As the Medicinal Herb Escort Agency of Qingniu Valley reached Black Wind Ridge, Pei Hongxiu's abacus bead whip suddenly cracked against the camel's saddle, the beads at the tip bouncing into the word "HALT": "Bandits ahead!" Yuqing's Daoist priests immediately raised their "Taiji Bead Escort" banners to form a formation. The abacus beads bounced onto the banner surfaces, spelling out "CONCEAL"—and the wagonloads of medicinal herbs transformed into giant boulders shaped like abacus beads, even dressing the camels in abacus-bead-patterned camouflage.
"Where did all these boulder formations come from?" The bandit leader scratched his head, staring at the giant bead boulders. The beads instantly bounced into the word "DIZZY," projecting an animation of spinning abacus beads carved by Huwa right onto his eyepatch. A minor bandit cried out in alarm: "Boss! The stones are glowing!" The beads bounced into the word "STARTLED," flashing fluorescent sword patterns on the surface of the boulders that read: "The Bead Escorts are here, and any who attempt to rob us shall die!" The terrified bandits scattered in all directions like birds and beasts.
Inside the Medicinal Farmer Academy, Su Wanyue's disciples were teaching farmers how to identify aphids when the abacus beads suddenly rolled and rattled, transforming into a microscope that projected a cartoon image of an aphid made of abacus beads onto a leaf: "Look! This is 'Bead Aphid No. 1,' and it specifically gnaws on Rhodiola!" A farmw…
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