Chapter 159: Yuanqing Receives Talisman

Lu Jiangxian sat at the foot of the mountain, watching the moon-white stone monsters jumping around. These monsters he had enlightened worked diligently in the mirror, and the pale blue halo on their heads made the shadows on the ground flicker. Most of the buildings in the mirror world had already been repaired, looking much more pleasing to the eye.

Lu Jiangxian's life in the mirror, besides researching witchcraft, was watching the rights and wrongs of the Li family outside. It was not only plain but even a bit boring. Life was just like this, jumping back and forth between helplessness and boredom.

"Now that witchcraft has made some progress, these years haven't been in vain."

He had not only researched some curse techniques but also researched blessing and tracking techniques, but for an artifact spirit living in a mirror, it was of little use.

However, Lu Jiangxian also increasingly felt the connection between Shanyue witchcraft and the Dharma Mirror. As his understanding of witchcraft gradually deepened, many Dharma Mirrors that originally required complicated operations to control became more and more at will, and he could even use the Dharma Mirror to perform many operations that he couldn't do before.

Spiritual sense flew out from the mirror body, and the stone gate opened with a rumble. Li Xuanxuan and Li Xuanling led the children in. The refreshing scent of incense permeated the air, but the children had no reaction, all their five senses sealed by magic power, holding their elders' hands and not daring to speak.

Li Yuanjiao's eyes were pitch black, he couldn't hear anything, and he couldn't make a sound when he opened his mouth. He couldn't help but tighten his grip on his father Li Xuanxuan's hand. Feeling someone patting his shoulder, he hurriedly knelt on the ground according to his father's previous instructions, only feeling that his knees were soft, as if there was a kneeling mat, soft and smooth.

Li Tongya had already been waiting in the stone room, staring gloomily at the Dharma Mirror on the stone platform without saying a word. All four children knelt down. He looked at Li Qinghong with drooping eyebrows, didn't raise any objections, and said respectfully:

"Lijing Li clan, respectfully prepare clear wine and side dishes, cold food and sacrificial rituals. There are four children, respectfully requesting the Profound Bright Wonderful Method, the Life-Commanding Peace Spirit, serving the Dao and cultivating, being fortunate to obtain it, and being calm if not obtained. We should speak of merit in time, not fail to be effective and faithful, follow the talisman and burn it, and the body will thank the Taiyin."

Lu Jiangxian's spiritual sense moved, and invisible and colorless transparent ripples swept across. White, nearly transparent halos emerged from the tops of the children's heads.

On the far left was the eldest brother Li Yuanxiu, who possessed spiritual apertures, and his talent was also good. Although he couldn't compare to the previous generation's Li Xuanfeng, he was better than Li Xuanxuan. The white halo on his head was six inches long.

The white halo represented the compatibility between this person and the Profound Pearl Talisman Seed. If a person without spiritual apertures has a one-foot white halo, swallowing the talisman seed can make them like a person with spiritual apertures. If they already possess spiritual apertures, they can increase their cultivation speed by a full double. Li Yuanxiu's white halo was about six inches long, representing that after swallowing the talisman seed, he could increase his cultivation speed by 60%.

In the middle were Li Yuanjiao and Li Yuanyun, one in black and the other in white robes. Li Yuanjiao possessed spiritual apertures, and his aptitude looked even better than Li Yuanxiu's. The white halo was also seven inches, which could be said to be quite good.

Li Yuanyun did not possess spiritual apertures, but the white halo was also seven inches. Lu Jiangxian sighed slightly and excluded him.

The last one, Li Qinghong, made Lu Jiangxian's eyes light up. This child possessed spiritual apertures, and her talent was about the same as Li Yuanxiu's, but the white halo on her head was a full nine inches! Shining brightly, like a faint beam of light.

"Li Yuanxiu was originally a good choice, but from the scene decades later deduced by Liu Changdie from the Great Expansion Heavenly Profound Record, there was no shadow of Li Yuanxiu in the Li family... Investment has risks, so one needs to be cautious..."

After thinking for a while, Lu Jiangxian was like an old farmer sowing seeds in early spring, wondering which seed would have the greatest harvest next year. The mirror body floated up from the stone platform, emitting a faint white light.

"Although Li Tongya wants the Yuan generation to only seek one talisman seed, fearing that there will be no talisman seeds to use in a few years, I still have three talisman seeds hidden in the mirror. This matter is not up to him. I want both Li Yuanjiao and Li Qinghong!"

The twelve seal characters on the Dharma Mirror lit up one by one, making Li Tongya and Li Xuanxuan's eyelids jump, feeling that a boiling white moon essence would spray out from the mirror surface. Lu Jiangxian condensed magic power and spat out two Profound Pearl Talisman Seeds.

"There are now disciples of the Li clan who shall renounce their passions, cease their transgressions, and sever the roots of evil. I bestow upon you the Profound Brightness Subtle Method, that you may cultivate the Dao, transition from the mundane to the sacred, and from beginning to end, first follow the precepts and registers, and only then ascend to the truth. I bestow upon you one scroll of the 'Great Yin Breath-Holding and Wheel-Nurturing Scripture' and one 'Trace-Seeking Technique'."

Two white pills jumped up from the water-like mirror surface, round and glowing, white light flashing, illuminating the courtyard in a vast white. Several children had sealed their five senses and didn't notice, but Li Tongya was slightly stunned.

The two Profound Pearl Talisman Seeds fell one after another into the Shengyang Mansion between Li Yuanjiao and Li Qinghong's eyebrows, but because they had not practiced the reception method, they didn't follow the body's meridians down to the Qi Sea acupoint, but quietly stopped in the Shengyang Mansion and hid. Only after these two children ran the reception method would they merge into the Qi Sea acupoint.

Li Yuanjiao only felt a coolness between his eyebrows, as if something had been reflected in. Li Qinghong also frowned slightly. Both of them had a slight flash between their eyebrows, revealing a bright moon pattern, which flashed a few times and then disappeared.

Li Xuanxuan was also stunned. He didn't expect the Dharma Mirror not to choose Li Yuanxiu, but to choose Li Yuanjiao and Li Qinghong. He turned his head to look at Li Tongya and said in a low voice:

"This...!"

"Take the children out first."

Li Tongya shook his head, let Li Xuanling take Li Yuanxiu and the four away, and only then saw Li Xuanxuan hurriedly say:

"This... how can this be solved... Li Yuanxiu, as the eldest brother, also possesses spiritual apertures. The family will always be handed over to him! This, how can this be hidden from him."

"No need to hide... Yuanxiu is generous and gentle, and will not do those things of jealousy toward younger siblings."

Li Tongya and Li Xuanxuan went out of the stone room together, but there was still worry on their faces, and they said in a deep voice:

"What I am worried about is not Yuanxiu."

"Yuanxiu is generous. Future descendants may not all be like him. There are only one or two talisman seeds in each generation... Those who get the talisman seeds will inevitably be proud. In worldly affairs, one should not worry about scarcity but about inequality. After a long time, if you and I cannot manage the family, I am afraid there will be turmoil."

Li Xuanxuan also fell silent. The two stood on the hilltop for a while, and the cold north wind blew in their faces. Li Tongya murmured:

"My family's disciples, the direct line of the great clan who possess spiritual apertures or have received talisman seeds, let them know about the Dharma Mirror... From now on, issue the Xuanjing Spiritual Oath together to prevent news from leaking."

"If one more person knows, there will be one more danger of exposure... Clan Uncle also knows that the Xuanjing Spiritual Oath is not without loopholes."

Li Xuanxuan replied respectfully. Li Tongya shook his head and replied:

"We can only take one step at a time. At least ensure that the next generation does not leave hidden dangers of division. The system must be improved generation by generation. There is no method that can be set up once and for all."

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Li Xia County.

The Tangjin Sect people had already withdrawn. The blood and corpses in the county city had long been eaten clean, leaving only scattered fireworks and white withered bones scattered all over the ground.

The empty county city made a wooing sound in the wind, as if crying silently. The corpses in the city rotted and were eaten clean by wild beasts. There had been no pedestrians on the Li Xia Road for more than a year, and wild grass gradually climbed onto the road.

The sky over Li Xia County was cloudless for ten thousand miles, and a figure flew over from the south like a shooting star.

The man had five or six medicine bags tied to his waist, a long sword on his back, his face full of vicissitudes, and a faint knife scar on his left cheek. He looked at the empty city at his feet, sighed sadly, and said in a low voice:

"Twenty years, the Qingchi Sect is finally willing to let me come back... It seems that Clan Uncle also escaped the sect's test."

"My Xiao family's business, it is time to act."

Passing through the empty county city, Guanyun Peak had already appeared before his eyes. He was both happy and sad. Happy to have escaped the clutches of the Qingchi Sect and returned to his familiar home, sad that he still had to return the relics for his junior brother. He shook his head and murmured:

"Now how can I go to see Jing'er's family..."

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