When Li Xiuyuan brought Shuzi and Huiming to Dunhuang City, which was at the foot of the grottoes outside Yuezhi City, most of the summer had passed.

It will be a rustling autumn wind that will blow soon.

As the three of them walked up the mountain road, Li Xiuyuan could still feel the breath of the great formation left behind a thousand years ago.

From afar, the old monk meditating on the cliff was watching Li Xiuyuan who was slowly coming from the mountain, and couldn't help but burst into tears.

He murmured, "Bless all Buddhas, senior brother will come again as he wishes."

Li Xiuyuan on the mountain road felt something, raised his head and looked at the old monk on the cliff, and couldn't help but ask in a daze: "I said, why are you still here?"

Shuzi and Huiming looked up at Yaping, but didn't know what to do for a moment, so they just followed Li Xiuyuan silently and walked up.

After a while, Li Xiuyuan stepped onto the cliff, and the old monk rushed over and hugged Li Xiuyuan tightly.

She looked crazy and cried and said, "I'm relieved when my senior brother is here."

Li Xiuyuan held the old monk's hand and sighed: "I haven't seen you for a long time, you have become thinner... This is my sister Shuzi, this is the disciple Huiming I have found for you."

The old monk looked at Hui Ming with a heroic look and couldn't help asking: "Senior brother, this guy is so young and handsome, can't he be unable to stand the loneliness in the desert and run away halfway, right?"

Li Xiuyuan thought for a while and replied lightly: "He won't."

The old monk nodded when he heard this, and took his hand to touch the runes on the stone wall. His fingers trembled as if he was touching Xiaohu's head back then.

He murmured: "After this farewell, six hundred years have passed in the blink of an eye, and the runes engraved by the senior brother were still on this stone wall."

After the old monk said something, Shuzi and Huiming were both shocked.

They could imagine that Li Xiuyuan engraved runes in Prince's Village to deal with bandits and killers of that year.

However, Li Xiuyuan still engraved a huge magic circle on the stone wall outside the Buddha cave, and had experienced hundreds of years of storms.

Li Xiuyuan smiled faintly and reached out to touch the runes on the stone wall.

With a buzzing sound, the runes that had been sleeping for six hundred years woke up in an instant, and the golden light shone into a golden dragon, lingering around Li Xiuyuan.

The Buddhas in the cave woke up in an instant, and for a moment, golden light shone on the entire stone wall, and Buddhist scriptures surged out, as if there were gods and Buddhas in the nine heavens chanting Buddhist scriptures lightly.

The solemn sound of chanting scriptures sounded throughout the cave.

The three of them couldn't speak for a moment.

"Everything is like a dream bubble."

Li Xiuyuan said quietly: "Let's go in and see the Buddhas. Let Huiming first accept you as his teacher and fulfill his promise to the Buddhas..."

On this day, Emperor Ming, who was once the Great Zhou Dynasty, finally entered Buddhism under the witness of Li Xiuyuan and Shuzi.

He became the apprentice of the fat monk in the cave and the old monk in the past.

Seeing Huiming falling a black hair in front of the Buddhas, Li Xiuyuan said quietly: "It's like all kinds of deaths yesterday. I hope you can achieve the great way under the witness of these Buddhas one day."

After changing into monk's robes, Huiming finally had a bit of solemn appearance.

He followed the old monk's appearance and clasped his hands together and said, "Thank you, Mr. for accompanying you all the way, and thank you for saving your life that day."

Li Xiuyuan looked at the old monk and smiled: "I never dreamed of meeting you. So, today I will invite you to have a drink of the bar I brewed in Prince Village back then."

When the old monk heard this, he couldn't help but smile: "Then I have to ask for a few more cups and offer them to the Buddha."

Li Xiuyuan looked at Shuzi and smiled, "We lingered in the grottoes for a few days and headed towards Tianshan again."

The old monk frowned and asked, "Senior brother, do you still have to go to Tianshan? It's just that autumn is coming in front of you. It's time for Tianshan to snow after autumn."

"So what? No matter how strong the wind and snow are, they cannot stop me."

Li Xiuyuan said seriously: "I should have followed the old senior to look at Tianshan Mountain. This time I can't miss it no matter what."

Shuzi nodded and smiled, "I also want to see the Tianshan Mountains where my predecessor lived."

The old man was Zhang Liang's master and did not return to the imperial city in the end. If it weren't for Li Xiuyuan, Shuzi and Zhang Liang would probably have known where the master went at the last moment.

Li Xiuyuan was happy on this day.

Just like Huiming, he finally found the Buddhist temple where he practiced, and Shuzi met the place where Xiaohu and his brother had lived.

The old monk waited for Li Xiuyuan in his dream, and everyone was very happy.

At night, Huiming went to rest early, and Shuzi rushed to rest for a day.

An oil lamp flashed in the Buddhist temple, shining on the two people at the table.

Holding a pot of spiritual tea, Li Xiuyuan frowned and asked, "According to my expectations, you can break through the realm and ascend to the ground in ten years, why should you drag it out for six hundred years?"

This is something he can't figure out no matter how hard he thinks about it. Could it be that he has calculated it wrong?

Even if I calculate it wrongly, those spiritual wines are not ineffective?

The old monk sighed and smiled bitterly: "In the ninth year of my senior brother's departure, I realized the opportunity to break the realm and ascend, but I have never found a suitable successor..."

"I am confused, future generations will have their own blessings. Can you see this mountain forever?"

Li Xiuyuan thought that this guy had forcibly interrupted the opportunity to ascension because he had not found his successor, and he sat there for six hundred years.

He was so angry that he murmured: "If I hadn't been to the Tianshan Mountains on a whim, wouldn't you have to live this mountain forever? In this way, will the Buddhas save you from suffering?"

"Cultivation is a natural destiny, and you dare to forcefully interrupt. You are very awesome!"

Li Xiuyuan was so angry that he scolded for a while. After thinking about it, he poured him another glass of spiritual wine that Shuzi had drunk back then.

He said quietly: "You don't have to think about the Buddha's heart for him, nor will he run away. Just pass on your robe and bowl to him."

The old monk smelled the faint fragrance and stretched out his trembling hands holding the cup and drank all the spiritual wine in one sip.

Then he asked, "He also gave his magic name to his senior brother?"

Li Xiuyuan smiled: "Looking at the future, don't ask about the past, Huiming is his Dharma name. Don't give him any more names, even though he is your apprentice."

The old monk was stunned and laughed: "It's good."

After lowering his head and pondering for a moment, Li Xiuyuan couldn't help asking: "Where is my disciple Xiaohu? After I left, did he follow his mother back to the desert?"

"That guy? He later became the biggest king in the desert as his senior brother said."

The old monk sighed and said, "I am the king of the desert. Not only did I survive the emperor of the great man to death, but I also missed his queen for the rest of my life..."

Li Xiuyuan was stunned for a long time before muttering to himself: "So, those legendary stories are all true? Isn't this guy doing something random?"

The old monk sighed: "He has a deep affection for the cave, and his mother would come here from time to time to see the Buddha and burn incense, and did not let down the senior brother's expectations back then."

"What happened later?"

Li Xiuyuan asked casually: "He will not be killed by his enemies, right? According to his temperament, he probably offended many people."

"That's not."

The old monk sighed and continued to reply: "This guy actually retreated bravely. After seeing me one autumn day, he abandoned the position of king and disappeared into the depths of the vast desert with his mother."

"Some people also say that he died in Yuezhi City, but I will never believe it, because before he left, he told me that he would take my mother to seclusion on Tianshan Mountain..."

"Ninety-one, this guy used a trick to deceive everyone around him."

When the old monk said this, he smiled proudly: "Xiaohu is the proud disciple of his senior brother. How could he die in the palace of Yuezhi City?"

In the midst of lightning, Li Xiuyuan remembered the move he used on Huiming.

Unexpectedly, Xiaohu was also tired of the flowers in the world and used the life-saving talisman he gave him.

In this way, he could have more hope and go to the Tianshan Mountains to find his old friends.

"You should have three years left."

Li Xiuyuan thought for a while and said, "Three years have been enough for you to teach Huiming. I will leave some spiritual medicine tomorrow, so you will take him on the road of cultivation."

The master is like a father, and Li Xiuyuan dragged all the way without gathering energy for Huiming, for the present moment.

He wanted to create a shadow on the cliff square on this cave.

...

The next morning, Li Xiuyuan took Shuzi down the mountain and headed towards Dunhuang City.

He did not tell the old monk or Huiming that from today on, he would completely forget about Huiming's affairs.

The two stayed in Dunhuang City for three days before returning.

Standing on the cliff square waiting for them was no longer the old monk who could blow down with a gust of wind, but the middle-aged monk who had experienced a little more vicissitudes than that of the past. Huiming probably still chanted scriptures in the Buddhist temple.

Shuzi's face was very interested. After all, she knew that she had no food and clothing to buy when she went to Tianshan, so she bought it in Dunhuang City.

Li Xiuyuan completely ended the cause and effect that had not yet ended back then, and eliminated a source of bandits in the Dunhuang area.

Looking at the fat monk who was a little thinner than that, Li Xiuyuan laughed and said, "If this happens, I'm afraid your master will not recognize him."

The fat monk murmured and said, "I'm just like having a dream. So, thank you for your kindness, senior brother."

Li Xiuyuan shook his head: "Just make Huiming good, let him understand Bodhi intentions, develop compassion, and be a monk in the depths of the desert to survive the suffering."

The fat monk reached out and pulled Li Xiuyuan around the stone wall in front of him, and walked towards the place where Xiaohu practiced his sword.

When the three of them came to a stone wall carved with a Bodhisattva, they saw a strange big character carved on the stone wall. The big characters were traced red with cinnabar. Even hundreds of years have passed, but they have not completely faded.

Shuzi was stunned as she looked at her, and she always felt something was wrong after talking.
To be continued...