Yanxuan has been shutting himself in the yard to study for the past few days without leaving home.
The accommodation provided by Qixia Mountain for these new disciples is very good. It is not a big courtyard, with three houses on one side and two sides. The inner courtyard and the outer courtyard are separated by a pink wall covered with green radish. Connected by a moon gate, the small courtyard as the inner courtyard has a verandah, several clumps of green bamboo planted against the wall, and a fish pond in the middle. In the pond, there are not only small fish but also rugged and strange rocks obtained from unknown places. As an ornamental rockery. The outer courtyard is slightly larger, with several flowering trees. Although the flowers and plants planted under the trees are common in the mountains, they are as bright as brocade. A white jade-like stone table and bench were placed in the center, and a path paved with tiny pebbles connected diagonally between the main entrance of the outer courtyard and the moon gate.
Yanxuan placed a futon next to the fish pond and sat there with his eyes closed while studying.
Her senior sister Min also visited her in the past few days.
In Senior Sister Na Min's impression, this diligent Junior Sister Yan was either preparing medicine in Baicao Garden or studying alchemy in Nanyu Hall. If she was not there, she would be helping out in Lingcao Garden. However, in the past few days, Junior Sister Yan could not be seen in these places. She was curious and a little worried, so she went to Yan Xuan's residence to have a look.
Senior Sister Na Min was relieved when she saw Junior Sister Yan working hard at her residence. She guessed that Junior Sister Yan was practicing behind closed doors for elixir refining, so she left without disturbing her and left after a few instructions.
Yanxuan has gained something in the past few days. Although her object-controlling skills cannot be used as easily as Qian Chao's, she also knows in her heart that she just wants to use the object-controlling skills to explore the various elements in the alchemy furnace when refining alchemy. The temperature for planting spiritual grass changes. As long as this is achieved, it is enough for you at the moment.
In addition, she also focused on the two-to-two coordination between the three spells of object control, fire control and "Southern Fire".
On the third day after Senior Sister Na Min came, she was still practicing in her own courtyard. She was also very bored. She always felt that the results of her practice during these days were not obvious, so she held her chin in a daze for a while, and then she was angry at herself for wasting time. , pat your legs and prepare to continue working.
At this time, a leaf on the tree was blown off by the wind, and suddenly fell into the fish pond in front of her. After making a circle of tiny ripples, it floated on the water.
When Yanxuan saw it, he casually used his magic to take out the fallen leaf from the pond. When the leaf was floating two inches above the water, Yanxuan stopped and stood still.
Looking diagonally at the pool from where she sat, the water surface reflected the skylight, like a small mirror. She could not see the movement under the water at all. Only when she stood up and looked directly at the bottom of the water could she see the movement under the water. Now all she could see was that the leaf had just come out of the water, dripping water, and concentric ripples rippling out.
But Yanxuan clearly felt that around that leaf, or under that leaf, perhaps affected by the falling water droplets, several fish in the pond thought there were flying insects falling into the water and came to them. When looking for food, they swim back and forth in a small area of water under the leaves. Although they cannot be seen, the dorsal fins and tail swings of the few small fish are as clear as before.
Yanxuan suddenly became happy, and let the leaf fall into the water again, murmuring to himself, "I didn't expect that Brother Qian's method was really effective. It seems that the efforts of the past few days were not in vain."
Outside Fairy Guhuo's cave, Tang Ping has her own small building, and she is currently in a room on the second floor.
There is a circle of fat wine jars placed against the wall in this room. Most of the mouths of these wine jars are sealed with mud, and some of them are sealed with cork wrapped with silk. There are several layers of wooden shelves on those large wine jars, and there are much smaller wine jars on them, but they are full one next to the other.
Tang Ping looked at the small jars one by one, finally selected one, picked it up on tiptoes, and placed it on a wooden table in the middle of the room.
There is a wooden base carved from purple wood on the wooden table. There is nothing else on the wooden base, only a stone glowing with blue light. This is the "cold jade stone", also called the "wine hiding stone". It was given to her by Tang Bonian. This stone has no other use except to be placed next to the wine jar and barrel to help the aging of the spirit wine. change.
There are several wine racks on the wooden table for making wine. They are all made of whole sections of bamboo tubes. The large ones are stacked on top of the small ones.
Tang Ping took a wine cup and just opened the seal of the small wine jar when a white shadow jumped from her feet onto the wooden table.
"Hmm...! You're so annoying, you come here to steal another drink."
That was of course Xiaobai. Xiaobai ignored Tang Ping's scolding and squatted next to the wine cup, waiting for Tang Ping to pour wine into the wine cup.
"You little rascal, that's my wine bowl. If you want to drink, take one yourself."
After hearing this, Xiaobai immediately jumped off the wooden table. When he jumped back, he had a wine cup in his mouth. He lowered his head and gently placed it side by side with the previous one.
"Little drunkard" Tang Ping muttered, then she took a wine stem and reached into the wine jar to pour some wine. First, she filled Xiao Bai's bowl, and then she filled her own wine cup.
"Come on, after you finish drinking, you have to go study with me. You can't run around."
After speaking, Tang Ping picked up the wine cup and drank it all in one gulp, while Xiao Bai also quickly filled up the wine cup with his tongue.
After shaking her head, Tang Ping said to herself: "Well, this wine is a bit stronger."
Seeing Xiao Bai's eyes still full of expectation, Tang Ping couldn't help but scolded: "No, that's all for today. Do you want to die drunk after drinking too much?"
After saying that, he packed up the small wine jar and put it back on the shelf.
Then he picked up the reluctant Xiaobai and walked to his training room.
"Study hard with me and don't run around. If you run out and people catch you, they will make you into a waistcoat."
After sitting down on the futon, Tang Ping did not forget to take out a spiritual stone and hold it in his hand. When Xiaobai saw it, he got into Tang Ping's arms and lay down, covering the spiritual stone with his body.
"Hey, you guys are really greedy. Not only did you rob me of wine, but you also robbed me of my spiritual stones."
Xiaobai ignored her and tilted his head inwards.
Soon, there was no sound in the room. Tang Ping closed her eyes and practiced her mental method. Xiaobai didn't know whether he was also practicing or fell asleep, curled up in Tang Ping's arms motionless.
Li Jian witnessed a war between bee swarms for the first time in his bamboo forest.
Speaking of which, the fight between the two bees was also related to him.
The one that caused trouble for the wild bees in his bamboo forest was also a common wild bee. However, this kind of wild bee did not collect flowers and produce honey, but instead fed on various small insects in the forest. This kind of wild bee is naturally large, like a big dragonfly, with a slender waist and a sharp tail hook. The tail hook is so poisonous that even monks dare not sting it easily. This kind of wild bee has a black body with yellow stripes, two big protruding eyes on its thumb-sized head, and two large jaws in its mouth like two sharp knives, which makes people terrified just by looking at it.
This kind of exotic wild bee is rare in the world, and it can only grow in places like Wuling Sect where spiritual energy gathers. Some people in Jiuxuan raise spiritual silkworms to make silk brocades, and Qixia Mountain raises spiritual bees to obtain honey for making medicines. This evil bee is a natural enemy of both spiritual insects, so the monks there saw this bee. It must be eliminated.
The monks named this wild bee "Tiger Blackfly", and over time they simply called it "Tigerfly".
The bee thieves in this mountain forest not only feed on the wild bees in Li Jian's bamboo forest, but the tiger flies are also a delicacy of the bee thieves. However, the bee thieves near Li Jian's bamboo forest were either killed by him or scared away. Without the suppression of natural enemies, the group gradually grew larger and larger, and some of them came to build nests in Li Jian's bamboo forest. Li Jian had seen that nest before, hanging on the bamboo branches like mud balls, which was very ugly.
There were more and more wild bees in Li Jian's bamboo forest, and gradually the two kinds of wild bees met together.
Speaking of which, the wild bees in Li Jian's bamboo forest were still suppressed by the tiger flies. After all, the wild bees in Li Jian's forest naturally collect flowers and produce honey and are vegetarians. The tiger flies feed on small insects since they are born. They grow up eating meat and are much more ferocious than the wild bees that pick flowers.
However, the wild bee swarms are not afraid of the tiger flies, as they are both unworthy monsters. Since the two swarms met, they began to bite each other. Not only did they fight each other in the forest, but they also returned to the hive. Those who delivered the letter and moved the reinforcements, soon, when their respective reinforcements appeared, it was like two large groups of dark clouds colliding together, making a loud "buzzing" sound, and the forest ground was soon covered with dead bees.
Li Jian was shocked when he arrived there. He secretly thought that this size of bee swarm was much larger than when he was teasing wild bees in the forest every day. He had seen this kind of invading wild bees, but I didn't pay much attention to it at the time, but I didn't expect that it would turn out to be a disaster. The bee thieves were gone, and all the red bears were killed. I didn't expect that it would be wild bees that were causing trouble now.
Why is it so difficult to raise your own wild bees?
Li Jian didn't want the wild bees in his bamboo forest to be defeated. This swarm would neither surrender nor sue for peace when fighting with each other. They would definitely fight to the death. If his wild bees were defeated, he would have no future. It doesn’t matter if it’s honey, let’s help them get it again.
After taking a few more glances, Li Jian found that his wild bees were gradually falling behind. The advantage of my own wild bee is that it can fly easily. Although it is about the same size as an egg, it is not only fast in the air, but also extremely flexible in changing direction. However, the yellow-striped black bees that invaded were obviously rough-skinned and thick-bodied, making them more resistant to beatings. Often, only three or four of our own wild bees could barely deal with one yellow-striped black bee, and this yellow-striped black bee Bees are still flying in in a steady stream. If we don't take action, it seems that our bamboo forest will really be taken over by these vicious bees.
After making up his mind, Li Jian rushed into the swarm of biting bees.
