The Dao dies but I live on, the spiritual energy dries up but I remain evergreen

Everyone in the world suffers.

After telling the story, Li Changxiao crumpled the packaging paper into a ball and burned it with spiritual fire.

Looking at the black smoke rising.

Li Changxiao asked, "So, your obsession is revenge?"

"Yes, master." Yu Luosha nodded.

"If you want revenge, it's better to do it yourself. It will be more convenient." Li Changxiao yawned.

After eating the snacks, I finished listening to the story.

I felt sleepy.

He just lay down under the locust tree and said, "Well, you can go and get your revenge."

"But don't kill innocent people."

"I'll sleep here for three days and wait for you."

The more he spoke, the softer his voice became, and when he uttered the word "you", he fell asleep completely.

Jade Rakshasa's eyes flashed.

Three days later.

Li Changxiao woke up, and without caring about the turbulent world, he stretched comfortably and brushed off the dirt on his body.

"Master, where are we going?" Yu Luosha floated out from the soul bead, and her figure became much more transparent.

But the obsession has been eliminated.

After that, she was just a ghost servant.

"No purpose, well... not that I don't have a purpose. I have many things I want to do, but I don't have a purpose for now." Li Chang smiled and said, "So I'll just go wherever I go."

Jade Rakshasa drilled into the soul bead.

As the saying goes, humans have their own lives and ghosts have their own lives.

Yu Luosha became a ghost servant, but that doesn't mean she can live forever.

It's just living in a different form.

Moreover, as a ghost, every second wandering in the outside world will cause considerable loss.

If the spiritual energy has not been exhausted, there is still a chance to replenish these losses by absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.

But now the spiritual energy has been exhausted.

Every point lost is a point lost.

Therefore, most of the time, Jade Rakshasa would sleep inside the soul bead, relying on the characteristics of the soul bead to nourish its soul.

She only appears when Li Changxiao needs her.

Li Changxiao walked thousands of miles and didn't know how long it took, but he finally stopped in a mountain village.

This is not a very big village, and the nearest town is about seven or eight miles away.

Three miles away to the west of the village, there is a tall Chai Mountain with a very extraordinary appearance. Li Changxiao saw the Chai Mountain from a distance. When he walked towards the Chai Mountain, he discovered the village.

There was an old man sitting at the entrance of the village, smoking a pipe. When he saw Li Changxiao, he started chatting with him in a familiar manner.

The old man told Li Changxiao that the name of this village was "Clay Man Village", which was for the town's porcelain making business. Relying on the porcelain making business, every household was able to make a decent living.

Li Changxiao's eyes lit up and he quickly asked the old man if the porcelain firing technique could be taught to outsiders, as he wanted to learn it.

The old man took a look and his eyes fell on the long sword on Li Changxiao's waist. He couldn't help but teasing him, "You look like a swordsman with this outfit. A swordsman who can make porcelain? This is really rare."

The old man didn't take it seriously and thought the swordsman was joking.

Li Changxiao really wanted to learn, and quickly said with a smile that it was always good to have many skills. He still had some copper coins and silver coins left on him, which could be used for tuition.

During the conversation between the two.

A young man, pulling a wooden cart, was walking towards this side on the muddy road.

The man saw the old man, smiled and greeted him in a simple manner.

"Oh, you want to learn a skill? This young man is the apprentice of our village mud king. You can just go to him." The old man waved his hands and continued to smoke his pipe.

The old man was lying on a big rock at the entrance of the village, puffing out smoke with a dazed look in his eyes.

The man looked at Li Changxiao with a suspicious look on his face. No matter how he looked at him, this man didn't seem like he really wanted to learn how to make porcelain.

But he still smiled friendly and took Li Changxiao into the village to meet his master, the Clay King of the Clay Figurine Village.

This is an old man in his fifties. Although he is old, one can still vaguely see the bulging tendons on his arms.

I believe that when he was young, he must have been extremely strong and had a pair of strong arms.

King Mud has more than a dozen apprentices under his command. He has a characteristic: he accepts anyone, and he only accepts people based on the money.

Give me a few cents and I'll teach you a few skills.

How much you can learn depends on your own understanding.

However, the last few skills needed for household use were only taught to his future son-in-law, and the son-in-law would be chosen from among the apprentices.

Speaking of the daughter of the Mud King, she was quite pretty.

She is fair, bright, optimistic and cheerful, and has charmed countless young men in the village.

Almost all of the dozen or so apprentices under King Mud are interested in her.

Seeing Li Changxiao dressed like this, King Ni was stunned for a moment. At first, he was thinking that this person might be the child of a distant relative who came to visit him.

After Li Changxiao's explanation, he realized that this swordsman actually wanted to learn how to make porcelain from him.

Weird, weird.

There are so many strange things happening these days.

The Mud King was extremely surprised and tapped the table with his fingers, feeling a little troubled. Although he accepted disciples based on money, after all he accepted, the only ones he accepted were young guys from within the village.

It's obvious that this swordsman is not a local.

Seeing this, Li Changxiao hurriedly handed over all the money he had with both hands.

The Mud King glanced at it indifferently, thought about it, and took the broken copper coins and some silver coins.

He said with a serious expression, "Let me be frank with you. With Zhang Huochai, you can learn as many skills as you want for any amount of money. The money you have is not enough to learn even one level."

Li Changxiao said quickly: "It's okay, I'll give you the money slowly."

......

Li Changxiao's desire to learn how to make porcelain was not a sudden impulse without any reason.

But it is related to the Hundred Ghost Techniques.

The Hundred Ghost Arts is an esoteric art involving spirits and souls, and "porcelain" is specifically mentioned above.

As we all know, ghosts cannot possess soil, but if the soil is fired into porcelain, that is a different matter.

There is a branch of the Hundred Ghost Techniques called the Soul Prison Technique.

It is to extract the human soul from the body and then trap it in a piece of porcelain.

Therefore, the word "porcelain" is not unfamiliar to those who practice things related to the soul, and they may even deal with it frequently.

Of course, it is not completely ruled out that it is because of boredom.

......

Li Changxiao changed into coarse linen clothes.

I have to get up at the hour of Mao every day to help my senior brothers.

Firing porcelain is hard work.

The requirements for the temperature are very strict.

In order to make good porcelain, in addition to good skills, you also need to have precise control over the temperature.

Every month or so, the King of Clay would personally demonstrate to everyone how to control the temperature and how to produce high-quality porcelain.

In fact, the apprentices in the porcelain kiln don't like Li Changxiao.

Because everyone is from the same village and knows each other well, strictly speaking, Li Changxiao is the only outsider.

In addition, although everyone is an apprentice.

But overtly and covertly, they are actually in a competitive relationship.

After all, all of the apprentices of the Mud King want to become his son-in-law.

But there was one exception.

He is a young man named Liu Han.

He treated Li Changxiao very warmly, and when Li Changxiao helped him, he would not hesitate to teach him some little tricks.

After a few interactions, the two became familiar with each other.

Li Changxiao asked him how long he had been studying here, and Liu Han replied that he had been there for seven years.

Liu Han secretly told Li Changxiao that he and Zhang Qiuci had already secretly decided to spend their lives together, and they were just waiting for old man Ni Dawang to give his nod so that they could get married.

When Liu Han talked about this, he was like a rooster that had won a battle, holding his head high and chest puffed out, full of pride.

As it happened, Zhang Qiuci, who had secretly come to deliver food, heard it. She punched him on the chest a few times out of shame and anger, then dropped the food tray, covered her face and left.

Li Changxiao grinned and sincerely congratulated the two. He said that when they got married, he would personally make a pair of porcelain figurines as a gift.

Liu Han laughed out loud. He realized that among so many apprentices, only Li Changxiao would sincerely wish him and his two friends well.