Chapter 42: The heart of the southern mountain quarry is not confused!
Leaving the outer courtyard and walking out three miles to the south, there was a huge stone mountain, which was the South Mountain.
This mountain is three hundred feet high, there are no trees or plants on the mountain, it is completely a stone mountain, once the sect had taken stones here, there was a stone quarry located at the foot of the mountain, but this was many years ago, the quarry is old.
Luo Li arrived here step by step, holding the tools he took in the outer courtyard, stone knives, stone chisels, stone braziers, stone hoes, stone grinders, a whole set of tools, these are all magic weapons, as long as you input your true qi, you can easily cut through the stone and shape it at will.
Arriving at the stone field, Luo Li began to organize his tools, searching for stone and preparing to work.
At this time, Gao Peng, Old Sha, Xuan Shui and others arrived here, a full twelve people came, all of them were Luo Li's close friends and came over to help.
Gao Peng said, "Come, let's do it together!"
Old Sha said, "Yes, this fishy odor, it smelled disgusting a long time ago, let's all do it together and replace all the stone slabs."
All the people came over to help, Luo Li didn't stop them, everyone was busy together, cleaned up the quarry, opened up the quarrying place and started quarrying.
Everyone worked together, that tool just inputs true qi and cuts the stone, it's like playing, soon there are stones being cut down, then polished and molded into stone slabs that can be replaced in the outer courtyard.
In this way everyone breath, dry until evening, enough to cut out more than one hundred and twenty stone slabs.
Gao Peng said happily, "Great, this is actually very easy, with thirteen of us, we can get out more than a hundred stone slabs in a day, and a year's worth of work will complete it."
But other people did not respond, some people constantly frowned, that use tools, all need to input true qi, cutting a slab, at least one breath of true qi, busy and this afternoon, last night's accumulated true qi, consumed one-third, every day working here, their own cultivation is completely wasted.
Luo Li looked at them and said: ''Fellow brothers, let's call it a day! This is where it ends from now on!
This is Luo Li's choice, Luo Li's decision, Luo Li's Dao! Everyone, don't come over to help tomorrow!"
Old Sha said, "How can that be, we are all friends, I will still come and help you tomorrow!"
Luo Li shook his head and said, "Brothers, if you treat me as a friend, don't come over to help, this is going to be a protracted battle, if you don't really want to do something for the Deserted Shelter House, don't come over!
I don't want, my friendship with all of you to be consumed here. If, you guys genuinely want to help, then publicize it everywhere for me, that's helping me!"
Old Sha nodded and said, "I understand, you are using this matter to refine your heart and qi! This is also a kind of cultivation. That's fine, I won't come tomorrow! Luo Li, this is your choice, if you want to do it, then do it!"
Luo Li nodded his head and the group returned to the Deserted House.
The next day, Luo Li, who was supposed to rest, once again, under the puzzled gazes of the crowd, went to the South Mountain to open up the mountain, fetch stones, and then carry them back, replacing the obsolete stone slabs of the Deshe Academy with new ones.
Early this morning, yesterday's twelve people, only four went, the third day, only went to Gao Peng, the fourth day, no one went anymore.
By now there was only Luo Li left, alone in that empty stone field, excavating rocks, cutting, polishing, then carrying them back, returning to the outer courtyard, replacing the slabs, removing the slabs with grievances, eliminating the grievances, and then throwing them far into the abyss.
Loneliness is incomparably lonely, hard work is incomparably hard, a day and night of hard work to accumulate aura, the next day to use up, every day about 15 or 16 slabs can be mined, this is Luo Li's day.
But Luo Li had no complaints, every day was just like that!
Every day Luo Li, apart from practicing, eating, resting, and working, all he did the rest was to do this, mine the stone, polish the slabs, and carry them back to replace them!
One day, two days, three days ......
At the very beginning, the crowd watched and saw the other helpers returning one after another, no longer in the past, some gossip began to be born!
"Just he is the most patient ah, the most will show off, the courtyard capital did not do, just he show big garlic, see how many days he can do!"
"Yes, yes, this kid is just to gain fame, and beg for publicity, in fact, he wants to attract the attention of the inner sect, so that he can be promoted to enter the inner sect."
"Must be so, this kid must have other intentions, is the show ah, before I see him come over to help, is the heart of evil."
"Yes, the heart is too deep, this person is not good ah! I dare to predict that after a month of work, he'll have to shrink!"
"Hahaha, at that time, he will definitely say that cultivation comes first, and then shrink back, seven days, I bet seven days!"
Saying anything, countless gossip, focused on Luo Li, they couldn't do it, and they didn't like that others could do it, so they didn't hesitate to use the most vicious language, to attack Luo Li.
But Luo Li didn't care, ten days, twenty days, thirty days ......
Gradually these words changed!
"This guy is a fool right?"
"Yeah, it's not like it's for show, indeed, indeed, this guy is a fool!"
"Haha, big fool, willing to do it, you do it!"
"This kind of fool, has a problem with his head, don't bother with him!"
Forty days, fifty days, sixty days ......
After two months, no one talked about Luo Li anymore, they all completely adapted to Luo Li, as if Luo Li, who came back with a stone slab on his back, was a view of the Deserted Shelter House, and that's how it should be.
Luo Li, however, was gently counting the days, sixty seven days, it's okay! It was time to harvest!
Early in the morning of the first day, he once again went to find Elder Ji An.
Seeing Luo Li, whose muscles were taut and tanned all over, Elder Ji An smiled and said, ''Luo Li, what's wrong? Are you thinking of giving up?
Gao Peng has already entered the second level of Qi Refining, his cultivation has caught up with you, these days you are opening stones and making slabs, consuming a lot of true qi, I see that you are not making any progress in your cultivation, in the end, we are cultivation oriented, we shouldn't be doing all these chores, sometimes giving up is a choice ......"
Ji'an old man thought Luo Li gave up and came over wanting to end it, he said something to let Luo Li down, using this to end the matter.
Luo Li shook his head and said, "No, Uncle Ji An, I still want to continue!
However, I found out that the stone slabs that I replaced at the very beginning started to be assimilated by the other slabs, and the grievances started to overload on top of those slabs, and at this rate, what I'm doing is useless."
Elder Ji An froze and said, "Then what do you want me to do?"
Luo Li said, "Uncle Ji An, I would like to ask for your guidance on how to resist this excessive grievance?"
Elder Ji An thought about it and said, "Then the only way is to arrange a spell formation on the stone slabs or carve talismans, by means of which you can resist the grievous Qi. You're only at the second level of Qi Refining, so you definitely can't lay a spell formation, so you can only carve talismans."
When he said this, Luo Li's heart was beating wildly, it had come to a critical moment, he saluted and said, "Please also ask for Uncle Ji An's help!"
Elder Ji An was silent for a long time, then said, "How about this, this token is for you, this is my order of the head of the courtyard, you take this token and go to the hidden scriptures of the outer courtyard, you can borrow all the secret books about talismans.
It's considered as my support to you, I hope you can find a solution to your grievances!"
Luo Li took the token, his heart was ecstatic, two months of hard work was equivalent to earning a few thousand spirit stones, it was too good to be true, he respectfully said, "Thank you Uncle Ji An for making it happen!"
Elder Ji An just smiled and said, "Good child with heart, I hope you have a beginning and an end, don't let me down!"
This is a subtle statement, Ji An old man is over ninety years old, the head of a courtyard, he has eaten more salt than Luo Li has eaten, what hasn't he seen, the purpose of Luo Li's mind, he is completely insightful!
Luo Li replied, "Don't worry, Uncle Ji An, I won't let you down!"
With the head of the courtyard token in hand, Luo Li left and for the first time, he did not go to Stone Mountain to work, but went to the outer courtyard's scripture cabinet.
When he arrived at the outer courtyard, he showed his token, and the secret books of talismans that Luo Li had been coveting for a long time were all laid out in front of Luo Li!
The True Explanation of Talismans, The Three Hundred Questions on Divine Talismans, The True Talisman Scripture of Innate Qi, The True Talisman Chapter of Dongxuan Spiritual Treasure, The Talisman Scripture of Stone Drum Questioning, The True Talisman of Tai Qing, The Unspoken Talisman Record ......
These were the talisman secret books, which recorded various talisman making methods, and mastering them was equivalent to mastering power.
In one breath, there were fourteen secret books, viewing these secret books required at least three thousand six hundred and seventy spirit stones, here Luo Li didn't spend a single penny, all of them were laid out in front of him.
As long as one reads these talisman scriptures, the way of making talismans at the Qi Refining Stage is completely mastered.
Luo Li let out a long breath, took out a scripture he made with fur runic paper, then picked up the Spirit Rhinoceros Pen, melted the Spirit Blood Ink in the Clarifying Clay Zhen Yan, and began to transcribe these runic scriptures.
The simple places, all memorized, the difficult places, Luo Li little by little transcribed to their own scriptures, a stroke by stroke, wholeheartedly concentrated, not the slightest difference.
In fact, Luo Li really wanted to study these talismanic scriptures here, completely master them and refine them, but he couldn't. He promised Elder Ji'an that he would have a beginning!
He promised the old man Ji'an that he would finish what he started, he said he would do it, now is not the time to study the talismans, now he can only gulp them all down, then go back and continue to mine the stone slabs, at that time in the South Mountain quarry, he has plenty of opportunities to study these talisman scriptures.
In this way, after seven days, Luo Li memorized all the scriptures in his mind, and at the same time made a general copy of them, then Luo Li returned to the Deserted House, returned the token, and continued to go to the South Mountain to work on the stone quarry!
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