I want to embrace the moon for nine days

A crescent moon rose into the sky.

As the time approached midnight, the Tianxiang Woods in Panshe Valley became increasingly quiet, with only faint snoring sounds coming from the small houses on the trees.

A dark shadow quietly came into the valley.

The man looked to be about thirty years old, with a goatee that made him look older. He was wearing a black cloth robe, and when he walked, he made no sound.

He had clearly just walked in from outside the valley, yet he was in complete harmony with the scenery inside the valley.

Even a gust of wind blowing in from outside the mountain would be more noticeable than his presence.

"That weird little divine silkworm, didn't you draw tonight?"

The man in black stroked his beard and looked at Nie Feiying's residence with strange eyes.

"I've been wandering around Jianghuai for almost two years. I finally came across something interesting, so I can't let it go."

"If he really gives up, we can tease him a little tonight to awaken his fighting spirit and let him continue to draw that illusion method."

While the man in black was thinking these thoughts, a child's hand quietly emerged from the darkness behind him and grabbed his shoulder.

This grab did not produce any unusual fluctuations in the surrounding vital energy, and the person who made the move also blocked his own mental electromagnetic field well. It can be said that this move was done without anyone noticing.

However, the black-clothed man's expression suddenly changed slightly, as if he had noticed something.

His body suddenly leaned forward, and one of his legs tilted slightly as he moved, as if he was limping, but his speed was incredibly fast, and there was a mysterious and smooth feeling to it.

Su Hanshan grabbed nothing with one hand, and without hesitation, his body glowed with silver light, and he reached out again.

The body of this four or five-year-old child suspended in the air, with every flicker as it moves, looks like an image left by a Bodhisattva.

If we say that the Six Guards of Life and Death are the six main branches in Su Hanshan's martial arts system.

Then, obviously more than one leaf can grow on each branch.

Just like the move of "Taixu Yiqi" at the beginning, Taiyin Shaoyang, Taiyang Shaoyin, the harmony of the four symbols, the drastic changes of Yin and Yang, in fact, it should be regarded as belonging to the "Kutunchenhuiling".

This peerless body technique evolved from the "Great Compassionate Heart Seal Dharani" and the thirty-two forms of Bodhisattva guardians.

It should be regarded as the most beautiful leaf currently grown on the branch of “Bao Yue Jue Kong Ling”.

Even the Flying Sword Immortal Zhu Liang was hit directly in the chest and abdomen by Su Hanshan's two transformations at the beginning of the fight.

The cultivation level of this man in black is obviously far inferior to that of the Flying Sword Immortal Zhu Liang.

But under the crescent moon, in the deep valley.

Su Hanshan grabbed him thirteen times in a row.

Two shadows, starting from the entrance of the valley, zigzag across the entire valley.

It was not until they reached the edge of the valley, climbed out of the deep valley and reached the top of the cliff that Su Hanshan grabbed his shoulders.

This person was also very shocked.

The steps he practiced were called "Sun-Changing Steps", which were created based on the Taoist Yu Steps and combined with the knowledge of positive and negative yin and yang and observing the sun's shadow.

The sun and its shadow are used to symbolize the two yin and yang.

In the observation of these two types of things, we must grasp the effects of various visible lights in the world, and then infer the existence of various invisible lights and analyze their functions.

For example, everything in the world, even a cold, ignorant stone, is constantly emitting some invisible light.

Even if a warrior has controlled his mind and skills very well, as long as there is a tendency of "movement", a certain type of invisible light will increase, and cause other types of invisible light to fluctuate.

Those who have mastered the "Day-Changing Footwork" can capture this trend and accelerate their movement by following the rhythm created by thousands of strange light waves.

The so-called "changing the sun" means that people who have mastered this technique no longer regard the sun in the sky as the sun, but observe the enemy as the new sun.

Replace the real sun with an enemy.

It is hard to imagine how difficult it is to master something so unorthodox, but the rewards are also great.

Ever since this person truly got started with the Sun-Changing Steps, even though he was only at the Demon-Subduing Realm, he had been able to retreat calmly from Land-Walking Immortal-level figures many times.

Unexpectedly, today in the abandoned residence of Flying Sword Immortal Zhu Liang, on a small island in the middle of Hongze Lake, I would actually meet the person who captured him in the blink of an eye.

Even the most powerful Qinggong could not escape Su Hanshan's continuous grasp.

Then, based on the black-clothed man's internal strength, he would not be able to withstand Su Hanshan's golden elixir energy.

When he was caught, all his meridians were blocked and he lost the ability to move.

Su Hanshan took him to Nie Feiying's hut.

Nie Feiying flew out and circled around him several times.

"You've been spying on me since midnight these past two days, right? Tell me, what's your intention?"

The man in black looked at the magical silkworm baby, then looked at the child standing next to it and gave a bitter smile.

"Curiosity is harmful."

The man in black said, "I am Zhihua. I don't have any bad intentions. It's just that I saw this baby silkworm using some crude magic to transform into a human to buy paint at the market, which made me curious."

"I have known for a long time that there are magical silkworms in the old residence of Flying Sword Immortal Zhu Liang on Hongze Lake, but I have never heard that there are magical silkworms that can learn illusions."

He looked at Su Hanshan, "Now it seems that this is probably the result of the careful guidance of the senior."

Su Hanshan smiled but said nothing.

I did not sense any malicious intent from this man in black before, but considering that although this man is not very strong, his lightness skills are surprisingly high, maybe he has some strange secret method that can confuse other people's perception of his emotions.

So Su Hanshan handed the matter of the discussion over to Nie Feiying.

After all, among the two of them, Nie Feiying is the real experienced veteran.

After Nie Feiying questioned him for a few times, he already knew what was going on, but he pretended to be fierce and said, "I don't care. You don't look like a good person at first glance."

"Not long ago, I encountered a guy who wanted to capture people from the valley and sell them for money."

"I think you probably have the same idea. Seeing that I am different from others, you want to wait and see for a while and find out the reason. Then you can train more unique divine silkworm babies and sell them at a higher price, right?"

Zhihua said quickly: "I have no such intention. Otherwise, Senior should not have been in this valley two days ago. If I had taken action at that time, wouldn't I have captured all of you?"

"is it?"

Nie Feiying snorted, "You broke into our residence and spied on me several times. You can't deny this, right? According to the government's laws, shouldn't someone like you also be sentenced to some crime?"

"Since you know I love painting, I will punish you by having you stay in this valley for the time being and help me grind the mineral materials for my painting."

Su Hanshan had caused a scene in the Jinling Palace before. Jinling Prince Cao Hong and the family of the Jianghuai Grand Commander should have received the news by now.

The Crown Prince's guest official was killed and the treasury was emptied. One can imagine the King of Jinling's tremendous anger.

It might not be long before all kinds of arrest warrants are posted everywhere. If he lets the man in black go now, if someone attacks when Su Hanshan is refining medicine, it will be a hidden danger, and he will feel uneasy.

But if you kill him because of a little hidden worry, that is definitely not what a righteous person should do.

It would be better to capture him and keep him on the island for a while. Anyway, with Su Hanshan around, even if he has some thoughts in secret, he won't be able to cause any trouble.

After Su Hanshan used those medicinal herbs and his body transformed successfully, Nie Feiying would be able to take all the other divine silkworm babies away.

By then, it won’t matter if the people on the island go to Gukong and then let Zhihua go their separate ways.

"Of course that's no problem."

Zhihua hesitated for a moment and then agreed.

No words were spoken that night.

After Su Hanshan meditated and recuperated, at dawn, he prepared to start refining medicine.

Zhihua's power was sealed, but he was able to move around. Seeing the mountains of medicinal herbs, he seemed to be thinking about something, but did not say much.

However, when Su Hanshan directly used a ball of pure yang energy to wrap up the medicinal materials, and according to the dosage of the pill recipe, he cut up the thousand-year-old Polygonatum, the Blue Sky Fruit, the Dragon Blood Gastrodia, and the Yingluo Ginseng and threw them in, Zhihua couldn't help himself.

"senior!"

Zhihua asked, "Are you preparing to refine the Nine Hills Devil-Repelling Powder?"

Su Hanshan glanced at him and said, "You also know how to make pills?"

"People in the martial arts world have to know a little bit about everything to make a living. Alchemy and medicine making is a highly profitable business, so it naturally attracts people's enthusiasm."

Zhihua smiled and said, "Since ancient times, alchemy should be done with an alchemy furnace, because the nature of metal and stone will more or less affect the quality of the medicine."

“Although the senior has a high level of cultivation and can extract the medicinal properties by directly refining it with his power, the person who developed the Nine Hills Demon-Repelling Powder is only a cultivator at the Great Medicine Gathering Realm.”

"He used the most common type of gold and stone cauldron for alchemy, which was common, but he didn't know to record the material and shape of the cauldron in detail in the elixir recipe. He thought that others were as mediocre as him and had to use the cauldron to refine medicine."

"To the point that even a master like the senior who can refine medicine without a cauldron was misled by the thoughts of that mediocre person."

The implicit meaning of Zhihua's words was obviously that if Su Hanshan burned it directly like this, the medicinal properties of the burned product would be biased.

However, in order to save the face of the "senior", he spoke very tactfully.

Poor founder of Naweidansan, he had to take the blame for no reason.

"So that's it."

Su Hanshan remembered that there was also a special alchemy furnace on Toudao Ridge.

He was still a little too arrogant and hadn't thought of this detail, but since he wanted to make a profound analysis of the martial arts of subduing demons, he had to be rigorous in these details.

"Since you also know how to refine pills, you should know where to buy finished pill furnaces and alchemy furnaces, right?"

Upon hearing this, Zhihua felt relieved to see that the ball of energy wrapped around the medicinal materials was only used to preserve the medicinal properties and was not directly used for refining.

Fortunately, he is a person who listens to advice.

To make Jiuqiu Pimo San, all the medicinal materials used are top-grade, which is not a big deal.

However, if one uses top-quality medicinal materials, extremely pure skills, and superb techniques, in the end the medicinal properties will deteriorate because of the most basic reason, which is not using an alchemy furnace.

Zhihua really couldn't bear it. Even if he could remain cautious and respectful on the surface, he would probably be worried and tossing and turning for a while afterwards.

"I have a complete set of alchemy furnaces and cauldrons at home."

Zhihua said, "If you don't mind, you can come with me to my home to get it."

Su Hanshan didn't waste any words. He directly lifted him up onto the yellow cloth and asked him to show the way.

A moment later, the two of them were already above Zhihua's residence.

However, Su Hanshan was cautious first. He stayed a thousand feet in the air and sensed carefully to make sure there was nothing unusual before landing.

Not only is there nothing unusual in this town, but there are only a handful of people who have even practiced martial arts.

Almost no one could catch the withered yellow shadow falling from the sky.

However, because Su Hanshan did not know the complete set of equipment for alchemy, he asked Zhihua to move them all into the yard so that he could take them away in one go.

During the process of moving things, the neighbors heard some noise.

Two children poked their heads out from above the courtyard wall, shouting, "Namo Amitabha! Namo Rutong Bodhisattva! Zhibo, we have been chanting for two days, give us some copper coins!"

"Row!"

Zhihua looked up, smiled, took out a few copper coins and handed them over, and said, "I'm moving now. If you read this in the future, no one will give you copper coins. You can also tell everyone in the village about it."

The boy who looked to be in his early teens thought for a moment and said, "But the villagers are used to hearing it, and they are used to reciting it. Even if they don't get any copper coins, they may still recite it."

The other boy was not as perceptive as this one, but he also said, "Since my parents have heard the story of Rutong Bodhisattva, they no longer object to us chanting Amitabha."

"Sometimes I would just mutter to myself at home, and my parents would also recite a few sentences along with me, hoping that the Confucian Bodhisattva would bless me and allow me to pass the imperial examination and become a scholar in the future."

Zhihua smiled and said, "But the Confucian Bodhisattva only blesses those who work hard. You have to study hard."

After Zhihua sent them away, Su Hanshan, who had been watching, spoke.

“You use money to make children chant Buddha’s name?”

"Excuse me, senior. This is just a little hobby of mine."

Zhihua patted the alchemy furnace beside him and said, "Most of the money I earned from making elixirs in the past two years has been spent on this. At the beginning, I went around Jianghuai and told them that if each person chanted Amitabha and Rutong Bodhisattva ten times, they would get one penny."

"Later, as more and more people came to recite the sutra, I told them that only the children in each area who recited the sutra most devoutly and looked the most dignified would be given a penny. Even so, more and more people came to recite the sutra."

Su Hanshan asked curiously, "I see that your internal strength is clearly from the Taoist school. Why are you so dedicated to promoting Buddhism?"

“I don’t really like promoting Buddhism.”

Zhihua explained, "All the villages, towns and cities I have visited are usually very Buddhist. I just asked them to add the phrase Confucian Bodhisattva to the original Buddhist name they chanted."

Su Hanshan's eyebrows twitched: "Your words sound even more suspicious. Some sects that cheat people out of money seem to be willing to invest a lot in the early stages, but once they publicize the gods and Buddhas they worship, they start to cheat people out of money."

"As expected of someone who is willing to teach the divine silkworm, the senior is indeed kind-hearted."

Zhihua smiled with his eyes slightly narrowed, looking much more relaxed. "If you are worried, I can stay with you for a while. If I do something unscrupulous, how can I escape your scrutiny?"

"Oh, right, the first story of the Bodhisattva Rutong is..."

He said, "Bodhisattvas who ask for money from mortals are all fake Bodhisattvas."

(End of this chapter)