Wait a minute, heroine

The Golden Hall is solemn and solemn, with the statue of the founder of the Three Qing Dynasties standing in the middle of the hall.

Master Xuanji took off her curtain hat and came to the statue of the Patriarch together with the Queen Mother. Even though she had a laid-back personality, she was still very upright in front of the Patriarch. She even put the wine gourd outside, fetched some incense and put it on the incense stick, and then she said it silently in her heart. , take the initiative to admit his mistakes, and hope that the ancestor will not blame him.

The Queen Mother stood beside her, holding incense, silently thanking God for his blessings in recent years, and wishing Ye Jingtang a safe future.

After lighting the incense, the three of them did not go out immediately.

Hongyu looked around and found a table at the door with a lottery tube on it, where you could ask for lottery tickets, so she said:

"Mother, shall we ask for a signature?"

Without waiting for the Queen Mother to speak, Master Xuanji walked to the small table and sat down, pretending to be Lu Banxian, and raised her hand:

"Come Huaiyan, I will tell you your fortune."

To be honest, the Empress Dowager did not believe in Shui'er's ethics at all, but fortune-telling was a matter of spying on the secrets of heaven. Even if Lu Taiqing came, she still couldn't predict it. In the spirit of coming, she still came to sit down in front of the small case:

"What kind of?"

Xuanji, the real person in a white dress, was sitting behind the table with a certain air of immortality. She took the lottery tube and handed it to the Queen Mother:

"It depends on you, what do you want to count?"

The Queen Mother actually wanted to figure out when she could get married to Ye Jingtang openly and openly, but it was obviously not easy to tell Shui'er about this matter. She thought about it and said:

"Guess when Hongyu will get married."

"Um?"

Hongyu, who was standing behind her, was shocked when she heard these words. She thought the Queen Mother was going to marry her off and felt a little aggrieved:

"Empress Dowager, you don't need to forget it, right? I'll be married to you for the rest of my life. I'll be where you are..."

This is what the Empress Dowager considered. If Hongyu marries someone, she will definitely get married. For this reason, she insisted:

"That's it. She can't calculate it accurately anyway."

After saying that, he picked up the bamboo stick and shook it, and a bamboo stick fell out.

Master Xuanji picked up the bamboo stick and looked at it briefly. It could be seen that there was a sentence written on it - being in the mountains is fate.

Hongyu looked up and whispered, "What do you mean?"

"Well... sign it, according to the signature, the person you love is right in front of you without knowing it, and you can get married at any time..."

"?"

Hong Yu was still thinking wildly, but the Queen Mother's eyes were startled. Unexpectedly, Shui'er, a half-immortal, was quite accurate in her calculations. She was afraid that something might happen to her calculations, so she stood up and said:

"Forget it, what's all this, let's go out."

Xuanji's divination skills were not as good as Qinghe's. He just said something casually without saying much. He put the bamboo stick back and left the Golden Palace together.

After working in the palace for a long time, the sun had set and the sky was completely dark.

After Master Xuanji went out, he turned around and looked around. He was wondering about the whereabouts of the Night Terror Hall when he suddenly found two figures standing on the dragon head stone facing outside the mountain.

The figure behind is a seven or eight-year-old Taoist boy, holding a bowl of rice in his hand and eating happily.

And on the dragon's head stone protruding out of the cliff, stood a Taoist with an immortal spirit.

The Taoist's appearance is different from that of the Taoist priests commonly seen in Taoist temples. He wears a black and white Tai Chi robe, a purple gold hibiscus crown on his head, and a sword with a yin and yang fish hanging on his side. His hair and clothing are all meticulous.

At this time, the Taoist stood facing the wind with one hand behind his back, looking at the vast galaxy. His robes moved with the wind, but his body was as steady as a pine tree. Because his shoulders were wide and his back was wide, it gave people the feeling of "crouching like a dragon".

Senior brother?

When Xuanji saw this figure, her expression froze, and she immediately wanted to drag the Queen Mother away.

But as one of the Three Immortals, the Imperial Master Lu Taiqing could stand here, how could he not know that Junior Sister Xuanji was in the palace.

As soon as the three of them walked out of the golden palace, Lu Taiqing turned around and bowed:

"Old Taoist Lu Taiqing, pay homage to the Queen Mother."

The Queen Mother had not noticed it at first, but when she heard this voice, the smile on her face instantly faded and turned into the dignity and tranquility of the mother of a country.

No one could match Lu Taiqing's status, whether in the world or in the court, but the Queen Mother was the empress and stepmother after all. She could not feel any pressure when facing her ministers. She just nodded and said:

"The Imperial Master is here too? I didn't know about it beforehand."

When Master Xuanji saw his senior brother showing up, he knew that he was definitely not here to pay homage to the Queen Mother. He couldn't run away at the moment, so he said to Hongyu:

"Send the Queen Mother to the tea room to rest first, and I'll go talk about something."

When the Queen Mother saw this, she didn't question it and went to the side hall with Hong Yu.

Master Xuanji found a lover outside, and went back to the mountain to meet his senior brother. The pressure was really not that light, but his expression was as calm as ever. He walked slowly to the Dragon Broken Stone and looked at the little Taoist boy who was immersed in eating:

"This is?"

Seeing this, Xiao Daotong quickly introduced himself:

"Junior Hua Yang, pay your respects to Senior Aunt Xuanji."

"It turns out to be Senior Nephew Huayang. This is the first time I've met him. This is Senior Brother's new apprentice? Doesn't Senior Brother not want to accept a disciple?"

Lu Taiqing turned around and led his apprentice towards the back mountain:

"Brother, I originally wanted to hand Yuxu Mountain into your hands. Now that you have the intention of returning to secular life and getting married, what else can I do besides finding another successor?"

"..."

Master Xuanji's eyes froze slightly. Just hearing these words, she realized that her senior brother knew everything. She pretended to be calm and asked:

"How does senior brother know this?"

"The Holy One sent a letter from Fei Ge the day before yesterday, asking Brother Wei to give advice to the Night Terror Hall, and mentioned your marriage along the way. Since the Holy One has made a decision, Brother Wei naturally can't say anything."

"..."

Master Xuanji really didn't expect that his apprentice would do such a good job in marrying her master to Ye Jingtang. He even took care of his parents' family, but he didn't know how to answer the question at the moment.

Lu Taiqing raised his eyes to look at the stars and continued:

"However, you are extremely talented and have a chance to seek immortality. It is a pity that you have to go down like this."

Master Xuanji heard the regret in his senior brother's words, thought about it and responded:

"With the Tao in your heart, you can ask for it no matter where you are. If you don't want to ask, even if you stay on the mountain every day, it's just a wasted time."

Lu Taiqing shook his head: "If a practitioner wants to seek the path to immortality, everyone he encounters is destined to be a passer-by. The founder has set many precepts, just because he doesn't want his disciples and disciples to leave behind too many inner demons on the way to pursue the path. Since you have come down the mountain , you should no longer think about the road to immortality."

Master Xuanji knew that what his senior brother said was reasonable, he nodded and said:

"I understand that now that I have made my choice, I will not regret it."

Lu Taiqing had no intention of persuading Master Xuanji to turn back. After all, he had to walk the high road on his own. Without this intention, no matter how much he said, it would be in vain. He changed the subject and said:

"My brother is a monk, and he should be devoted to Taoism, but the immortal way values ​​life. As a brother, I can ignore the affairs of the world, but I cannot ignore the rise and fall of the world.

"At the beginning of the founding of the country, Taizu respected Taoism and neglected Buddhism, and burned countless temples that annexed the fields and fished the common people, so that the Buddhists could only survive outside the Shazhou Pass, and the court could no longer invite monk Shenchen.

"Fengguancheng is an old minister of the Yan Dynasty. When the country was founded, he did not stand in the way of the rebel army. He has done his best to benevolent and righteous, and it is impossible to get involved in the disputes between the Northern and Southern Dynasties. This Wei Dynasty, speaking of it, is just a brother carrying the beam.

"You are extremely talented. As a brother, I originally hoped that one day you would be able to take over this responsibility. But now it seems that this matter can only fall on Ye Jingtang..."

Master Xuanji naturally hopes that Ye Jingtang can one day take over the responsibility of his senior brother and become the new protector of the country in the Wei Dynasty, shocking the world, but for now, it seems that Ye Jingtang will have to work hard for a while.

While the senior brother and sister were chatting, they came to the back mountain unknowingly.

Master Xuanji looked from a distance and could see a figure in black robe dancing in the pool deep in the bamboo forest.

On the edge of the pool, there is a bird that keeps chirping. Although it is not understandable, Xuanji, who has been in contact with it for so long, can still understand what it means.

Master Xuanji frowned and looked carefully. It could be seen that Ye Jingtang's face was solemn. He jumped to the edge and wiped the sweat from his face. Then he put his hands on his hips and felt very depressed, as if he had encountered a problem that he could not solve.

This was the first time that Master Xuanji saw Ye Jingtang showing such an expression, and he couldn't help but wonder:

"What is he doing?"

The little Taoist boy who followed behind held a bowl and said:

"Master made me a plum blossom pile. I said this person couldn't jump over it, but this brother insisted that he could jump over it, and then he jumped to the present moment."

Master Xuanji didn’t think that the plum blossom pile could stun the Night Terror Hall. She frowned and said:

"Senior brother, this shouldn't be an ordinary plum blossom pile, right?"

Lu Taiqing stood on the edge of the cliff with his hands clasped behind his hands, looking at Ye Jingtang's figures from a distance, and said calmly:

"The Holy One told me about the situation in the Night Terror Hall in his letter. He has sufficient understanding, but insufficient martial arts accumulation, resulting in rough rules. He asked my brother to give me some guidance.

"This is the Nine Palaces and Bagua Formation that Master created for my brother back then. If you jump through it, you will be able to follow the movement of your heart, lift the weight as lightly as possible, and be balanced internally and externally. That is, a state where all the meridians are connected and the internal and external tend to be perfect.

"Brother Wei worked hard for more than a month before he found that opportunity. The talent of Ye Jingtang is also very good. At present, it seems that it can take as little as one month and as many as three months to get out of this formation. The rest will be It is the accumulation of inner strength. As long as the foundation is sufficient, becoming a saint is just a matter of course."

When Master Xuanji heard this, she understood the meaning - it was equivalent to the previous generation of Taoist master, that is, the master she had never met. According to the martial arts attainments that a martial saint should have, he gave his senior brother a big question. If he wanted to solve it, he could There must be an accumulation of all-encompassing knowledge. If there is a flaw somewhere, something will go wrong.

Night Terror Hall dances inside, and when encountering problems, he will naturally think about the reasons just like his senior brothers did before, and then adjust his body, energy, pulse, etc., and when all problems are avoided, he will naturally be in a state where all schools of thought can be understood.

This method sounds quite simple and efficient. Master Xuanji thought about it and asked:

"I've been stuck on the road to being connected to hundreds of families for many years. Why don't you get one for me, senior brother?"

Lu Tailiang clasped his hands and was silent for a moment before saying tactfully:

"When I was a brother, I was similar to Ye Jingtang. They both came out of the martial arts at a young age. They were ranked as the top martial artists for only a year or two. Although they were talented, they lacked the understanding of accumulated martial arts experience.

"In the world of martial arts, as long as I know what it is, I can know why it is so. But the momentum is too fast and I have no chance to know it. That's why the master taught me this method and let me realize it on my own. As for you, junior sister..."

Master Xuanji raised her hand slightly, indicating to her senior brother that there was no need to say anything. She understood the meaning - if you go in by yourself, your brain may be overloaded, so it is better to learn slowly and slowly.

Master Xuanji watched for a moment, and it could be seen that Ye Jingtang had a difficult problem in front of him, and his progress was extremely fast. Almost every time he jumped over the plum blossom pile, his body shape would change slightly.

But as one of the two saints, my senior brother had been dancing for more than a month back then. No matter how outrageous the Night Terror Hall was, he would not be able to pass the test in a quarter of an hour.

For this reason, after Master Xuanji watched for a while, he didn’t bother him anymore and quietly left the back mountain...

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Before I knew it, it was late at night.

The bamboo forest in the back mountain was completely silent, with only the moonlight shining through the bamboo crowns, leaving mottled reflections in the pool.

Bird Bird might be a little bored. He took a bamboo branch in his mouth and built a small nest by the pool. Then he squatted in it, eating dried meat when he was hungry, and drinking from mountain spring when he was thirsty. His posture was like Master Bird supervising his apprentice's practice.

Ye Jingtang moved back and forth on the eighteen plum blossom stakes. Although his body was strong and unusually strong, in the past two hours, he began to pant like an ox and his muscles felt sore.

Jumping up and down on plum blossom piles may seem effortless, but when practicing martial arts, it is more difficult to achieve stability than to achieve speed.

Seeking speed is nothing more than using your grandma's strength to jump. How fast you can be depends entirely on the explosive power of your limbs. If you practice the power posture well, there will be no other difficulties.

But seeking stability is different. It affects everything from breath to steps. It is no less difficult than spending an hour slowly doing push-ups. You also have to keep your limbs and breath calm. It can be said that every time you jump, it is right. It's a torture physically.

Practicing martial arts is a hard skill that involves dripping water through stone. Jumping over and over on plum blossom piles and adjusting every aspect of the body is polishing the edges and corners of the limbs' energy, which is equivalent to practicing basic skills.

It is useless to just practice the basic skills. You must practice them until they are integrated into your instincts and can be mastered without thinking. That is to say, when you reach the point where "practice makes perfect", you can truly master the skills.

Practice makes perfect, and it must take time. No matter how talented you are, you cannot omit the steps of hard work and study.

For this reason, after Ye Jingtang practiced until he was sweating profusely, he did not rush to get it done quickly. He landed by the pool, washed his face, and then turned back outside the mountain.

After dancing on the plum blossom pile for two hours, Ye Jingtang has figured out the door. If you think about it, you have to polish every muscle and energy channel in your body until it is round and flawless. Otherwise, even if you know how to get through, your body will be held back and cause symptoms. flaw.

According to his estimate, it would take at least ten and a half days to reach that point.

It has been smooth sailing for so long since he started practicing martial arts. Suddenly he was trapped by a plum blossom pile. Ye Jingtang inevitably felt a little frustrated. While walking, he also looked around the bamboo forest, trying to find the master of the little Taoist boy and see if he could ask for advice. .

Unfortunately, the night was already dark, and all the Taoist priests in Yuxu Mountain were asleep. There were no lights, let alone any human figures.

The bird had been watching for half the night, and now it landed on Ye Jingtang's shoulder, using its wings to help fan the wind. It said "chirp, chirp, chirp..." along the way, probably saying - this is not going to work?

When Ye Jingtang saw this scene, he remembered the time when he was practicing martial arts in Honghe Town when he was a child. At that time, he was walking on horseback to lift the stone lock. Afterwards, he lay on the ground so tired that he couldn't get up. Birds and birds were also so motivated, and he felt nostalgic about it.

Ye Jingtang raised his hand and rubbed the bird. Seeing that the Yuxu Temple was dark and dim, he didn't want to go in and disturb him anymore, so he went down the mountain quietly and walked along the mountains and fields towards Yuxu Peak, which is more than ten miles away.

Yuxu Mountain is a place for Taoist cultivation. Although many people live in seclusion and practice in the deep mountains and old forests, they are scattered among the mountains and fields with a radius of hundreds of miles. They are far apart in order not to interfere with each other. Basically, you will not encounter anything when walking in the mountains. people.

Qingping Peak, where Shui'er lives, is on the outside of Yuxu Mountain and not close to the main road. It is quiet at best and remote at worst. With only one person living there, it looks like a barren mountain at night.

The Night Terror Hall rose and fell in the mountains and fields, and soon came to the foot of Qingping Peak. In the distance, I saw a light in the bamboo forest halfway up the mountain. When the birds saw this, they fluttered their wings and flew towards the path in the bamboo forest.

Ye Jingtang followed him into the bamboo forest. Not far away, a small Taoist temple with white walls and blue tiles appeared in front of him. There was a lantern hanging in front of the door, and he could faintly hear Shui'er's words coming from it:

"Where's the Night Terror Hall?"

"Chi chi chi..."

…

Ye Jingtang didn't knock on the door, flew up and landed in the Taoist temple. It can be seen that except for the portraits of the Sanqing ancestors hanging in the main room, the backyard is a courtyard where ordinary people live.

There was a deck chair in the backyard, and Xuanji was leaning on it and rocking, teasing the birds standing on the armrests, looking very leisurely.

Ye Jingtang came to the courtyard and heard two steady breathing sounds in the west wing, and asked softly:

"Is the Queen Mother sleeping?"

"Um."

Master Xuanji's expression was quite cold. She sat up, put the bird on the recliner and let it rock by itself, then turned and walked towards the back of the Taoist temple:

"Night Terror Hall, come with me and I'll tell you something."

Ye Jingtang felt that Shuishui wanted to reward him, so of course he didn't say anything and walked towards the bamboo forest behind the Taoist temple and said with a smile:

"I just met a little Taoist priest dancing on the plum blossom pile in Yuxu Mountain, so I went to try it, and found that the plum blossom pile has a lot of knowledge..."

Master Xuanji already knew the ins and outs, so there was no need for Ye Jingtang to repeat it. She walked in front of her and hummed:

"The Holy One has sent a letter to senior brother. Senior brother knows everything. He just talked to me. From now on, the relationship between you and me is over..."

?

When Ye Jingtang heard this, he frowned, walked to his side and held Shui'er's wrist:

"Master National Preceptor doesn't allow you to be with me?"

Xuanji's cold face showed a hint of sadness. She did not look at Ye Jingtang and turned her head to look away:

"Senior brother is over seventy years old. No matter how powerful he is, he can no longer guard the Wei Dynasty for a period of time. I am the next generation headmaster of Yuxu Mountain. If I only care about my children's personal affairs and abandon my practice, who will be the national teacher in the future?"

"I'm coming."

Night Terror Hall’s response was quite straightforward, even a bit inexplicable:

"You can't even beat me, and yet you are still a national master. You are drunk and unconscious for half of the month, and you can't find anyone for the other half of the month. Even if you want to be a national master, will all the civil and military officials agree?"

"...?"

Master Xuanji pretended that her family did not agree with the marriage, hoping to provoke Ye Jing into the hall and make him agree to take up the responsibility of the future protector of the country in Wei.

At present, it seems that this goal has been achieved, but why are the words so unpleasant?

Master Xuanji was pretending to be cold at first, but now her eyes are really cold:

"Can you say that again?"

Ye Jingtang blinked, feeling that it was a bit too direct. After all, Shui'er was not stupid, and was quite capable. He coughed lightly, pulled Shui'er and continued walking:

"I'm not saying you're incapable of doing the job, but I don't want you to have to work too hard to shoulder the responsibility. Now that I'm stronger, I'll naturally take the lead in these matters. If I'm unable to do anything else in the future, you'll definitely have to go out and help, right? Um... … If husband and wife are of the same mind, their strength will break through metal.”

When Master Xuanji heard this, he nodded slightly:

"It's good that you understand. I've been able to reach the top three of the Eighth Exams all day long without doing my job and drinking too much. If I practice hard and work hard, I won't be even half a point worse than you..."

"That's natural."

Ye Jingtang nodded, raised his hand and hooked Shui'er's shoulder:

"Then let me go and say something nice to your senior brother?"

Master Xuanji has already been promised to go out by his disciple, and his senior brother has no intention of interfering. There is no pressure at all.

But if Ye Jingtang knew about this situation, then this boy would definitely be lawless and treat her as his little wife, and she would not be able to deal with it yet.

For this reason, Master Xuanji shook his head and said, "No need. When you are qualified for the position of National Preceptor, you will have to agree even if senior brother doesn't agree. Now go ahead and say it. If senior brother doesn't agree, you have no choice but to hurt each other's feelings."

Ye Jingtang thought about it and said, "Okay, I'll try to get this done next year."

Master Xuanji was quite confident about Ye Jingtang, so she didn't say much at the moment and walked leisurely with each other until they came to a pool in the back mountain.

The stream flows down from the top of the mountain and forms a small pool in the valley halfway up the mountain. There are many plum blossom trees and bamboos planted around it. It is tightly covered and looks like a tree house. There is also a chess table carved out of stone next to the pool. It came out, but no one cares about it all year round, and some dead leaves have fallen.

Master Xuanji came to the chess table, put down the wine gourd and acacia sword, and then untied her white skirt:

"I'll take a shower, and you can help me watch the wind outside."

"..."

Ye Jingtang didn't say much, picked up the wine gourd and took a sip, standing at the entrance as if looking out for the wind.

Rustling, rustling~

Xuanji took off her outer skirt, and a white tulle-textured coat and bow came into view. She also put on a pair of white stockings on her legs in a unique way. The length reached two inches below the bun. Not only was the dress perfect, but it seemed to be elastic. , wrapping the legs tightly, looking hot and pure...

Ye Jingtang was slightly startled, put down the wine gourd, and looked at it carefully:

"Where did these socks come from?"

"Sanniang helped me pick it last time."

Master Xuanji crossed her arms across her chest and looked back slightly:

"I asked you to go outside and look out. What are you doing here?"

Ye Jingtang blinked: "We were just practicing, why don't we take a shower together." He turned around and untied his robe.

Master Xuanji knew this would happen, and said slightly displeased: "Have you forgotten what I said before as a teacher? I will give it to you, so you can... eh?"

Ye Jingtang moved very quickly. After taking off his robe, he picked up Shui'er and jumped into the pool.

Wow~

Master Xuanji did deliberately ask Ye Jingtang to take a bath, but seeing Ye Jingtang being so domineering, she still felt a little guilty and frowned:

"If you don't feel light or heavy, I really won't go down the mountain."

"What are you thinking about? I'm just taking a shower."

Ye Jingtang shook his head and chuckled. After falling into the water, he put the water down, brushing the horse with a grain of grass, and wrapped a handkerchief to help rub his back:

"You must be a little heavier when washing your hands. How does it feel? Is it comfortable?"

Swish swish——

? ?

Master Xuanji's chest trembled when being rubbed, her eyes were very confused, but after thinking about it, she still followed the words:

"It's okay. Be quick and go back early after washing."

Ye Jingtang is like a master in the bathhouse. He moves very quickly. Maybe because he feels that standing up and rubbing is unprofessional, he also spreads his robe on the bank of the water, letting Shui'er lie on his side, patting and massaging.

Bang bang bang——

Seeing that Ye Jingtang was really helping her relax, Master Xuanji gradually became less tense and enjoyed herself a little.

But as Ye Jingtang's fingers penetrated deep into the tiger's mouth, her face suddenly turned red and she looked a little embarrassed:

"You call this a bath?"

Ye Jingtang definitely didn't just take a bath, she just wanted to see how long Shui'er could be so stubborn before taking the initiative. Now she used Tingfeng Palm's unique skills to massage and condition carefully:

"Don't move, the washing will be finished soon."

Sizzle...

Master Xuanji bit her lower lip lightly, arched her feet and twisted for a moment. Finally, she got a little annoyed and raised her hand to lightly hit Ye Jingtang.

Ye Jingtang's eyes were full of smiles, and then he lowered his head and leaned towards his red lips...

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