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The swaying branches swayed with the breeze, and the chirping of cicadas echoed among the foothills. In the slightly slanting sunlight, Lu Liangsheng looked at the mountain walls, attics, rockery and waterside pavilions. The tip of the pen that had been drawn on the paper was winding and moving with ink.
The outline is made with blue ink, with old trees and branches on the steep cliffs and the glazed tiles below reflecting the flying birds. The tip of the brush is drawn with ink and goes along the bottom, winding out the eaves, half-open window frames, and the furnishings in the house.
Lu Liangsheng's eyes were focused, and he wrote down all the scenes and details in front of him on the paper without missing a single detail. In the time it took him to finish a cup of tea, he had sketched out the appearance of the attic on the mountain wall.
"There is still a lot to go..."
He turned his eyes away and walked two steps around the table, looking at the rockery and waterside pavilion in the distance. He waved the pen and walked around. The blue ink brought out the floating lotus leaves in the pond. A dragonfly dotted on the calm water, causing small ripples. On the sparkling water, a lacquered red arch bridge connected the waterside pavilion, and lanterns under the long eaves swayed gently in the wind.
"alright!"
The last few strokes of the stone tablet stood in the water, and the delicate tip of the pen quickly wrote down "Zishan Temple".
Lu Liangsheng let out a breath, and the moment he put down the magic pen in his hand, the pen body turned into a black shadow and floated to the side of the scholar, revealing her slim figure. She waved her long sleeves to wipe off some sweat stains on her cheeks, and her rosy cheeks were so cute.
Zuo Zhengyang and Yan Chixia, who were sitting under the eaves, fell asleep out of boredom. They woke up when they heard the tree demon say, "The painting looks real." Even the Toad Taoist priest in the hall, who had fixed his medicine pestle, climbed out of the door with satisfaction, and went over with the two of them, climbed onto the corner of the table, and looked out.
On the long page of paper was a cliff attic spread out in dark blue. The four-story eaves were made of shiny glazed tiles, and the furnishings inside could be vaguely seen through the slightly opened window lattices. The lotus leaves in the pond below and the stone tablet seemed to be printed in it.
"Liangsheng's paintings are getting better and better." Toad Taoist nodded seriously and made his comment.
Zuo Zhengyang turned his eyes away from the painting and looked at the scholar next to him.
"Then how do you use this painting?"
"Try my previous method!" According to the spell of "Qinghuai Bugeng", Lu Liangsheng took the wine bag from Yan Chixia, took a sip of wine, and sprayed out wine mist, which fell on the paper in spots.
Lu Liangsheng threw away the wine bag, swung his robe sleeves violently, made a gesture with his fingers, and raised them up.
"receive!"
boom-
The dark clouds that had been dispersing suddenly gave way to loud thunder. Everyone subconsciously looked up at the sky. Ripples appeared on the surface of the pool and the hovering dragonflies flew away in panic.
Whoosh~~
The wind was whistling, the woods were shaking wildly, the birds that had landed on the eaves of the building fled away in terror, the sky became overcast, and Toad Taoist suddenly lost his balance and fell onto the table.
"The earth dragon turned over?"
Yan Chixia, Zuo Zhengyang, and Sun Yingxian hurriedly steadied their lower bodies, but were still shaking with the vibrations beneath their feet. They looked around with uneasiness, and saw that the attic clinging to the mountain wall was right in their swaying sight, disappearing one by one. In a scene that others could not see, it turned into starlight and extended towards them.
Next second.
The floor tiles under everyone's feet also turned into starlight and penetrated into the open book on the table. After a moment, even the round table disappeared.
Pah~
The book fell to the ground, and the long spread of paper in the middle floated lightly, and then fell down. The Zishan Temple that was originally located here was now covered with bare soil and rocks, and had become a wilderness.
On the paper, the traces of blue ink were solid, almost the same as before at Zishan Temple.
"This is putting the entire Zishan Temple into the book... This is really amazing."
The Taoist opened his eyes wide and kept turning around to look around, then leaned over to look at the pages of the book again, not knowing what to say.
However, although it seemed so powerful, Lu Liangsheng's magic power was exhausted. After casting the spell, he even had trouble standing. The tree demon Qiyou's lower body turned into a wooden chair, allowing him to sit down and rest.
It took a long time to calm down. Lu Liangsheng had no way to explain to everyone's questions. He had just got the book and being able to find out some things was already a good start. To fully understand it would probably take more than half a month or several months.
"I'm afraid even Holy Fire Master doesn't know the origin of this book... He just thought it was an ancient atlas... But it doesn't matter, I can use this time to explore it."
I went over and picked up the book, and looked at the cover, which had the words “The mountains and seas are boundless” written on it.
I feel more confident now.
In the following days, the group temporarily settled down in this empty space on the mountainside. Every morning, they explained the knowledge of Taoism to Zuo Zhengyang and taught him how to blend the Fire Spirit Pearl into his body. In the afternoon, he would go to the mountain alone or with his master to practice with the spiritual energy in the mountains and recover from the injuries left by the battle with the Holy Fire Master that day.
After all, it is not just talk for Yuan Shen to draw his sword and pull out the soul of the Holy Fire Master, who has higher cultivation than himself, out of his body. In addition, his body was more or less burned by the opponent's fire, so he needs to recuperate for some time.
As for clothes, fortunately I have a set of spare clothes.
On the night of the ninth day, the sky was full of stars and a bonfire was lit in the open field. Everyone gathered together, staring at the roasting roe deer on the rack, chatting and laughing. Lu Liangsheng conjured up a stone table and drank wine. Most of the conversation was about eliminating demons and defending the way of righteousness, but when it came to the future, no one took up the subject.
Zuo Zhengyang tilted his head back, took a sip of wine and burst into laughter.
"Zuo is planning to travel alone. I want to visit Sichuan and Shu, and look for any other branches of Qihuo along the way. I want to eliminate them all."
Over there, Yan Chixia also offered to leave. Although they were talking and laughing together, as a person used to traveling alone, he still preferred the freedom and ease of traveling around.
"Yan thought so too. Anyway, we're done here, so we'll leave early tomorrow morning!"
"Then I won't send you two off."
People who practice Taoism have a casual temperament. Lu Liangsheng has nowhere else to go now, so he may return to Mount Qixia to continue to take care of Hong Lian and practice on the mountain. As for the three disciples, he is not worried. Qu Yuanfeng will not suffer any loss by following Yuwen Tuo, the reincarnation of the divine weapon, and Li Sui'an will not let anyone take advantage of him.
"It just so happens that I am going to go back home tomorrow, but I might also go to Chang'an to see someone."
"emperor?"
Yan and Zuo knew that this scholar had some personal relationship with the Emperor of Sui Dynasty, so when they heard the word Chang'an, they could easily associate it with the past.
"No." Throwing a dry branch into the fire, Lu Liangsheng shook his head and said with a smile, "He's just an old friend who has been reincarnated. I won't bother him. I'll just take a look from a distance."
Afterwards, they talked about the body of the Holy Fire Master abandoned in the forest. Even if a body of this level of cultivation died, there was still some magic power left and it would not rot easily. It was a bit of a headache how to deal with it.
"Just bury it..."
"No, if it is used by a cultivator who is good at refining corpses, I'm afraid he will create a corpse king. If that person has bad intentions, I'm afraid the harm he will cause will be no less than that of the Fire Praying Sect."
"That makes sense, but how should we deal with it?"
Taoist Toad, who was stretching his webbed feet and warming himself by the fire, listened to the discussion of the four people and turned his head to look at the vague outline of a corpse in the woods.
"If I swallow this body, my demon pill will be mostly restored..."
He glanced around and saw that no one was paying attention, so he slowly stood up, took a very gentle step with his flippers, lifted them high, and then lowered them, sneaking out of the range of the fire, spreading his flippers and running towards that side.
He ran into the woods, panting as he looked at the corpse with a few leaves fallen on it. He suddenly opened his mouth, which became very big, and bit the corpse on the ground.
there.
In front of the bonfire, Lu Liangsheng frowned so much that he didn't even notice his master running away quietly. He was thinking about how to deal with the corpse of the Holy Fire Master.
"I don't know how many remnants of the Fire Praying Sect there are. If they intend to dig up the bodies again, it would be a bad thing. Let my master handle it."
The Taoist took a sip of the greasy smell from the roe deer meat and raised his head: "Don't be afraid of eating the corpse in one bite."
"Ha ha!"
Hearing the Taoist's words, Lu Liangsheng laughed, his robe sleeves brushing across his bent knees, looking at the firelight and laughing: "My master is different now. I don't know what he was like in the past, but now he is no longer a monster. Think about when he was in Qixia Mountain, did he eat people when he got along with the villagers and family?"
He paused, the flickering firelight reflected in the scholar's eyes, and he smiled.
"I think Master is more like a human being now."
The faint and gentle voice drifted away, and the figure that had bitten off the corpse in the forest trembled. The toad's mouth opened and closed slowly and hesitantly, and its head shrank back to its original shape. It put up its flippers, straightened its back, and turned around with its white belly bulging.
"I am no longer the same person I was before. How can I eat people again..."
At this time, over at the campfire, a knife cut the roe deer meat and put it into a bowl, and Lu Liangsheng's voice came from afar.
"Master, dinner is ready!"
“Here it comes!”
The toad with webbed feet responded quickly, swallowed his saliva, spread out his webbed feet and ran away, took the bowl of barbecue from his apprentice, sat down with it in his arms, and took a deep sniff.
Saliva flowed from the corners of his mouth.
'I still crave it...'