He had cut all the vegetable plots he had planted. When the autumn wind blew, he planted white radish and carrot. If these vegetables were not eaten up, they could be pickled with salt. In a few days, he could go to the mountains to pick mushrooms.
Ping An didn't know how long it had been since he came to see Li Xiuyuan.
Since the last time I sent some necessities of life, it was like evaporating from the world and disappearing from Li Xiuyuan's life.
Fortunately, Li Xiuyuan's house was filled with rice, oil and salt that had been delivered safely, and the monster meat had been eaten up long ago.
Li Xiuyuan boiled and dried the bamboo shoots he dug in the spring. He knew how to fry them and eat them, so he was not short of food or clothing.
The whole world seems to have completely forgotten Li Xiuyuan.
He himself is like a happy little wild man, living and practicing in this world of his own.
Even on the Beginning of Autumn this year, Ping An did not appear, and Master Nalan Ruoyu did not come to see him.
There was a pile of bamboo swords with failure inscribed on the floor of the bamboo shed. Li Xiuyuan, who had been busy all summer, couldn't help but grinned and stared blankly at the only bamboo sword in his hand.
The bamboo sword was no different from the scrapped bamboo sword carved on the ground, except that the blade was blackened, apparently unable to withstand the flame rune and turned into a scrap sword.
I thought that if they came up safely, the two of them could use it to practice swordsmanship, but it just didn't have the power of the runes.
Just like the bamboo sword he whittled on Tianshan Mountain, it was just a bamboo sword without any additional power.
The purple bamboo sword in his hand is not a sword. There are two runes on the sword that faintly exude power. One is the acceleration rune, and the other is the flame rune that he is best at.
Now let him fight against an opponent in the Cave Heaven Realm. He can instantly use this bamboo sword to restrain the opponent. This is just because the bamboo sword is inherently light and agile, and coupled with the power of the runes, it can restrain the opponent unexpectedly.
Show the enemy's weakness, and then seize the enemy's opportunity.
...
On this day, Li Xiuyuan hunted a pheasant in the mountains, cooked a pot of chicken soup, and went to the field to pull a handful of vegetables.
A man sat alone in a bamboo shed, poured a bowl of wine, and sang to the moon.
Mother and sister, Mr. Wife, Mumu, are you okay in that world? I am very happy here, at least no one comes to plot against me.
Xiao Long'er and my brother, when you come out, my brother will roast meat for you.
After drinking a bowl of wine and eating half a bowl of food, Li Xiuyuan wanted to play a tune on the harp, only to find that the iron harp had already been placed in the jade plate space...but he had nowhere to vent his resentment.
I could only chant casually:
It is my nature that my talents will be useful, and I will come back after all my money has been spent.
...
The five-flowered horse and the golden fur will be exchanged for fine wine.
Together with you, we will sell off the eternal sorrow.
...
That night, Li Xiuyuan was drunk alone on the top of Zhufeng.
The night breeze in the mountains was blowing gently, the stars were shining brightly in the sky, and the drunken boy slept with his clothes on.
The starlight was extraordinarily bright that night, and Li Xiuyuan's whole body shone with faint starlight like a dream. In the Jade Disk Space, the old man built a small house next to the elixir garden.
Sitting under the eaves, looking at the elixir sparkling under the stars, thinking that next spring this place will be full of vitality and everything will grow.
The two little dragons in the cave still showed no sign of waking up. In the eyes of the old man, it would be worth it for the two little guys to spend ten years or more as long as they returned to the ancient ancestral dragons.
The Tower of Reincarnation shrouded in the energy of chaos is also faintly glowing. It is expected that it will evolve to the tenth level of perfection in less than ten years.
Even he didn't know what changes the reincarnation tower would bring when it evolved again.
The stars are shining tonight, and there are guests visiting tonight.
At some unknown time, Yuzun and Meng Shentong arrived at the top of Houshan Mountain where Li Xiuyuan was.
Yuzun looked at Li Xiuyuan who was sleeping soundly, and couldn't help but stretched out his hand to pull Zeng's beast blanket for him. Meng Shentong glared at her, and the two left the bamboo shed in the blink of an eye.
"I said Yu Zun, you obviously feel sorry for him, why do you ignore him and let him live alone in the mountain?"
Neither the old man nor Yu Zun listened carefully to the poem Li Xiuyuan recited, but both of them understood Li Xiuyuan's loneliness and loneliness.
Yuzun stood in the mountains with lush purple bamboos, looking at the stars in the night sky, and said nothing for a long time.
"Old man Meng, what are you doing with your disciple? Why does he have no aura or spiritual veins in his body, but there is a faint twinkle of starlight? If you don't tell me, I will ask my senior brother tomorrow... .”
Yuzun's voice was still so cold, but there was a clear look of displeasure in his tone.
"This thing? This thing..."
The old man sighed and said leisurely: "I can't understand his body. It is said that he has not yet communicated with the seven stars in the sky. How can he bring the stars into his body?"
"What? You want him to practice..."
Yuzun was shocked. After all, it was just a legendary existence. No one had ever seen the star body appear in Xuanwu Continent.
Even the old man in front of him can only be regarded as half... because he still has the fairy spirit energy that has not dissipated.
"So what? Only you and I know about this, and I didn't even tell the headmaster. Don't be so loud and make people think about this kid..."
Meng Shentong looked at the faintly shining stars in the bamboo shed, with an unstoppable smile in his eyes. This was really beyond his expectation.
"I guess Li Xiuyuan doesn't know about it himself. If he doesn't talk about it, don't ask." After thinking about it, the old man added one more thing.
"Let's go, don't let him know we've been here." Yu Zun sighed, turned around and walked down the mountain.
From the moment Li Xiuyuan went up the mountain, Yu Zun was staring at him and saw that he actually set up a bamboo shed outside the cave. After that, he dug the ground to grow vegetables, flowers and purple bamboo... This was his decision to live in seclusion on the mountain. Already?
I also thought about whittling a lot of bamboo swords. I asked the old man in front of me later, and I knew that he had learned the art of weapon refining in the library, and he probably wanted to make a spiritual weapon of his own.
It's just a bamboo sword, even if it's engraved with restrictions, what's the use?
"If I'm not wrong, this guy wants to engrave restrictions on the bamboo sword, but he hasn't learned the skill from that old guy Yuan Zun yet? Does he know how to engrave it?!"
Yu Zun looked back at the old man, meaning that if his apprentice really let him go, Yuan Zun would probably be angry to death.
Meng Shentong was stunned, looked at her and smiled: "Didn't Ping An say that Yuan Zun's disciples blocked Li Xiuwu from entering? He deserves it. Is being a registered disciple regarded as charity?"
The Queen looked at her and smiled: "Have you forgotten? That day both Jian Zun and Yuan Zun wanted to accept him as a registered disciple... Fortunately, I am quick."
"It seems that the starlight on the bamboo peak is really helpful to his practice." Meng Shentong murmured to himself.
"I'm also looking forward to it. If he can accomplish what you haven't been able to accomplish, this will be a unique legend in Tianyun Mountain, right?"
Yuzun finally couldn't help but chuckle.
Meng Shentong was stunned for a moment and said nothing.
If Li Xiuyuan could bring stars into his body and transform his veins into unique star veins, he would be invincible in the entire Xuanwu Continent.
Thinking of Jian Zun and Yuan Zun, Yu Zun couldn't help but smile knowingly.
Yuan Zun, in particular, had clearly asked Ping An to send him an identity card, and Li Xiuyuan was also willing to visit him for advice. He never expected to be stopped by his own disciples and refused to let him in.
This is really not as good as God's calculation.
"Old Meng, I'm really taking advantage of you... If I had known this, I should have snatched this little guy up the mountain a long time ago. Are you still willing to let him sweep the floor?"
Meng Shentong was stunned, looked at her and said with a smile: "What's wrong with sweeping the floor? You didn't see him sweeping the floor at the mountain gate. It was really good!"
The two chatted while walking down the mountain.
Finally knowing some of Li Xiuyuan's progress, the two of them were no longer anxious.
Yuzun looked at Meng Shentong and smiled and said: "Come to my place for a drink tomorrow. My disciple's wine is really good..."
"Where did he get the wine? It's impossible. I accepted him as my disciple first... This kid actually hid from me to see if I didn't deal with him properly!"
Meng Shentong was so angry that he cursed and laughed.
"I guess he left a jar for you. You can come up to him alone another day...remember, you have to share half of it with me."
When Yuzun heard that the old man had never drunk Li Xiuyuan's apricot flower wine, he couldn't help but feel happy, thinking that his apprenticeship was not in vain after all.
...
Li Xiuyuan likes this place more and more. There is a vegetable field not far from the house, there is no shortage of food, and there is a mountain spring flowing through it, which is very convenient for making tea and washing up.
Now, apart from sitting in front of the bamboo shed at night and contemplating the stars in the night sky, during the day he was either copying books or practicing with the bamboo sword in his hand.
Unlike in the Shura Heaven Realm, the speed at which he drew his sword was much slower. Every time he struck out a sword, he tried to imagine the bamboo sword in his hand as a Shura Sword.
He had not been able to comprehend the meaning of lifting a sword as lightly as a heavy sword, so he wanted to start practicing again on the Xuanwu Continent.
Just a few days after the comfortable days, Ping An also hugged the quilt and crawled into the cave to make a home.
He looked at Li Xiuyuan and said with a smile: "Grandpa Meng said that Ping An should come to the top of the mountain to practice with his brother, saying that he is already very powerful now!"
Li Xiuyuan was stunned, looked at him and said in a daze: "How can I be so good? I have no real energy at all. Is it possible that you want to come here and learn to grow vegetables with me?"
Ping An shook his head, took out a bamboo sword from the bamboo stand on the side, and said with a smile: "Master said, let Ping An come up and teach my brother how to practice the sword!"
"That's it?"
Li Xiuyuan was delighted when he heard it, and Ping An came to practice sword practice with him. This was something that surprised him.
For a moment, it reminded him of how he and Mu Mu used bamboo leaves and pine needles to practice swordsmanship in Tianshan.
Thinking of this, Li Xiuyuan couldn't help but laugh and said: "If you want to practice swordsmanship with me, that person has to pick up a lot of bamboo leaves. We will use bamboo leaves to practice swordsmanship..."
I don’t know how long it’s been since I practiced sword practice with bamboo leaves. The last time I saw it was at Wangyue Stream in the academy. Nangong Ruyu followed her mother to find him, so she had to pester her to practice sword practice.
In the blink of an eye, ten years have passed in the academy.
When Ping An heard this, he turned around and ran outside the bamboo shed, shouting as he followed, "Brother, go cook some food first. Ping An will finish sword practice later. What should I do if I'm hungry?"
Li Xiuyuan ignored him, but went to the shed to get two bamboo swords and held them in his hands. He looked at Ping An who came back with a lot of bamboo leaves and said, "Come here, cover your eyes..."
After speaking, he took out two pieces of black cloth, handed one to Ping An, who ran over, and then handed over the bamboo sword.
Then he said quietly: "After closing your eyes, release your consciousness and look at the bamboo leaves flying over with your heart... Let's compete to see who can knock down the most bamboo leaves."
At this moment, Li Xiuyuan was no longer a handyman sweeping the floor, but had become the Jade Lord in the Yaoguang Palace, practicing his most basic sword moves with the young man in front of him who called him brother.
Ping An nodded, jumped ten feet away with a yell, and honestly covered his eyes with a black cloth.
Holding a bamboo sword, he shouted: "Brother, how are we going to play?"
"Gather your true energy and throw the bamboo leaf in your hand at me as a flying sword. Then release your spiritual consciousness and use your heart to see the flying sword towards you... Use the bamboo sword in your hand to chop it down. they!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Li Xiuwu waved his hand, and a bamboo leaf turned into a sword and slashed towards Ping An.
With a whine, Li Xiuyuan first flew out a leaf. He wanted to slowly teach Ping An how to use his spiritual consciousness to see the flying sword in front of him.
"Brother, please slow down, Ping An can't see clearly!"
Before he could finish speaking, a small hole was cut into his sleeve by a bamboo leaf flying out from Li Xiuyuan, causing Ping An to scream in pain.
"Slow? Why slow?"
Li Xiuyuan looked at him and said coldly: "One day when you are walking alone in the rivers and lakes and encounter your enemy, you ask him to slow down with his sword and wait until you are ready before taking action..."
"Ping An is still young, brother, you are unreasonable!" Ping An, who was in pain, stopped, and with a move of his wrist, he slashed the bamboo leaf sword in his hand towards Li Xiuyuan.
