The morning sun shines through the window, and the light dust dances.
The scholar at the table raised his eyebrows and pointed at himself, "You said you were awake? I remember everything very clearly at that time. I used the Qiankun sleeve to capture Chen Fu and rushed all the way back."
"You've got the wrong point. What you're saying is that my master was beaten..." The Toad Taoist stood up from the book, stood on tiptoe, and saw his disciple taking a scroll with a cup of sour plum soup rising from it. He swallowed back what he wanted to say and poked his disciple with his flippers.
"Hurry up, bring it to the master."
Lu Liangsheng smiled as he took the bowl of imaginary sour plum soup and fed it to his master himself: "Master, you haven't told me how you became sober yet."
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The soup flowed over the corners of his mouth, and he raised his webbed feet to signal that he could put the bowl down. Then the Toad Taoist burped comfortably, patted his belly, lay down on the book, closed his eyes lazily, and smacked his lips with aftertaste.
"You certainly can't feel it yourself, but how much cultivation do you have as your master? In the past, I galloped across the heavens and earth, and the mountains and rivers were all..."
Lu Liangsheng let out a breath, stood up and went to the basin rack to wash up, and woke up Qiyou who was lying on the couch. He came back and sat down again. The Toad Taoist was still talking.
"... You are so well-informed. You are conscious, but your temperament has been affected. Even your apprentice and my disciple can feel the change in you."
Lu Liangsheng frowned, pushed Qi You, who was yawning and approaching him, away, and patted her hands: "Go out and play." Then, his gaze fell back on Toad.
"Master, how can we be sure?"
Not only does practicing Taoism require rigor, but as a scholar, one also needs to sort out the ins and outs of things. The Toad Taoist over there opened his slightly swollen eyes and slowly sat up.
With his bandaged head, he looked out the window at the sunlight and thought for a while: "It's actually very simple. How can I, your teacher, not know what kind of temper you usually have? Your demeanor and behavior are completely different from yesterday."
As he spoke, he stood up, carrying one of his flippers on his back, and walked back and forth, thinking.
"I guess that you often read Lu Yuan's past life and were influenced by what he did. After all, the two of you are the same person, and you unconsciously began to imitate him, or in other words, returned to your original personality."
After all, Toad Taoist lived longer, so he explained the matter clearly in just a few simple sentences. If it were Lu Liangsheng, he might also figure it out in the end, but it would take some time for me to discover it.
Think about the other personality that is affected. It is really useful in a fight. At least one's consciousness is clear and he should not commit indiscriminate killing.
Lu Liangsheng remembered that the evil star seemed to affect people's personalities, and there was some similarity between the two.
'Right now, the fragments of the demon star are scattered all over the place. We can't just leave them alone, but we have no idea where it came from or why it came here. Perhaps, let it possess a body once and find out the details...'
After a while, the door creaked open. The scholar, who was thinking about something, turned his head and saw the Taoist leaning against the door, looking at him curiously, which made him laugh. He casually took out a bowl of sour plum soup from the scroll and handed it to the other party.
"What's up?"
"I came to see the cold-blooded scholar from Lu University... Tsk tsk, it looks like there's no chance."
Sun Yingxian chuckled twice, took the bowl and drank a mouthful of the cool soup. It melted in his mouth, leaving only the sour and sweet taste of the plums and a hint of coolness. He raised his head to look at the toad with its webbed feet and a head tied with bread, and said,
"By the way, I forgot to ask you when you came back, where is the corpse demon?"
“Here!”
Lu Liangsheng patted the wide sleeve with yin and yang printed on it under his wrist and said, "This man is Chen Fu, you should have seen him."
"That old man who is determined to restore his country?" The Taoist looked at the scholar's Qiankun sleeves, curled his lips and shook his head: "Obsession... The demon star is possessed, and the obsession is even deeper. No wonder he rushed into the city with a stubborn head, but was put into the sleeves instead. Now there is no hope for restoring the country. But it's just a corpse demon, how can it be so difficult to resist with magic? Could it be..."
Old Sun knew that being possessed by the demon star fragments would bring about a big change in one's temperament, but as for what would happen next, he was not very clear. While guessing, he saw Lu Liangsheng nod and his eyes widened.
"Can you be so powerful? Come on, you still have some, give me some, and let me possess your body to see if I can enhance my cultivation."
"Don't make a fuss, or you'll be even more lustful."
Lu Liangsheng patted him on the shoulder, walked past him, went out of the room, and went to Zuo Zhengyang's room. The Taoist followed him, holding the back of his head with his hands, and didn't care.
"That's right... I have someone I love, how can I be so impatient? The gain is not worth the loss, the gain is not worth the loss."
He shook his head several times and followed the scholar to push the door open. The one-armed figure was lying quietly on the couch, still sleeping. There were two long swords leaning against the wall, and there was a wooden couch next to it, with Yang Guang lying on it. Since both of them were men, it would be easier to take care of them by putting them in the same room.
The sunlight came through the window lattice. Lu Liangsheng came in, walked across the light spot on the ground, stretched out his hand to ask the Taoist to stop talking, went over and sat on the edge of the bed to check Zuo Zhengyang's condition.
With his fingertips on the other person's wrist, he found his pulse was stable. The bruises on his stubbled face had turned red, and his breathing was much better than before.
"In two days, he will be able to wake up."
Lu Liangsheng put his hand back into the quilt, tucked in the corners, and went to another wooden couch to carefully examine Yang Guang. The latter was an ordinary person, without any magical power to protect his body, and he was injured by the breath of the evil star. It was unclear what symptoms he would have.
"Fortunately, the evil star aura of His Royal Highness Prince Jin has been cleared, but I don't know if his affected temperament will remain. If his temperament changes drastically, the royal family may be in turmoil in the future."
At the round table at the back, the Taoist jumped onto a stool and squatted. He reached out to take the teapot on it, poured a bowl of tea, and sneered at the scholar's words.
"Old Lu, you are the state teacher, not the prime minister. Why do you worry about that? Just protect the world from being invaded by demons. If you want to pursue immortality, then pursue it. If you want to marry and have children, then marry and have children. Isn't it better to live a free and easy life?"
Over there, Lu Liangsheng put down Yang Guang's hand, infused some mana into him to nourish his body, then he stood up with his sleeves rolled up, and said with a smile: "If I had started out by practicing Taoism and living a carefree life, then now Lu Liangsheng would be a free-spirited immortal who travels all over the world. Unfortunately... I also learned Confucianism, and I can't let go of the lives of the common people and the dangers of the country."
Having said that, he called the Taoist priest to go out together.
"Great truth."
Sun Yingxian put down the teacup, followed behind, and talked with the scholar. They went downstairs together and went to the alchemy room at the back. She listed a few medicinal materials and asked someone to buy some from the pharmacy in the city. The Taoist also knew a little about alchemy, so he followed Lu Liangsheng's instructions and made some pills to strengthen the body, nourish the spirit, and replenish the mind, and gave them to Yang Guang and Zuo Zhengyang.
After a busy day, the sky darkened unknowingly. Lu Liangsheng looked at the half-repaired wooden building and watched Qingzhuang, who came to work here, leave.
He turned and walked to the more spacious area on the other side of the pool, waving his sleeves.
Behind him, Zhu Ganglie, Li Sui'an, Sun Yingxian and other demons gathered around and stood nearby. They saw the scholar over there shaking out his sleeves, and suddenly a strong wind blew, and everyone was confused and raised their hands to cover their faces.
After a moment, the wind stopped.
Looking ahead again, a figure was falling from mid-air. Lu Liangsheng made a gesture with his fingers, and in the Five Elements Taoism, water and earth were mixed into four pillars that rose from the pool.
The scholar pointed at several sets of tools placed not far from the wooden building. The metal was cut open and flew to four pillars. In the blink of an eye, four pitch-black iron chains were dragged out and extended to the night sky, binding the limbs of the falling figure, and then suddenly pulled outwards to hang it above the pool.
"Mr. Chen, are you awake now?"
Lu Liangsheng stepped forward, and as he stroked his Qilin cloak, a trace of magical power came out and penetrated into the old man's brow. The latter's face, which had originally been shaped like a skull, gradually returned to the appearance of an old man.
Hmm…
With a low moan, Chen Fu, with his gray hair hanging down, slowly raised his face and looked at the scholar standing below. A smile appeared at the corner of his mouth, and then he spat.
"I am very sober, but it's a pity that I didn't kill the Emperor of Sui!!!"
The Toad Taoist, who was sitting on his disciple's shoulder, nodded with appreciation.
"Have a bit of my old style, Liangsheng, this guy is the hardest talker, let him suffer a little first!"