Apprentice of the Heavens

Chapter 285 Hot Springs
In the wilderness, the deserters who had left the grassland for thousands of years returned to this long-awaited land. In order to make up for the losses, the Zuozhang Royal Court, which had occupied the most fertile grassland in the north, sent out rangers to continuously invade the Yan Kingdom further south.

In just a few days, several cities were broken into and countless gold, silver, treasures and materials were plundered. For a time, the entire Yan Kingdom was panicked and asked for help from all the powerful forces. Immediately, the Xiling Temple issued an edict, calling on Haotian Dao Believers and righteous colleagues assisted the Yan State to avoid the barbarian invasion.

With the call of the Xiling Temple, many people responded to the call. After all, although the Xiling Temple did not have much influence in the Tang Dynasty, it had a high prestige outside the Tang Dynasty.

Of course, some big forces only sent younger disciples to support the Yan Kingdom. Anyone with a discerning eye could see that they were just responding to the call from the Xiling Temple.

However, Xiling Fangmian seemed not to know. He just assigned tasks and ignored these juniors. On the contrary, the Tang Dynasty also understood the truth of the death of lips and teeth, and sent border troops to support Yan State.

Due to the arrival of reinforcements, the Zuozhang Royal Court's offensive immediately restrained a lot. After a stalemate, and seeing more and more reinforcements, the Zuozhang Royal Court had to send envoys to negotiate peace.

The people of Yan State couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, but they still did not withdraw their troops, obviously because they were afraid that Zuozhang Wangting would regret it.

The Yan Kingdom is located in the north of the Central Plains. The ice and snow environment makes the disciples sent by the major southern forces very uncomfortable. For example, when it comes to bathing, most people in the north only take a bath once a month, while those who have lived in the south for a long time take a bath several times a day. There are baths available.

The male disciples could tolerate it for a while, but the female disciples obviously couldn't bear the changes brought about by this environment, just like the female disciples sent by Mochiyuan of Dahe Kingdom, who came outside the city at this time.

"Mountain Master, it's just ahead."

I saw a pretty woman pointing to the forest next to the lake with a look of joy on her face. She accidentally discovered a hot spring here before, so she secretly made a note of it. Thinking that she hadn't taken a bath in the past few days, she even couldn't wait to think about it. Jump directly into the lake next to it.

The girl who was called the Mountain Master on the side just nodded indifferently, as if she was always indifferent to the world, but the glint of expectation in her eyes betrayed her.

Obviously she doesn't care, it's just her temperament. After all, few girls can endure the feeling of not having a bath for ten days and a half.

"Great, I can finally take a bath comfortably. Huh, those bad guys from the coalition forces are clearly deliberately trying to embarrass us."

A girl about 14 years old curled her lips, obviously criticizing the Xiling Temple's call to jointly support the Yan Kingdom's coalition forces.

"Okay, we're almost there, don't think too much about these unpleasant things."

The pretty woman just now touched the girl's head. Although she also complained about the exclusion of the coalition forces, who said they were not as strong as others.

Mochiyuan is still too weak among the many forces that came to support the Yan Kingdom. Mochiyuan is mediocre except for their master Wang Shusheng, who is a talisman master in the realm of knowing fate.

Thinking of this, the delicate woman couldn't help but glance at the mountain master with a calm face, and secretly said regretfully: "It's a pity that the mountain master has entered the cave, but he is not good at fighting."

The woman shook her head to withdraw her thoughts, and led the female disciples of Mochiyuan along the lakeside into the woods covered with silver frost.

However, when the disciples of Mochiyuan entered the woods excitedly, they were shocked to find a big black donkey as strong as an ox standing in front of them. A pair of donkey eyes looked at everyone eagerly, and its hooves kept rubbing against the ground.

"This…"

Everyone's eyes couldn't help but turn to the woman leading the way, and seemed to be asking her why there was a donkey here, and it was such a big donkey.

"Someone jumped on it first." The woman looked at the big black donkey with a disappointed look. Just by looking at the soft pads on the big black donkey's back, she knew that it was an owned donkey, and this place was not far from the hot spring. Think about it. Everyone knows that the hot springs have been visited first.

Hearing this, the female disciples of Mochiyuan couldn't help but feel disappointed. Even the usually indifferent mountain master Mo Shanshan couldn't help but have a flash of disappointment in his eyes, and said calmly: "Since there is an owner here, let's go back."

Hearing this, all the disciples could only nod helplessly, turned around and left. Just as the people who had returned without success were about to leave, they saw an older female disciple who did not leave, but frowned. Xiumei looked at the big black donkey in front of her. "Senior sister, what are you looking at?" A female disciple pulled the woman's sleeve.

After hearing this, the woman just came back to her senses, frowned and said, "I seem to have seen this donkey somewhere."

After hearing this, the disciples of Mochiyuan who were about to leave couldn't help but stop and look at the senior sister. If they were really acquaintances, wouldn't they have to leave?
When she thought of the disciples' eyes, she couldn't help but feel a little expectant, but she didn't dare to disturb her meditation.

After a long time, the woman suddenly slapped her thigh and shouted in surprise: "It's him!"

After hearing this, everyone's eyes lit up and they all asked:

"Senior sister, who is it?"

"But an acquaintance?"

"Isn't he your old friend, Senior Sister?"

"If that's true, it wouldn't be a problem to borrow a place for us to wash up."

Listening to the chatter of the junior sisters, the woman's mouth couldn't help but twitch. Seeing that the topic was getting more outrageous, she hurriedly shouted: "Stop!"

The disciples stopped their discussion when they saw this, and then looked at the older female disciple with curious expressions. Seeing this, the senior sister nodded with satisfaction, and then said with some memories:

"That happened more than ten years ago. I was less than ten years old at that time. I went out with my master. The sun was shining and the spring was endless. The master took me into the Southern Jin Kingdom..."

"Stop! Let's get to the point! Who is he?" all the disciples said in unison.

They knew that their senior sister always liked to be long-winded. If she were allowed to continue talking, she might not be able to finish talking until nightfall.

Upon hearing this, the senior sister curled her lips in dissatisfaction, as if she was dissatisfied with everyone interrupting her story, but in the face of the angry looks of the junior sisters, she could only utter two words: "Li Bai."

"Li Bai?" all the disciples said.

"Li Bai!" Mo Shanshan.

All the disciples looked at Mo Shanshan who exclaimed in surprise. In their image, Mo Shanshan had always been taciturn, and seemed to be indifferent and calm in the face of everything. This was the first time they saw Mo Shanshan exposed. Surprised expression.

"Mountain Master, do you also know this Li Bai?" the female disciple, who looked a little immature, asked.

However, Mo Shanshan did not answer her. Instead, he looked at the senior sister and said, "But that Li Bai that master met on Daze?"

Wen Yan, senior sister nodded, faced the curious eyes of all the disciples, and slowly recounted her experiences that year.

"The sun was shining brightly in Daze that day, and the spring scenery was infinitely beautiful..."

"Let's talk about the key points!" all the disciples said in unison.

(End of this chapter)