Great Sui Guoshi

Lu Liangsheng watched silently as Lao Sun scooped up the bowl and handed it to Zuo Zhengyang. In the faint fragrance of rice and meat, he reached out to take the porridge bowl from his apprentice Li Suian.

After taking a sip, he opened his mouth and said: "I don't trust him very much, but right now, I have no choice but to wait and see. If possible, I will visit Chengyunmen when I come back from the south. Unite more people to come in."

While talking, the chopsticks picked up the bird meat in the bowl and put it aside, it should be ready to eat when the master gets up later.

The small pot was boiling, and in the bursts of heat, the sleeping pig just flapped its nose and mouth slightly, and the drowsiness disappeared immediately. It slowly sat up following the smell, and ran to this side. The Taoist turned away with the bowl in his arms. Glanced into his bowl.

"I want to starve the old pig to death, really, I'll do it myself!" He yelled, took the pot together from the fire, blew it a few times, and scooped it into his mouth with the copper spoon.

The morning sun is just rising, and the forest is swaying slightly in the wind, mixed with the sound of talking, laughing and eating.

On the back of the old donkey gnawing grass, the bookshelf suddenly creaked open.

The small door of the compartment was pushed open, and the short figure shot out like an arrow, and landed on a big rock below, clenched his fists with his biwebs, his toad face was angry, and his voice was loud.

"What a cowardly little demon, I really have nothing to do with you as an old man...Ze..."

Suddenly, the loud words gradually faded, there were six people including Lu Liangsheng, and even the old donkey at the bonfire, and the toad standing on the stone with his webbed fists froze for a moment, and looked left and right. A few times, "Uh...how, is it the next day?"

After reacting, he quickly put his fist behind his back, straightened his round belly, coughed dryly, and looked at the tree cage and the sky.

"The weather is nice today."

With a mutter, he turned and went back inside, smelling the fragrance, his stomach rumbled, turned back again with his flippers on his back, jumped off the stone, stepped on his flippers, and sat cross-legged next to the scholar.

Lu Liangsheng put the bird meat he had selected earlier into a bowl, and brought it to Taoist Toad.

"Master, where did you fall yesterday..."

"No, don't ask."

Taoist Toad held the bowl, turned away, grabbed a bird's leg and put it in his mouth, slowly grinding it.

"You don't even think about it. How can you be so easily teased by a little demon with your master? It's because you deliberately paralyzed it, and planned to take it down in one fell swoop when it was slack..."

There are birds singing softly in the forest, and the flickering firelight. Among the several people sitting around, toads are holding bowls, waving their frog webs and talking eloquently.

"...I think back then, how majestic this old man was. The little demon yesterday was not even worthy to carry shoes for this old man. I still vaguely remember that when this old man was besieged, there were huge crowds of people, magic artifacts covered the sun, and the sound of magic Shake the sky."

Those words seemed to recall the past.

Not long after breakfast, they packed their bags and extinguished the bonfire, and the group of people went back to Chang'an on the couch. They walked slowly, and in the blink of an eye, all of them, including the old donkey, had gone more than ten zhang away under the light of day.

The sky was slanting, and the west clouds in the afternoon were glowing red with fire. A group of people had just rushed to the west gate of Chang'an and walked to the long street, and the voices of people were noisy and lively.

Zhu Gangman, who concealed the form of the pig demon, looked at the most prosperous city in the world with a rake on his shoulders. He opened his eyes curiously and looked around. Even though it was getting dark, he could still see pedestrians on the long street.

At the door with the inn flag hanging, the clerk yelled loudly with a rag. In front of the stall not far away, the peddler carefully put a clay figurine into the hands of the chubby child, and took the copper coins handed over by the butler, smiling. He clasped his hands together and watched the guests leave. At the entrance of the alley, two children were holding a windmill to see who could blow it faster. After a while, the mother who rushed out of the house picked her up from the ground by pinching her ears, and dragged her back home.. ....

"Go back and deal with you again!"

"Rouge, the best rouge, even the orchids of the Western Regions can't put it down!"

"Master over there, come up and play..."

In the brothel with red lanterns hung, the bustard waved a handkerchief, smeared powder on her fat face, and greeted the guests with a smile, the powder was falling down.

The old pig who walked past the door raised his head and stared at the group of Yingying and Yanyan leaning on the fence on the second floor, as if seeing a new world, he lifted his foot and was about to go in, but Lu Liangsheng grabbed him in time and pulled him away. return.

"Old pig, you want to kill someone!"

Zhu Gangli, who was dragged back, squinted his eyes and stared at it for a while, then sighed: "It would be great if these women were monsters."

The ears of the Taoist beside him trembled.

..........

Walking through the hustle and bustle of Chang'an West Market, the pipa strings are played and sung, and the eyes of the dancing orchid veil are enchanting. A group of people who should have finished walking in half an hour were dragged by the old pig until the sky was dark Do not return to Furongchi.

As soon as I got back to Wanshou Temple, I didn’t want any weapons. I ran to the highest attic and looked through the fence at Chang’an, which looked like a river of stars. The lights of Wanjia were reflected in my eyes, and I couldn’t help sighing.

"My old pig thinks this is the fairyland!!!"

The Taoist on the side rolled his eyes.

"It's as if you've been to the fairy world."

"Hehe." The old pig patted his belly, looked at the lights of thousands of houses like a galaxy, just laughed a few times, the night wind blew by, and amidst the tinkling wind chimes, the heads of a man and a monster, above the corners of the eaves.

The one-armed figure was lying on his back on the roof of the building, lying on the tiles, listening to the bickering between the two people below, took the gourd with a smile, took a sip of wine, looked at the starry night sky, and beside him, only two long knives were silent. to accompany.

The wind in early summer is a little hot, amidst the sound of wind chimes caressing the corners of the eaves, squeezed into a lighted window lattice of a certain room in the attic, Taoist Toad rubbed his arms and calves, hummed a little song and sat in front of the closet, picking out clothes, from time to time Turn around and call Xiyou to help take a look.

The lights were flickering, and in front of the illuminated window lattice, Lu Liangsheng spread out the map of Chang'an, his eyes were majestic, he swept across the city wall, the surrounding mountains and ditches, and connected his fingertips on it.

Like a tiger at his desk.

'Although I don't know what kind of catastrophe that day is, it is always right to at least lay down the barrier first. '

As for what kind of magic circle to set up, the scholar hesitated for a while, the candlelight reflected his handsome profile, thought for a while, and finally took "Qing Huai Bu Meng" and turned it over.

wow~

Amidst the sound of the pages being turned, Taoist Ha changed his body, climbed onto the desk, lifted his flippers, glanced at the contents above, and shook his head.

"Liangsheng, the book my teacher gave you contains spells that I know well. If you are looking for anything, just ask me."

Over there, the focused side face looked away from the pages of the book. Lu Liangsheng put down the book and turned his head. He told Toad what he was thinking truthfully. The latter narrowed his eyes and listened quietly, before speaking for a while.

"I have learned too much from the teacher, and some of them can't remember...you should read the book."

As he spoke, he turned around and said, "Liangsheng, the catastrophe of heaven and earth, no matter what kind of monsters and ghosts, as long as they have a body and a soul, they are nothing to be afraid of. What are really powerful are those invisible things... ...Forget it, you can make up your own mind and go to bed early."

"Master also rests earlier."

The lights were quiet, and there was a slight snoring sound from the wooden pillow of the bed. Lu Liangsheng continued to flip through the book for a while, and listed a few applicable magic circles. As for what the master said just now, it was just a guess about what might appear in the future.

It is necessary to set up Chang'an in the magic circle first.

Chapter 452 Borrowing mountains, water, man-made bones, blood, and soul

In Chang'an, the sky was gloomy in the early morning and it started to rain. The rain line connecting the sky and the earth fell into the Furong Pond and created circles of ripples. The buildings in the vast water vapor stood tall and the sound of the rain fell on the eaves. The answer falls.

The Taoist sat under the eaves with dazed eyes, watching the eight big men standing shirtless in the rain, "Hmph! ''ha! ’ punched, practiced the formation, yawned, the door next to him opened, Zhu Gangli looked around, saw that the scholar was not outside, and hurried out, not noticing the Taoist sitting there who hadn’t woken up yet.

"Old pig, what are you doing looking like this?"

"Hey, that scared the hell out of me."

Looking back, seeing that it was a Taoist, Zhu Gangli let out a heavy breath, turned his head to look around, and whispered: "Is Lu Liangsheng not here?"

"I didn't see anyone early in the morning, maybe you are still sleeping in the room, why..." The Taoist twisted the tip of his beard, squinted his eyes to look him up and down, leaned slightly closer: "Are you going to go out?"

Over there, Zhu Ganglu rubbed his palms together, looked at the old grandson who was making a fuss out of his mind, and smiled a little embarrassedly.

"Hey, don't you know that, why do you say it, then...then I'd better go back, old pig."

"return!"

The Taoist went up and grabbed his sleeve, looked back at the eight people practicing in the rain on the square, and lowered his voice: "Have you brought any money?"

Hearing this, the pig demon froze for a moment, reached out to touch his waist, and nodded.

"Yes! How many taels do I have on my old pig..."

"Then hurry up, I don't have any money, you will pay later!"

"Save!"

Taking advantage of the eight big men over there not paying attention, one man and one demon cast an invisibility spell, stepped on the accumulated water on the ground and sneaked to the mountain gate. Before they could go far, they heard a female voice.

"Where are you going?!"

An old tree nearby turned into a puff of smoke, Mu Qiyou dragged a long black gauze skirt and ran out of the forest quickly, watching the figure of a man and a monster who did not speak, pointed his fingertips on his chin, and glanced at the city. direction, meaningful 'oh, so you are going to...'

"Shh!"

Taoist and Zhu Gangli hurriedly hissed, "Don't say it, be careful not to be heard by the scholar Lu."

"Hey, the old demon didn't go out early in the morning, and he didn't take me there."

Qiyou rolled her eyes and landed on Sun Yingxian and Zhu Ganglu who were facing him. With a grin on the corner of her mouth, she approached and patted the Taoist on the shoulder with one hand.

"I am coming too!"

Ignoring the reaction of one person and one demon, he took them to the market in the middle of the city. The streets were wet with blue bricks, and there were few pedestrians on rainy days. The north gate that was far away, the scholar mentioned, was walking by the Weishui River outside the city at this time.

The long river turned into waves and rushed eastward. Lu Liangsheng, who was walking on the bank, paid attention to the water flow. When he was still like Qixia Mountain, it was obviously not advisable to set up a formation in the water, but it was not ordinary to draw a formation to protect the entire Chang'an city. big.

"Chang'an relies on the Weishui River, absorbing the water spirit to accumulate, the east has the Lishan Mountain as a barrier, and the spirit of the mountain is the backbone..."

The raindrops hit the oil-paper umbrella, and the water splashed onto his shoulders. Taoist Ha raised his webbed to wipe off the splashed water stains, and stood up holding his apprentice's ears.

Looking at the thinking apprentice, I would like to make a point.

"Liangsheng, don't forget, there are still creatures in the city, but for a while, there are four elephants, and there are three elephants."

"Ok!"

Lu Liangsheng withdrew his fingers from the water, flicked off the water droplets, held up an oil-paper umbrella and walked along the river bank for the next section. There was heavy rain in summer, and the river was soaring. There were many patrolling soldiers passing by on horseback along the bank, and the people in the nearby villages were not allowed to approach the bank. , so as not to fall into the water and drown.

Occasionally, brave villagers, wearing bamboo hats and coir raincoats, ran into the water vapor under the heavy rain, took a look at the fields near the big river, saw that they were not submerged by the flood, and thanked the Dragon King for his mercy to the rushing Weishui.

From a distance, Lu Liangsheng watched the villagers go back with a hoe in their hands, and turned their heads to the middle of the rushing river and bowed their hands.

In the river, Gululu raised a string of bubbles, and the dim yellow torrent rolled, revealing a section of thick scales, then sank, and quickly went downstream along the river.

Rumbling--

There was thunder in the cloudy clouds, blue and white lightning flashed across the rain curtain, and oiled paper umbrellas with the sound of "popping" rained over a group of patrolling Sui cavalry. He stopped, raised his weapon on the horseback, bowed his head and saluted.

"Meet the national teacher."

Under the paper umbrella, Lu Liangsheng nodded to them, took out the Fajue and waved it with the sleeves of his robe. The wet armor and robes of the knight who held his hands became dry instantly, and the raindrops fell deflected and slid over them to the ground.

"Thank you for your hard work, please step up your inspections and don't let the nearby people get close to the river."

"Yes!"

More than a dozen soldiers looked at their bodies, saw the slanted raindrops, clapped their hands excitedly, and shouted loudly, shook the reins, and shouted: "Drive!" Clamping the horse's belly, the horse galloped in the rain, splashing mud and water far away along the way. go.

Lu Liangsheng lowered his hands, looked at the cavalry team that disappeared under the rain curtain, continued to walk on the river bank, observed the landform, and drew a small magic circle with stones at a suitable place as a mark, so that he could accurately find the direction when setting up the formation later.

After placing a few marks along the river, he turned around and headed towards Lishan Mountain, where the branches and leaves were swaying and dripping with water. Lu Liangsheng walked up the wet stone steps with an oiled paper umbrella. Fengzi'tea was still open, and there were no customers in the store. The clerk sat boredly at the shed and waited for the girl in yellow who would come every day.

When he saw Lu Liangsheng, the clerk snorted and turned away, but was slapped by the shopkeeper. When he looked again, the scholar in the rain had gone to the end of the mountain road at some point.

tick tick ~~

Water drops dripped onto the paper umbrella along the tip of the leaf. Lu Liangsheng led his master to walk for a while, and frowned as he looked at the forest and mountains in the misty water.

"It's a bit difficult to find a place with abundant aura."

Reaching out from his sleeve, he took out a thumb-sized book and spread it out in his palm. Lu Liangsheng took a breath, and it suddenly became larger and returned to its original size. Without wind, it automatically flipped a few pages, revealing the contents on it.

"Mountains, water, and people think of three images, and the east mountain, the north, and the south wind form four images. The human formation stands in the Longevity Temple, and the wind has no shape or appearance, so there is no need to stand..."

The Four Elephant Spirit Protection Formation is different from the Spirit Gathering Formation in Qixia Mountain. The latter focuses on nourishing the water, soil and creatures in the formation, while the former is more inclined to protect the creatures in the formation.

But none of the magic circles produced aura out of nothing. They either absorbed the aura with the help of heaven, earth, mountains and rivers and turned it into what the magic circle needed, or like the blood spirit circle under Yuwen Tuobu, they used the energy of life to turn it into a magic circle to drive it.

Lu Liangsheng is not good at magic formations, and the structure of the four-element formation is complex, and it is impossible to complete it in a day. Right now, it is a bit of a headache just to choose the position of the mountain spirit formation. After all, this Lishan is where my mother is. Impossible to go too far.

After walking for a while, on the other side of the misty mountain road, a girl in a yellow dress came with a tea pot. When she saw Lu Liangsheng, she smiled slightly.

"Mr. Lu is enjoying the mountains and rivers here. You might as well go to the northwest of Laomu Temple. The scenery there is unique."

Lu Liangsheng was stunned for a moment, then reacted suddenly, and under Toad's puzzled eyes, he cupped his hands to thank the girl in yellow skirt who was walking to the distant tea shop.

Holding a paper umbrella, I quickly went to the old mother's temple, followed the direction pointed by the woman, and stopped in front of a cliff with the sound of rain washing away the rustling of the forest. , you can see the official road leading to Shangluo meandering between the two mountains, and you can also overlook the eastward flow of the Wei River.

"Good place!"

Lu Liangsheng bowed his hands towards the old mother's temple again to thank him, then picked up a big stone nearby, pressed it to the ground, carved the pattern of the magic circle, and left it as a mark.

"Of course it's a good place, can my mother's place be worse?" Taoist Ha rolled his eyes, looked at the misty mountain scenery, and yawned.

"Aren't you done? I'm hungry as a teacher. Let's go back quickly."

After carving the last painting of the Dharma pattern on the stone, Lu Liangsheng guessed that it was getting late, so he patted the dust and stone chips on his hands, and then walked back. After a while, he called the Taoist, and came together again, one by one The bursts of falling should be able to finish before the red light falls from the sky that day.

Leaving this side, I didn't meet the woman in the yellow dress again on the road. I went down to the foot of the mountain, entered the city from the east gate of Chang'an, and on the street leading to Furong Pond, I saw a one-armed figure galloping across the accumulated water on the ground.

"Zuo Qianwei?"