Immortality: Starting from meeting the fox girl

Chapter 44: Befriend a Winter Plum and Get a Whale’s Drink (Elementary)

next moment,
  Lu Chenran felt a slight numbness in his chest, first from the bones, then the numbness turned into itching, and finally there was a sense of vastness from the inside to the outside of the chest.

His eyes were closed tightly, but his expression was surprisingly calm and peaceful.

The God of Tiger Mountain looked at his husband who suddenly became motionless, stretched out his tiger paw, and waved it in front of his husband with some curiosity. Lu Chenran suddenly opened his eyes, startling him, and sat down.

In my mind, on the golden book's title page that belongs to 'One Leaf of Winter Plum', writing quietly appeared:

【Befriended by a cold plum tree, and gained the Whale Drinking Skill (Elementary level). 】

【.】

Feeling the vastness in his chest, Lu Chenran felt a little dry in his throat. He picked up the water bottle next to him and took a sip. Every bit of the water in the bottle flowed into his abdominal cavity. Not a single drop of water remained in it.

Water enters the belly, but there is no feeling of fullness.

"This technique is magical, but it's of no use."

Judging from the name of the technique alone, it seems like a side technique that can drink a lot of water in one breath and store it in the body.

Lu Chenran raised his eyebrows and joked:

"Then I have become a camel?"

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The sky gradually dimmed, but the carriage was still moving forward.

Lu Chenran looked at the stick that Hushan God held in his mouth. Previously, there was a yellow flag sewn on the stick, but Hushan God thought it was unlucky and tore it apart.

The stick is just an ordinary stick, but there is always a hint of black and yellow breath exuding from it. Lu Chenran is very familiar with this kind of breath. When he was sitting cross-legged and meditating under the pine trees in the north, the old pine tree gave him the feeling. I have this mysterious feeling.

Firefly sesame blooms with a yellowish light.

Snowflakes were dancing outside the window. The carriage was not moving very fast, and the wooden wheels creaked from time to time.

The snow fox was curled up in the pear blossom canopy and sleeping soundly. Little An Daoyun lay on the neck of the Hushan God and slept soundly. He grabbed the tiger's round ears with his two small hands and drooled on the ring of down on the neck of the Hushan God. , Hushan God wants to shake his hair but dare not.

Seeing this warm scene, Lu Chenran felt quite happy in his heart.

Along the way, I encountered more and more strange objects, and the golden book became thicker and thicker:

[Becoming acquainted with Lihuapeng: (1/2)]

[Becoming acquainted with the God of Hushan and Hushan: (20/30)]

【Befriending Moth Wings: (3/50)】

[Being connected with the pine branches in the north: (0/100)]

[Befriending Sword Water Dragon Yin: (14/365)]

[Befriending the Northern Snow Fox: (3024/3300)]

【.】

He suddenly had an enlightenment in his heart. Traveling along the way, what he heard and saw along the way, isn't this also a kind of practice?

Lu Chenran put the stick aside and let the title page of the golden book in his mind become attached to it. He sat cross-legged quietly in the carriage and flipped through a book called "Northern Territory Chronicles".

This booklet is quite old. The body of the book is even woven from bamboo. It may have been read by many people. Even the woven hemp rope is covered with a thick layer of patina.

When he was at the Chenghuang Mansion, he chatted with the drunkard about Jiuquan. The drunkard provided him with the location of the Jiuquan. It was at the foot of a mountain hundreds of miles away from Jiamu County. It was remote and sparsely populated, far from this road. There is still a long way to go on the official road to Shangjing.

If you walk on foot, it will take two full days for those with fast feet.

Calculating the time, there are less than two months left before the Zhenxian preaches on the ninth day of the twelfth lunar month.

"We can't delay any longer. We'll set off in the next two days. Go early and come back early."

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As usual, the young prince came to Lu Chenran's carriage as a habit.

She felt more and more lazy. In the past, in her spare time, she either played the piano or danced the sword. But now, Lu Chenran and Lu Chenran didn't chat about anything. Li Zijun just lay there, not talking, and felt at ease.

She had seen Lu Chenran's methods, so she knew that he would be able to protect her at all times. Sometimes, this kind of confidence made even her feel a little inexplicable.

What's wrong with you?

Mingming has told himself countless times in his heart that to him, Brother Lu is just a passer-by who meets by chance, and they are destined to be people from two different worlds.

She also cut off the vague emotions that were about to sprout in her heart countless times.
  "Brother Lu, can you go out for a walk with me?"

"Well, it's just the two of us—" ˆ ˆ ˆ "."

After hesitating for a long time, she suddenly said this.

Lu Chenran was stunned for a moment, then nodded with a smile, put the bamboo slips in his hands aside, and walked out of the carriage with her.

The merchants were busy preparing their luggage, cooking porridge and roasting meat over a blazing fire.

The two of them walked through the snow, concealing their steps along the mountain path, and came to a haystack. The young prince spread his arms and lay straight on it with his back to the snow.

"Puff-"

Lu Chenran looked at this scene with some nostalgia, and then he also lay down on the snow.

There are two marks on the snow.

Neither of them spoke, they just looked at the moon in the sky.

There are no neon lights in this era. At night, it is dark.

The moonlight and the stars illuminate the silent night.

There was wind and snow blowing on my face, slightly smoky, enveloping Li Zijun's fragrance, gently soaking it. The taste was very unique, a bit like cold lotus.
  suddenly,

Li Zijun, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly spoke, breaking the silence:

"Brother Lu, don't you ever have worries?"

Lu Chenran blinked and said with a smile:

"Brother Li, why did you say this?"

Li Zijun turned over and grabbed a handful of snow.

She silently felt the snow in her palm gradually melting into ice and water, and said softly:

"I don't think Brother Lu is a human being. Of course, I'm not scolding Brother Lu."

"It's just that I can't feel Brother Lu's emotions. If I have to say it - inhumane? Brother Lu is not like a young man, like a Taoist priest who has no desires or desires."

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Lu Chenran was stunned for a moment, turned his head, and met her pair of dark pupils, with his own shadow clearly reflected in them.

He didn't know how to answer. He wanted to say something, but a finger blocked his lips.

Li Zijun leaned on his cheek and lay on the snow, looked into his eyes and said softly:

"Brother Lu, there's no need to answer, I know everything."

"Maybe I'm just a mortal and don't understand the wonders of immortality. I'm just a friend - or a passer-by on Brother Lu's journey. If one day, Brother Lu really seeks immortality, don't forget the original thoughts in his heart. "

Her words were very soft, and the concern on her face was beyond words.

Along the way, from Hushan to Jiamu County, Brother Lu already had the feeling that he had "grown up". His appearance was still the same, and his clothes were still the same.

——But as time went by, the fairy smell on his body became stronger and stronger.

Lu Chenran's mind was blank.

He suddenly discovered that as he traveled along the way and kept making connections along the way, he didn't know when his heart became more and more ethereal.

If I had to describe it, it would be 'an empty room is filled with white'.

The distracting thoughts and delusions in my heart were gradually cleared away, becoming extremely ethereal.

He didn't know if this was a good sign, but if he found a true fairy queen, one day in the future, he would become less and less like a human being, with a pure heart and few desires, which would go against his original intention of seeking immortality.

——He just wants to be qualified to stand next to Aunt Yisu, that’s all.

But is this actually cultivating immortality?

Or is it gradually annihilating humanity?

Lu Chenran was a little confused.

When he first sat cross-legged under the pines in the north,
  Just a human being.

ps: The next chapter will be later, before twelve o'clock.

(End of this chapter)