In a blink of an eye, it was the day when the five of them agreed to go to the Crane Tower for a visit, and according to the meaning of Qian Chao, everyone had to gather at Li Jian first.

Before Qian Chao was ready in the morning, Lu Pingchuan arrived at Qian Chao's residence early.

"Brother Lu, you're early!"

"Hey, it's okay to stay, my master is in retreat, and he doesn't care about me these days, so I'll come out early."

"Then you wait for me first, and we'll go to Brother Li together in a while."

"Well, there's no rush."

Muxiu Peak Purple Bamboo Forest.

Li Jian knew that several friends were coming today, so he also started preparing early.

There was a big stone outside his bamboo liao, which was cut by the spirit sword when he practiced the sword, and then Li Jian felt that such a stone was ugly, and wanted to chop it and throw it into the river next to it, but later found that the big stone was round in outline, and the size was like a tabletop, so he made up another sword, so that the stone desktop was horizontal, and then used the spirit sword to repair the edge of the big stone, and moved it to his own bamboo liao as a stone table, which was very good, and the desktop was smooth, The texture inside the stone looks like a misty mountain, but it also has seven points of wildness and three points of elegance.

There were five stone benches around the stone table, and they were also five similar cobblestones he found from the river beach and made them with spirit swords.

Next to the stone table was a tandoor, which was used to make tea.

When Qian Chao came that day, he said that he didn't need to prepare anything to eat, Brother Lu would bring it himself, and Li Jian didn't prepare to eat when he heard it, but he went around the nearby mountains and forests early in the morning and picked some fresh and delicious fruits, washed them in the river, and put them on a plate and placed them on the stone table.

Then Li Jian sat cross-legged and waited.

The first to arrive were Qian Chao and Lu Pingchuan.

"Brother Li" Qian Chao jumped down from the spirit sword while greeting, and then Lu Pingchuan fell to the ground.

"Brother Qian, your sword is really fast enough, no, let's compare again, I don't believe I can't catch up with you. Brother Li, it's been a while, when I came, Brother Qian said that you are very beautiful here, and now it's really good to see it, this purple bamboo, it's really the first time I've seen it. ”

When he came, Qian Chao and Lu Pingchuan competed to see who was faster, although Lu Pingchuan was already trying his best to catch up, but he still fell behind Qian Chao. The spirit sword at Qian Chao's feet was specially refined for hurrying, a spirit sword with three bird charms, although this sword was useless when fighting, but it flew extremely fast.

"Brother Lu, Brother Qian, please take a seat." Li Jian hurriedly greeted the two.

Lu Pingchuan sat on the stone bench, reached out and took a fruit and chewed it.

"Do Sister Tang and Sister Yan know that Brother Li is here? This Mu Xiufeng is also big enough, just like the Houtu Temple, there are still few people, and they are all empty. ”

"I know, Miss Tang has been here once, she must have come with Miss Yan this time, but there is no need to worry about them."

Li Jian said as he picked up the slightly boiling teapot from the clay stove and poured tea for the two.

"If only I had such a place, my master hated me for sleeping and snoring, and his cave didn't let me live in it, so he got me a small house next to it and let me sleep there every day."

"That's not bad, Brother Lu, the caves of the predecessors are all built in good places, and it is good for you to live there for cultivation."

The three of them were chatting, and two little girls came in the air, and when they approached the top of Zhuliao, they heard a little girl laughing: "You two guys arrived early, I thought Sister Yan and I would arrive first." ”

It was Tang Ping who spoke, and she also went out after saying hello to Na Ruoyu in the morning, and went to Qixia Mountain to find Yan Xuan first, and then the two of them came all the way to Mu Xiufeng.

"Sister Tang, Sister Yan, haha, now we're together again."

"Brother Lu, Brother Li, Brother Qian." After Yan Xuan fell to the ground, he greeted several people.

"Come, come and sit down, and try my newly gotten spiritual tea first." Li Jian got up and greeted the second daughter.

After a few people sat around the stone table and tasted the tea, Tang Ping ate a fruit and looked at Qian Chao and said, "Say, you suggested that a few of us gather here first, saying that it is convenient for Brother Li to speak here, and now that there are all the people, what can I say?" ”

After Tang Ping finished speaking, several people looked at Qian Chao.

Qian Chao smiled and said, "Before we start talking, let's take out the spirit sword we got from the master. ”

Lu Pingchuan listened and said: "I don't have it, the body cultivation of the Houtu Temple does not use spiritual weapons. ”

"Hmm" Qian Chao nodded, then looked at the others.

Although Tang Ping, Li Jian and Yan Xuan didn't quite understand what Qian Chao meant, they each took out their spirit swords and put them on the stone table.

Qian Chao took it in his hand and looked at it one by one with the blue eye technique, and sure enough, they were all the most ordinary three-rune spirit swords, so he took out three spirit swords from the storage bag and distributed them to the three of them.

The three of them took the sword given by Qian Chao and pulled it out, but of course they couldn't see any clues.

"What's so good about your sword?" Tang Ping took her own one and looked at it and asked, "What's better than my original one?" ”

"Come" Qian Chao said and took the sword from Tang Ping's hand, and picked up Tang Ping's original three-rune spirit sword from the stone table, and didn't use the Imperial Technique, he held a spirit sword in each hand, and as soon as he used force, the two swords slashed each other together.

With a "ding" sound, one sword in Qian Chao's hand was intact, the other sword had been cut off, and the broken sword body fell to the ground with a "dang long".

Qian Chao handed the sword in his hand to Tang Ping again and said, "Yao, do you see it?" ”

Tang Ping took the sword in his hand and looked at it carefully, and saw that the blade of the spirit sword was unharmed, and couldn't help but ask in surprise: "Is this ...... Did you refine it? ”

"Yes" Qian Chao nodded, then bent down to pick up the severed sword and put it on the stone table.

"No wonder, last time you went to look for me, I didn't believe that you entered the inner door with me, saying that you were able to wear that little sign of the Nine Xuancheng Instrument Hall in just a few months, it's not easy, Qian boy."

Yan Xuan and Li Jian also loved the sharpness of the spirit sword in their hands when they saw it, but Yan Xuan was a little distressed when he saw that Qian Chao casually cut off a spirit sword, even if the sword was not good, it shouldn't be ruined like this, it's a pity.

Li Jian is a person who loves swords, and he has the same mind.

Qian Chao saw it, so he put the broken sword and the remaining two three-rune spirit swords together and said: "Don't feel pity, no matter how broken it is, I will take these three swords back and refine them again, and they can be as sharp as the spirit swords in your hands." ”

Li Jian and Yan Xuan understood when they heard this, and Li Jian said: "This alchemy technique is really wonderful. ”

Qian Chao didn't speak, took out another short knife with a sheath from the storage bag, and handed it to Lu Pingchuan.

"Brother Lu, this is yours, the last time you said that your knife was not easy to use when you peeled the skin and bones, this one must be easy to use."

"Oh?" Lu Pingchuan took it, and when he pulled it out, he only felt that the short knife was cold and shining, and it was a human skin.

"Be careful," Qian Chao hurriedly said, "This knife can't change size like a spirit sword, and it can't fly, but it's extremely sharp, and it's for you to use to deal with those wild things." ”

"Hey, yes, yes." Lu Pingchuan played with it in his hand for a while, and when he was about to put it away, Tang Ping felt that the short knife was fun, so he reached out and asked to go over and play with it in his hand.

"Be careful, it's sharp." Qian Chao said uneasily.

The last time Qian Chao went to find Lu Pingchuan, Lu Pingchuan inadvertently complained to Qian Chao that his knife was very difficult to use when skinning and deboning wild things, in fact, the knife he used was still brought from Lujiazhuang, and he had been using it since he was in Youming Valley, and now the knife is used to peel the skin and bone of low-level demon beasts, which is naturally not easy to use. Qian Chao remembered that after he went back in his heart, he used green copper to refine a short knife, because he did not engrave the ruyi charm on it, so he used the most green copper, more than the three four-rune spirit swords together, and the four runes were a spirit turtle rune and three wolf runes, in order to make this short knife tough and sharp.

"What else?" Tang Ping asked again after returning the short knife to Lu Pingchuan.

"Of course, there are, but these are all I tried to refine, and I want to ask you two to take a look at them for me, ah."

As he spoke, Qian Chao took out two small wooden boxes from the storage bag and put them on the stone table, pushing them to Tang Ping and Yan Xuan.

Tang Ping and Yan Xuan were curious, so they opened a wooden box by themselves, "Hairpin!" Tang Ping said after seeing the objects inside, and then took out the contents inside. Yan Xuan also took out the contents of the wooden box, and sure enough, it was a bright and small hairpin.

The hairpins of the two hairpins are like long needles, Qian Chao's thoughts are spent on the hairpin, the hairpin in Yan Xuan's hand is a small winged Vermilion bird, the bird looks forward, the wings are stretched, and the two slender legs are gradually becoming slender hairpins in the middle of the flight, and the posture is extremely expressive.

And the hairpin in Tang Ping's hand, the hairpin head is a cluster of flowers, the small flowers, the stamens and petals are all together, the flowers and leaves are still seen in the flower clusters, and the flower branches extend backwards to be the long needle-like hairpin.

The second daughter liked the shape of the hairpin in her hand very much, Tang Ping looked at it carefully for a while, and said: "It's very beautiful, is the color of your hairpin this single silver?" ”

Qian Chao said: "This is also what I am worried about, if you need other materials to make colors, but those materials are not what I can get now, this hairpin is just a trial." ”

Tang Ping pursed her lips and said, "What, do you want to be a silversmith?" ”

Qian Chao smiled but did not answer.

Yan Xuan looked at the hairpin in his hand and asked, "Brother Qian, is there any other use for your hairpin?" ”

Qian Chao nodded, took the hairpin in her hand from Tang Ping's hand, and urged it with the imperial technique, and saw that the hairpin suddenly flew up, hovering back and forth over the five people, and the hairpin was shining with a cold needle.

"Spiritual weapons?"

Tang Ping saw it and looked at Qian Chao with curiosity.

Qian Chao nodded, this hairpin is the hairpin-shaped spirit weapon he pondered, he saw a stone the size of a wine jar next to a few people, and saw that the hairpin was cold, and it was so cold that it sank into the stone with a "ding" sound, leaving only a hairpin head exposed outside, and with another move, the hairpin came out of the stone and flew back into Qian Chao's hand.

Tang Ping took back the hairpin from Qian Chao's hand and looked at it carefully, there was no trace of wear and tear, and it was still a delicate hairpin.

"This ...... Is it the same as the method of driving the spirit sword? Tang Ping asked.

"Yes, this hairpin and the spirit sword in your hands...... Well...... It is equivalent to a grade, and I initially thought that this hairpin is usually worn on the head, who will pay attention, and when it is in danger, it may have a miraculous effect of turning the situation around. ”

Speaking of which, this hairpin was also made by Qian Chao on a whim, and it was not engraved with a wishful talisman, and it was the same size when it was refined, but it was engraved with two bird talismans, a spirit turtle talisman and a wolf run, which was really the same grade as the four-rune spirit sword in their hands. As for the style of the hairpin, Qian Chao made it according to the hairpin in his mother's jewelry box in his memory.

"You guy, always think of something weird, well, don't say it, there is still some truth, but if you make the style of this hairpin more ordinary, without these flowers and birds, no one will pay attention to it, by the way, don't you want to sell this hairpin in the Crane Tower, right?"

"You have a point, no one cares about it if it's more ordinary. Originally, when I got them, I had the idea of earning some spirit stones, but then I gave up, I'm just a little junior disciple at the first level of qi refining now, there is no need for people to pay attention to me, it's better to keep a low profile, so as not to cause trouble. ”

"What's the trouble? You can sell it yourself, and if someone else likes it, they will buy it, and if they don't like it, they will walk away! ”

Qian Chao smiled when he heard this, and told everyone about the Du Sha and Xie Zhi in his Nine Xuan Chengqi Hall a few days ago.

"I actually lost more than 20 spirit stones, that surname Du is so arrogant!" Tang Ping said after hearing this.

"Don't be afraid, Brother Qian, if he finds trouble with you, I'll beat him!" Lu Pingchuan said.

"We are still all cultivating at the first level of qi refining, and Senior Brother Du's cultivation has already crossed the small five levels, and even Senior Brother Cheng, who taught me refining, is unwilling to provoke, so we don't need to! The spirit swords I refine now are all handed over to the inner hall of Chengqitang to exchange materials, although I make a little less, but it is also safe, firstly, the person surnamed Du will not come to me for trouble, and secondly, why not compete with the senior brothers and sisters of Chengqitang. In the future, if I want to sell my spiritual weapons, it will definitely be something that those senior brothers and sisters can't refine. ”

After looking at a few partners, Qian Chao continued.

"Jiuxuan is different from your sect, even if there are more people in Shuiyun Valley and Qixia Mountain, where can there be more, Jiuxuan looks at the crowding of people, people are crowded, and people are close to each other, it is similar to Youming Valley, there are many unreasonable people who always want to take advantage of others, of course, I am a little junior disciple to be low-key and safe."

Everyone nodded.

"Well," Tang Ping said, "In the final analysis, it's still cultivation, if our cultivation is high, who will dare to trouble us if we are unreasonable." ”

"Brother Qian," Li Jian, who had been listening, frowned slightly, looked at Qian Chao with concern and said, "You refine weapons all day long, can you practice for the time?" ”

"I'm going to talk to you about this," Qian Chao said, "I majored in the "Yuan Chu Shu", the refining is used in the Imperial Technique and Fire Control Technique, after I entered the Jiuxuan, I found that this "Yuan Chu Technique" and the Imperial Technique can be used together, today I will make an appointment with everyone here, that is, Brother Tu Li is clean here, there are no outsiders, it is convenient to speak, I don't know who I said will be helpful to you, when I was refining the weapon, I had the "Yuan Chu Technique" to supplement my spiritual power, and the Imperial Technique consumed spiritual power to help me refine the weapon, so as long as I was refining the weapon, that is, I have been practicing, Everyone knows what my spiritual root looks like, but if my spiritual root is not cultivated all the time, I am afraid that the cultivation will grow more slowly. ”

Tang Ping knew Qian Chao's method, but he knew that this method was Qian Chao's originality, so if he wanted to, he should say it himself, so he kept silent after knowing it, and the same was true for Yan Xuan.

Li Jian nodded after hearing this, since Qian Chao did not delay his cultivation, he was relieved, and he kept this method in his heart.

Lu Pingchuan didn't understand, but the number of cultivation paths in physical cultivation was different from that of the other four sects, and Kang Pu looked at him from time to time, so there was no need to worry about him.

Only after Yan Xuan heard it, after a little thought, he understood the beauty of Qian Chao's method, and couldn't help but say in surprise: "There is also this method, alas, Brother Qian is still smart, I can't even think of it." I've also started alchemy now, but it's all at the last critical moment when the spiritual power is not continued, and I watched a furnace of pills being refined, and the last thing that came out was a black mess, so I could only throw it away, and I tried it a few times, only once I saw that it was going to be done, but in the end it was still a failure, which was nerve-wracking. Brother Qian, I will study this method carefully when I go back, if it can be successful, it will be of great help to my alchemy. ”

Gathering today, Yan Xuan saw that Qian Chao took out the spiritual weapons he had refined one by one and gave them to everyone, and he was already envious. She had already started alchemy under the guidance of Senior Sister Na Min many days ago, but first, her alchemy was not enough, and second, the process of alchemy was long and boring, and it took several hours to make alchemy every time. It would be great if she could bring a few pills to everyone today, so when she heard what Qian Chao said, she was very surprised, and she would definitely try it when she returned to Qixia Mountain.

But when he said this, Yan Xuan realized something again, so he said to Qian Chao again: "Don't worry, Brother Qian, the law will not be passed on to the six ears." ”

In fact, Qian Chao himself felt that this method might only help Sister Yan's alchemy, after all, some of the principles of alchemy and refining are the same.

"By the way, Sister Yan, some of the utensils I want to refine later have higher and higher requirements for fire control techniques, Qi Xia Mountain refines fire control techniques, can Sister Yan tell me how to practice this fire control technique to improve faster."

"Well, speaking of which, my fire control skills are actually average, but I can tell you everything my senior sister Min told me, and it should be of some help to you."

As he spoke, Yan Xuan explained to Qian Chao the key points of the fire control practice taught by Senior Sister Li Min on weekdays, and finally took out a book and handed it to Qian Chao.

"Although this book of "Lihuo Technique" is dedicated to alchemy, the subtleties of fire control are recorded in the book, you should take a look at it, it should help."

Qian Chao took the book and said, "Thank you, Sister Yan, I'll return it to you when I finish reading it." ”

"No, I'll go back and get a copy from the library."

After putting away the book, Qian Chao said to a few people: "I have been refining swords, and I always want to refine a better spirit sword than this,"

When he said this, Qian Chao pointed to the spirit sword given to the three of them.

"It's a pity that I always fail, but lately I always have a feeling that first, this better spirit sword seems to be about to be refined, and second, it seems that as long as I refine that sword, my cultivation can take a step forward, this ...... Is it a sign of breaking through? ”

When Qian Chao said this, several people thought about it separately.

Tang Ping was the first to say: "It seems that I also feel this way, just like wearing a few more leather robes on my body, I always want to shake it off my body to be lighter." ”

Li Jian has been feeling the same way recently, when he is practicing recently, he always feels like he has encountered a high wall when he is walking, and he is looking for a portal on that wall to pass through, as long as he breaks through this wall, his cultivation seems to be able to go further.

After listening to Qian Chao's words, Li Jian nodded and said, "Well, so do I." ”

Yan Xuan also thought about his situation carefully after hearing this, and finally said: "I don't know if it's right, I always feel that as long as I can refine a furnace of good elixir, something will happen, does this count?" ”

Lu Pingchuan said: "I don't feel anything, every day except for what my master said to practice is to eat and sleep, well, what does it feel like?" ”

"Brother Lu, your qualifications are the best among the few of us, and your breakthrough cultivation is also the easiest, where is there any bottleneck, you may already be refining qi at the second level when you wake up, you don't know it yourself, how like us, at least when you break through, it is a general feeling that you have finally squeezed out of the crowd."

This was said by Tang Ping, although it was a half-joke, but it was not unreasonable, with a qualification like Lu Pingchuan, it is really possible to complete the breakthrough when the cultivation is low.

"I feel like it's a recent thing, no more than a month at most." Li Jian said that Li Jian liked to talk to each other about his experience in cultivation with a few friends, and he also understood why Qian Chao gathered all of his people here first, and after seeing Qian Chao finish speaking, he also told everyone about how he practiced. Everyone was surprised when they heard that Li Jian used a swarm of wild bees to help him practice his sword, especially when he heard about the bee thief bird, Yan Xuan couldn't help but say, "There is still such a bird, and the sense of revenge is too strong." ”

However, Lu Pingchuan obviously didn't think about the bird, and after hearing it, he said: "Brother Li, you actually have a wild beehive here, hey, that's a good thing, where is it?" ”

Li Jian naturally knew Lu Pingchuan's thoughts, and took out a lot of bamboo tubes from the storage bag with a smile and put them on the stone table, as soon as the bamboo tubes were taken out, everyone smelled a sweet smell.

"Brother Lu, it's been prepared for a long time, ah." Li Jian said with a smile.

The bamboo tubes on the stone table were divided into two for everyone, two for each person, Lu Pingchuan's two bamboo tubes were extra-large, and when the lid on the bamboo tube was opened, the sweet fragrance was suddenly overflowing, and it was full of viscous amber wild honey.

Lu Pingchuan was immediately happy when he saw it, dipped a finger into the honey and put it in his mouth, and then called it delicious.

"Oh, this little glutton, as soon as it smells delicious, it won't be honest." Tang Ping frowned and took Xiaobai out of the spirit beast bag, scraped Xiaobai's nose, scolded the gluttonous ghost, and then splashed the residual tea in his teacup, poured some into it from the bamboo tube, dipped some of it himself, tasted it first, and let Xiaobai lick and eat it by himself.

Yan Xuan also dipped his finger in his mouth and tasted it, but seemed to be slightly disappointed, and said: "When Qixia Mountain prepared the elixir, there were a few flavors of medicine that would use honey, we have a place dedicated to beekeeping and honey, and that bee is not an ordinary bee, it can be regarded as a low-level spirit worm, Brother Li's honey, it is still a little short of medicine, but it is really delicious to eat." ”

Li Jian smiled when he heard this: "The wild bee colony in my bamboo forest seems to be an ordinary wild bee that produces honey, but that bee colony has a big guy who guards the bee colony, and its wings are about the same size as eggs, black and terrifying." These days, their natural predators have been almost driven away by me, and now there are more and more wild bee hives. ”

Speaking of this, Li Jian remembered something, and took out a small bag from his body and gave it to Lu Pingchuan, "Brother Lu, you take this, a few guys inside often come to plague the bee colony, and they can't drive it away, I have no choice but to put a heavy hand, I don't have your skills, so I have to take it first, and now it's just for you." ”

Lu Pingchuan took it and saw that there were four or five dead red bears in the storage bag, and he couldn't help but be happy, and said that he would take it to everyone when it was ready.

Wild animals in storage bags are not at risk of meat spoilage, and there is no need to worry about the bear meat going bad after a long time.

Tang Ping was curious, so she took the small bag and looked at it, and saw that there were a lot of dead bears, so she asked Li Jian, "Brother Li, are there many bears around you?" ”

Yan Xuan also wanted to see it, but when he heard that it was a dead bear inside, he dispelled the idea.

"There are still a lot of them in this mountain forest, but there are not many near my bamboo forest."

At this time, Lu Pingchuan also remembered something, so he also took out a storage bag from his body and gave it to Qian Chao.

"I don't know what can be used and what can't be used, you can pick it yourself, it's all in it anyway."

Qian Chao was very surprised when he saw it, the storage bag was full of animal skins that had been peeled off, and he couldn't help but ask very curiously: "Brother Lu, where did you fight so many animal skins, could it be that the beasts in your Houtu Ancestral Mountain have taught you to kill them all?" ”

"No, these are all hunted ...... from outside the sect"

Before he finished speaking, Tang Ping asked in surprise: "Brother Lu, can you actually leave the sect?" ”

"No, every time I go out, I have to be taken by the master, my master taught me for a while, and then wanted to see how well I practiced, so he took me out to find some wild things, he watched, let me do it. Hehe, I've worked so hard to go out often! However, Master strictly ordered me not to go out alone, but alas, I didn't think it was a big deal. ”

Tang Ping understood when she heard this, and couldn't help but envy: "Alas, in the end, it is Senior Kang, the methods of the disciples are so different." ”

After listening to this, Li Jian also admired this method, nodded and said, "Well, this method can match the movement in sword cultivation, not bad." ”

Qian Chao stared at the various skins in the bag, thinking that it was not difficult to refine a few kinds of leather armor, and the trouble was that if this skin was to be processed, it would have to be soaked in medicinal water for a period of time, and the potion still had to be prepared with several spirit grasses, but after looking at Yan Xuan who was sitting opposite, he felt that those spirit grasses should not be difficult.

So he took out a pen and paper from the storage bag, wrote the names of several spirit grasses on it, and then said to Yan Xuan: "Sister Yan, I want to use the skin that Brother Lu gave me to try to refine a few pieces of armor, but there is a lack of some spirit grass to make potions, I don't know if I can get these spirit grasses, one of each." ”

Yan Xuan took the piece of paper and looked at it, it was not a rare spirit grass, it was all ordinary and visible, although he didn't have it on himself, but it was estimated that he would be able to get it for Qian Chao in a few days, so he said: "No problem, I can give it to you in a few days." ”

Later, a few people chatted for a while, and went to Li Jian's bamboo forest to look at the mountain wall where the wild bees built their nests, and sure enough, they saw the kind of black giant bee the size of an egg that Li Jian said, Yan Xuan was frightened to the point of losing color, Tang Ping felt very excited, Lu Pingchuan drooled at the patches of bright yellow beehives, but since the honey had been eaten in his mouth, he didn't touch the hive again, and several people escaped from the bamboo forest in a hurry when the bee swarm chased them out, and looked at each other and laughed at each other after they came out.

Seeing that it was almost noon, Lu Pingchuan beckoned everyone and said that he had brought a lot of food, and several people returned to the stone table and sat down.

Lu Pingchuan had already prepared, and took them out one by one from his storage bag, grilling and cooking, and the meat was fragrant and mouth-watering for a while.

Tang Ping also took out a few jars of good wine in response to the occasion, although Tang Bonian did not personally take her to practice, but this wine-making technique Tang Old Man can be regarded as teaching this granddaughter, in Gu Won Fairy, Tang Ping also has his own small building is specially used for winemaking.

At noon, a few people ate deliciously and drank happily.

After eating, I cleaned up and drank another cup of tea, and then I got up and went to the Crane Tower.