Chapter 13 - Stealing Beams and Changing Pillars
At midnight, the president who was waiting outside the tree house in Taoyuan Village to bring out the five children suddenly sneezed several times in a row, which attracted Chu Bai's concerned question: "Running around these days, is it cold?"
The president casually rubbed his nose, which was still itchy, and waved his hand at Hatsubai, "It must be that paper tiger shouting my name behind my back and scolding me." ”
Chu Bai thought for a while and asked a question he had always wanted to ask: "I've always thought your name is quite nice, why have you always been so disgusted?"
The president's expression suddenly distorted as if he had eaten something unclean, and he complained extremely dissatisfied, "What a ghost! Luo Yan is obviously a woman's name, what do I look like a woman? The most excessive thing is that Guihai Ningyang's little ghost, he actually named his daughter Luoxue, as if he was my own sister, what kind of world is this!"
Chu Bai shook his head with a helpless smile when he heard this, and said in his heart: "I am afraid that the only one who dares to call the name of the emperor and call him a little ghost is his own father." ”
The five children were shouted in their sleep, and they all rubbed their sleepy eyes with their little hands, yawned incessantly, and staggered out.
The youngest Chi Mudie obviously didn't wake up at all in her sleep, followed behind the other children with her eyes closed, and almost tripped over the threshold when she went out, but fortunately she was caught by Ruoyan when she returned to the sea.
Chi Mudie crashed into Guihai Shiruo's arms before she finally woke up, raised her eyes and looked at him in a daze, and asked, "Brother Shiruo, where are we going?"
Ruo gently touched her head and shook her head with a smile, "I don't know, but I'll always be there for Fluttershy." ”
Seeing this scene, Chu Bai couldn't help but start worrying about Canglan's future, at this time, the chairman had already summoned his mount, hugged Guihai Luoxue, Lin Mumu and Sha Xiaoliang, and urged: "You take the remaining two, hurry up, we have to rush to Lingjian Mountain while it is dark." ”
So Hatsubai also summoned his mount, which was a silver horse with wings on its back and a single horn on its head—Feitian. The Captain's mount is a larger, fat bear with a huge pipe around his neck, which looks very funny.
The children's attention was attracted by these two huge strange beasts for a while, and most of their sleepiness dissipated, and after the president hugged the three girls to the fat bear, they also excitedly stroked the ears of the giant bear.
Chu Bai hugged the remaining Chi Mudie and Guihai Shiruo to Feitian, and he also turned over and jumped on them, sat behind them, and then glanced at the president, signaling that he could go, the chairman nodded and said goodbye to Tao Weng, and then urged the mount to set off towards Lingjian Mountain.
In the night, Feitian spread his huge white wings, ran a few steps on the village path in Taoyuan Village, and then flew up with a light leap. Seeing the flying sky soaring into the sky, the children sitting on the giant bear had worries on their faces, and the same question arose in their hearts, didn't they go to the same place?
However, the next scene stunned the three children, only to see a lot of white smoke suddenly coming out of the pipe around the neck of the giant bear, and the giant bear unhurriedly swayed its fat body to step on the smoke, and then the smoke condensed into a ship shape under the giant bear's feet as if it had come to life, and carried the giant bear into the air.
The chairman watched the children's expressions change from worry at first to surprise now, and sat on the bear's fat ass with a smug expression, "Hehe, don't think that only things with wings can fly!"
After a night of rapid flight, it was close to dawn when they reached the top of Lingjian Mountain, and the dilapidated and chaotic Hongmen had basically recovered its original appearance, which was the result of the overnight work of the chairman and Hatsuhahiro in the three days before the meeting. Chu Bai finally understands now, originally thought that the chairman restored this place to its original appearance to mourn Master Hong's spirit in the sky, but now it seems that most of his purpose is to use this place as a training ground.
After arranging the children's residences, the president let Chu Bai also go to rest, while he and the two mounted spirit beasts stayed outside the house to guard, although he guessed that Ni Tianhu might have brought his injured men to heal his injuries, but he didn't dare to be careless.
When the children woke up again it was nearly noon, and they pushed the door open and came out to see Hatsubai busy preparing lunch in the kitchen, the president napping on one side of a pine tree, and his fat bear leaning on the other side of the same pine tree, snoring with his two front paws holding his pipe. The early white Feitian was lying in the open space basking in the sun, and when he heard the slight sound of pushing the door, he immediately looked up vigilantly, and saw that it was the children who pushed the door out, so he stood up and greeted them, and played with them.
After a while, Chubai beckoned the children and the president to eat, and the children ate a few dishes of stir-fried vegetables and a bowl of clear soup on the table. After a little rest, the president got up and stretched, and led the children to the bottomless stone staircase down the mountain.
"Today's training is to go down from here to the bottom, climb up again, and go back and forth once a day from now on. I'll go back to the house and sleep first, Chubai, you look at them, don't let them be lazy and turn back halfway, the first one to come back, dinner reward a grilled chicken leg. ”
After the president finished speaking, he went back to the house to sleep without looking back, and the remaining five children looked at Hatsubai for unknown reasons.
Chu Bai could only helplessly explain to the children: "From today onwards, I and the elder uncle just now will be in charge of your training. The most basic thing to be a warrior is physical fitness, and the best way for you to train at this stage is to climb these stone ladders, and now we will start today's training. ”
On the way down the mountain, Hatsuhahiro asked Feitian to follow the team at the end of the guard, and he himself taught the children what kind of running pace is more labor-saving on what kind of road, and how to save physical energy when they need to fight after a long run.
There was no end in sight to the stone staircase, and when the children reached the bottom of the mountain, the sun had set in the west, and when they returned to the top of the mountain, the sky was full of stars, and the five children were exhausted and panting, and finally climbed the last few stone steps, and when they returned, they found the president leisurely roasting a few wild pheasants he had caught on a bonfire outside the house.
The children were already tired and hungry, and when they smelled the smell of the roast chicken, they immediately lifted their spirits, and the president tore off three cooked chicken legs and chicken wings and handed them to the children, and handed a roast chicken with only half of its legs and wings left to Hatsubai, and he himself gnawed on the rest of the chicken rack.
While nibbling on the roast chicken, the president announced the future training arrangements to the children in a very imposing manner.
"After eating, go to Houshan Hot Spring to take a bath, rest early, start tomorrow, get up at the end of the day, give you half an hour to get up and freshen up and eat, and then start the physical training along the stone ladder to go back and forth, today you took nearly four hours to return, tomorrow strive to return before noon, and then slowly shorten the time in the future, and start the skill training of various occupations in the afternoon, end at the end of the time, and go to bed at the end of the day. Strength test every two months......"
Speaking of this, the chairman seemed to have suddenly forgotten his words, and turned his gaze to Hatsubai, "Uh...... That's pretty much it, do you have anything else to add?"
Chu Bai had long expected that he was handsome for no more than three seconds, so he took over the conversation and continued: "Also, you must not act alone, the physical training in the morning must be completed by the five of you together, and no one is allowed to leave the team without permission, my Feitian and the Phantom Smoke Bear of the President will take turns to follow the whole process every day, once they encounter an attack, they will immediately ride them to escape and return to the top of the Spirit Sword Mountain, you must not act recklessly, do you understand?"
Seeing that the children had no objections, they nodded obediently, and Chubai was also a little relieved, the training at the beginning was so messy, such a long stone ladder, even if it is a round trip from Chubai now, it will cost half of the physical strength, not to mention a few children who have just started to receive training, and the president will also arrange vocational skills training in the afternoon, which is even worse, and now the children's bodies have not shown a fatigue reaction, and they will probably be sore tomorrow morning.
Chu Bai knew that this was only the most basic training set by the president, and in the future, he didn't know what more chaotic training methods he would come up with to toss this group of children, thinking of this, Chu Bai couldn't help but sigh in his heart, if Chi Muyan and Cang Lan knew, they didn't know how to complain!
The next day, just after halfway through, the children dragged their aching bodies and began their long training journey.
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After Chi Muyan returned from the Demon Suppression Cave, he first listened to Cang Lan's account about the gods, and then immediately received an order from the president to find the three Hongmen disciples whose whereabouts were unknown, and the traitor Yin Mo. Therefore, he only made some basic preparations in the guild, and then set off towards Sword Spirit Island non-stop.
Sitting on the airship bound for Sword Spirit Island, Chi Muyan further sorted out what he heard in his mind.
The first is that the water demon has escaped from the seal, but it is hidden, which shows that he is still very weak, and he can't cause any huge damage and impact at present, and they already know that the reincarnation of Sakura and White Mist is Canglan and Fluttershy, although Fluttershy does not have enough ability to protect herself at present, but there is the president and Chubai personally guarded, and the phantom god left by Canglan is protected, which is foolproof, and Canglan, with his current strength, no longer needs the protection of others at all, and he is the prince of the blue wolf clan that has always made the Dark Guild fearful, Ni Tianhu of course dare not attack him easily, and the president has also said, In addition to Canglan himself, the only people who know about reincarnation are him, the president and Chu Bai.
The second is the god with an uncertain temperament, although she said that she was an old friend with Sakura and White Mist, but in those chaotic times, there has never been a legend about her helping, and no one even knows about her existence, so it can be seen that as Cang Lan guessed, she has been closed in the Sealed Tower, waiting for the kind of black stone she is looking for to appear. Now she told Canglan that the water demon had escaped from the seal, and when she found the whereabouts of the water demon, she would immediately notify them, the implication was that she still had no intention of making a move, and the kind of black stone she was looking for, she simply said that it was not something that belonged to this world, and did not make it clear whether that thing had anything to do with the birth of the water demon. Although according to Cang Lan's description, her personality is casual and lazy, and she will not turn against Ni Tianhu, she doesn't understand what she is thinking.
In the end, the president actually came out to find the three missing Hongmen disciples with such fanfare, and asked him to publicize the matter as much as possible, which obviously regarded him as the target of the public, making Ni Tianhu think that the Hongmen secret book he wanted to get was on these three Hongmen disciples, thus shifting Ni Tianhu's attention to Chi Muyan.
Chi Muyan sighed secretly in his heart, he actually handed over such a dangerous task to him, the president really trusted him incomparably, the reward after completing this mission must be knocked on him hard, should he be asked for tens of thousands of gold coins?
Thinking of this, Chi Muyan couldn't help but show a knowing smile, and glanced at the person who had been following him from the reflection of the gem on the staff in his hand. It's good, he hasn't preached it himself, and Ni Tianhu's people have come to the door by themselves.