Water Margin: My 108 Heroes Come from All Heavens

The bottom of the Star-Picking Building.

Hearing the commotion, the old woman immediately leaped over and asked, "Sir, are you alright?"

"It's nothing, it's nothing."

Liang Shan quickly waved his hand, too embarrassed to admit that he had lost his balance.

After last night's practice.

He discovered that his spiritual energy had become much more refined, and his physical fitness had also improved significantly. He could go down the stairs many times faster than yesterday.

then.

He held onto the handrail and jogged down the slope.

Yesterday it took him five hours to climb the road, but today he only took less than two hours to get downstairs.

"This sir... is definitely the most ascetic of all!"

The old eunuch watched Liang Shan's disappearing figure and sighed from the bottom of his heart.

……

Princess House.

back yard.

Zhao Ling'er sat on the stone bench, flipping through a book listlessly, glancing at the doorway every now and then.

Shi Jieren stood by and served.

"Why hasn't Grand Tutor Liang arrived yet?"

She muttered something, then casually tore off a piece of pastry and stuffed it into her mouth.

"Your Highness, I am late."

Liang Shan strode into the garden and bowed with his hands clasped in greeting.

"snort."

Zhao Ling'er turned her head away and ignored him.

Liang Shan didn't mind and sat down opposite her, taking out a stack of papers from his sleeve.

"Your Highness, let's continue talking about love today."

"You still dare to say that?"

Zhao Ling'er turned around and stared at him with wide eyes.

"certainly."

Liang Shan nodded and said, "Yesterday, I didn't even finish the first lesson before you tore it up."

Zhao Ling'er blushed: "Who told you to talk about all that nonsense..."

"Then let's skip the theory today and start telling stories."

Liang Shan smiled.

"story?"

Zhao Ling'er raised an eyebrow, a hint of curiosity flashing in her eyes.

"Yes, a story about love."

Liang Shan nodded and slowly began to speak: "Once upon a time, there was a young man named Niulang. His parents died early, and he lived with his elder brother and sister-in-law. His brother and sister-in-law couldn't tolerate him, so they only gave him an old ox and made him live alone..."

Zhao Ling'er was initially nonchalant.

As I listened...

He gradually sat up straight.

"The cowherd herded cattle every day. Although life was hard, he didn't feel lonely because he had the old ox for company. One day, the old ox suddenly started talking..."

"Could this old ox be a demon, sent specifically to bewitch the cowherd?!"

Zhao Ling'er's expression changed slightly, and she became wary.

"It's just a story."

Liang Shan waved his hand and continued, "The old ox told the cowherd that seven fairies would go to bathe in the lake at the foot of the mountain tomorrow, and if he took one of the fairy's clothes, that fairy would become his wife..."

"Shameless!"

Zhao Ling'er spat.

But her eyes were bright and sparkling, clearly indicating that she had taken it all in.

Liang Shan's lips curled up slightly.

Let's continue.

When the story of how the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl met, got to know each other, and fell in love by the lake was told, Zhao Ling'er rested her chin on her hand and stared intently at Liang Shan.

When the conversation turned to the two getting married, having children, and the husband farming while the wife wove, Zhao Ling'er's lips curled up slightly, revealing a longing expression.

When the story of the Queen Mother of the West abducting the Weaver Girl and the Cowherd chasing after her with his child came up, Zhao Ling'er clenched her fists, her face filled with anger.

When the story of how the Milky Way separated lovers and how magpies formed a bridge to allow them to meet on Qixi Festival came to mind, Zhao Ling'er's eyes welled up with tears.

"And then?"

She asked impatiently.

"Later, every year on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl would meet on the Magpie Bridge."

Liang Shan closed the paper in his hand and smiled slightly.

"That's it?"

Zhao Ling'er was still not satisfied and looked dissatisfied.

"It's over."

"No! Tell me another one!"

Zhao Ling'er slammed her hand on the table, like a spoiled child.

"We'll talk about it tomorrow."

Liang Shan remained unmoved, stood up and took his leave: "That concludes today's lesson. I take my leave."

"you--"

Zhao Ling'er was so angry that she stomped her feet, but she couldn't do anything about it.

aside.

Shi Jieren listened to the whole thing, his brush flying across the paper as he wrote something.

He wrote it down one by one.

He muttered things like, "Peeping at women taking a bath and taking their clothes is a quick way to win love."

……

In the days to come.

Life on Liangshan became incredibly regular.

He taught at the princess's residence every day, telling Zhao Ling'er all sorts of love stories.

From the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl to Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, from the Legend of the White Snake to Meng Jiangnu's Lament at the Great Wall, from The Peacock Flies Southeast to The Fairy Couple...

Zhao Ling'er resisted from the very beginning.

From the anticipation that followed.

In the end, it turned into urging for more updates.

And Liangshan...

After telling the story, they would head straight to the Star-Picking Tower to cultivate.

Just started.

His cultivation level was low and his physical body was weak; even after five hours, he could only barely climb to the second floor.

As he absorbed and refined more and more of the essence of the sun and moon, his physical strength also increased. To say nothing of anything else, he was definitely an expert at climbing stairs.

Seven days later.

He finally managed to climb to the ninth floor, the highest point of the Star-Picking Tower, within five hours.

it's here.

The essence of the sun and moon is most concentrated here.

The two beams of light were extremely magnificent, shining directly onto the millennium-old ice platform.

Sitting upright on the icy platform, Liang Shan discovered that his cultivation speed had increased several times over.

of course.

What pained him most was that the 100,000 bottles of pills were dwindling at a visible rate.

To aid in cultivation.

At first, he would only consume about a hundred bottles a day.

He had to consume at least thirty catties of pills every day after that, and gradually the 100,000 bottles of pills were almost empty.

"It'll be here soon."

Liang Shan muttered to himself.

He could sense something being nurtured within the vortex, just one step away from breaking free and transforming into a new form of spiritual energy.

……

Day 30.

Princess House.

Liang Shan finished telling the story of Romeo and Juliet.

Zhao Ling'er tugged at his sleeve and said coquettishly, "Grand Tutor, tell me another one!"

"We'll talk about it tomorrow."

Liangshan's straight-laced man remained completely unmoved.

"hateful!"

Zhao Ling'er stomped her feet in anger.

Shi Jieren clutched a thick stack of notebooks, as if they were priceless treasures, muttering to himself, "So... love is truly wonderful..."

……

at dusk

The Star-Picking Tower.

Nine floors.

Liang Shan sat cross-legged on the cold jade platform, took a deep breath, and let the two beams of light fall on his body.

"Today, we must condense the wheel of the sun and moon!"

He poured out the last few bottles of pills from the golden bowl, tilted his head back, and swallowed them.

"Crunch, crunch—"

The elixir entered the abdomen, transforming into a surging hot current that flowed into the dantian.

In the dantian.

The vortex began to spin wildly, faster and faster, until Liang Shan could only perceive a blurry blur of light and shadow.

"boom--"

Suddenly, the vortex exploded.

Liang Shan felt a jolt in his dantian.

Silver moonlight burst forth from the vortex, condensing into a crescent moon in the dantian.

Golden sunlight followed closely behind, coalescing into a blazing sun.

The sun and moon shine together, yin and yang complement each other.

A golden and silver halo slowly rotated in his dantian, radiating a soft yet vast light.

The wheel of the sun and moon.

It emerged from transformation and evolution!

"It's done!"

Liang Shan suddenly opened his eyes, his eyes flashing with a sharp light.

He could feel that the spiritual power within his body had increased more than ten thousand times compared to before.

In every gesture and movement.

It seems to be able to draw upon the power of heaven and earth.