Eternal Life: My Millennia in the Jiaofang Division

"You, a Taoist priest, are so strange."

Xu Xiuyan's slender eyebrows wrinkled slightly: "If you think what I said is wrong, then you can tell me where did that demon corpse come from?"

"Haha, how could I know this? Besides, didn't I just say that the girl's words are reasonable? Even if the poisonous doctor listened to you, he would agree with her?"

"Hmph, your tone of voice, does it sound like you agree with me?" Xu Xiuyan asked dissatisfied.

Zhao Mu was noncommittal and just drank happily. He didn't get up until he drank a whole gourd of wine.

Xu Xiuyan was not convinced and wanted to ask further.

At this time, a monk from the Great Buddhist Temple passed by and looked at the three of them with strange eyes.

Wang Jing didn't want to cause trouble, so he took Li Mian and Xu Xiuyan away.

After walking more than ten feet, Li Mian spoke again: "Brother Wang, don't you think that Taoist priest is strange?"

"What's so strange?" Wang Jing was confused.

"It's a strange thing for a Taoist priest to show up in a monk's temple. What's even more strange is that drinking is not allowed in a pure place of Buddhism. So he drank heavily there, and none of the monks from the Great Buddha Temple who passed by stopped him?"

"When you say this, it seems a bit strange. Is that Taoist priest still some kind of master, so the monks at the Great Buddha Temple dare not take care of him?"

The three of them looked at each other and turned around quickly, only to find that the Taoist priest who was under the big tree just now had disappeared.

"Going so fast?"

Xu Xiuyan frowned: "Do you think that Taoist priest is really an expert? His light body technique is so good that we didn't notice it at all. How did he leave?"

"Just ask and you'll find out."

As Li Mian spoke, he caught up with a monk who had just passed by: "Master, please stay and ask me if I have any questions."

The monk turned around, clasped his hands and smiled: "Amitabha, I wonder if you have anything to ask me?"

"It's like this. We were talking to a Taoist priest under that big tree just now. Dare I ask, Master, who is that Taoist priest?"

Li Mian asked in a gentle tone.

At this time, Wang Jing and Xu Xiuyan also came over.

The monk looked at the three of them and frowned slightly: "You three, how can there be a Taoist priest in the monk's temple? There is obviously no one under that big tree?"

Empty?

The three of them were stunned. Xu Xiuyan quickly asked: "Master, why are you telling lies with your eyes open? There was such a big living person under the tree just now. You couldn't have seen it. Why did you say there was no one there?"

The monk smiled: "Look at what the girl said, no one means no one. Monks don't lie. The poor monk obviously didn't see it, so do he still have to say he saw it?"

"On the contrary, the poor monk wants to ask the three of you. I just thought it was strange. Why are you three talking to a big tree?"

Talk to the tree?

Li Mian didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Master, what are you talking about? We are obviously talking to that Taoist priest. Even if you don't want to tell us the Taoist priest's identity, you don't have to make such nonsense, right?"

"Amitabha, you three really like to joke."

The monk looked like he didn't want to get involved with the fool. He chanted the Buddha's name and turned around to leave.

Xu Xiuyan was angry and wanted to catch up, but was suddenly stopped by Wang Jing: "Miss Xu, there is no need to chase her."

"Why don't you chase him? Look at his expression. Do you think we are fools?" Xu Xiuyan said angrily, unconvinced.

Li Mian also hummed: "Yes, Brother Wang, everyone says that the Dharma of this great Buddhist temple is profound and that the temple is filled with eminent monks who are famous all over the world. I don't think so. The monk just talked nonsense. It's nothing like that." An eminent monk?"

Wang Jing's expression was solemn: "Then what if...he's not talking nonsense?"

"Brother Wang, do you know what you are talking about? He is not talking nonsense. Could it be that we are really talking to the big tree?"

Li Mian asked back, dumbfounded.

But Wang Jing's expression was still serious, so much so that Li Mian and Wang Xiuyan couldn't help but become quiet.

The two looked at each other, and Li Mian swallowed: "Brother Wang, do you mean that maybe there is really no one under that big tree, or that other than us, no one else can see the Taoist priest at all?"

Wang Jing nodded: "Besides this, I can't think of any other possibilities. After all, monks wouldn't play tricks on us for no reason, right?"

As soon as these words came out, Li Mian and Xu Xiuyan were so terrified that they broke out in cold sweat.

Could it be that you have seen a ghost?

But how could there be ghosts in a pure place of Buddhism?

Xu Xiuyan's legs were a little weak and she couldn't help but move closer to Wang Jing: "Brother Wang, please don't scare me. Are there really ghosts in the world?"

"have no idea."

Wang Jing shook his head: "But it doesn't have to be a ghost. It might actually be an expert. I always feel that the Taoist priest looks familiar."

"Why, Brother Wang, have you seen that Taoist priest?"

"I can't remember it right now, but I'm sure I've seen that face somewhere."

Wang Jing thought about it carefully, and suddenly his heart moved, and he asked: "Brother Li, do you have your belt?"

"Bring it."

"Okay, let's go to the Yamen. I want to check something."

Wang Jing said and turned around to leave. Although Li Mian and Xu Xiuyan were puzzled, they quickly followed.

The three of them left the Great Buddha Temple and soon relied on Li Mian's waist card to enter the official history room of the Great Buddha City without any hindrance.

Wang Jing rummaged through it for a while, and finally found a portrait painting, which was clearly a Taoist priest in Xuanyi.

He held the painting to the two of them: "Look, do the people in this painting look like the Taoist priest just now?"

The two quickly took the painting and looked at it carefully.

The artist who drew this portrait obviously had good skills. He drew the Taoist priest's appearance very clearly, and all the features were very obvious.

The two could easily see that the person in the painting was exactly the same as the Taoist priest.

"Brother Wang, who is this portrait of?" Li Mian asked curiously.

"Some things have happened so long ago that they have been forgotten by everyone, or they have been regarded as simple myths and legends."

Wang Jing took a deep breath and explained: "According to historical records, before our Tianyou Dynasty, this land was ruled by the Great Jin Dynasty."

"But hundreds of years ago, a shocking disaster suddenly struck the earth, causing countless subjects of the entire Great Jin Dynasty to fall into a purgatory of fire and water."

"It is said that the disaster almost killed all the creatures on this land."

"But God has mercy on us. At the critical moment, countless immortals came from the sky to help the mortals. The spirit blocked the disaster. "

"And one of the immortals, called Wanyu Daoren, had profound magical powers and great supernatural powers. He even ended the natural disaster by himself and saved the lives of the people on this land."

"Afterwards, all the immortals left."

"And the founding emperor of our Tianyou Dynasty, Tan Tai Mingjue, in order to express his gratitude to Wanyu Daoren for saving the world, ordered the painter to draw a portrait of Wanyu Daoren and ordered local governments to build a statue according to the portrait and worship Wanyu Daoren."

"It's just that the appearance of the clay statue is too different from the portrait, so I didn't think of it just now."

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