Traveling north for twenty miles, there is no wind passing through the peach forest. The peach forest is lush and lush. On Peach Mountain, how deep is the peach forest? How many branches are bent by the fat peach trees?

Ye Cang used his feet to pull down the peach branch. In his other hand, he held a dead peach tree that he picked up somewhere. There was an underhook on the other end of the dead wood, which could just catch the red mountain peach that could not be picked.

Ye Cang looked up at the mountain peaches on the top of the peach tree and sighed slightly. The taller the mountain peaches are, the brighter they are and the less astringent they are.

Ye Cang let out a long sigh and said, "I don't know where it went. Things that were easy in the past have become difficult for a while."

Just like the Master said: "Sometimes it's like this. When I'm with you, it's normal. When I'm away from you for a while, things around me become unsatisfactory."

Ye Cang looked at the peach tree and shook his head: "The peach branches are too brittle, so you can't go up there. The old abbot said that there are three thousand graves in Taoshan. Don't step on them, don't be surprised, for fear of disturbing the ancestors."

Ye Cang stood up and carried the basket on his back as usual, but he was much more tired than before and the basket on his back was also much lighter.

Ye Cang frowned slightly, but he couldn't get angry. Monkeys are the most evasive, it's their nature.

Ye Cang couldn't help but smile: "Master said that following destiny, following nature, and being true to one's heart, you can take shortcuts, maybe that's what it means."

Ye Cang carried the basket forward and murmured: "But what is the Tao?"

Two or three miles outside the peach grove, where Ye Cang couldn't see, a divine golden ape wearing purple and gold armor stood there, looking in Ye Cang's direction for a long time.

The golden ape is wearing purple-gold armor, a gold crown on his head, and cloud boots. There is a golden monkey standing on the golden ape's shoulder. Who is that if not the golden monkey that walks with Ye Cang every day?

The golden-haired monkey pulled the blond hair of Shenwu Golden Monkey and kept chirping.

The little golden monkey's eyes also saw Ye Cang through far away. Perhaps this is why the little golden monkey can always find Ye Cang when he is in the mountains.

The eyes of the Shenwu Golden Ape were like fire, and there was a little golden light, and his eyes were like torches, and he said in a deep voice through the forest: "It's not the time yet..."

The face of the Shenwu Golden Ape was calm, neither sad nor happy, and nothing could be seen. He turned his back to Ye Cang and walked away. The little golden monkey on his shoulder became a little anxious and pulled the Shenwu Golden Ape's golden temple hair.

The Shenwu Golden Ape shook his head and comforted himself slightly. He looked at the sky above Peach Mountain with his torch-like golden eyes. In the golden ape's eyes, thick tree trunks appeared in the Shenwu Golden Ape's eyes.

The huge flat peach tree is rooted on the top of Peach Mountain, and its root system is intricately wrapped around half of Peach Mountain. The old pole is mottled with dragon scales, like an old dragon entrenched.

The branches are intertwined, and the whole peach tree looks bigger than the entire half of Peach Mountain. There are three thousand fruits hanging on the peach tree.

Those are not the appearance of flat peach fruits. Some are like swords, fire and ice, and some are even more mysterious and indescribable.

Three thousand peach fruits exude a dense fairy light, and the ancient atmosphere permeates the fruits. The fruits are outlined with complex patterns and runes, which are very deep, as if they were made by nature.

The dense immortal light neither increases nor decreases, never disappears, and is difficult to imagine and describe. Among the three thousand fruits, only one golden fruit rune is dim, and the dense aura is broken, like a withered fruit.

There is a black nest sitting on the flat peach tree. There are some faint traces and lines on the black nest, but they are not as good as those of the three thousand fruits. The lines on the black nest have long been obliterated, leaving only faint traces.

Suddenly there was a bit of frightening cold light in the crow's nest. It was an old ape opening its eyes!

The old ape has six ears, a withered and thin body, and is wearing an ancient battle armor. The armor is broken and cracked and stained with dark red blood.

The old ape slowly stood up from the black nest, his broken armor jingling, as if crawling out of an ancient tomb. The old ape's eyes were deep and cold, staring in the direction of the Shenwu Golden Ape.

"Come from the same origin, I don't want to kill you. When you took the peach pickers away from Wuchao, I didn't stop you. When you left Taoshan that year, I helped you leave."

The old ape's thoughts seemed to stretch out for a long time, going back to the time when the old ape died in the Great Leiyin Temple.

The old ape closed his eyes and immediately opened them again, with a cold light in his eyes. His old yellow teeth seemed to be sharpened at this moment, and he gently stroked the branches of the peach branches with great care, as if stroking his lover.

The old ape murmured in his voice: "I pay back what I owe; I don't chase after what I owe. She is my only long-cherished wish. I have no fear of the three thousand causes and effects of Wuchuan. I will never recover or be shattered into pieces."

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In the peach forest, Ye Cang looked around and called out the name of the little golden monkey, but the surroundings were still so quiet. After a while, Ye Cang muttered: "Did you hear it wrong? I must have heard it wrong."

But if he looks to the sky, he will find small golden dots shining in the sky. In the sky of Taoshan, except for the sun and the moon, there is nothing else. Only the sun and the moon turn into reincarnations, and only the sun and the moon divide the hours of the sky.

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When Ye Cang returned to Taoshan Village with the basket on his back, the old blind man's stall was still there, and the old blind man was still leaning on his reclining chair.

There was just an extra cigarette stick on the table, but Ye Cang didn't recognize it, but he didn't ask any more questions and respectfully placed the mountain peaches on the stall. He just told the old blind man to go back early when he left.

Ye Cang is not too worried about the old blind man. The old blind man is blind to begin with. No matter it is dark or dawn, the old blind man cannot see, but his heart is clear and he can see everything clearly.

Ye Cang had asked him before. The old blind man always said that if you look with your heart, you can see more clearly than anything else. It is because your mind is transparent.

It wasn't cold at night in Taoshan, but Ye Cang felt that the old blind man would be much better off if he went back to lie down and rest.

The old blind man just hummed casually, still lying on the chair, and murmured: "Then it's time for the old monkey to come back. If he doesn't come back, the peach picker will be old."

The old blind man closed his eyes and raised his head, as if looking out: "The trace of cause stolen yesterday has been made up today. But those who owe me, those who owe me this lineage, are not just these!"

As he spoke, the old blind man became a little angry and banged the cigarette pole heavily on the stall.

The school and theater have long been closed, and the old fool has probably gone to sleep.

The old beggar still looked the same, with no head or tail visible. Ye Cang gently knocked on the door three times and didn't wait for him to open the door. He just put the peaches on the wooden window and left.

Only the old abbot still sat cross-legged and worshiped the Buddha, but there was not a single Buddha statue in the temple.

Ye Cang didn't know that there should be Buddha statues in temples, and he believed the old abbot that practicing Buddhism lies in cultivating the mind. If the mind becomes a Buddha, a person will be a Buddha. What else is needed?

The old abbot once said: "From emptiness to nothingness, there is emptiness. Although the Buddha Dharma is divided into great achievements and small achievements, there is no high or low. They are all Dharma, and everyone can become a Buddha. The foundation lies in the enlightenment of the mind. If you have a clear understanding, then you will be able to achieve it."

Not far from Buddha."

Ye Cang didn't understand either, but he always tried in the right direction. In his opinion, perhaps the Buddha and the sages mentioned by the master in the school were the same.

When Ye Cang returned to the wooden house, there were only two half-green and half-red peaches and two red peaches left in the basket on his back. Ye Cang sat on the wooden bed and twisted his waist. He was very tired today, but for Ye Cang

It was nothing, he was more afraid that the old people in the village would be hungry waiting for him to come back.

Ye Cang placed two red peaches on the wooden table, which were reserved for the little golden monkey. He picked up a half-green and half-red mountain peach and frowned and gnawed it. Although he had expected it, the spicy feeling was still there.

blazing.

At midnight, outside Taoshan Village, a swaying figure slowly walked into the village.
Chapter completed!