Chapter Eighty-Four: The Son is Coming
The whirlpool of the turbid river under the cliff is reversed, and the haze between the mountains is stirred up like a tangible wind.
The whirlpool expanded rapidly, and soon occupied the water surface of the entire Dragon Scale Town, and the water column stood up in the center, and an illusory water shadow was like a dolphin surging across the water, and it was a huge water monster about ten zhang long.
Lin Shouxi covered the eyes of the three-flowered cat with one hand and closed his eyes at the same time.
The sound of the water churning quickly passed, and when Lin Shouxi opened his eyes to investigate, the water surface returned to calm, and only the long roar of the ape came from nowhereβthere was no danger, and it didn't seem to have the intention of attacking.
"You ......" Lin Shouxi stared at the three-flowered cat, puzzled: "Do you have any ability to speak your way?" β
"The deity...... Where does the deity know! Besides, it's normal for me to have a heavenly constitution in my mouth! β
The three-flowered cat's mouth hardened its own courage, it was also a little stupid, the legend of the drowning god was not nonsense, but it never thought that this thing would appear so coincidentally.
It was not the first time that its words were immediately fulfilled, and even it was scared, after all, it had always been an open-mouthed cat.
"You're going to have to be careful with what you say and do, you know?" Lin Shouxi knocked on its head and warned.
"Well, this time you have a meritorious role in saving the driver, so I will listen to your slander first." The three-flowered cat didn't have a mouth, nodded fearfully, and said to himself: "Alas, I almost became the first emperor." β
The ripples on the water surface had calmed, Lin Shouxi retracted his gaze and asked, "Won't it take the initiative to attack people?" β
"I don't know."
Sanhua Cat shook his head and said, "Those who can commit such acts of self-harm and suicide are either fools or madmen before they are alive, and they are probably crazy after death. β
"Does it make sense to be such a god?" Lin Shouxi said.
"The deity doesn't know." Sanhua Cat said: "Anyway, mortals have to pay a heavy price to become gods, of course, the most likely is ...... Pay the price, but get nothing. β
"And there are quite a few such gods." Sanhua Cat added: "It is said that outside the city wall, in addition to the god of death, there are also the god of calamity and the god of calamity, which represent natural disasters and man-made disasters respectively. β
"Why?" Lin Shouxi asked.
"Because God is afraid of death."
Sanhua Cat said mysteriously: "In the past thousand years, the three gods have created too many killings on the earth, and the souls killed by them have gathered together and condensed into the 'God of Killing', and the divine knife of the God of Killing symbolizes revenge 'Ghost Return', which comes beyond the Netherworld, and the meaning of its existence is to let the ghost return to drink the blood of the God of Calamity, the God of Calamity, and the God of Death. β
"Do the gods have natural predators?" Lin Shouxi felt absurd.
"Of course, everything has a price, and that's one of the costs of using their power." Sanhua cat said.
"You've only been born for a year and a half, and you've never traveled far away, why do you know so much?" Lin Shouxi was intrigued by its intermittent erudition.
"Because the deity is ......"
"Tell the truth." Lin Shouxi interrupted directly.
"......" the three-flowered cat pulled its tail and said, "I learned these when I was in prenatal education, and the name of the person who stole me out of the devil's nest was Du Che, and he often invited that person named Zhong Wushi to come and drink, and I listened a lot to the side, so I naturally knew it." β
"By the way, I always feel that the one called Zhong Wushi is very wrong!" Sanhua said with a kitten face.
"Hmm." Lin Shouxi also felt the same way.
"The deity also knows a lot of messy stories about the gods, do you want to hear them?" Sanhua Cat asked.
"Forget it, we'll talk about it later."
Lin Shouxi was a little uneasy, he was accustomed to the strange demons and gods in this world, and in comparison, he was more curious about the little earth cat around him who always thought that he was His Majesty the Emperor.
A cat who loves to write and can always say what she wants?
So, will the world it depicts come true because of some inexplicable force? At that time, the Divine Record will become the holy scroll of the new world, and the three-flowered cat will write the new covenant for all beings as the creator god......
Lin Shouxi shook his head and threw this wild and unrealistic idea out of his mind.
"By the way, since you said that the devil's nest has been declining recently, why don't you just kill it and eradicate the troubles?" Lin Shouxi asked.
"Decline is relative." Sanhua Cat explained: "If you really think that the Demon Nest is weak, then you are very wrong, no matter what else, the Demon King in the Demon Nest is very scary. β
"Demon King?"
"Well, the Great Demon King!"
"It is said that he is the ruler of the Devil's Lair, but no one has ever seen him with their own eyes, only ...... Shadow, the Three Realms Village has tried to send people to reconnoiter the devil's nest, and even let the half-demon go undercover, but they are all seen through by the shadow, there is no return, it is like a shadow behind us, and no conspiracy can hide it from him! β
Lin Shouxi listened silently and nodded.
He roughly sorted out what happened here - a year ago, the Demon Nest led by the Shadow wanted to create a living magic weapon, but the important person of the Demon Nest, Du Che, suddenly betrayed, he took this 'weapon' and severely damaged the Demon Nest, and wanted to flee all the way south, but unfortunately encountered a fog blocking the mountain, and could only settle in the Three Realms Village.
The Three Realms Village and the Demon Nest were already at odds with each other, but now that they have accommodated this traitor, they have become mortal enemies with the Demon Nest, and during this year, there has been frequent friction between the two sides, and it has been decided to determine the ownership of Dragon Scale Town in the form of a January competition.
The whole thing didn't seem complicated, but Lin Shouxi always felt that it was a whirlpool, and they were unaware of it, and they were slowly brought into the center by the current.
If this central point really exists, what would it be?
Lin Shouxi closed his eyes and pondered for a while, and asked, "When is the Scale Worship Festival?" β
"Five days later." Sanhua replied, "What do you want to do with this?" β
"I just remembered that the old man who made the lamp said that you will be free after the festival of scales." Lin Shouxi said.
"Yes, Granny Doll is helping me sew the doll clothes, and I will have new clothes to wear by then...... I hope it can be prettier. Sanhua Cat is full of expectations for her new image, and as for the identity of a divine weapon, she is not at all conscious.
Lin Shouxi frowned tightly and didn't say anything, the feeling of mountain rain coming was pressing into his heart, but he couldn't see anything clearly because of the fog around him.
He took the three-flowered cat around Dragonscale Town and returned to his residence.
If he couldn't figure it out, he didn't want to think about it for the time being, so he got rid of his distracting thoughts and began his daily practice.
Lin Shouxi opened the art of alchemy, meditated, and began to build the prototype of the Ding furnace in his body.
He ran the exercises given by Luo Shu, sat and watched himself, looked at the Xuanzi Qi Pill, and exhaled it in an orderly manner, the Qi Pill rotated rapidly, and the true qi flowed all over the body, flesh and blood, bones, and joints, and they were pulled by the Qi Pill and vibrated in some kind of mysterious rhythm.
Through the practice of the past few days, he has vaguely found the trick, at this moment, his chest and abdomen are hot, and there is already a vague tripod-shaped shadow in the center of the purple qi pill, but he still lacks a lot of heavenly and earthly treasures, and he can't condense this shadow into reality for the time being.
Fortunately, these treasures are not too precious, and it should not be difficult to obtain them when they go to the sacred mountain in the future.
As for Dinghuo...... If Xiao He can't be found for a while and a half, then how should he improve the grade of Dinghuo in the past few years?
Lin Shouxi didn't think about it for too long, and soon he came up with a plan - to guard himself like jade and not to cultivate Dinghuo.
On the other side, his first apprentice Xiaoyu also got the control of Xiaojianlou, she didn't need to deliberately run here in the future, and she could finally swagger and secretly practice in Xiaojianlou.
Although Xiao Yu was happy, she was still afraid of Master's somewhat stern attitude, especially the ...... She thought about it afterwards, Master was so powerful, how could she have won him? Did he mean it if he lost and never saw me again, or was it just a joke?
Xiao Yu cares about this matter very much, so he is also a little absent-minded when practicing the sword.
Once the mind flies away, the sword will not be practiced well. Lin Shouxi supervised her cultivation while practicing the art of refining the tripod, and he would correct small mistakes when he encountered them, and he would severely reprimand them when he encountered big mistakes, scaring the lazy Xiaoyu into shock.
After some sword practice, she didn't make much progress, but when she summed up her mistakes and self-punishment, she beat herself to tears.
Lin Shouxi couldn't cry or laugh, and asked, "Does Xiaoyu have anything on his mind?" β
"Hmm...... Yes, there is. Xiao Yu said honestly: "I'm thinking about the competition we agreed on." β
"What's wrong with this?" Lin Shouxi hoped to give her a motivation to practice, but he didn't want this to make her upset.
Xiao Yu didn't answer directly, but asked, "Master, how old are you this year?" β
"Fifteen, huh...... It could also be sixteen. Lin Shouxi wasn't sure how long he had been unconscious.
"Master is so big."
Xiao Yu sighed with emotion, and finally cut to the point, and said with a serious face: "I thought about it for a long time, and I feel that this agreement is unfair to Xiao Yu, Xiao Yu is seven years old this year, and he will only be sixteen years old in another nine years, but at that time, the master was already twenty-four or five, and you will always eat nine more salt and radishes than me, how did I win you." β
"Hmm...... There is some truth in the whisper. Lin Shouxi nodded, feeling that this was indeed a bit too much of a bully for her.
"yes, yes." Xiao Yu nodded in agreement.
"Then let's revise the rules for the teacher."
Lin Shouxi quickly thought of a solution: "This competition is set at Xiaoyu's sixteen years old, and when the time comes, I will suppress the realm at the same level as now, and then we will all compete with the sixteen-year-old realm cultivation, how about it?" β
This plan sounded a lot fairer, and Xiao Yu agreed and decided to catch up with it in the next nine years.
But for Lin Shouxi, this correction is more like coaxing a little girl, whether it is in the old world or the new world, there is only one real opponent he has encountered among his peers - Mu Shijing. Although Xiao Yu's real talent is indeed good, he never thinks that this little girl will be able to beat himself at this moment in another nine years.
Xiaoyu has not yet condensed pills at this moment, where can she go after nine years? Xuanzi? Muddy gold?
However, it doesn't make much sense for the realm to catch up with him, after all, Deputy Yuan of the Yuan Chi Realm is not his opponent, unless Xiao Yu can become an immortal.
Sixteen-year-old immortals......
Lin Shouxi shook his head, he recalled slightly, even Chu Yingchan only entered the immortal realm at the age of seventeen, and Chu Yingchan was never proud of entering the immortal realm at the age of seventeen, because she said that she was not the fastest in Yunkong Mountain, the fastest was her master who entered the immortal realm at the age of sixteen.
Sixteen-year-old Immortal Realm, there is only one person in the entire Yunkong Mountain, can Xiaoyu become the second?
But Xiao Yu obviously didn't have any self-knowledge, she was relieved a lot after getting this promise, and she was no longer absent-minded, she was hard and serious when she practiced the sword, and her movements became more and more regular and neat.
In the blink of an eye, Xiao Yu obediently said goodbye to the master and went to dinner, and Lin Shouxi also exhaled a breath of fresh air and ended the day's practice.
His cultivation speed is very fast, and through the efforts of the past few days, his Heart Ding has begun to take shape, and now he has to start looking for the immortal herbs needed for refining the Ding.
In addition to the herbs in the garden of Xiancun, he also lacked three materials: stone lingzhi, water root living mother, and Zhaoyue grass.
Although these three materials are not cherished, the environment in which they grow is very harsh, especially the Water Root Living Mother and the Illuminated Moon Grass, which are spiritual creatures cultivated in the territory of the Sacred Mountain, and it is almost impossible to get them outside the mountain.
In the territory of Mount Kinabalu......
The only connection he has with Shenshan now is Xiao Yu, Xiao Yu's family is well-off, and it shouldn't be difficult to get these things, but does she have a way to send them over?
Lin Shouxi originally thought about it casually, but when he thought about it, he really thought of a certain possibility!
"Fish fairy." Lin Shouxi turned around and shouted.
The three-flowered cat is full of energy at night, but it is always sleepy during the day, it opened one eye and asked a little strangely: "How do you know that you called me an honorific title today?" β
"What conditions do you need for this python-body dragon statue to connect with the outside world?" Lin Shouxi asked.
"Eh, what do you want to do?" Sanhua Cat tilted her head and asked as if she didn't understand, "Do you want someone from outside to send something over?" No, how can you contact people outside, if you have this ability, aren't you just a god, don't you just sacrifice to you? β
"Sacrifice to me?" Lin Shouxi was stunned for a moment, thinking that his pattern was still small compared to those who wrote books.
But if you think about it carefully, it makes sense, in this world, believers can sacrifice to the gods in a special way, and Xiaoyu is like his own believer, so he ......
"What are the requirements?" Lin Shouxi asked.
"All it takes is a simple condition!" The three-flowered cat wagged its round tail and said, "You have to be a god." β
Its words were like cold water pouring down, instantly shattering Lin Shouxi's whimsical fantasies.
"You should tell me how to build a connection with the python dragon statue." Lin Shouxi sighed.
"The deity doesn't know very well, after all, I don't need to worry about these things, but this statue has a long history, longer than the year of the existence of the god mulberry tree, and the way of sacrifice is not a secret, when the time comes to return to the fairy village, the deity will catch two people and ask to know." The three-flowered cat said casually, looking like a supernatural power.
"Hmm." Lin Shouxi was much more determined.
In this way, when the time comes, Xiao Yu can use this sword to establish a connection with the idol, so that he can get what he needs to refine the tripod through Xiao Yu.
Although Xiaoyu has not been apprenticed for a long time, it ...... It's time for the apprentices to repay the Master!
It's just that there are always more difficulties than solutions, and I don't know if there will be any other problems at that time.
"Then let's go back now." Lin Shouxi said.
"What?" Sanhua Cat was taken aback, "Do you really have a way to contact the cat outside...... people. β
Lin Shouxi smiled, casually made an excuse, and said, "We've been here for three days, and it's not a big deal, so it's time to go back." β
"Having said that...... Sanhua Cat thought for a while and said, "But the deity has been on a private visit for three days, and no one has come to Dragon Scale Town to pick it up, so strange, could it be that there are rebellious ministers and thieves who take advantage of the fact that the deity is not tampering with the court?" β
"Possibly." Lin Shouxi said with concern: "If you don't go back, the throne may not be guaranteed." β
"It's okay, let's talk about it after eating first, the emperor is restored without the deity." Sanhua Cat is very open-minded.
"Well, then you can go to the teahouse and get food." Lin Shouxi said.
"It's been two days since the deity was gone, so it's your turn today, right?" Three-flowered cat rage.
"Rock-paper-scissors?"
"Get out! The deity is not a fool either, it is impossible for you to win a third time! β
The three-flower cat was angry and ashamed, it was defeated by Lin Shouxi's scissors for two consecutive days, and only today did he come back to his senses and realize that he had been deceived, and it angrily reprimanded Lin Shouxi for his 'crime of bullying the king', while pushing him out of the door.
Lin Shouxi was forced to go out.
As soon as he pushed open the door, the sound of wings fluttering sounded in his ears, and he looked up at the sound of a bird coming across the canyon in the dim night sky, it was a wooden mechanical bird, its wings were broken, and it was about to fall in the air.
Finally flew to the destination, it almost swooped down, Lin Shouxi stretched out his hand, quickly pinched its wings, and hid the letter in the bird's belly, he unfolded it and looked, there was only a simple line of words on it, Lin Shouxi read softly: Lord, there is a big event in Xiancun, return quickly.
The three-flowered cat has sensitive ears, and it rushes out with a whoosh.
"What's wrong with the people of the deity!"
It jumped on Lin Shouxi's shoulder, saw the contents of the letter, and immediately woke up: It's not that they don't care about themselves, it's that there are really rebels who are causing chaos in the court!
Lin Shouxi put away the letter, but he didn't rush to leave, he first found a guard here, took a firework that transmitted the signal, and instructed Ruolongscale Town to light it as soon as there was an accident.
"What? Are you worried that someone will transfer the cat away from the mountain? β
Sanhua Cat felt that his idea was a little unrealistic, after all, he was the inevitable thing of the Demon Nest, if the news of its existence in Dragon Scale Town leaked, and the enemy intended to deceive it by false faith, it should also be stable in Dragon Scale Town, how could there be a reason to let the cat return to the mountain?
Unless they want to get something more important than themselves, but obviously, it is the Thousand Noble Earth Emperors of the Three Realms Village, and there will be nothing more important than it!
As night fell, under the urging of the three-flowered cat, Lin Shouxi set off to leave Dragon Scale Town, and he vaguely felt that the fog covering here was slowly dissipating, and the surging undercurrent was about to emerge in its original form.
The deep gorge is the easiest for people to ambush, and he can't see the signal fireworks of Longscale Town, so Lin Shouxi didn't choose to take the road in the middle of the canyon, he climbed the wall directly, crossed to the area covered with reddish-brown trees and thorn bushes, and walked along the mountain road.
Although he had taken precautions, he didn't expect that he bumped into the ambushed demon soldiers before he was halfway through.
The demon soldiers of the Devil's Nest swooped down on both sides of the canyon, clad in grass armor, their eyes swept downward, and their bows and crossbows and swords were hidden in front of their arms, ready to fight at any time.
This place is full of fallen leaves and thorns, and it is difficult not to make a sound when walking, so when Lin Shouxi arrived, the demon soldiers also noticed it.
The big demon at the head turned his head and looked unkind.
Lin Shouxi pressed his hand on the sword, and was just about to fight, but he heard the big demon lower his voice and say, "You are also sent by the Great Elder?" Come here, be quiet, so as not to scare people away, hey, look at you have all cultivated into human form, why are you still like the first ambush. β
Lin Shouxi was stunned for a moment, said sorry, and then naturally mixed in.
"Such a small cat demon has also been recruited? It seems that there are not many people under the elder......" The Great Demon sighed, confused about the future of the Demon Hive.
"I'm here to gain experience." Sanhua Cat also entered the play quickly, and hurriedly asked: "Boss, dare to ask what we are here for?" β
"Dare to come without knowing anything, you cat has eaten the guts of a tiger?" The big demon said coldly.
The three-flowered cat smirked, looking ignorant.
"The man we are going to ambush this time is said to be very strong, and last time a brother who was stronger than me broke in his hand. But don't worry, we don't have to kill him, just drag him down. β
The big demon also looked nervous, as if to give himself courage, he continued, "Tonight is the night of the arrival of the Holy Son, we must take the Dragon Scale Town and escort the Holy Son back, when the Holy Son returns, the Demon Nest will definitely be able to revive!" β
The rest of the demon soldiers responded one after another.
Lin Shouxi and Sanhua Cat glanced at each other with strange expressions.
"What? You don't even know that? The Great Demon noticed their strangeness.
"Yes, yes." The three-flowered cat was very knowledgeable and said, "With the Holy Son, our Demon Nest will definitely be able to strengthen its wings, and defeating the Three Realms Village to regain the Venerable Lord is just around the corner!" β
Before the words fell, fireworks exploded in Dragonscale Town.
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