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Chapter 37 Inheritance
I almost didn’t get to have lunch because my mom disliked me.

My mother had already entered the furious mode. In order to avoid bad luck, Shen Siyuan didn't dare to stay at home any longer after lunch. He rode his father's motorcycle and headed straight to Tingfeng Temple.

However, you can’t ride a motorcycle to Xiaofengling, so Shen Siyuan found a shady place nearby to park the bike. He didn’t park under the shade of the tree. When he returned later, he would probably have to grill his butt on the iron plate.

He picked up the shovel on the back of the car, put it on his shoulder, then pushed aside the weeds and headed towards Xiaofengling.

From a distance, I saw the old Taoist priest standing at the intersection waiting.

"Master, you must have been waiting for a long time." Shen Siyuan went to greet him.

"No, I just got here too." The old Taoist said with a smile.

In the afternoon sun, her fluttering sleeves make her look even more ethereal.

"Where is my uncle? Isn't he with you?" Shen Siyuan looked around and said.

As the old Taoist priest led Shen Siyuan up the mountain, he slowly said, "He left last night."

"left?"

Shen Siyuan had some idea of ​​where he had gone.

The old Taoist priest did not talk much about Yu Youcai.

Instead, he was talking about the Tingfeng Temple where he was.

"Tingfeng Temple was built by Xuanyuanzi, who was born in Longmen Sect. Taoist Xuanyuan studied Confucianism when he was young. Before he was twenty, he had three serious illnesses and almost died. He gained enlightenment due to his illness, and thus admired..."

"Later, Xuan Yuanzi listened to the wind and watched the moon in Longhu Mountain, and finally achieved enlightenment, so he came here to establish the Tingfeng Temple..."

"Uh...Did the Longmen Sect achieve enlightenment on the territory of the Zhengyi Sect?"

"Haha, don't worry about it. Whether it's Longmen or Zhengyi, although we have different philosophies, we are all fellow Taoists. We are all on the path of cultivation and looking for the Tao..."

While the two were talking, the old Taoist led Shen Siyuan to a huge Bodhi tree.

Not only Buddhists plant Bodhi trees. There are many Bodhi trees in Qionghai, so it is not surprising to see a Bodhi tree in front of a Taoist temple.

Behind the Bodhi tree, there is a pile of broken walls and ruins. This is the old Taoist priest's Tingfeng Temple. Judging from its scale, the temple is not big, but even so, except for the main hall, everything else seems to have collapsed, and weeds and thorns are growing wildly from the cracks in the bricks and stones.

The old Taoist priest stood behind Shen Siyuan. Seeing him looking at the ruins in front of him, he couldn't help but sigh.

“Although our Tingfeng Taoist Temple is not a famous mountain or a grand temple, its heritage has been passed down for hundreds of years. I never thought that the Taoist temple would be destroyed by me and its heritage would be cut off…”

"You can't be blamed for this. In the past hundred years, great men have created an unprecedented prosperous era in China. In this prosperous era when gods are not prominent and humanism is flourishing, how many temples can preserve themselves?" Shen Siyuan said to comfort him.

Although he did not experience that era, he could understand from the few words in the book that this was the torrent of history, rolling forward and crushing all monsters and demons.

"Let's not talk about this anymore." The old Taoist pointed in the direction of the side hall.

"There is a well over there. Walk ten steps east from the well mouth. There is a stone slab. Lift up the stone slab and dig down..."

Shen Siyuan stepped on the weeds, used a shovel to push away the thorns, and walked into the ruins. His eyes fell on the statues of the Three Pure Ones in the main hall. After thinking for a while, he put down the shovel in his hand and bowed several times to the ruins.

The old Taoist priest following behind Shen Siyuan showed some relief when he saw this.

After paying homage, Shen Siyuan picked up the shovel again and went to the direction mentioned by the old Taoist priest.

But I saw a dry well with rope marks all over the well fence. Looking inside, I found that the well wall had collapsed long ago.

Shen Si walked ten steps east along the wellhead. This was the direction leading to the side hall, and the road was paved with bluestone slabs.

"Is it here?" Shen Siyuan asked, stamping his feet.

"Yes, it's right here." said the old Taoist priest.

Upon hearing this, Shen Siyuan stopped talking and first pried open the stone slab with a shovel, moved it aside, and then started digging down.

but--

A few hours later, Shen Siyuan, sweating profusely, couldn't help but look up and asked the old Taoist priest standing outside the pit: "Master, how deep did you bury it? How long will it take to dig?" "Almost, almost. If we don't bury it deeper, won't it be easily dug out by others?" The old Taoist priest said with a smile.

Shen Siyuan was helpless. "Since you first said it was almost done, I have already been digging for almost an hour."

"Look, isn't this it?" the old Taoist priest suddenly said.

Shen Siyuan hurriedly followed his gaze and saw a dark and steep object sticking out from the soil.

He quickly used a shovel to clear away the dirt around it, revealing the full picture, which was a brown wine jar.

After carrying the wine jar out of the pit, he couldn't wait to open it, but found that the jar not only had a lid, but was also wrapped in deerskin, and in addition, there was a thick layer of wax.

"No need to go through so much trouble, just knock the jar open." said the old Taoist priest.

“Isn’t this jar an antique?”

"It's just an ordinary wine container. It's not an antique at all."

Upon hearing this, Shen Siyuan did not hesitate and directly smashed the jar with a shovel, and everything inside spilled out.

Shen Siyuan took a quick look and found a booklet, a broken jade seal, a finger-long jade plaque, and an iron chain. An iron chain?

Shen Siyuan first picked up the jade seal and looked at it. After all, this thing had extraordinary significance in ancient times.

Unfortunately, the jade seal was badly damaged, with only seven words left on it: [Imperial Order to Confer the Title of Zhenshan], and the rest was incomplete, so it was unknown what the words were.

"You can actually recognize the words on it?"

The old Taoist priest was very surprised to hear Shen Siyuan muttering to himself. This was Cloud Seal, which was difficult for ordinary people to recognize.

Shen Siyuan did not explain. It was not him who knew him, but the Nine Nether Demon Lord who knew him. Because the inheritance of the Great Wilderness civilization had many similarities with China, Shen Siyuan even speculated that there might be some connection between the two worlds. This is why the Ten Thousand Souls Banner brought the remaining soul of the Nine Nether Demon Lord to this world.

Siyuan picked up the jade tablet again, which also had a few words on it.

【Chishui River Order】

There are some water ripples around.

Shen Siyuan put him down and picked up a book beside him.

It says [Bao Feng Mian] on it, but these words are no longer in cloud patterns.

"This is the inheritance of our Tingfeng Temple. Now I give it to you. If you can understand it, I hope you can help pass it on. If not, the inheritance of Tingfeng Temple will be cut off. This is fate."

After the old Taoist priest finished speaking, he bowed deeply to Shen Siyuan, very seriously.

"Don't worry, Taoist priest." Shen Siyuan said casually.

Shen Siyuan opened "Bao Feng Mian", which began with some explanations of wind and clouds, followed by some exercise patterns. There were red arrows on the patterns to mark the flow of qi, and each position had detailed annotations.

Looking at the movements, it is a bit like Tai Chi, holding an object in the arms and concentrating the mind.

This is probably the origin of [Bao Feng Mian], but looking at the previous explanation, Shen Siyuan feels that [Feng Yun] is more appropriate.

This practice method is very subtle, and it is not difficult to get started. The difficulty is that now there is no spiritual energy, and there is no way to enter, and ultimately it can only be reduced to Tai Chi and other fitness exercises.

“In that case, I’ll leave it to you, little friend. I hope you can improve your cultivation, attain the Great Dao, and uncover the secrets of heaven and earth…hahaha…”

Shen Siyuan, who was reading "Bao Feng Mian", heard something wrong and turned around, only to see that the lower body of the old Taoist priest had disappeared. However, he had a smile on his face, without any fear or panic, but a sense of calmness.

"Taoist Priest..."

Shen Siyuan subconsciously wanted to summon the Ten Thousand Souls Banner, absorb the other party into the banner, and prevent him from dissipating.

But he was still a step too slow, and the old Taoist priest disappeared into the air.

It turns out that his wish was not to become an immortal, but to hope that Tingfeng Temple could be passed down.

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