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Chapter 186 Six-winged Summer Cicada
"Niece Xian, why did you take out the vegetable jar from the breakfast hall?" Chong Xuzi asked curiously.

"..."

"The food in the cafeteria here is good, old man. The pickled radish is delicious." Xie Lingjiang nodded, turned his eyes, and said, "I'll take some back."

"Pindao thought that niece Xian would be more interested in pills." Chong Xuzi shook his head, "But if you like to eat, then bring some more. There is nothing else in Gezao Mountain, but there are quite a lot of them. Those little dolls are beautiful and jade The food is spoiled by senior brother."

The old Nanhuaguan muttered, thought for a while, then turned his head and said:
"There are also some other special products. I will ask someone to pack them later, and take them back with my niece. I received a letter from your father before, saying that you are now practicing with a brother in the same school in Longcheng, Jiangzhou. Are you staying in that small town?" The place is suffocated? Finally, come to Gezao Mountain, then have a good time.

"Last time I saw you, was my niece eight or ten years old? Hiding next to your father's lap, she was quiet and respectful, and even teased her with a straight face... As expected of someone from a scholarly family Miss Xie.

"In the blink of an eye, so many years have passed. Speaking of which, Pindao and Xie Daoyou haven't seen each other for a long time. They just exchanged letters. I didn't expect my niece to be so tall. She is really a slim and graceful lady.

"Hahaha, it's just that Pindao didn't expect it. This character is a little less stuffy and more greedy. It's pretty good. I've told you Daoist Xie a long time ago. How can my daughter be buried in the sea of ​​books every day to develop a good personality?" If you are a nerd, do some things about your daughter's house properly, only if you are smart and mischievous."

The old Taoist priest Nanhuaguan smiled and clapped his hands.

Xie Lingjiang couldn't help but blushed slightly when the elders brought out the embarrassing things about her childhood, and turned her head to defend:
"I'm not greedy. I brought it for others. The old man misunderstood it, so I don't eat it."

"Oh?"

He raised his eyebrows at Xuxuzi, twirled his whisk, looked up and down at the red-clothed man holding a vegetable jar and his pretty face with anger, he suddenly asked:
"The person you like likes to eat this pickled radish?"

Xie Lingjiang's complexion changed, and he quickly returned to normal, with the usual tone: "What did the old man say, can't you bring it to my father?"

"For a young girl like you, it would be nice if you don't forget your father at home, and bring him delicious food when you come out to play? How can there be such a sensible girl in this world? Yes, you have to be filial after you get married. ..."

Chong Xuzi nodded.

Seems to be very experienced.

"..." Xie Lingjiang choked, and couldn't help saying: "What kind of nonsense is this old man?"

"Could it be that Pindao made a mistake?"

Chong Xuzi walked in front, with his chin held high, his hands behind his back, and continued with a smile:
"It turns out that my niece Xian's brother likes to eat pickled radishes so much. I will bring some more when I go back later, and I will also bring a jar back for the old man. Well, I praise him for his good fortune. He can be favored by the noble daughter of the Xie family."

Xie Lingjiang scowled, "I don't understand what the old man is talking nonsense."

Chong Xuzi ignored it, and sighed to himself:

"In the past two days, Niece Xian was waiting for Dan to stay on the mountain. At night, some bold young people in the temple often came to ask Pindao about Niece Xian. After going out, niece Xian already has her own heart, and there is no red line to hold, those dolls really don't care."

The old Taoist nodded, and squinted at a red-faced and embarrassed girl in red with a smile:

"Although there are still a few good young heroes in Guannei, the brother who can make my niece secretly agree with him should be the dragon and phoenix among the people."

Xie Lingjiang was thin-skinned, pretended to frown, hugged the porcelain altar, and waved his sleeves:
"Senior, can we have a serious chat, what are you talking about, this junior doesn't quite understand..."

Chong Xuzi smiled:
"I don't understand? Niece Xian has been looking at the sky and the water for the past few days, and she is in a daze. This can't be hidden from people with discerning eyes. Don't tell this old man that you are missing your old father.

"Those dolls are still young and don't know much about women's state. Pindao is not a doll. He has never eaten pork, and he has seen pigs run away. This is not lovesickness, so what is it?"

He shook his head, interrupted Xie Lingjiang who was hesitant to speak, and asked directly concerned:

"In other words, when Pindao was refining alchemy in Yuqing Palace, those dolls should have eyes, so go and disturb you. If there is, just say it, see if Pindao doesn't clean up the house properly."

Chong Xuzi snorted softly, as if he had long been dissatisfied with some impetuous young people jumping around in the door.

"No, I didn't pay much attention to it. Thank you, senior, for your concern." Xie Lingjiang shook his head and didn't care.

After a pause, she saw Chong Xuzi glance at the porcelain jar containing pickled radishes from the corner of her eye, her face quickly turned serious, and she returned to the topic:

"Senior, what happened to the lovebird antidote that you helped refine earlier?"

The smile on the corner of Chong Xuzi's mouth retracted, he raised his hand and shook his sleeves, a blue and white gossip pill bottle slipped from his hand, and threw it out.

Xie Lingjiang caught the pill bottle, lowered his head to open it, and reached out to catch it.

Two round, blood-red pills lay quietly in her tender palm.

There was a faint fishy smell.

Xie Lingjiang sniffed and frowned curiously.

"Two blood pills, one at a time, take it with water, three days apart, and then cooperate with your luck every day to expel the poison. Those who are poisoned can return to heaven."

Chong Xuzi said lightly.

Xie Lingjiang was overjoyed, stood in place, and bowed in salute: "Thank you, senior." His tone was sincere.

Chong Xuzi shook his head:

"It's nothing, just do it as you please. Recently, I happened to practice a furnace of golden pills for Longhu Mountain, so I borrowed the high-grade purple gold pill furnace from Yuqing Palace to help you practice two detoxification pills."

After a pause, he said with great interest:

"Pin Dao has heard a little about the poison of lovebirds. If you prepare an antidote out of thin air, please ask the Taoist brother who is currently the most powerful in medicine in Guanyin to come out. It will be very difficult, unless you use the "Golden Liquid God Alchemy"" Nine-turn Dancheng' can be used to detoxify golden pills, but it also consumes a precious platinum talisman, which is too wasteful..."

The old Taoist Priest Nanhuaguan shook his head. Why are Taiqing, Yuqing, and Shangqing called the three sects of talismans, and why do they belong to the Sanshan Dripping Blood School?

It is because the three sects come from the same line to a certain extent, and the unique skills of the three sects need to consume a special and precious talisman to use, whether it is the Yuqing sect who is good at Huang Qi Wai Dan, or the master who is good at asking gods to help the spirits. The Shangqingzong who is good at Leifa is still the Taiqingzong who is good at Leifa.

"So how did you get the blood of the person who took the antidote, niece Xian, and who was poisoned to find the medicine?"

Xie Lingjiang shook his head slightly, "It's a long story... by the way, old senior, just now when you retreated to refine alchemy, the alchemy mist was really thick in Yuqing Palace. This is the He Dan you practiced, and it has such momentum?"

She changed the subject and asked casually.

Chong Xuzi's face gradually became serious, he shook his head slightly, but didn't speak immediately.

Xie Lingjiang's eyes became more and more curious, but he didn't seem to be urging.

Chong Xuzi took Xie Lingjiang forward for a while, bypassed several palaces, turned into a relatively secluded garden, and then narrowed his eyes and whispered:
"It's okay to talk to my niece, just don't spread it. There are several celestial masters surnamed Zhang in Longhu Mountain. Recently, they came across an ancient tomb hidden under Shentan. In the Eastern Jin Dynasty, it was the place where top-grade Qi practitioners sat and became immortals.

"However, if this is the case, there is nothing unusual. Their Taiqing sect's background is the deepest among our Sanshan Dripping Xuezi School. For reference, the spirit treasure pills are also obsolete and scrapped, but they found a living creature by accident..."

"What living things?" Xie Lingjiang leaned forward and asked curiously, "There are still living things in the ancient tomb?"

"Six-winged summer cicada."

Chong Xuzi spat out the four characters lightly, Xie Lingjiang's face froze.

Chong Xuzi glanced at the expression of this virtuous niece, not surprised, he asked in a low voice:
"Niece Xian has also heard of it? The five strange insects?"

Xie Lingjiang looked around at the deserted garden, nodded slightly, but what Chong Xuzi didn't see was that the bare hands under her sleeves silently clenched into fists.

The old Taoist still chatted to himself, as if he was reciting an ancient book:
"Six-winged summer cicada, one of the five strange insects in ancient times. After hatching, the young cicada burrows into the ground and hides for 360 years. In midsummer, it digs out of the soil and hatches its birth eggs... Rumor has it that people in Qi ate it by mistake in ancient times. The whole body is like a cicada shedding, completely reborn, a congenitally leaky body, mended to perfection, people of Qi practiced Qi, cultivated a thousand miles a day, walked against the wind, and traveled towards the North Sea..."

Chong Xuzi turned his head, and said to the frowning Xie Lingjiang:

"The classic description may be exaggerated, but it is generally accepted that the five ancient strange insects each have their own special effects. Among them, the six-winged summer cicada is said to be able to transform a leaky mortal like a summer cicada, reborn as a top-level cultivation seed, So, Longhushan Tianshi Mansion is so lucky, tsk tsk.

"However, Pindao is a little skeptical. It's not just the rhetoric of those old guys who strayed into the ancient tomb and accidentally caught the six-winged summer cicada that was unearthed in 360 and gave birth to eggs.

"It may be that some seniors from Longhu Mountain have marked this place long ago, and the descendants of Tianshi Mansion followed the map to find out, but they are not envious. This is called the background of the sect.

"It's not like our Yu Qingzong, who knows what kind of messy dignitaries, full of copper smell, after a hundred years, these dignitaries have already been buried, and there are still a few families left. Look, not everyone can be like the Louguan Taoist sect in the north, who can help the dragon and benefit the dynasty..."

Chong Xuzi muttered a few times, as if he had some complaints about some of Yu Qingzong's lines in recent years.

Xie Lingjiang suddenly turned around and interrupted:
"Old man, how can Longhu Mountain Celestial Master's Mansion feel at ease to use such a fetish that can change the life of a leaky mortal against the sky?"

Chong Xuzi turned his head, nodded and said:

"The adults of the six-winged summer cicada can only live for one midsummer. If you want to keep the supernatural effect of transformation for a long time, it is naturally better to refine it into a elixir, and eat it raw. Naturally, there is no such thing as a elixir into the body to make the best use of it...

"Besides, there happened to be an old celestial master in Longhu Mountain who had a good personal relationship with Pindao, so he asked Pindao to use the sect's unique knowledge of Nine-Turn Pills, and they provided the platinum talismans to be consumed, and the probability of success in the pill was guaranteed, and finally it was a big one. Get three pills."

"A six-winged summer cicada, turned into three golden pills? How about the magical effect of transforming into a mortal?"

Xie Lingjiang frowned and asked.

Chong Xuzi shook his three fingers with red nails. Gein had been in contact with cinnabar for many years, so he said with a smile:
"Naturally, it is also divided into three, but it is enough to make mortals who cannot practice qi degenerate into seeds of cultivation suitable for qi training. Although it may not be considered top-notch, but from the perspective of the poor, it is a stable method, suitable for Longhushan Heaven Shifu.

"This is the inheritance of the Zhang surname. The reputation of the ancestors is already loud enough. I don't want to find a peerless wizard to go further, but I want to at least be able to practice Qi normally, inherit the mantle of the Heavenly Master's Mansion, and keep the family business."

Chong Xuzi praised with a smile that was not a smile, and he didn't know whether it was a sincere admiration or a joke.

Xie Lingjiang listened silently, holding the porcelain altar of pickled radish that he brought to senior brother, lowered his eyes and said to himself: "Three grains of mortal transformation golden elixir, just take out one grain..."

The woman's eyes unconsciously fell on the sleeve of the Taoist robe that Chong Xuzi had just shaken off the blue and white gossip pill bottle.

Chong Xuzi was startled, laughed and shook his head:

"My niece, what are you muttering about? Just now, the old celestial master was waiting in the alchemy room next to me when I was poor in alchemy. As soon as the golden alchemy rolled out of the furnace, I put it in a wax box and handed it over immediately... They have already flew away in the air, how could they be on Pindao?"

"Why are you so interested in my niece? Judging by your complexion, you have already entered the seventh rank, unless you are going to dissipate your energy yourself, take the golden pill, and re-train your spiritual energy."

Chong Xuzi muttered, then shook his head in denial:

"But in this way, if you only take one golden pill, it will be of no use to your existing talents, unless you can take three pills in a row, you can try to practice Qi again..."

Xie Lingjiang looked up at Chong Xuzi, smiled and shook his head, without saying a word.

Chong Xuzi looked at her for a while, then suddenly said: "Niece Xian seems to be really interested."

Xie Lingjiang sighed lightly, without denying it.

Chong Xuzi shook his head: "Don't talk about three golden pills, just ask for one, the Taiqing Taoist priests in Longhu Mountain won't give it, and it's useless if your father goes away. Even if it is the face of the Xie family in Chenjun, it is not good enough for life."

Xie Lingjiang narrowed his long and narrow eyes, and said slowly:
"If it's... What if it's the face of the Li family's royal family? As the head of the Sanqing Taoist sect, the Taiqing Sect of Longhushan has always envied the deeds of the Nanshan Louguan Taoist sect's assistant Li's Gaozu and Taizong's deeds... ..."

Chong Xuzi was taken aback.

As if recalling something faintly, the old Taoist fell silent immediately, and looked at the calm and silent Xie Lingjiang frequently.

After a while, the two chatted about other topics. When they reached the end of the garden, Xie Lingjiang took a look at the sky:
"Thank you, senior, for your help. There is an urgent matter. The junior will go back first, and I will come to the door next time to thank you."

"Niece Xian, please be polite, pay attention to safety on the road, and say hello to Fellow Daoist Xie on behalf of the poor."

Xie Lingjiang nodded and turned around.

Chong Xuzi waved again, and said casually: "By the way, go to the breakfast hall and bring some more pickled radishes to your brother in Longcheng County."

Xie Lingjiang's back froze, and he looked back in shame and said, "You... how do you know it's him?"

"Eh, really? Guess, I've been telling you about it, my niece Xian is upset, she'll do it as soon as she hits her." Blinking at Xuxuzi, shaking his sleeves, he said with a smile: "Let's guess again, poor Taoist. The senior brother in Longcheng County should not be able to practice Qi, he has a leaky mortal body, so my niece Xian pays special attention to the Transformation Golden Elixir."

"..." Xie Lingjiang.

Looking at the hurried back of a certain red-clothed man holding the porcelain altar and fleeing in a hurry, the old Taoist priest Nanhuaguan laughed.

After a while, when the figure was gone, the old Taoist who hadn't smiled so happily for a long time said to himself:
"Hey, by the way, fellow daoist, does he know about this? My daughter has been abducted, and it was my apprentice who did it. Why don't you send a letter to laugh at him? Hahaha, it's interesting."

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(End of this chapter)