Chapter 359 Famous Flower

Mu Xiulan did not ask about the source of the tea.

Because there was no need.

Being able to take out this tea itself explains a lot of things.

This is Penglai Immortal Tea...

That is something that can only be found on Penglai Island. The other party is a witch, but he can still get this kind of thing...

This already explains the other party's identity.

A disciple of Wushen Mountain, and a seventh-grade one.

An orthodox witch.

Maybe he is one of the three veins.

If such a person wants to visit the king, the king will most likely not object.

Of course, he never thought about the possibility of "young master".

That's too far away.

Besides, if a young master wants to visit a king, he doesn't need to find someone to introduce him. He can just walk over in a swagger, and the king will even have to come out to greet him.

Just like the original Lord of Dalu.

So Mu Xiulan didn't even think about it, and took the initiative to leave, said goodbye to Li Qi, and went to contact Lord Lingxiao through his own connections.

Only Li Qi was left in this garden, letting him treat this place as his own home and just say what he wants.

Li Qi was well aware of the fact that he could visit the young master directly due to his status.

But he had his own considerations.

The ruler of Lingxiao was different from the ordinary rulers of Baiyue. The rulers of other Baiyue had no way out and could only take a side path to be promoted to the fifth rank.

But the ruler of Lingxiao was different. She could not stay in Tang, so she ran to Baiyue. As the flower god of the world, the fifth rank was not a difficult thing for her.

Even the existence of Lingxiao was dispensable to her. It didn't matter if Lingxiao was destroyed. She would not lose her rank because of it, and at most she would lose some strength.

However... Li Qi looked up and took a look at the decorations around him.

There were traces of Lingxiao flowers everywhere.

Li Qi stood up and did not plan to stay in the prefectural mansion for a long time, but to see the customs and customs of Lingxiao.

Anyway, it would take at least one or two days for the other party to report.

When he walked out, he was also thinking about the ranking of the flower gods.

The most expensive flowers are orchids, peonies, and plums, which are the top flowers.

Next are peony, lotus, lilac, and jasmine.

Next are chrysanthemum, apricot, berry, pear, peach, and pomegranate.

Then come crape myrtle, trumpet creeper, and crabapple.

As for cockscomb, sunflower, dianthus, papaya, and camellia, they are inferior.

In other words, trumpet creeper is a medium-level flower god, which is naturally much stronger than dianthus and papaya, which are considered inferior. There is a saying of "flower outer screen".

Outer screen means outside the door, which means tree fence.

Tree fence means to set up a barrier to divide a certain range.

Flower outer screen probably means "wall of famous flowers", the gatekeeper among flowers, barely reaching a certain position, so as not to fall to the lower level.

However, because of a poem by a famous scholar in the Tang Dynasty, she directly lost her status as a gatekeeper and fell directly to the level of an inferior flower god.

Then, restoring and maintaining one's status is probably the most urgent need of the trumpet creeper.

As for climbing up... that is not something Li Qi can interfere with.

The battle for the ranking of flower gods is a battle between hundreds or thousands of beautiful women with many loyal fans.

Three women make a scene, not to mention so many beautiful women.

The flower gods are like stars, with many admirers, and there are definitely many high-quality practitioners involved.

It is said that the peony can become the most respected among flowers, which means it comes from the human emperor's palace.

Then what about the trumpet creeper?

Who were the original fans of the trumpet creeper?

This is really unclear, and I guess I have to ask the trumpet creeper flower god himself.

Li Qi walked alone on the street, thinking about these questions.

At this time, Li Qi suddenly saw a large group of people suddenly rushing to the side of the street.

Originally, Li Qi would not care about such things, but he still stopped, keeping his body blending into nature, and looked at this group of people riding horses curiously.

Because, on their chests, they all had a bunch of trumpet creepers pinned on them.

This made Li Qi observe these people carefully.

All of them were riding horses, and each of them was as proud as a little rooster. There were men and women, but they had one thing in common: they were all young people, no older than Li Qi, and basically all under 30 years old.

They wore the same uniforms, had many followers, and were all practitioners, all of whom were ninth-grade cultivators.

This made Li Qi guess.

These should all be genius disciples, right? There were quite a lot of them, about 40 or 50 people.

Genius disciples gathered together? They should be doing an event.

Genius disciples of Lingxiao Country...

It was really sad to see them showing off and thinking that they were extremely talented.

Li Qi was somewhat interested in them, because they all had Lingxiao flowers on their chests, which meant that it was at least related to this. He wanted to see how Lingxiao Country viewed Lingxiao flowers in such large-scale events.

On the way, these people received a lot of attention, and many residents nearby looked at them with envy and whispered.

There were many dung pickers following them, constantly picking up the horse manure.

Horse manure is a good thing, and you can't pick it up normally, because it's rare to see so many spirit horses.

Li Qi followed them and listened to the comments of the people around them, but no one could see him.

This made him feel absurd. Was there such a seventh-grade person who walked up to him and listened to him talking to himself when he was still a boatman?

However, he could not find it at all.

Just like what he did to other people now.

But anyway, Li Qi still knew the origins and some situations of this group of people through this method.

It turned out that this was the oath-taking meeting of Ezhou.

These forty or fifty young geniuses will represent Ezhou and go to Lingxiao Country to listen to the sermon of the king himself, and then stay there to get the best education.

Well, the king of Lingxiao really pays attention to education.

Li Qi followed this group of little roosters with their heads held high and came to an altar in the center of Ezhou City.

When they arrived at the altar, there was an old eighth-grade witch on it, and it seemed that he was the one who presided over the sacrifice.

Seeing that people gradually gathered, the witch began to preside over the sacrifice.

Li Qi was not interested in the process of sacrifice. They were all simple things that could boost their spirits and give these young people some combat power and spiritual blessings. There was nothing special.

However, after watching for a while, Li Qi immediately noticed something special.

This sacrifice incorporates the elements of trumpet creepers.

Li Qi saw that the old witch was waving a large number of trumpet creepers, chanting: "Covered by clouds, it seems to have the ambition to climb the sky, facing the sun, it is better not to hold the sun, climbing the red sun to fight for the bright, just like a dragon armor entering the clear sky!"

The meaning of this poem is very simple, hoping that these young people will have the ambition of trumpet creepers, like Kuafu chasing the sun, dare to race with the sun, instead of chasing the sun, this climbing trumpet creeper is like you, like a real dragon rushing straight into the sky.

There is some patchwork, but it is basically like this.

It seems that this is the accusation and rebuttal of the Lord of Lingxiao.

She is not a climbing flower, but tenacious and vigorous.

This element is incorporated into the sacrifice, and with other links, Li Qi, an orthodox witch, reads the meaning of this sacrifice.

The founder of this sacrifice wanted to say: "The most respectable vine flower is the trumpet creeper."

Flattering and clinging to the powerful?

Striving to rise and being unyielding?

Hmm...

The Lord of Lingxiao is very unconvinced.

After Li Qi witnessed the entire sacrifice, he left quietly and returned to the governor's mansion.

He lifted the body fusion so that others could see him.

Then, he waved his hand to summon the attendants of the governor's mansion.

"Does Lingxiao have a historian?" Li Qi asked the attendant.

The attendant smiled and said, "You are joking, sir. How can a country not record history? Of course there are historians. Do you want to summon the historian?"

Li Qi shook his head and said, "No need to summon, I just want to see the national history. There should be no taboo about this, right?"

"Of course not, it's just that the unrevised national history cannot be viewed. After all, there are many omissions in it, which is inconvenient to see people, but the revised one can be viewed at will."

"Then look at the revised one." Li Qi replied.

"The revised one is ten years ago, so I will get it for you?" The attendant said immediately.

"Well, thank you." Li Qi nodded.

This thank you made the attendant feel a little at a loss. As a big shot, Li Qi's thanks were not worthy of him.

But he left quickly and brought dozens of books to Li Qi in less than half an hour.

This is the history of Lingxiao.

Li Qi thanked again, then closed the room and began to read.

He was going to profile the Lord of Lingxiao, using what he knew and what he was about to know to see what kind of person he was.

He began to read history.

At this point, Li Qi's reading speed was very fast. He could quickly read even those extremely complex and difficult documents, not to mention these simple records of national history.

There were no difficult sentences in the national history, nor were there complicated and messy information. Everything was very simple and clear.

What happened on what day of the year, month, and year, and it ended.

He wrote dozens of books in this format.

There was no personal emotion in it. It was simply a diary record. No stories or thoughts were written, only what happened.

This narrative method made Li Qi's reading much easier.

As long as we know what happened, we can naturally draw other conclusions.

As he read, he also learned about the major events of Lingxiao Kingdom in the hundreds of years since its founding.

It turned out that the trumpet creeper god was despised and suppressed at first, and left Tang Kingdom in anger, intending to go to the Western Regions.

Because the fans of trumpet creeper are not students, literati, or anything else, but monks.

Yes, Buddhism is the supporter of trumpet creeper.

There is a poem:

When the osmanthus tree was first planted, the vines also climbed the sky.

The leaves are round like treasures, and the tall flowers are bright like fire.

Therefore, they can bloom continuously, but they fall lightly.

There is a tree that wants to plant, and beg for seedlings from the monks.

The trumpet creeper is considered by Buddhism to be the flower that blooms in front of the Buddha's seat, so there are a lot of trumpet creepers planted in Buddhist temples.

In the White Horse Temple, which is known as the "Source of Buddhism in the Central Earth", the walls and roofs are covered with trumpet creepers. (Note 1)

Therefore, when the trumpet creeper left Tang Kingdom, the first place it wanted to go was the Western Regions.

Then, before she went to the Western Regions, she was enlightened by the monk of the White Horse Temple.

If she went to the Western Regions this time, although the trumpet creeper would not be in danger of death, it would become a mere sight.

Upon hearing this, the trumpet creeper god immediately said: "Since you have the appearance of a trumpet creeper, why would you be willing to be a plaything for others?"

I am the flower of the sky, I want to climb the sun, how can I become a mere plaything?

So, she changed her mind.

At that time, the sky-high flower was of the sixth grade. In order to continue to move up, she thought of a quick way to upgrade from the sixth grade to the fifth grade.

That is to become the ruler of Baiyue.

This is the road to the founding of the Sky-High Country.

Of course, Li Qi felt that there might be some beautification in it, but it doesn't matter.

It should be generally correct.

After that, it was the many hardships and difficulties of the Sky-High Flower God to establish the Sky-High Country.

It is not easy to build a country in a place like the world, not to mention that she was only of the sixth grade at the beginning.

There were many incredible problems in the middle, such as facing the provocation, oppression, and coercion of many neighboring countries.

There were constant civil unrest and natural disasters.

Resources were scarce, and she had to take out her savings in the Tang Dynasty to stabilize it, and she also relied on a lot of external forces to ask the monks of the White Horse Temple to help.

Perhaps the White Horse Temple did not refuse because of the grace of the Sky-High Flower blooming in front of the Buddha.

After that, the White Horse Temple sent several eminent monks to preach the Dharma, and built the still famous buildings of Lingxiao Kingdom, Zunfo Mountain and Fengde Temple.

At this point, Lingxiao Kingdom finally passed the difficult early construction and embarked on the road of development.

"Zunfo Mountain..." When Li Qi read this history, he recalled the address mentioned by the monk Xinming he met on the road.

That Buddha statue is at Zunfo Mountain.

Is it the Buddha statue built by Fengde Temple? Is it built now?

Anyway, it must not have been built in the past, because there is no mention of large-scale Buddha statues in historical materials, and if it was really built, it would definitely be written down.

This is not a trivial matter. The statue that can carry the clairvoyance will be written about in great detail, and it cannot be concealed.

This means that it must have happened recently.

With such help, Lingxiao Kingdom's subsequent development was very smooth, and she was also quietly accumulating strength. From the perspective of national history, basically every hundred years, the Lord of Lingxiao Kingdom can pull back a world with a grade from outside the domain as a resource world.

These worlds are not far from Tianxia, ​​similar to the Diyou Realm of Dalu Country. Even if you are in Tianxia, ​​you can rush there quickly, and you don’t even need to use transportation such as Jintai or Liexus.

The Holy Flame Realm is too far away. If you want to rush to the Holy Flame Realm, you need to go to Liexus, which takes several hours to get there. Therefore, when Li Qi controls the Holy Flame Realm in the future, he also needs to drag the Holy Flame Realm to a location closer to Tianxia, ​​so that it can be convenient for transportation.

From this point of view, the Lord of Lingxiao is really a hardworking and motivated person. He drags one back every hundred years. He is really a model worker, working day and night, right?

Li Qi continued to analyze the situation.

About three or four hours passed.

Suddenly, Li Qi put away the Lingxiao National History and raised his head.

The rhyme began to tremble.

The breath of the fifth grade.

The Lord of Lingxiao has arrived.

Sure enough, a few seconds later, a female voice came from Li Qi's side: "Young Master is really perceptive, he can actually detect my arrival."

Note 1: Trumpet creeper is widely planted in Buddhist temples. In reality, Fengde Temple and White Horse Temple have trumpet creeper bushes that are more than a thousand years old.