As everyone expected, by dark they had not yet reached the Taoist they settled down in a cave. According to the rules, Yin Xiu received the "most honorable" treatment and was arranged to sit in the innermost corner. A few steps to the side was the cave's wall covered with a thin layer of moss. "After the barrier was removed, you seem to be unhappy." The firelight illuminated Bai Fenghuang's face as she and Yin Xiu sat opposite each other. "What do you know?" Yin Xiu glanced at her and asked, "Is it difficult for me to break the barrier?" Putting one hand under his head, Yin Xiu yawned. "It was just a small spell." "So……" The white phoenix came closer, showing her mouthful of pearly teeth, and smiled, "Master, could you teach me that little magic?"
"Well, promise me." Yin Xiu didn't answer, so Bai Fenghuang moved closer and closer until Yin Xiu reached out and put a piece of talisman on her forehead. "Do you think I'm a zombie?" Bai Fenghuang angrily tore off the talisman paper. Yin Xiu pushed her head back and said, "Don't tear the talisman paper. After all, it is an important practice prop." "Props?" Bai Fenghuang held the talisman paper in her hand, only to find that there was only the talisman core but no base on it. In other words, this is a semi-finished product. "Master, why are you giving me a half-finished product?" Seeing her confusion, Yin Xiu took the talisman paper, smeared a little dragon and tiger energy on his fingers, drew on the talisman paper in the air, and when he handed it to Bai Fenghuang, the talisman paper had already taken shape. "what?" Bai Fenghuang was amazed. "Just follow the instructions." Yin Xiu took out a few more semi-finished products from his pocket and said, "When you can use your magic power to draw talismans on them remotely, come to me again." "Across the air?" Bai Fenghuang suddenly remembered what Yin Xiu did on the mountain road. He didn't use talisman paper. He just made sword gestures with his hands and drew a few times in the air to produce a talisman, which broke the illusion she was under. "If I practice like this, will I be able to draw talismans without talisman paper in the end?" "more or less."
Yin Xiu scratched his face. "But it's better to use the talisman paper if you have it. Drawing talismans in the air is only for emergencies." "it is good!" Bai Fenghuang took the talisman paper and nodded solemnly: "Master, don't worry, tonight, tonight I will practice this ability of drawing talismans from a distance." "Don't worry, you can also draw it by pressing your fingers on the talisman paper." Yin Xiu grabbed Bai Fenghuang's hand and pressed it on the talisman paper. "Remember, you must be calm and calm, visualize the shape of the talisman in your mind, and then concentrate your magic power on your fingers and draw it out. Do you understand?" Bai Fenghuang's ears turned red and she subconsciously wanted to pull her hand out, but in the end she didn't move and just let Yin Xiu hold it. Yin Xiu led her to draw on the talisman paper, and then let go of her hand, "Do you understand?" Bai Fenghuang paused for a moment before reacting and nodding repeatedly, "I understand, I understand." "Okay, then practice." Yin Xiu took the clothes, covered his face with them, and began to sleep soundly. Bai Fenghuang stretched out her hand towards the talisman paper, but her heart was still throbbing as Yin Xiu grabbed her fingers just now, and she couldn't calm down for a moment. "He's just a man, there are men everywhere on the street. Bai Fenghuang, why are you so nervous here? It will be so embarrassing if you tell others about it, right?" Taking a few deep breaths and forcing herself to calm down, Bai Fenghuang held her breath and began to draw on the talisman paper. As expected, the Maoshan Sect places great emphasis on magical instruments and talismans, which is completely different from the Qishan Sect she had learned before. Bai Fenghuang was amazed by the tricks involved, so she became more focused and did not dare to slack off at all. She practiced very attentively, while Yin Xiu on the other side had fallen into a deep sleep. …… The original cave was turned into a Taoist temple. Yin Xiu stood in front of the door, hesitating and wavering. Finally, after hearing a faint call, Yin Xiu pushed the door open and walked in. It was a clean and tidy courtyard with stone benches and stone tables, but no one was there. Without the voice calling him, the only sound around him was the breeze blowing through the leaves. Yin Xiu suddenly felt that his surroundings were extremely familiar, as if he had been here before. Then he looked at the tall building, which turned out to be the building that had appeared among the mountains before, namely Yufeng Temple. At this moment, he is in Yufeng Temple? While he was hesitating and surprised, a sound was finally heard in the courtyard. Yin Xiu turned around cautiously and found that there were two people sitting at the stone table he had passed by before, with their backs to him. Both of them had white hair that reached down to their shoulders. They wore two sets of robes, one white and one black. They seemed to be two monks. They seemed to have noticed Yin Xiu's presence, but they didn't turn around, they just asked questions.
"You have arrived at Yufeng Temple, but are you here to become an immortal?" "Immortal?" Yin Xiu said without hesitation: "I don't have any aspirations to become an immortal, and regardless of whether I have such an intention or not, becoming an immortal is no different from dreaming for ordinary people. Let alone having no intention of becoming an immortal, even if you spend your whole life visiting famous mountains and searching for immortals and medicine, you probably won’t have a chance to ascend.” "You think clearly." It was only then that Yin Xiucai realized that the thin person in the white robe was a woman with a gentle voice. The man in black who asked him the question first had a deep, steady male voice. "But everyone who comes to Yufeng Temple wants to become an immortal. Even if he says he doesn't care and doesn't seem to have thought about it in his heart, but..." The woman chuckled, her voice as sweet as a silver bell. “But when they get here, their true nature will be revealed, because the pursuit of immortality is instinctive and something engraved in their bones. Everyone is afraid of the emptiness and unknown after death, and is also nostalgic for the world and the youth on their faces. Therefore, they only pretend to be free and easy because they cannot get what they want. When you are really close to each other, everyone will show their true colors, even you, no surprise." "But……" Yin Xiu paced for two steps, and finally said seriously: "I have been to farther and better places, not this Taoist temple." As soon as he said this, the two people sitting there fell silent. After their bodies seemed to move, the man asked the first question. "You mean, Kunlun?" Yin Xiu didn't comment, but just asked: "Why? Are you also looking for Kunlun?" "You will come to this temple tomorrow, right?" The woman suddenly asked an irrelevant question. "Yes, these Miao people won't let me not come in because they have something on me." Yin Xiu said with a wry smile. From the beginning, he has realized that this is a dream, but dreams are a common occurrence. For example, there is a legend about a Taoist priest teaching his disciples skills in a dream, and there is also a legend about immortals giving magical treasures to those who are destined to have them in a dream. Therefore, he just wanted to see what these two beings, who were neither human nor ghost, and who seemed neither immortals, were going to do, or if they had anything to communicate with him. "Tomorrow when you arrive at Yufeng Temple, all the secrets will be revealed." "secret?" "You will know when the time comes, but I want you to understand that sometimes the real is fake, sometimes the real is fake, and sometimes the fake is real." "You mean, there will be a big change tomorrow?" "You will know when the time comes. Only by keeping your original heart can you see your true self." The two men turned their heads at the same time.
Yin Xiu’s eyes widened, because what he saw was the white-haired Ma Xiaoyu and himself, one black and one white, one white and one black. The eyes of these two people were shining, but what almost made Yin Xiu breathless was that these two people both had double pupils. In their eye sockets, the two pupils were squeezed together, like the sun and the moon shining, emitting golden and silver light, shining brightly. "Master, I did it! I did it!" Yin Xiu suddenly opened his eyes and saw Bai Fenghuang holding a piece of talisman paper, waving it excitedly in front of Yin Xiu. "What has become of you?" Yin Xiu just felt a slight headache, as if someone had hit him on the head with a hammer. Bai Fenghuang saw it and stuck the talisman in her hand on Yin Xiu's head, "Master, you are very powerful." Yin Xiu immediately felt a coolness flowing into his mind, and his head suddenly became much clearer. The pain just now disappeared without a trace. He peeled off the talisman paper and held it in his hand. "The Purification Mantra?" "Yes." Bai Fenghuang blinked her eyes. "How about that? It only took me half a night to achieve this level." Yin Xiu opened his pocket watch and it was twelve o'clock in the night. It turned out that he had been sleeping for a while. "awesome." Yoon Soo nodded nonchalantly, still thinking about the dream. Do I, who have double pupils, and Ma Xiaoyu really exist? Or is that just some kind of refraction? In any case, after just a few days, he began to miss Ma Xiaoyu. …… Achi! Ma Xiaoyu sneezed. The white peacock handed over the handkerchief and asked with concern: "Sister, you are not suffering from typhoid fever, are you?" "It's not that easy. Maybe someone is just missing me." "I'm more concerned about why we're going west than that." Ignoring A Ke's gentle tugging of his sleeve to remind him, Ren Qi said bluntly, "Didn't you say that the hexagram showed that we should go east? Did you make a mistake, or did I hear it wrong?" Ma Xiaoyu glanced at him and said, "You heard it right, and I said it right, but I feel that someone in the west wants to meet me." "Who is it? Liu Banxian?" Ren Qi asked. "Yes, it is just ahead, behind the mountain."
Ma Xiaoyu twitched her chin. When Ren Qi and Bai Kongque looked over there, they were both horrified and put their hands on the weapons at their waists. I saw on the other side of the mountain that a royal flag had been fluttering. It was the flag of the imperial court. "The imperial court has also come to Jiaozhi?" White Peacock couldn't help but worry. "Qin Tian Jian." Ma Xiaoyu smiled and said, "Why, are you nervous?" "A little." The white peacock swallowed and beads of sweat appeared on his forehead. "Afraid? I don't even know who's afraid of whom." Ren Qi snorted coldly, "I don't think they can bring many people. After all, this is Jiaozhi, not Southern Xinjiang." As soon as he finished speaking, a team of cavalry waving the flags of the Imperial Observatory rushed out, raising a cloud of dust. Immediately afterwards, a huge team appeared behind. Taking a look at the seemingly endless team, Lian Renqi was also moved. "The imperial court really doesn't take Jiaozhi's government seriously. They summoned so many people." Ma Xiaoyu just asked: "Go now?" "It's just what you say." Ren Qi replied. So the group drove their horses forward. When they got closer, Ren Qi signaled Bai Kongque and A Ke to stop, and he followed Ma Xiaoyu towards the opponent's camp. Soon, two Taoists and a man in official uniform ran out of the team, followed by several cavalrymen holding flags. The man in official uniform was the chief eunuch Jin Hai, and the other two Taoists were Zhang Jiude and Zhao Wuji from Longhu Mountain. As soon as he saw Ren Qi, Jin Hai spoke first, sneering coldly, "Commander Ren, it's been a long time. When you were with Di Wei in the past, you were very impressive, but now you look very different from the past." Ren Qi glanced at him sideways, "Shouldn't you be in the imperial mausoleum stealing the offerings? Why did you run out?" Jin Hai's face turned cold and he stopped talking, but his fists were clenched so hard that they made crackling sounds. When Zhao Wuji saw Ma Xiaoyu for the first time, he was stunned by her face and temperament. He couldn't help feeling nervous and embarrassed, and his heart was pounding. It wasn't until Zhang Jiude spoke that he came to his senses. "The Imperial Master said he only saw you, as for the others..." He glanced at Ren Qi and said, "Please wait here. But before that, for the safety of the Imperial Master, please reveal your identity." "Who are you?"
Ma Xiaoyu pushed her hair behind her ears and said coldly, "Before asking someone's name, you should first inform them of your origins, right?" Zhang Jiude was not angry, he just made sword gestures with his hands. "Longhu Mountain Tianshi Mansion, Zhang Jiude." Zhao Wuji was still in a daze until Ma Xiaoyu looked at him and then he reacted. "Longhu Mountain's direct disciple, Zhao Wuji." "Who are you?" Zhang Jiude asked again. "Exorcist Ma family, Ma Xiaoyu." "The contemporary female celestial master of the Ma family? I have long heard of your name." Even though he had vaguely guessed the other party's identity, Zhang Jiude couldn't help but sigh when Ma Xiaoyu revealed it herself. He pulled the horse back a few steps, held out his hand and said, "The Imperial Master is waiting for you." However, Ma Xiaoyu did not drive the horse forward, but just stopped there. Zhao Wuji was puzzled and looked at Zhang Jiude, both of them looked confused. At this time, Ma Xiaoyu slowly spoke in a cold voice. "I heard that the Longhushan Tianshi Temple has always attached great importance to rituals and rules. Why is this how your master taught you to pay respect to the Tianshi?" "..." Zhang Jiude's lips moved and he was about to speak. Ma Xiaoyu suddenly asked again: "Why, my title as the Heavenly Master of the Ma Family is not recognized by the imperial court, or by the Nine Provinces Daoist tradition? Or does Longhu Mountain have objections? This is how you, the younger generation, respond when you see the Heavenly Master?" "Disciples don't dare." Zhang Jiude and Zhao Wuji dismounted together, made sword gestures with their hands, bent down, and almost buried their heads on their stomachs. "Longhu Mountain, Zhang Jiude." "Longhu Mountain, Zhao Wuji." They both said in unison: "Greetings to the Heavenly Master." "No gift." Ma Xiaoyu kicked the horse's belly and walked past the two of them. (End of this chapter)