Chapter 27 Books Will Fall Asleep
Cangqiong Mountain, outside Wuliu Manor.
It was still the Demon Lord of Xuanyuan Sect with two guardians on the left and right. The left guardian stood beside the Demon Lord's broken arm, and the right guardian held a pipa in his arms, covered with a veil, and the light blue shirt made her graceful. She was playing the pipa for Wenren'e. There was a scar on her right arm that she accidentally exposed, as if she had been injured before. It was ferociously across her jade arm, which made people feel pity.
This is the academy outside Wuliu Manor. Scholars from the mortal world like to come to this academy to recite poems and discuss Taoism. It is also a base for the Zhongli family to recruit talents.
The biggest difference between the cultivation family and the major sects is that other sects are out of the world, while the cultivation family is in the world. The Zhongli family is knowledgeable, and the main family is a cultivator who lives in Wuliu Manor. The branch family will enter the court through the imperial examination to assist the destined emperor.
This is the "Tao" of the cultivation family. Just as Wenren'e fought on the battlefield to seek Taoism, the Zhongli family is walking the path of the saint. Using poetry and books to preach, they are admired by scholars and take this as their own way of cultivation. In ancient times, there was a poet named Qinglian Sword Immortal who "killed one person every ten steps and left no trace in a thousand miles", and he also took this path.
Therefore, people from the four major cultivation families would go out into the world to recruit disciples, and the heads and heirs of each generation would also cultivate their own foundation. The disciples who worshipped them and the wisdom passed down from generation to generation were the foundation for the cultivation of the Zhongli family. The more scholars there were in the world, and the more people read their writings, the higher the magic power of the Zhongli family would be.
Their realm was the same as that of the righteous and evil cultivators, but their skills were very different. The children of the family with supporters had extremely high magic power. The more people in the world admired his thoughts and literary talent, the stronger his magic power would be; the children of the family without supporters, even in the Mahayana period, might not be able to beat the cultivators in the Fusion period, and they were very weak.
In the book, the family of cultivation was unknown at first, until the battle between good and evil, the world of cultivation suffered heavy losses, and the world ushered in a prosperous dynasty. More and more children from poor families had the opportunity to study, and even peddlers could recognize a few words, recite a few poems, and remember the names of a few saints. Only then did the family of cultivation become strong. After the war, the world prospered for fifty years, and Zhongli Qian had the confidence to take the heroine who was imprisoned in the back mountain from Shangqing Sect.
This time, the battle between good and evil planned by Wen Ren'e personally returned more spiritual energy to the world than in the book. In just twelve years, the Zhongli family has become famous, and the academy outside Wuliu Village is crowded with people. Wen Ren'e and others can have a window seat, but Shu Yanyan bought it.
They appeared in the academy because today is the day when several young masters of the Zhongli family give lectures and discuss Taoism. Students from all over the world come to visit, and they cannot enter without a visiting card.
It is easy to use magic to make a visiting card to deceive the owner of the academy, but it is difficult to arrange seats. Shu Yanyan stuffed a silver ingot into the shopkeeper's hand and deliberately rubbed him. The shopkeeper was just a congenital master in the foundation-building period. How could he resist Shu Yanyan's charm? He took the silver in a daze and arranged a quiet seat for the few people.
At this time, the several young masters of the Zhongli family had not arrived yet, but the academy was already full. Many people saw that Wen Ren'e and Yin Hanjiang were dressed like warriors and did not even wear scholar robes. They were not convinced and came to challenge.
Of course, they were not fighting, but challenging the ability to recite poems and compose couplets.
Wen Ren'e and Yin Hanjiang had no problem beating people. When they mentioned composing poems, they frowned at the same time. They only felt that countless flies were buzzing in their ears. Shu Yanyan's twelve demons were easier to deal with than the sound of reading.
Fortunately, Shu Yanyan was a talented writer. She played a few songs on the pipa, singing while playing. The music and lyrics were well matched, which made the scholars feel ashamed. They bowed and said goodbye. Wen Ren'e and the other two finally took their seats.
Shu Yanyan drove away the scholars, returned to her seat, smiled flatteringly at Wen Ren'e, and said in a voice transmission: "My Lord, is this okay?"
Wen Ren'e nodded slightly and stretched out a finger.
Shu Yanyan's eyes lit up and she said excitedly: "Can my punishment be reduced by ten years?"
Wen Ren'e shook his head.
"One, one year?" Shu Yanyan pouted.
Unexpectedly, Wen Ren'e said leisurely: "One month."
"Only one month?" Shu Yanyan was a little impulsive after hearing this time, and said anxiously, "My Lord, you said that as long as I perform well, the punishment time can be reduced?"
"Only after catching Zhongli Qian can I be rewarded for my merits. What merit is it now?" Wen Ren'e said.
Shu Yanyan didn't dare to offend the Lord again, so she shrank back, her eyes filled with tears, and she looked a little melancholy, which almost made the scholar next to her curse Wen Ren'e and Yin Hanjiang for not being gentle with women.
Fortunately, several princes of the Zhongli family arrived in time, which prevented the tragedy of the Demon Lord slaughtering Wuliu Academy with blood.
There are three outstanding princes in this generation of the Zhongli family, and the leader is Zhongli Qian. He was dressed in white, gentle and elegant, holding a scroll of bamboo slips, and walked slowly into the academy and sat down in the main seat. Zhongli Qian's whole body was extraordinary, and his every move revealed an unrestrained and calm demeanor that could not be concealed.
"I wear a blue cloud dress and a white rainbow dress, and I raise a long arrow to shoot the wolf in the sky." When Shu Yanyan saw Zhongli Qian coming out, her beautiful eyes fell on him and couldn't move away.
She sent a message to Wen Ren'e, "Your Majesty, do you know why I studied poetry and books so hard in the past? It was to cultivate the temperament of a talented woman so that I could seduce a scholar like Zhong Liqian. It's really... great!"
Zhong Liqian is the most outstanding heir of the Zhongli family. He has had countless retainers over the years. He just broke through the realm of emptiness a few days ago, so he could naturally feel Shu Yanyan's undisguised gaze. He nodded slightly to Shu Yanyan, then looked away and stopped looking at her.
"Your Majesty!" Shu Yanyan sent a message excitedly, "Isn't he the one I want to attract today? He is great! When he looked at me just now, I had already used my charm technique, but I didn't expect his eyes to be so clear. Is he really a rare gentleman?"
"If you can seduce him, he will be yours." Wen Ren'e sent a message.
If Zhong Liqian could be attracted by Shu Yanyan, then he wouldn't have to find Zhong Liqian to be nice to the heroine. Wen Ren'e didn't want to create another He Wenchao. It would be better to wait for that ghost cultivator to grow up. Another eight years would be enough.
But let Shu Yanyan try whether this young master Zhongli is a true gentleman.
Behind Zhongli Qian followed two other young masters, one was Zhongli Heng, and the other was Zhongli Kuang.
Zhongli Heng was dressed in a simple blue shirt, and looked very steady. He followed Zhongli Qian with all his heart. Zhongli Kuang was dressed in brocade clothes, and his eyebrows and eyes were full of wantonness and frivolity. Shu Yanyan accidentally looked at him, and he raised his wine glass to toast Shu Yanyan in the air.
Facing Zhongli Kuang's affection, Shu Yanyan actually had no reaction. She ignored his toast and turned her head to drink her tea in small sips.
Before Wen Ren'e asked her, Shu Yanyan replied: "I have seen too many people like Zhongli Kuang who are arrogant and like beautiful women and wine. If I saw him on weekdays, I could also flirt with him for his appearance. Unfortunately, now that I have met Zhongli Qian, my appetite has been spoiled, and I can't look down on others for the time being."
Seeing that Shu Yanyan ignored him, Zhongli Kuang showed a wicked smile, and his eyes were full of interest.
If Zhongli Heng had not quietly pressed the corner of his clothes, Zhongli Kuang would have walked directly to Shu Yanyan to toast.
The three Zhongli gentlemen took their seats, and the literary gathering began. Zhongli Heng first raised a topic, and the literati expressed their opinions. Zhongli Kuang interjected a few words to refute the views of several people, which attracted countless cheers. Everyone cursed each other without swearing, and when the verbal battle was getting lively, Zhongli Qian knocked on the table with the palm of his bamboo arrow and said something that Wen Ren'e didn't understand at all. The whole book club was immediately in awe, and everything was led by Zhongli Qian.
Wen Ren'e's eyes sparkled when he heard it. Seeing that Shu Yanyan actually picked up a pen and paper to record quickly, he barely wiped his face with his hand, and suddenly felt someone touching his shoulder. He glanced sideways and found that it was Yin Hanjiang who dozed off while listening, and his head knocked on his shoulder.
Realizing that he had lost his composure and offended His Majesty, Yin Hanjiang bit his lower lip and said in a voice transmission with red ears: "Your Majesty, I was probably bewitched by the Zhongli family's soul-bewitching spell. I was unknowingly deceived and felt sleepy. It is because of my low magic power that I have embarrassed Your Majesty."
Wen Ren'e suppressed his laughter and said in a voice transmission: "If it were not for the knock of Dharma Protector Yin, I would probably fall asleep. Since I was a child, I have felt drowsy when I heard the sound of poetry being recited in the academy. I didn't expect that I couldn't escape this curse even after becoming a cultivator." "
The same is true for me." Yin Hanjiang replied embarrassedly.
After chatting secretly for a while, the two of them were quite energetic, but they couldn't resist the sleepiness after all. The book club continued, and when Zhongli Kuang expressed his opinions again, Wen Ren'e and Yin Hanjiang were already in a trance. Their eyes seemed to be open, but in fact, their heads had knocked together, waking each other up again.
Zhong Li Kuang had been paying attention to Shu Yanyan, so he naturally noticed that the two men beside the beautiful woman were sleeping with their eyes open while he was talking. He angrily said to the two men, "I wonder what you two gentlemen have to say?"
In this academy, except for the three sons of the Zhongli family, everyone is called "sir". Wen Ren'e had never expected that one day someone would call him "sir", and he was still in trouble. For a moment, he did not realize that Zhong Li Kuang was calling him, and did not answer.
This completely angered Zhong Li Kuang. He stood up and said, "I wonder what your names are, where you live, and who recommended you?"
The whole audience focused their attention on the two men, and saw that their clothes did not look like those of scholars at all, and there was an uproar.
Zhong Li Kuang's gaze was too rude. Yin Hanjiang was dissatisfied with his disrespect to his master. After getting Wen Ren'e's secret consent, he said loudly: "We are not here for your reputation, but we heard that there is a literary gathering today. My master and I have been troubled by insomnia for many days. When we heard the sound in the academy outside the door, we felt drowsy. We thought we had finally found a good place to sleep, so we hurried in. As expected, we slept soundly. Thank you very much."
Yin Hanjiang's words offended everyone in the academy. Zhong Li Kuang's face sank even more. He held a pen in his palm and secretly urged his true energy to teach these two people a lesson.
Who knew that at this time Zhong Li Qian stood up and said: "The Zhongli family held a book gathering for the purpose of preaching and solving puzzles for people all over the world. Although the two gentlemen are not good at poetry and prose, this literary gathering can solve the confusion of the two people who can't fall asleep, which is also Qian's merit."
His words were so comfortable that even Yin Hanjiang couldn't get angry. The unusually gentle words eased the stiff atmosphere in the field. Even if Zhong Li Kuang wanted to get angry, he had no reason.
Wen Ren'e looked at Zhong Liqian with admiration, and said with a bow: "Thank you, Master Zhongli, for clearing up my doubts. We have benefited a lot and the trip was worthwhile."
Zhong Liqian's help, the book club continued, and no one would care if Wen Ren'e and Yin Hanjiang dozed off again. After all, Master Zhongli said that books can heal the heart, and insomnia is also a kind of heart disease. The heart diseases of the two gentlemen who fell asleep at the book club have been cured, so they are not
playing the lute to a cow. "Shu Hufa, I'm afraid you can't get this person." Wen Ren'e said in a voice transmission.
"I didn't expect that there are really true gentlemen in this world," Shu Yanyan held her chin and looked at Zhong Liqian, "Think about it carefully, if I can't hook up with him, wouldn't it prove that he is consistent in his words and deeds? Such a person, even just looking at him is good."
Everyone in the audience praised Zhong Liqian, except Zhong Li Kuang, who was sitting behind him on the left, with a hint of malice in his eyes.
Wen Ren'e accurately captured this malicious intent. He looked at Zhong Li Kuang and was thinking about what use this person had in the plot when he suddenly saw a space anomaly above his head, and a book loomed in that space.
The Demon Lord suddenly remembered that when he got "Sadomasochism", he also noticed the space anomaly above his head. He reached out and grabbed a book.
Seeing that the book was about to fall into Zhong Li Kuang's arms, Wen Ren'e picked up a book on the table and smashed it on Zhong Li Kuang's head, barely catching the falling book!
"What are you doing!" Zhong Li Kuang couldn't bear it anymore and slammed the table and stood up.
"My hand slipped and I accidentally dropped two books." Wen Ren'e said to Shu Yanyan without changing his expression, "Go pick up those 'two' books."
He emphasized the number "two". How could Shu Yanyan, who was in the punishment period, not obey the order of the master? She hurriedly stood up and walked towards Zhong Li Kuang. Seeing that he was stepping on two books, she showed embarrassment in her eyes and said aggrievedly: "Sir, can you please move aside for a moment."
Her eyes were filled with tears, which made people feel pity. Zhong Li Kuang was not in a position to embarrass a woman in public, and seeing that Zhong Li Qian was looking at him, he had to move his feet and let Shu Yanyan pick up the two books.
After Shu Yanyan thanked him, she gracefully bent sideways to pick up the books. One was a collection of poems she brought to make up the number, and the other was a book as thick as a brick.
She handed the book to Wen Ren'e, and saw with her peripheral vision that there were a few big words written on the cover of the brick-thick book - "The Destroyer God (Volume 1)".