The next few days were basically spent in the lessons of the little grandfather and Alyssa and the sparring with several senior brothers, Gu Mengping and Bai Hao were also very attentive, and they also practiced very hard under the supervision of the little grandfather and the senior brother, Gu Mengping's swordsmanship has improved greatly, and Bai Hao's illusion has also improved greatly

I have every night according to the requirements of my grandfather and Alixia, I will meditate and meditate before going to bed, Alyssa said, when people are relaxed, it is actually easiest to perceive the magic in their body, which is what my grandfather said "qi", and I have been meditating when I feel all kinds of "qi" in nature, and the attributes of several major elements in the body have also been greatly improved. And because of the neutralization of a lot of yin qi during the double cultivation, my body is not as cold as in the past, morning and evening, recently when I go to bed will slowly warm up, God knows I found that I am about to cry happily at this time, because of the cold body before, I have to turn on the electric blanket even in the summer when I sleep, otherwise I will always be cold awake in the middle of the night. Now that I'm finally normal, it's called how unhappy I am.

And since the last time the Yin and Yang Taiji Diagram of the instrument spirit appeared, I found that I could open the exercise book in my mind at any time to see, the more I looked at it, the more I felt that this Yin Yang Taiji Diagram was simply a golden finger against the sky, because it not only recorded the production methods of various charms, but also alchemy, making spiritual weapons, formations, and even how to control the ancient method of beasts, it is simply a book in the world I have!

Of course, it is indispensable to be "flipped the brand" by the senior brother every night, listen to my third senior brother, it seems that because of his bad luck, the number of times I draw him is simply pitiful compared to several other senior brothers, so he has been making more and more trouble recently, and it is said that he secretly wants to calculate his life, but he was found by the little grandfather and stopped it in time, because Mr. Feng Shui is taboo to tell his fortune, it is said that my senior brother is now full of anger into training to vent on my two poor apprentices, Gu Mengping and Bai Hao had to be dragged and trained by him every day until they were sweating profusely and collapsed on the ground, and he didn't give up.

I shook my head and continued to concentrate on the contents of the Tai Chi Yin and Yang Diagram - since I knew that the Yin and Yang Tai Chi Diagram was a golden finger, I decided to develop in an all-round way: I wanted to fully grasp some of the things that were currently recorded on it, and I didn't need to worry too much about the production of the charms, after all, there was a third senior brother of the Taoist who helped me make all kinds of paper for drawing the talismans, I just had to watch the drawing methods of those charms on the Tai Chi Yin and Yang Bagua Diagram and draw them down, and then take a few of them and many animals and plants in the forest outside the house as experiments,Although at present, you can only draw some low-level charms,For example, low-level wind charms,It is used to increase movement speed,There are also low-level thunderbolt charms,You can summon thunder and lightning, etc.,The most satisfying of them is the invisibility charm and the immobilization charm.,The invisibility charm sticks to the person or the object can hide the person's figure.,The item attached to the item will be directly invisible.,The fixation charm can fix people or animals in place.,Although the time doesn't last long.。

As for alchemy, at present, I can only practice some first-order pills according to some of the pill formulas recorded on the map, the most basic is to heal the wounds and return to the elixir, the recipes for refining these pills can be very lucky to be collected in the forest, and I like to take Bai Hao with me the most, because his nose seems to be very smart, and he can always help me find all kinds of herbs hidden in the grass. The little grandfather is also very supportive of me, and specially turned out a tripod for me to use, although it is not the best, but now it is enough for me to use this, after all, it will occasionally fry the oven

In terms of formations, I am obviously not as good as the third senior brother and the senior brother, I copied all the methods of arranging the formation, and now even the fifth senior brother is almost surpassing me in this regard, it is really more popular than people

And then there is the beast control aspect, I am not as good as the seventh senior brother, the little grandfather said, this is because the seventh senior brother is a half-demon, so he has no pressure to communicate with birds and beasts, I once picked medicine in the forest and overheard him singing, I didn't expect his singing voice to be like a natural sound, causing hundreds of birds to hover around him, and his appearance seems to have become more beautiful because of the increase in age, and his hair has gradually grown a little longer, looking less and less cannibalistic fireworks.

Only in terms of refining weapons, I seem to be very talented, the first time I forged two high-grade spiritual weapons for my two apprentices, Gu Mengping's one was made of a thousand-year-old black iron collected by my little grandfather and a piece of superb ice, the sword was pitch black all over, and the cold was pressing, and it could also form ice thorns when piercing into the item, and I also asked the third senior brother to engrave a spell pattern on it that can launch a spell by injecting spiritual power, Gu Mengping couldn't put it down, and he carried it almost every day; And the sword created for Bai Hao is a snow-white sword made of a little blood and diamond ore from his Spirit Fox Clan, and it is also engraved with spell lines, whenever the spiritual power is injected, the spell will emit a red light, it is a flame explosion sword that can use the flame explosion technique, Bai Hao also cherishes it, and he wipes the sword every day, and it is well maintained.

And I'm now locking myself up in the basement of the refining tool that my grandfather gave me, and I'm concentrating on making Christmas gifts for a few men - yes, it's December now, and this month is the last month of 2025, and after this month, we will usher in the New Year of 2026. Today is Christmas Eve, a few days ago I heard the elder brother say that the house he built before is close to the end of the final decoration, and we will spend the New Year in 2026 in that house, I asked the senior brother where the house was built, but he mysteriously refused to tell me, only said that it is a very beautiful scenery, and it is also a very safe place to escape from the world, I really can't ask, so I have to give up.

"Well, perfect!" Injected defense into the last gift, I looked at the six finished products on the table with satisfaction, nodded, and turned my head to look at the jade pendant prepared for the little grandfather, and the brooch prepared for Alyssia, which was well injected with defense, and the defense technique is also what I see from the Taiji Yin and Yang diagram, which can rebound spell attacks, although the little grandfather and Alyssa definitely don't need this, after all, the strength is already very strong, but it can be regarded as a wish of mine, as for the other senior brothers and my 2 apprentices, I looked at those six things and couldn't help but wonder how they would react when they saw them. Thinking of this, I couldn't help but smile, took the box I made before, put those items in one by one, nodded and said to myself, "Well, it's finally good!" ”

"Dye! Grandpa, they're calling you out for dinner! Bai Hao's voice sounded outside the door, and I responded: "Just come!" While putting the boxes into the pockets of his clothes, he stood up and patted the crumbs on his hands, shook his head and walked to the door to open the door, and said to Bai Hao, who was looking at me with a smile on his face: "How many times have I said, I am also your master anyway, how can there be such a big and no small person who calls your master by his nickname?" ”

"But even the senior brother can call you dye!" Bai Hao watched me close the door, and said with a hint of grief in his tone: "Don't you think it's strange that I'm the only one who calls you master?" ”

"You!" I shook my head, since I heard Gu Mengping call me dyeing one day, he also began to call me dyeing and dyeing, he followed me to the restaurant, and complained as he walked: "Dyeing and dyeing, you have been indulging in all kinds of strange experiments and cultivation recently, and you don't turn over the brand, I haven't been turned over once!" As he spoke, he snapped his fingers and began to count: "Last month plus this month, you turned Uncle An 3 times, Uncle Li 8 times, Uncle Zhang 5 times, Uncle Xiang 6 times, even my senior brother has 4 times, I didn't get my turn once, every time the pointer missed me and stopped on the 'bye', if people can't even call a dye and dye now, then how pitiful I am!" ”

I rolled my eyes as I walked in front and said, "That's your bad luck, what can I do, I want to blame you for blaming my senior brother, that bullshit turntable selection method was made by himself, blame me?" ”

"Woo................" Bai Hao howled dryly behind him: "Why don't people do it!" I also want to double practice with dyeing! ”

"Okay, okay, can you stop screaming so loudly?" I saw that he made such a loud noise when I was about to reach the living room, so I quickly turned my head to cover his mouth and whispered: "I'll have dinner later, I will directly announce that you will accompany you tonight, are you satisfied?" Now that I'm letting go, you're not allowed to call anymore, are you?" ”

"Uh-huh!" Hearing me say this, Bai Hao's eyes lit up, and he nodded again and again, I shook my head helplessly, put my hand down, turned around and continued to walk towards the restaurant, sighing helplessly as I walked, alas, sometimes I really want Gu Mengping to give Bai Hao a little bit of his temperament, and he is so noisy all day long.

"Oh yes, dye." Seeing that he was about to walk to the living room, Bai Hao smiled and followed: "We have prepared Christmas gifts for you!" ”

"Really?" I was a little surprised: "But don't you spend a lot of energy and time exercising all day?" ”

"It was our first holiday with you, of course we had to pay attention!" Bai Hao said with a smile, we had already walked to the living room at this time, and the seventh senior brother greeted me with a smile when he saw me coming: "The protagonist is here!" ”

"Dye is hungry! Today is the Christmas dinner made by the elder brother! The elder brother smiled and brought out a turkey from the kitchen and put it on the table, as soon as I saw the big turkey, my eyes lit up, and I quickly ran to the table, and was instantly aroused by the various foods on the table: "Wow! There's my favorite pumpkin pie! Ahh This looks delicious, too! ”

"Look at your unproductive appearance, as if I usually mistreated you," said the little grandfather dissatisfied, and sat down on the main seat

"What does it matter if you are more pampered with your granddaughter!" Alyssa sat next to him, smelled the aroma of the food, and smiled with satisfaction: "Our family has really chosen a good husband!" This skill is comparable to that of a five-Michelin-starred chef! ”

"Thank you, Madame, for the compliment," the elder brother smiled and poured her a glass of sobered red wine, "This is my own wine, can you taste it?" ”

Alixia picked up her goblet and shook it, smelled the wine and smiled: "You don't need to drink it to know that it must be the best" After saying that, she took a sip and smacked her lips and said, "Hmm! Sure enough, it's the best! ”

"If you like it, it's fine" The senior brother smiled softly, and then beckoned the other senior brothers to sit first, and then came over to pull out the chair for me and said, "Please, my baby~"

"Who is your baby~" I said coquettishly, but I still sat down

Seeing me sit down, Alyssa raised her glass and said, "Everyone's red wine has been poured over, right?" So, to celebrate our dyeing magic and dream weaving masterpieces, as well as Christmas and the upcoming year 2026, cheers! ”

"Cheers!" Everyone raised their goblets, touched them in the air, and then they all took a small sip, and then began to eat lively and joyful, I had a chicken leg in my left hand and a pumpkin pie in my right hand, and my eyes were almost squinting into a line with happiness.

A Christmas dinner passed in a lively and laughing atmosphere, and after the meal, the fifth senior brother, the seventh senior brother and the third senior brother were responsible for cleaning up, and the senior brother took out the turntable again, and I sighed and said, "Wait a minute! I have something to say! Third Senior Brother, don't wash the dishes first, come over first! ”

"Dye?" The senior brother looked at me puzzled, and the third senior brother also came over with a questioning look on his face and said, "What's the matter?" ”

"Ahem!" I cleared my throat, first fumbled out the long box containing the jade pendant from the pocket of my clothes, walked up to the little grandfather, raised my hands very respectfully above my head and bent over, and said, "Little grandpa, happy holidays!" ”

"For me?" The little grandfather was also very surprised that I would actually send him something, and when he took the box and opened it, he immediately smiled and said: "I said that you girl has been tinkering in the room all day long, it turns out that you want to do this for me!" With a smile, he took out the rectangular white jade pendant engraved with dragon patterns and strung with dark green threads and small jade, and put it on his neck for a while and said, "It's not in vain that I love you!" ”

"Grandpa likes it!" When I saw that he was happy, and I was very happy, I took out a round box from my pocket, raised my hands above my head and said to Alixia, "Merry Christmas, Master!" ”

"Do I have it too?" Alyssa took the box in surprise, opened it and saw that it was a very fine ruby brooch, in the shape of a rose, the center of the rose was the ruby, and the petals were also ground into small round particles with ruby fragments, and dotted on the rose petals made of gold, she happily pinned the brooch to the clothes on her chest, and then happily asked the little grandfather, "How is it?" ”

"Well, it's very flattering to you!" The little grandfather looked at the brooch and praised it sincerely, Alixia was even happier when he heard this, and kept rubbing the brooch, and said with a very happy smile on his face: "Although there are disciples who will give me things at Christmas in previous years, you are still the first one to give me a handmade brooch, you are really worthy of being my closed disciple, I love you to death!" He threw a flying kiss at me.

I smiled, and at this time the senior brother said with a sad face: "Dye, what about mine?" ”

"Don't worry!" I smiled and simply took out the rest of the boxes from my pocket, put them on the table, and then pointed to one of the brown boxes and said, "No, that one is yours" and then said to the other men: "The white one is the third senior brother's, the golden one is the seventh senior brother's, the fifth senior brother's one is gray, Ah Gu, yours is the black one, Bai Hao, you are only cyan." Seeing that they had all taken the boxes one by one, I said, "Let's open it and have a look?" ”

Several people heard this, glanced at each other, then lowered their heads and opened their boxes, the first to make an expression was the third senior brother, the moment he saw the contents of the box, he actually directly red eyes, he trembled with red hands and red eyes to pick up the small handmade silver ring engraved with the pattern of the white crane, the white crane's eyes are also inlaid with a small blue gem, he looked at me with a little surprise and touched look and said: "Dyeing, you are?" ”

"Oh my God!" The senior brother also saw his own ring with an eagle pattern, just like the third senior brother's, his eagle eyes were also inlaid with a golden gem, he took a closer look and exclaimed: "It's actually a golden ** eye stone!" ”

"Mine is a ring too!" The fifth senior brother also exclaimed, picked up the ring engraved with the image of a mouse from the box, and said excitedly: "My mouse eyes are turquoise!" ”

"I'll look at mine!" Seeing that they all took out the rings one after another, the seventh senior brother quickly opened his own, and also exclaimed: "Wow! Mine is a kingfisher! It is a ring in the image of a kingfisher! Wow, this bird is so cute! The eyes are amethysts! ”

Gu Mengping opened his box silently, picked up his slightly ordinary-looking ring inlaid with obsidian, silently tried several fingers directly, and finally successfully put it on the ring finger of his left hand, and a trace of surprise flashed in his calm expression the moment he put it on

Seeing that everyone was looking at their gifts with great interest, Bai Hao quickly opened his own box, and said happily: "Wow! It's a fox! When everyone heard this, they looked at him, and sure enough, the ring was engraved with a nine-tailed fox, and the eyes were made of emeralds, which looked very mysterious.

"Well, do you still like this gift?" I smiled and said, "I originally wanted to give each of you a diamond ring, but I thought it was too boring and insincere, so I created a different style of ring for each of you, and each of you used different gemstones. ”

"I like it, how can I not like it!" The third senior brother trembled, looked at me with a smile, and stretched out his hand to me, "Is it okay to dye and wear it for me?" ”

I walked over with a smile, took the ring from his hand, gently put it on his left ring finger for him, and said, "Third Senior Brother, well, no, husband, I love you." ”

"I love you too, Dye!" When the third senior brother saw that I had brought a ring for him, and heard me come out again, he rubbed me into the bad one excitedly, and said in a muffled voice on my shoulder: "Dye, this is the first time you have taken the initiative to tell me that you love me." ”

"Fool" I smiled and hugged him tightly and whispered in his ear: "The third senior brother is my husband, don't cry, it will damage your husband's image~"

The third senior brother smiled when he heard this, secretly wiped his eyes, and sent me away with a smile: "My dyeing has grown up and I have learned to hurt people." ”

"What nonsense! I'm bigger than you! I deliberately feigned annoyance

"But in my heart, you will always be a little woman" The third senior brother touched my head lovingly, only to hear the senior brother say sourly on the side: "Dye and dye it for me!" ”

"Okay, okay" I smiled and walked up to him, also took the ring and brought it for him, and smiled mischievously: "Say you want to"

"I do! Of course I do! Senior Brother was also very happy, I shook my head with a smile, walked to the Fifth Senior Brother and the Seventh Senior Brother, and also helped them bring the ring and said, "Do you really not regret it?" I have a good youth, but I want to live as a woman for the rest of my life? ”

"I thought you should have known our minds a long time ago." The fifth senior brother gently took one of my hands and said, "I really like you, I don't want to touch any woman except you." ”

The seventh senior brother also took my hand and said: "Dyeing and dyeing is too much to worry about, I'm afraid you don't know how attractive you are, I have to keep an eye on you all day long, lest you accidentally attract some crazy bees and butterflies, where do you have the kung fu to care about other women?" ”

Gu Mengping had already brought the ring by himself, and he secretly took it off again at this time, I had already caught a glimpse of his little action, and couldn't help laughing, let go of the two senior brothers and walked towards him and Bai Hao, put on the ring for him first, and said with a smile: "Don't take it off again" Seeing that he blushed and nodded, I smiled and brought it to Bai Hao again, and then raised my head and smiled at him: "Are you ready?" ”

"Of course!" He smiled evilly, and suddenly leaned into my ear and whispered: "Let me teach you what **** is today~" I blushed when I heard this, smiled, pushed him away and said: "There is no serious one who has a flamboyant tongue all day, you, learn from your senior brother!" ”

"I don't want to learn from his iceberg face!" Bai Hao narcissistically raised the hand with the ring and looked at it again and again, really laughing like a fox.

"Ahem" I cleared my throat and said sincerely: "Thank you all for always being with me, even for the sake of accompanying me at the expense of giving up my face and self-esteem as a man, I really thank you" After saying that, he bowed to them and continued: "I may not be able to share love fairly with everyone, but I do like everyone very much, this is my little willfulness: I hope everyone can accompany me in the future and live forever." ”

"What are you talking about?" The third senior brother walked over, gently hugged my shoulders and said, "We have long sworn in our hearts that we will accompany you for the rest of our lives, haven't we?" Saying that, looking at everyone, several men nodded, and the senior brother also said: "That's it, don't doubt our sincerity!" If you really like us, take the initiative every day when you flop the cards! ”

"You!" I laughed, then cleared my throat and said, "But I won't turn it over today, I promised Bai Hao, and it should be his turn tonight." ”

"! Xiaobai, you actually went through the back door! Hearing this, Senior Brother Seventh glared at him and said indignantly

"I really didn't expect it!" The third senior brother also shook his head and sighed: "It is worthy of the Qingqiu Fox Clan, it is so simple............ I think I was so lucky to chase dyeing and dyeing in the first place..........."

"Dye Dye actually likes this type of demon .........." The fifth senior brother also sighed again and again, pinched his face and muttered: "But I think I'm also very handsome!" ”

"You're not going to use any fox-specific magic on your master, are you?" Gu Mengping said with a cold face, when the senior brother heard this, he had already begun to secretly prepare to draw out the magic weapon

I sighed, knowing that things were going to turn out like this, and I was really annoyed by the nagging of a few people, so I yelled, "Quiet! He glared at the senior brother and said, "Take back your compass for me!" Don't think I didn't see your little move! "When the senior brother heard me, he actually noticed his movements, and he shuddered, and actually dropped the compass on the ground.

"Okay, I've agreed to Bai Hao, and my Yin Yang Taiji Diagram also needs a newcomer to break through the sixth layer!" I said helplessly

"It turns out that you still treat people as furnaces!" Bai Hao said aggrievedly when he heard this, I squinted my eyes, Bai Hao felt a murderous aura rising, so he had to shut up, but he was still uncomfortable in his heart, thinking that his only son of the dignified Qingqiu Empress was now reduced to the "furnace ding" of other people's cultivation, and he actually had to look at the woman's face, the more he thought about it, the more aggrieved he became, and he couldn't show me his face, after all, I was his master and didn't mention it, and there were five men who were stronger than him staring at his every move, and finally had to squat on the ground and draw a circle aggrievedly, in order to vent his emotions, simply exposed the ears and tail, the ears seemed to show their grievances and hung on their heads, and the tail was also swept on the ground, and the back was a big dog who had been wronged by the owner...........

And I looked at Bai Hao, who was aggrieved, and then at the men in this room who were still lamenting that there was such a thing as going through the back door, and I couldn't help but rub my temples, only to feel that my head was starting to hurt again.................