Mortal Bones

“Pah!”

Then Fairy Lingyue stretched out her hand and pointed at the ghost’s brow, and drew a rune on his brow with a milky white light.

When the rune sank into the ghost’s brow, the ghost stood up with a wooden face, and then ignored Fairy Lingyue in front of him, turned around and left while talking to himself:

“Why did I fall here? Forget it, forget it, let’s go back and report to the king. When we see the king, tell him that there is another young monk who takes care of the medicine garden in Qingzhuju. We can wait until the spiritual medicine in his medicine garden is ripe, and then come over. At that time, we will take his life and the spiritual medicine in the garden together. At that time, the king may even reward me with a piece of fresh liver. Beautiful, beautiful!”

At the end, the ghost couldn’t help shaking his head, obviously very satisfied with his plan.

"Alas, although it is a very risky thing to let the tiger go back to the mountains, I still hope that Xiao Taiping can understand the good intentions of the master in the future."

Fairy Lingyue murmured to herself as she looked at the ghost that shook its head and left.

Although she had not yet asked Xu Taiping to become her disciple, and she did not know whether Xu Taiping was willing to become her disciple, this did not prevent Fairy Lingyue from putting herself in the role of a master.

However, she would definitely not admit that the main reason for doing so was that she was too lonely after staying in the Ksitigarbha fruit for hundreds of years and wanted to have some fun.

...

The next day.

Xu Taiping got up early.

He first went to the medicine garden to clean up the weeds, and then added a few shovels of soil to the place where the Ksitigarbha fruit was buried. After all, for him, the Ksitigarbha fruit would be a great support for his future in the cultivation world, and he could not let anyone steal it.

After Fairy Lingyue returned to the Ksitigarbha fruit last night, she never appeared again. Xu Taiping thought that she might really come out after a month or so.

After clearing the weeds in the medicine garden, he spent another morning tidying up the three thatched houses in Qingzhuju.

The environment of the thatched house was very simple, with a bedroom with only one bed, a main room, a kitchen, and a toilet built behind the medicine garden.

While cleaning the kitchen, Xu Taiping found two very interesting things - a water tank that could never be scooped dry and a rice tank that could produce a tank of rice as long as a merit coin was thrown in.

With water and rice, plus a piece of dried fish hanging on the wall, Xu Taiping's first meal in Qingxuan Sect was solved.

After eating, he made the bed with the sheets and quilts in the cabinet, and then sat cross-legged on the bed and took out the jade slip and the bronze mirror that Xifeng Pavilion had given him before.

"When Fairy Lingyue passed the prescription of the marrow washing and bone-cutting soup to me, she lightly tapped my forehead. The method of passing on the jade slip is also to stick it on the forehead. This should be the common method of passing on the practice in the cultivation world."

He picked up the jade slip and muttered softly.

According to the Pavilion Master of Xifeng Pavilion, this jade slip records a Qi-refining method of Qingxuan Sect, as well as many sect rules of Qingxuan Sect and instructions on how to use the bronze mirror.

"Huh... the things transmitted in this jade slip are much more than the finger of Fairy Lingyue."

Feeling the paragraphs of text that kept pouring out in his mind, Xu Taiping felt dizzy and almost fell off the bed.

Fortunately, after a while, no new words appeared in his mind, and he breathed a sigh of relief.

But he immediately found another problem.

These words that entered his mind were like books on a bookshelf, and you need to flip through them to see and understand the contents.

"So the method of transmitting skills in this jade slip is somewhat different from the method taught to me by Fairy Lingyue. Fairy Lingyue's finger directly let me know how to pick and decoct the medicine according to the prescription, while this jade slip can only stuff these things into my head."

Xu Taiping carefully felt the difference between the two.

"But it is also possible that the difference is caused by the different contents."

He immediately added another sentence in his mind, and then stopped worrying about it, and calmed down to read the lines of text in his mind bit by bit.

...

Three days later.

It took almost three days, and Xu Taiping finally finished reading all the contents in the jade slip.

As the head of the West Wind Pavilion said before, the contents of the jade slip mainly include three things - a "Canxia Sutra", a volume of "Xuanjing Gongyong Jiyao", and a "Qingxuan Zong Law Code".

During this period, he also dug the land of the medicine garden while "reading".

…

“According to the method taught in the jade slip, after digging the ground, you can pick up some wild animal feces and dead branches and leaves to burn to fertilize the land.”

“But there is no need to rush to do this step. Today is the first day of the lunar month. It is the day when Elder Ziyang will give a lecture. He is talking about the Cangxia Sutra and the foundation of the monks. It only happens once every three months, so you must not miss it.”

“After listening to the lecture, I can choose the seeds to buy in the bronze mirror, so that I won’t waste that merit coin.”

While eating alone in the hall, Xu Taiping began to think about what he had to do today, and then tore off a page of the almanac on the wall.

A page of the almanac was torn open, revealing the words "first day of the lunar month", and a line of small words such as "should study, avoid digging" were written in red ink on the side of the annotation.

This was bought when he summoned a spiritual bird to help him buy daily necessities yesterday. It cost him six merit coins in total, and he felt distressed for a while.

…

After dinner, he returned to the bedroom.

Xu Taiping took out the bronze mirror from the box and carefully placed it on a broken table in front of him.

On the table at this time, in addition to the bronze mirror, there was also half a bowl of water, a few flower petals and a Qingxuan Sect's merit coin.

Xu Taiping recalled how to use the bronze mirror, then dipped his hand into the bowl with some water and dripped it on the bronze mirror, and then placed a few petals and the merit coin on it.

"call……"

Almost at the moment he placed the merit coin on the bronze mirror, a gust of breeze suddenly blew out of the bronze mirror, and there was also a faint scent of sandalwood in the wind.

Immediately afterwards, a voice came from the bronze mirror:

"Xu Taiping, a registered disciple of Qingxuan Sect's outer sect, is sitting down. Don't go away. Elder Ziyang will start teaching the scriptures immediately. If you miss it today, you will have to wait another three months."

Xu Taiping, who had fully read the contents of the jade slip, was not frightened by the voice, because it was mentioned in the volume "Summary of the Functions of the Mysterious Mirror" that this was the voice of the spirit of the Mysterious Mirror.

According to the "Minutes of the Functions of the Mysterious Mirror", the spirit of the Mysterious Mirror is like a guide who can help you find what you want to see in the bronze mirror.

Of course, except for the forbidden areas of Qingxuanzong, and every time you "show the way", you will need a merit coin.

"Thank you, Master Xuanjing."

Xu Taiping thanked him.

The spirit of Xuanjing is not completely dead, so in his opinion it is very necessary to say thank you.