Due to Lu Pingchuan's proposal and invitation, several people made an appointment last time to go to Lu Pingchuan for a gathering next time.

Li Jian and Yan Xuan have never been to the Houtu Temple, Yan Xuan is fine, don't worry about Tang Ping with him. Qian Chao went to find Li Jian early, and then Li Jian and Qian Chao came to the Houtu Temple together.

Although the cave of Kang Ke seems rough, but it is also full of atmosphere, it is a whole mountain, the mountain is verdant, the steepest part of the stone wall under the mountain does not know what god blade cut straight up and down, smooth and abnormal, just dig out a city gate hole there, inside is the cave of Kang Kea.

At the entrance of the cave, there were two heavy wooden doors that I didn't know what kind of metal they were wrapped in, and I don't know how many times the wooden doors were painted with what kind of paint, and the wooden textures were glowing with purple light. Under the door is a stone staircase. A carved stone plaque above the doorway, on which only a big "Kang" character is carved in Yangwen.

There is a cupola-style stone archway in the front of the road more than 20 zhang in front of the cave door, the plaque in the middle of the archway is also carved out, and the four simple and powerful big characters on it are "thick soil loads".

Qian Chao and Li Jian knew that when they arrived at the cave of Kangpu, they didn't dare to make a mistake, so they fell from the sky far away, and walked through the archway, and Qian Chao also looked at the intricate carvings on the pillars of the archway.

There are several small buildings on both sides of the archway near the mountain wall, and Lu Pingchuan must live in one of them. As soon as the two of them passed there, Lu Pingchuan was coming out of a small building closest to the entrance of the cave, and when he saw the two, he immediately greeted them happily.

"Brother Qian, Brother Li, you came early." Lu Pingchuan greeted the two of them with a smile.

"Brother Lu, this Houtu Temple is not small, why do you have to live with your master when you disciples of the Houtu Temple live?" Li Jian asked.

"Yes, the disciples of the Houtu Sect are still different from you Mu Xiufeng, speaking of which, the disciples of the Houtu are accompanied by the master as soon as they enter the school, and for the convenience of the disciples, they are generally like me, living near the master's cave, alas, speaking of which, I snore too loudly, otherwise I can still live in my master's cave."

"Humph! It's good that you kid knows. ”

As soon as Lu Pingchuan finished speaking, Kang Pu walked out of his cave mansion, and happened to hear the apprentice's words, so he answered, Qian Chao and Li Jian saw the master who knew that it was Lu Pingchuan, and hurriedly saluted.

"Well, you guys are playing, I happen to have something to go out once today."

As he was talking, Tang Ping arrived with Yan Xuan, who knew that it was a senior, so he hurriedly saluted. Tang Ping also heard Kang Pu's words, and said, "Uncle Kang, why do you have to run away as soon as we come?" ”

"Well, I'm not afraid of others, I'm afraid of you, I'll have to take all my net worth and hide away from you when you come, haha."

"Humph! Don't look like an elder, let's go, go back and empty all the furniture in your cave for you! ”

"Hahahaha, okay, then I'll find Old Man Tang and get a new one." Then he said to Lu Pingchuan, "If I come back a few days late, my senior brother will take you out." Girl, as long as you don't set fire to the mountain, you can play here as you like. ”

After saying that, Kang Pu's body rose up and flew away at great speed.

Everyone gave a gift to the Kang Pu, and the rest of the people who said Kang Pu just now didn't care when they heard it, only Qian Chao's heart moved after hearing it.

After Kang Pu's figure disappeared, Qian Chao asked Lu Pingchuan: "Brother Lu, do you have a senior brother here?" ”

"Yes, my Senior Brother Xi is back, if something happens to the master, Senior Brother Xi will take me out. Speaking of which, I have several senior brothers, but I have only seen this senior brother Xi, and the others are still outside. ”

"That'...... Did your Senior Brother Xi take you out before? Qian Chao asked.

"I've been out, eh! Speaking of which, the last time Senior Brother Xi took me out, I encountered something funny, a few blind guys still wanted to rob me, and as a result, my senior brother taught me a lesson, by the way, this is for you, and it is also for those boys, let my senior brother take it, and he also said that this sword is good refining. Sister Yan, this spirit grass is for you, my senior brother said that this spirit grass is not bad. ”

Several people were very curious when they heard that Lu Pingchuan could still be robbed outside, especially Tang Ping, so they asked Lu Pingchuan to hurry up and listen.

Lu Pingchuan told him how he found the hidden woman Jiao outside that day, how he killed this demon beast, and how those boys wanted to rob him later.

After hearing this, Yan Xuan said, "Is there really such an hateful thing? It is also considered that they were unlucky, and they ran into Brother Lu and Senior Brother Xi. ”

Tang Ping said, "Unlucky? If they are lucky, Senior Brother Xi seems to be good-tempered, otherwise it would be a matter of two to say whether those guys can return to the sect! ”

As soon as she finished speaking, she saw Qian Chao holding back a smile and handing over the spirit sword in her hand.

"What, what's wrong with this sword?"

"Just look at it." Qian Chao said.

Tang Ping looked at Qian Chao's strange face, so he looked at the sword carefully, this sword was a little familiar, and if you looked closely, there was a seal on the sword.

"Fang Yan, this is ...... What did you refine? Is it the one that your senior brother Neitang Fang appraised in public and asked the kid surnamed Du to buy? ”

In fact, Qian Chao recognized that this sword was refined by himself at a glance, and when he saw the seal on the sword, he confirmed that it was correct, so he knew who those guys Lu Pingchuan met outside.

"That's right, this sword is the one, Du Sha found me trouble that day, and was finally bought by Senior Brother Fang after a lesson, speaking of which, this is still the first spirit sword I sold, but I didn't expect it to come back."

"Ahh That is to say, the people who are troublesome to me are the same people who are looking for money brothers, hey! I knew that I begged Senior Brother Xi to teach them a hard lesson, you don't know how arrogant those guys were at that time, and they came to rob me when I didn't have any strength, hateful! ”

"What a coincidence!" Li Jian and Yan Xuan were also surprised when they heard it, and they felt funny, after all, Na Du Sha was taught a hard lesson by Senior Brother Xi when he failed to commit the robbery.

"There is no need to teach him any more lessons, Na Dusha has now lost his momentum, the tree is falling and scattered, and several people who follow him feel that this Dusha is a mildew star, if he continues to follow him, he will only suffer hardship, and they will abandon him one by one, and now he has become a lonely man, and he is destitute, and he can't make any mess."

Tang Ping said: "This is called deserved!" ”

"Well, this sword is worth keeping, and it can be regarded as a spiritual weapon with a story."

"Hey, Brother Lu, you got so many good things that time, you have to treat you today." Tang Ping suddenly thought that the storage bags of those boys had been picked up by Lu Pingchuan, and there must be a lot of spirit stones.

"Please, please, I'll have a treat in the afternoon, let's go to the crane tower, I remember the last time Tang Meizi thought the dim sum there was very good, let's go again in the afternoon, eat enough!"

Lu Pingchuan also spent some thought in order to gather a few people here today, and he had already found a forest to arrange it. This thick earth temple is not a place like the young Ming Valley, although the mountains and forests are wide, but the ordinary pheasants and hares are not seen, they are all big guys. After estimating the amount of food for a few people, Lu Pingchuan hunted a vultures deer in the forest.

Speaking of this vultures deer is also a kind of unfinished demon beast, the vultures refer to the horns on the head of this deer, this deer is not very large, but it is born aggressive, the horns on the head are not small, like the branches on the small tree are stretched forward, the texture of the antlers is tough, is the main means of this deer to resist foreign enemies.

Qian Chao saw that the antlers were born well, symmetrical and intact, so he asked for it, and was ready to go back to add a base under the antlers and make it into an ornament to use as a shelf to place the spirit sword.

Lu Pingchuan said while skinning and removing the intestines of the dead deer: "The really aggressive vultures deer have incomplete horns on their heads, they fight with each other, and the horns on their heads are worn, this is not bad, it is still complete." ”

Tang Ping and Yan Xuan were reluctant to go around the forest to see if they could find some fruit, although Xiaobai could also fly, but it was held by Yan Xuan.

Qian Chao looked at the surrounding trees with his blue eye technique, and found that although the trees here were stout, they were all mortal trees. Seeing this, he remembered Li Jian's bamboo forest, so he took out a young bamboo from the storage bag that he took away in Li Jianlin's forest last time.

"Brother Li, look."

"This is the bamboo you took with you last time, right?" Li Jian looked at it, the young bamboo taken out by Qian Chao had lost its moisture, and the weight was much lighter, and it had gradually dried up, and the originally green bamboo branches had changed color.

"Yes, this bamboo has become like this since I took it away last time, how about the two you used?"

"It's still the same." As Li Jian spoke, he took out the two bamboo branches he used to tease the wild bees and showed them to Qian Chao.

"Well, it's been a lot longer than this one to take off your bamboo, but this one is no longer good, and your two are as fresh as they were just removed, which is strange." Qian Chao thought as he spoke, "Brother Li, do you still use this bamboo branch to fight with that bee colony every day?" ”

"Hmm," Li Jian nodded.

"I have a few ideas, and I don't know if it's right, the first is that Brother Li is a wood spirit root, maybe your wood spirit root is born with a nourishing effect on these spirit bamboo spirit wood, so the bamboo branch in your hand will not wither even if it is used for a long time. The second is that Brother Li's sword qi is often infused into your bamboo branches, maybe your sword qi has something to do with this bamboo branch to keep this bamboo branch like this. Or maybe this Purple Monarch Young Bamboo was originally a spirit bamboo, and it may not be known what changes have occurred under your sword qi. ”

Li Jian listened and looked at the bamboo branch in his hand, it was still very cool in his hand, and the green was still the same as if he had just cut it down.

"Speaking of alchemy, according to the materials, what gold and stone, leather armor, silk silk, these materials are all dead, but this wood and bamboo are different, some spirit bamboo spirit wood is still alive even when it is used, if it is simply made into a box for Sister Yan to hold the spirit grass, that is very simple, but it is difficult to make a spirit sword with spirit bamboo and spirit wood, that is even a high-level alchemy, because this material is very special, there is no senior brother in the Chengqi Hall who is good at refining wood and bamboo spirit weapons."

took a bamboo branch from Li Jian's hand, Qian Chao looked at it carefully with blue eyes, but he couldn't find any clues, and returned it to Li Jian.

"Brother Li, you can use this bamboo branch all the time, I always feel that although this bamboo has been cut down by you, it has not been dead, it is still alive, and there may be any surprises in the future."

Qian Chao said this because he had used the green eye technique several times to look at this bamboo, this Zijun young bamboo has not yet grown, it is almost solid, and the veins inside the bamboo are vertically and horizontally connected with each other, when Li Jian poured sword qi into this bamboo branch, he felt that the sword qi was following the veins in it, and those veins were intricate Qian Chao couldn't understand it, and he could only feel that it was very magical. But the young bamboo he took away, although it was almost the same as the one in Li Jian's hand, the inner context was much simpler than the one in Li Jian's hand, so he let Li Jian use it all the time, ready to take a look at it after a while.

"Hmm" Li Jian nodded again, and suddenly said, "Brother Qian, after so long, I feel that although the appearance of this bamboo has not changed, it seems to be a little heavier." ”

"That's right, that's why I said the bamboo is still alive."