Winter

In front of the courtyard of the three entrances, there is a stone tablet with the three characters of Dongming Pavilion on it, after entering the vermilion gate, there are two rows of sparse white plum trees, the crooked and slanted branches are hung with the white snowflakes like jade, and the plum blossom calyx on the branches one by one, mixed with the speckled snowflakes, shines with crystal light under the light of the warm sun in early winter.

Lu Ke was lined with intimate clothes woven from Huoyang cotton containing fire, wearing a black robe and a dark color coat, followed by a steaming flame monkey beside him, and walked into Lu Dongming's mansion leisurely in the early morning after the snow in early winter.

Along the way, the servants in the courtyard saw Lu Ke and saluted one after another, and Lu Ke also replied to them very politely. A servant knew from the mouth that the owner of the courtyard had gotten up for the day, and went to the main house.

"Uncle Dongming, I've come to see you." Before anyone entered the house, Lu Ke first greeted loudly, and seeing that no one responded, he took out a pot of this year's newly brewed osmanthus spirit wine from the space spirit ring, and then said: "Uncle Dongming, little nephew, I can bring a few pots of osmanthus spirit wine to watch you specifically, if you are not at home, I will retire first." ”

"Wait, stinky boy, come inside!"

Inside the house, Lu Dongming took a drink of the pot of osmanthus spirit wine, and then looked at Lu Ke angrily and said: "You kid, you are not kind, you don't know how often you come to me to walk around with good spirit wine." Every time something happened, I came to me and asked, "Tell me, what's the reason for this time?" ”

"Uncle Dongming, you're wrong, I'm not afraid of disturbing your Yaxing! When I came to look for you last month, I met Miss Xiangling from Piaoxiang Pavilion, tell me, how dare I disturb Uncle Dongming if I have nothing to do? Today, I'm here to bring a few pots of spirit wine to honor Uncle Dongming. Lu Ke quipped with a slight chuckle.

"Phew, the dog's mouth can't spit out ivory, when did I invite Miss Xiangling to the house? Tell me nonsense, tell me honestly, what are you going to do with your little monkey on this cold day? Lu Dongming continued to drink osmanthus wine and looked at Lu Ke in disbelief.

"Hehe, it's still Uncle Dongming's eyes like a torch, this time I really have something I want to ask Uncle Dongming about you." Lu Ke smiled and said, "It's not because of the winter hunting, in two days, the clan will start to sign up and count the list of psychics that our Lu clan has participated in." I heard that Manager Mo said some things before, and I was a little uncertain in my heart, no, I hurried to ask Uncle Dongming about you! ”

Lu Dongming laughed: "Stinky boy, I knew that you came here today because of this matter, and I really guessed correctly!" Haha......"

"That is, the patriarch will use the law spirit object that we bought from the Ten Thousand Realms Spirit Treasure Pavilion for more than a million spirit stones as a reward, this is too abnormal! In the winter hunting of the past, some elixirs or at most high-level immortal spirit weapons were already very rich prizes. The reward this time is so big that I can't bear it......"

"Hmph, I shouldn't have told you who told me to look at you kid so pleasing to the eye. Don't panic, this winter hunt is a great thing, you must perform well! This time, there is more than one prince-level psychic who came to watch the ceremony, I heard that these princes are because they want to choose some young people with outstanding potential as disciples, if you perform well and are favored by prince-level psychics, then it is really promising! Lu Dongming didn't know what he thought, and suddenly snorted a little angrily: "Isn't that the Fang family just because one of the members of the family has been favored by the prince as a disciple, and it has become more and more arrogant in recent years!" A few days ago, Fang Yiming in the Fragrance Pavilion actually grabbed incense from me...... Ahem, in short, you have to behave well, hear no! ”

As if he had heard something terrible, and as if he hadn't heard anything, Lu Ke replied respectfully: "I see, I will definitely live up to your high expectations Uncle Dongming!" ”

He took out three jars of osmanthus spirit wine from the space spirit ring and put them in front of Lu Dongming: "Thank you Uncle Dongming for solving your doubts, these are considered to be the little nephew's filial piety to you, you can save some drink, I don't have much stock there." After a period of winter hunting, please wait and see Uncle Dongming, I will never let you down! So, I'll take my leave......"

"Go, go, hurry back and prepare, this winter hunt will not be so simple!" Looking at Lu Ke who walked out of the door, Lu Dongming smiled. Good boy, although he has practiced the spiritual technique to cover his own breath, the spiritual power fluctuations that flashed just now obviously have the taste of the upper level of mortal transformation, and he is only eighteen years old, right? Hehe, I'm really looking forward to your performance in the winter hunt in a few days......

In the early morning of five days later, in the Yanwu Square in Lu Garden, the Lu clan members who had signed up for this year's winter hunting activities in Donghua City came to the square to wait for the arrival of the family elders. Because of the generous rewards for winter hunting activities in the clan this year, most of the psychic masters under the age of 30 in the clan participated in this grand event.

"Lu Jia, are you also here to participate in this winter hunt? I heard your uncle say, didn't you just break through to the fourth-grade mortal level a few days ago, why don't you stabilize your cultivation at home? ”

"Brother Lu Yi! You're here too? The spiritual power cultivation of the fourth grade of mortal transformation has stabilized for me two days ago, but Brother Lu Yi, you are about to break through to the upper level of mortal transformation now, right? It's been years since I've seen you participate in an event like Winter Hunting, and it seems that this time I can see your Qingyun Cloud Crane show your might! Lu Jia looked at his cousin Lu Yi, who was ten years older than him, with a look of admiration.

"Hehe, now that I have reached the peak of the sixth-rank metamorphosis, I just need to comprehend my supernatural moves, and I can break through to the seventh-rank metamorphosis at any time!" Lu Yi looked at his little cousin's admiring eyes, very useful, and then said: "Lu Jia, you will follow me this winter hunt, and you will definitely have a good result then, I also heard that the reward of this winter hunt is very rich, so I signed up to participate." ”

"Brother Lu Yi, then do you know what the rewards for the top three in the clan are this time? It hasn't been released for us to know, it's really curious, it must be very precious! ”

"Yes, from the tenth place, it has already been a spirit weapon reward of the upper seventh-grade mortal level, and the top three rewards may all involve spirit general-level treasures!"

"Spirit General?! Really? "Hearing the reward of this winter hunt, there will be a possibility that the treasure of the spirit general level will be involved in the clan, Lu Jia seems to have been shocked, and his fluffy and curved hair will be shocked to the point of straightness.

"There is a glimmer of money that may be worth the efforts of our mortal-level clansmen, not to mention that the rewards this time are so rich, even my clan brothers from the previous session have signed up to participate, and there are more than one or two high-level psychic clansmen......" Lu Yi smiled and told his little fan brother about the information he knew.

"That's... Doesn't that mean that psychics of our age have no chance of getting the rewards they have in front of them? Although Lu Jia knew that his talent was average, he still had the mentality of luck before, and now when he heard that there were people of the upper rank who were more powerful than his own Lu Yige's cultivation to participate in the winter hunt, he felt completely deflated.

"Hahaha, I can't even imagine that I can get the top ten rewards! However, in the past few years, there have been a few geniuses of the same age as you in the clan, and if they were them, this winter hunt might also be very rewarding. Lu Yi said with a smile.

"Brother Lu Yi, do you mean Lu Jianying?" Speaking of Lu Jianying's name, Lu Jia's eyes were about to glow, "I heard that he already has an eight-rank mortal-level cultivation, is it true?" It's too powerful, he's only twenty-four years old, and with his talent, there's a good chance that he will be able to break through to the spirit general level before the age of thirty! ”

Lu Yi's cousin's expression made Lu Yi a little surprised, but talking about Lu Jianying did make him admire: "...... At only twenty-four years old, he was already an eight-rank mortal, and the one-handed Flowing Wind Sword technique was invincible with the eight-rank Immortal-level Wind Slashing Spirit Sword in his hand, and there were few young psychics in the entire Donghua City who could compare with him. ”

"But...... His personality is indeed not very likable, and the name of the sword maniac is also well known to everyone......"

"But, Xiao Jia, I'm not talking about Lu Jianying, with the strength of a sword maniac, who else is the first place in this winter hunt? The young genius in the clan I'm talking about is about the same age as you! Lu Yi touched Lu Jia's small curly hair and said with a smile.

"That'...... Who is it? I've been practicing with my uncle in the Blue Mist Mountains for the past year, and I really don't know very well. But ......" Lu Jia frowned lightly and bit his fingernails and thought about it: "If we are about the same age, it should be Lu Yang who has an initial psyche of the seventh-rank Mortal Water Spirit Hook and Sickle and Lu Yan who is an eighth-grade Mortal Earth Spiritual Fire, with their cultivation talent and initial psychic, they must have broken through to the middle level of mortal transformation early!" ”

"Lu Yang and Lu Yan? That's right, those two are indeed extraordinary, and I heard that they are about to break through the cultivation of the six grades of mortality. However, there is another person, I heard several brothers in the clan say some time ago, it seems to be called Lu Ke, and he is also a genius boy, I don't know if you know Lu Jia? I didn't have an impression of him at all......"

"Lu Ke?" Hearing this familiar and unfamiliar name, Lu Jia's mind came up with the spirit beast whose initial psychic was the three-rank metamorphosis potential at the psychic ceremony, and the figure of the young man who was carrying a dragon egg at the exchange office of the Spirit Courtyard a year ago.

"I've heard that he is the same initial psychic clan as Lu Yang Lu Yan and me, but he has never had a sense of existence among our clansmen of the same age before, and he didn't speak much in the clan academy before......"

Lu Jia opened his mouth, and then asked a little dryly, "He, what is his current cultivation?" ”

"I don't know about this, I heard the elder brother in the clan talk about him, but I really haven't seen it, as you said, it's really a person who doesn't have a sense of existence!" Lu Yi was also a little strange, "However, that clan brother just broke through to the upper level of mortal transformation some time ago, and being able to get his approval shows that Lu Ke must have something special about him." ”

Just as they continued to gossip, the number of young people participating in the winter hunt in Yanwu Square had gradually increased, and when it was over, Lu Dongyue and another spirit general-level psychic master in the clan stood on the high platform of Yanwu Square, announcing the official start of the Lu clan's participation in the winter hunt in Donghua City this year.