This reaction was beyond Jianchou's expectations. She looked at Fudaoshanren with an almost stunned expression.
Fudaoshanren was still hitting the ground hard with a stone, looking aggrieved: "My disciple, you really hurt Master too deeply, too deeply! Master doesn't even have a Taoist partner, how can you go out and flirt with someone now?"
"...Master..."
This is the sound of extreme powerlessness.
However, after Fudaoshanren's commotion, Jianchou understood what "Daoist partner" meant without him having to explain.
"So, monks can get married too?"
"That's not called marriage." Fudao Shanren cried for a while, but when he heard that Chou had misunderstood his Taoist partner's meaning, he finally put away his fake tears, snorted coldly, and said, "If a male and female cultivator are attracted to each other, they can become partners and practice together in the future. There are naturally ways to practice together, and the coordination of yin and yang will be faster than two people practicing together. As for cutting off emotions and desires, most cultivators still can't do it."
"… I see."
Jianchou nodded, but there seemed to be a hint of silence in his expression.
Fudao Shanren saw it at a glance. He just thought she was worried about the Taoist partner and didn't think about anything else: "I say, who mentioned the Taoist partner to you? Shanren, if I remember correctly, you are only in the Qi Refining Stage, right?"
"It's Junior Brother Zhang from the Demon Sealing Sword Sect."
Seeing that Chou didn't hide anything, she herself felt it was strange.
"But maybe it's not what you think, Master. He just asked me if I have a Taoist partner."
Fudao Shanren gave Jianchou a pair of clean eyes and said, "A weasel is paying New Year's greetings to a chicken. You think I'm blind, your master! This kid, an old cow actually dares to eat young grass. He has been practicing for more than forty or nearly fifty years. How green are you?"
"… "
My heart is broken.
The corner of Jianchou's mouth twitched. Can you please not use the word "tender"
"Don't be unconvinced. Dao companions are actually just like you mortals, and we are equally matched. A brat from the Demon Sealing Sword Sect, with mediocre talent, is still coveting you? Dream on!"
Fudaoshanren was so angry that his teeth were itching. He raised the small stone in his hand and squeezed it hard, as if he was squeezing Zhang Sui's bones.
"I, the mountain man, finally accepted a female disciple. There is no other girl like me in the whole Yashan! He still wants to poach her? Damn it, I'll take those brats and beat him up!"
What is going on
Jianchou felt that the meaning of these words was becoming more and more wrong.
What does poaching mean? What does “not being able to find another girl” mean
Are there no female disciples in Yashan
besides…
"Master, you accepted me as your disciple. Does the sect know about this?"
"Nonsense." Fudao Shanren was proud. "The hidden world of Qingfeng Temple was in danger, and those idiots on Yashan were worried as hell. Now that I'm out of danger, I have to take care of them, and I told them about you. They heard that I took a girl as my apprentice, and they looked at me like that. You'll see later."
The head is a bit big.
Don't ask why you are sad.
She held her forehead with her hand: "Don't tell me that there are no female disciples in Yashan..."
"You're right, there really isn't one!" Fudao Shanren had a sad expression on his face, "You don't know, the talented female cultivators all went to Baiyue Valley, saying that my Yashan is not suitable for female cultivators to practice..."
When he said this, his voice lowered, but then became angry.
"That's all bullshit! We are the only sect in the entire Central Region that relies on looks to make a living and to cultivate! We also have a group of outstanding male disciples who are obsessed with cultivation! Now that we have accepted you as a disciple, I, the hermit, must make them open their eyes and see that Yashan can also produce female cultivators who rely on looks to make a living and have high cultivation levels!"
After saying that, he looked at Jianchou expectantly.
"Disciple, what do you think... Hey, disciple, what's wrong with you?"
"Nothing, just a little dizzy all of a sudden."
Jianchou gritted his teeth and resisted the urge to grind his teeth.
Fudaoshanren nodded, looking pleased.
"Anyway, from now on, it's up to you to restore the reputation of Yashan."
Master, I can’t bear this heavy responsibility! Jianchou felt pain all over his body.
"Come to think of it, I haven't been back to Yashan for three hundred years. I wonder how I am doing... I guess you all must be missing me a lot after not seeing me so handsome for so long. Disciple, what do you think of Master? Is he handsome?"
He held out his hands, looking very casual.
Seeing that Chou Youyou was looking at him and seeing the blood coming out of his lips, he couldn't help but remind him: "... Master, you vomited blood."
Not handsome at all!
“…Huh?”
Fudaoshanren looked down, wiped the corner of his mouth, and saw blood on his hand.
"It didn't flow earlier, it didn't flow later, but it's flowing now! It really ruins the image of mountain people!"
Seeing that he seemed to be indifferent, Jianchou was a little worried: "Is the master injured?"
Fudaoshanren's eyes flashed for a moment, and he didn't reply for a while.
After a while, he looked up and said, "Xiaoshang, are you doubting that Master is incapable of being seriously injured? This really hurts Master's heart! I won't talk to you anymore, I'm angry! If you want to repair the teleportation array, don't talk to the mountain people!"
I vomited blood without knowing it, how could it be a small matter
Jianchou didn't believe it, but seeing that Fudaoshanren looked fine, he didn't dare to say anything. He just didn't walk far away and stood beside him, fearing that he might have an accident.
Fudao Shanren felt helpless, what an annoying little girl.
In no time, he restored the destroyed teleportation array. Fudaoshanren's face seemed to turn a little paler. He waved his hand and the big white goose that had just been released came running over and was held in his arms.
Fudaoshanren threw out a handful of spirit stones with one hand, embedded them into the grooves, raised his chin, and said, "Let's go, enter the formation."
Jianchou hurriedly stepped into the formation, and then Fudaoshanren also came in and directly crushed a teleportation talisman.
“Bang!”
After a slight sound, the teleportation array was activated.
A burst of bright white light shot up from Dengtian Island and went straight into the clouds.
When the light faded, the thirteenth island on the Immortal Road was empty, with only the remains of a meter-long stone tablet lying quietly beside the small stone pond.
***
Few people know where the name of the Nineteen Continents came from.
This is where the monks seek immortality and ask for the way. It is the "ancient fairyland" that the mortals sang about in poems. There are powerful monks who can destroy the world with a wave of their hands, and there are also ants who are busy fighting for a piece of spiritual stone...
Almost everyone here has a dream of becoming an immortal, but not everyone can do so.
The Wen Dao Monument is a dream and legend about becoming an immortal.
It is about eleven meters above the sea surface, standing on the edge of the vast West Sea. It is neither high nor low. The surging sea water all year round hits the ancient stone tablet, making the bottom of the stone tablet appear eroded and bumpy.
The two ancient and vicissitudes of life characters "闻道" are arranged vertically at the top of the stone tablet, not affected by the waves at all.
Whether the tide is low or high, the sea water has never covered this monument.
According to legend, a long, long time ago, there was only a stone tablet, but no words "闻道" (Wen Dao) on it.
Until, a true immortal from the upper world came here to preach, sitting cross-legged on the stone tablet for three days and three nights. After preaching, the true immortal floated away, and those who heard the truth all became immortals in one step, ascending to heaven in broad daylight!
From then on, this nameless stone tablet was named "Wen Dao Tablet".
After a familiar flash of white light, the boundless ocean and the ancient stone tablet appeared in Jianchou's vision.
She saw that the top of the stone tablet, which was eleven feet above the sea surface, seemed to have irregular marks, as if it had been weathered by years of sea breeze and was not very neat.
Fudaoshanren stretched comfortably beside her and said, "I'm finally back. This place is still the same. It hasn't changed at all."
His gaze also fell on the Wen Dao Monument, but he withdrew it in an instant.
Jianchou's attention was drawn back by his words, and he finally retracted his gaze and looked at him carefully.
What she was standing on was a huge teleportation array, and the ground was no longer bumpy like the one on the island, but a huge and smooth ground that was so shiny that you could see your reflection in it.
Lifting his eyes from the ground, Jianchou was shaken by what he saw.
The teleportation array was not carved on the ground, but on a huge square. The place where they stood was just a corner of the huge square. At this moment, the white light of the teleportation array continued to light up in the square, and then people dressed in different robes came out from it.
Obviously, this is a square engraved with teleportation arrays!
The bright sun hung in the sky, and white seabirds flew across the horizon of the sunny day, leaving behind clear chirping sounds.
People were coming and going in the square which was over a hundred feet in radius.
There are no extra buildings in the entire square, giving it a wide view. Only on the side close to the land, there are nine large dark green stone pillars arranged from low to high.
The stone pillar is engraved with images of ancient auspicious beasts and is as thick as three people can hug. It stands in the square, with the blue sky, blue sea and white clouds behind it, giving people a sense of reaching the sky.
Countless people stood below, looking up.
Jianchou's attention was also attracted.
"What is that?"
Fudaoshanren smacked his lips, rather disdainfully: "It's just the Nine Heavens Monument, nothing to see."
As he said that, he walked over there.
Jianchou was speechless for a moment. Didn't you say there was nothing to see? Why are you walking over there
She really couldn't keep up with Fudaoshanren's ideas at all.
She stood there for a while before she reacted and hurried to catch up.
People kept walking past her, but no one looked at her twice.
Obviously, in such a place where people kept coming and going, no one would notice such an ordinary cultivator in the Qi Refining Stage, let alone the sloppy old man in front.
In the Nineteen Continents, there are a lot of such maverick monks, and no one is interested in seeing them.
Of course, some people still twitched their lips when they saw the white goose held by Fudao Shanren.
"What is the Nine Heavens Monument? Isn't this a pillar?"
Jianchou really didn't understand why it was named like this. Of course, what she was most curious about was what it was used for.
Fu Dao Shanren pointed at the Wen Dao Monument in the distance and said, "Shanren, I guess that the boring guy who tinkered with the Nine-Layered Heaven Monument must want to learn the Wen Dao Monument. That is a very famous story in our Nineteen Continents. Master will tell you when he is free."
Since he said he would talk about it when he had time, Jianchou just nodded and didn't ask any more questions.
She couldn't help but look around. Those people walking by were all cultivators. Perhaps if she picked any one of them, her cultivation would be higher than hers. This feeling was quite amazing.
Jianchou was strangely nervous, and tightly grasped the nine-section bamboo that Fudaoshanren had given him before and did not take back, or in other words--
Broken bamboo pole.
As Fu Dao Shanren walked forward, he continued, "Look at these nine heavenly monuments. The one on the far left is the shortest, and the ones that rise in order represent the nine levels of cultivation. They are Qi Refining, Foundation Building, Golden Core... and the last one is Tong Tian. There is a name engraved on each heavenly monument, representing the strongest person in that realm in the world."
"The strongest person in each realm?"
Jianchou understood immediately.
She turned her gaze back to the Nine-Layered Heaven Monument, and suddenly felt a little strange.
"hey-hey."
Fudaoshanren knew the expression on Jianchou's face without looking back.
"Young man, you are yearning, right? Do you want to have your name on it one day? Master, let me tell you, when you go there later, you must open your eyes and take a good look. My name is also on it!"
In this world, at the current realm, the cultivation is the highest.
If this cultivator has never been defeated in that realm, his name can be preserved on the Nine Heavens Monument.
Although Fudaoshanren's realm is higher now, he had an undefeated record when he was young, so his name can still be found on certain monuments.
Jianchou knew that Fudaoshan must have been a genius many years ago, but when he actually came into contact with the Nine-Layered Heaven Monument, which symbolized glory, he felt an indescribable shock and excitement.
She didn't know what it brought.
As they were talking, the two of them had already approached the Nine-Layered Heaven Monument.
Standing below and looking up, you can see many names engraved on the dark green stone, starting from the bottom and going up one by one, and the engraving marks are getting newer and newer.
At this moment, there were quite a few people standing under the Second Heaven Monument.
And the names above are all untouchable legends.
Jianchou looked over curiously and heard the voices of many monks talking.
"Kunwu is truly amazing nowadays."
"It is said that the Central Region's Zuo Sanqian is known for producing amazing talents, but I didn't expect that Kunwu would get there first this time. Hey, it will take him ten days to build his foundation! I can't even imagine it!"
"It's only been a few days? This person's name is already engraved on it. I can't believe it..."
"The peak of foundation building, Heavenly Sword Zhou Chengjiang! He actually lost to a man who has only entered the cultivation world for thirteen days!"
…
Fudaoshanren and Jianchou froze almost at the same time.
Fudao Shanren said that he had built his foundation in a hundred days, but those people clearly said that it took them ten days to build the foundation. Isn't this the new disciple of the old monster Hengxu
This is the Nine Heavens Monument!
It has only been three days since the disciple of old monster Hengxu established his foundation. How could he possibly leave his name here
The people of Fudao Mountain didn't believe it.
Without a second thought, he pushed his way into the crowd, holding the big white goose in his arms, and as he squeezed in, he shouted, "Jianchou girl, come and take a look!"
Jianchou, standing in place, felt as if all the blood in her body was flowing backwards. Countless ice chips mixed in her blood and kept crashing into her body, making it extremely difficult for her to take a step.
However, she still walked forward.
The closer she got to the dark green Second Heaven Monument, the more ferocious the roaring ice debris in her blood became.
Every step feels like walking on the edge of a knife.
There were constant sounds coming into her ears from all around, she could also see the angry expression on Fudaoshanren's face, and all things in the world passed quickly before her eyes.
But Jianchou's mind was empty.
She slowly raised her eyes, starting from the bottom of the Second Heaven Monument and looking upwards bit by bit.
Engraved on it are names one after another. They may have fallen, may have become legends, or may still be shining brightly now...
Wherever Jianchou's eyes went, these names flashed by quickly.
Eventually, she raised her head higher and higher, and her gaze moved higher and higher.
Look up.
The moment he saw the name at the top, Jianchou felt as if the icy debris in his blood was about to burst out!
Then, they became quiet, motionless, and even slowly began to dissipate.
Along the way, Jianchou was wondering whether the amazing talent who built the foundation in Kunwu in ten days could be Xie Buchen. This question weighed on her heart like a huge stone, but now, this question was solved.
A warm temperature began to spread throughout her limbs and bones.
Thank you, Buchen.
It was as if the heaviest stone in my heart had fallen to the ground, and as if the heaviest hatred in my heart had taken root.
Just let them grow.
Every stroke engraved on the Second Heaven Monument seemed to be engraved on her scarred heart.
She stood here, looking up humbly at her former husband, seeing his name engraved high at the top, out of reach.
It's such an unfamiliar name that I can hardly recognize it.
Someone sighed: "The Second Heaven Monument is the highest, the Foundation Establishment cultivator is the strongest, and now he can be regarded as the number one person below the Golden Core stage!"
The number one person below the Jindan level is Xie Buchen.
After hearing this, Jianchou actually slowly curled his lips into a smile.
"Master, let's go."
She spoke calmly, her eyes looking up at the tall Nine-Layered Heaven Monument. The nine stone pillars seemed to reach the sky, arranged neatly, and the last one seemed to reach into the sky.
One, two, three...
One, two, three...
As for the Nine-Layered Heaven Monument, Xie Buchen had only reached the second level.
Today, she sees his name like this, and she wonders what he will do when he sees her name in the future
She slowly withdrew her gaze and only thought: The road of cultivation is still very long.