From early morning to sunset, a "rustling" sound echoed on the ground of Xishan Fort for a long time, from the backyard to the front yard, like an inextinguishable note, always accompanying the disciples' cultivation life.

The maker of this note is Baili Huang, a big brother who drags a big broom all day long. He has been sweeping the yard for a month, showing the future, and it seems that there is no sign of stopping.

On the first day of entering the fort, when everyone left with their elders, only two figures, one red and one white, were left in the Seven Star Array.

Suo Feng looked at Baili Huang with a calm face, and was silent for a long time, just when Baili Huang suspected that his face was also full of peach blossoms, he said lately: "Since you are here to play, then have fun, but before you can have fun, you need to do two things, the first is to clean the front and back yards before the hour, and then after dinner; ”

Suo Feng left after speaking, he didn't care about Baili Huang's suddenly wide eyes and suspicious face.

"Wouldn't it, this is my life in the fort?" Baili Huang subconsciously glanced at the boundless courtyard, "Aren't you tired and miserable this day?"

Looking at Suo Feng, who had already walked away, Baili Huang shook his head and cleared away a trace of anger that had surged in his heart. Since you have chosen the life in the castle, then the tempering starts with sweeping the yard.

From the early morning of the next day, Bailihuang got up in the hazy morning light, sleepily holding a large broom and struggling to move around the castle.

The sixteen-year-old man should not be so difficult to sweep a yard, but because he has been sick since he was a child, he has been pampered by his family, and he has never made any effort, and the big broom does not feel too heavy when he first gets started, and after dozens of waves, his arms are sore, his waist is numb, and the beads of sweat are falling non-stop.

At the end of the day, he lay down on the bare bed and had nothing to think about, just to just close his eyes and sleep forever.

Fortunately, because of his special nature, he was not in the same place with those disciples when he was assigned to the dormitory, so Suo Feng asked the demonstrator Wuzhong to move a bed for him in the warehouse where the tools were placed. That way, he can hum as much as he wants when he needs to roll over in bed.

What makes Baili Huang most depressed is not the tiredness, but the attitude of the disciples towards him, everyone looks at him as if he is looking at a monster, Baili Huang is tired of cleaning the yard, and occasionally encounters a disciple in the castle, he will smile, or even greet the other party with a smirk, but the other party either turns his face to the side, as if he didn't see him, or stares directly, or even sneers, asking him, the big brother of Bai Ding, to stay away.

There are also those who took the initiative to approach him, that is, Su Qi and Xu Guan. The two of them knew Bailihuang in Xishan City and knew each other well.

"Sick Phoenix, are you tired?" Every time they met, the two teenagers would take their arms around in front of his big broom before opening their mouths to care for him.

When encountering these two, Baili Huang basically treated them with silence. Xu Guan gave him a direct return gift, either tearing up a piece of dough and throwing it on the ground, or scattering a handful of leaves prepared in advance in front of his big broom. Before leaving, I would like to sincerely advise: "Sick Phoenix, it's time for you to go home." ”

Baili Huang was depressed, and at the same time wondered: How could two thirteen or fourteen-year-old teenagers be so bad-hearted?

They are old acquaintances. He was weak since he was a child, and except for occasional outings, he stayed at home to study. My grandfather left behind a room full of books, some of which were obscure, and it was difficult for the average young man to have the patience to read them, but he could read them again and start over again. The reason is that he is reluctant to go out more, and he is afraid of seeing these chaotic teenagers. He didn't have much interaction with these teenagers in his few memories. They are not friends, but they should never be enemies.

After being depressed, there is still calm, he Baili Huang came to the castle not to be angry with others, he has a lofty ideal: he wants to find the lost root of his thoughts here, and change the trajectory of his fate.

Baili Huang's nature is to be quiet, since everyone has to avoid him, he doesn't have to rush to please others, only Jing can keep his inner clarity.

In the days that followed, no one could get a smile from Bailihuang's kindness. Everyone gradually forgot about him. His figure is even more lonely, so lonely that it has become a constant scenery in the West Mountain Fort.

There is one person who will not forget him, and that is the senior brother Suo Feng. He was the only new disciple in the castle who was assigned to Suo Feng, so Suo Feng couldn't forget him. On weekdays, Suo Feng is very busy and busy cultivating. In terms of cultivation attitude alone, Suo Feng is undoubtedly the hardest working one. He entered the fort at the age of five and directly studied under Ximen Dayang. He is a well-deserved senior brother of all the disciples in the castle.

Whenever his cultivation was over, he would appear in front of Baili Huang at any time. He didn't have any extra words, and basically when they met, they assigned chores to Bailihuang.

After a long time, Bailihuang got used to his style. As soon as he saw Suo Feng appear, he would subconsciously put down the big broom and quietly wait for his assignment.

Baili Huang didn't try to ask him about cultivation, and his indifferent attitude made Bai Li Huang close his mind to ask him for advice.

A month and a half after entering the fort, there was a small turn in this life. On this day, he was cleaning a flower bed in the front yard when Fan Changwuzhong walked over. This was the first time Baili Huang had seen him head-on since entering the castle.

"You don't have to sweep the entire castle every day, the seven-star spirit gathering array cultivated by the new disciples in the front yard, the nine-chain spirit gathering array cultivated by the old disciples in the backyard, and the peach blossom bi around the front and back yards, you can go through these places once. In other places, there are disciples on duty to clean up, and if you do it, they are happy to see it. Fan Changwuzhong put his hands behind his back, and his face revealed a kind of true affection that Baili Huang rarely saw in the castle.

Baili Huang can't help but be moved, his hard work is still seen by others. "But, Chief, Senior Brother Suo Feng ......"

"I'll tell him. Fan Changwuzhong said indifferently, "It's really a sincere child." Fan Changwuzhong didn't say any more, patted him on the shoulder, and turned to leave.

Fan Changwuzhong didn't need to sympathize with Baili Huang, but he did it, it was just a thought. He had a worry, worried that Baili Huang would be tired of running like this. This son of the Baili family was originally a sick man, and if he was tired without stopping, it was really possible to throw down the broom and sneak home. His father is looking forward to this day. Once he escapes, it will be a big loss for him Fan Changwuzhong.

On the second day of Baili Huang's entry into the castle, Baili Changsheng took the high-grade elixir from his family's collection to visit the castle lord Ximen Dayang and the chief manager Fan Changwuzhong respectively. When Chief Fan saw these precious high-grade elixirs, he suddenly understood the reason why Ximen Dayang made an exception that day to accept Baili Huang as a disciple in the castle.

Fan Changwu Zhong is now the great steward of Xishan Fort, the real power faction under one person, and he is also a warrior, if he is ranked by personal cultivation, how many people is he in the castle? He is not even mixed with the qualifications of an elder, if he wants to be named an elder in the castle, he must reach the middle realm of the bronze thought realm.

If you can't become an elder in the castle, your position will not be stable, and everything you have is just a sentence from Ximen Dayang, either there is or nothing at all. But once he becomes an elder, Ximen Dayang will dominate the castle again, and he needs to be cautious and respectful of the elders.

Fan Chang Wuzhong's cultivation is now in the upper realm of the Iron Thought Realm, only one step away from the Copper Thought Realm, but how far away this step is, the cultivators in it may give ten thousand different answers, which can be summarized in one sentence: I don't know, it may be higher than the sky.

It was under the torture of this state of mind that the precious elixir of Baili Changsheng was delivered to him. As the great steward of Xishan Fort, he handled many elixirs almost every day, and he was already numb to ordinary elixirs, but as soon as the elixir of a hundred miles of longevity appeared in front of his eyes, he was shocked by the rich aura emitted by the elixir.

As soon as Baili Changsheng left his room, Steward Fan couldn't wait to take out an elixir and start cultivating. There are generally two ways for samurai to smoke elixir, some elixirs can be sucked directly, or they can be refined into elixirs and then sucked, most of these elixirs are high-grade elixirs, which are very rare, and most elixirs need to be made into elixirs before they can be sucked by samurai.

The elixir taken by Baili Changsheng is undoubtedly a high-grade elixir, which can be directly sucked by the samurai in the cultivation state.

Cultivating to this point, Fan Changwuzhong is very clear about how many catties and taels he has, in his own words, his kind of understanding, his stinky skin that has been tempered by thousands of hammers in the Iron Thought Realm, can only rely on the elixir to promote the fire, maybe one day, the surging gathering elixir fire will burn the "distant" in front of him in one fell swoop, allowing him to step into the Copper Thought Realm and fulfill his dream of elder.

After a few hours of absorption, the elixir placed in his left palm gradually withered, and finally turned into a thin layer of ashes, and disappeared without a trace the moment Fan Changwuzhong opened his eyes and was full of energy.

"Good, good, the old man hasn't tasted this for a long time. Fan Changwuzhong stood up in high spirits, quickly pounced on the long case where the elixir was placed, picked up the remaining elixir in both hands, and carefully hid it in the secret room behind the bedroom.

In this state of mind, can he easily let go of the son of the Baili family, who will run away at any time due to overwork?

Elixirs are not rare, what is scarce is high-grade elixir. And Baili Changsheng is undoubtedly a veteran and master in this business, and the Baili family is a family of elixirs that have been inherited for more than a thousand years.

Baili Huang didn't know that Baili Changsheng had come, and at this moment, the big broom in his hand seemed to be brisk, and the immortal note sounded briskly: rustle, rustle.