What should I do if my junior brother becomes a bad old man?

Queen Mother Xi made a gesture with an unquestionable attitude and ended the conversation.A blue bird came to guide them and lead them to rest.

Along the way, Gu Xunzhi finally freed his eyes to look at Queen Mother Xi's palace.The palace is actually located above the Yaochi, and no matter which window you look out from, you can see the water.The palace has only one floor, but the walls are so high that you can hardly see the beams when you look up; the ground is smooth with large pieces of jade, which seems to be the same color as the water outside from a distance. When you step on it, there is a sound. It spread extremely far in the empty hall, and the echo that came back when it hit the wall was almost trembling.

This palace was very different from the Qingqiu palace that Gu Xunzhi had seen.Qingqiu is a country of foxes. Although most of its citizens appear in a similar posture to humans, they still like to build small and exquisite buildings in habit.There are all kinds of servants and maids coming and going everywhere in the palace, bustling and bustling.

However, this Kunlun Palace was deserted and deserted, appearing extremely empty.Although the beautiful female fairies who greeted them at the door just now are all subjects of the Queen Mother of the West, they don't live here, but have different residences and duties, and they only come to take turns when necessary.

The only ones who really live here for a long time are Queen Mother Xi and her three blue birds.Gu Xunzhi couldn't imagine what it would be like to live alone in such a terrifyingly empty palace.Although the Queen Mother of the West is accompanied by three blue birds, the three blue birds are taciturn, and they rarely speak unless necessary, giving people the impression that they are not much different from wooden puppets.

Thinking of these, Gu Xunzhi suddenly felt a little ridiculous: he had been a mortal for too long, no matter what he thought of, he couldn't help but measure it by the standards of ordinary mortals.At the level of the Queen Mother of the West, she has probably already reached the state of forgetting both things and me, so how can she be troubled by such mortal feelings?

Thinking about this, he followed the blue bird and walked forward, unknowingly he had reached his destination.Qingniao prepared a room for Guichen Immortal and Xiaoyu, but let Gu Xunzhi and Ren Sha live in the same room.Gu Xunzhi thought that the relationship between himself and Ren Sha was discovered by Qingniao, so he couldn't help but blush.After thinking about it again, I realized that the blue bird might have arranged them together because they were both apprentices of the Immortal Guichen. After thinking about it this way, I felt even more embarrassed.

Of course, the blue bird didn't care what Gu Xunzhi thought, and it didn't leave any words for them. After bringing the person to the residence, it turned back into a bird shape and left with a bow.In these few rooms, the room belonging to Guichen Immortal was the largest, and everyone gathered in his room to listen to him tell the story of Queen Mother Xi.

Xiaoyu was the most curious and impatient about this, and before everyone was seated, she urged the Immortal Guichen to tell quickly whether the Queen Mother of the West was a man or a woman.Immortal Guichen just looked at her and smiled, until everyone was seated, he said:

"Your question looks simple, but it's actually the most difficult. That's why he didn't answer you just now, and dumped the trouble on me. When you see him wearing women's clothes, you think he is a woman; when you hear his deep voice, you feel He is a man. If you want me to say, he is now half male and half female, half yin and half yang. So there is no way to distinguish between male and female."

People couldn't understand these words, Xiaoyu's eyes widened, and after a while he asked again:

"How did this happen? Since he is called 'Queen Mother of the West', why isn't he a woman?"

Seeing Xiaoyu's surprised look, Guichen Immortal said with a smile:

"You all know that the Queen Mother of the West is the lord of Kunlun. In terms of the name 'Queen Mother of the West', it was indeed a female body, but the person you saw was born as a man. When he was born, the name 'Queen Mother of the West' The title has been passed down for a long time, so there are naturally some reasons for him to inherit this title."

Xiaoyu just wanted to know what happened quickly, but Guichen Immortal couldn't keep up with it, which made Xiaoyu anxious and stared at him.Immortal Guichen saw that the situation was not good, so he hurriedly begged for mercy:

"Don't worry, listen to me slowly, I'll get to the point soon."

Only then did Xiaoyu sit quietly again, only to hear Immortal Guichen say:

"Naxi Queen Mother was originally a spirit beast born on Kunlun Mountain. You have seen the situation of Kunlun Mountain when you came here. It is a place where the aura is prosperous and violent, and it is far away from the human world. The spirit beasts born here are naturally different from other places. The spirit beast cultivated the inner alchemy on Kunlun Mountain, and then turned into a female body. It is said to be a female body, but it has a leopard tail and tiger teeth, which is very different from the ordinary human form. As soon as the spirit beast transformed into a human form, it opened its spiritual wisdom , found that no one in the entire Kunlun Mountains was her opponent. Her mana was already very strong, and there were three blue birds for her to drive. It didn't take long before the entire Kunlun, regardless of gods, monsters, mortals, and spirits, worshiped her. Lord, call her Queen Mother. Later, when residents of Kunlun moved to other places, they spread her name. Because Kunlun is located in the west, the outside world called her Queen Mother of the West.

Since the Queen Mother of the West became the lord of Kunlun, envoys from outside kings often came to visit her. Outsiders had seen a lot, so she also imitated the appearance of outsiders and dressed up, wearing animal skins on her body, and Huasheng on her head. Act like a leader.However, the first visits to her were envoys from small nearby countries, so it was not worth paying attention to.The Queen Mother of the West is not very interested in this, most of the time she just practiced behind closed doors in Yaochi, ordering three blue birds to feed her.Thousands of years later, in the Zhou Dynasty, a King Mu heard the name of the Queen Mother of the West, so he came to visit.Queen Mother Xi knew that King Mu was the lord of the world, so although she had no interest, she still met him. "

When Gu Xunzhi heard this, he couldn't help interjecting:

"I've read this story in a book. The Queen Mother of the West and King Mu met each other so late that they made a three-year agreement."

The Immortal Guichen nodded and said:

"King Mu was still young at that time. Although he was only a mortal child, he was a king with extraordinary bearing, which was completely different from the people that Queen Mother Xi usually saw. Although King Mu was used to seeing beauties, he had never seen someone as mysterious and majestic as Queen Mother Xi. The lord of Kunlun fell deeply in love. It's just that the two have their own lands, and they will inevitably be separated after all. Therefore, they made a three-year agreement and agreed to meet again in three years. However, after three years, King Mu did not come to the appointment, and the Queen Mother of the West waited for a long time No, I finally abandoned Kunlun and went to the palace in the world to find King Mu, only to find out that King Mu had already suffered from a very serious illness."

Gu Xun's way:

"I heard that the Queen Mother of the West holds the elixir in her hands. With the elixir, it should be easy to save King Mu, right?"

Guichen Immortal shook his head:

"If there is such a thing as the elixir in the world, then we don't need to practice so hard. The Queen Mother of the West did save King Mu, but she didn't use the elixir, but gave him her inner alchemy."

When everyone heard this statement, their eyes widened in surprise.I only heard Guichen Immortal continue to say:

"The Queen Mother of the West is the lord of Kunlun. Even if she loses the inner alchemy, she will not immediately change back to her original shape. But she was afraid that her change would frighten King Mu, so she gave him the inner alchemy and left. After King Mu woke up, he learned that He was rescued by the Queen Mother of the West, and immediately drove to Kunlun, where he learned the details of his rescue. He wanted to return the inner alchemy to the Queen Mother of the West, but the matter was a foregone conclusion. gone."

"And then?" Xiaoyu, who understands what it feels like to lose the inner alchemy, is very concerned about the ending of this story, "What will happen to the Queen Mother of the West when she loses the inner alchemy?"

The Immortal Guichen sighed:

"The inner alchemy of the Queen Mother of the West is different from the inner alchemy of ordinary monsters. The inner alchemy of the ordinary monster is the core of the cultivation of the monster, but the inner alchemy of the Queen Mother of the West is the center of all her life. When King Mu saw Queen Mother Xi again, her physical body had gradually become thinner, and she looked almost like a phantom. King Mu spent the last time with Queen Mother West in Kunlun. During this time, King Mu noticed that When he realized that the inner alchemy of the Queen Mother of the West did not fit his body, the Queen Mother of the West taught him how to refine his own inner alchemy."

Xiaoyu gasped and covered her mouth with her hands.

"Mu Wang only needs to refine the inner alchemy, and he can live forever, but if that is the case, the Queen Mother of the West will disappear completely in this world. Therefore, King Mu chose another path. He did not refine the inner alchemy of the Queen Mother of the West, but urged the Queen Mother of the West He refined his own inner alchemy into a container for the inner alchemy. After more than 1000 years, his physical body and the inner alchemy of the Queen Mother of the West became more and more closely integrated, and finally became a complete person. He abandoned himself His identity and name, he only calls himself the Queen Mother of the West. Up to now, his appearance and appearance have all changed, completely different from the original. In short, they are completely together in another form. You have to ask me what I see now Whether this Queen Mother of the West is more than the Queen Mother of the West, or King Mu is more, I can't say for sure. But I always feel that the inner alchemy is the inner alchemy after all, and the main reason why King Mu became like this is because he wanted it to be so."

After the fairy Guichen finished telling the story, everyone was dumbfounded, not knowing what to say.After a while, Gu Xunzhi asked:

"Then...how did Master know Queen Mother Dexi?"

This topic seems to be much easier, and Immortal Guichen couldn't help but smile when he recalled the past events:

"At that time, I hadn't practiced for a long time, and I liked the excitement very much, so I met King Mu as a practitioner. At that time, I lived in King Mu's palace for a long time. King Mu treated me as a guest and discussed various things with me. Things. Later, when I went to Kunlun, King Mu and Queen Mother Xi were already the same person, but he still remembered me, so he called me friends. It is precisely because of this that I dared to bring you here this time. "

When Immortal Guichen said this, everyone suddenly realized.It turned out that the Immortal Guichen was not an old acquaintance of Queen Mother Xi, but an old friend of King Mu.It's just that people can't tell whether the current Queen Mother of the West is the Queen Mother or King Mu.

The author has something to say: The story of the Queen Mother of the West and King Mu of Zhou refers to the Shan Hai Jing, the biography of Tianzi Mu, and the legend of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and the Queen Mother of the West.But it's just for reference, most of the content is pure nonsense, well, anyway, that's it.

See you tomorrow.