeling bitter in his heart. When he was a child, his parents sent him to a Taoist temple just to give him something to eat. But he didn't expect that when he grew up, his life in Taoist temple would become what it is now. Although he had lost news about his parents, he estimated that his parents were at least as good as Taoism, so why did he come here in the first place.
"Why is there no land? I heard that temples have believers who donate land to them. Don't you have Taoist temples?" Liu Xin is not an unlearned person after all. He has learned a lot about Shengzong and is very comprehensive. He was forced to do so by his master since he was a child. After pressing it into the pile of books, I finally learned a lot.
The young Taoist priest shook his head bitterly: "Buddhism is the state religion of the empire. They have a tax-free policy and the support of the dynasty. They also bear the important responsibility of royal sacrifices. Whatever the royal family uses, the common people will follow suit. We, Taoists, Naturally, it declined. In addition, with the continuous natural disasters in recent years, most people have no spare money. Even the gentry do not have extra land, and even if they did, they would not donate it to us. "
"Then why don't you leave here?" Liu Xin asked, looking at the young Taoist Priest's skinny cheeks and wheat-yellow complexion that suggested malnutrition.
"I have entered the Taoist sect. I have the Taoist disc and cannot return to secular life. And at least there is some game on the mountain. It is still possible to survive. The people at the foot of the mountain have no land and no land. How can they survive? I heard this last month People from a village at the foot of the mountain went to Hengshan Mountain to become savages because they couldn't eat. You guys are young and there are no guards around you. Take my advice and don't go up the mountain!"
For some reason, the young Taoist priest whispered the last words with seriousness and sincerity. After that, he looked around. If the two of them were not alone, he would not have said these last words.
Liu Xin didn't speak anymore. He seemed to have caught something in his words.
So Liu Xin fell into his own thoughts and began to pace unconsciously. This is his habit, it happens every time he gets lost in his thoughts.
Suddenly, Liu Xin understood. He looked up and saw that the young Taoist priest had disappeared. He returned to the main hall and saw Xuesheng who was looking at the statue of Sanqing.
"Where's A Li?"
Xuesheng turned around, pointed in the direction of the mountain and said, "I went to dig bamboo shoots. I heard from the old Taoist priest that the winter bamboo shoots here are extremely delicious. This snack guy encouraged a few Taoist priests to go up the mountain to pick bamboo shoots."
Liu Xin's expression changed drastically. He took Xue Sheng's hand and prepared to go up the mountain. Seeing Liu Xin's expression, Xue Sheng realized that something might be wrong, so she followed him without saying a word.
"You mean there might be bandits on this mountain?" Xuesheng's face was gloomy.
"The young Taoist priest may have missed this sentence unconsciously because of my young age. No matter what the meaning of this sentence is, we should not risk going up the mountain." Liu Xin expressed his judgment.
Just when Liu Xin Xuesheng left the gate of the Taoist temple and was about to go up the mountain, she saw Liu Li holding a large bamboo basket, which contained huge bamboo shoots, each as thick as their thighs.
"Brother, senior brother! Look at the bamboo shoots I picked!"
Liu Xin and Xuesheng breathed a sigh of relief. They saw the kind faces of the seven Taoist priests behind Liu Li, but they still felt that there seemed to be a hint of weirdness behind the kind faces.
Liu Li donated ten taels of silver to the Taoist temple, and Liu Xin and Xuesheng chipped in another fifty taels. This was almost all of their belongings.
Sixty taels of silver was already a lot for three children under ten years old, and the seven Taoist priests were also very satisfied. Sixty taels of silver can buy enough food to feed them for a year!
Finally, under the warm greetings of the seven Taoist priests, Liu Xin, Liu Li, and Xuesheng left the Taoist temple and began to go down the mountain.
Liu Li didn't understand at first, but she read something from the expressions of her brother and senior fellow apprentice, so she wisely kept silent.
"Ali, what happened when you and the Taoist priests went up the mountain to pick bamboo shoots, or what did you do?"
Liu Li pointed to the bamboo basket in his brother's hand and said, "Collect bamboo shoots."
"What else?" Xuesheng asked.
"It's gone. Brother, you don't know that these bamboo shoots can actually grow on the cliff, and the bamboo shoots on the cliff are bigger than the bamboo shoots in other places. These bamboo shoots are dug from the cliff!"
"Cliff?" Liu Xin and Xuesheng suddenly looked at each other, and then Liu Xin asked:
"Did you pick these, or did the Taoist priests pick these?"
Liu Li glanced at his brother, then at his senior brothers, feeling that they disrespected him, and then said angrily:
"Of course I picked it myself. Only the things I get with my own hands are the best. Isn't that what you told me, brother?"
Liu Xin nodded, he understood, and Xuesheng also understood.
If there were really bandits on the mountain and they were colluding with the Taoist temple, then the reason why they didn't take action must be the martial arts displayed by A Li.
In this world, practicing martial arts is an extremely expensive thing. This is what the poor scholar and rich martial artist say.
Even if there are bandits on the mountain, they are made up of ordinary people who cannot survive. Ordinary people are naturally afraid of warriors. Perhaps it is for this reason that they can go down the mountain smoothly.
But if they choose to continue up the mountain, the outcome could change somewhat.
Carrying large and small bags of things, they went down the mountain. The inn they stayed at was not far from the stone steps of Hengshan Mountain. If it weren't for the fact that there were fewer tourists interested in going to Hengshan Mountain in recent years, it would be difficult for this inn to have any room vacancies.
This was Liu Xin Xuesheng's thought before going up the mountain. This thought changed after coming down from the mountain. Perhaps because Hengshan Mountain is not peaceful, the number of tourists here will gradually decrease.
After checking into the inn, Liu Xin put down his things and left. He wanted to check the surroundings and check the route.
Xuesheng walked around the inside of the inn casually.
When Liu Xin and Xuesheng came back half an hour later, they found that Liu Li was missing.
When Liu Li returned to the inn, she said she was tired, and then fell on the bed without taking off her shoes. Since it was not time for dinner yet, Liu Li Xuesheng was happy to let her rest for a while.
As a result, only half an hour later, the person suddenly disappeared. The faces of Xuesheng and Liu Li were not overly anxious. The two of them were warriors, as was Liu Li, and Liu Li was very talented. This was one of the main reasons why the Demon Lord accepted her as a disciple.
But after they waited for a long time and still couldn't find Liu Li after visiting the not-so-big market at the foot of Hengshan Mountain, worry finally appeared on their faces.
"Ali won't be kidnapped by human traffickers again!"
