Chapter 178 Farewell to Maidong and the Mirror Sect
These days, Master Fuyin was really tired because of the matters of Maidong and Lingxiang. After working hard for a long time on many matters of Qiuyun Peak, he sat in the study, frowning and rubbing the meridian points, feeling extremely irritable.
It is said that people who live in seclusion should be pure and peaceful, but when he thought of Mai Dong, he could not calm down and always felt a little uneasy. Mai Dong had been with him since he was a child. They were not father and daughter, but they were more like father and daughter. Now she went down the mountain alone to make a living. How could he, as her master, feel at ease?
There was also Lingxiang, who always found things to do for herself. She had clearly promised me in advance that she would not take any more risks, but she went down the mountain without permission and even left me a note, asking me to take good care of the spiritual plants on Qingwei Peak.
She actually had the nerve to order me around like this! She was so arrogant!
Master Fuyin sighed. Even if he kneaded his temples like this, he couldn't relieve his fatigue at all. At this moment, he suddenly noticed something strange. He always felt that there seemed to be something different in the study room, but he didn't know what was unusual for a while.
But as a cultivator, this kind of intuition is still very important. When a cultivator reaches a certain level, he can be sharp-minded, and even if it is a small matter, he can be able to look through the grass and see the wind. Generally, if you notice something unusual around you, then there must be something wrong.
But what exactly is wrong?
Master Fuyin frowned and stood up, looking around the study, but found nothing wrong. Just as he turned around, he suddenly discovered that the flower branch that looked like dead wood in the celadon vase on the antique shelf had disappeared.
His face suddenly changed and he hurriedly called Guanxu who was waiting outside the door and asked him to quickly pick up a branch.
Guanxu was extremely surprised. On ordinary days, his master never used branches to decorate the house. Why did he suddenly have the idea to ask him to find branches today? However, seeing the stern expression on Master Fuyin's face, he hurried to the kitchen to find a thin piece of firewood.
Master Fuyin took the thin firewood and, without caring about anything else, directly put it into the white porcelain on the antique shelf. As the mechanism was opened, he rushed in before the door was fully opened.
When he arrived at the secret room, Master Fuyin walked straight to the door, but saw that the space in front of the door where a painting had been hanging was now empty.
Master Fuyin was greatly shocked, and hurriedly went to invite the elders from various mountains, while he flew to Kuncheng Peak on his sword.
In the Wuji Palace, True Man Shangqing was listening to True Man Qianyuan talking about the affairs of many sects, when he saw True Man Fuyin walking quickly towards him with a serious look on his face.
The two masters were very surprised. Although their sixth junior brother was a straightforward person, he had practiced Taoism for many years and knew how to keep a straight face. Why did he look like this now? Wasn't it just that Mai Dong ran down the mountain for fun? It shouldn't be so serious, right?
"Sixth Junior Brother, what's wrong with you? Why are you in such a hurry? What happened?" When Zhenren Qianyuan saw Zhenren Fuyin walking up to the Hunyuan Platform and standing still, he asked hurriedly.
Master Fuyin frowned deeply, and spoke after a long while: "I'm afraid Lingxiang has another purpose for this trip. Fairy Tu Mi's hanging scroll is missing..."
Upon hearing this, Master Qianyuan's expression changed drastically, but before he could ask more questions, Master Fuyin continued, "The one who disappeared along with him also..."
"Penglai Jade Branch..."
……
Xiaobai carried Lingxiang on his back, and rushed to the city with Chi Yanzi and the other two. Chi Yanzi frowned, he was always a little worried whether Long Qi and the others could deal with those monsters. Seeing him like this, Lingxiang comforted him: "Brother, don't worry, with their cultivation level, it's no problem to deal with those monsters."
Although he said so, Chi Yanzi, the good old man, still had some worries on his face. Seeing this, Lingxiang smiled and joked, "I'm afraid that Senior Brother won't be able to accept disciples in the future. How can you help them grow if you can't let go? Young people need more experience. Besides, there is Xinyi there. He is a Jindan realm cultivator. With him around, he will definitely keep them safe."
Hearing this, Chi Yanzi found it very funny. Lingxiang was only fifteen years old, and was actually younger than Long Qi and the others. Yet she could still say that they were young people. She didn't know where she learned this mature tone from.
At this time, Lingxiang suddenly asked Chi Yanzi: "Let's not talk about other things for now. While we are on the road, I have something to ask you, brother. My mother went to Yunmengze back then. I think you went with her, right?"
Upon hearing this, Chi Yanzi opened his eyes wide, and even forgot to hurry on. He stopped immediately, staring at Lingxiang on Xiaobai's back who was still running a few steps away.
"Why are you asking this? Do you want to enter the water mirror?!"
Lingxiang smiled and said, "Why not?"
Chi Yanzi's face changed drastically: "If you want to go to Yunmeng Lake, you must pass through that piece of dead water. But it is said that the dead water is a spell set by the ancient god Yunzhongjun, and it is not so easy to enter! Besides, Yunmeng Lake is extremely dangerous and no one knows where it is. Why do you want to go there!?"
"Of course it's for..." Lingxiang jumped off Xiaobai's back with a smile, took out a medicine book from her Qiankun bag, then took out a fragment of a prescription and handed it to Chi Yanzi.
Chi Yanzi took it and looked at it and was shocked: "Revitalizing Pill! How did you get this prescription?!"
"I discovered it by accident, too." Lingxiang said, taking the prescription from Chi Yanzi's hand, and then opened the cover of the book of pharmacology, only to see that there was a layer on the cover.
"One year, I dozed off while refining the elixir, and the book fell to the ground. When I picked it up, I discovered this interlayer."
Chi Yanzi then realized that the book cover was written by Fairy Tu Mi! He never thought that the book he had been looking for for a long time was actually taken to Yuanqing Sect by Fairy Tu Mi.
He still remembered that he had heard Fairy Tu Mi say that the information recorded in this medicine book was a mixture of good and bad. If it fell into the hands of the wrong people, it might bring disaster to the world. So after hearing the news of Fairy Tu Mi's death, he looked for this medicine book everywhere.
At the beginning, he had also asked at the Yuanqing Sect, but when Master Fuyin was collecting the relics of Fairy Tumi, he had never seen any medicine books.
Therefore, he always thought that his master had left it in a place where the two of them had stayed, but he could not find it anywhere. Even many of the places where he and Fairy Tu Mi had lived were turned upside down. So he always thought that someone had stolen this medicine book.
But now it seems that the master specially left it for Lingxiang.
This is fine. Although Lingxiang is very eccentric, she is kind. If this book were in her hands, she would definitely use it for the right purpose. However...
But this time, Tiandan...
"That's right. When Master went to Yunmengze, she did bring me with her, but she didn't let me go in with her. She only ordered me to wait for her by the lake. However, this Tiandan was not created by Master. It was a single recipe she got by chance."
Hearing this, Lingxiang looked very calm, as if she had known it for a long time, but Xiaobai was very surprised.
He had heard of the name of Fairy Tu Mi in the past, but had never seen her. He only knew that she was very skilled in the art of making elixirs and was an extremely powerful person, but he did not expect that she would actually obtain a single recipe from someone else.
"Of course," Lingxiang said calmly, "Although most of the pharmacology in this world is similar, and the art of Qihuang has a long history, this kind of heaven-defying alchemy is not common. I think it must have come from ancient times." Xiaobai was even more surprised when he heard this, and hurriedly asked Lingxiang, "Did you know this a long time ago?"
Lingxiang just smiled, but Chi Yanzi continued: "When the master got this prescription, it was recorded in ancient Xiangwen. She also spent a lot of effort to decipher it."
"No wonder the requirements are so rare. I have never heard of any elixir that requires the use of things from ancient evil gods."
"You mean..." Chi Yanzi frowned, "the things in it were obtained from Yunmengze?"
"Not only that, I suspect..." Lingxiang looked at the remaining prescription in her hand and said, "This single prescription also came from that place."
Yes, yes. After thinking it over, Chi Yanzi felt that what Lingxiang said made sense. Otherwise, with the Huitian Pill being so amazing, it would be hard to imagine where else it could have such an effect except in the Tushita Palace at the thirty-third level of the Lihen Heaven.
"But before Master Ruzhuohu Shuijing, he asked for the Penglai Jade Branch from Kunwu Sect..."
Before Chi Yanzi could finish his words, Lingxiang took out a dry branch from the bag on his waist and handed it to him. It was the same branch that had been inserted in the celadon in Master Fuyin's study all year round.
"This! The Jade Branch of Penglai!" Chi Yanzi exclaimed when he saw the branch. Isn't this the one that the fairy Tu Mi used back then?
However, although Chi Yanzi was extremely surprised, he recovered his composure after a moment: "Even if you have this Penglai Jade Branch, it is useless. It is said that although the Penglai Jade Branch is immortal, it will only bear leaves and bloom every hundred years. If you want to open the Swamp Lake Water Mirror, you must have a fresh Jade Branch."
Lingxiang seemed to be thinking about it for a long time before she said, "I have a way."
……
Zhenren Xuanhuai led Lingxiang and Zhenren Fuyin to a mountain. After twisting his fingers for a while, he saw that a piece of the mountain in front of him began to move, and a door opened from time to time.
The two followed Master Xuan Huai into the cave. The path in the cave was very narrow at first, but after several twists and turns, it suddenly became clear. There was a depression in it, and in the depression there was a deep pool filled with spiritual energy. There was an island on the top with a dead tree growing on it. The moonlight sprinkled down from the top of the cave, and the cave was surrounded by spiritual energy, which was very beautiful.
Lingxiang was greatly surprised. The last time she saw this kind of cave scene was in Xiaobai's cave. This place was similar in nature. The only difference was that the spiritual energy in this cave was steaming, and under the moonlight, there was a different kind of artistic conception.
Just as Lingxiang was secretly sighing at the beauty of this place, she heard Xuanhuai Zhenren say, "Girl, girl, as you can see, this is what the Kunwu sect has guarded for generations. When the King of the East came here, he ordered a blue bird to bring a branch of Penglai and plant it here to ensure the safety of the nine provinces. It's just that it's only been twenty years since it last sprouted. If I fold the paper and give it to you now, I will destroy this spiritual root. If this Penglai branch is damaged, the harm will be, I don't need to say more."
Upon hearing this, Master Fuyin secretly breathed a sigh of relief. He had not known about this saying before. Now that he knew it, he no longer had to worry about Lingxiang causing trouble.
Ling Xiang stared at the dead branch surrounded by spiritual energy for a long while, and then asked after a long time: "Could it be that the time when my mother came to discuss the matter of Yunmengze was when this spiritual root was blooming? How can it be such a coincidence?"
Upon hearing this, Master Fuyin quickly rebuked Lingxiang, saying that she should not embarrass Master Xuanhuai like this. But Master Xuanhuai just raised his hand and said it was okay.
"You don't know this. As long as the Penglai branch sprouts leaves and blooms, it will never wither. But if its branch is broken, all its spiritual power will go with the branch. Within a hundred years, although it is still alive, it will be withered."
Lingxiang rolled her eyes when she heard this: "Then I have worked in vain?"
"Ah~ That's not the case," Xuan Huai stroked his beard and smiled, "During this hundred years, the branch that was broken off can be used all the time, but it will wither after being used once. But if there is pure spiritual water, it can be made green again."
Pure spiritual water? Where can she get pure spiritual water...
Lingxiang was about to complain, but she saw Xuanhuai staring at the jade on her waist with a smile on his face. She suddenly realized what was going on, but she didn't say much. She just smiled and bowed:
"There is no other way. It seems that I really have no affinity with cultivation. Never mind. Let's just leave it like this..."
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Zhao Wuyang noticed the movement outside the house and hurried out to see what was going on. He saw Lingxiang and the other two entering the yard. When he saw Chi Yanzi, he was startled at first, then quickly bowed.
Lingxiang was very surprised. Although Chi Yanzi stayed in Yuanqing Sect for some time, these two people should not have met each other. Could it be that they knew each other before?
Seeing her expression like this, Zhao Wuyang hurriedly explained: "The benefactor of the City Lord's Mansion mentioned earlier is the Immortal Chi Yanzi. It was also he who suggested to my father that I go to Yuanqing to practice."
Lingxiang suddenly realized what was going on when she heard this. She had never expected Chi Yanzi to have such wide-ranging interests. Forget about the previous Cangzhou Governor's Mansion, she had never expected that he also had a close relationship with the Lord of Guyang City.
Seeing the meaningful look in Lingxiang's eyes, Chi Yan Zizhi smiled and hurried into the house. After all, Maidong needed to be treated as soon as possible.
Chi Yanzi was well versed in medical theory and had reached the third level of Golden Elixir. Although the method of expelling the miasma was laborious, he managed to save Ophiopogon japonicus.
However, Maidong has been corroded by the evil miasma for a long time. Now his body is extremely weak and his cultivation has been damaged. He cannot wake up for a while. But if he recuperates in this world, it is unknown when he will be able to recover.
After discussion, several people felt that it was inconvenient for her to stay any longer and that it would be best to send her back to Yuanqing Sect as soon as possible and hand her over to Master Fuyin for care.
But Lingxiang had a purpose for this trip. If she went back this time, based on the tempers of the elders in the sect, she didn't know when she would be able to come out again.
As Long Qi and his party were now ordered to go out for training, they could not return to the sect too early. After much deliberation, they decided that Zhenren Fuyin and Long Sheng would take Maidong back to Yuanqing Sect.
With Chi Yanzi around, I think Maidong should be able to get very good care of along the way, and it should also be easy to give an explanation to Master Fuyin.
However, based on her understanding of Chi Yanzi, she was afraid that he might encounter some trouble on the road and be delayed, so she asked Xiaobai to accompany him all the way, so that she could feel at ease.
As Ruyi planned, Lingxiang prepared enough pills for Maidong and gave him some instructions. Then they set off on their own journeys. Her destination was the same as Long Qi's, which was the former residence of the Nanhuai Long family.
(End of this chapter)
