Chapter 60 Li Yuheng, the first jade character generation
Yuzhang City is a big city, as famous as Xijincheng, another big city.
These two cities are the settlements of the mortal clan of the Li family in Taiqiu Mountain.
The spring is bright, everything is recovering, and the old trees that shed all their leaves last winter are beginning to sprout green buds.
There is an academy in Yuzhang City, which is dedicated to the enlightenment of young children from the nearby Li clan.
Li Heng is one of them.
The sound of Lang Lang's reading came from the academy, one after another, forming a pleasant melody.
Li Heng doesn't like reading, but he likes reading. There are some differences between the two.
The gentlemen in the academy were wandering around, and when they saw a lazy student, they would tap him on the head with a ruler.
Li Heng sat by the window. The winter cold had not gone away, and the open window let in a bit of coolness.
Li Heng rubbed his little hands that were red from the cold, and struggled to flip through the poetry collection on the desk with two fingers.
The gentleman who walked up to Li Heng saw this scene, but did not care whether he opened his mouth to read.
Instead, he pointed at the desk with his ruler. After catching Li Heng's attention, he pointed at the window with his ruler.
Li Heng then pulled the window over and closed it knowingly.
Li Heng actually likes this coolness, because it is full of the breath of early spring, which makes Li Heng feel refreshed and his mood will improve unconsciously.
But he knew what he meant. The tribesmen next to him didn't like this smell as much as he did.
The gentleman in the academy knew that he was a smart man, so he knew that he understood what he meant, so after nodding and smiling, he slowly walked away.
The leisurely afternoon was spent in the sound of reading.
The young children who were ready to go home said goodbye to the teacher who was teaching.
Li Heng was the last one. After he also bowed, he did not leave. Instead, he asked the gentleman a question very seriously.
"Sir, people are coming to Taiqiu Mountain in a few days!"
The gentleman from the academy let out a sigh and said warmly:
"What do you want to ask?"
Li Heng thought carefully for a moment before speaking:
"Sir, he is the most knowledgeable person I know. I would like to ask you, is Mount Taiqiu really as beautiful as my elders say?"
When the gentleman from the academy heard this, his expression became serious. Since Li Heng asked him this question so carefully, he must also treat him with a sincere attitude.
"It might be a little darker than you think!"
"Is it inside Taiqiu Mountain?"
"No, it's outside Taiqiu Mountain."
Li Heng handed over his hand again and thanked:
"The students seem to understand, thank you sir."
The gentleman waved his hand and said to Li Heng:
"If you can go up the mountain and arrive at the ancestral temple, remember to help Mr. put the incense sticks."
"Students note."
Then Li Heng walked outside the academy, and soon he was walking in the lanes of Yuzhang City. There was a faint smoke from cooking not far away, and there was a pleasant smell in the air.
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Five days later, under the leadership of the city lord Li Gui, all the children of school age in Yuzhang City were gathered on two large carriages outside the city.
Today they will set off to the Taiqiu Mountain that their elders have talked about in their mouths and hearts.
On the carriage, Li Heng saw that in addition to the city lord and his guards, there was also a stranger riding a black horse.
This stranger was dressed in black mysterious clothes and had long sword-shaped eyebrows and starry eyes. He was very beautiful. The city lord Li Gui was very respectful to him.
This is Li Xuanyu, the twelfth in the Li Jiaxuan generation of Taiqiu Mountain.
Seemingly noticing that Li Heng was observing him through the gap in the carriage curtain, Li Xuanyu turned his head and smiled at Li Heng.
Li Heng didn't expect that the other party would find him. After being stunned for a moment, he returned a smile.
Li Xuanyu turned his head and continued to perform his escort mission, only murmuring softly:
"This kid is quite interesting."
After ten days of traveling on the road, Li Heng finally arrived at the clan's holy land, Taiqiu Mountain.
The other two carriages from Xijin City also met them here.
Under the organization of the two city lords of Yuzhang City and Xijin City, dozens of children in the four carriages got off the carriages, and they had to walk the rest of the way.
Led by Li Xuanyu, the group passed through the Linggu Field at the foot of Taiqiu Mountain and approached the mountain body of Taiqiu Mountain little by little.
The new buds of the spiritual grains had just sprouted. Li Heng sniffed the air carefully with his nose, and seemed to smell that these spiritual grains were slightly different from the ordinary rice grown outside Yuzhang City.
Although he was a little curious, Li Heng still followed the city lord's instructions before setting off: don't look around, don't ask around, and don't move around.
After crossing a long road, Li Heng raised his head and looked at the towering mountain in front of him.
I thought: Is this Taiqiu Mountain? It is indeed beautiful!
The aura is dense, and the breath of early spring is revealed everywhere on the mountain.
Li Heng secretly turned his head and looked at a side peak next to him, and found that there was a beautiful piece of red pouring on the side peak, but he didn't know what the red was?
Once here, the city lord and his guards could no longer follow him up the mountain.
So they had to wait here.
At this time, a caravan passed by, and Li Heng was curious about the big horses in these caravans.
The same was true for other children. Li Heng even saw a girl who wanted to reach out and touch this huge horse beast.
However, she was frightened into tears by a man in black riding on the horse beast.
Li Heng saw the shadowy man jump off his horse, take two steps towards the girl, and then stand still in front of her.
In front of this man in black, the city lord Li Gui was so nervous that he couldn't speak clearly.
Li Heng saw the man in black hand the girl a round "sugar pill" and then told her to stop crying.
After the man in black left, the scene was a little chaotic, so Li Xuanyu cast a spell to make the children quiet again.
Afterwards, Li Xuanyu led the children up the mountain and slowly walked towards a building on the mountainside.
When Li Heng went up Taiqiu Mountain, he felt that the air around him was different, as if there was something extra, and the further up he went, the more obvious this feeling became.
Li Heng also met many people like Li Xuanyu on the road, all wearing the same black clothes.
What Li Heng arrived at was the Li Family's Spirit-Searching Pavilion.
Li Heng drowsily followed the instructions of the people inside and began to perform various actions, and finally placed his hand on a piece of crystal clear jade.
This process didn't last long.
In the end, there were only five people left, and Li Heng was one of them.
Next, Li Heng was taken to the foot of the back mountain, where there was an exquisite wooden house.
The man in black who brought them here gave each of the five of them a book, and then told them to choose a wooden house to live in. As for other matters, others would take care of them.
Li Heng stayed in this wooden house for three months. When he sensed the spiritual energy described by the people in black, he was taken to the Li family's ancestral temple.
When Li Heng entered the ancestral temple, an old man with a gray beard was already waiting for him inside.
The old man gave him a generation name and wrote his name: Li Yuheng into the family tree.
Li Yuheng became the first clan member of the Li family with the character "yu".
The old man's name was Li Yishang, because he specifically pointed out his name to Li Yuheng on the second page of the genealogy, but around the name Li Yishang, the other names had been dimmed.
Li Yishang asked Li Yuheng to put a drop of blood on his name, then asked him to kneel on the futon and kowtow three times to the ancestral temple.
When Li Yuheng left, he suddenly remembered something.
So he turned around and said to his uncle Li Yishang:
"Uncle, can I offer a stick of incense for the gentleman from the academy?"
Li Yishang was stunned for a moment, then said with a smile:
"Can."
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This is how Li Yuheng's formal cultivation life in Taiqiu Mountain began.
After leaving the ancestral temple, the first place he went to was the Shanggong Hall, where he received his own black mysterious clothes and family token.
In the next few years, in addition to practicing step by step, Li Yuheng also carried out the tasks assigned to him by his family.
He was originally asked to grow yellow bud grass, but he didn't like it, so he was later given the option of raising earth horses instead.
Li Yuheng liked the group of earth horses in his family, and he liked this task. When he stayed with the earth horses, he seemed to be able to hear their voices, so he completed this task very well.
Gradually, when the earth horse beasts from the three caravans of the family returned to Taiqiu Mountain to recuperate, they would be given to Li Yuheng to take care of them.
In addition to raising local horse beasts at the foot of Taiqiu Mountain, the place Li Yuheng often visited was the family library.
He likes reading, and he is often attracted by the various classics in the library, whether they are about exercises, secret techniques, or strange people and strange things.
Li Yuheng can often meet the same person here, which is his ninth uncle Li Xuangang.
After meeting Li Xuangang several times, Li Yuheng moved his reading position next to Li Xuangang.
The two of them leaned in a corner on the first floor of the library and read quietly.
The sun fell about a foot away from their feet. When they read, the time was quiet and beautiful.
Naturally, Li Yuheng did not want to sit with his ninth uncle Li Xuangang for no reason. He did so because he found many things in the classics that he did not understand.
And obviously, Ninth Uncle Li Xuangang is a very good person to ask.
Such days continued for several more years, until Li Yuheng heard the bells from the ancestral temple in the library.
My great-uncle Li Yishang passed away. According to the family, he passed away in a cave after running out of longevity.
That day, there was a heavy autumn rain in Taiqiu Mountain, so it brought a chill to the bones.
Li Yuheng and many other clan members stood on the bluestone outside the ancestral temple, waiting for his uncle Li Changji to come out of the ancestral temple.
While waiting, Li Yuheng saw his ninth uncle Li Xuangang leading his third brother Li Yuxian. Then Li Yuheng heard his ninth uncle Li Xuangang once again warn the fifth-ranked Li Yuqian not to cry.
Li Yuheng also heard Li Yuqian arguing that it was because of the rain.
He thought of his great-uncle Li Yishang. He thought he was a good person because he always smiled at him and often went with him to the foot of Taiqiu Mountain to take care of the Tuma beast.
Li Yishang said to him: These earth horse beasts are very important to the family, and you are also very important to the family.
Li Yuheng thought his uncle Li Yishang was right.
Two years later, Li Yuheng met his ninth uncle Li Xuangang in the library one afternoon. He heard that he was going to the Hengduan Mountains, so he seized the opportunity to ask a question that had been tangled in his mind.
"Uncle Jiu, Yu Heng wants to know what Taiqiu Mountain means to you?"
The side of Ninth Uncle Li Xuangang's face was sunk in the afternoon sun, with a nice curve at the corner of his mouth.
He thought carefully for a moment, and then said to Li Yuheng seriously:
"This question is too complicated, and I haven't figured it out yet. I do have a vague answer in my mind, but it will take time to verify."
After that, Li Xuangang seemed to have thought of something. He put down the classics in his hands, and then asked Li Yuheng a question. He asked:
"Yu Heng, what do you think family is?"
Li Yuheng was stunned for a moment and thought carefully, but in the end he couldn't answer.
Li Xuangang patted his shoulder, then stood up and walked out of the library.
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A few days later, Li Yuheng watched his ninth uncle Li Xuangang embark on the caravan heading to the Hengduan Mountains. He watched his uncle's figure gradually disappear, and then he turned his head and looked at Taiqiu Mountain behind him.
After the spiritual pulse upgrade hosted by my uncle Li Changji two years ago, Mount Taiqiu became a little higher.
The sun shines on the entire Taiqiu Mountain, making it look very majestic.
Li Yuheng still hasn't found the answer to the question. He guesses that it may be because he hasn't felt the "darkness outside Taiqiu Mountain" mentioned by Mr. Academy. Or maybe, as his ninth uncle Li Xuangang said, the answer needs time to be verified.
After his uncle Li Xuangang left, Li Yuheng often read alone in the library. He was extremely eager to break through to the fourth level of Qi Refining as soon as possible, because then he could feel the darkness outside Taiqiu Mountain as soon as possible.
Three years later, Li Yuheng reached the third level of Qi refining.
He reached the top of Taiqiu Mountain for the first time, saw the third-level green plum tree for the first time, and faced his uncle Li Changji alone for the first time.
Uncle Li Changji solemnly handed him nine turtle eggs and asked him to try his best to hatch them.
Two years ago, Li Yuheng had already seen the secret technique of taming the tortoise beast that was newly stored in the library.
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A few years later, Li Yuheng, who was taking care of the cubs of the nine-headed turtle beast, was called to the top of Taiqiu Mountain again by his uncle Li Changji.
What was given to him this time was a group of monster beasts called Yuluo Bee.