Chapter 103 Return to Fangshi

After attending the funeral, Li Tongya changed into a white robe. He counted the days and found that it was the time for the opening of Wangyue Hufang City. He put away the monster furs and many materials he had hunted in these days and headed north.

I rode the wind and patrolled the reed swamps for several times. I wanted to wait for the time to pick up a wisp of fresh air from the river, but I saw that the river bed was dry and yellow, so I had no choice but to come out empty-handed.

"After months of drought, the river network has dried up and all the reeds have withered and turned yellow. How can we get any clean air from the river?"

After leaving the reed swamp, Li Tongya rode the wind to Wangyue Lake. The waterline of Wangyue Lake retreated hundreds of miles. The fish carcasses everywhere were covered with maggots, and many small islands appeared on the lake.

Li Tongya flicked his sleeves and struck, and the formation hidden in the air was immediately activated, emitting bursts of silver light.

Things were different now. He just scanned his spiritual consciousness and found the big boat on the lake. He took a few steps and landed on it.

"My lord! Are you going to Wangyuehufang City?"

A young man ran out of the ship's cabin below. He was only a third-level Zhouxing wheel cultivation level, and he asked diligently.

"good."

Li Tongya found a place to sit down in response, and saw the young man coming up with tea, but the white-haired old man was nowhere to be seen, and asked:

"I remember that the person driving this boat was still a white-haired old man more than ten years ago. Why has the person been changed now?"

The young man seemed to suddenly realize something. He gently put down the tea bowl in his hand and replied continuously:

"Senior, I don't know something. The old man failed to make a breakthrough in Qi training and died at the end of his life ten years ago. There are no spiritual children in the family. The eldest son exchanged the spiritual objects for fields and returned to his hometown to become a rich man."

Li Tongya paused for a moment, gently picked up the tea bowl, and did not drink the tea out of caution, so he had to put it down again, and said with some regret:

"Pity."

"Eh."

The young man lowered his eyes and cupped his hands, and quickly replied:

"Senior, I don't know. This old man lived for a full one hundred and eight years and died at the end of his life. We boaters all envy his good luck!"

"oh?"

When the young man saw that Li Tongya, who looked no more than thirty years old and had practiced Qi refining, and had a storage bag and a gas bottle tied around his waist, he knew that this man was most likely a child of a big family, so he had to smile bitterly:

"Senior, I don't know. The inheritance of our casual cultivators is very simple. Most of us use the first-grade method of breathing out the fetal breath. It takes more than ten years to breathe out the fetal breath before you can touch the corners of the condensing wheel. It is normal to be trapped in the fetal breath for a lifetime."

"I see."

The young man has been working on the lake for more than ten years. Most of the Qi Refining monks he met were aloof and disdainful to speak. However, Li Tongya looked attentive and nodded frequently. For a moment, he opened the door for the young man to talk and continued quickly:

"Seniors are very talented and have become qi refiners at a young age. Unlike these casual cultivators, they often hold a copy of the fetal breath technique for their entire lives. It is really miserable to draw a talisman and refine an elixir but have no inheritance. !”

After hearing this, Li Tongya suddenly remembered the "Taiyin Breathing and Nourishing Wheel Sutra" at home, and thought to himself:

"I'm afraid this technique can't even bind the entire Wangyue Lake family together! Looking at the speed of this cultivation, it is at least more than ten times that of ordinary techniques, not to mention that the magic power produced is pure and solid, far better than others. "

Pretending to be casual, Li Tongya smiled and sighed:

"I don't know what level of fetal breath technique that large sect disciple is practicing!"

The young man nodded heavily and said with a smile:

"I have been sailing on this lake for more than ten years. I have seen a twenty-year-old qi-training disciple from a large sect, but I have also seen a ninety-year-old old man with the first level of fetal breath. I have only heard of Qingchi Sect's fetal breath technique. It is the fifth-grade method that ranks first among all sects, and it is four times faster than ordinary techniques!"

"It's really magical!"

Li Tongya was so amazed that he calmly changed the subject and chatted with the man about the mountain.

"I heard that the mountains to the west are very fierce!"

"No!"

The young man nodded repeatedly and showed off:

"I heard that the mountain king's cultivation has reached the peak of qi training! He killed all the Boring Jinmen families on the west bank and abandoned their armor. Three of the qi training family heads lost their lives, and the losses were countless."

While Li Tongya was listening, he saw a few more people on the boat. The young man had no choice but to reluctantly plead guilty and leave. Li Tongya thought to himself:

"Janixi is still very powerful. It would be better if he died quickly so that I wouldn't have to worry about sleeping peacefully."

Li Tongya listened to several people chatting for a while, then he felt the ship shake, and Wangyue Hufang City was already in front of him.

After getting off the boat and walking a few steps, Li Tongya mortgaged a spiritual stone and rented a stall. He put many materials on it, threw in a few talismans obtained from the murder, took out a wooden slip, and simply read the magic formula on the stall.

He has been studying the talisman for more than ten years. The talisman he drew can only meet the standard of one out of ten, which is barely worth the cost of the talisman paper. If he added the talisman ink, it would still be a loss, so he had to continue practicing. I keep it in the hope that one day I can earn money from this talisman.

After thinking about it carefully, he lowered his head and saw the storage bag and two gas bottles on his waist. Li Tongya roughly guessed how the boatman knew that he was a member of the family, so he took an inch of spiritual cloth and wrapped it around the gas bottles and stuffed them. Entering his arms, he now looks like a casual cultivator.

This time, Li Tongya came early, and the flow of people was quite large. Almost all the items were sold out within an hour. He was too lazy to wait for the remaining items. He closed the stall, took back the spiritual stones, and paid the rental fee for ten kilograms of spiritual rice.

"I sold eleven spiritual stones, which is not bad."

After spending five spirit stones to buy the Jade Bud Pill, plus the one he got from the cave, Li Tongya thought that in a few months he could try to break through to the fourth level of Qi training.

"Although this Jade Bud Pill is good, the erysipelas should not be underestimated. You have to wait for a few more months until the erysipelas is naturally eliminated from the body before taking it again."

Li Tongya had only walked a few steps when he saw a middle-aged female cultivator walking in front of her. She had a fifth-level Jade Sky Wheel cultivation level. She looked about the same age as Li Tongya, but she held her hands respectfully.

"Senior! Do you still remember me?"

Li Tongya felt that this person looked familiar, but he couldn't remember his name, so he had to awkwardly raise his hands and say:

"Excuse me, Your Excellency..."

"Guanyunfengfang City, Qingwu Bow."

The middle-aged female cultivator said with a smile, and Li Tongya suddenly realized that he had bought a Qingwu bow for Li Xiangping at the market at the foot of Guanyun Peak where he paid the tribute, and he bought it from this person. At that time, this person was still The girl is now past middle age.

"I haven't seen you for more than ten years. How are you doing, fellow Taoist?"

Li Tongya was wondering why this person stopped him, but he was still greeting him.

The middle-aged female cultivator looked a little complicated and whispered:

"In just over ten years, senior has already practiced Qi..."

"It's just luck."

Li Tongya laughed aloud, then saw the female correction officer saying with a leer:

"I am Lin Jingyi, and my husband is Qi practitioner Xu Yangping."

"Li Tongya."

Li Tongya nodded and saw Lin Jingyi whispering:

"We have a cave ruins on our hands. Are you interested, senior?"

"Cave?"

Li Tongya narrowed his eyes slightly and thought to himself:

"How can such a good thing happen! I can't wait to meet by chance. I have no friendship at all. There is no one I can trust. Could this person be here to trick me..."

"Oh? Such a good thing?"

Li Tongya laughed, and Lin Jingyi knew that he didn't believe it, so she quickly whispered:

"We have already investigated, and it is the cave of a foundation-building monk from at least two hundred years ago. We have the means to enter that cave, but there is one missing Qi-training monk..."

Li Tongya laughed and asked:

"Is it possible that a group of Fetus Breath Realm monks cannot break through the Cave Formation and let me take the lead?"

After saying that, he looked at her quietly and was ready to leave.

"That's not true."

Lin Jingyi lowered his head and smiled awkwardly, and replied:

"We already have two Qi practitioners, but we are still one point away from entering this cave."

As soon as he said this, Li Tongya believed it and was willing to sit down and talk with Lin Jingyi. The two found a bamboo building, ordered a cup of tea, and listened to Lin Jingyi say:

"My husband and I were active in the Mushroom Plains area. A few years ago, the Boring Gold Gate was invaded. The place was depopulated and the market was closed. Fortunately, my husband had mastered qi training, so we walked west to Wangyue Lake to take a look. look."

"Unexpectedly, just as we reached the west, we encountered a severe drought in Wangyue Lake. After retreating hundreds of miles, a cave in the lake was exposed.

"The cave has been operating for hundreds of years, and there are some flaws. Only then were we discovered. I cast a concealment spell on that place and then came to look for help."

"Ouch."

Li Tongya nodded noncommittally and whispered:

"Why are you looking for me?"

"Because your cultivation is shallow..."

Lin Jingyi smiled awkwardly and explained:

"My husband is only at the second level of Qi training, and the man I found a few days ago is only at the third level of Qi training. We are afraid of all kinds of dangers and hope to find someone with a similar cultivation level..."

"I see."

Li Tongya took a sip of tea and said with a smile:

"Is that your husband outside the door?"

Li Tongya had already noticed someone waiting outside the door. At this moment, Lin Jingyi nodded, raised his head and called out. The man outside the door walked in, cupped his fists and said:

"My Excellency, Xu Yangping, has met Brother Tongya!"

Li Tongya saw that this man had a decent face and looked to be in his fifties, so he raised his hand and said:

"Don't be polite."

Xu Yangping nodded repeatedly and said with a smile:

"I have been waiting for dozens of days. If Brother Tongya doesn't show up again, we will grit our teeth and search for the surrounding families."

Lin Jingyi took over the conversation and explained:

"The mountain gate formations of those families are tightly covered. Who knows how many Qi practitioners are staying inside? I will never go there unless I have to."

Li Tongya also stopped talking nonsense with these two people and said in a deep voice:

"Xuan Jing Ling Oath."

Xu Yangping nodded, held the magic formula and repeated Lin Jingyi's words before, forming a seal and saying in a low voice:

"Everything stated is true, Xuanjing swears by it!"

Li Tongya listened carefully and saw that there was indeed nothing missing. Seeing that Xu Yangping's majestic aura had not declined, he was convinced and replied:

"When will we leave?"

"Now!"

The couple was already very excited. Lin Jingyi could not hold himself back and said to Li Tongya:

"I also ask fellow Taoists to make an oath not to attack us. Although the Xuanjing Spiritual Oath is mostly used to keep secrets and falsify, and has little binding force on it, we can feel at ease with this oath."

"Can."

Li Tongya made an oath and rode the wind with Xu Yangping. Seeing that this man's true energy was slightly mottled, he knew that Xu Yangping had swallowed the miscellaneous energy to practice his energy, and he felt more relieved.

However, when the couple saw that Li Tongya's true energy was mellow and long-lasting, and his body-protecting true energy was clear and bright, they immediately looked at each other and smiled bitterly.

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Lijing Town.

Chen Erniu is seventy years old, with gray hair. He has lived as an ordinary farmer in the mountains for two lifetimes. His old eyes are cloudy. Everyone in Lijing Town calls him uncle.

Sitting on the chair, Chen Erniu was restless. The dry weather gave him nightmares every night, always thinking of the big bird falling from the sky.

"Why."

When Lichuan Pass was recovered, Chen Erniu went to look for Chen Sanshui, but found nothing but a tooth and a pool of blood. People in Lichuan Pass said that Chen Sanshui was captured by Shan Yue and taken to the west.

Chen Erniu smiled coldly, sneered, followed the horse's hooves and looked around in the haystacks on the roadside, and finally found a pool of blood. The old man parted the grass, lowered his head to look, and cried out.

The eldest son Chen Sanshui died miserably, and the old man kept vigil for him. Several children under Chen Sanshui were busy dealing with the dry weather, and they were not as diligent as him.

"I don't know if Donghe can come back..."

Chen Erniu frowned, his white hair was sparse, but he heard a commotion outside the hospital. A large group of people were shouting, and the cries and shouts made him tremble.

He moved to the end of the village with a cane, and there were already many people waiting there. A group of embarrassed men with muddy faces were kneeling on the ground, and there were low cries all around.

"came back."

Chen Erniu straightened up hard and finally saw Li Xuanxuan and Chen Donghe in front of them. Li Xuanxuan had grown a light beard and was staring at the Shanyue man in front of him with an expression of disbelief.

"Can you say that again?!"

"It was a curse...even the body was not brought back..."

Li Xuanxuan was stunned for two breaths, and tears flowed out like a bursting dam, flowing down his face and onto his neck.

"Donghe...come up the mountain with me, and the others will go home first."

Li Xuanxuan covered his face and remained silent for a long time, then squeezed out a sentence from his throat. Chen Donghe in front of him was filled with tears. The crowd silently separated into a lane and watched them go away.

"The head of the family..."

Chen Donghe called Li Xuanxuan in a low voice, waking him up from the heavy blow. Li Xuanxuan looked at the green black bow in his hand and couldn't stop crying.

"Call me Young Master..."

Li Xuanxuan answered choked with tears, stepping on the stone road and holding the bow tightly.

The two of them walked silently with their heads down for a while, then they met Li Xuanfeng who had just left the customs and hurried down the mountain. Li Xuanfeng just lowered his head and flicked the green black bow in Li Xuanxuan's hand and froze.

"How can it be!"

Li Xuanfeng's eyes widened, his eyes quickly moistened, he fiercely grabbed the bow and arrow with his hands, and shouted:

"who is it!"

Chen Donghe felt even more suffocated when he saw the Li brothers, and choked with sobs:

"It's Shanyue's curse."

Li Xuanfeng opened his mouth, but couldn't spit out a word. He looked at Li Xuanxuan, whose face was full of tears, and sat blankly on the bluestone beside him.

"What a cheap trick."

Li Xuanfeng gritted his teeth and burst into tears.