Chapter 519: Heaven does not disappoint the painstaking

Several people rode the clouds and went to that "Flying Mountain".

Lin Jue looked down and examined it carefully—

The mountain was not high, nor was it big, and it couldn't be called steep, but it had a bit of strange beauty. The top of the mountain looked like a sharp halberd, which indeed had a certain degree of recognizability, especially when placed on the land of Huizhou.

If it appeared in certain areas of Lingnan, in certain areas of Yunzhou and Qianzhou, and among many similar strange mountain peaks, forming a landscape of ten thousand peaks like a forest, perhaps it would be more harmonious.

And this looked like a very ordinary mountain no matter how you looked at it.

Except for many literati taking advantage of the beautiful spring light and officials coming to visit while on their way to take up their posts, there was nothing else miraculous.

At the same time, Lin Jue also knew that there were many mountains named "Flying Mountain", "Flying Temple", and "Flying Peak" in the world, most of which were this ordinary, yet attracted many people to visit with admiration.

Concentrating his energy, he looked twice more.

"Rumble..."

Accompanied by faint thunder, the tourists below were already a bit panicked.

"Why did a dark cloud suddenly come?"

"It's going to rain!"

"Oh no, hurry and find a place to hide from the rain!"

"What kind of ghost weather is this!"

The fox heard it most clearly, turned its head, and stared at Lin Jue.

"Let's go first, don't disturb the tourists' elegance." Lin Jue said, driving the cloud away.

The fox continued to lie on the edge of the cloud, ran to the back of the thundercloud, and still stared downward.

"Eh? This cloud is gone again!"

"Truly strange..."

"A strange place must have strange scenery. I think there must be an immortal living in this mountain!"

"..."

The fox retracted its gaze, ran to the Daoist's feet, and told him what it had heard.

The thundercloud left Huizhou, returned to Qinzhou, and split into two, one flying back to Fengshan, and one going to the capital.

Lin Jue had said he would bring Thousand-Day Wine for Lord Luo to taste.

Now he came to visit Lord Luo.

It was just as the "Refuting Senior" said—

Lin Jue struck dead a general in Huizhou, as well as many captains and soldiers, but when he arrived at the Imperial Palace, it was the Emperor who was ashamed, saying that his military discipline was not strict and he was sorry for him.

With the friendship of many years between the two, as well as the mutual understanding between them, that general naturally didn't need to say more.

Lin Jue only asked Lord Luo to take this opportunity to order the restraint of the frontline soldiers, which could also be considered borrowing his momentum. In this way, even if the frontline soldiers were dissatisfied because they couldn't loot more money, they wouldn't be dissatisfied with the Emperor, but with this "meddlesome" immortal. And because he was an immortal, the world had a lot of awe, so they probably wouldn't dare to be dissatisfied with the immortal.

This could curb the atmosphere.

After drinking a pot of wine, Lin Jue returned to the mountain.

The two disciples had been waiting for a long time.

"Master..."

Pu Mei respectfully handed the two *liang* of silver to Lin Jue.

Two *liang* of silver, originally little, was divided into more than ten parts. There were a few slightly larger irregular scattered silver pieces, like fingernails, and more than ten smaller scattered silver dregs, simply like the dregs left over from cutting large silver, broken off, and stuck with wax, all softened.

Although little, Lin Jue received it solemnly.

Reaching out and beckoning, a porcelain jar naturally flew from the bookshelf, originally for tea, and he put it inside.

"Is this the silver money you got from exorcising yaoguai for the first time?"

"Disciple is the first time." Xu Yi replied.

"When I exorcised yaoguai before, I also got silver money when I went to wealthy villages, but I exchanged them all for tiles." Pu Mei said.

"It's a good start."

"Can this silver be used to refine pills?"

"As long as it comes properly, of course it can."

"Hoo..."

The two had just breathed a sigh of relief when they heard Master say: "However, one pill costs ten *liang* of silver, and this is far from one pill."

"Ah?"

The two had already started calculating.

"Why are you so surprised? Ten *liang* of silver seems like a lot, but it's not much. If you meet a wealthy family, you can get twenty or thirty *liang* at once. If it's poor people, have more patience, and just treat it as exorcising yaoguai and practicing. Ten *liang* of silver can't be saved for a long time. The most important thing is patience." Lin Jue said, "With your Daoist practice, don't be too impatient. Taking pills too much, one pill a month is enough. If there are more, you can save them, and when your cultivation is higher in the future, you can eat two pills a month, or eat them in months when you can't gather enough."

"Oh..."

Emotions are infectious, and a good teacher has his benefits. Hearing Master say this, the two were naturally infected by his leisure and patience, their hearts settled, and they breathed a sigh of relief again.

Then they heard Master say:

"By the way, when you were subduing demons and exorcising ghosts, didn't you wonder how I knew there were yaoguai and ghosts causing chaos at the foot of the mountain?"

"Disciple was curious."

"Disciple was also curious."

"Outside Fengshan, at your Junior Uncle's Fengshan Hongye Guan, people from the foot of the mountain come to the door every day." Lin Jue smiled slightly, "Another day I will let Ziyun go exorcise yaoguai with you."

"Eh..."

The two looked at each other.

There was one more to share.

Lin Jue didn't immediately go to find the temple of True Person Jiling, visit him to seek dragon whiskers, or immediately go to Flying Mountain to wait for and find the opportunity and method to enter Yuanqiu Mountain, but stayed in the pavilion in the mountain, continuing to teach the two disciples spells and let them go down the mountain to exorcise yaoguai.

There were many reasons—

It was because the disciples had begun to learn the method of blooming in an instant and the method of controlling objects, which was not good to interrupt. It was also because it was said that True Person Jiling had a bad temper, and now that the world had changed, he had been seriously injured by the Divine Lord Fuchi, and repairing his divine body required a large amount of incense and aspiration. However, the incense was rapidly declining, so going later might be more beneficial to Lin Jue. It was also because Daoist Jiang had not yet brought them other news about phoenixes, and that Yuanqiu Mountain had no signs at all, so he didn't know how much time it would take to find it.

So there was constant sound of preaching and teaching in the mountains.

The two disciples listened carefully in the pavilion, and practiced and discussed carefully after coming down. Sometimes they went down the mountain to exorcise yaoguai together.

Lin Jue stayed in the pavilion. Besides preaching and teaching, when he was not doing anything, he felt his own Dao and spells, and often went to visit the Xiao Xiao Shimei at Fengshan Hongye Guan. Sometimes the Xiao Xiao Shimei also came to visit him.

Besides idle chat, the two also exchanged experiences in cultivating disciples, and often watched the disciples' cultivation in the mountains and on the clouds.

Spring was bright, light and shadow were mottled, new deep paths were repaired in the mountains, Ziyun was facing the stone in front, Xu Yi was planting trees in the back, and they returned home before dusk, meeting on the road, bowing to each other, and asking for peace.

The stream was murmuring, floating light and leaping shadows, Pu Mei sat on a stone covered with moss, holding a wooden knife in her hand, attaching magical power to the wooden knife, whispering incantations, and the knife flew up, flying high and low between the stream and the forest under her dry and unsmooth incantations, sometimes hitting the tree trunk, brushing past the branches, and knocking down a few peach blossoms.

Planting trees was obviously faster than repairing roads.

With the alternation of days and months, Xu Yi, who was planting trees, gradually caught up with Ziyun, who was repairing the road. Hearing the movement behind her, she looked at the youth's figure behind her. Ziyun was very anxious. It happened that Master had also returned to the temple, so she didn't need her to receive incense guests alone every day, so she worked harder to repair the road and practice spells from early morning until late at night.

The youth had to plant trees by the roadside, and had to wait for her to repair the road before planting trees. In the extra idle time in the middle, he often stood by the trees he planted, looking up at the mountain flowers in front of him that were gradually beginning to wither, in a daze.

Spring flowers are so good, why are they so short?

"Hoo..."

The youth blew at the tree, wanting to keep spring for a step.

But how could the spring breeze be as he wished?

It was already the end of spring.

Because the spell-controlling technique was really simple, Pu Mei had already mastered it and began to learn the original method of controlling objects. At this moment, she was also standing under a tree, looking up at the pear blossoms falling with the spring breeze, concentrating, wanting to control the soft flower petals in the air with her heart and spells.

But although these flower petals were light, they were not up to her.

They often went down the mountain to exorcise yaoguai.

At first it was two, later it changed to three.

Sometimes they fought with yaoguai, sometimes they competed with ghosts, sometimes it was human disaster, and they had to take some detours and use some cleverness to solve it. Sometimes it was calm, sometimes it was very thrilling.

Wealthy officials in fine clothes respectfully offered them white silver, and asked them on the side where they came from and who their master was. The three exchanged glances and passed it off vaguely. The ragged common people were filled with gratitude, but couldn't scrape together anything to be grateful for. The three followed Master's teachings, bowing forward repeatedly to help them up, just treating it as acting on behalf of heaven and practicing spells.

There was silver money, rice and flour, and joy in their hearts.

Just as Lin Jue said, disciples honoring their master's orders to go down the mountain to exorcise yaoguai could also increase merit for their master.

Both Lin Jue and the Xiao Xiao Shimei's merit were increasing.

Also as Lin Jue said, after they went down the mountain to exorcise yaoguai, they realized the importance of spells, and practicing spells would be more serious and diligent.

There were constant figures practicing hard and pondering in the mountains. Sometimes the three little ones even gathered together, either discussing with each other, or going to ask Master Wan and others for advice. There was even the foolish thing of going to ask Senior Xiao Shimei Fuyao for advice, which was no different from finding confusion and seeking a blow.

Most of the time, the fox and the colored cat played and played carefree beside them. Sometimes they turned into crows and sparrows, chasing each other in the sky.

Heaven does not disappoint the painstaking, and those who have ambition will succeed.

In the deep mountains, the sound of shouting was constant, accompanied by *pi pa* sounds.

The young girl clapped her palm down, with a *ha* sound, and the hard stone on the mountain actually cracked in response, opening a huge gap.

This was truly something that happened unknowingly. Even the young girl herself looked at the crack and then at the mountain stone in front, following the crack to see how long it had cracked, and looked down at her own hand, her expression very blank, even stepping forward to check whether the mountain stone in front was hard or brittle, clearly not daring to believe that this was something a little girl like her could do.

Xu Yi was not far behind her, but he didn't seem to see this scene.

At this time, spring had long since gone far away, and summer was more than half over. Peach, plum, apricot, and pear blossoms had all withered, and even the bitter neem flowers had thanked, and the mountains were lush and green.

The youth already knew the truth that the spring breeze could not be kept.

At this moment, he was not standing under the flower tree in sadness, nor was he standing under the lush tree full of leaves in nostalgia, but standing under a withered tree, feeling sad and a pity in his heart.

This tree didn't survive.

From spring, this tree didn't bloom. At that time, he felt it was normal, because after the tree was transplanted, the roots were damaged and it needed to be buffered for a year, so not blooming was normal. But now, seeing it not only not grow leaves but gradually wither, he knew it was dead.

The youth felt that this tree was dug by him from the deep mountains. Originally it grew well in the mountains, and it was he who harmed it.

Reaching out and touching the trunk, it seemed he could perceive it.

I don't know how long passed—

"Sigh..."

Sighing, he turned to leave.

But he didn't know that when he turned around, the tree actually changed, slowly growing a flower bud, and blooming purple bitter neem flowers.

Until Ziyun reminded him, he was stunned when he turned around.

At almost the same time, Pu Mei was still sitting cross-legged beside the small stream, the bamboo forest beside her rustling, and bamboo leaves falling. She reached out and spread her hands, her heart incomparably calm, but the bamboo leaves hung on her hands.

Not until Ziyun reminded him did he turn around, and only then was he stunned.

At almost the same moment, Pumei was still sitting cross-legged beside the small stream, the bamboo forest beside her rustling, bamboo leaves drifting down; she reached out and spread her hand, her heart incomparably calm, yet a bamboo leaf hovered above her hand.