The bright moon hangs high and the sky is filled with stars.

The moonlight falls on the sand, as if covered with a layer of white gauze.

There was a commotion on the sand, and suddenly a cloud of dust was stirred up.

"Bah, what the hell is this place?"

I spat out a mouthful of sand and jumped out of the ground panting.

After leaving the ghost market, I headed west for two days and two nights.

In order to avoid extraneous branches, I had no choice but to crawl around on the ground like an earthworm.

The advantage is that there are no traffic lights and there will never be any traffic jams.

The disadvantage is that everything around you is the same and you can't tell your direction at all.

I can only show my head out from time to time to confirm the specific location.

It would be fine if it went north to Siberia, but it would be troublesome if it went south to the Golden Triangle.

Fortunately, my sense of direction is pretty good. Although I took a few detours, the general direction was not wrong.

At noon, I passed by Xijing and ate a bowl of mutton steamed buns. After wandering underground for most of the day, I was thirsty and hungry.

Gululu......

But the further west we go, the sparsely populated we become, and we don’t know where we are now.

I looked around and saw a hazy mist behind the low slope in front of me, and I heard the sound of water waves in the distance.

"Finally we have water to drink."

My figure flashed, and the divine court's broken star steps spread out under my feet.

In the blink of an eye, people have climbed over the short slope ahead.

Sure enough, in front of this low slope, a huge lake suddenly appeared.

Under the moonlight, the lake water sparkles and the beach is full of fluorescence.

I felt so happy that I dived down towards the lake.

Looking at the sparkling lake water, I couldn't help but bend down, pick up a bay of water buffalo and drink from it.

Unexpectedly, after the lake water entered the throat, it felt salty and astringent.

"Bah, bah...why is this water so salty?"

I scratched my head and looked at the endless water in front of me, full of doubts.

"This water is simply saltier than sea water. What's going on? Could it have strayed to Southeast Asia?"

I lowered my head and looked at the beach under my feet, and then I realized that the beach under my feet was completely white.

I was so hungry and thirsty that I didn't notice it before, thinking that the beach was the fluorescent light reflected by the moonlight.

Looking carefully now, the "grains of sand" by the lake are all white.

I reached out and touched the water, grabbed a handful of fine sand, put it to my mouth and sipped it, and sure enough, there was a salty taste in my mouth.

"Donor, this Cuowenbu is the largest saltwater lake in China. The water from the lake cannot be drank directly.

If all the salt here was refined, it would take thousands of years to finish."

At this moment, a childish voice suddenly came into my ears.

I turned around and looked around, and saw a young monk with a yellow monk's robe slung across his body walking along the lake.

The little monk's robes were covered with filth, his complexion was dark yellow, and his skin was full of cracks due to exposure to the sun and rain.

A pair of monk shoes were in tatters and the toes were exposed.

It seemed that this little monk had traveled a long way, and he didn't know where he came from.

I slowly raised my hand and nodded slightly towards the little monk.

"Little master, what is Tso Wenbu you just mentioned.

I just asked where this place is and how far it is from the Qilian Mountains?"

Xiaofanseng raised his head and blinked at me, and after a long while he spoke.

"Cowenbu in Chinese means Qinghai Lake, and this is the south bank of Cuowenbu.

I have never been to the Qilian Mountains you mentioned, but my master said that Cuowenbu was formed by the collapse of the fault between Datong Mountain, Riyue Mountain and Nanshan Mountain in the northern Qilian Mountains.

The Qilian Mountains should be to the north of Cuowenbu.

However, Lake Cuowenbu is very large, with a circumference of more than 300 kilometers around the lake.

I walked all the way along the lake in the west, and it took me a full week to get here."

After the little monk in front of me explained it, I had a general understanding of where I am now.

"Thank you so much, little master."

I raised my hands to the young monk and bowed before turning around and leaving.

"donor…………"

At this moment, Xiao Fanseng suddenly called me.

"Is there anything else, young master?"

I looked at Xiao Fanseng twice, wondering if he wanted to seek alms from me?

I saw the little monk bowing to me in return, then he took off a worn water bag from his body and handed it to me.

The surface of the water bladder was polished to reflect light, and it looked a little shriveled. It was obvious that there was not much water inside.

"I still have some fresh water here. If the donor is thirsty, you might as well take it and drink it."

Looking at Xiao Fanseng's innocent eyes, I couldn't help but feel a little ashamed, but I was a little superficial.

I took the water bag, weighed it in my hand, and looked at the little monk with interest.

"There is not much water in here. If I drink it all, what will you drink next?"

"It's okay, I just drank water and I'm not very thirsty now."

Xiao Fanseng pursed his lips, and it could be seen that he had not drank water for a long time.

However, in order for me to drink water with peace of mind, I still shook my head.

Originally, I looked down on these bald heads from the bottom of my heart, but now it seems that there is no shortage of pure practitioners in both Buddhism and Taoism.

It's not the world that's dirty, it's just the human heart that's dirty.

"Monks don't lie. What you're doing is wrong."

I shook the pond in my hand and strode toward the lake.

"Waiting..."

Little Fanseng didn't know what I was going to do, so he stood there with a curious look on his face.

I walked to the lakeside and squeezed the spell with my hands, and streams of lake water swirled up from the lake surface, condensing into water balls in mid-air.

Immediately afterwards, Nanming Lihuo rose from the palm of his hand, and under the transpiration of the flames, crystal clear water drops separated out.

"receive!"

I rotated my fingers slightly, and the separated water droplets poured into the water bag.

After a while, the originally dry and shriveled water bladder became bulging.

The young monks on the side were all stunned and stared at me.

I raised the water bag, took two big gulps, and then handed the water bag back to the little monk.

"Taste it?"

The young monk took the water bag, put it to his mouth doubtfully and took a sip. He found that there was no salty taste in the water.

Then he started drinking guzzlingly, and after a long time he was satisfied and put down the water bag.

"Thank you very much, the donor. The donor is really the Buddha who saves the suffering. Please accept the little monk's worship."

As he spoke, Monk Xiaofan knelt down on the ground, ready to give me the great gift of bowing to the ground.

"No, no, no...get up quickly, our Taoist sect is not into this kind of thing.

I'm afraid my life will be shortened if I receive such a big gift from you for no reason..."

I quickly helped Xiao Fanseng up and started to explain.

Gululu......

At this moment, Xiao Fanseng and I's stomachs began to growl at the same time.

Xiao Fanseng scratched his head in embarrassment and took out a dry and yellow steamed bun from his pocket.
Chapter completed!