At the foot of the mountain near Yuchen Palace, in a somewhat sparse remote town.
Lu Sheng led the black horse and swaggered past the archway at the entrance of the town. A few guards glanced at him and saw that his clothes were quite extraordinary, so they didn't step forward to inspect him, and lazily continued to chat and fart as before.
Lu Sheng walked around the town, and unconsciously, he had seventy or eighty meat skewers and a dozen pork pies in his hands. After eating two buckets of rice in a shop, he ate with the snacks in his hand. While inquiring about the whereabouts of his old lady Tang Qingqing.
"Taiyi and Quanzong?"
Standing in front of the glutinous rice dumpling shop, Lu Sheng ate the glutinous rice dumpling in his hand while listening to the boss tell him what he knew.
The boss is a young and handsome boy, he quickly flipped the glutinous rice balls on the iron pan one by one skillfully, and explained with a smile.
"I heard this from my grandfather. In fact, this Yuchen Palace has now been placed under Taiyi's sect. The person you are looking for is Tang, and it must be the Tang family of the Quanzong near Taiyi."
"Why are you so sure?" Lu Sheng asked back, stuffing a dumpling into his mouth.
"Because the Tang family is very famous in the neighborhood, that's a real big family. It's also descended from the Taiyi sect. That's just my guess. If you don't believe it, don't take it to heart." The boss said with a smile.
"Then can you tell me where the Tang family is?" Lu Sheng asked again.
"The Tang family is quite far away, but Hequanzong's Taoist temple is not far away. You can go up the mountain to have a look first. They are very friendly. If there is any big event, if you are lucky, you will also meet Hequanzong disciples to help you." The boss said with a smile.
"Okay, thank you boss." Lu Sheng nodded. After investigating the situation, he took a big bag of glutinous rice balls and walked towards the end of the town while eating.
At the end of the town is the uphill road leading to Yuchen Palace.
There is a small river on the right side of the mountain road, and by the river sat a few scholars dressed as scholars who were chatting and chatting, and a few peasant girls were tending cabbage and green vegetables in a few small fields not far away.
Lu Sheng withdrew his gaze, and looked up and down the Yuchen Mountain where the entire Yuchen Palace is located.
The mountain is not high, and there are many tourists on the mountain road up and down.
He tightened the grip on his back and strode up the stone steps of the mountain path.
Not far ahead, there are two old Taoists in gray and white leggings, climbing up like flying.
"Old Taoist!" Lu Sheng shouted hastily.
An old man with a white beard in front paused, stopped and turned around to look at him.
"Is there something wrong with the next generation?"
"Dare to ask the Taoist temple of Taiyiyi and Quanzong, but it is on Yuchen Mountain?" Lu Sheng asked quickly.
In his opinion, instead of running around, it's better to ask the local snake here to ask about the situation.
"That's right, next to the Yuchen Palace site here is the Izumi Sect's sect." The old man laughed.
"Thank you, Daoist." Lu Sheng hurriedly bowed.
"You're welcome, looking at the layman's body size, it might be difficult to climb the mountain." The old man looked at Lu Sheng with a strange look in his eyes.
I've seen fat people, but I've never seen such fat people.
Although Lu Sheng has lost a lot of weight through exercise recently, he is still two sizes bigger than ordinary people, and one can be used as two.
"Difficulties are indeed difficult, but where there is a will, there is a way." Lu Sheng smiled and said.
As they said that, the two also chatted with each other. This old Taoist surnamed Wang is also a wandering Taoist priest who plans to place an order in the small gymnasium on this mountain.
Lu Sheng roughly talked about his own affairs, he didn't mention his parents' identity, he just said that his mother came to Taoist temple to practice and didn't go home, so he ran all the way to find someone to go back.
"The layman's filial piety can be seen in the world, and it is touching. Compared with the layman, those unfilial children of the old Taoist are simply far behind." Wang Laodao shook his head and muttered.
"Oh, there is no way, maybe this is the responsibility of being a child." Lu Sheng tried hard to weigh the fat on his chin, "I have lost ten catties because of poor food and warm clothes these days. "He said as he took out a piece of beef from his backpack and took a bite.
The old man watched with trembling eyelids.
"Speaking of which, the lay lady has a daoist name, maybe the old daoist will meet one or two in a while."
"I don't know about this, but my mother is very beautiful." Lu Sheng shook his head and said, "If the Taoist priest sees a particularly beautiful one, go up and ask, maybe it is my mother."
He stuffed the beef into his mouth a few mouthfuls, feeling as if his body had gained a lot of strength, and he immediately let out a breath of relief.
Strength is always obtained inadvertently. He has always firmly believed that as long as he perseveres, he will be rewarded in the end.
The old man's eyelids twitched and he didn't know how to answer.
One old and one young climbed the mountain all the way, and soon reached the mountainside.
There is a Taoist temple on the left and right sides of the mountain road, the Taiqing Temple on the left and the Izumi Sect on the right.
Lu Sheng and Lao Dao parted here. One left and one right separated.
He Quanzong opened its doors not too late, and there were quite a few pilgrims who came to pray for the gods, and Lu Sheng was unremarkable among them.
Following three or two pilgrims, Lu Sheng also bought two sticks of high-quality incense, lit them and plugged them in, and then bowed to the statue of Daoist Sanqing. Then he stood up and asked the squinting little Taoist priest.
"May I ask this Taoist priest, is there a Taoist named Tang Qingqing in this Taoist temple?" Lu Sheng's eyes flashed red.
The little Taoist didn't answer patiently at first, but when he saw Lu Sheng's fat face with a pleading look, he didn't know what to do, so he felt a little pity for no reason.
Xindao: Such a fat man can work hard to climb mountains to pray for gods, so he really has a devout heart for my Taoist Lord.
Thinking of this, his goodwill suddenly increased, and when he heard Lu Sheng's question, his expression softened.
"Tang Qingqing? Pindao doesn't know the person you're talking about."
"What about Taoist Qingtang?" Lu Sheng directly asked his old lady's Taoist name.
"Oh, you are looking for Uncle Qingtang, I will inform you right away." The little Taoist came back to his senses immediately, turned around and walked towards the back hall.
Lu Sheng waited quietly in the hall.
... ... ...
There is another remote and quiet Taoist temple behind the Taoist temple.
What is enshrined in this Taoist temple is not the Daojun Sanqing, but a statue of an open thick black book.
An old Taoist sat cross-legged in front of the statue, an old woman who looked like she might die of old age at any time.
She held a whisk in her hand, her eyes were slightly closed, and her skin was wrinkled and furrowed like old bark. Even a plain white Taoist uniform could not conceal her dying and thin body.
If there is a well-informed martial arts person here, maybe he can recognize it at a glance. This is one of the famous sixteen sect masters in the martial arts world.
Just as Lu Sheng told the little Taoist priest who he was looking for, Mu Rong slightly opened her old eyes and moved her lips slightly.
"Xuan Qing."
"Monastery Master, my apprentice is here." Soon a beautiful and unparalleled female Taoist boy rushed in.
"Go and invite your Uncle Qingtang to come over, the mortal world is not over yet, wishing and unwillingness are all in one thought." Mu Rong said flatly.
"Yes." The girl Taoist quickly exited the door.
After a while, a cool and beautiful figure floated into the audience.
"Senior Sister called me, why?" The woman who came in had a beautiful face and a plump figure, but her demeanor was cold and impeccable, and she felt superior. The white clothes on his body added to the coldness and loneliness.
"Back then, you practiced the holy will swordsmanship to no avail. In order to understand your mind and see your nature, you forgot your mind and entered the world to seek consummation. But now ten years have passed, and the fate you left in the world has come to you again." Mu Rong said flatly.
"Senior sister, don't you understand my Dao heart?" The woman's expression remained flat.
"Your heart is your heart, how can anyone else understand the truth without authorization." Mu Rong shook her head slightly.
The woman looked indifferent.
"Back then I entered the world with love, but later I asked with ruthlessness, if others don't understand my intentions, don't even my senior sister understand
My heart to the Tao is unshakable! "
Mu Rong stared at this junior sister whom she once loved the most, and her heart trembled slightly.
"It seems that your Taishang Wangqing has reached the realm of the Sacred Heart and Sacred Will...."
"Please senior sister decline for me." Tang Qingqing turned and left the temple with a calm expression.
... ... ... ... ..
"Sorry, Uncle Master asked me to reply you: the past is over, you can go or stay as you please." Xiao Daotong replied to Lu Sheng with a helpless expression.
"The past is over?" Lu Sheng repeated, stood up from the futon, patted the ashes on his buttocks, put down the pig's trotters in his hand, and spit out the salt-baked chicken legs in his mouth.
"So, she doesn't want to see me anymore?" He asked again.
"Yes, Layman, please go back." Daotong nodded.
Lu Sheng calculated the distance, and it was more than 50 kilometers from the sub-altar of Qinglu Altar to here.
"But I came all the way here, and I only got one sentence, and I'm going to be driven back? You won't even let me see you?" He raised his head and said with a grim expression.
"Layman, please go back, Master Uncle... the exercises she practiced are just like this... Everything in life, nine times out of ten, is unsatisfactory." Xiao Daotong was very helpful to Lu Sheng because of his psychological guidance skills. I like it, but at this time, I have no choice but to comfort him.
Lu Sheng didn't care about this.
"Forget it, let me tell you, she didn't see me. If she saw me, she would definitely change her mind and follow me."
"Layman..." Xiaodaotong said helplessly.
"Let's go, I'll go in and meet her in person." Lu Sheng ignored it and strode towards the inner hall.
Xiao Daotong wanted to reach out to stop him, but was pushed away by a force out of thin air.
Today's Lu Sheng already has the strength of 30 oxen, it can be said that he already has the strength of a great martial artist.
This level can be regarded as an elite in the Sixteen Sects. How could this Xiaodao boy be comparable.
At that moment, with a light struggle, he threw Xiao Daotong away and strode into the back hall.
There was nothing in the back hall, and a few strong Taoists were about to rush forward to stop him.
Suddenly a voice sounded out of nowhere.
"Let him come here."
The Taoists around immediately relaxed and made way silently.
Lu Sheng's heart skipped a beat, and following the direction of the sound, he walked out of the back hall and went straight to another small Taoist temple behind the Taoist temple.
Mu Rong sat in the audience, slowly watching Lu Sheng who walked through the door.
"I haven't seen you in ten years, the layman has grown so big...."
"Who is the Daoist?" Lu Sheng asked politely.
"Murong, poor man, is your mother's senior sister." Mu Rong replied with a smile.
"So you dare to ask where my mother's love is now? I'm here to invite her home." Lu Sheng asked respectfully.
This one in front of him is a veritable Martial Emperor and strongman. He is now a great martial artist, and there are two stages behind him, Wu Zun and Martial King. The gap is as big as heaven and earth.
"Your mother..." After pondering for a while, Mu Rong slowly told Lu Sheng the truth of the year.