"Please look at Mr. Beard. This vast piece of water is Pengze, which is rich in fish and shrimp. The white soft fish and three-legged shrimp that Academician Lu just entertained Mr. Beard are the specialties of Zezhong."
"The fish and shrimp taste good, but don't mention that Bachelor Lu to me. I don't like hearing about it."
"Haha, yes, Academician Lu asked a lot..."
"More than a few? Ask me where I came from? Who are my parents? Did you ask that? How do I know who my parents are? Does he know who his parents are? He insists on asking, It’s really strange!”
"Uh... Mr. Beard, do you want to go to Yanluo Mountain to see it?"
"Oh? What kind of fun place is it?"
"This is the place where I, a scholar of the Spring and Autumn Period, received the inheritance of the great ancient god King Yu. There are King Yu's caves, statues, and the temple of King Yu. Paying homage to King Yu is good for your practice. As long as you are sincere, you can live a safe life."
"Oh? Then let's see...who is King Yu? Is he more powerful than the Spring and Autumn Scholar and the Patriarch Kunpeng?"
"Speaking of ancient times..."
Dugu Taiyue accompanied Mao Monkey Beard for a month. He went to Lushan Mountain to visit Lu Tong and Wu Bei, went to Yanluo Mountain to burn incense for King Yu, went to Yingdu to enjoy the pleasures of the market, and went to see the wild lands in the south. Scenery, hunting...
What Beard Gong likes most is Wushan and the steep Wu Gorge in the clouds and rain. The scenery here is magnificent and soft, and the environment is cool and not lonely. What he likes most is to sit on the tree branch on the edge of the cliff and gnaw on the pine trees. Guo, watching the wooden rafts crossing the gorge, listening to the boatman's call echoing in the valley, and the firewood cracker's singing singing melodiously in the forest...
After lingering in Wushan for many days, on this evening, Dugu Taiyue and his beard sat on the top of the Goddess Peak, watching the sun slowly set, and then watching the stars rise in the sky, for a long time...
The beard suddenly said: "If I can live here forever, I won't ask for anything more."
Dugu Taiyue said: "If you live here, I should come and visit you often."
Beard Master said: "Dugu, although you are not good at cultivation, you are a good person, better than everyone I have met."
Dugu Taiyue smiled and said: "What's the matter with this? It's just that I realize that I have the same will with you. Mr. Beard has a life span of eight hundred years and has met countless people. It is a blessing for Taiyue in his life that he can regard Taiyue as a friend. To be honest, Taiyue himself is also I didn’t expect to be able to make friends with him. After all, he is a demon god and not a human cultivator. Taiyue has never come into contact with demon gods before. Of course, even among human cultivators, Taiyue doesn’t have many friends..."
The beard said: "I have lived for eight hundred years, or even longer. I can't remember exactly how many years. But there are really not many people I have met, and there are even fewer people who are willing to deal with our demon gods and fulfill their promises. Very rarely. You promised to take me out, and you really did it. Originally, I thought that you would be like the fairy who came here a few months ago, and you didn't keep your words, but you really came..."
"Fairy?"
"The one picking tea."
"Tea Lama?"
"right……"
"She promised to take you to Yongchengshi?"
"I didn't say which life it was. It was the first time I saw her. After I came here, I went to pick the buds from the tree. I didn't care about her. I just left after picking her. If you have to look for me everywhere, tell her when you find her. It's Grandma Tea, and she plans to take me out for a walk in the future. This strange person... I didn't propose it, she took the initiative to find me, and she didn't keep her promise..."
In the face of Mr. Beard's complaint, Dugu Taiyue was speechless for a long time, and then said: "Master Beard, please settle down in our Spring and Autumn Period from now on. You can choose any of the peaks in Wushan Mountain as long as you pay one million colorful stones. Yifeng will be your home from now on, and the Academy protects your rights, and you can do anything without your consent."
The beard asked: "Do I need to pay so many colorful stones? What should I do if I don't have them?"
Dugu Taiyue said: "It's easy to handle. The academy has agreed to do something special for you. If you are willing, you can join the academy and become a foreign envoy. The academy will pay you 30,000 yuan a year like a bachelor's." With the reward of colorful stones, it only takes more than thirty years for you to completely occupy the mountain peak of your choice, and the academy will also give you a set of refining palaces for free for your daily life."
Bearded Gong thought for a while and said: "Sounds good, then please help me Dugu..." It pointed to a mountain peak on the right: "The Seventh Peak of the Goddess."
Dugu Taiyue nodded with a smile: "From now on, the seventh peak is yours."
According to the instructions of the bachelor Wu Sheng, worshiping a foreign envoy to the mountain requires a sense of ceremony, so in the Lushan Wanxian Palace, in front of dozens of academicians and ministers, Guiguzi personally issued the letter of appointment to Mr. Beard, and Thirty thousand colorful stones were given to it in the first year. At the same time, Guiguzi showed Mr. Beard a land deed for the Seventh Peak of the Goddess. The owner’s name had not yet been filled in on the land deed. He said that as long as Mr. Beard paid 1 million to purchase the peak, his name would be included in the title deed. On it, it can be passed down to descendants.
Bearded Gong put the letter of appointment away, looked at the land deed that was right in front of him but couldn't get it, scratched his head, and handed the colorful stone to Dugu Taiyue, who accepted it with a smile.
Later, Master Pan will accompany Mr. Beard to the Seventh Peak of the Goddess to discuss with her the refining of the temple. This ceremony will be completed.
Duke Yan asked Dugu Taiyue: "Dugu, will you follow me to the seventh peak? Help me think about what kind of hall I should build."
Dugu Taiyue said: "I'm sorry, Mr. Beard, I still have some things to deal with. When I return from the void, I will immediately go to Mr. Beard's home as a guest. Mr. Beard must prepare spiritual fruits and spiritual wine to entertain me."
Mr. Beard whispered: "Don't worry, I'm the best at making wine. Do you know why I chose the Seventh Peak? There are many ancient trees with many tree holes there. It's best for making fruit wine. When you come back, I'll give you a drink. enough!"
Dugu Taiyue agreed with a smile and watched his beard leave. He hurried towards Dongyue. After leaving Tianmen, he turned around and entered Fusangshi, heading straight for Qixia Mountain. This time, Dugu Taiyue calmed down and did not visit directly or ask for information from the villagers at the foot of the mountain. Instead, he quietly waited at the foot of Qixia Mountain and silently followed the movements on the mountain.
A Void Refining cultivator is stalking a Hedao Immortal God, especially when the biggest suspect is identified, he must not be negligent. As long as he is negligent, his bones of Dugu Taiyue may be buried in the soil of Qixia Mountain from now on. .
On the seventh day, he locked onto the movement of Tea Lama - Cha Lama had returned from the outside world, and then continued to wait patiently.
This lasted for more than three months. During this period, people came to visit the mountain. Most of them came to buy spiritual tea or ask for tea ceremony instructions. Sometimes when the tea lady came down the mountain, Dugu Taiyue used the Shenzang Seeing Light Talisman to check her whereabouts. , I found that Tea Madam didn’t go far, but just wandered around for a hundred miles nearby.
Waiting until the first snow fell, covering Qixia Mountain in silver, Tea Grandma went out again, but this time, it was different from the past. Tea Grandma chose to travel at night, and Dugu Taiyue's heart immediately tightened. When I got up, my intuition told me that my love was about to surface.
Sure enough, under the pursuit of Shenzang's Seeing Light Talisman, Tea Lama's whereabouts were very different from the past. She went straight to Dongyue and disappeared outside the Tianmen.
Although he didn't know which life Cha Lama had gone to, Dugu Taiyue still chose one of the two. He chose the Beiyin life because it was close to him. Less than half an hour later, I entered the dim world again, looking at the sky covered with dark clouds and thunder and lightning, overlooking the volcanoes spewing lava everywhere, as well as the bare mountains and the wasteland full of tombs, and my heart couldn't stop. Pray: "Not here, not here..."
Outside the Tianmen, the light of Shenzang's light talisman spread out in all directions, sweeping out a clear aura feedback, the aura of Tea Lama, more than ten feet away.
Dugu Taiyue lamented and bravely pursued him.
The pursuit of photography in the Beiyin period is as difficult as that in the Heyang period. The difference is that the light in the Heyang period is often blown away by wind and snow, while the Beiyin period often encounters sudden karsts that block the light. He was fully prepared at Dugu Taiyue, and Shenzang brought hundreds of light talismans with him, so there was no accident and he chased him to a dilapidated ghost town.
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Tea lady has entered the city.
The ghost town is dense, and a large flag is erected at the top of the city. Most of the flag is broken. It took Dugu Taiyue a long time to identify it, and then he recognized that the name of this city is "Taoqiu".
The name of the city is easy to hear, but the ghosts coming in and out of the city gate are very unbearable. They have all kinds of weird looks, all kinds of missing arms and legs, all kinds of missing heads, all kinds of jumping, jumping and drifting, which are quite weird.
This was the first time Dugu Taiyue saw the ghost town, and he immediately felt his scalp numb. If it hadn't been for the occasional intrusion from other worlds, it would have been difficult for him to overcome the creepy and disgusting discomfort in his heart.
He followed a monk from another world who was also practicing Xu into the city gate. The other person smiled at him and said hello: "First time here?"
Dugu Taiyue said: "Ah, this is the first time."
The other party said: "Don't be afraid, just treat them as monsters, don't be fooled by the foreign minister."
Dugu Taiyue nodded: "Thank you very much."
The other party didn't say anything more and walked down an alley. Dugu Taiyue waited for a gap when the city gate was clear of ghosts, played the Shenzang Seeing Light Talisman again, and followed the tea lady's feedback to the outside of an abandoned garden. , checked that there were no ghosts around, and jumped into the ghost building nearby.
Dugu Taiyue did some homework, held his breath on the ghost tower, and stared at several tombs in the wasteland. He knew that most of the ghost cultivators in the Northern Yin Dynasty lived underground, and the entrances were tombs with stone tablets.
This deserted garden occupies a large area, and several tombs are quite large, especially the large tomb in the center. The monument is about ten feet high, and the tomb is at least six or seven feet wide. It is unknown what kind of evil ghost's mansion it is.
While staring at the deserted garden, he also made a plan. He took out the carpet and headrest. If the owner of the deserted garden noticed it, he would say that he planned to live in this high-rise building for a few days as a temporary shelter.
It is difficult to tell the time in the ghost town, and there is no alternation between day and night. Dugu Taiyue Cat stared at this ghost tower from a high place for an unknown amount of time. Suddenly, he saw the stone tablet in the middle move to the side, revealing the tomb door, and the tea lady's tomb. He came out of the door, looked around a few times, and then walked out through the wall.
Dugu Taiyue was not in a hurry. He stared at the door of the tomb, thinking about how he could go in and check it out. While he was thinking about it, there was another movement outside the garden. A man dressed in black passed by from the top of the building quietly. He was startled.
The black-clothed ghost held a person in his hand and landed in front of the door of the central tomb. He threw the person to the ground and said to the tomb: "Li, we are being targeted!"
Dugu Taiyue's heart immediately beat wildly, and he was ready to use Taiyue's Golden Dou to protect himself at any time, and he also understood clearly that the name of Li'a was one of the three ghost kings who joined the Tao in April in the Northern Yin Dynasty. If I were really discovered, I might not be able to survive!
A man walked out from the dark door of the tomb. He was about ten feet tall and majestic. Every step he took caused tremors in the Huangyuan and even the ghost building where Dugu Taiyue was hiding. He was wearing a broken battle armor, and the shaking of the armor made Dugu Taiyue feel sore from the base of his tongue to the tips of his ears.
"Brother Taichang, who is this?" he asked, pointing to the person lying on the ground.
Qian Taichang, this is another ghost king who joined the Tao in April in Beiyin.
The clues were finally put together. Cha Lao is the female fairy of Yongcheng, and she knows the condition of the spiritual eye of Yongcheng. Li A and Qian Taichang in front of her today are both ghost kings who are in harmony with the spirit in April. Dugu Taiyue couldn't believe it at all.
"When I came here, I found him following me. I didn't know who it was, so I brought him over by the way." Qian Taichang slapped the man, which immediately triggered a scream.
"Why do you follow me? Tell me to save you from suffering."
"Your Majesty has misunderstood. Xiao Xiu is a wine merchant. He did not follow me deliberately. He actually wanted to recommend a spiritual wine to your Majesty."
"You still dare to lie? You are hanging far behind me, staring at the land from Yinfeng Gorge for fifty or sixty miles, right?"
"Xiao Xiu is wronged. He is definitely not staring at the king. The king is moving very fast, and Xiao Xiu can't catch up...ah!"
There was another scream, and Qian Taichang tapped his finger on his forehead, causing him to scream in pain.
When the person's first answer came out, Dugu Taiyue knew who it was. Luo Xueshi was accompanied by a disciple, Talisman Master Yusheng.
And he also knew what Yusheng would say next, and after listening to a few more words, after hearing Yusheng repeat the place name Yinfeng Gorge again, Dugu Taiyue carefully descended from the other side of the ghost building, and walked down. Foot by foot, layer by layer, trying not to activate the true energy, not using Taoism, holding on to the railings, window frames, and eaves, quietly landing on the ground, gradually moving away step by step...
Then he sped off and left. When he reached the city gate, he caught a glimpse of the monk he had seen when he entered the city before. He hurriedly inquired about the direction of Yinfeng Gorge and rushed there as fast as he could.
This should be the fastest journey I have ever made on Dugu Taiyue. It is fifty or sixty miles away and arrives in less than a quarter of an hour. As soon as I enter the mouth of the gorge, I hear someone greeting me: "Dugu!"
Sure enough, it's here!
Under a mountain col in the mouth of the gorge were Luo Lingfu and Xiao Jianshi.
"Xueshi Luo, Yu Sheng was caught by Qian Taichang!"
Luo Lingfu's expression changed: "What's going on?"
Dugu Taiyue said: "I tracked Grandma Cha all the way to Taoqiu City. Grandma Tea has serious suspicions. She went to Li A's tomb and I don't know what they talked about. Before I could leave, Taichang Qian arrested her. I sent Yu Sheng to see Li A, but fortunately he was just suspicious. Under torture, if Yu Sheng answered as planned, I didn't dare to stay any longer, so I came over quickly to report the news."
Luo Lingfu nodded and said: "Don't mess up, everything is as usual."
Dugu Taiyue asked: "Is the wine ready?"
Sword Master Xiao said from the side: "Dugu, remember, the cold wind entering the wine and the molten molten warming the wine are all buried in the ground. There are thirty-six jars in total, and the places where the wine is buried are marked."
Dugu Taiyue nodded: "I understand. I also have a jar of Luofu Bai, the top-quality spiritual wine sold in Fengtai, bury it too."
