The sun was shining brightly among the clouds, and the mountain breeze was blowing gently through the forest. Lu Liangsheng jumped up from the cliff, holding a swollen black shadow and putting the stone away.
Whoosh~~~
The bulging "ball" opened its mouth and let out a long breath. Its body shrank visibly, and it suddenly collapsed like a stone. Its white belly rose and fell as it breathed heavily.
"Master, are you alright?"
Hearing Liangsheng's words, Toad Taoist stood up and shouted, "Where's that dead donkey?!"
He turned his head left and right to look around, and saw an old donkey chewing grass under a tree. He rolled up his sleeves and jumped off the rock, spread his webbed feet and ran under the donkey's legs. He raised his toad face, bulged his eyes, and cursed: "Why are you running so fast? Damn it!!"
As soon as he finished speaking, he gave the donkey a hard kick. The donkey started jumping up and down on the ground, covering its webbed head. The old donkey lowered his eyes to look at the donkey, then chewed the grass with a grunt, shook his bald tail, and slowly walked away.
The Toad Taoist jumped twice on the spot, and when he saw his apprentice and the tree demon looking over, his face straightened. He quickly put down his flippers, put his flippers on his shoulders, nodded slightly, and snorted at the old donkey who was walking to the side: "You're a fast walker. Now you know how powerful I am."
Then he turned around, wiggled his flippers, and said to his disciple, "It's just a fall, how can I be so weak as a teacher?"
Immediately, he stopped and squatted on one side of the Blood Spirit Formation. He pointed his round webbed head at the magic pattern that occasionally glowed with dark red blood light, and rubbed the place that was hurt by the kick with his other webbed hand.
"Liangsheng, is this the magic circle that my disciple has set up using 100,000 lives?"
Lu Liangsheng walked to the side and said "hmm". A flash of green light shot out from his fingertips and sank into the Blood Spirit Formation without causing even a ripple. He frowned and retracted his sleeves.
"The magic power cannot be shaken at all. It must have been absorbed. It is full of evil energy. It doesn't look like it is used to resist the calamity of heaven and earth. Master, what do you think?"
"This is the first time I've heard of this. How could I know this?"
The Toad Taoist waved his webbed feet to sweep away a blade of grass that the tree demon had brought to him, then stood up and hugged his webbed feet.
"Liangsheng, Gongsun Liao may know something about the great catastrophe of heaven and earth. Since things are as he said, we should fulfill our promise and release him."
… This is the only good friend I have, don’t let him die in the hands of my disciple, thinking about it, he secretly glanced at the disciple who was standing aside and his robe was blown by the wind.
After a while, Lu Liangsheng loosened his tightly pursed lips and said, "That's how it should be."
He called Lao Lu, took "Boundless Mountains and Seas" from the bookshelf and unfolded it in his hand. Under the traction of magic power, a wisp of black smoke floated out from it and fell to the ground. The smoke dissipated and a big man with a naked body sitting there holding a cloak, with some taken-off clothes beside him. Suddenly he saw the scenery outside and hurriedly put on the clothes and cloak.
"Let me out without even saying hello. I just beat up Zhu Erniang in there and then I found a place to rest..."
Well…
It seems that resting and recuperating inside is more relaxing than being outside.
The wolf demon put on his robe and cloak with a rustle, and could see the surrounding scenery clearly. Feeling the brutality brought by the blood spirit formation over there, he turned around and looked at Lu Liangsheng.
"How? Did I lie to you?"
"I've offended you before."
Lu Liangsheng spread out his sleeves, cupped his hands and bowed to him. Gongsun Liao, who had wanted to decline and say a few polite words, was stunned for a moment. He didn't expect this scholar to be so free and easy and apologize without hesitation.
"What are you still standing there for? Your disciple has already apologized, what else do you want?" The Toad Taoist subconsciously wanted to kick the other party with his webbed feet. Just as he raised his feet, he caught a glimpse of the old donkey over there in his peripheral vision, then looked at the round webbed head and put it down in disappointment.
"Tell me quickly, what exactly is going on with the great catastrophe of heaven and earth that we mentioned earlier!"
Lu Liangsheng nodded: "Thank you for your help."
He waved his wide sleeves to brush away the dust and fallen leaves on the ground. Several stone benches and stone tables rose from the mud. He invited the other party to sit down, picked up the master, put him on another bench, and placed a cup of steaming tea.
"My disciple said that this formation was also created for the great calamity. The head of Chengyun Sect also had some feelings about it. I can only believe it..."
The imaginary tea was held in his hand and handed over, "I hope the king will put aside the past grudges and tell me."
The teacup is exquisite, with a painting of green bamboo surrounding it. It can be seen that Lu Liangsheng's illusion is extraordinary. The wolf demon has been running around for many years for the calamity of heaven and earth, and seeing that the scholar asked about it, it would be better for him to carry it alone.
After a moment of silence, he raised his head and drank the tea in the cup.
"In fact, I don't know exactly. Several decades ago, when I was practicing the Bright Moon, I accidentally felt a strange aura from the sky affecting the moonlight. It was like someone was spying on us in the human world. In the years that followed, I was always monitoring it and found that the thing was getting bigger and bigger and rushing towards us."
Lu Liangsheng listened to him while holding a cup of tea. He instinctively raised his head and looked up at the sky. There were white clouds like cotton wool and the sun was shining brightly. He didn't feel anything unusual.
The toad on another stone bench took a sip from the teacup and smacked his lips. “I don’t know. It’s because you’re old. The connection between heaven and man is something that only monks can have.”
"I became a demon because of the incense and the souls of the people in the shrine made me enlightened." The wolf demon put down the teacup with a bang and retorted with wide eyes.
Lu Liangsheng retracted his gaze and frowned slightly: "Is that all?"
After that, he asked again, "Then why do you think it is a calamity of heaven and earth? It comes from outside the sky. Can't the gods who live outside the clouds notice it?"
"them?"
Perhaps annoyed, Gongsun Liao pressed his knees and turned his head away, sneering: "A bunch of rats who can only show their divine power in dreams dare to call themselves gods?"
The scholar held the teacup in his hand and fell silent. When Chang Yang obtained the scabbard of the Xuanyuan Sword, he still remembered the words that he heard from his master. It was as if the Ten Thousand Spirits Formation was the separation between the immortals and the mortals forever...
Besides, he didn't know much about the wolf demon. Since this magic circle of unknown origin was guarded by Chengyun Sect, there was nothing for Lu Liangsheng to do if he stayed any longer. He decided to leave and go find the Wuse Manor to meet Master Wuyuan. There were still many things to prepare.
Afterwards, Gongsun Liao still requested the scholar to take him into the painting to recuperate. There was plenty of spiritual energy in the painting, and no outsiders would disturb him. He could also find time to teach the treacherous Zhu Erniang a lesson. It would be so comfortable.
After descending Taihang Mountain and no longer in a hurry to continue on his journey, Lu Liangsheng had enough time to paint a few more pictures of exotic beasts from the mountains and seas. Occasionally, he would pass by the town market, buy some paper and ink, and make some delicious food for his master, then head southwest to Chang'an.
However, his master, the Toad Taoist, would sometimes ask him to put himself into the painting, or let the wolf demon come out for some fresh air. After the two of them exchanged a few words, they began to quarrel. In the end, the wolf demon returned to the painting to find Zhu Erniang, and the master sat by the small door of the compartment with his arms folded, squinting his eyes and looking sulky.
Then... it was jolted and hung on the rope like a gourd, swaying back and forth.
What gave Lu Liangsheng a headache was Qiyou, which would occasionally run out from the bookshelf and transform into a big tree to play tricks on passers-by, causing gusts of cold wind and the screams of crows, which scared the merchants and travelers who were originally passing by, and spread the rumor that this road was haunted.
Fortunately, after a few days, we finally arrived in Chang'an.
Pedestrians on the official road and vendors welcoming customers, amid the noise of shouting, laughing, cart shafts and animals, a scholar in a blue shirt and white robe, leading an old donkey, approached the city wall.
Far away.
Under the ancient and majestic huge city gate, people lined up in long queues to go in and out, and some people lined up on the roadside to watch, bursting into surprise and cheering from time to time.
In the crowd, eight big men raised their arms to the sides, their arm muscles bulging and bouncing with each exclamation. A Taoist priest walked around holding a small basin.
The copper coins clattered in the basin.