The assessment on the second day is all over, and only half of the 200 or so candidates who originally passed the mountaineering test are now left, and this is not the end, and the last assessment tomorrow does not know how many candidates will be eliminated.

Inside the snake head hall, there is no too much decoration, the old candle lamp, the yellow incense burner, the vermilion pillar, the purple jade column. Chen Mu and the candidates sat down on the futon on the floor of the main hall.

After all, it's not an immortal cultivator, no one can open the valley, Chen Mu has been rumbling with hunger for a long time after going through the test for most of the day; looking at the other candidates, who didn't prepare dry food, drinking water and the like in advance, and Chen Mu's side, Mu Tianzhen and Qin Hu didn't prepare these, only Jiao Zhuo brought some spiritual rice, but they also ate it last night.

No, I have to get something to eat! Chen Mu secretly said in his heart, he didn't believe that there was still some game in this huge mountain forest!

Thinking of it, Chen Mu said hello to Mu Tianzhen, and then slipped out of front of the two senior brothers guarding the entrance of the hall in the name of going to the toilet, and turned around in this reckless and vast peak.

Chen Mu picked a quiet and remote place on the peak, and plunged into the forest, just like a wild wolf released into the mountains and forests, looking for food everywhere.

But after going around for a long time, except that my stomach was even more hungry, I didn't even find half a beast. A little further on, at the end of the forest, suddenly opened: a bluestone paved path, at the end is a meditation room, the appearance is old, in the courtyard of the meditation room, there are a few old peaches, the peach trees are blooming, the peach petals are delicate.

"It is said that the world is full of fragrant flowers in April, and the peach blossoms in the mountain temple are in full bloom. Look at this peach again, it turns out that there is really such a fairyland in the world!"

Chen Mu only felt that he had come to the world in the ancient poems, slowly, slowly, along the quiet path, long.

Unconsciously walking into the courtyard, the careful Chen Mu found that the old peaches in the courtyard were also blooming, but there were not many fallen flowers on the mossy ground, which showed that this Zen courtyard was cleaned every day.

"Who will live here?" Chen Mu whispered.

The door of the meditation room was hidden and not locked, and Chen Mu knocked on the door, but no one answered.

Chen Mugang wanted to push open the door, but he stopped his hand: "Forget it, it's not good to be treated as a thief." ”

Walking around the meditation room, behind the meditation room, is a garden nursery, and at the end of the garden, there is a clear spring with a drop of more than ten meters! Under the spring, there is a deep pool.

"I said how I heard the sound of water on the mountain road, but I didn't expect that behind this meditation room, there is really a cave!"

Chen Mu was excited, because having a spring meant that there was a beast, and his stomach was hungry!

Chen Mu walked through the nursery in three steps and two steps, but he didn't notice it at all, the nursery was full of spiritual branch fairy grasses that were difficult to find in the outside world, and his mind was on fishing.

As soon as he arrived at the deep pool under the spring, Chen Mu keenly felt that there were a few startled ripples on the surface of the pool, which was the hidden trace of the beast!

Looking at the peach petals snorkeling in the water with the waves on the surface of the pool, Chen Mu grinned:

"The egret flies in front of the Xisai Mountain, and the peach blossoms and flowing water are fat mandarin fish! I bet there are definitely fat beasts in this pool!"

Thinking of this, Chen Mu swallowed his saliva, he took out the red cloud rod from the Qiankun bag, and installed the blue water drop wheel specially built for him by Li Dazhui, Chen Mu also gave this round a name - Qing Miao, there was already a cold silk that he had wrapped around the wheel, and then hung the hook bait, Chen Mu shook the hook and began to fish.

"Qing Miao hasn't tried it yet, so I'll use you to open the light today!"

......

Qianyuan Peak, Fengming Palace.

The woman in the mask of crying and laughing looked out the window, and there were clouds floating in front of her, just as she was thinking at this time.

"Master. ”

The woman looked back at the person.

"You are not invigilating in the Snake Head Palace, what are you doing in this Fengming Palace?"

Miao Qin respectfully bowed as a disciple.

"Master, the second test of the candidates on the peak has all been assessed, and a total of one hundred and twelve people have passed. ”

The head of the snake nodded.

"You're not here just for that, are you?"

Miao Qin lowered her head, bit her lip lightly, and after a pause of two seconds, she finally decided: "There are two candidates in Sifeng who have performed well in the second assessment this time, and I hope that the master can consider keeping them in Sifeng." ”

Even his beloved disciples said that they were excellent, and the head of the snake became interested: "Let's talk about it." ”

"One of the candidates is named Mu Tianzhen, from Yangji City, and at the age of fifteen, she can make the smoke of the Copper Furnace rise by nine feet!"

"The smoke rises nine feet. The face under the snake's head mask was slightly startled, and she looked at Miao Qin and said, "I remember that you were only seven feet old when you entered the school. ”

Miao Qin's expression was ashamed, she lowered her head and said, "I was indeed inferior to her back then. ”

"Don't be presumptuous, you also said that it was yourself back then, in my opinion, you are already very good now. ”

Miao Qin's head hung lower: "Master Xie is relieved." ”

"What about the other candidate?"

Miao Qin thought of the boy who handed over the spiritual rice last night, and she couldn't resist the temptation of "popcorn", and her pretty face couldn't help but blush, she replied: "Another candidate's name is Chen Mu, he made the purple smoke rise more than one foot and five feet during the test of the copper furnace, but then the purple smoke fell for some reason, and finally the smoke rose three feet......

It's Chen Mu again, the candidate who took the initiative to throw away the Mixed Yuan Order? The beautiful eyebrows trembled slightly under the snake's head mask, because her mind was elsewhere, so she didn't notice the change in the face of the disciple.

Miao Qin suppressed her daughter's thoughts and said seriously: "The apprentice thinks that although Chen Mu is only three feet up in the end, his potential is by no means limited to this. ”

"Oh?"

The snake head chuckled, and it was the first time Miao Qin saw the master laughing, like a bell and a spring, and she couldn't help but have ripples in her heart.

"It's the first time I've seen you defend someone like this?

Miao Qin's always cold face raised a touch of red: "Master, don't make fun of the disciples, I just think that now all the peaks are retaining the outstanding disciples of each peak, if we disdain these small actions in the peak again, in this year's ranking battle, I can still hold on to the inner peak, but the outer peak, I'm afraid that no one can really take on this important task." ”

Miao Qin has tried her best to be as euphemistic as possible, but if they can't receive excellent disciples from the outer peak this year, I'm afraid that it will no longer be just weak, but even the last backbone will be broken.

The snake head sighed lightly, and her beautiful eyes showed a look of remembrance: "The Mixed Yuan Academy in the past, if it is really the best school in this Qingluo Realm and even the entire Dongsheng Continent. At that time, the students asked intently, the teacher concentrated on teaching, and the prestige of the academy spread all over the continent! If it weren't for the sudden disappearance of the mansion master ten years ago, the school group had no leader, and the various peaks and peaks had appeared again, where would there be these doorways in this freshman big exam?"

Miao Qin was dumbfounded, she had naturally heard of the big event ten years ago: the previous mansion master, a generation of great powers that had reached the realm of descending to the sky, suddenly disappeared for no reason one night ten years ago, and since then, she has allowed the peak masters to spread resources to search, but there is still no news.

In the following ten years, the reputation of the school plummeted, although there was an acting lord rat head to maintain the affairs of the college, but after all, the rat head was not a great power, and did not have the prestige of the previous lord, resulting in the original lord set the "school first" government rules have gradually become an empty paper, the peaks intrigued, open and secret battles are not uncommon, and this freshman exam has become the first scene of the annual battle between the peaks.

"Originally, I thought that as long as I let Sifeng be alone, but after a few years, I found out that a corner of peace not only will not make Sifeng better, but will make the disciples in the peak not believe in themselves and not believe in me, so what does it mean to be clean and self-believing?"

As soon as the snake head said this, an invisible momentum stirred in the Fengming Palace, and Miao Qin's beautiful eyes on the side lit up: she chose to enter the peak back then, not because she admired such a heroic master!

"From today onwards, whoever joins my peak, the summit will provide the best quality resources to cultivate, no matter the martial arts cheats, pills and magic weapons, as long as you make enough contributions, you can get them! At the same time, I will apply to the academy and mobilize more excellent teachers to give us the peak, so that the disciples know that joining my peak will not be worse than any peak!"

......

The head of the twelve peaks of the mixed yuan, these big people who can all be famous and shocking the rivers and lakes, were only twelve students accepted by the mansion master back then.

Therefore, the other eleven peak capitals knew that there was a Zen temple on the peak, and there were peaches planted by the lord of the house in the temple. And this is also the place where their little sister snake head comes most often.

"Little snake, are you at home? I'll come in and play!"

The petite woman was light on the door of the meditation room, and without waiting for anyone to answer, she slipped through the open bamboo window next to the door.

"Huh, the little snake isn't at home!"

The woman couldn't help but be a little disappointed: "My rabbit's assessment is too boring!

"Huh, what does this smell like?" her tiny nose sniffed in the air, "smoke?"

The woman didn't move, moving like a rabbit, and in the blink of an eye, she had already crossed the roof of the meditation room and went straight to the source of the smoke behind the nursery.

A man, a boy, squatted beside the peach blossom pool, holding a knife in his hand, and under the knife was something bloody, and in front of the boy was a big iron pot, and something was boiling in the iron pot, and the smell of smoke that he had asked before came from the firewood under the pot.

"What is he doing? In his hand, it is! The peach blossom mandarin fish that the little snake usually raises! Crazy! I must be dazzled! How dare anyone kill the pet raised by the little snake!"

The petite woman only felt her head buzzing, and she had also tried to ask the little snake why she fed these beasts, but she still remembered what the little snake said at that time and her demeanor:

"This is the teacher's upbringing, he is not at home now, I want to help him take care of them. ”

Since that day, the little snake has put on the mask of crying and laughing, and no one has ever seen her true expression again.

"What's the matter with this crazy boy? Obviously, his cultivation level is not high, how can he catch this peach blossom mandarin fish from the peach blossom pool? Also, what does that pot do?"

The woman decided to go up and find out.

"The mandarin fish is deboned and cut into oblique slices, and the fish fillets are prepared with sake, flour, peppercorns, salt, sugar, and egg white. ”

"Fish bones, fish heads, and fish tails are marinated with a little rice wine and salt for 10 minutes, and then fried in a pan until golden brown. It's still good for the spirit animal oil here, no matter what you fry, it's fragrant! Add water and boil it into a milky white fish soup, and set it aside. ”

"Put a little oil in the pot, fry the peppercorns, sesame peppers, and dried red peppers, add ginger and garlic, and continue to stir-fry; ”

"Put the bean sprouts into a large bowl at the bottom of the fish bones, slide the fish fillets in the pot for half a minute, take a large bowl, and pour the soup in. Finally, sprinkle with coriander and chopped green onions, and the boiled peach blossoms are full of color and flavor!"

The petite woman who stood aside to hide her voice, her mouth was so shocked that she could even put down her own fist:

"Crazy, crazy, this crazy boy! Cooking a beast!"