He Xiangu looked at her feet and asked, "Are you coming back this time specifically to resolve the love crisis?"
Lingqing nodded and said, "Yes!"
He Xiangu turned to look at him and asked with a straight face: "Do you really want to give up on this relationship?"
"It's not about giving up, it's about turning love into love." Ling Qing was not fooled by her and said with a smile: "The gods are not heartless, but personal love is the root of trouble, so it is forbidden by heaven.
In the Heavenly Court, the four brothers of the Demon Family are biological brothers, Jin Zha, Mu Zha and Nezha are biological brothers, and the Seven Fairies are biological sisters. None of them are said to have violated the rules of heaven. "
He Xiangu smiled and asked, "You mean to turn the relationship between us into a brother-sister relationship, or a sister-brother relationship?"
"No, we don't have the prerequisites to become brothers and sisters." Ling Qing shook his head, "There are only couples in the world that Prime Minister Bai loves.
But most of them turn love into family-like affection.
Do you think they have love? Of course there is.
But would you say they value more family ties or love? I think there is more family affection.
However, the family love between them is still different from the love between brothers and sisters.
Taoist couples, Taoist couples, have passed through the calamity, and we are not practicing lovers.
It’s also good to be a companion who seeks the truth together.
Just like you, Tieguai Li, Han Zhongli and the others.
Seek the truth together and support each other. "
He Xiangu nodded, stared at Ling Qing's eyes with a pair of crescent-shaped smiling eyes and asked: "Okay, what should we do now?"
Lingqing looked at these eyes, smiled, stretched out his hand to cover them, and said: "Follow your heart and see through the illusion. The answer you see is the best solution."
He Xiangu looked at the familiar hand, smiled, stretched out her hand to hold it, and then walked forward.
Then he asked: "If you don't know about the matter between me and the pangolin, how can we solve it?"
Lingqing held her hand and walked side by side, saying: "Let nature take its course, and the result will come naturally."
Then the two of them walked around Zhongnan Mountain and took a look at the scenery in the mountain.
In the following days, the two of them taught the pangolins how to practice good deeds while playing in the mountains.
On this day, the two of them had just told the pangolin what the laws of heaven were and what good deeds were.
He suddenly knelt down in front of Ling Qing and begged: "Master, please accept me as your disciple and teach me how to seek enlightenment."
Ling Qing asked: "Don't you want to learn Taoism from the immortal aunt and seek immortality? Why do you come to worship me as your teacher again?"
"Xiangu is cultivating immortality. There are too many restrictions in cultivating immortality, but Master is free and easy in practicing Taoism, so I want to learn Taoism from Master." The pangolin bowed again: "Please take me under your wing, Master."
"It's been a long time, and there's no certainty. I asked for immortality before, but now I'm asking for it again." Ling Qing shook his head.
He stretched out his hand to brush him up and said, "You should get up first. There is no master-disciple relationship between you and me."
Seeing Pangolin's anxious look, he knew what he was going to say, so he said: "It's not that I look down on you for being a demon.
My methods are many and varied, and it doesn’t matter what my true form is. I have all the methods passed down to me, including vegetation, elves, monsters and ghosts.
The title of master and disciple is not decided casually. If you worship me as your master.
In the future, whether you do good or evil, you will have nothing to do with me.
When one is prosperous, both are prosperous; when one is lost, both are harmed.
Do you think there is such a fate between you and me?
Moreover, you just look at seeking the Tao and being free, but you don’t know that seeking the Tao is much more difficult than seeking immortality.
Immortals are restrained by heavenly rules and regulations, while Tao can only be restrained by their own hearts.
Can you really have such self-control?
I don't want to clean up the door myself when the time comes. "
Pangolin was stunned. He wanted to become Lingqing's teacher, mainly because of He Xiangu.
But I didn’t think so much.
When he heard that he was going to be tied to Ling Qing, he couldn't help but hesitate.
However, as soon as he hesitated, he suddenly woke up. Didn't such hesitation clearly tell Ling Qing that he just wanted to use him?
At that moment, he bowed down again and said, "This disciple is willing to ride the horse and back for the master."
Lingqing helped him up, making him unable to bow down.
He said: "Now don't think about becoming a disciple first. I will give you a test. If you pass it, I will accept you as a disciple."
If not, you and I will naturally not have this fate. "
The pangolin asked: "I wonder what the test is?"
"I'll teach you a copying technique. You go to the human world and copy the Dao Zang and show it to me.
You must have true meaning in every word and truth in every sentence. If you can gain my approval, I will naturally accept you. " Ling Qing said this and passed on the spell talisman of the transcription technique to him.
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"Remember, don't let your temper fall. You can only do things according to the duty of a seeker."
Pangolin asked: "What are the standards for this recognition?"
"Don't ask too much, just copy it." Ling Qing shook his head and said, "You don't have to worry about me deliberately making things difficult for you.
If you meet the standard, I will never break your promise.
But if it is not up to standard, I will naturally explain it to you and make you convinced. "
"Yes, disciple, go now." Hearing this, the pangolin cupped his hands and turned to leave.
He Xiangu watched the pangolin go away and asked Lingqing: "Are you really planning to accept him as your disciple, or are you just perfunctory with him?"
"It depends on his luck." Lingqing pulled her forward and continued.
"What is the standard for your request?" He Xiangu asked again: "Moreover, every word has true meaning and every sentence has truth. Isn't this standard yours to decide?"
Lingqing looked at her and asked: "Then if you were to take this test, what would you do?"
He Xiangu thought for a while and said: "If it were me, I would go to a Taoist temple in Chang'an City and ask them to copy the Taoist scriptures.
Then we gather together the Daozang bit by bit.
As for the true meaning of every word you say and the truth in every sentence, then I can only do my best.
I really don't know how far I should go to meet your standards. "
Ling Qing asked again: "Then have you ever thought about what you will do if others don't lend it to you? How long will it take you to find all the Taoist treasures?"
He Xiangu smiled and said: "There is always a reason why he doesn't want to borrow it. If I fulfill their request, can't I borrow it?
Besides, if one company doesn't lend it to you, then find the second one, and there will always be someone to borrow it from.
As for how long it takes, if it were me, I really don’t care how long it takes.
I want to ask, these are just my duties. "
"That's right." Ling Qing nodded.
He Xiangu paused after hearing this and asked: "You mean, as long as he can do these things, it will be fine?"
"It's not even necessary. As long as he has such an idea and does so, I will accept him as my disciple." Ling Qing said with a smile: "Of course, this test must be completed.
After accepting him as his disciple, he will naturally have time to complete it slowly in the future. "
He Xiangu heard what he said so simply and said doubtfully: "How do I feel that you have no intention of accepting him as your disciple?"
She thought she knew Lingqing well and would not misunderstand his thoughts.
"Because I think he can't complete it at all, so I naturally have no intention of accepting him as a disciple." Ling Qing said: "I asked him to do this according to his duty as a seeker.
Instead of asking me what duties a Taoist should uphold, he asked me what standards I require.
It can be seen that he only has the purpose of completing the trial in mind, and does not pay attention to the process of completing the trial.
However, the truth of the great truth lies precisely in the process of seeking the Tao, but he turned a blind eye.
Of course, this is not wrong. If he can fulfill his request, I will fulfill my promise.
But it's a bit difficult for me to see. "
He Xiangu also felt that what Lingqing said was right, but thinking that pangolins were considered pious, she couldn't help but advise: "Pangolin has a good heart. You'd better not go too far and damage his Taoist heart."
Ling Qing nodded and said: "This is natural, the test I gave him is just the test of accepting a disciple.
He said that I would not accept him as my disciple, but I did not say that I would stop him from seeking the truth.
If he has any questions, he can ask them, and I will tell him everything I know. I just won’t have a master-disciple relationship with him. "
On the Pangolin side, as Lingqing expected, he was concerned about meeting Lingqing's requirement of "every word has true meaning and every sentence has truth."
“This Taoist scripture is already giving me a headache, so why do I need every word to have true meaning and every sentence to have truth?
Is this obviously trying to prevaricate me?
No matter, let’s find Daozang first.
When the time comes, he can say that I don't really mean the truth, and I can also say that he is being picky. "
After thinking about it, he came to Chang'an City. He Xiangu had the same idea, so he first found a large Taoist temple.
Entering the temple, he grabbed a Taoist priest and said, "Hey, little Taoist priest.
Let me ask you, where do you keep your scriptures? "
"The scriptures are naturally placed in the Sutra Pavilion." The Taoist priest replied, "I wonder what scriptures the layman plans to borrow?"
The pangolin said: "I want to borrow Tao Zang."
The Taoist priest smiled when he heard this and said, "The layman is joking. The Taoist zodiac is as complex as a sea of smoke. How can there be so many books hidden in the world?"
Moreover, lay people are not members of my Taoist sect, let alone my followers, and some scriptures cannot be borrowed. "
Pangolin didn't care at all that the scriptures could not be borrowed. Instead, he said to himself: "It's so vast, how many copies are there? How long can I really copy it?"
"Buddha, there are more than three thousand volumes of Tao Zang, divided into three caves and twelve parts. If we talk about the number of words, it is probably hundreds of millions.
Lay people don't say that they can't find everything. Even if they find everything, it would take a hundred years to copy it word for word. "The Taoist priest heard what he said was ridiculous and couldn't help but tell him the difficulty of it.
The pangolin couldn't help but angrily said: "I knew he didn't have any good intentions!"
As soon as he rolled up his sleeves, he went to find Lingqing Theory.
After taking two steps, I thought, "No, I can't just go back.
Even if he wants to embarrass me, I should let the fairy see his face clearly.
I simply took the scriptures back and copied them in front of the fairy to let her know that Lu Daoqing had no good intentions. "
After thinking about it, he turned around and said to the Taoist priest: "Little Taoist priest, can you lend me the scriptures in your temple? I will return them when I use them."
Also, since your scriptures here are incomplete, where can you find all the Taoist scriptures? "
"The layman was joking. These scriptures are the most precious treasures in my mind. How can I borrow them?" Hearing this, the Taoist laughed and said, "Let alone let the layman take them away.
As for where all the Daozang can be found, it can only be found in the palace. "
