Liaozhai Great Sage

Chapter 509
"Brother Li, you shouldn't have cast spells to help him go back. Now he's angry, and he's bound to bring a lawsuit when he goes back this time. You didn't help him, but hurt him."

Seeing Zhou Cai leaving overnight on horseback, Cheng Le let out a long sigh and looked helpless.

Li Xiuyuan asked: "If I don't help him go back to me today, can you stop him from going back, Brother Cheng?"

"This, this... really can't. After this incident, I think my good brother can't bear it no matter what. Even if he can hold him today, he will definitely go down the mountain and leave tomorrow." Cheng Le said.

"That's right. Since I can't stop it, why don't you help me? I just sent him a paper horse to let him go back early. The result of the matter can't be different because he arrived early or late, but I know that this Since the matter needs to be settled, why not settle the matter as soon as possible, long-term pain is worse than short-term pain
Pain, don't you want to see him feel ashamed about it day and night? "Li Xiuyuan shook his head and said.

Cheng Le thought for a while and said: "Brother Li's words are reasonable, the outcome of the matter will not change, but I am very worried about him going back alone."

Li Xiuyuan said: "If you are worried, then you should practice more. You can help Zhou Cai only if you have achieved some success in cultivation."

"That's right." Cheng Le nodded, and decided to ask the master to practice tomorrow.

If he had learned something within a year, it would be too late to go down the mountain to help Zhou Cai.

Li Xiuyuan didn't persuade much either.

This is a person's private matter, so how can others meddle too much, and how to deal with this matter is also a personal decision of that week, so how can he interfere?
After all, no one can bear such a thing.

"There is a way that auspicious people have their own celestial features. Brother Cheng, you don't need to worry too much. It's getting late today and you should go to bed early. I won't disturb you." Li Xiuyuan got up to leave at this time.

"Thank you brother Li for helping me many times today, I don't want to thank you for your kindness." Cheng Le returned a salute.

Li Xiuyuan smiled: "Since you have entered the mountain gate, you are brothers in the same sect, so why be so polite."

After the two of them greeted each other, he returned to his bedroom.

Sit cross-legged with eyes closed, meditate and rest, and start to practice hard in the mountains like a monk.

You have to stay here for ninety days, whether it is long or not, or short.

In addition to learning spells, the rest of the time is nothing more than self-cultivation and moral cultivation.

He doesn't need to pursue immortality, and he doesn't need to keep doing homework every day, for fear of neglecting his practice. Compared with the persistent practice of a cultivator, he seems more leisurely.

In a flash, it was five or six days.

Counting from the day he entered the mountain gate, he has been here for ten days.

Except for Ling Fengzi's incident, nothing else happened in the mountain gate. The mountain is very quiet, there is no sound of cars, horses, chickens and dogs, only the cries of insects and birds in the mountain, even in the Taoist temple. The Taoist uncles and brothers who gathered in the first hall before seem to have already
It disappeared without a trace, and there was no one to be seen at all.

During this period of time, Li Xiuyuan had nothing else to do except to stay in the Daozang Hall and continue to learn spells.

But after learning the spell for ten days, at the speed at which he mastered the spell, he has already mastered the spell at seven to eighty-eight.

I have learned all the spells that should be learned, but I haven't learned much about the remaining spells that I feel are useless to me. Even if I learn them, I'm afraid I won't be able to use them.

"Everyone in the world says that immortals are good, but who knows that the long silence that practitioners have to endure in order to become immortals and attain the Tao is only ten days. I’m afraid most people won’t be able to persist.”

Li Xiuyuan is wearing a loose Taoist robe at the moment, the clothes are fluttering, and he is casual and comfortable.

He walked on the moss-covered wet stone path in the mountain, without any purpose, just plain bored, lonely, and wanted to come out for a walk.

The quietness in the mountains was a little too much, and it was really not used to a secular person like him staying for a long time.

On the way, he saw Zhang Shi, the son of the medicine merchant who entered the mountain gate to practice before, was also wearing Taoist robes, carrying two buckets of water, panting, coming from the foot of the mountain, his feet were staggering, his face was covered with sweat.

This is the homework that Teng Yunzi assigns to him every day, and he needs to fill up three large tanks of water.

Zhang Shi has persisted for ten days.

But his mood and temper became worse day by day. Not only was he as tired as a dog every day, but he also didn't learn any spells, except for carrying water. .

He even suspected that he had been used as a coolie by these stinky Taoist priests.

Li Xiuyuan didn't know the reason, but thought that Teng Yunzi wanted to train him.

After all, he is the young master of a rich family, and he is used to being served by others. Now it is necessary to go up the mountain to hone his will.

"I'm exhausted, I'm exhausted, filling up three tanks of water a day, it's not done by humans, sooner or later I will die of exhaustion on this mountain road." Zhang Shi was out of breath, cursing as he walked, his heart was even more Curse Teng Yunzi.

That stinky Taoist priest is really hateful. He didn't give him any spells, but let him carry water.

Li Xiuyuan took a look and kindly reminded: "Brother, you shouldn't be so impatient. The more impatient you are, the more tired you will be. You need to master the rhythm when carrying water. If the rhythm is right, it will last longer. If you exert the wrong force, you will only get worse. It gets more and more tiring."

"I want you to talk nonsense, and I want you to teach me to carry water?" Zhang Shi scolded.

Li Xiuyuan was not angry either, just shook his head with a smile.

This person's heart is not angry, I'm afraid the water will not last long.

Ignoring it, he walked along the mountain road for a turn and then went back. He continued to go back to the Daozang Hall to learn some spells and see if he missed anything.

But when he passed by Zhang Shi's side, Zhang Shi's legs and feet suddenly became weak, he lost his balance and staggered, and fell to the side.

The bucket that was carrying it splashed all over the mountain road.

"You little Taoist still go? Why don't you give me a hand quickly? Are you blind?" Zhang Shi said a little angrily.

Li Xiuyuan passing by took a look, thought for a while and said, "I don't dare to help you."

"why?"

"I'm afraid you will blackmail me."

Zhang Shi said angrily: "Why are you afraid that I will blackmail you if you are not a thief? Did you cast a spell just now and make me fall? It must be so, so you dare not help me. I just said something wrong to you Respect, you secretly cast spells to harm me. You really have sinister intentions. Who are you?

A disciple under the Immortal Seat?I heard that if you cast spells in the mountain gate to harm your fellow disciples, you will be expelled from the mountain gate. If you cast spells to harm me, after I go back and tell Master Zixu, he will definitely drive you down the mountain. "

"." Li Xiuyuan looked at him strangely.

"Do you really have no sense of shame for slandering a person like this? It is obvious that you fell because of your lack of strength, but you have to rely on me."

"I don't care, unless you help me carry twenty dans of water every day, otherwise I will tell Master Zixu about this and let him drive you down the mountain." Zhang Shi acted like I would never spare you lightly.

Li Xiuyuan said: "You know it well, why bother to frame me with unnecessary things, even if you report this matter to Master Zixu, you will not escape the benefits, and go get two buckets of water by yourself, when the time comes to complete the practice If not, don’t rely on me.”

He didn't want to talk too much with this wealthy disciple, so he flicked his sleeves and strode away.

"You little Taoist dare to ignore me? Do you know who I am?" Zhang Shi said angrily, wanting to vent all the anger accumulated in the past ten days on this young Taoist.

He didn't dare to be disrespectful to other Taoist priests, but this Li Xiuyuan just started with him, and his seniority was extremely low.

"Don't take tolerance for nothing. You are in the mortal world and I am in the sky. It is rare to practice the Dharma today. Let go of your grievances and seek immortality. It is not easy for you to be like a mountain gate, and it is even more difficult to practice. If you really want to entangle this matter, be careful not to lose your fairy fate, go down the mountain and go home .” Li Xiuyuan replied lightly.

"Are you threatening me?" Zhang Shidao.

Li Xiuyuan said: "I'm not threatening you, but you have the lowest ability and morality among the mountains. Although practitioners don't want to cause trouble and taint karma, but I'm not a real Taoist. If you mess around, I don't mind Let you taste my Leifa."

When he stopped, he turned around and saw a golden light flashing in his eyes.

Above the head, it became dark in an instant, and a thunderbolt from the blue sky exploded, as if it sounded right next to Zhang Shi's ears, causing his eardrums to buzz.

He let out a terrified exclamation, and fell to the ground directly, with a look of fear in his eyes.

Although there was no thunder falling just now, it seemed as if he was in the scene, the thunder sounded on his body.

Seeing his panicked look, Li Xiuyuan laughed, turned and left; "Now that I have entered the Taoist school, there is no one in the mountains, and there are no trees in the forest. I have cultivated the unparalleled method, and I will cut the blue sky and ancient pine."

He was bored in his spare time, and when he became poetic as a scholar, he couldn't help but recite a poem.

But before he had gone far, he heard a echoing voice: "Good poems, good poems, the literary talent and sentence making are mediocre, but there is a majestic and magnificent ambition in the poems. Qi Po, can you come up and meet for a while?"

"Ok?"

Li Xiuyuan's expression changed, and his footsteps froze.

This is the sound transmission of Taoism for thousands of miles.

"Here it is." The voice sounded again, with a bit of a smile, but saw a golden light appearing in the forest. The golden light flew from a certain mountain top, galloped all the way, and fell on the ground and turned into a golden bridge.

It seemed to signal Li Xiuyuan to come along the golden bridge.

Li Xiuyuan thought for a while, and didn't worry about anything. He moved his feet and stepped on the golden bridge.

But the next moment, the golden bridge suddenly shattered and collapsed instantly, turning into little golden light and dissipating in the forest.

"Hehe, the path of a sage in the world is not something that my golden bridge can carry. I'm rude, I'm rude." The voice said apologetically.

"It doesn't matter, since someone from the Taoist sect invites me, I will go there." Li Xiuyuan said as soon as he took a step, he passed ten feet away, and after a few more steps, he quickly ran along the mountain top.

After staying not far away, water vapor condensed under his feet, and then turned into an auspicious cloud, dragging him to the ground and flying towards the top of the mountain.

There is a gazebo at the top of the mountain.

There is a stone platform in the gazebo, and on the stone platform is an old man with white hair and wrinkled face. He is holding a fishing rod, and the fishing line is lost in the clouds and mist, and it does not know where it has drifted.

(End of this chapter)