Chapter 19: Summer Solstice of the Second Year

Ice and snow melted, orioles flew and grass grew, and the plum rain was continuous.

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

The Yu Zhang region was located in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River. At this time, it was the plum rain season, and the continuous overcast rain and unceasing thunder were the long tunes of this period.

On Songlu Lake.

Rainwater fell on the pine needles, making the pine forest more lush and green, as green as a pool of water. Rainwater fell chaotically on Songlu Lake, making the lake surface shatter into a beach.

In the misty rain.

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

Inside the fireball was a person driving a cloud, a young Daoist.

The Daoist maintained a water-avoidance cover, and at the same time, his right hand joined his fingers, aimed at a certain place, and a syllable burst out of his mouth,

"Drown!"

The wind and rain above the lake seemed to have a direction all of a sudden, and even the lake water surged into giant waves, all surging toward the direction the Daoist pointed.

"Awoo~"

A green Chi flew in the rain curtain. Seeing the wind, rain, and giant waves attacking, it made a joyful roar, swinging its body and rushing forward against the wind—

The green Chi broke through the giant waves, and the rainwater and lake water washed the Chi scales emerald green. After the green Chi broke through the giant waves, it flew back to the original place, a pair of huge emerald pupils staring at the Daoist. She seemed to like this game very much.

Cheng Yunqi smiled when he saw this, "Fellow Daoist, the 【Drown】 character mantra ends here for today, let's change to something else!"

When the green Chi heard this, she immediately lost interest and whimpered, which was considered a reluctant agreement.

The green Chi flicked her tail and swam quickly in the rain curtain, turning into a flying green shadow, like a willow branch in the wind and rain.

Cheng Yunqi stared at the green Chi, barely able to see a little afterimage. His left thumb buckled his little finger, the middle three fingers were straight, fingertips pointing to the sky, and his right hand was in a sword finger, ready to go.

Cheng Yunqi entered that state of selflessness and meditation again. The wind roared and the rain swallowed, losing their sound at this moment. At the moment of capturing the green Chi's figure, his right sword finger stabbed out like a sword, pointing directly at the green Chi.

"Suppress!"

Cheng Yunqi recited a mantra sound.

As the mantra sound echoed, three phantom images of high mountains suddenly appeared in the void where the green Chi was. The phantom images were fleeting, and the green Chi's swimming posture also stopped for a moment. Afterwards, as if nothing had happened, the green Chi began to swim freely again.

Cheng Yunqi rested for ten or so breaths and repeated it once,

"Suppress!"

Three mountain phantoms appeared again, and the green Chi's figure delayed for a moment again, but this process was too short, and the giant mountain phantoms were covered by the rain curtain, almost difficult to detect.

However, Cheng Yunqi was very satisfied.

These three mountains were what he thought of by observing the Yujing, Yuhua, and Yuxu mountains. Now it was just a draft. If one day he could get one or two of the true meanings of the three mountains, that would be amazing. If he had leisure in the future, he would travel all over the Five Sacred Mountains, observe their shapes, get their meanings, and then perform this mantra, which would also be a different scene.

Cheng Yunqi was happy, but the green Chi didn't accompany him to play anymore. The young species plunged into the lake, leaving only a pair of emerald pupils exposed on the water surface.

She was very smart. It was agreed before that three 【Drown】 mantras were needed to exchange for one 【Suppress】 mantra. Today the Daoist shouted six 【Drown】 mantras, so she only gave him two 【Suppress】 mantras, no more.

Besides, this Daoist reciting a 【Suppress】 mantra made her feel as if she was being pressed down, which felt really uncomfortable, and the time she was pressed down was getting longer and longer.

The emerald pupils turned, and the green Chi stretched out two front claws. There were four toes on each Chi claw. She didn't move her left claw, but her right claw buckled three toes, leaving only one.

Cheng Yunqi laughed. He understood. This clever ghost meant that from now on, four 【Drown】 mantras must be recited before she would accompany him to practice one 【Suppress】 mantra.

Cheng Yunqi landed on the lake surface. "Dragon Carriage" came into contact with the lake water, and the fire cloud burned the lake water to boiling at the contact point.

Cheng Yunqi sat down on the "Dragon Carriage", his upper body level with the green Chi's eyes. He took two things out of his arms. Neither was small, larger than an adult's palm. Cheng Yunqi had hidden them on his body just now, which was very uncomfortable.

These were two lake snails. It was said that the snail body came from the Yunmeng Marsh, and after being refined by someone, it became a magic tool that was not high in grade but interesting. Cheng Yunqi exchanged it with Deng Wanchun of the Water Color Street with talisman paper.

The two lake snails were one milky white and one colorful blue.

Cheng Yunqi first took the colorful blue one. This colorful snail was inlaid with many colorful agates, and the mouthpiece was silver, which was very exquisite.

He put the colorful snail to his mouth and blew hard, and the snail made a melodious sound. Cheng Yunqi's mouth puffed and puffed, and he blew out a tune, which was melodious and clear, exactly "Fisherwoman".

The green Chi's emerald eyes shone with light, revealing a look of longing. The right claw she hadn't put down yet suddenly put down two more toes.

Cheng Yunqi was amused again, and smilingly handed the colorful snail to the green Chi.

The green Chi poked her head out. Before Cheng Yunqi could see the movement clearly, the colorful snail was swallowed into the green Chi's mouth.

Cheng Yunqi tentatively reached out and touched the green Chi's head. The green Chi didn't dodge. The green Chi's scales were very slippery and very cold.

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

Cheng Yunqi held the white snail and stuck it to the green Chi's ear.

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

Cheng Yunqi also smiled very happily. The colorful snail just now was a blowing magic snail, and this white snail was a sound-recording magic snail. What the green Chi heard now was the zither music he secretly recorded when he played "Fisherwoman" with "Heavenly Wind Pine Snow" last time. In addition, there were some other ancient Tang dynasty tunes he played with an ordinary zither.

The green Chi immediately stretched her right claw straight, with four toes fully displayed. Looking at her effort, she wished she could grow a fifth claw.

Cheng Yunqi touched the green Chi's head again and said with a smile: "Wait for me to come back and practice magic with you. I plan to leave the sect for some time, and the departure date is in these one or two days."

As soon as Cheng Yunqi finished speaking, the green Chi was stunned, immediately unhappy, the light in her emerald eyes dimmed, and her head sank to the bottom of the water, just the distance Cheng Yunqi couldn't reach.

Cheng Yunqi couldn't laugh or cry, "Fellow Daoist, I am different from you. I can feel that you are just playing and having fun all day, and the growth of magic power in your body is more than one day. But I can't. In the past month or two, I can clearly feel that the growth of magic power has reached a bottleneck. I am more familiar with the Scripture Library than my own courtyard. The sages said that reading ten thousand books is not as good as traveling ten thousand miles. I think I should go out of the sect and walk around."

The young Daoist rested his left elbow on his left knee, held his chin with his hand in a half-fist, and held the white snail in his right hand, letting it hang in the water, swaying with the dark currents at the bottom of the water.

The sound of rain drowned out his words, and only the Chi dragon close at hand could hear:

"Actually, there are many reasons for leaving the sect. I heard that a genius has recently appeared in Emei, Mount Shu, named Li Yingqiong. She is also traveling out of the sect now, holding a fire sword. Wherever she passes, groups of demons bow their heads. She is not old, she is a young knight-errant, and everyone says she is a sword immortal seed.

"Actually, I also wanted to be a sword immortal. I have always wanted to be a sword immortal. If I really can't seek immortality, being a sword knight is always no problem, right? I am only sixteen this year. While I am still young, I will go out of the sect with a sword and make a name for myself. If I pass twenty, even if I become famous in the world, people will say that Li Yingqiong was more powerful when she was a teenager, don't you think?

"Besides, in recent years, people have said that Mount Shu produces sword immortals. I think this statement is biased.

"In addition, Senior Brother Jihu has been out of the sect for more than a year, why is there no news? Sister Jixuan couldn't sit still early in the spring and went out of the sect to find him. 'Also, also, I have been away from home for more than a year, and I should go back to add new soil to my parents' graves and remove dust from the old house.'"

Cheng Yunqi said in a low voice, and suddenly felt a chill on his hand. It turned out that the green Chi had swum up again and pushed Cheng Yunqi's hand with her forehead.

Cheng Yunqi smiled lightly and touched the green Chi with his hand, "You are too lazy. With your bloodline, how much time can it take to refine the horizontal bone."

The monsters in this world also have throat acupoints. Human throat acupoints are called the Twelve-Story Building, and the monsters' throat acupoints are called the horizontal bone. After the monsters refine the horizontal bone, the speed of inhaling heaven and earth spiritual energy will be faster. In addition, if monsters want to speak human words, they must refine this horizontal bone.

The green Chi was unwilling to listen to this, bit the white snail in Cheng Yunqi's hand, twisted her body and dived into the depths of the big lake, disappearing without a trace.

Cheng Yunqi laughed dumbfoundedly and prepared to leave.

However, at this moment, a Chi roar came from the bottom of the lake. Cheng Yunqi didn't know what was happening, so he waited for a while.

Not long after, an object floated up from the bottom of the lake, just stopping at Cheng Yunqi's feet. It was a fan-shaped object.

Cheng Yunqi bent down to pick it up. The object was palm-sized, very slippery and cold to the touch, and dripping with green. Wasn't this a Chi scale?

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

Cheng Yunqi squeezed it and found that the texture was very solid. It was also true, the scales of a dragon species, how could they not be solid? He guessed that this was the green Chi hearing that he was going to leave the sect and specially gave it to him for self-defense, so he bowed to the lake and drove the cloud away.

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Boom!

Cheng Yunqi returned to his residence. Outside, it was still heavy rain and rolling thunder.

He took the bundle on the desk and put the Chi scale into it. He had already prepared this bundle and could leave the sect at any time.

In fact, the best thing to bring for a long trip is the Taixu Cave Stone, or Taixu Talisman Treasure. These cave stones and talisman treasures form a realm of their own, either seven or eight feet square, or two or three feet round, or even a luxurious realm of four or five acres. It is really convenient to put some items in, and it is naturally easy to go on a long trip.

However, things are rare and expensive. This thing is really hard to get. The Taixu Cave Stone mine is even rarer than the Fangzhu Gold mine. It is said that its source is that in the previous few kalpas and killing kalpas, various famous immortals and ancient gods fought, breaking the void, and the void fragments fell into the ground, attaching to the stones, which formed the Taixu Cave Stone.

As for that Taixu Talisman Treasure, it can only be refined by great cultivators in the Golden Core realm, and it is quite time-consuming and material-consuming, and it is not easy to get.

The Wan Shougong Academy does have Taixu Talisman Treasures for sale, but it is really expensive. Cheng Yunqi couldn't take out this money. The gold bestowed by the Wan Shougong Academy last year had long been spent by Cheng Yunqi.

In this year, most of the reward money was spent on setting up cloud driving and buying visualization illustrations. In addition, who made Cheng Yunqi interested in everything? Magic arts, sword arts, talismans, alchemy, weapon refining, Cheng Yunqi wanted to try everything. Reading and seeking knowledge were all easy to say. Cheng Yunqi specifically chose those free to borrow, but just reading books couldn't produce talismans, nor could it produce alchemy.

If you want to learn talisman arts, talisman paper, talisman brushes, and talisman ink are indispensable. If you want to learn alchemy, gold, stone, herbs, and alchemy furnaces are indispensable. After going back and forth, the money was spent.

Later, Cheng Yunqi lived entirely by drawing talismans for others to exchange for things.

After all, brushes, ink, and paper were still considered cheap, but gold, stone, and herbs were expensive. As for the sword arts that Cheng Yunqi was most obsessed with, it was because he was shy in his purse that he could never buy a magic sword. Instead, Cheng Yunqi played all the sword moves that were rotten on the street with wooden branches.

This was another reason why Cheng Yunqi wanted to leave the sect. Those older people said that going out to kill demons and eliminate demons was the fastest way to make money!

Cheng Yunqi had long been yearning.

However, there was one more thing, why hadn't Brother Bingkun opened the mansion yet?

Previously, He Bingkun had been telling Cheng Yunqi that he would definitely be able to open the mansion by this summer at the latest. Seeing that the day was coming, he wanted to see He Bingkun open the mansion before leaving. At most, he would wait for two more days, and he would definitely leave.

Boom!

Another rolling thunder.

Why was it so bright and so loud?

Huh? No!

Cheng Yunqi jumped up, pulled open the door and looked, and was shocked. The room of He Bingkun opposite had been blasted out of a big hole by the sky thunder, and the heavy rain aimed at the big hole and roared into it. At this time, it was already flowing out along the door crack.

Cheng Yunqi thought that He Bingkun was still in seclusion, and was shocked. He rushed into He Bingkun's room in one step.

"Done, I'm done!"

A voice louder than the sky thunder came from the broken room.

Cheng Yunqi looked, He Bingkun was sitting there safe and sound, his whole body emitting electric light.

"Thunder is the order of rain, water is driven by thunder, sky thunder arrives, the water mansion opens wide. Today, He Bingkun opens the water mansion!"

He Bingkun laughed at the sky.

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

Only after relaxing his heart did he discover that he had been anxious just now and had not performed the water-avoidance technique, and had already been drenched into a drowned chicken. And He Bingkun had all his heart on opening the mansion, and naturally couldn't take care of avoiding water, and was also wet all over.

I saw He Bingkun pointing at Cheng Yunqi, the rainwater on Cheng Yunqi's body immediately detached, and then, the rainwater on He Bingkun himself, the water in the room, all came to his fingertips, gathered into a ball, and was thrown out of the house by him.

Cheng Yunqi saw this and stuck a "Cover Seal Talisman" on the hole in the roof, stopping the rainwater.

The rainwater in the room was all taken away by He Bingkun. For a time, Cheng Yunqi actually felt a bit dry.

He walked close to He Bingkun's side, bowed with a smile, "Congratulations, fellow Daoist, congratulations, fellow Daoist!"

He Bingkun hugged Cheng Yunqi and laughed at the sky. The laughter exploded in Cheng Yunqi's ears like thunder. As he laughed, Cheng Yunqi felt something was wrong. Why did it sound like howling?

He looked up and saw that he was really crying!

"Eight years, eight years! Yunqi, it took me eight years to open the mansion! Do you know that among the people who entered the mountain with me, I was the first to open the mansion? After eating Qi for three months, I opened the thunder mansion. I was also someone who had received reward money from the Wan Shougong Academy. Do you believe it?"

Cheng Yunqi looked at He Bingkun with tears and snot, and nodded repeatedly, "I believe it, brother, I believe it!"

He Bingkun was still unable to extricate himself, howling and saying how he had worked hard to practice the nose acupoint, how he had cleverly opened the wind mansion, and how he had cleared the Twelve-Story Building. He even practiced in his sleep. He was originally a person with honest sleeping posture, but he became a person who snored like thunder and wind.

"It's fine now!"

After the tears wet Cheng Yunqi's arm and were secretly wiped dry by He Bingkun with the water control technique, this man became alive and kicking again, "My wind, cloud, and thunder phases have long been practiced. Now that I have opened the water mansion, I have made up for the rain phase. The four phases of heaven are all complete. In addition, the three mansions are above, and the water mansion is below. Heaven and earth are connected. By then, water will urge wood to grow, wood will connect to sky thunder and then generate fire, scorched wood will fall into water and become mud, thereby nurturing true gold. The road ahead is broad!"

Cheng Yunqi covered He Bingkun's mouth, "My good brother, can your own Daoist path be shouted out like this!?"

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