The scholar lifted the black donkey's hooves, and remembered that the black donkey's hooves were used to deal with zombies, and to deal with ghosts, they were to be whipped with wicker, and he hurriedly tore off a willow branch from his waist, "Don't come here!" I'm going to pump you! He kept muttering to himself, "The willow branches fight ghosts, and the more they fight, the smaller they get!" ”

Changning laughed and laughed, she didn't expect that she would be treated as a ghost one day, she saw that the willow branch was torn off half of the scholar in a panic, and turned to leave, since this scholar was afraid of herself, she would be fine if she left.

The scholar trembled and hugged his thin donkey, worried that the female ghost would come to harm him, but he didn't want the female ghost to turn around and leave, he dared to look under the donkey's belly, and when he saw the long black shadow on Changning's side, he let out a long breath, "Aunt-aunt-girl, you wait!" He stumbled after Changning, his body was already thin, his legs were weak after being frightened, and he staggered when he walked, and from time to time he hit the bushes on the side of the road.

Changning stopped helplessly, "What are you calling me for?" ”

"Dare to ask my aunt - is the little lady a disciple of the Taishang Sect?" The scholar straightened the square scarf on his head and asked, in addition to the female ghosts who went out in the middle of the night, there were also chivalrous women, and when he rushed to Changning, he found that the person he thought was a female ghost was actually a girl who was as pink as snow, and the scholar remembered that Taishangzong had recruited disciples during this time, and guessed that she might be a Taoist child of Taishangzong.

"What's the matter with you?" Changning did not answer the rhetorical question.

The scholar asked tremblingly, "Is the girl really a disciple of the Supreme Sect?" ”

Changning turned around and continued on the road, and the scholar saw this and hurriedly pulled the thin donkey to follow Changning, "Girl, I know there is a deserted temple in front. ”

Changning didn't reply, and his footsteps didn't stop, but he gradually slowed down.

At this time, there was only a trace of sunset left, and the evening wind was biting, and the wind blew on the branches, whining, and the shadows of the trees swayed with the wind, like strange creatures shouting and stretching their limbs with joy. The scholar shuddered, tripped over a branch on the ground, and fell face to the ground, grinning in pain, but he didn't forget to look up to see if Changning had walked away.

Changning hesitated, took out a small glass lantern from the storage bag and placed it beside the scholar, and the clear light reflected the lantern in the flowing clouds. This is one of the glazed utensils that the Shen family gave her some time ago, it was originally a glazed lotus cup, she changed it into a lantern on a whim, and also took advantage of the light of the moon as a light source when she was cultivating. Because she just refined it casually, this talisman is not powerful, and it is enough for lighting at this time.

The scholar was stunned when he saw this lamp, and hurriedly thanked him, "Thank you, little lady." ”

With the light on the road, the scholar walked much easier, along the way he kept chattering about his experience, he was from the north, his father left home for three years and did not return, he came to the east to find his father...... In just half an hour, he almost had to recite the family tree to Changning. Changning let him speak without saying a word, and he still walked unhurriedly, obviously the cultivation of the mind during this period was very effective.

When the scholar began to lose his breath when he spoke, the two came to the deserted temple that the scholar said. This deserted temple only has two entrances before and after, the first one into the Daxiong Treasure Hall in the statue has long been gone, the incense case is broken, the cobwebs are dense, the two people only entered the hall and were startled by a piece of dust, the scholar couldn't help but sneez, this time it was even more startled by a gray fog. The lantern in the scholar's hand lit up suddenly, and the clear light washed away the gray fog that rushed towards the two of them like water. The scholar looked at the lantern in his hand with surprise and joy, "Little lady, this lamp is really a good baby!" ”

Changning looked around and said to the scholar, "You go and close the door." ”

The scholar pulled the thin donkey in, closed the door, and couldn't help but sneeze several times.

Changning stretched out his hand and tapped the moonlight in the center of the lamp, and the center of the silver-white light in the lantern lit up a little red, as soon as this red appeared, the scholar felt warm all around, and he looked at the lamp with the eyes of a god. There are many practitioners here, and there are also wealthy families who use talismans, but scholars obviously do not belong to this list. Changning only added a trace of Taihua light to the light of the moonlight, this lamp is a treasure that can illuminate and warm up and dispel the fog for ordinary people, but it is useless for qi refiners.

The scholar hesitated as if he had won a heavy treasure holding the lantern and said, "Little lady, since this lamp can protect against the cold, let's open the door." ”

Changning glanced at him, and the scholar hurriedly explained: "We are lonely men and widows, and we don't pay much attention to etiquette after all, so it stands to reason that Xiaosheng should avoid suspicion, but now it's really cold and dewy outside, so we open the door and let the little lady's reputation be unhindered." ”

When talking about fame, the scholar's face was slightly red, and Changning found out that this scholar was actually very handsome. Changning has been accustomed to seeing handsome men and beautiful women since cultivating immortals, and this scholar is one of them, especially eye-catching is his slightly raised phoenix eyes, the color of his eyes is actually a light golden brown, and the clear light seems to cover these shallow eyes with a layer of mist that reveals a very gentleness. Is this man a half-breed? This thought flashed through Changning's heart, "The light is for you." Saying that, she didn't open the door, pinched her fingers, and as soon as she had a flash of inspiration, she appeared more than ten miles away.

The scholar was taken aback, "Little lady! He chased the lantern with one hand, and pushed open the top door in a panic with the other, where was Changning's figure outside the door. After the scholar walked out of the temple gate, his eyes closed slightly, and after a while, his eyebrows were slightly raised, he coughed a few times, and a few wisps of blood oozed from the corners of his lips, and he laughed softly, "What a cautious little girl." When the scholar spoke, he seemed to be a different person, with the same appearance, but the temperament was different from the previous abyss. He looked down at the palace lamp in his hand, smiled, casually put away the payment ring, and walked into the dark night of the mountain forest, the wind shouted more and more poignantly.

In the opposite direction of the scholar, Changning had summoned Tianma to rush overnight. Regardless of whether this scholar was an ordinary person or not, she was not ready to stay overnight in the deserted temple with him. Giving him a glass lotus lamp is a gesture, and it is also regarded as accumulating external merits, but you should also pay attention to your own safety when accumulating good deeds. The vicinity of Taishangzong is very safe, and there is no Taoist child who went out and was robbed, but he can be careful to sail the ship of ten thousand years. After Changning escaped from the deserted temple, she summoned the Tianma relics to rush to the Dongguo Creek Cloud Bead Field, and she didn't know that she had escaped because of her caution.

The speed of Tianma is not comparable to Changning's little white clouds, she hurried overnight, Chen Shi has arrived at the Xiyun Pearl Field, has not yet entered the Pearl Field, I feel that the surrounding aura is much stronger than other places, everywhere sparse forests, fragrant grass, not at all like the wax moon season, but like the spring of March. Changning rode his horse and fell, slowly walking, the vegetation here is full of aura, obviously soaked by the aura for many years, and it has become a spiritual plant.

The fluttering sound of flapping wings sounded, Changning looked for prestige, and saw the two little hummingbirds she brought struggling to hold on to one and hang two branches towards her, Changning smiled and reached out to take the fresh fruit, and let him take out two pills the size of sycamore seeds to feed them, and he was so happy that two small things rubbed in her palm. Changning was used to raising birds when he was young, and knew that the so-called birds were killed for food, and bird food was the most important part of raising birds. This bird food was configured by Changning after reading the ancient books in the door and according to the habits of hummingbirds. For this reason, she also specially borrowed a Dan furnace for Senior Sister Mo, and under the guidance of Senior Sister Mo, she refined tens of thousands of pills mixed with spiritual nectar in one go, enough for them to eat for a year or two.

These pills are very popular with hummingbirds, and they don't even refuse to eat spiritual honey, she has been feeding them for more than half a year, and the already clever hummingbird is a lot more psychic, and the color of the fur is becoming more and more colorful, and the two she brought out are the most psychic among them, and they can basically understand the instructions she makes. The master said that if there is a fate, maybe he can open up his wisdom and turn from a bird to a demon. Changning became more and more interested in them, and took them with him wherever he went. If you have pets, you have to be responsible for the end, this is Changning's usual concept, of course, when they open their spiritual wisdom, she is only responsible for guiding them to cultivate, and how they develop in the future depends on themselves.

"May I ask Daoyou, Senior Sister Shen, Chen is polite." A clear voice sounded, and a green-shirted female cultivator stood not far away and bowed to Changning.

Changning dismounted and returned the salute, "I'm Shen Changning, Senior Sister Chen is polite." ”

Xuanmen men and women are equal, so most of the female cultivators call themselves me, Yu or so, unless there are a few female cultivators with strange hobbies, few people use cheap titles such as slave and slave family. As far as Dan Dao is concerned, women are Kun body, close to tranquility, and far easier to achieve than male monks, so the cultivation world has always been known as "three years for female cultivators, and nine years for men". Five of the Nine Great Sect Masters are Yuanjun, and three of the six Yang Shendao Venerables on the face of Taishang Sect are women. But in general, there are still more men and fewer women in the Xuanmen, because the men in the world can find fate for thousands of miles, but women are difficult to leave the boudoir.

Senior Sister Chen said, "I received a summons from Senior Sister Bai yesterday, saying that Senior Sister will arrive in a few days, I thought that Senior Sister would arrive in a few days, and I didn't want to get up early today to listen to the magpie calling, and when I came out, I saw that Senior Sister was coming." Saying that, she invited Changning into the pearl field.

Changning turned slightly to one side and walked into the bead field with Senior Sister Chen. Xiyun Bead Field is placed on the spiritual vein, which is the important place of the sect, and each spiritual vein has a prohibition set by the power of the sect, and it requires a command to enter and exit freely. Changning touched the prohibition lightly to know the prohibition in the Duo Bao Jue, since she accepted the inheritance, she entered the Tai Ji Tu every day to visualize the Tao pattern, not only has a deep understanding of the Nirvana Sutra, but also has a further understanding of the Duo Bao Jue, this may be the so-called Dao Zhi Simple, a reason through a hundred miles of integration, right? But Changning also knew that in addition to the Dao pattern, there was nothing that could be called the simplicity of the Dao.

After entering the ban, the aura is stronger, the pearl field is set on a beach, the waves are surging, the white sand is soft, and the shallows are spread with endless spiritual shells, the treasure light is crystal clear, and the beauty is innumerable, "It's so beautiful." Changning admired softly.

Senior Sister Chen saw that she was only amazed by the beautiful scenery in her eyes, and there was no greed for Lingzhu at all, she raised her eyebrows, and a smile appeared on her face, "Senior Sister likes it here, you can stay for a few more days, the aura here is not as good as Taishang Dongtian, but the scenery is wide and bright, and it has a unique flavor." ”

Changning said: "Of course this is good, I'm afraid that Senior Sister will dislike me and disturb your tranquility." ”

"In such a big place, in addition to me and Ah Tao, there are only a few yellow turban wrestlers, and even a person who talks funny, I wish my junior sister would stay here for a long time." Senior Sister Chen said that the Yellow Turban wrestlers are not as good as the spirits of plants and trees raised by the sect, they have no intelligence, except for the sturdy body and infinite strength, they have no other advantages, and their actions must be commanded by the monks.

Changning was surprised and asked, "There are only two senior sisters and senior sisters Tao in the huge bead field?" "Senior Sister Tao is originally a peach tree, this plant spirit has a long lifespan, likes to be quiet and does not like to move, it is the best choice to guard the spiritual veins, and there is a plant demon cultivator stationed in each spiritual vein of the sect.

Senior Sister Chen jokingly asked: "Otherwise, how many people do you think will be stationed in the bead field?" ”

Changning said: "I originally thought that the pearl field was so big, and the affairs must be heavy. ”

Senior Sister Chen led Changning to a tea pavilion built on a shoal, took out the tea utensils to cook tea, "Although the bead field is large, the affairs are not heavy, and the busiest is the collection of pearls once every ten years, and Ah Tao and I are enough directors." A Tao is a peach tree, and she has never liked to see people, so my sister forgive me. ”

Changning nodded indifferently, unless he was raised by the human race since he was a child, most demon cultivators don't like to be close to the human race, just like the human race is rarely willing to get close to the demon race.

Senior Sister Chen put the soup bottle on the small stove, poured in the spiritual spring water, and used the tea to dial some tea leaves to the tea lotus, "This is the sea tea made by me picking algae from the sea, which tastes slightly different from ordinary tea, and I don't know if my sister is used to drinking it." ”

Changning saw that the color of these tea leaves was jet black, in clusters, with a faint salty smell of the sea, "I have heard that people have heard before that they can make tea with kelp*, which is similar to the seaweed tea of senior sister, right?" ”

Senior Sister Chen doesn't want Changning to be so proficient in the tea ceremony at a young age, it is inevitable that there are some surprises, and now children love tea so much? "Yes, I added kelp to it too." Senior Sister Chen waited for the spring water in the soup bottle to boil, first rinsed the tea set with water, gathered the tea leaves in the tea lotus into the teapot, filtered it with boiling water, and then poured boiling water to simmer the tea lid. A set of movements is smooth and pleasing to the eye.

Changning sat on the edge of the pavilion, looking at the clear and visible sea water under the pavilion, the different shades of water, the open sea level outside the pavilion, and the blue and white sky from time to time with seabirds crossing by, "The word Qing Jing is nothing more than that, no wonder the senior sister is willing to live here for fifty years." Changning sighed with emotion, this Senior Sister Chen has never left since she came to Zhuchang fifty years ago.

"Not bad." Senior Sister Chen said with a smile, "The spiritual veins and spiritual energy here are not as good as those of the sect, but they are enough for me to cultivate, and no matter how good the door is, it cannot be quiet." ”

These words are simple and profound, Changning can't understand this senior sister's thoughts, so she can only laugh and say nothing, but she is also right, not everyone in the sect is single-minded, where there are people, there are rivers and lakes. She is blessed with great love, and she has elders and fellow disciples to carefully support her cultivation at the beginning, and she only needs to practice and don't care about anything else.

Senior Sister Chen waited for the fragrance of tea to gradually dissipate, and poured a cup of tea for Changning, "Senior sister, taste my tea." ”

Changning took a sip, the entrance of the tea was slightly salty, but there was a different fragrance, "Good tea!" Changning's eyes lit up, she generally did not refuse to come to tea, only one tea, she knew that this thing was good but still unwilling to try it, probably because her state of mind was not cultivated enough, and she could not see the essence through the appearance.

"Senior sister likes it, so I'll take some back, I've concocted a lot." Senior Sister Chen said heartily.

"Then I'm disrespectful." Changning took out the tea leaves he brought from Linwu Island from the storage bag, "This is the tea I brought from home, the taste is soft and sweet, and my senior sister will also taste it." ”

Senior Sister Chen looked like a tea lover at first glance, and the smile on her face after accepting the tea was much more sincere. The two sisters chatted while drinking tea, Senior Sister Chen was a Taoist boy thirty years ago, and she still remembered the interesting things when she was a Taoist child, and she told Changning a lot of precautions when she was a Taoist child. Taishangzong recruits tens of thousands of Taoist children every ten years, regardless of age and qualifications at the time of entry, and the sect takes the initiative to accept apprentices from children who are basically ten to fifteen years old, but there are more than fifteen, as long as they are dedicated to the Tao, the sect will not refuse.

There are five kinds of exercises to practice after entry, which are Xinjin, Yimu, Renshui, Dinghuo, and Wutu Five Elements True Method, these five true methods have their own characteristics, although they are not as good as the five classics that are transmitted in the door, but they are also the authentic sect of Xuanmen, and the monks of Taishangzong who use these five kinds of mental methods to achieve more than three grades of gold pills abound, and there is a conventional law in the practice world that only those who achieve more than three grades of gold pills can hope for immortality. In addition, Dao Tong can also choose five cultivation methods from hundreds of Dao methods, and any more will have to exchange his own contributions for exercises.

Changning had never heard of these things, and he heard them with relish. Senior Sister Chen didn't mention the Lingzhu matter, she just leisurely tasted tea and enjoyed the scenery, saying that if there was not some accident in the middle, she would not have come so early, I didn't expect the scenery of Zhuchang to be so beautiful.

After the two refilled the tea twice, and tasted Senior Sister Chen's special vegetarian refreshments, Senior Sister Chen got up and said with a smile: "This year's spirit beads have been included in the spirit vein, and Senior Sister will go with me to collect the spirit beads." ”

"Senior sister, please." Changning smiled and bowed his hand, and asked Senior Sister Chen to lead the way.

Senior Sister Chen saw that although she was full of smiles, she couldn't see anything other than laughing, and secretly thought in her heart that this little junior sister was young, but the city government was quite deep, and her speech and demeanor were quite atmospheric, and she didn't look like a child from a small family, and she had a slightly better impression of her in her heart. It turned out that Senior Sister Chen didn't have a good impression of Changning at first, because she came to the bead field too quickly. Senior Sister Chen received a summons from Bai Xue yesterday morning, and thought she would wait for a few days, but she didn't want her to come early the next morning.

She is a little disciple who has just built a foundation, how can she hurry to get to the pearl field in one day and one night? Thinking about this, Senior Sister Chen inevitably had prejudice against Changning, and at that time, she slandered that even if Senior Sister Bai asked you to take benefits, this was too anxious, and she still thought that Bai Xue was in the way of human favor to let her come to the bead field. It's just that the cultivators are deep in the city, and Senior Sister Chen didn't show it, but she still couldn't help but pull Changning to drink tea, and deliberately said something unimportant, I wanted to make her anxious, but I didn't want her to really be able to drink tea and enjoy the scenery quietly, and she was a tea lover, so she gradually felt that this little junior sister was not bad.

The spiritual veins of Zhuchang are placed on the low cliffs by the sea, and Changning followed Senior Sister Chen all the way to the depths of the spiritual veins, and everywhere he looked, there were all the shining shells, how could there be so many shells?

Senior Sister Chen seemed to see Changning's doubts, and took the initiative to explain: "These are the relics of Lingbei, this is the place where Lingbei is born, Lingbei will return here before he dies, and Lingbei's flesh and blood will turn into clear water after three hours after death, and it will not pollute the spiritual vein, but will only feed the spiritual vein." ”

Changning nodded, the natural creation was really magical.

"Chirp-" The hummingbird, which had been hiding quietly in Changning's sleeve, suddenly came out and happily rushed to the depths of the spiritual vein. Changning looked at Senior Sister Chen's surprised gaze and said embarrassedly: "Senior Sister forgive me, these two little hummingbirds were spoiled by me, and they didn't care about anything when they found that there was enough spiritual energy. ”

Senior Sister Chen smiled and said, "I love such a cute bird." Let them play if they like it, the spirit veins are not so fragile. Changning nodded, and Senior Sister Chen said again: "These Lingbei spiritual qi has been dissipated, but the quality is like beautiful jade, if Senior Sister likes it, you can pick a few to enjoy." ”

Changning lowered her head and picked out a shell that was not enough to hold, and sure enough, the quality was like beautiful jade, moist and lovely, she put it in her sleeve and said: "This is just right to make Beiguang*." ”

Senior Sister Chen smiled, led a long way, came to a stone room, Changning only felt that his eyes lit up, but there were several jade basins in the stone room, and countless pearls were placed in the jade basins, and the pearls illuminated the entire stone room. ”

Senior Sister Chen couldn't help but smile: "It's not a jewel. ”

Changning walked in only to find that these jade basins were all storage jade basins, and the spirit beads in the basins were far more than what she saw, "Senior sister, this is this year's account book, you can read it again." Senior Sister Chen handed Changning an account book.

Changning took the account book and flipped through it, the spirit beads are divided into three grades, if the upper grade spirit beads are abundant in spiritual energy, larger than three inches, and the spirit beads below eight points are all not in the product. All the high-grade spirit beads are handed over to the sect, and they are exclusively for the middle grade above the golden pill is the currency circulating in the cultivation realm, and the lower-grade spirit beads are used by the disciples in the sect for cultivation. In addition to taking out a part of the spirit beads that are not in the product and returning them to the spirit vein, the rest are all returned to the caretakers of the bead field, which is really a fat shortage.

The spirit beads used to act as currency are all issued by the Tongling Treasure Houses all over the Central Continent, and a batch of spirit beads is issued every ten years, and the number is determined by the nine major sects. Changning flipped through the account books, and suddenly had an epiphany that Lingzhu was a copper coin, which was clearly a paper money! Paper money is useless at all, and the spirit bead can still be used for cultivation, and there are nine major door-to-door controls together, no wonder there is no inflation.

Changning originally thought that the bead field must be chaotic, but he didn't want to be so quiet, and only the two of them occupied a middle-grade spiritual vein, and the cultivation environment was not worse than that of the sect, so Senior Sister Bai wouldn't give it lightly to outsiders, right? Changning was thoughtful, and at the same time, she quickly finished the account book with a glance and ten lines, and as soon as she raised her hand, she shrunk a few storage jade basins to the size of a fingernail and put them into a purse, which is either a storage bag or an ordinary purse, which is just used to collect these jade basins, "Senior Sister Chen is tired of you." ”

"Senior sister is too polite." Senior Sister Chen looked at Changning and took a few jade basins lightly, smiled slightly, and asked Changning to follow her to another stone room, not to mention anything else, this little junior sister's cultivation is really not weak, and ordinary little disciples can't do this.

In the other stone room, there are also spirit beads, ranging in size and quantity, Senior Sister Chen said with a smile: "Senior sister is here for the first time, senior sister has nothing to give, these spirit beads should be used as a head for senior sister." ”