Know, know, know~~~
The summer cicadas were chirping. Hong Lian stared at the young man holding a book in a trance. She came to her senses, looked at the sky, and saw that it was almost noon. She got up and floated to the attic.
"Yuan, over a hundred years old, acquired more than two hundred magical skills, and recorded seven hundred of them in books. I only know their names, but not their methods. I figured them out on my own."
Lu Liangsheng turned over the first sentence written by Lu Yuan, followed the content, and silently recited the words on it. With his other hand, he held the brush and scraped the ink on the edge of the inkstone. According to his own understanding, he wrote down the key points so that he could slowly understand it.
"I didn't expect Lu Yuan to have lived for hundreds of years... Well, that's right. When he used the Kunlun Mirror, he was already in his forties. It took him several decades to avoid the Heavenly Dao and reverse time and space."
He glanced at the toad who sneezed against the sheet and continued to bask in the sun.
"Otherwise, there would be no time to take Master's body out of the Southern Chen Palace... Well, I remember that Master's body, the stone toad, was taken away by the Qin Emperor, and then lost in the Nine Provinces, and was accidentally obtained by the founding emperor of the Chen Dynasty... Why did Lu Yuan pursue Master? How did he know..."
On the side of the low table, the Toad Taoist priest, who was crawling in a blanket, felt his disciple's gaze, turned his head, and blinked his big eyes a few times.
"See what the teacher is doing?"
"nothing."
Lu Liangsheng picked up the book, and while listening to his master's words about his "problem", he glanced at the toad again. After a while, he smiled and shook his head, then focused his attention back on the contents of the book.
"Master can't figure out the secret... You should hurry up and try to practice your magical powers."
There are also several magical powers in the annotations and transcriptions, the most familiar of which is the technique of calling the wind and rain. It is not as complicated, contrary to the will of heaven, and consumes a lot of mana as the methods performed by cultivators, but this technique among the magical powers is quite different.
Lu Liangsheng had his reasons for choosing this technique as his first choice for cultivation. Firstly, it would be able to take care of the people, and would make it relatively easier to deal with natural disasters and droughts. Secondly, it was the easiest, and would allow him to accumulate some experience for future learning of other magical techniques.
"The universe has major heavenly stems and earthly branches, and humans have minor heavenly stems and earthly branches. Wherever you go, there are yin and yang, Qiankun, Wu and Ji within a radius of ten feet. Xun is the main direction, and you can practice it all the time..."
Seeing this, Lu Liangsheng frowned and tapped his fingers lightly on the table. This meant he needed to be familiar with the distribution of the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches... As expected, practicing magical skills is not easy, and it is not like in the weird stories where you can learn it just by snapping your head.
Thinking about it, he put down the book and went back to the attic, where he found the room where Bei Shenghuo Mingzun once stored the books. There were bookshelves made of teak all around, which were enchanted and not easy to decay. Rolls of bamboo slips were placed on them, stacked one on top of the other. There were also books made of paper, many of which were moved from the palace two years ago.
I found the "Pan Gu King Table" which talked about the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches, and went back downstairs to read it carefully, trying to understand how people can distinguish yin and yang based on their direction and environment.
'So that's how it is. People have their own little world. Every step they take, the environment they are in and the stars will change, and the heavenly stems and earthly branches will change. The fate will affect the person's destiny. No wonder some people in this world are unlucky and some are lucky.'
After studying for a while, he picked up the "Heaven and Earth Yin and Yang Magical Power" again and used some of the key points he had just learned. He pinched his fingers to identify the Xun position, used his magic power to take a deep breath, opened his mouth slightly and blew out again.
call-
Dust on the ground was immediately raised, and the trees on the mountain and the surrounding areas were shaking wildly. In the scholar's field of vision, the sunlight gradually dimmed, and the dust was raised and the sound of thunder was faintly heard.
'Rain!'
With one thought in mind, he imitated the rain-making magic method recorded in the book by the Yellow River God. He touched the teacup with his fingertips, flicked a water droplet, and a small ball of black mist surged and floated several feet above Lu Liangsheng's head.
"Unfortunately, it is not the Dragon King's rain-making technique... That's right, if that were the case, I'm afraid the weather would have to be changed, and Canglong would have to bear the blame. This is the best option."
The rain was pouring down heavily. The Toad Taoist, who was lying on the table, held his head and looked at the rain clouds floating above his head in a daze.
… Damn it, why does it rain only on my head
No! Why does it smell like tea
The Toad Taoist shook his head, quickly getting rid of the sleepiness, and when he regained consciousness, he realized that this was a magical skill, but it was a small one.
"Liangsheng, have you mastered it?"
"Well, I think so." Lu Liangsheng was not sure. After all, without anyone to teach him, he didn't know if he had mastered it. "I'm not a very smart person. There are still many things that need to be improved from what the book says."
The corner of Toad Taoist's mouth twitched, he slowly stood up, picked up the small quilt, climbed down the low table in the rain, walked back to the attic door without saying a word, lay down on the small recliner, turned over, and turned to the side.
"That motherfucker... it takes others one or two years to master it, but you learned it in less than half an hour, and you still say that you are not extremely smart, then what am I?"
Lu Pan and the other eight people at the pool saw the heavy rain coming here, and they curiously gathered around for a while, talking at once. Lu Xi touched the water stains on his body, hurried back to the building, and then ran out with a few large towels.
"Come on, don't waste it, it's hot."
As he spoke, he distributed towels to everyone, stood in the rain and vigorously scrubbed his angular muscles, and also washed his head with soap nuts.
Lu Pan turned around and patted his strong arms.
"Liangsheng, why don't you come over and take a shower together!"
On the side, Lu Qing wiped the water stains off his face vigorously: "Yes, we will hurry on our way. We won't be afraid of having no place to take a shower if we can't find water in the wilderness!"
Well…
Lu Liangsheng was quite speechless as he watched his eight uncles standing shirtless in the rain, laughing and taking a bath. He never thought that his magical powers could be used in this way.
'If I cast the "Resurrection Spell" again, even if the power of calling the wind and rain is not superb, it can still expand the radius by several miles. It can still come in handy in areas with severe drought.'
After half an hour, Hong Lian stood at the door and called out to everyone outside to eat. Lu Liangsheng then withdrew his magic power. The eight big men over there also finished washing and went back upstairs to change their clothes comfortably.
After lunch, Lu Liangsheng helped Hong Lian to clean up the dishes. He tilted his head to look outside and stuffed the dishes into Hong Lian's arms. The woman opened her head to look and saw a young man in a black uniform with gold edges, with a beard, squatting with his hands behind his back, looking at the old donkey lying on its side under the shade of a tree.
Amid the sound of cicadas, the old donkey swung his bald tail, raised his head, glanced at the young man squatting not far away who was looking at him curiously, snorted twice, dropped his head to the ground as a pillow, yawned listlessly, and continued to sleep.
"Your Majesty, why did you come here alone?"
Lu Liangsheng waved his robe and called two chairs from the building and placed them over here. On the low table, he added a pair of steaming teacups. Even though the young man opposite had seen it several times, he was still a little amazed. The mysterious method was always fascinating.
"After reviewing those annoying memorials, I found a chance to go out incognito to see the street scene and visit the imperial teacher." Yang Guang suppressed his amazement, bowed with a smile, sat down on the chair, and watched the eight big men fighting each other by the pool under the bright sunshine.
"So tough! The bravest generals in the army are no more than this."
Hearing the emperor's absent-minded tone, Lu Liangsheng raised the tea and handed it to him, "Your Majesty, you actually came here for the matter of Duke Yue."
The puddle of water under the shade of the tree gradually dissipated in the warmth and brought a slight coolness. Yang Guang leaned back comfortably, looked at the pool, clenched his teeth, and squeezed out the words.
"At the morning court today, the Duke of Yue boasted of his great achievements and wanted to be promoted to the Duke of Chu."
Listening to Yang Guang gritting his teeth as he spoke about the resistance he encountered in the court, Lu Liangsheng had already known last night that the young emperor in front of him had great ambitions and endless energy, while on the other side were old ministers who were interested in the country and wanted to hone the emperor's followers. In the final analysis, neither side was wrong, but the emperor just didn't know it.
Seeing that he was venting his dissatisfaction angrily, Lu Liangsheng could not tell him what the old man had said last night. Once he explained it, perhaps the emperor's dissatisfaction could be relieved, but Yang Su's training of Yang Guang to become the 'Han Wu' he hoped for would be gone.
The sun slanted down, shining a streak of red on the big tree in the temple. Yang Guang, who had been venting his anger under the tree, finally calmed down and regained his former spirit.
"Sir, please don't blame me. I can only speak like this when I am with you."
After apologizing, he said goodbye and left. Lu Liangsheng escorted him out of the mountain gate. The latter took the reins handed over by the guard, turned over and sat on the horse's back, turned around, raised his hand, whipped the whip, and shouted softly: "Go!"
He rode his horse into a gallop and disappeared into the red glow.
"Every family has its own difficulties, and it's even more difficult for me to be caught in the middle."
Lu Liangsheng sighed and decided to put aside the matter that was caught in the middle for the time being. What he should do right now is to practice his magical skills. He flicked his wide sleeves, turned around and walked back to the mountain gate.
…
The sky was setting in the west, and hundreds of miles away from Chang'an to the northwest, a strange wind swept up the yellow sand and shook the mountains and forests, landing on a solitary cliff. Gongsun Liao walked to the edge of the cliff wearing a cloak.
The wind blew and the cloak swayed slightly.
His eyes were majestic, and the scenery he saw was a series of desolate, rolling mountains. With the demon king's power, he could see countless mountaintops shrouded in mist.
"Old Toad, the demon star is ultimately useless. I will refine a demon pill for you again!"
The wind wrapped in yellow sand blew past the isolated figure on the cliff. As Gongsun Liao murmured, white fluff gradually appeared on the corners of his grinning mouth. His flat teeth became sharp. He suddenly raised his face and howled towards the setting sun.
Awooo~~~
The sound of the Dharma mixed with the howling of wolves spread out like the sound of thunder from heaven: "Demons from the northwest, gather here!!"