On the right is a jujube tree, lush and green, with a swing on it, and next to it is the woodshed.
Behind the courtyard, through the second gate, is the inner courtyard.
On the left and right are terraced houses, equipped with kitchens, bedrooms, utility rooms... everything you need.
The most important thing is that there is a northern room at the innermost part, which was renovated by the previous owner of the house.
Lush green bamboos hang down, and there is a somewhat dilapidated rockery, which perfectly blocks the view and other movements.
It is very suitable for Li Qinglin to practice martial arts here.
Looking at this yard, Li Xian and the other two were stunned. They stood outside the second gate with dazed looks, unable to believe that this was their new home.
"Brother Lin, this house has two entrances? Isn't it too expensive?"
Li Xian didn't dare to go closer to take a closer look, for fear that her shoes would dirty the ground.
"Mom! My eldest brother is busy all the time, please don't let him down!"
Li Qingjing took a few deep breaths, calmed himself down, and walked towards the courtyard with Li Xianshi and Li Qingqing.
Li Qingqing cried out in surprise from time to time; Li Qingjing said that he would write a few red couplets and post them on the pillars; although Li Xianshi was hunched, her face was as radiant as that of a new year, and every wrinkle on her face seemed to be filled with happiness.
Looking at them, Li Qinglin stood silently for a long time, and a certain knot in his heart finally slowly dissipated.
"Times are tough, but I...have kept my promise."
…
Zhuoguang Mountain
The Golden Crow falls to the ground, and the Jade Rabbit climbs the rocks.
Time passed and the Jade Yuan Toad slept deeply in the tree hole for several days.
Occasionally, fragments like dreams appear in my mind.
Deep in a mountain shrouded in fairy mist, there is a thousand-year-old toad, which looks like an enlarged version of the Jade Yuan Toad, but its color is closer to gold.
A thousand-year-old toad, with grass growing on its back, causes mountains to collapse and the earth to crack when it jumps. A cloud chariot comes to greet it, and it ascends to heaven in broad daylight.
But in a flash, thunder rumbled, dark clouds covered the ground, and with a shrill frog croak, the thousand-year-old toad went through numerous thunder disasters, but ultimately could not change its fate as a demon, and turned into charcoal and fell into the mountains.
The body was dismembered, the Taoism dissipated, but tiny Yuan Chan crawled out of the body. The Yuan Chan had different appearances, some were jade-colored, some were dark red... and they rushed to all directions.
This is the inheritance deep in the Jade Yuan Toad's bloodline. The thousand-year-old toad is the ancestor of the Jade Yuan Toad.
However, this dream turned into a nightmare later on.
There was a white dragon that was a hundred feet long. It seemed to appear out of nowhere, and it started to frantically chase and kill the Yuan Chan all over the mountain.
Eaten raw, skinned and deveined, boiled in a clay pot, roasted on hot stones...
The Jade Toad in the dream was so scared that it ran everywhere for its life.
In the tree hole, the sleeping Yuan Chan's hind legs twitched and bounced slightly, flattening the ground.
Outside the tree hole, in the forest, the morning and evening fog rises and falls like the tide twice a day.
The rocks are jagged and towering into the clouds, and the mountain walls are covered with lush greenery.
But since some time ago, the sound of water could be heard from the foot of the mountain.
Lines of black tides rushed forward, then turned into a plane and rose slowly.
All the beasts became alert and retreated one after another as they saw the waves gradually rising at the foot of Zhuoguang Mountain.
Standing high and looking far away, you can see in the distance, a hundred miles away, the red wave sea in the disaster zone seems to be slowly moving away.
The tides rise and fall, the red waves crash, and a tsunami rolls in.
As the Red Wave Sea receded, it also left behind large areas of tides and seabed creatures, carving out its own piece of sea and falling into reality.
When Mother Earth walks, she will also drop the children hanging on her body, land on the ground and leave, with strong roots growing from the soles of her feet, nourishing everything she passes.
Heavy raindrops fell, bringing with them the fishy wind from the sea. Dark clouds swirled like a whirlpool, and the sky seemed to be torn apart.
Tens of millions of tons of water rushed into the wilderness. After an unknown amount of time, Zhuoguang Mountain became an island on the sea.
There is a shallow beach below the rock wall, and outside the shallow beach is a vast ocean.
Nothing is more extraordinary than this.
Perhaps awakened by the noisy raindrops, the Jade Yuanchan finally woke up from his dream.
As a cold-blooded animal, it felt its body was a little stiff, like an old and dilapidated puppet machine, and its joints made squeaking sounds when they collided.
Jade Yuanchan felt that he seemed to have some indigestion.
The body of the silver python, including most of the flesh and blood including the snake treasure, fell into its stomach.
The snake meat would have been fine, but the snake treasure was hard and difficult to digest, making its stomach bloated and uncomfortable.
Moreover, a strange aura permeated from the snake treasure.
violent,
Bloodthirsty,
overbearing……
Jade Yuanchan guessed that this might be some kind of source of power belonging to the monster.
It's a pity that the Jade Yuan Toad, without any magic power, couldn't feel the veins at all and didn't know how to speed up digestion.
“Cough cough cough…”
The Jade Yuan Toad's throat was a little itchy, and it was always breathing heavily. It was not because it was about to refine its horizontal bone and speak human language, but that the Jade Yuan Toad always felt that its throat was "empty".
It seems like it can swallow the entire mountain, the world, in one breath.
Of course, this was just an illusion. Occasionally, when it was gasping for breath, the violent hurricane would blow up sand and gravel into its mouth, making its stomach heavy. It really started to eat dirt.
This feeling also appeared after eating the silver-striped python.
It's clearly indigestion, but there's also a sense of emptiness.
These incongruous and weird feelings made the Jade Yuanchan feel a little uncomfortable.
"Oh no, is it food poisoning? This is not good..."
It’s a pity that there is no information about immortal cultivators in various ancient books and classics in the city.
But regarding the demon cultivators, there is nothing else except the records of when they were old, which immortal killed the demon with a sword, and which treasures were refined using the elixir from the demon beast's bones.
also……
The Jade Yuanchan opened its mouth and poked a row of teeth in its mouth with its forelimbs.
I finally grew teeth! Those sharp teeth, like a file, flashed with cold light on the edge, tightly fitting, even a ten-forged treasure can be bitten off with one bite! "I can finally eat without the death roll and tearing... The day of eating meat with big mouthfuls has finally come."
Jade Yuanchan nodded silently, feeling slightly happy.
It pushed aside the weeds in the tree hole, walked out slowly, and heard the sound of waves crashing against the shore.
The Jade Yuanchan was a little surprised, and crawled quickly again.
After exiting the tree hole, there is a cliff.
Jade Yuanchan stood on the edge of the cliff, gazing into the distance. There were endless clouds under his feet and no end in sight when he looked up.
There was a whistling sound of wind on all sides, bringing with it the sound of the river water hitting the rocks on the shore.
Jade Yuanchan stared blankly at the ground below his feet. Under the sea of clouds, there was a vast river covered with a lot of mud and sand.
The whole toad was stunned.
Huh? I just took a nap, how come my home is gone?!
…
Jade Yuanchan carried a cloth bag and a backpack, identified the direction, and went towards the depths of Zhuoguang Mountain.
There wasn't much in the bag, just a few old herbs for teeth grinding and the gallbladder of a silver-striped python.
It wants to go to the tiger to ask for the way.
Among the monsters in Zhuoguang Mountain, Shanjun is the most advanced one. He seems to have mastered the skills of demon cultivation and is a person with a legacy.
Nowadays, various wild animals appear more frequently in Zhuoguang Mountain, seemingly because its area has been squeezed.
But the new river also brought a lot of food and opportunities.
Many wild animals gradually adapted and began to forage for food in the shallows or use the rivers as a place to hide from their natural enemies.
Jade Yuanchan saw a hunting falcon pick up a turtle the size of a wash basin from the shallows, fly high into the sky, hook its claws deep into the turtle's flesh along its skirt, and then drop it...
It landed in front of the Jade Yuan Chan.
The Jade Yuanchan looked coldly at the falcon circling in the air, which was hesitant to approach it, and walked past the turtle corpse.
This turtle is just an ordinary turtle, with little and rough meat, and Jade Yuanchan doesn't want to waste his time on it.
Who would have thought that after walking a few steps, two slightly evil-looking rat snakes suddenly jumped out from the grass by the roadside.
Dewdrops were startled and fell, shooting towards the jade toad.
"Hmm? Could it be the offspring of that silver-striped python? Coming here to seek revenge?"
The Jade Yuan Toad knocked the rat snake unconscious with its feet and bit the snake's body with its sharp teeth. With a crisp crunching sound, the two spicy strips were immediately eaten.
Afterwards, the Jade Yuan Chan spent some time searching in the mountains and found several evil snake spirits. Regardless of whether they were related to the Silver-striped Python or not, they were all killed.
"belch……"
The Jade Yuanchan burped and set off again.
An hour later,
A valley gradually appeared.
The sun shone through the clouds and mist onto the mountains. Jade Yuanchan looked out into the distance and saw a huge tiger dozing off on a huge rock.
"Um?"
Notice the gaze.
The tiger, who was still dozing off, suddenly woke up with a start. A divine light flashed across his tiger eyes and his beard flicked like a whip, making a swish sound.
"Is it... that Yuanchan?!"
The tiger was somewhat surprised to see the Jade Toad standing on a path outside the valley where wild flowers were blooming.
After just a few days of not seeing it, the Jade Yuan Toad had grown in size, and it wasn't even much smaller.
The aura became stronger, and also somewhat...
heterogeneous.
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Seeing this, the tiger's eyes flashed with regret and sorrow, "Why don't you go and greet the distinguished guest?"
Two white apes swung down from the tree, splashing a light dust, and walked upright, their long upper arms swaying in the air as if they had no bones, crossing the stream and coming in front of the Jade Yuan Toad.
The Jade Yuanchan followed the white ape into the valley, along the gravel beside the stream, and came to a place several dozen feet away from the mountain king.
Jade Yuanchan pulled out the cloth bag, took out the silver python's gallbladder, and placed it in front of the tiger.
Then he croaked, pointed at his bloated, indigested belly, and then pointed at the tiger.
Then lie down on the ground obediently.
The tiger's eyes showed understanding, and he jumped down from the huge rock, his thick hair trembling, but he sighed, "Fellow Daoist Yuanchan is reckless! How can you rashly swallow the immortal base of other demons? Not only will it cause your own blood to be spotted, but it will also affect your mind, making you bloodthirsty, irritable, and crazy!"
The tiger looked at the Jade Yuanchan with a gloomy gaze.
"Fellow Daoist Yuan Chan, do you feel like you can't control your mind now? If you see a wolf cub on the side of the road, you want to kick it?"
Ah? Bloodthirsty, irritable, violent, and crazy?
Can't control your mind?
Jade Yuanchan was a little confused.
I just had a nightmare and woke myself up. Does it count if I’m in a bad mood when I woke up?
The Jade Yuan Toad had a single expression on its face and was speechless, so the tiger naturally had no idea of what it was thinking.
The voice of the mountain king came slowly, "As far as I know, there are three ways for the demons in the world to cultivate immortality.
First, abstain from killing and always keep it in mind, accompany the green mountains and rivers, seek the way of nature, and draw the energy of the moon and the sun! Although this method is far away from disputes and is the easiest to achieve enlightenment, it takes the longest time and requires opportunity and enlightenment. It cannot be done by people of immortality. Short-lived people like you and me naturally cannot practice.
Second, practice the Demonic Scripture. Human cultivators created the immortal cultivation method by observing the changes of the stars and following the laws of nature. Naturally, there are also demon predecessors who created the Demonic Scripture for us to practice.
However, demon scriptures are divided into different categories according to race, temperament, talent, and compatibility, so not all demon scriptures can be practiced.
However, human cultivators also pay attention to spiritual roots and qualifications. In this regard, they are actually more picky than demons like us.
The third is to observe the method of refining ancestor blood. It is just like what you, Daoist Yuanchan, are doing now. You do not observe the precepts, do not practice the law, and feed on other monsters. Toad swallows thousands of miles of air and absorbs rivers and seas, breaking through realms very quickly and advancing bravely.
By visualizing the mark of the demon ancestor in his blood, he regarded all spiritual things as the nourishment for growth, and dissolved all demonic power, Tao foundation, and inner elixir...
It is the most primitive method of blood return! Breaking the limits of the body again and again, the strength and blood are strong, and then the supernatural power is born! However, this method has great disadvantages. If you swallow other monsters, your blood will naturally be affected. In the end, you will even completely lose your intelligence and become a terrifying bloodthirsty monster, acting according to instinct.
Moreover, your follower is a Jade Yuanchan. Even if you break through the limit again and again and return to your ancestral bloodline, your end result will only be a great demon in the Golden Core Stage."
The tiger's voice was full of regret.
“Of course, there are also some Taoist brothers who cannot bear the hardship of practicing in seclusion and want to take shortcuts, so they become mounts for human cultivators or guardian beasts, exchanging their freedom for elixirs and the opportunity to listen to scriptures and gain enlightenment.
Regardless of which method you use, as long as you start to seek immortality, you will definitely encounter disasters during your practice."
Jade Yuanchan engraved every word of the tiger's words deeply into his mind.
Disaster?
When the Jade Cloud Toad heard this word, for some reason, it instinctively felt a primitive sense of fear.
When the beast faced thunder and wildfire, it gave a warning that one should avoid danger and seek good fortune, and was passed down from generation to generation.
It's a mark engraved in our bones.
Unfortunately, the Jade Yuan Toad croaked a few times, telling the tiger to tell it in detail about the disaster, but the tiger did not understand.
In other words, even if they understand something, they are reluctant to discuss it in depth because there is some kind of taboo.
In addition, Shanjun also roughly introduced the realm division of demon cultivators.
The strength of the little demons who have just begun to awaken to intelligence varies greatly due to their backgrounds, talents, and bodies. The weak ones are not even as strong as a woodcutter with an axe, while the strong ones cannot even defeat the masters of spiritual cultivation and some qigong practitioners.
Some dragon-like and phoenix-like beasts, or demonic beasts with the blood of divine beasts, stand at the finish line as soon as they are born, and their strength is not inferior to that of immortal cultivators.
But no matter what their background is, this little demon has strength but no realm.
It can't be considered as cultivating immortality.
Only when the demon beast pushes open the gate of heaven and develops demonic power can it be considered that it has officially begun to cultivate into a demon immortal, and its realm is comparable to that of Qi training.
Pushing the Tianmen twice is equivalent to building the foundation.
Pushing the Heaven Gate three times is equivalent to the Golden Elixir.
…
After getting the answer it wanted, the Jade Yuanchan raised its body in a humane manner, with its thick and ferocious forelimbs placed on its chest to show its gratitude.
A gust of evil wind brought the silver-striped python's gallbladder.
The voice of the mountain king came,
"It is difficult for us demons to go from being ignorant to being wise and practicing. Daoist friend, you can keep this snake gallbladder for yourself. But if you really want to take the third path, the method of observing the blood refining of ancestors, please listen to my advice."
The Jade Yuan Toad silently retracted the snake gallbladder and raised its head to look at the tiger.
“Don’t eat people.”
Upon hearing this, Jade Yuanchan was stunned for a moment, with a hint of surprise in his eyes.
Could it be that in this world, humans are favored by the Way of Heaven? The realm and character of the monsters that eat humans will be cursed, and every step will be difficult, and there will be a killing disaster? The Jade Yuanchan lay there motionless, motioning the tiger to continue.
The tiger seemed to be a little sleepy, so he walked back to the rock and crawled down. A faint voice came from him,
"The main reason is that in this long immortal path, human cultivators are stronger and have a master who can help them get along well with others. If you eat too many people, you will inevitably be targeted by cultivators and killed by demons..."
Uh, that seems to make sense.
Jade Yuanchan agreed.
…
Leave the valley where the tigers live.
It was already noon, and the tall trees blocked out the sun, with sunlight filtering through the gaps between the branches and leaves.
The Jade Yuan Chan crawled along the desolate mountain path. Wherever it went, all the beasts were frightened and hid themselves.
Jade Yuanchan had been pondering the words of the mountain lord just now.
Observe the ancestor’s blood refining method.
"I guess the thousand-year-old toad I saw in my dreams these days is my demon ancestor from who knows how many generations ago?
It seems that he died from a natural disaster.
That white dragon that suddenly appeared from behind, is it the result of my blood becoming mixed after I swallowed the silver-striped python? "
The Jade Yuanchan was thinking silently.
But for other monsters, if they follow the path of Guanzu's blood refining method, they will lose their minds sooner or later and become a violent puppet that only knows how to kill and has no regard for the times.
But for the original body that possesses the power of transformation, it seems that there is no such effect? This Yuanchan clone had all its intelligence wiped out.
The Jade Yuan Toad did not feel any discomfort in its body.
Therefore, the most suitable way for the Jade Yuanchan clone is...
Eat eat eat eat!
For monsters, cultivating immortals does not require so many rules, restrictions, and limitations.
What about abstaining from killing, practicing the magic sutra, hugging the thighs of humans, I will eat it! Hundred-year-old dragons and snakes? Year-old mandrills? Giant turtles in the water?
Eat them all!
Jade Yuanchan suddenly discovered his true path to immortality, the foundation of demon immortality! If you have indigestion, it means that your digestive ability is not good.
Keep eating, keep strengthening!
After figuring out the key point here, it was like finding a key to becoming an immortal. The Jade Yuanchan wanted to let out a long roar to the sky.
A faint evil aura rose from under his feet, and the weeds around him withered and died. The Jade Yuanchan fell into the evil aura, leaving only his pair of bright eyes that were glowing with a faint light. He rushed all the way towards the new river area.
Nituojiang
It will make its home there and find a cave to live in.
As it has a talent for controlling water, it is natural that its home venue should be a water area.
In addition, it is to hunt other monsters! Transformation!
evolution!
Survival of the fittest, there is naturally no mercy.
Let’s change the update time to 7:30 in the morning, so that you don’t have to stay up late to read. I’ve suffered for you all…
(End of this chapter)