Qi Zhen clasped his fists and asked, "May I ask which inn some of my friends are staying at? Can you tell Pindao?"

There was nothing to hide. Jiayin said directly: "We live at the Yunlai Inn near the West City Gate, and the man is on the first floor."

Qi Zhen nodded, "Thank you, little friend. We are destined to meet each other. Why don't we treat you as a host and treat a few of you to a simple dinner? After dinner, I will go back to the inn with you."

Jiayin looked at the Fang brothers, Liu Yu'er and Yang Huiyun, and seeing that they had no objections, she agreed and went into the Hongyun Restaurant next door together.

The lobby of the restaurant was already packed, and there were so many of them that they couldn't sit down, so the waiter found a large box on the second floor.

There are two large round tables in this large box. Each table can seat more than ten people, otherwise there will be no room for them.

There are more than a dozen people in Tianzun Temple alone, and adding the nine of them together, there are nearly thirty people.

The younger generation of Tianzun Temple sat at a table. Qizhen, his two apprentices and three nephews sat at the table of Jiayin, and there were exactly a dozen people on each side.

Qi Zhen and the waiter ordered the specialty dishes of this restaurant. They have been eating here for the past few days and know which dishes are delicious.

While waiting for the food to be served, everyone introduced each other. Qi Zhen, the master of Tianzun Temple, accompanied his two apprentices, five nephews and nine disciples.

The master of the temple is of the Qi generation, and his apprentices and nephews are of the Xuan generation, namely Xuanyun, Xuance, Xuanyu, Xuanlin, Xuanhui, Xuanjing and Xuanpu.

Xuanyun and Xuance were his disciples, the others were nephews, and the nine disciples were from the Jingzi generation.

Qizhen has gray hair and looks like he is in his fifties or sixties, but he is actually in his eighties.

Qizhen's two disciples are also in their sixties, and the disciples and grandchildren are much older than Jiayin and others.

If they were ranked by age, Jiayin and the others would call Qi Zhen Grandfather. Qi Zhen didn't care much about this and said that they could all be called Taoist Priest.

Jiayin and others also follow the good example and call everyone Taoist Master and Qizhen Guanzhu, so that they can be distinguished easily.

While waiting for the food to be served, they chatted while eating.

Fang Zhiwen said: "To be honest with the temple master, we also came from Wuling City. I just heard the temple master talk about Tianzun Temple, and I was a little surprised.

Although we didn't enter Tianzun Temple, we took a tour of the Four Seasons Valley below.

That wonderful scenery is really amazing. There is a place in this world where the four seasons can be integrated into one place.

The wild animals there are also very spiritual, and each of them looks like something other than an ordinary thing..."

When everyone in the Tianzun Temple heard this, they realized that this was really a fate. They had just come from the Tianzun Temple, and they immediately started chatting with the brothers from the Fang family.

Qizhen heard Fang Zhiwen say that the wild animals there were spiritual. He raised his eyebrows and looked at Jiayin. Jiayin smiled at him. Qizhen understood. It seemed that these people knew something, but they were not too clear about it.

Jiayin's life experience may have been hidden from a few people, but Qizhen didn't mention it and just chatted with Jiayin about Taoism.

You won’t know the result if you don’t talk about it, but you will be shocked when you talk about it!

"I didn't expect that my little friend has such a profound understanding of Taoism. What I heard from my little friend today made me suddenly enlightened.

Everything that was previously vague is now clear, and he is truly worthy of being...a person who has a predestined relationship with Taoism and possesses meritorious deeds."

Qizhen had just wanted to say that he was indeed a descendant of Zhi Ge Tianzun, but when he thought that several of his companions did not know about this, he quickly made a sudden turn.

Jiayin smiled sheepishly and explained: "Some of the ideas I mentioned were not thought of by me, but were enlightened by a Taoist monk we met on the road."

Qi Zhen was a little curious, "I wonder which Taoist friend he is? Does he have a Taoist name? If we have the chance to meet him in the future, I might as well ask him for advice."

Qizhen's disciples and grandsons also looked over. They stopped chatting when the two of them were preaching, but quietly listened to the conversation between Master (Uncle) (Master) and Jiayin.

In particular, Jiayin's understanding of Taoism was also very helpful to them. Now that they heard that Jiayin said it was gained by a Taoist cultivator, they were very curious.

Jiayin was looked at by so many pairs of eyes, and she cleared her throat a little embarrassed, and then said to them: "It's a Taoist priest we met in Banshan City, Songyuan County.

The locals call him Feng Daoist, and Feng Dao grows up in a cave on the cliff and practices by himself. This is what he realized by himself."

Everyone in Tianzun’s audience expressed admiration, especially Qizhen’s two disciples, Xuan Yun and Xuance.

"I think this person must have the wisdom to be able to understand the Taoism on his own, even though we have the orthodox Taoism passed down.

But no one can understand it. Is this the difference between having wisdom and not?" Xuance said with some frustration.

Jiayin shook his head and said: "To practice Taoism, wisdom is one aspect. The main thing is to have perseverance and perseverance, and to be dedicated to the Tao.

The Feng Taoist meditates alone on the cliff halfway up the mountain every day, sitting for a whole day.

It's rain or shine every day, it lasts for a long time and there are no distracting thoughts in my heart, so I can succeed."

Jiayin also told them that Feng Taoists often help people eliminate disasters and are believed by many people. The power of these beliefs also helps Feng Taoists' practice.

The Tianzun audience nodded in agreement, and Qi Zhen said: "I, the Tianzun temple, are the same. I only practice single-mindedly in the mountains, and sometimes I don't make much progress. I still have to enter the world to cultivate my mind.

It is said that those of us who practice Taoism are people who have transcended the world, but how can we transcend the world without joining the world?

Without the experience of the world of mortals, many things can only be obtained on paper. Therefore, as long as my disciples have achieved a little bit of success, they will go down the mountain to help people eliminate disasters as a form of experience.

Cultivation is one thing. You can't do it behind closed doors. You still need to see the world, experience the world, and experience the ups and downs of the world in order to better train your mind.

Tianzun observes that disciples can start a family, but they do not need to break away from the mortal world and become a monk to escape the world like a monk.

We must go out when there is chaos, and we will also serve the country and the people, so that is why the previous generation of national teachers appeared.

It's just that most of the family members live in the city at the foot of the mountain and don't want to go to Tianzun Temple to live in isolation from the world."

Jiayin blinked. Just now she was still wondering, since she can have a family, why is there no woman or child in Tianzun Temple?

It turns out that no one wants to settle in Tianzun Temple.

Also, now that the world is at peace, who would want to live away from the world?

Although there is no need to worry about eating and drinking inside Tianzun Temple, it is indeed isolated from the world, just like two different worlds outside.

People who are used to living in prosperous places will indeed find it unbearable.

Moreover, Jiayin also noticed just now that one of the two disciples of Temple Master Tianzun, named Xuance, looks somewhat similar to the Temple Master.

At first glance, they are related by blood, presumably his biological son.

When Qi Zhen saw Jiayin, she looked at him and then at Xuan Ce. With her unabashed look, she knew at a glance that she was thinking wrong.

He chuckled lightly and said, "This is Pindao's disciple, and he is also the son of his elder brother in the secular world. He is also Pindao's nephew."

Jiayin's face turned a little red when her thoughts were read. Unexpectedly, she guessed wrong. They were uncle and nephew, so of course they looked alike.

Qizhen added: "Although Tianzun Temple does not object to the disciples in the temple getting married, there are also many people who do not want to start a family and are dedicated to pursuing the Tao. Whether they get married or not depends entirely on themselves and is not forced."

This means that he is the kind of person who only pursues the truth and does not have a family.

Jiayin smiled sheepishly and changed the subject: "We have traveled all the way and encountered many interesting things on the way..."

Jiayin told the incident about Mitsui Village and the speculation about the officers and soldiers using the road last night.

The consciousness she had left there had just reported back that the officers and soldiers had landed on the Octopus Island, encircling the pirates and trapping them in the middle.

Although some pirates are still resisting, there is a huge disparity in the numbers between the two sides, and it is only a matter of time before they are captured.

It doesn't count as revealing it in advance and causing trouble to the officers and soldiers.

"I have heard a little bit about this. There was such a big movement last night, and people on both sides of the street must have been shocked.

Many people in the Gaopeng Inn were also awakened and stood in the corridor talking.

That is to say, Gaopeng Inn does not have a lobby, otherwise, everyone would have gathered in the lobby all night long to talk about this matter last night."

Fang Zhiqiang also said what he heard in Beicheng before, and everyone in the Tianzun audience immediately knew what was going on.

Although Tianzun Temple is located in Wuling City, it can be seen that there are many disciples coming out of it. It can be said that they have some understanding of Dayan Kingdom and even the surrounding countries, especially the surrounding areas of Hainan County.

After all, they have been here longer.

And one of the disciples who came this time, Sun Jingyi, was from a fishing village outside Guanhai City.

When Jingyi was five years old, her grandfather and father went fishing and were caught in a storm and both died. My grandmother lost her husband and son and became ill.

My mother had to take care of the funeral, take care of her mother-in-law, and take care of the children. In addition, she suffered from the loss of her husband. Within a year, both her mother-in-law and daughter-in-law died one after another, leaving him alone as an orphan.

Because he had no close relatives, and his distant relatives did not want to take in an oil bottle for nothing, he became a little beggar who made a living by begging.

Beggars have territory, and since he is young, if he can't ask for something, he will be robbed even if he does ask for it.

He struggled to survive outside Guanhai City for several months.

When he almost starved to death, he was bumped into by Xuance who happened to be traveling here, and he was brought back to Tianzun Temple, whereupon he survived.

It can be said that most of the disciples and grandsons of Tianzun Temple came from this way, but not all of them entered the Taoist sect.

Some are influenced by their ears and eyes and become interested in practicing Taoism. Some are not interested in practicing Taoism. When they grow up, they go down the mountain to start other livelihoods.

But they still regard Tianzun Temple as their home and go back to visit it from time to time.

Jiayin was still thinking about it. She had heard that Tianzun Temple had taken in many orphans before. With so many orphans, could it be that they all went down the mountain to travel after becoming successful?

Otherwise, why would there be only about twenty people left in Tianzun Temple?

It turns out that there were only twenty or thirty people traveling. The rest went down the mountain to do what they liked after they had the ability to take care of themselves.

Some returned to their original hometowns, while others went to other cities to do business and learn crafts. Anyway, they could do anything.

Therefore, in the Tianzun Temple, there is no need to worry about food, drink and money. In addition to the wealth left by Ao Zhan, this is also the reason.

As long as they achieve something, they will give back to Tianzun Guan and repay the kindness of taking them in and raising them.

Thinking about it, Ao Zhan has been away for six hundred years. No matter how much wealth there is, there will be very little left after six hundred years with so many people.
To be continued...