The Wheel-Turning Master

The night rain is drizzling.

The temple is desolate and cold. The altars and gift cases have been chopped up for firewood. Lin Bai holds a fire stick and gently stirs the fire.

Li Wusheng sits cross-legged opposite, also holding a broken stick, poking the fire out of boredom.

After a long time, Li Wusheng saw that Lin Bai had not spoken, but was drawing tigers one after another on the ground with a fire stick, so he couldn't help frowning and asked: "You just talked about the river and the swimming fish, why did you draw a tiger again?"

She tapped the ground with a wooden stick, nodded slightly, and said with a look of understanding: "Tiger roars in the mountains and forests, you mean to stir up the place again and make the water muddy, so that you can fish in troubled waters?"

Lin Bai was just drawing for fun, but she was just thinking of Sister Pei in the mundane world.

However, seeing the smugness in Li Wusheng's eyes, he couldn't say anything, so he could only say: "Senior sister really has insight into people's hearts."

"I haven't lived these three lives in vain. I've seen mundane affairs and all kinds of human life, so I'm naturally more experienced in human nature." Li Wusheng said with a smile.

"Senior sister is a natural talent." Lin Bai praised casually, but his mind was still full of thoughts.

This place is said to be a tempering of the state of mind, but in essence it is still a way to pass the test. And what is the key to passing?

Everything is normal here, it is indeed a mundane world. Surrounded by the sea, you can go deep into the sea for a hundred miles and then come back.

There are kings, generals, and even historians, and you can find them in history that goes back thousands of years.

From peddlers, farmers, and hawkers in the streets, there is everything.

Lin Bai experienced all three identities from top to bottom, and visited everywhere, and found that the people here are all alive, each with a family tree, joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness, greed, and love.

And the details are all reasonable. When being beaten, he cried out in pain. When picking up money, he was secretly happy. When it rained, he knew to run home. When stealing, he knew to close the window.

Even the grass, trees, rats and ants have this, which is not fake at all.

Lin Bai can enter and exit the stone plate freely, and he is very sure that he is not trapped in the dream.

Therefore, this place is called the Trial Secret Realm. In fact, it is also a small world. It is just that someone has set certain rules, so it keeps circulating.

And the beginning of the cycle is when Lin and Li entered this place. Shangyuan Country was experiencing a precarious situation, with a long drought and no rain, and the rebel army was everywhere; and the foreign tribes in the north were not having a good time either. The blizzard lasted for more than a month, and countless livestock froze to death.

What is surprising is that Lin Baifa and Li Wusheng’s realm has not changed, and the Taoism is still there. They are like gods here. The only thing they can’t do is to ask for rain and snow.

Whether it is the formation of gathering clouds into a formation, or the talisman such as the Rain Master Talisman, they can’t summon a single drop of rain.

But it's not that the rain and snow won't come, but that they come in a strange way. In the first life, when I conquered the world, it rained after I became powerful; in the second life, when I was a powerful official, it rained after I became powerful; in the third life, it rained after the family declined.

The rain came in a strange way, and it took two or three years at the shortest, and five or six years at the longest. But no matter what, the rain will definitely come, but it is not controlled by oneself.

"Sister, I think the key to passing the trial is related to rain." Lin Bai pointed to the night rain outside the temple and said, "Gathering water into a river is like a great road."

Li Wusheng frowned and thought for a while, then shook his head.

"Sister, do you have any profound ideas?" Lin Bai asked curiously.

"I didn't understand, please continue." Li Wusheng was a little embarrassed.

"I was too vague, so you didn't understand. Blame me."

Lin Bai had dealt with many women before, and knew that when dealing with children from wealthy families, he had to go along with them. He continued, "Sister, you are a child from a wealthy family. You should know that after you have achieved the Yuanying stage, your destiny will be in line with your own magical powers, and you should specialize in one path. Everyone has a different path. Some people follow the path of the heart, and some follow the path of the five elements. There are thousands of paths in the world, how can you know them all? But they all end up in the universe."

He drew a river with a fire stick, and said, "Just like these endless raindrops, gathering together to form a river, just like thousands of paths, not out of the vastness of space, encompassing time. In the light, everything is in the universe. "

"So what?" Li Wusheng tilted his head to look at this junior brother, and asked: "What does it have to do with us passing the trial?"

"Senior sister." Lin Bai smiled and said: "We come here, it's called a trial, but who doesn't want to get a chance to prove the Yuanying?"

He pointed outside the ruined temple and continued: "I think that the secular world is like a torrent, the vastness of the world here, the passage of time, all included in my gourd!"

Lin Bai patted the gourd and said confidently: "I am the gourd king!"

"Your gourd can naturally hold the sky and the earth, the key is how to hold it?" Li Wusheng asked.

"I plan to walk a little further and see more. The kings, princes, generals and ministers have certainly left their marks in time, but countless creatures have also swam in the long river of time."

Lin Bai was very confident, "If you want to pass through this trial secret realm, you need to hide the world in your heart."

"You have no idea, right?" Li Wusheng said with a look of understanding, "You know, this place is located in Jiuzha Mountain, Jiuding Sect. The number is nine, and nine is the extreme number. Therefore, we need to go through nine lives."

"Senior sister, what you said makes sense." Lin Bai praised without thinking, but did not agree.

The two stared at each other for a long time, neither of them convinced.

When it was dawn, the world changed and returned to the starting point.

"You and I will split up!"

Li Wusheng flew away in the air, and Lin Bai was stunned on the spot.

Without temper, Lin Bai moved with the refugees, no longer moving the strings, but looking at all the changes as a bystander.

Within a year, Lin Bai heard a strange thing from others: the daughter of the former royal family appeared in the world, named Dragon Girl. When she raised her arms, those who responded gathered and vowed to overthrow the Shangyuan Kingdom.

"Did she eat my chewed vegetables again?" Lin Bai muttered.

Keep everything you see, hear, and experience in your heart, and come to the stone plate from time to time to engrave it again.

Five years later, Lin Bai came to a city gate with a broken flag and the words "Iron mouth cut straight" written on it.

Many people gathered around the newly posted notice. It says that the Dragon Girl falsely claimed to be the princess of the previous dynasty, and the Dragon Girl soldiers led by the Dragon Girl were defeated, and the Dragon Girl fled in defeat. Anyone who has clues about the dragon girl will be rewarded with a reward of ten thousand taels, and whoever captures her alive will be granted the title of Marquis of Ten Thousand Households.

Shangyuan Kingdom survived, but Longnu was defeated.

"You have to help me!" Li Wusheng came to the door and kicked over Lin Bai's "iron-cut" green flag.

"..." Lin Bai had no choice.

The two fought hard for ten years, and the empress finally came to the court, restored the Chen Kingdom, was named Shenlong, and worshiped Lin Xianhu as the national preceptor.

"Start war against Dongyi!"

"War on the Southern Barbarians!"

"War on Xirong!"

"War on Beidi!"

After several years of building Wangxiantai, the foreign tribes from the north came south to plunder it, and Li Wusheng simply wanted to cook it together.

Lin Bai tried hard to persuade him to no avail, so he was deprived of his position as national advisor and demoted to a commoner.

In shame and anger, Lin Bai went south, entangled with his old subordinates, and made an appeal to the Dragon Girl. The whole world gathered in response to overthrow the empress in one fell swoop.

Fifty years later, the two are back to the starting point.

Lin Bai planned to tell her about the swimming fish theory again, but Li Wusheng didn't listen at all.

"Come again! This time I am in the opposition and I don't need your help! You go to the court! I will destroy you!" Li Wusheng was extremely ambitious.

Lin Bai was too lazy to play with her anymore, so he disappeared and Li Wusheng would never find her again.

Five years later, Lin Bai heard the news of Long Nu's defeat again. Lin Bai hid in the dark and laughed non-stop.

Thirty years passed by, and after several ups and downs, the empress finally came to court, and Lin Bai also measured the world here.

"Walking across the earth, leaving no trace."

It was that ruined temple again. Lin Bai lit up a bonfire, closed his eyes and came to the stone plate.

The mist is thick, a hint of green still remains, and the white color of the moon makes it even more vast.

There are thousands of stars faintly among them.

After sitting quietly for a long time, a wisp of mist floated over, forming the shape of a gourd.

I have tried my best to describe it for a long time, but I can only get its shape but not its meaning.

Shake away the cluttered thoughts, and there is a chessboard in front of you.

Before entering Qianhe Sand Land, I had discussed chess with Jiang Xingchi. Both of them had the consciousness of being chess pieces and the ambition to be chess players.

The chessboard is vertical and horizontal, and the black and white chess pieces fall down, and it seems that a person is connected by one thing.

The small chessboard seemed to encompass the heaven and the earth. Parting through the clouds and mist, I finally glimpsed a glimmer of clarity.

I saw cold candles flickering inside the solemn palace.

"Saint, please decide the country's foundation as soon as possible!" Several old men with white beards knelt down in front of an old woman.

The empress came to the court and worked hard to govern, but she had no descendants, and all the old officials were dying of anxiety.

"Think about it, my son is already an adult." The empress said astonishingly, "He was separated from me during the war, and he still remembers that I gave him a black and white gourd. It was said that in the future, with this gourd, mother and son can be reunited. recognize!"

All the ministers were dumbfounded, but considering how many ups and downs the empress had, and finally took more than thirty years of hard work to ascend to the throne, it would make sense to say that she had given birth to a child in the meantime.

"She wants to be the king of subjugation again?"

Lin Bai was speechless. He pointed at the chessboard and it started to shake.

Lin Bai brushed off the chessboard and thought quietly.

When I was forming elixirs before, I had penetrated the clouds and caught a glimpse of what others were doing. Now in the place of trial, using heaven and earth as a chessboard, I can once again glimpse the behavior of others.

"After all, we are relying on the peculiarities of this place. We cannot do whatever we want."

Lin Bai sighed and left the stone plate.

When the night rain subsided, Lin Bai left for the imperial capital.

If he showed a little bit of magical power, he would be reported to the empress and summoned.

Lin Bai entered the palace, holding a gourd in his left hand and a fly whisk in his right hand. He stepped on the square steps and walked up to the main hall with an immortal style.

All the old ministers were horrified when they saw the color of the gourd. "Last night the saint told about the emperor's son, which caused an earthquake. Today the emperor actually came in person. He also practiced Taoism..."

"My son, come forward quickly." Li Wusheng's crown was swaying, very happy.

"I already have a way to ascend!" Lin Bai said.

"..." Li Wusheng was stunned for a moment, then lifted the jade string in front of the crown and leaned forward, "Really?"

"I don't tell lies." Lin Bai was very confident.

"Hurry up, hurry up! I'm so anxious!" Li said silently.

"Who is your son?" Lin Bai asked.

"..." Li Wusheng was stunned for a moment, then gritted his teeth and said, "I am!"

"My son, come forward." Lin Bai smiled.

Li Wusheng tore off his crown, stepped forward, and regained his youthful appearance. For a moment, everyone in the palace was horrified.

"This place is a world of its own, with circulation going back and forth." Lin Bai pointed to the outside of the hall and said, "We have long expected that the chance of passing through this place is to bring wind and rain."

"That's right!" Li silently agreed.

"There are countless ways to attract wind and rain." Lin Bai held the gourd in his hand and said confidently: "I have traveled all over the world and have hidden all the mountains, the smallest ants in autumn, everything, and even the heaven and earth here in the gourd."

"Where's the rain?" Li Wusheng asked.

"When the magical power attracts rain, I just need to pluck the strings and the rain will come." Lin Bai said.

"Really? I don't believe it." Li said silently.

Lin Bai didn't say much, closed his eyes and came to the stone plate.

As soon as I thought about it, I saw the chessboard with mountains and rivers on it.

With a single click, dark clouds gather.

The rain falls and gathers to form a river. In line with his own way of cultivating time and space, Lin Bai stepped into the river.

When he opened his eyes again, he saw that it was as if the scorching sun had been stolen outside the palace, and it was already dark.

The wind turned violent and the rain fell like a waterfall.

"At this time, I am like a fish swimming in the starry sky and jumping in the long river! You can hear the sound of the river, so it is time to leave at this time!" Lin Bai grabbed Li Wusheng's wrist.

Before Li Wusheng could react, he felt a little confused in his mind, as if he had returned to the feeling he had when he first entered the door.

I was stunned for a moment and saw a big river running across it. I don't know where it starts or where it flows. I just feel that the sky is vast and thick, with thousands of stars reflecting on it, as if everything is included in it.

The river is rushing and the stars are flowing, but there is no sound, but it is like the sound of the great road.

"I heard that the master of Wuxiang Taoism cultivates two great avenues... Is this the path of Master Wuxiang Taoism? Borrowing the hand of King Gourd?"

Li Wusheng was stunned, feeling as if he was falling into the endless river, or falling into the endless starry sky.

Soon, his consciousness trembled slightly, and Li Wusheng finally set foot on the ground.

"Lin Zhuanlun and his daughter are also out!" Just as he was about to take a defensive stance, Li Wusheng heard someone speaking.

After regaining consciousness for a moment, he saw a large hall deep inside.

Lin Zhuanlun stood next to him, and there were five men and women in front of him, including Ying Wangtian and Mu Zhen, all of whom were smiling at him.

Looking to the side, there are nine huge stone pillars, I don't know how high they are, hidden in the layers of clouds. And I don’t know how high the main hall is.

What's even more amazing is that all nine stone pillars are broken, and where the breaks are there is a chessboard with hills and valleys on it. There are stone pillars connected on top, which is extremely strange.

"Junior sister actually recognized a father, congratulations!" Ying Wangtian said with a smile.

"..." Li Wusheng blushed and clenched his fists. Seeing that Lin Zhuanlun had been pulled away by Mu Zhen, both of them had smiles on their faces. They also glanced at him from time to time and pointed, clearly transmitting messages. laugh at.

Li Wusheng remained silent and came to a stone pillar to look at the chessboard.

If you look closely, you can see the clues. It looks like a whole world.

Looking at the stone pillar chessboards one by one, there is the mortal world, endless mountains and forests, vast sandy land, and the realm of monsters and beasts.

With his spiritual consciousness wrapped around the chessboard, he could actually hear all kinds of things in that strange world.

"Brother Cheng..." Li Wusheng finally found Mo Yingcheng, only to see Mo Yingcheng wandering in a small world with two monks discussing how to pass the trial.

"Senior brother, how can I help my brother?" When Li Wusheng saw his lover, he had already forgotten his new father.

"We can only watch and listen, and can't affect you at all." Ying Wangtian smiled and said in a low voice: "As your father said, there are thousands of ways to pass the trial, and there is no one way to stick to it."

Seeing that Ying Wangtian was not helping, Li Wusheng went to find Lin Zhuanlun.

"Senior Sister Mu." Li nodded silently to Mu Zhen.

"Junior sister has hurt me." Mu Zhen said with a look of helplessness: "We made a bet just now. I bet that you will be king in twenty years. If you win, senior brother bets that you will be king in twenty years. You made me lose. Got ten high-grade spiritual stones!”

"..." Li Wusheng didn't expect these people to be so boring.

"But fortunately there is a wheel." Mu Zhen looked at Lin Bai with a smile and said, "I bet he can find a way to pass the trial and win a hundred high-grade spiritual stones!"

"Then senior sister should give me half." Lin Bai said with a smile.

"Of course it should be." Mu Zhen took out the spirit stone and handed it to Lin Bai. He said with a smile, "Just think of it as congratulations on Nong Wa."

Li Wusheng saw that Mu Zhen said this, clearly not giving her face, she glared at Mu Zhen, then glared at Lin Bai angrily, and walked away.

"What are we waiting for?" Lin Bai noticed the warmth of the stone tablet and felt a sense of good fortune in his heart.

"Wait until there are nine people." Mu Zhen said with a smile.

Lin Bai understood that it should be consistent with the Nine Pillars and the Nine Cauldrons.

"Who passed the trial first? That senior brother Ying Wangtian?" Lin Bai sent a message.

"It's him." Mu Zhen looked at a middle-aged male cultivator.

"What's the heel?" Lin Bai was quite surprised.

"This person's name is Yin Yan. He is gifted with a keen eye and specializes in appraisals. But he unexpectedly stood out at this time. He is really extraordinary." Mu Zhen transmitted the message.