Chapter 105: Only One Person Ferryed Away
Time seemed to stand still, and Li Qingci stood there frozen.
Miss Yan stared at him closely, raised her hand, and boldly held his hand.
"You said... not to quit, Miss Yan."
"Boom!"
Li Qingci felt like he was struck by lightning, and the defenses in his heart were shattered cleanly by these seven short words.
He slowly raised his head and looked at the girl in front of him.
The girl's eyes were big and bright, and in them were extremely complex emotions.
There is hope, prayer, love, and also guilt.
She knew that he was born to be a Taoist, and she was just an orphan in the mortal world.
But she knew his feelings and she also knew that she missed him madly.
She also knew that in two days, she might never see him again in her life.
This is the last chance.
Maybe the answer won't be to her liking, but she has no regrets.
The Yuxu Palace fell into silence, an utter silence.
Li Qingci did not answer, and Miss Yan stopped talking. Only the sound of their breathing was so obvious.
The statue of the Great Emperor Zhenwu stood there quietly, his compassionate eyes quietly looking at the natural Taoist disciple of his own lineage.
This is the preacher of the Great Emperor Zhenwu and his teacher on earth. In the future he will also be a Taoist genius who is listed among the immortals.
At this moment, he is deeply trapped in the quagmire called "love", and no one knows what choice he will make.
Should he withdraw and stick to the great path of Quanzhen, or should he be willing to sink and never show the way to immortality again?
No one knows.
I don’t even know which decision is right and which is wrong.
In the face of true love, there is no right or wrong, and there is no need to distinguish between right and wrong.
Behind the statue of Emperor Zhenwu, Jiang Lin and Taoist Zhenzhuo watched quietly.
Jiang Lin spoke softly and asked, "Master Dao, is this a test?"
Perhaps it was a test to see whether Li Qingci was determined to pursue the Tao.
But, it is also possible that he was testing whether Li Qingci would abandon his original choice for the sake of his destined immortal path.
"Yes and no."
Taoist Zhenzhu shook his head slightly and said, "No one has ever set a test for him. Even the Grandmaster Dangmo would not interfere with the choices of his disciples."
"This is a test he gave himself."
“It is also the path he himself must experience.”
Jiang Lin looked at Li Qingci and Miss Yan and said softly, "What will he choose?"
"What choice do you want him to make?"
Jiang Lin looked at the Taoist Master Zhenzhu.
The latter shook his head slightly and smiled: "It's not what I want him to choose, but it depends on his own heart."
"Even if the final result is that my sect loses a natural Taoist disciple, and the Zhenwu lineage loses a preacher?"
Jiang Lin continued to ask, wanting to get to the bottom of the matter.
"Yes."
Taoist Zhenzhu nodded firmly and said, "To cultivate Taoism, one must follow the will of Heaven, follow the laws of nature, and be free and detached."
"If you don't even follow your own heart, what's the point of practicing Taoism?"
Jiang Lin nodded silently without saying anything else, but continued to look at Li Qingci and Miss Yan.
"call……"
In the Yuxu Palace, Li Qingci knelt in front of the statue of Emperor Zhenwu, his breathing becoming heavier.
Suddenly, he pried open Miss Yan's hand that was holding his.
Miss Yan's eyes suddenly dimmed.
But the next moment...
"Boom!"
Li Qingci kowtowed to the statue of Emperor Zhenwu with such force that his forehead turned purple.
"Boom! Boom!"
After kowtowed three times in succession, Li Qingci raised his head and half-straightened his body.
Then, raise your hand to cover the dantian area.
"laugh……"
His hand was covered with a scarlet light, which actually sank directly into his dantian! In an instant, Li Qingci's face turned pale, and blood flowed from the corner of his mouth!
"what……"
Miss Yan screamed and wanted to stop him, but she was at a loss as to what to do.
A smile appeared on Li Qingci's lips, his face became paler, and he slowly pulled his hand out of his dantian.
There was no blood on the palm of his hand. When he spread it out, a golden pill was lying quietly in the palm of his hand.
This is not a lead-pumped elixir or an external elixir refined by furnace fire, but an internal elixir of the Quanzhen Alchemy Dao and Zhenwu Sect!
He extracted the great medicine of the human body and practiced for fifteen years without stopping, diligently, day after day, for a full fifteen years.
This is the embodiment of Li Qingci's cultivation so far, the foundation of his practice, and the best interpretation of Quanzhen Alchemy!
"Boom..."
Faced with the golden elixir that he had just achieved after fifteen years of hard work, Li Qingci did not hesitate at all and clasped his palms tightly!
Under the vermilion light, the golden elixir made a dull sound and shattered!
"Susu..."
Fragments of the golden elixir the size of sesame seeds flowed out from between Li Qingci's fingers.
With his origin collapsed, Li Qingci's aura rapidly declined until it became as low as that of an ordinary person.
In other words, he is just a mortal at this moment.
Li Qingci had blood flowing from the corner of his mouth as he looked at Miss Yan, who was pale and at a loss.
He grinned, so happily.
Tiansheng Daozi, who had been under the commandments for fifteen years and had never violated the commandments in the slightest, smiled gently and purely at this moment.
He said.
"No, Miss Yan."
At some point, the girl with tears streaming down her face hugged him tightly.
Li Qingci let go of the hand holding the golden elixir fragment without hesitation, and the remaining golden elixir fragments scattered on the ground, no longer having any spirituality.
Anyone who sees this scene will sigh in regret.
But Li Qingci didn't feel it was a pity at all, because now he was holding in his hands a treasure that was even more valuable and countless times rarer.
The statue of Emperor Zhenwu still looks compassionate.
Those eyes seemed to have emotion as they looked at the boy and girl hugging each other in front of them.
"Let's go."
The Taoist Master Zhenzhu didn't look at it for long, nor was he surprised. He just smiled slightly and left on his own.
Jiang Lin followed closely behind, with a thoughtful look on his face.
An old man and a young man left Yuxu Hall from the back door, leaving the space completely to the couple who had just expressed their feelings.
Taoist Zhenzhu looked at Jiang Lin who was thinking, and asked with a smile: "What are you thinking about?"
"Could it be that he has also been tempted by worldly desires?"
Listening to the teasing of the Taoist Master Zhen Zhuo, Jiang Lin scratched his head and said, "Not really, I was just thinking about one thing."
He said carefully: "Fellow Daoist Li is from Dayue Taihe Palace, but now he has destroyed his Dantian Golden Elixir in your Taisu Palace and abandoned the Zhenwu Daoist lineage."
"Besides, returning to secular life will probably happen during the day."
"Do you... want to give an explanation to the Taoist priests over there?"
Upon hearing this, Master Zhenzhu raised his eyebrows and said in a rather nonchalant tone, "Explanation? What explanation?"
"The kid chose his own path, no matter where he is, he will choose the same path. What does it have to do with me?"
"If all else fails, let's just have a fight and see who has the stronger fist."
Jiang Lin blinked, feeling that something was wrong, but couldn't put his finger on it.
Actually, there is nothing wrong with what I said.
If Li Qingci had not come to Taisu Palace, he would not have met Miss Yan, and perhaps what happened today would not have happened.
But the problem is that Li Qingci did not choose to come to Taisu Palace, nor was he invited by Taisu Palace, but was sent by the Taoist priests from Taihe Palace. In the end, if we start to argue, it is hard to say who is responsible...
It’s hard to say, in the end, it’s the one who has the bigger fist that has the final say.
But no matter who is right, Li Qingci’s matter is now an established fact.
And the whole process took place in the Yuxu Palace, in front of the statue of Emperor Zhenwu.
The great master didn't say anything, so it's hard for others to say much.
Jiang Lin looked back at Yuxu Palace and had no idea what Li Qingci and Miss Yan were talking about.
In short, no words were spoken that night.
Early the next morning.
"Traitor!!"
The powerful voice resounded throughout the Taisu Palace.
In front of Yuxu Palace, on the square.
Jiang Lin and Chen Qingning huddled in the corner, like two little quails, shivering a bit.
It’s not because of anything else, but because now in this square, except for the one kneeling in the middle, the rest are all Taoist masters.
The Taoist master, who was at the level of a true cultivator in the human world, did not hide his anger at all at this moment, and his aura was shocking.
The really clumsy Taoist tapped his nose in a very ungraceful manner.
The Taoist priest with a long beard and the Taoist priest whose every hair could have a name stood aside, absent-mindedly.
In the center of the square was Li Qingci, who was kneeling on the ground with his head lowered and silent.
as well as……
A Taoist priest with white hair and beard, two meters tall and extremely strong.
This Taoist priest was wearing a black and white Taoist robe, had a full beard, a leopard head and round eyes. At this moment, he glared at her, looking very domineering.
It is hard to imagine that this Taoist priest is the abbot of Dayue Taihe Palace in Wudang Mountain.
That’s right, early this morning, after Dayue Taihe Palace received the news, this Taoist priest directly arranged a talisman formation and crossed the space.
The first thing I did after arriving was to check Li Qingci's condition.
In the end, the result was that the original golden elixir had completely collapsed and there was no possibility of resurrection.
And then there was the roar just now.
In fact, the most confused person at the scene was Chen Qingning. She originally went to call Jiang Lin to have breakfast.
I didn't expect that Jiang Lin brought me here to watch a show.
Fellow Daoist Jiang, is this play really something I can watch?
Chen Qingning couldn't help but look at Jiang Lin, who was eating with great interest and shining eyes.
Well, this person has no pressure at all anyway.
"Tsk."
The Taoist Master Zhen Zhuo flicked his ears in displeasure and muttered, "What a bully Zhen Yuan, showing off in my Taisu Palace."
"Does it make you sound loud?"
The burly Taoist moved his ears and couldn't help but glare at the stupid Taoist.
Then, he looked at Li Qingci who was kneeling on the ground and said in a deep voice: "I will give you a chance to regret. Now, follow me back to the temple. In ten or twenty years, you will be able to recover."
Li Qingci heard this and said nothing. He just raised his head and shook it silently.
Taoist Master Zhenyuan took a deep breath and said, "You have been practicing since you were young, and your progress is far beyond your peers. You have already cultivated the Zhenwu Dan Dao to the state of Wuchen's mind a long time ago."
"Why can't you see through the love between men and women?"
"Is love so important in your heart?!"
"Does it have to be above your Dao Heart?!"
After three questions in a row, Li Qingci finally spoke.
"Master, I have no regrets."
These four short words were spoken in a calm tone, but they revealed an extremely firm meaning.
"you!"
It was these four words that made Daoye Zhenyuan somewhat break down. He pointed at Li Qingci with his carrot-like fingers, but could not say anything.
When it comes down to it, practicing Taoism, what you are actually doing is cultivating your own original mind.
Now, Li Qingci is completely following his heart, and if you really look at it from the root, there is actually nothing wrong with it.
But the problem is that the price Li Qingci paid for looking directly at his true self was that fifteen years of hard practice were destroyed, and he fell from being a natural born Taoist to the mortal world.
The person who was destined to preach the Tao by the Zhenwu lineage fell into the mortal world and no longer had any spirit of Tao.
"Brother Tao."
The Taoist Master Zhen Zhuo came over and said softly, "The child has made his own choice. No matter how you try to stop him, the result will not change."
"Let him be."
"Shut up!"
Daoye Magaki said viciously, gritting his teeth.
But immediately, his expression relaxed and he opened his mouth, but no one knew what to say.
Looking at Li Qingci kneeling on the ground, he finally let out a sigh.
"That's fine..."
Taoist Zhenyuan waved his hands weakly, closed his eyes and said: "From today on, you are no longer a disciple of my Taihe Palace. Quanzhen and Zhenwu will not recognize you."
“You…go ahead…”
He really didn't want to say that, but he was right.
Li Qingci has already made his choice. There is no point in stopping him.
Last night, it was Master Zhenwu who witnessed that Li Qingci chose his own heart.
Taoist Master Zhenyuan looked at the statue of Emperor Zhenwu in the Yuxu Hall and muttered to himself, "Since the ancestors have never said anything, we disciples should not be the evil ones who break up the couple."
After saying this, the Taoist walked towards Yuxu Palace with heavy steps.
When passing by Jiang Lin, he turned his head and looked over.
"From the lineage of the Northern Emperor?"
Jiang Lin bowed and said, "Jiang Lin Jiang Xuanying, meet the Taoist master."
"Help the Taoist see him off."
Daoye Magaki didn't say much, just nodded and then smiled self-deprecatingly.
"Since you are no longer a disciple of our Taoist sect, you should not stay in the Taoist temple for long."
After saying this, the Taoist continued walking towards Yuxu Palace.
Behind him, Li Qingci was in tears and kept kowtowing.
He is a very determined man. Perhaps he had already made his choice when he first met that quirky girl five years ago.
But when the time to make a choice really came, he found that making a choice was not that simple.
Jiang Lin sent Li Qingci to the foot of Qiyun Mountain.
There, Miss Yan was standing next to a cart waiting for him.
Seeing Li Qingci walking towards her in a daze, she silently held his hand.
"Thank you, Brother Daoist Jiang."
Li Qingci bowed to Jiang Lin.
After Jiang Lin returned the greeting, he asked softly, "Brother Li, is it worth it to give up the path of Taoism and enter the secular world?"
“Nothing is worth it.”
Li Qingci smiled slightly, took off his Taoist robe, handed it to Jiang Lin with both hands, turned around and lifted the cart.
He was pulling a cart with Miss Yan sitting on it, heading down Mount Qiyun, getting farther and farther away.
Jiang Lin held the Taoist robe and watched him leave, and heard Li Qingci's voice in his ears.
"Practicing Taoism is not for the purpose of ascending to heaven, nor for the purpose of being ranked among the immortals, nor for the purpose of living forever."
"It's to ferry people across."
"Many ascetics choose to spend their lives saving people, but I chose another path."
Jiang Lin listened and muttered to himself.
"In this lifetime, will you save only one person?"
(End of this chapter)
