Sword comes

Chapter 950

A thin Taoist priest, wearing a felt hat, a well-patched blue cotton robe, and a pair of thick cotton shoes, walked on the road, as if dangling from a thin bamboo pole.

Beside him was a burly middle-aged man with a knife at his waist, the handle of which was polished and polished. The man started to grow a beard a few months ago, and soon his face was full of beards.

The two sides walked together on the road back to their hometowns. Their hometowns were not far away, only thirty or forty miles away, and both belonged to the boundary of Wuling County.

In fact, the Taoist wanted the man to be more than 20 years younger, but because of his old appearance, he looked at least ten years older than the latter.

The key point is that although this Taoist priest does not have an officially recognized ultimatum to confer a book, and belongs to the number of private records, he is a genuine practitioner of Taoism, and his friends around him are pure warriors.

The two returned from a long journey together, and this trip took several years, traveled to many places, and met many strange people and strange things.

It was Yuanlu, the king of rice thieves, Qi Gu, a warrior of the swordsman lineage.

A perfect monk in the Jade Raw Realm, a martial artist at the peak of the Nine Realms who may break through the realm at any time.

In this world of Qingming, Taoist priests of the lineage of Mi Thief, just looking at the word "Mi Thief", know that the situation is not very good. Everyone shouted and beat him in crooked ways, but it's best not to get close to the boundary of Baiyujing. Once he found his whereabouts, he would probably go to the twelfth floor of the five cities as a guest.

Qi Gu asked: "Do you think I should agree to Zhu Xuan's invitation?"

On the way of traveling, I once passed by Yongzhou, which belongs to a geomantic treasure land with the most abundant water transportation among the fourteen states of Qingming.

The Qingshan Dynasty in Bingzhou and the Yufu Dynasty in Yongzhou are both the most powerful dynasties in this state, and they are second to none behemoths.

Somehow, the two were discovered by the young female emperor of the Yufu Dynasty. Zhu Xuan showed up in person and invited Qi Gu to be a royal enshrinement.

However, both parties know well that Zhu Xuan, the empress of the Yufu Dynasty, is Jiehu, because Qi Gu may become the "strongest" warrior at any time and anywhere. A considerable amount of gift of martial arts, so Zhu Xuan not only took out an enshrined status, but also offered a price, which was extremely generous, not to mention the salary, just Zhu Xuan promised to take out a weapon from the imperial secret storehouse, which can be used by Qi Gu , the time limit is 300 years, which is extremely attractive. This peerless famous gun named "Broken Array" has always been the treasure of the Yufu Dynasty. It can innately restrain the formation of Qi trainers. The martial artist at the end, holding this spear again, is invincible against the Qi trainers under the immortals.

Not to mention winning or losing, it is estimated that it will be difficult for the opponent to run.

Anyone who can be among the ten young and alternates, whether it is a monk or a martial artist, who doesn't have a few killers?

On the other hand, Qingshen Dynasty, it seems that it doesn't matter where Qi Gu breaks through. So far, not even a Taoist official has shown up, let alone His Majesty the Emperor and the elegant minister Yao Qing.

Qi was very angry.

After all, Lao Tzu is a warrior of the Nine Realms, so he doesn't fall into your eyes?

Wang Yuanlu said, "Anyway, when you see the good-looking auntie, you won't be able to move your legs."

Qi Gu said angrily: "You will only be in the nest."

It is true that Wang Yuanlu dared to be so arrogant on his side. When seeing outsiders, he would tie his tongue and couldn't speak clearly.For example, on the side of the female emperor Zhu Xuan, Wang Yuanlu kept his head down, his ears were red, and he was almost asking three sentences and answering one sentence. Before that, at Lutai and Yuan Ying's side, the Taoist priests were even drunk. I just said a few words to that Mr. Lu, drank to the point where I was sad, and the capacity for alcohol was poor, and I cried so hard that I didn't go crazy with alcohol.

Perhaps the only exception is the Xuandu Guansun Daoist who Wang Yuanlu called "the old ancestor" for many years.

Wang Yuanlu was indeed quite heroic on the old temple master's side, and dared to scold Lao Guapi face to face.

The old Guanzhu is the unshakable fifth person in the world, especially the catchphrase "Poverty likes to be kind to others, and never makes overnight enemies with others", which is well-known in the Qingming world.

So Qi Gu tried to persuade Wang Yuanlu in private. On the old fairy's side, he should be more polite, but he couldn't persuade him.

"If I don't even see that Liu Jing when I go home this time, I won't put my hot face on my cold ass."

Qi Gu became angrier as he talked, cursing and saying: "Damn it, it's true that domestic flowers are not as fragrant as wild flowers, so I can't blame me for the flowers blooming inside the walls and fragrant outside the walls."

Wuling County, located in the capital city of the Qingshen Dynasty, is a place where rich and noble families gather together, and there are many aristocratic families.

Wuling County, five counties under its jurisdiction, Changmao Junyangping.Since it is the location of the imperial mausoleum, it was actually a place specially used by the Qingshen Dynasty to gather and house the founding dignitaries at the earliest.

Liu Jing, the current governor of the county, is a relative of the emperor, and also has the status of an official of the palace.

In addition, all the mountains and rivers of the Qingshan Dynasty have palaces to promote officials, which are often used by the court to place idle ministers who are old, more like an honorary title.

Wang Yuanlu said, "Be careful that Yao Shoufu is staring at you."

Qi Gu asked, "Isn't it?"

Wang Yuanlu frowned slightly and said, "It's hard to say."

Qi Gu hesitated for a moment, and then resorted to the method of gathering voices to form a line, and whispered to his friends: "Fortunately, our Bingzhou is under the jurisdiction of Qingcui City, otherwise we would have been dealt with by Baiyu Jingdao's second child, Wuling County It will never be as vibrant as it is today.”

Wang Yuanlu said: "The same source and different streams have different water properties. The common people live by the water, and of course they like the water with a gentle flow. Floods occur every two days, which is unbearable for individuals, and they want to complain about injustice."

Qi Gu laughed and said, "Occasionally, I can still come up with a few truths."

Qi Gu remembered something and said, "I heard that Master Yu has recruited a new disciple."

The Taoist grinned, "Good luck, I can't be envious."

Qi Gu joked, "Xu Jun's life is the best."

The Taoist thought for a while, then shook his head and said, "Sect Master Xu is not only lucky... No, Sect Master Xu's fate is actually not good, the real ability is to have a hard life."

Qi Gu said: "One day, I will marry that white lotus root as my daughter-in-law, and I will be considered a glorious ancestor!"

The Taoist habitually bowed his head and folded his hands, his body was hunched, "Auntie hot, if you really want to get married, you just have to chew chili peppers every day."

Qi Gu's eyes sparkled, he shook his wrist, and said with a grin: "As long as I win one game with her, marry her, and lose to her a hundred or a thousand games, it doesn't matter!"

There are two types of fights.

The Taoist muttered softly and complained, "Why are you talking so obscenely?"

Qi Gu snorted, "Do you understand this?"

In the last hundred years, like a good year for the crops, a large number of talented people from all states have emerged in Wuling County. There are only two of the ten young candidates in the world.

In addition, in the Huayang Palace of Difei Mountain, one of the ancestral courts of the Fulu Sect, there is a young monk with the Taoist name Youran, and there is a female Taoist official with the Taoist name Nanshan in Caishui Mountain. Infant monk.

The two on the road at this moment are the younger generation who have gone out of Wuling County. Youran and Nanshan are also one of the three thousand Taoist officials who rushed to Wucai Tianxia. Born in the same month and the same day, even the time is exactly the same, such a match made in heaven, so that the two groups of Taoist officials on Difei Mountain and Caishou Mountain have subtle changes in their hearts.

In fact, Wang Yuanlu and Qi Gu really wanted to go to the colorful world together, but the rules set by the Haoran Tianxia Confucian Temple were over there, and the realm of both parties had exceeded the threshold, so they couldn't go there.

In the eyes of the Taoist officials on the mountain, this Wuling County is a cornucopia, a den of immortals.

In the eyes of several worlds, it is a gold and jade dojo comparable to Lizhu Dongtian in Haoran Tianxia.

There are dude children who lie on the merits of their ancestors and wait to die, and there are also children from Wuling who are "young and vigorous, and vigorous and spontaneous", who are not hesitant to die in the side court. young ranger.

Anyway, they are all famous Wuling teenagers in the world.

But in the eyes of Wang Yuanlu and Qi Gu, it was just their hometown.

The rich are very rich, and the poor are too poor, and they live their own lives.

On the grass in Liliyuan, angry horses in fresh clothes and flying dust on the official road, a group of rich and distinguished guests came with golden saddle jade.

This group of horses for outings are all young men and women, with swords and bows, riding horses looking for flowers, romantic and heroic, full of spirits, and full of fierceness.

The Taoist priest was just the opposite, timid and shy, with a mischievous look, full of vulgarity.

Wang Yuanlu hurriedly moved away, instead of fighting for the road, he took the initiative to avoid those extremely powerful and mysterious tall horses, Qi Gu had to stand by the road, and when the group of Wang's grandchildren rode away, Qi Gu raised his hand and waved Wiping the dust, he habitually dug out his crotch with one hand, and said with a smile: "It's just that the skin looks good. It really depends on whether the seed is good or not. The two of us are of no avail and suffered a big loss. Therefore, when we marry a wife in the future, we must find a good-looking one." of."

Wang Yuanlu didn't talk to her, she was silent for a moment, and said, "If you can change the habit of picking out your crotch, you can change it. If a woman sees it, at least the favorability will be halved."

Qi Gu laughed and said, "The guy is too big, he can't put it in the right position."

Wang Yuanlu said, "Why do you lift your belt first every time you release the water?"

Qi Gu was speechless.Why are you competing with me?

The two passed by a roadside kiosk where a group of gamblers were throwing dice. Qi Gu rubbed his hands, and Wang Yuanlu glanced sideways.

Qi Gu chuckled, "Don't worry, the old rules, since I have promised you, I will definitely do what I say. Forget it for today, I will send you home first."

Qi Gu has a problem since he was a child, he is addicted to gambling.

Later, I got to know Wang Yuanlu and became friends. I promised myself that I would hang out with me in the future, and I promised that I would get what I lack.

As a result, Qi Gu suffered big losses twice in Qingshen Dynasty capital and Luzhou because of gambling.

It happened that Wang Yuanlu hurried to hear the news twice to help settle the matter. The so-called "settlement" is very simple. It means that I, Wang Yuanlu, took money to settle the injustice, so I took my life to settle it.

Rescued Qi Gu twice and killed a bloody road.

It can even be said that the reason why Wang Yuanlu became a Taoist priest of Mi Thief lineage was thanks to Qi Gu.

But in those years, at most Wang Yuanlu complained to Qi Gu, hanging out with his elder brother, starving nine meals in three days.

Wang Yuanlu's thoughts are very simple and simple. It is my own choice to agree to be friends with you. Since I am a friend, I have to act like a friend.

My friends don't regard me as a friend, it's because of my vision, I have nothing to complain about, after suffering a few times, I feel that I can't bear it anymore, so I just parted ways.

After that, Wang Yuanlu made a rule for Qi Gu.

As long as you are at the gambling table and don’t want to make money, you can gamble with whatever money you want, hundreds or thousands of taels, or even the fairy money. If you have no money, it’s okay to borrow money from me to gamble.

But as long as you want to make money, even if it's just a few pennies, don't gamble.Otherwise, we will not be friends in the future.

Wang Yuanlu's only purpose in making friends is not to be stingy, and to have a few close friends, this kind of talent is worth making.

Qi Gu asked: "Still don't plan to pierce the window paper? Don't show your identity with your brother?"

Wang Yuanlu said helplessly, "I'm afraid."

Qi Gu said sullenly, "You have to blame me."

If Wang Yuanlu was not a sect Taoist of the rice thief lineage, and received the talisman at the court of the Qingshen Dynasty, his brother's family would be regarded as "reaching the Tao and ascending to immortality and chickens and dogs". To set up a door in this Wuling County, spread the branches and spread the leaves, and pass on the incense for several generations, it may be said that it is a prefect family in one place.It's not going to happen now, because Wang Yuanlu has too many enemies on the mountain because of himself.

Wang Yuanlu shook his head, "That's not the case. Small days are safe and secure, and my elder brother also has his own life."

Qi Gu only regarded it as a friend comforting him.

Wang Yuanlu's elder brother, named Wang Yuanfu, and his father-in-law is a local butcher. Today, with a pair of large intestines and a catty of loose wine bought from a roadside wine shop, he wandered to the door of his son-in-law's yellow mud house, smelling With one face, seeing the daughter and son-in-law who went out to greet her, she complained, "I've lost my life and had bad luck. I married a daughter who should have been married to a wealthy family and a wife to you, a rotten poor ghost who is a treasure in this world. Over the years, I don’t know how much I have been tired. Now I don’t know how much virtue my ancestors have accumulated, which has led you to become a Taoist boy. In the future, there will be more reasons not to do business. My heart is fatter, and I don’t know how much hard work I will have to pay in the future. Yinzi, could it be that I owed you in the previous life, and the debt collection is coming in this life, if there is a next life, please remember to pay me back."

Wang Yuanfu bent down and lowered his head, not daring to speak back, glanced at the jug, swallowed, really hungry.

Not surprisingly, the flagon was filled with a catty of loose wine. After drinking the wine, the old man still had to take it home.

The identity of the Taoist boy who was said by the old man to be "raised" by him is actually a candidate for a Taoist priest, similar to the fame of a child born in Haoran Tianxia. With this identity, he will take part in the county government examination every three years Opportunity, if you pass the exam, you can get the status of an orthodox Taoist priest recognized by the court only by participating in the conferment of a government office.However, he is still one step away from being a real "Master Daoist". He has to wait to fill the vacancy. If there is a real vacancy, no matter if he is working in the yamen or going to a temple, he can be regarded as a serious Taoist official.

The butcher with big and round shoulders said to the daughter who seemed to have poured out the water: "Go, boil the intestines, and then boil a pot of wine to eat."

Wang Yuanfu led the father-in-law into the house and walked behind him. The father-in-law spoke loudly and spit everywhere. Wang Yuanfu secretly raised his sleeve and wiped his face.

When the father-in-law sat down, Wang Yuanfu shook his robe and sat down lightly. Butcher took a look out of the corner of his eye. He was poor and particular, and he really regarded himself as a Taoist official, just for the sake of that Taoist boy. Only then could he not say anything, and asked, "Where's your younger brother who has been away from home all year round?"

Wang Yuanfu smiled wryly and said, "I haven't heard from you for a long time."

The old man sneered and said, "I don't even know how to send a letter from my family. I have raised a younger brother for nothing. Fortunately, Wang Yuanlu is still educated and literate. It's because of how miserable he has been outside all these years that he didn't even send a letter." I can’t bear to spend the money for the letter.”

According to the genealogy of the ancestral hall in the village, it is the original character generation, and the word "Yuan" needs to be embedded in the name. In fact, Wang Yuanlu's real name is Wang Yuanlu.

Wang Yuanfu still didn't dare to talk back.

In the world of Qingming, Taoist officials have various identities and titles, and not only Qi trainers can become Taoist officials, ordinary masters without cultivation qualifications, as long as they pass the official examination, they can also obtain Taoist degree certificates, but they will be awarded with different laws. In addition to those promulgated by the imperial court, there are also those inherited from generation to generation.

Like this Wang Yuanfu, who is looked down upon by the old man, even if he is lucky enough to become a Taoist official in the future, he will still be like that filthy petty official who does not enter the Qingliu rank. The road to promotion in the future will be relatively narrow, and it is very likely that he will be transferred Go to a small remote Taoist temple, or work as an idler in some Qingshui yamen similar to the brewing bureau of the county yabaogaosi brewing bureau.But for Wang Yuanfu, who was born in a poor family and had no heels or feet, if there was such a day, it would be regarded as a glorious lintel, and he could go to the village ancestral hall to burn incense and worship ancestors.

Just like my younger brother Wang Yuanlu, who has also been studying Taoist scriptures and codes for 20 years. He has applied for the exam many times, but he has not been able to get an official Taoist official. The main thing is Wuling County. Those wealthy children, who have studied since childhood and have a master to teach them, of course have inherent advantages, and are good at betting questions. After all, the examiner Taoist priest with the title of lawyer, how to come up with questions is also a science.Furthermore, I blame my younger brother Wang Yuanlu for being too high-spirited. He was so determined that he wanted to be the prestige master of the largest Taoist temple in his hometown. If he passed the exam, after a few years of "walking" experience, he would hopefully be in charge of the abbot of the Taoist temple. The track indicates that the Taoist officials' sitting is the majesty of advancing and retreating.

It's just that the prestige teacher in the largest Taoist temple in our Wuling County is so easy to pass the exam, let alone Wang Yuanlu, even those Gaoliang children whose ancestors are richer than today and have no family fortune, are they not the same?

The old man said: "Your younger brother is a toy that cannot be supported. It is best not to go back. It is said that it is a matter of extra chopsticks, but it is not a matter."

When my daughter begged me to help her brother-in-law, he helped him find a job as an apprentice in a silver shop in the county. What a good job, otherwise there would be the old saying "thieves are better than silversmiths"?never thought

That kid didn't know what was good and what was bad, he refused to die, he insisted on staying on the mountain.

Coincidentally, Weng and his son-in-law were chatting about Wang Yuanlu.

Wang Yuanlu returned to his hometown, and now he stood outside the threshold and called out "Brother".

Seeing his younger brother outside the door whom he hadn't seen for several years, Wang Yuanfu was overjoyed, but still had a straight face. He was about to stand up, but as soon as he lifted his buttocks, he quickly sat back on the bench, just nodded, and said, "Go to the stove!" Over there, say hello to your sister-in-law."

Wang Yuanlu hummed, turned and left.

Butcher slapped the table and said angrily, "I don't even know how to say hello to me when we meet. I don't understand the rules."

Wang Yuanfu smiled and said: "Yuanlu has been like this since he was a child. His temper is a bit withdrawn and he doesn't get close to anyone."

Butcher said sarcastically: "As far as his cowardly virtue is concerned, if he wants to get close to anyone, he has to be willing to do so. There are people in their thirties, and they can't even find an ugly woman who warms the bed. If I let me go, how can I do it?" Go to the grave to pay respects to the ancestors, hit your head to death, burn high incense, and have a good baby in the next life, at least don’t look so ugly, walk at night, let alone scare people to death, even ghosts will be scared to death by him.”

Wang Yuanfu looked embarrassed.After all, he is an old man, so it is not easy to get angry.

After a meal, Tu Zi and Wang Yuanfu sat at the table, and Wang Yuanlu refused to eat at the table, so he picked up a few chopsticks and squatted at the door holding a bowl.

Wang Yuanfu tried to persuade him, knowing that this younger brother is a very determined person and doesn't understand the world, so if he can't be persuaded, let it be.

Wang Yuanlu bowed his head to cook food outside the door, Qi Gu didn't come to the door, and each went back to his own house.

The rice in the bowl was very firm, and the rice spoon was pressed hard. When the rice bottomed out, Wang Yuanlu held the big white bowl and stared blankly ahead.

Don't blame everyone and everyone to live a hard life, the mute eats coptis with a smile.

Wang Yuanlu turned his head, raised his head again, swallowed the rice, and asked, "Why is Cave Master Bixiao here?"

The previous round of Mingyue moved to Qingming Tianxia. On that day, Wang Yuanlu saw this old senior from afar. He had a big air and a high level of Taoism, and he stood beside Bai Yujing's second child.

I heard Guanzhu Sun said that it was the cave master of Bixiao Cave in Luobaotan, who lived ten thousand years plus thousands of years, and liked to wrestle with Taoist ancestors.If I meet this senior in the future, I will kowtow a few more times without saying a word, it must be right.

The old temple master said calmly, "Walk around."

Wang Yuanlu nodded and said, "Whatever you want is fine."

It seems that the higher the opponent's Taoism, the less stage-frightened the young Taoist priest is.

The old Guanzhu asked: "What did you see, so sad?"

Wang Yuanlu replied: "A man who looks like a dragon in the sky, his huge body fell quietly to the ground, and his body was covered with mosquitoes, flies and maggots, which lingered."

"After a long time, it may also be full of flowers and plants."

"So sad."

"How to say?"

"Grass grows and flowers bloom all over the mountains and fields, and then they are gone. Of course we can wait for another time, but what if we are those flowers and plants."

When the old temple master heard this, he showed a look of approval, and said with a smile: "If you don't practice Taoism, who will cultivate Taoism?"

Wang Yuanlu continued to hold the bowl and asked, "Is there going to be chaos in the world?"

The old Guanzhu asked back: "Does this kind of future matter have anything to do with you?"

Wang Yuanlu nodded, "Not yet."

Bowing his head to pick up the rice, eating the last bite of rice, chewing slowly, the young Taoist priest chewed the words "will" and "come" together by the way.

The old temple master stroked his beard and smiled, "Heaven makes my life, and I make my life."

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In the Gyeonggi land of the Qingshen Dynasty, there is a royal palace named Changzha Palace. There is a Sanwu Temple with glazed tiles with bright yellow cloud patterns, which is the first Taoist temple in the country.

Today, the elegant minister Yao Qing and the national teacher Bai Ou are here to entertain two distinguished guests. They are a pair of Taoist couples with different ages.

Yao Qing took the pair of Taoist couples to visit Sanwu Temple, and came to an elegant house, where Bai Ou personally made tea for the guests.

The Taoist temple is so named because there were three sycamore trees planted by the founding emperor in front of the Taoist temple.

Plant bananas in one day, bamboo in one year, willow in ten years and pine in a hundred years.As a plan for thousands of years, plant phoenix trees.

Qingshen Liu's family stretches across the country and ranks first in Bingzhou.

And the three sycamore trees have already been refined and served as royal offerings.

This place is also the place where the former emperor of the Qingshen Dynasty passed away and was left alone.

As for the elegant minister, Yao Qing, of course, was the unsuspecting leader of the Gu Ming ministers.

In Qingming Tianxia, ​​there are no rules that emperors and monarchs cannot practice like in Haoran Tianxia.

Therefore, in the fourteen states of the world, there is always that emperor, who is not only the founder of the country, but also the king of the country's subjugation.

In Haoran Tianxia, ​​it is extremely rare for a long-lived emperor to proclaim himself emperor and reign for one year.But here, those who sit on the dragon chair for no more than a sixty-year period are all short-lived emperors.

On Bingzhou Mountain, there is an undocumented gossip that the late emperor had a heart-to-heart conversation with the elegant minister Yao Qing before his death.

The first emperor once said, "If the master is a little suspicious of the country, it is not the blessing of the country. You can take it yourself."

Yao Qing replied, "If I have the strength to face the south, I can assist the young master to become a wise king."

As for how this face-to-face private conversation between the monarch and his ministers spread, Guanzhu Sun said convincingly about this, it must be that Lu Laosan was the gentleman on the beam, eavesdropped on the conversation, and couldn't control his mouth.

The female crown with the dao name "Fu Kan" took the teacup from Bai Ou, and asked with a smile, "Why did you think of punching that monster?"

She also doesn't care if she breaks the taboo or sprinkles salt on the wound of the white lotus root.

The appearance of the white lotus root is extremely brilliant, charming and natural.

At her waist is a short halberd of great origin, named "Iron Room".

Pei Bei and Pei Bei of the Daduan Dynasty in the vast world are both female masters, and both are national teachers of a country.

Almost every ten years, Bai Ou will have a fist fight with one of the ten martial arts people who have been evaluated together.

In the four rounds of boxing, Bai Ou won all, three died, and the only one who survived also fell.

Therefore, four of the top ten masters in the world were missing in Jiazi's first review, and the martial arts review became a joke and a display.

Although Bai Ou is a woman, she is at the top of Qingming Tianxia martial arts, showing a kind of outstanding and invincible majesty.

A short halberd, unparalleled in sharpness, swept across the world.

It's just that Bai Ou's choice to fight hard with Runyue Peak this time is definitely not a wise move in the eyes of the outside world.

After all, he is a pure martial artist that even Daozu admired very much.

Bai Ou had a bitter look on his face, he shook his head, not wanting to talk about such things.

They failed to climb to the top of Runyue Peak, but got punched when they got halfway up the mountain.

"It was I who suggested that Bai Ou go to Runyue Peak to try his true self."

Yao Qing said with a smile: "Before Lin Jiangxian made two shots, he was too measured. It was easy for Bai Ou to misunderstand and think too highly of himself."

Bai Ou and Runyue Peak have worked hard, both of them are martial arts masters, one is second in the world and the other is third.

Yao Qing said with a smile: "The gap is not small, and I still haven't been able to test the depth of hard work in martial arts."

It can be said that Bai Ou obeyed this elegant appearance who was also a teacher and a father.

Chao Ge said: "This rice thief Wang Yuanlu's sharpness of consciousness has almost reached the level of Ascension, so Qingshen Dynasty didn't plan to recruit it?"

Yao Qing said with a smile: "This guy is a troublemaker. The more he avoids troubles, the more troubles come to him. We Qingshen Dynasty can't bear it."

But Bai Ou knew a secret matter. Before Wang Yuanlu made his fortune, Lord Shoufu took him to Wuling County several times. When he saw this young man, he didn't teach any Taoism, as if he was just chatting .

Chao Ge tentatively asked: "Then let Wang Yuanlu go to Liangjing Mountain, I can guarantee that he can be the mountain owner in the future, how about it?"

Yao Qing shook his head and said, "Neither he nor Liang Jingshan has this fate."

Bai Ou has been observing that Xu Jun, it is strange, this young ghost cultivator, no matter how you look at it, it is not surprising.

How can there be so many opportunities?

Dachaozong and Liangjingshan were sworn enemies in the past.Now there is no distinction between top and bottom, and the two sects stand side by side.

Anyway, the suzerain is Xu Jun.

Liangjing Mountain had no objections at the beginning, but Chaoge was the originator of the mountain, and she didn't have any objections, so what about the disciples and grandchildren?

In addition to the later wedding banquet on the mountain, which was hailed as unprecedented and unprecedented, among the congratulatory guests who drank the wedding wine, only four of them were among the top ten in Qingming Tianxia.

Yu Dou, Lu Chen, Wu Zhou, Sun Huaizhong.

If you add a pure martial artist who did not reveal his identity at that time, because he was only willing to sit on the corner table, and this person was also Xu Jun's Wangnian friend, it would be five.

It is the No. 1 martial arts in the world, Lin Jiangxian.

What's more, Xu Jun's cultivation path is too legendary. It is rumored that Bai Yujing's third head teacher, Lu Chen, taught Xu Jun a few talismans. The sub-sages of the Confucian Temple have all given advice to Xu Jun, coupled with the No. 1 alchemy in the world and Lin Jiangxian's boxing skills, so that the outside world is guessing whether this Xu Jun is the real closed disciple of the Taoist ancestor?

Just like an examination paper, even if you know the answer in advance, you, Xu Juan, still have to write. Counting from the time you became a ghost, in just twenty years, Xu Juan has to meet so many important people, so he is too busy ?

Chaoge said, "Zimei, for this visit, I need to trouble Yaxiang with something."

Yao Qing smiled and said, "Senior, please tell me."

Yao Qing, the elegant minister, has a beautiful character.Calculated according to the Dao's age on the mountain, Chao Ge is a well-deserved senior, who is more than a thousand years older than Yao Qing.

Chao Ge said seriously: "I need to ask you to go out of the mountain and help protect the road."

Yao Qing said bluntly: "The location?"

Chaoge said, "It's in Liangjing Mountain."

Yao Qing asked: "The specific time?"

Chaoge felt relieved, "Not yet decided, wait for my secret letter."

Yao Qing said with a smile: "I wish Sovereign Xu the best of luck for his return to fellow Taoists."

Xu Jun stood up, took three steps back, bowed respectfully, and said in a deep voice, "This junior thanked Mr. Yao."

Originally, he didn't intend to be so polite to Chao Ge, so he had to sing the song and get up to thank Yao Qing.

The fourteenth-level female cultivator Wuzhou with the Tao name "Taiyin" has a very good relationship with Chaoge. After attending the wedding banquet, before leaving, Wuzhou presented Xu Jun with a fairy art of refining things, and taught an additional one. The door has long been lost ghost cultivation technique.

Husband Xu Jun is a ghost cultivator.

And in the next few worlds, among the brand-new fourteenth realm great monks, there will inevitably be a ghost fairy who can occupy a place without accident.

So Xu Juan not only had to fight, but also had to act fast and hurry up to ascend to the Ascension Realm in order to take the lead.

In fact, Xu Jun, who has a mantra of "it's already very good", has no such idea at all, but in this matter, the Taoist couple Chaoge is very persistent, so it can only be the wife who sings and the husband follows.

Now that everything is ready, there is only one retreat left.

After Xu Jun and Chao Ge left, Bai Ou and Yao Qing stood under the eaves, and she asked softly, "Wang Yuanlu, really don't care about it?"

Yao Qing said with a smile: "Beautiful jade is not carved."

Bai Ou hesitated for a moment, but still couldn't help asking the doubt in his heart, "It seems that Qi Gu will break through the situation soon, should we reject this gift of martial arts? According to the intelligence, the Yufu Dynasty , Zhu Xuan went out in person."

Qi Gu is not a pure martial artist with a deep sense of city, on the contrary, he is a bit reckless, he likes to be straightforward, and has a clear distinction between likes and hates. If his hometown shows a little bit of goodwill, it is not difficult to keep him in Qingshen Dynasty of.

In fact, Bai Ou had different opinions with Mr. Shoufu during the turmoil in the capital.

In her opinion, she could take the opportunity to recruit Wang Yuanlu and Qi Gu, so that they would not have such a confrontation with the court.

It was during that dangerous escape that Wang Yuanlu and Qi Gu broke through their realms, one entered the Nascent Soul Realm, and the other entered the Yuanyou Realm.

Yao Qing said: "Falling leaves always return to their roots."

Bai Ou said helplessly, "It's fallen leaves after all."

Yao Qing smiled and said, "We'll wait and see."

Not long after the famous Taoist couple left Qingwu Temple, a man came slowly, who turned out to be a very rare monk in Qingming Tianxia.

Bald, barefoot, dressed in purple cassock.

This middle-aged monk has plump cheeks and a high nose, and his appearance is ancient and wild.

Bai Ou only knew this monk, whose common name was Jiang Xiu, his courtesy name was Daoyin, and his dharma name was "Danqing".

As for the face, the other party must have used a trick to cover up his eyes. What Bai Ou sees must not be the truth.

Now the monks have been placing orders at the Watan Temple in Gyeonggi, and it has been nearly ten years.

Whether it's the real name Jiang Xiu, or the "Danqing" dharma name, they don't have any reputation in the Qingming world, but the elegant minister Yao Qing is very respectful to him.

Bai Ou is a pure martial artist, she can't see the depth of the opponent's Taoism, and she doesn't know anything about Zen or Buddhism.

In the fourteen prefectures of Qingming, the control over Buddhist temples and Confucian academies is extremely strict.

Especially for monks, if they want to go out to travel and obtain customs clearance certificates, they need to report to the court layer by layer, and they will be rejected in all likelihood. Even if they are approved, the specific itinerary needs to be recorded with Bai Yujing.

Many dynasties simply banned any monks from entering the country.There are even two states that directly ban temples and prohibit monks from teaching the Dharma.

Bingzhou is relatively loose, but as big as the Qingshen Dynasty, there are only sixteen temples.

However, the head assistant minister overcame all opinions, and the imperial court began to prepare for the construction of two brand-new temples in recent years.

In Qingming Tianxia, ​​it may be more difficult for monks to establish a temple than in Haoran Tianxia.

This matter requires the permission of Bai Yujing, and the Qingshen Dynasty has spent a lot of merit for this. I heard that even His Majesty, who was ridiculed by other states as the "nodding emperor", seldom asked Mr. Shoufu why.

The purple-clothed monk clasped his hands together and said softly, "Young monk came here to say goodbye to Mr. Yao."

Yao Qing smiled and nodded, "Before the Great Monk leaves, remember to leave the group of Arhat murals for the Wacoffin Temple as agreed."

In a temple, not all monks can be called monks. Only the eminent monks, including the chief abbot, can deserve this respectful title, and there are only a handful of them.

Bai Ou's heart fluttered slightly, she guessed the other party's identity.

I remember that there was an extremely mysterious eminent monk in Qingming Tianxia, ​​with wonderful paintings, changing appearance and identity, pretentious, claiming that "my heart is Buddha", and threatening that "the patriarch has no intention of coming from the west".

This monk is especially good at painting statues of Arhats. Every time there is an authentic one, it is a looting. Not to mention those temples, even the Taoist palaces built by emperors in various states in the world, are willing to offer authentic copies. There are even rumors that every time drought or flood There is no need for the local Taoist officials to set up an altar for the evil spirits to cause trouble. They only need to take out the statue of the arhat.

The monk laughed and said, "Sixteen? Eighteen?"

Yao Qing smiled and said, "Of course, the more the better."

The monk said, "The painting is finished."

Yao Qing didn't find it strange either, and asked, "Where are you going next?"

The monk said: "Go to Youzhou to enjoy the snow first."

Yao Qing said goodbye first.

The monk smiled and nodded, reciting aloud a piece of "Sai Shang" which is popular in the Qingming world, and strode away, with an unrivaled demeanor.

The shape dissipated, and there was no ripple in the aura of heaven and earth, and it disappeared in an instant.

Bai Ou was silent for a moment, and asked, "Is this person cultivated?"

"Besides the Dharma, his swordsmanship is superb, and his straightness is unparalleled in the world."

Yao Qing said: "'One Sword Frost and Cold Fourteen States' is what he said, and it is also about him."

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At the New Year's Eve shop in Qilong Lane, the shopkeeper, Shi Ruan, a little mute, is staying up late to watch the new year.

The Caotou shop next door is even more lively.

A pair of siblings, Zhao Shuxia and Zhao Luan.A pair of brothers and sisters, Zhao Denggao and Tian Jiuer.A pair of master and apprentice, the white-haired boy, Yao Xiaoyan.

There is also a Cui Huasheng who was kidnapped by a big white goose.The white-haired boy was stepping on the bench at the moment, pulling the two surnamed Zhao and punching him, shouting loudly that the two brothers are good five leaders and ten full halls.

On New Year's Eve in the small town, there is a custom of asking for supper. The lamps will be lit, and a table of wine and food will be set up. The old people and women will guard a brazier, and will not go around the house, just waiting for the young and middle-aged neighbors. Neighbors, visit the house as a guest, the men with good relations with the neighbors will sit down to drink, eat vegetables and fight fists. The old women said hello, and according to the seniority, grandparents, aunts and aunts shouted, and put some melons, fruits, sugarcane and the like into the bags.Only when it is late at night will every household close the door, and then early in the morning, the men who are the head of the family have to get up on time again, because there are different times every year, and there is the rule of opening the door and lighting firecrackers, which is used to say goodbye. The old welcomes the new.As for the exact time to open the door, it is often figured out by some old people in the small town. It is said that the shopkeepers who opened the wedding and wedding shop in the small town in the early years knew this very well.

Nowadays, those young people who moved to the state city are not so particular about it. It is said that some of them even open the door, let the housekeeper do it for them, and sleep in by themselves.

Although the taste of the New Year in Huaihuang County is getting lighter every year, almost no one visits the door to ask for dinner, but the two shops in Qilong Lane are still open according to the old rules. There is wine.

Shi Rou, who was sitting by the brazier, raised her head and looked towards the door. A distinguished guest came.

A snow-white robe.

In the past, Zhigui, the maidservant of Song Jixin in Niping Lane, is now the real dragon king Zhu, one of the kings of all seas and seas in the world.

For some reason, this Lord Donghai seems to be in a good mood at the moment.

It was as bright as day in the New Year's Eve shop, Shi Rou took the courage to think carefully, called the other party a naive young girl, and said with a smile, "Sit down and have some wine?"

Wang Zhu nodded, crossed the threshold, and sat at the table. Shi Rou helped pour the wine. Wang Zhu picked up the chopsticks, and there was a plate of stinky mandarin fish on the table. good."

In the past, Niping Lane was a miserable place where dilapidated households gathered, or else they earned money and moved to other wider streets and alleys. Residents, so every New Year's Eve, there is only the side of the alley, because there is a pretty widow, so that no one passes by the whole alley, the two adjacent houses roughly located in the middle of the alley, In fact, no one came to ask about dinner, at most they took a short cut, or went to the widow's house, just passing by Mud Bottle Lane, but they didn't even look at it.

One is a broom star who is full of bad luck, the other is an illegitimate child born with a mother but no father, and a maidservant of unknown origin. They don't stop by.

At the time of Song Jixin, every time it was New Year's Eve, he would often get angry and ask Zhigui to simply close the courtyard door. If love doesn't come, the uncle will rarely serve you.

This is not the case next door. The gate is always open. If there is snow in the alley, it will help gather the snow in the whole alley to the corner of the wall, so that passers-by can walk.

Song Jixin is occasionally idle and bored, so he likes to stand at the door of the house and start talking in a strange way. In the middle of the night, he opens the door and waits for the ghost to come.

The peers in the house next door never spoke back.

Later, when Chen Ping met Liu Xianyang, they would watch the night around the stove together. Liu Xianyang often talked loudly on purpose.

Wang Zhu turned to look at the child standing on the small bench behind the counter, "Hello, what's your name?"

The little mute who was flipping through the book raised his head and said expressionlessly, "Don't you know? My name is 'Hi'."

Wang Zhu didn't care about anything with this hot-tempered child, it's pretty good, little prickly head, she smiled, and picked up a chopstick to accompany the wine and vegetables, it tasted good, she didn't take a trip to Aquarius Island in vain, her hometown ancestor On the other side of the gate of the house, there are brand new blessing characters and Spring Festival couplets.

Shi Rou hurriedly smoothed things over and said: "The real name is Zhou Junchen, and the nickname is Aman. I don't like to talk usually, so I have the nickname of Little Mute. She is Pei Qian's apprentice."

Wang Zhu picked up the white porcelain wine glass, took a sip of the wine, and said with a smile, "Pei Qian's apprentice? Then don't you want to call Chen Ping'an a master?"

The little mute originally wanted to say that it was none of your business, but seeing the shopkeeper Shi Rou winking at him, the child had to swallow the words back and pretended to be deaf and dumb.

On the other side of the door, there was a white-haired boy with arms crossed, leaning against the door, tsk tsk there.

Wang Zhu turned his head and asked with a smile, "You are?"

Can't even see the real state of the other party.

The white-haired boy sneered, "I'm afraid I'll scare you to death if I say it."

"Try it."

"I am the handyman disciple of Luobashan, the only one!"

Wang Zhu lifted the wine glass with a smile, "Let me be shocked."

The fairy mansion on the mountain can generally be divided into the outer sect of the ancestor hall and the disciples of the handyman. The so-called direct descendants, that is, the master and the preacher, have seats in the ancestor hall.

The outer door is just like the master's lineage and dharma lineage. The master can't take a seat at the Patriarch Hall to participate in the discussion. The golden jade genealogy, but because there are no chairs in the Patriarch Hall of Ji Se Peak, if they accept apprentices now, even if they are passed down personally, they will still belong to the outer disciples.

As for handymen, they don't even have a teacher for the time being. They often enter the mountain and barely start mountaineering practice, but their aptitude is not good enough to learn from a teacher.

The white-haired boy swaggered into the house, stood on tiptoes, and sat on the bench beside the table with his arms crossed, staring blankly at the young woman with a special identity. She had phoenix eyes and a melon-shaped face. She was beautiful, but she was cold. A little bit.

Wang Zhu looked composed, and drank at his own discretion, holding a few chopsticks to accompany the wine and vegetables.

The white-haired boy asked: "I heard that you have been neighbors with our hermit ancestor for many years?"

Wang Zhu hummed.

The white-haired boy asked with a smile in his heart: "Have you ever thought about it, if you can't go down in the wild world, what if you change to the green world? Trees move the dead and people live."

Wang Zhu frowned slightly, "Is that what he meant?"

Back then, she refrained from going to the wild world through Guixu, and she did have a lot of emotional torment.

Facts have proved that it is a correct choice not to take chances, otherwise I would probably be the companion of that big monster now, and open a wine shop at Laojun's alchemy furnace.

Or was that group of sneaky dragon-breeding cultivators setting up a "fishing net" somewhere in the ruins and catching him right away?

The white-haired boy rolled his eyes, "The patriarch of the Yinguan has a lot of work, he is busy, he is busy with some big things that can affect the trend of the world casually, how can he care about such trivial matters."

"I just mentioned it casually. Although Chen Qingliu, the dragon slayer, is not a pure sword cultivator at the fourteenth level, he is a genuine fourteenth level at any rate. After a battle is over and the world is in trouble, with his way of harmony, I don't really want to see you. Chen Qingliu once made a great wish to teach that there is no real dragon in the world. There is a loophole here. We Haoran don't have "Tianxia", but Qingming can have it. It is barely possible not to conflict with Chen Qingliu's way. When we get there, Miss Zhigui finds a few random backers. Well, to be precise, they are mutual backers and allies. As a place of support, one day you will enter the fourteenth realm, and you will be afraid of those dragon-slaying people who come from across the world? It is said that a strong dragon does not suppress a snake, so a snake crossing the river, how can it not be afraid of a dragon?"?

The great cultivators of Haoran Tianxia and Qingming Tianxia travel back and forth between the two worlds, and they must follow the rules set by the Confucian Temple Lisheng and Bai Yujing's head teacher to suppress the realm.

Wang Zhu smiled and shook his head, "Even if I am a monk in the fourteenth realm, as long as the opponent is a dragon slayer, I have no chance of winning. As long as I don't run away, I will definitely die."

Even in the waters of the East China Sea, which is like his own dojo, and entered the [-]th realm, Wang Zhu thought that he still had no chance to fight the dragon slayer.

The only advantage is that, as one of the Emperors of the Four Seas under the imperial seal of the Confucian Temple, Chen Qingliu dared not casually ask Jianshui Mansion.

In the dark, Wang Zhu made up his mind.

Not only real dragons, but also the many dragons with mixed bloodlines in the world, and all the aquatic spirits and monsters in the world, and even Qi practitioners who major in water art. Long Gongcheng Chen Qingliu, who has a certain kind of great luck, will be overwhelmed by the natural way. If there is a fight, it will simply end up hitting the tip of the sword.

To put it simply, in the face of these three, Chen Qingliu can be regarded as a pure sword cultivator of the [-]th realm. Once the sword is drawn, it is like chopping melons and vegetables.

The white-haired boy frowned and remained silent, his expression solemn.

It seems that they are thinking about some big problem, but in fact they are just slandering. Why is it different from the news on the espionage? Could it be that the news of Xiaomi Mi Li wrongly reported the military situation?

Didn't everyone say that the neighbor of the ancestor of the Yinguan, the neighbor of Niping Lane, has eyes above the eyebrows, why is he so self-aware?

That's all, being that lobbyist is really not my specialty.

Xiaobai, the one who cuts the palace at the end of the year, is the kind of expert who can deal with all kinds of tricks.

On the side of the night boat, someone told her that it would be best to persuade Wang Zhu to go to the Guanque Tower in Qingming Tianxia to practice Taoism.

According to that person, anyway, even if Wang Zhu went to Qingming Tianxia, ​​her existence was useless to Sui Chu Gong. Apart from helping to gather water transportation, she was destined to be of little help.

Thinking of Wu Shuangjiang, the white-haired boy hastily raised his wine glass, gulped down, and drank to suppress his shock.

Qi practitioners are not afraid of their own inner demons, but Huawaitian demons are afraid of this Qi practitioner. If such embarrassing stories are spread, people will laugh at them?

Wang Zhu suddenly asked: "I heard that there is a big sect called Sui Chu Palace on the other side of Qingming Tianxia, ​​and there is a stork tower by the water?"

The white-haired boy was stunned for a moment, and said with a guilty conscience: "I am a monk born and bred in Haoran Tianxia, ​​so I am not familiar with Qingming Tianxia and Qingming Tianxia."

Wang Zhu laughed it off.

The white-haired boy was preoccupied, and asked tentatively, "I don't know what to do, why do you ask this?"

Wang Zhu lifted the wine glass and said with a smile: "Don't talk about these annoying things, since you hit it off, let's drink."

The white-haired boy picked up the wine glass and bumped it lightly, "Go one."

The white-haired boy looked at Wang Zhu with a kind of sympathy for both of us.

When Wang Zhu noticed this emotion, it was rare for him not to be angry, as if he was pitied by a handyman disciple who claimed to be Luoluoshan, so there was no reason to be angry?

After Wang Zhu drank, he walked out of the New Year's Eve shop, and went up the stairs on the side of Qilong Lane.

She climbed up slowly, somewhat missing the cold season before she left the town, and her hands would also be full of frostbite, so every time she went out to fetch water from the iron lock well, she only carried half a bucket of water, wobbled, and reached the mud Bottle Lane, pour it into the water tank, there is almost exactly half a bucket of water left.

Later, the last time we met, someone once left a sentence similar to a prophecy.

Climbing the Guanque Tower, the sky is high and the earth is wide, and going down the Guanque Tower has a long history.

This person also leaked secrets to her, and taught her how to deal with the dragon slayer who resumed the battle for the Dao.

It seems that she has a choice whether to go or stay.

And in the end, that person smiled and said that in the future, if he really encountered that kind of hurdle that he thought he couldn't get over, he would go to his little brother and say that it was brother Qi's request.

Wang Zhu felt a little irritable, took a deep breath, and turned his head to look at the two adjacent shops at the bottom of Qilong Lane.

The lights in the house poured out of the shop, even if there were no pedestrians passing by, they still silently illuminated the night road in the alley.

She didn't like the sound of books in that school and someone's reasoning, and she didn't like the kindness and kindness of the person next door to Mud Bottle Lane.

I don’t like the one big and one small, they have the same “it doesn’t matter”, “it’s actually okay”, “every today’s yesterday is never in vain, and every tomorrow is today’s hope”...

It may be that she doesn't know how to like it, so she deliberately pretends to hate it.

It may be because you know some truths, but you just can't do it, and you dare not hate your own weakness, so you have to hate those who can do it.

Just like in the winter, a charcoal cage from someone else's house can only warm your hands for a while before returning it.

Luopo Mountain, the gate of the mountain.

The little man who came here to burn incense today, got a little drunk with Taoist Xianwei, staggered over the threshold of the house, and when he reached the gate of the house, the little guy couldn't help but swear, and could only Once again, like drilling a dog's hole, he crawled on the ground, crawled through the gap in the gate, and patted the dust. The white flower snake under the command of the land master of Qidun Mountain was still waiting in the distance.

In the end, I saw an elegant-looking scholar, who was not very old, probably in his early 30s, and stood at the foot of the mountain in a daze.

The boy in Zhu Yi ran all the way over, stood in the middle of the archway of the mountain gate, and shouted loudly, "Who are you?"

Before waiting for the other party to answer, he felt that his neck was too tired to talk with someone with his head up, Zhu Yi boy hurriedly turned around and ran up a few steps, with his hands on his hips, the little guy solemnly reminded: "You can't trespass the mountain gate. If you are a guest, if you come to the mountain to find someone, you must first report to Daoist Xianwei."

The scholar smiled and introduced himself: "My name is Li Xisheng, I come from Fulu Street in the town, and I am Li Baoping's elder brother."

The incense stick was dumbfounded, heartbroken, what? !It turned out to be the elder brother of our boss Li? !

Although the other party doesn't hang out in the officialdom, but there are people in the court who can't handle the other party.

Since the background is so big? !Why don't you beat gongs and drums and set off firecrackers all the way out?

The boy in Zhu Yi just ran up the steps, and immediately ran down the steps, returned to the gate of the mountain, made a big bow, and said respectfully: "My hometown is in the Temple of Mantou Mountain, and now it is in the Temple of the City God Working as an errand over there, I am grateful for the appreciation of our Dharma protectors in Luoposhanzhou, and I am the right Dharma protector of Qilongxiang. It is a great honor to meet Master Li here.

Li Xisheng said with a smile: "I am old acquaintance with Chen Shanzhu, so there is no need to disturb the Taoist priest Xianwei to read. I am quite familiar with Luopo Mountain, and I can climb the mountain by myself."

Zhu Yitong immediately thought about it in his mind, and felt that since he is the elder brother of Li Zongduo and old friends with Chen Shanzhu, it seems that it is not a violation of the rules to go up the mountain without registering his name at Xianwei's side.

Zhu Yitong asked tentatively: "Master Li, can you help us lead the way?"

Later, on the way up the mountain, I have to hint to Mr. Li, and turn around to give us a few words of kindness to Mr. Li. It's not an idiot's dream.

Xian Wei opened the gate, put on his clothes and came out, at least he is a practitioner, Xian Wei still noticed the movement at the mountain gate.

The boy in Zhu Yi hurriedly introduced his identity to Mr. Li, so that the gatekeeper Xianwei's eyesight would not be dimmed, and the flood would rush into the Dragon King Temple.

Li Xisheng invited with a smile: "Fellow Taoist Xianwei, let's climb the mountain together?"

Xianwei quickly refused: "Watch the night and read the book, I have to go back and read the book."

I just feel that this familiar scholar really has a lot of airs, and he just stops by in the middle of the night, but he even wants to drag him to climb the mountain together.

Confucian scholar Li Xisheng bowed to the young Taoist priest with a smile on his face.

The Taoist priest Xianwei accepted it calmly, but he was just reciprocal, so he returned to a Taoist gate.