Three towns in southern Xinjiang, in the city of Xichun.
Duanmu Ruolan never expected that the legendary defeat would come so quickly.
What's more, they didn't expect that Yun Tiannan and his son would tear up the armistice agreement they finally signed with the Southern Xinjiang general, and see that the entire Nanhai army would be wiped out in the wasteland by their opponents.
Looking at the helpless Wang Danian in front of him, the luckiest general on Feixian Island in the South China Sea, Duanmu Ruolan couldn't help but smile bitterly.
He said softly: "The defenders of the three towns are ordered to bring all the food and grass with them today if they want to return to Feixian Island alive. Let's go home early tomorrow morning."
Wang Danian was startled and asked softly: "Don't wait for them? These three towns said they don't want it, so they don't want it?"
Duanmu Ruolan shook his head: "I'm afraid we won't be able to wait any longer. Didn't they also give us three empty towns at the beginning? We ordered you not to destroy any plants or trees in the three towns."
"Tomorrow morning, no one will be left in the army, all will be evacuated."
Duanzheng Ruolan thought of her daughter and the old monk. If she wanted to leave with her daughter, she might have to show some kindness to the old monk.
Wang Danian thought about it and left. The island owner was dead, and the biggest one here was Duanmu Ruolan.
After thinking about it, I really have the best luck.
When I went to Yelu Palace to collect food, I saved my life because of a single thought, and Sanzhen saved my life again because I had to supervise the army to cultivate food for the army.
In his opinion, he was afraid that he would not have a third life to worry about.
At this time, tens of thousands of Nanhai troops stationed on the last trench were still waiting for the island owner's order.
When they saw the army rushing in like a tide, not many soldiers were willing to fight to the death. Most of them took up their horses and turned and rushed towards the three towns.
After being defeated like a mountain and losing the owner of the island, the Nanhai army finally gave up its last stand.
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When Nalan Yu, Hu Ge, and Ma Tianyun led the army to chase the enemy on hundreds of miles of wasteland.
Yang Kaiyi has returned to Nanyun City with Hua Tianxia, a group of young men and women, and the soldiers who stayed behind.
There is no need to worry about the next thing. It is Yang Kaiyi's job to provide protection for the army ahead.
When everyone returned to the city lord's mansion, Yelu Mingzhu had already taken Xiao Hei for a walk on the street.
Because Yelu Mingzhu was very hungry, she went out with Xiao Hei for a big meal.
Looking at Hua Luoyu, Hua Tianxia and others, Yelu Mingzhu rubbed her belly and smiled sheepishly: "I packed food for Aunt Hua. Everyone can start eating after washing up."
Xiao Hei looked at the excited Wang Ruyi and smiled and said, "Xiao Ruyi, you can go home tomorrow."
Watson took his brother and sister's hands into the living room, looked at Yelu Mingzhu and smiled: "It's a pity that while my sister was struggling on the high platform, I was still in the wasteland with my uncle."
Yelu Mingzhu looked at it and smiled lightly: "When Uncle Nalan comes back, I will go back to Tianshan to see the master."
When Hua Luoyu saw that the living room was too small to accommodate so many people, she could only smile and said, "Fusheng, Ergou, please help move the table to the yard outside."
This day was Watson's happiest time.
He had been looking forward to this day for more than a year. Looking at his brother, sister, Ergou and Xiaolian in front of him, he couldn't help but smile and said, "You can have one more drink tonight."
Nalan Ming stepped forward and circled around Watson, shouting in disbelief: "Watson, you are about my age, why are you already a monk in the cave heaven realm?"
Hua Tianxia gently tapped his son: "If you are willing to endure hardships like Watson, you won't be any worse."
Yang Kaiyi then laughed and said: "Hurry up and eat. After I'm full, I have to arrange food for the soldiers ahead."
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The day of autumn.
Watson, who returned triumphantly from southern Xinjiang, returned to the small town on the Fuchun River with his brother and sister. Hua Luoyu and Hua Tianxia took Nalan Ming and the princess back to the imperial city.
Ouyang Dongli followed Minghui back to the small temple in the back hill of the town.
When Sister Hong was holding Wang Ruyi and crying non-stop, it was Liu who was holding the two brothers Watson and Fusheng while crying, and at the same time asked Wang San to close the shop, saying that the family wanted to have a good reunion.
Although the shopkeeper is the head of the family, his son has suddenly grown to a height where he needs to look up to him, and he is still a bit unaccustomed to it.
He could only look at Uncle Liu and said with a smile: "Today is a good day."
Uncle Liu laughed: "In such a good life, we only have two children in the Royal Academy, and the whole family can live together."
Looking at his father and mother in front of him, and thinking about his father and mother in another world who traveled all over the world for his own body, Watson had mixed feelings for a while.
He immediately asked his father and mother to sit upright in front of the hall, and he knelt on the ground and kowtowed three times respectfully.
He murmured: "The child is unfilial and makes his parents suffer."
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Thousands of miles away in the Royal Academy, Nalan Kunxuan has received the battle report from the front.
Unlike Nalanyu who led an army in southern Xinjiang to fight against the invading enemies in the South China Sea, he had just returned from Yashan in Beihai with an army of 50,000.
This was the conclusion reached by the emperor after discussion with the left and right ministers.
Because he was afraid that when the war broke out in southern Xinjiang, the remnants of Beihai would invade with a large army, so he had to personally lead the army to sit on one side of Beihai.
It was not until southern Xinjiang reported good news and the emperor sent an imperial edict that he returned to the court with his army.
Sitting in the yard, looking at Yisheng and Yuanfang in front of him, he smiled and said, "The war in Southern Xinjiang is over. You can go home and see your relatives."
Yuanfang gently patted Lan Feiyan from the Royal Court of the Lan Family and said, "My sister's cultivation is still shallow. She has to stay in the academy to practice seriously for a few years before she wants to go back and take a look."
Lan Feiyan sighed and said quietly: "I have already written a letter home and told my parents that I will go back to the grassland to visit after I am distracted."
Nalan Kunxuan Fusu smiled and said: "Remember, the restoration of the spiritual energy of the five realms of heaven is a great opportunity for practice. The three of you cannot miss this great era."
Yisheng looked at Yuanfang and smiled bitterly: "So, doesn't Watson have far surpassed our cultivation level?"
Nalan Kunxuan laughed and said, "It was mentioned in the battle report that Watson, a dark horse in the southern Xinjiang war, had the greatest contribution besides the National Preceptor."
Yuanfang sighed and said: "My godfather went to Tianshan, so naturally he doesn't need any credit."
Lan Feiyan still doesn't know what the National Master of the Five Regions looks like. When she heard it, she couldn't help but ask: "Is the National Master very powerful? When can we see him?"
Nalan Kunxuan sighed and replied helplessly: "The Imperial Master has put aside the grievances of the dynasty and is going to Tianshan to complete his own practice."
Yuanfang looked at Lan Feiyan and smiled: "Not to mention you, even if we are afraid, it will be rare for us to see our godfather."
Nalan Kunxuan thought for a while and said, "You two can go home and have a look. After all, Watson is going to Tianshan to pick up his sister."
"Sister? Where did Watson come from to have a sister in Tianshan?" Yisheng thought about Wang Ruyi on the battlefield in southern Xinjiang. When did his brother get a sister?
Nalan Kunxuan spread his hands and said with a faint smile: "Don't ask me about this. If you think I know, go home and ask Watson."
Yuanfang nodded, looked at Lan Feiyan and said with a smile: "Sister, stay at the college with peace of mind. I'll go home and take a look. I'll be back soon."
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There is a small temple on the back mountain, among the Buddhist halls.
Minghui looked at the old monk with a face full of regret: "I didn't expect that during the Southern Xinjiang War, I felt like an outsider, walking around Nanyun City."
Ouyang Dongli, who was sitting aside, laughed: "That day in Nanyun City, you led the army to eliminate the hidden dangers of the Nanhai army. It was a great achievement."
When Ming Hui heard this, he quickly clasped his hands together and said, "That's good."
Mu Mu looked at the old Taoist priest and asked, "Senior, when will we set off back to Tianshan?" It had been a long time since she came out, and she missed her brother on Tianshan Mountain.
The old Taoist priest thought for a while and replied: "Follow Yu'er and go to the Imperial Preceptor's Mansion for a few days to meet your old friend, and then we will return to Tianshan Mountain."
When Nangong Ruyu heard this, she couldn't help blurting out: "Yes, Master Hua and the others should have returned from Tianshan."
Mu Mu nodded and said with a smile: "Then go to the imperial city and visit Sister Hua. Mu Mu wants to eat the peach blossom cake she made."
Nangong Ruyu replied with a smile: "Me too."
Just when everyone was thinking about where to go for dinner, Yelu Mingzhu's voice sounded outside the temple.
"Master, Mingzhu is back."
The two women cheered: "Oh, let's see if this is brother and master's new precious disciple?"
"Quack, I'm back too!"
Before Yelu Mingzhu walked into the Buddhist hall, Xiao Hei couldn't wait and flew in with flapping wings.
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In southern Xinjiang, in the palace of the Lord of Nanyun City.
Brother Nalanyu Hu, who had returned from the three towns, was sitting in the living room. After handling the matters in the three towns, the army was preparing to return to the imperial city.
Hu Ge looked at Yang Kaiyi and asked: "Lord Territory Lord, where is my miserable brother?"
Yang Kaiyi was startled when he heard this, then smiled and said: "He returned to the imperial city with the general's wife. He said he was going back to the Imperial Master's Mansion to recuperate from his injuries. After you come back, we will go home together."
Upon hearing this, Hu Ge couldn't help but smile bitterly and said, "He's going to scare my sister this time."
Nalan Yu thought for a while and said, "Perhaps Yelu Mingzhu's master can cure his leg injury without the intervention of the Imperial Master. The old monk's cultivation is really powerful."
When Hu Ge heard this, he couldn't help but laugh and said, "It seems that I have to go to a small town to stay for a few days before going home."
Yang Kaiyi thought for a while and looked at Nalan Yu and asked: "General, where are the grassland army and the two Khan kings?"
Nalan Yu put down the tea cup in his hand and said coldly: "The Imperial Master said that since they personally tore up the agreement back then, there is no need to return to the grassland."
Yang Kaiyi was silent for a while when he heard the words, and after a while he said: "Why bother?"
Nalan Yu replied angrily: "Do they think the agreement my brother signed in Xichun City was just a piece of straw?"
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Mid-Autumn Festival night, above the Tianshan Mountains.
Watson has been here for five days with Yelu Mingzhu. During the five days, apart from drinking tea and chatting with his godfather, Watson went with his sister and Tantai Xiaoyu to pick wild fruits and elixirs in the Tianshan Mountains.
Yelu Mingzhu rarely went crazy with the three of them, but stayed by her master's side quietly.
In the girl's eyes, the master is like the deciduous forest on Tianshan Mountain, getting older day by day, and she is worried.
"Master, Mingzhu will leave the Five Realms with the old monk in a few days."
Li Xiuyuan looked at the hillside opposite Yanping, as if he saw the shadow of the old wolf, and couldn't help but sigh softly.
He looked at her and smiled: "You follow the old monk, and we will naturally meet again one day."
"Mingzhu is gone, what will you do, master?" Yelu Mingzhu looked at Xiao Hei who was lying on the side snoring, and said uneasily: "Master, I don't know how to cook."
Li Xiuyuan thought that he might be going through the five declines of heaven and man soon. How could he want his relatives and friends to see him like that?
"Don't worry about Master's affairs. Before leaving, ask the old monk to take you to see grandpa..."
Li Xiuyuan felt indescribable love for his precious disciple, but he had no way to do anything about it.
Seeing that the grudges in southern Xinjiang were over, he wanted Yelu Chucai to see his granddaughter before he could rest assured.
Because she also had an old monk as her master, Li Xiuyuan had no idea how to teach Yelu Mingzhu about spiritual practice. Fortunately, Yelu Mingzhu had been with the old monk all these years.
Come to think of it, I actually became a hands-off shopkeeper.
In addition to teaching Yelu Mingzhu to play the "Quiet", besides forging a magic sword for her.
Watson took his sister and Tantai Xiaoyu to pick vegetables in the field, stir-fry vegetables and roast meat.
He looked at Li Xiuyuan and asked: "Dad, would you like a drink today during the Mid-Autumn Festival?"
When Li Xiuyuan heard this, he looked at the four of them and smiled: "I think you are about to leave, so I will let you try the spirit bar from ancient times tonight."
After speaking, he looked at Hua Yu and Tantai Xiaoyu and said, "This is all I can do for you. From now on, your cultivation tasks will be handed over to Watson."
When Yelu Mingzhu held a glass of amber spirit wine and smelled the faint fruity aroma, she finally couldn't help but ask: "Master, what's the point of this wine?"
Li Xiuyuan smiled when he heard the words: "This wine has traveled through time, space, and all the heavens and worlds. It should allow the four of you to hear the truth and break through the realm."
Watson was startled and blurted out: "Will this wine be useful to me and Sister Mingzhu if we drink it?"
"Nonsense, except for Xiao Hei, all four of you will break out overnight if you drink."
Xiao Hei, who woke up from his dream, looked at the four of them and said, "After drinking this glass of wine, you all can get out. Xiao Hei will stay alone on the mountain with his brother."
Xiao Hei knew that Li Xiuyuan's days in Tianshan were numbered, and he didn't want these guys to get into his brother's heart again.
Li Xiuyuan looked at the four of them and smiled and said, "We all have our own practices... You can go down the mountain tomorrow."
Because he knew that maybe tomorrow, the master would take Mumu up the mountain.
On a moonlit night in the Tianshan Mountains, this was the first time that Li Xiuyuan did not play the piano during the Mid-Autumn Festival because he did not want Watson and Yelu Mingzhu to see the tears on his face.
As for whether he could break through the realm or how many realms he could break through in one night, he was not worried, because Watson was already a towering tree and could take care of his sisters.
…
It was raining lightly in the morning, and Li Xiuyuan rarely had a late sleep.
Xiao Hei had driven Watson and Yelu Mingzhu and the four of them out of Xinghua Valley early. Just as a group of people were walking through the mountains and forests, voices came from in front of them.
Xiao Hei was startled, looked at Mu Mu who was gradually approaching, and asked nervously: "Who are you? Strangers are not welcome here."
Mu Mu was stunned, looked at Xiao Hei who was lying on Yelu Mingzhu's shoulder and smiled: "Xiao Mingzhu, this guy is your uncle, right?"
Yelu Mingzhu couldn't help but giggle when she saw it, and whispered a few words into Xiao Hei's ear.
Then he exchanged blessings with the old Taoist priest and said softly: "Senior, master drove the pearl down the mountain."
The old Taoist priest was stunned when he heard this, and then smiled bitterly: "My disciple has a bad temper. I'm afraid he won't be able to stay for a few days, and even my master will drive him away. Why don't you go down the mountain to find the old monk first?"
Watson stepped forward and took his sister and Tantai Xiaoyu to salute the old Taoist priest.
The old Taoist priest stroked his beard and smiled: "Yes, the opportunity I gave you is with the old monk. I believe he will come to find the Pearl in the next few days..."
When Xiao Hei saw it, he quickly jumped on Mu Mu's shoulders, looked at the old Taoist priest and said, "Senior is my brother's master, so he is also Xiao Hei's master."
Nangong Ruyu was happy when she heard this, touched his feathers and said with a smile: "Then you have to take good care of me and my sister first."
The old Taoist priest waved his hand, looked at Watson and said, "Go down the mountain. If you have any questions, ask the old monk. Don't worry about your godfather anymore."
Watson took a deep breath, said goodbye to the old Taoist priest, and headed down the mountain with the three girls.
He knew what the old Taoist meant. His godfather had fulfilled his responsibilities, and he would now go his own way.
"Sister Mumu, will you be Xiaohei's sister-in-law?"
"Sister Ruyu, are you Xiaohei's elder sister or younger sister?"
"Xiao Hei, why can't I see my brother's shadow? Is he still snoozing?"
"No, it was my brother who asked Xiao Hei to get up and send them away. He didn't want these guys to see the tears on his face."
"I didn't expect that the master is getting more and more worried."
"That's not true. It's because he figured out something. The thought of the five realms has gone, and the next step is to stop thinking."
The old Taoist priest looked at the two women and said seriously: "Even in the Nine Heavens, there may be a scene like today. You should think carefully."
Nan Lu Ruyu was startled, took Mu Mu's hand and said, "Sister, are you trying to scare us, senior?"
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Arriving at the temple, Li Xiuyuan had already brewed a pot of Tianshan spring tea.
The moon on the fifteenth day was sixteen full, but the master, sister and Nangong Ruyu, this precious disciple, were waiting for them.
The old Taoist priest looked at Li Xiuyuan's appearance and couldn't help but laugh: "If these two girls had never seen me before, they would think that you are my master."
Li Xiuyuan sighed and said leisurely: "Master is joking. This is why the disciple is stupid."
The old Taoist priest did not agree with his statement. Instead, he stroked his beard and sighed: "You are not very good, but you taught a good disciple. That girl Mingzhu learned the essence of that divine song that even you couldn't master."
Li Xiuyuan smiled faintly: "The song soothed the soul and shocked the world. I didn't expect that she actually killed the right general of Nanhai with one sword."
Nangong Ruyu took Li Xiuyuan's hand and asked, "Master, can you leave with Yu'er?"
Li Xiuyuan looked at Xiao Hei who was silent and couldn't help but laugh lightly.
He said softly: "When it snows, you can leave the Five Realms. It will be nice if Xiao Hei is here to accompany me."
The old Taoist priest just took out the guqin with strings installed. When he heard this, he couldn't help but frown: "Is it so fast?"
Li Xiuyuan stretched out his hand and stroked the strings lightly, and murmured to himself: "The golden harp has fifty strings for no reason. The disciple's song shocked the heaven and the earth, and also shocked his own soul..."
The old Taoist priest thought for a while, smiled lightly and said, "That's fine. As long as he leaves this world, this guy can change his body again."
Xiao Hei couldn't help laughing when he heard this: "Wouldn't Xiao Hei not be able to fly in the sky in the future?"
The old Taoist priest was happy, spread his hands and replied: "I don't know, do you want to try it?"
Li Xiuyuan stroked the strings on the guqin and asked the old Taoist priest: "Master, what material are these strings made of?"
The old Taoist priest sighed, gave it a try, looked at him and said, "Guess."
That night, Li Xiuyuan made a hot pot meal using the meat Mu Mu brought from Fengyun City, and the old Taoist priest said it was delicious.
Nangong Ruyu also shouted: "Master's cooking is still delicious."
Xiao Hei drank a few more glasses and went back to the house early to sleep. The remaining four of them watched the full moon on Tianshan Mountain and listened to Nangong Yuru's "Looking at the Spring Breeze" which she was not very proficient in playing.
Li Xiuyuan looked at the three of them and smiled and said: "I think back then, in Tianyun Mountain in the Xuanwu Continent, I won the title of the Prodigy's Daughter in the Holy Land of Snowfield with this half-beat slow "Looking at the Spring Breeze"."
When Nangong Ruyu heard it, she couldn't help but ask: "So can the speed of this piece of music still be controlled by others?"
Li Xiuyuan looked at the two women and smiled quietly: "It depends on my mood. If I am in a bad mood, no matter how beautiful the song is, I can't express my happiness."
The old Taoist priest looked at his precious disciple and laughed: "It all depends on your mood. In this world, what thing in the world doesn't depend on your mood?"
Mu Mu was puzzled, looked at the two of them and asked, "What about the way of cause and effect?"
Li Xiuyuan looked at her and smiled. Although his smile was a little bitter, his face was full of smiles.
He replied quietly: "That depends on my mood, just like when I was on Tianshan Mountain, carrying my sister on my back and going crazy all over the place."
When Mu Mu heard this, her eyes suddenly filled with thick mist. She looked at Li Xiuyuan and shouted, "Mu Mu wants to do it again, but it's a pity that my brother can't carry me."
Nangong Ruyu burst into tears when she heard this: "Back then on Fangcun Mountain, the master also carried Yu'er on his back to hunt..."
With tears in Li Xiuyuan's eyes, he looked at the three of them and shook his head: "It happened before... I can't go back."
Li Xiuyuan, who was stroking the strings with both hands and thinking a lot, played the most ordinary song "Hua Hao Ren Yuan" for the three of them.
The autumn flowers are in full bloom tonight, and people are reunited tonight.
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After meeting Yelu Chucai who returned to his ancestral land, Yelu Mingzhu finally said goodbye to his grandfather and followed the old monk on the big ship to Feixian Island in the South China Sea.
Also accompanying Ergou is Xiaolian, Ergou's sister.
When the girl saw Hua Yu and Tantai Xiaoyu who had followed Watson back to the town, Xiaolian thought about it and finally convinced her brother and parents.
Together with Yelu Mingzhu, she decided to leave the sky of the Five Realms with the old monk to find a higher world.
The girl has her own pride, and she doesn't want to see Brother Watson in trouble. Even if she leaves her parents, she will follow her sister to the heavens to find her own opportunities.
When the three of them met Duanmu Ruolan in Feiyun Temple, Yelu Mingzhu finally relented.
After only staying for two days, the four of them quietly left.
From then on, there was no news about Princess Beihai in the five regions.
And because of Duanmu Ruolan's correct decision that day, nearly 40,000 Nanhai troops finally returned to their homeland.
This was also the reason why the old monk finally agreed to take her with him to leave the Five Realms.
For Li Xiuyuan, cause and effect depend on his mood.
For the old monk and Duanmu Ruolan, sometimes cause and effect is just a matter of thought.
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Just like Hu Ge said, the old monk prevented everyone from going to Tianshan, but he also cured Tang Chao's mutilated thigh and told him that as long as he rested quietly for a year, he would be back to his original state.
But Tang Chao, who returned to Zizhuyuan, decided to stay here for many years to come. Here are his parents, his lover, his daughter, and more relatives.
Only Xiaoju was unhappy after becoming a mother. She kept telling her brother to find a sister-in-law to come back as soon as possible.
Brother Hu looked in the direction of Tianshan Mountain and sighed, and said leisurely: "I don't know what my brother is doing at this time."
Xiao Ju shook her head and said seriously: "The old monk said not to disturb brother Li Ye's practice. If anything happens, Xiao Hei will come down and find us."
On the Tianshan Mountains, the first snow has not yet fallen.
Li Xiuyuan, who was sitting in the temple, took advantage of Mu to take Nangong Ruyu for a walk. Once again, he asked the old Taoist priest for advice on the five signs of decline.
The old Taoist priest also understood that his disciple had only a few days to live, and he was afraid that he would be going through a catastrophe in the near future, so he naturally had to explain it to him in detail.
Calamity 1: The sound of music cannot be heard. It means that the music of the heavens will sing without drums. When the sign of decline appears, the sound will naturally disappear.
In the second calamity, the light of the body suddenly disappears, which means that the light of the body of all the gods is brilliant, and when the declining phase appears, the light does not appear.
In the third calamity, the body is covered with bath water, which means that the skin of the gods is fragrant and not stained by the water. However, when the signs of decline appear, the bath water touches the body and stops drying.
The fourth calamity: clinging to a situation and not letting it go means that the heavens and people in the world have a very special desire state, and when the signs of decline appear, they cling to it and don’t let it go.
In the fifth kalpa, the number of eyes is blinking. It is said that the celestial eyes of all heavens are unobstructed. When the signs of decline appear, their eyes are blinking.
At this point, the old Taoist priest changed the topic and said: "The five small signs of decline are like encountering extraordinary good roots. There will be a great turn for the better, so you don't have to be afraid."
In his opinion, his disciple had survived thousands of miles in the Styx River, so how could he care about the five declines of heaven and man in front of him.
Hearing this, Li Xiuyuan looked at the old Taoist priest and asked quietly: "Master, if you survive the five phases of decline in the end, will you go through the tribulation like Nirvana?"
The old Taoist priest was stunned when he heard the words, and then he pondered for a long time before he laughed: "What kind of wind, fire, thunder and lightning are you afraid of? It is the karma fire disaster that Jinxian has to overcome. It is a trivial matter for me."
Li Xiuyuan shook his head and replied in disbelief: "I'm afraid it's not that simple, right?"
The old Taoist priest glared at him and quietly analyzed for him: "You are carrying the Phoenix Divine Fire. Are you afraid that a karmic fire will not burn you?"
Li Xiuyuan couldn't help laughing when he heard this: "Disciple forgot about this."
The old Taoist priest sighed and said, "I think you have been in Nirvana for a long time and have forgotten this phoenix divine fire."
Li Xiuyuan took a deep breath and seemed to have made his final determination.
He looked at the old Taoist priest and said, "In this case, I will spend my last days practicing alone in that cave."
At that time, Monk Po Xu heard the Tao in the cave and soared to the realm.
Li Xiuyuan decided to complete his final practice in this cave full of Buddhist scriptures at the last moment.
The old Taoist priest nodded: "You want to use the Buddhist scriptures in the cave to accompany you on your last journey. That's fine. As for those Buddhist scriptures, it will be the same cause and effect for you."
"In this case, at the last moment, I have to trouble Master to help this disciple fulfill his last wish." Li Xiuyuan murmured.
So, after the first snowflakes fell in Tianshan, Li Xiuyuan said goodbye to Mu Mu and Nangong Ruyu, and then entered the cave alone.
"Master, please give me a helping hand!" Li Xiuyuan's voice, neither sad nor happy, came from the cave.
The old Taoist priest shook his head, waved his hand, and summoned the stones from both sides of the glacier. In the blink of an eye, the entire cave was tightly blocked.
Then the old Taoist priest waved his hand and dropped a golden light at the entrance of the cave, completely sealing the cave.
No matter in heaven or on earth, no one can disturb his disciple's practice.
After thinking about it, he waved his hand, but a golden light blasted out a circular hole in the stone wall, and a beam of skylight fell quietly on Li Xiuyuan's head in the cave.
Li Xiuyuan felt something in his heart, and thought, is it possible that when he overcomes the tribulation, he can still bathe in the starlight in the sky?
"Thank you, Master. We are destined to meet again!"
Li Xiuyuan murmured to himself, thought for a while, and then said to Mu Mu: "Sister, after you go back, remember to return the iron piano to your husband, and give those spiritual swords to my younger brother, sister and relatives..."
Not knowing when he would be able to return to Xinghua Valley, Li Xiuyuan finally made Mu Mu take the forged spirit sword to his relatives.
Nangong Ruzhu couldn't help crying loudly when he heard this. The master in his eyes was saying goodbye to her.
Xiao Hei, who was looking aside, couldn't help shouting: "This is not a separation of life and death. Don't mess with my brother's Taoism here."
The old Taoist priest was stunned. He originally wanted to take the two of them to stay for a while, but thinking about Xiao Hei's words, he changed his mind instantly.
As Xiao Hei said, Li Xiuyuan's Taoist heart is as strong as iron at the moment and cannot be ruined by the tears of the two of them.
So, the old Taoist priest called Xiao Hei to give him detailed instructions, and then waved a golden light into Xiao Hei's divine sea.
Finally, he said: "I have already made arrangements for where you are going to go in the future. You can tell my disciple slowly in the future. Remember, don't panic when something happens."
Xiao Hei chuckled and said, "Master, if this happens, can Xiao Hei regain his human appearance?"
The old Taoist priest smiled lightly: "What do you think?"
After saying that, he looked at the two women and said quietly: "It's so sad, this is not a farewell, we should go."
Without waiting for the two women to reply, a golden light rolled up between their hands, and the three of them disappeared in front of Xiao Hei in an instant.
"Brother, don't forget Mumu!"
"Master, don't forget Yu'er!"
Li Xiuyuan, who was sitting in the cave with his eyes closed and chanting sutras, heard the last calls of the two women...
I couldn't help but murmur to myself: "It's not sad to be separated. I hope that in the years to come, you won't have to suffer the pain of separation again."
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In the first month after the old Taoist priest left, the Tianshan Mountains were frozen for thousands of miles, and even most of the glacier outside the temple was frozen.
At first, Xiao Hei would chat with Li Xiu Yuan from time to time, but later, when Li Xiu Yuan and Xiao Hei were in the midst of the tribulation, they ignored him.
Xiao Hei was bored, so he flapped his wings and went down the mountain to play with Hu Ge.
Occasionally, the wind and snow stopped, and in the starry night, a ray of starlight fell quietly from the stone wall of the cave, shining on Li Xiuyuan.
Dots of starlight, ignoring the five declining powers of heaven and man, are slowly nourishing the old man's withered body.
As winter passes and spring comes, everything on Tianshan Mountain is refreshed and flowers bloom on the branches.
The apricot blossoms and hundreds of flowers at the temple fell into a deep sleep, and not a single flower bloomed.
Xiao Hei flew up to Tianshan Mountain and flew up to the round hole on the stone wall above the entrance. He looked quietly into the cave and saw that his brother had turned into a gray silkworm cocoon. The ground was covered with fallen hair and even broken clothes. .
Nodding, Xiao Hei flapped his wings and headed down Tianshan Mountain.
Hu Ge and Xiao Ju followed the anxious ones and said, "Brother has already begun to go through the tribulation. He doesn't even pay attention to me. Not even a single flower blooms in the Apricot Blossom Valley. None of you are going."
Tang Chao looked at the sky in the hall and sighed: "This brother of mine ignored me even for the last time."
Hu Ge glared at him and said seriously: "Not to mention you, it's Master Minghui. Master Ouyang, didn't he just ignore it?"
A small town on the Fuchun River, with a small temple on the back mountain.
Today, a person Minghui didn't expect came, but it was Taoist Priest Qingxu who had never left the mountain.
Minghui looked at him and shook her head, and said softly: "Your disciple has already transformed into a mortal in Tianshan Mountain. I'm afraid we won't be able to see him for the last time."
Qingxu smiled when he heard this: "I am going down the mountain this time, but I want to go to Tianshan Mountain to practice for a few years. Do you want to come with me?"
Ming Hui thought about it, lowered his head and pondered for a while, and then said, "Wait until I write a letter and let Xuan Bei of Qingliang Temple in Baiyu City talk about it."
This temple is the hard work of the old Taoist priest and his junior brother. He has been traveling for several years, and he has to find a few reliable people to bring some incense to continue this place.
When Taoist Priest Qingxu came to the Apricot Blossom Valley above the Tianshan Mountains, he was frightened by the scene in front of him.
Everything in front of him was like a dream, giving him endless surprises.
No matter how much he thought about it, he didn't expect that there was a small temple here, and there were a lot of spiritual fields and vegetable fields opened up in the valley. Even if he lived here, it wouldn't be a problem.
Xiao Hei looked at the two of them and complained: "After my brother has passed the tribulation, the flowers in this valley will not bloom, otherwise this year's Xing'er will not be able to finish them all."
Qingxu sighed, looked at the cave sealed by the old Taoist priest not far away, and asked softly: "Xiao Hei, can my disciple hear me when I speak?"
Xiao Hei shook his head: "Brother has long ignored Xiao Hei, and I don't know if he can hear you."
Minghui pointed to a few stone houses under the rock flats and said calmly: "Let's go clean up the place where we live."
This winter, Li Xiuyuan did not wake up.
In the second spring after Qingxu and Minghui came to the Apricot Blossom Valley, the apricot blossoms and flowers in the valley were still sleeping.
The only thing that comforted the two of them was that the spiritual rice and vegetables they planted were not affected, and they met the daily needs of the three of them.
Xiao Hei traveled between Fengyun City and Tianshan Mountain, informing each other of news from both sides from time to time.
Spring flowers, autumn moon, and winter snow, only on a starry night, when the three of them fall into a dream, will a little starlight shine in the cave.
For monks, the five declines of heaven and man are a great calamity of life and death.
For Li Xiuyuan, it was just a change of world and the beginning of the evolution of his starlight power.
The Thousand Miles of Styx River washed away the growth rings of his life, also washed away the divine dragon bodies of him and Xiao Hei, and even washed away Li Xiuyuan's entire body.
The five realms turned into mortals, just like Wu Xin in Kangchuan City, who understood the saint's method and understood the meaning of heaven and earth in Mingyue Mountain, and turned into mortals after overcoming the tribulation in front of the city lord's palace.
At this time, Li Xiuyuan had already transformed himself into Tianshan. Now he is Tianshan, and Tianshan is him.
From the time he forged those three mortal arrows, he had already surpassed Wu Xin's mortal state at that time.
At the moment, he wants to forget about the sounds and music of the heavens, and wash away his brilliance with the light of the sky. I am the star of the long night, whose light can be received or revealed.
He also wants to take advantage of the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter to transform his body into a god and allow his formless golden body to evolve again. If I cross the river, I will not touch even a drop of water.
Reluctant to leave the situation, I have transformed into a star. Naturally, I am beyond the realm of desire of all the nine heavens. I am the starlight in the sky. It is said that the eyes of all heavens are unobstructed, and I still have the eye to pierce delusion...
The people in the cave have transformed into stars, transforming their own starry sky world in the cave.
The old man outside the cave was cultivating, quietly comprehending the power of heaven and earth on the Tianshan Mountains.
In the winter of this year, the two still did not go down the mountain.
Until the long winter is over and the first ray of spring breeze on the Tianshan Mountains comes...
In Fengyun City, the greedy Xiao Hei in Zizhu Courtyard looked at Hu Ge, Tang Chao, Xiao Hong, and Agui and shouted bad.
He waved to everyone and shouted: "Xiao Hei is leaving with his brother. Don't think about us anymore."
Before everyone could recover, Xiao Hei transformed into lightning and rushed into the sky, heading towards the Tianshan Mountains.
Qingxu, who was sitting quietly under the eaves of the temple, suddenly smelled a faint fragrance of flowers and couldn't help shouting to Minghui in the temple: "Monk, the apricot blossoms are blooming."
Just at this moment, Xiao Hei rushed down like a bolt of lightning, looked at the two of them and shouted: "Two seniors, Xiao Hei is leaving with his brother."
Minghui was stunned, and when he was about to speak, Qingxu stopped him, stretched out his hand to the sky and said, "Look at the sky!"
I saw a round of spring sun hidden in the clouds just a moment ago, but it was a bright moon that had never been seen in a thousand years covering the stars. Suddenly, seven stars shined together in the sky.
While the two were stunned, a beam of starlight fell towards Tianshan Mountain. Amidst Xiao Hei's cheers, the dazzling starlight went towards the round hole in the cave.
In an instant, a silkworm cocoon slowly rose from the round hole in the stone wall with the starlight, and Xiao Hei flew towards the starlight with a flutter.
It was at this moment that the sound of solemn chanting suddenly rang out from the Tianshan Mountain: "In the past, in Parana, I turned the wheel of the Four Noble Truths, and separately explained the various dharma and the birth and death of the five living beings."
Between heaven and earth, suddenly countless scriptures and cultures turned into golden light, heading towards the slowly rising cocoon.
Like lightning, this verse rang across the entire sky of the Five Realms.
"In the past, in Parana, I turned the wheel of the Four Noble Truths and explained the various dharma separately and the birth and death of the five living beings."
Seeing this, Qingxu looked up to the sky and smiled and said: "Today I take off my mortal body, and I will meet you in the stars next year. I am a good disciple and have a good journey!"
Before sitting in the temple, Ming Hui held a lotus flower in his hand and chanted softly: "With this single-minded blessing, I am willing to seek the supreme way. May my brother go well!"
In the blink of an eye, the five realms' national masters spent three years in the Tianshan Mountains.
Amidst the blessing sounds of Buddhist sutras all over the sky, and under the call of starlight all over the sky, I broke through the void and left...
ps: The third volume was written very hard at the end. I wanted to write a different story for everyone. Although there are many characters, I still wanted to give them an explanation, although it is not perfect.
Li Xiuyuan turned into a mortal from the five realms, so he couldn't wear it?
??Go into battle, so Watson appears. Regarding Watson’s story, maybe I will find time to write another extra chapter.
Thank you to every reader who tolerates me. Thank you. Tomorrow, I will start a new journey.
