The donkey cart drove slowly and arrived at a small town. At this time, there were many people going to the market in the morning. The driver stopped the donkey cart and began to sell firewood.
In these days, those who choose to buy firewood for burning are naturally wealthy people.
Soon, a boy from a wealthy family in the town came to negotiate and buy firewood.
When the boy checked the firewood, he found a small brown incense burner in the firewood pile. He thought the firewood seller had put it there intentionally to weigh the scale, so he took it out and threw it on the street.
The firewood seller didn't know when he had an extra incense burner in his car, so he let the boy throw it away.
At this time, the sun was shining brightly and there were many pedestrians coming and going. The incense burner fell on the roadside and remained motionless.
A group of children were playing and playing. They saw the incense burner and played with it for a while. They found that they couldn't open the lid of the incense burner and felt bored.
Someone suggested using this to fight beggars and weirdos. The other children heard this and agreed.
A group of children ran to a spot on the street and looked at a beggar-looking man leaning against the wall to bask in the sun.
"Weird, watch and fight!"
The child holding the incense burner threw the incense burner and hit the beggar-looking man on the head.
The man didn't respond after being beaten, but it was obvious that blood was flowing from his scalp and onto his face.
When the children saw that this man was bleeding, they all knew that he had caused trouble, and they dispersed with shouts.
The strange beggar didn't care about the children. Instead, he reached out and picked up the incense burner that fell on the ground, touched it, and put it in front of his eyes.
It turned out that his eyes had been closed before.
After getting the incense burner, the man suddenly opened his eyes.
I saw that the pupils of this man's eyes were of different colors, the left pupil was lavender, and the right pupil was light gold.
The moment this person opened his eyes, Ye Ming, who was hiding in the incense burner, suddenly felt like he was being seen through.
This feeling was the first time it had appeared in the years it had been conscious.
After the man opened his eyes and stared for a while, he closed them again, with a smile on his face and casually said "interesting".
After saying that, he held the incense burner in his arms and just leaned against the wall to bask in the sun.
It should be noted that it is June now and the weather is unbearably hot. Most people avoid the sun, but this person just doesn't hide from the sun. He actually keeps lying down and basking in the sun.
No wonder he is called a weirdo.
Someone passed by on the way and saw that he was pitiful and threw two copper coins in front of him. He remained motionless and looked indifferent.
Seeing this, passers-by shook their heads, said "weird", then ignored him and went about their own business.
After that, several people successively threw a few copper coins, steamed buns, vegetables, etc. to him.
This man remained indifferent from beginning to end.
As the sun sets over Qixia, the market ends. Except for the aborigines, all the people going to the market are basically gone.
Seeing that he could no longer bask in the sun, the weird beggar sat up lazily, picked up a dry steamed bun next to him and started to nibble on it.
After a while, several more beggars appeared.
These beggars were holding bamboo sticks. Seeing that the strange beggar was defenseless, a group of people swarmed up and snatched away all the copper coins, steamed buns, vegetables, etc. around him.
He didn't care, just nibbling the dry steamed bun in his hand.
The last beggar tried to snatch the remaining dry steamed buns in his hand, which showed how pitiful he was. The beggar was too embarrassed to do anything, so he let him go.
But the incense burner in his hand has never been taken care of. No one wants it if it cannot be eaten or used.
After eating the dry steamed buns, the weird beggar stood up with support, held the incense burner in his hand, and walked out of the town.
Walking all the way to a deserted small river, the beggar weirdo found a stone and sat down, blowing in the still hot evening wind, his long hair flowing with the wind, facing the direction of the setting sun, and he didn't know what he was thinking.
He threw the incense burner in his hand and caught it again and again, as if he was holding a toy.
Ye Ming huddled in the incense burner, not daring to take a breath.
This person is a bit scary.
Ye Ming regretted it. If he had known better, he would not have taken advantage of the opportunity. Now it was over. He seemed to have fallen into the hands of a big boss.
The weird beggar didn't do much. After playing for a while, he sang leisurely:
"Humans are not human, and demons are not demons. The villain sits in the high hall, the gentleman sits in the palace, the sheep eats the gray wolf, and the shadow of the moon lies in the setting sun..."
The song of the beggar monster is very strange and contagious. As I listen to it, I feel a little fascinated...
Ye Ming woke up suddenly, no, he was a big devil. As a big devil, wasn't his best skill at bewitching people's hearts and making them become possessed?
Why are you almost being influenced by someone in the opposite direction now?
After finishing the song, the beggar and the weird man threw the incense burners one after another, and then threw them into the river.
"When the ink enters the water, does the water become turbid or the ink becomes clear?"
This sentence, whether it was a question or a murmur to himself, reached Ye Ming's ears. The incense burner floated farther and farther along the river. The strange beggar on the bank turned his back to the river and waved his hand as if to say goodbye.
Seeing the strange beggar disappear on the shore, Ye Ming was filled with doubts as to what was going on.
Who is the other party? He clearly discovered him, but then let him go?
Full of doubts, Ye Ming was too lazy to leave the river and let the incense burner drift downstream with the river...
The incense burner floated in the river for a long time, until at a certain moment, Ye Ming felt the familiar power of wish.
It knew that Upper River Bend had arrived.
The incense burner flew out of the river and entered the upper river bend area.
After entering the village, Ye Ming teleported directly to the ancestral hall, and then set off from the ancestral hall to the north of the village to see how Miss Wen was doing.
I haven’t seen you for a while, and I don’t know how my “food storage” is growing.
It was early in the morning, and Miss Wen and her servant had just woken up.
Lu Yi has recently accepted Miss Wen's habit of touching her hairpins from time to time.
But for some reason, the way the young lady touches her hairpins these days is a little different from the past few days.
Lu Yi couldn't tell exactly what was different. Although their movements were the same, they always felt that their expressions and emotions were very special.
When Lu Yi was wondering, he suddenly saw the young lady touching her hairpin again.
Yes, that's what it feels like.
This is how the lady felt when she touched her hairpin a few days ago.
But what is the difference?
Lu Yi couldn't understand, really couldn't understand.
After touching the hairpin, Miss Wen smiled and said:
"Lv Yi, I've worked hard on you for breakfast. I'm going to read a book."
Hey, reading, miss, I haven’t read for several days, why do you think of reading again?
Also, the lady’s smile just now was much prettier than usual.
I always feel a different feeling, which is very comfortable and warm in my heart...
Lu Yi couldn't tell what it felt like, but she knew that at this moment, the lady was very happy.
Ye Ming discovered that after not seeing each other for a few days, the content Miss Wen had read could still be connected to the content she had read before she left last time.
Hasn't she read a book these days?
Later, Ye Ming discovered that there were many embroidery works in Miss Wen's boudoir, including handkerchiefs and the like.
I guess I’ve been busy with female celebrities recently and haven’t had time to read!
For the next month and a half, nothing major happened.
The village is generally peaceful. Every day, Ye Ming is either reading and practicing with Miss Wen, studying with Mr. Bai, or wandering around the village.
Pang Wuzhong's injury healed faster than expected. He is now able to do some strenuous work. It is estimated that he will be basically recovered in more than a month.
Xiahewan has not been peaceful recently. One person died of illness, two people drowned while bathing in the river, all of which were dealt with by Ye Ming.
There is nothing else worth mentioning.
On this day, Ye Ming was listening to Mr. Bai's class when he suddenly felt someone coming from outside the village.
Needless to say, Taoist Chongzhun and Monk Zhisu returned.
The two quickly found Mr. Bai, and after chatting with him for a while, they went to the ancestral hall.
Soon, the three of them met in the back hall of the ancestral hall.
Ye Ming naturally pretended not to know what happened during their trip and took the initiative to ask about their experiences.
The two didn't hide much. Except for the fact that they were seriously injured, they basically told everything else.
He even mentioned that there were experts from the mysterious Taoist sect to help him.
"Master of the mysterious Taoist sect, do you have any guesses about the correct way?"
Ye Ming asked directly. Some questions did not need to be covered up.
Taoist Chongzhun sighed and said:
"You know the Zhengxuan Five Elements Dharma, but you don't want to meet me. You must be a disciple of that sect!"
"Can Taoist Master make it clear? Of course, if it is inconvenient, the little god will not force it."
"Actually, it's not a secret anymore. This matter is not a secret in the cultivation world."
Taoist Chongzhun explained.
Zhengxuanmen has been one of the most powerful sects in the world since its establishment, and it reached its peak when it was the third leader.
The rule that the successive heads of the Zhengxuan Sect also served as the national advisor of the dynasty started with the third generation of heads.
But there was a problem between the two disciples of the third generation master.
The two disciples of this leader are so outstanding that no matter who is the leader, it will be unfair to the other person.
Fortunately, the junior brother had no intention of competing for fame and wealth, so there was no internal fighting.
It's just that there's a big problem with the concepts between the two senior brothers.
Senior brother's philosophy is the same as that of the three generations of masters and the founder of the sect. He believes in the way of heaven and man and pursues the balance of all things.
Although demons are killed to eliminate evil, only those who have done the most evil will be killed. Those who are guilty of minor evils will be punished. Those who are neither good nor evil will be left to their own devices. Those who have done good deeds and accumulated virtues will be rewarded.
And that junior brother was naturally hostile to all non-human practitioners in the world because his family had been harmed by evil spirits since he was a child.
He believes that man is the only one among all things in the world, and everything else can only be his slave. Life and death should be decided by man with a single word.
The ideological differences between the two were nothing at first, as long as the junior brother was less likely to go down the mountain.
However, after the third generation head passed away and the senior brother took over as the fourth generation head, the Heavenly Demon Rebellion broke out.
As the head of the sect, the senior brother is in charge of the Taoist sects all over the world, while the junior brother is responsible for fighting on the front lines.
It is because he fought on the front line that all the demons and monsters he saw were doing evil. This further deepened his hatred of non-human beings. He would kill monsters without mercy and would sometimes kill friendly spirit beasts. , mount.
He even killed the river dragon species, you know, they were our allies.
Because of this incident, his senior brother, who was the leader, called him back to the sect for questioning.
Because of this, the ideological conflict between the two completely exploded.
From then on, the junior brother announced his withdrawal from the Zhengxuan Sect and founded his own sect.
This sect is named Qingyi Sect, which means "the sky is pure and the earth is upright, and only man is the only one".
The disciples accepted by the Qing sect are all human, and they all hate monsters and aliens.
During the war, this group of people was so terrifying that the demons were so frightened that they scurried away.
But in times of peace, they often kill and kill other non-human races arbitrarily, causing dissatisfaction among all races.
Later, all the major forces of the human race gathered together to have a talk with Qing Yimen.
What exactly was discussed that time, and how it was discussed, are all kept secret by those who have experienced it.
Afterwards, the Qing Yi Sect announced that it would close its doors. From then on, in peacetime, only three disciples would be sent out to find suitable disciples.
But during the war, the various factions could no longer prevent the Qing Yi clan from being born.
Taoist Chongzhun suspected that the person who helped them earlier was an expatriate disciple of Qingyi Sect.
After hearing what Taoist Chongzhun said, Ye Ming was so frightened that he broke into a cold sweat.
Darling, are there any sects like this in the world?
I'm scared to death. Fortunately, Qing Yimen has not been born yet. It's not a big problem. It's not a big problem!
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