Chapter 498

"... Although little lady Pumei is green and inexperienced in her first time eliminating demons, she is indeed bold and has a delicate mind. After discovering that the good men under the True One's command have combat power comparable to celestial soldiers and divine generals, she immediately dared to take them to patrol the pitch-black village roads. Such courage and decision, let alone a little lady in her teens, even an ordinary adult in their twenties might not be able to do it."

Before the little girl came up to see Lin Jue, Wan Xinrong came here first, using the excuse of "seeing if the True One is upstairs" to report her performance in the village first.

"Thank you for your hard work."

"It's not hard, it's not hard." Wan Xinrong said, "There is one more thing, which is that when I went down the mountain this time, I heard from the villagers that Lord Luo has already set a time to ascend the throne in the capital to declare legitimacy and stabilize the hearts of the people."

"Isn't this a matter of time?"

"To teach the True One."

Wan Xinrong bowed and then took his leave.

Not long after, a thundercloud carried the little girl up.

The tiles clinked in the back basket. The little girl looked up and saw the Daoist standing in the hall in front of the wind-lotus painting. She was nervous and uneasy in her heart. She put down the back basket and stepped forward to respectfully offer the two beans.

Lin Jue smiled as soon as he saw it: "Did you eliminate the demon?"

He picked up the two beans from her hand and put them back on his body.

"E-eliminated..."

"Since it's eliminated, why are you so nervous?"

"I..."

This little girl was indeed very similar to him back then.

She had a background similar to Lin Jue's, and her first time going down the mountain to eliminate demons, she also made a decision similar to his. However, she was, after all, a proper little girl born and raised in the big mountains, and her vision and thinking were naturally not as good as Lin Jue's at that time, so she was much more nervous and uneasy than he was back then.

Lin Jue asked a few more questions before she told the reason:

"I, I saw that those common people had no money and their lives were bitter, so I only asked them for some, some tiles..."

"But didn't you go down the mountain to collect tiles?"

"T-this, collecting them this way is very slow..."

"So what? Slow is your business, not mine, and I still have plenty of time." Lin Jue said to her, "Anyway, no matter what you do, when you collect all the tiles for this roof, that will be the time I formally take you as my disciple."

"Oh..."

The little girl couldn't help but ponder in her heart.

"A person who cultivates the Dao should be calm and steady in their heart, and there is no need to be so nervous and uneasy." Lin Jue said to her, "Since I have said that you decide, I will not blame you."

"..."

The little girl didn't dare to answer and continued to ponder.

"Let me see the tiles you collected."

"Oh!"

The little girl then turned around, took the tiles out of the back basket, and timidly showed them to him.

Lin Jue nodded as soon as he saw them:

"They are all good tiles!"

In this day and age, the rough earthen tiles made in villages are mostly fired in small earthen kilns. In some places, village clans have public kilns, or they might fire them themselves, so the quality is naturally uneven. Basically, as long as the tiles are roughly that shape and not broken or shattered, it's fine.

As for some tiles being concave, some convex, some with uneven surfaces, some with air bubbles and holes, and some with uneven thickness, it is really unavoidable.

However, the tiles the little girl brought back were all neat and uniform, avoiding these problems.

"They were all selected by them..."

"Good! Good!" Lin Jue nodded repeatedly, "Since that's the case, I will lend you an object."

The little girl immediately looked up, only to see the Daoist in front of her stretch out his hand, with a thin piece of paper in his palm.

The piece of paper looked like a donkey.

"This is a paper donkey. It was something my senior uncle asked for from a senior who was also in Mount Feng at that time, as a meeting gift, and gave it to me and my junior sister. Later, it followed me and my junior sister all over the country, through wind and rain. It's just that it's not needed now." The Daoist handed it to her, "After you take it, recite 'Donkey appear'."

A six-tailed white fox sat upright on the ground, and hearing this, it also stretched its neck to look.

The little girl obediently took the paper donkey:

"Donkey appear..."

With a puff of white smoke, the paper donkey rapidly grew larger in her hand. In the blink of an eye, her hand couldn't hold it anymore. The little girl let go and stepped back, and it naturally fell down, landing on the ground and turning into a gray donkey.

Ancient immortal spells were showing their charm at this moment.

The fox turned its head and stared, its eyes flashing with memories.

"It is not afraid of water, but it cannot be soaked in water or soaked in heavy rain for a long time. It is not afraid of fire, but it cannot be thrown into a fire to burn." Lin Jue said, "You must remember that it is an old friend of mine and Fuyao. Since I lend it to you to carry tiles, you must cherish it, take good care of it, and respect it."

"I will remember it!"

"Shout 'Donkey return'."

"Donkey return."

The gray donkey turned back into a paper donkey.

The little girl bent down to pick it up, as solemn as if she had obtained a divine object, her eyes full of wonder.

"Go back and think more, have a good rest, and come here early tomorrow morning. I will tell you where there are still demons."

"Understood!"

After the little girl left, the fox sitting upright beside him turned its head and spoke: "You were the same before! You asked for a bag of rice and gave a handful to every family!"

"You still remember..."

"Fox! Smart! Good memory!"

"That is indeed true..."

Lin Jue sat cross-legged on the spot, with a smile on the corner of his mouth and the luster of memories in his eyes.

With a wave of his hand, the tiles were placed on the roof, occupying a very inconspicuous little corner. Correspondingly, the pink flowers in the mountain had already occupied the majority, and only this highest and steepest mountain was still empty.

In the big mountain, a young man was pulling trees and digging pits.

Compared to the trees behind him and the pits in front of him, the young man's figure looked very small in contrast, but he had never slacked off, and was even more diligent than usual—

It was indeed as the Daoist said, they had both lost their parents and had no relatives. Living together in this mountain all day, and being the only two young people in the mountain, they were naturally close. But no matter how close they were, the young man's

human comparative psychology was unavoidable. He also wanted to quickly fill the mountain with flowers.

Don't let himself be the first to come, only to fall behind.

In this process, he had to constantly tell himself not to be too impatient, because he already knew the nature of plants and trees, had already learned his lesson, and knew that being too impatient would easily waste his efforts.

The Daoist was watching from the pavilion.

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At this moment, there was a pleasure in training and nurturing.

So this is what it feels like to be a master...

I had heard from the senior brother and junior sister before that the mountain was bitter and cold, and one person was lonely and bored, but if you took a disciple, you would have something to do every day, and you would have fun. I didn't know it would feel like this.

Why did the junior sister go to look for golden essence? If she were in Mount Feng, I would have to urgently go find her and have a good chat with her.

The junior sister was not there, but an old friend came to visit.

Daoist Jiang came riding a cloud, and Lin Jue made tea to entertain her.

The whisk was placed aside, and the two people and one fox sat on the edge outside the pavilion, drinking tea and chatting, and using the high vantage point to look at the scenery of Mount Feng.

"The taste of this tea of yours is quite novel."

"It's tea I stir-fried myself, not boiled, brewed with clear spring water from the mountain." Lin Jue said, "So the taste is light."

"It is indeed fragrant, clear, and has a sweet aftertaste." Daoist Jiang nodded, "It is more suitable for quenching thirst than the tea boiled in the human world today."

"The tea at the foot of the mountain is enough to satisfy hunger."

Daoist Jiang didn't say much, just lowered her head and savored it several times.

Lin Jue then asked: "Is the fellow Daoist free now?"

"Hmm." Daoist Jiang held the teacup and said bluntly, "The outcome has been decided. The three Emperors under the Great Emperor, coupled with the help of many great immortals and gods, could not defeat the Yili Shenjun Fuchi after all. The army under the King of Yue in the human world is also no match for the military strategy of that Lord Luo. Now that the Nine Heavens and the human world have made a choice together, it seems that the Great Emperor Zi Xu is more suitable to be the Lord Tianweng of this generation."

She said these words very frankly.

"The human world hasn't been pacified yet, right?"

"It's a matter of time."

"Then what about the Great Emperor Yu Jian?"

"Naturally, things will be as they should be. The struggle in the Nine Heavens is, after all, different from the struggle for power and profit in the human world. If the Great Emperor is not suitable for the current Nine Heavens and the human world, then he will wait for the next storm."

"Hmm..."

Lin Jue nodded and pondered.

Under the condition of following the rules and under the control of the Heavenly Venerable, the struggle between the Lord Tianweng and the Great Emperor is indeed like this.

Whether it is the previous Lord Tianweng, the current Lord Tianweng who is about to step down, the Great Emperor Zi Xu, or the Great Emperor Yu Jian, and even the Green Emperor of ancient times, they all have their own propositions and

thoughts, and they all have their own supporters in the Nine Heavens and the human world. When they serve as the main god or Lord Tianweng, that is when they are most in line with the era and the hearts of the people.

Complying with the era and the hearts of the people not only provides more incense and stronger divine power, but other divine beings are also willing to help you.

There is even heavenly help in the dark.

This is more like a struggle of ideological propositions.

The winner enters the Nine Heavens and enjoys the incense of the world, while the loser admits defeat frankly and becomes a subordinate; there is rarely any extermination.

Such a victory or defeat is naturally not permanent.

Divine beings will change, and human hearts will also change.

The Lord Tianweng divine system also complied with the Nine Heavens and human hearts back then, which is why it was pushed as the co-lord of the Nine Heavens, but later it gradually became lazy and degenerate, so naturally it could not fight against the Great Emperor Zi Xu and the Great Emperor Yu Jian.

Even the divine beings who supported him before changed their direction.

Just as the human imperial court will gradually become corrupt, the imperial court that swept across the world back then will also become rotten wood about to fall.

Now the power supporting the Great Emperor Zi Xu in the Nine Heavens and the human world is stronger. The power of the Nine Heavens divine beings protects the soldiers and generals of the human world, and the incense of the human political power nourishes the divine beings in the sky. The two sides complement each other, jointly indicating that the Great Emperor Zi Xu in the North is more suitable for this era. Compared with this, the supporting power of the Great Emperor Yu Jian is not as good.

However, it is not necessarily completely accurate.

Just like without that Yili Shenjun Fuchi, the Great Emperor Zi Xu might not be able to defeat the Great Emperor Yu Jian.

This Yili Shenjun Fuchi is worth many True Lords and Great Gods.

Worldly affairs are complicated, and so is the sky.

It's just that Lin Jue had also heard the ideological propositions of this Great Emperor Zi Xu, who is a very domineering Great Emperor.

"It sounds like a cycle."

"That is exactly the case."

Daoist Jiang also held the cup:

"Worldly affairs are always like this—

"The previous Lord Tianweng was harsh, to the point of becoming increasingly harsh, and was eventually dissatisfied by the Nine Heavens immortals and gods and the common people of the human world, and was replaced by the previous Lord Tianweng.

"The previous Lord Tianweng was clear, scattered, and inactive, to the point of becoming increasingly lazy. He did not have enough restraint on the Nine Heavens divine beings and had no educational effect on the human world, only letting them develop naturally, which led to the corruption and chaos of divine beings. The human world even took 'absurdity' as 'romance', and the world even raised several demon kings. Eventually, he was replaced by another Great Emperor Zi Xu who was equally harsh, and even harsher in some aspects.

"The Great Emperor Zi Xu has a domineering and upright personality. His attitude toward the atmosphere of the Nine Heavens and the human world is probably similar to that of Lord Luo, and he has never been soft in subduing demons and eliminating evil. This kind of thought spreads with Lord Luo's army and is naturally sought after by today's common people, and the divine beings in the sky are also willing to support him.

"But who knows what it will look like in a few hundred years?"

Daoist Jiang shook her head and said, glanced at the white fox beside Lin Jue, and raised her teacup to drink tea.