The moon sets and the sun rises, and the golden rooster crows.
After living in the old house for a day, Jiang Xuan said goodbye to his parents and wife in the morning light, and flew towards the ancestral land of Shenxiao on the clouds.
Shenxiao Ancestral Land is the mountain gate of Shenxiao Sect on the land of China.
However, because the spiritual energy of China was far less than that of the Immortal Realm and Heaven, the Ju Sect moved away and became the ancestral land.
Its height is only a few thousand feet, and even if the spiritual energy of China flourishes and the earth's veins undergo major changes, its height cannot be changed.
So in terms of mountain height, such a high mountain peak is definitely not worthy of the status of the Shenxiao Sect.
But the mountain is not high, if there are immortals, there will be spirits.
The Ancestral Land of Shenxiao is the fairy mountain in the hearts of Shenxiao disciples.
The sect draws lots every year to decide who will return to the mountain gate to guard the mountain, and on that day, many disciples will always sign up to have a look at the ancestral land.
After all, the disciples who have joined the Shenxiao sect in the past few hundred years have never been to the ancestral land of Shenxiao.
Therefore, the Shenxiao Peak located in China is mysterious to them and worthy of their yearning.
Press the cloud head and land on the bluestone square in front of Shenxiao Peak. Looking up, you can see a Taoist dressed in green holding a broom with many gaps in his hand, sweeping the bluestone steps covered with dead leaves.
After staring at the Taoist's once very familiar face for a while, but now looking a little unfamiliar, Jiang Xuan then raised his feet, stepped on the steps step by step, came to the Taoist's side, and bowed respectfully, "Fifth Senior Uncle."
Yang Shoutian nodded when he heard this, "Here he comes."
After he finished speaking, he couldn't help but point at Jiang Xuan, "Why are you so obedient today?"
Jiang Xuan was silent for a long time before he asked, "Fifth Senior Uncle, I have something unclear."
"If you don't understand, just ask. Why are you being polite to me?"
"You were not so polite when you asked me to learn magical powers and ask for magic weapons."
Recalling the scenes when he first entered the Taoist path, Jiang Xuan's face relaxed a little, and the corners of his mouth turned up slightly, as if he remembered those interesting things from back then.
But this smile only lasted for a moment.
A moment later, he asked seriously again:
"Fifth uncle, I would like to ask if the Divine State is shattered and all the origins are taken away, and the disciples, many uncles, and ancestors all die in battle, and there will be only one Fusion Dao Realm monk left in the entire world and a group of magical powers who survived the expedition.
Monk."
"These people burn their own roots and want to save the world. Can they really save it?"
"Even if their sacrifices left a trace of fire in China, but with no one to rely on, can those powerful enemies really not discover that China has left a trace of fire? Will they allow China to exist?"
The expression on Yang Shoutian's face did not change when he heard this. He still smiled and pointed at Jiang Xuan, "You are good at everything, you just like to get to the bottom of things."
After he finished speaking, he wanted to say something else, but suddenly there was a call from the top of the mountain, "Master, it's time to eat~"
The voice was still echoing in the sky, and I saw the girl tearing through the clouds and coming with her sword. After a moment, she landed next to the two of them, "Hey, little senior brother, you are here too."
"I just made a pot of haggis soup with the fruits of the star tree. Let's eat together~"
Looking at the smiling Qiaoran beside him, Jiang Xuan couldn't help but knock his head, "I remember that the fruit of the star tree is astringent, right? Can I eat the stewed haggis soup?"
Shi Lai shook his head, showing an innocent expression, "I don't know either."
"But Master always told me to have a spirit of exploration, whether it is cultivation or other things."
Hearing this, Jiang Xuan immediately answered her words:
"So you make some weird things every once in a while and make them for your master?"
Shi Lai stuck out his tongue and retorted, "Yao'er and Master often eat it, but in the past few decades, Yao'er has gone into seclusion and Master has gone to move the world, so he has no chance to eat it."
With that said, she pulled up Jiang Xuan's sleeves again, "Let's go, little brother, I've been simmering that pot of haggis soup for three years."
"The fruit is the fruit of the Innate Star Tree, and the sheep is the Six Realm Yellow Sheep of the Yellow Sheep Realm."
"These two things are a perfect match when stewed together, and they taste delicious."
He shrugged his nose and smelled a wisp of meaty aroma falling from the top of the mountain. Jiang Xuan had to admit that he was right about picking it up.
Regardless of how it tastes, the aroma is indeed appetizing.
Yang Shoutian, who was standing by, saw Shi Lai dragging Jiang Xuan to the top of the mountain, and for some reason he suddenly laughed.
Then he waved his sleeves, causing clouds to form on the soles of his feet, and before Jiang Xuan could react, he took the two senior brothers and sisters who were dragging Zheng Huan to the top of the mountain.
"Okay, now that we've got it together, let's try the skills we picked up."
At this point, he wanted to say something else. When he saw the death stare from Shi Lai, he couldn't help but said against his will, "Well, Shi Lai's craftsmanship is quite good."
Hearing this, Shi Lai smiled, then ran to the Xiantian Star Tree, which was still only about two meters high, and patted its trunk, "Small tree, do you want to eat haggis soup, stewed with your fruits?"
Mutton~”
As soon as the words fell, the star tree trembled, and then the dozens of fruits originally hanging on the branches disappeared instantly. Jiang Xuan also received a message the next second.
That means it wants to move.
Smiling, he walked to the Sacred Star Tree and patted its trunk. Jiang Xuan then tapped his fingertips, and countless world origins appeared out of thin air and poured into the trunk of the Sacred Tree.
Then he stretched out his hand and pointed toward the sky.
Then countless starlight poured down, forming a starlight tree on the sky that was no different from the star tree.
After a while, the Starlight Sacred Tree disappeared, and the Star Sacred Tree also happily arranged its branches in the breeze.
Feeling the message of thanks sent to him by the Star Sacred Tree, Jiang Xuan smiled and patted its trunk again, and then walked to the stone table not far away.
Well, this stone table was originally used by his ancestors to play chess, and even now it is still filled with Taoist charm.
But now it is regarded as a dining table by Master and Disciple Yang Shoutian.
I wonder if Lu Wanjiang, the leader of the chess sect, would be so angry that he would beat his chest when he saw it.
While thinking about it with a smile, I picked it up and brought a pot of crystal clear mutton soup to me.
Jiang Xuan lowered his head and glanced at the mutton soup that seemed to be pregnant with a sea of stars, as well as the mutton floating in the mutton soup like stars. Jiang Xuan couldn't help but nodded.
The presentation is excellent and the fragrance is refreshing, very good.
Not to mention the taste, there are two kinds of light, color and fragrance. It is really good when you pick it up.
"Danglang~"
While thinking, he picked up two more sets of bowls and chopsticks and placed them in front of Jiang Xuan and Yang Shoutian, then looked at them expectantly.
Seeing this, Jiang Xuan raised his eyebrows slightly speechlessly, "Why don't you eat it yourself?"
After picking it up, he confidently said, "The good stuff comes from master, of course. Senior brothers, you eat it first."
"Gather and eat what you have left."
Turning to look at the large pot of haggis soup at the side, Jiang Xuan angrily tapped her head with his finger, "You little girl, don't follow Jiang Yao's example."
After saying this, he saw Ye Shoutian eating haggis soup and marveling at it. Jiang Xuan couldn't help but fill up a bowl of soup.
He picked up a spoon and put some soup and mutton into his mouth. The next moment, he frowned deeply.
How do you describe this taste?
Astringent and bitter, bitter and salty, but salty with a little sour and spicy inside.
Of the five flavors in the world, sweetness is the only one lacking.
Reluctantly swallowing the broth, Jiang Xuan felt like he had swallowed a hot dumpling again.
Spicy throat.
He opened his mouth and blew out a puff of thick smoke. Looking at Yang Shoutian on the other side who was even worse than himself, he couldn't help but choked in silence, "Fifth Senior Uncle, you don't have to trick me like this, right?"
Yang Shoutian laughed loudly, "It's not easy to see your kid being defeated. It's a rare opportunity, so I'm going to trick you."
As he spoke, he coughed twice more, and thick black smoke came out of his coughing orifices.
Seeing this, Jiang Xuan turned his attention to Shi Lai again and said, "Junior sister, how did you stew this pot of haggis soup?"
"why why."
After thinking for a while, Jiang Xuan finally found a word, "Why can you stew soup with such colorful flavors?"
Shilai Wenyan, who was staring at the haggis soup in a daze, said, "I didn't use many ingredients."
"The water is the netherworld water from the netherworld spring, with the addition of Scorching Sun Flower and Light Spirit Fruit to remove the netherworld aura, making it have a long aftertaste."
"Sheep are the yellow sheep of the yellow sheep world. If you name that world the yellow sheep, you know that the yellow sheep of that world are a specialty. Not only the meat is delicious, but the bone marrow is also outstanding."
"In addition, I also added star fruit, nine-color spikes, sycamore leaves, enlightenment lotus and other natural and earthly treasures. Logically speaking, it should be delicious."
"I used these things and added honey to stew the black bear's paws, and they were delicious."
"Master also said that it has all five flavors, and not a drop of soup was left for me."
"Is it because of the lack of honey?"
"Well, it must be the honey!"
Having said this, she raised another cloud and waved her hand towards Jiang Xuan, "Senior brother, I will go to the flower world to collect honey. Wait until I come back and I will cook you a pot of yellow sheep soup."
After saying that, she had already disappeared from Jiang Xuan's sight on the white clouds.
Seeing this, Jiang Xuan shook his head helplessly.
I don’t know when this girl fell in love with cooking. She doesn’t go to the kitchen to learn from the experience, but she likes to stew in iron pots. It’s really outrageous.
Feeling sad in his heart, Jiang Xuan raised his head again and looked at his fifth uncle.
Seeing that he was preparing to bring up old matters again to find out what happened, Yang Shoutian sighed helplessly and walked to the edge of the cliff, looking at the endless hills in front of the mountain.
"Let me tell you a story."
Jiang Xuan, who was standing next to Yang Shoutian and also looking at the hills, nodded.
Then he waited for a long time before he heard a story slowly spit out from Yang Shoutian's mouth.
"A long time ago, in a very small world, there was a village that was devastated by war."
"After the military disaster, there were only nine people left in that large village with a population of nearly 10,000."
"A pig butcher, a fortune teller, a farmer, a bookkeeper, an embroiderer, a lady that ordinary people call a lady, a scholar, and two little kids of five or six years old."
"Nine people, they spent a lot of effort to bury nearly ten thousand people. Of course, they didn't bury them one by one. They just piled the corpses together and set up a monument and said it was a tomb, but it was almost like a mass grave."
"After burying those people, the nine people swore revenge on the people in the village, and then they separated."
"Of course, they say they are separated, but letters are exchanged almost every month."
"Later, the noble lady found a way to enter the palace and stole a copy of the exercises to everyone. After everyone got the exercises, they got together again, but the noble lady was the only one missing."
"After finally asking around, I found out that she had stolen the skills and was beaten to death in front of the palace."
"So the remaining people have one more target for revenge."
"I don't know if all the luck of the village is concentrated on the remaining eight people, and I want them to help them take revenge."
"Anyway, those eight people have very good cultivation qualifications. In just ten years, the eight of them together can be said to be invincible in this world."
"Then they fulfilled the oath they had discovered."
"The nine tribes who started the war were wiped out, and the prince's palace was also killed by them, leaving nothing behind."
"Just when they thought their great revenge had been avenged and they could live a long life, there was another invasion from another world, and all life in the world was in ruins."
"You should be able to guess what happens next."
"Those eight people are just like you now. They kill people when others stand in their way, and kill Buddha when they stand in their way. They have a smooth journey. Anyone who makes enemies with them will not end well."
"Of course, what you are doing now is much better than them."
"At that time, they fought all the way from the small world to the middle world, and then from the middle world to the big world. Finally, they took the origins of countless worlds and turned around to cultivate the world that gave birth to them into the supreme world."
"And the world that gave birth to them is called the Dapin Celestial World."
"Then they succeeded in attaining enlightenment through the power of the Dapin Celestial Realm."
"Hey, don't you think it's strange? Of the eight people who preached, not one of them failed."
Listening to Yang Shoutian slowly telling all the secrets, Jiang Xuan was silent for a moment, and then said with some certainty, "So the fifth master uncle."
"Are you Taixuan Tianzun?"
"Is that the scholar too?"
Yang Shoutian shook his head, "I am Taixuan Tianzun, but I am not that scholar."
"I'm the one who kills the pig."
"Of course, I am your fifth uncle now."
Jiang Xuan was silent again.
He couldn't imagine the way his fifth uncle held the butcher's knife, let alone the way Taixuan Tianzun picked up the butcher's knife.
In his opinion, Sikou looked more like a pig butcher.
As if he had guessed what Jiang Xuan was thinking, Yang Shoutian continued, "The scholar is Sikou. He is the eldest and the first among the eight of us to attain enlightenment."
Jiang Xuan continued to be silent.
Yang Shoutian didn't care what expression he showed, he still talked to himself.
"Do you know why I fell out with them?"
"Maybe it's because of the embroiderer."
"After I had to take revenge, I got married to Xiu Niang, and we have been together for endless years."
"But you should also know that our temperament back then could be said to have no inhibitions."
"One day, the embroiderer was curious about how the star spirits were born, so she caught one."
"But before she could study it, the remaining stars all attacked her."
"The embroiderer didn't even have time to wait for us to take action, and her beauty disappeared."
"Then we fought with the Star Spirits for a long time. It was so long that the avenue was almost broken and the road to enlightenment was completely broken. Only then did Zhiya and the others stop us."
"Then in order to take revenge, we tried every means to search for resources in the world, hoping to improve our strength and step onto the path of enlightenment."