This is the true immortal of the Taoist sect.

In April, the peach blossoms of the mountain temple begin to bloom.

After leaving Tianshui Town, Li Daoxuan wandered the world like a Taoist priest, walking step by step across the land.

Looking at this boundless world, I feel carefree, peaceful and serene.

This was the first time he had traveled the world in this way.

In the past, I often secluded myself in the Jingming Cave Heaven to cultivate, and had never properly traveled around.

Unexpectedly, coming to this vast and mysterious world has given me this leisurely and carefree feeling.

Of course, this is also related to one's cultivation level.

In the Jingming Cave Heaven, due to the lack of spiritual energy from heaven and earth, it is impossible to absorb spiritual energy from the outside world.

In order to refine his Qi, his primordial spirit, physique, and even essence always felt a sense of urgency, like rowing against the current.

Once you stop, it's as if you've come to a standstill.

After arriving in the Xuanhuang Great World, he successfully formed his core, thus transcending the realm of refining essence into qi and entering the realm of refining qi into spirit.

Simply sitting in meditation is no longer very useful.

So he naturally left the temple, traveled the world, observed the mundane world, and cultivated the Great Dao.

People follow the earth, the earth follows the sky, the heaven follows the Tao, and the Tao follows nature.

The Great Way comes from nature. This heaven and earth, all things and spirits in the world, are the best teachers for cultivating the Great Way, better than all scriptures and supernatural powers.

At this very moment, Li Daoxuan was in such a state of mind.

See the world with your physical eyes, and perceive the world with your spiritual senses.

Finally, through ultimate sublimation, one achieves immortal golden nature and attains the Great Dao of eternal life.

"You old geezer, can you hurry up? We're going to miss the ferry."

A sharp sound suddenly entered my ears.

Li Daoxuan withdrew his gaze from the four directions and looked ahead.

Several people were walking on the mountain path, including a middle-aged couple with an elderly person and a child.

The old man, with his white hair and tattered clothes, was struggling to climb a steep slope, holding a wooden cane in his hand.

The little one was pink and cute, holding half a string of candied hawthorns in her hand, being led by the woman.

The speaker was a middle-aged man who was standing at the top of the slope, scolding the old man who was struggling to climb it.

The old man was getting on in years and his legs were not very strong. In addition, the steep slope was full of gravel, making it difficult for him to put weight on his feet, so he could not climb up for a long time.

"Son... lend your father a hand, my legs are too weak..."

After trying for a long time, the old man finally couldn't help but ask the middle-aged man for help.

The man, however, looked impatient.

"I told you not to follow me, why did you come out here? You're just a burden. I'm carrying things, I can't be bothered to pull you up, just come on up yourself."

The woman standing nearby looked at the old man with the same disdain in her eyes.

Only the child reached out his hand to the old man and said:

"Grandpa, let me help you..."

But the woman slapped his hand away and scolded him:

"I'll drag you down with me..."

The child reluctantly withdrew his hand and stopped looking at the old man.

Seeing that the old man still couldn't get up, the middle-aged man cursed:

"If you can't get up here, don't bother coming back. Go home..."

The old man sighed, tears welling in his eyes, and said:

"Your uncle is my elder brother; how could I not attend his funeral..."

"Then you'll have to figure it out yourself..."

After saying that, he ignored the old man and left.

In his haste, the old man quickened his pace, but lost his balance and fell to the ground.

Fortunately, Li Daoxuan reacted quickly and caught him.

The old man, still shaken, looked back and saw that Li Daoxuan had an extraordinary bearing and was clearly no ordinary person.

He quickly cupped his hands and said:

"Oops, I've offended someone important! I'm so sorry..."

Li Daoxuan smiled gently and took the old man's hand, saying:

"Old man, let me take you up..."

The old man quickly refused:

"How can I do this, how can I do this..."

Li Daoxuan shook his head.

"It's okay, let's go..."

After saying that, he pulled the old man upstairs.

Strangely enough, the old man found it effortless to climb the slope again, as if his legs had become younger.

The old man didn't think much of it, just assumed that someone was helping him, which made him feel a little more at ease.

After climbing the hill, Li Daoxuan led the old man to catch up with the family of three.

The middle-aged man glanced at Li Daoxuan and said in an unfriendly tone:

"have a finger in the pie..."

Seeing this, Li Daoxuan was not annoyed, but simply smiled gently and said:

"Brother, your father is getting old, and this mountain road is difficult to walk on, so you should take extra care of him."

The man became even angrier, glaring at Li Daoxuan and saying:

"None of your business!"

Then he looked at the old man and scolded him:

"You old geezer, get out of here..."

After saying that, he turned around and walked towards the ferry crossing not far away.

The old man smiled apologetically, cupped his hands in greeting to Li Daoxuan, and hurriedly followed after him, leaning on his cane.

Upon reaching the ferry, the family hurriedly boarded the boat. The boatman, seeing Li Daoxuan approaching, intended to wait a little longer. However, the middle-aged man's wife, her eyes darting around, said with feigned seriousness:

"Captain, hurry! That man is no good; he just tried to steal from my house..."

Upon hearing his daughter-in-law's words, the old man was about to speak in his defense when the middle-aged man glared at him and lowered his voice, saying:

"If you dare to utter a word, get out of here."

The boatman glanced at Li Daoxuan, then at the woman, and hesitated.

The man immediately added fuel to the fire, saying:

"I also saw he had a knife on him, he looked really fierce..."

Upon hearing this, the boatman no longer hesitated. He untied the rope, pushed off with the long pole, and the ferry left the shore.

Li Daoxuan, who had already quickened his pace to come over, could only shake his head helplessly when he saw this. He didn't pay any attention to it, found a clean stone, and sat down to rest for a while.

The ferry will eventually return; you can board it then.

On the ferry, the middle-aged couple looked at Li Daoxuan sitting on the shore with a smug expression, thinking to themselves, "Serves you right for meddling in other people's business."

They didn't notice at all that the rosy-cheeked child had already run to the bow of the boat, laughing and leaning half his body out to play in the water.

"Plop..."

The sound of something falling into the water caught the attention of passengers near the bow of the ship.

"Huh? Has someone fallen into the water?"

"It looks like a child went to the bow of the boat just now."

"Could the child have fallen into the water?"

Because there was a curtain hanging between the cabin and the bow, no one could see clearly.

"A child?"

"Where's my child? Where's my child?"

Only then did the woman realize that her child was missing.

The couple and the old man frantically searched.

Upon hearing this, the man at the bow slapped his thigh and said anxiously:

"Oh dear, I just heard a splash, but I didn't notice. It must have been your child..."

Upon hearing this, the woman burst into a heart-wrenching cry.

"My baby...my baby..."

At this moment, someone in the cabin stood up and pointed outside the ship, saying:

"Look, there's a child, a child in the water..."

The middle-aged man was so anxious that he jumped up and down, crying out:

"Someone please save my child, I can't swim..."

In no time, the boat drifted several meters away, and the child was getting further and further away.

The woman sat down abruptly, wailing incessantly, but there was nothing she could do.

The boatman is a good swimmer, but the water is very cold in April. If you jump in and then come back out, the wind might blow you into a cold, which could be fatal.

Everyone understood this principle, so they just watched helplessly, and no one dared to jump.

At this moment, the middle-aged man was so anxious that he couldn't care less about anything else.

Even though he couldn't swim, he still jumped in and started paddling forward like a dog.

"Baby...baby...Daddy's here, don't be afraid..."

With a bit of courage, he swam a few meters, but ultimately he was not a good swimmer, and his hands and feet became flustered, and he began to slowly sink.

Seeing that the father and son were about to drown, the woman and the old man in the cabin were already pale with fright and kept kowtowing to the boatman, begging him to row the boat over and save them.

The boat captain wasn't heartless; he was already turning around, but the boat was heavy with many people on board and couldn't be turned around in a short time.