Chapter 56: Now is not what it used to be
The holiday on the island of the lower courtyard of the Ethereal Doin is only once a year.
Every time the holiday comes, although not all students on Lower Court Island will leave, almost the vast majority of students will either go home or go out to practice during the two-month vacation.
Most of the old students are experienced or cooperate with some groups of the Federation, each taking what they need, and for those new students who are away from home for the first time, going home during the holidays is the first choice.
Now that the holiday is coming, when Wang Baole left the Spirit Furnace Cave and walked in the mountain peaks of the Dharma, what he saw in front of him were one student after another, carrying large bags and small bags, laughing and talking with each other with longing for their hometown, and stepping on the airship home.
Just like when the new students arrived, due to the danger in the federal wilderness, the Taoist Academy will take on the job of escorting and greeting students who are going home during the holidays every year, and send the students who are going home to the designated city.
"Senior, see you at the beginning of school. ”
"Leader, let's go first. ”
Before leaving, all the students who met Wang Baole greeted them warmly, and it seemed that the awe of the head of the Taoist Academy in the past had also been diluted a lot by the arrival of the holiday.
Wang Baole smiled, nodded with a smile to every student who greeted him, and his heart was also infected by the atmosphere of the departure of everyone, it seems that the Taoist Academy that has lived for a year has also lost the nostalgia of the past, and he misses Phoenix City and his parents more in his heart.
At this moment, Wang Baole also sped up his pace, and after returning to the cave to sort out his belongings, he threw them all in the storage bag bracelet, and went to buy a lot of ice spirit water.
"This ice spirit water is a specialty of the Taoist Academy, and the taste in other places is different from here, so bring some back to my mother to taste." ”
Then he contacted Zheng Liang again, spent a lot of spirit stones, bought some high-quality pills suitable for ordinary people, and after all of them were sorted out, Wang Baole walked out of the cave mansion and looked back at the residence where he had lived for a year, he took a deep breath and sealed the formation of the gate of the cave mansion, and when he turned around, his eyes showed a bright light.
"Home!" he laughed and ran down the mountain, at this moment, as if he had forgotten that he was the head of the school, but returned to the way he was a year ago, running all the way down the mountain, straight to the huge airship square on the shore of Lake Aoki.
This place is similar to the beginning of the school year, the crowd is crowded, the laughter echoes all around, the students say goodbye to each other, and they have stepped on different airships, when Wang Baole arrived, he crowded in the crowd, and immediately heard shouts not far away.
"Xueshou, here, here!" Wang Baole looked up and noticed that on the hot air balloon airship not far ahead, Liu Daobin was waving to him.
There are many familiar faces around Liu Daobin, all of whom were classmates who came from Phoenix together, among which Du Min and Little White Rabbit had already come, and after seeing Wang Baole at this moment, Du Min snorted, and Little White Rabbit had a smile on his face.
Chen Ziheng was also on the side, his face was originally normal, but after seeing Wang Baole, it became a little unnatural, obviously thinking of Wang Baole's previous damage to the martial arts department and the other party's rise in the French military department this year.
Seeing Liu Daobin and others, Wang Baole hurriedly squeezed forward, the identity of the head of the school on weekdays has not played much role now, there are too many people here, and finally Wang Baole squeezed in, after climbing the airship, he wiped the sweat on his forehead, and when he was about to take out the ice spirit water, Liu Daobin on the side had already stepped forward and handed over a bottle.
"Xueshou, I've got everything ready for you, and the gifts for my father and mother, I've also bought them all. Liu Daobin said with a smile.
Wang Baole looked at Liu Daobin, and felt more and more that the other party could do things, so he smiled and patted the other party's shoulder, took the ice spirit water and drank it.
When Du Min saw this scene, he turned his head and snorted again, obviously very unpleasant to Wang Baole's appearance.
Drinking ice spirit water, Wang Baole looked at the crowd outside the airship, and then looked up at the peak of the Wizard Department in the distance, the kind of longing for Phoenix City came to the bottom of his heart more and more, and there was another doubt in his heart, which made him always linger, that is...... Obviously missing most of the mysterious mask, where did the father get it, and whether there was another half.
He had weighed this matter for a long time, and knew that this mask was absolutely extraordinary, and once it was known to outsiders, he was afraid that it would cause unnecessary trouble to the whole family, so he restrained himself and did not transmit the sound to inquire, and planned to find the answer after going back this time.
Soon, with the vibration of the airships, the airships on the ground in this square gradually rose into the air and entered the clouds of the sky, and in the clouds, they galloped in all directions.
At this moment, the sword sun hanging high in the sky seems to be looking down on the world, watching the distant homecoming airships......
The shattered halo of the sun and the spiritual power emitted by the bronze ancient sword seemed to be a little different from the past at this moment.
This year...... It was the thirty-eighth year of the Lingyuan era.
A few days later, the airship that flew towards Phoenix City finally flew out of the cloud area and galloped in the vast sky.
As far as the eye can see, the blue sky and the endless emptiness set off the wilderness of the land, except for the occasional bird of different sizes flying over the blue satin sky.
The occasional hissing made the birds look from afar, and seemed to have some different kind of beauty, but if you looked closer, you would definitely see their bloodthirsty and murderous eyes, and the shocking flesh and blood of humans and beasts on their claws and teeth.
Here, it is now the wilderness of the Federation, full of dangers, although the fierce beast is no longer like the unified command and leader in the war back then, and has become scattered, but even if it is a fierce beast walking alone in the wilderness, the threat to people is still not small.
And because of the appearance of aura, the most and most directly changed are the countless beasts and plants.
However, for the various cities of the Federation, after all, the war back then was a human victory, so under normal circumstances, it was enough to deal with the scattered beast tides, and even in the Federation today, with the rise of ancient martial arts and cultivation, they have also begun to hunt fierce beasts.
For example, the Ethereal Daoist Academy, which is also considered a behemoth in the Federation, and the airships that escort students to go out and return are equipped with a lot of powerful spiritual treasures, and there are even strong escorts, so the danger of this voyage has been reduced too much.
At this moment, on the airship to Phoenix City, many students of the Ethereal Daoist Academy are very excited, after all, this is their second long-distance journey, and because of a year of contact, they are much more familiar with each other than when they entered the school before, so they have a lot more words to each other, and the subtlety between men and women is the same in this journey, from time to time.
There are even many people who have become pairs, and they are all muttering words such as showing affection and dying quickly on this airship, which makes many single people envious.
Wang Baole was no exception, sitting in the cabin of the airship at the moment, shaking his head and opening his mouth regretfully.
"My generation of students, to stand up, to stand up, to stand up, ”
There were a lot of students in the cabin, including Liu Daobin and others, after hearing Wang Baole's words at this moment, Du Min "cut" a sentence, the little white rabbit covered his mouth and smiled, Chen Ziheng rolled his eyelids and ignored it.
"What the head of the school said makes sense. Only Liu Daobin applauded on the side, with a teachable look on his face, not caring at all about the eyes of the people around him, he always adhered to what his father told him these days, that is...... As long as it is said by your boss, it must be all right!
As for the other students, many of them were inspectors of the Department of Law and Soldiers, and they were all nodding their heads at the moment and responding one after another.
Seeing that even if he left the Taoist Academy, he had so many supporters, Wang Baole was happy in his heart, and he was talking about it at the moment, looking at the people around him with relief and emotion in his eyes.
"We have all grown up, I still vaguely remember, when we went to school together, I was still an ignorant handsome young man, slender, sword eyebrows and starry eyes, and you are still children, innocent, pure and flawless, but now the years are not forgiving, a flash...... We're not what we used to be, right? Wang Baole put his hands behind his back, his expression was full of reminiscence, as if he was recalling the events of many years ago.
It's just that from the time everyone entered the Taoist Academy, until the current holiday, that is, a year's time, in this way, Wang Baole's old appearance immediately made everyone look at each other, even Liu Daobin paused, and his brain quickly pondered how to pick up Wang Baole's words, he felt that the words of admission seemed to be saying that Wang Baole was old, but if he didn't admit it, it didn't seem to be in line with the good words given by his father.
"This is a proposition!" At the end, Liu Daobin took a breath and felt that it was very tricky.
The little white rabbit really couldn't hold back, the smiling stomach hurt, Chen Ziheng pretended not to hear it, but Du Min endured it for a long time, and now he finally couldn't bear it anymore.
"Uncle Wang, are you expensive this year?" Du Min sneered.
"We're all different from what we used to be, Min'er, you see, your breasts are bigger. Hearing Du Min's sarcasm, Wang Baole glanced at it lightly, and his expression was even more embarrassed when he shook his head.