Chapter 35: The Seven Apprentices
Eleven is happy in his heart, and he is like flying. Although it was the way up the mountain, the speed was much faster than when the peak was lowered in the morning. He was enlightened by his master today, coupled with the happiness in his heart, he ran around, and naturally became faster and lighter. The moonlight is like washing, the breeze is urgent, and the insects in the ears are much more beautiful. After a while, Eleven arrived at the flat ground on the peak, but he was unwilling to stop at his feet, and his feet fluttered on the pine trees on the peak. Step on the pine needles, tap the pine top, the fragrance is fragrant, and you are drunk.
Suddenly, he caught a glimpse of a white shadow out of the corner of his eye, and under the bright moon, it was like a white cloud. Ten must have looked at it, but it was a person, like himself, standing on the top of the tree at the foot of the peak, facing the sea, looking in the direction they had come from yesterday. From a distance, the shadow is ethereal, as if out of the dust, the posture is graceful, and the charm is refined. Seeing her dressed in white like light gauze, it was like being in the smoke, which seemed to be real and illusory. The sea breeze blows, like the wind blowing the jade tree, and the snow is wrapped in qiongbud.
Eleven was deeply attracted by this shadow, and suddenly his body became heavier and fell to the ground. "Oops" Eleven suddenly felt pain and screamed unconsciously.
As soon as the voice fell, a figure had already rushed to his side and shouted, "Who is it?"
"Senior, it's me Eleven,!" Eleven fell to the ground, and looked up to see a person standing in front of him, it turned out to be Miao's master.
"Why didn't you walk well and fall to the ground?" Master Miao asked strangely.
"Oh, today the old-timers taught me wonderful arts, and my heart was happy, so I practiced, and stood on the treetops, and saw the woman in white at the bottom of the mountain, looking into the distance, fluttering like a fairy, and I didn't feel fascinated, and I moved at a thought, and I fell down!"
When Master Miao heard Eleven say this, he couldn't help but shake his head, walked to the house with his hands down, and said: "Alas, it's been more than sixty years, and the fourth sister is still waiting for the boss stupidly, why bother? How can there be any interesting cultivation techniques, alas, I don't understand," he said, sometimes touching the short beard on his mouth, and sometimes scratching the back of his head.
Miao saw that the master suddenly rushed out of the door, and Ben came out, and then saw the master come back after saying these words, and suddenly realized: "It turns out that the fourth uncle, standing on the tree is waiting for someone? I thought she was cultivating immortals and absorbing the aura of seawater." In this way, the interest increased greatly, and he gathered around the master to ask the reason.
Eleven and the mud doll are also very strange, Master Miao is the seventh, but there are only four uncles, but the master uncle and the third uncle don't know where to go, so they look around him, there must be a lot of expectation in their eyes, and they want to know the reason very much. Miao didn't care about these when she was young, but in the past two years, her curiosity and gossip have increased.
Master Miao is also a person who can't hide his words, seeing the expectant eyes of several people, looking around him, Miao is on the side again, constantly begging, he is rarely admired so much, but he feels very good, smiled and asked in a mysterious whisper: "Yesterday, did you see the old man's expression when the fifth brother talked about the boss?"
"Which old man?" said Eleven, looking at the others.
"That's my master! We call him that in private. Master Miao said.
The four of them couldn't help but nod their heads when they heard this, and Miao said, "Yes, the ancestor seems to be very unhappy!"
"Bang", Master Miao suddenly slapped his thigh, startling the four people, and the four beasts were also startled, Master Miao was very happy when he saw the four of them, and said with a smile: "It's the matter of the eldest and the third, that is the only piece of heart in the old man's heart, don't let others mention it, and the time has not been long, more than sixty years." Some people will naturally be unhappy when they talk about it, at that time, your generation has not yet entered the school. Of course, I don't know, and if I know, I don't want to talk about it, and I don't dare to mention it. ”
"Master, what did you mean by Fourth Senior Uncle just now?" Miao asked,
"Love!" Master Miao sighed, and then said hurriedly: "I'll tell you, don't say it, otherwise it won't be good!"
The four of them nodded one after another, naturally swearing to keep their mouths shut.
Master Miao began to talk about it, and said: "The old man has two great skills in his life, one is the longevity formula, the other is the Xuantong Nine Tips, and the first is to cultivate the longevity recipe before getting started" Master Miao loves these very much in his life, and he doesn't consciously mention it when he tells the story, Eleven naturally knows these things, and Master Miao told about the two unique learnings, speaking of the difficulty of studying, the power of the Xuantong Nine Tips, compared to what the master said, it is a little more difficult, and it is several times more powerful. After some high-minded talk, seeing that except for his eldest apprentice, who was listening energetically, the other three seemed listless, so they began to get to the point. I'm really afraid that the three little ghosts underestimate their storytelling skills.
"The eldest was the first to get started, and he started to cultivate the longevity technique at the age of ten, and he has already cultivated at the age of twenty-three, twenty-three years old!" Master Miao exclaimed, squinting at Miao, and then said: "A person as smart and talented as your master also cultivated at the age of ten, and it was only cultivated at the age of thirty, which is already rare. The second child is not good, you look at his appearance, you know, it was repaired at the age of fifty-six, the fifth and the sixth, the two are about the same, one is nearly forty years old, and the other is just over forty. Although the fourth sister is a woman, she is not ordinarily powerful, a year earlier than me! But she started cultivating at the age of five!" Master Miao and Fourth Senior Uncle are the best, so she is the only one who is honored as sister. The others were all screaming.
"What about the third uncle?" Miao heard that he was talking about the eldest and the third uncle, why didn't he mention the third uncle, and asked anxiously.
"Don't call him Third Senior Uncle, call him the third one, and the junior is fine!" Master Miao suddenly had a cold face, obviously not having good intentions towards his third senior brother.
"Yes, yes, what about Xiao San?" Miao saw that her master was so complex, for fear that he would be disappointed, so she stopped talking and said anxiously.
"That guy, his qualifications are not bad, he has cultivated at twenty-three, and he is the same as the boss, he has started cultivating the elixir of life at the age of ten! At that time, when he practiced and completed, the master was very happy, saying that he had received a genius that was rare in a thousand years! And I" Master Miao paused, his face showing displeasure.
When the four of them saw him like this, they didn't dare to ask more words.
"This guy is arrogant, impatient, competitive, where is the material for cultivation. Although his qualifications are similar to those of the boss, and his cultivation and alchemy are also diligent and hardworking, he is just that inferior to the boss! Guess why?" Master Miao said this, his face turned from cold to happy.
Except for Eleven, the others don't understand these, Eleven wants to come to Xuantong Nine Tips, and later cultivate, if it is a person with similar qualifications, although there is a difference in cultivation age, but it is also a short moment to put these decades in the long river of a thousand years. Each stage of the Nine Secrets of Xuantong has a decisive bearing on future success.
"It's that his temperament is too impatient, competitive and competitive, he didn't broaden his foundation when he practiced the first three tips, and it took the boss ten years to practice the three tricks, and he had to prove that he was stronger than the boss, and he completed the three tricks in nine years. Therefore, no matter how much you step up in the future, it is useless to diligently practice qi, store qi, and study the method of general qi. Although both of them have completed the Nine Tricks of Xuantong, the third child will not be able to reach the power of the boss after all!" Master Miao said with a smile.
"The third child is very angry with the old nature, the boss is humble, and avoids him everywhere. The more he avoided him, the more the third child felt that the boss looked down on him, and he didn't want to live on the island, so he had to leave, go outside to learn and cultivate, and wanted to make a breakthrough. I said that the old man is smart, he knows that the third boss can't beat the boss, so if you want to leave the island, you must win the boss. Everyone knows that the old man's words clearly want to stop the third child. The first is to tell him not to leave the island, so as not to cause a big disaster, and the second is to know that he has excellent qualifications, maybe such a radical can force him to surpass in cultivation, and he can also create the tenth secret of Xuantong!"
"Then did he become later?" Miao asked anxiously.
"He!" Master Miao looked contemptuous, and then said: "I didn't realize the tenth trick, but he realized the crooked way!"
"Crooked, what?" asked a few of them.
"What do you think, what is the Nine Techniques of my Master's Xuantong, and what is the foundation?" Master Miao asked the four of them with a crooked mouth.
"It's Qi refining, right?What kind of body is the ethereal state, what kind of human body is the foundation?" Miao replied anxiously, I heard what Master said before just now, what foundation and what Qi training, now that I think about it, I answered casually.
"It's still my apprentice who is smart, and the master will remember it once he says it!haha" Master Miao touched Miao's head and said with a smile.
"It's refining a man's body. The body of a person born from the five elements of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth has three souls and seven spirits in the body, which is the origin of human spirituality. Seeing that the third man couldn't defeat the boss without a breakthrough in his body's qi training, he actually thought of refining the three souls and seven spirits. Master Miao said.
"Hey, it seems that Xiao San is not wrong, the body can't be refined. It's also a different way to refine the Three Souls and Seven Spirits!Isn't it a crooked way?" Miao asked thoughtfully. Eleven was shocked, looked at Miao, and was amazed in his heart, never thought that this cynical Miao would actually say these unique words.
"Oh, my stupid apprentice, I just praised you for being smart!" Master Miao slapped the back of Miao's head with a snap, and his face suddenly changed after filming, and then he trembled and said, "Fortunately, it wasn't the back of our boss's head!" Everyone was shocked when they saw this situation.
The red-haired young man only knew that Master Zu ordered him to protect the back of his head in every possible way, so he didn't let people hit him, and the reason for it was unknown. Now when I heard the master say this, I wanted to touch my hand, but as soon as it moved to the back of my head, I retracted it again.
When the mud doll saw that the master slapped Miao, Miao rubbed the back of her head and immediately laughed, and the four beasts also giggled.
Master Miao was shocked, but fortunately it was fine. As a teacher, he should also look like a teacher, so he took a long breath, calmed down, and then said: "My good disciple! The three souls and seven spirits are the foundation of spirituality, and although they are fundamental, people know very little, and they are not as easy to understand as the bloodlines of the hands and feet. You think, if the soul of human nature and mind goes wrong, it will go crazy. When the time comes, the delirious heart demon is a masterpiece, coupled with the power of the Xuantong Nine Tricks, the harm can be imagined. No matter how smart and powerful the old man was, he didn't touch any of this. What's more, the third child has a bad heart, and he can't be refined. The old man said that if the boss can understand it, it is okay to be humble and calm with his righteousness!"
"Then didn't he practice later?" Miao asked, his eyes full of curiosity.
"The old man is arrogant and stubborn, and the more the old man refuses to let him, the more he wants to practice this method! The more he says that this method is extremely harmful and dangerous, the more eager he is to try. But there is an old man watching on the island, and he can't avoid it, so he does everything possible to find a way out of the island. But since the master agreed to win the boss, he naturally wouldn't sneak away. Therefore, he can only defeat the boss in every possible way. Every time I tried to be a little worse, I was defeated by the boss. Later, he finally waited for an opportunity.
More than 60 years ago, the boss was ordered by the old man to go out of the island to run errands, and when he came back, he brought a young and beautiful girl, who was dying at that time, and the boss had the intention of saving him, but he had nothing to do, so he had to take him back to the island for the second child's treatment. The second good medicine method will rejuvenate in two months. At that time, the old man asked the woman where she came from, and the boss said that when he was fighting with a very powerful person, the woman passed by and was inadvertently injured by the man. At that time, I remember that the old man was still worried about this matter for a while, and he couldn't figure it out, but it was a coincidence.
I don't know what the relationship between the boss and this woman is, because the boss feels ashamed of this woman, so he takes care of it every day. This point was seen by the third child. In the days that followed, the third child seemed to be closer to the woman. The boss was depressed and depressed all day long. I don't know that this is their private matter, and I don't bother to ask. Besides, love, I don't think it's interesting.
Half a year after the woman came, the old man seemed to see something, and asked the boss to escort the woman away from the island. At that time, the third child challenged the boss again. The two of them fought on the Thumb Peak for three days and three nights, one held the Xuantie Lingfeng Sword, and the other held the Nine Forging Angry Sea Knife, splitting stones and cutting rocks on the peak. Houses cannot be erected. The third child also seems to be fighting, usually can't beat the boss at most half a day before stopping, that time he seems to know that he can't miss the opportunity, and he fights endlessly. In the end, I don't know what trick the third child made and won the boss. The old man had no choice but to keep his promise and promise him to leave the island. The third child left with the woman.
I don't know if I feel guilty, or I'm afraid that the third child will do something bad after leaving the island, and the boss disappeared from the island in a few days. The old man was naturally heartbroken, and sighed that he had received two geniuses that were rare in thousands of years, but they were all gone. During those days, except for the old man's bad mood, it was the fourth sister. Originally, I thought she was just reluctant. Later, once she was at the bottom of the mountain, just like just now, I saw her standing on the treetops, looking into the distance stupidly, I don't know what she was doing, secretly only listened to her own crying, it turned out that she had long liked the boss, and she had never dared to say it, and now that the boss is gone, this love has nowhere to be sustenance! She learned the longevity formula at the age of twenty-nine, and she should not have aged any time, but because she missed the boss, sometimes she forgot to walk the longevity method every day, so she was a little older. A few more months have passed since that date. The old man suddenly told us to go out of the island to take in apprentices! I guess there are two apprentices missing, and the old man wants to take in two more wizards. Later, they collected more and more, and sometimes they took what they saw in poverty and poverty, and they would save those who were sick and had no medical treatment. Anyway, the island is a big place, and because Thumb Peak was destroyed by the two, no house was built. The second child built a rehmannia temple in the palm of the mountain. Several other hills were given to us. The little thumb is small, and I don't want to teach my disciples, so I built a few rooms. I took in the two of you more than ten years ago!" Master Miao finished telling the story in one go. looked at the expressions of the four people, as if they were still unsatisfied.