Chapter 14: Apprenticeship

The platform of the courtyard was built in front of the corridor very casually, like a raised platform, divided into two steps, and a middle-aged Taoist priest with half-white hair sat cross-legged on the yellow cushion in the middle. I saw www.biquge.info his crane hair and childish face, his cheeks were towering, he was dressed in black, his face was red, and he also held a whisk with a black handle and white beard in his hand, so he looked like a master.

Beside him were two young men of about fifteen or sixteen years old, both wearing Taoist robes in the sect, kneeling on the futon under the platform in a regular manner, looking as if they were listening to his lecture. However, they didn't pay much attention to listening, and as soon as they heard the footsteps of the "dumb" young man and Wu Ming coming in, they immediately turned their heads to look at the two.

While they were looking at Wu Ming, Wu Ming was also looking at the master and the second apprentice.

The middle-aged Taoist priest sitting in the highest center is obviously the ancestor of the soul exorcism, and he is considered the first generation founder of the sect, and he looks quite in line with the image of a "master of the Tao". The two teenagers below are tall and thin and short and fat, the tall and thin one has a sharp face, and the short and fat one has a naΓ―ve face, and I don't know how many senior brothers they are.

Except for the three of them, only Wu Ming and the "mute" young man beside him were left in the courtyard.

In the empty and vast compound, the only five people stared at each other, and a gust of cold wind blew, making several people feel a chill all over their bodies.

"Puppet, why did you bring outsiders into the courtyard?" Half-loud, feeling that the atmosphere was a little dull, the patriarch sitting on the high platform spoke up, and naturally asked the "dumb" young man beside Wu Ming.

"Back to Master, he is a new disciple, and he has my Soul Exorcism Talisman." The "dumb" young man replied concisely, this is the first time Wu Ming has heard him say so many words since they met, and he couldn't help but secretly slander, it turns out that you can still speak.

"Oh? There are still disciples who come to me to exorcise the soul? The middle-aged Taoist priest couldn't help but be stunned when he heard the answer, and then his face changed greatly, from the solemn majesty of sitting on the platform at the beginning, he instantly became a smile, and the two pairs of horizontal eyebrows trembled with a smile, "Good, good, good." ”

He said three "good" words in a row, and couldn't wait to ask Wu Ming: "What is your surname?" Tell the teacher quickly. ”

Wu Ming was a little confused by this inexplicable progress, no matter how first he entered the sect, he also knew that apprenticeship was not a sloppy thing, not only to test the qualifications, but also to the ancestor three bows and nine bows, but also to meet the uncles and uncles of the same lineage in turn, and finally officially register the name in the disciple book, which is considered complete. This is not counting, some famous masters accept apprentices, and there are countless apprentices who have crossed the river, and the battle is so fierce that there are many people who sell their property and send houses and fields to please the master.

Like this, the master pulled the apprentice and asked for his name, as if he was afraid that the apprentice would run away, Wu Ming really hadn't seen it much, and he was not a genius, where would he have thought of this kind of treatment?

Seeing that Wu Ming's expression was different, the middle-aged Taoist priest also noticed that something was wrong, hurriedly adjusted his facial expression, returned to the majestic posture of sitting on the high platform, and asked in a deep voice: "The new apprentice will report his name." ”

Wu Ming bowed down for a long time, and then took out the talisman from the placket of his clothes and handed it over: "Disciple Wu Ming, when you first entered the mountain gate, you came to apprentice, and there is a talisman as evidence." ”

The two teenagers under the Taoist platform made a helpless gesture of covering their faces with their hands, and the middle-aged Taoist priest remembered that he had forgotten to check the other party's talisman and was busy calling the apprentice, so he couldn't help but look embarrassed, pretended to cough seriously, stretched out his hand to take the talisman, swept his eyes, and nodded: "Yes, it is indeed a talisman given by the sect, so that the teacher will accept you as the fourth disciple under the seat." ”

The fourth disciple......

The corners of Wu Ming's mouth twitched slightly, the ancestor in front of him was a soul exorcist, and he said that he would accept himself as the fourth disciple under the seat, that is to say...... This soul exorcism lineage, which is known as one of the five veins of the Sword Sect, has only accepted a total of four disciples so far?

The Sword Sect is huge, with thousands of disciples, and the four veins of Sword Pavilion, Kwai Yin, Huayuan, and Fu Qi are full of talents, each with nearly a thousand disciples, including many elite core disciples of three generations. And the exorcism vein that he worshipped, plus himself, there are a total of five people......

Wu Ming was almost about to vomit blood.

No wonder Feng Jingyu would let out such a surprised gaze when he saw his talisman, no wonder the Soul Exorcism Hall was built in this deep mountain and old forest for a long time and couldn't find the way, no wonder the senior brother who led the way was too lazy to talk to him along the way......

Let him choose again, Tao Jinpeng dared to propose the meaning of changing the talisman, he had to pull out the sword and carry the sword intent to fight with the other party! No wonder that guy said that it is not suitable for the Soul Exorcism One Pulse Exercise, this is not only not suitable for the Exercise, there are few people in this Pulse to this point, the disadvantages of the Exercise can be imagined, it is definitely not a good thing!

Wu Ming regretted it to the extent that he couldn't do more, but there was no other way to show it, he Wu Ming couldn't learn Tao Jinpeng's shameless halfway stop a disciple who had just entered the door and coax the other party to exchange talismans with him, right? Wu Ming couldn't do such a thing if he was thick-skinned enough, so he could only grit his teeth and swallow this loss.

Seeing Wu Ming's face change, the middle-aged Taoist priest also guessed what he was thinking, but it was not so easy to get on the thief ship. He didn't see Wu Ming's face, he made an enthusiastic look to himself, and began to introduce himself and the other three senior brothers in the courtyard to Wu Ming one by one.

"For the teacher's surname Yan Mingjia, nicknamed 'Exorcist Great Immortal', you can call me with the honorific title or the word 'Great Immortal' in the future."

Hearing the title of "Soul Exorcist Great Immortal", Wu Ming's heart was cold, thinking that this was even more bluffing than the names of those divine sticks in the market.

"This is your senior brother, Chao Shanyang, who has been under the sect for seven or eight years, and if you have any questions about your cultivation in the future, you can ask him for explanation." After Yan Jia introduced himself, he pointed to the tall and thin young man and said.

"Senior brother has seen senior brother."

"Hmm." Facing Wu Ming's gesture of goodwill, Na Chao Xiaoyang just nodded slightly, silently, and couldn't see his impression of Wu Ming from his face. However, with Wu Ming's insight, he still found the fleeting dissatisfaction in his eyes.

Yes, I don't know how I offended this senior brother, such a declining line, and now adding a new disciple, it should be a good thing, why is this senior brother the first to be unhappy?

Wu Ming was puzzled in his heart. He didn't know that the soul exorcism vein had been in decline for a few years, and now the cultivation resources in the sect were slim, and most of the pills, magic weapons, and even spiritual veins were taken up by the disciples of other veins, and Chao Lianyang, as a senior brother, had limited resources, and the resources were not enough, and now that one more junior brother had to share one person's resources, it was natural for him to be unhappy.

"This is your second senior brother, Mo Xiaobao, who has been under the master for about three years, he is a good person and a hard worker, he has a talent but is a lazy thing, you can't ask him any questions in the future, get along well." Yan Jia pointed to the short and fat young man and introduced, with a sense of hatred for iron and steel. Na Mo Xiaobao didn't get angry when he heard the master introduce himself like this in front of the junior disciple who had just started, but made a smile and grimaced at Wu Ming.

Wu Ming saw that he was not formal, so he nodded directly.

"You've seen it too, it's the person who just brought you up, he was adopted by the teacher when he went down the mountain a few days ago, his surname is Chen, he started more than ten days earlier than you, and he can be regarded as your third senior brother." Yan Jia pointed to the position of the senior brother who led the way and said.

It turned out that the "mute" young man was called Chen Puppet, and he was still the master's righteous son.

Wu Ming Dynasty Chen Puppet looked at the place where he was standing at the beginning, and found that he had long since disappeared, and he didn't know when he left, coming and going without leaving a trace, like a ghost.

"Everyone has introduced you, from today onwards you will be my little junior brother of the Soul Exorcism Lineage, and the teacher will register your name in my Soul Exorcism Lineage disciple book tonight. Entering my mountain gate, there is only one requirement for being a teacher, you must be vigilant every day, respect the teacher, be diligent and studious, in order to live up to the expectations of the teacher and the senior brother, you can remember. After Yan Jia introduced a few people, he sat back on the platform, waved the dust, and took out the majestic momentum of being a teacher to speak to Wu Ming.

"Remember." Wu Ming replied respectfully. He is not a villain who goes back on his word, since he has entered the sect, no matter how dissatisfied he is, he will still abide by the basic principle of respecting teachers and respecting the Tao. Besides, he is congenitally deficient, so he naturally has to be more diligent than others.

"Hmm." Yan Jia nodded with satisfaction, quite appreciating Wu Ming's crisp attitude. Then he waved his hand and ordered, "The apprenticeship has been completed, we don't have any rules for kneeling and bowing here, and then it's time to test your talent." Xiaobao, go to the inner room and get a pair of testing utensils. ”

It turned out that he still had to test his talent, but Wu Ming was still in a hurry to expand the number of disciples in this soul exorcism, and he didn't even care about testing his talent. With his "unsuitable for cultivation" physique, he naturally couldn't measure any good talent, just as he was thinking about whether to tell Yan Jia directly about his physique, Mo Xiaobao had already taken the test props and gasped back into the courtyard.

Daomen has a special method for testing the talent of qi refining, called the method of "Danqing Drawing Talisman", of course, this "Danqing" is not the other "Danqing".

In a nutshell, the subject is fed a pill full of aura, and then asked to meditate for half an hour to digest the medicinal power, and then a kind of talisman called "green dye" is pasted on top of the person's dantian. The blue dyeing charm has a special effect, this kind of rune paper itself is pure white, once any part of the paper comes into contact with the rich aura, the color of that part of the paper will immediately turn cyan, the ricane rendering on the ricane paper is the deeper the aura.

But for those who are gifted, the flesh and bone meridians can nourish the aura more than ordinary people, after taking the pill, these nourished and strong aura is hoarded in the dantian, and as soon as the green dyed paper is absorbed, the aura immediately gushes out, dyeing the paper full of cyan, the darker the color, the more outstanding the person's talent, and the body is more in line with the aura of heaven and earth.

What's more, the flesh and blood will nourish the aura into all kinds of mysterious patterns, spread on the rune paper, as if painting with the aura, such a person's talent is even more ancient and modern. Wu Ming knew that when his eldest brother Wu Junhao used this method to test his talent, the spiritual power gushing out of his body rendered a cyan sharp sword on the blue-dyed rune paper! Wu Junhao became famous for a while, known as a "natural swordsman", and some people even thought that his achievements in kendo would surpass his father Wu Yu in the future.

Compared with Wu Junhao, Wu Ming is extremely miserable, he has tested it many times, and every time the green dyed paper is a piece of white paper, and there is no posture of turning blue, so he is considered to be born unsuitable for cultivation.

I didn't expect that as soon as I entered the master's door, I would make a fool of myself.

Wu Ming sighed in his heart, took the pill handed by Mo Xiaobao and ate it, and then meditated on the spot to digest the medicinal power.

Half an hour later, the results came in.

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