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Chapter 527

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"Hmm!"

Pumei nodded heavily without hesitation and agreed.

Then she bent down respectfully and reached out to take it.

The six dragon scales fell into her hands, bringing a hard, cold, and heavy touch.

"Thank you, Master!"

Pumei thanked him and walked down the mountain steadily.

Just after reaching the bottom of the cliff, as soon as her feet touched the ground, she couldn't suppress the joy and excitement in her heart. She threw the six flying blades and pinched the formula in her hand—

These six flying blades are nearly two feet long, with the widest part being three fingers and nearly four fingers. Because the materials used are different, they are much heavier than the flying swords she originally built in the city down the mountain, and they have never been refined. With her current Dao practice and magic attainments, it is slightly difficult to control, so it is inevitable that they will sway when flying.

As soon as this one was lifted, that one fell down. After stabilizing this side, the other side swayed like fallen leaves in the wind.

After finally stabilizing, her first thing was to follow the master's previous appearance upstairs, and unfold the six flying blades, three on the left and three on the right, behind her from high to low, like a pair of wings.

With her heroic face, tall figure, and Daoist robe, the female Daoist pinching the magic formula had quite a bit of immortal and chivalrous spirit.

"Buzz..."

The flying blades actually rang by themselves!

The six flying blades were sharpened on both sides, with sharp ends and wide middle and narrow ends. They could rotate and cut, or fly and stab like swords. Except for being inconvenient to carry, they were all to her liking.

Especially since it looked really beautiful!

The female Daoist pinched the formula and waved her hand, using her heart and body together.

"Swish swish swish!"

The six flying blades, like wings on the left and right, flew out rotating.

Looking at the momentum, it was actually average. Three fell on the ground nearby, but they cut open a few stones on the ground with the force of falling. Two flew not far away and fell down. Only one flew far, cutting off a leaf of the bamboo in front, and drifted down with the cold wind.

"Need to practice more..."

Pumei muttered to herself and took back the flying blades.

Since then, when the three of them went out to eliminate Yaoguai, there were six more dragon scale flying blades in the air.

The cliff was still clanging.

The fox dug out a small wall cave under the attic, which was repaired and smoothed by Pumei. She also tried every means to collect wooden pillars, bricks, and tiles every day to build eaves, doors, and windows for it, so that it could be repaired from a simple

wall cave into a storage pavilion with doors and windows that looked decent.

Xu Yi built his own residence.

Both of them referred to the master's attic, and also referred to the residence of Master Wan Gong and Master Tao, and referred to the initial room of the Red Leaf Temple, plus their own preferences, and built houses under the guidance of Master Wan Gong and others.

The little senior brother couldn't help but be curious: "Junior sister, why don't you repair your own residence?"

"Master asked me to repair the storage pavilion first." The senior sister said, "I am older, and it doesn't matter if I live below for two more years."

"Oh..."

Not long after, the little senior brother went upstairs to visit the master.

The master told him that although the flower-blooming moment is his most powerful magic power, it has two shortcomings and one fatal weakness:

One shortcoming is that when he faces an opponent with a much higher Dao practice than himself, it is difficult to defeat him on the spot, and he can only slowly grind. Another shortcoming is that the spring breeze is ethereal and difficult to block and repel the opponent.

The weakness is that it is difficult to bloom on metal.

The master urged him to keep secrets and not leak the weaknesses of this magic to others, and told him that if he wants to use the flower-blooming moment well, he must cooperate with other magic.

"Master has quite a few magic here that are suitable for assisting the flower-blooming moment

, such as the method of repelling the enemy, the method of protecting the body, and the technique of escaping. However, you have to eat rice one bite at a time, and it is easy to learn miscellaneous if you learn too much. Master will first pass you a method of Gang Qi. When you cannot kill the enemy in the flower-blooming moment, you can wave Gang Qi to repel the enemy."

"Thank you, Master!"

Xu Yi was overjoyed.

"However—"

He heard the master say to him again:

"Although you and your junior sister have different focuses, it is right to learn a few more magic. However, last time Master gave your junior sister the flying blades to use, and asked her to repair the storage pavilion. She has been tired for so long. If I pass you another magic for nothing, and let her know, she will be unbalanced in her heart."

"Tsk..."

"Sigh, let's do this. Master has been looking at this cliff recently and felt something is wrong. Only yesterday did I suddenly figure it out. There are only attic palaces on the cliff, but no corridors connected. Although we don't need to take stairs up and down, it looks uncoordinated. It is too jumpy to always fly over eaves and walls. You should ask your Third Shixiong Xiao Shimei Fuyao to dig some stair passages on the cliff, and you will build railings and corridors to connect these attic palaces. This not only looks much more coordinated, but sometimes when you are in the mood, you can also walk on stairs and corridors, leaning on railings and looking into the distance."

"Yes... yes, Master..."

Xu Yi scratched his head and frowned: "Master wouldn't just want to ask us to work, right?"

"Hmm?"

"Yes!"

There was a clanging sound on the cliff, and they began to build winding stairs and corridors, connecting all the buildings on this cliff.

"Third Shixiong brother! Why don't you repair your residence either?"

"I thought about it, the junior sister didn't repair it, and I didn't repair it either." The little senior brother said, "I am young and have a strong temper, and it doesn't matter if I live below for two more years."

"..."

When the flying blades cut through the bamboo tips in the deep mountains and the Gang Qi blew the thorns, the capital was also as the junior sister said, with some peaceful atmosphere.

There were significantly more pedestrians on the street. Although it was not as good as before the troubled times, it could be called lively.

People's clothing and attire have changed somewhat.

Because the northern nobles entered the capital, the clothing was slightly leaning towards the north. Many people who conquered the world on horseback gained the right to speak, and the clothing fashion also slightly evolved towards the direction suitable for riding and shooting. Many nobles on the street looked much more capable than the previous dynasty. Although it was just a beginning, compared with the morbid and absurd atmosphere of the previous dynasty, it was already earth-shaking.

It is wonderful to say that it was only a few years of effort. The people who had been in the capital recalled the change of dynasty, and it was already as trance-like as a dream.

The "Red-Clothed People" in the capital reappeared.

It is said that the candidates in the examination room once saw the old man shaking his head, sighing that there were fewer students from the south, and the articles were slightly inferior to the spiritual energy of the previous dynasty. This spread widely in the capital, especially by some ministers in the court, either attacking the marshal who led the southern expedition for unfavorable fighting, or urging the emperor to launch another southern expedition.

The twin crabapples in the courtyard had not bloomed for a few years in the troubled times, but now they are blooming again.

It's just that the residence was lived in by the current emperor and an immortal, and it has long been vacant. Now, new strange people and scholars from the Juxian Mansion who live nearby saw a bunch of flower branches over the courtyard wall, and it spread, probably saying that the flowers in the immortal courtyard also have spirituality, which is a sign of auspiciousness.

The biggest change is the Yaoguai and ghosts in the capital.

It can also be said to be the difference between the Purple Heaven Palace and the Star-Gazing Palace.

Everyone knows that the capital is prosperous, and Yaoguai and ghosts also know that there are all kinds of temptations in prosperity, which mortals cannot stop, and Yaoguai and ghosts cannot stop either.

Some Yaoguai and ghosts admire human culture and covet the prosperity of the capital, mixing in the capital with various identities and appearances. Some like to hide in empty houses and abandoned houses where no one lives, some turn into human appearances to make friends and even fall in love, and some turn into "divine beings", enjoying the secret worship of a few families, and secretly providing them with some help or protection.

Many popular stories and legends come from this.

During the Star-Gazing Palace period of the previous dynasty, even in the prosperous age, the Star-Gazing Palace

didn't like to care, and by the end of the previous dynasty, the Star-Gazing Palace was very corrupt, so it cared even less.

But now the Purple Heaven Palace has entered the capital, and it is just the beginning of the dynasty, with full spirit. The Daoists of the Purple Heaven Palace searched the empty houses and abandoned houses in the capital one by one, expelled and arrested the Yaoguai and ghosts mixed in the capital, and distributed talisman papers to the people on the street for free, so that the people could take them back to ward off evil and eliminate Yaoguai. They also built small half-body temples at the major city gates to worship the gods of the gate-guarding soldiers, changed the City God, added City God martial officers and day and night wandering gods, and it seemed that they had the posture of expelling the Yaoguai and ghosts mixed in the capital.

Such a large-scale search for Yaoguai and evil-warding also spread many stories of eliminating Yaoguai in the capital that were different from the strange stories of the previous dynasty.

The emperor issued an edict to seal the "Red-Clothed People" and other spirits in the city as idle righteous gods, and personally returned to the previous courtyard to appreciate the crabapple flowers that bloomed this year, drinking and writing inscriptions.

The meaning is obviously to protect these spirits and divine beings who had a good reputation in the capital of the previous dynasty, and also to protect the spirits he knew.

Then the palace soon issued an order, ordering the Southern Heavenly Master and Master Yun Chan to lead the strange people and scholars of the Juxian Mansion, together with the Daoists of the Purple Heaven Palace, to search for Yaoguai and ward off evil. Whenever a Yaoguai was caught, the Juxian Mansion would interrogate and determine the responsibility. It was not without the intention of being dissatisfied with the northern divine beings and at the same time restraining the Purple Heaven Palace.

At the same time, there were guests in Fengshan.

Master Jiang still brought the fruit tea he made, sour and sweet, with visible rich fruit pulp, poured into a white jade cup, which was pleasing to the eye.

In the middle, a plate of pastries was made into the shape of flowers, with hawthorn and red dates as fillings, which was also sour and sweet, very appetizing.

Plus the red and translucent mountain loquat ice powder, it was an exquisite tea snack.

Sitting next to him were the junior sister and Lin Jue.

The three drank tea, enjoyed flowers, and chatted.

"I asked all over the heavens, and the last time someone saw the traces of a phoenix with their own eyes was in the legendary Mount Yuanqiu." Master Jiang pinched half a piece of pastry, her fingers slender and snow-white, and said, "However, Mount Yuanqiu had long since hidden into the world outside with the resignation of Emperor Tianweng. If you want to find it, I can tell you where it is."

"Mount Yuanqiu..."

Master Jiang also gave this answer, the same as "refuting the senior".

"Is it the Flying Mountain in Huizhou?"

"Do you know too?"

"I asked when I was in Mount Yishan."

"You can try." Master Jiang was not surprised, "It is said that there are many fierce big snakes in Mount Yuanqiu, but they are all food for the phoenix. Since you have become a True Person and attained the Dao, there should be no danger. In the past, there have been True Lord divine beings who went in and brought back the seeds of Yuanqiu fruit."

"Is there a way to get in?" The junior sister asked.

"No." Master Jiang's expression was indifferent, but her hand pinching the pastry looked a bit lazy, "It just depends on the opportunity."

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