Because Old Man Zhang took Li Xiuyuan away, and a group of villagers were either busy with burial matters or going home for dinner in the morning, no one paid attention to him.
In addition, Old Man Zhang originally lived alone in the Taoist Temple, so that before noon, everyone only had Old Man Zhang who was desperate for his life.
On the contrary, Li Xiuyuan, an outsider, was temporarily forgotten.
Looking at old man Zhang who was sleeping on the recliner, Li Xiuyuan smiled: "I said, you don't really want to lie down in that pit and commit suicide today, do you?"
Old Man Zhang cleared his throat and replied helplessly: "If you practice hard for hundreds of years and see no hope of breaking through, you will eventually become like me."
Li Xiuyuan was shocked when he heard this and did not suspect that Old Man Zhang was trying to find excuses for himself.
He naturally understood that with Old Man Zhang like this, if he could not see the hope of breaking through the situation, he was afraid that he would inevitably die in the end.
As long as you embark on the path of spiritual practice, who doesn’t want to be able to break through all the time?
It was Old Man Zhang who was on Luoxia Mountain back then. Once he embarked on the path of spiritual practice, he could never return to his previous state of mind in which he looked down upon life and death.
Sighing, Li Xiuyuan said quietly: "For the sake of helping my friend, I agree to do this favor for you."
Old man Zhang laughed when he heard this, and he would just listen to this.
But he replied: "That depends on whether I have the life to wait until you have been through all the way to me. Only then will you understand what it means to be difficult to reach the sky..."
Li Xiuyuan was silent for a moment, thinking that it seems like you can't break through, so it makes sense.
Or is it that the Peach Blossom Spring is too comfortable and there has been no crisis between life and death for thousands of years, so that you have lost the desire to fight?
Pass
After a long while, he replied softly: "The world outside is very big. Maybe it's time for senior to go outside and experience the ups and downs of the world."
Elder Zhang opened his eyes after hearing this, looked at the sky, then closed his eyes again and sighed.
He smiled bitterly and said: "You'd better think about how to leave here first... I've been looking for him for hundreds of years, and no one has ever been able to leave here."
Li Xiuyuan hesitated and said, "The monster came in, and so did my friends. If they can come in, I will naturally find a way out."
The old man screamed in surprise when he heard this, slapped his thigh and shouted: "How could I forget this? In this case, when your friend wakes up, he will naturally find a way to leave."
Li Xiuyuan didn't think so. In his opinion, the worst he could do was block the way the monster came from and leave the secluded river by himself.
Instead of fighting a monster with a human head and a scorpion body, he would rather go to the quiet river.
Thinking of this, he looked at the white clouds marking the sky and replied: "I'm not in a hurry to leave now. I'll wait until my friend wakes up. I want to go for a walk first."
After staying in the Tang Dynasty for countless years, the elixir in his body seemed to have been used up. Even if he returned to the Shura Heaven Realm, he would have to search around here first.
He didn't dare to count on Hua Tianyu, let alone the wild Li Qiu Shui, Huangfu Qingmei and others.
Old Man Zhang was a little disappointed and murmured to himself: "I thought you had a panacea now. Help me to break through the situation overnight!"
Even if Li Xiuyuan has his heart, he can't give it to you now? I'm not leaving, so why worry?
Thinking of this, I couldn't help but reply quietly: "It's not a hurry.
, tomorrow we will explore the cave where the monster left and then make a decision. "
Old man Zhang was startled and couldn't help but ask: "Do you really want to go?"
"Otherwise?" Li Xiuyuan sighed, looked at him and asked, "Aren't you afraid that that guy will come back to trouble you?"
…
That night, Li Xiuyuan tossed and turned in bed and couldn't sleep well.
No matter how much he thought about it, he still couldn't figure out why Dongfang Ruyu, who practiced in Taoyuan or Luoxia Mountain, came to this place?
If he guessed correctly, this was the place he wanted to come but failed to come.
So, where did that monster with a scorpion body and a human head come from?
Old man Zhang from the Taoist temple obviously doesn't know, and Dongfang Ruyu probably won't tell the old man the truth. He can only ask after she reaches nirvana.
If he remembered correctly, this should be Dongfang Ruyu's second reincarnation of Phoenix Nirvana. The first time was on Luoxia Mountain, borrowing the power of the old Taoist master.
Only then did Dongfang Yuer, who had lost all her vitality, be able to achieve phoenix nirvana, and thus be reborn like Nangong Ruyu back then.
After thinking about it, it seems that only Shangguan Wushuang, who is married to Wen Jianyi of Tianxiang Academy, has no chance of Phoenix Nirvana.
Even Nangong Ruyu later awakened the Phoenix body on the Shura battlefield.
He didn't know how Dongfang Ruyu dared to achieve nirvana in this strange place. With no one watching him and no elixir to provide the power of nirvana, this was simply an act of suicide.
It seemed that when this guy woke up, he was going to talk some sense into her.
The elixir on him is gone. After tomorrow, he will have to go to the mountains around Peach Blossom Spring to look for it. Fortunately,
This is an out-of-this-world place.
Even if there is no peerless master, looking at this beautiful place, there will be no shortage of elixirs.
On the contrary, the Taoist old man and the village chief's breakthrough was much easier than Dongfang Ruyu's Nirvana.
As long as he confirms whether there are monsters in the cave and arranges for Dongfang Ruyu to achieve nirvana here, he can give the two old men a chance to break through before entering the mountain.
Old Man Zhang walked back and forth between life and death and slept deeply that night.
He didn't leave the room until about 4 o'clock in the morning.
At this time, Li Xiuyuan had already set up a formation in Dongfang Ruyu's room, and also set up a simple formation in the main hall of the Taoist temple and the outer courtyard wall.
In his opinion, even if a monk who is above the ordinary comes here, he has to shed a layer of skin.
In this way, he could leave with peace of mind to search for elixirs in the mountains, instead of staying here all the time, looking at the nirvana of Dongfang Ruyu in the house.
Old man Zhang didn't see Li Xiuyuan in the main hall, so he went around to the back of the house.
Looking at the young man who was digging the ground with a hoe, he couldn't help but laugh: "I said you are serious. Everyone in this village grows vegetables. If there is nothing to eat, I will go to their fields to pick it!"
Li Xiuyuan looked at him and smiled lightly: "You can always be shameless, but I can't... I haven't cooked porridge yet?"
After a busy morning, Li Xiuyuan thought he was hungry, so he dug the ground and said, "Senior, let's cook some food first. I'll sprinkle seeds on these two vegetable fields, and we'll explore the road after noon."
The old man just wanted it. He smiled faintly and walked forward with his hands behind his back.
While murmuring to himself: "With one more person, it will be more lively, and there will not even be food to eat."
Don't worry. "
Li Xiuyuan was used to doing these things when he was in the Tang Dynasty. He had just arrived here, and he still couldn't find the feeling of practicing.
What to fix? In which direction should we practice?
The master didn't tell him either. After the old monk took Li Bai away, he simply ignored him, as if Li Xiuyuan's practice never required him and the old Taoist priest to worry about.
As everyone knows, Li Xiuyuan is not sure at the moment. After all, this is not the Tang Dynasty.
As long as he leaves the Peach Blossom Spring, he will be able to meet monks from the cave, or even transcendental ones.
If you meet your old enemy, it will not be an easy thing.
However, Old Man Zhang obviously didn't want to give Li Xiuyuan more consideration or a chance to relax.
After the two had dinner and drank two courses of tea, they made plans to see the cave where the monster escaped. After all, he couldn't sleep well unless the danger was eliminated.
Halfway through the walk, Old Man Zhang thought for a while and said, "How about calling Old Man Wang along? He is the village chief and this matter is under his control."
Shaking his head, Li Xiuyuan replied: "I'll go take a look first. It's not a fight. What's the use of having more people?"
For him, what he is concerned about right now is where does this cave lead to? Can he directly enter the Shura Heaven from here?
However, even if he could leave now, he would not dare to leave.
No matter what, we have to wait for Dongfang Ruyu to complete nirvana from there before leaving together.
When Old Man Zhang heard this, he thought about it and laughed: "I can't tell, but you are quite courageous for a small person. If you solve the trouble for the old man, how about I ask Old Man Wang to accept you as his apprentice later?"
Shaking his head, Li Xiuyuan replied quietly: "No, I already have a master."
The old Taoist priest was his last master.
In Dagou Town in Tianluo City, Li Xiuyuan recognized this truth.
In the years to come, you can have a few more teachers, just like the Master at Daqin Academy back then, but the master can only be an old Taoist priest.
Even the old monk, he just asked Yelu Mingzhu to worship the old monk as his teacher.
Instead of climbing over mountains and ridges as they imagined, the two of them just walked around the village for less than five miles before entering a large mountain.
It was not much different from the place where Dongfang Ruyu stayed before. It was also a cave under a stone wall.
The difference was that as soon as the two entered the cave, Li Xiuyuan felt something was wrong.
The fog here was thick, like facing boundless darkness. Li Xiuyuan couldn't help but feel uneasy. Could it be that there was still evil spirit deep in the cave?
Old man Zhang lit the prepared torches and held one each.
Frowning, he said, "Be careful, I don't dare go into this cave too deep."
Looking at Old Man Zhang, who was even more nervous than him, Li Xiuyuan couldn't help but sigh softly, took a step forward into the darkness, and said, "It's okay, don't move forward for a while."
Old man Zhang hurriedly followed. He was so shocked that he thought to himself that you are really ignorant and fearless.
While shouting: "The old man is doing this for your own good. You can't resist the evil spirit here... Hey, wait for me."
The two people's torches illuminated the front in the darkness, and Old Man Zhang carefully followed Li Xiuyuan who was walking in the darkness.
Li Xiuyuan walked less than twenty feet before he stopped and said, "The aura in here is very strange."
Old Man Zhang staggered, the torch in his hand went out almost instantly, and he quickly steadied himself.
He sighed and said, "This is the secret of our village."
"This cave
The evil spirit in the depths blocks people from outside who want to come in, and also blocks the young people in our village who want to go out. As long as you go deep into this cave, no one can come back alive..."
"There is another secluded river, which is even more terrifying than this. As long as the water of the secluded river touches it, the skin will rot immediately. Even if you make a log and put it in, it will disappear after a while..."
After sighing, Old Man Zhang continued: "These two exits have protected us and restricted us for thousands of years."
Li Xiuyuan nodded: "I can understand why the monster came in. How come my friend followed him in?"
After much deliberation, he could only attribute it to the fact that Dongfang Ruyu had the fire of Phoenix Nirvana. With such a defense, even the evil spirit in the cave would probably be powerless against her.
Just as the two were communicating, a sinister wind blew in their faces in the darkness. It seemed that some monster hiding in the darkness was going to put out the torches in their hands.
Old Man Zhang looked around cautiously and said, "Let's take a look further. You have to be more careful and follow me..."
After saying "唃!", a spiritual sword appeared in Old Man Zhang's hand.
Li Xiuyuan sighed and quietly held a piece of talisman paper in his hand.
She looked at him and smiled: "Senior, don't worry, I can protect myself in danger. You don't have to worry about me. Let's continue..."
Old Man Zhang nodded and praised: "Being brave is a good thing, but living is more important."
Li Xiuyuan was stunned for a moment, then sighed softly and said, "That's true."
