Song Yiren was stunned when he heard this and thought, "This Taoist priest really doesn't want gold and silver. He wants people. If my son becomes his apprentice, my family fortune will be emptied by him sooner or later."
Upon seeing this, Qingxu knew that Song Yiren was suspicious and said hurriedly: "Pindao, Qingxu thinks that the owner of the village must have heard of Pindao."
When Song Yiren heard this, he was startled again and couldn't help but think, "It turns out that he is the master of the Three Emperors. No wonder he felt familiar when he saw it just now." Song Yiren had not yet reacted at this time. I haven't yet connected the clay statue in Qingxu Temple with the Taoist in front of me, so I'm still a little numb.
Suddenly, Song Yiren felt something was wrong, and the color on his face changed. He changed his mind, but felt ecstatic again. He stammered and asked: "Tao... Taoist Master... is Taoist Lord Qing... Qingxu, the master of the Three Emperors?"
When Qingxu saw this, he smiled and said, "It's just Pindao."
Song Yiren hurriedly kowtowed: "Disciple Song Yiren is paying homage to the Immortal Master. I don't know that the Immortal Master has offended me in person, so I ask the Immortal Master to atone for his sins."
Qingxu smiled and said: "If you don't know, you are not guilty. Lord Songzhuang, please get up."
Song Yiren bowed again, stood up, and said: "Master Immortal, please follow your disciples and sit in the hall." At this time, Song Yiren was happy but had no other thoughts. There were not many people in the world who dared to pretend to be the masters of the Three Emperors.
Qingxu followed Song Yiren to the lobby and sat down and asked, "I wonder what Songzhuang's idea is for what I just said?"
Only then did Song Yiren remember that Qingxu had just proposed to accept his youngest son as his disciple. However, he could not suppress the joy in his heart and thought, "I never thought that my youngest son would be able to have such a fate and encounter such good things. If I were not agreeing, I would be worse than a fool.
He nodded hurriedly and said: "Disciple is willing for me to be favored by the immortal master. That is my blessing. How can I not be willing to do so?"
Then he paused and glanced at the baby in his arms and said, "It's just that the baby is still in his arms."
Qingxu smiled and said: "Pindao is not going to take him away now. Now he is just accepting him as his disciple. When he grows up, Pindao will come and take him back to the mountains to practice. Now we just need to decide on a name."
Song Yiren asked again: "You don't know about this ceremony of apprenticeship?"
Qingxu said: "It won't be too late for him to follow me to Wangwu Mountain when he grows up."
"That's good! That's good!" Although Song Yiren was extremely happy that his youngest son could worship Qingxu as his master, he felt uncomfortable that his youngest son should leave now. After all, he was still an infant immortal master. Although he had great magical powers, he must not have been able to take care of children. They are not familiar with it, and it is impossible for the immortal master to see the child in person, so a boy in the mountains can do it.
But the boy may not have even seen a baby, so he has no experience in taking care of children. The little son will definitely suffer a lot after he goes to the mountains. Now that I heard that the immortal master would not take his youngest son away at this time, but would take him away when he grows up, I feel relieved.
However, his sworn brother Jiang Ziya came to mind again, thinking that he deeply admired Taoism. It was really a blessing that he was not here when the immortal master came today. However, when the immortal master comes again in the future, Jiang Ziya is asked to wait here. Thinking of this, he feels relieved again.
Suddenly, he recalled that Qingxu had said that he had something to ask him before and asked: "Immortal Master Shicai once said that he came to see his disciple today to ask about something. I wonder what the immortal master wants to ask?"
Only then did Qingxu remember that he came here to take Jiang Ziya as his disciple. When disturbed by this child, he almost forgot about his business.
He hurriedly asked Song Yiren: "Master Song, I don't know where your disciple Jiang Ziya is now? I came here this time because I heard that he deeply admires Taoism and figured out that he and my Taoist sect have a reason, so I came here to accept him as a disciple."
Song Yiren thought in his mind, "It turns out that the immortal master came here to accept brother Ziya as his disciple. I, this kid, still have the glory of brother Ziya. Unfortunately, brother Ziya is a poor person. He wanted to find an immortal fate, but he didn't. The blessing of having an immortal master as your teacher."
Song Yiren looked at Qingxu and said, "Unfortunately, brother Ziya is not with me at this time."
Qingxu heard the words and said, "Oh, but I heard from people that Jiang Ziya has no uncles, no brothers or sisters, and his nephew is alone in the family. Only you, the sworn brother, have been living in your place."
Song Yiren said: "Brother Ziya has indeed been living with his disciples, but he left the immortal master three years ago. He also knows that Ziya has been admiring Taoism for a long time and wanted to go seek immortals and visit the Tao. However, Gao Tang was in front of him, so he never made the trip. Three years ago, after my aunt died, Ziya buried her and went on a trip. At this time, I don't know where she is."
When Qingxu heard the words, he was stunned and thought: "I was careless. I only thought about taking Jiang Ziya under his sect before he went to Kunlun Mountain, but I forgot that he is an ordinary man who cannot fly in the clouds or ride in the fog." It took several years for the song to reach Kunlun Mountain, but now it is in the vast world and among thousands of people, but I don't know where to find it."
Then I thought again, "It seems that Jiang Ziya and I are not destined to be disciples of the Chan Sect. But what if he is the master of the Chan sect and canonizes the gods? I am not afraid that he will try to save all the junior brothers and junior sisters for me. Leave some vitality behind."
Thinking of this, he turned around and said to Song Yiren: "It seems that although Jiang Ziya is destined for my Taoist sect, he is not destined for Pindao."
Song Yiren said: "Ziya has no luck with the Taoist priest because he has little luck and cannot get the Taoist priest's guidance."
Qingxu thought, "Haha, I don't know whether it's a blessing or a curse for Jiang Ziya to have his second uncle as his teacher. Although he and Pindao are of the same generation and can enjoy the wealth and honor of the world, he has no chance of being on the path of immortality in this life and has to be reincarnated to practice again before he can attain the path. For him, is it a blessing or a curse? No one can tell."
Then I thought again, "Although I didn't receive Jiang Ziya this time, I did get a disciple of the innate Taoist body. I will have disciples who will pass on the Taoist lineage to me in the future."
"I thought that the name of my Qingxu Taoist Lord would be spread all over the world, but I don't even have a disciple who can pass on the Taoism. I have accepted five disciples, but three of them are the emperors of Qingxu in the Fire Cloud Cave. Yuan Hong's temperament can't be taught. Disciple Kong Xuan is too arrogant to understand my teachings of teaching without distinction and is not suitable for preaching. I, the Taoist lineage of Wangwushan, have to accept another disciple to teach."
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but shake his head. Thinking that since Jiang Ziya was no longer with him, he no longer had to stay here, so he said to Song Yiren: "The master of Songzhuang, Pindao, will go back now. He will come back in eight years to take this child to Wangwu Mountain to practice Taoism." After saying that, he turned to leave.
When he walked to the door, he heard Song Yiren shouting: "Master Immortal, please stay! Master Immortal, please stay!"
Qingxu stopped and asked, "What else does Master Song have to do?"
Song Yiren said to Qing Xuji: "Since the child worships the immortal master as his teacher, I also ask the immortal master to name the child."