On the day Xiaoyun left, Li Xiuyuan returned to the academy.
He didn't know that Xiaoyun had left. He did it because the wound on his left arm showed no sign of healing. He had to come back and let the Master take a look. After all, the Master was rich in experience.
He also knew not to have too much contact with aristocratic ladies like Xiaoyun, who knows what trouble he might cause in the future.
In short, he can't go back to Tianfeng Kingdom.
The master put down the book in his hand, looked at Li Xiuyuan's pale and thin cheeks, stared at his slightly blue lips, frowned and asked, "Are you injured?"
"I was injured by a monster." Li Xiuyuan sighed, sat in front of the master, and whispered: "This eagle provoked a spider monster and almost died in its hands. I went to save it and was injured. Left arm.”
Thinking of the old Taoist priest who had left, Li Xiuyuan stiffened slightly and asked, "Teacher, my previous master said that my body is invulnerable to all poisons. How could this happen?"
"Take off your clothes and let me take a closer look."
The Master looked at him and frowned, and said seriously.
Li Xiuyuan looked at him and said distressedly: "This eagle is not easy, let the monster spray silk and then drag it into the hole. You don't know that when I went in..."
The master was stunned and speechless when he heard this. After a while, he sincerely praised: "You are really a monster."
"Chirp!"
The green eagle lying in the yard screamed twice unwillingly, indicating that Li Xiuyuan was abusing the eagle.
Li Xiuyuan looked at it and smiled: "If you hadn't been playful, I wouldn't have let that monster get hurt."
When Qingying heard this, he lowered his head and called out "Cuckoo!" twice, and then stopped saying anything, like a child who had done something wrong.
The master carefully examined Li Xiuyuan's wounds, thought for a while, and guessed: "It stands to reason that generally wherever poisons are found, there will be antidotes, right?"
When Li Xiuyuan heard this, he quickly took out the medicine picked from the cave, including the strange mushroom.
The master was delighted when he saw it and said: "These are fire lingzhi that are hundreds of years old. I have never seen this one before. Does it look like the legendary meat ganoderma or the ghost ganoderma? It seems that this monster has eaten a lot of creatures!"
Li Yuan looked at him and replied: "The bones in its cave are almost piled up into a hill."
The master nodded and smiled: "If you say so, I won't be wrong. You go and light a fire, cut a small piece of Ganoderma lucidum, boil it in water and drink it. It should be able to detoxify."
"Isn't this Ganoderma lucidum poisonous?" Li Xiuyuan asked timidly, looking at the Master.
The master was startled, looked at him and said with a smile: "You claim to be immune to all poisons, aren't you afraid that this Ganoderma lucidum is poisonous?"
Li Xiuyuan thought about it, and immediately took out a knife and cut a piece, then turned around and went to the kitchen to light a fire and boil water.
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"I have been in the back mountains of Taoist temples since I was a child. Occasionally, I am bitten by poisonous snakes in the mountains, or I accidentally eat poisonous mushrooms. Since then, my master has said that I have a body that is immune to all poisons."
Li Xiuyuan said calmly, with a sad look in his eyes, but the master only noticed that when he said that he was bitten by a poisonous snake, instead of being ashamed, he was even slightly proud.
The Master smiled and comforted: "Since you are injured, you might as well be a living doctor. Maybe you can break through another level... When did you break through the next level?"
The Master looked at him and asked in disbelief.
"It was just yesterday." Li Xiuyuan thought about the monster in the cave and didn't know if it was of any use. "After being injured by the monster, he went back to Wangyue Stream to apply medicinal herbs and drank a few glasses of medicinal wine."
The master looked at him and was speechless.
The Master was originally a person with an open-minded personality, otherwise he would not have accepted Li Xiuyuan as his disciple that day.
Seeing his narcissistic look, I couldn't help but say, "That little girl from Tianfeng Kingdom comes to you every day. Do you owe her money?"
"That girl is a person close to Queen Changsun. How dare I mess with her? If she hadn't come, I wouldn't have had to hide in the back mountain and be hurt by the monster."
In Li Xiuyuan's opinion, he was also unlucky. Before Xiaoyun came, he was attacked and killed by bandits, and after he came, he was injured by monsters again. This was just like the fact that he encountered bandits twice when he went down the mountain.
The master was actually very impressed in his heart, but he didn't want Li Xiuyuan to be proud of it, so he had to pour cold water on him and said with a smile: "It seems that you still need to continue learning about herb knowledge?"
"Teacher, don't worry. When I get better with this skill, I'll ask you to go to the library and borrow a few volumes of medicinal scriptures for me to study."
The master patted the desk, looked at him and said, "Let's wait until you recover. I think the bone has been injured and it won't heal in ten and a half months. It's time for Wei Qing to go up the mountain."
Li Xiuyuan shook his head, looked out of the hall and replied: "Let him go." After saying that, he stood up and prepared to drink the boiled potion, then looked at the master and asked: "Should we go to the dining hall to eat in the evening, or should I do it myself? "
The master looked at him and asked, "You came back from the back mountain without bringing anything to eat?"
Li Xiuyuan didn't reply, turned around and walked to the kitchen.
He thought to himself that his hand was injured and he couldn't afford to be lazy.
He walked back to the hall with a bowl of potion, looked at the master and was silent for a while, and suddenly asked: "Teacher, how many people passed the final competition in the academy?"
Confucius shook his head and said with a smile: "One hundred and ninety-eight people, including fifty who are in the distraction state."
Li Xiuyuan understood and continued with a smile: "It seems that the battle ten years later will be really lively, right?"
The Master smiled slightly, looked at him and asked, "Are you afraid?"
Li Xiuyuan drank up the potion in the bowl in one gulp and said with a smile: "If I can't win, why don't I hide? I have no one to protect." He had already made a conclusion in his mind. When he entered the Shura battlefield, he would be able to win. Fight, if you can't beat them, run away.
The master glared at him and said, "We haven't even entered yet, and you're thinking of escaping?"
"Students go there just to find opportunities, not to compete with others. Why are they so desperate?"
Li Xiuyuan looked at the master and replied with a smile.
The master shook his head, looked at him and said, "Xiu Yuan, I didn't expect you to be a little naughty guy."
Li Xiuyuan looked at him and said gently: "I am just one person. There are 200 people in the academy alone. If the entire Shura Heaven Domain is added, tens of thousands of practitioners will enter. I am afraid of death."
When the Master heard this, he sighed and said: "According to this theory, it is indeed not easy to find your own opportunity from the hands of tens of thousands of people. You have to be more careful these years."
Li Xiuyuan looked at the remaining concoction at the bottom of the bowl. After a moment of silence, he said softly: "Master told me many years ago that if you want to live longer, you must be more cruel to yourself."
The master was stunned for a while, looking at the ten-year-old man in front of him, speechless for a long time.
What kind of masters are these? How to teach your own children this way.
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In the next few days, Li Xiuyuan seemed to be as usual, getting up in the morning and going to the kitchen and backyard to chop firewood, then have a meal and then continue chopping firewood.
Under the gazes of all the students in the college, he walked in and out of the kitchen without any fuss every day. Because his left hand was injured, he was also affected by chopping firewood. What he could do in two hours before now took three hours.
Even after lunch, I had to stay for a while to finish.
The elder in charge of the kitchen no longer made things difficult for him since last time. In his opinion, as long as Li Xiuyuan completes his daily tasks, he doesn't want to care about other things.
However, just as he was about to walk in and out of the kitchen today, he was stopped.
"Brother, I'm here!" Wei Qing, led by a disciple from the academy, stood guard at the door of the kitchen. He looked at him and said, "I'm here to practice with you and the teacher. From now on, I will hang out with eldest brother."
Li Xiuyuan rubbed his aching eyes, looked at him and smiled: "You can still find the way to the academy?"
Wei Qing looked at him and said angrily: "I have wanted to come here for a long time. My father insisted on waiting until after the Mid-Autumn Festival, so I couldn't help but come here."
Li Xiuyuan thanked the students at the academy and walked forward with Wei Qing's little hand in his hand. As he walked, he said, "Can you endure hardship?"
Wei Qing held his little hand and looked at him and said, "Don't be afraid!"
Li Xiuyuan smiled and said softly: "This practice is not much more painful than hunting in the mountains. Only by enduring more hardship can you achieve higher cultivation."
"My father told me the same thing!" Wei Qing looked at him and said seriously.
Li Xiuyuan looked at him with a solemn expression and said, "Okay, you can practice hard with the teacher from now on, and study hard in the academy for a few years, which is worth a lifetime of hard work in the world."
Just as they were talking, the two came to the outside of the master's bamboo house.
"Teacher, look who I brought here." Looking at the master who was sitting under the eaves studying, Li Xiuyuan scratched his head and said, "This guy didn't even wait for the Mid-Autumn Festival to finish, and he ran up here."
The master glanced at the two of them, pointed to the front and said, "Sit down and drink tea."
Wei Qing sat down and looked at the Master with wide eyes, like looking at an old god.
After a while, he asked: "Wei Qing has met sir and heard that the academy is a very magical place. People at the foot of the mountain say that there are many outstanding people in the academy."
"What does that have to do with me?" Master smiled.
"Because my disciple's teacher is also a god. My father said that as long as I follow the teacher, I will have opportunities in the future." Wei Qing said seriously: "I know that there is an elder brother who will also be a god-like figure in the future."
Li Xiuyuan looked at him and smiled and said, "You will call me senior brother from now on. We only have one teacher, do you understand?"
As soon as he said this, Wei Qing knelt down and kowtowed three times to the Master earnestly. His voice trembled slightly and he said: "Student Wei Qing has met the teacher and asked the teacher to teach me the skills of the gods."
When the master heard this, he raised his head, glanced at Li Xiuyuan, and said with a smile: "Xiuyuan? Are you practicing your magic skills every day?"
Li Xiuyuan was stunned, looked at him and said, "Who knows? It's impossible to say that if you just practice, you will really become a god? How will you know if it works if you don't try?"
The master was delighted, pointed at Wei Qing and said with a smile: "Then let you, my little junior brother, taste the immortal taste of life being worse than death!"
Wei Qing was stunned, looked at Li Xiuyuan and asked: "Is it scary? Big brother...senior brother?"
Li Xiuyuan looked at him and smiled: "If you don't try it yourself, how will you know?"
After saying that, he got up and went to the kitchen to light a fire and boil water. After a while, he shouted again: "Junior brother, come here. From now on, you have to learn to boil water and make medicine by yourself."
"I'm here!" Wei Qing stood up and walked to the kitchen.
The master looked at his back and laughed: "It's good to be young!"
Half an hour later, Li Xiuyuan and Wei Qing moved the bathtub in the kitchen to the yard, put it down, filled it with water and put in the body-tempering liquid.
"Take off your clothes, climb in and sit down." Li Xiuyuan looked at Wei Qing and smiled.
Wei Qing climbed in obediently.
"Wow! Senior brother, are you trying to kill someone? I can't stand it..."
Before he could hold on for half a quarter of an hour, Wei Qing stretched out his head and crawled out!
"Sit back! Bear with it, this liquid is very expensive. You have to pay it back to the teacher when you earn money in the future!" Li Xiuyuan, who was standing aside, broke off a bamboo branch and slapped Wei Qing's arm hard, causing him to hurry up in pain. Sit back.
"It hurts! I can't stand it anymore!" Wei Qing looked at him and shouted.
Li Xiuyuan smiled faintly and said, "Can't stand it? Either you climb out and go home down the mountain, or you can just soak in it for an hour. This is the first time!"
When Wei Qing heard this, he shrank back in fear, gritting his teeth and not daring to speak. After finally entering the mountain gate, it is not easy to go down the mountain and go home.
"The path of cultivation is so difficult. This body tempering is the first step. If you can't stand it, then just go home and be a hunter."
After Li Xiuyuan finished speaking, he turned around and walked away, sitting in front of the master and stretching out his tea cup.
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