Rain dripped down the black umbrella, and the woman in black slowly closed the umbrella, like the shadow of a middle-aged man, following him into the drunken building.
Gu Weiwei grew up in a restaurant. Although the restaurant business has never been booming, Baijia Town is the main route to the north. After all, all kinds of people pass by it every year.
Therefore, Gu Weiwei has met quite a few people, with different temperaments, identities, and appearances. She can be considered well-informed. However, when she met this middle-aged man for the first time, she still felt that the middle-aged man in front of her was... It can be considered a special type.
His fingers are slender and white, and there are no calluses left by work, indicating that he lives a relatively prosperous life. However, the corners of his eyes are densely wrinkled, which is obviously too much for a man of his age, so it is not difficult to deduce that he must have experienced Some hardships.
This is a man with a story, Gu Weiwei made a judgment. There is a story, he has a lot of money, he is pretty good-looking, and when he reaches middle age, he is extremely lethal to many young girls, but Gu Weiwei is an exception.
She was just surprised, not more curious. After all, in terms of attractiveness, in her eyes, no one can compare to Shen Lian.
When Gu Weiwei quietly looked at the middle-aged man, the middle-aged man's attention was completely focused on Shen Lian. The young Taoist priest in front of him was handsome and elegant, with smooth corners and no wrinkles, but his eyes could attract the attention of others without even realizing it. What a pair of eyes those were. The middle-aged man recalled that when he was young, he visited a famous mountain in the southeast. The local man who was his guide at that time pointed to a lush mulberry field and told him that the mulberry field was a sea a long time ago. It is only through the passage of time that the fields become the fields. Walking inside, he could vaguely see some fossils of seashells. At that time, he realized the changes of the years, and for the first time he clearly understood what the vicissitudes of life meant.
The eyes of the young Taoist priest in front of him gave him the same feeling, but it was even deeper.
Through such eyes, he only felt that the recent difficulties seemed to be worth mentioning in the ruthless changes of the years.
Gu Weiwei's words broke the middle-aged man's meditation at the right time, "Sir, would you like something to eat or something to drink?"
The middle-aged man was extremely well-educated and said to Gu Weiwei with a smile that no one could fault, "I want a pot of boiled water."
Gu Weiwei was a little disappointed. She thought that this customer looked wealthy and would have a good business today, but she didn't expect that he only ordered a pot of boiled water.
But business had to be done, so she said, "You guys find an empty table and sit down, and I'll boil water for you."
Gu Weiwei arrived in the kitchen, and as soon as she took out the kettle, Shen Lian came behind her.
Gu Weiwei said: "Why did you come in?" She was thinking that Shen Lian had come in, and now there was no one in the restaurant outside.
Shen Lian said: "I'll boil the water."
Gu Weiwei said: "Okay, but this guest is really stingy."
Shen Lian said: "I should say be careful."
Gu Weiwei is not stupid, she knows what Shen Lian means. When going out, drinking plain water is a sign of caution, because plain water has no taste and it is difficult to do anything in it. Even if there is a colorless and odorless medicine, it is extremely precious. Unless it is deliberately targeted, no one will do so.
A person who even has to be careful when drinking water shows that his situation is really terrible.
Gu Wei sighed slightly and said: "Not only is there no money to be made from this business, I'm afraid there will be trouble."
Shen Lian said: "Such troubles will never be less in the future."
Gu Weiwei glared at Shen Lian, who was always unable to speak. She added: "Is that middle-aged man also a practitioner?"
Shen Lian smiled and said, "Senior sister, have you noticed?"
Gu Wei rolled her eyes at him and said, "I'm not stupid. The rain was so loud just now. He could still hear what you said in the carriage. Obviously, this is not the hearing ability that ordinary people should have."
Shen Lian said: "Actually, this is not a big skill. Senior sister can master this skill in about a hundred days according to the breathing method I teach."
If Shen Lian were to let the middle-aged people outside know about it, I'm afraid there would be huge waves in his heart. Because the middle-aged man has such a level of cultivation, it took him nearly thirty years of nourishment from countless medicinal materials and hard practice to reach his current level of accomplishment. However, Shen Lian made Gu Weiwei achieve this level in just one hundred days. His current level.
Of course, Shen Lian didn't tell lies. As long as Gu Weiwei adheres to the breathing method taught by Shen Lian, she will be able to cleanse her essence and marrow within a hundred days and be reborn.
There is probably no other person in the world today who has the opportunity that Gu Weiwei has. It's not that other immortal sects don't have more advanced foundation-building methods, but it's impossible for the entry-level disciples of other immortal sects to have someone like Shen Lian to protect them when they first started practicing.
Even though Shen Lian only taught one set of breathing techniques, he was actually paying attention to Gu Weiwei's changes all the time, and corrected it in advance when Gu Weiwei's health showed signs of problems. Therefore, Shen Lian naturally had a lot of physical contact with Gu Weiwei. In Gu Weiwei's eyes, this was Shen Lian teasing her, but in fact, Shen Lian was helping her practice.
But Shen Lian couldn't tell her, otherwise Gu Weiwei would be very dependent on her, which would not be a good thing for her future practice.
Gu Weiwei didn't understand this, but she felt a little happy after hearing Shen Lian's words, because it meant that she was getting closer to Shen Lian, instead of getting farther and farther away.
After all, she knew that even if Shen Lian was not an immortal, he was still an otherworldly being, and she was indeed just a mortal, so how could she be worthy of him. But now that the two of them are getting closer, the gap will eventually be erased.
If people like Qingyang Palace Yin Xianjun knew Gu Weiwei's thoughts, they would probably laugh, because Gu Weiwei's understanding of cultivation is too superficial. The gap between mortals and immortals is already like a chasm in the sky, and the gap between ordinary immortals and Shen Lian is larger than that between mortals. The gap with the immortals is even greater.
This gap cannot be reflected by the gap in strength, because there are too many mysteries in it.
Take Shen Lian for example, he raises his hands and feet, and everything in the world has to cater to him. Even those immortals and Arhats who have achieved immortality will be destroyed by Shen Lian's thoughts if they use their magical powers on him.
To Shen Lian's level, the immortal dharma, Buddhist dharma, and magic in the world are just like flowers in the mirror, the moon in the water, and nothing in dreams. If Shen Lian goes one step further, it would be Da Luo, which is the ultimate level of cultivation that most immortals and Buddhas can pursue. As for Da Luo, although there is still a Taoist master, in a sense, the Taoist master only needs to manifest. The world is also a great Luo.
It's just that for people in Daluo to become Taoist masters and transcend everything, it is no longer possible to achieve it through practice, and it is even almost impossible to achieve it.
In the endless time, among the creatures as many as the sands of the Ganges River, there are only two people who can struggle out of the sea of suffering in the world of mortals and achieve transcendence the day after tomorrow. One is the Buddha and the other is Taoist Taiyi.
Before the Buddha attained transcendence, the sufferings he went through would be endless in a hundred million years, and the sufferings experienced by Master Taiyi were not less than those of the Buddha.