This time, Old Man Zhang was drunk.
It wasn't because Li Xiuyuan destroyed the cave leading to the outside world that he stopped thinking about it.
But the woman in front of her, who didn't even dare to take another look, turned out to be the one sitting on the stone steps, holding a bamboo hat on her head, her face invisible.
I also chatted with him for several days and nights and drank a bottle of wine.
Shaking his head, Li Xiuyuan looked at Old Man Zhang and shouted seriously.
"We who practice Buddhism pay attention to one word of contemplation: contemplation of freedom, contemplation of impermanence, contemplation of life and death. In fact, if we go deeper, we can also contemplate the six objects, contemplating beauty as white as bones..."
"Senior, who has practiced Taoism in the Peach Blossom Spring for hundreds of years, should understand this truth. There should be similarities between Taoism and Buddhism."
Having said this, Li Xiuyuan looked at the silent Huangfu Qinglian and smiled: "Would you like to drink a pot of tea to clear your mind?"
"Tea?"
Huangfu Qinglian sighed quietly, with a nostalgic look in her eyes.
After a long while, he replied: "I was sitting on the stone steps, and I didn't realize that a thousand years had passed, and I didn't even know what the taste of tea was."
Li Xiuyuan shook his head when he heard this, and reached out to light the small stove on the table.
Looking at the old man, he said: "I thought that I had not made tea properly for twenty years, which was the limit of the world. I didn't expect that compared with the girl..."
The old man was speechless. After a while, he smiled bitterly and said: "A thousand years... If Old Man Wang and I can no longer see the hope of breaking through, we are afraid that we will die before we can wait for a thousand years."
Huangfu Qinglian also felt the same way. Her former companion asked her to go back together, and she had already entered reincarnation.
But she couldn't bear to leave because of a trace of longing, so she sat on the stone steps and looked at her companions.
Either leave this world or enter reincarnation.
Looking back on the past, even after a thousand years of vicissitudes, she couldn't help but sigh softly.
Thinking of this, Li Xiuyuan looked at her beautiful expression and couldn't help but smile.
Said: "Whether you have had three lives in the past, whether you have loved, hated or held grudges, thousands of years have passed and things have changed, so don't mention it. Just start a new life..."
Huangfu Qinglian nodded and replied: "I'm afraid it will take another hundred years to slowly recover my cultivation. It just so happens that I don't need to be disturbed here."
"Isn't this good?"
Li Xiuyuan's eyes narrowed, and he pointed at Old Man Zhang and said, "You can accept this old man as your disciple. There is also Old Man Wang in the village at the foot of the mountain. Let these two guys look for the elixir for you."
After a pause, Li Xiuyuan slowly poured two pieces of spiritual tea into the purple clay pot, and slowly poured in the freshly boiled spring water.
When the two of them were in a daze holding a cup of floral-scented spiritual tea, they laughed lightly.
Said: "You teach them how to break through the realm, let them farm and hunt, and honor your senior... maybe you can work together to break through the void and ascend."
Old man Zhang was in a daze holding a cup of spiritual tea. He just smelled the faint aroma and said nothing.
Huangfu Qinglian took a sip of the spiritual tea that had fallen into a few pieces of cold plum, and was speechless for a moment.
As if remembering the sad things in the past, a tear wet the snow-like skirt on her chest.
I couldn't help but whisper: "What kind of spiritual tea is this? Why does it have the aroma of plum blossoms?"
"This is Hanmei Lingcha. I learned how to make it from a senior female saint... Drink the tea while it's hot.
If you have something to say, it will take a long time, so let’s talk about it. "Li Xiuyuan replied softly.
After leaving Datang, he felt a lot more relaxed.
It's like escaping from a human prison overnight, and being far away from the days when you don't dare to say too much, and you have to be careful about violating the laws of heaven in everything.
Facing the two strangers in his life, he didn't care and revealed some of his past.
"This is impossible!"
When Old Man Zhang heard this, his expression changed and he said in a deep voice: "There are no saints in this world, not even in the outside world. Where have you seen a saint at your age?"
"This is absolutely true, I believe it."
Huangfu Qinglian looked at Li Xiuyuan in surprise and murmured: "The feeling in this tea... I can't describe it..."
Li Xiuyuan added spiritual tea to their cups and sighed.
He raised his cup to the bright moon and said softly: "This tea should only be found in the sky. Feel it carefully. If you drink it tomorrow, you won't have the same taste."
This spiritual tea is the last pot of spiritual tea that Li Xiuyuan cooked after leaving Datang Snow Mountain.
Although it is not as powerful as the first time, it is still the last song of life. The plum tree in front of the house is not taken care of, and I am afraid that it will disappear in the long river of time in a few years.
There were many things he didn't like about Datang.
There are many poets whom I have not seen, firstly because they want to practice Buddhism, and secondly because their hearts are really too tired.
I don’t want to shed my own tears for no apparent reason again and again in other people’s stories.
Huangfu Qinglian nodded, just drank three cups of spiritual tea, and then sat there in a daze, unable to speak anymore.
Old man Zhang also drank three cups of spiritual tea.
He quickly got up and left, and went into his house to feel this rare power of heaven and earth.
Li Xiuyuan's tea was tasteless, so he cooked another dish.
Holding a cup of spiritual tea with a faint floral fragrance, he smiled at the bright moon outside the hall: "The saint has entered my dream, please have tea, senior."
That night, the small Taoist temple was filled with golden light, and spiritual energy from all directions came to the mountains.
Finally, they gathered into two different spiritual energy whirlpools, heading towards Old Man Zhang's house and towards Huangfu Qinglian in the main hall.
Li Xiuyuan moved a deck chair and leaned under the eaves, with his head above the sky full of stars. With his hand, he felt as if he was about to pluck the brightest star in the night sky.
Even in the thousand years of the Tang Dynasty, he had never been so tired.
Not to mention the battle with the witch, just the runes carved under the abyss, the runes were carved in the cave for two days and two nights.
He was so tired that he could no longer speak.
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There was a stormy night, and Li Xiuyuan didn't care whether the old man in the room had broken through, nor did he ask Huangfu Qinglian, who had returned to his physical body, what level of cultivation he had restored.
Li Xiuyuan in Chenshi was already watering the vegetable field behind the house and catching insects.
After only going out for a few days, the seeds he sown have grown into tender leaves, which makes him very happy. Where there is life, there is hope.
Just like Huangfu Qinglian who has been sitting for a thousand years, with just a burst of life, he can return to his former appearance.
After a long night of hard work, Huangfu Qinglian took a nap. She couldn't remember how long it had been since she had been lying on the bed so comfortably, calm and steady, without thinking about anything.
Old man Zhang walked around the Taoist temple and came to the back to find Li Xiuyuan in the vegetable field.
He was a little surprised and a little uneasy.
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How could Bai have experienced such a big change in his body with just a cup of spiritual tea? What was going on?
After a long time, he squatted on the ground, looked at Li Xiu's pinhole and said, "It seems that I have to treat Old Man Wang to a drink of this magical tea. I'll probably scare him to death."
"Can't you wait to leave?"
Li Xiuyuan asked while watering the thin vegetable leaf shoots: "Have you thought about who will replace you after you and the village chief leave?"
It's hard to find a peach blossom garden in the world. Since this is the otherworldly place in the Shura Heaven, it naturally has to be protected by someone.
In his opinion, Old Man Zhang and the village chief are a perfect match right now.
Old Man Zhang looked at him and sighed, and said with a wry smile: "We can't stay here forever. We also have our own pursuits. Since you gave me hope, old man."
"Then it will take a hundred years for you to each train a successor from now on."
Seeing old man Zhang looking at the vegetable field in a daze, Li Xiuyuan said seriously: "I don't necessarily have to ask for the same things as you, but the principles of life and cultivation should not be too low."
Old man Zhang shook his head gently and sighed.
He smiled bitterly and said: "There is no war here. The villagers have long forgotten the dangers in the world. The children now are just idiots. How can they think of cultivating desperately?"
In Old Man Zhang's view, don't talk about other things.
Just having Li Xiuyuan fight with the demon girl on the stone steps filled with evil spirits would not be enough.
In the eyes of Old Man Zhang, the young man in the cave was extremely powerful, and he killed the witch on the stone steps with his hands. Compared with this, the children in the village were just a bunch of trash.
Li Xiuyuan is here
At that time, I looked at him and smiled bitterly.
He murmured to himself: "Don't compare them to me, let alone you. As long as someone is willing to learn and be your disciple, teach them first."
Along the way, I didn’t know how much hardship I had endured. How could the old man in front of me have imagined this?
He was not interested in the Peach Blossom Spring, and he would not teach another disciple here. He just accidentally landed here in accordance with the wishes of the God of Destiny.
When Dongfang Ruyu completes Nirvana, he will float away. Who will care whether there will be someone waiting here in the next hundred or thousand years?
Old Man Zhang didn't expect that Li Xiuyuan would teach him such a lesson. After thinking about it, he had to smile bitterly and said: "Then I have to discuss it with Old Man Zhang another day."
Li Xiuyuan nodded: "I will rest for a few days and then go to the mountains to have a look. You are busy with your own business and don't worry about me."
"Also, regarding Huangfu Qinglian, make up a story yourself that the village chief can believe. Don't let it slip, otherwise you will only be in more trouble."
Taking a closer look, Huangfu Qinglian is also a problem. If the explanation is not good, the villagers will run to the Taoist temple every day.
Thinking about this ups and downs gives me a headache.
After pouring water and loosening the soil, Li Xiuyuan washed up.
Returning to Dongfang Ruyu's room, he poured three glasses of spiritual wine for the sleeping silkworm cocoon. Without the magical medicine, he could only make do with it for now.
Touching the thick cocoon, Li Xiuyuan sighed and said, "I don't know who you met that day, but I destroyed that passage..."
The cocoon glowed faintly, as if in response to his words.
Li Xiuyuan smiled faintly: "Don't be afraid, isn't there another one?
It's a road. We can leave from there when the time comes. Others are afraid, but I'm not. "
In the blink of an eye, I don’t know how many years have passed.
It was because of a sudden black dragon that jumped out of the deep river and swallowed him in one gulp.
Now, just like a black dragon coming, he would kill it with one sword, leaving Xiaobao and Wang Xiaoyue with resources for cultivation.
In this way, in his opinion, since he could summon the Nether Ship back then, he could do the same now.
After chatting with Dongfang Ruyu for a while about the things under the abyss of the Demon Realm, Old Man Zhang's voice sounded outside the door, calling him out so he could eat porridge.
After going out and looking at Huangfu Qinglian who was in a daze, Li Xiuyuan thought for a moment and said, "I've been wondering if you are a friend of mine..."
"Really? Let's talk about it." Huangfu Qinglian looked at him and smiled lightly.
She also didn't expect that just one night later, she would return to a state that she couldn't imagine. She thought that in a few years, she would be able to break through the tribulation.
Everything was like a dream.
But right now, she just hopes that she won't wake up from this dream, so that she can continue with peace of mind.
Li Xiuyuan picked up the bowl on the table and said with a smile: "She is also a woman. She should still be in Ding'an City in the wild world..."
"Really? Who is she? Your lover?" Huangfu Qinglian was a little surprised.
Shaking his head, Li Xiuyuan replied seriously: "She is my friend's woman, her name is Huangfu Qingmei."
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