Changyuan's face froze immediately when he said that he was focusing on the matter, but he heard Zhaoyan say again: "Master, don't worry, I will never be like him."

Chang Yuan was slightly taken aback, and couldn't help asking: "How dare you be so sure?"

Zhaoyan smiled again, he had a cold face, his smile was sharp, but his eyes were sincere, and he said in a low voice: "Senior brother fell into the devil way and made Master sad, so I don't want to make Master sad. No matter what he has in mind Demonic karma, for the sake of Master, I will kill them all."

Changyuan saw his dark red pupils shining brightly, and his heart warmed up immediately. He stretched out his hand to rub the back of his neck for a moment, and then smiled slightly: "It's because you are so determined, I'm afraid you haven't worked hard enough in cultivation. If you don’t have the Immortal Test, what should you do?”

Zhao Yan frowned and said, "I've worked very hard. Today at Piyunya, the master master said that I have made progress these days."

"Oh?" Changyuan smiled, "Then tell me, you obviously couldn't calm down to practice Taoism before, why did you suddenly realize it now?"

After Zhao Yan heard this question, he seemed to hesitate for a moment before he said dully: "I heard from other disciples that disciples who fail the immortal test cannot stay in the Lingtai, and will be sent to the lower realm to become earth immortals. Right?"

Changyuan let out an "ah" and came to understand: "So you don't want to be an immortal in the lower realm?"

Zhao Yan shook his head: "I don't care what kind of fairy I am, but...if I go to the lower realm, who will accompany Master to watch the clouds on the cliff of the sea of ​​clouds in the future?" Yuan, stretched out his hand unconsciously, grabbed a strand of black hair hanging from him, and said slowly, "If I'm not here, Master is alone in the heaven, what should I do?"

His guttural voice carried the hint of hoarseness of a young man, mixed with melancholy, Changyuan's breath was stagnant when he heard it, and suddenly a strange hot wave came from the bottom of his heart.Although he didn't know the reason for this strange state of mind, he felt vaguely that something was wrong, he leaned back a little, and then pulled the lock of hair out of the disciple's hand seemingly unintentionally.

Zhaoyan didn't understand, so he still looked at him with those dark red eyes, and said in a low voice, "Master?"

Changyuan, however, avoided his gaze, and smiled to himself: "This is just a child's talk. Even if you pass the immortal test and successfully ascend to the immortal, you may not be able to stay in the Lingtai. Have you forgotten that Yun Shen 200 years ago Then you got the immortal body, and then you were assigned to West Kunlun as an immortal, and when you become an immortal, you don’t know where you will be assigned, how can you stay by your teacher’s side like you are now.”

Zhaoyan obviously hadn't thought about this, he was a little dazed for a moment, stepped back, and stood up in panic: "So even if you become a fairy, you can't stay here?" He suddenly became angry, flicked his sleeves, "Since that's the case, how can I practice Taoism and become a fairy!"

Hearing this, Changyuan couldn't help but his complexion sank, and he reprimanded: "Is the matter of becoming an immortal a joke, I have taught you for many years as a teacher, you don't hope that you can achieve a real result, but because of these trivial things, you have messed up your mind to practice Taoism, you are sorry Is it the teaching of the teacher?"

He said this very harshly. Normally, Zhao Yan would not dare to say rebellious words, but today he couldn't hold back his temper, and said repeatedly: "Master, don't you know that I don't like to practice Taoism, and I don't want to become a monk?" Fairy. In the 1000 years I have been in Lingtai, I have never felt happy doing anything except talking to Master. If Master hadn’t brought me to Lingtai, I would have... long ago..."

What happened a long time ago, but he couldn't say it, he just walked away a few steps reluctantly, lying on his back on the couch and getting angry.

These few words of his were originally discouraging words, uttered casually without any other meaning, but Chang Yuan was stunned for a long time when he heard it.He thought that he didn't have any qualifications to become a fairy, but by chance, he met Patriarch Qianyuan and was taken to the Lingtai. Thousands of years passed, and he was extremely lonely.Looking at it now, Zhao Yan's temperament is obviously not suitable for cultivating Taoism, but because of his own reasons, he was forced to stay in the Lingtai, that is to wear down his nature and become a fairy, and he may end up in the same situation as himself.Thinking of this, he suddenly felt guilty, walked slowly to the couch, looked at the apprentice on the couch, and sighed softly.

Hearing his sigh, Zhaoyan couldn't help but opened his eyes to look at him, but saw him standing by the couch, no joy or anger could be seen in his expression, but his eyelids drooped slightly, as if he was full of melancholy.He couldn't help it all of a sudden, got up and hugged Changyuan, calling out: "Master."

Changyuan already felt guilty, and when he waited for him to relax, he patted his head and said: "If you want to stay in Lingtai, there is no other way. After you pass the immortal test, you may be assigned to practice elsewhere In the last 200 years, once the period of experience is over, I will ask Senior Brother Zichen to recall you back to the Lingtai, and you will continue to work here."

Zhaoyan hugged him tightly, still shaking his head: "I can't wait for 200 years." He raised his eyes, looked at Changyuan pleadingly and said, "Master, can I not go to the immortal to have a test? Is it okay to stay in Qionghua Palace and be a fairy boy serving you?"

Changyuan was so angry that he laughed: "I don't dare to be served by you even if there is a fairy boy as big as you." He paused, afraid that the apprentice would really think about it and refused to participate in the fairy test. Then he lowered his head and coaxed in the apprentice's ear, "Be obedient, and I will take you to wander around the mortal world for two days as a master, how about it?"

Zhaoyan had been thinking about going to the mortal world for a long time, but he hadn't agreed to it all the time. Seeing him suddenly mentioning it now, he was naturally overjoyed.Then after thinking about it, he said with some doubts: "Master didn't say that he would be punished for going to the lower world without permission, so he never took me to the mortal world, why did he suddenly agree now?"

Changyuan straightened up and smiled at him: "Of course there are some reasons. Recently, there are monsters in Nanhua Valley in the lower realm, who are in charge of the Shaowei sword for my master, so I will go there to investigate and take my disciples to the lower realm by the way. Isn't it against the rules of heaven?"

Hearing what he said, Zhao Yan's doubts disappeared, and he said impatiently: "Then when are we going to leave?"

Changyuan thought for a while: "Then tomorrow."

In the early morning of the next day, when the Golden Crow was just rising, Chang Yuan took Zhao Yan away from the Qionghua Palace on a cloud ride, and went all the way to the lower realm.

Zhaoyan was still very young when he was brought to the altar, and had no memory of mortal affairs, now stepping on the cloud, looking down, he felt extremely novel, and kept asking Changyuan.Fortunately, Changyuan was also quite patient, and answered him one by one, and then stretched out his hand to point to the distance: "I have never seen that lake, it is called Yunmeng Lake, and it was there that I took you away when I was a teacher."

Zhaoyan raised his eyes, and sure enough, he saw a sparkling lake reflecting golden light in the distance, and the surrounding mountains were as green as daisy, full of vitality.Originally, he wanted to ride a cloud over to have a better look, but he saw that the master's face was different, he was slightly dazed looking at the ground under his feet, so he couldn't help but also looked down.However, there are criss-crossing fields below, and ditches divert water, separating several green fields.There are also a few scattered houses dotted among these fields, and the smoke from the roofs floats from the roofs, and gradually drifts away with the wind.

"Master," he called softly, and asked suspiciously, "where is that?"

Changyuan came back to his senses in a daze, and said in a low voice: "That is a human village, where most ordinary people come and go to farm and weave, plant mulberry and raise silkworms..." When he said this, he suddenly paused, his eyes gradually showed infinite melancholy, Sighed, "I haven't smelled the smell of fireworks here for thousands of years."

Zhao Yan took his hand and said: "Since Master misses the things in the world, why don't we go down and have a look?"

Changyuan was stunned for a moment, but then shook his head with a wry smile: "The village is surrounded by mortals. Seeing us like this, I'm afraid they will be frightened."

Zhao Yan frowned and thought for a while, then said: "Then let's not get close, Master can take a look from a distance, how about it?"

This time, Changyuan didn't object any more, and led him to press down on the cloud head, and landed on a mountain with no one around.The mountain peak is not very high, standing on the mountain and looking down, it is easy to see the village below the mountain.It was morning at this time, and there were faint sounds of cocks crowing and dogs barking in the village, mixed with a few calls from the villagers, which made Chang Yuan's thoughts surge and he stayed there.

Seeing Master standing on the mountain in a daze for a long time, Zhao Yan seemed to be extremely reluctant to part with his eyes on the village, so he couldn't help saying: "If Master is unwilling to watch from a distance, why not use the fairy method to hide our body, and then come closer, we can't stop Is that enough?"

He thought this idea was very good, but Changyuan sighed and turned around: "It doesn't matter if I get closer, I won't be able to go back after all."

Zhaoyan was stunned for a moment, and wanted to say something else, but Zhang Yuan pointed at him and said, "Look there, it looks like a thatched cottage with no one there."

Zhaoyan looked at where he was pointing, and he saw a crooked thatched hut on the mountainside, which seemed to be blown down by the wind, leaving only a thatched roof and half of the plastered wall, which looked solid. dilapidated.

However, Chang Yuan walked over to that thatched cottage with great interest, sat down under the crooked eaves, and said with a slight smile: "Although this place is dilapidated, the view is good and the scenery is also very good. With a little repair, it is a good place to hide and relax."

Zhao Yan hesitantly sat down next to him, but he was a little worried that the half-drawn grass eaves above his head would fall off, and after a long time he said in doubt: "Master, what's so good about the dilapidated place? The Qionghua Palace is A single wild grass is countless times better than this place."

Chang Yuan shook his head, and just said: "You don't understand," he looked at the opposite cliff, and saw the spring water on the cliff, splashing down along the rocks like broken jade, and sighed softly, "I used to be Living in seclusion in the mountains, I built a thatched hut, which stood on the mountainside in the same way, surrounded by a circle of fences, and green flower vines were wrapped around the fence. A stream meanders in front of the house. There is only one bluestone table in the courtyard, two Bluestone bench. Occasionally, when a bosom friend visits, we will play a few games on that stone table, and after the chess game is over, I will take out my treasured pine needle brew, drink three or five cups with my friends, and then get drunk until dawn."

When he talked about the past, a sudden smile appeared on his lips again, but the bright sun above his head was covered by dark clouds at some point, and after a while, raindrops fell.

Zhao Yan stood up slightly in surprise, looked at the raindrops falling in front of him, and asked, "What is this falling?"

Changyuan smiled: "This is the rain in the world. It is the end of spring and the rain is the most. In winter, it will snow, and it will be snowy, dyeing the mountains and fields into a vast expanse of whiteness."

Zhaoyan had never seen rain before, so he felt it was a novelty. He stretched out his hand to catch a few drops of rainwater, held it in front of his eyes for a closer look, and saw that Master had quietly walked out of the eaves, standing in the drizzle for a long time.His white robe didn't touch the rain, it was still as light as a cloud, fluttering, but the tips of his hair were faintly damp.

Chang Yuan raised his head to face the drizzle, and sighed slightly: "The heavens are always bright and warm at any time, the wind is warm and the sun is warm, unlike the mortal world where there are wind, frost, rain, snow, scorching heat and severe cold." His voice was low and gradually faded away. In the rain, "I have been in the heaven for so long that I almost forgot what it feels like when the rain falls on me."

Before he finished speaking, a drop of rainwater tremblingly fell on the corner of his eyes. The crystal clear drop of water did not fall immediately, but just condensed there.He didn't reach out to wipe it away, but only turned his head to look at his apprentice, and said with a slight smile, "This rain falls really everywhere, and it makes me feel like I'm crying."

Zhaoyan looked at him, seemed to be stunned, and asked in a daze: "Tears...what are they?"

Changyuan paused, and then said: "It's nothing if you don't know, tears are always only available to mortals." He lowered his eyes, smiled again, but the smile was slightly bitter, "Ordinary people are the most fragile, because they have seven emotions and six desires. Birth, old age, sickness and death. When you can’t get everything you want, or when you are worried and painful, you will shed tears. We immortals have no worries and cares, and we are at ease, so we will no longer have tears.”

When he was speaking, the crystal raindrops fell on the corners of his eyes, like clear light, and like moonlight, flickering and shining on that indifferent face like smoke.Seeing Zhaoyan's breathing was stagnant for a moment, he didn't even know how to answer, his mouth seemed to be dry all of a sudden, he could only lick his lips eagerly.

Changyuan didn't notice the strange look of his apprentice, only noticed that the surrounding area was gradually disappearing, so he raised his sleeves, brushed away the raindrops, and said in a low voice: "We have been delayed here for half a day, It's better to rush to Nanhua Valley as soon as possible."

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