IV. Tasks
Zhou Luo took the cyan jade slip, his heart was stunned, and he couldn't help but comfort him in a harmonious voice: "Senior brother, don't worry, it's man-made, as long as you do your best, one day, all dangers will be broken." ”
Senior Brother Zheng Lin's eyes flickered, and he didn't know if it really touched him, but his eyes lit up, patted him on the shoulder and said: "Master Liuyun, you are a very good person, treat me very well, you just say, I let you go, maybe Master can give you some benefits, then it's amazing." ”
Zhou Luo couldn't help but feel grateful, and bowed to Senior Brother Zheng Lin.
Senior Brother Zheng Lin stood up and said, "Okay, you go quickly, if you make a mistake, Senior Brother will also punish you." ”
"Yes, senior brother, I'll go now. Zhou Luo said in a condensed voice.
Senior Brother Zheng Lin left the wooden couch in the hut, swept the sleeves of his robe, and imperceptibly dropped something, Zhou Luo raised his voice and was about to call him, but Senior Brother Zheng Lin had already gone out, fluttering, sweeping hundreds of feet, and disappeared into the mountains and forests in a blink of an eye.
Zhou Luo grabbed the thing and chased it out of the door, but he had long since disappeared from the other party.
In his hand, one hand was the cyan jade slip, and in the other hand, he was holding a roll of cloth, which he carefully unfolded to see, only to see a slightly strange writing written on the plain white background.
Fortunately, Zhou Luo was also literate and hyphenated, and immediately recognized what was written on the cloth.
"Xuantian Qi Practice! This ...... This is the Xuantian Palace's lineage, which can only be obtained by all the disciples who have officially entered the school, the Qi Cultivation Technique!" Zhou Luo's heart pounded violently, and the sound of shaking his ear drum was endless.
Suddenly, he felt like tears were going to populate his eyes.
With a long exhale, he looked at the direction of Senior Brother Zheng Lin's departure, and threw it to the ground with a long stroke: "Senior Brother Zheng Lin, I will live up to your expectations!"
He didn't know why Senior Brother Zheng Lin wanted to help him, he had to know what a great sin it was to teach the Qi Cultivation Technique that only the official beginner disciples of the Thirty-six Peaks of the Xuantian Palace could teach, and the Xuantian Qi Cultivation Technique to a miscellaneous servant privately!
In the Daomen, this kind of violation of the rules is absolutely unacceptable.
Only Senior Brother Zheng Lin is the registered disciple of the official disciple Uncle Liuyun, because of his lack of talent, he had to become the leader of the miscellaneous servants, so that he can get this Xuantian Qi Cultivation Technique, if it is other miscellaneous servants who have cultivated this Xuantian Qi Cultivation Technique, once they are discovered, I don't know how terrible the punishment will be!
However, Zhou Luo knows that this is both a danger and an opportunity.
Perhaps, Senior Brother Zheng Lin saw that Zhou Luo had a lot of talent on the way to cultivation, and he wanted to complete his regrets on Zhou Luo's body, but it is unknown.
Even if he is just a handyman, it is a shame to enter the Immortal Mountain without cultivating. In any case, Zhou Luo knew that Senior Brother Zheng Lin was equivalent to a guide on his way to the cultivation path, although he himself was only a mere cultivator at the fourth level of the Qi Cultivation Realm.
Zhou Luo hurriedly glanced at the cloth that recorded Xuantian's qi cultivation technique, and didn't dare to look closely, so he immediately hid it in the innermost part of his gray Taoist robe, and then silently lucked his true qi, calmed his mind, and then carefully put away the cyan jade slip, took out the mountain map, and prepared to set off.
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Among the thirty-six peaks of Xuantian Palace, Zhengyuan Peak is located in the extreme north, with a radius of more than 1,000 miles, and Zhou Luo and other three new miscellaneous servants live in a col at the southern foot of Zhengyuan Peak.
According to Senior Brother Zheng Lin, after the first task is completed, the three of them will also move to the cottage where the miscellaneous servants live at the northern foot of Zhengyuan Peak and manage it in a unified manner.
And after Zhou Luo became the miscellaneous servant of Zhengyuan Peak in Xuantian Palace, his first task was to cross the small half of Zhengyuan Peak, go to the Xiyun Cliff in the west, enter the Cloud Pavilion, and give the list of offerings assigned by Zhengyuan Peak to Uncle Liuyun.
The official disciples of Xuantian Palace are all the uncles of the miscellaneous servants, and this Liuyun Uncle is also the master of Senior Brother Zheng Lin.
Zhou Luo took the mountain map, saw his location clearly, and the location of the Xiyun Cliff, and conservatively estimated that the distance between the mountains to be crossed was no less than seven or eight hundred miles.
Moreover, on Zhengyuan Peak, the mountain is steep, and it is not easy to climb, so it can be said that Senior Brother Zheng Lin gave Zhou Luo a good opportunity and also gave him a huge problem.
It is indeed not an easy task to climb seven or eight hundred miles of mountain roads before it gets dark and arrive at the Xiyun Cliff and Cloud Pavilion. Of course, if it is the official disciple of Xuantian Palace, those real people, Taoist masters, casting Taoism, or the imperial envoy to fly the sword magic weapon, it will be much faster, and seven or eight hundred miles is just a scene of tea.
Starting from the col at the southern foot of Zhengyuan Peak, go deep into the jungle, because there is a mountain map in hand, you always know where you are, where there is a cliff, where there is a waterfall, where there is a shortcut opened up by the predecessors, where there is a powerful spirit beast, so this time, Zhou Luo will not lose his way again, let alone encounter the red tiger-like murderous thing.
You must know that it is a spirit beast, Zhong Lingyu was born beautifully, born with spells, and in the future, there will be an opportunity to become a demon beast, and cultivate into a demon, which is more powerful than a cultivator, and it is indeed very vicious.
Now his speed is fast, his body is like a vigorous and agile ape, in the mountains and forests of Zhengyuan Peak, galloping quickly, from time to time he scurries one by one I don't know how many years it has grown, thick giant trees, ancient trees, waving his hand, using the Biyou Flying Method, absorbing the green wood qi in the grass and trees, and the true qi running rapidly in his body resonates harmoniously, he can easily leap between the jungles, and every leap, can swing out dozens of feet away.
Moreover, the feeling of being full of soul and true qi became more and more condensed, and gradually, he felt as if he had stepped into a sea of wood qi, and his state was unprecedentedly good.
Trying to perform the Five Elements Yuan Mu Biyou Great Escape Technique again, it was really lighter, much easier, the body shook, and the whole body seemed to be wrapped in a faint blue wood qi, so I didn't know why it was, and I passed through the thick tree trunk. It was as if the trunk of the tree was the liquid of wood gas, and he himself was also a mass of wood gas, flowing through it, clear and unhindered.
Moreover, the success rate has reached more than 40%.
However, for the sake of the first mission, he went to see that Uncle Liuyun, he couldn't lose the face of Senior Brother Zheng Lin, so he only tried a few times, failed three or four times, and after hitting his face with bruises, he gave up.
At this rate, at most, by the afternoon, he would be able to reach the West Cloud Cliff without breathing, go to the Cloud Pavilion to find Uncle Liuyun, and complete the task.
There is a mountain map in his hand, this trip is very smooth, and soon, when the warm sunlight climbs over the ridge from the south foot of Zhengyuan Peak and covers the entire Zhengyuan Peak, Zhou Luo has already crossed the big ridge from the south foot to the west of Zhengyuan Peak.
The west side of Zhengyuan Peak, unexpectedly steep, there are cliffs everywhere, it is much more difficult to march, there are also waterfalls that are like the Milky Way falling for nine days, from the cliff of thousands of zhang, the flow goes straight down, violently squeezes the air, and slaps the deep pool below.
Zhou Luo also saw that outside the mountain wall in the west, there was indeed a large vast sea of clouds, covering a radius of thousands of miles, and it had been diffusing to the direction of other peaks of Xuantian Palace outside Zhengyuan Peak, under the water vapor and sunlight of the waterfall, reflecting the magnificent scenery of the blurry dream, which was indeed a real beautiful spectacle. And in the sea of clouds, there are occasional strong lights, flying by, and shadowy figures flickering in it.
"These are the cultivators of the Immortal Family, they control the flying sword, urge the magic weapon, soar for nine days, go to the sky and enter the earth, move mountains and reclaim the sea......" Zhou Luo shook his head, his eyes were full of longing, and finally he smiled slightly, and after a short rest, he went on the road again.
He's just a handyman now, that's it.
Although it was difficult to travel to the west, in the afternoon, when the sun was gradually setting in the west, Zhou Luo still arrived at Xiyun Cliff.
Xiyun Cliff is on the mountainside at the west foot of Zhengyuan Peak, and it is not big or small. However, the peculiar thing is that this piece of cliff stretches all the way to the vast sea of clouds outside the Zhengyuan Peak mountain. On both sides of the cliff, two waterfalls, like silver dragons, plunged into the void, and the majestic water vapor continued to seep into the clouds and mist, becoming more and more dreamy and misty.
At the end of the West Cloud Cliff, which penetrates into the sea of clouds like a truncated arm, an attic has been built, with seven floors high, and the top layer has been completely shrouded in clouds and mist, blurred, but it has a kind of immortal aura that only has a Taoist cultivation treasure land.
Even if Zhou Luo doesn't pass the method, he can also see that the cliff that sticks out is really within the entire mountain wall within a radius of dozens of miles, the best point, connecting the mountains, connecting the skylight, and the void, ethereal and taking the purple qi, it must be a good place for Taoist cultivation.
Zhou Luo went up the cliff all the way, and before he walked into the faint mist, suddenly a soft drink came into his ears.
"The Cloud Pavilion is the cultivation place of the Master Liuyun Dao people, you can't trespass, who are you, and stand first!"
Zhou Luo was stunned, and saw that in the clouds and mist, a white light shot out, and when the air turned, there was a Taoist wearing a white Taoist robe, holding a Taoist bun, looking young and handsome, and pointing like a sword, stepping on a white life, constantly swallowing a long sword like a spiritual snake, floating in the air, the volley was a foot high from the mountains and rocks, blocking him, looking down at him condescendingly.
"This person is also a disciple of Senior Uncle Liuyun, that is Senior Brother Zheng Lin's senior brother? Zhou Luo said secretly in his heart, but he didn't dare to hesitate in his mouth, and immediately gave a salute and said: "This uncle, disciple Zhou Luo, is a new servant of Zhengyuan Peak, and on the order of Senior Brother Zheng Lin, I came to send Uncle Liuyun the list of offerings that our Zhengyuan Peak deserves in the offerings to our Xuantian Palace in the Tang Dynasty this time. ”