Zhan Zhao, Bai Yutang, Tianzun and Bailongwang followed Master Mingxi to the valley behind Mingyang Mountain.

This valley is very eerie. The entire forest is basically covered with thorns and vines. The twisted dark dead vines are entangled like chains. There are almost no green leaves, but sharp needles, clustered together.

Hanging in mid-air, it seems that it is in danger of falling at any time.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang both frowned and looked at the strange net-shaped vines above their heads. They had seen many strange things in their travels, but this was their first time seeing this kind of tree vine.

The White Dragon King walked along with his hands behind his back, his white clothes swaying. As he walked, he asked Tianzun, "Xiaoyou, isn't this a ghost-hand needle vine?"

Tianzun nodded, "I haven't seen this kind of forest for several years."

"Ghost-hand needle vine?" Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang both looked back at the two old men.

"This kind of forest is called mountain ghost forest." Master Mingxi turned around and told Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang, "The ghost-hand needle vine is called mountain ghost vine in the local dialect. It is a very aggressive tree vine. As long as it falls into a forest,

One seed of the mountain ghost vine will basically destroy the entire forest. The mountain ghost vine will spread little by little, killing all the original trees, and a good forest will become like this."

The master said, while pointing around, "But the conditions for the survival of mountain ghost vines are relatively strict. They must be in dark and dry places. They are most afraid of light, so such woods usually appear in valleys. This

The place is even scarier at night, the shadows of the trees are like ghostly shadows, and many of the trees that were entangled by vines are rotten and hollow, so when the wind passes through the tree holes, there will be a sound similar to the howling of ghosts and wolves, which is quite scary."

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang nodded frequently after hearing this - that's it... they have learned a lot.

After walking through a long and dark forest road, I originally thought that there would be a suddenly enlightened world in the mountains. However, Master Mingxi stopped and signaled to Zhan Zhao that what they saw was just a dilapidated small temple.

This small temple is as small as an ordinary firewood shed. If you look through the front door, you can see the broken windows on the opposite side. A few broken tiles on the roof of the temple serve as a shield from wind and rain. There is only one statue in the temple, which is dedicated to the gods.

It's not a mountain god or a land lord, but a fox.

Although the surface of the clay sculpture was eroded by the wind, Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang still recognized the fat fox at a glance.

"Yo."

Tianzun also recognized it, "Isn't it the fat fox that was sleeping in Nan'an Temple that day?"

The White Dragon King put his hands in his sleeves and nodded, "Yeah! Look at that look, that eyelid is half drooped, and he looks fat and bad."

Tianzun seemed to think that the description "fat, bad, fat, bad" was very expressive, and he and the White Dragon King laughed "hehe" to each other.

Hearing laughter, Master Mingxi turned around and looked at Tianzun.

Even though Master Tai is also of the same seniority as a martial arts master, she is actually not as old as Hong Jiuniang. She is just a junior in front of Tianzun and the others. Naturally, the old lady has never seen Tianzun when she was still "Xiaoyou", but she can

I remember the "Tianzun" who pointed her to the wrong path back then.

The master was a little distracted - many years have passed, and Tianzun still looks the same as he did then, with not a single wrinkle on his face and not a single black hair.

She naturally knew that the Silver Demon King was back, and Xuan Ning even made a special trip over for this matter.

Master Mingxi couldn't help but compare the Tianzun in front of him with the Tianzun in his memory. Has he changed in any way?

In Bai Yutang, Zhan Zhao and the others heard that someone would go to Tianzun to ask for directions, which in itself was a very strange thing.

Why did Master Mingxi ask Tianzun for directions, and after listening to his directions, he walked all the way to the top of the mountain, all the way to the top of Mingyang Mountain? The north and the south are originally two very different places, even if they are half way

If you ask passers-by, the transition from nun to Taoist nun is not that big.

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When Mingxi was young, she had a hot temper, was competitive and aggressive, and was a very difficult girl to get along with.

Perhaps because the world is inherently harsher on women than on men, men with hot tempers and mavericks are often praised as temperamental, while women are often called dominatrixes, bitches, and other unpleasant names.

Mingxi was a famous dominatrix back then, just like Hong Jiuniang was a famous witch back then. As a woman in the world, no matter how many advantages you have, as long as you have one shortcoming, that shortcoming will become your permanent mark.

Of course, Master Mingxi doesn’t care about this at all.

Master Xuan Ning back then was not the unreliable monk he is now. When he was young, this eminent Shaolin monk was a handsome and handsome young knight, who was his childhood sweetheart with Ming Xi.

When the master was young, he seemed to only do two things, one was to quarrel with Ming Xi, and the other was to fight with people who spoke ill of Ming Xi.

There is such a kind of couple in this world. They quarrel even if they don't see each other. They quarrel loudly for five days and have small quarrels for three days. They bicker a few times over a few meals. I have never seen such a noisy couple.

Xuanning's elders had helped the Silver Demon King before, so the Demon King asked Tianzun to take care of Xuanning.

Therefore, on the day of Xuan Ning's wedding, Tianzun came specially to drink wedding wine and help witness the wedding.

Who can invite Tianzun to the Jianghu people for a happy event? That is a supreme honor!

But it was a good thing that they were happy, but the young couple had a quarrel and separated on the same day, and the old man looked confused.

No one remembers that the couple quarreled over some trivial matter. Ming Xi was so angry that Xuan Ning ran away. While walking at night, she encountered some unsighted gangsters who molested ordinary women.

When Tianzun met Ming Xi on the official road, he saw that girl was trampling several young hooligans to death, and also summoned the bullied woman to come over and trample them together, causing a group of old men to lie on the ground and shout "Grandma Grandma"

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Tianzun tilted his head and stood on the roadside watching the excitement.

After Mingxi finished dealing with the gangsters, he turned around and saw Tianzun. Under the moonlight, the two of them stared at each other for a while on the dark official road.

Mingxi picked up the baggage and put it on his back, and said to Tianzun, "I won't go back! You don't have to be a lobbyist for the evil spirits!"

Tianzun blinked and asked curiously, "Why do you think I'm here to be a lobbyist?"

"Ha." Ming Xi patted the dust on his hands, "When a couple quarrels, the lobbyist always asks the woman to be patient and give in, so why doesn't anyone teach the man a lesson?"

"That makes sense." Tianzun pointed to the official road behind her, "But I'm not here to lobby. I'm just passing by."

Mingxi stared at Tianzun... When she left the wedding banquet, many elders looked at her with regrets on their faces, but the Tianzun in front of her had no emotion at all.

Tianzun is ready to continue on his way.

Mingxi suddenly asked him, "Don't you think it's a pity?"

Tianzun stopped and wondered, "What a pity?"

Ming Xi was a little lost, "Obviously I have him in my heart and he also has me in his heart... but we just can't get along."

Tianzun nodded after hearing this, "So? If we can't get along, we'll have to go somewhere else. What's the pity?"

Mingxi frowned and said to himself, everyone in the world said that this person has no emotions at all, and it seems to be true.

"Isn't it enough that you have him in your heart?"

Just when Mingxi wanted to leave, Tianzun said, "What's the use of being together if you don't have him in your heart?"

Master Mingxi was stunned for a moment, then stretched out his hand to touch his chin - yes... I had never thought about it this way before, why do we have to get together?

"Wherever you go, the person in your heart will follow you wherever you go, and you won't be able to drive him away." Tianzun clasped his hands behind his back and said slowly, "Similarly, if you are also in his heart, he will take you with him to the ends of the world.

of."

Mingxi stared at Tianzun for a long time and asked, "Where is the evil one?"

"He left after you left." Tianzun replied, "He said he went to Shaolin Temple to become a monk."

Ming Xi suddenly laughed, "I'm also going to go to Qingyang Mountain to become a monk and become a sister-in-law."

Tianzun nodded, "Very good."

Mingxi was amused and looked at Tianzun, "Senior, why are you like this? We have already separated, and you still think it's fine?! One is a monk and the other is a sister-in-law, and they will end up alone."

Tianzun smiled slightly and said, "You two love each other so much that you can't be together, so you end up alone together. What's wrong with that?"

After saying that, Tianzun walked forward again. Mingxi was stunned for a while, then caught up two steps and asked, "Senior, how to get to Qingyang Mountain?"

Tianzun stretched out his hand and pointed in the direction in front of him and said, "That way."

Master Mingxi, who was originally planning to go south, carried his baggage and headed north without hesitation.

Along the way, Tianzun walked in front, and Mingxi followed behind him.

Because they had always been on the same road, Mingxi kept following him. He met some people in the world, so the rumors gradually changed from Mingxi following Tianzun to Mingxi secretly falling in love with Tianzun.

After passing a certain market, Tianzun disappeared, and Mingxi didn't look for it. Instead, he carried his baggage and continued walking north until he reached Mingyang Mountain. After all the troubles were gone, he went up the mountain to become a Taoist nun.

At this time, Master Mingxi, who was standing in front of the ruined temple, looked at Tianzun having fun with the White Dragon King and remembered this past incident.

Although she always said that Tianzun pointed her to the wrong road back then, and that he was an unreliable road idiot like Bai Mao... But in fact, Master Mingxi knew best. She knew that Qingyang Mountain was to the south.

As for why Mingxi followed Tianzun all the way, it was because after hearing a few words Tianzun said to her, she suddenly had a very strange idea.

Master Mingxi feels that the so-called "Tianzun does not understand human feelings and has no emotions" is completely wrong! On the contrary, Tianzun may understand what emotions are better than anyone else, so he is completely free from emotions and worldly things.

Influence.

Goodbye Tianzun, Mingxi once again confirmed that his observations and thoughts should be correct.

Tianzun looked a lot happier after the demon king came back, but his eyes were the same as they were many years ago...still without warmth. Mingxi guessed that he might have been like this when he was called Xiaoyou.

The look in his eyes has never changed.

After recalling some past events, Master Mingxi coughed lightly, regained his composure, pointed at the ruined temple, and said to Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang, "This temple is called Ghost Fox Temple, and everything originated here.

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No matter how they looked at it, Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang both felt that this fox was actually quite cute. It didn't look vicious even when squatting in the dark woods. It felt unfair to call it a ghost fox.

The two wanted to ask Master Mingxi about the origin of this temple, but Master Master suddenly threw out two words, "curse."

Both Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang were a little confused - curse?

On the other side, Tianzun and White Dragon King began to discuss in low voices.
To be continued...