After walking through a long corridor lined with fragrant herbs on both sides, and then through a jade archway carved with exotic animals, you will arrive at the back mountain of Wuzhuang Temple, which is usually inaccessible to outsiders. Layers of clouds and mist spread out before your eyes, and you can see a waterfall on the back mountain.
"Whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh—"
The waterfall's waters surge like a thousand galloping horses, the water column shooting straight into the sky, countless water droplets flying upwards, splashing high and low. Through the water droplets hitting the cliff face, you can see that the waterfall above the waterfall is covered with houses of varying heights and sizes.
These houses lacked the solemnity of a Taoist temple, and were not as orderly as human buildings. The largest house had a door that was over ten feet high, while the smallest house was too small for Xu Milu to fit her hand in.
Some doors were piled with square stones, with stone pillars as beams. Seven or eight identical round-faced Taoist boys lay on the roof sunbathing, their long, thin tails hidden under their robes, one after another.
It's estimated that its trail is that of a rat or something similar.
Some houses resemble bird nests more than dwellings, just a messy clump of weeds lying upside down, with a bunch of haphazard green branches stuck in the door, and tiny rice-grain flowers blooming on them. In the blink of an eye, a beautiful female demon flies out from inside, flapping her wings under her Taoist robe and soaring into the sky.
—She still had a few brightly colored feathers on her head. In the sunlight, those feathers were interwoven with red and green, and reflected blue and purple, which was really beautiful.
Cranes circled in the mountains, a middle-aged man with two horns on his head slowly walked uphill carrying a basket of fallen leaves, and a fairy with a beautiful woman's head and a tiger's body sat cross-legged under the waterfall, cultivating and exhaling clouds and mist with a carefree air...
There were also fish-tailed fairies frolicking and playing in the pool, flying up to the clouds and then crashing down with the reversed waterfall, and a handsome Taoist priest with leaves growing on his head, solemnly burying himself in the soil to absorb the essence of the sun and moon...
Goodness.
Xu Milu exclaimed, "Wow!"
Although she knew that Zhenyuan Daxian was different from ordinary immortals and did not care about the origins of his disciples, seeing so many different kinds of monsters gathered together was still quite shocking.
—The beautiful woman with feathers was originally a poisonous bird; the identical Taoist boy was originally a shrew; the beauty with a human head and animal body was a tiger spirit; the one with two horns was a goat; the one with a fish tail was a mermaid from the South China Sea; and the one with leaves on its head was a ginseng spirit.
There are other miscellaneous little monsters, either because their cultivation is not high enough to allow them to remain in human form for long periods of time, or because they retain some characteristics of their original forms.
As she followed the bright moon forward, she secretly tried to figure out the original forms of the monsters she encountered, finding it all incredibly interesting.
"Senior Sister Mingyue, are all these disciples of the temple?"
Xu Milu watched intently, but there was no trace of greed or anything else in her eyes.
Mingyue, who was walking ahead, happened to see this and felt even more favorably disposed towards this "Madam Xu," so she kindly explained:
"Some are, some are not. My master is very compassionate and never accepts disciples based on their origins. Most of the people living here are demons who have nowhere else to go. My master saw that they were pitiful, so he cut off a corner of Lanzhou Island in Xiniu Hezhou and placed it on this back mountain, calling it 'Hundred Demon Cliff' to provide for their lives."
They were grateful and repaid the kindness by doing morning and evening prayers with the disciples during the day, and at night they would sweep, dust, fetch water, chop wood, pick flowers, tend the garden, loosen the soil, and catch insects for the temple… though the temple didn’t have that much work for them to do.”
Mingyue seemed to be very familiar with these demons. When they saw her leading a stranger into the back mountain, the passing demons did not show much surprise and mostly bowed respectfully.
"Senior sister."
"Greetings, Senior Sister."
"Senior Sister Mingyue."
"I hope you are well, Senior Sister."
"Did you complete your evening classes tonight?"
A hint of a smile appeared in Mingyue's eyes as she nodded slightly to the bowing demons:
"This Fellow Daoist Xu is a guest of the temple, and he lives in the peach grove next to the weapon-refining garden. You must not treat him lightly or be impolite."
All the demons unanimously agreed, their expressions respectful and daring not to disobey. The woman who was actually a poisonous bird and the bird demons were even more exaggerated, their eyes filled with tenderness as they looked at Xu Milu, wishing they could immediately get close to her.
There's no way around it; the phoenix's attraction to the bloodline of birds is fatal. This is ingrained in their very bones and passed down through generations. The higher the cultivation level of a bird, the harder it is to resist the call from the phoenix's bloodline.
Therefore, we shouldn't try to embed all sorts of strange and unusual things into our genes.
— Xu Milu said.
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The room that Mingyue arranged for Xu Milu was in a peach blossom forest in the mountains opposite Baiyao Cliff. It could only be reached by riding a crane. However, the advantage was that there was a weapon-refining garden next door, and there was no one to disturb them. The room was much more suitable than Xu Milu had expected.
"Thank you, Senior Sister Mingyue."
Xu Milu bowed again, thought for a moment, and then asked:
"I wonder if the Great Immortal has mentioned how to borrow this weapon-refining furnace, and if so, what are the procedures for borrowing it?"
"The master instructed that the refining furnaces in the refining garden are at your disposal. If you need any precious gems, rare iron ores, just tell the fire boy in the refining furnace room to fetch them from the storeroom."
Mingyue glanced at Xu Milu, and seemed to recall something, letting out a soft laugh. The vermilion mark between her brows became even more rosy.
"I have no other instructions. Just so my junior sister knows that if she hears any noise in the middle of the night, she should shout 'Silence' three times at the door and then go to sleep."
Xu Milu: "???"
Wait, senior sister, what do you mean by this?
Does your Taoist temple, which is so big, really have a haunt?
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