If you don't give up, I'd like to be your adoptive father.

Chapter 649: Underground Water Veins in the Starry Sky
"Brother Fangfeng, I came to Guibei Mountain not because of your fairy peaches." Xiaoyu said beside Fangfengji's face.

Feng Fengji glanced at her with his eyes as big as a lake, "You want my spiritual spring water?"

Xiaoyu subconsciously wanted to quibble, evade, and complain.

But she immediately thought that Fangfeng had the talent of "observing words and expressions".

As soon as she was bewitched by the mirage dragon, Fang Fengji took action immediately and dragged the mirage dragon away. Is this the spiritual perception and reaction that a sleeping person should have?

This guy was probably pretending to sleep, secretly observing her words and actions, and saw that she was very interested in the Queen Mother's Holy Water.

There was no point in her denying it, so she might as well admit it frankly.

"I am indeed very interested in the spring water that irrigates Taoyuan. However, I would like to open a cave in Guibei Mountain, be your neighbor, and live here for a few years."

"Why do you want to live in my house? You are an immortal, you should go to the barren Tianhe River. You can go back to the human world or go to the blessed land of the middle world. There is no need to wander around in Tianhe River." Fangfengji was saying it with great sincerity.

Xiao Yu sighed, "You and I actually share the same suffering. You were forced to exile yourself to Tianhe, and I was also forced to enter Tianhe.

I went to Daqin to practice. I have gained a lot in Tianhe, and it is safe, so I want to stay there for a few more years. "

On the way to Turtle Back Mountain, she had already described her experience in detail, so there was no need to repeat it now.

Feng Feng Ji sat on the shore, soaking his legs in the water, and said, "I am used to living alone and don't like to interact with outsiders. If you want to practice in Tianhe, you can return to the mermaid tribe."

"There are so many little mushroom people, flower fairies and mandrills on Turtleback Mountain. Why do you live alone?" Xiaoyu said.

"They are all my servants. Do you want to be my servant?" Fang Fengji said.

"Where are the Lingyu? There are hundreds of them." Xiaoyu said.

Fang Fengji sighed, "They are all my friends. Lingyu is honest and kind, so I don't need to worry about them trying to murder me while I'm sleeping.

Moreover, Lingyu is very dignified.

They wandered around, and after I took them in, they always hoped to regain their homeland, move away from Turtle Back Mountain, and no longer trouble me. "

Xiaoyu felt very uncomfortable.

Lingyu is simple and honest, while she is cunning, so he is on guard against her even when he is sleeping?
Lingyu has dignity, but she is shameless and refuses to leave?
"Okay, I'll leave now." She has dignity too!

Feng Ji grinned, "If you want to spar with me, you can come to Guibei Mountain to find me again."

——I traveled sixty to seventy thousand miles just to learn martial arts from you?

Xiao Yu said with a wooden face: "Brother Fangfeng, did you steal your spiritual spring water from the Queen Mother?"

Fang Fengji's smile faded, and he shouted anxiously and angrily, "Nonsense! We Fang Feng have always been upright and upright, how could we do such a sneaky thing?"

"The spring water you use to water the peach trees, does it have nothing to do with the Queen Mother?" Xiao Yu asked, staring into his eyes.

Fang Fengjie hesitated.

"It is related, but it was not stolen from the Queen Mother of the West."

After struggling for a long time, he finally told the truth: "The Tianhe River belongs to all living beings in the three realms, not just to the Queen Mother of the West or the Jade Emperor.

In order to water the peach banquet, the Queen Mother of the West used her hairpin to cut through the Milky Way and opened up a tributary from the Milky Way.

That small river guides the water from the Heavenly River into the Peach Garden, watering the Peach Trees there."

Xiao Yu asked curiously, "How do you know that the Queen Mother used a hairpin to cut through the starry sky?"

Fang Feng Ji asked back, "Haven't you heard of the legend of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl? The legend is true!
The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl each guard a star, separated by a Milky Way.

That river in the sky is what the Queen Mother drew in the sky with her hairpin. It is like me using a spear to draw a ditch on the ground beside a stream, and the stream water flows into the ditch, separating the two ant nests of neighbors on the ground.

Xiao Yu said, "I know the legend of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl. But last time the Queen Mother was angry, she pulled out her hairpin and drew a river in the sky. There's no need to use a hairpin this time, right?"

Fang Fengji opened his eyes wide, like clear lakes, and shouted, "Does it matter what the Queen Mother of the West used to draw a river in the sky? Anyway, there is a small river connecting the Peach Garden.

I never went into the stream or the sacred spring, I just scooped a bucket of water from nearby every now and then to irrigate my own peach orchard. "

——There is a small river connecting Pantao Garden
Xiaoyu felt as if she was being scratched by a cat.

"Where is that creek?"

Fang Fengji shook his head and said, "Don't daydream, that stream is an underground river, no one can get in.

Even ordinary people who dug ditches to divert water to irrigate peach orchards would insert sharpened rafts in the ditches to prevent thieves.

How could the Queen Mother of the West, with all her magical powers, allow you to steal peaches so easily?"

Xiao Yu said dissatisfiedly: "Why do you always treat me as a brainless idiot?"

Fang Fengji stared at her and said, "Do you dare to say that you have never thought about stealing the peaches from the Queen Mother of the West?"

"Does it mean that we should do whatever we think of right away? Ask the immortals in heaven, who doesn't want to eat peaches?

If the plate of peaches is really placed next to them, would they want to steal it, or dare to steal it?" Xiao Yu said.

Feng Ji stood up and pointed at the stars in the sky, "Do you know the name of every star in the sky?

In the center of the stars is the Lingxiao Palace of the Jade Emperor.

In the West—"

He lowered his head again and drew a star map on the ground with his fingers, "The Queen Mother usually lives in the Heavenly Palace, but the peaches are planted in the Yaochi Palace in the northwest, which is probably in this direction.

Keep staring at the stars in the sky, swim towards the west, and when the Yaochi is directly above you, you will almost reach the location of the Starry Sky Dark River.

"It's a bit far!" Xiaoyu said, looking at the starry sky in the west.

“It’s really far away. It’s 350,000 miles away from my Turtle Back Mountain. Even if I swim very fast, it will take me seven days and seven nights to swim there. A round trip will take me half a month.

I only go there four times a year, and each time I fetch water that I can use for three months." said Fang Fengjie.

Xiaoyu asked, "When is the next time you go to get water?"

Fang Fengji counted on his fingers for a while and said, "We have to wait another month and a half."

"Next time you go to get water, take me with you," she said.

Feng Fengji's "yellow-skinned James face" twisted into a ball, "Then we'll leave tomorrow."

Xiao Yu asked curiously, "Don't we have to wait for a month and a half?"

Fang Feng Ji groaned, "I see you are very anxious!"

"Why should I be anxious? I'm not anxious at all." Xiao Yu showed a look of realization, "Oh, are you worried that I will stay in Guibei Mountain for a month and a half and never leave?

Brother Fangfeng, you are an ancient man, how come you don’t have any of the style and conduct of the ancient saints and sages?” Fangfengji said: “I am a real and living ‘ancient man’, and my style is the real ‘style and conduct of the ancients’.

The legacy of the ancient saints in your mind is just your own wishful thinking."

Xiao Yu opened his mouth, sighed, and said, "Forget it, I will go back to the Mermaid Tribe tomorrow and come to see you in a month and a half."

The expression on Fang Fengji's face was a little unnatural, as if he was embarrassed and conflicted.

"Before I leave, I have a few things to discuss with you."

"What's the matter?" asked Fang Fengji.

"I want to choose some plants from your garden." Xiaoyu expressed her promise to the mermaid.

Fang Feng Ji shook his head and said, "You've got it wrong. Wherever there are thriving aquatic plants in the Tianhe River, they will definitely attract a large number of water monsters and river demons. The mermaids' land is barren, which can actually allow them to live safely."

"The mermaids' land is too barren. They are so hungry that they even eat the corpses of their own people." Xiao Yu said.

"I don't agree with your idea, but you can pick the flowers and plants you want on the mountain." Fangfengji said.

"The second thing is related to the mirage dragon." Xiao Yu's expression became serious, and he said, "Either you kill him immediately, or listen to me and try your best to dispel the resentment in his heart."

Feng Ji said impatiently: "Without the mirage blocking the way, how could our Guibei Mountain be so peaceful now?"

"Then I will teach you a copy of the Dhammapada and a copy of the Heart Sutra. You should read the Heart Sutra silently every day and recite the Dhammapada to the mirage.

Over the years, thousands or tens of thousands of years, perhaps the bad karma between you can be eliminated." Xiao Yu said.

"I'm not a monk, why should I chant? I don't want to chant!" Fangfengji shook his head repeatedly.

Xiao Yu asked, "Do you know the Taoist scriptures to eliminate disasters and calamities?"

"I'm not an old Taoist priest with a big nose. I won't recite scriptures if I don't recite them." Fangfengji continued to shake his head.

Xiao Yu asked again, "Do you know the Confucian method of cultivating the mind?"

"What is Confucianism? I haven't even heard of it. Don't read, don't read!" The disgust on Fangfengji's face grew stronger.

"So do you believe in fate? Do you believe in divination?" Xiaoyu asked finally.

Fang Fengji looked dazed and murmured, "My mother is the chief priestess of the Fang Feng clan, and she is best at divination.

It was she who told me that I was about to face a disaster and that I should flee from the water vortex to the Milky Way and never return to Fengzhu for the rest of my life."

Xiao Yu pondered and said, "I shouldn't interfere with your life, but my previous impulse should be related to my recent significant improvement in my Buddhist practice.

So I thought of using Buddhism to resolve disasters.

The hatred between you and the mirage dragon will eventually turn into a disaster. When the disaster is approaching, it will be difficult to escape.

At this time, using Buddhism to resolve resentment can cut off the root of the disaster."

Fang Fengji didn't want to recite any Buddhist scriptures, and didn't really believe what she said.

But his "observation of words and expressions" told him that Yu Fengxian was very sincere to him at this moment, and wished him the best with all her heart and without any distractions.

He suddenly thought of his mother
"Okay, read the Dhammapada and the Heart Sutra to me."

It’s not too difficult to get Fangfengji to memorize the Buddhist scriptures.

It takes too much time and effort to explain the meaning of the scriptures.

Xiaoyu engraved the ancient seal characters on the stone slab, which Fangfengji could understand.

She had no idea how effective it would be.

She herself is not enlightened, so how effective can her teaching be to others?

"Can Buddhist scriptures really resolve hatred deeper than the Milky Way?"

Even after listening to the entire sermon, Fang Fengji's face was still full of doubt.

Xiao Yu couldn't guarantee anything, but he said, "If you recite Buddhist scriptures for thousands or tens of thousands of years, you will definitely experience some good changes."

In her opinion, as long as it does not involve idol worship and simply explains the Buddhist scriptures of "emptiness", they are essentially no different from textbooks such as "Advanced Mathematics" and "Electromagnetism". There is no difference between philosophy books that study life and mathematics, physics and chemistry that study science and technology. They are all a kind of knowledge that can increase wisdom.

If people are too superstitious about a certain knowledge, they will deify it and turn it into a religion.

Regardless of whether it was originally science and technology or philosophy, it has fallen into the inferior category and is completely unacceptable.

Speaking objectively, Xiaoyu doesn't quite believe that chanting Buddhist scriptures can make Fangfengji and Shenjiao become loving friends.

But she is willing to believe in her own impulse and work towards the best outcome.

After all, she exchanged her life for the "Heart Sutra", and she was willing to teach it to Fang Fengji for free, which was an outburst of her bodhisattva heart.

The Milky Way also changes from day to night.

The stars in the sky are constantly moving, and corresponding to different times, the stars will have different positions and brightness.

After getting used to living in Tianhe, even ordinary fishmen can gradually notice the changes of day and night and seasons.

But after all, there is no sunset or sunrise in the Milky Way, so the changes are not as obvious as on earth.

Before dark the next day, Xiaoyu said goodbye to the Fengfeng Festival.

During the Fengfeng Festival, she was given a "Tianhe Peach", a "real and fake peach" that ripens once every five hundred years.

"How long can this peach be kept?" If she ate it directly now, it would only increase her strength but would not be able to quickly heal her injuries. It was such a waste.

“It depends on where you put it. If you can seal in the vital energy of heaven and earth and keep the peach’s spiritual energy from leaking out, then after three to five years, the leaves at the stalk can stay green.

But it’s best to eat them right after you pick them, because they taste the best.” Fang Fengji said, smacking his lips.

"Like you, I also regard peaches as a life-saving elixir. Last time when I was being hunted by the demon god, if I had a fake peach, I would have been able to kill the Golden Eagle King."

Xiaoyu stuffed the peach into his sleeve and hid it. After saying goodbye to Fangfengji, he determined the direction by using the stars and swam leisurely for more than 30,000 miles in three days and two nights, and finally returned to the mermaid tribe.

When she set out from Guibei Mountain, she was still the mermaid Xiaoyu. When she returned to the merman tribe, there was only a wisp of light fog, leaving a long trail in the shallow water of Tianhe River, and there was no trace of the mermaid at all.

Although the mirage dragon is cunning and cruel, he is ultimately no match for Xiaoyu who is "a little cunning but extremely treacherous".

Seeing her return, the old mermaid visibly breathed a sigh of relief, and the anxiety and impatience on her face dissipated.

Xiaoyu continued to observe the mermaid pearls in the mermaid cave, and felt the strong emotions left by the owner of the mermaid pearls, his feelings for the water of the Milky Way, and his understanding of his own life and the secret powers of the mermaids.

Soon, a month passed, the day agreed for the Fengfeng Festival was approaching, and Xiaoyu also planned to say goodbye to the mermaid tribe.

(End of this chapter)