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After Lu Yuan knocked on the door, there was silence in Yuqing Temple, and no one responded for a long time. The peach blossom petals rustled down as the breeze blew, piling up under the stone steps like powdery snow and clinging to the edge of the straw sandals.
Looking at the grass growing in the gaps between the stone steps and the thick moss marks on the gate, perhaps this nunnery in the mountains has been abandoned for a long time. It should be noted that Zhang Xianzhong occupied the center of Shu before, and later the Manchu and Qing Dynasties came to knock on the pass. After years of war in the late Ming Dynasty, the number of people in Shu dropped sharply by one-third. If it hadn't been for General Li Dingguo later stabilizing the seven southwest provinces and killing Hu Ling to block the Yangtze River, there might be ten rooms and nine empty houses in Sichuan at this moment, let alone a nunnery deep in the mountains.
But after Lu Yuan knocked on the door three times, he rolled up his sleeves and stood in front of the door like a green pine, watching the peach blossoms like rain, as if he was sure that there must be someone inside the nunnery.
Sure enough, after a long time, the sound of intermittent footsteps could be heard in the nunnery. The footsteps were slow, dragging and scattered. It actually took Lu Yuan a full quarter of an hour to listen to her walk from the hall to the door of the nunnery. The man paused behind the door for a long time before pushing the door open with a creak.
The moment the door opened, Lu Yuan took in a breath of cold air. I saw an old nun standing behind the door. Her body was as rickety as dry wood, and her face was as thin as a skeleton. She stood staggeringly at the door, as if she was about to fall to the ground and die at any moment. Looking at the nunnery behind her, most of it had collapsed. Except for a huge peach tree, the small courtyard was covered with long grass that could cover the knees. It was extremely deserted and dilapidated.
"Little monk, there are no orders here..." As soon as the old nun opened her mouth, she revealed her bare gums after all her teeth had fallen out. The way it opened and closed was so terrifying that Lu Yuan felt a sudden shock in his heart and made the hairs on his body stand up.
"I, I. I'm looking for someone." Xiao Luzi stammered.
"There...are...no people here." The old nun continued to answer in that carefree tone.
Lu Yuan swallowed, "No, no one?" I wonder, are you a ghost? ! Xiao Lu never thought about it. I'm actually afraid of ghosts... No, I should say, facing this old nun's terrifying look, even ghosts will be scared! "I, I. I heard that Grand Master Yuqing is here."
It’s over, this stuttering cannot be cured.
"Are you looking for Yuqing? Who introduced you?" The old nun rolled her eyes up, revealing the gray whites of her eyes.
"Chuanyunsou Bai Guyi."
"It turns out it's him," the old nun suddenly stopped shaking her legs and her body stopped floating, and she even straightened her waist. Little Luzi was so frightened that he jumped out seven or eight feet away! The old nun glanced sideways, "Why are you running!... Since Bai Guyi introduced me, why are you pretending to be a tourist? Why don't you just come to the door! Come with me." After saying that, she turned around and walked quickly to the back of the nunnery.
It seems that it is not that simple. Although Lu Yuan's mouth twitched, he followed the old nun into the nunnery. Sure enough, after a few steps, the scene inside the nunnery changed. First, those dilapidated houses were replaced by brand-new houses in a blink of an eye, and then the space inside the nunnery was expanded by thousands of feet, and exquisite and elegant houses and gardens were presented one by one. Although it is not as exquisite as the Suhang generation, it still has a unique flavor. This hiding technique is extremely delicate, and there is an ingenuity in it that even Lu Yuan has not seen through before. It should be done by a woman.
Passing through the hall, a huge peach tree hundreds of meters high is planted in the courtyard in the middle of the nunnery. The branches spread out hundreds of steps, covering the whole sky above the nunnery like a canopy.
"Just wait here, I'll ask Yuqing to come out to see you." The old nun casually pointed to the place under the peach blossom tree and said, then walked to the back of the nunnery alone.
"good". After the old nun leaves. Lu Yuan came to the peach tree alone and sat cross-legged on the grass casually, leaning against the peach tree. The main trunk of the peach blossom tree cannot be hugged by dozens of people. Looking from below, the peach blossom tree is getting taller and taller, with flowers blooming among the branches. Millions of peach blossoms are blooming. This peach tree is obviously not an ordinary species. When Lu Yuan was close to the tree trunk, he could even feel the spiritual energy appearing in atomized form around the tree trunk, floating in a dense atmosphere, and the scene was unlike the human world.
Lu Yuan was addicted to it, and it took a lot of perseverance to restrain himself from absorbing the strong spiritual power.
The end of Xianxia, from another perspective, is the flourishing age of Xianxia culture. For example, in the Qing Dynasty, poetry and poetry had come to an end. But from another perspective, it also means that the entire poetry culture has gone through three stages of rebirth, prosperity, and decline, and has completed a complete career. When you look forward from the Qing Dynasty, you can almost see the entire poetry culture at a glance.
During the array of great poets and wonderful poems, the dazzling ones were like stars in the sky, folding and shining in the entire sea of poetry.
The same is true when looking at Xianxia culture today. The development of Xianxia as a whole has reached the Shushan era, which is the last prosperous age. Looking back from this time, you will find that from the time when the vitality of heaven and earth was breathed out to when Hongjun established the sixteen-character avenue of "refining essence to transform qi, refining qi to transform into spirit, refining spirit to return to emptiness, refining emptiness to combine with Tao"; The art of elixirs and golden elixirs, to the later Nascent Soul and even the "Sixteen-Point Immortal"; from warriors practicing Qi to break through the innate, to the emergence of swordsmen and sword immortals...the avenues of ascension were born with the changes in the world, and then They were eliminated as the environment of heaven and earth changed.
Many powerful beings in the spiritual world need to rely on the incense of faith provided by the human world. Therefore, although the spiritual world regards the mortal world as a dirty place, it cannot be completely separated from the human world. Not only that, Fairy Sword also had to provide a certain number of ascension places to appease those practitioners who were becoming more and more powerful in the world. The so-called ascension to heaven is the "rules of heaven and earth". In fact, most of the rules are made by people in the spiritual world. After the list of gods, there is a master in heaven. The rules of heaven and earth are becoming more and more strict, and it is no longer possible to ascend independently like in ancient times.
By the time of Shushan, the art of golden elixir ascending was no longer mainstream. Because as the vitality of heaven and earth becomes thinner and changes in nature, it is extremely difficult and almost impossible to cultivate the golden elixir and Yuanying. However, with the emergence of the Sword Immortal Cultivation Path, the combat effectiveness of practitioners who rely on flying swords and magic weapons has greatly increased. Under this situation, the Lingkong Immortal Realm also took advantage of the situation and adjusted the rules to further reduce the conditions for ascension while also strengthening the role of external skills. Nowadays, it has become a consensus in the spiritual community that one cannot ascend without accumulating a large amount of good deeds.
Lu Yuan does not need to ascend, but he still needs a technique that suits his own attributes to push himself to a higher level.
Immortal Lu Da's golden elixir technique is certainly very good, but it is only suitable for Lu Dongbin himself. At Lu Yuan's level, the only option is to take the path of independent innovation after reading a lot of books. The reason why he has been stuck in the qi training stage without taking any further steps is precisely because of this reason. Now that he has obtained Master Lianshan's Magic Scripture, Li Jingxu's "Qingcheng Bliss Taiqing Immortal Jue", Lu Chunyang's Golden Alchemy Technique, Nuwa's Five Spirits Immortal Jue and part of the Shushan Sword Jue, he also learned from Bai Guyi If you extort a share, you will already get a lot of money.
However, Lu Yuan also wanted to learn from the Buddhist cultivation techniques, so under Bai Guyi's introduction, he came to Chengdu to visit Master Yuqing. He heard that Master Yuqing was from a side sect, and later became a disciple of Youtan Shenni. He was one of the few masters in Buddhism. What's even more valuable is that Master Yuqing has no orthodox bias in his heart and is willing to help others. The Buddhist method in her hands may be the best authentic practice method to acquire.
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Lu Yuan was leaning against the tree and meditating, but he didn't notice that at some point, there was a young nun under the tree. She stood quietly aside, watching the peach blossoms fall with Lu Yuan's gaze. The nun wears a dharma crown, shoes on the clouds, and a yellow satin monk's robe. She has a melon-shaped face, a slim and tall figure, and a very beautiful appearance.
"Did Mr. Bai instruct you to look for me?" the nun asked gently, as if she was afraid of disturbing the monk in front of him who was looking at the peach blossoms.
Lu Yuan withdrew his gaze and turned to this nun who was in her early twenties. When he saw her appearance, he looked obviously startled, and then blurted out unbelievable words. "You, are you really Yuqing?"
"The poor nun is Yuqing." Yuqing looked at Lu Yuan curiously, with a thoughtful expression. She was wondering when had she seen this person before? But searching the memory found nothing.
"Ha! You, you are really Master Yuqing?!" Lu Yuan repeated again, as if he still couldn't accept that the person in front of him was Master Yuqing. Even though Master Yuqing has been practicing Qing Dynasty for many years, he still felt a little angry when he heard what he said.
"Has the monk ever seen another Yuqing before?" Yuqing said with a cold face.
"Of course," Monk Lu's face suddenly turned serious, as if he had changed his face. "Of course I have seen another Yuqing!" He raised his right hand, holding a black silk thread between his index finger and thumb, which was obviously removed from the silk clothes he was wearing. And the other end of the silk thread just stuck to the corner of Master Yuqing's robe... "Wasn't there one just now? That old nun who is pretending to be a ghost is you, right?"
"It's just a little joke." After being caught red-handed, Yuqing nun just raised her nose and readily admitted, "What can you do to me?"
She heard Lu Yuan gnashing his teeth and muttering in a low voice, "I knew... I knew that stinky bitch had this kind of virtue! I should have thought of it..."
"Who are you talking about?" Seeing Lu Yuan's changing expression, the nun Yuqing suddenly became curious. It should be noted that most practitioners in the Shushan world have to be reincarnated several times to accumulate enough good deeds to ascend. Therefore, it is not uncommon for some people to have grudges that last for generations. But Yuqing believed that he had not owed much karma after practicing for several lifetimes, and it should not include the person in front of him.
"Me?" Monk Lu changed his face again and said with a smile, "I definitely did not mock the monks who have full hair, and the monk's robes are actually cut at the waist to accentuate the figure - this kind of behavior is obviously not in line with my Buddhist philosophy - —I dare to swear on my conscience!"
"Whose conscience are you touching?!" Nun Yuqing's eyes were filled with fire as she glared at the dog hand pressing on her left breast. "Believe it or not, I'll chop it off for you!"
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ps1: Starting from this month, we will resume the tradition of thanking you for giving. Lao Lei also used this to urge himself to update more.
ps2: Regarding the "not every banished immortal is Chen Taizhong" gag, it comes from "Guanxian". Chen Taizhong can be called the second most banished immortal in history.
ps3: At the beginning of the month, I worked hard to get a guaranteed monthly ticket! (To be continued.)
