Just like the barren mountains and ridges are always haunted by mountain spirits and wild monsters, Cao Zhe and the others who intentionally missed the inn to stay at the barren mountain temple again stayed at the barren mountain temple, saving a lot of accommodation fees and maybe adding extra meals at the last minute.
All kinds of kitchen utensils that had been prepared long ago were spit out from the yellow gourd. Hong Yu commanded the field mouse demon and was busy preparing them.
The rising smoke from the cooking fires and the aroma of water mist added a touch of freshness to this small temple that had been abandoned for a long time.
Cao Zhe lit three sticks of incense and inserted them into the incense trough that had been empty for a long time.
The statue of the fallen god was lying on its side and looking at Cao Zhe. There seemed to be a vague smile on its roughly carved face, which looked a bit sarcastic and funny.
The white smoke coming out of the steamer enveloped the eaves, and the fishy smell of fish drove away the last staleness.
Cao Zhe quietly reached out and put two talismans on the statue.
I borrowed a precious place to have a meal, so I offered you three sticks of incense.
However, precautions must be taken. A dilapidated temple statue that has lost its incense and has been abandoned for many years is most likely to turn into a demon.
This is especially true when the mountain god being worshiped is not the righteous god of heaven.
Mr. Cao is a very particular person!
And Feng Sheng was squatting in the corner meditating, with a fire stuffed under his butt.
He had to stay focused or his tail would droop and be set on fire.
This is one of the small ways that Cao Zhe summed up to help people with insufficient concentration quickly enter samadhi.
After some adjustments, what was originally placed under the butt should be a sharp knife edge.
Of course, Feng Sheng's tail now has a charming burnt aroma.
"The tenacity is pretty good, but it's a pity that he is a bit stupid, not very smart, and the city is average. He can express emotions and anger. To say he is a middle-aged person seems to mean lowering the average." Cao Zhe told Feng Sheng quietly made a judgment.
For such people, Cao Zhe's opinion is that they can be friends with each other, but not deeply.
It can be delegated, but it cannot be entrusted with important tasks.
This kind of person is not inherently bad, but sometimes stupidity is worse than bad.
Of course, Cao Zhe had no prejudice against Feng Sheng.
Everyone has their own likes and dislikes.
Xin Shisi Niang paid a lot to him, but that was also based on the fact that he was 'Feng Sheng'.
It is a natural 'welfare' given by status, and Feng Sheng himself gave up this advantage out of his disgust for monsters, or he could not accept the setting of humans and animals, and that was also his own choice. Cao Zhe will not interfere.
Such people will not easily betray their position and three views because of 'interests', but their thinking is not mature enough and rational, and they can easily make mistakes in judgment on major issues.
The biggest reason why Cao Zhe took him with him was still because of the 'turtle treasure'.
As for why not just give him some benefits and trade the turtle treasure over.
Cao Zhe also noticed that the turtle treasure itself functions by absorbing the essence and blood of the parasite and even longevity and fortune.
Owning this treasure will bring you half the blessings and half the disasters.
It's quite good to stay in Feng Sheng's body.
Regarding this, Cao Zhe also said to Feng Sheng, but he himself didn't care much about it. Instead, he was very happy with himself and his differences from ordinary people, and he regarded it as a trump card for his rise.
The cold wind blew in through the leaky cracks in the wall.
The collapsed statue of the mountain god lay incompletely on the floor as if it was shivering from the cold.
Hongyu had just made a big fish head with chopped peppers. Standing by the stove, she was shivering from the cold, and her natural fur became less warm.
"Kip, tuck, tsk... it's so cold!"
"How many months has it been? Why is it so cold!" Feng Sheng almost sat down on the fire, but found that even his tail was lit again, but he still felt that his hands, feet and whole body were cold.
But Cao Zhe shouted to the door of the mountain temple: "Friends outside, come in and drink a glass of hot wine to warm your body!"
The strong wind blew open the broken wooden door.
Two stiff-bodied weirdos walked in.
Their hair, eyebrows, and beards were all covered with thick frost.
Accompanying them was fierce wind and snow.
The mountain road that was originally relatively green, now looked up, was already a vast expanse of white.
As the two people walked in, the temperature in the small temple suddenly dropped by more than ten degrees.
At this time, even the fire seemed to be unable to emit any warmth.
The originally bright and warm firelight was now rendered icy blue by an inexplicable force, with a biting chill.
Cao Zhe swept his sleeves and used magic to raise the temperature of the flame again.
At the same time, he drove away the cold air in the temple, used the fire palm to force the two glasses of wine to warm, and handed them to the two weirdos.
Two weirdos, each took a glass of wine, then raised their heads and poured it into their mouths at the same time.
"warm!"
"It's so warm!" They said in the same cold tone.
"go?"
"It's time to go!" The two of them said without looking at the table full of dishes, and then left the temple gate with Feng Xue in tow.
In the blink of an eye, they all disappeared.
The wind and snow outside the window also stopped.
After a while, it began to melt and turned into a trickle, flowing into the river below the mountain.
"Just now, what happened?" Hongyu rubbed her little hands, as if she could still feel the biting cold.
Cao Zhe took a sip of the turbid wine, then picked up a piece of old turtle meat with chopsticks, put it into his mouth and chewed it.
His complexion quickly became rosy, and the immortal energy in his body became fuller, rounder, and full of vitality.
"That is the snow disaster among the three disasters and nine calamities."
"First gather the immortal Qi, then go through the nine calamities, and then survive the three calamities, and then go through the five declines of heaven and man, before you can become an immortal." Cao Zhe is not very clear, why the nine calamities have arrived before the souls of the underworld have come, but it is not I haven't taken it particularly seriously yet.
Now that he has condensed two grains of immortal energy, he has twice as much confidence as an ordinary cultivator.
What's more, he also has a foundation of increasingly strong Zhenqi, and the extraordinary martial arts he has learned are gradually unlocked as the Zhenqi becomes stronger.
There is no need to worry or fear.
"Snow Tribulation?"
"Then those two people just now are the rumored two evil spirits of Xuanxue?" Hongyu exclaimed.
Facing the confused looks from Feng Sheng and Vole Demon, Hong Yu proudly held her neck up and explained: "Xuan Xue Er Sha, they are neither human, nor demon, nor god, nor ghost. They are the destiny of this world. And the specific spirit that was born.”
"They will ask for something to keep warm from the cultivators who are suffering. If they can feel the temperature, the calamity will be over. But if not, they will take away all the warmth of the cultivators and let the cultivators When someone dies in the cold and their Yang energy is lost, some souls will fly away, some will escape and be transferred to the underworld, and some will be bound in ice corpses and transformed into ice demons."
"In short, the method of overcoming the tribulation may seem simple, but in fact it is very dangerous. If you are not careful, you may be completely catastrophic."
As she spoke, Hongyu looked at Cao Zhe eagerly, and then asked curiously: "How do you feel after surviving the snow tribulation? Do you feel that your skills have greatly increased, or that you have directly realized some magical powers?"
Cao Zhe shook his head: "Don't think so much. Success cannot be achieved in a day. How can there be any saying that one's skill will increase after overcoming a tribulation?"
Cao Zhe took another big bite of turtle meat, and the third grain of immortal energy in his body was slowly beginning to take shape.
