Heavy snow fell one after another. The bodhi tree was covered in frost, but the golden leaves didn't wither. They shone with golden light through the frost and snow.
The iron gourd hung upside down and shook a few more times before helplessly dropping the last drop of wine.
Li Qingshan smacked his lips: "It seems like the new year is coming."
There was a saying, "there is no sixty-year cycle in the mountains, one does not know the year after the end of the winter." Cultivators' time was often counted in thousands of years, so the "one year plan" of mortals didn't seem to have much meaning.
However, since he was once a mortal, he couldn't be completely unmoved. Not to mention that he was all alone, eating the wind and drinking the snow, drifting for tens of thousands of miles.
Time flew by, and it was deep cold.
Everything stopped growing, and there was much less work. Everyone gathered in the small town to celebrate. Because of this Hundred Herb Garden, they felt the seasons more clearly than normal cultivators.
Cheerful laughter floated over the distant mountains, and along with the cold wind came the aroma of all kinds of food.
Li Qingshan couldn't help but take a deep breath. Of course, no one came to invite him. Other than Shen Yu Shu, he didn't even talk to them, so he was happy to be alone. However, after being probed by the nine-colored deer, Ruan Yaozhu didn't come again. It seemed like she had wisely accepted his suggestion.
Although he didn't regret it, he couldn't help but feel some regret. It had to be said that he really liked her. If he didn't have the ambition of the Nine Heavens, staying with her in this Hundred Herb Garden seemed like a good choice. However, why did it have to be her?
He didn't care about anything and had already let down too many beauties.
He shook his head and cast his consciousness towards the Five Regions World. Although it was winter in the mortal realm, here was the golden autumn harvest season.
On the fertile plains, a majestic city stood. Its layout was actually somewhat similar to Wanxiang City, especially the tall buildings in the city, which were almost the same as the sky, just that the scale was many times smaller.
This was the "Cloudvoid City" that Li Qingshan personally built with the mighty power of the world for his grand plan.
That's right, this name came from the original Cloudvoid Society, and Liu Chuanfeng was the current Cloudvoid City Lord.
In the past, the hundred schools all had their own "holy lands". For example, the Buddhist Lingguo Temple, the Medicine School's "Imperial Hospital", and the Confucian School's "Imperial College". Only the School of Novels did not.
Now that Li Qingshan, a disciple of the school of Novels, had carried it forward, it finally had it. The various Holy Lands were different. This place did not belong to cultivators alone. Most of the people in the city were mortals without any power.
Because the location Li Qingshan had chosen was too good, it suddenly became one of the most important transportation hubs in the continent, with countless Jianghu travelers and merchants coming and going. There were also countless down-and-out people who put their life experiences and thoughts into words to fight for a future.
The first year, under Qian Lingzhi's guidance. The Lord of Cloudvoid City, Liu Chuanfeng, acted as if he was buying a horse's bones with a thousand pieces of gold. Gold and silver were not stingy at all. Regardless of the quality of the novels they collected, all they wanted was to attract more people. Later on, they began to pay attention to quality, and the threshold was also extremely low.
Facts had proven that as long as there were enough benefits, humans could always burst forth with unimaginably powerful motivation. In just a few years, the Pseudo Heaven had accumulated more than ten thousand volumes of novels. After careful selection, there were still nearly a hundred scrolls left.
Li Qingshan swept his eyes over them and recorded them all into a jade scroll. He stood up and said with a smile, "It's time to buy some wine to drink.
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The long road is long, don't sigh at the lonely journey, there will be a day when the world knows you.
In the small town surrounded by mountains, the voices of people were clamorous, toasts were exchanged, and it was very lively.
The banquet was in full swing, and Shen Yu Shu sat high up. He was fawned over by everyone, but his face was shrouded in a layer of haze, without the slightest bit of joy.
Ruan Yaozhu did not accept his invitation, and that damned Li Qingshan continued to expand his territory. In a short two to three months, he had reached a circumference of a hundred li. What was even worse was that he also took care of the thousands of strange flowers and plants within a circumference of a hundred li in an orderly manner, not only proving himself, but also proving Ruan Yaozhu's accurate vision.
Ruan Yaozhu's favor towards that Li Qingshan was simply unusual, and the meaning behind it made him tremble with fear.
Ruan Yaozhu was clearly already very dissatisfied with him. If there was a day when Li Qingshan crossed four heavenly tribulations, had stronger power, and had more doppelgangers, then he would immediately be kicked out, just like those losers that he had driven out.
Those losers at least had other choices, and for him, there was no place more suitable for cultivation than the Hundred Herb Garden. Crossing five heavenly tribulations, the dream of becoming a Successor Disciple would be extended indefinitely, and becoming Dao companions with Ruan Yaozhu was even more of an idiot's ravings.
He couldn't help but feel somewhat regretful. Perhaps he should not have shown it so directly, and should have waited until he became a Successor Disciple before slowly plotting. But if it wasn't for obtaining her help, why would he have racked his brains and risked offending her to press forward step by step?
He was too confident, thinking that no one could replace his position with a volume of the Natural Heavenly Tomes, otherwise he would not have dared to take an inch and take a mile. He did not expect that a person who cultivated another Heavenly Tomes could also replace his position.
"Damn it!"
A trace of harshness flashed through his eyes, and the wine cup in his hand cracked. The crisis was constantly approaching, but he could only sit here, without the slightest bit of a solution. This was the Hundred Herb Garden, and everything was under her control, so he couldn't use any tricks.
She seemed to be looking down at him from a high position. It was her usual gentleness and dullness that gave him an illusion, that the distance between them was very close. At this time, he suddenly realized that there was a huge gap between a Chamber Disciple and a Successor Disciple.
If he was expelled from the Hundred Herb Garden, not only would it greatly affect his cultivation, but he would also be questioned and even suppressed. Because her prestige in the Myriad Appearance Sect was too high, making her an enemy was equivalent to carving the word "bad" on his face.
Just when he didn't dare to continue thinking about it, a cultivator quietly came behind Shen Yu Shu and sent him a telepathic message: "Senior Brother Shen, that kid has left the Hundred Herb Garden."
"Good, very good!"
Shen Yu Shu raised his head and drank it all in one gulp, then threw down the wine cup and flew away.
Everyone looked at each other, not knowing what had happened.
In the Hundred Herb Cave, Ruan Yaozhu slightly frowned: "This Shen Yu Shu is too much."
The nine-colored deer transformed into a human form and laid horizontally in the basket, its delicate legs swinging back and forth. It lazily said: "He is afraid of being expelled from the Hundred Herb Garden, so he wants to stake it all on one throw."
Ruan Yaozhu sighed: "He has been in the Hundred Herb Garden for so many years, even if he doesn't have any merits, he has still worked hard. As long as he restrains himself and works seriously, how could I be so heartless. "
"Hehe, although you both cultivate the Natural Heavenly Book, the direction is very different. What you see is the growth of all living things. The heavens have the virtue of caring for all living things, using benevolence to shepherd all living things. This is the disposition of a king. He spent untold hardships to climb to this step. What he sees is the struggle of all living things, so he does his utmost to exclude those who are a threat to him. He still wants to get more sunlight and rain from you. This is the disposition of the common people. "
"But cultivation methods are dead in the end, and people are alive. We have long surpassed the so-called king and people of the common people of the common people! Junior Brother Li is also not from the royal family, but he has great ambitions, determination, and decisiveness, surpassing me. "
"That kid is a freak, I beg you, don't praise him anymore. From Shen Yu Shu's point of view, of course you would expel him from the Hundred Herb Garden. No matter how benevolent a king is, the common people are still skeptical. Besides, who would tolerate someone who wants to harm their own cultivation staying by their side? You have always been too easy to talk to, you should have ruthlessly beaten him long ago. But this is also good, at least he will not be a hindrance to you, much safer than that kid. "
"No, I have to stop him."
"He still hasn't done anything. Yi, could it be that you have finally learned to use your identity as a direct disciple to suppress people?" The nine-colored deer teased.
"At least I have to remind Junior Brother Li."
"You want to see him?"
"Nonsense."
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