"There is a soul called 'Ying Zheng' in my body?!"
The withered yellow reeds hung down below the water surface, and the rippling river bank reflected Lu Liangsheng's figure as he walked over. The Toad Taoist on his shoulder widened his eyes, jumped to the ground, and fell to the ground with a thud. After a moment, smoke rose up, and he turned into a fat white-bearded old man. Looking at the circles of water waves slowly approaching, he swept over with one palm, and a row of water curtains exploded, startling the ducks in the nearby reeds, who screamed and flew out in panic while floating on the water.
He couldn't sleep yesterday, so he called his apprentice to the lotus pond early in the morning and explained the whole story. When he heard that before he became a demon, there was another soul living in him, he was furious!
"How can this be absurd? With my level of cultivation, I actually share a body with a mortal! Why didn't I get him out right then and there so that I could vent my anger!"
"He is the emperor. He almost became the emperor." Lu Liangsheng turned around and added.
"So what?!" The Toad Taoist blew his beard and glared, stomped his feet hard, and glanced at a long shadow in the water that was attracted by the noise just now. A pair of horns just emerged, and he stared over.
"What are you looking at? I didn't call you!"
Gurgle~~
A series of bubbles appeared and burst on the surface of the lake. The long shadow crawling under the water twisted its body, wagged its tail, turned around and dived under the water. The scholar walking in front bowed toward the lake, then put his hands down and continued walking forward.
"It's reasonable for Master to be angry. I have tried to test him a few times, and it is very likely that he is telling the truth. If I forcibly pull him out of Master's body, it is very likely that Master's soul will be damaged."
After walking along the river bank for a while, they followed the path between the reeds on both sides back to the gate of Wanshou Temple. As the soldiers saluted, they walked into the temple. Lu Pan and others who were disciplining a group of children saw the man and the toad here, and hurried over, politely saluted the Toad Taoist on Lu Liangsheng's shoulder.
The Toad Taoist waved his flippers and said, "Why are you being polite? I've never seen you guys be so polite before." At this point, Toad was stunned for a moment, then suddenly realized what was going on. The eight people laughed and said, "Good morning, Your Majesty."
The toad was so angry that it jumped on the apprentice's shoulder.
"roll!"
On one side were his relatives and elders, and on the other was his master. Lu Liangsheng pretended not to see anything, held back his laughter, waved to the children who greeted him, and took the opportunity to smile brightly.
Under the eaves, Sun Yingxian, who was helping Old Pig, had prepared breakfast and called the scholar to eat. She was about to say a few words to the short figure on Lu Liangsheng's shoulder, but before she could raise her hand, a long tongue reached out and hit her in the middle of her eyebrows. The Taoist rubbed it hard in pain and took out the demon-subduing mirror to look at the red mark in the middle of his eyebrows.
He turned around and shouted, "Old Toad, I didn't say anything!" Then, he muttered, "What a damn bad luck, so early in the morning..." He followed him in, picked up the dishes and walked aside.
The group of kids outside and Lu Pan and the other eight had already finished their meal. The main hall seemed spacious at this time, with all the bowls and chopsticks laid out. Hong Lian, Zhu Ganglie, Mingyue, and Qiyou came over and sat down together.
They had just seen Old Sun, whose tongue was punched, staring at the Toad Taoist who was staring at the red rooster's small bowl without saying a word. They were eating or smelling the food in their bowls in silence, and their chopsticks rose and fell a few times, leaving only the empty plate spinning on the table.
"you… "
Hearing the noise, Sun Yingxian turned around, glared, and quickly brought the plate in front of her, poured the remaining soup into the bowl, scooped a few more mouthfuls, and squatted under the eaves with the plate in her hand.
At the side, Lu Liangsheng, who had already practiced picking up food, put down his empty bowl, smiled at the deflated Taoist, then lowered his eyes and saw that his master was still holding the small bowl and looking at the empty plates without moving.
"Master?"
After a quiet reminder, Toad Taoist came back to his senses. He quickly stretched out his webbed feet to pick up some food, but was stunned for a moment when he looked at the empty plate.
"Where's the food?"
"Master, you were actually thinking about Ying Zheng just now, right?"
Lu Liangsheng interrupted the Toad Taoist. In fact, the scholar had thought about the details last night. If he combined what the First Emperor said with what he knew, it would not be difficult to find that this was a big game of chess. Since the game had already begun, it meant that it would not end so soon. What's more, the people playing chess were also chess pieces and might even be dead. Pulling out the First Emperor's soul would most likely hurt the Toad.
At the moment, the scholar could only say some comforting words.
"… There is no need to worry too much about this matter. Once Ying Zheng does what he wants to do, he will naturally leave Master's body. If we force it, both sides will suffer in the end."
The Toad Taoist snorted and turned away: "Do you think your teacher is a three-year-old child?"
He got up, jumped under the table, stomped on the ground, dragged the small lounge chair behind the door, turned outside to sit cross-legged in the autumn day rising among the clouds, and squinted his eyes angrily.
"I am getting more and more lazy... I can't even take care of the soul of a small emperor, how can I be worthy of my status."
"The great demon king..."
The autumn sun spread through the eaves, and the toad sat cross-legged with its webbed feet, eyes closed, feeling the sun's warmth.
'It's so comfortable in the sun...' Thinking of this, he quickly shook his head, half-closed his eyes, and revealed a murderous look: "How can I continue to be so decadent?"
In the distance, a dead leaf fell, passed through my half-closed eyes, and landed on the ground outside the eaves. I couldn't help but yawn lazily.
"With my cultivation level... no rush, take a nap first."
His eyelids drooped, and he lay down, twisting himself into a comfortable position, and after a moment he began to snore softly.
call…
Whoosh…
The snoring sound came into the hall. Lu Liangsheng had prepared many words of comfort, but now it seemed that they were useless. He helped Hong Lian clean up the dishes, went back upstairs, sat in the sunlight coming in through the window, and started flipping through a book. While reading the contents, he was thinking about whether there was another thing he had told Toad.
… Lu Yuan’s secrets are basically all known.
Then... the demon star, judging from the Qin Shi Huang's pointed narration, might really be related to the gods in heaven. The descendants of Xu Fu, who served under Qin Zheng, passed it on to the Qin Xu family, and then to Lu Yuan. "Boundless Mountains and Seas" was created by several generations of them through the "Illustrated Records of Mountains and Seas", which was also compiled to seal the sky and the earth and isolate the gods from the sky.
… If what Ying Zheng said is true, these gods are trying every possible way to descend to the mortal world, then could the demon star also be a medium for them to exploit…
Thinking of this, Lu Liangsheng quietly closed the book in his hand, frowned, and cast his eyes on the picture album that had been placed at the bottom of the other books - "Boundless Mountains and Seas".
"No matter how ambitious the First Emperor is, as long as what he said is true, it is necessary to repair the Wanling Formation first..."
Anyway, all the work that needed to be done was almost done. After making up his mind, Lu Liangsheng decided to speed up the search for the location of the other magic array of the Wanling Array.
This went on for two months.
Lu Liangsheng locked himself up in the Wanshou Temple. Apart from teaching the children, he spent the rest of his time using his magic power to infuse the atlas and drive the magic lines to speed up the drawing. When the magic circle pattern appeared, he took the Taoist priest and rode on the old donkey at a very fast speed to activate the magic circle. After all, when it comes to magic circles, Old Sun is slightly better than Lu Liangsheng.
Before we knew it, the weather was getting colder. When the first snow fell in Chang'an, something unexpected happened and the emperor in the palace made up his mind.
Before the calm was broken, the weather suddenly took a turn for the worse and heavy snow began to fall.