The apprenticeship banquet in Zixiao Palace is a very grand event, but grandeur does not mean that the scale is large. The real apprenticeship banquet is not like a wedding or funeral, and many people will not be invited, but only a few people who are close or respected will be asked to appear as a witness.

Originally, it was said that Hu Qingxuan was apprenticed, and Tianyou should not invite those immortal elders to participate, after all, Hu Qingxuan's identity is just a demon pet, in the concept of the Shenzhou Continent, this is just a pet with combat effectiveness, no different from ordinary people's hunting dogs. What would people think if someone celebrated their dog's birthday and invited a bunch of teachers and leaders to participate?

But Tianyou finally did it, and the reason was not Hu Qingxuan, but Liu Meiniang. Although demon pets can be regarded as powerful pets in the perception of the large number of people in the Shenzhou Continent, they have wisdom after all, and many of them can also turn into human forms, they can communicate and communicate, and even some super friendship between individual demon pets and their owners is not uncommon. Therefore, the status of the demon pet is not mainly based on identity, but on strength.

Liu Meiniang is also said to be a demon pet, but she is the demon pet of the deceased predecessor, and she is fierce. Other people's dogs, you can look down on them and think they are lowly. But if your neighbor has a two-hundred-meter-long dragon that can fly, talk, and breathe fire, I'm afraid few people will dare to despise it, right?

Liu Meiniang's identity is that dragon, and her status has been recognized by Zixiao Palace, although she may feel a little embarrassed emotionally, so Zixiao Palace never mentions Liu Meiniang on official occasions, but in fact, her identity is recognized by everyone.

It is precisely because of Liu Meiniang's identity and status that this apprenticeship banquet is guaranteed. Going to a dog's birthday party is demeaning to the guest who accepts the invitation, but if you go to a dragon's birthday party, no one will feel insulted. On the contrary, many people may still find it honorable. After all, in the Shenzhou Continent, a world where there is no strength to respect, an existence like Liu Meiniang is, in a sense, even more majestic than the lord of a country. After all, if you are jealous of the king of a country, you can go to other countries or neutral zones to hide, and be targeted by a powerful person like Liu Meiniang, unless you are also a great power, otherwise you will really run to the ends of the earth and die.

Of course, there are two other things that God bless to rely on when sending invitations, which are Juewei Zhai and his own face.

Juewei Zhai is not a canteen, no one will dislike the food here, even if it is Zhenyuan Shangxian, he is happy to come over occasionally to enjoy it. So please hold a worship banquet here, most people will not dislike it. And God bless his own face is also one of them. The people he invited were all very familiar with him, and they would not feel that Tianyou meant to humiliate them, so naturally they would not mind attending such a meeting.

Please ask the handyman to send the invitation, and Tianyou took the family to Juewei Zhai. The green leaf fairy can live with Liu Meiniang, and the relationship is natural. Now that Liu Meiniang wants to accept apprentices, the green leaf fairy has naturally prepared for a long time. When Tianyou arrived, she was already busy in the kitchen.

"Why did you come so late?" Seeing Tianyou appear, Fairy Aoba did not be polite to him, but said a word to him with a little complaint, and then pointed to the water tank behind him: "You first deal with the six-winged dragon fish in the tank." Let your pets and companions also take a hand and set up the outside. ”

Tianyou didn't talk nonsense, and began to direct everyone to work as soon as he agreed. After arranging the little sister Qi, he came back to deal with the arowana in the tank.

Seeing Tianyou walking to the water tank and preparing to work, the Aoba Fairy, who was closing his eyes and using his spiritual power to control the pots and pans, secretly opened half of his eyes, and quietly looked at Tianyou and was about to see him laugh.

This Serapod is not a small fish to be slaughtered, this thing should be considered a fierce beast strictly speaking. Of course, it's the lowest of the beasts, otherwise it wouldn't have become a dish. But even if someone eats it, not everyone can eat it. If this thing were in open water, it would be an absolute disaster for ordinary people who fell overboard. Even more intimidating than crocodiles and great white sharks on Earth, due to its smaller size and greater destructive power.

The six-winged dragon fish in front of him was kept in the tank, and naturally there was no room for movement, but after all, this was a fierce beast, and it was still very dangerous to fish it directly. It's a pity that Fairy Aoba's idea of watching a good show didn't come true in the end, because Tianyou didn't do it at all. He just suddenly used his aura, and then his hands touched the edge of the tank lightly, and there was a pop, and the arowana jumped up on its own. Then Tianyou was quick to move, and with his right hand, he pulled out a tiger tooth dagger, and before the arowana fell, he cut it into two pieces in the air, and the head and body of the fish fell on the two boards.

When. Looking at the water tank that was still shining with electric sparks, Fairy Aoba was surprised to forget the iron pot in control, and as a result, she knocked over a pot of freshly boiled hot water. Fortunately, it hasn't been cooked yet, so it's not a big deal to cook another pot.

Tianyou's side didn't notice the change here. He skillfully took a lotus leaf from the vegetable basket next to him and held down the fish body, the blade in his hand flew over, and in the blink of an eye, he cut the still writhing fish body into two pieces and accurately picked out the central fish bone, and then turned around and brought the fish fillet to the green leaf fairy, "Fairy do me a favor and cool down the fish, but it is best to control the temperature and ensure that it does not freeze just now." ”

Although the Aoba Fairy is not refining the cold ice mana, she can also use some refrigeration spells, which quickly spreads a cold air on the fish, but it is just right to control the lack of freezing.

Tianyou tested the temperature and said with satisfaction: "The Aoba Fairy is really amazingly controllable. This fish can be kept fresh at low temperature after cooking, and it can be guaranteed to be as delicious as the freshly killed one within a day or two, but it must not freeze, otherwise the low temperature will absorb the moisture in the fish and make the meat hard, which is not beautiful. ”

Fairy Aoba, who was originally very surprised, was completely attracted by the principle explained by Tianyou, and she liked Tianyou to cook with her because of this. Tianyou always knows some cooking principles that she doesn't know, and after practical testing, these principles are actually effective. That's why she really likes to study cooking with Tianyou, because she can always learn a lot from him.

After cooking the fish head, Tianyou went to wash the vegetables again, and then helped to make the seasoning, and the specific cooking was done by the Aoba fairy. After all, the stove here is the natal magic weapon of the Aoba fairy, so when it comes to playing with fire, Tianyou definitely can't compare with her.

The two quickly completed the preparation of the dishes, and Tianyou went to the front hall after seeing that there was no need for help here, but when he came out, he found that Zhenyuan Shangxian was already sitting in front.

"Master!" Tianyou turned to Qi Xiaomei and asked, "Why didn't you notify me when Master Zun came?"

"I told them not to inform you. Zhenyuan Shangxian said with a smile, obviously in a good mood.

As soon as his heart moved, Tianyou thought of the reason and asked, "Shizun is so happy to see this, presumably the measures we made before have been effective?"

Zhenyuan Shangxian nodded with a smile and said, "Yes, since we opened the gate, there has not been a single flameout. It's not certain that it won't happen again, but it seems to be useful, at least for now. Although it is still not fully understood why such a simple measure can solve a long-standing problem, it is a solution after all. In a few days, to make sure that there will be no more problems, I will ask the boss for credit for you. ”

Tianyou immediately said modestly: "I just made a suggestion, and I didn't do anything." ”

"Merit will be rewarded, this is the rule of my Zixiao Palace, you don't have to be modest. Zhenyuan Shangxian said and changed the topic and began to ask if Tianyou had any problems with his recent studies, but soon the focus of the discussion between the two became some opinions on the making of weapons, and as a result, Hu Qingxuan and Hu Niu, who were still listening the side, soon felt that they were about to become mosquito coil eyes. The content of the discussion between the master and apprentice became more and more profound, and even the disciples of the serious Zixiao Palace might not be able to understand it, and of course the two monsters of them didn't understand.

The discussion between Zhenyuan Shangxian and Tianyou didn't last long, and there were guests outside. This time, it was Xie Bi'an and Xie Chang. Still the iconic plain white, Xie Bi'an immediately saluted Zhenyuan Shangxian after entering Juewei Zhai, "I've seen the Great Venerable Lord." ”

"It turned out to be Bi'an. I didn't expect God to invite you?"

"Haha, I also have some dealings with Tianyou, and besides, you don't know, I'm afraid that there are few people in the entire Zixiao Palace who are willing to invite me to dinner except for you. He laughed self-deprecatingly as he spoke, and the others naturally quickly and politely interrupted his self-deprecation.

Recently, Tianyou has also tried to understand Xie Bi'an's situation, wondering why everyone is so afraid of him, almost to the point of changing the color of the conversation. It is said that Xie Chang is the immortal leader of his own sect, even if he is a little stricter, it will not be so scary, right? But the problem is that his reputation is not only scary among his disciples, but many immortal elders are very vigilant, and only Zhenyuan Shangxian and these real masters of the sect can be calm in front of him.

It's a pity, although I am very curious about why Xie Bi'an's reputation is so scary, and I have also investigated and understood, but the result is nothing. Because no one dared to mention this matter at all, even people who were familiar with Tianyou told Tianyou not to inquire. Of course, Tianyou didn't ask Zhenyuan Shangxian to ask, after all, this belongs to the category of gossip, and it is always a little inappropriate to inquire with Zhenyuan Shangxian. But to change the way of thinking, since Tianyou and Xie Bi'an are getting along quite well now, and Zhenyuan Shangxian has not warned themselves to pay attention to Xie Bi'an, it means that he is still good to the people of his own sect. So Tianyou didn't want to inquire about it. Anyway, as long as you know that he is not the kind of teammate who likes to pit people.

After some politeness, someone arrived outside, and this time it was the concubine. As an immortal who has been taking care of himself since he started, and one of the sect masters of the Divine Soldier Sect, Tianyou naturally can't forget the Heavenly Concubine.

At this point, the guests invited by God are all here.

That's right, he only invited three immortal chiefs. It's not that he doesn't know enough people, but because the identities of Tianfei and Zhenyuan Shangxian are relatively high, and it is not good to invite a group of people to watch the ceremony with them. Moreover, the apprenticeship banquet was originally a high-standard and low-scale, and the more people the better. Besides, a place like Juewei Zhai was originally used for occasional gatherings of brothers, and there were too many people to leave. There are three small private rooms horizontally and vertically, which can accommodate up to thirty or fifty people, but that would be too crowded. What's more, among the three immortal elders who came, there was a big sect master and a sect master, what did it look like if it was overcrowded like a food stall?

After the people arrive, the first step is to go through the apprenticeship process. Liu Meiniang is obviously dressed up today, more noble and dignified than usual, and a little less charming. Hu Qingxuan didn't have any special preparations, she brought a piece of clothing when she came to Zixiao Palace, if it weren't for the cleansing spell, even changing clothes would be a problem. There are too many things in God, and I didn't think of these trivial things for a while, and now it's too late to go down the mountain to buy them, so I can only just take a look. Fortunately, she is a disciple, as long as she is dressed properly, there are no requirements.

The courtyard was placed with an incense case, and there was no offering table, but Liu Meiniang sat in front of the screen, and then Hu Qingxuan stepped forward and kowtowed, and after completion, he took the tea brought by Qi Xiaomei and sent it to Liu Meiniang with both hands, and waited for Liu Meiniang to take a sip of tea and said a few words of exemption and teaching, and then gave the ribbon that was given to Hu Qingxuan before taking back in advance and sent it again in front of everyone, and the gift was completed.

After simple etiquette, it is naturally time for everyone to eat and drink. However, Tianyou couldn't sit directly at the table, his job today is a chef, and Qi Xiaomei and they are all helpers, and the only one who can sit at the table is Hu Qingxuan. After all, they are all immortals, God bless them with low seniority, they shouldn't be on the table, except for Hu Qingxuan, who is one of the protagonists and can sit next to Liu Meiniang justifiably, everyone else has to take over the work of Juewei Zhai. After all, one of the protagonists today is Liu Meiniang, it's not good for people to continue to serve dishes as waiters, right? As for the Aoba Fairy, as Liu Meiniang's important companion, naturally she can't also stay in the back kitchen, so she also went to the front yard and threw the back kitchen to Tianyou.

The banquet began, and Zhenyuan Shangxian was quite puzzled when he saw the green leaf fairy, "The green leaf fairy is here today, so ...... this dish?"

"Of course I did. It was Tianyou who answered, and at this time he was walking out of the back kitchen with a plate of egg yolk fish fillet.

"You're going to do it?" Zhenyuan Shangxian obviously didn't believe in Tianyou's cooking skills, but Aoba Fairy couldn't help Tianyou explain to Tianyou about their previous cooking skills with each other.

At this time, not only Zhenyuan Shangxian, but even Tianfei and Xie Bi'an looked at Tianyou in surprise, "You can still cook?" and even the Aoba Fairy praised you for your good cooking skills, that must be quite good." You kid can always surprise people!"

"Haha, I'm just greedy for food, so when I'm fine, I like to study how to make it delicious, and I will have a lot of dishes when I come and go. ”

After some jokes, Tianyou returned to the back kitchen. Fairy Aoba had already done most of the work for him, and now he just had to deal with it simply, so Tianyou served the food very quickly, and it didn't take long to finish a large table of dishes. Qi Xiaomei and Hu Niu helped to make guest appearances as waiters, and brought the prepared dishes to the table one after another. Zhenyuan Shangxian and Tianfei tasted the dishes one by one, and they were full of praise. I have a new understanding of Tianyou in my heart.

After a full meal and wine, everyone was ready to leave, but before Zhenyuan Shangxian and them left, they gave a small congratulatory gift. Although it cannot be compared with the ribbon that Liu Meiniang gave to Hu Qingxuan, it is also a practical thing.

The gift given by Zhenyuan Shangxian was a piece of bamboo. The white bamboo chips are one foot wide, and they are supposed to be flat using a similar technique to making wheels, unfolding and flattening the bamboo poles.

Don't look at this thing, it's just a flattened piece of bamboo, but the function is not ordinary at all. Talismans can be drawn directly on it, and have the exact same effect as real yellow paper. As long as there are no problems with the talisman drawing, it can really work. However, the talismans drawn on the yellow paper are all disposable, and they will be scrapped after use, and although the content of this object is also disposable each time, the bamboo board itself will not be damaged, and the talismans on it can be wiped off directly if they are not used.

To put it simply, this thing is a workbook for copying talismans, and you can practice it over and over again. If it fails, just wipe it off. Even if you succeed in making it, you can really activate it once, and then the bamboo board will be automatically cleared and you can continue to use it. It can be said that with this thing, you don't have to waste a lot of yellow paper when practicing copying talismans. You should know that although yellow paper is not expensive, considering the amount consumed during practice, the final cost is still quite a lot. Besides, this thing is much more convenient to use than yellow paper, and it also helps to speed up the contact.

The gift given by the Heavenly Concubine was slightly more expensive than the gift from Zhenyuan Shangxian, but it was just a gadget.

The gift is a piece of jewelry, but the shape is very strange, I don't know whether to call it a bracelet or a ring. Its main structure is two rings and a chain. Two metal rings, one large and one small, are locked on the wrist and little finger respectively, if there is no silver chain in the middle, it can be regarded as two independent bracelets and rings, but because of the existence of silver chains, the two together do not know whether to call a bracelet or a ring.

It seems that the material of this thing is silver and some other metals, but the value is not here, but the spiritual power that circulates on it.

According to the celestial concubine, as long as this jewelry is infused with spiritual power, it will make a crisp ringing sound when it is shaken, and its sound effect has the effect of calming the mind, which can break some simple spells such as confusing the mind. However, considering that Hu Qingxuan himself is a fox spirit and is good at illusion, the actual significance of this thing to Hu Qingxuan is not much. Tianyou estimated that Tianfei might not be able to find a suitable gift for a while, and it was estimated that Tianyou would not dare to accept it if it was too valuable, and she didn't have it either, so she could only take a gift that was not very suitable.

In the end, Xie Chang Envoy was the one who gave the heaviest gift. What he sent was a Star Sealing Stone, and he knew by looking at the luster that it was not an ordinary product.

Before, Tianyou specifically inquired why everyone was so afraid of Xie Chang Envoy but couldn't ask the reason, but he didn't expect that an apprenticeship banquet actually made Xie Chang tell the reason himself.

After Xie Bi'an sent out the Star Sealing Stone, he began to introduce the use and origin of this Star Sealing Stone, and it was not until this moment that Tianyou knew that the reason why Xie Bi'an was feared by everyone was because he liked to refine the Star Sealing Stone.

The Star Sealing Stone is a kind of energy crystal, its purpose is to strengthen the attributes of the magic weapon and give it new abilities, and unlike the general refining magic weapon and magic weapon enhancement, the Star Sealing Stone has no failure rate for the strengthening of the magic weapon, which means that it will be 100% successful. This alone has already made many monks flock to it.

However, although the Star Sealing Stone is good, it is extremely difficult to obtain.

There are only two ways to craft a Star Stone. The first is to pick up stars from high-level magic weapons, downgrade the magic weapons inlaid with star sealing stones, and separate the star sealing stones. The second is to use the soul of living beings as raw materials to directly refine the Star Sealing Stone.

Although the Xianmen is not hypocritical, and it has never been taboo to slaughter aliens and opponents, but the soul is rare, and the soul of ordinary creatures cannot be used to refine the Star Sealing Stone, otherwise the demand will be extremely terrible, so in the end, everyone studied and studied, and the most suitable raw material for refining the Star Sealing Stone is actually the soul of the cultivator, whether it is the Xianmen or the Buddha Gate, or the soul of the demon, but there is only one thing that cannot be changed, that is, the refining material must have cultivation in the body, and the more advanced the cultivation, the better.

It is precisely because of this characteristic of the Star Sealing Stone that the refining cost is also quite amazing. Demons don't sit still, and the other two materials are even more difficult to use. Therefore, the source of materials that are tender enough to refine the Star Sealing Stone is the most common one that is the soul of a hostile cultivator.

In other words, the Star Sealing Stone is almost equal to the soul, and it is not a one-to-one ratio, but a Star Sealing Stone requires several souls. In this cultivation realm of the Shenzhou Continent, where the dead have a way to resurrect, the price of consuming people's souls as materials and refining them into star sealing stones is really too huge. So much so that the value of the Star Sealing Stone has remained high, and some people have even fallen into the evil path because of this, and they specialize in hunting monks to refine the Star Sealing Stone.

However, in Zixiao Palace, most of the immortal elders would only use the soul of demons to refine the Star Sealing Stone, with the exception of Xie Bi'an. He is the person in Zixiao Palace who is specifically responsible for dealing with human monks, that is to say, whether it is a cult monk who is caught, or a felony who violates the rules of the sect and must destroy the soul, in short, when there is an individual other than a demon who needs to be killed and destroy his soul. They will be sent to Xie Bi'an, and then Xie Bi'an will be in charge of extracting their souls with his own hands and refining them into Star Sealing Stones.

The piece he gave to Hu Qingxuan just now was a star sealing stone refined from the soul of a human monk, and it was not exactly an evil sect monk, and the soul of a defected disciple of his own sect was also among them.

Thinking that Xie Bi'an was actually doing this, Tianyou finally understood why those disciples of his own sect had changed their tone about him. This Nima is even more terrifying than the executioner! Being killed by others still has the opportunity to be reincarnated, and if he kills him, this Nima will never be able to be reborn! No wonder everyone is avoiding him! Normal people probably don't want to know this kind of person, right?

But...... God bless happens to be not a normal person.

"Chief Envoy Xie still understands this?" Tianyou looked very surprised and said: "When is it good to teach me one day?" The disciple learns to make instruments with the master, this seal of stars is indeed very helpful for making instruments, I wonder if I can go and ask for advice when Xie Chang Envoy is free?"

Xie Bi'an has always gotten along well with Tianyou, and this time he deliberately sent out the Fengxing Stone to find out why his reputation was terrible, so that Tianyou could understand his true identity. If Tianyou is also afraid of him like others, then he will not have to worry about Tianyou in the future. But if God doesn't mind, then you can really come as a friend.

However, despite such thoughts, Xie Bi'an didn't expect Tianyou's reaction to be unexpected. Not only did he not care, but he even looked very interested. This was a bit of a surprise.

"You don't care?"

"Why care?"

"I used the soul of my disciple to refine the Star Sealing Stone. Xie Bi'an said.

"Is that disciple innocent?" Tianyou asked rhetorically.

Xie Bi'an shook his head. "This son stole the secret book of this sect in an attempt to defect to another sect. ”

"Then will you just grab people to extract souls for refining because you need to make Star Sealing Stones?"

Xie Bi'an shook his head again. "How is that possible?"

After hearing this, Tianyou spread his hands and said, "So, why should I care? Isn't it a matter of course to destroy traitors and enemies? What is there to care about?"

"This ......" Xie Bi'an was stunned by Tianyou's question. Oh, yes. Isn't that simple? Why care?

In fact, this question is much easier to answer on Earth.

Suppose someone commits a felony and is sentenced to death. So, if a medical unit needs to test a new drug, can it directly use this condemned prisoner for testing? On Earth, the answer is definitely no, because human rights do not allow us to experiment with human life, even if that person has been sentenced to death. Of course, this kind of thing happens every day, but no one dares to put it on the table and say it. Everybody is doing it secretly, otherwise how do you think all those new drugs came out? No matter how you test them on animals, you don't have to be the first person to take the medicine in the end?

But in the Shenzhou Continent, this problem is different. There is no concept of human rights in the Shenzhou Continent, but there is a subconscious in the hearts of most people. Therefore, what Xie Bi'an did would be disgusted and feared by everyone, but no one would really say that what he did was wrong.

In other words, everyone intellectually accepts his behavior and feels that he is doing the right thing, but psychologically they are resisting this kind of thing happening. Therefore, everyone's reaction to Xie Bi'an was fear, jealousy, and alienation, as if he Xie Bi'an was a big demon king, and when he was unhappy, he would use people as star sealing stones.

Xie Bi'an, who finally reacted from the shock, walked over with some excitement and grabbed one of Tianyou's hands, and slapped his arm twice with the other hand, then nodded with a smile and said, "As long as I am free, I am always welcome." ”

"Then thank you so much. ”

After some politeness, the three immortals were sent away, and Tianyou helped Fairy Aoba and Liu Meiniang clean up Juewei Zhai and then returned to the cave, and from tomorrow Hu Qingxuan can go to Juewei Zhai every day to learn art. I believe that with Liu Meiniang's ability, Hu Qingxuan's ability will inevitably win a rapid promotion period.

However, Hu Qingxuanhe's problem was solved, but Tianyou himself encountered a problem. He found that his own absorption of spiritual energy was getting bigger and bigger in the past few days, and it was strange that the growth rate of cultivation had slowed down. He didn't understand why, and he didn't know who to ask.

His Duodan Fellowship came from Fuxi, and according to the current state of Zixiao Palace, he shouldn't have come into contact with this complete version of the Mind Method. Therefore, he couldn't let Zhenyuan Shangxian help analyze the problem, otherwise he would definitely expose the problem of his own exercises, and unless he sold Fuxi, he would not be able to explain how he obtained the Duodan Fellow Practitioner.

"You can't find Zhenyuan Shangxian. Neither can the celestial concubine. It seems that I still have to meet Fuxi when I have time!" Tianyou said to himself while sitting in the cave blessed land, absorbing the aura.