Chapter 1272 I don't know what I'm after.
Song Chunxue took the talisman home and studied it carefully, but she didn't know what it was for.
But if she doesn't figure it out, she will be restless for a long time to come.
So she caught a gray mouse and stuck the talisman on it.
Surprisingly, the talisman disappeared as soon as it touched the mouse.
Perhaps the talisman was too powerful, for the mouse ran only a few laps before it died, its legs in the air.
Deng Kui picked up the mouse and examined it carefully, but found nothing unusual.
"Who is so despicable as to have someone paste a talisman that can kill? What kind of grudge do you have? When did you offend such a heartless person?"
Song Chunxue was completely baffled. "Perhaps it has some other purpose, specifically for cultivators. It's reasonable that a rat, which is so small, can't withstand it."
“We should be more careful in the future and try to go out less, especially you. I would feel bad if you were implicated.”
Deng Kui placed the oil lamp on the table. "It's alright, everything is predestined."
That's true. If there's nothing you can do to change it, you can only leave it to fate.
You can't blame yourself for being incompetent.
Be kinder to yourself.
So, Song Chunxue drank the tea and sat cross-legged in meditation.
"Go and rest, I need to cultivate."
Deng Kui opened her eyes wide, "You've already started fasting, why aren't you sleeping? Can you handle it?"
"Try it for a few days first. If it doesn't work, eat less. I feel okay, not tired." Song Chunxue closed her eyes, a faint smile on her lips. "I don't know why, but I feel much more at peace. It seems that fasting has its benefits. The smell of sweat on my body has decreased, and I have a tea-like smell."
Deng Kui moved her lips slightly; she had only drunk tea, so it must have only tasted like tea.
She had tried fasting before, but the experience was different. Apart from being mentally clear, she had no strength in her body. It was like the feeling of someone about to die, whose words become kind and whose temper becomes incredibly good, and who becomes exceptionally easy to talk to.
On those few occasions, she was almost scammed so badly that she didn't even have food to eat.
Specialized fasting has become an unavoidable practice.
"Then I'll meditate for an hour before I sleep." Deng Kui closed Song Chunxue's door and went back to his room to meditate.
Perhaps it's because there are few people in this remote mountain valley that the night feels especially peaceful.
Deng Kui successfully meditated for an hour this time, and then slept until dawn.
That night, Song Chunxue fell asleep and had a dream.
In my dream, meteorites fell from the sky, wildfires raged everywhere, and people ran frantically on the mountaintops to catch up with flying boats floating in the air.
The next moment, she found herself riding in a flying boat, floating on an endless sea. There were many boats on the water. They stopped, and the flying boat transformed into a boat with many people on board. The boatman threw out a rope and pulled the flying boat down as it was about to land...
After that, she dreamed that her senior brother was teaching her to read. She wrote and drew on paper, and the handwriting was clear, but when she woke up, she couldn't remember what she wrote. She only vaguely remembered that the characters looked very smooth and mysterious.
At Chen Shi (7-9 AM), just as dawn was breaking, she opened her eyes and found herself still sitting cross-legged, with her hands resting on her knees.
I felt refreshed and clear-headed, and my mood was as calm as when I was a child, just waking up from the kang (a heated brick bed).
I felt no discomfort at all, and even after getting up, I felt light and airy, as light as a swallow.
She immediately became interested, leaped onto the wall with a light touch of her toes, and then used her spiritual power to make herself invisible, darting through the air between the two mountains like a swallow.
Whew~
This feels so good.
Wuyou followed along, lazily commenting, "You're too slow."
"Yes, I'm not as fast as you. You're like lightning. I'm just an old mortal."
Wuyou circled and hovered in the air, saying, "It's okay, take your time. One day you'll be able to keep up with my speed, and then we can go see the outer world."
"Outer heavens?" Song Chunxue suddenly stopped, hovering hundreds of meters in the air. The sun on the horizon shone on her, but she felt no warmth. The wind blew her hair wildly like ice grass.
"What, you're ignorant of the outside world?"
"What's beyond the heavens?" Song Chunxue asked a question she had never asked before. "After cultivating to the Great Dao, can I go to the moon to see it? Are there really Chang'e and the Jade Rabbit there? Can my master go there?"
"..." Wuyou remained silent and continued to dart around in the air.
Looking down at the tiny Li Family Village, Song Chunxue could vaguely see someone getting up and heading to the donkey pen to add hay to the donkeys.
Are there no other people on the moon? Do they raise donkeys?
No, immortals don't raise donkeys, they raise horses... or rather, dragons?
Song Chunxue couldn't help but look up at the moon that hadn't yet set in the west, and suddenly felt a strong desire to know about the unknown.
She thought of Xie Zheng's courtyard in the capital, the Taoist temple on the top of Wuquan Mountain, her room, and the fort in that small town...
My senior brother, my master, my three disciples, and my eldest senior brother and Master Han, who are thousands of miles away...
If only she could be like her master, appearing wherever she wanted to go whenever her thoughts arose.
"That's right."
The next moment, the Moon-Accompanying Immortal appeared before her, his moon-white robes fluttering in the wind, his black hair flowing like a waterfall and lifted by the wind, making him look like a god.
"Master?"
Song Chunxue was very surprised, "Master, you heard my thoughts just now?"
"Your primordial spirit flashed before my eyes. Let me take a look at you..." The Moon-Accompanying Immortal looked at her and smiled. "Not bad. You have abstained from grains. Without the interference of grains, you can absorb more of the energy of heaven and earth, which is very beneficial for cultivation."
"My primordial spirit?"
“That’s right, primordial spirit. Now, when you close your eyes, your primordial spirit can travel thousands of miles in an instant. As long as you can think of a place, your primordial spirit can reach it. But doing so is very dangerous. In the days to come, keep your primordial spirit focused and guard it internally. Do not let your primordial spirit leak out,” the Moon-Companion Immortal calculated with his fingers. “You have already been targeted by other eyes. If you are caught, I will lose a disciple.”
Song Chunxue quickly cupped her hands in thanks, "Thank you, Master, for saving me."
"Alright, I'm going to have some tea. Remember, keep your mind focused inward." The next moment, his figure disappeared.
So, what appeared just now was Master's primordial spirit?
Song Chunxue was astonished. She never expected that her mind could move her primordial spirit to the places that appeared in her mind.
She stopped daydreaming and took out a handful of chess pieces, scattering them in the air.
Yesterday she discovered that manipulating the chess pieces allowed her to focus her mind and achieve twice the results with half the effort.
"clatter!"
"clatter!"
"Da~"
After feeding the donkey in the morning, Li Dazui yawned and broke off a few apricot branches to go back to the house to start a fire and have some tea. He planned to go up the mountain to gather grain after waking up, but then he heard a strange noise coming from the sky above.
It was quite a commotion, but there was nothing in the sky except for the occasional pigeon flying by.
"Thump."
"Bang."
It's happening again. The sound is right in the air. There's no thunder these days, so it's like muffled thunder, a deep, low sound that feels very close.
He stopped abruptly, straining his ears to discern the location; it was above the Jiang family's courtyard...
Yes, no wonder!
Li Dazui muttered, "That woman must be up to something again. She's really intimidating. She gets up earlier than the chickens, goes to bed later than the dogs, and is more diligent than a dung beetle. I don't know what she's after."
PS: I was planning to update more, but I only found out this morning that there was a power outage all day, so I didn't get around to updating until 10 am.
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