He started as a shepherd and took on countless jobs.

A strange light appeared in Pei Si's eyes as he looked at a huge pool.

The pool contained a light orange-red liquid, and a fragrant aroma of wine wafted through the air.

Pei Si squinted. This is... the legendary monkey wine? He summoned the Northern Yue Dog, filled a bowl with monkey wine, and poured it into the dog's mouth.

The Northern Mountain Dog gulped down the drink, its eyes lit up, and it began to circle around Pei Si.

The body of the Northern Mountain Dog had grown somewhat larger.

This monkey wine has the effects of replenishing qi and blood, detoxifying, and prolonging life.

Pei Si held the Cloud in the Blue Sky Water Bottle in his palm, and by making hand seals, streams of monkey wine from the giant pool were drawn into the Cloud in the Blue Sky Water Bottle.

This bottle can not only hold water vapor, but also store other items.

Pei Si carefully put away all the monkey wine and looked around at his surroundings.

This place is where the monkey demon clan holds sacrifices; it's definitely not just a place to hold monkey wine.

Pei Si always felt as if something was secretly watching him.

He continued to delve deeper.

Splash!

The sound of flowing water reached my ears.

Pei Si followed the sound of the flowing water and went to find it.

Cut the vines, and the view suddenly opened up before you.

A thousand-foot white waterfall cascaded down from the top of the cliff, like a silver river hanging upside down. Upon seeing this scene, Pei Si realized that the waterfall that plunged three thousand feet truly existed.

There are old pine trees hanging upside down on the cliff edge, with green vines hanging down.

Surprisingly, there is also a Water Curtain Cave here.

Pei Si cleaved the water curtain with a single stroke and flicked his sleeves.

Pei Si took a step.

Inside this Water Curtain Cave, there are also stone tables, stone chairs, stone bowls...

In the very center, there was an altar, on which was enshrined a statue of a deity.

That sense of being watched came from this statue.

Pei Si squinted and examined the statue.

It has a monkey-like face with pointed cheeks, high cheekbones, round and bulging blood-red eyes, pupils as thin as hair, red eyebrows standing up like flames, a wide mouth with exposed fangs, a three-pronged purple-gold crown on its head, a lithe and agile body, a slightly hunched back, soft armor, a vermilion barbarian belt around its waist, a long stick in its right hand, and a chain in its left.

"Interesting, interesting. There's even a deity worshipped here."

A cloud of black mist suddenly rose, and the blood-red eyes moved slightly.

"The pilgrims come from the other side; having seen the revered deity, why do they not worship?"

"With such a strong aura of blood on you, have you slaughtered all the monkey demons outside?"

"You're a killer, I admire you."

"Worship me, offer sacrifices to me, and I will grant you even greater power."

As soon as he finished speaking, a domineering aura burst forth, threatening to crush Pei Si and force him to kneel.

Pei Si snorted coldly.

All spirits and deities should be discarded.

His worship of the wild gods as a registered monk was recorded and his lifespan was shortened.

"Red light," Pei Si called softly.

"My lord."

Red lanterns were hung high, and the palace lantern imprint was instantly marked on the Monkey God.

Pei Si made a hand seal, and pure energy manifested, along with the Great Dao's officials and soldiers.

"Form ranks!" the general shouted, raising his sword high.

Monkey God's bloodshot eyes bulged out. This person in front of him was actually a disciple ordained by the Daoist court. He deserved to die!

Black mist rose.

The figure of the Monkey God emerged from the black mist.

Using the statue as a springboard, he appeared directly on the spot, veins bulging on his forehead, and swung his long iron staff down, engaging in fierce combat with the officers and soldiers.

Pei Si, on the other hand, remained calm and composed, his hands tucked into his sleeves, watching the battle from the sidelines.

Hongdeng poured monkey wine for Pei Si, who drank it while munching on fresh, green fruit, thoroughly enjoying himself.

This scene, as seen by the Monkey God, was a blatant provocation. The Monkey God scratched his ears and cheeks in anger, shouting:

"Hey, you Lu Sheng, if you have the guts, take over your troops and fight me for real."

"Oh." Pei Si put down his wine cup, made a hand seal, and recalled the Great Dao soldiers back into the magic talisman.

"Arrogant!"

Pei Si crouched slightly, assuming a fist stance, his energy flowing, and the remnants of spirit from the Water Curtain Cave gathered on his fists.

Giant Spirit Drumming Style!

Pei Si unleashed a punch.

At that time, relying on the superimposed giant drumming style, it was possible to shatter the divine image of Qin Jing with a single punch.

boom!

The monkey's bloodshot eyes were white, as if it were recalling its own life.

His body transformed into black mist, and he was about to disappear into the statue of the god.

Sizzle sizzle.

The sound of chains being dragged could be heard.

The binding lock bound the black mist, and a large, ghost-headed sword suddenly cleaved down, severing the head of the Monkey God.

But he was not dead yet.

The Monkey God's spirit frantically fled, seeking refuge in any statue that resembled him.

Unfortunately, in Pei Si's eyes, the Monkey God had a big red lantern on his head.

He was marked with a red light.

The sound of the statue shattering was incessant.

Fifteen minutes later.

A line of small ink characters appeared before Pei Si.

[Promotion Requirements: The materials required for advancing to Yin-Yang Register (Blue) have been increased. You must slay nine evil cultivators and demons listed in the Daoist Court's wanted list (1/9)!]

It turns out that this Monkey God is actually an evil god wanted by the Eastern Cang Dao Court.

It truly proves the saying, "You search high and low, only to find it all wasted effort."

Pei Si walked around the Water Curtain Cave but found no rare treasures.

The only thing of value is this set of stone furniture.

Stone table, stone bowl, stone chess set...

Pei Si gathered up his sleeves and took the entire set of stone furniture away.

"Oh dear, no wonder they say time is money. It's almost been an hour. I should go find my senior sister and meet up." Pei Si's figure suddenly rose up and returned to the stone forest.

"Giddy up!" Pei Si spurred his horse back to the meeting point.

Senior sisters Qingfeng and Mingyue had been waiting there for quite some time.

"Junior brother, you're a bit late. Perhaps you didn't hunt enough prey and are afraid we'll cancel your game?" Mingyue put one hand on her hip and the other on Pei Si's shoulder.

"Don't worry, your senior sisters will never criticize you."

"Come on, let's count our prey and see who's the youngest!" Mingyue flicked her sleeve, and the prey she had hunted piled up like a small mountain.

Qingfeng blinked and smiled, "Just watch me."

With a flick of her sleeve, she hunted more than twice the prey of Mingyue.

"Junior brother, it's your turn." Mingyue shook Pei Si's shoulder.

Pei Si awkwardly touched his nose and flung his prey away.

The prey was almost half the size of Mingyue's.

"Junior brother, this won't do either."

"He always boasts about his superb archery skills, but I think... tsk tsk tsk..." Mingyue shook her head in disdain.

"You're in charge of tonight's midnight snack." Mingyue patted Pei Si on the shoulder, a smile playing on her lips.

"Don't be anxious, senior sisters."

"Junior brother still has some prey to bring out." Pei Si smiled and shook his head.

Qingfeng and Mingyue exchanged a glance, their eyes filled with suspicion, wondering what trick their junior brother was up to now.

"Don't keep me in suspense, take it out and let me see." Mingyue's hand climbed up to Pei Si's waist. .

The breeze stared straight at him.

Pei Si simply took out the "Clouds in the Blue Sky, Water in the Bottle" and threw out the corpse of the Long-Armed Ape.

"Look, senior sisters, I slaughtered a whole group of monkey demons and got this monkey wine. What do you think?" Pei Si said with a smile.

Qingfeng twitched his nostrils slightly, nodded, and affirmed, "That's right, this is indeed monkey wine. Junior brother is truly lucky!"

"How many prey are worth my monkey wine?" Pei Si winked at Qingfeng, who chuckled and gazed at the bright moon.

"Senior sister, junior brother's monkey wine is worth quite a bit of prey, so tonight's supper is yours."

Mingyue's lips twitched.

This junior sister...

"Wait a minute."

"To be fair, I have recently developed a new type of talisman. To make a long story short, this talisman can measure the value of an item."

With a flick of his sleeve, Mingyue revealed three talismans between his fingers.

Mingyue gestured to Pei Si to temporarily release the monkey wine from the bottle containing the clouds in the blue sky and the water.

Pei Si made a hand seal, and a huge stream of Monkey Wine lingered at the mouth of the bottle.

Mingyue threw out three talismans, which were then affixed to the prey of the three men.

as predicted.

Pei Si's prey emitted a blue light, while Qingfeng and Mingyue's emitted a green light.

The green light in the breeze was more intense.

Mingyue helplessly spread her hands and said, "Alright, I'll take charge of grilling the midnight snacks..."

"Qingfeng, go skewer the meat. Xuanjian, go prepare the marinade."

Pei Si and Qing Feng exchanged a glance and shrugged helplessly.

Of course, Pei Si asked for a stack of these treasure-appraising talismans that his senior sister had just developed.

Satisfying the taste buds and filling the stomach.

Pei Si returned to his small courtyard.

Pei Si took out a fine-quality sword that he had never fed to Xi Yue.

"Eat."

Pei Si activated the Devouring Mechanism.

One after another, long swords transformed into streaks of light and disappeared into the crescent moon. New entries kept appearing, but Pei Si did not replace them, retaining the [Dismemberment] characteristic.

As streams of light entered the Crescent Moon Blade, the blade shone with a radiant glow, seemingly undergoing some kind of transformation.

My personal sword: Crescent Moon

【Quality: Made in Da Liang】

【Characteristic: Dismemberment】

The Moon Rift has advanced to a higher level.

It was upgraded from a good-made product to a superior-made product.

If this were to be used against a weapon of superior quality, it would be a devastating blow.

The long sword was sheathed.

Pei Si sat cross-legged on the bed, his hands forming hand seals, his eyes closed as he regulated his breathing. Unconsciously, his soul seemed to be stirred.

Pei Si opened his eyes and looked down at himself; these hands didn't seem to belong to him.

Rough, calloused hands, clearly the result of long hours of hard work.

Pei Si squinted his eyes and gently tapped the bamboo hat on his head with his finger. He was wearing a gray coarse linen top, coarse cloth short trousers, coarse cloth trousers around his waist, cloth bags tied around his calves, and straw sandals on his feet.

He had a short axe, a rusty woodcutter's knife, and a hemp rope tucked into his waistband, and a carrying pole slung over his shoulder.

He himself seemed to be a woodcutter going up the mountain to chop firewood.

Since we're here, let's make the best of it.

The All-Encyclopedia of All Trades within the sea of ​​consciousness is slowly rising and falling.

Pei Si, carrying the load of pearls, decided to play his role first and go up the mountain to chop firewood.

Pei Si's ears twitched slightly; his ears were exceptionally sensitive, seemingly able to hear sounds from very far away.

"The sun shines brightly on the hills!"

"I'll take my axe and travel the world!"

"I'm not afraid of thorns blocking my way!"

Pei Si sang folk songs as he walked.

Pei Si sang as he chopped down miscellaneous trees.

"Hey, there are two chess players over there." Pei Si's pupils contracted slightly, and he unconsciously walked between two large trees.

There is a stone table, stone benches, stone chess set, and two elderly men with a sage-like air are playing chess here.

Pei Si's eyes were fixed on the chessboard. The chess pieces were all the same color, yet they kept falling on the board, seemingly possessing a great magic to Pei Si.

Before I knew it, a lot of time had passed.

Suddenly.

"With the king's spirit broken, what reason is there for this lowly concubine to live?"

A line from a Peking Opera suddenly echoed in Pei Si's mind.

Pei Si's pupils constricted, and he took a step back, staring intently at the two chess players.

If it weren't for the female lead from the theater in "The Complete History of All Trades" reminding him, he probably would have been lost in this game of chess.

Just then, the two elderly men with sage-like demeanors also looked at Pei Si.

The old man in black on the left chuckled, "You do have some understanding."

Instinctively, Pei Si reached for his waist.

The axe had long since rotted, the machete turned to ashes at the slightest touch, and the hemp rope was also long since decayed.

What is this, some kind of predestined encounter?

Then add another line to him: "Is a moment on the mountain equivalent to a thousand years in the world?"

The old man in white on the other side also smiled and said, "Don't listen to his nonsense. You are a Dao seed, with a thousand times more comprehension than this woodcutter's original owner."

Pei Si looked at the chessboard on the table again.

Some of these items look familiar.

It looked like he had taken it from the Water Curtain Cave, a forbidden area of ​​the monkey demon clan.

Following his principle of not leaving empty-handed, he took the set of stone furniture with him, which ironically led him here.

"You see, he's already guessed it," the white-robed elder said to the black-robed elder.

"It is precisely because of our affinity that we are here."

"Now that you've passed the test, I'll tell you the true wonders of this chessboard." The old man in black nodded slightly.

"This chessboard was created by the two of us before our deaths."

"We are now merely a remnant of the original's will."

"This chessboard allows you to enter your target's dream and experience everything they have gone through."

"At the same time, you can also comprehend the methods that the target knows and has mastered."

"This chessboard requires energy to be stored up each time it is used."

"The source of this energy is very simple: people's dreams."

"Whether it's a pleasant dream or a nightmare, it can all serve as food on the chessboard."

The two elderly men, dressed in black and white, took turns explaining the ingenious uses and methods of using the chessboard to Pei Si, their figures becoming increasingly ethereal as they spoke.

Finally, until it disappears completely.

"If you don't come and take away the chessboard, our will won't last much longer."

Pei Si hurriedly cupped his hands and asked, "I have not yet had the pleasure of learning your true names."

"A name is just an external thing. If you insist on calling me that, you might as well call me Black Soil."

"Just call me Baiyun (White Cloud)."

"Farewell, Senior Black Soil and Senior White Cloud!"

Pei Si bowed slightly and gave a salute.

The two figures, Heitu and Baiyun, disappeared completely.

Pei Si snapped out of his dream, his eyes snapping open. He flicked his sleeves and held the chessboard in both hands.

This treasure is truly extraordinary.

Even though Pei Si is already a cultivator at the fourth level of Foundation Establishment, he can still fall victim to the attack without realizing it.

A sudden inspiration struck Pei Si, and he held a treasure-appraising talisman between his two fingers and affixed it to the chessboard.

A sudden burst of light appeared.

It's golden light!

This chessboard is truly extraordinary!

"Let's call this chessboard the Rotten Chessboard, so it will have some commemorative significance."

Pei Si held the chessboard, infused it with his magic power, and tried to activate it, but found that it had no effect. It must be because it lacked the energy to start.

Pei Si pushed open the door, carrying the chessboard in one hand, and walked towards the village at the foot of the mountain.

"Then let this rotten chessboard devour the nightmares of the people," Pei Si laughed.

As for why he didn't dream sweet dreams, Pei Si looked up at the moon and said, "When I was little and life was tough, I hoped most that I could have sweet dreams at night."

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