Chapter 76: Jujube Village
The setting sun shone on the dilapidated masonry, the door of the Daoist temple was shut tight, and the wooden door had long been infested by the mountain moisture, so decayed that a piece of wood could be broken with a bit of force.
The rows of brick and stone steps in front of the door were covered with moss. The middle ones that were frequently stepped on were slightly sunken, and some steps even lack corners.
In front of the Daoist Temple, Jing Yue led Qin Yanzhi, one big and one small, looking at the row of stone characters carved on the top of the door. Those characters had been weathered, only vaguely recognizable that this place was once called Evergreen Temple.
Jing Yue coughed with slight embarrassment. “Don’t look at the dilapidated state of this temple. The fengshui here is very good.”
He was not lying. This place was located in a valley in the middle of the mountains. A waterfall between the two mountains in the east and west formed a stream that surrounded the mountain col. Originally, it would form a natural all-gathering water array, but due to the low terrain, it was surrounded by mountains and could not see the sun, so few people paid attention to it for thousands of years.
After Jing Yue came here, with his cordial and friendly style of serving the people, he got the villagers at the foot of the mountain to help him break a small opening in each of the east and west peaks, while the south was the road leading into the mountain, thus breaking the blockade on all sides.
He also set a few small maze arrays at the entrance. In this way, although it was still a cold and windy winter outside the mountain, flowers bloomed in the mountain col all year round, clear water flowed serenely, and the area was abundant with the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.
Jing Yue, “In the future, we will live, cultivate, and set up the sect here.”
Yes, Jing Yue intended to return to his old profession—establish a school.