Boom! Boom!
The sound was not thunder, but the quenching sound of molten iron when it met water after Li Xiuyuan melted thousands of weapons with the dragon's fire.
There are too many weapons and the molten iron is too heavy. The open space at the entrance of Shura Village has collapsed into an unknown number of feet.
Li Xiuyuan spent five days finally melting all the weapons, and finally cast them into a sword-shaped iron tablet with three large blood-red characters filled with cinnabar: Shura Village.
Before entering the village, you can see it from a distance, extremely majestic.
There are also words drawn in cinnabar below: Anyone who invades Shura Village, regardless of city or country, will be punished no matter how far away!
The iron monument is seventeen feet high, higher than all the trees in Shura Village, and has become the pride of the villagers. Because they saw the fire in Luoxia Mountain, they knew that the enemy who harmed them had turned into flower fertilizer for thousands of apricot trees on the mountain.
That's enough.
Because Li Xiuyuan told the villagers that Queen Changsun of the Tianfeng Kingdom promised that no one would invade in the future.
After Li Xiuyuan finished casting the sword stele, he began to inscribe runes around the village. Every day after lunch, I walk down the mountain alone, and don't return to the Taoist temple until dark.
After persisting like this for a month, I saw that the heat was gradually disappearing and the beginning of autumn was approaching.
Li Xiuyuan completed the rune inscription in Shura Village and returned to Yunqi Taoist Temple on Luoxia Mountain.
At this time, the Yunqi Taoist Temple was also renovated with the help of Old Man Zhang and the villagers at the foot of the mountain. It no longer leaked as usual and became a true Taoist temple.
Sitting under the eaves, Li Xiuyuan was thinking about taking Xiaoqing to the Demon Realm in autumn. Hua Tianyu couldn't wait to see him.
Nangong Ruyu looked at him and shook his head and said, "Master, you can't run to the Demon Realm alone. I want to go with you."
Li Xiuyuan, who was copying scriptures with his head down, said, "Why do you say that?"
"Because Xiaoqing is also going with me? I have never been to that place." Nangong Ruyu looked at him and said seriously.
Li Xiuyuan shook his head and replied: "Xiao Qing went to the Demon Realm to practice. There is no technique for you to practice there. It would be a waste of time to go there."
"But didn't you go there too? Master, don't you need to practice? How can you be so cruel?"
Nangong Ruyu quit and insisted on going with him.
Li Xiuyuan looked at her and sighed, and said softly: "The weather is nice today, so I'll cook you a pot of broth. I haven't drank for a long time, so let's have a few drinks."
"We haven't gone hunting these days, where can we get meat?" Nangong Ruyu asked in confusion.
Xiao Qing's voice came from the main hall: "Whatever, he has a lot of treasures that are not worth taking out."
Nangong Ruyu outside the main hall said silently: "Then I will eat enough and drink the master's best wine, just like the one in the back mountain of the academy."
When Xiao Qing heard this, she couldn't help but laugh: "It's better than the one at the back of the academy!"
"I have never asked for anything from Master, but this time is different. I have been helping you in the mountains for so long. Master, if you have good things, I want to grab them."
Looking at Li Xiuyuan who lowered his head and said nothing, Nangong Ruyu said stubbornly like a child.
The sun was shining brightly, and a mountain breeze blew gently into the Taoist temple.
Li Xiuyuan opened his mouth and murmured to Li Yun in the hall. He looked at the Taoist priest who looked at Nangong Ruyu's eyes like an old god and muttered to himself.
After saying that, he got up and walked to the kitchen in the backyard. Today at noon, he was going to cook himself and make a pot of broth to comfort the women in front of him who had worked hard for most of the summer.
It took an hour to simmer a large pot of broth. There were large pieces of meat floating in the soup. Li Xiuyuan carried it under the eaves outside the main hall.
Old man Zhang had already set up a big table. Li Yun cooked some side dishes and put them on the table. Xiaoqing put wine glasses on the table according to the heads.
In Li Xiuyuan's eyes, Xiao Qing had already been classified as a drunkard.
Li Xiuyuan turned around and looked at Old Man Zhang and said quietly: "Today I will help you enter the Golden Core Realm. From now on, it will all depend on your personal cultivation."
For Old Man Zhang, entering the Golden Pill at his age is no less than being reborn. As long as there are no accidents in his practice, this Yunqi Taoist Temple can exist for hundreds or even thousands of years.
Old man Zhang looked at him and was shocked, and said in a daze: "Am I dreaming? Don't scare me."
Xiao Qing smiled and said: "What is this? Don't be afraid."
Li Xiuyuan looked at Nangong Ruyu and said, "Today I will help you step into Poxu. As for the years to come, it depends on your own cultivation."
Nangong Ruyu's thoughts were very disordered at this time, and she didn't hear what he said clearly. In her mind, she would break through this winter or next spring with the help of her mother.
Looking at Li Xiuyuan, Nangong Ruyu asked: "Since master can help Yu'er break through the situation, why are you still distracted?"
"This is my life!" Li Xiuyuan looked at her and replied: "What I need is enlightenment, not breakthrough. So I have to walk thousands of miles. After you break through, you can go back to Taoyuan to practice."
Li Yun came over and served a bowl of soup for everyone. Xiaoqing held the wine jar and poured the medicinal wine brewed by Li Xiuyuan into the cups, although drinking it again had no effect.
Li Xiuyuan looked at the four people and said: "Eat this meat with your belly open. It will not be so easy to eat it again in the future. You have to wait until decades later..."
Xiao Qing was startled, looked at him blankly and asked: "Isn't it different from the ones in the academy who are so meaty?"
Li Xiuyuan frowned and shook his head gently.
This is the monster meat he brought back from the wild Wolong Mountain, waiting for him to come back from the Shura battlefield.
Nangong Ruyu looked at Xiao Qing's surprised expression and asked in a hoarse voice: "Is this monster meat from a foreign land? Master, do you want to help Yu'er break through the realm?"
Li Xiuyuan smiled and said, "It's the three of you!"
"The three of us? Including sister?" Nangong Ruyu looked at Li Yun and asked seriously: "Will sister also break through? What will I do if you break through?"
Li Yun patted her hand and said, "While the daylight is just right, I'll help you first. Come on, let's have a drink."
Li Xiuyuan raised his cup and said, "Come on, I wish you three a successful breakthrough and get what you each want."
Old man Zhang was stunned, and after thinking for a long time, he said: "So, in the future, I will become a Taoist priest in this Taoist temple? I can also write runes."
Li Xiuyuan looked at the sky of Luoxia Mountain and said with emotion: "I didn't expect that after the master left, this Taoist temple finally welcomed a new owner, and I don't have to worry about it every day in the future."
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It was past noon after the meal, and Li Yun called on the two of them to help clear the table.
Li Xiuyuan took two futons from the main hall and placed them under the eaves. He looked at Old Man Zhang and said, "Senior, sit here and I will help you break through."
Looking at Nangong Ruyu who looked nervous, Li Xiuyuan took a piece of talisman and handed it to her.
He said softly: "Sister Xiaoyun will take you to the back mountain later. Don't be afraid. When the last thunderstorm comes, stick this talisman on your body. Remember!"
Nangong Ruyu took his hand and asked nervously: "Master, won't you accompany Yu'er through the calamity?"
Li Xiuyuan glanced at her and replied softly: "It's not like you haven't learned how to survive the tribulations in the realm of gods. There are only three tribulations. Don't be afraid. I'm waiting for you here."
Li Yun came over, looked at her and said, "Stop chatting, I'll take her back to the house... and try to get through the tribulation before dark."
Nangong Ruyu nodded, looked at Li Xiuyuan and said, "Master, wait for me here."
Li Xiuyuan waved to her and said, "Go back to the house and meditate to calm down, waiting for the moment of breakthrough."
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Sitting quietly under the eaves, Old Man Zhang felt that his Dantian was like a small pool, which was filled with water after just drinking two glasses of wine and eating a piece of meat.
At this time, the small pond filled with water will flow into the rivers and the sea and flow out.
When he closed his eyes and meditated, when the Qi in the small pool began to flow, completely ignoring his thoughts, it suddenly erupted in an instant, like a flash flood after the rain, getting faster and faster.
Suddenly, the air whirlpool began to tremble and sway, spinning like crazy. The calm little pool suddenly broke through the dam and rushed forward with an unstoppable momentum.
The vitality of heaven and earth from the Taoist temple surged through the mountains and forests like spring breeze and drizzle, and then poured into his body in an almost infusion manner.
The breakthrough this time was beyond his previous knowledge, and he could clearly feel the situation in his body. It was not like this when Li Xiuyuan helped him build the foundation.
I wonder if the vitality of heaven and earth pours into my body this time, will I die violently?
But he couldn't stop. He was extremely thirsty for power. He wanted to surpass the Golden Elixir or even the Nascent Soul Realm and reach the level of cultivation that people in Shura Village would never dream of. He longed for power more than anyone else.
He wants to be Taoist Zhang in Yunqi Taoist Temple, a spiritual practitioner.
Feeling the vitality of heaven and earth pouring into his body, Old Man Zhang's face turned red and his body trembled. Sitting cross-legged on the futon, he kept shaking, as if he was flying away from the sky.
He sat quietly in the tomb with his eyes closed, focusing entirely on the surge of true energy in his Dantian. Then he felt a pair of useful little hands on his back, and a true energy that was even thinner than the vitality of heaven and earth rushed into his body.
The clothes on his body were bulging like New Year's pigskin, slowly tearing apart.
A ray of golden light passed through the eaves of the Taoist temple and rushed into the vast sky.
Like light and electricity, everything changes in an instant.
I don't know how long it took, but Old Man Zhang's body made a soft sound. If the eggs in his Dantian were to break, the embankment building the foundation would be washed down in an instant.
The golden light that shot up into the sky poured back in an instant, and poured into Old Man Zhang's body in just an instant.
The old man fell down on the futon and murmured to himself: "What's going on? Why is there an extra golden elixir in my body?"
Withdrawing his hands, Li Xiuyuan said softly: "From this moment on, you are a practitioner of the Golden Core realm. Congratulations on breaking through the third level in a row. You are now at the second level of the Golden Core."
Old Man Zhang said with emotion: "I thought I would die of old age in the village in a few years in my previous life, but I didn't expect that I would become a monk in the Golden Core Realm. Is this my fate?"
Li Xiuyuan comforted him and said, "Then you must learn to accept your fate. From now on, you will be the master of this Taoist temple."
"That's not what I think. At most, I am just an old man who looks after your house. You get tired of playing outside and come back when you feel homesick."
Old man Zhang looked at him and said with a smile.
Li Xiuyuan looked at him and said: "We will give you a book on medicinal herbs. There are many medicinal herbs in the mountains that you can pick and use in your practice in the future."
The old man stood up and looked at him and said: "Let's go back to the house and take a rest. We are suddenly in the Golden Core realm. I'm not used to it yet. You can make tea yourself."
Xiao Qing walked out of the main hall, looked at Li Xiuyuan and asked: "Old man Zhang is now a monk in the Golden Core Realm?"
Li Xiuyuan looked at her and said, "It's the second level of the golden elixir. From now on, I won't have to worry about coming back to write talismans to the villagers down the mountain."
Xiaoqing stretched out her hand to rub her cheek, looked at Nangong Ruyu and Li Yun's room, and asked with concern: "Why is there no movement from Sister Nangong? Will she run into trouble when she breaks through?"
Li Xiuyuan looked at her, shook his head, and said with a smile: "It's not like you haven't experienced thunder tribulation before. She has gone from being distracted to breaking through the void. This is a breakthrough in a big realm. Give her a little more time."
Xiao Qing looked at him and laughed: "Li Xiuyuan, you are really a monster."
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