Master Lingxiao flew with his sword and took Li Taibai back to the Lingxiao Peak of Penglai Mountain in Jiuxian Mountain.

During the ten days or so that he came to Lingxiao Peak, Li Taibai spent a lot of time admiring the various scenery of Penglai Fairy Mountain. At the same time, he hung a gourd wine bottle around his waist at a young age. When he visited there, when he saw the beautiful scenery, he was moved to his heart.

, he drank a few sips of the wine from the gourd wine bottle, then took out a pen and paper from his backpack and wrote down one poem after another.

During these ten days, Li Taibai had no intention of cultivating immortals.

As Li Taibai himself said, he was not interested in the way of spiritual cultivation. He left the Nine Immortals Mountain, the holy land of cultivation that practitioners in the world dream of, and the talent for cultivation given by God, but he only knew how to travel around and write poems all day long.

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One day in the foggy month of the fifth year, Master Ling Xiao saw that Li Taibai had a bad temper and was unwilling to obey his will. A whole month passed, and Li Taibai made no progress in his immortal spiritual practice.

So on this day of the foggy moon, Master Ling Xiao took Li Taibai to the Star Picking Pavilion on the Tiandu Peak of Yangming Fairy Mountain based on Li Taibai's specialty of liking to write.

The Zhaixing Pavilion on the Tiandu Peak of Yangming Immortal Mountain is a storage place for the classics on immortality and is specially used for the cultivation of male immortals.

Arriving at the majestic Star Reaching Pavilion and looking at the nine-story pavilion in front of him, Li Taibai raised his head and looked at the top of the pavilion, with its spires and layers of cornices.

When Master Ling Xiao took Li Taibai into the first-floor attic of Zhaixing Pavilion, when he entered the door, he saw a plaque at the first sight, which read: One pole is in nine.

Master Ling Xiao asked Li Taibai to copy the book on immortal spiritual cultivation in Zhaixing Pavilion. Every day when Li Taibai came to Zhaixing Pavilion, he only read some heretical and unreliable books, because in the vast sea of ​​books in Zhaixing Pavilion,

, Li Taibai was only interested in these low-end miscellaneous books.

There is a dedicated person in the Star Reaching Pavilion who is responsible for arranging the fairy practice secrets from bottom to top according to the difficulty of practice.

There is also an old man copying books in Zhaixing Pavilion. Unlike Li Taibai, this old man is copying books on the ninth floor of Zhaixing Pavilion.

The old man who copied the book looked like a sick man. He was so skinny that he looked more like a ghost than a ghost. He didn't have the slightest trace of the immortal spirit of a spiritual practitioner.

The old man copying books and Li Taibai had a common hobby, that is, they were addicted to alcohol. Every time Li Taibai came to Zhaixing Pavilion, he would bring wine to the old man copying books.

The old copyist saw that Li Taibai had no interest in copying spiritual classics, so he started to draw pictures in front of Li Taibai. This time, Li Taibai finally found another interest of his own, so he followed the old copywriter to learn how to draw pictures.

On this day, Li Taibai was concentrating on painting in the attic on the first floor of Zhaixing Pavilion. The old copyist handed Li Taibai a cardinal box made of dark black iron and said: "Li Taibai, there is a sword manual in this cardinal box."

It's called "Aurora Qi Sword", and it's the work of my lifetime. You should be interested in it. I'll give this cardinal box to you, and you can find a way to open it yourself."

Li Taibai held the cardinal box and examined it for a long time before he understood the mystery. That is, if you want to open the cardinal box, you must move the seventy-two small grids composed of the principles of Yin and Yang and the Five Elements in one step.

This cardinal's box is made of dark iron and is extremely hard. Even if it is chopped with a knife or a sword, it is impossible to get the contents inside.

During this day, Li Taibai had been studying these seventy-two small grids. Finally, Huang Tian paid off. Li Taibai combined his proficient knowledge of yin and yang and the five elements. After a day, Li Taibai finally opened the cardinal box.

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Li Taibai took out the brocade of the "Aurora Qi Sword" sword manual from the cardinal box. This was the life-long effort of the old man who copied the book. Even if Li Taibai was not interested in the way of immortal spiritual cultivation, he should treat it seriously today. After all, it was his own.

It took a whole day to open the cardinal box and take out the practice sword manual.

Li Taibai briefly browsed the sword manual of "Aurora Qi Sword". He couldn't say that he was particularly interested, but he didn't have the same aversion to the Book of Cultivation as before.

So, after Li Taibai finished browsing, he put the "Aurora Qi Sword" sword manual into the cardinal box and scrambled the seventy-two small grids.

Li Taibai put the cardinal box in his arms. After all, this old copyist was the only friend Li Taibai had in Jiuxian Mountain that he had not known for many years.

In the last few days of the foggy month of the fifth year, Li Taibai told the old copyist that he was going to Liangzhou, one of the sixteen states of China, to paint snow-capped paintings.

The old copyist smiled and nodded in agreement, and on the same day, the old copyist flew with his sword and took Li Taibai to Liangzhou in the Sixteenth Prefecture of Youyun.

At dusk that day, the old copyist and Li Taibai flew with their swords and arrived at Liangzhou in the Sixteenth Prefecture of Youyun.

The figures of an old man and a young man on the official road in Liangzhou were elongated by the afterglow. The old man was as skinny as a tuberculosis man, and it looked as if half of his feet had already stepped into the coffin.

The younger one is actually very young, but he has the height and appearance of a twelve or three year old boy.

From early morning until dusk now, the old man and the young man have not eaten a grain of grain.

Li Taibai sat on the ground hungry and asked the old man who copied the book: "Grandpa, don't you take any dry food with you when you travel far?"

The old man copying the book laughed and said as excitedly as a child: "Boy, I'm not afraid of your jokes. I'll tell you directly. I started practicing in Jiuxian Mountain at the age of eighteen and stayed there until I was fifty.

After becoming an elder, I have been copying books in Zhaixing Pavilion, and I have been copying books for fifty years."

Li Taibai looked shocked and said in frustration: "Grandpa, you! You haven't left Jiuxian Mountain in eighty years."

After saying that, he lay down on the ground so hungry that he couldn't get up.

After a while, the old copyist picked two cucumbers from a nearby dilapidated village based on his experience and memory of living in the land of China when he was a teenager.

The gray-faced Li Taibai straightened up, took a cucumber handed over by the old copyist, took a bite, and then threw the cucumber far away. After a stick of incense, Li Taibai was weak and squatting next to him while he was munching furiously.

The old man who copied the cucumber waved: "Hey, grandpa, help me pick up that cucumber. I really don't have the strength to get up."

"Boy, these are corn cobs. Roasted ones are better than eating raw cucumbers." After the old man copying the book, he handed Li Taibai a stick of corn roasted on the fire.

Li Taibai looked at the slightly burnt corn cobs, looked embarrassed, and shook his head.

The old man copying the book said angrily: "Boy, don't talk nonsense, eat!"

Li Taibai took the corn cob and took a bite and said, "Grandpa, what did you dig out of the ground?"

"sweet potato."

"Can it be eaten raw?"

"No, you have to bake it!"

After the sweet potatoes were roasted, Li Taibai finally ate a few roasted sweet potatoes that were quite fragrant in his opinion.

After eating, the old man and the young man started on their way again, but Li Taibai felt that his mouth was unusually dry at this time.

When it got dark, an old man and a young man had not yet entered the city. Not far from the city wall, there was a wine shop with a signboard of apricot flower wine.

The old man and the young man were really exhausted after leaving. Smelling the aroma of the wine, they closed their eyes and sniffed, looking intoxicated. It was really delicious.

An old man and a young man walked into the wine shop, found an empty stool and sat down. Li Taibai gritted his teeth and used his last strength to shout: "Waiter, serve the wine!"

The waiter who was busy with business was about to say "Okay" when he heard the voice, but when he saw the appearance of the old man, the young man and the young man, he immediately lowered his face. They are out to do business, what can they do if they have no discernment?

The waiter looked at these two customers and they didn't look like people who could pay for the drinks. The waiter was quite kind and didn't chase them away immediately. He just reminded him with a smile on his face: "You need a bottle of our apricot flower wine."

Twenty dollars is not expensive, but it’s not cheap either.”

Li Taibai felt the coldness of the world and gasped: "I didn't serve the wine in advance, so I will pay you the bill clearly."

"The bill is clear? I mean, sir, you have to pay for the wine first before I can serve you the wine." The waiter said in a loud voice, with a look of disdain on his face.

Li Taibai smiled bitterly. Tempted by the aroma of apricot flower wine in the store, he put his index finger to his mouth. He was really greedy for the apricot flower wine in this store.

However, he touched his pockets and found that except for the cardinal box containing the "Aurora Qi Sword" sword manual in his breast pocket, there was no silver or copper coins in his pockets.

When Li Taibai looked at the old copyist, hoping that he might have some silver or copper coins with him, he saw the old copyist lying on the wine table, pretending to be tired and falling asleep.

Li Taibai looked at the painting brushes and drawing paper in his bag, and was hesitating whether to mortgage them again and exchange them for apricot flower wine.

Several falcons flew out from the top of Liangzhou City like arrows, circling back and forth over the wine shop and calling.

At this time, the earth roared without warning, and the wine table shook. The drinkers stared wide-eyed at the wine swaying with the wooden table, and they all carefully picked it up and looked around nervously.

I saw a group of cavalry rushing out of Liangzhou City, stretching into two black lines that seemed to have no end.

In the flying dust, the tall horses are all the cavalry of the Chengde Army from the Sixteenth Prefecture of Youyun. Look at the military flag in the hands of the general who is leading the flag-bearing general. It is as bright as blood, with a big letter written on it, "Stone"!

Hundreds of elite German cavalry sprinted out, majestic and rainbow-like.

Several aura-filled hawks overhead seemed to be leading the way.

Hundreds of elite German cavalry surrounded the Xinghua Liquor Shop. Time seemed to have stopped for an instant. The drinkers around the liquor shop were so frightened that they did not dare to move, let alone let them move.

A group of German cavalry jumped off their horses and surrounded the old copyist and Li Taibai in the wine shop.

When a group of German soldiers were about to arrest Li Taibai, the old copyist who was lying on the table pretending to be sleeping woke up and resisted.

Several German soldiers punched the old man copying the book a few times, and then the old man copying the book suddenly lost his breath.

The German soldiers tied up Li Taibai at once. Li Taibai wanted to use his natural strength to resist, but the opponent was so outnumbered that a group of strong soldiers pressed Li Taibai to death.

Under the body of a huge soldier.

Then the Chengde Army soldiers tied up Li Taibai tightly. Then, several Chengde Army soldiers carried the body of the old man who copied the book out of the wine shop. They found a wasteland not far away and copied the book hastily.

The old man was buried.

Li Taibai was escorted all the way, watching the old man who copied the book being hastily buried in the mound by the soldiers.

Seven words summary:

When Taibai went to Penglai Fairy Mountain, he refused to change his stubbornness and practice cultivation.

Master Ling Xiao had no son, so he was sent to the pavilion to copy books.

Taibai met an old man who wrote books in Zhaixing Pavilion.
Chapter completed!