Outside the Nichen Temple, Ji Yuan walked directly into the open temple gate. A fat monk was sweeping the floor inside. When he saw someone coming in, he was about to say something, but when he saw that the person was Ji Yuan, he was stunned for a moment, then his face showed surprise.
"Good be to the Great Ming King Buddha, Mr. Ji, you are back!"
Ji Yuan returned the greeting.
"Grandmaster."
"Mr. Ji, I will go and clean the monk's quarters for you."
Ji Yuan took a step closer and stretched out his hand to stop him.
"No need, Master. There shouldn't be anything dirty there yet."
The monk suddenly realized.
"Mr. Ji is right. Young Master Li often comes here to clean. Oh, he is in the monk's quarters over there now. There is a donor named Zuo who is temporarily staying there. He seems to be teaching Young Master Li martial arts recently."
"Well, thank you, Master. You go ahead and do your work. I also know Hero Zuo. I can go there by myself."
"yes."
The monk saluted holding a broom, and Ji Yuan nodded and walked towards Zuo Wuji's monastery. Over there, Li Feng was excitedly asking Zuo Wuji all kinds of questions about the Martial Temple, asking him how he became a Martial Saint and whether he was the best master in the world.
Zuo Wuji tried his best to explain. After all, he knew nothing about the Martial Temple, and he was not sure that he was the best master in the world. As for the title of Martial Saint, although many of his fellow martial artists and the people in the Demon Cave called him that, he never thought that he was qualified to be a saint.
"Tell me quickly, tell me quickly, Master Zuo, do you have many subordinates? Do you have countless followers who respond to your calls?"
"What kind of subordinates are you? Stop it. If you want to be my cheap Martial Saint, go ahead and do it."
"Of course I want to, it's so impressive, but I don't have your martial arts skills!"
Zuo Wuji was helpless and quickly changed the subject.
"There are footsteps. Someone is coming. Don't let the master think that we are disturbing the tranquility of Buddhism!"
As the two of them were playing around, their relationship seemed to become closer, and Ji Yuan happened to walk nearby.
"What's so funny? Tell it to me, too?"
Hearing Ji Yuan's voice, Li Feng and Zuo Wuji stopped playing and looked surprised. Li Feng even jumped down from the corridor and rushed towards Ji Yuan.
"Mr. Ji, Mr. Ji, you are finally back, Mr. Ji..."
Li Feng threw himself into Ji Yuan's arms.
"Mr. Ji, I miss you so much. I know you will come back!"
In fact, Ji Yuan had never hugged Li Feng before, but now he half-knelt down and let him hug him, and patted Li Feng on the back.
"It's sir's fault!"
Ji Yuan raised his head and looked at Zuo Wuji, who was bowing to Ji Yuan respectfully.
"Hello, Master Martial Saint."
"Mr. Ji, please stop making fun of me. How can I, Zuo Wuji, deserve these two words?"
Zuo Wuji smiled bitterly and shook his head, while Ji Yuan also shook his head slightly.
"You can't say you are not worthy of the title just because you think you are not worthy. Do you still want to silence the world's gossip? Oh, by the way, I forgot to tell you, Mr. Zuo, that more than two months ago, the Dazhen Dynasty held a ceremony at Dazhenting Mountain and established a temple for literature and martial arts. Although it was not dedicated to you, your name as the Martial Saint Zuo Wuji has spread throughout the world."
Li Feng turned and looked at Zuo Wuji.
"Yes, a martial arts temple will be built in the city. I wonder if the hero Zuo will be enshrined in it."
"That won't happen, at least not now."
"Oh, by the way, Mr. Ji, I bought a lot of vegetable and meat buns!"
Li Feng thought of something and ran to the corridor to get the two oil paper bags. Zuo Wuji grinned.
"Isn't this bought for me?"
"There are twenty of them, ten for Mr. Zuo and ten for Mr. Ji!"
Li Feng brought the oil paper bag over and directly untied the thin hemp rope on it. Immediately, the aroma of the vegetable and meat bag wafted out, making those who smelled it salivate.
"Alright, Master Wusheng, this breakfast is yours. Let's go over and talk while we eat. There are many things I should let you know."
As he spoke, Ji Yuan looked up at the sky and raised his hand. The little paper crane flapped its wings and slowly landed on the back of his hand. It deliberately changed from a little crane back into a paper crane, and then slid into the brocade bag on Ji Yuan's chest.
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Ji Yuan rushed back to Nanhuangzhou, not only because he had a promise to Li Feng, but also because he had to go to Tianji Pavilion again. However, there was no need to tell Li Feng and Zuo Wuji about this.
On the afternoon of the third day after Ji Yuan returned to Nichen Temple, Lian Baiping and Xuan Jizi arrived outside Nichen Temple together.
In the small courtyard of the monk's house where Ji Yuan was staying, Zuo Wuji and Li Feng were doing horse stance together. Sensing that the monks from Tianji Pavilion had arrived, Ji Yuan stood up.
"Ji will be away for a few days."
Li Feng was startled and immediately stopped standing.
"Mr. Ji, are you leaving again?"
"It's just a few days this time..."
Ji Yuan looked at Li Feng, thought for a moment and said seriously.
"Feng'er, I taught you how to read and write, and how to be a good person, but the teaching is mine and the doing is yours. I can't always be by your side. It's not that I don't want to, but I can't. If you want, you can learn some good martial arts from Master Zuo. If you can't find me in the future, you can come back to me. So study hard and don't be distracted."
"Um… "
Li Feng felt a little flustered after hearing this and could only respond in a low voice. Zuo Wuji, who was standing beside him, was still doing horse stance and didn't even turn his head, but just shouted sternly.
"Lifeng, Zama!"
"yes!"
Li Feng's heart skipped a beat when he was startled by Zuo Wuji's voice. He quickly took a standard horse stance. It seemed that after coming back from Mr. Ji, this hero Zuo had become much stricter.
Actually, Li Feng's feeling was not wrong. If Zuo Wuji only wanted to teach Li Feng some basic moves before, now he is ready to teach Li Feng martial arts. Even though he has never been a master and Li Feng does not want to call him a master, Zuo Wuji is still ready to put his utmost effort to teach Li Feng. As long as the child is willing to learn, he is willing to teach.
After Ji Yuan came back, he talked with Zuo Wuji privately about Li Feng, which made Zuo Wuji understand that this child was definitely extraordinary. The big man named Jin from the blacksmith shop was actually one of Ji Yuan's guardian deities, and there were also the land gods and his subordinates guarding him underground.
Zuo Wuji understood that Li Feng must not practice spiritual techniques, at least not now, unless Li Feng's body and spirit grew to an extremely high level.
Zuo Wuji recalled the conversation he had with Ji Yuan the night before:
"What will be the consequences of repairing it?"
Ji Yuan looked at the moon in the sky and answered slowly.
"To be precise, it's not about repairing, but about activating the hidden root meridians in the body. Once Li Feng opens the gate, he may never be able to stop... Look at the moon, does it look like a toad?"
Hearing Ji Yuan suddenly talk about something inexplicable, Zuo Wuji still subconsciously glanced at the moon. The moonlight was bright, and it had nothing to do with toads in any way.
"Sir, what will happen if we can't close the gate? Will it cause any harm to Li Feng, or to others?"
Ji Yuan withdrew his gaze from the moon and looked towards Zuo Wuji Dao.
"Let's not talk about the harm to others, but perhaps by then, there would be no Li Feng..."
Although they had only been in contact for a little over two months, Zuo Wuji still liked Li Feng very much, and it was hard for him not to feel sorry for him. He naturally felt a little nervous when he heard Ji Yuan say that.
"Mr. Lian Ji, you don't have any solution?"
Ji Yuan could only shake his head helplessly.
"I have done everything I could, but even I have a limit."
…
"Don't move at all. Hold on for half an hour!"
Zuo Wuji's stern shout came from the temple, which made Ji Yuan, who had already arrived at the temple gate, smile. He was really energetic.
The tall and thin monk ran from the door holding a broom and stopped when he ran into Ji Yuan.
"Uh, Mr. Ji, I was just about to call you, these two..."
"Well, thank you, Master. I will be away for a while, so the temple does not need to prepare meals for me."
After Ji Yuan nodded, he passed the monk and soon arrived outside the temple. Xuanjizi and Lian Baiping bowed to him.
"Meet Mr. Ji!"
"Hello, fellow Taoists."
"Mr. Ji, after the Great Zhen Fengshan, the Tianji Wheel has moved unusually, and the murals in the Tianji Hall have also changed. Mr. Ji, please move to the Tianji Pavilion."
"Well, please come in, fellow Taoists!"
The three of them took a step forward and soon disappeared at the end of the road. In a moment they had left the city and were flying on the clouds, heading for the Tianji Pavilion at an extraordinary speed.
After flying thousands of miles, Ji Yuan suddenly thought of the woman that Dazhen had met before, and asked others.
"By the way, Fellow Daoist Lian, do you know who Lian Ping'er is?"
Lian Baiping frowned, shook his head and was about to say he didn't know, but suddenly his expression was slightly stunned.
"What's wrong, Junior Brother?"
Lian Baiping looked at Xuanjizi, and then at Ji Yuan.
"Strange thing, I have no impression of the name Lian Ping'er, and I was just about to answer that I didn't know her, but after hearing this name, my mind felt that it did seem to be related to me, but when I calculated it, it was all vague, strange..."
Ji Yuan looked thoughtful, then said something to comfort him.
"Fellow Daoist Lian, you can think about this matter slowly. It is better to go to the Tianji Palace first."
"Um… "
Lian Baiping's face was calm, but he was worried in his heart. Not only was the other party's surname Lian, but the fact that his spiritual platform had a feeling was nothing.
When Ji Yuan and the other two arrived outside the Tianji Palace, it was two days later. This time, there were not many high-level cultivators from the Tianji Pavilion following them, and even Ji Yuan was the only one there. Although the two divine generals on the gate of the Tianji Palace did not stop Xuanjizi and others who were carrying the Tianji Wheel, they would only salute when Ji Yuan arrived, and then the gate slowly opened.
"Mr. Ji, please look, it's the east wall."
Ji Yuan looked up and saw that the wall was covered with dense murals. Below, there were huge waves, the dirty sea and the blue sea colliding, and above, there were rolling clouds and strong winds colliding.
Naturally, there is water and a lot of land on the murals, as well as mountains, water, cities, people, various animals, and even immortals, Buddhas, gods, demons, ghosts, and other practitioners from all walks of life.
All living things in the water and on land seemed to be entangled with strands of smoke and silk, some of which were entangled and some of which were colliding, mixed in the chaos of heaven, earth and ocean. It was as if heaven and earth were torn in two.
He opened his eyes wide and looked at everything in front of him. He felt that everything was very familiar, because it was almost the same as what he had felt when Yan Qi first arrived. It could even be said that the murals in the Tianji Hall covered much more than what Ji Yuan had felt when Yan Qi first arrived, but they were also more confusing.
Ji Yuan and the monks of Tianji Pavilion believed that what they had seen in the Tianji Hall before were ancient scenes, secrets of heaven preserved since ancient times. But this time, Ji Yuan knew that what was presented before his eyes was not that!
"It's too early... It's too early... Much earlier than I thought..."
Ji Yuan muttered in a daze and reached out to touch the mural, but as soon as he touched it, the mural became turbid as if a dye pond was stirred.
Seeing that Ji Yuan seemed to be crazy, Xuanjizi and several of his fellow disciples around him panicked.
"Mr. Ji, what's wrong with you?"
"Mr. Ji!" "Mr. Ji, are you okay?"
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I can't write without ideas, the second chapter will be updated during the day! (╥﹏╥)