The white snake opened its eyes. After a night of practice, its scales seemed to be whiter, with a jade-like luster, and its size was also larger, from three feet to about four feet.
Perhaps because it absorbed the purple energy of the morning glow, the demonic energy on its body became even weaker, and there was even a faint trace of pure energy.
It can be seen that it gained a lot this night.
"Little snake, Pindao is leaving. I hope that when we meet again, you can uphold your original intention and don't become a cannibal and evil monster."
After saying these words, Li Daoxuan threw the paper horse out with a wave of his fly whisk and prepared to leave.
He has the heart to conquer the White Snake, but he is not asking for it.
The main thing is to see whether the white snake itself has a desire to seek refuge.
Seeing that Li Daoxuan was about to leave, Bai Snake's eyes showed a trace of firmness, as if he had made up his mind.
It spit out a small round bead from its mouth, only the size of a longan, but it emitted a soft light and seemed to have a strange power.
Li Daoxuan's eyes showed a strange color.
He reached out and picked up the small bead, and immediately felt a strange power seeping into his skin, seemingly trying to affect his body, but in the face of the majestic magic power, he quickly retreated.
The beads glowed with a faint blue light, and when you put your ears up to them, you could faintly hear the waves of the sea.
Li Daoxuan looked at it for a moment and finally came up with a guess as to the origin of the bead.
This bead should be the legendary teardrop.
The so-called teardrops refer to the tears of Jiaoren. It is recorded in Zhang Hua's "Natural History" of the Jin Dynasty: "There are Jiaoren in the South China Sea. They live in the water like fish. They do not waste their weaving performance, and their eyes can weep tears."
Jiaoren has two treasures. One is Jiaoren silk, also known as dragon yarn, which is a silk cloth woven by the Jiaoren clan. It is as thin as cicada wings and can be soaked in water without getting wet.
The second is the teardrop, which is said to be a pearl made from Jiaoren's tears. Some people say that this thing is not Jiaoren's tears, but comes from Jiaoren's tail. Only by killing Jiaoren and cutting open his tail can you get this teardrop. teardrop.
Teardrops are more precious than cross hair. If a mortal wears this item all year round, it can prolong his life and keep his appearance forever.
Uncle Dabao once said that in the past, Taoist priests often ground teardrops into powder and used them as medicine to refine elixirs for longevity. However, later on, fewer and fewer people used it, and now, there is almost no trace of it.
Ordinary teardrops, only the size of a grain of rice, are already priceless, but this teardrop is as big as a longan, and its value is truly inestimable.
But it doesn't mean much to Li Daoxuan.
He is a cultivator, and with the help of the "Book of Demons and Demons", even without teardrops, he can still look young and pursue the path to immortality.
"It's your blessing to get this teardrop. Are you really willing to give it to me?"
Li Daoxuan looked at White Snake.
White Snake nodded, and then automatically crawled to Li Daoxuan's feet and climbed up his legs. Seeing that Li Daoxuan didn't stop him, he was immediately overjoyed and crawled all the way up to Li Daoxuan's sleeves and wrapped around his wrist.
Li Daoxuan laughed loudly and said: "Okay, then I will accept you."
This white snake is not simple. It has extraordinary blood and is a highly venomous snake. When fighting with others in the future, if you wave your sleeves and let the white snake fly out and bite people, you will be sure to catch the opponent off guard.
Well, let’s give this move a name, let’s call it... White Dragon in the Sleeves!
After subduing the white snake, Li Daoxuan mounted the white horse and rushed towards Chang'an.
Although there are still doubts about the Xuzhou incident, such as why Zhang Laowu said that he saw thousands of water ghosts, these may not be solved in a short time.
Li Daoxuan has many important things to do when he goes to Chang'an, so he must not be delayed for a long time.
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Flying in blue shirt and white horse, we will descend to Chang'an in three days.
With a good horse that can travel thousands of miles, it only took Li Daoxuan three days to arrive in Chang'an. During this period, he also lost a lot of time due to cultivation.
The sun is scorching like fire, and there are bursts of heat waves.
When Li Daoxuan rode his horse to the front of Chang'an City, it was almost noon.
Seeing the legendary imperial capital Chang'an for the first time, even Li Daoxuan, who had seen many big scenes, couldn't help but be shocked by the majestic and prosperous city in front of him.
The city wall is tall and majestic, like a majestic mountain ridge. Many soldiers wearing heavy armor are stationed on it. Their military appearance is solemn and murderous.
The streets in the city are like a chessboard, with an endless stream of merchants and shops. Looking from a distance, it makes people feel dazzled. It is true as Bai Juyi said in his poem, hundreds of thousands of houses are like a chess game, and the twelve streets are like vegetable fields.
Chang'an City was the imperial capital of two dynasties. It was called Daxing City in the Sui Dynasty. Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty mobilized hundreds of thousands of people to build it in a pattern of "the heaven, the earth, the earth, and the emperor." After Li Yuan made Chang'an the capital, he started to renovate it again.
Today, this majestic city is about forty miles wide from east to west and eighty miles long from north to south. It is not only the first majestic city in ancient China, but also the well-deserved first city in the world!
Li Daoxuan stood at the foot of the city, quietly opened his eyes, and looked at Chang'an City.
I saw the golden imperial dragon energy in the city rising into the sky, with Taiji Palace as the center, spreading out like stars over the moon.
Under the influence of the mighty dragon energy, the sight of Li Daoxuan's heavenly eye was greatly reduced, and the magic power in his body was also restricted. There was a slight stagnation in the operation. He could only exert 70% to 80% of his 100% strength at most.
And the closer you are to Tai Chi Palace, the greater this influence will be.
At this moment, he finally understood why cultivators did not like to come to Chang'an City. To the people, this place was a prosperous and prosperous place, but to the cultivators, it was like a dragon's pond and a tiger's den.
Li Daoxuan collected the white horse and entered Chang'an City.
Entering the city, the first thing he felt was—heat!
The entire city is like a huge furnace, baking everything in the city, making Chang'an City, which should be bustling with traffic, become a little deserted.
Li Daoxuan noticed that many people's lips were chapped, and the pedestrians on the street were all sweating, as if they had been thirsty for a long time.
"The Dianshui River and the Yanshui River have dried up, and the Weishui River in the north is almost drying up. If this continues, I am ready to move out of Chang'an City!"
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"That's right, let alone fetching water for irrigation, my children haven't had a drop of water for two days!"
"Didn't His Majesty say that he was planning to convene some kind of Longmen Immortal Meeting to pray for rain?"
"Haha, I don't know how many times I have been worshiped in the Dragon King Temple, but it is of no use at all. It is useless to even pray to the Dragon King, let alone a Taoist priest!"
"I heard that the reason why Chang'an City suffered from severe drought was because Your Majesty was at Xuanwumen back then——"
"Shh, be careful! You don't want to live anymore?"
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Along the way, Li Daoxuan heard a lot of discussions. Because of the severe drought, the people's hearts in Chang'an City were indeed a little unstable.
But we can't blame them. The ancients believed in gods and paid attention to cause and effect. The city of Chang'an had never experienced drought for more than ten years, but it happened as soon as the emperor ascended the throne. This is easy to imagine.
Many people believe that it was because Li Shimin killed his brother and imprisoned his father that the sky refused to rain.
Li Daoxuan did not go to the palace to meet the emperor immediately, but first came to Xuandu Temple in Chang'an City. He wanted to meet his very mysterious senior sister Taizhen first.
