Chapter 296

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Shou Tian County, Guhuaizhen, abandoned temple.

Southern Jizhou, heavy rain poured down. The green grass had long been drenched into mud by the rain, and the emerald green leaves stood vertically in the rain, washed by the rain without any vitality.

The sky was gray, making people breathless, as if darkness would shroud it at any time.

The scholar was in a hurry, wearing a straw raincoat and hat, holding books wrapped in cloth in his arms, running wildly in the heavy rain.

He saw the abandoned temple not far away, his eyes lit up, he hugged the books in his arms tightly, quickened his pace, and ran over in a hurry.

Whoosh whoosh——

The scholar was panting, closing the doors and windows tightly. Although the temple was dilapidated, it didn't leak wind or rain, which was the good fortune in misfortune.

He opened the package to check if the books were wet. Perhaps because they were well protected, the books were still dry.

The scholar lit an oil lamp and read softly with the help of the dim oil lamp.

A beautiful shadow suddenly appeared behind the scholar. The shadow had a seductive smile on her lips and patted the scholar on the back.

Seeing the shadow appear, the scholar seemed to be bewitched and couldn't help but laugh. Stay

After the heavy rain, the exhausted scholar left the abandoned temple.

Three figures dressed as scholars walked in the muddy fields, one step deep and one step shallow, quite embarrassed.

"Why is this road so hard to walk?" one of the scholar figures complained.

Another figure rolled his eyes: "Make do with it, don't be ungrateful. Isn't this condition much better than when we were in the dense forest?"

"That's true."

The third figure explained: "I heard that there was a heavy rain that hasn't been seen in ten years yesterday, which drenched Guhuaizhen thoroughly. The river water overflowed the river bank. I heard it will rain again tonight."

"Tsk, I feel this is not a good omen."

Lu Yang pointed to the temple and smiled: "That's just right. There is a temple in front. Although it's a bit broken, the Buddha statue should still be there. You can go and worship when you stay overnight."

"Re-organize the plan. According to existing information, the other party is very vigilant and will not appear easily. And the other party is a ghost, with brilliant escape techniques, and is not easy to catch."

"The female ghost's strength should be at the Foundation Establishment stage, and the specific realm is unknown."

"If the female ghost appears, we must wait until we are sure she won't run away before we make a move to catch her!"

"Our current identity is scholars going to the Imperial City to seek fame, borrowing a night here, taking this opportunity to lure the female ghost to appear!"

"So far, no news of the female ghost killing people has been received. Don't use lethal force when catching the female ghost."

"I didn't have experience when I went out before. Since I saw my master being thrown into prison, I understood the importance of using a fake name outside. This way, even if I lose face, I won't lose the face of the Profound Heaven Sect. Let's verify our names again. My name is Lu Yiyang."

"My name is Long Meng Jingzhou."

"My name is Li Hao."

The three discussed it and felt that there was no problem with the plan, so they restrained their aura to the extreme, disguised themselves as mortals, and walked into the temple.

"This temple is so clean." Meng Meng Jingzhou was surprised. He thought it would be full of dust, with spiders weaving webs in every corner.

The situation inside the temple greatly exceeded his expectations. The temple was as clean as if someone had cleaned it.

The only regrettable thing was that the upper half of the Buddha statue in the middle was missing, and it could not be worshipped.

Li Li Haoran found dry firewood from behind the Buddha statue, which should have been left by the last person who borrowed a night here.

He piled the firewood together, found some dry grass, took out a flint from his bag, and lit the firewood pile with the dry grass as a guide.

Li Li Haoran roasted his hands by the fire, revealing an extremely comfortable expression: "Whoosh——came back to life."

Lu Yang took a few steamed buns out of his bag, skewered them with wooden sticks, and roasted them over the fire.

When the outer skin of the steamed buns turned slightly yellow, Lu Yang broke one of them open, and the fragrance mixed with heat rushed toward him.

Meng Meng Jingzhou circled the broken temple and returned to the main hall: "Except for the main hall, there are two other rooms. It's just right for one person to sleep in each room when we sleep later."

"Good."

The three gathered around the fire, eating steamed buns and pickles, while sighing that the road ahead was not easy to walk.

Lu Yang's heart was full of worry, and he didn't even feel the steamed buns in his hands were fragrant: "I don't know if this trip to the Imperial City will be smooth. I heard that there are cultivators everywhere in the Imperial City. It's harder than heaven for us mortals to get ahead there."

Meng Meng Jingzhou waved his hand: "The number of cultivators in the Imperial City is not as exaggerated as you think. It's good if there is one cultivator in twenty people. How difficult it is to become a cultivator. Just the spiritual root alone screens out 99.9% of people."

One cultivator in twenty people, this proportion is already extremely terrifying. No large city in the Central Continent can reach this proportion.

"Although we don't have spiritual roots, we have knowledge, various articles are at our fingertips, and we have unique insights into current politics. Tomorrow we will leave Shou Tian County, go to the capital for the exam, seek fame, get the appreciation of His Majesty, and seek an official position. It is not impossible."

Not all officials with ranks in the Great Xia Dynasty are cultivators; some are mortals.

Meng Meng Jingzhou pointed at Li Li Haoran with a steamed bun and said: "For example, Brother Li, he recited the 'Thousand Character Classic' at five, wrote poetry at seven, wrote lyrics at eight, and wrote articles at ten. He is talented, his articles are wonderful, as if they were made by heaven. The teacher praised him endlessly, calling him the best student he had ever taught."

Li Li Haoran smiled reservedly: "Brother Long is exaggerating. It's just that the teacher wanted to encourage me, so he evaluated me like this. On the contrary, Brother Long, you don't inherit the family business, but want to go to the Imperial City to seek a future. This confidence, and the confidence that comes from this confidence, is something Brother Lu and I can't compare to."

The three flattered each other, then flipped through the books of sages, reading with relish, feeling that what the sages wrote was really good. It is worthy of being a famous article that can be passed down through the ages. If they could write such an article, they would die without regrets.

Meng Meng Jingzhou yawned, ruthlessly hitting Lu Yang's dream: "Alright, stop dreaming, sleep, we have to get up early tomorrow."

The three walked into their respective rooms according to what they said when eating steamed buns.

Lu Yang and Meng Meng Jingzhou went to the rooms on both sides to sleep, and Li Li Haoran stayed in the main hall to sleep in front of the half-broken Buddha statue.

In the darkness, three beautiful shadows stared at Lu Yang and the three, with faint green light radiating from their eyes.

"Three more people came, and their yang energy is vigorous. I really want to know what they taste like……" the green-clothed shadow smiled lightly.

"Yes, yes, it's been a long time since I've seen such vigorous yang energy scholars. Although scholars read sages' books for a long time and can cultivate Li Haoran Zhengqi, it's rare to see three like this." The red-clothed shadow licked her lips, full of temptation.

The white-clothed shadow was younger and hurriedly said: "Two sisters, you must be careful. Don't suck their yang energy dry. You have to look at problems with a sustainable perspective."

"They will come a second time after being comfortable once. After coming and going, the yang energy we absorb is more than sucking it dry at once."

"I know, I know. Little Seven, you are not old, but you are the most long-winded. The two of us know the measure and won't overdo it. If we overdo it and attract the investigation of the righteous path, we will be the ones who are unlucky. The two of us still understand this truth."

"Split up. The two of us will go to the two rooms next to us, and Little Seven, you stay here to serve this Li guy."

It is a masterpiece with a moving and heart-wrenching plot.