Chapter 265 Rescue
Li Daoxuan lifted up Xue Yurong, who had turned into a little white mouse, and threw a paper man towards the iron chain.

The paper figure floated to the ground and in the blink of an eye turned into Xue Yurong's appearance, tightly entangled by shackles.

He lowered his head and closed his eyes, as if he had fallen asleep.

With such changes, even a Taoist master with sharp eyes would find it difficult to spot the flaws.

After arranging all this, Li Daoxuan gently held Xue Yurong's hand and walked towards the door. He passed through the crack in the door and stood outside the yard.

Listening to the bang bang of the night watchman, he found a shadowy corner to hide.

The night watchman found it difficult to see him, so he walked past with his head down.

There are many people suffering from night blindness in this era. Even if they do not have night blindness, their eyesight is poor due to dietary problems. As long as they hide in a dark corner, it is difficult for people to find them.

After dodging several night patrol guards, Li Daoxuan jumped onto the roof, then ran outside and soon arrived at the street.

They headed towards the Yao family, and after about half an hour, they arrived at the gate of the Yao family.

After returning to the house, Li Daoxuan put Xue Yurong on the table, and then he looked at Li Daoxuan who was sitting on the cushion. His body floated in smoke and turned into a paper man that fell to the ground.

Sitting on the cushion, Li Daoxuan frowned slightly, slowly opened his eyes, gently stretched his muscles, and picked up the paper man.

Just now, he transformed into a god and controlled the paper man to save Xue Yurong.

Now that the magic power in the paper man has dissipated, it can only restore its original appearance.

Li Daoxuan put the paper man away and put it in his arms. He still liked this paper man very much. If he could refine it, perhaps this paper man could become a magic weapon.

Looking at the white mouse on the table again, he sized it up and smiled at it, "Is it okay?"

"Squeak—" the white mouse nodded.

Li Daoxuan didn't tease her. He took a sip of tea and sprayed it at the white rat.

As the mist settled, the white mouse gradually revealed its true form.

She turned back into Xue Yurong and sat at the table, looking a little disheveled.

She wiped the tea off her face, looked at the situation in the room, then got down from the table and bowed respectfully to Li Daoxuan, saying with tears in her eyes, "Thank you very much, Mr. Li, for saving my life."

"Please get up." Li Daoxuan helped her up, "If you have anything to say, just talk slowly."

"Yes." Xue Yurong wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes and sat at the table.

She looked at Li Daoxuan with her bright eyes, feeling deeply moved.

"I saved you because your sister Xue Yuyan found me and asked me to save you." Li Daoxuan said.

As soon as he finished speaking, Xue Yurong stood up suddenly.

She looked around and asked anxiously, "My sister, where is she now?"

"Your sister is living well here, don't worry." Li Daoxuan said soothingly, "You will see her tomorrow."

"Mr. Li, I don't know how to repay your kindness. Even if it means working like a slave for me, Yurong is willing to do it for me." When Xue Yurong heard Li Daoxuan say that her sister was fine, she knelt on the ground with a thud and kowtowed to him several times, her words were difficult to speak clearly.

Seeing her like this, Li Daoxuan didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He helped her up again and said to the white rabbit who had already run out of the inner room, "I saved you only as a kindness. Don't be like this. If your sister hadn't desperately looked for me, I wouldn't have known where you were. If you want to thank someone, thank your sister."

"This is not the same thing." Xue Yurong shook her head and said nothing more.

Li Daoxuan couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when he saw that she no longer mentioned this topic. To be honest, he was a little worried that this girl would become his maid. After all, he lived in the open air and had to go to many places. If Xue Yurong followed him, her sister Xue Yuyan would definitely not be able to bear such hardship.

Besides, the journey might not be peaceful, and if something happens, it would be difficult for him to protect the two sisters.

Seeing that Xue Yurong was in a good mood, Li Daoxuan asked her again: "After you were captured by these villains, did you encounter any danger?"

"Not yet." Xue Yurong shook her head and told Li Daoxuan in detail what happened after she was arrested.

It turned out that after she was arrested, she was asked to wear a blindfold.

She just heard someone say that she was suitable for sacrifice, and then she was thrown into the room and locked up. In the past two days, apart from being beaten and scolded, and not being given food, the group of people didn't do anything to her. However, a few other girls in the room were pulled out every day, and new ones were brought in every two days.

"I heard them say that they were going to offer sacrifices to some Buddha. But I didn't hear it clearly at the time, so I don't remember what Buddha it was."

"Buddha?" Li Daoxuan thought about it and wrote down these words.

After the two talked for a while, Li Daoxuan asked someone to fetch bath water for Xue Yurong so that she could take a good bath and rest.

By the way, he gave her some medicine for external injuries and asked her to apply it on the wound.

After doing all this, Li Daoxuan was not idle either. He took out the divination money and then calculated the divination on the plate.

The divination coins made a sound in the divination tube. Li Daoxuan shook it three times towards the sky and three times towards the ground. Then he dropped the divination tube to the ground and the divination coins scattered on the Bagua plate.

The hexagram is Zhen on top and Kun on the bottom. It is the first hexagram of Zhen Palace.

It’s Lei Diyu.

He said: "When thunder and lightning strike, the earth will be full of energy and joy. It is auspicious to conquer and build achievements, but be careful that excessive joy may lead to sorrow."

When spring thunder sounds, everything will be auspicious.

It's considered a good omen.

It looks like this trip should be safe, so just don't be careless.

After the divination, Li Daoxuan collected the money.

Then spread out the paper, think of the illusory world in your mind, imagine dragons and phoenixes playing on the paper, and before you know it, the yin and yang fish appear.

The fish jumped into his eyes, and then accumulated three.

Li Daoxuan thought he would immediately feel exhausted as usual, but he did not expect that he did not fall asleep right away.

After thinking about it carefully, I was surprised and felt that it might be because I knew the truth of this illusory world, so I would not fall asleep easily because I had gained some benefits.

He thought this was a good idea, so he called Gong Youwei over.

Let her protect him and take him away if there is any danger.

Gong Youwei vowed solemnly, nodded, and swore to protect Li Daoxuan well.

After hearing this, he felt relieved, then lay on the bed and recited the Great Illusion of Taixu. Then his consciousness became blurred and he slowly immersed himself in a trance.

Then the entire field of vision changed, and the illusory world suddenly appeared before my eyes.

It was still those books, but Li Daoxuan did not choose to go to Uncle Jiu. Instead, he clicked on the book on alchemy.

The smoke in front of me dissipated, and a majestic and prosperous villa appeared.

This is where Xu Fu lived, and it is also a building in the style of the Qin and Han dynasties.

There are already large medicinal fields and plant racks around, with plants sprouting on them.

It can be seen that there are a lot more things than the last time I came, especially this large medicinal field.

Li Daoxuan walked to the door and knocked on it.

Xu Fu's voice came from the courtyard: "Come in."

Li Daoxuan walked in and bowed to Xu Fu who was sitting in front of the alchemy furnace: "Disciple greets Master."

"No need to be polite." Xu Fu said with a gentle smile, "You haven't been here for a while. Let me see how your alchemy practice is going."

"Of course I dare not neglect this disciple." Li Daoxuan took a deep breath and walked to the alchemy furnace. Then he picked the herbs according to the proportions of the last recipe and threw them into the large alchemy furnace in the yard to refine the elixir.

The control of both civil and military fires was much stronger than before, and in the end, he managed to make the elixir without any danger.

(End of this chapter)