Behind the fairy gate is a small road, with green trees on both sides of the road, and exotic flowers and plants competing for beauty. Unknown spiritual birds dragging long red irises appear and disappear from the treetops. The sea of flowers suddenly stirs, scaring away a group of colorful butterflies that are greedily sucking nectar. A white deer pokes its head out from the flowers and looks at the strange visitor curiously. In the distance, a group of red-crowned cranes swim across the blue sky...
This scene can only be described by the word "fairyland".
Su Jian stared at it and muttered to himself, "This is a fairy-like life..."
Kunhuo licked his lips and stared at the white deer eagerly. "It looks delicious."
The white deer looked at him in fright and ran away quickly.
Kun Huo curled his lips in regret and muttered, "Why are you so timid?"
Although the scenery is beautiful, now is not the time to stop and admire it, as their exams are not over yet.
The zither player had told them before that they needed to pass through the cemetery, and someone would lead them to the final exam at the exit of the cemetery.
"You have worked so hard for so long, just enjoy the beautiful scenery and relax."
Kun Huo was annoyed by his considerate attitude, so he said, "What beautiful scenery? I don't want to eat or drink. I am just a dog. I don't have such a high level of thought. My dream is to eat meat." He squinted at the man playing the zither, and said in a sarcastic tone, "So you see, we have come all the way here, but you don't even treat us to a meal?"
The person playing the zither: ...
Perhaps no candidate had ever made this request before, so he hesitated for a moment and took out a small white jade bottle from his bosom: "I have a Braised Pork flavored Bigu Pill here. One pill will fill you up. Do you want to eat it?"
Kunhuo: ...
Le Jing: ...
Although he was disgusted, Kun Huo still accepted the bottle of Bigu Pills, and then turned around and gave it to Le Jing, saying with a flattering face: "Le Jing, Le Jing, look, I am fleecing the stinky Taoist priest to support you!" Seeing his proud expression, Le Jing inexplicably thought of a modern panda head emoticon package:
[Forget about him, I will steal a battery car to support you.jpg]
"…Thank you so much."
He opened the cloth bag he was carrying, took out a meat bun, and asked, "Would you like some?"
Kun Huo replied in a shocking voice: "Eat!"
Looking at him happily eating buns with his head down, Le Jing touched his chin and suddenly felt that he had been tricked by this dog.
They walked along the path in the garden at a moderate pace. On the way, Le Jing finally had time to ask Su Jian, "What did you see on the ladder?"
Su Jian was silent for a moment.
Le Jing immediately said: "It's okay if you don't want to say it. This is your personal privacy. I'm just asking casually."
Su Jian shook his head and smiled bitterly, "There is nothing I can't say... In the illusion, I was despised by everyone. I was a waste who gave up on myself and would never be able to turn over a new leaf."
He curled the corners of his lips, his eyes dim and depressed, "Rather than being called a waste, what I fear more is being a waste forever, and never having a chance to turn things around in this life."
Le Jing understood Su Jian's heart knot.
The less a person has, the more he wants to prove something.
Su Jian suddenly encountered a family change, and fell from the top of the mountain to the bottom of the valley overnight. His proud spine was broken. This incident was a huge blow to him and was almost becoming a demon in his heart. That's why he was eager to stand out and prove to those who looked down on him that even if he lost the Su family and fell into the dust, he could still stand up and climb to the top of the mountain again.
Le Jing thought about it and gave him some inspiration: "You are already at the bottom of the valley, so no matter which direction you go, you are moving forward. The fact that you can overcome this fear so quickly proves that you have a strong character and will become a great man in the future."
Facing the boy's clear eyes, Su Jian smiled, his dark eyes tinged with a strange stubbornness and ruthlessness, "Don't you think it's strange? I'm nothing now, but I just don't believe I will always be a waste. I believe I can stand up again. I will climb very high and be destined to be looked up to by everyone!"
"...Well, I believe you can do it." Le Jing said silently in his heart. After all, you are very likely to be the male protagonist of the Dian family. It is normal to be so self-confident.
The gloom and resentment in Su Jian's eyes dissipated a lot. He touched the back of his head and said thank you to Le Jing in an awkward manner.
"Don't thank me, I didn't help you with anything."
Su Jian shook his head and said seriously: "Thank you." Thank you for telling me the truth, and thank you for believing in me when no one else believed in me.
Some favors don't need to be spoken out loud, just keep them in your heart.
He smiled and changed the subject: "Kunhuo, you are a monster, right?"
Kun Huo was sneaking around to catch a little butterfly, but after hearing his question, he couldn't help but rolled his eyes and said, "Nonsense."
Then the little butterfly flew away.
He stamped the ground angrily, groaned in annoyance, and glared at Su Jian again, "It's all your fault! You have to compensate me for the little butterfly!"
Su Jian: ...
Le Jing looked at the silly dog's heartless and mischievous appearance, and couldn't imagine what he would be afraid of.
So he asked, "What did you see on the ladder?"
Kun Huo's ferocious expression of intimidation to Su Jian immediately disappeared. He raised his head, squinted his eyes, twisted his mouth, and fell into deep thought, with a deep look as if asking me to see which unruly citizen is trying to plot against me.
Le Jing waited patiently for a while, and then heard Kun Huo's cautious answer: "The sky is blue, the ladder is white, Su Jian's expression is dull as if he is mentally retarded, and Le Jing is also handsome even when he is in a daze?"
Le Jing: ...
Su Jian: ??? What’s wrong with you, little brother?
He nodded, "I see." Which means you didn't see anything.
As they were talking, the three of them had already reached the exit of the cemetery, where a young boy in a Taoist robe was already waiting. He was a little surprised to see Le Jing and the others.
"You are so fast. You are the first batch of candidates to come here." He looked at this strange combination of two people and a dog, and was amazed. His eyes lingered on Kun Huo for a long time.
Kunhuo glared at him: "What are you looking at? Have you never seen a dog before?"
The boy was stunned for a moment, then said seriously: "You know what? A dog as arrogant as you would be boiled into soup in my hometown."
Kun Huo was stunned: "The dog is so cute, how can you eat it?!"
The boy explained seriously, "Rabbits are so cute, and spicy rabbit heads are delicious, right?"
Kunhuo: ...
The young man turned to look at Le Jing and Su Jian, "Come with me, I'll take you to the physical examination."
"Physical examination?"
"Yes, we have to check your physique and physical condition, otherwise how can we teach students in accordance with their aptitude?" Then he said confidently in a low voice: "And what if we accept someone and then the person dies of an unknown disease, people who don't know will think that the person was harmed by us, how can we recruit students in the future?"
Le Jing: ...It sounds reasonable.
The young man took off the gourd from his waist and threw it into the sky. The gourd immediately grew bigger in the wind and turned into a giant gourd that was four or five meters in size, floating at around their waists.
The young man was the first to sit on the gourd and called them, "Come on, sit on it. It's faster than walking."
Le Jing, Su Jian and Kun Huo sat down on the gourd one after another.
The young man made a hand gesture, and the gourd rose from half a person's height to a person's height, then floated forward at a speed slightly faster than walking.
Le Jing:……???
"Excuse me, can you go a little faster?"
"If it was three months ago, I would have told you that you can do it." The boy turned his head and said with a sad face, "But now, no."
"Not long ago, several of our brothers were flying too fast on their swords and accidentally hit and killed a few of the red-crowned cranes raised by the sect leader..." The young man said listlessly, "The sect leader was furious and issued a height and speed limit order for us, so now we can only fly slowly."
Le Jing finally remembered Mei Yingliang.
He should have known that a sect that cultivated a disciple like Mei Yingliang would not have a very serious style.
As expected, everyone in this sect, including the leader, is a fool.
On the way to the physical examination, the young man was still nagging: "You are so lucky. There are not many people in the examination room right now. Elder Mu is just bored. You can go over now and enjoy the supreme top-level deluxe physical examination service."
Elder Wood...
Le Jing asked cautiously, "But is it Elder Mu who likes to dress up as a beggar?"
The young man looked at him in shock, his face filled with grief and anguish that the Dao Sect would be destroyed sooner or later: "Has this matter spread to the mortal world?!"
Okay, it seems that this Elder Mu is indeed the Elder Mu with a particularly unique painting style as mentioned by Mei Yingliang.
The so-called physical examination room is an antique two-story building.
However, the door of the medical examination room that the young man had mentioned was now filled with a huge crowd. Among the Taoists wearing Taoist hats, the bald heads were particularly eye-catching.
In addition to several Taoist priests with sage-like appearance, there was also an old monk wearing a red cassock at the head.
The young man jumped off the gourd and asked confusedly, "Master? Why are you here?"
The one he called the head was a middle-aged Taoist priest with a long mustache. He glared at the young man with a fierce look on his face and waved his hands impatiently as if swatting away a fly: "Get lost, get lost, I get angry when I see you. I tell you, stay away from my red-crowned cranes in the future!"
The boy touched his nose and muttered quietly: "I didn't move, it was the red-crowned crane that started it."
Le Jing: ...So this is the My Senior Brother is Me series?
Bai Yuan Zhenren glared at him, not wanting to bother with this bastard. He showed a greasy smile to Le Jing and others who came late (the emphasis is on Le Jing), like a weasel stealing a chicken. He rubbed his hands and asked Le Jing with a smile: "I am the head of the Linqing Sect, and my Taoist name is Bai Yuan. I wonder what this little Taoist friend's name is?"
Le Jing suppressed his surprise and responded with a standard smile: "Hello, Master. My name is Le Jing."
Could it be that he had performed so well on the ladder just now that he attracted the favor of the headmaster? Would there be a plot in the future where the headmaster would accept a disciple?
The old monk who had been observing Le Jing with a veiled gaze suddenly stepped out from the crowd, walked up to Le Jing, and interrupted Bai Yuan with a kind smile, "Amitabha, this little donor, my Buddhist name is Hui Wu, I will give you a physical examination."
Le Jing: ...
The Taoist disciple selection ceremony involves physical examinations by monks?
He suddenly remembered some photos that are widely circulated in modern times.
Monks asked Taoist priests to tell their fortunes, monks and Taoist priests played tug-of-war, monks and Taoist priests attended seminars together and took photos together...
So, the world of cultivation also emphasizes that Buddhism and Taoism are one family?
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I feel like this instance is moving more and more towards the direction of a sand sculpture…
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