"Hongyang Taoist?" Xu Changqing smiled slightly and asked tentatively.

"Eh?" The man opposite was stunned for a moment, not reacting for a moment, and then he recovered and realized that Xu Changqing was asking himself, with a look of surprise and suspicion. While putting his hand around his waist, he asked in a deep voice: "Who are you?"

"Don't be nervous, I'm not your enemy! Then again, if I want to be unfavorable to you, I've taken action just now, and I don't have to wait until now." Xu Changqing could see that although the Taoist master of Hongyang is good at practicing Taoism, he does not understand some physical cultivation techniques. Without magic power, he is not much better than ordinary people. He also needs to rely on some secular guns to have the power to protect himself.

Perhaps it was because he felt that Xu Changqing was really not hostile, or perhaps because he realized that his self-protection could not pose a threat to Xu Changqing, the man opposite became a little relaxed after Xu Changqing finished speaking, and his hand placed on his waist also loosened, but he did not stay away.

Then, he bowed to Xu Changqing according to the ancient Taoist rituals, and then asked tentatively: "I am the Taoist of Hongyang, Huo Cheng, dare you ask where the fellow Taoist practices?"

Although the Hongyang Taoist Huo Cheng tried his best to make his behavior look the same as when he met the ancient Taoist, it was completely inappropriate in Xu Changqing's eyes. It was obvious that the other party was just like that but was wrong.

Xu Changqing didn't say anything, but raised his hand casually and said, "The Chen family rushed to Taohua Mountain Xu Changqing."

After seeing Xu Changqing's very natural movements, Huo Cheng realized that he had just made a little ugly. A circle of blush appeared on his dark face, but soon the blush faded away, followed by a kind of surprise emanating from the depths of his heart. He filled his entire face, and accompanied by a scream, "The Chen family is going to Taohua Mountain? Could it be that you are Xu Changqing, a idler in the ninth century?"

"I didn't expect that there are still people who can remember me as an idle person now." Xu Changqing was a little surprised that the other party recognized him so quickly. But soon he recovered as usual, nodded to Huo Cheng, and said, "It's the Xu Changqing below."

"This, this is impossible? Aren't you dead?" Huo Cheng obviously had not recovered from the shock. He also forgot that the person in front of him was still not yet separated from his friends and stepped forward. He walked in front of Xu Changqing before stopping, and looked at Xu Changqing curiously, saying, "No! According to the master, you all have a life and death limit. You should have died a few decades ago. It is impossible for you to be alive. Even if you are alive, you should be in your seventies or eighties. How could you be so young? Just like a young man in his twenties or thirties? Even I look much older than you, how could you be so old?"

Although Huo Cheng's curiosity is understandable, Xu Changqing was a little unhappy when he was commenting in front of him. He frowned slightly and said in a deep voice: "Did the previous generation of Hongyang Taoist teach you that you should do such etiquette after seeing the seniors in practicing?"

Huo Cheng smiled awkwardly, and said truthfully as if he was an honest person: "Before he died, he did not teach me etiquette. I learned it from a Yin-Yang master in the village. Don't be surprised if there is anything wrong."

Although Huo Cheng's tone was very sincere, it sounded like an explanation. Xu Changqing could hear a faint hostility from this sentence. This made Xu Changqing a little confused. He didn't understand how the other party's hostility arose, but soon he thought of some gossip that had been circulated in the left and right paths of the cultivation world in the past.

After several major events in the world of practice, the Nine-Rule Lines emerged and gradually became the number one heretic. Therefore, some boring people in the side of the left and right paths often regard the Nine-Rule Lines as typical examples, and compared the left-Rule Lines with similar natal ways to them. This comparison process naturally involves some sarcastic gossips, which in the past, and over time, the Nine-Rule Lines inexplicably adds some hostile fellow practitioners. The Hongyang Taoist, who is also a single line of the same line, is also among the ones that are most compared. It is inevitable that the Hongyang Taoist people in history will be hostile to the descendants of the Nine-Rule Lines.

After Xu Changqing understood this, he did not care about the faint hostility in Huo Cheng's words, so he turned around and left the classroom. Then he asked at the door: "This is not a place to talk. Do you have any good places to go?"

Although he was asking, Xu Changqing's tone seemed to be commanding, and he was commanding without any objection. The Hongyang Taoist Huo Cheng frowned when he heard this. But he did not refuse. He walked out of the classroom and hung the stone sign hanging at the door again while saying, "I know a place is pretty good, come with me!"

As he said that, he walked quickly outside. Perhaps because five stone signs were hung on his body, he felt that even if there was something, he had the ability to protect himself and fight back, so his temperament became much more confident.

Xu Changqing smiled and shook his head, and followed slowly. In his opinion, if a person like this who can be seen through his mind at a glance, even if his cultivation is high, it will probably be difficult for him to survive in the intrigue and deceitful practice environment. Fortunately, in the Dharma-Ending Age, even in the Dharma-Ending Age, even if he is in the market, he is already in a dilemma. Even if there are still some survivors who work hard to survive, they will not have the intention to plot against others. This instead gives people like Huo Cheng the chance to survive.

Although the other party was a little hostile because of the past, Xu Changqing felt that such people were easy to get along with. At least they didn’t need to spend too much effort talking to such people to get the news they wanted.

Perhaps because he has been practicing alone for so many years, Huo Cheng rarely saw a fellow man, and a legendary figure who had been mentioned countless times by his master. In addition, he finally refined the magic weapon that his master had prepared for many years in the past few years, which made him involuntarily feel comparative, wanting to see how strong his strength has reached.

So, while walking, Huo Cheng secretly pinched magic tricks with his hands, chanted the spell in his mouth, and circulated the true energy, injected it into one of the five stone tablets on his chest, guiding a divine power to bless it on his legs. With the blessing of the divine power, while the walking posture, pace width and other factors did not change at all, Huo Cheng's speed of traveling more than ten times faster. He seemed to be running wildly. When passing a section of the road, he even drove side by side with a truck. The driver in the car was stunned and almost thought he had seen a ghost.

Due to the increase in speed, the time spent on the road has been reduced a lot. In just a short while, Huo Cheng came to a supply and marketing cooperative transformed into a teahouse. Coincidentally, the location of this supply and marketing cooperative is just next to the Chen family compound, just a street away from the outer wall of the Chen family compound. The location of the Chen family compound is where the Chen family’s former servant’s house is located, connected to the back door of the courtyard, not in the garden where Chen Jingde’s house is located.

Huo Cheng stopped, then wiped the sweat and dust from his forehead, turned his head with a slight pride, and looked behind him, wanting to see if Xu Changqing had been left far away by him.

However, the expression on Huo Cheng's face soon changed from being proud to being surprised, because Xu Changqing, who he thought should have been left behind for a while, was standing behind him at the moment. And compared with his sweaty and dusty appearance, Xu Changqing was no different from when he was in the church just now. He still looked calm and leisurely, not to mention that the clothes on his body were dusty, and even the shoes under his feet were spotless, not to mention that he was walking on the road just now.

Xu Changqing said with a little praise at this time: "I actually used the power of the gods to imitate the effect of the magical armor and horse technique. In terms of innovation alone, the Hongyang Taoist lineage is a unique lineage."

He said this not a polite statement, but really thought so. In Taoism, the magical practice can be said to be a common magical technique. Almost every sect and inheritance has its own magical practice, and there are naturally highs and lows. The brilliant magical practice can be carried on the wind, just like the ancient Liezi walking against the wind. Ordinary magical practice can only be done by walking like running and as fast as a galloping horse. Although the magical practice technique is as numerous as a cow, no matter which magical practice technique has the same core, that is, the magical practice symbol, which is the fundamental of magical practice technique, even the magical practice technique of the nine-level lineage.

However, the magical practice method Huo Cheng just used did not have the magical practice talisman. He imitated the effects similar to the magical practice talisman by borrowing the divine power from the stone tablet. Although this effect is very low and can only be regarded as the most common magical practice method, it is undeniable that he did create a magical practice method that does not require magical practice. Even though this magical practice method is a bit useless and is not practical at all, in terms of the word innovation, the Hongyang Taoist lineage is also the top in the entire cultivation world.

Although the use of this magical power and magical practice failed to achieve the expected effect, Huo Cheng was very happy to hear some praise and affirmation from legendary figures like Xu Changqing. He had a trace of hostility in his predecessors and gradually disappeared, and his tone disappeared.

"The place is simple, I hope you don't blame me." After realizing Xu Changqing's strength, Huo Cheng lowered his posture and his tone became much calmer. He made a gesture to Xu Changqing, and then walked into the supply and marketing cooperative, shouting at a bald old man who was paying the bills at the counter: "Old He, I brought a senior here. Take out the Fenjiu you hid under the bed, stir-fry two more dishes, and bring them to the inner room."

As he spoke, he didn't wait for the other party to respond, and then he walked around the counter as if he had entered his own home, led Xu Changqing into the inner room behind. The bald old man sitting at the counter didn't say anything, just looked at Huo Cheng, looked at Xu Changqing again, and a trace of doubt flashed in his eyes. He got up and picked up the wooden board next to the door, plugged the latch, and prepared to close the door. (To be continued)
Chapter completed!