Taihao Gold Medal

Chapter 361 A dark son, the moon god will meet

I came to a small town near Lanzhifang. Since the collapse of Lanzhifang, this small town has gradually prospered.

A tall man in Taoist attire, with two servants, walked through the two districts from the gate of the city, and stopped at a restaurant in the city.

At this time, it was approaching noon, Zhang Lie looked at the two-storey restaurant in front of him, put his hands back calmly, and walked in.

The two fat and thin people who followed behind thought it was meal time, they winked at each other for a while, and their expressions suddenly became lively.

At the moment, the business of the restaurant is pretty good, as far as the eye can see, most of the tables are full of customers.

After Zhang Lie swept it casually, he went straight to the counter.At this time, a thin middle-aged man who looked like a shopkeeper was standing there and calculating the accounts.

When Zhang Lie came near the counter, he didn't talk nonsense. He swayed from side to side, blocking most of the eyes of others. With a flick of his sleeve, a piece of jade pendant appeared on the counter without a sound.This jade pendant faces upwards, just engraved with a character 'Zhang'.

The shopkeeper's face changed slightly when he saw the jade pendant. He looked Zhang Lie up and down, then quickly put the jade pendant away, and at the same time said in a low voice:
"Please come with me!"

The shopkeeper turned around and took advantage of other customers in the restaurant not paying attention, turned around and left, and entered the side door on the first floor of the restaurant.

Zhang Lie and others also followed into the door.

"Huan'er, Huan'er, Mr. Zhang is here. The little Feng Quan pays his respects." As soon as the shopkeeper led Zhang Liefang into a secluded room, he first called to the room twice, then turned his head and immediately handed the jade pendant back to him. I accepted Zhang Lie, knelt down and said respectfully.

"Master! Master!"

At this time, a staggering middle-aged woman ran out from the inner room, but between the corners of her eyes, there were still faint traces of her youthful beauty.

Zhang Lie stared at his old maidservant, and couldn't help but feel a little emotional for a moment: "Huan'er, you're getting old."

"It is far from being able to compare with the son and wife, but if it weren't for the support of the son for many years, how could Feng Quan and I live the 120 years without disease and disaster? I am afraid that it would have turned into dust long ago. , Young Master, Huan'er set up a longevity tablet for you and your wife, I hope you two can prove the way of longevity, live the same life as the heavens and the earth, and live the same immortality as the sun and the moon."

Back then, Huan'er was a pretty eloquent little girl, and now she is the same as before.

"These are my two servants, Feng Quan, take them down to rest first."

"Yes, son."

After Feng Quan took Fat Toutuo and Skinny Taoist away, Zhang Lie just opened his mouth to ask Huan'er about the information he had collected over the years.

The restaurant can also be regarded as a place where information is collected and distributed. The Zhang family has secretly transported large sums of spirit stones and elixir for so many years, forcing Feng Quan and his wife to the late stage of Qi training, strengthening the foundation and prolonging life. Of course, the purpose is not only It's just for the simple sake of a maidservant in the past, even if she is the maidservant of Zhang Lie's ancestor.

The real purpose of the Zhang family is to establish a secret stronghold, an intelligence collection point.

Like this kind of stronghold that exists in the dark, every sect and family will exist, more or less.

"I want to know the detailed information about Lanzhifang and the destruction of the Xu family, and the detailed information about Fuyunzi."

"Sir, please come with me."

After Huan'er saluted, she led Zhang Lie into the hut, opened a mechanism wall, and led Zhang Lie into a secret pavilion.

In this dark cabinet, there are densely packed bookcases and scrolls, and they are all marked with the year and month. It is obvious that Huan'er has not been just fooling around these years.

"My lord, not long after you took your wife to the south to avoid disaster, a demon cultivator named Moon Demon appeared near here. He killed people everywhere, but no one could find his trace. Xuanyue Sect also sent Zifu and even Daoist Jindan several times. Not only did they get nothing, when they sent the monks from Zifu, they were even attacked and killed by the Moon Demon. Lanzhifang, the Moon Demon just hid a little bit."

"However, about 25 years later, he suddenly appeared again, attacked and killed the Xuanyuejiao Jindan Daoist who was sitting in Lanzhifang, and led people to wipe out Lanzhifang and all the families related to Lanzhifang. Then People were panicked for a while, and since then, there has been no clear pattern in the appearance of the moon demon, and there are no other characteristics except killing people."

"During this period of time, many monks pretending to be moon demons who killed people and seized treasures appeared. Some of them were caught, while some were not. This made the moon demon's true identity hidden even deeper."

"As for the Fuyunzi you mentioned, my lord, after the death of his disciple Li Heng, he announced his retreat. Some people once suspected that he was the moon demon, but no matter how he calculated it, it seemed impossible for him to personally Kill my disciple Li Heng."

While taking out volumes of files, Huan'er narrated all the information she had collected over the years. With the convenience of running a restaurant, even if it was just hearsay, she already knew far more than ordinary people. up.

"The moon demon's killing is too heavy, and it has far surpassed the level of killing people, looting treasures and looting property. Some monks said that he is on the road of ancient demon cultivation, and wants to purify his mana and break through the barriers by going through the nine-fold demon tribulation."

The Nine-Layer Devil Tribulation here is just a saying. From ancient times to the present, in the Xuanhuang World, there is only one magician who has survived the Nine-Layer Devil Tribulation. Cultivators can pass through two or three levels, and the same is true for Nascent Soul cultivators. If they commit serious crimes and force their way ahead of time, they will definitely die, and it has nothing to do with practicing ancient magic arts.

In addition, it is specially stated that after being promoted to the seventh-level God Transformation Realm, under normal circumstances, no matter whether it is a fairy, demon or ghost, it is a serious crime to forcibly stay in this world. The shape is still a little bit better, if he dares to make a free shot with all his strength, it will trigger the tribulation thunder to descend.The nine-fold thunder tribulation, the word nine here, sometimes refers to the meaning of infinity. Of course, such extreme situations do not usually occur.

Although the Xuanyue Sect is declining and weakening day by day, it was once an extremely powerful sect. At its peak, there were seven Nascent Souls and half a hundred golden elixir. Normally, even a deranged alien demon would not easily come to find such a large sect. It's a big trouble, but that moon demon seems to be facing the Xuanyue sect. The Xuanyue sect is deeply rooted and powerful, and the moon demon comes and goes without a shadow, killing cruelly.

"Young Master, the Moon Demon should not be just a single person now, but a well-organized magic organization. If you want to fight against such an organization, you'd better join an organization, so as to have a greater chance of success."

After thinking for a while, Huan'er said this.

"What organization?" Of course Zhang Lie heard what Huan'er was saying.

"The Moon God Society, the Moon Demon kills too much, and the Xuanyue Sect is becoming more and more powerless against this place. Many people who have blood feuds with the Moon Demon have organized the Moon God Society in private to kill the Moon Demon and return to the Southern Wilderness. The Tongxuan Realm is a matter of peace, if the purpose of the young master's visit this time is also the moon demon, joining them may be able to get some help."

"My lord, Huan'er is just a low-level Qi training monk, and most of the information he can get is just hearsay. This information is basically all that Huan'er knows."

While talking, the middle-aged woman lowered her head weakly. This scene is exactly the same as it was 60 years ago.

"Haha, Huan'er has already done a good job. You are just a Qi Cultivation cultivator. You can tell from this that you have worked hard on weekdays."

He reached out and patted Huan'er's head.Zhang Lie said comfortingly.

"Huan'er, since you know that I should join the Luna Society, do you know how to get me to join?"

"Young master, although we can't get in touch with the Moon God Society, the old man Huanyun in the west of the city, his only daughter died in a robbery organized by the Moon Demon. His wife died early, and he raised the girl alone. Married, the relationship with my father is also very good, and I will definitely bring my husband to visit my father every new year and festival."

"But that couple is gone now, including his infant granddaughter. Although Huan Yunsou is also at the level of Qi training, this old man is already desperate to kill the Moon Demon. You will definitely be able to learn something from him if you go there. reward."

"Ah."

Hearing this, Zhang Lie nodded after thinking for a long time.

...

Huan Yunsou, old Xu Tou, is an illusionist in this city of Xuanwu. He has made a living all his life by transforming clouds and clouds of various colors for the people in the city during festivals. Meager Lingshi.

Not everyone who cultivates immortals wants to pursue the Supreme Dao. The Dao is illusory. Some people even said that the Dao is a man-eating monster that makes countless monks practice hard for thousands of years, and then ascends to be swallowed by it. .

Even if not, how many of the hundreds of millions of monks can comprehend the Dao?
Wouldn't it be nice to enjoy the monk's life in peace and contentment, marry a beloved beautiful lady, and just spend the rest of my life like this?
Old Xu thought it was very good, but he regretted it only when the child's mother died of a serious illness, and he couldn't get out the spirit stone and buy the magic pill.

Therefore, in the rest of his life, old Xu Tou has always lived with guilt, loved his daughter doubly, raised her up, and promised her to be a good man.

A happy daughter, a dutiful son-in-law who knows pain and love, and a little granddaughter who was just born, the great satisfaction almost made old Xu feel that his wife would forgive him, until he learned that his daughter, son-in-law and his family died in robbery that day:
If you don’t have power, you don’t encounter suffering. It’s just that the suffering hasn’t found you yet. With strength, you can at least resist the suffering. In this way, even if you lose all your strength, you won’t feel so bitter in your heart and hate your former self so deeply.

After all the good things in life have been destroyed, Xuanwu City will never see that old man Xu, who is good at illusion skills, and there is an extra drunkard who wants to drink himself to death in the night market. It is the normal reaction of an ordinary person in the face of irresistible despair.

Holding the wine jar, he walked swayingly on the quiet long street. On this day, old Xu Tou always felt that there was something following him behind him, which made the hairs on the back of his neck stand up, as if there was something invisible The knife is stuck there.

Turning around suddenly, there was nothing behind him.

With a "grunt" he swallowed his saliva, and when the night wind blew old Xu's head, he inexplicably felt a little sober from the wine. He took a few more gulps of his drink.

It's just that when he put down the wine jar again this time, there was another person in front of old Xutou, a young Taoist. His sudden appearance frightened old Xutou into a panic, and he backed away in a panic, but in fact the distance between the two sides was not the same. zoom out.

"You... who are you and what do you want to do?"

"You don't have to worry about who I am, as long as you know that I'm here to help you." Zhang Lie stared at the old man in front of him and sighed slightly in his heart.At the same time, he also gained more understanding about the superposition of his own external calamity.

"Help me? What can you help me? Can you help me kill the Moon Demon?" Old Xu Tou originally wanted to laugh at the person in front of him. There are not a few people in Xuanwu City who know the blood feud between him and the Moon Demon. But the existence of the Moon Demon who can kill Xuanyue Sect's Jindan true monks really surpassed most people in the Tongxuan Cultivation World.

At this moment, looking at the young Taoist in front of him who didn't smile, looking at his youthful appearance and his eyes with some vicissitudes of time, the old Xu who wanted to laugh at him suddenly couldn't laugh.

"You, can you really help me kill the Moon Demon?"

"No, I can't help you. The only person who can help you is yourself. It's just that the two of us have one thing in common, that is, we both want to kill the moon demon. There is a saying in Buddhism: When is the time to repay the injustice. But I I feel that once the enemies are killed, the enmity will end."

The true meaning of "When is it time to repay the injustice" is that every time a period of bad karma is generated, there will be a period of bad karma circulating until it is offset by good karma. Falling irregularly.

What Buddhism advocates is that when everyone pays homage to the Buddha and no longer produces bad karma, the world will be purified.But this kind of thing is impossible in the eyes of Taoism. For example, in front of the old man Xu, who is in front of Huanyun, if he says when the Buddhist set of grievances will be repaid, he will definitely just spit on his face.

Everything bears the yin and embraces the yang, and the spirit is peaceful. No matter good or evil, it is just an experience in life. The so-called strong refers to those who can taste every dish on the menu of life. This is Taoism If the heart is pure, there will be no external objects to disturb the heart. This is also the difference between Buddhism and Taoism.

Of course, there is also the meaning of omnipotence in Taoism's inaction, which means not to fight against one's own progress, but to go with the flow.

　The following theories on Buddhism and Taoism are added later and are not counted in the number of updated words

　　
　
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