Heaven's Path

Pingyang Town is an inconspicuous small town on the outskirts of Xianzhou City. It is about a hundred miles away from Xianzhou. The population of the town is only a few hundred households, mostly farmers.There is only one main street in the town, and there is only one inn on the street, and the shopkeeper's surname is Gao.

It was already dark, and the lights were just coming on. Shopkeeper Gao personally brought a plate of sweet-scented osmanthus cloud cake to a table, and said with a smile: "This plate of small snacks is a special feature of the shop. Today, I will give it to you two. Please use it slowly."

There are cups and plates on the table, and the dishes are extremely rich. Although it is an inconspicuous small shop, there are many special dishes.The two diners at the table, one is a man with sword-like eyebrows and tiger eyes, but his clothes are very ordinary, the other is a woman in purple shirt, with a slim figure, black and red complexion, bumpy and ugly, it is Chen Yun Sheng and Liu Xiaoshan.

Chen Yunsheng was eager to join his uncle, but after asking the passers-by, he found out that Tianqiong Mountain was about a thousand miles west of Xianzhou City. Since his spiritual energy had to be recovered, he could not escape from the earth, so he changed to walking. He passed by Pingyang Ancient Town and saw the sky. It was late, so I stayed overnight at the shopkeeper Gao's inn.

Chen Yunsheng practiced hard in the mountains for ten years. He came down the mountain for the first time and had no experience in mortal life, so his dealings with people along the way seemed a bit dull.Naturally, Black Bones couldn't show his face in public, so Liu Xiaoshan took care of everything on the road.Although this woman looks very mediocre, she is eloquent, she is very proficient in human affairs, and she is even better at asking directions and ordering food.

Facing a table of exquisite dishes, Chen Yunsheng couldn't help twitching his index finger. You must know that on the mountain, besides bacon, he is sweet potatoes, and the two acres of cold-resistant wheat can only be produced when the harvest is good, and there is no meticulous work. Eat directly with wheat bran.

However, because Liu Xiaoshan ordered too much food, and Chen Yunsheng didn't want to waste it, so now his stomach is bloated and he can't move freely.Of course, he wasn't the only one with a bloated stomach. Jin Ling was holding his round belly and fell asleep soundly, but this monkey was caused by his lack of hunger.

Liu Xiaoshan seems to be a woman who has seen the world, chatting mostly with Chen Yunsheng, but rarely moving chopsticks.For the osmanthus cloud slice cake served by the shopkeeper at the end, Liu Xiaoshan seemed to like it very much. He ate a few pieces in a row and said to Chen Yunsheng while eating: "Brother Yun doesn't know, there are a lot of osmanthus in my hometown. It smells delicious, so the family members are busy making sweet-scented osmanthus cake, and the taste is no worse than the one here."

Chen Yunsheng looked at the dim sum on the plate, feeling a little sour in his heart.He lacked maternal love in the first place, and his immature father also left with him. There were sudden changes in his family, and his second uncle, who usually loved him, turned out to be the one who chased and killed him. Only he knew all the sufferings.As his cultivation gradually deepened, he hid this trace of sadness very deeply, and was touched by Liu Xiaoshan unintentionally today, and his mood was turbulent.

Liu Xiaoshan saw that Chen Yunsheng was silent, and then asked: "Brother Yun is thinking of his family. I don't know where your home is. You practice hard on weekdays? Most likely you can't go home casually."

"My family members have passed away." Chen Yunsheng raised his head and said to meet Liu Xiaoshan's eyes.Although he is a practitioner, he is not sure about the proposition of reincarnation of life and death, but he would rather believe that reincarnation exists in the world.

Liu Xiaoshan saw that his question was inappropriate, so he made a silent expression, looked at Chen Yunsheng with a little bit of strangeness, and then changed the topic and talked about practice, she was quite interested in this topic.

"What kind of immortal method is Brother Chen practicing? That day, I only saw Senior Black Bones displaying supernatural powers, but never saw your ability. It must be more unusual, can you tell me about it." Liu Xiaoshan stretched out his springy fingers , made a spell-casting gesture.

"Brother Black Bone used the Cone of Ice technique that day, which belongs to the Taoism of the water attribute. It has countless changes and is extremely mysterious. I am far behind, and I will also release a fireball or something."

He looked at Liu Xiaoshan's fingers again, and continued, "Your ten are long and slender, and they are most suitable for performing water techniques."

"Brother Chen, can I ask the Black Bone Immortal to teach me how to do it, so that I won't encounter such rude people again."

"This..." Chen Yunsheng put down the half-eaten chicken leg, "Cultivation depends on aptitude, if your aptitude is not good, it's useless to beg him. Come, eat this chicken leg, don't starve yourself." He tore it up. He took another chicken leg and passed it over.Liu Xiaoshan took the huge chicken leg blankly, put it on his dinner plate, and didn't eat it.

"On the mountain, if you waste food, you will be scolded by the master. Although you are not short, you are very weak. You need to eat more. Don't worry, as my servants, I will make you fat and strong Strong." Chen Yunsheng pointed to Liu Xiaoshan and Jin Ling.

When the little monkey heard Chen Yunsheng mentioning himself, he immediately patted his round belly and squeaked twice, as if he was quite grateful for Chen Yunsheng's words.Liu Xiaoshan's brows formed a black line, which was not obvious because her skin was already dark.

"I will not humiliate you again, because you are my maid." Chen Yunsheng said suddenly and seriously.In his mind, the meaning of the word maid has long been far from the original meaning.

"Then I'd like to thank you." Liu Xiaoshan's tone was a bit depressed, she was just talking casually, but she didn't expect the other party to show no humility at all, and it broke her heart by calling her a maid.

"Do practitioners have to eat on weekdays?" Liu Xiaoshan asked casually.

Chen Yunsheng pointed to his stomach and said, "Then what do you think I was doing all this time?"

Liu Xiaoshan suddenly felt that his question was a bit silly, and smiled awkwardly: "I've heard about bigu, so I asked this question."

"Those with a low cultivation base cannot fast. When their cultivation reaches a certain level, they can fast. But it must be in a place where spiritual energy gathers. Otherwise, even if the cultivation base is advanced, if they do not eat or drink for a long time, their physical body will be damaged." Chen Yun The student replied.

"Xiaoshan heard that people who practice Taoism can fly into the sky and escape from the earth, and travel thousands of miles in the sun. I don't know if this is true or not?"

"I can't answer this for you. I still can't fly yet." Thinking that the other four-element escape methods can fly into the air, but he sadly chose the earth escape, the earth escape from the earth as the transportation spell, Chen Yunsheng really Some depressed.

"Then can a person who cultivates immortals marry a wife and have children?"

"This, I really don't know, I can try to find a female monk in the future." Chen Yunsheng replied honestly, there was nothing in his mind about the secular etiquette, so he didn't mind when he spoke.

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For this Miss Liu, Chen Yunsheng felt very helpless.It turned out that in the mountains, they only faced Jinling, Heigu or Feiyunzi, or all the orangutans.There is only eye contact with Jin Ling, and there is basically no need to speak.Hei Gu is old-fashioned, talking about the past and the present, and most of the content he talks about is anecdotes and strange things that happened in the world of cultivating immortals, spirits, beasts and ghosts.

Fei Yunzi was the person closest to him, but he talked the least. Half of the time was asking for advice and cultivation skills, and the other half was just making fun of him.The Liu girl I met today, from her family background to the method of cultivating immortals, from the local customs to the luxurious food, she has no intention of stopping at all.

The two of them ate the meal for an hour, when shopkeeper Gao happened to pass by, and heard that the two of them were talking about cultivating immortals, he couldn't help but feel moved.When the two of them finished eating, he ordered the waiter to take away the dishes, served two cups of tea, and said with an apologetic smile on his face: "The little old man just heard what you two said about how lively the flying sky is, and I think you two are also cultivators." big monk."

Liu Xiaoshan said with a smile: "The shopkeeper has lost his sight. My little girl is not a big monk. If you say that the big monk is of course the guy opposite me." As he spoke, he stretched out his two fingers and pointed at Chen Yunsheng.

Seeing that his guess was right, the shopkeeper immediately bowed deeply to Chen Yunsheng, and said, "Little old man hoped day and night that he finally found a cultivator with profound magic power. I also hope that the monk can use the magic of immortality, Save the people in my town."

"It's easy to say, easy to say." Chen Yunsheng felt a little surprised, wondering why he encountered such a bloody plot.

Shopkeeper Gao sighed deeply and said: "Speaking of this, although Pingyang Town is a small town shop, the folk customs have been simple all year round, the neighbors respect each other as guests, and the people live and work in peace and contentment. .It used to be that you never pick up things on the road, and you never close your house at night. It was praised by the leader of Xianzhou as..."

"Can you tell me the main points." Chen Yunsheng couldn't help interrupting Shopkeeper Gao's chatter.

Shopkeeper Gao nodded and lowered his voice, as if he was afraid of being heard by others, "Every night, children in this town disappear one after another. The children were not allowed to go out, and the first two days were fine, and no children seemed to be missing."

"But then something even weirder happened. Even though some townspeople's children didn't go out at night, they disappeared the next morning. Those children seemed to disappear out of thin air."

"I asked a few villagers who lost their children. They said that they didn't hear anything at night, and they slept well. Basically, the sky brightened as soon as they slept." Shopkeeper Gao's brows were frowned.

"Did no one see any strange phenomena in the town at night?" Chen Yunsheng asked.

"This..." Shopkeeper Gao pondered for a while, "Why not? Wang Er, who was on the watch in our town, saw something. Unfortunately, he has been so frightened that he has lost his mind. He is a ghost all day long. He Having said that, the residents of the town are even more afraid to go out at night, and some of the families with children have already packed their bags and went to other places to visit relatives to avoid the limelight. Hey, if this continues, the town will be deserted." It is sorrow and helplessness.