The rain lasted for seven days and seven nights.
It is now May in the lunar calendar, the rainy season.
The Manggu Mountains, which had been sunny for many days in a row, began to rain again.
The cold rain washed the trees and gravel in the mountains, driving away the previous heat and bringing a slight chill to the forest.
Looking out from the wooden house, the waterfall hanging high on the cliff in the distance is no longer a clear white spring, but a turbid dark yellow mixture of mud and sand.
Under the gloomy sky, the drizzling rain, carrying with it a damp chill, filled the world.
All the fire foxes in the mountains hid themselves.
The fire fox, who was born with the ability to control fire, hates rain.
They only come out when it’s time for meals each day.
The food of fire foxes is not meat. Although they will catch rabbits and insects in the mountains to whet their appetite, this young monster mainly eats flint.
In the center of the breeding ground, amidst the dense forest, there is a small volcano that is completely black.
Inside that small crater, there was rising fire and surging magma.
Luo Jing's daily job is to use the fire-refining tool provided by the sect in the magic bag to refine the rising earth fire from the crater into pure flint, and then feed the flint to the fire fox.
This is a simple but time-consuming task. Luo Jing has to practice next to the ground fire for a whole morning to prepare the flint needed for fifty-three fire foxes.
Living alone in the mountains, with no friends or social interactions, the work to be done is boring and the duration is at least three months... To be honest, it is normal that no one in the sect would accept such a commission.
For most people, this is tantamount to being in prison, and the loneliness is unbearable.
But for Luo Jing, this is nothing.
He was used to walking alone.
When he disagreed with his parents, he lived alone for three years, staying in the house every day to draw, occasionally playing games and chatting on the Internet. It was common for him not to go downstairs for ten days or half a month.
Many of our contemporaries may not be able to bear being confined in their houses for seven or eight days.
But for Luo Jing, staying at home without going out is his daily routine, so it doesn't matter if he can't stand it.
Not to mention that this breeding ground is ten miles in radius, so it's fun to just walk around when you're bored.
Luo Jing's life in the mountains was quiet and peaceful, as if he had returned to his previous life.
Although Luo Jing lived alone in the mountains where other inner disciples feared him like a tiger, he was content with it.
This place is far away from all the disturbances and fights, and there will be no inexplicable danger approaching. No matter how sinister the Demon Sect is, it cannot reach here.
Not to mention, Luo Jing is not really living alone, he has someone to accompany him.
Every night, when meeting Qingxuan in his dreams, Luo Jing could hear many interesting stories.
Although Shen Qingxuan's breakthrough failed, after synchronizing with Luo Jing, she also successfully entered the Transcendent Realm.
Moreover, Luo Jing hid in the mountains and was temporarily out of danger, so the pressure on the two was much less.
Shen Qingxuan, who lived in Lingyun Immortal Sect, finally had time to look through the sect's classics.
The two didn't know much about the world they lived in, but Qingxuan could consult the sect's classics and see many secret records.
The two newcomers had an urgent need for common sense, history and other knowledge about the spiritual world.
Only when they have sufficient understanding of the world they live in and broaden their horizons can they feel sufficiently secure.
—For these two people who come from the era of information explosion, acquiring information and knowledge has become an instinct.
In the first two days after they arrived, the lack of daily news updates made them feel very uncomfortable, as if they were trapped in some kind of closed cocoon, and they felt subconsciously uneasy.
They cannot live their lives in a muddle-headed and carefree manner like most people in this world.
In this world, let alone ordinary people, even many disciples of the cultivation sects only pay attention to the daily life around them throughout their lives. Few people will take the initiative to pay attention to things happening far away.
But Luo Jing is different from Shen Qingxuan.
They are eager to understand the situation in this world and want to know more information.
If everything is covered in fog and they have no idea about the current situation in the world, they will feel extremely insecure.
During these seven days of dream meetings, Shen Qingxuan was mostly talking and Luo Jing was listening. Occasionally, they would discuss one or two things.
The world of practitioners is not as dangerous as Luo Jing and his friends imagined.
In the final analysis, the practitioners in this world have long lifespans, and there are no terrible things like great catastrophes of heaven and earth, so they generally live a free and easy life.
Moreover, the six paths of the devil have been in decline for many years, while the path of immortals is extremely prosperous.
Even giant demonic sects like the Soul Refining Sect had to hide in the remote western regions and dared not openly set foot in the Central Plains.
When the power gap between good and evil is obvious, it is difficult to start a big fight.
The most recent major turmoil that happened to Luo Jing and his team was a hundred years ago, and the impact was not widespread.
According to the records in the classics that Shen Qingxuan had consulted, that was Gu Chenfeng, a rare genius of the Lingyun Immortal Sect. He became famous at a young age and was expected to become the leader of the sect.
But he fell in love with Ying Qiuchan, the Holy Maiden of the Soul Refining Sect.
The love between the two caused unrest between the Soul Refining Sect and the Lingyun Immortal Sect.
The final outcome is that this pair of lovers with different statuses go to hell together.
When Shen Qingxuan talked about this story, she did not comment too much.
Luo Jing smiled and said, "Don't worry, I won't stand out in the Soul Refining Sect."
The core conflict of this tragic story lies in the identities of the two parties. One is the Saint of the Demon Sect, and the other is the future leader of the Immortal Sect. Both are top figures trained by both sects, and it concerns the reputation of the two major sects.
Therefore, even if two people truly love each other, they cannot be together.
But Luo Jing was just an ordinary inner disciple of the Soul Refining Sect. He had no power or influence, and had no major connection with the Soul Refining Sect.
Although Shen Qingxuan is a disciple taught directly by the elders of the Immortal Sect, he is still far from Gu Chenfeng's status.
As long as Luo Jing can leave the Soul Refining Sect, there will be basically no obstacles for the two of them to be together.
However, Luo Jing also knew that this was his wife's good intention and she was reminding him indirectly not to stand out in the Soul Refining Sect.
But Luo Jing was confident that he would not be able to make a name for himself in the Soul Refining Sect.
As an inner sect disciple who lives in the mountains and feeds monsters, Luo Jing can make himself have no sense of existence in the inner sect.
As the saying goes, once the thought of giving up arises, you will suddenly feel the world is wide open.
Other inner disciples tried their best to climb up, but Luo Jing did not have such an idea.
He had a better life waiting for him outside the Manggu Mountains.
In the Soul Refining Sect, he doesn't need to fight for anything, he just needs to play badly.
It's difficult to stand out, but isn't it easy to just give up
Luo Jing is an expert at this!
Life in the mountains began in this dull and peaceful way.
Every morning, Luo Jing went to the underground fire to refine flint and feed the fire fox according to the requirements in the breeding manual.
In the afternoon, he would return to the wooden house and either practice directly or take out the drawing paper and paints he had prepared in advance to draw something he liked and pass the time.
For safety reasons, Luo Jing did not paint anything too outrageous. He either painted landscapes or ancient styles, and never touched the two-thorn ape themes that he was best at in his previous life, so as not to bring disaster.
Although theoretically, you can paint freely in the mountains and no one will come to see it.
But Luo Jing was used to being cautious and was unwilling to take even the slightest risk.
In such an ordinary daily life, Luo Jing spent the first ten days in the mountains.
The heavy rain that lasted for a long time finally stopped.
The sun rises in the sky, and white mist rises slightly between the mountains, as beautiful as a sea of clouds.
In the clear blue sky, a familiar figure flew over the mountains and landed in front of Luo Jing's wooden cabin.
Interrupted Luo Jing who was drawing.
Luo Yanyin, the weird little girl who claimed she liked watching families being wiped out, actually flew over the Manggu Mountains alone and came to the door.