I don't know if it's because I have a goal or I want to get rid of my mother's fate through my own efforts, the sadness on Tang Ping's face has faded a lot, but she soon realized that the girl in front of her, who is three years younger than herself, knows so much? Those are things that I have never heard of.

Tang Ping leaned back on the chair, the chair was not small, her legs were swinging around very unfiguratively, she looked at Yan Xuan who was full of curiosity with a smile, and said proudly: "Isn't it strange how I know, right?" Come! As she spoke, she opened the food box, poked her head and sniffed the aroma inside, picked up a candied fruit from it and handed it to Yan Xuan, picked up another one and ate half a bite, and said, "Call me Master Tang, and I will teach you the first lesson to Youming Valley." ”

"Wait, let me guess first, you must be the kind of, the kind of person from the immortal cultivation family they are talking about, right?" This time, Yan Xuan didn't wait for Tang Ping to speak, and asked first.

Tang Ping smiled and didn't speak, after stuffing the candied fruit into her mouth, she took out a large handful of nuts with both hands and spread them on the table, and said while holding them back: "I finally got that money boy, he thought I only had a little bit of delicious food, ha!" As he spoke, he took one and threw it into his mouth, motioned for Yan Xuan to eat it together, and then said a little mysteriously: "Let you see a good thing first." He took a small cloth bag from his waist and put it on the table, "Guess, what is this?" ”

This small cloth bag is very small, exquisitely made, and the light blue satin is embroidered with exquisite moire, Yan Xuan can't recognize what it is, but she guesses that it is a sachet, but it is a little bigger, and it doesn't seem to smell any strange fragrance.

"It's a sachet, right?" Yan Xuan replied.

"No," Tang Ping's two big eyes had narrowed into two beautiful crescent lines when she answered, "Okay, let you see, my little baby." Then, as she spoke, Tang Ping reached out and untied the small rope tied to the small cloth bag.

"Come out, I've been stuffy with you for a few days, come out and breathe." While speaking, Tang Ping also stretched out a finger like a tender onion to poke the small bag, "Come out quickly, don't play with the child's temper, isn't it just to lock you up for a few days!" ”

The next scene made Yan Xuan never forget, she was so shocked that she leaned back in her chair and almost jumped.

A snow-white little fox jumped out of the small bag with a white light, landed on the table, and then fell into Tang Ping's arms with a slight jump, and whispered a few times.

Tang Ping hugged the little white fox and stroked the fluffy white fur on its back and said, "Angry? What if people see you snatched away on the road, right, why are you so grumpy. ”

The little fox ignored her, and after arching in her arms for a while, he jumped lightly and fell back on the table, shook the hair on his body, lowered his head and sniffed the nuts on the table, and then walked over and smelled the candied snacks in the food box, probed in and picked up a small cake, and turned his head to look at Tang Ping.

"Foodie! Just know how to eat! Tang Ping scolded with a smile, and then she pointed at Yan Xuan and said, "This is Sister Yan, go say hello." ”

The white fox hesitated slightly, put the small cake in his mouth on the table, walked up to Yan Xuan gently, lowered his head and sniffed Yan Xuan's hand on the table, and then squatted in front of Yan Xuan, looking at Yan Xuan curiously with a pair of blue eyes.

"Sister Yan, this is my little fox, called Xiaobai." Tang Ping looked at Yan Xuan, who was still in surprise, with a little smugness, reached over and held Yan Xuan's hand and said, "Sister Yan, don't be afraid, my little white doesn't bite." As he spoke, he took Yan Xuan's hand and stroked Xiaobai's pure white fur.

Girls of the age of Yan Xuan and Tang Ping probably like cute little animals like Xiaobai, so after touching it twice, Yan Xuan was not afraid at all, and the two hands full of love gently touched Xiaobai, and Xiaobai also raised his head comfortably and arched in Yan Xuan's palm, and raised his head to let Yan Xuan scratch his neck, and the cute appearance made the two girls laugh.

After laughing, Yan Xuan's eyes fell on the small bag on the table again, that small bag is really not big, it looks like it can barely fit one of Xiaobai's feet, although Xiaobai is not big, but it is about the same size as a flower cat, how did it fit in? She thought of the bronze carriage she had been in when she came, and her shock when she entered the carriage, which looked small from the outside, but was as spacious and bright as a palace when she entered it.

Noticing that Yan Xuan's gaze fell on the bag, Tang Ping said, "This is the spirit beast bag, which was given to me by my sixth grandfather and specially prepared for Xiaobai. ”

Tang Ping looked at Yan Xuan, who had already held Xiaobai in his arms, and continued, "Sister Yan, I am indeed the kind of immortal cultivator family you said, my family is in Fuquan, the Jinghai Tang family in Fuquan. You shouldn't have heard of it, the first is too far away, and the second is that you haven't been in contact with immortal cultivators before, so it's not strange. ”

"My family is also in the medicinal herb business, and my mother is a physician, and the few rare medicinal materials she uses to treat diseases are all transported from your Fuquan, which is very valuable. So I know Fuquan, but I really don't know about your family. Yan Xuan hugged Xiaobai and said.

"Well, the Fuquan royal family is surnamed Tang." Tang Ping said.

"Wow!" Yan Xuan said in surprise again, "Then you are a princess?" ”

"Not really!" Tang Ping sighed and said, "However, at least I'm a county lord." The Tang family is a relatively large family in the world of cultivating immortals, and the Fuquan country is completely directly controlled by the Tang family, in addition to Fuquan, the Tang family also has a lot of power in several other countries around it, and some important ministers or generals in those countries have people from the Tang family. ”

Seeing that Yan Xuan listened carefully, Tang Ping continued: "Actually, my father and mother have a very low status in the Tang family," ignoring Yan Xuan's surprise Tang Ping said again, "It's normal, because my father's spiritual root is very poor, and his cultivation is also very weak, only a little stronger than ordinary people, and my mother is a completely ordinary person, no spiritual root, let alone a little cultivation, but my mother is the descendant of another family of immortal cultivators, and the two families usually let some descendants who have no spiritual roots, but are direct blood relatives, conclude an alliance through marriage." ”

"Ah Ping," Yan Xuan asked a little embarrassed, "What is a spiritual root?" ”

This," Tang Ping was also a little difficult, how to explain it to her, Tang Ping pondered for a while, and then said, "I really don't know much about this, even when my sixth grandfather told me, I was confused, which probably means that everyone in the world actually has a spiritual root, but not everyone can practice, only the spiritual root is good enough to be able to practice, and those who can't practice are generally said to have no spiritual root." Just like those trees, all trees can be used as wood, but some trees can be used as beams and pillars for palaces, some trees can be used for tables, chairs and benches, but some trees can only be used for fires. ”

"Oh" Yan Xuan nodded thoughtfully, but then asked, "Then why do people who don't have spiritual roots go to marry?" Can't you have a spiritual root? ”

"Because a person who has spiritual roots to cultivate, no one else can predict the prospects of his cultivation.

Generally speaking, monks only start to consider finding a Taoist companion after reaching the foundation building realm, and reaching the foundation building realm itself is a very long process, even if they reach that realm, in addition to finding a Taoist partner, they also need to consider whether the exercises practiced by the two people can help each other, and whether the spiritual roots of the two people match, etc., which are very troublesome, and I don't understand very well.

Anyway, for a family, it is a big problem for the head of the family to find a Taoist partner, and the offspring who cannot practice are like bargaining chips, which are used by these family heads in any place that is beneficial to the family, and this is the case with my father and my mother. ”

"Didn't you say your father was a monk?"

"My father is only a little stronger than ordinary people, his spiritual root is not good, no matter how hard he tries, it is in vain, he barely practiced for nearly twenty years, and was finally given up by the family. My father married my mother in her thirties, my mother was only seventeen years old at that time, my mother was born without spiritual roots, and her family did not spend any effort on her to cultivate her, and when my mother reached the age when she should be married, the two families wanted to form an alliance, so that my father and my mother would become married. And," Tang Ping looked at Yan Xuan and said, "I didn't have a spiritual root when I was born. ”

"Can't you, then?" Yan Xuan means that if there is no spiritual root, how can he be brought to the Young Ming Valley of the Five Spirit Sect?

At this time, the fox Xiaobai had already jumped back to the table from Yan Xuan's arms, eating the small cake intently.

Tang Ping looked at Xiaobai munching and smiled slightly: "Sister Yan, I mean I didn't have a spiritual root when I was born, and the children of the family will be tested by the elders of the family when they are born, to see if the child has a spiritual root and what kind of spiritual root, the result of the test when I was born was that there was no spiritual root, so at that time I was basically given up by the family, if it has been like this, when I grow up to the age when my mother got married, I will probably be forcibly married to someone I don't know, alas!" ”

Yan Xuan was silent when she heard this, she thought of her mother, and she didn't expect that the situation of those people who couldn't cultivate in those legendary immortal cultivators was also unsatisfactory, just like ordinary people, there was no difference.

"Then you're at least still a county lord." She said to Tang Ping.

"That's a blessing to my sixth grandfather." Tang Ping said, "My grandfather, Xiuwei is said to be good in the family, he ranks fifth in his generation, my sixth grandfather is his own brother, and my father said that my grandfather and my sixth grandfather have the best relationship." However, I did not meet my grandfather, and in the early years the family clashed with another family, fighting each other, and my grandfather was seriously injured in the fight, and died shortly after returning to the family. ”

"Some people also say that my grandfather was injured in order to save my sixth grandfather, I don't know about this, anyway, my sixth grandfather took very good care of my family, originally my father's cultivation was hopeless, that is, he was just running errands in the family, and it was my sixth grandfather who spoke for my father in the family, so that my father became a powerful prince in Fuquan."

"Wow, your sixth grandfather is so powerful, he is really good to you." Yan Xuan said enviously.

"Do you know who my sixth grandfather is?" Tang Ping looked at Yan Xuan and said.

"And how do I know?"

"It's the little old man who came to your house and brought you here!"

"It's that senior!" Yan Xuan was not small surprised this time, she immediately remembered that in the courtyard of her family, the old man with a smile and white hair handed over a jade Ruyi for herself to hold, and she still remembered the gentle eyes of the old man when he looked at herself.

"I heard that the person presiding over this election is an elder of the Five Spirits Sect with a high status, is it ......?"

"That's right, my sixth grandfather is a knotted elder of the Five Spirit Sect's Water Cloud Valley, and he is one of the chief elders of Water Cloud Valley. This time, I didn't need my sixth grandfather to come forward, and I just sent a rotating uncle, but my sixth grandfather came here and thought about it and wanted to come out for a walk; Second, it's ......," Tang Ping glanced at Yan Xuan and said with a little blush, "It's to go back to the family and push away the family business that the family ordered for me in the past." ”

"Wow!" Yan Xuan was surprised again, she looked at Tang Ping with wide eyes, and asked in disbelief, "You are actually married, tell me who your husband's family is!" ”

"Oh, you're so annoying, you said that the family betrothed me in, how do I know whose bastard it is." Although Tang Ping knew that the family had appointed a family to marry the children of the Qin family, she didn't want to talk about it, and reached out to pinch Yanxuan's waist in shame, and the two girls showed the posture of their little daughters at this time, pinching and laughing at each other, scolding each other, so that Xiaobai, who was eating cakes on the table, looked at them curiously for a while.

"However, your sixth grandfather is really good to you!" After the trouble, Yan Xuan said while combing Tang Ping's messed hair.

"Yes, my sixth grandfather is a genius of cultivation, his spiritual root is actually not particularly good, but he is very smart and willing to endure hardships, and he has some chances, so it took less than two Jiazi to become a monk in the Dan period, in the entire Tang family, the cultivation of the sixth grandfather is the highest, followed by the current head of the Tang family, my third grandfather."

"I don't like him, though. I heard my father say that it was my third grandfather who betrothed me in. ”

Tang Ping's tone was hateful when he said this, and when he heard this, Yan Xuan sneered and laughed again, and the angry Tang Ping was about to fight, and Yan Xuan hurriedly begged for mercy.

"By the way, you just said that you didn't have a spiritual root at the beginning, so how did you have it later?" Yan Xuan asked curiously.

"I really don't know this, I remember when I was five years old playing in the garden of the house, I met my father accompanied a white-bearded old man, that is my sixth grandfather, he also hugged me, and then said to my father that this child is obviously a water spirit root, why did the test say that I have no spirit root? That was the first time I had heard about Linggen. ”

"Later, he told my father that this child is the physique of the hidden spirit root, and it was normal that he didn't test it out that year, so that he found it was also the will of heaven, and then my father told me that he was actually a hidden spirit root, and he only found out that he could practice when he was a teenager, but it was considered to be a late start, if he could have found it earlier, maybe the cultivation would not have been so difficult, but fortunately, my father's hidden spirit root was discovered late, otherwise if he practiced well, he would definitely not marry my mother, and there would be no me." Saying that, Tang Ping smiled slyly.

"Later, my sixth grandfather didn't let me practice in the Tang family, saying that he wanted to bring me to the Five Spirits Sect and put me by his side to practice, my father and mother were naturally full of joy, and those elders in the family had no opinions, but I didn't want to."

"Why, your sixth grandfather is so good to you?" Yan Xuan asked puzzled.

"Alas, it's no problem to come to the Five Spirits Sect, but even if you come, you can't escape from the palm of that old man's hand, you don't know how troublesome that old man is, people are stingy and greedy, and he is picky about things, and he is as young as a needle nose, and few people are willing to be his apprentice to him, so he will hit his granddaughter with the idea, and he will not worry about putting some good things anywhere, and he will look at you like a thief, well, after a year, it is best to enter other sects, and it is better not to go to Shuiyun Valley."

Listening to Tang Ping's repeated cannons counting down her sixth grandfather, Yan Xuan was a little dizzy, which was not at all compatible with the old man with white hair and fairy wind bones in her impression, and then she asked in a snort: "If we don't enter the Water Cloud Valley, aren't we going to the Five Spirit Sect?" What kind of place is Shuiyun Valley, why do you still say that you go to other sects? ”

After asking, she found that Tang Ping was looking at her in a daze, she felt embarrassed again, and stuck out her tongue at Tang Ping.

"Oh my God!" Tang Ping shouted lightly, "Xiaobai, Xiaobai" She reached out and picked up the little fox who was still eating and held it up in front of her face to face with herself, "You and Sister Yan should change their names, Sister Yan is the real Xiaobai, haha!" ”

Yan Xuan was so angry that he reached out and flicked it on Tang Ping's head, and then reached out and snatched Xiaobai over and hugged him in his arms.

"Okay, don't make trouble, it seems that Sister Yan, you really don't know, come, Master Tang will solve your doubts, haha."

"Sister Yan, we are indeed going to the Five Spirits Sect, this Five Spirits Sect is a general name, it has a total of five gates, namely Shuiyun Valley, Houtu Temple, Muxiu Peak, Qixia Mountain and Jiuxuanmen."

"Shuiyun Valley is one of these five gates, and my sixth grandfather's identity outside is the chief elder of Shuiyun Valley of the Five Spirit Sect, of course, it is one of them, because there are several chief elders, not him."

"In addition, according to the different cultivation methods in Shuiyun Valley, it is divided into three factions: Bibotan, Yulinglan, and Yueyinglin, each of which has its own unique inheritance of exercises, according to this, the identity of my sixth grandfather is also within the Five Spirits Sect, Shuiyungu Gate, and the worship elders of the Bibotan faction, this sect, the door, the faction, Sister Yan, do you understand?"

When Tang Ping said this, he stretched out a small hand, and explained to Yan Xuan with a few fingers while buttoning it around, it was not like he was afraid that Yan Xuan would not understand, but it was like he was afraid that he would not understand.

"I finally get it, but it feels complicated." Yan Xuan said.

"Of course it's complicated, the south of Central Continent belongs to the Five Spirits, and among the six sects in the world, the Five Spirits Sect is not small, and of course it's complicated."

"Six sects, there are six like the Five Spirit Sect?" Yan Xuan asked.

"Well, you haven't been to the sect, I don't know how big the Five Spirit Sect is, well, you will know in the future, there are still five other sects about the same size as the Five Spirit Sect, and there are countless smaller sects left."

"That's a lot!" Yan Xuan muttered, "Why haven't I heard of it before?" ”

For example, people know that there is an emperor in their country, but how many ordinary people have seen the emperor, and how many of them know what the emperor's usual place of residence looks like, what they like to eat, and what kind of pastime they usually have. A truth. ”

Yan Xuan couldn't help but nod his head after saying this.

"Come, Sister Yan, I'll show you something fresh." Saying that, Tang Ping took out a small blue bag, which was not big, that is, the size of Tang Ping's two fists.

Tang Ping took the bag, and a few little fingers of her other hand rummaged through it while muttering, "Where to put it, this is not, this is not either." Oh, here it is! As he spoke, he pulled out a long roll of paper from the small bag, almost as high as the ground to the tabletop, Tang Ping opened it casually and looked at it, pouted and said, "It's still not right, I'll look for it again." ”

Then she took out five or six paper tubes of the same size from the small bag one after another, and Yan Xuan was dumbfounded, not to mention that roll of paper tubes in that small bag, even if it was rolled into a paper ball, it couldn't be stuffed into that small bag, it was amazing.