I can't answer whether I can bear it or not. Even if I answer it, the old guy may not believe it.
There are too many people in this world who think they are omnipotent supermen, but in fact they will lie down when the steppe wolf comes.
I don't know whether I will lie down or not. I only know that I am willing to bear it. Anyway, it has come to this point. My parents are still alive and dead. There is a woman squatting beside me staring at me sinisterly. No one knows what she is plotting. How bad can the situation be? No matter how bad it is, I have paid for my life. At most, I will die and have a chance to be a man again in 18 years.
The old guy left with me. The demons and monsters that surrounded him dispersed. There was no reason to continue to die here.
However, he did not leave the mountain with me. He said goodbye to me at the door, and the direction I went was completely different.
I said, Yinren Inn is finished, where are you going next?
The old man blew his beard and glared, saying loudly that the Yinren Inn would not be a mess. The Water Prince at most let the things inside run away. But if he wanted to destroy the Yinren Inn, even if there were ten or a hundred of them piled together, it would not be enough. Otherwise, why would he go in under the guise of staying in the hotel and then make trouble?
I thought about it and it seemed to make some sense, so I asked him what the Yinren Inn was like now.
He said that it had become an empty shell. He was just an old servant. Being a ferryman was completely forced. It was fine to become an empty shell. He had no official duties and could travel around the world in the future.
I looked at his posture and he really didn't look like a transcendent person, so I gave him a middle finger.
The old man didn't care. Before leaving, he finally told me the truth.
He said that Yinren Inn had existed for a long time and had experienced many storms. This was not the first time that such a thing had happened. It would not collapse. However, there had been real ferrymen in the past. Now there was only a fake like him. If he wanted to turn the tide, he could only find a real ferryman to come back.
Fortunately, the ferryman was not really extinct.
He accidentally saw the handwriting of the previous generation of ferrymen. The ferryman had a romantic history and might have left a seed. He was thinking about looking for the real descendants of the ferryman. If there was a chance in the future, he might have the possibility of seeing him again.
Then, the old man shook his hair, which was almost like a felt, and disappeared into the vast night with a sharp back.
Not long after, I found my master and his four companions in a small forest. The four of them sat opposite each other without saying a word.
The difference is that my master and Brother Yaozi looked gloomy, Zhang Xinya was a little confused, but Lao Bai had a sullen face and pouted like a big catfish. If you didn't know, you would think someone dug up his ancestral grave.
"Are you done talking?"
My master finally smiled when he saw me coming. He reached out and touched my head, and said with a smile: "Let's go. Let's go back to your home first, and then go back to the mountain. Master has just told them that he plans to open the mountain gate. I'm afraid you will need experience in the future."
I responded in a daze, not quite understanding what the necessary connection is between opening the mountain gate and experience?
"My life is about to be taken, and you just say oh?"
Lao Bai was extremely dissatisfied with my attitude, and pulled me aside and growled: "Your master wants to open the mountain gate, which means he wants to enter the world, and his peaceful days will be over. Do you understand? If you ask me, you should quickly persuade your master, because only your words can be effective. After all, after your master is a hundred years old, you will have to take over the Zhenwu Temple, and maybe he will listen to you."
I punched him hard, and I hated his bad mouth. My master looked like he was in his twenties. Although he was definitely not young, he looked like he was in his prime. It was unlucky that he was thinking about my master's hundred years without waiting for anything.
"It's true!"
Lao Bai said, "Don't think I'm a pessimist. This time I'm opening the mountain gate and entering the world, it's not like I go out for a stroll as usual. This time, my life is at stake. Your master insisted on getting involved. I tell you, if you don't stop this today, maybe one day we brothers will die, and it will definitely not be safe!"
I saw that he was serious, and subconsciously glanced at my master. My master was whispering something in front of him with Brother Yaozi, as if he was arranging something, so he quietly pulled Lao Bai and fell behind a few steps, and then asked, "Is it as terrible as you said?"
"Throughout the ages, how many Taoists can go back after opening the mountain gate?"
Lao Bai was so anxious that his face turned red, and he gritted his teeth and said, "This is related to their Taoist tradition. What is the Taoist tradition? They emphasize practicing in the mountains in prosperous times and saving people in troubled times.
Do you think this emphasis is stupid?
In prosperous times, the common people have some money in their pockets, and everyone seeks spiritual dependence. It is a good time to preach and develop, but they just stay in the mountain. In troubled times, human lives are worthless, but they run out to save people. Isn't that just looking for black dates to eat?
If you want to know why Taoism is declining now, it has absolutely something to do with their stupid thoughts.
Brother, you can argue with me for other things, but you must listen to me this time. When a Taoist priest says to go down the mountain, it is definitely not a good thing. Look at the time when the Japanese devils invaded, 100,000 Taoist priests went down the mountain, and how many of them returned in the end? All of them died on the battlefield!"
I couldn't help laughing after hearing this, and said, "Lao Bai, are you talking in your sleep? The Japanese devils came a long time ago. Now the world is peaceful and the country is prosperous. There are not so many things about life and death. The Japanese devils... Let them come again. Why does the Taoist priest need to go down the mountain to be shot? It would be strange if the palm-sized island is not sunk by them."
As for the Taoist thought he said, I think there is nothing wrong with it. This is the appearance of a monk.
Every day, he pulls others to say that the sea of suffering is endless, turning back is the shore, and converting to my Taoism can seek liberation. That is not a monk, it is clearly a pyramid scheme.
A monk is a monk. After leaving home and breaking away from the world, he should be quiet and inaction. In troubled times, he went down the mountain to save people because of the word "benevolence", and in prosperous times, he went into the mountain to practice for the word "quiet". Being kind and righteous, clean and pure is the way of a gentleman.
"The world is peaceful now, but the Yin and Yang worlds are about to be in chaos..."
Lao Bai muttered, "Your master opened the mountain gate, but he is not in charge of the world, but the Yin and Yang worlds. Oh my god, he is really looking for death for nothing, and he is going to get into trouble wherever he wants. Just go and tell him that the Taoists can't stand the turmoil now. You and your master are the only two descendants of Qingwei Dao. If you continue to turmoil, your descendants will be extinct!!"
I restrained my expression and asked, "Is it about the Yinren Inn?"
Lao Bai nodded and said helplessly, "Your master said that all the things in the Yinren Inn ran out. This is a disaster. All practitioners have the responsibility to solve it and take those things back..."
I thought it was something else. If it was for this, I would have guessed it.
But how big can the Yinren Inn be? I've been there. It's a two-story small broken building. How big can it be? I think Zhiniang is the main person, and she can only run away when she sees my master. The Water Prince is a bit tricky, but no matter what, it won't wipe out our group.
So I told Lao Bai not to make a fuss. After all, he is an old man in the world, so why should he be afraid of such a small thing?
"I don't understand, you really don't understand!!"
Lao Bai pointed at me with a look of disappointment: "If there are only a few green onions in the Yinren Inn, how can everyone be so scared? That place is full of water!"
Lao Bai said that the Yinren Inn I saw was just the tip of the iceberg.
In fact, under the Yinren Inn, there are all prisons!
That place imitates the underworld, with a total of eighteen layers, like the eighteen layers of hell. There are no way to tell how many unclean things there are.
Moreover, the more pressed down, the more powerful they are. I heard that there are even fierce characters like Hanba, and those I saw are just drizzle.
"Who can enter the Yinren Inn?"
Lao Bai frowned and said, "They are all unwilling to go to the underworld, so they entered the Yinren Inn. If they are released all of a sudden, won't they turn the world upside down? Your master guessed that this might be the effect that the Water Prince and the remnant of the Yumin wanted. Although I don't know how these two people got together, they must have a big plan. Maybe they want the things in the Yinren Inn to confuse the sight and delay time. But he knew it was a trap, but he still went in!"
The actual situation stunned me.
There are so many?
After careful calculation, well, what is the point of going back to the Zhenwu Temple? We will spend the rest of our lives chasing these things around the world.
"Not really."
Lao Bai looked melancholy: "Now that the mountain gate is open, anyone who comes to the door will be welcome, regardless of fate or anything like that. This is what your master means now. Moreover, he also wants to contact other Taoist factions, such as the Tianshi Dao of Longhu Mountain, the Quanzhen Dao of Wudang and Huashan, and everyone will work together to do this. The problem is that he will go into seclusion if he disagrees with something, and in the end, aren't we the ones running errands? As the old saying goes, if you walk by the river, you will get your feet wet. If you deal with those things all day long, you will fall sooner or later!"
He has some truth in what he said. No wonder he looks so bitter. He came here to seek refuge, but in the blink of an eye, my master pushed him to the forefront again. How can he be happy?
I calmed down and comforted him: "If the enemy comes, we will fight him. If the water comes, we will block it with earth. It's useless for you to tell me about this. I can only listen to the decision made by the master."
At this time, my master seemed to have finished talking with Brother Yaozi and called me in front.
When I went over, he looked at me deeply and asked me if Lao Bai had explained the situation to me?
I nodded.
He asked me what I thought about this matter. He heard what Lao Bai said. There is a saying that is right. This Zhenwu Temple will also be handed over to me in the future. Opening the mountain gate is not a trivial matter. It is reasonable to ask for my opinion.
I hung my head and said that I would listen to him, but after a moment of hesitation, I said that I just couldn't let go of my parents.
"Their affairs are not over yet, but at this point, it is obvious that your parents do not want to show up, and they probably have other ideas. We have looked for them, but we can only put them aside for the time being and wait for news. In fact, in the final analysis, these things are all one thing, and there will be opportunities in the future. Naturally, I will not stand idly by."
My master comforted me softly, and then he took my hand and wrote the word "Tao" in my palm with force, and said softly: "This time when the mountain gate is opened, even the master does not know what will happen. When you walk outside in the future, don't forget this word. You are now a member of Qingwei Dao. Remember, opening the mountain gate is our Tao, and waking up in dreams is our practice. Even if it is really a moment of life and death in the future, don't disgrace the word "fenggu". "
This is his only advice to me.
I saw his eyes flashing, with a kind of determination and even more pessimism.
At that time, I knew that I still underestimated the seriousness of this matter. Looking at my master like this, it is clear that he is determined to do this...