Judge of the Lamp

Chapter 387
During the crown prince's Northern Expedition, Lin Ruoxue went to Shifang Goulan in Luzhou.

Amidst Lin Ruoxue's singing, the prince unknowingly completed his promotion.

Is this a coincidence?
Is Lin Ruoxue related to Li Shabai?
……

In the middle of the night, on the Wang'an River, a three-storey painting boat is brightly lit.

On the deck, the beautiful dancer struggled to twist her waist, the prince had specially ordered her not to dance gala music today, how vulgar, how to dance!
In the hall, everyone exchanged glasses, and Qiao Shungang held the wine glass to Chu Dao: "General, I didn't know you very well before, but I didn't know you until we were on the battlefield. Joe is a lowly person, let's finish this glass of wine!"

"What's that called!" Chu Xin laughed and said, "Shun Gang, you can call me General in the army, but you can call me Big Brother Chu in private. To tell you the truth, I used to look down on you Lantern Lang, and I especially look down on you. You guys are so domineering, I thought you guys would dare to ruthlessly attack your own people,

But when you are on the battlefield, when you see Mao Sha, you are more domineering and your hands are more ruthless. I like your ruthlessness. Needless to say, we will all be brothers from now on, let's do it! "

Qiao Shungang smiled and said, "Carefree, brothers, let's work with Big Brother Chu!"

Everyone raised their glasses and drank it all in one gulp!

Chu Xin had a few drinks in a row, and became more interested: "Brothers, you are not allowed to leave after a while, let's go to another place and have fun!"

Chu Xin laughed ripplingly, Qiao Shungang understood, and shouted: "Brothers, work with Brother Chu!"

"You pick a place, I'll invite you tonight!" Chu Xin happily looked at the group of lantern bearers.

Meng Shizhen stroked his beard and said with a smile, "Let's go to Zhukudong Teahouse!"

Chu Xin curled his lips: "Zhu Kukulou Tea House in Beiyuan? That place is a little bit worse!"

Qiao Shun just shook his head and said, "We don't have much experience, brother Chu, you can tell us a good place."

Chu Xin thought for a moment and said, "I can't think of it right now, Yu Shan, what good place do you have?"

Yu Shan took a sip of his wine and looked at Chu Xin.

This is my uncle.

What did he mean by that?
test me?
"I've never been to that kind of place."

"Not happy! I won't tell Zihe!" Chu Xin looked at Wu Shanxing and said, "Xiao Wu, do you have a good place?"

Wu Shanxing put down his wine glass and said, "General, there are good places, you have to promise me one thing."

"what's up?"

"I have to invite you tonight, and I can't let you spend money."

"You son of a bitch!" Chu Xin laughed, "How much money do you have? How can you invite me?"

Wu Shanxing shook his head and said, "General, I must invite you this time, I owe you this!"

In this Northern Expedition, none of the brothers who went to the expedition suffered a loss, and the worst ones, their cultivation base also increased a little bit.

Among the crowd, Shu Wu Shanxing made the most money. He first joined the Dao of War, and then rose from the ninth rank to the eighth rank of the Dao of War, all thanks to Chu Xin's guidance.

"General, today without you, without me!" Wu Shanxing said about this past, tears came down.

Chu Xin snorted and said, "Why are you crying? It's all because of your talent. If it were someone else, you wouldn't be able to teach it. Wipe away your tears and tell me about your goodness!"

Wu Shanxing drank a glass of wine, patted his chest and said, "Spend all my savings today, let's go to the best place, I invite you to Yinggeyuan."

Whoa!

Chu Xin's wine glass fell to the ground.

"Where?"

"Yinggeyuan!"

There was an instant silence at the banquet, and everyone looked at Wu Shanxing.

Wu Shanxing blinked, looked at Yu Shan and said, "What's the matter, isn't Yingge Academy bad?"

Yu Shan stuffed a piece of mutton into Wu Shanxing's mouth: "It's nothing bad, I don't know if it's good or not, and I've never been there, you eat vegetables!"

Seeing that everyone's expressions were not right, Wu Shanxing chewed the mutton and said vaguely: "What's wrong with Yinggeyuan, tell me!"

Yu Shan stuffed Wu Shanxing another chicken drumstick: "Everyone says I haven't been there, why do you always ask me? You eat vegetables! Let Zhiqiong talk about this, he always goes to those places."

Xu Zhiqiong said angrily: "What the hell, when did I go there? Don't ruin my reputation!"

Chu Xin thumped the table and went to enjoy the dance on the deck.

Wu Shanxing was dumbfounded, looked at the crowd and said, "I, what did I say wrong?"

Xu Zhiqiong lowered his voice and said, "Do you know that there is a type of people in Yingge Academy called Chu Xin?"

Wu Shanxing looked confused: "What are Chu Xin and others?"

"When you go to Yinggeyuan, you have to know some elegance. General Chu went there back then..." Xu Zhiqiong whispered a few words, and Wu Shanxing exploded immediately.

"General!" Wu Shanxing ran all the way to the deck, "I really don't know, I really don't know..."

……

In addition to the soldiers of the Northern Expedition, the prince also invited two special guests, one was Li Shabai and the other was He Fang.

Li Shabai was surprised that the prince was able to invite the two of them here.

The prince specially toasted Li Shabai with a glass of wine; "In the battle of Huazhou, painter Li made great contributions. He first fought against evil stars, and then he fought against Taotie. The bloody battle all the way to Liangfen Garden really turned the tide!"

"Your Highness has a great reputation!" Li Shabai held his cup and said, "I am a Xuanren, and I am a great Xuan, so why should I live and die like this! Your Highness lived and died with the soldiers, and he was severely injured. A certain admiration!"

The two toasted and drank it down. Qiao Shun just didn't know the meaning of this glass of wine, but he was still joking: "You can't just give credit to Painter Li alone. Miss He risked her life to block that evil magic circle. , the credit is not small."

The prince laughed and said: "Qiao Qianhu, don't call me Miss He anymore, this is the princess of Daxuan."

Qiao Shungang quickly changed his words: "Look at my memory, two, what, Elder Shengwei said, you are a princess, I was thinking about it just now, and then I forgot."

He Fang held up the wine glass with a smile and said, "Brother Qiao, we are old acquaintances. Zhiqiong calls you Brother Qiao, and I also call you Brother Qiao. If you get used to calling her Miss He, just keep calling her Miss He!"

The two had a full drink, He Fang toasted again, and said to the crown prince, "Your Highness, I also offer you a toast. The battle in Liangfen Garden that day is still vivid in my mind!"

"Don't call me Your Highness again," the prince said with a smile, "but I didn't tell you, call me elder brother!"

He Fang blushed, drank a few glasses of wine, and the two of them were embarrassed and swept away.

Taking advantage of the harmonious atmosphere, Xu Zhiqiong whispered to Li Shabai: "I got an ancient painting by chance, and I asked the artist to verify the authenticity for me."

As soon as he heard that he wanted to see the painting, Li Shabai became interested and hurried to the second floor with Xu Zhiqiong.

The second floor is full of guest rooms. Xu Zhiqiong opened one of them and invited Li Shabai in. Li Shabai asked, "Where are the ancient paintings? I don't know which dynasty they were made by?"

Xu Zhiqiong said: "The ancient paintings are in the Department of Yin and Yang, and they were made by Tai Bu, a famous master in this dynasty."

Li Shabai was startled: "Can Tai Bu know how to paint?"

"It's hard to say when it comes to painting, I'm afraid it's almost dead!" Xu Zhiqiong recounted the story.

Li Shabai sighed lightly: "There is a difference between birth and death of double stars. I have noticed these two days. However, I have seen the phenomenon of stars disappearing before. It does not necessarily mean that the stars have fallen, but it may also be that the stars have suffered serious injuries. Just as the wounds are being healed, the stars are dimmed, so the light is lost."

This Xu Zhiqiong knows that after Wu Xu was promoted to a star official, because most of the time he was in a deep sleep, the starlight of Weiyi Star has been dim, only on the day of Huazi Festival, and when he rescued Xu Zhiqiong last night, there was a short-lived flickering.

"But the dimness can be seen after all, and the Shengke Shuangxing is completely invisible now."

Li Shabai pondered for a moment and said: "Perhaps the King of the Nemesis was seriously injured, but that day I saw them refine the outer body of the Taotie and the evil star of the blood, which should greatly increase their vitality, so how could they be injured?"

Li Shabai also felt puzzled, but he was relieved in a blink of an eye: "In the future, let's persuade Tai Bu, don't worry about this matter."

Xu Zhiqiong was taken aback: "Is there a way for Master Li to save Xingjun?"

Li Shabai shook his head and said: "Xing Jun has left the mortal world, Li Moujie is an ordinary person, how can he have such abilities? I just want to help Tai Bu."

Xu Zhiqiong's eyes lit up: "How can I help?"

"Just help him to cultivate another Taoism!" Li Shabai said seriously, "I cultivated the Yin-Yang Tao to the third rank, but I was worried that the foundation of the Taoism would not be stable, so I turned to study the artisan's method, studied the Mohism hard, and cultivated the Mohism to the third rank. , Borrowing the power of Mohism and Yin-Yang, he created his own way of painting."

Xu Zhiqiong held his forehead and was speechless for a while. This kind of thing is not something that normal humans can do.

Wait, he said he created his own painting method.

Xu Zhiqiong has always been very curious about Li Shabai's painting skills. At the beginning, he also thought that this is a special Taoism, one of the heretics, similar to the Yinyang school and the Mohist school, and they all rely on a star king to support them.

Until today, he didn't know that this door was created by him.

"The Dao of Painting is your own creation. So, there is no Xingjun in this sect?"

Li Shabai said with a smile: "Not only is there no Xingjun, but there is no rank."

"No rank?" Xu Zhiqiong was completely stunned, "Aren't you a third-rank cultivator of the Dao of Painting?"

Li Shabai said with a smile: "Grade grades are born above the mortal world. I created my own painting method. I am the one with the highest cultivation. I am still in the mortal world. How can I create a high-grade painting method?"

It turned out that grades did not appear simultaneously with Daomen.

"If the Shengke Twin Stars really fall, will the Yin-Yang Daomen still exist?"

"The Yin-Yang Dao Sect will not just disappear, but the foundation of the Dao Sect will collapse. The so-called collapse means that the boundaries of grades are gradually blurred, and the cultivation base of the Dao Sect becomes chaotic and disorderly.
The masters of each path determine the foundation of the Taoism. Canglong Domineering, White Tiger Killing Dao, Suzaku Sheng Dao, Xuanwu Ming Dao, the masters of the four righteous paths are all true gods, with the strongest foundation and the most distinct grade boundaries.
Among the outsiders, Confucianism and Taoism are ruled by Xingxiu, the foundation of Taoism is also very deep, and the boundaries of grades are also very clear, while the rulers of Taoism such as Yinyang School and Mohism are star officials, the foundation of Taoism is relatively shallow, and the boundaries of grades are relatively blurred. "

That's right, the grade boundaries between the Yin-Yang School and the Mohist School are indeed blurred. When Xu Zhiqiong reaches the ninth grade of Yin-Yang, he can use a simple magic circle. But in terms of grade skills, the eighth grade of Yin-Yang is called the two transformations of virtuality and reality. The technique of transforming virtual and real is the foundation of mastering the magic circle in the true sense.

When you are low-grade, you can learn some skills of high-grade ones, which is a manifestation of the blurred boundaries of grades.

If the ruler above the mortal world disappears, the rank boundary will also disappear.

like a celebrity...

wrong!

The grade boundaries of famous artists are still there, and Xu Zhiqiong has found the boundary between the ninth and eighth grades.

This proves that the master of the Taoist sect of the famous school is still alive, but in a severely weakened state, which has caused a serious blurring of the boundaries.

Xu Zhiqiong was extremely surprised by Li Shabai's insight, which reminded him of an important question.

"Painter Li, have you ever seen a true god?"

Li Shabai shook his head and said: "The appearance of the true god can be seen by extraordinary people, even if the true god himself is right in front of him, it cannot be discerned by the naked eye.

Fortunately, I have lived long enough, and I have seen the outer body of the true god four times. The first time I saw the outer body of Taotie with you. what do you think,

At the beginning of the founding of Daxuan, I once saw the outer body of the Canglong. When I was overwhelmed, I barely raised my head and only took a look. It looked almost the same as the statue enshrined in the Canglong Temple.
Earlier, when Dagan and Daxuan were changing, during a fierce battle in Nanye, I saw the outer body of Wuwu. At that time, the outer body of Wuwu was intact. I really wanted to draw his appearance, but I only glanced at it, but I was so frightened that I couldn't remember his appearance at all afterwards.
The earliest time was during the Qianqian Dynasty. At that time, I had just reached the third rank of Yin-Yang Dao, and in a fierce battle, I saw the Qiongqi Outer Body. "

This is it!

Xu Zhiqiong tried his best to restrain the surprise in his heart, and asked indifferently, "What does Qiongqi's outer body look like?"

"I drew it, but I couldn't say it."

Xu Zhiqiong blinked.

Here are several meanings.

The paintings are all drawn, why can't we talk about them?

Li Shabai explained: "I dare not recall his appearance, I dare not even look at the painting I drew with my own hand, as long as I take a look at it, or think of his appearance, I will be filled with evil thoughts .”

So evil?
Xu Zhiqiong said: "Can't you say a word?"

Li Shabai hesitated for a while and said: "If I only say one thing...that is a beautiful woman."

woman?

How could it be a woman?

(End of this chapter)