Fairy Sword Inquiry 1

Chapter 54 Riding Smoke and Dust
After saying goodbye to the old Taoist at the long pavilion of the ancient road, Xingyan set out on the road together with the disciple of the Shangqing Palace who accompanied him.It is a long way to go to Luofu Mountain.Xingyan used the gold and silver rewards from his family to buy two donkeys, one for each of the young disciples who saw him off.

Riding a donkey on this dirt road, the road is lined with green grass and green bushes, and the breath is filled with the smell of grass and trees - in this mighty spring, the young man on the donkey's mind unconsciously thought of the soul. Yi'er's delicate and exquisite appearance.For a while, Xingyan felt a little dazed.The scene of the two of them swimming in the Poyang Lake, Lingyi'er's half-hate and half-joyed Qili figure, only lingered in the young man's mind, and he couldn't get it off for a while.

However, compared to half a year ago when he was inseparable from that girl Juying, Xingyan is much calmer now—after all, this time he is going to the Shangqing Palace to learn Taoism, even though the fairy mountain is far away, he is still returning Someday.Moreover, unlike Ju Ying, Xing Yan said that he knew where Ling Yi was, and there would be a chance to meet her in the future.Therefore, he doesn't have to be so concerned now.

Speaking of which, this young man who is going to the first gate in the world is not the same as he was more than half a year ago.Although it was only a short period of six months since he met Na Juying, the tempering that Xingyan has endured in these nearly six months is unprecedented.Now, his mind has matured a lot.What's more, he has read so many poems and books, which can be regarded as a clear mind, and he understands that this gathering is measured by time, day, month, or year, but there is a farewell in the end. Expect.Everything is resigned, let nature take its course, and it is not easy to force it.

Therefore, it is not so difficult for this open-minded young man to part with this young girl who has been with him for a long time—at least, he thinks so.

In fact, maybe Xingyan himself doesn't understand, but in him, there are always two soul attitudes, which are controlling his mood.Although there have been some unusual encounters recently, in the final analysis, Xingyan has always been just a poor boy from a humble background, fighting against the dust and running at the bottom of the market.Confined by his family background, when he was young, he had to go to the tea houses, wine shops, fireworks and willow alleys to seek food. He usually humbled others and suffered a lot.

In other words, in this market, there are many poor children like Xing Yan.But Xingyan is quite special among them—the biggest difference between the young man and them is that by chance, he studied poetry and books with the well-educated scholars.Although this matter of reading and literacy made him understand a lot of fun that he had never had before, at the same time, it also brought him a kind of confusion and hardship that was rarely seen at that time: wake up and say that he can no longer be like other people of the same age who have similar encounters. Human beings, insensitive to such a humble life.

It's just that, fortunately, his natural temperament is relatively easy-going, which made him not feel so painful, and continued to do that commonplace thing as before.

And precisely because of his humble background, Xingyan knows that there will never be any relationship or result with the daughter of the Xian clan, Juying, and Princess Lingyi of the Dragon Palace. But subconsciously penetrated deep into the bone marrow.Therefore, when Xingyan interacted with these two girls, he was very free and easy and calm. When getting along with each other, he acted frankly and sincerely, regardless of the status or inferiority—even, when he was forgetful. , Xingyan even secretly kissed that dragon princess!
But, is it really as he expected?
——This young man who is now riding on a small green donkey, looking at the scenery along the way, has never known that in the locked building beyond the Wanliguan Mountain, in the tens of miles away At the bottom of the lake and spring water, there are people who are so tender...

The post road is long, and after a while, the scenery becomes exhausted, so Xingyan started talking with the Shangqing Palace disciple beside him.

The young disciple who led the way and accompanied him to report to Shangqing Palace, surnamed Chen, named Ziping, was three years older than Xingyan, and this year is already [-] years old.

After chatting for a few words, Xingyan found that this member of the Shangqing palace was not very good at words, and he would often answer only when Xingyan asked a question.Looking at his face again, it makes people feel dignified and solemn, with an appearance that has never been stern.

In particular, his two eyebrows are quite special, they look a bit longer than the average person, they fly obliquely to the left and right, and they are on the left and right sides of the eyebrows, and they seem to be closer than others.Just these two thick eyebrows made this young man dressed as a Taoist priest look a bit heroic.

Because I saw Ling Chengzi's method last time, during this small chat, Xingyan was particularly interested in the Taoism of the Shangqing Palace.As soon as the Daoist method of the Shangqing Palace was mentioned, Chen Ziping seemed to become talkative.After listening all the way, Xingyan had a general understanding of how the Shangqing Palace taught Taoism.

It turns out that compared with other Taoist sects in the world, this Shangqing Palace is somewhat different in terms of the inheritance of Taoism.In the Shangqing palace, not all disciples of the Shangqing can study spells.Ordinary people think that if they go to Luofu Mountain and enter the gate of the Qing Palace, they can learn its sublime and profound spells, that is definitely a misunderstanding.

Disciples who have entered the Shangqing School, regardless of their age, can only study Taoist scriptures and the simplest and most basic magic principles at the beginning.Only after the routine question and answer inspection with the teacher, if he performs well and is considered to be more talented in practicing magic, can he officially enter the family of the "Qing" generation in the Shangqing Palace and start practicing Taoism.Of course, the study of the principles of Taoism must continue.

Here Chen Ziping specifically mentioned that if among these disciples, there is someone who is extremely high that day, he may be favored by the elders of the Shangqing Palace of a higher generation, and he will be directly assigned to practice under him-obviously, such a lucky disciple , The advancement in the practice of that Taoism is by no means comparable to that of other ordinary disciples.

Although Chen Ziping, who was walking with Xingyan, was not such a lucky one, but between his words, there was still a bit of joy that was quite rare.Because, he told Xingyan, there are not many disciples of the younger generation who are selected by the uncles and uncles every time in the examination.He entered the Shangqing Palace earlier, and waited until four years later, that is, the year before last, before he was lucky enough to enter the sect of Taoist Master Qingyun and practice Taoism.

Hearing that this dull and seldom-spoken disciple had already started formally practicing Taoism, Xingyan was very interested, and hurriedly asked for details—but, hearing him ask, Chen Ziping's face showed a bit of coyness , only told Xingyan that he was practicing gold spells, and he refused to say more.

Xingyan is not a dull person who doesn't know what to do. Once he saw the scene, he knew that he couldn't ask more questions, so he had to change the topic.Thinking about what Chen Ziping just said, Xingyan thought of a question: "So, the teaching methods in other sects are not like this?"

Seeing that Xingyan didn't ask any further questions, Chen Ziping's face turned natural again. Hearing Xingyan's question, he specifically mentioned Tianshizong who was as famous as Shangqing Palace:

"There are several major sects in the world, but the teaching of spells is not as harsh as my Shangqing Palace. Just like the Tianshizong of Heming Mountain, it is very different from my sect. Ordinary children, as long as they can enter the Tianshizong sect , you can follow the teacher to study Taoism."

"Oh? That's not bad! It's the so-called 'education without distinction'..." Chen Ziping just smiled and said: "I set up such rules in the Qing Palace, which has its own deep meaning. Just like that day Shizong, although it is easy for people to practice Taoism, the responders are very enthusiastic, but in this way, it is inevitable that there will be mixed good and bad, and we cannot teach students according to their aptitude—" In order to strengthen the persuasion, this young disciple of the Shangqing Palace added One sentence: "Because of this, every year at the Taoist Jiayuan meeting, on the day of the three-door competition, although there are many disciples of the Tianshi sect participating, the one who won the first place in the end has not had a disciple of the Tianshi sect for many years." Already!" "Huh? Jiayuanhui? 'Dabi'—what is this?" Speaking of which, Xing Yan doesn't know much about the Qing Palace on Luofu Mountain.Now hearing this new word from Chen Ziping's mouth, I am very curious. "Uh! The Grand Competition of the Jiayuan Hui is held every three years. On the birthday of Yuanshi Tianzun, the head of my teaching Sanqing, the three great gates of the world are gathered together: Shangqing Palace, Miaohua Palace, and Tianshizong. All of them selected outstanding disciples from the younger generation of their sects, gathered together, and held two comparisons: a battle of martial arts, and a discussion of scriptures. The contest of researching and debating scriptures is nothing more than the competition of Taoist magic. Most notable."

"Oh? That's quite normal!" Xing Yan also felt that Taoist spells were much more interesting in comparison.

"That's right! The three disciples who won this Dao Dharma competition in the end will all get a treasure. And what makes us most envious is that the disciple who finally won the first prize is still among the three masters. Choose a senior master with profound Taoism, and come to ask for the principles of Taoism!"

Speaking of this, the originally dull Chen Ziping now has bright eyes and speaks much more fluently than before: "Speaking of which, those Taoist treasures awarded are often pills to assist cultivation. Although the benefits are great, but comparatively speaking, it's worth it—especially the opportunity to learn about Taoism is really rare. You know, those seniors, even disciples of our own sect, rarely see them at ordinary times On the one hand, if you can take this opportunity to get these unfathomable Taoism famous people's guidance, it is often worth ten years of groping in the dark!"

In the end, this young disciple from Shangqing Palace spoke sonorously and forcefully, while the young man woke up and listened mesmerizingly.

Before they knew it, the donkey under the two of them had been kicking and pedaling for a long distance on the dirt road surrounded by green bushes.

Xing Yan heard Chen Ziping's words just now, and he was also full of interest and yearning.After thinking about it for a while, he heard him say to the disciple of the Shangqing Palace beside him:
"Ashamed! For so many days, I just wandered around, but I didn't know that there was such a grand event in my teaching!" After a pause, Xingyan made up his mind: "Yes! I have to follow the elders in the door, Study Taoism well—if there is a little achievement in that Taoism, then I will also participate in the big competition and try my best to win face for us in the Qing Palace!" Imagining the bright future, he woke up for a while and felt it was just pride lofty!

——In the end, Xingyan is still only a young man, and when Chen Ziping talked about the competition, he couldn't help feeling competitive.

However, after he finished his bold words, Xing Yan found out strangely that after hearing his bold words, Chen Ziping was stunned for a moment, and didn't answer for a while.

I was wondering in my heart, but I saw this young disciple, paused for a moment, and then said: "This matter... cough cough..." You don't know--Brother Zhang Dao, you are the member of the "Si Hai Tang" host.In my Shangqing Palace, like the heads of the Chongde Hall and the Hongfa Hall, it can be regarded as a Taoist priest—how can this, how can this be able to enter the sect of others to learn Taoism? ""what? ! " Hearing what he said, he only remembered the wake-up call of his identity, and felt a little bad, but then he heard Chen Ziping continue to say:
"Not only that, but by the time of the grand competition, you may still be one of the judges on the seat-this participation in the comparison is really out of the question!"

This very humble Shangqing Palace disciple honestly listened to what he said. "!!!" The young man who was planning on wishful thinking was suddenly stunned!

(End of this chapter)