Chapter 255

The sunset shone on the outline of the mountain peaks, the evening glow reflected the red leaves, and it was early winter on the mountain, the chill was not light, the three held a bowl of blanket noodles and slurped, the heat rose.

It was still a soup base made of dried bamboo shoots and salted meat, less refreshing than new bamboo shoots but more fragrant, paired with thin blanket noodles, just adding salt was extremely delicious.

The group didn't sit down, just paced in the open space in front of the Daoist temple, eating delicious food and enjoying the beautiful scenery.

It happened that they had been running around outside for half a year, and now returning to this place, it was the time of peace of mind, and they had just been busy all afternoon, a bit tired. At this time, they could ignore everything, just eat a bowl of hot blanket noodles, whether it was the three or the fox and the colorful fox beside them, they all felt comfortable all over.

"Ah..."

Luo Seng swallowed it together with the soup, and after eating, he held the empty bowl and couldn't help but sigh: "Does this soup cake have a name?"

"Blanket noodles."

"Delicious!" Lord Luo sighed, "You Daoist priests know how to eat!"

"Haha, there are more delicious things!"

"What are the Daoist priest's plans after this?" Luo Seng put down the bowl and asked first, "Are you going to cultivate quietly here with the Daoist priest's junior sister?"

"This is indeed a good place for quiet cultivation. However, I still have to go to the capital's Gathering Ju Ju Xian Fu, where there might be things I want. Of course, after running around for half a year, I have to rest here for a period of time first. Anyway, it's convenient to go back and forth from here to the capital."

Lin Jue said, looking at Luo Seng, and asked back:

"What about Lord Luo? What do you plan to do?"

"Now I am wanted, so I naturally can't enter the capital, and this imperial court has no place for me, so I will wait for the world to change." Luo Seng said, "Before that, anyway, there is nothing to do, so I will just go and slaughter the Yaoguai that have eaten people that I recorded before."

"If Lord Luo wants to enter the capital, disguise yourself, and you can enter. The only difficulty is settling down in the capital. If Lord Luo is worried about this, you can go with me." Lin Jue said, "I am a Daoist priest, and Daoist practitioners often have a martial artist to protect the Dao. I have always admired Lord Luo's martial arts, wisdom, and virtue. Since Lord Luo has nothing to do anyway, why not go with me? The capital is complex, if there are things that need Lord Luo's martial arts, wisdom, and Jianghu experience, I will ask Lord Luo for advice. Besides, when Lord Luo practices martial arts, I will refine pills for Lord Luo to help Lord Luo enter the Dao through martial arts as soon as possible, isn't that wonderful?"

Hearing this, Luo Seng was also a bit moved.

After thinking for a long time, he still said: "That will have to wait until Luo slaughters those Yaoguai!"

"Good! But after running around for half a year, please also take a rest for a few days!" Lin Jue said to him, "We Daoist priests are all idle, when the time comes, if there is anything Lord Luo needs, we will also give Lord Luo a hand."

"That's fine too!"

"Haha..."

Lin Jue couldn't help but laugh.

It seems that in the next few days of repairing and renovating the Daoist temple, moving stones and wood, there can be one more person to exert effort.

After going to the capital, Lord Luo had been the Changning County lieutenant of one of the two counties in the capital, and was specifically responsible for dealing with Yaoguai and ghosts. He should be more familiar with the situation in the capital and the Gathering Ju Ju Xian Fu and what twists and turns there are.

With his help, Lin Jue would undoubtedly be much more relaxed.

But having said that, the most essential reason was still the admiration for Lord Luo's martial arts and personal character.

Although he was relatively good at fighting with magical arts, the fighting of Daoist priests and the martial arts of martial artists still had their strengths and weaknesses, not to mention that the Jianghu and bustling cities were all sinister, and there were places where magical arts could not be anticipated.

Therefore, since ancient times, a guardian has been a good choice for both sides, which can protect the Daoist practitioner to cultivate smoothly, and the martial artist can also obtain many benefits in this process. Even if the Daoist practitioner becomes an immortal, the martial artist may also follow to ascend to heaven and become a guardian deity.

Although judging by Lord Luo's personality, he does not pursue becoming an immortal or a god, and more of his pursuit is in the human world, destined not to be able to protect the Dao for Lin Jue forever, but Lin Jue is also willing to achieve each other on this short road.

In the middle of the night, in the room, an oil lamp held a bean-sized flame, and the lamplight barely illuminated the whole room.

There was still a bit of the smell of old wood in the room.

Lin Jue sat on the bed, covered with a bear skin blanket, a white fox was lying beside him, and he held an ancient book, reading with peace of mind.

Going out this time, he really accumulated a pile of things.

Those heavenly treasures had not yet been refined into pills, and it was probably not easy to find a place suitable for alchemy in the capital, so he had to ask the junior sister to prepare a room for him as an alchemy room.

Carving spiritual wood into bean soldiers required exactly twenty-eight.

Thinking about it, he felt it was not something that could be completed in a short time.

But once completed, there would be forty bean soldiers, exceeding the third senior brother before he went down the mountain. If he refined them for another year or two, he couldn't imagine how strong the lineup would be.

He still had magical arts that he hadn't studied or practiced.

Like the wall-passing technique he was looking at now.

Or like another wind-returning technique.

The Rat Yaoguai's earth escape was also a good magical art. As for how easy it was to use, it had been said enough in the past half year, so there was no need to waste more words. Although he didn't obtain it during the pursuit, his own fox obtained it from the Rat Yaoguai.

It's a pity that this magical art cannot be cast on others, only on oneself, so he had to let Fuyao teach him.

As long as it could teach a general idea and let him understand the principles of the magical art, he thought the ancient book should have a reaction, and naturally there would be detailed tricks.

That "water-entering" technique was the same.

This method could save lives at critical moments.

By the way, he also had a "wood escape method" that he hadn't passed on to the junior sister.

Many things had to be completed on this mountain.

Lin Jue thought so, rubbed the fox beside him, and then extinguished the lamp to sleep.

Only the minor ghost appeared unknowingly, looking around in a daze, muttering to himself in a daze:

"Finished, can't find the way..."

Waking up the next day, he began to get busy.

First, he thoroughly cleaned the Daoist temple, went to the foot of the mountain to buy daily necessities, and by the way, bought some tiles and mortar to repair the roof and walls.

The junior sister found mountain stones and made stone tables and stools, placing them at the entrance of the Daoist temple, changing the position several times before she was satisfied. Lin Jue looked for a suitable place behind the Daoist temple to reclaim wasteland and enclose it into a vegetable plot.

In a few days, this Red Leaf Temple had changed completely, just like every Daoist temple and temple of the senior brothers before.

The red leaves on the mountain also began to wither gradually.

The junior sister was not satisfied.

When the red leaves on the mountain withered, it was also the season for fog in the mountains. Every morning, when she pushed the door, she saw rolling clouds and mist, as if she were living above the clouds.

Lord Luo had packed his luggage, brought his long sword, and temporarily said goodbye to the two.

"If the Daoist priest goes to the Gathering Ju Ju Xian Fu and can't find a way to enter, you can go find that Fan Tian Shi. Although he is a person who engages in fraud and steals fame, he is good at dealing with people and loves to help others. If the Daoist priest finds him, he will definitely find a way to help the Daoist priest enter the Gathering Ju Ju Xian Fu. Otherwise, you can also go find a person named Li Er and let him help the Daoist priest enter the Gathering Ju Ju Xian Fu, just tell him, if he can't think of a way, Luo will come to take his dog life."

As soon as Lin Jue heard it, he knew that inviting him to go to the capital with him was a correct decision.

It's just that he probably wouldn't need this.

"Many thanks to Lord Luo." Lin Jue said, "There are still things to be busy with on the mountain, Lord Luo go first, and when the things on the mountain are busy, I will go find Lord Luo, eliminate Yaoguai with you, and then we will go to the capital together."

"Good!"

Lord Luo was still that vicissitudes-filled look with full stubble, taciturn and very free and easy, cupped his hands with him, and led the horse down the mountain.

The junior sister carried a whisk, facing the sea of clouds, thought for a while and said to Lin Jue: "Third Shixiong brother, when we arrive outside the capital, are we going to visit Daoist Jiang and Daoist brother Qingxuan?"

"Naturally we have to go."

Lin Jue recalled those two Daoist priests and felt that he hadn't seen them for a long time.

By next spring, it should be three years, right?

How far three years is also depends on how much one has experienced. The master passed away, the senior brothers went down the mountain, sent them off all the way, fought the Yaoguai king, and went to the Western Regions, naturally stretching it out.

There were too many things, so that Daoist Jiang and Daoist brother Qingxuan in his memory had become a bit blurred.

"When are we going?"

"Wait until the Daoist temple is cleaned up, or go on the way when going to the capital." Lin Jue answered.

"I have to go too, right?"

"Naturally." Lin Jue said to her, "This is etiquette."

"Then I'll go too!" The junior sister said, and turned to look at the mist-shrouded mountain, and the heavenly light faintly revealed above her head, her eyes bright, "But before that, I want to plant the mountain full of fruit trees!"

"Plant it full, then how can you finish eating?"

"Third Shixiong brother will eat, colorful fox will eat, Fuyao will eat."

"Then you still can't finish eating."

"Then plant one or two of each." The junior sister seemed to have thought about this for a long time, looking forward to it, "Peaches, apricots, plums, pears, pomegranates, loquats, persimmons, grapes, loquats, persimmons, kiwis, as long as they can be planted, plant them all on the mountain, so when the fruits are ripe, when senior brother goes to the capital and doesn't cook, when there is no rice, you can pick fruits to eat, and when there is rice, you can also pick fruits to play with."

"That's fine too." Lin Jue thought for her, "There are also mulberries, cherries, and bananas, oranges, and jujube trees."

"There are also wild loquats, ice powder fruit trees, and dove leaf trees." The junior sister still remembered the life on Fuqiu Peak vividly, and even just thinking about it, her eyes already revealed recollection and light, "Also want to plant an osmanthus tree, plant it beside this, a pine tree, plant it in front of this, plant a bamboo forest behind, so there is firewood to burn, and bamboo shoots to eat."

It was a self-sufficient and light life.

Lin Jue just smiled and agreed.

So the junior sister took Lin Jue to find wild fruit trees at the foot of the mountain, or bought them from farmers, and summoned the donkey to move them to the mountain for transplanting, one or two of each, but there were many types, and even many wild fruits and vines that ordinary people didn't plant at all, focusing on sitting in the mountain forest without worrying about not having fruits to eat.

The fox and the colorful fox also ran up and down.

Plant a pine tree in front of the Daoist temple to invite clouds and welcome guests, and plant a bamboo forest behind the Daoist temple to invite wind and send coolness.

To ensure survival, Lin Jue specially opened the alchemy furnace, asked the fox to help spit fire, refined spiritual liquid essence, and diluted it with water to water them.

Although the whole process was time-consuming and laborious, it was very happy.

Because planning for the future itself is a happy thing.

Before, when planning with several senior brothers, the junior sister already felt it was very interesting. Now, planning for herself, she could have a mountain and a Daoist temple, without paying taxes, cultivating freely, and being able to build them into the way she liked, which was undoubtedly a more interesting thing.