In the early morning, Li Ye woke up to the sound of birdsong. He stretched his arms while lying on a bamboo chair, stood up and sat cross-legged, and took a long breath.
He said softly: "It's another beautiful day."
The old ape lying next to him covered his eyes with his hands and muttered: "Why are you making such a noise so early? When did you finish last night? I couldn't bear it and fell asleep."
Li Ye lowered his head and looked inside, and found that the golden elixir had changed from a pigeon egg to an egg with eight purple lines on it. He couldn't help but sighed and murmured: "The golden elixir is actually at the eighth level. Is it true? It’s too scary to break the elixir and transform into a baby before going down the mountain. I hope the old monk can resolve it for me.”
Listening to Li Ye's soliloquy, the old ape was silent for a moment, opened his eyes and looked at him and said: "I am indeed old... I only drank a jar of wine and couldn't help but fall asleep. What? You actually Breaking through three minor realms and reaching the eighth level?"
"I didn't expect it to be like this. Is it the first time I've eaten animal meat from this level of gods, or have I accumulated some energy before. In short, I didn't look carefully last night, and I didn't realize it until I woke up this morning."
Li Ye looked at him and said seriously.
Hearing Li Ye's words, the old ape nodded and replied: "This is normal. Even Xiao Bai has broken through two realms. He is at the Nascent Soul realm."
After a moment of silence, the old ape showed a look of joy on his face, thinking that he could now let the two little guys go down the mountain with confidence.
She looked at Li Ye quietly and said softly: "It's good to break through the situation, then Lao Lang and I can let you go down the mountain with peace of mind."
Hearing these words, Li Ye's heart skipped a beat, thinking that there is no such thing as a banquet that lasts forever. It won't be long before he takes Xiaobai down the mountain, and it won't be long before the two old men overcome the calamity and leave this world.
I really don’t know how many years we have to wait until we meet again...
Li Ye shook out the clothes that were wrinkled while sleeping, stood up, walked to the table and sat down, lit the pine branches in the stove with a fire stick, and added water to the pot.
He turned back to look at the old ape and said, "I don't know when I fell asleep last night. There is still a black python's inner elixir in this pot, senior. How should I deal with it?"
The old ape climbed up from the recliner, and then looked at Li Ye in a daze, looking like he was still hungover.
He lowered his head and seemed to have thought of something. He sighed and said: "Don't rush this matter. Just leave it alone for now. Before you go down the mountain, I will teach you how to refine it. It will probably help you break through to Nascent Soul." realm."
Li Ye nodded and said with a smile: "This will cause trouble to Senior Mo."
The old ape sighed and said with a smile: "In the next few days, you don't need to practice qi anymore. Just copy scriptures and drink tea and chat with the old man."
Li Ye lowered his head and remained silent, saying nothing more. He took some tea leaves and threw them into the pot, waiting for the water to boil.
Li Ye's silence was because he thought that he had broken through too quickly. Not long after he broke through to the fifth level, he actually ate a meal of black python meat and broke through to the eighth level. When he went down the mountain, he would refine the black python inner elixir to break through the elixir and transform into an infant. .
The reason why the old ape was silent was that it was already summer, and the time promised by Li Ye was getting closer and closer. In the blink of an eye, the two of them would be separated, and they didn't know how long it would take to see each other again.
In the past year of getting along with each other, he had already loved Li Ye and Xiaobai as if they were his grandchildren. When they were suddenly separated, he naturally felt uncomfortable.
At this moment, a voice came from outside the door.
"Have you gotten up, old man? Have you cooked the morning porridge? I'm so hungry, old wolf, so hurry up and put in two bowls." The old wolf walked in with his hands behind his back, followed by a sleepy-eyed Xiao Bai.
The old ape rolled his eyes at him and said, "The porridge hasn't been cooked yet. I can pour you a bowl of tea first."
Xiaobai chuckled from behind and sat down next to Li Ye.
Holding his hand, he said: "Brother, how many realms did you break through last night? I am now a master of the second level of Nascent Soul. I will protect you after coming down the mountain."
Li Ye reached out and touched his head gently, smiling without answering.
The old ape looked at the old wolf unhappily, then glanced at Xiaobai, grinned and said: "You silly boy is pretty good, he actually broke through the second level. If you work harder, you will be a master in the middle stage of Nascent Soul."
The water was boiling on the stove. Li Ye warmed the pot, washed the tea, washed the cups, poured a cup of hot tea for each of the three of them, and placed it in front of the table.
Xiaobai opened his eyes, looked at Li Ye curiously, took his hand and shouted: "For the sake of me and Grandpa Yuan fighting the black python, please tell me your current state." He stared at him with an innocent look. Li looked at him.
The old ape smiled, picked up the teacup in front of him, blew gently and took a sip.
Looking at Xiaobai and Lao, he said, "Why don't you ask your Grandpa Wolf? He can tell it at a glance."
The old wolf glared at the old ape and picked up his tea cup.
Looking at Xiaobai, he said: "Ignore this old man. Your brother has broken through one more realm than you. He is now at the eighth level of the Golden Core. You are at the Nascent Soul realm, and it is already very impressive to be able to break through to the second level. Don't follow him." Compare."
Xiaobai shook his head, looked at Li Ye and said, "It doesn't matter. I'm much taller than you. I can protect you after we go down the mountain."
Li Ye stood up and put away the inner elixir in the pot, poured rice and water into the pot, and prepared to start cooking porridge.
The old ape suddenly said: "Would you like to put some bones in the pot? Anything is very nourishing."
...
The old wolf frowned and said, "It's better to make it lighter in the early morning, and then add the bones to cook the pilaf rice at noon."
Li Ye continued: "Then cook white porridge to clear your stomach."
He put the pot on the stove, poured tea into the cups of the three of them, looked at Xiao Bai and said, "After drinking this cup of tea, go practice swordplay first, and then come back to eat porridge."
Xiaobai nodded and said "Oh!", picked up the tea cup and blew gently.
Li Ye took off the bamboo sword from the shelf, took a sip from the teacup, pushed the chair away and walked out the door.
For Li Ye, practicing is as natural as eating and sleeping. He will naturally do it when the time comes, and he never needs urging from his husband.
But Xiaobai was young and had no self-control, so he reluctantly followed Li Ye to practice every day.
The old wolf suddenly said: "Xiao Bai, you have to be more conscious in the future. Don't go to practice just because I have to call you every day. You must know that you are not practicing for others."
The old ape said with a smile: "Xiaobai is still young, so he can play for a few years, don't be anxious."
The old wolf glared at the old ape fiercely, and said indifferently: "Am I teaching my grandson? Do I need to take care of this?"
Not to be outdone, the old ape glared back and said, "Isn't Xiaobai my grandson?"
Hearing the resistance of the two old men, Xiao Bai silently stood up, took down the bamboo knife from the shelf, and walked out of the house without saying a word.
The old ape looked at Xiaobai's back and muttered: "You old thing, you scared the child."
"How is it possible? Snow wolves are a noble race in the world. How can they be so fragile? This little guy is very lazy. We can't give him a chance to be lazy. If we don't teach him now, there will be no one to teach him when he goes down the mountain. He will probably be spoiled. This is not good."
The old wolf thought to himself that this boy just needs to be dealt with. He has always been too spoiled by him.
The old ape sighed, looked out of the shed and said quietly: "There's nothing we can do about it, because you and I are currently unable to protect them."
After hearing what the old ape said, the old wolf picked up the cup, lowered his head and drank the water in silence.
The sound of Xiaobai's bamboo sword being slashed came from outside the house. Only Li Ye's bamboo sword looked weak, and there was no sound of wind every time he slashed.
Li Ye looked at Xiao Bai, frowned, and said softly: "This is for you to find the feeling of a knife, not for you to use force to chop. Otherwise, you will be too tired before you can cut ten thousand knives." Half dead, like me, don’t use your true energy, just relax.”
Xiaobai looked at him and said with a smile: "No wonder you act like nothing happened after practicing every day. It turns out that you didn't use your inner strength to practice swordsmanship at all."
"Otherwise? I'm not killing monsters, so why should I use force?" Li Ye did not stop and continued to wave the bamboo sword in his hand carelessly.
Xiaobai thought for a while, and finally followed the method taught by Li Ye, without any internal force on his arm, and just used his physical body to gently chop out the bamboo knife in his hand.
He learned that Li Ye explained it clearly to him, and it was completely for his own good. He felt a little excited, looked at Li Ye and said, "Brother, thank you, I will practice seriously."
Li Ye nodded, but there was no response, and continued to wave the bamboo sword in his hand.
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After breakfast, Li Ye prepared Xiaobai's quenching liquid. The two old men hurriedly led Xiaobai to the old ape's cave under the cliff. Xiaobai followed behind carrying a bucket of python blood.
After wiping the tabletop, adding two pieces of charcoal to the stove, and filling the kettle with water, Li Ye began to grind the ink, thinking that with a few more days of hard work, he could complete the scriptures he requested for the old wolf and the ape.
There is no sun or moon in the mountains, but the breeze in the mountains has the fragrance of flowers and the singing of birds.
When carving the "Ksitigarbha Sutra" on the stone wall on Fairy Peak, although I was able to put the sword into the brushwork, I regretted that it was not enough due to my state of mind.
Later, I came to Poxu Monk's cave and entered the golden elixir realm overnight. I had a deeper understanding of the control of power. When I wrote scriptures on the stone wall again, my writing became much smoother.
Now I have copied several volumes of the Lotus Sutra on paper. Both the calligraphy and the writing style are very smooth, without the slightest reluctance or a hint of astringency.
He believed that if he gave this scroll to the monk at the foot of the mountain, he would definitely be filled with joy.
Thinking of this, I felt a little disappointed, thinking that I would leave Tianshan and return to the city soon.
He knew very well that he could calm down and copy the scriptures because it was very quiet on Tianshan Mountain, without worldly disturbances or family worries, so he could calm down.
The elusive meaning of Ruoshui swordsmanship and the meaning of lifting a light weight but not a heavy weight are integrated into the lines of boring scriptures, so that even Tang Qiuyu's swordsmanship will be amazed by everyone.
If after going down the mountain and entering the city, after a few years of wind and rain, just like what my husband said, I am afraid that even the mood of carefully reading a few volumes of poetry will slowly disappear.
Li Ye didn't quite believe what his husband said. At this time, he had not yet entered the world. He firmly believed that even if he entered the world one day, he would still be as calm and calm as he is today.
It was almost noon and Xiaobai hadn't come back yet. Li Ye felt a little sleepy, so he put down his writing and lay down on the bamboo chair with his eyes closed to rest.
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It had not been a moment since I woke up, and my nose was filled with the scent of python meat, as well as the voices of the old ape and the old wolf talking.
Opening his eyes forcefully, he saw that Xiao Bai was already lying on the bamboo chair next to him, and the old ape and old wolf were holding bowls and eating happily.
Beside him, there was a little girl in a green dress sitting, looking at him with a pair of big black eyes.
Li Ye, who was half asleep, suddenly became energetic. He jumped up from the bamboo chair and shouted cheerfully: "Long time no see, Xiaoqing."
Xiaoqing put down the bowl, with a smile on her face, and replied lightly: "I have been staring at you for an hour."
