In fact, the closer we get to Wantian Palace, the colder the weather becomes. It doesn’t mean that the place where Wantian Palace is located is much colder than other places. It’s just because we wasted time on this trip and now we are about to enter. It's winter.
This made Chen Chao couldn't help but sigh. Year after year, spring, summer, autumn and winter are constantly changing in the world. It seems that it doesn't mean anything to talk about it.
It's just a constant repetition.
Ordinary people would get tired of guarding only a few dozen springs, summers, autumns, and winters, let alone those monks who often have hundreds of springs, summers, autumns, and winters.
But some people are tired of it, and some people are reluctant to give it up.
If there are people and things that you care about in this world, you can live for hundreds of springs, summers, autumns, and winters without feeling bored. If there are not, then you will feel that the world is boring for more than one day and night, so it is better to go back early.
Chen Chao recalled a story he had read in a book for no reason. An invincible swordsman had supported many sword cultivators behind him for many years and had lost all attachment to the world. But one day, he really had the chance to leave. At that time, he saw that the world might be destroyed after leaving, so he stayed again.
Chen Chao sighed: "I have been living for others all my life. It is really pitiful."
But then he laughed again, because he remembered the sword fairy and finally found the woman he liked and liked eating duck eggs.
If you have nostalgia, you will never get tired of living in this world for thousands of years.
Chen Chao said softly: "Would you like to win the heart of one person and stay together forever?"
After saying this, Chen Chao laughed at himself and shook his head: "Hypocritical."
He stopped and walked along the way, talking to himself, a bit like the kind of fool who was not popular in the village in the past, mumbling words in a sloppy manner.
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But Chen Chao will not insist on thinking about it and get into trouble.
Otherwise, it can just be like what happened to that little girl, with deep inner demons.
Once is enough for such a thing.
Chen Chao, who did not think too much, felt refreshed and soon approached the Wantian Palace within a few dozen miles.
As the leaders of the Taiping Dao lineage of the Taoist sect, Wan Tian Palace and Chi Xin Guan appear to be indifferent at first glance, but in fact Chi Xin Guan seems ordinary, but in fact they are just building a tall building in a humble room. The Wantian Palace is the real place for cultivating the mind and establishing the Tao in the mountains and wilderness.
The fundamental gap between the two resulted in the fact that once Wantian Palace lost its status as the leader of the Taoist sect, it could no longer keep up with Chixinguan in the past few hundred years.
Because All of this in Wantian Palace is too random.
How can a group of Taoist priests who do not seek immortality or fight for the road compare with the infatuated views that have been working for generations?
Before Chen Chao left Shendu, he specifically asked Xie Nandu what he thought of Wantian Palace. The answer given by the talented Xie family woman was actually a bit strange. She said personally that the fundamental reason why Wantian Palace is what it is today is that it cannot afford the money. Fight for hearts.
The same Luming Temple cannot compete, but Luming Temple has always been the leader of Buddhism, and countless exquisite scriptures can only be read in Luming Temple. Therefore, for countless years, Luming Temple has no shortage of incense and no shortage of incense. There is a shortage of young disciples, but after Wantian Palace can't even guard the Dao Ancestor's Notes, the entire sect has nothing completely attractive.
However, the foundation is still there and should not be underestimated.
When he was approaching the Wantian Palace, Chen Chao met a group of pilgrims, old and young. The old one was white-haired and walking on crutches. The younger one was a little girl carved in pink and jade. , about five or six years old, with two braids, very cute.
There were teenagers and a couple among the others.
It should be three generations living under the same roof and traveling as one family.
The old man walked in the front, walking slowly. The young man behind him did not rush. He just looked at the bluestone paved slab in front of him. Occasionally, insects would walk on the slab, so he would lower his head and follow the footsteps of the insects with his eyes.
The woman behind him was smiling.
The little girl walking behind her mother was jumping up and down, full of childishness.
As for the middle-aged man walking at the end, he was holding something like incense and candles, and he was also smiling.
When Chen Chao came to the mountain road, he slowed down and hung not far away. He was not in a hurry to go up the mountain. The reason why he didn't get close was because he didn't want to cause trouble.
In fact, more than anything, I still don’t want to disturb this family’s mountain climbing.
But soon the middle-aged man turned his head to look at Chen Chao, then turned his head and said something unknown. The white-haired old man at the front stopped and rested on a stone on the side of the mountain road.
The middle-aged man looked at Chen Chao with a smile and nodded.
Chen Chao thought for a while and walked towards the family.
The middle-aged man stepped aside, and the woman also picked up the little girl.
Chen Chao nodded towards the middle-aged man, and then walked over, but as soon as he passed by the woman, the girl struggled to look at Chen Chao's waist and muttered: "Knife... knife..."
The woman smiled apologetically, and just as she was about to speak, the girl rushed towards Chen Chao.
To be precise, he rushed towards Chen Chao from the waist. The woman did not hug him and screamed in surprise.
Chen Chao, with quick eyes and quick hands, picked up the girl and let out a long breath.
The girl was in Chen Chao's arms, and her two short hands were still trying to reach the knife at Chen Chao's waist.
The woman breathed a sigh of relief and apologized while going to take the baby girl back, but who knew that the baby girl was holding on to Chen Chao's clothes, refusing to let her mother take her away.
The woman was sweating with anxiety, and the man also joined in coaxing the baby, but no matter how hard he tried, the baby girl would not be allowed to be taken back by the couple.
The woman looked at Chen Chao with apologetic expressions on her face, "Don't blame me, sir. My little daughter has liked these things since she was a child. She also has a bunch of wooden knives and swords at home. I don't know who she learned it from. Now she sees the young master. With the knife on my waist, I can’t help but..."
While she was talking, the woman finally took the little girl back, and the little girl started crying, deafeningly loud, and couldn't be coaxed.
The woman was furious and wanted to take action, but fortunately the man beside her kept trying to persuade her.
This is not advisable. After all, this is my daughter, and she is a treasure. I usually can't bear to hit her, let alone others.
Chen Chao suddenly asked: "Are you also pilgrims going up the mountain?"
In fact, isn't this obvious?
The man nodded.
Chen Chao smiled and said, "Then can you let me carry this little girl up the mountain, and then show her the knife when we get there?"
Chen Chao was a little afraid that they would have other ideas, so he quickly added: "I'll be with you."
The man glanced at his wife.
The latter looked at the crying little girl in his arms, and finally softened his heart and asked worriedly: "Will it be too much trouble for the young master?"
While Chen Chao shook his head, he reached out to hug the little girl, and the little girl was able to reach into Chen Chao's arms.
Seeing this scene, the woman asked suspiciously: "This girl usually doesn't want to see strangers. What's going on today?"
Chen Chao picked up the little girl, smiled and asked, "What's your name?"
The little girl opened her mouth, with tears still hanging on her face, but she still said in a childish voice, "Ning Qingnian."
Chen Chao stretched out his hand to wipe away the tears on her face.
The little girl suddenly came up and kissed Chen Chao on the cheek.
This made the whole group burst into laughter.
Chen Chao blushed a little.
After going up the mountain, Chen Chao walked slowly. The little girl didn't know why, her mind was not on the knife, but she was looking at Chen Chao's face, as if she was in a trance.
Then, as we were approaching the gate of Wantian Palace, a girl just came out of the gate, and then she saw the young man in black shirt on the mountain road here.
Her eyes widened, first in surprise, but soon burst into tears.
Chen Chao was stunned at this scene.
The girl turned around and walked into the mountain gate. As she walked, she wiped her tears and cried in grievance and whispered: "Master, he is a very bad, bad person. He has not come to see me for so long. Now that he is here, it is better not to come at all." , I haven’t seen you for a long time, and he even has a daughter!”
