The imperial city of the Five Regions is filled with flowers.
It's New Year's Eve again, and the husband who came back from Qingcheng brought his whole family to Huamanlou for a reunion. This was the result of the persistence of Hua Tianxia and Nalan Yu.
According to Ye Zhiqiu's intention, he must stay at home.
Only the husband knows that Huamanlou is in Li Ye’s name. He is the real shopkeeper, and coming to have a meal really doesn't mean anything.
Not to mention the flowers all over the house, even the emperor wanted to invite Li Ye's family to the palace for a reunion. However, the husband refused because of the trouble caused by the large number of people, and asked Princess Wutong to lead Li Xiaoxue into the palace another day.
After all, Xiaoxue is a princess personally conferred by the emperor, so it is natural for her to enter the palace.
However, as the queen, Yeluyan sneaked out several times and went to the Imperial Preceptor's residence to chat with Xiaoxue and Princess Wutong Shangxue, which made Ye Zhiqiu worried.
On New Year's Eve, there was no business in Huamanlou, and all the people left behind were workers and maids who did not go home.
After putting the food and wine on the table, Nalanyu looked at the whole family and said, "The weather is going well this year, and there is no shortage of anything except the Imperial Master and Princess Mumu!"
When Ye Zhiqiu heard this, his eyes turned red. He looked at him and said, "Ye'er and Mu Mu don't know whether they are in Prajna Temple or Xuantian Temple at this moment."
Li Hongxiu patted her hand and comforted her: "Don't worry about him. It's hard to tell if it's him. Plus Mu Mu is a foodie. Are you afraid that he will starve?"
Li Xiaoxue also looked at Ye Zhiqiu and said, "Mom, don't worry, isn't there sister Xiaoqing here? She is very powerful!"
The master also nodded and said, "Ye'er is going to practice, not to enjoy happiness, so we shouldn't worry about him!"
Ye Zhiqiu nodded helplessly, looked at the two of them and said, "Don't talk about Ye'er, let's talk about you two. Now that you are married, the next step is to consider having a child."
Li Hongxiu also cheered and said with a smile: "If you don't know how to carry it, you can put it in the Imperial Preceptor's Mansion and we will keep an eye on it for you."
When Ye Zhiqiu heard this, he also smiled and said: "What I'm saying is that Hongxiu doesn't know how to take care of children, so I'll take care of them for you!"
When Hua Tian heard this, his little face couldn't help but turn red.
Nalanyu was stunned, looked at the two women and said, "Who is not in a hurry? Our level is too low. Why do we have to wait for me to break through to the late stage of Gongshen?"
After speaking, he looked back at Hua Tianxia.
The husband is a sensible person. He looked at a group of women and said, "We are all practitioners, and we should focus on cultivation. Don't wait for me to come back from Fangcun Mountain one night before it is too late for you to look up to me."
Hua Tian was startled and couldn't help but ask: "Is the national master's cultivation already better than mine?"
The husband looked at her, shook his head, and said softly: "Who knows?"
If that boy cultivates the formless Dharmakaya to perfection in his mind, I'm afraid there will be no rivals in these five realms, right?
The gentleman only cared about the cultivation of Li Ye's family, Wuxia Nalanyu and Hua Tianxia. Seeing the two of them focusing on their cultivation, he couldn't help but secretly admire them.
Although Li Ye has fought against others in Southern Xinjiang, no one in the Five Domains Imperial City knows his realm. He will not tell others about Li Ye's true realm before Li Ye reveals his own realm.
This is also a way for a husband to protect his disciples.
Li Hongxiu understood what her husband meant and stopped chasing Hua Tianxia. Instead, she looked back at Li Xiaoxue and asked, "I heard Li Ye said before he left that he wanted to forge a new sword for you and Princess Wutong?
When Li Xiaoxue heard this, she couldn't help but smiled naively at her and said, "Brother said he would give it to me. Does Mistress want it too?"
"I can't wait to see what the two swords he has made look like, and whether they can surpass Mr. Tang's Qiu Shui Wuhen."
Li Hongxiu felt itchy in her heart whenever she thought of Tang Qiuyu's Qiu Shui Wuhen.
Listening to Li Hongxiu's narration, Ye Zhiqiu shook his head and said with a smile, "Mr. Tang entered the palace with Princess Wutong today, otherwise I would have to quarrel with you."
The teacher couldn't help but feel a little dizzy when he saw the two of them, and said calmly: "If a cultivator blindly relies on external forces, it will be difficult for him to become a great person!"
As soon as Li Xiaoxue heard what her husband said, she quickly added: "Sir, what you said is absolutely true. I see my brother practicing with a bamboo sword from time to time. Isn't he also practicing?"
The husband looked at her and smiled and said, "Your brother started using a bamboo sword when he was on the Tianshan Mountains. He also whittled that bamboo sword himself!"
After speaking, he raised his head and glanced at Li Hongxiu.
Li Hongxiu was stunned, she had forgotten about it.
Looking at the expectant eyes of a group of people, he smiled and said: "Let's not talk about it anymore. I will give red envelopes to everyone after dinner. Mu Mu and Xiao Qing are not here today, so we can save a lot."
Li Xiaoxue pestered her reluctantly and said with a smile: "Sister Wutong and Sister Wushuang are not here. Master, this is the most economical year for you!"
That means you have to give me more.
Hua Tianxia looked at her and smiled: "I'll give you a double share, you greedy little guy."
The wind and snow filled the sky outside the building, which was filled with laughter and laughter.
It’s New Year’s Eve again.
This year Xia Wutong and Tang Qiuyu entered the palace, and Shangguan Wushuang and Xu Jingyun returned to Fengyun City.
The national master of the five regions went to an unknown place that no one knew about.
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Unknown land.
Li Ye, who was sitting cross-legged in the Buddhist hall, was feeling the subtle changes in his body. After careful observation for a long time, he found that his body had undergone some subtle changes.
The bones are denser, and the purple-gold bones and blood have turned into a hint of blue at some point.
The formless Dharmakaya has grown slightly, and has passed the initial stage of small success and is heading towards Dacheng.
It wasn't until he practiced the heavy sword in the river recently that he confirmed that his strength had increased by one point, and that he could use the heavy sword to use Ruoshui Sword Intent at will.
When morning comes and evening goes, sit cross-legged on a futon, recite sutras for an hour, and practice formless Dharmakaya for an hour.
Lead thunder into the yellow sand, open a furnace to forge swords, and complete the production of three long swords and one piece of armor.
At sunrise and sunset, he was not decadent and turned the grief of separation into motivation for practice.
The vitality flowed slowly into the body. Li Ye looked at the true energy in the meridians in his body, silently sensing that the traces of vitality were also golden with a hint of blue.
The drop of blue blood essence in the body has only been refined to less than one tenth.
His eyes couldn't help but reveal a look of surprise. The essence and blood of the woman in white turned out to be a faint blue, and it actually blended into his own bone marrow. Even his own true energy had a hint of blue in his blood.
Have you mutated yourself?
Is it a human? Or a demon?
Is it possible that one day I will transform like Mu Mu?
But he didn't know whether he would turn into a big black python, a dragon, or some other monster.
At least based on his current experience, he had never seen an animal with blue blood.
He was still careless. He should have asked the woman in white when she saved him. At present, both he and Nangong Ruyu have a drop of blood of the woman in white integrated into their bodies. Is it possible that he will become like Yu'er in the future?
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Shen Mo looked at the slowly flowing blood in his body, recalled the time when he jumped into the cold pool to temper his body, and fell into hard thinking.
Could it be that the body of the woman in white is filled with demon blood? The vitality in his body has changed its appearance, becoming completely different from the aura of the five realms of heaven and earth.
Or are you saying that both yourself and Nangong Ruyu are possessed by demons?
He has never seen the breath of demons in the Five Realms, and has never heard from his husband that there are demons in the Five Realms before. Naturally, he will not discuss demons with the old monk Meishang from the Great Buddha Temple and Senior Brother Riyue Hui from the Prajna Temple. reason.
The morning light came in from under the eaves of the Buddhist temple.
Li Ye squinted slightly as he was stung by the morning light.
Suddenly he thought of something.
No one in the world has seen demons, but that doesn’t mean demons don’t exist, or are everyone deliberately avoiding this issue?
He wanted to ask Mr.
If practitioners from the five realms were to see that his blood was blue, who knows how much trouble would be caused.
And before he left the Five Realms, he didn't want to become an alien in the eyes of others.
He no longer thought about this matter, but continued to work on how to improve his formless dharma body.
He was thinking, if one day he cultivates the supreme mental method of Buddhism to perfection, and he has demon blood in his body, will he one day be able to combine Buddha and demon into one body?
At that time, I am afraid that it will be difficult to find a place for him in the entire Five Realms, except for Buddhism.
The problem is that the drop of essence and blood in his body is not something he wants, but is forced on him by the woman in white. Just like Nangong Ruyu, she doesn't know that there is a drop of her mother's essence and blood in her body.
If he says he can release demons, what will happen to Nangong Ruyu?
Could it be that his master and his apprentice will eventually become possessed by the devil? If his master and his disciple were possessed by a demon, how would his husband face him?
There are also his own family members, the young lady from the General's Mansion, Princess Wutong from the Imperial City, and his younger sister.
And there is a more critical question.
He is also the national advisor of the Five Regions Dynasty, and is admired by thousands of people in the five regions.
It seems that the first important thing to do when returning to the imperial city is to resign from the position of national advisor.
As long as he is no longer the royal advisor of the dynasty, no one will have anything to do with any unforeseen things that happen in the future, especially the current emperor and Princess Wutong.
Even if he becomes a demon one day, it will only be a matter between his master and his apprentice, and has nothing to do with his husband or the emperor.
If the woman in white hadn't saved his life, he would have died in Hantan.
Compared with being possessed and one's own life, of course one's own life is more important.
What's more, the old monk once said that no matter the world's people or Bodhisattvas, they will all face the situation of becoming a demon with a single thought and becoming a Buddha with a single thought.
As long as his mind is stable, it doesn't matter whether there is blue demon blood flowing in his body.
At the moment, he has not found any method or evidence to prove that the blue streak in his body is the power and incarnation of the devil.
Staying in the present moment is practice.
The so-called demons and Buddhas in imagination are too far away from the current self. As long as he has enough time and patience, he will eventually hit the right answer and solution.
Only in this way can he see the final answer.
This method was very helpless, but it was his only choice at the moment.
He remembered what the woman in white said when she left: "You can't refine this drop of blood right now. The moment you can refine it, you will understand its benefits."
Having seen my three lives, you hurriedly came to Fangcun Mountain. What kind of benefits did you leave me, and what kind of secrets did you bury?
In the following days, Li Ye did not stop the process of making swords, nor did he stop practicing swords in the yellow sand, because the time of return was approaching.
Because he knew very well that practicing swordsmanship in the yellow sand of the sky must be an extremely complicated and even time-consuming task. Not to mention three months, even three years may not yield results.
Reading, chanting sutras, and practicing spiritual practice, all three of which have not stopped.
Because he can only practice here for three months.
If he didn't develop his sword practice in the yellow sand in these three months, he would definitely have a lot of regrets when he left.
Li Ye in the Buddhist temple became more and more silent. He had not gone to the river to clean his body for some days, and he looked a little down and out. His face looked more and more haggard, but the luster in his eyes became brighter and brighter.
The Buddha's light in the main hall would shine on him from time to time, just like the Buddha in the Great Buddha Temple and the Buddha in Prajna Temple, silently watching his disciples who were practicing hard.
The days go by like this, and spring is approaching.
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