"It's been so long since he went in, is there anything wrong with Mr. Lu?"
The Taoist rubbed his hands and walked back and forth several times. The sun had risen to noon, but there was no reaction at the location where the stone gate had been before, which made people feel uneasy.
Looking back, a fat pig demon was squatting on one side, drooling with his long mouth, staring at the scroll with a silly grin. Not far away, a tree demon holding a piece of dogtail grass was swaying in front of the toad, shaking the tip of the grass and humming.
"Little frogs, jumping and jumping, one by one, two by two, so big..."
The Taoist Toad's eyes swirled with the swaying foxtail grass, and his long tongue shot out, but he quickly pressed it back, rubbed his face hard, turned around, and glared at the smiling woman.
"If you keep teasing me, I'll be angry, quack!"
Qi You pulled down his eye bags, stuck out his tongue and danced around.
The angry toad brushed away the dogtail grass with his webbed feet, walked over to the Taoist with the gourd on his back, and continued what the other party had just said.
"Don't be impatient. Liangsheng's cultivation is not what it was before. How can he be so unbearable? Wait a little longer."
"But you haven't come out for so long..." The Taoist stopped and jumped onto a rock, holding a grass root in his mouth, "Are you so sure? That's where Xing Tian buried his head."
The toad raised its head and looked at what seemed to be a thousand-foot-high mountain wall.
"I, of course... I'm not sure. How can the secret realms of this world be deduced by common sense? My demon pill has not yet recovered. If I go in, I will die. As for you, you can't even open the door."
"Hey, old toad, you..." Sun Yingxian spit out the grass roots, jumped down, pointed at the short figure on the ground and wanted to argue, but gave up, sat down on the ground, and leaned his back against the rock.
"By the way, Old Toad, you always talk about how high your cultivation level was back then, and how you were hunted down by the sect. How high was your cultivation level at that time?"
The Toad Taoist turned his head slightly, glanced over and snorted coldly.
"Go straight to the demon king."
Over there, Sun Yingxian's eyes lit up, and he leaned over and asked quickly:
"Then do you know which monster is the best at poison?"
The toad was stunned for a moment, then quickly turned his eyes back to look straight at the mountain wall in front of him, and took two steps forward with the gourd on his back.
"How should I know? There are countless monsters in the world, and there are countless monsters that use poison as a skill. Scorpion monsters can use poison, snake monsters can use poison, centipede monsters can use poison, and even rat monsters and flower monsters can use poison."
Hearing this, the Taoist was about to ask about the word "purple poison" when a fluctuation of magic power suddenly came from the mountain wall. The Toad Taoist quickly waved his flippers and said, "Look, it's coming out!", pushing the Taoist's words back.
Zhu Ganglie, who was looking at the scroll, also felt the flow of magic power. He put away the scroll and stood up. He saw a rumbling sound on the mountain wall, a layer of white light flashed, and the outline of a person was revealed.
Qiyou threw away the dogtail grass, lifted up her skirt and trotted over, shouting happily: "Old demon, old demon, you came out!"
She threw herself into Lu Liangsheng's arms and rubbed her face against his chest.
The scholar patted her head, pushed her away a little, and smiled at the Taoist priests and pig demons who were looking around, "I'm sorry to have worried you."
Cough cough!
Below, the Toad Taoist held the frog's web under his chin and coughed twice, "Is it out?"
"yes."
Lu Liangsheng smiled and bowed to his master: "I am sorry for making you worry."
Seeing that he was fine, the pig demon obviously breathed a sigh of relief, and continued to stand outside with a silly smile on his face, watching them talk, with some envy in his eyes.
On the side, the Taoist priest checked the scholar and found that he was fine. Then he stretched out his hand and moved his four fingers back and forth: "Take it out quickly."
Lu Liangsheng looked at the hand he stretched out in front of him and was stunned for a moment.
"What?"
"Of course it's a treasure. I'm not going to tell you that you came out without getting anything after going in there?"
"Here, this is it!"
Lu Liangsheng lifted the red rope around his waist and waved the scabbard of the Xuanyuan sword in front of everyone, causing the Taoist to stare at it for a while before he raised his face.
"That's it? It can't be the file set that Xing Tian used to grind his nails..."
"Of course not."
Hearing the Taoist's words, Lu Liangsheng laughed, put "Boundless Mountains and Seas" back on the bookshelf, pulled the old donkey and walked back along the foot of the mountain with everyone else.
Along the way, he did not hide what happened inside because of the presence of Zhu Ganglie, and told him everything in detail. Of course, he did not mention the fact that Xingtian's head was put into the book. It was not because he did not trust anyone, but because it was too horrifying.
"In fact, it didn't feel like I was in there for very long, and what happened was just a few words..."
The jingling copper bells around the old donkey's neck rang back to the foot of the mountain. Lu Liangsheng mentioned that the voice inside was some kind of Wanling formation, but the Toad Taoist beside him had no impression of it. He asked Zhu Ganglie beside him, and the latter smiled foolishly, shook his fat head, and jingled the two pairs of copper rings on his ears.
He replied in a muffled voice: "I, Old Pig, don't know either."
…
The group did not return to the top of the mountain, but set up a pot at the foot of the mountain to have lunch. Among the weeds and rocks, the old donkey was wagging its tail and lowering its neck to nibble on the swaying grass leaves.
The sun shone obliquely across the mountains. The Toad Taoist changed into a thin short-sleeved flowery dress, crossed his legs and lay on a rock to bask in the sunset, humming and swinging his flippers.
The Taoist priest and Zhu Ganglie sat side by side hiding behind the bushes, flipping through the yellowed pages of a book with a chuckle, looking at the vague portrait of a woman posing in a coquettish manner, and snorting.
The chirping of birds flitted across the mottled sky. Amid the obscene laughter over there, Lu Liangsheng sat under an old crooked tree, reading a book with great interest. Next to him, Qi You, who was leaning against him, held two colorful stones and looked at them in the sunlight, turning sideways from time to time to ask the scholar to help her choose which one.
“This one is good.”
Lu Liangsheng pointed at the stone in the woman's right hand, turned back, and stared at the words on the page, but what he was thinking about was the intermittent words of Emperor Huang in the stone hall.
"The ancient saint who created the world must be Pangu in the myth... The clay sculpture refers to Nuwa, and who are the 'you' in the sentence about stealing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth?"
Not only this sentence, but also the following sentence "Establishing the Ten Thousand Spirits Array as the beginning" and the following sentence "Protecting the human world", Lu Liangsheng probably guessed that this array was established by the Yellow Emperor to protect the human world and prevent "them" from interfering.
The soft glow of the sunset shone on his handsome profile. Lu Liangsheng raised his eyes slightly and looked at the red clouds in the west. A few birds flew past his sight.
…dwelling forever beyond the clouds.
It couldn't be referring to the gods and Buddhas in the sky above the nine heavens.
Thinking of this, Lu Liangsheng shook his head. If this was the case, then the things hidden inside were a little too big.
"Let me just do my good deeds and talk about it later."
He patted the scabbard of the Xuanyuan sword hanging on his waist, closed the book, and seeing that it was getting late, he called his master and the Taoist priest over there and prepared to leave.
As the sun set, the red glow spread over the mountain path. Zhu Ganglie did not walk with them, but followed them for a while. When he stopped, Lu Liangsheng conjured up some wine and held it up in both hands.
"We'll have to say goodbye after we've been together, so goodbye!"
The Taoist nodded and said, "Remember to come to Qixia Mountain!"
"I, Old Pig, need to get another weapon. When I have time, I will come to Qixia Mountain to see you."
In the sunset glow, Zhu Ganglie finished his drink and cupped his hands together, saying, "Then I'll take my leave!"
"etc!"
Sun Yingxian hurriedly called him, looked at the pig demon who turned around, gritted her teeth and quickly took out the yellowed book from her arms, walked over, and stuffed it into the other's hand.
"I was bored on the way, so I just read to kill time, it's better to avoid harming people's lives!"
"Haha, I may be fierce, but I never kill anyone!"
Zhu Ganglie laughed loudly, put the book away and put it in his arms, watching the scholar, the Taoist leading the old donkey, and the toad sitting on the donkey's ears with its head holding on to the sunset.
"I, Old Pig, have taken my weapons. I will come to Qixia Mountain to visit you when I have time. Please prepare good wine and food, and don't use illusions to deal with me!!"
At dusk, when the shouting came from, Lu Liangsheng turned his head, reflecting the sunset glow, and bowed to the fat figure waving goodbye from afar.
The Toad Taoist tied the rope tightly, sat on the donkey's head, held up its two long ears, and looked back at his apprentice.
"Liangsheng, let's go!"
Over there, the scholar turned around and called the Taoist who was searching the bushes on the roadside to leave. The old donkey raised its head, swung the reins, followed behind its master, and shook the toad on its head, swinging it back and forth.
Er Er Heng An Heng—
The excited neighing, accompanied by the vague chirping of the toad, echoed between the sunset and the mountains.
…
The western clouds were as red as fire. It was a different sight to be standing in Chang'an city and looking at them. On the long street covered with rosy clouds, a carriage slowly stopped in front of a mansion with a sound of "whoosh".
The curtain of the carriage was opened, and Yun Wen stepped down from the carriage. Yang Su, who was wearing a black background with dark red edges, raised his head and looked at the plaque on the gate of the mansion with the words "Yu Wen" written on it.
He walked up the stone steps and entered the mansion directly.