Start from Liaozhai to brush the gods and demons alone

Chapter 23
Xiao Fengxian's eyes were full of tears, feeling extremely wronged.

I'll cover your ears for you, but you don't listen and your heart doesn't bother you, what should I do?
Loosening a small slit in her hand, Xiao Fengxian said in a low voice: "Why don't Master cover my ears too?"

"Don't make trouble."

Xu Ran flipped through a few pages of Buddhism, but he still read with a half-knowledge, like a flower in the mist of the moon in the water.

Simply put away the Dharma, and began to read "Taoyuan County Chronicles".

This "Taoyuan County Chronicle" was originally placed on the desk in the abbot's room in Changqing. I don't know how many years it has been.

At that time, the book was opened and pressed with a paperweight. It seemed that Yuanshen, the old abbot of Changqing, was looking there before he disappeared.

Xu Ran only glanced at it then put it away.

Because it records a legend related to the origin of Taoyuan County, and this legend is more than 90% similar to a story called "Su Xian" in "Strange Tales from a Liaozhai Studio".

In addition, after listening to Monk Changjing talk about the legend about the fairy peach tree on Peach Blossom Ridge, Xu Ran just kept it in his heart.

Now I looked at that page again, and saw that the degree of wear and tear on it was far higher than that of other pages, which showed that Abbot Changqing had read this page on purpose many times, which made Xu Ran more convinced of his guess.

The legend goes like this:
A long time ago, among the mountains, there was an ancient village.

There was a girl in the village who was squatting on the big stone by the river to wash clothes. The girl saw a wisp of water grass in the river, which was green and silky.

The girl looked at it for a while, and felt her heart skip a beat.Not long after going back, she became pregnant, and her abdomen gradually swelled.A few months later, the girl gave birth to a son.

It is a shameful thing to be pregnant before getting married, and no one would believe that she would become pregnant just by seeing a touch of green in the river.

People will just look like another green story.

She wanted to leave the child in the alley, but she couldn't bear it, so she declined all matchmakers and lived alone, hiding her son in a closet.

Until the child was seven years old, he hadn't gone out to meet anyone.One day, the son suddenly said to her: "The child is growing up, how can he stay at home for a long time? Let me go, and I can't drag my mother down anymore."

The woman asked her son where he was going, and the son said, "I am not a human race, so I want to fly to the sky with my head held high."

The woman cried and asked when he would come back, and the son replied, "I will come back when my mother is dying."

After speaking, he said goodbye to his mother and left.When the woman chased to the yard, her son had disappeared.

Since then, the mother who lives alone almost never leaves the house.

Until one day decades later, the neighbor suddenly saw colorful clouds lingering in her house, like a big umbrella.

Standing in the colorful clouds was a woman wearing colorful fairy clothes. Looking carefully, she turned out to be an elderly mother who lived alone, and she had returned to her appearance as a girl.

She hovered in the air for a long time in colorful clouds, flew higher and higher, and gradually disappeared.

The neighbors were very puzzled, and went to her house to peep, and saw the mother dressed up, sitting there, dead for a long time.

After discussing with everyone, she has no relatives and plans to pay for her burial.

Suddenly, a tall and handsome man appeared in front of the crowd and kept thanking them.

Some of the neighbors knew that the woman had a son, so they asked him if it was the child.

The man admitted that he was her son, buried his mother with his neighbors, planted two peach trees in front of the tomb, bid farewell to everyone and left.

As soon as he walked a few steps, colorful clouds appeared under his feet, and he drove away on the clouds, and the neighbors knew that he was actually a fairy.

Later, those two peach trees blossomed and bear fruit, sweet and delicious. People who eat them can prolong life and get rid of all kinds of diseases, so the local people call them "fairy peach trees".

Peach trees grow luxuriantly with flowers and leaves every year, and they are immortal.

Later, more and more people came to the mountain to look for fairy peach trees.

But people found that for a while it was impossible to enter the depths of the mountains. Only in some special years, the mountains would be filled with a fragrance similar to peach blossoms, but people still couldn't find the source.

People looking for fairy peach trees settled down on the outskirts of the mountains and mountains, and Taoyuan County was gradually formed, and the mountains and mountains were also named Taohualing.

……

Seeing this, it is just at the end of the book's facing pages, and this legend has just ended.

Xu Ran turned to the next page, and in the blank space above the title, there were sixteen characters neatly written in small letters:

Conceived
colorful clouds
fairy peach tree
Fairy Tale
Xu Ran couldn't tell if it was the handwriting written by Abbot Changqing, but it was obvious that he had paid special attention to these sixteen characters. The handwriting was extremely blurred by his fingers, and he had to read carefully to see it clearly.

The old monk almost read the page through.

Xu Ran also pondered over the sixteen characters carefully, then picked up the pen, and added a few more words in the blank according to his understanding:
Soul fetus?

Ascension?

Reborn?

阝…

As soon as the word "conspiracy" had written a radical, Xu Ran suddenly stopped writing, tilting his head to signal Xiao Fengxian to move his hands away first.

As soon as there was a gap in the ear, I heard the next door: ￥%#*...@@@@####...

Xu Ran secretly raised his thumb, as expected of an existence that is close to an indestructible golden body, he never expected to be so powerful in that respect, if things go on like this, Xiaochun's red voice will break, and he will have to change from the gentle school to the hoarse school .

Xiao Fengxian's complexion was abnormally rosy, and she said in a low voice, "Master, please save the little girl too, right?"

Xu Ran smiled slightly, "Do you know how to write the formation characters?"

Xiao Fengxian shook her head, "The little girl can't read..."

Xu Ran began to close his eyes again to think about the words he just wrote, "Thank you, just plug my ears again."

Xiaofengxian: "Master..."

……

After thinking about it for about half an hour, Xu Ran shook his head and chose to enter the system.

In the game system, there is an extra set of five wild monsters, one level 15 paper figurine, and four level 8 paper figurines.

In appearance, it is the scholar in brocade clothes and the four youths in civilian clothes who were smashed to death by Lao Wang with the demon pestle.

Didn't choose to attack blindly, Lao Wang can kill level 15 monsters with one blow, but it doesn't mean that he also has this ability
Xu Ran looked at his experience first, and found that he was only a little short of reaching level 10, so he called out the mobs that were generated according to the monk Hui Bing of Changqing Temple.

A level 5 wild monster, Xu Ran knocked him down with a magic arrow, combined with the fang nails, and then chose to automatically spawn 150 times, except for experience points and copper coins, it did not drop any other valuable things.

[System: When the host reaches level 10, spirit +1, free skill points +1. 】

[System: The host unlocks the passive skill "Sense of Heaven and Man", and the active skill "Perspective Eye". 】

[System: The host opens the mall exchange function. 】

[System: The wild monster acquisition system has been upgraded, and the primary scene acquisition module has been loaded. 】

……

Upgrade to level 10 to unlock so many functions!

Xu Ran quickly checked the two skills:
[Heaven and Man Sensation]: Passive skill, derived from the ancient art of heaven and man of the human race, can have a premonition of unknown risks and disasters.

But this matter is illusory, and it is impossible to capture it now.

This skill cannot be upgraded, but it can be improved slightly with the improvement of mental power.

What kind of bird skill is this?
To describe it as illusory and uncapturable?
Is it too powerful, or is it incomparably tasteless?

Xu Ran checked another skill.

[Perspective Eye]: Skill level (1/3), showing the position and level of enemies within a certain range.

作用半径：精细显示15米，粗略显示150米，显示等级随技能提升+6级/+9级/+15级。

This is a good non-combat skill. It can detect the enemy's situation within a range, and it can also be used to check the opponent's level. With a level 1 skill, you can check the existences that are within 14 levels higher than yourself, so that you will not blindly send yourself to death.

Suddenly, Xu Ran felt that Xiao Fengxian's hands began to tremble, and it became more and more violent, almost trembling.

No way, this girl is excited, wants GC?

Or, did she see something terrifying?

Xu Ran turned his head and saw Xiao Fengxian staring at the neighbor without blinking...

Xiaochunhong's room, like a high-power light bulb that is slowly starting, bursts out with golden Buddha light, and the light gradually brightens from dark to stronger, and it only takes a few breaths to become a dazzling golden beam of light.

Xiaofengxian hid behind Xu Ran in horror, tremblingly said: "Su... super, is... so scary?"

next door:%#*……@@@@####……

And the voice is getting louder and more urgent.

Xu Ran got up suddenly, could something have happened?
Just when he couldn't help summoning the paper figurine, the dazzling Buddha light next door shot up into the sky, turning into a huge beam of light with a diameter of nearly three feet and a height of one hundred feet!

boom!
The golden light is shining, and the Buddha's light is soaring into the sky, reflecting the night sky of less than half of Changqing County.

Xu Ran hurriedly added a body shield to himself, and was about to rush into the golden light to check on Lao Wang's condition.

But I heard Lao Wang sighing up to the sky:

"The beauty of saving you is really..."

He also heard Xiao Chunhong's voice hoarse and authentic: "Thanks to the enlightenment of the master, the little girl must be good, or be loyal to the master, always accompany her knees, or worship the door, and devote herself to the Buddha..."

"..."

Xu Ran was suddenly confused: "In a day, the love is so deep???"

(End of this chapter)