If you don't give up, I'd like to be your adoptive father.

Chapter 911 Sequelae

Liu Ji, Xiao He, Fan Kuai and others were supposed to say goodbye to "The Taoist Wuyazi" in the afternoon.

After spending a long time at Fenbao Cliff, we finally went down the mountain in the evening.

Later, Liu Ji ran back to Mangdang Mountain to seek the Dharma. He stayed there until one or two in the morning before he parted with Wuyazi again.

He walked more than two hundred miles under the starlight.

By eight or nine o'clock the next morning, I was feeling a little tired and was considering finding a haystack to take a nap.

"Boy, come here!" A very impolite call came from the intersection ahead.

Liu Ji took a closer look and saw an old man in ragged clothes with sparse white hair.

A skinny old man was sitting on a tree stump as big as a tabletop, holding a winnowing basket in his hand, and no one knew what he was doing.

"Where did you come from, you old crook, to dare to scold me~~~"

Liu Ji's face changed immediately, and he was ready to rush over and slap the old man a few times.

But after walking a few steps angrily, he suddenly felt dizzy and felt that the scene in front of him was somewhat familiar.

Could it be that he is not the Taoist Wuyazi?

He suppressed the anger on his face, walked closer and asked, "Father-in-law, what do you want me to do?"

The old man pointed at the dustpan and said, "I am old and my eyesight is blurry. I can't see clearly. Boy, help me pick out the red beans."

There was a thick layer of mung beans in the winnowing basket, with nearly one-third of red beans mixed in.

"What are you doing picking beans?" Liu Ji asked.

"This is for saving seeds. Green beans and red beans are planted separately." said the old man.

"Since they are to be planted separately, why were they mixed together in the first place?" Liu Ji asked.

"Pa!" The old man picked up the bamboo pole beside him and hit him on the head, cursing, "You are so talkative, kid. I asked you to pick beans, so just pick them honestly."

Liu Ji almost couldn't help but punch him.

——Damn, this old man must be another strange person.

Damn, why do gods like to play tricks like this?

Damn, even if you learn from the Taoist Wuyazi and let me pick up shoes, how long will it take to pick so many beans?
Damn it, I just came down the mountain and I encountered the test of strange people. Could it be that I leaked the secret and exposed my identity?

Damn, didn’t Taoist Wuyazi say that he had imprinted a “Pre-Heavenly Bagua Diagram” on my soul that could help me suppress my fate?

Although Liu Ji had many distracting thoughts in his mind, he looked like an honest child and was picking red beans skillfully.

Seeing how serious he was, the old man nodded imperceptibly, with a flash of admiration in his eyes.

While Liu Ji was carefully selecting beans, the old man looked him over and over again from head to toe and from inside to outside.

The old man's brows gradually furrowed.

Liu Ji remained calm, but he was awed in his heart: Oh no, this old man is angry with me, is he really suspicious?

Before, he would not feel it at all even if someone looked at him in the face.

Now as the old man began to examine his face, Liu Ji's mind became as clear as a mirror, and his feelings were very strong and clear.

"Boy, do you know who I am?" the old man suddenly asked.

"I don't know." Liu Ji shook his head.

The old man raised his big black foot and kicked the winnowing basket over, and the beans spilled all over the floor.

Liu Ji's forehead was throbbing with veins, but he suppressed his anger and said, "My father-in-law was too careless and kicked over all the beans. Don't move, I'll pick up the beans."

"No need to pick it up." The old man said lightly.

As soon as he finished speaking, the beans and the winnowing basket on the ground disappeared.

He himself also transformed into a Taoist priest in a green robe with an immortal look.

It was none other than Meng Qi, the Grand Tutor of the Great Qin.

"Ah, immortal?!" Liu Ji exclaimed.

"My surname is Meng, and I just met your teacher Wuyazi." Meng Qi said.

Liu Ji was a little at a loss.

He was stunned for a moment, then knelt down and bowed, "So you are Taoist Wuyazi's friend. Junior Liu Ji is honored to meet you."

"Do you know where the flaw is?" Meng Qi asked, and then he said to himself: "From your face, you are rough and heroic by nature, but you are very rude and hate red tape.

You shouldn't be so honest when facing the troubles from an old man.

So you must have seen something.”

Liu Ji said honestly: "Master, you don't know, I have been following Master Wuyazi to cultivate my character for many days and have achieved good results.

His appearance hadn't changed, but his temperament had indeed changed a lot.

Even if you are unhappy, you must respect your elders and endure your anger.

This applies not only to Master Meng, but to any elder.

This is the result of education, and nature will also change. "

Meng Qi was silent for a moment, then asked, "Did Wuyazi cast a spell to hide your fate and destiny?"

Liu Ji was surprised and asked, "Has the fate and destiny of this junior been hidden?"

——Damn it, they really targeted me. But I just came down from the mountain and haven’t practiced Lao Tou Le for a day.

Teacher, teacher, you must hold on to your innate Bagua!
Before this, he had made up his mind to listen to the Taoist Wuyazi's advice: after they parted, he would no longer call him "Teacher".

They are no longer master and apprentice.

Now that big trouble has come, he begins to pray for the "teacher's" blessing again.

"From your appearance, I can tell that you are a wise man in a peaceful era and a capable minister in a chaotic era. Whoever is a potential dragon can achieve great things with your assistance. This kind of fate is indeed safe enough, and everyone will like you." Meng Qi said, staring into his eyes.

"A capable minister in troubled times, a young man in peaceful times. Taoist priest, now is a peaceful and prosperous time. I am a pavilion chief, not a young man."

Liu Ji showed some grievance, but he was actually relieved in his heart: Just as Taoist Wuyazi said, "Kui Xing Da Fa" can disguise my fate.

It was all in vain that I worried before.

However, in the future, you must practice this great way of the stars diligently and continue to strengthen Kuixing's destiny of being the "minister of assistance".

Meng Qi sighed, "You are very good, and I am very satisfied with you.

The reason why I came to find you is that I thought Wuyazi was young and impetuous, which exposed you in advance.

I was going to help you cover up a thing or two.

I didn't expect that she was so young but her methods were so sophisticated that even I couldn't detect any abnormality."

When saying this, Meng Qi deliberately turned his head away and did not look at Liu Ji, but secretly observed his expression with his spiritual sense.

Liu Ji looked confused, "Master Meng, what are you talking about? How is Master Wuyazi young and impetuous?"

——Did I really guess wrong? This Liu Ji is not the master of the "Southeast Emperor Qi", he is purely the "Tian Kui" who assists the Purple Star Emperor?
Meng Qi fell into deep self-doubt.

"Since you are a village head, did you often escort the county's laborers to Xianyang in the past?"

Liu Ji said: "I don't go there often. Even if I am a pavilion chief, I still have to do corvée labor. In the past ten years, I have been to Guanzhong four times and helped the emperor and the empress dowager to repair the imperial mausoleum and the Afang Palace.

There were also high-ranking officials who, under the pretext of imperial orders, sent us to help them build magnificent mansions.

If it is my turn to do corvée labor, as the head of the garrison, I will be responsible for managing the corvées who are with me.”

Liu Ji lived for almost fifty years, but only served in Guanzhong four times, which sounds a bit too little.

In fact, the labor in Guanzhong is very different from the local labor.

People in the Qin Dynasty had to perform corvee labor every year, working for at least one month a year, bringing their own dry food and working for free.

The emperor in Guanzhong needed cattle and horses, and the local government also needed free cattle and horses.

For example, they repaired the city wall of Pei County, built a highway outside the city, and helped the county garrison camp transport military rations, etc. If they stayed in the local area to serve, the service time would not exceed one month.

Once you go to Guanzhong, you often have to work there for several years.

It is not that the law requires working for several years in a row. In fact, the Qin law does not allow excessive use of labor to avoid harming the agricultural capital.

But just like the U.S. national debt in Xiaoyu’s previous life, everyone knows that it’s time to stop, but they can’t control it or stop it. Free things are too useful.

Liu Ji went to Guanzhong four times and is still alive and well. He is considered a "little expert in military service" and a "master of survival in purgatory."

Meng Qi pondered and said, "From now on, if the court recruits you to Guanzhong again, you will escape halfway."

Liu Ji was shocked and asked, "Why did Taoist Master Meng let me escape from the labor service? This is a capital crime."

——Besides, with my ability as a "service master", why would I need to escape to serve hard labor in Guanzhong? In Guanzhong, I will still have wine and meat, brothers and widows.

Meng Qi sighed, "Times are different now. You are now famous. Soon, there may be a big change in Guanzhong. If you go there, you may never come back.

The crime of beheading will not cost you your life, but Guanzhong may destroy your fate now."

If Liu Ji was a true dragon, Meng Qi would not want him to take risks in Guanzhong.

If Liu Ji, the assistant of the True Dragon, was trapped in Guanzhong, or even lost his life, it would be like the True Dragon losing his left and right arms, which would still greatly affect the fortune of China.

As for his identity as the Grand Tutor of the Qin Dynasty, he also served as a retainer of King Wen and a Heavenly Master in the Zhou Dynasty!

The Qin Dynasty destroyed the Zhou Dynasty.

He did not avenge the Zhou Dynasty. Instead, after the death of Emperor Ren Zheng, he helped Queen Dowager Zhao to gain ten years of national fortune.

He didn't want to betray anyone now, but he was never loyal to a dynasty or a family.

If Xiaoyu hadn't let Liu Ji practice the "Tiankui Dafa", and Liu Ji hadn't shown the fate of a capable minister, but instead directly exposed the "aura of the emperor", Meng Qi would really cast a spell to help cover it up.

If a dragon vein is discovered in Mangdang Mountain, he will also help hide it.

This was the fundamental reason why he volunteered to come to Mangdang Mountain to meet Yu Fengxian.

Meeting Yu Fengxian and inviting her to the court was secondary.

Even if she broke the appointment again, ran away and didn't go to Xianyang, he didn't care.

If Meng Qi was certain that Liu Ji was the real dragon, he would also run away, abandon his position as Grand Master of the Qin Dynasty, and stay beside Liu Ji as an advisor.

When he said before that he would give up the position of Grand Master of Qin to Yu Fengxian, he meant it sincerely.

Even with the relief of having thrown away a burden.

Now that he discovered that there was no dragon vein in Mangdang and Liu Ji did not have the aura of an emperor, Meng Qi felt a little disappointed and depressed.

Seeing Liu Ji standing there at a loss, Meng Qi stood up and said, "You'd better remember what I said.

If I really want to harm you, I will kill you without caring about your fate."

After leaving this sentence, he disappeared in a flash.

Liu Ji's expression kept changing, but he didn't stop and ran towards Pei County with big strides.

"What are you doing here?"

At the intersection three miles outside Zhongyangli Village, Liu Ji saw Lu Wan squatting on the side of the road and taking a nap.

The guy was sleeping soundly with his head on the Youxian pillow.

He went up and kicked him twice before waking him up.

"Waiting for you!" Seeing Liu Ji, Lu Wan was obviously relieved, and complained: "Why did you delay for so long? Everyone has returned to Pei County a long time ago. If they didn't see you along the way, they must be suspicious."

Liu Ji asked in a low voice: "Did you see any strange people today?"

"What strange person? I've been waiting for you and didn't dare to go back. Let's go back together, and I can help you smooth things over. If I go back first, should I tell them that you lost the person while taking a shit?" Lu Wan said.

"You idiot, you are not going to sleep here all the time? Someone is standing next to you and staring at you hard, and you don't react at all?" Liu Ji asked suspiciously.

Lu Wan asked curiously, "Who is staring at me? What's so interesting about that?"

After a pause, he held the Immortal Pillow again and said with a wry smile, "This Immortal Pillow is indeed a treasure. I seem to have really traveled to the fairyland and don't even want to wake up."

——Lu Wan’s behavior is actually the safest. The immortals will not cause trouble for him.

Liu Ji pondered for a moment, relaxed a little, and pulled him, saying, "Let's go to the county town to find Fan Kuai."

Unlike Lu Wan, when he met Liu Ji, Fan Kuai looked solemn and asked, "Brother Ji, did you meet any strange people today?"

Liu Ji asked in surprise: "You also encountered him? Who was he?"

"An old Taoist priest with lightning all over his body was very hateful. He tried to steal our treasures, but we beat him to death."

Fan Kuai lowered his voice even more, "It seems to be the enemy of Taoist Wuyazi.

We took the 'Golden Immortal's Treasure', and the dead Golden Immortal's disciples came to us and wanted to take the magic weapon back."

Liu Ji said in a deep voice: "I also met an immortal, he turned into an old man and asked me to pick beans.

A large winnowing basket of mung beans and red beans took me most of the night, so I was delayed and came back late. "

"I only picked the beans, I didn't grab them—"

Fan Kuai just asked a question, then reacted and said, "Oh, Brother Ji, you didn't take the 'Golden Immortal's Treasure'."

"You killed the immortal surrounded by thunder?" Lu Wan asked in surprise.

“It seems that he was beaten to death and his head was chopped off, but there was no body found and no blood was spilled.

I don't know whether he is really dead or he is playing tricks on us, but we have won and we don't need to be afraid of him," said Fan Kuai.

Liu Ji looked him up and down and asked, "Why aren't you hurt?"

Fan Kuai said strangely: "That old Taoist priest Lei Ting is a silver-plated spear head. He looks like thunder and lightning, majestic and awe-inspiring, with lightning and fire spitting out of his eyes and nostrils, but he is really useless.

He threw out thunder to threaten us, and we immediately formed a star formation and killed him in one move.

It was Cao Shen who chopped off his head with a sword. The sword was so fast and sharp that I didn’t even have time to react.”

As he spoke, he lowered his head and stroked the three-foot-long sword at his waist, and said with joy: "It is indeed the 'Golden Immortal's Relic', so powerful!"

"Why has the sword become longer? Wasn't it the size of a palm before?" Lu Wan asked.

"In the small box that holds the immortal sword, there is also a matching piece of spiritual jade. It contains the ritual and refining method left by Taoist Wuyazi, as well as the basic skills to become a sword immortal, such as the sword-controlling technique of combining man and sword.

After the ritual is completed, the sword can be big or small.

Once you reach the state of unity between man and sword, you can fly thousands of miles a day with the sword!"

After Fan Kuai finished speaking, he drew his sword and stuck it into the ground, silently circulating his internal energy.

"Clang, clang, clang~~"

The three-foot iron sword suddenly expanded a hundred times, was three feet high, and seemed to weigh tens of millions of pounds. Gusts of blue-white hurricanes surrounded the sword.

Every gust of strong wind is an indestructible sword energy.

The terrifying sword energy storm forced Liu Ji and Lu Wan to cover their eyes, turn their heads, and retreat repeatedly.

"Hahaha!" Fan Kuai put away the sword and said proudly, "How about my magic sword?"

"Damn it, the power of the Immortal Sword is so terrifying." Lu Wan's eyes turned red, and he also regretted it. "The Taoist priest should have made it clear! The Immortal Sword also comes with the 'Sword Immortal Technique', which is obviously more profitable than choosing a special technique."

Fan Kuai was even more proud after hearing this, "That idiot Yong Chi also chose a method. He is clearly a human immortal who has achieved the state of no regrets after forming the elixir, yet he still wants to cultivate immortality. He is unlucky and chose the wrong method. It is just a magical power of 'calling names to suppress nightmares', not a true immortal method.

Seeing that Cao Shen and I have powerful sword skills, we can even kill immortals.

He is just like you, he regrets it so much that his intestines turn green, but it's a pity that regret is useless, hahahaha!"

Liu Ji glanced at the magic sword and felt a little envious, but he never regretted it at all.

He asked, "Since you knew that you were being targeted by the disciples of the Dead Ghost Golden Immortal, why didn't you get together?"

At this time, Fan Kuai had already returned to his home, and the others must have also returned to their own homes and looked for their mothers.

(End of this chapter)