I was selling peach wood swords on a live stream, how did I become a Taoist ancestor?

Chapter 317 The Inevitable Trend, Changes in the Earth's Veins

At six o'clock in the afternoon, the school bell rang to signal the end of the school day.

Xiao Lingxi, carrying her schoolbag, followed Liu Xiaoxiao out of the classroom.

"Lingxi, Lingxi, where do you live?" Liu Xiaoxiao asked, holding her hand.

Qingfeng Mountain.

"Qingfeng Mountain? You really live on a mountain?!" Liu Xiaoxiao's eyes widened. "Aren't there monsters on the mountain?"

Xiao Lingxi thought for a moment and said seriously, "There are no monsters. There is my grandfather, my master, and a white fox on the mountain."

"A white fox?!" Liu Xiaoxiao's eyes lit up instantly. "Your house is so cool!"

Xiao Lingxi smiled a little shyly.

The two walked out of the school gate hand in hand.

At the school gate, the old Taoist priest was standing there. When he saw Xiao Lingxi come out, he smiled and waved to her.

"Grandpa!" Xiao Lingxi said goodbye to Liu Xiaoxiao and then ran over.

The old Taoist priest took her hand and looked her up and down.

"How was your first day of school?"

Xiao Lingxi thought for a moment.

"My deskmate is very nice. Her name is Liu Xiaoxiao. She sits next to me and she complimented my beautiful eyes."

"Anything else?"

"there is none left."

The old Taoist priest smiled, didn't ask any further questions, and took Xiao Lingxi's hand, walking towards Qingfeng Mountain.

Along the way, Xiao Lingxi chattered on about what she had learned that day.

She learned to write the character for "flower," the character for "grass," and the character for "little white."

The old Taoist priest held her hand, listened patiently, and nodded from time to time.

When they reached the foot of the mountain, Xiao Lingxi suddenly stopped.

"grandfather."

"Um?"

"Can I still come to school tomorrow?"

The old Taoist priest squatted down and looked into her bright, golden eyes.

"Of course."

"And the day after tomorrow?"

"Okay."

"And the day after tomorrow?"

"You can have any of those," the old Taoist priest laughed. "As long as you want to, you can have them every day."

Xiao Lingxi pursed her lips and smiled.

That smile was brighter than the sunshine.

As spring transitions into summer, the old locust tree in the yard sprouts new branches, and its tender green leaves rustle in the wind.

Life has been quite uneventful lately.

Lingxi has completely adapted to going to school.

She made a few friends, including her deskmate Liu Xiaoxiao, the chubby boy Qin Wei who sat in the back row, and a girl named Chen Jia who liked to draw.

The children often went to and from school together, and sometimes they would go to the park in the county town to play on weekends.

The old Taoist priest was responsible for picking them up and dropping them off every day.

I dropped Xiao Lingxi off at the school gate in the morning and showed up at the usual spot right before school ended in the afternoon.

Sometimes when Xiao Lingxi goes out to play, she brings her white fox with her and shows it off to her friends: "Look, this is my little white fox, isn't it beautiful?"

Looking at Xiaobai's three fluffy tails, Liu Xiaoxiao's eyes were full of envy: "It has three tails! Is it really a monster?"

Little White wagged its tail, thinking to itself, "I'm not a monster, I'm a natural spirit."

But it was too lazy to explain; as long as its little owner was happy, that was all that mattered.

During this period, Li Jun drank tea in the courtyard every day, watching Xiao Lingxi grow up little by little, and felt a mix of emotions he couldn't quite describe.

When the girl first met him, she was timid and didn't dare to say much.

It's different now.

She would talk animatedly at the dinner table about school: what snacks Liu Xiaoxiao brought that day, Qin Wei getting punished by the teacher again, and Chen Jia's drawing being posted on the back wall of the classroom.

Every evening is the liveliest time at Qingfeng Temple.

The old Taoist priest chuckled as he listened to Xiao Lingxi chatter on about the interesting things that happened at school.

The three of them sat around a small table, with the white fox lying at their feet. The room was filled with warm yellow light, the clinking of bowls and chopsticks, and the laughter of little Lingxi.

This is the daily life at Qingfeng Temple.

dull.

warmth.

Down-to-earth.

Time flies, and summer is here in the blink of an eye.

Inside Qingfeng Temple, everything was as usual.

Every morning, Xiao Lingxi carries her schoolbag down the mountain to school, and in the afternoon, she carries her schoolbag back up the mountain to go home.

The old Taoist priest picks up and drops off his granddaughter every day, and occasionally goes down the mountain to play chess with a few old men.

Li Jun drinks tea in the courtyard every day, staring blankly at the gourds on the gourd vines.

As the earth veins of the Great Xia continued to expand outward, his physique grew stronger and stronger, and his cultivation was only a hair's breadth away from the Separation and Union Dao Realm.

But he did not insist.

The Dao Integration Realm requires the earth's veins to be fully integrated at that moment, at which point the laws of heaven and earth naturally resonate with it.

You can't force it, and you can't rush it.

That evening, Li Jun sat at the stone table, holding a teacup, looking at the gourd vine.

A white fox lay at his feet, its three tails swaying gently behind it.

Moonlight filtered through the leaves, casting dappled shadows on the ground.

Everything was peaceful.

But Li Jun's brows suddenly furrowed slightly.

Just now, he felt the earth beneath his feet tremble slightly.

The vibration was so slight that ordinary immortals couldn't even detect it.

But Li Jun sensed it clearly.

He opened his eyes and looked south.

As the Great Xia ley lines expanded southward, they constantly collided with a solid barrier.

The barrier was invisible and intangible, yet terrifyingly resilient.

Previously, this barrier had been as solid as a rock; even when the Great Xia's earth veins struck it, it remained completely unmoved.

But now—

Li Jun sensed that cracks had appeared in the barrier.

The cracks are extremely fine, hundreds or even thousands of times finer than a strand of hair.

But it does exist.

Li Jun closed his eyes and focused his mind on the earth's veins.

The earth's yellowish-brown veins surged, and his mind followed them southward.

Soon, his "vision" crossed the southern border of Great Xia, beyond the vast rainforest, and arrived at a place he had never been before.

That place is the southern end of the Great Xia's land veins.

An invisible barrier lies in front of the earth's veins.

The barrier was sturdy and thick, upon which flowed various divine lights—

But at this moment, Li Jun could clearly feel that a crack had appeared on the barrier.

The crack was so fine that it was almost invisible to the naked eye.

Moreover, the crack is located in the direction of the South China Sea.

Li Jun's mind continued to delve deeper into the crack, and soon he "saw" the scene on the other side of the crack.

There, it was a vast land.

Forests cover the land, rivers crisscross the landscape, and islands are scattered throughout.

It was Southeast Asia.

Li Jun regained his composure and opened his eyes.

The corners of his mouth slowly curved upwards.

"Has it finally reached its breaking point?"

He murmured, a hint of anticipation in his voice.

Those so-called god-kings thought that they could stop the expansion of the Great Xia's earth veins by relying on the barrier created by the divine realm.

ridiculous.

The destiny of this world can never be changed by obstruction.

The trend of the times is irreversible; those who follow it prosper, and those who oppose it perish.

Those god-kings clearly did not understand this principle.

But it's okay.

They will understand soon.

At this moment, the white fox raised its head, its golden vertical pupils filled with confusion.

"Master, what's wrong?"

"It's nothing."

"But some people are starting to get restless."

The white fox nodded as if it understood, then lay down again and continued to doze off.

Li Jun withdrew his gaze, picked up his teacup, and took a small sip.