You, a monster, still want to travel to the West?

"That day in Tongtian River, two immortals descended from the sky. I was only concerned about not getting killed, but forgot that this was a chance sent from heaven. By the time I realized it, it was too late. Regret! Regret! Regret!"

After sighing the word "regret" three times in a row, the old white turtle couldn't hold back his tears and burst into tears, which splashed on the water surface.

At this time, Xiao Qingxin finally understood the origin of the white turtle. Looking at the giant turtle that was as big as a house, he thought for a moment and then looked at Xia Zhiming and asked, "Zhiming, is this considered fate?"

"Of course it counts."

"Then why did you fish him out?"

"He's been fishing for me for half a year and never let me do any air force work. Now I have this job again."

"Can this still happen?"

"Silly girl, what you beg for doesn't count as immortal fate, does it?"

"That seems to be the case~"

……

Chapter 72 Departure

In Tongtian River, Xia Zhiming exchanged a few words with Qingxin before looking at the old white turtle in front of him and said with a smile, "Okay, what do you want?"

The old white turtle pleaded, "Immortal, I have been cultivating my body and qi since I was young. Although I have prolonged my life and become lighter, and can speak human language, I have not yet been able to shed my shell and obtain a human body. Why is this?"

Xia Zhiming shook his head, then continued, "You only know how to nourish your Qi but not how to refine it, you only know how to nourish your body but not how to refine your form. How can you cultivate a human body?"

The old white turtle was stunned for a moment, then said happily: "Please teach me, immortal."

Xia Zhiming just smiled and asked, "I have a volume on the Qi Refining and Spirit Preserving Method, a volume on the Soul Refining and Heart Refining Method, and a volume on the Escape and Concealment Method. Do you want to learn them?"

The old white turtle bowed his head and said, "May I ask, Immortal, which one can obtain a human body?"

Xia Zhiming couldn't help but smack his lips. The fishing rod in his hand shone with golden light and he hit the old white turtle's head three times in a row.

The old white turtle was stunned for a moment, but felt no pain or itch. He asked blankly, "Why is the immortal knocking..."

Halfway through his words, the old white turtle heard a laugh and curse in his mind:

〖After all these years, this is the first time I've met someone as silly as you.〗

I will share with you three chapters of the Three Pure Ones' Daoist teachings. Remember to always offer your worship, do good deeds, and accumulate virtue. In the future, when encountering difficulties, do not be timid, so as not to lose face for the saints.

As soon as the words fell from his mind, the old white turtle felt his eyes go dark, and his entire consciousness disappeared into nothingness.

When he regained consciousness, he found himself in a forest he had never seen before. In front of a cave in the forest, three saints raised their eyebrows and glanced at him, but said nothing more. They simply spoke in turn:

"Today, I will preach to you. I have the 'Twenty-Four Divine Refining Techniques'!"

"Today, I will preach to you all. I have the 'Hidden Earth Eight Transformations Mysterious Truth Technique'!"

"Today, I will preach to you all. I have the 'Flying Seven Star Soul Method'!"

……

On the river bank, Xia Zhiming put the fishing rod into his sleeve, looked back at the old white turtle in the river who was listening with his eyes closed, then took off his straw raincoat and hat and handed them to Qingxin.

Xiao Qingxin put it away obediently, then raised her head and looked at Xia Zhiming, her eyes flashing: "Zhiming, when did you originally plan to teach him?"

"That's forty-seven, of course."

"A long time."

"I've lived for a full one hundred and eight years!"

"How can it be the same~"

Qing Xin rolled her eyes at him, then asked, "Zhi Ming, don't you want to live here anymore?"

"I guess I can't live here anymore."

"The three-year-for-one deal you talked about with the hunters doesn't seem to be worth it. There won't be many people coming, will they?"

Xia Zhiming simply took the girl's hand and walked towards the bamboo house, shaking his head and laughing, "Don't even mention a three-for-one deal. Even if it's ten-for-one, there will be countless people flocking to it."

“People live in the present?”

"Qingxin! You've actually become smarter!"

"Last time you asked me about the Nine Difficulties of Cultivation..."

"Do you need me to praise you?"

"Humph!"

……

Although they had decided to leave, Xia Zhiming and Qingxin were not in a hurry to move. There were mountains and water beside the Tongtian River, and the area was quiet, but there was no better place to enjoy the snow than here.

until--

One morning, Xia Zhiming and Qingxin woke up from their sleep as usual and smelled the fragrance of flowers.

When the man and the snake looked around the bamboo house, they found that all kinds of flowers and plants were blooming in the house.

After exchanging a quick glance, the man and the snake laughed at the same time—

After this winter, the two of them almost forgot the name of the Fairy of Flowers that their senior brother gave Qingxin. However, they did not expect that after winter passed and spring came, she would appear in the world again.

From then on, the auspicious time had arrived, and Xiao Qing felt no reluctance to leave. She simply put on her Taoist robe, picked up Xia Zhiming who was sitting beside the dressing table, hung him around her neck, opened the door, and walked out without looking back...

A few days later, Chen Jinbao came to the bamboo house with his old father in an ox cart.

But all he saw was the door of the bamboo house wide open, with only thousands of flowers left in the house, and it was obvious that no one had left.

Seeing this scene, Chen Chen, sitting on the ox cart, sighed sadly: "Jinbao, what should we do? What should we do? Twenty-one years! How many twenty-one years do we have in a human being?"

"Father, the immortals didn't tell me how long I would live. I might actually live to be a hundred, so I could live to be seventy-nine."

"you you you!"

"Father, this is the busy farming season. If you get sick from anger, there will be no one at home to take care of you."

"You unfilial son!"

"hey-hey!"

In front of the bamboo house, Chen Jinbao just chuckled twice, then pointed at the bamboo house in front of him and asked, "Father, do you think we should build a temple for the immortal in this bamboo house?"

In the car, Chen Chen just shook his head: "Let's wait until the fields have harvested and we settle down before we talk."

Chen Jinbao nodded, then turned the ox cart around and walked back in the direction he came from without looking back.

After a long while, Chen Chen looked back at the bamboo house that was gradually moving away. He was silent for a while and then stopped looking. He just looked at his son who was walking in front of him and smiled, "Jinbao, how far is it?"

"We'll be home soon."

"I saw smoke. I guess a woman is cooking."

"Father, you're making me hungry."

"Hahaha."

……

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the other side--

The spring scenery in the mountains and forests is in full swing. New buds are sprouting from the dead branches of old trees, and wild grasses and nameless flowers are growing. It is another beautiful sight.

In the forest, Xia Zhiming was holding a green bamboo stick and walking slowly along the animal trail, glancing at the newly grown small trees in the forest from time to time to observe their straightness and curvature.

It’s a pity that his standards are a bit too high now. Those small trees either have too many branches or have big roots and thin heads. No matter how you look at them, they are not as good as the green bamboos he carefully selected.

Beside him, Qingxin picked a wild flower and twisted a piece of wild grass from time to time. When she looked up again and noticed Xia Zhiming walking away, she ran a few steps to catch up with him.

It wasn't until Xia Zhiming once again raised the bamboo stick and glanced at it that Xiao Qingxin beside him finally couldn't help but speak up: "Zhiming, please stop playing with the stick, okay?"

"No."

"Don't you have a ruler? That one is straight and nice."

"It's a little short, not perfect."

"You're more like a child than I am."

"You don't know that."

Xia Zhiming turned his head and looked at Xiao Qingxin beside him. He raised the carefully selected green bamboo stick in his hand and said with a smile: "No matter whether old or young, no man can refuse a straight and long wooden stick."

"What if there is?"

"Then I would first doubt his gender."

Qing Xin rolled her eyes at him: "You're the only one who talks nonsense!"

Xia Zhiming waved his hands seriously, lowered his head and said, "Impossible! How could I possibly say such nonsense?"

"Cuckoo~"

While chatting, the two walked slowly in the forest, but at this time, there was a rustling sound of leaves in the forest, as if a wild beast was passing through.

……

Chapter 73: Divine Power Revealed

It was just the beginning of spring, and the wild animals in the mountains and forests had awakened from hibernation and started looking for food. It was not surprising to encounter one at this time.

While the two were chatting, they heard the unusual rustling of leaves and were not worried. They just turned their heads and looked over at the same time.

However, they found that several men wearing coarse cloth came out of the forest, holding crude weapons such as axes and bamboo spears in their hands. The leader was a strong man wearing a yellow turban and a big beard.

As soon as the leading strong man emerged, he frowned when he saw Xia Zhiming and Qing Xin, and then asked, "I'm Hu Hansan, why are you two on the mountain?"

Xia Zhiming bowed and said, "What can I do for you, warrior?"

Hu Hansan pondered for a moment after hearing this, then raised his hand to ask everyone around him to put away their weapons. He then said, "You are very brave, but you don't know that there has been a tiger attack in the nearby mountains recently. Don't wander around anymore."

Xia Zhiming took a look at the appearance and weapons of the group in front of him, thought for a moment, and then smiled and said, "We two were just taking this as a spring outing to enjoy the scenery, but we didn't think so deeply. I wonder if there are any villages nearby?"

Hu Hansan nodded, then turned and pointed in the direction the two men were heading. "Follow this road, cross this mountain, and you'll reach our Jingyang Village. We still need to go up the mountain to hunt tigers, so I won't see you off."

Xia Zhiming smiled and bowed to express his gratitude, then led Xiao Qingxin past the few people and walked in the direction the strong man pointed.

On the road——

Xiao Qingxin tugged at Xia Zhiming's sleeve, and after he looked over, she asked, "Zhiming, they shouldn't encounter any tigers, right?"

"Well, they all look like they will live a long and happy life."

"You don't have any vision?"

"No need. With what they have, a single sliding tackle would kill a tiger. How can you expect to live a long life?"

"Cuckoo~"

In the afternoon——

The two of them walked leisurely along the mountain road and crossed another hill, then they saw the Jingyang Village that Hu Hansan had mentioned.

The village is located in a valley, with a winding mountain road leading directly to it. There are some farmlands and dozens of scattered households at the foot of the mountain.

There is a saying that goes, "If you look at the mountain, you will die." Although they saw the village, it was not close. They walked for several miles along the mountain road before they arrived outside the village.

As soon as they arrived at the entrance of the village, they saw a small tea stall with a horse-drawn carriage parked outside. Looking inside, they saw a few farmers who were taking a break, and a waiter was entertaining a man dressed as a merchant.

When Xia Zhiming and Qingxin saw the tea stall, they smiled at each other and walked straight over. They asked the waiter for two large bowls of tea and sat down at the same table with the merchant.

The farmers who were resting around also noticed the two of them, but they didn't pay much attention to them and just chatted among themselves.

There are no storytellers in the countryside, but there is one good thing - whenever people get together, gossip is inevitable, just like now.

"The Liu family has offered a five-liang reward for anyone who kills the tiger. I've never seen so much money in my life."

"That's nothing. If it works, the tiger skin and bones can be sold for a lot of money."

“I’m afraid I’ll earn money but not spend it.”

"That tiger ate a lot of livestock. Just counting those cows, they weighed more than five taels. Master Liu is really stingy."

……

Xia Zhiming and Qing Xin listened to the gossip around them, but didn't think of getting involved. They just drank their tea.