The next morning, the thin sunlight shone through the trees and sprinkled on the roof tiles. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

The simple architecture of the Xuanji Temple casts dappled light and shadow on the ground. On the 1,000-meter-wide training ground in the center, there are more than 1,000 Taoist members from various disciplines, who are arranged in a neat and orderly manner, and they are performing morning exercises to strengthen their bodies in the square.

There are a total of six cultivation techniques in the Xuanji Temple, which are swordsmanship, knife art, stick art, bow and crossbow art, meteor art, and summoning art. The first three cultivation techniques are the mainstream of melee combat, and the last three cultivation techniques are the secondary branches of distance combat, and it sounds good to say that the last three ranged battles cooperate with the first three melee battles, and to put it mildly, it is to give those cowards who are lazy and brave by nature a long-range attack that suits them. Therefore, there are the most people practicing swordsmanship in the square, followed by sword skills and stick arts, and there are only a handful of people who practice the remaining three arts.

For example, there are only three people in the summoning technique, and Pi Xiaotian is not there, so there are only two Taoist priests who are tall and short, thin and yellow-skinned, standing in the last row of the line, doing morning exercises weakly.

The name of a high tooth protrusion is Xu Kui.

A short-eyed man named Cui Ju.

Like all the disciples who came here to practice the Dao, they had a miserable background, either orphans after the war, or outcasts who were ruthlessly abandoned by their parents. Therefore, they all regard the mystical view as their own home, and regard the brothers and sisters who practice together as siblings.

Xu Kui followed the command of the previous trainer and waved his arm left and stretched out his leg to the right, and asked the short man next to him with a worried expression: "Squint, how long has Xiaotian been gone?" ”

Cui Ju pretended to gesture, pinched his fingers and calculated: "Twenty-eight days in a month!" ”

"Ahh It's been almost two months! Why hasn't he come back yet? Could it be ......" Xu Kui's mind flashed the terrifying picture of Pi Xiaotian being eaten by wolves in the wilderness, and his right foot staggered and fell to the ground in horror.

Suddenly, the reproach of the trainer came from afar: "The back row, leave me after the exercise!" ”

"Stay, stay!" Xu Kui got up from the ground and muttered in a depressed voice.

Cui Ju's face sank, and he said unhappily: "It's all your fault, I will stay with you if I hurt it!" ”

"Who told you not to pull me just now, causing me to fall and be found by the search teacher!" Xu Kui is reasonable.

"......" Cui Juhan was speechless.

After a while, Xu Kui began to feel uneasy again: "Squinting, you have the highest cultivation among the three of us, can you calculate whether Xiaotian is safe and sound now?" ”

"No, but maybe in two years!"

"Shhhh It's going to take two years! Just now I asked you how long Xiaotian has been gone, how can you calculate so fast? ”

"That's because I have a good memory, not because of my high cultivation! A sucker! ”

"Oh!" Xu Kui continued to be lost.

Half an hour later, the morning exercise was finally finished. The other Taoist cultivators left the square one after another and returned to their respective masters, except for Xu Kui and Cui Ju, who stood listlessly like two stubbles of wheat.

The tall and mighty trainer and other people in the square were almost gone, and he flew like a swallow and floated lightly to the two stubbles of wheat, and glared sternly: "Every time you do morning exercises, you all do staggering, the lazy donkey can't help the grinding, today you even dare to ignore the password and chat privately, I don't think you two will become waste sooner or later!" ”

"I'm already a piece of waste." Xu Kui's body was crooked, and he replied in a casual whisper.

"What? You repeat? The instructor was furious.

"I didn't ...... Nothing, I said I would never be a waste! Xu Kui looked at the trainer fearfully.

"That's pretty much it! You two stand up for me first! With that, the sturdy long legs of the mentor were lifted on their thighs twice.

Xu Kui and Chuiju immediately raised their heads and stood upright, motionless.

"Excellent! It's going to be this kind of momentum! The trainer circled around them, and when he saw a standard, he immediately helped them straighten it out!

Then the trainer walked around to them and nodded with satisfaction: "You can teach, you stand for two hours!" ”

What the? Two hours! That's from morning to noon!

Xu Kui and Cui Ju complained bitterly in their hearts, but with the stern expression of the trainer, they had to nod and respond: "Yes." ”

Seeing that they were so obedient, the trainer was even more satisfied, and his eyes moved to the top of Xu Kui's head: "Come, put the bowl of water on top!" ”

What the? Do you want to top a bowl of water? In a frenzy!

Xu Kui scolded angrily in his heart, but there was a hypocritical smile on his face.

The trainer's mana is strong, and he can easily conjure up four bowls of water with two hands, one pair on Xu Kui's shoulders and one pair on Cui Ju's shoulders.

"Tell you, don't fall off, I cast a spell on these four bowls of water, and I will know which bowl is broken. When the time comes, it's not just a matter of increasing the penalty, I'm afraid you won't even have to eat! With that, the trainer raised his lips and left.

"Damn! The instructor clearly relied on our master to be unconscious and deliberately make things difficult for us. Xu Kui looked at the back of the trainer and scolded angrily.

"Alas! Whoever told our master that his life was not good, and the life of his apprentice was not good! Let's admit the punishment obediently, otherwise we will have nothing to eat, and we will have to lose weight again! Cui Ju felt pity for his thin and short body.

"Humph! When Master wakes up, I don't look like Master is complaining! Xu Kui has a straightforward temperament, and if he doesn't say anything about resentment in his heart, I'm afraid that he will suffocate to death sooner or later, so he can't hide a word in his heart.

Cui Ju has long been accustomed to the other party's chatter and let him twitter.

Xu Kui complained for a long time, his tongue was finally dry, and he was about to close his mouth before dying of thirst, when suddenly a short and slightly chubby figure walked by in the distance, and he began to make noise again, shouting: "Squint, look, is that Xiaotian?" ”

"Xiaotian?" Cui Ju's eyes flickered around, and finally landed on a short and slightly chubby figure in the distance, and Mu Ne nodded: "It seems to be." ”

Xu Kui grinned happily, blushed excitedly, and shouted, "Xiaotian! Pi Xiaotian! ”

Pi Xiaotian ignored it and continued to walk forward, getting farther and farther away from them.

"Hurry up and shout together!" Xu Kui anxiously pulled Cui Ju's sleeve with his hand.

So the two shouted in unison: "Pi Xiaotian! ”

Pi Xiaotian in the distance finally stopped, turned around and walked towards the thin men who were standing on top of the water bowl in the square, but his walking posture was a little weird, because the twenty boards last night were not fake.

The cold wind in the square was blowing gently, Pi Xiaotian's wide robe swayed with the wind, the closer he walked, the more Xu Kui couldn't close his mouth, and he opened his arms to hug his brother passionately, but because of the two bowls of water on his shoulder, he gave up the idea and said happily: "Xiaotian, you are really you!" ”

Pi Xiaotian was stunned for a moment, looking at the two thin men in front of him, one tall and one short, and was speechless. Because the Lingxue in his body was quickly searching for his memory, and learned that they and Pi Xiaotian belonged to the same master, and they both practiced summoning techniques, known as the three lazy people of Xuanjiguan, and the two in front of him were named Xu Kui and Cui Ju respectively.

"I've met two friends, I don't know what you call me for?" Pi Xiaotian did not smile and greeted in a proper manner.

With such a knowledgeable temperament, Xu Kui and Cui Ju were stunned!

"Little God! Why do you talk to us in such a tone? Did you go down the mountain and break your brain? Xu Kui's eyes began to redden.

Cui Ju next to him was quite reasonable, slowly closed his wide mouth, gently pulled Xu Kui's sleeve, and reminded in a low voice: "Xiao Tiancai just came back, and looking at his walking posture, his butt seems to have been hit by a board, maybe he is in a bad mood, so don't talk nonsense!" ”

"But......" Xu Kui really felt extremely uncomfortable at Pi Xiaotian's indifferent gaze, so he lowered his head and stopped talking.

Cui Ju smiled: "Xiaotian, it's good if you can come back to see you, we are here to punish the station, so if you have anything to do, go and get busy." ”

"Okay, take care!" Pi Xiaotian faded away.

Xu Kui and Cui Ju looked cold in their hearts, their expressions were gloomy, and they were silent with each other and didn't say a word anymore.

Ling Suxue knew that Pi Xiaotian and the two of them were like brothers, but she just couldn't smile at them soothingly, because she was not the little god in their hearts after all, and she even felt embarrassed to have such lazy two brothers, so she quickly left the most serious room from the Xuanji Temple.

Council Hall.

In the hall, there were four elders and three young Taoist priests sitting cross-legged in a very large manner, and in front of the center sat of course the most respected head of the Xuanji Temple, Qingyang Dao Chief, his crane hair and white eyebrows, red and wrinkled, and his deep and shining eyes were like the brightest stars in the night, staring straight ahead, but his ears were listening to a gray-haired elder beside his right hand hand continuously saying something.

Beside the gray-haired elder to his right hand sat Fang Tiancheng and another slightly younger elder, Ling Suxue couldn't find their names for a while, but their eyes were focused on the head of the sect.

Looking to the left hand side of the head of the sect, there were three young apprentice-level Taoist priests, carrying knives, swords, and retractable sticks behind them. The person carrying the sword was naturally Jing Liqiu, the senior brother of the sect, and the other two must also be among the best among the apprentices.

After Pi Xiaotian glanced around, and after quickly figuring out their identities, he stepped forward and stepped into the threshold, kneeling down to the solemn white-haired old man in the middle: "Meet the head uncle!" ”

"Hurry up!" The head smiled kindly, and the crow's feet at the corners of his eyes depicted the vicissitudes of twilight.

"Meet the three uncles!" Ling Suxue bowed to the three elders again.

"Hurry up." The three elders were also very amiable.

"Meet the three senior brothers!" Ling Suxue turned around and bowed to the three young Taoist priests.

"Senior brother, hurry up!" Jing Liqiu responded to the heat, got up and walked to help his junior brother up, and patted him on the shoulder to comfort: "Pi Xiaotian, don't be afraid, today is your day of good luck." ”

What good luck day? Pi Xiaotian was puzzled, but the corners of his mouth turned up slightly, and he didn't forget to be grateful: "Senior Brother Xie takes care!" ”

"Haha! I didn't expect the disciples taught by Senior Brother Qiu to be so sensible and knowledgeable, who told me that Senior Brother Qiu has no way to teach them, and they are all a group of lazy insects when they are trained? The head of Qingyang Dao stroked his snow-white long beard and smiled like a spring breeze.

"Huh! It's me! The thick-necked and big-eared Fang Tiancheng Daoist responded embarrassedly, moved his gaze to the middle and continued: "I didn't expect to go down the mountain, Pi Xiaotian, the laziest and most unlearned person in this sect, turned out to be much more sensible!" It's not in vain that Senior Brother Qiu was poisoned! ”

After hearing this, Pi Xiaotian showed an embarrassed wry smile on his face.