Early the next morning, Jining finished his meditation. Jining looked out the window of the thatched hut, feeling a little depressed in his heart. He found that after reaching the second level of the Immortality Art, practicing in the thatched hut had no effect! While Jining was meditating, the green bird came to the thatched house again to look for Jining.
Jining glanced at it and didn't take it seriously. After washing himself, he packed the kettle, dry food and a simple tent he had prepared before and put the stainless steel sword into a basket on his back. Then he put the sleeve arrow box on his arm, and then put the basket and a small hoe on his back. As if the bird knew that Jining was going on a long trip, it actually jumped on the basket and prepared to follow Jining. Jining put the basket on his back and walked towards the cliff where he picked the spiritual fruit last time.
The mountain forest is humid and foggy, and the mountain roads are frozen due to the cold, making walking on the mountain roads much slower than normal. More than two hours have passed. By this time, the sun has gradually risen and the temperature has begun to rise. Finally reaching the bottom of the spiritual tree that bears spiritual fruits at the bottom of the cliff, Jining looked around and found that there was no danger. It seemed that the black bear had not been here since it destroyed the spiritual fruit tree last time.
Jining found a flat place under the spiritual fruit tree, then sat down and began to run the longevity formula. In about a moment, the cool spiritual energy that Jining had not felt for a long time flowed into Dantian as it circulated around Tianhou.
Jining was a little excited and knew that his idea was not wrong. Although this world is lacking in spiritual energy, there is still a small amount of spiritual energy in the world, but these spiritual energy are distributed in some desolate and remote places that no one knows about.
Perhaps Jining's mood was a little agitated, and there were too many distracting thoughts in the center of the Qi movement, and the spiritual energy of heaven and earth he absorbed suddenly became chaotic and unstable. Jining quickly calmed down and continued to practice.
When Jining was calming down, Jining actually saw the emerald-green bird with its eyes slightly closed as if it was absorbing the spiritual energy of the world.
Jining was a little surprised, guessing that this bird might also be the descendant of a demon bird. Maybe the spiritual energy of this world was too lacking, causing its bloodline to degenerate and turn into an ordinary bird. However, the remaining bloodline of the demon bird can still feel the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. It may have felt a trace of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth when Jining was practicing the Secret of Immortality, so it stayed with Jining.
In any case, its cultivation would not affect him, so Jining ignored the bird and continued to meditate calmly. Perhaps it was the first time that he felt such a clear and strong aura of heaven and earth. It was like a hungry ghost encountering a gluttonous feast, and Jining started practicing without eating or sleeping.
In the blink of an eye, more than half a month has passed. Jining seems to have forgotten the cold and hunger these days. He has been meditating and practicing. When he is really sleepy, he goes into the tent to rest for a while. When he is hungry, he drinks some water and eats dry food.
Jining itself didn't bring much dry food and water. Although she hadn't eaten much in the past half month, the dry food and water she brought had been almost exhausted.
What makes Jining the happiest is that after practicing day and night for more than half a month, Jining has broken through to the third level of Qi training.
But not long after Jining was happy, he discovered another big problem. After practicing in Jining to the third level of Qi training, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth that originally contained not much seemed to have become much thinner. Jining found that the effect of continuing to practice here was greatly reduced.
He could only go back to the thatched cottage first and then make other plans, so Jining ended his training and went back to the thatched cottage.
Soon, the most important festival of the year in the land of Qilu began, and the Chaotian Temple, known as the Taoist Temple of the Lu Kingdom to protect the country, became even more lively. What surprised Jining was that he originally thought that he was hiding in the back hill looking at the medicine fields. Maybe everyone should forget about him. Unexpectedly, the deacon of the dormitory, Mingyu Zhenren, actually sent someone over to ask Jining to return to the Taoist temple to celebrate the New Year together.
Jining is now considered a monk. For ordinary monks, they are aloof and look down on mortals, and are too lazy to pay attention to such mundane things.
However, I thought that I was now a Taoist priest in Chaotian Temple, and the deacon of the dormitory still remembered me. After some hesitation, I decided to go back to the Taoist Temple. I also made a decision in my heart, intending to take this opportunity to explain to the deacon of the dormitory that I was leaving the Taoist temple, so that he could arrange manpower as soon as possible.
Chaotian Temple has been extremely lively these days. I heard that on this New Year's Day, someone from the Lu royal family held a sacrificial ceremony in Chaotian Temple on behalf of the current emperor. Therefore, the already popular Chaotian Temple became even more lively, and some Taoist priests outside also rushed back to the temple.
Jining was walking leisurely on the mountain trail in the back mountain, and a bird was chirping and flying beside him. Jining was a little annoyed when he saw it and said, "Xiao Lu, let's play by ourselves...".
The little bird seemed to understand Jining's meaning, and it felt that Jining was a little unhappy and flew away obediently.
During this period of time together, the bird became more and more dependent on Jining, and basically stayed in the thatched house without leaving. Jining was alone in the back mountain and had nothing else to do except practice, so when he had nothing to do, he teased the bird and named it "Little Green".
The journey from the thatched cottage to Chaotian Temple was less than an hour, and Jining soon arrived at Chaotian Temple. All the Taoists got up early, and because the New Year was approaching, the Taoist temple was already extremely busy.
After Jining arrived at Chaotian Temple, he went directly to the deacon of the dormitory to find Master Mingyu. After chatting with Master Mingyu for a few words, he explained to Master Mingyu that he wanted to leave the Taoist temple.
In the past six months, Jining has also taken care of medicine fields and vegetable fields in the back mountain, which can be regarded as a diligent work, and no mistakes have been made. Master Mingyu is also very satisfied with Jining's performance. He just felt a little unhappy when he heard that Jining was planning to leave, so he said that after the New Year's Day was over, he would arrange for someone to come and take over. Then Jining went to the library to collect some New Year's Day gifts, and then sent Jining away.
Jining didn't take Mingyu's attitude to heart. Seeing that it was still early, I walked around the Taoist temple since I had nothing else to do, and prepared to go back to the thatched cottage after walking around for a while.
Chaotian Temple occupies a large area, with dozens of large and small houses distributed according to a strange rule.
Although he is now considered a Taoist priest at Chaotian Taoist Temple, he has never lived in a Taoist temple, so he is not familiar with Chaotian Temple, which occupies a huge area. Not long after leaving, Jining walked to the main hall of Chaotian Temple and saw that the main hall of Chaotian Temple was full of people.
A group of Taoist priests are setting up the venue for the sacrificial ceremony. At this time, Jining was a little surprised to see that Li Ming from Dianzuotang was also busy somewhere.
Li Ming was Jining's only acquaintance in Chaotian Temple, so he said hello to Li Ming. Perhaps because the temperament of the monk had changed a lot, Li Ming didn't recognize Jining.
He didn't react until Jining greeted him, and quickly ran over to greet Jining.
During the chat with Li Ming, Jining learned that the worship ceremony would be held at noon today. Prince Zhaoyun, the fourth son of the current Emperor of Lu, and Master Yushan would preside over the ceremony together.
This worship ceremony includes offering sacrifices to the heaven and earth, the Yushan real person reading the sacrificial text, the virtuous Taoist priest reading the scripture in the sky, and finally the grand viewing fireworks.
Li Ming said mysteriously again that among the distinguished guests with Prince Zhaoyun this time, there was a mysterious figure. He heard others say that this mysterious figure was like an immortal, capable of turning rain, spreading beans into soldiers, and other magical methods.
Hearing that even the current emperor was extremely respectful to him, Prince Zhaoyun was specially sent this time to bring two hundred ligers and tiger cavalry, who were powerful in several surrounding countries, to accompany this mysterious figure to find something near the Qinling Mountains.
Then he mysteriously asked Jining if he knew what the strongest soldier in Lu was, but Jining didn't know.
Then he said that the state of Daolu had two cavalry that shocked all countries, namely the black tiger cavalry and the ghost leopard flying cavalry. Among them, the mounts of the cavalry of the Black Tiger Cavalry are the world-famous Red Flame Horses, and both the cavalry and the Red Flame Horses wear black iron armor. Ordinary swords, guns, and arrows cannot pierce the black iron armor. Each cavalryman is an army member of the Lu State. It is composed of elite soldiers selected from a thousand miles. In addition, because the dark iron armor worn by the cavalry has a black tiger engraved on it, it is said that the black tiger engraved on the dark iron armor will make a roaring sound when the cavalry charges.
As the name suggests, the Ghost Leopard Flying Cavalry is a force known for its speed. The mount of the Ghost Leopard Flying Cavalry is said to be a red dragon colt with the bloodline of a dragon, a horse, and a demonic beast. It is said that the red dragon colt can travel more than a thousand miles a day in the lofty mountains.
The State of Lu has had several wars with neighboring countries in the past century. The two cavalry's constant cooperation has frightened several neighboring countries. Li Ming said with some pride that his uncle was the Black Tiger Iron Cavalry Regiment and was also a member of the two hundred Black Tiger Iron Cavalry Regiment this time.
At this time, Li Ming realized that he had been chatting with Jining for a long time. He was afraid that the steward would see him and say something about him, so he hurriedly left to prepare for the festival.
Jining thought about it and waited for the worship ceremony to be completed before going back to the thatched house, so he planned to walk around again and then go to the warehouse to collect the New Year gifts. Jining passed through the bustling main hall and took a quiet path from the back door to wander, but he was stopped by several soldiers before he went far. Jining guessed that it should be the residence where Prince Zhaoyun and the rest were resting, and was about to leave.
At this time, two young men, about 27 or 27 years old, walked out of it, followed by a few tiger-backed sergeants. One of them was wearing a black gold silk robe, with birds inlaid with gold silk on the sleeves and a python embroidered on the chest, showing that his identity was extraordinary.
Jining should be Prince Zhaoyun, but Prince Zhaoyun had a flattering look on his face and was talking to a young man wearing ordinary Tsing Yi next to him. The young man in Tsing Yi was a little indifferent.
It just made Jining a little nervous. The mental pressure emanating from this young man in Tsing Yi made him feel strong pressure.
Jining Jue found out that the young man who came out with Prince Zhaoyun must be a monk, and his level was much higher than his own, so he left in a hurry.
Perhaps he left in a hurry, but a monk in green clothes noticed Jining, and after looking at Jining, he said "Huh" in surprise. Prince Zhaoyun was a little surprised and asked what happened.
The monk in green clothes may have other important things on his mind. Although he was a little surprised to see a low-level monk in Chaotian, he didn't take it to heart, so he dealt with Prince Zhaoyun casually.
