Baijin City is the territory of Taoyuan and is the largest main city in Taoyuan.

It's just that the queen doesn't like to be crowded in the city, and would rather hide in the mountains to practice. So Baijin City has become a strange situation. The largest city lord here is not the king of Taoyuan. The owner of Taoyuan is hiding in a valley eighty miles away from Baijin City.

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The three of them pulled four wildebeests and entered Baijin City. They did not go to the city lord's palace, but found a clean inn to stay. This was Li Xiuyuan's request not to deal with the government.

He suffered a lot when dealing with his eldest grandson back then. Now that he has the strength, he doesn't want to get into that puddle of sewage again.

"Taoyuan Inn?" Li Xiuyuan stood outside the inn door and was stunned for a moment, thinking that he had arrived at the government's territory.

Nangong Ruyu went to the shopkeeper and asked for two upper rooms. Li Yun dragged four wildebeests to the city lord's palace to exchange horses. After all, these purchased wildebeests were not as good as the government's military horses.

She had to buy two good horses for Li Xiuyuan so that he could return to Luoxia Mountain as soon as possible after finishing his work.

After asking the waiter to fill up two buckets of hot water and take a comfortable hot bath, Li Xiuyuan felt like he was back in the academy's Wangyue Stream, feeling free and at ease.

When it was not time for You, Li Xiuyuan, who had changed into a black silk gown, sat at the table by the window of the inn. He lit a small stove on the table, boiled a pot of snow water, and waited for Nangong Ruyu to come out to make tea and enjoy the snow.

Nangong Ruyu, who had changed into a white brocade robe, walked out of the room and found Li Xiuyuan sitting in front of the window. At first glance, she couldn't help but frown.

She looked at him and asked softly: "Master, you are so thin on a snowy day, aren't you afraid of catching a cold?"

Li Xiuyuan looked at her and smiled and said: "I have been accustomed to this kind of life since I was a child. I want to be more calm so as to remind myself not to go too far in pursuit of worldly pleasures."

After saying that, he took a few tea leaves brought from Tianjie, threw them into the purple clay pot on the table, picked up the freshly boiled snow water, and poured it into it.

Before the tea was poured into the cup, a strange fragrance arose in the cold space. This was the fragrance of tea that Nangong Ruyu had never smelled before, whether it was the original Five Domains Dynasty or the current Taoyuan and Baijin City.

After washing the cups, Li Xiuyuan poured two cups of tea, looked at her and said with a smile: "Everyone in the world likes to claim that they have understood the Zen of tea, but I prefer tea to tasteless. See if you can taste the taste?"

Nangong Ruyu was startled, then reached out and picked up the cup in front of her, put it under her nose and gently smelled the strange fragrance. After a while, she said quietly: "This tea should only be found in the sky..."

After saying that, he didn't care what Li Xiuyuan did, he blew lightly and took a shallow taste.

"How is it?" Li Xiuyuan drank half a glass of water as usual, then looked at her with a smile and asked.

Nangong Ruyu held the cup, looked at him and said seriously: "I can't describe whether it's good or not. I just know that if I can't drink this tea in the future, I will miss it very much..."

When Li Xiuyuan heard this, he couldn't help but sigh softly, shook his head and said: "This is a misunderstanding common to everyone in the world. If tea is like a Zen mountain, there will be even more mountains. If you can't drink it in the future, you will never forget it...

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"Then how to explain this?" Nangong Ruyu looked at the half cup of tea in his hand and asked quietly.

Li Xiuwu laughed when he heard it and replied: "In my opinion, drinking tea is just drinking water. Even if the tea is boiled three times until it is tasteless, it is still a pot of water that can quench thirst and be used for chatting.

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"In my mind, there is no essential difference between tea bought with a thousand spiritual stones and tea bought with ten copper coins. The reason why I like it is because I know that the friends around me will like it...

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At this point, Li Xiuyuan paused deliberately, looked at her and said: "Just like you now, I know you will like it, so I made this tea. It may inadvertently let you understand more truths, which is important for you."

To me, it’s joy.”

Nangong Ruyu looked at him in understanding and nodded, drank all the tea in the cup in one gulp, and looked at Li Xiuyuan with a rare smile for many days.

He nodded slightly, shook his head and replied, "But, I still like it very much, right?"

This sentence seemed to trigger Li Xiuyuan's beautiful memories. He looked at her and smiled and said: "If you like it, keep it in your heart. When one day you have the ability to go to that place, you will realize that all this really is nothing."

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Nangong Ruyu said awkwardly: "I'm not your master, you can go anywhere in the world."

Li Xiuyuan smiled slightly, changed the topic and asked, "How far is it from here to Taoyuan?"

Nangong Ruyu looked at the flying snow outside the window and said quietly: "If the horse runs faster, it only takes two hours to arrive. I don't know what happened to grandpa."

Li Xiuyuan looked at her and replied: "Your mother said that we should rush back within ten days. Tomorrow is the tenth day. Everything should be in time. Don't worry too much."

When Xiao Qing saved the last piece of orchid and put it in a brocade bag and handed it to Li Xiuyuan, he knew that Nangong Ruyu's grandfather was saved.

Nangong Ruyu stretched out her hand to add hot tea to the two of them, and said quietly: "When you arrive at Baijin City, you are home. Yu'er will not be in a hurry this night."

While they were talking, Li Yun walked in, looked at the two of them and said, "I have already asked the shopkeeper to prepare the food. After eating and resting, we will set off tomorrow morning."

Li Xiuyuan looked at her and smiled and said: "Sister Li Yun, this trip to Luoxia Mountain can be regarded as getting what you want. There are still two years left to strive for another breakthrough."

Li Yun sat down next to Nangong Ruyu, took a cup of hot tea from her hand, looked at Li Xiuyuan and laughed: "Do you want us to accept your favor?"

Li Xiuyuan looked at her and chuckled, and asked lightly: "Even if I ask you to accept my favor, how can you repay me? I don't need the resources for cultivation, I don't need gold coins, and I don't need elixirs.

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Li Yun couldn't help laughing when she heard this, took a sip of tea gently, looked at him and asked: "Don't you want your sister to marry you?"

Li Xiuyuan glared at her, shook his head and replied: "If you don't enter the extraordinary world, does it make sense to talk about worldly love?"

"Cha...Fan, you are really a monster." Li Yun looked at him and shook her head, with an incredible look on her face.

Without raising his head, Li Xiuyuan took a sip from the teacup and said, "If you don't enter the extraordinary world, you will enter the Shura battlefield. What will happen in the end? Do you still want to use the realm of cave heaven to embark on the road to heaven?"

Li Yun looked at the half cup of hot tea in her hand, frowned and asked, "Isn't it possible to go up to the cave heaven realm?"

Li Xiuyuan raised his head and said calmly after a long silence: "I can tell you that even if you go to the road to heaven, it will be just another more cruel Shura battlefield."

Nangong Ruyu looked at him and asked hesitantly: "Master, don't scare my sister. It shouldn't be that scary, right?"

"You don't have to believe it, just think I'm talking nonsense." Li Xiuyuan looked at him and shook his head, not wanting to say any more. He has already fulfilled his responsibility. Do you want to hear it or not.

"I'm hungry." Nangong Ruyu shouted as she looked at the food brought by the waiter. She had not had a few good hot meals or dishes during this trip.

"After we go, everything must be obeyed by me. If anyone else gets involved, I will turn around and leave." Li Xiuyuan was afraid of causing trouble again if he entered Taoyuan, so he told Nangong Ruyu.

"Master, don't worry, I will tell mother." From Nangong Ruyu's point of view, if there was some way, the family would have taken action long ago, and they would not wait for his master and apprentice to come back all the way.

"That's good, you know I'm afraid of trouble." Li Xiuyuan looked at the two of them and said quietly.

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When I came down from Luoxia Mountain, my destination was Baijin City.

Unexpectedly, by mistake, a group of bandits disrupted his plan. It was not until nine years later that he had the opportunity to visit this legendary city.

It’s just that after all these years, the expectations and surprises I had at the beginning are no longer there.

When the expectations turned into dullness, there was only a hint of dispensability left, not to mention that the master here was still Dongfang Yu'er's master, and even Qin Qianshan became half a master.

It has finally changed from a city of expectation to a city of decline.

Thinking of the old man's physical condition, Li Xiuyuan was afraid that he would not survive tomorrow.

That night, I asked the waiter for a small stove and charcoal, and then took a purple clay pot from the inn. I simmered it slowly in my room and cooked a pot of concoction containing the orchid.

As long as you go to Taoyuan and give it to the elderly, you will be able to see the effect in just two days.

A long night is easy to pass, especially for a monk like Li Xiuyuan who is away from home.

Before midnight, the three of them left the Taoyuan Inn. The three of them led four wildebeests and galloped towards the Taoyuan Valley.

The three of them ran in the wind and snow for more than an hour, and before noon, a majestic mountain appeared in front of them.

Li Yun led Li Xiuyuan through the formation, and Nangong Ruyu followed behind. In less than half an hour, they followed the road into the mountain and arrived at the foot of the palace where the woman in white was.

Looking up, I can see how high the mountains are, how many palaces there are, and the long distance is covered with layers of snow and fog.

The three of them came to the door of a small courtyard. Before Li Xiuyuan could get off his horse, Nangong Ruyu flew into the small courtyard: "Grandpa, Yu'er brought the master back to save you."

"Please dismount." Li Yun looked at Li Xiuyuan and said quietly: "Everything that follows depends on you to solve the problems for Yu'er and her grandfather."

Li Xiuyuan jumped off the wildebeest, handed the reins in his hand to her, and said: "Good people have their own destiny. There are many idiots in the world, and miracles will always happen."

"I can't believe that you still believe this?" Li Yun looked at him and said with a smile, and then led the wildebeest to the stable behind the small courtyard.

Li Xiuyuan tidied his clothes, took off his cloak, shook off the wind and snow, and walked into the small courtyard.

"After waiting for more than ten years, you are finally here."

The woman in white standing at the door of the living room is as white as Nangong Ruyu. Only two golden flowers are embroidered on the skirt, which highlights the difference between her and many practitioners in Taoyuan.

Standing at the door of the small courtyard, Li Xiuyuan cupped his hands and replied: "Long time no see, senior, you are always so nice!"

"What about you? You have disappeared for two years. I didn't expect you to reappear, but you are back to your youth again." Although the woman in white kept her face calm, there was already a shocking wave in her heart.

She never expected that Li Xiuyuan, who was supposed to be seventeen or eighteen years old, would be twelve years old again.

"God is so partial to you, you are incredible!" The woman in white made a gesture of invitation.

Li Xiuyuan lifted up the hem of his black clothes and walked in. As he walked, he said, "If you knew what kind of suffering I have experienced, you wouldn't have such envious eyes."

The woman in white was startled, looked at him and blurted out: "Did you encounter any danger in the ruins of death, or did you go to an unknown place?"

Li Xiuyuan looked at her and smiled, and replied: "You go and try it, and you will know?"

The woman in white looked at him and sighed, and said quietly: "Come in and see Yu'er's grandfather first, and we'll talk about other things later."

Li Xiuyuan shook his head, with a weird smile on his face, and quietly replied: "Everything has its own will!"
Chapter completed!