Xuanming Temple is located on Luming Mountain in the north of Xuandu, shaded by green mulberry trees. It is a temple for descendants. Masters and apprentices have been passed down from generation to generation in this temple, and there have always been only three or five lonely Taoist priests. This kind of Taoist tradition is weak.

It is very easy for temples and temples to be out of service. Probably since the Longxuan period of the previous dynasty, Xuanming Temple has not produced a single Taoist practitioner.

However, despite the decline of the Xuanming Temple Taoism, the structure of the temple still retains its grandeur. It covers an area of ​​more than 30 acres and has all the necessary gates, palaces, drum towers and bell towers. This is because the previous owner of Xuanming Temple was very good at running the business.

The secular property is well managed. A hundred years ago, in response to the call of the Chongxuan Bureau to open a Taoist academy, he put aside his aloofness in Taoist temples and opened a Taoist academy here.

It is called "Lu Ming". Master Xuan Ming serves as the headmaster of this Lu Ming Academy. He preaches to students from all over the world, selects the best ones, and recommends them to the higher-level Chongxuan Department.

Over the past twenty years, Luming Academy has produced more than two hundred students, and it is said that more than thirty of them finally entered the orthodox Taoist sect and practiced the true method. Among these thirty people, seven more entered the school respectively.

The Three Holy Lands of Taoism and the Qianyuan Academy. In this way, due to the existence of Luming Academy, although Xuanming Temple has declined in Taoism, its reputation is growing day by day. It can be said that if the east is not bright, the west is bright.

Luming Academy is built in the mountains. The cottages are quiet and the pavilions are elegant. It is a good place to study. In addition to the students of the academy, there are also people from outside who live here temporarily. Some are celebrities invited by the academy, and some are like Li Chan.

, either seeking purity, or admiring fame, who come here on their own initiative.

The current master of Xuanming Temple and the head of Luming Academy is named Sun Jingran. He has learned his destiny in recent years and has a rather elegant appearance. Du Jinyou invited Li Chan to visit, and Li Chan took out a jade stone inkstone from the four treasures of the study given by the old painters.

, as a gift to Sun Jingran. After some contacts, he found a residence in Qingxinyuan, west of Luming Academy.

There are more than 70 regular students in Luming Academy, and most of them live in the newly renovated school buildings on the east side of the academy. The old school buildings on the west side are naturally much simpler and more dilapidated.

After Du Jinyou left, the Academy's Zhixue led Li Chan and the ox cart loaded with luggage to the outside of Qingxin Courtyard. The couplets on both sides of the courtyard gate, "When the rain falls, you can hear the white deer, and in the sky, you can see the heart of the Tao" are old and painted.

Some years ago.

There are six schools in this courtyard, five of which are vacant. Only the easternmost one is occupied by a student from the academy. The student's surname is Liu Mingjian. He comes from a family of government officials. His mother is very clever and his family is quite wealthy.

The family is wealthy. However, it is very difficult for a family with such a financial background to bear the burden of studying at the Taoist Academy and practicing internal martial arts. In order to save some fees, they live in this old school building.

Liu Jian always felt that this place was too deserted, so when he saw someone moving in, he welcomed him very warmly. Li Chan, who changed his name to Li Dan, asked Liu Jian about his hometown in Jingchuan, north of Lizhou, and claimed that he was from Qingling, south of Lizhou.

I moved into the westernmost school building.

The six dormitories of Qingxinyuan were divided into three in the east and three in the east by a moon gate. When Liu Jian saw that Li Chan had chosen the west, she knew that the new resident was probably a quiet person.

Although the west courtyard is dilapidated, it is not a small place. In front of the school building, there is a five-foot-long and twelve-foot-long open space surrounded by white walls and black tiles. It is paved with green bricks and is used for martial arts training. There is a large tree in the corner of the courtyard that is hugged by three people.

The locust tree, just when the sun is setting, reflects the red glow on the wall and provides shade

The terraces are green and very quiet. At this time of year, it is cool and hot, and there are no mosquitoes to bother you, so it is suitable for living in the mountains. The furnishings in the school building are simple, divided into two rooms, front and back. There is a table for reading in the front room and a bed for sleeping in the back room. There are people cleaning here regularly.

There is only some dust accumulated in the corners.

Li Chan brought a ready-made mattress, and after a little cleaning, he made the bed, pushed a few wooden boxes under the bed, and tidied it up. When he saw the evening meal, he found Liu Jian in the east courtyard and went with him.

Go to the Zhaitang.

Li Chan has a group of monsters with him. Even if some monsters can survive by absorbing the vitality of heaven and earth, his daily food consumption is much larger than that of ordinary people. However, this problem can be easily solved. After eating in the restaurant, Li Chan

He went to the chief of the restaurant who was in charge of the restaurant and gave him some money and silk. On the grounds that he spent a lot of money practicing martial arts, he asked the servants in the restaurant to send some meals to Qingxin West Courtyard every day.

The chief had practiced Xuan Ming Guan's "Dragon Elephant Boxing" for a while. When he was at his most intense, he ate more than ten kilograms of meat every day and ate a whole cow in more than a month. Naturally, he had no doubts about his presence and accepted the money.

In response to Li Chan's request.

Having thus roughly solved the problem of food, clothing, housing and transportation, when they returned to Qingxin West Campus, it was already dark. There was no one around, so Li Chan opened the scroll. With the help of Sao Qing Niang and Hong Yao, after only a few moments, the school building was tidied up, and the boxes were in order.

The pen and ink are placed on the table within easy reach, and the clothes that are often worn are also organized in the cabinet.

, only the water tank in the corner of the courtyard was still empty, which felt like something was missing, so Li Chan went to Liu Jian to borrow a pot of water. Liu Jian put purified hibiscus and peach almonds in the tank in the east courtyard.

The mountain spring water has a very faint fragrance, which is very refreshing when used to wash your face, and has a unique flavor when used to make tea.

Li Chan sat at the table and took a sip of boiling tea. His face was yellow in the light of the lamp, and his pupils were black. In the past two days when he was out, he used his tongue-changing magical power to disguise his appearance. Although it was just a slight enhancement to his eye-catching eyes.

The whole face has not been modified, but the divine pattern is not perfect after all, and it has reached its limit of being able to last for several hours.

However, there was a possibility that someone from Xiyishan or the Cui family might come to Ximojuli. At this time, he finally didn’t have much to worry about. He dispersed the magic spell, and under the light, his eyes were dyed with red paint again.

color.

Hongyao rolled up his sleeves, exposing a fair wrist, compacted the ashes in the stove, lit a sacred incense with the Chinese character Jing, and asked: "Alang, how long are we going to stay here?"

Li Chan smiled and said: "What, this place is not good?"

"That's not what I meant." Hong Yao quickly denied.

"I won't be able to stay long." Li Chan held the tea bowl, "Du Jianyin found this place for me. Firstly, he wanted me to stay away from the limelight. Secondly, if I wanted to go to Qianyuan Academy, I should also pick out Dao Zang and other books.

Check it out."

"Alang, do you want to study here?" Hongyao suddenly felt that it would be interesting to be a book boy for Li Chan, and maybe he could learn something from him.

"I just glanced through it briefly. I have been studying at Qingque Palace for two years."

Li Chan said as he put down the tea bowl and went to the back room. He followed him to the door and watched through the curtain, curious about what Li Chan was going to do.

Li Chan took out a scroll from the box, lifted the curtain and returned to the front room, put it on the table and unfolded it. On the paper, a boy was covered in white, with a face like a jade carved from ice, facing the sun with his back.

…

In the half-day workshop, the residents of Ximo went to their empty houses. Although the neighbors were curious about this mysterious courtyard, no one rashly pried into it. Only the night owl boldly stopped on the tiles, looking for mice walking under the walls.

In the bronze mirror shop across the street from Ximoju, Lu Zijing looked at the peach blossom picture on the wall. After studying it for a long time, he pulled out a linen package from under the bed. The bronze mirrors inside the cloth hit each other and made a clanging sound. These bronze mirrors were all untouched.
Chapter completed!