"Miss Xu, it's been such a long time."
Along the bank of the river, Shu Guan and Xu Chuxiang walked side by side.
It was already evening. Xu Chuxiang stayed in their Taoyuan Village all afternoon, catching up with everyone and asking them how their lives were now and what work they were doing.
But the thing she is most curious about, but has never answered, is how the people of Taoyuan Village survived and how they left Taoyuan Village.
Whenever she asked about these things, everyone's eyes would fall on the young Taoist priest who used to have a pockmarked face.
Of course, the pockmark was no longer pockmarked. Xu Chuxiang felt that he looked really good-looking after his face was free of pockmarks.
But this may just be because Xu Chuxiang once saw how ugly he was, so that now there is an aesthetic deviation.
Now Xu Chuxiang also knows his name, Shu Guan.
In the afternoon, when Xu Chuxiang was about to leave, she walked up to the young Taoist priest named Shu Guan and asked seriously:
"can I ask you some questions?"
Shu Guan stood up happily and motioned to Xu Chuxiang to follow him for a walk by the river.
Then the two came to the river.
Seeing Shu Guan speaking at this time, Xu Chuxiang raised his hand to brush his hair that was a little scattered by the river wind, and said with a smile:
"Yeah, it's been such a long time."
"I didn't expect you to become a Taoist priest after you came out. I originally thought you might become a chef."
At the end, Xu Chuxiang chuckled.
Shu Guan did not explain that although he was wearing a Taoist robe, he was not actually a Taoist priest, at least not the kind of Taoist priest in the eyes of ordinary people.
Of course Xu Chuxiang was just joking. She knew that the pockmarked boy could do more than just make fish soup.
"What happened next?"
Then Xu Chuxiang suddenly fell silent for a moment, and then asked.
"We escaped from there, with some power beyond the comprehension of ordinary people, but I won't tell you much."
Shu Guan said calmly.
When he invited Xu Chuxiang to come to the river for a walk, he had naturally already thought about how to explain to Xu Chuxiang.
"Are the two Taoist priests invited by Uncle Han really gods?"
Xu Chuxiang thought for a while and asked.
On the way out of the underground palace, she had actually seen too many incredible things. It was just because her father warned her not to tell anyone else what happened in the valley, so this year, She kept those things in her heart.
"Yes, to you, they are indeed gods, and I am with them now."
"So you are also a god now?"
Shu Dian nodded, not intending to hide anything.
Xu Chuxiang's father knew more than his daughter.
And now there is no use for Xu Chuxiang to stick the Forgetting Talisman.
Xu Chuxiang looked at the young man beside her with a look of shock on her face. Although she had seen those things with her own eyes, seeing a god admit it in person still made her have many illusory thoughts about the world. Feel.
"Can we go back to that valley now?"
Then Xu Chuxiang asked.
"You can't go back, it's been occupied by those monsters now."
Shu Guan sighed.
But the reason why I can't go back is not only because of those fossil monsters, but also because of the "blackness".
According to Li Zhixia's guess at the time, even practitioners who had reached the Nascent Soul realm would not be able to set foot on the land soaked in those "black".
Because those "blacks" came from the underground palace of Master Qixia, Li Zhixia speculated that the sudden death of Master Qixia should be related to those "blacks".
Before her death, Master Qixia was already a great practitioner at the peak of the Nascent Soul Realm.
Something that can kill even the great practitioners at the peak of the Nascent Soul Realm, perhaps only the true immortals above the land gods are qualified to enter that valley.
"So, Uncle Han's body was buried in that valley?"
Xu Chuxiang said secretly that she had seen people from Taoyuan Village coming out, so she might have a way to go back. She could also go to pay homage to Uncle Han if she had the opportunity in the future.
But what Shu Guan said next made Xu Chuxiang's dark expression disappear in an instant.
"Oh, I forgot to tell you that Uncle Han is not dead."
Xu Chuxiang said "Ah" and raised his head in surprise, looking at Shu Guan in disbelief.
"Uncle Han is not dead? Where is he now? Why don't you come back to my dad? My dad still misses him all the time!"
"Although Uncle Han is not really dead, his current state is very special. It is related to our practice. It is difficult for me to explain clearly to you. In short, it is not convenient for him to come to see you now."
Shuguan explained.
Han Biao is still lying on the third floor of the Treasure Pavilion, in the room where the Ice Soul Cold Light Needle is placed.
In fact, in the past six months, apart from practicing and dealing with supernatural events, there is one thing that Shu Guan has never relaxed about.
That is to be Han Biao's bodyguard. This matter has not been ignored even during the joint search team.
On the first and fifteenth day of every month, he and Li Zhixia would always spend several hours in that room refining Han Biao's corpse puppet.
This sounds like a very creepy thing, but it is also the only way to wake up Han Biao.
As for the time for Han Biao to wake up, Li Zhixia said at the time that it would take a year at the earliest, but these days, Han Biao does have some signs of waking up.
"But wait a few more months, maybe you can meet Uncle Han."
So Shu Guan said this again.
Xu Chuxiang nodded happily.
As long as Uncle Han is still alive.
Finally, before leaving, Xu Chuxiang asked Shu Guan another question.
"Did you really draw the architectural layout of your village?"
"good."
"There are some things in it. How did you come up with it? Do you still know about architectural design?"
Xu Chuxiang cited some examples, such as rainwater and sewage diversion. No matter how high-end residential areas in this era, things have not yet been refined to this level.
Shu Guan was silent for a moment, this question was really difficult to answer.
He didn't know anything about architectural design. The problem was that the things Xu Chuxiang just mentioned were very common in any community in the era he traveled to. He just drew them casually based on his memory.
But it was impossible for him to answer Xu Chuxiang like this.
"Because I am an immortal now!"
So Shu Guan answered very perfunctorily.
Xu Chuxiang showed an expression of great admiration. The immortal was indeed as omnipotent as in the legend.
Then Xu Chuxiang thought for a moment and asked hopefully:
"I am designing and constructing a high-rise building. I hope it can become a landmark building in Jingcheng. However, I have encountered some problems in the design. I wonder if you can help me take a look."
"Oh... let's talk about it when I have time."
Shu Guan responded:
"Miss Xu, let's go back!"
"OK."
Xu Chuxiang stared deeply at Shu Guan and nodded.
The two of them walked towards Taoyuan Village from the riverside. They didn't see the setting sun on the side slowly lengthening their shadows, and then they overlapped.
…
More than a month has passed since Xu Chuxiang came to visit Xintaoyuan Village.
The Mid-Autumn Festival has passed, and the children have all gone to school. Zhang Yadan has also started her high school career, but a slight change is that she is not going to the original school not far from Xintaoyuan Village. Ordinary high school, but under the arrangement of Xu Chuxiang, he entered one of the best foreign-run missionary schools in Yingcheng District.
In this era, it is true that only such schools can provide the best education.
Shu Guan weighed it up and decided to accept Xu Chuxiang's help. The purpose was to allow Zhang Yadan to have a broader perspective.
The missionary school was a full-time boarding school, and the tuition was quite expensive. Xu Chuxiang said that she could bear it, but Shuguan refused. He still had to pay for Zhang Yadan's tuition with the remaining money.
But speaking of it, the money seems to belong to the Xu Chuxiang family as well.
All in all, this month has been very peaceful, and the whole Jingcheng has been very peaceful, as if the demonstrations that were in full swing more than a month ago had never happened.
The news in newspapers repeats the same content every day.
For example, after the short-lived glory of that day, "Begonia News" began to be able to report only some romantic affairs, returning to its status as a third-rate tabloid.
During this period, Shuguan's life was extremely peaceful, so that although he could not be said to have made rapid progress in his cultivation, his cultivation was indeed deepening day by day.
Taking advantage of this peaceful month, Shu Guan also carefully sorted out his current strength.
More than half a month after the last fight with the female ghost, he completed two more big Zhoutians. Now his Zhoutian transportation skills have reached the level of thirty-six small Zhoutians and twelve major Zhoutians. The remaining These six big weeks are what will happen in the next two or three months.
As for the Taoist arts he has learned, he has now mastered 21 of the thirty-two Taoist arts in Daozang Pavilion. As for the few that he has not yet practiced, five of them are not advanced enough to practice. The Earth Immortal Techniques that I have learned, and the other ones, have too strict requirements for cultivation. For example, only women can practice them, or if they are practiced, they will conflict with other Taoist techniques, so I can only choose one of the two.
As for the twenty-one Taoist arts he has practiced, although they are all immortal arts, it can only be said that the number sounds quite large. In fact, the power is mixed, and Qingping's sword control is still his strongest. A Taoist technique with great attack methods.
There are also the most basic Five Elements Taoist skills such as wood manipulation, water control, and fire control.
There is a divination technique with a palm sutra that is mostly incomplete and has a rather mysterious origin.
There are also purely auxiliary Taoist skills such as the Yanzhi Technique, the Wall Penetrating Technique, and the Wall Walking Technique, but these Taoist Techniques are quite practical.
But there are some Taoist techniques that are no different if you practice them than if you don't practice them. For example, one of the techniques Shu Guan has practiced is the Nine Dragon Bone Transformation Technique.
From the name, do you think this is a very powerful and mysterious Taoist technique?
In fact, the only function of this Taoist technique is to help you remove the fish bones when a fish bone gets stuck in your throat.
At first, Shu Guan was attracted by the name in the Taoist secret book, and took it out from the Taoist Pavilion with great interest. When he was about to start practicing, he realized that in the world of Taoism, there is also this kind of bluffing by just the name. What’s wrong with people.
However, adhering to the principle of taking all the leaders, and the self-comfort of not being overwhelmed by Yi Duo, Shu Guan still practiced this Taoist technique, but he never had the chance to use it after completing it.
Even in the days when he first mastered this Taoist technique, he returned to Taoyuan Village very frequently, just to see if there were any elderly or children in the village who got stuck on fish bones while eating fish.
In short, among the twenty-one Taoist arts in the Daozang Pavilion that Shu Guan knows, nearly one-third are like the Nine Dragon Bone Transformation Technique. Even if you master it, you don’t know if you will have the chance to use it in this life. .
In addition to the Taoist skills he learned from Daozang Pavilion in Guanzhong, Shu Guan also had another Taoist skill that he acquired by chance, which was the Tianyin Demon Subduing Technique taught to him by Dingshi Zhong.
This is an earthly immortal technique, and after using the Tianyin Demon Subduing Technique several times, Shu Guan discovered that when facing ghosts and ghosts, this Tianyin Demon Subduing Technique is his most powerful Taoist technique now.
In addition, Shu Guan has also made great progress in the practice of fighting tactics.
Although he is still unable to throw a banana into the air like his senior brother and then blast it away with his greatest strength, he can smash the banana peel without damaging the banana flesh inside.
However, his remaining strength has been developed to the point where he can instantly explode three times his own strength, and can also triple the power of a Taoist technique. This is a sign of his mastery of remaining strength.
In addition, in terms of subtle control of spiritual power, Shu Guan can also control the flying sword, and use Qingping's sword-wielding method to completely peel off the peel of a banana.
But all of this is not Shu Guan's most powerful strength. Shu Guan's real most powerful strength comes from the giant ox-horn bow and twenty iron arrows that the old cripple made for him.
Because with the cooperation of bow and arrow, Shu Guan once killed a strong man in the Fetal Movement Realm with one arrow.
There is also the sharp knife that can react when stimulated by spiritual power, but has not yet had a chance to verify its power.
These two things are Shuguan's real trump cards today.
But Shu Guan didn't know what the giant ox-horn bow and the ox-ear sharp knife were.
They are certainly not ordinary weapons.
But speaking of magic weapons, whether it is a bow, arrow or sharp knife, there is no spiritual fluctuation at all. It looks no different from ordinary bows, arrows and sharp knives, and there is no appearance of any weapon spirit.
Regarding this point, Shuguan had asked Xiaoyi to confirm it repeatedly for him.
Whether it's a giant bow with horns or a knife with sharp horns, it will only show another look after he injects spiritual power.
This is indeed a magical thing!
…
The peaceful days passed for more than a month, until one day it was broken again.
In the early morning of that day, Shu Guan was sitting on the balcony of the half building, waiting for the little Taoist Xuancheng to bring today's breakfast.
He didn't wait for breakfast, but he saw the sixth senior brother Sang Liren who was responsible for guarding the mountain gate these days. He was holding a newspaper in his hand and ran up from the cliff like a cat whose tail was stepped on, with a loud mouth in his mouth. shouted.
"Master, that 'Swallow' appears again!"
