Fusheng listened, but the smile on his face widened.

Liu Xiaohua suddenly felt very embarrassed when she saw his smile. Turning his head, he asked, "Do you see I'm scared?" "Thinking about it, I didn't show it very obvious at the time, right? I didn't want to be misunderstood, so I said to him seriously: "I'm not trying to save face. I said I wasn't afraid. ”

But he didn't expect Fusheng not to ask, just nodded: "I know." ”

The explanation she prepared was so hard to be blocked. It's strange and depressed. Although I didn't think that Fusheng really understood, I thought that if I forcibly explained, it would be more suspicious, so I had to swallow what I wanted to say unwillingly.

And Fusheng closed his eyes, as if he was about to sleep, but said, "When I was young." The more scared you are, the more you say you're not afraid. It's not about saving face. I just think that I can't say it. The more you talk about it, the more scared you become. The more scared you are, the more useless it becomes. I don't want to be useless. Only when she becomes a useful person and meets someone she wants to protect can she say to her, it's okay to be afraid, there is me. There is one less person in the world who lives in fear. His voice was low, choppy by the night wind.

But Liu Xiaohua heard it very clearly.

She thought, this kind of thought, maybe some kind of empathy, right?

When he was afraid, he did not wait for the person who saved him. So he had to play this role on his own. It sounds like he wants to protect others, but why not make amends to himself. As if by protecting others, he could find some comfort for himself.

"Then later, you met someone you wanted to protect?"

Fusheng was silent for a long time and did not speak.

Liu Xiaohua thought he was asleep.

But he opened his eyes and turned his head to look at Liu Xiaohua.

The night wind came and blew away his broken hair, and the green silk hunted and raised, and his narrow eyes were like sparkling autumn water, "Maybe." ”

"That ......"

Fusheng said calmly: "However, when I met me, my state of mind was already different. What I want is no longer a plain life with beauty, nor do I want a dodder who can only survive by relying on my protection. ”

Liu Xiaohua also heard a little melancholy.

In life, from childhood to adulthood, people have so many ideals, but when they are really capable of achieving them in the end, they already have new goals. It seems that it will never be achieved.

Fusheng was tired and closed his eyes and said, "You have to remember that love in the world cannot be relied on. At first, of course, he likes you, but later, he doesn't necessarily dislike you, but he just wants something else. If I can exchange you, even if I am reluctant or a little hesitant, I will not refuse. After all, love is like a cloud. But those who can't see it, most of them are cut off on a love word, and they try their best to get nothing, and in the end it's just in vain. People like you and me must like to see and touch tangible benefits, so why repeat the mistakes of our predecessors"

Liu Xiaohua retorted: "What kind of person am I, you, and me?" ”

Fusheng just muttered, "Clever man." After saying that, it seemed that he was really asleep. Didn't speak again,

Liu Xiaohua thought that Fusheng was just because he was like this, so he thought that everyone in the world was like him. But they don't know that in some things, they can't save people by themselves. After all, there are thousands of people in the world, and they are different, how can they all be so ruthless? Just like Master.

In the master's heart, there is nothing that can compare to his little apprentices.

Liu Xiaohua thought of this, and felt a little sentimental in her heart.

But when I think of it again, the master's little apprentice is himself. He was full of ambition again. As for why, I don't think about it. He turned his head and concentrated on the Codex.

Survived the night.

The next day, when it was only slightly light, the group was about to set off again.

Zhang Fengnian was naturally in good spirits.

The others were not tired, and the passion for discovering the new world had not yet subsided, and they chatted all the way about the Lingtai. From time to time, he ran up and asked Liu Xiaohua some meditation questions.

Although not everyone has a great benefit, at least everyone can find the Lingtai and know some basic meditation techniques, and after a night of meditation, the spirit is not as sluggish as those who stay up late.

Only Liu Xiaohua was more tired. The cheeks, which were not full, were sunken again.

Xu Sijiu walked behind her and said distressedly: "This night has been hard for my little uncle." ”

He Wen'er said without yin or yang: "Since I feel sorry for the little uncle, I haven't seen you volunteer to keep vigil." This is the time to sell well. ”

Xu Sijiu said aggrievedly: "Then you didn't volunteer to say that you wanted to keep vigil." "A pitiful look.

He Wen'er was disgusted with her style: "There is no stage here, who doesn't know who?" Do it for whom. ”

Linglong rolled her eyes when she heard this, and said impatiently: "This is also worth arguing?" Behold your virtues, like cockfighting. Because she was guided by Liu Xiaohua when she was looking for the Lingtai, she was with Liu Xiaohua, and she felt tens of thousands of uncomfortable. But because of the favor he received, he felt that he had no position to give Liu Xiaohua a look at his face. He poured out his anger on others.

After walking all the way, the three of them quarreled all the way.

It's either that you don't like me, or I don't like you. Linglong is not pleasing to anyone.

Zhou Qing was upset and irritable when he heard this, and interjected, "From today onwards, it would be good if we took turns to keep vigil, and it was worth arguing for so long." ”

Linglong smiled contemptuously and said proudly, "Did anyone talk to you?" ”

It made him bored.

Liu Xiaohua didn't bother to care about them. Let them quarrel. During the day, they just quarreled with each other, but at night, they still got together to study the practice. But I didn't hear Cheng Zhengzhi's voice after walking for a long time, so I glanced back. found that Cheng Zhengzhi and Fusheng were walking at the back, and they didn't know what they were talking about. The expression on Cheng Zhengzhi's face looked strangely serious, as if he had changed a person.

Liu Xiaohua looked at him and had a very strange feeling. It was as if standing there was a complete stranger.

Fusheng listened to Cheng Zhengzhi speak, his eyes looked into the distance, and he didn't know what he was thinking. Only occasionally respond. Cheng Zhengzhi was not very happy.

Liu Xiaohua couldn't help but wonder what these two people could talk about, and was about to go over, when she heard He Wen'er exclaim, "Rabbit!" ”

The three girls who had been arguing with each other ran into the field like crazy. Pull up the sleeves and pull the corners of the skirt all the way, shouting. Happy as a New Year.

Zhang Fengnian looked at their backs, stopped, but with a rare smile on his face, sighed, and said, "Young." He did not mean to discipline them. Although cultivating the Tao can attain immortal immortal bodies, the mentality is different from that of real young people.

The three girls plus Zhou Qing, a group of people chased for a long time, but they didn't chase them.

When he saw that the rabbit was about to run away, Zhang Fengnian suddenly grabbed his hand in the air, and the rabbit fell to the ground as if it was choked by something.

The disciples cheered and were about to pick it up, but as soon as Zhang Fengnian stopped it, they could only watch the rabbit flee into the deep grass and disappear again.

After everyone complained for a while, they met a new rabbit again, and chased after them. But because I have no experience in hunting, I can't catch up with any of them. In the end, it was just a waste of work, and my stomach was even hungrier.

It was a day of tossing and turning. By the afternoon of the next day, everyone was a little overwhelmed. Along the way, there was even less sound of talking. Not to mention chasing rabbits - no one wants to waste their bodies.

Zhang Fengnian didn't have to eat at all, and he didn't care if other people were hungry or not.

Everyone didn't dare to bother him. I had to be self-reliant, walking and looking for wild vegetables on the side of the road. But there was not even a flint. Liu Xiaohua deliberately tried to drill wood for fire, but she didn't know the trick, and she didn't try to get fire for a long time.

The last few people looked at each other, and could only eat raw grass, not even a bite of hot soup.

These refugees sat in a pile, chewing on grass roots, and watched Zhang Fengnian light a fire in his tent with indescribable envy.

Liu Xiaohua had a bitter mouthful of grass, and ran to ask Zhang Fengnian, "Senior brother, we know that we are wrong, we shouldn't expect others for everything." I won't dare to do it in the future. When can we learn some magic? It's good to be able to catch rabbits. ”

Zhang Fengnian only said: "It's not time yet." If each of your altars has four steps, I will teach you the technique. Let you catch rabbits and eat meat. ”

If there were other monks here, hearing him say this would make me laugh off my big teeth. Where is there a disciple who has just started to expand the spiritual platform to four steps, and it is only three and a half steps to the sky. Don't underestimate half a step, many people stay in the mountains for a year, and they can't get half a step.

But this group of fresh young monks didn't understand anything. All they know is that they are so hungry that their chests are close to their backs, and now their only and biggest dream in life is to eat fragrant rabbit meat. As for the rest, they all came to the back of the house, and none of them were taken to heart. So with Zhang Fengnian's words, everyone fantasized that the rabbit was caught one by one, and there was no distraction in practice, and there was no more concentration.

During the day, on the road, I have been discussing why the speed of absorbing those spirits is fast and slow. Sometimes, you don't have to say anything about getting up fast, but you can only get a little bit of slowing down for half a day.

Liu Xiaohua turned over the codex she brought, and she couldn't understand it. A few people almost didn't quarrel because of their own opinions. In the end, Liu Xiaohua followed Zhang Fengnian for advice.

In this regard, Zhang Fengnian has to answer all questions. But when asked how he could practice the fastest, he only asked with a blank face, "Do you want me to pass on the spirit to you, so that you don't have to absorb it yourself?" ”

Everyone didn't dare to ask anymore. It's up to you to figure it out.

In this way, the group of people traveled all the way during the day to argue, and took turns to practice at night.

Liu Xiaohua has also made a lot of progress.

Now the radius of her spiritual platform has reached five steps.

The number of spirits here is directly staggering. I don't know how much more than Xiao Penglai.

Thinking about it, there are so many disciples in Xiao Penglai, and so many people have been practicing in the mountains for many years, even if there are more spirits, they will gradually become thinner.

But it's different here.

There are no people here, and there is plenty of spirits. There were enough spirits within the altar for her to sit all night without having to change places.

There is also a slight difference. Xiao Penglai's spirit reaction is relatively slow, and he usually stays in one place quietly. These spirits are very active, and they often crash into them. The bad thing is that these spirits are very quick to react and move out of the box. There are even some special spirits that are not atomized and can struggle out of the range of the spiritual platform.

Liu Xiaohua tried several times, trying to catch this escaped spirit and see how it was different from other spirits.

But the other party's movements were too fast, and she was relatively clumsy, and she failed several times.

The last time, after the astute spirit escaped, Liu Xiaohua immediately thought of Heipi.

However, it did not know where it went, and there was no response at all.

In retrospect. Since it came out of Xiao Penglai, it has not reappeared. Since she couldn't find the black skin, Liu Xiaohua didn't dare to chase it out of range.

The disappearance of Heipi made Liu Xiaohua a little uneasy, I don't know what happened to it, or what happened?

But she never let herself get trapped in a negative situation that doesn't do anything positive. So I quickly suppressed this uneasiness and focused all my attention on how to eat rabbit meat.

Of all these people, as long as one person drags his feet, it will affect everyone. In order to eat meat early, everyone will ask each other how the progress is every day, and those who are faster will be excited, and those who are lower will be restless.

But because everyone is afraid of not being able to eat meat, people who are making fast progress will not only complain, but also try to help delay as much as possible and share their experience with others.

Soon, this benign pattern of practice was formed among the new disciples. Everyone pressures each other for a common goal, but they help each other.

By the time we reached the seventh day, everyone was already full of food and their legs were weak. Because the wild vegetables are old and coarse, the taste is simply against the sky. When I was so hungry that I couldn't stand it, every time I remembered the behavior of going out of the mountain without dry food, I wanted to slap myself.

No matter how unpalatable dry food is, it is better than weeds.

Under this kind of high pressure, the first one to exceed four steps is, of course, Liu Xiaohua.

The second is Cheng Zhengzhi.

The third is Zhou Qing.

The fourth is He Wen'er.

On the eighth day, Xu Sijiu and Linglong were still one step away.

On the ninth day, the two men remained silent.

On the tenth day, Xu Sijiu took half a step. Linglong did not make any progress, and the spiritual platform stagnated.

Day 11, day 12, day 13. Xu Sijiu had already passed four steps, but Linglong had never moved.

He Wen'er couldn't sit still, everyone was hungry, but seeing that there was meat everywhere, they couldn't eat it in their mouths. was so anxious that he circled around Linglong all day long, "What the hell is going on with you?" Did you make a mistake in any way? ”

Linglong didn't talk to anyone, and she didn't pay attention to her. Walk quickly with a calm face.

Xu Sijiu ran over to stop her and said, "The front is all fine, why can't it be done suddenly?" Did you do something wrong behind it? ”

Linglong was born and superior to others everywhere, and she has never tried this kind of taste that everyone can do but only can't do it herself, and her face turned red and said: "How do I know why?" I don't take a step by step, but I just can't! What can I do?!! Do you know that you are in a hurry in this world, but I don't know it? But you want you to follow me endlessly?! ”

Zhou Qing and the other men, when they saw the quarrel here, they were all silent.

Zhang Fengnian didn't pay attention to this side of the matter, but he just couldn't hear it.

First I was frightened by the haze, and then I was hungry for so long, and I was only resentful. So that the three girls became more and more fierce. Even Xu Sijiuyi, who is accustomed to pretending to be pitiful, launched a ruthless attack.

From beginning to end, count each other endlessly.

From not making progress in practice, to the point where you say that I can't talk with my brain, I say that you are a living drama, and then say together that the other one doesn't know what strength is noble, since he looks down on his peers, don't stay here. came and came, and what kind of noble girl's temper was put on.

In the end, I don't know who made the first move, you pulled my hair, I bit your arm, screamed and rolled on the ground.

Cheng Zhengzhi was dumbfounded. Zhou Qing couldn't see it, and wanted to go over, but Liu Xiaohua stopped him, "Let them fight!" ”

The three of them fought for a while, their hair was torn up and they were covered in mud, and they all felt that they had been bullied, and they cried.

I cried until I was tired, and there was no one to persuade me. So much so that the crying was still full of anger, but the heart couldn't help but be a little sneering.

Liu Xiaohua saw that they had stopped a little, rubbed her face, walked over and said, "The temper has passed, and the anger has been vented, why don't we help Linglong Shun again." Find out what went wrong. ”

Linglong's eyes were already swollen, and she didn't know who slapped her face, so she sat on the ground and said angrily: "I said it all, there is nothing wrong." It just doesn't work!! I'm not stupid! Do you think you're the only one in the world who has a brain? "I was so angry that I didn't care if I committed it or not, whether I would be guilty or not. It's completely out of the way.

Liu Xiaohua was not annoyed, but said calmly: "You just stand here, crying blind in your eyes and blowing up your lungs, and there is no benefit." It's just a waste of my own energy. If something went wrong, something must be wrong. If you can't find it once, you can find it a second time, and if you can't find it a second time, there will be a third time. If you go down one place at a time, you can always find it. If you are angry with it, won't it be a disaster? As he spoke, he called Zhou Qing and the others over.

The exquisite qi has been exhausted, but this day still has to be landed, the Tao still has to be cultivated, and if you think about it, Liu Xiaohua has a point. He pursed his lips tightly, wiped a handful of tears, and sat down on the spot. Start with meditation and talk about it little by little.

From meditation to transformation, none of the steps she took were wrong, and the speed of sucking the spirit was not slow, but the problem was that after she finished sucking the spirit, the spirit platform was not small at all.

Liu Xiaohua drew every step she took on the ground, and if she didn't have any problems at all, she drew a circle.

However, it was all circles from beginning to end. None of them are wrong.

Everyone knows that one of these circles has a problem. However, no one could find out which one it was.

Linglong clenched her fists and almost cried, but she kept her chin high, looking like she didn't want to pay attention to anyone, "I said it." There is simply no place to go wrong. ”

Zhou Qing whispered: "Is there something wrong with the Lingtai?" Otherwise, go and ask the master uncle! ”

Cheng Zhengzhi chewed on the grass roots and glanced at it and said, "I see, he already knew what was wrong with it." Just don't want to say it. I guess I want to see how stupid we are. ”

"There are many questions that will not be asked in the future practice. He probably wanted to see how we could solve the problem. Zhou Qing looked at the five big and three coarse, but he always thought a lot. Earlier, when Liu Xiaohua went to pick people, he asked the most questions and was the most tricky.

"How to solve it, dead way, solve it step by step." Liu Xiaohua said.

"But we've tried. Not at all. He Wen'er said angrily.

"Then we'll refine each step. Down to the last detail. Liu Xiaohua said in a deep voice. She didn't believe in it. It's the first one, meditation, which starts with cross-legged first, and doesn't let go of which leg is on it.

One by one, they draw circles and talk about the final return. Linglong suddenly stopped talking.

He Wen'er also reacted immediately, and said angrily: "After you have collected the spirit, why did you return to your body directly." You have to go back to the altar!! You still say you're okay! ”

Here's the problem! Liu Xiaohua was really relieved, but at the same time, there was also a sense of satisfaction that was very accomplished. When one is truly immersed in one thing and the problem is finally solved, the joy is incomparable.

Linglong's ears were red at the root, and she didn't speak.

Xu Sijiu couldn't help but snort, and laughed out loud, "After sucking the spirit, I didn't even go back to the spirit platform!" ”

Her own eye circles were □□, and there was blood under her nose, but she didn't know it at all, pointing at Linglong and learning the way she spoke, she screamed wildly, "I really didn't make a mistake!" I'm not stupid! Do you think you're the only one in the world who has a brain! ”

At the beginning, Linglong looked very annoyed with a tense face, but she recalled that she was angry and yelling just now, and then looked at Xu Sijiu's ugly appearance unconsciously, it was really funny, pointing at her face and couldn't help laughing with He Wen'er.

The original solemn and irritable atmosphere was swept away in an instant. Although the three girls fought, they looked like they ignored each other, but

The mood was not bad at all, and everyone was immersed in the joy of being able to eat meat right away.

But when Zhang Fengnian accepted it, Liu Xiaohua entered the Lingtai but was completely stunned