Chapter 100: An Unfulfilled Mandate
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At dusk after the rain, the dark clouds in the east are thick and rolling, but the rainbow has been hung in the west, such weather is like an old man who has gone through vicissitudes, although he is approaching the twilight of his life, but still hopes that there will be a miracle in the last years. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
In a lush medicine garden in the valley of Xuanxu Peak, an old man in old clothes was walking slowly among the ridges with a cane. This is one of the seven main peaks of the Qixuan Mountain Range in Beiliang Chau. The whole Qixuan Mountain Range is thousands of miles in circumference, its topography is very peculiar, the whole mountain range winds and falls, runs through the north and south, forming nearly 100 valleys of different sizes and sizes, only seven steep peaks stand into the clouds, surrounded by clouds and mist all year round, and this Xuanxu Peak is located in the northernmost part of the mountain range.
As he walked, suddenly the old man's body trembled, and the old withered hand was raised, and slowly touched his neck, but then he showed a faint smile again, it was just a drop of water. He raised his head and looked at the trees facing the setting sun, and there were drops of water hanging on the leaves above his head, large or small, shining with colorful light under the red sunset, like stars in the blue sky, occasionally falling a few, drawing a trajectory in the air, falling to the ground, and breaking into pieces.
The foliage of this grove was luxuriant, shoulder to shoulder, densely next to each other, covering most of the sky, like a big sieve, sifting only the colorful sunlight to shine. The leaves drooped slightly, and I don't know if it was the weight of the raindrops, or the dim old eyes that couldn't see clearly, but I felt that they were gently shaking their little heads as if they were sad, and a few crystal tears fell from time to time.
The old man looked at the scenery in front of him and stood quietly for a long time before he smiled faintly, turned around, and walked slowly towards the cave not far away. But he didn't take a few steps, and suddenly heard the "squeak" sound of the shoes stained with mud, and when he looked down, he found that the shoes were soaked.
This old man is Li Liang, who is already one hundred and ten years old, since the last master, that is, the great monk in the late stage of Jiedan, has lived alone in this cave that originally belonged to him, including the valley in front of him with a radius of nearly 1,000 acres, and he has never left a step for a whole Jiazi time.
God is fair to everyone, when you get what you want, then you will definitely lose something, and you will not let all the benefits be concentrated on one person, which Li Liang understands very deeply. Sixty years ago he had been given the stable place he had dreamed of, and he had lived an ordinary rural life, but at the cost of his freedom, his range of activities was limited to this thousand-acre valley.
There is only one valley mouth in the whole valley, and there is a stone tablet where it is engraved with two very simple characters "forbidden land". This stele was built by his brothers and sisters after the death of Li Liang's last master sixty years ago, of course, Li Liang didn't know that they did it, but his explanation of the "forbidden land" was very emotional. According to the regulations of the Xianmen of Xuanzong Mountain, no one is allowed to enter or leave any place that is included in the "forbidden land", otherwise he will be punished with the most severe punishment -- soul extraction and soul refining.
Since the discovery of this stele, Li Liang has clearly known that even if he dies alone in this valley, no one will disturb him, so he arranged the improved "Closed Spirit Formation" into the valley, and carefully planned according to the topography and geology of the valley, and steadily cultivated wasteland in this valley, planted trees, cultivated medicine and bamboo, raised pigs and chickens, and lived a comfortable life that he longed for.
Xuanzong Mountain is a traditional and ancient sect of cultivating immortals, which has always been counted by "seven", for example, the seven people who cultivate the highest in the immortal sect are called "the seven sons of Xuanzong", and what are the seven elders, seven sects, seven spiritual veins, seven industries and so on. Under the seven peaks, there are the seven main spiritual veins of the Xianmen, and only the great cultivators who have cultivated to the Yudan stage can choose a valley under the main peak and open up a cave.
Li Liang's last master was an ascetic, and he was cold and arrogant, and he didn't like to deal with people, so he chose the most remote Xuanxu Peak, where the aura was relatively weak, and established the cave mansion. There are a total of three spiritual springs here, a small reserve of spiritual stone veins, two natural crystalline salt pools and an underground lava branch, although the spiritual energy is a little worse, but it is basically self-sufficient, which is better than other places lacking this.
This cave house was built very simply, with only a small living room, a bedroom for resting, a storage room for storing materials, a spirit beast circle for raising spirit beasts, and a huge alchemy room and refining room with an area of about four or five acres. In addition, there is a secret room where he meditates and cultivates, which is not here, but somewhere on the mountain peak, Li Liang doesn't know where it is, anyway, since he took Li Liang over, he has never appeared again, until two months later, the head of the house floated in mid-air, far away, told Li Liang the unfortunate news, and told Li Liang to live here first, and then take Li Liang over when he has a new master, but he didn't expect that this wait would be sixty years.
Li Liang, who successfully took over all this, did not live up to God's reward, and he built this place very beautifully. He planted a large number of Yuanci Lingzhu and Tianyu red fruits, as well as some cherished spiritual trees and spiritual fruits, forming a circle of nearly 500 acres of dense bamboo forest belt, with nearly five acres of land in the middle, divided into several cultivated plots of different sizes, planted with crops and ten thousand herbs and other medicinal herbs. In the surrounding area of Dongfu, a seedling cultivation garden of two or three acres in size was also built to cultivate and improve the seedlings of medicinal herbs and crops. In order to facilitate life, Li Liang also built a salt drying field of acres on the edge of the natural crystalline salt pond to dry edible salt. A pottery furnace was built near the spring to make pots, pots, pots, jars, and other household utensils.
In addition, in order to pass the time of life after farming, through unremitting efforts and persistence, Li Liang finally laid the Xuantian Array of Shennongzi in this valley fifty years ago. This is also thanks to the compasses that Zhou Yu and Han Ying gave him, as well as those Five Elements Mother Mine, because they were originally a complete set of array equipment, which confirmed Li Liang's conjecture, Brother Zhou must have gotten Shennongzi's good things because of some kind of chance. Of course, although Li Liang arranged the large array and started running smoothly, his formation attainments were really poor, and all the spirit stones and spirit ores in the storage bag were thrown into this field, which only made the Xuantian Great Array achieve about six times the birth effect.
To say that this Xuantian Great Array is indeed extremely magical, the medicinal herbs that were originally supposed to be six years old will grow and take shape in about a year, and the nutrients in them are not inferior to the medicinal herbs that were originally planted in the Baicao Gate for six years. However, the impact on the crops is somewhat unsatisfactory, just to double the yield, can not achieve the feat of six stubbles a year, but this also makes Li Liang extremely happy, you must know that the crops he planted before have reached a yield of five stones per mu, doubling is the yield of ten stones per mu, even if this output is put in the modern era of advanced science and technology, it will definitely win the Nobel Prize in science. What's more, the food grown tastes excellent, and the various foods made from them have a strong fragrance, which makes people linger for a long time.
In addition, Li Liang also improved the linkage device of the alchemy and put it in the alchemy room, refining a large number of various pills. Speaking of this, we have to talk about the structure of this alchemy room. Originally, Li Liang thought that the alchemy room should have such a big ding, and a big hole was opened underneath to bring up the leyline flames, so that the ding could be heated, but who would have thought that it was not like that at all. In the middle of the entire alchemy room, there was a large fire pit with a diameter of about three zhang, and a simple small low wall was piled up with unknown materials around it, and there was nothing else. This made Li Liang feel very surprised, how did this great monk in the late stage of the knot pill alchemy, and how big a pill did such a big fire pit have! But surprise is surprise, that great monk is already dead, and there is no chance to ask again, so this is cheap Li Liang. He changed the linkage device, adjusted the distance between the tripods slightly, and directly set it on the low wall of this big fire pit, and used the lever to shake it to the other side when taking the pill.
Thirty years ago, when the herbs planted reached a hundred years of medicinal properties, Li Liang tried to refine several new pills according to the records of the ancient alchemy books, including the "Aiki Pill" and "Heart Protection Pill" to enhance cultivation, the "Qingling San" to detoxify, the "Yuan Food Pill" for Bigu, and the "Feeding Spirit Pill" for feeding spirit animals. Of course, refining these pills is no longer as easy as refining "Ju Ling San", not only the medicinal properties of the medicinal materials required are about a hundred years, but the dispensing is also as many as twenty or thirty kinds, the refining process is also more complex, and the success rate is low, and in the refining process, the immortal cultivators must continue to inject spiritual power according to a law, especially at the moment of Cheng Dan, the heat to be grasped must be accurate, otherwise they will wait to harvest a black dregs. However, all this did not stump Li Liang, after ten years of hard work and wasting countless materials, Li Liang finally succeeded once, and since then it has been out of control, and then in the past twenty years, under the powerful consumption of people eating and eating beasts, he actually stored hundreds of jars of all kinds of new pills, which is a miracle.
Today, Li Liang slowly returned to the bedroom after slowly taking a deep look at everything he had built over the past 60 years. Half a year ago, he was still in good health, but he suddenly felt uncomfortable, his whole body became very weak, his joints lost their softness and became stiff, and his hands, feet and other parts of his body began to tremble disobediently.
In fact, Li Liang also knew in his heart that although he insisted on cultivating immortal martial arts, and three years ago, he put the "Gathering Spirit Technique", "Transformation Spirit Technique", and "Ziyang Immortal Skill" , and the Xuantian Five Tricks cultivated to the peak of the entry stage, but he still failed to break through to the condensation period in the end, death is already inevitable, and it is already a gift from heaven to be able to live to be more than a hundred years old, and this day will come sooner or later, so in the evening when it had just rained heavily, he trembled and walked out of the cave that had not left for three days, trying to take another look at everything he had spent half his life building.
Sitting on the bed, Li Liang slowly took off his worn-out clothes and put on the last new clothes. This new dress was given to him by Han Ying, and he has never been willing to wear it, so he is waiting for this day to wear it. may not have a chance in this life, wear the clothes she sent, maybe there will be a fate in the next life, which can be regarded as fulfilling her promise and living up to her friendship with herself.
Dressed and lying quietly on the bed, Li Liang stared straight at the shining moonstone in the cave, thinking about his life, the piles, the scenes, there were joys and sorrows, love and hate, like a real image reinterpreted in front of him. In this interpretation, fate is like a naughty child, turning the impossible into a possibility, turning the undesirable into a should, taking what should have been obtained, but taking away it stubbornly, although occasionally satisfying something, but taking more.
After a long time, Li Liang smiled faintly, and whispered, "Mother, the child can't fulfill your instructions in this life!", and slowly closed his eyes.
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