Liaozhai Great Sage

"Old Immortal Pine Tree, your attitude was not like this just now." Li Xiuyuan asked.

The old fairy Songshu said angrily: "Who said that, the old man is famous for his modesty and kindness. What the uncle saw just now must not be the real me. That is my twin brother. He was strangled in the mud by the old man for being disobedient just now." , I will never show up again in the future, please rest assured, if you don't believe me, pine nuts will prove it."

After finishing speaking, a pine nut jumped out of the soil and landed in front of Li Xiuyuan.

"..." Li Xiuyuan looked at the old fairy Songshu with a strange expression.

I don't know why, but the old fairy Songshu's temperament reminded him of a person... his master, Daoist blind.

It's just that compared with this old pine tree, my master is much inferior.

"Since the old fairy is so sincere, it is natural for us to turn hostility into friendship. The meeting of swords and swords is indeed harmful to peace, what do you think." Li Xiuyuan put Tai'a sword away and said.

"Everything the old man says is right, and the little brother thinks so." The old pine tree fairy said with a flattering smile, and the wooden face on the crown of the tree crumpled into a ball.

Li Xiuyuan said: "Since that's the case, I don't mind if I ask you a few questions."

"If you have any questions, please feel free to ask, the younger brother will tell you everything you want." The old fairy Songshu patted his chest as a promise.

"Where is Master Zixu?" Li Xiuyuan asked.

The old fairy Songshu said: "There is a Taoist temple on the top of the mountain in the east, and the real Zixu is practicing in the Taoist temple."

"Where are the Taoist classics in the door usually kept?" Li Xiuyuan asked again.

The old pine tree said: "It's in the palace on the cliff to the south."

Li Xiuyuan looked up, and indeed saw a palace on the cliff to the south that was carved out of the mountain, and there was a Taoist meditating there, wondering if he was looking after the safety there.

"The place in the mountain gate is not small, why are there no other Taoists?" He asked again.

"On weekdays, I live in seclusion, breath out, and practice diligently. Naturally, it is rare. Only when the crane crows, and the purple smoke in the hall rises, all the Taoist priests will gather together." The old fairy Songshu said.

Chapter 498 Daozang

Li Xiuyuan asked the old pine tree a lot of questions, so he knew something about this strange teacher.

The teacher's school is unknown and has no sect. It is inherited from the pre-Qin period. After several ups and downs, it almost died in the Sui Dynasty, but it prospered again because of a patriarch who gained Taoism in the early Tang Dynasty.

Although the patriarch rebuilt the division alone, it still has a lot of heritage because of the unbroken inheritance.

It is the main door of Taoism, the method of practicing qi, it can be said that there are all kinds of Taoism, and there are not a few people who have achieved Taoism and become immortals for hundreds of years.

Now there are 50 to [-] cultivators in the master's school, one ancestor, and nine people at the level of blind Taoist and drunk Taoist. If you don't count up, Li Xiuyuan can be regarded as the third generation of contemporary disciples.

There are 18 disciples of the third generation, such as Ling Fengzi is a disciple of the third generation.

There are more than [-] disciples from four generations.

In addition, there are a few people who are not members of the master's school. Master Zixu is a descendant of other Taoists. He entered the mountain gate because of his clear body, and exchanged longevity spells. It has a high status in Taoism.

There are not many people here, the master's sect is less than [-] people, and there are also some Taoists who have traveled in the world of mortals, and those who have not heard from them for a long time, most of them died outside.

After all, it is risky for the world of mortals to meet the calamity, but if the accumulation of merit is enough, the calamity will disappear by itself in the future, and there is hope for immortality.

If you practice hard behind closed doors, meditate and practice qi, it will be difficult to become an immortal freely.

It has become the choice of all cultivators in the master's school whether to accumulate merit and virtue first to eliminate calamity, or to meditate and practice Qi first, and to respond to calamity when they become immortals.

For example, the wooden Taoist and the blind Taoist chose the world of mortals to respond to the catastrophe, and the blind Taoist borrowed Li Xiuyuan's blessings to cultivate the golden elixir avenue, and if there is no accident, becoming a fairy is certain.

But Taoist Mu was the opposite. He didn't survive the catastrophe, but he embarked on the road of becoming a god with incense and fire.

The drunken Taoist and the Zixu real person chose to escape from the world and practice, not to be stained with karma in the world of mortals, and only need to worry about the catastrophe of becoming a fairy.

"The gate of Shimen was built in the Tang Dynasty, and you also became a spirit in the Tang Dynasty. Are you a tree spirit in the local mountains?" Li Xiuyuan asked.

The old pine tree fairy said with a flattering smile; "Master, I was just joking. The little one is not a pine tree in the mountains. It used to be that when a master was traveling abroad, he sold glutinous rice balls. The woodcutter who chopped firewood couldn't pay the money, so he wanted to get dry firewood for the money." , Master refused, just took a branch and counted it as money, that branch is small, and later planted here, after a long time, it will become fine."

"It turned out to be like this... the old fairy really has a lot of background." Li Xiuyuan said: "But that master is really virtuous, such a virtuous conduct is indeed worthy of the word "Taoist master."

Those who cultivate the Tao value the most virtue.

They are rushing to achieve Taoism and become immortals, so they can only form good karma and dare not attract cause and effect, so the real Taoist masters must first pass the test of virtue.

Otherwise, if they have practiced the Tao for many years, once they have evil thoughts and cannot subdue the six desires in their hearts, they will fall into a place of eternal doom, go farther and farther on the evil way, and finally die.

And if you do a lot of evil, it may damage the master's merit.

Therefore, practitioners of the Tao still have a big problem.

Is inheritance important, or becoming an immortal is important.

With more inheritance and more disciples, it is inevitable that there will be crooked melons and cracked dates.

In order to become a fairy, one must let go of the inheritance, but if he failed to become a fairy and died in a disaster, wouldn't the inheritance of the master's school be cut off?

Therefore, it is not known whether the legend of immortals has gradually declined from prosperity to the present since ancient times, and will disappear in the end.

"I don't know what else you want to ask, sir? I still know the past affairs of many Taoist priests in the sect." The old fairy Songshu smiled flatteringly.

Li Xiuyuan said: "No need, old fairy, your words have already taught me a lot of things in the Taoist sect. Here I have to thank you, so I want to give you a small gift, I hope you will like it." After speaking, he touched the ghost king's bag.

From it, an olive-like object exuding golden light was taken out.

"This is... Diliuye?" The wooden face on the trunk of the old fairy pine opened his eyes wide, looking very surprised.

"Oh, old fairy, that's good if you know it. This emperor's ointment can increase the Taoism of vegetation and monsters. If you help me, this emperor's oasis will be given to you."

Li Xiuyuan put the emperor liquid under the pine tree, and then said: "I have to go to the Taoist temple on the cliff to see the Taoist treasures there, learn magic, and don't bother the old fairy. See you next time."

After speaking, he bowed his hands and gave a salute, then strode away.

"Whoo~!"

An old tree root suddenly protruded from under the soil, rolled up the Emperor Ointment and pulled it into the soil in an instant.

The wooden face on the trunk of the old fairy pine smiled like a chrysanthemum, wrinkled into one piece, he hurriedly called out with a flattering smile: "It's easy to go, sir, come and sit when you are free, thank you for your baby, little one Thank you, I kowtow to you..."

Li Xiuyuan couldn't help but twitch his mouth when he heard the old pine tree fairy's words.

Who did you learn this weird character from?

The old fairy Songshu was ecstatic in his heart. He had practiced Taoism for more than 500 years, and if he took the Emperor Ointment, he could increase his Taoism by 100 years.

Once he reaches 600 years of Dao Xing, he will be able to take shape and walk around at will, as long as the body stays here, and there is no need to be trapped in the mud all the time.

This is the biggest disadvantage of the grass spirit monster.