Deng Chanyu took two steps back and carefully looked at her jade residence, feeling that it was very good and had a kind of immortal aura. This was where she would practice for the next few years!
As for having a Taoist name, it was still a bit far from her. It was easy to be laughed at to take one before becoming a Golden Immortal.
Even if she did want to take one, it had to have a unique feature.
The Phoenix child was definitely not okay. The Lishan Old Mother was clearly hoping that she and the Phoenix clan would cut off all ties, at least formally.
Returning to the room, she first checked out the "Huangting Classic" and the "Yinfu Classic." Both books appeared to be very obscure, with the "Yinfu Classic" being especially concise, consisting of only 300 characters. No, not 300 million or 300 thousand, but 300 characters! In her previous life, those failed writers would casually write a three-river comment or an online shelf comment that had more characters than this. However, there are countless failed writers, but there is only one Yellow Emperor. The "Yinfu Classic" can truly be called a classic of profound meaning in few words.
The two sutras are both authentic classics of the Taoist tradition, emphasizing the importance of being in the middle path, cultivating oneself, and separating the three volumes of sutras that deal with skills, techniques, magic arts, and the Dao as an entirely different type of book. The previous two volumes serve as a theoretical foundation, while the celestial book serves as a typical reference tool.
Don't care if Deng Chanyu is the reincarnation of the Phoenix. Her talent has indeed become extremely extraordinary with the bloodline connection from Fenxing. The difficulty in using celestial books mainly stems from a lack of foundation. Now that she has theoretical knowledge, when she looks at these reference books, her progress will be very rapid.
The morning I hear of the Tao, I would be content to die in the evening.
For an entire day, she spent her time in joy. The profound and the mysterious, the gate of all wonders, and the path of the Great Dao were all open to her. Many principles that her physical body could understand but her mind couldn't make sense of could be found in the sutras. This made her overjoyed. The martial power that had accumulated in her body due to various precious herbs and minerals that the clone had ingested was now slowly transformed into true Taoist martial power according to the way of Huangting Sutra.
The original body also used the clone's mouth to ask Old Bear many questions.
Old Bear had no guidance, following a purely independent path, but his Taoist cultivation was genuinely not low. By comparing the theories from the Huangting Classic with the practical experiences from Old Bear's side, the original body gained immensely. It even brought about a profound enlightenment for Old Bear, making the title of "master" sound twice as sincerely.
Deng Chanyu prepared to first read the seven books, and wait until the seventh day when the old mother descended to ask questions. However, that very night, she understood what it meant by "joy brings sorrow."
It started raining in the Lishan Mountains at night, which was quite common. Rain fell as it should. However, Deng Chanyu's jade residence started leaking.
The rooftop looked fine, but for some reason, as soon as it rained, it immediately turned into a sieve.
She wanted to change into another room, but the door wouldn't budge.
She sighed deeply, looking at the scattered stones of various sizes and the numerous holes that appeared in the roof out of nowhere.
City people have so many tricks!
The teacher-student succession cannot be abandoned. You're making me learn the prerequisite skill for repairing the sky, right? Repairing houses!
Grinding a rod is a piece of cake, but repairing a house is not. This requires skill. How should this tiled house be repaired specifically? Deng Chanyu has no idea, even with two lifetimes combined.
The team of divine beasts couldn't help either. Old Bear has a wealth of life experience, and he knows how to dismantle houses, but to repair them? Sorry, Chi You never taught that!
The whole night before was a fine drizzle, and Deng Chanyu was drenched like a drowned rat. She couldn't finish repairing the house. She was soaking wet all over, and the temperature started to drop in the second half of the night.
The temperature drop was almost psychotic. For a moment, she remembered the catchy phrase from her previous life about making fun of the air conditioning in the old Jieda: "First gear, frost, second gear, frostbite, third gear, see the Northern Lights." She could barely endure the sub-zero temperature of minus seventy-eight to ninety degrees at midnight. However, at one o'clock in the morning, she had to rely on pure qingyang true fire to withstand extreme cold. By three o'clock in the morning when her power was depleted, she was left with nothing but shivering under a quilt.
The next morning, Deng Chanyu walked out of the room looking disheveled and covered in dust and mud.
Biaozi was enjoying the grass feed in the yard, lifting his head and looking at her with a strange expression. Why don't you come out if your house is leaking? Are you an idiot?
The Lishan Mother comes once every seven days, and even if she does come, don't expect her to bring food for Deng Chanyu. There's no possibility of delivery here.
The old lady is very fond of collecting female martial artists, mainly because their survival skills are strong. If she were to take a refined daughter as a disciple, she would starve to death in these mountain conditions in just two days.
Deng Chanyu had no choice but to rely on herself: "Let's go, Biaozi, we'll go hunting in the mountains! Today, I will shoot 319 rabbits!"
For a full three days, she had been at odds with the roof. The weather around here was also strange; during the day, it was sunny and clear, but at night, it would rain heavily and continuously throughout the night, followed by a sharp drop in temperature.
Drawing on the knowledge she gained from watching videos on TikTok, she began to repair the house piece by piece.
She would occasionally turn to the Divine Beast Squad for help on the sidelines. The Jinghe Dragon King was pursuing her relentlessly, and Old Bear was afraid to show his face recently, so he had Zhu Wu go to the wealthy households in the village and lift up the tiles to study them. He wanted to know exactly what kind of structure they were!
After three days of hard work, she finally managed to repair the house.
However, on the fourth night, the house started leaking again, and the leak location and method were different from before.
Every seven days, the Lishan Mother would descend, answering Deng Chanyu's questions about her cultivation.
Before leaving, the old lady would throw her a question to ponder over.
Some were for refining weapons, some for refining pills, and some even for arrays.
Looking up at the sky and down at the earth, practicing during the day, and patching up houses at night while controlling fire for warmth - the study life in Lishan was extremely fulfilling for Deng Chanyu, with significant progress made every day.
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The Jinghe Dragon King is going crazy!
The two Yiyi Lamps of Cui Guang have cleaned up the Jinghe Dragon Palace too thoroughly, leaving not even a handkerchief for him.
At the same time, the people in the Western Zhou region were overjoyed.
A large number of river fresh catches drifted down the Jinghe River, grilled to perfection. The aroma alone was enough to make anyone's appetite soar. Some of the fish and shrimp even carried the scent of wine, suggesting they had been braised in it.
Even though Grandfather Ji Chang was capable in governing the state, in the context of a slave society, he couldn't possibly let the people drink wine every day. Having enough food to eat was already a blessing.
These fish and shrimp were considered a gift from heaven by the common people. Among them, there were even some shrimp soldiers and crabs, who had become unconscious due to the glare of the two Yiyi Lamps. They finally drifted down the river and onto the tables of the people in Xiqi, where some lucky ones found themselves eating aquatic creatures with divine powers. As a result, they felt all their diseases vanish and became immensely strong.
The city of Xiqi was bustling with activity during those days. An eighty-year-old grandfather was carrying a lobster that was almost as long as his body, running so fast that his legs left a shadow behind. The scene was nothing short of explosive.
The Jinghe Dragon King witnessed this scene from above the air, several times angered by it, intending to flood Xiqi. However, he was repeatedly stopped by the turtle chancellor who was proficient in divination. No!
The turtle chancellor couldn't see the fates or know about the events of Zhou rising and Shang falling. He just had an intuition that he couldn't attack Xiqi. Once he did, it would bring great misfortune to the entire water clan in the Jinghe River.
