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"Master, my shoes have become very heavy." Zhitao raised her hand.

Qinghua turned around, "What's wrong?"

Zhitao raised one foot.

The land that had just rained was stained dark brown, and the soles of Zhitao's little boots were covered with a thick layer of wet mud, mixed with some broken bamboo leaves and grass roots.

Qinghua blinked at Zhitao's boots, and the wet mud disappeared immediately. "Zhitao, next time you go out on a rainy day, remember to read a formula for the boots as well."

Zhitao nodded.

Qinghua's white clothes were dragged to the muddy ground, but they were still spotless and even gave off a faint white light.

Danzhu walked behind Qinghua: "Master, what are you doing at the bottom of the valley today?"

Qinghua said gently: "Let's come to class."

"It's the first time I've come down here." Huo Li was very excited: "The guys in Zichen Pavilion said that there are troublesome things at the bottom of the valley..."

"The bottom of the valley is very dangerous." Qinghua said. "So you have to follow me. No one is allowed to go down the valley without my permission."

"We want to." Huo Li muttered.

[Can't go down the valley] is one of the five taboos of Zhaoyao Mountain that Jixiang just learned, but in fact, even if there is no such taboo, they usually can't go down the valley. Be prepared to be dizzy and fall to the bottom of the valley by the white mist.

Jixiang Hezhitao walked hand in hand between Huoli and Danzhu, looking around.

I have to say that Jixiang has never seen the dense forest scenery at the bottom of the valley. There are still small blue flowers blooming on the trunks of big trees covered with moss, and small green double-headed snakes lying on the vines hanging everywhere. They slowly climbed onto another vine as they approached.There is almost no road under the feet, all are thick wet dead leaves and grass stems and wild flowers that emerge from the dead leaves. When stepping on them, the hard-shelled fruits hidden in the fallen leaves will occasionally hurt your feet.

Unlike the pure blue of the East China Sea, the green here is deep.

Qinghua didn't let them trek for too long in the dense forest, so he brought them to a slightly flat and open place.

Unlike the lush scenery ten steps away, there is only the smell of rotting dead leaves in this open space.

"This used to be a medicine garden." Qinghua said softly. "But because of a small negligence, all the vegetation here was burned. It's a pity... Many of them will never be left in the world after they are burned. You all pick something nearby, and then come back here .”

"Choose...what?" Dan Zhu frowned slightly as he looked at the rotten tree roots at his feet.

The plants on Zige Mountain have always been thriving, and he has never seen such a lifeless thing.

"Tree roots, branches, dry grass, anything - but it can't be alive." After Qinghua finished speaking, the ground under his feet suddenly moved, and a few thick green vines broke through the ground and formed a knot behind him. A rattan chair with a few green leaves on the armrest.

Ji Xiang and Huo Li looked at a thick branch half buried in the mud at the same time, and after wrestling for a while, Huo Li won.Unconvinced, Ji Xiang dug in the mud for a long time, finally dug out a long branch, and then proudly dragged the branch back.

Both Zhu Dan and Zhitao just picked up a half-dead vine nearby.

Qinghua asked them to sit in a semicircle around him.

"Put the things you found in the front." Qinghua sat in the rattan chair and squinted his eyes, looking very comfortable. "Find a way to bring it back to life. I taught you how to do it, take your time."

Huo Liwei let out a cry. "Master, then I'm done!"

Qinghua opened his eyes. "Huo Li, the mushrooms grown by myself don't count."

Huo Li held up his own rotten log, the side full of wet mud was covered with small mushrooms.

Jixiang stared at the dead branches in front of him.

What does it mean to be brought back to life?He only learned the magic of riding clouds and turning into a little turtle while swimming.

"Auspicious." Qinghua's gentle voice suddenly sounded.

Jixiang raised his head, but found that Qinghua's eyes were still half-closed, not looking at him.

"Close your eyes." Qinghua's voice sounded again, but Qinghua's lips did not move.

Little Pig looked at Huoli Danzhu beside him, but they didn't seem to hear him.

So the little pig obediently closed his eyes.

"How did you feel when you went down the valley just now?"

Jixiang thought about it in his heart. "Hmm... very beautiful."

"Why is it beautiful?"

No one discovered Qinghua and Xiaozhu's little secret conversation.

Why is it beautiful... Jixiang is a little embarrassed.

He thinks there are many beautiful things - the colorful corals in the sea, the white sea shells, the old trees and flowers in the valley, they all look magical and beautiful.

But if you want to say why, Jixiang can't say.

Seeing that Jixiang did not respond for a long time, Qinghua spoke again: "Then do you think the branch you found is beautiful?"

Ji Xiang shook his head.

The branch seemed to have been in the soil for a long time, and it had turned an unsightly black color, and the bark had become rotten and half-glued to the trunk.

Even if this kind of thing is studded with pearls and gems, auspiciousness will not feel beautiful.

Jixiang is actually very smart, and immediately understood what Qinghua meant.

"They're beautiful...because they're alive," Ji Xiang said.

"What?" Huo Li turned his head away.

Jixiang opened his eyes, but Qinghua completely closed his eyes, as if he was asleep.

"Master!" Huo Li called Qing Hua emotionally: "I'm done again!"

Qinghua slowly opened his eyes.

Jixiang was also taken aback.

Originally, the branches that Huoli and Jixiang snatched were all bare except for the sparse bark and small mushrooms—but now they suddenly turned into a big branch with many green branches and leaves!

"... Huo Li, where did you learn this illusion?" With a wave of Qinghua's hand, before Huo Li could be proud, the green branch in his hand turned into a dead branch again. "Or not."

Huo Li was a little dissatisfied: "Why not? It looks good."

"The illusions of mountain spirits and wild monsters can only fool the world. It is useless to meet fairy monsters." Qinghua said. "You are friends with the little monster again."

Affirmative.

"The civet cat taught me." Huo Li grinned. "He said that this kind of spell doesn't work in big towns, but it can still get by in some small markets."

Qinghua shook his head.

"Mountain woodcutter's money is hard-earned, don't fool people next time."

Huo Li is a good boy, and at the same time a pampered phoenix, Qinghua told him that he may not be able to understand some of the truths that every grain is hard work, but it is precisely because of this that Qinghua always pays attention to teaching his apprentices to make the world three-pointed .

Huo Liyan scratched his head again to think of a solution.

Danzhu and Zhitao stood up. "master."

Although their withered vines did not return to their green and sturdy appearance, they all grew new leaves on the surface and bloomed light purple flowers.

Qinghua nodded. "You wait for Huoli and Auspicious."

Ao Guang is right, Qinghua is very suitable to teach Jixiang.

Jiumeng is a very good teacher, but he is not patient enough to treat children - but Qinghua can sit leisurely on the rattan chair and guide Jixiang over and over again on how to let the breath in his body wander, through the correct way Channel the power.

Even Jixiang sat on the ground for almost a whole day.

Danzhu and the others were sent up by Qinghua a few hours ago, and there was no obvious sign of sunrise and sunset at the bottom of the valley, but Qinghua could feel that the evening bell to do Zhaoyao Mountain first was about to ring.

He looked at Jixiang sitting in front of him.

Jixiang sat cross-legged, with his head bowed, and stopped fiddling with the branches in front of him.

The small body is shrunk in this posture, looking a little pitiful.

Qinghua stood up and knelt down in front of Jixiang. "Auspicious, that's it for today. Let's go up."

Ji Xiang shook his head, beside him were Danzhu Zhitao's vine full of small purple flowers and Huoli's branch that had successfully grown new leaves.

Qinghua felt that if he didn't touch the head of the child in front of him now, the child might cry.

As soon as his palm touched Ji Xiang's soft fur, Ji Xiang trembled.

Qinghua raised his auspicious little chin and sighed.

Jixiang's eyes were wide open, already a little wet.

"Jixiang, you have just started learning." Qinghua told him to stand up. "Put this in the ground."

"But I didn't let it grow leaves." Jixiang recalled the feeling that he couldn't ride the clouds before.

"You plug it back first." Qinghua also stood up.

Jixiang dug a hole in the ground and inserted the dead branch back.

Qinghua took the auspicious clay hands and walked along the road, comforting him softly as he walked: "I'm not angry, so don't worry."

"Auspicious, when I taught you how to cast spells just now... what were you thinking?"

Ji Xiang sniffed: "I want it to return to its original appearance."

Qinghua stopped and looked at Jixiang with a little surprise.

"You said vitality is to bring it back to life." Ji Xiang was very frustrated. "I haven't seen it alive, and it hasn't been successful."

"No... I'm talking about..." Qinghua hesitated for a moment. "Danzhu and the others didn't bring those vines back to life either. They're already dead."

"But Huoli made the dead branches grow new ones." Jixiang looked up at Qinghua.

Qinghua slowly led Jixiang forward again: "They let new life grow on the dead branches, which is different from making them come back to life."

This...does it mean that I have gone off topic?Jixiang let Qinghua fly up the valley with him even more depressed. "I made a mistake."

Unexpectedly, Qinghua shook his head. "You think well. It's just that it's very difficult for a god to do something like bringing the dead back to life."

At this time, the big bell in the distance began to ring.

Jixiang took Qinghua's hand and looked down.

Going out of the deep valley and looking down, there is a mist of white mist.

So neither Qinghua nor Jixiang saw that after they left the bottom of the valley, the dead branch that Jixiang inserted back into the ground slowly faded from the ugly black color, and when the lingering sound of the last bell disappeared, it was already like Like the buds of the long drought and the rain, the strange purple-red branches and leaves swayed gently in the middle of the open space.

The author has something to say:

Yingzhao had a dream.

He dreamed that the alchemy room of Taishang Laojun was unlocked, and he happened to pass by.

The mouth of the pot-bellied bluish-gray alchemy furnace was open, and inside was the golden elixir of Fulu that Laojun had coveted for a long time but was reluctant to give him.

He reaches out...

bang.

The huge alchemy furnace fell down and knocked him straight, no matter how hard he struggled, he couldn't move.

Do immortals suffocate too?

Before he had time to dwell on this problem, the nightmare escalated.

The alchemy furnace that was originally honest (?) suddenly trembled, and a trace of strange gas leaked out.

It stinks!

Has this elixir been refined? !

Yingzhao suddenly held his breath and woke up.

As soon as he opened his eyes and saw his situation clearly, he wanted to look up to the sky and sigh.

"Auspicious, I've said it many times, don't sit on the master and fart."

A pink and tender piglet sat firmly on Yingzhao's chest with its back facing him, and raised its butt again——

"auspicious!"

Yingzhao quickly picked up the little pig and threw it to his side.

The sleepy-eyed little pig rolled around on the bed before waking up.

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This is one of the beginnings of the original alternative.

Zhu Jixiang was conceived when Palm Dragon was about to finish, and wrote three at the beginning.One is that Yingzhao is feasting the gods in his own mansion, the other is the official opening chapter, and the other is this.

This is what I wrote in the draft book while watching Mr. Mao Gai pointing fingers on the podium. I found it quite interesting by chance two days ago. XD