Please call me Huanxian

Chapter 35 Someone is following
As the Taoist palace inspector walked to the west side of the Yanxia Pavilion, Xu Yuanchang thanked the Taoist priest with clasped fists. He climbed up the steps and entered the pavilion. He saluted and saw Taoist Master Zhang Wang waiting with his hands behind his hands.

Zhang Wang turned around and said with a smile: "Last night's song 'Shui Tiao Song Tou' became famous in the county and city schools. It will not be long before it will be sung all over the world. There is one weird thing. Such a masterpiece is actually 'Anonymous'?"

Xu Yuanchang bowed slightly and said: "Poems are nothing more than trivial matters. No matter how famous you are, they have nothing to do with the younger generation."

It wasn't his in the first place, he just changed hands.

What use does he have for that false reputation?

Zhang Wang nodded, with a calm mind that is neither arrogant nor impetuous, he is a person who studies the Tao.

"Sit down, and I will give you a jade certificate to teach you the secret method of Chonglong Temple. I hope you will uphold the right path, transcend the mortal world, and become a free person on the road of spiritual practice."

"Yes, thank you Taoist Master for your teachings."

Xu Yuanchang sat upright on the stone bench, calmed his breathing, took a piece of crystal-like transparent jade tablet handed to him by Taoist Zhang, and followed the instructions, gently pressing the jade tablet on his forehead between the eyebrows.

Countless words, graphics, and runes poured into his mind like phantoms, which were very magical methods of transmitting skills.

During the dinner date, there was no longer any content, and the jade ultimatum also turned white.

Zhang Wang took back the jade certificate and asked Xu Yuanchang, who was a little dizzy, to go back to his residence today to sort out what he had obtained. Tomorrow morning, he would come to Yanxia Pavilion and listen to him explain the basics of the "Blue Dragon Shengmu Technique" and how to condense the Shengmu Seal.

Taoism itself is its own business.

He will not owe any favors to his juniors.

Xu Yuanchang shook his head, remembered something, and hurriedly asked Taoist Zhang about the problem of casual cultivators practicing the Five Elements in the wrong order. Can they do it all over again?

He was in the lecture hall, listening to the Taoist priests talking, and mentioned this matter.

Zhang Wang smiled and said: "It is not easy to practice casual cultivation. This is the arduous opportunity on the road of heaven and earth. After practicing martial arts, you can specialize in a discipline that suits you. You will be less distracted by the five elements and have a chance of getting rid of the bottleneck."

Looking at the young people who were listening carefully, he said: "The difficulties of casual cultivation are doomed from the beginning. There are no seniors to help them find out the order of practicing the Five Elements. Everything is difficult at the beginning and even harder in the middle. Practicing the Five Elements is for the future." Breaking through the Qi Transformation Realm of the Third Level Building, 'It's easy to climb the stairs, but it's as difficult as climbing to the sky'. You are still far away from it now. Keep your feet on the ground and move forward step by step. Don't aim too high."

Xu Yuanchang listened attentively and received the instruction. He bowed and sent Zhang Daozhang out, who had given him advice again and again. He stayed in the pavilion for a while before picking up the bamboo box and leaving.

He heard that the Taoist priest seemed to intend to give him an opportunity, but he did not clarify his words for the time being.

Walk all the way through the streets and alleys, circle around and return to the inn.

He sat quietly in the room and adjusted his breath for half an hour to calm down the discomfort in his mind. He slowly looked inside and read the "Qinglong Shengmu Technique" instilled in him by the jade tablet according to the method instructed by Zhang Daozhang. Word by word, he read the overview and basic parts. The content is temporarily unclear.

He guessed that it was because of insufficient cultivation and Chonglong Temple was a way to prevent the secret method from being lost outside.

Before I knew it, most of the day had passed, and the sun was setting over the western mountains.

After washing up, Xu Yuanchang went out to buy some sesame seed cakes, ate them with his hands to satisfy his hunger, and walked towards the south of the city.

Halfway through, he suddenly turned around and glanced at the crowd behind him. He saw a sturdy figure wearing a hat and disappeared around the corner. By the time he rushed there, there was no trace of that man in the long and narrow alley.

Someone was actually following me.

He walked into the teahouse agreed with Senior Brother Yin, walked up to the second floor, opened the door and entered.

Yin Quan and Lan Ying'er had already arrived, drinking tea and chatting in low voices.

Xu Yuanchang told the two of them about someone following him.

Yin Quan frowned and said: "Zhuang Yu has a short and thin body. No matter how he changes his appearance, it is difficult to grow more than half a foot out of thin air. Maybe it is someone else. Today I went to Xianyu Garden. Lao Mo and the others were asking me, curious about how you entered the Tao. I explained the palace matter."

Xu Yuanchang felt relieved and would be careful in the future.

He goes in and out of the Taoist Palace every day, so it is not unusual for him to be bumped into by casual cultivators passing through the city.

Tell Zhang Daozhang's words to the two of them, and let them discuss what decision to make.

He couldn't guarantee that he would be able to break through and advance after practicing again. Nothing in the world was that easy.

There are many hardships in casual cultivation. Gains depend on robbing, and breaking things requires gambling.

Everything is dictated.

After drinking tea with him for a while, Xu Yuanchang left first and stayed at a new inn.

The next morning, he went to Yanxia Pavilion to listen to Taoist Zhang's instructions. After asking several doubts, Xu Yuanchang skipped class again and did not go to the Liuyuntai Lecture Hall to listen to the Taoist priests debating advanced issues. He returned to his residence and began to practice the Qinglong Shengmu Technique.

Three days later, the mana was mobilized to condense the wood energy, and the palace was officially opened. The wood energy was used as a method to enter the central orifice. From now on, just follow the steps step by step, practice diligently and persistently and accumulate.

According to the records of the secret method, it takes as little as half a year to try to condense the prototype of the Shengmu Seal.

The power of the wood-cultivation method is not obvious in the early stage, but it can nourish the soul and body, and has the benefit of long-term flow in the practice of the breathing method.

On this day, Xu Yuanchang walked into the lecture hall from the back with a bamboo box on his back. He glanced around and saw that the Taoist priests were talking loudly and treating him as if he were nothing. There was a fair-faced and elegant Taoist priest in the front row talking to his companions. He smiled and nodded at him and gave him a friendly greeting.

Xu Yuanchang nodded in response. He recognized the Taoist priest's name as Yi Yun. He was a late-stage cultivator in the second-level solid energy realm and a genius monk holding the moon in his arms.

There were days when he came to Liuyuntai to attend lectures but did not have Taoist lectures. Day after day, Xu Yuanchang pricked up his ears and took notes on the arguments he heard from the students that he found useful. They were all varied and eye-opening for him.

Maybe it will come in handy one day?

Gradually, I had a conversation with the Taoist priest named Yi Yun.

Most of the time, it was Yi Yun who was chatting about his cultivation experiences, and he would occasionally make a compliment.

The friendship between gentlemen is as light as water. They do not deliberately flatter and flatter, and do not rush for quick success.

As time passed, several Taoist priests became interested in him, a casual cultivator who was observing, and took the initiative to chat with him. Later, they even asked him to participate in a banquet party out, but he did not refuse politely.

Multiple friends have multiple roads.

Casual cultivators and sect monks are in different circles, and he wants to learn more knowledge that casual cultivators have no access to.

Young Taoist priests from various Taoist temples and aristocratic families came to the county Taoist palace to communicate and listen to lectures. They also had the intention of making like-minded friends and expanding their network. The eighteen people were divided into three close circles.

He followed the circle headed by Yi Yun and got acquainted with He Shutang from Yuruguan, Yan Yuhan, a monk from the Yan family in Lianyan Mountain, and others.

There were two Taoist priests from Izumo Temple in the lecture hall. One of them was a young and talented man named Jia Yilong. Xu Yuanchang had some impression of him because he had heard people talk about him when he was at Izumo Mountain.

The two of them learned that Xu Yuanchang came down the mountain from Izumo-kan, and they looked down on the "abandoned disciple" with a look of disdain on their faces.

Xu Yuanchang kept him at a respectful distance, and there was no need to flatter him.

On the first day of September, before Lan Ying'er dispersed his martial arts, Yin Quan invited Junior Brother Xu to go with him to a manor twenty miles south of the city to participate in a "black market" gathering.

The so-called black market is actually an exchange meeting between monks from three surrounding counties and cities organized by monks with extensive connections.

It is held once a year, and the three counties and cities rotate. Disciples of all disciplines and sects can set up stalls to sell unused items, regardless of their origin.

Some of them were stolen goods, and everyone covered their faces to hide their appearance. Over time, a rule was formed.

Senior Brother Yin said that the Baiji Division of the county and city had a clear grasp of the situation. The "black market" was still within the controllable range. There were unknown number of inspectors sneaking into it. There were some special items, so be sure not to put them out for sale. disaster.

Yin Quan and Lan Ying'er took off the baggage on their backs, and found an adjacent space to set up a stall, selling various exercises, secrets of the Five Elements, classics, materials, fragments, etc. that they had collected so hard over the years. After re-cultivating, only one promising secret technique was left, and all the others were sold. Junior Brother Xu was asked to pick out a few useful books to keep, but Junior Brother Xu politely declined.

Xu Yuan, with his face covered with black cloth and a bamboo hat, was wandering around. The place was as noisy as a busy city.

He saw many monks with strong auras who were suspected of being in the Solid Qi realm, and they were also setting up stalls to sell items.

There are many classics and magic books on sale at street stalls, and they are as cheap as Chinese cabbage.

Xu Yuanchang carefully selected, spent most of the day, and packed the baggage he brought with him. He only spent thirty spiritual coins. He also spent ten spiritual coins to select hundreds of ephedra jade talisman papers and cloud yellow talisman papers. Of course There were also some defective products mixed in, and he picked them all out based on his experience in drawing talismans.

I squatted in front of a stall and rummaged for a long time.

Xu Yuanchang picked out a Gangbu booklet, which was the famous "Da Kao Luo Dou Shu". The back part was seriously damaged.

He once heard Yi Yun and others debating the merits of the Great Kaoluo Dou Shu, the Twenty-Eight Constellations Gang Technique, and the Sun, Moon and Five Stars Gang Technique. The three parties argued so hard that their faces turned red, and then they flew into the air to compete with each other using Gang Techniques. Afterimages appeared, which impressed him. Extremely profound.

After browsing for a while, I bargained with the stall owner, and the price was reduced from eighty spirit coins to thirty spirit coins.

There were not many spiritual coins left in his pocket.

Putting the Gangbu book in his arms, Xu Yuanchang stood up and suddenly glanced behind him. All he saw was a masked man with mixed aura and a strong figure. He could not find the person he had noticed from peeking from behind just now.

This animal actually followed him to the black market.

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(End of this chapter)