He brought over a bowl of Talisman Water from beside him. After a moment of hesitation and inner struggle, he finally gritted his teeth, shut his eyes, and tipped all five Longevity Pills into it.
The pills dissolved on contact, and the bowl of Talisman Water immediately gave off an enticing fragrance.
Master Tiger understood. "You're going to return this life origin to everyone in Yangshan through a downpour, like last time?"
Cui Jiuyang nodded, his brow furrowed and his face full of anguish at the loss.
"That's a good thing. Why do you look like you're suffering?"
Cui Jiuyang let out a long breath. "You don't understand. You just don't understand."
With that, he cast Dragon Draws Water, sending the Talisman Water containing the life origin up into the sky.
That night, a welcome rain fell throughout Yangshan County.
When the first drop fell, Cui Jiuyang sensed something: only now was this fateful opportunity truly complete.
At that very moment, Cui Jiuyang's cultivation also reached first extremity perfection.
He hurriedly performed a divination-he now had two and a half years left to live.
Early the next morning, the sky was clear and the air fresh after the rain. Two men, one tall and one short, walked out of Yangshan County Town.
One shook a bell and carried a banner over his shoulder; the other wore a saber at his hip and a small bundle on his back. Chatting about this and that, their figures gradually disappeared along the winding mountain path ahead.
Volume four: Night rain on the Eastern Peak
Preface:
Outside Dai Zong Prefecture, ghosts blew out lamps; paper men bore a sedan chair through an empty courtyard.
Do not say the ghost soldiers failed to march early; the night rain on Mount Tai was already falling