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

Xia Zhiming's eyes suddenly went dark, and he grinned and complained: "Thank you, but no thanks..."

It's not that he doesn't eat mice; he's eaten everything since he first crossed over. This is just a simulation, so why put yourself in such a difficult situation?

Qingxin didn't care. She grabbed his snake's tail and stroked it, then slowly walked into the temple.

"Come to think of it, I once put bird eggs in your tree hole."

"Well, it happens a bit too often. I was wondering where all these stupid birds come from to lay eggs in my house every year..."

"Cuckoo~"

The man and the snake were laughing and joking. Although they were in an ancient temple deep in the mountains, they were not too afraid.

After entering the door and taking a quick look at the layout of the temple, Xiao Qingxin couldn't help but marvel at it.

Although the temple was dilapidated, there were many small statues of various kinds lying on the platform. Most of them were made of rotten wood and clay. Occasionally there were one or two stone statues with strange carvings. Anyway, they looked worthless at first glance.

After a careful examination, I found the Three Pure Ones and the Four Imperial Gods, the Buddha and Bodhisattvas, as well as some miscellaneous gods and Buddhas, mixed in with city gods, land gods, and historical figures. Some of them even had a sign underneath stating that they were donated by a believer in a certain year and month.

After looking at them one by one, Qingxin didn't think about it anymore. She stretched out her hands, not caring about getting them dirty, and straightened each statue one by one. She then moved the statues around with a clattering step, as if to sort them out according to their importance.

Xia Zhiming didn't stop her. He put his arms around her neck and watched her run around quietly.

When the junior sister finished her work and returned to the platform, the man and the snake looked up and saw that all the statues were silent and solemn, some solemn, some compassionate, some glaring, some sneering...

"I always feel like something is missing..."

Qingxin stretched out her finger and placed it between her lips, biting it with her silver teeth and murmured with a frown.

"One stick of incense left." Xia Zhiming reminded.

"Hmm?" Qingxin tilted her head, thought for a moment and said suddenly: "I don't think I brought it!"

Xia Zhiming looked at the statue on the platform, thought it over, and said, "Let's look for it. It should be there..."

Qingxin responded, bent down and groped around for a while, and soon found two small cabinets under the platform.

I picked one out at random and took a look. There wasn't much in it, but the odds and ends were just enough to make up two red candles and three thin incense sticks.

The girl immediately smiled and said happily: "I found it."

Holding the incense and candles, Qingxin walked to the bottom of the platform, puffed out his cheeks and breathed a sigh of relief. In the blink of an eye, he saw the incense was already burning, and green smoke was rising...

Chapter 10 Please Don't Die

The dilapidated temple in the forest naturally did not have high-end items such as incense burners. There was only a mud brick with a hole in the middle of the platform.

Qing Xin didn't get angry. She pulled out the blackened incense sticks, inserted two red candles on each side, and stepped back two steps. Holding the incense, she bowed three times. Xia Zhiming didn't stop her, and followed the little sister's lead, nodding the snake's head as a gesture of respect.

After offering incense, Qingxin took off the box behind her and placed it next to the cushion. She took out a few wild peaches she had picked on the road and placed them on the offering table.

From then on, the girl clapped her hands and looked at her masterpiece with pride.

The temple was still dilapidated, but the statues in the temple were solemn at this time, the candles were shining brightly, and the green smoke around the beams dispelled the foul air and brought in some fireworks. The smell of the smoke was not strong, but there seemed to be a faint fragrance lingering.

The girl was about to ask for credit when she heard Xia Zhiming suddenly say, "There were two small cabinets under the stage. Go open the other one and take a look."

"What's so good about this..." Xiao Qingxin pouted, but still obediently walked to the tribute table and opened the remaining cabinet.

The cabinet is not big, but it is filled with things that are not valuable, just some old scriptures.

Seeing this scene, Xia Zhiming thought to himself, as expected...

Although it is a small temple and has no incense, the people worshipped in this Liugou Temple are all righteous gods, Buddhas. Even the most inconspicuous ones are local land gods, city gods, and historical celebrities. It is obviously not an obscene temple or a place of evil sacrifice.

According to what Patriarch Bodhi said before, anyone with great supernatural powers will know what they say and what they think. It is possible that he and his junior sister are right under the noses of those people with great supernatural powers.

No, since they have already burned incense, according to his and Junior Sister’s master-disciple relationship, someone must have noticed it.

There were a lot of things on his mind, but Xia Zhiming didn't pay too much attention to it. The main reason was that the junior sister next to him had already started to count the harvest.

Tao Te Ching, Nanhua Sutra, Lingbao Sutra, Dadong Sutra, Xinyin Sutra, Yinfu Sutra, Shurangama Sutra, Diamond Sutra, Lotus Sutra, Avatamsaka Sutra, etc.

Looking at the thick stack of Buddhist and Taoist scriptures, Xia Zhiming couldn't help but complain: "Can this box hold all of them?"

Qing Xin nodded, and took out one wild peach after another from the bamboo box and placed them on the tribute table. After cleaning up, she dusted off the scriptures one by one, filling the box to the brim.

After collecting the scriptures, Xiao Qingxin clapped her hands, turned around, and smiled at Xia Zhiming beside her: "It just so happened that I forgot to bring the scriptures when I went out. You haven't done the evening class today, so I'll teach you to read the scriptures!"

"Okay," Xia Zhiming nodded helplessly: "As long as you are happy."

The girl didn't care what he said. She took out the Nanhua Sutra and pointed to the place she hadn't read before.

"The Way of Heaven moves without accumulation, and thus all things come into being."

"The Way of Heaven moves without accumulation, and thus all things come into being."

"The emperor's way is prosperous but without accumulation, so the world returns..."

In the dilapidated temple, a man and a snake were reading scriptures aloud.

At this time, the sun had already set outside the temple, and the crescent moon hung high above the branches as the sky darkened. The chirping of birds and the buzzing of insects gradually died down, leaving only the sounds of a man and a woman, one older and one younger, reading.

After a while, a faint sound gradually came from outside the temple -

Snap...like the sound of a dead branch breaking.

Ta...It sounds like a bird landing on the eaves.

Wow... It sounds like there are small animals running through the forest.

After a long time, the candlelight in the small temple gradually dimmed until it could no longer hold on and slowly went out, and the sound of chanting in the temple also stopped.

At this moment, suddenly there were sounds of animals roaring outside the temple.

Roar!!! —The roar of a tiger!

Awooo! —The howling of a wolf!

Ying!!! —The sound of a fox howling!

Then came the chirping of birds and the humming of small animals...

In the ruined temple, Xia Zhiming and Qingxin looked at each other, and there was some surprise in the eyes of both the man and the snake.

Qingxin was not afraid, and she stood up with Xia Zhiming and opened the temple door. She saw that the open space outside the temple was filled with jackals, tigers and leopards worshipping. The yellow, willow and white trees in the woods looked up and stared as if reluctant to leave. There were flocks of birds flying over the eaves and treetops.

Looking at these psychic birds and beasts in front of her, Xiao Qingxin's eyes suddenly lit up, and her eyeballs rolled around as if she had thought of something. However, before she could speak, she heard Xia Zhiming raise his snake body and say solemnly: "Disperse!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw the beasts in front of the temple all raised their heads and roared to the sky. In just a moment, the man and the snake's heads became as big as buckets.

"Qingxin, close the door."

Xia Zhiming was a little confused for a moment and could only instruct Qingxin to close the temple door. The little girl did not say much, but just looked at the herd of beasts in front of her with some reluctance, and obediently closed the door again.

In the temple, Qing Xin returned to the cushion and sat cross-legged again. She turned her head and looked at Xia Zhiming with eager eyes. She asked tentatively: "Zhiming, what do you say, why don't we become demon kings and have some fun?"

Xia Zhiming was just about to close his eyes and concentrate on cultivation when he heard this and swung his tail over her head, knocking her down. "I think Master will come down the mountain to clean up the mess first. Practice well and don't let your imagination run wild."

Tsk~

The little girl smacked her lips, snorted, and said nothing more.

Xia Zhiming opened his eyes and glanced at the quiet little Lolita. Just as he was about to breathe a sigh of relief, he saw Qingxin open her eyes again and asked with a sly look:

"Then next time, can we go a little further, and go directly to Dongsheng Shenzhou?"

"Well, then the one coming to find you will probably be a monkey."

"Could it be that my Qingxin Ancestor is afraid of a monkey? Where did the monkey come from?"

"Although it's true that we won't encounter that, but if we do, I think he will beg you not to die."

After a while——

"You're kidding me, aren't you?"

"Qingxin, if you make trouble again I will bite you~"

"Hmph! Ignore you!"

Chapter 11: The Old Man

The next morning, the sky was slightly bright, and the morning light shone into the temple through the cracks. The man and the snake slowly opened their eyes.

After a while, Xiao Qingxin stretched lazily, sat on the mat and stretched out her legs, knocked her hands together with her fists, and then slapped her cheeks, and soon she woke up completely.

On the girl's neck, Xia Zhiming closed his red eyes slightly and rubbed her warm skin reluctantly, occasionally extending his tongue to probe as if he was unaware.

It's not that he was lustful, but because Xia Zhiming's snake body was cold, and the warm feeling after waking up made him feel like he was back in his previous life. The smooth and warm skin was like a winter quilt, making him want to stay there for a while longer.

However, someone seemed to have forgotten that he and the girl were now in tune with each other. His feeling of attachment was almost directly transmitted to the little senior sister's heart, which immediately made Qingxin tremble unnaturally.

However, because the white snake had no improper thoughts, the girl quickly calmed down and concentrated so that Xia Zhiming didn't notice anything unusual. She just packed up the boxes beside her, with a slightly blushing face, and let him be unrestrained for a while.

After a long time, Xia Zhiming woke up from his daze again when he felt the pull of his junior sister. He found that it was already time for morning class, and Qingxin had spread out the scriptures on the lid of the box.

"Good morning, have the birds and beasts outside dispersed?" Xia Zhiming looked at the scriptures in front of him, recalled the scene of the beasts kneeling last night, and asked immediately.

Qing Xin shook her head, pouted and said in confusion:

"It's not some profound mental formula, it's just some profound and profound principles. If you want to listen, you can find any Taoist temple. Why don't these beasts want to leave?"

Xia Zhiming looked at this little girl who had no self-awareness at all, and said helplessly: "Legend has it that when a saint preaches, the sky falls and golden lotuses emerge from the ground."

"I know this. Master does this when he preaches. It's really beautiful!" Xiao Qingxin nodded as if she thought of something, then shook her head and said:

"But neither you nor I are saints..."

“But there is indeed a true cultivation!”

"Zhiming...are you too arrogant?"

"Is there a possibility that the Taoist cultivator is talking about you?"

"..."

The snake and the little girl looked at each other in silence. After a while, Xiao Qingxin tentatively said, "Then can I teach sentient beings..."

"If you weren't using this righteousness to become the Demon King, I would agree with you 100%."

"Zhiming, you are bad!!!"

Xiaoqing lowered her head in frustration, feeling somewhat depressed as she looked at the scriptures in front of her.

Seeing her like this, Xia Zhiming thought for a moment and finally said something coaxingly: "Wait until you become an Earthly Immortal, when the Three Flowers Converge at the Top of the Head and the Five Qis Return to the Origin, then we can come again."

"Hmph..." The girl turned her head and ignored him.

"After all, we are here to teach sentient beings. Your level of cultivation is not enough to convince the masses. Moreover, if Master knew that you could set such a great ambition, he would definitely be very happy."

Xia Zhiming coaxed the junior sister with sweet words, temporarily putting aside someone's evil thoughts of wanting to become the demon king.

"Hehe~" Xiao Qingxin hummed again, but the corners of her mouth couldn't help but curl up, as if she was enjoying it very much.

After coaxing the little sister, the man and the snake didn't waste any more time and soon started today's morning class -

“There’s a saying: ‘The masses value profit, honest men value reputation, virtuous men value ambition, and sages value refinement.’”

"There's a saying among the people that everyone values ​​profit..."

In the dilapidated temple, the sound of reading scriptures was heard again.

Outside the ruined temple, all the animals, including wolves, tigers, and leopards, fell silent. Some of the fierce beasts were so hungry that their mouths were drooling, their stomachs rumbling, but even if they stretched out their claws to grab a piece of blood, they had no intention of moving. They all lay on the ground, listening to the Taoist sound in ecstasy...

Another hour passed, and when the sound of chanting in the temple stopped again, the animals in front of the temple were still kneeling on the ground as if unaware.

After a while, there was a creaking sound, and a little Taoist boy with a delicate and delicate appearance and a white jade snake wrapped around his neck pushed open the temple door and walked out. It was Qing Xin and Xia Zhiming!

Looking at the beasts lying on the ground in front of the temple, their heads raised in supplication, Xiao Qing was stunned. She stood there, somewhat bewildered. She could only slightly turn her gaze away, as if she couldn't bear it.

"Let's go..." Xia Zhiming sighed.

"Hmm..." Qingxin responded and nodded silently.

The little palm made a hand gesture again, and a breeze rose. The girl's Taoist robe fluttered and she stood in the air, looking like a flying fairy for a moment.

Below, the beasts also realized that the immortal was about to leave, and for a moment, the sounds of animals and birds rang out together, their voices like crying and complaining.

High in the sky, Qingxin quietly watched the scene in front of him without saying anything more. He just tightened the box behind him slightly, looked up and looked around, and soon found a direction and flew away with the wind.

Under the rising sun——

"Zhi Ming..."