The Wheel-Turning Master

The breeze blows through the valley and the green trees sway.

The sky is shrouded in calamity clouds, and the faint pressure of the avenue descends. There were sounds of beasts in the distance, which sounded like embarrassment and panic.

Gao Yuanyuan looked relaxed and took out a low table. He sat down in his clothes and took out a wine gourd.

There was no aura of gold elixir in his body, and he behaved like an old neighbor who came to visit.

Huang Ruhua sat slumped on the ground, her eyes blank, and her whole body was extremely depressed, as if she had been cornered by a debt collector.

The little oriole also seemed to sense something unusual, hiding in Huang Ruhua's lapel and shivering.

"Senior Senior." Lin Bai bowed and saluted.

"I remember you." Gao Yuanyuan took a sip of wine and asked with a smile: "You are Ruyi's friend. She said that she is a friend in need."

"Junior Yun Zhonghe, I am fortunate to be acquainted with Daoist Qu." Lin Bai bowed again.

There was no feeling of good or bad in his heart, and Lin Bai breathed a sigh of relief.

Yunxia Sect is a large sect and behaves very well. Lin Bai heard someone say that Gao Yuanyuan was an arrogant person, so as long as he obeyed the junior etiquette in a decent manner, he would probably be fine.

"I went back to the mountain half a year ago and heard from the juniors that Ruyi writes to you all the time, but you rarely reply." Gao Yuanyuan seemed to be interested in the conversation, he smiled and said: "I watched Ruyi grow up, she never said anything to her. If a man is so attentive, you must be different from others in her heart. Now that she is pregnant, she keeps writing to her. Why don't you understand the charm? "

Gao Yuanyuan smiled, as if an elder was asking about the interesting stories of his younger generation.

When he was at Xinyifang Crystal Palace, he was misunderstood by the old cultivator, and now he was misunderstood by the Jindan cultivator. Lin Bai felt that the Yunxia Sect's inheritance was in order.

"Junior comes from a rough background and has a low level of education, so he doesn't dare to climb high." Lin Bai explained euphemistically, not daring to elaborate.

"These are all trivial matters." Gao Yuanyuan smiled, "As long as you can build the foundation, everything is easy. Maybe you have heard about Qu Chengjia's temperament and are afraid of her? But how can she stop you from these two wishful thinking things? I The Yunxia Sect has no sectarian views, let alone looking down on casual cultivators."

Lin Bai was speechless and asked, "Have you ever asked Qu Ruyi's opinion?"

"Why did you come here?" Gao Yuanyuan asked again.

"This junior was guided here by the opportunity of foundation building." Lin Bai did not dare to lie about this kind of thing.

"Where should the opportunity lie?" Gao Yuanyuan was very interested.

"It should be the calamity of Jindan." Lin Bai replied.

"Observe the thunder calamity and become the foundation of Taoism." Gao Yuanyuan nodded and took a sip of wine. "The opportunity to build the foundation is the calamity of other people's golden elixir. There is a precedent for this." He looked at Lin Bai and said: "You have blood on your body. You are very angry, but you are in danger?"

"We were in trouble several times. If Taoist friend Huang Ruhua hadn't helped us, we might not have gotten here." Lin Bai hadn't figured out Gao Yuanyuan's temper yet, so he tried to mention Huang Ruhua first to see what Gao Yuanyuan's attitude was.

At this moment, more and more calamity clouds are gathering in the sky. Huang Ruhua was still paralyzed on the ground, looking at Gao Yuanyuan blankly.

"It's always good to go through more hardships. It's easiest to gain insights between life and death." Gao Yuanyuan took another sip of wine and reminded: "Just don't indulge in killing, otherwise you will lose your mind and the road will be difficult. ”

"Junior, please be taught." Lin Bai bowed respectfully and saw him drinking and talking and laughing. Knowing that he was in a good mood, he asked, "Senior, are you here to capture Latie Huasheng?"

"Yes. Two years ago, I found out that Tie Huasheng was hiding here, so I kept watch from a distance." Gao Yuanyuan looked at the tall boulder, "Now that the calamity cloud is coming, it's time to go out and take a look."

Lin Bai remained silent and only glanced at Huang Ruhua.

"Senior..." Huang Ruhua walked forward on her knees, in a state of embarrassment. While kowtowing, she begged with tears streaming down her face: "My master's heart is to form pills. Please give me a chance, senior. Master has harmed the Yunxia Sect." Disciple, as a disciple, I should pay for my master’s death.”

"Who do you think I am? Do you think that I have been waiting here for two years to kidnap his beloved disciple, break his Taoist heart, and destroy his golden elixir path?" Gao Yuanyuan smiled calmly and said, "Tie It has been a waste of more than a hundred years, and the only thing he wants is the golden elixir. This time I am asking him to condense the golden elixir and take his life. You are a kind person, but if you do, I don't want to take your life. If your master is killed by lightning, I will have to bully the younger one. It’s just that your realm is low, so I won’t kill you, I’ll just take you back to the mountain.”

His voice was light and gentle, and his moon-white clothes made him look even more elegant.

Taking a sip of wine, the wind blew through the mountains, exuding a sweet and fruity aroma. It was the monkey wine that Lin Bai and Jiang Huang drank earlier.

Huang Ruhua slumped to the ground again. She understood. She had a chance to survive, but her master was destined to die.

Lin Bai also stopped talking.

"Besides," Gao Yuanyuan looked like a drunken immortal, not seeking revenge at all, but said sincerely: "The thunder calamity came for him alone. If I come forward to taint it, I'm afraid I will suffer a huge backlash." . Even if I become a golden elixir early, it will be difficult for me to survive. So, just wait."

When he said this, he looked at Lin Bai again and said: "You have an old relationship with Ruyi, and you have the kindness to help build the foundation. I should have helped you achieve enlightenment. It's just a matter of the pill calamity, and I can't help at all." Now it’s all about Tie Huasheng’s creation.” Gao Yuanyuan asked with great interest, “How did you meet his master and his disciple?”

"When I was in Xinyi Square, I met fellow Taoist Huang Ruhua by chance. Later I found out that she was a disciple of Tie Huasheng. At that time, in order to save people, she promised not to tell anyone and asked for forgiveness from my seniors." Lin Bai said very sincerely. salute.

"It doesn't matter."

Gao Yuanyuan was very indifferent. He looked at Tiehuasheng on the boulder in the distance, holding the wine gourd in his hand, and said: "Look, the clouds of calamity are thick and the pressure of heaven is three points better than when I was in the calamity. Either way. It's because his alchemy theory is extremely good and great; either his strength is too strong and there is no opponent in the same realm; or the killing is too heavy and God's will will punish him."

Lin Bai didn't ask any more questions, sat down cross-legged, and looked at the calamity clouds in the sky.

Just now, Gao Yuanyuan mentioned the theory of elixir again, and Lin Bai thought of the Song and Qing Dynasties. He wondered if Tie Huasheng had gained any inspiration from his theory of elixir.

After thinking about it for a while, I became fascinated.

"Don't be distracted." Gao Yuanyuan's voice rang in his ears.

"Yes." Lin Bai immediately straightened his mind and looked at the calamity clouds in the sky.

After a while, the calamity clouds became more and more dense, and strong winds roared all around, making the trees sway.

There are no longer any sounds of beasts in the distance, as if they smell danger, they are all hibernating and unable to come out.

Lin Bai watched silently, the misty feeling in his heart getting stronger and stronger, it was indeed the calamity.

After another quarter of an hour, Lin Bai suddenly felt an indescribable feeling of loss in his heart. He felt empty and his mind was blank, as if he had lost something extremely important.

Looking at it carefully, the calamity cloud slowly dispersed. Soon, Tianlang's energy became clear and the dark clouds disappeared.

The opportunity to build the foundation has certainly disappeared, and the ethereal feeling has disappeared. "This..." Lin Bai looked at Gao Yuanyuan blankly.

"How can the power of heaven be summoned and waved away immediately?" Gao Yuanyuan explained with a smile, "Tiehuasheng attracted the calamity cloud, but then it was forcibly dispersed. In the future, it will be extremely difficult to form an elixir. That's it. If it can cause calamity clouds again, the fury of the thunder will probably be several times greater than today."

Lin Bai understood. This meant that Tie Huasheng had cut off the path to the golden elixir that he had longed for, and his life was only wasted.

The roar of beasts and the chirping of birds in the distance seem to suggest that all things are surviving after a disaster and all things are competing for success.

The iron metamorphosis slowly fell from the boulder. There was no decay on the old face, but instead it was unusually energetic.

"Master." Huang Ruhua staggered and crawled to Tie Huasheng.

Tie Huasheng sat down, wiped her tears, and then looked at Gao Yuanyuan.

"The road is right ahead, why not?" Gao Yuanyuan asked with a smile.

"I forced myself to overcome the calamity because I was stubbornly resisting, but if I didn't do it, I would admit my guilt and be punished." Tie Huasheng laughed miserably, "I have a nine-point chance, but I don't dare to bet on that one point of defeat. If I die in the heavenly calamity, I will not be able to survive." "Young man, how can you shoulder my past sins in vain?"

Tie Huasheng could see clearly that if the elixir failed to be formed this time and his body and soul were destroyed, then Huang Ruhua would not be able to escape and pay for it; but if the golden elixir was obtained, he would not be able to withstand Gao Yuanyuan's blow even if he was weak. The only way for him to pay off his debt is to die, but Huang Ruhua still has life.

"The great road is ahead, but I worry too much." Gao Yuanyuan rubbed the wine gourd and smiled meaningfully, "There is a person whose destiny is a rusty iron sword, similar to your destiny. When that senior was practicing Qi, It is common practice to cross the level and kill the foundation; after building the foundation, you will kill the golden elixir one after another. Your magical power is so treacherous and domineering that there is no rival in the same level."

After hearing this, Lin Bai remembered the debate on alchemy in the grotto at the bottom of the lake that day.

At that time, Senior Zhu Jianyang also mentioned that there was a senior whose destiny was to be a rusty iron sword, which was similar to the destiny of a person born from iron, but the path he took was different.

I just don’t know what kind of elixir he talks about and what his temperament is like. In a daze, Lin Bai was lost in thought.

"That senior is a heavenly being, and he has realized the great truth early. How can I compare with the light of a firefly?" Tie Huasheng sighed, "The past was filthy, and without being forged by thunder and calamity, I dare not compete with the heavenly beings." In comparison, I dare not take action against my seniors.”

Huang Ruhua lay on the ground and cried non-stop.

"Silly child." Tie Huasheng stroked her hair gently, with a loving look on his face, "I killed a disciple of the Yunxia Sect, and now they are looking for me. Murder must be punished with life, it is a matter of course, why are you crying?"

"If I don't come back, you can cope with the disaster well. Maybe there is a glimmer of hope!" Huang Ruhua's eyes turned red from crying.

"Silly girl, you can't escape." Tie Huasheng smiled, "This senior is famous for his speed. Now that you and I are known, he will never miss again. Even if I can escape, how can I escape?" Can I leave you alone?”

Huang Ruhua burst into tears.

"This senior has an arrogant temperament, and you have never done anything evil. Since I am dead, how can he harm you?" Tie Huasheng comforted him, looked at Gao Yuanyuan, and said: "Senior, in the past on Jinli Island It was the fault of six monsters like us. The other five people died, but I am the only one left. Please don’t involve bad people. She has a simple mind and has good deeds. Please be careful.”

"A man covered in patina can die generously for others?" Gao Yuanyuan asked with a smile.

"Erasing the copper rust, washing away the lead, there is still a bit of innocence." The iron is reborn.

Gao Yuanyuan pondered for a while and nodded slightly.

"Thank you, senior." Tie Huasheng looked at Huang Ruhua, "My whole life as a teacher, the patina has covered my body, and it has long been beyond recognition. I tried to use the lightning to cleanse it, but it was too late. Everything here happened because of me, and people die because of their grudges. Eliminate. You should be self-reliant and don’t follow my old path.”

After Tie Huasheng finished speaking, he closed his eyes and sat cross-legged. After just counting his breaths, green rust appeared from the center of his eyebrows, and then he became unrecognizable.

Huang Ruhua was extremely flustered and didn't know what to do, so she just kept crying.

"How do you feel about missing the opportunity to build the foundation?" Gao Yuanyuan looked at Lin Bai.

Lin Bai was not sad because the opportunity to build the foundation was lost, but he felt a different emotion.

"Gains and losses are determined by nature." Lin Bai was also indifferent and said: "What Tie Huasheng has been pursuing all his life is pill formation, but when it comes to him, he allows it to be cut off." Lin Bai bowed and saluted, and said: "Although this junior does not Xi Tie was transformed into a human being, but he did not hesitate to cut off the road and die with his hands tied, but his love for his disciples is admirable. Heaven is ruthless, but humans are affectionate, but my opportunity to build the foundation is insignificant. "

"Okay! I don't feel any pity at all, but I feel excited! He is indeed a good man that Ruyi likes!" Gao Yuan Yuan was drinking, and he praised after hearing this: "With this state of mind, what if the opportunity to build the foundation is lost? Others say that I was young enough to build a foundation, but they don’t know that I also missed the opportunity to build a foundation.” He took out a new wine gourd and threw it to Lin Bai, saying, “The so-called opportunity to build a foundation is just a convenient door for the weak. . As long as we keep our minds on the road and keep our enterprising spirit, it will be easy for us to break in in the future!”

After he finished speaking, he waved his sleeves and released a ray of white light. The white light circled around the iron, and then all the green rust disappeared. Then the white light turned again and rolled up the iron metamorphosis head.

Looking at Gao Yuanyuan again, he also turned into white light and walked away with his head.

Lin Bai held the heavy wine gourd and looked at the light in the sky, thinking that this man was indeed arrogant.

Looking at Huang Ruhua again, I saw her sitting beside the headless corpse, her eyes empty and lifeless.

The little oriole seemed to know that the danger was over, and showed its head from the skirt of the clothes. Then it struggled out and flew around Huang Ruhua, chirping to make her happy.

Lin Bai didn't try to persuade him, but just stood by silently to guard him.

"My last relative is gone." Huang Ruhua said after being stunned for a long time.

"You still have an old friend like me and a drinking buddy like Xiao Jiang." Lin Bai comforted in a low voice, "The road is difficult. If you want to move forward, you will always leave some people behind. It's not appropriate to be overly sad. You and I can't forget to come. There is no need to look back all the time.”

After all, this place is deep in the mountains, and heavenly calamity almost fell just now. If any monsters leave their nests to visit, they may be in trouble again. Therefore, Lin Bai was trying to persuade her to leave.

Huang Ruhua nodded, but she couldn't stop crying.

After crying for a while, Huang Ruhua and Lin Bai burned Tiehuasheng's body together.

There are many beasts and monsters here, and they will be dug out even if they are buried. Moreover, for those who practice Taoism, dying and turning into ashes is considered their destination.

After collecting the ashes, the two returned to the cave.

Huang Ruhua packed her things and rested for two more days before going out again to look for Jiang Xiaobai.

While walking back, Lin Bai said: "The grudge between Yunxia Sect and Senior Tie is over, and no one knows your identity anymore. Why don't you follow me back to Qiaoshan. It's peaceful and suitable for cultivation."

"I don't want to go." Huang Ruhua shook her head, "I want to stay here. Although the monster is fierce, it is less thoughtful."

"Senior Tie asked me to take care of you, and I have already paid the reward." Lin Bai smiled.

"He is always lenient." Huang Ruhua complained and wiped the corners of her eyes.