On the third night after the beginning of spring, Li Ye finally got his wish and restored his realm to the first level, reaching the second level of Jindan. Looking inside his golden elixir, he saw another purple line on it.
Sitting alone in the night, feeling the smell of melting snow on the cedar branches on the cliffs of the vast Tianshan Mountains... His consciousness also experienced some changes.
A heart flies in the sky, crossing the mountains outside Yaping, returning to the Fairy Peak after the ice and snow melt, returning to the green valley opposite the cabin, smelling the fragrance on the top of the chun tree...
It seems that what he has broken through at this moment is not the second level of Jindan, but the sixth level.
Feeling the subtle changes in his body, he thought about all the hardships he had gone through, whether he was practicing his sword in a torrent or tempering his body at the bottom of an ice pool.
After breaking through to the sixth level of the Golden Core, he fell back to the first level overnight. Today, he finally returned to the second level. Even though his mind was already like water, there was still a ripple.
Standing under the cedar tree in Yaping, looking at the morning mist gradually waking up in the mountains, Li Ye covered his mouth and let out a long yawn.
His gray-black face was filled with a proud look. To be successful in life, you need to have all the fun, which reflected his current mood.
Holding the purple bamboo sword, he looked at the morning mist in the mountain stream and smiled lightly.
His right hand trembled slightly, and he gently waved the bamboo sword he was holding into the morning wind.
In the early spring, there are no flying flowers, nor willow catkins by the academy lake. There are only the mountain breeze blowing, carrying the warmth and moisture of the melted ice and snow in the mountains, and the fragrance of the green grass vying to sprout.
He wanted to shout loudly:
At this moment, I am riding in the spring breeze on the cliff,
I will definitely not be inferior to my husband when he cut the snow in the mountains.
In Li Ye's opinion, both his husband's Zhan Xue and his own Zhan Chunfeng were just a way to practice swordsmanship, not the scenery in Li Hongxiu's eyes.
Because it is not a scenery, I can repeat this monotonous action for an hour.
Now he no longer secretly counts in his mind whether to swing a thousand swords or ten thousand swords. As long as he can execute that monotonous sword strike according to the movement and rhythm he wants, he will be happy.
Li Ye stood silently under the cedar tree and gently closed his eyes. He wanted to drive the memories of joy, anger, sorrow and joy out of his mind, leaving only the ease and rhythm of swinging the sword at the moment.
Having wielded hundreds of thousands of swords, he firmly believed that if there were snowflakes falling at this moment, he would kill two or more without hesitation. This is a kind of self-affirmation of one's own practice. The teacher said that it is self-confidence. Only with self-confidence can you practice your swordsmanship more spiritually.
No matter how you change, I only need to strike out with one sword.
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"I practiced all night." Li Ye sighed softly, looked at the increasingly clear sky, put away his sword and returned to the shed. He thought about cooking some porridge first and eating it by himself when Xiaobai got up. He had to lie down for a while to replenish the energy consumed last night.
Xiaobai had a headache when we arrived together. Old Wolf said he could enter the country in the spring and transform, but it has been a few days since the beginning of spring and he has no intention of entering the country yet.
Lighting a fire and boiling water, washing face and cooking porridge, I felt like I was almost becoming Xiaobai's full-time nanny.
I packed everything in front of me, took off my shoes, and lay down on the bamboo chair.
He opened the animal skin and wrapped himself in it. After staying up all night, he closed his eyes.
However, at this moment, the shadow of the young lady on Phoenix Mountain appeared in his mind. What puzzled Li Ye was that ever since he became seriously ill for no reason, Dongfang Yu'er was no longer in his mind.
No matter how hard he forced himself to remember, it was like learning to write when he first discovered a typo and then gently erased it with an eraser, leaving no trace of the original word again.
I thought that I might go down the mountain soon, and soon I would go to Fangcun Mountain with my husband. I would definitely pass by Zhongyu. Maybe I could ask my husband to go to Fangcun Mountain to meet the young lady I missed.
In the spring sleep without rain, Li Ye slept very comfortably.
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The old ape was bored when he got up early, and wanted to come up to Li Ye's place to finish his porridge, so he walked up to the cliff with square steps, his hands behind his back. But I saw Xiaoqing and Xiaobai carrying two stools and sitting under the tree outside the shed, drinking porridge.
He was stunned, so he approached and asked, "Why don't you sit at a table in the house instead of sitting outside to enjoy the breeze?"
Xiaoqing looked back at the approaching old ape and said with a smile: "When I came here, I saw Li Ye still sleeping, and the porridge in the pot had been cooked. Maybe he had been up all night and was catching up on his sleep. Wake him up."
The old ape nodded, moved a stool, filled a bowl of porridge and drank it.
"He has rarely practiced recently. He is basically cultivating his mind and tempering his mind. He thinks that he will go back when summer comes. You won't have to work hard flying around in the future." The old ape was holding the bowl. The porridge said.
"Li Ye's husband went up to Tianshan Mountain yesterday and is practicing on the Fairy Peak. Do you and Senior Old Lang want to come with me to meet him? I heard last time that you wanted to meet him." Xiao Qing touched Xiao Bai and gently say.
When the old ape heard this, he jumped up from his stool, looked at Xiaobai and said, "After finishing the porridge, go and ask the old wolf to come down and tell him that I have something urgent to do with him."
"Lao Lang and I will go to the top of the mountain to survive the tribulation in a short time. I have to ask my husband for advice on some things. He just happened to come up to me. Please accompany me for the trip."
Xiao Qing nodded and said with a smile: "I asked my husband about this, and he said it's no problem. You can come with me later. Just don't disturb Li Ye. I don't want to affect his practice for the time being."
"He was a little confused a few days ago. He will just adjust now. Don't affect him." The old ape thought for a while and continued: "When I finish drinking the porridge, I will go with you to find the old wolf and go directly through the mountain."
Xiaobai looked at him and whined twice to express his agreement.
Xiao Qing nodded and said that this was the best, and there was no need to wake Li Ye up.
The three stools were moved back to the shed, and peace returned to the cliff.
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Li Ye had a long dream. He dreamed that Xiaobai transformed into a little fat man, just like Fatty Tang, following him. The two of them went down the mountain and returned to the academy. Mu Mu was so surprised that he screamed and roared. He actually gained a younger brother.
I dreamed that I was carrying my sister on my back to visit Chunfeng City, which I had not seen for a long time. I was sitting on the fourth floor of Hongxiu Restaurant, watching the people coming and going downstairs, and listening to Mu Mu playing the piano with her clumsy little hands.
I dreamed that I traveled to various areas with my husband, and finally climbed up Phoenix Mountain and met the young lady I missed day and night.
As if sensing something, he frowned slightly and listened quietly to the chirping of birds outside the shed and the spring breeze blowing on the cedar bark on the roof of the shed.
Opening his eyes, he looked at the girl leaning against the door, smiled slightly, and called: "Xiao Qing."
Xiao Qing was frightened. She turned around and looked at Li Ye who had woken up. She patted her chest and said, "You can really sleep. It's already noon. Aren't you hungry?"
"It seems a bit..."
Only then did Li Ye remember that he hadn't eaten anything since last night.
He did not rush out of the animal skin, but continued to lie on the bamboo chair, closed his eyes and began to recall the dream. He let Xiaoqing fill a bowl of porridge and handed it to him, then stretched out his hands to hold Qingqing. He took a small sip.
He smiled and said, "It's better to be Xiao Qing. He's not like that foodie Xiao Bai, who can't even do such trivial things as serving porridge."
"If you want him to be your little brother, you have to be more patient." Xiao Qing said with a smile.
Xiao Qing stood up, put the food she had brought on the wooden shelf, and placed the wine jar on the ground. She clapped her hands, looked at Li Ye and said, "Mu Mu gave the poem you wrote to the city lord and rewarded it with two Mu Mu and I took out fifty of the hundred gold coins, plus the hundred in return, and gave them to the old monk at the Great Buddha Temple."
Li Ye handed the bowl to Xiaoqing, continued to lie on the chair, looked out the door, and said softly: "That's good, how is Mumu? It's been almost a year, is she in the same state? Make progress?"
"No, sir, like you, she needs to cultivate her state of mind first, otherwise she will be in trouble in the future. When you go down the mountain to accompany her, I will go back." Xiaoqing put the bowl in the pot and held it in her hand to take it. Go clean.
"Go back? Where to go?" Li Ye was stunned and didn't respond.
Xiao Qing rolled her eyes at him and said with a smile: "Of course I will go back there. If I don't come back for a year, my wife will be anxious. I want to go back and tell her about Mu Mu."
Looking at Xiaoqing walking out of the door, she murmured: "It turns out you've been here for a year, so fast."
"Where's that foodie, Xiaobai? Why didn't I follow you today?" Looking at Xiaoqing walking out, Li Ye yelled.
I don't know since when, Xiaobai has become an important part of his life.
Li Ye looked up at the roof of the shed and counted the bamboo slices on it. He thought to himself that he would have to wander around the mountain again after the spring began. It would be best to get some more herbs, otherwise he would have to spend money to buy them again after coming down the mountain. .
The hillside where cordyceps were dug last year should be full of them again this year. After I and Xiaobai leave here, that will be the first place they go.
It was a treasure all over the hillside. What appeared in Li Ye's eyes was not Cordyceps, but a pile of gold coins.
With this money, I won’t have to worry about the travel expenses to Zhongyu and Fangcun Mountain with my husband and Xiaobai in the future.
Thinking that there was still some time that should not be wasted, I got up immediately, sat at the table and boiled water, then took the pen, ink, paper and inkstone from the wooden stand, and began to copy the unfinished scriptures.
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After washing the pot, Xiaoqing sat at the table, looked at Li Ye who was copying scriptures, and whispered: "Someone wants you to write a poem for her."
"Who?" Li Ye didn't look up.
"The person who sent you the message will return to the Central Region in a few days." Xiaoqing stood up, poured some melon seeds into a plate from the bag on the wooden frame, put it on the table, grabbed a few seeds and put them in her hands. Eat inside.
Li frowned and thought, what's going on? After thinking for a while, he asked, "What kind of poetry does she want?"
"She said it doesn't matter, as long as you write it. Let Mumu stamp it after we come down the mountain." Xiao Qing said while eating melon seeds.
"Also, she brought a girl from Qingcheng in the Central Region to find the husband. She probably wanted him to guide her in her practice."
Li Ye nodded and said softly: "Sir, I should be able to handle this matter."
After stopping copying the scriptures, Li Ye spread the rice paper brought by Xiaoqing on the table, lowered his head and thought about it, and then wrote:
Dark, light yellow body, soft in nature,
The traces of love are far away, but the fragrance remains.
Why light green and dark red,
He is the best among flowers.
Putting the pen on the research table, Li Ye sighed softly, thinking that he must not let his husband see this, otherwise he would scold himself for being lazy and wrote another half of Li Yian's "Partridge Sky".
Xiaoqing came over and chanted softly, and asked puzzledly: "What does this mean?"
"There is an osmanthus tree in your yard. It blooms every Mid-Autumn Festival. That's what it means." Li Ye thought for a while and said.
"This is about the sweet-scented osmanthus tree in Mr.'s yard? They asked me if I wanted to tell it?"
Li Ye rolled his eyes at her. : "Just send it over."
Xiao Qing glanced at Li Ye and said nothing.
Li Ye thought for a while and said: This must be worth two hundred gold coins, right? "
Xiaoqing looked at him in surprise and asked, "Is it so expensive? Why don't you tell Mu Mu and ask them for it?"
Li Ye was stunned, looked at her, shook his head and said, "She can give it to you... Oops, I forgot that she is familiar with Li Hongxiu, forget it, just treat it as a gift to her."
Xiaoqing nodded, thinking that the family connections were indeed very deep, even sending a handwritten calligraphy to someone else requires so much care. He and Mu Mu have been hanging out in Fengyun City for who knows how long, and they still haven't figured out what these people are thinking.
Xiao Qing carefully put away the poems he had written, looked at him and asked, "Can you really go back in the summer?"
Li Ye put away his pen, ink, paper and inkstone and said with a smile: "I have stayed here long enough. After all, I have fulfilled my agreement with the two old people, and I can almost go down the mountain."
Xiaoqing said "oh" thoughtfully.
Li Ye rubbed his head and thought for a while, then asked in a low voice: "How are my husband and Li Hongxiu doing now? Are Mu Mu still used to being in the city?"
Xiaoqing lowered her head and thought for a while, then replied: "I don't know anything about Mr. Li and Sister Li. I just know that she is fine now so she ran to Zizhuyuan. Mumu learned some poems and books under the guidance of your mother, which is not bad." oh."
Thinking that Mu Mu's restless look could actually calm down to read and write, Li Ye couldn't help but smile and said: "I didn't expect that Mu Mu would also become honest at some point."
"She wanted to run up the mountain, but neither my husband nor your mother allowed it. I also told her that she couldn't go up here, so she stopped her thoughts." Thinking of Mu Mu's anxious look, Xiao Qingdi smiled lightly. got up.
"Let her wait. Soon, I will be able to go down the mountain." Li Ye thought about the birth of his sister, whom he had never seen before, and also thought about being able to go down the mountain early and reunite with his family.
"Well, I get it! You should be careful on the mountain." Xiaoqing packed up her things and prepared to go down the mountain.
"I'll tell you some good news. Maybe when I go down the mountain, that guy Xiaobai will be able to enter the realm and transform." Li Ye said with a smile.
Xiao Qing was stunned and said softly: "I don't know if that guy will still be so cute after he transforms?"
"It's necessary. If he's not cute, I'll let you train him. I won't have time to take care of him anymore." Thinking about his role as a nanny, Li Ye thought that he could finally be liberated.
Xiaoqing glared at him, walked out of the shed, and flew into the sky with a "Thump!"
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