Lin Ze stood in front of the Taoist saint who was meditating cross-legged and enlightened, bowed and said: "Unworthy disciple, pay homage to the teacher."
Dao Sheng opened his eyes, glanced at Lin Ze indifferently, and said in a cold tone: "You know you are wrong?"
Lin Ze sighed, pretending to be sad and said: "I have always known that I was wrong, but the temptation to become a saint is too great. I cannot control it. I hope the teacher will understand."
The Taoist Saint stood up, walked slowly to Lin Ze, suppressed his anger and said: "Considerate? I have been waiting for this opportunity for a full ten thousand years, and I don't know how many times I have planned it secretly. You want me to let go with just a word of consideration."
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"If it were you, would you let it go?"
Lin Ze silently replied in his heart: "Of course I'll let it go. Besides, didn't you punish me with three years of seclusion? Why are you being pursued again now? It's not good to do one thing in front of others and another behind the scenes."
He wanted to think about it, but Lin Ze's attitude on the surface was very upright. He bowed and said, "Disciple is willing to accept the teacher's arbitrary punishment."
Tao Sheng sneered and said: "Punishment? If punishing you can bring you opportunities, do you think I will be merciful as a master? What's the use of punishing you?"
Lin Ze took another step back: "I don't know how to make the teacher calm down. Please give me some advice. As long as you can make the teacher calm down, I will try my best to do it even if I go through fire and water, and go to poverty and fall into hell."
Zhuang Zhou on the side saw this and helped: "Teacher, although junior brother did make a big mistake, he is indeed excusable. Now that junior brother admits his mistake sincerely, please forgive him."
Hearing this, Dao Sheng seemed to have been stimulated by something, and said angrily to Zhuang Zhou: "Shut up, my master asked you to take good care of your little junior brother, what do you think? Today he took away the opportunity to be my master, what's wrong with you?
Shirking responsibility.”
Zhuang Zhou knelt down in front of the Taoist sage with a bang, his face full of sincerity: "I know my mistake, please punish me."
Dao Sheng became even more angry when he heard this: "Punish, punish, not to mention punishment. If it is useful, I can beat you half to death."
Zhuang Zhou was as silent as a cicada and did not dare to reply.
Seeing Zhuang Zhou's angry look, the Taoist sage dissipated a lot of his anger and said coldly: "Get up, you are still in the realm of a saint after all, and your character is consistent with my teacher. I can't bear such a big gift."
Zhuang Zhou laughed along and said: "It is human nature to respect teachers and respect the Tao. Of course the teacher can bear it."
Taoist Saint saw Zhuang Zhou looking lazy and could not help but frown slightly and scolded: "Get up quickly."
Zhuang Zhou was shocked and hurriedly got up from the ground and stood in front of the Taoist sage, like a primary school student.
Lin Ze had a weird look on his face. If it weren't for Zhuang Zhou interceding for him, kneeling down, and being reprimanded by the Taoist Saint, everyone would probably have laughed like a pig.
The Taoist sage ignored Zhuang Zhou, but looked at Lin Ze and said in an indifferent tone: "You just said that if you can help the teacher calm down, you are willing to do anything?"
Lin Ze knew there was something going on as soon as he heard it, and quickly responded: "Teacher, no matter whether the disciple can do it or not, he will do his best regardless of his instructions. No matter how difficult it is, the disciple will never frown at all."
The Taoist Saint said with a complex expression: "Master, I will trust you for once. I hope you will not disappoint me."
Lin Ze vowed: "Absolutely not."
Although Lin Ze said it beautifully, he had also said before that he was just going all out. If the task given by the Taoist Saint was too difficult, Lin Ze could only express his inability to do it.
However, Taoist Saint seemed to accept Lin Ze's attitude, nodded and said: "You have this intention, I am very happy for you. There is indeed something that you need to do your best."
Lin Ze bowed and responded: "Teacher, please speak."
The Taoist Saint did not rush to speak out, but waved his hand to place a ban, covering the entire back mountain.
In the huge back mountain, except for Daoshengzhuang Zhou Linze and a green cow that just lowered its head and grazed, there was not even an insect or bird.
Then the Taoist sage said to Zhuang Zhou with a bad look on his face: "Master, you must do your best to assist your junior brother in completing what I will tell you next. Listen carefully. If something goes wrong again, I will deal with it with you."
Zhuang Zhou quickly corrected his attitude and said: "Teacher, no matter what the instructions, the disciple will never miss a word."
The Taoist Saint's expression returned to calm, and he said calmly: "Have you two heard of the Jianmu Sacred Tree?"
Zhuang Zhou asked in surprise: "What the teacher said is the sacred tree that connects heaven and earth?"
Dao Sheng nodded and said: "Yes."
Lin Ze's expression moved slightly. The legendary Jianmu tree that connects heaven and earth?
Then he sighed secretly: This is really the age of myths. Even the Jianmu Sacred Tree has appeared. Will the Fuso Sacred Tree, the Great Sun and the Golden Crow appear next?
Zhuang Zhou frowned slightly and said, "Teacher, isn't the Jianmu Sacred Tree a legendary sacred object of the ancient demon clan? Legend has it that in those days, the powerful demon clan fought for the ownership of the heaven and the position of the Emperor of Heaven, and the fight turned the world upside down."
"In order to dominate the heaven, the last emperor of heaven brazenly cut off the Jianmu sacred tree, and heaven and man were separated from each other. That person once thought about reconnecting the heavens and the human world, but because the Jianmu sacred tree was destroyed, he did not do so."
"For this reason, the One who created the Outer Heaven himself, and used the great calamity to avoid excessive destruction of life, sent all the heavenly beings to the Outer Heaven to be imprisoned for thousands of years."
"I wonder what the teacher meant when he suddenly mentioned the Jianmu Sacred Tree?"
The Taoist sage glanced at Zhuang Zhou coldly: "Don't talk nonsense, ask less questions, and don't delay explaining the important things to the master."
As expected, Zhuang Zhou replied sincerely: "Okay."
The Taoist Saint then corrected him with a serious expression: "It is true that the Jianmu Sacred Tree connects the heaven and the human world, but it is not a sacred object of the demon clan, but a sacred object of heaven and earth."
"The reason why the demon tribe that originally dominated the world prospered and then declined is because the sacred tree of Jianmu was cut off, so that the law of heaven came back and the luck withered."
Zhuang Zhou couldn't help but ask: "The teacher suddenly mentioned the sacred tree of Jianmu, but the next instructions are related to it?"
The Taoist Saint replied seriously: "Yes, my master plans to reshape the Jianmu Sacred Tree and reopen the passage between heaven and earth."
Lin Zezhuangzhou looked at each other, a little unsure as to what the Taoist Saint was thinking. He actually wanted to reshape the legendary Jianmu Sacred Tree. Did that just reshape it?
This kind of thing is only recorded in classics and no one knows its existence. How can we reshape it? Do we rely on words?
The Taoist Saint saw the strange expressions on Lin Ze's faces and said displeasedly: "Why, you are not happy?"
Lin Ze immediately replied: "Of course I am not unhappy. The teacher has misunderstood. The disciple and senior brother are just thinking about how to reshape the Jianmu Sacred Tree. They have no ideas for a while and dare not respond to the teacher casually."
The Taoist Saint snorted coldly: "This is barely acceptable, but since my master has brought this point up, he has his own method of reshaping it, and I will pass it on to you two."
After speaking, without waiting for Lin Ze and Zhuang Zhou's reaction, Taoist Saint stretched out his right hand and tapped the foreheads of the two of them one after another. A huge amount of information suddenly poured into their minds.
If Lin Ze hadn't been promoted to the saint realm, he would have had a headache.