Chapter 18: Under the Peach Blossom Tree
Two months later.
On this day, the light called people into the courtyard.
"From the time you started to practice until now, three months have passed, and the deadline I gave you is halfway through, your current training level is no longer enough to train your physical fitness, next, the teacher will use the pill to improve your physique."
Ah Ting nodded obediently.
Jiguang touched his chin and said, "But I don't often refine pills myself, and I don't have any tools and spirit grass to take advantage of when I return to Lingfeng." ”
"Huh?" Ardin was disappointed.
"Tsk." Seeing the disappointment on her face, Jiguang immediately patted her head a few times impatiently, "You fart, it's not that you can't practice as a teacher, in this way, you first go to Aoki Peak to dig up some spiritual grass, and then go to the Blood Peak to borrow the gilded white jade alchemy furnace of the sixth child." ”
As he spoke, Jiguang found a pen and paper and made a list of spiritual grass for her.
Ah Ting was a little embarrassed, "Master, have you borrowed it?" The alchemy furnace is enough, and the spirit grass of Aoki Peak is not given casually. ”
Jiguang patted her head again, "You know a fart, isn't it just an alchemy furnace, it's not the first time, can the sixth child borrow it?" As for the spiritual grass of Aoki Peak, not to mention, what is the spiritual grass of Aoki Peak planted for, isn't it just for the alchemy of the same sect? Besides, the mother of those spirit grasses in Aoki Peak was originally found for the teacher and planted there. ”
"Oh~" Ah Ting responded again and again.
After going down the mountain, she looked at it from a distance, and the Blood Transformation Peak was closer to the Huiling Peak, so Ah Ting went to the Blood Transformation Peak first.
After walking to the Blood Transformation Peak, he walked along the mountain road until he walked to the mountainside, and Ah Ting saw one or two disciples.
The Blood Transformation Peak is sparsely populated, and the population is second only to Huiling Peak, because the Blood Transformation Peak is the main division of alchemy, and as we all know, in the Xuanling Continent, alchemists and refiners are very scarce.
Basically, the alchemists live on the Blood Transformation Peak, and on weekdays, they mainly provide the disciples of the entire Longyu Mountain with pills for monthly cultivation.
Ah Ting found the sixth elder of the peak lord and explained his intentions.
The sixth elder is a kind-eyed, childish little old man, when Ah Ting came, he warmly entertained her, the senior sister was long, and the junior sister was short and circled around her, and when he heard her intention, his face suddenly changed.
Just when Ah Ting "chuckled" in his heart, thinking that he couldn't borrow the Dan Furnace, the Sixth Elder took out the Alchemy Alchemy Furnace with gilt white jade in his sleeve, just with a painful expression on his face.
While reluctantly handing it to Ah Ting, he pointed to the sky and scolded the old man for being disrespectful, and he only knew how to squeeze the younger generation every day. When sending Ah Ting down the mountain, he also gave a heavy "phew" in the direction of Huiling Peak, and threatened that one day he would deceive his teacher and destroy his ancestors, and beat the shameless uncle of Jiguang.
Ah Ting had a wooden face the whole time, neither daring to refute nor talking, pretending to be a wooden man who couldn't listen to anything or think anything.
After borrowing the alchemy furnace, Ah Ting hurried to Aoki Peak again.
Aoki Peak, as its name suggests, is a mountain with dense vegetation, and most of the disciples who cultivate on the mountain are wood spirit roots.
Ah Ting went up the mountain all the way, and it wasn't until she reached the foot of Aoki Peak that she suddenly remembered that Qiu Yan was a disciple of Aoki Peak, or an inner disciple, it is said that the three elders of Aoki Peak have no true disciple under their names, and they are very fond of this inner disciple with good talent.
Qiu Yan was taken to the bottom of the cliff of Longyu Mountain by her to shut himself up for a month before, and now he should have come out.
Thinking that her old acquaintance was probably in Aoki Peak at the moment, Ah Ting suddenly shrunk her neck, and she also remembered that not only Qiu Yan, but most of the people she had done in the Law Enforcement Hall before were from Aoki Peak.
Hey, it's a bit square.
The first time Ah Ting came to Aoki Peak, he didn't know the road, he turned all the way, and he didn't find the location of the main hall of Aoki Peak for a long time, but he didn't know how to go, so he wanted to go to the mountain behind them.
Unlike Huiling Peak and Blood Transformation Peak, there are many disciples in Aoki Peak, and Ah Ting saw many houses from afar along the way, all of which are the residences of the disciples.
After walking for a while, Ah Ting saw a single-door courtyard not far ahead, the house was quiet and elegant, surrounded by lush vegetation, and a tall peach blossom tree was planted in the yard, about ten zhang high.
Ordinary peach blossom trees would never grow so tall. And it's not March now, but the trees are full of flowers, and from a distance, you can only see a patch of pink. Ah Ting thought that this peach tree should have been nourished by the aura of the cultivation realm, so different from the peach tree of the mundane realm.
Ah Ting couldn't help but look at it a few more times, but at this moment, the tip of her nose moved, and she suddenly smelled a trace of fishy smell.
Although there was only a hint of it, Ah Ting still reflexively turned his head to look in the direction of the peach tree.
The peach blossom tree looks beautiful, and the layer of fine green grass under the tree is spread on the ground, which looks like it complements each other.
The smell was like a delusion on her part, but ...... Ah Ting doesn't think so. She has been wallowing in the dead for many years, and is most sensitive to the smell of blood and rancidity.
She was sure she wasn't mistaken.
She looked left and right, the disciples of Aoki Peak were probably practicing in the martial arts arena at this time, or cultivating in the Cave Heaven Blessed Land, but there were only a few people on the mountain road at this moment.
Ah Ting walked to the tall peach blossom tree, and the closer he got to it, the more sure Ah Ting was of his sense of smell, although the fishy smell mixed with the fragrance of the flowers was not obvious, but Ah Ting still distinguished.
She crouched down, picked up a tuft of grass, and immediately noticed that although the grass grew naturally, the soil under the turf looked like it was freshly covered.
"What are you doing?"
A voice sounded coldly overhead.
Ah Ting looked up and saw Qiu Yan standing in front of her, looking at her condescendingly.
"This is where you live?" She asked.
Between the calcium carbide sparks, Ah Ting suddenly thought of something.
"Yes, Adin...... Uncle Ting, what are you doing in my yard? Qiu Yan looked at her coldly.
Ah Ting stood up and shook a piece of pink and white peach blossoms in front of his eyes, "I saw that your peach blossoms are blooming very well, and I want to come in and pick a flower, but the tree is too tall for me to reach." ”
Qiu Yan looked at her fixedly, suddenly grabbed her dangling hand, and said, "Uncle Ah Ting, do you remember those words that scolded people in the Law Enforcement Hall last time?" Isn't it also uneducated for you to trespass into someone else's house without the consent of your master? ”
Ah Ting nodded, "You're right, okay, then you can send me to the Law Enforcement Hall." ”
Qiu Yan: "...... "Do I want to send you to the Law Enforcement Hall?" I'm just looking for a name to scold you.
Ah Ting tilted his head to look at him, "Don't you send it?" If you don't send me, you'll leave. ”
She broke free of her grip and turned to walk out of the courtyard.
"What is Uncle Ting doing in Aoki Peak?" Qiu Yan asked behind him.
Ah Ting's tone was as usual, "Naturally, it's something to do." ”
As she spoke, she walked out of the courtyard very naturally, and her face looked very solemn.
Qiu Yan didn't stop her again, Ah Ting left that place smoothly and returned to the spacious avenue, the moment she stepped on the bluestone slab of the avenue, the emotions she had forced down were instantly released, her heart beat like a drum, and her fingers trembled slightly.
In the peach tree yard, Qiu Yan watched Ah Ting's back gradually disappear with heavy eyes, until he finally disappeared, he squatted down, turned over the grass that Ah Ting had just moved, and saw that the soil had not been moved, but the red between the blades of grass was picked up.
Ah Ting didn't dare to procrastinate, almost trotted up along the mountain road, and after a few detours, he finally found a crowded place and successfully arrived at his destination.
After asking the disciples of the main hall to pass it on, he sat down on the wooden chair in the main hall hall.
She was uneasy, she sat on the chair and thought a lot, thinking about the peach tree just now, thinking about Qiu Yan's false and real temptation before, and when she first met, he seemed to be talking to his little servant about something hidden, and thinking of the corpse of the mountain behind the Ling Peak, each of these things before was a separate little thing, except for the corpse of the back mountain of the Ling Peak, other things Ah Ting had never thought about, but now, I just wanted to suddenly have a line that ran through all these little things that she almost ignored.
Ah Ting held his chin and kept thinking about the connection, and for a moment, he didn't notice the passage of time at all.
Half an hour later.
"How is she?"
On the martial arts arena behind the main hall, a woman in a blue dress sat in the shade of the martial arts arena, hooked her chin and asked the disciple beside her.
"Back to the third elder, she has been waiting for half an hour, and there is no reaction."
The woman was stunned for a moment, and her delicate brows wrung up, "No response?" Didn't lose your temper? ”
"Nope."
"What did you tell her?"
"Didn't say anything else, just let her wait there."
"So she really waited? Not angry? ”
"yes." The disciple stiffly smiled.
The expression on the woman's face suddenly fell.
The disciple quietly peeked at her, and suddenly felt bald, the third elder must be very unhappy now, Cheng Xin hung the little girl, thinking that he could see a good show of the other party's anger, but in the end, the other party did not react at all, what is the difference between this and a punch on cotton.
The woman "snapped" on the solid wood chair, stood up and walked towards the front hall aggressively, "Let's go, go and meet my cheap junior sister." ”
Front hall.
Ah Ting was leaning back in the chair in a daze, when a figure walked in menacingly.
The visitor looked to be a pretty woman in her twenties, wearing a blue shirt and skirt, with a cyan sword at her waist. Sheng's eyebrows are clear and beautiful, her posture is slender, and a thin mole at the corner of her mouth adds a bit of charm to her.
"You're Uncle Jiguang's new apprentice?" As soon as the visitor stepped on the threshold, he asked.
Ah Ting stood up from his chair and nodded, "Exactly, I've seen the third senior sister." ”
The woman's tone was impulsive, and she didn't seem to like to see her. And Ah Ting is not stupid, so that she can't be noticed after being hung for half an hour, she is just habitually emotionally restrained when the situation is unknown.
The three elders sat directly on the main seat at the top and asked impatiently, "What is the matter with you?" ”
Ah Ting arched his hand and took out the list in his arms, "My master asked me to come to Aoki Peak to pick some spiritual grass, please ask the third senior sister to make it convenient." ”
The third elder touched his finger and sneered, "Really? But don't you know that apart from the Blood Transformation Peak, the spirit grass of Aoki Peak has always been not supplied to other peaks? ”