Chapter 39: Skylark Sends Letter
early morning.
Li Daoxuan opened his eyes, his gaze was as bright as a mirror, and he felt a faint sense of electricity in the empty room.
He practiced all night long!
"So this is what cultivation is all about? It's so...comfortable!"
Li Daoxuan murmured to himself. After entering the initial stage of fasting last night, the essence in his body was endlessly generated. He refined it into magic power, and the speed at which his Taoism improved was several times !
Moreover, once he entered into a state of meditation, he stayed in it for the entire night without feeling tired or sleepy at all.
This is also a benefit after entering the initial stage of fasting. You will always be energetic and tireless, which is equivalent to having an indestructible kidney.
Just opening the lower dantian has produced such miraculous results. Li Daoxuan is now looking forward to it. What will happen after opening the middle dantian and upper dantian?
After collecting his thoughts, he washed up first, then did horse stance, meditation, and swordsmanship as usual...
The days became peaceful again, and Li Daoxuan returned to his life as before.
During this period, people from the government did come, but they were very polite and looked at Li Daoxuan with awe.
Later, even the magistrate of Xinyang County came in person and said that Li Daoxuan had made great contributions in eliminating demons and wanted to recommend him to meet the governor, but Li Daoxuan politely declined.
Finally, the county magistrate personally asked someone to make a plaque, wrote the four big characters "Zhenyang Taoist Temple" by hand, and ordered people to hang it up.
From then on, Li Daoxuan found that when he went out on the street again, the people around him treated him much better, and sometimes some people would take the initiative to chat with him.
In this world where demons exist, it is difficult for local people to get care from the court wizards. At this time, if a Taoist priest with real skills settles down, the local people will still welcome him.
Of course, there are also some evil Taoists who regard human life as worthless and are hated by the people. The previous master and disciple Li Daoxuan were regarded as evil cultivators by them.
Time flies like an arrow.
Ten days passed in the blink of an eye.
“The Tao is vast and can never be exhausted. It is like the ancestor of all things. It blunts the sharp, resolves the confusion, harmonizes the light, and becomes one with the dust…”
In the Zhenyang Taoist Temple, Li Daoxuan was leaning against a willow tree, holding a book in his hands, and reading seriously. His voice was clear, like the gurgling of a stream, which made people feel inexplicably calm and all their annoyance was swept away.
What he read was not the Four Books and Five Classics, but the Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu, the founder of Taoism.
Since the early days of fasting, he would set aside an hour every day to recite various Taoist scriptures. Every time he finished reading, he felt calm and his heart was like a mirror that was constantly wiped, becoming more and more transparent.
Wipe it frequently to avoid dust.
Inside the house.
The oil-paper umbrella opened quietly at some point, and Chen Ziyu held the umbrella, standing quietly by the window, listening to Li Daoxuan chanting.
She didn't know when it started, but whenever Li Daoxuan recited the scriptures, she would listen quietly with a focused expression.
When Li Daoxuan finishes chanting, she will return to the umbrella.
But today, when Li Daoxuan finished chanting, she did not go back, but raised her eyes and looked at a skylark quietly perched on a treetop.
The skylark seemed to be extremely spiritual. It stood on the treetop, listening to Li Daoxuan chanting, without moving, for an hour.
Outside the house, Li Daoxuan also noticed something was wrong.
He glanced at the skylark calmly, put away the book, and a Five Thunder Talisman appeared quietly in his hand.
What a bold monster, how dare you break into the Zhenyang Taoist Temple?
At this time, Zhang Qianyang, who was drunk, suddenly opened his eyes and smiled at Li Daoxuan, "Don't worry, my disciple."
The smell of alcohol on his body dissipated, and he smiled at the skylark and said, "Little Skylark, long time no see. The Queen sent you here, but what do you want?"
The skylark raised its head proudly, flapped its wings and came to Zhang Qianyang's shoulder, chirping something inaudible.
A hint of surprise flashed across Zhang Qianyang's eyes. After thinking for a moment, he said, "So that's how it is. Thank you for your kindness, madam. However, I am old now and I no longer have the interest in these things that I had when I was young. So, I have a good disciple recently, so I will let him do this for me."
The skylark turned its head to look at Li Daoxuan, then flew up and circled above Li Daoxuan's head for a few times, as if sizing him up.
Finally it nodded, flapped its wings, flew into the sky, and soon disappeared.
…
Li Daoxuan looked at his master and said, "Master, that bird..."
Zhang Qianyang smiled and said, "Don't be nervous. Little Bird is not an ordinary monster. It was once enlightened by the Green Lady and was taught the secret method of immortality. Not only does it not have any demonic aura, but it actually has some immortal roots."
Lady in Green...
Li Daoxuan understood that this skylark was equivalent to a subordinate trained by the Green-Robed Lady, just like many immortals and Buddhas have guardian beasts.
"What you just saw was not Xiao Que'er's true form, but just one of her countless incarnations."
After a pause, Zhang Qianyang smiled at his disciple and said, "Xiao Que'er was born with a keen eye and the ability to see the qi. She speaks very highly of you, saying that you have amazing luck and are very celestial. Tsk tsk, since I met her, you are the second person to receive such a high evaluation."
"Who's the first one?"
There was a hint of sadness in Zhang Qianyang's eyes, as if he was recalling some sad events from the past.
"The first one is your senior sister, who is also the master's first disciple, but now... she has rebelled against Longhu Mountain."
Li Daoxuan was stunned. It was the first time he knew that he actually had a senior sister, and that she had rebelled against Longhu Mountain.
"Forget it, let's not talk about her."
Zhang Qianyang waved his hands, and he seemed to become much more depressed all of a sudden.
He walked into the house, took out a dozen black jars, handed them to Li Daoxuan and said, "These are the souls that I have saved recently. Take them to the Qingyi Niangniang Temple and let them reincarnate."
Seeing Li Daoxuan's confused look, Zhang Qianyang remembered that he had not yet explained clearly what Xiao Que'er had told him.
"The Queen is about to hold a banquet in Yuzhang City, three hundred miles away. She invited me to attend, but I have other things to do, so you can go there for me."
Li Daoxuan was a little surprised. The banquet of the Qingyi Lady...
Am I about to see a ghost fairy up close?
"Master, I remember that you can send the souls of the dead directly to the Green-robed Goddess to be reincarnated, right?"
Zhang Qianyang snorted, "Sending the disc to Qingming is like using my old reputation to get in through the back door. It's okay once in a while, but if it happens too often, this reputation will be worthless."
Li Daoxuan nodded and put the jars into the Three Realms Gourd.
"Since you are about to meet the Green-robed Lady, I will tell you a little more about her background, so that you won't make a fool of yourself later."
Li Daoxuan's eyes lit up. He was very curious about the Ghost Fairy who had lived for nearly a thousand years, so he naturally listened attentively.
"Lady Qing Yi was originally the daughter of a prefect in the early Han Dynasty. She was born with spiritual powers and could predict the changes in the heavens. She had predicted the coming of disasters many times and saved many people in Yuzhang City."
"But the secrets of heaven cannot be leaked, otherwise there will be punishment from heaven. Soon a plague broke out in the city. Some people said that this was because the Qingyi Lady leaked the secrets of heaven many times, which led to the punishment from heaven on Yuzhang City."
"In the end, the Green-robed Goddess was willing to sacrifice herself and burned herself in Yuzhang City. The plague soon dissipated. People were grateful for her sacrifice and built a temple for her. For nearly a thousand years, incense has never ceased. Because she liked to wear green clothes when she was alive, she was called the Green-robed Goddess."
After hearing about the experience of the Green-robed Goddess, Li Daoxuan felt a little emotional. This is indeed a kind deity.
No wonder the master once said that after the gods and Buddhas disappeared, the underworld was divided into three parts. Except for the Green-Robed Lady, the Empty-Bellied Ghost King and the Black Mountain Old Demon were both very cruel. If the dead souls went to them, not only would they not be able to be reincarnated, but they would probably suffer great torture and be extremely miserable.
"Okay, there's no time to lose. It's still early, so get going!"
"Yes, Master!"
After Li Daoxuan packed his bags and left, Zhang Qianyang looked at his back and sighed, with a hint of loneliness in his eyes.
He drank for a long time and was a little drunk. He cursed: "You stupid girl, didn't you always ask... for the master to find you a junior brother? Now you have a junior brother, and his qualifications... are not worse than yours... but you ran away..."
"If I had known this would happen, I should have...broken your legs..."
