Li Xiuyuan looked at him and said softly: "There is another teacher in my academy. He said he would stay with me for a few more years. I guess he will be like you in a short time... I feel very uncomfortable."
The old man was silent for a long time, then suddenly reached out and touched his head, his eyes full of gentle appreciation.
"You are right to listen to what I said. The gentleman in your academy has been practicing all his life just to look forward to such a day. But because of you, you gave him this opportunity. He is happy, and you must be happy for him too."
Li Xiuyuan looked at him blankly, speechless for a long time.
As a transcendent existence in the world, the old man knew very well what an amazing existence the young man in front of him would be in the future, but he could no longer see it.
Similarly, he felt that the old man in the academy could not be seen either.
Because this is the world of their young people, and their own world is in another place.
"Idiot, am I still here to accompany you? Hurry up and practice, and take me to the Demon Realm quickly..." The green eagle behind him roared again.
Li Xiuyuan smiled and said: "Ying'er, I forgot about you. There is a junior brother in the academy."
"It's true that this eagle can accompany you in your adventures in the future." The old man laughed, and then continued: "Look, you have the fairy spirit stone left. I'm afraid you have to refine it for a few more days, right?"
Li Xiuyuan fell silent upon hearing these words, just watching the hissing blue spiritual energy penetrate into his heart and hands.
He remembered the spring day of that year, when he gathered energy and built a foundation because of the golden sign entering his body. Finally, he watched his master leave him and ascend away.
After a long time, he raised his head, looked at the old man and said, "Sometimes when I think about it, practicing is meaningless. In the end, practicing is just to say goodbye to the people around you."
Listening to his answer, the old man narrowed his eyes into two slits and suddenly said: "Can you think about it from another angle? If you don't practice, you will be a fat sheep in the hands of others. They want to sell you several times. I can sell you a few times."
Although Li Xiuyuan understood this truth, understanding and being able to do it were two different things. The person in front of him fell into the latter category. He really didn't want to experience the scene of that day again.
"My child, cultivation is a very difficult thing to do. It is even more rare to be able to persevere and survive in the end."
The old man continued: "Both friends and enemies of my time are all dead. Otherwise, even if I meet an enemy of that time now, I will happily have three drinks with him."
Li Xiuyuan was slightly startled. He really had never thought about connecting friends with enemies, because he could feel that one day he would seek revenge on Jun Wuyou. After hearing what the old man said, he understood that after thousands of years, , always is lonely after all.
Life is as lonely as snow, and it turns out that it is the old man who is talking about it today.
"Let's have a nice drink tonight. When I came back, I killed a roe deer, which is enough for us to eat for a few days. Maybe one day I will suddenly leave you."
After the old man finished speaking, he couldn't help but sigh lowly.
On the one hand, there is joy, on the other hand, there is reluctance.
The spring days were finally shorter than the summer days. When the two of them cleaned up a roe deer and cooked the broth, the sun had already set, and they saw the moon climbing up.
Li Xiuyuan went to pick up some dry pine branches from around the cliff. When he came back, he walked to the fire and put them down, preparing to barbecue for a while.
It was a rare occasion for the old man to fetch a basin of water today. He washed his face carefully and tidied up his body before returning to sit down in front of the fire and waiting to eat Li Xiuyuan's barbecue.
Li Xiuyuan took out the oil and salt seasoning and prepared the barbecue.
The idle and bored Qingying raised his little head and stared at the moon in the sky in a daze.
He lowered his head and thought for a while, then asked Li Xiuyuan thoughtfully: "Li Xiuyuan, why do I feel that the moon tonight is much bigger and brighter than before?"
Li Xiuyuan looked up at the moon in the sky, patted Qingying on the head, and replied: "What's weird about that? Tonight is the fifteenth day, and there is one day every month."
"If you were flying in the sky, you would look more carefully, not to mention it's the fifteenth tonight?" Li Xiuyuan marinated the roe deer meat and added some pine branches to the fire.
While putting the marinated meat on the grill, he turned the meat on the grill and continued to sprinkle some spices on it.
The firelight lit up Li Xiuyuan and Qingying's little faces, and they were both very excited.
Looking at the roasted roe deer meat dripping with oil, Qingying said viciously: "I was frightened by you today. I need to eat more meat later."
Li Xiuyuan touched Qingying's head and said with a smile: "Okay, you can eat more later. I'm afraid you won't be able to finish it tomorrow."
After saying that, he took out a jar of wine, came out and looked at the old man and Qingying and said, "Just in time, let's drink a few glasses of wine and eat some barbecue on the night of the full moon. Life is just like this."
The old man smiled, took the wine jar from Li Xiuyuan's hand, filled the cup, and said: "There is wine, meat and stories! Life is really just like this."
Qingye stretched out his head and shouted: "There is still me. When I transform, I will have to drink every day."
Li Xiuyuan glared at her angrily and said to the old man: "Senior, look at it, it's so wild, and it still wants to enter the world?"
Qingying ignored him and walked to the pot where the mushrooms were boiling. He smelled the aroma and said with a smile: "This soup is ready to drink. Hurry up and get a bowl of soup to drink first."
Li Xiuyuan shook his head, walked over with two bowls in his hands, and lowered his head to fill the pot with soup.
While serving it, he said: "I said Ying'er, aren't you drinking? Why are you still thinking about my soup?" As he said, he filled the soup from the pot and handed it to the old man and Qing Ying.
He held it with his little hand, blew on it, took a shallow taste, sighed, and put down the bowl.
The old man took the bowl without looking at Li Xiuyuan, blew on it, and drank slowly while holding it.
The old man and Qingying didn't care about Li Xiuyuan, they each held their own bowls and drank fiercely.
The old man had never tasted such delicious mushroom soup before. While drinking, he asked, "How come the soup you made tastes so good?"
Li Xiuyuan looked at the old man and said with a smile: "The sunshine on Tianyun Mountain is good and the mushrooms are delicious. I added a little spice to make the soup more fragrant."
After drinking the soup, Li Xiuyuan walked to the barbecue rack and said, "Actually, the mushrooms here are only as delicious as those in autumn. The current ones are still a bit less flavorful."
"This eagle is just too lazy. Naturally, it became even lazier after it learned how to talk. Fortunately, a senior hunted a roe deer to eat. Otherwise, he would have been hungry today." Li Xiuyuan flipped the roasted roe deer meat. .
Qing Ying glanced at him, glared and said, "Since you know how to hunt, why do you want me to work so hard?" This tone clearly meant that a woman was unreasonable.
Li Xiuyuan took a knife, cut a piece of meat from his leg, handed it to the old man, then cut off another piece and handed it to Ying'er.
I also cut a small piece myself. Hold the roasted meat and bring it to your mouth.
Qingying took a bite, looked at the old man and said, "Senior, today's meat is so delicious." After saying that, he lowered his head and reached into the wine glass on the ground.
The moonlight in the sky quietly shone on the three of them, and the firelight under the barbecue reflected their red faces.
Li Xiuyuan finished the barbecue in his hand, picked up the wine in front of him, looked at the old man and said, "Senior, I respect you for the sake of us meeting each other in the mountains."
The old man also picked up the wine glass, looked at Li Xiuyuan and smiled: "Thank you for the wine, which allowed me to enjoy the happy time back then."
Qingying turned around and urged Li Xiuyuan to cut the barbecue.
Looking at the roasted golden roe deer meat, Li Xiuyuan couldn't help but said: "I say Ying'er, this medicinal wine is very strong. Don't make me drunk."
The old man smiled and said nothing, and took the barbecue from Li Xiuyuan.
Qingying blushed and glared at Li Xiuyuan, shouting: "Tonight is the 15th, there will be wine and meat, and it is rare to meet seniors on Tianyun Mountain, so I just want to get drunk!"
Li Xiuyuan lowered his head and thought for a while, then took a sip and said softly: "Really? Then drink a few more drinks and see if you can't get drunk for a while."
Jump up and continue carving the roast.
Looking at Li Xiuyuan who was lowering his head to cut meat, the old man grinned. He picked up the wine bowl and took another sip.
Qing Ying, who had already drank two bowls, looked at the old man who was very interested. He also stretched out his wings to pick up the bowl, walked to the old man, and the two drank another bowl.
No matter what kind of wine Li Xiuyuan drinks, he will never be greedy because he has not liked drinking since he was a child.
Sitting on the bluestone slab, looking up at the bright moon climbing into the sky, I felt pride in my little heart.
Qingying, who was gradually fascinated by the flowers, and the old man, who was blushing after drinking, said: "Senior, it's a pity that there is wine but no piano tonight! Otherwise, I would have played a song."
Picking up a piece of stone from the edge of the cliff, he knocked on the stone slab on the ground and said:
A pot of wine among the flowers, drinking alone without any blind date.
Raise a glass to invite the bright moon, make three people in the shadow
...
They rejoice together when they are awake, but they disperse when they are drunk.
We will travel together forever, and we will meet each other in Miao Yunhan.
Thinking of my parents whom I have not seen since childhood, the small Taoist temple on Luoxia Mountain, the old Taoist priest who I don’t know when I will meet again, and the old man who is about to leave in front of me.
Li Xiuyuan felt so worried that he didn't know how to get rid of it.
There was actually a trace of melancholy growing at such a young age, and I couldn't find a place to vent for a while.
Seeing that the old man and Qingying were having fun drinking, Li Xiuyuan also had an idea.
He walked to the fire, picked up the wine jar, poured a bowl, and put it into his mouth.
The old man looked at Li Xiuyuan's appearance and smiled lightly: "I didn't expect you to be able to recite poetry at such a young age. I have never heard this poem before. Yes, it fits the occasion!"
Qingying also looked up at Li Xiuyuan and smiled: "I think you are going to get drunk first!"
Li Xiuyuan glanced at it without saying a word. He just drank half the bowl of wine, then cut a few pieces of meat and distributed them to the old man and Qingying in front of him.
Then he tilted his head and fell to the ground with a "Gudong!"
The old man looked at Qingying and said with a smile: "Humanity is that if you are not drunk with wine, everyone will get drunk!"
Qingying looked at Li Xiuyuan and chuckled: "Senior, now we have to cut the meat ourselves!"
...
I don't know whether it was because he drank two bowls of medicinal wine or because he missed the old Taoist priest. Li Xiuyuan dreamed again while resting his head on the cool breeze of the mountain.
In the dream, he felt like he was transformed into a general of ten thousand armies, standing alone at the top of the city. There were tens of thousands of enemy troops under the city who wanted to attack the city. As soon as he waved his hand, tens of thousands of black iron arrows flew out, like a volley of arrows. Lightning flashing across the sky.
When the black lightning flashed through, all the troops under the city raised their iron shields to block the rain of arrows from the sky. But this only happened in an instant. Another flame rose into the sky, and in an instant, all the troops were caught in the sea of fire...
The scene turned, and he seemed to be between heaven and earth. On top of the snow-capped mountains, there was a golden dragon rising straight into the sky. Then, there were several golden lights across the sky and the earth, spanning thousands of miles, converging on the golden dragon above his head. The golden lights turned into a larger golden dragon. The golden dragon soars into the sky, heading towards the sky...
When he reached out to catch it, he found that he could only catch it in vain.
Immediately afterwards, the scene changed to above the sea, among thousands of armies, on a high mountain. Opposite him was an old man in black, an old man in black who was about to ascend like an old Taoist priest...
He didn't know if he was dreaming, so he stood on the high mountain, calmly looking at the crowd of thousands of troops in front of him like a stranger, looking at the cheering crowds holding knives.
Li Xiuyuan in the dream suddenly said: "Everything is like a dream, like dew and lightning!"
When he said this, Li Xiuyuan opened his eyes. This dream was not the first time he had had it. He had had it many times in the Taoist temple. Every time, it was the old Taoist priest who woke him up from his dream.
This time, when Li Xiuyuan woke up from his dream, there was only a hint of fish belly white in the east of the black sky, which was exactly Mao hour.
When he woke up, he shook his head and thought for a long time, but he couldn't understand the reason. Is this a memory from a past life? Or do you want to enter someone else's story in your dream?
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