I want to be innocent, but they don't allow me

Li Mu calmly withdrew his gaze, thought for a moment, nodded, and thought:

"Whether it's a coincidence or not, let's get it first."

Li Mu was about to agree when he heard Shan Shan behind him suddenly scolding:

"You ugly Taoist priest, what book can be worth ten taels of silver? If you have money, then pay. If you don't, go away and don't block my young master from having dinner."

The middle-aged Taoist priest did not get angry. He looked at Li Mu with an unchanged expression, waiting for Li Mu's reply.

"What do you want to ask, Taoist priest?"

Li Mu didn't put on airs and asked directly.

Seeing that Li Mu agreed readily, the middle-aged Taoist priest immediately spoke:

"I want to ask, where is the opportunity to enter the rank?"

"Enter the rank? Enter the ninth rank?"

When Li Mu heard this word again, he was stunned and opened his mouth to confirm.

The middle-aged Taoist nodded without saying anything, but his eyes were fixed on Li Mu.

Li Mu frowned, complaining in his heart.

"Why don't you ask me where your chance to become an immortal is? You just open your mouth and want to enter the realm of immortality."

However, the middle-aged Taoist priest was not in a hurry. He stood aside calmly, waiting for Li Mu's answer.

Li Mu looked at the bamboo slips in the middle-aged Taoist's hand and thought evilly,

"If you don't want to give it to me, just tell me. I'll hit you with a club when you're alone."

"Why doesn't it count, little friend?"

Li Mu thought to himself, "Fuck you!" But he still took out two stones from his waist. They were the ones Li Mu had picked up on the roadside that morning. Even the shapes of the stones were forcefully squeezed by Li Mu to be exactly the same as the previous pieces of silver.

Seeing the stone that Li Mu had taken out, the middle-aged Taoist frowned and took out three copper coins and handed them to Li Mu.

"My friend, you might as well use this."

Li Mu looked at the copper coin in the middle-aged Taoist's hand and immediately became interested. Since he went to Prince Yan's Mansion as soon as he landed, it was the first time that Li Mu saw a copper coin.

When he wanted to look for copper coins in the palace, he found that even the servants in the palace paid their monthly wages in silver.

After secretly cursing the rich man, Li Mu took two copper coins from the middle-aged Taoist priest and said with a smile:

"Two are enough. Thank you, Taoist Priest."

Hearing this, the middle-aged Taoist priest was surprised and asked in disbelief:

"Two? How can two coins form a hexagram?"

Li Mu didn't find anything wrong and said casually:

"Two pieces in the hand, one piece in the heart, three pieces can calculate everything in the world."

As he said this, he threw the coin and caught it in his backhand.

When he saw the copper coin clearly in his hand, Li Mu's forehead wrinkled into a shape of a "川" (river) and he stood there in a daze, unable to recover for a long time.

However, the middle-aged Taoist priest was filled with shock. He kept repeating Li Mu's words. Suddenly, he threw the bamboo slips in his hand at Li Mu and shouted in a somewhat crazy manner:

"This is impossible, you are not fortune-telling!"

After saying that, he jumped several feet away without looking back, and then disappeared after a few rises and falls.

"What's wrong with this guy?"

Shanshan looked at the direction the Taoist priest left and spoke in confusion.

Li Mu was still immersed in the previous hexagram. He threw the bamboo slips to Shanshan, took out his own stone from his waist, and said to himself:

"Is there something strange about this copper coin?"

However, when Li Mu used the stone to predict the future for the middle-aged Taoist priest again, he looked up in shock and found that the man had disappeared.

"Where are the people? Where is the Taoist priest just now?"

Li Mu turned his head and looked at Shanshan, his tone somewhat anxious.

"I don't know. He just left suddenly."

Shanshan spoke calmly, but she noticed that Li Mu looked different, so she asked in confusion:

"Sir, who is that Taoist priest?"

Li Mu raised his eyebrows and said solemnly:

"An expert, one of the best experts."

"He looks so young, how tall can he be?"

Shanshan thought about it and asked with some disdain.

"There is a chance for a master to enter the rank, how high do you think he is?"

Shanshan had never heard of the term "entering the rank". Just as she was about to ask, she heard a crisp voice in her ear.

"Don't make a fuss. I heard from my father that many masters are hiding in the alleys of the city."

When Shanshan saw that it was Zhao Chuyi who came, she threw away the wooden sign in her hand, ran forward excitedly, and said with a hint of pride in her tone:

"Miss, Miss, the young master and I have earned ten taels of silver. We can go out and have a nice meal."

Zhao Chuyi chuckled and said jokingly:

"Yes, yes, you have been standing here holding the wooden sign for a whole day, so you have made the greatest contribution."

After saying that, he turned to look at Li Mu and asked curiously:

"Does the Taoist priest just now really have the opportunity to enter the rank? Where is it?"

Li Mu thought about it, raised his hand and drew a circle in the air, then pointed in the middle and said uncertainly:

"All directions, including the middle, nine directions."

Then he smiled awkwardly and said:

"Luckily the person left, otherwise I would have been beaten for saying that."

When Zhao Chuyi heard this, she seemed to be lost in thought. It sounded familiar, but she couldn't remember where she had heard it.

"Sir, this one is for you, and these are for me."

Shanshan said this as she handed the bamboo slips to Li Mu and put the silver into her own pocket.

Li Mu smiled, and did not rush to check the contents of the bamboo slips. He put them in his arms, stretched his body, and said:

"Let's go. We've been hungry all day. Let's go eat."

----

Three days later, Qingfeng visited the back mountain.

Shan Yuan, who was sitting cross-legged in front of the waterfall, slowly opened his eyes and smiled.

"You've worked hard. Would you like a cup of tea?"

As soon as he finished speaking, a figure appeared in front of him. It was the middle-aged Taoist priest that Li Mu met two days ago.

"Uncle Junior Master, the stuff has been delivered."

The middle-aged Taoist spoke respectfully, but his expression was a little strange.

"Whatever you want to ask, just ask."

Shanyuan's expression remained unchanged and his tone was kind. Although he had a young face, he looked mature.

"His divination skills are a little different."

"What's the difference?"

The middle-aged Taoist priest was about to speak when he was suddenly stunned. His forehead wrinkled immediately. After thinking for a long time, he said in astonishment:

"I, I don't remember?"

Shan Yuan smiled and looked at the middle-aged Taoist priest, as if he had expected this. He said in a calm tone:

"Three pieces make a hexagram, but he only uses two. Why?"

The middle-aged Taoist priest showed a look of surprise in his eyes, as if he remembered something, and exclaimed:

"With a child in his heart, he can control the hexagram!"

"Yes, he can influence the hexagram to a certain extent, which means he can influence the future."

Shan Yuan's eyes flashed with a hint of teasing, and he asked again:

"What's the difference in his divination skills?"

The middle-aged Taoist priest was puzzled as to why he asked the same question twice. Then his expression changed drastically, his body trembled a little, and he stammered:

"I, I, I don't remember."

"Hahahaha, alright, thank you for your hard work, go back and have a rest."

Shanyuan laughed out loud and then ordered them to leave.

The middle-aged Taoist priest did not leave. After a moment of silence, he asked:

"The divination technique was taught by the master?"

“Remember to return it after reading it.”

Shanyuan smiled and took out a bamboo slip from his arms and threw it to the middle-aged Taoist priest.

"Thank you, Junior Master."

The middle-aged Taoist priest bowed and thanked him, then disappeared from the spot in an instant.

After a long while, Shan Yuan sneered and glanced in the direction where the middle-aged Taoist priest left. His eyes were full of disdain, and he muttered to himself:

"Li Mu, please don't let me down."