Chapter 12
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“Pa！”
Then, the Spirit Moon Fairy stretched out her hand and pointed at the center of the ghost servant’s eyebrows, drawing a rune with a milky white glow at the center of its eyebrows.
When the rune disappeared into the center of the ghost servant’s eyebrows, the ghost servant stood up with a wooden expression on its face. Then, it ignored the Spirit Moon Fairy in front of it, turned around and left while saying to itself：
“Why did I fall here? Forget it, forget it. I’d better go back and report to the Great King. When I see the Great King, I’ll tell him that there’s another little cultivator in charge of the medicine garden in Green Bamboo Residence. We can wait until the spiritual herbs in his medicine garden mature and then come back. At that time, we’ll take his life and the spiritual herbs in the garden together. Maybe the Great King will even reward me with a fresh heart and liver. How wonderful, how wonderful！”
At the end, the ghost servant couldn’t help but shake its head and sway, obviously very satisfied with its own plan.
“Alas, although it’s very risky to let the tiger return to the mountain, I still hope that little Taiping will understand the teacher’s good intentions in the future.”
The Spirit Moon Fairy looked at the ghost servant that was shaking its head and leaving, and muttered to herself.
Although she hasn’t asked Xu Taiping to become her apprentice yet and doesn’t know if Xu Taiping is willing to do so, this doesn’t prevent Fairy Lingyue from imagining herself in the role of a master.
However, she would definitely not admit that the main reason for doing this is that she has been too lonely staying in the Ksitigarbha Fruit for hundreds of years and wants to have some fun.
……
The next day.
Xu Taiping got up very early.
First, he went to the medicine garden to clean up the weeds. Then, he added a few shovels of soil to the place where the Ksitigarbha Fruit was buried. After all, for him, the Ksitigarbha Fruit will be a great reliance for him to base himself in the cultivation world in the future, and it must not be stolen by others.
And after Fairy Lingyue returned to the Ksitigarbha Fruit last night, she never appeared again. Xu Taiping thought that she might really not come out until a month or so later.
After cleaning up the weeds in the medicine garden, he spent another whole morning tidying up the three thatched cottages in Qingzhu Residence.
The environment of the thatched cottages is very simple. There is a bedroom with only a bed, a main room, a kitchen, and a toilet built behind the medicine garden.
And during the process of cleaning the kitchen, Xu Taiping discovered two very interesting things – a water tank that can never be scooped dry and a rice vat that can produce a tank of rice as long as one merit coin is thrown into it.
With water and rice, plus a dried fish hanging on the wall, Xu Taiping’s first meal after coming to Qingxuan Sect was solved like this.
After finishing the meal, he spread the bed sheet and quilt in the cabinet on the bed, and then sat cross-legged on the bed and took out the jade slip and the bronze mirror that were given by Xifeng Pavilion earlier.
When Fairy Lingyue passed on the prescription of the Marrow Washing and Bone Forging Soup to me, she tapped my eyebrows. The method of transmitting skills with this jade slip is also to stick it on the eyebrows. This should be the common method of transmitting skills in the cultivation world.
He picked up the jade slip and muttered in a low voice.
According to the Pavilion Master of Xifeng Pavilion, this jade slip records a qi-refining mental method of Qingxuan Sect, as well as many sect rules of Qingxuan Sect and the instructions for the use of the bronze mirror.
“Hoo… The things transmitted from this jade slip are much more than that finger of Fairy Lingyue.”
Feeling the continuous stream of words emerging in his mind, Xu Taiping only felt dizzy and almost fell off the bed.
Fortunately, it didn’t take long for no new words to emerge in his mind, and he finally let out a sigh of relief.
But soon he discovered another problem.
The words that entered his mind were like the books on the bookshelf, and you needed to flip through them to see and understand the content inside.
“So the method of transmitting skills with this jade slip is still a bit different from the method taught to me by Fairy Lingyue. With that finger of Fairy Lingyue, I immediately knew how to grab and decoct the medicine according to that prescription, but this jade slip can only stuff these things into my head.”
Xu Taiping carefully felt the difference between the two.
“But it is also possible that because the content is different, this kind of difference will occur.”
He immediately added another sentence in his heart, and then stopped dwelling on about these things. calmed down and read the lines of text in his mind little by little.
……
Three days later.
It took almost three days, and Xu Taiping finally finished reading all the content in the jade slip.
Just as the Pavilion Master of Xifeng Pavilion said before, there are mainly three things in the jade slip – a “Cansha Jing”, a volume of “Xuanjing Gongyong Jiyao”, and a “Qingxuan Zonglü Dian”.
During this period, he also “read the book” while digging the ground in the medicine garden.
……
“According to the method taught in the jade slip, after digging the ground, you can pick up some wild animal feces and dead branches and leaves to burn the soil and fertilize the land.”
“But this step doesn’t need to be done in a hurry. Today is the first day of the lunar month, which is the day when Elder Ziyang preaches the scriptures. What he said is exactly the foundation of the “Cansha Jing” and the introduction of monks. It only happens once every three months and must not be missed.”
“After listening to the scriptures, I can pick out the seeds to buy in the bronze mirror by the way, so as not to waste that merit coin.”
When eating alone in the main room, Xu Taiping began to calculate the things to do today, and then casually tore off a page of the almanac on the wall.
A page of the almanac was torn open, just revealing the word “First Day”, and on the side note, there was a line of small characters written in vermilion pen such as “Suitable for studying, avoid moving the soil”.
This was bought together when he called a spiritual bird to help him purchase daily necessities yesterday. It cost him six merit coins in total, and he felt heartbroken for a while.
……
After eating, he returned to the bedroom.
Xu Taiping took out the bronze mirror from the box and carefully placed it on a broken table in front of him.
At this time, on the table, in addition to this bronze mirror, there was also half a bowl of clear water, a few flower petals and a merit coin of the Qingxuan Sect.
Xu Taiping recalled the method of using the bronze mirror, then dipped some clear water in the bowl with his hand and dropped it on the bronze mirror, and then put a few flower petals and the merit coin on it respectively.
”Hoo…”
Almost at the moment when he put the merit coin on the bronze mirror, a gust of breeze suddenly blew out from the bronze mirror, and a faint sandalwood fragrance was also mixed in the wind.
Immediately afterwards, a voice came out from the bronze mirror：
”The outer sect registered disciple of the Qingxuan Sect, Xu Taiping, take your seat. Don’t leave. Elder Ziyang is about to start the lecture on scriptures. If you miss it today, you have to wait for another three months.”
Xu Taiping, who had completely read the content of the jade slip, was not frightened by this voice, because it was mentioned in the “Summary of the Functions of the Mysterious Mirror” that this was the voice of the spirit of the mysterious mirror.
According to the ‘Summary of the Functions of the Mysterious Mirror’, the spirit of this Mysterious Mirror is like that guide, which can help you find what you want to see in the bronze mirror.
Of course, except for the forbidden area of the Qingxuan Sect, and each time it ‘points the way’, it requires one merit coin.
”Thank you, Lord Mysterious Mirror.”
Xu Taiping said a word of thanks.
The spirit of the Mysterious Mirror is not completely a dead thing, so in his opinion, it is very necessary to say a word of thanks.
