Sankou Huangjia Town, located in a remote township, is divided into four small villages, one large village, and the total population is only 1,000 people.

And in the center of the four small villages is a green hill, and the mountains are full of foliage, and there is no trace of them, and there is not necessarily a feasible road.

And in the place of the mountain col, there stands a "small temple", the front and back houses add up to a total of thirteen, by the left and right two corridors in series, the leaves in front of the gate cover the road, no one has been cleaned for a long time, and the plaque on the door is also leaning on the edge of the door post, because it is broken in half, it is waiting to be repaired.

Sun Zikai walked here, his brows couldn't help frowning, this Qingyi Gate was so down.

It is not difficult for him to find, the people in the village know where this Qingyi is located, it turns out that there are still apprentices here, and some young people in the village who are interested in cultivating will come here to open their minds if they can't enter the sect of the Eight Classics, but very few people will stay for two months.

"Anyone?" Sun Zikai shouted in front of the door, "Villain Sun Zikai, I want to enter the sect to learn from a teacher." ”

There was no reply for a long time, Sun Zikai obviously sensed that there were people inside, he simply pushed open the old wooden door that had been infiltrated by insects and ants, the door creaked, and he quietly stepped in.

There are also a lot of fallen leaves scattered in the yard, and the old water tank is lonely against the old stone bricks, and there are corridors on both sides, but the wood and stone are full of cracks, and there is a piece missing everywhere, and there is a desolation everywhere.

And there was a person in the corridor who was half-sleeping on a chaise longue, a young girl, younger than Sun Zikai, actually eleven years old, but too dark and thin, and looked smaller.

Sun Zikai walked up to the girl and asked in a low voice, "Are you a disciple of the Qing Sect?" Under Sun Zikai, came to ask for knowledge? ”

The girl half-opened one eye and replied, "No, I came with my grandfather to see the sick." ”

As soon as the words fell, I saw a white-headed old man appear from the corner behind the corridor, and after calling Erya, the girl jumped down lazily, supported the old man, and walked towards the door.

Sun Zikai walked along the corridor to the fourth room, the door was open, Sun Zikai knew that there was someone inside, so he pushed the door in.

But seeing an old man, who was lying on the table for a nap, he heard the movement, he slowly raised his head, glanced at Sun Zikai in confusion, and then said: "There is nothing wrong with you, your face is very good." ”

"Master, I'm not here to see a doctor, I'm here to study."

The old man was in a trance, and at this time, a man of forty-six or seventeen years old stepped into the door with two baskets of newly picked herbs.

When the man saw Sun Zikai, he didn't stop what he was doing, and scolded: "What are you doing?" ”

"I'm here to study."

"Learn what?"

"Learn the way of cultivation."

"I don't teach here, I just see a doctor. Let's go. ”

Sun Zikai didn't want to give up, and said: "I heard the name of the Qing family from a distance, and I really want to come and ask for something. ”

"You want to apprentice?" The man asked, but he didn't wait for Sun Zikai to answer, and continued: "Come back when you're forty years old." ”

"Started practicing at the age of forty? Just kidding, the disciple doesn't understand. ”

The man didn't want to talk nonsense with Sun Zikai, so he stopped talking and just lowered his head and fiddled with the herbs. And the whole temple seems to be just the two of them.

Sun Zikai took out some silver taels from his arms, but it was not much, a total of only seventy wen, and said: "Then I won't apprentice, let's visit the head office." ”

The man shook his head and said, "You can see it wherever you want, you don't need money." ”

"Really? Then I'll go and see it. Sun Zikai put away the silver again, walked back to the first courtyard, and began to carefully examine the sect.

The wood is all ordinary wood, and most of the bricks are unburned mud bricks, and there is dust everywhere, but there are still traces of cleaning.

One after another, even if he walked into the fourth room, Sun Zikai would carefully explore every corner in front of the two of them.

When the man saw this, he said, "There is nothing of value in this place. ”

"Is there a book of practice? Or a century-old bookshelf? ”

The man thought for a while, and replied: "There are indeed a lot of miscellaneous items, and there are some books, but they haven't been taken out for a long time, two hundred years ago, there was basically no one here, and those miscellaneous items are in the back four rooms, and the key is in my daughter's, you can see her in the evening." ”

Sun Zikai had no choice but to explore the first nine houses, starting from the fifth, in fact, they are all abandoned places, no one has entered for many years, and there is no furniture, but you can see the disciples of the big shop back then, on the head of the long kang, can sleep eighty or ninety people. There are also some old items, most of which are damaged.

Sun Zikai lay on a rocking chair in the first courtyard and waited until evening, and sure enough, he saw a sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl walking in the door with a food box.

The girl was very surprised to see Sun Zikai and asked, "Which one are you?" ”

"I'm here to visit, and I've heard that you have the keys to the last four rooms."

"It's me, what's so nice about this house?"

Sun Zikai replied: "I originally came to learn the way of cultivation, but the seniors here didn't teach me, so I had to find something useful to see." ”

"Hey! Are you in the wrong place, you are not from the town, eighty percent of people have been deceived, this Qing Sect could not accept apprentices two hundred years ago, it may have been teaching people to practice, but the small sect has no foundation, people are willing to run to the sect of the Eight Classics, who is willing to come to this ravine, and later, without apprentices, the people in charge of the sect relaxed the conditions for accepting apprentices, and everyone recruited them, but the apprentices ran more, and their hands and feet were not clean, and the valuable objects in the sect were stolen. ”

The girl paused for a moment, and then said: "The apprentice is gone, and those elders have also run away, and in the end, there is only the head of the family, they have sworn that they cannot abandon the sect, so they will stay here, and they will be a healer for generations, the medical skills are good, and they are cheap, and people from all over the country are willing to come here for treatment." ”

In fact, Sun Zikai sensed the aura on the old man and the man, but it was very weak, and he couldn't even reach the qi cultivation period, and he could even use the aura to participate in or refine herbs, but this was indeed much more useful than ordinary prescriptions.

Sun Zikai asked: "Then you are the descendants of the head of the family back then." ”

"No, they have long been extinct, young people can't bear the days here, we will only find those who are forty or fifty years old, willing to stay in this ravine for the rest of their lives, to inherit this work, clear a door that actually has ancestral teachings, and require future generations not to abandon this broken place."

"Are there any bookshelves left?"

"What bookshelf?"

"It's a bookshelf that has existed for hundreds of years and hasn't rotten."

"It seems that there is, I have seen it in the notebook, you come with me." The girl took Sun Zikai into the second room, took out an old box from the cabinet, opened it, took out some books, patted the dust, picked out a book, and said: "This is an object from a hundred years ago, because it was stolen too much, the steward of the year made a record of the remaining things, and then locked those objects in the last four rooms." ”

The girl flipped through the pages and said, "Look, there is, there is a broken wooden frame. ”

"One? Only one? ”

"Well, there must have been a lot of them a long time ago, they were rotten, they weren't rotten, they were still broken, oh - I saw it when I went in when I was a kid, and there was a hole missing."

"Take me to see it."

"Okay." The girl first gave the food box to her father, then took the key and took Sun Zikai to the eighth room.

As soon as the door was opened, a spicy smell rushed out, and most of the contents had been left out for too long, and most of them had rotted.

Sun Zikai secretly rolled up a gust of wind and penetrated into the house, it was already dark, and the girl held an oil lamp and walked in with Sun Zikai.

There are a lot of things inside, such as gong sticks, whetstones, half-cut wooden beds, and even hanging ropes... The girl also made a point of emphasizing that the rope really hanged people.

After looking for a while, the two of them saw the wooden frame, and sure enough, there was a piece missing. And Sun Zikai stretched out his hand and only touched it once, and the thick energy seemed to awaken something in the wooden frame.

Sun Zikai immediately sensed the energy of the various elements in the wood, which was in the same place as the patch of the Moving Dust Sect.

He saw the complete energy veins on the wooden frame, which was actually the spiritual intent that was close to the energy level after the aura was refined to an extremely high level. It's like a sealing technique, and only by opening the seal can you unlock the secret on the wooden frame. For others, it is impossible to accomplish, even at the level of the head of the big sect, because they have not reached the level of spiritual understanding, but in Sun Zikai's eyes, it is a simple technique that can be opened with just a flick.

Sun Zikai said: "I bought it. He took out the seventy pennies again.

"What's the use of this shelf, and what's worth all that money?"

"Sell it to me, is it enough."

"I'll have to ask my dad first, you wait." The girl ran out of the door, and after a while, she ran back again, with a disappointed look on her face, and said: "My father said, the sect has training, not for sale, you can only watch it here, you can't take it out." ”

"Okay, I'll stay here for one night."

The girl was a little hesitant, Sun Zikai handed over all the seventy yuan to her, and the girl was relieved, she was afraid that Sun Zikai would steal something, but all the things in this room added up, and it was not worth twenty yuan.

The girl promised to return the money to him tomorrow morning, and then went back to get the bed cover and put it in the house. As soon as the girl left, Sun Zikai immediately pulled out the wooden frame, and after sensing that there was no one around, he directly choked the core of the energy technique, and then with a slight turn, the technique was unraveled.

The wooden board began to change color, and gradually decomposed, leaking out a box, Sun Zikai was very puzzled, because just now, there was obviously wood under the wooden board, and there were no other objects, something was wrong, this was not to use the sealing technique to hide an object, but through some kind of technique, a thing was transferred out of thin air, similar to Jiang Yujin and Wen Yiru's bracelets, this should be the technique of space.

After opening the box, Sun Zikai saw an old book, he reached out to touch it, but his heart became uneasy, this was not his own mind, but was influenced by this book.

Feeling uneasy, he turned the first page and disappeared from the room in an instant.

He was standing in a ruined sect, and a plaque fell beside him, with the inscription - Fengyang Gate.