No abstraction, no cultivation

Chapter 27 Baili Pine

Just a few days after the twelfth lunar month, light snow began to fall from the sky.

Xu Shun, Lan Daoren and his fourth disciple Zi Su were walking on the mountain road of Songxi Mountain.

The mountain paths were covered with thick snow. Every step left deep footprints and made a squeaking sound. The pine trees along the way were covered with icicles and snowballs, like thousands of pear trees in bloom, or like dancing silver dragons.

The snow-covered mountains are layered over one another, like thousands of pear blossoms blooming at the same time.

The sea of ​​clouds in the distance was a vast expanse of white, flowing between the mountains, changing unpredictably. The sky and the earth were the same color, and it was impossible to tell which was the sky and which was the earth.

Xu Shun was fascinated by what he saw and felt that this was where monks lived.

"Chiu~" A melodious and clear crane cry was heard, and a crane flew in from the depths of the sea of ​​clouds.

The crane flapped its black and white wings, flew across the sky, drew a graceful arc, and came in front of Lan Dao Ren.

"It's you, Crane!" Taoist Lan patted the head of the crane that was stroking his clothes.

Xu Shun glanced at the crane, and the crane also glanced at him.

From the look in her eyes, I was sure that she was the one who despised him.

"Chirp~Chirp~" The crane spread its wings, as if saying something to Master Lan.

"I understand. You lead the way!" said Lan Dao Ren with a smile.

The crane flapped its wings and let out a piercing cry, and then Xu Shun felt himself flying involuntarily.

No, it wasn't that he was flying, but that a green flying boat appeared under his feet.

The flying boat was long and pointed, like a bamboo leaf. It was Taoist Lan’s bamboo leaf flying boat.

"My two disciples, come with me to see your Uncle Baili."

Taoist Lan was rarely seen wearing a blue Taoist robe, which was the Taoist robe of their Lan generation.

As for Xu Shun and Zi Su, they wore an extra purple Taoist robe.

The flying boat followed the crane over the sea of ​​clouds. Xu Shun saw the Songxi Mountains below his feet. The sea of ​​clouds was rolling, sometimes gathering and sometimes dispersing, just like a fairyland.

"Chirp~" the crane made another cry. This time, there were many crane calls one after another in Songxi Mountain.

Along with the crane's cry, more than a dozen cranes flew out from the sea of ​​clouds and flew beside the bamboo leaf flying boat together with the crane that had just cried.

Above the sea of ​​clouds, among the bamboo leaves, with cranes beside him, Xu Shun experienced the joy of cultivating immortals for the first time.

Damn it, after spending all day walking on the streets with Master Lan, I almost forgot that I’m a monk!

Xu Shun was complaining in his heart when he saw a mountain peak standing among the mountains in the distance.

The surrounding peaks are like lotus petals surrounding that peak. The top of the peak is shrouded in clouds and mist, dancing slowly like a veil, appearing and disappearing from time to time.

The leading crane flew up the mountain and then landed at the entrance of a cave. At the entrance of the cave stood a person standing crookedly and four people standing upright.

The entrance of the cave was like jade, with a pine tree next to it, and under the pine tree there was a stone table, stone chairs, and a chess set.

There is a couplet written in iron and silver strokes on the entrance of the cave.

“A journey of a hundred miles begins with a single step.”

"A thousand-foot immortal road overlooking the mountains."

Banner: "Easier said than done."

hiss……

After seeing this horizontal banner, Xu Shun roughly guessed the character of Master Baili, who was meeting Lan Dao Ren at the cave entrance.

Bai Lisong, who was standing crookedly by the cave entrance in a bright red outfit, looking like an old man celebrating his birthday, saw Lan Daoren and shouted, "Hey, Fatty Lan, I didn't expect you to ascend to heaven."

It turns out that I'm not the only one who gave Lan Daoren this nickname!

Xu Shun felt that Bailisong, who had white hair and a youthful face like a baby and whose age was hard to tell, was also an unreliable person.

"Hello, Brother Baili!" Taoist Lan, who usually hated red tape, bowed respectfully to Baili Song.

Maybe there won't be a next time for this salute.

Following his salute, Xu Shun and Zi Su also saluted. "Zi Cai (Zi Su) greets Master Baili!"

"You are such a nagging fellow!" Bai Lisong frowned and said, "Nori? Perilla? What a ridiculous name!"

Bai Lisong looked at Xu Shun and Zi Su and shook his head, saying, "Tsk tsk tsk tsk ~ Poor you two, you became his disciples and got these two crappy names!"

What do you mean by out of tune? This is quite reasonable!

From today on, you are my dear uncle!

Xu Shun agreed with Bailisong's words in his heart.

"Look at my apprentice's name, he's better than you!"

As soon as Bai Lisong finished speaking, the four disciples behind him stepped forward and saluted Lan Dao Ren in unison:

"Don't meet Uncle Lan in the west!"

"Xi Bianming has met Uncle Lan!"

"Xibian Qi has met Uncle Lan!"

"Xi Bian Miao has met Uncle Lan!"

The four of them together are just "incomprehensible".

Seriously speaking, it is much better than purple sweet potato, cumin, and seaweed.

But there are not many strong ones.

"I didn't expect that you have accepted two more disciples!" Baili Song pulled Lan Dao Ren and walked into the cave.

As soon as you enter the cave, the view in front of you suddenly opens up.

Xu Shun saw stalactites hanging upside down in the wide cave ceiling in various shapes and flashing soft light, like colorful lanterns.

There is a gurgling stream flowing through the cave.

Beside the stream, there grows a rare sacred pine forest with lush branches and leaves, and a light mist lingering on the trunks, which attracts several squirrel-like sacred animals to live here.

On both sides of the stream, under the pine trees, there are stone tables and stone chairs, as if this is a reception room.

Natural, light, detached and peaceful.

"These few days are my big day. If you two junior brothers like something, just take it yourself." Baili Song, who sat on the upper seat, looked at Xu Shun and the others and winked, "Just don't let me know."

"Anyway, I won't worry about it in a few days!"

His tone was relaxed. If Xu Shun did not know what a "big wedding day" and a "Yan Kaiyan" were, he would have really believed that the big wedding day that Baili Song was talking about was really a big wedding day.

"Well... this cave of my uncle's is very beautiful. I want everything it sees." Xu Shun plucked up his courage and said jokingly.

He felt that Bailisong was a very interesting person.

Zi Su did not dare to make a sound and followed behind Lan Dao Ren. Bai Li Song was also a Yuan Shen cultivator, someone he could only look up to.

He dare not joke.

"Oh?" Bai Lisong glanced at Xu Shun and said with a smile: "You have a low level of cultivation, but you are quite courageous."

"It's not impossible for you to have this cave."

"As long as you can beat your four senior brothers, that'll be all!" Baili Song pointed at the four "inexplicable" people.

In contrast to Bailisong, the four "inexplicable" people were very serious, with stern faces and looked unsmiling.

However, they also knew that Xu Shun was joking with their master, and when they saw Xu Shun looking at them, they forced a smile.

Their master is about to die, how can they laugh?
But they have to laugh.

Because it is Master’s big day.

　Xibian Mo is the pseudonym of a book friend from the previous book, and he was assigned three junior brothers.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)