There are mostly escort agencies, martial arts schools and blacksmith shops in the north of Yong'an City. The Zen Forest Iron Shop is located at the deepest part of the street, and the surrounding shops are doing little business.
It was afternoon, and in every shop, the clerks and shopkeepers were dozing off. Only in a roadside teahouse were there two men dressed like gangsters, who were drinking tea while staring at the closed door of the blacksmith shop opposite.
Jiang Yuebai appeared at the corner of the street, glanced at the two gangsters, and with a flash of his body, he appeared directly in the backyard of the Chanlin Iron Shop.
The courtyard is quiet and peaceful, with a blacksmith's furnace and a quenching water tank on one side, and a pavilion and tea table on the other.
Take a sip of the Zen Forest Five Flavors Tea, and the breeze will blow away all the worries.
These two sentences were what Lin Jingyue said when Ye Shiming asked her if she had a courtesy name.
The Zen Forest Iron Shop is no coincidence.
Just as Jiang Yuebai was about to look for someone, he felt a strange breath coming from behind him.
"Were you the one chasing me on the official road before?"
Jiang Yuebai turned around and saw a bold and heroic young woman, wearing black leather armor, with a short knife on her waist, and looking at her quietly with her arms folded.
She doesn't look like Lin Jingyue, but the murderous aura that can only be found on the battlefield does give her a bit of her feel.
Jiang Yuebai held the Michen Seal tightly in his sleeves and looked at it calmly.
"I have a friend whose sweetheart gave him a palace lantern as a present. It got broken a few days ago. I wonder if you can repair it?"
The cicadas were chirping at the top of their lungs, and neither of them gave off the slightest aura of an immortal cultivator, but the atmosphere in the courtyard was undercurrent.
Liu Fuyun said in a deep voice, "I am just a blacksmith shop run by a rough man who lives a carefree life. For delicate things like palace lanterns, you should find another craftsman to repair them."
"Why don't you take a look first?"
Before he finished speaking, Jiang Yuebai took out a emerald green palace lantern. It was not Xiaolu, but an exact replica of Xiaolu.
Until she was sure that the other person was Lin Jingyue and would not hurt Xiaolu, she would not bring Xiaolu directly to the other person.
The rising moon startled the mountain birds, which sometimes chirped in the spring stream.
When Liu Fuyun saw the lantern in Jiang Yuebai's hand and the words on the lantern, his pupils visibly shook.
"Where did you get this lantern?"
Jiang Yuebai sighed inwardly. As expected, she recognized the lantern. After all, she made it by herself.
"Answer me first, are you Lin Jingyue from Wuwei Mountain?" Jiang Yuebai asked directly.
The other party frowned, and his aura leaked out silently. The cicadas' chirping stopped abruptly, and a cold wind blew in the hot summer, making Jiang Yuebai tense and creepy.
Is this the fusion period
Although she was mentally prepared before coming, Jiang Yuebai still couldn't help but feel her scalp tingling when she really faced such a strong man.
She swallowed hard, one of her divine thoughts secretly communicated with the shrimp that Immortal Lord Chongming left in her dantian, and the other one communicated with the two phoenix tail feathers, ready at any time.
Fortunately, this aura only closed off the entire courtyard and did not cause any additional oppression to her.
"Yes and no, but it shouldn't affect what you want to talk to me about."
Jiang Yuebai frowned. What is this talking about? Is it true or not
Could it be... Lin Jingyue's clone
But it doesn’t have independent consciousness like an incarnation
This makes sense, otherwise it would not be so easy for the original body to return to the earth spirit world.
But her clone is also very powerful. How did he return to the earth spirit world
She's fine, why would she come back
Jiang Yuebai was full of questions as he watched Lin Jingyue walk towards him step by step with a strong aura.
"You, what do you want to do? I came to you because I have something serious to say. Don't think that I'm just an ordinary person from the Earth Spirit Realm. Behind me is the Immortal Lord Chongming from the Nine Rivers Realm!"
Jiang Yuebai quickly pulled up the tiger skin. In addition to settling the grudge with Ye Shiming, she also wanted to ask Lin Jingyue whether she had any connection with Lu Xingyun.
Because Lin Jingyue's natal magic weapon is the lotus platform, and the lotus platform is the most suitable object for deducing the "Great Derivations Sutra", and the "Five Elements Return to Truth" practiced by Lin Jingyue is also somewhat related to the "Great Derivations Sutra".
Jiang Yuebai didn't believe it, all this was just a coincidence.
Lin Jingyue snorted and laughed, "You are not an ordinary person, you are from the upper realm too? Don't worry, if I want to kill you, I would have killed you on the official road earlier, sit down and talk."
Lin Jingyue walked past Jiang Yuebai and sat down at the stone table under the tree.
Jiang Yuebai pulled the corner of her mouth awkwardly. Okay, she admitted that if Lin Jingyue really had the cultivation level of the fusion stage, he would definitely not fail if he killed her by surprise.
Oh my god! The Earth Spirit World is so dangerous!
She should be more cautious next time. Who knows if the mortal passing by might be a hidden old monster.
Jiang Yuebai was tense all over and sat on the stone bench farthest from Lin Jingyue.
"Before we talk about the lantern, can you... can you restore your original appearance and let me see it?"
After all, she is the person she has admired since childhood. She is not happy when he finally meets her and she faces her with a fake face!
Lin Jingyue raised her palm and swept it across her face, and her expression changed immediately.
Jiang Yuebai looked at that bright, passionate, unruly face, like a red plum blossom in the snow, cold and aloof, and his eyes gradually widened.
It’s the real Wuweishanren!
Exactly the same as Ye Shiming remembered!
She could actually see her with her own eyes during her lifetime!
Jiang Yuebai hurriedly took out a copy of "A Collection of Five Flavors" from his ring and placed it in front of Lin Jingyue, his eyes gleaming.
"Can you...can you write two words for me? I especially...no, my master especially admires you!"
Lin Jingyue raised her eyebrows in surprise and reached out to pick up the "Miscellaneous Collection of Five Flavors". "Why is this thing still circulating?"
Jiang Yuebai nodded, "Yes, you don't know that in addition to the General Temple and millions of believers in Yun Country, you also have many admirers in the entire cultivation world. Several of my friends grew up reading your "Miscellaneous Collection of Five Flavors."
"Including you?"
"Yes, no, I mean, I just looked at some of them casually."
Lin Jingyue flipped through the book in her hand, and from the lines of handwriting, she seemed to be back in the time when she traveled the world with one man, one horse, and one gun.
Although it has been nearly a thousand years, many things are still vivid in my mind.
The reason she came back this time was only to completely eradicate the falsehood in her heart of Taoism and clear the last obstacle to entering the Mahayana stage, so she returned to the mortal world to cleanse her heart of Taoism.
Apart from using magic to avoid some difficult troubles, she has been traveling all over Yun Country as a mortal in the past few years.
She had also been to Tianyan Sect, Feifeng Forest, and the battlefields of the two countries. She thought that everything about Ye Shiming had long been gone with the wind, and no resentment remained.
Unexpectedly, there are other reasons and causes.
"Why did you come back to the Earth Spirit World?" Jiang Yuebai asked curiously.
Lin Jingyue paused as she turned the page, her pupils shrank sharply, and she pressed the book on the table and asked anxiously, "Where did these numbers come from?"
Jiang Yuebai was stunned. This book was the one she took from Shi Xiaowu's pillow when she came back this time and created a dream of rebirth for him.
Although she had seen it, she hadn't watched it for a while so she wanted to revisit it. Later, she forgot to return it and kept it in her storage ring.
The place where Lin Jingyue's finger was pointing was a line of equation written by Shi Xiaowu, which was disappearing at an extremely fast speed.
The point is…
"How do you know these symbols are numbers?" Jiang Yuebai asked in confusion.
The 'numbers' in that equation were the numbers in her cultivation panel.
At first, she thought that this kind of symbolic numbers was more convenient than literal numbers, so she taught it to Shi Xiaowu and her master, and told them not to spread it to others. Since her junior sister Jiang Ziying was not good at counting, she didn't even teach Jiang Ziying.
It can be said that no one except the three of them would know that these symbols represent numbers, unless...
Jiang Yuebai's pupils shrank sharply, staring at Lin Jingyue and asked, "You don't have..."
Before he finished speaking, Jiang Yuebai and Lin Jingyue thought of the same thing and showed the same expression of fear and shock.
But before the two of them could continue speaking, Jiang Yuebai watched helplessly as Lin Jingyue's entire body dissipated like burning ashes.
Lin Jingyue's lips opened and closed, but no sound came out. In just a blink of an eye, she disappeared silently.
The hoarse sound of cicadas rushed into Jiang Yuebai's ears again, shaking her sea of consciousness and making her dizzy.
In the small world of the lotus platform, the ball of golden light trapped on the island flickered and flickered, "breathing" like a living person.
*
Somewhere in the upper realm.
Lin Jingyue, who was in seclusion, spat out a mouthful of blood. Her clone was destroyed and her soul was damaged, but none of these were as shocking as what she had just discovered.
The spiritual energy in his body began to dissipate. Lin Jingyue was helpless and could only suppress his panic and start practicing to stabilize his cultivation.
Just wait until the next time we meet and make sure it is clear.
*
Tiankui Peak of Tianyan Sect.
After reading the letter written by Jiang Yuebai, Li Jiuchuan looked at Tao Nian in front of him and found that Tao Nian was staring at a portrait on the side wall of the study, in a daze.
"That was the founder of our Tianyan Sect, Lu Xingyun. I remember that when Jiang Yuebai first saw it, she had the same expression as you."
Tao Nian concealed the strange look in his eyes and smiled, "Is that so? It may be that the master's demeanor is so extraordinary that people lose their minds at first sight."
Li Jiuchuan didn't think much about it. "Since you also have five spiritual roots and are practicing the Five Elements Return to Truth, why don't you go to Tianku Peak? I'll have someone take you there."
Tao Nian took a deep breath and bowed, "Thank you, Sect Master."
*
I don’t know what the boundary is, I don’t know where.
Under the green bamboo, on the stone platform.
A game of chess, chaos revived!
I'll add one more chapter today, and I still owe one more.
I'm going out for a day tomorrow. If I don't update during the day, I'll come back to update in the evening...
(End of this chapter)