County Town Chapter 26: Xiaotang Morning Glow

  "It's getting late, I should head back, Grandfather Gu," Yi Tianxing said.

  "Uh-huh." The old man didn't want to keep this young ancestor, and he limped along with his hand on the boy's shoulder until they reached the gate. Suddenly, he pointed at the twinkling stars in the sky: "I'm already old, but you're not. You're not an ordinary person, just like those eternal stars shining in the universe - you can't be confined to a small corner of the sky. Go out and explore, the world outside is vast, and with your special abilities, staying in this small county town will only cause it to burst at the seams."

  The old man said very seriously.

  "I've learned my lesson, but since you called me here today, if I leave safely and without incident later, I'm afraid people will speculate about something."

  "You fabricated an identity as a martial arts master to conceal your divine abilities, but this wouldn't have been able to be hidden for too long anyway."

  "So I don't want to see another Xue Saner incident in the future. If I get into conflict with ordinary people, and some insightful people discover my flaws and report me to the Chinese Academy of Sciences, what will happen? Although the government may still give me a lieutenant colonel's epaulette, that life is after all not as good as reading books, falling in love, and living comfortably."

  "So how do you want to deal with it?"

  "I need an amulet, at least in the county and provincial cities, no one dares to provoke me." Yi Tianxing said quietly.

  "Provincial capital?"

  "Next week is the college entrance examination, and my first choice for university is Provincial Capital University."

  "Hmm..." The old man paused for a moment, "Don't worry, after tonight, no one will dare to provoke you again, even in the provincial city."

  Yitian Xing looked at him with great interest and asked: "How are you going to arrange my identity?"

  The old man chuckled with his eyes closed, "Let's just say you're the son of my illegitimate child, how about that? No one will dare to touch you."

  "No way, we each have our own goals. You still expect me to do things for you at Kaiyuan Temple in the provincial city?" Yi Tianxing was tight-lipped, "I've thought it through, my grandfather died early, and no one else knows where he's from. You'll just have to put up with being my grandfather's junior fellow disciple, and say that your current position is something my grandfather and you two fought for together back in the day. This way, although I'm your nephew, I'm also a senior branch, so even if I hold a higher position in the Gu household, it won't arouse suspicion."

  He suddenly thought of Gu Daxia, who was sitting in the imperial carriage with an unflappable expression, and Gu Er Ye, who was swaggering around his home in the new society with a hunting rifle. He quickly added: "However, it's best if you don't deceive those two good grandsons of yours, and just tell them directly that I'm not an ordinary person. Otherwise, I'm afraid others won't come to kill me, but they will be unable to bear it."

  The old man looked at him calmly, thinking that this child was still in high school, and his thoughts were already so meticulous, and he couldn't help but feel a sense of admiration.

  "Alright, I'll do as you said. But don't forget, if you're going to university in the provincial city, remember to visit Kaiji Temple for me." The old man suddenly asked: "Young one, how are your grades? If you didn't make the cut-off score, I have a nephew at the Education Department."

  Yi Tianxing helplessly sighed and said: "You've already determined that I'm a half-immortal from the Upper Three Heavens, could it be that even a half-immortal's brain isn't as useful as a human's?"

  The old man stroked his silver beard under the stool and nodded: "That's also true. However, the provincial capital is a place where dragons and snakes are mixed together, you have to be careful."

  Yitian imitated the actions in Shakespeare's plays and shrugged his shoulders somewhat awkwardly, saying: "I guess what I want to do shouldn't cause any trouble."

  "Aren't you going to the provincial city to study? What else are you planning to do in your spare time? If there's anything fun, save me a spot." The old master became interested.

  Yi Tianxing said very seriously: "I plan to gather the beggar gang's disciples without bags in the provincial city and start my grand career of picking up scraps."

  The old man smiled bitterly.

  "I'm serious." Yi Tianxing smiled and said: "It's not good to show off in the county town, but actually I've been looking forward to getting rich for many years."

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  At dawn, the cool breeze blew away the summer heat. Yi Tianxing was still sitting by the pool, dazed. In the middle of the night, he was driven back from the hospital by Auntie Pang, and Zou Lelie's injury had stabilized, but her tibia fracture didn't know how long it would take to recover, and this year's college entrance exam might become a bubble. However, Yi Tianxing believed that this little girl could get through this spiritual hurdle, and his own chosen daughter-in-law must be trusted. The matter of Xue San'er had also been settled, and after today, Yi Tianxing could probably walk horizontally in the streets of Gaoyang County and sleep soundly. Although the old master's instructions were somewhat vague and elusive, it was good that they were vague and elusive. Slowly searching, according to Buddhist teachings, that is, following one's fate. If he couldn't find anything, it was because the old master and himself didn't have enough fate, but it wasn't because he didn't try his best.

  It's because all the problems have been solved, his brain is too strong to think that the college entrance exam is just a game of eating lollipops, so he feels a bit bored and starts thinking wildly. Mainly it's what the old master said about the three days above being too mysterious, really mysterious, the gate of all wonders, after listening to a night story, still no understanding of his own body.

  Yitian sighed and put his feet in the pond.

  At this time, for some reason, he suddenly remembered the killing intention that had almost burst out when Xue San'er was first brought to the Gu's house. His heart trembled slightly, and the text of the Three Flavors Scripture began to echo in his mind again. The sky in front of him, which was originally a fish belly white, seemed to be covered with a layer of pale red glow at this moment.

  Yi Tian Xing's eyes fluttered, and suddenly he saw a string of strange characters running out from somewhere, floating in front of him. The characters were a dazzling golden yellow, set against a pale red background, shining brightly.

  He was startled at first, then realized that something had happened. Fortunately, this strong body, which he had been somewhat tired of, gave him some courage to protect himself. After waiting for a while, his mood calmed down, and his fear gradually dissipated, replaced by curiosity. He couldn't help but start studying the characters floating in front of his eyes.

  The characters are very strange, like an earthworm, also like a bamboo joint insect, anyway, they don't look like any language that Yi Tianxing would know.

  He scratched his head, thinking that he had relied on his memory and grasped several foreign languages by holding onto the thick dictionaries in the city library, even those small Eastern European languages he hadn't let go of. Although he couldn't speak them, he should at least be able to recognize them... But he still didn't recognize this character... He meditated for a long time before suddenly coming to his senses.

  Such obscure words, and it was during his quiet sitting in meditation that he came up with the Three Flavors Scripture, which naturally has an inseparable connection with Buddhism.

  Sanskrit?

  Yi Tianxing smiled wryly, knowing that his academic path would be even more arduous from now on. At this moment, the red sun finally emerged from behind the mountain, its face blushing as it squeezed out. The morning glow illuminated the sky above the pond, making it seem crystal clear and refreshing. Yi Tianxing gazed at the dawn, wondering to himself if the characters that had appeared earlier, along with the crimson background, were just an illusion created by his own mind being trapped in Buddhist scriptures.

  Unfortunately, this genius of cultivation had no teacher. So, unable to think through the problem, he suddenly thought that he could leave this small county town where he had lived for seventeen years and go out to take a look, and felt somewhat excited, shouting strangely twice, jumping into the pond, splashing up a whole pool of water flowers.

  He didn't know what was strange about this pond.

  So when some pale red lights gradually swam over from the dark pool water, gently circling around him, he was still startled.

  Then I felt a sharp pain in my chest!

  Those pale red dots kept gathering towards his chest, then drilling into his body. Yi Tianxing felt as if his chest was being torn apart, squeezed in!

  He lowered his head to look at this bizarre scene, and was so frightened that he lost his gallbladder. He hurriedly used his own iron-hard palms to grab them, but those small red lights seemed intangible and impossible to grasp. However, these intangible things could make him feel such pain, which was really too strange! Yi Tianxing's heart was on fire, and he let out a muffled hum at the bottom of the water. His index finger had a faint golden light, and he used force to stab the red dot that had drilled into his body towards his chest. He wanted to dig out all the things that had drilled into his body!

  Blood splattered everywhere as his robust body was finally pierced by his own fingers.

  But those small red lights couldn't stop him at all, instead they squeezed in through the wound he had pierced himself, and the speed of the influx was getting faster and faster.

  Yi Tianxing gradually felt dizzy, and his body seemed to be controlled by some kind of power. His hands and feet were no longer obedient, and he floated aimlessly in the dark pond water.

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  Yi Tian Xing, who had never been afraid of heaven or earth, was finally scared. He let out a loud roar and did a flip in the water, causing the pool to churn violently. Taking advantage of the turbulent flow, he sat down in a lotus position with his legs crossed and his hands clasped together, and began to pray. The content of his prayer was: "Kind-hearted Buddha grandfather, I promise you that from now on, I will never go to the countryside to catch loaches and bring them back to burn tofu to eat." He said with a trembling voice: "I know this is retribution, but please give me some face, don't let me die like a piece of tofu being drilled to death by these strange creatures. This way of dying is very humiliating."