Corpse Retriever.

Chapter 536

Li Zhuiyuan looked at his fingertips and saw a golden thread extending from them.

Judging by its appearance, the gold thread seems to be trying to penetrate the microphone of a mobile phone.

Because Zhao Yi "made a vow" to her, she, as a "Bodhisattva," was to make a pact with him.

Why does it look so much like a curse?
Li Zhuiyuan himself was proficient in sorcery, and he once cast a spell on the Zhou family of the Nine-Bend Mechanism in order to deliberately alert them.

However, with spells, you not only pay a hidden price when you use them, but you also have to be wary of the other party retaliating with your spells. Unless there are specific circumstances, the boy doesn't like to use them.

"So this is how complicated it is to be a Bodhisattva."

With a flick of his finger, Li Zhuiyuan retracted the golden thread.

The young man had no intention of making any kind of pact with Zhao Yi. Compared to such a rigid and inflexible bond, he preferred to use force and benefits to establish control.

To put it bluntly, the Bodhisattva's approach is like raising dogs, while Li Zhuiyuan is raising a dragon, or even a jiao (a type of dragon).

If you raise a dragon like you would a dog, don't blame yourself for being torn apart and eaten in the future.

Zhao Yi hung up the phone.

He didn't ask Li Zhuiyuan what he wanted him to do.

Little did he know that Li Zhuiyuan had already informed him what to do, and it was even his own suggestion.

The boy put the cell phone back and turned his gaze back to the sketch of the facial features sealed in front of him.

The more you study it, the more you discover just how high Wei Zhengdao's skill level was back then. Even the simplest strokes contain endless mysteries and profound meanings.

After all, the Five Senses Seal Diagram came first, and the Five Spirit Beasts were born from it. Although they owe their existence to the long years of evolution, they themselves can be described as turning decay into magic.

Of course, this formation diagram is not so perfect that "not a single word can be changed." In fact, Li Zhuiyuan has already deduced several directions for modification and improvement.

The boy picked up a copy of "Tales of the Strange and Unusual in the Martial World" from the table. All the contents of the entire set of books were already imprinted in his mind, but he still had the habit of carrying a copy with him wherever he went, flipping through a few pages in his spare time.

There's a guy standing there, and when you can beat him, your first reaction isn't excitement, but rather a sense of self-doubt.

"It's time to change our approach."

Li Zhuiyuan closed his eyes and entered the depths of his own consciousness.

The boy reached out and knocked on the basement door.

"Bang!"

The basement door has fallen down.

Inside, the original body, which had awakened from Xuanzhen's seal, was making modifications to Runsheng's statue with a carving knife.

Li Zhuiyuan: "So weak?"

The original entity said, "Now that we are standing side by side, this door can't stop you. Why are you still knocking on it?"

Li Zhuiyuan: "I want to be polite."

The main body glanced at Li Zhuiyuan, omitting the word "naive".

Li Zhuiyuan walked to the Runsheng statue and looked at the stripes being designed on it; it was a scheme to purify and compress the aura of death.

The main body said: "Your idea is very good and highly feasible, but you have overlooked the difficulties that Zhao Yi faces. He not only has to withstand the heat, but also has to be able to anticipate and make timely adjustments based on the changes in the environment inside the furnace."

Li Zhuiyuan: "Give him the crack between life and death first, let him absorb it before he starts working."

The main body nodded: "Yes, his trust in you is enough for him to do something that violates his principles of self-interest for you."

Even in worldly business dealings, you should keep the balance in hand. If you settle the money all at once beforehand, you often won't get genuine sincerity in return, but rather be seen as a fool.

Moreover, someone like Zhao Yi would have to risk being burned to ashes to personally help his competitors improve.

Li Zhuiyuan: "Your calculations are incredibly accurate."

The original entity: "You know it too."

Li Zhuiyuan: "I'll take the plan. I'll conduct further simulations at the dojo this afternoon."

The original entity: "Afternoon? And now?"

Li Zhuiyuan: "There's something I need to trouble you with."

The original entity: "Okay."

The original body can share the "memories" of this body. Although it cannot see into the other's thoughts, it can quickly deduce Li Zhuiyuan's purpose by combining what Li Zhuiyuan is doing and the fact that he came to find him. He agreed.

Li Zhuiyuan opened his eyes in reality.

"Ah Li, I'm going to the dojo."

The girl nodded and continued cleaning up the evil books.

After the boy left the room, the image of Chen Xiyuan lying face down appeared on the Buddha's paper.

The girl calmly admired the painting, her eyes showing no emotion. She even reached for her drink can, bit the straw, and took a sip.

What evil books excel at is exploiting the weaknesses in people's defenses, thereby subverting them and gradually turning the reader into their slave.

She knew that the boy was the one the girl valued most.

However, despite its efforts to sense the girl, the evil book failed to elicit the slightest response.

Furthermore, after drinking the beverage, the girl used her fingers to grasp the power of feng shui in the air, and then used her fingertips as a brush to embellish the painting.

Because the evil book only focused on the physical details of Chen Xiyuan, but failed to properly showcase Chen Xiyuan's temperament.

Sister Chen's image perfectly matches the younger generation's imagination of a female knight-errant, provided that she doesn't speak.

The paper covering the Buddha trembled slightly, not to help provide better dynamic effects, but because the evil book was shaking.

You've provoked us to this extent. Even if you could easily suppress the damage to your defenses, it would be acceptable. But you didn't even cause the slightest ripple. Isn't that a bit too much?
Humans have seven emotions and six desires, and many people in the Xuanmen sects spend their whole lives trying to eradicate them. This is why Li Zhuiyuan has been considered to have a connection with Buddhism many times, as he was born with a pure heart.

The evil book couldn't do anything to Li Zhuiyuan because all her schemes and thoughts were exposed to the young man, who could even provide her with work guidance.

Ah Li wasn't born with an ethereal spirit, but the inner demons that most eminent monks encounter in their entire lives are far less numerous than what a girl sees in a single night.

On the Buddha's paper, clothes appeared on Chen Xiyuan's body.

The heretical book also appeared, dressed solemnly, kneeling in a corner.

She gave in, or rather, she despaired, and resigned herself to her fate.

These two are truly destined to be together.

One looks down on you from above, while the other crushes you from below.

What merit or ability do I possess to be fortunate enough to be suppressed by these two working together?

The intense sense of oppression aroused a visceral pleasure from the evil book.

From then on, Ah Li successfully subdued the evil book, and the girl truly received the same treatment as a boy in front of the evil book.

Ah Li closed the evil book, took it outside, and placed it on the rattan chair outside.

Next, the wind will help turn the pages, and the sun will help sweep them away.

Time will slow down, but the girl will have time to do other things.

Back at the drawing table, the girl placed the dragon-patterned compass in front of her and picked up her tools to begin disassembling it.

During this process, the compass continuously and automatically generates feng shui fluctuations. Each time, once a certain amount is accumulated, the girl only needs to stop and look at it, and the feng shui energy will dissipate.

The compass, a precious artifact from the Chen family of Qiongya, is so important that if it breaks, even if the Chen family wants to repair it, they would have to find the family's mechanics, feng shui masters, and array masters to work together. Anyone who tries to repair it alone could cause an accident.

The girl alone is worth an entire logistics department.

"Buzz...buzz..."

The two sets of talismanic armor slid to the edge of the drawing table, trying to "coax" the girl into thinking that they should also be repaired.

As a result, one set of rune armor bumped into another set of rune armor from behind, causing the first set of rune armor to lose control and fall to the ground.

"Clap."

General Sun: "..."

The girl didn't even look up; she simply tapped her tools on the drawing table.

The set of talismanic armor on the ground flew back to the painting table on its own, as quiet as a chicken.

The Bodhi fruit rolled slowly on the drawing table, moving from the girl's left to her right and then from right to left, rolling evenly, following the movement of a clock as if it were telling time.

Inside the dojo.

Li Zhuiyuan sat on the altar, manipulating the facial features to create a seal diagram.

The array diagram is formed.

When Li Zhuiyuan closed his eyes and opened them again, his demeanor changed abruptly.

The boy made a hand gesture, and the facial seal diagram flew towards it, smashing into his brow.

The boy's eyes first lost all their luster and became cloudy, but then quickly regained their clarity.

What was just sealed by the array was the main body. Li Zhuiyuan was using the main body to try to...

Originally, Li Zhuiyuan intended to use the Five Senses Seal Diagram to engage in a remote contest with Wei Zhengdao, but the progress he made too easily led the young man to change his approach.

The best may not be the most extreme, but the most suitable.

Wei Zhengdao's original intention in designing the Five Senses Sealing Diagram was not to create a spirit beast, nor to use it to seal others; he simply used it to suppress himself.

Even though Li Zhuiyuan had implanted the array diagram into Tan Wenbin's body early on, and used it as the foundation to build his power system, which had a very good effect.

But in reality, Tan Wenbin is not a suitable match.

The effect is very good because the array itself is of very high quality.

To be even bolder, Tan Wenbin never actually utilized the array's full potential; he was simply using the television as a radio.

This isn't Tan Wenbin's fault; it's Li Zhuiyuan's problem.

Li Zhuiyuan had never used this formation on himself.

First, it's like the eye is blind; people have only heard of tasting hundreds of herbs, but never of tasting hundreds of battle formations.

Secondly, if Li Zhuiyuan accidentally seals himself, then unless Grandma Liu is willing to endure a huge backlash to help him break free, Tan Wenbin and Runsheng will be completely helpless.

That problem doesn't exist now. Since the formation isn't targeted at the physical body, Li Zhuiyuan can test it on his own body and then break it.

Of course, the reverse is also possible.

However, to perfectly simulate Wei Zhengdao's state when designing this array and fully experience its effects, only the original person is suitable, because he is the person in the world who most resembles Wei Zhengdao during that period.

The dojo was once again controlled by Li Zhuiyuan, and the seal on the five senses was lifted.

Li Zhuiyuan closed his eyes, returned to the depths of his spiritual consciousness, and sought out his true self to discuss the feeling of being sealed as Empress.

Upon arriving at the dam area of ​​"Grandpa's house," Li Zhuiyuan was unable to detect the presence of his true form; it was as if he had completely vanished.

In the past, especially when crossing the river without lights, if the main body simply "evaporated," it would definitely be a good thing.

But right now, Li Zhuiyuan still needs to find him.

Li Zhuiyuan first went to the basement, then to the second-floor room, but couldn't find the main body. As Li Zhuiyuan walked onto the terrace, the main body's voice suddenly came from behind him:

"Your method is correct."

Li Zhuiyuan turned around, looked at the suddenly appearing true form, and asked in return:
"So magical?"

The entity nodded: "This is the ultimate array diagram, but it is only suitable for the most extreme individuals."

The basement doors have been removed from the main body because the two of them are now standing side by side and can clearly see each other, so the doors cannot be locked. The same goes for the drawers in the second-floor room.

But just now, Li Zhuiyuan was completely unaware of the existence of the main body. However, it seemed that the main body had been following him all along, watching him search for it up and down.

If this were brought into reality, what an amazing concealment effect it would have!

The purpose of concealment is to prevent others from discovering you; therefore, "disappearance" is the best praise for concealment.

The original body said: "This is a suicide plan that Wei Zhengdao tailored for himself. He wants to disappear from this world forever."

Li Zhuiyuan: "It sounds a bit like self-deception."

The original body said, "I must have tried too many ways to commit suicide without success. If I could disappear from this world forever without even realizing it, that could also be considered a kind of death."

Li Zhuiyuan: "Have you finished your deduction?"

Just now, after Li Zhuiyuan personally sealed the main body with an array diagram, the main body sealed itself again based on its experience. However, the fact that the main body was able to unseal itself this time indicates that it has made temporary modifications.

The entity: "There are two problems. The first problem is that you can't use it in reality; you can only use it here, playing hide-and-seek between you and me."

In reality, to achieve the same effect, we would need to be sealed off together.

Unless you can spend the time, like Wei Zhengdao, to first set up a fixed five-sense seal diagram and then wait hundreds of years for it to give birth to the five spirit beasts—and that's still a lucky scenario; whether the spirit beasts will actually be born depends on probability.

Li Zhuiyuan: "So, Tan Wenbin is acceptable."

The original body said: "Well, spirit beasts born from the Five Senses Sealing Diagram are naturally adapted to it. They are beings that broke out of the diagram. Tan Wenbin can seal himself and then use their special characteristics to 'awaken' himself."

Li Zhuiyuan could use it; he could simply extract the four spirit beasts from Tan Wenbin's body and seal them within himself.

However, doing so would render Tan Wenbin useless, as the main body would simply ignore this option.

Li Zhuiyuan: "The second question."

The original author said: "The original design is too advanced, and the sealing effect is too strong. I not only need to redesign it for Tan Wenbin based on my personal experience and grasp its essence, but I also need to cut it down. Otherwise, it is easy to have an accident and turn myself into a vegetable after the sealing."

Li Zhuiyuan: "In your initial assessment, what effect will the cutting and slicing achieve?"

The main body: "Its concealment effect is three times stronger than Chen Xi's Iris Domain."

Li Zhuiyuan: "That's enough."

In the past, Chen Xiyuan Domain's concealment effect was already very strong, and now it's even more exaggerated. If the effect after the array diagram is nerfed is three points stronger than it is now, then it would be enough to make Tan Wenbin appear as a ghost in the eyes of the Xuanmen people.

This formidable ability to remain hidden will elevate Tan Wenbin's team to a whole new level.

The entity itself: "I need some time."

Li Zhuiyuan: "Do you need me to take you to check on Tan Wenbin's specific condition?"

The original body said, "I already checked it in the True Lord Temple, and I've always been very familiar with your subordinates."

There are so many sculptures in the basement; they're not meant to be hobbies or for cultivating one's character.

Just as Li Zhuiyuan walked out of the temple, Aunt Liu's voice rang out from outside:
"Lunch is ready!"

At lunchtime, Li Sanjiang asked Li Zhuiyuan and Zhuangzhuang why they hadn't returned.

Li Zhuiyuan used the same old excuse: there was still work to do at the construction site, and they would have to come back a few days later. As for Runsheng, he continued to work on the construction site as usual, receiving a technician's allowance.

"It's good that you can come back for the New Year. By the way, Xiao Yuanhou, come with me tomorrow to Lianghou's house. It's his father's birthday. He invited me a long time ago. Since you're back, come with me. They're in Nantong helping Lianghou take care of his child. They don't know the area well, so they can't invite many people."

"Yes, sir."

After the meal, Li Zhuiyuan returned to the temple, raised the bronze mirror, and adjusted the setup there. Using wooden figures as experimental subjects, he practiced Runsheng's enhancement plan.

No matter how well he could deduce things in his mind, he still had to verify them in reality. This involved Runsheng's life and death, and Li Zhuiyuan wanted to eliminate as many unexpected events as possible.

By the time I finished doing all this, it was already dusk.

Li Zhuiyuan closed the notebook. He himself was fine; the notebook contained notes for Zhao Yi.

Just as we stepped out of the temple, Aunt Liu's voice rang out again:
"Dinner's ready!"

Looking back at the dojo, which was invisible to the naked eye, the boy realized what it meant to be lost in the mountains.

Immediately afterwards, Aunt Liu's even louder shout shattered the boy's sense of tranquility.

"Chen girl, dinner's ready!!!"

A short while later, a response came from afar:
"Coming!!!"

Under the setting sun, Chen Xiyuan's figure could be seen running towards them.

During dinner, Chen Xiyuan told Li Zhuiyuan that Luo Xiaoyu had returned, but was pushed back by Sister Hua in a cart.

After Luo Xiaoyu killed the previous wave of evil spirits, he stepped out of the cave and accidentally stepped on a thorny flower.

The flowers burst open, piercing him with barbed thorns, some of which were poisonous.

Old Tian helped him remove all the thorns and applied medicine to clear heat and detoxify.

When Chen Xiyuan returned from playing the flute in the peach grove, she saw Luo Xiaoyu sitting there, covering her face and grieving over her disfigurement.

"Luo Xiaoyu even asked me if he looked bad now."

How did you comfort him?

“I told you not to take it to heart. I never thought you were that good-looking before.”

"That was a good consolation."

Li Zhuiyuan emptied the rice from his bowl and put down his chopsticks.

"By the way, little brother, are you going out tomorrow? Can you take me with you?"

With Aunt Liu present, Chen Xiyuan was too embarrassed to speak directly, so she winked at Li Zhuiyuan instead.

Tomorrow is Xue's father's birthday, and Da Bai Shu will definitely be cooking. She wants to go along and freeload off him.

When it comes to food, Ms. Chen is exceptionally perceptive and knows not to offend the chef in front of her.

Li Zhuiyuan: "Who told you that?"

Chen Xiyuan: "Silly."

Li Zhuiyuan: "How did Benben know?"

Chen Xiyuan: "It was Tingting who invited him to her grandfather's birthday party."

Li Zhuiyuan: "Okay, I'll take you all with me."

This is a reward for Benben.

This child has listened to his own words.

After the meal, Li Zhuiyuan escorted A Li back to the east room, then went upstairs to take a bath and went to bed early. He had spent almost the entire day strategizing; the consumption of his spiritual energy was secondary, but the constant hand seals and movements in the dojo had made his arms ache.

After the lights were turned off at Li Zhuiyuan's place, Liu Yumei glanced into the room:
"Xiao Yuan is asleep."

Ah Li, who had changed into her training clothes, came out carrying the blood porcelain bottle.

A smile appeared on Liu Yumei's face.

Now that things have come to this, it's pointless to dwell on whether early martial arts training stifled her granddaughter's talent. Instead, she turned to the fun of "tricking" Xiao Yuan with her granddaughter.

As a grandmother, she rediscovered the feeling of playing games with her granddaughter, a feeling that had last been a very, very long time ago.

As a way of repaying her grandmother for her help, Ah Li chose the green practice clothes between the red and green sets her grandmother had prepared.

“Come here, Grandma won’t say anything. Grandma will watch over you. If Xiaoyuan suddenly wakes up, Grandma can remind you.”

Liu Yumei followed A Li to the back of the house.

Ah Li didn't rush to open the barrier and go in. Instead, she sealed off the dojo from the outside.

The offering tables inside could become pairs of eyes, just like the three boys who like to fight in the temple at night.

After confirming that the isolation was in place, Ah Li "opened the door" and entered the dojo.

This was Liu Yumei's first time visiting Xiaoyuan's temple.

Although small, the sparrow has all the vital organs. It is not luxurious or magnificent, but it is quite exquisite. Apart from the materials used, Liu Yumei could not find any fault with it.

This is a little house that the children painstakingly built themselves using various materials.

Liu Yumei sat down on the steps of the altar.

Ah Li sat cross-legged on the altar, adjusting the setup of the ritual space to help hone her physique.

From the very beginning, Liu Yumei regretted coming in.

She hadn't expected that Ah Li's physical training would be so eager and radical.

This means that Ah Li is enduring unimaginable pain, comparable to having her bone scraped to remove poison.

But Ah Li sat there with her eyes closed, expressionless, with only wisps of blood energy constantly escaping and returning.

Time waits for no one; we must seize every minute.

Ah Li hopes that by the time she accompanies the young man through the next stage of his journey, she will have achieved some initial results in martial arts training.

She had already comprehended the original formula of "Qin Family Observing Dragon Method," and she had long understood the moves, body techniques, and even the artistic conception. She could even guide Runsheng through dreams during battle. Everything was ready except for the physical body to support and execute it.

There was no risk of going astray or going astray; she had the ability to speed things up as much as possible, and she didn't care about the pain.

In fact, Li Zhuiyuan's training plan for himself was also like this: trading pain for time. Anyway, he had a high pain threshold, and A Li had an even higher one.

Liu Yumei couldn't bear to watch any longer, but she couldn't interrupt her granddaughter, nor could she break the restriction herself to leave. She could only close her eyes, but she still couldn't stop her eyes from welling up with tears.

Throughout history, even the most famous martial arts fanatics in the Qin family's history were far less ruthless in honing their physiques than their granddaughter.

I don't know how much time passed, but today's physical training was over.

This is not the limit of Ah Li's willpower, but the limit of her body at this stage.

The girl walked up to Liu Yumei.

Liu Yumei opened her eyes, which were dry. It turned out that she could cry her eyes out even with her eyes closed.

A smile returned to Liu Yumei's face. She had already endured the hardships, so what was the point of making a bitter face again?
Liu Yumei held A Li's hand and said, "When Xiao Yuan sees how powerful our A Li is, he'll definitely be scared."

The girl gently touched her grandmother's eye sockets with her fingertips.

"Kachacha..."

The blood-stained porcelain bottle shattered, coalescing into a broken porcelain sword.

The girl turned around, picked up the sword, and demonstrated the Liu family sword technique to her grandmother.

Liu Yumei watched very carefully.

As she watched, the old lady couldn't quite tell whether her granddaughter was the girl dancing with a sword in front of her, or the cracked sword in the girl's hand.

Before leaving the dojo, Ah Li manipulated the place to erase all traces of her use.

After returning to the east room, Ah Li went into the bedroom, stood in front of her grandmother's sword, and removed the lingering smell of blood from her body.

Uncle Qin brought hot water and filled the bathtub.

Ah Li sat inside and took a bath.

After soaking, Liu Yumei helped her granddaughter wipe her body and put on her pajamas.

Ah Li can do all of these things herself now, but the old lady insists on doing them herself. Just now, when she saw Ah Li taking a bath, she resisted the urge to go over and massage her granddaughter to relax her muscles and improve blood circulation.

She didn't mind spitting out a few mouthfuls of blood to relieve her granddaughter's physical pain, but she knew that if she did that, it would only add to her granddaughter's mental anguish.

It was Uncle Qin who brought over the late-night snack.

Aunt Liu didn't come to deliver it in person.

When the old lady ordered an increase in the offerings and an extra sumptuous late-night snack, she had a hunch in her heart. She dared not deliver them herself, for fear of seeing something she shouldn't, leaving a deep impression, and then having Xiao Yuan discover it during the day.

As for Ali, even someone as clever as Xiao Yuan would find it difficult to see through the true Qin family.

As Liu Yumei watched her granddaughter eat her late-night snack, she would occasionally reach out and tuck a stray strand of hair behind her ear.

After Ah Li finished eating, Liu Yumei lay down on the bed with her granddaughter.

The girl closed her eyes and quickly fell asleep.

Liu Yumei opened her eyes and looked out the window at the moonlight.

Before we knew it, the latter half of the night had passed, and dawn had broken.

The girl woke up, sat up, and looked at her grandmother with her eyes closed.

Liu Yumei couldn't keep up the act any longer. She opened her eyes and held up one finger:
"It's just for one night. Grandma will definitely go to sleep obediently tomorrow."

As she helped her granddaughter with her hair and makeup, watching her walk out of the east room, Liu Yumei leaned against the doorframe, shaking her head and sighing:
"In this world, probably only our Ah Li can fool Xiao Yuan right under his nose, just like when Lao Gou tricked me into staying."

In the morning, Li Sanjiang called Li Zhuiyuan out; they were about to head to Xue Liangliang's house.

We went by tractor, driven by Uncle Qin.

The grandfather and grandson walked to the tractor and saw Chen Xiyuan holding Benben, who was already sitting on it.

Li Sanjiang asked in bewilderment, "Girl, what's wrong with you?"

Li Zhuiyuan: "She was going to her music class on South Street in the afternoon, so it was on her way."

Chen Xiyuan nodded. Her little brother's reason was better than she had thought. She was just about to answer, "Go to the banquet!"

Li Sanjiang: That's perfect. Let's have lunch together. More people means more fun, haha.

Then, Li Sanjiang looked at Benben.

Benben immediately grabbed Chen Xiyuan's arm, pretending to like Aunt Chen and not wanting to leave her.

He pretended to be pushed away, then started crying loudly, and then pretended to be hugged back, laughing giggling.

Chen Xiyuan could only look down at Benben, unable to keep up with the little actor's performance.

Li Sanjiang: "Did you talk to his family? Don't let them go crazy looking for him like last time."

Chen Xiyuan: "I told his mother."

Li Sanjiang: "Talking to his mother is useless. Did you talk to Yinghou?"

Chen Xiyuan: "I already said that."

Li Sanjiang: "Alright, let's go together."

The tractor set off, and Li Sanjiang sat next to Uncle Qin, chatting with him about the official production of the kiln after the New Year.

However, the auspicious time for the official start of construction was before the Lunar New Year, a date that Li Sanjiang himself calculated.

No one builds houses at the end of the year, so there are no orders. But everything can be adapted. Lighting a fire in the kiln is also called starting construction. It doesn't necessarily have to produce a batch of bricks. Just like when Li Sanjiang led Li Zhuiyuan to build the kiln at an auspicious time, digging a couple of shovels of soil was also called starting construction.

On the village road, Xiao Hei moved swiftly, caught up with the tractor, and leaped up, successfully landing on it.

Benben left Chen Xiyuan's embrace and lay down on the dog.

As soon as they arrived at Xue Liangliang's house, Benben couldn't wait to go inside and find the clown girl. Xue's mother liked Benben very much and gave him all kinds of snacks. Benben stood in front of the clown girl's cradle, his eyes full of curiosity.

Mother Xue laughed and said, "Children can play together the best. Silly boy, when your little sister grows up a bit and can walk and talk, she can follow you around and play with you."

Benben nodded. Once the clown girl could speak, he would definitely ask her how she managed to be so unpredictable.

Xue Liangliang was busy outside and didn't come home. Big White Rat was busy in the kitchen. When he saw Chen Xiyuan arrive, Big White Rat first glared at him, then immediately told Xue's father that he hadn't brought the mud snails he bought and that he would go back to the restaurant to get them. When he returned, Big White Rat had brought a tricycle full of vegetables.

While smoking and chatting with Li Sanjiang, Xue's father loudly scolded his son for being so outrageous, going out to work so soon after the baby was born.

Li Sanjiang deliberately echoed loudly, saying that it was fortunate that his wife was sensible and generous; otherwise, his wife would have argued and made a scene with him long ago.

Xue's mother quickly came over to join in, scolding her son while praising his wife.

Bai Zhilan sat on the sofa, a gentle smile on her face, looking very happy to be praised.

The three elderly people teamed up to coax a daughter-in-law who was older than all three of them combined.

At the entrance to Siyuan Village, Zhang Li greeted a guest who wasn't on the visitor's list but whom he dared not stop.

"Young Master Zhao, please."

"Is the one surnamed Li home?"

"The head of the family went out this morning and will probably be back this afternoon."

"Okay, I understand. You go about your business, I don't need to entertain you."

"Yes, Young Master Zhao is family, please forgive me for being lazy."

Zhao Yi was carrying gifts and didn't want to go back and forth, so he planned to go to Liu Jinxia's house first and then to Big Beard's house to see Lao Tian.

As a result, they saw Lao Tian helping to pick out porcelain jars at Liu Jinxia's house.

With a carrying pole and two buckets of manure, before even fertilizing the fields, the smiles on the old farmer's face have already blossomed.

"Tsk..."

Zhao Yi sighed.

Liu Jinxia was his godmother, and Old Tian was even closer to him than his own grandfather. Since he was here...

Young Master Zhao put down the gifts and took over carrying manure from Old Tian.

Those who helped with the work were expected to stay for a meal, so Li Juxiang prepared a table full of dishes.

When Cui Cui came home from school at noon, she saw Zhao Yi returning from carrying manure and, without being bothered by the smell, happily rushed over to him.

"Brother Yi, Brother Yi!"

For Cui Cui, Yuan Hou and A Li are her best playmates, and Zhao Yi is the perfect embodiment of her "brother" image.

Which girl wouldn't want a handsome and dashing older brother when she was little? Every time he returned to the village, Zhao Yi would bring a big bag of snacks to find Cui Cui at the entrance of her classroom.

Cui Cui skipped a grade, and every time Zhao Yi appeared like a prince on a white horse, all the girls in the class would look at him.

Zhao Yi: "I stink."

Cui Cui shook her head: "Brother Yi smells good, he doesn't smell bad."

Zhao Yi: "I'll take a shower and change my clothes first. After we eat, I'll take you to school."

Cui Cui: "Okay."

After having dinner and sending Cuicui back to school, Zhao Yi glanced at Zhang Li and then went to Big Beard's house.

When I got to the dam, I saw Tan Wenbin sitting on the second-floor balcony, recuperating from his injuries and reading a book.

Tan Wenbin: "The presence of other teams is an honor to our humble abode, and it feels like a warm spring breeze!"

Zhao Yi: "If I had known, I wouldn't have changed my clothes. I could have let Tan Daban smell the fresh spring air."

Upon arriving upstairs, Zhao Yi first went to check on Lin Shuyou's hospital room.

He then went out onto the balcony and asked Tan Wenbin, "What kind of nasty or evil spirit did you encounter this time?"

“A group of eminent monks of the Kong generation from Qinglong Temple, and an evil monk hiding in Faping Temple who intercepts the flow of fortune.”

"Wait, are you guys playing this advanced stuff now?"

"Even though Brother Xiaoyuan made the most of the mechanisms and rules, we still won with difficulty and a bit of luck in the end."

"Hey, hey, hey, winning is already outrageous enough. What, you want to win fair and square, easily? Is Mr. Li so eager to dominate the martial arts world right now?"

"You know the other team, Brother Yuan doesn't like this kind of luck-based approach."

“That’s true. Alright, since that guy surnamed Li hasn’t come back yet, and we’re just killing time anyway, why don’t you tell me about your experiences from the last wave?”

"Not free."

"Ok?"

“Brother Xiaoyuan gave me the things yesterday, saying that he was going out with Grandpa Li today, and if you from the other team arrived first, he asked me to give them to you so you could use them first and not waste any time.”

As he spoke, Tan Wenbin took a box out of his pocket and handed it over.

Zhao Yi took the box, tore off the seal, opened it, and saw the mature, life-or-death gate lying inside.

"hiss……"

The life-or-death gate on Zhao Yi's chest immediately began to rotate rapidly, and his eyes widened.

Tan Wenbin laughed and said, "It seems that this thing is indeed very useful to you in the foreign team. It's rare to see you so excited in the foreign team."

Zhao Yi shook his head: "I'm not excited because of it, after all, the guy surnamed Li already told me on the phone."

"That is?"

"Damn it, that guy surnamed Li actually gave me this thing before we even started doing anything. Does he really expect me to go through fire and water?!"

……

Li Zhuiyuan accompanied his drunken great-grandfather back home. After settling his great-grandfather in, Li Zhuiyuan went to the bearded man's house.

"Brother Xiaoyuan, the other team is in seclusion inside digesting their information."

Did he say how long it would take?

"The other team said it would take several days."

"Yes, once he has recovered, your injuries will have mostly healed."

Over the next few days, Li Zhuiyuan completed Lin Shuyou's improvement plan, and also provided Tan Wenbin's plan to the main body.

Considering that he would need the help of his partners when opening the furnace for Runsheng, Li Zhuiyuan did not rush to give these two plans to Tan Wenbin and Ayou, especially Ayou, who needed to make another trip to the Guanjiangshou Temple in Fujian.

We also need to go to Fengdu. The spirit tablets of Baihe Tongzi and Zeng Jiangjun are still enshrined in Shaojun Mansion and need to be modified. However, Li Zhuiyuan doesn't need to go to Fengdu personally. After Runsheng finishes here, he should go to Fengdu to see Mengmeng. He can take the modification plan of the spirit tablets and altar formation to Mengmeng and then convey it to the Zhao family ghost official in the mansion when Mengmeng returns to Hell.

The Zhao clan's ghost officials are capable of helping them with this outsourcing; such geniuses are rare indeed.

During this time, Li Zhuiyuan took the opportunity to conduct a self-examination and reflection on his Bodhisattva status, sealing away any unnecessary sensations and triggers.

Tan Wenbin, Runsheng, and Lin Shuyou had all recovered from their injuries and had all "returned home," where they announced to their great-grandfather that the mules had returned to their positions.

On the contrary, Zhao Yi is still in seclusion, but judging from the fluctuations in energy he senses outside the door, he should be finishing soon.

Chen Xiyuan's life was very regular. In the morning, she would play the flute and enjoy her hobby in the peach orchard. In the afternoon, she would go to the city for tutoring classes and have dinner in the morning and evening.

After Luo Xiaoyu recovered, Benben's life became difficult. His schedule returned to normal, and he could no longer see that unruly figure running wildly through the village with his dogs. He could only count the days until Clown Girl would be sent here to visit.

That afternoon, Benben was setting up his formation in the open space between the peach orchard and the dam when he suddenly looked up and gazed at his home.

Benben's mouth gaped open, and in his dazed state, he seemed to see a terrifying black crack appear in the center of the room.

Xiao Yingying was making paper offerings, Lao Tiantou was drying fruit, and Lao Suntou was looking around with some confusion.

In the peach grove, Luo Xiaoyu's eyes were solemn.

Sister Hua: "Xiaoyu, what's wrong?"

Luo Xiaoyu: "Sigh, I'm now traveling the river only to eliminate demons and uphold justice, and to do as many good deeds as I can for the human world."

Upon returning, the first thing I saw was Chen Xiyuan's newly opened domain, and now I'm witnessing this terrifying gap between life and death...

He could accept being trampled on by Li Zhuiyuan, but he couldn't accept being trampled on by so many feet.

By the pond, Qing'an held a teacup in his left hand, drinking tea, while picking up a peach branch beside him with his right hand, as if to pull it out.

The gap between life and death immediately closed and disappeared.

Zhao Yi, who was sitting cross-legged on the bed, opened his eyes.

"Is this... the feeling of the gap between life and death at maturity?"

"Hey Li, your offer this time is way beyond my wildest dreams. It's so high I'm thinking of running away now."

Zhao Yi did indeed consider running away; he didn't believe that the man surnamed Li was someone who didn't know his place.

After hesitating for a long time, Zhao Yi finally pushed open the door, walked onto the balcony, and made a gesture of flicking a little bird at Benben below.

Benben covered his groin with both hands, looking at him with great displeasure.

"Go and tell the man surnamed Li that I'm all set here."

Benben immediately mounted Xiao Hei and set off on an urgent journey.

"Brother Xiaoyuan, Benben has come to tell you that the other team has finished."

"Invite him to dinner, and then notify the others to gather at the brickyard tonight."

"clear."

Li Zhuiyuan picked up the book of precautions on the table that he was going to hand over to Zhao Yi later. Although he had deduced and verified it countless times, he was still worried that something unexpected might happen when it was officially implemented.

As soon as Tan Wenbin came downstairs, he saw Li Sanjiang walk onto the dam with a cigarette in his left hand and his right hand on his hip, and he instructed everyone:
"I said, remember them all, right?"
After dinner, everyone come with me to the brickyard. We'll light a fire to start operations, for good luck!

(End of this chapter)