The main house of Wanfu Yizhuang is a morgue and a coffin room, and there are several coffins in it. There is a custom of banqueting guests in the main room here in Lishui, so Xu Zhenren invited Xiang Sheng into the main room and took out four small grass mounds to beckon everyone to sit down.

Fortunately, it is daytime, and Shi Jian, Xu Zhenren, Zhang Daring, and Xiang Sheng are not ordinary people, otherwise they would be panicked when they talked with their backs to a few coffins.

"Smoke!"

Xiang Sheng threw a cloth bag on the table in front of the four of them, took out some browned tobacco leaves from it, and invited everyone to eat tobacco.

"The best autumn smoke?"

Xu Zhenren's eyes lit up, and he was not polite to Xiang Sheng at all, he picked up some tobacco leaves and rolled them up, put them on the cigarette holder of the bamboo cigarette holder and lit them, and took a few puffs beautifully.

Xiang Sheng took the very common long smoke pot in the countryside, took a few puffs, looked at Shi Jian and asked, "Yan'er, what did your master ask you to do in Xiangxi, do you know?" ”

He spoke very slowly, deliberately correcting his pronunciation so that Shi Jian could understand.

Shi Jian learned the Lishui dialect for a few days, and usually used the stumbling Lishui dialect to communicate with Xu Zhenren and Zhang Daring, but Xiang Sheng understood this sentence, shook his head and said: "Master only asked me to come to Lishui County to find Master Xiang, and I didn't say anything superfluous." ”

Xiang Shengba smoked a dry cigarette and asked, "How old are you this year?" ”

"Sixteen Years ......"

"Sixteen! Sixteen years old! Xiang Sheng smoked for a while, whispered this age in his mouth, and was silent for a while before saying, "Your master has a heart!" ”

Shi Jian said cautiously: "Master Xiang, do you have any grievances with my master?" ”

Hearing this, Xu Zhenren and Zhang Daring looked at Xiang Sheng one after another, looking at the excitement and listening to the gossip.

Xiang Sheng took a hard puff of cigarette, choked and coughed, and his originally sallow face turned red, showing a sickly flush.

"Master Xiang......"

"I'm fine." Xiang Sheng raised his hand and motioned for the three of them to sit, gasped a few times, and slowly calmed down, "I'll dig Xi Li ......"

It happened sixteen years ago.

Sixteen years ago, in fact, the Taoist was still very young, a hairy boy in his twenties, young and vigorous, he didn't know what his surname was after learning a little Maoshan technique, and he didn't take the world's demons and monsters in his eyes at all.

Once, in fact, the Taoist passed through Xiangxi, and unexpectedly heard that there were five immortal sect warlocks in the local area who caught live people to refine Gu, and then he was furious, and single-handedly found the five immortal sect warlocks and fought with them.

This person's poison and Gu skills are really amazing, but in fact, the Dao Chang couldn't fight, and he was injured and fled.

The Five Immortal Sect Warlock was angry that the Dao Master had destroyed the poisonous Gu he had painstakingly refined, and he was relentless in pursuit.

chased and fled, and gradually came to the territory of Lishui County. happened to meet Xiang Sheng's master and apprentice who returned from chasing the corpse, and Xiang Sheng learned that the Taoist chief was actually a descendant of the Maoshan faction, and it was the evil sect warlock who chased and killed him.

After a tragic battle, although the warlock was killed, Xiang Sheng's master and apprentice, in fact, the three people were also seriously injured, among which Xiang Sheng's apprentice was the most seriously injured, he slammed the warlock with a five-poison palm in order to protect Xiang Sheng, and died without leaving his last words.

Xiang Sheng's wife died early, had no children and no daughters, and always regarded his apprentice as his own son, with deep feelings, and the death of his apprentice made him grief-stricken, and he couldn't help but have some resentment towards the actual Taoist.

In fact, the Taoist chief felt guilty in his heart, and he was very unhappy, and left quietly one night, leaving only a note with his promise that he would return an apprentice to Master Xiang in the future, so as to inherit his mantle!

"My son was as old as you when he died." Xiang Sheng looked at Shi Jian kindly.

Shi Jian muttered: "I was also the master who hugged Maoshan at that time, and I heard my uncles and uncles say that since then, the master is like a different person, not running down the mountain as often as before, and doing things a lot more restrained." ”

"Ugh." Xiang Sheng sighed lightly and said apologetically: "At that time, the only apprentice died, I was so sad that I completely lost my mind, and said a few unpleasant words to the actual Taoist chief. Later, I thought about it, I shouldn't have said those things, Ya'er's death had nothing to do with the actual Taoist, and he didn't deliberately lure the warlock. It can only be said that time is also fate, and you are not blessed. ”

"Master Xiang......"

Xiang Sheng waved his hand freely, "Okay, let's talk about it, you go back, tell the Taoist, I don't resent him, I have long forgotten the promise I made back then." ”

Saying that, Xiang Sheng was dissatisfied: "Let a teenager come to Xiangxi alone, he can actually do it." He didn't dare to come to Lishui to see me in person, did he want me to go to Maoshan to see him in person? ”

Shi Jian argued: "Master Xiang, my master didn't mean that, he may not have let go of the things of the year. ”

"Let go of ......"

Xiang Sheng said in a low voice, bowed his head and smoked silently, when others couldn't see it, he showed a bitter look on his face, in fact, the Taoist couldn't let it go, could he let it go?

Xu Zhenren and Zhang Daring were silent, not knowing what to say for a while.

Shi Jian looked at Xiang Sheng, who was also silent, and could clearly feel a kind of sadness from his body. Sixteen years have passed, and the apprentice's voice and smile are still engraved in Xiang Sheng's memory, and every time he mentions it, it will make him feel painful.

Is it that easy to put down?

"Master, I think I understand what you mean and what to do."

In this world, Shi Jian's closest person is the actual Taoist chief, if one day the actual Taoist chief is feathered, he will definitely laugh three times on the surface, and cry in private for three days and three nights. Therefore, Xiang Sheng's grief of losing his beloved disciple, Shi Jian can understand.

He took a deep breath and said solemnly: "Master Xiang, I want to stay in Lishui County to learn the art of expelling corpses from you, are you willing to teach me?" ”

Xiang Sheng raised his head abruptly and looked at Shi Jian in disbelief, "Yan'er, your head is in the water, don't you learn the Maoshan technique, follow me to learn the corpse technique?" It's not that there is a fight in front of the door, and the old chicken woman is gone in the house. ”

Shi Jian looked confused, "What do you mean?" ”

Xu Zhenren smiled and said, "Master Xiang said that you lost a lot because of a small loss." ”

"Master Xiang, I'm serious. If you are worried that I will delay my cultivation of the Maoshan Technique because of my study of the corpse expulsion technique, then there is no need, my Maoshan Technique has reached a bottleneck in my cultivation and will not progress in a short period of time. ”

Xiang Sheng sneered, "The ant yawns—what a big breath." Tell me what bottlenecks you've encountered. ”

Without waiting for Shi Jian to speak, Xu Zhenren preemptively said: "Master Xiang, Shi Daoyou didn't lie to you, he has already cultivated to the late stage of qi induction. ”

"Sixteen years old, late stage of air induction?" Xiang Sheng was taken aback, and asked Xu Zhenren, "Old Xu, what level is this in your spiritual realm?" ”

"You say this as if you were not in the spirit world." Xu Zhenren rolled his eyes and said speechlessly: "I don't know what level." ”

"Don't know?"

"I don't want to say I've seen it, I've never heard of anyone who can cultivate to the late stage of qi induction at the age of sixteen. Zixia Mountain knows, right? ”

Xiang Sheng nodded, "The big faction of the Bashu Spirit Realm, such a big reputation, I haven't heard of anyone who walks around." ”

"Some time ago, there was a rumor, I don't know if it's true or not, I heard that Zixia Mountain's generation produced a genius, and he cultivated to the late stage of the Sword Yuan Realm at the age of seventeen, which is equivalent to the late stage of our Daomen's qi induction, and was called a peerless genius once in a hundred years by Zixia Mountain."

"This is amazing!" Shi Jian was sincerely convinced: "Zixia Mountain is a great sword cultivation faction, and their cultivation is much more difficult than our Maoshan faction's 'Shangqing Great Cave True Scripture', listening to my master, they have cultivated since childhood, and they can be regarded as rare geniuses who can cultivate from the age of twenty to the late stage of the Sword Yuan Realm." ”

Although it is now the era of the end of the law, the aura of heaven and earth is thin, but a small pond can also raise a few big fish, the Maoshan faction has Shi Jian, a talented disciple, and other major sects may not have no genius.

Not to mention far away, let's talk about the old enemies of the Maoshan faction, Longhu Mountain and Ge Soap Mountain, the geniuses under their sect shone in the last three factions of the small spirit meeting.

Xiang Sheng looked at Shi Jian with complicated eyes, and exclaimed: "Your master is really willing, he actually sent such an outstanding disciple over, he has a heart, a heart!" ”

Shi Jian said with a straight face: "Master Xiang, I am a disciple of Maoshan, the master is the actual Taoist, and he has officially started, it is impossible to worship you as a teacher again, I wonder if you are willing to teach me the art of chasing corpses?" ”

"Son, do you really want to learn?"

Shi Jian nodded heavily, and said without hesitation: "I really want to learn." ”

Xiang Sheng took a deep breath of cigarette and said loudly: "I'll teach!" ”