On this day, Duanmuqiu and Han Qiqing went up the mountain together to worship Han Qiqing's mother, and when they came back in the evening, Han Qiqing and Duanmuqiu came together, and the three of them went out to have dinner together.

South Island is near the sea, the seafood flavor is particularly beautiful, a few people went to the seafood buffet, found a secluded corner, Duanmuqiu came to be interested, took a few bottles of beer, and asked the two juniors to drink with her.

Zhou Tong looked at the large bottle of beer that was placed in front of him, and he was embarrassed, he said to Ling Yuan, "Can you help me drink?"

"Don't drink it. Ling Yuan said disgustedly, "The beer is too hard to drink. ”

Zhou Tong smiled bitterly: "When you have gas to eat, I haven't seen you so picky." ”

Ling Yuan: "......"

Zhou Tong had no choice but to drink a bottle, he was easy to drink, this bottle was not finished, his face was as red as a monkey's buttocks, Duanmu Qiu touched Zhou Tong's face and called: "Xiaotong, look at your face, it's hot and red." ”

Han Qiqing ate the oysters and said with a smile: "If you can't drink it, don't drink it, be careful if you get drunk for a while, your stomach will be uncomfortable." ”

"That's not going to work. Duanmu Qiu interrupted Han Qiqing's words, "How can a boy not drink alcohol? Xiaotong is so good-looking, what if someone pours him with wine in the future? ”

Zhou Tong helplessly watched Duanmu Qiu fill his cup and said, "Aunt Qiu is right, it's just that let's not practice drinking today, right?"

"No!" Duanmu Qiu glared at Zhou Tong, "Just today, drink!~"

Zhou Tong looked at Han Qiqing, with some inquiries in his eyes, Han Qiqing shook his head, and there was some helplessness in his eyes.

When I went up the mountain to sweep the tomb today, and when I saw Han Qiqing's mother Duanmu Lan again, those things in the past were hooked in my heart, Duanmu Qiu secretly cried several times, and now I was depressed, so I had to stimulate myself through alcohol.

Zhou Tong and Duanmu Qiu accompanied Duanmu Qiu to drink cup by cup. But Han Qiqing also had a lot of pain in his heart, the more he drank, the worse he became, those sourness came to his heart, no less than Duanmu Qiu, and in the end, he fell first.

Han Qiqing fell asleep first, Duanmuqiu was a little drunk, but he was clearly still drinking, and pulled Zhou Tong to pour him wine, Zhou Tong had to accompany Duanmuqiu to drink one by one, and the wine he drank into his mouth almost lost the taste of wine, as light as boiled water.

When Duanmu Qiu also fell, Zhou Tong had no choice but to look at the two people who fell asleep on the sofa in the buffet restaurant speechlessly.

…… I always feel that if I take this picture and upload it to Weibo, it will be directly on the headlines that night.

Zhou Tong coughed, restrained his indecent thoughts, and his mind was still very clear, as if he hadn't drunk any wine. Zhou Tong called the waiter and asked, "Is there a hotel nearby?"

"It's downstairs. The waiter said, "Do you need me to help you?"

"Okay. Zhou Tong smiled and said thank you, and the waiter blushed when he saw this.

***

Han Qiwei sat depressed in the bar, the noisy sounds around him distracted him, the wine glass in his hand was empty and full, full and empty, and he didn't know how many glasses he had drunk.

Today's attempt to draw the "Teng Snake Charm" failed again, this is the magic weapon he is preparing to use in this three Heavenly Master Festival, but failing all the time means that he is also destined to be a failure at the Heavenly Master Festival!

Han Zhi was so disappointed in him that he didn't need any expression, Han Qiwei could see it clearly, Han Zhi had always had expectations for him beyond his ability, until he saw that he couldn't meet his expectations and gave up directly without saying anything, he didn't know what he meant to this father, only that he knew that he was about to become the laughing stock of the three great heavenly master families.

A lotus lantern appeared in front of Han Qiwei, Han Qiwei was stunned for a moment, looking at the person sitting next to him.

It was an old man, about seventy years old, dressed in an old Tang costume that seemed incompatible with the entire fashionable bar, Han Qiwei frowned, and was about to call the bartender to drive the old man away, but the old man didn't say a word and hammered him heavily in the heart.

"Do you want to win the Three Great Heavenly Masters? I can help you. ”

Han Qiwei looked at the old man suspiciously, and said, "Take this lamp, it can show you the way." ”

Han Qiwei, who was drunk and hazy, looked at the lotus lantern suspiciously, but was attracted by the faint candlelight in the lotus lantern and couldn't help but touch it.

"Do you feel it? power from it. The old man's seductive voice rang in his ears, and he said, "It can help you." ”

Han Qiwei stroked the petals of the lotus lantern, and was in a daze, when he was suddenly hit from behind, his face touched the wine glass, and his face was splashed with wine.

"You don't have long eyes?!"

The man behind him apologized again and again, Han Qiwei was a lot more sober, he wiped his eyes, and when he looked again, the old man who was sitting next to him was gone.

But the lotus lamp is still there.

Han Qiwei's throat rolled with difficulty, he craned his neck and looked at the lotus lantern, his eyes were full of struggle, and finally grabbed the lotus lantern and took it all the way out.

The cold wind blew him up a little, and Han Qiwei told himself in his heart that this lamp was an evil thing that could not be kept, but the power he felt before was too attractive to him, Han Qiwei was thirsty for that power as if he had taken drugs, and the lotus lamp was held in his hand and was reluctant to let go.

Several figures in front of him were very familiar, Han Qiwei squinted at them, and immediately rushed forward angrily, cursing: "Damn!

Zhou Tong stopped, saw the angry Han Qiwei, smiled at the buffet and a few waiters who had just gotten off work and kindly helped him give him away, and said, "You guys go first." ”

"Are you okay?" the waiter was very worried when he saw that Han Qiwei was not good.

"It's fine. Zhou Tong said, "He can't beat me." ”

Waiters: "......"

Han Qiwei threw a punch at Zhou Tong, Zhou Tong calmly dodged, Han Qiwei continued to punch, looking for Zhou Tong's direction in a daze, Zhou Tong almost didn't have to hide, the drunk Han Qiwei was like a weak chicken, and he didn't need any response from Zhou Tong at all.

The more he couldn't hit, the more anxious he became, Han Qiwei was so angry that he threw himself forward, tripped over a stone under his feet, and fell to the ground.

Zhou Tong looked indifferently at Han Qiwei, who was wolf, and his eyes fell on the lotus lantern that was still tightly grasped by Han Qiwei.

The evil qi on this lotus lamp is exactly the same as the evil qi of the dead man before, is it eyeing Han Qiwei?

After Zhou Tong left, Han Qiwei slept on the street, the cold wind woke him up, Han Qiwei recalled what happened before, he didn't remember much under the stimulation of alcohol, only some vague fragments.

He only fell to this point because he didn't have enough strength.

If he was a little stronger, a little stronger, wouldn't it be different?

The lotus lantern was still held tightly in his hand, and Han Qiwei completely gave up struggling at this time.

Because for him, it was useless to struggle, he had already made a choice, otherwise, he would not have kept holding on to this lotus lantern.

***

After sending the two of them into two rooms, Zhou Tong also opened an extra room for himself, lay on the bed, and under the influence of a trace amount of alcohol, he quickly fell asleep.

In the dream, the moon and stars are scarce.

On the top of the mountain, the night is low, and the thin mountains hover on the left and right, and the shadows of the trees are swaying, shaking the mottled ground.

A man stood on the edge of the cliff, his wide sleeves flying, holding a horizontal flute and playing it gently, and between the shaking of the trees, a small animal came out and surrounded him.

After playing a song, the man put down the flute and looked up at the bright moon, enjoying the boundless wind and moon in a rare and comfortable way.

At this moment, there was a commotion at the bottom of the mountain, and someone looked for him all the way down the mountain, and after finding the man, he knelt down with a thud: "Owner, it's a critical period now, you can't run around, if you disappear, no one can control this room full of cultivators." ”

The man's delicate brows furrowed, with a reluctant look, he put the flute behind his back, didn't look at the man, and said coldly: "I know, I'm just here to blow the wind." Fuss, follow me down the mountain. ”

"Yes, yes, owner!" the man nodded happily as he sent the man down the mountain.

The sea breeze blew on his cheeks, with a fishy smell, Zhou Tong woke up from the cold, he turned on the light, and then realized that he had forgotten to close the window.

It's close to the sea, the temperature is not high at night, and the sea breeze blowing into the house is cold.

Zhou Tong recalled the fragment in the dream and thought, what period of Ling Yuan is this?

Early the next morning, as soon as Zhou Tong opened the door, he saw Han Qiqing guarding the door, and asked in surprise, "Han Qiqing, what are you doing here?"

Han Qiqing said guiltily: "I'm really embarrassed last night, I drank too much, please send me to the hotel." ”

"It's fine. Zhou Tong said with a smile, "It's rare that you also let go of a drink." ”

"You're kidding me again. Han Qiqing scratched his face and said embarrassedly.

Zhou Tong smiled softly, and Han Qiqing's previous nervousness was swept away.

Zhou Tong asked, "However, you shouldn't be guarding my door early in the morning just to say this, right?"

"Hmm. Han Qiqing took out a palm-sized card from his pocket and handed it to Zhou Tong sternly, "I invite you to participate in the Dharma Meeting of the Three Great Heavenly Masters in the name of the young master of the Han family. ”

"It's an honor. Zhou Tong put the card away, and the words of the three heavenly masters who were gilded came into view.

On the day of the official start, Han Qiqing went down the mountain to pick up Zhou Tong to the Han family, as the host, the Han family had countless distinguished guests to entertain, Han Qiqing got up early in the morning in order to take Zhou Tong up the mountain as soon as possible, and then to deal with the elders of each family.

Zhou Tong came out of the house with a yawn, saw Han Qiqing standing straight at the door, and said with a smile: "You still have to participate in the competition, can you get up so early in your spirits? ”

"It's okay, I've already gotten up to practice at this point every day. Han Qiqing explained.

It was drizzling outside, and the umbrella in Han Qiqing's hand was still dripping wet, Zhou Tong saw that his black eyes were indeed very clear without a trace of sleepiness, and smiled: "Hard-working person." ”

Han Qiqing smiled embarrassedly and said, "Since the talent is inferior, you have to work harder to practice." ”

"yes. Zhou Tong said, "Let's go, this rain will get heavier and heavier." ”

Ling Yuan, who had listened to the conversation between the two of them, pursed his lips and said to Zhou Tong: "You praise him for being diligent, but you are not diligent?" Get up on time at six o'clock and practice drawing runes. Still hiding so deeply, afraid of being surpassed by him?"

"Just put less pressure on him. Zhou Tong ignored Ling Yuan's nonsense, and walked into the car side by side with Han Qiqing holding an umbrella, Ling Yuan saw this, and said indifferently, "What do you care about him so much? ”

When Zhou Tong heard this, the smile on his face faded a little, and said, "If it's a human, it will all die." ”

Ling Yuan: "I ......" The words behind him were swallowed by Ling Yuan, and he hid in the pattern of his beard, and did not say a word again along the way.

After arriving at Han's house, Han Qiqing settled Zhou Tong and went to receive other guests, when he arrived at the mountain, it was already eight o'clock in the morning, and the guests rushed up from the foot of the mountain, and Han Qiqing was as busy as a spinning top in a blink of an eye.

Zhou Tong sat in the gazebo, looking at the rain curtain outside, feeling a hint of coolness in the hot summer heat, and the tea in his hand was warm and refreshing, very delicious.

"Ling Yuan?" Zhou Tong called Ling Yuan, Ling Yuan didn't speak, Zhou Tong took out the bronze halberd head and fiddled with it for a while, Ling Yuan still didn't react, remembering the previous skirmish between the two, Zhou Tong shook his head helplessly, put away the bronze halberd head, and thought, Ling Yuan has been alive for I don't know how long, how can he still have such a temper like a child?

The rain outside suddenly stopped, Zhou Tong looked up, and found that it was not the rain that stopped, but someone had woven a net to cover the Han family and block the rain.

After looking at his phone, it was almost nine o'clock, so Zhou Tong put down the teacup and walked to the main hall with an umbrella.

Before anyone arrived, they heard the noisy shouts in the main hall, and the people of the three families gathered here, from the old man to the drooping child, the room was full of people.

Nowadays, Zhang Han and Chu are all very prosperous, only the Han family, a few people, and only Han Qiqing, Han Qiwei and Han Zhi are still crowned with orthodox Han surnames. And the Zhang family and the Chu family are all young people walking everywhere, and the elders are gathering together.

In fact, when it comes to the three people, everyone says that "Zhang Han Chu" is a habit, in the early years, the Zhang family was the most powerful and ranked first, but in fact, it was the Han family, ranked second, and the Chu family was the second, and now, if you are seriously sorted, it should be Chu Zhang Han.

The Chu family is headed by the old lady Chu, and a group of large and small heavenly masters in the family are all famous, and the old lady Chu is highly respected for sacrificing himself to save the prestige of the people of a city; the Zhang family has been decent in recent years, and has not seen any major developments; and the Chu family is different, more than 30 years ago, a lot of manpower was consumed when suppressing the Yin soldiers of Qin Wangdao in Shaanxi, and they have not been able to achieve a good result after fighting for decades.

This time, the Han family, as the host of the three Heavenly Master Festivals, showed even more decline.

Han Zhi's body was swollen from being gnawed by the corpse leech eggs before, he just got out of bed yesterday, and his walking posture is a little wrong today, Zhou Tong, who looked at it three times in one step, couldn't help but laugh secretly several times, Han Qiwei was exquisite, and it was not a problem to communicate, but he didn't get along with Han Qiqing, and I didn't see how many connections he really had for the Han family. Han Qiqing is the most serious of the three of them, but he lacks some sophistication in working with others.

When Zhou Tong focused his attention on Han Qiqing, Han Qiqing was being suppressed by an elder of the Zhang family and could barely say a word.

"Han Xian's nephew, this is not right. The elder surnamed Zhang spoke in a voice like a Hong Zhong, deliberately testing the Han family's background this time, and said, "I see that Han Xian's nephew is full of energy, he must have absorbed a lot of Qingfeng Mountain's aura, right?

"Shame, shame. Han Qiqing also guessed the other party's intentions and said, "It's not yet a chengdu." ”

"Humble, certainly humble. ”

Zhou Tong walked over, pretended to have something, and greeted Han Qiqing: "Mr. Han, just now the little fox came over and said that the Bodhi tree has borne fruit." ”

"Really?" Han Qiqing looked at Zhou Tong in surprise, "I'll take a look." ”

Everyone knows that the Han family has a Bodhi tree that has lived for nearly 10,000 years, and it rarely bears fruit, and once it results it, it proves that the Han family is full of spiritual energy.

The elders surnamed Zhang had a plan in their hearts when they heard this, because in recent years, the Han family has been sticking to Qingfeng Mountain, rarely going out, and there is a process of reciprocating aura, if the absorbed aura cannot be recycled, no matter how good the aura in the mountains and forests is, there will be a day when it will be consumed. He heard that the Han family has always been dead recently, so he wondered if the luck of the Han family was bad, and the good or bad luck could be seen from the amount of aura in the mountain.

This time, the Bodhi tree must have been full of spiritual energy when it bears fruit.

After being relieved by Zhou Tong, Han Qiqing walked out of the crowd and breathed a sigh of relief, saying, "Thank you, if it weren't for you, Uncle Zhang would have asked me down." ”

"It doesn't matter. Zhou Tong said, "When you succeed as the head of the family in the future, you will have to get used to this, communication is fundamental." ”

"Hmm. Han Qiqing nodded seriously, "I know." He rested for a while in a corner where no one saw and was about to continue into the crowd, Zhou Tong grabbed him and asked, "Where are you going?"

"Entertaining guests?" Han Qiqing didn't understand what Zhou Tong meant.

Zhou Tong said: "Bodhi is fruitful, why don't you go and take a look?"

"What?" Han Qiqing was stunned for a moment, his eyes full of surprise, "You're not an excuse to relieve me from the siege?"

"It's to help you out of the siege, but it's not an excuse, the only thing that isn't true is that the result of Bodhi is not the little fox suing me, I found it myself. ”

When Han Qiqing heard this, he was overjoyed, and pulled Zhou Tong and walked back: "Let's go!"

Walking to the Bodhi tree, the huge Bodhi tree is like a huge bouquet, the leaves are precipitated by history to show a simple dark green, only the small land on that side breaks through the aura cover, and accepts the baptism of the rain curtain of heaven and earth.

Seeing this, Han Qiqing was a little disappointed, and did not bear fruit as Zhou Tong said.

Seeing his expression, Zhou Tong smiled, pointed to a place on the branch, and whispered, "Look." ”

Han Qiqing looked over when he heard this, and sure enough, he saw a small fruit in that place, and with the washing of the rain, the fruit actually grew little by little.

Han Qiqing stared at a pair of eyes, watching the fruits beat without blinking, and the small fruits gradually connected together, growing into a dense appearance.

Han Qiqing knelt down and kowtowed heavily to the 10,000-year-old Bodhi tree, his bent waist did not straighten up, Han Qiqing's hands were tightly knocked on the ground, and his shoulders trembled slightly.

Zhou Tong sighed silently, this old Bodhi tree probably also felt the predicament of the Han family, so he was willing to sacrifice the aura he had absorbed for so long to cheer up the Han family, right?

Just thinking about it, Zhou Tong suddenly found a vague shadow between the branches, the man was wearing a crescent-colored robe, his long hair was fluttering, and he was blown up by the wind, he was lying on a branch, letting the rain hit his face, indifferently stretched out his slender and white fingers, and gently twisted it, and the fruit fell into his hand, the round nails rubbed lightly on the skin of the fruit, and the shell was split in half, and the man put the fruit in his mouth and sucked it in.

Zhou Tong blinked, and the man disappeared, leaving only a blue shadow that swept away all the Bodhi fruits, and Zhou Tong saw that the plump and ruddy fruits were all sucked dry by Ling Yuan......

Zhou Tong: "...... Hey, you're going too far. ”

Ling Yuan didn't respond to Zhou Tong, and quietly drilled into the pattern and pretended to be dead.

Zhou Tong: "......"

Zhou Tong suddenly felt speechless, as if he felt that the old tree was crying, and all the aura that he had saved for so many years was fed to an irrelevant person, no, a spirit body that was not even a human!

Han Qiqing straightened up after crying, he wiped a handful of tears, and when he looked at the Bodhi tree again, he unexpectedly found that all the fruits on the tree were shriveled, Zhou Tong didn't know how to explain it, so he was silent and didn't see anything.

Han Qiqing figured it out by himself, and said with a serious face: "The old tree is almost at the end of his rope, and he is willing to help each other, I have to work hard for the Han family." ”

He walked out of the protective area of the aura cover, climbed the Bodhi tree, picked a shriveled fruit, peeled off the husk and put it in his mouth, the flesh with almost no trace of moisture was bitten between his lips and teeth, and it was full of dry bitterness, Han Qiqing was unaware of it, and ate the fruit seriously.

Zhou Tong couldn't bear to look at it anymore, and turned around silently......

After the official start, the important figures of the three great families gathered together, and this time the three heavenly masters came to learn skills, so as not to let the juniors neglect their skills due to the lazy wind that breeds, and secondly, to decide the people who will preserve the Tianyan Town Altar Wood for the next ten years.

Zhentan wood is also known as "earthquake altar wood", "order", "clean board", mostly used to deter ghosts, and the shocking wood in the yamen in the old times has the same magic. This piece has been inherited in the three major families for nearly a thousand years, "Tianyan Town Altar Wood" is made of willow, mulberry, locust tree, big-leaved poplar, neem five ghost wood is glued together, the bottom of the flat vermilion part is the old black dog mixed with the cockscomb blood of the old rooster, these are nothing, at most the material process is more difficult, not imitable, the most precious is the Tianyan Town altar wood in the Tianyan Town.

Tianyan is also known as "Nine Eyes Stone Dzi", originally one of the seven treasures of the Tibetan secret, has been believed as the "stone of heaven", this stone is quite precious, and just right to connect with the town altar wood as a whole, the aura blends with each other, it is the treasure recognized by the three major families. It's just that I don't know what's going on, it has become an extremely difficult thing to drive the Tianyan Town Altar Wood, even the old lady Chu can't let the Tianyan Town Altar Wood play a role, and this treasure has been placed in the three major families and kept by them in turn.

In the last term, it was the Zhang family who kept the "Tianyan Town Altar Wood", and this custodian was decided by the three heavenly masters this time.

Several elders carried out the ritual according to the custom, and after sacrificing to the heavens, earth, people, gods and ghosts, they invited out the "Tianyan Town Altar Tree".

Zhou Tong had long heard that there was such a secret treasure in the three major families, and he was very curious, so he stood in the crowd and looked carefully, but he saw a person who was not surprised.