Two months after arriving in the mountains, Li Yueyuan followed his brother into the secret realm for the first time.
Looking at the towering ancient trees in front of her, Li Yueyuan couldn't help but ask: "Brother, why isn't it snowing here?"
Xiaoguang behind the two people laughed: "This is a secret place. It will probably disappear before spring. You can seize the opportunity."
Li Yueyuan took her brother's hand and walked forward.
Bursts of dull roars came from not far away, which made Li Yueyuan feel uneasy when she first entered the secret realm.
Xiaoguang and Li Bai were already familiar with the environment here, but they didn't go deeper because Xiaoguang knew that if they went further in, they might not be able to defeat them.
At present, he and Li Bai can only fight with some mandrills with low cultivation level.
Xiaoguang looked around and found that some big guys were far away and some were close. The big guys who were close had already smelled the scent of the three of them.
"Be careful now. If you can't beat him, run away. Your brother and I will protect you." Xiaoguang held the sword and whispered.
Li Bai looked back at his sister and said, "The mandrill's weak point is its neck. If Brother Xiaoguang and I go up first, you should stay with us and don't fight forcefully."
Li Yueyuan was a little nervous and followed her brother. Listening to the roar that was getting closer, she couldn't help but tighten the iron sword in her hand.
Xiaoguang looked at her appearance and shook his head, drew out his sword, and rushed towards the woods ahead.
"Help me hold one down!" Xiaoguang shouted, this was him talking to Li Bai.
With the roar of "Ouch!", two mandrills rushed towards the three of them at the same time...
Xiao Guang, who was rushing at the front, jumped into the air and slashed at the neck of the whining mandrill with his sword from above.
go.
Today he met two big guys at the same time, and he had to deal with one first.
Li Yueyuan watched her brother rush forward. She mustered up the courage to hold the long sword and slashed at the mandrill that was charging towards her brother.
But seeing the sword energy in the air like a rainbow, a bolt of lightning struck the mandrill's neck, and Xiaoguang, who was in the air, struck a fatal blow with the sword.
A huge head flew out.
Li Yueyuan had already rushed to the edge of the other mandrill. She didn't dare to raise her head. She just shouted and slashed the mandrill's long arm with the iron sword in her hand.
"Dang!" With a sound, the iron sword was instantly bounced back.
Li Bai was shocked: "Sister, this guy is going to chop off his head. Didn't I tell you just now?"
"I was so scared that I forgot?" Looking at the mandrill waving towards him, Li Yueyuan dared not draw his sword again, so he twisted and ran back.
Seeing his sister like this, Li Bai was also frightened.
The long sword in his hand was slashed out, trying to stop the mandrill chasing his sister.
It's just that the mandrill was faster than him. Seeing that Li Yueyuan was about to be overtaken by the mandrill, the mandrill waved its arms, opened its mouth and screamed, and had already pounced on Li Yueyuan's back.
One of her hands had been caught by the mandrill, and she was about to be injured in its hands. Even Li Bai was shocked...
With a sound of "Zhao!", Xiao Guang flew towards him and slashed at the mandrill with the long sword in his hand.
"Ouch!" He grabbed Li Yueyuan and was about to bite the mandrill when a huge head flew up, but Xiaoguang, who was flying towards him, slashed the snow with a sword.
Xiaoguang landed on the ground and shouted: "Li Bai, are you stupid?" After saying that, he took Li Yueyuan's hand and ran forward.
Not far away, another huge mandrill chased after him.
Li Bai was shocked. This
It’s hard to deal with even one such guy. Why are there three of them today? It’s really life-threatening...
At this time, only Xiaoguang was still calm, while Li Yueyuan was too frightened to speak.
Looking at his sister sitting on the ground, before Li Bai had time to pull her up, the mandrill that caught up with him roared and slapped Li Bai on the head with his huge palm...
"Bang!" With a sound, Li Bai's back was instantly scratched by the mandrill, and blood spattered for a moment...
Xiao Guang, who rushed over, roared angrily and waved his hand in mid-air with a sword!
"Dang!" The iron sword struck the green-haired mandrill hard on the head, and his iron sword bounced back in an instant...
"Li Bai, get out of the way!" Before the mandrill could turn around, Xiaoguang slashed his sword horizontally on the mandrill's neck.
This is the fatal sword.
In less than half a stick of incense, Xiaoguang killed three terrifying mandrills.
Li Yueyuan came back to her senses and looked at the mandrill lying in front of her and the huge head not far away. She couldn't help but lay on the ground and vomited.
Xiaoguang sighed and comforted: "Don't be afraid, sister, brother Xiaoguang and I have both vomited."
Seeing his sister sitting on the ground, he was injured again. Xiaoguang was the only one, and he probably couldn't risk his life anymore today.
"Brother Xiaoguang, come back tomorrow and let my sister get used to it..." Li Bai thought for a while and asked.
Xiaoguang nodded, so Li Bai helped up his sister on the ground, comforted her, and walked back.
Back at the bamboo forest, Li Yueyuan was lying on the edge of the bamboo forest, still vomiting.
Li Xiuyuan heard the noise, looked at the three of them and smiled: "I thought you would stay in there for a few days before coming out."
Helping my sister sit down at the table
, Li Bai went to get a basin of water, found a silk scarf and handed it to Li Yueyuan: "Sister, please wash up first."
Looking at the gentleman in front of her, Li Yueyuan couldn't help but smile bitterly.
He looked at Li Xiuyuan and said, "Sir, I am too timid. I never thought I would meet such a scary guy..."
"Don't be afraid, your brother and I both vomited when I went there." Xiaoguang looked at her and smiled.
Li Bai shook his head and walked to the mountain spring not far away. He wanted to clean his body and then ask his husband to apply herbs to his wounds.
Unexpectedly, the first time I took my sister in, she would be injured again.
Xiaoguang followed and looked at Li Bai and said, "You have to rest for a few days before you can continue. Don't be anxious. Sir, he just asked your sister to go in to practice her courage."
…
From the first snow to the winter solstice, Li Yueyuan and her brother went to the secret realm three times in total. They finally became more courageous and dared to use the sword with the mandrill.
But after that, Li Xiuyuan no longer let her follow the two of them.
In Li Xiuyuan's view, this secret realm was not so much prepared by the master for the three of them as it was a training place prepared for Xiaoguang alone.
Because Li Bai has no realm, and his future path is destined to be impossible to become a peerless monk.
Only for guys like Xiaoguang, who will be like Gao Yue'er sooner or later, this secret realm is the perfect place for him to recover his cultivation.
On the day of the winter solstice, Li Xiuyuan cooked hot pot.
The ingredients were found by Xiaoguang in the mountains and the yellow sheep fell to death under the cliff. This was the first time for Li Yueyuan to eat hot pot in the mountains.
Li Xiuyuan looked at Li Yueyuan and Li Bai who were sweating from the heat and said, "Let Xiaoguang go alone from now on. You guys practice your sword here, and then go home when spring begins."
Beginning of spring
, Li Xiuyuan also wanted to go down the mountain to see Qibao in Jiezi Town.
At that time, it was also the time for Qibao to leave here and go home.
Xiaoguang didn't care. He would stay with Li Bai at the north gate until he was fifteen, and then he would return to Penglai. Now he had returned to the Golden Core realm.
In such a realm, it was the time to show off his skills in the secret realm, so he had to seize the opportunity.
When the secret realm disappeared, it was when he left with Li Bai and his sister.
Only Li Yueyuan was unwilling to give in, thinking that I was just having fun.
Li Bai understood his husband's painstaking efforts. As long as his sister came out of the shadow of the past, they would have completed their mission.
Originally, Li Xiuyuan had many things to say to Li Bai.
It was only when the words came to my lips that I realized that nothing seemed appropriate to say, because Li Bai was not Xiaoguang, nor was he Xiaobao from Penglai.
Li Bai had Li Bai's way, so he could only pour a glass of spiritual wine for Li Yueyuan.
Smiling and said: "Today is the winter solstice, let's make an exception and have a drink."
Li Yueyuan seemed to have changed since she followed her brother up the mountain. She became bolder and became more cheerful.
Seeing the gentleman pouring himself a glass of spiritual wine, he couldn't help but chuckle and said, "Waiting for the full moon to come home, I can scare my parents."
Li Bai smiled faintly: "My sister is now a heroine, and she no longer has to be afraid of bandits when she returns home."
…
The beginning of spring this year is earlier than in previous years.
Before a ray of spring breeze could enter the balcony, the snow on the eaves was ticking, ticking, and wet the bluestone street in the town.
Qibao, who was sitting in the Buddhist hall looking at the spring breeze, finally waited until the snow melted and she was about to go home.
It took another whole winter to ask Li Xiuyuan about Buddha on the mountain.
She finally knew what she wanted.
Just like what her husband said to her, if you want to practice Buddhism, you must first see yourself.
So, she saw herself in the mortal world and decided to go home and become a mortal.
Like those little women in Jiezi Town, be a woman who cares for her husband and teaches her children, embroiders, cooks and teaches them.
The female shopkeeper of the Buddhist temple spent a lot of effort and taught Qibao for three years. In her opinion, Qibao was worse than a bhikshuni from the mountain behind Qingcheng.
Even the most difficult-to-read Buddhist scriptures in the world can be read by Qibao forty times a day with his eyes closed.
This was her pride. Whenever anyone came to the Buddhist temple to ask for incense, candles, Buddhist ware, or statues, she would tell them about the incredible and miraculous deeds of the Seven Treasures.
However, this was Qibao's previous pride.
It was only when she came down from the top of the mountain in Qingcheng that she realized that this was really not something to be proud of, because just a volume of handwritten Buddhist scriptures from her husband allowed her to see the vastness of Buddhism.
If she was just proud of being able to recite a mantra of more than 2,000 words, she would probably remain in the mind of a five-year-old child for the rest of her life.
However, she couldn't explain these principles to the shopkeeper Qiu Yuan.
This is a secret in her heart and she doesn't want to tell anyone.
The spring breeze blows, and the desire to return is strong. The peach, plum and apricot flowers all over the city cannot keep Qibao's footsteps.
In the early morning of the beginning of spring, a carriage stopped on the other side of the stone bridge. At this end of the small bridge was the Buddhist hall where Qibao was.
Just carrying a small baggage, Qibao bowed deeply to the shopkeeper Qiu Yuan, and said goodbye to the shopkeeper who taught her Buddhist scriptures for three years with the etiquette of a monk.
As long as she steps over the small stone arch bridge, she will be on her way back.
Shopkeeper Qiu Yuan is a woman in her forties, and the years are like running water.
, but did not leave much wind and frost.
I originally put a lot of effort into cultivating Qibao, but I just thought that one day she would take over the Buddhist temple, or go to Qingcheng and become an elder in the temple...
But she never thought that after just one winter, Qibao would be like the river flowing eastward, and no one could stop her footsteps.
Although I feel a little unwilling and reluctant to give up, I can't do anything about it.
After all, Qibao's family is in Luoyang, and he still has his parents at home. Being able to stay in Jiezi for three years is an incredible thing for a young girl.
Looking at the girl holding an oil-paper umbrella under the eaves, Qiu Yuan's mouth moved, but she couldn't say a word.
He just let out a deep sigh, listening to Qibao's heart.
But the shopkeeper was sighing for the flowing water under the bridge, and couldn't help but murmur: "Only the flowing water under the bridge should miss me and stare at me all day long..."
When Qiu Yuan heard this, he became even more angry, waved his hand and said: "Go and have a rest, go and have a rest!"
With a deep bow, Qibao turned around and walked towards the stone bridge not far away...
However, when she saw a few pedestrians standing on the stone bridge, her eyebrows grew colder and the smile on her lips faded away. She couldn't help but look back at Shopkeeper Qiu Yuan who was still standing on the street.
There was resentment in those eyes, and a hint of anger.
There were five people on the stone bridge, four servants dressed in black, and in front of them was a young master in a brocade robe.
The twenty-year-old son belongs to a wealthy family in the town and is named Wang Qi.
Wang Qi looked at Qibao and smiled and said, "Come home with me and become the young lady of the Wang family. I will guarantee you prosperity and wealth for the rest of your life. How about that?"
Qibao shook his head and replied coldly: "Get out of the way, I want to go home!"
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Miss Bao is a friend of mine. I don’t know if she can read this story about Qibao. It is purely fictitious. Please do not take your own place in the story. Thank you.
