Strange Stories

Chapter 574 Helper Training

"Congratulations, Master! You have cultivated great magical powers!"

"Congratulations, Master!"

"Master, what kind of magical power is that?"

"Master... I... I just saw..."

All four disciples rushed over, some congratulated him, some asked curiously, and some were out of breath from climbing the stairs.

"Stop talking nonsense." Lin Jue waved his hand and asked, "How many years have passed since Wan Gong and the others came down the mountain?"

"Master really doesn't remember the years." Xu Yi said, "It's been ten years."

"It's been ten years..."

Lin Jue pondered for a moment, then asked, "Is the Purple Emperor still continuing his campaign to exorcise demons and monsters?"

"It's almost over. When we went down the mountain in the past few years, we found that the evil demons in the world had been almost wiped out." Pu Mei replied, "But the ten thousand protectors haven't come back yet."

"There should be a chance for me."

Lin Jue thought for a moment and waved his sleeves again.

Several beans flew out and transformed into four weapons and magical instruments, floating in the air.

"Thanks to the spiritual gold given by Daoist Fellow Bai Luan, I have made four weapons for you in the past few years. Although I focus on magic, it is not good to use magic alone before you can achieve enlightenment. It is much easier to have one or two weapons. Just like me, Master, I used to use a long sword in addition to a flying sword."

Several people's eyes lit up and they all looked over.

They are a pen that is more powerful than the stick used by the fifth senior brother, and can even freeze immortals; a flower fan that can blow out a spring breeze and urge flowers to take away their vitality; a dragon sword that can take away people's weapons and turn them into dragons that struggle away; and a spear that has the power of thunder and can hit people's shadows and injure the main body;
There are four other rings that can be used as walls.

It can be seen that they are all the embodiment of his own magical skills. Most of the magical weapons in the world also come from this way.

Either it has followed its master for a long time and gradually absorbed the master's spiritual power and magic, developing mysterious abilities and being able to cast the master's spells, or the master deliberately endowed it with some kind of magical mystery.

Although the abilities of these magical weapons are not as great as Lin Jue's own, they are the embodiment of his understanding of the mysteries of magic and the truth of the Tao. They are more than enough to deal with opponents who have not yet achieved true enlightenment.

Just like the immobilization pen, which can almost immobilize immortals, and the dragon-transforming sword, the weapons of the True Lord can also turn into dragons. Of course, these are not enough for them to fight against the True Lord, but with other life-saving spells and Taoism, if they meet the True Lord, they may have a chance to escape.

"This spear must belong to Junior Brother." Xu Yi said with a smile, quite like a senior brother, looking at Junior Brother, "Among us, you are the only one who learned spearmanship from Luo Gong. This spear must be tailor-made for you by Master."

"This……"

"Come and get it."

"Thank you, Master! Thank you, brothers and sisters!"

Wang Ran thanked him immediately, stepped forward quickly, and took the spear from the air, carefully, as if he had found a treasure.

But the spear was very heavy and it was a little difficult for him to hold it.

"Junior brother, you need to practice your strength more." Xu Yi said, "I wonder if Master still has any Giant Spirit Pills. I should try to please Master so that I can get a few to try. It can increase my strength."

"How, how to please?"

Wang Ran glanced at his master, then at his senior brother.

"I heard from Master that some of our uncles and aunts may achieve enlightenment and retreat from the world to practice in this mountain with Master. In this case, the pavilions and palaces on the cliffs will not be enough." Xu Yi said happily, "Don't you think this is a coincidence? It just so happened that when my senior sister and I were learning other magic, Master asked us to build pavilions, palaces, passages and corridors!"

After saying this, he glanced at his two junior sisters.

How could my junior fellow apprentice be spared from the rain that I had been caught in?

"That's right!" Pu Mei immediately understood, "The storage room was built by me, and the corridor was built by my senior brother."

"That's right!" Xianzhu also said, "The attic where Mr. Luo lives now was built by me!"

When Wang Ran heard this, he was shocked.

"Where should this pavilion be built, how big should it be, and what style should it be? I will start building it tomorrow!"

Lin Jue was both angry and amused.

I didn’t expect that nowadays I don’t need to speak in person to fool new disciples.

Fortunately, he is an immortal and this is a deep mountain, and they are a very good master and disciple. If it were the human court, the emperor and the prince, everything would be arranged by the prince, and the prince would probably be in great danger.

"There are three more."

"I choose this long sword." Xianzhu said, "My swordsmanship is better than my brothers and sisters."

After saying that, he took two steps forward, took the sword, and with a flick of his wrist, a beautiful sword flower appeared.

"Then I'll choose this flower fan." Pu Mei said, "Brother, you know the 'Flower Blooms Instantly' skill, so you definitely don't need this."

It just so happened that this fan was actually made of spiritual gold, and each blade was like a blade. It could not only fan the air to create flowers, but also be thrown out to defend against objects and enemies. The blades could even spread out and act as temporary flying blades.

Pu Mei read it over and over again and liked it very much.

"Junior sister, you have considered it well."

Xu Yi took the fixing pen.

"Go back and practice well. The next time the world is in chaos, it will be your turn to go out and look for opportunities." Lin Jue said to them, "If you want to achieve enlightenment, you have to work harder."

It is not easy to achieve enlightenment, but if your master is a real person or even a powerful one, it will not be that difficult.

At this moment, Lin Jue realized the "creation of life and death". As long as he had a deep understanding and improved his attainments, when it could separate itself from itself and affect the outside world, he would have a deeper connection and integration with the Tao, and he would be considered a great man.

Which great emperor doesn't have a few true lords under his command? Which ancient immortal doesn't have a few immortal disciples?
Just like what I said before -

When ordinary people encounter bottlenecks in their practice, there are three ways to solve them: one is to slowly grind with time. Master Lin Jue gave them a Yuanqiu fruit, which seems ordinary and simple, but is actually rare in the world, and can extend their lifespan by a hundred years; the second is to rely on natural treasures or high-quality elixirs. Master Lin Jue raises silver-eating ghosts and plants original elixir trees. The Lingyuan elixir, a rare fairy fruit in the world, has never been out of stock. They have it to eat at the beginning of their practice; the third is to travel outside to explore the spiritual world and look for opportunities. The master also gave them a lot of help.

Just with this master, their training conditions are much better than those of ordinary Taoists.

He is much better than the original Lin Jue himself and his junior sister. Compared with the descendants of ordinary Taoist temples in the world, the independent cultivators in the martial arts world, or the eccentrics with only a small inheritance, there is a world of difference.

It all depends on their luck.

Lin Jue waved his hand and asked them to leave without interfering any more.

……at the same time--

At the easternmost part of Dayu Dynasty, white snow had already covered the entire sky and earth.

Taoist Master Tao and his disciples looked very young, even younger than when they first followed Taoist Master Lin into the mountains to practice Taoism. However, no one knew that underneath these young bodies were actually two souls that were over a hundred years old.

In recent years, this place has often had military frictions with foreign tribes, and people have always died, so there are always goblins, ghosts, monsters and corpses emerging. The gods eliminate a group of them, and new ones are born.

Wars never cease, and evil never stops.

It was good when the Purple Emperor was exterminating demons. The Qinghua Emperor in the east also responded to the Purple Emperor's will. At that time, no matter whether it was day or night, there were patrolling priests in the sky, and there were gods who could distinguish yin and yang. Wherever there were goblins, ghosts, corpses and demons, they would be discovered at the first time. Even where there was an abnormality in the yin and yang aura, it would be discovered, and the heavenly soldiers and generals would be sent to inspect. At that time, even in the war, there were few goblins and ghosts here, and even fewer who caused chaos.

Now that the fight against demons and monsters has stopped, and this place is not a place where Purple Emperor directly worships, the heavenly soldiers and generals and spiritual officials under the command of Qinghua Emperor immediately relaxed.

The master and his disciple led the mule and walked in the snow, leaving behind a long trail of footprints.

"The Fucha tribe, which had just submitted to the imperial court a few days ago, rebelled again. After being defeated by the local general, they burned, killed, looted, and slaughtered everyone, causing the entire city to be filled with negative energy and resentment. If it cannot be cleansed, I'm afraid that goblins, ghosts, monsters, corpses, demons, and evil creatures will continue to appear."

"The negative energy and resentment there have turned into dark clouds. Even the sun doesn't come out. How can it be cleansed?"

The master and the disciple both frowned as they walked and talked.

"If we can remove the dark clouds and hidden diseases here, our merits will be enough, right?"

"That should be enough."

"But it's just the merits that are enough. The rest is still far from enough."

“Just do good things.”

"I wonder how Lord Wan and Lord Cai are doing."

“Hopefully they’ll be more successful.”

After decades of being master and disciple, both of them are now a hundred years old. At this point, even if they are father and son, there is no difference in their relationship.

……

There is no ice and snow in the south, and there are few wars. Under the governance of Emperor Yujian, evil demons and monsters are not common. However, this year, a severe drought has occurred.

The fields dried up and the rivers dried up.

The crops died and the land was full of starving people.

Cai Lingyu is like a graceful scholar, who comes here alone, and his eyes are filled with sadness.

There are two kinds of sorrow:

First, it is not known whether this severe drought is related to the gods. If it is related, it must be related to the secret fight between the Purple Emperor and the Jade Mirror Emperor. But regardless of whether it is related or not, his skills and abilities cannot solve this severe drought.

All we can do is save a few more victims and look at those helpless eyes more often.

The second is that, like Taoist Master Tao and his disciples, they have been walking down the mountain for ten years, and have not accumulated much opportunity or merit. For him, achieving enlightenment may be a bit far-fetched.

"Ugh……"

Cai Lingyu couldn't help but sigh.

Do your best and let fate dictate.

……

Wan Xinrong led a horse to the westernmost part of Dayu Dynasty.

In the previous dynasty, this area belonged to the Thirty-Six Kingdoms of the Western Regions and was once controlled by Dazu. Even hundreds of years ago, when the Western Regions were still under the control of the Central Plains dynasty, no one had traveled west to this place. But now, under the hands of the great emperor he was familiar with, it was incorporated into the Central Plains territory for the first time.

This also brings up many problems:
Firstly, this place is far away from the central government and difficult to control. After the emperor was taken away by immortals and abdicated, there have been several ups and downs here. Even the generals guarding here do not listen to the orders of the court.

War also gives rise to demons and monsters.

Second, this is a new land and a new place of worship.

The West was originally a place of worship for Emperor Miaoming, but if the Western Regions were added, this place of worship would become too large.

In addition, there were already religious people here, and they particularly respected Buddhism.

The secret struggle between Emperor Miaoming and Emperor Zi, coupled with the clash of beliefs in the Nine Heavens gods and local gods, and even the dispute between Taoism and Buddhism, led to chaos here.

Goblins, ghosts, corpses, demons, evil creatures, gods, as well as evil people with magical powers, were all in chaos.

This is also the most dangerous place.

The sky gradually darkened.

Wan Xinrong picked up his lantern, which had been taken away by the immortal and returned to him, and walked slowly forward.

The mountain ahead cast a strange shadow in the dark night, like a demon that would devour anyone it could. If he had not made a mistake, there should be a cultivator here who had threatened a country in the past, wanting to use the entire country as food for his cultivation. Later, when the Yu Dynasty army and the Nine Heavens Gods arrived, he had restrained himself a little, but now he took advantage of the chaos and started again.

But he is not a monster, but a human being.

It's ridiculous that the Purple Emperor was exterminating demons and monsters, and all the goblins, ghosts, corpses, and evil creatures were killed. I don't know how many innocent monsters were injured by mistake, but he missed this man.

This should be a person who has achieved enlightenment, right?

Wan Xinrong was a little nervous, but not afraid.

As a Taoist who practices the Five Elements magic, I could not extend my lifespan much. But since I followed the Immortal, I have eaten the immortal fruits, drank the immortal springs, and lived for more than a hundred years, which is more than enough.

It’s hard to say whether I have lived enough, but if I can’t achieve enlightenment, I don’t have many years left.

Now that you have regained your youthful appearance, why not pick up some of your youthful spirit and fight the monster here?
What flashed through Wan Xinrong's mind, besides his youthful vigor, were also scenes of him following the immortal to subdue demons and eliminate evil spirits when he was young, each scene seemed as if it were yesterday.

So what if he has achieved enlightenment? He is just a barbarian from outside the region.

The five elements magic of Zhongyuan is not to be trifled with!
……

There was a roar.

A Chen Niu talisman started burning.

(End of this chapter)