An old man of about sixty years old sat cross-legged on the stone bed, but he saw that the old man was dressed in a cyan robe, with a jade waist tag hanging from his waist, a white face and yellow beard, and a head full of silver hair, and he was meditating with his eyes closed.

And this old man is the elder in charge of the core courtyard, named Yang Ruicong.

Lu Qi found that he couldn't see through this old man's cultivation, coupled with the waist card that this old man carried, so he analyzed that this person was another Gu Elder, and a shock flashed in his heart: "I can't imagine that the steward of this core courtyard is still the identity of Gu Elder, it's really terrifying." ’

As soon as he thought of this, Lu Qi bowed down and said, "Disciple Lu Qi has seen Elder Yang. ”

Yang Ruicong didn't open his eyes, he still had a calm look on his face, and said slowly: "No courtesy, congratulations on your promotion to the core disciple, and your status will be increased several times in the future, since you have stayed in the outer gate courtyard, you must also know the treatment of this core disciple, so I won't repeat this." ”

"Disciple understands," Lu Qi said, raising his head.

Yang Ruicong said: "As a core disciple, there are a lot of cultivation resources in the future, and the academy will also take the core disciple as a key training object, from now on you have to persevere, remember not to be lazy and indulgent, because the disciples who can enter the core academy, pick out any one of them is a genius, if you don't have a sense of crisis, you will be completely eliminated, and may even be demoted." ”

Lu Qi said: "The disciple remembers the teachings of the elders, but what is demotion?"

Yang Ruicong paused and said, "It's just that you can't keep up with the pace of the disciples, and because of your age, you will eventually be eliminated, demoted to an inner disciple or an ordinary elder, this is a demotion." ”

Lu Qi nodded and said, "I know, it seems that this core disciple is still conditionally constrained, and it is not always safe." ”

A smile appeared at the corner of Yang Ruicong's mouth, he seemed to be very patient, and said slowly: "Of course, if you perform well, you may become a disciple!"

Lu Qi was shocked when he heard this, and asked, "What kind of treatment do the disciples have?"

Yang Ruicong said: "To put it bluntly, the descendant disciple is the pillar of the entire academy, and he is also the heir of the next dean, not only has great power, but can even mobilize the elders of the entire academy to work for him, and moreover, the descendant disciple has the power of life and death over the people of the entire academy!"

"So powerful?" Lu Qi was a little moved after hearing this, and asked, "Then does our academy currently have a descendant disciple?"

Yang Ruicong shook his head and said: "Not yet, after this audition, there will be a new descendant disciple, and this disciple will also inherit the next dean!"

Lu Qi said, "Thank you Elder for telling the disciple." ”

Yang Ruicong said: "You're welcome, these are the inside stories that you should know as a core disciple. ”

As he spoke, he changed his words and said: "You go to find a vacant cave mansion, and you also have to engrave your name on it to make it easier to find, and after a while, our core courtyard will have a trial mission, which requires real people above the Jindan period to participate, and someone will notify you at that time." ”

"Okay, the disciple will definitely take it to heart. After Lu Qi finished clasping his fists, he retreated.

Yang Ruicong looked at Lu Qi's back, and muttered in his mouth: "Is this son the legendary Outer Gate Courtyard Lu Qi? When I saw it today, it was really worthy of his name, so young and even reached the realm of fake babies, but the meridians were too poor, although it was said that this person was a miscellaneous vein, how could he become a spiritual vein after this old man's investigation? This kid is really a mystery, no wonder it will make Situ Hao praise it all day long, this son really can't be judged by ordinary people!"

Then, Yang Ruicong looked out of the door and sighed: "What's more, the current Xiuzhen Academy has completely changed the sky, and as soon as this Situ Lao'er left, he handed over the power to two incompatible old monsters, how should this be good? It seems that we can only hope that this successor disciple will unify the overall situation!"

After saying that, he shook his head and began to enter the state of cultivation again......

Lu Qi walked out of Yang Ruicong's cave mansion and walked directly towards the backyard, about a dozen zhang away, he found that this backyard was extremely huge, and there were many vacant caves, but the door of this cave mansion was dirty and messy, and there were cobwebs everywhere, it can be seen that no one has come to clean it here for a long time, it is estimated that these caves have been lived by previous disciples, after all, this academy has existed for thousands of years, and it has been changed countless times during this period.

Lu Qi wandered around the backyard, wandering around, carefully selecting for a while, but still did not find a suitable cave, and at this time it was already snowing heavily, and the ground soon became a white expanse, after Lu Qi ran the fire technique, as long as he walked through, all the ice and snow melted, and instantly turned into water droplets and seeped into the soil.

In the end, he found a cave in the corner of the backyard, and this cave was very small and old, and the reason why Lu Qi chose this place was completely because of the remoteness of this place, and it was also convenient to hide some of his secrets.

Lu Qi looked at this dilapidated cave mansion, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and then he directly urged the fire technique,

Resist the Ring of Fire!

Hearing a whirring sound, several flames erupted from his body, directly burning all the cobwebs and debris in front of him, and even the dust above the stone was burned into nothingness.

Next, Lu Qi walked around the cave mansion and completely cleaned up all the weeds and dirt around him, and this scorching flame was still quite effective in burning the earth, if it weren't for the original existence of this cave mansion, Lu Qi really wanted to refine the entire cave mansion and make it completely refreshing, but that would be too shocking, for fear that it would alarm some high-level elders and bring some unnecessary trouble.

In a few moments, this cave is a little more rejuvenated, even the surrounding stones and water chestnuts have been burned into a circle, and some of them have formed water droplets, which are comparable to the stalactites in the cave.

Lu Qi looked at these exquisite stones in front of him, and snickered to himself, and then he rose into the air, used his spiritual power, and carved the two big characters 'Lu Qi' on the top of the Nafu Gate, the words were crooked and twisted, very ugly, because Lu Qi was not proficient in calligraphy at all, and even reading was urged by his parents to learn some fur since he was a child, and he had no way to do it

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After all this was done, he pushed the stone door, and with a rumbling sound, the stone door slowly opened, although the stone door was extremely cumbersome, but it was completely effortless in Lu Qi's hands.

Lu Qi entered the cave and saw that the furnishings inside were still exactly the same, still stone tables, stone benches, stone beds and other things, and there was nothing else.

This sitting is a full two days, Lu Qi has not had time to practice because of helping Zhou Cong to expel the poison, and in addition to the past few days of travel, he has not had time to practice, and this time he finally took this opportunity to completely recover some physical strength and spirit.

Lu Qi found that the aura of this core disciple courtyard was actually several times richer than that of the outer gate courtyard, especially in his cave mansion, which was almost catching up with the intensity of using the spirit gathering array, which made Lu Qi quite surprised.

On this day, Lu Qi woke up from his meditation, raised his feet and walked out, it was noon, although the winter was a little cold, but the sun outside was extremely mild, shining on Lu Qi's body warmly.

Lu Qi stood in the courtyard and found that the core disciple courtyard was still deserted, and there was no figure in sight, Lu Qi felt very strange, originally he thought that after entering the core courtyard, it should be a lively scene, but he didn't expect that this place was like a ghost courtyard, and it was not allowed to find a living person to inquire about some situations.

So, Lu Qi casually found a cave house called Ren Yongzhi, and shouted inside: "My name is Lu Qi, I am not familiar with it when I first came to the courtyard, so I came here to inquire, and asked my senior brother to open the door." ”

Because the laws in the academy are strict, especially in the cave, outsiders are strictly forbidden to break in, if anyone dares to break in privately, the mansion owner can kill him on the spot without bearing any consequences, and the person who intrudes must also bear part of the responsibility, this rule has been heard of as early as when Lu Qi entered the academy, so even if he is bold, he does not dare to break into other people's caves.

After about a few breaths, an impatient voice came from inside: "If you have something, just talk outside." ”

Lu Qi said: "May I ask, do you know Huang Yong?"

That Ren Yongzhi said: "I haven't heard of it, so please go back." ”

When Lu Qi heard this, he could only clench his fists and said: "Thank you senior brother for informing me, please forgive me for the disturbance." ”

(End of chapter)