That night, Lu Cheng lay on the jade bed, his mind wandering, heading to another world.
The winter in this other world is very long. It is the Great Cold season, the sky is freezing, dripping water turns into ice, and the snow outside can bury people.
Qingmei sat bored at the table, drawing on the deerskin with a talisman pen in front of the oil lamp.
She knew very well that her master had two different souls. One of them was knowledgeable, gentle, and eloquent, while the other was taciturn and only knew how to practice martial arts. He especially liked to practice "Giant Spirit Fist" and often didn't speak for a whole day. , let alone teach her runes.
Suddenly, she heard her master speak: "Qingmei, have you made any progress in your skills these days?"
Qingmei suddenly turned around, her eyes were shining, and she shouted happily: "Brother, you are back! Why have you been gone for so long?"
Lu Cheng got off the wooden bed and said, "Let me see if you have broken through the sixth level of innateness."
"Brother, I have made a breakthrough!"
"Okay, how much of the "Lingsha Sutra" I taught you have you memorized?"
"I have memorized everything you taught me."
"Then I'll teach you some more."
Half an hour later, Lu Cheng stopped and asked Qingmei: "Did anything happen in the past few days? Did Wu Luo send someone to look for me?"
Qingmei replied: "Wu Qi came once and brought some Tochigi fruits. She said that Wu Luo was in retreat and asked you not to disturb her. This kind of fruit was given by the uncle Wu Jing. It was picked at the autumnal equinox. Enhance memory, 'take it and never forget it'."
Lu Cheng remembered the last time he visited a Tochigi tree. It was the "Frost" solar term at that time, and there were no fruits on the tree. It must have been picked first.
Qingmei took out five fruits from the storage bracelet and said, "Brother, these are the only ones left. The rest have been eaten."
Needless to say, most of them were eaten by Wu Kuang. These were specially kept by Qingmei because she was reluctant to eat them.
Lu Cheng put away the fruit and asked, "Where are Li Ju and Hu Qingying? Are they still in the feudal city?"
"Here, Hu Qingying got some specialties from Nan Qingqiu and asked Liju to help sell them in the feudal city, specifically to the young people of the Yi tribe."
"What specialty?"
"The main ones are fruits, including oranges, oranges, oranges, oranges, oranges, loquats, persimmons, magnolias officinalis, jujubes and bayberries, cherries and pu Tao, Yin Fu Gao Di, and Da Li Zhi."
"What do you mean?"
"They are the ripe oranges, yellow tangerines, grapefruits, plums, loquats, jujubes, persimmons, sorbets, Magnolia officinalis, goat dates, bayberry, cherries, grapes, changdi, lychees and other fruits that are ripe in summer. These are grown in Qingqiu Country Yes, it has a slight aura, it is only effective on monks below the tenth level of martial arts, and has no effect on innate monks."
Lu Cheng said: "I will give you the Tiger King Pill and the Leopard King Pill. You can exchange them for fruits. You need some of each."
Qingmei asked: "Brother, if you want it, I'll get it."
"Don't owe any favors. I have no shortage of elixirs and jade coins."
"Brother, I understand, how much do you want to buy?"
"Ten pounds of each! I'll use it for sowing!"
"Okay, I'll go see how much is left tomorrow."
The next morning, Qingmei went out and returned at noon, bringing some fruits and, in addition, a section of crystal white bones.
Lu Cheng suddenly looked at it and was shocked!
"Isn't this human bone? Why did you bring it back? Do you want me to use it to make elixirs? I won't agree to this!"
Qingmei said: "Brother, I heard Hu Qingying say that this is a jade bone that the human race's heavenly warriors have practiced for thousands of years. It can be used to refine elixirs just like the spirit bones of monsters. However, there are restrictions in the way of heaven, and similar ones are not alike." Food, the elixir refined with it can only be taken by the demon race, if the human race swallows it, they will have to suffer the backlash from heaven."
Lu Cheng shook his head: "Ask her to find someone else. I don't know how to refine such a pill."
"Brother, since you accepted the skull bowl, why can't you use human bones to make elixirs?"
"no the same."
"Brother, Hu Qingying said that if you help her refine the elixir, she will ask you to be Nan Qingqiu's honored guest."
"I won't take action. This is a human thigh bone. The thought of making it into elixir makes me shudder. My two legs tremble and I tremble. It makes me feel that practicing is meaningless, even if I practice it all day long. Witches and Tianwu masters also lack a sense of security and lose trust in the people around them. They are afraid of being framed, encountering accidents, and dying tragically. After death, their skulls are stolen, and the crystal jade bones are picked up and refined into elixirs. , be swallowed again!"
The more Lu Cheng said, the uglier his face became. Looking at the smooth thigh bones, he felt a little sick.
Qingmei was frightened and said: "Brother, stop talking! I will return the jade bones to Hu Qingying."
After saying that, she ran out again and didn't come back until evening.
"Brother, Hu Qingying said that if you don't want to refine the 'Human King Pill', forget it. I'll ask you to refine other pills in the future. She asked me to hand you a walking stick as a deposit, and at the same time, it's also a kind of apology."
Qingmei took out a cane inlaid with green jade and handed it to Lu Cheng.
Lu Cheng took the cane and looked at it, and found that it was a peach wood cane, dark red in color, with dense runes on it. There were also runes on the green jade handle, and said, "This cane seems to have some origins."
Qingmei said: "Hu Qingying said that this is the cane used by the Witch King a long time ago, and it comes from the same ancient tomb as the skull bowl."
"Did you dig it out of the grave? Didn't the fox girl steal it?"
"It is said that it came from Wuxian Kingdom and climbed Baoshan Mountain. I don't know whether it is true or not."
"What's the use of this cane?"
"have no idea."
Lu Cheng asked: "Do you know which Witch King stayed behind?"
Qingmei shook her head repeatedly.
Later, Lu Cheng summoned three waiters and gave each of them some pills.
Although it was winter, Ying Chu and Yao Shi still went out from time to time to hunt in the forest and brought back antelope and elk meat, fresh animal blood and black bear bile. They knew that Lu Cheng needed bear bile, so the hibernating black bears suffered.
Three days later, Lu Cheng returned to modern times with his cane, some fruits, and deer blood.
He took out the fruit and asked Jiang Qiuyun and his youngest daughter to plant the core in the garden after eating it. Although the garden is not big, you can still open a nursery as a place to cultivate seeds. When the seedlings grow, you can find a suitable place for transplanting.
He then began working on walking sticks and skull bowls.
Before that, he used animal blood to draw runes on the skull bowl every day. However, after more than two months of drawing, he could not find the key to cracking it. After all, the Witch King had too many runes, and it would be very difficult to crack them for a while. normal.
He recorded the runes on the staff, entered them one by one into the computer, and sorted them out clearly. Then he used animal blood to follow the diagram and draw the runes on the skull bowl.
After all, Lu Cheng received a modern education and graduated from a master's degree, so he learned rigorous analytical methods. As a modern person, who doesn’t have multiple online accounts? Which account does not have a password? If there are too many passwords, will they be forgotten? Ever since, someone has used a set of passwords to take over the world!
Because of this, Lu Cheng attaches great importance to the runes on the staff and suspects that the runes that open the skull bowl are hidden in the runes on the staff!
There are more than six hundred runes on the cane.
As a single rune, there are more or less strokes. If it is placed on animal skin paper, it can be written very neatly as a record. However, if it is used as a talisman, it will become a ghost-drawing talisman, with teeth and claws, dragons and phoenixes dancing, in different sizes. Look It's very messy.
Lu Cheng spent several days extracting 388 runes from the cane. After these runes were input into the computer, each rune corresponded to several variations.
Lu Cheng's computer contains 88,000 runes. Those runes may seem like a lot, but in fact, after arranging the many variations, there are less than 10,000 individual original runes.
388 runes, plus all variants, for a total of over 3,000.
Although the number is large, it is still much less than 88,000 runes!
Lu Cheng needs to try these three thousand runes one by one to see which one is the key to cracking the skull bowl.
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