Mang Shusheng's Ink Painting Practice

Chapter 124: The Spring in the Well
In the following month, Zhao Yifu's "Shouren Fa" was often ineffective.

After failing three or two times at first, he decided not to bother trying to get it back. After all, he would have to fail again, right?

But he unexpectedly discovered that the more times he practiced, the faster he recovered...it could be said that each time was faster than the last.

This got him interested.

He felt that this was just like playing a game, as long as there was positive motivation, he could keep practicing like this!

Although I still don't know what the point of practicing like this is, I can't just switch states at will during a battle...right?

However, after traveling for a month, he found the situation in many villages difficult to deal with, because the situation was indeed as Sun Zhenghe had said, the land here was becoming increasingly barren.

The closer you get to Prisoner Mountain, the more severe the reduction in production becomes.

Moreover, the epidemics in these villages were very serious. Although the situation had improved a lot after his treatment, he also discovered the problem: these villages, without exception, had water problems!

He unleashed the "Shou Ren Law" many times in order to observe the source of the epidemic, but each time he only found that there seemed to be some miasma in the water sources of these villages.

The miasma wasn't very strong and was even evaporating constantly. However, both the streams and rivers above ground and the wells below had this problem to some extent.

But the good news is that this miasma can be eliminated by boiling water for more than three minutes.

Therefore, wherever Zhao Yifu went, he would emphasize that the people should drink more boiled water.

There is no need to worry about not having energy to boil water on the edge of the prison mountain. After all, the mountain is densely forested and you can go into the mountain to chop firewood at any time.

Even if we suffer a little from this, there is nothing we can do about it. Now it is a problem of water pollution.

"Senior, I don't think this is a trivial matter."

Zhao Yifu said as he looked at the Taoist monk Bai Na beside him.

Taoist Bai Na also nodded seriously and said, "The water source is polluted. The problem may lie in the Prison Cell Mountain."

"No, I have to go ahead and find the source of the problem in the prison mountain."

Zhao Yifu frowned and asked, "Isn't this too reckless?"

Taoist Bai Na shook his head and said, "Don't worry, I will go to Prison Cell Mountain to find my old friend from the Xieyue Sect to verify it. I'm sure that old friend should know something in Prison Cell Mountain."

Zhao Yifu hesitated to speak after hearing this. He had a very extreme idea: What if these anomalies were caused by the Xieyue Sect?

But he couldn't say such things, so he could only say to the Taoist monk Bai Na: "Senior, please be careful in everything."

"Oh, right, here are three Miasma-Breaking Pills and twelve Miasma-Removing Pills. If you encounter miasma in the mountains, one Miasma-Removing Pill will solve the problem. If the miasma is serious, use the Miasma-Breaking Pills to detoxify it."

Taoist Bai Na felt the spiritual energy contained in these pills and said with emotion: "What a wonderful pill. Thank you very much, nephew."

As he spoke, he returned the "Universe True Numbers" to Zhao Yifu and said, "I feel more at ease leaving this book with you. I've memorized everything in it anyway."

Zhao Yifu did not refuse and took the book and put it into his sleeve.

The Taoist monk Bai Na then stood up and clasped his fists to him, saying, "My dear nephew, we will meet again in the future."

Zhao Yifu also stood up, clasped his fists, and bowed deeply: "Senior, see you later."

With that, Taoist Bai Na turned and walked away, heading towards Prison Cell Mountain without looking back.

Zhao Yifu felt a little touched in his heart. There are separations and reunions. When fate comes, people gather together, and when fate ends, people disperse. This is the life of a cultivator.

Sun Zhenghe didn't quite understand what was going on, but he finally realized that the two were trying to find a way to help this withering land, so he brought his family to bow to the traveling Taoist Bai Na.

Zhao Yifu said, "Okay, next village."

Sun Zhenghe nodded, but then his expression became a little unhappy.

Zhao Yifu asked curiously, "What's wrong?"

Sun Zhenghe said, "The reason this village can't collect taxes is different from other villages."

"The remaining four villages are all very empty, but the situation in this village is... they have people, but no one wants to work in the fields, leaving the land uncultivated."

Zhao Yifu was surprised: "Is there such a thing?"

Sun Zhenghe said, "Let's talk as we walk."

So the team set off again.

Zhao Yifu also heard the story of "Wu Village" from Sun Zhenghe.

Wu Village was actually not very prosperous because there were many hills here.

The only advantage is that this is where two mountain streams meet, and the fishery resources are very rich. If the people here are diligent, they can eat fresh fish every now and then. It can be said that they live a very good life.

But now, when Zhao Yifu came here, he saw a scene of decline.

The houses looked dilapidated and even the roofs were covered with weeds.

But there was still smoke rising from inside, which meant that people were still living there.

But what about the people who live here?

If Zhao Yifu had to describe it, he could only say that he "deserved to be poor."

Why do you say that?
It all starts with the drought that year.

There was a drought that year and the people had no harvest. Normally, a large number of people would have starved to death at that time, but the people in this village lived well that year.

Because the entire Xie family, a wealthy family in this village, was killed overnight!
What follows is the story of how the evil of human nature slowly blossoms.

The people in the village were very scared at first, but as the drought continued, some people began to go to the Xie family's house to find food.

Once someone started it, it naturally developed into a looting spree.

The entire Xie family was killed, so the things in the Xie family’s house became ownerless in the eyes of the villagers. If they were slow to grab them, they would all become someone else’s property!

Things were relatively normal up to this point, and the villagers even received supplies to survive the drought, which could be considered a good thing.

However, there are always some people who will quickly fall into depravity after enjoying something for nothing.

The next year, when the drought was over, some people planted their fields while others did not.

What will those who don’t farm do after they have spent all their savings?
Since they have already robbed a rich man once, it doesn’t seem like a big deal for them to rob their neighbors again... Even if they don’t rob, stealing should be okay, right?

Once a person's lower limit is broken, it is really difficult to return to it.

So year after year, fewer and fewer people are willing to continue farming on their own. Even if they do, they do it secretly and dare not show it to others.

It is normal for the village to fall into decline.

Zhao Yifu stood at the village entrance and listened to the whole story. He said with some boredom, "Go and ask the people in this village how many are willing to admit the original land."

"Those who accept the title will keep the title and continue to collect taxes, and those who want to give it up will burn the title."

He decided to cut the Gordian knot with this village.

While Sun Zhenghe was making arrangements, Zhao Yifu himself walked to the house where even the beams had been pulled out.

Here, only ruins are left.

Zhao Yifu walked calmly among the ruins, of course not expecting to pick up anything decent. Any decent items here had already been looted by the villagers.

What Zhao Yifu is looking for is actually spirituality.

He felt that the people here had died innocently, so something must have been left behind.

As he was searching, Yi Yi in his arms showed her head first.

"Meow~"

It barked loudly, then jumped out and hopped over to a dry well in the yard. Zhao Yifu had already looked at this dry well and found nothing worth noting inside.

However, this time, after Yiyi reminded him and he looked carefully, he found something unusual.

He stood at the mouth of the well and looked down, feeling as if he was staring into the abyss!
This feeling made him shudder all over, and then he jumped down without hesitation... He jumped down!

It's really reckless.

Of course, he didn't just jump around randomly, but while falling, he flicked his left sleeve and a large Yangming bronze sword shot out!

He thought that no matter what was underneath, it would definitely be destroyed by the Great Yangming Copper Sword, which was the best at breaking evil.

As long as the opponent can show his health bar, there is a chance to fight.

If there is no health bar... I'm sorry, he will run away decisively at this time.

In fact, he didn't find any problems at the bottom of the well. He just believed Yiyi's judgment.

And when he stabbed it with his sword...it really caused a problem.

The sword tip pierced the ground, and the originally dry bottom of the well began to gush out spring water, as if only a shallow layer on the surface covered the bottom of the well.

But this is simply impossible. How can such a shallow stratum hold back the water?

Moreover, this water can be said to be gushing out from the ground, and the water pressure is extremely high.

When Zhao Yifu saw this scene, he immediately kicked his legs hard and rushed straight into the sky from the bottom of the well without any hesitation.

And it was at this moment that he realized something was wrong.

Because a gloomy air suddenly emerged from the bottom of the well, and it was like a claw that was about to grab him.

Zhao Yifu held his breath and concentrated, swinging the sword in his left hand in a circle in front of him.

Golden sparks faintly bloomed from the Dayangming fine bronze sword, immediately blocking out the gloomy aura.

Zhao Yifu landed safely, but his mood was completely different when he looked at the well.

It was obvious that there was something seriously wrong with this well.

He originally thought that there would be a huge uproar, but to his surprise, nothing happened. The only change was the stench coming from the wellhead.

The gushing well water was like the water in a biogas tank, full of the stench of fermented excrement.

Zhao Yifu covered his nose and retreated continuously.

He stopped breathing.

Under the 'Shou Ren Fa', the true energy flowing through his body now made his entire body into a completely closed space that no external force could invade.

At this time, Zhao Yifu had already become a flawless body.

From this perspective, the "Shou Ren Fa" is actually an excellent method of practice, or a state of practice.

This state of an impermeable body is itself consistent with the impermeable state of the golden elixir!

Zhao Yifu was already certain that practicing the "Shou Ren Method" would definitely increase the success rate of forming a pill.

At this moment, he held his breath, waiting for further changes in the well.

But in the end, nothing happened.

He looked closer out of curiosity...

As soon as I stuck my head over the well, I met a pair of dark eyes.

This is a pale boy with a pair of dark eyes lurking at the mouth of this stinking well.

And at the moment of eye contact, it revealed a smile that was so pure that it was weird, and then suddenly reached out to pull Zhao Yifu...

But the next moment, it quickly withdrew its hand as if it had been scalded.

Just because it touched the Haoran robe, it was burned by the Haoran righteousness bestowed by Zhou Su.

Zhao Yifu laughed out loud when he saw this, and with a flick of his arm he picked up the ghost baby from the well.

This is a big deal.

The foul air in the entire well began to boil, and Zhao Yifu could clearly feel the surging evil energy within it.

He suddenly thought of some of the content in "The True Numbers of the Universe" and recalled the scene of the two rivers converging outside. Combined with this location...

Suddenly I realized something.

This house is probably built at the intersection of two rivers below!
The direction of the river on the ground may not be the same as that of the river underneath, but there is no doubt that building a house at the intersection of the underground water veins should definitely be a good idea.

This well should be the one dug at the intersection and can be regarded as a "spring".

But now it seems that the water in the surface rivers is contaminated with miasma, and the groundwater is not clean either.

At least the groundwater he saw before him was polluted and full of filth.

In other words, the decline of the Xie family is also related to the pollution of underground water veins.

So what's going on with this little kid?

Zhao Yifu couldn't figure it out, so he dragged the ghost doll away and let the foul and evil energy in the well spread everywhere. It was useless to find the ghost doll.

After Zhao Yifu had distanced himself from her, he immediately called out softly, "Yiyi, bring me the spiritual paper!"

Yiyi understood and jumped down from the wall beside her, then quickly slipped into Zhao Yifu's right sleeve and took out spiritual paper and spiritual ink from his sleeve.

Zhao Yi Fu took the spiritual paper with his left hand and shook it, then unfolded a roll of spiritual paper in the air.

Yiyi also opened the lid of Lingmo at the right time.

At this time, Zhao Yi Fu pointed his left hand, broke the five elements seal on the jar, dipped a little spiritual ink, and then stretched out his hand and slapped the ghost doll held in his right hand.

The spiritual ink immediately transformed into countless strange patterns that covered the ghost doll's body, and then his left hand pressed it down and crashed into the spiritual paper...

The next moment, it was as if a stone was gently thrown into the water.

Ripples appeared on the spiritual paper, and then an exquisite portrait of a ghost doll appeared on it.

The portrait was still moving, constantly twisting and struggling on the spiritual paper, but it was unable to break through the two-dimensional space of the paper, making all this seem so futile.

Five elements seal.

Zhao Yifu used the Five Elements Seal to seal the ghost doll on the drawing paper.

In other words, the spiritual paper given by the master has this carrying capacity.

Zhao Yifu looked at his sealing technique and felt quite satisfied.

After losing the ghost doll, the dirty well suddenly lost its spirituality and calmed down.

However, at this moment, Zhao Yi Fu suddenly heard a hoarse and ferocious cat cry outside.

"Meow~"

Then the cry of an unknown animal was heard.

The cat's meow comes from the girl Hua outside, so who is it addressing?
Zhao Yifu could only temporarily abandon the well and run outside.

　There are two chapters today. After all, I was really busy this week and couldn't update more. I feel guilty.

　　
　
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