"Pa!"

  Then I saw Fairy Liend her hand and point at the evil ghost's brow with a milky white light, drawing a rune on its brow.

  When the ruered the evil ghost's brow, it stood up with a bnk expression. Then, it ignored Fairy Lingyue in front of it and muttered to itself as it turned a:

  "Why did I fall here? Whatever, I should go bad report to the king. When I see the king, I'll tell him that there's a little cultivator taking care of the medial garden in Green Bamboo Residence. We wait until the herbs in his garden mature and then take his life and the herbs. Maybe the king will reward me with a fresh and tender heart and liver. How delightful!"

  At the end, the evil ghost couldn't help but shake its head and seemed very satisfied with its pn.

  "Sigh, although it's risky to let the tiger return to the mountain, I hope Little Taiping will uand my iions iure," Fairy Lingyue murmured as she watched the swaying evil ghost leaving.

  Although Xu Taiping hadn't bee her disciple yet, and she didn't know if he would be willing to bee o didn't prevent Fairy Lingyue from imagining herself as his master.

  But she definitely wouldn't admit that the main reason for doing so was her loneliness after spending hundreds of years in the Earth-Hiding Fruit. She wao have some fun.

  ***

  The day.

  Xu Taiping woke up early.

  First, he went to the medial garden to clear the weeds. Then, he added some soil to the pce where he buried the Earth-Hiding Fruit. After all, the Earth-Hiding Fruit would be his relian the cultivation world, and he couldn't let aeal it.

  Since Fairy Liuro the Earth-Hiding Fruit st night, she hadn't appeared again. Xu Taiping thought she might not e out for another month.

  After clearing the weeds in the medial garden, he spent the m tidying up the three thatched cottages in Green Bamboo Residence.

  The enviro of the thatched cottages was very simple. There was a bedroom with only a bed, a hall, a kit, and a thatched toilet built behind the medial garden.

  While ing the kit, Xu Taiping found two iing things - a water jar that never ran dry and a rice jar that produced a jar of rice with just o .

  With water, rice, and a dried fish hanging on the wall, Xu Taiping had his first meal in Qingxua.

  After eating, he made the bed with the sheets and quilt from the et, then sat cross-legged on the bed and took out the jade scroll and bronze mirriven to him by West Wind Pavilion.

  "When Fairy Liaught me the Bone-sing and Marrow-Washing Soup recipe, she lightly touched my brow. The method of transmitting cultivation teiques with this jade scroll is also by stig it to the brow. This should be the ethod of transmitting cultivation teiques in the cultivation world," he muttered softly as he picked up the jade scroll.

  Acc to the pavilion master of West Wind Pavilion, this jade scroll tained a Qi Refining teique of Qingxua, as well as many rules of Qingxua and instrus on how to use the bronze mirror.

  "Phew... The things transmitted by this jade scroll are much more than what Fairy Liaught me with her touch."

  Feeling the tinuous flow of text in his mind, Xu Taipi dizzy and almost fell off the bed.

  Fortunately, after a while, ext appeared in his mind, and he breathed a sigh of relief.

  But theiced another problem.

  The text that entered his mind was like books on a bookshelf. He had to read and uand the tent by flipping through them.

  "So the method of transmitting cultivation teiques with this jade scroll is somewhat different from what Fairy Liaught me. Fairy Liouch directly taught me how to prepare the medie acc to the recipe, while this jade scroll only stuff these things into my head."

  Xu Taiping carefully felt the differeweewo methods.

  "But it's also possible that it's because the tent is different, which leads to this difference."

  He immediately added in his mind, then stopped w about it and focused on reading the lines of text in his mind.

  ***

  Three days ter.

  After spending almost three days, Xu Taiping finally finished reading all the tent in the jade scroll.

  As the pavilion master of West Wind Pavilion said before, the tent in the jade sainly sisted of three parts - the "Fading Su Scripture," the "Summary of the Funs of the Mysterious Mirror," and the "Code of duct of Qingxua."

  During this period, he also dug up the ground in the medial garden while "reading."

  ***

  "Acc to the method taught in the jade scroll, after digging up the ground, I collee animal dung and dead branches and leaves to burn ailize the soil."

  "But there's no rush to do this. Today is the first day of the month, the day when Elder Ziyang gives a sermon. He will talk about the 'Fading Su Scripture' and the basics of cultivation. It only happens once every three months, so I must not miss it."

  "After listening to the sermon, I also choose the seeds to buy in the bronze mirror. This way, I won't waste the merit ."

  While eating alone in the hall, Xu Taiping began to pn his activities for the day and casually tore off a page of the dar from the wall.

  Wheore off a page of the dar, the words "First Day" were revealed, and there were annotations written in red io it, such as "Seeking knowledge is auspicious, avoid disturbing the soil," and other small words.

  He bought it yesterday when he asked a Spirit Bird to help him buy daily ies. It cost him six merit s, which made him feel heartbroken for a while.

  ***

  After finishing his meal, Xu Taipiuro his bedroom.

  He took out the bronze mirror from the box and carefully pced it on the broken table in front of him.

  Oable, besides the bronze mirror, there was half a bowl of water, a few petals, and a merit from Qingxua.Xu Taiping recalled the method of using the bronze mirror, then dipped his hand in the bowl to get some clear water and dripped it onto the mirror. He then pced a few petals and the merit on it.

  "Whoosh..."

  Almost at the moment he pced the merit on the bronze mirror, a breeze suddenly blew out from the mirror, carrying a faint st of sandalwood.

  Immediately after, a voice came from the mirror:

  【Xu Taiping, the named outer disciple of Qingxua, stay where you are. Elder Ziyang is about to start his sermon. If you miss it today, you will have to wait ahree months】

  Having fully read the tents of the Jade Scroll, Xu Taiping was nhtened by this voice, because it was mentioned in the "Record of the Fun of the Mysterious Mirror" that this was the voice of the spirit of the mirror.

  Acc to the "Record of the Fun of the Mysterious Mirror", the spirit of the mirror is like a guide, helping you find what you want to see in the mirror.

  Of course, the forbidden areas of the Qingxua are exceptions, and each "guidance" requires a merit .

  "Thank you, Lord Mysterious Mirror."

  Xu Taiping expressed his gratitude.

  The spirit of the Mysterious Mirror is irely inanimate, so in his view, it is necessary to say thank you.