Chapter XVII

The sun rises, everything revives, the tiger disappears, and the scattered animal carcasses slowly descend into the snow, and finally disappear. The land was like an invisible maw, devouring everything he wanted to devour. After a moment, everything was still the same, and there was no difference in the slightest, as if everything that had happened last night had not happened at all. If Gongsun Shanqing was here, seeing all this, he would definitely not bring Zhou Changsheng here. What kind of spiritual blessing land is there, it is clearly a trap for eating people!

After the master and apprentice left that strange place, Gongsun Shanqing saw that the sky was bright, and he hurried back to Cold Wind City. At night, the two wore masks, went in and out of the mallet nest, and no one said anything. The rules have always been like this, you can do whatever you want at night, and you have to obey the rules during the day. Anyone who enters the mountains late at night is either an outlaw who doesn't want to die, or a master who is extremely confident in his skills, and it is not surprising that these people do any strange things. What's more, the blind man Chen is not a good thing, and he will only do it if he asks for trouble. If it was broad daylight, wearing a mask, it would obviously be that there were no three hundred taels of silver here, and it would cause unnecessary trouble. What's even worse is that Gongsun Shanqing just bought a large number of jade ginseng from the princess a few days ago, if it is recognized, it will be really a big trouble.

The two of them hurried to hurry, hurried and hurried, but they were still a step too late. Approaching the mountain pass, the two hid behind a tree and secretly looked at the stockade, only to see that the originally open intersection had long been blocked by antlers and stones, and only a small opening was left for people to enter and exit. There are two people, a fat and a thin next to him, as the gatekeepers, and it seems that Chen Blind still attaches great importance to this place.

Since you can't go back secretly, you can only go back openly. Gongsun Shanqing turned around, took out a few porcelain bottles from his arms, poured out some fat powder and water, and began to apply it to Zhou Changsheng's face, and then to his own face.

In just a moment, Gongsun Shanqing changed from an old man to a black-faced man, although Zhou Changsheng was originally a little thin, but he was a simple young man, and now after the old man's smearing, he took a look in the mirror, and a man who was more feminine than a woman appeared in the mirror, so ashamed that Zhou Changsheng blushed a little, I really don't know how many messy things are in this old man's mind.

The old man took a closer look at Zhou Changsheng and said, "Well, although I have only cared about striking iron all these years, this disguised skill has not fallen at all. Don't underestimate this craft, it's all in kind, so it can be used to confuse the real with the fake, which is much stronger than those three-legged cats! Master, I relied on this method back then to mix the name of a thousand-faced god and demon on the rivers and lakes!"

Zhou Changsheng glanced at it and said in his heart: "If you don't brag, you'll die!"

When the two came to the mountain pass, Zhou Changsheng raised his eyes and looked, it was really not a family that did not get together. The two gatekeepers, the thin one is the ghost hand Chai Lao Si who was kicked away by Gongsun Shanqing at night!

Zhou Changsheng tugged at the corner of the old man's clothes and snorted at Chai Laosi. The old man patted Zhou Changsheng on the back, meaning to reassure him.

Most of the intersections are visitors entering the mountains, taking advantage of the dawn to enter the mountains early, and try to stay in the mountains for as much time as possible before dark. At this time, Zhou Changsheng's master and apprentice were the only two who wanted to go out of the mountain, and they went upstream, which was very conspicuous.

What are you afraid of, what are you coming, the ghost hand Chai Lao Si, seeing the two of them crowding everyone and wanting to go out, hurriedly shouted: "Those two people, stop for me! Stop!"

Everyone stood still, for fear of touching the mold, you must know that this lord was just taught a lesson last night, and when the rescue soldiers were moved, they would have already left without a figure. He is angry, and he is worried that there is no place to send it, no, someone is driving ducks to the shelves, and he still wants to get by, when Lao Tzu is blind!

Gongsun Shan Qingquan didn't hear it, he was still squeezing forward, and Chai Laosi on this side jumped up, and after a few flickering, he landed steadily in front of the two.

The others saw that the signs were wrong, and hurriedly dispersed, and in an instant there were only three of them left on the field.

Chai Lao said arrogantly: "What are you doing, I don't know the rules for going out of the mountain? I don't want to let you check, I must have hidden some good things on my body, and I want to take them out secretly?"

The one next to him, with a fat body and a horizontal face, heard that there was oil and water, how could he let Chai Laosi take advantage of it by himself, hurriedly squeezed over, pretended to block the front, and said: "Something, hurry!

Gongsun Shanqing knew that he couldn't avoid it, so he stretched out his hand to hug Zhou Changsheng, and said in a dumb voice: "Uncle Liang, it's the kid who is anxious, and he abruptly abruptly two of them, but the villain also has something unspeakable!" After speaking, he hugged Zhou Changsheng again, and under the light tugging, he deliberately revealed his delicate face coated with fat powder.

Jade Owl Mountain, Stick Mallet Nest, most of them are poor men, a group of old men, and no money, can't go to Chunfeng Building, Thin Horse Pavilion and other gold caves, some people can't hold back, so they beat up the weak figure around them, and the visitors with good appearance come. For our eyes and ears, there is also an exclusive name, called Xiao Xianggong.

It's just that people who have a habit of dragon yang will be looked down upon by everyone, and even deliberately make trouble for you. In the mallet nest, asking for trouble with you is almost like asking for your life! So many of the deeds are done in secret, and I don't want to or dare to put them on the surface, and they are all bloody lessons.

Gongsun Shanqing hugged him, pulled it, and showed it, expressing his meaning very euphemistically.

When the cross-faced man next to him saw it, he exhaled and left without looking back. Chai Laosi wanted to let him go, but after seeing Zhou Changsheng's pretty face, an evil fire sprung up, and he had to take him to the house to check it out.

After Zhou Changsheng heard this, he thought that the matter was exposed, and quietly held the butterfly dagger in his right hand. The first strike is strong, and the second attack will suffer!

When Gongsun Shanqing heard this, he paid it back, and when he entered the house, he was afraid that he would really show his stuffing. Seeing Zhou Changsheng secretly holding the dagger, he hurriedly pressed Zhou Changsheng's hand and signaled him not to act rashly. My apprentice doesn't know why now, but if you enter the house and have to pick up his pants, you can't fight with people!

Gongsun Shanqing hurriedly came to Chai Laosi's side again, and said in a low voice: "Uncle Chai, so many people are watching, but I can't help it." Why don't you set a time, and I'll send someone to you when the time comes, and I'll do it well. ”

After Chai Laosi heard the sentence "so many people watching", he seemed to have been poured cold water from head to tail, and suddenly woke up. Damn, I almost folded on this little minister! Thinking of the fate of his little secret being exposed, the evil fire suddenly receded, and he looked at Zhou Changsheng's fragrant dumplings, which was clearly a piece of cow dung that couldn't be shaken off! Thinking of this, Chai Laosi waved his hand with disgust and said, "Get out, don't get out of here yet!" Chai Laosi himself couldn't have imagined that he had just turned around from the ghost gate.

After hearing this, the two thanked them as if they had been pardoned, and hurriedly turned around and left.

When the two of them disappeared, Chai Laosi always felt that something was wrong. Why do you have to take the little minister to the Jade Owl Mountain, the mountain is cold and windy, and it is full of snow nests. And that familiar smell, I always feel like I've smelled it somewhere. There was a faint pain in his stomach, and Chai Laosi suddenly thought of the kick he had been kicked last night, and what he smelled today was the same as the smell of that person last night, except for an extra breath of fat powder! At this time, how could Chai Laosi not understand that he had been tricked! In addition to being angry, he thought of that person's hand, and was a little afraid.

"Could it be that in the past few days, I have been missing the incense offering of the mountain god's grandfather, which has caused me to be unlucky? It seems that I have to get some offerings to come and go!"

In Cold Wind City, on the bluestone street, the two masters, one in front of the other, walked forward silently. The sound of their footsteps echoing through the streets, and the sun crossed the city, pulling out their long shadows. There were several times on the road that Zhou Changsheng always wanted to say something to Gongsun Shanqing, but when he saw the old man's tired steps and old back, the words that came to his mouth were swallowed back into his stomach.

When they came to the blacksmith shop, the two washed up and returned to their original appearance. Gongsun Shanqing pointed to the hut, "I will choose the things myself, I am getting old and my energy is not as good as before, I will go and rest for a while" Then he turned around and walked into the bedroom and closed the door.

"Alas, I'm really old, I can't bear it after staying up all night, and I really envy myself when I was young, it's no problem to stay awake for a few days and nights. Last night, the brutes were weird. The old man muttered to himself.

When Zhou Changsheng heard that he could choose by himself, he left all his worries behind, and jumped like a deer with joy and ran to the hut next to him. The walls of the house are made of pine wood and a delicate dark yellow wooden shelf, on which are placed all sorts of strange knick-knack houses.

For example, a few dull yellow bones, a piece of green rope, a few blue-colored darts, a dark stone, a long black rope, a few small white bottles, and so on. Zhou Changsheng looked east, looked west, touched this, touched that, everything on it had a fatal attraction to him. For a while, Zhou Changsheng didn't know which one he should look at and which one to choose.

In the right corner under the shelf, Zhou Changsheng saw a worn-out scabbard lying there. Reaching out and picking it up, touching the old leather on it, there is a feeling of softness and hardness, especially tough. It's just that this scabbard is too old, and the original patterns and colors on it have almost faded because of the passage of time, leaving only the ancient atmosphere that has been left after thousands of years.

Zhou Changsheng picked up his Qinglong dagger and inserted it in, the scabbard was a little big, but it was suitable, so he tied it around his waist casually. When I looked up, I saw a small burgundy gourd, reached out and took it, hung it on my waist decently, and then took a few darts and pinned them to my waist. After a while, Zhou Changsheng's arms were stuffed full, and there were all kinds of things hanging on his body.

Originally, Zhou Changsheng wanted to take more things, but then he thought about it, anyway, these things were his own, and he had to find another place to put them after taking them, so he put his things back on the shelf, leaving only the scabbard and wine gourd, plus a few darts.

Sitting next to the shelf, Zhou Changsheng smirked unconsciously, his eyes full of little stars. Touching the shelf, he said to himself, "Hehe, it's all mine! It's all my ......."

After a while, Zhou Changsheng was really bored, began to stand on the pile, and finally completely immersed himself in it. In the evening, the old man woke up Zhou Changsheng, who was still standing on the pile.

Originally, Gongsun Shanqing also wanted to take Zhou Changsheng to that place again, after all, a good place with aura is too rare, and if you don't make the best use of it, wouldn't it be a tyrannical thing? But looking back, I always feel that things are too smooth and strange, plus all kinds of things happened yesterday and today, Gongsun Shanqing decided to be careful, after all, there is nothing wrong with being careful. What's more, now, Zhou Changsheng's qi refining has already entered the door, and he can practice slowly in the future, and if he is in a hurry, it will hurt him.

So he told Zhou Changsheng about some things to pay attention to in refining qi, you can't just focus on refining qi, and you can't leave your mind cultivation behind. Still not far from Cold Wind City, I found a place to cultivate, although it was not as good as the place in Jade Owl Mountain, it was much better than being in the city.

After more than ten days of repeating this, Zhou Changsheng successfully broke through the first layer of qi refining and reached the second layer of qi refining, but suddenly found that his qi refining had become very slow, and he no longer had the feeling of rapid improvement in qi refining strength before. It's like drinking in a large bowl, but then suddenly changing to a small cup and not filling it up. After a night of hard work and conscientious cultivation, but it was less than the original hour, and it was almost dawn that day, and Zhou Changsheng himself took the initiative to withdraw from the state of cultivation.

Zhou Changsheng, who found Gongsun Shanqing, told his feelings.

The old man closed his eyes, and after a while, he was a little confused: "Shouldn't it, although the aura here is not rich, it is not to the point where you cannot cultivate?" It stands to reason that these aura is enough for you to cultivate until the fifth and sixth layers of qi refining. However, your situation is also normal, the second layer of Qi refining itself requires much more spiritual energy than the first layer, not to mention that everyone's physique, comprehension and cultivation speed are different, this is just the beginning.

This place is like a small pothole where the aura gathers, and you will definitely get twice the result with half the effort when you cultivate here, but the water in the puddle will be consumed by you one day. After consuming, although it will still be replenished by heaven and earth, it is an extremely slow process. In fact, your current cultivation speed is normal. Since the aura here has been exhausted, there is no need to come again in the future, anyway, you are also a minor monk of the second layer of qi refining now. Go back and practice boxing well, and strive to break through the realm of skin refining as soon as possible. ”

In the evening, the old man came alone to the Jade Owl Mountain, a good place full of aura. Without the burden of Zhou Changsheng, it is much easier to act, how can a few martial artists stop a master like him. When I arrived at the place, Gongsun Shanqing said to himself: "Why do you always feel that some places here seem to have changed, and from time to time it always gives me a feeling of palpitations." Let's go, just don't come back in the future anyway. In fact, Gongsun Shanqing knew very well in his heart, he had already discovered the difference here a few days ago, the beasts around him had stopped appearing a long time ago, and the surroundings were extremely silent, except for the sound of the wind and the sound of snow falling. People who live in the mountains know when and where the common beasts are extinct, and there are generally two situations: one is that there are indeed fewer wild beasts here, but this is a very small number, and the other is that this place has become the habitat of some kind of powerful beast, which directly scares away other animals. And his intuition told him that this was the second case, but strangely enough, Gongsun Shanqing never found the "it" that all creatures feared. That day, those terrifying beast roars, Gongsun Shanqing remembered them clearly.

If something goes wrong, there must be a demon, and Gongsun Shanqing himself decided never to come to this strange place again.

After Gongsun Shanqing left, a vague figure appeared in the place where Zhou Changsheng was meditating, and after looking in the direction where the old man left for a long time, a gust of wind blew, and then disappeared.

It wasn't until he was far enough away from Jade Owl Mountain that Gongsun Shanqing felt that the feeling of being watched and palpitations was slightly subdued. Gongsun Shanqing kept hurrying on the road in a muffled voice, and he didn't stop until he entered Cold Wind City, and he was sweating unconsciously.

In the days that followed, Zhou Changsheng began inhuman torture again. It turned out that in order to let Zhou Changsheng grow up quickly, Gongsun Shanqing personally formulated an inhuman plan. Among them, all kinds of exercises were arranged, leaving no time for Zhou Changsheng to breathe.

Meditation and training, iron training, boxing and practice, and beating and skin refining.

There are also all kinds of physical training, skill training, disguise technique, light body technique, body method, formation, talisman, wangqi, fortune telling, etc., etc., all of them are stuffed into Zhou Changsheng's body, regardless of whether Zhou Changsheng remembers it or not, whether he can eat it or not, anyway, it is hard to stop!

As the days passed, Zhou Changsheng's potential was really bottomless, no matter how Gongsun Shanqing beat and tortured, he could grit his teeth and hold it down, and he naturally suffered a lot, but the effect was also obvious. Zhou Changsheng is like a huge sponge, absorbing everything it can absorb!

Zhou Changsheng's originally thin body slowly became stronger, and he became taller and taller day by day, but his original fair complexion turned into a black bronze.

Physical exercise, and when he arrived in the city, Zhou Changsheng complained: "What's the matter, Master, you run so fast and don't rest for a while, apprentice, my leg is about to break!"

The old man said with a look of disgust: "If you don't want to practice, you can practice boxing, and you won't be noisy here!

When Zhou Changsheng heard this, he rushed out directly, and shouted as he ran: "Master, I'm going to practice boxing first, you're always casual!" and muttered in private: "I'm not looking for a beating with you, and I'm not not beaten by you!"

In the courtyard of the second room of the Xue family, after listening to the servant's report, Wang Jinlian lifted up a vase next to her and smashed it with a bang, gritted her teeth and said: "The little rabbit cub of the Zhou family! Beat my brother as if he was nothing, and he still walks around the city every day, isn't this just a direct slap in the face of our Wang family! Mao Cai also asked me not to act rashly and deal with a slut with such concerns!"

The maid next to him hurriedly knelt down and said in unison: "Grandma is angry, the second master specially explained when he left, if you do it to the child of the Zhou family in private, we will lose our heads! Grandma is angry, grandma ......is angry, grandma is angry."

A few maids banged their heads and shouted non-stop. Wang Jinlian kicked over the maid beside her, walked into the house angrily, and closed the door with a bang.

Zhou Changsheng didn't know or had forgotten that there were still people in the Wang family who were thinking about him, and even wanted to drink his blood and eat his flesh. At this time, he was honestly practicing boxing in his yard, for fear that when the old man would come over and say, "Yo, rest, come and practice with the master." ”

In the west of the city, at the foot of a remote city wall, Suxue was squatting alone against the base of the wall, with a pile of small stones in front of her. She moved the stones from left to right one by one, and from right to left one by one, and so on and so forth.

The old master of Fang Yi walked to the foot of the wall, glanced at the red-clothed Yutai Suxue and said, "What's the matter, do you miss that stupid boy again?"

Yutai Suxue lowered her head, her hands didn't stop, and she said a little pettyly: "No, I won't miss him!"

Fang Yi looked at the girl he saved back then, a little doting and a little heartbroken. At a young age, he experienced the pain of family ruin, and for the first boy who broke into his heart, he naturally took it very seriously, and wanted to accompany him all the time, but he was forcibly stopped by himself, and he was naturally very dissatisfied with himself.

Fang Yi pondered for a moment and said: "It's right to want to be with the person you like every day, but have you ever thought about other people's feelings and the unfreedom you bring to others? What you like is not necessarily what others like, and you can't use your own ideas to forcibly bind others." Maybe you don't understand what I mean, but what I want to tell you is what if you stay by his side every day and are in danger? Do you want him to stand in front of you with your life? Are you beaten half to death by someone else? Or are you found by your enemy one day and implicated in him?"

Yutai Suxue was in tears, stubbornly pouting and not speaking.

Fang Yi said again: "Really liking someone doesn't mean holding on to him firmly, but what can you do for him?

Like a lonely little girl who fell into the water, she finally grabbed a straw that seemed to save her life and was torn off by her closest people. That feeling directly destroyed her last trace of defense, and the girl hugged Fang Yi and cried.

Whether it is the injustice of fate, the misery of reality, or one's own grievances, all the pressure, grievances and sorrows these days have all turned into tears gushing out.

A black, thin, thin girl in red stood at the foot of the city wall holding an old man with white hair in her arms, crying hysterically.

After a while, Yutai Suxue had cried enough, and Fang Yi said: "The temporary separation is to be together for a long time in the future, not to mention that I didn't say that I won't let you see him in the future, I just hope that you have the ability to face the things you may encounter in the future." If you really can't do without him, then at least you have to have the strength to stand side by side with him! If you want to refine your qi and become stronger, I can teach you. ”

Yutai Suxue let go of her hand, wiped her tears, and solemnly kowtowed to Fang Yi a few times.

Later, seeing the changes in Zhou Changsheng, Li Shan, Er Niu, and Wen Xian also joined the inhuman plan, and later, there was a cute little girl who loved to wear red.