Chapter 40: Scholars in the Mountains and Forests

Time is easy to pass, since Shen Jian left, it was two months in the blink of an eye, on this day Changning was copying the Taishang Cultivation Record in the study, but he heard a slight knock on the door, Changning kept writing, and said casually: "Come in." ”

"Girl, the white fairy is here." A red-haired and red-eyed girl came in and told her that she was originally a red apricot tree, and another boy in the form of a green willow was spotted by the snow as a close boy in Changning. As soon as Yu Toad returned to Taishang Sect with Changning, she was thrown into the Gengjin Cave by Cangfeng Yuanjun to cultivate, and her old man saw a toad with the blood of the golden toad for the first time, and she wanted to raise a golden toad to come out, and Jin Cancan looked so happy. Yu Toad was originally reluctant to go, and Gengjin Cave sounded so scary, but after being coaxed by Changning for a few words, she jumped in happily by herself. The ginseng doll went to Changning to farm after the new house was built, and it hasn't woken up yet.

There are also thirty grass and tree elves in Qifengju to take care of them, but most of these boys usually stay in the soil and don't appear in front of Changning very often. The grass and wood elves like the essence of the moon the most, Changning will attract a large number of the essence of the moon when they practice every day, and they also benefit a lot, Changning has a good temper, and he doesn't even speak loudly.

Changning put down his pen and got up to greet him, "Senior sister, you sit down first, I only have a few lines left to finish writing." ”

Bai Xue came in and smiled: "You just write yours, don't worry about me." ”

Changning has been in a good place with Bai Xue for half a year, and she is not polite, she continues to sit down and copy the scriptures, she copies these scriptures not only for cultivation, but also to send them to the lower courtyard for the Daomen believers to read.

Bai Xue took the juice handed by Xinghong, she has never liked to drink tea, Changning specially prepared juice for her, Bai Xue loves to come to Changning to drink juice. She held the teacup and looked at Changning's study, Changning is bright and elegant, and the study is also simple and elegant. A long case was placed near the window facing south, with pen, ink, paper, inkstone, ruler, water injection and other things on the case, and a bamboo arm rest under her elbow. The ebony bookshelf on the side is full of books, most of which are Taoist anthologies, as well as some classics of Buddhism and Confucianism.

Bai Xue watched her sister copying scriptures leisurely, and her busy time during this period of time couldn't help but feel sad, and she drank three glasses of juice in a row.

Changning finished copying the scriptures, put down his pen and washed his hands, walked to Bai Xue and sat down, "Senior sister, why do you have time to come to me today?" ”

Bai Xue drank another glass of juice, sighed to Changning, and said, "He'er, you are really leisurely, this is what you said last time, sit quietly and sing the praises of Huang Ting, right?" She used to think that the crane was boring, she didn't even have a travelogue in the study, and she had to read the scriptures after copying the Taoist scriptures, but now it seems that this life is so leisurely.

Changning looked at Bai Xue sympathetically, and poured her another glass of juice, "Senior sister, is there anything I can help with?" ”

Liuxia Peak on the four seasons like spring, I don't know the years, but in the outside world is already December, Taishangzong every ten years in September, will open the mountain gate to accept disciples, because Taishangzong adheres to the principle of education without class, so no matter what the qualifications, as long as you come to the sect, the sect will accept it. The disciples who are at the beginning are all called Daotong, and they can only be regarded as disciples of the Taishang Sect after studying and practicing in the sect for ten years, and after passing the assessment of the GuΓ² sect. These ten years are the stages that all the disciples of the Taishang Sect must go through, and no one can be exempted. Of course, the rules are clear, but how to accommodate in private is all up to the individual. For example, if the elders like Changning are all Taoist children from the Taishang Sect, they don't need to participate in the sect ceremony, and they can go back to the sect when they are officially taught in March next year, and no one will care about you if they want to go back to live with the elders.

Changning was able to hide leisurely, but Bai Xue and Mo Tong were too busy during this time, and there were more than 10,000 disciples recruited every time, these Dao children were all ten to fifteen years old, and they were all placed under the Grinding Sword Peak, and these were all in charge of the disciples of each vein. There are many disciples of the other lineage, and they are quite comfortable, but there are few disciples in the first line of the Qingxu Palace, and her master has only one disciple, and she doesn't know where she has traveled at present. There are seven more registered disciples in her master, but one person is in retreat, three people are far away, Changning is too small, and the burden falls on Bai Xue and Mo Tong. During this time, the two of them were so busy that they couldn't wait to separate ten or eight bodies, and Changning took the initiative to go to them, why did the senior sister come here today?

"There's something I really want you to help with." Bai Xue said with a smile, "I want you to go to the Dongguoxi Yunzhu Field to collect this year's spirit beads, there is still a peach forest in the bead field, and you will let people pick a hundred peach branches with the most yang energy from the hundred-year-old peach forest, and the door will be equipped with a peach wood sword for the entry Taoist." ”

"Okay." Changning agreed, "Senior sister, I'm just going to get the spirit beads that I collected, not really going to collect the spirit beads, right?" ”

Bai Xue laughed when she heard this, "Of course, but it doesn't matter if you want to collect spirit beads, your current mana can collect hundreds of grains in one go." ”

"I'd better not be ugly, save wasting spiritual things." Changning said.

The common currencies in the cultivation realm are spirit stones and spirit beads, and the status of these two currencies is equal to the secular silver ingots and copper coins. Usually the circulation is dominated by spirit beads, and spirit stones are only auxiliary. Lingbei is produced by Lingbei, each bead field is built on the Lingbei, only the medium or above Lingbei can raise Lingbei, Lingbei spits out the aura, contains the Lingzhu, and the bead field generally collects the pearl once every ten years.

Because the monk has a spell that can make the spirit shell spit out the beads, there is no need to do the thing of killing the shellfish and taking the pearls, and the older the spirit shell, the more sufficient the spiritual energy of the spirit beads. It's just that every time Lingbei spits out the spirit bead, he must seal the aura within half an hour, otherwise the aura in the spirit bead will gradually be lost. Therefore, the sealing beads are all made by monks with profound skills and experience. Changning has always been very strange, the cultivation world uses this kind of spirit bead that can be mass-produced, isn't it afraid of inflation?

"What's a waste of this, anyway, every time you collect the beads, you have to put half of them back into the spiritual vein, and the beads that are too late to be collected will be returned to that half of the way." Bai Xue said, "The main reason why you go to the bead field is to see if these people are taking good care of the spiritual vein. "The spiritual vein, this is the root of the bead field.

Changning nodded, the spirit vein nurtured the spirit shell, and putting the spirit bead back into the spirit vein was also feeding the spirit vein, which was the way to life.

Bai Xue saw that the little girl had a serious face, and couldn't help laughing: "You can go to the spirit vein to play after you arrive at the bead field, although the spirit beads and spirit shells in them have no aura, they can sell very well, especially the spirit shell is still a good material for making talismans." ”

"No need." Changning knew that the spiritual vein was an important place in the sect, and idlers were not allowed to enter. In particular, the spiritual veins of the bead field are the places where the spiritual shells are fed, and the spiritual energy in them becomes liquid, which can not only raise the spiritual shells, but also have a miraculous effect on the monks, nourishing the meridians and replenishing the essence and strengthening the yuan. It is said that one of the rewards of the sect for meritorious monks is to go to the spiritual liquid pool to cultivate.

"Don't worry, this spiritual vein is ours, don't say that you go down to play, you can just take a bath in it, even if the spiritual liquid pool is full of spiritual shells, it is uncomfortable to soak." Bai Xue said.

"Ours?" Changning repeated in confusion.

"This spiritual vein was given to us by the master, and the income belongs to us for six points, and she doesn't want it, senior sister." Bai Xue explained, "We don't have more than such a bead field, we are all rewarded by the ancestors, masters and uncles, and the senior brothers and sisters don't share with us, and when you learn to settle accounts, these account books are all under your control." "What Bai Xue is most afraid of is settling accounts, but no one cares about these things before, and they all have a lot of words, saying that the ape clan is a close relative of the human race, and it is the smartest. Bai Xue felt that the stupidest thing was obviously herself, she actually took those account books because of a few words of flattery from them, and she didn't even recognize all the words at that time!

Changning's scalp tingled when she heard the two words in the account book, and she changed the topic and said, "Senior sister, is this spiritual vein from the master?" "Otherwise, how could the master give it to the disciple.

Bai Xue said: "Little junior sister, you still don't know the rules of our sect, right? If a disciple finds a spiritual vein privately, he can keep it for himself or give it to the sect, and the management of the spiritual vein is responsible for the sect, and the disciple can get a third of the income from it. "In the final analysis, Bai Xue is to let Changning go out for a trip and get benefits by the way. The junior sister is about to enter the Sword Grinding Peak, but it is not okay to have no money in hand, Bai Xue knew that she would give the junior sister the baby directly, and the junior sister would definitely not accept it, so she thought of such a gift-giving method.

"The spirit veins can still move?" Changning asked rarely, the sect's requirements are quite reasonable, it is not easy to manage and plan a spiritual vein, and it is easy to sit back and enjoy its success, which is divided into three percent of the benefits, and ordinary people are happy.

"Of course, many of our spiritual veins here were brought back by the disciples of the sect when they traveled around." Middle-earth has been comfortable and stable for so long, and the spiritual veins that should have been discovered have been discovered early, and if the sect wants to develop, it can only go to the outer continent to find opportunities. Why do senior brothers and elder sisters travel all over the world? Why did Uncle Shen go to the Outer Continent? In addition to looking for opportunities to break through, it is to find resources for the sect, but the junior sister is still too young, so let's wait for her to tell her when she is older, it's not good to frighten children, Bai Xue thought secretly.

How does it sound a bit like external plunder? Changning secretly thought, she also knew that Taishangzong was such a big sect, of course, it was impossible to only have a bright side, some things were really not good to evaluate, the so-called right and wrong justice were all on their own standpoint, not to mention that she was full of the benefits of Taishangzong.

Changning and Bai Xue are not procrastinators, Changning listened to Bai Xue's explanation, changed her clothes and went out, and refused Bai Xue's mention of letting her take a team of Taoist soldiers, she was there to collect the accounts and not to show off her might. Mo Tong knew that Changning was going to Dongguo, so she gave her a bamboo slip and a storage bag, on which were written a lot of medicinal materials, she was going to open a furnace for alchemy, these medicinal materials were what she needed, and asked Changning to purchase them for her by the way.

The monks below the Yuan Infant in the Taishang Cave are not allowed to fly at will, Changning took the spirit bird on the Liuxia Peak down the mountain, under the Liuxia Peak is a big lake, the bamboo raft on the river is swimming, Changning raised his hand and beckoned a bamboo raft, and said to the old man holding the bamboo raft with a smile, "Senior brother, I want to go out of the cave." ”

The old man who supported the raft was an unborn martial artist, with white hair but full of spirit. Most of these people were once Taoist children of the Taishang Sect, and because they did not pass the GuΓ² sect assessment, they chose to become the sect's miscellaneous servants because they were unwilling to leave the sect. Taishang Cave Heaven is full of aura, even if ordinary mortals are properly maintained, they can live for one hundred and twenty or thirty, who wants to leave lightly? The title in the sect is roughly according to the order of generation and entry, Changning just privately worshiped Cangfeng Yuanjun as a teacher, and the formal apprenticeship ceremony will have to wait for ten years, on the bright side, she is still a Taoist child, and it is polite and polite to call the old man a senior brother, and it is not strange to have many people.

The old man responded in a loud voice, and the oars came over at one o'clock, "Is the little junior sister going home to visit relatives?" "The sect is very protective of Daotong, and for the disciples who live in the subject country, they are allowed to go home once a month, and the disciples in Middle-earth do not have this benefit, after all, it is too far.

"Yes." Changning nodded, she was going to pay a visit to Eminem and Brother Hei by the way. At present, most of the Taoist children who are starting to learn words and read the scriptures, and the formal teaching and practice will wait until March next year, and many Taoist children who have monks in their families will go home to practice and not waste this half a year.

The old man looked at Changning with emotion, once upon a time he was so high-spirited, but gradually he felt that he was boating on the river every day, drinking and fishing was not bad, he had enjoyed it in his life, and there were very few people who could become immortals.

Changning didn't know what the old man was thinking, when she came to Taishang Sect, she took a flying boat, she basically stayed in Liuxia Peak to practice for half a year, and never carefully appreciated the beautiful scenery of the sect. ”

When the old man saw the wine, his eyes lit up, and he unscrewed the plug and took a big sip, "Little junior sister, if you want to cross the river in the future, come to me, I will support the raft quickly and steadily." ”

"Okay." Changning smiled, turned around and walked into the mountain gate Zhike Hall, handed over the disciple's nameplate, and walked out of the cave after saying where to go. As soon as she came out of the cave, she was uncomfortable, the spiritual energy in the cave was sufficient, although the mountain gate had a spiritual vein in the secular station, but where could it be compared to the cave sky, there was no spiritual vein below the top grade in the cave sky. Changning summoned the red silk and turned the red silk into a cloud of white clouds, she jumped and lay on the white clouds, driving the white clouds to the east.

During this time, in addition to concentrating on cultivation, Changning also pondered about her two treasures from time to time, and she couldn't see the level of the two treasures at all, but Ah Weng said that these two things should be made of magic weapon materials, so that she could ponder and refine these two treasures, and she should not be greedy.

Changning has always been an obedient good child, her grandfather will do what she says, and she has roughly realized the usefulness of these two treasures for most of the year, the red silk is the main self-defense magic weapon, and the yin and yang ring is the main auxiliary magic weapon, she cultivates every day when the essence of the moon is strong, all because the yin and yang ring will help her absorb the essence of the moon, which is the effect of the material of the two magic weapons themselves, and she wants to increase the function can add a talisman to the top of the ban.

These two are the treasures that Changning is preparing to be the natal magic weapon refining, and she is also extra cautious about adding talismans, she can't think of what to add to the yin and yang ring for the time being, and she adds a cloud escape talisman to the red silk, and she also saves the need to use flying magic weapons when she goes out, but her skills are still shallow, so she has refined a layer of talismans, which is slightly faster than the carriage, and the Tianma relics given to her by her grandfather cannot be compared. Anyway, the senior sister said that the time is not in a hurry, and she can come back before February next year. Changning lay down on the soft clouds and read a book, occasionally distracting himself from a trace of attention to control the direction of the clouds' flight. Two fluffy little things came out of her sleeves, they were two little hummingbirds, one after the other standing in the white clouds to guard Changning, and when they flew crookedly, they chirped a few times to remind Changning.

There are many monks coming and going near Taishangzong, and from time to time someone roars through the sky. The white clouds in Changning looked no different from ordinary white clouds, floating slowly, and she was covered tightly by the white clouds, but no one cared. By the time the hummingbird chirped, it was already sunset, and the smoke was boundless. Changning pressed the cloud head, she has always been careful, she likes to prepare well in advance, she has already calculated the speed of the white clouds, and happened to be in front of a high mountain. She has never loved places with many people, but after cultivating, she is closer to the mountains and forests, and she also chooses quiet mountains and forests to rest at night.

She has night vision and doesn't need to light a lamp, so she walks along the mountain trails, ready to find a suitable cave or tree to rest for the night.

"Jian Xian is attached to the potential, and there are many vain ......" The sound of reading came, Changning looked back, and saw a young scholar leading a thin black donkey, while reciting the book loudly, while striding over, the scholar's voice was loud, but his eyes often looked left and right, and his face was panicked.

Changning thought about it for a while, and guessed that this person might be afraid because he was walking alone on the mountain road in the evening, so he relied on reciting books to strengthen his courage, and couldn't help but secretly laugh, this person was so loud that the Yin God might have been scared away by him, but what if he provoked robbers? She didn't care about the scholar and continued to walk forward, but she didn't want a frightened scream to suddenly sound behind her, "Hellβ€”"

She looked back in astonishment, and saw that the scholar was dragging his thin donkey desperately, and at the same time running wildly towards the road from which he came, and he wanted to go fast, but the thin donkey did not cooperate, and snorted at him in the same place. Changning probed around with her divine sense, she didn't feel that there was a yin god nearby, she saw that the scholar's face was pale, and she was still reluctant to take her box of books off, trembling and wanting to take the bookbox off the donkey, her thin body was about to fall apart, and she said kindly: "There are no ghosts here." ”

The scholar was so frightened that he drilled into the thin donkey who was grazing with his head down, raised a donkey's hoof to Changning tremblingly, and stammered: "You-don't come here-look at my black donkey's hooves!" ”

"Ahh

Changning: "......"