Chapter 3 Apprenticeship
The next day, Wen Qingyi got up early, after a simple grooming, changed into a set of cyan shorts and went out, today she was going to a special place.
A place that could change her life.
"See Your Highness. The guards at the palace gate saw Wen Qingyi and saluted one after another.
"Yes. Wen Qingyi bowed slightly and then left directly.
"Do you feel that Your Highness doesn't seem to be the same today as usual? ”
The guards at the palace gate whispered after watching Wen Qingyi leave.
"Yes, His Highness seems to have something on his mind, and he seems to be very unhappy. ”
"I've never seen His Highness like this, I heard that yesterday the Holy Lord talked with His Highness in the Gilded Palace all night, could it be a quarrel?"
"How is it possible, the current Holy Lord and His Royal Highness are the most affectionate I have ever seen in the royal family, don't talk nonsense. ”
The guards discussed fiercely, it was rare for there to be such a lively time at the gate of the palace.
After walking out of the palace gate, Wen Qingyi walked into the crowd with a veil, and after passing through several bustling long streets, he came to the edge of Qingzhou City.
Changfeng Street here is far less noisy than the ones you have passed before, probably because the people who live here are more ordinary people.
Wen Qingyi stopped at the corner of the street, staring at the scene of a family of three frolicking everywhere, looking at the warm and harmonious picture, the fists under the cuffs were unconsciously clenched.
After taking a deep breath, Wen Qingyi quickened her pace, and finally arrived at her destination after passing through a dark alley.
This is the periphery of Qingzhou City, and behind the mansion in front of it is the boundless Source Beast Mountain Range.
In the courtyard of the house, three or two fences surround a field, which is planted with various herbs, exuding a peculiar fragrance, and there is a grass house in the center of the courtyard, which looks dilapidated, but in fact everything is in order, so that people can not see the feeling of messiness.
In the medicine field, an old man was leaning over to observe the growth of the medicinal herbs, and his focused expression seemed to have emptied the world, and there was nothing else in his eyes except the medicine field, and he didn't notice Wen Qingyi at the door.
The old man was dressed in a black robe, with a thick gray beard on his kind face, a pair of small eyes that were bright and bright, always smiling, and a pair of weather-beaten palms gently tending to the herbs under him.
Wen Qingyi did not disturb the old man, but watched quietly outside the door.
Slowly, my thoughts seemed to drift back to my childhood.
On that day, as usual, she sneaked away to the creek outside the palace, and was lured by a colorful butterfly, and she ran down the river to the depths of the river.
After some fluttering, she finally grabbed the butterfly with great difficulty, and the two fleshy palms wrapped around it, and when she spread her palms in anticipation, she found that the butterfly had dissipated like a wisp of green smoke.
In addition to being angry, her eyes inadvertently glanced at the sparkling water, and through the reflection of the water, she actually saw someone floating in the air.
She quickly turned her head and saw a kind old man with the butterfly she had just caught in his left hand.
She is a little obsessed, since she was a child, she has never seen such a fairy spirit as the old man, a person with a fairy wind and bones.
I saw the old man slowly stretch out his palm, and a column of water condensed from the river water under her feet to lift her up and send it to the old man.
At that time, the young Wen Qingyi did not have a trace of fear in her heart, and her intuition told her that the old man in front of her would not hurt herself.
Seeing the old man put one palm against her forehead, Wen Qingyi only felt a burst of coolness spread from her forehead to her whole body.
"How about it, do you want to worship me as a teacher, I can help you practice. The old man asked, and he felt that this way of appearing must have suppressed the little one.
"No, I don't practice. At that time, Wen Qingyi replied, where did she understand the importance of cultivation.
"Your meridians are disordered, and you can only stay in the realm of the Source in this life, don't you want to reach a higher level?"
The old man asked in surprise. "Besides, I don't take apprentices casually, I'm very famous. ”
"So what, I just don't want to practice, I'm too tired. ”
"Also, don't think I don't know that there are children going missing in the city lately, let me tell you, I'm the princess, you'd better not think about it. ”
“......”
Wen Qingyi retorted with a small face.
Looking at Wen Qingyi's playful nature, the old man couldn't cry or laugh, but he was an interesting baby.
"Well, I'll ask again in a few days. With that, the old man disappeared, and Wen Qingyi fell directly from the dissipated water column and fell to the ground.
"With your attitude, you still want to accept an apprentice who is a fart!" Wen Qingyi burst into tears, covering her ass and scolding.
In the next few years, the old man would find her from time to time to ask about her thoughts, but Wen Qingyi refused every time.
Even though she was about to touch the bottleneck of the source, she still didn't worship the old man as a teacher.
Now, realizing the hatred of the country and the family in her body, she regrets it, the law of the jungle is an eternal truth, and only when she becomes strong will she not become a fish on the knife board and be slaughtered by others.
Only by becoming strong can she live for herself!
Minutes and seconds passed, hours later.
"Figured it out?" the old man straightened up after finishing the medicine field, and looked up at Wen Qingyi, who was standing straight at the door.
"I figured it out, I want to worship you as a teacher, I want to become stronger" Wen Qingyi said categorically.
"I've been waiting for you for eight years, and now you say that you will apprentice, so wouldn't I be too good at talking?" the old man glared, and his beard almost flew into the sky.
Wen Qingyi lowered her head and smiled awkwardly, and after being silent for a while, she seemed to have come to her senses, and immediately pushed open the door and trotted straight to the old man.
"Bang!"
Wen Qingyi knelt down in front of the old man suddenly.
But the moment her knees hit the ground, she regretted it, she felt that her careful thinking had already been seen through, how could there be such a hard ground!
But she still endured the pain and quickly kowtowed three times.
"The cultivation world is based on the three rings as the criterion of apprenticeship, and now the three rings have kowtowed, I am your apprentice in life, and death is your apprentice's soul, you can't rely on it. ”
Seeing this, the old man's stern face squeezed out a smile. "It's really you, I'll have to accept you as an apprentice, get up quickly, how hard this ground is. ”
When he said the last sentence, a hint of abuse clearly flashed in the old man's eyes.
Capturing the change in the old man's eyes, Wen Qingyi's eyelids unconsciously picked, this old man really deliberately tortured himself!
But there was still a smile on his face. "Disciple Wen Qingyi, meet the master. ”
"Okay, from now on, you will be my Lei Xingyuan's apprentice. The old man suddenly straightened up.
"Your meridian occlusion is not only due to premature birth, but I am afraid that some people deliberately targeted you and did it while you were still in your mother's womb. The old man walked into the medicine field and began to look for the herbs.
The old man's words fell on Wen Qingyi's ears, which surprised her slightly, he actually saw through the reason at a glance, and at the same time, she was also glad that her choice was not wrong this time.
"I know you'll come to me eventually, so I've been waiting, but this year is also the last year, and next year I'll leave Qingzhou City, and when you have a certain strength, go to the Wufu Continent to find me. ”
The old man kept collecting medicinal herbs in the medicine field, and it was obviously a small medicine field, but he searched for a long time.
"In this year, I will help you open up the meridians, and I will also teach you a few source techniques, and then I will see you create. ”
"Your talent is far beyond ordinary people, so the difficulty of opening the meridians is also higher than that of ordinary people, you must persevere. The old man finally came out of the medicine field, holding many herbs in his hands.
"This is Qianyuan Fruit, Fengbao Flower, Longling Grass, Xuanyang Immortal Rui... ”
The old man introduced Wen Qingyi one by one. "In the future, you will inherit my alchemy. ”
"Master can also alchemy?" Wen Qingyi was a little surprised this time, in her impression, no one had ever been able to master superb alchemy and at the same time possess superb cultivation.
Alchemists are a hot profession on this continent, and the elixirs they have developed can multiply the cultivation effect of cultivators, and even forcibly improve their realm.
Speaking of God, the elixir that can bring the dead back to life is also in the hands of high-grade alchemists, and the higher the realm of the cultivator, the higher the requirements for the level of the alchemist.
This is the reason why the status of the alchemist is transcendent, even if it is a first-grade alchemist, it is comparable to a source master master, in their great Shengyang Dynasty, there is a third-grade alchemist, whose status is comparable to that of a master of the Earth Source Realm.
"It's just talent. Lei Lao smiled at Wen Qingyi, with some smugness in his eyes.
Isn't this old man a little narcissistic...
"Boom. ”
Disliked, I saw a huge purple furnace Ding appeared in the center of the courtyard out of thin air, on the furnace Ding, engraved with four golden dragon stripes, the dragon claws of the four dragons were next to each other in turn, covering the entire furnace body, and there was a fairy spirit floating out of the furnace Ding.
"This is the master's alchemy furnace, isn't it quite domineering!"
Wen Qingyi glanced at the old man again, and sure enough, what the master said was right, his cheekiness was really very similar to him.
In the center of the courtyard, the old man picked up a medicinal herb, his eyes narrowed slightly, and he heard a loud sound, and a raging flame suddenly ignited on the clean palm.
The appearance of the flame made the temperature in the courtyard rise a lot.
After a few moments, the herb turned into a puddle of cyan liquid in the flames.
Lei Lao grabbed another herb again, and the familiar flames enveloped it again, and almost instantly, the herb was burned into a small cloud of green liquid.
Just as Lei Lao picked up the third herb, the rising flame suddenly turned purple, and although the herb also turned into a liquid this time, it appeared to be solid.
Seeing the doubt in Wen Qingyi's eyes, Lei Xingyuan smiled.
"This is my natal fire, and it is also the origin fire of the furnace, when refining high-level medicinal herbs, the alchemist has to use a purer and more powerful flame, because ordinary flames can't be refined at all, even if they are refined into pills, they have no medicinal properties at all. ”
After a few herbs were burned, Lei Lao integrated several stalls of medicinal liquid into the furnace ding, and the various medicinal liquids melted together, and the seemingly solid medicinal liquid wrapped the other medicinal liquids in it, and the purple flames burning in the furnace ding continued to calcinate the magazines in it.
An hour later, Lei Lao put away the furnace ding, and there were a few more jade bottles on his palm, which were impressively cyan medicinal liquids that had been calcined in the furnace before.
"Do you want to take it now?" Wen Qingyi asked with some impatience.
"No, there are a total of four bottles of this medicinal liquid, take one bottle every month, after four months, your meridians will be unblocked, as for whether you can survive it, it depends on your own perseverance" Lei Xingyuan carefully handed the medicine bottle to Wen Qingyi, and said seriously.
Wen Qingyi was excited, with a look of joy on her face that was difficult to hide, the road to the strong, this is the beginning of her becoming stronger.
"Don't be too happy, the process of washing the marrow is extremely difficult. The old man handed the jade bottle to Wen Qingyi, and after a pause, he took out a book from behind him and said, "There is another exercise for you here, but you have to understand it yourself." ”
Wen Qingyi was a little puzzled after taking it, since he taught himself the exercises, why didn't he instruct himself.
"This source decision is quite weird, it is like a blank sheet of paper in my hands, but in your hands, maybe it will be different. The old man said with a somewhat solemn face.
"This is the source I found by chance in a burial chamber more than ten years ago, and when I opened it, it had no pictures or words in it, and I thought it was very strange, so I took it with me. ”
"I don't know how long later, a map of mountains and rivers suddenly appeared on the first page of it, and I was shocked and hurriedly searched around, and finally found Qingzhou City. ”
"A few months later, a baby in war appeared on the second page of it, and I went to Qingzhou City to carefully calculate and find that the time when it appeared was probably when you were born, so it was this book that brought me to you. ”
Wen Qingyi, who had a calm face, could not hide the shock in her heart, this world seemed to be really magical, and what she had seen and heard for several days in a row made her realize how small her vision was.
However, it also strengthened her confidence in embarking on the path of cultivation, and all this seemed to be paving the way for her.
Wen Qingyi put away the ancient book and said loudly at Lei Xingyuan.
"Whether the picture in this book is me or not, I, Wen Qingyi, will concentrate on cultivation, for the sake of my family, for my master, and even for myself. ”
Lei Xingyuan smiled with relief, he knew that a phoenix that was about to become nirvana was bathed in flames.