Volume 4: The Eventful Years Chapter 215: Introductory Cultivation [2]
Although many monks from various sects have successfully reached the summit over the years, it is just a matter of getting over the excitement, and it is rare to see anyone who really stays as a handyman. There are cultivators who can set foot on the peak of the trail within the specified time, and they should all have a relatively noble status in their respective hometowns, who would come to suffer this for no reason? All the disciples of Wufuqiu looked at each other.
After all, the fourth elder was a master who had seen a big scene and had an identity, and the look of surprise was only a flash, and then he regained his composure, and walked over and asked Hanxiong: "Who are you, where are you from, and is what you said true?"
Hanxiong replied, "I am Hanxiong, a disciple of the Elder Sect of the Bamuro Kingdom, and I am willing to stay on the Wufu Hill as a miscellaneous disciple. The father of the family is also the sect master of the Changling Sect, and he has no opinion. ”
The junior fourth elder nodded and said, "Then you can stay as a handyman, if you can't stand it, you can go down the mountain by yourself, if you can't do it, you will be sent down the mountain." ”
Then he asked Baoyu the same thing, and Baoyu claimed to be a loose cultivator from the Northern Wilderness of the Xiangmuro Country. The junior fourth elder also nodded and said: "Over the years, there have also been many casual cultivators who have come to Wufu Hill, they already have supernatural cultivation in their bodies, and after cultivating for a period of time, they will go down the mountain and leave on their own, but there are very few people who have really become disciples of Wufu Qiu. If you're willing to stay, then try it. ”
Baoyu said in a low voice: "Fourth Elder, I also brought a dog, can it stay with me?"
Then something more interesting happened, the fourth elder walked up to Xiao Tian and asked seriously, "What's your name?"
Xiao Tian Wang Wang screamed twice, and the Fourth Elder nodded with satisfaction: "Wang Wang, since you came here before noon, if you want to stay, you can also become a miscellaneous disciple of Wufu Qiu." ”
The onlookers almost collapsed, the masters on the Wufu Hill really talked and counted, and the miscellaneous disciples not only accepted the demon clan, but even the dogs! Xiao Tian also somehow got a name called "Wang Wang", so in the future, on the Wufu Hill, all the miscellaneous disciples would have to call him Wang Wang's junior brother.
The four elders were clear-sighted, and then went on to ask the others the same question. Baoyu and Hanxiong looked at each other and whispered at the same time, "Why did you stay as a handyman?" The little sprinkler girl also said behind them, "What the hell are you two doing?
Hanxiong turned around and explained with a wry smile: "My father said, I am also the eldest and the youngest, since I was a child, I have cultivated since I was a child, and the three realms and nine transformations have been perfect, but I have not been able to break through the four realms for a long time. I always cultivated in the Changling Sect, and everyone treated me as a treasure, praising me and coaxing me every day. It's better to change the environment, maybe it's the chance to really break through.
He asked me to go to Wufu Hill to be a miscellaneous disciple for a year, and I didn't have to practice martial arts, nor did I have to walk through the long rope to reach the main peak. As long as I persist in the mountains for a year, I will cultivate here without being driven down, and I will admit that I am really capable. ”
Baoyu and Xiao Sa couldn't cry or laugh when they heard this, and Mr. Changling really came up with any trick in order to teach his son. Seeing that Hanxiong was also going to stay on Wufu Hill as a miscellaneous disciple, Baoyu was vaguely worried, and he thought of another thing. I came to Wufu Hill to find Shaowu, and Shaowu's identity is a secret on Wufu Hill.
Three years ago, Shaowu should have stayed in this way, but now I don't know where I am in the mountains, and whether I have set foot on the main peak? But as long as I stay for a long time, I will inevitably meet with each other, and Mr. Changling and the monarch have known each other since childhood, so it is impossible for Hanxiong not to know Shaowu.
Hanxiong left Bamuro to travel all the way to Wufu Hill, and more than half a year had passed, and he had not heard of what had happened in the Pengshan Forbidden Land. If Hanxiong sees Shaowu on Wufu Hill and recognizes him, I am afraid that some things will go wrong, and maybe Shaowu's identity may also be revealed.
But Baoyu is not good at asking or reminding Hanxiong of something at this moment, and he can only act when the time comes. And Hanxiong can still be trusted, if Shaowu asks him not to reveal his identity, Hanxiong will definitely keep his promise.
At this time, Hanxiong said to Xiao Sa again: "Miss Xiao Sa, it's a pity that I want to stay on Wufu Hill, and I can't continue to accompany you for the time being. If you pass by Bamuro Province on your way back, please stop by Changlingmen, and say that it is my friend. They will definitely have a warm reception. Please tell my father that I have followed his instructions and stayed on the Wufu Hill as a miscellaneous disciple. ”
After they finished talking about these gossips, the junior fourth elder also finished asking, and beckoned the new miscellaneous disciples to gather, and dispatched them to various peaks on the spot, and the senior brothers in charge led them away. When it was Baoyu, Hanxiong, and Wang Wang's turn, the junior fourth elder said, "Send these three miscellaneous disciples to the Sword Grinding Peak. ”
A junior disciple next to him was surprised: "The new miscellaneous servants generally stay at Dengjing Peak, why did they send them directly to the Grinding Sword Peak, and even skip the Wood Chopping Peak?"
The Fourth Elder smiled and said, "Xiao Lu and Han Xiong both have cultivation. You can go to the sword grinding peak to strike iron, and you can't waste a body of magical power...... As for Wangwang, it was brought by the path, and of course it had to be with the path. ”
A disciple of Wufuqiu named Dajun came over and beckoned, "Two, no, three junior disciples, please come with me, and I will lead you to your residence in the mountains." On the way, I will also casually introduce the rules of Fanfuqiu, you can rest in Mojian Peak for three days, and after three days, you will have to do all kinds of chores. ...... Senior Brother Hanxiong, why are you looking at me like that? I know that I am very handsome. But it's not a girl's house!"
This handsome brother is very easy-going, he doesn't put on a show, and he talks very funny. Hanxiong said, "Senior brother, you look a lot like a friend of mine. So I couldn't help but look at it twice. ”
Dajun smiled: "Since we are already in the same family, we will be friends in the future." In fact, on the Grinding Sword Peak, you also have a senior brother Xiaojun. Everyone said that he looked like me and had a bit of my style. If you see it, you will be very close to it. ”
Baoyu smiled bitterly in her heart, because "Xiaojun" was the pseudonym of the young man on Wufu Hill. As they spoke, they had left the open square, skirting the top of the hill to the other side of the mountain. Baoyu saw the path leading to the bottom of the mountain, and the terraced rice fields carved out in the mountain, and on a high cliff in front of him, there was a rope bridge leading to the opposite peak.
The bridge was made of swarthy iron cables, with nine below and two on each side, making a total of thirteen arm-thick chains. Iron is known to the world, but it is difficult for ordinary craftsmen to process and smelt it, and iron is extremely difficult to refine and pure, and it is easy to rust if it is unusable. Then these thirteen iron chains must be made by masters with the great power of refining weapons, which are not only extremely tough, but also will not corrode.
The rope bridge is paved with wooden planks and bamboo guardrails on both sides, and it seems dangerous to walk on the clouds, but it is actually very safe. After crossing the bridge, we arrived at Chopping Wood Peak, and Dajun introduced the exquisiteness on the Wufu Hill.
In addition to cultivating the strength of the mountain, the miscellaneous disciples are usually responsible for going down the mountain to procure various daily necessities and take care of the fields in the mountains. If they have developed the spirit of opening the mountain, they will often live on the wood-cutting peak, and will be assigned some chores that require kung fu to do.
As for the people who live on the Grinding Sword Peak, they are basically miscellaneous disciples who have been in the field for three years, and there are many true disciples of Wufu Qiu, and the most they do on weekdays is to create all kinds of utensils. As for the Fire Peak, there are very few miscellaneous disciples, and it is basically the residence of the disciples of Wufu Qiu.
As soon as Hanxiong and Baoyu arrived at Wufu Hill, they were assigned to the Grinding Sword Peak by the Fourth Elder, which was a little surprising. Speaking of this, Da Jun smiled again: "Actually, this situation is not uncommon, your junior brother Xiao Jun stepped on the path to heaven three thousand years ago, and he had supernatural cultivation in his body, and he was also directly sent to the Grinding Sword Peak by the fourth elder."
In fact, there are no certain rules for who lives on that mountain, for example, I am an outstanding senior brother like you, two years ago, I had already pulled out the sword in the stone, cut through the clouds and mist blocking the road, stepped on the long rope to the main peak, and became the true disciple of Wufu Qiu. But now I still live in Mojian Peak, mainly responsible for taking care of you junior brothers and sisters. ”
Hanxiong asked in confusion, "Are there any female disciples on Wufu Hill?"
Baoyu also asked the same question, he already knew that Meng Yingqiu's true secret method was more suitable for women to practice, and the martial arts that all Wufuqiu's disciples had to practice were of course more suitable for men to practice. However, there are also some sturdy women who occasionally come here in Ba Yuan, and their tempers are simply worse than those of men, and they are fierce and do not need to be explained.
Dajun smiled and said, "Although there are very few female disciples on Wufu Hill, there are also two rooms, you have to be careful, they are not easy to mess with...... Be quiet, and there's a female brother over there. ”
In front of me, I saw houses and fields, there were many courtyards in the mountains, and a woman came in front of her, with a big waist and a round waist, almost a few points stronger than Hanxiong. Regardless of whether they are male or female, the official title of the monks is generally Senior Brother and Senior Brother. Sometimes I don't pay attention to it in private, and I will call a sister to a woman.
I saw Dajun smile at the woman and said, "Senior Sister Xiong Li, I haven't seen you for a few days, you are getting more and more beautiful and smart! Where are you going?"
It turned out that the disciple's name was Xiong Li, and Baoyu was secretly surprised, she turned out to be a demon clan. Just looking at its skin, it is indeed quite watery, but that posture is really majestic. Xiong Li replied: "Today's Dengjing Peak is very lively, and many monks from various sects have come, I want to go over and see what kind of characters are among them?"
Dajun: "Senior sister, you don't have to worry, since those people have gone up the mountain, they will go around the four peaks, and they can stay for three days at most." But the rules of Wufuqiu, whether you eat or live, if you look at someone who is pleasing to the eye, and see that he is frozen or hungry at night, you might as well send some food and give Zhang a blanket, which is also an opportunity to make friends. ”
Xiong Li saw Hanxiong again at a glance, stopped and looked him up and down, and said, "Is this a new junior brother? ”
Dajun hurriedly stopped in front of Hanxiong and said, "This little junior brother of Hanxiong is a miscellaneous disciple who has just gone up the mountain, but he doesn't have the ability to do it with you, let's wait for him to practice for a few years." ...... We have something to do, please first!"
After Xiong Li left, Da Juncai said with palpitations: "Hanxiong, if you meet this Senior Brother Xiong Li again in the future, you must be clever and coax as much as possible, if she proposes to learn from you, you must not agree." Although she will promise you that she will not kill or injure you, it will be enough for you!"
Hanxiong was taken aback and asked, "I have already cultivated in the Three Realms and Nine Transformations, and I have cultivated for many years since I was a child, can't I compare with her, this Senior Brother Xiong Li is very powerful?"
Dajun: "It's not just amazing! She and I climbed the main peak of Wufu Hill at about the same time, and she didn't come out with a sword on her back today, otherwise she would have scared you even more." Her broadsword, let alone holding it in her hand, can crush people even if it is shot. This is a strange woman, born with infinite strength, and has practiced on Wufu Hill for several years, and now she has four realms and seven transformations. Don't say that you have three realms and nine turns, even if the four realms and nine turns are perfect, you may not be able to beat her!"
As they walked along the path by the side of the mountain, they saw a long rope with a thick mouth through the clouds leading to another peak, and on that side was the main peak, Wufu Peak, surrounded by four peaks, and its mountain was so steep that it was like a sharp sword reaching into the sky. There is a path leading to the long rope on the side of the road, and at the intersection there is a mountain rock as smooth as jade, and a sword is also inserted in the stone.
This sword was not as exaggerated as the giant sword he had just seen, it was the size of an ordinary long sword, and only one foot of the three-foot blade was exposed. At the entrance of this trail, there is a condensed cloud and mist, and it is impossible to see the connection between the long rope and the mountain peak, and the Wufu Qiu miscellaneous disciples need to pull out this stone sword, cut through the clouds and mist, and step over the long rope to reach the main peak.
Dajun, who was talking in front of him, and Xiong Li, who had just passed, had already succeeded. Dajun is a person who likes to boast when he speaks, but he has nothing else wrong, and he is very enthusiastic about the two new juniors. He heard that Hanxiong was a disciple from the Changling Sect of the Ba Mur Kingdom, and he felt very close to him, because he was also a native of the Ba Mur Country.
Dajun was conscripted into the army when he was eighteen years old, served in the barracks for three years and practiced martial arts, and after returning to his hometown, he scraped together enough money to pay for the journey, inquired about the road, and finally came to Wufu Hill after a long journey. That was four years ago. Listening to his story, it turned out that just practicing martial arts was not enough to pull out the sword in the stone, and he practiced on the mountain for two more years.
Cultivating the strength of the mountain to the realm of martial arts is equivalent to the cultivation of the second realm, in fact, there are also nine turns of kung fu. If you want to pull out the sword in the stone, you must cultivate to the perfection of the ninth turn and reach the extreme of your skills.
What's even more coincidental is that Dajun was actually a soldier under the general of the Northern Dao clan. The person he admired the most back then was the sword general, probably influenced by his experience, so he came up with the idea of going to Wufuqiu to learn swords. Hanxiong also knew General Dao, and the two chatted all the way, first praising General Dao and then exaggerating Jun. Baoyu didn't squeak much, and there were some things that were inconvenient to mention now.
According to Dajun, the miscellaneous disciples dressed and warmed themselves in the mountains, ate and ate full, and could eat a meal of meat every three days, what a happy life it was! But eating meat must first take a bath, which is also the rule of Wufuqiu, because the ancestor of the year loved cleanliness very much. Female disciples have their own special places, and male disciples bathe in mountain springs, regardless of cold or heat.
Since the disciples went up to the mountain, they have lived in a large house with ten people. There is a dining hall on each peak, where everyone eats together, twice a day after sunrise and before sunset. Cooking for everyone is the easiest errand on the Takefu Hill, and it is common to take care of disciples who are relatively weak or older.
It is not only the miscellaneous disciples who live in the big house, but also those like Dajun, who have been on the mountain for four years and have been the official lineage for two years, still live in the same big house as Baoyu, Hanxiong, Xiaotian, etc., and he is also their head of the house. There are still many people like him, no matter the order of entry, but the younger disciples of Wufuqiu still eat and live together.
Hanxiong asked, so many people live together. Will they disturb each other while practicing?Dajun told him that he didn't have to worry about this problem. The cultivation dojo of Wufu Hill includes five towering peaks, and there are more than 200 miscellaneous disciples, and there are only more than 60 official descendants in the mountain, adding up to only about 300 people.
Such a large place has been in operation for more than 500 years, and there are suitable places for cultivation in the mountains. Everyone looks for it according to their hobbies, even if they don't usually go back to the house to sleep or eat in the cafeteria. But at regular intervals they had to meet at their lodgings and receive their own work. If you fail to complete the task for two consecutive months, you will be sent down. Wufu Hill does not raise idlers who eat and drink.
It's no wonder that Dajun didn't say how many people there were when he introduced the female disciples in the mountains, but said that there were two rooms, that is, about twenty people. No matter when the woman went up the mountain or whether she had become a true disciple or not, she lived in a special courtyard on the Fire Peak to show everyone's love.
On the main peak of Wufu Hill, there is also a special cultivation cave, if you can become a true disciple, and under the guidance of the elder, you can enter the initial realm to cultivate, and finally break through the four realms, you can choose a special cave on the main peak to cultivate. It's a pity that Dajun doesn't have this qualification yet, although he is fortunate to become a true disciple. Later, he also broke through the initial realm and was able to cultivate, but now he only has three realms and eight transformations to cultivate, no wonder he is so afraid of the more powerful junior sister Xiong Li.
With that said, they walked across another rope bridge. From Chopping Wood Peak to Mojian Peak, I entered a courtyard. And there are six such courtyards on the Grinding Sword Peak, surrounding the canteen in the middle. There were 10 beds and 10 cupboards in the big room. There were three beds that were still empty, and the three disciples who had been transferred from Chopping Wood Peak were now living in Baoyu, Hanxiong, and Xiaotian.
At first glance, the residence of the disciples of Wufuqiu looks a bit like a post station. But the conditions are much better than those of the post station. Outside was a large courtyard with barns on either side, and the sleeping room was large, with ten beds along the base of the wall, and a cupboard for personal belongings next to the beds. Ten people lived together, and one of them was the head of the house, who was responsible for managing the miscellaneous disciples and communicating and distributing various affairs in the sect.