Liaozhai Great Sage

"You don't need to be too polite, get up, Master Zixu." Daoist Zixu said with a calm face and a smile on his face.

"Sure enough, there is no unparalleled road. Cheng Le's life experience is bleak. He has no father, no mother, and no wife. As a scholar, it can be said that there is nothing more tragic than this, but he will be accepted as a disciple by Master Zixu himself. , obviously... This person's fate is not in the mortal world, but in the immortal way. All his destiny is born for the immortal way, so the mortal world cannot tolerate him. Taoism is where he should really be." Li Xiuyuan thought to himself.

Although he was surprised that Cheng Le was accepted as a disciple by Master Zixu, other Taoists seemed to have expected it a long time ago, so they didn't find it strange.

"You are Zhou Cai?" After Master Zi Xu accepted Cheng Le, he looked at Zhou Cai again.

"Xiaosheng pays homage to the real person." Zhou Cai also hastily bent down and gave a big gift.

Master Zixu shook his head slightly and said, "It's getting late today, go down the mountain tomorrow, the place of Taoism is not the place for you to stay now."

"Yes, real person."

Zhou Cai's heart trembled, but he didn't show much disappointment. He originally came to seek immortality with his friends, and he had a beautiful wife and young son in his family, and he couldn't let it go.

"Renren, what about me? I have a fairy talisman from the mountain fairy in my hand. Now I don't want to become a fairy to get the Tao, but I just ask the real person to teach me a little magic to make a living. I will be grateful." The medicinal material The son of Shang, Zhang Shi saluted with a jade talisman.

Master Zixu nodded and said: "I don't know what kind of spell you want to learn? There are many spells in the mountain gate, there are spells that call wind and rain, there are spells that ride clouds and fog, there are spells that don't look old, and there are spells that subdue demons." , you hold the jade talisman of Daotong Immortal, and Pindao can allow you to choose a spell to practice."

Zhang Shi was a little excited and said, "I heard that there are immortals who can turn stones into gold, and I want to learn this magic."

Midas?

Hearing this, many Taoists slightly opened their eyes.

How dare you speak.

They didn't dare to learn the spell of turning stone into gold. This mortal actually said that it was such a spell with great karma. If Master Zixu passed it on, he would not be involved in the future, and his practice would be compromised.

Master Zixu neither agreed nor refused, he said: "If you want to study the Fa, you must first have a firm belief, and to have a firm belief you must be pure-hearted and ascetic. If you can practice hard in the mountains for a hundred days, the poor will allow you If you learn the spell of turning stone into gold, if you can't persist, then you will have no luck with the spell, even if it is a jade talisman from a Taoist fairy, Pindao can only send you down the mountain."

"It's just a hundred days of painstaking practice. If there is any difficulty, I will certainly be able to persevere." Zhang Shi responded confidently without saying a word.

Master Zixu nodded and said, "That's good, is Teng Yunzi here?"

"Here is the trail." Teng Yunzi saluted and stood up.

"Excuse me, take care of this person for a hundred days." Master Zixu said so, but then said with the magic of sound transmission: "This person likes to enjoy himself, and he will definitely not be able to persist in a hundred days of hard work. You Teach him a breathing method that can strengthen his body, feed him three pills that nourish his body, let him go down the mountain after training him for two months, and this is the cause and effect."

Teng Yunzi nodded: "Respectful Master orders."

Practicing him for two months, combined with the elixir and the method of breathing, is enough to turn this man into a strong man again, and he can live this life without disease and pain. If the method of breathing is passed on, future generations will also be able to Health and longevity, away from pain.

As for the spell of turning stone into gold, it is just a flower in the moon in the well. If he can really persist for a hundred days, he will not be able to learn it if taught to him.

But Zhang Shi didn't understand this point, he was all smiles, very excited, he just thought that he was valued, and he had thousands of spells at his disposal.

Thinking of this, he cast a disdainful glance at Cheng Le and Zhou Cai.

Of the two poor scholars, one didn't even have the qualifications to enter the mountain gate, and the other was accepted as an apprentice, but he didn't get much attention. He didn't teach any spells, but just talked about practicing the magic of longevity.

How can there be such a real benefit.

"You three go down and rest." Master Zi Xu waved his hand again.

Soon, the three of them were taken down by a group of people.

The hall returned to calm.

The drunk Taoist stood up impatiently at this time and said: "Ling Fengzi is left to you to deal with. It is up to you to decide whether to go or stay as a real person. The poor Taoist doesn't care about it, and he can't control it."

He was drunk with a flagon and left slowly.

He vaguely heard a few sighs; "Disciple, disciple, why don't you listen to me as a teacher...No fate, no fate."

"Master." Ling Fengzi shouted hastily, with a bit of crying and despair.

He knew that his path of cultivation was over.

Master Zixu slowly opened his mouth and said, "Two of the three have celestial karma, and Zhou Cai who was deceived by Ling Fengzi's spell to go down the mountain was among them. The karma has been accomplished, although it has been remedied, but this is not your fault, it is the result of Li Xiuyuan's change, so he gets the good result, you get the bad result, the cause and effect still exists."

"So... go down the mountain to make a living, and end the karma by destroying yourself, otherwise you will be plagued by disasters in the future, and it will be even more difficult to escape."

"Really, the Xiaodao is not convinced." Ling Fengzi gritted his teeth at this time and roared: "Why is it that Xiaodao was the one who destroyed Daoxing and went down the mountain, not Li Xiuyuan? He also cast a spell to confuse Xiaodao."

Master Zixu shook his head and said: "He didn't confuse you, you confuse him first, that's why you brought this bad retribution, this is the consequence of a cultivator showing off his spells, and he is a mortal... If you don't practice Dao, even if There is cause and effect, and it is just that there is cause and no effect, and practice is like this. Ordinary people kill cultivators, and the cultivators die.

"Are you pursuing transcendence and immortality? Or are you fighting against each other?"

"Therefore, the way of heaven is fair. If you want to live forever, you have to give up a lot. You can't blame him for this."

The real Zixu's words are actually very simple, if you want to live forever, you can't fight with mortals, if you want to fight, then you must first be a mortal.

Li Xiuyuan now has a feeling that I am a mortal and I am proud.

Chapter 5 and Six

The difference between immortals and mortals is not simply to say that immortals are superior and can ignore ordinary people, but that immortals and humans are two incomparable existences.

One has attained immortality, but the other has to go through the tribulations of the world of mortals and suffer the suffering of reincarnation.

Although they are very different from each other, in the case of the intersection of immortals and mortals, mortals have a greater advantage.

You are immortal, but mortals are subject to birth, old age, sickness and death. Therefore, in the case of conflict between the two, the way of heaven is biased towards mortals.

The karma owed by the immortal must be repaid, otherwise the catastrophe will inevitably lead to death and reincarnation, but the karma owed by the mortal can be repaid in the next life. He is already in the samsara, so he does not worry about the suffering of samsara at all.

Ling Fengzi is a cultivator, and it is a mistake for him to be fair with Li Xiuyuan.

Because he has acquired the magic method of longevity, fighting with mortals is undoubtedly willing to fall into catastrophe. This is something that every cultivator is unwilling to do. He would rather suffer losses than mortals at will.

Master Zixu's words made Ling Fengzi speechless, but those who practice Taoism can understand these words, but he has a worldly heart, so he is dissatisfied and saddened.

He only thinks that real Zixu is partial to Li Xiuyuan, even his own master is unwilling to have a bad relationship with Li Xiuyuan, so he left out of sight.

Is this sage in the world, the disciple of the blind Taoist, so important?

In order to favor him, he could put all the faults on himself?

"Xiaodao still refuses to accept. Xiaodao was taken into the mountain gate by his master when he was one year old. He has practiced Taoism for [-] years. He has been working hard. I don't know how much I have heard about disasters and causes and effects. But Xiaodao also understands that disasters can be resolved, and cause and effect can be cut off. Yes, today's incident was caused by Xiaodao and Li Xiuyuan. If you want to cut off the cause and effect, you should start with this person." Ling Fengzi gritted his teeth and said in a low voice.

Master Zixu said: "Then what do you want?"

"He is a sage in the world. Xiaodao observes Daozang, asks about the secrets, and knows something. A saint has karma when he is alive. If he is dead, he has no karma. This is different from ordinary mortals. Today Xiaodao wants to cut off this karma. To solve this death calamity, we can only fight with Li Xiuyuan once, and whoever wins will be determined by himself." Ling Fengzi said with a bit of madness in his eyes.

He is not willing to be taken back to Taoism and all Taoism.

This is the foundation of everything for him. If there is no such things, what is the reason for his more than [-] years of enduring the cultivation and silence?