There are four factions in Yanming Sect, which are medicine, instruments, arts, and beasts, among which the medicine occupies the first place, self-contained, accounting for half of the sect, the first garden is a dividing line, the west side is all medicine schools, and the remaining three factions are equally divided into the east side.

The sect has a sect master, seven sect masters, and jointly discuss the major affairs of the sect, and the four sect masters and the sect masters are all from the medicine sect, the sect master is named Cui Qingrui (fifty-two years old), and the seven sect masters are Fu Zhe (thirty-two years old), Ma Dairan (fifty-three years old), Qu Hanrong (forty-four years old) and the female sect master Zhi Weici (forty-two years old), Hu Xincheng (thirty-five years old) of the instrument sect, Ma Guanzheng (forty-nine years old) of the Shu faction, and Wu Lanmu (thirty-two years old) of the female sect master of the beast faction.

Today, in the meeting hall of Yan Mingzong, the master of Qu Hanrong slapped the table angrily, and first said the reason, someone from the inner gate ran to the Xianyuan, and skewered more than 800 Jiaoquan rabbits with a rope into a skewer, and pretended to be the outer disciples to shout, causing the outer disciples to break into the black wood forest, causing the outer door to be seriously injured.

Qu Hanrong couldn't suppress his anger, and he always spoke straightforwardly, he glared at Wu Lanmu, the master of the Beast Sect, and said, "The outer gate is waiting for an explanation, what to do, you can say it." ”

Wu Lanmu was familiar with Qu Hanrong's temper, glanced at him, and said in a strange manner: "What is the Qu Sect Master doing looking at my legs, after so many years, are you still worried about it?" Her two jade legs were folded, looming under her robe, and her upturned right foot hooked her shoes, swaying gently.

"Wu Lanmu, you don't pretend to be stupid here!" Qu Hanrong roared.

Wu Lanmu glanced at him, turned his head and did not respond, who expected that the sect master Cui Qingrui was also looking at him, Wu Lanmu was not calm, and said suspiciously: "Sect master, what do you also see me doing?" ”

Cui Qingrui said: "Xiao Wu, Xianyuan is under your jurisdiction after all, this matter is ..... You really don't know? ”

"I don't know!" Wu Lanmu replied.

"The man was a woman." Qu Hanrong said with a black face.

Wu Lanmu raised her chin and pointed at the door master Zhi Weici, and said, "She's still a woman, how to recruit, protect the short, hiss... What do you mean, the master of the Qu Sect won't think that I did this. ”

"Hehe, who else has this ability and this habit, besides you? Who doesn't know that the petite rabbit, which of those disciples in the inner gate can catch all the rabbits in half a cup of tea? ”

Ma Guanzheng said: "Don't talk about disciples, half a cup of tea Buddha kung fu, and if you don't hurt the rabbit, ordinary elders can't do it." ”

Ma Dairan continued: "Only a first-class elder or a person at the level of a sect master has this strength, this strength alone is not enough, you have to know enough about that rabbit." ”

Wu Lanmu sighed and said, "When you two brothers sing and harmonize, don't you just want to say that I did it?" ”

Qu Hanrong slapped the table and said, "It's not who you are!" ”

"What if I did it!" Wu Lanmu slapped the table and stood up.

Fu Zhe opened his mouth and said, "All the sect masters have lowered their anger, listen to the meaning of the sect master." ”

Zhi Weici also reassured: "Yes, yes, maybe it was done by an elder, let's not be angry first, find out the person, and then discuss." ”

Qu Hanrong sat down and said angrily: "Discussion, discussion of a fart, you can see the result at a glance, and you are mixed with some wild animals and beasts all day long..."

Sect Master Cui Qingrui interrupted him sharply and said, "Okay! Don't talk anymore. ”

Wu Lanmu sat down and stared at Qu Hanrong viciously. Hu Xincheng, the master of the sect, did not make a sound, but looked at the teacup on the table.

Cui Qingrui called him and asked, "Xincheng, do you have any ideas?" ”

Hu Xincheng hadn't come back to his senses yet, Fu Zhe pushed him, only then did he react, turned back to Cui Qingrui and said, "Sect Master, the disciple of the apprentice danced a set of body techniques this morning, and I am reminiscing." "Hu Xincheng was Cui Qingrui's first apprentice, but later he transferred from the medicine school to the instrument school, and gradually grew into the sect master.

Cui Qingrui sighed, but didn't say much, he knew that his apprentice was all about cultivation, and the sect couldn't count on him for these trivial matters.

At this time, a group of disciples walked in outside the door, all of whom were the apprentices of the sect masters, and they were also the disciples of the inner gate, most of them were one master and one apprentice, and there were exceptions.

Fu Zhe did not accept apprentices, Qu Hanrong's apprentice is his son Qu Yuezhi (seventeen years old), and he is also the oldest in the latest batch of inner door nuclear disciples, Zhi Weici's disciple is the girl Runan (twelve years old), Ma Dairan's apprentice is one, it is his grandson Ma Kaiyu (eleven years old), and last year he received another one, it is Yang Youshi, who is now ten years old.

Hu Xincheng's apprentice is Gao Yang (thirteen years old), Ma Guanzheng's apprentice is his son Ma Yuhong (fifteen years old), and Wu Lanmu's disciple is the little girl Feng Yueyi (nine years old).

After seeing these young faces, the melancholy on Sect Master Cui Qingrui's face was swept away, and he said with a smile: "These juniors, they are much stronger than we were back then. ”

Ma Dairan answered: "That's natural, the nuclear department where the two of us entered together back then, do you remember that?" ”

"Which one?"

"You stole the clothes of the man who was beaten..."

Cui Qingrui immediately coughed and said hurriedly: "Why don't you mention the old thing, old horse, let's look forward." ”

Ma Dairan smiled maliciously, and then beckoned the disciples to come over and ask them about their current cultivation results.

Fifteen-year-old Ma Yuhong has the highest realm, he is already practicing qi in the sixth stage, and practicing qi is different from the sevenfold stage of condensing qi, it has a nine-stage realm, and Ma Yuhong has been deliberately not continuing to break through, which is also what all disciples who have reached the fifth stage of qi practice often do. And the quality of the foundation building also affects the level of the future cultivation path.

followed by the eleven-year-old Ma Kaiyu, although he is young, he is the fifth stage of Qi training, and he is the absolute leader among the juniors.

The other is the thirteen-year-old Gao Yang, who was born in poverty, and is also the only disciple who has no background and has not presented any treasures, and has been selected to enter the nuclear department, and the realm is also the fifth stage of Qi training.

The second is the twelve-year-old Runan, who practices the fourth stage of qi, and is highly expected by his master Zhi Weici.

And the two little girls, nine-year-old Feng Yueyi and ten-year-old Yang Youshi, are both practicing qi.

Ma Dairan often praised Yang Youshi's extraordinary qualifications in front of people, although he was young, he was familiar with thousands of herbs and their effects, and he had a great talent for medicine.

Qu Hanrong's current expression is the same as before, he seems to be sitting still, his eyes dodge and can't wait to get into the cracks, it turns out that his seventeen-year-old son Qu Yuezhi is the oldest, but his cultivation qualifications are the worst, and now he is only practicing the third stage of qi, only a little stronger than the two little girls, which is also the only thing he can't raise his head in the sect.

Wu Lanmu added fuel to the fire, grabbed Feng Yueyi's little hand and said, "Yueyi, you have to practice seriously, you are at the bottom now, you are still two paragraphs away from the front." ”

Qu Hanrong blushed angrily, glared at his son with hatred, Qu Yuezhi also felt ashamed, stood at the end with his head down, and didn't say a word.

Cui Qingrui said: "Children, let you come, there is a task to give, three hundred miles away, there is a mountain lake, there is a pavilion on the lake, called 'acquaintance', you take the good things that your respective masters gave you, set off later, and strive to rush there the day after tomorrow, meet the core disciples of other sects, talk more, do more things, and make more friends." ”

This is a special activity that all the sects on this continent have tacitly acquiesced in, and the core disciples of the new generation are destined to be the leaders of the various sects in the future, so it is necessary for them to get to know each other early, and many hundred-year-old grudges are often turned over under the meeting of the new generation.

sent the disciples away, and the masters of the sect began to quarrel about the matter of Xianyuan again, Qu Hanrong lost face on his son, and always wanted to find a place here, so he had to put Wu Lanmu on the judgment table. Wu Lanmu didn't bother to deal with Qu Hanrong in the end, only said hello to the sect master, and then walked out of the door, Fu Zhe followed and stopped her.

"Sister Mu, you wait."

"Don't come to me, this Yan Mingzong is simply called Medicine Sect! You guys are so powerful, black is black, white is white! ”

"Sister Mu, this matter..."

Before he could finish speaking, Wu Lanmu interrupted him and said: "What did I do, who else but me, the woman and the master of the door also have a perverted hobby, yes, it's me, is this looking for me to discuss things?" This is to judge me! ”

"I don't mean that," Fu Zhe said, "I know that you are not the one who can do this, you spend your days with the beast as your companion, but you treat the beast sincerely, how can such kindness harm the outer disciples." ”

"You're so good at saying that, why didn't you just say it! Just me and the four quarreled back and forth, the sect master didn't talk, Hu Xincheng ignored it, the two old men of the Ma family almost pointed at my nose and scolded as soon as they sang and harmonized, you are now here to pose as a good person! ”

"I ......," Fu Zhe was puzzled, "You know, I... I can't speak, I'll help you clarify the matter, you don't care, go back and rest. ”

Wu Lanmu snorted, left angrily, turned around and said angrily: "If you can't hold it up, don't hold it up, I'm not without your place here!" With that, he left without looking back.

Walking back to the council hall gloomily, the quarrel had stopped, Ma Dairan touched the teacup and said, "This Nizi, he... I said a long time ago, don't let her come up, her temperament is a success? Look, if you cause this little trouble today, tomorrow will be a big disaster. Then he stood up and said, "My child still has to practice, so I won't participate in it, so you can do whatever you want." ”

As soon as he left, Ma Guanzheng also left, Hu Xincheng was still immersed in his own world, Zhi Weici said: "Sect Master, it's better to follow that set, give out more benefits, and deal with the past in a low-key manner." ”

Cui Qingrui nodded, and Zhi Weici said again: "But after that, ......"

Cui Qingrui frowned and said, "Without sufficient evidence, you can't take the liberty of blaming Lan Mu." ”

Qu Hanran said angrily: "What more evidence do you need, sect master, who else can there be besides her." ”

Fu Zhe said at this time: "Sect Master, I am willing to investigate this matter thoroughly, and within three days, I will find out the truth." ”

"No need" Unexpectedly, Cui Qingrui directly refused, and said, "This matter, just solve it according to what the master of Zhimen said, you all go back, Fuzhe, you stay." ”

The rest of the sect masters all got up and left, Qu Hanrong was very dissatisfied, he stopped for a long time before leaving, there were only two people left in the hall, Fu Zhe couldn't help but ask: "Sect Master, why don't you let me check?" ”

But Cui Qingrui asked about another thing and said, "It's been a year, is there any news?" ”

Fu Zhe was stunned, looked out of the door vigilantly, and replied: "No, I also went to the Dust Movement Sect to investigate, but there is no news of him." ”

Cui Qingrui pointed his finger on the table, recalling one possibility after another in his mind, and wondered: "Where will this guy go?" ”

"I know my master's temperament best, although he is greedy, he can distinguish priorities, it is impossible for him to defect, he should be imprisoned or assassinated."

Cui Qingrui shook his head and said: "Your master Bai Zhu is from a humble background, and he can be the master of the sect, mostly relying on his own hard work and cultivation, it is not so easy to kill him and arrest him, at least, we should be aware of it." ”

"Indeed, my master is in the Jindan period, and killing him will at least take the Jindan stage, and it is impossible for us not to be aware of that kind of existence."

Bai Zhu was originally the master of the Yanming Sect, he went out a year ago, and he has not returned yet, and his apprentice Fu Zhe knows why Bai Zhu went. Xu was poor and afraid when he was young, Bai Zhu was greedy for gold and silver, and for many years he took advantage of the contradictions between the fourteen cities and the barbarians in the back of the Ling, assisted the barbarians to enter the city again and again, and then pretended to help, so as to loot money in the city.

Fu Zhe is a person with a good heart, although he studied under Baizhu, but he is never the same as the dirt, he has prevented this matter many times, six years ago Baizhu East Window incident, Cui Qingrui drank and ordered to seal for seven years not to go out of the sect, a year ago to stay until Cui Qingrui went out of the sect to do business, Baizhu sneaked out again, planning to repeat the old tricks, but disappeared for a whole year, and there is no news until now.

No one knew that Bai Zhu was dead, and he was killed by Sun Zikai, who was only twelve years old at the time, with a punch, and there was not even a scum left.

After being silent for a moment, Cui Qingrui said, "Don't track down the matter of Xianyuan, so as not to be unfavorable to Lan Mu." ”

"You think it's her, too?"

"I can't say, but it's probably her."

"I don't believe it."

"I can't believe you." Cui Qingrui sensed the outside of the lower door and made sure that there was no one within fifty zhang, "Why did I carry you and Lan Mu up?" He looked at Fuzhe meaningfully.

Fu Zhe said in a low voice: "In order to compete with the Ma family..."

Hush... Cui Qingrui shook his hand, then nodded to the table, and said: "Stand firm, boy, some people want the two of you to go down, you should also accept apprentices, otherwise, twenty years later, Yan Mingzong will really be surnamed Ma." ”

Fu Zhe said: "They occupy all the top resources of the medicine sect, and with the blessing of the treasure medicine, they have cultivated one so-called 'genius', who can compare? It's better for the sect master to personally accept the disciples and use the sect's resources to cultivate newcomers. ”

"If I do this, it will really tear my face, it's not easy to clean up, you explore more underneath, and don't let go of the outer door cultivator, maybe you can meet a genius."

"There are so many geniuses in this world, hey..."

It is said that Sun Zikai led Jiang Yujin into the cultivation room, and according to the process, he wrote a list one after another, grinding and chirping for two hours, and finally obtained a set of clothes and a brand, which is regarded as joining the cultivation office and becoming a formal disciple.

But the way of survival in the cultivation place made the two of them unexpected, there are no idlers here, all that can be provided to you is a place to live, food, drink, life and cultivation needs, you need to earn it yourself, how to earn it?

There are two clear paths, one is to accept the task of cultivation, very few are completed in the sect, most of them are outside the sect, and once they go out, nine times out of ten, their lives are in danger, and they will be rewarded accordingly if the task is completed. The second is to take on the work within the sect, and you can get rewards by completing the set tasks every day, such as the disciples who clean the ancestral garden and the disciples who watch the gate, and this kind of work, stable and safe, is what the disciples of the cultivation department want to grab.

Returns and rewards are mostly money, or they may be things, relying on this to replace the needs of life, and the outer disciple's practice is not like the inner door, the inner door is generally an elder who is in charge of multiple disciples, the disciple concentrates on practice, and the resources and methods of cultivation are easy to obtain, but if the outer disciple wants to find the elder's guidance, it is even more difficult, not only to please the elder, but also to be ready to be abandoned by the elder at any time.

The inner and outer disciples need to practice the law, are in the west side of the Yan Ming Sect in the central building "Manqian Building", this building has a total of ten floors, displaying tens of thousands of practice methods, all disciples have to rely on the task to exchange for the opportunity to choose the law, and the inner disciples have three opportunities to choose free of charge every year, but only limited to the seventh floor and below, the upper three layers only the core disciples can read for free, and the rest of the disciples also need to rely on the income to replace.

A disciple of the cultivation led the two to their residence, and they did not speak along the way, until they came to a remote house in the middle of the ancestral garden, this room is not small, and it is a courtyard courtyard when you push the door in, the courtyard is very large, and the furniture is simple, but it is complete.

This courtyard should be cleaned regularly, and it is lonely, the west side is close to the first garden, the southeast and north are full of weeds, the north is a hillside, the house is at the bottom of the slope, if it rains, the mud flow flows down the slope, the consequences are unimaginable, Sun Zikai deliberately turned to the back, sure enough, the wall behind the house is covered with mud, and there are many cracks.

He also sensed that in the Ancestral Garden, where he couldn't see his fingers, a lot of vitality and energy were hidden in the fierce intent, and he knew in his heart that the disciples who brought them here were also completing the task, and this arduous task was to send out this house that no one dared to live in. The nearest sect complex here is two hundred zhang away, and it is difficult to eat.

The disciple pretended to be calm on the surface, and said: "Like other residences, they only give you a free place to live for a month, and after a month, you will have to spend money to pay rent, of course, you can also buy it out from the sect, and you have to earn the money yourself, don't look at the bias here, you can get cheap, others are giving a bed, this is a courtyard, you can also dispose of these places outside at will, the place is big, and the rent is indeed expensive, 1,500 wen per month." ”

Sun Zikai thought to himself, one penny is one hundred and fifty wen, ten yuan is one tael of silver, this broken yard that no one wants actually costs one tael a month, he almost screamed, a gatekeeper's wine money for a year is not more than one penny.

"Don't!" Sun Zikai frowned.

The disciple's eyes were obviously panicked, and he said hurriedly: "Although the price is expensive, but I can't bear it, no one has bothered me yet, the elders can say, within fifty zhang on the north, south and east sides, you can dispose of it at will, such a good thing, how can anyone else have it." ”

"It's not a little quiet here at night, the house leaks on rainy days, even if you buy wine and rice, no one will send it here."

"You...... How do you know... Hey, let's go, I'll take you back. ”

"I can do it if I want." Sun Zikai said.

"Really?" The disciple came to the spirit, but when he saw Sun Zikai's evil face, he also figured it out, and asked, "Say, what are the conditions, as long as you live." ”

"You tell me first, what's going on with this house, what can you get out of it, don't lie, I'll find out sooner or later."

The disciple said bitterly: "This was built by the Beast Sect in order to study the high-level beasts in the Ancestral Garden, and later returned to the current Beast Sect Master Wu Lanmu, she didn't have to live here after becoming the master, but she was reluctant to tear it down, so she gave it a task to rent and sell it, relying on the Ancestral Garden, at night and the devil knocking on the door, it was so remote, who dared to live, but the adult still sold it so expensive, but the reward after the task was completed is really good, it is not easy for our outer disciples to see a book of cultivation methods in the Manqian Building, But the reward for this task is to give you the right to read two copies for free, so..."

"I lived." Sun Zikai said lightly.

"Really, what conditions do you have, say it!"

Jiang Yujin pulled Sun Zikai's clothes and said, "Are you sure you want to live?" There's no one around. ”

"It's good that there are no talents around, so don't worry about doing things."

"What are you going to do?" Jiang Yujin said suspiciously.

The disciple looked at Jiang Yujin with a wicked smile and said, "Okay, you two little ghosts, at such an age, you can really play." ”

"You... What do you mean? Jiang Yujin didn't understand.

The disciple urged Sun Zikai to say the conditions.

Sun Zikai thought about it for a while, and then said: "We don't even have money for dinner, you give us some money, so let's eat, that's fine." ”

"That's it?"

"That's all." Sun Zikai said indifferently.

"Brother" The disciple grabbed Sun Zikai's shoulders with both hands, "I have remembered you all my life, brother, you must hold on for a month, and pay the rent for the next month, otherwise I will fail the task." ”

While talking, he took out his money bag, took out two pieces of money, put them in Sun Zikai's hand, and walked away with a handful of snot and tears, or ran away.

The two stood at the door, and Sun Zikai said, "Should I let him pay our rent for next month?" ”

Jiang Yujin said: "He said he remembered you, but he didn't ask your name." ”

The two walked into the courtyard and closed the door, Nuoda's house and empty yard made Sun Zikai a little overwhelmed, and after a while, they walked out again, along the dirt road that was almost buried in the weeds, and walked outside to buy some wine and food.

On the way, many people were secretly watching them, because the news that the disciple had sold the house spread, and everyone was betting on how long these two people could hold out tonight.