Chapter 2: Time is quiet and good, Deyunguan
The next morning, the morning light was very bright.
Li Chu has become more energetic recently, and he doesn’t feel sleepy even if he only sleeps for two hours at night.
As soon as he went out, he saw his master sitting on the stone bench in the courtyard, lost in thought.
Yu Qi’an is in his fifties, but he doesn’t look old at all. He is dressed in neat green clothes, with his temples hanging down, and he is sitting upright under a tree. He has an air of immortality that is natural to him.
Seeing Li Chu coming out, he took a glance and said: “Not bad, disciple, your cultivation has improved again.”
Li Chu secretly thought that it was awesome. He had just upgraded and he couldn’t escape the eyes of his master, so he nodded and said: “It’s just a small improvement. Thank you for the compliment, Master.”
”Your current cultivation level is almost catching up with what I was when I was your age. You should encourage yourself more and don’t slack off.” Yu Qian said lightly.
Li Chu was very excited when he heard this and said hurriedly: “Disciple knows!”
Yu Qian nodded slightly and showed a satisfied smile.
Earlier, Yu Qi’an said that his sect’s martial arts can only be practiced by the Heavenly Spirit Root that comes only once in a hundred years, so he could not pass it on to Li Chu. Li Chu was also deeply disappointed.
Thanks to the fact that he later discovered that he had the ability to fight monsters and upgrade, he began to embark on the path of spiritual practice. He had never dared to dream of chasing Yu Qian, so it was an unexpected surprise to receive such a high evaluation today.
After simply making breakfast, the master and the disciples ate, Li Chu put on a neat Taoist robe and came to the front hall.
After all, he is a Taoist priest, and his main job during the day is to sit on the futon in Sanqing Hall, waiting for pilgrims to come.
Yu Qi’an didn’t have to wait here, firstly because of his identity as the temple’s owner, and secondly because there were few pilgrims in Deyun Temple, and it was common to see no one for most of the day.
Even if someone comes, they are mostly poor people from nearby villages who cannot give them a few incense money, so there is no need for him to come out to greet them in person.
Only when those famous wealthy people come, Li Chu will go to the backyard to invite the master out.
Often, Yu Qian’s mellow voice can be exchanged for a month’s worth of expenses for the master and apprentice.
Every time this happens, Li Chu would sigh behind him, this is called professional!
He is worthy of being the idol of middle-aged and elderly men in Yuhang Town.
At this time, this idol was sitting at the stone table with an upright attitude, flipping through a picture album with gusto.
The wind blew the pages of the book, floating up and down, and you could see several big characters written on the cover of the album, which vaguely looked like lamp, grass, monk, and shang.
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sitting on the futon.
Li Chu silently circulated the power in his body. Although such operations would not promote the growth of strength, but it would generate a warm current in his body.
This warm current can relieve fatigue, dredge meridians, activate blood circulation and remove blood stasis, and revive men’s virility.
With this operation, he can sit cross-legged on the futon all day without his legs going numb.
This is a very practical skill for Taoist priests.
He didn’t know what to call this power. It was different from physical strength and energy. It was like a ball of air that filled the whole body. Once it leaves the body, it would evaporate instantly and become intangible.
There are many practitioners of the Eight Classics in this world, and they naturally know the existence of true energy. It is the embodiment of the spiritual power of heaven and earth in the human body, and is the basis of all divine channels. It is extremely mysterious.
But the difference is that Qi needs to be enhanced through breathing and circulating around the sky. As for Li Chu’s power, the only way to enhance it is to fight monsters and upgrade.
If not, why would he take the “risk” to attack the Lantern Monster?
Yes, a hint of risk is a risk.
In his opinion, there are too many dangers in this world!
Demons and ghosts are collectively called evil things.
On the first day after Li Chu traveled through time, he witnessed a tragic incident in which an evil object harmed people.
Brother Niu from the next village was dragged away by a water ghost.
Moreover, in order to get his body back, his relatives had to endure the pain of sacrifice to the water ghost, and then his body was recovered.
Human tragedy.
Later, because of his status as a Taoist priest, Li Chu witnessed some cases of evil things causing trouble, which left a heavy shadow on his modern soul who was born under the red flag and grew up in the spring breeze.
After his strength improved, he helped solve some of them, and the process usually went smoothly.
But killing means killing, fear means fear.
He knew very well that he was only in a small corner of the vast world. There are countless powerful demons and ghosts in this world.
The Taoist scriptures say: Young people should not be too energetic.
In fact, objectively speaking… The current world is definitely in a peaceful and prosperous state.
Today the world is under the rule of the Heluo Dynasty.
This is a powerful feudal dynasty.
After the soul-stirring war between gods and demons, the Heluoji family has determined the world. It has been nearly 800 years since the founding of the dynasty, and it is still as solid as a rock.
There is a complete bureaucracy internally, a powerful national defense army externally, prosperous commerce, and strict laws. Regarding evil objects, the imperial court has a special agency to deal with such incidents, and there are also many sects composed of cultivators in the world.
The founding emperor of Heluo once personally ennobled the twelve immortal sects, established the imperial examination for immortals, and encouraged practitioners in the world to eliminate demons and defend the Tao.
Taoism and Buddhism, civil and military sects, are all willing to contribute their own efforts to protect the safety of one side and expand their followers.
But the entire dynasty is too vast. No matter how many cultivators there are, once you encounter an evil thing, no one can guarantee that you can be rescued in time.
They can only try their best to avenge you…
Yuhang Town is the jurisdiction under the Heluo Dynasty, Jiangnanzhou, and Hangzhou City, and Shilipo, as the name suggests, is just ten miles outside Yuhang Town. If it is divided into details, it may even belong to a certain village.
Sometimes Li Chu would also wonder if he was too timid as a time traveler.
It’s been almost a year and I haven’t left Novice Village yet.
But then I thought again.
I didn’t get the treatment that a time traveler should have.
There are all kinds of portable systems, and all kinds of fancy systems. No matter how bad it is, a time traveler has to have a super super magic weapon, right? What about me?
There is not even any spiritual root for cultivation.
Just the ability to fight monsters and upgrade. I have to work hard every night to fight monsters to improve my “insignificant” strength.
Thinking of this, Li Chu felt calm.
It’s impossible to get out of the mountain, it’s impossible to get out of the mountain in this life, and I don’t have a golden finger, so I can only brush the lantern monsters and barely keep up the level.
The people in Yuhang Town are all talented and well-spoken. I really like being here!
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The sun is shining brightly and the clouds are white.
The cicadas in the tree chirped happily.
In the Taoist temple, the young Taoist priest quietly waited for the pilgrims in the front hall, and the old Taoist priest quietly looked at the picture album in the backyard.
The so-called quiet years.
The scent of heather hung in the air.