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After visiting Zhou's shop, Du Heng owed a debt of 300 spirit stones. The first thing he did when he got on the ox cart was to take out the bottle of wine and hand it to Xuan Yu. He was afraid that such a valuable wine would turn over in the storage bag and he would not be able to pay for it.
Xuan Yu looked at Du Heng: "Are you angry?" Du Heng shook his head: "No." How could he dare to be angry? When he was on someone else's territory, of course Xuan Yu had the final say.
Xuan Yu still had that calm expression, but Du Heng felt that he was a little aggrieved: "This is wine brewed by demon cultivators. Drinking it is good for your health." Du Heng sighed: "It's just ordinary wine. If you like it, I can also brew it. More than 10,000 yuan a bottle, it doesn't look like much, but it is indeed a bit expensive."
Xuan Yu said, "You are only at the first level of Qi training. This wine can make your meridians stronger." Du Heng turned his head suddenly. It turned out that Xuan Yu didn't buy it for himself? Was it for him? Du Heng immediately felt sorry for Xuan Yu. Xuan Yu said, "It's freezing cold now. Although the spiritual energy in the village is still good, you can only absorb a limited amount. I hope this bottle of wine can help you."
Du Heng's old face turned red: "Really? Thank you..." After a pause, he said: "I will find a way to return these spirit stones to you." Although the things are good, they are all heavy spirit stones. Du Heng originally thought that he was in debt of three hundred, but now he is in debt of thirteen thousand and eighty. Ah... life is meaningless.
Xuan Yu looked at Du Heng deeply and said, "No need to pay it back." Du Heng waved his hands quickly, "No, no, brothers should settle accounts clearly. What should be paid must be paid back." Besides, this was the wine Xuan Yu bought for him. Du Heng felt that this bottle of wine would be the most expensive wine he had ever drunk. If he used this bottle of white wine to cook, would every dish sparkle with the luster of spiritual stones?
The ox cart was moving slowly on the street. Xuan Yu said, "Let's buy some bedding?" The practice of monks is against the will of heaven. Many monks practice day and night. Sleep is not important to them. Many people stay in seclusion for decades. If they work from sunrise to sunset like ordinary people, what kind of monks are they? Therefore, high-level monks do not sleep. When they are tired, they just sit down and rest.
Only cultivators with insufficient cultivation would not be able to bear the fatigue and weakness of the body and need sleep, such as Du Heng. According to Xuan Yu's observation during this period, this guy can lie down and fall asleep in minutes as long as he decides to sleep. Xuan Yu's cave is decorated in a very simple style. He was afraid that Du Heng would not be able to bear it and freeze to death, so he proposed the idea of buying bedding.
Du Heng readily agreed. He had fallen into a state of not worrying about too many lice and too much debt. It was just a matter of continuing to owe debts. He could do it.
The oxcart stopped in front of a clothing store. Xuan Yu got off the car and walked into the store with an umbrella. Du Heng wanted to follow him, but was stopped by Xuan Yu's words "Just wait in the car." Not long after, Xuan Yu walked out of the store with his umbrella, looking like a small green bamboo on the snow. The girls along the street stared at him.
Xuan Yu got into the car, and Du Heng asked, "Have you finished buying?" Xuan Yu nodded, "Yes." Du Heng asked again, "How many spirit stones?" Xuan Yu said slowly, "I know the owner of the shop. It's just a few beddings. No spirit stones are needed." He said it so sincerely that Du Heng almost believed it.
Du Heng had already labeled Xuan Yu a good person in his mind. He thought Xuan Yu must have said that because he was afraid that he would feel sorry for the spirit stone. Anyway, when he got to the village, he would have a chance to repay Xuan Yu.
After buying the shop, the ox cart headed south and soon left the town. Xuan Yu said, "Lingxi Town is close to the village. If we find that there is anything missing after returning, we can come back." Du Heng nodded repeatedly, "Okay."
After the oxcart left the town, all we could see were rolling hills with mirror-like lakes scattered between them. Because of the heavy snow, the world in front of us was in black and white, like a landscape painting that we could walk into.
There were not many demon cultivators walking on the road. When the ox cart was moving on the snow, the world seemed to have stopped. Under the sky in the south, there were several undulating mountains that looked higher than the surrounding mountains. Xuan Yu pointed at those mountains and said, "After passing those mountains, we will reach the village. Do you see the tree at the entrance of the village?"
Du Heng squinted his eyes and saw only the rolling hills: "No... I didn't see it." Xuan Yu said: "It's okay, you will see it when you get to the village entrance."
The mountains seemed to be getting closer, but the ox cart had been walking for nearly an hour. Du Heng saw a strange tree growing in the valley in front of him. The trunk of the tree was pitch black like black jade, but the leaves were shiny and slender. The surrounding trees had lost their leaves early, but this tree was still green, looking fake. The tree was very big, as thick as three people could hug it. It grew straight in the valley, not like other trees with knots and crooked necks.
Du Heng had never seen such a straight tree. It was not a tree, but a flagpole. The tree was so tall that Du Heng looked up and felt that it was taller than the mountains. He finally understood why he hadn't seen the tree before, because the top of the tree was hidden in the mist on the mountainside, and from a distance he could only see the dark trunk. How could someone who was not familiar with it tell it?
Du Heng was amazed again: "What kind of tree is this? It's so tall." Xuan Yu said: "Taoist tree." Du Heng: "Tomb robber?"
Xuan Yu said: "In ancient times, it is said that a great man cultivated the Dao tree, which could support mountains and rivers and carry thousands of small worlds. Here, the Dao tree is far less rare than in ancient times, but it is also very rare. This is the only Dao tree east of Dongji Mountain, so the name of the village is called a tree." Du Heng breathed a sigh of relief: "That's great, fortunately it's not called Daomu Village."
The Dao tree grew in the valley, and at its foot was not soil, but stone platforms of various sizes, with dozens of puddles of varying depths between them. Even at this time of year, the water in the puddles had not condensed, but was still gurgling.
When the ox cart passed by the path beside the road, Du Heng saw ripples caused by fish swimming in the puddle. Just as Du Heng wanted to take a closer look, he felt the surroundings warm up, and his eyes suddenly opened up, as if he had entered another world.
The world is divided into two worlds by Daomu. The world outside Daomu is covered with ice and snow, while in the valley inside Daomu, there are several hundred acres of land covered with a light green barrier. The barrier is full of green branches and leaves, and the vegetation is lush, giving it a sense of paradise.
In the shade of the grass and trees, Du Heng saw three houses scattered at the foot of the mountain outside the fields. One of them could be called a temporary palace. Du Heng had never seen such a gorgeous and dazzling temporary palace. This temporary palace was firmly located at the foot of the mountain in the north, and it was magnificent like a temple. The other two houses were much more low-key. One was on the west side of the temporary palace, with a bamboo forest behind it, which looked particularly elegant.
There was another house to the east of the palace. Compared with the other two houses, this house looked much more dilapidated. Du Heng saw at a glance that there was a big hole in the main house, and the side house was about to collapse, without even a yard.
Seeing these three houses of different styles together, Du Heng couldn't help but smile: "It seems that the people in the village are quite unique. By the way, are we in a barrier?" Xuan Yu said: "Yes, there is a medical practitioner in the village who likes to tinker with herbs. The barrier was set up by him. His herbs are planted in the fields here. If you like, you can also plant some spiritual plants you like in the future."
Du Heng looked at the fields. The original owner had come into contact with some spiritual plants in Medicine King Valley, and he could recognize some common spiritual plants. But here, he didn't recognize many spiritual plants. Looking around, it was more like a pile of weeds than a spiritual plant field. The spiritual plant fields in Medicine King Valley were planted neatly, but in the fields here, the weeds were taller than the spiritual plants.
Du Heng smiled: "This medical practitioner is quite casual. Is he simulating the natural growth environment of spiritual plants?" Xuan Yu pondered and said: "There are many kinds of spiritual plants here. You can take them at will if you need them." Du Heng didn't dare to take them casually. What if the medical practitioner was unreasonable? Wouldn't he offend others?
Du Heng smiled and said, "You told me before that there were only three families in the village. I thought it was quiet with few people. Now it seems too quiet." How could it look like a village? It was so deserted here. Apart from the three of them, there was not even a chicken to be seen.
Xuan Yu explained, "Uncle Xiaoxiao has gone out, and the doctor will probably be back in a while. Let's put the things down first and introduce you to each other later." Du Heng nodded repeatedly, his eyes fell on the small building hidden in the bamboo forest. Based on his observation of Xuan Yu, this small building is very consistent with Xuan Yu's temperament!
Xuan Yu saw Du Heng looking carefully, so he introduced: "The house in the middle is Uncle Xiaoxiao's house, the one to the west is the house of the medical practitioner Jingnan, and our house is to the east." Xuan Yu pointed to the dilapidated house, and Du Heng was dumbfounded, okay? He was so shocked that he couldn't speak, and could only watch the ox cart carrying him across the weed-covered road to the weed-covered yard.
Xiaoxiao got off the oxcart before Xuanyu. The chicken, so big, jumped into the bushes and disappeared headfirst, not even a feather could be seen. Xuanyu got off the cart later. He held out his hand to Du Heng and said, "I'm alone on weekdays and don't take care of it. Please don't laugh at me."
Du Heng was too embarrassed to say anything as he stood in the waist-high weeds. He looked at Xuan Yu, such a steady man, so handsome. He looked elegant and refined, but he didn't expect that the house would be in this style. It was really unexpected.
But Du Heng quickly comforted himself: "It's pretty good, there is a lot of room for improvement!" Du Heng looked at the big hole in the roof with a guilty conscience: "Look, at least we have a place to shelter from the wind and rain, right?" At worst, there are still four walls!
Xuan Yu smiled and said, "If you think the house is too simple, you and Xiaoxiao can stay at his house tonight. I will send someone to rebuild the house tomorrow. What do you think?" Du Heng waved his hands repeatedly, "No, no, this is good enough. Don't make it difficult or spend money." Xuan Yu has helped him a lot, and he is not the kind of person who doesn't know what is good for him.
At this time, there was a rustling sound of footsteps in the weeds behind them. Du Heng turned around and saw an elegant man in green clothes walking along the road they came from. The man had gentle eyes and a basket of herbs on his back. He stood behind the ox cart and smiled before he spoke: "Xiaoyu is back. Did you find Xiaoxiao? Oh, there are guests here?"
Du Heng greeted him generously: "Hello, I'm Du Heng. I'll be staying in the village for a while. Sorry to bother you." The man smiled: "Hello, hello, you're too polite. I'm Jing Nan, the doctor in the village. You can just call me by my real name."
Xuan Yu handed the green bamboo umbrella to Jing Nan: "Thank you." Jing Nan took the green bamboo umbrella with a smile: "I didn't expect our Xiaoyu to bring people to the village. It's really a rare thing."
Du Heng stared at the green bamboo umbrella, the green bamboo umbrella that gave Xuan Yu extra points and made him look handsome and suave...it turned out to be borrowed from someone else?
Boss, are you aware that your image has collapsed?
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