Travel through the heavens

After the episode of Fang Er cleaning up the mess, nothing happened along the way.

As evening approached, Fang Muye walked in Longjing Mountain. As for his horse, he left it at a farmer's home at the foot of the mountain.

Looking up, I saw a lush mountain with thick vegetation. There were no pavilions or palaces, only a small path winding up.

Fang Muye was as light as a swallow and was not hindered by the twists and turns of the road. He looked at the sky, exerted force on his feet, and walked up the mountain as fast as the wind.

About half an hour later, Fang Muye arrived in front of the Taoist temple.

The Taoist temple is hidden between mountain peaks, surrounded by forests and shrouded in evening mist. The environment is quite quiet, but the gate is narrow and dilapidated, with a mottled paint plaque hanging on it, with "Longjing Taoist Temple" inscribed on it. Under the sunset, it looks quite desolate.

Fang Muye knocked on the door, and the door knocker made a "clang clang clang" sound that was extremely crisp and echoed throughout the valley.

After a long time, the sound of jogging footsteps was heard, and then the gate of the temple opened, and a familiar face appeared in front of Fang Muye.

He Anxia stretched his neck to look for a while, then grinned, showing two rows of teeth, and asked with a simple smile: "Sir, what can I do for you?"

Fang Muye said with a smile: "Hello, young Taoist priest, I am here to pay my respects to Taoist priest Luo Yin. Please inform him."

"You are looking for Master Luo Yin. I will take you there." He Anxia said happily.

He is really simple and honest, and has no guard against others.

Fang Muye smiled and said, "Thank you very much, young Taoist priest."

"Hey, no thanks."

Fang Muye followed He Anxia into the Taoist temple, and went up the stone steps. They saw a spacious courtyard. In the center of the courtyard was a circular stone platform more than two feet high and ten meters in diameter, facing a not-so-grand palace.

There is only one hall in the temple, which looks very dilapidated and obviously has not been repaired for a long time. In front of the hall stands a large bronze incense burner, which is also rusty and has no incense.

That's right. This Taoist temple is hidden deep in the mountains and is accessible only by a winding path. It takes ordinary people three or four hours to get here from the foot of the mountain. Moreover, this Longjing Taoist temple is not well-known. How many people would be willing to go through the trouble to come here to burn incense and pray?

But Fang Muye learned from the people living at the foot of the mountain that this little-known Taoist temple has actually existed for hundreds of years and can be traced back to the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty.

Although the Taoist temple is small, there are many Taoists, far more than the number of Taoists in Changming Temple in Hangzhou. Fang Muye followed He Anxia through the courtyard and met several young Taoists.

Perhaps because no strangers had been to the temple for a long time, the young Taoists all cast curious glances at him. One of the fat ones even ran over and asked He Anxia, ​​"Anxia, ​​who is this gentleman?"

He Anxia replied: "He came to see the master."

The fat Taoist priest said "Oh" and smiled at Fang Muye in a simple and honest way.

Fang Muye smiled and nodded at him as a greeting.

There is a bungalow on the east side of the main hall of the Taoist temple. It is the residence of the temple master Luo Yin. After He Anxia brought Fang Muye here, he grinned and said, "Sir, please wait a moment. I will go talk to the master first." Then he walked in.

After a while, He Anxia came out and said, "Master let you in."

Fang Muye nodded, stepped in, and immediately saw Luo Yin, a man with white hair and beard and an immortal look, sitting at a square table.

Fang Muye bowed to Luo Yin and said, "Cui Daoning greets the Taoist priest."

Luo Yin stood up and returned the greeting, motioned to the chair on the other side of the table below, and said, "Mr. Cui, please take a seat."

After Fang Muye sat down, Luo Yin asked, "Why do you want to see me, Master?"

Fang Muye got straight to the point and said with a smile: "I came here for two reasons. First, I want to learn from you the Taoist method of practicing Qi. Second, I want to borrow your Taoist book to read. I hope you can help me."

He originally came here just to learn Taoist skills, but since this temple has a history of more than 500 years, there should be a lot of Taoist scriptures, so he came up with the idea of ​​borrowing Taoist books.

Luo Yin's expression remained unchanged, and he said in a flat and hoarse voice, "I see that the hermit has a rich spirit and a divine mind, and has already reached the Great Circulation. Why should he change his ways?"

Although the tone is polite, the rejection is very obvious, and it also implies "I know your character."

Fang Muye was startled. When a martial artist's Kung Fu reaches the level of Great Zhoutian, his mind will be calm and his spirit will be restrained. He will return to his original nature and look no different from an ordinary person.

Luo Yin could actually easily see his realm and his cultivation level was definitely above his.

It is true that "there are hermits in the deep mountains and masters hidden in the broken temples"!

Fang Muye sighed secretly and said seriously, "Let the Taoist priest know that I have a disciple who is honest, kind, polite and respectful. Now it is time for her to practice Qigong. However, I learned the Qigong method from somewhere else. I promised not to teach it to anyone else. But my disciple is respectful and filial, so I, as her master, must make plans for her."

"When I was seeking the Tao at Ziyun Pavilion on Cuihua Mountain, I had heard of your temple and the name of the Taoist priest. I knew that you were a great Taoist with a broad mind, so I came to seek your help. In addition, although I went down the mountain to practice medicine and consult patients, my heart to seek the Tao was still there, so I wanted to borrow your temple's Taoist canon to read."

These remarks, neither humble nor arrogant, had several meanings. First, they explained his origins and how he knew about the Longjing Taoist Temple. Second, they explained why he came to seek for the skills. Third, they said that the person he was going to teach the skills to had a good character and would not do evil after learning the skills.

Luo Yin also understood what Fang Muye said. He was silent for a moment, then asked calmly, "So you were once a Taoist. Ziyun Pavilion is a famous Taoist temple. I wonder why you left back then?"

Fang Muye thought for a moment and realized that Luo Yin was not just asking a simple question, but also intended to test him. He said in a loud voice: "The Tao is nameless, formless and imageless. As for all things, it is everywhere. The Tao is in heaven and earth, and also in the human world. Going up the mountain is to understand nature, and going down the mountain is to experience the world."

"In the world below the mountain, you will encounter everything, good or bad. After experiencing the good and evil, love and hate, gratitude and grudges in the mortal world, you will understand what it means to 'do whatever it takes to be a hero, but to stay true to your original intention'. In the world, the Tao is great, and so are people. Only when you understand life and the world can you gain the original breadth of the Tao heart, and then you can accommodate everything, including the mountains, rivers, earth, and the eternal stars."

Luo Yin nodded slightly and smiled: "The Tao is originally formless, so it is not bound by form. Going up the mountain and going down the mountain are all Tao. It seems that the layman has gained something at the foot of the mountain."

He paused and said, "Since you have a heart for Taoism, I will teach you the Taoist techniques. You can also read the Taoist books in the temple, but you cannot take the books down the mountain."

Fang Muye said, "If you don't mind, I would like to stay in the temple for a few days." He took out two large yellow croakers from his pocket and put them on the table. "When I came here, I saw that many houses in the temple needed to be repaired. I'm offering you some of my belongings as a token of my appreciation."

The world is not peaceful at the foot of the mountain now, and life on the mountain is not easy either. There is not much money to repair the houses in the Taoist temple, and even food is running out.

The two big yellow croakers were really a timely help, and enough charcoal to burn for several winters.

Thinking of the many mouths to feed in the temple, Luo Yin lowered his head to glance at the gold bars, sighed in his heart, and said, "Thank you for your kindness, Master. I will accept this money."