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Strange Stories

Chapter 401: Have you all seen the letter I wrote?

Chapter 401 Have you all seen the letter I wrote? "Third Senior Brother, you should learn the magic from me. You are always lazy. Every day you either drink or brew wine." The younger sister remembered the younger brother's words and always reminded the third senior brother to be more diligent. "In the future, when the younger brother cooks the noodles for you, you will not be able to catch up with him." "I didn't say I won't learn~ I'll learn slowly~" The third brother walked beside the stone horse, still looking unruly and unreliable. "You have to learn quickly!" "Isn't this fast enough? I help that Lin forge iron in the morning, and listen to your Liu's lecture in the afternoon. I can only drink in the morning and evening, and I don't even have time to meditate. Even when I first came to Fuqiu Peak and started to practice Taoism and learn magic, I was not so diligent. How can I be faster?" “Try harder!” The junior sister remained unmoved and looked serious. "How much more effort do we have to put in?" “Work as hard as I do!”

"That...that definitely won't work." The third brother decisively backed down. "Brother, you can do it!" "No, no, no..." "Okay!" "Why are you in such a hurry? You can learn it anyway." "Look, today, Fourth Senior Brother was in danger, we all rushed there, but you were still halfway." said the younger sister. "Where is the danger today? Didn't he knock down so many monsters at once?" The third brother drank and shook his head, "I think the monsters are the ones in danger, right?" "If there was no Mountain Moving Mirror, Fourth Senior Brother would be in danger. If it was Seventh Senior Brother who encountered the monster, Seventh Senior Brother would also be in danger." The younger sister said earnestly, "Brother, you should study the magic walking technique with me seriously. Even if we are not in a hurry to meet in the future, it will be more convenient for you to travel around the world." After a pause, to prevent Third Senior Brother from saying that he always travels leisurely and is not in a hurry, she added: "If you encounter danger, it's easy to get out!" After saying this, he was still worried, and was afraid that the third brother would say that he was not afraid of danger, so he added: "If my junior sister is in danger, I can walk faster if my senior brother comes to rescue me." "Danger? You?" The third brother squinted at her, "Look at what magic you have learned since you came down the mountain. How many of them are not related to fighting? Now you have switched to the Five Elements Spiritual Magic, which is best for fighting. It's hard to say whether I can defeat you! I'm here to save you?" "Then you should be more diligent, brother!" said the younger sister. "The chaotic world is coming. If you want to be free and at ease, you must learn how to protect yourself!" "Junior sister, what you said makes sense!" Senior Brother Seven still remembers Senior Brother Three’s letter. "That makes sense..." Fourth Brother said weakly while riding on horseback. "You guys? Sigh..." The third brother shook his head and sighed, then raised his head and drank again: "Alright alright……" They are all my junior brothers and sisters. Their words are sincere and reasonable. They love wine and are carefree. Why not listen to a few words?

…… Inside the government post and in the main hall, there was singing and dancing. The fellow disciples took their seats. Seventh Senior Brother looked up at the decoration of the hall. The beams were carved with scenes of banquets and dances in heaven and auspicious dragons and phoenixes. The ceiling and pillars were painted with scenes of fairies scattering flowers and fairies flying to the moon. Then he lowered his head to look at the singing girls and dancers performing in the front. Their music and dancing were so beautiful that they seemed out of this world. Senior Brother Seven was shocked. The fourth senior brother was also sitting on a cushion. After taking the pill given by the second senior brother, he felt much better, but was still weak. He had no intention of examining the luxury and elegance of the palace, or appreciating the graceful singing and dancing. He just lowered his head and gently stroked the clouded leopard beside him that was also injured. "Hey! What a fuss!" The third brother said to them, with a double meaning: "The Mountain Moving Mirror is a treasure left by an ancient immortal, or at least a real person who has achieved enlightenment. Anyway, it is hung in the Mountain Moving Hall. Over the past thousand years, it has helped my ancestors to defeat many demons and survive several catastrophes! It's because you went up the mountain too late. When I was a teenager, I saw Master use it once. The silver light was as dense as cow hair. No one could stop it unless they were immortals! “Even if a god or immortal comes, unless he is good at fighting, he can block one attack, but it will be difficult for him to block hundreds or thousands of attacks! "But the Moving Mountain Mirror is very large, and only the descendants of our Fuqiu Temple can use it, and only the direct descendants can use it. For example, those of us who have left the mountain and accepted disciples, when these disciples come back, the Moving Mountain Mirror will not recognize them at all! And you must respect it before you can use it. You cannot use it if you are disrespectful, do bad things, or have a guilty conscience! “After using it, all the mana and energy in the body will be drained. Even when Master used it, he would be weak for a long time after returning. “So don’t use it indiscriminately!” The third brother explained while drinking. The fourth brother still lowered his head and stroked the clouded leopard's head: "I also saw in the letter from the third brother that he wanted to go back to the temple to borrow the Moving Mountain Mirror, so I went back specially to borrow it." The seventh brother seemed to have heard the third brother's words, but also seemed not to have heard them. Amid the singing and dancing, he said to the third brother blankly: "Brother! You have been wandering around the world for the past few years. Is this the kind of life you live?" "Yeah! But what's the good of that?" "What's so good about this??" Senior Brother Seven almost beat his chest and stamped his feet. "It's better to drink some pine needles and mountain flowers." The third brother shook his head and continued to look at the fourth brother, "What did you just say? How did you know that I wrote back to ask to borrow the Mountain Moving Mirror?" "Huh? When senior brother asked someone to bring back the letter, we were in the Taoist temple!" replied the fourth senior brother. "You are in the Taoist temple?" The third brother was stunned. "Who are you?" "We are all here, except you, Third Brother." Fourth Brother answered truthfully, and turned to look at his younger brothers and sisters, "Didn't your brothers and sisters tell you?" "Yes, last year we went back to Fuqiu Peak together to comprehend the Great Yin-Yang Method, and spent the New Year on Fuqiu Peak." Seventh Brother also came to his senses, "When the Hui merchant who helped you deliver the letter arrived, I was cooking noodles for you to eat together... Eh? Why didn't your brothers and sisters tell you?" "You also cooked the blanket noodles?" The third senior brother was shocked and looked at Lin Jue and the younger junior sister. Why didn't anyone tell him about this? But he only saw Lin Jue drinking tea calmly and his junior sister peeling pomegranates seriously, and both of them avoided his gaze. After the third senior brother withdrew his gaze, they looked at him quietly again. "Of course! Junior brothers have gone back, how can there be no noodles to eat?" Senior Brother Seven looked at him in surprise, "But I heard from Senior Brother Three's letter that he traveled far and wide, ate delicious food, and even said that Fuqiu Monastery eats pig food. I don't think he would envy our noodles, right?"

"This...is indeed not..." "not very?" "I don't envy..." "speak out." "..." "Haha, I knew that after Third Brother came down the mountain, he lived a carefree and comfortable life. He must have long forgotten what it was like to sleep on flat ground in the mountain." Seventh Brother retracted his gaze and smiled with satisfaction. "Then my letter..." “We watched it together!” "You guys watched it together?" The third senior brother looked at Lin Jue and the younger junior sister again. Why didn’t anyone tell him? The two still avoided his gaze and just watched the show in silence. "Yes!" said the Seventh Senior Brother, "Brother, you asked the Fifth Senior Brother to develop a method to strengthen the Yang, and you also asked me to help you test it!" "This……" "Brother." The fourth brother looked up at the third brother, "Do you think I have turned into a savage?" "Uh……" "Speaking of that article on aphrodisiac methods, I thought that you, brother, were being mean again and were scolding me. Now it seems that you, brother, might have prepared it for yourself," said the seventh brother. "Ridiculous! Impossible!" "I think it's possible!" Senior Brother Seven looked at the singer and dancer and shook his head. "I feel so too……" The fourth brother spoke weakly. Lin Jue and his junior sister sat opposite each other, one continued to drink tea while the other changed a pomegranate to peel. The two of them looked at the expression of the third senior brother, then looked at each other, without saying a word. But the idea had been exchanged many times during the encounter of eye contact. Not long after, Wan Xinrong and Taoist Master Tao walked in, bringing with them a bunch of magical instruments and weapons. "Master, this was left by those monsters." The two men placed the magic weapon in front of Lin Jue and left. Only then did Lin Jue put down his teacup and went to check. There are probably more than ten or twenty magical weapons, with many varieties, including swords, sticks, fans, flutes, clothes, deer horns, horns, bottles, all kinds of them, all left behind by the monsters.

However, not all monsters can use magic weapons. In addition to the fact that magic weapons themselves are precious and rare, some monsters are originally ferocious beasts that have become spirits, such as tigers, leopards, wolves and bears. They are powerful enough in themselves and do not have such a high demand for magic weapons. On the contrary, if it is a mouse or rabbit that has become a spirit, because it is weak and not good at fighting, it will practice more spells and use more magic weapons to make up for itself. Lin Jue checked it out and said to his fourth brother: "Anyway, it's all thanks to Fourth Senior Brother. Those monsters were supposed to attack Ziyun County, and Fourth Senior Brother saved us a lot of effort. It just so happens that Fourth Senior Brother's fighting power is a little lacking, so let's take a look at these magic weapons to see if there's anything that suits your taste, and take whatever you like!" "I am meditating in the deep mountains, so how can I need a magical weapon?" The fourth brother shook his head, "It's just that my iron sword is too unusable. Just pick a good sword for me." How could Lin Jue not know what he meant. Although he was meditating in the deep mountains, magic tools were useful anyway, and they were not burdensome. It was a waste not to have them. How could he not have them? It was just that the fourth brother was close to nature and had a very calm personality, so he felt that he needed them more than he did. Lin Jue picked out the only two swords among the magic weapons. One of them was the same length as the one used by humans, with a simple shape but also sharp. The other one was thinner and shorter. I remembered that it was used by a bird demon half the height of a person. I took them out, knocked them, compared them, and then gave the longer one to the fourth senior brother. I didn’t know what that flute was used for, but I remembered that Fourth Senior Brother loved to play the flute, so I threw it in front of him. I gave him two more. "Third Brother, Seventh Brother, Junior Sister, come and choose some. Even if you don't need them, you can keep them and give them to your disciples in the future." Lin Jue said, "After you choose, leave the rest to me. First, there are several strange people in Juxian Mansion. Some of them have magical powers but are not good at fighting, or they have the heart to eliminate monsters but lack the strength to do so. Now is the time for them to contribute. Second, Junior Brother will be in seclusion in the capital for several years in the future. When the world is in turmoil, I need someone to protect the law for me." The seniors and juniors had no objections and were not polite to each other. (End of this chapter)