Looking at Gong Xiaocai who had fallen asleep, Su Ming closed his eyes and slowly ran the "Raging Sea Giant Whale Skill" to restore the blood essence and blood consumed by the previous sacrifice to the paper puppet.
This night was a long night for both Su Ming and the monks in Qingshuifang City.
But no matter how long the night is, it will eventually pass.
The next day.
When the sun shines on the earth again.
Su Ming and Gong Xiaocai had already rushed all the way to the border of Shangyang County.
Thousands of miles away, the paper puppets traveled across mountains and rivers without resting.
In fact, Su Ming had specifically tested that his paper puppets were not perpetual motion machines. After careful observation, these paper puppets would slowly absorb the spiritual energy floating in the air when they were not moving or fighting.
Of course, just relying on a little spiritual energy in the air will definitely not be able to support the high-intensity battle of the paper puppets.
For the paper puppets, what really provides them with power is the celestial energy of creation in the paper puppet house.
This was a problem that Su Ming only discovered after he ran all the way last night and the paper puppet suddenly stopped in the middle of the run.
Fortunately, Su Ming had enough paper figures in his hand, so he only needed to replace them with the paper figures from the Hall of Immortals to solve the problem.
The sun shines through the sedan window and shines on Gong Xiaocai's face, making her long eyelashes tremble slightly.
After a while, Gong Xiaocai opened her eyes.
As soon as she opened her eyes, she saw Su Ming's delicate face. For a moment, Gong Xiaocai thought she had gone to hell after death, and murmured: "Brother Su Ming, are you dead too?"
"I'm not dead,"
Su Ming sighed, "But I'll respect him."
Hearing Su Ming mention her grandfather, Gong Xiaocai couldn't stop crying again.
Obviously, she recalled everything that happened last night.
The demonic cultivators colluded with the monks from the three major families to attack Qingshuifang City. The monks in Qingshuifang City suffered countless casualties.
After a long while, Su Ming comforted him: "Let's clean it first."
With that said, he slowly opened the sedan door and walked out first.
Gong Xiaocai touched her dirty cheek, her tear-stained face blushed slightly, and then she followed out silently.
Su Ming specially asked the paper puppet to park the sedan next to a lake.
It was early morning.
Several little beasts were drinking water by the lake. When they saw Su Ming and Gong Xiaocai approaching, they quickly fled.
Standing by the lake, Su Ming patted his storage bag and took out a copper basin.
Then, he found a clean water source, filled the basin with water, and handed it to Gong Xiaocai.
"Here, wash up."
Gong Xiaocai hesitated for a moment, took the copper basin from Su Ming, scooped up water with her little hands, and quickly cleaned it.
moment.
After washing her face, Gong Xiaocai once again revealed her pretty face.
At the same time, she also adjusted her mood.
As a native Lizhou monk, Gong Xiaocai is not a vase who doesn't know anything.
She has followed Gong Lao to receive goods outside Fangshi since she was a child, and she knows the "simple" cultivation customs of Lizhou.
Now that something like this happened, although she felt uncomfortable, she still wouldn't have a mental breakdown.
"Brother Su Ming, where are we going next?"
Gong Xiaocai raised her head and looked at Su Ming.
Without Gong Lao, Gong Xiaocai instinctively regarded Su Ming, who she spent time with every day, as the closest person in her life.
Hearing this, Su Ming patted his storage bag and took out a map.
He glanced at the map, pointed to a place on the map and said, "Let's go here."
Gong Xiaocai looked along the position of Su Ming's finger. On the position of Su Ming's finger, the two characters "Lanzhou" were written.
Lanzhou is located in the south of Lizhou. Not only are the two states separated by tens of thousands of miles, but there are also dangerous mountains and rivers in between. A mortal cannot cross such a long distance even in his lifetime.
But Su Ming and Gong Xiaocai are both monks, and their traveling speed is not comparable to that of ordinary people.
Even so, Su Ming estimated that it would take him at least more than a month to reach Lanzhou.
After all, there is a huge mountain range between Lizhou and Lanzhou, called the Ten Thousand Demons Mountain Range, which is where monsters gather.
If Su Ming wanted to cross this mountain range to Lanzhou, it would be tantamount to courting death.
He had no choice but to go around this mountain range and then go to Lanzhou.
As a result, the distance of tens of thousands of miles suddenly increased to more than 100,000 miles.
At the speed of a paper puppet.
If you don't sleep for a day and a night, you can probably run more than five thousand miles.
Based on this calculation, it takes more than a month to reach the destination, which is more than 100,000 miles away.
This is why Su Ming has a paper puppet as a useful tool for traveling.
If it were an ordinary Qi-training monk who had to rest and travel, it would take at least ten times more time to reach Lanzhou.
for the rest of the time.
Su Ming and Gong Xiaocai were crowded in a small sedan all day long, getting along day and night.
Unknowingly, the relationship between the two also underwent subtle changes along with this special journey.
One month later.
In front of an unknown mountain and lake.
Gong Xiaocai walked out of the suffocating sedan chair and ran towards the lake impatiently.
Su Ming knew what she was going to do, so he walked aside holding a jade slip.
When Gong Xiaocai saw Su Ming walking away with his back to her, she bit her lip, took off her clothes, revealing her delicate white body, and then with a pop, she plunged into the mirror-clear lake and started washing herself happily.
Neither Su Ming nor Gong Xiaocai had learned the art of cleaning, otherwise they wouldn't have had to go to the lake to take a bath.
But Gong Xiaocai didn't think there was any trouble bathing in the lake. On the contrary, she really enjoyed washing her body in the mirror-clear lake.
Su Ming found a huge boulder at the foot of the mountain, jumped up, and sat down cross-legged.
Study the jade slips left by Li Wushuang again.
In this month, Su Ming has done three things in total.
The first thing is to sacrifice the paper puppet.
Su Ming sacrificed the paper puppets to a full hundred.
It's not that Su Ming doesn't want to sacrifice more paper puppets, but the Hall of Immortals can only control a maximum of 100 paper puppets.
Unfortunately, among these 100 paper puppets, only 60 were truly strengthened to the extreme, and the remaining 40 were due to insufficient strengthening points.
Su Ming was also unable to strengthen them to the level of invincibility during the Qi training period.
Apart from sacrificing paper puppets, the second thing is to practice.
Even when he was on the road, Su Ming never forgot to practice.
From the first day he came to this world, Su Ming warned himself that he must persevere in his cultivation and not relax even one day.
This month, he has made progress in both "Hou Tu Gong" and "Shen Ting Rizhao Sutra".
However, the training time was still short, and Su Ming still failed to break through to the eighth level of Qi training.
The third thing, and the thing that Su Ming spent the most time and energy on, was studying the jade slips left by Li Wushuang.
On the boulder.
Su Ming once again immersed his consciousness in the jade slips.
I don't know how long it took, but it wasn't until Gong Xiaocai finished cleaning herself and stood under the boulder and called him that Su Ming came back to his senses.
"Brother Su Ming, what are you thinking about?"
Under the boulder, Gong Xiaocai asked curiously.
"nothing."
Su Ming smiled, put the jade slips into his storage bag, jumped off the boulder.