For a moment, the green eagle flapped its wings and followed behind Li Xiuyuan, shouting "chirp!" in the air, and Li Xiuyuan, who weighed 120 kilograms, ran on the path in the mountain forest.
Li Xiuyuan's ears suddenly heard the master's vague voice: "Did you not eat? Are you running so slow? Go faster!"
"Look at the way you run, pigs are faster than you!"
"If you don't run faster, the monster behind will eat you!"
Li Xiuyuan was in agony and ran for an hour before stopping, falling to the ground and gasping for air. Looking at the green eagle flying down, he said: "No, how about I put this vest on you and try it?"
The green eagle chirped "Chirp!" twice and jumped on him, as if I'll trample you to death if you let you be lazy.
Li Xiuyuan saw that he had no choice but to get up and continue running.
It's just that this time the speed has slowed down a bit, running while running the Taixuan Sutra.
However, he ran too fast just now, and he didn't know how far he ran. By the time he returned to the stone house in Wangyue Stream, it was almost dark.
The master looked at the man and the eagle running back, and said with a smile: "How does it feel? Do you feel like life is worse than death?"
Li Xiuyuan ignored him and just took off his vest.
I saw blood marks on his body that had been beaten by Taoist priests until the bones were like fine steel. Blood stains were oozing out, and there was even more burning pain on his back.
"I'm already worse off than dead!" Li Xiuyuan replied.
The master pointed at the big wooden barrel that had just been made under the tree and said with a smile: "Jump in and cook it, and we will continue tomorrow!"
Li Xiuyuan was stunned and walked over to take a look. I saw a lot of medicinal herbs in the boiling water, and a strong medicinal smell penetrated into my nose.
He had been taking medicinal baths since he was a child, so he didn't know what it meant, so he immediately put on his clothes and climbed in.
"Wow! Teacher, are you killing a pig?"
Li Xiuyuan screamed when he was soaked in the potion, because the wounds on his body and the high temperature of the potion made him feel the pain again.
"Just be content. Is your bucket of potion worth a lot of money? You have to collect more elixirs in the mountains, sell them in the academy, and give me the change. I'm very poor."
The master paid no attention to his strange screams, and started to light a fire and barbecue with Qing Ying.
That night, Li Xiuyuan didn't eat barbecue. He just drank two bowls of broth and then fell asleep on the bed.
Although he had already broken through to the golden elixir, he suddenly increased the intensity of his training, and even he couldn't bear it all at once.
Qingying looked at Li Xiuyuan who entered the room and called out twice.
The master touched its neck and smiled: "Don't pay attention to him. This is just the beginning. If he suffers from it in the future, why don't you try it for him?"
When Qingying heard this, he called out "Cuckoo!" twice and turned his head to the side.
It's just unspeakably painful, but it understands what the lady means.
...
The next day, after the master and the disciple had breakfast, the master looked at Li Xiuyuan and said, "Starting from today, you will not only have to practice with this vest empty every day, but you will also have to collect some herbs."
Li Xiuyuan's feet went weak, he looked at the Master and smiled bitterly: "Are you going to be so desperate?"
The master looked at it and smiled lightly: "Don't worry, I will let this eagle keep an eye on you. If you want to be lazy, there is no way."
Li Xiuyuan shook his head, feeling speechless at his teacher's thoughts.
She thought that Ying'er, who had spent her life to save her from Shanjian, had now become a little traitor, flying in the sky all day long and watching her practice, even if she wanted to be lazy for a while.
"I said you go ahead and grab some food and bring it back? Don't stare at me all day long, as if you are guarding against thieves."
Li Xiuyuan looked at the green eagle in the sky and shouted.
"Tweet!" How could Qingying pay attention to him, thinking, I am doing this for your own good? If I can't stand you, the old man won't give me meat or wine when I go back.
How did Li Xiuyuan know his thoughts?
It is said that people become wiser with age, but this eagle is still young, and he is as shrewd as the Master.
Li Xiuyuan, who had been wandering around the mountains for two hours, was all focused on himself because of the weight on his body. It took me a long time to pick a few herbs.
In a bad mood, he simply sat down on the slope to rest.
When the green eagle saw it, it gave up and flew towards him from the air. It extended its wings and flapped Li Xiuyuan who was sitting on the grass.
Li Xiuyuan had no time to parry, so he could only jump forward and roll on the ground a few more times. After standing up, he was finally able to face Ying'er's sneak attack, but before he could turn around, Qing Ying was approaching him again.
Li Xiuyuan blocked it for a few times, but in the end he had no choice but to reach out and hug Jing's neck and shouted: "Let me rest for a while, or I won't let you drink from now on."
Qingying was hugged by Li Xiuyuan's neck, but he didn't dare to use too much force, so he had to fall down on the grass slope with him.
Li Xiuyuan stared at him with wide eyes and yelled "Gugu!" twice in protest.
One person and one eagle rested on the grassy slope for a while, and then continued walking down the mountain.
Li Xiuyuan walked to the front and patted Qingying's wings and said: "Speaking of Ying'er, you have to be nicer to me... My teacher will become a god in a few years. From now on, you and I will be the only ones in the world. ..."
Unexpectedly, Qingying ignored his words and flapped her wings to tell him to hurry up and stop being lazy.
Li Xiuyuan couldn't beat him hard or softly. He shouted angrily: "When you transform in the future, let's see how I deal with you!"
That night, Li Xiuyuan took a medicinal bath for an hour and ate two slices of barbecue.
After drinking two cups of tea with the Master, he looked at him and asked, "Teacher, I wonder if Wei Qing will hate me if I treat him like that in the future?"
The master smiled and said, "Can it be said that you hate me?"
Li Xiuyuan was stunned, looked at the scarred wounds on his body, shook his head and said, "How is that possible?"
In his opinion, he could not practice on Luoxia Mountain, otherwise the old Taoist priest would not miss the opportunity to hone himself, because the old Taoist priest often complained in front of him.
"Xiu Yuan, you can only bleed less if you endure more hardships when you were young and travel around the world in the future..."
When the old Taoist priest said it, he seemed to understand, but when he went down the mountain and was captured by the bandits and used as a fat sheep, he finally understood the old Taoist priest's painstaking efforts.
"Master, where are you at this moment..."
Looking at the vast starry sky, Li Xiuyuan murmured.
The master was stunned and stared at Li Xiuyuan who was in a daze. After a while, he finally remembered, looked at him and asked, "Why, do you miss the old Taoist priest who has left?"
Li Xiuyuan looked back at his master and smiled lightly: "Yes! I have been dependent on the master since I was a child. I don't know who my parents are or where my home is...the master loves me as much as my father. ....."
Thinking of the old Taoist priest's frugal savings, he would leave it to himself before leaving, for fear that he would starve and freeze alone in this world... Thinking of this, two lines of tears fell uncontrollably on his face.
In the dead of night, it is the time to miss our loved ones.
The master looked up at the starry sky, looked at Li Xiuyuan, sighed, and said softly: "If I were your master, I would have to thank you. It was you who allowed him to find the opportunity to live forever, otherwise he would end up with me. Just like that, he will die under this starry sky."
When Li Xiuyuan heard this from his master, he immediately felt better.
"But I still feel uncomfortable? When the master was here, I would collect herbs from the mountains and return to the Taoist temple every day, just like going home. Since the master left, I can no longer find the feeling of home..."
When the Master heard this, he was speechless. He once had a home and relatives...but the long river of time washed away everything, and even he himself was helpless, watching his relatives around him leave him one by one.
He has experienced what Li Xiuyuan has experienced, so he can better understand Li Xiuyuan's mood.
"I said Xiu Yuan, would you like me to accompany you for a walk? Go to the Thousand Buddha Temple in Silver Moon Kingdom. It is said that Buddhism can resolve many sorrows in the world. I have always wanted to try it."
The master suddenly thought of the competition Li Xiuyuan said with the envoy of the Silver Moon Kingdom, and wanted to use Buddhism to transform the master and the disciple.
Unexpectedly, Li Xiuyuan shook his head and said with a smile: "I believe that Monk Yuanzhen will not hate me. He is his disciple... After losing the arrow competition with me, he must hate me to death."
"What's the matter? You are here as a master, why are you afraid of being bullied?" Master smiled.
"After all, the disciple's state is not as good as others. If I go out now, I will only be bullied. I will never let the teacher stand in front of me. After the disciple has practiced for another year or two, I want to take a good tour of the world."
No matter what, you can no longer be someone else's fat sheep. This is Li Xiuyuan's warning to himself.
The master didn't expect Li Xiuyuan to be so stubborn. He shook his head when he looked at him, got up and walked into the room. As he walked, he said, "It's good that you are young, but the teacher is old!"
Li Xiuyuan looked at him and replied: "I heard from the master that you can get a new life after ascending... Xiuyuan will add more oil and pick more herbs to help the teacher find an opportunity to ascend."
The master trembled, turned around and looked at him and said seriously: "Xiu Yuan, you only need to know this by yourself, and don't tell anyone else in the future."
"Why is this?" Li Xiuyuan asked puzzledly.
"No one has been able to ascend in this starry sky for thousands of years. If the sect with intentions knows about it, they will definitely capture you and take you back... I'm afraid you won't be able to escape for the rest of your life..."
"It's late at night today. I'll talk to you about this matter some other time."
The master shook his head, turned around and walked into the house.
On the third day, Li Xiuyuan ran around the mountains for three hours and brought back a dozen medicinal herbs.
On the fourth day, one man and one eagle not only brought back medicinal herbs, but also brought back a yellow sheep.
...
On the tenth day, the master stuffed the remaining two pieces of iron into Li Xiuyuan's vest. He was now walking through Tianyun Mountain carrying a weight of 160 kilograms.
A month and a half later, when the summer solstice came, Li Xiuyuan could occasionally run with the green eagle on his back in the mountains.
When he told the Master about this, even the Master couldn't help laughing and said: "Xiu Yuan, do you know? You are just like a monster in the academy!"
The iron block plus the green eagle already weighed more than two hundred kilograms. Even a 17 or 18-year-old practitioner at the Nascent Soul realm in the Academy would not be able to walk freely through the mountains like Li Xiuyuan.
Li Xiuyuan looked at the master and smiled: "I haven't completed the task assigned by the teacher yet. I have to find some time to carry Ying'er up the mountain from the mountain stream."
The Master looked at him, shook his head, and said with a smile: "Don't worry about that, just wait until next year for you to practice again. Seeing that summer is here, you can practice in a different way."
Li Xiuyuan was startled, looked at him and asked, "Teacher, isn't the way I'm practicing right now wrong?"
The Master looked up at the vast Tianyun Mountain and gently replied: "There are thousands of ways to practice. You just need to choose a few that suit you."
When Li Xiuyuan heard this, he pointed at the green eagle lying under the tree to enjoy the shade and said, "Teacher, does this eagle have a teacher for its practice? Do you want us to help it transform into its form as soon as possible?"
"Hurry up and make some medicinal wine and drink it. It won't take long for you to transform... I'm not a god. How can I know Ying'er's training skills?"
