Food gives me an entry, I will be invincible if I stay alive

Chapter 332 Measuring the Winds and Clouds, Watching the Sunset Together

At the Ziwei Academy, Wen Daoyuan and his disciples engaged in a game of strategy before their departure.

His six disciples, though juniors to him, were all scholars who had passed the imperial examinations and were all first-rate Confucian and Taoist masters.

Not all of these six people held positions at the Ziwei Academy.

Among them, the second, third, and fifth disciples were all serving officials of the imperial court, each with their own duties.

The second disciple was a local official. The reason he could be summoned at any time was because an elder in his family had passed away, and he happened to be returning to the capital to observe the mourning period.

Chen Xu's "Strategy to Suppress the Locust Demon" had only been written for less than an hour, but the storm it caused had already spread from the Imperial Examination Hall to the Jade Capital.

The wind blew from the palace to the Ziwei Academy.

Before long, the impact will likely be even more profound.

But right now, after returning home with the two little demons, all Chen Xu wanted to do was warm a pot of wine and cook a few dishes.

One person and two demons, drinking and eating together, watching the sunset together.

Despite the ever-changing world, nothing seems to affect this small courtyard in the south of the city.

Just as the food and wine were finished, a sharp squeak suddenly came from the corner of the courtyard wall.

The little mouse, Ashi, suddenly jumped up and scurried to the corner of the wall, squeaking at it as well!

Chen Xu, with his keen senses, immediately noticed the gray field rat that had appeared in the corner of the wall.

The little mouse by the wall was clearly only half the size of a palm. Compared to the mice that are now five inches tall, the one in the hole by the wall looked like a real "mouse".

Chen Xu found it very interesting.

He looked at Wei Yuan with his eyes, asking what was going on.

Wei Yuan said very calmly, "Brother Chen, this matter should be explained to you by A Shi himself."

Chen Xu stopped asking questions until A Shi used a few Dan Yu Ling Mi from his purse to send the wild rat away.

Ah Shi leaped several times and returned to Chen Xu's side.

It jumped onto the slightly faded small dining table and excitedly said to Chen Xu:
"Scholar, I sent a group of wild rats out to gather information. Guess what those rats brought us?"

Chen Xu shook his head and said, "I can't guess. You and that wild rat have your own way of communicating, don't you? I couldn't even hear your conversation just now."

The mouse was quite pleased with itself when this was mentioned.

It quickly puffed out its fluffy little chest and squeaked, "It's not transmitting sound, it's transmitting images! What it has seen, I can see within half an hour."

Scholar, I'm very useful, aren't I?

I can find out a lot of information. I'm telling you, this is only because I'm deliberately keeping it to myself. Otherwise, I could directly control all the rats in the city!

By then, will there be anything in Pingyang that I don't know?

Chen Xu had long known that the mouse possessed extraordinary blood, so he was not surprised to hear that it had such abilities.

But we should still give them praise.

Chen Xu then reached out and gently stroked the mouse's head, saying with a smile:

"So, does that mean Ah-shi is going to become a know-it-all? Ah-shi is so amazing, from now on I'll have to rely on him in everything."

Upon hearing this, the mouse felt both smug and guilty, and at the same time, it suddenly felt an indescribable sense of responsibility.

It felt heavy, making it seem unfamiliar, and I wanted to resist it, yet I couldn't bear to.

Finally, the mouse nudged its head against Chen Xu's palm, tilted its head back, and couldn't help but tell the truth:
"Scholar, I... I can't actually control too many wild rats at any given time."

"If there are too many wild rats and too many teleportations, my cultivation is limited, and I... I won't be able to withstand it."

At this point, Ashi felt extremely ashamed.

It couldn't help but lower its head again.

Chen Xu flicked his finger, and a crimson robe was sent to Ashi.

The sweet fruit made the mouse swallow hard.

This Crimson Robe was unusual; the spiritual energy it contained seemed to be much more abundant than usual. Ashi looked up at Chen Xu in surprise.

Chen Xu said, "The Crimson Robe can be nurtured many times using the Myriad Things Transformation Talisman. In the end, the fruit it bears will be more and more abundant in spiritual energy. This is evolution."

Ah Shi, plants and trees may seem different from us living beings, but in essence they are similar.

Plants can evolve, and so can we sentient beings.

The number of shadows you can project today is limited, and you can't control too many wild rats. Who knows if you won't evolve in the future?
By then, you might just become the true Rat King of the whole city.

It sounds incredibly impressive, and it inspires a great deal of admiration.

Hey, after Chen Xu said that, A-Shi really started to yearn for it.

The mouse puffed out its chest, beaming with pride once more: "That's right, scholar, what you said makes perfect sense!"

Wei Yuan watched intently from the side, and at this moment, a smile appeared on his face.

After chatting for a while, Ashi quickly told Chen Xu everything that had happened by the Yuancang River.

This wasn't actually a particularly exciting scene; to be honest, it was rather dry and unremarkable.

The wild rat deliberately came to convey this message simply because it was intuitively the right thing to do, and also because it wanted to ask Ah-shi for some reward.

In reality, neither the wild mouse, whose intelligence was not yet fully developed, nor the confused Ashi fully understood the importance of what happened by the river.

Until Ashi finished describing the scene without any embellishment.

Chen Xu heard this and his heart stirred slightly.

He pressed Ah Shi, "You said that every step that person took along the river was the same length?"

Ah-shi isn't actually stupid; he just doesn't understand some things.

When Chen Xu pressed for an answer, it quickly replied, "He kept saying as he walked, 'The resentment is sixty-nine zhang, seventy-eight zhang, eighty-six zhang deep...'"

"Scholar, what exactly do you mean by all this?"

Chen Xu remained silent for a moment before sighing softly, "A-Shi, A-Yuan, do you still remember the story we heard in the Long Tongue Ghost Market?"

In fact, that was a story that Dao Bing had heard in the Long Tongue Ghost Market.

But Chen Xu had recounted everything that happened in the ghost market to the two little demons.

This can also be considered as enriching the experiences of the two little demons.

Among them, the story of Lady Xie also made the two little demons sigh with emotion.

Ah-shi remembered this story vividly, so he immediately said:

"The Long-Tongued Ghost Market, is that referring to Lady Xie who wanted to transform into a dragon?"

Could it be that what that old ghost said... that Lady Xie wanted to transform her dead child into a dragon, wasn't just Black Tongue Old Ghost bragging, but really true?

After these words were spoken, the mouse felt goosebumps all over its body.

It was momentarily stunned.

But Chen Xu's thoughts went even further.

He also recalled a dream he had one night while taking the imperial examination.

A carp was trying to leap over the Dragon Gate, while asking himself if he was like a dragon.

Chen Xu had refused to answer this question, but upon waking, he felt that everything in the dream was real.

At his level of cultivation, how could he easily indulge in fantasies?

Therefore, everything in a dream has a deeper meaning.

As Chen Xu recalled everything in his dream and connected it with all his recent experiences, a phrase suddenly popped into his mind: "Binding the Dragon and Returning to the Waves!"
【Take the ashes of the False River God's Karmic Fire Calamity, add the Rootless Water of the Midnight Hour, the Tears of the Literary Sea's Ink Pool, and the Blood of the Deer's Cry to make a pill, and you will obtain one Leaping Dragon Pill.】

After consuming it, one will possess the power to bind dragons and reverse the tides for fifteen minutes.

He is already at the Golden Core stage. If he were to take the Leaping Dragon Pill, what would be the effect?

(End of this chapter)