Mortal Mirror

Just as Li Ergou was pondering, countless dark clouds suddenly rolled in from the outside sky. In the blink of an eye, a strong wind swept through the heavens and the earth, and after a moment, heavy rain poured down.

Li Ergou was amazed. The weather in the mountains was truly unpredictable; it rained as soon as it said it would.

He sat obediently by the fire, warming himself. After tossing and turning for half the night, his stomach began to growl. He took out half a leg of mutton and roasted it over the fire. Before long, the mutton began to sizzle with oil, and the surface was roasted to a golden brown by the intense heat. The aroma began to spread, stimulating the appetite.

Seeing that the mutton was almost ready, Li Ergou eagerly reached out to tear off a piece. But before he could touch it, he suddenly heard voices from outside.

“Wow, such heavy rain! This mountain weather is truly fickle!”

A moment after the voice, a scholar-like figure, carrying a book basket, ran in quickly from outside.

He was slightly surprised to see Li Ergou, but then, seeing the mutton on the ground, he said very familiarly, “Oh, what fragrant meat! May I have some food, brother? I’m really hungry.”

Li Ergou looked at the scholar for a moment before saying, “Where did you come from in the middle of the night? Are you a ghost?”

The scholar rolled his eyes and said, “Brother, you jest! I am a scholar from Dahe Township, on my way to the capital to take the imperial exam. I wanted to travel more at night, but who knew I’d encounter such terrible weather?

Fortunately, there’s a dilapidated temple here, or I would have been drenched like a drowned chicken.”

Li Ergou nodded slightly and quickly tore off a large piece of meat for the scholar. In this life, he envied these scholars the most. They were educated, spoke elegantly, were handsome, and might become high officials in the future. They were truly the most successful people in life.

Li Ergou handed the roasted meat to the scholar without hesitation. The scholar said happily, “Thank you! My name is Ye Zhiqiu. May I know your name, brother?”

Ye Zhiqiu… Look, even the scholar’s name is extraordinary, Li Ergou thought to himself.

He immediately replied, “My name is Li Ergou. You can call me Ergou.”

Ye Zhiqiu was slightly stunned and couldn’t help but ask in surprise, “Brother, don’t you have a proper name?”

Li Ergou didn’t like hearing that. He thought, 'What’s wrong with my name?' Is this scholar so bookish that he doesn’t understand worldly affairs? How could he ask such a naive question?

His good impression of the scholar dropped a level.

With a slightly unpleasant expression, he said, “No, I think this name is quite good.”

The scholar wasn’t stupid. He seemed to sense Li Ergou’s displeasure and said with some embarrassment, “Brother, I didn’t mean anything by it. I just thought your name was a bit too casual, easily leading to speculation.”

Li Ergou snorted and said, “My dad gave it to me. Whether it’s Ergou, Gousheng, Goudan, or Goushi, I like them all.”

Ye Zhiqiu was slightly taken aback, shook his head, and smiled, not knowing what to say. He simply ate the meat in large bites and didn’t say anything more, afraid of angering the guy in front of him and losing his share of the meat. But he had to admit, the roasted meat was really delicious.

Li Ergou felt a little depressed and also ate the mutton in large bites. The two were speechless for a time, which was quite awkward.

Just then, in the heavy rain, another voice of Buddha's name came: “Amitabha, well done, well done, Jin Guang Temple, this is Jin Guang Temple, I finally found you.”

Li Ergou and Ye Zhiqiu looked outside at the same time and saw a young monk walking in the heavy rain. A golden light was shining above the monk's head, forming a golden shield suspended above his head, and the rain dripped down along the shield, without even touching the monk.

Seeing this, Li Ergou was slightly surprised. This monk looked extraordinary.

The monk also saw the two people at the moment, then stepped into the temple and looked at the two people with a smile on his face and said: "It turns out that there are still people here, hello, my name is Guangzhi, I don’t know what your names are."

Li Ergou looked at this person, only feeling that he was not a few years older than himself, so he said: "My name is Li Ergou."

“My name is Ye Zhiqiu.”

Guangzhi happily said: "Okay, okay, it is fate that we can meet in this remote mountain, huh, this meat is so fragrant, let me have a piece too."

Saying that, this guy was actually not polite, and directly grabbed a large piece of mutton and gorged himself.

Li Ergou and Ye Zhiqiu were all dumbfounded, and they couldn't help but come up with a special idea: "Can monks eat meat? This can't be a fake monk."

Guangzhi saw the appearance of the two people and couldn't help but chuckled and said: "My master told me that wine and meat pass through the intestines, and the Buddha remains in the heart. When you are hungry, you only need to fill your stomach, and you don’t need to care what food it is.

Now there is no other food here, it doesn’t matter to me what I eat."

Li Ergou was surprised, he didn't want to meet these strange people today. Seeing that it was not surprising, Li Ergou didn't care anymore. After all, in this deep mountain and old forest, it seems that there is no need to be too surprised about what kind of things he encountered.

Li Ergou didn't say much, picked up the mutton and ate it in big mouthfuls. After eating and drinking enough, Li Ergou looked at the monk and was still curious: "This master, where did you come from? Listening to your meaning, it seems that you came here to find this ancient temple."

Guangzhi glanced at Li Ergou and smiled, "You and I are about the same age, there is no need to call me a master, they are just false names, you can just call me Guangzhi, I also call you Ergou, meeting is fate, everyone will be friends in the future."

The scholar also came over and said: "Hey, Master Mingwu, you can also call me Zhiqiu."

After all, everyone is young, and Li Ergou is not a stingy person, so the three of them immediately started chatting.

Li Ergou then realized that this Guangzhi turned out to be a member of the sect. The sect he belonged to was called "Faguang Temple", and this was also the first time he had met a sect disciple.

Through Guangzhi's introduction, he learned that Faguang Temple is the largest temple in the Daxia Kingdom, and its strength is as famous as Tiandao Sect and Yunzhi Immortal Palace.

What made Li Ergou even more unexpected was that this guy was a Jindan stage master at a young age. Seeing such a powerful young talent, Li Ergou couldn't help but sigh in his heart. He thought he was very powerful, but he didn't want to be just a frog at the bottom of a well.

The slightly arrogant heart was greatly hit. It turned out that he was more than a star and a half behind those geniuses.

Although Guangzhi is a monk, he is very gossip. He told Li Ergou and others a lot about the sect, what kind of fairy sister of the Tiandao Sect, with invincible aptitude, firmly occupies the first throne in their generation.

What Yunzhi Immortal Palace, there is another peerless disciple born, extremely powerful, he said a lot of powerful people, so that Li Ergou can be regarded as a lot of knowledge.

However, it also made Li Ergou even more depressed. I didn't want the old man to be right. There is a sky outside the sky, and there are people outside the people.

Never be arrogant, because you don’t know that outside your world, there are even more powerful existences. It’s true that there are stronger players, and one mountain is higher than another.

Li Ergou also knew that Guangzhi came out this time to find the fate of Buddha. Li Ergou didn't know what the fate of Buddha was. In fact, Guangzhi didn't know what the fate of Buddha was. However, when he saw this Jin Guang Temple, he only felt that this might be the place of the fate of Buddha.

Just as the few people were chatting happily, they suddenly saw two more figures in the darkness in the distance, holding umbrellas and walking slowly.