Chapter 231: The Crow Delivers the Letter

Chapter 231: The Crow Delivers the Letter

Chapter 231: The Crow Delivers the Letter
At this point, the two were silent for a moment, and Lou He spoke up: "Then I have something to tell you."

"I've been with it these days, and I've gradually figured out some things. For example, normally it doesn't know what we're thinking. Even if it's possessed, it won't know unless we try very hard to let it know what we're thinking. This is similar to many possessed things. In fact, the things you worry about are not that easy for them to deal with."

Lou He said slowly: "When I first met you, you seemed to not understand many things. I think you had not been exposed to these things in the Peach Blossom Spring. It's not surprising. When your ancestors lived in seclusion, there were not so many spirits and monsters in the world. It is normal that you don't understand them very well."

"Brother Lou, the Peach Blossom Spring I'm talking about—"

Lou He smiled and said, "No need to explain. I know that your Peach Blossom Spring is not as simple as hiding in some mountains, rivers or lakes. After all, the Ninth Young Master in Lingshan has heard of it. This matter must be important to you, so you can talk about it when you want to."

"Another point is about that thing. Actually, let me tell you a way to get along with it. If you want to please it, being respectful is the best way. Seeing your sincere respect will make it very happy. But if you can't be respectful, there is still another way, which is to think about it and beg it."

"Beg it?" Li Wuxiang frowned. "I begged it before, but it seemed like it didn't want to pay attention to me."

Lou He laughed, "You can't wait until you need it to ask it. I understand that you are worried about external evil. The more you communicate with it, the easier it is to be possessed by the evil. But since we both want it... right, then there is nothing to be taboo about. I just asked it to help me become a discipline deacon of Zhongyue Altar because of this. I will agree to do whatever it wants me to do. Later on, I may not have to take responsibility for it."

Li Wuxiang was stunned for a moment, then he let out a sigh: "Brother Lou, you are so brave."

"Hahaha. Back to what I said before, when I say pray, I mean pray often. You can't pray when you don't have to, but it's best to pray whenever you want. Sounds weird, right? I also found it weird after I discovered this - it's as if it's afraid of being forgotten. This is very weird. If it's really Taiyi, there are still many people worshipping it, so it wouldn't be afraid of this. If there weren't many people worshipping it and remembering it, then it wouldn't be so strong."

"Anyway, you should try this method. At least during these days on the Great Tribulation Mountain, you should try to pray to it again. It has possessed you before, so if you pray to it, it will definitely hear you."

When Li Wuxiang first encountered the external evil, he experienced paleness, emptiness, grandeur, and greed. At that time, he thought that this greed was the external evil's desire to possess or something else. However, after listening to Lou He's words, could that greed be the desire for "prayer"?
He nodded solemnly: "Okay. I'll give it a try."

Lou He also nodded and let out a sigh: "If we succeed this time... from the tone of the Ninth Young Master, although he can't kill it, he can figure out its true strength. By then, your affairs in the sect may be settled."

"Actually, I'm the same as you. I may not want to stay in the sect, but in my heart, the Sword Sect is still my master's sect. The Taiyi True Spirit in Sect Leader Jiang is correct... I really want to know why Sect Leader Jiang's True Spirit couldn't save him. Or... Alas."

He sighed, as if this little sadness brought back more memories, so he asked, "What about Zeng? How is he now?"

"When we said goodbye at Yulun Mountain, I bought him and the other two a set of clothes from the Tianxin Illusion, as well as the magic materials, and then asked him to go to Jinshui to take Xue Baoping away. He is a man of his word, and before he left, I also asked him to bring a 'Three Flowers Gathering at the Top of the Head' for the little girl - you also know that this thing cannot be taken orally, it needs auxiliary medicine to be slowly refined by the person."

"So in this case, there is no need to worry that he and the other two will throw the things to Xue Baoping and go looking for trouble with Xuanjiao. He has to be patient and slowly help her make the medicine - I guess they have found a safe place to stay now. As long as the three swordsmen are not particularly unlucky, there is nothing to be afraid of in the world."

Li Wuxiang thought for a while and said, "At that time, I said that I would send a message to them by flying crows when I found a place to stay. However, considering the current situation on Dajie Mountain, I'd better wait."

The two of them sat side by side, and Lou He suddenly raised his hand and patted him on the arm gently: "Don't wait. I used to be like you, always thinking that many things should be done 'when', and always thinking that the timing is not right. But think about the first half of our lives, what things were really done when the timing was right?"

"Besides, sometimes we may not be waiting for the right time, but just being afraid." Lou He stood up. "It's getting dark, I'll leave. After returning to Qianji Sect, they will probably ask me a lot of questions. I will tell them that when you asked me questions, you found that I was quite arrogant, so you asked me if I wanted to join the Sword Sect."

Li Wuxiang thought for a moment and asked, "What do you want them to think?"

"I don't know either. At least they will know that you and Jian Zong are still connected and have some friendship. As for the rest, they can think whatever they want. The more they think, the better."

"Then I will go to Dongyue Altar and tell him that you have agreed to be my chief sect leader. Dongyue Altar may be confident in leaving this matter to me, or they may send someone to test you. You should keep an eye out. I will keep an eye on it over there - if the Qianji Sect wants to surrender to the Xuan Sect, I will have news."

Li Wuxiang nodded: "Okay."

He stood up and walked Lou He to the yard. Lou He bowed to him and walked out.

At this time, Zhao Yu poked his head out from the side room, looked at the door, and then looked at Li Wuxiang.

Li Wuxiang said, "He didn't mean to tease you before, he meant to strike up a conversation with me."

Zhao Yu nodded: "Oh... Master, is it about that? About the disciple competition? I heard you talking about joining the Sword Sect or something like that -"

Li Wuxiang didn't want to explain too much at this time, so he smiled and said, "Yes. Don't worry, nothing bad will happen."

Zhao Yu looked at him with a sigh of relief: "Master, when are you going to eat? I'll heat it up again."

Zhao Yu's cooking skills depend on the mentality of the person eating. If they are extremely hungry, they will think the food is quite good. If they don't want to eat it, they will really want to eat it.

Li Wuxiang was in the latter state, so he shook his head and said, "You can eat by yourself. I only need one meal every two days. Did they send me the writing brush, ink, paper and inkstone? Please help me find it."

A quarter of an hour later, Li Wuxiang was sitting alone at the desk.

The sun had completely set and the room was dark. Zhao Yu finished his meal in the side room, checked the front and back doors of the courtyard with a lamp, then walked into the hall. Seeing that Li Wuxiang was not moving, he returned to his room.

Only then did Li Wuxiang let out a sigh of relief, added some water to the inkstone, and slowly dipped his brush in it to dissolve the ground ink again.

Lou He's last few words seemed to make sense, because Li Wuxiang suddenly realized that he seemed to be a little scared.

Many times, people don't pay much attention to their emotional reactions. These reactions are actually like an iceberg floating on the surface of consciousness. People see the tip of the iceberg and realize that they don't like it when they smell bad smells, so they don't think too much. But if you slowly dig deeper, you will find that there are more and more complex reasons and mechanisms hidden under the consciousness that make people "dislike". It's just that these things can't be thought of without careful thinking. So Li Wuxiang realized that there was something wrong with him.

Xue Baoping was the first real person he met in this world, and the Xue family house in Jinshui was his first home in this world. After parting with such a person, according to his own temperament, he would never stop contacting her for several months - and he would not forget her, but would keep telling himself, "It's not the right time."

Li Wuxiang only needed to take a quick glance at the things hidden under the water to know what they might be. But now he didn't want to think about it in detail, and didn't want to review the things he had explored before and made him feel sad.

But he still knew that it was wrong to do as he did before.

So he put pen to paper -

"Lao Zeng, I have arrived at Dajie Mountain and am discussing an important matter with that person. I am afraid of the risk, so I want to let you know first.

"There may be drastic changes here in ten days or so, or there may not be. In the best case scenario, we can meet then, or I will come to find you. In the worst case scenario, you'd better find a secluded place to stay with no one around. After receiving this letter from me, don't contact anyone else, stock up on food and water, and wait for me to come to find you.

"In the worst case, there will be a catastrophe. This catastrophe may not be man-made, but natural. For months, years, or even more than ten years, there will be darkness, crops will fail, and most of the creatures in the world will slowly die. It may be extremely cold, or extremely hot, or the air may be filled with poisonous miasma.

"You know I don't like to scare people, so you should take my words seriously. After reading my letter, if conditions permit, I hope you will prepare for the worst-case scenario, when there is a great disaster in the world.

"When the catastrophe comes, there may be an earthquake. So if you want to choose a place to take shelter in advance, you must choose a good terrain. Caves and underground are not good. It is best to find a hidden open area with a water source. As long as you survive the first wave of disasters and wait for me to find you, you don't have to worry about anything else.

"Xue Baoping has the treasures I left for her. You can store the things there in advance, but remember to make sure the bricks don't get buried underground. Of course, there may not be an earthquake, but you must be careful in advance.

“Oh, if you don’t know what an earthquake is, you can ask Xue Baoping. I’ve told her about it.

"Don't come to me and don't think about helping me. My cultivation is so powerful now that you can't help me, because there are only Yuanying and Yangshen here, and there are no Xuanjiao to kill.

"If the worst case scenario I mentioned happens, then I'm almost dead. Don't come to me then, and help me take good care of Xue Baoping. But if no catastrophe happens, and you hear others say that I'm dead, but I don't come to find you from Lingshan, then don't believe it no matter who says it.

"You can't come to find me right away. You have to wait for a while until the danger is over, then come to find me. Find out where others say I'm dead, and then go to a place that's more obvious and easier to find. As for where it is and what to do, you can ask Xue Baoping when the time comes.

"Because I don't want this to be the last time we talk, I won't say anything else. That's it."

Li Wuxiang lifted up the paper and put it aside, then changed to the second piece of paper and started writing -

"Lao Zeng, if you unfold this one, just fold it. This one is not for you, the other one is for you.

"Bao Ping, I told Lao Zeng some things. If he hasn't told you yet, go and take a look at the one I wrote to him. If he hasn't read it yet, you can take a look first.

"If he tells you now, or if you've seen it, then when we leave, if he says he can only take you, then you should listen to him. If he says he wants to take everyone in Jinshui Bay, then you should persuade him to think it over carefully. Lao Zeng is sometimes very rational, and sometimes he's too nice. I don't understand him sometimes, so you have to help me keep an eye on him. I think you're more normal than him in this kind of thing.

"Like I told him, if the catastrophe doesn't happen and others say I'm dead, then you know what I'm doing, right? At that time, if your cultivation reaches the stage of refining qi, and you've passed the stage of refining essence into qi, and have reached the stage of refining qi into spirit, then come with him to find me. You know I like clean or beautiful places, and I try to die in cracks that are not too deep.

"In the worst case scenario, I died in the catastrophe. I might have died in a volcanic eruption. I told you about volcanic eruptions and earthquakes, so at that time, I might be buried in a thick layer of ground and you wouldn't be able to find me.

"But I don't think I'll die - then you and Lao Zeng shouldn't look for me. If you can reach the level of Nascent Soul or Yang God, you might be able to pull me out of the lava.

“Anyway, I’ll try my best to find you from Lingshan myself, so you don’t have to worry too much.

"The above are all bad situations. If it's a good situation, I will wait until the New Year to go back to see you. We've been apart for so long, maybe you have new things you like. If you want any new things, please write me back and tell me, and I will bring them to you when the time comes."

He wrote this, thought for a while with the pen in hand, then put the pen down. Then, after waiting for the ink on the two sheets of paper to dry, he folded them up, stuffed them into a small bamboo tube, sealed it with wax, and went out.

The area around the yard was deserted, and it was night. Li Wuxiang easily caught a crow that was about to sleep, tied a bamboo tube to its feet, and inserted the flying crow feathers that Zeng Jianqiu had refined during the golden water period into it. [Note 1]

He held the bird in his arms and walked to the gate of the courtyard - if someone was watching him secretly, they would be able to see him clearly.

Li Wuxiang let go of the crow, and it spread its wings and flew high into the sky.

He stood there, staring in the direction where the crow flew for a quarter of an hour, then walked back to the yard and closed the door.

At this moment, he felt very relaxed, light and bright in his heart, so he decided to start doing things, starting tonight.

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Note 1: See Chapter for details.

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