"Do you remember the disciple named Zheng'an who stole your Yuan Miao Master's Ancestral Sword? He was found by the sect, and now he is a foundation building monk, if it is according to the rules of the sect, it should be called Yun'an. Yuan Miao didn't know what kind of ecstasy he was poured into, not only did he believe that it was you Qingguzi Taishi Ancestor who stole the sword, but now he strongly asked me to let him return to the sect. In order to maintain the dignity of the sect rules, I did not hesitate to offend Yuan Miao and punish Yun'an, and now I have expelled him from the sect. ”

Yuan Daozi continued: "But this son still has some use, so I haven't let him leave for the time being." He is well versed in formations, and his level is probably unsurpassed in Zhaoguo, so I ordered him to stay in the sect for five years and teach three apprentices, I want you to be one of them. You are a female cultivator, and you also know your physical condition that it is impossible to advance to a higher level, so your cultivation goal is to cultivate to the foundation building period and have enough lifespan to maintain the family. I don't let you wear Taoist robes, but I also want you to only be an inner disciple of a lay family, so that I can help you find a double cultivation partner to start a family, and maybe you can have one or two descendants with spiritual roots, and the Wei family can also continue to develop. And learning the formation is a very effective means to protect yourself and your family, which is the first reason for you to go. ”

"The second reason is that although the family has always monopolized the business of making 'earthly rune paper', in recent decades, more and more imitators have appeared, and the profits have become thinner and thinner. If you succeed, you can also give the family an additional source of income to ensure that the Wei family can continue for a longer time. ”

"The third reason is more secretive, this Yun An is a very cunning guy, I guess he used some method to steal a top-secret jade slip from the sect, which records the secret method of converting ordinary spirit stones into attribute spirit stones. This jade slip is stored in the treasury that only the sect master can enter, and I heard Senior Brother Yuantong say that because the conditions required for that secret method are quite high, the sect has not yet possessed these conditions and has not used it for the time being. When I became the sect master, I found that this secret jade was missing. It's just that Zheng'an guy can also use this secret method, so I guess he stole it. I searched his body before, but I couldn't find him. So I want you to find an opportunity to get close to him, slowly gain his trust, find out which jade slip is where, and if you have the chance, even if you can't get your hands on the secret method, figure out how he probably got it. Do you understand?" said Yuan Daozi.

"Formation, I'll just learn it seriously, I don't know how much I can learn, don't expect too much from me, I don't like those mysterious things. As for gaining the trust of that guy, it's a bit difficult, so I'll give it a try. By the way, Taigong, is he handsome?" Zheng Yan asked as she looked up at Yuan Daozi with a pair of big eyes.

"It's okay, you'll see it tomorrow. Remember, it's for you to gain his trust, not for you to seduce him, and I think that guy is also a person who is dedicated to asceticism, and you may not be able to seduce if you want to. And even if you want to double cultivate, you have to wait until the foundation is built, and the object of double cultivation has to be approved by me. Shi Yizhi's guy is a single water spirit root, he won't have a big future, he just wants to marry, I don't allow you to marry yet. ”

"Taigong, look at what you say, you don't look like an elder at all. I'm just trying to figure out how to gain his trust. Zheng Yan's head tilted, and her eyes began to understand her brain, "Taigong, does he have any good friends in the sect or something?"

"I don't know about this, I only know that he has a close relationship with Yuan Miao. Now that Yuan Miao's cultivation has gone wrong, he is now in retreat in the back mountain, and it will take at least several years to come out. In fact, I have already thought of the way, you just need to do this. Yuan Daozi taught Zheng Yan the method that he had already designed, "In this way, Shi Yizhi will definitely regard you as a confidant, and the matter of the secret method will be slowly figured out." ”

"Okay, then I'll start tomorrow. You can always remember, if I succeed, even if I have done a great contribution to the sect, you must reward me well! At least give me three months off, I want to go to the surrounding cities to visit and buy some delicious and fun things. Zheng Yan's eyes flashed, and she was a little eager to try.

"That's nature. Also, every evening you go to see me at the edge of the tung forest, remember, don't let anyone see me. Yuan Daozi said with a long sigh of relief.

At this moment, Zheng Yan looked at Shi An's sincere and hot gaze and pulled her thoughts back.

She sighed and said, "Master Yuan Miao may not even remember me anymore, but I will never forget him in my life. When I first entered the sect, I was always homesick, and my brothers and sisters were all cultivating seriously, and no one ever comforted me. Once, when I was secretly crying, I let Master Yuan Miao see it, and he enlightened me, letting me know that cultivation is to keep the Dao heart, endure desires, and endure loneliness, so that I can cultivate with peace of mind; I am not a disciple with a very prominent spiritual root, so no one has paid attention to my cultivation, and if I have any questions about my cultivation, others will ignore them, and only Master Yuan Miao has seriously answered my confusion. ”

As she spoke, she peeked at Shi An, and when she saw that Shi An was deep in thought, she pretended to be a relative on her face and said happily in her heart: "He has helped too many people, and he may have long forgotten about me as a favored little girl." But for me, Master Yuan Miao is the best person in the sect for me, the most trustworthy person for me. Yesterday I heard that he had gone mad in his practice, and now he is in retreat in the back mountain, and I am worried about abnormality, but I don't know where to find him, and I have been pondering this matter in my heart, so I have not listened to a word of what you said, and I ask you to punish him. ”

Shi An listened to what she said, thinking that Uncle Shi was indeed enthusiastic and helpful, especially the sentence of Perseverance in the Dao Heart, and there would be no second person in the sect to say it, so it must have been done by Uncle Shi. Looking at Zheng Yan's innocent and tearful eyes, I couldn't help but feel a little good for her.

"Uncle Yuan Miao is also my closest person," Shi An recalled, although he is no longer a disciple of the Four Elephants, he still prefers to call Yuan Miaozi Uncle rather than a senior, "He saved me twice, opened my spirit, took me into the Four Elephants, and led me to the doctor, and then lost his magic weapon for me, so he was seriously injured, and this time he suffered a greater sin for me." In just twenty years, I have caused him countless troubles, and without me, he would be better off now and his cultivation would have gone more smoothly. Could it be me...... Am I his calamity?" Shi An didn't want to talk more about himself, so he stopped talking gloomily and changed the topic again, "Zheng Yan, you are an inner disciple, why did the sect master send you to learn the formation?

"Mr. Yizhi, you don't know, in fact, my body is not suitable for long-term cultivation, I am the best child in the family, and when I was a child, my grandfather invited me to ...... Yuan Dao Master Ancestor has seen my cultivation foundation, he said that my physique is different from that of ordinary monks, although it is the three spiritual roots of gold, earth and water, and it is also opened by external force, the two spiritual roots of gold and earth have expanded to varying degrees, only the water spiritual root has never been opened, and it cannot absorb the water spiritual energy at all, so it can only be regarded as a golden and earth dual spiritual root. "External force to open the spirit? This girl actually used external force to open the spirit, I couldn't imagine that a seemingly weak woman could accept such suffering, and she was really unseemly, Shi Anxin couldn't help but secretly praise it, and glanced at it.

"In addition, he also said that the outer wall of my qi is very hard, and it is extremely difficult to expand, so it is impossible to hold too much aura, I am afraid that my cultivation will reach the limit when I reach the foundation building period, and I am afraid that I will explode and die, so there is no need to put more effort into cultivation. Therefore, now that I have this opportunity to learn the formation, I naturally want to come to learn the craft of the revitalization of the family. Speaking of this, Zheng Yan's face darkened, and she was obviously a little discouraged.

"Didn't Uncle Yuan Miao give you advice on this?" Shi An knew that Yuan Miaozi had a copy of "Variant Body Collection", which was the one he bought in Kaiyuan City in order to find out his physical problems, and Zheng Yan's physique might have a solution in that book.

"No, Master Yuan Miao said he didn't know either. Zhengyan was a little dazed.

Shi An didn't dwell on this issue anymore, and said to Zheng Yan solemnly: "Zheng Yan, Uncle Yuan Miao is our benefactor, so I don't treat you as an outsider. In the future, when there is no one else, you can call me Brother Shi. Now it's not so much that I'm being placed in this hut to teach you the formation, but that I'm under house arrest by the sect master. To tell you the truth, Uncle Yuan Miao didn't retreat because something went wrong in his practice, he was also locked up by the sect master. I'll talk about these things in detail when I have a chance to talk about them later. I would like to ask you for one thing, if it is convenient, please pay attention to inquire where Uncle Yuan Miao is being held. ”

"Okay, Brother Shi. A flash of brilliance flashed in Zheng Yan's eyes.

"And Zhengyan, don't let others know about your relationship with Uncle Yuan Miao, especially the sect master, otherwise I'm afraid you will be implicated. Shi An solemnly admonished.

"Implicated, what is implicated, why is it implicated?" Zheng Yan wondered.

"I don't know this, it should be related to the death of an inner disciple named Yun Shan, and Uncle Yuan Miao was locked up by the sect master because of this. ”

"Brother Shi, I know. Although Zheng Yan was puzzled, she still agreed.

"Alright, I'll tell you again what I said this morning, and you have to listen carefully this time. There is a reason for today's incident, but I won't give you any more make-up lessons after tomorrow. After Shi An finished speaking, he sorted out the content of the morning to Zheng Yan again.

Zheng Yan is very smart, and she also listens and memorizes, and she has mastered all these contents in a short time.