"I didn't expect you to go through so many hardships at such a young age, Supreme Taiyi saves the suffering Tianzun!"

As soon as the Heavenly Master spoke, the others also chanted: "Supreme Taiyi saves the suffering Tianzun!" ”

"Qingyang, Zhou Kui was brought back by you, you have to treat him well, don't slack off!"

"Apprentice obeys the master's orders!" Qingyang Daoist bowed to the old heavenly master and said in a humble tone.

The next step is the formal apprenticeship ceremony, which should be briefly described in the book, and the specific process of Zhou Kui's participation in the apprenticeship ceremony will not be described in detail here.

After the apprenticeship ceremony, Guo Jia and Zheng Zilong led Zhou Kui out of the main hall.

"Senior Brother Zhou, it's still early before lunch, let's take you to visit the rest of the Heavenly Master's Mansion first." Guo Jia walked in the front to lead the way, and Zheng Zilong and Zhou Kui walked side by side.

"I heard Master say that the Heavenly Master's Mansion is the size of a football field, and when you actually turn around in it, it's really extraordinary!" Zhou Kui sighed.

Guo Jia listened to Zhou Kui's feelings, and hurriedly quipped: "That's not it, ordinary people are tired enough to walk around." ”

Time passed in a blink of an eye, and when it was close to noon, the two senior brothers took Zhou Kui to the cafeteria to eat.

"Whatever you want to eat, just say it, as long as you don't waste food!" Guo Jia reminded.

Zhou Kui handed the plate to the canteen master who was cooking, he pointed to the dish he wanted to eat, and said, "Master, I want to eat this, and this, uh, and this!" ”

"Senior Brother Zhou, eat more, see you are as thin as a bamboo pole, do you have a hundred pounds?" Zheng Zilong teased.

Zhou Kui curled the corners of his mouth and laughed: "Second senior brother guessed wrong, I only have 90 pounds." ”

Guo Jia shook his head helplessly, and after Zhou Kui sat down, he picked up a chicken leg from the plate and put it on Zhou Kui's plate.

"Eat more, you must be full, in the afternoon the master will assign you a cultivation task!" Guo Jia said in a concerned tone.

"Thank you, brother!"

Seeing this, Zheng Zilong also picked up a chicken leg from the dinner plate and put it on Zhou Kui's plate.

After lunch, Guo Jia sent Zhou Kui back to the house to rest.

"Come to Master's room at 15 o'clock to gather, by the way, what is your WeChat ID?"

Zhou Kui sat on the antique chair and said with some sorrow: "I said in the palace that my mobile phone and ID card were stolen. ”

"It's okay, I'll accompany you down the mountain to buy one when I have time. As for the ID card, Master will take you to apply for it another day, so you can stay here with peace of mind. ”

"Thank you, big brother!"

After Guo Jia left, Zhou Kui closed the door, he walked to the side of the bed, and stroked the soft mattress with his hand.

"It's about the same as the bed in the hotel, whatever, I'll take a nap first, I haven't had a good rest in the past while."

Zhou Kui took off his robe, only wore a white robe, covered it with a quilt, and fell asleep not long after.

"Chirp chirp ......"

Half-asleep and half-awake, Zhou Kui vaguely heard a strange noise in the house.

At first he thought it was his own delusion, but after a few minutes, the noise continued, and the sound became clearer and clearer.

"It's so annoying, it won't let me sleep!"

Zhou Kui got up from the bed, stretched out his feet to put on cloth shoes, he stood up and walked to the wall to turn on the lights in the room.

"It sounds like the sound of a mouse, damn it, it's still screaming!"

Zhou Kui listened intently, trying to locate the source of the sound.

"Seems to be coming from the corner of the bed against the wall!"

When he walked to the other side of the bed, next to the corner of the wall, a slender crack caught Zhou Kui's eyes.

"Is this a hole made by a rat? Big brother didn't tell me there were rats in this house! Zhou Kui yawned a little tiredly.

He reached out and moved the bed aside so he could get closer to the crack.

Zhou Kui squatted down and opened his eyes wide to carefully observe the crack.

Suddenly, there was a strange voice in the crack: "Little master, little master, can you hear me?" ”

When Zhou Kui heard this voice, he was so frightened that he almost fell to the ground.

"Didn't you run into a goblin?" Zhou Kui swallowed his saliva unconsciously.

He was bold and whispered back, "Who are you sacred?" Why hide in such a remote corner? ”

After a few seconds, the strange voice came from the crack again: "Hey, hey, don't be afraid, little master, I was originally a guinea pig living on Lingyun Mountain, just because I absorbed too much of the essence of heaven, earth, sun and moon, and cultivated ten years ago." At that time, I took advantage of the Heavenly Master's Mansion to repair the ban and sneaked in, but I didn't expect that after the Heavenly Master's Mansion re-strengthened the ban, I couldn't escape, so I had to hide in this uninhabited room. ”

"Rat cultivation to refinement?"

Zhou Kui remembered the story of "Four Explorations of the Bottomless Pit" in "Journey to the West" that he read in a book when he was a child.

"Legend has it that rats that have cultivated to perfection are often evil, ruthless and vicious, and I may not be able to deal with them alone, so let's go to the master to deal with it!"

Zhou Kui was thinking like this, and was about to get up, when the white rat spirit said again: "Little master, don't go, I'm stuck between the bricks and stones in the wall and can't move, you can help, let me out!" ”

"You're a goblin, and I'm a human, if I release you and you plot against me, I don't even have room to fight back!" Zhou Kui refused.

The white rat spirit said a little anxiously: "The little master is really joking, this is the famous and talented Heavenly Master's Mansion, what kind of storm can I set off as a little mouse spirit who has only been in the Tao for ten years?" ”

Zhou Kui still couldn't believe the words of the white rat spirit, he pretended to threaten: "You wait, I'll go and call the master to clean you up now!" ”

The white rat spirit was so anxious that he almost cried, and he begged bitterly: "Little master, don't do it, I have never done anything unreasonable since I became a sperm, but occasionally go to the cafeteria to steal some food." Really, I swear to the Sanqing Patriarch! ”

Zhou Kui stopped, thinking in his heart that the words of the white rat spirit did not sound like a lie, and after hesitating for a few seconds, he squatted down again and put his hand into the crack.

Soon, his fingers touched a fluffy mass.

"Little master, work hard, I'll be out soon!"

Zhou Kui barely used much force, and easily grabbed the white rat essence out of the crack.

"Heh, what a small mouse, you are also worthy of being fine?" Zhou Kui grabbed the white mouse's delicate little tail with one hand, and couldn't help but complain.

"Don't look at me as small, people are seventy-year-old old-timers!"

After listening to the words of the white rat spirit, Zhou Kui finally couldn't control his laughter: "Hahaha, it's so pitiful, you have lived for more than seventy years, but you have only been a sperm for ten years, I don't know where to complain!" ”

The rat spirit blushed shyly, and said unwillingly: "Ten years of becoming a spirit is also a goblin, at least I also have ten years of Taoism, compared to you, an ordinary person who doesn't know anything, I'm already very strong!" ”

"This guy is quite proud, you wait, I'll go to my master now!"

Zhou Kui carried the tail of the white rat spirit upside down, pushed open the door with one hand, and walked straight to the master's residence.

......

Qingyang Daoist sat on the edge of the coffee table, and after listening to Zhou Kui's story, the corners of his mouth twitched slightly, but he still didn't laugh in the end.

"I said apprentice, since this white rat spirit has lived in our Heavenly Master's Mansion for ten years, it is a spirit beast raised by our Heavenly Master's Mansion!"

At this time, Zhou Kui was like a second monk at a loss, he tilted his head and asked with a puzzled expression: "Master, I didn't understand what you said. ”

Qingyang Daoist took a sip of the tea on the coffee table and continued: "In the past, there were also some animals that had cultivated into refinement in the Heavenly Master's Mansion, but they were not malicious, but they also helped the people of the Heavenly Master's Mansion to do things, and over time, the Heavenly Master's Mansion defaulted to them as harmless 'spirit beasts' for humans and animals. ”

"I can understand that they are also members of the Heavenly Master's Mansion?" Zhou Kui suddenly thought of such an inappropriate analogy.

After hearing this, Qingyang Daoist couldn't help but laugh: "Hahaha, what a member of the organization, but this understanding doesn't seem to be wrong!" ”

When the white rat spirit heard the words of the Qingyang Daoist, he said triumphantly, "Did you hear that? Your master has said that I am a member of the Heavenly Master's Mansion, and you are still polite to me? ”

Zhou Kui pursed his lips, he put the white rat spirit on the ground, and said unwillingly: "Lord rat spirit, disrespectful!" ”

The white rat spirit stood up on the ground, he straightened up, and said arrogantly: "Apprentice, you will mess with me in the future!" ”

"Who is your apprentice? I warn you, don't take an inch! Zhou Kui raised his fist and made a gesture to fight.

The white rat spirit raised its little paws to protect its head, and hurriedly begged for mercy: "Don't don't, don't don't, can't I be your apprentice?" ”

Zhou Kui sighed, and under the gaze of the Qingyang Daoist, he corrected: "Don't be commensurate with master and apprentice between us, so let's do it, I'll call you Brother Rat, you are older than me, call me Xiao Zhou or directly Zhou Kui." ”

The white rat spirit didn't seem to be satisfied with this name: "Brother Rat is not good, let's change the name!" ”

Zhou Kui rubbed his head, and then said, "Lao Bai, I call you Lao Bai, how about it?" ”

"Okay, good, just call Lao Bai!" The rat spirit rolled on the ground with joy.

Qingyang Daoist laughed a few times, he patted Zhou Kui's hand, and said meaningfully: "Apprentice, I really didn't misunderstand you!" As soon as I came to the Heavenly Master's Mansion, I received such a spirit beast, and the future is immeasurable! ”

Zhou Kui whispered in his heart: "Oh, is it? I don't think that's anything to be happy about. ”