I'm taking the imperial examinations in Liaozhai

Outside the study room, a white layer of snow had accumulated on the ground, which looked extraordinarily bright.Old man Ji stood at the door of the study, and he didn't know how long he had stood there, quietly looking at the door of the study.

Huang Jiulang had just come out of the kitchen with a pot of hot tea, planning to deliver it to his master who had been studying hard all night, when he saw Old Man Ji at the door of the study.

As if sensing Huang Jiulang's gaze, Old Man Ji turned his head and walked towards him.

"Master." Huang Jiulang hurriedly greeted him. Although he knew that Old Man Ji was just a mortal, for some reason, he was still a little afraid of him.

"Going to deliver tea to Xiaohe?"

"This is tea made from freshly boiled hot water. I want to send it to the young master to warm up."

"Don't go, he is working hard, you will disturb him instead. Okay, you have been busy for a day, you should go and have a rest."

"Yes." Although Huang Jiulang felt a little strange, he still said obediently.

Old man Ji was very satisfied with his wit, and walked to his room with his arms behind his back. As he walked, he shook his head and said with emotion, "The child has grown up..."

In the study, Ji Zihe poked around for a long time, and found a small wooden box from the bookshelf.Open the wooden box, and inside is a dilapidated ancient book.

This book has no title, and the cover was added by Ji Zihe later.The books are full of traces of time. When the books are opened, the paper in the book is yellowed, and there are many stains on it. Pages, it looks like a very old book.

"This book was used by my grandfather to tell me stories when I was a child. This book has no name. It looks like a travelogue, and it also looks like a ghost. Grandpa said that he bought this book from a second-hand book stand. The book is already very torn, and the content is incomplete, but there are quite a lot of small stories inside." Ji Zihe carefully took the old book out of the wooden box, and it was obvious that he treasured this book, otherwise he would not have read it. There will not be a special box for this book.

When Ji Zihe first saw this book, he was still an illiterate little bean.In order to coax him, grandpa bought this book specially for him. Although the stories in it are very absurd, Ji Zihe believed in it when he was a child.Later, when he grew up, Ji Zihe also knew that everything in the book was fake, but as a childhood memory, Ji Zihe still treasured it.

In fact, Ji Zihe once wanted to buy the same book again, and read the missing parts of the book.It's a pity that although he has read a lot of books, he hasn't seen a single book of the same kind.Because the book lacked a name, he couldn't find out if he wanted to, so he could only sigh that there was no fate.

Hearing Xiao Hei said that the deer tribe has a kind of divine grass that can bring the dead back to life, Ji Zihe immediately remembered the book.He even had a bold idea, what if the things in this book really exist?

"Is there any record of the divine grass in this book?"

"Yes, I found it, look here." Ji Zihe turned to one of the pages in the book, "Outside Tubeiguan, in the yellow sand, there is a Tangchuan oasis, which is the place where the Shalu tribe lives together. There is a god in the deer tribe." Grass, called "resurrection", can bring the dead back to life. Yu sneaked into the oasis with the team, just as the deer were mating. The deer herd had fewer males and more females, and the number of stags was less than one hundred. The veterans in the team told that after the stags were exhausted and died, the females took the title Put the resurrected soul next to its kiss and smoke it, and it will be revived in an instant. At this time, it can startle the deer and seize the grass. However, the sand deer respects the nine colors, and if they meet the nine colors..."

"Why don't you read it?" Xiao Hei asked suspiciously.

"The one below is gone, it was gnawed off by the mouse." Ji Zihe looked at the half-paged book and said helplessly.

"Then what should we do?" Xiao Hei was a little annoyed.

"Don't worry, the things recorded in this book may not be true, it's better to be cautious."

"Maybe it's true. When I was in the temple, I heard the great monk in the temple talk about the rejuvenation grass. At that time, many people came to ask the monk to go out of the mountain to find grass outside the pass and save a high-ranking official at that time. The monk came out. Going to the door, I didn't find the grass, but I was seriously injured, otherwise I wouldn't have died so quickly." Bone suddenly said.

Ji Zihe knew who the monk the bone was talking about was the eminent monk hundreds of years ago in the Buddhist temple where he met the bone, and he once enlightened the third lady of the lotus flower.In Ji Zihe's imagination, it must be a very powerful holy monk. He died because of the rejuvenation grass, so the place where the rejuvenation grass grows must be very dangerous.

"But even if we know that the record above is true, then we don't know the location." Ji Zihe sighed softly.

"That's not necessarily true, can you show me the book?" Bone asked.

Without hesitation, Ji Zihe handed his precious book to Gu Gu.Bone held the book in one hand, stretched out his index finger, and drew something on that page, and the page glowed with light.

"Sure enough, this is not only a travel note, but also a map." Bone breathed a sigh of relief, and returned the book to Ji Zihe.

Ji Zihe looked at the book in his hand in surprise, and a white map floated out of the book.

The map records a large area, like a continent, with approximate marks on all sides.Although some places are a little blank, most of them are full, and the densely packed place names are crowded together, making it impossible to see clearly.

Bones drew a circle on the map, circled a range, enlarged the area in the circle, and other areas were automatically hidden.

"This area is Dongsheng Shenzhou, and this is the Great Chu Kingdom. We are here." Bone said, pointing to the map.

Ji Zihe stared at the map, he had never seen what the complete Da Chu looked like.The folks are not allowed to have such maps. Firstly, in the age without satellites, surveying the terrain is a technical task, which is labor-intensive and time-consuming. Except for the country that has the ability to draw maps, how can ordinary people have this ability.Secondly, maps are related to national security. If an enemy country gets them, it may endanger the country, so maps are not allowed to be circulated among the people.

Xiao Hei also came over, looked at the map, and suddenly shouted, "This is the place where I was born!"

Xiao Hei's finger pointed to a deep forest in the far north, and there was a place where the monsters lived together. There were many places like this on the map, so Ji Zihe thought he was born there.In fact, what Xiao Hei was referring to was not the place where the monster clan lived together, but the small characters next to those words.Originally, the words of the place where the monsters live together were very small, but the words next to it were even smaller, and Ji Zihe probably had to magnify it many times before he could see it.

Although Xiao Hei is a snake, his eyesight is not as bad as that of a snake. Even so, he stared at those words for a long time before he recognized them.After living for more than 2000 years, he finally found out that the place where he was born was called Xuanming Temple.What a strange name, he has lived there for so long, and he has never seen where the temple is.

"Bone, why don't I recognize many of the place names here?" Ji Zihe was a little confused. The Zhaoyuan County that the bone pointed to was not marked on the map at all, but Dafengling next to it was marked.There are still many place names, and Ji Zihe looked at it blankly.

"This is a book from a long time ago, many of which are ancient place names, and the author of this book is not a human race, and the names of many places in the cultivation world are different from human races. Also, the blank spaces on this map should be all It's because the pages of the book are damaged." Bones said.

"This book, shouldn't it be "The Story of the Blue Bird"!" Xiao Hei said suddenly.

Bone nodded, "It should be."

"What is that?" Ji Zihe was puzzled.

""The Story of the Blue Bird" was the best-selling book in the comprehension world thousands of years ago. It is written by a blue bird about what he saw during his travels on the mainland. It is also known as the most complete map in history. It is a pity that this book has been exposed too much. What a secret, offended many people, and even many forces directly stood up to arrest the blue bird. Not long after the book was released, the blue bird lost the news. Many people said that the blue bird had been killed by the enemy. And "The Story of the Blue Bird" It was also blocked, and even most of the books that had been sold were recalled. Once it was discovered that someone had kept it privately, the book would be killed and destroyed. Because of this book, everyone in the cultivation world was in danger at that time, so I also It’s just that I have never seen this divine book before. Ji Zihe, your grandfather is very lucky, you can find such good things at second-hand book stalls.” Xiao Hei was a little envious.

Ji Zihe laughed dryly, "Well, it's probably just a coincidence. By the way, since a missing page will result in a blank map, can Tangchuan Oasis still be found?"

"Here, although there is some blank space around, the impact is not great." Bone said.

"That's great, Xiao Hei, then you stay and go quickly." Ji Zihe said.

Xiao Hei nodded, and reached out to take the book, but was stopped by Bones, "Wait, what if you borrow the book and don't return it?"

"Can I still covet a broken book?"

"That's not necessarily true, you know the snake, you know the face, but you don't know the heart!" Bones said quietly.

Xiao Hei suddenly thought of the fact that he had abandoned them earlier, and couldn't help but feel a little guilty, "Then what do you think should be done?"

"We'll go with you."

"Us?" Ji Zihe looked at Bones suspiciously, is he going too?

Bone patted Ji Zihe's shoulder, "Don't you want to go, I see that you care about the things in this book."

Of course Ji Zihe wanted to see it, how exciting it was to see the things in his childhood stories come true.This is about like a little boy who has watched too many comic versions of superheroes, and when he grows up, he suddenly hears that Superhero has become a live-action version and can watch it on the big screen. There is a very strange feeling in it.

It's just that Ji Zihe was a little worried about whether he would be a burden if he went, "Can I really go?"

"Of course." Bone affirmed.

"It's fine if you go, he is a mortal, aren't you afraid that he will be in danger?" Xiao Hei was a little dissatisfied.

"You probably made a mistake. I didn't go to help you. I was just afraid that you would die there and not be able to bring the book back. I took Xiaohezi with me, just to let him see the world. I will protect him naturally. Even if I am in danger, I will not necessarily help you, but send him to a safe place first. In addition, if you finally get the Resurrection Grass, you must give us half in exchange, Otherwise, nothing will be discussed.”

Ji Zihe suddenly discovered that Bones also has the potential to be a profiteer. He only provided a road map and did nothing.

Xiao Hei thought for a while, and agreed to his request, "Okay then, let's go."

"Wait, you don't want my little Hezi to walk outside the pass on two legs, do you?" Bone said again.

"What else do you want?"

Therefore, Ji Zihe rode a snake for the first time in his life, an experience that most people probably would not be able to experience.At this moment, there is only one thought in his mind, it turns out that snakes can fly too!