Taichu Yandao: Starting from the Villain

March should be a time of warm spring breeze, but on this evening the sky was overcast and snowflakes began to fall again.

Outside the backyard wall, Miao Wan'er, carrying a lunch box, tightened her clothes and quickened her pace.

"Hahaha, it's done, it's almost done." Suddenly, a voice sounded.

The voice came through the courtyard wall, but Miao Wan'er felt as if someone was shouting in her ears, making her ears buzz.

As soon as the laughter stopped, a strange fragrance wafted towards me. It was hard to describe the fragrance, but it made people feel extremely comfortable.

Miao Wan felt as if she had returned to her mother's womb. The whole world was a warm ocean, and everything was peaceful and calm.

"Collect!" A thunderous voice sounded again.

As the word "close" fell to the ground, all the warmth disappeared instantly, and the fragrance also disappeared.

"This is the voice of the imperial master. Could it be that he has brewed another exquisite wine?" Miao Wan'er quickened her pace and ran straight to the side door of the backyard.

She walked through the small garden and had just stepped into the moon gate when the fragrance came towards her again.

"Wan'er is here. You know how to choose the time." Without seeing the person, Li Tongzhen's voice sounded again.

Miao Wan'er did not dare to neglect it and hurriedly bowed and said, "This fragrance is so wonderful, is the Imperial Master brewing the most exquisite wine?"

Li Tongzhen walked out of the main hall and said with a smile: "It is not comparable to any fine wine. It is a thousand times, ten thousand times better than that stuff."

"Master, please don't tease me. If it is a thousand times or ten thousand times better, it is more precious than the entire Yan State."

Li Tongzhen did not answer, but turned to Qian Xiaoyi and instructed: "Go and call your senior brother back. You can't take all the good things by yourself. Let your senior brother feel the fragrance of this elixir as well."

In the middle of the courtyard, Qian Xiaoyi sat on the ground with an intoxicated expression on his face. When he heard Li Tongzhen's instructions, he took a deep breath of the fragrance and then stood up and said, "Disciple will go now."

"I have locked the fragrance of this elixir in the formation. It will last for three hours. This is a great fortune for you brothers."

Qian Xiaoyi was filled with excitement and ran out of the yard like the wind.

Li Tongzhen laughed loudly, then he looked at Miao Wan'er and said, "You are lucky to be cleansed by the fragrance of this elixir, which will ensure that you will be immune to all diseases in the future." After he said that, he took a long breath, closed his eyes and indulged in it, as if he was smelling the fragrance of tea or tasting fine wine.

"Wan'er thanks the Imperial Master." Miao Wan'er had no doubt at all. The delicious wine she had drunk some time ago was still fresh in her memory.

Li Tongzhen continued to smile and said, "Come on, come on, we are all waiting anyway, put out the wine and food you brought, and we can eat while we wait."

Miao Wan'er nodded quickly and found a side room to set out some dishes.

After a while, Fang and Qian came back running. They went straight to the big cauldron and sat cross-legged in the wind and snow.

After Miao Wan'er had arranged the dishes and chopsticks, she wanted to invite them to eat together, but was stopped by Li Tongzhen who came into the room and said, "Don't worry about it. They are absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, and their food is more delicious than ours."

Miao Wan'er had no choice but to give up and stretched out her slender hand, making a gesture of invitation to Li Tongzhen.

Half an hour later, the snow outside the house gradually became heavier. Goose feather-like snowflakes fell and soon covered Fang Qian and the others with a thick layer.

Inside the room, Miao Wan'er was already a little tipsy, her cheeks flushed, as beautiful as a blooming peony.

Through her drunken eyes, she discovered that today's Imperial Master seemed different from before.

"Is he really drunk? Last time he drank non-stop, but not like today."

After a few more glasses of wine, Miao Wan'er was certain of her thoughts, because this usually arrogant imperial teacher was actually staring at her breasts.

“If I ask him to take Ruier as my disciple now, he will most likely agree.” Miao Wan’er thought, loosened her collar with her jade hands, and said, “Master Imperial Master, this alcohol is too strong!”

Li Tongzhen was very happy today. What he had been planning for twenty years was finally about to be accomplished. Once he established his foundation, he would live five hundred years. With such a big world, he could go anywhere and there was no need to hide on this remote island.

More importantly, building the foundation can cure his hidden disease, so he doesn't have to endure the burning pain every day.

Of course, you don’t have to observe some precepts. Look at how beautiful the person in front of you is. Isn’t the purpose of practicing to be free and at ease?

His thoughts were running wildly like a wild horse, and it was difficult to retract his gaze, which was fixed on Miao Wan'er.

"Rui'er...he has quite a talent. Can the Imperial Master accept him as his disciple?" Miao Wan'er asked in a tender voice.

She was already very drunk at this time, and a piece of her sleeve slipped down, revealing her jade-like shoulders.

"Of course you can..." Before Li Tongzhen finished speaking, he had already started to touch her.

To ordinary people, this is just an anecdote that happened in the palace, but if a successful Buddhist monk looks at it, the five aggregates in Li Tongzhen's body are burning at this time, and a huge karma is pushing him.

The greed and attachment caused by the person in front of you is the result, and the foundation-building pill in the yard is the cause.

The elixir had been refined to a critical point at this point and was completing the transformation from poisonous to mortal, but what drove all of this was the willpower of all the scholars in the State of Yan.

Joy, anger, sorrow, fear, love, hate, desire, among ordinary people, very few can have a calm mind. They seem to be copying scriptures, but there is no holiness in their hearts.

Some people copy scriptures for money; some people become officials, copy scriptures to show their political achievements; even the boys in the school will become resentful if they are forced by their teachers for too long.

If you want to use the power of the dark, how can you avoid the power of the dark?

Li Tongzhen practiced the Qingxin Jue for a decade, which was like building a dam across a river. Normally, he practiced hard and blocked off all desires, but no matter how good the dam was, it could not withstand the tearing of thousands of wishes.

"Ah..." Just half a cup of tea later, Li Tongzhen roared to the sky.

He finally came to terms with his lust, but his vital energy also disappeared.

The room was filled with the fragrance of fat and a piece of soft jade was lying across the room. This should have been a blessing for the couple, but Li Tongzhen's eyes were empty.

Sixty years of hard work was lost in one day...

In the front yard, the guards and palace servants all heard a loud shout, but they just turned their heads and went about their business.

The palace has long issued a strict order that things in the backyard should not be discussed without authorization. A few days ago, some short-sighted people disappeared in the lotus pond.

Zhao Rui also heard the shouting. He turned to look at the backyard, feeling a little aggrieved. His mother often took him out to play in the past few days, but she didn't take him today.

He touched his rumbling stomach, glanced at the guard at the door, and decided to sneak away again.

"Mother, he stole my Trojan horse." The princess, who was about the same age as Zhao Rui, cried out.

"Your Highness, Your Highness, please slow down, don't fall." A group of palace servants shouted while chasing a prince.

The prince was running around the room, and by chance, he bumped into another prince who was slightly older.

"Zhao Xu, you dare to bump into your brother, I'll teach you a lesson." The prince who was bumped took out a small wooden sword and shouted while chasing.

The two princes ran around the room, and soon the mourning hall was in chaos. Seeing this, a group of palace servants immediately rushed forward and followed behind, begging:

"Ninth Prince, please slow down and don't fall."

"Your Highness, the Tenth Prince, please be careful. There is a threshold ahead."

Their mother scolded, "What a disgrace! Eunuch Li, take people and arrest them both."

However, none of these could stop the two princes. Instead, they ran outside the palace and disrupted several patrol teams.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Zhao Rui secretly walked out of the hall. He took small steps, away from the crowd, and disappeared among the palaces.

All this was not accidental, but he had already made arrangements with several princes and princesses. Taoist Qian in the backyard would send him food every time, and he only needed to bring some to his friends.

Everything was going smoothly along the way until Zhao Rui stopped beside a rockery.

Normally, this was his secret passage to bypass the guards, but at this moment, the terrifying rocks became his biggest obstacle.

To go or not to go?

Zhao Rui touched his rumbling stomach, not knowing what to do, when he suddenly saw a meteor falling rapidly from the sky.

The meteor had a long tail and was originally heading towards the backyard. Just as it was about to land, it suddenly turned and headed straight for Zhao Rui.

When the white light faded away, the meteor turned out to be a flying sword with a living person standing on it.

The man was dressed in white and had a handsome face. He looked to be in his twenties. He flew in front of Zhao Rui, stepped off the flying sword with a tap of his toes, and said:

"Leave here quickly, it will be dangerous soon." The man in white had a strange accent, and he did not speak the official language of the Yan State.

Zhao Rui opened his mouth so wide that a walnut could almost fit in it. It took him a while to recover from his shock and asked, "Are you an immortal?"

"Leave quickly. If a fight breaks out, I won't be able to protect you."

"How can you fly on a sword?"

"Are you going to leave or not? If you don't, I'm going to spank you." The man in white looked helpless.

"I won't leave. You bully me. I want to go find my mother..." Zhao Rui said, and was about to cry.

The man in white was startled, and hurriedly covered the other's mouth, comforting him: "Okay, okay, okay, don't cry first, I won't force you."

Zhao Rui stopped crying, pulled the man's hand away, and asked again: "Can you accept me as your apprentice?"

"Is there a sect on this island? This kid was not nervous when he saw me, but asked to become my disciple!" The man in white changed his expression and asked, "Who told you that you can learn the art of wielding a sword by becoming my disciple?"

"Mother wanted me to worship the strange Taoist priest as my master, but I feel that you are more powerful than him, so of course I will worship you."

"Blame the Taoist priest? Have you ever been to the backyard?"

"If you agree to take me as your apprentice, I will tell you."

"You... If I weren't from a reputable and upright sect, I would have trained you into a ghost boy!" The man in white frowned, but said, "Little guy! Cultivation is not easy, not everyone has that opportunity!"

Zhao Rui thought for a moment, looked at the man in white and said, "You are my chance!"

The man in white was horrified. Such words should not come out of the mouth of such a child. He made a gesture and pointed a finger at Zhao Rui's forehead.

"Hey! It turns out to be the dual spiritual roots of gold and fire."