Nowadays, the capital of the country has fallen by the wayside, its prosperity has disappeared, and there are only a few aristocratic families left in the city.
The Zhou family is one of them.
When he was serving the king of Chu State, the head of the Zhou family once worshiped Situ and was extremely powerful. Therefore, after the defeat, he became one of the first old ministers to be liquidated. After the fall of the head of the family, the Zhou family should have established a family like the rest of the family. The monkeys dispersed, but there was a woman in the clan who found immortality and was appointed to the throne when the Zhou family was in danger, so that the Zhou clan could survive in Duanchuzhou.
Although he was feared by the dynasty and was secretly suppressed from time to time, compared with the loss of his family and his family, his life now can be considered to be prosperous and happy.
After Zhao Shun arrived in Duanchu Prefecture, he inquired about all these things, and became somewhat certain about the woman from the Zhou family who had found a fairy fate. She walked straight to the Zhou family's residence in the city, and saw a crowd of people in front of the residence. After stepping forward and knocking on the door knocker, she saw a servant opening the door a crack after a while.
He glanced up and down at Zhao Xun, and when he saw that the woman did not seem to be harboring any ill intentions, he asked softly: "Who are you looking for, girl?"
"Pindao is an old friend of the head of your family. I'm here to pay you a special visit. I hope you can tell me something."
Zhao Shun looked indifferent and spoke very politely. When the servant heard this, he immediately looked at her doubtfully and thought to himself that my head of the family was already over sixty years old. How could he become an old friend with such a young woman? He pursed his lips and said: "The head of the family has never left the city in the past twenty years, and rarely makes friends from outside the state. Did the girl find the wrong family?"
Seeing that he didn't believe it, Zhao Chun said bluntly: "The maiden name of the head of your family is Pianran. If so, then she is the friend I want to find."
The head of the Zhou family is a Taoist. People outside always call her "immortal master" when they see her. People in the house also respect her very much, so they dare not call her by her first name. The servant suddenly heard Zhao Xun's call and his expression changed. He immediately became surprised and said half-believingly, "Then please tell me your name, so I can ask the younger one to pass the news for you."
After writing down Zhao Shun's name, he closed the door and trotted away into the courtyard.
At this time, a large rattan chair was placed in the courtyard. On the chair sat a graceful and luxurious middle-aged beauty, with a face like a silver plate, a plump body, and her jade arms like lotus joints resting on the back of the chair. He turned over the pages of the book in his hand and read out the obscure words on it. He looked up and saw the children sitting cross-legged in front of him with sad faces, even drowsy faces, and couldn't help but sigh.
"Okay, that's all for today's lecture. Let's go down and rest." She sighed and shook her head. Thinking of the time when she was attending class in the sect, she immediately lost her temper.
The maid on the side felt a little resentful that the iron was not as strong as steel. She pursed her lips and said, "If you are so greedy and lazy, the master of the house should punish them severely so that they know the pain before they are willing to listen seriously."
"Having fun is a child's nature. Acting against nature will only be counterproductive." Zhou Pianran smiled lightly, but she didn't think the matter was as serious as the maid did. "Besides, when I was their age, I wasn't necessarily better than them. You can live in it.”
"How is this possible?" The maid only thought this was a joke, "The master of the family is already more powerful than many immortal masters in Zhiyue Temple and Shengtuo Mountain, but he can't make fun of himself."
"You just haven't seen anything more powerful yet." Zhou Pianran gathered up the hem of her clothes and remembered what she saw when she was in Hengyun. The great monks soared into the clouds, rode in the mist, and walked in the air. Those are the real strong ones. Now they go to the lower world to call the wind and rain. The cultivators in the Taoist cultivator are just handyman disciples who have rarely advanced to the advanced level and have been sent down. They have not yet established the foundation, and they can't even talk about entering the Tao.
She has seen true geniuses who have the courage to stand out from the crowd and dominate everyone. They are incomparable figures to mediocre people.
The maid's eyes lit up when she heard this, and she smiled playfully and wanted to go forward to ask. Then she saw a servant running over in a hurry and shouting: "Master, there is someone visiting outside!"
He took a breath and said Zhao Shun's name. The next moment, the middle-aged beautiful woman's hurried steps passed by her and headed towards the door.
Zhou Pianran put her jade hand on the door, and suddenly something similar to the timidity of being close to home came over her. She opened the door, and the moment she saw the woman outside, her eyes were filled with tears!
"Ah Chun...you haven't changed at all from before."
The two of them were in their early twenties when they parted ways. Zhao Chun's appearance has not changed since she established her foundation, and it is naturally the same as the last time she saw her. Although Zhou Pianran has changed a lot, because she has embarked on spiritual practice and her life span has increased, she still looks like a person in her forties in her sixties. Looking at her six-level Qi cultivation and her gentle but firm eyes, one can tell that her state of mind must have changed quite a bit over the years.
"Pianran." Zhao Shun nodded slightly, and many past events came to mind, but she was not as excited as Zhou Pianran. In the ups and downs of the years, Lingzhen's past always seemed calm and peaceful, so it existed deep in the memory, and it only made people feel sad when they picked it up again.
"Quick, come in and sit down!"
Zhou Pianran pulled her inside and ordered the servants to pack and pour tea. However, Zhao Chun stopped her and shook her head: "Don't bother, I'm afraid I won't be able to stay in this world for long."
The other party was stunned for a moment, then smiled knowingly: "That's right."
Zhao Shun wanted something different from what she wanted. Zhou Pianran had known about this many years ago. Now one of them has gone to a wider world, and one of them has returned home according to their wishes. However, they are both pursuing what they long for in their hearts.
The two sat down in the main hall, and after some pleasantries, Zhao Chunfang found out about Zhou Pianran and the Zhou family.
Two years after she left for Zhongxiao, Shengtuo Heavenly Palace reopened the passage to the small world of Feihu. However, in the past, Lingzhen belonged to the forces of the Southern Territory. Shengtuo Heavenly Palace had to ignore the face of the leaders of the Southern Territory, including Yue Zong. , the current situation where Shengtuo Mountain and Zhiyue Temple coexist in Feihu Small World is the result of compromise between the two parties.
Zhou Pianran did not return home from Hengyun until the fifth year after the passage was opened. Although she had practiced diligently over the years, the spiritual energy in the lower world was so thin that she was trapped in the sixth level of Qi training for ten years.
However, Zhao Shun knew that the thin spiritual energy was only one of the reasons. The other reason was that Zhou Pianran had no intention of practicing and missed the best opportunity to expand his meridians when he was a child. Now that he is getting older and the efficiency of his practice is slowing down, it is even more important. It's hard to find a breakthrough.
"Are you still using the Synaesthesia True Consciousness Dharma Sutra?"
Zhou Pianran nodded, Wen said yes.
Zhao Chun then asked her to take out the book, picked up the ink pen, and made drastic changes on it: "This secret method of entraining qi is more neutral and pure, but it is not beneficial to your breakthrough in practice. In the future, if you practice according to this method, you must In less than twenty years, we will reach the threshold of foundation building."
This is the result of taking into account the aura environment of the lower world and Zhou Pianran's five spiritual root qualifications. If he were placed in Hengyun and practiced by another person, the time would be faster.
