Just hearing a "click!", the stone slab under Li Xiuyuan actually cracked a crack.
Before he could react, a black stone slightly larger than his palm collapsed, almost hitting his thigh that had not yet healed.
He was startled. He didn't expect that the stone slab on his body suddenly cracked. He thought to himself, "I don't weigh much, do I?"
With a sigh, Chen Mengsheng found an animal rug in the space ring and moved it to the side, finally avoiding the cracked stone crack under him.
He stretched out his hand and held the black stone in his hand.
When I first picked it up, I just felt that it was not much different from ordinary stones, but it was much heavier.
I wanted to test my delusion-breaking eyes by staring, only to find that this guy had also fallen into a deep sleep.
"It's just a stone!" After looking at it for a long time without understanding, Li Xiuyuan threw it out casually: "If it's not a baby, don't come and play with me, okay?"
At this moment, his mind was thinking about how to wait for his body to recover before searching for the legendary divine fire. How could he pay attention to the sudden collapse of the black stone.
Looking at the bones on the ground, Li Xiuyuan said: "My friend, when I recover a little bit, I will dig a hole to bury you."
While Li Xiuyuan was chattering, he felt that his body was slowly recovering, thinking that he would be able to get up and walk in less than ten days, but the fairy spirit energy in his Dantian was locked, preventing him from opening the space of the jade disc.
There was no way to release Xiao Longer and Long Hongchen.
Taking a deep breath and looking at the increasingly gloomy sky, I thought that I would spend a spring recovering. When summer comes, I can go down the mountain and travel around the world, right?
He couldn't wait to go to the nearest city of Loulan for a stroll, not to mention visiting the Chen family, a family of weapon refiners, but just to inquire about the divine fire.
When he took a piece of dried meat and gnawed it in his hand, he discovered that thirty-three marks had been carved on the ground, indicating that he had ascended from the Shura battlefield for more than thirty-three days.
Thirty-three days later, Song Ruyu has already brought Nangong Ruyu and Xiaoqing back to the Taoyuan of Shura Heaven, right?
Not to mention that he came to the Xuanwu Continent in the starry sky and got the news about the divine fire and the method of refining weapons. For him, it was already a miracle that he could survive traveling through the black hole.
After all, this is not his previous travel between realms in the small world, but a travel in the cosmic world. Whether it is time or space travel, it is not something he can master with his current cultivation level.
Except for his omnipotent master, the old Taoist priest who has temporarily lost news.
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Shura Tianyu, in the academy.
Elder Huangfu, who had returned with the team, was sitting in the courtyard of the dean. In front of him were the elders of Jiange and the fat old man in charge of the kitchen.
The dean looked at several elders and shook his head, and said with a wry smile: "I didn't expect that the little handyman back then would actually ascend on the Shura battlefield."
The fat elder sighed and said leisurely: "If we had known this, we wouldn't have spent so much time training the academy's disciples and sending them to the Shura battlefield."
Elder Huangfu looked at him and shook his head, saying: "The meanings are different. You must know that the students who survived the Shura battlefield will have greater achievements than you and me in the future!"
The elder of Jiange said softly: "This child doesn't need those opportunities, but he actually gave them to us."
The dean shook his head, looked at the night sky in the autumn wind, and murmured: "It's not just our academy. Didn't you hear what Xiaoqing said? She also wants to go to Tianfeng Kingdom and Taoyuan..."
"Tianfeng Kingdom? Didn't Li Xiuyuan break up with his eldest grandson?" The fat elder shouted in disbelief.
From his perspective, this was almost impossible.
You must know that Li Xiuyuan told everyone in the world that he would never have anything to do with the Tianfeng Kingdom again.
The dean looked at the fat elder and said with a smile: "He can break off love, but not all of his popularity..."
After speaking, he handed the Buddhist scriptures Xiaoqing brought back to the elder of the library and said seriously: "This scripture does not belong to Shura Tianyu. It was copied by Li Xiuyuan himself. The academy must make a few more copies for preparation."
When the old man in the Sutra Pavilion heard this, he couldn't help but take the Buddhist scriptures with both hands and murmured back: "This... this is a treasure."
The dean thought for a while, looked at everyone and said seriously: "Half of these opportunities to reach heaven will be used as the academy's reward for outstanding students in the past fifty years..."
Elder Huangfu was stunned and blurted out: "Where is the remaining half?"
In his opinion, there is no way for these things to stay. After all, once the road to heaven is closed, these things will become a piece of scrap metal.
"For the rest, let's see which elders are needed...The principle is that before they leave, they must train an elder who is not weak for the college!"
The dean thought for a while and made the final decision.
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Tianfeng Kingdom, in the Yunqi courtyard of the Queen's inner palace.
A bright moon rose in the sky. Under the moon, there was a wooden table next to the apricot tree. There was a stove and a tea set on the table.
"Go and summon General Chen to the palace tomorrow. He will get a share of what Li Xiuyuan brings back."
Empress Changsun pinched the five ascending tokens in her hand and sighed leisurely.
Because of Qin Qianshan, Li Xiuyuan only gave Tianfeng Kingdom five tokens for the road to heaven, but Xiao Qing originally didn't want to give one.
In the end, Nangong Ruyu disagreed, saying that she had to abide by her master's wishes, so Xiaoqing reluctantly gave the things to Queen Changsun.
After leaving the Shura battlefield, no one heard from Qin Qianshan anymore.
Xiaoyun looked up at Queen Changsun and said quietly: "I heard from the princess in Taoyuan that the little Taoist priest ascended to the throne in Zhuxian Town. I really can't understand..."
Changsun shook his head and said with a smile: "You only listened to half of it. Yu'er later said that his master will definitely come back. He will return to the place where he was born from the Shura Heaven."
"So, will we ever see him again?"
Xiaoyun couldn't help laughing when she heard this: "I'll see you next time, but I won't let him take advantage of me."
Changsun looked at him and smiled: "Why are you anxious? We will keep this spiritual wine for another two years, and by then you will probably be able to step into the realm of breaking the void!"
When Xiaoyun heard this, her eyes couldn't help but turn red, and she babbled: "This guy just likes to torture people... It's been like a dream to me all these years, and I never thought I could step into the broken world again." The realm of emptiness.”
Changsun glared at her and said, "If he can really come back here, I'm afraid he will find a way to push you into the cave."
"Ouch, that scared me to death..."
Upon hearing this, Xiaoyun couldn't help but cover her mouth and giggle.
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On Luoxia Mountain, in the Taoist temple.
Old man Zhang, who was sitting in the hall, looked at the Sanqing Patriarch on the altar and sighed secretly.
That night ten days ago, after drinking only three glasses of spiritual wine, he actually broke through several realms and faced another natural disaster.
When he came back to his senses, he was already at a level above Po Xu.
For the old man who came here to eat and wait for death, it seemed like an unreal dream for decades.
Just as the departing Li Xiuyuan said, standing on top of Poxu, he has more hopes and possibilities.
Nangong Ruyu missed her departed master and stayed in the Taoist temple for a few days, sitting under the eaves in a daze.
Even Old Man Zhang brought a jar of apricot blossom wine that Li Xiuyuan brewed from the cellar, but he couldn't bring back a smile from Princess Taoyuan.
While Song Tianyu hurriedly divided the apricot flower wine into small jars, he looked at her and said with a smile: "Hurry up and help. Don't you want to give a few jars to your mother when you get home?"
When Nangong Ruyu heard this, she came back to her senses and replied calmly: "It's not like mother has never drank the wine brewed by the master..."
Song Tianyu looked at her sad look and couldn't help nagging: "What are you worried about? My Mu Mu is still waiting for him in Phoenix Valley. He is accompanied by Xiao Long'er and Long Hongchen. What are you afraid of?"
Xiao Qing, who was sitting aside, shook her head and said, "Hurry up and go to Taoyuan with you. I want to find my relatives..."
She couldn't wait for that Xiao Qing in Phoenix Valley.
...
In the Taoyuan where the autumn wind blows, the atmosphere in the small courtyard of Nangong Xuanyuan at the foot of the mountain seems a bit dignified.
Xiaoqing and Song Tianyu had already gone to the mountain to rest. Only Nangong Ruyu was left here to accompany her grandfather and grandmother. Beside her sat the woman in white with a frown on her face.
No matter how smart she was, she never expected that one day she would face the choice her daughter made when she was in the Five Domains Dynasty.
Holding ten tokens of the road to heaven and a jar of spirit wine in her hands, there was no trace of joy in her heart.
Because my daughter will leave this world in a few days and go to the place she has longed for her whole life...
Nangong Xuanyuan, who was originally unwilling to go with him, finally made up his mind after Nangong Ruyu's repeated persuasion and telling him that the Imperial Master's parents and husband were all at that place.
Since the Imperial Master's parents are here, it is natural that the Imperial Master will return home one day. He naturally understands this truth.
It's just that the two old people are also very close. Just because they have been in contact with Dongfang Haotian's family for many years, and suddenly they have to be separated forever, the two old people are also reluctant to let go.
Nangong Ruyu looked at her mother and said quietly: "Why don't mother leave Taoyuan to sister Li Yun to take care of it? She is also in the late stage of Dongtian."
The woman in white looked at her and sighed: "Of course I would like to be able to leave, but when we go there we will be poor and have nothing. After all, it is not as good as Taoyuan..."
Nangong Ruyu frowned upon hearing this, looked at her and said, "So what? Is it possible that mother will have to wait another fifty or a hundred years before embarking on the road to heaven with her senior sister? "
Just one sentence left the woman in white stunned and speechless.
You must know that if she went to Phoenix Valley with Nangong Zhiyu at this time and spent fifty or one hundred years cultivating, she would at least be able to break through to another big realm.
"Master also said that not everyone can survive the journey to heaven, which is much more cruel than the Shura battlefield!"
When Nanning Ruyu thought of the Taoyuan monks who died on the Shura battlefield, she couldn't help but worry about her mother.
Nangong Xuanyuan, who had been silent for a long time, looked at Nangong Ruyu and asked: "Yu'er, senior, can you tell me to bring the three Dongfang family members with us? Our friends for so many years can't afford to see him die here of old age."
Nangong Ruyu thought for a while, nodded and said, "I'll discuss this with the master. It should be no problem."
After hearing this, the woman in white finally made up her mind. She looked at Nangong Ruyu and said, "In this case, I will hand over Taoyuan to your senior sister and elder Li Yun to jointly manage it. Mother will go with you..."
The road to spiritual practice is long, not to mention facing the huge temptation of ascension?
Even the woman in white made her final decision!
Nangong Ruyu looked at Nangong Xuanyuan and smiled: "Grandpa, look, our family can be together again."
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Xuanwu Continent, Tianhuang Mountain.
After a deep sleep all night, Li Xiuyuan was awakened by the chirping of birds. He opened his eyes and was bathed in the warm morning sun, but his head wrinkled slightly.
Because his left hand tightly held a black and very heavy stone.
A stone that he threw several feet away yesterday actually returned to his hand after one night.
He smiled bitterly and said, "Is it possible that even the stone has spirit?"
After saying that, he took the long sword beside him, poured some water on the black stone, and tried to sharpen the sword... The quality of the stone is dense and heavy. How about trying to sharpen the sword?
There were several clanging sounds, and he couldn't help but laugh: "Since I don't want to leave, I will use you as a sharpening stone from now on!"
ps: It’s a new year, a new volume and a new journey.
