Weishan Tongqing Temple, in Zen Master Lingyou’s Zen room.
"Senior brother, how many years have we not seen each other?"
Just as the two old friends were having a lively conversation, Dan Chenzi's expression suddenly changed and he asked in an almost deep voice.
"If we count the time, it must be close to twenty years!"
After being slightly stunned, Zen Master Lingyou, who was sitting cross-legged, rolled his eyes before replying calmly.
"Yes! Twenty years have passed in the blink of an eye."
Standing up slowly, Dan Chenzi looked at the scrawny old man in front of him in an almost overlooking manner, with a touch of pity and unwillingness revealed in his words.
"You and I met when we were at our peak, but when we meet again we are completely different."
Clearly aware of the unkindness in Dan Chenzi's words, Zen Master Lingyou fell silent immediately.
"Do you know how I have been here for the past twenty years?"
Not caring at all about Zen Master Lingyou's silence, Dan Chenzi's emotions that had been suppressed for seventeen years broke out at this moment.
"I obviously trust you so much and treat you like my real brother..."
"But what about you?"
"For your arrogant master and your so-called long-cherished wish, you single-handedly provoked a dispute between the Buddhist and Taoist families."
As he said this, Dan Chenzi actually shed tears from the corners of his eyes, as if he was lamenting that he had not been able to recognize people in the first half of his life.
"In the end, we even went straight to Mount Zhongnan to help that dog emperor destroy our Taoism and plunder our Taoism!"
"Do you know how I have been trying to find your whereabouts for the past twenty years?"
Unable to help but open his mouth, Zen Master Lingyou looked at his former old friend who hesitated to speak, but in the end he continued to remain silent without speaking.
"Oh, you don't even want to refute now?"
Seeing this situation, Dan Chenzi suddenly sneered and raised his volume a little.
"In the past twenty years, I have always thought about how to kill you when I find you!"
"I have also thought about whether you died after your golden body was broken!"
"But what I never expected was that you would completely abandon your former self and become a stupid old bald donkey in this hellish place!"
"The 'mad monk who disrupted the law' who once stood proudly among the others has now become a monk whose followers are waiting for death..."
"If your former enemies knew your current situation, they would probably die laughing!"
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The time goes back more than forty years ago, when the last emperor, Tang Jingzong, had just ascended the throne.
At that time, Monk Lingyou was just a wandering monk living in a small temple outside Beijing, and Dan Chenzi was also just a young Taoist priest who had just come out of Mount Zhongnan.
The first encounter between the two was purely a coincidence, because at that time Dan Chenzi was teasing a mortal with magic.
Just like those traveling gods in the story, when Dan Chenzi passed by a small market, he planned to ask a local fruit farmer for a fruit to quench his thirst.
In this regard, the fruit farmers who have worked hard for more than half a year and are planning to make money from these fruits naturally do not want to pay attention to these Taoist priests who eat and drink for free.
Therefore, he told the other party to go away in a rather polite tone and not to disturb his business.
If it were a normal Taoist priest, even if he was dissatisfied after seeing this scene, he would probably just leave in anger.
However, Dan Chenzi is not one of those ordinary Taoist priests. He is a practitioner, and he is also an accomplished practitioner of supernatural powers.
So in the shocked eyes of the fruit farmers and the jeers of the onlookers, Dan Chenzi performed a trick of "turning fruit out of thin air" on the spot, and then gave it to all the passers-by in the market with a smile on his face.
Even if the fruit farmers later choose to sell their fruits in another place, Dan Chenzi will still perform the trick of "turning fruits out of thin air" in the same place and give them to people passing by.
If this were the case, even if Monk Lingyou had seen it, he would have lamented that this little Taoist priest was naughty enough to show off his magic skills like this.
Unfortunately, the matter is far from over yet.
Because just when the fruit farmer was about to pack up his stall and go home to sell fruits another day, he suddenly found that there were fewer fruits on his stall.
That's right, Dan Chenzi's "trick" that was made out of nothing was not real.
He just used a simple blind method to get the fruits from the fruit farmers, and then distributed them to the passers-by.
After learning the truth of the matter, the fruit farmer was not willing to let the thief go. He immediately grabbed the thief and refused to let him go, and even shouted that he should go to see the official.
Zen Master Lingyou happened to be passing by the market at that time and learned the whole story from the passers-by.
"Just for your own temporary anger, you ruined the achievements of others for a year. Your petty behavior is simply ridiculous!"
Monk Lingyou, who was still very young and energetic at the time, could not get used to this kind of thing. He immediately stopped Dan Chenzi who was about to cast a spell to escape, and started fighting with him.
Because the monk Lingyou at that time was not a golden Arhat who had broken through the realm of heaven and man.
Therefore, he cannot crush Dan Chenzi in terms of force, especially when taking into account the destructive power of practitioners.
On the other hand, although Dan Chenzi was a humble person, his magical powers and spells were extremely mysterious, and he was even on a par with Monk Lingyou for a while.
The battle continued until Si Tiantai intervened and took the two casual cultivators who had affected the security of the capital back to the government office, and the incident gradually calmed down.
As the saying goes, there is no acquaintance without fighting. Although Dan Chenzi hated this bald donkey who liked to preach to him, he still admired the magical powers displayed by the other party.
After going back and forth, Dan Chenzi, who was originally a young man, shamelessly entered the temple where Zen Master Lingyou lived temporarily in order to "steal" his magical powers.
Dan Chenzi may not be good in terms of character, Taoism, etc., but his interest and talent in magical powers are unmatched by anyone.
In this regard, Zen Master Lingyou seemed very helpless on the surface, but privately he did not prevent Dan Chenzi from learning and practicing with him.
On the contrary, after that fight, Zen Master Lingyou discovered that Dan Chenzi was really just a young man, and he really didn't think too much about teasing the fruit farmers.
"Compared with magical powers and spells, it is more important for you to hone your character now."
From that time on, Zen Master Lingyou, who showed his "love to teach others", often said this to Dan Chenzi.
As expected, Dan Chenzi often gets a helpless expression on his face, saying, "This monk has to teach me again."
It can be said that the friendship between the two at that time was very pure, a kind of brotherly love that was both teacher and friend.
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