Ding Qi and Cui Shanhai walked out of the stone room. Xian Hao was standing not far away looking at the scenery, when he heard the footsteps and turned his head and asked, "What little secrets have you all talked about, it took so long to come out?"

Cui Shanhai hurriedly said: "I just asked Master Ding to answer some doubts, which has benefited me a lot!"

Ding Qi simply sent a divine thought, telling Xian Hao the content of the private conversation between the two. The others also came over when they heard the movement, and Shui Ruo asked, "Husband, what are you going to eat at night, are we going to do it here or go to another courtyard?"

Zhuang Mengzhou interjected: "It doesn't matter what you eat, just have bamboo wine!"

Cui Shanhai groaned: "If you drink bamboo wine here, it will not be easy to go down the mountain, and you still have to go to another courtyard." It's just that the road is a little far, and the time is not early, and I am afraid that it will be a little hard to hurry, and it will be too late to cook. ”

Ding Qi took out a wooden box and said, "Master Cui Feng, it doesn't matter if you don't have time to cook." We are not afraid to hurry, there is a box of Jade Hoof Pill, which can be taken by each person, which can not only fight hunger, but also help nourish the muscles and bones......"

This box is made of demon king wood, slightly smaller than an ordinary mobile phone, but much thicker, after opening it, it contains fifteen jade hoof pills. Cui Shanhai and the others had obviously never seen this thing, and Ding Qi introduced its spiritual effect again.

Cui Shanhai was overjoyed: "There is actually such a good thing, the master of Ding Courtyard is too generous, I'll taste one first!" As he spoke, he reached out and picked up one and asked, "How do you eat it?"

Ding Qi said with a smile: "It's like eating jelly beans, and then sit and breathe for a while to dissolve the medicinal power, and then it is best to exercise properly to relax your muscles and bones, which is just right for you to hurry after eating." ”

Cui Shanhai ate the jade hoof pill without saying a word, and then found a place to sit on the luck. Ye Zongqing was a little surprised, thought about it, and walked over to get three, ate one himself, and said to Yan Binbin and Shi Heyu: "You guys should each take one too, don't you thank Master Ding soon!"

Yan Binbin and Shi Heyu each took one, saluted Ding Qi and thanked him, and found a stone room to sit down and practice. Zhu Shanxian and the others also ate one by themselves, and they found a place to sit nearby.

Eat jelly beans, chew them and swallow them, if you are an ordinary person, you may only have a feeling of fullness or no feeling, if the monk sits and exercises to transform the medicinal power, there will be a cold feeling that spreads throughout the body. At this time, when you get up and exercise properly, this cool feeling will become warm again, just like walking around the whole body to nourish your muscles and bones, making people feel very energetic.

Cui Shanhai was the first to take the Jade Hoof Pill and the first to get up, and after a while, everyone also gathered again, Cui Shanhai waved his hand and said: "I feel full of strength now, let's go!"

Shui Ruo reminded: "Don't forget to bring bamboo wine." ”

The processed sluice is stored in a stone chamber here, not in bamboo sluggers, but in porcelain bottles. Cui Shanhai took two bottles and put them in his backpack, brought a machete, and led everyone to set off again.

Looking at Cui Shanhai's appearance, Ding Qi and the others glanced at each other with a smile. Why was Ye Zongqing a little surprised just now, because Cui Shanhai was the first to take the Jade Hoof Pill, and he was very happy.

Someone took out an elixir that he had never seen before and introduced its effects, and Cui Shanhai ate it in person without saying a word. This is a very calm state of mind, which shows that after the two of them came out of the secret conversation in the stone room, Cui Shanhai has completely trusted Ding Qi.

Leaving the grotto group at the height of the main peak, or drilling the cave to return the original way, and came to the Shanglongtan Lake, Cui Shanhai looked at the sky and said: "We have to speed up our pace, otherwise we may not be able to catch up with the other courtyard before dark." ”

They had climbed to the top of the cliff from the left side of the waterfall, circled the lake for half a circle, and then drilled a cave to go to the top. After returning to the lake, I circled the lake for another half and came to the right side of the waterfall. There is a forest trail here, which is much easier to follow than the previous one.

Walking along the trail, the terrain was basically wandering halfway up the mountain, and Ding Qi saw Mengshenghua again. The sunset was shining, and most of the thumbbees had returned to their nests, and Ding Qi also saw the hives of thumbbees in the distant forest. These hives are oval-shaped, like oversized winter melons hanging among the towering trees.

Further on, they heard the sound of murmuring water, and they crossed several streams, and had left the area where Mengshenghua was distributed, and entered the continuous bamboo forest. What grows around is Xiangshui bamboo, which looks like moso bamboo at first glance, but the bamboo leaves are much wider than moso bamboo, a bit like a slightly smaller dumpling leaf.

Cui Shanhai is very familiar with the situation in this area, knows where and which bamboo is in which bamboo, and how many years of bamboo wine there are. The spiritual effect of the Jade Hoof Pill is extraordinary, and it is not easy for everyone to do so, although it has been walking for almost a day, the footsteps are still light and healthy when rushing, and finally arrived at the Xiangshui Peak Courtyard before sunset.

The so-called courtyard is a row of houses, and the courtyard wall is also repaired in front of a large courtyard, there are so many dozen rooms, and it should be no problem to temporarily live for more than 30 people, but there is no preparation to cover the bedding and other things, after all, it is not a hotel outside. Everyone unloaded their equipment, looked for a room, and set it up briefly, and then lit the lamp in the courtyard for dinner.

The emergency lights are brought in from the outside, and the electricity can be lit for two to six hours at a time after discarding, and the brightness is divided into three levels. Everyone took a jade hoof pill, so they didn't have to eat, but it didn't affect everyone to taste the delicious food, so they had to have some snacks.

There is also a kitchen in the annex courtyard, where you can stir-fry food over a fire, and after setting the table, you can enjoy ordinary bamboo sake first. This wine is relatively light, sweet, with a fresh fragrance, and a slightly astringent taste that is not easy to describe, in short, it is very good and delicious. Everyone tasted wine and chatted in the evening view of the mountains, and they all felt that the trip was worthwhile.

After drinking the ordinary bamboo wine and eating the dishes, Cui Shanhai opened the two bottles of special bamboo wine. Two bottles of wine, each bottle only filled about eight taels, there were thirteen people here, and the average was only more than one tael per person. Cui Shanhai deliberately emphasized that this is not because he is stingy, but that this wine should not be drunk too much, and it is already a lot to drink so much at one time, but fortunately, everyone has more than three realms of cultivation.

Pour a cup for everyone in turn, and pour the fullest for Zhuang Mengzhou, almost two taels, and there are a lot of them in Ding Qi's cup...... Yan Binbin drank less, almost only about half a tael. The wine had just been poured before it was drunk, when a breeze blew, and everyone smelled a strange aroma of wine.

Ordinary bamboo wine is just delicious, the smell of this special bamboo wine exudes, smell it makes people feel very greedy, and then look down at the wine in the glass, it is rose red crystal clear, like a jade liquid.

Before Cui Shanhai could say anything to toast, Zhuang Mengzhou took a sip of the cup, squinted his eyes and enjoyed it, and then opened his eyes and nodded: "Not bad, not bad, really gluttonous!"

Shui Ruo smiled and said: "Mr. Zhuang, you drink slowly, this wine can't be drunk too fast, you have to sip it one sip to appreciate its wonders, for those who have achieved cultivation, it is best to be able to concentrate on it." ”

Zhuang Mengzhou got up and said, "Oh, then I'll take it back to the house and taste it slowly." With that, he went into the house with a cup.

Everyone also got up and said, "Then let's take it into the house and drink it slowly, and taste the wonders of it." ”

Cui Shanhai: "Put away the things on the table first, you can't leave them in the open air, otherwise you will attract all kinds of small animals and ants." ”

Everyone cleaned up the table, washed the dishes, and returned to the room with wine. There are more than a dozen rooms here, enough for everyone to live, and of course Ding Qi and Xian Hao live in one room.

The furnishings in the house are simple, only a table, two chairs and a bed made of Xiangshui bamboo. Xiangshui bamboo is different from ordinary bamboo, the bamboo wall is almost an inch thick, and it is closer to wood to make furniture. Sleeping on such a bamboo bed and turning over, the creaking sound is much smaller than that of an ordinary bamboo bed, but after all, it is bamboo, and the sound is still there.

There was no bedding on the bamboo bed, so they brought a thin blanket and laid it out, so since they were camping in the mountains, they didn't have to pay attention to the conditions. Xian Hao and Ding Qi sat face-to-face on the bed, touched each other's glasses, took a sip of wine and savored it, opened their eyes and clinked glasses after a while, and then took another sip, the beauty of which only he could experience.

This wine is really comfortable to drink, smoky and fluttering, and the wine volatilizes very quickly, I feel that every pore of the whole body is opened, and the fine sweat has a strange floral fragrance. If it were an ordinary person, I would probably get drunk after taking two sips, and that feeling was very beautiful......

With Ding Qi's cultivation, what he cultivated was a secret method that directly pointed to the heart, and he would not be put down by this less than two taels of bamboo wine. For the Dacheng monks who have already experienced the delusional realm, they will not indulge in it, but simply enjoy it. But on the other hand, it is precisely because of the extraordinary realm of cultivation that Ding Qi also knows how to better transform and experience the effect of bamboo wine.

After about three or five sips, Xian Hao asked, "What are you thinking?" ”

Ding Qi sighed with emotion: "This bamboo wine is really wonderful, I feel something when I think about it, I was thinking about eating crabs just now." ”

Xian Hao wondered: "You actually want to eat crabs, what crabs are so delicious?"

Ding Qi: "The hairy crab in the Double Ninth Festival is tender and yellow, licking the lips and teeth fragrant, that taste...... I just thought about it, and my lips and teeth were filled with a beautiful yellow smell. ”

Xian Hao seemed to be a little dissatisfied: "Are you only thinking about this?"

Ding Qi smiled, blinked and said, "We made this drink?"

Xian Hao was stunned for a moment, and his expression was a little twisted: "And then?"

Tintzy: "Then I'll take you somewhere, you know!"

Xian Hao didn't ask what it was, the two clinked glasses and drank them all, and then Ding Qi turned off the emergency lights in the house. Xian Hao looked at Ding Qi's eyes, and after the light went out, it was not dark, but came to the fairyland, and the Yuntai Cave Mansion was ethereal.

It can be said that Ding Qi hypnotized Xian Hao, and it can also be said that he took Xian Hao into the country and introduced him into his spiritual world, showing such a world. In Ding Qi's former delusional realm, when he opened the Jinshan Courtyard, he had come to such a fairyland, and now he brought Xian Hao in.

Bamboo wine is really a good thing, and it can be drunk in a variety of ways. The two of them don't seem to have any movements, they don't have to worry about the sound of the bamboo bed, and the things they do seem to be gods and realities, everything happens in Ding Qi's unfolding spiritual world, which is wonderful, and there are even a lot of fun that is difficult to experience in reality, including posture......

Teacher Ding is knowledgeable, the beauty of the ten honors depicted and the taste of the thirty styles of the cave are all evolved in the fairyland. Xian Hao is usually a very restrained and cold beauty, how can she stand this, she is panting...... After exiting the fixed realm, she leaned on Ding Qi's arms, her body was completely soft, she didn't want to move, and she couldn't wait to pinch this enemy fiercely.

Early the next morning, everyone packed up and walked out of the courtyard, leaving many things in their bags here, which they had brought in on purpose. The descent is much smoother than yesterday's uphill, winding through bamboo, flowers, and mountain streams, and the scenery is very beautiful, and the walk is unforgettable.

They did not go very fast, and there were no dreaming flowers or thumb bees on the road, and at noon they came out of a wild fruit grove, and in front of them was a stream with a large tree beside it, and a square well in the water under the canopy. This is where everyone gathered up the ingredients yesterday, and they actually turned back, and on the other side of the stream was the courtyard where yesterday's lunch was eaten.

Cui Shanhai explained: "There are two roads to Shanglongtan from Xiangshui Peak, the one we took yesterday is more difficult and not suitable for ordinary people to climb, and the road we came back today is more comfortable and relatively easy to walk." I opened Xiangshui Peak and planned two visiting routes, those with good physical strength and skill will take the road from yesterday to the mountain, and those with weak physique will take today's road. ”

Ye Zongqing suggested: "Since we can come here to visit, we must have good skills, and we have walked the best route in the past two days." After entering the door, first have lunch in the front yard, go up the mountain from yesterday's dangerous road in the afternoon, climb the waterfall and go around the lake, no need to go to the grotto in the high place, go directly to the courtyard to rest before dark, and then go down the mountain along today's path the next day, and then go out after lunch. ”

Ding Qi added: "Sect Master Ye's suggestion is good, this is indeed the best route to visit. But I have another suggestion, if the guests from Jiufang Sky Island come to Xiangshui Peak, it is best to take them back and forth on today's road, the place that is too difficult is not suitable for them, at least not at the moment. ”

Everyone finished lunch in the courtyard again, and then left Xiangshui Peak, still walking through the mountain forest cave at the southern foot of the Qinling Mountains, and painting the door of the Tin Water Cave Scenic Area. Ye Zongqing and the other three took the lead in saying goodbye and leaving, Tan Hanchuan said: "Xiao Cui, you can still have one person in the car, and I will also take a hitchhike to Xi'an." ”

Tan Hanchuan didn't go all the way with Ding Qi and the others, he came from Shanghai alone, and left with Cui Shanhai's hitchhiker at this moment. In the car, Tan Hanchuan asked, "Xiao Cui, what is the critical temperature of the thumb bee's nest activity, have you observed it?"

Cui Shanhai replied: "Thumb bees are much larger than ordinary bees and have a higher tolerance to low temperatures. I've observed that the critical temperature for their nest activity is around eight degrees Celsius, below which the colony will not come out. The temperature limit should be around 5 degrees Celsius, between 5 and 8 degrees Celsius, and occasionally a few thumb bees can be seen flying out. ”

Tan Hanchuan: "So when the temperature is too low, or when the bee colony is inactive at night, Xiangshuifeng loses the natural protective effect of the thumb bee, which you should pay attention to." ”

Cui Shanhai: "In fact, the best way is not to let people know that Xiangshuifeng still has this hole card, even if someone has bad intentions, they will not make targeted preparations in advance." I really want to thank you all today, especially Master Ding!"

Tan Hanchuan smiled and said: "Half a month later, Mr. Ding invited you to visit Jinshan Academy, I guess he still has something to discuss with you." ”

Cui Shanhai: "Oh, what else does the master of the Ding Courtyard want to find me?"

Tan Hanchuan: "It's not good for me to say it in advance, you'll know when the time comes." ”

On the way out of Lantian County, Xian Hao asked Ding Qi, "Are you starting the idea of Shuifeng?"

Ding Qi shook his head and said: "I didn't have the idea of Shuifeng, to be honest, I was fighting Cui Shanhai's idea, this person is trustworthy...... And don't say it so ugly, it's not called an idea, it's just to discuss something with him and reveal something to him. ”

This is a business car rented from Xi'an, Shi Buquan is driving, Shang Ni is sitting in the co-pilot seat, Zhu Shan is sitting in the right position in the middle row, and Xian Hao and Ding Qi are sitting in the back seat. Shi Buquan, who was driving, asked, "Teacher Ding, do you want to teach Cui Shanhai the secret method of Fangwai, and then develop Xiangshuifeng into Fangwaimen?"

Tincey: "Yes, they seem to be a good fit, and I can't even say that I can't find a better person than them." ”

Zhu Shanxian: "When did you come up with this idea?"

Ding Qi: "When I found out that the people of Xiangshui Peak were not only unwary of us, but also very frank and sincere. At first, I just wanted to find an opportunity to remind them to be cautious, and when I went up the mountain and saw the statues of the ancestors of Xiangshui Peak, I moved my mind to teach the secret method outside the Fangwai, and when Cui Shanhai was the first to take the jade hoof pill, I made a decision. ”

Zhu Shanxian: "When do you plan to have a showdown?"

Ding Qi: "Let's discuss with everyone first, and then see you when you get to Jinshan Courtyard next week, you must be cautious in this matter." ”

Why did Ding Qi take a fancy to Cui Shanhai instead of Ye Zongqing? It's not that Ye Zongqing himself is not trustworthy, the most important reason is that the members of Xiangshui Peak are very simple, and all the details are already very clear. The Five Heart Valley is more complicated, I heard that there are several villages in it, so many people, it means that there are too many uncontrollable factors.

Cui Shanhai, Shui Ruo, and Li Zhiyao are already known to everyone, and they are all trustworthy, as for Cui Xiaoxi's age, many secrets of the elders will not be known to her for the time being. Ding Qi is very optimistic about Xiangshui Peak, and even more optimistic about Cui Shanhai, and wants to teach the other party the secret method of Fangwai, and then develop Xiangshuifeng into Fangwaimen.

Ding Qi didn't have the intention of coveting Xiangshui Peak, the secret realm of heaven and earth, the Fangwai Sect had enough and big enough worlds, and he didn't even bother with such a big Qin Gaotai world. What interests Ding Qi the most is actually the inheritance of the secret realm of heaven and earth and the treasure of the control realm, he doesn't want to seek inheritance, he just wants to learn about it.

Ding Qi created his own secret method outside the world, which allowed him to enter and exit the world outside the world freely, and he could also use his own method to refine the treasure of the realm control and master the magic of this special artifact. But compared to people like Cui Shanhai and Ye Zongqing, Ding Qi still lacked a very important thing, after all, he had not obtained any kind of true inheritance of the secret realm of heaven and earth and the treasure of controlling the realm.

Ding Qi wanted to know what this kind of inheritance secret method was like, and whether it was compatible with the secret method he had created, or could it be borrowed from each other? This was related to the direction of the next cultivation of the secret method outside the square, and Ding Qi himself was still exploring it.

ps: I wish you all a happy Mid-Autumn Festival!