Volume 5: The First Song One Hundred and Seventy-Six: Chu Yuan's Past (I)

Regarding the punishment, Qian Chao heard that this person passed through the "Sword Armor Examination School" in the inner hall of the Chengqi Hall more than 30 years ago, although he did not pass in the previous rumors, but what Qian Chao heard from the inner hall was completely different, the punishment was passed at that time, but soon after he became a disciple of the inner hall, he was arrested by the sect because of the revelation of refining evil weapons, and at the same time, the inner hall of the Chengqi Hall removed his name, and so far the criminal let has neither been caught nor escaped from the territory of the Five Spirits Sect to the outside, Just outside, it's as vague and hard to find as a ghost.

And Chu Yuan told Qian Chao more, after all, Chu Yuan actually entered the Five Spirits Sect earlier than the time when the torture was allowed, and he had heard and experienced some things about the punishment in the past. Since they had made up their minds to cooperate with Qian Chao, they also swore in public in order to gain each other's trust, so Chu Yuan told everything he knew about the punishment.

In fact, what Qian Chao knew about Xing Rang participating in the sword and armor examination school in the inner hall of the Chengqi Hall was the second time, as early as nearly a year ago, Xing Rang had handed over his own sword and armor to the inner hall with the cultivation of the third layer of qi refining, and that time was the real failure.

Chu Yuan also practiced in Jiuxuan after entering the Five Spirits Sect, and once wanted to learn a superb alchemy, but his talent in refining was much worse, although he had worked hard, but there was still no improvement, and he finally had to give up, but there were always a few acquaintances in Chengqitang, and it was almost a Jiazi ago, Chu Yuan didn't think that he would run for his life for the sea jade grease lamp today, so at that time he was still a little idle to inquire about the lively things around him, So I heard some things about torture.

It is said that the first sword and armor examination of the torture let the inner cousin who identified the sword armor for him was very embarrassed, and he was not allowed to pass, the sword armor refined by the torture was indeed unique, and it could be seen that this person had extraordinary talent in alchemy and had worked hard; But to let it pass, his sword armor was too rough. Among them, the roughness is relative to the desirability of his sword armor, the sword armor handed over by the torture has caused a small controversy, the brightness of this sword armor is admirable, but at the same time their flaws are incomprehensible, simply put, the upper limit of this sword armor is very high but at the same time the lower limit is very low, people have to suspect that the punishment is deliberate, there is ingenuity but the subtleties are very bad, which is not common among the disciples who refine the weapon every day in the Chengqi Hall, Almost everyone is trying to do every detail when refining weapons, on the other hand, the sword armor of Xing Rang seems to be deliberately showing off his ingenuity in alchemy to the inner hall of the Chengqi Hall in this somewhat unruly way, and even deliberately refining the sword and armor in order to set off his ingenuity, which is not taken by the Chengqi Hall.

The disciples of the inner hall of the Chengqi Hall do need to be ingenious, but what is more important than ingenuity is the dignified and delicate mind, not impetuous and impetuous.

Even if people are wooden, there is always a time when there is a flash of inspiration, even if there is only one or two flashes of inspiration in their lifetime, but the advantage of Chengqitang is that there are many people, so that the sand will be gathered into a tower, it will inevitably accumulate an immeasurable intangible wealth, so as to make the Five Spirits Sect Chengqitang famous all over the world. The reason why the Five Spirits Sect Chengqitang has a great reputation in the cultivation world is not supported by a few talented and brilliant characters, but by the accumulation of everyone who is not afraid of tediousness and boredom, and little by little, according to the unified view of the inner hall of the Chengqi Hall, it is a stunning design in alchemy, and then it is a whimsical idea, which is nothing more than stacking many or more cumbersome, boring and even boring together.

can think of it but can't do it, it is said that the eye is high and low;

I only want to think but don't want to do it, which is called good and bad work;

And showing off like Xing Rang in a different way is grandstanding!

In the end, after some controversy and discussion among several senior brothers in the inner hall, the first sword and armor examination school of the criminal envoy gave him a criticism of "unstable heart, impetuousness and frivolity", which naturally failed.

In fact, you can see the difference between the punishment and the Qian Chao from here, the punishment is the first sword armor examination school he participated in when he was refining the third layer of qi cultivation, although this seems to be not as good as Qian Chao, but it is not easy, but he failed to fail in his personality and arrogance. On the other hand, Qian Chao, when he was on the second floor of Qi refining, submitted his sword armor to the inner hall of Chengqi Hall to participate in the examination, saying that Qian Chao is stable may be a bit exaggerated, but Qian Chao's delicacy and perseverance seem to be much stronger than the punishment Rang, at least on that sword armor, Qian Chao not only presented his ingenuity, but also tried his best to do all the details to the best extent he could, which is the biggest difference from the punishment The examination school of the law, the inner hall formally and ceremoniously absorbed Qian Chao as a disciple.

The first sword and armor examination was very high-profile, and many people knew that people were speculating whether he could pass in the end, of course, the final result came, shame and ridicule were essential, as for the state of mind after the punishment knew that he had not passed the sword and armor examination, this was not something Chu Yuan could know, after all, at that time, he did not know the punishment and the punishment, and the above statements were only heard by him after a period of time.

Later, more than 20 years passed, and the punishment allowed him to participate in the second sword and armor examination school, in fact, Chu Yuan didn't know much about it, it happened more than 30 years ago, because of the matter of building the foundation, Chu Yuan was already a little anxious at that time, he seemed to hear that the punishment passed the sword and armor examination school in the inner hall of the Chengqi Hall and became a disciple of the inner hall, but this matter was far less surprising than what happened later.

Not long after Xing Rang became a disciple of the inner hall, one day, the foundation building disciples of the Nine Xuanmen Chengqi Hall of the Five Spirit Sect suddenly almost poured out, and other foundation building disciples in the sect also joined in, and the qi refining disciples searched back and forth in the vast area where they were sent by the Jingshi Yuan on weekdays, and it lasted for a long time, and later I heard that they had cleared a place called "Cold Water Pool" under the leadership of the elders in the sect, and there was no follow-up after that.

Next, Chu Yuan seemed to have heard rumors that someone was refining evil weapons, but at that time, there was another theory that was not widely available...... Someone stole a very important book from the inner hall!

Qian Chao's heart moved when he heard this, and what he heard about the punishment was: This person became a disciple of the inner hall for more than ten days, and his refining of evil weapons was revealed, and someone was seriously injured and fled back from outside the sect, saying that he was injured by an evil weapon, and then the sect traced and caught the person who used the evil weapon, and under questioning, he confessed that the evil weapon was purchased from the scattered cultivators in Ruixuan Town, and then caught the scattered cultivators who sold evil weapons in Ruixuan Town, but it was too late at that time, and the torturer was nowhere to be found, and after searching for a period of fruitless results, he gradually forgot about it.

I didn't expect to hear from Chu Yuan's mouth that there were rumors that the torturer had stolen books from the inner hall, which ...... Is it true or not?

If it is really as Chu Yuan said, it is the foundation building disciples of Chengqitang who poured out of the nest...... This seems to be a bit credible.

However, the famous "Ten Cabinet Books" in the inner hall of the Chengqi Hall can be read! Nine of the ten cabinets of books can be consulted at will, even if they are brought back to the residence, they only need to make a record with the senior brother and set a date for returning the books. If the news is true, it must not have been one of the ten cabinets of books that the torturer stole from the inner hall......

What kind of book would that be?

Moreover, if it is really a book that is not easily shown or regarded as a secret in the inner hall, its collection is hidden and there will inevitably be a means of protection, which is nothing more than a formation, and it should still be a relatively powerful formation, if there is a protection of the formation can still be stolen by the criminal, then ...... The torture must have a lot of formation attainments, otherwise he wouldn't have been able to do this at all.

That...... Where did the learning of the formation of the torture come from?

There are two main sources of Qian Chao's formation learning, one is stealing a teacher, and the other is found from outside the sect, and the reason why he can do this, Qian Chao's most important reliance is his "blue eye technique", and from Chu Yuan's description and Qian Chao's understanding of the punishment, this person also has no teacher, so where did he learn the formation learning?

Could it be that this person also has the same means as Qian Chao as the "blue eye technique"?

There have been more than 20 years between the first sword and armor examination and the second sword and armor examination, and in these more than 20 years, what kind of experience did he have in order to have the means to crack the formation of the inner hall of the Kaicheng Hall, so as to steal an extremely important classic?

What the previous dynasty wanted to know most was what was recorded in the stolen classics?

Of course, this is not what Chu Yuan can know.

After being removed from the inner hall and then searched, it took more than 20 years for Chu Yuan to get involved with the criminal concession again.

Here we have to talk about Chu Yuan again.

Chu Yuan's past has already been mentioned before, so I won't repeat it. And on the night when he promised Qian Chao to help him, Qian Chao originally planned to give him a sea cloud jade grease lamp, but Chu Yuan asked for one more, and Chu Yuan was extremely excited at that time, because he was afraid of being rejected by Qian Chao and almost to the point of collapse, and finally Qian Chao agreed to his conditions, which led to the cooperation between the two parties.

The reason why he asked Qian Chao for a lamp was naturally for a reason.

First of all, Chu Yuan is not a villain in nature, he only wants to have higher achievements through his own efforts, so as to have a better future, but unfortunately the heavens do not fulfill people's wishes, and repeated attempts to build a foundation have failed, and with the gradual exhaustion of Shouyuan, the cruel situation began to force him to do something he was unwilling to do.

Chu Yuan's situation is very similar to Luo Ying's.

Luo Ying's condition is that, his own cultivation and means can be regarded as the best choice among the disciples in the sect, his grandfather is the famous formation master of Jiuxuan, Elder Luo Ban, according to reason, Luo Ying does not have to worry about building his own foundation, but Luo Ying is unhappy because of the rejection of a senior brother named Xu Bo in the inner hall of Chengqi Hall, that Xu Bo is a foundation building monk, and Qian Chao is also familiar with it, and later in order to avoid Luo Ying's pursuit, he actually invited himself out, and found a dispatch sent to hide far away, Luo Ying was bitter in his heart. In fact, long before that Senior Brother Xu Bo sent out the sect, Luo Ying had secretly tried to build a foundation, and it was not a big problem for her to get the Tsukidan, but not being able to build the foundation after taking the Tsukidan was the real big problem.

And Luo Ying didn't take Tsukidan once and failed to build the foundation, but twice, and by the third time, she was a little weak and didn't dare to try again.

There is a very annoying rule for Qi refining monks to take Tsukidan, when they try to build a foundation for the first time, they can take a Tsukidan, as long as the Qi refining cultivation reaches the point of perfection and then has the blessing of Tsukidan, they will have the opportunity to build a foundation, and there are even very few talented characters who can build a foundation without Tsukidan. However, if the foundation is not built for the first time, when the bottleneck of the foundation is hit for the second time, two Tsukidans will be used. For ordinary disciples in the sect, one or two Tsukidans can still be made up in the sect for more than a hundred years, but the most annoying and worrying thing is that if the second foundation building fails, then the third attempt to build the foundation must be four Tsukidans, even if the four Tsukidans can be made up with gritted teeth, once the third foundation building fails, and the fourth time has to continue, it will take eight Tsukidans, that is to say, every time the foundation fails once, the number of Tsukidans to be used next time will be twice as large as the previous one. It is extremely difficult for ordinary disciples to do this, and this is also the situation that Qi refining disciples are most afraid of!

In addition to the above, there is a more important rule, that is, the interval between taking the Tsukidan twice is getting longer and longer, but it does not mean that you can't build the foundation after eating one, and then you can take two more pills to continue to build the foundation in the next day, if then almost everyone can build the foundation, it is because the interval is getting longer and longer, those who have failed to build the foundation many times will become more and more anxious, even if four or eight Tsukidan pills are enough, but before the day of taking the pill, forcibly building the foundation is almost a failure, And if the days that can be calculated to be able to take Tsukidan exceed their longevity......

It's for this reason, not to mention Chu Yuan, even Luo Ying is afraid in her heart!

Luo Ying failed twice, and Chu Yuan three times!

Luo Ying was afraid of failing again, so she asked Qian Chao to cooperate, and went to the outside of the sect to open the ruins she knew but had never been able to open, and to find the precious sea cloud jade grease lamp.

And Chu Yuan is even more afraid, he can only take the people of the Yu Nian Association to keep a close eye on Luo Ying's movements, whenever Luo Ying and a few people go out, they have to follow secretly behind, waiting for the opportunity to seize the sea cloud jade lamp, as long as Luo Ying is going to open the ruins, then they will follow all the way until the ruins are opened and then rush over to snatch them.

Everyone knows that this Mozuku Jade Lamp can only be found in this kind of ruins now, and Luo Ying's attempts to find the Mozuku Jade Lamp outside for many years have been disrupted by the people of the Yu Nian Society, so after learning Chu Yuan's identity and what he has done, he is very reluctant to stop with him.

And Chu Yuan failed to build the foundation three times, and he had to use eight Zhuji Dan to build the foundation for the fourth time, which is almost impossible for ordinary disciples who have no family background, eight Zhuji Dan, and he himself can't refine the pill, so he can only spend a lot of spirit stones to buy, as mentioned earlier, Chu Yuan is not a wicked person in nature, but he has been forced to this point, so he can only do some evil things!

Qian Chao couldn't help but sigh in his heart when he heard this, there is actually no difference between the monks in this cultivation world and the mortals in the world, no matter whether they are rich or poor, the first thing they want is peace and joy, health and longevity, followed by fine clothes and food, and their children are long. As for the monks, it is estimated that all the monks in the world, regardless of their cultivation level, are thinking about how to break through their cultivation to a higher realm, so as to obtain more powerful means and more longevity.

Chu Yuan's eight Tsukidans have already been gathered, and several of them were given to him after someone found out what happened to him.

And that person is the person Chu Yuan is fighting for a lot of sea jade grease lamp.

As soon as the Five Spirits disciples enter the sect, if they can't build a foundation, they will be here almost all their lives, and the Shou Yuan of the Qi Refining Cultivator is about one hundred and fifty years old, during this time, there will always be some things and some people that can be remembered unforgettable, such as that person is like this for Chu Yuan.

Naturally, it was a woman, and the situation was almost the same as Chu Yuan, she tried to build the foundation twice without success, and since then she has never had the mind to build the foundation, but she and Chu Yuan have met again, and there has always been an indescribable ambiguous relationship between the two, but when the two met, Chu Yuan had already begun to be anxious about the matter of building the foundation, and because of the repeated failures of the foundation and resentment, where did he have the heart to pay attention to the eyes of concern behind God. The woman originally thought that it was hopeless to build a foundation in this life, and Chu Yuan seemed to be the same, since it was impossible for the two of them to walk together and support each other in the cultivation world after building a foundation in the future, then it seemed to be a good ending to sleep together in the end. But she was willing to give up, but Chu Yuan refused, so this woman exchanged all the spirit stones she had accumulated for Tsukidan and gave them to Chu Yuan, which made Chu Yuan stunned for a long time.

Chu Yuan attaches great importance to that woman, and as early as after Qian Chao painted Chu Yuan's portrait for Ma Hu to identify, Ma Hu also became interested in Chu Yuan, and secretly inquired about some things about Chu Yuan, including that woman, and later the reason why Chu Yuan willingly followed Ma Hu to meet Qian Chao and others was because Ma Hu threatened Chu Yuan with that woman and made him obedient.

Chu Yuan had thought more than once, what would he do if he could only get a sea jade lamp after a lot of hardships?

This question is very cruel and tortureous, Chu Yuan didn't dare to think about it again after thinking about it once, and then he kept persuading himself: It's not that he doesn't have her in his heart, but that she has been working longer than himself, and he should build a foundation first, as long as he can build a foundation, then he will definitely find a sea marucinate jade lamp for her, and then the two of them can be together from then on!

But here's the point...... Will he be able to build a foundation?

The second is ...... Even if he could build a foundation, would he be able to get another Mozuku Jade Lamp before her time ran out?

That's why after he saw Tang Ping gently and skillfully and carelessly take out a mozuki jade lamp in Qian Chao's room that day, he almost broke down and begged Qian Chao to ask for more mozuki jade lamp.

When there is no hope and almost despair, in order to pursue the things that the heart is unwilling to give up, the human heart can be as cold as steel, but when it is successful or even when there is only a glimmer of hope, some people will think that they can make up for the evil things they have done or the guilt hidden deep in their hearts.

Chu Yuan is such a person, fortunately, the five people of Qian Chao also fulfilled him!