Chapter 4: The Punishment for Renunciation
In all fairness, this kind of food standard is actually good in Ginkgo Valley, at least it can guarantee a little bit of meat. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 Although the amount of info is quantitative, as long as you can come to the meeting early, it is basically enough to eat. It's just that for the pampered traverser in the earth world, this kind of food is not enough.
However, its only great thing is that it's available for free!
If there is no other choice, even if they are picky in their hearts, the traversers can only swallow hard!
Each received a meal, and the two of them randomly found an empty octagonal table in a corner of the dining hall and sat down, enduring the discomfort in their stomachs and eating.
"You know what? I sailed Xu Fan this morning, and he got mixed up with Jiang Wenshan. ”
As if he had suddenly thought of something, Fang Jin put down the half-eaten scones and told Shen Xia a piece of news.
"Really?"
Fang Jin's words made Shen Xia's chopsticks stop, and his face was a little more surprised.
Xu Fan, like Shen Xia and Fang Jin, was also beaten by Jiang Wenshan because of the matter of the Deer Blood Pill. At that time, Shen Xia, who happened to be passing by, witnessed this scene, and in line with the idea of uniting more people to fight against Jiang Wenshan, he decisively chose to roll up his sleeves to help. Unexpectedly, Xu Fan said it well at that time, and it was only less than half a month before he changed his hexagram, and he took refuge in Jiang Wenshan as if nothing happened.
On the contrary, he is not a person inside and outside to help.
"I saw it with my own eyes."
Fang Jin confirmed what he had seen, and said for him: "The kid surnamed Xu is really not a thing!" I must have heard that Jiang Wenshan was about to change jobs, and I was scared, so I went up to hug someone's thigh. It's his business to be shameless, and I'm not qualified to say anything, but before doing this, I didn't even say hello to Brother Shen, which is too inauthentic. ”
Shen Xia was indeed a little angry.
However, it was only limited to the moment when he heard about it from Fang Jin, and he quickly calmed down again.
It needs to be said that Xu Fan is the driver of the tour bus that Fang Jin and Shen Xia are on, and everyone has nothing to do with each other before the crossing, and they have some friendship after crossing into this world together. In this case, what qualifications does Shen Xia have to ask the other party? Even, if it weren't for Jiang Wenshan's narrow-mindedness, Shen Xia himself would have the idea of temporarily swallowing this breath and reconciling with the other party.
"Forget it, let's just assume that I don't have this friendship with Xu Fan in the future."
After a pause, he said lightly, uncovered the matter, and continued to eat with his head down.
Seeing this, Fang Jin opened his mouth to say something more, but in the end he could only reluctantly shut up, and picked up the stew in the basin with chopsticks to vent his anger.
What he didn't know was that although this matter was indeed insignificant, it was impossible to say that it had no effect on Shen Xia at all. That night, lying in the simple wooden house of the Dao Academy, Shen Xia, who couldn't fall asleep after tossing and turning, felt more and more that he had to find a way to speed up his cultivation.
………
A new day.
The sky had just dawned, and the faint fog in the valley had not yet dissipated. The traversers changed into light green Taoist robes and came to the dojo in the center of the Taoist Academy to prepare for the routine morning class.
This dojo is about 100 steps wide, and the ground is paved with cyan square bricks. The early risers had apparently finished cleaning and sprinkling water to make the place look extra tidy. In the center of the dojo, two lifelike stone carved crane incense burners have also been incensed. It burns quietly, emitting a delicate fragrance. A light sniff will clear your mind.
In this atmosphere, no matter how complicated the mind is, people will involuntarily quiet down.
At the moment when the purple qi first rose, two Taoist priests came together.
One of them was called a priest and was responsible for preaching and receiving karma for the travelers. The previous Twelve Styles of Body Forging were passed down by him personally. After that, he would take the time to come out every ten days to answer the difficult questions encountered in the forging to the traversers, and to teach them some about herbs, talismans, and miscellaneous sciences - it was exactly ten days since the last time he answered them.
By the way, the aborigines who led Shen Xia and them back to the Taoist Academy were also this Taoist priest.
The Taoist priest Chen, who was one step ahead of him, was more mysterious.
He rarely shows his head on weekdays, but he is an out-and-out master, and there is gossip that he is the person in charge of this temple.
These two are the few genuine Daoists in this Daoist Academy - unlike those Daoists who have changed classes but have not yet reached LV7, they have mastered real Dao methods such as "Healing Technique" and "Spiritual Power Battle Method".
And that's not all!
As a former veteran "Legend" player, Shen Xia saw clearly, the mysterious person in charge of the Taoist Academy, the jewelry on his chest that shone with a faint glow, was the [Yellow Crystal Necklace] in the game that at least LV13 could exert its true power.
This means that Daoist Chen may still have mastered the poison technique!
In the realm of Ginkgo Valley, Taoist priests who can master poison casting techniques definitely have the power to walk sideways.
At this moment, these two Taoist priests, after answering some of the questions raised by the traversers, led the traversers to start a new day of cultivation.
It is rare to have two Taoist priests here, and the Taoist Yuwen Palace, who originally supervised the cultivation of the traversers, was very active. He is a demanding person, and once he gets serious, he is really ruthless. When he saw someone who was lazy and slippery, he would beat and scold mercilessly, or directly beat him with the back of his sword. The peachwood sword containing special strength seems to be light and fluttering, but when it is drawn on the body, it is no less than ten lashes with a leather whip, which is simply painful.
After half a day, the traversers seemed to have been stripped of a layer of skin.
Not to mention listening to the basic knowledge of herbal medicine and miscellaneous science taught by the Taoist priest, I have done my best to persist and not get tired.
After another day's training, feeling the faint progress that was almost the same as yesterday, Shen Xia was silent. And the cultivation that was far more boring and harsh than anyone imagined, the slower and slower growth of power, and the very poor living conditions by earthly standards, after brewing for so long, finally induced the exit of the traverser.
In fact, there are so many people in the Taoist Academy, and there is far more than one person who has given up. It's just that among the people Shen Xia knows, it is still the first person to give up becoming a professional.
"I want to go home!"
On the night of the 64th day of cultivation, Shan Xiaoya, the female tour guide of the tour group who crossed with him, couldn't help crying.
After being scolded by Yuwen Palace for a few days in the forging training, she finally couldn't hold on.
In fact, it is understandable to think about it, this tour guide who is only in his twenties is young and beautiful, has a decent family background, and has a boyfriend who loves her. Compared to being inexplicably dragged into this world to endure hardships and suffering, life in the earth world is like heaven. Which little girl it is, most of them will collapse.
Shan Xiaoya's crying attracted the comfort and dissuasion of several companions. After all, the system task [job transfer] is mandatory for everyone, and no one knows what the consequences will be if they fail to complete the task.
But in the end, Shan Xiaoya still made a decision with an open-minded mentality.
After forcibly giving up the [Transfer] task, all the companions around Shan Xiaoya felt that something invisible had disappeared from her—that was the cultivation talent possessed by this body. Without it, Shan Xiaoya has completely become an ordinary person from then on. Even if you want to cultivate in the future, there is no possibility at all.
The mysterious system doesn't give severe punishments such as "obliteration", but it's no less brutal than any other.
One day, some people will regret their rash abandonment, but they will never have a chance to turn back, and can only endure endless torment in self-blame and chagrin!
At that moment, Shan Xiaoya seemed to regret a little.
But at this time, she obviously didn't know what it meant to give up, so it was more of a relief.