Facts have proved that Xu Chenglin's prediction is still very accurate. In the two months that he has been in the Phantom Spirit Sect, Xu Chenglin has really not been able to get an ansheng. Not only him, but even Lin Zhiru, who was in the tempering stage, also encountered all kinds of difficulties.

Chen Luoxue has just obtained Nanming Lihuo, although there is a method to control fire, but it needs to be carefully studied for a period of time to master it. And Xu Chenglin's situation is similar, his Fire Source Spirit Sword has just arrived, and he hasn't even seen it officially. It also took him a while to become familiar with the Fire Source Spirit Sword and the Heavenly Spirit Gourd. Both of them need a while to settle down, and they don't want to be bothered by others at all. As for Lin Zhiru, well, as long as she is safe and happy.

When they first arrived at the Phantom Spirit Sect, Xu Chenglin and Lin Zhiru were still treated as they deserved. But after Chen Luoxue's retreat, the difficult journey of the two began.

Xu Chenglin originally planned to retreat and figure out the Fire Source Spirit Sword, and by the way, he would study the jade forging skill he had obtained halfway. Therefore, some of the elixirs and spiritual materials used in cultivation need to be collected by himself. He walked out of his makeshift quarters and headed for the place where the Phantom Cult had purchased the elixir.

The Phantom Sect is a big sect, and it is rich in some alchemy and all the spiritual materials and elixirs. Xu Chenglin thought that what he needed was easy to get here, but the reality was the opposite of what he thought. Xu Chenglin had been visiting the Phantom Sect for a long time, and the things he was looking for were either bought out or not sold to him. Xu Chenglin's sense was extremely keen, and he felt full of malice. He wondered what had happened to make the Phantom Cult monks target him so much.

Xu Chenglin felt that the situation was a little strange, so he thought of meeting a few people he knew well in the Phantom Sect. The first thing he thought of was Bai Ziyue, who had been with him before, but after inquiring, he learned that Bai Ziyue had actually gone out to perform a mission in the sect. In desperation, Xu Chenglin proposed the names of Xu Feiyuan, Chen Ling and others. But he was a little disappointed with the results, because these people were in retreat. Seeing that the Phantom Spirit Sect was so secretive about the situation of several people, Xu Chenglin also roughly understood the situation of these people. Previously, Chen Luoxue told him about the purpose of the various sects to summon the Qi Condensing Cultivators to return, and Xu Chenglin instantly connected several people with this matter.

"Strange sect, you are in front of you, familiar people, you are in retreat! This reminds me of when I first entered the cultivation world! I can't collect what I need, I'll just study it after forging my jade skills!"

After a few words of self-deprecation in a depressed manner, Xu Chenglin reluctantly walked towards his residence.

Since Chen Luoxue's retreat, there have often been body forging monks from the Phantom Sect who came to Lin Zhiru for advice. In the name of it, the spells of the two sects exchanged with each other, relying on actual combat to promote the growth of combat experience. Lin Zhiru didn't think much about it, and readily agreed to the discussion. Since it is a competition, it is inevitable that there will be winners and losers. Lin Zhiru has followed Xu Chenglin for a period of time, and his subordinates have seen blood. Therefore, after some discussion, it is more to win and lose less. But what can't stand it is that the competition is going on one after another. Do one thing often, even if you like it again, sooner or later you will get bored. Lin Zhiru is like this, after more than ten days of learning from others, she finally got bored. But because the Phantom Sect monk was too much, she couldn't pull her face and refused directly.

Back at his residence, Xu Chenglin glanced at the wooden house next to him. The door to the hut was closed, and it was clear that the owner of the house was not at home.

"This girl is really slow to react, she hasn't even seen that people are deliberately delaying her cultivation!"

Shaking his head, Xu Chenglin directly entered his wooden house and closed the door casually.

The wooden house with the door closed is Lin Zhiru's residence. Considering that both of them were monks from Jiuhua Academy, the Phantom taught them to arrange two adjoining wooden houses.

After a while, there was a knock on Xu Chenglin's door. When Xu Chenglin's divine sense was released, he knew the people outside the door. He shook his head and smiled, and with a wave of his hand, the door opened.

Lin Zhiru's form appeared outside Xu Chenglin's door, her expression was a little tired at this time, and her clothes were also a little wrinkled. It looked like a big war.

"Heh, how many more fights have you had?"

Looking at Lin Zhiru's appearance, Xu Chenglin asked with a smile.

Lin Zhiru put on a helpless look, and stepped into Xu Chenglin's wooden house in three steps and two steps. Closing the door casually, Lin Zhiru pulled a chair and sat down casually, and then leaned back on the chair with a big grin.

"It's annoying! Didn't this Phantom Sect say that what they were best at was medicine and poison in the cultivation world? I've never heard of the Phantom Cult being so belligerent!"

Immediately fanning the wind with his hand, Lin Zhiru's tone was full of impatience.

"yes, I'm just wondering, why didn't anyone come to talk to me?"

Xu Chenglin smiled, but asked Lin Zhiru such a question back.

"That's because you're a Condensing Cultivator!"

Lin Zhiru didn't think about it, so she gave this answer. But after she said this, she felt that her answer was too hasty. And she vaguely felt that her answer didn't seem right.

Seeing that Lin Zhiru was thinking, Xu Chenglin didn't bother her. Being able to know thinking is a good thing, which means that you have not cultivated to be a fool. There is a misunderstanding in the cultivation world, and that is the difference between strength and strength. Strength is strength, and strength is strength. Strength in the spiritual world is mostly related to self-cultivation and physical conditions. And the so-called strength is all-encompassing. It includes not only self-cultivation and physical conditions, but also the knowledge and knowledge of monks. This brain-based thinking is part of the strength.

As the saying goes: go to the army to fight, then fight, then fight

soldiers, which besieged the city. This tells us to think first about everything, and then think about using strength to solve problems. From this, we can know that the use of brains takes precedence over the use of strength. Monks who are good at using their brains, and the spiritual world always calls them wise men. And for those monks who like to use their strength to solve problems, the cultivation world jokingly calls them iron-headed babies!

Listen to this title, one is a wise man, and the other is an iron-headed baby. As long as you are an understanding person, you should be able to understand the praise and disapproval that these two titles represent.

About the time of tea, Lin Zhiru felt that she seemed to grasp a spiritual light in her mind. She looked at Xu Chenglin and asked tentatively.

"Do they know you're not going to fight them?"

Xu Chenglin smiled and nodded in reply.

"Not too stupid!"

Lin Zhiru got Xu Chenglin's answer, and she was more sure of her thoughts in her heart. She glanced in the direction of the door, then frowned slightly.

Xu Chenglin smiled gently, raised his hand and shot out a spiritual light, laying down a soundproof barrier on the entire wooden house.

Seeing Xu Chenglin's movements, Lin Zhiru had the courage to ask.

"The Phantom Sect is deliberately sparring with me, and doesn't want me to cultivate well?"

Although Lin Zhiru's words were doubtful, Xu Chenglin knew that she had confirmed the answer.

Nodding, Xu Chenglin confirmed her answer.

"Why?"

Lin Zhiru's brows furrowed deeply, and there was both doubt and anger in her tone.

Xu Chenglin shook his head and smiled, and stretched out his hand to signal Lin Zhiru not to be angry.

"You think it's just you, I'm no better off than you here. There is obviously a force in this Phantom Sect that is dealing with us, but we don't dare to be too obvious, so we use this method of boiling frogs in warm water without us cultivating. To put it mildly, if I hadn't had their interference, these children would have been in retreat a long time ago. As for you, you may have already cultivated the secret technique in the jade slip. ”

Xu Chenglin's words not only failed to suppress Lin Zhiru's anger, but made her angry.

"No matter how you say it, the Phantom Spirit Sect is also one of the seven major sects, how could it do such a dirty thing!"

Hearing Lin Zhiru say this, Xu Chenglin smiled indifferently.

"Look at what you're talking about! I saw others in the dark, but I didn't see anything in my own house! Girl, you can see everything simply. Each sect is actually the same, one on the surface, and another on the inside. What happened to us in the Phantom Sect can only show that the forces that want to deal with us have a high status in the Phantom Sect, but they don't dare to make a heavy hand because of our sake. As for our Jiuhua Academy, it is actually only half a catty and eight taels. ”

When Lin Zhiru heard this, her face became a little unsightly. She couldn't accept it, and when Xu Chenglin complained about other sects, he didn't forget to hack his own sect. She was just about to open her mouth to make some rebuttals, but Xu Chenglin waved his hand at her and stopped what she wanted to say.

"I know you want to contradict me, but you might as well listen to me tell you something. ”

So, Xu Chenglin was not in a hurry, and he encountered some dirty things in the sect before and after participating in the Shuangshi Martial Arts, and told Lin Zhiru about it 1510.

"How so?"

After listening to Xu Chenglin's experience, Lin Zhiru kept repeating this sentence. She was a little incredulous, she thought that Jiuhua Academy, which was harmonious and beautiful, secretly had such a thing. As if the worldview had collapsed, Lin Zhiru shook her head again and again.

Xu Chenglin didn't say anything when he saw this, some things are difficult to accept for the time being, but after accepting them, he will grow. And Lin Zhiru is now out of this kind of growth. After a long while, Lin Zhiru sighed deeply. Seeing her like this, Xu Chenglin knew that Lin Zhiru had accepted the reality.

Raising his head to look at Xu Chenglin, Lin Zhiru humbly asked.

"Brother Xu, then how should we deal with this situation?"

As soon as she finished saying this, she felt a slight vibration in the wooden house next door. Lin Zhiru didn't even need to look at it, she knew that another Qi Condensing Cultivator from the Phantom Spirit Sect had come to talk to her.

With a wry smile, Lin Zhiru's gaze at Xu Chenglin already had a hint of asking for help.

Seeing that Lin Zhiru was like a puppy begging for help, Xu Chenglin laughed happily. After laughing for a while, in Lin Zhiru's complaining gaze, he waved his hand at her and stopped laughing.

"It's actually very simple to deal with this situation, which is to respond to all changes with the same. In this case, you will stay elsewhere in my cabin. ”

Saying that, Xu Chenglin raised his hand to disperse the soundproof barrier, and a knock on the door instantly entered the wooden house.

"What about you?"

Lin Zhiru seemed to be afraid of being discovered by people outside, so she kept her voice low.

"I'm going to go out and see what's going on! As for your cabin, it's now owned by someone else. ”

Putting down this sentence, Xu Chenglin pushed the door and walked out of the wooden house. Closing the door casually, Xu Chenglin looked at the cultivator in front of the wooden house next door.

When the calcining monk saw Xu Chenglin, he shuddered violently. He seemed to know Xu Chenglin, and hurriedly bowed and left. Xu Chenglin didn't stop this person from leaving, but just sneered at his back.

"I Xu Chenglin thinks that he is already very kind, but he knows that people are good at being bullied and horses are good at being ridden. I don't think I've offended anyone, but there are always people who make things difficult for me. I'm going to see who is trying to deal with me. ”

Xu Chenglin muttered as he left his residence. Just after he muttered a few words

, but there was a rhetorical question to himself.

"Who did the phantom teach me that I really don't have sin?"

After this rhetorical question, Xu Chenglin thought carefully.

"There is only one person in the Phantom Sect who has a grudge against him and has offended to death, and that is Bai Haoming. That's right! Combined with his performance along the way, it is only possible that this guy is a troublemaker. Luo Xue said that the Bai family had a certain status in the Phantom Sect. If they do this to me, it makes sense. ”

Xu Chenglin already had this guess in his heart, but the guess was just a guess, just a possibility. The so-called paper is shallow in the end, and I never know that I have to do it. If you want to know the truth of the matter, you need to verify it yourself.

"You're going to get me in trouble!"

While saying this, Xu Chenglin had already quietly released his divine sense. He wanted to make sure if he had been noticed when he walked out of the apartment.

Xu Chenglin went out before, and he didn't think much about it. After all, it is normal for a cultivator of an outer sect to walk in the Phantom Sect and receive the attention of others. But time has passed, and there are many monks in the Phantom Sect who know him, and it is worth thinking about if anyone pays attention to him.

Divine Sense, Xu Chenglin didn't find anything. But after he took a closer look, he found clues. Two pedestrians, one fat and one thin, who seemed to be on the same road with him, were following him quietly. At first, Xu Chenglin didn't pay attention to them, because they just looked at Xu Chenglin from time to time, and the rest of their performance was normal. But later Xu Chenglin found that the path taken by these two people was strange. The two of them walked all the way, and the places they walked were all places that were convenient for concealment.

"Okay! These two people are really powerful, if it weren't for my repeated observations, I really wouldn't have seen that there was something wrong with them. Always trying to hide himself, such a guy is either a thief or a killer if he is placed in the world. There is no other reason, only professional habits! In the cultivation world, these guys should be monks who are good at hiding and tracking traces!"

After discovering the clue, Xu Chenglin continued to walk forward. The further he went, the more he noticed the strangeness of the two monks. Xu Chenglin decided to start with the two of them and gradually uncover the truth.

Thinking so in his heart, Xu Chenglin had already made a decision. Looking at the place where the Phantom Sect traded spiritual materials and elixirs, Xu Chenglin walked there quickly.

When the two monks who were following him noticed this, the fat man immediately left and rushed to the trading office before him. Xu Chenglin found out about this situation, not only did he not get angry, but the corners of his mouth turned up imperceptibly.

"Go, go, I want to see who commanded you. ”

Xu Chenglin didn't leave as fast as the monk, but his divine sense didn't leave the fat monk at all. In his consciousness, he saw that the fat monk was a warning when he met someone at the trading place.

"Hey, if there are other sect monks coming to trade later, you must not agree, otherwise you will bear the consequences!"

He said the same words many times in a row. Surprisingly, everyone bought his account. Those who were warned, though displeased, did not say anything, but only nodded with heavy faces.

"Could it be that all these people in the trading office are familiar with this fat man?"

Thinking so in his heart, Xu Chenglin saw that the situation was really as he thought. Some of the monks in the trading office did not have a good face for the fat monk, but many more of them nodded to him kindly.

As it turns out, face doesn't work all the time. In other words, there will be thorns everywhere. The fat monk who had left earlier shook the trading place for a while, and finally hit a wall.

"Trouble this junior brother, if there are other sect monks who come to trade later, you must not agree, otherwise you will bear the consequences!"

The front is a kind word, and the back is a threatening word.

The short-haired young man who heard these words immediately frowned. He looked up at the man who was speaking, and his face was very displeased.

Just when the fat man thought that the young man would agree to do the same as the previous ones, the young man's next answer was unexpected for him.

"I don't know what you're talking about, hurry up!"

Raising his eyes to look at the young man in front of him, the fat monk suddenly laughed arrogantly.

"The short-haired prickly head seems to be not just a thorn, but also a stunned young man. I see that you are a monk who has just set up a stall here, otherwise how would you not know me. Boy, do you know that offending me means offending the Zhao family behind me. By the way, this command is also entrusted by the Bai family. ”

Looking at the arrogant watch of the fat monk, the short-haired young man wanted to punch him hard. But after thinking about it for a while, I didn't dare to do it. Not only that, but he nodded very unwillingly in response to the previous request. The Zhao family and the Bai family are not something that anyone can offend in the Phantom Spirit Sect. At least this short-haired young man can't afford to offend these two families.

The fat monk smiled triumphantly, and then took a step that he did not recognize, and walked towards the next place in the trading place. At this time, Xu Chenglin, who was in the distance, was already frowning.

"The Zhao family and the Bai family? I still know what's going on with this Bai family, but what's going on with this Zhao family? When did I offend them?"

Thinking so in his heart, Xu Chenglin fell into thought. He carefully recalled the few times he had contact with the Phantom Cult, but he had not found any time to sin against them.

"Wait! When I was in Middle-earth, there seemed to be a Phantom Sect monk named Zhao Ming. And according to this guy, a series of things were found out. Could it be ......"

Xu Chenglin felt as if he had found the answer.