Celestial Demon Starting from Attribute Points

Chapter 79: Chapter 73: With Compassion, Severing Mortal Bonds; The Bone Courtesan Resides in the Other Courtyard

The three disasters are: floods, droughts, and plagues.

Once these three disasters passed, it seemed as if the little demons had vanished without a trace. At least until now, Li Xuan hadn’t seen any demons around Xiongshan County or Hundred Flowers Mansion, which was one of the reasons he felt at ease leaving the area.

The petite maid in purple was driving the carriage, and Li Xuan comfortably leaned against the carriage wall.

It was nearing May, and outside the window, the wilderness road was indeed a riot of color, with the golden sunlight streaming through the gaps, falling on the fine fabric of the youth’s black robe, shimmering warmly and lazily.

"Do you want to switch?" Li Xuan suddenly shouted.

Rose was already accustomed to her young master’s eccentricity.

Switch people?

The young master letting the maid drive the carriage?

She truly couldn’t understand how her young master came up with these things.

She muttered, saying, "No need, no need."

Saying this, she rolled her eyes flirtatiously and said coquettishly, "If young master truly cares, then cherish me well tonight."

The "dog couple" started their shameless teasing again.

However, as the teasing went on, Li Xuan felt an inexplicable sense of relief.

Like a traveler hanging from a green vine over a well. Even though there was a tiger outside the well and a snake below, at least at this moment, sweet dew was flowing on the green vine before his eyes.

Rather than worrying, why not enjoy it?

Cherish the moment, drink today if you have wine today.

Li Xuan took out a flask of fine wine from his luggage.

The road was still long, and he considered it a spring outing with beautiful company.

But he was a bit annoyed.

This annoyance mainly stemmed from having no cultivation to practice, no blood to absorb.

The Root Map, this thing was really profound, so even those like Liu Yingyi, who had already mastered the secret martial arts, couldn’t teach others because he couldn’t draw the Root Map.

Nobody could draw the Root Map.

This was the information Li Xuan obtained from Liu Yingyi.

What exactly was the Root Map? Why was it so miraculous?

Liu Yingyi’s answer was that it might be the accumulated mysteries passed down through the generations on the Root Map.

To successfully cultivate a technique, one must possess the Root Map.

Whether they ultimately mastered it or not, they all poured their heart and soul into the Root Map, which also bore their joys and sorrows, their intense spiritual fluctuations.

How could a piece of scroll bear a spirit?

Nobody knew.

But since a scroll could already manifest such profound secret martial arts, why shouldn’t it bear a spirit?

Liu Yingyi’s answer was obviously the result of research from the Prime Minister’s side. Whether it was the latest version, Li Xuan didn’t know, but at least it provided him an explanation.

It made him understand that the Prime Minister might have already collected nearly all the Grandmaster cultivation techniques of Great Yin, and the reason he could still see "Evergreen Unwithering Skill" and "Love-Soul Departing Hooks" in the Canal Gang might be that the quality of these techniques was not high, making them difficult to cultivate, so they were temporarily overlooked; or perhaps the Prime Minister hadn’t had time to collect them yet.

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Nightfall.

No village in sight.

The carriage stopped by a small woods, ropes tied securely.

Under the moonlight, Rose ran around to collect branches to make a bonfire for warmth, cooking, and to ward off wild beasts.

Not long after, she ran back, shouting excitedly, "Young master, young master, come and see."

Li Xuan followed her, and after a few steps, saw a small temple.

This earth temple was very small, only about five feet tall, surrounded by a short wall, with pine and cypress trees planted around, and inside it housed nothing but an earth deity statue, leaving it empty. If one wanted to rest inside, they could only squeeze half of their body in.

Earth temples are typically small, which is normal, but what wasn’t normal was the earth deity statue.

Under the serene moonlight, the earth deity statue was, astonishingly, headless, making it look as eerie as it could be.

"Spooky!"

Rose fearfully touched her head, and as she did, she suddenly pinched a thick thing. She pulled hard and plucked a peacock feather.

Rose cried out again, "Spooky~!"

Li Xuan had already shown Rose his large tentacle, so he didn’t intend to hide his illusion skills anymore.

He adjusted the blood grid, set "Demonic Monkey" to the first grid, and then set "Taotie" to the second grid.

With a thought, a bronze-headed, iron-armed muscular man appeared out of thin air.

Rose was startled.

Li Xuan pulled her to stand back.

Seeing her young master so calm, Rose understood that this muscular man was his summoning, so she wasn’t afraid anymore.

As for why young master could summon?

She was numb to it now.

They watched as the muscular man charged into the earth temple, fumbled around the headless earth deity statue.

Li Xuan observed from a distance, but after a long while, nothing happened.

The muscular man inspected the stump of the earth deity statue’s neck closely.

Li Xuan, observing the crack, looked around and made a hypothesis: "It’s man-made, someone twisted this earth deity’s neck off."

Suddenly, Rose angrily said, "Why twist the earth deity’s neck? Just because it didn’t protect them? But the earth deity is just a minor deity, what can it do? If that person had the guts, why don’t they go and twist the neck of King Yama or the Buddha?"

"Tch tch tch, as expected of the Saintess of the Yu Sect," Li Xuan praised.

Rose widened her eyes and said, "Young master, don’t speak nonsense, I’m not a Saintess."

Li Xuan said, "I’ve already found out, those who can be a Feather Robe vessel are the Saintess."

He had interacted with quite a few people, and naturally learned this when occasionally chatting about the Yu Sect.

"Anyway, I’m not," Rose was very afraid for her life. Since she learned the Saintess was just a vessel, she thought of quitting daily, but even though she had quit, a peacock feather occasionally grew on her forehead.

Li Xuan didn’t dwell on that and returned to the earlier topic: "Who said nobody twisted the Buddha’s neck? The headless Buddha statue washed ashore by the tsunami, didn’t it also lose its head?"