As for Li Mu's invitation to eat with him, the girl agreed without any hesitation.
Miss wanted to maintain her figure, and today she was eating alone. She had been eyeing the food for a long time, so naturally she couldn't resist the temptation of delicious food.
Although Miss said that the more good-looking a man was, the more likely he was to be a liar, he didn't look like a liar. Moreover, he was the only neighbor who would treat her to a meal. She didn't know why Miss didn't like him …
Li Mu chatted with her while grilling the meat.
"Wanwan, how old are you this year?"
"Sixteen."
"Where is your home?"
"I forgot."
"When did you start following your Miss?"
"Five."
…
The sixteen-year-old girl was only two years younger than Li Mu. She looked a little silly and cute. Basically, she answered every question that Li Mu asked her. Her eyes never blinked as she stared at the barbecued meat on the stone slab.
Li Mu chatted with her for a while to improve their relationship. After closing the distance, he said, "Wanwan, you eat first. If something happens to me later, can I trouble you to go to the county office and ask Miss Li Qing to come over …"
This was the real reason why Li Mu had asked her to come over. After all, his experiment was risky. If something went wrong, no one would know no matter what happened to him if there was no one around to look after him.
The girl looked up at him and asked in confusion, "What will happen?"
"Vomiting blood or fainting …" Li Mu explained, "Didn't you see it today? My body isn't very good, so I'm worried that I'll faint again …"
"Oh …"
The girl nodded and began to focus on the food in front of her. Li Mu walked to the stone table and opened the introductory book Li Qing gave him. He turned to the page where handprints were recorded.
Both Divine Sense and Dao Technique required handprints and palm gestures to be performed. Among them, the handprints of Divine Sense were more complicated and often required more than two handprints to be arranged and combined. However, Dao was simpler. Dao Technique was generally a single handprint, and there were only 36 handprints. At most, there would be a result after 36 attempts.
Otherwise, if the thirty-six hand seals were arranged in an unknown number, it would be an incomparably huge number. If Li Mu were to try them one by one, he would never be able to figure them out in this lifetime …
Li Mu looked at the first handprint and took a deep breath. He stretched out the five fingers of his right hand with the fingertips facing upwards, and bent the ring finger and the middle finger towards the center of his palm. He murmured softly, "Boundless Heaven and Earth, borrow the power of the universe; the power is born from the heart, endlessly growing …"
There were no anomalies in the surroundings, and Li Mu did not feel any discomfort.
He continued to try the next one. A moment later, he shook his head and said, "It's still not right …"
Li Mu tried more than ten times in a row, but there was no reaction. He changed to a hand seal called the "Big Dipper Seal" and said in a low voice, "Heaven and Earth are limitless, the universe borrows the law; the law is born from the heart, endlessly multiplying …"
Boom!
A powerful force suddenly emerged in the void, making his whole body tremble. His face instantly turned pale and bloodless, and his body fell straight down …
The girl was eating the barbecue attentively. Hearing the strange sound behind her, she turned her head to look, and her pretty face changed. She hurriedly swallowed the food in her mouth and shouted, "Miss, it's not good. Young Master Li fainted again!"
Liu Hanyan hurriedly ran over from next door. Looking at Li Mu who was lying unconscious on the ground, she did not have time to ask why her maid was here. She hurriedly said, "Wanwan, go and get the doctor here …"
"No need!"
Li Mu struggled to get up from the ground and said, "I'm fine. Don't call a doctor …"
Calling a doctor once already made him ten taels of silver in debt. If he called a few more times, even if he sold himself to Liu Hanyan, he would not be able to pay it off.
Liu Hanyan looked at him and said in surprise, "Are you really okay?"
Li Mu waved his hand and said, "It's nothing. It's just a small problem …"
"Fainting is a small problem?"
"Get used to it, get used to it …"
Liu Hanyan looked at him for a long time and suddenly asked, "Do you have some kind of serious disease?"
Li Mu originally wanted to deny it, but suddenly felt a unique emotion from Liu Hanyan. He channeled his mana to his eyes and saw her body emitting a faint white light.
Seven emotions and seven colors. Red was happiness, gray was anger, cyan was fear, colorless was love, black was evil, yellow was desire, and white represented sorrow.
Sadness, grief, mourning, pity, they could all produce sorrow. Could it be that Liu Hanyan thought he was terminally ill and felt pity for him?
Sparrow Yin was born of sorrow. As a man, among the seven souls, Li Mu could give up Corpsedog and Seizing Thief, but he absolutely could not give up Sparrow Yin.
He dispelled the idea of denying it and guided the trace of sorrow in time. Under Liu Hanyan's gaze, he sighed softly, slowly lowered his head and said, "You still saw through it …"
Liu Hanyan's lips trembled and she said in disbelief, "You, you really …"
Li Mu nodded, then looked up at the sky at a 45 degree angle and said calmly, "I only have half a year to live at most."
"How is that possible!" Liu Hanyan's expression changed slightly and said, "But the doctor clearly said that your pulse is stable and that your body is healthy …"
"Would a healthy person faint twice a day?" Li Mu laughed self-deprecatingly and said, "Actually, I'm not sleepy in the morning. It's just that my illness makes me unable to sleep at night. I can only fall asleep when it's close to dawn every day, so I also get up a little later …"
Taking this opportunity, he also explained to Liu Hanyan why he couldn't get up in the morning.
Liu Hanyan remembered what happened yesterday morning and a look of self-blame appeared on her face. She said, "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to yesterday …"
"It doesn't matter." Li Mu said indifferently, "People are bound to die. I've already thought it through. Since we can't change it, we can only choose to accept it and try our best to live every day well. But don't worry, before I die, I'll definitely pay you back the ten taels of silver I owe you …"
Liu Hanyan opened her mouth and finally lowered her head. She said guiltily, "Actually, I asked the doctor to use those precious medicinal materials. You don't have to pay back the ten taels of silver …"
"If you have any difficulties in the future, you can come to me. I'll try my best to help you." Without waiting for Li Mu to speak, Liu Hanyan stood up and bowed to Li Mu. Then she hurriedly left with the little maid who was still unwilling to go back.
Li Mu looked at her guiltily leaving and secretly sighed in his heart.
He used to be an honest and trustworthy young man, but this damned fate forced him to become a shameless scumbag who used the excuse of being terminally ill to win women's sympathy …
Sighing was one thing, but he still had to gain sympathy.
After all, grief was harder to obtain than joy and anger. If he wanted to condense the soul of the Sparrow Shade and restore his true colors as a man, he couldn't do without a compassionate female neighbor.
After Liu Hanyan and her servant left, Li Mu closed the courtyard door and calmed himself down. His hands formed the Big Dipper Seal again, but he didn't speak again.
He had just proved that in addition to the Tao Te Ching, the Taiyi Sin Exorcism Demon-Slaying Body Protecting Mantra of Taoism from another world, combined with the Big Dipper Seal, could also trigger the resonance of heaven and earth. However, his current mana was too weak. If he forced himself to use it, he would definitely suffer from the backlash.
If he didn't immediately withdraw his hand seal when he saw the situation was not right, he would probably vomit blood and faint again.
There was no shortcut to the growth of mana. Even if his cultivation speed was faster than the average cultivator, he didn't know how long it would take for him to be able to withstand the backlash of these mantras.
After thinking for a moment, he decided to continue the experiment. With so many mantras and mantras, there must be some that he could control at this stage.
Li Mu searched his memory and murmured, "Which one should I try next? Should I try the Nine Words Mantra?"
Three days passed in the blink of an eye.
Baiyun Mountain, Fu-lu School, Main Peak.
Buzz!
A dull bell rang. Several figures sitting cross-legged around the ancient bell suddenly raised their heads.
"It's here again, it's here again!"
"How many times has the Law Bell rung? In the past few decades, I've heard the Law Bell ring more than these three days!"
"18 times! In these three days, the Law Bell has rung 18 times!"
"This broken bell can't be broken, right? It's impossible for so many new Dao techniques to appear at the same time. The Law Bell must be broken …"
The eyes of the people around the ancient bell were bloodshot. In these three days, their minds were extremely tense. All their emotions were affected by the Law Bell in front of them.
In these three days, they had seen scenes that they hadn't seen in their decades of cultivation.
The Dao Page trembled and the Law Bell rang incessantly. In these three days, the Law Bell that hadn't rung in the past three years had rung 18 times. Affected by the sound of the bell, the Spiritual Qi of heaven and earth in front of Fu-lu School was chaotic. The disciples were all frightened. Ever since the establishment of Fu-lu School, they had never experienced such a phenomenon …
If the Law Bell wasn't broken, then it must be that a powerful cultivator had continuously created new Dao techniques that weren't in the Dao Scripture …
How was this possible?
Buzz …
Just as everyone was panicking, the Law Bell in front of them rang again …
…
Under the bright moonlight, Li Mu sat cross-legged in the center of the courtyard. His five hearts were facing the sky as he continued to refine the anger and grief he had absorbed from Liu Hanyan.
In these three days, he hadn't heard Liu Hanyan practice her voice in the courtyard in the morning. After learning that Li Mu was seriously ill and would soon die, Liu Hanyan's attitude towards Li Mu changed drastically. She even had a servant girl bring him pastries and candied fruits twice.
In this way, Li Mu couldn't provoke her and harvest her anger. After refining the emotions he had absorbed two days ago, he would have to think of another way.
It was already midnight. The moonlight was like water. Next door, Liu Hanyan and her servant had already gone to bed. Li Mu's surroundings were also quiet.
At a certain moment, Li Mu, who was sitting cross-legged in the courtyard, suddenly opened his eyes.
Ever since he had refined the joy of the Zhang-wang Clan, his senses had become much sharper. Moreover, at this moment, the Buddhist prayer beads in his hand were emitting a faint light. The Azure Rainbow Sword beside him was also buzzing incessantly.
His gaze turned to the door. Under the moonlight, a thick black fog as thick as ink quickly entered through the crack in the door and condensed into a figure in the courtyard.
The figure formed by the black fog rolled unsteadily and emitted a voice filled with resentment.
"It's been three days. Do you know how I've spent these three days?!
"That damned monk. He made me listen to him recite scriptures for three days!
"Three days. I listened to him for three whole days. Do you know how it felt?
"Fortunately, I made a breakthrough in my cultivation and escaped when the monk wasn't paying attention …
"If not for you, none of this would have happened. Tonight, I will devour your soul. That monk won't be able to save you, much less that broken string of beads!"
… …
The black fog emitted a few screeches and rushed towards Li Mu. From the aura it emitted, it seemed to be even stronger than it was a few days ago.
The Buddhist prayer beads in Li Mu's hand suddenly emitted a golden light. The Azure Rainbow Sword beside him trembled even more intensely. Looking at the incoming black fog, Li Mu didn't get up. He only made a movement.
He sat cross-legged and didn't move. His ten fingers were clasped together and his index fingers were extended.
At the same time, he softly uttered, "Lin!"
Boom!
As his voice fell, the night in the courtyard suddenly turned into day. A dazzling thunderbolt instantly descended and struck a small piece of ground in front of the black fog, creating a charred pit.
Li Mu opened his eyes and looked at the shattered green bricks. He gloomily said, "F * ck, I missed again …"
The surging black fog stopped in mid-air. After a moment of silence, a trembling voice came from within. "I'm sorry. I mistook you for someone else. This little ghost will leave now and not disturb your cultivation …"
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