Volume 1: Izumo Sword School III. Apprenticeship

Mu Feng asked, "What is Qingfeng Hall, and where are you going?"

Ye Yan said: "There are enshrined the ancestors of the Izumo Sword Sect, and every disciple has to go there to bow down and then hold a ceremony to worship the master." ”

Mu Feng said disapprerovingly: "It's just a teacher, is it so troublesome?"

Ye Yan scratched his head and said with a smile: "Actually, it's not very troublesome, that's how I apprenticed at the beginning." ”

Mu Feng said: "Didn't your master teach you martial arts? ”

Ye Yan said with shame: "Actually, I'm stupid, Master said that he wouldn't teach me moves until my trick was opened, so I'm just practicing according to the Izumo Mind Method taught by Master now." ”

"What is a trick point?" Although I don't know what the Izumo Mind Method is, I can also think of something like a practice mantra from the name, but the name of the trick point, Mu Feng has heard of it for the first time, even in the mouth of the storyteller or in the legend, and he has never heard of it.

Ye Yan said: "The master said that cultivating the heart method can produce true qi, and when the true qi accumulates to a certain extent, it will open the acupoints, which are the source of true qi, and the more acupoints there are, the thicker the true qi will be. ”

Mu Feng said: "What kind of Izumo Mind Method, how long have you been practicing?"

Ye Yan was even more ashamed when he heard this, and said, "I have been cultivating for three years, but I feel that my trick will be opened soon, and Master will definitely be very happy at that time." ”

Mu Feng nodded and said, "I heard you call this the Medicine Garden?"

At the mention of the medicine garden, Ye Yan suddenly had a spirit and said, "Come, I'll take you to have a look." Ye Yan pulled Mu Feng and walked towards the inside of the mountain col.

It had been almost a month since Mu Feng woke up, but it was the first time he had turned around, and he found that the scenery of the col they were in was still quite good, with pines and cypresses on both sides of the gravel-paved mountain path reaching into the sky, and the strange grass and trees in the middle were lush and green. From time to time, there was a quiet birdsong in the forest, and occasionally a few unknown small beasts came out of the grass and disappeared behind the rocks in an instant.

I didn't go far, there was a burst of strange fragrance in the snort, and a big medicine garden also appeared in front, the area of the medicine garden is really not small, much larger than the front yard, and there are neat herbs everywhere, with different colors and forms, planted in different categories, the breeze blows, and the medicinal fragrance is fragrant.

Mu Feng said: "I really didn't expect that this medicine garden is so big." ”

Ye Yan said: "That's right, this is our entire Izumo Sword Sect's medicine garden, and some of the elixirs that are applied externally and taken internally are all raw materials collected from here." ”

Mu Feng asked, "You still know how to do alchemy?"

Ye Yan said shyly: "How can I, I am just responsible for guarding this medicine garden, occasionally helping to make some simple sundries, the master said that when I am successful in cultivation, if I am interested, it is not too late to learn alchemy." ”

Mu Feng said: "Oh, Luo Erxia can also do alchemy?"

Ye Yan said: "You don't know, Master is very powerful, almost all the precious pills of the Izumo Sword Sect are refined by Master. ”

Mu Feng suddenly thought of a question and said, "Luo Erxia is good at alchemy, so what about the other five heroes?"

Ye Yan said: "The hero Lu Changfeng is the head of our Izumo Sword School, the second hero is the master, the name is Yongping, the third hero Ma Tiankuo, the fourth hero Yuancheng, the fifth hero Qin Wangtian, and the sixth hero Han Muchen." Among them, Ma Sanxia is in charge of the law enforcement hall of the academy, and many disciples are afraid to see him, as well as Han Liuxia, it is said that he has a particularly bad temper, and all the female disciples recruited will worship under the Han Liuxia. ”

Mu Feng said: "Han Liuxia is a woman?"

Ye Yan said: "Of course it's a woman. ”

Mu Feng said in his heart: An old woman still has such a big temper, she must have suffered some blows when she was young.

Mu Feng said: "I've been here for so long, I haven't helped in any way, if you have any work for me to do, just ask." ”

Ye Yan said with a smile: "Actually, it's nothing, this medicine garden is mainly taken care of by the master, and it doesn't need to be taken care of, I usually just water, fertilize or something." When they are ripe, it is good to help Master pick them. ”

Mu Feng said, "Then what can I do?"

Ye Yan said with a smile: "You really can't do anything now, because you don't know these herbs, you don't know the habits of these herbs, you don't know when to water, when to fertilize, and when to pick." For example, the jade sunflower next to it is an indispensable material for making hemostatic medicine, but you can't water another drop of water from the day of flowering, otherwise it will wither immediately, so whenever it rains, you must cover it well. ”

Mu Feng's eyes widened when he heard this.

Ye Yan said with a smile: "So, you can wait for the master here with peace of mind, and just practice well after apprenticing." ”

In the blink of an eye, five or six days passed, and Mu Feng saw that Ye Yan's practice was even more boring, so he simply left the medicine garden by himself, and walked around on this mountain peak, but found that the mountain col where the medicine garden was located was a little remote, and after Mu Feng turned around for a long time, he didn't see half a figure, and he didn't know where the thousands of disciples of the Izumo Sword Sect had gone.

Finally, this morning, Mu Feng waited for Luo Erxia, and as soon as he saw Mu Feng, he shouted: "I said Luo Erxia, have you forgotten me, and you still know that there is such a person as me?"

The second hero, Luo Yongping, still relied on his expressionless face, and said, "I want to do alchemy on weekdays." ”

Mu Feng said: "Then you said you want to pass on my martial arts, when will it start?"

Luo Erxia said: "After today's apprenticeship, now follow me to Qingfeng Hall." ”

Mu Feng said: "I know that I want to go to Qingfeng Hall to worship the ancestor, if I don't go, we will worship here, this kind of thing is sincere, I will pray with all my heart to bless our Izumo Sword Sect to rule the world." ”

Luo Erxia shook his head and said, "No." After speaking, he picked up Mu Feng with his arm and ran outside. Every time Luo Erxia jumped, he was ten zhang high, dozens of zhang away, a few ups and downs, and the two disappeared between the mountains and forests.

Mu Feng was caught under Luo Erxia's armpit, only to feel the wind in his ears, flying into the sky for a while, and falling to the ground for a while, he screamed in fright. In his eyes, some places where he felt that he was about to fall to death and closed his eyes in fright, were also flat at Luo Erxia's feet. A tree branch and a mountain rock, as if just right, appeared at Luo Erxia's feet. The gray robe on Mu Feng's body was hunting, and the scene in front of him also quickly retreated, and after getting used to it for a while, he was not very afraid. Mu Feng said in his heart: Is this light work? It's really fast, if I learn this, then if I fight, if I can't beat me, I will run, who will catch up with me. And maybe I'm also a martial arts wizard, and I'll become a martial arts master in the future, so I won't walk sideways in Qixia Town? Damn, Ergouzi, he also snatched one of my steamed buns, see how I clean him up when I go back.

Just when Mu Feng wanted to get into the wrong, he suddenly felt that his feet had landed, and he looked at it, he was standing in front of a large hall, and in front of the main hall, it was an extremely wide square, around the main hall, the ancient trees were towering, the green trees were shady, and the top of the red vermilion lacquer gate was hung with a black golden silk nanmu plaque, and there were three big characters inscribed on it: Qingfeng Hall.

The door was open, Luo Erxia walked straight in, and Mu Feng hurriedly followed. In the hall, there are several tall statues, Mu Feng leaned his neck hard, but he still couldn't see the appearance of the statues clearly, but he could see that the dress in the middle was a Taoist priest, and the ones on both sides of him were dressed differently.

In front of these statues is a strip of incense, which is not stained with dust, and an incense burner, which is filled with smoke and is apparently often worshipped.

Luo Erxia knelt down on a futon in front of the incense case, kowtowed three heads respectfully, and read in his mouth: "Luo Yongping, the forty-seventh generation disciple of the Izumo Sword Sect, is not good at his work, he is ashamed of his ancestors, he is not virtuous to his disciples, and he is ashamed of Izumo. Today, worship the patriarch, pay respects, accept Mufeng as the 48th generation disciple of Izumo, teach him skills, and correct his virtue. Speaking of this, he looked back at Mu Feng and said, "Kneel." ”

Mu Feng has been infected by the solemnity of this Qingfeng Palace, coupled with Luo Yongping's words, the stubborn nature in his heart retreated for a while, and when he heard Luo Erxia's order, he pounced and knelt next to Luo Erxia respectfully.

Luo Erxia continued: "The world is long, the universe is clear, the clouds are clear, and the history is long. The ancestors of the past dynasties, the virtue is brilliant, the disciples admire, and the love is not forgotten. There are many talents, handsome and virtuous, pray for shade protection, Izumo Yongchang!" After speaking, he kowtowed three heads again, and Mu Feng also sincerely kowtowed three heads next to him, praying sincerely in his heart: "Please bless me to become a martial arts master, and from now on, the delicacies of the mountains and seas will be eaten all over the world, and the chivalrous deeds will be all over the world." ”

Luo Erxia stood up and said, "Okay, kowtow to me three times, you are my disciple." ”

"Huh? Mu Feng was a little reluctant, but when he saw Luo Erxia's expressionless face, he still kowtowed three times in a proper manner.

Luo Erxia nodded and said, "Go back." ”

Mu Fengxi said: "That, Master, I have now become a disciple of your old man, can you teach me martial arts?"

Luo Erxia said: "Let's go back and talk about it." After that, he still picked up Mu Feng as before and returned to the medicine garden.

Luo Erxia sat down on a stone bench in the courtyard, Ye Yan walked over, silently gave Luo Erxia a salute, and stood behind him.

Mu Feng also wanted to sit on the stone bench next to him, but when he saw Ye Yan's actions, he also stood aside obediently.

Luo Erxia asked, "How old are you this year, and do you still have relatives at home?"

Mu Feng replied: "I am fourteen years old this year, I have no home, no relatives, and my parents seem to have died of the plague when I was seven years old. ”

Luo Erxia asked again: "Then can you be literate?"

Mu Feng replied, "My father used to be a teacher, and I knew all the words. ”

Luo Erxia nodded and said, "That's good, from now on, you will be my second disciple Luo Yongping." ”

"Ah!" Mu Feng exclaimed, "Master, you only have two disciples, me and Ye Yan?"

Ye Yan said: "Master usually deals with herbs and pills, and he doesn't have too much energy to teach his disciples, but this is also a good thing, he can teach the two of us better." ”

Luo Erxia said to Ye Yan: "You are only half right, I am obsessed with alchemy on weekdays, plus I don't know how to teach my disciples, so there is no new disciple willing to worship under my door so far, you are what I and the senior brother in charge of the sect asked to come over, because I need someone to help me take care of the medicine garden, and Mu Feng was sent by the fifth junior brother, let me accept him as a disciple, then there must be a reason for him." ”