Celestial Immortal

Chapter 610 Meeting Qingzhu Layman Again
After half a day, Chu Chen arrived at Yunzhou City with the little ghost boy.

This time, Mr. Chu Jun Mingjing will summon the mountain chiefs of the Taoist temples in the counties of the southwestern eight states in the Yunzhou Taoist Temple.

Wanquan County is close to Zhoucheng, so it is relatively early, and the mountain growth meeting will start tomorrow, so there is more than enough time, so Chu Chen stopped by Zhoucheng to meet Han Chen.

But it's a pity that Han Chen has just taken up the post of deputy governor of Xinzhou, and he has a lot of things to do, so it just so happened that he went out on business.

Ever since, Chu Chen took the little devil to visit the state city to see the different scenery of the border states and counties.

"Senior brother, the prefectures and counties outside Guanwai are really different from the middle land of Kyushu."

The little ghost sat on Chu Chen's shoulder, holding an oil-paper umbrella invisible to ordinary people, looking left and right, his face was full of curiosity, and he was in a great mood.

Chu Chen nodded slightly.

Compared with the land of Middle-earth, the states and counties outside the Guan are relatively rough.

From the architectural point of view, it can be seen that from shops and teahouses to wealthy families, there is no refinement and elegance in the customs, and everything pays attention to a solid structure.

The people I met on the road were full of evil spirits, not only the monks, but ordinary people were also extremely tough, even the traffickers and pawns had martial arts in their bodies, full of energy and blood, and the evil spirit was soaring to the sky.

One side's water and soil support one side's people, and under the harsh natural environment, the people outside the customs are bred.

Of course, the biggest feature of the prefectures and counties outside the Guanwai, and what surprised Chu Chen the most, was that the prefectures and counties outside the Guanwai were rich in resources, and there was no need to go to the monks' square city or the ghost market for all kinds of spiritual materials and treasures.

There are shops dedicated to entertaining monks on the street.

After wandering around casually, he spent five thousand jade coins to receive the alchemy medicine he liked, and bought a bunch of weird gadgets for the little ghost boy, spending two hundred jade coins.

Speaking of which, Chu Chen still has a lot of money at the moment.

A year ago, he took an adventure in the East China Sea Moyuan and gained 150 million jade coins, and spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy 500-year-old spirit beans. The various expenses such as the four elephant incense required for military training are not small.

Especially the fairy medicine [Feilong Yunyu] is extremely expensive.

Fortunately, with the improvement of Chu Chen's alchemy skills, he has not lost money in alchemy for a long time, and occasionally he can make up for his cultivation needs by refining some elixir.

Right now, he still has 50 jade coins in his small treasury, so he doesn't have to worry about spending it for the time being.

"Hey~ Brother Ling Xiao, is that you?"

Chu Chen had just entered a well-decorated pharmacy, and heard a slightly familiar sound transmission from his spiritual consciousness. Curious, he searched for the sound and left.

At that moment, he saw a little Taoist boy with pink and jade carvings, red lips and white teeth carrying a medicine box, looking at him in surprise.

"Junior Zizhu."

Chu Chen was a little surprised, the person who came was none other than Xiaodaotong who was serving by layman Qingzhu.

At the beginning, he went to the Taoist Temple of the Imperial Capital alone to attend the Metropolitan Conference. During the assessment at the mountain gate, Layman Qingzhu favored him very much. During the half a year of sublimation in the Taoist Academy, Layman Qingzhu taught him scriptures and Dharma, and took good care of him.

After more than two years, he still remembers it deeply.

"Zizhu, senior Qingzhu transferred to outside the pass?"

Chu Chen was quite pleased that Zizhu Xiaodaotong appeared in Yunzhou tens of thousands of miles away, which meant that Senior Qingzhu had also come.

"That's right, ~Senior Brother Ling Xiao, my master came to the southwest with Mr. Ming Jing, and he just arrived in Yunzhou. The master must be very happy to see you."

After finishing speaking, Zizhu Xiaodaotong excitedly pulled Chu Chen to take him to see Layman Qingzhu.

Chu Chen had nothing to do at the moment, so he was naturally willing to visit the senior who took good care of him in the past.

After talking on the road, Chu Chen learned that Senior Layman Qingzhu had also transferred to Yunzhou.

What's even more coincidental is that his immediate boss, the mountain head of the State Taoist Academy, is in charge of the education of Yunzhou.

A few days ago, Chu Chen went to the Yunzhou Taoist Academy to collect resources for the construction of the Taoist Academy. He wondered why the head of the Yunzhou Taoist Academy was vacant.

Yunzhou Taoist Temple is more than 100 miles away from the city, and the two arrived soon.

Tong Qingche of Zizhu Trail took Chu Chen straight to a quiet mountain garden in the back mountain of Yunzhou Daoyuan, muttering:
"Master, look who is here."

In the mountain garden, a divine sense landed on Chu Chen's body, and then there was a clear laughter.

"Boy Ling Xiao, I've been waiting for a long time, come in quickly."

Chu Chen smiled, and hurried into the mountain garden with Xiaodaotong.

In the courtyard of the mountain garden, the bamboo grove is billowing. Layman Qingzhu is dressed in white and sits in the gazebo drinking, which is quite comfortable.

"The disciple has seen the senior."

Chu Chen respectfully performed a disciple salute.

"No need to be polite."

Layman Qingzhu waved his hand, leading Chu Chen to sit down:

"Ling Xiao, you really surprised me."

Seeing that Chu Chen was puzzled, Layman Qingzhu explained with a smile:
"I just took office as the mountain chief of the prefecture, and I saw you when I looked at the resumes of the mountain chiefs in various counties. This really shocked me. In just two years, you have broken through to the fifth-grade Taoism."

"At first, I couldn't believe it. I thought I had identified the wrong person. I checked my resume again and again, and then I was sure it was you."

Layman Qingzhu joked a lot, but in his heart he was extremely pleased.

Back then, his eyesight was fine, and it really made him discover a good seedling.

Seeing Layman Qingzhu's praises repeatedly, Chu Chen immediately took over the wine jar with a smile and took over the work of pouring wine:
"Thanks to the guidance of my predecessors in the past, I have laid a solid foundation for me, and I have not encountered any bottlenecks in my follow-up practice."

"You have such good luck, it is your talent and hard work."

Layman Qingzhu took the spirit wine that Chu Chen held up, feeling very relieved, and asked with a smile:
"Did you slack off in Confucian classics in the past two years?"

"Never slack off, recite and comprehend Taoism scriptures every day."

Chu Chen's words did not come out of his mouth, but to seek truth from facts, especially this year's sublimation in Guangping Taoist Temple, he has never been delayed in chanting scriptures and enlightenment, even if there is something delayed, he will make up for it another day.

"That's good."

Layman Qingzhu joked with a smile: "I'm afraid that you will go too smoothly all the way, obsessed with supernatural powers and spells, and ignore scriptures and Taoism."

Chu Chen's heart moved when he heard Senior Qingzhu's words.

Sure enough, as he guessed, Mr. Ming Jing summoned a group of mountain chiefs, not only for lectures, but also for the purpose of school examination.

"Senior Qingzhu, Mr. Mingjing will be assessed this time?"

Layman Qingzhu nodded again and again:

"That's right. There will be an assessment this time. If you perform well, not only will the County Daoist Academy have resources, but you mountain leaders will also have a lot of money."

"It's not just this time that there will be school examinations, there will be regular assessments and appraisals from various Daoyuan colleges in the future. It's not easy for you to be the head of the county Daoyuan!"

After finishing speaking, Layman Qingzhu said with emotion:
"Speaking of which, Mr. Mingjing was a little impatient when he used you, and he actually asked you to be the head of Wanquan Taoist Academy. You have a good foundation in Confucianism, and you are also extremely talented. You have learned from many schools and dabbled in a lot of things, but after all, you have only a short time to practice Taoism. .”

"The mountain chiefs of Taoist schools in other counties have practiced for dozens of years. They have subconsciously studied Confucianism and Taoism, and they have been preaching and disseminating Dharma for many years. There are so many disciples. Compared with them, your accumulation in all aspects is far behind."

Hearing this, Chu Chen nodded again and again, forcing out a forced smile. To be honest, his background is indeed a little shallow at the moment.

There is some faint pressure.

It's not because he's afraid that Wanquan Daoyuan will fall behind and lose face, but because he's worried about misleading his disciples.

(End of this chapter)