Back mountain.
The forest waves rise and fall.
The mountain spring is hidden in the dense forest, the waterfall is like a curtain, thousands of water droplets are shuttled into a line, the water roars at the bottom of the valley, and the water mist rises.
Further into the distance, mountains, rivers, trees and rocks are nestled together, and the air is filled with the fragrance of flowers and earth.
Although it is not majestic and magnificent, it is secluded and quiet. Walking in the stream, stepping barefoot on the stones, the gurgling water slides over the ankles, just like a pool of autumn water penetrating into the heart, making you feel refreshed and relaxed.
Zhao Shiran held up the hem of her skirt, her snow-white feet stepping on the stream water, following Lu Bei closely.
After being separated for half a year, she thought about Lu Bei all the time and thought she had a lot to say to him. But after meeting him, she found that companionship was the best way to express herself and having him by her side was enough.
Lu Bei walked ahead with a frown on his face, racking his brains to think of sweet words. In this situation, he wondered whether he should recite a couple of poems.
After thinking about it, none of them is suitable.
He stopped, turned around, stretched out his hands to Zhao Shiran, and smiled faintly: "I thought I would have a lot to say to Elder Zhao, but I didn't expect that my mouth is too dumb and I can't say a word."
Zhao Shiran's cheeks flushed slightly, and she was pleased that the two of them were in sync with each other. Seeing Lu Bei's open arms, she lowered her head, took two steps forward, and gently buried her head in his arms.
"Last time we parted, I left my seal of the leader in your hands. According to the agreement, Elder Zhao should return it to me." Lu Bei whispered.
Zhao Shiran's body stiffened and he lowered his head even lower.
“Hehehe.”
Lu Bei raised his hand and lifted his delicate chin, grinning wickedly: "A man without integrity cannot stand. Elder Zhao is a respectable man, he should not default on his debts...right?"
Zhao Shiran's face turned even redder, he shyly turned away his eyes, his long eyelashes trembled slightly, and his ears turned red.
Lu Bei lowered his head and asked for the master's seal. He tasted it and found it was green yet fragrant with a long aftertaste, which was really irresistible.
The two of them snuggled together, the water gurgling under their feet, the lazy wind blowing through the trees, the mottled light and shadows dancing in the gaps, everything was quiet...
boom!!!
A loud thunderclap broke through the sky, scaring Zhao Shiran so much that he woke up from his intoxication and turned to look in the direction of Jingshang Palace.
"A fight broke out?!"
Lu Bei raised his eyebrows: "As expected of me, my godmother, you are good in every way except your big mouth. It hasn't been long since we've gotten to that point, but you've already made the Master angry."
Speaking of this, he was very happy.
The Taifu's inner demon was gone, but his aloof temperament remained the same as before. If my guess was correct, he must have been so mad at Fox Er that he went berserk and directly tried to snatch the jade slip.
That’s great, he loves watching women fight the most!
"Lu Bei, the teacher... don't you want to go over and persuade her?" Zhao Shiran tugged at Lu Bei's sleeve, slightly dissatisfied with his expression of watching the fun and not minding the trouble.
At least, it's good to pretend to be worried.
"Teacher... are you talking about Taifu?"
Lu Bei pinched Zhao Shiran's face and said, "This title is weird. Considering how fiercely we fought for the leader's mark just now, you should be the elder."
Zhao Shiran was confused and didn't understand what Lu Bei was talking about.
Seeing her like this, Lu Bei knew that the Grand Tutor had sealed up his dark history. Apart from Zhu Xiu Shi and Hu Er, no one else knew that the Grand Tutor had once had a father.
"Let's go and watch women, no, old women fighting."
Lu Bei embraced the slender waist, his figure flashed, and he disappeared in the air.
…
“Hehehehe—”
On the ground, Fox Two crossed her arms and laughed heartily, and it was obvious that she was not a good woman.
The Grand Tutor floated in the sky, and his fingers turned into swords, emitting the two sword intentions of Shenxiao and Jiangque. His eyes were cold, and he looked at Hu Er as if he was looking at a dead fox.
"My dear grandson, we were just talking nicely, why did you start fighting? It's New Year's Day, do you still want to make trouble?" Fox Two smiled sweetly, feeling that his life had reached its peak.
In the past, the open and covert fights with the Taifu usually ended in a draw. It was rare like today, when the Taifu had to overturn the table to end it.
"You are full of nonsense, and you have the nerve to take out a fake jade slip that fools people with your transformation skills as evidence. I think it's obvious that you, a fox, have run out of tricks." The Taifu insisted that there was no father, and it was all fake, all of it.
From this we can see that it has nothing to do with one’s cultivation level. When people are pushed into a corner, they will choose to escape from reality.
It was rare to see the Taifu looking deflated, and Fox Two felt very happy and proud. He raised his hand and held up the magic weapon Earth Bead, which summoned two earth dragons to soar into the sky.
The earth dragon carried the five elements on its back and fought in the sky, resisting the sword intent of Shenxiao and Jiangque without losing the upper hand.
The Grand Tutor snorted coldly, took out the magic weapon 'Po Yue Qin', and controlled it with the secret method of the Six Paths of Demonic Sound.
In the blink of an eye, the obscure sound that was difficult to understand twisted the Five Elements Formation, skinned and pulled out the tendons of two hundred-foot-long earth dragons, and chopped them into loaches.
"Hey, you've become more capable?!"
Fox Two cried out in surprise, raised his hand to dispel the killing force in front of him, and then suddenly realized: "No wonder my child is weak and powerless, it turns out that you have sucked his marrow out of his body and drained all his essence and blood."
The truth is often the most hurtful thing. The Master was furious.
The Broken Yue Harp stirred up devilish sounds that disturbed the ears, the sounds of killing and fighting were intertwined, and in the invisible and formless, it seemed that there was a demon causing chaos in the world, surrounding Fox Two and chanting devil scriptures.
"Little Doyle."
Fox Two narrowed his eyes slightly, his dark green eyes shining, and he ignored the evil sound.
Demonic clouds rolled behind her, revealing the phantom of a huge nine-tailed fox. Her pair of green eyes enlarged infinitely, shining as she stared at the tutor, making his white clothes glow green.
The divine light of the red and green precious robe increased greatly, counteracting the enchanting green light. For a moment, the blue and white colors in the sky were clearly distinguished.
"Stop it now, don't fight anymore, you won't kill anyone like this!"
Lu Bei used his hand as a speaker and whispered softly, fearing that he might accidentally make too much noise and disturb the fight between the two.
Zhao Shiran tugged at Lu Bei's sleeve. It was okay to watch the fun, but it was not right to make fun of the conflicts between elders.
At least, it's good to pretend to be worried.
"Those who don't have the ability pretend, while those who have the ability just enjoy themselves openly. Listen less to the Grand Tutor's crooked theories and more to my righteous ways. You are too soft-hearted, that's why you are deceived by the Grand Tutor." Lu Bei said earnestly, trying to lead Zhao Shiran into the right path of cultivating immortals.
Elder Zhao was well-educated and a typical lady from a noble family. She didn't want to hear this and tugged at Lu Bei's sleeve, asking him to go and stop the fight.
"Alright, since I am a kind-hearted leader, I will be a ladder for them to step on."
He still had to give Elder Zhao face. Lu Bei took a step forward, came to Hu Er's side, and shouted sternly: "I am here, willing to go through fire and water for you."
"My son, you're here at the right time. Let's join forces to capture this beast. Tonight, mother will personally put a wedding dress on her and send her to your room." Fox Two laughed.
"Ah, this..."
Lu Bei scratched his head and said reluctantly: "I have to go back to the Imperial City tonight, is tomorrow night ok?"
The Taifu looked at the family in front of him with a grim face. They looked so similar, with such infuriatingly treacherous looks. They were clearly cast from the same mold. He seriously suspected that they were mother and son.
The Taifu version has been updated. He is not afraid to fight Lu Bei or Hu Er alone, but he is inevitably unsure when facing both of them at the same time.
Especially Lu Bei, who was unstoppable after he became a demon. He also practiced the Taiyin Killing Way and the Taiyang Against the Trend Way, which were of the same origin. He was simply her nemesis.
She put away the broken Yueqin, glanced coldly at Lu Bei, and turned back to Jingshang Palace.
"No fun, you're just giving in now."
Hu Er said he was bored, and said to Lu Bei who came to stop the fight: "Tell me the truth, did she just send you a message?"
"Mother has a keen eye."
Lu Bei nodded: "The door to the backyard is open. She wants to talk to me alone for a while."
"Wearing clothes?"
Fox Two was overjoyed: "The girl you picked up is so disobedient. She dared to show her teeth to me when I said a few words to her. You should work hard and make her suffer more later."
Lu Bei remained silent, and it was the turn of the eldest brother, Fox Three, who got on the broken car that was turning by inertia. It might be a good idea to take the initiative and downshift and step on the gas to give the car a push on the back, but Fox Two was the elder, so he could only pretend not to hear.
…
In a quiet room, Taifu sat cross-legged with his eyes closed as if he was resting.
Lu Bei came behind her and placed his palm on her back, practicing martial arts and starting to practice dual cultivation. One of them regarded the other as a cauldron, and the other regarded the other as an experience ATM. There was no emotion, it was all business.
"Why are you still in the Yangming constitution? It's been half a year. With your aptitude, you should have reached the Taiyang constitution if you practiced hard." After practicing together for a while, the tutor spoke in a low voice, expressing his dissatisfaction with Lu Bei's slackness in practice.
The West Palace used Lu Bei's hand to eliminate the evil thoughts, and the Yin and Yang forces were able to circulate, but because the defects of the practice were difficult to make up for, the Taiyin to At least Yang and the Taiyang to At least Yin stages required two people to practice together to break through.
The Grand Tutor remembered clearly that when they parted, Lu Bei was Ming Yang. If the calculations were correct, six months would be enough to reach Taiyang.
In the end, Lu Bei and Ming Yang barely moved.
It's bad. Right now she is Taiyin. If it were just Mingyang, it wouldn't be able to satisfy her needs at all.
"Oh, you really treat me as a cauldron."
Lu Bei curled his lips and used the circulation of breath to gain experience to advance the progress of the Sun Countertrend Dao technique. With the same physique, the experience he gained from the tutor was more than double that of Zhao Shiran.
It’s a great profit.
The Grand Tutor didn't say much, and practiced his skills to help Lu Bei practice.
Half an hour later, Lu Bei ended the meeting hastily, injecting a large amount of innate Qi into the body of the tutor. After paying the bill, he patted his butt and was about to leave.
“So soon?”
The Master opened his eyes and inquired why the number was not multiplied by ten today.
"Don't be too greedy. I have activities tonight and can't give it all to you."
"Fox Two?"
"… "
Lu Bei's mouth curled up. He really wanted to pry open the top of Taifu's head to see what her clever brain looked like. It must have taken a lot of eccentricity to come up with such an inference.
"If everything is alright, I will come to see you tomorrow. Once my Sun Reverse Path is perfected, I will be able to help you enter the next stage."
"Something's going on."
The Grand Tutor said, "The Huangji Sect has been acting strangely lately, targeting me everywhere in the court. I suspect they are trying to make a feint to the east and attack in the west, preparing to attack your godmother."
"Are they crazy?"
Lu Bei was dismissive. He learned from Zhu Xiushi that there were two people in the royal family who were in the Tribulation Crossing Stage, plus him and Hu Er, making it four. There were only three in the Huangji Sect in total. One had to be very bold to plan to target Hu Er.
It's New Year's Day, you shouldn't commit suicide just because you want to see the red picture and have fun.
"That's all I have to say. Your fox mother thinks so, too."
The Grand Tutor closed his eyes and said nothing more. He pointed at the door of the quiet room and told Lu Bei to get out immediately.
It's annoying to look at it any more.
"Tsk, you have the nerve to dislike me when your body is full of my scent."
Lu Bei walked out of the quiet room with a frown, his face suddenly darkening. The Grand Tutor would not speak without a purpose. The Huangji Sect should really have this intention. Even though they are outnumbered, they still dare to take the initiative to provoke. There is only one possibility.
There are other forces in the imperial city!
"who?"
"Holy Land..."
"Or a demon race?"