Chapter 19: Summer Solstice, Year 2

Chapter 19: Summer Solstice, Year 2

Chapter 19: The Second Summer Solstice

The ice and snow melted, the warblers flew, the grass grew, and the plum rain continued.

It seemed like just a blink of an eye, and time had already arrived at the summer solstice of the second year.

Yuzhang is located in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River. It is the plum rain season now. Continuous rain and incessant thunder are the long tunes during this period.

On the pine green lake.

The raindrops fell on the pine needles, making the pine forest even greener, as green as a pool of water. The raindrops hit the pine green lake, breaking the lake surface into a pool of sand.

In the misty rain.

A ball of fire shuttled through the rain. The fireball was delicate and translucent, like an exquisite hollow flame-patterned glass ball.

There was a person riding a cloud in the fireball, a young Taoist priest.

The Taoist priest maintained the water-proof shield, and at the same time, he put his right hand together, pointed at a certain place, and uttered a syllable,
"Yan!"

The violent storm above the lake seemed to have a direction all of a sudden, and the lake water surged into huge waves, all rushing towards the direction pointed by the Taoist priest.

"Ow~"

A green dragon soared in the rain. Seeing the wind, rain and huge waves coming, it let out a joyful cry and swung its body to rush forward against the wind.

The green dragon broke through the huge waves, and the rain and lake water washed the dragon's scales green. After breaking through the huge waves, the green dragon flew back to its original place, staring at the Taoist priest with a pair of huge green eyes. She seemed to like this game very much.

Yunqi smiled when he saw this, "Daoyou, let's stop with the [Yan] spell today, let's change to something else!"

After hearing this, Lu Chi immediately lost interest and whimpered, reluctantly agreeing.

The green dragon flicked its tail and swam quickly in the rain, turning into a ball of flying green shadows, like willow branches in a storm.

Yunqi stared at the green dragon and could barely see a little afterimage. He clasped his left thumb with his little finger, and the three middle fingers were straight with the tips facing the sky. His right hand was pointing like a sword, ready to strike.

Yunqi entered into the state of trance and meditation again. The whistling of wind and the gurgling of rain lost their sounds at this moment. The moment he caught the shape of the green dragon, his right hand pointed out like a sword, pointing directly at the green dragon.

"town!"

Yunqi chanted a spell.

As the spell sounded, three phantoms of high mountains suddenly appeared in the void where the green dragon was. The phantoms were only fleeting, and the green dragon's swimming posture also stopped for a moment. Then, as if nothing had happened, the green dragon began to swim freely again.

The cloud rested for about ten breaths, then repeated the process again.
"town!"

The shadows of the three mountains appeared again, and the green dragon's figure delayed for a moment again, but this process was too short, and the shadows of the mountains were covered by the rain curtain, making them almost imperceptible.

But Yunqi was very satisfied.

These three mountains were exactly what he had imagined when he saw the Jade Capital, Jade Hua and Jade Void Mountains. Now they were just rough sketches. If he could get a little of the true meaning of the three mountains one day, it would be extraordinary. If he had some free time in the future, he could travel around the Five Mountains, observe their shapes, understand their meanings, and then cast this spell, it would be a different scene.

Yunqi was happy, but Lu Chi didn't want to play with him anymore. The young fish dived into the lake, leaving only a pair of green eyes above the water.

She was very smart. They had agreed before that it would take three "yan" calls to change to "zhen" once. Today, the Taoist priest called out "yan" six times, so she only called out "zhen" twice, no more.

Moreover, when the Taoist priest chanted the word "Zhen", he felt as if he was being held down by someone. He felt really uncomfortable, and the time he was being held down was getting longer and longer.

The green eyes turned, and the green dragon stretched out its two front paws. Each paw had four toes. She did not move her left paw, but her right paw clasped three toes, leaving only one.

Yunqi laughed, he understood what this clever guy meant. He had to recite the [Drowning] spell four times in the future before she would be willing to practice the [Suppressing] spell with him once.

The clouds fell onto the lake surface and the "dragon chariot" came into contact with the lake water. The fire clouds boiled the lake water at the point of contact.

Yunqi sat down on the "dragon cart", with his upper body level with the green dragon's eyes. He took out two things from his arms. The things were not small, larger than an adult's palm. Yunqi had hidden them on his body just now and they were very uncomfortable.

These are two lake snails. It is said that the snail bodies came from Yunmengze. Later, they were refined by someone and became a magical tool of low grade but interesting. Yunqi exchanged talisman paper with Deng Wanchun from Shuise Street for them.

The two lake snails are one milky white and the other blue.

Yunqi first took the blue one. This conch was inlaid with many colorful agates and had a silver mouthpiece. It was very exquisite.

He put the conch in his mouth and blew it hard, and the conch made a melodious sound. He inflated his mouth and blew out a tune. The tune was gentle and clear, and it was exactly "The Fisher Girl".

The green dragon's eyes sparkled with desire, and her right claw, which had been stretched out yet not yet lowered, suddenly extended two more toes.

Yunqi was amused again and handed the conch to Lu Chi with a smile.

The green dragon poked its head out, and before Yunqi could see its movement, the colorful conch was swallowed into its mouth.

Yunqi tentatively reached out and touched the green dragon's head. The green dragon did not dodge. The green dragon's scales were very slippery and icy.

He picked up another milky white snail, which looked like mutton-fat jade and emitted a faint fluorescence.

Yunqi took the white conch and put it close to the green dragon's ear.

At first, Lu Chi didn't know what the Taoist was going to do, but soon, the light in her eyes clearly expressed Lu Chi's inner joy.

Yunqi was also smiling happily. The colorful conch just now was a playing conch, and this white conch was a phonograph conch. What Lu Chi heard now was the music he had secretly recorded when he played "Fisherwoman" with "Tianfeng Songxue" last time. In addition, there were also some other ancient Tang Dynasty music that he had played with his ordinary zither.

The green dragon immediately stretched out its right claw straight, revealing all four toes. Looking at how hard it was trying, it seemed as if it wished it could grow a fifth claw.

Yunqi touched Green Chi's head again and said with a smile: "I will come back to practice with you when I come back. I plan to leave the sect for some time, and the departure date will be in the next one or two days."

As soon as Yunqi finished speaking, Lu Chi was stunned and immediately became unhappy. The light in his green eyes dimmed and his head sank to the bottom of the water, just out of Yunqi's reach.

Yunqi didn't know whether to laugh or cry. "Fellow Daoist, I am different from you. I can feel that you just play and have fun all day long, and your mana is growing day by day, but I can't. In the past month or two, I can clearly feel that the growth of my mana has reached a bottleneck. I am more familiar with Fangtang Library than my own courtyard. The ancients said that reading ten thousand books is not as good as traveling ten thousand miles. I think I should leave the sect and travel."

The young Taoist priest rested his left elbow on his left knee, propped up his chin with a half-fist, and held the white conch in his right hand, letting it hang in the water, swaying with the undercurrent.

The sound of rain drowned out his words. Only the nearby Chilong could hear them:
“In fact, there are many reasons to leave the sect. I heard that a genius named Li Yingqiong appeared in Mount Emei in Western Shu recently. She is also traveling outside the sect now. She holds a flaming sword in her hand. Wherever she passes, demons bow down to her. She is not very old and is a young hero. Everyone says that she is the seed of a sword fairy.

"In fact, I also want to be a sword immortal. I have always wanted to be a sword immortal. If I can't become an immortal, being a swordsman should not be a problem. I am only sixteen this year. While I am still young, I can go out with my sword and make a name for myself. If I am over twenty years old, even if I am famous all over the world, people will say that Li Yingqiong was more powerful when he was a teenager. Don't you think so?"
“Besides, in recent years people have been saying that there is a swordsman in Shu, but I think this is biased.

"Also, Brother Ji Hu has been away from the sect for more than a year, why is there no news? Sister Ji Xuan couldn't sit still in the early spring, so she also left the sect to look for him. "Also, I have been away from home for more than a year, and it's time for me to go back and add new soil to my parents' graves and dust off the old house."

Yunqi was speaking in a low voice when he suddenly felt a chill on his hand. It turned out that the green dragon had swam up again and lifted up Yunqi's hand with its forehead.

Yunqi smiled softly and touched the green dragon with his hand, "You are too lazy. With your bloodline, how long will it take to refine the horizontal bone?"

The monsters in this world also have throat orifices. The throat orifice of humans is called the Twelve-story Tower, while the throat orifice of monsters is called the Transverse Bone. After a monster refines the Transverse Bone, the speed at which it absorbs the spiritual energy of heaven and earth will be faster. In addition, if a monster wants to speak like a human, it must refine the Transverse Bone.

Green Chi was unwilling to hear this. She bit the white snail in Yunqi's hand, turned around and dived into the depths of the lake, disappearing without a trace.

Yunqi laughed in silence and prepared to leave.

But at this moment, there was a sound of a dragon chirping from the bottom of the lake. Yunqi didn't know what was going on, so he waited for a while.

Not long after, something floated up from the bottom of the lake and stopped right at Yunqi's feet. It was a fan-shaped object.

Yunqi bent down to pick it up. The object was the size of a palm, very slippery, very icy, and very green. Isn't this a Chi scale?

"Could it be that Chilongs also shed their skin like snakes? Is this the scale that the green Chi shed?"

Yunqi squeezed it and found that it was very solid. Of course, how could the scales of a dragon not be solid? He guessed that this was something that Lu Chi had given him for self-defense after hearing that he was leaving the sect. So he folded his hands, bowed to the lake, and flew away on his cloud.

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Rumble!
The clouds returned to the house, but it was still raining heavily and thundering outside.

He took the bag on the table and put the Chi Lin in it. He had prepared this bag long ago and could leave the sect at any time.

In fact, the best thing to bring when traveling far away is the Taixu Cave Stone or the Taixu Talisman. The cave stone and the talisman form a self-contained area, which may be seven or eight feet square or two or three feet round. It can also be as luxurious as four or five acres. It is very convenient to put some things in it, and you will feel relaxed when traveling far away.

However, rare things are valuable. This thing is really rare. Taixu Cave Stone Mine is even rarer than Fangzhu Gold Mine. It is said that its source is from the previous several catastrophes and killing catastrophes, when various famous immortals and ancient gods fought each other and shattered the void. The fragments of the void fell to the ground and attached to the stone, thus forming the Taixu Cave Stone.

As for the Taixu Talisman, it can only be refined by great cultivators in the Golden Core Realm. It also requires considerable effort and materials, and is not easy to obtain.

The Ministry of Affairs in the sect did have Taixu Fubao for sale, but they were really expensive and Yunqi couldn't afford them. The gold awarded by the Ministry of Education last year had already been spent by Yunqi.

During this year, most of the bounty was spent on purchasing a cloud chariot and a visualization atlas. In addition, Yunqi was interested in everything, magic, swordsmanship, talismans, alchemy, and refining. Yunqi wanted to try everything. Reading books and studying were all fine, and Yunqi specifically picked those that were free to borrow. However, you can't understand talismans or elixirs just by reading books.

If one wants to learn talismans, talisman paper, talisman pen and talisman ink are indispensable. If one wants to learn alchemy, gold, stone, herbs and alchemy furnace are also indispensable. After all this, he had spent all his money.

Later, Yunqi made a living by drawing talismans for people and exchanging them for goods.

After all, pens, ink and paper are relatively cheap, but gold, stone and herbs are expensive. As for Yunqi's most coveted swordsmanship, he has never been able to buy a magic sword because of his short money. Instead, Yunqi used a stick to practice all the popular sword moves in the book.

This is another reason why Yunqi wants to leave the sect. The older ones all say that going out to slay demons and eliminate evil is the fastest way to make money!

The clouds have long been fascinated.

However, there is one more thing, why hasn't Brother Bingkun set up a mansion yet?
Previously, He Bingkun had always told Yunqi that he would be able to build a palace by this summer at the latest. Now that day was approaching, he wanted to wait until He Bingkun built the palace before leaving. At most, he would have to wait for two more days, and then he would definitely leave.

Rumble!
Another rolling thunder.

Why is it so bright and loud?
Huh? wrong!

The clouds jumped up, opened the door and took a look, and was immediately shocked. A big hole was blasted in the house of He Bingkun opposite by the thunder. The heavy rain aimed at the big hole and rushed in with a roar. Now it was flowing out through the crack in the door.

Yunqi was horrified when he thought that He Bingkun was still in seclusion, and he rushed into He Bingkun's room in one step.

"I did it! I did it!"

A voice louder than thunder came from the shabby house.

Yunqi looked up and saw He Bingkun sitting there unharmed, with electric light flashing all over his body.

"Thunder is the order of rain, water is driven by thunder, when the thunder arrives, the water palace opens. Today, He Bingkun opens the water palace!"

He Bingkun laughed out loud towards the sky.

Yunqi also laughed when he saw this. It turned out that this thunder was specially summoned by this person.

Only when he relaxed did he realize that he had been so anxious that he had not used the water-avoiding technique and had already been soaked like a drowned chicken. He Bingkun was completely focused on Pi's mansion and naturally did not care about water-avoiding technique and was also soaked.

He Bingkun pointed at Yunqi, and the rain on Yunqi immediately fell off. Then, the rain on He Bingkun himself and the water in the house all came to his fingertips, gathered into a ball, and were thrown out of the house by him.

Upon seeing this, Yunqi ejected a "sealing talisman" and sealed the hole in the roof, stopping the rain.

He Bingkun absorbed all the rainwater in the room, and for a moment the air felt a little dry.

He walked up to He Bingkun, bowed with a smile, and said, "Congratulations, Brother Dao, Congratulations, Brother Dao!"

He Bingkun hugged Yunqi and laughed loudly towards the sky. His laughter was like thunder exploding in Yunqi's ears. As he laughed, Yunqi felt something was wrong. Why did it sound like howling?

He looked up and saw that she was really crying!

"Eight years, eight years! Yunqi, it took me, He Bingkun, eight years to build a mansion! Do you know that among the group of people who entered the mountain, I was the first one to open a mansion. I opened the Lei Mansion three months after eating the Qi. I am also the one who won the reward from the Capital Education Institute. Do you believe it?"

Yunqi looked at He Bingkun with tears streaming down his face and nodded repeatedly, "I believe you, I believe you!"

He Bingkun was still unable to extricate himself, and he howled and told how he had practiced hard on his nasal passages, how he had skillfully opened the Fengzhai, and how he had opened up the Twelve Floors of the Tower. He even practiced in his sleep. He was a man who slept soundly, but he ended up snoring like thunder and the roar of wind.

"it's good now!"

After his tears soaked Yunqi's arms and He Bingkun secretly wiped them dry with the water control technique, the man became full of energy again. "I have already mastered the three symbols of wind, cloud and thunder. Now I have opened up the water palace and completed the rain symbol. The four symbols of heaven's will are complete. The other three houses are above and the water palace is below. The sky and the earth are connected. When the time comes, water will stimulate the growth of wood, and the wood will receive the thunder and then start fire. The scorched wood will fall into the water and rot into mud, thus giving birth to real gold. The road ahead is broad!"

Yunqi covered He Bingkun's mouth with his hand, "My dear brother, can you really shout out your own path like this!?"

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